Music...
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Let's stand and
sing our theme song,
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"His Witness I Will Bear. "
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Violin and piano...
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Thank you for
singing, you may be seated.
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Pause...
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As we begin our
morning devotion,
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I'd just ask you to
bow your heads with me
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for a word of prayer.
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"Father in heaven,
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we praise you so much
for this new day of life
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and for this new year
that you have given us
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and as GYC comes
to a close today,
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Father, we ask that a special
measure of your Holy Spirit
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will be poured upon this place,
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and as Pastor Goetz
shares with us one last time,
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we pray that our...
that you would be lifted up
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and that each heart
would be drawn closer to you,
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is our prayer in
Jesus' name, amen. "
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Pause...
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Piano...
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At Jesus' knee
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I learned of life eternal
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At Jesus' knee
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He put His light inside
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At Jesus' knee
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I learned to love His children
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and know the joy within me,
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I found at Jesus' knee
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piano...
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more piano...
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At Jesus' knee
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I know that I am worthy
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At Jesus' knee
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I feel that I am whole
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At Jesus knee
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I learn to be as He is
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And all that blesses me
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I find at Jesus' knee
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At Jesus' knee
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There's shelter from this world
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At Jesus' knee
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I can feel His love
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At Jesus' knee
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though I may go astray
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I'll always find my way
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to sit at Jesus' knee.
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'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
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Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend;
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And I know that
Thou art with me,
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Wilt be with me till the end.
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Piano...
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At Jesus' knee
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There's shelter from this world,
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At Jesus' knee
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I can feel His love
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At Jesus' knee
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Though I may go astray
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I'll always find my way
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to sit at Jesus' knee.
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Piano...
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To sit at Jesus' knee.
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Audience: Amen.
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Amen
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amen...
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amen,
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Frohes neues Jahr
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Pause...
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Wacqua umphia...
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pause...
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Feliz aņo novo...
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Audience: Feliz aņo novo.
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Or, Feliz aņo novo...
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or Happy New Year
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Audience: Happy New Year.
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Pause...
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I have, this morning,
taken off my suit jacket,
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rolled up my sleeves... because
we want to wrestle together,
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so get ready... get ready...
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"Oh God, prepare our hearts,
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it's our final day...
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we got this morning...
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we got a
conversation mid-morning
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and we got a final charge
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and we're headed back.
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Pause...
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God, forbid it, would you
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that we leave here
the same as we came
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so mobilize us and send us out
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so, radicals for
the cause of Jesus,
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we pray in the
name of Jesus, amen. "
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So, we learned the
lesson of the seed this morning
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seeds are dispersed,
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that's how a plant
spreads... sustains itself...
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pause.
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There are four ways
that seeds are dispersed,
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anywhere in the world you go,
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there are four ways
the seeds are dispersed.
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They are dispersed
through water, wind, animals
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or ballistic... they
call it, mechanical...
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it's... within the seed
there's some sort of mechanism
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that causes it to launch
but every one of these happen
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pause...
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the same way.
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The plant must be disturbed.
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The animal bumps
against it... lands on it...
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or somehow
interacts with the plant
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and picks up its seed...
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it disturbs the plant.
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Wind, water... the
ballistic... the mechanical...
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the launch of the seed
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is often times
through some sort of contact,
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it gets bumped and
then a seed springs.
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Learn the lesson of the seed.
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Pause...
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A dandelion...
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you live in my neighborhood...
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cringe every time one of
those yellow flowers pops up
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and before you can even walk
over and pick the yellow flower,
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it's already sprouted
into one of those seed balls.
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They're so fast
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and then, you gingerly try
to pick it without disturbing it
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so the seeds don't spread
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but it is... it is impossible,
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it's futile
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as soon as you snap that stem...
just the slightest jerk...
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the seeds are out.
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Pause...
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What about the Jack Pine?
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It produces that
resin-filled cone
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that are solid... durable...
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nothing can get into
them until a fire occurs
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and its resin is melted
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and the cone pops open
and the seeds fall out.
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They're disturbed...
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some sort of disturbance
and the seeds are released.
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Learn the lesson of the seed.
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Open your Bibles...
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open your Bibles
to the book of Acts
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pause...
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Acts chapter 8,
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we're going to go to
two chapters in Acts,
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we're going to
start in Acts chapter 8
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and then we're going to
back up just a few chapters...
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Acts chapter 5,
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Acts chapter 8
starting in verse 1.
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Pause...
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"Now Saul was
consenting to his death... "
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this is Stephen's death...
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"And at that time a
great persecution arose
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against the church
which was at Jerusalem;
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and they were scattered
throughout the regions of Judaea
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and Samaria,
except the apostles.
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And devout men... "
this is now verse two,
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"carried Stephen to his burial,
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and made great
lamentation over him. "
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Verse 3...
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"As for Saul, he
made havoc of the church,
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entering every house and
dragging off men and women
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committing them to prison. "
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Three verses... there
are three operative words.
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Key words that if you just...
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if you take those
three and list them off,
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you'll get the message
of the entire three verses
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and in a larger
context of Acts... three words.
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Havoc... Church... Scattered...
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pause...
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you can reduce
those three verses
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and the larger message of Acts,
havoc... church... scattered.
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The church was
disturbed, it was bothered,
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it was persecuted.
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Paul was only
one of the examples
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but Paul here
wreaked havoc in the church
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pause...
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havoc... church...
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scattered...
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pause...
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the devil hates the church...
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it is the visible
body of One who he hates
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with all that is within him
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and as a community
of faith comes together
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and reflects our
Head, Jesus Christ,
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he hates us...
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he's always hated us
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it reminds you...
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taking you back to
Peter and Paul's day... Nero.
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Reigned for those
54 or about 68 A.D.
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imprisoned and
executed the Christians
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including Paul and Peter...
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Domitian came next,
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he oppressed the Christians
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who refused to
pay him divine honors,
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he exiled John.
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Marcus Aurelius,
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believing that Christianity
was dangerous and immoral,
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turned a blind eye to severe
local outbreaks of mob violence,
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so he would say, "You get 'em...
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you get 'em... we
won't... we won't do anything,
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you can just knock 'em out. "
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Pause...
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Decius in the third century...
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he took that
persecution that was sporadic
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and turned it to systematic...
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it was just
part of the calendar.
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Pause...
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more pause...
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thousands died as he reigned,
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Diocletian
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before the
conversion of Constantine
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issued four edicts
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which were intended to stamp
out Christianity altogether,
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he ordered the
church to be burned,
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Scriptures to be confiscated,
clergy to be tortured,
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citizens...
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Christian citizens were
deprived of their citizenship
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and we know from
the narrative of Paul
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how important the
citizenship could be...
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so they were
deprived of their citizenship
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and then it was free game.
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Pause...
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So it was that the early
Christian apologist and author,
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Tertullian spoke up addressing
the rulers of the Roman Empire.
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addressing the
rulers of the Roman Empire
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Tertullian cried out,
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"Kill us,
torture us, condemn us,
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grind us to dust,
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the more you mow us
down, the more we will grow,
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the seed is the
blood of the Christians. "
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Learn the lesson of a seed,
disturbed... it was spread.
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Havoc... church... scattered...
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the devil hates the church,
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he hated it
then, he hates it now
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but out of the gospel of Matthew
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comes the cogent
statement of Jesus,
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Matthew 16 and
verse 18, "I say to you,
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that you are Peter
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and on this rock I
will build my church;
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and the gates of Hades itself
will not prevail against it. "
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Pause...
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Hell hates the church
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but Jesus' promise is
that the church will prevail.
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John Foxe... we all know his
work, "Foxe's book of Martyrs"
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John Foxe himself was
persecuted for his Christianity
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but he says in...
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"in which words, three
things are to be noted"
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reflecting on Matthew
chapter 16 and verse 18,
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he says, "There are three
things that can be noted from...
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from Matthew
chapter 16 and verse 18,
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first, that Christ will
have a church in this world,
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secondly, that that same church
shall be mightily impugned
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not only by the world
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but by the uttermost
strength of all hell. "
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One... that
Christ will have a church
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but secondly, it
will be persecuted,
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it will be hated...
it will be attacked...
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the devil
himself will wreak havoc.
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Thirdly, that that same church
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notwithstanding the
uttermost attacks of evil
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with all of the
devil's malice, shall continue.
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John Foxe, who
personally knew in his life
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the... the hot
stinky breath of the devil,
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but listen, Christ
will have a church,
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He will have a community,
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He will have those who
are radical in their...
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in their
discipleship following Him,
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but the devil will hate
them with all the power of hell
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but thirdly, that that
church, though hated by hell
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will continue and
we would say at GYC,
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pause...
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more pause...
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some more pause...
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havoc...
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church...
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scattered...
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those three operative
words unpacked for us...
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the reality of the early church
and the prophetic movement
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of the final church.
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Ho, ho, ho,
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Saul turned Paul...
long gone on this scene
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yet there still
remains this hatred from hell.
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The devil will still continue
to wreak havoc in the church.
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Beloved, he's not done,
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in the face of
persecution, however,
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the church did
not become political,
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they did not attempt to deal
with the political grievances
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of their day,
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pause...
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they didn't organize themselves
for a protest against Rome,
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they organized themselves
for prayer and for mission.
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That was their
protest, the final protest.
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They didn't seek to
change the... the laws,
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they knew that the
government was corrupt,
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they knew that
the devil hated them
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and that he would
wreak havoc in the church.
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If they spent their
time trying to fix that,
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they would miss
out on the opportunity
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pause...
00:19:48.08\00:19:50.52
so, they focused themselves
on what was most important
00:19:50.55\00:19:54.12
on their trump card, as it were.
00:19:54.16\00:19:57.03
It's the lesson we can learn
from that transatlantic flight
00:19:57.06\00:20:05.20
early in aviation history.
00:20:05.23\00:20:08.07
Pilot solo crossing the
trans... the Atlantic...
00:20:08.10\00:20:14.24
early on, it was a marvel...
00:20:14.28\00:20:18.41
pause...
00:20:18.45\00:20:22.48
more pause...
00:20:22.52\00:20:24.02
he's about half way across
00:20:24.05\00:20:28.79
when he realizes that
there's been a gnawing sound...
00:20:28.82\00:20:32.63
a... a... a... a...
a... a bit of a ruckus
00:20:32.69\00:20:34.56
somewhere up in his cabin
00:20:34.60\00:20:37.47
and he finally
locates the problem...
00:20:37.50\00:20:43.27
coming out of New
York, on his take-off,
00:20:43.30\00:20:47.21
somehow a rat had
gotten on his plane.
00:20:47.24\00:20:51.08
He's halfway out
00:20:51.11\00:20:54.12
and he looks up to find
this rat gnawing on a cable
00:20:54.15\00:21:02.19
pause...
00:21:02.22\00:21:04.79
that was vital to
his ability to land.
00:21:04.83\00:21:09.73
Pause...
00:21:09.76\00:21:13.47
He's stuck...
00:21:13.50\00:21:14.84
he has nowhere to go,
00:21:14.87\00:21:17.77
there's a rat...
00:21:17.81\00:21:19.47
and he knows that if he
makes moves to try to... to
00:21:19.51\00:21:23.41
to capture the rat,
00:21:23.45\00:21:25.08
the rat will just go into hiding
00:21:25.11\00:21:27.32
and possibly cause
even more problems,
00:21:27.35\00:21:32.55
so he thinks it through
00:21:32.59\00:21:35.39
pause...
00:21:35.42\00:21:37.33
and he begins to
pull the plane up
00:21:37.36\00:21:39.19
higher and higher...
higher and still higher...
00:21:39.23\00:21:44.77
pause...
00:21:44.80\00:21:47.47
until he finds
himself in an elevation
00:21:47.50\00:21:52.01
where slowly the gnawing stops.
00:21:52.04\00:21:54.41
Pause...
00:21:54.44\00:21:56.51
Later he lands the plane
and throws out the dead rat.
00:21:56.54\00:22:01.82
Pause...
00:22:01.88\00:22:06.76
The church
didn't become political,
00:22:06.79\00:22:08.29
it did not become focused on the
grievances... on the havoc...
00:22:08.32\00:22:14.00
it didn't seek to
change the problem...
00:22:14.03\00:22:21.37
havoc... church...
00:22:21.40\00:22:24.07
scattered...
00:22:24.11\00:22:26.37
the church took the high
road, pulled up the controls
00:22:26.41\00:22:33.08
and went to an elevation
00:22:33.11\00:22:35.05
where the havoc
couldn't breathe.
00:22:35.08\00:22:38.12
Pause...
00:22:38.15\00:22:41.79
That's Tertullian,
00:22:41.82\00:22:44.33
"You can grind us to
dust but the more you do it
00:22:44.36\00:22:48.66
the more we will grow,
00:22:48.70\00:22:51.17
we'll take the high road.
00:22:51.20\00:22:53.67
Pause...
00:22:53.74\00:22:56.00
Oh, Church that
we would learn this.
00:22:56.04\00:22:58.04
We can absorb ourselves,
we're trying to fix what ails us
00:22:58.07\00:23:05.81
the havoc that the devil causes,
00:23:05.85\00:23:09.58
from without and from within.
00:23:09.62\00:23:13.25
We can consume ourselves
with committees and commissions.
00:23:13.29\00:23:18.19
Pause...
00:23:18.26\00:23:21.56
Havoc...
00:23:21.63\00:23:24.23
Church...
00:23:24.27\00:23:26.94
Scattered.
00:23:26.97\00:23:29.37
They went...
00:23:29.40\00:23:31.77
they... from the
havoc took strength
00:23:31.81\00:23:36.75
and went out to the
world to proclaim Jesus.
00:23:36.78\00:23:42.45
Pause...
00:23:42.48\00:23:45.59
Acts chapter 5,
we find it again,
00:23:45.62\00:23:51.59
pause...
00:23:51.63\00:23:54.10
what was it? What
was their trump card?
00:23:54.16\00:23:56.50
What was the one
thing that they knew
00:23:56.53\00:23:58.30
that they knew that they knew?
00:23:58.33\00:23:59.67
Pause...
00:23:59.70\00:24:02.20
the...
00:24:02.24\00:24:04.81
these guys got
called in all the time...
00:24:04.84\00:24:08.48
they get called in...
00:24:08.51\00:24:09.84
"Hey, you got to
stop preaching. "
00:24:09.88\00:24:11.41
Paul, Peter, John... they all...
00:24:11.45\00:24:13.35
"You got to stop preaching. "
00:24:13.38\00:24:15.28
What was their response?
00:24:15.32\00:24:17.55
"If... we can't, we just can't,
00:24:17.59\00:24:20.02
we can't... we simply cannot...
00:24:20.06\00:24:22.46
that is what we exist for. "
00:24:22.49\00:24:24.46
Well, if you don't
stop preaching, we'll...
00:24:24.49\00:24:26.36
we'll... we'll beat you up...
00:24:26.39\00:24:27.73
pause...
00:24:27.76\00:24:29.13
drove their enemies crazy.
00:24:29.16\00:24:31.23
"Then, we'll beat you up...
00:24:31.27\00:24:33.34
if you don't stop
preaching about Jesus,
00:24:33.37\00:24:35.24
we'll beat you up. "
00:24:35.27\00:24:36.64
What was their response?
00:24:36.71\00:24:38.04
"To be beaten for Jesus
would be a promotion... "
00:24:38.07\00:24:41.81
it messed their enemies up,
00:24:41.84\00:24:43.71
they'd get together, "Arghh...
00:24:43.75\00:24:45.58
we can't give these
guys any promotions,
00:24:45.61\00:24:48.25
what are we going to do?"
00:24:48.28\00:24:50.29
They'd let them go...
00:24:50.35\00:24:52.29
they'd bring them back in,
00:24:52.32\00:24:54.06
"Hey, you stop
preaching about Jesus,
00:24:54.09\00:24:56.46
we're not just going to
beat you up, we'll kill you,
00:24:56.49\00:24:58.16
pause...
00:24:58.19\00:24:59.69
we'll kill you... "
00:24:59.73\00:25:01.80
What would they say?
00:25:01.83\00:25:03.83
"It would be an
honor to die for my Lord. "
00:25:03.87\00:25:08.87
"Huh, we can't
give them any honors,
00:25:08.90\00:25:12.61
what do we do?"
00:25:12.67\00:25:14.61
Acts chapter 5,
00:25:14.64\00:25:16.51
Acts chapter 5 verse 18,
00:25:16.54\00:25:19.11
"And they laid their
hands on the apostles,
00:25:19.15\00:25:21.22
and put them in
the common prison.
00:25:21.25\00:25:22.58
But at night an angel of the
Lord opened the prison doors,
00:25:22.62\00:25:25.02
and tapped them on the
shoulders and brought them out,
00:25:25.05\00:25:27.59
and said, 'Go,
stand in the temple
00:25:27.62\00:25:29.02
and speak to the people
all the words of this life. '"
00:25:29.06\00:25:31.99
The angels don't
even miss a beat.
00:25:32.03\00:25:35.43
"Heh, don't I get some downtime,
a night of rest, maybe a... "
00:25:35.46\00:25:39.67
"No, no, no, no, no,
go, go, go, go, go, go...
00:25:39.70\00:25:41.57
go preach, go
stand in the temple
00:25:41.60\00:25:44.01
and speak to the people. "
00:25:44.04\00:25:45.84
Well, you know what happened.
00:25:45.87\00:25:47.61
Here comes... here
comes the High Priest
00:25:47.64\00:25:51.01
in his little parade
00:25:51.05\00:25:53.48
took them back in,
00:25:53.52\00:25:56.12
"Didn't we not
strictly command you to...
00:25:56.15\00:25:57.52
to not teach in His name?"
00:25:57.55\00:25:59.09
Verse 28, same chapter...
00:25:59.12\00:26:00.59
"and look, you have
filled Jerusalem with this...
00:26:00.62\00:26:02.79
with your doctrine,
00:26:02.82\00:26:04.33
and you intend to bring
this man's blood on us. "
00:26:04.36\00:26:06.49
Which is, of course, ironic
because of their cry with Pilot.
00:26:06.53\00:26:09.43
But Peter and the other
apostles answered and said,
00:26:09.46\00:26:12.40
"We ought to obey
God rather than men.
00:26:12.43\00:26:14.04
The God of our fathers... "
00:26:14.07\00:26:15.40
and here's their...
00:26:15.44\00:26:16.77
here's what they have
that you can't take from them,
00:26:16.81\00:26:20.51
"The God of our
fathers raised up Jesus,
00:26:20.54\00:26:23.38
whom you murdered
by hanging on a tree.
00:26:23.41\00:26:26.11
Him God has
exalted to the right hand
00:26:26.15\00:26:28.75
to be Prince and Savior,
to give repentance to Israel,
00:26:28.78\00:26:31.72
and forgiveness of sins. "
00:26:31.75\00:26:33.09
You can threaten
us but guess what?
00:26:33.12\00:26:35.96
The resurrection...
00:26:36.02\00:26:37.79
You can kill
us... but guess what?
00:26:37.83\00:26:41.73
There's a resurrection...
00:26:41.76\00:26:44.57
we have this hope that
burns within our hearts,
00:26:44.60\00:26:51.71
you can't
dissuade us or distract us
00:26:51.77\00:26:55.38
or discombobulate us,
00:26:55.44\00:26:56.85
you can't do it. "
00:26:56.88\00:26:58.25
It's like in the game of UNO,
00:26:58.28\00:26:59.61
you play UNO, right?
00:26:59.65\00:27:00.98
You play UNO and
you get down to UNO...
00:27:01.02\00:27:02.75
as soon as you say, "UNO"
00:27:02.78\00:27:04.12
everybody is
looking cross-eyed at you
00:27:04.15\00:27:07.06
"What has he got,
what has he got...
00:27:07.09\00:27:08.42
is it... is it... has
he still got that green?
00:27:08.46\00:27:09.82
Has he still got the
green or is it the red?
00:27:09.86\00:27:11.19
What is it, what is it, what
has he got... what has he got?"
00:27:11.23\00:27:13.23
And so they play and
the person before you
00:27:13.26\00:27:15.26
oooh... they... they're okay
00:27:15.30\00:27:17.30
because they got
one of those "Wilds"
00:27:17.33\00:27:18.80
that changes the
color, not a "Draw Four"
00:27:18.83\00:27:20.37
but just the "Wild"
that changes the color...
00:27:20.40\00:27:21.87
so they know that if...
00:27:21.90\00:27:23.71
if they could just
figure out what you have,
00:27:23.74\00:27:25.64
then they can
take your game off.
00:27:25.67\00:27:27.48
"All right, he's got the
green, he's got the green,
00:27:27.51\00:27:29.68
I think he's got the
green, chuk u choo...
00:27:29.71\00:27:31.05
change it to Red... 'Red. '"
00:27:31.08\00:27:32.41
All the while, you
yourself hold the "Wild" card.
00:27:32.45\00:27:37.02
Pause...
00:27:37.05\00:27:38.39
"Change the color on me,
00:27:38.42\00:27:40.62
yellow, blue, green
or red, I'll play... "
00:27:40.66\00:27:45.16
You can't beat it.
00:27:45.19\00:27:48.46
That's the "Wild" card.
00:27:48.50\00:27:52.17
Our Jesus has been
resurrected and now exalted.
00:27:52.20\00:27:57.51
What are you going to do?
00:27:57.54\00:27:59.54
What are you going to
do? "You can kill me... "
00:27:59.57\00:28:03.01
Pause...
00:28:03.04\00:28:05.78
Oh, Beloved, the
church didn't stop to...
00:28:05.81\00:28:08.38
to declare how
unfair the world was,
00:28:08.45\00:28:10.95
how unfair the politics
were in or out of the church,
00:28:10.99\00:28:13.82
the church...
00:28:13.86\00:28:15.19
pause...
00:28:15.22\00:28:17.23
while havoc was being...
00:28:17.26\00:28:23.13
pause...
00:28:23.16\00:28:25.10
descending on the church,
00:28:25.13\00:28:26.47
the church went out.
00:28:26.50\00:28:29.77
If we stopped to fix...
00:28:29.80\00:28:33.04
to get everything
right with our culture
00:28:33.07\00:28:38.68
and with what we
perceive is right in the church,
00:28:38.71\00:28:44.99
we will miss out on
what we've been called to do.
00:28:45.02\00:28:51.26
Pause...
00:28:51.29\00:28:54.23
more pause...
00:28:54.26\00:28:56.63
"We have the resurrection
00:28:56.67\00:28:58.90
pause...
00:28:58.93\00:29:00.97
you can't beat us,
00:29:01.00\00:29:02.67
so we're going to take it. "
00:29:02.70\00:29:05.84
Even the angel... uphold
the mouth of the prison said,
00:29:05.87\00:29:10.31
"We've got no time...
00:29:10.35\00:29:11.75
no time to draw up documents
00:29:11.78\00:29:14.15
or to protest
against the unfairness
00:29:14.22\00:29:16.75
of the... the civil authorities,
00:29:16.79\00:29:19.32
go... go share Jesus...
00:29:19.35\00:29:23.66
just go... "
00:29:23.69\00:29:25.46
You're waiting for a
time when the world is fair?
00:29:25.49\00:29:27.70
Puh... havoc
will always be here,
00:29:27.73\00:29:33.07
the devil has not given up,
00:29:33.13\00:29:34.47
pause...
00:29:34.50\00:29:40.41
but it's difficult
sometimes, it's difficult.
00:29:40.44\00:29:45.68
Injustice...
00:29:45.71\00:29:49.85
pain or hurt it's caused you
00:29:49.88\00:29:53.19
and Beloved,
let's be honest, it's...
00:29:53.25\00:29:55.99
sometimes we do
it to each other...
00:29:56.02\00:29:58.69
we do it to each
other, it's not even the...
00:29:58.73\00:30:01.06
it's not even the
Romans that do it to us,
00:30:01.10\00:30:03.43
sometimes, it's...
it's... we do it to ourselves.
00:30:03.47\00:30:05.77
We hurt each other,
00:30:05.80\00:30:08.24
pause...
00:30:08.27\00:30:11.47
we find that in that rat...
or that rat gnawing on our cable
00:30:11.54\00:30:15.31
and we have to
make the decision.
00:30:15.34\00:30:17.01
If I focus on the
rat, I'll... I'll lose
00:30:17.05\00:30:21.55
so I'm going to
pull this plane up higher
00:30:21.58\00:30:26.05
and the rat won't survive.
00:30:26.09\00:30:28.42
Pause...
00:30:28.49\00:30:30.69
more pause...
00:30:30.73\00:30:32.56
it's not just in
a Corporate sense,
00:30:32.59\00:30:34.70
it's also in a personal sense...
00:30:34.73\00:30:36.06
personal pain...
00:30:36.10\00:30:37.97
distracts us.
00:30:38.03\00:30:39.93
Pause...
00:30:39.97\00:30:42.60
Our friend,
Pastor Conway's told us
00:30:42.67\00:30:46.41
to go to the end...
00:30:46.44\00:30:47.78
we've got to go to
the end of ourselves.
00:30:47.81\00:30:49.54
Pause...
00:30:49.58\00:30:51.18
What if we... what if
we use pain as what it is,
00:30:51.21\00:30:56.08
it's a mobilizer,
pain is a mobilizer.
00:30:56.12\00:30:57.99
It will
mobilize us to something.
00:30:58.02\00:31:00.96
We can be
mobilized to focus on it
00:31:00.99\00:31:03.73
or we could be
mobilized to go to the end
00:31:03.76\00:31:05.59
and don't tell me that
pain is not a mobilizer,
00:31:05.63\00:31:08.90
I live with a Dental
Hygienist and she tells me.
00:31:08.93\00:31:12.27
There are people that are
hard to get into the chair
00:31:12.30\00:31:16.34
until one morning, they
wake up with just a, "oooh... "
00:31:16.37\00:31:20.38
they are crying
for an appointment
00:31:20.41\00:31:22.61
in the dentist's chair.
00:31:22.64\00:31:24.51
You know how it is,
"Nah, I can put it off,
00:31:24.58\00:31:27.55
who do these
dentists think they are?
00:31:27.58\00:31:29.45
They just want my money,
they just want me to come,
00:31:29.48\00:31:31.22
they don't... ahhhh... ooooh...
00:31:31.25\00:31:33.29
can I have an
appointment today?"
00:31:33.32\00:31:35.32
Audience: Laughter.
00:31:35.36\00:31:36.69
Pause...
00:31:36.73\00:31:38.53
Let me just...
let me just tell you,
00:31:38.56\00:31:40.60
the two darkest periods of
my life... black as night...
00:31:40.63\00:31:45.97
dark periods...
00:31:46.03\00:31:50.01
wrestling with God,
00:31:50.04\00:31:52.87
feeling like
Jacob beside the brook,
00:31:52.91\00:31:55.14
"Come on God... "
00:31:55.21\00:31:56.54
pause...
00:31:56.58\00:31:58.61
one of them... while
I was in high school.
00:31:58.65\00:32:01.75
Pause...
00:32:01.78\00:32:03.79
it was in a head-on collision
between a bus and a semi-truck
00:32:03.85\00:32:07.52
headed into surgery...
00:32:07.56\00:32:10.63
a rod in one leg
and a plate in the other
00:32:10.66\00:32:14.86
I was told...
amputation was a possibility
00:32:14.90\00:32:17.77
and certainly, I
would never walk again,
00:32:17.80\00:32:20.57
dark time...
00:32:20.60\00:32:23.10
the second... just an emotional,
spiritual time in college,
00:32:23.14\00:32:28.98
just wrecked...
00:32:29.01\00:32:30.75
but out of
those two dark periods
00:32:30.78\00:32:33.82
came the most
beautiful things in my life,
00:32:33.85\00:32:35.82
my commitment to
Jesus and my wife.
00:32:35.85\00:32:39.79
Pause...
00:32:39.82\00:32:41.62
One night, standing on my porch
in Berrien Springs, Michigan,
00:32:41.66\00:32:45.56
crying out to God...
middle of the night...
00:32:45.59\00:32:48.36
one or two in the
morning, it's dark...
00:32:48.40\00:32:51.10
I'm looking out
into the darkness
00:32:51.13\00:32:55.44
and I'm telling God,
"This is exactly how I feel...
00:32:55.47\00:32:59.81
it's dark God...
00:32:59.87\00:33:02.31
you're not giving me
any light... any hope...
00:33:02.34\00:33:05.65
and then He asked
me a question, He said,
00:33:05.68\00:33:08.98
"Michael, is
the road still there
00:33:09.02\00:33:11.42
even though you can't see it?"
00:33:11.45\00:33:14.06
"Are those
houses still out there
00:33:14.09\00:33:16.06
even though you can't see them?"
00:33:16.09\00:33:17.89
Pause...
00:33:17.93\00:33:19.53
"Yeah, yeah, they're still there
of course, they're there... "
00:33:19.56\00:33:22.36
and He said,
00:33:22.40\00:33:23.83
"Just because it is dark as
night in your heart and mind,
00:33:23.87\00:33:27.20
doesn't mean
there's not a reality there,
00:33:27.24\00:33:30.47
I have for you... "
00:33:30.51\00:33:32.37
pause...
00:33:32.41\00:33:35.18
so I took a picture of
it... I actually... no flash,
00:33:35.24\00:33:37.45
I just took a
picture of the darkness...
00:33:37.48\00:33:39.01
I've saved that picture,
00:33:39.05\00:33:40.55
sometimes it's
inside of us... hurt...
00:33:40.58\00:33:43.59
sometimes it's... it's...
it's because of the church
00:33:43.62\00:33:47.49
and the havoc
that the the devil...
00:33:47.52\00:33:48.92
it's... it's... we don't wrestle
against flesh and blood, Beloved
00:33:48.96\00:33:52.36
it's not a president or pastor
00:33:52.39\00:33:56.50
or a segment of
our... of our church,
00:33:56.53\00:33:59.67
let's just be real...
00:33:59.73\00:34:02.14
it's not those who
are more conservative
00:34:02.17\00:34:04.11
or more progressive than you
00:34:04.14\00:34:06.27
that are causing the
problems in the church,
00:34:06.31\00:34:08.71
the devil hates the
church and he is wreaking havoc.
00:34:08.74\00:34:13.01
We wrestle not
against flesh and blood
00:34:13.05\00:34:16.99
and in your own life,
it's not your... your...
00:34:17.02\00:34:20.29
your spouse or your
children or your parents...
00:34:20.32\00:34:23.59
or a friend or
another individual
00:34:23.63\00:34:25.86
that is wreaking havoc,
00:34:25.89\00:34:28.76
the devil hates you,
00:34:28.80\00:34:31.63
pause...
00:34:31.67\00:34:34.84
but we've got an
ace, we've got the answer,
00:34:34.90\00:34:38.37
we've got the ultimate,
we've got the "Wild Card,"
00:34:38.41\00:34:42.91
our Jesus has been
resurrected and is now exalted
00:34:42.94\00:34:46.45
as our representative
to the throne of heaven,
00:34:46.51\00:34:49.95
we have the answer
00:34:49.98\00:34:53.42
so instead of
trying to fix the havoc
00:34:53.46\00:34:56.12
because the havoc
will not be fixed,
00:34:56.16\00:34:58.73
let's go to the
world, let's go to the end,
00:34:58.76\00:35:03.26
pause...
00:35:03.33\00:35:06.97
I've got a story here,
00:35:07.00\00:35:11.37
Jessica Buchanan
00:35:11.41\00:35:13.24
wrote a book, "Impossible Odds"
00:35:13.27\00:35:16.95
about her story,
00:35:16.98\00:35:18.31
if you have not
heard or read her story,
00:35:18.35\00:35:21.38
it's well worth the read.
00:35:21.42\00:35:24.05
Let me take you to
an interview she did.
00:35:24.09\00:35:29.06
She summarizes...
00:35:29.09\00:35:30.99
she... Buchanan was a
Humanitarian Aid Worker
00:35:31.03\00:35:34.16
with a Danish Organization.
00:35:34.20\00:35:37.83
She had come to help children
learn how to not step on...
00:35:37.87\00:35:42.47
on land mines in Somalia.
00:35:42.50\00:35:44.41
Pause...
00:35:44.44\00:35:46.27
It's a dangerous
place on this planet
00:35:46.31\00:35:49.14
but she went...
she went to the end...
00:35:49.18\00:35:52.01
pause...
00:35:52.05\00:35:54.35
she was there to help
children learn how to not...
00:35:54.38\00:35:57.32
not step on land mines...
00:35:57.35\00:35:58.95
pause...
00:35:58.99\00:36:02.22
but in a flash of violence,
her car was stopped by a mob
00:36:02.26\00:36:05.99
and she was kidnapped.
00:36:06.03\00:36:07.83
Her and her
partner... kidnapped...
00:36:07.86\00:36:10.37
and the kidnapper's
demanded 45 million dollars
00:36:10.40\00:36:16.10
for their release,
00:36:16.14\00:36:17.54
pause...
00:36:17.57\00:36:21.64
so CBS... she sat
down with the News
00:36:21.68\00:36:23.75
Anchor Scott Pelley,
00:36:23.78\00:36:26.28
"What did they do?"
00:36:26.31\00:36:28.72
"Where did they keep you
day in and day out?" he asked,
00:36:28.78\00:36:31.25
"Under trees... " she
said, "And outside... "
00:36:31.29\00:36:35.02
"How long... how
long were you outside?"
00:36:35.06\00:36:38.73
"How long were you
outside before you had a day in,
00:36:38.76\00:36:41.63
how long were you outside?"
00:36:41.66\00:36:43.37
"93 days... three months... "
00:36:43.40\00:36:45.43
she didn't go inside a building,
00:36:45.47\00:36:47.44
she was forced to live
out underneath a tree...
00:36:47.50\00:36:50.04
sleep in the open.
00:36:50.11\00:36:51.51
"What were nights like?"
00:36:51.57\00:36:53.07
"Long and cold...
the rainy season hit
00:36:53.14\00:36:57.25
and it would rain all
night and we were freezing,
00:36:57.28\00:37:00.42
sitting there,
wet... out in the open. "
00:37:00.45\00:37:04.45
"What were you eating?"
00:37:04.49\00:37:07.39
She said, "Once
a day... maybe...
00:37:07.42\00:37:10.46
they would give
us a little tuna fish
00:37:10.49\00:37:13.50
and a piece of bread. "
00:37:13.53\00:37:16.36
Pause...
00:37:16.40\00:37:20.77
She said... after
about three months,
00:37:20.80\00:37:22.84
she began to lose hope.
00:37:22.87\00:37:25.37
Her heart began to
just collapse within her.
00:37:25.41\00:37:30.21
No, no, no, let me
tell you the truth,
00:37:30.25\00:37:33.31
after one month,
she began to lose hope,
00:37:33.35\00:37:36.35
but for the next two months,
she would have to grind it out
00:37:36.38\00:37:41.52
day after day after day
00:37:41.56\00:37:43.69
45 million
dollars... who's that?
00:37:43.73\00:37:48.56
She's just an Aid Worker
00:37:48.60\00:37:49.93
working for a
Danish Organization,
00:37:49.96\00:37:52.03
American, yes, but...
00:37:52.07\00:37:53.84
so, Scott Pelley asked her,
00:37:53.87\00:37:56.30
"As the weeks
and months went by,
00:37:56.34\00:37:59.17
did you think that the American
Government is watching you?
00:37:59.21\00:38:02.74
Did... did you think
that they knew who you were?
00:38:02.78\00:38:05.01
Did you think anybody cared?"
00:38:05.05\00:38:07.08
"No, no... " she said,
00:38:07.12\00:38:09.38
"No, I didn't think
anybody knew who I was. "
00:38:09.42\00:38:11.82
"Why?"
00:38:11.85\00:38:13.19
"Because I was just
an Aid Worker" she said,
00:38:13.22\00:38:14.59
"I was just there on a... a
little bit of my own mission"
00:38:14.62\00:38:18.13
but after three
months in the desert,
00:38:18.16\00:38:21.03
Buchanan had a serious
urinary tract infection
00:38:21.06\00:38:25.10
and in a final call to
the Hostage Negotiator,
00:38:25.13\00:38:28.94
she said, "I've become
so ill, I can't stand up,
00:38:28.97\00:38:32.71
I can't walk, I am
in so much pain... "
00:38:32.74\00:38:36.11
and then she said,
00:38:36.14\00:38:37.48
"I think I have
a kidney infection"
00:38:37.51\00:38:39.78
and she started to cry,
00:38:39.81\00:38:41.48
"I think... I think... I'm
afraid, I'm going to die. "
00:38:41.52\00:38:46.59
Pause...
00:38:46.62\00:38:49.06
more pause...
00:38:49.09\00:38:52.49
that set in motion
as the word got back
00:38:52.53\00:38:57.70
that she's got
a kidney infection
00:38:57.73\00:39:00.20
this is serious,
00:39:00.24\00:39:01.57
that set in motion some events.
00:39:01.60\00:39:04.51
One moonless night,
00:39:04.54\00:39:07.08
she's crying out her
story into the starry night,
00:39:07.14\00:39:11.55
now, looking up and saying,
"God, God please help me,
00:39:11.58\00:39:15.98
please help me. "
00:39:16.02\00:39:18.09
She was trying to
sleep on her thin mat,
00:39:18.12\00:39:21.76
she's was
restless, she was in pain,
00:39:21.79\00:39:24.03
she was cold, she was hungry,
00:39:24.06\00:39:26.73
she couldn't sleep,
00:39:26.76\00:39:30.03
she heard a
faint scratching sound
00:39:30.07\00:39:33.57
and so did her
captors, they sat up,
00:39:33.60\00:39:37.04
the next moment,
there was a burst of gunfire
00:39:37.07\00:39:41.34
and then silence...
00:39:41.38\00:39:42.71
let me read it in
her own words to you.
00:39:42.74\00:39:46.92
"All of a sudden,
I feel hands on me,
00:39:46.95\00:39:51.22
roughly grabbing me and
I tried to protect myself,
00:39:51.25\00:39:54.62
I pulled the little
blanket closer to the top of me
00:39:54.66\00:39:57.56
and then I hear my name
but it's not in an accent,
00:39:57.59\00:40:00.96
at least not a Somali
accent, it's an American accent,
00:40:01.00\00:40:04.33
and I can't
compute, like I don't...
00:40:04.37\00:40:07.60
I can't understand that
somebody with an American accent
00:40:07.64\00:40:10.11
knows my name,
00:40:10.17\00:40:11.51
and they say, 'Jessica,
00:40:11.54\00:40:12.87
we're with the
American Military,
00:40:12.91\00:40:14.84
we're here to take
you home, you're safe. '
00:40:14.88\00:40:17.21
I pull the
blanket down from my face
00:40:17.25\00:40:20.42
and all I see
is black Americans?
00:40:20.45\00:40:22.85
'I don't
understand, you're American?
00:40:22.88\00:40:25.25
How... how did you get here?'
00:40:25.29\00:40:28.76
Pause...
00:40:28.82\00:40:31.16
They asked me
where my shoes are,
00:40:31.19\00:40:33.70
I said, 'I don't know, I
don't know where my shoes are'
00:40:33.73\00:40:35.40
So, one of them picks me up
00:40:35.46\00:40:37.13
and starts
running across the desert,
00:40:37.17\00:40:38.97
he runs for several minutes
and puts me down on the ground
00:40:39.03\00:40:41.70
I'm still asking, 'Who are you?'
00:40:41.74\00:40:43.97
I don't understand who they are
00:40:44.01\00:40:46.17
and I don't
understand what they've done.
00:40:46.21\00:40:47.54
Then they identified themselves,
00:40:47.58\00:40:50.21
'Jessica, we're Navy Seals,
00:40:50.25\00:40:52.88
we're here to take you home. '
00:40:52.91\00:40:55.42
Pause...
00:40:55.45\00:40:58.12
They have some
medicine and some water
00:40:58.15\00:41:00.06
and some food,
00:41:00.09\00:41:01.42
pause...
00:41:01.46\00:41:03.99
at one point, they
think they hear something
00:41:04.03\00:41:06.80
and so they lie down.
00:41:06.83\00:41:08.16
I don't know this group of men,
00:41:08.20\00:41:10.07
but they all lie on top of me,
00:41:10.10\00:41:12.83
risking their lives for me.
00:41:12.87\00:41:15.60
Pause...
00:41:15.64\00:41:18.67
We lay like that until suddenly
00:41:18.71\00:41:24.05
helicopters arrive and land. "
00:41:24.08\00:41:29.28
pause...
00:41:29.32\00:41:32.89
Scott Pelley, the
News Anchor asked her,
00:41:32.92\00:41:34.92
"When all those Seals
lay down on top of you,
00:41:34.96\00:41:37.73
what did you feel?"
00:41:37.79\00:41:41.13
She said, "I began to feel
00:41:41.16\00:41:43.57
like I was the most important
thing in the world to them,
00:41:43.60\00:41:46.57
it was so hard to comprehend. "
00:41:46.60\00:41:49.60
Pause...
00:41:49.64\00:41:51.97
They were so kind and gentle,
00:41:52.01\00:41:53.78
they were trying to assist me,
00:41:53.81\00:41:55.51
after the helicopters
landed, they tried to assist me,
00:41:55.54\00:41:58.01
but I'm thinking to myself,
00:41:58.05\00:41:59.41
"I've been here
for three months,
00:41:59.45\00:42:00.98
I can run myself... "
00:42:01.02\00:42:02.38
and she breaks away
00:42:02.45\00:42:03.79
and takes off
running to the helicopter,
00:42:03.82\00:42:05.55
through the scrub
and through the bush,
00:42:05.59\00:42:07.52
"I throw myself
on to the helicopter
00:42:07.56\00:42:09.66
and push myself
up against the wall
00:42:09.69\00:42:11.76
and then, I take a breath.
00:42:11.79\00:42:15.83
Pause...
00:42:15.86\00:42:18.00
Navy Seals arrive at the door,
00:42:18.03\00:42:19.87
hand me an
American Flag that's folded
00:42:19.90\00:42:21.84
and then disappear
again into the night,
00:42:21.90\00:42:23.81
to take their own exit plan.
00:42:23.84\00:42:26.31
The helicopter lifts
off and I'm headed home. "
00:42:26.34\00:42:31.01
Pause...
00:42:31.05\00:42:33.15
Did you catch that line?
00:42:33.18\00:42:35.35
Scott Pelley asked her,
00:42:35.38\00:42:37.49
"Did you think in
a million years...
00:42:37.52\00:42:39.25
did you think that the
President of the United States
00:42:39.29\00:42:42.36
knew your name?"
00:42:42.42\00:42:43.76
"No, not in a
million years," she said.
00:42:43.79\00:42:47.70
But in fact, the
President of the United States
00:42:47.76\00:42:50.03
did know her name
and ordered her rescue
00:42:50.07\00:42:53.50
pause...
00:42:53.54\00:42:56.17
and it is this morning that the
President of this United States
00:42:56.20\00:42:59.24
doesn't know my...
00:42:59.27\00:43:00.61
I don't know that any President
of any country knows my name
00:43:00.64\00:43:02.68
or yours
00:43:02.74\00:43:05.25
pause...
00:43:05.31\00:43:07.78
but the King of
the universe does...
00:43:07.82\00:43:09.15
the King of the universe does,
00:43:09.18\00:43:13.29
He knows your name...
00:43:13.36\00:43:15.19
He knows your name...
He knows where you're at...
00:43:15.22\00:43:19.36
He knows what you're hurting...
00:43:19.39\00:43:22.50
what you're struggling with,
00:43:22.53\00:43:25.57
the darkness of
the night in your life
00:43:25.60\00:43:28.37
or maybe some
hurt in the church,
00:43:28.40\00:43:31.27
the devil will
always wreak havoc
00:43:31.31\00:43:33.68
he will continue to wreak havoc
00:43:33.71\00:43:36.01
until he is finally
chained into the millennium.
00:43:36.04\00:43:40.65
He will wreak havoc...
00:43:40.68\00:43:42.32
the three operative
words, havoc... church...
00:43:42.35\00:43:45.45
scattered... to the end
00:43:45.49\00:43:48.22
pause...
00:43:48.26\00:43:51.03
so, let's go...
let's go, young and old,
00:43:51.06\00:43:54.16
let's go Beloved,
00:43:54.20\00:43:55.73
let's go GYC...
00:43:55.76\00:43:57.23
the God of the
universe knows our name,
00:43:57.27\00:44:00.14
the Commander-in-Chief...
00:44:00.17\00:44:01.87
we are precious to Him
00:44:01.90\00:44:03.51
and He will make sure
He unleashes all units
00:44:03.54\00:44:08.74
listen, Navy Seals, puuuh...
00:44:08.78\00:44:13.25
one angel took out a 100 Roman
soldiers guarded to the teeth...
00:44:13.31\00:44:18.42
armed to the teeth, rather,
00:44:18.45\00:44:20.39
guarding the tomb of Jesus,
00:44:20.42\00:44:21.76
a hundred Roman
soldiers couldn't stand to one,
00:44:21.79\00:44:25.63
and He'll empty
heaven for you so let's go
00:44:25.66\00:44:30.57
but it occurs to
me and to us, that...
00:44:30.60\00:44:35.44
that havoc that Satan
has wreaked in our hearts...
00:44:35.47\00:44:38.97
in our minds...
00:44:39.01\00:44:40.38
or in our church...
00:44:40.41\00:44:41.74
has been preventing
us... distracting us...
00:44:41.78\00:44:44.78
discombobulating us...
00:44:44.81\00:44:46.15
from what we've
been called to do,
00:44:46.18\00:44:48.65
just scattered...
to go to the end...
00:44:48.68\00:44:51.32
let's just be
transparent with each other,
00:44:51.35\00:44:54.66
some of us here are
bothered by the journey
00:44:54.69\00:44:57.96
that our community of faith...
00:44:57.99\00:44:59.79
our
denomination is in right now,
00:44:59.83\00:45:01.56
we hear of one
side or hear of another,
00:45:01.60\00:45:04.73
we hear of one
meeting or see a video.
00:45:04.77\00:45:07.50
There's an article
posted or something said
00:45:07.54\00:45:10.21
and we've become
discouraged or discombobulated.
00:45:10.24\00:45:13.31
Unless you are different than
the congregation I serve in,
00:45:13.38\00:45:16.75
that's the truth today
00:45:16.78\00:45:19.28
but maybe it's not the
church that bothers you,
00:45:19.31\00:45:21.72
if you've been able to
just... just put that off...
00:45:21.75\00:45:23.89
maybe it's something
personal in your life
00:45:23.95\00:45:25.89
a hurt... a
damaged relationship...
00:45:25.92\00:45:28.92
a pain... a loss...
00:45:28.96\00:45:30.86
maybe you've
just become distracted
00:45:30.89\00:45:33.86
an addiction...
00:45:33.90\00:45:35.23
piano...
00:45:35.26\00:45:38.27
but in your heart of heart,
you want to go to the end,
00:45:38.30\00:45:41.60
in your heart of hearts,
00:45:41.64\00:45:42.97
you want to be
scattered... you want to go...
00:45:43.00\00:45:45.91
you want to be in it
00:45:45.97\00:45:50.15
all for Jesus...
00:45:50.18\00:45:52.18
so, this morning for the appeal,
00:45:52.21\00:45:55.22
I'm going to invite
Pastors and Prayer Coordinators
00:45:55.25\00:46:00.89
and they're going to stretch
themselves out across this front
00:46:00.96\00:46:04.56
Pastors and Prayer Coordinators
00:46:04.59\00:46:07.40
that struggle and
journey just like you
00:46:07.43\00:46:10.27
but that have taken hold
00:46:10.30\00:46:12.17
of the hope that
burns within our hearts
00:46:12.20\00:46:15.57
and they're
going to stretch out...
00:46:15.60\00:46:18.04
they're going to
stretch out across this front
00:46:18.07\00:46:20.04
and here's the appeal...
00:46:20.08\00:46:21.68
let's let Jesus heal us today
00:46:21.71\00:46:25.41
and so, if you've been
distracted or discouraged
00:46:25.48\00:46:29.15
or pained by the church,
I'm sorry... we're sorry...
00:46:29.18\00:46:32.82
pause...
00:46:32.85\00:46:34.89
if havoc has been
wreaked in your life
00:46:34.92\00:46:38.59
through broken
relationships or loss,
00:46:38.63\00:46:42.30
and you need healing...
00:46:42.33\00:46:44.10
you know that you need healing
and so that you can be mobilized
00:46:44.13\00:46:47.44
this afternoon,
you're on a plane...
00:46:47.47\00:46:49.17
in a bus... in a car...
00:46:49.20\00:46:50.54
you need to go...
00:46:50.57\00:46:52.21
we will scatter across
this world this afternoon,
00:46:52.24\00:46:55.94
but before we
scatter, we must be healed
00:46:55.98\00:46:58.68
and we... we...
we need to ask Jesus,
00:46:58.71\00:47:01.32
we need to ask
Jesus, "Jesus, heal us... "
00:47:01.38\00:47:04.25
so my appeal to you
is that you would...
00:47:04.29\00:47:07.16
if... if you fit...
00:47:07.19\00:47:08.52
if one of you here today...
00:47:08.56\00:47:10.66
and we've got
about 20 of us up here,
00:47:10.73\00:47:12.66
if... if... if we only
need one of them, that's fine,
00:47:12.69\00:47:15.23
pause...
00:47:15.26\00:47:17.43
but our... our guess is that
there's a few of us here today
00:47:17.47\00:47:21.44
that need Jesus
to touch our lives,
00:47:21.47\00:47:23.14
to heal us from the distraction
00:47:23.17\00:47:26.47
in the church or
out of the church,
00:47:26.51\00:47:28.31
in our personal lives
or in the corporate...
00:47:28.34\00:47:30.01
whatever it's been...
00:47:30.05\00:47:31.38
the devil will
continue to wreak it,
00:47:31.41\00:47:32.75
but we're going to go scatter
00:47:32.78\00:47:34.12
and so, if you want Jesus...
to ask Jesus this morning,
00:47:34.15\00:47:37.99
"Would you heal
me... would you heal me?"
00:47:38.02\00:47:40.06
I would invite you to come
up here and you just stand...
00:47:40.09\00:47:42.29
we're going to go two or three
to each one of these Pastors
00:47:42.32\00:47:44.26
or Prayer Leaders...
00:47:44.29\00:47:45.86
if... if... if there's a Prayer
Leader or Pastor that's open,
00:47:45.89\00:47:48.53
you go to them,
00:47:48.56\00:47:49.90
whatever the...
the least number is...
00:47:49.93\00:47:51.83
if there are four or five
00:47:51.87\00:47:53.34
and you see one
or two, go to them,
00:47:53.37\00:47:54.70
just... and... and
Pastors and Prayer Leaders,
00:47:54.74\00:47:57.04
you're probably going to need
to stretch out... stretch out...
00:47:57.07\00:47:59.37
stretch out Prayer Leaders,
00:47:59.41\00:48:01.21
you'll probably need
to go left and right,
00:48:01.24\00:48:03.08
just a little bit more,
00:48:03.14\00:48:04.51
for you want Jesus to
take your life and let it be
00:48:04.55\00:48:08.75
and Naomi is
going to sing for us now
00:48:08.78\00:48:11.49
this invitation, "Take
My Life and Let It Be. "
00:48:11.52\00:48:15.39
We're going to...
we're not going to...
00:48:15.42\00:48:16.89
Prayer Leaders and
Pastors, we're not going to pray
00:48:16.93\00:48:18.79
until this is all
over, so you just wait...
00:48:18.83\00:48:20.60
but in the
meantime, take your groups
00:48:20.63\00:48:22.33
and stretch them
out... stretch them out...
00:48:22.36\00:48:23.93
Pastors, Prayer Leaders,
hear me... stretch out...
00:48:23.97\00:48:26.87
piano...
00:48:26.90\00:48:36.14
more piano...
00:48:36.21\00:48:41.58
Take my life,
00:48:41.62\00:48:46.99
and let it be
00:48:47.02\00:48:52.03
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;
00:48:52.06\00:48:57.43
Take my hands, and let them move
00:48:57.47\00:49:03.00
At the impulse of Thy love,
00:49:03.04\00:49:12.15
Take my ears
00:49:12.18\00:49:19.45
and let them hear
00:49:19.49\00:49:24.79
Filled with messages from Thee
00:49:24.83\00:49:30.00
Take my silver and my gold
00:49:30.03\00:49:35.47
Not a mite
00:49:35.50\00:49:39.47
would I withhold
00:49:39.51\00:49:45.71
Take my will
00:49:45.75\00:49:51.85
and make it thine,
00:49:51.89\00:49:57.06
It shall be no longer mine;
00:49:57.09\00:50:02.20
Take my heart, it is Thine own!
00:50:02.23\00:50:07.77
It shall be
00:50:07.80\00:50:12.54
Thy royal throne...
00:50:12.57\00:50:16.88
Pastor: Listen to me,
00:50:16.91\00:50:20.25
if there is one more
00:50:20.28\00:50:23.55
that needs to come
up and say, "Jesus,
00:50:23.59\00:50:27.02
I've been hurt,
00:50:27.06\00:50:29.06
the devil has
wreaked havoc in my life... "
00:50:29.12\00:50:33.50
come...
00:50:33.53\00:50:35.73
in just a few hours we
will scatter across this globe.
00:50:35.76\00:50:41.54
Pause...
00:50:41.60\00:50:44.01
Would you come and ask
Jesus to just heal you,
00:50:44.04\00:50:47.88
we can't do it,
00:50:47.91\00:50:49.31
there's nothing
that we can say...
00:50:49.34\00:50:52.55
the church we are a part of,
00:50:52.58\00:50:55.55
we hurt each other
sometimes, nobody intends to...
00:50:55.58\00:51:02.06
the devil though
will take an opportunity
00:51:02.09\00:51:05.49
and twist it and change it
00:51:05.53\00:51:06.93
and it will hurt us
00:51:06.96\00:51:08.30
and, of course, the
world is cold and dark
00:51:08.33\00:51:10.77
and it will... it
will do its own damage,
00:51:10.80\00:51:13.27
but if we're going to scatter,
we need to just come to Jesus,
00:51:13.30\00:51:18.81
He is the answer,
00:51:18.84\00:51:20.18
He is the resurrected Christ,
00:51:20.21\00:51:21.68
the One who now
is beside the throne,
00:51:21.71\00:51:25.25
so one more...
don't... don't leave...
00:51:25.28\00:51:28.85
don't leave GYC
without the moment
00:51:28.88\00:51:32.35
of coming to Jesus
and asking Him to heal you
00:51:32.42\00:51:36.42
so we can go and be scattered.
00:51:36.46\00:51:39.46
He knows your name,
00:51:39.49\00:51:41.80
He knows your hurt...
00:51:41.83\00:51:44.07
just like Jessica Buchanan...
00:51:44.10\00:51:45.90
the Commander-in-Chief
knows who you are
00:51:45.93\00:51:51.01
and He's got a team
of Navy-Seal Angels.
00:51:51.04\00:51:55.24
Even in the
darkness of your own night,
00:51:55.28\00:51:59.41
you can't see it... you
don't know where they're at,
00:51:59.45\00:52:01.42
they're coming,
00:52:01.45\00:52:02.78
so, would you come and
ask Jesus, "Please heal me,
00:52:02.82\00:52:05.42
please heal my heart
00:52:05.45\00:52:06.79
and use this pain...
personal or corporate,
00:52:06.82\00:52:10.23
private or public,
00:52:10.26\00:52:11.69
use this pain to
mobilize me... to scatter me...
00:52:11.73\00:52:14.70
Jesus, I'm in it
to the very end. "
00:52:14.73\00:52:19.50
Piano...
00:52:19.53\00:52:22.54
In just a moment, your
Prayer Leader or Pastor
00:52:22.57\00:52:25.07
is going to just
pray with your circle,
00:52:25.11\00:52:27.08
thank you for coming out,
00:52:27.11\00:52:28.44
but let's listen to this final
invitation through the song,
00:52:28.48\00:52:32.45
piano...
00:52:32.48\00:52:38.39
Take my love;
00:52:38.45\00:52:43.32
my Lord, I pour
00:52:43.36\00:52:48.30
At Thy feet its treasure store;
00:52:48.33\00:52:53.50
Take myself, and I will be,
00:52:53.54\00:52:59.01
Ever, only,
00:52:59.04\00:53:04.85
all for Thee.
00:53:04.88\00:53:11.65
Piano.
00:53:11.69\00:53:16.66
"And in those days,
00:53:16.69\00:53:18.23
I will pour out My Spirit. "
00:53:18.26\00:53:21.30
"So let it be O God,
00:53:21.33\00:53:25.17
through the havoc that the devil
is wreaking in our personal
00:53:25.20\00:53:27.87
and in our church,
00:53:27.90\00:53:29.24
that we are
mobilized to the end,
00:53:29.27\00:53:32.91
and your Spirit is poured out...
00:53:32.94\00:53:36.18
men servants
and maid servants...
00:53:36.21\00:53:39.95
amen. "
00:53:39.98\00:53:41.85