Participants: Joseph Warren, Karen Thomas
Series Code: IAA
Program Code: IAA000033
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00:29 Good day, friends, and welcome
00:31 to another edition of "Issues and Answers." 00:33 You do not want to miss this program, 00:35 especially if you are man 00:36 and especially if you know a man. 00:38 Today we have as our special guest 00:40 Dr. Joseph Warren, of Andrews University. 00:42 And I have his brochure here 00:43 that tells me a little bit about him 00:45 as well as some of the programs that he offers. 00:47 He's been married for 28 years to the lovely Cynthia Warren. 00:50 He has three beautiful children, 00:53 two of which are grown Camille Warren, 00:55 Joseph Warren, and Jerrick Warren 00:59 and they are lovely family. 01:01 He has been teaching at Andrews University in English 01:04 and he's had the opportunity to mentor 01:06 many, many young people, hundreds of young people 01:09 for the service in the Lord's work. 01:11 He has advanced degrees from Ohio State University 01:14 and a minor religion from Oakwood College 01:16 in Huntsville, Alabama. 01:17 If you were to actually go and hear Dr. Warren speak 01:21 either at the Michigan Men of Faith 01:23 or some other men's ministries groups. 01:25 You would hear him on such topics 01:27 as spiritual principles of godly manhood, 01:30 the art of having a successful mid-life crisis, 01:33 home alone helping adolescent 01:35 and many, many more. 01:37 Dr. Warren, thank you so much for coming to our program. 01:39 Thank you, Karen, for having me today. 01:40 So what are we gonna talk about today? 01:42 Let's first invite the Holy Spirit 01:44 and see what He'll say. Okay. 01:46 Holy Spirit, we lift our hands to You 01:47 to receive Your anointing and your power. 01:49 May the words of our mouth, and the meditations of our heart 01:53 based upon thy sight, O Lord, we pray, amen. Amen. 01:56 Let's talk about receive ye the Holy Spirit as disciple. 02:00 All right. God needs some disciples. 02:04 And I like the definition from the Old Testament 02:06 for the word disciple. 02:08 It comes from a strange text. Isaiah 54:13. 02:11 "All thy children shall be taught of the Lord 02:13 and great shall be the peace of thy children." 02:15 That word is actually translated in Old Testament, disciple. 02:19 So every man needs to be taught of Christ, 02:23 how to be like Christ. 02:25 There is no other model. 02:26 There is no certain instructions. 02:28 You can only learn to be His disciple 02:30 by learning from Him directly and I like that. 02:33 And by the way, while we're here, 02:35 those men who are His disciples 02:38 have heard the same voice and they know the same voice. 02:42 Which means they bring unity in his body disciples. 02:45 Read for us Luke 10. Okay. 02:49 16 to 24, as you see Christ deal with His disciples. 02:53 I like this text because in this text 02:55 Christ Himself got little happy 02:57 and I enjoy that text, go ahead, Karen. 02:59 "He that heareth you heareth me, 03:01 and he that despiseth you despiseth me, 03:04 and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. 03:09 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, 03:12 even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 03:15 And he said unto them, 03:16 I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 03:19 Behold, I give unto you 03:22 power to tread on serpents and scorpions, 03:24 and over all the power of the enemy: 03:26 and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 03:30 Not withstanding in this rejoice 03:31 not that the spirits are subject unto you, 03:34 but rather rejoice, 03:36 because your names are written in heaven. 03:38 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, 03:41 and said, I thank thee, 03:43 O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, 03:45 that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, 03:49 and hast revealed them unto babes, even so, 03:52 Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. 03:55 All things are delivered to me of my Father, 03:58 and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father, 04:01 and who the Father is, but the Son, 04:04 and he to whom the Son will reveal him. 04:08 And he turned him unto his disciples, 04:10 and said privately, Blessed are the eyes 04:13 which see the things that ye see." Amen. 04:16 Karen, the point I love about that text first and foremost 04:20 is here we see Christ given the disciples 04:23 an example of hilarious praise and worship. 04:27 Luke 10:21, some folks has said, 04:29 that means that Christ actually dance, 04:31 well, I don't know about all that. 04:32 But we know Christ got happy. He got full of joy. 04:37 He may have flown His hands up, I don't know. 04:39 But I pick the text as my model that as His disciple 04:43 one central part of my obedience is joyful worship. 04:48 Now, often times in church I can't do what I do at home, 04:51 that there's the private worship and public worship. 04:53 But at home I really want to be joyful as His disciple. 04:57 Seeing not that I have power His name as the text says, 05:01 but that my name is written in the book, 05:03 that is that I'm becoming more and more like Him. 05:06 It is very healthy for Christians to celebrate 05:10 their success in Christ by being more like Christ. 05:13 They once say that I'm "Holier-than-thou." 05:16 That's a bad, bad word. Well, I'm not so sure. 05:19 I am very thankful to God that I'm holier 05:22 in His presence now than I used to be. 05:25 But the victories He has given me 05:27 overtime over years. Amen. 05:29 So I like that text. 05:30 That Christ told them don't be excited 05:32 because you can command devils and demons of all there is. 05:35 But that you've gone out and you have done the work 05:38 that I asked you to do and the reward is, 05:40 your name is in My book where you and I now 05:44 share the same character, the same attributes, 05:48 the same gifts, the same talents, 05:50 everything that is in Christ comes to His disciples. 05:53 Therefore, I like to say that my definition of discipleship is 05:57 I am a power outlet for omnipotence. 06:01 A power outlet for omnipotence. 06:04 All over this room, there're outlets 06:07 and they are connected to a source. 06:09 God wants me fully connected to Him. 06:12 So that His power flows through me unabashed 06:16 and I can do whatever Christ did 06:18 in even larger numbers or even greater amounts. 06:20 Greater things shall you do in my name. 06:23 So that text deals with that. 06:25 Now it also deals with the concept 06:27 that these disciples must be in agreement. 06:30 This is very, very important to body of Christ. 06:33 We have different gifts and different talents 06:35 or abilities, but one spirit. That's critical. 06:39 Christ does not have a different school of discipleship. 06:44 We all must go through the exact same school, 06:47 through the exact same voice 06:49 and do our individual assignments 06:52 under the exact same anointing, 06:54 the exact same power, the exact same spirit. 06:58 So I really like that text. 07:00 I really enjoy the fact that Christ rejoiced. Yes. 07:04 That what He had been doing. I now can do. 07:09 Let me say this also that, I get little discouraged 07:13 with Christianity where there is no power. 07:18 I mean, I'm really getting little weary of that now. 07:21 When someone comes to a Christian disciple, a man, 07:25 and say, "look, you know, I'm dying of cancer. 07:29 There should be some power there, 07:31 if not to heal the cancer, 07:33 at least to give the person peace. 07:35 Yes. Yeah. 07:37 See, if a person is suffering through marital problem, 07:41 we should have the power to bring reconciliation 07:44 if they have a mind to do so. 07:46 Pastors, my heart just broken from the name of pastors, 07:50 who labor, and labor, and labor, 07:53 but who ministers to the pastors? 07:56 Disciple support one another, 07:58 they help one another, they encourage one another, 08:00 they bless one another. 08:02 And that's very, very important in disciple 08:04 So, man as disciple. 08:06 That is being an outlet for omnipotence through Christ 08:10 to serve the world at this time. 08:12 So I like that concept a whole lot. 08:14 I'm very strong on that. 08:15 Now, man need power to be a man. 08:19 But is where the power comes from that's the issue. Okay. 08:23 And Christ says, I'm gonna give it to you. 08:26 You can't buy it. You can't theologize it. 08:31 Yes. You can't make up in it. 08:33 You got to ask for it. 08:35 And Christ power can only come into me 08:38 when I've relinquished all of my power, I have none. 08:42 The text says, I am poor and I am needed. 08:46 Then Christ gets serious 08:47 about being our helper in our sufficiency. Yes. 08:50 And His power always comes, you know, 08:52 beyond whatever you could ask or think. Amen. 08:55 He always does more than we can imagine. 08:58 I like to think about the first power, a man, 09:00 a disciple has is the power of speech. 09:03 Oh, yeah, yeah. 09:05 Speech? Yeah, yeah. 09:07 In situation it is the man's responsibility to speak first. 09:12 Here's the example Genesis 1:1. 09:14 And God said, "Let there be light." 09:17 That same light, Karen, 09:19 is continuing to expand the universe 09:22 at the speed of 186,000 miles per second. 09:27 The big bang they talk about. Well, it never stops. 09:32 God said, let there be fish and bird, fish and fowl. 09:35 We've still not discovered new species, 09:38 we have never even imagined. 09:40 Now given to every disciple of Christ has same power. 09:43 And the man had it first. 09:45 Adam spoke and named all the animals 09:46 and the names still stand. 09:48 He called her Eve, mother of all living. 09:50 So as His disciple, my first duty 09:53 is to open my mouth and speak on His behalf. 09:56 I call those things that be not as if they were, 10:00 just like Christ did. 10:02 Christ is walking on the water. 10:03 I love that story. What you folks afraid of? 10:07 All power is in me. Yes. 10:09 The text that goes along with it and He says, 10:10 I saw Satan falling like light from heaven. 10:13 Satan has no power. This is very interesting now. 10:16 Satan has no power in the earth realm, 10:19 except he derive it from one of Christ's disciples. 10:23 For example-- Tell us about that one. 10:25 In a board meeting, unless a member 10:28 of the board meeting allow Satan into the meeting, 10:31 he can't get in, in this ministry, 3ABN. 10:35 Unless a human being comes with a wrong spirit, 10:38 Satan can't enter. Hmm. 10:40 He can only have position and power 10:42 when someone lets him in. 10:44 And that's why Christ said, 10:46 "Make disciples in My name everywhere." 10:48 In other words the Bible says, 10:49 "Give no place to Satan." 10:53 So as a disciple we do God's work 10:55 and Christ said this very famous lines, 10:57 Satan has none of me. 10:59 None of me and I want Satan to have none of you. 11:02 That's where power comes from the Christ rejoice 11:05 that they went about doing His work in His name, 11:07 not for the-- show of the power 11:09 but for the show of obedience, see. 11:12 Power and obedience go hand in hand. 11:15 I'm learning now as I grow more in grace 11:18 that God can use me significantly larger 11:21 as I obey in much smaller issues. 11:26 Tell me more about that. Yes. 11:28 Running around and not smoking 11:30 and not drinking, you know, 11:32 for me as a Seventh-day Adventist is not a issue. 11:34 Not even a concern at all. 11:36 I mean, that's just not for my lifestyle. 11:38 Being kind to people. 11:41 Being patient with my wife. Be in love with my children. 11:45 Being compassionate with my students. 11:47 With small foxes that's where the power comes from. 11:51 Being able at an instance notice to be available to Christ 11:56 to do what He wants me to do, 11:59 that's where the real power comes in. 12:01 That reminds me the story of the rich young ruler. Yes. 12:03 He said he had kept all the commandments of God 12:07 but it seems like this very principle 12:08 that you're talking about 12:10 is what Jesus was sharing with him. 12:11 It's the small things. 12:13 Sell all you have come and follow me. 12:15 He want him to be available. Yes. 12:17 Now remember as you grow into disciple, 12:20 God-- God the Father, 12:23 God the Son and God the Holy Spirit 12:25 only have one point of conversation, that's all. 12:29 It's you and me. 12:31 Remember now, everything else in the universe obeys. 12:34 He's doing just fine. 12:35 I mean, he's working wonderfully, okay? 12:39 When God the Father, God the son and-- 12:40 That's a very good point. Yeah. 12:42 When they get together to discuss, 12:44 they're talking about us. Okay. 12:46 That should make us feel really humble. 12:48 Well, that's what Satan is-- no that's a close issue now. 12:51 He cannot be saved. We already fixed that. 12:53 And he wants so desperately for us to have the power 13:00 that the three of them have in us, 13:02 that's why we are the tabernacle, 13:04 we are the sanctuary. 13:05 No ye not that you're the temple of Holy God, okay. 13:08 He wants the resident power. 13:10 The text in the Bible says that Satan seeks whom he may devour. 13:14 That's a very good text. 13:16 Because it means that Satan can't devour everybody. 13:20 Very simply. Okay. 13:22 In West Frankfort, Illinois, this morning, 13:23 he looked over the landscape. 13:25 Home after home, where there is no prayer, 13:28 where there is no commitment, 13:30 where there is no godly leadership, whatever. 13:32 He said, I can have that home. 13:33 Some homes he just pass and by 13:35 like the blurb across the doorpost. 13:38 There's nothing you can do there. 13:40 There's too much power. 13:41 He knows in that home there are some disciples. 13:43 Am I gonna bother them, see? 13:45 And remember Peter in the prison 13:49 and they're singing the prison tears up. 13:51 God wants us to be able to exercise that power. 13:55 Now, turn to Galatians 5:22. Okay. 13:57 I want to give you the secret to that power. 13:59 Because I'm so like a power freak myself, 14:02 I like power. 14:03 But that's not good enough. God wants it done a certain way. 14:06 Galatians 5:22 and couple of verses pass 14:08 and read that famous passage. 14:10 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, 14:13 longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, 14:18 temperance, against such there is no law." 14:20 Absolutely. Before you get the gifts of the sprit, 14:25 that's the power, you must have 14:27 the presence of the spirit dwell in those things. 14:29 Read them again, so we'll get them clear. 14:32 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, 14:38 longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, 14:46 temperance, against such there is no law. 14:50 And they that are Christ's 14:51 have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts." 14:55 Karen, those are the fruits of relationship. 14:59 How can you love God whom you have never seen? 15:03 And you cannot even relate to person you live with. 15:06 Now I didn't like that text when I first read it. 15:09 Because I want to have all this joy 15:10 and his love and peace toward God. 15:12 Oh, I love Him and I'm compassionate to God. 15:15 God doesn't need my compassion. 15:17 God doesn't need my kindness. 15:19 God doesn't need my long suffering. 15:22 That's what I'm to give to you, to one another. 15:26 And that's-- now I understand 15:27 how the gifts of the spirit works, 15:29 pastors, evangelists, teacher, all those gifts of healing. 15:34 Those are secondary for disciples 15:36 until they shall know that you are my disciples 15:40 because you love one another, there it is. 15:46 So as a man I need to be totally submerged 15:50 in these fruits of the spirits. 15:53 Now, Karen, I can fake the gifts. 15:57 Fake the gifts? Yes, I can fake healings. 16:00 I can fake anointings. I can fake administrations. 16:03 I can fake preaching. I can fake teaching. 16:06 I can fake those. 16:07 I can get up and put on a show anywhere anytime 16:10 and folks maybe impressed, but God does not. 16:13 Is after I finished preaching, hmm? 16:16 And I'm driving out in the parking lot 16:19 and somebody crosses my path or somebody blocks me in 16:23 or my wife is very tired, wants to go and eat, 16:27 then we get to real discipleship, see. 16:30 There are churches all over the place who have-- 16:32 they have healing services and all-- 16:34 I'm not impressed. 16:35 I'm more impressed when how that pastor treats his children. 16:40 Where are his children, you'll see. 16:43 So we must first have the fruits of the spirit, 16:47 love, patience, kindness. 16:50 Now, once that's in position, 16:52 you now have the responsibility in Christ to do what Christ did. 16:57 First you don't use the gifts for yourself. 17:00 The disciples did not think 17:01 how they would benefit themselves at Pentecost. 17:04 They thought how they could bless others. 17:06 So any gift you have is never for you. 17:08 And I tell you, any gift you have is not for you, okay. 17:12 For example, the gift of miracles. 17:15 That's a wonderful gift. Sure. 17:16 Only if you're able to use it 17:20 under the unction of the Holy Spirit. 17:21 How about the gift of tongues? 17:23 Oh, I know, among Adventism that's a tough hard work, 17:27 but here's the first tongue, the tongue of silence. 17:31 Some type of Holy Spirit teaches keep your mouth close. 17:34 Don't say a word back. What a marvelous tongue. 17:37 How many marriages would be strengthened? 17:38 How many families healed if the man, 17:42 just a man would get up every morning and say, 17:44 family, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, 17:47 I bless all of you? 17:49 Let's have the good day in Jesus name. 17:51 Rather than where are my socks, 17:53 where is my shirt, where is the breakfast, 17:55 I am so sick of you. 17:56 Speak in a new tongue, just a tongue of kindness, 17:59 a tongue of sweetness, a tongue of joy, 18:02 a tongue of celebration. 18:03 So that the tongues as a gift of the Holy Spirit 18:06 are not as important as the tongue of blessing. Yes. 18:10 And see that the Holy Spirit-- 18:11 And the miracles that may be as part of healing 18:14 or for some people who do magic. 18:16 That, that miracle, I mean, 18:17 that's a corrupted gift there. 18:19 Always, yeah. It's always for someone else. 18:22 Now keep in mind that as a disciple 18:27 you serve your commander at will. 18:30 This was hard for me to do. 18:33 One day I was anointing 18:34 and I pray for the people and they got healed. 18:37 So okay now, I got the gift of healing, 18:39 let me start my healing ministry. 18:41 I don't think so, didn't happen that way. 18:44 Another person had a financial problem. 18:46 I prayed for them who claim tax and God reversed them-- 18:49 that's okay I got a financial ministry 18:53 and no, I didn't think so, okay. 18:55 Then I'm working on racial reconciliation 18:57 and I made some progress there and I said, okay Lord, 19:00 I'll be a racial reconciliator, he said, no, I don't think so. 19:03 I had to realize that as a man, as a disciple, 19:07 I am available at will to be used 19:12 and here's the hard part, Karen, or not be used. 19:15 That's the hard part. 19:17 And who makes that choice? The Holy Spirit. 19:20 So then we can't really volunteer and say, 19:22 "I think I need to be able to do this here." 19:24 It's really a calling? You can say, I'm willing. 19:27 Can you prepare yourself, maybe? 19:28 Oh, yeah, through prayer, meditation, and obedience. 19:32 Being obedient-- which will be truth 19:35 'cause God never gives His gifts to wickedness, 19:38 that's Satan work, okay. 19:39 So to have a life of obedience is critical. 19:42 But to say today well, I feel about-- 19:45 I may go to hospital and heal six people. 19:47 No, no, or it amazes me. 19:51 A certain pastor will say, 19:53 we're having a healing crusade at Anaheim, California, 19:56 on January, 12, 13 and 14, come and be healed. 20:00 Well, when do we begin to order the Holy Spirit around? 20:05 For He always shows up suddenly, okay, at Pentecost. 20:09 As they were praying and confessing 20:11 and repenting and making amends when they least expect. 20:15 So the Holy Spirit doesn't work for us that way, we-- 20:18 We can be booked? No, we can't be booked. 20:20 He can't be ordered. He can't be told what to do. 20:23 We have to be as a disciple be ready 20:25 in an instant being ready through obedience. 20:30 Each day, Father, give me Your presence, 20:32 give me Your power to be obedient to that 20:36 which I know to be truth. 20:38 Something I didn't like about the Holy Sprit 20:41 because I want to be selectively obedient. 20:46 Yeah. Hey, you are very honest. 20:48 I want to obey this but I don't want to obey this. 20:52 Lord, I-- this is part of my culture. 20:54 Okay, Lord, now I was born this way. 20:57 Oh, yeah, we think sometimes higher into that little bit, 20:58 born that way, genetic propensities. 21:01 We have no control over ourselves. 21:03 Lord--you know, if I like this kind of person, 21:07 I lose my ethnic identity and all of that sort of nonsense. 21:11 Holy Sprit doesn't work that way. 21:14 He does not negotiate assignments. 21:18 He does not negotiate anointing. He does not negotiate obedience. 21:23 I think Jonah taught us that, okay? 21:26 When God gives an order, He does not repent, 21:30 He does not recant, He does not change His mind 21:34 and He does not deny Himself. 21:37 If God's gonna give you an order 21:39 and then change His mind, He's not God. 21:41 So they can give every power to bring you up to obedience. 21:45 That's what Christ is all about. 21:47 So as a man I'm a disciple. 21:49 That is, I'm an outlet for omnipotent power. 21:53 Some months ago I was walking across campus. 21:55 A pastor said, "Joseph, I'm going blind with one eye." 21:59 We prayed, he can now see. Praise the Lord. 22:03 A week or two ago, Sunday. 22:06 I'm outside getting my newspaper, 22:07 walks by a pastor, 22:09 a pastor whose wife has left him, okay. 22:13 Sunday morning, I'm in my shorts and my t-shirt 22:15 in the street getting my newspaper. 22:17 We stop right there in the street 22:19 and we claimed the power of his marriage being healed. 22:23 That's what I mean my discipleship. 22:26 Be ye instant in season and out of season, 22:29 at a moment's notice you're on call to be obedient 22:34 to what God ask you to do. 22:35 Amen. So I like that part. 22:37 That's what Christ is happy about. 22:39 Now, sad to say. 22:42 Only His disciples could see His face in glory. 22:47 That's our job, Karen. 22:49 To go into the world through 3ABN 22:51 and other ministries to help people 22:54 that understand that you're gonna 22:56 have to be like Him to be with Him. 22:59 To be like Him to be with Him. 23:01 That's critical, it only works that way. 23:04 Now, turn over to John 15. 23:05 You're in John 15. Okay. 23:09 And read a couple of verses about that vine. 23:12 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 23:15 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away, 23:19 and every branch that beareth fruit, 23:22 he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." 23:26 There you go. Thank you, Karen. I love this passage. 23:29 Our Pastor Dwight Nelson spoke about it some months ago. 23:32 But when I'm briefing this passage 23:34 for all disciples is, whatever is in the branch, 23:37 in the vine, is in the branch. 23:39 The sap, the juice, the power, is identical. 23:44 That concept is profound with me. 23:46 If you part of the vine, Christ, 23:50 you have the exact same character traits, 23:53 the exact same kinds of language, 23:56 the exact same kinds of obedience, 23:58 the exact same kind of conduct, 24:00 the exact time of use of your leisure time. 24:04 You become holy as He is holy. Whatever is in the vine, okay? 24:10 Whatever is in the vine goes to the branches 24:13 and that creates the fruit. 24:15 That's the reproduction in the life. 24:17 So whatever we don't have 24:18 we can have access to it. Precisely. 24:20 But you can only have access to that. 24:23 The vines do not have their own sap. 24:27 That's true. I mean the branches. 24:29 Right. They get it from the vine. 24:30 Right. Okay? 24:32 And you cannot have 24:33 one form of godless over here, another over here. 24:35 See, so as a male as a man, I must be radically soared up 24:42 tied up, locked up, bound up, 24:44 hooked up with the Lord Jesus Christ, 24:47 for only through His power can I be His disciple to do. 24:51 We say all the times to I want to get 24:54 the Holy Spirit, that never happens. 24:58 You never get the Holy Spirit. 25:00 The Holy Spirit gets to you. He controls you. 25:05 He brings you into obedience. 25:07 You don't command the Holy Spirit. 25:09 The Holy Spirit commands you. 25:11 And the Holy Spirit will only command you 25:15 to be exactly like the Lord Jesus Christ. 25:18 There is no other assignment to be-- 25:21 expect to be exactly like our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 25:25 That's it. That's how it works. 25:27 All man should be disciples for the Lord Jesus Christ, 25:30 by the power of the Holy Spirit. 25:32 And we can do that by learning more about Jesus? Yes. 25:37 What are some practical steps, 25:38 I mean, before you're at the zenith 25:40 now in your Christian experience? 25:43 What were some other steps come in there? 25:46 Obedience, I'm sorry. Obedience? 25:48 Okay, so for any man and woman watching this program, 25:50 just find out what God wants you to do and obey. 25:54 Small things. And we'll get the Holy Spirit? 25:56 More and more. Okay, so-- 25:57 Grace to grace. Obedience, Christ suffered obedience. 26:02 He learned through obedience. 26:04 Everything in the universe, Karen, obeys except us. 26:09 Everything else obeys, everything, except us. 26:13 The Holy Spirit was sent to bring us to obedience. 26:16 Well, thank you so much for this wonderful program 26:19 that we had today with you. 26:20 And I would like to share information with our viewers 26:23 and how they can reach you, Dr. Warren. 26:25 You can reach Dr. Warren 26:27 and Cynthia Warren, his lovely wife. 26:29 Spring Home Ministries, 508 North Bluff Street, 26:33 Berrien Springs, Michigan, 49104. 26:37 The telephone number is 616-471-3168. 26:42 And you can also contact him by e-mail 26:46 at warren@andres.edu 26:49 That is warren@andrews.edu. 26:55 Will you offer prayer for us please as we close our program. 26:58 Father, we need You to make us like Lord Jesus Christ. 27:01 We accept His blood as the covering for our sins. 27:05 Make us whole we pray you Lord, amen. Amen. 27:08 Thank you again for coming to our program. 27:09 Thank you, Karen, it's good to be here. 27:11 And thank you for those of you 27:12 who are watching at home for joining us 27:13 in another edition of "Issues and Answers." 27:15 Isn't it wonderful? 27:17 That it's so simple to receive the Holy Spirit. 27:20 We do not have to go through a long, long process. 27:24 All we have to do is just ask the Lord 27:26 to help us to be obedient to His will 27:29 and He gives us the comforter automatically. 27:32 I mean, what more could we ask for? 27:34 We could be connected to the vine. 27:37 The Jesus Himself, even though He's not here 27:41 with us on this earth, He has given us 27:43 the comforter through the Holy Spirit. 27:46 We can have be disciples of Jesus. 27:48 We could go and make disciples 27:50 if we would just receive Him in our hearts today. 27:53 Let's do that. 27:54 And until next time, may God bless you, 27:57 as you continue to serve Him in your life everyday. |
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