All hail the
power of Jesus' Name
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Let angels prostrate fall
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Bring forth the royal diadem
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Bring forth the royal diadem
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Ye seed of Israel's chosen race
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Ye ransomed of the fall
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Hail Him who
saves you by His grace
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Hail Him who
saves you by His grace
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Let every kindred, every tribe
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On this terrestrial ball
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To Him all majesty ascribe
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And crown Him Lord of all
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To Him all majesty ascribe
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Oh, that with
yonder sacred throng
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We at His feet may fall
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Join in the everlasting song
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Join in the everlasting song
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Amen. Amen.
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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And I'll run
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After You
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Oh, draw me
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Lord
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Oh, draw me
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Lord
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Oh, draw me
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Lord
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And I'll run
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After You
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me
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Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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And I'll run
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And I'll run
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After You
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After You
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Oh, draw me
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Lord
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Oh, draw me
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Lord
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Oh, draw me
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Lord
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And I'll run
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After You
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After You
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Draw me close to You
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Never let me go
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I lay it all down again
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To hear You say
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That I'm Your friend
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You are my desire
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No one else will do
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Cause no one else
can take Your place
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To feel the
warmth of Your embrace
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Help me find the way
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Bring me back to You
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You're all I want
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You're all I've ever needed
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You're all I want
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Help me know You are near
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You're all I want
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You're all I've ever needed
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You're all I want
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Help me know You are near
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Help me know You are near
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How lovely is Thy dwelling place
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O Lord of Hosts!
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O Lord of Hosts!
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Thy dwelling place
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O Lord of Hosts!
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How lovely
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Is Thy dwelling place
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O Lord of Hosts!
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Thy dwelling place
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O Lord of Hosts!
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For my soul
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It longeth, yet fainteth
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It longeth, yet fainteth
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It longeth, yet fainteth
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For the courts
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Of the Lord
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My soul and body
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Crieth out
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Yea, for the living God
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My soul and body
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Crieth out
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Yea, for the
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living God
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How lovely is Thy dwelling place
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O Lord of Hosts!
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O Lord of Hosts!
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Thy dwelling place
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O Lord of Hosts!
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O blest are they
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O blest are they
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That dwell
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Within Thy house
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They praise Thy name evermore!
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They praise Thy name evermore!
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Praise Thy name
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Praise Thy name
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They praise Thy name evermore!
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They praise Thy name evermore!
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They praise Thy name evermore!
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Praise Him
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Praise Him
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Praise Him
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Praise Him
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Praise Him
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Praise Thy name
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Evermore
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How lovely
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How lovely
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How lovely
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How lovely
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How lovely
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How lovely
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Is Thy
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Dwelling place
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Amen!
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Oh, thank you,
university singers.
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How lovely is your
dwelling place, oh, God.
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I'm thinking that
all this morning long
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as we've been worshipping,
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as the Spirit has swept
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our praise heavenward.
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It's no wonder that psalmist
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who composed
those words also wrote,
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"I was glad
when they said to me,
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'Let us go to the
house of the Lord.'
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" And here we are in
the house of the Lord
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on this inaugural Sabbath.
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Can't believe summer's
gone and the new year is here.
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And it's just great to
have our worship team back.
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Where would you
guys go all summer?
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Why don't you stay around here?
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Why do you leave?
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But glad you're back.
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And thank you, you
swept us heavenward today.
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Now another team
has been working hard
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to get ready for this series
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and I'll have a prayer
with you in just a moment.
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It's our production team,
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new series "The Pugwash Factor."
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And so the team
has been scrambling,
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they've put together
a little video trailer
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and I want you to watch this.
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We'll have
prayer, it sets us up,
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we'll have prayer and then
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an unbelievable
story, all right?
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But first, your attention
to the screens, please.
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August 6th, 1945.
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Bathed in the deadly
glow of a single atomic bomb
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over Hiroshima, Japan,
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the world finds itself
ushered into the atomic age.
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Four years later, deep
behind the iron curtain,
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the Soviet Union
conducts their first test
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of an atomic
weapon sparking at arms
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raised the like of which
the world has never seen.
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Apprehensive
scientists and intellectuals
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debate the ominous
fate of the planet.
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Three days before his
death on April 18, 1955,
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American
scientist, Albert Einstein,
00:15:50.98\00:15:52.61
joins British
philosopher, Bertrand Russell,
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in signing the
Russell-Einstein Manifesto.
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The prospect for the human race
is somber beyond all precedent.
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Mankind are faced with
a clear-cut alternative,
00:16:01.02\00:16:03.69
either we shall all perish
or we shall have to acquire
00:16:03.73\00:16:06.19
some slight
degree of common sense.
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Soon after, in the
village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia,
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22 scientists
including 10 Nobel laureates,
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gathered to ponder
00:16:14.77\00:16:16.10
how to avert the Cold War's
threat of nuclear obliteration
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and to forge a
plan of global peace.
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And half a century
later, the quest still goes on.
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Call it "The Pugwash Factor,"
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because if those
who know do not act,
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the planet is doomed.
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Let's pray.
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Dear God, the Pugwash Factor,
00:16:36.59\00:16:38.79
we live with it night and day
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now more than
ever, we live with it,
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a new generation on this planet,
00:16:42.90\00:16:44.27
we live with it.
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So what does it mean for us?
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How then shall we live?
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Speak through Holy
Scripture this morning,
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convict our minds,
engage our hearts, call us.
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We're praying in Christ name,
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amen.
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My friend, Melchizedek Ponniah
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shared this story
with me this summer.
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Diana Kim, Korean-American
born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Wouldn't you
like to be born there?
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But born into a
messed up family,
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her parents
fighting, finally separate,
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her dad leaves.
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She's five years old.
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It's amazing this
girl survived childhood,
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that really is the
bright side of this,
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she survives childhood,
she survives her teenage years.
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Enrolls in law
school, she becomes a lawyer,
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she blends her
passion for photography
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with law and advocacy,
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she wants to pull and
push for the homeless.
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One day in Honolulu,
she's down doing a photo shoot
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working on a
project that would become,
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what would be called
"The Homeless Paradise."
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And she began
shooting a series of pictures
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on a stranger she
met, a homeless individual.
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And as you're gonna see,
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she was able to
capture in her pictures
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the plight and the
despair of the homeless
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with her artistic craft.
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All right, so she
finishes the photo shoot,
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she goes home.
00:18:07.38\00:18:08.72
She's doing the
Photoshop now with her pictures.
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Put it on the screen, please.
00:18:10.82\00:18:12.65
And so here you
have one of the homeless.
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You look at that picture,
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the utter futility of
this nameless, homeless,
00:18:16.22\00:18:21.00
victim of mental
illness, the baggy eyes,
00:18:21.03\00:18:23.43
you see the baggy eyes closed.
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You see the oily straggly hair,
00:18:25.73\00:18:27.07
the scarred dirty
crusted skin and obviously,
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what was once a nice, you know,
00:18:31.24\00:18:32.91
nice shirt is just
ripped and torn, misbuttoned,
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covering limply his bony chest.
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And the more she worked this
photograph and stared at it,
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the more agitated she became
00:18:43.45\00:18:44.79
and finally she
grabbed her camera,
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she raced back down to Honolulu
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to find the man whose
picture she had been taking
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and sure enough she finds
him sitting on a concrete bench,
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that's that next
picture right there.
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She walks up to the man
and she begins to quiz him
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with questions,
00:18:58.23\00:18:59.57
his answers are amazing.
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She has just met her
father she has not seen,
00:19:04.17\00:19:07.38
since the age of five.
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Unbelievable,
unforgivable, and, you know,
00:19:11.35\00:19:14.88
in an age where good
new stories are so rare,
00:19:14.92\00:19:17.72
this one went viral.
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Their story, her story
00:19:19.15\00:19:22.02
and then she posted
this picture, I love it.
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Take a look at this.
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Father and daughter.
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That's something, I mean,
00:19:28.36\00:19:29.70
please, sounds like the mission
00:19:29.73\00:19:31.60
you and I have
been given, doesn't it?
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Come on, didn't
somebody come to us
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and command us?
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I want you to go
and find the lost for me
00:19:36.40\00:19:38.94
because when you do, you
will find your own family.
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Am I pushing this one too far?
00:19:44.78\00:19:46.78
I don't think so.
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Open your Bible
with me to the mission,
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articulated in red letter words,
00:19:51.15\00:19:53.82
five different
passages, five separate books,
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boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
00:19:56.93\00:19:58.26
obviously,
00:19:58.29\00:19:59.76
this was not an
afterthought to Jesus
00:19:59.79\00:20:01.56
who spoke these
red letter words.
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Let's start, let's just
deal with them in order.
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Matthew, open
your Bible to Matthew,
00:20:04.73\00:20:06.33
you know the first
book of the New Testament,
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go to the last page
00:20:08.67\00:20:10.01
of the first book
of the New Testament.
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Matthew Chapter 28.
00:20:11.41\00:20:13.51
Matthew Chapter
28, I'll be in the NIV,
00:20:13.54\00:20:15.68
any Bible that you bring
to worship is fine by me.
00:20:15.71\00:20:19.21
We got the pew Bible, of course,
00:20:19.25\00:20:20.58
you can find it
there on page 672.
00:20:20.62\00:20:24.15
If you wanna track along
but I wanna fly by these.
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Five iterations
from the same one.
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So all the words are in red.
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This is Matthew
Chapter 5, let's pick it up.
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Sorry, Matthew Chapter 28,
let's pick it up in verse 18.
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"Then Jesus came to
His disciples and He said,
00:20:39.93\00:20:42.17
'All authority in
heaven and on earth
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has been given to me.
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Therefore go,"
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the mission, "Therefore go
00:20:46.91\00:20:49.44
and make
disciples of all nations,
00:20:49.48\00:20:50.85
baptizing them in
the name of the Father
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit,
00:20:52.58\00:20:54.65
and teaching them
to obey everything
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I have commanded you.
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And surely I am with you always,
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to the very end of the age.'
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" The mission,
00:21:02.56\00:21:03.89
just some little
obscure afterthought
00:21:03.93\00:21:05.93
before He whisks back to heaven,
00:21:05.96\00:21:07.86
apparently not.
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Go to the last page
of the Gospel of Mark,
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so that's the next book.
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Go to the final page
of the Gospel of Mark,
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that would be Mark Chapter 16,
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let's read verse 15.
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Same Jesus, same disciples,
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Mark 16:15, and Jesus
said to His disciples,
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"Go into all the world
and preach the gospel,"
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the good news "to all creation."
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Well, let's go
to the Book of Luke
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and again we have
to go to the last page,
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Luke Chapter 24.
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Five different books,
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five separate passages,
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the mission.
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So Luke 24,
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it should be the last
page of Luke in your Bible.
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Luke Chapter 24,
what verse is this?
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This is verse 46,
same Jesus, same disciples,
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and "He told them," verse 46,
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"This is what is written:
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The Messiah will suffer
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and rise from the
dead on the third day,
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and repentance for
the forgiveness of sins
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will be preached in
His name to all nations,
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beginning at Jerusalem."
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Three synoptics, we got them.
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How about the
fourth gospel, John?
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Well, let's just go
to the, end of John,
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John Chapter 20.
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The resurrected Christ,
the disciples are stunned.
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They cannot believe
what appears before them,
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it's Jesus, He's risen
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and He speaks.
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Isn't this something?
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First words out of His mouth.
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John 20:21, "And
again Jesus said,"
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to the disciples, shalom,
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"Peace be with you!
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As the Father has sent me,"
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how does it go?
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"I am sending you."
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There's only one left.
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How about Acts? Turn one page.
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Acts 1:8, also red letters.
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Here it comes.
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"But you," Jesus, this is just
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before He is snatched
into that cloud and leaves.
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Just before the ascension.
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"But you,"
disciples, followers of mine.
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"But you will receive power
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when the Holy
Spirit comes on you,
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and you will be my witnesses,"
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I promise you,
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the mission, it'll be yours.
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"You'll be my
witnesses in Jerusalem,
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and in all Judea and Samaria,
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and to the ends of the earth."
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There it is,
ladies and gentlemen,
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the mission.
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Five commanding iterations
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from the lips of
Christ Jesus Himself,
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the Lord of this rebel planet.
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He says, "You follow Me,
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I have a mission for you."
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What's the
mission? Take the gospel.
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What's the gospel mean?
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Let me show you the
Greek word for the gospel.
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What's the gospel mean?
Take this to all the world.
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Let's put it on the
screen. Euangellion.
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That's the Greek
word. Euangellion.
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It's put into
English letters there.
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Eu = good, angellion = message,
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so it means good
message or good news.
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Now I want you to look
at the first six letters
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of that Greek word.
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The first six letters,
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can you see an English
word in the first six letters?
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Yeah, turn the 'u' to a
'v' and what do you have?
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Yeah, let's put on
the screen. Evangel.
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What's evangel? The
evangel is good news.
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So when you are
evangelizing, what's that?
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You are sharing the good news.
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So when you have
evangelism, what's that?
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Put on the screen.
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Bad news.
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I mean, come on, in
a university community
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like this, evangelism, bad news.
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We don't do
evangelism, let me tell you.
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What happened to those words?
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We had good
news there going for,
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you know what happens?
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Sinclair Lewis,
your English major,
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Sinclair Lewis, that
little book of his Elmer Gantry.
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Who is he?
00:24:42.24\00:24:43.58
He is this huckster
itinerant evangelist
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who's bigger on
wine, women and wealth
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and turns the good
news into a travesty
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and so we, sophisticates,
have grown up believing
00:24:51.15\00:24:54.66
that that is just
something you don't do
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when you're educated.
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Are you crazy?
00:24:57.76\00:24:59.36
Evangelism is simply the act
of communicating the good news,
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it's
evangelizing, it's the evangel.
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And what's so good
about the good news?
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I like the way
Mark Rutland put it.
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He wrote about a
survey of Americans
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in which they were asked,
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what words,
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I shared this a few
months ago with some of you.
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"What words do
they most love to hear?"
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And you guessed it,
the number one words
00:25:20.85\00:25:23.72
that Americans love
to hear, "I love you."
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Why not?
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Number two, "I forgive you."
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Why not?
00:25:34.66\00:25:36.00
Number three, the
third of Americans,
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the third most loved words,
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"Supper is ready!"
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Yeah, we love
coming home, don't we?
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When you're
homeless, you wanna go home.
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Mark Rutland says, you know,
we got the gospel right there.
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God loves us,
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God forgives us
and then He says,
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"Come to a supper
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I'm having or you'll
be homeless no more."
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It's the gospel.
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Philip Yancey commenting on
the good news of the gospel.
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Let me put Yancey's
words on the screen for you.
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"In the midst of a
planet marked by brokenness,
00:26:08.90\00:26:11.53
violence..."
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Oh, mercy.
00:26:12.93\00:26:14.27
Did you follow
the news this week?
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Don't even bring it up.
00:26:16.64\00:26:18.81
This is the
world we live in now.
00:26:18.84\00:26:20.18
It's just, "Pass
the potatoes please,
00:26:20.21\00:26:21.88
after the headlines gone.
00:26:21.91\00:26:23.24
I've got to keep eating."
00:26:23.28\00:26:24.61
We just live with this now.
00:26:24.65\00:26:26.35
Yancey writing, "In
the midst of a planet
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marked by brokenness, violence,
00:26:27.75\00:26:29.12
natural disasters,
ruptured relationships,
00:26:29.15\00:26:31.45
the gospel is truly good news."
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And I love this simile.
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Like an iPod listener
dancing in a subway station
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full of glum commuters,
00:26:38.29\00:26:41.03
a Christian hears
a different sound,
00:26:41.06\00:26:43.60
of joy and laughter
00:26:43.63\00:26:45.07
on the other side
of pain and death."
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The good news of the gospel.
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We hear other music
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and we can even
move to that music.
00:26:53.44\00:26:56.51
Okay, let me put
the verse on the screen
00:26:56.54\00:26:57.88
but let's say it out loud
without looking at the screen,
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John 3:16, this is the gospel.
00:26:59.68\00:27:01.78
Let's say it out loud together.
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"For God so loved the
world that He gave His only Son,
00:27:03.18\00:27:08.72
that whosoever
believes in Him shall not perish
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but have everlasting life."
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Ladies and
gentlemen, that's the good news.
00:27:16.50\00:27:19.90
But the
question is, do we really
00:27:19.93\00:27:21.90
understand the magnitude
of what we just recited?
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We've learned it
since we were kids.
00:27:24.51\00:27:26.41
"For God so loved the world
that He gave His only Son,"
00:27:26.44\00:27:29.14
but we have to remember,
you know who the only Son is?
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He's the one they
called Jesus and Jesus said,
00:27:32.71\00:27:36.69
when we met Jesus, He said,
00:27:36.72\00:27:38.05
"Listen, if you've seen Me,
00:27:38.09\00:27:40.32
you have seen,
you've seen the Father.
00:27:40.36\00:27:42.62
For the Father and I,
00:27:42.66\00:27:44.13
the Father and I are one,
00:27:44.16\00:27:45.49
we're not the same, we're one."
00:27:45.53\00:27:48.33
This is the same Jesus,
00:27:48.36\00:27:49.70
He stretches out
His nail scarred hands
00:27:49.73\00:27:52.07
and He cries out, "Come to Me,
00:27:52.10\00:27:53.70
you who are worn out,
00:27:53.74\00:27:55.44
just burned out.
00:27:55.47\00:27:57.01
Come to Me and
I'll give you rest."
00:27:57.04\00:27:58.74
And by the way,
this is the same Jesus
00:27:58.77\00:28:00.41
who said, "Whoever comes to Me,
00:28:00.44\00:28:02.21
I will never cast out."
00:28:02.24\00:28:04.85
That's what Jesus says.
00:28:04.88\00:28:06.21
"Whoever comes to Me, I
don't care what you've done.
00:28:06.25\00:28:08.28
I don't care who you
are or who you are not.
00:28:08.32\00:28:11.35
I don't care how evil or
messed up your life may be.
00:28:11.39\00:28:15.06
I don't care if your
name is James Eagan Holmes."
00:28:15.09\00:28:19.09
You know what that name is?
00:28:19.13\00:28:20.93
The Colorado,
movie theatre shooter.
00:28:20.96\00:28:24.53
Just sentenced this week to 12
consecutive life sentences plus
00:28:24.57\00:28:29.40
3,318 years
tacked on just in case,
00:28:29.44\00:28:33.38
you outlive the 12.
00:28:33.41\00:28:34.98
I don't care if
you're James Eagan Holmes,
00:28:38.18\00:28:40.68
anybody who comes
to Me, you come to Me.
00:28:40.72\00:28:43.49
We're talking to the
freshmen the other night,
00:28:43.52\00:28:45.32
Friday night we were
together, a week ago.
00:28:45.35\00:28:47.82
And we looked at God
as a divine auctioneer.
00:28:47.86\00:28:49.86
God says,
"Listen, you come to Me,
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you just raise
your little pinky,
00:28:51.86\00:28:53.80
I'm looking for an
excuse to save you,
00:28:53.83\00:28:55.43
not lose you."
00:28:55.46\00:28:57.47
That's what the good news is.
00:28:57.50\00:28:59.00
Sold to the guy in that
last bench in this sanctuary,
00:28:59.03\00:29:04.07
I saw your pinky.
00:29:04.11\00:29:06.74
That's the good news.
00:29:06.78\00:29:08.54
Good news.
00:29:08.58\00:29:09.91
I want you to
look at this verse,
00:29:09.94\00:29:11.28
one more verse to look up.
00:29:11.31\00:29:12.65
John 6:37, we've
just been talking about,
00:29:12.68\00:29:14.45
but I want you to
see it for yourself.
00:29:14.48\00:29:16.42
Circle it in your Bible.
00:29:16.45\00:29:17.82
This is the gospel, red letters,
00:29:17.85\00:29:19.72
everything today is red letters.
00:29:19.75\00:29:22.29
This is John
6:37, Jesus speaking,
00:29:22.32\00:29:25.33
"All those the Father
gives Me will come to Me,
00:29:25.36\00:29:29.76
and whoever comes to Me
00:29:29.80\00:29:32.63
I will never drive away."
00:29:32.67\00:29:35.90
I don't care who you
are, what you've done,
00:29:35.94\00:29:38.74
you raise up
finger in My direction,
00:29:38.77\00:29:42.44
I'll never cast you out.
00:29:42.48\00:29:44.85
I carried some
words in my Bible,
00:29:44.88\00:29:46.21
you get it in the study
guide, it's already there.
00:29:46.25\00:29:49.68
Of all these words,
whoever wrote these words,
00:29:49.72\00:29:52.79
boy, was she right
about the gospel or what?
00:29:52.82\00:29:57.89
I'll put her
words on the screen.
00:29:57.93\00:29:59.49
Her name happens
to be Ellen White.
00:29:59.53\00:30:00.86
Take a look at these words.
00:30:00.90\00:30:02.23
"The message from
God to me for you."
00:30:02.26\00:30:04.63
She's writing a
letter to somebody.
00:30:04.67\00:30:06.03
I got some good
news for you, boy.
00:30:06.07\00:30:07.44
Hey, girl, I got
some good news for you.
00:30:07.47\00:30:09.20
"The message from
God to me for you,
00:30:09.24\00:30:12.67
is 'Him that cometh unto
me, I will in no wise cast out,'
00:30:12.71\00:30:16.21
If you have nothing
else," now hold on, hold on.
00:30:16.24\00:30:18.28
"If you have nothing
else to plead before God
00:30:18.31\00:30:20.15
but this one promise
from your Lord and Savior,
00:30:20.18\00:30:23.05
you have the assurance,"
00:30:23.08\00:30:24.42
if there was only
one verse in the Bible,
00:30:24.45\00:30:25.79
that was John 6:37.
00:30:25.82\00:30:27.32
"You have the assurance
that you will never, never..."
00:30:27.36\00:30:31.03
By the way, Jesus in His text,
00:30:31.06\00:30:34.36
John 6:37, it's a
double negative in the Greek.
00:30:34.40\00:30:38.17
"You, anyone who comes to Me,
00:30:38.20\00:30:40.37
I will no, not ever
cast out." Double negative.
00:30:40.40\00:30:44.57
In case you
missed it the first time,
00:30:44.61\00:30:45.94
I'm giving it to
you the second time.
00:30:45.97\00:30:47.54
Interestingly, this author
also uses a double negative.
00:30:47.58\00:30:51.21
"You will never,
never be turned away."
00:30:51.25\00:30:54.12
I'll keep reading
it, "It may seem to you
00:30:54.15\00:30:55.88
that you are hanging
upon a single promise,
00:30:55.92\00:30:57.65
but don't worry.
00:30:57.69\00:30:59.02
Appropriate that one promise,
00:30:59.05\00:31:00.39
and it will open to you
the whole treasure house
00:31:00.42\00:31:02.99
of the riches of
the grace of Christ.
00:31:03.02\00:31:05.06
Cling to that
promise and you are safe.
00:31:05.09\00:31:07.06
She who comes to me I
will in no wise cast out."
00:31:07.10\00:31:10.23
One more line, "Present
this one promise to Jesus."
00:31:10.27\00:31:13.23
You're coming to
the pearly gates,
00:31:13.27\00:31:14.80
"you just present
this one promise to Jesus
00:31:14.84\00:31:17.21
and you are as
safe as though inside,
00:31:17.24\00:31:20.91
already inside the city."
00:31:20.94\00:31:23.58
Ladies and
gentlemen, it does not get
00:31:23.61\00:31:24.98
any better than that.
00:31:25.01\00:31:26.51
One promise, you
want that promise,
00:31:26.55\00:31:28.95
you're there.
00:31:28.98\00:31:30.32
One promise,
that's the good news.
00:31:30.35\00:31:34.22
You just ask,
I'll give it to you.
00:31:34.26\00:31:37.13
I'm not trying to
play hard to give,
00:31:37.16\00:31:38.86
I'm not trying to lose you.
00:31:38.89\00:31:40.23
I'm trying to save you.
00:31:40.26\00:31:42.10
Ask me.
00:31:42.13\00:31:44.10
You have it.
00:31:44.13\00:31:46.60
Wow,
00:31:46.63\00:31:48.37
and if it's good news to us
'cause we asked Him one day,
00:31:48.40\00:31:52.01
once upon a time,
00:31:52.04\00:31:53.48
maybe you've never asked Him.
00:31:53.51\00:31:55.58
Maybe you're here today
00:31:55.61\00:31:56.95
and you have never
invited Jesus into your life.
00:31:56.98\00:31:59.51
I've got good news for you.
00:31:59.55\00:32:00.88
I'm gonna give
you an opportunity
00:32:00.92\00:32:02.25
in just a few moments to
invite Him into your life.
00:32:02.28\00:32:05.49
Why not?
00:32:05.52\00:32:06.86
What are you waiting for?
00:32:06.89\00:32:08.22
The news can't get
any better that this,
00:32:08.26\00:32:09.72
it's yours.
00:32:09.76\00:32:12.46
But Jesus says, look it,
"You got it, now share it."
00:32:12.49\00:32:15.23
It was good to you,
it'll be good to others.
00:32:15.26\00:32:17.10
Talking about
blessed reciprocity
00:32:17.13\00:32:18.57
when we're together as faculty,
00:32:18.60\00:32:19.93
we talked about
blessed reciprocity,
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freely you receive,
freely give, give it.
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Take this good news to anyone
00:32:24.91\00:32:27.94
who is yet to hear it.
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So I wanna share with you
now and then I'll sit down.
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Just seven of these
and I'm sitting down.
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Seven reasons,
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seven reasons, take
your study guide out
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please, 'cause
you'll need the study guide.
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Seven reasons, why
the mission of your life
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is to fulfill your life mission?
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That's your life.
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The mission of your life is
to fulfill your life mission.
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That's it.
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You got a study guide in your
worship bulletin, pull it out.
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Let's just fly through these.
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Just seven of them.
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We got some
friendly ushers here,
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you didn't get
one, hold your hand up
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and the ushers...
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We got ushers in
the back already moving.
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We've got ushers up
here, if you didn't get it,
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you'll want these seven,
so just hold your hand up,
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they'll come right by you.
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And let's go, let's put the...
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website on the screen, please.
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Those of you that are watching
on the screen right now,
00:33:08.42\00:33:10.39
the live streaming with
us, we're glad to have you.
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If you go to this new
series, The Pugwash Factor,
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click on to the first message,
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how to turn
mission into possible,
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you'll get the same study guide,
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you'll have the
same seven reasons.
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All right, up in
the balcony, good,
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you've got it up there too.
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All right, let's go.
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Seven reasons,
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why the mission of your life
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is to fulfill your life mission.
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Reason number one,
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because you were
made for mission.
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You're made for a mission.
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God had a purpose in mind
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when the divine architect
shapes you to fit perfectly
00:33:46.79\00:33:48.62
into your mother's
womb, how did you do that?
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He did it. You fit
perfectly into her.
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And when He puts you in her,
00:33:53.50\00:33:55.40
He said, "When that boy is born,
00:33:55.43\00:33:57.27
when that girl is born,
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I got, I have a mission for you,
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should you choose to accept it."
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This is your mission.
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Look at this, jot it down.
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2 Corinthians 5:18, the
Today's English Version.
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I love this, Paul writing,
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"Christ changed us from
enemies into His friends
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and gave us the
task of making others
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His friends also."
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You had a
mission when you're born.
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"Hey, find friends for me.
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You're my friend, would
you find others for me?"
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That classic Steps
to Christ, I love this.
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"No sooner does
one come to Christ
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and there is born in his heart
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a desire to make known to others
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what a precious
friend he has found in Jesus,
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the saving and sanctifying
truth can't be shut up...
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We shall seek to
present to them,"
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these people who
don't have the good news,
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"the attractions of Christ
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and the unseen
realities of the world to come."
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Look it, if you've got a gift,
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aren't you gonna
tell somebody about it?
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Let's say, let's just say
00:34:52.19\00:34:53.56
that registrations
over a few days ago,
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well, let's say you
went to registration.
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Oh, if this only had happened.
00:34:57.59\00:34:59.09
And you found out
then an anonymous donor
00:34:59.13\00:35:01.76
had put $200,000
into your account,
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here in Andrews University.
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Wow, that'll cover one
year, that'll be great.
00:35:07.60\00:35:10.91
You get covered that first year,
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you wouldn't have to pay for it.
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No, that would cover four
years plus living expenses
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and a few trips to Taco Bell,
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we got it all
right here for you.
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But it's an anonymous donor.
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Would you be
telling everybody you knew,
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you would be telling
everybody on this campus.
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It would be in the student
moment next week, guess what?
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Anonymous donor, $200,000,
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but if the donor
reveals his identity to you
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and now you know his name,
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what are you telling everybody?
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You're talking about the
donor by name and saying,
00:35:41.14\00:35:44.94
"He did this for me.
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What might he do for you?"
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That's it.
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I'll give you a task,
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what I've done for you,
you do for others, please.
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It's good news, right?
00:35:58.22\00:35:59.62
Of course, it's
good news. All right.
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Reason number two,
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why the mission of your life
is to fulfill your life mission?
00:36:03.16\00:36:07.16
Number two, because your mission
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is a continuation of
Jesus' mission on earth.
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Now we just read in Matthew.
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But I love the
message, rendition of Matthew,
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let's put that on the screen.
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Jesus said, "Hey, go out.
00:36:17.07\00:36:18.61
Go out and train
everyone you meet,
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far and near, in
this way of life,
00:36:20.04\00:36:22.41
and I'll be with you."
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Those are the two key words
in the last line of Matthew.
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I will be with you.
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By the way I've left,
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I'm up there,
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getting a place ready
for you when you come.
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But I will be with you
through mine mighty spirit.
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I will be with you.
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That's why by the way,
it's called a co-mission.
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We don't do it
ourselves, it's co,
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we do it with Him.
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I'm with you.
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And I love the way
Peterson finishes this,
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"I'll be with
you as you do this,
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day after day after day,
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right up to the end of the age."
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Desire of Ages, jot this down.
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"It is in working to spread
the good news of salvation
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that we are brought
near to the Savior."
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You want to go closer
to Jesus this new year?
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Thank you,
worship team, for that.
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That appeal draw
me near, draw near...
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That, who didn't
resonate with that?
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I want to be near to
Jesus this year, don't you?
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When you exercise the mission,
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nothing will
bring you closer to Him
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than your life mission.
00:37:25.74\00:37:27.94
All right, reason number three,
00:37:27.98\00:37:30.21
why is this mission a big deal?
00:37:30.25\00:37:31.88
Because your mission
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is a wonderful
privilege, that's why.
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2 Corinthians 6:1, I love this.
00:37:35.28\00:37:37.49
"We are workers," Paul writing,
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"We are workers
together with," whom?
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With whom?
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"With God." Can you believe it?
00:37:42.49\00:37:43.93
Almighty God,
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while He was shaping you to
fit into your mother's tummy.
00:37:45.33\00:37:47.30
Almighty God is saying,
00:37:47.33\00:37:48.66
"I can hardly wait
for this girl to be born.
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I can hardly wait for
this boy to be born and grow up
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because I am gonna
get to work with him."
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We have a mission together.
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Privilege, are you kidding.
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Wow, a wonderful privilege.
00:38:01.74\00:38:05.08
Ellen White, let me
put her words on the screen
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as I have thought of that cup,
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she's thinking about
Gethsemane in this particular
00:38:08.02\00:38:10.69
writing near
the end of her life.
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"As I have thought of that cup
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trembling in the
hands of Christ."
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So she's in Gethsemane now.
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"As I have realized
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that He might
have refused to drink."
00:38:18.59\00:38:20.73
Okay, I'm not
gonna drink this, Father.
00:38:20.76\00:38:22.16
I'm not drinking this, I can't.
00:38:22.20\00:38:25.53
"He might have refused to drink
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and left the world
to perish in its sin,
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I have pledged that
every energy of my life
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should be devoted to the
work of winning souls for Him."
00:38:33.44\00:38:37.91
When you know
that an anonymous donor
00:38:37.95\00:38:40.68
has set you free
forever and ever,
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I'll do
whatever the donor needs.
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My life has been set up
by him for success, wow.
00:38:46.32\00:38:51.69
Reason number four,
00:38:51.73\00:38:53.36
why the mission of your life
00:38:53.40\00:38:54.73
is to fulfill your life mission?
00:38:54.76\00:38:56.23
Because telling others
how they can have eternal life
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is the greatest
thing you can do for them.
00:38:59.37\00:39:02.70
Burn on.
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The greatest thing.
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Now, handing out a
million dollars of registration
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to everybody who comes,
00:39:06.84\00:39:08.18
that's not the greatest
thing you can do for people.
00:39:08.21\00:39:09.71
That'll only give them
for this life, that's nothing.
00:39:09.74\00:39:12.11
When you share the
gospel, the good news,
00:39:12.15\00:39:14.42
you are giving them,
you're introducing them to one
00:39:14.45\00:39:16.48
who will give them
eternal life, the Savior.
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You know what that means?
00:39:19.79\00:39:21.29
That means, until your roommate,
00:39:21.32\00:39:24.03
you know, the
roommate that you have, yeah.
00:39:24.06\00:39:26.63
Until your
roommate, until your neighbor,
00:39:26.66\00:39:30.47
until your friends find Jesus.
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Now listen, this is hard to say
00:39:32.27\00:39:33.97
but it's true.
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Until they find
Jesus, they are lost,
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lost.
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Nobody goes but
through Christ Himself.
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That's pretty somber.
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You're going to a
public university, are you?
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You're watching right now,
00:39:51.69\00:39:53.02
you don't even
have the money to come
00:39:53.05\00:39:54.39
to a private school like this,
00:39:54.42\00:39:55.82
you're going to a
public university,
00:39:55.86\00:39:57.19
that godless professor of yours,
00:39:57.23\00:40:00.90
if he doesn't meet your
Savior, he's lost forever.
00:40:00.93\00:40:07.20
I mean, this is big stuff.
00:40:07.24\00:40:10.91
This is the greatest thing
you can do for a human being.
00:40:10.94\00:40:13.74
It's to say, "I want you to meet
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my anonymous donor.
00:40:15.84\00:40:18.98
He's ready for you."
00:40:19.01\00:40:21.45
Wow, you'll say, Dwight,
you don't know my roommate.
00:40:21.48\00:40:24.52
You talk about the
kid across the street,
00:40:24.55\00:40:25.89
across the hallway.
00:40:25.92\00:40:27.59
You have not seen a
life as messed up as that."
00:40:27.62\00:40:31.26
Please.
00:40:31.29\00:40:33.83
I got some to share with you.
00:40:33.86\00:40:35.20
Desire of Ages,
put it on the screen.
00:40:35.23\00:40:36.56
Look at this, maybe
this is talking about you.
00:40:36.60\00:40:38.30
"Jesus knows the
circumstances of every soul.
00:40:38.33\00:40:40.90
You may say, I am
sinful, very sinful.
00:40:40.94\00:40:44.61
You may be,
00:40:44.64\00:40:46.21
but the worse you
are," I love this,
00:40:46.24\00:40:48.04
"the worse you are,
the more you need Jesus.
00:40:48.08\00:40:50.95
He turns no
weeping, contrite one away.
00:40:50.98\00:40:53.31
He doesn't tell to any
all that He might reveal,
00:40:53.35\00:40:55.12
but He bids every
trembling soul take courage."
00:40:55.15\00:40:58.75
Jot this down.
"Freely will He pardon all."
00:40:58.79\00:41:02.46
A-L-L.
00:41:02.49\00:41:03.89
Doesn't matter what he's like.
00:41:03.93\00:41:06.06
Doesn't matter what she's like.
00:41:06.09\00:41:07.43
"Freely He will pardon all
who come to Him for forgiveness
00:41:07.46\00:41:09.76
and restoration."
00:41:09.80\00:41:11.60
Reason number five,
there are only seven of these.
00:41:11.63\00:41:13.07
Here comes number five,
00:41:13.10\00:41:15.50
why is my life mission supposed
to be the mission of my life?
00:41:15.54\00:41:18.01
Because your mission
has eternal significance.
00:41:18.04\00:41:22.08
The clock is
ticking, folks, please.
00:41:22.11\00:41:24.58
You know, have you
ever watched CBS 60 minutes?
00:41:24.61\00:41:27.68
That's the clock, on all of us.
00:41:30.99\00:41:32.65
Jesus is speaking,
red letter words, John 9.
00:41:35.66\00:41:37.56
Fill this in, please.
00:41:37.59\00:41:38.93
New Living Translation,
"All of us," Jesus says,
00:41:38.96\00:41:41.06
"must quickly
carry out the tasks.
00:41:41.10\00:41:42.80
The mission assigned
us by the one who sent me,
00:41:42.83\00:41:44.90
because there
is little time left
00:41:44.93\00:41:46.94
before the night
falls and all work
00:41:46.97\00:41:48.97
comes to an end."
00:41:49.00\00:41:51.17
Do you suppose God knows
we're running out of time?
00:41:51.21\00:41:54.14
Do you suppose God knows that
America is running out of time?
00:41:54.18\00:41:57.01
Where is the
moral clock on America?
00:41:57.05\00:42:00.72
What about the economic clock?
00:42:00.75\00:42:02.28
Do you know how close we came
00:42:02.32\00:42:03.65
to an economic
meltdown this week?
00:42:03.69\00:42:05.32
You're having a grand old time
00:42:05.35\00:42:06.89
at Andrews University this week.
00:42:06.92\00:42:08.49
And the world
comes to the precipice.
00:42:08.52\00:42:12.63
Let's pull back.
00:42:12.66\00:42:14.00
You say,
Dwight, come on, I'm 21.
00:42:19.67\00:42:22.04
I got time,
00:42:22.07\00:42:23.41
I don't have to get
serious about this mission.
00:42:23.44\00:42:25.07
You only have this life
and I'm not gonna tell you
00:42:25.11\00:42:26.71
how many 21-year-olds,
00:42:26.74\00:42:30.21
I have buried.
00:42:30.25\00:42:32.11
No way, there is no way
that any age gets a pass.
00:42:32.15\00:42:36.02
Oh, you're young enough.
00:42:36.05\00:42:37.39
You got time, girl.
00:42:37.42\00:42:38.75
Boy, you got time.
You don't have time.
00:42:38.79\00:42:40.82
This life is all you have.
00:42:40.86\00:42:44.29
If you're gonna
exercise this mission, it's now.
00:42:44.33\00:42:46.86
It's your life now,
you can't put it off.
00:42:46.90\00:42:50.83
Reason number six.
00:42:50.87\00:42:52.20
No, I left out a
quotation, sorry.
00:42:52.23\00:42:53.84
Christ's Object
Lessons, this is good.
00:42:53.87\00:42:55.74
All the heaven by the way,
00:42:55.77\00:42:57.11
it's ready to go
when you're ready.
00:42:57.14\00:42:58.67
Christ's Object Lessons,
put it on the screen, please.
00:42:58.71\00:43:00.54
"In this work all
the angels of heaven
00:43:00.58\00:43:04.25
are ready to co-operate.
00:43:04.28\00:43:06.11
All the resources of heaven
are at the command of those
00:43:06.15\00:43:08.58
who are on the mission,
00:43:08.62\00:43:09.95
who are seeking
to save the lost.
00:43:09.98\00:43:11.32
Angels will help you
to reach the most careless
00:43:11.35\00:43:13.19
and the most hardened."
00:43:13.22\00:43:14.56
You're not in this alone.
00:43:14.59\00:43:16.02
Everybody up there
is saying, "Go, boy.
00:43:16.06\00:43:18.53
Go, girl.
00:43:18.56\00:43:19.89
We're in it with you
but you have to do this.
00:43:19.93\00:43:23.10
We can't do it, you do it."
00:43:23.13\00:43:26.27
They'll believe you
faster than they'll believe us.
00:43:26.30\00:43:30.97
Wow.
00:43:31.01\00:43:32.34
Reason number six,
00:43:32.37\00:43:34.28
why should my life mission
be the mission of my life?
00:43:34.31\00:43:36.28
Because your mission
gives your life meaning.
00:43:36.31\00:43:39.08
That's why the American writer,
psychologist, William James.
00:43:39.11\00:43:43.45
Put his words on the screen.
00:43:43.49\00:43:44.82
"The best use of life
00:43:44.85\00:43:46.29
is to spend it for
something that outlasts it."
00:43:46.32\00:43:50.39
If you're spending your
life on only what's now,
00:43:50.43\00:43:52.66
it's just for now, I
got to have a great now.
00:43:52.69\00:43:56.53
You're crazy.
00:43:56.56\00:43:58.13
James is right.
00:43:58.17\00:43:59.50
Something that
outlasts your life,
00:43:59.53\00:44:00.87
that's what you invested in.
00:44:00.90\00:44:04.91
That's what Paul is
saying here, Acts 20:24,
00:44:04.94\00:44:06.94
put it on the
screen, fill it in.
00:44:06.98\00:44:08.54
New Living Translation.
00:44:08.58\00:44:09.91
Paul says, "My
life is worth nothing
00:44:09.94\00:44:12.35
unless I use it
for doing the work
00:44:12.38\00:44:13.72
assigned to me
by the Lord Jesus,
00:44:13.75\00:44:16.12
the work of telling
others the Good News
00:44:16.15\00:44:17.49
about God's
wonderful kindness and love."
00:44:17.52\00:44:20.09
And then Rick
Warren in his book,
00:44:20.12\00:44:21.96
"The Purpose Driven Life."
00:44:21.99\00:44:23.32
I got these
seven from my friend,
00:44:23.36\00:44:25.19
my Baptist friend, Rick.
00:44:25.23\00:44:28.06
I put a little
Adventist adaptation to them.
00:44:28.10\00:44:30.97
But these are his words now.
00:44:31.00\00:44:32.40
Put it on the screen,
"If you fail to fulfill
00:44:32.43\00:44:34.20
your God-given mission on earth,
00:44:34.24\00:44:36.60
you will have wasted
the life God gave you.
00:44:36.64\00:44:39.84
There are people
on this planet..."
00:44:39.87\00:44:41.41
Now listen up.
00:44:41.44\00:44:42.78
"There are people on this planet
00:44:42.81\00:44:44.15
whom only you
will be able to reach,
00:44:44.18\00:44:47.52
because of where you live
00:44:47.55\00:44:48.88
or because of what
God has made you to be.
00:44:48.92\00:44:52.89
If just one person will
be in heaven because of you,
00:44:52.92\00:44:56.93
your life will have made
a difference for eternity."
00:44:56.96\00:45:00.86
And that
Baptist pastor is right.
00:45:00.90\00:45:03.50
Christ's Object Lessons,
00:45:07.17\00:45:09.20
"It is the privilege of every
soul to be a living channel
00:45:09.24\00:45:12.77
through which God can
communicate to the world
00:45:12.81\00:45:14.44
the treasures of His grace,
00:45:14.48\00:45:15.84
the unsearchable
riches of Christ."
00:45:16.91\00:45:18.45
It's our calling, the mission.
00:45:18.48\00:45:20.05
We were born for
this, it's your legacy.
00:45:20.08\00:45:22.62
All right, number
seven, this is it.
00:45:22.65\00:45:26.19
Reason number seven,
why the mission of your life
00:45:26.22\00:45:27.86
is to fulfill your life mission?
00:45:27.89\00:45:29.69
Because God's
timetable for history's ending
00:45:29.72\00:45:34.80
is connected to the
completion of our commission.
00:45:34.83\00:45:39.00
We got to do it.
That's what Jesus is saying.
00:45:39.03\00:45:41.20
Red letter words,
on the screen, please.
00:45:41.24\00:45:42.90
Matthew 24:14, jot it down.
00:45:42.94\00:45:45.11
"And this gospel of the kingdom
00:45:45.14\00:45:47.24
will be
preached in all the world
00:45:47.28\00:45:48.61
as a witness to all the nations,
00:45:48.64\00:45:50.31
and then the end will come."
00:45:50.35\00:45:56.52
Somehow when you realize
00:45:56.55\00:45:58.89
that this planet
cannot go on forever
00:45:58.92\00:46:01.66
and most thinking
people on this planet now
00:46:01.69\00:46:04.06
recognize that.
00:46:04.09\00:46:05.96
When you realize
00:46:05.99\00:46:07.83
that we're living
with a dwindling commodity
00:46:07.86\00:46:09.93
called time for the human race.
00:46:09.96\00:46:13.23
Life just is not the same.
00:46:13.27\00:46:15.97
This book, Desire
of Ages captures that
00:46:16.00\00:46:17.81
very thinking today.
00:46:17.84\00:46:19.91
Put it, your last
quotation on the screen.
00:46:19.94\00:46:21.84
"Those who watch
for the Lord's coming
00:46:21.88\00:46:24.31
are not waiting
in idle expectancy.
00:46:24.35\00:46:26.38
With vigilant watching
they combine earnest working."
00:46:26.41\00:46:29.28
Now here it goes.
00:46:29.32\00:46:30.65
"Because they know
that the Lord is at..."
00:46:30.69\00:46:34.79
Would you write that down?
00:46:34.82\00:46:36.16
"Because they know that
the Lord is at the door,"
00:46:36.19\00:46:39.19
that Jesus is coming
soon, followers of Christ,
00:46:39.23\00:46:42.13
"their zeal is quickened
00:46:42.16\00:46:43.87
to co-operate with
the divine intelligences
00:46:43.90\00:46:45.63
in working for the
salvation of souls."
00:46:45.67\00:46:49.54
When you sense that the
world is running out of time,
00:46:49.57\00:46:53.07
something takes hold of you
00:46:53.11\00:46:54.74
and that's the
reason for the title,
00:46:54.78\00:46:56.61
"The Pugwash Factor."
00:46:56.64\00:46:58.58
You just saw it a moment ago.
00:46:58.61\00:46:59.95
I wrote about
it in today's blog,
00:46:59.98\00:47:01.32
you have it there.
00:47:01.35\00:47:02.68
Don't read it now.
00:47:02.72\00:47:04.05
The Pugwash Factor,
00:47:04.09\00:47:06.19
the compelling
narrative of Albert Einstein
00:47:06.22\00:47:07.92
and Bertrand Russell
00:47:07.96\00:47:09.29
and some of the
brightest thinkers in the world.
00:47:09.32\00:47:10.79
1955, after the two atomic bombs
00:47:10.83\00:47:13.96
over Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan, 1955.
00:47:14.00\00:47:20.70
Something must be done,
00:47:20.74\00:47:23.30
so we're calling it,
it's not their words,
00:47:23.34\00:47:25.07
it's our words,
The Pugwash Factor.
00:47:25.11\00:47:26.91
Pugwash, Nova Scotia.
00:47:26.94\00:47:28.28
Karen and I were
there this summer.
00:47:28.31\00:47:29.64
That's a obscure little village
on the eastern edge of Canada
00:47:29.68\00:47:33.11
but what a history.
00:47:33.15\00:47:34.48
1957,
00:47:34.52\00:47:35.85
scientists,
philosophers, thinkers
00:47:35.88\00:47:37.49
from all over the world,
00:47:37.52\00:47:38.85
10 Nobel Laureates
included, gathered in Pugwash,
00:47:38.89\00:47:42.42
Nova Scotia and they are
driven by a single mantra.
00:47:42.46\00:47:46.33
I'm gonna put that
mantra on the screen.
00:47:46.36\00:47:48.06
This is why they met.
00:47:48.10\00:47:50.30
Take a look at this.
Here is their mantra.
00:47:50.33\00:47:52.50
"Given the
urgency of the times,"
00:47:52.53\00:47:54.50
shouldn't we, scientists,
shouldn't we, thinkers,
00:47:54.54\00:47:57.31
"shouldn't we be doing
something to warn the world?"
00:47:57.34\00:48:01.61
The nuclear age has pushed
us to the precipice of eternity.
00:48:01.64\00:48:08.42
Shouldn't we be doing something,
00:48:08.45\00:48:10.65
call it the Pugwash Factor.
00:48:10.69\00:48:12.65
Keep the words
up and just change,
00:48:12.69\00:48:14.59
tweak the ending, will you?
00:48:14.62\00:48:15.96
Given the urgency of the times,
00:48:15.99\00:48:18.43
shouldn't we be doing
something to tell the world
00:48:18.46\00:48:21.06
about this Jesus
who is coming soon?
00:48:21.10\00:48:24.73
That's why you have the mission
00:48:24.77\00:48:26.80
with the brightest
minds on earth saying,
00:48:26.84\00:48:28.80
"We got to do
something or we're dead."
00:48:28.84\00:48:31.54
We have the same mission.
00:48:31.57\00:48:33.58
Only that it does not
end in a mushroom cloud,
00:48:33.61\00:48:36.04
our mission ends in eternity,
and there are people dying
00:48:36.08\00:48:40.08
for the good news that you have.
00:48:40.12\00:48:42.68
This new year at
Andrews University,
00:48:42.72\00:48:45.02
let the mission be our mission.
00:48:45.05\00:48:47.62
What do you say?
00:48:47.66\00:48:49.06
Come on.
00:48:49.09\00:48:50.43
You got a roommate,
00:48:50.46\00:48:51.79
you got a friend,
you got a colleague,
00:48:51.83\00:48:54.70
you got a student in your class
00:48:54.73\00:48:56.06
that you know is
godless and is an atheist.
00:48:56.10\00:48:58.63
You got somebody nearby,
that needs the good news,
00:48:58.67\00:49:01.97
you got a neighbor,
00:49:02.00\00:49:03.34
this year,
00:49:03.37\00:49:04.74
this is the
year for the mission.
00:49:04.77\00:49:07.78
Oh, and by the way,
00:49:07.81\00:49:09.48
the next time
you're in Honolulu,
00:49:09.51\00:49:11.61
please make sure that
you look up Diana Kim,
00:49:11.65\00:49:14.08
either at her photo
studio or her law offices.
00:49:14.12\00:49:16.65
And you ask her this question,
00:49:16.69\00:49:18.02
would you mind doing
this when you're there?
00:49:18.05\00:49:19.39
Just ask her this question.
00:49:19.42\00:49:20.76
Are you glad you
went back to find
00:49:20.79\00:49:23.02
that homeless stranger that day?
00:49:23.06\00:49:26.59
And then you
wait for her answer,
00:49:26.63\00:49:28.16
because I don't
know what it'll be,
00:49:28.20\00:49:30.00
but I predict all she will do
00:49:30.03\00:49:32.67
is pull out a
picture for you to look at,
00:49:32.70\00:49:35.40
a picture that looks like that.
00:49:35.44\00:49:38.64
Because when you discover
that the lost are your family,
00:49:38.67\00:49:41.78
why wouldn't you hurry
00:49:41.81\00:49:43.48
back to find them
with the good news,
00:49:43.51\00:49:46.05
they can come home now.
00:49:46.08\00:49:48.48
Now.
00:49:52.62\00:49:56.46
Pull out your
connect card, will you,
00:49:56.49\00:49:58.59
please, before we pray?
00:49:58.63\00:50:01.50
What do we do
with this, the mission?
00:50:01.53\00:50:04.77
I see we have guests here,
00:50:04.80\00:50:06.13
we're always
delighted that you're here,
00:50:06.17\00:50:07.84
whoever you are.
00:50:07.87\00:50:09.20
Fill out the front of the card
00:50:09.24\00:50:10.57
with what you're
comfortable with,
00:50:10.61\00:50:11.94
we do this every week and so,
00:50:11.97\00:50:14.21
our regular
students who've been here.
00:50:14.24\00:50:15.81
Notes.
00:50:15.84\00:50:17.18
Hit to the back and we
call the backside of the card.
00:50:17.21\00:50:19.58
My next step today and
the ushers, see them moving
00:50:19.61\00:50:21.88
because they're gonna
receive the card right now.
00:50:21.92\00:50:24.55
My next step today is,
00:50:24.59\00:50:25.92
I thank God for the good
news and I want to share it.
00:50:25.95\00:50:30.06
I want to put a check
mark there, don't you?
00:50:30.09\00:50:31.79
Why not? Why not?
00:50:31.83\00:50:34.03
I want to share it, don't you?
00:50:34.06\00:50:36.43
Box number two, I
want to follow Jesus
00:50:36.46\00:50:38.27
as my Savior and be baptized.
00:50:38.30\00:50:39.83
I told you, I give an
invitation, this was it.
00:50:39.87\00:50:42.60
If you've never been baptized,
00:50:42.64\00:50:44.17
you have never
come to Jesus publicly.
00:50:44.21\00:50:47.64
I want to give you
an invitation right now,
00:50:47.68\00:50:49.24
put a check mark there.
00:50:49.28\00:50:50.61
If you put your
email dress on the front,
00:50:50.65\00:50:52.85
we'll be in touch
with you by email.
00:50:52.88\00:50:54.95
Nobody's gonna come and say,
"You got to join this church.
00:50:54.98\00:50:57.05
You got to..." No, we
just wanna assist you.
00:50:57.09\00:51:00.96
We want you to be
able to have the good news,
00:51:00.99\00:51:03.26
we want the anonymous
donor to be your friend too
00:51:03.29\00:51:05.83
'cause then he's not anonymous.
00:51:05.86\00:51:07.80
And He'll change your life,
00:51:07.83\00:51:09.16
you'll never be
the same for the good.
00:51:09.20\00:51:11.57
It's good news,
remember, it's good news.
00:51:11.60\00:51:15.20
Put a check mark there.
We'll be in touch with you.
00:51:15.24\00:51:16.84
Number three, I want to invite
my friends to here, Ty Gibson.
00:51:16.87\00:51:19.57
Please send me more information.
00:51:19.61\00:51:21.28
Ty Gibson, two
weeks from right now,
00:51:21.31\00:51:23.51
Ty, one of the great writers
in our community of faith.
00:51:23.55\00:51:27.12
I'm telling you that the
boy has been gifted to the max.
00:51:27.15\00:51:31.05
He's gonna be
standing right here,
00:51:31.09\00:51:34.06
public speaker
all over the world.
00:51:34.09\00:51:36.22
We lined him up
and for seven nights
00:51:36.26\00:51:39.46
and seven days,
00:51:39.49\00:51:41.06
he's going to, with this campus,
00:51:41.10\00:51:43.26
he's going to reveal, remind us,
00:51:43.30\00:51:48.24
how great the
good news really is.
00:51:48.27\00:51:50.41
You're gonna be
blessed to the max.
00:51:50.44\00:51:52.17
Listen, it's not just for
you, if you know somebody,
00:51:52.21\00:51:54.11
be thinking, I've got two weeks,
00:51:54.14\00:51:55.48
this is the easiest
way to do your mission,
00:51:55.51\00:51:56.85
just bring somebody.
00:51:56.88\00:51:58.45
We'll put something in
the bulletin next week,
00:51:58.48\00:51:59.81
you just hand it to them.
00:51:59.85\00:52:02.38
I want to invite my
friends to here, Ty Gibson.
00:52:02.42\00:52:05.09
Send me more info,
put an email address
00:52:05.12\00:52:07.19
and we'll give
you the particulars.
00:52:07.22\00:52:08.62
And finally, I wanna
learn how to share my faith.
00:52:08.66\00:52:11.49
Please send me information
00:52:11.53\00:52:12.86
regarding a new
grow group on witnessing.
00:52:12.89\00:52:16.36
We got 76 grow groups,
00:52:16.40\00:52:17.73
we never had
this, this is wonderful.
00:52:17.77\00:52:19.10
Seventy-six grow
groups ready to go,
00:52:19.13\00:52:20.47
you'll get the menu
and in the next Sabbath,
00:52:20.50\00:52:22.34
probably the
Sabbath after, this catalog.
00:52:22.37\00:52:25.47
But there's one devoted to
just sharing the good news.
00:52:25.51\00:52:29.14
If you want just
a little coaching,
00:52:29.18\00:52:30.65
just meet people like
you who all want to get,
00:52:30.68\00:52:32.35
how do we share this good news?
00:52:32.38\00:52:33.72
Put a check mark there,
we'll send you the information.
00:52:33.75\00:52:35.38
We're not signing you up
00:52:35.42\00:52:36.75
but we'll send
you the information,
00:52:36.79\00:52:38.12
then you can make the choice.
00:52:38.15\00:52:39.85
We're on the
cusp of the new year,
00:52:39.89\00:52:41.36
the mission this
year is the mission.
00:52:41.39\00:52:43.73
I wanna pray with you
before we end our services,
00:52:46.96\00:52:50.53
one of these glorious,
this is our tradition here,
00:52:50.57\00:52:52.80
we end the service
with standing together
00:52:52.83\00:52:54.80
and singing the Lord's Prayer.
00:52:54.84\00:52:57.11
But I wanna pray
with you before that
00:52:57.14\00:52:58.67
and then we need to
receive these cards from you.
00:52:58.71\00:53:00.48
Let's pray.
00:53:00.51\00:53:01.84
Oh, God,
00:53:01.88\00:53:03.85
the good news,
00:53:03.88\00:53:05.21
it doesn't get
any better than this.
00:53:05.25\00:53:07.92
The man who went to Calvary
is the eternal God Himself
00:53:07.95\00:53:10.52
and He says, "I've been an
anonymous donor in your life.
00:53:10.55\00:53:14.16
I've been
providing everything for you.
00:53:14.19\00:53:15.86
I'd love to get to know you."
00:53:15.89\00:53:17.53
Father, with
good news like that,
00:53:17.56\00:53:19.59
don't let us sit on it, please.
00:53:19.63\00:53:21.56
What are we living for?
Just this life, it's over.
00:53:21.60\00:53:24.20
The brightest
minds on earth know,
00:53:24.23\00:53:27.90
but take us and...
00:53:27.94\00:53:29.57
may the mission
become a life for us
00:53:29.60\00:53:31.27
and over these
next few Sabbaths,
00:53:31.31\00:53:32.71
shape the mission in
us, give us some technique,
00:53:32.74\00:53:34.74
give us the skill that
we'll be comfortable with,
00:53:34.78\00:53:38.71
but may the good news
first be good news here
00:53:38.75\00:53:41.18
and for every man and woman
00:53:41.22\00:53:42.72
and young adult
who's put a check mark,
00:53:42.75\00:53:44.45
a teenager, I wanna
follow Jesus in baptism,
00:53:44.49\00:53:47.09
seal that decision.
00:53:47.12\00:53:48.46
Thank you for
that quiet decision,
00:53:48.49\00:53:50.43
honor it, seal it,
00:53:50.46\00:53:52.33
move them
however long they wish,
00:53:52.36\00:53:54.60
but move them to that day.
00:53:54.63\00:53:57.67
We return our
morning tithes and offerings,
00:53:57.70\00:53:59.57
we've received much,
00:53:59.60\00:54:00.94
we give to you out of gratitude.
00:54:00.97\00:54:02.50
In Jesus name, amen.
00:54:02.54\00:54:05.11
Our Father
00:54:15.38\00:54:21.56
Which art in Heaven
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Hallowed be
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Thy name
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Thy kingdom come
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Thy will be done
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On Earth
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As it is
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In Heaven
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Give us this day
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our daily bread
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And forgive us our debts
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As we forgive our debtors
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And lead us not into temptation
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But deliver us from evil
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For Thine is the kingdom
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And the power,
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and the glory
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Forever
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Amen
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May I take an
extra moment with you
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and let you know
how grateful I am
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that you joined
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I hear from viewers
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and literally around the world
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and I'm thankful.
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what we have just shared,
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In the meantime,
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every step of
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