We're an anchor for those 00:00:47.72\00:00:50.93 who are hurting 00:00:50.96\00:00:54.42 We're a harbor for those 00:00:54.45\00:00:57.63 who are lost 00:00:57.66\00:01:00.86 Sometimes it's not always easy 00:01:00.89\00:01:07.22 bearing Calvary's cross 00:01:07.25\00:01:13.68 We've been ridiculed by those 00:01:13.71\00:01:17.32 who don't know Him 00:01:17.35\00:01:20.43 And mocked 00:01:20.46\00:01:22.05 by those who don't believe 00:01:22.08\00:01:26.75 Still I love standing up 00:01:26.78\00:01:29.89 for my Jesus 00:01:29.92\00:01:33.24 Cause of all that He's done for me 00:01:33.27\00:01:39.39 That's why I am not ashamed of the Gospel 00:01:39.42\00:01:46.17 The Gospel of Jesus Christ 00:01:46.20\00:01:52.82 I am not afraid to be counted 00:01:52.85\00:01:59.54 But I'm willing to give my life 00:01:59.57\00:02:05.30 See I'm ready to be 00:02:05.33\00:02:08.78 all He wants me to be 00:02:08.81\00:02:13.55 Give up the wrong for the right 00:02:13.58\00:02:18.60 No I am not ashamed of the Gospel 00:02:18.63\00:02:24.85 No I am not ashamed 00:02:24.88\00:02:28.53 of the Gospel of Jesus Christ 00:02:28.56\00:02:36.53 For every moment His hand 00:02:44.87\00:02:48.30 has held mercy 00:02:48.33\00:02:51.40 For all the love that's He's show 00:02:51.43\00:02:54.94 on my life 00:02:54.97\00:02:57.85 A simple thanks doesn't say what I'm feeling 00:02:57.88\00:03:03.92 Now I get tears in my eyes 00:03:03.95\00:03:10.98 So, as for me, I'm gonna keep on believing 00:03:11.01\00:03:17.72 In the one who's been so faithful to me 00:03:17.75\00:03:24.22 I'm not out to please this 00:03:24.25\00:03:26.78 whole world around me 00:03:26.81\00:03:29.99 I've got my mind on eternity 00:03:30.02\00:03:36.81 That's why I am not ashamed of the Gospel 00:03:36.84\00:03:44.11 The Gospel of Jesus Christ 00:03:44.14\00:03:49.95 No I am not afraid to be counted 00:03:49.98\00:03:56.97 But willing to give my life 00:03:57.00\00:04:02.81 See I'm ready to be 00:04:02.84\00:04:06.24 all He wants me to be 00:04:06.27\00:04:10.71 Give up the wrong for the right 00:04:10.74\00:04:16.16 No I am not ashamed of the Gospel 00:04:16.19\00:04:22.07 No I am not ashamed 00:04:22.10\00:04:26.27 of the Gospel of Jesus Christ 00:04:26.30\00:04:33.72 No I am not ashamed of the Gospel 00:04:41.95\00:04:48.75 No I am not ashamed of the Gospel 00:04:48.78\00:04:54.26 I've got too much behind me 00:04:54.29\00:04:59.04 to let this world blind me 00:04:59.07\00:05:02.26 To some He's a name, 00:05:02.29\00:05:05.24 but to me He's my everything 00:05:05.27\00:05:09.83 I am not ashamed of the Gospel 00:05:09.86\00:05:14.51 No, I am not ashamed of the Gospel 00:05:14.54\00:05:20.88 of Jesus Christ 00:05:20.91\00:05:26.20 Of Jesus Christ 00:05:32.14\00:05:40.14 You know, it's like Elder Bob Parker once said, 00:05:54.55\00:05:57.34 we--you know we can miss the mark by 18 inches 00:05:57.37\00:06:01.50 as preachers and evangelist and that is the, 00:06:01.53\00:06:04.59 this is between the mind and the heart 00:06:04.62\00:06:08.53 and both need to be engaged, don't they? 00:06:08.56\00:06:11.57 And as we talked about last night 00:06:11.60\00:06:13.10 we certainly have a message that is intellectually sound 00:06:13.13\00:06:16.62 and you know for those of us 00:06:16.65\00:06:18.13 who are particularly intellectual, 00:06:18.16\00:06:19.54 you know, orientation, 00:06:19.57\00:06:20.92 you know, we just love the intellectual part 00:06:20.95\00:06:22.84 of the message and it is a beautiful thing. 00:06:22.87\00:06:25.97 But the heart must be engaged as well 00:06:26.00\00:06:28.80 and that is the power of the union 00:06:28.83\00:06:31.32 between the spoken word 00:06:31.35\00:06:33.19 and the power of the gospel in music. 00:06:33.22\00:06:36.04 And I-- you know there are just new answers that 00:06:36.07\00:06:39.20 or expressed in song that the spoken word 00:06:39.23\00:06:42.08 just can quite reach. 00:06:42.11\00:06:44.50 Have you noticed that? 00:06:44.53\00:06:46.59 So anyway-- so we're talking about loving the Jesus, 00:06:46.62\00:06:50.36 talking about not being ashamed that the gospel, 00:06:50.39\00:06:53.36 well, we love the Lord Jesus Christ, 00:06:53.39\00:06:55.32 we will love His appearing. 00:06:55.35\00:06:58.61 We will look forward with great anticipation 00:06:58.64\00:07:01.57 to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:07:01.60\00:07:04.18 And as we began sharing last night 00:07:04.21\00:07:06.05 you know, that is the beauty of the biblical message. 00:07:06.08\00:07:09.41 It is a message that is founded in the gospel 00:07:09.44\00:07:11.85 and then essential part of the gospel, is prophecy. 00:07:11.88\00:07:16.37 It's not the gospel or prophecy 00:07:16.40\00:07:18.98 there are part and parts of the same, 00:07:19.01\00:07:21.99 for what Jesus did at the cross of Calvary, 00:07:22.02\00:07:24.06 place out over time. 00:07:24.09\00:07:26.45 As I shared last night it means two fundamentals things 00:07:26.48\00:07:29.65 what Jesus did at Calvary means, 00:07:29.68\00:07:31.19 there is an end coming to the horrible mess 00:07:31.22\00:07:34.00 that we are in because of sin. 00:07:34.03\00:07:35.99 All the suffering and pain and the death is going on and-- 00:07:36.02\00:07:40.21 and He give a moment 00:07:40.24\00:07:41.60 it's coming to an end my friend, that is actually good news. 00:07:41.63\00:07:45.73 And then we have this wonderful future 00:07:45.76\00:07:48.81 that God has planned for us in that new heaven 00:07:48.84\00:07:51.67 and new earth that we just touched on last night. 00:07:51.70\00:07:53.59 We are gonna get into much more details 00:07:53.62\00:07:55.33 about those things but anyway it's-- 00:07:55.36\00:07:57.89 it's a wonderful thing if we understand it 00:07:57.92\00:08:00.13 in his it's proper-- proper context. 00:08:00.16\00:08:02.25 Take your Bibles and turn with me 00:08:02.28\00:08:03.53 the 2 Peter Chapter 3, 00:08:03.56\00:08:06.92 2 Peter 3 and beginning with verse-- 00:08:06.95\00:08:10.15 we'll be looking at verses 3 and 4 to begin with, 00:08:10.18\00:08:14.37 the subject is entitled 00:08:14.40\00:08:15.86 "Where is the promise of His coming." 00:08:15.89\00:08:18.67 Where is the promise of His coming, 00:08:18.70\00:08:20.04 2 Peter 3 and beginning with verse 3, 00:08:20.07\00:08:23.08 where it's says, well, I'm in 1 John, 00:08:23.11\00:08:26.31 so let me move over to the next page, 00:08:26.34\00:08:27.89 where it's says, "No this first of all 00:08:27.92\00:08:30.54 that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, 00:08:30.57\00:08:36.45 following after their own lusts." 00:08:36.48\00:08:38.88 You notice what their agenda is all about, 00:08:38.91\00:08:41.81 just pleasing themselves doing their own thing. 00:08:41.84\00:08:44.82 And they will be saying verse 4, 00:08:44.85\00:08:46.41 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming?" 00:08:46.44\00:08:49.27 where is it? 00:08:49.30\00:08:50.43 "For ever since the fathers fell asleep, 00:08:50.46\00:08:52.57 all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." 00:08:52.60\00:08:58.76 And something they think about isn't it? 00:08:58.79\00:09:00.91 You know, since the very beginnings 00:09:00.94\00:09:02.33 of the advent movement we have been declaring 00:09:02.36\00:09:06.28 the eminent return of Jesus Christ, 00:09:06.31\00:09:09.26 the eminent return of Jesus. 00:09:09.29\00:09:11.23 The very foundations of this moment 00:09:11.26\00:09:13.44 the advent moment are founded on the belief 00:09:13.47\00:09:16.33 that we are living in the last days, 00:09:16.36\00:09:18.51 the closing hours of earth's history. 00:09:18.54\00:09:21.39 And we have been proclaiming this message 00:09:21.42\00:09:23.71 for over one hundred and sixty years 00:09:23.74\00:09:26.71 from our very subjected human perspective. 00:09:26.74\00:09:29.46 That seems like a very longtime, doesn't it? 00:09:29.49\00:09:32.50 We've been proclaiming it for again a longtime. 00:09:32.53\00:09:36.25 But not only are there-- 00:09:36.28\00:09:38.96 are there those outside of the church scoffing 00:09:38.99\00:09:41.84 at the idea of the coming of Jesus the promise of it. 00:09:41.87\00:09:45.69 But they are those even within the church 00:09:45.72\00:09:47.46 that are asking the question, where is it? 00:09:47.49\00:09:49.67 Is it really gonna happen, 00:09:49.70\00:09:50.75 we've been preaching this so long? 00:09:50.78\00:09:52.88 Well it ever happen? 00:09:52.91\00:09:54.81 Well, I'm gonna take you back in time, 00:09:54.84\00:09:56.43 you know, it's interesting 00:09:56.46\00:09:57.50 as you look at our movement historically, 00:09:57.53\00:10:00.70 there's some parts that-- but I remember J.F. Kennedy, 00:10:00.73\00:10:04.06 how many of you remember J.F. Kennedy 00:10:04.09\00:10:05.95 when he began the run for president of the United States. 00:10:05.98\00:10:09.56 And I remember-- I remember some of the things 00:10:09.59\00:10:12.09 that were being said in the church 00:10:12.12\00:10:13.45 at that period of time, 00:10:13.48\00:10:14.51 do some of you that go back remember 00:10:14.54\00:10:16.72 what they were saying, First Roman Catholic President. 00:10:16.75\00:10:19.96 Oh, we know prophecy is got to be fulfilled, 00:10:19.99\00:10:22.34 we know the end has to be right upon us, right? 00:10:22.37\00:10:27.28 And then right on heals of that I-- 00:10:27.31\00:10:29.54 I remember some talking about 1964. 00:10:29.57\00:10:32.39 Do you know 1964? 00:10:32.42\00:10:33.82 At least for some it was a very important year. 00:10:33.85\00:10:37.36 Because it marked a 120 years since 1844, 120 years 00:10:37.39\00:10:41.98 and I remember the text being quoted from Matthew 24, 00:10:42.01\00:10:45.02 where Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah 00:10:45.05\00:10:48.02 so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." 00:10:48.05\00:10:51.42 And since Noah preached his message for 120 years 00:10:51.45\00:10:54.55 and then the end took place. 00:10:54.58\00:10:56.45 You've got kidding now Roman Catholic president 00:10:56.48\00:10:58.37 and then you've got-- 00:10:58.40\00:11:01.13 a 120 years we've been proclaiming it. 00:11:01.16\00:11:03.70 You know, this kind of stuff goes on, it goes on. 00:11:03.73\00:11:08.28 Then there are those, those who talk about the fact 00:11:08.31\00:11:12.64 we are on the verge of the 7th Millennium. 00:11:12.67\00:11:17.92 In fact, I've heard somebody put a date to it, 00:11:17.95\00:11:19.83 it's just a few years from that. 00:11:19.86\00:11:21.15 Did you know that? 00:11:21.18\00:11:22.57 All these dates I mean I wish people will get the-- 00:11:22.60\00:11:25.71 you know Matthew 24, 00:11:25.74\00:11:27.10 Jesus said, "No man knows day or the hour." 00:11:27.13\00:11:32.09 So this idea of day setting 00:11:32.12\00:11:33.67 we know, we are in the time of the end 00:11:33.70\00:11:35.31 we just don't know the day or the hour of it. 00:11:35.34\00:11:37.90 But they are those who say, 00:11:37.93\00:11:38.96 we're on the verge of the 7th Millennium 00:11:38.99\00:11:40.96 and of course we know the 7th Millennium 00:11:40.99\00:11:42.65 we're gonna be spending in heaven. 00:11:42.68\00:11:46.43 And we have seen these things come and go. 00:11:46.46\00:11:48.41 And let me tell you it is like crying wolf, wolf 00:11:48.44\00:11:53.09 and for those who us have gone through those experiences, 00:11:53.12\00:11:56.02 you go through enough of these experiences 00:11:56.05\00:11:57.67 it gets to the point where you-- 00:11:57.70\00:11:59.53 where you just want to say, 00:11:59.56\00:12:00.75 please spare me, please spare me. 00:12:00.78\00:12:05.73 When we preach the-- when we preach the prophecies 00:12:05.76\00:12:09.50 and they are biblical 00:12:09.53\00:12:11.40 and that's I pointing out there truly Christ centered 00:12:11.43\00:12:13.36 if properly understood. 00:12:13.39\00:12:15.43 When we preach the prophecies we need to do so responsibly. 00:12:15.46\00:12:21.71 And have been guilty sometimes are making predictions 00:12:21.74\00:12:27.18 we've been guilty of you know making representations 00:12:27.21\00:12:31.92 that I know some have come to regret. 00:12:31.95\00:12:35.17 I remember being in a workers meeting, 00:12:35.20\00:12:37.25 it would be the summer of 1972, 00:12:37.28\00:12:40.96 I would guess that you were there 00:12:40.99\00:12:42.75 because it was at my wedding 00:12:42.78\00:12:44.07 and I remember he happened to be an evangelist 00:12:44.10\00:12:47.65 and he had a-- he was appointed to speak to us pastors 00:12:47.68\00:12:52.58 and I remember that he was 00:12:52.61\00:12:54.07 predicting an eminent financial crisis, 00:12:54.10\00:12:58.07 the whole financial system was gonna go down 00:12:58.10\00:13:00.63 because we were leaving the gold standard. 00:13:00.66\00:13:04.20 J. R. was his first two initials and I remember that 00:13:04.23\00:13:08.69 and here we are right in another financial crisis. 00:13:08.72\00:13:13.81 So what are we're gonna do with it? 00:13:13.84\00:13:16.42 We can't totally ignore it 00:13:16.45\00:13:17.61 but we know that is part of the size 00:13:17.64\00:13:19.98 that we expect to be taking place 00:13:20.01\00:13:21.46 before the coming of Jesus, can we say this is it? 00:13:21.49\00:13:25.89 No, we have to be responsible in a representation of prophecy. 00:13:25.92\00:13:29.17 Do I hear an, amen out there at all? 00:13:29.20\00:13:31.71 Amen. 00:13:31.74\00:13:32.93 Yeah, we need to be responsible about it. 00:13:32.96\00:13:34.95 Could it happen? It could. 00:13:34.98\00:13:36.84 The point is we must be ready, regardless. 00:13:36.87\00:13:39.64 Amen. 00:13:39.67\00:13:41.22 But let us be careful 00:13:41.25\00:13:42.34 because we give the message a bad name. 00:13:42.37\00:13:45.86 We give prophecy you know, these representations 00:13:45.89\00:13:49.75 under mind the significance of prophecy. 00:13:49.78\00:13:53.17 And when these things come and go, 00:13:53.20\00:13:54.41 nothing really, really comes of it, 00:13:54.44\00:13:57.13 nothing really happens. 00:13:57.16\00:14:00.06 I remember-- I remember 00:14:00.09\00:14:01.72 when I was at college and I don't have any idea, 00:14:01.75\00:14:04.54 if you're hearing some of these things 00:14:04.57\00:14:05.84 but I sure was picking it up. 00:14:05.87\00:14:08.23 You know, how can we as a church 00:14:08.26\00:14:10.97 continue to be talking about the amendment return of Jesus 00:14:11.00\00:14:16.50 when it has been so long? 00:14:16.53\00:14:19.63 How can we be-- 00:14:19.66\00:14:20.89 be talking about His eminent return? 00:14:20.92\00:14:23.04 And some have concluded 00:14:23.07\00:14:24.29 that we can no longer in good faith, 00:14:24.32\00:14:27.95 we can no longer continue to proclaim the message 00:14:27.98\00:14:30.37 as we have and as a result 00:14:30.40\00:14:32.10 through significant segments of the church, 00:14:32.13\00:14:35.06 the message has been torn down and we lost to a certain extent 00:14:35.09\00:14:40.01 the sense of the urgency 00:14:40.04\00:14:42.63 of the times that we are living in. 00:14:42.66\00:14:44.32 And within the sense of the mission 00:14:44.35\00:14:46.71 that we've been called to as Christians, 00:14:46.74\00:14:49.99 and let me tell you this is a message 00:14:50.02\00:14:51.70 not just for Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 00:14:51.73\00:14:54.29 this is a message for all people of faith, 00:14:54.32\00:14:57.40 because it's biblical, amen. Amen. 00:14:57.43\00:15:00.30 It's not exclusively ours, 00:15:00.33\00:15:02.66 but God is very specially called us 00:15:02.69\00:15:05.62 for the purpose of getting this message out. 00:15:05.65\00:15:08.61 And others would have to stop those archaic, 00:15:08.64\00:15:11.49 those archaic 19 century practices 00:15:11.52\00:15:14.07 of evangelizing and proclaiming the prophecies. 00:15:14.10\00:15:20.41 Where are we in the stream of time? 00:15:20.44\00:15:23.05 This is gonna be the question 00:15:23.08\00:15:24.11 we are gonna be spending time out. 00:15:24.14\00:15:25.24 Where are we in the stream of time? 00:15:25.27\00:15:27.52 Are we indeed in the last days? Are we truly in the last days? 00:15:27.55\00:15:31.35 Is it just something we say, 00:15:31.38\00:15:32.46 something that's in the list of the things 00:15:32.49\00:15:34.90 that we supposedly believe? 00:15:34.93\00:15:37.66 Where are we in the stream of our time? 00:15:37.69\00:15:40.50 And my friend, as we look at the inspiration 00:15:40.53\00:15:43.01 it becomes clear we are in a time of delay. 00:15:43.04\00:15:48.75 We are in a time of delay. 00:15:48.78\00:15:51.17 You see the reason for the delay, 00:15:51.20\00:15:52.85 really should be a concern 00:15:52.88\00:15:53.92 for every true believer in Jesus Christ, 00:15:53.95\00:15:57.13 who looks forward to the coming of Jesus. 00:15:57.16\00:15:59.49 If indeed there is a delay, why is there a delay? 00:15:59.52\00:16:02.17 And I take you back to 2 Peter 3, 00:16:02.20\00:16:04.88 as we pick it up verse 9, in verse 9. 00:16:04.91\00:16:08.55 We're gonna read the first part of it. 00:16:08.58\00:16:10.05 I want you to notice the response 00:16:10.08\00:16:11.34 that we find in the word of God to this question, the mockers, 00:16:11.37\00:16:14.02 you know, where is the promise of His coming? 00:16:14.05\00:16:16.20 And here is the answer verse 9, 00:16:16.23\00:16:17.40 "The Lord is not slow about His promise, 00:16:17.43\00:16:20.54 as some count slowness, but His patient toward you, 00:16:20.57\00:16:25.20 not wishing for any to perish." 00:16:25.23\00:16:28.91 The Lord is not slow about His promise 00:16:28.94\00:16:30.92 as some would count slowness. 00:16:30.95\00:16:34.34 Right, some would count slowness. 00:16:34.37\00:16:36.56 You see, we have a very limited subject 00:16:36.59\00:16:39.49 due of time, don't we? 00:16:39.52\00:16:42.58 God has His own view about time, right? 00:16:42.61\00:16:47.03 The one who inhabits eternity, 00:16:47.06\00:16:50.44 I mean, the angels pass to Him 00:16:50.47\00:16:53.27 as if they were today 00:16:53.30\00:16:55.22 and what is going to be 00:16:55.25\00:16:56.45 as if they that already happened. 00:16:56.48\00:16:58.91 So God has a perspective about time 00:16:58.94\00:17:02.14 that we can't really, fully appreciate it, understand. 00:17:02.17\00:17:06.89 So this time the issue we really out not get too, 00:17:06.92\00:17:10.47 too carried away with, don't you think? 00:17:10.50\00:17:13.88 God has His timing and notice the first reason 00:17:13.91\00:17:17.86 we find is we look at verse 9, 00:17:17.89\00:17:19.66 why the promise has not yet been fulfilled 00:17:19.69\00:17:22.84 is because it says, 00:17:22.87\00:17:24.66 of the patience of God toward you, toward us. 00:17:24.69\00:17:29.80 Let me ask you the question, 00:17:29.83\00:17:31.00 where would you and I be, individually 00:17:31.03\00:17:33.82 where would be as a people 00:17:33.85\00:17:35.56 if it wasn't for the patience of God? 00:17:35.59\00:17:39.03 And the patience God speaks of the mercy of God, 00:17:39.06\00:17:41.59 doesn't it? 00:17:41.62\00:17:42.70 Of His great love and compassion is behind. 00:17:42.73\00:17:46.44 Really, why there's a delay is fundamental 00:17:46.47\00:17:48.58 to why there is a delay His patience toward you. 00:17:48.61\00:17:51.59 He doesn't wish for any to perish. 00:17:51.62\00:17:55.29 And by the way that's why we do evangelism 00:17:55.32\00:17:57.98 is because of the deep love that God has for those 00:17:58.01\00:18:01.24 who are lost and the tremendous desire 00:18:01.27\00:18:04.73 that He has that all would come to repentance, 00:18:04.76\00:18:08.09 yes, He would have all here 00:18:08.12\00:18:09.79 in Corvallis come to repentance. 00:18:09.82\00:18:14.19 You know, we were talking about this the other Jill, 00:18:14.22\00:18:16.18 and I-- we put up 49,000 broaches 00:18:16.21\00:18:18.44 wouldn't be wonderful, if we got 15%. 00:18:18.47\00:18:20.64 Wow, where will we have the meetings? 00:18:20.67\00:18:23.17 If we had just 10% response from the 49,000, 00:18:23.20\00:18:27.19 I mean-- we could still have a problem, wouldn't we? 00:18:27.22\00:18:29.39 We would figure it out, believe me, 00:18:29.42\00:18:30.56 we would figure it out, wouldn't we Jill, 00:18:30.59\00:18:32.45 by God's grace. 00:18:32.48\00:18:34.04 If we had 1% return but we don't see that, 00:18:34.07\00:18:38.73 this is the times that we live in, 00:18:38.76\00:18:40.69 this is the good old United States 00:18:40.72\00:18:42.95 its part of the culture, its part of the prosperity 00:18:42.98\00:18:46.17 I guess that is a part of-- of our way of life. 00:18:46.20\00:18:50.89 And at some point that all that sense of-- 00:18:50.92\00:18:53.34 you know, and that's gonna be disturbed at some point. 00:18:53.37\00:18:56.72 It's gonna disturb that sense of security 00:18:56.75\00:18:59.62 and I think things are gonna open up. 00:18:59.65\00:19:01.80 So what do we do? 00:19:01.83\00:19:04.35 It's tough, you know, they are not coming up 00:19:04.38\00:19:07.04 by the hundreds and thousands 00:19:07.07\00:19:08.12 we are not seeing Pentecost today, 00:19:08.15\00:19:09.48 not in the United States. 00:19:09.51\00:19:11.54 So we're just gonna wait, we're not gonna do anything. 00:19:11.57\00:19:14.97 No we're not just going to do anything 00:19:15.00\00:19:17.61 because the love of Jesus is a dynamic force in ones life. 00:19:17.64\00:19:23.28 And collectively the dynamism of the love and grace of Jesus, 00:19:23.31\00:19:29.42 is what moves us to share, 00:19:29.45\00:19:33.46 to reach out not just to share the doctrine of it 00:19:33.49\00:19:38.24 but to share the experience from it 00:19:38.27\00:19:42.00 that experience that is against centered in Jesus Christ 00:19:42.03\00:19:45.79 that is centered in the relationship. 00:19:45.82\00:19:51.01 And it's vital, absolutely vital. 00:19:51.04\00:19:54.43 I remember my-- my oldest son who is 27, 00:19:54.46\00:19:56.97 just turned 27, David was three months old 00:19:57.00\00:19:59.42 when I began this work. 00:19:59.45\00:20:00.48 So you can figure out the math on that. 00:20:00.51\00:20:02.85 Three months old when we-- 00:20:02.88\00:20:04.33 when we went on the road fulltime my family 00:20:04.36\00:20:07.29 until he was halfway through his first grade year. 00:20:07.32\00:20:10.99 That was an interesting experience 00:20:11.02\00:20:12.27 to put my two sons through. 00:20:12.30\00:20:15.37 And when you're in ministry 00:20:15.40\00:20:16.80 often you are one of the first ones at that meeting 00:20:16.83\00:20:18.96 and you're usually one of the very last 00:20:18.99\00:20:21.17 you often end up turning the lights off, 00:20:21.20\00:20:23.94 making sure the doors locked as you leave. 00:20:23.97\00:20:26.08 And I remember this one occasion, 00:20:26.11\00:20:27.54 David was probably three or four 00:20:27.57\00:20:30.33 he could have been five I guess but that age preschool 00:20:30.36\00:20:33.77 and I have been visiting with people 00:20:33.80\00:20:36.11 as at end of the meeting and David came up to me finally 00:20:36.14\00:20:40.62 and he took a hold that me and he look at me and said, 00:20:40.65\00:20:42.91 daddy, you are so poking. 00:20:42.94\00:20:46.90 You know and my oldest son is ADHD 00:20:46.93\00:20:49.88 that's the Attention Deficit Hyperactive 00:20:49.91\00:20:53.72 its part of the disorder, 00:20:53.75\00:20:56.21 you know my son was always on the go, 00:20:56.24\00:20:58.74 always knew at some point he would channel 00:20:58.77\00:21:00.83 that all that energy into something productive 00:21:00.86\00:21:04.34 and these in the process of that I believe. 00:21:04.37\00:21:06.05 But anyway so why, 00:21:06.08\00:21:07.89 you know, he wanted to get going. 00:21:07.92\00:21:11.34 I don't know how you feel about 00:21:11.37\00:21:12.53 this matter of the coming of Jesus 00:21:12.56\00:21:14.80 but I know that some of us, I hope most of us maybe 00:21:14.83\00:21:20.21 and all of us have that sense 00:21:20.24\00:21:21.98 when we think about that-- that earnest desire that, 00:21:22.01\00:21:26.08 it will happen that Jesus will come. 00:21:26.11\00:21:30.94 But you see sometimes we get just a little bit 00:21:30.97\00:21:32.89 too comfortable in the here 00:21:32.92\00:21:34.29 and now we get just a little bit too comfortable 00:21:34.32\00:21:37.48 let's be honest about it. 00:21:37.51\00:21:39.09 You know, most of us have a really pretty good ear, 00:21:39.12\00:21:45.13 maybe too good. 00:21:45.16\00:21:48.06 And so-- so have we lost our sense of anticipation. 00:21:48.09\00:21:53.81 And again why has a Lord not come? 00:21:53.84\00:21:55.97 Let me share with you a statement 00:21:56.00\00:21:57.48 this is from volume 2 The Testimonies, page 194 00:21:57.51\00:22:01.03 and notice the date of the statement 1868. 00:22:01.06\00:22:03.81 That's quite a long time ago from our perspective. 00:22:03.84\00:22:07.68 And this is what inspiration tells us, 00:22:07.71\00:22:09.44 "The long night of gloom is trying, 00:22:09.47\00:22:12.71 but the morning is" is what? 00:22:12.74\00:22:16.42 The word defer that's another word for delay. 00:22:16.45\00:22:20.05 The morning is delayed in, in what? 00:22:20.08\00:22:23.61 In mercy out of love. God is never arbitrary. 00:22:23.64\00:22:29.36 It is out of mercy, 00:22:29.39\00:22:30.61 it is out of His love that it is deferred 00:22:30.64\00:22:33.62 and this was been said back 1868. 00:22:33.65\00:22:36.18 "Because if the Master should come" 00:22:36.21\00:22:38.14 this is the reason. 00:22:38.17\00:22:39.20 "If the Master should come 00:22:39.23\00:22:40.26 so many would be found unready." 00:22:40.29\00:22:44.70 God can hardly stand the idea that His children would be lost. 00:22:44.73\00:22:49.12 And He sees there are 00:22:49.15\00:22:50.18 so many that are lost who are not ready, 00:22:50.21\00:22:52.64 if He should come they would be lost. 00:22:52.67\00:22:55.31 And He's not willing. 00:22:55.34\00:22:57.06 My friend, God is not going to act 00:22:57.09\00:23:00.03 prematurely in bringing it to an end. 00:23:00.06\00:23:04.40 God has a very specific plan, He has a very specific purpose 00:23:04.43\00:23:08.15 that's gonna be carried 00:23:08.18\00:23:09.21 and is been carried out in the end time. 00:23:09.24\00:23:11.11 There are certain things that have to be in place 00:23:11.14\00:23:15.21 before it ends 00:23:15.24\00:23:17.94 and that's where our understanding 00:23:17.97\00:23:19.74 of an insights prophecy are so vital, 00:23:19.77\00:23:23.72 because it helps us to understand 00:23:23.75\00:23:25.06 some of those essential things that are a part of God's plan 00:23:25.09\00:23:28.82 that must take place before the end happens. 00:23:28.85\00:23:33.60 And so--So many would be found unready, 00:23:33.63\00:23:36.78 as a reason and it goes on say 00:23:36.81\00:23:38.05 "God's unwillingness to have His people." 00:23:38.08\00:23:40.30 Now this gets a little bit closer to home. 00:23:40.33\00:23:41.76 That's you and me who profess the name of Jesus. 00:23:41.79\00:23:46.72 "God's unwillingness to have His people perish, 00:23:46.75\00:23:49.82 has been the reason of so long a delay." 00:23:49.85\00:23:55.42 So long a delay 1868, it's been even longer today 00:23:55.45\00:24:01.13 and that tells us that Jesus could have come long ago. 00:24:01.16\00:24:04.30 Of course you know, that one to be our advantage 00:24:04.33\00:24:06.91 because we would never been here 00:24:06.94\00:24:09.17 and if that means we will never be there. 00:24:09.20\00:24:13.18 But how long are we really let this go on 00:24:13.21\00:24:15.19 for future generations it's a never endless thing 00:24:15.22\00:24:17.90 if we begin to think about it. 00:24:17.93\00:24:20.24 My friend, Jesus sacrifice opens up 00:24:20.27\00:24:22.71 this whole wonderful future. 00:24:22.74\00:24:25.31 It's gonna happen in due time it's gonna happen. 00:24:25.34\00:24:27.77 2 Peter 3 and looking at verse 15, 00:24:27.80\00:24:32.14 2 Peter 3:15 and regard talking about the patience of God. 00:24:32.17\00:24:37.27 "Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation." 00:24:37.30\00:24:43.47 And it is for the purpose of our salvation. 00:24:43.50\00:24:46.19 Just again consider in your own experience, 00:24:46.22\00:24:49.24 many of us know something about the patience of God. 00:24:49.27\00:24:52.63 God has waited for some of us a longtime 00:24:52.66\00:24:55.41 before we responded 00:24:55.44\00:24:57.52 and before we came to Him, right. 00:24:57.55\00:24:59.94 I say it again where would we be 00:24:59.97\00:25:01.66 without the patience of Jesus? 00:25:01.69\00:25:05.20 Which means, if God's patience with us 00:25:05.23\00:25:07.42 we are to be patience with one another, 00:25:07.45\00:25:09.68 shouldn't we? 00:25:09.71\00:25:12.31 And for the same reason that He is patience 00:25:12.34\00:25:14.09 because of love. 00:25:14.12\00:25:16.49 Love is not something to be hold something, 00:25:16.52\00:25:18.60 love is something to be spread and shared 00:25:18.63\00:25:24.41 and that is what gives 00:25:24.44\00:25:26.69 the proclamation of the message a power, 00:25:26.72\00:25:30.10 when as the love of Jesus, 00:25:30.13\00:25:31.72 experienced and shared by His people. 00:25:31.75\00:25:35.52 That is what you know 00:25:35.55\00:25:37.40 that's often the element that's missing. 00:25:37.43\00:25:39.86 It's really are, it really-- this is all about people. 00:25:39.89\00:25:43.86 It's all about you, it's all about me, 00:25:43.89\00:25:46.98 it's all about the people out there in Corvallis, 00:25:47.01\00:25:49.47 it's all about those are lost. 00:25:49.50\00:25:51.66 You know, again we do evangelism 00:25:51.69\00:25:54.15 because of the high price that God paid for our redemption. 00:25:54.18\00:25:58.85 It is because what Jesus was willing to do at Calvary, 00:25:58.88\00:26:01.95 the value He place on a single soul 00:26:01.98\00:26:05.35 is the reason why we do, what we do. 00:26:05.38\00:26:09.97 And there is no other reason 00:26:10.00\00:26:11.03 and if there are another fundamental reason, 00:26:11.06\00:26:13.89 then it really in some ways a departure 00:26:13.92\00:26:17.15 from that fundamental reason 00:26:17.18\00:26:18.32 of why we do, what we do? 00:26:18.35\00:26:20.32 So it is vital. It's important. 00:26:20.35\00:26:25.65 These are my two sons, David and Kevin. 00:26:25.68\00:26:27.41 David on the right side 00:26:27.44\00:26:29.59 we had this from a couple of years ago, 00:26:29.62\00:26:32.12 we have been to Bend, Oregon. 00:26:32.15\00:26:33.93 We have gone to ski and it rained the whole time. 00:26:33.96\00:26:39.83 It was slushy and so anyway but anyway then at Bend 00:26:39.86\00:26:45.25 and but I'm going back, 00:26:45.28\00:26:46.37 I'm gonna share a story about them 00:26:46.40\00:26:47.65 going back to the spring of 2004, 00:26:47.68\00:26:49.53 my youngest son Kevin, 00:26:49.56\00:26:50.65 the one on the left side there Kevin and called him my-- 00:26:50.68\00:26:54.02 used to call him my mellow fellow Kevin 00:26:54.05\00:26:57.60 decided to try living on his own. 00:26:57.63\00:26:59.59 He moved in with some friends at a duplex. 00:26:59.62\00:27:03.19 And one evening my oldest son 00:27:03.22\00:27:05.89 David was there with Kevin and some of their friends, 00:27:05.92\00:27:08.18 they were playing videogames and-- 00:27:08.21\00:27:09.96 you know having a good time together. 00:27:09.99\00:27:11.42 When some suddenly somebody burst in 00:27:11.45\00:27:13.79 through the front door with a gun drawn 00:27:13.82\00:27:15.78 a young man with a gun drawn. 00:27:15.81\00:27:18.04 And he came in nobody knew him, 00:27:18.07\00:27:19.50 but he came in demanding to know where is it? 00:27:19.53\00:27:24.13 In fact he came over to my oldest son 00:27:24.16\00:27:27.27 and he pointed that gun right in his face 00:27:27.30\00:27:31.20 and he cocked it and he said, I want to know where it is? 00:27:31.23\00:27:34.60 What they didn't know my son's didn't know 00:27:34.63\00:27:37.21 that previous renters have been dealing in drugs. 00:27:37.24\00:27:40.32 So we don't know if they were after drugs, 00:27:40.35\00:27:42.37 money or just what it was but he was intense. 00:27:42.40\00:27:46.18 And in fact he then turning the gun 00:27:46.21\00:27:49.43 pointed towards my youngest son and fired it. 00:27:49.46\00:27:52.98 That bullet lodged in the wall. 00:27:53.01\00:27:56.84 My sons kept this from their parents 00:27:56.87\00:27:58.85 for a period of time. 00:27:58.88\00:28:02.02 But finally shared it and I will tell you those of you 00:28:02.05\00:28:05.75 who are parents you understand 00:28:05.78\00:28:07.56 I just had that's sinking feeling, 00:28:07.59\00:28:10.53 I just was so thankful 00:28:10.56\00:28:11.63 that you know something horrible hadn't happen 00:28:11.66\00:28:13.41 but it could have happened. 00:28:13.44\00:28:15.42 Had been the preacher that I'm I couldn't help 00:28:15.45\00:28:17.35 but saying to my son 00:28:17.38\00:28:18.46 I turned to preach too much at them. 00:28:18.49\00:28:21.19 Okay, you know there is a disadvantage growing up 00:28:21.22\00:28:23.78 and a preachers home because, you know, 00:28:23.81\00:28:25.74 you are living with a preacher. 00:28:25.77\00:28:27.73 So you know I tried to modulate that a little bit 00:28:27.76\00:28:30.05 but I couldn't help to saying to them David, 00:28:30.08\00:28:31.66 Kevin, if that have been the end of your days, 00:28:31.69\00:28:34.59 where would you have spend the eternity, 00:28:34.62\00:28:36.94 because that was in my heart and have this in my mind 00:28:36.97\00:28:40.38 because I want them to be saved, 00:28:40.41\00:28:42.54 I want them to be there. 00:28:42.57\00:28:43.88 Let's look at 2 Peter 3 again, 00:28:48.42\00:28:51.92 let's read verse 9 we didn't read all of it. 00:28:51.95\00:28:55.56 2 Peter 3:9, 00:28:55.59\00:28:58.72 "The Lord is not slow about His promise, 00:28:58.75\00:29:00.57 as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, 00:29:00.60\00:29:03.75 not wishing for any to perish 00:29:03.78\00:29:06.24 but for all to come to repentance." 00:29:06.27\00:29:09.23 We've been talking this, for all to come to repentance. 00:29:09.26\00:29:12.71 In 1 Timothy 2:4 it says, 00:29:12.74\00:29:14.94 "Of God who desires all men to be saved 00:29:14.97\00:29:17.76 and to come to the knowledge of," what? 00:29:17.79\00:29:21.86 He wants them to be saved 00:29:21.89\00:29:22.92 and He wants them to come to the knowledge of the truth. 00:29:22.95\00:29:25.22 And the truth is about whom? It's a truth about God. 00:29:25.25\00:29:28.86 It's a truth about God 00:29:28.89\00:29:30.44 and when He is done for the human race, 00:29:30.47\00:29:32.26 it's the truth about His love, 00:29:32.29\00:29:34.27 it is a truth about His salvation. 00:29:34.30\00:29:37.33 And every thing, every element or truth 00:29:37.36\00:29:40.90 that we find in this book, this powerful dynamic book 00:29:40.93\00:29:44.60 in some way relates us 00:29:44.63\00:29:47.35 to a deeper understanding of who God is, 00:29:47.38\00:29:50.81 what's in His mind and what is in His heart 00:29:50.84\00:29:53.75 toward us His children 00:29:53.78\00:29:56.23 that's what it really is all about. 00:29:56.26\00:29:58.11 But He wants all to the come to the knowledge of the truth. 00:29:58.14\00:30:01.98 And my friend, that's what we're sharing, 00:30:02.01\00:30:03.47 we're sharing something about the truth, 00:30:03.50\00:30:05.47 the truth as it is in Jesus Christ. 00:30:05.50\00:30:08.57 There is no other truth than that 00:30:08.60\00:30:10.58 which is been given to us. 00:30:10.61\00:30:12.36 And He longs, He longs for us to be ready, 00:30:12.39\00:30:15.75 and He longs for us to help 00:30:15.78\00:30:17.56 others to be ready for His coming. 00:30:17.59\00:30:20.22 In Acts of the Apostles page 110 00:30:20.25\00:30:22.72 a statement that was given in 1911, 00:30:22.75\00:30:25.85 I'm giving you a little bit of the historical background 00:30:25.88\00:30:28.07 by giving you the dates. 00:30:28.10\00:30:30.88 Inspiration tells us "Long has God waited 00:30:30.91\00:30:34.03 for the spirit of service 00:30:34.06\00:30:36.36 to take possession of how much to the church? 00:30:36.39\00:30:40.38 "Of the whole church so that everyone 00:30:40.41\00:30:43.37 shall be working for Him 00:30:43.40\00:30:45.01 according to his or hers ability." 00:30:45.04\00:30:50.74 God never ask us to do something 00:30:50.77\00:30:52.34 for which we are not qualified to do 00:30:52.37\00:30:55.30 and thus we have talents 00:30:55.33\00:30:56.83 and we have gifts-- spiritual gifts. 00:30:56.86\00:30:59.77 That qualify us to play our-- 00:30:59.80\00:31:02.48 do our part in sharing the message. 00:31:02.51\00:31:07.38 And that's why I said the announcement 00:31:07.41\00:31:08.88 I know if we picked it up. 00:31:08.91\00:31:10.05 I said let's go together, okay. 00:31:10.08\00:31:13.41 This is just to sit back 00:31:13.44\00:31:14.77 and let's let the evangelist preach, 00:31:14.80\00:31:16.79 let him do all of the work, 00:31:16.82\00:31:18.29 we're paying him to do 00:31:18.32\00:31:19.35 and then the pastor his getting paid too he can help out. 00:31:19.38\00:31:24.02 No, this is for all of us and I invite you, 00:31:24.05\00:31:27.09 be a part of the spiritual process. 00:31:27.12\00:31:28.80 There is a blessing in this, 00:31:28.83\00:31:30.75 there is true joy, be a part of it. 00:31:30.78\00:31:33.50 I tell you this is gonna be-- there is joy in this. 00:31:33.53\00:31:36.56 The next six weeks 00:31:36.59\00:31:37.62 that we are gonna be spending together. 00:31:37.65\00:31:39.22 We're gonna have people to-- to get to know, 00:31:39.25\00:31:42.11 that we are gonna make some really wonderful decisions. 00:31:42.14\00:31:45.34 I tell you-- it really, 00:31:45.37\00:31:46.77 it's just all about people 00:31:46.80\00:31:47.83 I just finish a series at Thousands Oaks, California. 00:31:47.86\00:31:50.57 I had an Syrian orthodox believer coming 00:31:50.60\00:31:55.38 44 years of old, he was an engineer 00:31:55.41\00:31:58.08 didn't know that about two months before that series 00:31:58.11\00:32:00.58 he had brain cancer and had an operation. 00:32:00.61\00:32:04.59 And was continuing, 00:32:04.62\00:32:05.68 has similar neurological problems 00:32:05.71\00:32:07.39 that became a little more apparent 00:32:07.42\00:32:08.95 as we were going through. 00:32:08.98\00:32:11.69 That one night three weeks into the series 00:32:11.72\00:32:14.19 he had a grand mal seizure 00:32:14.22\00:32:15.71 right in the middle of our series of meetings 00:32:15.74\00:32:18.80 and I tell you we just paused to pray for him, for Edwin. 00:32:18.83\00:32:23.94 And I tell you that the Lord was just 00:32:23.97\00:32:26.52 you know and he was opened 00:32:26.55\00:32:28.12 I think what he was going through really opened him up. 00:32:28.15\00:32:32.51 And I remember as we were talking about his faith 00:32:32.54\00:32:36.45 and his up brain he said, it was so ritualistic. 00:32:36.48\00:32:39.64 You know, its some ritualistic 00:32:39.67\00:32:41.72 and I said, yeah, yeah, the Bibles with golden case 00:32:41.75\00:32:44.16 and they had jewels over them 00:32:44.19\00:32:45.57 and the priest probably kissed that Bible at certain point 00:32:45.60\00:32:48.00 and he said, yeah, 00:32:48.03\00:32:49.06 but they never taught us anything. 00:32:49.09\00:32:51.84 Didn't teach us anything from the Bible 00:32:51.87\00:32:54.55 and he was just thrilled 00:32:54.58\00:32:56.56 to be hearing night by night 00:32:56.59\00:32:57.88 the truth to discover the beautiful truths 00:32:57.91\00:33:00.63 that we just sometimes say for granted 00:33:00.66\00:33:02.25 for the word of the God and the excitement, 00:33:02.28\00:33:04.16 here he has a grand mal seizure, 00:33:04.19\00:33:05.62 911 is called the ambulance shows up, 00:33:05.65\00:33:07.99 they stabilize him they want to take him to the hospital, 00:33:08.02\00:33:10.29 he said, I came to hear the subject 00:33:10.32\00:33:11.96 I'm going back in and he did. 00:33:11.99\00:33:14.95 It's about people who don't know. 00:33:19.14\00:33:23.19 Same series of meeting I had two-- 00:33:23.22\00:33:26.00 two Muslims who came to our meetings. 00:33:26.03\00:33:30.90 And I remember Mona 00:33:30.93\00:33:32.66 she was struggling with this all the world religions 00:33:32.69\00:33:34.93 but she was wondering something 00:33:34.96\00:33:35.99 about Christianity it had been in the process of learning 00:33:36.02\00:33:38.43 about Christianity for sometime 00:33:38.46\00:33:40.28 but she was trying to sort this all out I said, 00:33:40.31\00:33:42.39 Mona, you know you try to figure 00:33:42.42\00:33:44.29 this out about all of the world religions, 00:33:44.32\00:33:46.27 Buddhism and all of it it's gonna take you a lifetime 00:33:46.30\00:33:48.52 and you still won't figured out, 00:33:48.55\00:33:50.58 it really comes down to this one fundamental issue. 00:33:50.61\00:33:54.39 Most religions will agree there is a problem with sin 00:33:54.42\00:33:57.16 and the question is, does one need a Savior? 00:33:57.19\00:34:02.68 Does one need a Savior? 00:34:02.71\00:34:03.79 And I said there is only one world religion 00:34:03.82\00:34:05.82 that offers a Savior it's the Christian religion. 00:34:05.85\00:34:09.42 And you know that-- 00:34:09.45\00:34:11.95 that is what let her to make a decision 00:34:11.98\00:34:14.96 and when she made her decision to be baptized into Jesus Christ 00:34:14.99\00:34:18.64 and by the way it was fascinating, 00:34:18.67\00:34:20.78 when several weeks into this series 00:34:20.81\00:34:23.32 she made the discovery that Jesus in His humanity was a Jew. 00:34:23.35\00:34:28.83 She hadn't known that. 00:34:28.86\00:34:31.42 And you could imagine, 00:34:31.45\00:34:32.96 you know, but you know that she was alright with that. 00:34:32.99\00:34:35.86 And then her older brother John 00:34:35.89\00:34:37.46 who was coming and studying the Bible I tell you-- 00:34:37.49\00:34:40.26 it was a thing a beauty to see 00:34:40.29\00:34:42.29 what the spirit of Jesus was doing 00:34:42.32\00:34:44.65 in their life and experience. 00:34:44.68\00:34:47.00 And to see Mona make that experience 00:34:47.03\00:34:49.12 and that's her testimony. 00:34:49.15\00:34:50.28 And my friend Mike Brownfield 00:34:50.31\00:34:52.35 one of the pastors in that church 00:34:52.38\00:34:54.29 said to me I wish I had a videotape for 15 minutes 00:34:54.32\00:34:57.32 just spontaneously she was sharing her decision for Jesus. 00:34:57.35\00:35:01.77 She said, I decided I needed a Savior. 00:35:01.80\00:35:05.79 That was a great decision to make, 00:35:05.82\00:35:08.20 I needed a Savior. 00:35:08.23\00:35:09.26 So that's all what is all about, isn't it? 00:35:09.29\00:35:12.42 But how its gonna happen? 00:35:12.45\00:35:14.01 You know, each of us working for His service it says, 00:35:14.04\00:35:18.74 "When the member of the church of God 00:35:18.77\00:35:20.63 do their appointed work in the needy fields 00:35:20.66\00:35:22.54 at home and abroad, 00:35:22.57\00:35:23.60 in fulfillment of gospel commission, 00:35:23.63\00:35:25.83 the whole world will soon be warned 00:35:25.86\00:35:27.72 and the Lord Jesus will return to this earth 00:35:27.75\00:35:30.30 with power and great glory." 00:35:30.33\00:35:32.17 One of the things that is a part an essential part 00:35:32.20\00:35:35.04 of God's plan is that the message 00:35:35.07\00:35:38.63 must go to the whole world. 00:35:38.66\00:35:39.69 We talk about this so we know this, don't we? 00:35:39.72\00:35:42.42 And when He gone through the whole world 00:35:42.45\00:35:44.11 under the mighty power of the Holy Spirit 00:35:44.14\00:35:45.66 it will be finished, this called the latter rain. 00:35:45.69\00:35:49.10 When it is finish that He will come. 00:35:49.13\00:35:52.00 That is where-- what the prophecies tell us, 00:35:52.03\00:35:54.45 He will come but He has ordained 00:35:54.48\00:35:57.58 and He has purpose that He is going to finish 00:35:57.61\00:36:00.50 His work through His people. 00:36:00.53\00:36:03.57 He could do it through angels, He could Himself do it. 00:36:03.60\00:36:07.52 He is always behind it but my friend, 00:36:07.55\00:36:09.74 He's ordained us for this purpose to share it 00:36:09.77\00:36:15.45 and its not gonna be done and-- 00:36:15.48\00:36:17.70 and well that gives a lot of responsibly on us 00:36:17.73\00:36:20.23 but remember all of God's biddings are in their beliefs 00:36:20.26\00:36:25.09 that which God ordains us to do He qualifies 00:36:25.12\00:36:28.50 and empowers us to do 00:36:28.53\00:36:32.04 through the grace of Jesus, right? 00:36:32.07\00:36:33.85 Amen. 00:36:33.88\00:36:35.61 So we're not looking you know, 00:36:35.64\00:36:37.12 go out there and finish it. 00:36:37.15\00:36:38.18 No, we must make ourselves available. 00:36:38.21\00:36:41.40 And so there's gonna be a sweeping revival 00:36:41.43\00:36:42.91 that's gonna come, that's gonna prepare 00:36:42.94\00:36:44.69 the way for the work to be done. 00:36:44.72\00:36:47.73 So God-- God has given us a prophetic message 00:36:47.76\00:36:50.72 He has to prepare us for the coming of Jesus. 00:36:50.75\00:36:54.98 It's an interracial part-- 00:36:55.01\00:36:56.37 prophecy is an interracial part of God's last day message 00:36:56.40\00:36:59.99 and we will establish as a people for this purpose. 00:37:00.02\00:37:03.73 We will. 00:37:03.76\00:37:04.79 Take a look at 2 Peter 3:10. 00:37:04.82\00:37:08.78 2 Peter 3:10 it's says, 00:37:08.81\00:37:10.53 "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, 00:37:10.56\00:37:13.66 in which the heavens will pass away with a roar 00:37:13.69\00:37:16.30 and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, 00:37:16.33\00:37:19.14 and the earth and its works will be burned up." 00:37:19.17\00:37:22.32 I mean that's-- that's kind of stuff. 00:37:22.35\00:37:23.86 If you really just focus in on that's kind of fearful 00:37:23.89\00:37:26.80 the world's gonna coming to an end 00:37:26.83\00:37:27.89 it's gonna be burned up is what it's talking about. 00:37:27.92\00:37:31.24 And I can remember when I was living in places 00:37:31.27\00:37:34.62 like Washington as a little kid preschool 00:37:34.65\00:37:37.26 probably four or five years of age 00:37:37.29\00:37:38.64 I was playing it was summer 00:37:38.67\00:37:39.82 I was playing several blocks 00:37:39.85\00:37:41.52 away they were building a church, 00:37:41.55\00:37:43.88 a Lutheran church if I remember correctly 00:37:43.91\00:37:46.32 and they had all these mounts of dirt. 00:37:46.35\00:37:48.84 It was just perfect playground for boys of my age 00:37:48.87\00:37:52.25 with all the little cars and stuff 00:37:52.28\00:37:53.91 and so I was there with some of my playmates, 00:37:53.94\00:37:56.44 playing and I happen casually to look up into the blue sky 00:37:56.47\00:38:00.32 and I saw this cloud 00:38:00.35\00:38:01.90 which in my childish imagination 00:38:01.93\00:38:03.68 I probably been hearing in the Sabbath school 00:38:03.71\00:38:05.88 or maybe my from my mother 00:38:05.91\00:38:09.38 but I looked over the sky and I saw this cloud 00:38:09.41\00:38:11.60 which in my childish imagination looked like a man's hand. 00:38:11.63\00:38:16.04 And I thought to myself 00:38:16.07\00:38:17.44 and I forgot all about playing immediately, 00:38:17.47\00:38:20.56 I thought you know Jesus is coming. 00:38:20.59\00:38:23.79 I got up and I began running to home 00:38:23.82\00:38:25.83 and I was thinking 00:38:25.86\00:38:26.92 I don't know that I'm ready. 00:38:26.95\00:38:28.78 When I was at four or five years, 00:38:28.81\00:38:29.84 I don't know if I'm ready. 00:38:29.87\00:38:31.72 And so I'm going through I'm reviewing my life you know, 00:38:31.75\00:38:34.49 you know reviewing my life 00:38:34.52\00:38:36.00 because I was this mischievous little kid. 00:38:36.03\00:38:38.70 Okay, mischievous maybe I had hyper active things too 00:38:38.73\00:38:41.72 that my oldest son inherited probably from me. 00:38:41.75\00:38:44.24 And so I'm running home, 00:38:44.27\00:38:45.39 I'm going through reviewing my life, yeah, 00:38:45.42\00:38:47.81 you know I'm getting in trouble 00:38:47.84\00:38:49.10 and but then I began to think yeah, 00:38:49.13\00:38:52.12 but you know at night 00:38:52.15\00:38:53.18 when you're sleeping you can't get into trouble. 00:38:53.21\00:38:56.21 So I thought like it was like scales 00:38:56.24\00:38:58.08 of baby weight out you know, 00:38:58.11\00:39:00.16 because you seem like you did a lot of sleeping at that age, 00:39:00.19\00:39:03.57 you know, and his parents should say 00:39:03.60\00:39:06.21 praise the Lord they do a lot of sleeping 00:39:06.24\00:39:08.25 those little once that are active, right? 00:39:08.28\00:39:11.45 But you know and it's not really 00:39:11.48\00:39:13.09 that way we don't weight out that way. 00:39:13.12\00:39:16.23 But think about it 00:39:16.26\00:39:17.46 how so being it really would be on one hand 00:39:17.49\00:39:20.14 when Jesus really does come 00:39:20.17\00:39:21.71 and again the vital question is, 00:39:21.74\00:39:23.43 are we going to be ready? 00:39:23.46\00:39:26.72 I will refer you to do parable 00:39:26.75\00:39:29.18 of the other virgins, the ten virgins. 00:39:29.21\00:39:34.41 Remember that in Matthew 25 remember it's says, 00:39:34.44\00:39:38.64 "While the bridegroom tarried 00:39:38.67\00:39:41.62 they all" wise and foolish, they all what? 00:39:41.65\00:39:45.66 "Slumbered and slept." 00:39:45.69\00:39:48.50 My friend, were asleep? Were asleep? 00:39:48.53\00:39:53.27 And God is trying to stir us. 00:39:53.30\00:39:55.56 And that's why some of these things are happening, 00:39:55.59\00:39:57.58 He's trying to stir people. 00:39:57.61\00:39:58.75 He is trying waken them up to things. 00:39:58.78\00:40:01.81 Not in the church but outside of the church, 00:40:01.84\00:40:04.13 He's trying to stir us up, He's trying to waken us. 00:40:04.16\00:40:09.26 And again we must-- 00:40:09.29\00:40:10.64 we must be ready for His coming. 00:40:10.67\00:40:12.41 Take a look at 1 Thessalonians 5, 00:40:12.44\00:40:14.97 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6. 00:40:15.00\00:40:21.00 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5 00:40:21.03\00:40:24.69 and here it is if we begin with verse 2. 00:40:24.72\00:40:28.35 Where, it's says, "For you yourselves" 00:40:28.38\00:40:30.86 you yourselves "know full well that the day of the Lord 00:40:30.89\00:40:33.19 will come just like a thief in the night. 00:40:33.22\00:40:36.10 While they are saying, 'Peace and safety,' 00:40:36.13\00:40:38.52 then destruction will come upon them suddenly, 00:40:38.55\00:40:41.27 like labor pains upon a woman with child 00:40:41.30\00:40:43.70 and they shall not escape." 00:40:43.73\00:40:46.69 It's gonna come suddenly 00:40:46.72\00:40:48.57 it is as over and over in the scriptures. 00:40:48.60\00:40:51.74 It's gonna be unexpected. 00:40:51.77\00:40:55.40 And what a shame it would be having known this message 00:40:55.43\00:40:58.34 that it would be catch us by surprise 00:40:58.37\00:41:00.76 when it really does happen. 00:41:00.79\00:41:03.03 That would be pretty horrible 00:41:03.06\00:41:04.09 wouldn't that actually having known 00:41:04.12\00:41:06.80 but yet you know, we have been asleep. 00:41:06.83\00:41:09.36 Because of verse 4 says, 00:41:09.39\00:41:10.44 "But you, brethren, are not in darkness, 00:41:10.47\00:41:13.19 that the day would overtake you like a thief, 00:41:13.22\00:41:16.47 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. 00:41:16.50\00:41:19.05 We are not of night nor of darkness, 00:41:19.08\00:41:20.88 so then let us not sleep as others do, 00:41:20.91\00:41:23.49 but let us be alert and sober." 00:41:23.52\00:41:27.56 In other words he is saying 00:41:27.59\00:41:28.62 we got wake up, we got to wake up. 00:41:28.65\00:41:33.35 And again it's a beautiful thing, 00:41:33.38\00:41:34.87 it's a wonderful thing, it's starling yes-- 00:41:34.90\00:41:39.62 it does mean that final crisis is gonna come, 00:41:39.65\00:41:42.02 yes it means that, 00:41:42.05\00:41:43.74 but remember the consummation of all our hopes 00:41:43.77\00:41:47.91 is what it really is all about. 00:41:47.94\00:41:50.97 Because we're talking about the coming 00:41:51.00\00:41:53.37 the return of Jesus 00:41:53.40\00:41:55.43 and that's the one that loved us 00:41:55.46\00:41:58.39 with an everlasting love. 00:41:58.42\00:42:00.10 He is the one that died for us. 00:42:00.13\00:42:02.55 He is the one that has captivated us 00:42:02.58\00:42:06.74 and brought us to Himself 00:42:06.77\00:42:08.79 and He is the one that is returning. 00:42:08.82\00:42:12.29 This is so relational I don't know 00:42:12.32\00:42:14.40 how much more relational prophecy can be then that. 00:42:14.43\00:42:17.88 Don't you think? 00:42:17.91\00:42:19.50 He hasn't forgotten us. He's coming back for us. 00:42:19.53\00:42:24.88 You know, when-- when I was younger 00:42:24.91\00:42:27.79 I seemed to be always to be finding. 00:42:27.82\00:42:29.27 I am time at 15-16 I seemed to be finding out 00:42:29.30\00:42:31.69 I went through a series of girlfriends 00:42:31.72\00:42:33.10 and they all seemed to be living miles away. 00:42:33.13\00:42:35.10 I don't know what that says like. 00:42:35.13\00:42:36.37 About I was little bit Mosses like 00:42:36.40\00:42:37.54 so they want a lot of young Christian women 00:42:37.57\00:42:41.23 of my age where I was at. 00:42:41.26\00:42:43.80 But I found myself writing these voluminous letters. 00:42:43.83\00:42:46.97 I remember my first girlfriend Linda Streeter 00:42:47.00\00:42:49.58 who lived in Stanwood, Washington. 00:42:49.61\00:42:51.88 I met her at camp meeting, 00:42:51.91\00:42:53.10 camp meetings are wonderful thing you know. 00:42:53.13\00:42:54.86 I met her at Auburn camp meeting. 00:42:54.89\00:42:56.51 And so she was going to Auburn Academy 00:42:56.54\00:42:59.90 I was a freshman that year. 00:42:59.93\00:43:01.65 So were writing these letters, this pre-email, 00:43:01.68\00:43:04.07 believe it or not young people pre-email. 00:43:04.10\00:43:07.05 We didn't have cell phones 00:43:07.08\00:43:08.64 and what this is called 00:43:08.67\00:43:09.84 with something you rarely ever did. 00:43:09.87\00:43:12.86 I remember sneaking down to a payphone 00:43:12.89\00:43:15.87 and making a long distance, I just have talk to her. 00:43:15.90\00:43:19.39 I haven't seen her, I haven't talk to her for-- 00:43:19.42\00:43:21.23 I just had talked to her and I didn't know the operator 00:43:21.26\00:43:23.93 when I said charge it to my home number. 00:43:23.96\00:43:25.66 He would actually call up that number 00:43:25.69\00:43:27.15 and my father answer the phone. 00:43:27.18\00:43:30.05 And but did I hear a lecture he let it go through but-- 00:43:30.08\00:43:33.38 but did I get a lecture about you 00:43:33.41\00:43:35.03 just don't make long distance call, Jim. 00:43:35.06\00:43:37.58 Don't ever do that again. 00:43:37.61\00:43:41.38 So, you know, I would read these letters 00:43:41.41\00:43:43.45 she would send 00:43:43.48\00:43:45.03 and oh, you know I'd been in my room 00:43:45.06\00:43:47.05 that I would write, you know, 00:43:47.08\00:43:48.26 I go through one draft, two draft 00:43:48.29\00:43:50.13 I wanted her to know that I was articulate. 00:43:50.16\00:43:52.49 So sometimes it was three drafts I'd to send it all. 00:43:52.52\00:43:54.97 And then I would wait with anticipation for her to write. 00:43:55.00\00:44:00.20 Eventually, she stopped writing 00:44:00.23\00:44:02.31 that was pretty horrible at that point to go through 00:44:02.34\00:44:05.26 but let me tell you going through that process. 00:44:05.29\00:44:08.62 As wonderful as those letters were 00:44:08.65\00:44:10.02 it was never the same 00:44:10.05\00:44:12.37 as when I was able to be with her 00:44:12.40\00:44:15.00 even to hold her hand, you know. 00:44:15.03\00:44:18.80 And my friend, as wonderful as God's word is 00:44:18.83\00:44:21.19 and it's wonderful as thou should be 00:44:21.22\00:44:22.77 as this Sabbath morning and another Sabbaths. 00:44:22.80\00:44:25.58 My friend it is not the same 00:44:25.61\00:44:28.74 as it's going to be when Jesus comes 00:44:28.77\00:44:30.89 and we see Him face to face. 00:44:30.92\00:44:33.09 And we're in the presence of a power 00:44:33.12\00:44:37.70 that is so overwhelming and yet so loving 00:44:37.73\00:44:42.49 or just gonna be filled with joy 00:44:42.52\00:44:44.79 just over flowing with joy. 00:44:44.82\00:44:47.46 But you know that begins here now. 00:44:47.49\00:44:50.75 That's what's really it's all about. 00:44:50.78\00:44:55.55 And so, oh yes Katrina. I remember Katrina. 00:44:55.58\00:44:58.77 Do you remember Katrina? 00:44:58.80\00:45:00.71 2004 wasn't it somewhere back then 2005 00:45:00.74\00:45:03.00 I guess it was. 00:45:03.03\00:45:04.14 I remember they were interviewing a lady 00:45:04.17\00:45:05.96 who was living on the Gulf Coast. 00:45:05.99\00:45:10.83 You know, all the damage that taking place. 00:45:10.86\00:45:12.57 This is I think Mississippi coastline. 00:45:12.60\00:45:15.69 And so they're interviewing her 00:45:15.72\00:45:17.83 and she is talking about the fact, 00:45:17.86\00:45:19.13 you know, we've lived here 00:45:19.16\00:45:20.19 for a very long time for decades 00:45:20.22\00:45:21.64 they actual lived there. 00:45:21.67\00:45:23.45 In a beautiful home right there on the coastline. 00:45:23.48\00:45:25.92 And she said, "We've heard these warnings 00:45:25.95\00:45:27.75 before, they come and gone." 00:45:27.78\00:45:30.65 But she said, "You know, we always get these warnings 00:45:30.68\00:45:33.19 but the storms would come." 00:45:33.22\00:45:34.51 And but in the background 00:45:34.54\00:45:37.99 you could see they didn't survived this one. 00:45:38.02\00:45:40.96 The house was totally devastated. 00:45:40.99\00:45:43.96 They heard the warnings 00:45:43.99\00:45:45.13 so often they just kind of came to ignore it. 00:45:45.16\00:45:50.13 That surely couldn't happen to us, could it? 00:45:50.16\00:45:53.73 Could it? 00:45:53.76\00:45:55.26 I'd hope it wouldn't happen to us. 00:45:55.29\00:45:56.98 Matthew 24:44 00:45:57.01\00:45:58.62 "For this reason you be ready too, 00:45:58.65\00:46:00.70 for the Son of Man is coming at an hour 00:46:00.73\00:46:02.42 when you do not think He will." 00:46:02.45\00:46:05.30 When we think He isn't, it couldn't happen now 00:46:05.33\00:46:08.02 it couldn't happen now. 00:46:08.05\00:46:09.48 It is the very time in which it could happen. 00:46:09.51\00:46:11.68 Going through the Testimonies page 255, 00:46:11.71\00:46:14.39 the statement 1873. 00:46:14.42\00:46:16.52 "Faith in the soon coming of Christ is waning. 00:46:16.55\00:46:19.51 'My Lord delayeth His coming' 00:46:19.54\00:46:21.09 is not only said in the heart, but expressed in words 00:46:21.12\00:46:23.53 and most decidedly in works." 00:46:23.56\00:46:25.52 Stupidity in the sense of a stupor. 00:46:25.55\00:46:29.12 Okay, the word stupor is what it should be used here. 00:46:29.15\00:46:32.59 "In this watching time 00:46:32.62\00:46:34.00 it's sealing the senses of God's people 00:46:34.03\00:46:36.44 as to the signs of the times." 00:46:36.47\00:46:37.70 That's a danger, particularly those of us 00:46:37.73\00:46:40.00 who known us for so many years, 00:46:40.03\00:46:41.68 those of us who have been raised in it, 00:46:41.71\00:46:43.68 we've heard this, we've would known this, 00:46:43.71\00:46:45.09 we refer to preach, 00:46:45.12\00:46:46.45 that we read it in Sabbath school. 00:46:46.48\00:46:48.62 You know, we know these things about 00:46:48.65\00:46:51.59 but just kind of after a while, you know, you've heard it 00:46:51.62\00:46:55.13 so often it just kind of rolls off your back. 00:46:55.16\00:46:59.45 That's the danger of it. 00:46:59.48\00:47:02.25 And you know, there is one that wants us 00:47:02.28\00:47:03.63 to just roll off a back 00:47:03.66\00:47:04.89 I was holding a series in little Cathlamet, Washington 00:47:04.92\00:47:07.38 back in the spring of 2004. 00:47:07.41\00:47:08.90 I had a Pentecostal couple attending 00:47:08.93\00:47:10.96 and in new process 00:47:10.99\00:47:12.26 we covered up Spirit of Prophecy 00:47:12.29\00:47:14.39 had some of the Ellen White's writings. 00:47:14.42\00:47:17.33 And Trina picked up 00:47:17.36\00:47:18.90 a few of her books took them home 00:47:18.93\00:47:21.89 and the first one she read 00:47:21.92\00:47:23.77 was this book right here this compilation 00:47:23.80\00:47:26.17 "Last Day Events." 00:47:26.20\00:47:27.89 Then take about a few days to read it 00:47:27.92\00:47:29.35 and she came back early to the meeting 00:47:29.38\00:47:31.01 one night before anybody was coming. 00:47:31.04\00:47:33.70 And she told me, she said, I just read this book 00:47:33.73\00:47:35.29 and I've got a couple of questions 00:47:35.32\00:47:36.41 I want to ask you. 00:47:36.44\00:47:37.49 She said, first of all she said, 00:47:37.52\00:47:39.51 "I want to know do you people really believe this?" 00:47:39.54\00:47:42.91 I'll tell you this thing has so stirred her, 00:47:42.94\00:47:45.32 what she had read in this book 00:47:45.35\00:47:47.08 about the end times had so stirred her, 00:47:47.11\00:47:49.10 she wanted to know, do you people 00:47:49.13\00:47:50.92 really believe this? 00:47:50.95\00:47:52.99 Of course I tried to assure her that we did 00:47:53.02\00:47:55.19 but then her next question was 00:47:55.22\00:47:57.20 if you do what are you doing about it? 00:47:57.23\00:48:01.29 What are you doing about it? 00:48:01.32\00:48:03.15 That really caused me to search my heart. 00:48:03.18\00:48:06.22 What are we doing about it? 00:48:06.25\00:48:09.44 And then I want to end the 2 Peter 3:11, 12. 00:48:09.47\00:48:14.36 2 Peter Chapter 3 00:48:14.39\00:48:17.40 and I'm gonna end here in this chapter. 00:48:17.43\00:48:20.58 And beginning what did I say? 00:48:20.61\00:48:22.76 Its 2 Peter not 1 Peter we want. 00:48:22.79\00:48:24.72 2 Peter 3 and I said verse 11 here it is. 00:48:24.75\00:48:27.88 It says "Since all these things 00:48:27.91\00:48:29.79 are to be to be destroyed in this way, 00:48:29.82\00:48:31.98 what sort of people ought you to be 00:48:32.01\00:48:35.11 in holy conduct and godliness." 00:48:35.14\00:48:39.82 One of the crucial questions in all this 00:48:39.85\00:48:41.78 is how do we get ready for the coming of Jesus? 00:48:41.81\00:48:44.32 And by the way we've started a revival this morning 00:48:44.35\00:48:48.15 when we were doing evangelism 00:48:48.18\00:48:49.33 and I were doing the revival Sabbath morning 00:48:49.36\00:48:51.37 for the church. 00:48:51.40\00:48:52.55 And the next presentation, next Sabbath morning 00:48:52.58\00:48:56.08 the revival is Christ our righteousness 00:48:56.11\00:49:00.44 in which I'll share with you 00:49:00.47\00:49:01.52 how we get ready for the coming of Jesus. 00:49:01.55\00:49:06.07 Holy conduct and godliness, what is that talking about? 00:49:06.10\00:49:09.96 Holy conduct comes out of a holy relationship 00:49:09.99\00:49:13.26 I'll say that much. 00:49:13.29\00:49:14.61 Verse 12 "Looking for 00:49:14.64\00:49:15.83 and hastening the coming of the day of God." 00:49:15.86\00:49:19.01 Now we're looking for but it says we have to hasten 00:49:19.04\00:49:22.07 and we can hasten it by making ourselves 00:49:22.10\00:49:24.62 available to be used of God, right? 00:49:24.65\00:49:31.24 Last statement, in which it says 00:49:31.27\00:49:34.47 "Christ is waiting with longing desire 00:49:34.50\00:49:37.75 for the manifestation of Himself" 00:49:37.78\00:49:41.36 the manifestation of Himself where? 00:49:41.39\00:49:44.40 In His church. 00:49:44.43\00:49:46.83 He is not waiting for us to become 00:49:46.86\00:49:48.44 more doctrinally clear, 00:49:48.47\00:49:51.73 He is waiting for the manifestation 00:49:51.76\00:49:55.68 for us to make ourselves available 00:49:55.71\00:49:57.54 for the manifestation of Himself. 00:49:57.57\00:49:59.74 You see, there is far more 00:49:59.77\00:50:01.60 in this matter of sharing the gospel 00:50:01.63\00:50:03.47 with the whole world than just-- getting up 00:50:03.50\00:50:06.13 and proclaiming it and preaching and teaching it 00:50:06.16\00:50:08.44 that it is a part of it, it is a part it. 00:50:08.47\00:50:10.96 But there is something that is much deeper, 00:50:10.99\00:50:12.78 much more powerful, 00:50:12.81\00:50:13.89 it must come out of one's heart, 00:50:13.92\00:50:15.48 it must come out of one's experience. 00:50:15.51\00:50:17.65 And it must not just be the pastor or the evangelist, 00:50:17.68\00:50:19.95 it must be our collective experience in Jesus. 00:50:19.98\00:50:23.69 Jesus Manifested through us 00:50:23.72\00:50:25.73 that's what we're talking about. 00:50:25.76\00:50:28.00 And my friend, that is a thing of beauty. 00:50:28.03\00:50:31.21 The doctor never approach, doesn't really focus in on that 00:50:31.24\00:50:34.12 so much but it's Christ in you 00:50:34.15\00:50:37.24 the hope of glory that we're talking about. 00:50:37.27\00:50:41.69 "So it's the manifestation of Himself in His church. 00:50:41.72\00:50:43.68 When the character of the Savior." 00:50:43.71\00:50:45.75 And the character of the Savior is in the word, 00:50:45.78\00:50:49.30 "love, compassion, and mercy." 00:50:49.33\00:50:53.09 "When the character of the Savior 00:50:53.12\00:50:54.29 shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, 00:50:54.32\00:50:57.07 then He will come to claim His own. 00:50:57.10\00:51:02.14 It is the privilege of every Christian, 00:51:02.17\00:51:03.59 not only to look for, 00:51:03.62\00:51:04.79 but to hasten, the coming of our Lord. 00:51:04.82\00:51:07.24 Were all who profess His name bearing fruit to His glory, 00:51:07.27\00:51:10.71 how quickly the whole world would be sown 00:51:10.74\00:51:13.51 with the seed of the gospel. 00:51:13.54\00:51:15.43 Quickly the last great harvest would be ripened, 00:51:15.46\00:51:18.12 and Christ would come." 00:51:18.15\00:51:19.88 In the last moments we know, they will be very rapid ones, 00:51:19.91\00:51:22.50 but they're gonna come out of the people, 00:51:22.53\00:51:25.25 us revived and stirred 00:51:25.28\00:51:28.30 by the love and grace of Jesus 00:51:28.33\00:51:30.18 the outpouring of the Holy Spirit 00:51:30.21\00:51:31.78 and all of those things we know. 00:51:31.81\00:51:34.06 It's our privilege to experience. 00:51:34.09\00:51:37.24 Here now, here now and let it begin here. 00:51:37.27\00:51:42.39 Yeah, they're longing in your heart, 00:51:42.42\00:51:43.45 your long to see Jesus, the long that to see Him come, 00:51:43.48\00:51:46.98 just raise your hand where you're at 00:51:47.01\00:51:49.79 and I want you to listen as we conclude 00:51:49.82\00:51:52.42 as Janice sings this beautiful song 00:51:52.45\00:51:55.75 "When the Time Comes." 00:51:55.78\00:51:57.88 Cleanse me, Lord 00:52:14.53\00:52:19.85 Of all my silly, sad charades 00:52:19.88\00:52:26.13 How I want to be 00:52:26.16\00:52:31.14 all and only Yours 00:52:31.17\00:52:36.17 Take away the clutter 00:52:36.20\00:52:39.78 in my life everyday 00:52:39.81\00:52:45.72 And make me like a child at play 00:52:45.75\00:52:52.73 Give me joy 00:52:58.09\00:53:02.77 I love to laugh and cry with You 00:53:02.80\00:53:08.85 You've become a friend 00:53:08.88\00:53:13.53 with me all the time 00:53:13.56\00:53:19.33 Help me to be patient 00:53:19.36\00:53:22.85 as I watch and as I pray 00:53:22.88\00:53:29.04 Growing in Your love each day 00:53:29.07\00:53:36.32 Lord, show me the way 00:53:36.35\00:53:41.73 When the time comes 00:53:41.76\00:53:46.37 I want Him to know me 00:53:46.40\00:53:50.45 When the time comes 00:53:50.48\00:53:55.17 I want to be there 00:53:55.20\00:53:58.38 When the time comes 00:53:58.41\00:54:04.66 I want to be ready 00:54:04.69\00:54:11.23 When Jesus 00:54:11.26\00:54:16.24 comes to take me, 00:54:16.27\00:54:19.54 take me home 00:54:19.57\00:54:24.17 Fill me, Lord 00:54:36.70\00:54:42.02 I want Your love to overflow 00:54:42.05\00:54:48.08 Running free through me 00:54:48.11\00:54:53.17 to a lonely world 00:54:53.20\00:54:58.24 Let me share that simple truth 00:54:58.27\00:55:02.34 that sets people free 00:55:02.37\00:55:07.37 How I want them all 00:55:07.40\00:55:10.98 to see Lord 00:55:11.01\00:55:16.33 how it can be 00:55:16.36\00:55:20.17 When the time comes 00:55:20.20\00:55:24.96 I want Him to know me 00:55:24.99\00:55:29.13 When the time comes 00:55:29.16\00:55:33.50 I want to be there 00:55:33.53\00:55:36.88 When the time comes 00:55:36.91\00:55:43.58 I want to be ready 00:55:43.61\00:55:50.36 When Jesus comes to take me 00:55:50.39\00:55:58.13 When my Jesus 00:55:58.16\00:56:05.21 comes to take me 00:56:05.24\00:56:08.19 When Jesus 00:56:08.22\00:56:16.19 comes to take me 00:56:16.22\00:56:21.92 Take me home 00:56:21.95\00:56:29.92