He is exalted, the
King is exalted on high
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I will praise him
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He is exalted, forever exalted
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And I will praise His name
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He is the Lord
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For ever His truth shall reign
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Heaven and earth
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Rejoice in His holy name
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He is exalted, the
King is exalted on high
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For He is the Lord.
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For he is the Lord
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Forever His truth shall reign
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Heaven and earth
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Rejoice in His holy name
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He is exalted, the
King is exalted on high
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He is exalted.
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He is exalted, the
King is exalted on high
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Oh, How sweet to
trust in the exalted one.
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Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus
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Just to take Him at His word
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Just to rest upon His promise
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Just to know,
'Thus saith the Lord'
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er!
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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O for grace to trust Him more!
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O how sweet to trust in Jesus
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Just to trust
His cleansing blood
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And in simple faith to plunge me
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'Neath the
healing cleansing flood
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er!
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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O for grace to trust Him more!
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I'm so glad I
learned to trust Thee
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Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend
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And I know that Thou art with me
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Wilt be with me till the end
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er!
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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O for grace to trust Him more!
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er!
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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O for grace to trust Him more!
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Rejoice, rejoice, believers
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And let your lights appear
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The evening is advancing
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And darker night is near
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The Bridegroom is arising
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And soon is drawing nigh
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Up, pray and watch and wrestle
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At midnight comes the cry
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The waters on the mountain
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Proclaim the Bridegroom bear
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Go forth as He approaches
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With alleluias clear
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The marriage feast is waiting
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The gates wide open stand
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Arise, O heirs of glory
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The Bridegroom is at hand
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The saints, who here in patience
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Their cross and sufferings bore
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Shall live and reign forever
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When sorrow is no more
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Around the throne of glory
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The Lamb they shall behold
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In triumph cast before Him
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Their diadems of gold
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Our hope and expectation
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O Jesus, now appear
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Arise, O Sun so longed for
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Over this benighted sphere
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With hearts and hands uplifted
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We plead, O Lord to see
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The day of earth's redemption
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That sets Your people free!
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Rejoice, rejoice
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Rejoice,
rejoice rejoice, rejoice
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Rejoice, rejoice
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Hallelujah
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It's good to
have you alumni home.
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Thank you for coming.
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We've look
forward to having you.
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Life goes on here of course,
whether you're here or not
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but it's always
special to see you,
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know that you think of us.
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Good to have class of 88 back.
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Greg parents, nice to have you.
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Todd Copeland I
can't believe it,
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as it been 20 years, mercy.
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When we came Todd
was a senior in academy.
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He's one of the
great kids on this campus,
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nice to have you
back, well obviously.
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Nick Scudamore,
nice to have you back.
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I think you're the
only representative
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of Battle Creek
College this year.
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You're not, we're the
only ones that got that.
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But Nick is
ministry magazine editor
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and his ministering
to the world church.
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In a few moments I would like
to speak to the economic crisis
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that our nation,
world are facing.
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But first I'm
gonna pray with you
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and plunge into
our teaching today.
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Holy Father, we rejoice,
we rejoice for the choir,
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we've rejoiced as a
worshiping congregation.
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We gather as family,
we gather as community.
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You've a word for us.
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Students and faculty and
alumni and community alike
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that the word
today please be clear.
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Keep the
preacher out of the way,
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that the Spirit have his way.
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We pray in Jesus name, amen.
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Actually in the Book of Acts,
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which is our theme book
in this new series Primetime
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there are only two young
adults mentioned by name.
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There are
hundreds of young adults
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I'm sure in the
narrative of Acts,
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but only two are called young
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and then were given their names.
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One of the two we remember
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because he fell
asleep in church.
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Have you ever seen
somebody fall asleep in church?
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I know you don't,
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but I mean if you
seen somebody else
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that kind of doze off.
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Barbara Bush...
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wife of the former
president Bush, once remarked.
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If you would take everybody
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who sleeps in church
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and line them
up from end to end,
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it would be a whole
lot more comfortable.
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This young man is remembered
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because he slept in church.
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But in the story his
name means fortunate.
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But in this story
there is a paradigm
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for the primetime
generation of today.
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And so, with out any further due
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would you please go
to the Book of Acts,
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it's our theme book
for this series Primetime,
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this is part four.
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"A Laptop, Cell
Phone and Plane Ticket"
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it's the title
of today's teaching.
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Go to Acts Chapter 20,
if you didn't bring a Bible
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we've got a pew Bible
right in front of you.
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Grab that pew Bible,
this would be page 749.
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Vital paradigm for the church
of the primetime generation,
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tucked away in this
story in Acts Chapter 20.
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I'll be in the Today's
New International Version.
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Any translation you've is fine.
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The New King James is
what's in the pew rack.
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Acts 20:7,
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and "On the
first day of the week
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we came together to break bread.
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Paul spoke to the people and,
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because he intended
to leave the next day,
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he kept on
talking until midnight."
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I want to hit the
pause button right there
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because you can read
that text and you can say,
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oh man, look at
that, it's obviously clear
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there haven't Sunday
worship in the New Testament.
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It says first day and
of course you're right.
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And the overwhelming
evidence for the church
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in the New
Testament of course is that
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they worshipped on
the Seventh day Sabbath.
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So, why this say first day,
it's clearly a worship service.
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Scholars are not
sure which reckoning,
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time reckoning that Dr. Luke
is using here in this narrative.
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He could be using the Jewish way
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of reckoning
time or the Roman way.
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Now the Jewish way,
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you remember reckons
time from Sun set to Sun set.
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So if this was the
first day of the week
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that would mean
from Saturday night
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to Sunday evening at sun down.
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In fact, the New
English Bible came along,
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used that wing of
scholarship and said
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obviously that is the
meaning that Dr. Luke intended.
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And so in the New English Bible
you read Acts 20:7 in this way,
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"On Saturday"
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you see "On Saturday
night in our assembly
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for the breaking of bread,
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Paul, who has to leave
the next day addressed them,
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and went on
speaking until midnight."
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However if you use the
Roman reckoning of time
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that would be like our time
be from midnight to midnight.
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So, if we use that reckoning
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this would have to
be late Sunday night
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and into early Monday morning,
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because it's an
all night meeting.
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Ladies and gentleman,
either reckoning you use
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clearly we're not dealing
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with the Sunday
morning worship service.
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You say, hey
wait a minute, Dwight,
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but it says they broke bread.
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So, that's obviously a reference
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to the Lord's supper, its true.
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Often times breaking bread
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in the Book of ACTS
means a Lord's supper
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although sometimes it's just
social pot lucking together.
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But probably this
was a Lord's supper.
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However Acts 2:46 reads,
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and they went from house to
house and broke bread daily.
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So, you can't take breaken bread
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and make that the
definition of holy day.
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They did it
every day of the week.
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And besides, in here in Troas,
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Paul has already
been here seven days,
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he's leaving tomorrow,
this is his last chance,
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perhaps they'll
never see his face again,
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it's a farewell meeting
and so it goes all night long.
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So, they're in that upper room,
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verse 8, the
narrative continues.
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"There were many
lamps in the upstairs room
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where we were meeting."
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Ah, wait there will be Dr. Luke,
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the writer of Acts, so
he's obviously present.
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"There were many
lamps in the upstairs room
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where we were meeting."
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Verse 9 "And seated in
a window was a young man,
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a young man named Eutychus."
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His name means
fortune and I'll tell what,
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he is the fortunate one
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who has chosen the
best seat in the house.
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You think about it.
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Luke has just
described many lamps
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and these are oil lamps
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that means black
smoke and belching heat.
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They're on the third floor,
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they're jam
packed, bodies galore.
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That room is stifling.
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It's the young
adult to his credit,
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who wisely surmises
the seniors and said,
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no way I want to sit
in the middle of that
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and he picks an open window
00:17:31.99\00:17:33.42
and props
himself up in the seal.
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Brilliant move.
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Verse 9 again,
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"Seated in a window was
a young man named Eutychus,
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who was sinking."
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If you ever watch
somebody sleep in church,
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you know that is the perfect,
that is the perfect definition,
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because you
slowly start to sink.
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You catch yourself
and you go back and forth.
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You don't think I see it,
00:17:55.54\00:17:56.61
but I always watch
it from upfront here.
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And it is a great,
00:17:58.86\00:18:01.00
I just love the way you try
to cover it up by putting that
00:18:01.03\00:18:03.73
that bulletin in front of you.
00:18:03.76\00:18:05.58
We know what you're
doing behind the bulletin,
00:18:05.61\00:18:07.89
because before you fall a
sleep your hand falls down.
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You don't know that,
00:18:11.09\00:18:12.12
but that's what
happens, all right.
00:18:12.15\00:18:13.72
So, here's what's
happening here see,
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"Seated in a window was
a young man named Eutychus,
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who was sinking
into a deep sleep
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as Paul talked on and on."
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Hallelujah.
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Those of us who're
long winded preachers
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take great comfort and refuge
in the mighty of apostle Paul
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who keeps preaching and
preaching and preaching.
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You go Paul.
00:18:34.92\00:18:37.25
So, "Eutychus, was
sinking into a deep sleep
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as Paul talked on and on."
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Now here comes the tragedy.
00:18:41.84\00:18:44.04
"When he was sound asleep."
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Once you're sound
asleep wherever you're,
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you're out of control, trust me.
00:18:49.47\00:18:51.64
Your head is
bobbing every which way,
00:18:51.67\00:18:54.82
we all know by the
way what's happened.
00:18:54.85\00:18:57.66
But, "when he was sound asleep"
00:18:57.69\00:18:59.41
obviously his head bobs out.
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He has been sitting there,
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the fresh cool night
breeze just suck it in.
00:19:07.56\00:19:12.62
None of that oily lamp,
none of those smelly bodies,
00:19:12.65\00:19:16.72
listening to the
verbal's preacher,
00:19:16.75\00:19:19.05
but when he goes tragically,
his head leads the way.
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And "He fell to the
ground from the third storey
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and was picked up dead."
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Now, like in Europe,
ground floor has no number,
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it's in the Middle East,
00:19:37.53\00:19:40.13
so, its ground, one, two, three.
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So, when he says third floor,
00:19:42.38\00:19:44.00
he's talking
about our fourth storey,
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that between 30 to 40 feet.
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He goes head first, no
doubt, he went head first.
00:19:48.21\00:19:52.00
Massive head
trauma and he's dead.
00:19:52.03\00:19:55.04
You say, no,
he's not dead Dwight,
00:19:55.07\00:19:56.52
he's just unconscious.
00:19:56.55\00:19:57.75
Oh, you forget,
who's right in the storey,
00:19:57.78\00:20:00.09
a physician, who obviously
carefully chooses his words
00:20:00.12\00:20:04.31
and the words are dead.
00:20:04.34\00:20:07.17
Dead.
00:20:07.20\00:20:10.89
And alive.
00:20:10.92\00:20:13.04
There's still good news coming.
00:20:13.07\00:20:14.85
So, he's dead,
00:20:14.88\00:20:16.16
you can hear the shriek in
that jam packed upper floor
00:20:16.19\00:20:20.29
as the entire congregation,
00:20:20.32\00:20:22.09
and by the way the stairs
00:20:22.12\00:20:23.16
are all on the
outside in the Middle East.
00:20:23.19\00:20:24.92
So, they're all
pounded down those stairs
00:20:24.95\00:20:28.23
and when they take him
up, Luke says he was dead.
00:20:28.26\00:20:31.95
They're holding
the corpse, still warm.
00:20:31.98\00:20:35.41
Paul, Paul the
short stocky apostle,
00:20:35.44\00:20:39.56
half blind, in the dark
00:20:39.59\00:20:42.67
trying to make his
way down that same stairs
00:20:42.70\00:20:45.11
and I'm sure he's praying
out loud to the God of Israel
00:20:45.14\00:20:47.73
and the Lord Jesus
Christ, save this boy.
00:20:47.76\00:20:50.64
And when Paul comes
down, what verse is this?
00:20:50.67\00:20:54.15
Verse 10, "Paul went
down," see four flights.
00:20:54.18\00:20:58.83
Paul went down and he
does what he Elijah did
00:20:58.86\00:21:02.44
when he walked into
the room of the dead boy,
00:21:02.47\00:21:03.84
he does what Elijah did
00:21:03.87\00:21:05.05
when he walked into
the room of the dead boy,
00:21:05.08\00:21:06.48
Paul does the same
thing, he throws himself
00:21:06.51\00:21:09.03
and he "threw
himself on the young man
00:21:09.06\00:21:11.67
and he put his arms around him."
00:21:11.70\00:21:14.64
And he just hugged the body.
00:21:14.67\00:21:17.15
He hugged the body.
00:21:17.18\00:21:19.56
Until finally,
Paul could look up
00:21:19.59\00:21:22.65
and says here in the TNIV,
00:21:22.68\00:21:24.18
"Don't be alarmed"
in the Greek it says,
00:21:24.21\00:21:25.71
stop your agitation.
00:21:25.74\00:21:27.48
Obviously there's
a commotion going on.
00:21:27.51\00:21:30.23
Time out.
00:21:30.26\00:21:31.96
He's alive.
00:21:31.99\00:21:34.87
Eutychus eyes flutter,
00:21:34.90\00:21:37.25
that young adult said
something like, what happened?
00:21:37.28\00:21:41.07
And you can be sure
ladies and gentlemen,
00:21:41.10\00:21:43.19
that beneath, that
starry, starry night
00:21:43.22\00:21:46.63
there was an instantaneous
00:21:46.66\00:21:49.40
prayer service
on the ground floor.
00:21:49.43\00:21:53.63
There's been a
resurrection, he lived.
00:21:53.66\00:21:56.80
And Paul, bless his soul,
00:21:56.83\00:21:58.77
not want to be
distracted by the dramatic,
00:21:58.80\00:22:00.75
turns to the crowd and
says, hey, listen folks,
00:22:00.78\00:22:01.97
I was just in the
middle of a sense,
00:22:02.00\00:22:03.23
I've more I need to say
just get up, get up, get up,
00:22:03.26\00:22:05.09
lets go up there I
want to still talk to you.
00:22:05.12\00:22:07.31
And that's exactly what
happened here in verse 11.
00:22:07.34\00:22:09.58
"Then he, Paul
went upstairs again
00:22:09.61\00:22:11.07
and broke bread and ate.
00:22:11.10\00:22:12.19
And after talking
until daylight, he left."
00:22:12.22\00:22:14.32
Now, notice verse 12,
00:22:14.35\00:22:15.46
"And the people took
the young man home alive
00:22:15.49\00:22:17.81
and were greatly comforted."
00:22:17.84\00:22:22.72
Why would we share a story
like this on a alumni Sabbath?
00:22:22.75\00:22:27.30
Could it be, that in
the story of Eutychus,
00:22:27.33\00:22:29.56
there's the paradigm tucked away
00:22:29.59\00:22:31.32
about the church of
the primetime generation.
00:22:31.35\00:22:34.60
There's a word I
intentionally skipped over,
00:22:34.63\00:22:38.35
when we read it without comment.
00:22:38.38\00:22:39.86
I want to go back to that word.
00:22:39.89\00:22:41.45
Acts-- verse 7 here in Acts 20.
00:22:41.48\00:22:44.03
And "On the
first day of the week
00:22:44.06\00:22:45.10
we came together to break bread.
00:22:45.13\00:22:46.91
And Paul spoke to the people
00:22:46.94\00:22:48.04
and because he
intended to leave the next day,
00:22:48.07\00:22:50.42
he kept on
talking until midnight."
00:22:50.45\00:22:53.27
Now, the Greek
words for kept on talking,
00:22:53.30\00:22:55.24
is not kept on preaching.
00:22:55.27\00:22:56.67
He's not preaching now.
00:22:56.70\00:22:58.27
Something else is happening
00:22:58.30\00:22:59.84
on the fourth floor of
that little Troas building.
00:22:59.87\00:23:05.64
Something else is going on.
00:23:05.67\00:23:06.91
In fact the Greek
word here is dialegomai
00:23:06.94\00:23:09.94
from whence comes
our word dialogue.
00:23:09.97\00:23:11.78
So, they're
having a back to front,
00:23:11.81\00:23:15.75
front to back, Q and A
question, conversation.
00:23:15.78\00:23:19.67
I got a question
Paul, he's open at,
00:23:19.70\00:23:21.88
surely opening up his heart.
00:23:21.91\00:23:23.30
One last time I'll
tell you about Jesus,
00:23:23.33\00:23:24.81
let me tell you the
story of Calvary again.
00:23:24.84\00:23:26.65
Some where in the
night, some body says,
00:23:26.68\00:23:28.02
but Paul how are
we gonna reach Troas,
00:23:28.05\00:23:29.43
back in forth the
conversation goes.
00:23:29.46\00:23:33.12
Now, here's the
point ladies and gentleman,
00:23:33.15\00:23:35.59
they're talking to themselves.
00:23:35.62\00:23:37.65
And while the church
was talking to themselves
00:23:37.68\00:23:42.65
the young adult fell away.
00:23:42.68\00:23:47.01
That point is so significant,
00:23:47.04\00:23:48.18
I wish you would
right it down right now.
00:23:48.21\00:23:49.73
Would you take your study guide,
00:23:49.76\00:23:50.84
it's in your
alumni bulletin today.
00:23:50.87\00:23:52.59
Reach inside to
pull up that study guide
00:23:52.62\00:23:54.12
if you didn't
get one we've got--
00:23:54.15\00:23:55.61
they are
friendliest ushers in the world,
00:23:55.64\00:23:57.10
you just hold your hand up.
00:23:57.13\00:23:58.25
You didn't know it's an
alumnus that you need to,
00:23:58.28\00:24:00.35
everybody in your
family to have one or so,
00:24:00.38\00:24:01.93
if you've only got
one bulletin per family,
00:24:01.96\00:24:03.97
hold your hand up.
00:24:04.00\00:24:05.60
All the way up to the balcony,
00:24:05.63\00:24:06.93
the choir has
these study guides.
00:24:06.96\00:24:10.96
That point is so significant,
we need to jot it down.
00:24:10.99\00:24:13.64
And by the way well
we're handing those out here,
00:24:13.67\00:24:15.27
those who're
watching on television,
00:24:15.30\00:24:17.11
we're delighted to have you.
00:24:17.14\00:24:18.27
You can get the
same study guide,
00:24:18.30\00:24:19.72
let me put that
website on the screen for you,
00:24:19.75\00:24:21.39
www.pmchurch.tv,
that's our website.
00:24:21.42\00:24:26.74
You're looking for the
series called Primetime,
00:24:26.77\00:24:28.85
this is part four.
00:24:28.88\00:24:30.00
Title of this
teaching "Pentecost II,
00:24:30.03\00:24:32.22
a Laptop, Cell
Phone and Plane Ticket."
00:24:32.25\00:24:34.83
When you see that title,
00:24:34.86\00:24:36.22
you'll see study
guide right under it,
00:24:36.25\00:24:37.50
you click that, you'll
have the very same study guide
00:24:37.53\00:24:41.11
there on your computer screen.
00:24:41.14\00:24:43.08
All right, lets get the point
while still fresh in our minds.
00:24:43.11\00:24:45.04
Jot it down, will you please?
00:24:45.07\00:24:46.33
Right there at the
top of the study guide,
00:24:46.36\00:24:47.70
the Greek word for
talking is dialegomai
00:24:47.73\00:24:50.76
from whence comes
our word dialogue,
00:24:50.79\00:24:52.74
they're having a tete-a-tete,
00:24:52.77\00:24:54.02
they're going back and forth,
they're talking to themselves,
00:24:54.05\00:24:57.03
they're having a dialogue
00:24:57.06\00:24:58.41
and it that word refers
to a collective conversation
00:24:58.44\00:25:00.69
between the
speaker and the audience.
00:25:00.72\00:25:01.90
What's the point, Dwight?
00:25:01.93\00:25:03.02
The point is this,
00:25:03.05\00:25:04.08
while the church was
talking to themselves,
00:25:04.11\00:25:06.66
the young adult dropped out.
00:25:06.69\00:25:08.57
It happened while the church
was talking to themselves.
00:25:08.60\00:25:12.33
I love this community
faith that I was born into.
00:25:12.36\00:25:16.71
Fifth generation Adventist,
forth generation preacher.
00:25:16.74\00:25:19.06
I've hang around this
church for a long time.
00:25:19.09\00:25:21.02
I can tell you something about
00:25:21.05\00:25:22.09
the Seventh-day
Adventist church,
00:25:22.12\00:25:23.15
most of you're gonna agree.
00:25:23.18\00:25:24.34
In fact, some of you, any
denomination that you might
00:25:24.37\00:25:26.89
represent those of you watching
00:25:26.92\00:25:29.43
I've a feeling
you're gonna say the same.
00:25:29.46\00:25:31.58
Because about our
church this church I love,
00:25:31.61\00:25:33.62
we love talking to each other.
00:25:33.65\00:25:36.94
I mean, we just love
talking to each other
00:25:36.97\00:25:40.12
and then we
throw in our in house
00:25:40.15\00:25:44.44
collective
conversations into publication
00:25:44.47\00:25:47.16
just to keep the
conversations going.
00:25:47.19\00:25:49.80
So, you've Spectrum
magazine and the Journal
00:25:49.83\00:25:51.91
of the Adventist
Theological Association,
00:25:51.94\00:25:53.99
two very contrary journals
00:25:54.02\00:25:56.05
that carry on sometimes heated
conversations with each other
00:25:56.08\00:25:59.08
over issues dear at least
to the editors and the readers.
00:25:59.11\00:26:02.48
You've the Adventist Review
and you've Adventist Today
00:26:02.51\00:26:04.85
who love to carryon sometimes
very defensive conversations
00:26:04.88\00:26:09.08
over issues dear to the editors
and at least to the readers.
00:26:09.11\00:26:11.91
We love to talk to each other
00:26:11.94\00:26:15.04
and by the way nothing
will stir up our juices
00:26:15.07\00:26:18.37
more quickly than
a good theological
00:26:18.40\00:26:20.38
or a ecclesiastical controversy.
00:26:20.41\00:26:22.25
Let's get into it, pull up here,
00:26:22.28\00:26:23.71
put your dukes up, lets talk.
00:26:23.74\00:26:27.16
We love to talk to each other.
00:26:27.19\00:26:29.07
But in the process,
00:26:29.10\00:26:31.01
we've a
generation of young adults
00:26:31.04\00:26:32.77
today young Eutychus,
00:26:32.80\00:26:34.64
who are watching and
listening from the periphery.
00:26:34.67\00:26:36.86
They're sitting
in the window seals,
00:26:36.89\00:26:38.35
they're standing in the backdoor
00:26:38.38\00:26:40.57
and they are wondering,
00:26:40.60\00:26:42.15
shall I come in
or shall I leave?
00:26:42.18\00:26:44.79
While we're
talking to each other,
00:26:44.82\00:26:47.20
creating this collective
heat and noise there they are.
00:26:47.23\00:26:52.49
Until today we've a
generation in the church
00:26:52.52\00:26:55.50
that is not in the church today.
00:26:55.53\00:26:59.50
Allen Martin, teachers over here
00:26:59.53\00:27:01.46
at the theological seminar.
00:27:01.49\00:27:02.80
My friend Allen
wrote an article,
00:27:02.83\00:27:04.56
Nick, for your great
journal Ministry Magazine
00:27:04.59\00:27:07.23
this summer, July.
00:27:07.26\00:27:09.55
And in this,
Allen, is a professor
00:27:09.58\00:27:12.15
for discipleship of
family ministry here.
00:27:12.18\00:27:14.46
In this piece he
noted and jot these,
00:27:14.49\00:27:16.55
you can't believe these numbers,
00:27:16.58\00:27:17.61
look at them ladies and
gentlemen, jot them down.
00:27:17.64\00:27:19.62
The median age for the North,
00:27:19.65\00:27:21.66
for North American
Seventh-day Adventist is 58,
00:27:21.69\00:27:25.44
compared to the median ages
00:27:25.47\00:27:26.96
of the United States and Canada,
00:27:26.99\00:27:28.27
36 and 37 respectively.
00:27:28.30\00:27:31.87
Can you believe that
number? Keep writing.
00:27:31.90\00:27:35.07
More than 1,000
local Adventist churches
00:27:35.10\00:27:37.72
out of a total of
5,500 in North America
00:27:37.75\00:27:40.40
have no
children or teens at all.
00:27:40.43\00:27:42.43
I'll tell you where
those churches are going.
00:27:42.46\00:27:43.70
They're going adios.
00:27:43.73\00:27:49.37
They'll die off.
00:27:49.40\00:27:51.42
Come on we're not dealing
with rocket science here.
00:27:51.45\00:27:54.75
Our own, Roger Dudley,
00:27:54.78\00:27:57.36
seminal landmark
research on the Adventist young,
00:27:57.39\00:28:01.86
Allen's quoting Roger here,
00:28:01.89\00:28:03.64
can you see the
quotation from Roger study,
00:28:03.67\00:28:05.48
"it seems reasonable to believe
00:28:05.51\00:28:07.39
that at least 40 to 50 percent
00:28:07.42\00:28:09.89
of Seventh-day
Adventist teenagers,"
00:28:09.92\00:28:11.95
40 to 50 percent of teenagers
00:28:11.98\00:28:14.53
"are essentially
leaving the church
00:28:14.56\00:28:16.30
by their middle twenties."
00:28:16.33\00:28:18.68
By the time they
become young adults
00:28:18.71\00:28:20.85
it really is audios.
00:28:20.88\00:28:23.20
They're just
leaving, 40 to 50 percent.
00:28:23.23\00:28:26.30
Wow.
00:28:26.33\00:28:27.41
You say, ah come on, pastor,
00:28:27.44\00:28:29.55
that's not just a
problem of the church,
00:28:29.58\00:28:31.42
that's the problem
of all the society,
00:28:31.45\00:28:32.76
they're all
checking out these young.
00:28:32.79\00:28:34.30
Oh my friend I
bet to differ with you
00:28:34.33\00:28:37.41
in this presidential psycho.
00:28:37.44\00:28:40.17
There is a
candidate named, Barack Obama,
00:28:40.20\00:28:42.94
who by the hundreds of thousands
00:28:42.97\00:28:45.39
has attracted the
young to his candidacy.
00:28:45.42\00:28:47.95
Don't you tell
me that young adults
00:28:47.98\00:28:49.75
are checking out of the process,
00:28:49.78\00:28:51.42
they are has never before
00:28:51.45\00:28:53.18
in the political
process engaged this year.
00:28:53.21\00:28:55.90
Oh, well, of course doesn't mean
00:29:02.98\00:29:06.14
that we've lost all the young
in the church, you're right.
00:29:06.17\00:29:11.97
Not only our young adults
00:29:12.00\00:29:13.07
engaged in the
political process,
00:29:13.10\00:29:14.53
they're also engaged
in the spiritual process.
00:29:14.56\00:29:17.88
Which means that by no
means are they all checking out.
00:29:17.91\00:29:20.29
Thousands, listen
to this thousands,
00:29:20.32\00:29:22.51
I don't know what
the number would be,
00:29:22.54\00:29:23.73
thousands of Seventh-day
Adventist young adults,
00:29:23.76\00:29:26.49
just before Christmas will
gather in San Jose, California
00:29:26.52\00:29:30.75
this year in the
seventh annual GYC,
00:29:30.78\00:29:34.42
Generation of Youth
for Christ Convocation.
00:29:34.45\00:29:37.64
They'll pay their own way,
00:29:37.67\00:29:39.06
they'll come from
all over the continent.
00:29:39.09\00:29:41.13
Do you know why they'll gather?
00:29:41.16\00:29:42.48
Because they're
tried of the Church
00:29:42.51\00:29:43.97
talking to itself that's why.
00:29:44.00\00:29:45.85
They're ready to take
things in their own hands.
00:29:45.88\00:29:48.17
If nobody else
wants to enlist us
00:29:48.20\00:29:54.25
we'll engage
ourselves in a new conversation.
00:29:54.28\00:29:59.94
This Christmas by the thousands.
00:29:59.97\00:30:03.41
I got an email
from a young adult here
00:30:03.44\00:30:05.77
at Andrews
University, this week.
00:30:05.80\00:30:09.27
Mayor hall, Pastor Nelson,
00:30:09.30\00:30:11.74
you've talked a lot about
revival in the past few weeks,
00:30:11.77\00:30:14.54
revival on the
Andrews University campus,
00:30:14.57\00:30:16.63
revival in the world as a whole.
00:30:16.66\00:30:18.50
We're tangentially facing that
00:30:18.53\00:30:19.97
because as the
primetime series gets us back
00:30:20.00\00:30:21.83
to when the Church was revived,
00:30:21.86\00:30:23.20
nothing wrong with thinking
about it all over again.
00:30:23.23\00:30:25.57
So, you've
talked a lot about this.
00:30:25.60\00:30:27.17
I'm a student at Andrews
00:30:27.20\00:30:28.51
and I share that
dream what can I do?
00:30:28.54\00:30:31.82
I've prayed about it
00:30:31.85\00:30:32.95
and the spirit told me
that you might have ideas
00:30:32.98\00:30:34.72
of how I can make help
make that dream reality.
00:30:34.75\00:30:36.96
Thank you for your
time and he signs his name.
00:30:36.99\00:30:39.43
I wrote him back, I
said, we got to talk.
00:30:39.46\00:30:42.88
The point is
ladies and gentlemen,
00:30:42.91\00:30:45.16
they're here young adults
00:30:45.19\00:30:48.87
who are saying I
want to get involved.
00:30:48.90\00:30:51.72
I want the church to be revived,
00:30:51.75\00:30:53.13
I want to have, is
there any thing I can do?
00:30:53.16\00:30:57.90
Tell me they're all checked out.
00:30:57.93\00:31:00.88
Next time you see
Barack Obama remind yourself,
00:31:00.91\00:31:04.05
you can still
appeal to the young
00:31:04.08\00:31:06.26
for a cause
bigger than themselves.
00:31:06.29\00:31:09.33
The plain truth is
ladies and gentlemen,
00:31:09.36\00:31:11.09
that we're a Church desperately
in need of another Pentecost
00:31:11.12\00:31:14.86
and a new primetime generation.
00:31:14.89\00:31:19.26
Back on, I want to be
really candid with you now.
00:31:19.29\00:31:22.11
I kind of think
out loud with you.
00:31:22.14\00:31:24.34
I wonder if the economic crisis
00:31:24.37\00:31:26.72
that our nation and
world are facing today,
00:31:26.75\00:31:29.83
by the way while we're
worshiping here right now,
00:31:29.86\00:31:34.74
they're trying to figure it out.
00:31:34.77\00:31:36.79
I wonder to myself
could this become a catalyst
00:31:36.82\00:31:40.82
for the
Pentecost two generation.
00:31:40.85\00:31:45.78
I mean you look at how
similar the times were,
00:31:45.81\00:31:47.50
2,000 years apart.
00:31:47.53\00:31:49.16
But did little bit of research.
00:31:49.19\00:31:50.79
Here's Philip Harland from
York University in Toronto.
00:31:50.82\00:31:55.72
He has written a piece called
00:31:55.75\00:31:57.17
"The Economy of
First Century Palestine:
00:31:57.20\00:31:59.63
The State of
Scholarly Discussion"
00:31:59.66\00:32:01.27
and I'm reading his analysis.
00:32:01.30\00:32:03.09
I'm amazed at the
striking similarities
00:32:03.12\00:32:04.99
between our 2,000
years apart economies.
00:32:05.02\00:32:08.15
This is in your study guide,
00:32:08.18\00:32:09.26
I'll put it on the
screen this is Harland.
00:32:09.29\00:32:11.04
"In that first century AD
00:32:11.07\00:32:12.43
more and more of
the land in Palestine
00:32:12.46\00:32:14.23
became concentrated
00:32:14.26\00:32:16.53
'into the hands of
fewer large landowners
00:32:16.56\00:32:19.30
at the expense
of the peasants,'"
00:32:19.33\00:32:20.51
what's going on?
00:32:20.54\00:32:21.57
"The forfeiture of
land due to indebtedness
00:32:21.60\00:32:24.96
was a main cause of
peasants losing their land"
00:32:24.99\00:32:28.90
Sounds like am
economic melt down to me.
00:32:28.93\00:32:31.15
Sounds like what
we're having today.
00:32:31.18\00:32:32.44
Tenth, now, 10,000 houses,
00:32:32.47\00:32:36.13
homes a day are being foreclosed
00:32:36.16\00:32:38.63
in United States alone,
00:32:38.66\00:32:39.69
not a word about
Canada, 10,000 a day.
00:32:39.72\00:32:43.10
Because the
peasantry is in debt,
00:32:43.13\00:32:45.77
we can't keep
this up any longer.
00:32:45.80\00:32:47.96
And what's happening
with the wealthy landowners?
00:32:47.99\00:32:49.88
Read Wall
Street investment banks
00:32:49.91\00:32:53.14
who have gobbled up such
massive amounts of toxic death
00:32:53.17\00:32:56.19
that they're
threatening to collapse
00:32:56.22\00:32:57.67
an entire
economy as a consequence.
00:32:57.70\00:33:00.29
You want to talk
about the economy?
00:33:00.32\00:33:01.80
The whole nation
is talking about it.
00:33:01.83\00:33:03.45
We can worship and
think about it as well.
00:33:03.48\00:33:06.07
Bloomberg.com,
00:33:06.10\00:33:07.49
I read a
fascinating piece last week.
00:33:07.52\00:33:09.79
Analyzing the last
ten days, what's happened.
00:33:09.82\00:33:13.04
I didn't know,
you didn't know this,
00:33:13.07\00:33:14.62
but apparently,
all right apparently
00:33:14.65\00:33:17.71
last Thursday a week ago
00:33:17.74\00:33:21.18
we came to the preceptors edge
00:33:21.21\00:33:23.47
of an economic melt
down in this nation.
00:33:23.50\00:33:28.45
Hank Paulson, the
secretary treasurer here
00:33:28.48\00:33:30.61
in the United
States and Ben Bernanke,
00:33:30.64\00:33:32.41
the chairman of
the Federal Reserve,
00:33:32.44\00:33:34.24
we're in Nancy Pelosi's
office a week ago Thursday,
00:33:34.27\00:33:37.95
sitting about on a oak table,
00:33:37.98\00:33:39.22
twelve congressional
leaders have gathered.
00:33:39.25\00:33:44.05
And Paulson and
Bernanke took turns describing
00:33:44.08\00:33:47.09
where we are as we ever
we could go Thursday night.
00:33:47.12\00:33:50.41
Apparently I
didn't know this either
00:33:50.44\00:33:52.43
but the credit lines had
frozen, completely frozen.
00:33:52.46\00:33:55.67
So that banks were
refusing to lend to even banks
00:33:55.70\00:33:58.83
and if banks will not
pass money, it's over.
00:33:58.86\00:34:01.25
You shut the whole system down
00:34:01.28\00:34:02.74
and apparently
Wednesday night quietly
00:34:02.77\00:34:05.77
money is being
withdrawn outside our country
00:34:05.80\00:34:09.08
and placed away
from United States.
00:34:09.11\00:34:13.68
So, Bernanke gets up,
00:34:13.71\00:34:15.51
according to this
boomberg.com piece,
00:34:15.54\00:34:17.63
he gets up and he
announces to the them,
00:34:17.66\00:34:22.09
of course, this is
after the Lehman Brothers
00:34:22.12\00:34:23.75
and Merrill Lynch and AIG and,
00:34:23.78\00:34:25.83
by the way
yesterday largest bank
00:34:25.86\00:34:27.19
in history went bankrupt,
largest bankruptcy in history.
00:34:27.22\00:34:30.75
He announces to the leaders,
00:34:30.78\00:34:32.14
you could have
massive failures within days,
00:34:32.17\00:34:33.95
he told the group,
00:34:33.98\00:34:35.11
and it would go
beyond the banking system
00:34:35.14\00:34:36.67
and he started
naming brand name companies.
00:34:36.70\00:34:39.59
Now here's the
line that caught my eye,
00:34:39.62\00:34:40.87
politicians leaving the
meeting a week ago Thursday
00:34:40.90\00:34:43.68
said they were shocked at
these portions of Armageddon
00:34:43.71\00:34:46.09
from the usually
understated Bernanke.
00:34:46.12\00:34:48.18
They left the 90
minute meeting looking shaken
00:34:48.21\00:34:50.42
and resolve the act
before the election.
00:34:50.45\00:34:51.93
Now hold on, Christopher Dodd,
00:34:51.96\00:34:53.29
Connecticut democrat
00:34:53.32\00:34:54.60
and chairman of the senate
banking committee has quoted,
00:34:54.63\00:34:57.06
it was as sobering a meeting
00:34:57.09\00:34:59.31
as any of us have ever
attended in our career's here.
00:34:59.34\00:35:03.49
Ladies and gentlemen,
the point is simply this.
00:35:03.52\00:35:06.82
We now live in an
hour of profound change,
00:35:09.92\00:35:14.19
you understand this don't you.
00:35:14.22\00:35:15.45
Literally
overnight the headlines
00:35:15.48\00:35:18.53
can rewrite life is renowned.
00:35:18.56\00:35:23.27
In that context could it
be that like Pentecost one,
00:35:23.30\00:35:29.26
Pentecost two will come in
an hour of economic crisis.
00:35:29.29\00:35:35.03
I want you to
think for one moment,
00:35:35.06\00:35:37.31
the amazing similarities
between the 120 men women
00:35:37.34\00:35:40.34
and young adults crowded
00:35:40.37\00:35:41.49
into the upper room in Jerusalem
00:35:41.52\00:35:42.68
on the day of Pentecost
and the young adult generation,
00:35:42.71\00:35:45.26
the primetime generation today,
00:35:45.29\00:35:48.35
in which 3,400
00:35:48.38\00:35:49.95
have been in
entrusted to Andrews University.
00:35:49.98\00:35:51.64
I want you to notice the
similarities for a moment,
00:35:51.67\00:35:54.00
in fact its in your study guide,
00:35:54.03\00:35:55.27
jot these down, will you.
00:35:55.30\00:35:56.49
These are the parallels.
00:35:56.52\00:35:58.52
Number one and I'm
speaking to the young adults
00:35:58.55\00:36:00.88
who are here right now.
00:36:00.91\00:36:02.29
Number one just
like them, Pentecost one,
00:36:02.32\00:36:05.78
you are also devoted followers
of Jesus Christ hands down.
00:36:05.81\00:36:11.74
You've a passion for Christ.
00:36:11.77\00:36:13.42
You've a
passion for His mission,
00:36:13.45\00:36:15.11
just like them.
00:36:15.14\00:36:17.02
You've number one.
00:36:17.05\00:36:18.18
Number two, just like them
you are also relatively poor
00:36:18.21\00:36:22.08
and dominantly landless.
00:36:22.11\00:36:24.41
Perfect description of an
Andrews University student.
00:36:24.44\00:36:28.22
Dominantly poor, relatively poor
00:36:28.25\00:36:31.10
and dominantly landless,
you owe nothing, nothing.
00:36:31.13\00:36:35.54
And number three, just like
them you are also sabbatarian.
00:36:35.57\00:36:38.83
You worship the Creator
on the seventh day Sabbath
00:36:38.86\00:36:40.78
and you are little a Adventist.
00:36:40.81\00:36:42.91
You are fervent in your belief
that Jesus is coming soon.
00:36:42.94\00:36:46.01
By the way that
makes number four,
00:36:46.04\00:36:47.81
just like them you
are also without roots,
00:36:47.84\00:36:51.19
and thus perfectly positioned
00:36:51.22\00:36:52.92
to be instantly
mobilized by the Holy Spirit.
00:36:52.95\00:36:57.78
Because unlike them
all you need is a laptop,
00:36:57.81\00:37:04.77
a cell phone and a plane ticket.
00:37:04.80\00:37:09.36
There's never been a
generation so rapidly deployed
00:37:09.39\00:37:11.47
or so constantly in touch
as is primetime generation.
00:37:11.50\00:37:14.28
Guess what guys,
you like that animation?
00:37:14.31\00:37:18.15
They worked on
that between services,
00:37:18.18\00:37:19.79
that the relax they
gave me with no charge.
00:37:19.82\00:37:23.45
The fact is
ladies and gentlemen,
00:37:23.48\00:37:24.65
God can mobilize this
prime time generation,
00:37:24.68\00:37:26.85
God can mobilize
these young adults,
00:37:26.88\00:37:28.59
you young adults any
where on the planet He wishes
00:37:28.62\00:37:31.80
and because you have
so little halleluiah,
00:37:31.83\00:37:35.78
you don't have a lot to pack up,
00:37:35.81\00:37:38.15
throw in a pair of
jeans and a T-shirt
00:37:38.18\00:37:40.43
and you are ready to
go and God's ready to go.
00:37:40.46\00:37:46.03
You've been setup by the way,
00:37:46.06\00:37:48.16
sorry to be the one
to announce this to you.
00:37:48.19\00:37:50.33
You've been setup
by the Holy Spirit
00:37:50.36\00:37:52.51
all you need now,
00:37:52.54\00:37:53.97
is for that mighty
third person of the God
00:37:54.00\00:37:55.69
had to pour himself out upon you
00:37:55.72\00:37:57.62
and you are it, Pentecost two.
00:37:57.65\00:38:01.01
Margaret Mead,
00:38:05.03\00:38:06.80
a popular American
cultural anthropologist
00:38:06.83\00:38:09.33
of the last century.
00:38:09.36\00:38:10.53
She wrote a line, I take
great comfort in this line,
00:38:10.56\00:38:12.47
it's in your study
guide, isn't this something.
00:38:12.50\00:38:14.55
Mead writes, "Never
underestimate the ability
00:38:14.58\00:38:17.99
of a small group of
committed individuals
00:38:18.02\00:38:21.61
to change the world.
00:38:21.64\00:38:23.08
Indeed, they are the
only ones that have."
00:38:23.11\00:38:28.88
You think about the
great changes of history.
00:38:28.91\00:38:32.17
This little nation,
this little nation was formed
00:38:32.20\00:38:34.79
by just the handful
of young by the way.
00:38:34.82\00:38:37.85
Communism formed
by just a handful.
00:38:37.88\00:38:40.63
The church in Acts
formed by just a handful.
00:38:40.66\00:38:43.49
Mead is absolutely right.
00:38:43.52\00:38:44.81
You got to be committed,
00:38:44.84\00:38:46.13
but it can be a
small group of committed
00:38:46.16\00:38:48.41
they are the only ones
00:38:48.44\00:38:49.55
that have brought
change on this planet.
00:38:49.58\00:38:51.61
Listen, you may say,
00:38:51.64\00:38:53.43
hey that we are in no comparison
00:38:53.46\00:38:55.68
with Obama's army of the young.
00:38:55.71\00:38:57.70
Ah, you may not be
00:38:57.73\00:38:58.82
but you've aligned yourself
to the Christ of Calvary
00:38:58.85\00:39:01.23
and under His blood stain banner
00:39:01.26\00:39:03.45
you have all the forces of
heaven ready to be unleash,
00:39:03.48\00:39:07.48
not for a political cause,
00:39:07.51\00:39:09.41
for the greatest agenda in
the history of this universe
00:39:09.44\00:39:13.39
and that is the
salvation of the human race.
00:39:13.42\00:39:16.90
Man, you got setup.
00:39:16.93\00:39:19.64
You got born at the right time.
00:39:19.67\00:39:24.06
God says I got to have you.
00:39:24.09\00:39:26.25
Tell you what, baby boomers
were born at the wrong time.
00:39:26.28\00:39:30.20
We got so many toys
now, our roots are so deep.
00:39:30.23\00:39:33.28
God says, give me
another generation.
00:39:33.31\00:39:37.00
How many houses
do those people have?
00:39:37.03\00:39:39.39
How many cars in those garages?
00:39:39.42\00:39:41.57
I need another generation.
00:39:45.57\00:39:48.35
I need another generation.
00:39:48.38\00:39:51.05
You know what,
speaking to Margaret Mead,
00:39:51.08\00:39:53.15
a woman a century
earlier than Margaret Mead
00:39:53.18\00:39:55.52
wrote these words
in your study guide.
00:39:55.55\00:39:57.55
The last words
in your study guide.
00:39:57.58\00:39:59.40
I like this, I carry these words
00:39:59.43\00:40:00.96
in the back of my Bible.
00:40:00.99\00:40:02.21
"With such an army of
workers," Ellen White.
00:40:02.24\00:40:05.54
"With such an army
of workers as our youth,
00:40:05.57\00:40:08.22
rightly trained, might furnish,
00:40:08.25\00:40:10.30
how soon the message
of a crucified, risen
00:40:10.33\00:40:12.62
and soon coming Savior
00:40:12.65\00:40:13.99
might be carried
to the whole world!"
00:40:14.02\00:40:16.00
Just like that.
00:40:16.03\00:40:17.10
Primetime
generation, that's all He needs.
00:40:17.13\00:40:19.41
"How soon might the end come,
00:40:19.44\00:40:21.23
the end of
suffering and sorrow and sin!"
00:40:21.26\00:40:24.08
Isn't that something,
just like that God can do it,
00:40:24.11\00:40:28.12
with His
strategic primetime army.
00:40:28.15\00:40:33.02
I'm telling you
that's what keeps me going.
00:40:33.05\00:40:36.37
That is what keeps me going
00:40:36.40\00:40:38.87
because you finally arrived.
00:40:38.90\00:40:43.43
Don't sell yourself short.
00:40:43.46\00:40:44.87
Some of you can
do in those speeches
00:40:44.90\00:40:45.99
in your mind right now,
it's not me, it's not me,
00:40:46.02\00:40:47.68
get off that trip, it's you.
00:40:47.71\00:40:52.50
Your mission should
you choose to accept it,
00:40:52.53\00:40:55.95
it's your mission.
00:40:55.98\00:40:58.49
With such an army is this,
00:40:58.52\00:41:00.07
primetime
generation of the young--
00:41:00.10\00:41:01.85
Oh, I tell you what, I
find that word army very unique.
00:41:01.88\00:41:05.24
The Blogosfere has gone
wild over this economic meltdown
00:41:05.27\00:41:10.22
and I was lead through the
Blogosfere to armynews.com,
00:41:10.25\00:41:14.38
they are not saying
much about this in public,
00:41:14.41\00:41:16.07
I don't know why.
00:41:16.10\00:41:18.09
But I found out, I
went to armynews.com,
00:41:18.12\00:41:20.33
it's an army
report, listen to this.
00:41:20.36\00:41:22.23
They reported that a brigade
is being brought back from Iraq
00:41:22.26\00:41:25.75
and assigned to this nation.
00:41:25.78\00:41:29.11
Here to afford
the national guarder
00:41:29.14\00:41:30.62
has been assigned to this nation
00:41:30.65\00:41:31.72
and the army's
purpose is go out there.
00:41:31.75\00:41:33.84
But now they've
assigned the brigade
00:41:33.87\00:41:36.00
to the United States.
00:41:36.03\00:41:37.76
What for?
00:41:37.79\00:41:38.87
Marking the,
and I'm quoting now.
00:41:38.90\00:41:40.17
"The first time an active unit
00:41:40.20\00:41:42.06
has been given a dedicated
assignment to North Com."
00:41:42.09\00:41:45.07
You are saying what's North Com?
00:41:45.10\00:41:46.27
"It's a joint
command established in 2002
00:41:46.30\00:41:48.89
to provide command and control
00:41:48.92\00:41:50.64
for federal
homeland defense efforts."
00:41:50.67\00:41:54.05
We're going to use the
army now amongst our people.
00:41:54.08\00:41:58.16
Now watch this, what kind
of efforts, another quote.
00:41:58.19\00:42:00.95
"They may be called upon to help
00:42:00.98\00:42:03.06
with civil unrest
and crowd control."
00:42:03.09\00:42:07.72
Crowd control,
somebody expecting some trouble.
00:42:07.75\00:42:12.80
This much is certain.
00:42:16.06\00:42:18.81
If ever there
were a critical hour
00:42:18.84\00:42:20.42
for Gods young
army to be mobilized,
00:42:20.45\00:42:25.19
society is ready.
00:42:25.22\00:42:26.99
This is primetime,
primetime has come.
00:42:27.02\00:42:32.53
I believe that Jesus has
raised up your generation
00:42:32.56\00:42:36.43
for mission that no other,
00:42:36.46\00:42:38.93
nobody else can fulfill but you.
00:42:38.96\00:42:43.53
We been praying for you.
00:42:43.56\00:42:46.12
We been waiting for you.
00:42:46.15\00:42:47.78
You came at the right time,
at time of utter instability.
00:42:47.81\00:42:50.55
You come with the
right qualifications,
00:42:50.58\00:42:51.96
a wiliness for
immediate mobility.
00:42:51.99\00:42:55.55
But here's the question.
00:42:55.58\00:42:57.09
Now that you've
come are you ready to go?
00:42:57.12\00:43:02.25
Now that you've
come are you ready to go?
00:43:04.25\00:43:10.40
I want to end
with that question.
00:43:10.43\00:43:12.28
I'm not going to end
with the heart tucking story.
00:43:12.31\00:43:15.80
I want to end
with an honest appeal.
00:43:15.83\00:43:17.44
If you're young listen please.
00:43:17.47\00:43:21.64
I was driving out at
the beautiful new entrance
00:43:21.67\00:43:23.65
to Andrews University yesterday
00:43:23.68\00:43:26.62
and saw this young adult on
a tiny little motor scooter,
00:43:26.65\00:43:29.74
I've never seen a motor--
00:43:29.77\00:43:30.80
I've never seen
such a small thing
00:43:30.83\00:43:32.35
and he is going down,
00:43:32.38\00:43:33.41
you know the, there's
a white stripe to left,
00:43:33.44\00:43:35.09
bikers going there and
so he is going down there.
00:43:35.12\00:43:37.28
We both get to the
highway at the same time
00:43:37.31\00:43:39.32
and he cuts behind me,
so I roll my window down
00:43:39.35\00:43:41.64
because he is coming up beside.
00:43:41.67\00:43:43.91
I made some wise crack
about his transportation.
00:43:43.94\00:43:47.94
And he sees who it is.
00:43:47.97\00:43:50.49
Say hey pastor, I been
wanting to talk to you.
00:43:50.52\00:43:52.71
I said what's up.
00:43:52.74\00:43:54.15
He said you know what,
00:43:54.18\00:43:55.41
I believe God is coming soon
00:43:55.44\00:43:58.16
and there is some
stuff I need to talk about.
00:43:58.19\00:44:01.47
I said come in
the office next week.
00:44:01.50\00:44:04.55
He is a social worker, major.
00:44:04.58\00:44:08.99
I sense something
is going on this planet
00:44:09.02\00:44:11.43
and I need to
talk to you, is there,
00:44:11.46\00:44:12.82
something we can be doing?
00:44:12.85\00:44:14.37
Oh yes there's
something you can be doing.
00:44:14.40\00:44:16.85
Gods put on an army together.
00:44:16.88\00:44:19.07
Rapid mobilization.
00:44:21.85\00:44:25.50
No roots, just a
laptop a cell phone
00:44:25.53\00:44:29.00
and a plane ticket
that's all you need.
00:44:29.03\00:44:31.44
Primetime, hear it
Jesus has called you.
00:44:31.47\00:44:38.34
The Lord of Calvary greater
than any presidential candidate
00:44:38.37\00:44:42.41
is saying I need you
boy, I need you girl,
00:44:42.44\00:44:44.55
you work for
Me, you work for Me.
00:44:44.58\00:44:48.85
We have a biggest mission
in the history of the universe
00:44:48.88\00:44:52.13
and we need to rapid up now.
00:44:52.16\00:44:55.31
And so I need to
make an appeal right now
00:44:55.34\00:44:57.06
to those sitting behind me
and those sitting in front.
00:44:57.09\00:45:00.79
If you are a young adult
00:45:00.82\00:45:02.92
and I let you
decide what that is.
00:45:02.95\00:45:07.04
If you are a young adult
00:45:07.07\00:45:11.47
and you would be willing to
say to the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:45:11.50\00:45:15.66
I would join that army.
00:45:15.69\00:45:17.65
I will join Your primetime army,
00:45:17.68\00:45:19.81
I'll go anywhere
You want me to go.
00:45:19.84\00:45:21.34
I'll go to any nation on
earth that You send me to.
00:45:21.37\00:45:23.38
I'll go to any state in
the union You send me to.
00:45:23.41\00:45:25.73
You give me a
plane ticket and I'll go.
00:45:25.76\00:45:27.76
I'll go.
00:45:27.79\00:45:31.31
If you're willing to
make that kind of commitment
00:45:31.34\00:45:36.03
as a young adult
I'm gonna ask you
00:45:36.06\00:45:37.70
to stand your feet come,
00:45:37.73\00:45:38.83
come to the front
right now, right now.
00:45:38.86\00:45:41.26
You're the primetime generation.
00:45:44.94\00:45:47.92
In the back of the
balcony come forward,
00:45:47.95\00:45:49.69
in the crowd
behind me come forward.
00:45:49.72\00:45:53.48
Say, I'm ready Jesus.
00:45:53.51\00:45:57.28
You say the word and I go.
00:45:57.31\00:46:00.59
Now look at, guys,
00:46:00.62\00:46:01.91
I've no idea where
Christ is going to send you.
00:46:01.94\00:46:04.06
God bless you. God bless you.
00:46:04.09\00:46:06.95
I've no idea where
Jesus is gonna send you.
00:46:06.98\00:46:09.98
I just know, He's been waiting
a long time for you to come.
00:46:10.01\00:46:14.64
Hallelujah.
00:46:14.67\00:46:16.27
And you're here, praise God.
00:46:16.30\00:46:19.30
You're not making
a commitment to me,
00:46:19.33\00:46:21.30
you're not even
making a commitment
00:46:21.33\00:46:22.42
to the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:46:22.45\00:46:25.43
You're making a commitment
to the Lord of the church.
00:46:25.46\00:46:28.39
Say now go, I'll camp
me into the primetime.
00:46:28.42\00:46:30.66
I'm prime time.
00:46:30.69\00:46:32.24
I've no idea where
the economy is going,
00:46:32.27\00:46:33.90
you know what I
don't either, I don't care.
00:46:33.93\00:46:35.99
I just know God
is ready to move.
00:46:36.02\00:46:38.38
I know that
every thing is setup.
00:46:38.41\00:46:40.10
I know that if God
wants to pull the plug
00:46:40.13\00:46:41.45
He can pull the plug
tomorrow, that's His business.
00:46:41.48\00:46:44.88
But you're the
generation, the army.
00:46:44.91\00:46:48.28
How soon the end could
come, with an army like this.
00:46:48.31\00:46:53.74
Some of you can take
a year off next year.
00:46:53.77\00:46:56.47
Just a year off,
I'll go for a year.
00:46:56.50\00:46:58.45
Somebody saying
there's no way, Dwight,
00:46:58.48\00:47:00.20
I got to get out of here.
00:47:00.23\00:47:01.26
I'm staying
right in, that's fine.
00:47:01.29\00:47:04.70
We need you right here.
We need you in Benton Harbor.
00:47:04.73\00:47:06.62
We need you right
here in this community.
00:47:06.65\00:47:10.97
The point is we just need you.
00:47:11.00\00:47:13.92
The church is been
waiting for you and you are it.
00:47:13.95\00:47:17.05
And I'm so proud of you.
00:47:17.08\00:47:18.71
You're what keeps
this university going.
00:47:18.74\00:47:22.63
You're what keeps this
little preacher going to.
00:47:22.66\00:47:27.36
How about it Andrews University
00:47:27.39\00:47:29.53
here they are the student
first church by the way too.
00:47:29.56\00:47:35.74
Here they are.
00:47:35.77\00:47:37.46
This is the young, this
is the primetime generation.
00:47:37.49\00:47:40.57
I want to make an appeal to you
00:47:40.60\00:47:42.04
a alumni who were here
and rest of you adults.
00:47:42.07\00:47:45.88
I was in the
potluck last Sabbath
00:47:45.91\00:47:47.88
for the Sabbath school class
and one of the retirees say,
00:47:47.91\00:47:50.53
hey Dwight, this
economy is a mess.
00:47:50.56\00:47:53.24
I said, yeah I know.
00:47:53.27\00:47:55.97
He said hey, you know we
have some money set aside,
00:47:56.00\00:47:59.40
at what point Dwight,
00:47:59.43\00:48:00.51
are we supposed
to invest that money
00:48:00.54\00:48:02.98
in the work of the church.
00:48:03.01\00:48:04.90
And I looked back at him
and said, are you kidding me?
00:48:04.93\00:48:07.44
I have no idea.
00:48:07.47\00:48:09.42
He said, do you suppose,
00:48:09.45\00:48:10.92
if you would say
something from upfront
00:48:10.95\00:48:12.60
if that time came?
00:48:12.63\00:48:13.72
Well, I suppose.
00:48:13.75\00:48:16.42
But I said to this, I said to
my friend I said listen to me.
00:48:16.45\00:48:19.57
You know Karen and I
are thinking a little bit,
00:48:19.60\00:48:20.96
hey what about the extras.
00:48:20.99\00:48:25.69
I'll tell you what,
00:48:25.72\00:48:27.02
one thing is
clear in my thinking
00:48:27.05\00:48:30.94
that I want,
whatever discretionary income
00:48:30.97\00:48:34.34
that God has entrusted to me
00:48:34.37\00:48:35.89
I would like to
invest it with Him
00:48:35.92\00:48:38.21
before the money is worthless.
00:48:38.24\00:48:41.02
Because there will be one day
00:48:41.05\00:48:42.13
that bank account
is paper zero, nada.
00:48:42.16\00:48:46.78
Just ask the people who
live to the great depression
00:48:46.81\00:48:49.61
they are now starting to cast
an eye backward Ben Bernanke
00:48:49.64\00:48:52.90
a specialist in
the great depression.
00:48:52.93\00:48:54.76
They're looking backward now
00:48:54.79\00:48:56.00
and saying could
it be, who knows.
00:48:56.03\00:48:58.66
The point is now I'm appealing
to you alumni and adults now,
00:48:58.69\00:49:03.68
you've some
money you can invest.
00:49:03.71\00:49:05.77
We need thousands of dollars.
00:49:05.80\00:49:07.64
We need, look at this
we need plane tickets.
00:49:07.67\00:49:11.32
We got to get this generation,
00:49:11.35\00:49:12.83
they're ready to go.
00:49:12.86\00:49:14.01
They just don't,
they're poor like Pentecost one.
00:49:14.04\00:49:19.04
They need some help.
00:49:19.07\00:49:20.67
So we're receiving an
offering today, yes we are.
00:49:20.70\00:49:24.39
There's a little
envelope in your bulletin
00:49:24.42\00:49:26.94
that looks like this.
00:49:26.97\00:49:28.02
I wish the alumni, everybody
else will see it right now.
00:49:28.05\00:49:29.97
I wish you pull
this little envelope out,
00:49:30.00\00:49:32.61
because this is your
way to say hey Dwight,
00:49:32.64\00:49:33.95
I'll help out, you bet.
00:49:33.98\00:49:35.61
I don't care if
they go overseas,
00:49:35.64\00:49:36.67
I don't care if they
stay in Benton, Harbor,
00:49:36.70\00:49:38.33
I don't care if they go--
00:49:38.36\00:49:40.00
We had a couple of
student missionaries up here
00:49:40.03\00:49:41.48
went to Indianapolis
last year during chapel,
00:49:41.51\00:49:43.17
they were given their testimony.
00:49:43.20\00:49:44.25
I don't care if
they go to India.
00:49:44.28\00:49:45.41
I don't care where they go,
I just want to help them go.
00:49:45.44\00:49:48.20
Here's my money.
00:49:48.23\00:49:49.62
You say Dwight, I
didn't bring any thing
00:49:49.65\00:49:51.16
to really fill this up,
well it does take credit card.
00:49:51.19\00:49:56.46
But if you're
not prepared to give
00:49:56.49\00:49:57.61
I wish you would
write your name down.
00:49:57.64\00:49:58.76
I wish you would
write your name down
00:49:58.79\00:49:59.85
and email address
and say hey listen
00:49:59.88\00:50:01.13
I'll put the amount
that you would like to give.
00:50:01.16\00:50:03.45
See these kids,
they're ready to go.
00:50:03.48\00:50:05.87
You can help to send them.
00:50:05.90\00:50:07.46
God is so exited,
00:50:07.49\00:50:08.66
He has got His
generation Pentecost
00:50:08.69\00:50:10.57
two could be the
legacy of this generation.
00:50:10.60\00:50:15.94
That's God's call not mine.
00:50:15.97\00:50:17.83
I just know that I want
to go down fight to the end.
00:50:17.86\00:50:21.55
And I want to go
with these young,
00:50:21.58\00:50:22.86
by the way someday,
00:50:22.89\00:50:23.97
somebody came
up to me afterwards
00:50:24.00\00:50:25.09
hey, Dwight, don't
forget us who are 80.
00:50:25.12\00:50:26.63
No, I'm not forgetting you.
00:50:26.66\00:50:28.47
You and I baby
boomers, we don't move now,
00:50:28.50\00:50:31.50
we're stuck that's okay.
00:50:31.53\00:50:33.69
We got stuff that we
can give to the cause.
00:50:33.72\00:50:37.57
And we can be a work in
the very little communities
00:50:37.60\00:50:39.58
where God has already placed us.
00:50:39.61\00:50:40.86
This is for all of us.
Primetime is every demographic.
00:50:40.89\00:50:44.38
But these are
the mobilized ones.
00:50:44.41\00:50:46.39
These are the front
guard that Jesus has raised up.
00:50:46.42\00:50:49.96
So, we're gonna sing a song.
00:50:49.99\00:50:51.91
Put the words on the
screen, I need the audience,
00:50:51.94\00:50:53.73
please just stay seated
so the ushers can come by.
00:50:53.76\00:50:57.01
I'll follow these words
are written back in 1886
00:50:57.04\00:50:59.56
by James Lawson Elginburg.
00:50:59.59\00:51:01.25
I will follow Thee, my Savior
00:51:01.28\00:51:03.06
Wheresoe'er my lot may be
00:51:03.09\00:51:05.10
Where Thou goest I will follow
00:51:05.13\00:51:07.12
Yes, my Lord, I'll follow Thee
00:51:07.15\00:51:10.10
We put three
stanzas on the screen
00:51:10.13\00:51:11.79
that's all we're gonna sing
00:51:11.82\00:51:13.01
and we're gonna have
a chance for all of us
00:51:13.04\00:51:15.41
to stand and have prayer
00:51:15.44\00:51:16.86
then Japhet, Chaplain Japhet,
00:51:16.89\00:51:18.40
is right there please
those of you've come forward
00:51:18.43\00:51:21.02
just go right up
those double doors
00:51:21.05\00:51:23.00
through the next double
doors that's the youth chapel.
00:51:23.03\00:51:25.54
I want just one more moment
with you before you leave.
00:51:25.57\00:51:28.48
Put something in your hands,
00:51:28.51\00:51:29.57
something for you to
remember this by, all right.
00:51:29.60\00:51:33.81
All right ushers,
you're ready to go?
00:51:33.84\00:51:35.55
You gonna have to
get through these isles
00:51:35.58\00:51:37.07
but you can do that.
00:51:37.10\00:51:38.41
Let's put the
words on the screen,
00:51:38.44\00:51:39.51
lets start singing.
00:51:39.54\00:51:41.07
I will follow Thee, my Savior
00:51:51.42\00:51:56.96
Wheresoe'er my lot may be
00:51:56.99\00:52:02.70
Where Thou goest I will follow
00:52:02.73\00:52:08.40
Yes, my Lord, I'll follow Thee
00:52:08.43\00:52:14.63
I will follow Thee, my Savior
00:52:14.66\00:52:20.57
Thou didst shed Thy blood for me
00:52:20.60\00:52:26.50
And though all men
should forsake Thee
00:52:26.53\00:52:32.69
By Thy grace I'll follow Thee
00:52:32.72\00:52:39.04
Though the road
be rough and stormy
00:52:41.25\00:52:47.40
Trackless as the foaming sea
00:52:47.43\00:52:53.47
Thou hast trod
this way before me
00:52:53.50\00:52:59.88
And I'll gladly follow Thee
00:52:59.91\00:53:06.53
I will follow Thee, my Savior
00:53:06.56\00:53:12.86
Though didst
shed Thy blood for me
00:53:12.89\00:53:19.32
And though all men
should forsake Thee
00:53:19.35\00:53:25.72
By Thy grace I'll follow Thee
00:53:25.75\00:53:32.19
Though to
Jordan's rolling billows
00:53:34.24\00:53:40.85
Cold and deep, Thou leadest me
00:53:40.88\00:53:47.21
Thou hast crossed
the waves before me
00:53:47.24\00:53:53.69
And I still will follow Thee
00:53:53.72\00:53:59.98
I will follow Thee, my Savior
00:54:00.01\00:54:07.05
Thou didst shed Thy blood for me
00:54:07.08\00:54:14.33
And though all men
should forsake Thee
00:54:14.36\00:54:21.38
By Thy grace I'll follow Thee
00:54:21.41\00:54:28.98
Holy Father,
you know our hearts.
00:54:31.46\00:54:33.13
You know, that's what we want.
00:54:33.16\00:54:36.00
We want to been here today.
00:54:36.03\00:54:37.82
Did that word our longing?
00:54:37.85\00:54:39.33
We want to follow You,
00:54:39.36\00:54:40.91
we want to follow the Lord Jesus
00:54:40.94\00:54:42.50
wherever He leads.
00:54:42.53\00:54:44.03
Cold stormy
waters, we'll go there.
00:54:44.06\00:54:48.03
High plateau
deserts, we'll go there.
00:54:48.06\00:54:51.35
Crowded urban
jungles, we'll go there.
00:54:51.38\00:54:54.47
We'll go wherever Jesus goes.
00:54:54.50\00:54:57.50
And oh Father, I want
to thank You for these,
00:54:57.53\00:54:59.93
who are the young in our midst
00:54:59.96\00:55:01.59
primetime generation.
00:55:01.62\00:55:04.05
You've spoken to them today,
the spirit has enlisted them.
00:55:04.08\00:55:07.98
I pray that
every young adult here,
00:55:08.01\00:55:10.44
man and women would
never forget this Sabbath
00:55:10.47\00:55:14.11
and the commitment
he, the commitment she may
00:55:14.14\00:55:16.50
bring this memory
back again and again.
00:55:16.53\00:55:19.79
The going isn't gonna be easy
00:55:19.82\00:55:22.67
but in those hours of midnight
00:55:22.70\00:55:27.74
You whisper, I've called You,
00:55:27.77\00:55:31.52
You said yes, You're in my army.
00:55:31.55\00:55:36.24
I need You till you die.
00:55:36.27\00:55:39.10
Oh, Jesus, seal us all please.
00:55:39.13\00:55:44.72
How soon the end
the suffering and sorrow
00:55:44.75\00:55:49.34
and sin might come
Pentecost, we plead.
00:55:49.37\00:55:55.48
Now to Him who loves us
00:55:59.10\00:56:03.21
and has freed us
from our sins by His blood
00:56:03.24\00:56:06.45
and has made us to be a kingdom
00:56:06.48\00:56:07.78
and priest to
serve his God and Father
00:56:07.81\00:56:10.89
to Him be glory and
power forever and ever.
00:56:10.92\00:56:13.60
Look He's coming with a clouds
and every eye will see Him.
00:56:13.63\00:56:18.27
And so shall it be.
00:56:18.30\00:56:21.64
Amen.
00:56:21.67\00:56:23.06
I'd like to take a moment here
00:56:25.60\00:56:26.71
at the end of the
service to tell you about
00:56:26.74\00:56:28.14
one of the most
important groups of people
00:56:28.17\00:56:30.15
that make this
ministry possible.
00:56:30.18\00:56:33.02
They are team of people,
00:56:33.05\00:56:34.45
they are not afraid to get down
into the thick of life itself
00:56:34.48\00:56:38.28
which is why
you're gonna find them
00:56:38.31\00:56:39.46
you will find them
moving forward on their knees.
00:56:39.49\00:56:42.66
They're our prayer partners,
00:56:42.69\00:56:44.37
a group of men and
women and young adults
00:56:44.40\00:56:47.63
who believe that this
humble television ministry
00:56:47.66\00:56:50.49
has been raised up by
God for such a time as this.
00:56:50.52\00:56:52.96
And so they pray earnestly
that God will use the preacher,
00:56:52.99\00:56:56.10
that God will use me,
00:56:56.13\00:56:57.20
that God will use the
countless other volunteers
00:56:57.23\00:56:59.82
to spread the everlasting
gospel and the Word of God
00:56:59.85\00:57:02.85
and ways we could
never have imagined before.
00:57:02.88\00:57:05.41
There are the
ones who are praying
00:57:05.44\00:57:06.92
that God is gonna open
up the hearts of the people.
00:57:06.95\00:57:10.17
Open up the hearts of viewers
00:57:10.20\00:57:11.70
around the
world for the message,
00:57:11.73\00:57:13.82
the critical message for
this end time generation.
00:57:13.85\00:57:17.89
And what I'd
like to do is ask you,
00:57:17.92\00:57:19.85
would you be willing to
be a prayer partner with us,
00:57:19.88\00:57:22.72
a prayer partner
with New Perceptions?
00:57:22.75\00:57:24.37
You don't have to
call our toll free number.
00:57:24.40\00:57:26.05
You don't have to
go online to register.
00:57:26.08\00:57:28.14
All I need to know is
that you would be willing
00:57:28.17\00:57:30.90
to lift this little ministry
up day after day after day.
00:57:30.93\00:57:36.57
Pray that somehow
through radio and television
00:57:36.60\00:57:39.90
and the web God
will open up new doors,
00:57:39.93\00:57:42.33
new regions on earth
00:57:42.36\00:57:45.01
where the everlasting
gospel can be proclaimed.
00:57:45.04\00:57:47.46
There is no
question the power of prayer
00:57:47.49\00:57:50.17
has potential to take
this ministry to places
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we could never
have imagined before.
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So that's it, would
you please be willing
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to partner with me in prayer?
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The times are urgent,
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the need is critical
and I hope you'll say, yes.
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Till we're together next time
may the prayer answering God
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accompany you
every step of the way.
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