We're an anchor for those
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who are hurting
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We're a harbor for those
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who are lost
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Sometimes it's not always easy
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bearing Calvary's cross
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We've been ridiculed by those
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who don't know Him
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And mocked
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by those who don't believe
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Still I love standing up
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for my Jesus
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Cause of all
that He's done for me
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That's why I am not
ashamed of the Gospel
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ
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I am not afraid to be counted
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But I'm willing to give my life
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See I'm ready to be
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all He wants me to be
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Give up the wrong for the right
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No I am not
ashamed of the Gospel
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No I am not ashamed
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of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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For every moment His hand
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has held mercy
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For all the
love that's He's show
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on my life
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A simple thanks
doesn't say what I'm feeling
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Now I get tears in my eyes
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So, as for me, I'm
gonna keep on believing
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In the one who's
been so faithful to me
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I'm not out to please this
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whole world around me
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I've got my mind on eternity
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That's why I am not
ashamed of the Gospel
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ
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No I am not afraid to be counted
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But willing to give my life
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See I'm ready to be
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all He wants me to be
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Give up the wrong for the right
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No I am not
ashamed of the Gospel
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No I am not ashamed
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of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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No I am not
ashamed of the Gospel
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No I am not
ashamed of the Gospel
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I've got too much behind me
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to let this world blind me
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To some He's a name,
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but to me He's my everything
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I am not ashamed of the Gospel
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No, I am not
ashamed of the Gospel
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of Jesus Christ
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Of Jesus Christ
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You know, it's like
Elder Bob Parker once said,
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we--you know we can
miss the mark by 18 inches
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as preachers and
evangelist and that is the,
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this is between
the mind and the heart
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and both need to be
engaged, don't they?
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And as we
talked about last night
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we certainly have a message
that is intellectually sound
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and you know for those of us
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who are
particularly intellectual,
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you know, orientation,
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you know, we just
love the intellectual part
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of the message and
it is a beautiful thing.
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But the heart
must be engaged as well
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and that is the
power of the union
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between the spoken word
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and the power of
the gospel in music.
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And I-- you know there
are just new answers that
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or expressed in
song that the spoken word
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just can quite reach.
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Have you noticed that?
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So anyway-- so we're
talking about loving the Jesus,
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talking about not being
ashamed that the gospel,
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well, we love the
Lord Jesus Christ,
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we will love His appearing.
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We will look forward
with great anticipation
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to the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And as we began
sharing last night
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you know, that is the
beauty of the biblical message.
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It is a message that
is founded in the gospel
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and then essential part
of the gospel, is prophecy.
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It's not the gospel or prophecy
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there are part
and parts of the same,
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for what Jesus did
at the cross of Calvary,
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place out over time.
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As I shared last night it
means two fundamentals things
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what Jesus did at Calvary means,
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there is an end
coming to the horrible mess
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that we are in because of sin.
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All the suffering and pain
and the death is going on and--
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and He give a moment
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it's coming to an end my friend,
that is actually good news.
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And then we have
this wonderful future
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that God has planned
for us in that new heaven
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and new earth that we
just touched on last night.
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We are gonna get
into much more details
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about those
things but anyway it's--
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it's a wonderful
thing if we understand it
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in his it's
proper-- proper context.
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Take your
Bibles and turn with me
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the 2 Peter Chapter 3,
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2 Peter 3 and
beginning with verse--
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we'll be looking at
verses 3 and 4 to begin with,
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the subject is entitled
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"Where is the
promise of His coming."
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Where is the
promise of His coming,
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2 Peter 3 and
beginning with verse 3,
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where it's says,
well, I'm in 1 John,
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so let me move
over to the next page,
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where it's says,
"No this first of all
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that in the last days mockers
will come with their mocking,
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following after
their own lusts."
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You notice what
their agenda is all about,
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just pleasing themselves
doing their own thing.
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And they will be saying verse 4,
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and saying, "Where is
the promise of His coming?"
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where is it?
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"For ever since the
fathers fell asleep,
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all continues just as it was
from the beginning of creation."
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And something they
think about isn't it?
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You know, since
the very beginnings
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of the advent
movement we have been declaring
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the eminent
return of Jesus Christ,
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the eminent return of Jesus.
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The very
foundations of this moment
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the advent moment
are founded on the belief
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that we are
living in the last days,
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the closing hours
of earth's history.
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And we have been
proclaiming this message
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for over one
hundred and sixty years
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from our very
subjected human perspective.
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That seems like a
very longtime, doesn't it?
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We've been proclaiming
it for again a longtime.
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But not only are there--
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are there those
outside of the church scoffing
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at the idea of the coming
of Jesus the promise of it.
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But they are those
even within the church
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that are asking the
question, where is it?
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Is it really gonna happen,
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we've been
preaching this so long?
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Well it ever happen?
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Well, I'm gonna
take you back in time,
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you know, it's interesting
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as you look at our
movement historically,
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there's some parts that--
but I remember J.F. Kennedy,
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how many of you
remember J.F. Kennedy
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when he began the run for
president of the United States.
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And I remember-- I
remember some of the things
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that were being
said in the church
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at that period of time,
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do some of you
that go back remember
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what they were saying,
First Roman Catholic President.
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Oh, we know prophecy
is got to be fulfilled,
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we know the end has to
be right upon us, right?
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And then right
on heals of that I--
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I remember some
talking about 1964.
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Do you know 1964?
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At least for some it
was a very important year.
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Because it marked a 120
years since 1844, 120 years
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and I remember the text
being quoted from Matthew 24,
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where Jesus said, "As
it was in the days of Noah
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so shall it be in the
coming of the Son of man."
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And since Noah preached
his message for 120 years
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and then the end took place.
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You've got kidding now
Roman Catholic president
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and then you've got--
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a 120 years we've
been proclaiming it.
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You know, this kind of
stuff goes on, it goes on.
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Then there are those,
those who talk about the fact
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we are on the verge
of the 7th Millennium.
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In fact, I've heard
somebody put a date to it,
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it's just a few years from that.
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Did you know that?
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All these dates I mean I
wish people will get the--
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you know Matthew 24,
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Jesus said, "No man
knows day or the hour."
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So this idea of day setting
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we know, we are in
the time of the end
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we just don't know
the day or the hour of it.
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But they are those who say,
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we're on the verge
of the 7th Millennium
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and of course we
know the 7th Millennium
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we're gonna be
spending in heaven.
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And we have seen
these things come and go.
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And let me tell you it
is like crying wolf, wolf
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and for those who us have
gone through those experiences,
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you go through
enough of these experiences
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it gets to the point where you--
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where you just want to say,
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please spare
me, please spare me.
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When we preach the--
when we preach the prophecies
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and they are biblical
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and that's I pointing out
there truly Christ centered
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if properly understood.
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When we preach the prophecies
we need to do so responsibly.
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And have been guilty
sometimes are making predictions
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we've been guilty of you
know making representations
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that I know some
have come to regret.
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I remember being
in a workers meeting,
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it would be the summer of 1972,
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I would guess
that you were there
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because it was at my wedding
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and I remember he
happened to be an evangelist
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and he had a-- he was
appointed to speak to us pastors
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and I remember that he was
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predicting an
eminent financial crisis,
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the whole financial
system was gonna go down
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because we were
leaving the gold standard.
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J. R. was his first two
initials and I remember that
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and here we are right in
another financial crisis.
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So what are
we're gonna do with it?
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We can't totally ignore it
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but we know that
is part of the size
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that we expect
to be taking place
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before the coming of
Jesus, can we say this is it?
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No, we have to be responsible
in a representation of prophecy.
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Do I hear an,
amen out there at all?
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Amen.
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Yeah, we need to be
responsible about it.
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Could it happen? It could.
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The point is we must
be ready, regardless.
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Amen.
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But let us be careful
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because we give
the message a bad name.
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We give prophecy you
know, these representations
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under mind the
significance of prophecy.
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And when these
things come and go,
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nothing really,
really comes of it,
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nothing really happens.
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I remember-- I remember
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when I was at college
and I don't have any idea,
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if you're hearing
some of these things
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but I sure was picking it up.
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You know, how can we as a church
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continue to be talking about
the amendment return of Jesus
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when it has been so long?
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How can we be--
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be talking about
His eminent return?
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And some have concluded
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that we can no
longer in good faith,
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we can no longer
continue to proclaim the message
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as we have and as a result
00:14:30.40\00:14:32.10
through significant
segments of the church,
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the message has been torn down
and we lost to a certain extent
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the sense of the urgency
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of the times
that we are living in.
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And within the
sense of the mission
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that we've been
called to as Christians,
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and let me tell
you this is a message
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not just for Seventh-day
Adventist Christians,
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this is a message
for all people of faith,
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because it's
biblical, amen. Amen.
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It's not exclusively ours,
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but God is very
specially called us
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for the purpose of
getting this message out.
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And others would have
to stop those archaic,
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those archaic 19
century practices
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of evangelizing and
proclaiming the prophecies.
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Where are we in
the stream of time?
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This is gonna be the question
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we are gonna be
spending time out.
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Where are we in
the stream of time?
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Are we indeed in the last days?
Are we truly in the last days?
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Is it just something we say,
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something that's in
the list of the things
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that we supposedly believe?
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Where are we in
the stream of our time?
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And my friend, as we
look at the inspiration
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it becomes clear we
are in a time of delay.
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We are in a time of delay.
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You see the
reason for the delay,
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really should be a concern
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for every true
believer in Jesus Christ,
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who looks forward
to the coming of Jesus.
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If indeed there is a
delay, why is there a delay?
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And I take you
back to 2 Peter 3,
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as we pick it up
verse 9, in verse 9.
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We're gonna read
the first part of it.
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I want you to
notice the response
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that we find in the word of God
to this question, the mockers,
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you know, where is
the promise of His coming?
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And here is the answer verse 9,
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"The Lord is not
slow about His promise,
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as some count slowness,
but His patient toward you,
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not wishing for any to perish."
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The Lord is not
slow about His promise
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as some would count slowness.
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Right, some
would count slowness.
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You see, we have a
very limited subject
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due of time, don't we?
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God has His own
view about time, right?
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The one who inhabits eternity,
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I mean, the angels pass to Him
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as if they were today
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and what is going to be
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as if they that
already happened.
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So God has a
perspective about time
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that we can't really,
fully appreciate it, understand.
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So this time the issue
we really out not get too,
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too carried away
with, don't you think?
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God has His timing and
notice the first reason
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we find is we look at verse 9,
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why the promise has
not yet been fulfilled
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is because it says,
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of the patience of
God toward you, toward us.
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Let me ask you the question,
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where would you
and I be, individually
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where would be as a people
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if it wasn't for
the patience of God?
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And the patience God
speaks of the mercy of God,
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doesn't it?
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Of His great love
and compassion is behind.
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Really, why there's
a delay is fundamental
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to why there is a delay
His patience toward you.
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He doesn't wish
for any to perish.
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And by the way
that's why we do evangelism
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is because of the deep
love that God has for those
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who are lost and
the tremendous desire
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that He has that all
would come to repentance,
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yes, He would have all here
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in Corvallis come to repentance.
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You know, we were talking
about this the other Jill,
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and I-- we put
up 49,000 broaches
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wouldn't be
wonderful, if we got 15%.
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Wow, where will
we have the meetings?
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If we had just 10%
response from the 49,000,
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I mean-- we could still
have a problem, wouldn't we?
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We would figure
it out, believe me,
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we would figure it
out, wouldn't we Jill,
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by God's grace.
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If we had 1% return
but we don't see that,
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this is the
times that we live in,
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this is the good
old United States
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its part of the culture,
its part of the prosperity
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I guess that is a part
of-- of our way of life.
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And at some point
that all that sense of--
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you know, and that's gonna
be disturbed at some point.
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It's gonna disturb
that sense of security
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and I think
things are gonna open up.
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So what do we do?
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It's tough, you know,
they are not coming up
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by the hundreds and thousands
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we are not
seeing Pentecost today,
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not in the United States.
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So we're just gonna wait,
we're not gonna do anything.
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No we're not just
going to do anything
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because the love of Jesus is
a dynamic force in ones life.
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And collectively the dynamism
of the love and grace of Jesus,
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is what moves us to share,
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to reach out not just
to share the doctrine of it
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but to share the
experience from it
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that experience that is
against centered in Jesus Christ
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that is centered
in the relationship.
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And it's vital,
absolutely vital.
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I remember my-- my
oldest son who is 27,
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just turned 27,
David was three months old
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when I began this work.
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So you can figure
out the math on that.
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Three months old when we--
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when we went on the
road fulltime my family
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until he was halfway
through his first grade year.
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That was an
interesting experience
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to put my two sons through.
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And when you're in ministry
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often you are one of the
first ones at that meeting
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and you're usually
one of the very last
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you often end up
turning the lights off,
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making sure the
doors locked as you leave.
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And I remember
this one occasion,
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David was probably three or four
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he could have been five I
guess but that age preschool
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and I have been
visiting with people
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as at end of the meeting
and David came up to me finally
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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.
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You know and my
oldest son is ADHD
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that's the
Attention Deficit Hyperactive
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its part of the disorder,
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you know my son
was always on the go,
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always knew at some
point he would channel
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that all that energy
into something productive
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and these in the
process of that I believe.
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But anyway so why,
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you know, he
wanted to get going.
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I don't know how you feel about
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this matter of
the coming of Jesus
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but I know that some of
us, I hope most of us maybe
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and all of us have that sense
00:21:20.24\00:21:21.98
when we think about
that-- that earnest desire that,
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it will happen
that Jesus will come.
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But you see sometimes
we get just a little bit
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too comfortable in the here
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and now we get just a
little bit too comfortable
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let's be honest about it.
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You know, most of us
have a really pretty good ear,
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maybe too good.
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And so-- so have we lost
our sense of anticipation.
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And again why
has a Lord not come?
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Let me share
with you a statement
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this is from volume 2
The Testimonies, page 194
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and notice the date
of the statement 1868.
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That's quite a long time
ago from our perspective.
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And this is what
inspiration tells us,
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"The long night
of gloom is trying,
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but the morning is" is what?
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The word defer that's
another word for delay.
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The morning is
delayed in, in what?
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In mercy out of love.
God is never arbitrary.
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It is out of mercy,
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it is out of His
love that it is deferred
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and this was
been said back 1868.
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"Because if the
Master should come"
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this is the reason.
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"If the Master should come
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so many would be found unready."
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God can hardly stand the idea
that His children would be lost.
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And He sees there are
00:22:49.15\00:22:50.18
so many that are
lost who are not ready,
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if He should come
they would be lost.
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And He's not willing.
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My friend, God
is not going to act
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prematurely in
bringing it to an end.
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God has a very specific plan,
He has a very specific purpose
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that's gonna be carried
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and is been carried
out in the end time.
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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.
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And so--So many
would be found unready,
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as a reason and it goes on say
00:23:36.81\00:23:38.05
"God's unwillingness
to have His people."
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Now this gets a
little bit closer to home.
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That's you and me who
profess the name of Jesus.
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"God's unwillingness
to have His people perish,
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has been the reason
of so long a delay."
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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
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When Jesus
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comes to take me
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Take me home
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