Participants: Pr. Dwight Nelson
Series Code: NP
Program Code: NP091711
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00:06 From the campus of Andrews University
00:08 this is New Perceptions 00:11 with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson. 00:20 All Your ways are good All Your ways are sure 00:27 I will trust in You alone Higher than my sight 00:33 High above my life 00:37 I will trust in You alone 00:46 Where You go, I'll go Where You stay, I'll stay 00:51 When You move, I'll move I will follow You 00:57 Whom You love, I'll love How You serve I'll serve 01:02 If this life I lose I will follow You 01:10 I will follow You 01:18 Light unto the world Light unto my life 01:24 I will live for You alone 01:28 You're the One I seek Knowing I will find 01:35 All I need in You alone, 01:39 in You alone 01:44 Where You go, I'll go Where You stay, I'll stay 01:49 When You move, I'll move I will follow You 01:54 Whom you love, I'll love How You serve, I'll serve 01:59 If this life I lose, 02:02 I will follow You 02:07 I will follow You 02:15 In You there's life everlasting 02:20 In You there's freedom for my soul 02:26 In You there's joy unending, joy 02:33 And I will follow You 02:36 Where You go, I'll go Where You stay, I'll stay 02:41 When You move, I'll move I will follow You 02:47 Whom You love, I'll love How You serve, I'll serve 02:52 If this life I lose, I will follow You 02:58 Where You go, I'll go Where You stay, I'll stay 03:03 When You move, I'll move I will follow YOU 03:08 Whom you love, I'll love How You serve, I'll serve 03:13 If this life I lose, I will follow You 03:21 I will follow You 03:26 I will follow You 06:20 Let's pray together. 06:22 Oh, God Jesus is about to walk 06:24 on to this stage of the fourth gospel 06:30 and I pray that it will leave none of us 06:32 the same again in His name, amen. 06:38 In 1936, Samuel Barber composed what has become 06:43 perhaps the most recognizable American orchestral piece. 06:49 NPR music said, and I quote 06:52 with a "tense melodic line and tout harmonies" 06:57 a composition is consider by many 06:58 to be the most popular of all 20th century orchestral works. 07:04 Do you recognize it yet? 07:07 It's a second movement in Barber's string quartet opus 11. 07:11 The second movement is known as Adagio for strings. 07:16 Wikipedia what we do without Wikipedia, 07:20 informs us that the recording of the 1938 world premiere 07:24 with Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC symphony orchestra 07:28 was selected in 2005 by the US Library of Congress 07:33 for permanent preservation 07:35 in the National Recording Registry. 07:37 Since 1938 this recording has been heard the world over. 07:40 Even the Soviet Union during the cold war 07:43 this was the one American classical piece 07:47 they would allowed to be played. 07:50 When Franklin Delano Roosevelt died 07:52 they played this music over the radio. 07:55 Albert Einstein funeral it was played. 07:57 The funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco 07:59 it was-- it was played. 08:02 2001, we just remembered a few days ago 08:05 at the last night of the proms in the Royal Albert Hall 08:07 that would be] London, England, 08:09 the normal patriotic music was dropped 08:11 the Adagio for Strings was played. 08:14 Sports fans, we are in Olympics, Vancouver BC 2010, 08:20 it was played in the opening exercises. 08:22 The British public listening to the BBC's today program 08:27 voted Adagio for Strings 08:29 the saddest classical work ever composed. 08:33 And I love that piece don't you. 08:36 I am gonna play it for you not the whole piece but a line. 08:39 Because, in 1967, Samuel Barber 08:41 transcribed his piece into an eight part coral rendition 08:45 and he named it "Agnus Dei Lamb of God." 08:51 My favorite coral rendition is by the all male choir. 08:54 All these voices are male that you are about to hear 08:57 of new college Oxford before we play 09:01 just a piece of it a line of it. 09:03 I have written the words in Latin right here in my Bible. 09:06 Just to on the page for John 1. 09:09 [speaking in foreign language], 09:11 Lamb of God, it takes away the sin in the world. 09:13 [speaking in foreign language] 09:14 Have mercy on us. 09:16 [speaking in foreign language] 09:17 Grant us peace. 09:19 Now the row that the row that band 09:23 and we will listen to just a few seconds of the opening. 09:25 You would instantly recognize it when you hear it 09:27 if you still don't recall it. 10:25 All right, I could listen to 10:26 all eight minutes of it couldn't you. 10:29 But there is no angelic choir singing. 10:33 There was no heavenly orchestration on the day 10:37 the words that inspired Agnus Dei on yours day 10:40 were first spoken. 10:42 Sunbathe wilderness movement when the world made flesh 10:47 appears on this stage for the first time. 10:51 I want to read that line with you open your Bible 10:52 the fourth gospel, the Gospel of John let's go. 10:55 A moving drama we now we finished a prologue 10:58 three sessions in the prologue now the stories 11:01 one of the other come tumbling in. 11:03 John 1:29, I have been in the New King James version. 11:06 If you didn't bring your bible today 11:08 you have to track this narrative 11:09 pull the pew Bible out in front of you. 11:12 Page 714, in the pew Bible 11:14 it will also be the New King James version. 11:17 John Chapter 1, the Gospel of John 11:19 fourth gospel 1:29. 11:25 "The next day" 11:28 hit the pause button right there. 11:29 What's the next day? 11:30 That's the day to the previous day. 11:32 What happened on the previous day? 11:34 You Baptist, you're the Messiah? 11:38 Nope. 11:40 You're Elijah? No. 11:43 You're the prophet Moses talked about? 11:44 No. 11:46 Then who are you? 11:47 And the voice of one crying in the wilderness 11:49 makes straight the way of the Lord. 11:51 Then why do you baptized. 11:54 Listen to me, I baptized with water 11:57 but there is one standing in your mist right now 11:59 whose stand those I am not even worthy to unlatch. 12:06 Rabbis when they surrounded themselves with disciples 12:10 could never command a disciple took off my sandals. 12:16 Disciple never had to stoop that load, 12:18 that task was only performed by a slave in the Middle East 12:23 anything down here were burden, just bad. 12:27 So when the President of the United States shows up 12:29 by surprise in Baghdad at the news conference 12:32 and a reporter reaches down. 12:34 He pulls of his shoe to throw it out at him. 12:36 You might remember that, bad. 12:40 When John says "I am not even worthy to unlatch his sandal 12:43 he saying "I am lower than a slave in his presence." 12:49 That's the one of whom he speaks. 12:51 All right, now we can read it. 12:53 Verse 29 "And the next day John saw Jesus." 12:58 Last time he saw Jesus 40 plus days ago. 13:02 He sees the same Jesus that he baptized 13:04 now sunken cheeks hollowed out eyes 13:08 skinned bones but fire in those young eyes. 13:12 And a kingly mane on that countenance 13:15 and when he spots Him in the crowd. 13:17 "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said." 13:21 Here the words "Agnus Dei and he said," 13:25 Behold! '"Behold! 13:28 The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!' 13:36 "I will tell you what there are to be an angel choir 13:37 singing right now. 13:38 This would be the perfect moment 13:40 for all of that orchestration to come moving in. 13:42 Do you know why? 13:44 Because this is the first time in human history 13:46 that any human being has been granted 13:50 the honor of personally introducing 13:53 God almighty made flesh as a Messiah? 13:58 Prophets by the hundreds before John 14:00 would have given almost their lives 14:02 if they could have been the one appoint. 14:04 Can I have that privilege God, when You come to earth 14:06 can I be the one to introduce You? 14:10 Only John, that's why Jesus months later will say of John. 14:14 By the way of all the babies 14:15 that ever came out of their mothers womb 14:18 this is the greatest ever to be born. 14:21 Wow, and by the way born for this solitary moment 14:29 and mission, you think about it. 14:31 This is it, everything prior in John the Baptist life 14:35 has been a prelude. 14:36 Now, verse 29 and everything that follows is postlude. 14:42 Everything is wrapped up in his life mission 14:45 in that single sentence that sunbathe day. 14:50 I bring that to our attention because some of us think 14:53 that when God calls you to do whatever it is, 14:56 you have been called to do and thank you Alice, 14:58 for reminding us during our worship this morning 15:00 we all have a calling. 15:02 But then when God calls me you he calls for a nice hunk 15:05 a 20 years on the world stage may be 30, no. 15:10 When you look at the grades in Holy Scripture 15:13 more often than not it was one shining moment. 15:18 Elisha, you think Elisha lived all his life 15:20 miracle after miracle 43 years of Elisha's life 15:23 an absolute obscurity we have no trace of them. 15:26 Elisha, the big Elisha the precursor to Elisha 15:30 29 years we only know a few days of Elisha's life. 15:34 The Lord Jesus 30 plus years 15:38 in absolute unknown obscurity 15:42 and then you get your moment. 15:44 Some of you are coming to that moment soon. 15:48 Some of us have already passed the moment 15:52 but we remain faithful to the end. 15:56 Behold the Lamb of God 15:59 who takes it away the sin of the world. 16:01 For this one sentence John the Baptist was born 16:03 and it makes you wonder could it be my life destiny 16:06 and yours is wrapped up in that sentence as well. 16:09 That point so critical 16:10 I want you to grab your study guide right now 16:12 out of your worship bulletin please. 16:14 Brand new study guide today pull it out, 16:15 we got to lock that in 16:17 while it's still fresh in our minds. 16:18 Thank you ushers, let's go. 16:20 If you didn't get a study guide hold your hand up 16:22 here the usher is coming up the isle is right behind you. 16:24 So hold your hand up and we will make sure 16:26 you get this study guide. 16:27 This one is the keeper I hope you're up in the balcony 16:30 hold your hand up, you are in overflow 16:31 we glad you're here hold your hand up. 16:33 Those who are watching on television 16:34 we delighted to have you as well. 16:36 Let me put your website on the screen for you 16:38 and you can go to the website and get the same study guide. 16:41 There it is, our website www.pmchurch.tv 16:47 You're looking for the series the last word 16:51 the fourth gospel for a final generation. 16:53 You see the big banner at the top can't miss it. 16:55 I can't believe we already did part of four the series, 16:58 so you want to drop down to the teaching that's entitled 17:00 "Under the Fig Tree On Top of the Ladder." 17:04 When you see that title click on it says study guide. 17:06 You get the study guide 17:07 the identical one sitting right there. 17:09 Those of you watching live streaming right now 17:10 wherever you're in the United States or in the world 17:13 we are delighted to have you, you do the same thing. 17:15 You got your computer light and going now 17:17 so just use your computer with your other hand 17:19 and we will have that same study guide. 17:21 All right, let's go. 17:23 I will get to you, keep your hand up 17:25 if you didn't get one. 17:26 Jot this down, for this one sentence 17:28 John the Baptist was born, one sentence 17:31 everything before I pray to you 17:33 and everything after postlude 17:34 one sentence he gives, that's his moment. 17:37 For this one sentence he was born and how about this 17:39 "For this one witness you and I have been born." 17:41 Could that be true for this one witness? 17:43 You're saying Dwight, what's the witness? 17:46 You know what the witness is, write it down. 17:48 "For this one witness," look that's the NIV. 17:51 I like the NIV by the way "Look the lamb of God 17:54 who takes away the sin of the world!" 17:56 Look at him. 17:57 For that one witness you have been born. 18:00 Look the Lamb of God 18:01 who takes away the sin of the world. 18:03 And by the way why Lamb of God, 18:05 why doesn't John the baptize 18:06 who used what John the evangelist does. 18:08 Why doesn't he say "hey look the word of the God." 18:11 And how about "hey look the king of God." 18:14 Well, how about this one hey look the son of God. 18:17 No, no, no he says "hey look the Lamb of God." 18:21 Now in his curious minds boom connection 18:26 but we are not in a agrarian society, are we. 18:29 The closest we ever get to a lamb is 18:31 "Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. 18:35 And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go." 18:38 I bet don't know the next stanza. 18:39 "It followed her to school one day, 18:41 it was against the rule. 18:43 It made the children laugh and play to see a lamb in school." 18:47 We don't even know the poem anymore. 18:50 We are not agrarian "Behold the Lamb of God 18:53 who takes away the sin of the world!" 18:57 The very mention of sin and this lamb 19:00 links it immediately to sacrifice 19:03 but what we do know about sacrificing a lamb today. 19:06 We know zero not a nothing. 19:09 So let's go to a nearby farm 19:10 fortunately one of our retired faculty owns a farm. 19:14 I am talking about the retired religion professor 19:17 Joseph Greg. 19:18 So let's go to Joseph Greg's farm 19:19 we are gonna take Kathy Coudle along 19:22 she is from the agriculture department here. 19:24 We are taking along a camera and we are gonna go and find out 19:27 what's up with the sacrificing of a sheep of a lamb. 19:32 We rolled this camera out a few years ago 19:33 and we'll play the clip right here. 19:38 This is Joe, Joe and Stella Greg's farm. 19:41 All right, right outside of-- right down the road 19:44 here on lemon creek. 19:49 I am standing here in the pasture of the Joe Greg 19:53 who is standing beside me and Kathy Coudle. 19:55 Actually, Kathy, this is your sheep 19:57 or you have how many sheep here? 19:59 I have about six. Yeah, six sheep here. 20:01 And this is you. Right. 20:05 Yeah, about how old will she be? 20:07 About an year and half old. About an year and half old. 20:10 Thinking of the sacrificial system ah, 20:13 Kathy and Joe the little lamb here under 20:19 and is brought to the tabernacle. 20:22 Well, let's face it, sheep are butchered in our country 20:26 for money, for consumption. 20:29 Where, how is the animal butchered? 20:33 Ah, with a knife. Okay. 20:35 Right here, you can feel the artery 20:40 if you push your fingers right down on the right spot. 20:42 All right, yeah. Yeah, ear to ear. 20:45 Yeah, ear to ear. Yeah, you cut. 20:47 You can't cut it just shallow because other wise 20:51 you'll cut the just jugular and it will stand them bleed 20:55 for a long on time. 20:56 I have seen people who have done that 20:58 and its not a very nice sight. 21:01 And Joe, you were saying the moment the incision is made 21:03 the animal goes unconscious. 21:05 That's right, soon as the blood pressure drops. 21:07 The blood pressure drops, consciousness fades away. 21:10 Right. 21:11 And then period of moment's minutes 21:13 the animal will bleed to death. 21:15 Yeah, yeah. Moments seconds. 21:16 Moments Seconds. 21:19 You have been a real sport bless your soul. 21:24 Well it's important to be kind to animals. 21:25 It's always important to be kind to animals. 21:27 Look at when you and I see a lamb 21:28 or you see a sheep off baa, 21:30 and all that little curly, curly wool. 21:35 But when John cries out behold the Lamb of God 21:39 instantly the connection is made in the listeners 21:43 that they knew the ancient prophecy. 21:44 Now I want you to keep your finger right here 21:45 because we will be right back. 21:46 But go to Isaiah they knew this prophecy. 21:49 This was not an unknown piece of antiquity. 21:53 Isaiah 53, we know it well ourselves 21:57 but look at the words here just refresh our memories. 22:00 Isaiah 53:4 speaking of the coming Messiah 22:07 "Surely He has borne our grief's ad carried our sorrows, 22:10 yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 22:13 But He was wounded for our transgressions, 22:15 He was bruised for our iniquities, 22:18 the chastisement for my peace was upon Him, 22:21 by His stripes you and I, we are healed. 22:24 All we like sheep" verse 6 "have gone astray, 22:27 we have turned, every one, to his own way, 22:29 and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 22:33 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, 22:35 yet He opened not His mouth." 22:36 Now here it comes. 22:37 "He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, 22:40 and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, 22:43 So He opened not His mouth." 22:50 Write it down what John is crying out that, 22:53 that sunny day when he cries out 22:57 "Behold! The Lamb of God 22:58 who takes away the sin of the world!" 23:00 It is essentially the cry, "Behold, the Savior." 23:03 That's what he is saying. 23:04 Take a look, you I am pointing at them right now. 23:07 Look at the savior of this world. 23:11 I mean, that's the gospel. 23:13 The Lamb of God who takes away-- 23:16 He takes away our sin. 23:18 He takes away our guilt. He takes away our shame. 23:21 He takes away our death. 23:23 By dying in our place the cut is on His throat not ours. 23:27 The Lamb of God who takes away 23:30 you don't have to go bed tonight 23:31 with any haunting guilt on your conscience. 23:35 You can ask Jesus in this split second. 23:37 God, be my Savior and wash me clean. 23:41 Just like that He will do it. 23:42 He is the Lamb of God who takes it away 23:45 that is the everlasting gospel. 23:48 Thundered by that camel haired 23:50 bushy bearded prophet name John the baptizer. 23:54 Behold! 23:56 The Lamb of God who takes away 23:58 the sin of the world, the Savior. 24:00 And by the way the next day the John is so eager 24:03 to drive this point into the consciousness 24:05 of his own disciples that he repeats himself. 24:08 This is the next day verse 35 24:10 "Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples." 24:13 So they were just were three of them standing there. 24:15 "And looking at Jesus as He walked." 24:17 He spots Him the same forum. 24:20 "Looking at Jesus as He walked John said, gentlemen, Behold" 24:25 look, look, look "the Lamb of God!" 24:28 I am not gonna talk about taking away the sin of the world 24:29 I told you back that yesterday I want you to lock on him, 24:32 get that picture in your mind, 24:34 this is the one see his face this is God 24:37 come down look at the Lamb of God. 24:39 Behold and immediately this was so amazing 24:44 immediately those two disciples of John the baptizer 24:49 devoted followers of his in that split second 24:53 they privet on their sandals 24:55 they walk away from John for ever and ever. 25:00 I will tell you what, some of us find it very difficult 25:03 to play second fiddle but not John. 25:08 John 3:30 he will declare this immortal words 25:13 they still remain with us john speaking-- 25:15 speaking of Christ. 25:16 "He must increase. And I, I must decrease. 25:21 How hard it is for some of us to say that about each other. 25:24 She must increase and put me in the background 25:27 push her up, put him out put me in the background. 25:30 How hard it is for some of us who work for Him 25:32 to say he must increase and I must decrease. 25:37 That's a gutsy confession to make. 25:39 After you're prime, after you're prime, He makes it. 25:45 And when the crowds begin to dwindle 25:47 and the people follow a new Messiah 25:49 can we still whisper 25:51 He must increase and I must decrease. 25:56 Just like that they're gone forever 25:57 two disciples never to follow John again. 26:00 Something in that stranger compels them. 26:02 Here we go verse 37, 26:04 "The two disciples who heard John speak, 26:09 they followed Jesus." 26:13 When somebody starts walking behind you for a while 26:15 you pretty soon pick it up, don't you? 26:17 You just know, somebody is following me. 26:21 "Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, 26:26 said to them, 'What do you seek?'" 26:33 There they are. 26:34 If you have a Red Letter Bible 26:35 those are the first words in red in the fourth gospel. 26:40 John the evangelist obviously has brooded over 26:44 how to begin his story what would be the first words 26:49 on the lips of Christ the word made flesh. 26:51 What will be his first words intriguingly enough 26:54 this question must be significant 26:56 to John the evangelist 26:58 because he not only begins his gospel with question 27:02 what do you seek, he ends his gospel with the same question 27:06 who do you seek. 27:08 Mary sobbing her eyes out in the garden 27:10 and the supplicant is emptying she thinks it's the gardener 27:13 who ask her women why you are crying, 27:15 what are you looking for? 27:16 And she says sir, if you have taken the body 27:17 just tell me I will take it from you. 27:20 The gospel begins with what do you seek, 27:22 it ends with who do you seek, because the journey of life 27:25 is from what you seek to who you seek. 27:29 The last question, why are you Dwight, 27:33 why are you so furiously 27:36 driving yourself through this life. 27:39 Andrews university campus, what's up with you guys 27:43 just driven, driven, driven, driven 27:45 what are you looking for. 27:48 Who you're seeking? Could it be me you look for. 27:55 Robert Smith in his, very creative commentary 28:01 on the fourth gospel called the "Wounded Lord." 28:03 It's all set to the eyes and confession of time 28:06 as it the end of the gospel. 28:07 Very, very creatively done. 28:08 I will put his words on the screen for you. 28:10 Take a look at this. 28:11 You have to fill this in by the way it's in your study guide. 28:13 "By means of this first utterance of Jesus, 28:17 the evangelist poses a question to all readers of the gospel. 28:20 As we approach to Jesus who inhabits 28:23 the pages of the Fourth Gospel, the evangelist insists 28:26 that we not rush forward, mindlessly turning pages." 28:30 By the way I love it 28:31 and David Alberta was in first church 28:33 and I spoke to him from up here. 28:35 I love this one project that were on now. 28:37 We are all in the gospels right. 28:39 Matthew and house of prayer and dorm worships, 28:42 co-curricle worships everybody is in the gospels or acts. 28:46 But you know what it would really, 28:47 it would be sad as if all we're doing 28:49 is just turning the pages while good 28:50 get another gospel quick, quick 28:52 before the school years is up, forget it. 28:55 Robert Smith says, wait a minute 28:56 why are you turning the pages? 28:58 You people who are plunging in to the fourth gospel 29:00 what is it just a little bit of page turning. 29:03 So you read a new story. 29:07 "As we approach to Jesus who inhabits 29:09 the pages of the fourth gospel, 29:11 the evangelists insist that we do not rush forward 29:14 mindlessly turning pages. 29:16 He wants us to stop and take to heart this question, 29:19 " write it down " what are you seeking?" 29:22 What do you looking for in your life? 29:24 What's the thirst that drives you? 29:27 What's the hunger that moves you? 29:29 What are you seeking? 29:31 What do you want from this Jesus? 29:33 What are you hoping for and looking for 29:34 as you read the story of Jesus set forth in this gospel? 29:37 What are you seeking with all of your striving 29:39 and working and thinking? 29:40 What is the target and goal of all your living? 29:44 What are you seeking guys? 29:46 You are following me. What are you looking for. 29:52 Verse 38 "Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, 29:56 said to them, 'What do you seek?' 29:57 and they said to Him, 29:59 'Rabbi' (which is to say, when translated, Teacher), 30:02 'where are You staying?' 30:04 " This is the little too public place to talk 30:05 and we-- do you have a little place, 30:07 do you have somewhere private where we can visit, 30:08 where you are staying? 30:09 And Jesus said to them I love this, 30:11 verse 39, "Come and see. 30:14 And they came and they saw where He was staying, 30:16 And they remained with Him that day 30:19 (now it was about the tenth hour)." 30:20 Four O'clock in the afternoon 30:23 when she love talking about a video clip 30:24 that rolled in the midst of this teaching. 30:26 When she like love see on the screen he picture of Jesus, 30:29 Andrew and we are gonna find out 30:32 its John boy the three of them 30:35 sitting where ever Jesus took them 30:37 and they are spending the afternoon in conversation. 30:40 Look at if you and your friend 30:41 could be along with Jesus for one afternoon 30:44 what would you be talking about with Jesus? 30:46 Who would be on your-- 30:47 what would be on your conversation list? 30:51 If you could have that time alone 30:53 we are not told what the conversation was 30:56 but whatever it was one of he two of them 30:57 were so moved as soon as they excuse themselves 30:59 at four in afternoon he went to find his brother. 31:02 And because everybody in this story gets name 31:06 except this other disciple and because we already know 31:10 that the writer of the Gospel of John 31:12 always hides himself in the background. 31:14 It isn't a whole lot of rocket science to conclude to 31:16 and that's John boy and because John boy and peter 31:19 always show up together in the gospel. 31:21 Its not surprising to think 31:23 that may be Andrews didn't go alone 31:25 but john boy followed him and the two of them 31:27 find brother, friend Peter. 31:34 Verse 40 "One of the two of them who heard John speak, 31:36 and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 31:39 He first found his own brother Simon, 31:42 and said to him, 'We have found the Messiah' 31:45 (which is translated, the Christ). 31:48 And he brought him to Jesus. 31:51 And when Jesus looked at him, 31:53 He said, 'You are Simon the son of Jonah.' 31:56 " Or the son of John. 31:57 "You shall be called Cephas" as we say cephas. 32:01 In the Aramaic stone, Greek petros 32:04 and once came the name Peter you will be called stone. 32:10 You know, wasn't that something that Jesus didn't say oh yeah. 32:13 Yeah, You know, what you are gonna do? 32:16 Before I am even dead you are gonna dead, 32:18 knock me to the word. 32:19 You are going to turn the up blew with your obscenities 32:21 saying I don't know Him at all. 32:23 Not a word, not a word. 32:26 You just said Mr. Stone you are going be a rock. 32:31 Isn't that something about Jesus by the way? 32:33 He calls us what our potentially is 32:35 never what are our weakness is. 32:38 He picks out your potential and He says girl 32:41 "I love you I got a dream for your life." 32:45 Boy, I see you. And that's what He speaks. 32:49 Reminds me this line from Desire of Ages 32:50 not connecting with the story at all 32:52 but I want to insert it right here 32:53 put it on the screen for you Desire of Ages 32:55 that classic on life of Jesus. 32:56 "Jesus does not tell to any all that He might reveal, 33:01 but He bids every trembling soul take courage." 33:05 I am so glad Jesus doesn't tell me 33:07 everything about me that He knows. 33:09 I think I'd quit. 33:11 I think we'd all commit suicide 33:13 and I think we probably would. 33:15 If that just be truth I can't take that. 33:17 He says I know you can. 33:18 I am not gonna tell you everything 33:19 I know about you, Dwight. 33:21 Just live today with me, we will get you tomorrow 33:24 in due time, today you would Me. 33:27 What a savior. What a friend. 33:30 I mean, do you have a friend who is closer to you than that. 33:34 Wow, so, Jesus now has three disciples. 33:40 Look at this, Jesus with His disciple Andrew 33:44 and His disciple peter and His disciple John boy. 33:50 Or should we say there is Jesus and Andrews-- 33:57 you are pretty quick. 33:59 Doesn't He want to be disciples with all of us? 34:02 He says I want Andrews and I want Peter, 34:05 and I want John, I want the whole campus. 34:08 He is always looking for disciples 34:10 which is why the very next verse. 34:11 Look at verse 43 "The following day 34:13 Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found" 34:19 this is the one he finds. 34:20 "He found Philip and said to him, 'Follow Me.' 34:23 " Verse 44 "Now Philip was from Bethsaida, 34:25 the city of Andrew and Peter." 34:27 And by the way John. 34:29 They are awful right they are all right 34:30 there on the shores of Galilee. 34:32 Isn't that something? 34:33 Philip knows Peter and Andrew and John and by the way 34:37 that's how the kingdom grows as my friend Rutty Jackson 34:40 likes to put it the kingdom advances among friends. 34:43 And so the four of them spend time with Jesus. 34:45 How much time we don't know 34:46 but we do know that as soon as it is over 34:49 Philip behaves in the same way as Andrew did. 34:51 He leaves Jesus and he goes and he finds a friend of his 34:55 because that's how it works. 34:58 I love this line from Steps to Christ. 35:00 You have to fill it in. Put it on the screen please. 35:02 Steps to Christ "No sooner does one come to Christ" 35:05 than there was born in her heart 35:07 "there is born in his heart a desire 35:10 to make known to others what a precious friend" 35:13 write that in. 35:14 "What a precious friend he has found in Jesus." 35:19 Do you think of Jesus as your friend? 35:22 You really can, you don't have to 35:23 you know I don't want to get too familiar. 35:27 No, He is your friend. He is your friend. 35:31 What a precious friend you found in Jesus. 35:33 "The saving and sanctifying truth 35:35 can't be shut up in your heart. 35:37 We shall not be able to hold our peace." 35:38 Oh I love this. 35:39 You can't keep quite you're gonna have to 35:40 say something about it to somebody 35:42 I got to tell you about this friend of mine 35:44 who doesn't tell me my weakness but he calls me by my strength 35:47 when I not even have my strength yet. 35:49 Wow, "If we have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, 35:52 we shall have something to tell. 35:54 Like Philip when he found the Savior, 35:56 we shall invite others" come, come, come, 35:58 "into His presence. 35:59 We shall seek to present to them the attractions." 36:03 Would you make sure you get that word in 36:05 because some people go around 36:07 and they are always talking about 36:09 the distractions of Christ. 36:12 This is what is not good about them 36:13 and this will be what's tough about this Christian life. 36:16 And this is where the burden gets heavy for peace sake. 36:20 If you can't say anything nice about Jesus 36:21 don't say anything at all. 36:24 Talk about His attractions. 36:27 Man, you see that way I will tell you what 36:30 He's been that way with me. 36:31 Come check it out for yourself. 36:35 "We shall seek to present to them the attractions of Christ 36:38 and the unseen realities of the world to come. 36:41 There will be an earnest longing that those around us may 36:44 here is our theme text Behold the Lamb of God, 36:47 who takes away the sin of the world." 36:51 So what does Philip do? He goes looking for a friend. 36:54 I will tell you what he knows precisely 36:56 where to find a friend. 36:57 Your friends, know where you hang out. 36:59 They know, please. 37:00 Philip knows where you will find his friend 37:02 under a fig tree. 37:03 Why he is under that fig tree 37:05 in once split second we will find out. 37:06 But let's go with Philip to find Nathanael, 37:08 verse 45 "Philip found Nathanael and he said to him, 37:12 'We have found Him.' 37:14 " This is the same, same testimony as Andrew. 37:17 He's essentially saying we found the Messiah. 37:19 "We have found Him 'of whom Moses in the law, 37:22 and also the prophets, wrote.' 37:24 " Now I'm gonna give you his name Nathanael. 37:26 He is "Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. 37:29 And Nathanael said to him, 'Can any good thing 37:34 come out of that little town? 37:39 There was a little bit of intra village rivalry around Galilee 37:42 and that's what was going on. 37:45 Nazareth, can you believe it? 37:49 But ladies and gentlemen, in the sequence 37:51 we have just read this last five or six verses. 37:53 What we have found are imbedded seven simple steps 37:57 on how to share Jesus with your world. 38:00 Jot them down I'm gonna fly them by seven of them. 38:02 Here they go. 38:04 Number one, first, meet Jesus yourself. 38:07 That's absolutely impairment. 38:09 You can't share what you don't have. 38:12 You have to meet Jesus yourself. 38:14 Andrew meets Philips 38:15 meet him then they go to find their friends. 38:16 All right number one, meet Jesus yourself. 38:18 Number two, spend time with Him. 38:20 Can't you say Oh, hey, Jesus, 38:21 nice to meet you see you again then go. 38:22 You have to spend time. 38:24 You got to know why this friendship is so special. 38:28 Why is this friendship so meaningful? 38:30 Wow, because you spend time with the Him. 38:31 Number three, good counsel by the way 38:34 begin with a family member or friend. 38:37 Some people will say well, I am gonna try 38:38 so I'm go out and stick on a stranger. 38:41 Oh, you can do it. 38:42 But you're setting yourself up for some real disappointment. 38:45 Pick somebody who already has confidence in you, 38:47 who knows you. 38:48 Says hey, I will take your word for it. 38:50 Somebody that loves you, family member. 38:52 Somebody who is close to you a friend. 38:54 Tell them let them be the first ones 38:56 you tell about Jesus. 38:57 As Ruthie Jacobsen say jot it down. 38:59 "The kingdom advances among friends." 39:01 That's how Jesus is doing, Andrew, John, Philip, Nathanael. 39:05 He is pulling all these friends He'll soon have 12. 39:09 One of them he never called. 39:12 One of them came and said you need me and didn't need him. 39:18 Sad story. 39:21 Okay number three, begin with the family member or a friend. 39:23 Number four, share your story. 39:26 Some people call on testimony. What's a testimony? 39:28 It is simply telling your story about you and Jesus. 39:30 That's what Andrews did. 39:31 Hey, Peter, I got to tell you about me and Jesus. 39:32 That's what Phil did. 39:34 You know, Nathanael let me tell you about me and Jesus. 39:35 Just tell your story that's number four. 39:37 Number 5, do not argue. 39:41 Notice how Philip deafly sidestepped the argument 39:45 that the Nathanael was trying to pick. 39:46 Oh, come on Nazareth, not a word. 39:51 Instead he does number six, 39:53 "Invite personal examination come and see." 39:57 Hey, look at I know it doesn't make sense to you 39:58 come on check it out. 40:00 Trust me. 40:01 Do you know, you and I friends, right? 40:03 Yeah. 40:04 Can you trust me. Yeah. 40:05 Come on, check it out. 40:07 And finally, number seven, 40:09 important, bring them to Jesus. 40:11 In other words stay with your family members, 40:13 stay with your friend, don't try to invitation 40:15 say hey go find Jesus, blessings on you. 40:18 No, you got to go with Him. 40:19 You got to lead Him, you got to journey with Him. 40:21 I am with you. We're close. 40:23 You've confidence in me You've met to Jesus 40:25 but you've confidence to me, let's go together. 40:28 Always journey with Him. 40:30 There they are seven simple steps, 40:32 let me take you to Jesus. 40:33 Oh come on, Dwight, has this work in real life. 40:35 I mean look, if Jesus were here and He is coming to chapel 40:38 or something than I could bring everybody to chapel. 40:39 Look, I want you all to meet my friend Jesus 40:41 but He is not here now. 40:43 Okay, I will show you how it works. 40:45 We'll do it right here. 40:47 Let me share an example for you. 40:50 In today's bulletin is one of these 40:56 put up here we have got the camera on. 40:58 Can you see it? 41:02 It says, "Prophecies Decoded." 41:04 It's in your worship bulletin. 41:06 Do you know this is-- this is a satellite lectureship 41:10 done by a friend of all of ours Ron Clouzet. 41:13 He sits in this church every Sabbath of worship 41:15 when he is around. 41:16 He is going to do this. 41:19 Prophecies Decoded, ah, come on Dwight, 41:21 I am not into prophecy you were talking about sharing Jesus. 41:25 I am talking about sharing Jesus. 41:26 You're not-- you're kidding me, aren't you 41:28 when you say, you're not getting into prophecies. 41:30 Oh, man, please look at in chapter 5, 41:32 at the Gospel of John we're gonna run into this line 41:34 one of these day, Jesus said you search the scriptures 41:36 because they are they which testify me. 41:39 That's what prophecy is, it tells the story of Jesus. 41:42 In fact, the greatest prophetic book 41:43 at the end of the New Testament is called Revelation. 41:46 It's the Revelation of what? The Revelation of Jesus Christ. 41:50 So here's our verse. 41:54 You take one of these, somebody says, 41:56 "Yeah I am not in the prophecy." 41:57 Oh, come on, come on, it's about Jesus. 42:03 You take it to a friend, all right, somebody you know. 42:05 Somebody in the dormitory that you know that needs Jesus. 42:08 Okay, so you take it personally deliver it. 42:10 You know, stick it under the door. 42:13 You deliver it. Neighbor, deliver it. 42:16 Colleague at work, you deliver it. 42:18 You say listen, this is our fascinating lectureship 42:21 that's beginning two weeks from last night, 42:23 two weeks from last night. 42:24 You'll be right here to Pioneer Memorial Church. 42:27 I am gonna pick you up and let's go together. 42:29 You don't have to stay for the whole thing. 42:31 If you don't like it you leave. 42:33 But I have found these prophecies not only a, 42:36 a steering opening to the headlines today 42:39 but I have found they tell about my friend Jesus. 42:43 I love to have you come. 42:44 Let me pick you up, what time I am going to pick you up 42:45 because this is going to start at 7:20 sharp? 42:49 When can I pick you up? 42:50 What do we just do, 42:51 we went through all seven steps, right here. 42:53 We did all seven steps. 42:54 Oh, no I am not into prophecy. 42:56 Now come on, come on, 42:57 you know, me let's just check it out together. 42:59 I think you will be happily surprised. 43:02 Come and see. I go with you. 43:06 Ladies and gentlemen, 43:07 we are talking about rocket science here? 43:09 You're kidding. 43:10 Hey I gonna ask you this question, you tell me. 43:12 Do you suppose Jesus worked hard to make sure 43:16 that sharing Him, with other people on this planet 43:19 would be the most gruesome 43:21 and awful experience we could ever have? 43:23 Do you think He worked hard to do that? 43:26 I think it's a flipside of that coin, don't you. 43:28 I think Jesus says, I am gonna make this 43:30 as easiest possible for you, find a friend, 43:33 somebody who loves you, somebody who trusts you 43:35 and go to that friend and say I want to come with me 43:38 I will go with you. 43:39 We'll go together. 43:40 I think you're gonna be happily surprised. 43:43 What's not to like about that? 43:51 When we stack of these at the door when you leave 43:53 any other greeting stations, grab a handful. 43:55 Say, I got more than one friend, great grab a handful. 43:58 Hand him out. 43:59 By the way Pastor Rodley is telling me listen Dwight, 44:01 make sure they know that in the worship bulletin today 44:04 there is a page for signing up as a volunteer. 44:07 We need all kinds of volunteers 44:08 to help make this event a huge success. 44:12 So you bring your friends volunteer if you want. 44:16 You see that page in the bulletin. 44:18 By the way let me tell you this before I sit down. 44:20 There is something in it for you. 44:23 No, I am serious, you know, those Steps to Christ 44:26 quotation a moment ago we didn't finish it 44:28 let's finish it right now. 44:29 Put it back up on the screen please 44:30 you will have to fill it in. 44:34 "And the effort to bless others" because sharing Jesus 44:36 what is that He's trying to bless somebody else. 44:38 "And the effort to bless others 44:39 will react in blessings upon ourselves. 44:42 This was the purpose of God 44:44 in giving us a part to act in the plan of salvation. 44:47 He has granted you and me the privilege 44:49 of becoming partakers of the divine nature 44:51 and, in their turn, in our turn of spreading 44:55 defusing blessings to those around us." 44:58 Now, here coming out, this is, this is dynamite. 44:59 This is the highest honor, can you believe that. 45:02 Now notice that, this is the highest honor. 45:05 There is no honor higher than this. 45:06 "This is the highest honor, this is the greatest joy 45:10 that it is possible for God to give to bestowed you and me." 45:16 Why would it be such a high honor, 45:17 why would it be such a great joy? 45:19 Because just like John, just like John 45:21 you get the privilege of same. 45:23 Hey, look, look, look this is the one, this is the one. 45:27 I want you to meet Him. There is no higher honor. 45:31 And by the way you're born for this. 45:33 You were born to do this. 45:35 That's why you live. 45:36 You think that you live just to occupy little bit 45:38 of tiller farmer until you become fertilizer again? 45:42 You think that's why you live? 45:43 You're kidding, you've been born. 45:45 Why did Jesus find you? 45:47 Why did He find Andrew because I want Peter. 45:50 I am getting you Andrew, you get Peter for me. 45:52 I am getting you Philip, you get Nathanael for me. 45:56 He needs us that's why we were born. 45:58 This is the highest honor you can have. 46:03 Keep, keep going. 46:04 "Those who thus become participants 46:05 in the labors of love are brought." 46:07 Can you believe that word? 46:09 "Nearest." 46:11 Nearest. Nearest. 46:14 You want to be close to God? 46:17 I can't imagine anybody saying no Dwight, 46:18 I actually I don't want to be very near God 46:19 I want to be close enough but not that near. 46:22 Are you kidding you wouldn't be here today. 46:23 You want to be close to god 46:25 this is the one activity in this life 46:28 that will bring you nearest to God. 46:30 You can't get closer to the nearest. 46:34 Wow, why do we make. 46:36 Do you know what it had just hit me 46:38 why we make such a big deal about this? 46:40 I bet you there is somebody around here 46:41 who doesn't want us to do this. 46:44 He knows how fast it goes, stop. 46:49 This is too much word come on, you don't have time 46:51 look at look oh good night. Go, go, go. 46:54 Why would he do that? 46:56 Because you are the most persuasive witness Christ has. 46:59 You can show him the person, the person will fall down dead. 47:01 He said I can't do that. 47:03 I will send a friend of his. 47:04 She will listen to a friend of hers. 47:07 You're the best shot God has, don't let your friend down. 47:11 That one and that one, 47:14 don't let your friend down, be a witness. 47:16 Wow, so Philip does. 47:18 So Philip is talking Nathanael, come and see 47:21 okay verse 47 and look at this. 47:23 Jesus is waiting, Jesus has set this thing 47:25 and watch this verse 47. 47:26 And "Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him." 47:30 Not in the whispers, 47:31 you see has all these little disciples around now 47:32 little tall as he is. 47:34 He has all these disciples around him 47:35 and he is saying it loud enough so that Nathanae 47:37 who is walking this way in spite of the quenching sandals 47:40 on the wilderness rock, Nathanael can overhear Jesus. 47:43 So Jesus is talking rather loud. 47:44 He said Oh, by the way hey fellows look "Behold, 47:48 an Israelite indeed a true blue Israelite, 47:52 in whom there is no deceit!" 47:55 And the Greek word for deceit is the bait on a fishhook. 48:00 In whom there is no bait because I know some people 48:03 who say they're followers of Christ 48:05 that they practice bait and switch 48:07 from about ten yards away they look great 48:09 until you get up close and then mercy 48:12 when did they move in next door 48:13 and why do we have to live next door to them. 48:18 Bait and switch. 48:21 Hey here is the true Israelite no bait on that hook, 48:25 he is real deal. 48:27 Oh, Nathanael comes walking up and he say 48:30 you how do you know about me. 48:34 Jesus looked at him and look at that next verse. 48:35 Jesus looked at him and He said, 48:36 I want to tell you something Nathanael. 48:38 "Before Philip came to you I saw you under that fig tree." 48:45 And just like that this is what sourced down into me. 48:47 I have always said why come on Nathanael 48:50 this is don't you think this is little precipitous, 48:51 it can't just brooded it out. 48:53 Because oh, 48:54 "Rabbi you are the king of Israel and Son of God!" 48:58 How did you do that so fast Nathanael? 49:01 That's the clue to what was happening under the fig tree. 49:06 Apparently, Nathanael has been in prayer under the fig tree. 49:10 He has heard John the Baptist he has seen this skinny 49:13 that he is pointed at this young adult. 49:15 And he is under this fig tree praying to God. 49:17 Almighty, God you can't-- 49:19 God, you can't be serious this can't be the Messiah. 49:21 Is this really the Lamb of God? 49:23 God, I am asking you give me a sign, 49:26 give me a sign and I will believe. 49:29 And when Nathanael comes walking up 49:30 he gets the perfect sign. 49:32 I saw you under the fig tree. 49:37 Wow, your God. Isn't that so? 49:42 By the way when do you have worship? 49:44 First part of the day. 49:46 Where's it that you go to have prayer. 49:48 Wherever it is. 49:50 Isn't it stunning to realize 49:52 He sees me in my private prayers? 49:56 He sees you with your broken heart, 49:59 he sees you with your tortured life. 50:02 He sees you with your weary heart. 50:05 He sees you-- I saw you in the corner of that dorm room. 50:08 I saw you this morning I was listening, girl. 50:11 Boy, I was listening to you I saw you. 50:17 Isn't that amazing? 50:18 Wow, you are God. 50:22 I know and I am your friend follow me. 50:27 Mercy, and Jesus looks into Nathanael's face by the way 50:31 and He says to him, verse 50. 50:33 This is the end. 50:35 "Jesus answered and said to him." 50:36 Hey "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,' 50:39 do you believe?" 50:41 Oh, Nathanael 50:42 you're going to see greater things than these. 50:43 Now, here comes verse 51. 50:45 "And Jesus said to Nathanael, most assuredly." 50:48 And by the way we're running to it for the first time. 50:50 Twenty five, times, only the writer John 50:53 will exercise this literary device, 50:55 two words in the Greek, the same word, Amen. 50:59 In English it would be Amen, Amen. 51:01 Only John does it and every time John inserts 51:04 twenty five, times, in his gospel, amen, amen 51:06 it's like he is waving this red flag. 51:09 You all reader, slowdown now, slowdown something big 51:13 is about to be declared. 51:15 Amen, amen, "I say to you from now on 51:20 you shall see the heaven opened 51:22 and the angels of god ascending 51:26 and descending upon the Son of Man." 51:28 Look at me Nathanael, 51:30 you remembered the story of Jacob, 51:32 you remembered Jacob's ladder. 51:33 I am that ladder. 51:35 I will take the hand of Almighty God 51:37 I take the hand of the human race. 51:38 I am the connection. 51:40 I am and on me the angels of God will ascend and descend. 51:48 I just caught it for the first time this week 51:50 it says ascend and descend. 51:51 I thought it was descend and ascend. 51:54 No when Jesus steps into your life 51:57 the ladder goes down into your life. 51:59 And in that instinct you have the bonus blessing 52:02 of the angels of heaven 52:03 who are on the ground boots on the ground with you. 52:06 They ascend to heaven with your petitions 52:08 they descend from heaven with God's promises. 52:10 They ascend to heaven with your cries 52:12 they descend from heaven with God's answers. 52:15 When you get Jesus, when you get the ladder, 52:20 you get all of the heaven. 52:22 Now tell me that isn't the friend to get excited about? 52:31 And because I am God's ladder in your life 52:35 I need you to be my ladder in someone else's life. 52:40 Ladies and gentlemen, that's the truth. 52:41 Write it down in closing please. 52:44 "Once Jesus becomes your Lamb, 52:49 you become His ladder." 52:53 What's that mean? Put it the other way. 52:56 Next screen please. 52:57 "Once Jesus becomes your Savior, you become His witness." 53:04 It just goes ipso facto it just follows just like that. 53:12 Do I, do I have to be a witness for Him. 53:14 No, its not do I have to its do I get to, you get to. 53:20 And what do we just read and this is the highest honor 53:22 the greatest joy that is possible for God 53:25 to bestow upon men and women hallelujah and amen. 53:30 Well, it has a pretty weak amen. 53:32 Let me try it again hallelujah and amen. 53:34 Amen, that is an honor that He has called you and me 53:39 to become witnesses for Him. 53:40 So stand your feet right now, we're going to sing the song 53:42 that you learned in Sabbath school 53:43 and I promise you, you have not forgotten it. 53:45 Stand to your feet right now and minister music 53:48 will give us a mighty chord 53:49 and we're going to start with that. 53:53 This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine 54:00 This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine 54:07 Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine 54:12 Put your hands, put your hand in the air. 54:15 All around the neighborhood 54:19 I'm gonna let it shine 54:23 All around the neighborhood I'm gonna let it shine 54:30 Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine 54:35 All right, now you know this next one. 54:37 Won't let Satan 'whoof' it out I'm gonna let it shine 54:45 Won't let Satan 'whoof' it out I'm gonna let it shine 54:52 Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine 54:58 Till Jesus comes. 54:59 Let it shine till Jesus comes I'm gonna let it shine 55:07 Let it shine till Jesus comes I'm gonna let it shine 55:14 Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine 55:21 All right now sing it like a prayer. 55:23 This little light of mine 55:28 I'm gonna let it shine 55:32 This little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine 55:40 Let it shine, let it shine, 55:45 let it shine 55:49 Oh, Father, that is our choice. 55:52 That is our prayer. 55:53 We were born for this just like John the Baptist, 55:56 born for this one testimony. 55:59 Oh, world you who know me. 56:02 Take a look at him this is the Lamb of God 56:07 who takes away the sin of world. 56:10 God, please make us mighty witnesses for our Christ. 56:17 In His name we pray, amen. 56:33 It's been a pleasure to be able to worship with you today. 56:35 I hope the Spirit of Jesus has blessed your time 56:38 with us right here in the Pioneer Memorial Church, 56:40 on the campus of Andrews University. 56:42 Do you know that around the world people join us 56:44 every week for this hour of worship? 56:46 We're always looking as a consequence 56:48 for new ways to bridge. 56:49 Somehow, to connect with these people 56:51 who come here to worship you the telecast. 56:54 One of the areas that is quickly growing for us 56:56 is our website. 56:57 We have more than a 140,000 visitors last year. 57:01 It's an incredible opportunity that God has given us 57:04 to expand His kingdom. 57:06 If you'd like to help partner with us 57:08 as we seek to spread the everlasting gospel 57:11 I'd love to have you call our toll free number. 57:14 We have got very friendly operators standing by. 57:16 Here is the number 877-HIS-WILL, 57:19 877 and then two words HIS WILL, 57:21 one of the operators will be happy to give you the details 57:25 of how you can partner with this global ministry. 57:27 If you prefer listen, you could do it all online. 57:30 Go to our website please www.pmchurch.tv 57:34 I'd be honored to have the privilege of partnering 57:36 with you as we seek to spread the truth 57:38 about God for this generation. 57:40 We are living in urgent times. 57:43 Now more than ever we've got to go to the world 57:46 with the good news entrusted to us. 57:48 So once again hears that toll free number 877-HIS-WILL. 57:52 Thank you in advance for your generosity 57:55 it blesses me and you grow this ministry. 57:58 I pray that the Spirit of Christ will abide 58:00 with you every step of the way 58:02 and hope you'll come back again next time right here 58:05 as we continue our worship journey together. |
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