God of wonders.
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God of wonders beyond our galaxy
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You are holy
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You are holy, holy
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The universe
declares Your majesty
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You are holy, holy
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God of wonders beyond our galaxy
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You are holy, holy
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The universe
declares Your majesty
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You are holy
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Holy
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Holy, holy
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Holy
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Lord
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God Almighty!
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Early in the morning
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Our song
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Shall rise to Thee
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Holy, holy
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Holy, holy!
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Merciful
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And mighty!
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God
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In three persons
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Blessed Trinity
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You alone are holy Lord.
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I'm thinking
about this theme today,
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the Lord who is mighty to say
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whose power
to-- powerful to say,
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we're all gonna stand
soon to sing this last course,
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as we call these names of
God when it resonates with you.
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If He's been that to
you I ask you to stand,
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and then we all stand
before we sing the song.
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Jehovah Jireh, if he is
been a provider this week,
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I ask you to stand.
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Jehovah Shalom,
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if He has provided
peace for you this week,
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I ask you to stand.
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El Shaddai, if He has
been the almighty in your life,
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I ask you to stand.
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Immanuel, if you
sense His presence today,
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I ask you to stand
in honor of the King.
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Jesus our Savior,
our Redeemer and Friend.
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As morning dawns
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As morning dawns
and evening fades
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You inspire songs of praise
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That rise from earth
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To touch Your heart
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And glorify Your Name
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Your Name is a
strong and mighty tower
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Your Name is a
shelter like no other
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Your Name
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Let the nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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But Your Name
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Jesus in Your Name.
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Jesus in Your Name we pray
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Come and fill our Hearts today
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Lord, give us strength
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To live for You
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And glorify Your Name
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Sing that chorus
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Your Name
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Is a strong and mighty tower
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Your Name
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Is a shelter like no other
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Your Name
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Let the nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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Your Name Your Name
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Is a strong and mighty tower
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Your Name
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Is a shelter like no other
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Your Name
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Let the nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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Your name but, Your Name
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Is a strong and mighty tower
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Your Name is a
shelter like no other
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Your Name let the
nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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But Your Name
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Arise, my soul, arise
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Stretch forth to things eternal
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And hasten to the
feet of thy Redeemer God
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Though hid from mortal eyes
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He dwells in light supernal
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Yet worship Him in
humbleness and call Him Lord
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His banquet of
love awaits you above
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Behold the marriage
festal of the lamb is come
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Rejoice, my soul, rejoice
to heaven lift up they voice
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Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
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List to the harps of heaven
hark to the song victorious
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The never-ending anthem
sounding through the sky
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To mortals is not given to chant
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Its strains all glorious
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Yet sing, my
soul, and praise of Him
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Who reigns on high
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Who bought with His blood
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The ransomed of God
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To Him be everlasting
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Power and victory
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And let the great amen
resound through heaven again
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Alleluia! Alleluia!
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Alleluia!
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Let's pray together.
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Is that what that
is Holy Father recall
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to a generation arise.
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Prime time arises.
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Oh, God what is
that mean for us?
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Poised on the cusp
of an uncharted journey.
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We are here, You are here,
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if You have a word to
send through a holy scripture
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this would be
the perfect moment.
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Our minds and hearts listen
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through Jesus Christ our Lord,
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amen.
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What would happen,
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if like it was for
us just a moment ago
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in this place, we're all here,
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we are bowed on our knees
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in prayer,
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what happened?
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Eyes closed at that moment
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between the last of
the pray singers refrained,
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you're gonna stopped.
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The pastor has
finished his prayer.
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Just that split
second what would happen?
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If suddenly we heard
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a low decibel moan,
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just a moan,
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not sure what it is.
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We pause a
little longer in prayer,
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our eyes are closed, but
it seems that this moaning
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is beginning to grow,
involve you, crescendoing
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and that may be the deacons if--
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'cause it's so warm in here,
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gone up and down the
sides and pop the windows open
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and it must be
something distant and far away.
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We stay in prayer,
we are not through yet,
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but that distant far away wind
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begins to groan and
it begins grow louder,
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and louder, and louder
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until suddenly
we hear the sound,
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and we hear in the
Midwest if you're new here
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and you have not
lived in the Midwest
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you will soon
learn, you be schooled
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to listen for this
sound on a stormy day.
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We hear the sound
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of a rumbling freight train.
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And in that
instance we've been trained,
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that's the auditory signal
of an approaching tornado,
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before we can leap to our feet.
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We still in prayer here.
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Before we leap to our feet,
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there is an
explosion of sound here
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inside the sanctuary,
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instinctively we
jerk our heads up
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waiting to see the chandlers
at 90 degrees to the floor.
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Not a breath, just the
roar but not a breath of motion,
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everything limp and
hanging just as it is right now.
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Our eyes now opened in
the same instant we see it
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all of us at the
same time we se e it,
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somewhere in middle air beneath
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those towering arches
and the soft Linoleum floor
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that we're kneeling on.
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We see it a roiling, seething,
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orange ball of fire.
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Have you ever
been to a steel mill?
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They are closing right and left,
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I understand in this country.
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But when as a kid I went
to a steel mill in Japan,
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and you've seen
pictures of a steel mill.
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You know, they get
this molten steel in that
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giant black cauldron
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and they will actually
pour liquid, liquid steel.
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We've got that
hovering in mid air,
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no cauldron, it's
just the water of fire,
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just, just broiling
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and while we watch
pinned to our knees
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as if by invisible hands,
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tiny strips are
peeled off the orange ball,
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in an instant up
and down every aisle,
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up and down every pew
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until finally over
every bowed worshipping head.
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There flickers an
orange tongue of fire,
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Pentecost, what would happen?
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If Pentecost happened
right here, right now,
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what will we do?
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There are people on this
campus and in this community,
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I know because I met them.
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There are people who
are praying for Pentecost,
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at Andrews University,
and Pioneer Memorial Church.
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Just this week two
young adult freshmen,
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brand new
students in the university,
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were in my office and
they are saying, pastor
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come on, come on
couldn't it happen here?
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Couldn't we have Pentecost,
while we are here in school?
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So what I'm gonna say to them?
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That it's the
wrong time in history,
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that we don't have
the right generation yet,
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that we're not ready for it,
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that they ought to just banish
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from their
young idealistic minds
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any notion of
Pentecost in their lifetime.
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Pentecost.
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Maybe you've never
read the story of Pentecost.
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I want to give you a
chance to read it right now,
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it is an amazing drama.
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You may have read it
hundred times before,
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but I predict
you still do not know
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the secret clue to the meaning
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of the fire in Pentecost.
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You thought it
was the Holy Spirit.
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You thought that's
what it was to symbolize.
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I want to tell
another story today.
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Open your Bible with me please
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to the story of
Pentecost, Acts 2.
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Acts 2, you
didn't bring your Bible,
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grab that pew Bible
right in front of you.
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It's page 733 in your pew Bible.
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Acts 2, I'll be in the Today's
New International Version,
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I want to be in
that for this series.
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This series is coming
out of one book in the Bible
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as you are now
discovering, the Book of Acts.
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So I want to stay in this book.
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You can bring any
translation you wish.
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Just bring a Bible, will you?
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Bring a Bible.
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Story of Pentecost.
Acts 2:1 here we go.
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"When the day of Pentecost came,
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they were all
together in one place."
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How many people?
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120 men, women and
young adults, all right.
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So we're 2,000
here in this service.
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120 in an upper room.
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"When the day of Pentecost came,
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they were all
together in one place."
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Here it goes now
in verse 2, "Suddenly"
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just out of nowhere "Suddenly".
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Now note this.
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"A sound," Now the
Greek word for sound is echo,
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from whence comes our word echo,
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huh, only used
twice in the New Testament
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both by the
same author Dr. Luke,
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the other time Luke uses it,
is in his gospel 21, Luke 21:25
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where echo is describing
the roar of a tumultuous sea
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just before the
return of Christ,
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so we know this
isn't-- this is not a whisper,
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this little
sound is not a whisper,
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it's a roar, it's explosion
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and I like the way
the TNIV catches this.
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"A sound like the
blowing of a violent..."
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We are not talking
about a nice little sail
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out on the St. Joseph River,
which is what I enjoy doing.
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No, no this is a violent wind,
00:17:54.63\00:17:58.13
like Hurricane Gustav
that is making its way
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slowly across the Gulf of Mexico
00:18:01.02\00:18:03.87
even as we worship here.
00:18:03.90\00:18:05.77
Okay, so a roar, violent wind
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like "A sound like the
blowing of a violent wind
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came from heaven..."
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And notice this.
"Filled the whole house..."
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The point of the author is
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we are not dealing
with an isolated source.
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This source is all around us.
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It's just every nook and cranny
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and corner of this sanctuary.
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It's just exploding
with this roaring sound,
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fills the whole house,
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"Where they were sitting."
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Verse 3 and
boom, "They saw it..."
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See there it took the
sound to get their attention,
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they hear the sound and
then "They saw what seemed..."
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They don't know
what it was, it seemed.
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"What seemed to be tongues
of fire that separated..."
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See that means
there is a ball of fire
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in middle air right
here, a ball of fire and then,
00:18:47.54\00:18:51.99
those little
strips are peeling away
00:18:52.02\00:18:54.21
and are darting to
those in prayer and worship.
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"They saw what seemed to be
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tongues of fire that separated
00:19:00.02\00:19:01.26
and came to rest
on each of them."
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Verse 4, "All of them in prayer
00:19:03.47\00:19:06.16
were filled with the Holy Spirit
00:19:06.19\00:19:07.29
and began to
speak in other tongues
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as the Spirit enabled them."
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This...
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nobody has a template
to measure this moment.
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It's never happened before.
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Verse 5, "Now there
were staying in Jerusalem
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God-fearing Jews
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from every nation under heaven."
00:19:21.93\00:19:23.83
They say that the
festival of the Pentecost
00:19:23.86\00:19:27.13
is the most conducive for travel
00:19:27.16\00:19:29.39
because it comes in late spring,
00:19:29.42\00:19:30.81
so you get the best weather,
00:19:30.84\00:19:32.17
so you get the most worshipers
and visitors to Jerusalem.
00:19:32.20\00:19:34.87
The place is
packed, the city is packed
00:19:34.90\00:19:37.28
and the electric buzz
00:19:37.31\00:19:39.65
has been started
by that upper room.
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Why is everybody talking?
00:19:41.39\00:19:43.50
Verse 6, "When they,
00:19:43.53\00:19:44.59
the crowd, heard this sound,
00:19:44.62\00:19:46.18
a crowd came
together in bewilderment,
00:19:46.21\00:19:47.99
because each one heard their
own language being spoken."
00:19:48.02\00:19:50.44
Verse 7, "Utterly
amazed, they asked:
00:19:50.47\00:19:52.59
'Aren't all of these
who are speaking Galileans?"
00:19:52.62\00:19:55.20
I.E. these guys
haven't even been to school.
00:19:55.23\00:19:57.84
Galilee did not
have a great reputation
00:19:57.87\00:19:59.50
for erudite thinking.
00:19:59.53\00:20:01.74
So how are they speaking?
00:20:01.77\00:20:03.27
That's the question.
00:20:03.30\00:20:04.38
How are they
speaking in our languages?
00:20:04.41\00:20:07.34
We're hearing it
in our native tongue,
00:20:07.37\00:20:09.10
our native language.
00:20:09.13\00:20:10.18
Drop down to verse 14,
"Then Peter stood up..."
00:20:10.21\00:20:12.42
I tell you how.
00:20:12.45\00:20:14.01
"Peter stood up with the Eleven,
00:20:14.04\00:20:15.98
he raised his voice
and he addressed the crowd.
00:20:16.01\00:20:18.75
Fellow Jews and all of
you who live in Jerusalem,
00:20:18.78\00:20:20.62
let me explain this to you,
00:20:20.65\00:20:21.80
listen carefully to what I say."
00:20:21.83\00:20:23.11
Listen up.
00:20:23.14\00:20:25.73
Verse 15, "These
people are not drunk..."
00:20:25.76\00:20:27.37
As some of you are suggesting,
00:20:27.40\00:20:28.81
too early in the
morning to be drunk.
00:20:28.84\00:20:30.38
"It's only nine in the morning."
00:20:30.41\00:20:31.64
Now verse 2:16,
00:20:31.67\00:20:32.73
"This is what was
spoken by the prophet Joel."
00:20:32.76\00:20:34.60
Verse 17,
00:20:34.63\00:20:35.88
"In the last days, God says,
00:20:35.91\00:20:37.56
I will pour out my
Spirit on all people.
00:20:37.59\00:20:39.99
Your sons and
daughters will prophesy,
00:20:40.02\00:20:41.53
your young men will see visions,
00:20:41.56\00:20:42.89
your old men will dream dreams."
00:20:42.92\00:20:44.26
Verse 18, "Even on my
servants, both men and women,
00:20:44.29\00:20:47.29
I will pour out my
Spirit in those days,
00:20:47.32\00:20:49.23
and they will prophesy."
00:20:49.26\00:20:52.03
Wow!
00:20:52.06\00:20:54.61
I'm so glad that when
Peter decided to quote
00:20:54.64\00:20:57.05
from that ancient prophet
Joel, he changed the scripture.
00:20:57.08\00:21:02.28
And instead of
saying an after word,
00:21:02.31\00:21:04.90
he changed the scripture
to read in the last days.
00:21:04.93\00:21:10.13
I tell you why I'm glad.
00:21:10.16\00:21:11.20
Because if what has
just been experiences
00:21:11.23\00:21:12.96
only for the first days,
00:21:12.99\00:21:15.31
then there is no hope for
those living in the last days,
00:21:15.34\00:21:18.67
but he said in the last days.
00:21:18.70\00:21:21.89
They'll be a
prime time generation
00:21:21.92\00:21:24.81
and I will pour
out myself upon them.
00:21:24.84\00:21:30.19
Wow!
00:21:30.22\00:21:32.01
Primetime, welcome to Primetime.
00:21:32.04\00:21:35.18
Welcome to Primetime.
00:21:35.21\00:21:36.37
I mean what could be
more prime time than today.
00:21:36.40\00:21:38.49
I have a friend who's
in the financial industry,
00:21:38.52\00:21:42.23
and he's being tracking
this rather chaotic up--
00:21:42.26\00:21:44.22
rather chaotic ups and downs,
00:21:44.25\00:21:45.45
and peaks and troughs
of the economy these days.
00:21:45.48\00:21:47.45
I can't figure the economy out.
00:21:47.48\00:21:48.68
I mean the gas
goes up, the gas down.
00:21:48.71\00:21:50.15
The stocks soar
and the stocks plummet.
00:21:50.18\00:21:52.77
The hurricane
comes, the hurricane goes.
00:21:52.80\00:21:54.33
I don't know what's happening.
00:21:54.36\00:21:56.52
But this guy is
paid to watch it.
00:21:56.55\00:21:59.14
I got an email from him.
00:21:59.17\00:22:01.72
He is telling me,
hey, boy keep your eyes
00:22:01.75\00:22:04.72
on the Housing
and Mortgage industry.
00:22:04.75\00:22:08.37
You watch that.
00:22:08.40\00:22:09.70
The FDIC by the way
just this week announced
00:22:09.73\00:22:12.17
117 American banks are
on the verge of collapse.
00:22:12.20\00:22:18.21
What's up?
00:22:18.24\00:22:20.23
Something.
00:22:20.26\00:22:24.58
This email from
this friend of mine,
00:22:24.61\00:22:25.91
he says you know what, Dwight,
00:22:25.94\00:22:27.06
it makes me think
of 1 Thessalonians 5:3.
00:22:27.09\00:22:30.51
"And when they
say peace and safety,
00:22:30.54\00:22:32.19
look out, look out
00:22:32.22\00:22:34.58
sudden
destruction is on the way."
00:22:34.61\00:22:38.27
I thanks to this
friend, subscribe now
00:22:38.30\00:22:41.69
and sent an e newsletter
from the investment firm
00:22:41.72\00:22:45.07
in Florida called
Atlantic Advisory.
00:22:45.10\00:22:49.14
The president of the
firm is Bennet Sedacca.
00:22:49.17\00:22:52.84
Last week's newsletter,
last weeks newsletter,
00:22:52.87\00:22:55.77
he put this
sentence in the newsletter.
00:22:55.80\00:22:58.77
"The Federal
Reserve and the Treasury,
00:22:58.80\00:23:00.94
and the next President will
have the fight of their lives
00:23:00.97\00:23:05.87
on their hands."
00:23:05.90\00:23:08.44
Freddy Mac, Fannie Mae,
00:23:08.47\00:23:10.94
these giant mortgage industries,
00:23:10.97\00:23:14.15
nationalized now
by the government,
00:23:14.18\00:23:16.53
what else is the government
gonna have to take over.
00:23:16.56\00:23:20.04
Fight of their lives.
00:23:20.07\00:23:22.50
It is and I suppose
that today's day and age
00:23:22.53\00:23:25.05
might qualify as prime time,
00:23:25.09\00:23:26.88
given the economics to
instability of this nation.
00:23:26.91\00:23:31.85
You think about it.
00:23:31.88\00:23:32.95
The first
Pentecost when it came,
00:23:32.98\00:23:35.63
it came at prime time and
prime time was instability.
00:23:35.66\00:23:39.01
Just a few years
later, after the Pentecost,
00:23:39.04\00:23:42.60
a few years later-- the spark,
00:23:42.63\00:23:45.99
the match goes to the tinder.
00:23:46.02\00:23:48.62
Pilate, the governor who
sent Christ to His execution.
00:23:48.65\00:23:51.68
Pilate occurs the
disfavor of the mighty Caesar,
00:23:51.71\00:23:55.21
he is stripped from office,
goes home and commit suicide.
00:23:55.24\00:23:58.87
They are sitting on the
edge of political turbulence.
00:23:58.90\00:24:02.89
Economically they will
melt down in a matter of years.
00:24:02.92\00:24:05.47
In 40 years-- In 40 years
Jerusalem will be no more,
00:24:05.50\00:24:10.46
and all the while
00:24:10.49\00:24:13.16
in this mighty empire
the moral decadence of Rome
00:24:13.19\00:24:18.11
is slowly eating and digesting
00:24:18.14\00:24:22.80
the tender
underbelly of moral sanity.
00:24:22.83\00:24:28.52
You want to talk about
prime time for Pentecost,
00:24:28.55\00:24:31.80
instability, prime time.
00:24:31.83\00:24:36.80
George Barna, the
American demographer,
00:24:36.83\00:24:39.42
president of the Barna Group
00:24:39.45\00:24:41.03
releases a national
survey four days ago.
00:24:41.06\00:24:47.14
In this national survey,
00:24:47.17\00:24:48.82
he describes a significant
shift in American life.
00:24:48.85\00:24:53.14
I put it on the screen
for you, we are witnessing.
00:24:53.17\00:24:54.98
This is Barna now.
00:24:55.01\00:24:56.04
"We are
witnessing the development
00:24:56.07\00:24:57.15
and acceptance of a
new moral code in America.
00:24:57.18\00:25:00.71
One of the most
stunning outcomes
00:25:00.74\00:25:02.11
from the Barna survey..."
00:25:02.14\00:25:03.28
The report
states, I'm quoting now.
00:25:03.31\00:25:05.15
"Was the moral
pattern among adults under 25.
00:25:05.18\00:25:10.04
The younger
generation in America
00:25:10.07\00:25:11.73
was more than twice as
likely as all other adults
00:25:11.76\00:25:14.41
to engage in eight
morally negative behaviors."
00:25:14.44\00:25:17.65
Now look I understand,
hey, I want to be quick on this,
00:25:17.68\00:25:20.02
I understand
that the young adults
00:25:20.05\00:25:21.92
the 3, 200 of
them that have come
00:25:21.95\00:25:23.86
to Andrews
University for this New Year,
00:25:23.89\00:25:25.45
I understand you are
exceptions to the rule
00:25:25.48\00:25:27.87
and I praise God for that.
00:25:27.90\00:25:29.13
I'm grateful for that.
00:25:29.16\00:25:31.34
No, no I'm serious,
I'm grateful for that.
00:25:31.37\00:25:33.60
But that is precisely the point.
00:25:33.63\00:25:36.65
In a nation that's
headed to moral meltdown,
00:25:36.68\00:25:39.94
what more prime time
opportunity could come
00:25:39.97\00:25:42.66
to a band of 3,200
young adults than this
00:25:42.69\00:25:45.61
than to move out on
behalf of the kingdom of God.
00:25:45.64\00:25:48.69
You've been setup.
00:25:48.72\00:25:50.69
You've been setup to be
the prime time generation.
00:25:50.72\00:25:54.45
I believe you are the
prime time generation,
00:25:54.48\00:25:58.08
I believe that.
00:25:58.11\00:25:59.66
I want to share
two sentences with you
00:25:59.69\00:26:00.89
that I've been
brooding on all summer long
00:26:00.92\00:26:03.22
that it become the catalyst
for this new series Primetime.
00:26:03.25\00:26:07.33
I put it on the screen for
you, written a century ago.
00:26:07.36\00:26:11.92
"With such an army
of workers as our young,
00:26:11.95\00:26:14.28
think about our young adults,
00:26:14.31\00:26:16.20
rightly trained
might furnish..."
00:26:16.23\00:26:18.09
You take this
prime time generation,
00:26:18.12\00:26:19.65
with the generation like this.
00:26:19.68\00:26:20.99
"How soon the message
00:26:21.02\00:26:22.36
of a crucified, risen
and soon-coming Savior
00:26:22.39\00:26:24.37
might be carried
to the whole world!
00:26:24.40\00:26:25.73
How soon might the end come,
00:26:25.76\00:26:27.17
the end of
suffering and sorrow and sin!"
00:26:27.20\00:26:29.97
The prime time generation,
00:26:30.00\00:26:31.59
you know what,
ladies and gentlemen?
00:26:31.62\00:26:33.30
You may be the ones
God has been waiting
00:26:33.33\00:26:35.48
for all of these years.
00:26:35.51\00:26:38.33
Prime time.
00:26:38.36\00:26:40.15
Everything is set up.
00:26:40.18\00:26:42.83
This fertile moment
of explosive opportunity
00:26:42.86\00:26:47.77
when history coalesces
to set up the story of Acts
00:26:47.80\00:26:50.85
for one more replay.
00:26:50.88\00:26:54.64
Prime time.
00:26:54.67\00:26:57.21
You're it. Hallelujah.
00:26:57.24\00:27:01.20
What will the replay
of Pentecost look like
00:27:01.23\00:27:03.49
in our third
millennium clothing.
00:27:03.52\00:27:05.90
That is a vital
clue here to that fire.
00:27:05.93\00:27:07.51
Remember we're suggesting,
00:27:07.54\00:27:09.54
we're ruminating
on the thought that
00:27:09.57\00:27:11.88
may be the fire
isn't just the Holy Spirit,
00:27:11.91\00:27:14.00
there is something more here.
00:27:14.03\00:27:15.39
There is a vital
clue to that right here,
00:27:15.42\00:27:17.70
in Acts 2, and so take it
00:27:17.73\00:27:18.97
your study guide out,
you got to get this clue.
00:27:19.00\00:27:20.37
Once you get this,
00:27:20.40\00:27:21.50
it will be locked in your brain.
00:27:21.53\00:27:22.71
If you didn't
get the study guide,
00:27:22.74\00:27:23.78
hold your hand up, and
our very efficient ushers
00:27:23.81\00:27:26.89
will make certain
that you have one.
00:27:26.92\00:27:28.12
Just hold your hand up,
00:27:28.15\00:27:29.18
in the back of the
balcony do it as well.
00:27:29.21\00:27:31.54
All over and while
they are doing that,
00:27:31.57\00:27:33.04
we want to welcome all of you
00:27:33.07\00:27:34.13
who are watching on
television right now.
00:27:34.16\00:27:35.72
Welcome to the
new series, Primetime.
00:27:35.75\00:27:37.84
Let me give you our website.
00:27:37.87\00:27:39.14
Put it on the screen for you.
00:27:39.17\00:27:41.59
www.pmchurch.tv
that's our website.
00:27:41.62\00:27:46.46
You go there and you're looking
00:27:46.49\00:27:47.80
for the series Primetime.
00:27:47.83\00:27:50.09
You'll see it, click on there.
00:27:50.12\00:27:51.46
This is the first...
00:27:51.49\00:27:52.55
This is the first
teaching in the series.
00:27:52.58\00:27:53.90
This one's entitled
'Playing with Fire'.
00:27:53.93\00:27:56.61
So you go to
that and you see it,
00:27:56.64\00:27:58.43
it says mp3,
you want to podcast,
00:27:58.46\00:28:00.11
you are welcome to have that,
00:28:00.14\00:28:01.23
but just get over
the study guide right now
00:28:01.26\00:28:03.69
and click study
guide and you'll have
00:28:03.72\00:28:06.34
the identical
instrument that we have here.
00:28:06.37\00:28:13.31
Let's fill it out together.
00:28:13.34\00:28:15.24
So this is something for you
to brood on, brood over later.
00:28:15.27\00:28:19.30
But I believe
once you see the clue,
00:28:19.33\00:28:20.54
you will never forget it.
00:28:20.57\00:28:22.27
The Greek word for
Pentecost, you ready to go?
00:28:22.30\00:28:24.15
The Greek work for Pentecost
from Acts 2:1 is Pentecoste.
00:28:24.18\00:28:28.76
Well, that wasn't hard.
00:28:28.79\00:28:29.97
Pentecoste and
that means the 50th day.
00:28:30.00\00:28:33.02
Pente, pente in
Greek means five.
00:28:33.05\00:28:35.51
The Pentagon,
what's the Pentagon?
00:28:35.54\00:28:39.16
It's the defense headquarters
00:28:39.19\00:28:42.30
for the defense
industry in the United States.
00:28:42.33\00:28:44.38
It's a five sided
building, five, pentagon,
00:28:44.41\00:28:47.50
Pentecoste is the 50th
day and what's that mean?
00:28:47.53\00:28:51.19
You see there in
your study guide in the--
00:28:51.22\00:28:52.74
for in the Jewish
liturgical calendar
00:28:52.77\00:28:54.29
if you subtracted
50 days from Pentecost
00:28:54.32\00:28:56.85
and you went backwards,
00:28:56.88\00:28:58.22
it will take you
back to the Feast
00:28:58.25\00:28:59.33
of Unleavened
Bread or write it in,
00:28:59.36\00:29:00.94
here is the clue,
Passover, Passover.
00:29:00.97\00:29:03.56
Jot that word in please.
00:29:03.59\00:29:05.58
In other words the
secret to Pentecost
00:29:05.61\00:29:07.85
is in what it follows.
00:29:07.88\00:29:09.22
Write it down, Passover,
00:29:09.25\00:29:11.56
and the secret to the
Passover is the passion of God.
00:29:11.59\00:29:17.34
Hold on, one more line.
00:29:17.37\00:29:20.05
Calvary, see Calvary is
the supreme manifestation
00:29:20.08\00:29:25.00
of God's passion to
save his lost earth children.
00:29:25.03\00:29:30.16
That's what Calvary is about.
00:29:30.19\00:29:32.08
In other words when
the Lamb of God died
00:29:32.11\00:29:34.39
as the divine Passover lamb,
00:29:34.42\00:29:36.65
it was a
consummation of very act,
00:29:36.68\00:29:38.76
it was a
consummation of every word
00:29:38.79\00:29:40.69
God had spoken in the
history of the human race.
00:29:40.72\00:29:43.23
In fact do this, look.
00:29:43.26\00:29:44.56
Let's just say here are the
gates of the Garden of Eden.
00:29:44.59\00:29:46.93
Once outside the
gates of the garden
00:29:46.96\00:29:49.00
'cause it was closed out,
Adam and Eve had to leave.
00:29:49.03\00:29:50.69
From this point on, watch this,
00:29:50.72\00:29:52.26
from this point on every word,
00:29:52.29\00:29:55.35
every act, every intervention,
00:29:55.38\00:29:59.14
every provision from God,
00:29:59.17\00:30:02.04
every movement of the divine.
00:30:02.07\00:30:05.57
From the gate of
the Garden of Eden
00:30:05.60\00:30:07.68
all the way down here to Calvary
00:30:07.71\00:30:11.33
is driven by the fiery passion
00:30:11.36\00:30:14.15
to save lost men, women
00:30:14.18\00:30:19.10
and children on this planet.
00:30:19.13\00:30:21.01
Everything God does.
00:30:21.04\00:30:22.66
I invite you to
kind of challenge that
00:30:22.69\00:30:25.26
think it true.
00:30:25.29\00:30:26.51
Everything He does is
driven by that passion.
00:30:26.54\00:30:28.93
Moreover if you want
to start here at the cross
00:30:28.96\00:30:31.19
and go all the way down to
you get to you and me here.
00:30:31.22\00:30:34.03
You start at the cross
every intervention of God,
00:30:34.06\00:30:36.93
every act, every word God speaks
00:30:36.96\00:30:40.12
from the
Calvary, from Calvary on,
00:30:40.15\00:30:42.36
same passion.
00:30:42.39\00:30:43.84
Fiery passion to
save lost people.
00:30:43.87\00:30:46.64
It's all God can think about it.
00:30:46.67\00:30:48.55
If they were all your children,
00:30:48.58\00:30:49.65
it would be all
you could think about.
00:30:49.68\00:30:51.60
Do you know how many
parents are here right now,
00:30:51.63\00:30:53.81
who when I say
00:30:53.84\00:30:54.91
how are things
going with your children,
00:30:54.94\00:30:56.36
immediately feel a pain
in the depth of their souls.
00:30:56.39\00:30:59.48
Do you why?
00:30:59.51\00:31:00.60
Because they are not sure
00:31:00.63\00:31:01.90
their children
are secured eternally.
00:31:01.93\00:31:03.63
That's why.
00:31:03.66\00:31:04.69
You cannot be a parent
and not have the passion
00:31:04.72\00:31:10.04
to see your children one
day in the kingdom of Christ.
00:31:10.07\00:31:14.09
You never the
same, you can go on,
00:31:14.12\00:31:17.01
you look like you're
having fun in the party
00:31:17.04\00:31:18.69
and you can be watching TV,
and you can be playing golf,
00:31:18.72\00:31:22.07
but you stop for a moment
00:31:22.10\00:31:23.20
somebody say
how's it with your boy?
00:31:23.23\00:31:24.34
How's it with your girl?
00:31:24.37\00:31:25.40
And boom, there
it is all over again.
00:31:25.43\00:31:30.18
We got it from God.
00:31:30.21\00:31:32.99
He has one passion,
save the human race.
00:31:33.02\00:31:35.59
In fact jot that down
where your God can still
00:31:35.62\00:31:37.02
think of
nothing else these days,
00:31:37.05\00:31:38.46
but I must save,
I've got to save,
00:31:38.49\00:31:41.26
I must save my children,
00:31:41.29\00:31:42.46
Bethlehem was
because of that passion.
00:31:42.49\00:31:44.17
Calvary was
because of that passion.
00:31:44.20\00:31:45.86
And, guys, hold on your seats,
00:31:45.89\00:31:47.34
Pentecost is solely
because of that passion,
00:31:47.37\00:31:51.42
nothing else, nothing else.
00:31:51.45\00:31:54.77
It's now wonder
Jesus' last words
00:31:54.80\00:31:56.02
to the dearest friends He
had on this earth were these.
00:31:56.05\00:32:00.15
Turn your page back to Acts 1.
00:32:00.18\00:32:01.73
Look at this,
isn't this something?
00:32:01.76\00:32:03.59
Jesus last words before leaving.
00:32:03.62\00:32:06.62
This is Chapter 1 verse 6,
00:32:06.65\00:32:08.49
"So when they met together,"
that would be the disciples,
00:32:08.52\00:32:10.81
only 11 of them now
"They asked him, 'Lord,'"
00:32:10.84\00:32:14.64
they asked a very
Adventist question.
00:32:14.67\00:32:16.34
I love this.
00:32:16.37\00:32:17.40
'''Lord, are you at this time
00:32:17.43\00:32:19.23
going to restore
the kingdom to Israel?"
00:32:19.26\00:32:21.57
I mean come on, is this the end?
00:32:21.60\00:32:22.68
Huh, is this it? Hallelujah.
00:32:22.71\00:32:25.47
They ask a very
Adventist question
00:32:25.50\00:32:27.41
and Jesus makes a
very un-Adventist response.
00:32:27.44\00:32:31.90
Look at verse 7,
"Jesus said to them.
00:32:31.93\00:32:34.24
'It is not for you to
know the times or dates
00:32:34.27\00:32:37.19
that the Father has
set by his own authority.'
00:32:37.22\00:32:40.25
" Hey listen guys,
let me tell you something,
00:32:40.28\00:32:41.67
your most
pressing need right now
00:32:41.70\00:32:44.28
is not the date when I return,
00:32:44.31\00:32:45.87
your father has
that in thorough control.
00:32:45.90\00:32:49.15
You need what the
Father's spirit and I have
00:32:49.18\00:32:51.47
and that is our
passion to save this planet.
00:32:51.50\00:32:53.72
That's needs to be
your all consuming focus.
00:32:53.75\00:32:56.89
Save this earth with us.
00:32:56.92\00:33:04.59
My passion must
become your passion
00:33:04.62\00:33:09.00
to enable that to happen.
00:33:09.03\00:33:10.06
Look at verse 8.
00:33:10.09\00:33:11.24
Therefore verse 8,
"You will receive power
00:33:11.27\00:33:16.23
when the Holy Spirit
comes on you, and you..."
00:33:16.26\00:33:20.87
I promise you "You
will be my witnesses
00:33:20.90\00:33:25.08
in Jerusalem..."
00:33:25.11\00:33:27.15
By the way this is
the Table of Contents
00:33:27.18\00:33:28.54
for the Book of Acts.
00:33:28.57\00:33:29.61
"In Jerusalem..."
00:33:29.64\00:33:30.90
Chapters 1-7, "In
Judea and Samaria..."
00:33:30.93\00:33:34.57
Chapter 8-10
00:33:34.60\00:33:36.10
"To the uttermost
parts of the earth."
00:33:36.13\00:33:37.23
Chapters 11-28 You just put
the Table of Contents there.
00:33:37.26\00:33:39.86
You will be my witnesses.
00:33:39.89\00:33:42.61
In fact, jot
this down, will you?
00:33:42.64\00:33:43.72
What is Jesus saying?
00:33:43.75\00:33:44.81
He is saying, when
the dynamite power,
00:33:44.84\00:33:46.70
you see that and by the
way you notice the word,
00:33:46.73\00:33:48.69
the Greek word for
dynamite is dunamis
00:33:48.72\00:33:50.76
that's what dynamite comes from.
00:33:50.79\00:33:51.89
"When the dynamite
power of the Holy Sprit
00:33:51.92\00:33:53.41
comes upon you,
00:33:53.44\00:33:54.47
he will you with my passion,
and you will be my witnesses."
00:33:54.50\00:33:58.52
And by the way
did you note that,
00:33:58.55\00:33:59.62
the Greek word
for witness is martus
00:33:59.65\00:34:02.30
from whence
comes our word martyr.
00:34:02.33\00:34:06.59
What is a martyr?
00:34:06.62\00:34:08.19
She, he is a witness
00:34:08.22\00:34:10.71
who will
witness through His life
00:34:10.74\00:34:12.33
and is willing to even through
her death make testimony.
00:34:12.36\00:34:16.71
That's what a martyr is
to the ends of the earth.
00:34:16.74\00:34:19.09
You become a martyr,
you become witnesses for me.
00:34:19.12\00:34:21.67
By the way, jot this down
14 times in the Book of Acts,
00:34:21.70\00:34:25.07
Luke will weave in
that theme word witness,
00:34:25.10\00:34:28.97
witness, witness.
00:34:29.00\00:34:30.36
"Jesus' point is inescapable,
00:34:30.39\00:34:32.18
'Once my passion
become your passion,
00:34:32.21\00:34:35.56
you will become my witnesses!"
00:34:35.59\00:34:37.88
I promise you and with that,
00:34:37.91\00:34:39.90
Jesus is gone, just
like that He is gone.
00:34:39.93\00:34:42.07
Look at that verse 9,
"And after he said this,
00:34:42.10\00:34:44.52
he was taken up
before their very eyes,
00:34:44.55\00:34:46.03
and a cloud hid
him from their sight."
00:34:46.06\00:34:49.26
Look at verse 10,
00:34:49.29\00:34:50.35
" They were looking
intently up into the sky
00:34:50.38\00:34:52.34
as he was going,
when suddenly two men..."
00:34:52.37\00:34:55.11
Materialize suddenly they
are there dressed in what?
00:34:55.14\00:34:59.25
What does it say
here? "Dressed in white."
00:34:59.28\00:35:01.93
What are those
two men you suppose?
00:35:01.96\00:35:03.56
Huh, what do you
suppose they are?
00:35:03.59\00:35:05.08
Of course they are the angels.
00:35:05.11\00:35:06.16
Desire of Ages tells us
00:35:06.19\00:35:07.27
those are the
two guardian angels
00:35:07.30\00:35:08.55
who accompanied Christ
Jesus all the way through life.
00:35:08.58\00:35:11.64
This is guarding angels.
00:35:11.67\00:35:12.82
You got to hand
it to those angels.
00:35:12.85\00:35:14.26
They cut out on the
first part of the party.
00:35:14.29\00:35:15.69
They miss the first
part of the welcome home.
00:35:15.72\00:35:18.88
They say we'll
stay with you boys,
00:35:18.91\00:35:20.01
you go ahead.
00:35:20.04\00:35:21.38
Everybody else
is waiting for you.
00:35:21.41\00:35:23.82
They said we'll come after you.
00:35:23.85\00:35:26.93
Stay right there.
00:35:26.96\00:35:30.16
I got something
to tell you fellows
00:35:30.19\00:35:32.57
and they speak,
watch this, they speak,
00:35:32.60\00:35:34.95
Verse 11, '''Men of
Galilee,' they said,
00:35:34.98\00:35:38.82
'why do you stand
here looking into the sky?
00:35:38.85\00:35:42.15
This same Jesus,
00:35:42.18\00:35:43.24
who has been taken
from you into heaven,
00:35:43.27\00:35:44.75
will come back in the same way
00:35:44.78\00:35:46.32
you have seen
him go into heaven.'
00:35:46.35\00:35:48.18
" Now, I want you to
read that with a little--
00:35:48.21\00:35:50.11
a little
different understanding,
00:35:50.14\00:35:51.48
we could read that
gently with a fresh paradigm
00:35:51.51\00:35:56.37
and understand that to
be a very gracious rebuke,
00:35:56.40\00:36:01.56
to those who keep peeling
their eyes on the heavens,
00:36:01.59\00:36:04.89
trying to find one more
sign that Jesus is coming soon.
00:36:04.92\00:36:09.07
Get your eyes
off of the heavens.
00:36:09.10\00:36:14.64
We got a work we got to do here.
00:36:14.67\00:36:17.89
William Willimon used to
be the dean of the chapel
00:36:17.92\00:36:20.87
at Duke University.
00:36:20.90\00:36:23.51
He made this observation
about Luke opening salve
00:36:23.54\00:36:25.57
and I like this,
it's in your study guide.
00:36:25.60\00:36:27.29
"In a few opening verses
00:36:27.32\00:36:28.41
Luke manages to
reprove both the enthusiasm
00:36:28.44\00:36:31.83
and speculation of
uninformed apocalypticism."
00:36:31.86\00:36:34.98
What's that mean?
00:36:35.01\00:36:36.06
People just running
around trying to turn
00:36:36.09\00:36:37.31
at every headline,
turn every headline
00:36:37.34\00:36:39.18
into a sign of the end.
00:36:39.21\00:36:40.24
Wow! It's got to be now.
00:36:40.27\00:36:41.45
Wow!
00:36:41.48\00:36:42.52
Uninformed apocalypticism,
that's all it means.
00:36:42.55\00:36:46.71
Luke is giving a
little gentle chiding,
00:36:46.74\00:36:49.09
don't you get sucked in to that.
00:36:49.12\00:36:50.41
Don't worry about
the date of the dates.
00:36:50.44\00:36:52.24
God has at all under control,
00:36:52.27\00:36:53.56
but notice if-- notice
the balance of Willimon.
00:36:53.59\00:36:56.26
He is-- he is also
reproving the despair
00:36:56.29\00:36:58.74
and stodginess of a
church without apocalyptic hope.
00:36:58.77\00:37:04.01
Don't you ever become
a community of people,
00:37:04.04\00:37:06.60
who give up the
passion of expectancy.
00:37:06.63\00:37:10.30
Jesus is coming soon.
00:37:10.33\00:37:11.44
Don't you ever let
anybody talk you out
00:37:11.47\00:37:15.91
of that hope?
00:37:15.94\00:37:19.40
Sometimes you get to
think we gonna be here so long,
00:37:19.43\00:37:21.04
we'll just settle down
for a long winter's nap,
00:37:21.07\00:37:24.26
get over it, hang on to it,
00:37:24.29\00:37:27.35
the church is
doomed, Willimon is right.
00:37:27.38\00:37:30.99
Yeah, it's okay jot this down,
00:37:31.02\00:37:32.06
angels, angels are
saying, hey fellows yep Jesus,
00:37:32.09\00:37:34.46
the same Jesus is coming back,
00:37:34.49\00:37:36.02
but you can't sit here
gazing up into heavens forever,
00:37:36.05\00:37:39.38
there's a work to
do, let's go guys.
00:37:39.41\00:37:42.04
We're ready to help you
00:37:42.07\00:37:43.93
and that's exactly what they do.
00:37:43.96\00:37:45.62
Verse 12,
00:37:45.65\00:37:47.60
"Then the apostles
returned to Jerusalem
00:37:47.63\00:37:49.25
from the hill
called the Mount of Olives,
00:37:49.28\00:37:50.68
a Sabbath day's
walk from the city
00:37:50.71\00:37:52.53
about two thirds of a mile.
00:37:52.56\00:37:53.71
When they arrived,
00:37:53.74\00:37:54.81
they went
upstairs to the room..."
00:37:54.84\00:37:56.55
That would be the upper
room "Where they were staying."
00:37:56.58\00:37:58.62
And then a list of those names.
00:37:58.65\00:37:59.98
Verse 14,
00:38:00.01\00:38:01.04
"And they all joined
together constantly in prayer."
00:38:01.07\00:38:05.92
It's 10 days to
Pentecost, 10 days away,
00:38:05.95\00:38:09.58
and they have no
idea that anything is
00:38:09.61\00:38:10.79
coming to Pentecost by the way.
00:38:10.82\00:38:12.14
They just went
to prayer meeting,
00:38:12.17\00:38:13.66
they have no
clue that in 10 day 0.
00:38:13.69\00:38:17.40
Jesus just said you go
there and you wait and so they
00:38:17.43\00:38:20.64
"All joined together
constantly in prayer,
00:38:20.67\00:38:22.16
along with the women."
00:38:22.19\00:38:23.24
That would be their wives
00:38:23.27\00:38:24.55
and the woman who
ministered to Jesus in his life
00:38:24.58\00:38:27.08
and then one more
person is mentioned by name
00:38:27.11\00:38:31.15
and along with
"Mary the mother of Jesus,
00:38:31.18\00:38:33.61
and with his brothers."
00:38:33.64\00:38:35.04
This is the last place
00:38:35.07\00:38:36.58
Mother Mary
appears in sacred record.
00:38:36.61\00:38:40.01
How would you like the
last remembrance of you
00:38:40.04\00:38:42.76
on this planet?
00:38:42.79\00:38:43.84
Hey, he was at prayer meeting.
00:38:43.87\00:38:48.45
Hey, she was at prayer meeting,
00:38:48.48\00:38:50.32
the last remembrance of
you is your prayer meeting.
00:38:50.35\00:38:55.65
God bless the mother of Jesus.
00:38:55.68\00:38:59.84
The New Testament quietly just--
00:38:59.87\00:39:02.36
she's gone,
there's no elevation,
00:39:02.39\00:39:04.51
there is no--
there is no coronation,
00:39:04.54\00:39:06.91
there's nothing, the
last time we see her,
00:39:06.94\00:39:11.16
she is at prayer meeting.
And what are they doing?
00:39:11.19\00:39:14.95
They all joined
together what's it say here,
00:39:14.98\00:39:17.13
constantly in prayer.
00:39:17.16\00:39:19.15
What are they praying about?
00:39:19.18\00:39:20.28
This is in your study
guide, take a look at this
00:39:20.31\00:39:21.77
from the Book
Acts of the Apostles,
00:39:21.80\00:39:24.18
focus to their praying,
00:39:24.21\00:39:25.25
"The disciples pray
with intense earnestness
00:39:25.28\00:39:27.38
for a fitness to meet people
00:39:27.41\00:39:29.08
and in their daily conversations
00:39:29.11\00:39:30.60
to be able to speak words that
would leads sinners to Christ."
00:39:30.63\00:39:33.08
Now hold on.
00:39:33.11\00:39:34.16
"They did not ask for a blessing
00:39:34.19\00:39:35.66
for themselves merely.
00:39:35.69\00:39:37.08
They were
weighted with the burden
00:39:37.11\00:39:39.01
of the divine passion
for, and I added those words,
00:39:39.04\00:39:41.21
"The divine passion
for the salvation of souls.
00:39:41.24\00:39:44.24
They realized that the
gospel was to be carried
00:39:44.27\00:39:47.35
to the world in their generation
00:39:47.38\00:39:50.30
and they claim the power
the Christ had promised."
00:39:50.33\00:39:54.66
Ten days later, boom!
00:39:54.69\00:39:57.04
The upper room explodes
00:39:57.07\00:39:58.55
tornado and flame.
00:39:58.58\00:40:02.72
And by the way how
was the fire displayed
00:40:02.75\00:40:07.21
that the spirit brought to them?
00:40:07.24\00:40:09.01
How was the fire displayed?
00:40:09.04\00:40:10.86
You think about
what it could've been.
00:40:10.89\00:40:11.96
The spirit could have shown up,
00:40:11.99\00:40:13.05
he said, all right,
we're gonna have fire here
00:40:13.08\00:40:14.67
'cause fire is wherever God is,
00:40:14.70\00:40:15.92
we're gonna have
fire and a hand appears,
00:40:15.95\00:40:17.75
a fiery hand over every head,
00:40:17.78\00:40:19.54
lowering with you all
even at the end of the world.
00:40:19.57\00:40:22.41
He could have been in
prayer and suddenly a fiery foot
00:40:22.44\00:40:24.42
wherever thy foot
goeth I am with thee.
00:40:24.45\00:40:29.44
But no, no, no, no,
we now know the focus
00:40:29.47\00:40:32.69
by the sign that
appeared on Pentecost,
00:40:32.72\00:40:35.27
we now know the content
of those 10 days of praying.
00:40:35.30\00:40:37.94
They are praying,
give us the passion,
00:40:37.97\00:40:40.86
give us the
ability to articulate
00:40:40.89\00:40:44.82
the truth about
Jesus to a dying world.
00:40:44.85\00:40:47.25
All we want is to
be able to do it right.
00:40:47.28\00:40:51.52
Please, give us tongues
00:40:51.55\00:40:54.98
that can speak with
clarity and passion,
00:40:55.01\00:40:58.35
Your truth, oh, God.
00:40:58.38\00:40:59.70
And when He comes...
00:40:59.73\00:41:02.38
a little
flickering orange tongue
00:41:02.41\00:41:05.13
over everybody
saying, I heard your prayer,
00:41:05.16\00:41:08.19
I hear what you
want, you got it.
00:41:08.22\00:41:12.37
Now go.
00:41:12.40\00:41:14.41
And boy, when he
walked out of that room,
00:41:14.44\00:41:15.62
3,000 people got
baptized that very day.
00:41:15.65\00:41:18.61
Mercy, that's Pentecost,
00:41:18.64\00:41:21.15
God does, God throws
all the rule books away,
00:41:21.18\00:41:23.41
all the paradigms
are collapsed and tossed,
00:41:23.44\00:41:26.62
new world, new prime time,
here's how we act and boom,
00:41:26.65\00:41:30.86
God turns the world
upside down in one generation.
00:41:30.89\00:41:33.54
A generation that
did not have cell phones,
00:41:33.57\00:41:36.89
a generation that
did not have laptops,
00:41:36.92\00:41:39.41
a generation that did not have
00:41:39.44\00:41:41.74
gas guzzling
automobiles, they had nothing,
00:41:41.77\00:41:48.02
they had nothing but a sailboat.
00:41:48.05\00:41:51.05
No newspapers,
no emails, nothing.
00:41:51.08\00:41:55.92
In one generation.
00:41:55.95\00:41:58.13
When God throws
the rule book out,
00:41:58.16\00:41:59.42
you don't need,
00:41:59.45\00:42:00.58
you don't need nothing with him,
00:42:00.61\00:42:03.69
just give me your passion.
00:42:03.72\00:42:05.37
Jot that down, will
you before I forget it.
00:42:05.40\00:42:06.77
"The tongues of
fire are proof enough
00:42:06.80\00:42:08.24
that the focus of these ten days
00:42:08.27\00:42:09.72
of prayer was the power
to be an effective witness
00:42:09.75\00:42:12.35
to the world for
the Lord Jesus Christ."
00:42:12.38\00:42:14.40
Some people think when you
get filled with the Holy Spirit,
00:42:14.43\00:42:16.19
you have these
warm spiritual fuzzes,
00:42:16.22\00:42:17.80
man, we got to have the
Holy Spirit around here,
00:42:17.83\00:42:20.30
I want to be able to do
things I never could do before.
00:42:20.33\00:42:22.51
The Holy Spirit is
not about you doing things
00:42:22.54\00:42:24.05
you never could do before,
00:42:24.08\00:42:25.14
the Holy Spirit
has one primary passion
00:42:25.17\00:42:28.06
and that is to fill you with it.
00:42:28.09\00:42:30.27
To fill you with God's
passion for lost people,
00:42:30.30\00:42:34.00
not for saved
people, for lost people.
00:42:34.03\00:42:38.65
There's more joy in heaven over
00:42:38.68\00:42:40.31
one who's lost
than 99 who're saved.
00:42:40.34\00:42:43.06
Heaven's got a passion
and it's to find the lost.
00:42:43.09\00:42:47.69
So when we asked to be
filled with the Holy Spirit,
00:42:47.72\00:42:49.22
we're really saying
oh, God, I'm begging you,
00:42:49.25\00:42:50.88
I'm begging you fill me
00:42:50.91\00:42:52.57
with Your
passion for lost people
00:42:52.60\00:42:54.40
and so we begin
today a new series
00:42:54.43\00:42:55.96
how to train our tongues
00:42:55.99\00:42:57.34
to become powerful
witnesses for Christ,
00:42:57.37\00:42:59.03
it's called Primetime.
00:42:59.06\00:43:00.53
It's based on a single
line in the New Testament,
00:43:00.56\00:43:02.25
we may never see it
during this entire series.
00:43:02.28\00:43:04.46
1 Peter 3:15,
00:43:04.49\00:43:05.96
always be ready
to give an answer
00:43:05.99\00:43:08.40
to those who ask you
the reason for your hope.
00:43:08.43\00:43:12.35
If you're the
prime time generation,
00:43:12.38\00:43:14.13
then we have
got to do everything
00:43:14.16\00:43:15.88
we can to equip and enable you
00:43:15.91\00:43:18.26
to walk out of this university
with your head held high.
00:43:18.29\00:43:20.91
I know what I believe
00:43:20.94\00:43:22.53
and I can tell you
what Jesus means to me.
00:43:22.56\00:43:25.41
Primetime will be
giving you some tools
00:43:25.44\00:43:28.11
and in a few days
we're gonna launch something,
00:43:28.14\00:43:30.06
the alpha version of a
seminar we've been working on
00:43:30.09\00:43:32.60
for five long years.
00:43:32.63\00:43:34.66
It's called the
Contagious Adventist seminar
00:43:34.69\00:43:37.32
and we will launch it here
00:43:37.35\00:43:38.71
and you'll be
given an opportunity
00:43:38.74\00:43:40.30
to become a part of
this prime time movement.
00:43:40.33\00:43:47.10
What would
happen in this New Year
00:43:47.13\00:43:48.19
we began to pray the
pre-Pentecost prayer,
00:43:48.22\00:43:49.82
I mean just like the disciples?
00:43:49.85\00:43:51.28
I'm not suggesting this is
Pentecost, it's not here yet
00:43:51.31\00:43:53.62
but what would happen
if we prayed that same way.
00:43:53.65\00:43:55.62
What if we asked
God to fulfill Acts 1:8?
00:43:55.65\00:43:58.27
God, give me Your passion,
00:43:58.30\00:43:59.77
please fill me with
Your passion for lost people.
00:43:59.80\00:44:03.19
You suppose God
would honor that prayer?
00:44:03.22\00:44:05.45
Can you think of a reason
00:44:05.48\00:44:06.54
why He wouldn't
honor the prayer?
00:44:06.57\00:44:09.89
I need to tell you
this, I haven't live long
00:44:09.92\00:44:12.59
but one thing
I've learned is that
00:44:12.62\00:44:13.70
there is no preacher on earth
00:44:13.73\00:44:15.11
that can preach into me
a passion for lost sinners.
00:44:15.14\00:44:19.49
I have known
preachers who can tell stories,
00:44:19.52\00:44:21.81
a story or two or three,
it brought tears to my eyes
00:44:21.84\00:44:24.08
and I'm walking out,
they're saying, whoa, please.
00:44:24.11\00:44:27.23
It doesn't go even back,
it doesn't go past the tears.
00:44:27.26\00:44:32.01
And because a preacher
can't do that to me, guess what?
00:44:32.04\00:44:34.29
This preacher sure
can't do that to you.
00:44:34.32\00:44:36.67
There is no way this series
Primetime is gonna inject you
00:44:36.70\00:44:38.85
with divine passion, impossible.
00:44:38.88\00:44:41.38
I'm telling you what,
there isn't a book on earth
00:44:41.41\00:44:43.34
and there are some great books
out there about the passion.
00:44:43.37\00:44:45.45
There isn't a book on
earth that can infill you,
00:44:45.48\00:44:49.62
the book can inspire you
00:44:49.65\00:44:50.84
but it cannot infill
you with that passion.
00:44:50.87\00:44:54.53
It can't do it. I tell you what?
00:44:54.56\00:44:56.96
You can read the Bible,
00:44:56.99\00:44:58.14
you can read the
Bible from cover to cover,
00:44:58.17\00:44:59.95
I'm gonna get the
passion right here.
00:44:59.98\00:45:02.08
Wrong.
00:45:02.11\00:45:03.59
You get to the
last page of Revelation
00:45:03.62\00:45:05.14
and read the
whole Bible through,
00:45:05.17\00:45:06.20
you will not have an
ounce more of passion in you
00:45:06.23\00:45:08.41
than when you began or
may be an ounce or two.
00:45:08.44\00:45:12.14
You can't get it
from even God's word.
00:45:12.17\00:45:13.82
There is only one
source for divine passion
00:45:13.85\00:45:17.91
and that is the divine heart,
00:45:17.94\00:45:19.32
which is why you got
to go to the divine Lord
00:45:19.35\00:45:21.51
and say give me
Your heart please.
00:45:21.54\00:45:23.66
Give me Your passion,
straight from you to me,
00:45:23.69\00:45:26.58
main line it into me.
00:45:26.61\00:45:28.53
Please, I must have it.
00:45:28.56\00:45:31.92
And that's why,
ladies and gentleman,
00:45:31.95\00:45:33.00
when we read the
story of Pentecost,
00:45:33.03\00:45:35.03
it doest read that the disciples
00:45:35.06\00:45:36.68
sat in the upper
room and read books.
00:45:36.71\00:45:39.22
It doesn't say that
they sat in the upper room
00:45:39.25\00:45:40.53
and listened to sermon podcast.
00:45:40.56\00:45:42.44
It says they
went to the upper room
00:45:42.47\00:45:43.51
and they
prayed, and they prayed,
00:45:43.54\00:45:44.58
and they
prayed, and they prayed,
00:45:44.61\00:45:46.44
until when God in His
own good pleasure said,
00:45:46.47\00:45:48.41
now they got it.
00:45:48.44\00:45:51.67
They just prayed.
00:45:51.70\00:45:56.12
I'm embarrassed
to ask this of myself
00:45:56.15\00:45:57.60
and so I get out
of the embarrassment
00:45:57.63\00:45:59.08
by asking you as well,
so put us both into this.
00:45:59.11\00:46:04.04
When was the last time
you and I were on our knees
00:46:04.07\00:46:09.93
begging God for His passion
00:46:09.96\00:46:14.37
to save lost earth children?
00:46:14.40\00:46:18.48
When was the last time
you ever prayed that prayer?
00:46:18.51\00:46:22.56
Embarrassing, isn't it?
00:46:22.59\00:46:24.56
That's all God can think about
00:46:24.59\00:46:26.77
and it's what I
never think about.
00:46:26.80\00:46:28.73
How embarrassing is my father
00:46:28.76\00:46:33.35
but he is not my heart.
00:46:33.38\00:46:39.25
Oh, God...
00:46:39.28\00:46:40.55
-- oh, God,
00:46:42.37\00:46:43.57
I need Your passion
00:46:43.60\00:46:44.71
for the lost
people on my street.
00:46:44.74\00:46:46.07
I need Your passion
00:46:46.10\00:46:47.16
for the lost
people in my dormitory.
00:46:47.19\00:46:48.59
I need Your passion
00:46:48.62\00:46:49.72
for the lost
people in my classroom.
00:46:49.75\00:46:51.19
I got students,
God, that are lost.
00:46:51.22\00:46:53.25
I need Your passion for them.
00:46:53.28\00:46:55.05
I need Your
passion for my hometown,
00:46:55.08\00:46:57.26
my home state, my home
nation, my home planet,
00:46:57.29\00:46:59.67
I need your passion God, please.
00:46:59.70\00:47:02.18
Ladies and
gentlemen, this is prime time.
00:47:02.21\00:47:04.85
God is serving this
generation, a homerun pitch.
00:47:04.88\00:47:09.50
Do you know what that means.
00:47:09.53\00:47:10.74
When they say that
the pitcher is serving
00:47:10.77\00:47:12.33
you a home run
pitch, he is playing easy.
00:47:12.36\00:47:14.12
Said all right,
00:47:14.15\00:47:15.18
I'm gonna throw it
straight across the plate,
00:47:15.21\00:47:16.87
if you've got any sense at
all, you'll swing at this one.
00:47:16.90\00:47:19.56
God is saying, I've set you up,
00:47:19.59\00:47:20.94
just step into the batter's box,
00:47:20.97\00:47:22.32
take that bat and swing.
00:47:22.35\00:47:25.98
You gonna hit this out
of the park girl with me.
00:47:26.01\00:47:30.83
Boy! Swing at it.
00:47:30.86\00:47:34.94
The earth is ripe, prime time.
00:47:34.97\00:47:39.39
"With such an army of workers
as our young rightly trained,
00:47:39.42\00:47:42.70
how soon the message
of a crucified, risen,
00:47:42.73\00:47:45.55
and soon-coming Savior could
go to the ends of the earth.
00:47:45.58\00:47:48.12
How soon the end of
suffering and sorrow and sin!"
00:47:48.15\00:47:54.38
So what would happen
00:47:54.41\00:47:56.31
if we decided to band together
like the disciples in Acts.
00:47:56.34\00:47:59.12
Now say, okay,
let's pray collectively.
00:47:59.15\00:48:02.85
Few years ago I had John
Polkinghorne, the eminent,
00:48:02.88\00:48:05.90
Anglican
clergyman and physicist,
00:48:05.93\00:48:09.29
writer of score of books,
he was standing right here
00:48:09.32\00:48:13.87
and I asked this
Christian scientist.
00:48:13.90\00:48:17.70
I said, hey, I know
you believe in prayer.
00:48:17.73\00:48:19.91
Obviously
you're a man of prayer.
00:48:19.94\00:48:21.66
How does this
group prayer thing work?
00:48:21.69\00:48:24.43
And he looked up at me
and he said you know what?
00:48:24.46\00:48:29.27
It's a mystery but I
think it works like a laser.
00:48:29.30\00:48:35.03
So I called one of
our physicists this week,
00:48:35.06\00:48:36.47
I said, hey, tell me
about these lasers thing.
00:48:36.50\00:48:39.58
You know what a
laser is, don't you?
00:48:39.61\00:48:41.97
One little strand
of light it's fine,
00:48:42.00\00:48:44.25
you can light up a
little part of the darkness,
00:48:44.28\00:48:46.31
but the power of the
laser is its multiple strands
00:48:46.34\00:48:48.44
all on the same
wavelength, little photons,
00:48:48.47\00:48:50.74
they're all bound together
00:48:50.77\00:48:52.19
and when they're bound
together with a single focus,
00:48:52.22\00:48:55.17
those lasers can
go through concrete
00:48:55.20\00:48:59.48
because it's focused
and they're many together.
00:48:59.51\00:49:04.37
Maybe that's the
secret the Book of Acts knew.
00:49:04.40\00:49:06.58
They know, didn't
squad about lasers,
00:49:06.61\00:49:10.94
but they knew
00:49:10.97\00:49:12.09
that if they would
come together to pray,
00:49:12.12\00:49:14.15
you know, there is very little
about private prayer in Acts
00:49:14.18\00:49:17.47
or Peter prays on
the roof top, Paul prays,
00:49:17.50\00:49:19.63
you got a little
bit of private prayer
00:49:19.66\00:49:20.97
but the dominant praying
in Acts is all done by groups,
00:49:21.00\00:49:23.78
all of its a prayer meeting,
00:49:23.81\00:49:25.37
all of it from beginning to end.
00:49:25.40\00:49:27.80
They must know something
about the bands and the light.
00:49:27.83\00:49:33.63
Focus collectively focus.
00:49:33.66\00:49:39.23
So how would it be any different
00:49:39.26\00:49:40.29
for the prime time generation
00:49:40.32\00:49:41.49
waiting for
Pentecost 2 before the end?
00:49:41.52\00:49:43.74
Can't be any different.
00:49:43.77\00:49:44.86
Guys it has to be the
same, so here's the deal.
00:49:44.89\00:49:47.28
Would you mind coming.
00:49:47.31\00:49:49.12
I'm inviting my
friend Mark Finley.
00:49:49.15\00:49:50.40
You ever heard of him?
00:49:50.43\00:49:51.62
Great guy, a friend of mine,
Wednesday night he'll be here,
00:49:51.65\00:49:54.55
Wednesday night.
00:49:54.58\00:49:55.73
Put it on the screen for
you, 'Empowered by the Spirit'.
00:49:55.76\00:50:00.35
Let start being serious
about collective prayer.
00:50:00.38\00:50:04.15
Pastoral staff has
said you know what,
00:50:04.18\00:50:06.30
we've given lip
service to desolate,
00:50:06.33\00:50:08.56
but we're going to be there.
00:50:08.59\00:50:09.64
Nobody else comes,
we'll have a prayer group
00:50:09.67\00:50:11.38
for pastors and
we'll be blessed.
00:50:11.41\00:50:14.84
But there will be
many people coming.
00:50:14.87\00:50:16.58
You are not
coming to here to preach
00:50:16.61\00:50:17.71
because you won't be preacher,
00:50:17.74\00:50:19.06
you'd coming to
hear my friend Mark.
00:50:19.09\00:50:22.61
I'll tell you this
much about prayer meeting,
00:50:22.64\00:50:23.95
I've learned this and the people
00:50:23.98\00:50:25.30
in Acts learned this.
00:50:25.33\00:50:26.44
If you make group prayer
00:50:26.47\00:50:28.33
a regular part of
your weekly journey,
00:50:28.36\00:50:30.68
group prayer it
will raise the bar
00:50:30.71\00:50:32.73
on every other
level of your life,
00:50:32.76\00:50:36.27
every other
level, intellectually,
00:50:36.30\00:50:37.83
financially,
socially, the whole nine yards
00:50:37.86\00:50:39.89
its just arising
tide lifts all ships
00:50:39.92\00:50:42.85
and every other area
of your life raises, why?
00:50:42.88\00:50:45.24
Because you're in touch.
00:50:45.27\00:50:48.12
Love to have you
come Wednesday night
00:50:48.15\00:50:49.89
house of prayer.
00:50:49.92\00:50:52.02
8 o'clock you're
gone, 7 o'clock we start.
00:50:52.05\00:50:56.66
So I can give you an hour.
00:50:56.69\00:50:57.84
Yeah, you can. Yes, you can.
00:50:57.87\00:51:01.00
If you believe it was
important as it really is,
00:51:01.03\00:51:03.57
you have an hour.
00:51:03.60\00:51:06.10
I have an hour.
00:51:06.13\00:51:10.95
Prime time, the world's ready,
00:51:10.98\00:51:15.30
it's time for the
church to get ready.
00:51:15.33\00:51:17.85
Coalesce, bind together.
00:51:17.88\00:51:21.76
Love to have
you Wednesday night,
00:51:21.79\00:51:24.14
7 o'clock prime time.
00:51:24.17\00:51:29.27
Forward on our knees,
00:51:29.30\00:51:32.15
forward on our
knees, that's what it means.
00:51:32.18\00:51:34.32
We go together on our knees.
00:51:34.35\00:51:38.02
Oh, God, prime time.
00:51:38.05\00:51:41.65
Could it be?
00:51:41.68\00:51:44.26
This is the generation
you've been waiting for.
00:51:44.29\00:51:49.52
Holy Father,
00:51:49.55\00:51:51.68
we're all a part
of that generation
00:51:51.71\00:51:53.45
for alive we're it.
00:51:53.48\00:51:57.42
Do in the last days
00:51:57.45\00:52:01.45
what You did in the first days
and grant to a praying people
00:52:01.48\00:52:07.74
Your passion for lost people.
00:52:07.77\00:52:11.95
No more home
alone that's old, blase.
00:52:11.98\00:52:15.77
We can't be home
alone and get this one.
00:52:15.80\00:52:18.38
This one comes collectively.
00:52:18.41\00:52:21.72
Oh, Father, grant it to us
00:52:21.75\00:52:25.95
for the glory of
our Lord and Savior.
00:52:25.98\00:52:29.52
Calvary's passion one last time
00:52:29.55\00:52:32.61
for the
salvation of this campus,
00:52:32.64\00:52:36.11
this community, this
county, this country,
00:52:36.14\00:52:41.85
this world, please dear God.
00:52:41.88\00:52:47.50
And now you and I need
to pray out loud together.
00:52:47.53\00:52:52.97
I can't think of more
appropriate prayer to pray
00:52:53.00\00:52:55.49
to this God we're
asking and seeking,
00:52:55.52\00:53:00.85
and the prayer
Jesus taught us to pray,
00:53:00.88\00:53:02.48
we begin every
school year this way
00:53:02.51\00:53:04.22
when we come to this moment.
00:53:04.25\00:53:06.08
We stand together,
00:53:06.11\00:53:07.93
we throw our
hearts and heads back
00:53:07.96\00:53:11.41
and we sing the Lord's
prayer as our prayer too.
00:53:11.44\00:53:16.05
Let us stand as we sing.
00:53:16.08\00:53:19.38
Our Father,
00:53:30.50\00:53:37.94
Which art in heaven
00:53:37.97\00:53:44.50
Hallowed be
00:53:48.11\00:53:55.82
Thy name
00:53:55.85\00:54:03.78
Thy kingdom come
00:54:03.81\00:54:10.83
Thy will be done
00:54:10.86\00:54:16.85
On earth
00:54:16.88\00:54:20.94
As it is in heaven
00:54:20.97\00:54:27.89
Give us this day
00:54:45.65\00:54:50.30
Our daily bread
00:54:50.33\00:54:55.99
And forgive us our debts
00:54:56.02\00:55:01.90
As we forgive our debtors
00:55:01.93\00:55:09.41
And lead us not into temptation
00:55:13.76\00:55:20.77
But deliver us from evil
00:55:20.80\00:55:27.51
For Thine is the kingdom
00:55:27.54\00:55:34.45
And the power
00:55:34.48\00:55:37.78
And the glory,
00:55:37.81\00:55:42.79
Forever
00:55:42.82\00:55:46.27
Amen
00:55:52.17\00:55:58.74
I like to take a moment
here at the end of the service
00:56:19.42\00:56:21.37
to tell you about
one of the most important
00:56:21.40\00:56:22.77
groups of people
00:56:22.80\00:56:23.99
that make this
ministry possible.
00:56:24.02\00:56:26.86
There are team of people,
00:56:26.89\00:56:28.33
they are not afraid to get down
into the thick of life itself,
00:56:28.36\00:56:32.07
which is why
you're gonna find them,
00:56:32.10\00:56:33.19
you will find them
moving forward on their knees.
00:56:33.22\00:56:36.57
They're our prayer partners.
00:56:36.60\00:56:38.26
A group of men and
women and young adults
00:56:38.29\00:56:41.39
who believe that this
humble television ministry
00:56:41.42\00:56:44.21
has been raised up by
God for such a time as this
00:56:44.24\00:56:46.75
and so they pray earnestly
that God will use the preacher,
00:56:46.78\00:56:49.31
that God will use me,
00:56:49.34\00:56:50.94
that God will use the
countless other volunteers
00:56:50.97\00:56:53.56
to spread the everlasting gospel
00:56:53.59\00:56:55.89
and the word of God in ways
00:56:55.92\00:56:57.04
we could never
have imagined before.
00:56:57.07\00:56:59.24
They are the
ones who are praying
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that God is gonna open
up the hearts of people,
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open up the hearts of
viewers around the world
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for the message,
the critical message
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for this end time generation.
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And what I like
to do is ask you,
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would you be willing to
be a prayer partner with us?
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A prayer partner
with new perceptions.
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You don't have to
call our toll free number.
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You don't have to
go online to register.
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All I need to know is
that you would be willing
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to lift this little ministry
up day after day after day.
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Pray that somehow through radio
and television and the web,
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God will open up new
doors, new regions on earth
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where the everlasting
gospel can be proclaimed.
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There is no
question the power of prayer
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has the potential
to take this ministry
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to places we could
never have imagined before.
00:57:45.65\00:57:48.97
So that's it.
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Would you please be willing
to partner with me in prayer?
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The times are urgent.
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The need is critical
and I hope you will say yes.
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Till we're
together in next time,
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may the prayer answering God
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accompany you
every step of the way.
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