Participants: Pr. Dwight Nelson
Series Code: NP
Program Code: NP060609
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00:27 Jesus, Lamb of God
00:34 Worthy is Your name 00:47 Amen. 00:49 Well, I'm just excited to hear your voices. 00:51 You all are really ringing out. 00:53 And I think of that day 00:54 when we see our Savior face to face. 00:58 It's also beautiful, 'cause I don't have my team here today 01:01 and so we have one humongous praise team 01:03 is that all right today. 01:05 We sing together from our hearts and with passion 01:08 with fervor to the King of kings and to the Lord of Lords. 01:11 He desires to hear us just. 01:12 The Bible say He is in throne in our praises, 01:15 He dwells when we lift Him high, 01:18 when we adore Him we cry holy. 01:23 Here's the testimony of the Christian 01:25 'I'm forgiven" let's sing together. 01:27 I'm forgiven Because you were forsaken 01:34 I'm accepted You were condemned 01:41 I'm alive and well Your Spirit is within me 01:47 Because you died and rose again 01:53 Amazing love. 01:55 Amazing love How can it be 02:02 That You my King would die for me? 02:07 Amazing love 02:09 Amazing love I know it's true 02:15 It's my joy 02:17 It's my joy to honor You, 02:21 In all I do, I honor You 02:30 Let's try it again. 02:32 I'm forgiven. 02:34 I'm forgiven, because you were forsaken 02:40 Think about it 02:41 I'm accepted, You were condemned 02:47 And today 02:48 I'm alive and well, Your Spirit is within me 02:54 Because you died and rose again 03:00 Amazing love, amazing love, 03:04 how can it be 03:09 That You my King would die for me? 03:14 Amazing love 03:15 Amazing love, I know it's true 03:22 And it's my joy to honor You 03:26 In all I do 03:27 In all I do, I honor You 03:33 We make this declaration. 03:35 You are my King Jesus, You 03:41 Jesus, You are my King 03:47 Confess it for yourself today. 03:49 You are my King Jesus 03:55 Jesus you are my King 04:01 One last time, amazing love. 04:04 Amazing love, how can it be 04:11 That You my King would die for me? 04:15 Amazing love 04:17 Amazing love, I know it's true 04:24 It's my joy to honor You 04:28 In all In all I do, 04:32 I honor you In all I do 04:37 In all I do, I'll honor You 04:46 Let's sing this hymn. 04:48 Amazing grace, 04:54 How sweet the sound 05:00 That saved a wretch 05:06 Like me 05:12 I once was lost 05:19 but no I'm found 05:25 Was blind but now 05:31 I see 05:51 One by one Jesse's sons 05:57 stood before the prophet 06:01 The prophet knew a king 06:04 would soon be found 06:10 And each one passed except the last 06:16 No one thought to call him 06:20 Surely he would never wear a crown 06:27 But when others see 06:32 a shepherd boy 06:35 God may see a king 06:40 Even though your life seems filled 06:45 with ordinary things 06:49 In just a moment 06:51 He can touch you 06:54 and everything will change 06:59 When others see a shepherd boy 07:04 God may see a king 07:21 One by one problems come 07:26 and dreams get shattered 07:31 And times it seems so hard 07:33 to understand 07:39 But things like chance and circumstance 07:45 They don't really matter 07:49 Our Father holds tomorrow in His hands 07:56 And when others see a shepherd boy 08:03 God may see a king 08:08 Even though your life seems filled 08:12 with ordinary things 08:16 In just a moment He can touch you 08:21 and everything will change 08:26 When others see a shepherd boy 08:31 God may see a king 08:40 Well it wasn't the oldest and it wasn't the strongest 08:46 Chosen on that day 08:50 And yet the giants fell the nations trembled 08:56 When they stood in his way 09:01 And when others see a shepherd boy 09:07 God may see a king 09:11 Even though your life seems filled 09:16 with ordinary things 09:20 In just a moment He can touch you 09:25 and everything will change 09:29 When others see a shepherd boy 09:35 God may see a king 09:46 God may see a king 10:11 Let's pray together. 10:15 Only You, Father, are able to do that. 10:23 See little shepherd, boys and girls like us. 10:30 And see something down deep beneath that exterior 10:33 that promises a partnership of the King of Kings. 10:41 Teach us today 10:43 how we can partner with You in that very mission. 10:47 In these times of the Issachar factor 10:50 teach us today. 10:51 We pray in Christ name, amen. 10:57 As we wrap this-- there are many series the Issachar factor. 11:02 I'm thinking about a paradox 11:05 that a Greek philosopher named Zeno of Elea 5th BC. 11:12 He came up with this paradox. 11:13 And I'm thinking Issachar factor. 11:15 He says or he said 11:20 that if you travel every day 11:23 half way to your destination 11:28 you will never reach your destination. 11:33 You think about that, because every day 11:37 there'll be just a little more you have to go. 11:41 I'm thinking Issachar factor, 11:42 I'm thinking of this unlikely little tribe 11:47 tucked away in the tribes of Israel 11:51 and I'm thinking of their accumulation of knowledge 11:54 could it be the same way. 11:56 No matter how much knowledge you accumulate every day 12:00 there will be more. 12:03 I want to come full circle with that 12:05 as we wrap up this little three part mini-series 12:07 by going back to our theme text. 12:09 Go back to 1 Chronicles with me. 12:12 Will you 1 Chronicles 12, 12:14 some of you are joining us today for the first time 12:15 we're delighted to have you. 12:17 So here's the text we have been brooding over this text 12:20 our last time in this theme text, 12:22 1 Chronicles Chapter 12. 12:24 If you didn't bring a Bible today, 12:25 grab the pew Bible in front of you. 12:26 You have got to track this one. 12:28 This is the capstone to our three piece mini-series. 12:33 Let's go to the theme text it will be-- 12:35 if you grab the pew Bible it would be the same translation 12:37 that I'll be reading from this morning 12:39 the New King James and if it's-- 12:41 if you are in the pew Bible that would be page 285. 12:47 So young David, by the way the shepherd boy becomes king 12:49 that's what's happening in 1 Chronicles 12. 12:51 The boy has become a king 12:53 and it list now the 12 tribes of Israel 12:55 and how each of them is having is stepping forward 12:58 providing support for the brand new young monarch. 13:02 Everybody out saw shepherd boy, 13:04 but God saw a king, all right. 13:07 So tucked in the middle of this list 13:10 comes this obscure tribe Issachar. 13:12 Verse 32, notice the identification marker 13:15 that Issachar is given. 13:17 Oh, I wish this marker would be true of me. 13:22 I wish it would be true of you Jeremy as well. 13:26 Issachar factor can be true before all of us. 13:31 Okay, this is verse 32 of 1 Chronicles 12 13:33 "And of the sons of Issachar" Now notice the ID marker. 13:37 "Who had understanding of the times, 13:40 to know what Israel ought to do." 13:47 This uncanny, this prescient ability 13:51 of a tiny little tribe in Israel to understand the times 13:53 and to know what Israel ought there for to do 13:55 was to obviously predicate upon on 13:57 analysis of accumulating information and knowledge. 14:01 Now remember the paradox, there is always gonna be more. 14:03 So here's the question, how much knowledge is sufficient 14:07 to begin to make analysis of the world 14:09 in which we're living right now? 14:10 If I exercises Issachar factor 14:12 how much knowledge do I need to have? 14:14 I would love to know what the sons of Issachar 14:17 would do with this very week, 14:18 this paradigm shifting week on the planet. 14:23 You have the president of the mightiest nation on earth 14:28 stepping behind the days 14:32 in the heart of a major Islamic university 14:37 which is in the heart of a major Islamic city, 14:41 which is in the heart of a major Islamic nation, 14:44 which is in the heart of Arab Muslim the world over. 14:52 President Obama steps up to that lector 14:54 and for 55 minutes 14:59 he lectures 1.3 billion Muslims. 15:03 His lecture interrupted over 40 times by applause. 15:08 What's going on? 15:09 I'd love to know what the sons of Issachar 15:11 would do with that one. 15:14 What does it mean? 15:15 How does this play into the times 15:16 you and I have been gifted privilege by God to live. 15:21 For our final Issachar factor brooding 15:25 there's ability to understand the times 15:28 and then to know how to respond accordingly. 15:31 It's not go to a president, it's go to a king. 15:34 It's not go to the world of Islam, 15:35 it's go to the world of Israel. 15:37 One line from an old bitter, sweet, melancholy king. 15:44 Book of Chronicles here's the line 15:46 let's find, Chronicles Chapter 12. 15:47 Look it if you grown up in the community of faith 15:51 1 Chronicles 12 is not gonna be a surprise to you. 15:53 Some of you may have never read the words before 15:55 that's all right. 15:56 I want you to blow the dust off of this ancient line. 15:59 This is Ecclesiastes 12, 16:01 I'm sorry I said 1 Chronicles 12, 16:02 but now we're going to Ecclesiastes 12. 16:05 Kind of threw you there sorry about that. 16:06 The Ecclesiastes 12 all right written by this embittered king. 16:10 This soliloquy at the end of life. 16:12 This is King Solomon of course. 16:15 Ecclesiastes Chapter 12 that would be page 454 16:19 in your pew Bible. 16:21 Take look at this line as we wrap this little mini-series. 16:26 Okay, Ecclesiastes Chapter 12 16:29 many of you've read this line before let me read it again 16:32 we'll put it on the screen for you. 16:33 "Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, 16:38 before the difficult days come, 16:40 and the years draw near when you say, 16:42 'I have no pleasure in them.'" 16:46 Now that line is so familiar to so many of us 16:50 that it absolutely has no effect at all. 16:51 And so here's what I need to do you're not allow to do this. 16:54 Right there at the end of the apocalypse 16:55 it says at the end of the Bible 16:57 God will bring the plagues upon anybody 16:58 who adds a word or takes a word from Holy Scripture. 17:00 So I don't want to do that, I want to simply invert it. 17:03 Doesn't say a 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18:31 The proper reading of Ecclesiastes 12:1 18:34 "Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth." 18:40 Ladies and gentlemen, I do not want to downplay 18:42 for a moment the significance of just the way the line reads. 18:49 God says, listen I want to tell you something 18:50 when you are young it's the perfect time 18:54 to remember your Creator. 18:57 Now look at most of our college kids 18:58 have gone for the summer, 19:00 but we've got a lot of young adults here still. 19:02 I see you out there. 19:05 You were chosen by God. 19:06 It doesn't matter how your life is progressing right now, 19:08 it doesn't matter how the lack of guidance, 19:12 the lack of a sense of destiny 19:14 you are living with right now forget it. 19:16 You are alive today, because God wheels you 19:18 into the existence. 19:20 The point of this why is king 19:22 embedded at the end of his life after wine, women and song 19:24 and realizing that isn't even enough. 19:26 The point of the king is when you're young remember, 19:31 the Creator created you calls you into existence. 19:34 You are here for a dream, you are here for a vision. 19:36 God has a destiny for you. 19:38 That's great just the way it reads, 19:40 but I need to switch it around. 19:41 So would you now fill it out please? 19:43 Let's ponder for this final Issachar factor piece, 19:45 let's ponder it this way. 19:48 "Remember now you're youth in the day of your Creator." 19:53 Switch the words around. 19:55 Will you please and write them in 19:56 and so that the inverted text 19:58 with the entire text would read this way. 20:00 Let's put it on the screen please. 20:01 "Remember now your youth in the days of your Creator, 20:04 before the difficult days come, 20:06 and the years draw near when you say, 20:09 'I am not get much out of this at all.' 20:12 " Now the Solomon's point is 20:14 this is a soliloquy of growing old 20:16 and the very next verse has described the body 20:18 physically falling apart. 20:20 It says bummer. 20:22 I understand he is concerned about aging, 20:24 but as I brood over the Issachar factor 20:28 and this one line inverted 20:30 I'm concerned about the aging, 20:32 I'm concerned about the dangers aging of our civilization. 20:38 In fact, let me tell you something 20:39 the word for difficult right here 20:41 before the difficult days come 20:43 the actual Hebrew word is evil. 20:46 In fact the last time it's using in the Old Testament 20:48 it's just one page back Ecclesiastes. 20:50 Just turn the page back Ecclesiastes 9:12. 20:53 Notice this very clearly there the context its evil, 20:56 the word is to be translated evil. 20:58 Ecclesiastes 9:12 "For man also does not know his time" 21:04 obviously they don't have the Issachar factor. 21:06 Whoever these people are that they don't know their times 21:08 do not have the Issachar factor. 21:10 The Issachar factor means you will know your time, 21:12 you will then know how to respond to your time, 21:15 but Solomon says not everybody knows. 21:16 "For man also does not know his time, 21:18 like fish taken in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, 21:23 so the sons and daughters of men are snared in an evil." 21:28 There it is same word. 21:30 "In an evil time, when it falls suddenly." 21:35 And I must tell you I much more inebriate by that word suddenly 21:38 then attracted to that word evil. 21:40 "When it fall suddenly, suddenly upon them." 21:47 What does suddenly mean? 21:50 What does suddenly mean? 21:54 Suddenly is what happened late Sunday night 21:56 somewhere over the Atlantic as that ill-fated 22:00 Air France flight 447 suddenly, suddenly disappeared. 22:08 I saw it in my blog today, 22:10 scientist are calling it this intertropical convergence zone 22:13 and nearly continues ban of colliding weather systems 22:15 that stretches across the Atlantic at the equator 22:18 from Africa all the way across to South America. 22:24 Apparently this ICZ is the hot bed of some of the 22:27 earth's most violent storms. 22:30 Those thunderheads can stretch from sea level upto 60,000 feet 22:36 colliding weather systems leading some to speculate 22:38 that the aircraft flew into that brewing meteorological cauldron 22:42 and suffered a catastrophic event that's snuffed it off 22:45 the radar screen out of life gone. 22:47 And by the way the debris they found this week 22:49 it's not Air France debris. 22:51 We have no idea where that plane went down, 22:55 228 people gone. 22:56 You're sleeping, look I flying to Italy tomorrow, 22:59 have to fly overnight across the Atlantic, 23:01 I'm thinking about this. 23:05 You're sound asleep 23:06 and the next thing you know all hell breaks loose, 23:08 the electrical systems shuts down 23:09 we didn't get that computer notification boom 23:12 and now you're flying down. 23:15 You can't imagine suddenly 23:18 that's what suddenly means like that. 23:21 That's what suddenly means. 23:22 The wise king Solomon ruefully reminds us 23:26 that there is a wild card in the hand of faith 23:34 and it is a wild card 23:35 that the sons and daughters of Issachar today 23:38 must be acutely cognize enough 23:40 if we're gonna give correct analysis to this generation. 23:44 Would you jot it down please, here's the wild card. 23:48 "Regarding the Issachar factor's 23:49 'understanding the signs of the times,' 23:51 the 'wild card' in God's hand is called suddenly." 23:54 Just write it out suddenly. 23:55 That word is not unique to Ecclesiastes 23:57 as we're gonna note just now. 23:58 But write it down the wild card in the hand of faith 24:01 calling in the hand of God is a card suddenly, 24:04 when that card is played suddenly 24:05 the human paradigm shifts irrevocably shifts. 24:09 Never forget that in the hand is a wild card 24:13 entitled suddenly. 24:15 Let's go to the New Testament. 24:16 New Testament collaborates the very crucial point 24:19 that Solomon is making for 24:20 Issachar factor kind of thinking. 24:22 Go to the 1 Thessalonians in the New Testament. 24:24 Take a look at this. 24:26 If you're using a pew Bible it'll be page 796. 24:30 1 Thessalonians, 24:33 can't miss it here, cannot miss it. 24:36 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5 let's pick it up in verse 1 24:38 "But concerning the times and the seasons." 24:41 All right, you want to know about the times 24:43 that we're living in. 24:44 "Concerning the times and the seasons, 24:45 you have no need that I should write to you. 24:48 For you yourselves know perfectly 24:49 that the day of the Lord." 24:50 That would be Christ return. 24:52 "The day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night." 24:57 Verse 3 "For when they say, 'Peace and safety!' 25:01 Then suddenly, suddenly." 25:05 NIV translates it suddenly. 25:08 New King James says sudden destruction. 25:11 "Sudden destruction comes upon them, 25:13 as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. 25:15 And they shall not escape." 25:17 I need to tell you about-- first fill it in. 25:19 When they say peace and safety then sudden, 25:22 the New King James then sudden destruction comes upon them. 25:26 I do need to tell you that this thief in a night simile 25:29 some people read that and say, 25:31 that means Jesus is coming secretly. 25:33 No it doesn't mean that Jesus is coming secretly, 25:34 it means Jesus is coming unexpectedly. 25:36 How could-- because Paul illustrates it 25:38 with the woman in labor. 25:40 Is it a secret to the woman in labor that she is in labor? 25:42 No, it is not a secret. 25:44 She knows very well what is happening. 25:46 You can't about secret, it's unexpected. 25:47 I didn't think I was having the baby right now, Rebecca. 25:53 Suddenly, suddenly. 25:56 The only other place by the way that this Greek word is used 26:00 in the New Testament is, in this words of Christ 26:03 describing His second coming. 26:04 We will put it on the screen for you. 26:05 Luke 21:34 Jesus says "But take heed to yourselves, 26:08 lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, 26:11 drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day, 26:13 " capital "D" Day it's the Lord's day 26:15 it's always the return of Christ. 26:17 "And that Day come upon you unexpectedly." 26:20 Notice the last line now. 26:21 "For it will come as a snare 26:24 on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth." 26:27 The identical language that Solomon uses 26:29 they are caught in a snare, 26:30 they are entrapped, and suddenly. 26:33 Christ uses to say-- to say that's the way it'll be 26:38 when I return. 26:39 In fact, would you jot that down please? 26:40 But Jesus speaking here "But take heed 26:42 lest that Day come upon you unexpectedly." 26:44 Same word as suddenly. 26:46 "Like a trap." 26:48 Identical language from the wise King Solomon. 26:51 Clearly, ladies and gentlemen, the Issachar factor 26:53 presciently calculates its understanding of the times 26:56 by remembering the wild card in God's hand 26:59 and that card is called suddenly. 27:01 The reason this is so important, 27:02 because some of you think you got things figured out. 27:03 You say, I can see this trance, 27:05 I know where things are going and you know 27:06 and actually things are improving now. 27:08 Just remember no matter how the trance may appear 27:11 there is a wild card in the hand of faith and it is sudden 27:14 and when it is played the whole paradigm 27:19 is permanently shifted. 27:22 Do you ever wake up, do you-- this is happened to you I know. 27:26 You wake up in the middle of a night 27:29 feeling all refreshing like man I've slept a whole night 27:31 let's begin and you look at the clock, oh good night, 27:35 it's time for more good night. 27:38 Isn't that just awful? 27:39 You think you're ready to get up. 27:41 Well, this happened to me this week Monday. 27:44 I woke up feeling refreshed 27:46 and then I looked at the clock I said, 27:48 oh no, 3:00 something please. 27:53 I knew that if I stayed in bed I'll be tossing and turning 27:55 and then I would wake here up so I said, okay I'll get up. 27:58 Went down stairs, I keep a blanket down there in my study 28:02 and wrapped up in that blanket in the dark 28:03 and I decided to have some time to pray. 28:06 Now I understand I don't believe 28:09 that the messages or strong impressions 28:12 that God gives me are necessarily intended for you, 28:16 I understand that. 28:17 We all have our prayers lives, 28:18 we commune with God accordingly, 28:20 you commune with Him the way you do and I do as well, 28:23 but I must tell you that as I pray there in the darkness, 28:29 I was praying among other prayer focuses, 28:32 I was praying for this Issachar factor. 28:34 Not just for me I'm praying for you. 28:37 It's still good if just one person has an Issachar factor 28:39 ability to discern. 28:40 So I'm praying that God will give it to all of us 28:43 that will not, that will be a community 28:45 that is able to accurately know the times 28:47 and then know how to respond accordingly. 28:50 So while I'm praying this impression, 28:53 you know, this sense 28:59 came in me 29:03 that no matter how you read the tea leaves today, 29:08 because I can say you one thing 29:09 and you'll come along and say I got this from the web 29:10 and it's the exact opposite. 29:12 I understand how that works. 29:13 But no matter how the tea leaves might read today 29:16 there is the inescapable reality that human society 29:19 as we know it is headed like the ill-fated Flight 447 29:25 into a maelstrom on this planet. 29:28 Were too low on the horizon of time we cannot see it, 29:32 but if I read and study my Bible correctly 29:34 and I believe I do then before the return of Christ 29:38 there will be a massive global crisis 29:43 that will draw every nation on earth into it. 29:47 Look at, that's not rocket science, 29:50 it's not like oh, Dwight, great revelation. 29:53 The Bible has been saying that, 29:55 but I'm not realizing 29:57 that in the hand of faith is a card 30:00 that can literally overnight shift the paradigm. 30:07 Jesus is making the point of course, 30:09 very clearly and I want you to not read it on the screen, 30:11 but see it in your own Bible. 30:12 So go back to what's called the little apocalypse 30:15 this is the signs of the times Chapter Matthew 24. 30:18 Jesus is making the point take a look at this 30:20 then I want to share something that came to me. 30:22 Just that was sent to me this last week 30:24 I'll share with you see what you think. 30:25 This is Matthew 24:37 red letter words 30:29 if you have a Red Lettered Bible. 30:30 Jesus speaking here Matthew 24:37 page 668, 30:37 "But as the days of Noah were, 30:39 so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 30:44 For as in the days before the flood." 30:45 Now watch this. 30:46 "As in the days before the flood, 30:49 they were eating and drinking." 30:51 Anything wrong with eating and drinking? 30:52 Nope. 30:53 "They were marrying and giving in marriage." 30:54 Anything wrong in marrying and giving in marriage? 30:55 Of course not. 30:57 Life as usual is proceeding that's the point. 31:01 "They were marrying and giving in marriage, 31:03 until the day" until the day "that Noah entered the ark, 31:08 and they did not know until the flood came 31:12 and took them all away, 31:14 so also will the coming of the Son of Man be." 31:18 Ladies and gentlemen, 31:20 the card, the wild card suddenly, 31:24 God suddenly played and it was over, 31:29 everything was just going on, 31:30 hunky-dory well, it's a great isn't it? 31:33 Yeah, looks like the economy is coming up. 31:34 Hey, hi-five on that, boom. 31:39 That's the point, that's the point. 31:42 Matthew Henry-- boy, is the line 31:45 "Though God bare a great wild He will not bare always." 31:51 What we get by with today 31:54 and may face curtains tomorrow, that's the point. 31:58 Noah in the flood wild card, Sodom and Gomorrah overnight, 32:02 wild card just like that. 32:04 Over night, September 11, 2001 just like that wild card, 32:10 life forever on this planet has changed. 32:11 We can never go back in your dreams, 32:16 that's Jesus point. 32:18 You want to talk about an earthquake it could happen, 32:20 you want to talk about hurricane we've seen it happen, 32:22 you want to talk about tsunami pick your pick 32:23 take you pick Mother Nature, political nature 32:26 it doesn't matter overnight the paradigm shifts. 32:29 Now here's the question. 32:31 Could it happen, here where I'm going, 32:34 all right, could it happen economically? 32:41 Could it happen economically? 32:45 So I subscribe to two financial news letters. 32:49 One of which included a 24 page paper, 32:53 it came to me just a few days ago 32:55 written by Horace Brock 32:57 he is Ph.D. is from Princeton, 32:59 his Ph.D. is in mathematical economics 33:01 and political philosophy Harvard 33:03 and then he went to Harvard 33:05 then to Princeton to become an economist. 33:07 Twenty four page paper was included 33:08 in this financial news letter 33:10 I get so I ran the paper off and read it. 33:14 I want to read just a few lines to you. 33:17 Could it happen economically? So here's a deal. 33:18 He's looking at the ratio between debt and GDP, 33:23 the debt and GDP ratio. 33:25 You'll understand about debt. 33:27 This nation by the way is getting 33:28 further and further in debt 33:29 as we sit here, you understand it. 33:31 GDP, Grows Domestic Product 33:33 that's how they measure earth's economic boost the world over. 33:36 Every nation has a GDP it can be in the positive, 33:39 it can be in the negative. 33:41 Incidentally today globally it's minus 1%. 33:45 Now here is Brock's concern 33:46 that if our debt continues to mount 33:48 and the GDP instead of rising with the debt descends 33:51 in spite of the debt we're looking at a meltdown. 33:56 And then he makes these, he uses words 33:58 that you can understand with the Issachar factor 34:00 I immediately spot. 34:01 See if you catch these words, all right. 34:03 Let me read this to you. 34:04 "A year ago even six months ago the great debate centered 34:06 on whether the credit market crisis 34:08 would precipitate either a US or global recession. 34:10 A majority predicted a manageable recession 34:13 in the US, but nowhere else 34:14 with the possible exception of the UK." 34:16 Surprise, surprise. 34:18 "Uncertainty it was great 34:19 and kept increasing until recently, but no longer. 34:21 The good news today is that this uncertainty has disappeared 34:24 because everybody is in it now." 34:26 No more uncertainty. 34:28 Now listen two way 34:30 "the G7 economies are all in recession." 34:34 The most powerful economies on earth are all in recession. 34:37 "And more astonishingly the economy of the planet earth 34:40 is growing at about a minus 1% or less. 34:43 Earning are crumbling, global trade." 34:44 This is just weeks ago. 34:46 "Global trade has decrease by nearly 10% 34:48 rising global unemployment for tokens 34:50 social unrest in many quarters, 34:51 industrial production has dropped more than ever 34:53 before an excess capacity is rising in almost 34:55 all manufacturing sectors globally." 34:57 Now here is what caught my eye. 35:00 "All in all we have witnessed problems 35:02 that originated within the United States 35:05 give rise to global scenarios that were virtually unthinkable 35:10 as recently as the summer of 2008. 35:16 And do so now with blinding, blinding speed." 35:23 Two words, leap off 35:25 this economist analysis of the times. 35:29 Blinding, blinding speed. 35:37 When they say everything is coming up raises, 35:39 wow, this thing is turned around. 35:40 Man, hallelujah. 35:42 Remember the two words blinding speed. 35:46 A hundred years ago a century go these prescient words 35:48 were written wound you fill them in your study guide please. 35:51 A hundred years ago, 35:52 "Great changes are soon to take place in the world, 35:55 and the final movements will be rapid." 35:58 Blinding speed, "rapid ones." 36:02 Keep your pen moving. 36:03 "Beware the wild card 'blinding speed'" 36:07 also called "suddenly." 36:10 Beware don't you factor your journey in the future 36:14 without remembering there is that wild card. 36:16 Oh, put it out, you know, 36:17 I know I want to get little deeper with Jesus. 36:19 I know I want to grow in God, but you know what, 36:22 the day will come when I have a little more time. 36:24 Don't put it off, blinding speed, please, please. 36:30 This isn't rocket science. Blinding speed. 36:34 Oh, Dwight, I should we be afraid? 36:37 Oh, please don't be afraid. Please, please. 36:40 Please take a look at this put it in your study guide. 36:42 Hallelujah, Proverbs 3:25, 26, 36:45 "Do not be afraid of sudden terror 36:49 for the Lord will be your confidence." 36:51 What do you say to that? Hallelujah. 36:54 You have no, you and I have no reason to fear. 36:56 Sit up Issachar, sit up. 36:59 Just remember understand the times. 37:04 We must understand the times, 37:05 but remember the whole point of Issachar 37:06 is not just to understand the times 37:08 but its also to as a consequence of the careful analysis 37:12 to determine who we should move, 37:14 what we should do giving the times we are in. 37:18 And that's why we inverted our verse from Ecclesiastes, 37:21 let me put it back on the screen for you. 37:23 "Remember now your youth 37:26 in the days of your Creator, before." 37:31 Before this blinding speed wild card gets played. 37:34 Do now, do it now before the difficult 37:37 or the evil days come. 37:39 Before the massive crisis, remember your youth 37:43 and the days of your Creator. 37:44 Why should be remember the young? 37:46 I'll tell you why. If all kind of issues on earth. 37:47 why we are to remember the young? 37:48 Listen to this 3,400 of them, 3, 400 of them 37:53 we have right here at Andrews University. 37:56 All right, there is no other congregation on earth 37:57 that has been entrusted 37:58 with these 3,400 university students. 38:03 We have senses the congregation our mission is to young adults. 38:06 In fact, I got an email, I got to share this with you. 38:09 I got an email from one of our young adults, 38:11 freshmen this last year so he writes me. 38:13 He is on summer vacation right now. 38:15 But he writes, drear Pastor Nelson, 38:17 you may remember me. 38:18 I sent you an email last fall asking what I could to do 38:20 to bring about revival of Andrews 38:22 your reply was defending moment of my year. 38:24 Let me quickly we cap the story, turns out, 38:26 and I'm gland we have military chaplains here. 38:28 It turns out-- he's telling me 38:29 in this letter that on October 19 38:32 he enlist as a recruit for the Marine Reserves 38:36 here in Michigan as a basic infantry 38:38 I think he puts it here. 38:41 October 19 that's a Friday, 38:42 October 20 he's sitting in the back of the balcony 38:45 worshiping with this university congregation. 38:51 He is describing, he said, 38:52 you're laying out a plan to accomplish the impossible 38:54 the unattainable thing that I dreamed about 38:57 and sought for so much of my young life. 38:58 I waited to tell everyone about Jesus 39:00 and prepare the world so that He could come back. 39:02 The words you use are something like, Lord, tell me 39:04 where You want me to go and I'll go. 39:05 Tell me what You want me to do it and I'll do it. 39:07 I desperately wanted to say those words, 39:09 you gave an ultra call and thought 39:10 all my doubts to the wind. 39:11 I said the words, I came forward 39:13 and looks for ways to act on those words 39:15 that very Sabbath 39:16 I went outreach up in Benton Harbor for the first time 39:18 it was an awesome experience. 39:20 And I serve faithfully for every week 39:22 they had it until the end of spring semester. 39:25 May his tribe increase. 39:27 He was 18 last fall in that balcony. 39:30 Ladies and gentlemen, 39:31 we have hundreds and hundreds of them on this campus. 39:36 Eighteen years old young man, we have a mission. 39:40 And by the way, you want to see the real number 39:44 under the age of college, under the collegiate age 39:48 we have another 700 young adults. 39:54 That's 4,100, 4,100 in our perish the God says, 40:01 you take care oft, you prepare them for Me. 40:05 Remember now you are youth in the days of your Creator 40:09 before the difficult days comes, 40:12 before the meltdown remember them now. 40:15 Wow, how can we do it? 40:16 I want to end with this 40:17 seven simple ways to make a spiritual difference. 40:20 You seven simple ways 40:21 everyone in these Issachar factors has had a list of seven, 40:25 this is the final list of seven jot this down please. 40:27 Number one, you want to make a difference 40:28 in some young person's life here we go. 40:30 Number one, Ask God to make you a mentor to them. 40:35 Ask God to make you a mentor to them. 40:38 We brought 13 university students 40:40 down into our boardroom here 40:41 and we asked them okay, listen, 40:42 what can Pioneer do for you? 40:45 I for one, I'm telling you the truth 40:46 I simply did not expect what these kids were saying. 40:51 Two students you know what they said, 40:53 here's what we want. 40:54 We want you to open up your homes to us 40:57 on a Friday night for worship 40:58 and supper, Sabbath for dinner 41:00 and then we like to sit around. 41:02 We vow you old people. 41:05 And they were thinking to you, 41:06 they were thinking actually of you 41:07 when they were saying that. 41:09 I asked them they said, oh yeah, I meant the others. 41:12 We vow you people with age. 41:17 I just would not have guessed that there would be response. 41:20 But then I'm reading this book 41:22 that they ordered on Amazon.com 41:23 and let me show up to you. 41:24 This is Ed Stetzer book. Take a look at this. 41:28 Title of the book "Lost and Found, 41:29 The Younger Unchurched 41:30 and the Churches that Reach Them" 41:32 a book that reports on three major research projects 41:34 of polling, surveys and personal interviews 41:36 and he collaborates this point and it's in your study guide. 41:39 We'll put it on the screen for you. 41:40 Here's what Stetzer's found. 41:42 "When people from an older generation 41:44 invite young adults into their lives, 41:47 they have that chance to mentor them." 41:50 Now watch this, this was a surprise for me. 41:53 "Too many young adults today have no one to turn to." 41:56 Now this part was it. 41:57 "When it comes to the tough questions of life." 42:00 All right "Questions of faith, 42:01 marriage, life, and work." 42:03 But here's the surprise, but they also. 42:05 Who did they turn to for "the practical questions 42:07 of life changing my oil, preparing my taxes, 42:10 making my budget work, building a resume." 42:12 I never thought about that, nobody show me how to do it. 42:16 I just want to hang. Do you know how to do this? 42:20 Notice that next line "Churches that connect generations" 42:24 an intergenerational church like we are. 42:26 "Churches that connect generations 42:28 can be wonderful bodies of believers 42:30 who respect each other in every facet of congregational life." 42:34 Our kids said, we want to come home 42:35 and just kind of sit around your table 42:36 listen to you tell stories and draw from your wisdom. 42:41 They were right. 42:43 Number two, Go deep with them. 42:47 Number one, Ask God to open your heart, 42:48 open your doors to our young. 42:50 Number two, Go deep with them. 42:52 Listen to Stetzer again. This is amazing. 42:55 "Young adults are looking for and striving toward truth. 42:58 They care about who they are and what they're becoming." 43:00 Now jot it down. 43:01 "Ankle deep does not work for them. 43:07 They'd rather be over their heads 43:08 as opposed to kicking around at the shallow end." 43:11 You know what, we mistakenly assume 43:13 that the young are interested in serious too, 43:15 they just want to play that is not true. 43:17 They want to go deep. 43:19 They want somebody to say listen 43:20 let's get into the word together. 43:21 I'm going over, I'm taking 43:22 the summary statements over to Italy with me 43:24 so that I can analyze the survey 43:26 that we did back in the worship survey, 43:28 preaching survey back in April. 43:31 You would be amazed 43:32 that how deep the young want to go. 43:36 They don't want namby-pamby, they don't want pabulum, 43:39 they are into apologetics, they are into hey show me, 43:41 teach doctrine and truth. 43:45 They want to go deep, ankle deep will not suffice. 43:48 So open up your home, 43:49 open up your Sabbath school class to young adults. 43:50 By the way you got Sabbath school class, 43:52 just a bunch of youth sitting around old timers, 43:54 why don't you bring some young adults into that class, 43:56 why don't you really do some mentoring? 43:59 All right number three, Model your values to them. 44:01 Model your values to them. 44:03 You know what, we are foolish to think 44:05 that we must dress like them, talk like them, 44:07 behave like them in order to influence them. 44:09 That is so far from the truth. 44:11 Guess what, it's the other way around. 44:13 They want us old fuddy-duddies to be able to articulate 44:19 and model the values and standards we hold high. 44:23 Now this is gonna blow you out of the water. 44:26 Stetzer reports in one major survey 44:28 that only 31% of unchurched 44:31 young adults said yes to this statement. 44:33 Put it on the screen. 44:34 "Only three out of ten unchurched said 44:37 'if music at church sounded similar 44:39 to my favorite type of music, 44:40 I would be more likely to attend.' 44:42 " Now let me reverse the numbers for you. 44:44 Seven out of ten young adults unchurched young adults said, 44:47 I don't care about the music, 44:48 you don't have to do music my way 44:51 in order for me to come. 44:52 Now the way some music gets defended 44:54 and some circulars on this campus 44:55 you would think it was the other way 44:57 around, seven out of ten would say 44:58 I got to have the right music in order to go. 45:00 They don't have to. Isn't that amazing? 45:03 Hold your line, the values and standards 45:07 they expect you to hold model it to them. 45:11 Model your values to them. Don't be afraid. 45:15 Number four, Draw them into community, 45:17 the community of a small group. 45:20 In that same survey listen to this 45:21 46% of the unchurched said yes to this statement. 45:26 I would be willing to join a small group of people 45:28 to learn more about the Bible and Jesus. 45:32 What was the number? Forty six percent of unchurched. 45:35 It's higher among the church kids. 45:37 Unchurched kids, don't know Jesus kids. 45:40 I wouldn't mind be in a small group. 45:43 Listen, you got a small group already, 45:45 you don't have to say well, I got to turn them 45:46 all into young adults in order to draw more. 45:48 No you don't. 45:49 They love intergenerational, 45:51 so just bring them in, add them to your group. 45:59 You invite them to bring a couple of their friends over 46:01 and you bring a couple of your friends 46:02 and you sit down on a Friday night 46:03 something can start growing 46:04 that you could start building a community, 46:05 they'd come back again 46:06 and they'd come back again and again. 46:08 You take them deeper in the word of God. 46:11 Listen to Stetzer again, you going to fill this one in. 46:13 "Rather than behave/believe/belong ministry." 46:17 Now I want to tell you what he is saying, 46:18 because this is a way we done ministry for year 46:20 in our community of faith. 46:21 Here's the way we do it. You got to behave right. 46:23 If you behave right you can come here 46:26 then you got to believe right, 46:27 if you believe right we'll let you join us. 46:30 So we go behave first and then believe 46:33 and then we'll let you go on. 46:34 They don't want to do it that way. 46:36 They said, no we want to belong, 46:38 we'd like to, how did he put it here, 46:40 we want to belong first 46:41 then we will decide about believing 46:43 and then we'll decide about 46:45 become not behaving just let us become, 46:47 let us become what you've become. 46:50 You see we get real, we get real spiritually mature 46:53 and we said, now said, everybody now 46:54 that joins this church has to be just like me, 46:58 have a same taste, 46:59 have a same spiritual level of maturity. 47:02 No, we don't have to do that bring them in. 47:06 In facts Stetzer goes on, what's that last sentence. 47:07 "What this means is that an unchurched individual 47:09 is immediately welcomed 47:11 into the community with other Christians." 47:12 By the way he's not saying, 47:14 he's saying I'm not saying baptize them today, 47:16 I'm just saying get them in, 47:17 get them in, let them belong first 47:20 then they'll come to believe then they'll become. 47:24 Okay number five, Do ministry. 47:26 Do ministry, key word with them in church. 47:31 Do ministry with them in the church. 47:34 Our strategic plan here 47:35 that we've been sharing with our HR vision 47:37 envisions inviting young adults serving 47:38 beside you in every ministry of this church 47:40 from the nursery Sabbath school 47:41 and the other side of that glass 47:42 to neighboring labor down the street ministering 47:44 to the distance franchise of the intercity near us. 47:49 Every ministry that is being done 47:51 in the Pioneer Memorial Church, 47:53 every leader eventually our dream is 47:55 we'll have a shadow young adult, 47:57 a shadow two or three of them 47:59 who will shadow you, who will watch you, 48:01 who will observe you, who will say hey, 48:03 show me how to do that. 48:04 Teach me about that part, that's our vision. 48:08 You've got to do it with them. 48:11 You know what, we believe that the day will come 48:13 when they'll leave to this campus 48:14 and go anywhere earth they say hey, listen, 48:15 I was taught back at Pioneer, 48:16 I was taught at Andrews University, 48:18 where I graduated. 48:19 I know how to do that, I can help you there, 48:20 oh just show me how to do, I can do that too. 48:23 They come as servants 48:25 they come immersed in a world of need. 48:27 Number six, Do service. 48:30 First one was, five was, do ministry 48:31 this one is, do service. 48:32 This is a key point. Do service with them. 48:38 Listen to these number 66% of church, 48:41 all right, these are the kids in church, 48:42 66% two thirds of them 48:43 and 47% of the unchurched young adults 48:46 Stetzer writing here "Waited the opportunity 48:48 to meet the needs of others locally and globally 48:51 as extremely important in their lives." 48:54 You think about this, this is the first generation 48:56 who was grown up with a real time war. 48:59 Real time, they are watching war on TV back here at home. 49:04 It's not the generations 49:05 we have to go by the news that came back. 49:08 These kids can pick a plane ticket 49:09 any day of the week and they're gone. 49:11 Go for a week, go for two weeks then they'll come home. 49:14 They are inundated with internet information, 49:16 the media targeting them. 49:18 They know the world, they know the global needs 49:20 and they are saying somebody is got to make a difference 49:23 on this planet and so it caught my eye. 49:26 Look at this "Adventist Review" just came out few days ago. 49:31 I got to read it off the screen, 49:32 'cause I can't read the-- there you go. 49:34 What Jesus said about young adults, 49:36 "What Jesus Said About Young Adult Ministry." 49:40 One of the lead authors in this story 49:42 in this piece is Duane McBride is one of our faculty here. 49:45 Here's an interesting point by the way they discover that 49:47 when young adults get involved in service and it's pivotal 49:51 that adults be in service them. 49:53 When young adults get involved in service 49:55 there is 40%, 40% of them 49:59 over the previous 12 months have no substance abuse period. 50:05 They are focused now on another reason 40% of them 50:09 over the previous 12 months no substance abuse at all. 50:13 Its called prophylactic, it's called preventing. 50:17 Well, do service with them in the community 50:21 that's why we have our outreach ministry up in Benton Harbor. 50:23 That's why this kid sent the email 50:25 and he said, that first thing 50:26 I did was out there good for him. 50:29 And finally I got to ask you this, 50:33 give me the most effective age to reach the young adult. 50:35 What age of a young adult is the best time 50:37 to strike for the Lord Jesus Christ? 50:39 The best age 12 and under. 50:42 You say come on Dwight, you can't be a young adult 50:44 and be 12 and under. 50:46 That's precisely the point. 50:48 Jot it down will you please finally number seven, 50:50 Volunteer to minister to them when they're 12 or under. 50:53 George Barna, seminar research 50:55 Christian demographer here in this nation 50:57 let me put the quote on the screen for you. 50:59 You'll have to fill it in. 51:00 "We discovered that the probability 51:01 of someone embracing Jesus as his or her Savior 51:05 was 32% for those between the ages of 5 and 12." 51:11 All right three out of ten chance. 51:13 Four percent the moment 51:15 they turn 13 moving to their 13 to18 range 4% 51:18 and then it leaps higher once they turn 19 to 6%. 51:22 Can you believe that 6% for people 19 and over. 51:25 "In other words" Barna goes on, 51:27 "If people do not embrace Jesus Christ as their Savior 51:30 before they reach their teenage years, 51:33 the chance of their doing so at all is slim." 51:41 Isn't that amazing? 51:44 You want to do young adult ministry we believe 51:46 that we're supposed to what is it motivate, 51:49 mentor and mobilize young adults the most effective age 51:52 to begin that ministry 12 and under, 12 and under. 51:57 All of which leads me to say 51:58 that we are right now in earnest need 52:00 of some of you to volunteer to you help 52:02 reach these young for Christ. 52:04 Our nominating committee is in full swing, 52:08 but they are looking for adult and young adult 52:11 and some of you are young adults 52:13 I'm talking to you right now as well. 52:14 They are looking for adult and young adults leaders 52:16 in our preprimary Sabbath school 52:18 that six years old up into first grade 52:20 and our junior two Sabbath school that's fifth grade 52:22 and our junior Sabbath school that's sixth grade 52:24 and our early teen which is grade seven and eight 52:27 and in our pathfinder club 52:29 it is not that they have not tried, 52:33 they have made a great effort, 52:36 but you know what, some of us think 52:38 that coming to church is all about us getting fed 52:42 rather than us doing the feeding. 52:45 And we've turned church into this place 52:46 bringing on give me great music, 52:48 come on take me into the word, 52:50 come on I want a great Sabbath school class 52:51 and if I have all of that I'm happy. 52:54 This is not about you being happy, 52:56 this is about a generation of young 52:57 that we have to impact now 52:59 before the difficult days come. 53:01 We desperately need, 53:04 we desperately-- don't put that study guide away. 53:08 You keep that study guide out please. 53:10 We desperately need young adults and adults 53:16 who will say you know what I'm available. 53:18 Some of you had sat in the same Sabbath 53:19 school classes adults for 30 years 53:23 it's time to give it a break, 53:28 roll up your sleeves, go downstairs, 53:30 right up here with the youngest ages 53:33 and help us reach these kids for Jesus. 53:36 The most productive years are 5 to 12 53:39 it's all down hill after 12, 53:42 it's all down hill. 53:44 Did you get that? 53:45 It's down hill after 12. Please. 53:49 You say, Dwight, what can I do? 53:51 I was hoping you to ask. 53:52 That little tear off where is it? 53:54 That little tear off in the study guide 53:58 you got it there, yeah. 54:01 That little tear off would you mind, 54:03 yes, I'm will to volunteer. 54:06 I'd be willing to be a leader 54:07 or an assistant leader in the Sabbath school. 54:10 Hey, I thank God for all those in first church 54:11 who responded, I want you to respond too please. 54:14 Just jot your name down, your telephone number, 54:16 your email address that's it 54:17 we'll give to the nominated community 54:18 they'll be in touch with you, 54:19 nobody is gonna be drafted, forced, conscripted. 54:23 You get a chance to say I'm not really into that 54:26 how about you, do you have anything here? 54:27 Yep we do. 54:28 We desperately need you to help. 54:32 So right now would you tear it off, 54:34 right now fill it out, give it to me afterwards, 54:36 give it to any church officer you see standing, 54:38 give it to one of the ushers, 54:39 it doesn't matter who you give it to 54:40 we'll make sure get's to the nominating committee. 54:43 Fill it out right now. 54:44 We need, we desperately need a vision. 54:50 How did that song that Ryan sang a moment ago. 54:53 Some people see a shepherd boy, 54:58 but God looks in that boy's face, 54:59 God looks into that little girl's face 55:02 and He says that girl is My hero coming up. 55:09 Nobody knows it. 55:11 Oh, if you be willing to roll up your sleeves 55:13 step into our Sabbath schools for our kids. 55:17 I can't imagine right now a more significant gift 55:20 you could give to the Lord Jesus Christ a very precious. 55:24 And by the way you young adults I want to say it again 55:26 you sign up, yeah, go ahead over the summer, 55:28 we'll be in touch with you. 55:30 How does our inverted text go? 55:31 It's in let's just put it back on the screen please. 55:33 "Remember our youth." 55:35 We must "Remember our youth in the days of our Creator 55:39 before the difficult and evil days come." 55:42 Are we on the verge of us 55:43 depend as Christ has says one author puts it. 55:45 I believe we are, I'm giving you no timeline, 55:47 I have no timeline clue, 55:49 but I believe we're on the verge. 55:52 There is a wild card in the hand of faith, 55:54 it's called blinding speed, 55:56 it's called suddenly like that life will change. 55:59 We have before the difficult days come we must. 56:03 Sons and daughters, not of Issachar forget Issachar. 56:05 We are sons and daughters of God 56:06 we must seize this moment, grab these kids, 56:10 point them to Jesus and say Jesus please do 56:14 whatever it takes save our young. 56:18 The words of the poet 56:19 "Give of your best to the Master, 56:21 give of the strength of your youth, 56:23 clad in salvation's for armor, 56:25 join in the battle of truth." 56:32 It's been a pleasure to be able to worship with you today. 56:34 I hope that the Spirit of Jesus has blessed your time with us 56:37 right here in the Pioneer Memorial Church 56:39 on the campus of Andrews University. 56:41 Do you know that around the world 56:42 people join us every week for this hour of worship? 56:45 We're always looking 56:46 as a consequence for a new ways to bridge, 56:48 somehow to connect with these people 56:50 who come here to worship via the telecast. 56:53 One of the areas that is quickly growing for us is our website. 56:56 We had more than a 140,000 visitors last year. 57:00 It's an incredible opportunity 57:02 that God is given us to expand His kingdom. 57:05 If you'd like to help partner with us 57:07 as we seek to spread the everlasting gospel 57:10 I'd love to have you call our toll free number. 57:12 We got very friendly operators standing by. 57:15 Here's the number 877-His-Will, 57:18 877 and then the two words His-Will. 57:20 One of the operators will be happy to give you the details 57:23 of how you can partner with this global ministry. 57:26 If you prefer listen you can do it all online. 57:28 Go to our website please www.pmchurch.tv 57:33 I'd be honored to have the privilege 57:34 of partnering with you 57:35 as we seek to spread the truth 57:36 about our God for this generation. 57:39 We are living in urgent times. 57:42 Now more than ever we've got to go to the world 57:45 with the good news entrusted to us. 57:47 So once again here's that toll free number 57:49 877-His-Will. 57:51 Thank you in advance for your generosity. 57:54 It blesses me and you grow this ministry. 57:57 I pray that the Spirit of Christ will abide with you 57:59 every step of the way and I hope 58:01 you'll come back again next time right here 58:04 as we continue our worship journey together. |
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