Participants: Dwight K. Nelson
Series Code: NP
Program Code: NP031012
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00:05 From the campus of Andrews University,
00:08 this is New Perceptions with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson. 00:28 He is exalted, the king is exalted on high 00:34 I will praise Him! 00:36 He is exalted, forever exalted 00:40 And I will 00:42 praise His name! 00:48 For He is the Lord 00:52 Forever His truth shall reign 00:57 Heaven and earth 01:01 Rejoice in His holy name 01:05 He is exalted, 01:07 the King is exalted on high 01:14 He is exalted, 01:16 the king is exalted on high 01:20 I will praise You 01:22 He is exalted, forever exalted 01:26 And I will 01:29 praise His name 01:34 For He is the Lord 01:39 Forever His truth shall reign 01:43 Heaven and earth 01:47 Rejoice in His holy name 01:52 He is exalted, 01:54 the King is exalted on high 02:00 For He is the Lord 02:04 Forever His truth shall reign 02:09 Heaven and earth 02:12 Rejoice in His holy name 02:17 He is exalted, 02:19 the King is exalted on high 02:26 He is exalted, 02:27 the King is exalted on high 02:43 Majesty, 02:46 worship His majesty 02:51 Unto Jesus, 02:53 be all glory honor and praise 03:00 Majesty, kingdom, authority 03:08 Flow from His throne, 03:10 unto His own, His anthem raise. 03:16 So exalt, 03:19 lift up on high the name of Jesus 03:25 Magnify, come glorify, 03:29 Christ Jesus the king 03:35 Majesty, worship His majesty 03:42 Jesus who died, now glorified, 03:47 King of all kings 03:52 Majesty, worship His majesty 04:00 Unto Jesus, 04:03 be all glory honor and praise 04:10 Majesty, kingdom, authority 04:18 Flow from His throne, unto His own, 04:23 His anthem raise. 04:27 So exalt, 04:30 lift up on high the name of Jesus 04:36 Magnify, come glorify, 04:41 Christ Jesus the king 04:46 Majesty, worship His majesty 04:54 Jesus who died, now glorified, 04:59 King of all kings 05:03 Jesus who died, now glorified, 05:08 King of all kings 07:50 Now we've come to the word of God. 07:51 I'm gonna plunge into this. This is a teaching. 07:58 We need God and all of His divine majesty 08:02 to engage our minds for these next few moments. 08:07 So I want to ask you to pray with me. 08:12 Think as you pray, pray as you pray. 08:14 And let us call upon God. 08:17 Oh, God, in three persons, bless eternity. 08:22 How easy it is for us to talk about you in the third person. 08:26 God is good, God is love, 08:31 God is holy. 08:34 So what is worship, if it's not that sacred opportunity 08:38 to open our hearts directly to you in the first person? 08:43 So dear God, here we go. 08:45 You're Holy Father, You're Holy Christ, 08:47 You're Holy Spirit as we plunge into Holy Scripture. 08:54 We listen for your voice, teach us, 08:56 hide this little preacher, hide us all, 09:02 so that You might be front and center. 09:04 We pray in Christ name. Amen. Question. 09:12 How do you teach a subject like the trinity? 09:18 Well, libraries have shelves 09:20 filled with books on the trinity. Question. 09:22 How do you teach a subject like the trinity 09:26 in about a half hour? Answer. 09:28 You talk very fast, so hold on your pew, grab your Bible, 09:33 we're going right now we have just begun. 09:35 Open your Bible please to John 14. 09:38 The Gospel of John 14. 09:40 And some of you're saying, you know what, Dwight, 09:41 where they have time out please, who cares about the Trinity. 09:45 Ah, let me ask you a few questions. 09:47 Do you know 09:49 that one of our presidential candidates today 09:51 does not believe in the trinity? 09:54 Mormons believed that Christ Himself was created by God. 09:58 Did you know that Jehovah's Witnesses 10:00 don't believe in the trinity either 10:02 and so they have crafted their own translation 10:05 to prove their point of view. 10:07 Do you know that 1.4 billion Muslims on the planet today 10:10 do not believe in the trinity and neither do the Jews. 10:16 So whether you believe in the trinity or not 10:18 makes all the difference in the world, now doesn't it? 10:21 Which is why you need to know 10:23 why you believe what you believe. 10:26 So let's go you're ready. You are opening up to John 14. 10:29 And while you are finding John 14, 10:31 let's employ a little bit of philosophical logic, okay. 10:37 The crowning depiction of God in all of sacred literature, 10:41 the crowning depiction of God goes like this. 10:43 God is, how does it go. God is love. 10:47 Let's put it on the screen, 1 John 4:8, 10:49 let's read it out loud together. "God is love." 10:54 And what is love? 10:56 I suppose if we went to the upper room, 10:57 we couldn't find a more powerful 10:59 definition of love than what Jesus Himself gave. 11:02 We've already read these words before John 15:13. 11:05 "You can have no greater love than this, 11:07 than to lay down your life for your friends." 11:11 Love presupposes the existence of somebody else. 11:16 Love can only flourish and exist 11:19 in the context of relationship or friendship. 11:22 All right, so God is love. 11:25 God needs someone else in order to be love. 11:31 Describe God's nature is to depict Him 11:33 always in relationship with another. 11:36 Okay, now the Bible also teaches 11:40 that God is the creator of the entire universe, 11:43 true or false? 11:45 But of course which means logically now think, 11:48 which means logically there was a time 11:50 when there was only God, isn't that right? 11:53 Matter is not eternal, only God is eternal, 11:54 so there was a time when there was only God. 12:00 Now look. 12:03 If God were singular, 12:05 if He were all by Himself at that time in the distant past 12:09 when there was nothing but God in existence, 12:11 then God could not be love at that time. 12:15 For love requires the presence of another to receive it. 12:22 Which would mean love then cannot be 12:25 the very essence of God, for there was a time 12:27 when there was no one to love, 12:30 unless of course 12:33 God is plurality rather than singularity. 12:39 There is a dynamite quotation 12:41 I want to share with you right now, 12:42 so grab your study guide, come on let's go, 12:44 grab your study guide. 12:45 Brand new study guide in your worship bulletin today. 12:47 You didn't get a study guide here come 12:48 the world's friendliest ushers your way, 12:50 you are gonna want that this is a big study guide. 12:53 You're gonna want to keep this study guide, 12:55 put your hand up if you didn't get a study guide 12:57 when you came in, in the balcony, 12:59 in the sanctuary 13:01 anybody in the youth chapel holds your hand up, 13:03 we want to make sure the study guide is yours. 13:05 And by the way those of you who are watching 13:07 we're delighted to have you. 13:08 You gonna have the same study guide. 13:09 Let me put it on the screen for you our website. 13:12 Go to that website. 13:13 There you see it on the screen right now, go to that website. 13:17 The study guide is waiting for you www.pmchurch.tv. 13:21 You're looking for our series, 'The Last Days.' 13:24 These are the last days of Jesus life 13:26 as Pastor Hosea a moment ago reminded us the Book of John, 13:30 the fourth gospel is our theme. 13:32 And by the way worship team 13:34 splendid and glorious worship today. 13:36 Thank you for leading us. 13:39 You're looking for the series entitled 'The Last Days.' 13:43 Today's teaching 'Trinity Under Fire.' 13:46 When you see Trinity under fire in, 13:48 let's say study guide 13:49 you get a double sided study guide today. 13:52 You gonna want the study guide 13:53 and so those of you who are watching live streaming, 13:55 we're delighted to have you. 13:56 Go to that website, get the study guide. 13:57 Come on be a part of this live 13:59 wherever in the nation or the world you are. 14:01 Let's go, let's put the first statement on the screen 14:05 that we read just a moment ago. 14:06 Fill it in please. 1 John 4:8, "God is love." 14:12 That is the shining 14:16 crowning depiction of God in Holy Scripture. 14:20 God is love. 14:21 Now let me tell you about a book. 14:22 Woody Whidden, Jerry Moon, and John Reeves, 14:25 three professors on the campus of Andrews University, 14:28 they collaborated to write 14:30 a very helpful book on the Trinity 14:33 which I have, which I have read 14:35 and which you will be blessed when you do. 14:39 I want to pull a quotation right out of that book. 14:43 And I want you to brood over this quotation. 14:46 By the way, title of the book 'The Trinity, 14:48 Understanding God's Love, His Plan of Salvation, 14:50 and Christian Relationships.' 14:52 I have to be careful because the author 14:54 Woody Whidden is sitting right over there, 14:55 so I'll make sure I quote this correctly. 14:58 But He wrote the segment 15:00 on the theological development of the Trinity 15:03 and so he found this quotation, 15:05 I love it, it's from Bruce Metzger, 15:06 Bruce M. Metzger the great, 15:08 the great New Testament scholar, Greek scholar. 15:11 All right, the words are on the screen, 15:12 you have to fill them in. "The Unitarian." 15:15 There are Americans who call themselves the Unitarians. 15:18 They say only one God, no trinity just one God. 15:21 "The Unitarian professes to agree 15:23 with the statement that 'God is love.'" 15:26 This is Metzger writing. 15:28 But these words, 'God is love,' 15:31 have no real meaning unless God is at least two Persons. 15:36 We just ran through that 15:37 little bit of philosophical logic a moment ago. 15:39 "You have to have two. 15:40 Love is something that one person has for another person. 15:43 If God were a single person 15:44 then before the universe was made, 15:46 He was not love, couldn't have been. 15:49 "For, if love be of the essence of God, 15:52 he must always love, and, being eternal." 15:54 I thought this is very helpful. 15:55 "He must have possessed an eternal object of love. 16:00 Furthermore." Keep reading. 16:01 "Perfect love is possible only between equals." 16:06 Good point. 16:07 "Just as a man cannot satisfy 16:09 or realize his powers of love by loving lower animals." 16:13 And wasn't that God's point with Adam by the way. 16:15 He said, hey, Adam, name the animals, 16:17 see if anyone of these you'll be happy with. 16:18 He was not happy. 16:20 Just as man cannot be satisfied 16:26 or realize his powers of love by loving lower animals. 16:28 The quotation goes on. "So." This was helpful. 16:31 "God cannot satisfy or realize his love 16:34 by loving man or any creature." 16:36 Oh, come on, God, aren't I enough, 16:38 wouldn't you be happy, just you and me. 16:41 And the answer is no. 16:45 I need somebody like me to love 16:49 and to receive and give. 16:52 Metzger goes on. 16:53 "Being infinite, 16:55 he God must have eternally possessed 16:57 an infinite object of his love." 16:59 And I like this, jot it down. 17:00 "Some alter ego, some alter ego, 17:06 or to use the language of traditional 17:07 Christian theology, a consubstantial." 17:10 Oh, mine, Dwight, what's that word, 17:11 I'll put it in brackets say, what's that consubstantial 17:14 "of one or the same being." 17:16 He needed someone of one or the same being. 17:19 Metzger goes on. "Co-eternal and co-equal Son." 17:23 Right in the word "Son". 17:27 Look, just think. 17:28 In order for God to be God and to be love, 17:30 He must have at least one co-equal, 17:32 one co-eternal person with whom He bestows love 17:35 and from whom He receives love, 17:37 He has to have it or He is not love. 17:41 In eternity past way back there, 17:43 He had to have it, in eternity future 17:45 He has to still have it in order to be love. 17:47 Here's another quotation, 17:49 then we'll plunge into the scripture. 17:50 Otto H. Christensen also very helpful. 17:54 Thank you, Woody for including these. 17:57 And we'll get to quoting you in just a minute. 17:59 All right Otto Christensen, put it on the screen. 18:01 "There is a sense in which the fact 18:03 that God is love requires 18:05 that He be more than one person. 18:08 Love must have both a subject and an object." 18:11 That was helpful for me. 18:13 "Thus prior to the creation of other persons humans, 18:16 God could not have really love 18:18 and thus would not have been truly love, 18:20 if however their have always been multiple persons" 18:24 right that down. 18:26 "if there have always been multiple persons 18:27 within the trinity itself, among whom 18:29 love could be mutually exercised, 18:32 expressed, and experienced, 18:33 then God could always have been actively loving." 18:37 Now notice this point. This now takes it up. 18:40 "Because God is three persons, 18:43 rather than two, there is a dimension of openness 18:46 and extension not necessarily found in a love relationship 18:51 between two persons 18:52 which can sometimes be quite closed in nature." 18:57 Come on, you watch lovers, 18:59 we're getting close to spring time, 19:00 watch young lovers on this campus. 19:02 They are totally in themselves, I mean totally. 19:05 There is nothing but the two of them. 19:07 That's a problem with two. Two, in fact jot this down. 19:10 "Two persons form a couple, 19:13 three persons become community." 19:16 See, two is not enough, three now to capture, 19:19 the fullness, you got to have three 19:21 and that's why, by the way, 19:22 let me just tell you, you're young adults 19:24 who are looking forward to getting married 19:25 one of these days, that's why you'll add a child. 19:29 You'll add a child to your twosome 19:31 because twosome you will begin to sense, 19:33 you want to expand, you want to move 19:35 from couple to community. Fascinating. 19:41 Listen, let's turn from philosophical logic, 19:43 let's plunge into scripture. Did you already find John 14. 19:45 Open your Bible to John 14. Let's go. 19:48 Because what is clear here in the fourth gospel. 19:51 And by the way, we are now 19:53 don't miss next time you and I are together, 19:55 we are in the heart of Gethsemane, 19:57 the denier, the denial, the denied. 20:01 And our story is there. 20:02 Don't miss the next one, we're now-- 20:04 Calvary is just minutes away. 20:06 But one last time to go to the upper room discourse. 20:08 Jot this down, will you. 20:09 In John 13-17 Jesus declares His unity with the Father. 20:15 And all those references after the Father there, 20:18 I went through and read the entire upper room 20:19 discourse this week, took notes. 20:21 everywhere Jesus talks about that unity with His Father. 20:24 I jotted the references down, check them out later. 20:27 Let's just examine one of them. 20:30 John 14, you've already found it 20:33 and I have not yet. John 14, here we go. 20:37 This is a familiar passages, 20:38 let's pick it up in verse 5 John 14, 20:40 I'm in the New King James Version. 20:41 By the way, you didn't bring your Bible, 20:42 you got to track this, you must track this. 20:44 Let me give you a page number, page 726. 20:47 Grab the pew Bible in front of you. 20:48 Let's go, John 14:5. 20:50 "Thomas said to Jesus, 'Lord, we do not know 20:53 where You are going, and how can we know the way?' 20:56 And Jesus said to him, 20:57 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. 21:01 No one comes to the Father except through Me. 21:05 Verse 7, "If you had known Me, 21:07 you would have known My Father also, 21:08 and from now on you know Him and have seen Him." 21:11 Philip said to Him, 'Lord, show us the Father, 21:16 and it is sufficient for us.' 21:18 Jesus said to him," Incredulous toads. 21:23 'Have I been so long with you, 21:27 and yet you have not known Me, Philip? 21:30 He who has seen Me has seen the Father, 21:32 so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 21:33 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, 21:35 and the Father in Me? 21:36 The words that I speak to you 21:38 I do not speak on My own authority, 21:39 but the Father who dwells in Me, 21:42 He does the works." 21:45 Now those who reject the teaching, 21:47 the Bible teaching of the trinity. 21:49 They say ah, there it is Dwight, 21:50 thank you for bringing that passage out. 21:51 There it is proof that the Father 21:53 and Son are interchangeable. 21:55 Sometimes He calls Himself the Son, 21:57 sometimes He calls Himself the Father. 21:58 He is in me, I'm in Him. 22:00 See it's all one person. Hold on, no, no. 22:03 That's the ancient heresy called modalism. 22:07 That heresy taught that God appeared in different modes 22:10 depending on what He needs. 22:12 No, no, no, no, no, look at Jesus. 22:14 Drop down to verse 16. If I could put it on the screen. 22:16 No I need to fill up, I need to fill in. 22:18 Go back to John 14. Thank you for that. 22:20 John 14:9, 10. 22:21 Make sure you get that on the screen John 14:9, 10. 22:24 "He who has seen me has seen the Father. 22:29 I'm in the Father and the Father in me. 22:32 Well, if you just took a casual reading, 22:33 you'll say, oh, that's great, He's just switching hats. 22:35 You can call me Father and you can call me Son. 22:37 No, no, no. 22:39 Look at verse 16, same chapter. 22:41 And you'll need to fill this in as well. 22:42 Jesus speaking, "And I one being will ask the Father." 22:47 Write in the word ask. 22:48 By the way isn't that something He's gonna ask. 22:50 If He were the Father I'll ask myself, 22:52 it doesn't even make sense. I'll ask myself. No. 22:56 "And I one being will ask the Father another being, 23:01 and he will give you another Helper a third Being." 23:04 Clearly Jesus differentiates 23:05 between Himself and God the Father 23:07 and we might add the Holy Spirit or Helper. 23:10 They are three separate persons. 23:15 And yet Jesus, isn't that something, 23:17 Jesus declares Himself to be one with the Father. 23:21 Why does He say that. Very clearly He says it. 23:24 You watch why He says that. 23:26 Just turn, keep you little ribbon right there. 23:28 Just turn to Chapter 10. 23:29 Turn back a few pages to Chapter 10. 23:32 Find out now, why He says the Father and I are one. 23:36 Here's the very line where He says it. John 10:30. 23:39 Jesus speaking, you have a red letter Bible, 23:41 this would be bright red. "I and My Father are one." 23:46 Now notice the response. Verse 31. 23:48 "Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 23:52 And Jesus answered them. 23:53 'Many good works I have shown you from My Father. 23:55 For which of those works do you stone Me?' 23:58 And they answered Him." Verse 33 saying. 24:00 'For a good work we do not stone You, 24:03 but for blasphemy." What's blasphemy? 24:07 "You being a Man, make Yourself God.'" 24:10 They know exactly what He has said. 24:12 When he says the Father and I are one, 24:14 He is saying I am divine, I am God. 24:19 And they pick up stones. 24:21 I'll tell you what again and again. 24:24 Jesus in the fourth gospel declares His unity, 24:30 His equality with Almighty God. 24:34 In fact one more place and this is the clincher 24:37 and actually happens earlier. 24:38 John 8, so just turn back a few more pages. 24:41 At the very end of the Chapter John 8. 24:44 Jesus speaking to the Jewish leaders again. 24:46 This is John 8:58. 24:49 "And Jesus said to them, 'Most assuredly." 24:51 NOW remember in the Greek a double amen, 24:55 ooh, slow down this is big. Amen, amen. 25:00 "Jesus said to them, 25:01 Amen, Amen I say to you before Abraham was," 25:05 what? I AM. 25:09 All capitals, all capitals by the way 25:11 because scholars are absolutely clear 25:13 and so were his listeners 25:15 that Jesus is linking Himself 25:17 to the roaring flames of the burning bush 25:20 and the eternal self-existent one 25:22 who thunders out of the flames to Moses who is on his face. 25:26 I'm who I am. 25:30 Jesus is saying I am that God. 25:34 And then look at verse 59. No question they got it. 25:37 Verse 59, "And then they took up stones to throw at Him, 25:40 but Jesus hid Himself went out of the temple 25:42 going through the midst of them and so passed by." 25:46 Ladies and gentlemen, in the gospel, 25:49 the fourth gospel the divinity of Christ 25:53 is repeated again and again. 25:55 I love these symbols that Hosea, 25:58 Chaplain Hosea set up for our worship today. 26:01 John introduces seven of these claims of Christ with the I am 26:07 and in the Greek it has to be all caps 26:09 in order to capture the meaning of that I am. 26:11 Seven of them, Jesus say I am the bread, 26:17 I am the door, 26:23 I am the good shepherd, 26:27 I am the light, 26:30 I am the resurrection and the life, 26:33 I am the way the truth and the life, 26:36 I am the divine, seven of them. 26:40 No question, 26:42 the deity and divinity of Christ 26:45 is confirmed in the fourth gospel. 26:46 In fact fill this in. 26:48 Fill this in so that you won't forget it. 26:49 "The gospel of John unequivocally declares 26:51 the deity and divinity of Christ." 26:54 Now that slide is not over. But get that down. 26:57 "Unequivocally declares the deity 26:59 and divinity of Christ 27:02 for the gospel begins with its mighty prologue 27:04 and the Word was God 27:09 and it ends with the grand confession of Thomas, 27:12 "My Lord and my God." 27:15 Book ended by two claims to divinity. 27:21 So for those who study Holy Scripture 27:22 and there are some even today within the Christian community 27:25 and within my community of faith 27:27 who do not see what the Bible is teaching. 27:30 And they are saying, no there is no trinity. 27:33 The Gospel of John is unassailable, 27:36 unassailable evidence corroborating the teaching 27:42 that you can't be living in eternity past 27:44 all alone and be love. 27:46 You can't be the essence of who you say you are, 27:49 if there is nobody to receive that love. Wow. 27:55 So John very much wants us to catch, 27:57 to capture the unity that Jesus senses with his Father. 28:00 Let's just put a few more under this category 28:02 John 14:23 Jesus speaking here. 28:04 "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, 28:07 and my Father will love him and We--" 28:09 Now noticed this plural. 28:10 "And we will come to him and make Our home with him." 28:14 Note it very carefully ladies and gentleman. 28:16 "Here you have one who claims to be 28:18 in the divine inner circle 28:19 using the plural pronoun to refer to themselves." 28:24 By the way isn't that amazing 28:25 that the Bible opens in the Book of Genesis 28:27 with that same plural being exercised. 28:29 We're kind of left with this mysterious plural. 28:32 What's happening here. 28:33 "Let Us make man in Our image." 28:37 The same plural pronounce. 28:40 Let Us make man in Our image. Jot it down. 28:43 "Jesus Himself is describing God as plurality." 28:47 He is plural. John 14:31. 28:52 "I love the Father." 28:53 Let me just run a few more by it. 28:54 John 15:15. 28:57 "All things I heard from my Father 29:00 I have made known to you." How about another one. 29:01 John 16:32. 29:03 "I am not alone, because the Father is with me." 29:05 The intense unity of Jesus with His Father. 29:08 And would you jot this down John 17. 29:10 "Jesus entire prayer is steeped in language 29:13 that declares His unity with the Father. 29:17 There is no question. 29:18 In fact, we got to do this, go back to John 17. 29:21 I want to read in your Bible. 29:23 John 17. Just catch this flavor. 29:25 The whole prayer is steeped 29:27 in the language of Christ and Father. 29:31 The oneness they enjoy. 29:32 This is John 17 beginning-- 29:34 this is the last prayer Jesus will ever pray for you and me. 29:39 This prayers from henceforth are form self. 29:42 When we get to Gethsemane you'll see. 29:45 Jesus spoke these words, this is John 17. 29:47 "Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven 29:50 and said, Father the hour has come." 29:53 Time for Calvary. "The hours come. 29:55 Glorify your Son that your Son may also glorify you. Verse 2. 29:59 "As you have given Him authority over all flesh 30:01 that He should give eternal life to 30:03 as many as you have given Him." 30:04 Now notice verse 3." 30:06 And this is eternal life that they may know You, 30:09 the only true God and Jesus Christ 30:11 whom You have sent." 30:12 You cannot give eternal life unless you are eternal yourself. 30:16 He's making the very clear statement. 30:18 I am is eternal as the Father. Look at verse 4. 30:22 "I have glorified You on the earth. 30:23 I have finish the work which you have given Me to do. 30:26 And now O Father, glorified Me together with Yourself 30:30 with the glory which I had with you before the world was." 30:33 Isn't that something it says in John-- 30:35 in the prologue in the beginning was the word, 30:37 and the word was with God and by Him all things 30:40 which are came into being. 30:42 Before the word created the entire universe, 30:45 the word it was made flesh. 30:46 Before He created the entire universe 30:48 He and the Father were the glory I shared 30:50 with you before creation. 30:54 You can't have love 30:57 without a plurality. Wow. 31:02 But would you jot this down in John 14-16. 31:05 "Jesus has just as much declaring His unity 31:08 with the Holy Spirit." Jot that down. 31:10 And there are references for the Holy Spirit. 31:13 John 14:26, let's just catch just a sampling of these. 31:17 John 14:26 fill it in please. 31:19 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit 31:21 that would be one being." All right. 31:25 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit that's one being, 31:28 whom the Father another being 31:31 will send in my name a third being, 31:34 He" Now noticed this. 31:35 "He will teach you all things 31:37 and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you." 31:41 Notice how closely Jesus describes 31:43 His collaboration with the Holy Spirit. 31:45 Look at there is so much more I wish I could tell you 31:47 but there's no more time now. 31:49 I'm about to die, but when He comes 31:51 He'll pick it right up and He'll teach you, 31:53 He'll teach you the rest. 31:55 Close collaboration and by the way 31:57 jot this down, will you? 31:59 Note that the Upper Room Discourse 32:01 intentionally uses the masculine pronoun 32:05 "He" Write that in. 32:07 It uses the masculine pronoun, 32:09 He to refer to the Holy Spirit 32:10 rather than the neuter pronoun "it". 32:13 You see the spirit in Greek is it, it's neuter. 32:17 It should receive the anteceded should be it. 32:21 But here the pronoun, the pronoun is he. 32:24 John says, I know the rules of grammar here, 32:26 but I'm switching the rules. 32:27 I want you to know 32:28 that the Holy Spirit is the He, 32:30 he's a person. Keep writing. 32:33 Thus affirming the biblical truth 32:35 that the Holy Spirit is not an impersonal spirit. 32:37 Some people try to say well, it's the spirit 32:39 that goes out of God's heart. 32:40 Just the spirit that goes out of God-- 32:41 no, no, no He's not an impersonal spirit 32:43 that emanates from the Father or the Son, 32:45 but is rather a personal being. Keyword. 32:48 Would you write that in please. 32:50 But the Holy Spirit is rather a personal being 32:54 that joins them in their divine mission. 32:58 I mean you look at all these personal activities 33:00 just here in the upper room discourse. 33:02 He teaches, He dwells, He reminds, 33:04 He testifies, He convicts, He guides, He glorifies. 33:08 It's the action of a person, 33:10 you know, just a little emanation. 33:12 He's a person, real life person. 33:16 That's why Jesus can say John 15:26. 33:19 "He will testify of Me." 33:21 Look at how tight Jesus and the Holy Spirit are. 33:23 "He will testify in Me." John 15:26. 33:25 Look at John 16:14. "He will glorify Me." 33:29 Clearly there's a profound unity 33:30 between Jesus and the Holy Spirit 33:32 just as there is between Jesus and the Father 33:34 and clearly the Holy Spirit is just as divine as Jesus 33:38 and the Father are. 33:40 No equivocation, the evidence is clear, 33:44 all three are divine. 33:48 Reading Woody Whidden and Woody wrote these words 33:50 and put them on the screen for you need to fill them in. 33:52 Please Woodrow Whidden. 33:54 "Tha triunity of the one God." 33:56 I like that phrase. The triunity of the one God. 34:03 That's good. 34:04 The triunity of the one God is the profound unity 34:08 or oneness inherit in the doctrine of the Trinity. 34:11 Here are three divine beings. Write that down. 34:15 Here are three divine beings lined up together 34:18 in such a way as to point to their oneness of purpose 34:22 in imparting grace in love to God's people 34:25 through their deep fellowship with one another 34:27 and the redeemed." 34:29 That's from the book "The Trinity, 34:32 Understanding God's Love, 34:33 His Plan of Salvation and Christian Relationships. 34:36 Ladies and gentlemen, it is no wonder 34:39 that the New Testament radiates with the glory of the Trinity. 34:43 Let me run this by you real fast. 34:45 Keep your wrist moving here because here we go. 34:47 Let's go to the baptism of Jesus. 34:49 "The Trinity at Jesus baptism. 34:51 Fill that in please and then, let's read Matthew 3:16. 34:56 "When Jesus had been baptized, 34:58 He came up immediately from the water 35:00 and behold the heavens were open to Him, 35:03 and He saw the Spirit of God." There is being number two. 35:08 "Descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 35:11 And suddenly a voice came from heaven." 35:13 Being number three. 35:15 "Saying this is My beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased."' 35:18 You don't think the Trinity was going to miss out 35:21 on the launching, 35:22 the public launching of the Messiah's mission. 35:25 Are you kidding? They were there together. 35:29 By the way jot it down the next blank. 35:32 The Trinity is at your baptism too. 35:35 Not just Jesus baptism, your baptism. 35:38 You don't think the Trinity would miss out 35:40 on the day you're baptized 35:43 in their name do you, are you kidding? 35:45 They will all be there, 35:47 if you haven't been baptized yet. 35:49 Matthew 28 let's read that verse 19. 35:51 Jesus great gospel commission 35:54 "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, 35:56 baptizing them in the name of the Father 35:58 and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit 36:01 teaching them to observe all things 36:02 that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, 36:05 even to the end of the age.' Amen." 36:09 Amen for the Trinity being at our baptisms. 36:11 Keep writing. 36:13 Notice the Trinity is also in our church. 36:19 I want to go back to where the baptism 36:20 just for a minute I'm scrambling 36:23 making them scramble up and measuring. 36:24 But I want to go back to that quotation. 36:26 I want you to get this quote, speaking of your baptism. 36:29 A century ago Ellen White wrote these words. 36:31 I want you to see them, I'll put them on the screen for you. 36:33 Here we go. Little book "Evangelism." 36:36 There are three living persons of the heavenly trio." 36:40 Three, three living persons of the heavily trio, 36:43 "in the name of these three great powers Father, 36:47 the Son, and the Holy Spirit those who receive Christ 36:50 by living faith are baptized. Keep reading. 36:53 And these powers will cooperate 36:55 with the obedient subjects of heaven 36:56 in their efforts to live a new life in Christ." 36:59 When you come to Jesus and you are baptized in Him. 37:01 The three great powers of the universe 37:04 combine to make it a win-win for you, 37:06 win-win for you to eternity. 37:09 Hallelujah I say, amen. How about you? 37:12 Isn't that something the Trinity is on your side. 37:16 Okay, now we go to the Trinity in our church. 37:18 I love this. 37:19 The Trinity in our churches, did you write that down. 37:21 Look at Paul here. 37:22 We'll read 1 Corinthians 12:4-6. 37:25 Let's go to that please. 37:27 "There are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit." 37:30 One being. Next verse. 37:31 "There are differences of ministries, 37:32 but the same Lord." Second being. Next Verse. 37:35 "And there are diversities of activities, 37:36 but it is the same God who works all in all." 37:39 The Trinity is in the thick of the church, 37:41 that's why the church is so precious to God. 37:44 He will never abandon the church. 37:46 Let me give you another one. 37:47 The Trinity is in the thick of our worship. 37:49 What we were doing today what we are doing today, 37:51 the Trinity is drawn to this kind of this, 37:55 this kind of experience. 37:57 The Trinity at our worship. Look at this, I love this. 37:59 One of the great benedictions of the New Testament. 38:01 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, 38:04 and the love of God, 38:06 and the communion of the Holy Spirit 38:09 be with you all. Amen." 38:11 Let me give you one more. 1 Peter 1:2. 38:13 "The Trinity in our salvation they are caught up 38:16 in our salvation from stem to stern." 38:18 Take a look at this verse. 38:19 "We are elect according to the foreknowledge 38:21 of God the Father, 38:23 in sanctification of the Spirit." 38:25 Keep reading. 38:26 "For obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, 38:30 Grace to you and peace be multiplied." 38:32 Because grace and peace are what happen 38:35 when the Trinity come into your life. 38:39 Grace and peace to you. 38:42 Ladies and gentlemen, have you noticed 38:44 when the New Testament places all three beings 38:47 in the same expression as we just saw 38:50 on the same level as in these five passages 38:53 it is hard to avoid the conclusion 38:54 that all three beings are viewed as persons of equal standing, 39:00 equal stature, and equal status. 39:05 The Trinity what Woody Whidden calls 39:07 the triunity of the one God 39:09 or as he puts it in another place, 39:11 that tri personal Godhead. 39:14 And by the way you say, 39:15 oh, Dwight, that's just the New Testament, 39:16 the Old Testament doesn't support that word, take a look. 39:18 Let's go back to the Old Testament. 39:20 Do you remember the majestic Hebrew Shamar. 39:23 Now you remember it. I'll put it on screen for you. 39:25 You'll have to fill it in. 39:26 This is Deuteronomy 6:4, 39:28 "Hear, O Israel, That Lord our God, 39:32 the Lord is" what? 39:34 Write that down. The Lord is one. 39:37 Aha, Dwight, see I told you, no Trinity, 39:39 one God, not three persons, not so fast. 39:43 This is fascinating. Wait till you hear this. 39:47 You see Moses carefully selected the Hebrew word for one. 39:53 Jot this down, will you? 39:55 Instead of choosing the word yachid 39:57 which means one in the sense of only or alone, 40:01 Moses chose the plural word echad, 40:05 which means one among others in a joined or shared oneness. 40:10 He uses a plural for the Lord our God is one. 40:13 It's a very same word by the way that appears in Genesis 2:24. 40:17 Moses little homily, 40:19 maybe it was the creator's homily 40:21 after Adam and Eve were brought to each other. 40:23 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother 40:26 and be joined to his wife, 40:28 and they shall become one echad two beings who share oneness, 40:33 they shall become one flesh. Isn't that amazing? 40:37 Two very distinct and different human beings 40:39 becoming one in marriage 40:41 even so three distinct and different divine beings 40:43 within the Trinity revealing a similar oneness. Wow. 40:50 Norman Gulley in his new 40:53 volume two of the Systematic Theology. 40:55 I just brought it this week. 40:57 Title of the volume two is God As Trinity. 40:59 He quotes another theologian. 41:01 Let me put it on the screen for you. 41:02 Millard Erickson observes 41:04 that the unity of husband and wife is not uniqueness, 41:08 but it's the unity of diversity. 41:10 It speaks of union rather than aloneness. 41:14 You see the Bible doesn't describe God 41:15 with the oneness of aloneness. 41:17 He is all alone before there was a universe. 41:19 No, the Bible describes God, 41:21 he picks in with the oneness of unity 41:24 just like the unity of a godly marriage 41:26 where two become one 41:27 even so the Trinity three are one. 41:33 Let us make man in our image and indeed they did. 41:39 We become one just as they are one. 41:43 Wow, it's a mystery, two diverse people coming together 41:49 and becoming one in marriage, it's a mystery. 41:52 Three diverse persons together as the Trinity. 41:58 But I know what you say. 41:59 You say, you know something, Dwight. 42:01 So what? 42:03 I mean please, what difference does this make 42:06 for my life in the third millennium. 42:11 Remembers Jesus' upper room discourse, 42:13 how He demonstrates His, passionate unity with the Father 42:17 His passionate unity with the Spirit. 42:19 Guess what, in that same upper room, 42:22 He prays for passionate unity, 42:24 His passionate unity with you and me. 42:27 In fact listen to this. 42:28 Four times in his closing prayer, 42:30 the last prayer he prays 42:31 before His crucifixion for you and me. 42:33 Four times, notice this prayer. 42:34 Put it on the screen just flying by, verse 17:11. 42:38 "O, Father that they may be one as we are." 42:40 Look at the next verse, verse 21. 42:42 O, Father that they may all be one in Us, 42:43 that the world may believe that You sent Me." 42:45 Look at the next verse, verse 22. 42:46 "O, Father that they may be one just as We are one." 42:50 Look at verse 23. 42:51 "Father I in them, and You in me 42:53 that they may be perfect in one." 42:55 I like the way the NIV renders that. 42:56 "That they may be brought to complete unity." 43:00 The last prayer He prays for us. 43:02 Father bring them please to complete unity. 43:06 So how united, 43:09 how united are we around here? 43:15 How united are we? 43:19 Are we one even as the Father and Christ, and Spirit are one. 43:24 You know, what they say, don't you. 43:27 They say marriage is when two people become one, 43:29 the trouble starts when they have to decide which one. 43:35 Isn't that the truth? 43:37 Yeah, we won but yeah, 43:38 which one are we're going to be, you or me. 43:41 That's perhaps the seed of our own disunity. 43:47 Now sitting 43:49 with the group of denominational leaders this last week. 43:52 And one of our senior leaders commented 43:55 that he feared that our schools 43:58 and our hospitals and our churches 44:01 are drifting apart into aloneness 44:04 rather than oneness. 44:10 The days of institutional unity and partnership long on, 44:14 every organization now looks out for itself first. 44:17 And by the way, that's not just institutions, 44:19 that's people, Christian people, Adventist Christian people, 44:23 people who allow racial differences to breed disunity, 44:27 people who allow social economic education differences 44:30 to isolate ourselves 44:31 in stifling silos of our own making. 44:35 People who have abandoned interracial, 44:39 intergenerational, institutional collaboration in unity. 44:45 Where are those days? 44:46 Do we have to worship separately? 44:51 Do we have to socialize separately? 44:56 Do we have to read in the cafeteria separately? 45:04 Jesus' last prayer for us. Put it on the screen. 45:06 "O, Father, that they may be one just as We are one." 45:12 Because we were created for unity within community. 45:15 Did you know that? 45:17 In fact did you know that the word unity is right there. 45:22 You see the word unity in the word community, 45:24 sure you do. There it is. 45:27 Unity is in community. 45:29 You can't have community without unity. 45:31 If you take the unity out of community you have comm. 45:37 And who wants comm. 45:41 You have to have unity in community 45:43 for community to be community. 45:45 And that's the Trinity, they have found unity, 45:49 they have displayed for us unity within community. 45:53 That's how the Trinity has live forever and ever 45:56 and that's how humanity must learn to live. 45:58 Unity within community, that's the calling, 46:02 that's why the Trinity make 46:03 such a big difference for you and me. 46:06 We can't just brush this off 46:08 as old academic doctrinal, who cares. 46:12 No, it matters everything 46:15 for the survival of this community of faith. 46:18 For if we abandon unity, there will be no community. 46:22 And then we're doomed. 46:26 You say what's that mean unity and community, 46:28 just ask the Trinity. 46:30 You want the Trinity to answer that. 46:31 In closing let me share with you 46:33 the Trinity's answer, here it is. 46:34 Jot it down, will you please. 46:36 The unity of the Trinity 46:37 is the fruit of mutual submission. 46:40 I wrestled for usage, shall we put 46:41 the word subordination. 46:43 It just feels too clingy. 46:45 The Trinity demonstrates unity through mutual submission. 46:51 Watch how these works, keep your pen moving. 46:53 "The Father submits to the Son." 46:56 In Hebrew's 1:13, 46:59 "The Father comes and said, Son, sit right here 47:01 'cause I'm gonna take care of Your enemies for You, 47:02 I'm gonna put them 47:03 under your feet as your footstool." 47:04 The Father summits Himself to the Son. 47:08 In Philippians 2, He says, "Okay, all universe, 47:10 I want you to bow down to Him. 47:12 Every knee will bow down to Christ. 47:15 The Father summits Himself to the Son 47:16 and guess what, it works the other way. 47:18 The Son summits Himself to the Father. 47:21 That's huge Jesus says in John 5:19. 47:24 "I can't do anything on my own, 47:25 everything I do comes from the Father." 47:28 Boy, He says, the Father speaks, 47:34 I speak, He has submitted Himself to the Son-- 47:38 in fact He's to the Father rather. 47:40 In fact in Philippians 2, it says, "The Son 47:44 rather than choosing equality with God 47:46 to be something grasp at, empties Himself. 47:51 Submits to Father. You, You, I come down. 47:56 And by the way you guessed 47:57 the Holy Spirit submits to both the Father and the Son. 48:01 In the upper room discourse it's very clear. 48:02 Father says Spirit go, the Spirit goes. 48:04 Son says Spirit go, the Spirit goes. 48:07 The Spirit has submitted himself to both. 48:10 His companions in the Trinity. 48:11 Submitted himself, mutual submission. 48:16 Ladies and gentlemen, jot it down, will you please. 48:18 Mutual submission is the secret to genuine unity. 48:21 When I place your interest ahead of mine. 48:26 When I love you sacrificially 48:28 in other words at my own expense. 48:31 How many marriages today could be saved 48:33 if unity were defined as mutual submission. 48:36 I summit myself to you. 48:39 No, I submit myself to you, mutual submission. 48:43 I place your interests ahead of mine. 48:45 I will love you sacrificially. 48:49 Calvary, I want to put this on the screen 48:53 'cause I want you to just... 48:57 let this go deep in your mind. 49:00 Calvary is the Trinity's most sublime exhibit 49:05 of Their mutual submission to our fallen race. 49:10 Do you understand that the Trinity 49:11 has submitted itself to this earth? 49:16 And one member of the Trinity will for ever and ever 49:19 bear the form of humanity as evidence, 49:23 the Trinity has put our interest ahead of theirs, 49:28 risking the entire kingdom 49:31 in an effort to save the human race. 49:33 And I tell you what, ladies and gentlemen, 49:34 unity within community, 49:35 it doesn't get any better than that. 49:37 Unity within community saved us once upon a time. 49:40 And unity within community can only save us now. 49:44 Unity within community. 49:46 Unity within community, that is our only salvation. 49:58 So what do I do with this teaching? 50:01 You got a next step for me this time, Dwight? 50:03 Yep, take out your connect card, will you. 50:06 Take out your connect cart. 50:08 It's in your worship bonus, 50:09 it's sort of card that Chaplin Hosea 50:10 talked about just a moment ago. 50:12 You've already filled out this side of it, 50:13 that's what you do when you come, 50:14 you spend the first moments of your worship experience 50:17 is making sure this side is filled out, 50:18 so that we can get to this side. 50:19 I want to go to the backside. 50:20 What's the next step, because you can't come 50:22 to a teaching like this and not take a next step. 50:25 So turn your card around. 50:26 My next step today is I want to read Jesus 50:30 John 17 prayer everyday this next week. 50:33 I'm gonna put a checkmark there 50:34 and I want to invite you to put a checkmark too. 50:36 I will read John 17 everyday this next week. 50:41 The great prayer of unity. 50:44 And here's another checkmark. 50:45 I will seek to build unity within community. 50:47 In my dormitory room I will seek to build 50:50 unity within community. 50:51 In my marriage I will seek to build unity within community. 50:54 In my office place, I will seek to build 50:56 unity within community. 50:58 In my school, 51:01 I will seek to build unity within community. 51:05 Put a check mark there. 51:06 You are saying but, Dwight, 51:08 you know, I love this metaphor, the wine and the bread 51:10 and, you know, I've never come to Jesus. 51:12 I have never given my life to Jesus. 51:15 You know, what my friend, today is your day. 51:18 You see this little box right here. 51:19 You please put a check mark, I'm interested in beginning 51:22 a relationship with Jesus. 51:23 Put a check mark there. 51:24 Our connect team will get this 51:26 and tomorrow the next day in cyberspace 51:31 you will receive the steps to take, 51:35 to begin a life in relationship, in friendship with Jesus. 51:40 You want to begin anew, 51:41 I can't believe how many last week, 51:42 for the last two weeks we've just begun this card, 51:44 the same number every week. 51:46 New people saying I want to begin my friendship. 51:50 And by the way, those of you watching on live streaming, 51:52 we got responses from across the nation 51:54 and we were not even prepared. 51:55 You will see a mechanism 51:57 whereby you can send the same decision. 52:00 And we will honor that decision 52:01 and we'll try to get to you the material that we have here. 52:05 I am interested in beginning a relationship with Jesus 52:07 I would like, Dwight, could you send me 52:08 some information on baptism? 52:11 I love the idea that Trinity coming to my baptism. 52:13 I love the idea being drawn into a friendship 52:17 with a community that will last for ever and ever, 52:19 I want to be in that community, 52:20 I want to be baptized like Jesus, 52:22 I want them there that day. 52:24 By the way, over here we're setting aside 52:26 Saturday April 21 or Saturday April 28. 52:30 Why not in the semester with you making a decision 52:34 and sealing the decision. 52:35 I want to be one with the Trinity. 52:37 They are one together, 52:38 I want to be a part of that oneness. 52:41 Make the decision. Put a check mark there. 52:43 You want information on church membership 52:44 put a check mark there, we'll get a information to you. 52:47 Interested in serving on a team at PMC. 52:49 Listen to this, I got to tell you this. 52:50 So I come to church today its early 52:52 and I see one of my seminary students 52:54 who was in my preaching class last year. 52:58 And I said, Raul, what do you all dressed up 53:00 in the orange of the-- 53:01 the orange of the traffic ministry. 53:02 I didn't know you're on this team. 53:03 He said, I wasn't. 53:04 But you said the other day to sign up to serve the church, 53:07 I went online 12 ministries will send you. 53:09 You pick the one you want. 53:10 He said, I picked traffic ministry 53:11 and I'm starting today. 53:13 You don't have to take a month, 53:14 you don't have take a half a year 53:15 to figure out what to do. 53:17 We'll start you next Sabbath, if you want to serve Christ. 53:21 Come on, you're always thinking about studying, 53:24 studying socializing, socializing. 53:29 I invite you to think about serving, serving. 53:31 You're an adult, you've been sitting on this pews 53:33 for a long time and you aren't serving. 53:35 Go to that, we'll send you a website. 53:36 You'll pick the 12, pick, you pick, it's yours. 53:40 And finally I like to learn more about the Bible. 53:43 Seventy two people last week send in, 53:44 I want to learn more about the Bible. Wow. 53:48 If you'd like to know more about the Bible, 53:49 we'll make sure that you know more about the Bible. 53:53 In a moment I'm gonna pray with you. 53:55 And then the ushers are gonna come 53:57 and we're gonna receive our morning tithes and offerings. 53:59 Today's offering by the way is 54:00 for this little church right here, 54:02 the Andrews University Pioneer Memorial Church. 54:05 It's to keep this church going. 54:07 It's so that this church can minister to this campus 54:09 and through you minister to the entire planet. 54:12 A hundred nations are part of this congregation. 54:16 If this church is a blessing to you, 54:18 if you're a member in this congregation, 54:20 thank you for your liberal generosity. 54:22 So that this congregation 54:23 can continue to do what it's doing. 54:25 I'm gonna pray with you. 54:26 We received our morning tithes and offerings 54:29 and then at the end 54:30 two stanzas of this majestic Trinitarian in Him. 54:34 This service doesn't end until those two stanzas, 54:37 look it, it's 10 minutes before you're used to leaving, 54:41 so stay right here. 54:44 You know, we are so conditioned as American Adventist 54:47 that when the preacher is down, 54:49 I got what I came for and I'm out of here. 54:52 No, you didn't get what you came for. 54:54 Here's a majestic Trinitarian in Him, 54:57 just to short stanzas of it, holy, holy, holy, 55:00 and we're gonna sing with all our might, 55:02 then we go forth into the world with the Trinity. 55:06 Let's pray first and then our ushers will come. 55:09 Dear God, Father, Son and Spirit, 55:13 You've emptied Your throne 55:19 in the treasury of heaven 55:20 to save this runaway rebel race. 55:26 And we will never be able to thank you enough 55:29 but we give now, 55:30 it's just a humble unselfish response, 55:34 take these gifts. 55:37 The tithes return, take them, multiply them, 55:39 grow Your kingdom on earth even as it is in heaven. 55:43 But dear God, there's a next step. 55:46 We can't learn about you 55:48 and not take a next step with You. 55:50 So whether it's reading and praying John 17 55:53 everyday this next week 55:55 and then beginning to grow unity 55:57 within the little communities where we are. 56:00 Whether it's coming to Jesus for the first time, 56:02 asking please help me, 56:04 show me what I must do to follow Him in baptism. 56:08 Whether it's joining the church, 56:09 or joining a service, a ministry team 56:12 whatever it is, dear God, bless our next steps. 56:15 Let the Trinity join us in every step 56:19 until that day when we shall be face to face. 56:22 In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 56:27 I'd like to take a moment here at the end of the service 56:29 to tell you about one of the most 56:30 important groups of people 56:31 that make this ministry possible. 56:34 They are team of people, they're not afraid to get down 56:37 into the thick of life itself, 56:40 which is why you're gonna find them, 56:41 you will find them moving forward on their knees. 56:44 There are prayer partners. 56:46 A group of men and women and young adults 56:49 who believe that this humble television ministry 56:52 has been raised up by God for such a time as this. 56:54 And so they pray earnestly that God will use the preacher. 56:58 The God will use me, the God will use 56:59 the countless other volunteers 57:01 to spread the everlasting gospel 57:03 and the word of God in ways 57:04 we could never have imagined before. 57:07 They're the ones who are praying 57:08 that God is gonna open up the hearts of people, 57:11 open up the hearts of viewers 57:13 around the world for the message, 57:15 the critical message for this end time generation. 57:19 And what I'd like to do is ask you. 57:21 Would you be willing to be a prayer partner with us, 57:24 a prayer partner with New Perceptions. 57:26 You don't have to call a toll free number. 57:27 You don't have to go online to register. 57:30 All I need to know is that you'd be willing 57:32 to lift this little ministry up day after day after day. 57:38 Pray that somehow through radio 57:41 and television and the web, 57:42 God will open up new doors, 57:43 new regions on earth 57:46 where the everlasting gospel can be proclaimed. 57:49 There is no question, the power of prayer 57:51 has potential to take this ministry to places 57:54 we could never have imagined before. 57:57 So that's it. 57:58 Would you please be willing to partner with me in prayer. 58:01 The times are urgent, the need is critical 58:05 and I hope you'll say yes. 58:07 Till we're together next time, may the prayer answering God 58:11 accompany you every step of the way. |
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