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>>YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD
THE EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'IF YOU
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DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER IN TEXAS,
JUST WAIT; IT'LL CHANGE.' AND
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YOU'VE ALSO HEARD, 'EVERYTHING
IS BIGGER IN TEXAS - THE
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RANCHES, THE BELT BUCKLES,
THE COWBOY HATS...' BUT THE MOST
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FAMOUS SLOGAN ABOUT
TEXAS IS 'REMEMBER THE ALAMO!'
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THE VIOLENT BATTLES AND BRAVERY
OF ICONIC HEROES, HAVE BEEN THE
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STUFF OF LEGENDS, THROUGHOUT
WHICH ENTIRE CULTURES OFTEN DRAW
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THEIR IDENTITY AND PRIDE, EVEN
LONG AFTER CENTURIES ARE PAST.
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AND IN TEXAS, THE STORY OF THE
ALAMO HAS BEEN A RALLYING CRY OF
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TEXAS
INDEPENDENCE FOR 200 YEARS.
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ONE REASON THAT TEXANS LOVE TO
BRAG THAT EVERYTHING IS BIGGER
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IN TEXAS IS, OF COURSE, BECAUSE
TEXAS IS THE LARGEST OF THE
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LOWER 48 U.S. STATES.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS
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MASSIVE STATE GOT ITS BEGINNING
IN A VERY SMALL CHRISTIAN
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MISSION DURING THE
BATTLE OF THE ALAMO.
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EVERY YEAR THIS FAMOUS MISSION
MUSEUM RECEIVES OVER TWO AND A
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HALF MILLION VISITORS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE PLANET, THAT ARE
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EAGER TO GET A GOOD
LOOK AT THIS LEGENDARY SITE.
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THE ALAMO PLAYED A CRITICAL
ROLE IN THE TEXAS REVOLUTION.
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IN DECEMBER 1835, TEXANS
AND TEJANO VOLUNTEERS BATTLED
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MEXICAN TROOPS QUARTERED IN
THE CITY, FORCING GENERAL MARTIN
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PERFECTO DE COS TO SURRENDER.
THE VICTORIOUS VOLUNTEERS
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THEN OCCUPIED THE ALAMO
AND STRENGTHENED ITS DEFENSES.
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FAMOUS AMERICANS LIKE DAVY
CROCKETT, JIM BOWIE, AND COLONEL
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WILLIAM TRAVIS MADE THIS
LOCATION - THIS ANCIENT MISSION
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- THE BEACHHEAD - THE LAST
STAND IN AN EPIC BATTLE TO WIN
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INDEPENDENCE OF
TEXAS FROM MEXICO.
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ON FEBRUARY 23, 1836, THE
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ
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SANTA ANA NEARLY
CAUGHT THEM BY SURPRISE.
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UNDAUNTED, THE TEXANS AND
TEJANOS PREPARED TO DEFEND THE
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ALAMO. FOR THIS
SMALL RAG-TAG GROUP OF
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REBELS, THE YOUNGEST OF WHOM
WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN AND THE OLDEST
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SEVENTY-FIVE, WAS AGAINST
THE WELL-TRAINED AND ORGANIZED
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MEXICAN ARMY OF SIX
THOUSAND-PLUS SOLDIERS.
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IT WAS A FIERCE AND LOPSIDED
BATTLE, YET THE SMALL FORCE OF
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REBELS WAS ABLE TO REPEL
THE TROOPS FOR THIRTEEN DAYS.
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LEGEND HOLDS THAT WITH THE
POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL HELP
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FADING, COLONEL TRAVIS DREW A
LINE IN THE GROUND WITH A SWORD
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AND ASKED ANY MAN WILLING TO
STAY AND FIGHT TO STEP OVER THE
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LINE. ALL EXCEPT
ONE CROSSED OVER.
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THE FINAL ASSAULT
CAME BEFORE DAYBREAK.
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ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 6, 1836,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE SIEGE,
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CANON AND SMALL ARMS FIRE
FROM INSIDE THE ALAMO BEAT BACK
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SEVERAL MEXICAN ATTACKS.
REGROUPING, SANTA ANA'S SOLDIERS
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SCALED THE WALLS AND
RUSHED INTO THE COMPOUND.
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THE DESPERATE STRUGGLE CONTINUED
UNTIL THE DEFENDERS WERE
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OVERWHELMED. BY
SUNRISE, THE BATTLE HAD ENDED
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AND THE GARRISON WAS SLAIN.
YOU KNOW, HISTORIANS MAY DEBATE
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SOME OF THE DETAILS REGARDING
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO, BUT
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NONE OF THEM QUESTION THE
INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE THAT WAS
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MADE AND THE COURAGE
THAT WAS DISPLAYED DURING THAT
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INTENSE CONFLICT. THEY
MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
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- GIVING THEIR LIVES - AND THIS
IS WHY THE STORY OF THE ALAMO IS
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SO INSPIRING AND SO
ENCOURAGING, YOU KNOW, AND
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THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE IS SO
INSPIRING, FRIENDS, BECAUSE
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SOMEONE WAS WILLING TO MAKE THE
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND GIVE HIS
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LIFE SO THAT YOU COULD
HAVE FREEDOM AND ETERNAL LIFE.
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DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD TRUST
YOUR LIFE TO A FRIEND LIKE THAT,
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THAT WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING?
THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS A
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STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE.
IT'S THE STORY OF GOD WHO WILL
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NEVER LEAVE YOU
WITHOUT DEFENSE AND SUPPORT.
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JESUS IS THE GOOD NEWS AND
THE GOSPEL IS A STORY WORTH
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REMEMBERING. (MUSIC)
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>>DEEP WITHIN THE PAGES OF
THE BIBLE - STORIES OF GREAT
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HEROES - HEROES OF GREAT DEEDS -
GREAT LOVE AND GREAT SACRIFICE,
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BUT BEHIND THEM IS ANOTHER HERO.
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT AMID THE
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SHADOWS, HE WAS THERE
FROM THE BEGINNING AND HE'LL BE
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THERE UNTIL THE END.
DISCOVER THE GOLDEN THREAD OF
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A SAVIOR WOVEN THROUGHOUT
THE ENTIRE BIBLE TAPESTRY.
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SHADOWS OF LIGHT: SEEING JESUS
IN ALL THE BIBLE , A NEW BOOK BY
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DOUG BATCHELOR.
GET YOUR COPY TODAY BY
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CALLING 800-538-7275 OR VISIT
AFBOOKSTORE.COM . ONCE AGAIN, TO
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PURCHASE YOUR COPY OF SHADOWS
OF LIGHT , CALL 800-538-7275.
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(MUSIC) >>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN
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IN 1965 WITH A
GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
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>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS
AND THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
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FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
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>>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
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SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
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TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
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THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
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BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
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IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
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GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
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EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
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IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
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PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
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MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
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FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
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BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
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TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
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WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
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SEE A RICH HARVEST
OF SOULS. AMAZING FACTS:
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GOD'S MESSAGE,
OUR MISSION. (MUSIC)
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>>THE MESSAGE THIS
MORNING IS ENTITLED A RIVER OF
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INFLUENCE BECAUSE, REALLY, WHAT
A CHRISTIAN LIFE SHOULD BE, AS
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WE FLOW FROM OUR BIRTH TO
THE END, IS A RIVER OF POSITIVE
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INFLUENCE. YOU KNOW,
I THINK ABOUT A VERSE
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THAT YOU DON'T
OFTEN HEAR QUOTED.
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IN THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL, IF YOU'D
LIKE TO JOIN ME, IN EZEKIEL
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CHAPTER 47 AND, IN PARTICULAR,
VERSE 9, EZEKIEL IS TAKEN INTO
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VISION AND HE'S SHOWN - SORT OF
THE OLD TESTAMENT VERSION OF THE
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RIVER OF LIFE THAT YOU
MENTION - THAT YOU READ ABOUT IN
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REVELATION - AND IT SAYS, "AND
IT SHALL BE THAT EVERY LIVING
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THING THAT MOVES, WHEREVER
THE RIVERS GO, WILL LIVE.
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THERE WILL BE A VERY GREAT
MULTITUDE OF FISH, BECAUSE THESE
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WATERS GO THERE; FOR THEY
WILL BE HEALED, AND EVERYTHING
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WILL LIVE
WHEREVER THE RIVER GOES."
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NOW, FOR ME, TODAY, FOR OUR
MESSAGE TODAY, THOSE LAST FEW
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VERSES IN PARTICULAR - THOSE
LAST FEW WORDS - 'EVERYTHING
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WILL LIVE WHEREVER THE RIVER
GOES' - TO ME, I THINK, IS A
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GOOD MOTTO FOR OUR LIVES.
'EVERYTHING WILL LIVE WHEREVER
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THE RIVER GOES.' YOU
KNOW, BEFORE I WAS A SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST, SOME OF YOU KNOW
THAT I ACTUALLY WORSHIPED WITH
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OUR PENTECOSTAL BROTHERS
AND SISTERS. DON'T GET WORRIED.
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I'M NOT GOING TO START SPEAKING
IN TONGUES RIGHT NOW, BUT I DO
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REMEMBER WE WOULD SING A
SONG THAT I REALLY ENJOYED.
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IT SAYS, 'I HAVE A RIVER OF LIFE
FLOWING OUT OF ME, MAKES THE
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LAME TO WALK AND THE BLIND
TO SEE, OPENS PRISON DOORS, SETS
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THE CAPTIVES FREE, I HAVE A
RIVER OF LIFE FLOWING OUT OF
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ME.' IT'S TALKING ABOUT THAT
RIVER OF LIFE THAT JESUS SPOKE
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OF TO THE WOMAN AT THE
WELL - THAT WOULD BE ARTESIAN IN
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NATURE,
SPRINGING UP FROM WITHIN.
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AND IT DOESN'T JUST COME INTO US
TO REFRESH US, IT'S SUPPOSED TO
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FLOW OUT OF US
FOR A GODLY INFLUENCE.
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WHEREVER THE RIVER
FLOWS, EVERYTHING LIVES.
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YOU KNOW, THE HISTORY OF THE
NILE RIVER IS KIND OF UNIQUE.
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IT'S THE LONGEST RIVER IN THE
WORLD, FOR ONE THING - OVER FOUR
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THOUSAND MILES LONG - 4,258 TO
BE SPECIFIC. WHAT'S AMAZING IS
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THAT FOR OH, A COUPLE OF
THOUSAND YEARS, PEOPLE IN THE
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NORTHERN HEMISPHERE HAD NO
IDEA WHERE THE RIVER CAME FROM.
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AND YOU WOULD THINK, 'WELL,
IF THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHERE THE
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RIVER CAME FROM, WHY DIDN'T
THEY JUST PADDLE UP THE RIVER?'
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THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT
THE SOURCE OF THE NILE WAS.
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WELL, THAT WAS EASIER SAID THAN
DONE, BECAUSE AS YOU START GOING
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UP THAT RIVER - FOUR THOUSAND
MILES LONG - A THOUSAND MILES OF
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IT GO THROUGH JUST A BLISTERING
DESERT AND THERE'S A LOT OF
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PLACES WHERE IT'S FULL OF
CROCODILES AND NOBODY WANTED TO
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MAKE THE EXCURSION.
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THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PLACES
WHERE THERE'S RAPIDS - IN FACT,
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THE SOURCE OF THE NILE WAS
NOT DISCOVERED - JOHN SPEAK
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DISCOVERED IT IN 1858 - AUGUST
- A COUPLE OF EXPEDITIONS TO
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AFRICA WORKED ON THAT - BUT
NOBODY HAD ACTUALLY GONE FROM
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THE MEDITERRANEAN DOWN THE NILE
RIVER UNTIL - 2006 WAS THE FIRST
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EXPEDITION - A NEW
ZEALANDER AND HIS CREW.
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FIRST TIME THEY TRIED SOMEONE
WAS KILLED - THEY WERE SHOT -
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AND THEN, WHEN THEY FINALLY DID
MAKE IT, IN EIGHTY DAYS, THREE -
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THIRTEEN-FOOT BOATS THEY HAD TO
PORTAGE AND GO THROUGH SOME VERY
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ROUGH RAPIDS AND THEY
WERE FREQUENTLY ATTACKED BY
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CROCODILES THAT WOULD
CHARGE THEM FROM THE SHORE.
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AND I DIDN'T MENTION THAT
SOME OF THE TRIBAL WARS THEY GOT
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CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF, BUT
IT'S JUST A VERY ROUGH PASSAGE.
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IT REMAINED UNEXPLORED.
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TODAY, IF YOU GO TO GOOGLE EARTH
- AND THAT'S THE PICTURE THAT WE
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HAD ON THE SCREEN A MOMENT AGO
- AND YOU LOOK AT A SHOT OF THE
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NILE RIVER, YOU'LL SEE, WHEN YOU
ZOOM IN, THAT TO THE RIGHT AND
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TO THE LEFT ALL ALONG THROUGH
THAT DESERT THAT WAS ONCE
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IMPASSABLE, ARE FARMS.
EVERYTHING LIVES WHEREVER THE
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RIVER GOES. SOMETHING
ABOUT WATER - WHERE IT
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FLOWS THINGS LIVE
- IF IT'S GOOD WATER.
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YOU MIGHT REMEMBER A STORY OF A
MIRACLE IN THE BOOK OF 2 KINGS,
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WHEN SOME OF THE SONS OF THE
PROPHETS CAME TO ELISHA AND THEY
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SAID, 'THIS IS A GREAT LOCATION
FOR US TO HAVE A SCHOOL BY THE
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JORDAN RIVER, BUT THE ONLY FRESH
WATER SOURCE IS - THE WATER'S
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BAD, IT'S SULPHUR WATER.' HE
SAID, 'BRING ME A VESSEL WITH
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SOME SALT IN IT.' AND THEY
BROUGHT IT TO HIM AND HE POURED
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IT AT THE SOURCE OF THE SPRING
AND THE WATERS WERE HEALED AND
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TODAY THOSE WATERS FROM THAT
SPRING IS THE MAIN WATER SUPPLY
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FOR THE CITY OF JERICHO.
IT'S CALLED THE SPRING OF ELISHA
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AND IT FLOWS -
IT'S A PROFUSE SPRING.
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I'VE DRANK FROM THOSE WATERS AND
IT'S JUST AN AMAZING THING TO
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SAY, 'THIS IS THE SPRING.' IT'S
THE ONLY SPRING, IT'S GOT TO BE
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THE ONE. 'AND THESE ARE
THE WATERS THAT WERE ONCE
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UNDRINKABLE.' AND
NOW THERE IN THE DESERT,
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JERICHO, LOWER THAN SEA
LEVEL, THERE'S MUCH LIFE BECAUSE
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THERE'S WATER.
WATER BRINGS INFLUENCE.
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THE CHRISTIAN LIFE SHOULD BE
THE SAME WAY. I'D LIKE TO READ
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SOMETHING TO YOU FROM
THE BOOK STEPS TO CHRIST .
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ONE QUOTE IS FROM PAGE 59, THE
OTHER IS PAGE 77, "THE LOVE OF
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CHRIST CHERISHED IN THE SOUL
SWEETENS THE LIFE AND SHEDS A
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REFINING
INFLUENCE ON ALL AROUND.
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GOD IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE AND
LIGHT AND JOY TO THE UNIVERSE.
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LIKE RAYS OF LIGHT FROM THE SUN,
LIKE STREAMS OF WATER BURSTING
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FROM A LIVING SPRING, BLESSINGS
FLOW OUT FROM HIM TO ALL OF HIS
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CREATURES. AND
WHEREVER THE LIFE OF GOD IS
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IN THE HEARTS OF MEN, IT WILL
FLOW OUT TO OTHERS IN LOVE AND
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BLESSING. WHEN THE LOVE OF
CHRIST IS ENSHRINED IN THE HEART
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LIKE SWEET FRAGRANCE, IT CANNOT
BE HIDDEN. ITS HOLY INFLUENCE
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WILL BE FELT BY ALL
WITH WHOM WE COME IN CONTACT.
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THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN THE
HEART IS LIKE A SPRING IN THE
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DESERT FLOWING TO REFRESH ALL,
MAKING THOSE WHO ARE READY TO
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PERISH EAGER TO
DRINK THE WATER OF LIFE."
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THE LORD SAID THAT CHRISTIANS
ARE TO BE LIKE THE INFLUENCE OF
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SALT AND LIGHT. AS WE
READ IN OUR MEMORY VERSE,
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JESUS SAID, 'YOU ARE
THE SALT OF THE EARTH.
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YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
LET YOUR SALT HAVE A SAVOR.
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LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE.' NOW SALT,
TODAY - SODIUM CHLORIDE THAT YOU
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BUY FROM THE STORE IN THE,
YOU KNOW, LITTLE ROUND CONTAINER
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FROM MORTON'S SALT IS, YOU KNOW,
HIGHLY REFINED AND PURIFIED AND
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I'VE GOT SOME SALT UP IN OUR
CABIN IN COVELO THAT'S PROBABLY
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BEEN IN THE CUPBOARD
THERE FOR TWENTY YEARS.
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IT TAKES A LONG TIME WHEN YOU
ONLY GO UP, YOU KNOW, ONCE EVERY
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FEW MONTHS TO USE.
ONE OF THOSE THINGS IS
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SALT AND, YOU KNOW
WHAT? IT'S STILL SALTY.
00:13:46.22\00:13:51.16
BUT SALT, IN BIBLE TIMES, WAS
NOT MINED THAT WAY AND REFINED
00:13:51.16\00:13:54.93
THAT WAY AND THEY WOULD DIG IT
OUT OF THE EARTH AND OFTEN THE
00:13:54.93\00:13:58.33
VESSEL THEY HAD WITH SALT IN IT
HAD A LOT OF IMPURITIES AND DIRT
00:13:58.33\00:14:03.54
AND AS THEY GOT TO THE BOTTOM
IT GOT WHERE IT JUST WASN'T GOOD
00:14:03.54\00:14:06.98
FOR MUCH. YOU
CAN'T SPREAD IT IN THE
00:14:06.98\00:14:08.41
GARDEN, IT'LL KILL THE PLANTS,
SO THEY'D THROW IT OUT ON THE
00:14:08.41\00:14:11.61
PATH BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU
WANT TO KEEP - THE ICE MELTED
00:14:11.61\00:14:15.78
AND YOU WANT TO KEEP THINGS
FROM THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID THAT
00:14:15.78\00:14:18.69
IT'S GOOD FOR
NOTHING. HOW DO YOU SALT SALT?
00:14:18.69\00:14:22.42
IT'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE A
PERVADING INFLUENCE TO GIVE
00:14:22.42\00:14:26.49
ADDITIONAL FLAVOR. IT
EVEN SAYS IN THE BIBLE - JOB
00:14:26.49\00:14:29.46
SAID, 'IS THERE ANY
FLAVOR IN THE WHITE OF AN EGG?'
00:14:29.46\00:14:32.37
SORT OF AN INSIPID TASTE, BUT
THEN YOU PUT A LITTLE SALT IN IT
00:14:32.37\00:14:35.84
- MATTER OF FACT, MOST OF US, IF
YOU'RE LIKE ME, WE LIKE SALT A
00:14:35.84\00:14:38.41
LITTLE TOO MUCH. IT'S
HARD TO EAT JUST ONE CHIP,
00:14:38.41\00:14:42.28
AS LAY'S POTATOES PROVED MANY
YEARS AGO. THAT WAS THEIR MOTTO.
00:14:42.28\00:14:48.02
AND THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT
- YOUR BODY CRAVES - YOU CAN'T
00:14:48.02\00:14:53.66
LIVE WITHOUT A
CERTAIN AMOUNT OF IT.
00:14:53.66\00:14:56.16
TOO MUCH ISN'T GOOD FOR YOU
EITHER, BUT GOD WANTS US TO HAVE
00:14:56.16\00:14:58.96
THAT INFLUENCE OF
ADDING FLAVOR TO THE WORLD.
00:14:58.96\00:15:02.56
AND, IF YOU'VE GOT LIGHT,
YOU DON'T COVER THE LIGHT - YOU
00:15:02.56\00:15:06.40
DON'T OBSCURE IT - YOU EXPOSE IT
SO IT WILL HAVE AN INFLUENCE FOR
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GOOD. NOW, IN A
PRACTICAL WAY, THIS
00:15:11.41\00:15:14.24
WORKS FOR THE CHRISTIAN'S
INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD.
00:15:14.24\00:15:17.58
YOU, PERHAPS, REMEMBER WHEN
GOD SAID HE WAS GOING TO DESTROY
00:15:17.58\00:15:22.52
SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
00:15:22.52\00:15:24.42
AND ABRAHAM, HEARING THAT THESE
ANGELS WERE ON THEIR WAY TO
00:15:24.42\00:15:27.29
JUDGE AND DESTROY THE CITY,
HE KNEW HIS COUSIN - HIS NEPHEW,
00:15:27.29\00:15:31.06
RATHER - LOT WAS
THERE WITH HIS FAMILY.
00:15:31.06\00:15:33.40
ABRAHAM HAD ALREADY RISKED
HIS LIFE ONCE TO SAVE THEM AND
00:15:33.40\00:15:37.13
INSTEAD OF MOVING OUT OF
TOWN, THEY STAYED IN SODOM.
00:15:37.13\00:15:39.30
ABRAHAM NEGOTIATES WITH THE LORD
AND HE SAYS, 'NOW LORD, YOU'RE
00:15:39.30\00:15:42.54
NOT GOING TO DESTROY THE
RIGHTEOUS WITH THE WICKED?
00:15:42.54\00:15:44.67
FAR BE IT FOR THE KING OF ALL
THE EARTH TO DO THAT.' AND THE
00:15:44.67\00:15:47.31
LORD SAID, 'NO, I WON'T DO
THAT.' AND HE SAID, 'BUT IF
00:15:47.31\00:15:50.55
THERE ARE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS IN THE
CITY, YOU KNOW, THERE'LL STILL
00:15:50.55\00:15:53.18
BE HOPE FOR THEM BECAUSE THROUGH
THE INFLUENCE OF FIFTY RIGHTEOUS
00:15:53.18\00:15:56.35
PEOPLE THINGS CAN TURN AROUND.'
GOD SAID, 'IF THERE'S FIFTY
00:15:56.35\00:16:00.39
RIGHTEOUS IN THE CITY I WON'T
DESTROY IT. ABRAHAM TAKES IT THE
00:16:00.39\00:16:04.33
NEXT STEP AND SAYS,
'LORD, HOW ABOUT FORTY-FIVE?'
00:16:04.33\00:16:07.50
HE THINKS ABOUT HOW BAD SODOM IS
AND HE THINKS THERE MAY NOT BE
00:16:07.50\00:16:09.56
FIFTY. 'HOW ABOUT FORTY-FIVE?
00:16:09.56\00:16:11.33
WOULD YOU SPARE THE
CITY FOR FORTY-FIVE?'
00:16:11.33\00:16:14.54
GOD SAID, 'IF THERE'S FORTY-FIVE
RIGHTEOUS IN THE CITY, I'LL
00:16:14.54\00:16:16.94
SPARE THE WHOLE CITY.' ABRAHAM
THINKS AND HE SAID, 'I DON'T
00:16:16.94\00:16:20.31
KNOW IF THERE'S EVEN FORTY-FIVE.
LORD, WHAT ABOUT THIRTY?
00:16:20.31\00:16:25.15
WHAT ABOUT
TWENTY? WHAT ABOUT TEN?'
00:16:25.15\00:16:31.62
AND GOD SAID, 'I'LL SPARE THE
CITY IF THERE ARE TEN RIGHTEOUS
00:16:31.62\00:16:34.32
IN THE CITY.' AS IT
TURNS OUT, THERE WAS ONE.
00:16:34.32\00:16:39.19
LOT'S WIFE TURNED BACK.
00:16:39.19\00:16:41.36
HIS SONS-IN-LAW AND
DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW DIDN'T LEAVE
00:16:41.36\00:16:43.80
AND THE TWO DAUGHTERS THAT WENT
WITH HIM, THEY SEDUCED THEIR
00:16:43.80\00:16:46.20
FATHER, SO YOU
WONDER WHERE THEY STOOD.
00:16:46.20\00:16:50.07
BUT GOD SAID THAT AS LONG
AS THERE WAS STILL A POSITIVE
00:16:50.07\00:16:55.81
INFLUENCE, THINGS COULD CHANGE,
THE BIBLE SAYS THE EFFECTUAL
00:16:55.81\00:17:01.02
PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN
(OR WOMAN) AVAILS MUCH, AND GOD
00:17:01.02\00:17:05.62
WANTS US TO HAVE THAT RIVER OF
POSITIVE INFLUENCE WHEREVER WE
00:17:05.62\00:17:09.19
ARE - IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU
WORK - NOT EVERYBODY IS CALLED
00:17:09.19\00:17:12.73
TO BE A PASTOR OR TO BE AN
EVANGELIST OR TO BE A BIBLE
00:17:12.73\00:17:15.36
WORKER, BUT WE SHOULD HAVE A
GODLY INFLUENCE THAT TELLS FOR
00:17:15.36\00:17:20.20
JESUS IN WHATEVER
ENVIRONMENT WE'RE IN.
00:17:20.20\00:17:23.51
AND SO, THAT'S WHAT
WE'RE ALL BEING CALLED TO DO.
00:17:23.51\00:17:27.04
THE WORD 'INFLUENCE' - LET
ME GIVE YOU A DEFINITION HERE:
00:17:27.04\00:17:30.78
INFLUENCE IS A POWER AFFECTING
A PERSON, THING, OR COURSE OF
00:17:30.78\00:17:34.02
EVENTS, ESPECIALLY ONE
THAT OPERATES WITH ANY APPARENT
00:17:34.02\00:17:37.15
EFFORT; 2) A POWER TO SWAY BASED
ON PRESTIGE, WEALTH, ABILITY, OR
00:17:37.15\00:17:42.62
POSITION; 3) TO PRODUCE
AN EFFECT BY IMPERCEPTIBLE OR
00:17:42.62\00:17:47.83
INTANGIBLE MEANS. YOU
ALL HAVE AN INFLUENCE.
00:17:47.83\00:17:53.34
EVERYBODY HAS AN INFLUENCE.
SOME MAY SEEM TO HAVE MORE THAN
00:17:53.34\00:17:57.04
OTHERS, BUT YOU WILL BE USING
YOUR INFLUENCE THROUGH THIS DAY,
00:17:57.04\00:18:01.11
WHETHER YOU
THINK ABOUT IT OR NOT.
00:18:01.11\00:18:03.04
AND ALL OF US HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITY TO BE AN INFLUENCE
00:18:03.04\00:18:06.61
FOR GOOD OR FOR EVIL AND THAT
WILL BE SOMETHING WE'LL ALL GIVE
00:18:06.61\00:18:11.85
AN ACCOUNT TO GOD
FOR IN THE JUDGMENT.
00:18:11.85\00:18:14.26
WHAT KIND OF INFLUENCE ARE YOU?
00:18:14.26\00:18:18.96
JESUS WAS CALLED 'THE WORD'
AND WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT HE
00:18:18.96\00:18:21.73
LOOKED LIKE, WE KNOW WHAT HE
SAID. AND THOSE THAT HEARD JESUS
00:18:21.73\00:18:24.87
CAME BACK AND SAID, 'NEVER A
MAN SPAKE AS THIS MAN.' THE WORD
00:18:24.87\00:18:28.97
BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG
US. THIS BIBLE - IT'S CALLED THE
00:18:28.97\00:18:31.67
WORD OF GOD - AND
THERE'S POWER IN THE WORD.
00:18:31.67\00:18:34.41
AND YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN WE ALL GATHER TOGETHER LIKE
00:18:34.41\00:18:36.44
THIS AND THE CRESCENDO OF
OUR WORSHIP SERVICE IS THE
00:18:36.44\00:18:40.38
PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD,
BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT THESE
00:18:40.38\00:18:44.95
WORDS ARE NOT JUST
REGULAR WORDS. JESUS SAID,
00:18:44.95\00:18:48.16
'THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK, THEY
ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE LIFE.'
00:18:48.16\00:18:51.23
AND THERE'S SOMETHING
TRANS-FORMATIONAL ABOUT THE
00:18:51.23\00:18:55.30
WORDS. AND EVEN OUR WORDS - WE
KNOW ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD, BUT
00:18:55.30\00:18:58.97
EVEN OUR WORDS - YOU CAN SAY
SOMETHING TO SOMEBODY THAT WILL
00:18:58.97\00:19:02.47
JUST TOTALLY CHANGE
THEIR DAY AND ENCOURAGE THEM.
00:19:02.47\00:19:05.27
YOU CAN GIVE SOMEONE A
WORD OF COMPLIMENT, A WORD OF
00:19:05.27\00:19:08.18
AFFIRMATION OR ENCOURAGEMENT,
A WORD OF APPRECIATION AND THAT
00:19:08.18\00:19:12.88
CAN BUOY THEIR SPIRITS.
THEY COULD HAVE BEEN ON THE
00:19:12.88\00:19:14.58
BRINK OF DESPAIR - AND I'VE
- I'VE HEARD SOME INCREDIBLE
00:19:14.58\00:19:17.95
STORIES IN LETTERS ABOUT PEOPLE
THAT WERE VIRTUALLY AT THE POINT
00:19:17.95\00:19:21.39
OF SUICIDE AND THEY'RE FLIPPING
THROUGH THE DIALS ON TV OR RADIO
00:19:21.39\00:19:25.29
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY
HEAR SOMETHING AND THEY KNOW GOD
00:19:25.29\00:19:28.26
SPOKE TO THEM AND IT
JUST CHANGED EVERYTHING.
00:19:28.26\00:19:30.03
JUST WORDS - SOUND WAVES GOING
THROUGH THE AIR, BUT THEY CREATE
00:19:30.03\00:19:33.40
PICTURES. WORDS ARE VERY STRONG.
I CAN SAY THINGS NOW THAT'LL
00:19:33.40\00:19:36.37
MAKE YOUR HEART BEAT FASTER -
EITHER JOY OR ANGER - I WON'T.
00:19:36.37\00:19:41.91
I CAN SAY THINGS THAT
WOULD MAKE YOU SALIVATE.
00:19:41.91\00:19:45.88
SOME OF YOU ARE STILL DOING THAT
BECAUSE I TALKED ABOUT POTATO
00:19:45.88\00:19:48.02
CHIPS A LITTLE WHILE AGO.
00:19:48.02\00:19:49.42
(LAUGHTER) I COULD TALK ABOUT
LEMONS AND GET THE SAME EFFECT.
00:19:49.42\00:19:53.52
YOU WON'T SMELL A LEMON, YOU
WON'T SEE A LEMON, BUT IF I TALK
00:19:53.52\00:19:55.76
ENOUGH ABOUT LEMONS YOU'LL START
TO PUCKER BECAUSE THE WORDS
00:19:55.76\00:20:00.03
CREATE IMAGES AND EVEN BRING
BACK MEMORIES OF FRAGRANCES IN
00:20:00.03\00:20:04.37
YOUR MIND AND IT CAN
HAVE A PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECT.
00:20:04.37\00:20:07.14
THEY'RE JUST WORDS.
WORDS ARE VERY POWERFUL.
00:20:07.14\00:20:10.84
THEY'RE ALSO POWERFUL FOR BAD.
IT'D BE NICE TO SAY, AS IT SAYS
00:20:10.84\00:20:17.55
IN THAT FAMOUS BALLAD, ABOUT
EVERY CHURCH, 'WHERE SELDOM IS
00:20:17.55\00:20:21.65
HEARD A DISCOURAGING WORD' -
WOULDN'T THAT BE A GOOD MOTTO?
00:20:21.65\00:20:24.89
SOMETIMES CHURCHES - THERE'S A
LOT OF DISCOURAGING THINGS THAT
00:20:24.89\00:20:28.32
PEOPLE SAY. A LOT
OF GOSSIP AND A LOT OF
00:20:28.32\00:20:30.73
NEGATIVITY AND CHRISTIANS OUGHT
TO BE THE SUNNIEST PEOPLE IN THE
00:20:30.73\00:20:35.43
WORLD. WE OUGHT TO BE
BRIGHT. WE OUGHT TO BE POSITIVE.
00:20:35.43\00:20:38.53
WE'VE GOT - THE
GOSPEL IS GOOD NEWS.
00:20:38.53\00:20:40.67
OUR WORDS SHOULD BE
INSPIRING AND ENCOURAGING.
00:20:40.67\00:20:44.54
LUKE CHAPTER 4:22, "SO ALL BORE
WITNESS TO HIM, AND MARVELED AT
00:20:44.54\00:20:49.51
THE GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH
PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS MOUTH."
00:20:49.51\00:20:52.61
- SPEAKING OF JESUS - THEY
MARVELED AT THE GRACIOUS WORDS.
00:20:52.61\00:20:56.22
WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? WE
FOLLOW CHRIST'S EXAMPLE.
00:20:56.22\00:20:59.65
PSALM 19:14 - THIS IS A PRAYER
OF DAVID WE COULD ALL REPEAT:
00:20:59.65\00:21:03.79
"LET THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH AND
THE MEDITATION OF MY HEART BE
00:21:03.79\00:21:07.60
ACCEPTABLE IN YOUR SIGHT,
O LORD, MY STRENGTH AND MY
00:21:07.60\00:21:10.50
REDEEMER." THAT'S A GOOD PRAYER
00:21:10.50\00:21:12.47
FOR THE MORNING. >>AMEN.
00:21:12.47\00:21:13.67
>>'LORD, WHATEVER WORDS I'M
GOING TO PRAY TODAY, LET THEM BE
00:21:13.67\00:21:15.70
ACCEPTABLE IN YOUR SIGHT.'
EPHESIANS 5:4, "...NEITHER
00:21:15.70\00:21:22.48
FILTHINESS, NOR FOOLISH TALKING,
NOR COURSE JESTING, WHICH ARE
00:21:22.48\00:21:27.18
NOT FITTING" - NOT
APPROPRIATE FOR CHRISTIANS -
00:21:27.18\00:21:29.62
"BUT RATHER GIVING OF
THANKS." CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO BE
00:21:29.62\00:21:32.45
APPRECIATIVE - THEY OUGHT TO
BE THANKFUL - NO DISCOURAGING
00:21:32.45\00:21:34.99
WORDS. YOU KNOW,
THERE'S A QUOTE HERE
00:21:34.99\00:21:38.53
FROM THE THIRD BIBLE COMMENTARY,
PAGE 1159, "PASSIONATE WORDS SEW
00:21:38.53\00:21:44.57
SEEDS THAT PRODUCE A BAD
CROP, WHICH NO ONE WILL CARE
00:21:44.57\00:21:48.04
TO GARNER OR HARVEST. OUR
OWN WORDS HAVE AN EFFECT ON
00:21:48.04\00:21:51.47
OUR CHARACTER - EVEN THE
WORDS YOU SPEAK AFFECT YOU.
00:21:51.47\00:21:54.78
YOU KNOW, I CAN THINK OF SEVERAL
TIMES WHEN I WAS DISCOURAGED BUT
00:21:54.78\00:22:00.85
I WAS PUT IN CONTACT WITH
SOMEBODY THAT I SAW THEY WERE
00:22:00.85\00:22:05.55
DISCOURAGED AND I FIGURED, 'WELL
I'M A PASTOR, I SHOULD TRY TO
00:22:05.55\00:22:07.56
ENCOURAGE THEM.' AND SO, EVEN
THOUGH I DIDN'T FEEL SO GOOD
00:22:07.56\00:22:10.49
MYSELF, I FIGURED
IT'S MY JOB DESCRIPTION.
00:22:10.49\00:22:13.23
I'M GETTING PAID TO DO
THIS SO I BETTER ENCOURAGE HIM.
00:22:13.23\00:22:15.60
AND SO, IN MY PROCESS OF TRYING
TO ENCOURAGE THEM, WHAT DO YOU
00:22:15.60\00:22:19.37
THINK HAPPENED TO
ME? I WAS ENCOURAGED.
00:22:19.37\00:22:22.70
AND YOU'RE AFFECTED BY YOUR
OWN WORDS AND IF YOU'RE SPEAKING
00:22:22.70\00:22:26.88
NEGATIVE, BAD WORDS
OR DISCOURAGING WORDS TO
00:22:26.88\00:22:33.01
OTHER PEOPLE, IT
EVEN IMPACTS YOU.
00:22:33.01\00:22:35.72
YOU CAN DEEPEN THE
HOLE THAT YOU'RE ALREADY IN.
00:22:35.72\00:22:38.72
THE INFINITE GOD, ALONE,
CAN MEASURE THE MISCHIEF THAT IS
00:22:38.72\00:22:41.42
DONE BY CARELESS WORDS.
WHAT UNHAPPINESS HAS BEEN
00:22:41.42\00:22:44.46
PRODUCED BY THE SPEAKING
OF THOUGHTLESS UNKIND WORDS
00:22:44.46\00:22:47.23
IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE?
HARSH WORDS RANKLE IN THE MIND.
00:22:47.23\00:22:50.77
IT MAY BE YEARS AND
THEY NEVER LOSE THEIR STING.
00:22:50.77\00:22:54.07
AS PROFESSED CHRISTIANS, WE
SHOULD CONSIDER THE INFLUENCE OF
00:22:54.07\00:22:56.57
OUR WORDS - THAT THEY HAVE
UPON THOSE WITH WHOM WE COME IN
00:22:56.57\00:22:59.61
ASSOCIATION.
WHETHER THEY'RE BELIEVERS OR
00:22:59.61\00:23:01.81
UNBELIEVERS, OUR WORDS ARE
WATCHED AND MISCHIEF IS DONE
00:23:01.81\00:23:04.85
BY THOUGHTLESS UTTERANCES.
NO AFTER ASSOCIATION WITH
00:23:04.85\00:23:08.72
BELIEVERS OR UNBELIEVERS
WILL WHOLLY COUNTERACT THE
00:23:08.72\00:23:11.49
UNFAVORABLE INFLUENCE OF
THOUGHTLESS OR FOOLISH WORDS.
00:23:11.49\00:23:15.26
OUR WORDS EVIDENCE THE MANNER OF
FOOD UPON WHICH THE SOUL FEEDS."
00:23:15.26\00:23:20.26
OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF
THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS.
00:23:20.26\00:23:23.16
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE YOUR
INFLUENCE FOR OTHERS, CHANGE
00:23:23.16\00:23:30.34
WHAT INFLUENCES YOU. IF
YOU WOULD LIKE TO IMPROVE
00:23:30.34\00:23:34.68
YOUR INFLUENCE IN THE LIVES OF
OTHERS, YOU CAN MAKE A DECISION
00:23:34.68\00:23:38.45
ABOUT WHAT IS
INFLUENCING YOUR LIFE.
00:23:38.45\00:23:40.72
AND THE MORE POSITIVE THAT YOU
TAKE IN, THE MORE PROBABLE THAT
00:23:40.72\00:23:44.75
POSITIVE WILL ALSO COME
OUT. SO OUR ACTIONS ALSO MAKE A
00:23:44.75\00:23:50.36
DIFFERENCE OF INFLUENCE.
PEOPLE NOT ONLY LISTEN TO WHAT
00:23:50.36\00:23:53.70
WE SAY, THEY'RE
AWARE OF WHAT WE DO.
00:23:53.70\00:23:57.10
YOU THINK ABOUT
THE STORY OF JONAH.
00:23:57.10\00:23:59.00
GOD SAYS TO JONAH, 'ARISE,
GO, PREACH, SAVE THESE PEOPLE IN
00:23:59.00\00:24:02.27
NINEVEH.' HE SAID, 'OH LORD,
IF YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY THEM,
00:24:02.27\00:24:05.24
GOOD RIDDANCE.
THEY'RE NINEVITES - THEY'VE
00:24:05.24\00:24:06.78
NOT BEEN VERY GOOD TO ISRAEL.
I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT AND THEY
00:24:06.78\00:24:09.24
PROBABLY WON'T APPRECIATE ME
PRONOUNCING JUDGMENT ON THEM.'
00:24:09.24\00:24:12.58
AND SO JONAH GOES THE OTHER WAY.
SO WHEN JONAH IS NOT GOING WHERE
00:24:12.58\00:24:16.65
GOD TOLD HIM TO GO - AND
HE'S THINKING, 'LOOK, I DON'T
00:24:16.65\00:24:18.95
WANT TO TALK TO NINEVEH. I
DON'T WANT TO TALK TO ANYBODY.
00:24:18.95\00:24:21.49
I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO MY OWN
PEOPLE. I'M JUST GOING TO GO TO
00:24:21.49\00:24:23.53
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.' SO
HE GOES ON A SHIP TO TARSHISH.
00:24:23.53\00:24:27.46
NOW, FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE
BIBLE, TARSHISH WAS THE SAME AS
00:24:27.46\00:24:33.90
WHAT YOU WOULD SAY TODAY,
'TIMBUKTU' - YOU EVER HEARD -
00:24:33.90\00:24:36.40
THERE REALLY IS A PLACE CALLED
TIMBUKTU - AND IT USED TO BE THE
00:24:36.40\00:24:41.08
MOST REMOTE PLACE A
MARINE - A U.S. MARINE -
00:24:41.08\00:24:43.31
COULD BE STATIONED. WE
HAD A MARINE POST IN TIMBUKTU
00:24:43.31\00:24:46.68
AND SO THAT'S WHERE THEY GOT
THAT SAYING, 'OH MAN, ALL THE
00:24:46.68\00:24:50.85
WAY TO TIMBUKTU.'
THAT'S IN NORTH AFRICA.
00:24:50.85\00:24:55.06
WELL, IF YOU LIVED IN BIBLE
TIMES, THE LAST SEAPORT BEFORE
00:24:55.06\00:24:58.13
YOU SAILED OFF INTO DRAGON
COUNTRY OF THE OCEAN THAT WAS
00:24:58.13\00:25:00.96
UNCHARTED, WAS CALLED TARSHISH.
00:25:00.96\00:25:02.83
IT WAS AS FAR TO THE
WEST AS YOU COULD GO.
00:25:02.83\00:25:05.60
AND SO, JONAH, WHEN HE FLED, HE
WANTED TO GET AS FAR AWAY - HE
00:25:05.60\00:25:07.94
SAID, 'LOOK, I DON'T
WANT TO BOTHER ANYBODY.
00:25:07.94\00:25:10.27
I DON'T WANT TO
BE A BAD INFLUENCE.
00:25:10.27\00:25:11.84
I DON'T WANT TO
BE A GOOD INFLUENCE.
00:25:11.84\00:25:13.07
I'M JUST GOING
TO DO MY OWN THING.
00:25:13.07\00:25:14.34
I'M GOING TO GO ON A CRUISE.' SO
HE GOT ON THE BOAT AND THOUGHT,
00:25:14.34\00:25:18.98
'I'M GOING TO MIND MY OWN
BUSINESS. I'M GOING TO GET IN MY
00:25:18.98\00:25:20.65
CABIN HERE AND GO TO SLEEP.' AND
THEN A GREAT STORM AROSE AND IT
00:25:20.65\00:25:25.95
SAYS THAT THE SAILORS ON
THE BOAT KNEW THAT THEY WERE
00:25:25.95\00:25:27.79
PERISHING AND LATER THEY WAKE
UP JONAH AND THEY DISCOVER HE -
00:25:27.79\00:25:32.66
THEY CAST LOTS - THEY'RE
PERISHING BECAUSE HE WAS RUNNING
00:25:32.66\00:25:35.43
FROM GOD. HIS
RUNNING FROM GOD WAS
00:25:35.43\00:25:37.50
BRINGING OTHER
PEOPLE DOWN. THE PEOPLE IN
00:25:37.50\00:25:40.84
NINEVEH WERE PERISHING
BECAUSE JONAH WOULDN'T GO TALK.
00:25:40.84\00:25:43.81
FINALLY, HE GOES THROUGH AN
EXPERIENCE AND HE GOES THROUGH
00:25:43.81\00:25:47.38
THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF A
FISH. HE ENDS UP BACK ON SHORE.
00:25:47.38\00:25:50.71
HE GOES TO - THIS IS A SHORT
VERSION OF THE STORY - HE GOES
00:25:50.71\00:25:54.25
TO NINEVEH, GOES UP AND DOWN THE
STREETS, PREACHES FOR FORTY DAYS
00:25:54.25\00:25:59.09
AND THEN THE CITY
WILL BE DESTROYED.
00:25:59.09\00:26:01.46
THERE'S A GREAT REVIVAL - MATTER
OF FACT, YOU DO NOT FIND A
00:26:01.46\00:26:04.76
GREATER REVIVAL IN THE
BIBLE THAN THE REVIVAL THAT GOD
00:26:04.76\00:26:09.03
PERFORMED THROUGH A VERY
RELUCTANT AND NEGATIVE PROPHET
00:26:09.03\00:26:13.57
NAMED JONAH, WHICH SHOULD
ENCOURAGE ALL OF US THAT IF GOD
00:26:13.57\00:26:16.97
COULD USE JONAH WITH HIS BAD
ATTITUDE, HE CAN USE ANY OF US
00:26:16.97\00:26:19.57
IF WE'RE WILLING,
RIGHT? AND HOPEFULLY SAVED
00:26:19.57\00:26:22.28
JONAH IN THE PROCESS. SO
JONAH PREACHES AND THEN GOD
00:26:22.28\00:26:26.78
DOESN'T RAIN FIRE ON THE CITY
LIKE HE SAID AND JONAH'S UPSET.
00:26:26.78\00:26:31.29
HAVE YOU EVER READ THE LAST
CHAPTER OF JONAH? JONAH BEGINS
00:26:31.29\00:26:34.29
TO POUT. HE SAYS, 'LORD, I
WALKED - MY WORD IS AT STAKE.
00:26:34.29\00:26:38.09
I TOLD ALL THESE PEOPLE YOU WERE
GOING TO DESTROY THEM AND YOU'RE
00:26:38.09\00:26:40.66
BLESSING THEM. WHAT'S UP?
GOD SAYS, 'WELL, THEY REPENTED.'
00:26:40.66\00:26:44.77
'BUT WHAT ARE THEY
GOING TO THINK OF ME NOW?
00:26:44.77\00:26:47.40
WHAT HAPPENS TO MY CREDIBILITY,
GOD?' AND JONAH IS SO UPSET.
00:26:47.40\00:26:52.77
THEN A PLANT GROWS
UP DURING THE NIGHT.
00:26:52.77\00:26:55.74
HE'S JUST SITTING OUTSIDE THE
CITY WAITING FOR FIRE TO COME
00:26:55.74\00:26:57.91
DOWN. IT'S JUST NOT HAPPENING.
00:26:57.91\00:26:59.58
AND HE'S GETTING HOT DURING THE
DAY AND A GOURD GROWS UP WITH
00:26:59.58\00:27:02.32
THESE BIG BROAD LEAVES AND IT
STARTS GIVING HIM SOME SHADE AND
00:27:02.32\00:27:04.99
HE'S THANKFUL FOR THE GOURD, BUT
THE NEXT DAY A CATERPILLAR WAKES
00:27:04.99\00:27:09.19
UP AND BITES THROUGH THE GOURD
- YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG
00:27:09.19\00:27:12.69
AT ALL - IF YOU'VE GOT A
ZUCCHINI - IF YOU BREAK THE STEM
00:27:12.69\00:27:14.73
EVERYTHING DRIES UP AND DIES
ALMOST INSTANTLY. AND THIS GOURD
00:27:14.73\00:27:18.23
DRIES UP AND NOW HE'S REALLY
UPSET BECAUSE OF THIS GOURD.
00:27:18.23\00:27:23.10
NOW HE - HE'S MAD BECAUSE GOD IS
NOT GOING TO DESTROY - THE BIBLE
00:27:23.10\00:27:27.04
SAYS THERE WERE 120,000 PEOPLE
IN NINEVEH THAT DIDN'T KNOW
00:27:27.04\00:27:30.31
THEIR RIGHT
HAND FROM THEIR LEFT.
00:27:30.31\00:27:31.68
THAT WAS AN ANCIENT TERM
FOR CHILDREN - THAT DIDN'T KNOW
00:27:31.68\00:27:34.72
THEIR RIGHT
HAND FROM THEIR LEFT.
00:27:34.72\00:27:36.02
AND THERE'S MANY
CATTLE. GOD SAID, 'JONAH,
00:27:36.02\00:27:39.29
WHAT'S WITH YOU?' HE
SAID, 'YOU'RE UPSET BECAUSE
00:27:39.29\00:27:45.43
YOUR GOURD DIED AND
YOU'RE GETTING TOO MUCH SUN.
00:27:45.43\00:27:50.40
AND YOU'RE GETTING HOT FROM TOO
MUCH SUN AND YOU WANT ME TO RAIN
00:27:50.40\00:27:54.30
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE DOWN UPON THE
MULTIPLIED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
00:27:54.30\00:27:57.94
IN THIS CITY THAT HAVE REPENTED
BECAUSE YOU PREACHED TO THEM.
00:27:57.94\00:28:01.71
NOT TO MENTION THERE'S 120,000
CHILDREN AND THERE'S CATTLE.
00:28:01.71\00:28:05.68
AND I CARE ABOUT ALL OF THEM.
00:28:05.68\00:28:07.48
I DON'T WANT ANY
OF THEM TO PERISH.
00:28:07.48\00:28:09.42
AND JONAH, WHEN YOU RAN
FROM GOD PEOPLE WERE DYING.
00:28:09.42\00:28:14.79
WHEN YOU FINALLY SUBMITTED
TO ME, A WHOLE CITY REPENTED.
00:28:14.79\00:28:17.49
AREN'T YOU GLAD?' BY THE
WAY, THAT'S STILL TRUE TODAY.
00:28:17.49\00:28:21.63
EVERYBODY'S GOING TO HAVE AN
INFLUENCE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
00:28:21.63\00:28:25.23
PEOPLE WILL EITHER LIVE OR
DIE BECAUSE OF OUR INFLUENCE.
00:28:25.23\00:28:28.94
YOU MIGHT THINK, 'WELL, I
DON'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED.
00:28:28.94\00:28:30.81
I JUST WANT TO GO ON A CRUISE.'
IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
00:28:30.81\00:28:34.71
EVERYBODY IS GOING
TO HAVE AN INFLUENCE.
00:28:34.71\00:28:36.24
YOUR ACTIONS WILL
TELL FOR ETERNITY.
00:28:36.24\00:28:38.68
YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER ONE TIME,
THE PASTOR WHO BAPTIZED ME -
00:28:38.68\00:28:42.65
PASTOR JOE PHILLIPS - WE NEEDED
TO RAISE MONEY FOR SOME LOCAL
00:28:42.65\00:28:47.96
WORKING PROJECT - SOME BUILDING
PROJECT - IT WASN'T A BIG THING
00:28:47.96\00:28:52.13
- A RENOVATION - AND HE SAID,
'FRIENDS, I BELIEVE WE'VE GOT
00:28:52.13\00:28:55.16
THE MONEY RIGHT
HERE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
00:28:55.16\00:28:57.57
AND MY WIFE AND I HAVE TALKED
AND WE ARE GOING TO PLEDGE RIGHT
00:28:57.57\00:28:59.63
NOW A THOUSAND
DOLLARS TO DO THIS.
00:28:59.63\00:29:02.40
IS THERE SOMEONE ELSE THAT
WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A PLEDGE?'
00:29:02.40\00:29:05.94
AND I WENT TO HIM LATER AND I
SAID, 'PASTOR PHILLIPS, DOESN'T
00:29:05.94\00:29:08.94
IT SAY IN THE BIBLE, 'WHEN YOU
GIVE, DON'T LET YOUR LEFT HAND
00:29:08.94\00:29:11.21
KNOW WHAT YOUR RIGHT HAND DOES'?
00:29:11.21\00:29:12.78
WHY - WHY'D YOU ANNOUNCE HOW
MUCH YOU WERE GOING TO GIVE?'
00:29:12.78\00:29:16.38
HE SAID, 'BECAUSE I WANT TO
HAVE AN INFLUENCE FOR GOOD BY MY
00:29:16.38\00:29:21.06
EXAMPLE.' HE SAID, 'THE BIBLE
ALSO SAID, 'LET YOUR GOOD WORKS
00:29:21.06\00:29:24.09
SHINE BEFORE MEN THAT THEY MAY
SEE' - LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE SO
00:29:24.09\00:29:27.93
THEY MAY SEE - 'YOUR GOOD WORKS
AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER.'' HE
00:29:27.93\00:29:31.13
SAID, 'IF I'M DOING IT FOR THEM
TO GLORIFY ME,' HE SAID, 'THAT'S
00:29:31.13\00:29:33.27
NO GOOD.' HE SAID, 'I WANT TO DO
IT TO GLORIFY GOD AND I, BY MY
00:29:33.27\00:29:36.00
EXAMPLE, WANT TO ENCOURAGE
THEM.' AND WHEN HE MADE HIS
00:29:36.00\00:29:38.41
STATEMENT THAT 'I'M GOING TO
PLEDGE THIS MONEY.' OTHER PEOPLE
00:29:38.41\00:29:40.34
SAID, 'WELL, LOOK, IF OUR
PASTOR, WHO'S ON RETIREMENT, IS
00:29:40.34\00:29:42.84
GOING TO DO THAT, MAYBE I'LL DO
THIS AND...' IN ONE SITTING THEY
00:29:42.84\00:29:46.41
HAD ALL THE MONEY
BECAUSE OF HIS INFLUENCE.
00:29:46.41\00:29:50.39
AND EVERYWHERE HE WENT THAT -
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT
00:29:50.39\00:29:53.29
THE PHILLIPS COUPLE IS
THAT EVERYONE KNEW THEY WERE
00:29:53.29\00:29:55.86
CHRISTIANS. THEY JUST HAD A
POSITIVE INFLUENCE. NOW YOU HAVE
00:29:55.86\00:30:01.13
AN INFLUENCE ON CHILDREN.
SOME OF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN.
00:30:01.13\00:30:04.70
SOME OF YOU TEACH CHILDREN.
SOME OF YOU JUST RUN INTO THEM.
00:30:04.70\00:30:07.64
THE BIBLE SAYS, IN NUMBERS 14:18
"THE LORD IS LONGSUFFERING AND
00:30:07.64\00:30:12.71
ABUNDANT IN MERCY, FORGIVING
INIQUITY AND TRANSGRESSION; BUT
00:30:12.71\00:30:15.94
HE BY NO MEANS CLEARS THE
GUILTY, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF
00:30:15.94\00:30:19.45
THE FATHERS ON THE
CHILDREN TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH
00:30:19.45\00:30:21.75
GENERATION.'" THAT
DOESN'T SOUND FAIR.
00:30:21.75\00:30:24.65
WHY IS GOD GOING TO VISIT THE
INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS ON THE
00:30:24.65\00:30:26.96
CHILDREN UNTO THE
THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION?
00:30:26.96\00:30:29.19
THAT'S ALSO IN THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS - THE COMMANDMENT
00:30:29.19\00:30:31.99
ABOUT IDOLATRY - VISITING
THE FATHER - THE INIQUITY OF THE
00:30:31.99\00:30:35.56
FATHERS ON THE CHILDREN UNTO THE
THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION OF
00:30:35.56\00:30:38.27
THEM THAT HATE ME.' BUT IT GOES
ON TO SAY, 'AND SHOWING MERCY
00:30:38.27\00:30:41.64
UNTO THOUSANDS OF THEM' -
NOT THREE OR FOUR GENERATIONS -
00:30:41.64\00:30:44.74
'SHOWING MERCY UNTO THOUSANDS
OF THEM THAT LOVE ME AND KEEP MY
00:30:44.74\00:30:48.21
COMMANDMENTS.' WHY WOULD GOD
PUNISH THE CHILDREN FOR THE SINS
00:30:48.21\00:30:51.95
OF THE FATHERS? I
THOUGHT THE BIBLE FORBADE THAT.
00:30:51.95\00:30:54.78
IT'S NOT SAYING THAT.
WHAT IT'S SAYING IS THE
00:30:54.78\00:30:56.92
INFLUENCE OF THE
FATHERS AND THE MOTHERS
00:30:56.92\00:31:02.06
ON THE CHILDREN WILL OFTEN GET
THEM INTO A CYCLE OF BEHAVIOR
00:31:02.06\00:31:06.90
THAT WILL BE REPEATED FOR THREE
OR FOUR GENERATIONS AND IT'S
00:31:06.90\00:31:11.10
HARD TO GET OUT OF.
00:31:11.10\00:31:14.44
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT OUR
INFLUENCE ON OUR CHILDREN TELLS
00:31:14.44\00:31:18.07
FOR, BY OUR EXAMPLE, BY OUR
WORDS, BY OUR CONDUCT, FOR GOOD.
00:31:18.07\00:31:23.04
BECAUSE YOU'RE BASICALLY
ESTABLISHING WHAT THE NEXT
00:31:23.04\00:31:25.68
FAMILY AND GENERATION AND
COUNTRY IS GOING TO BE LIKE IN
00:31:25.68\00:31:28.65
WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WHAT'S
BEING MODELED FOR THE CHILDREN.
00:31:28.65\00:31:33.39
AS ALBERT SCHWEITZER
SAID, 'THERE'S THREE EXAMPLES TO
00:31:33.39\00:31:35.59
TEACH' - I'M SORRY - 'THREE WAYS
TO TEACH CHILDREN: IT'S EXAMPLE,
00:31:35.59\00:31:39.86
EXAMPLE, EXAMPLE.' YOU KNOW, IN
THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS OF GERMANY -
00:31:39.86\00:31:46.60
YOU'VE HEARD OF HARTZ PET FOOD?
THEY HAVE THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS -
00:31:46.60\00:31:49.87
THEY ACTUALLY RAISE CANARIES.
NOW THE GERMANS ARE MUCH MORE
00:31:49.87\00:31:53.31
PARTICULAR ABOUT THEIR
CANARIES THAN WE ARE HERE.
00:31:53.31\00:31:55.88
THEY TRADE THEM AND THERE ARE
SPECIALISTS AND SOME CANARIES
00:31:55.88\00:31:59.05
HAVE ESPECIALLY BEAUTIFUL SONGS.
00:31:59.05\00:32:02.22
LAST NIGHT, AS WE WERE HAVING
FAMILY WORSHIP, JUST AS THE SUN
00:32:02.22\00:32:05.32
WAS GOING DOWN, OR EVEN A
LITTLE AFTER, WE COULD HEAR JUST
00:32:05.32\00:32:08.42
OUTSIDE OUR DOOR - WE'VE GOT
THESE BIRDS - I DON'T EVEN KNOW
00:32:08.42\00:32:10.29
WHAT THEY'RE CALLED, BUT
THE BIRDS STARTED SINGING THESE
00:32:10.29\00:32:12.69
SONGS AND NO TWO
TWEETS ARE THE SAME.
00:32:12.69\00:32:15.96
I WAS SHOWING NATHAN, I SAID,
'LOOK, IF YOU WHISTLE, HE'LL TRY
00:32:15.96\00:32:17.93
AND MATCH YOU OUT THE WINDOW.'
AND SO WE WERE DOING (WHISTLES)
00:32:17.93\00:32:24.24
AND THESE BIRDS, THEY'RE TALKING
TO US. THEY WERE TRYING TO MATCH
00:32:24.24\00:32:26.64
ALL THESE THINGS THAT WE'RE
DOING. BEAUTIFUL SONG - THAT'S
00:32:26.64\00:32:29.74
THE FIRST THING WE
HEAR IN THE MORNING.
00:32:29.74\00:32:31.28
KAREN DOESN'T
NECESSARILY APPRECIATE IT.
00:32:31.28\00:32:32.78
I GET UP EARLY AND I'LL
OPEN THE WINDOW AND THIS BIRD IS
00:32:32.78\00:32:34.78
RIGHT OUT THERE - BEAUTIFUL SONG
- BUT YOU DON'T WANT IT HEAR IT
00:32:34.78\00:32:36.72
AT 5:30. AND CANARIES, YOU KNOW
- YOU'VE HEARD THE EXPRESSION
00:32:36.72\00:32:41.69
BEFORE 'SING LIKE A CANARY.'
BUT, YOU KNOW, ALL CANARIES
00:32:41.69\00:32:44.89
DON'T SING. SOME
CANARIES SING VERY POORLY.
00:32:44.89\00:32:49.00
CANARIES LEARN TO SING. SO
IN THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS, WHAT
00:32:49.00\00:32:52.93
THEY DO - WHERE THEY RAISE THESE
WORLD FAMOUS CANARIES - IS THEY
00:32:52.93\00:32:57.34
WILL TAKE THE VERY BEST
SINGERS AND THEY KEEP THEM.
00:32:57.34\00:33:01.08
AND THEY PUT THEM WITH THE
LITTLE FLEDGLINGS THAT HAVE
00:33:01.08\00:33:03.98
PROMISE AND AS THE LITTLE BABY
CANARIES ARE GROWING UP, THEY
00:33:03.98\00:33:07.85
LISTEN TO THE MASTERS SING
AND THEY LEARN THESE EXQUISITE
00:33:07.85\00:33:11.62
COMPLICATED SONGS AND THEN THEY
SELL THEM AND THEY'VE LEARNED
00:33:11.62\00:33:14.26
THESE SONGS. BUT ONE
FELLA MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
00:33:14.26\00:33:18.13
HE HAD A PRIZE CANARY THAT USED
TO SING BEAUTIFULLY, BUT HE FELT
00:33:18.13\00:33:22.30
SORRY FOR IT BECAUSE IT WAS IN
HIS CAGE INSIDE THE KITCHEN ALL
00:33:22.30\00:33:24.70
THE TIME, AND HE THOUGHT, 'YOU
KNOW, IT NEEDS SOME FRESH AIR.
00:33:24.70\00:33:27.50
IT GETS SUNSHINE BUT IT NEEDS
SOME FRESH AIR.' SO HE TOOK IT
00:33:27.50\00:33:29.44
OUTSIDE AND DURING THE SPRING
HE HUNG IT UP IN A TREE NEAR THE
00:33:29.44\00:33:33.44
BIRDBATH WHERE THERE WAS A
GAGGLE OF SPARROWS THAT USED TO
00:33:33.44\00:33:40.02
LIKE TO CONGREGATE AND THAT
CANARY STARTED OUT SINGING, BUT
00:33:40.02\00:33:45.59
AFTER HANGING OUT WITH
THE LITTLE BROWN SPARROWS FOR
00:33:45.59\00:33:47.89
AWHILE, THE MAN NOTICED
THAT IT HAD LOST ITS SONG.
00:33:47.89\00:33:51.93
ALL IT COULD DO WAS A PITIFUL
LITTLE CHIRP LIKE A SPARROW.
00:33:51.93\00:33:56.20
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR SONG
IS GOING TO BE INFLUENCED BY WHO
00:33:56.20\00:34:01.04
THEY HANG OUT WITH. >>AMEN.
00:34:01.04\00:34:02.94
>>AND THAT'S WHY YOU WANT THEM
TO BE EXPOSED TO POSITIVE ROLE
00:34:02.94\00:34:06.71
MODELS AND THE RIGHT KIND OF
LEADERSHIP BECAUSE WE ALL BECOME
00:34:06.71\00:34:10.88
SOMETHING LIKE
WHO WE HANG OUT WITH.
00:34:10.88\00:34:13.31
1 TIMOTHY 4:12, 'LET NO ONE LOOK
DOWN' - PAUL SAID TO TIMOTHY -
00:34:13.31\00:34:17.62
'ON YOUR YOUTHFULNESS, BUT
RATHER IN SPEECH, CONDUCT, LOVE,
00:34:17.62\00:34:21.86
FAITH, PURITY SHOW YOURSELF AN
EXAMPLE OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE.'
00:34:21.86\00:34:28.56
NOW THE REASON A LOT OF THE
HISTORY OF AFRICA IS DIFFERENT
00:34:28.56\00:34:31.33
TODAY IS BECAUSE THERE WAS
AN OLD MISSIONARY NAMED ROBERT
00:34:31.33\00:34:36.84
MOFFAT AND HE WENT TO A CHURCH
WHERE THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN
00:34:36.84\00:34:40.41
NAMED DAVID LIVINGSTONE WHO USED
TO OPERATE THE BILLOWS - THEY
00:34:40.41\00:34:44.41
USED TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO WOULD
PUMP THE BILLOWS FOR THE AIR
00:34:44.41\00:34:46.38
ORGAN. ANY OF YOU REMEMBER
THOSE LITTLE PEDAL ORGANS?
00:34:46.38\00:34:50.89
AND AFTER THE SERVICE,
DAVID LIVINGSTONE HAD HEARD HIM
00:34:50.89\00:34:55.29
TALKING ABOUT AFRICA AND HE WENT
THERE TO TRY AND INSPIRE PEOPLE
00:34:55.29\00:34:59.49
TO SUPPORT THE WORK AND THERE
WAS NO SUPPORT AT ALL THAT HE
00:34:59.49\00:35:01.66
GOT FROM THIS ONE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, BUT THIS YOUNG BOY, ON
00:35:01.66\00:35:05.37
HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR, MOFFAT
PATTED HIM ON THE HEAD AND SAID,
00:35:05.37\00:35:08.07
'YOUNG MAN, WILL YOU BE
A MISSIONARY FOR JESUS?'
00:35:08.07\00:35:10.87
HE SAID, THOSE WORDS RANG IN HIS
EARS AND HE MADE UP HIS MIND.
00:35:10.87\00:35:14.54
HE WANTED TO ACTUALLY GO TO
CHINA, BUT RIGHT WHEN HE WAS
00:35:14.54\00:35:16.54
GOING TO BE CALLED TO GO TO
CHINA IT CLOSED AND SO HE WENT
00:35:16.54\00:35:19.58
TO AFRICA AND LO AND BEHOLD,
DAVID LIVINGSTONE MARRIED ROBERT
00:35:19.58\00:35:23.35
MOFFAT'S DAUGHTER AND HE BECAME
A MISSIONARY THAT INSPIRED MANY
00:35:23.35\00:35:29.76
OTHER MISSIONARIES AND, NOT
TO MENTION A FAMOUS EXPLORER,
00:35:29.76\00:35:33.43
BECAUSE SOMEONE SAID TO HIM WHEN
HE WAS A BOY, 'WILL YOU BE A
00:35:33.43\00:35:37.93
MISSIONARY?' SIMPLE -
AND HE MADE UP HIS MIND
00:35:37.93\00:35:39.83
BACK THEN THAT HE WOULD DO THAT.
SOMEONE ELSE SAID, 'SMALL BOYS
00:35:39.83\00:35:43.87
LEARN TO BE LARGE MEN IN THE
PRESENCE OF LARGE MEN WHO CARE
00:35:43.87\00:35:46.61
ABOUT SMALL BOYS.' >>AMEN.
00:35:46.61\00:35:48.58
>>AND THAT'S ALSO TRUE OF
GIRLS. TV HAS AN INFLUENCE AND,
00:35:48.58\00:35:55.78
UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S NOT
GOOD. DO YOU KNOW A LOT OF YOUNG
00:35:55.78\00:36:00.92
PEOPLE COPYCAT CRIMES THAT
THEY FIRST LEARN ABOUT ON TV?
00:36:00.92\00:36:05.63
THERE WAS THIS ONE YOUNG
MAN THAT KEPT PLAYING THIS VIDEO
00:36:05.63\00:36:09.06
GAME CALLED GRAND THEFT AUTO
WHERE THE CHARACTERS IN THE GAME
00:36:09.06\00:36:13.07
ARE CONSTANTLY SHOOTING
POLICE AS THEY STEAL CARS.
00:36:13.07\00:36:17.04
THERE WAS ONE YOUNG MAN USED
TO PLAY THAT GAME JUST ABOUT 24
00:36:17.04\00:36:19.77
HOURS A DAY AND
YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID?
00:36:19.77\00:36:22.01
HE STOLE A CAR AND WHEN THEY
TOOK HIM TO THE POLICE STATION
00:36:22.01\00:36:24.41
HE SHOT THREE POLICE.
AND THEN AFTER THAT HE QUOTED
00:36:24.41\00:36:27.42
THE WORDS FROM THE VIDEO GAME,
HE SAID, 'WELL, WE ALL GOTTA
00:36:27.42\00:36:31.72
DIE SOMETIME.' AND THEY
WERE CONVINCED THAT THE GAMES HE
00:36:31.72\00:36:39.43
WAS PLAYING HAD
INFLUENCED HIS BEHAVIOR.
00:36:39.43\00:36:42.60
CONVERSELY, IN THE BOOK
ADVENTIST HOME YOU READ, "ONE
00:36:42.60\00:36:46.40
WELL-ORDERED, WELL-DISCIPLINED
FAMILY TELLS MORE IN BEHALF OF
00:36:46.40\00:36:50.77
CHRISTIANITY THAN ALL THE
SERMONS THAT COULD BE PREACHED."
00:36:50.77\00:36:54.61
THAT'S KIND OF HUMBLING TO ME.
00:36:54.61\00:36:56.85
I THINK THAT ALL I DO IN
PREACHING IS NOTHING COMPARED TO
00:36:56.85\00:37:00.62
ONE WELL-ORDERED,
WELL-DISCIPLINED CHRISTIAN
00:37:00.62\00:37:02.92
FAMILY THAT LETS THEIR
LIGHT SHINE. THAT'S TRUE BECAUSE
00:37:02.92\00:37:07.22
THAT'S WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS
THE ROAD - HAVING AN INFLUENCE
00:37:07.22\00:37:10.46
LIKE THAT THAT WILL LAST. WE
INFLUENCE, FOR THOSE OF US THAT
00:37:10.46\00:37:14.30
ARE MARRIED, YOU
INFLUENCE YOUR SPOUSE.
00:37:14.30\00:37:17.70
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'LOVE
YOUR NEIGHBOR' AND I WOULD THINK
00:37:17.70\00:37:21.27
THAT YOUR CLOSEST
NEIGHBOR WOULD BE YOUR SPOUSE.
00:37:21.27\00:37:24.21
IT'S INTERESTING, THE
BIBLE SAYS 'LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR'
00:37:24.21\00:37:26.21
AND 'LOVE YOUR ENEMY' TOO.
00:37:26.21\00:37:28.08
SO EITHER WAY YOU'RE SUPPOSED
TO LOVE YOUR SPOUSE, RIGHT?
00:37:28.08\00:37:30.48
(LAUGHTER) YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.
BUT YOU INFLUENCE EACH OTHER.
00:37:30.48\00:37:36.38
1 KINGS 11:4, "FOR IT WAS SO,
WHEN SOLOMON WAS OLD, THAT HIS
00:37:36.38\00:37:42.66
WIVES TURNED HIS HEART AFTER
OTHER GODS;" - NOW, OF COURSE,
00:37:42.66\00:37:45.73
IT DOESN'T HELP IT IF YOU
HAVE, LIKE, A THOUSAND WIVES AND
00:37:45.73\00:37:47.60
CONCUBINES - "AND HIS HEART WAS
NOT LOYAL TO THE LORD HIS GOD,
00:37:47.60\00:37:52.73
AS WAS THE HEART
OF HIS FATHER DAVID."
00:37:52.73\00:37:55.44
BECAUSE OF THAT INFLUENCE.
YOU CAN READ SOMETHING
00:37:55.44\00:37:57.91
SIMILAR ABOUT KING
AHAB. NOW I'M NOT PICKING
00:37:57.91\00:38:01.08
ON THE WOMEN. JUST HANG ON.
00:38:01.08\00:38:02.18
I'VE GOT IT
GOING BOTH WAYS HERE.
00:38:02.18\00:38:03.88
1 KINGS 21:25, "BUT THERE WAS NO
ONE LIKE AHAB WHO SOLD HIMSELF
00:38:03.88\00:38:08.98
TO DO WICKEDNESS IN THE SIGHT
OF THE LORD, BECAUSE JEZEBEL HIS
00:38:08.98\00:38:12.89
WIFE STIRRED HIM UP."
00:38:12.89\00:38:15.66
CONVERSELY, THE BIBLE TELLS
US THAT ESTHER HAD A POSITIVE
00:38:15.66\00:38:20.76
INFLUENCE ON HER WIFE - HER
HUSBAND, KING AHASUARUS AND THE
00:38:20.76\00:38:25.10
WHOLE NATION WAS
SAVED BECAUSE OF THAT.
00:38:25.10\00:38:29.34
1 PETER 3:1 AND 2, "WIVES,
LIKEWISE, BE SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR
00:38:29.34\00:38:33.41
OWN HUSBANDS, THAT EVEN IF
SOME DO NOT OBEY THE WORD, THEY,
00:38:33.41\00:38:36.91
WITHOUT A WORD," - WITHOUT EVER
HEARING, MAYBE, A PREACHER'S
00:38:36.91\00:38:39.38
SERMON - "MAY BE WON (TO THE
LORD) BY THE CONDUCT OF THEIR
00:38:39.38\00:38:43.42
WIVES, WHEN THEY OBSERVE YOUR
CHASTE CONDUCT ACCOMPANIED BY
00:38:43.42\00:38:46.96
FEAR." INFLUENCE IN THE FAMILY.
00:38:46.96\00:38:51.79
SO IF YOU THINK, 'WELL, I
HAVE NO INFLUENCE.' WE ALL DO.
00:38:51.79\00:38:54.36
WE'RE
INFLUENCING SOULS EVERY DAY.
00:38:54.36\00:38:56.26
ONE MORE - NOW HERE'S WHERE IT
GOES BOTH WAYS - 1 CORINTHIANS
00:38:56.26\00:38:59.13
7:14, "FOR THE UNBELIEVING
HUSBAND IS SANCTIFIED BY THE
00:38:59.13\00:39:03.37
WIFE, AND THE UNBELIEVING WIFE
IS SANCTIFIED BY THE HUSBAND;
00:39:03.37\00:39:07.41
OTHERWISE YOUR CHILDREN WOULD BE
UNCLEAN, BUT NOW THEY ARE HOLY."
00:39:07.41\00:39:11.28
NOT SAYING THAT HAVING ONE
BELIEVER IN A FAMILY, EVEN IF
00:39:11.28\00:39:15.45
THE HUSBAND AND THE CHILDREN
DON'T BELIEVE, IF THE MOTHER
00:39:15.45\00:39:19.02
BELIEVES, THROUGH HER INFLUENCE
AND THROUGH HER PRAYERS, SHE CAN
00:39:19.02\00:39:22.86
PRESERVE THE LIFE OF HER FAMILY.
JUST AS HAVING TWENTY RIGHTEOUS
00:39:22.86\00:39:27.50
PEOPLE IN SODOM CAN PRESERVE
A WHOLE CITY, YOU CERTAINLY CAN
00:39:27.50\00:39:30.90
WITH ONE BELIEVING PARENT -
ONE BELIEVING SPOUSE - WHETHER
00:39:30.90\00:39:34.20
IT'S THE HUSBAND OR THE WIFE.
THERE'S EVEN FAMILIES WHERE
00:39:34.20\00:39:37.31
SOMETIMES IT'S JUST THE
CHILD THAT ACCEPTS THE LORD.
00:39:37.31\00:39:41.21
THROUGH SOME CIRCUMSTANCE
THEY'RE EXPOSED TO JESUS - THEY
00:39:41.21\00:39:43.18
GIVE THEIR HEARTS TO JESUS
- THEY'RE PRAYING FOR THEIR
00:39:43.18\00:39:45.21
FAMILIES AND I'VE HEARD STORIES
WHERE WHOLE FAMILY IS CONVERTED
00:39:45.21\00:39:48.62
BY THE YOUNGEST CHILD
THAT GAVE THEIR HEART TO JESUS.
00:39:48.62\00:39:51.65
WE ALL HAVE AN INFLUENCE.
YOUR FRIENDS, YOU WILL INFLUENCE
00:39:51.65\00:39:57.26
THEM AND YOU WANT TO PICK
YOUR FRIENDS CAREFULLY BECAUSE
00:39:57.26\00:39:59.76
THEY'RE
PROBABLY INFLUENCING YOU.
00:39:59.76\00:40:01.63
THAT'S WHY IT DOES SAY IN PSALM
1, "BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO WALKS
00:40:01.63\00:40:04.93
NOT IN THE COUNSEL OF THE
UNGODLY, NOR STANDS IN THE PATH
00:40:04.93\00:40:08.14
OF SINNERS, NOR SITS IN
THE SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL;" -
00:40:08.14\00:40:11.84
ALL OF US GOING
THROUGH LIFE ARE SOMETHING
00:40:11.84\00:40:13.78
LIKE EITHER A STREAM OF
LIVING WATER OR OF LAVA.
00:40:13.78\00:40:17.78
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN WHAT LAVA
DOES WHEN IT ESCAPES THERE IN
00:40:17.78\00:40:20.68
THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII
AND GOES THROUGH A COMMUNITY?
00:40:20.68\00:40:26.62
EVERYTHING IS
SCORCHED AND BURNED.
00:40:26.62\00:40:28.12
THE ASPHALT BURNS - IT JUST -
IT KILLS EVERYTHING IN ITS WAKE.
00:40:28.12\00:40:31.29
IT'S - YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT
SOME RIVERS LIKE THAT IN CHINA
00:40:31.29\00:40:33.40
NOW, WHERE THE FACTORIES HAVE
DUMPED SO MANY CHEMICALS IN THE
00:40:33.40\00:40:35.90
RIVER THAT EVERYTHING ALONG
THE EDGES OF THE RIVER DIES.
00:40:35.90\00:40:41.54
IT'S JUST - IT'S CAUSTIC AND
TOXIC AND POISONED - AND I KNOW
00:40:41.54\00:40:47.78
THERE'S NO ONE HERE LIKE THAT,
BUT YOU'VE PROBABLY ALL MET ONE
00:40:47.78\00:40:49.78
OR TWO PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE THAT
ARE KIND OF LIKE THAT - JUST
00:40:49.78\00:40:52.21
NEGATIVE AND THEY SORT OF JUST -
THEY KILL HOPE WHEREVER THEY GO.
00:40:52.21\00:41:00.12
WE OUGHT TO BE
THE OPPOSITE OF THAT.
00:41:00.12\00:41:01.52
THE BIBLE SAYS WHEREVER
THE RIVER RAN, THINGS LIVED.
00:41:01.52\00:41:05.63
OUR LIVES CAN BE LIKE
THAT - A RIVER OF LIFE.
00:41:05.63\00:41:10.90
PROVERBS 13:20, "HE WHO WALKS
WITH WISE MEN WILL BE WISE, BUT
00:41:10.90\00:41:14.97
THE COMPANION OF FOOLS
WILL" - SING LIKE A SPARROW.
00:41:14.97\00:41:18.94
NO, IT SAYS "WILL BE DESTROYED."
PROVERBS 22:24 AND 25, "MAKE NO
00:41:18.94\00:41:25.15
FRIENDSHIP WITH AN ANGRY MAN,
AND WITH A FURIOUS MAN DO NOT
00:41:25.15\00:41:28.12
GO, LEST YOU LEARN HIS WAYS
AND SET A SNARE FOR YOUR SOUL."
00:41:28.12\00:41:33.46
YOU KNOW, I KNOW MY MOTHER
- I'VE PROBABLY MENTIONED THIS
00:41:33.46\00:41:37.76
BEFORE, BUT SHE WAS AN ACTRESS
EARLIER IN HER LIFE AND, I DON'T
00:41:37.76\00:41:42.96
KNOW WHY, BUT WHENEVER SHE
TALKED TO SOMEONE ON THE PHONE
00:41:42.96\00:41:45.50
SHE WOULD TRY TO SOUND LIKE
THE PERSON SHE WAS TALKING TO.
00:41:45.50\00:41:49.37
AND MY BROTHER AND I COULD
ALWAYS TELL WHO SHE WAS ON THE
00:41:49.37\00:41:52.24
PHONE WITH - WE DIDN'T EVEN NEED
THE DETAILS OF THE CONVERSATION.
00:41:52.24\00:41:55.61
WE DIDN'T NEED ANY
KIND OF EVIDENCE LIKE THAT.
00:41:55.61\00:41:58.71
ALL WE KNEW IS BY
HER VOICE WOULD CHANGE.
00:41:58.71\00:42:01.85
SHE HAD FRIENDS IN ENGLAND -
SHE WOULD IMMEDIATELY ASSUME AN
00:42:01.85\00:42:04.02
ENGLISH ACCENT
WHEN SHE CALLED THEM.
00:42:04.02\00:42:06.35
AND INSTEAD OF SAYING 'ELEVATOR'
SHE WOULD SAY 'THE LIFT'.
00:42:06.35\00:42:08.59
INSTEAD OF SAYING 'TELEPHONE'
SHE WOULD SAY 'THE TELLY' AND
00:42:08.59\00:42:10.36
SHE USED ALL OF
THE ENGLISH WORDS.
00:42:10.36\00:42:11.93
SHE KNEW - SHE LIVED IN ENGLAND
FOR AWHILE SO SHE KNEW ALL THAT.
00:42:11.93\00:42:15.23
BUT IT WAS EVEN MORE SUBTLE.
SHE HAD FRIENDS IN NEW YORK CITY
00:42:15.23\00:42:18.77
AND WE COULD ALWAYS TELL WHO SHE
WAS TALKING TO BECAUSE SHE SORT
00:42:18.77\00:42:22.24
OF MORPHED AND REFLECTED
WHOEVER SHE WAS TALKING TO.
00:42:22.24\00:42:25.57
NOW IT WAS VERY OBVIOUS WITH
MY MOTHER, BUT ALL OF US ARE A
00:42:25.57\00:42:28.34
LITTLE BIT LIKE THAT.
OUR SOULS, TO SOME EXTENT,
00:42:28.34\00:42:32.25
ARE LIKE A MIRROR OR EVEN A
PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE, THAT SOMEHOW
00:42:32.25\00:42:34.92
ABSORBS AND REFLECTS THE
PEOPLE THAT WE ASSOCIATE WITH.
00:42:34.92\00:42:38.55
WE ALL - ALL OF US - EXUDE
AN AURA TO OTHERS AND ALL OF US
00:42:38.55\00:42:44.83
ABSORB SOME OF
THE AURA OF OTHERS.
00:42:44.83\00:42:48.83
WE ALL INFLUENCE EACH OTHER.
YOU CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL WHAT
00:42:48.83\00:42:52.70
OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
DO EXCEPT AS YOU CHOOSE TO BE A
00:42:52.70\00:42:55.44
POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON THEM.
PICK YOUR FRIENDS VERY CAREFULLY
00:42:55.44\00:43:00.64
BECAUSE YOU MAY
BECOME LIKE THEM.
00:43:00.64\00:43:04.65
THERE WAS A - AN EPITAPH
REGARDING A GIRL THAT HER
00:43:04.65\00:43:12.29
FRIENDS SAID AT HER FUNERAL, 'IT
WAS EASIER TO BE GOOD WHEN SHE
00:43:12.29\00:43:17.33
WAS WITH US.' ALFRED LORD
TENNYSON SAID, 'I'M PART OF ALL
00:43:17.33\00:43:22.43
THAT I EVER MET.' ALL OF US
ARE INFLUENCED BY EACH OTHER.
00:43:22.43\00:43:27.37
JOHN WESLEY DETERMINED TO HAVE
NO COMPANIONS EXCEPT THOSE THAT
00:43:27.37\00:43:30.64
HE BELIEVED WOULD HELP
HIM IN THE LIFE OF FAITH AND
00:43:30.64\00:43:33.61
RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT
HE WAS TRYING TO LEAD.
00:43:33.61\00:43:36.75
AND THEY MADE A LITTLE
HOLY CLUB, THEY CALLED THEM.
00:43:36.75\00:43:40.25
NOW HE WAS ALWAYS FRIENDS WITH
THE LOST AND HE'D STUDY WITH THE
00:43:40.25\00:43:42.52
LOST, BUT WHEN IT CAME TO
JUST OPENING YOUR HEART AND
00:43:42.52\00:43:44.85
INTERACTIONS AND FRIENDSHIPS HE
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO
00:43:44.85\00:43:47.62
BE INFLUENCED BY THE WRONG
GROUP.' AND SO JOHN WESLEY AND
00:43:47.62\00:43:49.99
CHARLES WESLEY AND JOHN
WHITFIELD AND A NUMBER OF OTHERS
00:43:49.99\00:43:52.86
THERE AT OXFORD, THEY GOT
TOGETHER AND SAID, 'WE WANT TO
00:43:52.86\00:43:55.06
BE FRIENDS WITH GOD AND WE WANT
TO HAVE THE RIGHT INFLUENCE AND
00:43:55.06\00:43:58.17
THE WHOLE METHODIST CHURCH
GREW OUT OF THAT BECAUSE THEY
00:43:58.17\00:44:01.74
REALIZED HOW
POWERFUL INFLUENCE WOULD BE.
00:44:01.74\00:44:05.14
THIS ONE MOTHER COULD
ALWAYS TELL WHO HER DAUGHTER WAS
00:44:05.14\00:44:08.28
PLAYING WITH BY HOW SHE
ACTED WHEN SHE CAME HOME.
00:44:08.28\00:44:12.78
HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN THAT?
KIDS COME HOME AND YOU SAY,
00:44:12.78\00:44:15.75
'HAVE YOU BEEN PLAYING WITH SO
AND SO TODAY?' 'HOW'D YOU KNOW?'
00:44:15.75\00:44:19.72
'I CAN TELL BY THE WORDS YOU'RE
USING AND BY THE WAY YOU'RE
00:44:19.72\00:44:22.96
ACTING.' AND THEN, IF THAT'S
TRUE, HOW IMPORTANT IS IT THAT
00:44:22.96\00:44:29.16
WE HAVE AN
INFLUENCE ON OTHERS FOR LIFE?
00:44:29.16\00:44:32.50
JAMES 5:19 AND 20, "BRETHREN,
IF ANYONE AMONG YOU WANDERS FROM
00:44:32.50\00:44:37.31
THE TRUTH, AND SOMEONE TURNS HIM
BACK, LET HIM KNOW THAT HE WHO
00:44:37.31\00:44:41.71
TURNS A SINNER FROM THE ERROR
OF HIS WAY WILL SAVE A SOUL FROM
00:44:41.71\00:44:46.08
DEATH AND COVER A
MULTITUDE OF SINS."
00:44:46.08\00:44:50.29
I REMEMBER I WAS STANDING BY
A RIVER ONE TIME AND A BUNCH OF
00:44:50.29\00:44:54.72
PEOPLE WERE SWIMMING - IT WAS
OUT IN THE DESERT - AND THERE
00:44:54.72\00:44:57.66
WERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE. IT
WAS A WARM DAY AND I WAS WITH
00:44:57.66\00:45:00.50
A FRIEND FROM BROOKLYN, HIS NAME
WAS JAY SAMUELS, AND SOMEBODY
00:45:00.50\00:45:06.33
SHOWING OFF, DOVE FROM A LARGE
ROCK. THEY DIDN'T REALIZE HOW
00:45:06.33\00:45:09.57
SHALLOW - I THINK THEY'D BEEN
DRINKING - THEY DOVE INTO THIS
00:45:09.57\00:45:12.47
SHALLOW SPOT AND THEY HIT
THEIR HEAD WHEN THEY DOVE.
00:45:12.47\00:45:17.61
MY FRIEND JAY - EVERYONE GOT
REAL QUIET AND THEY SAW IT AND
00:45:17.61\00:45:22.92
THEY JUST LOOKED - AND THE GUY
WAS LAYING AT THE BOTTOM - THE
00:45:22.92\00:45:27.72
WATER WAS CLEAR
ENOUGH THAT YOU COULD SEE IT.
00:45:27.72\00:45:29.32
MY FRIEND JAY JUMPED IN THE
WATER AND SWAM OVER AND GASPING
00:45:29.32\00:45:34.86
AND SPUTTERING PULLED THE GUY
OUT AND ONCE HE DID THAT OTHERS
00:45:34.86\00:45:37.70
CAME TO HELP HIM. AND
WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING ABOUT
00:45:37.70\00:45:39.73
THE STORY IS JAY COULD NOT
SWIM. I WAS A GREAT SWIMMER
00:45:39.73\00:45:45.87
AND I JUST STOOD
THERE. AND HERE HE SAVED
00:45:45.87\00:45:48.68
THIS GUY'S LIFE. AND I
THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THAT'D
00:45:48.68\00:45:52.38
REALLY BE SOMETHING
TO SAVE A PERSON'S LIFE.
00:45:52.38\00:45:55.38
TO SAY - YOU KNOW, OR
HAVE SOMEONE SAY, 'YOU SAVED MY
00:45:55.38\00:45:57.69
LIFE.' WOULDN'T YOU
LIKE TO SAVE A LIFE?
00:45:57.69\00:46:01.36
WELL, YOU DON'T WANT TO PUSH
SOMEONE IN THE WATER AND THEN GO
00:46:01.36\00:46:02.86
IN AFTER THEM.
THAT DOESN'T COUNT.
00:46:02.86\00:46:04.79
IT'S JUST GOT TO HAPPEN.
YOU CAN'T MAKE IT HAPPEN OR IT
00:46:04.79\00:46:07.36
DOESN'T - IT'S NOT - YOU
DON'T EARN POINTS THAT WAY.
00:46:07.36\00:46:10.40
BUT - AND I'VE HAD THE FANTASIES
BEFORE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
00:46:10.40\00:46:13.57
BEING A CHRISTIAN YOU THINK, 'OH
LORD, AM I GOING TO MAKE IT?'
00:46:13.57\00:46:15.77
IF I WERE TO DIVE IN THE
WATER AND DROWN TRYING TO SAVE
00:46:15.77\00:46:20.11
SOMEBODY, YOU'D KIND OF
HAVE TO SAVE ME, WOULDN'T YOU?
00:46:20.11\00:46:22.34
IF I LAID DOWN MY LIFE TRYING
TO SAVE SOMEBODY, DO YOU GET
00:46:22.34\00:46:25.71
ANY CREDIT FOR
THAT. NO, THAT WOULD BE
00:46:25.71\00:46:27.12
SALVATION BY WORKS.
BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU DO HAVE
00:46:27.12\00:46:31.25
A CHANCE TO SAVE
LIVES. I JUST READ IT.
00:46:31.25\00:46:34.79
'IF ANYONE AMONG YOU WANDERS
FROM THE TRUTH AND SOMEONE TURNS
00:46:34.79\00:46:38.13
HIM BACK AGAIN, LET HIM KNOW
THAT HE THAT TURNS A SINNER FROM
00:46:38.13\00:46:41.66
THE ERROR OF HIS WAYS WILL SAVE
A SOUL FROM DEATH AND COVER A
00:46:41.66\00:46:45.93
MULTITUDE OF SINS BY
BRINGING THEM TO JESUS.
00:46:45.93\00:46:48.77
THERE'S A MULTITUDE OF SINNERS
- OF SINS THAT ARE COVERED.
00:46:48.77\00:46:53.04
WE'RE INFLUENCED BY TEACHERS.
00:46:53.04\00:46:55.71
THAT'S WHY I THINK WE NEED
TO REALLY PRAY FOR OUR SCHOOLS.
00:46:55.71\00:46:59.91
2 TIMOTHY 2:16 AND 17, "BUT SHUN
PROFANE AND IDLE BABBLINGS, FOR
00:46:59.91\00:47:05.79
THEY WILL INCREASE
TO MORE UNGODLINESS.
00:47:05.79\00:47:08.46
AND THEIR MESSAGE
WILL SPREAD LIKE CANCER.
00:47:08.46\00:47:10.79
HYMENAEUS AND PHILETUS ARE
OF THIS SORT," - THERE WERE SOME
00:47:10.79\00:47:13.46
FALSE TEACHERS THAT
CAME INTO THE EARLY CHURCH.
00:47:13.46\00:47:16.50
I REMEMBER I WENT TO A CHRISTIAN
COLLEGE I'LL NOT NAME RIGHT NOW
00:47:16.50\00:47:19.37
AND HAD A LOT OF TEACHERS I
REALLY LOVED AND I WAS LEARNING
00:47:19.37\00:47:22.54
SOME WONDERFUL THINGS AND
BEING ENCOURAGED AND SOMETIMES I
00:47:22.54\00:47:26.47
WANTED TO SHOUT AFTER I
CAME FROM CLASSES THAT WERE SO
00:47:26.47\00:47:28.78
INSPIRING. I WAS
STILL, COMPARATIVELY
00:47:28.78\00:47:30.18
A NEW CHRISTIAN. SECOND
YEAR I WENT TO THIS BIBLE
00:47:30.18\00:47:34.58
CLASS AND IT SEEMED TO ME
LIKE THE TEACHER WAS ALWAYS
00:47:34.58\00:47:39.15
QUESTIONING EVERYTHING IN THE
BIBLE. AND YOU'D SAY SOMETHING
00:47:39.15\00:47:42.36
WITH ENTHUSIASM ABOUT THE BIBLE
AND THEY WOULD SAY, 'WELL, IT
00:47:42.36\00:47:44.09
DOESN'T REALLY MEAN THAT.' 'OH.'
AND YOU'D SAY SOMETHING ELSE,
00:47:44.09\00:47:47.36
'OH, YEAH, THIS...' 'OH, IT'S
NOT - THERE'S MORE TO IT THAN
00:47:47.36\00:47:49.56
THAT.' AND FINALLY I WENT TO THE
TEACHER AND I SAID - IT WAS A
00:47:49.56\00:47:54.00
PROFESSOR AND I SAID, 'I'D
LIKE TO - I'M GOING TO CANCEL
00:47:54.00\00:47:57.61
COMING TO THIS
CLASS. HE SAID, 'OH, WHY?'
00:47:57.61\00:48:01.71
AND I SAID, 'WHENEVER I WALK OUT
OF HERE I FEEL LIKE MY FAITH IS
00:48:01.71\00:48:06.65
WEAKER.' AND I SAID, 'I
CAN'T AFFORD TO HAVE LESS FAITH.
00:48:06.65\00:48:11.12
I DON'T WANT TO HAVE LESS
FAITH.' 'OH NO, NO, YOU'VE GOT
00:48:11.12\00:48:13.36
TO HEAR ME OUT,
DOUG. GIVE IT TIME.
00:48:13.36\00:48:14.99
YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN TO THINK
CRITICALLY AND...' THE LAST I
00:48:14.99\00:48:19.36
HEARD I THINK HE
LEFT THE FAITH. >>AMEN.
00:48:19.36\00:48:22.00
>>BUT HE WAS LIKE A
WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.
00:48:22.00\00:48:25.13
AND THE STUDENTS AND I - I'M
GLAD - TO THIS DAY I'M GLAD I
00:48:25.13\00:48:27.07
WALKED OUT. I WENT
AWAY FROM THERE AND GOT
00:48:27.07\00:48:28.67
INVOLVED IN DOING
REVELATION SEMINARS.
00:48:28.67\00:48:30.87
BUT I COULD SEE
WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO ME.
00:48:30.87\00:48:33.14
AND SO, YOU'VE
GOT TO BE CAREFUL.
00:48:33.14\00:48:35.61
TEACHERS HAVE A VERY
POWERFUL INFLUENCE ON STUDENTS.
00:48:35.61\00:48:39.75
WELL I'M - I'M
RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
00:48:39.75\00:48:41.55
BUT I THINK YOU'RE ALL GETTING
THE POINT THAT WE ALL HAVE AN
00:48:41.55\00:48:44.59
INFLUENCE IN
OTHER PEOPLES' LIVES.
00:48:44.59\00:48:46.45
LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU
AND THIS IS - I KNOW I'VE BEEN
00:48:46.45\00:48:48.76
READING A LOT OF QUOTES - THIS
IS FROM THE BOOK CHRIST'S OBJECT
00:48:48.76\00:48:51.36
LESSONS - THERE'S A LOT OF
GREAT QUOTES HERE - PAGE 340, IF
00:48:51.36\00:48:54.63
YOU'RE TAKING NOTES, CHRIST'S
OBJECT LESSONS PAGE 340 , "EVERY
00:48:54.63\00:48:58.50
SOUL IS SURROUNDED BY
AN ATMOSPHERE OF ITS OWN.
00:48:58.50\00:49:02.90
IT MIGHT BE CHARGED WITH
THE LIFE-GIVING POWER OF FAITH,
00:49:02.90\00:49:05.81
COURAGE, AND HOPE AND SWEET WITH
THE FRAGRANCE OF LOVE, OR IT
00:49:05.81\00:49:08.78
MIGHT BE HEAVY AND CHILLED
WITH THE GLOOM OF DISCONTENT AND
00:49:08.78\00:49:11.51
SELFISHNESS OR POISONOUS WITH
A DEADLY TAINT OF CHERISHED SIN.
00:49:11.51\00:49:15.92
BY THE ATMOSPHERE SURROUNDING
US, EVERY PERSON WITH WHOM WE
00:49:15.92\00:49:19.45
COME IN CONTACT IS CONSCIOUSLY
OR UNCONSCIOUSLY AFFECTED."
00:49:19.45\00:49:23.56
YOU MAY NOT EVEN KNOW
THAT YOU'RE AFFECTING PEOPLE.
00:49:23.56\00:49:27.03
"THIS IS A RESPONSIBILITY FROM
WHICH WE CANNOT FREE OURSELVES."
00:49:27.03\00:49:30.67
WE ARE ALL
RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR INFLUENCE.
00:49:30.67\00:49:33.60
"OUR WORDS, OUR ACTIONS, OUR
DRESS, OUR DEPORTMENT, EVEN THE
00:49:33.60\00:49:37.34
EXPRESSION OF THE
COUNTENANCE HAS AN INFLUENCE.
00:49:37.34\00:49:40.94
UPON THE IMPRESSION THUS MADE
HANGS THE RESULTS FOR GOOD OR
00:49:40.94\00:49:45.61
EVIL, WHICH NO MAN CAN MEASURE.
EVERY IMPULSE THUS IMPARTED SEED
00:49:45.61\00:49:50.29
IS SOWN WHICH
WILL PRODUCE A HARVEST.
00:49:50.29\00:49:53.19
IT IS A LINK IN THE LONG CHAIN
OF HUMAN EVENTS EXTENDING" - WE
00:49:53.19\00:49:56.26
DON'T KNOW WHERE - "IF, BY OUR
EXAMPLE, WE AID OTHERS IN THE
00:49:56.26\00:49:59.93
DEVELOPMENT OF GOOD PRINCIPLES,
WE GIVE THEM POWER TO DO GOOD.
00:49:59.93\00:50:04.10
IN THEIR TURN, THEY EXERT THE
SAME INFLUENCE UPON OTHERS AND
00:50:04.10\00:50:07.20
STILL UPON OTHERS.
THUS, BY OUR UNCONSCIOUS
00:50:07.20\00:50:09.97
INFLUENCE, THOUSANDS MAY BE
BLESSED." YOU THINK THAT WIDOW
00:50:09.97\00:50:13.98
KNEW, WHEN SHE TRIED TO SLIP
QUIETLY INTO THE TEMPLE AND MAKE
00:50:13.98\00:50:17.21
HER DONATION OF TWO PENNIES THAT
THAT WAS REALLY GOING TO MAKE A
00:50:17.21\00:50:21.25
BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE
RESOURCES OF GOD'S KINGDOM?
00:50:21.25\00:50:25.35
HAD NO IDEA, BUT THE INFLUENCE
- IT WASN'T THE TWO CENTS - HER
00:50:25.35\00:50:28.72
SACRIFICE - THE INFLUENCE
OF THAT - HAS, QUITE LITERALLY,
00:50:28.72\00:50:32.36
BROUGHT BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS INTO THE CAUSE OF GOD.
00:50:32.36\00:50:36.23
YOU HAVE NO - IT
CAUSES A CHAIN REACTION.
00:50:36.23\00:50:40.10
LET ME KEEP READING, "THROW A
PEBBLE INTO A LAKE AND A WAVE IS
00:50:40.10\00:50:43.41
FORMED AND THEN ANOTHER AND
ANOTHER. AND AS THEY INCREASE,
00:50:43.41\00:50:46.57
THE CIRCLE WIDENS UNTIL
IT REACHES A VERY FAR SHORE.
00:50:46.57\00:50:50.05
SO WITH OUR INFLUENCE, BEYOND
OUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONTROL, IT
00:50:50.05\00:50:53.35
TELLS UPON OTHERS IN
BLESSING OR IN CURSING.
00:50:53.35\00:50:57.92
CHARACTER IS POWER. THE
SILENT WITNESS OF A TRUE,
00:50:57.92\00:51:00.86
UNSELFISH, GODLY LIFE CARRIES AN
ALMOST IRRESISTIBLE INFLUENCE.
00:51:00.86\00:51:05.83
BY REVEALING, IN OUR OWN LIFE,
THE CHARACTER OF CHRIST, WE
00:51:05.83\00:51:09.10
COOPERATE WITH HIM IN THE WORK
OF SAVING SOULS AND THE WIDER
00:51:09.10\00:51:13.00
THE SPHERE OF OUR INFLUENCE,
THE MORE GOOD WE MAY DO.
00:51:13.00\00:51:16.30
WHEN THOSE WHO PROFESS TO SERVE
GOD FOLLOW CHRIST'S EXAMPLE,
00:51:16.30\00:51:19.77
PRACTICING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE
LAW IN THEIR DAILY LIFE, WHEN
00:51:19.77\00:51:23.04
EVERY ACT BEARS WITNESS
THAT THEY LOVE GOD SUPREMELY AND
00:51:23.04\00:51:26.15
THEIR NEIGHBOR AS THEMSELVES,
THEN WILL THE CHURCH HAVE POWER
00:51:26.15\00:51:29.82
TO MOVE THE WORLD." IF
WE WOULD ALL REALIZE, FROM
00:51:29.82\00:51:33.66
THIS MOMENT ON, THAT IT'S NOT
ALL ABOUT US - GOD HAS GIVEN US
00:51:33.66\00:51:39.43
A LIFE TO BE AN INFLUENCE FOR
OTHERS FOR GOOD AND IF WE WOULD
00:51:39.43\00:51:43.97
CHOOSE AND SAY, 'ALRIGHT, I
AM GOING TO MEET PEOPLE TODAY.
00:51:43.97\00:51:47.40
I AM GOING TO
SPEAK TO PEOPLE TODAY.
00:51:47.40\00:51:48.94
I GET TO SMILE AT PEOPLE TODAY.
AND THROUGH WHATEVER I DO, LORD
00:51:48.94\00:51:53.58
GOD HELP ME' - BECAUSE YOU CAN'T
DO IT WITHOUT HIS HELP - 'GOD
00:51:53.58\00:51:57.41
HELP ME TO BE A
POSITIVE INFLUENCE.' AND YOU
00:51:57.41\00:52:00.08
KNOW WHAT HAPPENS? AS
YOU LIVE THAT WAY - TO BRING
00:52:00.08\00:52:02.58
GLORY TO GOD AND TO LOVE
YOUR NEIGHBOR BY BEING A GOOD
00:52:02.58\00:52:05.59
INFLUENCE, IT WILL THEN
REACT IN A BLESSING ON YOU.
00:52:05.59\00:52:10.16
IT IS MORE BLESSED
TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE.
00:52:10.16\00:52:12.49
AND AS YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO
GIVE A GOOD INFLUENCE YOU WILL
00:52:12.49\00:52:15.56
RECEIVE, IN TURN. ONE
LAST LITTLE POEM: MY LIFE
00:52:15.56\00:52:21.87
WILL TOUCH A DOZEN LIVES
BEFORE THIS DAY IS DONE, LEAVE
00:52:21.87\00:52:25.44
COUNTLESS MARKS FOR GOOD OR
ILL ERE SETS THE EVENING SUN.
00:52:25.44\00:52:30.01
THIS THE WISH I ALSO - I ALWAYS
WISH, THE PRAYER I ALWAYS PRAY,
00:52:30.01\00:52:34.55
'LORD, MAY MY LIFE HELP OTHER
LIVES IT TOUCHES BY THE WAY.' IS
00:52:34.55\00:52:38.99
THAT YOUR PRAYER, FRIENDS?
THAT WE CAN BE LIKE JESUS AND
00:52:38.99\00:52:42.42
HAVE A POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON
OTHERS AND I THINK WE'D PROBABLY
00:52:42.42\00:52:48.16
ALL DO WELL TO SAY, 'LORD, WE
CAN'T UNSCRAMBLE SCRAMBLED EGGS.
00:52:48.16\00:52:52.97
WE CAN'T GO BACK AND NECESSARILY
UNDO EVERY WORD WE'VE SPOKEN OR
00:52:52.97\00:52:56.67
THE INFLUENCE WE MAY HAVE
HAD, BUT WE CAN RESOLVE, BY YOUR
00:52:56.67\00:52:59.57
GRACE - ACCEPT YOUR FORGIVENESS
FOR THE PAST AND SAY, 'BY YOUR
00:52:59.57\00:53:02.84
GRACE, FROM NOW ON, LORD, I
WANT TO BE A GOOD INFLUENCE FOR
00:53:02.84\00:53:06.51
CHRIST. I WANT TO
LET MY LIGHT SHINE.'
00:53:06.51\00:53:08.78
AND REMEMBER, IF YOU WANT TO
CHANGE YOUR INFLUENCE, YOU NEED
00:53:08.78\00:53:13.02
TO CHANGE WHAT INFLUENCES
YOU. >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH
00:53:13.02\00:53:16.59
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YOU KNOW THIS BOAT COULD
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SHARE THE GOSPEL
WITH 20,000 PEOPLE?
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OR A CAR LIKE THIS ONE COULD
REACH 10,000 SOULS SEEKING HOPE
00:53:50.46\00:53:54.10
IN JESUS. IF YOU
HAVE A VEHICLE YOU'RE NOT
00:53:54.10\00:53:57.13
USING AND WOULD LIKE TO REACH
HEARTS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD,
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PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER
DONATING YOUR VEHICLE TO
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AMAZING FACTS TODAY. IT'S
EASY TO TURN YOUR UNNEEDED
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CAR, BOAT, RV, MOTORCYCLE -
EVEN ATVS AND JET SKIS - INTO A
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SOUL-WINNING VEHICLE FOR
CHRIST AND GET A TAX DEDUCTION.
00:54:12.18\00:54:16.28
AMAZING FACTS WILL ARRANGE TO
PICK UP YOUR VEHICLE AND PROVIDE
00:54:16.28\00:54:19.59
YOU WITH A
TAX-DEDUCTIBLE RECEIPT.
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THE PROCEEDS FROM THE RESALE
WILL BE USED TO SHARE GOD'S
00:54:21.92\00:54:24.86
TRUTH WITH MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD.
00:54:24.86\00:54:27.66
DON'T LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE
IN THE GARAGE COLLECTING DUST.
00:54:27.66\00:54:32.03
USE IT TO TRANSFORM
LIVES THROUGH AMAZING FACTS.
00:54:32.03\00:54:35.57
CONTACT US TODAY AND LET US
HELP TURN YOUR CAR, BOAT, RV, OR
00:54:35.57\00:54:39.34
MOTORCYCLE INTO
LIVES SAVED FOR CHRIST.
00:54:39.34\00:54:45.58
(MUSIC) HELLO FRIENDS, WE ALL
KNOW A MARATHON IS ONE OF THE
00:54:45.58\00:54:56.19
LONGEST AND HARDEST
RACES A PERSON COULD RUN.
00:54:56.19\00:54:59.23
BUT DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE
ULTRA MARATHON THEY USED TO HAVE
00:54:59.23\00:55:01.90
IN AUSTRALIA? IT
WAS 544 MILES FROM
00:55:01.90\00:55:05.83
MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY.
IT ATTRACTED AS MANY AS
00:55:05.83\00:55:08.27
150 WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED
00:55:08.27\00:55:12.07
THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET.
IN 1983 A 61-YEAR-OLD POTATO
00:55:12.07\00:55:16.98
FARMER NAMED CLIFF YOUNG
DECIDED TO ENTER THE RACE.
00:55:16.98\00:55:20.75
NOW PEOPLE WERE VERY
AMUSED BECAUSE HE HAD ON RUBBER
00:55:20.75\00:55:22.88
GALOSHES OVER HIS BOOTS AND
WHEN THE RACE BEGAN AND ALL THE
00:55:22.88\00:55:26.45
RUNNERS TOOK OFF, SURE
ENOUGH OLD CLIFF WAS LEFT BEHIND
00:55:26.45\00:55:29.29
SHUFFLING ALONG VERY SLOWLY
- BUT HE WAS SHUFFLING VERY
00:55:29.29\00:55:33.76
PERSISTENTLY.
NORMALLY, DURING THIS 7-DAY
00:55:33.76\00:55:36.13
RACE, THE RUNNERS WOULD GO ABOUT
18 HOURS RUNNING AND THEN THEY'D
00:55:36.13\00:55:39.93
SLEEP FOR 6 HOURS, BUT
NOBODY EVER TOLD CLIFF THAT.
00:55:39.93\00:55:43.54
WHEN THE OTHER RUNNERS STOPPED
TO REST DURING THE NIGHT, CLIFF
00:55:43.54\00:55:46.64
JUST KEPT ON RUNNING.
00:55:46.64\00:55:48.68
SOME PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OLD
CLIFF WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEART
00:55:48.68\00:55:50.75
ATTACK AND THEY WERE ASKING THE
RACE ORGANIZERS TO SHOW MERCY
00:55:50.75\00:55:53.85
AND STOP THE CRAZY OLD MAN.
BUT HE WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT.
00:55:53.85\00:55:57.42
EACH DAY HE WAS GAINING ON
THE PACK BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE
00:55:57.42\00:56:00.46
SLEEPING HE WAS PLODDING ALONG.
DURING THE LAST NIGHT OF THE
00:56:00.46\00:56:04.59
RACE CLIFF PASSED ALL OF
THESE WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
00:56:04.59\00:56:08.60
NOT ONLY WAS CLIFF ABLE TO
RUN THAT 544-MILE RACE WITHOUT
00:56:08.60\00:56:12.63
DYING, HE WON - BEATING ALL
THE OTHER RACERS BY 9 HOURS,
00:56:12.63\00:56:16.94
BREAKING THE RECORD AND BECOMING
A NATIONAL HERO IN THE PROCESS.
00:56:16.94\00:56:21.11
WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING IS THAT
WHEN THEY TOLD HIM HE HAD WON
00:56:21.11\00:56:22.88
THE $10,000.00 PRIZE, HE LOOKED
CONFUSED AND SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW
00:56:22.88\00:56:26.51
THERE WAS A PRIZE AND HE DECIDED
TO SHARE IT WITH THE OTHER
00:56:26.51\00:56:29.22
RUNNERS. WHEN
ASKED HOW HE WAS ABLE
00:56:29.22\00:56:31.62
TO RUN ALL NIGHT LONG, CLIFF
RESPONDED THAT HE GREW UP ON A
00:56:31.62\00:56:34.69
FARM WHERE THEY HAD ABOUT 2,000
HEAD OF CATTLE AND, BECAUSE THEY
00:56:34.69\00:56:37.76
COULDN'T AFFORD HORSES, HE
USED TO HAVE TO ROUND THEM UP ON
00:56:37.76\00:56:40.06
FOOT, SOMETIMES RUNNING
TWO AND THREE DAYS NON-STOP.
00:56:40.06\00:56:43.50
SO, THROUGHOUT THE RACE, HE JUST
IMAGINED THAT HE WAS CHASING
00:56:43.50\00:56:46.07
AFTER THE COWS AND
TRYING TO OUTRUN A STORM.
00:56:46.07\00:56:49.04
OLD CLIFF'S SECRET WAS TO KEEP
ON RUNNING WHILE OTHERS WERE
00:56:49.04\00:56:52.57
SLEEPING. YOU
KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US
00:56:52.57\00:56:54.78
THAT THE RACE IS NOT
NECESSARILY TO THE SWIFT.
00:56:54.78\00:56:58.38
SOMETHING LIKE AESOP'S FABLE OF
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE - THE
00:56:58.38\00:57:01.75
TORTOISE JUST
KEPT ON PLODDING ALONG.
00:57:01.75\00:57:04.25
THAT'S WHY JESUS TELLS US IN
MATTHEW 24:13, 'HE THAT ENDURES
00:57:04.25\00:57:08.26
UNTO THE END, THE
SAME WILL BE SAVED.
00:57:08.26\00:57:10.79
NOW YOU MIGHT SLIP
AND FALL DURING THE RACE.
00:57:10.79\00:57:13.23
YOU MIGHT EVEN GET
OFF TO A BAD START.
00:57:13.23\00:57:15.50
BUT IN THE CHRISTIAN RACE THAT
WE RUN, THE MAIN THING IS YOU
00:57:15.50\00:57:18.40
WANT TO FINISH WELL.
KEEP ON RUNNING, FRIENDS,
00:57:18.40\00:57:20.90
AND DON'T GIVE UP. (MUSIC)
00:57:20.90\00:57:31.25
>>I REALLY WANTED TO
START A NEW DEVOTIONAL HABIT BUT
00:57:31.25\00:57:33.42
LIFE GOT IN THE WAY. NEXT
THING I KNOW, WE'RE A MONTH
00:57:33.42\00:57:36.69
INTO THE NEW YEAR AND I'M LIKE,
'WHAT'S THE POINT OF STARTING?'
00:57:36.69\00:57:39.62
THEN I SAW '365 AMAZING
ANSWERS TO BIG BIBLE QUESTIONS'.
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EACH DAY IS A SINGLE STUDY
SO YOU CAN START ANYWHERE ON ANY
00:57:43.99\00:57:47.20
DAY AND NOT MISS A
THING. THEY'RE CRISP, CLEAR,
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AND ENLIGHTENING.
>>GET YOURS TODAY BY CALLING
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>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
00:58:03.04\00:58:06.41
BEFORE. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
00:58:06.41\00:58:14.02
(MUSIC)
00:58:14.02\00:58:29.00