Please stand with us
and sing our theme song,
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"This Witness I Will Bear."
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Have you heard the story told
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Of the Man whose heart was sold
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To save my dying soul?
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Oh, what love untold
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To the end He's always sought me
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To the end He's always loved me
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To the end I long to follow
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For He bore my cross of sorrow
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I will stay here in
the hollow of His care
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And I will go
anywhere to the end
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This witness I will bear
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To the end
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In the grove I heard Him say
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Oh, my Father, please just stay
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Through broken hearted pain
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He did pave the way
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To the end His heart is faithful
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To the end His hand is able
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To the end I can now follow
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For He bore my cross of sorrow
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I will stay here in
the hollow of His care
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And I will go
anywhere to the end
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This witness I will bear
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To the end
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As they took Him off to die
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There His friendship I denied
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Forgiveness in His eyes
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He did not despise
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To the end His
love constrains me
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To the end He has restored me
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To the end I will still follow
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For He bore my cross of sorrow
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I will stay here in
the hollow of His care
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And I will go
anywhere to the end
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This witness I will bear
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This witness I will bear
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To the end
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Thank you for
singing. You may be seated.
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Please be seated.
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Please turn to your Bibles.
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Turn on your Bibles.
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Turn to your Bibles to Acts 1.
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Acts 1 is where our theme
for this conference is found.
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If you're
there, please say amen.
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If you're not there, hurry up.
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If you're
there, please say amen.
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Amen.
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If you're still not there,
say "Please have mercy on me."
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Hurry up.
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You're making this
sermon way too long.
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Acts 1:1, amen?
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Amen.
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The Bible says in the
New King James Version,
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"The former account
I made, O Theophilus,
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of all that Jesus
began both to do and teach,
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until the day in
which He was taken up,
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after He through the Holy Spirit
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had given
commandments to the apostles
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whom He had chosen,
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to whom He also
presented Himself alive
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after His suffering by
many infallible proofs,
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being seen by
them during forty days
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and speaking of the things
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pertaining to
the kingdom of God.
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And being
assembled together with them,
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He commanded them not
to depart from Jerusalem,
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but wait for the
Promise of the Father,
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'which,' He said,
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'you have heard from Me,
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for John truly
baptized with water,
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but you shall be
baptized with the Holy Spirit
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not many days from now.'
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Therefore,
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when they had come together,
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they asked Him, saying,
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'Lord, will You at this time
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restore the
kingdom to Israel?' "
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Acts 1:7.
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"And He said to them,
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'It is not for you to
know the times or seasons
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which the Father has
put in His own authority.'
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And Acts 1:8,
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"'But you shall receive power
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when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you,
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and you shall be
witnesses to Me in Jerusalem,
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and in all Judea and Samaria,
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and to the end of the earth.' "
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Speaker of the hour
is Elder Gary Blanchard.
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He is the General
Conference World Youth Director,
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which means he
is the lead pastor
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for all the youth
leaders all around the world.
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He has one wife, Erica.
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Amen?
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Amen.
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He has 3 young adult
children and 1.5 dogs.
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It's a German
Shepherd and a Wiener-Dog.
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He's originally from Maine.
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And before coming to
the General Conference,
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his previous
post was serving here
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in the Texas
Conference as Youth Director.
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He's better known
as PG or Pastor Gary.
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When you come to
the General Conference,
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you get the Elder
attached to your name.
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He had devout two
schools of evangelism
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called SENT and GLAD REAPER,
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and currently he's
part of a GC initiative
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to get 100,000
youth-led evangelistic series
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around the world and online.
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I've known Gary to
have a real passion
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to pass on three things.
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One, our identity
as it is in Jesus.
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Two, our mission as
Seventh-day Adventists.
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And three,
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local church leadership
to the younger generation.
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We share a wall together
at the General Conference.
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We share the same
burden to reach this generation
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to reach the world.
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He's been a great friend of GYC
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and a great
blessing to the world church.
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After the musical offering
and a video presentation,
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the next voice you'll hear
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will be that of
Elder Gary Blanchard.
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There are no unknown soldiers
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God knows them all by name
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His army cannot march
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Beyond His care
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Their blood type has established
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Their royal identities
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And when the roll
is called up yonder
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Every soldier will be there
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There are no unknown soldiers
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In the army of the Lord
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No wounded left to die
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Along the way
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No missing in the action
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Commissioned by our King
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Every soldier's coming home
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At last to stay
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Every soldier's coming home
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At last to stay
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The final battle's ended
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The noise of conflict's still
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The ravaged fields
lie baking in the sun
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For a mighty trumpet sounded
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All the troops
they were called home
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There was not a soldier missing
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When this great war was done
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There are no unknown soldiers
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In the army of the Lord
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No wounded left to die
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Along the way
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No missing in the action
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Commissioned by our King
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Every soldier's coming home
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At last to stay
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Every soldier's coming home
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At last to stay
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He's never wondered where we are
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He has our DNA
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And soon in grand formation
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We will fall in line to say
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There are no unknown soldiers
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In the army of the Lord
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No wounded left
to die along the way
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No missing in the action
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Commissioned
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By our King
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Every soldier's coming home
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At last to stay
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Every soldier's coming home
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At last to stay
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To stay
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Billions of
people around the world
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live in cities.
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There are over 100 cities
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with a population
greater than 1 million.
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Many people
living in these cities
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have no knowledge of Jesus.
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They are
surrounded by crime, racism,
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disease,
corruption, and godlessness.
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What will you do?
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Will you stand by and watch?
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Or will you go
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and demonstrate
the love of Jesus?
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Evangelism is the essential work
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for this time
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and will result in
starting a mighty movement
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such as we have
not yet experienced.
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The everlasting gospel
is the only real antidote
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for the godlessness found
in the cities of the world.
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Do you hear His
voice calling you
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into the cities?
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There is only
one effective method
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of evangelism,
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Christ method alone.
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He is calling you to be
part of a mighty army of youth,
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who will
socialize, sympathize, serve,
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and share His love
with those in the cities.
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One Year in Mission.
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Are you ready?
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If you're a
committed Seventh-day Adventist
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from ages 18-35,
active in your local church,
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graduated from high
school, a good team player,
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highly
recommended by your pastor,
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and determined to
take an entire year off
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to focus on this ministry.
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One Year in Mission is for you.
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Why wait?
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Let's take the cities now.
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Find out more at
www.Youth.Adventist.org
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Happy Sabbath, GYC.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Happy Sabbath, Texas.
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It's good to have
everybody here today.
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Are you enjoying the Sabbath?
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You know, when I go places,
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I always have a little
pass it on thing we do.
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We're trying to pass on
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to the younger
generation identity in Christ,
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mission as
Seventh-day Adventist,
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and leadership
in the local church.
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What do you
think about that? Amen.
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So what I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna say pass it on,
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you're gonna shout back to me,
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"Identity, mission,
leadership, pass it on."
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Can you do that?
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Okay, here it goes.
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Pass it on.
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Identity, mission, leadership.
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I let you guys off easy.
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Normally, I had
people jump up in the air.
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What did you say?
You wanted to do that?
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Okay, we're gonna
do that. All right.
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So I'm gonna shout pass it
on to you, you're gonna say,
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"Identity, mission, leadership,"
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and then you're gonna
step and go "Pass it on."
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Okay? Can we try it?
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Only the young people
are allowed to do this.
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Old folks, stay seated
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'cause you don't
have the energy to...
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No, I'm just kidding. Anybody.
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Here we go. Pass it on!
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Identity, mission,
leadership, pass it on!
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Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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What a blessing to be here.
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I don't know how many
of you were here last night
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to hear Moise's
wonderful message
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about not to
leave anyone behind.
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Amen?
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Powerful message.
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I want to begin
with a word of prayer
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at this time
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and really thank the
Lord for already being here.
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I'm not gonna ask
the Lord to be here
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because I don't know about
you, but I sense His presence.
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Amen.
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So let's thank
Him for being here.
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Let's bow our heads.
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"Heavenly Father,
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what a great honor it is
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to be standing
before the army of the Lord,
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Generation Youth Christ.
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Father, we
believe with all our heart
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that this work can be
finished in this generation.
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And, Father, we believe
this work can be finished
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by young and old alike
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working together
intergenerationally.
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And, Father, we believe
that our message is Jesus
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and we want to
present Him, Lord,
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with the power
of the Holy Spirit
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because we realized, Lord,
that He is the only Savior,
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there is none other.
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So we love You, Lord, and
we thank You for being here.
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In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
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You know, wherever I go,
people ask me two questions.
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Usually, they'd ask me,
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"Why did they choose you to
be the World Youth Director?"
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That's the first question.
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That makes me a
little bit nervous.
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The second question is
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"What is your
vision for youth ministry."
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So I have an
answer for the first one.
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The first one is very simple.
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I don't know if you
guys have read this anywhere,
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but the Bible
actually teaches that
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God calls the
foolish things of the world.
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And also, the Bible says,
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"His power is
made perfect in..."
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Help me out.
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"Weakness." "Weakness."
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So that's my only reason
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why I'm the World
Youth Director today,
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but I feel very blessed.
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Amen? Amen.
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The other question
that people ask me is
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"What is your
vision for youth ministry?"
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But I got to tell you right
now, GYC, with all my heart,
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we need less visions from
men and more visions from God.
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Instead of asking a mere mortal
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what their vision
is for youth ministry,
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maybe we should ask God.
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What do you say? Amen.
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And what I'm really
excited about today is that
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God has given us His
vision and His provision.
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In Acts 1:8,
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if you want to know
God's vision for youth ministry
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or God's vision for the church,
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if you want to
know God's provision
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or power to make it happen,
it's all there in Acts 1:8.
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Amen? Amen.
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Right here, in Acts 1:8,
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is the secret to going
big so we could go home.
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Amen.
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I don't know about you
but I'm ready to go home.
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Are you ready? Amen.
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The secret to
going home, going big,
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and going home is right here,
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God's vision and God's
provision, in Acts 1:8.
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How many of you
got your Bibles out?
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Let's read this together, okay?
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"But you..."
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Now notice how personal this is.
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Twice the Bible says you.
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"But you shall receive power
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when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you.
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And you shall be
witnesses to me in Jerusalem,
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in Judea, and
Samaria and," what?
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It's right up here on the stage.
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And what?
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"To the end."
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Now what's very
interesting here is God's vision
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comes after God's provision.
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You'll notice here
the provision comes first,
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"And you shall receive power
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when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you."
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And then here comes the vision,
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"And you shall
be witnesses to me,
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in Jerusalem, and
Judea, and Samaria,
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and to the end of the earth."
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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Right there, you
have a very simple plan.
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God says,
"Look, here's My vision
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and here's My
provision for making it happen,
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Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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GYC, if you want to
be a witness to the end,
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you must receive my
baptism of the Holy Spirit."
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You see, God's vision,
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"And you will be
witnesses to Me to the end."
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That is God's vision.
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"You will be
witnesses of Me to the end."
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You know, it's very interesting,
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in the book of
Acts, the Bible tells us
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that God sets up the
borders of the nations.
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But very interestingly,
when it comes to His church,
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there are no borders.
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We are to go to the end.
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We are to permeate like yeast.
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We are to permeate like
light, but there are no borders.
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And by the way,
if you're a racist,
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you will not like the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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I thought I'd get
more amens on that one.
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Amen.
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This is a church that
goes to Samaria, and Judea,
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and Jerusalem, and
to the end of the age.
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This is a church
for every nation,
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kindred, town, and people.
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That's God's vision.
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That's why you don't want some
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beastly weak vision from a man.
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You want a powerful
big vision from God.
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You know, I love Ellen
White, bought right into this.
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I love you.
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You know this quote,
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"With such an
army," help me out,
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"With such an
army of workers," what,
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"as our youth," what,
"rightly trained might furnish,
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how soon the message
of a crucified, and risen,
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and soon-coming
Savior could go," where,
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"to the whole world."
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Very interesting.
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Ellen White
basically takes Acts 1:8
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and applies it to young people.
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GYC!
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Generation Youth for Christ!
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Amen?
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Jesus has a vision here
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that every young
person becomes a spirit-filled
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missionary to the end.
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No borders, everywhere!
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God's vision is
every young person,
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a spirit-filled missionary
to the end of the world.
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Wow!
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You know, I have a
theory about young people.
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And the theory is that
young people were designed
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to live dangerously.
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Now Jesus
apparently had the same theory
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because right here, it says,
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"But you shall receive power
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when the Holy
Spirit is come upon you,
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and you shall be martyrs."
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Did you hear me?
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The actual word for witness here
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in Acts 1:8 is
the word for martyr.
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Jesus is calling His
church to live dangerously
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that others might be saved,
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even if it means
laying down your life
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because you know that your
eternity is secured in Jesus,
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but they don't have
the assurance of eternity.
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A movement of
young missionaries,
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spirit-filled, to the end.
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Not only to the end of the earth
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but also to the
end of their lives.
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It's a big vision.
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You know, there's a
powerful verse in the Bible.
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It's in Psalms 127:4.
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And it actually
describes young people
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as arrows in the
hands of a warrior.
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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Now I'm gonna invite
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my wonderful
assistant to come out here.
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And how many of you ever
seen a bow and arrow before?
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Okay.
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You don't know how
many security clearances
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I have to pass to get this.
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They all know I'm
emotionally unstable,
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so they were very worried,
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especially when I
said I need somebody
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that could be a moving target
and somebody with an apple
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and as a volunteer.
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When I said that,
they really freaked out.
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But the Bible
says in Psalms 127:4,
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and don't worry,
guys, you're safe.
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I'm not gonna put
the arrow in here.
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But the Bible actually
tells us that young people
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are like arrows in
the hands of a warrior.
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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Now notice, the Bible does not
say young people are arrows...
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are like arrows in
the hands of an archer
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because if they were arrows
in the hands of an archer,
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maybe these young people
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could just be used
for target practice,
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like they are in
many churches today.
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But the Bible says there,
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they're arrows in
the hands of a warrior.
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When a warrior shoots an arrow,
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it's always into the most
dangerous places of the earth,
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the enemy's frontlines.
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The Bible is telling
us something very clearly
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and Jesus has affirmed it,
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young people were
designed to live for God,
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even to death
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and even to the
ends of the earth.
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You're all safe
now. I'll put this down.
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I got a couple amen's on that.
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One of the questions
I hear all the time is
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"Pastor Gary, how do
we keep our young people?"
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Have you heard this one?
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Raise your hand if
you've heard that before.
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Maybe you've said it.
It's a great question.
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How do we keep our young people?
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I want to tell you right now,
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here's how we keep Seventh-day
Adventist young people,
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stop keeping them,
start sending them.
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It's not your seating capacity.
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It's not how many
arrows you have in the quiver.
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It's how many you're shooting.
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It's how many you're sending
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into the most
dangerous places of the earth.
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God help us if the King
of the Universe comes back
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and finds our
quiver full of arrows
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that could have been
sent to the enemy frontlines.
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You want to keep your
young people, stop keeping them
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and start sending them.
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Rightly train
them and send them.
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Give them work to do for God.
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Amen? Amen.
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Send them out to plant churches.
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By the way, young
people can plant churches.
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They're doing it in
the South Pacific Division.
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Beautiful
pictures of young people
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who have decided to
go and plant churches.
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Amen? Amen.
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What if we planted churches
in every university in Texas
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and every
university in your area?
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What if we started planting
churches with young people,
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like arrows in the
hands of a warrior?
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You know, I've
noticed as I traveled around,
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there are three areas
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that I believe we
really need to focus
00:23:58.70\00:24:00.97
sending our beautiful
young people in that direction.
00:24:01.00\00:24:04.37
By the way, you
know what Jesus said,
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if you're willing to
lay down your life for Him,
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you'll actually find it.
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So Jesus is not calling us
to die in the negative sense.
00:24:09.51\00:24:12.68
He's calling us to
die that we might live,
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that we might
really experience life.
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There will be times
when we lay down our lives.
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You know, it breaks my
heart, just earlier this year,
00:24:20.06\00:24:22.62
we heard about Berni
Kunu, a 24-year-old young man
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who was supposed to
be married this month
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laid down his life in Papua,
Indonesia in 2018 in March.
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Laid down his life,
and what was his crime?
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Going to the most
remote part of that area
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and trying to heal
people in the name of Jesus,
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and he was murdered.
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But, you know what's interesting
00:24:46.31\00:24:47.65
when they wrote
about his report?
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They actually said that
00:24:49.05\00:24:50.39
so many young people showed
up to his funeral and signed up.
00:24:50.42\00:24:53.42
"We want to go.
We want to serve God.
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We want to be
missionaries for the Master."
00:24:55.26\00:24:57.79
Young people are
designed to live dangerously.
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You mark my words,
they were designed for this.
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And the reason
we lose young people
00:25:02.20\00:25:03.77
is we try to keep them safe
instead of challenging them.
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They live
dangerously for the Lord Jesus.
00:25:07.27\00:25:08.74
Amen?
00:25:08.77\00:25:10.64
The first place
we need to target
00:25:10.67\00:25:12.01
is we need to target
the cities of the world.
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Can you say cities? Cities.
00:25:13.61\00:25:15.71
In fact, Jesus right
here, in His beautiful...
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Verse eight here,
00:25:18.85\00:25:20.98
He starts with
a city, Jerusalem.
00:25:21.02\00:25:22.95
That's where we need
to start. It's the cities.
00:25:22.98\00:25:24.49
Amen?
00:25:24.52\00:25:25.85
The cities of the world.
00:25:25.89\00:25:27.22
I could give you tons of quotes
00:25:27.26\00:25:28.59
that Ellen White
has given us on this.
00:25:28.62\00:25:29.96
But do you know that
00:25:29.99\00:25:31.33
at least 50% of the world
population lives in cities,
00:25:31.36\00:25:34.03
and the other 50% are
dependent on the cities.
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You know, people,
we desperately need
00:25:37.63\00:25:39.40
to see One Year in Mission
starting in all of our cities.
00:25:39.43\00:25:42.77
I praise God for
One Year in Mission.
00:25:42.80\00:25:44.37
You just saw a video on this.
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Young people like you
are getting together in teams
00:25:45.77\00:25:48.64
and taking a year
off to reach the city
00:25:48.68\00:25:50.88
through Christ method alone,
which is, what is His method?
00:25:50.91\00:25:54.32
To sympathize and serve, right?
00:25:54.35\00:25:57.12
Socialize,
sympathize, serve and to save,
00:25:57.15\00:25:59.69
young people
reaching the cities,
00:25:59.72\00:26:01.32
we've got to reach the cities
00:26:01.36\00:26:03.16
in these last
days, very important.
00:26:03.19\00:26:06.19
The other area
that we need to target
00:26:06.23\00:26:07.76
is we need to
target the universities.
00:26:07.80\00:26:09.36
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:26:09.40\00:26:11.47
We need to send our young people
00:26:11.50\00:26:12.83
to the most
dangerous places of the earth
00:26:12.87\00:26:14.20
and the universities
have become like this.
00:26:14.24\00:26:16.37
But our young people
must go like Daniel did.
00:26:16.40\00:26:18.37
Amen?
00:26:18.41\00:26:19.81
By the way, I really appreciate
Adventist Christian Fellowship,
00:26:19.84\00:26:23.45
which is the PCM,
00:26:23.48\00:26:25.41
which is the branch of PCM here
in the North American Division.
00:26:25.45\00:26:28.72
Adventist Christian Fellowship,
this is where you get trained,
00:26:28.75\00:26:31.45
these young people
go into the universities
00:26:31.49\00:26:33.69
and reach the people for Jesus.
00:26:33.72\00:26:35.82
By the way, do you know
what the first PCM group was?
00:26:35.86\00:26:39.56
It's actually found in Daniel 1.
00:26:39.59\00:26:42.80
Daniel and his three friends,
00:26:42.83\00:26:44.17
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
00:26:44.20\00:26:45.53
they went to where?
00:26:45.57\00:26:47.60
The University of what?
00:26:47.64\00:26:49.30
Babylon. They're
the first PCM team.
00:26:49.34\00:26:51.54
They target the worst and
the most wicked city of all,
00:26:51.57\00:26:54.31
and they go in there
and they stand for Jesus.
00:26:54.34\00:26:57.48
They live
dangerously for Christ.
00:26:57.51\00:27:00.18
And they actually are able
to influence Nebuchadnezzar,
00:27:00.22\00:27:02.65
the greatest
leader of that time.
00:27:02.68\00:27:04.82
Do you know that in every
university around the world,
00:27:04.85\00:27:07.06
there are people that
are staying up late at night
00:27:07.09\00:27:09.09
like Nebuchadnezzar?
00:27:09.12\00:27:10.66
They understand the
times they're living in,
00:27:10.69\00:27:12.69
and they have no hope, and
they don't know what to do.
00:27:12.73\00:27:16.36
But PCM teams, they go
into those universities,
00:27:16.40\00:27:18.97
and they help people
hear the wonderful news
00:27:19.00\00:27:21.30
of the Second Coming of Jesus.
00:27:21.34\00:27:22.67
Amen? Amen.
00:27:22.70\00:27:24.04
And call them to Christ.
00:27:24.07\00:27:25.84
We need to target the cities.
00:27:25.87\00:27:28.14
We need to
target the universities.
00:27:28.18\00:27:30.05
And, people, can I
just be blunt with you?
00:27:30.08\00:27:31.68
We must target the 10/40 window.
00:27:31.71\00:27:35.75
We have neglected this
window for far too long.
00:27:35.78\00:27:39.69
I am afraid that Jesus
would have to apologize
00:27:39.72\00:27:43.22
to the people
living from North Africa
00:27:43.26\00:27:45.49
through the Middle
East Asia if He came back
00:27:45.53\00:27:47.90
and they've never
heard the message.
00:27:47.93\00:27:50.70
You know, the 2/3 of
the world's population
00:27:50.73\00:27:53.64
lives in the 10/40 window
00:27:53.67\00:27:55.34
and 90% have never
heard the everlasting gospel?
00:27:55.37\00:28:01.41
Folks, we must
target the 10/40 window.
00:28:01.44\00:28:06.45
There is a great call now
for carpenters to go there,
00:28:06.48\00:28:09.48
for builders to go
there, for doctors to go there,
00:28:09.52\00:28:13.19
for businessmen to go there.
00:28:13.22\00:28:14.96
Some of these places are
too dangerous for you to go
00:28:14.99\00:28:16.99
as a
"missionary" or as a "pastor"
00:28:17.03\00:28:19.56
or as an "evangelist,"
00:28:19.59\00:28:20.93
but you can go as a
businessman, businesswoman.
00:28:20.96\00:28:25.17
We must reach these cities.
00:28:25.20\00:28:27.87
You'd say, "Pastor
Gary, Jesus would never
00:28:27.90\00:28:30.01
call people to live
dangerously, would He?"
00:28:30.04\00:28:32.71
Well, didn't He
say to His disciples,
00:28:32.74\00:28:34.08
"I send you out among wolves"?
00:28:34.11\00:28:35.64
That sounds pretty dangerous.
00:28:35.68\00:28:37.65
You know what Jesus
said, "Don't go stupid though."
00:28:37.68\00:28:42.28
That's my translation.
00:28:42.32\00:28:44.89
He said, "I send
you out among wolves,
00:28:44.92\00:28:46.25
but don't go stupid, go
like the Waldensians did."
00:28:46.29\00:28:49.39
Amen?
00:28:49.42\00:28:50.76
Wise as serpents, strategic.
00:28:50.79\00:28:53.33
Amen?
00:28:53.36\00:28:54.70
And as gentle as
Jesus or the Holy Spirit.
00:28:54.73\00:28:56.23
Amen? Or as a dove.
00:28:56.26\00:28:57.83
Come on now.
00:28:57.87\00:28:59.20
God is calling us to
live dangerously for Him.
00:28:59.23\00:29:01.84
I don't know if maybe
you've heard the story
00:29:01.87\00:29:03.30
of the husband and wife that
went to the dentist one day.
00:29:03.34\00:29:07.01
And the wife
spoke to the dentist,
00:29:07.04\00:29:08.54
and the dentist says, "Okay.
00:29:08.58\00:29:09.91
How can I help you?"
00:29:09.94\00:29:11.28
And she said, "Yes,
we need a cavity removed,
00:29:11.31\00:29:12.65
but we don't want any Novocain,
no painkiller, nothing.
00:29:12.68\00:29:16.28
We got to have this
cavity removed, no painkiller."
00:29:16.32\00:29:20.12
Doctor said, "That's weird.
00:29:20.16\00:29:21.49
But okay, show me the cavity."
00:29:21.52\00:29:23.39
She turned to
her husband and said,
00:29:23.43\00:29:24.76
"Show him your tooth, dear."
00:29:24.79\00:29:26.13
Many of us are very
happy to let J.N. Andrews,
00:29:30.90\00:29:34.27
and Abram La Rue,
00:29:37.34\00:29:39.07
or Berni Kunu
00:29:42.21\00:29:43.75
go through the
suffering and the pain
00:29:43.78\00:29:45.31
that others might
live, while we sit back
00:29:45.35\00:29:48.52
and we watch the
next series on Netflix.
00:29:48.55\00:29:50.85
It got off a
little quiet in here.
00:29:58.13\00:29:59.46
It's a little concerning.
00:29:59.49\00:30:02.80
We need to get serious. Amen?
00:30:02.83\00:30:05.23
You know, I got to
tell you something,
00:30:05.27\00:30:06.60
it's okay to be SDA.
00:30:06.63\00:30:08.40
I just wanted to tell you
that, I just wanted to say that.
00:30:08.44\00:30:10.27
It's okay to be
SDA. Can you say it?
00:30:10.31\00:30:12.94
It's okay to be SDA.
00:30:12.97\00:30:14.31
How come you can't say
that with more passion?
00:30:14.34\00:30:15.71
It's okay to be
SDA. It's okay to be SDA.
00:30:15.74\00:30:19.25
Are you proud to be a
Seventh-day Adventist?
00:30:19.28\00:30:20.88
Amen.
00:30:20.92\00:30:22.25
Listen, I got to
tell you something.
00:30:22.28\00:30:23.62
We're not better than
the other denominations.
00:30:23.65\00:30:26.19
We're not.
00:30:26.22\00:30:27.96
We're not better.
00:30:27.99\00:30:29.76
But God gave us, listen to
me, a greater responsibility.
00:30:29.79\00:30:35.76
Do you know what
Sister White says,
00:30:35.80\00:30:37.13
"The most
solemn," and I'm quoting,
00:30:37.17\00:30:39.50
"The most solemn ever...
00:30:39.53\00:30:42.64
most solemn message ever given
to mortals was given to us."
00:30:42.67\00:30:48.88
Amen.
00:30:48.91\00:30:51.18
No, we're not better,
00:30:51.21\00:30:52.55
but we have a
greater responsibility.
00:30:52.58\00:30:53.92
Thank you very much.
00:30:53.95\00:30:55.45
And we can be proud,
00:30:55.48\00:30:56.82
well, we can also be
humble and realize that,
00:30:56.85\00:30:58.62
"Yes, God trusted us
with just a simple message,
00:30:58.65\00:31:02.29
but we have not gone."
00:31:02.32\00:31:05.46
Our cities are
almost entirely neglected.
00:31:05.49\00:31:08.93
And there are some
places in the 10/40 window
00:31:08.96\00:31:11.23
where there's not
even an Adventist.
00:31:11.27\00:31:13.44
And here people say things like,
00:31:13.47\00:31:14.80
"Well, you know what, you know,
00:31:14.84\00:31:16.17
they don't listen
to people foreigners.
00:31:16.20\00:31:17.54
We foreigners can't go there.
00:31:17.57\00:31:18.91
You know, we got to work
with the indigenous people."
00:31:18.94\00:31:20.51
Guess what, there are no
indigenous people to work with.
00:31:20.54\00:31:24.08
If somebody
does not go from here
00:31:24.11\00:31:25.81
and raise that people there,
00:31:25.85\00:31:29.25
there will be some countries
that won't even be reached.
00:31:29.28\00:31:31.79
We go to get serious.
00:31:31.82\00:31:33.15
Young people, you
need to go to the booths.
00:31:33.19\00:31:34.86
And what do you
say at the booths?
00:31:34.89\00:31:36.22
The booths.
00:31:36.26\00:31:37.59
Sign up for a ministry.
00:31:37.63\00:31:38.96
Sign up for a mission.
00:31:38.99\00:31:40.33
Get serious this weekend.
00:31:40.36\00:31:41.70
What do you say? Amen.
00:31:41.73\00:31:43.10
I hope all of you
are gonna go to Iceland.
00:31:43.13\00:31:45.80
I've always
wanted to go to Iceland.
00:31:45.83\00:31:47.50
This is my big chance.
00:31:47.54\00:31:48.87
That's connected to the
end of the earth, right?
00:31:48.90\00:31:50.34
We'll see.
00:31:53.58\00:31:56.04
I don't know if you
noticed the fires in California,
00:31:56.08\00:32:00.82
devastating fires,
over 1,000 people missing.
00:32:00.85\00:32:05.99
Paradise, that area there,
00:32:06.02\00:32:08.36
I understand they
lost their entire Church.
00:32:08.39\00:32:09.86
And most of them,
00:32:09.89\00:32:11.23
all of the
members lost their homes.
00:32:11.26\00:32:13.40
And the tragedy of this
was, it was beyond the pale.
00:32:13.43\00:32:18.13
And somebody sent me a tweet.
00:32:18.17\00:32:19.63
I saw it was so...
00:32:19.67\00:32:21.30
It just moved my heart.
00:32:21.34\00:32:23.24
It was a woman who
sent this tweet out.
00:32:23.27\00:32:25.41
And it's kind of
gone viral everywhere.
00:32:25.44\00:32:27.34
And somebody sent it
to me, I hope it's true.
00:32:27.38\00:32:30.35
But in the tweet it says,
00:32:30.38\00:32:33.62
"Whoever honked their horn..."
00:32:33.65\00:32:34.98
This is the woman
that escaped the fires.
00:32:35.02\00:32:37.22
The tweet said, "Whoever
honked their horn obnoxiously
00:32:37.25\00:32:39.85
at 2:00 in the morning
and woke me up, thank you.
00:32:39.89\00:32:43.73
You saved my life." Amen.
00:32:43.76\00:32:47.00
Isn't it interesting?
00:32:47.03\00:32:48.36
That the three angles'
message is a loud message,
00:32:48.40\00:32:51.13
it's almost like God is honking,
00:32:51.17\00:32:53.54
warning the world.
00:32:53.57\00:32:54.90
The three angels' message
is not for you, it's for them.
00:32:54.94\00:33:00.58
Acts 1:8 is for you.
00:33:00.61\00:33:03.14
Revelation 14 is for them.
00:33:03.18\00:33:04.78
They must hear the message.
00:33:04.81\00:33:06.15
We must be
faithful like Noah was.
00:33:06.18\00:33:08.15
We must be faithful
like Jonah eventually became.
00:33:08.18\00:33:11.52
But we must preach
the most solemn message
00:33:11.55\00:33:15.42
ever given to
mortals to the world.
00:33:15.46\00:33:17.53
Amen.
00:33:17.56\00:33:19.23
We lost the
arrows out of the quiver.
00:33:19.26\00:33:22.13
We must go into the most
dangerous places of the earth.
00:33:22.16\00:33:25.20
Young people, you don't have
to wait for a mighty warrior,
00:33:25.23\00:33:27.10
like your youth pastor
or whatever to send you.
00:33:27.14\00:33:28.84
If God is calling you,
don't ask for permission.
00:33:28.87\00:33:31.27
Go. Amen.
00:33:31.31\00:33:32.81
The reason Jonathan was
able to beat the Philistines
00:33:32.84\00:33:35.54
is because he
didn't ask permission,
00:33:35.58\00:33:36.91
he just went
with his armor bearer.
00:33:36.95\00:33:39.31
Go.
00:33:39.35\00:33:40.68
God is calling you. Go.
00:33:40.72\00:33:42.05
Be an arrow, straight and true.
00:33:42.08\00:33:43.42
They need to hear
the most solemn message
00:33:43.45\00:33:44.85
ever given to morals.
00:33:44.89\00:33:48.82
You know,
00:33:48.86\00:33:51.29
we've been so blessed
to have a wonderful Savior,
00:33:51.33\00:33:52.89
haven't we?
00:33:52.93\00:33:54.96
You know,
00:33:55.00\00:33:56.33
I've often wondered
00:33:56.36\00:33:58.87
what happened to
the missionary zeal.
00:33:58.90\00:34:00.74
I mean, don't get me wrong,
00:34:00.77\00:34:02.10
there are missionaries
out there on fire for God
00:34:02.14\00:34:03.94
in some of the most
remote places of the earth.
00:34:03.97\00:34:05.64
I just shared an
example of one of them.
00:34:05.67\00:34:07.44
But overall, how many?
00:34:07.48\00:34:08.91
Twenty million
Seventh-day Adventists,
00:34:08.94\00:34:10.28
I mean how fast could we
move if we all went, right?
00:34:10.31\00:34:12.98
I've wrestled with that why.
00:34:16.02\00:34:19.19
And I believe that
there is a philosophy
00:34:19.22\00:34:22.79
floating around,
00:34:22.82\00:34:24.16
it's a sinister
little philosophy.
00:34:24.19\00:34:26.49
And if we don't pay attention,
00:34:26.53\00:34:29.03
it can eat the heart
00:34:29.06\00:34:32.73
out of missionary passion.
00:34:32.77\00:34:36.34
It's called pluralism.
00:34:36.37\00:34:39.04
Let me tell you what it is.
00:34:39.07\00:34:40.41
Pluralism goes like this,
00:34:40.44\00:34:42.38
"Hey, listen,
00:34:42.41\00:34:43.75
all religions
are equal and valid."
00:34:43.78\00:34:46.31
Did you hear me?
00:34:46.35\00:34:48.02
Or "There are
many paths to God."
00:34:48.05\00:34:51.22
Or "We shouldn't judge others.
00:34:51.25\00:34:53.25
God knows their heart."
00:34:53.29\00:34:55.62
Or "Preach the gospel.
00:34:55.66\00:34:58.63
Use words if necessary."
00:34:58.66\00:35:02.43
It's pluralism.
00:35:02.46\00:35:03.80
It's eating the
heart of our mission.
00:35:03.83\00:35:05.17
We go to preach the gospel.
00:35:05.20\00:35:06.53
People aren't just
saved by your life,
00:35:06.57\00:35:08.17
they're saved by Jesus.
00:35:08.20\00:35:11.71
Silent witness is an oxymoron.
00:35:11.74\00:35:15.44
Yes, we are to shape our lives
00:35:15.48\00:35:17.38
that we truly serve the Lord.
00:35:17.41\00:35:18.75
Amen? Amen.
00:35:18.78\00:35:20.12
Our lives need to get
credibility to our words,
00:35:20.15\00:35:22.38
but, people, we go to speak,
we got to open our mouths.
00:35:22.42\00:35:25.29
Amen.
00:35:25.32\00:35:26.65
People are not gonna be
saved by your good behavior.
00:35:26.69\00:35:30.43
Amen.
00:35:30.46\00:35:32.33
People will be saved
by His good behavior,
00:35:32.36\00:35:35.96
His righteousness, not yours.
00:35:36.00\00:35:38.00
I like preaching to you guys,
00:35:43.14\00:35:44.47
but my blood
pressure's going up.
00:35:44.51\00:35:46.07
Calming down here.
00:35:46.11\00:35:47.84
You know,
00:35:50.88\00:35:52.21
if there were many paths to God,
00:35:52.25\00:35:53.58
then why the Cross?
00:35:53.62\00:35:55.75
Is that just some mean
experiment God placed on Jesus?
00:35:55.78\00:35:59.49
"Jesus, you go ahead
and die on the cross,
00:35:59.52\00:36:00.86
but there's gonna
be other opportunities,
00:36:00.89\00:36:02.22
you don't need to
find the way to...
00:36:02.26\00:36:03.59
the word for excruciating pain
comes from out of the cross,"
00:36:03.63\00:36:07.70
It means out of the
cross, excruciating.
00:36:07.73\00:36:10.20
He just allowed His
Son to go through that
00:36:10.23\00:36:14.97
because there are
other paths to God?
00:36:15.00\00:36:16.57
No, the cross proved that
there are no other paths to God
00:36:16.60\00:36:19.54
except for Jesus.
00:36:19.57\00:36:20.91
"I am the way, the
truth, and the life.
00:36:20.94\00:36:23.24
No man comes to the
Father but by me," said Jesus.
00:36:23.28\00:36:25.78
Come on now. Amen.
00:36:25.81\00:36:28.52
You see, what pluralism is,
00:36:28.55\00:36:30.19
it's an attack at
the Cross of Jesus.
00:36:30.22\00:36:33.22
It's a satanic
attack at the Cross.
00:36:33.25\00:36:37.26
Yeah, there may
be many paths to God,
00:36:37.29\00:36:39.19
but only one will
actually get you to Him.
00:36:39.23\00:36:41.03
And if there's
many paths to God,
00:36:46.63\00:36:48.50
then why Gethsemane?
00:36:48.54\00:36:50.44
I mean, that seems
like a great time for God
00:36:50.47\00:36:51.94
to let Jesus in on a secret.
00:36:51.97\00:36:55.21
Jesus said,
"Lord, if it is possible,
00:36:55.24\00:36:58.15
is there's any other
way for people to be saved,
00:36:58.18\00:37:00.28
take this cup from me.
00:37:00.32\00:37:01.65
Nevertheless, not
my will, but thine."
00:37:01.68\00:37:03.45
And that was God's
perfect time to say,
00:37:03.49\00:37:05.39
"And guess
what, Islam, Buddhism,
00:37:05.42\00:37:07.96
anything else,
there's other options.
00:37:07.99\00:37:09.62
Jesus, stand up,
it's gonna be okay."
00:37:09.66\00:37:11.43
But you know what,
Jesus gets silenced
00:37:11.46\00:37:13.63
'cause there's no other way.
00:37:13.66\00:37:16.56
This brilliant God
that can figure out
00:37:16.60\00:37:18.33
a lot of ways to
get me out of trouble
00:37:18.37\00:37:20.17
could only come up
with one way to us,
00:37:20.20\00:37:22.24
and that's it.
00:37:22.27\00:37:23.61
There's no other way.
00:37:23.64\00:37:25.07
It's Jesus.
00:37:25.11\00:37:26.47
The Bible says the
world was already condemned
00:37:26.51\00:37:28.28
and they were already
heading for destruction.
00:37:28.31\00:37:29.91
But God came up with
a way to save Muslims,
00:37:29.94\00:37:32.58
and Hindus, and Christians,
and Seventh-day Adventists
00:37:32.61\00:37:36.18
through His Son Jesus
who died on the cross.
00:37:36.22\00:37:39.35
That's His plan.
00:37:39.39\00:37:41.36
God came up with
a plan to save us.
00:37:41.39\00:37:42.76
That's how wonderful He is.
00:37:42.79\00:37:46.03
This is why we need
God's power in our lives.
00:37:46.06\00:37:48.46
Amen?
00:37:48.50\00:37:49.86
This is why we need His vision,
00:37:49.90\00:37:52.17
and this is why we
need His provision,
00:37:52.20\00:37:53.97
which is the
baptism of the Holy Spirit.
00:37:54.00\00:37:56.57
A friend of mine
was telling me one day
00:37:56.60\00:37:57.94
that he was driving down
the road heading to church
00:37:57.97\00:37:59.44
and he noticed that
in the middle of the road
00:37:59.47\00:38:01.98
was a mother duck and
all of her little babies.
00:38:02.01\00:38:05.35
And the mother duck had
been run over and was dead,
00:38:05.38\00:38:08.42
but all the little
babies were clutched around her
00:38:08.45\00:38:10.52
and moving around
very scared around her.
00:38:10.55\00:38:12.29
They didn't know what to
do. And the cars are going by.
00:38:12.32\00:38:14.09
And he drove and he saw this,
00:38:14.12\00:38:15.46
and he was like,
"Oh, my goodness."
00:38:15.49\00:38:16.83
And he pulls over.
00:38:16.86\00:38:18.19
He's like, "Oh, I got to
do something to help them."
00:38:18.23\00:38:19.56
He's looking both ways, he gets
00:38:19.59\00:38:20.93
one of those
igloos out of the back.
00:38:20.96\00:38:22.30
You guys in Texas know
about this, those igloos, right?
00:38:22.33\00:38:24.03
Big old igloos.
00:38:24.07\00:38:25.40
Takes his big old
ice chest, he runs out
00:38:25.43\00:38:27.17
and he looks both ways,
00:38:27.20\00:38:28.54
he starts to scoop all the ducks
00:38:28.57\00:38:31.54
inside the igloo and
take them back to safety.
00:38:31.57\00:38:35.21
And they all get in
there but one of them.
00:38:35.24\00:38:38.11
One of them is
scared to death of him,
00:38:38.15\00:38:40.08
and so he goes
running of as fast as he can
00:38:40.12\00:38:42.25
into the brush where
it's even more dangerous.
00:38:42.28\00:38:46.62
So the guy goes and puts
the other ducks in there,
00:38:46.65\00:38:48.36
and he goes running and trying
to find this other little duck,
00:38:48.39\00:38:50.76
trying to make all
kinds of duck sounds,
00:38:50.79\00:38:52.16
I don't know if he
tried some Donald Duck stuff,
00:38:52.19\00:38:53.63
I don't know.
00:38:53.66\00:38:55.50
But the duck kept
going further and further
00:38:55.53\00:38:57.60
and getting more and
more in dangerous situation.
00:38:57.63\00:39:01.40
Finally, the guy had an idea.
00:39:01.44\00:39:03.51
He went back to
his car, true story,
00:39:03.54\00:39:06.68
reached in there and
grabbed one of his siblings.
00:39:06.71\00:39:09.88
Crossed the road,
00:39:09.91\00:39:11.35
held the little
duck in his hand,
00:39:11.38\00:39:12.78
and the little
duck started quacking.
00:39:12.81\00:39:14.98
And sure enough, his
little sister came out
00:39:15.02\00:39:17.59
when it heard her brother
or whatever it was calling.
00:39:17.62\00:39:23.12
He was able to save them.
00:39:23.16\00:39:25.06
What an incredible story!
00:39:25.09\00:39:27.40
What an incredible story about
what God has called us to do.
00:39:27.43\00:39:30.37
"And you shall see power
00:39:30.40\00:39:32.17
when the Holy
Spirit comes upon you,
00:39:32.20\00:39:33.97
and you should
be witnesses of Me.
00:39:34.00\00:39:39.44
Jerusalem and Judea and
to the ends of the earth."
00:39:39.47\00:39:41.94
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:39:41.98\00:39:43.61
See, it's our job to go
out there and tell people
00:39:43.65\00:39:45.51
what God is like,
00:39:45.55\00:39:46.88
and to show them what He's like,
00:39:46.92\00:39:48.25
and tell about the cross,
00:39:48.28\00:39:49.62
the only way God provided
for the salvation of man.
00:39:49.65\00:39:52.55
God's vision is
we go to the ends
00:39:52.59\00:39:54.46
and tell them it's the only
way out of here, it's Jesus.
00:39:54.49\00:39:58.16
God's vision,
00:40:05.43\00:40:07.97
God's provision.
00:40:08.00\00:40:10.21
Very interested in Acts 1:8.
00:40:10.24\00:40:12.17
It does not say that
you achieve the Holy Spirit.
00:40:12.21\00:40:14.14
I know a lot of people
are seemed to be praying
00:40:14.18\00:40:16.04
as if they're
trying to achieve the right
00:40:16.08\00:40:17.65
to receive the Holy Spirit.
00:40:17.68\00:40:19.01
"If I just pray harder,
00:40:19.05\00:40:20.38
I can achieve the
baptism of the Holy Spirit."
00:40:20.42\00:40:22.62
But that's not
what Jesus says here.
00:40:22.65\00:40:24.89
He says, "But you
shall receive power,"
00:40:24.92\00:40:30.39
not achieve power.
00:40:30.43\00:40:31.86
That's how the world does it.
00:40:31.89\00:40:33.43
You achieve power
00:40:33.46\00:40:35.03
and then you
witness for yourself.
00:40:35.06\00:40:38.07
That's the world's way.
00:40:38.10\00:40:39.97
But the Bible says here
00:40:40.00\00:40:41.50
that the way we get
baptized with the Holy Spirit
00:40:41.54\00:40:44.04
is we receive the Holy Spirit.
00:40:44.07\00:40:46.68
Every morning, here at GYC,
00:40:46.71\00:40:48.08
when you see young
people gathering around praying,
00:40:48.11\00:40:50.28
they're not trying to
achieve the Holy Spirit,
00:40:50.31\00:40:52.68
they're opening up
their hearts to what?
00:40:52.71\00:40:55.08
Receive, emptying self
that they might receive.
00:40:55.12\00:40:59.22
Coming into one
accord, confessing their sins,
00:40:59.25\00:41:02.46
not to achieve, but to what?
00:41:02.49\00:41:06.19
People, we need young people,
00:41:06.23\00:41:07.56
we need to be gathering together
00:41:07.60\00:41:08.93
around in small groups,
00:41:08.96\00:41:10.30
need to find our own Upper Room,
00:41:10.33\00:41:11.67
and we need to be receiving
the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:11.70\00:41:13.70
And you'd be receiving the
baptism of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:16.71\00:41:22.14
You know, I believe very soon
00:41:22.18\00:41:24.58
that God is
gonna launch a movement
00:41:24.61\00:41:26.51
around this world like
we've never seen before.
00:41:26.55\00:41:30.59
But we need to
not wait for that day.
00:41:30.62\00:41:33.25
We need to begin now
00:41:33.29\00:41:35.09
praying for the filling of
the Holy Spirit upon our lives
00:41:35.12\00:41:37.99
that we might
be empowered to go.
00:41:38.03\00:41:39.89
Amen?
00:41:39.93\00:41:41.36
Isn't it so interesting?
00:41:41.40\00:41:42.73
Isn't it so wonderful that
00:41:42.76\00:41:44.10
Jesus did not leave us
with the Force from Star Wars?
00:41:44.13\00:41:48.64
I know a lot of people
today talk about the Holy Spirit
00:41:48.67\00:41:50.51
as being a force.
00:41:50.54\00:41:51.87
I don't agree with that.
00:41:51.91\00:41:53.24
I tell you why I don't agree
with that 'cause Jesus doesn't.
00:41:53.27\00:41:56.31
Over and over again,
00:41:56.34\00:41:57.68
and you can read for
yourself in John 14-16,
00:41:57.71\00:42:00.25
Jesus uses a personal pronoun
to describe the Holy Spirit.
00:42:00.28\00:42:06.12
He did not
leave us with a force,
00:42:06.15\00:42:08.12
He left us with
a dear, wonderful,
00:42:08.16\00:42:10.26
powerful, Christ-like,
God-glorifying person.
00:42:10.29\00:42:16.26
Amen.
00:42:16.30\00:42:18.33
And don't let
anybody rob you of that.
00:42:18.37\00:42:20.27
Jesus didn't make you an orphan.
00:42:20.30\00:42:23.84
By the way, Jesus
can be closer with you
00:42:23.87\00:42:26.94
that even was
with the disciples now
00:42:26.98\00:42:28.31
through the Holy Spirit.
00:42:28.34\00:42:29.94
You don't cry a tear, sister,
00:42:29.98\00:42:32.58
that the Holy
Spirit doesn't know about.
00:42:32.61\00:42:34.75
All right, check
it out for yourself,
00:42:34.78\00:42:36.12
the last verse of
2 Corinthians says
00:42:36.15\00:42:37.99
that we can
actually have fellowship
00:42:38.02\00:42:39.39
with the Holy Spirit,
00:42:39.42\00:42:40.76
intimacy with the
Holy Spirit. Come on!
00:42:40.79\00:42:43.53
Also, right there
in that last verse,
00:42:43.56\00:42:45.89
it also puts the Holy
Spirit right in the Holy Trinity
00:42:45.93\00:42:48.53
right there in the
last verse of 2 Corinthians.
00:42:48.56\00:42:50.30
Amen? Amen.
00:42:50.33\00:42:54.40
What a wonderful God we serve.
00:42:54.44\00:42:55.77
He didn't leave us as orphans.
00:42:55.80\00:42:57.14
He gave us the
power of the Holy Spirit,
00:42:57.17\00:42:58.51
the comforter, the helper.
00:42:58.54\00:43:00.31
Come on. Amen?
00:43:00.34\00:43:01.68
But I don't know
00:43:01.71\00:43:03.04
how you could not see
the person of the Holy Spirit
00:43:03.08\00:43:04.78
read the book of Acts.
00:43:04.81\00:43:06.15
Guys, He directs the
church, He leads the church,
00:43:06.18\00:43:09.95
He tells them to go,
He tells them not to go.
00:43:09.98\00:43:12.32
He whispers in the ear
where they need to share,
00:43:12.35\00:43:14.46
where they need to step back,
the Holy Spirit is in control.
00:43:14.49\00:43:16.93
In fact, some people have
said, "The book was named wrong.
00:43:16.96\00:43:19.49
It should have been called
The Acts of the Holy Spirit."
00:43:19.53\00:43:22.20
Amen.
00:43:22.23\00:43:23.57
We desperately need The
Acts of the Holy Spirit again.
00:43:23.60\00:43:25.13
Amen?
00:43:25.17\00:43:26.50
We need to come together
in one accord as a people.
00:43:26.53\00:43:30.01
We need to
receive the Holy Spirit
00:43:30.04\00:43:32.21
by emptying ourselves
00:43:32.24\00:43:33.58
of all of our petty
issues with each other.
00:43:33.61\00:43:38.55
Look, I get the fact that
iron needs to sharp an iron,
00:43:38.58\00:43:40.82
I get that.
00:43:40.85\00:43:42.18
It's all right if
there's a little sparks
00:43:42.22\00:43:43.55
that fly back and forth.
00:43:43.59\00:43:44.92
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:43:44.95\00:43:46.29
But when you begin
to mock, and malign,
00:43:46.32\00:43:48.96
and mistreat the
church, you should step back.
00:43:48.99\00:43:51.76
Amen.
00:43:51.79\00:43:53.13
Let me tell you why
00:43:53.16\00:43:55.16
because I'm married.
00:43:55.20\00:43:56.53
When I got married,
I learned something.
00:43:59.90\00:44:02.54
You can say
whatever you want about me,
00:44:02.57\00:44:06.91
but you talk about my wife...
00:44:06.94\00:44:09.74
Let me put this in Texas terms.
00:44:09.78\00:44:11.98
We might have to throw down.
00:44:12.01\00:44:14.22
Amen.
00:44:14.25\00:44:16.79
The church is God's wife. Amen.
00:44:16.82\00:44:20.76
I might need an
escape car or something.
00:44:27.00\00:44:29.30
You know, somebody once
said something very powerful.
00:44:43.81\00:44:45.75
He said,
00:44:45.78\00:44:47.62
"If it wasn't for the cross,
00:44:47.65\00:44:50.32
only God would know
how much He loves us."
00:44:50.35\00:44:52.42
Think about that.
00:44:56.99\00:44:59.06
He said, "The cross
00:44:59.09\00:45:00.43
will refine the God's
incredible love for us."
00:45:00.46\00:45:01.83
Amen? Amen.
00:45:01.86\00:45:04.43
Also, we refined
our hatred towards sin
00:45:04.47\00:45:06.03
because we see what
sin did to the Son of God
00:45:06.07\00:45:07.84
and what He took for us.
00:45:07.87\00:45:09.20
Amen?
00:45:09.24\00:45:10.57
So at the cross, we
experience God's love.
00:45:10.61\00:45:12.34
You know, I love that
little phrase in Amazing Facts,
00:45:16.34\00:45:18.35
not Amazing Facts, that too,
00:45:18.38\00:45:20.15
but in the song "Amazing Grace,"
00:45:20.18\00:45:23.72
"T' was grace that
taught my heart to fear,
00:45:23.75\00:45:27.86
and grace my fears relieved."
00:45:27.89\00:45:32.53
You know, what the
Bible's saying there,
00:45:32.56\00:45:33.90
you know what
that verse is saying?
00:45:33.93\00:45:35.26
That hymn I
should say is saying,
00:45:35.30\00:45:36.63
here's what it's saying.
00:45:36.67\00:45:38.00
The hymn is saying this,
00:45:38.03\00:45:39.37
"That it was grace
that taught us to fear."
00:45:39.40\00:45:41.00
In other words,
"Out of kindness,
00:45:41.04\00:45:43.41
God warned the world of
what is coming upon the earth."
00:45:43.44\00:45:46.54
He warned us out of
kindness, grace His kindness,
00:45:46.57\00:45:49.31
out of kindness, He
taught our hearts to fear,
00:45:49.34\00:45:51.61
He taught us to know that
the end of the world is near.
00:45:51.65\00:45:54.75
The cities of the
world will be destroyed.
00:45:54.78\00:45:56.95
Those in the 10/40
window without Jesus
00:45:56.99\00:45:59.19
will die without
God and without hope.
00:45:59.22\00:46:01.36
He has taught our
heart to fear, His grace,
00:46:01.39\00:46:03.89
His love has warned us.
00:46:03.93\00:46:06.66
But
00:46:06.70\00:46:09.86
His grace
00:46:09.90\00:46:11.23
for those who believe
00:46:11.27\00:46:14.07
has caused,
00:46:14.10\00:46:15.57
has relieved our fears.
00:46:15.60\00:46:16.94
Amen?
00:46:16.97\00:46:18.31
Because we know
that on the cross,
00:46:18.34\00:46:20.18
Jesus Christ
took the punishment,
00:46:20.21\00:46:22.38
and condemnation,
00:46:22.41\00:46:23.75
and the wrath of
God in our place,
00:46:23.78\00:46:25.51
and that's the way
the Father wanted it.
00:46:25.55\00:46:27.15
He wanted all of us to be saved.
00:46:27.18\00:46:28.52
Come on. Amen.
00:46:28.55\00:46:29.88
Can you give Him glory? Amen.
00:46:29.92\00:46:31.65
God is good. Is He not?
00:46:35.92\00:46:37.26
All the time. All the time.
00:46:37.29\00:46:38.63
Preach it.
00:46:38.66\00:46:40.00
I'll never forget a situation
00:46:48.70\00:46:50.04
that happened to
me many years ago,
00:46:50.07\00:46:51.57
many, many, many years ago.
00:46:51.61\00:46:53.84
My mom told me not
to play with matches.
00:46:53.88\00:46:57.35
I don't know if you've
ever had a Mom like that.
00:46:57.38\00:46:59.75
Now my wife tells me
00:46:59.78\00:47:01.12
not to play with
matches, just as...
00:47:01.15\00:47:02.48
I'll tell you
something there but...
00:47:02.52\00:47:03.85
Don't play with matches.
00:47:06.35\00:47:08.26
And so with my
simple nature as it is,
00:47:08.29\00:47:11.46
I decided to play
with some matches.
00:47:11.49\00:47:15.80
And I went out
front of the house
00:47:15.83\00:47:17.77
or in the back of
the house actually,
00:47:17.80\00:47:19.13
I started to light
little fires with the grass.
00:47:19.17\00:47:20.94
It was a very dry
time of year in Ohio.
00:47:20.97\00:47:23.51
Anybody here from Ohio?
00:47:23.54\00:47:25.47
Okay, good.
00:47:25.51\00:47:26.84
I'm safe, I can
keep going. All right.
00:47:26.88\00:47:29.08
And I started a
little fire, and it blew up,
00:47:29.11\00:47:31.75
and then I would
put the fire out.
00:47:31.78\00:47:34.62
Felt really good. Yeah.
00:47:34.65\00:47:37.55
My mom doesn't know anything.
00:47:37.59\00:47:39.82
Light another fire.
00:47:39.85\00:47:41.92
This time, I spun around.
00:47:41.96\00:47:43.59
It got a little bigger.
00:47:43.63\00:47:45.86
Yeah. Yep.
00:47:45.89\00:47:48.16
My mom doesn't know anything.
00:47:48.20\00:47:51.53
Then I don't know
what I was thinking.
00:47:51.57\00:47:53.80
I wasn't thinking, okay?
00:47:53.84\00:47:55.97
I lit a fire,
00:47:56.00\00:47:58.84
and I decided to
run around the house.
00:47:58.87\00:48:00.61
Now about here, I
feel this gust of wind
00:48:05.11\00:48:08.55
and realized the
terrible mistake I had made.
00:48:08.58\00:48:12.02
Come around the other side.
00:48:12.05\00:48:14.89
The whole backyard is on fire.
00:48:14.92\00:48:18.36
The only good news about it
00:48:18.39\00:48:20.06
is the fire is heading to
the neighbor's house, not ours.
00:48:20.10\00:48:22.76
My mother comes running out,
00:48:26.50\00:48:28.04
"Oh, you're so
in trouble, Gary,"
00:48:28.07\00:48:29.87
and we started
to fight the flames.
00:48:29.90\00:48:31.24
"Hi, Mom." I
know she's watching.
00:48:31.27\00:48:32.61
And we are
fighting the flames. Whoa!
00:48:32.64\00:48:34.68
Trying to stop the fire.
00:48:34.71\00:48:36.58
And finally, we just called
the fire department in Monnett,
00:48:36.61\00:48:39.41
Ohio, and they never had
anything this exciting before.
00:48:39.45\00:48:44.79
They had a brand new fire truck,
00:48:44.82\00:48:46.65
brand new cop car,
00:48:46.69\00:48:48.02
everybody was clean and neat.
00:48:48.06\00:48:49.39
We just saw a dust
cloud coming our way.
00:48:49.42\00:48:52.59
Those guys got out,
00:48:52.63\00:48:54.60
started to spray down the fire,
00:48:54.63\00:48:57.47
and they put it out in no time,
00:48:57.50\00:48:59.90
and they all walked around me.
00:48:59.93\00:49:01.50
They said, "Kid..."
That's a Texas accent, but...
00:49:05.64\00:49:08.64
"Kid,
00:49:08.68\00:49:11.35
stop playing with matches.
00:49:11.38\00:49:14.08
Listen to your mother."
00:49:14.12\00:49:16.62
For the many
years later after that,
00:49:16.65\00:49:18.02
I'm sure I was known
as Pyro Boy in that town.
00:49:18.05\00:49:22.76
I tell you that story
because there's gonna come a day
00:49:22.79\00:49:25.29
when the devil's gonna screw up.
00:49:25.33\00:49:29.06
He's not gonna be
paying attention to the fire,
00:49:29.10\00:49:31.03
he's gonna run around,
00:49:31.07\00:49:32.40
he's not gonna
be looking around,
00:49:32.43\00:49:33.77
and there'll be some
young people in Texas,
00:49:33.80\00:49:36.37
there'll be some
young people in dorm rooms,
00:49:36.40\00:49:38.81
there'll be some
people on the Internet,
00:49:38.84\00:49:40.94
there'll be some young
people in their churches
00:49:40.98\00:49:42.84
that will come together
00:49:42.88\00:49:44.21
and they'll pray for God's
vision and God's provision.
00:49:44.25\00:49:47.58
And He will be running
around the side of the house.
00:49:47.62\00:49:49.62
One latter rain will hit, whoa!
00:49:49.65\00:49:51.12
He'll realize his mistake.
00:49:51.15\00:49:52.52
He'll come around the
corner. It's too late.
00:49:52.55\00:49:55.62
Revelation 18:1. Boom, boom!
00:49:55.66\00:49:59.89
And the whole earth
is lit up with His glory.
00:49:59.93\00:50:02.80
I don't know about you,
00:50:02.83\00:50:04.57
but I wanna go
big so we can go home.
00:50:04.60\00:50:08.04
Young people, I wanna
make an appeal right now,
00:50:08.07\00:50:10.44
and then I wanna
get off the stage.
00:50:10.47\00:50:14.78
Not just young
people, everybody.
00:50:14.81\00:50:18.61
By the way, I
want you to all know
00:50:18.65\00:50:19.98
that you're
never gonna hear me say
00:50:23.05\00:50:24.39
the youth of
the church of today.
00:50:24.42\00:50:25.95
You're never
gonna hear me say that,
00:50:25.99\00:50:27.32
"The youth of church of today."
00:50:27.36\00:50:29.96
"The youth of..."
00:50:29.99\00:50:31.33
I'll do other dumb
stuff but not that.
00:50:31.36\00:50:32.83
"The church of
today." Don't get me wrong.
00:50:32.86\00:50:35.30
The youth are part
of the church of today.
00:50:35.33\00:50:38.83
But what about
the 80-year-old guy?
00:50:38.87\00:50:41.27
What about the 70-year-old guy?
00:50:41.30\00:50:42.90
What is he on, some
kind of retirement plan?
00:50:42.94\00:50:46.51
By the way, did
you know something?
00:50:46.54\00:50:47.88
God has no
retirement plan. Amen.
00:50:47.91\00:50:50.95
Right?
00:50:50.98\00:50:52.35
If you're still alive,
He has a work for you to do.
00:50:52.38\00:50:55.05
Amen. Amen?
00:50:55.08\00:50:56.55
We are all the church of today.
00:50:56.58\00:50:58.15
In fact, Malachi 4 tells
us that in the last days,
00:50:58.19\00:51:01.86
there'll be an
intergenerational movement.
00:51:01.89\00:51:05.89
Hearts of the fathers
will turn to the children.
00:51:05.93\00:51:07.96
Hearts of the children
will turn to the fathers.
00:51:08.00\00:51:10.07
Come on.
00:51:10.10\00:51:11.57
Intergenerational movement,
00:51:11.60\00:51:13.34
what that means is
the older generation
00:51:13.37\00:51:15.14
must do what Elijah did.
00:51:15.17\00:51:18.47
They must pass on leadership
to the younger generation.
00:51:18.51\00:51:21.14
By the way, Elijah
didn't wanna do it either.
00:51:21.18\00:51:24.08
How we know is God commanded him
00:51:24.11\00:51:25.85
to throw his
mantle around Elisha.
00:51:25.88\00:51:27.45
And it almost seems like
Elijah didn't wanna do it.
00:51:27.48\00:51:29.38
Have you noticed?
00:51:29.42\00:51:30.75
He comes up to Elisha and says,
"Hey, kid, younger generation."
00:51:30.79\00:51:33.22
Elisha actually has
to run after the prophet,
00:51:36.52\00:51:39.93
"Hey, I'll do it.
00:51:39.96\00:51:41.30
I'll do it."
00:51:41.33\00:51:42.66
A lot of our
young people are like,
00:51:42.70\00:51:44.03
"I wanna help
in church, please."
00:51:44.07\00:51:46.27
And the pastor's running
off here, the youth leader.
00:51:46.30\00:51:49.57
No, no, no, no, no.
00:51:49.60\00:51:50.94
I didn't say
00:51:50.97\00:51:53.31
dump it on kids,
00:51:53.34\00:51:55.18
I said pass it on,
00:51:55.21\00:51:58.65
your observation, participation,
00:51:58.68\00:52:02.98
and activation like
Jesus did, but pass it on.
00:52:03.02\00:52:06.62
So I want to speak to
everybody not just the young.
00:52:13.16\00:52:14.83
If we go to the
church right now,
00:52:20.84\00:52:22.34
if we go to the cross right now,
00:52:22.37\00:52:24.51
you'll notice that
when they killed...
00:52:24.54\00:52:26.27
When Jesus died on the cross,
they put the spear in His side,
00:52:26.31\00:52:30.55
two things flowed
out from His side.
00:52:30.58\00:52:33.75
And I don't think there
are any mistakes in the Bible,
00:52:33.78\00:52:35.48
there are no
unnecessary details,
00:52:35.52\00:52:37.29
there's so much richness
and the details in the Bible,
00:52:37.32\00:52:40.49
right?
00:52:40.52\00:52:41.86
Here's the good
news, young and old alike,
00:52:46.76\00:52:49.76
if you will go to the cross,
00:52:49.80\00:52:53.50
you'll find it
flowing from Christ's side,
00:52:53.54\00:52:57.14
His blood for
pardon, for all of your sins.
00:52:57.17\00:53:01.31
There's not a sin in your life
that's so stained on you that
00:53:01.34\00:53:05.08
the blood of Jesus
can't wash it away.
00:53:05.11\00:53:07.55
I don't know
what your problem is.
00:53:07.58\00:53:08.92
Stop running away from Jesus,
00:53:08.95\00:53:10.29
you're running
away from the wrong guy.
00:53:10.32\00:53:11.65
He's the Savior.
00:53:11.69\00:53:13.02
Stop trying to take a
bath before you take a shower.
00:53:13.05\00:53:15.49
It doesn't make any sense.
00:53:15.52\00:53:17.43
He's the one that claims
you. Go to Him as you are.
00:53:17.46\00:53:19.29
Amen. Go to the cross.
00:53:19.33\00:53:21.50
In the mind of
faith, go to the cross
00:53:21.53\00:53:23.30
and remember that
Jesus washes away your sin.
00:53:23.33\00:53:25.77
You can be free.
00:53:25.80\00:53:28.17
Young people, I
wanna appeal to you today.
00:53:28.20\00:53:30.21
If it is your desire right now
00:53:30.24\00:53:32.51
to have Jesus
wash away your sins,
00:53:32.54\00:53:34.81
I wanna invite you to
come forward right now,
00:53:34.84\00:53:36.41
and I want you
to come symbolically
00:53:36.44\00:53:37.78
like you're coming to the cross.
00:53:37.81\00:53:39.15
"Jesus, my sin I
bring before you.
00:53:39.18\00:53:41.28
Wash it away in
Your blood, Jesus.
00:53:41.32\00:53:43.02
I'm coming right now as I am.
00:53:43.05\00:53:45.12
I'm not trying to
clean my life up first.
00:53:45.15\00:53:46.96
I'm coming as I am."
00:53:46.99\00:53:49.42
You know what Ellen White says,
00:53:49.46\00:53:50.79
"You don't even
have to be repentant
00:53:50.83\00:53:52.16
to come to God."
00:53:52.19\00:53:53.53
Did you know that?
00:53:53.56\00:53:55.10
Ellen White does not
say you have to be repentant
00:53:55.13\00:53:57.33
to come to God.
00:53:57.37\00:53:58.70
She says, "If you go to
Him, He'll give you repentance."
00:53:58.73\00:54:01.10
Come on. There's the gift.
00:54:01.14\00:54:03.17
Maybe some of you are here today
00:54:06.84\00:54:08.18
that wanna say, "Jesus,
00:54:08.21\00:54:09.64
yes, I say yes to Your vision
to go to the ends of the earth.
00:54:09.68\00:54:13.58
I see the vision that
You have, divine vision.
00:54:13.62\00:54:18.15
Oh, God, I have my
mind on that vision."
00:54:18.19\00:54:21.09
If you wanna say
yes to God's vision,
00:54:21.12\00:54:24.79
"You should be
witnesses of Me to the end."
00:54:24.83\00:54:28.83
I wanna invite you
to come forward as well.
00:54:28.86\00:54:32.23
Maybe you're coming forward
00:54:32.27\00:54:33.60
and maybe you've
already come forward too.
00:54:33.64\00:54:34.97
You can vote
twice by the way here.
00:54:35.00\00:54:37.14
If you are thinking to yourself,
00:54:37.17\00:54:39.97
"Oh, God, I know your
vision, I love your vision,
00:54:40.01\00:54:44.61
but I really
need your provision.
00:54:44.65\00:54:46.78
I want you to fill
me with the Holy Spirit.
00:54:46.82\00:54:50.72
I want to be filled with Jesus."
00:54:50.75\00:54:52.52
You know, the devil's
not afraid of any of us here,
00:54:55.62\00:54:59.89
but he is
afraid of Jesus in you.
00:54:59.93\00:55:01.73
And he doesn't just
have to deal with Jesus now.
00:55:01.76\00:55:03.63
He has to deal
with Jesus in everybody
00:55:03.67\00:55:05.00
who's filled with His Spirit.
00:55:05.03\00:55:06.60
That's pretty scary.
00:55:06.63\00:55:07.97
That's like
Halloween for the devil.
00:55:08.00\00:55:10.41
That's scary for him.
00:55:10.44\00:55:11.77
That's why Sister White says,
00:55:11.81\00:55:13.14
"There's nothing
Satan fears more.
00:55:13.17\00:55:15.71
And the people of God
shall remove every hindrance,
00:55:15.74\00:55:18.48
and that God
might pour His Spirit
00:55:18.51\00:55:20.42
upon a languishing Church
and an impenitent congregation.
00:55:20.45\00:55:25.95
And she even said that,
00:55:25.99\00:55:27.32
"Satan's worst
nightmare is that you get
00:55:27.36\00:55:28.69
filled with the Holy Spirit."
00:55:28.72\00:55:30.06
Now he's got to
deal with Jesus in you,
00:55:30.09\00:55:31.49
His words, His
wonders, and His works.
00:55:31.53\00:55:33.63
You know, maybe some
of you are here today
00:55:37.80\00:55:39.13
that need to be baptized
00:55:39.17\00:55:40.50
because, you know,
that's your first step.
00:55:40.54\00:55:41.87
By the way,
00:55:41.90\00:55:43.27
you don't have to be
baptized in water first
00:55:43.30\00:55:45.17
to receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit.
00:55:45.21\00:55:46.78
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:55:46.81\00:55:48.14
We know in the book of Acts,
00:55:48.18\00:55:49.51
it sometimes
works the other way.
00:55:49.54\00:55:50.88
Sometimes, you
receive the baptism first
00:55:50.91\00:55:52.25
and then there's water baptism.
00:55:52.28\00:55:53.62
But you know what, water
baptism is the first step
00:55:53.65\00:55:54.98
as a missionary.
00:55:55.02\00:55:56.35
You want to take that
first step to be part of God's
00:55:56.38\00:55:58.69
discipleship movement.
00:55:58.72\00:56:00.46
This movement has Spirit-filled
missionaries to the end.
00:56:00.49\00:56:04.66
You need be
baptized with the Holy Spirit
00:56:04.69\00:56:06.13
if that's your passion.
00:56:06.16\00:56:07.50
I want you to invite
you to be baptized today.
00:56:11.10\00:56:13.44