When You Come we
will shout hallelujah
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When You come the dead
in Chris will rise again
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When You come we
will live with You forever
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We will sing a song
of praise that never ends
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When You come
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We believe the
times is drawing near
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When the sky will roll away
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And night will turn to day
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Riding on the
clouds You will appear
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As the chains
of death are broken
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And the graves begin to open
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And the trumpet sounds
to call Your children home.
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When You Come we
will shout hallelujah
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When You come the dead
in Christ will rise again
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When You come we
will live with You forever
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We will sing a song
of praise that never ends
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When You come
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When You come
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We believe that
we're called to proclaim
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The message of salvation
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To every tribe and nation
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Until the day when
we will all be changed
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And every eye shall see You
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As we rise up to meet you
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And death is
swallowed up in victory
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When You Come we
will shout hallelujah
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When You come the dead
in Christ will rise again
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When You come we
will live with You forever
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We will sing a song
of praise that never ends
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You will wipe
every tear from our eyes
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Reunite us with our loved ones
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To never part again
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And Your glory will be our lives
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And every eye shall see You
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As we rise up to meet you
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And Your kingdom will never end
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When You Come we
will shout hallelujah
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When You come the dead
in Christ will rise again
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When You come we
will live with You forever
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We will sing a song
of praise that never ends
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We will sing a song
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We will sing a song
of praise that never ends
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We will sing a song
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We will sing a
song of praise a praise
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We will sing a song of praise
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And we shall wait
for the judgment day
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Will you sing that
chorus one last time with us?
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When You Come we
will shout hallelujah
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When You come the dead
in Christ will rise again
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When You come we
will live with You forever
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We will sing a song
of praise that never ends
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We will sing a song
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We will sing a song
of praise that never ends
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We will sing a song
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We will sing a song of praise
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A praise
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We will sing a song of praise
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When You come
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When You come
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Amen. How many
can wait for that day?
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Amen, will you stand with me
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as we sing our
opening hymn this morning.
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Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee.
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Hymn number 12.
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Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee
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God of glory, Lord of love
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Hearts unfold like
flow'rs before Thee
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Hail Thee as the sun above
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Melt the clouds
of sin and sadness
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Drive the dark of doubt away
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Giver of immortal gladness
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Fill us with the light of day
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Thou art giving and forgiving
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Ever blessing, ever blest
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Wellspring of the joy of living
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Ocean-depth of happy rest
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Thou the Father,
Christ our Brother
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All who live in love are Thine
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Teach us how to love each other
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Lift us to the joy divine
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The Lord is my shepherd
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I will never want
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I lie down
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In green pastures
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He leads me
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Beside still waters
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He restores my soul
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He guides me
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In paths of righteousness
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For His Name's sake
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For if I walk
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Through the valley of death
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I will not be afraid
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For you, Lord, are with me
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Lord, you comfort me
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You comfort me
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You prepare a place for me
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You anoint my head with oil
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My cup overflows
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Overflows
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Surely goodness and mercy
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Will follow me
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All the days of my life
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And I will live
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In the house of the Lord
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And I will live
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In the house of the Lord
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Forever, forever,
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Forever, forever,
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Forever
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Forever
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Forever
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The Lord is my shepherd
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In case there is
anybody here this morning...
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who wants to live in the
house of God forever and ever.
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But you haven't
made that decision yet.
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This would be the
perfect place for an altar call.
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But I'm gonna hold
it off until the end.
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I want to plant that
seed in your heart right now.
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As the choir was
singing I thought would-
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God, if there is
anybody in this audience,
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anybody watching on television,
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listening on the radio, anybody.
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That he is not yet ready
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to live in your
house forever and ever.
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Do whatever you need to
do in these few moments,
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tug it their
heart, draw that life.
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This is the day
that Lord has made,
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let us rejoice
and be glad in it.
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I want to plunge
into our teaching.
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I'm very excited
about today's teaching.
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But before I do,
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give me just one
moment, will you?
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Then we'll have prayer.
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I got an incredible story
from Worcester, Massachusetts.
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But before that I
hold here in my hands,
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a very lovely gift
card, handsome amount on it,
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expiration date is
there, still plenty of time.
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One of you, God bless you
left it at prayer meeting,
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this last Wednesday
night at House of Prayer.
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Somebody came up to
me afterwards and say,
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"Hey, pastor,
look no name on it. "
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But this is a wow gift card.
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You went home with
your gift card here
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but I want to
tell you something,
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you went home
last Wednesday night
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with a very special gift.
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That Youth Chapel
was packed wall to wall.
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You went home with Holy Spirit.
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You say, ah, come on,
Dwight, you can't prove that.
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Yes, I can, acts of
the Apostles, page 50,
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"If all were willing,
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all would be filled
with the Holy Spirit. "
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Everybody packed into that
Youth Chapel, Wednesday night
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was very willing for
the Holy Spirit to fill us.
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So you already went
home with your gift,
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you don't need this
one, you already went home
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with your gift.
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I'm talking you
into letting me keep it.
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No, I'll give it back to you.
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If you can tell me
the company that is from,
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the amount of
money that it is for.
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And the 16 digit
identification code.
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Otherwise I'm keeping it.
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I'll give it to the Lord's work.
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Seriously, if you recognize this
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come and see me afterwards.
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But the point is
ladies and gentlemen,
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we're gonna be right back
there this Wednesday night.
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You say, hey, Dwight, I already
got filled last Wednesday night
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and I'm not going again.
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Are you crazy?
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Somebody came up
to Dwight L. Moody,
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the great of
evangelist of the 19th century,
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and he said, are you
filled with the Holy Spirit.
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He said, yes, but I leak.
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And that's the
truth about all of us.
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You got to keep coming back
to that prayer to be filled.
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And so we're
gonna be right back.
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By the way, we're not--
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we're just a few steps
away from the sanctuary.
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We pack it out
there, we can come in here.
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Don't you worry about the space?
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We got space.
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Listen, this isn't about
you coming to hear the preacher
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'cause the
preacher isn't preaching.
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It's my buddy Mark
Finley on the big screen
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and we had a great
teaching last Wednesday night
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and Mark's gonna be leading
us all the way through October.
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So, you want to come.
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But the deal is this, guys,
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it's when we unite ourselves
in a common collective focus
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as in Pentecost
in the beginning,
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that's when God responds.
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So whatever you're
doing Wednesday night,
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would you please
include House of Prayer.
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It will be right over
there in the Youth Chapel.
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Bring a friend with you,
bring five friends with you.
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You come, you can't
get it alone at home.
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Now what God wants
to give in primetime two
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which we are living in today?
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So, you come
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and if this card is yours,
00:16:47.12\00:16:51.19
you get a double
gift Wednesday night.
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Seriously, if
this card is yours,
00:16:54.36\00:16:55.39
you see me after this service.
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All right. I got to go.
Let's get into the story.
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Father, Oh, the
university singers today,
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that song the
old familiar Psalm 23
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but rendered in a fresh new way.
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I want to live in the house
of the Lord forever and ever.
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If there is anybody here is
now ready to live in that house
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but who is open to
that decision in Christ.
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You do your work
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while this little
preacher front preach a word,
00:17:30.13\00:17:33.13
you do your work in our midst
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because the same Holy Spirit
it was here Wednesday night
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is back here Sabbath morning,
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teach us, we pray
in Jesus' name, amen.
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They were born identical twins
preemies 12 weeks too early,
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born in the Massachusetts
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General Hospital of
Worcester Massachusetts,
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barely weigh two pounds.
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Little sisters
Kyrie and Brielle Jackson.
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Now Kyrie snap right into it.
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She began to gain weight,
she slept nicely at nights
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doing fine but little
Brielle not doing well.
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For some reason her
weight was not gaining,
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her blood oxygen
level in her blood was low.
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She had breathing problems,
she had heart rate problem,
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four weeks into Brielle's
journey through life crisis.
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Her stick arms and a tiny
little face turn bluish gray.
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Her respiration went off
the charts, heart rate up.
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She got the hiccups, a
sign of dangerous stress
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for that tiny little body.
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Neonatal intensive care
unit nurse Gayle Kasparian
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tried desperately to stabilize
Brielle all to no avail.
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Then she remembered something
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a colleague of
hers told her once,
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a common practice in Europe
forbidden in this country,
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it's called double
bedding multiple birth babies
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especially preemies.
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Now in hospital against policy,
00:19:07.97\00:19:10.01
why we're afraid
the twins might pass
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some sort of
infection between each other,
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so they are in
separate incubators.
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Desperate though Kasparian
scooped up little Brielle
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raced over to the incubator
placed her inside that hole
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beside her sister Kyrie.
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And in that moment and
I'm telling you the truth
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I went to
snopes.com to check it out
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and then read the record in the
Worcester Telegram and Gazette.
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In that moment when
Brielle snuggled up to Kyrie
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her blood oxygen
level suddenly soared,
00:19:37.42\00:19:40.07
she began to breathe
easier, her crying stopped
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and her skin began to turn back
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to that normal
pinkish complexion.
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Somebody snapped a
picture in that incubator
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Life Magazine picked it
up, Readers Digest picked it up
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and you can understand
it's all over the web today.
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In fact, these little
twins became so famous
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and that
picture became so famous
00:20:04.76\00:20:06.09
that the parents had to get
00:20:06.12\00:20:07.22
an unlisted
number, people kept going.
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How are little girls doing?
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Well, the little
girls are doing fine
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and here is the picture
of them in that incubator.
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The picture
circulated it for a while
00:20:19.32\00:20:20.62
and then it was
given a formal title,
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it's been called
"The Rescuing Hug."
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Proof enough
photographically and medically
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that we really
do need each other.
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I reread the story to
Pentecost in Acts Chapter 2
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and lo and behold
I'm startled to discover
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at the end of
the story in Acts 2,
00:20:40.93\00:20:43.67
there is a rescuing hug.
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I had never seen it before.
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We have to go back to
where we were last Sabbath,
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go back to Acts
2 because look it,
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tucked away there in the ending
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is the strategic secret
to a primetime generation
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that would be you
living in primetime history
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and that would be now.
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Open your Bible with
me please, Acts Chapter 2.
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You didn't bring a Bible,
00:21:03.90\00:21:04.93
oh boy, grab the pew
Bible right in front of you.
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Acts Chapter 2, you got
to see this for yourself.
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Acts Chapter 2, we'll pick it up
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where we were
last week together.
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It's Pentecost Acts Chapter 2:1,
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I'll be in the Today's
New International TNIV,
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if you grab the pew
Bible that's New King James,
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whatever
translation you have is fine,
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just make sure you
have a translation.
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You're listening
in the overflow room,
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grab your Bible there.
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Acts 2:1, "When the
day of Pentecost came,
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they were all
together in one place."
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That's a whole point
of this kind of praying,
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you can't do it in
your bedroom in home.
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You can't do it
in your dorm room.
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This kind of praying
has to be done in a group.
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They were all
together in one place,
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that's why we
have House of Prayer.
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All together in one
place and "Suddenly" verse 2,
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"A sound like a blowing of a
violent wind came from heaven
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and filled the whole
house where they were sitting."
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We unpacked all of this
last week, so keep reading.
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Verse 3, "They saw what
seemed to be tongues of fire
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that separated and came
to rest on each of them.
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All of them," verse 4,
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"were filled
with the Holy Spirit
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and began to
speak in other tongues
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as the Spirit enabled them."
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For ten days,
ladies and gentlemen,
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let me remind you they
have been in that upper room,
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in this House of Prayer
and they have been praying
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and praying and praying.
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What did they've
been praying for?
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They have been praying
for the passion of God,
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to become their passion too.
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How do you know that,
Dwight? Because of Pentecost.
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Do the arithmetic.
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Fifty days earlier from
Pentecost would be Passover,
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the feast of the
unleavened bread.
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What happened at Passover?
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The divine Passover
Lamb of God is lifted up
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and Jesus says,
"When I am lifted up,
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I will draw all people to me
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and boom to a gasping universe."
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Universe mind you,
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the earth is not
watching to a gasping universe.
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The all
inclusive, all consuming,
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supreme passion of God
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is finally irrevocably revealed.
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And that is God has a passion,
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His hottest and
most fiery passion
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is for last earth's children.
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They saw it,
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50 days later, 10
days after Jesus has left.
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Those ten days after Jesus left,
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they are praying
and praying and praying.
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God, give us Your passion,
please I'm pleading with You,
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may I have Your passion.
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I can't be a witness,
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I cannot reach
this world for you
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unless you give me Your passion.
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For ten days they're claiming
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the last words
Jesus spoke to them
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before He ascended.
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Just turn the page back,
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we were there last week
as well verse 8 of chapter 1,
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you remembered this.
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Jesus said, look at,
"But you will receive power,"
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I'm telling you
guys, you weighed upon,
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you weighed upon God, you pray,
you're gonna receive power,
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verse 8, "When the
Holy Spirit comes on you,
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and you will be my witnesses..."
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Something's gonna happen to you,
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you will have new fire.
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There will be a
passion in your soul
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that was not there
before it will be mine.
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"You will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem,
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and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the ends of the earth."
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For ten days, they have been
claiming this promise and boom.
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While they're in group prayer,
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they're not at
home sleeping at night.
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They've come back
for a group prayer.
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While they're in group prayer,
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the heavens
open, tongues flaming,
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the very gift they were seeking,
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God, loosen my tongue for You.
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They received the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
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Now, let's move to that
rescue hug ending in the story,
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all right.
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So last week we
read verse 14, didn't we?
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"Then Peter stoop
up with the Eleven,
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and he raised his voice
and he addressed the crowd,
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fellow Jews and all of
you who live in Jerusalem,
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let me explain this to you,
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listen carefully to what I say."
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verse 15. "These people
are not drunk, as you suppose.
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It's only nine in the morning."
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Come on, verse 16,
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"No, this is what was
spoken by the prophet Joel."
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Verse 17, "In the
last days, God says,
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I will pour out my
Spirit on all people.
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Your sons and
daughters will prophesy,
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your young men will see visions,
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your old men will dream dreams."
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Some of you are thinking,
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I'm so old there is
no Holy Spirit for me.
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My friend, you are so wrong.
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If you're thinking
I'm so young there is no--
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you are wrong as well.
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By the way that's why
when pioneer worships,
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we worship all together.
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We don't put
young adults over here.
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We don't put
teenagers over here.
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We don't put children over here.
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We don't put the
senior citizens over there
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where they all
have hearing aids,
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we all come together.
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Because Joel and Pentecost
are about everybody together,
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not all of us corral
in our little play pens.
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When you need that
we need cross cultural,
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cross generational
worship in prayer together
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and that's what happened.
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And, oh, boy, look
it out, now verse 22.
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Now he is moving to--
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this is the heart
of a sermon, verse 22,
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"People of
Israel, listen to this,
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Jesus of Nazareth
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was a man accredited
by God to you by miracles,
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wonders and signs, which
God did among you through him,
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as you yourselves know."
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Verse 23, "This man
Jesus was handed over to you
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by God's deliberate
plan and foreknowledge,
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and you, with the
help of wicked men,
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you put him to death by
nailing him to the cross."
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But verse 24, "God
raised him from the dead,
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freeing him from
the agony of death,
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because it was
impossible for death
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to keep its hold on him."
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Now verse 36, "Therefore let
all Israel be assured of this,
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God has made this
Jesus, whom you crucified,
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both Lord and Messiah."
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Hit the pause
button right there.
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I got to ask you a question,
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help me out here
I'm little confused.
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Is this the same Simon Peter
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who 50 nights ago
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crumbled with a
query of a fair maiden.
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We say, hey, wait, wait, wait,
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aren't you one of
these Jesus guys' followers?
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Is this the same
Peter who reaching you as
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fishermen's book of obscenities
and turn the air blue,
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I never knew that
blanketing blank, blank,
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blank man in my life.
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Is this the same Peter
who was gripped by fear?
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So and secure, so unconfident,
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so unable to say a
word in public except curse.
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Is this the same guy?
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Apparently when the
Holy Spirit comes into you,
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inarticulate
though you may have been,
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timid though you are,
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fearful though
we all are at times.
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No matter how it is inside,
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when this Holy
Spirit comes upon you,
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apparently that little
orange tongue is a promise
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that I'll take your tongue
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and I will give a
witness through you
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that no other human being at
this moment could give but you.
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Same Peter,
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apparently the Holy
Spirit can turn a coward
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into a champion for Christ.
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Good news for you and me,
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thinking, well, you know
about this primetime series,
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I don't think it's gonna be
able to really help me, please.
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All it takes is your praying,
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your pleading to be
filled with a spirit of God
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and the passion of God.
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And by the way get this.
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All of the while you are
witnessing wherever it is,
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you're
witnessing in the dormitory,
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in the cafeteria,
you are in a business,
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somewhere in this
community, you are in the county
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wherever it is that
you're having this conversion.
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All the while
you are witnessing,
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the Holy Spirit is
working on the hearts of those
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who are listening or the
heart of the one listening.
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That's what
happening in the story.
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By the way John R.W. Stott
in his wonderful commentary
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in the Book of Romans.
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He made a point once
and I have never forgot it,
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I'm gonna put it
on the screen for you.
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I want you to remember
this as long as you live,
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"Always remember,
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the other man's
conscience is on your side."
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When you're
witnessing to somebody,
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it's not you against,
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it's not you
against that person,
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it's two against one.
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Because the
mighty spirit of Jesus
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is the conscience is
controlled by the Holy Spirit,
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the mighty spirit of
Jesus is inside that other mind
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and is tugging and
saying, you know what?
00:29:33.29\00:29:36.18
This girl's got a point.
00:29:36.21\00:29:38.12
This guy has a point.
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Even with an atheist.
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When you witness to an atheist,
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she has a conscience
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and that conscience,
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his conscience is just like this
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under the control
of the Holy Spirit,
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you need to be--
you need to know.
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Whenever you open
your mouth for Christ,
00:29:55.23\00:29:56.93
the spirit is
working on your side.
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Isn't that great?
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And by the way, we're gonna--
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how do you
witness to an atheist?
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Half way through this series,
we're gonna spend two Sabbaths
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talking about atheists, okay.
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All right, verse 37, so
while Peter is preaching,
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look at the
Holy-- this is the proof,
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the Holy Spirit
is working verse 37,
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"When the people heard this,
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they were cut to the
heart," that means conscience,
00:30:19.59\00:30:22.13
it's been already going.
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"They were cut to the heart
00:30:23.23\00:30:26.43
and they said to Peter
and the other apostles,
00:30:26.46\00:30:28.04
'Brothers,
Brothers, what shall we do?'
00:30:28.07\00:30:31.63
And Peter replied,
'Repent and be baptized,
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every one of you, in
the name of Jesus Christ
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for the
forgiveness of your sins.'"
00:30:37.70\00:30:39.11
And get this,
00:30:39.14\00:30:40.18
"And you will receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit."
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Hit the pause
button right there.
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If you have never
been baptized before,
00:30:47.78\00:30:51.88
you do not have the gift
of the Holy Spirit right now.
00:30:51.91\00:30:54.73
The only way you can have
the gift of the Holy Spirit is
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what Jesus said to
Nicodemus in John 3,
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Unless a woman is baptized
by water and the Spirit.
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Unless a man is baptized
by water and the Spirit,
00:31:03.99\00:31:06.28
he cannot enter
the kingdom of God.
00:31:06.31\00:31:08.93
You have to be
baptized by water.
00:31:08.96\00:31:15.61
To be baptized by the spirit.
00:31:15.64\00:31:17.76
If you have not
been baptized by water.
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My dear friend,
why wait, this is it.
00:31:21.34\00:31:26.32
You can be
baptized, you'll get the gift.
00:31:26.35\00:31:30.52
Two baptisms go together.
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Cornelius Acts 10,
00:31:33.35\00:31:35.42
somebody pointed this out to me,
00:31:35.45\00:31:36.66
Lowes did after first church
00:31:36.69\00:31:38.46
she said, you know what, Dwight,
00:31:38.49\00:31:39.92
the gentiles in Acts 10
actually got the Holy Spirit
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before they were
baptized, she is right.
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Spirit first then they
went right in the water,
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it happens together always.
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Why put it off, be baptize--
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you want the Holy
Spirit, don't you?
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It's a greatest gift
the human being can receive.
00:31:55.03\00:31:57.47
Huh, all right, verse 39.
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Oh, by the way Peter says,
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"The promise is for
you and your children,"
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and then he's thinking about
you and me 2,000 years later.
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"And for all who are far off,"
00:32:04.75\00:32:07.22
boy, we are far
off from back then.
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"For all whom the
Lord our God will call."
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Hold on, verse 40 and,
00:32:11.77\00:32:13.01
"With many other
words he warned them,
00:32:13.04\00:32:14.47
and he pleaded with them,
00:32:14.50\00:32:15.55
'Save yourselves from
this corrupt generation."'
00:32:15.58\00:32:17.66
Verse 41, "Those who accepted
his message were baptized,
00:32:17.69\00:32:20.66
and about three thousand
00:32:20.69\00:32:21.96
were added to
their number that day."
00:32:21.99\00:32:26.24
And many people in the
story of Pentecost right there,
00:32:26.27\00:32:28.16
halleluiah, 3,000
baptisms in one day
00:32:28.19\00:32:32.15
and I have always done the same.
00:32:32.18\00:32:36.17
Until I found
out that the secret,
00:32:36.20\00:32:39.16
the secret is tucked
away at the end of the chapter
00:32:39.19\00:32:42.10
right after what we've read.
00:32:42.13\00:32:45.38
The secret is the rescuing hug.
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In fact, I wish
you get that down
00:32:48.51\00:32:49.54
right now in your study guide.
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Where is this study
guide? Pull it out please.
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Take your study
guide and jot that down,
00:32:51.89\00:32:53.60
the secret to Acts
2 is the rescuing hug.
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You didn't get a study guide.
00:32:56.63\00:32:57.67
We've got the
friendliest ushers in the world
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and they come in your way
00:32:59.00\00:33:00.03
hold your hand up,
you want to have this.
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I've got four
strategies for you right here.
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You gonna want
these four strategies
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just hold your hand up all the
way to the back of the balcony.
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And those of you
watching on television
00:33:06.87\00:33:08.22
we're delighted to have you.
00:33:08.25\00:33:09.67
You can go to our website,
get the identical study guide.
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Let me put it on
the screen for you www,
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that's our website pmchurch.tv.
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And you're looking for a
new series called Primetime.
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This is part two, last
week was playing with fire.
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If you didn't hear
last week, you just click on
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and then you get
the podcast later.
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But right now,
you're looking for
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the kingdom
advances among friends.
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When you're looking for
those two words study guide,
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when you click on study
guide you'll have the same one.
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So you've got a
study guide, all right,
00:33:38.42\00:33:39.55
don't get discouraged,
they're coming your way
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hold those hands up ladies,
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fellows, okay.
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And fill it in, Acts 2:42-47
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is the secret of
the "rescuing hug."
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That's what we're looking for,
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we're looking for
this rescuing hug.
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So let's put it down before
we read those final verses.
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Acts 2:42-47 is the
secret of the rescuing hug.
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All right, keep your
hands up, we're coming to you.
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But look at verse 42,
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so 3,000 were baptized
plus the 120 in the upper room
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that makes 3,120
in this new church.
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Verse 42 and,
"They, all of those,
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devoted themselves to
the apostles' teaching."
00:34:17.98\00:34:20.55
Now the only book the apostles
had was the Old Testament
00:34:20.58\00:34:22.75
and they taught out
of the Old Testament.
00:34:22.78\00:34:23.83
So this is Bible study.
00:34:23.86\00:34:24.92
So number one,
they have Bible study,
00:34:24.95\00:34:26.65
the apostles' teaching.
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And to fellowship, number
two they were big on community,
00:34:27.74\00:34:30.17
they were having
that interaction.
00:34:30.20\00:34:31.63
Number three,
they devoted themselves
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to the breaking of bread.
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And you need to understand
00:34:34.54\00:34:35.57
this is eating
in each others homes
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as well as having
the Lord's Supper.
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It can go either
way, they did both.
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And finally number
four, and to prayer.
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Now the problem in
this translation is
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the Greek is plural, it
should read and to prayers.
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F.F. Bruce, the great
New Testament commentator
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he says, that's describing
the seasons of united prayer
00:34:51.37\00:34:56.77
that the early
Christians enjoyed.
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Again you can pray at
home alone all you want,
00:34:58.93\00:35:02.07
it's not the same, you
will not experience the same.
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It is in the
collective united gathering
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that we grow spiritually
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and the Holy
Spirit is poured out.
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So that's what they
did, those four compulsions.
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Now, look at this,
this gets better, verse 43.
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"Everyone was filled
with awe at the many wonders
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and signs
performed by the apostles."
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Verse 44, "And all the
believers were together,"
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that's a keyword here
you'll count it three times.
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"All the believers were together
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and had everything in common.
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They sold
property and possessions
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to give it to
anyone who had need."
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Verse 46,
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"Every day they
continued to meet together."
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Not just once a week or
twice a week, everyday, wow.
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"In the temple courts,
they broke bread in their homes
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and they ate together
with glad and sincere hearts."
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Verse 47, "Praising God,"
00:35:48.43\00:35:50.02
Oh, Luke, loves
that phrase praising God,
00:35:50.05\00:35:51.58
the shepherds are praising God.
00:35:51.61\00:35:52.91
The angels over
Bethlehem are praising God.
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The next chapter has
the people praising God,
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"They're praising God
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and enjoying the
favor of all the people."
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Now here is where the
light bulb went out for me,
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this last line,
watch this now, final line.
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"And the Lord added
to their number daily
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those who were being saved."
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Isn't that amazing,
ladies and gentlemen.
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Did you ever
noticed this before,
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verse 47 follows verse 41?
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Did you ever see that before?
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47 comes after 41.
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What's happening?
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In that sequence the
strategic primetime principle
00:36:28.56\00:36:32.06
that we're locking
on today is revealed.
00:36:32.09\00:36:35.23
Jot it down.
What's that principle?
00:36:35.26\00:36:36.90
"The Kingdom of God grows
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not only
through public rallies."
00:36:38.18\00:36:41.59
Oh, big, big
evangelistic meetings.
00:36:41.62\00:36:44.82
Yeah, we've all been to
those, halleluiah for them.
00:36:44.85\00:36:47.59
But note, "The Kingdom of God
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grows not only
through public rallies,
00:36:49.63\00:36:51.49
but just as successfully
through private relationships."
00:36:51.52\00:36:55.60
Public venues,
yes, but private visits.
00:36:55.63\00:36:59.40
My friend, Ruthie Jacobsen,
I love the way she puts this,
00:36:59.43\00:37:02.01
jot it down again,
00:37:02.04\00:37:03.55
"The kingdom
advances among friends."
00:37:03.58\00:37:09.22
That's how God
grows His kingdom.
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Hey, praise God for the
3,000 that joined the church
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in that single day.
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But no less significant,
00:37:14.73\00:37:16.69
are the countless
numbers of men, women, children
00:37:16.72\00:37:19.58
who were daily, in
fact, you know what
00:37:19.61\00:37:21.72
the church had these
few of these public venues
00:37:21.75\00:37:23.92
but they had way,
way more of the daily.
00:37:23.95\00:37:28.37
Men, women and
children being added daily,
00:37:28.40\00:37:30.92
daily, quietly through
interpersonal interaction.
00:37:30.95\00:37:35.16
The kingdom of God
advances among friends.
00:37:35.19\00:37:37.79
How is it work, Dwight?
00:37:37.82\00:37:38.98
Let me share it with
you, I'll sit down now
00:37:39.01\00:37:40.45
after I give you these four,
00:37:40.48\00:37:41.53
four methods then I'll sit down.
00:37:41.56\00:37:42.70
Method number one, how
does it work? Jot it down.
00:37:42.73\00:37:44.63
Enlarge your circle of friends.
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I'll show you how it works.
00:37:47.98\00:37:50.46
Enlarge your circle of friends.
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So, who are the friends
that God is hoping and praying
00:37:51.57\00:37:54.80
that He can reach through
you because of your gracious,
00:37:54.83\00:38:00.76
very unique and
personnel kind of witness.
00:38:00.79\00:38:02.60
Who are the friends?
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Listen, I don't need to
tell you who your friends are,
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you already know
who your friends are.
00:38:05.53\00:38:06.85
But so that you won't
forget, let's do this right now.
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Let's take a moment
00:38:09.63\00:38:10.66
and write down
on our study guide.
00:38:10.69\00:38:13.00
Write down the
friends you have who are lost.
00:38:13.03\00:38:16.42
They have to be lost, I
don't want family members,
00:38:16.45\00:38:18.26
these are friends.
00:38:18.29\00:38:19.58
Not children, not
parents and uncles and,
00:38:19.61\00:38:21.74
no, these are friends.
00:38:21.77\00:38:23.48
If Jesus were to
come tonight, you know,
00:38:23.51\00:38:25.67
they would not be ready
to go to heaven with Jesus.
00:38:25.70\00:38:27.86
Who are those people?
Would you jot their names?
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We put the blanks on the
screen and you just fill it in.
00:38:29.98\00:38:32.31
Who are the people you
know who are lost right now.
00:38:32.34\00:38:36.50
I see some of us--
already looking up aggravated,
00:38:45.75\00:38:48.34
that one isn't very long.
00:38:48.37\00:38:51.85
You know what?
00:38:51.88\00:38:53.67
We probably don't need a
lot of time to filling out
00:38:53.70\00:38:55.88
a list of the lost
people that we are friends with
00:38:55.91\00:38:59.30
because we don't have very
many friends who are lost..
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Bill Hybels' wonderful
book Just Walk Across the Room.
00:39:06.10\00:39:10.63
I'm reading that book right now
00:39:10.66\00:39:11.76
and in this book
he shares two graphs,
00:39:11.79\00:39:14.02
and you see in your study guide
where it says graph 1, graph 2.
00:39:14.05\00:39:16.15
Let me put the graph
on the screen for you.
00:39:16.18\00:39:17.81
Let's take a look
please at graph 1.
00:39:17.84\00:39:20.43
Interaction with
people far from God.
00:39:20.46\00:39:22.65
Now you see that, the
years walking with Christ,
00:39:22.68\00:39:24.81
that's when you accept the Jesus
00:39:24.84\00:39:26.06
and you became a
follower of Christ.
00:39:26.09\00:39:27.53
And year 1, year 2, year
3, year 4 to all the way down.
00:39:27.56\00:39:30.34
You see that graph.
00:39:30.37\00:39:31.93
When you accepted Christ,
00:39:31.96\00:39:33.38
you, let just say
you knew 20 people
00:39:33.41\00:39:36.41
at high school,
at college, at work,
00:39:36.44\00:39:39.43
20 people who are lost.
00:39:39.46\00:39:41.74
But notice what
happens to that graph.
00:39:41.77\00:39:44.15
Where is the line going
as every year progresses,
00:39:44.18\00:39:48.19
isn't that a
reality of our lives,
00:39:48.22\00:39:49.77
we know less and less
people who are really lost.
00:39:49.80\00:39:57.32
Is he on to something here?
00:39:57.35\00:40:02.04
The longer we live in
this community of faith,
00:40:02.07\00:40:03.68
and by the way Berrien
Springs is a fortress of faith
00:40:03.71\00:40:06.56
where too many of us hide.
00:40:06.59\00:40:09.27
The longer we live,
00:40:09.30\00:40:11.05
the less number of
people you can count on one hand
00:40:11.08\00:40:13.13
who I know are
lost and are my friends,
00:40:13.16\00:40:16.68
or you can name everybody
in the town if you want,
00:40:16.71\00:40:18.19
but not one of them
is a friend of yours.
00:40:18.22\00:40:21.49
Bill Hybels puts it this way,
00:40:21.52\00:40:23.74
"This trend spirals
downward year after year
00:40:23.77\00:40:26.58
until Christ followers
face their dying day and realize
00:40:26.61\00:40:29.90
they have become
completely insulated
00:40:29.93\00:40:32.33
in an evangelism-void vacuum."
00:40:32.36\00:40:35.79
This is no soul winning
taking on, happening at all
00:40:35.82\00:40:39.87
'cause I don't know
anybody who is lost.
00:40:39.90\00:40:42.27
And then he
describes how you and I...
00:40:42.30\00:40:44.98
Oh, boy, does
this sound familiar.
00:40:45.01\00:40:46.48
He describes how we
horse-trade with God.
00:40:46.51\00:40:49.30
All right, God. I
got a deal for you.
00:40:49.33\00:40:50.79
Here's what let's do.
00:40:50.82\00:40:51.97
Let me put it on
the screen for you,
00:40:52.00\00:40:53.03
these are Hybels words.
00:40:53.06\00:40:54.20
"But here's my deal, God.
00:40:54.23\00:40:56.47
I will get all over
spiritual development."
00:40:56.50\00:40:58.29
Man, I'm gonna be really into
developing my self spiritually.
00:40:58.32\00:41:01.34
"I will be a
Bible knowledge hound.
00:41:01.37\00:41:03.89
If you want, I'll throw myself
00:41:03.92\00:41:05.00
into building
Habitat for Humanity homes,"
00:41:05.03\00:41:07.43
all over Benton
Harbor, "every summer, in fact.
00:41:07.46\00:41:10.24
And I'm gonna climb
all over volunteerism."
00:41:10.27\00:41:12.05
If there is a ministry
fair coming, I'm signing up,
00:41:12.08\00:41:14.10
"I'm gonna show up at church
00:41:14.13\00:41:15.24
five nights a
week if you ask me to."
00:41:15.27\00:41:16.55
I'll even go to House of Prayer.
00:41:16.58\00:41:17.79
"You let me off
the evangelism hook,
00:41:17.82\00:41:20.03
and I'll prove my love to you
00:41:20.06\00:41:21.42
in a half dozen
other ways if it kills me.
00:41:21.45\00:41:23.77
That's my deal."
00:41:23.80\00:41:27.10
You say, I've never
made that deal with God,
00:41:27.13\00:41:29.32
I'm grateful you haven't.
00:41:29.35\00:41:30.40
If you are young
adult, you haven't probably.
00:41:30.43\00:41:33.45
Don't look around you.
00:41:33.48\00:41:35.70
There are some
who are older than you
00:41:35.73\00:41:37.79
and this horse trading
with God is not an aberration.
00:41:37.82\00:41:43.46
I'll get involved in all kinds
of ministries in this church,
00:41:43.49\00:41:45.94
I'll just do it.
00:41:45.97\00:41:47.51
Just let me off this business
of having to find lost people
00:41:47.54\00:41:50.12
and win them to you.
00:41:50.15\00:41:51.19
Just give me a pass on that one
00:41:51.22\00:41:53.62
and I'll really word hard here.
00:41:53.65\00:41:59.17
Graph number 2, Bill Hybels,
00:41:59.20\00:42:01.27
let me put it on
the screen for you.
00:42:01.30\00:42:02.45
This is a love quotient graph.
00:42:02.48\00:42:04.51
You know, graph number 1
is our typical lifestyle,
00:42:04.54\00:42:06.49
lifecycle rather.
00:42:06.52\00:42:08.29
This is the lifecycle of
Jesus is calling you and me to,
00:42:08.32\00:42:11.05
you come to Christ in year
0, year 1, you're so excited.
00:42:11.08\00:42:15.78
You're beginning to accept grace
00:42:15.81\00:42:16.86
just follow that
graph, you're accepting grace.
00:42:16.89\00:42:19.07
Man, I got some gifts, I
got to help grow this kingdom.
00:42:19.10\00:42:21.95
And then you
start focusing on people
00:42:21.98\00:42:23.42
and a few years into it,
00:42:23.45\00:42:24.54
you're
spreading grace to others,
00:42:24.57\00:42:25.87
you're looking for
people every where you can,
00:42:25.90\00:42:28.40
you are looking for lost people.
00:42:28.43\00:42:30.69
That's a cycle.
00:42:30.72\00:42:33.98
Christ calls His followers to,
00:42:34.01\00:42:36.17
until finally Hybels
says, he puts it down here.
00:42:36.20\00:42:38.77
"The longer you walk with God,
the more open your arms become.
00:42:38.80\00:42:42.79
Instead of clenching tightly
to a small circle of insiders
00:42:42.82\00:42:45.76
you throw out your arms,
00:42:45.79\00:42:46.99
you are opening them to
those outside the circle
00:42:47.02\00:42:49.39
who many need to come in."
00:42:49.42\00:42:50.57
Let's think of it
as the rescuing hug.
00:42:50.60\00:42:52.60
You just say, who can I touch?
00:42:52.63\00:42:54.06
Who can I hug for Christ?
00:42:54.09\00:42:58.25
You say, oh, Dwight,
how can I possibly do this,
00:42:58.28\00:43:00.05
I don't have any lost friends?
00:43:00.08\00:43:01.34
How can I grow a
list of lost friends?
00:43:01.37\00:43:03.64
All right, the final three
00:43:03.67\00:43:04.71
of how you can grow
that list, let's go.
00:43:04.74\00:43:06.80
Method number two, engage in
low-risk high-grace activities.
00:43:06.83\00:43:10.68
Oh, I like that.
00:43:10.71\00:43:11.76
Low-risk, high-grace activities.
00:43:11.79\00:43:14.88
And Ruthie
Jacobsen's delightful new book
00:43:14.91\00:43:16.89
Bridges 101.
00:43:16.92\00:43:18.16
She describes what
she means by this phrase.
00:43:18.19\00:43:20.68
This is in your study guide.
00:43:20.71\00:43:22.26
"By definition,
low-risk/high-grace
00:43:22.29\00:43:26.45
is any Kingdom
witnessing activity
00:43:26.48\00:43:28.52
that is
comfortable for the timid
00:43:28.55\00:43:30.49
but has the muscle to make
a powerful grace statement.
00:43:30.52\00:43:33.97
It's a love-sharing activity
that is doable even for those
00:43:34.00\00:43:36.65
who have never seen themselves
as members of the God Squad. "
00:43:36.68\00:43:40.62
Low-risk,
00:43:40.65\00:43:42.05
her little book is chock
full of stories of activities
00:43:42.08\00:43:44.56
as simple as giving
away, at the county fair
00:43:44.59\00:43:46.30
giving away
bottles of water free.
00:43:46.33\00:43:47.80
On the back of little tag from
the church and the phone number
00:43:47.83\00:43:50.72
and Jesus loves you
something like that.
00:43:50.75\00:43:53.11
It's going into a village
00:43:53.14\00:43:54.34
gas station like we
have here in Berrien
00:43:54.37\00:43:55.83
and deciding
there for two hours,
00:43:55.86\00:43:57.28
gas is going to be reduced,
00:43:57.31\00:43:58.40
we will
subsidize gas 50 percent,
00:43:58.43\00:44:00.57
50 cents on every gallon.
00:44:00.60\00:44:03.03
So the price drops for 50
cents during those two hours
00:44:03.06\00:44:05.43
and that little
team is up moving up
00:44:05.46\00:44:07.56
washing the windshields,
handing out granola bars
00:44:07.59\00:44:10.51
and welcome cards.
00:44:10.54\00:44:13.26
I love this one.
00:44:13.29\00:44:14.32
She tells a story in her
book about little Johnny.
00:44:14.35\00:44:17.45
Johnny has-19-year-old
and has down syndrome.
00:44:17.48\00:44:21.72
Vice presidential
nominee for the Republican Part
00:44:21.75\00:44:24.44
held a little down syndrome
00:44:24.47\00:44:25.82
baby up in front
of the world to watch.
00:44:25.85\00:44:28.62
So this Johnny, he is 19 now.
00:44:28.65\00:44:31.51
He went to church and
heard about this business of,
00:44:31.54\00:44:33.24
you know,
witnessing in some kind of
00:44:33.27\00:44:35.13
simple and easy way for Jesus
00:44:35.16\00:44:36.70
and he talked it
over his dad and he said,
00:44:36.73\00:44:38.28
what are you
thinking came up with an idea.
00:44:38.31\00:44:40.67
He decided, he would
write a little phrase
00:44:40.70\00:44:42.45
just a little feel
good picking up phrase
00:44:42.48\00:44:45.11
and he would coin himself.
00:44:45.14\00:44:47.02
And that-
00:44:47.05\00:44:48.08
he is working
at the supermarket,
00:44:48.11\00:44:49.69
every bag that he
packed at the supermarket
00:44:49.72\00:44:51.99
he would drop a
little slip at the end.
00:44:52.02\00:44:54.83
Low-risk, high-grace,
nobody even saw it at first
00:44:54.86\00:44:58.11
people started going home- hey,
00:44:58.14\00:44:59.41
where is this come
from, let's put it.
00:44:59.44\00:45:00.72
Hey, this is from
that supermarket kid.
00:45:00.75\00:45:04.04
Few weeks later the manager
came walking out in the store.
00:45:04.07\00:45:05.83
What is the problem here?
00:45:05.86\00:45:08.40
Because there is a line snaking
from Johnny's check out counter
00:45:08.43\00:45:12.30
all the way through...
00:45:12.33\00:45:13.37
what's the word.
00:45:16.55\00:45:18.01
Freezer, frozen
foods, thank you.
00:45:18.04\00:45:19.42
We're there for a service.
00:45:19.45\00:45:21.25
You need to stay
with me, help me out.
00:45:21.28\00:45:24.03
Frozen foods.
00:45:24.06\00:45:27.18
That was our children
from a prayer service,
00:45:27.21\00:45:29.43
a choir as they listen
hard as in prayer service.
00:45:29.46\00:45:34.00
So thank you for that.
00:45:34.03\00:45:35.32
Hey, look, we got three other
aisles here, nobody is here.
00:45:35.35\00:45:37.32
And they went over, say,
hey, you got a free aisle here,
00:45:37.35\00:45:39.19
you got a free aisle
here, and free aisle here.
00:45:39.22\00:45:40.37
And everybody said, no, no, no,
00:45:40.40\00:45:41.43
we want to be in Johnny's aisle.
00:45:41.46\00:45:43.15
The kid made an impact
00:45:43.18\00:45:44.75
by dropping a simple
little piece of paper
00:45:44.78\00:45:47.17
where he coined a
pick in up phrase.
00:45:47.20\00:45:49.54
A woman came in tears one
day to the manager and she said,
00:45:49.57\00:45:51.57
you know, something I've
been coming back here everyday.
00:45:51.60\00:45:54.11
He says, good.
00:45:54.14\00:45:55.63
I've been coming
back here everyday
00:45:55.66\00:45:58.80
because that one day
when my heart was broken,
00:45:58.83\00:46:00.86
Johnny dropped
a slip in that bag
00:46:00.89\00:46:02.47
and it spoke to me
and God touched my life.
00:46:02.50\00:46:05.46
Hey, listen guys, it's
called low-risk, high-grace.
00:46:05.49\00:46:09.94
You got a bright mind,
00:46:09.97\00:46:11.00
you got a timid heart
like mine, that's okay.
00:46:11.03\00:46:12.40
You got a bright
mind, use that mind.
00:46:12.43\00:46:14.18
What can we be
doing around here?
00:46:14.21\00:46:16.18
What can I be doing around here?
00:46:16.21\00:46:17.91
Low-grace, high-risk.
00:46:17.94\00:46:20.04
All you need is
a heart to praise.
00:46:20.07\00:46:21.46
And by the way we got a ministry
00:46:21.49\00:46:22.84
for your coming, look at this.
00:46:22.87\00:46:24.24
We got- let's
put it on the screen.
00:46:24.27\00:46:26.53
The poster for this,
00:46:26.56\00:46:28.88
this Friday
night, you got to come.
00:46:28.91\00:46:30.91
Friday night, I
don't care who you are,
00:46:30.94\00:46:32.17
where you live in the community.
00:46:32.20\00:46:33.34
And of course
university students,
00:46:33.37\00:46:34.92
Friday night look for
the big tent on campus
00:46:34.95\00:46:37.57
'cause we're gonna
fill it with low-risk,
00:46:37.60\00:46:39.42
high-grace
ministries, you can sign up
00:46:39.45\00:46:42.00
and you almost
begin him to develop
00:46:42.03\00:46:44.13
a new circle of lost friends.
00:46:44.16\00:46:46.54
We want to help you.
00:46:46.57\00:46:47.73
We don't have to make this,
it's not like pulling teeth,
00:46:47.76\00:46:50.52
we want to make it
easy, volunteer low-risk,
00:46:50.55\00:46:53.77
high-grace, Friday evening.
00:46:53.80\00:46:55.65
You come, you come and
bring your friends with you.
00:46:55.68\00:46:58.52
We'll have a
great time together.
00:46:58.55\00:46:59.76
Why not?
00:46:59.79\00:47:01.58
It's about
extending, it's about engaging
00:47:01.61\00:47:04.38
in activities
low-risk, high-grace.
00:47:04.41\00:47:06.46
All right, method
number 3, spread your warmth.
00:47:06.49\00:47:09.50
Spread your warmth.
00:47:09.53\00:47:10.90
Ruthie's husband,
Don, was my preaching prof.
00:47:10.93\00:47:13.79
by the way in the
seminary when I was here,
00:47:13.82\00:47:15.68
great man, Don and
Ruthie are wonderful people.
00:47:15.71\00:47:17.88
Anyway, he was
traveling over in Japan.
00:47:17.91\00:47:20.60
So, he is on a Japanese airplane
00:47:20.63\00:47:23.07
reading a Japanese magazine
that he does not understand,
00:47:23.10\00:47:25.21
he just, you know, he's
looking at the pictures.
00:47:25.24\00:47:26.84
And he comes to a-
oh, this is a ugly ad,
00:47:26.87\00:47:29.98
it's gray, it's drab and
there is old butterfly on it
00:47:30.01\00:47:33.15
and he's just
sitting and looking
00:47:33.18\00:47:34.21
and there are
Japanese words underneath it.
00:47:34.24\00:47:35.93
I can't figure it out.
00:47:35.96\00:47:37.05
And the Japanese
businessman beside him
00:47:37.08\00:47:38.97
realized the quandary he was in
00:47:39.00\00:47:40.64
and explained to him,
what this instruction say is,
00:47:40.67\00:47:43.04
put your hand over the butterfly
00:47:43.07\00:47:44.77
to which Don complied,
00:47:44.80\00:47:46.76
put his hand over that butterfly
00:47:46.79\00:47:48.16
and pulled hand away
00:47:48.19\00:47:49.89
and through special ink
that butterfly had turned into
00:47:49.92\00:47:53.24
the glorious colors of
one of God's great creatures.
00:47:53.27\00:47:57.65
And then Ruthie says,
00:47:57.68\00:48:00.02
who in your
world needs a warm hand
00:48:00.05\00:48:05.12
to help them
blossom to came alive.
00:48:05.15\00:48:08.15
This is not rocket science.
00:48:08.18\00:48:10.06
You can take the warmth
of Christ wherever you go,
00:48:10.09\00:48:12.78
just put your hand on somebody.
00:48:12.81\00:48:15.10
Bring out the colors of
God distant into that life,
00:48:15.13\00:48:17.69
just put your hand out.
00:48:17.72\00:48:19.80
You know what?
00:48:19.83\00:48:21.04
It's like stopping
and talking to a stranger,
00:48:21.07\00:48:22.54
so you're pumping gas together.
00:48:22.57\00:48:24.01
She is on the next pump over.
00:48:24.04\00:48:25.60
What's wrong we're talking?
00:48:25.63\00:48:26.80
What's wrong we
just say, hey, what's up?
00:48:26.83\00:48:28.76
You're just stopping to talk.
00:48:28.79\00:48:30.00
Maybe it's a little old
lady crossing the street,
00:48:30.03\00:48:32.21
you race over to help.
00:48:32.24\00:48:33.93
You're in the cafeteria.
00:48:33.96\00:48:35.30
Now, boy, I'll tell you,
00:48:35.33\00:48:36.46
be great when they get
their full cafeteria going
00:48:36.49\00:48:38.61
because it's very
crowded downstairs as you know.
00:48:38.64\00:48:42.49
But even so you will
find people in the crowd
00:48:42.52\00:48:45.11
who will find a
place to be all alone.
00:48:45.14\00:48:47.10
You know why?
00:48:47.13\00:48:48.17
Because they don't have
anybody to sit with that's why,
00:48:48.20\00:48:49.92
it's not like they're hermits,
they just don't know anybody.
00:48:49.95\00:48:52.63
You go across that cafeteria,
00:48:52.66\00:48:54.25
you take the long walk
and you put your tray down
00:48:54.28\00:48:56.01
you say, hey, can I sit-
00:48:56.04\00:48:57.23
I notice this seat
is- can I sit here.
00:48:57.26\00:48:59.24
Just put your hand,
00:48:59.27\00:49:00.38
let the colors of that
butterfly begin to emerge,
00:49:00.41\00:49:02.99
just show some warmth.
00:49:03.02\00:49:05.15
Get the Laundromat,
00:49:05.18\00:49:06.22
lot of Laundromat usage in
a university town like this,
00:49:06.25\00:49:09.22
talk to the people
who are in the Laundromat.
00:49:09.25\00:49:11.54
Spread the warmth.
00:49:11.57\00:49:14.54
May turn out to be
you are the rescuing hug
00:49:14.57\00:49:16.42
if that person was
desperately needing
00:49:16.45\00:49:18.45
that very moment in time.
00:49:18.48\00:49:20.40
Method number four finally,
practice radical inclusiveness.
00:49:20.43\00:49:24.48
Would you jot that down
please? Radical inclusiveness.
00:49:24.51\00:49:28.41
Bill Hybels describes this
radical inclusiveness this way.
00:49:28.44\00:49:31.63
He says when you have
this, "You have new eyes. "
00:49:31.66\00:49:34.06
You see that, that
you're gonna have to fill it in.
00:49:34.09\00:49:35.63
"You have new eyes to
see things as Jesus saw them.
00:49:35.66\00:49:39.45
You allow people's
foibles and failins
00:49:39.48\00:49:41.30
and faults to fall away,
00:49:41.33\00:49:43.27
instead you seeing
them their potential. "
00:49:43.30\00:49:45.84
Write that word in.
00:49:45.87\00:49:46.94
It's now what's
there now and trust me,
00:49:46.97\00:49:48.93
it is not what's there
now but you see the potential.
00:49:48.96\00:49:53.00
Spirit-infused, you
see a spirit-infused state.
00:49:53.03\00:49:55.63
Now I love this illustration.
00:49:55.66\00:49:57.19
"You see
filthy-mouthed, party-loving,
00:49:57.22\00:50:00.27
woman-chasing Joe, and you say,
"what would Joe, what would-
00:50:00.30\00:50:04.96
even a guy like Joe,
what would he be like
00:50:04.99\00:50:06.92
if God ruled and
reigned in his heart?
00:50:06.95\00:50:09.83
Joe would be incredible if
Christ invaded his world!"'
00:50:09.86\00:50:14.78
I mean, you see somebody
walking by dressed in gothic,
00:50:14.81\00:50:18.45
you say, ah, brother.
00:50:18.48\00:50:21.00
No, you see what
we've been doing is,
00:50:21.03\00:50:23.24
we've been walking by
all the Joes and Jills
00:50:23.27\00:50:25.39
that just don't fit in
to our very proper paradigm.
00:50:25.42\00:50:28.61
Oh, that's a
hopeless case, forget it,
00:50:30.50\00:50:32.31
look at the guys
they're druggy man.
00:50:32.34\00:50:34.07
What are you gonna
do? Try to witness to him.
00:50:34.10\00:50:37.00
We keep walking
by the very people
00:50:37.03\00:50:39.87
that may be wide
open for that rescue hug.
00:50:39.90\00:50:43.67
Practice radical inclusiveness
instead of writing people off,
00:50:43.70\00:50:46.70
find a way to draw him
in, circle him, touch him,
00:50:46.73\00:50:51.55
bring the warmth,
00:50:51.58\00:50:53.09
you say I'm here on behalf
of the Lord Jesus to tell you,
00:50:53.12\00:50:57.21
you can live in the house
of the Lord forever and ever.
00:50:57.24\00:51:01.47
You say, Dwight, I'll
never be able to do that.
00:51:01.50\00:51:02.87
Oh, please, you can.
00:51:02.90\00:51:06.49
Radical inclusiveness means,
00:51:06.52\00:51:08.33
we've got to
reach out to the people
00:51:08.36\00:51:11.28
we don't feel comfortable with.
00:51:11.31\00:51:15.36
You may be I
repeat, the one rescue hug
00:51:15.39\00:51:18.90
that that little
preemie is desperate to have
00:51:18.93\00:51:23.32
in order to live
forever and ever.
00:51:23.35\00:51:28.58
By the way, Bill Hybels,
00:51:28.61\00:51:30.20
I got somebody who wrote
00:51:30.23\00:51:31.78
a hundred years
earlier the very same point,
00:51:31.81\00:51:35.10
in fact if you come to our
contagious Adventist seminar,
00:51:35.13\00:51:37.62
you'll get this syllabus
00:51:37.65\00:51:38.76
and this quotation will be
in the syllabus next Sabbath,
00:51:38.79\00:51:42.15
only next Sabbath, you
have an opportunity to sign up
00:51:42.18\00:51:44.17
for the
contagious, alpha version
00:51:44.20\00:51:45.84
contagious Adventist
seminar next Sabbath.
00:51:45.87\00:51:49.43
Here's the quotation that's in
00:51:49.46\00:51:50.90
what would be your
new syllabus, watch this.
00:51:50.93\00:51:52.77
This is written, words
written a hundred years ago,
00:51:52.80\00:51:54.91
"Christ's methods alone
00:51:54.94\00:51:57.09
will give true
success in reaching people.
00:51:57.12\00:51:59.29
The Savior mingled," hey,
hey, what is mingled mean?
00:51:59.32\00:52:04.62
What's mingled mean? When
you mingle what do you do?
00:52:04.65\00:52:08.52
Yeah, you're
just hanging around,
00:52:08.55\00:52:09.58
you're just hanging around.
00:52:09.61\00:52:11.21
Jesus mingled with people
00:52:11.24\00:52:12.43
to the place people were saying,
00:52:12.46\00:52:13.60
you know, what the
problem with this guy is?
00:52:13.63\00:52:15.76
He hangs around, he
mingles with prostitutes
00:52:15.79\00:52:18.04
and tax collectors
and other sex sinners.
00:52:18.07\00:52:20.25
Jesus said, it's not
about me, it's about them
00:52:20.28\00:52:24.03
and He let the reputation go.
00:52:24.06\00:52:26.75
He mingled radical
inclusiveness, he mingled.
00:52:26.78\00:52:31.10
He say, yeah, you're
having a party, can I come?
00:52:31.13\00:52:33.74
He didn't do what they
were doing in the party
00:52:33.77\00:52:36.14
but He was there so that He
could touch them in the party
00:52:36.17\00:52:39.51
and there is the
worldly difference.
00:52:39.54\00:52:42.11
Radical inclusiveness,
isn't it something?
00:52:42.14\00:52:44.88
He mingled, "The
Savior mingled with them
00:52:44.91\00:52:47.09
as one who desired their good.
00:52:47.12\00:52:48.36
He showed His sympathy for them,
00:52:48.39\00:52:49.55
He ministered to their
needs, He won their confidence.
00:52:49.58\00:52:51.76
And then He bade them. "
00:52:51.79\00:52:53.36
Hey, guys, girls, follow me now.
00:52:53.39\00:52:56.45
And boy, were
they ready to line up?
00:52:56.48\00:52:58.40
I'll follow this guy to
death because He won them,
00:52:58.43\00:53:01.94
He won their friendship.
00:53:01.97\00:53:03.19
The kingdom of God
advances among friends,
00:53:03.22\00:53:06.89
not among
strangers, among friends.
00:53:06.92\00:53:11.23
Ladies and gentlemen,
primetime one Pentecost one,
00:53:11.26\00:53:14.56
if it work that
way with Pentecost one,
00:53:14.59\00:53:17.02
don't you suppose
that primetime two,
00:53:17.05\00:53:19.26
Pentecost two it's supposed
to work the very same way.
00:53:19.29\00:53:24.45
The kingdom of God
advances among friends.
00:53:24.48\00:53:27.78
I want to be, I want
to be that kind of friend.
00:53:27.81\00:53:31.44
I want to be
that kind of a friend
00:53:31.47\00:53:34.76
to the human race, don't you?
00:53:34.79\00:53:36.28
Don't you?
00:53:36.31\00:53:38.75
You want to be that kind of
a friend stand on your feat.
00:53:38.78\00:53:40.65
You say, okay, Dwight, yup,
you're standing, I'll stand,
00:53:40.68\00:53:43.72
sure, I want to be
that kind of friend.
00:53:43.75\00:53:45.87
I'm willing to, I'm
willing to get timid over this.
00:53:45.90\00:53:51.93
But this is a
low-risk, high-grace appeal,
00:53:51.96\00:53:56.52
I'm willing to stand.
00:53:56.55\00:53:59.12
I want to be a
friend of the world,
00:53:59.15\00:54:01.68
I want to be a
friend to this campus.
00:54:01.71\00:54:04.14
I want to be a
friend to this village.
00:54:04.17\00:54:07.28
I want to be a friend in Weimar.
00:54:07.31\00:54:10.77
I want to be your
friend wherever I go.
00:54:10.80\00:54:14.91
Oh, Jesus, this isn't
rocket science, is it?
00:54:14.94\00:54:20.39
Simply being like you,
00:54:20.42\00:54:21.89
it's the way you
wore radical inclusiveness
00:54:21.92\00:54:23.69
that's the way
you live, you mingled
00:54:23.72\00:54:26.44
among men and
women and young adults.
00:54:26.47\00:54:28.00
And you said, hey,
watch out and you hung there,
00:54:28.03\00:54:35.00
you stood there,
you were a friend there.
00:54:35.03\00:54:40.79
We stand because we
want to be friends too.
00:54:40.82\00:54:43.16
We want to be
friends to those who need.
00:54:43.19\00:54:45.23
Jesus, take this
humble little tiny response
00:54:45.26\00:54:49.27
that we're making and grow it.
00:54:49.30\00:54:53.33
And fill us with Your
passion for lost people
00:54:53.36\00:54:56.93
I pray in the name of Jesus.
00:54:56.96\00:55:02.93
Amen.
00:55:02.96\00:55:04.01
Jesus, keep me near the cross
00:55:05.98\00:55:13.12
There a precious fountain
00:55:13.15\00:55:20.61
Free to all
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A healing stream
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Flows from Calvary's mountain
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In the cross In the cross
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Be my glory ever
00:55:47.77\00:55:55.43
Till my raptured soul
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Shall find
00:56:04.49\00:56:08.34
Rest beyond
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The river
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And now may the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ
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and the love of God
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and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
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be with you all, amen.
00:56:27.61\00:56:30.57
It's been a pleasure to be able
00:56:41.65\00:56:42.74
to worship with you again today.
00:56:42.77\00:56:44.56
I hope the spirit of Jesus
has blessed your time with us.
00:56:44.59\00:56:47.62
You know what? We've got
people all over this earth,
00:56:47.65\00:56:49.95
who join us every
week for this worship hour.
00:56:49.98\00:56:52.35
As a consequence we're
always looking for new ways
00:56:52.38\00:56:55.26
to bridge to somehow allow these
00:56:55.29\00:56:57.79
who worship
with us to be bridged
00:56:57.82\00:57:00.56
to the truth about Jesus for
this critical time in history.
00:57:00.59\00:57:04.11
One of the areas of bridging,
00:57:04.14\00:57:05.91
that's quickly
growing is our website.
00:57:05.94\00:57:07.58
We have more than
140,000 visitors a year.
00:57:07.61\00:57:11.03
It is an amazing opportunity
00:57:11.06\00:57:12.94
that God has given us to expand
His kingdom here on earth.
00:57:12.97\00:57:16.21
If you'd like
to partner with us,
00:57:16.24\00:57:18.02
as we seek to spread
the everlasting gospel,
00:57:18.05\00:57:20.28
I'll tell you what, would you
be willing to call this number?
00:57:20.31\00:57:23.24
Let me put it on
the screen for you 877,
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it's toll free, 877
the two words, His Will.
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One of our operators
will be glad to help you,
00:57:29.28\00:57:32.06
work through the
details of that partnership,
00:57:32.09\00:57:34.32
or if you prefer
you can do it all online
00:57:34.35\00:57:36.11
in the privacy of your own home.
00:57:36.14\00:57:38.95
The website, you
know it, www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:38.98\00:57:43.88
I'll be honored
00:57:43.91\00:57:44.94
for the privilege
of partnering with you
00:57:44.97\00:57:46.14
as we seek to spread
the truth about Jesus
00:57:46.17\00:57:48.57
for this generation.
00:57:48.60\00:57:50.04
If ever there were
an urgent generation
00:57:50.07\00:57:52.27
to get the good news
out, it's got be this one.
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So once again, the
toll free number 877,
00:57:55.79\00:57:58.37
two words, His Will.
00:57:58.40\00:58:00.06
Thank you in
advance for your generosity.
00:58:00.09\00:58:02.08
I'm looking forward to
the continuing worship journey
00:58:02.11\00:58:04.87
that you and I share right here.
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