Good morning and welcome to PMC.
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Thank you for
joining us this morning.
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We are so happy to have
all our visitors here today.
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Ah, that's a full house
and we are grateful to be here
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and I just want to read
you a verse in Hebrews 10:21
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and it says, "And since
we have a great High Priest
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who rules over God's
house, let us go right into
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the presence of God with sincere
hearts fully trusting in him.
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For our guilty
consciences have been sprinkled
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with Christ's
blood to make us clean,
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and our bodies have
been washed with pure water."
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Let us hold tightly
without wavering to the hope
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that we affirm,
for God can be trusted
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to keep His promise.
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Let us think of ways
to motivate one another
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to acts of love and good works.
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And let us not
neglect meeting together,
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as some people do,
but encourage one another,
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especially as the day
of the Lord is coming soon.
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We invite you to come
into the Lord's presence boldly
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because of Jesus
Christ and worship together
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in the beauty of holiness.
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Stand with us as
we sing our first song
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"Come now is the
time to worship."
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Come, now is the time
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to worship
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Come, now is the time
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to give your heart
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Come, just as you are
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to worship
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Come, just as you are
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before your God
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Come It's to come
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Come, now is the time
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to worship
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Come, now is the time
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to give your heart
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Come, just as you are
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to worship
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Come, just as you are
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before your God
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Come One day every tongue
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will confess you are God
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One day every knee will bow
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Still the
greatest treasure remains
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For those, who
gladly choose you now
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One day every tongue
will confess you are God
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One day every kneewill bow
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Still the
greatest treasure remains
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For those, who gladly
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choose you now
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Come, now is the time
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to worship
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Come, now is the time
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to give your heart
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Come, just as you are
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to worship
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Come, just as you are
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before your God
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Come One day
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every tongue will
confess You are God
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One day every knee will bow
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Still the greatest
treasure remains for those,
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Who gladly choose you now.
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One day every tongue
will confess you are God
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One day every knee will bow
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Still the greatest
treasure remains for those,
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Who gladly choose you now.
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Come, now is the time
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to worship
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Come, now is the time
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to give your heart, Come
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Amen. Oh God, you are my God
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and I'll ever praise you.
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Let's stay standing as we
sing "Oh God, You are my God."
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Oh God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise You
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Oh God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise You
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I will seek You in the morning
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And I will learn
to walk in Your ways
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And Step by step You lead me
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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Oh God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise You
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Oh God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise You
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I will seek You
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I will seek You in the morning
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And I will learn
to walk in Your ways
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And Step by step You lead me
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And I will follow
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And Step by step You lead me
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And I will follow
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And Step by step You lead me
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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Amen, you may be seated.
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Revelation 15:3
starts out saying,
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"And they were
singing the song of Moses,
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the servant of God,
and the song of the Lamb
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and this was the
song "Great and marvelous
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are your works, O
Lord, the Almighty.
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Just and true are Your
ways, O King of the nations.
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Who will not fear you, Lord,
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and glorify Your name?
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For You alone are holy.
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All nations will come
and worship before You,
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for Your righteous
deeds have been revealed."
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The splendor of the King.
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The splendor of a King
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Clothed in majesty
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Let all the earth rejoice,
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All the earth rejoice.
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He wraps himself in Light,
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He wraps himself in Light,
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And darkness tries to hide
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And trembles at His voice
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Trembles at His voice
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How great is our God!
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Sing with me How
great is our God!
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And all will see How great,
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How great
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is our God
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And Age to age He stands
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And Age to age He stands
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And time is in His hands
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Beginning and the
end Beginning and the end
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The Godhead
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The Godhead Three in One
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Father, Spirit, Son
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The Lion and the Lamb,
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The Lion and the Lamb.
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How great is our God!
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Sing with me,
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Sing with me How
great is our God!
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And all will see How great,
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How great is our God
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Everybody sing
Name above all names
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Name above all names
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You are Worthy of all praise
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My heart will sing
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How great is our God!
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Let's sing How great is our God
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How great is our God,
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sing with me
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How great is our God,
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and all will see How great,
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how great is our God
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How great is our God
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How great is our God,
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sing with me
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How great is our God,
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and all will see
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How great, how great is our God
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All together now
How great is our God,
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How great is our God,
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sing with me
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How great, how great is our God.
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And all will see how great,
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How great is our God.
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Let us be joyful.
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Thanks you Andrews
again, you are beautiful,
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we needed that.
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Let's be joyful
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come to be just
that in His presence.
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Thank you very much Bells,
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well done.
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Let's pray together.
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Although I like the appeal
of that piece, let's be joyful.
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Why shouldn't we be
joyful, this is your house,
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this is your day and
we are here in family.
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Over the next few moments
as we reflect together about
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the meaning of that experience.
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Being in our
midst, stir up our minds,
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hide the noises, it's
just flush our hearts,
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may we hear you in scripture
we pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen. So two Sabbaths
ago we found God in MySpace,
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the last Sabbath sure
enough there he is in Facebook
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and I hope you're
not surprised that today
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He shows up in YouTube.
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Why wouldn't he show up
in YouTube everybody else
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shows up in YouTube
like Judson Laipply,
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you heard of him?
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Judson Laipply, I
hadn't heard of him
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either until I came across
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this piece uploaded
to the web just this week
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written by a
sophomore at Duke University,
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a young man
named David Distenfeld
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titled the essay,
"You too can YouTube"
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but seriously here we go.
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Judson Laipply
is my personal hero.
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Sure, he's no New
York City firefighter,
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but he's a hero nonetheless.
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You probably don't
recognize his name,
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but I'm sure everyone
reading this has seen his work.
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Judson is the star of the
most viewed video on YouTube.
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How many views
does he have, you ask?
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Well, to indicate the staggering
enormity of this number,
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I will activate my
keyboard's caps lock feature
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and give it to you
before I give you the number.
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I needed to just say
a word about YouTube?
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There may be some
people here it is possible,
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who had not heard about YouTube.
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Let me just tell
you what YouTube is.
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YouTube is a site in
cyberspace run by Google
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that is available
to any human being
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that has the ego
strength to put a video camera
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in front of himself,
push the record button
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and do any thing you want
and then upload it to YouTube.
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I mean I'm
telling you the truth,
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you can be as nutty
as a squirrel and end up
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on YouTube, which is probably
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what you are when you do.
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You can take
pictures of squirrels,
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you can take
pictures of your pets,
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you can take
pictures of your babies,
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some of the hottest
better way if you ever and this-
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this is just a
little pastoral council
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if you are ever
going through a day
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and you are really bummed
out you are just feeling awful,
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go on to YouTube and
then type in laughing babies,
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just type in laughing babies,
you will leave on cloud nine,
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you will be the
happiest person on earth,
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when that
little baby is through.
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So many way you can do that,
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you put news
clippings it's the most,
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it is the most frequented
video swap shop in the universe.
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All right, so that's
where Judson Laipply shows up.
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How many people have
visited Judson Laipply?
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He has only recorded
one video in his life
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and he ended up on
YouTube to indicate
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and I may repeat that sentence,
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to indicate the staggering
enormity of this number,
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I will not activate my
keyboard's caps lock feature,
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the number of
viewers for Judson Laipply
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81 million
697,000.004, 81.7 million people
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had met Judson Laipply.
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Look at if Judson is on YouTube
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ladies and
gentleman God has to be here.
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The question is, are
you too on his YouTube
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and I need to plunge into
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this word of God
with you this morning.
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God's YouTube invitation,
God's YouTube YouToo invitation.
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Open your Bibles
please to Hebrews 10,
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Hebrews 10 we are as
unknown as Judson Laipply
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perhaps but here is a
line from Holy Scripture
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that shifts the paradigm,
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this is God's
YouTube YouToo invitation.
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By the way if you
didn't bring your Bible,
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grab the pew
Bible in front of you.
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Hebrews that would
be in the New Testament.
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Let me give you a page number
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for that that would be page
809 Hebrews 10 just two lines
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from ancient scripture
you and I have never been
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to these two lines together
before but the time is right.
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Hebrews 10 I'll be in
the New King James Version
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and it's just two verses,
verses 24 and 25, let's go.
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All right verse 24 "And
let us consider one another
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in order to stir up
love and good works.
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In verse 25 "Not
forsaking the assembling
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of ourselves together,
as is the manner of some,
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but exhorting one
another, and so much the more
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as you see the
Day that is capital D
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as you see the
capital D Day approaching."
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You say, hey do I,
it doesn't say anything
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YouTube in this whole passage.
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I want to tell you something
my friend it has YouTube
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written all over it and if you
just put a few little sketches
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on that to study guide of
yours, you will see it too,
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so take out your study guide
in your worship bulletin today.
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Let's just cut to the chase.
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Study guide is in
your worship bulletin.
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Visitors if you came
in and you didn't get
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your study guide
just hold your hand up,
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our friend the
ushers will make sure
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that you get one
right now, all the way
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to the back in
the balcony please.
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And those of you
watching on television,
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we are delighted you are
joining us for this series.
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Let me give you our website
put it on the screen for you
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www.pmchurch.tv that's
our website you - you type
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in that website, you
are looking for a series,
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little series
called God's Party.
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That's the series,
it's a little five parted,
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this is part three.
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We have only two
more and all by the way
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don't miss green
Google, don't miss green Google
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next weekend all right.
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But today is YouTube YouToo,
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that's what you are
looking for under God's Party,
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YouTube YouToo and
right there it will say,
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it will say study guide.
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Click there and you will
have the identical study guide
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with the answers by the
way those of you watching,
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the answers at the bottom.
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So let's go, ha.
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Everybody have one.
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All right, first line
in our study guide today,
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Hebrews 10:24, 25
is God's strongest
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YouTube YouToo invitation,
write there in please,
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invitation - this is a
strongest by known invitation
00:23:34.13\00:23:37.03
in anywhere in Holy Scriptures,
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we're going to
note in just a moment,
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keep your pen moving.
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The motto of Google's YouTube,
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this is their - this is
their motto "Broadcast Yourself"
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all right, but
the motto of God's
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YouTube is "Bring
Yourself," Bring Yourself.
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What's that supposed to mean?
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Let's take a
closer look at this,
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this little two liner
that we just read together,
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let's read it
again Hebrews 10:24.
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"And let us consider one
another in order to stir up love
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and good works, not
forsaking the assembling
00:24:06.90\00:24:09.50
of ourselves together,
as is the manner of some,
00:24:09.53\00:24:12.27
but exhorting one
another, and so much the more
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as you see the Day approaching."
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Now listen guys,
there is a single Greek word
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that unlocks that entire line.
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It's a lot of words in English
assembling ourselves together.
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All of that can be
captured in one Greek word.
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In fact jot this down where you
see there in the study guide,
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here is the one
word, episunagoge.
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Now epi means act and sunagoge
means gathering together
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I want you to look
at that word sunagoge,
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can you see an English
word that comes out sunagoge?
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What it would be ah?
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Synagogue you got it.
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Write it down, synagogue.
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Clearly jot this down.
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This word describes
a gathering together
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for worship, that's
what you do in the synagogue,
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so this has to be
talking about weekly worship.
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I need to remind you
in case you've forgotten
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that in the New Testament Jews
and Christians often worshiped
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in the very same place, always
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on the very same
day, in the New Testament.
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In fact let me show you this.
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Let's just go back to the story
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of the New Testament
church in the Book of Acts.
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Put your ribbon
right there in Hebrews 10,
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we will be right back.
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But Acts 13 I'll give you just
a line or two from this history
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that will show you that in
fact there they are same place
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same day, all right this is
Acts 13 so Paul and Barnabas,
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John, Mark has cut
run and Paul and Barnabas
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are staying together this
is a - what they call Paul's
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first missionary journey.
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And verse 14 when they departed
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from Perga, Paul and Barnabas,
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they came to Antioch in Pisidia,
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and they went into where?
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They went into the synagogue
on what day of the week?
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On the Sabbath
day and they sat down.
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And obviously the
ruler of the synagogue spots
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these two gentlemen and
anytime a stranger showed up
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if they look like
they were educated,
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the word would go back
to them as one of the ushers
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took it back to Paul
and Barnabas to either
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of you have something
to say and Paul was hoping
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for that open door,
he jumps to his feat
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and Paul preaches from verse 16
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all the way down to
verse 41, all right.
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As soon as the sermon is over.
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Notice the next line verse 42,
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"So when the Jews
went out of the synagogue,
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the Gentiles
begged that these words
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might be preached to them when?
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Be preached to them
in the next Sabbath."
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All right, so that's
just going to be a few Jews
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to get-together
in the next Sabbath.
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No, drop down to verse 44.
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And on the next
Sabbath almost the whole city,
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almost the whole
city, came together
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to hear the word of God.
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Jews and
Christian yep, yep, yep,
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Gentiles and Jews yep, in
fact turned towards Acts 17,
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taking a look at the greatest
Christian who ever lived,
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what was his,
what was his custom?
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Acts 17:2, "Then
Paul, as his custom was,
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went in to them, where is he,
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verse 1 says he
is in the synagogue,
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he went into them,
and for three Sabbaths
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reasoned with them
from the Scriptures."
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He says of course Dwight,
if you want to reach to Jews
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that's where you go,
you go to the synagogue.
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There are no Gentiles there.
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Synagogues are only for Jews.
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Oh my friend you don't
want to jump too quickly
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to that conclusion
because go over to Chapter 18,
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all right, just
one, one column over
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to Chapter 18, look at verse 4.
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Now Paul is in Corinth.
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"And he Paul
reasoned in the synagogue
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every Sabbath,
and persuaded whom?
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Both Jews and Greeks."
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You are going to the synagogue.
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If you believe in
Almighty Creator God,
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you are going to worship on
that Almighty Creator God's day
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and you will worship
where others are worshiping
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the same God on that same day.
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So you are
always, you are always
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in the Sabbath in a synagogue,
Jews and Gentiles alike.
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In fact scribble
it down, will you,
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Throughout the New
Testament Jews and Christians
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worshiped together
on the same Sabbath
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and often in the same synagogue.
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All right, so what's
the-- what's the writer Hebrews
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trying to tell us?
00:28:07.14\00:28:10.21
Go back to where you, put
the bulletin or that ribbon,
00:28:10.24\00:28:12.41
let's look at Hebrews 10:24.
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"And let us consider one
another in order to stir up love
00:28:15.33\00:28:18.17
and good works, not forsaking
00:28:18.20\00:28:20.26
the assembling of
ourselves together,
00:28:20.29\00:28:22.12
as is the manner of some
is but exhorting one another,
00:28:22.15\00:28:25.28
and so much the more as
you see the Day approaching."
00:28:25.31\00:28:29.44
You know what he is doing.
00:28:29.47\00:28:30.50
He simply to say,
any question? Hey,
00:28:30.53\00:28:32.22
hey don't give up, don't,
don't give up on worshiping
00:28:32.25\00:28:36.56
on the Sabbath
don't you dare give up.
00:28:36.59\00:28:39.48
He is saying come
on, do I, I don't see
00:28:39.51\00:28:40.71
a word about the Sabbath here.
00:28:40.74\00:28:42.83
We just, we just
note there is a huge hint
00:28:42.86\00:28:44.78
with that word
synagogue there because
00:28:44.81\00:28:47.30
that is where you meet
to worship on the Sabbath
00:28:47.33\00:28:49.55
but there is one
more hint, fascinating.
00:28:49.58\00:28:52.15
And one of our doctoral students
here in Andrews University
00:28:52.18\00:28:54.33
who is working on his PhD in
New Testament is in the thick
00:28:54.36\00:28:59.17
of his dissertation right now
and he has shared this with me.
00:28:59.20\00:29:01.59
And I'm excited to be
able to share with you,
00:29:01.62\00:29:03.38
it's my friend Erhard Gallos.
00:29:03.41\00:29:06.36
Now watch this.
00:29:06.39\00:29:07.63
You see the writer of Hebrews
00:29:07.66\00:29:09.12
has already
dealt with the Sabbath.
00:29:09.15\00:29:12.65
Gallos in his-in his
research is saying actually
00:29:12.68\00:29:15.87
if you note carefully chapter,
Hebrews 4 and Hebrews 10
00:29:15.90\00:29:20.05
are parallel chapters
and he shared with me,
00:29:20.08\00:29:23.17
there are three major ways in
which it is clear by the syntax
00:29:23.20\00:29:26.58
and the semantics that
these two chapters are intended
00:29:26.61\00:29:29.64
by the writer to be parallel.
00:29:29.67\00:29:32.19
So that what get
started in Chapter 4
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gets finished in Chapter 10.
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Now this is fascinating, this
is cutting edge. Watch this.
00:29:36.57\00:29:39.96
I take you back to Chapter 4.
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So here in 10 but just go
back for a moment to Chapter 4
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where the writer talks
about the seventh day Sabbath.
00:29:45.42\00:29:47.79
Yep, he does.
00:29:47.82\00:29:49.32
Hebrews 4: drop down to verse 4.
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"For He God has
spoken in a certain place
00:29:51.72\00:29:54.16
of the seventh day in this way.
00:29:54.19\00:29:55.69
And God rested
on the seventh day
00:29:55.72\00:29:58.82
from all His works."
00:29:58.85\00:30:00.66
And the writer has
taken, has taken verse 2
00:30:00.69\00:30:03.27
straight out of
Genesis 2 and he say,
00:30:03.30\00:30:04.44
hey remember the creation story,
00:30:04.47\00:30:05.72
that's what I'm talking
about the seventh day Sabbath.
00:30:05.75\00:30:08.22
Now taking the
divine model of resting
00:30:08.25\00:30:11.08
on the seventh day
Sabbath, The writer then turns
00:30:11.11\00:30:13.59
to his readers
and he said, hey guys,
00:30:13.62\00:30:15.37
we got to do the same.
00:30:15.40\00:30:16.76
Drop down to verse 9 so
"There remains therefore
00:30:16.79\00:30:21.62
a rest for the people of God."
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I need you to get
this down and I'm,
00:30:27.80\00:30:29.64
and it's in your study guide,
so you can boot on this later.
00:30:29.67\00:30:32.21
This is the only
place, jot it down,
00:30:32.24\00:30:34.05
This is the only
place in the New Testament
00:30:34.08\00:30:36.34
and in the Old Testament Greek
which would be the Septuagint,
00:30:36.37\00:30:39.57
this is the only place
where that word sabbatismos
00:30:39.60\00:30:43.41
where that word is
used, no where else.
00:30:43.44\00:30:47.49
Now the word is actually used
in extra biblical literature,
00:30:47.52\00:30:50.12
that means literature outside
of the Bible and it always
00:30:50.15\00:30:52.56
describes jot it
down, Sabbath keeping.
00:30:52.59\00:30:56.40
So he is talking about
Sabbath keeping and the NIV
00:30:56.43\00:30:59.66
therefore
correctly translates it,
00:30:59.69\00:31:01.19
let's put it on
the screen there.
00:31:01.22\00:31:02.43
"There remains,
then, a Sabbath - rest
00:31:02.46\00:31:06.93
for the people of God."
00:31:06.96\00:31:08.10
Then the writer says,
hey, I'm talking to you
00:31:08.13\00:31:09.97
and he goes on to verse 10.
00:31:10.00\00:31:11.28
"For he or she who has entered
into God's rest has himself
00:31:11.31\00:31:15.26
also ceased from his works
as God as God did from His."
00:31:15.29\00:31:20.04
Jot it down. The writer
of Hebrews is saying, hey,
00:31:20.07\00:31:22.34
all of you who are reading,
00:31:22.37\00:31:25.28
we also must rest from
our work even as God did,
00:31:25.31\00:31:28.99
we must rest from our work
on the same seventh day Sabbath.
00:31:29.02\00:31:32.00
The writer is making a pitch
for the seventh day Sabbath
00:31:32.03\00:31:37.92
and then here is the, here
is the stunning conclusion.
00:31:37.95\00:31:41.28
Erhard and it's in
the study guide for you.
00:31:41.31\00:31:43.11
"Erhard Gallos'
doctoral research is suggesting
00:31:43.14\00:31:45.49
that in chapters 4 and
10 the writer of Hebrews
00:31:45.52\00:31:48.60
is appealing to his
readers to neither give up
00:31:48.63\00:31:51.32
the day of Sabbath rest,
that's chapter 4 nor the way
00:31:51.35\00:31:55.98
of Sabbath
worship, that's chapter 10,
00:31:56.01\00:31:58.74
they are bound
together, just locked.
00:31:58.77\00:32:01.36
By the way evidential proof
that the seventh-day Sabbath
00:32:01.39\00:32:03.91
is the only day of rest divinely
continence in the entire
00:32:03.94\00:32:08.20
New Testament because
Hebrews is written just months
00:32:08.23\00:32:11.78
before the destruction
of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
00:32:11.81\00:32:14.30
It is still big that day of rest
00:32:14.33\00:32:17.77
in the New
Testament church, wow.
00:32:17.80\00:32:22.16
So now, how do we know that?
00:32:22.19\00:32:24.45
Let's read that,
that little twosome
00:32:24.48\00:32:26.36
again here in Chapter 10:24,
00:32:26.39\00:32:28.89
"And let us consider one another
00:32:28.92\00:32:30.45
in order to stir up
love and good works."
00:32:30.48\00:32:32.62
Verse 25, "Not
forsaking the assembling
00:32:32.65\00:32:35.15
of ourselves together,
as is the manner of some,
00:32:35.18\00:32:37.89
but exhorting one
another, and so much the more
00:32:37.92\00:32:40.58
as you see the Day approaching."
00:32:40.61\00:32:42.91
Ladies and
gentlemen write it down,
00:32:42.94\00:32:44.17
the appeal of Hebrews
10:25 for Christians is simply.
00:32:44.20\00:32:48.26
Let us not give
up coming together
00:32:48.29\00:32:51.49
to worship God
on the Sabbath day.
00:32:51.52\00:32:55.29
That's the appeal.
00:32:55.32\00:32:58.10
And by the way the
keyword jot this down as well,
00:32:58.13\00:33:00.94
the key word is
together, together, together.
00:33:00.97\00:33:08.66
Few months before
the end of World War II,
00:33:08.69\00:33:11.13
C S Lewis,
everybody knows C S Lewis,
00:33:11.16\00:33:13.54
the brilliant Christian
apologist of last century,
00:33:13.57\00:33:16.87
C S Lewis, who was an atheist.
00:33:16.90\00:33:19.59
Like the young man who
read the testimony this morning
00:33:19.62\00:33:21.52
an atheist, C S
Lewis was an atheist
00:33:21.55\00:33:23.41
converted found
Jesus Christ and became
00:33:23.44\00:33:25.44
a radical
disciple of the Savior.
00:33:25.47\00:33:27.80
C S Lewis just a
few months before
00:33:27.83\00:33:29.49
the end of World War
II, he is a Britisher.
00:33:29.52\00:33:31.66
So he is in a large,
he is in the headquarters
00:33:31.69\00:33:33.84
to a large manufacturing
firm in Sussex, England.
00:33:33.87\00:33:36.89
And they have asked and
talked about the Christian
00:33:36.92\00:33:39.17
immersed in
industry and at the end
00:33:39.20\00:33:41.31
of his little talk he
says okay, any question.
00:33:41.34\00:33:43.90
We have the
record of the question
00:33:43.93\00:33:45.50
that were asked to C S Lewis
00:33:45.53\00:33:46.90
and one of those
questions was this.
00:33:46.93\00:33:49.39
Is attendance at a
place of worship or membership
00:33:49.42\00:33:53.37
with the Christian
community necessary
00:33:53.40\00:33:55.57
to a Christian way of life?
00:33:55.60\00:33:57.37
I - do I have to go church?
00:33:57.41\00:33:59.14
Come on do I have to go to
church to be a good Christian?
00:33:59.17\00:34:04.22
Lewis' answer will surprise you.
00:34:04.25\00:34:06.60
I'll put it on
the screen for you.
00:34:06.63\00:34:07.80
That's a question
which I cannot answer.
00:34:07.83\00:34:11.65
My own experience is that
when I first became a Christian,
00:34:11.68\00:34:14.56
about fourteen years
ago, "I thought that I could
00:34:14.59\00:34:17.02
do it on my own, by retiring to
my rooms and reading theology,
00:34:17.05\00:34:22.13
and I wouldn't go the
churches and Gospel Halls."
00:34:22.16\00:34:25.27
Hey wait a minute,
does that sound familiar?
00:34:25.30\00:34:27.04
Have you heard
that words before?
00:34:27.07\00:34:28.83
Hey come on pastor,
I don't need to come
00:34:28.86\00:34:30.94
to this place to
worship, what do you think,
00:34:30.97\00:34:32.38
you got some
monopoly worship around here?
00:34:32.41\00:34:34.08
I can worship in my
room, I can worship in my home.
00:34:34.11\00:34:36.57
All I need is a good
book or the good book.
00:34:36.60\00:34:39.24
I don't need any of
this kind of assembling
00:34:39.27\00:34:41.98
ourselves together stuff.
00:34:42.01\00:34:44.14
I mean come on, come
on do I, I got an iPod
00:34:44.17\00:34:46.54
I will even
download one of your sermons,
00:34:46.57\00:34:48.03
okay that's the
deal, I'll download
00:34:48.06\00:34:49.26
one of your sermons, but I
want to listen to my own music,
00:34:49.29\00:34:51.49
listen to your
sermon when I wish
00:34:51.52\00:34:53.38
and I don't have to hang around
00:34:53.41\00:34:54.74
all of this stuff
assembling ourselves together.
00:34:54.77\00:34:58.72
Oh, by the way, by the way,
Dwight, it's just a two of us.
00:34:58.75\00:35:01.97
We are going to
walk along the lake.
00:35:02.00\00:35:03.58
We are going to be in the great
outer doors of the Creator.
00:35:03.61\00:35:05.80
We don't need anybody
else when you are this in love.
00:35:05.83\00:35:09.90
What's this assembling
ourselves together stuff,
00:35:09.93\00:35:12.81
that's the way
Lewis used to think.
00:35:12.84\00:35:15.14
Now notice, how he goes on,
00:35:15.17\00:35:17.66
back on the screen
in your study guide.
00:35:17.69\00:35:19.65
"Then later, then later I found
00:35:19.68\00:35:22.41
that if there is
anything in the teaching
00:35:22.44\00:35:23.91
of the New Testament which
is in the nature of a command,
00:35:23.94\00:35:27.74
it is that you are obliged
to celebrate the communion,
00:35:27.77\00:35:30.60
and you can't do it
without going to Church."
00:35:30.63\00:35:33.38
That's something, you
got to go, keep reading,
00:35:33.41\00:35:37.83
he says I don't tell
you about the churches true,
00:35:37.86\00:35:40.08
I disliked very
much their hymns,
00:35:40.11\00:35:42.63
which I considered
to be fifth-rate poems
00:35:42.66\00:35:45.17
set to sixth-rate music.
00:35:45.20\00:35:48.42
Aha and unless you
come on time out time out,
00:35:48.45\00:35:53.72
that may have been the hymns
that C S Lewis was listening to,
00:35:53.75\00:35:55.99
I don't even know
what he was listening
00:35:56.02\00:35:57.21
to but I don't want you
to interpret that every hymn
00:35:57.24\00:35:59.72
we had around here ranks
00:35:59.75\00:36:00.82
in that category, no way Jose.
00:36:00.86\00:36:04.14
Ah, the hymns you
and I have sing, come on.
00:36:04.17\00:36:08.58
He says, anyway I
don't consider those hymns,
00:36:08.62\00:36:10.57
that's why I didn't
go to church he said,
00:36:10.60\00:36:11.71
I considered to be fifth-rate
poems set to sixth-rate music.
00:36:11.74\00:36:14.31
But as I went on watch this
I saw the great merit of it.
00:36:14.34\00:36:18.70
I came up when I went to
church against different people
00:36:18.73\00:36:22.72
with quite different outlooks
and different education,
00:36:22.75\00:36:24.89
and then gradually my
conceit just began peeling off.
00:36:24.92\00:36:30.04
I realized that the hymns which
were just sixth-rate music were,
00:36:30.07\00:36:33.53
nevertheless, being sung
with devotion and benefit
00:36:33.56\00:36:36.76
by an old saint in elastic-side
boots in the opposite pew,
00:36:36.79\00:36:41.34
and then you realize that you
aren't fit to clean those boots.
00:36:41.37\00:36:47.34
Final line fill it in.
00:36:47.37\00:36:49.06
It gets you out of
your solitary conceit."
00:36:49.09\00:36:54.09
It has become fashionable in
some circles not far from here
00:36:58.06\00:37:04.32
to demonstrate your
intellectual prowess
00:37:04.35\00:37:07.99
and you are finally
tuned artistic discernment
00:37:08.02\00:37:11.69
by announcing I'm not
going where they are singing
00:37:11.72\00:37:15.42
fifth-rate poems
set to sixth-rate music
00:37:15.45\00:37:19.81
which we call praise music
here for university students.
00:37:19.84\00:37:25.84
I thought I might get
more than one amen out of that,
00:37:25.87\00:37:28.94
and that was our worship
leader there, no he wasn't.
00:37:28.97\00:37:34.11
Hey listen
guys, Lewis all right,
00:37:34.14\00:37:36.12
let's talk about Lewis.
00:37:36.15\00:37:37.18
In mind certainly much
brighter than mine and perhaps
00:37:37.21\00:37:39.79
even brighter than yours.
00:37:39.82\00:37:43.11
Got over this stuffy huffy,
I'm not hanging around people
00:37:43.14\00:37:47.93
who are just like me and
who don't like the kind of music
00:37:47.96\00:37:50.68
I like and don't like
the kind of preaching I like.
00:37:50.71\00:37:53.94
I'll get over it Lewis said.
00:37:53.97\00:37:55.45
How did he
describe these people?
00:37:55.48\00:37:56.86
He said - he said I
discovered the different people
00:37:56.89\00:37:59.91
with quite different outlooks
and different education.
00:37:59.94\00:38:02.89
When they come together in
this communal togetherness,
00:38:02.92\00:38:06.53
you know, what he said, it
peeled away my solitary conceit.
00:38:06.56\00:38:11.78
And sometimes that's the only
way you can describe or reason,
00:38:11.82\00:38:15.70
not to join a community
in worship, solitary conceit.
00:38:15.73\00:38:21.69
We read it again verse 24,
00:38:24.65\00:38:26.88
"And let us consider one
another in order to stir up love
00:38:26.91\00:38:30.25
and good works, not forsaking
00:38:30.28\00:38:32.13
the assembling of
ourselves together,
00:38:32.16\00:38:33.66
as is the manner of some,
but exhorting one another,
00:38:33.69\00:38:36.14
and so much the more as
you see the Day appearing."
00:38:36.17\00:38:39.41
Hey, ladies and
gentlemen, the point is simple
00:38:39.44\00:38:40.81
and clear, write is down.
00:38:40.84\00:38:42.04
The communal day of the
Sabbath is to be experienced
00:38:42.07\00:38:45.84
in the communal way of worship."
00:38:45.87\00:38:48.68
I.E. write it down
together, together, together.
00:38:48.71\00:38:53.81
Of course, of
course you can worship God
00:38:53.84\00:38:56.35
all alone in your
room, all alone in your home,
00:38:56.38\00:38:58.57
all alone in your trailer,
your apartment of course.
00:38:58.60\00:39:01.39
I worship in every single
morning and you know what,
00:39:01.42\00:39:03.64
I'm the richer and the
better for being alone with God.
00:39:03.67\00:39:06.35
But, being alone at home,
00:39:06.38\00:39:08.70
home alone is not
enough, is not enough.
00:39:08.73\00:39:14.15
Home alone is no substitute
for being at the ballpark.
00:39:14.18\00:39:20.14
Hey, it's the
baseball season, isn't it?
00:39:20.18\00:39:22.45
It's baseball
season, hallelujah.
00:39:22.48\00:39:23.99
You know what,
you want to talk about
00:39:24.02\00:39:25.50
fifth rate poetry
set to sixth rate music.
00:39:25.53\00:39:28.45
Here is one for you
and yet when you hear this,
00:39:28.48\00:39:30.55
I want you to note
the communal language
00:39:30.58\00:39:32.87
in what all of us ball fans sing
at the seventh inning stretch
00:39:32.90\00:39:37.01
when it comes to that little
pause in our group fellowship.
00:39:37.04\00:39:41.69
Take me up to the ball game,
00:39:41.72\00:39:46.45
take me up with the crowd,
00:39:46.48\00:39:50.62
see the word
crowd, Buy me some peanuts
00:39:50.65\00:39:54.72
and Cracker Jack, I
don't care if I never get back.
00:39:54.75\00:39:59.93
Let me root, root,
root for the home team
00:39:59.96\00:40:05.27
see home team,
and if they don't win,
00:40:05.30\00:40:11.66
it's a shame, for it's
one, two, three strikes
00:40:11.69\00:40:17.10
you're out in the old ball game.
00:40:17.13\00:40:20.19
Now guys, that is a song
about communal fellowship.
00:40:20.22\00:40:25.10
Why are you laughing?
00:40:25.13\00:40:26.17
Let me just, you
didn't catch it, did you?
00:40:26.20\00:40:27.95
This great American pastime
is about communal fellowship.
00:40:27.98\00:40:32.49
Take me out with the crowd,
00:40:32.52\00:40:34.08
I want to root
for the home team,
00:40:34.11\00:40:35.38
for if they don't
win, it's a shame.
00:40:35.41\00:40:36.74
Hey listen, why
is it a shame because
00:40:36.77\00:40:38.77
I'm a part of them
and they are part of me
00:40:38.80\00:40:41.15
and we are all going down and we
are all going to stand together.
00:40:41.18\00:40:43.93
We win together,
we lose together,
00:40:43.96\00:40:46.09
we do it together.
00:40:46.12\00:40:48.00
Hey listen guys, listen if
it's is a choice seriously,
00:40:48.03\00:40:51.03
if it's a choice
between sitting at home
00:40:51.06\00:40:54.35
in front of my tiny little
television screen or being out
00:40:54.38\00:40:58.94
in that stadium that
is packed and sitting
00:40:58.97\00:41:01.01
on those uncomfortable
pews, I mean bleachers
00:41:01.04\00:41:03.65
with all those
people, if it is a choice,
00:41:03.68\00:41:08.05
I'm willing to sit on
anything if you give me a chance
00:41:08.08\00:41:13.15
to hang around some people
who share the same passion I do,
00:41:13.18\00:41:16.36
people who would root
for the same team I'm because
00:41:16.39\00:41:21.03
ladies and gentleman you
know what's its all about,
00:41:21.06\00:41:23.52
it's all about
community, community.
00:41:23.55\00:41:29.21
What do you think keeps
the Pura Cup fans going?
00:41:29.24\00:41:34.52
Community, I just want to wear
00:41:38.58\00:41:40.60
that red C on my cap,
00:41:40.63\00:41:44.28
a century without a win.
00:41:44.31\00:41:51.92
It's all about community.
00:41:51.95\00:41:53.07
You say what's the big
deal about going to ballpark,
00:41:53.10\00:41:54.74
you be thinking about church,
00:41:54.77\00:41:55.94
I'll be talking about
ballpark you think about church.
00:41:55.97\00:41:58.30
Here you go, number one.
00:41:58.33\00:41:59.58
Why do I go to a ballpark?
00:41:59.61\00:42:01.05
Number one to share
and strengthen my resolve.
00:42:01.08\00:42:07.99
I get stronger when I
hang around other fans.
00:42:08.02\00:42:10.22
Number two. Why do
I go to a ballpark?
00:42:10.25\00:42:11.99
To reinforce my
loyalty and number three,
00:42:12.02\00:42:15.23
why do you I to a ballpark?
00:42:15.26\00:42:16.38
To embolden my
witness, makes me stronger
00:42:16.41\00:42:21.40
and I have been around you.
00:42:21.43\00:42:22.63
Look at this verse 24.
00:42:22.66\00:42:24.15
"And let us consider one another
00:42:24.18\00:42:25.77
in order to stir up
love and good works."
00:42:25.80\00:42:29.60
Ladies and
gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen,
00:42:29.63\00:42:32.33
why do I go to a ballpark?
00:42:32.36\00:42:33.57
Because I need to
know that I'm not alone.
00:42:33.60\00:42:36.91
It may be true for every
baseball fan you can think about
00:42:36.94\00:42:39.26
but I want to tell you something
that is even more true today
00:42:39.29\00:42:41.64
for a counter cultural moment
at this moment in human history
00:42:41.67\00:42:45.33
we have to, we have to
come together and gain strength
00:42:45.36\00:42:50.16
and bestir each other up
and say, yeah, thats right.
00:42:50.19\00:42:52.88
Pull our back, I
about gave up this week
00:42:52.91\00:42:55.11
but I'm glad to know there
are few others on the same team,
00:42:55.14\00:42:57.83
hallelujah, thank you Jesus.
00:42:57.86\00:43:00.29
By the way I
don't understand this,
00:43:00.32\00:43:01.50
would you explain this to me?
00:43:01.53\00:43:03.09
If I'm a fan of the
Yankees as I'm, they say,
00:43:03.12\00:43:05.53
hey, isn't he a great fan.
00:43:05.56\00:43:08.12
But if I'm a
fan of Jesus Christ,
00:43:08.15\00:43:09.83
they say, hey,
isn't he a great fanatic.
00:43:09.86\00:43:13.41
What's up with that?
00:43:13.44\00:43:14.97
Why can't we be a fan
of the Lord Jesus Christ
00:43:15.00\00:43:17.98
and His community of
faith at the end of time?
00:43:18.01\00:43:20.20
Why can't we be fans?
00:43:20.23\00:43:22.96
I mean they are
sitting in the rain
00:43:22.99\00:43:25.35
on the worst seats in the
world, just to be together?
00:43:25.38\00:43:32.27
You know why?
00:43:32.30\00:43:34.99
I'll tell you why?
00:43:35.02\00:43:36.94
Because there is
nothing like community and God,
00:43:36.97\00:43:41.25
oh mercy, God, jot
this down will you?
00:43:41.28\00:43:43.53
God is big on communal worship.
00:43:43.56\00:43:48.04
Because we are not
just going to be with fans,
00:43:48.07\00:43:49.90
we are going to be
with the Creator Himself.
00:43:49.93\00:43:52.07
We are going to be
with the Creator Himself.
00:43:52.10\00:43:54.62
And oh boy,
that's why He is so big
00:43:54.65\00:43:57.51
on communal
gatherings, communal worship.
00:43:57.54\00:44:01.71
By the way God has a
YouTube piece, yes He does.
00:44:01.74\00:44:04.53
And that's what God
says, I have got YouTube
00:44:04.56\00:44:07.25
and I need you
too in my YouTube.
00:44:07.28\00:44:09.16
You know why, because
God is not into solitary.
00:44:09.19\00:44:11.63
Oh, He loves
being along with you,
00:44:11.67\00:44:12.88
don't miss understand me.
00:44:12.91\00:44:14.12
God is not into solitary
when it comes to this moment,
00:44:14.15\00:44:16.34
God says the more the merrier.
00:44:16.37\00:44:17.61
You bring them in.
00:44:17.64\00:44:18.81
Go bring your
friends, go bring your family,
00:44:18.84\00:44:20.22
you guys come on over.
00:44:20.25\00:44:21.35
I want to meet with
everybody you can find,
00:44:21.38\00:44:24.17
because God is big on community.
00:44:24.20\00:44:27.44
He says you know what,
00:44:27.47\00:44:28.55
I don't like
this little YouTubes
00:44:28.58\00:44:29.61
that are just one
pictures, one hero shows no,
00:44:29.64\00:44:31.85
he says my YouTube
is a YouToo invitation
00:44:31.88\00:44:35.60
and I want everybody in
the picture, I want everybody.
00:44:35.63\00:44:39.96
In fact jot that down, will you?
00:44:39.99\00:44:41.19
His favorite
YouTube Sabbath picture
00:44:41.22\00:44:42.80
is a group
portrait, a group portrait.
00:44:42.83\00:44:46.04
Oh, sure He loves
one on one, He loves it.
00:44:46.07\00:44:48.61
But you got to know
00:44:48.64\00:44:50.71
that where two or
three are gathered together.
00:44:50.74\00:44:53.19
Do you remember
this Mathew 18:20,
00:44:53.22\00:44:55.45
Jesus said, where two or three
00:44:55.48\00:44:57.17
are gathered
together in my name,
00:44:57.20\00:44:59.19
that's not just three guys
hanging around on the corner,
00:44:59.22\00:45:01.51
no in my name you
have come to worship,
00:45:01.54\00:45:03.42
where two or three are
gathered together in my name,
00:45:03.45\00:45:05.83
I am there in
the midst of them."
00:45:05.86\00:45:08.08
Listen you may not
have 3000 like pioneer, ah?
00:45:08.11\00:45:12.15
Tell you what all
you need is three,
00:45:12.19\00:45:13.83
if you got three, you got God.
00:45:13.86\00:45:15.11
One of those three is God.
00:45:15.14\00:45:17.15
You got, you got God whenever
you come together in His name.
00:45:17.18\00:45:22.61
God is big on communal worship.
00:45:22.64\00:45:26.22
I figured out why God is big
on communal worship by the way,
00:45:26.25\00:45:28.54
because He is the Father.
00:45:28.57\00:45:30.92
If you are father,
if you are dad as I am.
00:45:30.95\00:45:33.44
You know every dad is really
keen on being able to have
00:45:33.48\00:45:36.22
sometime alone with
his separate children.
00:45:36.25\00:45:38.08
I mean I got Kirk, I like
to have time alone with Kirk.
00:45:38.11\00:45:41.83
I got Kristen, I like to
have time alone with Kristen.
00:45:41.86\00:45:44.35
Well, I have three kids now,
00:45:44.38\00:45:46.26
because that
little girl got married.
00:45:46.29\00:45:47.79
I want you tell you something,
00:45:47.82\00:45:48.85
because some of
you have been praying.
00:45:48.88\00:45:50.08
Yesterday morning at 4 o'clock
plane landed at Fort Riley,
00:45:50.11\00:45:55.73
Kansas and our son in law medic
with US Army Rangers stepped off
00:45:55.76\00:46:00.05
that plane and
survived 14 months in Baghdad.
00:46:00.08\00:46:03.27
And we are
saying thank you Jesus.
00:46:03.30\00:46:05.68
You were praying,
many of you were praying,
00:46:05.71\00:46:07.44
now, you don't need to clap.
00:46:07.47\00:46:09.08
You just say,
amen thank you Jesus.
00:46:09.11\00:46:11.01
And the moment I say that,
the moment I say that I know
00:46:11.04\00:46:14.99
what moms and dad who met a
plane for a different reason,
00:46:15.02\00:46:20.19
wives and husbands who
greeted a flag draped return.
00:46:20.22\00:46:28.15
I don't take it
likely but every dad
00:46:28.18\00:46:31.89
wants time with his kids alone,
00:46:31.92\00:46:33.60
but there is nothing
like a father's heart.
00:46:33.63\00:46:35.37
The father says,
listen for the holidays
00:46:35.40\00:46:36.62
I want everybody, I
want everybody to come.
00:46:36.65\00:46:38.90
I want all the children
here and that's why the Sabbath
00:46:38.93\00:46:42.15
which is God's holy day from
whence comes the word holiday.
00:46:42.18\00:46:45.34
God said up,
bring the whole family.
00:46:45.37\00:46:46.63
I'm not into one on one
today, you just bring everybody
00:46:46.66\00:46:49.19
you've got, every seventh
day, I want to have a party
00:46:49.22\00:46:52.10
and we are going
to call it a holiday.
00:46:52.13\00:46:55.50
Which is right by the way.
00:46:55.53\00:46:57.34
When God posts a picture
on YouTube of the future,
00:46:57.37\00:47:00.68
only God can do
that, He can post a picture
00:47:00.71\00:47:02.69
that hasn't even been taken yet.
00:47:02.72\00:47:03.82
But, He posted on YouTube,
He says, I want to show you
00:47:03.85\00:47:05.82
the future, in the
future it's a group portrait.
00:47:05.85\00:47:10.21
Watch this,
this is Isaiah 66:22,
00:47:10.24\00:47:13.36
"For as the new
heavens and the new earth,
00:47:13.39\00:47:15.72
which I will make, shall remain
before me, says the Lord."
00:47:15.75\00:47:18.39
Okay, I'm going to build
this thing all over again.
00:47:18.42\00:47:20.70
"So shall your descendants
and your name remain."
00:47:20.73\00:47:23.15
Now watch this ladies
and gentleman verse 23.
00:47:23.18\00:47:25.34
"And it shall come to pass that
from one new moon to another
00:47:25.37\00:47:28.71
and from one Sabbath to another
all flesh shall come to worship
00:47:28.74\00:47:33.89
before me, says the Lord."
00:47:33.92\00:47:36.16
That is so important that
I wish you would jot it down
00:47:36.19\00:47:38.45
in your study guide,
please write it down,
00:47:38.48\00:47:40.34
"From one Sabbath to another,
all flesh in the new earth
00:47:40.37\00:47:43.49
shall come to worship before Me
00:47:43.52\00:47:45.28
forever and
ever,' says the Lord."
00:47:45.31\00:47:48.04
Every seventh day
throughout eternity
00:47:48.07\00:47:51.61
will be a Sabbath
and God will be having
00:47:51.64\00:47:55.18
everybody home for
worship, ain't it some.
00:47:55.22\00:47:59.70
Every Sabbath for ever and ever.
00:47:59.73\00:48:03.18
It's a group portrait.
00:48:03.21\00:48:05.67
Wow, want to be a part
of that group portrait.
00:48:05.70\00:48:08.17
Anybody here want to be a part
of that group portrait one day,
00:48:08.20\00:48:10.73
but of course so
here is the question.
00:48:10.76\00:48:14.83
Do you will I remember the
truth that Hebrews is teaching,
00:48:14.86\00:48:19.75
Jot it down will you please.
00:48:19.78\00:48:21.13
"If you want to be
in the portrait then,
00:48:21.16\00:48:23.49
you've got to be in the
group picture now!" Why?
00:48:23.52\00:48:29.07
Because right now we are
close to the return of Jesus
00:48:29.10\00:48:31.59
to this planet than
we have ever been before.
00:48:31.62\00:48:34.38
Let me read it
with you one more time.
00:48:34.41\00:48:35.89
Hebrews 10:24, "And
let us consider one another
00:48:35.92\00:48:38.97
in order to stir up
love and good works,
00:48:39.00\00:48:41.13
not forsaking the assembling
of ourselves together,
00:48:41.16\00:48:44.66
as is the manner
or habit of some,
00:48:44.69\00:48:47.02
but exhorting one
another, and so much the more
00:48:47.05\00:48:50.12
as you see the
capital D Day approaching."
00:48:50.15\00:48:54.08
What's the capital D Day
that the writer is referring to?
00:48:54.11\00:48:57.12
Drop down to verse 37.
00:48:57.15\00:48:58.92
"For yet a little
while, and He who is coming
00:48:58.95\00:49:02.03
will come and will not tarry."
00:49:02.06\00:49:05.50
Jesus is coming
again, that's His point.
00:49:05.53\00:49:11.59
If you want to be
in the portrait then,
00:49:11.62\00:49:13.68
you got to get in the
group picture now, now.
00:49:13.71\00:49:18.54
In fact write this down,
"The closer the Day of Christ
00:49:18.57\00:49:20.70
draws to us, the
closer we must draw
00:49:20.73\00:49:23.58
to each other on Christ's Day."
00:49:23.61\00:49:26.36
I'm telling you what
ladies and gentleman,
00:49:26.39\00:49:27.48
you will not find a stronger
appeal in all of Holy Scripture
00:49:27.51\00:49:30.81
to come to
church, to come to church.
00:49:30.84\00:49:34.30
There is nothing stronger
than what we've just read today.
00:49:34.33\00:49:37.75
In fact look at this,
look at this from the NIV.
00:49:37.78\00:49:40.45
"Let us not give
up meeting together,
00:49:40.48\00:49:42.09
as some are in
the habit of doing,
00:49:42.12\00:49:44.02
but let us encourage
one another and all the more
00:49:44.05\00:49:46.57
as you see the Day approaching."
00:49:46.60\00:49:48.27
Do you know why
this is so crucial
00:49:48.30\00:49:49.77
because corporate worship
is tied to personal readiness.
00:49:49.80\00:49:53.91
Getting ready for
the return of Jesus
00:49:53.94\00:49:55.53
involves me hanging around.
00:49:55.56\00:49:56.60
You say, Dwight, just
hang around God all alone, no.
00:49:56.63\00:49:58.77
I get strength from you, that
I cannot get when I pray alone.
00:49:58.80\00:50:04.73
I get strength from
you, when we come together,
00:50:04.76\00:50:08.72
it's about getting ready.
00:50:08.75\00:50:12.98
You know what that means.
00:50:13.01\00:50:15.22
We need to being right now.
00:50:15.25\00:50:17.25
The days of skipping
church and absenting ourselves
00:50:17.28\00:50:20.42
from worship are over.
00:50:20.45\00:50:23.19
Ladies and gentlemen,
we've been too late to say fair
00:50:23.22\00:50:25.58
about Sabbath worship.
00:50:25.61\00:50:27.31
We kind of
thought, you know what,
00:50:27.34\00:50:28.37
this is - this is little option.
00:50:28.40\00:50:29.72
I'm waking up today and I'm
just not feeling real rested
00:50:29.75\00:50:31.75
and so I think today I am
going to stay away from church.
00:50:31.78\00:50:34.00
I will turn on the
radio, I will watch it on TV.
00:50:34.03\00:50:37.17
We have become
too lazy to be fair,
00:50:37.20\00:50:39.15
I mean, you know,
may be I get back to it.
00:50:39.18\00:50:40.84
The problem is once you skip,
is this true? Once you skip,
00:50:40.88\00:50:44.10
it's so much easier
the next Sabbath to skip
00:50:44.13\00:50:46.37
and then it's so much
easier the next Sabbath to skip
00:50:46.40\00:50:48.62
and before you know
you are just playing skip,
00:50:48.65\00:50:52.25
skipping, skipping and skipping.
00:50:52.28\00:50:55.13
We have been too
lackadaisical about this.
00:50:55.16\00:50:59.02
The passion of Hebrews
10 declares that the days
00:50:59.05\00:51:01.67
of skipping church
and absenting ourselves
00:51:01.70\00:51:03.60
from worship must end, why?
00:51:03.63\00:51:05.93
Because Jesus is coming soon.
00:51:05.96\00:51:07.95
If fact jot this down, will you.
00:51:07.98\00:51:09.23
Corporate worship is
linked to personal readiness.
00:51:09.26\00:51:12.17
Prepare to meet
your God, O Israel.
00:51:12.20\00:51:14.19
Prepare O Israel to
meet your God, come together,
00:51:14.22\00:51:17.84
come together, come
together and prepare.
00:51:17.87\00:51:20.80
Don't you
prepare alone, you come,
00:51:20.83\00:51:22.73
come, and come together?
00:51:22.76\00:51:25.89
A friend of mine was here last
week for the spring meetings.
00:51:25.92\00:51:31.52
We were visiting
together afterwards
00:51:31.55\00:51:33.17
and we found a conversation,
he is from California,
00:51:33.20\00:51:35.56
so we fell into
conversation about the economy,
00:51:35.59\00:51:37.79
I don't know if any of
you are watching the economy,
00:51:37.82\00:51:39.40
it may be one of the big, big,
big stories just on the brink
00:51:39.43\00:51:43.15
of the horizon, just
keep your eye on the economy.
00:51:43.18\00:51:46.13
Anyway so we started
talking about the economy
00:51:46.16\00:51:47.53
and so my friend who
lives in Southern California
00:51:47.56\00:51:50.60
was telling me
about his tax accountant
00:51:50.63\00:51:52.52
because this is the
season and so he was in visiting
00:51:52.56\00:51:54.88
his tax account the other day.
00:51:54.91\00:51:56.07
The tax account is a
member of a mega church
00:51:56.10\00:51:58.38
in Southern California, one
of those huge, huge churches
00:51:58.41\00:52:01.46
and the tax accountant
told my friend do you know
00:52:01.49\00:52:03.88
what in our cut,
because they started
00:52:03.91\00:52:05.44
talking about the economy.
00:52:05.47\00:52:06.50
Do you know what
in our congregation
00:52:06.53\00:52:08.21
one of out ten
families is now going
00:52:08.24\00:52:11.47
through
foreclosure, foreclosure.
00:52:11.50\00:52:14.36
Do you know what foreclosure is?
00:52:14.39\00:52:16.09
Never got into a house yet.
00:52:16.12\00:52:17.44
Foreclosure means I can't do it,
00:52:17.47\00:52:19.26
I just the house is not worth
as much as the loan anymore,
00:52:19.29\00:52:21.96
I'm out of here, close it up.
00:52:21.99\00:52:25.03
A friend last
Sabbath second church
00:52:25.06\00:52:27.60
sitting over there
works in a very large
00:52:27.63\00:52:30.03
financial institution in
Chicago, he is an Andrews grad
00:52:30.06\00:52:32.30
and you can be
really proud of him.
00:52:32.33\00:52:33.67
Anyway he came by as
he was going out, he said,
00:52:33.70\00:52:35.64
hey, listen this economy
thing, what do you think.
00:52:35.67\00:52:37.17
He says, let me tell
you something Dwight,
00:52:37.20\00:52:38.51
there are now in this
nation 8000 foreclosures a day.
00:52:38.54\00:52:42.97
8000 a day so all you
need is a little domino action
00:52:43.00\00:52:47.46
going on here,
we have foreclosures
00:52:47.49\00:52:50.04
that bump into
mortgage institutions,
00:52:50.07\00:52:52.05
that bump into banks,
that bump into Wall Street,
00:52:52.08\00:52:55.27
that bumps into
the United States.
00:52:55.30\00:52:57.08
Ladies and gentlemen,
we have a falling dollar,
00:52:57.11\00:52:59.84
we have escalating oil.
00:52:59.87\00:53:02.37
We got the Middle East
as dry as the tender box
00:53:02.40\00:53:04.81
waiting for one
more spark come on.
00:53:04.84\00:53:07.28
Barack Obama,
Hillary Clinton, John McCain
00:53:07.31\00:53:11.40
there is nobody who
can be our savior now?
00:53:11.43\00:53:15.04
Nobody. All of
this protracted process
00:53:15.07\00:53:20.62
get real when God is
ready? Here is the point.
00:53:20.65\00:53:25.33
When God is ready.
00:53:25.36\00:53:28.05
Pull the plug and
just like that it goes.
00:53:28.08\00:53:33.85
How does it go here,
"For yet a little while,
00:53:33.88\00:53:37.24
and He who is coming
will come and will not tarry."
00:53:37.27\00:53:42.85
So let us not forsake
the assembling of ourselves
00:53:42.88\00:53:45.37
together so much the
more as the day approaches.
00:53:45.40\00:53:49.88
Every one of this
little five parters
00:53:49.91\00:53:52.55
in this God's
God's Party series,
00:53:52.58\00:53:54.90
each one of these parts
ends with a little something
00:53:54.93\00:53:58.31
practical and simple you can do.
00:53:58.34\00:54:01.08
So here is
today's something simple.
00:54:01.11\00:54:03.34
I need you to go to your
friends, is it very simple?
00:54:03.37\00:54:07.39
I know that I have
been preaching to the choir
00:54:07.42\00:54:09.25
the whole morning
long because you are here.
00:54:09.28\00:54:13.95
I need you to
go to your friends.
00:54:13.98\00:54:16.39
You know who your friends,
they don't listen to me,
00:54:16.42\00:54:18.05
they will listen to you and I
need you to say to your friends.
00:54:18.08\00:54:21.90
It's time, it's time
to come back to church,
00:54:21.93\00:54:26.13
it's time to come back to
Jesus while there is still time.
00:54:26.16\00:54:31.78
Come on my friend, come
with me, you bring your friend.
00:54:31.81\00:54:36.59
She doesn't want to go
alone, you come with her.
00:54:36.62\00:54:38.53
He doesn't want to go alone
you bring him because it's time.
00:54:38.56\00:54:43.53
We can't afford to not being
in a group portrait right now.
00:54:43.56\00:54:49.60
Get alone and it
will be the death of us.
00:54:49.63\00:54:56.26
Dwight Lyman Moody the
great American evangelist
00:54:56.29\00:54:59.29
of the 19th century was visiting
a businessman one evening
00:54:59.32\00:55:03.07
by the fireplace in
the businessman's home
00:55:03.10\00:55:04.91
and the businessman was
waxing eloquent with Moody,
00:55:04.94\00:55:08.95
tell you what I have
to go to church please,
00:55:08.98\00:55:12.92
I mean I got the
Bible and go out the fuss
00:55:12.95\00:55:17.17
of trying to find that place,
00:55:17.20\00:55:19.21
the convents has
been crowded into
00:55:19.24\00:55:20.56
those tight little
pews I don't need it.
00:55:20.59\00:55:22.83
All I need is to be able to
get alone with God once a week
00:55:22.86\00:55:26.10
and I will be fine and
Moody never said a word,
00:55:26.13\00:55:28.56
not a not a single word.
00:55:28.59\00:55:30.29
When the man
was finally through,
00:55:30.32\00:55:33.78
Moody reached over to fireplace
and he grabbed the tongs
00:55:33.81\00:55:36.52
and he reached into that
red hot flame and he pulled out
00:55:36.55\00:55:40.13
a burning coal
and he slid it out
00:55:40.16\00:55:44.27
on to the edge of the hearth
00:55:44.31\00:55:47.61
and the two of them sat in
silence and stared at that coal
00:55:47.64\00:55:53.81
as slowly but very
surely it lost its glow,
00:55:53.84\00:55:59.98
it lost its flame until finally
in the end it was nothing more
00:56:00.01\00:56:05.67
than a little wisp of
smoke and a coal chard piece.
00:56:05.70\00:56:09.80
Let's pray you and me.
00:56:22.10\00:56:25.71
Oh God, oh God
00:56:25.74\00:56:30.92
get us back to the fire please.
00:56:30.95\00:56:35.48
Get us back to
the group portrait
00:56:35.51\00:56:40.04
while there is still time. Amen.
00:56:40.07\00:56:46.63
I wanted to take one more moment
00:56:49.58\00:56:50.97
here at the end of the telecast
to let you know how grateful
00:56:51.00\00:56:53.34
I am for your journey with us,
00:56:53.37\00:56:56.04
with our New
Perceptions Ministry.
00:56:56.07\00:56:57.75
You may think
that New Perceptions
00:56:57.78\00:56:59.00
is only about television
but I need to tell you,
00:56:59.03\00:57:01.76
we do have a website which is
more than just the study guide.
00:57:01.79\00:57:05.38
I know we go to the
study guide every week
00:57:05.41\00:57:06.86
but if you go to our
website, let me put the address
00:57:06.89\00:57:08.73
on the screen
again, www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:08.76\00:57:13.25
You'll find at
that website a blog.
00:57:13.28\00:57:15.88
I write every Wednesday.
00:57:15.91\00:57:16.94
I sit down with my
laptop and write up a blog,
00:57:16.97\00:57:18.54
something as
commenting on world events,
00:57:18.57\00:57:20.82
something local,
something national.
00:57:20.85\00:57:22.61
You get the blog.
00:57:22.64\00:57:23.67
You want archive,
previous teachings
00:57:23.70\00:57:26.09
from here in the Pioneer Pulpit,
00:57:26.12\00:57:27.36
you go to that
annotated archive.
00:57:27.39\00:57:29.97
You can pick out a
message, it will be sent to you.
00:57:30.00\00:57:32.37
You want to get into
the podcast business,
00:57:32.40\00:57:35.48
I am not real high-techie on
this but if you click podcast,
00:57:35.51\00:57:39.09
you'll be able
to connect instantly
00:57:39.12\00:57:40.71
with every new teaching that
comes from the Pioneer Pulpit.
00:57:40.74\00:57:43.19
The point is we're trying
to connect with a generation
00:57:43.22\00:57:45.71
on the move, on the go.
00:57:45.74\00:57:47.52
Thanks for being a part of it.
00:57:47.55\00:57:48.97
Thanks for your
prayer partnership.
00:57:49.00\00:57:50.27
We have got to
connect with this generation
00:57:50.30\00:57:52.67
at this time in earth's history.
00:57:52.70\00:57:54.88
And I'm grateful you and
I are sharing the mission.
00:57:54.91\00:57:57.03
God bless you until next time.
00:57:57.06\00:57:59.28