Welcome to South
East Youth Conference
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and we especially welcome
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those watching via satellite.
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Our first song this evening
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will be "Jesus is coming again"
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lift up the trumpet
for Jesus is coming again,
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amen. Amen.
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Lift up the
trumpet, and loud let it ring
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Jesus is coming again!
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Cheer up, ye
pilgrims, be joyful and sing
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Jesus is coming again!
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Coming again, Coming again
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Jesus is coming again!
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Echo it, hilltops;
proclaim it, ye plains
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Jesus is coming again!
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Coming in glory, the Lamb that
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was slain Jesus is coming again!
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Coming again, Coming again
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Jesus is coming again!
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Nations are angry
by this we do know
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Jesus is coming again!
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Knowledge
increases, men run to and fro
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Jesus is coming again!
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Coming again, Coming again
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Jesus is coming again!
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Our next song, next hymn,
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"When the roll is
called up yonder."
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When the trumpet of the Lord
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shall sound, and
time shall be no more
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And the morning breaks,
eternal, bright and fair
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When the saved of earth
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shall gather over
on the other shore
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And the roll is called
up yonder, I'll be there
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When the roll
is called up yonder
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When the roll
is called up yonder
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When the roll
is called up yonder
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When the roll is
called up yonder I'll be there
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On that bright
and cloudless morning
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when the dead in
Christ shall rise
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And the glory of
his resurrection share
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When his chosen
ones shall gather
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to their home beyond the skies
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And the roll is called
up yonder, I'll be there
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When the roll
is called up yonder
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When the roll
is called up yonder
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When the roll
is called up yonder
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When the roll is
called up yonder I'll be there
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Let us labor for the Master
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from the dawn till setting sun
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Let us talk of all
his wondrous love and care
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Then when all of life is over,
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and our work on earth is done
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And the roll is called
up yonder, I'll be there
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When the roll
is called up yonder
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When the roll
is called up yonder
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When the roll
is called up yonder
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When the roll is
called up yonder I'll be there
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"Oh! When shall I see Jesus"
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it's our next hymn.
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O when shall I see Jesus,
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And reign with him above,
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And shall hear the
trumpet sound in that morning.
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And from the flowing fountain,
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Drink everlasting love,
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And shall hear the
trumpet sound in that morning.
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O, shout, glory!
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For I shall
mount above the skies
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When I hear the
trumpet sound in that morning
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Gird on the gospel armor
of faith and hope and love
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and you'll hear the
trumpet sound in that morning
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And when the combat's
ended He'll carry you above
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and you'll hear the
trumpet sound in that morning
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O, shout, glory! For I
shall mount above the skies,
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When I hear the
trumpet sound in that morning
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Our ears shall
hear with transport
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the host of heaven sing
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And shall hear the
trumpet sound in that morning
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Our tongues shall chant the
glories of our immortal King
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And shall hear the
trumpet sound in that morning
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O, shout, glory! For I
shall mount above the skies,
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When I hear the
trumpet sound in that morning
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Our next hymn
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"My hope is
built on nothing less."
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My hope is built on nothing less
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Than Jesus'
blood and righteousness
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I dare not trust
the sweetest frame
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But wholly lean on Jesus' Name
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On Christ the solid Rock I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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When darkness
seems to hide His face
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I rest on His unchanging grace
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In every high and stormy gale
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My anchor holds within the veil
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On Christ, the
solid Rock I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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When He shall
come with trumpet sound
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Oh may I then in Him be found
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Clad in His righteousness alone
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Faultless to
stand before the throne.
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On Christ, the
solid Rock I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other
ground is sinking sand.
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Our next hymn, next
hymn it's our theme song
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"Watch ye saints."
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Let's rise as we
sing, let's rise as we sing.
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Watch, ye saints,
with eyelids waking
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Lo! The powers of
heaven are shaking
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Keep your lamps
all trimmed and burning
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Ready for your Lord's returning
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Lo! He comes, lo! Jesus comes
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Lo! He comes, He
comes all glorious!
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Jesus comes to reign victorious
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Lo! He comes, yes, Jesus comes.
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Kingdoms at their
base are crumbling;
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Hark! His chariot
wheels are rumbling
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Tell, O tell of grace abounding
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While the
seventh trump is sounding
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Lo! He comes, lo! Jesus comes
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Lo! He comes, He
comes all glorious!
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Jesus comes to reign victorious
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Lo! He comes, yes, Jesus comes.
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Nations wane,
though proud and stately
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Christ His kingdom
has hasteneth greatly
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Earth her
latest pangs is summing
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Shout, ye saints,
your Lord is coming.
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Lo! He comes, lo! Jesus comes
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Lo! He comes, He
comes all glorious!
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Jesus comes to reign victorious
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Lo! He comes, yes, Jesus comes
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Sinners, come,
while Christ is pleading
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Now for you He's interceding
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Haste, ere grace
and time diminished
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Shall proclaim
the mystery finished
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Lo! He comes, lo! Jesus comes
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Lo! He comes, He
comes all glorious!
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Jesus comes to reign victorious
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Lo! He comes, yes, Jesus comes.
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I was born in India
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and I lived there for 13 years.
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My parents didn't own a TV
so I never watched much TV.
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So the only
place I could watch TV
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was at my neighbor's house.
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The two programs that I watched
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was cricket and Pastor Finley.
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By the way cricket is
a sport and not a insect,
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even though
Pastor Finley's program
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would air during the time
of my neighbor's afternoon nap
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they would
gladly forsake their nap
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and join us to
watch Pastor Finley speak.
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I was impressed
with his enthusiasm
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and passion for Jesus Christ.
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I've heard Pastor Finley speak
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many times since after being
introduced to him in India.
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At the General Youth Conference
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in 2004 in
Sacramento, California.
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He inspired me to
make a renewed commitment
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to be a medical missionary.
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I believe he will
motive you as he did me to be,
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an active soul
winner for Jesus Christ.
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No matter what your
major or a occupation maybe.
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If there is one thing
in Pastor Finley's ministry
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that stands out above the rest,
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it's his passion
for winning souls
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for Jesus Christ.
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Good evening, I'm delighted
to be with you this evening.
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You know, I
think this is probably
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the second largest
group of young people
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I've ever spoken to.
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The largest group
was in Hungary one night
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when they thought they
were coming to a Rock Concert,
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they heard me come to preach.
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I need to tell
you about that story,
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I have an
evangelistic series in Hungary
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after 40 years of communism.
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And the same night that I
had my evangelistic meeting
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in that large auditorium
the most famous rock band
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in Hungary was
having a rock concert
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starting at 9
O'clock that evening.
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I started my meetings at 7,
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but young people began lining up
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for the rock concert at
about 4 O'clock in the afternoon
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and there were
hundreds and hundreds
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and hundreds of them outside.
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I came to the auditorium
and I was really excited,
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because I thought these
kids have come to hear me
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preach that night.
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When the
auditorium doors were opened
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these young people rushed
in and surrounded the stage,
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they surround, they were
in the back of the stage.
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They were scores of
young people on the stage
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and when I walked out to preach
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I was not the most
popular person that evening.
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I preach that night
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and there was a
large ruckus in the crowd,
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there was a lot of
snickering in the crowd,
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and I came home that night
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and felt really badly about it.
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I said, Lord, we waited 40 years
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to have an evangelistic meeting
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this was just at the fall
of communism, it was 1989.
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In fact when I was in Hungary,
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the Berlin Wall fell,
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a hundred thousand
people marched in the street
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and I was on my bed that night,
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2 O'clock in the morning,
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3 O'clock in
the morning praying,
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and I'm saying, God,
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why did you
allow this to happen?
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You know, it was confusing,
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I didn't make the message clear,
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it was a real
major a problem tonight.
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I went back there
next night and I noted
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that many of those young people
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some standing fore
deep in the balcony
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waiting for the rock
concert to start putting up
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with this American preacher.
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I noticed that many of them
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were scattered
through the audience.
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I notice particularly
down in the front row
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there were four young women,
came down and talked to them,
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one young woman
by the name of Erica,
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another by the name of Aneko.
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I said, glad to
have you here tonight.
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One girl said, yeah,
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I'm a student of
Karl Marx University.
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A student in the communist
philosophy of economics,
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I came last night
to a rock concert,
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I was standing fore
deep in the balcony,
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but when you open the
Bible and began to speak,
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something touched my
heart, something changed my life
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and I'm here tonight.
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Just last week at
the General Conference
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I was talking to a
friend of mine from Hungary.
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Now those two
girls were baptized
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in that evangelistic
series and I asked about them,
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I remembered their name
from 1989, 15, 16 years ago
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and I said what about Aneko,
is she still faithful to Jesus?
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So what about Erica, is
she still faithful to Jesus
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and this Pastor
said to me, Pastor Mark,
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both of those young woman
were baptized 15 years ago,
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they now have
married Seventh-day Adventist
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Pastors young theology students.
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These young man have
been in the ministry 15 years,
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they're some of the
most powerful soul winners
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in all of the nation of Hungary.
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God brought those
young women to that meeting,
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that night, and that one night
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their life was changed.
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Now I don't
know what your motive
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is of being here tonight,
but I have absolute confidence
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that God is gonna
speak to your heart.
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I have absolute confidence
that as we open God's book
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that His spirit
is going to speak,
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we are living too
late in human history
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to come for common
meeting and ordinary meetings.
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God's spirit is gonna come down,
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he's gonna touch your heart,
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something's gonna
happen in your life
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that you may not
be aware of right now.
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But God is gonna
touch somebody here tonight
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and I invite you to
bow your head with me
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as we pray, as
we open God's word.
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Father in heaven, tonight
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we pray that the
spirit would come,
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that it would touch
our lives in unique ways,
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that you would give us the hope
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and the encouragement,
and the confidence
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that it can only
come from knowing Christ.
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So as we open your book,
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may the spirit that inspire
the book inspire our hearts.
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May the spirit that transformed
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lives in ages past,
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who is still doing that today,
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may he come and
transform our lives tonight,
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we pray thee, in
Jesus name, Amen.
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A few years ago, my wife
was holding evangelistic meeting
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in Apopka, Florida.
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And I was there
giving some support
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to those meetings
and assisting in them.
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We stayed in the same
hotel for about five weeks.
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We got to know the front
desk clerks at the hotel,
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and the maids
that cleaned our rooms.
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And I noted there
was a young university
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student who was the front,
one of the front desk clerks,
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and so I struck up a
conversation with him
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and after about three
week he knew I was a preacher.
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So one day I was
coming into the hotel
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and he said, hey preacher.
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I said, yeah.
00:19:29.87\00:19:30.90
He said, I'm an atheist.
00:19:30.91\00:19:32.62
I don't know why he
said that I thought he,
00:19:32.63\00:19:34.81
he may wanted to
engage this preacher
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in a little debate or argument.
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And he said, hey
preacher, I'm an atheist
00:19:39.52\00:19:41.33
and I looked at him and I said,
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well if I had enough
faith I might be an atheist too.
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But because I have
more reason than faith,
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I believe in God
but if you can teach
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how to have enough faith
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I might become an
atheist, I'll see you later.
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And I was walking
across the hotel lobby,
00:19:54.82\00:19:56.63
he looked at me
and said, hey preacher,
00:19:56.64\00:19:57.73
come back here, I
wanna talk to you.
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He said what are
you talking about?
00:19:59.64\00:20:01.20
You have to have
enough faith to be an atheist.
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I said, well, you know
what I think you have to have
00:20:02.98\00:20:04.89
more faith to be an atheist
00:20:04.90\00:20:06.28
than you have to
be a believe in God.
00:20:06.29\00:20:08.11
He said, what do you mean?
00:20:08.12\00:20:09.11
I said, didn't you
ever take biology 101.
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He said, yeah I
took biology 101.
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I said, well didn't
your professor tell you,
00:20:12.72\00:20:14.60
that learned professor in
that distinguish university
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you went to, didn't he tell you
00:20:16.75\00:20:17.81
in biology 101
that Life begets life.
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That's a fundamental
principle of biology,
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non-living things
don't produce living things,
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but you as an
evolutionist have faith
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that if enough time
goes by non-living things
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will produce living things.
00:20:30.71\00:20:31.76
Oh! I'm sorry, but I
don't have that faith,
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I just believe biology
101, life produces life.
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Secondly, in
biology 101, when I took it,
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they were teaching
life produced life.
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But you say, if you
just have enough time
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there will be aberrations,
you call them mutations,
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and life will not produce life.
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But I don't
know, it's tough for me
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and I learned about the,
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about the laws of
thermodyanmics one of them
00:20:51.03\00:20:53.00
said that from chaos
you can't produce water,
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but from water
you can produce chaos.
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Will you believe
that there was chaos
00:20:57.96\00:20:59.31
in that
produced water, so to me,
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you need to have
a lot more faith,
00:21:02.80\00:21:03.97
young man, than I do.
00:21:03.98\00:21:05.22
And he said, you know what,
00:21:08.59\00:21:10.62
I like to talk to you
a little more sometime.
00:21:10.63\00:21:12.27
I have time now, but I
will talk to you a little more,
00:21:12.28\00:21:13.96
you know, you don't give
them everything all at once.
00:21:13.97\00:21:17.10
And you beat them a little bit
00:21:17.11\00:21:19.93
until the spirit
creates an interest
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and so we
developed a relationship,
00:21:21.86\00:21:23.39
my brother-in-law
is a pastor in Orlando.
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So one day I called Eric,
I said, Eric, come on over,
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I've got a young
man I want you to meet
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and they began a
series of Bible studies
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where this young man
began to probe God's word.
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I am profoundly convinced
00:21:36.87\00:21:39.54
that if you don't understand
the origins at creation,
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you don't understand
the purpose of your life
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and you don't
understand your destiny.
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And tonight I want to
talk you about three words
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that summarize the entire Bible.
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From Genesis to
Revelation in three words.
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These three words talk
about a Garden called Eden,
00:21:55.35\00:21:58.75
they talk about a
hill called Calvary,
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and they talk about
a land called heaven.
00:22:01.41\00:22:03.80
These three words
talk about our origin,
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they talk about our purpose
00:22:06.49\00:22:07.79
and they talk about our destiny.
00:22:07.80\00:22:09.62
These three words
summarize the entire Bible,
00:22:09.63\00:22:12.06
and if you have your Bible
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I invite you to take it tonight
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and turn to
Genesis, the second Chapter,
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three words, these
three words are used
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in four places in the
Bible, 'it is finished.'
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It is finished at creation,
it is finished at the cross,
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it is finished at
the close of probation,
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and it is finished
when Jesus comes again.
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Three words, 'it is finished.'
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I would like you
to take your Bible
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and turn to
Genesis the second Chapter.
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These three words
speak of why we exist,
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these three words
speak of where we come from.
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These three words
speak of our ultimate fate.
00:22:46.97\00:22:49.88
And if you don't
understand the beginning
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it's a difficult thing for you
00:22:51.75\00:22:52.75
to understand the ending.
00:22:52.76\00:22:53.98
And if you want to understand
the beginning and the ending,
00:22:53.99\00:22:56.26
you don't understand
what's in the middle.
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Genesis Chapter
2, we will look there
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Genesis 2 and verse 1,
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"Thus the heavens and the earth
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and all the host of
them were finished".
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God said, it is
finished, creation week is done.
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I've created the
daffodils and daisies,
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and the day lilies.
00:23:13.84\00:23:15.10
I've created the
parrots and the peacocks,
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I have created the pansies.
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God said, it is done,
God said it is finished,
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he spoke and it was done.
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He spoke and
green grass appeared,
00:23:24.26\00:23:26.63
he spoke and
fruit trees gave off
00:23:26.64\00:23:29.85
their marvelous fruit.
00:23:29.86\00:23:31.52
He spoke and flowers
bloomed, he spoke and bird sang,
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he spoke and human
beings were created.
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God said, Genesis 2 verse 1,
00:23:38.78\00:23:40.93
"Thus the heavens and the earth
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and all the host of them
were finished", it's done.
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Verse 2, And on the seventh day
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God ended His
work, which He had done.
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And He rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had done.
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Those two verses
indicate the creation
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is something that God had done.
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We did not evolve,
00:24:00.57\00:24:02.51
we are not simply
products of fortuitous chance.
00:24:02.52\00:24:05.84
We're not simply
skin covering bones,
00:24:05.85\00:24:08.56
we're not simply a
genetic biological accident.
00:24:08.57\00:24:11.84
The Bible says in
Genesis Chapter 2 verse 1,
00:24:11.85\00:24:15.00
this is something
that God has done,
00:24:15.01\00:24:19.15
God created us,
God fashioned us,
00:24:19.16\00:24:21.21
God made us.
00:24:21.22\00:24:22.49
And if that is true
and is that God created us.
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It means we are not
simply a cosmic speck of dust.
00:24:25.85\00:24:30.25
We're not simply
like a dented Pepsi can
00:24:30.26\00:24:33.39
run over by a tractor
trailer truck out on I-75,
00:24:33.40\00:24:37.72
that is discarded worth nothing.
00:24:37.73\00:24:40.41
God doesn't make junk
and when God fashioned you,
00:24:40.42\00:24:43.72
when God created
you, when God need you
00:24:43.73\00:24:46.30
he is through away the pattern.
00:24:46.31\00:24:48.08
You can lift your
head with dignity,
00:24:48.09\00:24:50.46
you're not some
biological accident,
00:24:50.47\00:24:52.81
you are a son or a daughter
00:24:52.82\00:24:54.58
of the King of the Universe.
00:24:54.59\00:24:56.25
You have royal blood
running through your veins.
00:24:56.26\00:24:59.49
The King of the
Universe fashioned you,
00:24:59.50\00:25:01.89
he made you, he created you.
00:25:01.90\00:25:04.39
Isaiah Chapter 43 verse 1
00:25:04.40\00:25:06.98
tonight if you're discouraged,
00:25:06.99\00:25:08.55
tonight if you're disappointed,
00:25:08.56\00:25:10.21
tonight if you're down-hearted,
00:25:10.22\00:25:12.61
tonight if you're wondering
00:25:12.62\00:25:14.86
what is the purpose of my life?
00:25:14.87\00:25:17.71
God has created you,
and the God that named
00:25:17.72\00:25:21.45
the stars has not
forgotten your name.
00:25:21.46\00:25:24.93
He knows about the struggles
00:25:24.94\00:25:26.48
you have to get through school.
00:25:26.49\00:25:28.96
He understands the difficulty
00:25:28.97\00:25:30.80
in financing an
education in this day and age.
00:25:30.81\00:25:33.35
God knows that, God knows
about the struggles you face
00:25:33.36\00:25:37.21
with your
boyfriend, your girlfriend.
00:25:37.22\00:25:39.25
God knows all about that.
00:25:39.26\00:25:40.97
God knows the
struggles you are facing at home
00:25:40.98\00:25:43.88
and the smile
you're putting on tonight
00:25:43.89\00:25:45.68
is not really the smile at all.
00:25:45.69\00:25:47.96
But your parents
are going through
00:25:47.97\00:25:49.53
the trauma of a divorce
00:25:49.54\00:25:50.64
and there is
somebody sitting here tonight
00:25:50.65\00:25:52.72
that has that problem at home.
00:25:52.73\00:25:54.44
God knows that mother
00:25:54.45\00:25:56.18
that's has been
diagnosed with cancer,
00:25:56.19\00:25:58.18
God knows about the
problems your dad is facing,
00:25:58.19\00:26:01.20
God knows about your brother
00:26:01.21\00:26:02.85
that's strung
out on drugs tonight
00:26:02.86\00:26:04.50
and your heart
is broken for him.
00:26:04.51\00:26:06.52
God understands all that
00:26:06.53\00:26:08.24
because you're not cosmic junk,
00:26:08.25\00:26:10.29
God created you,
God fashioned you,
00:26:10.30\00:26:12.35
God cares for you.
00:26:12.36\00:26:13.71
God knows your name.
00:26:13.72\00:26:14.87
Isaiah Chapter 43.
00:26:14.88\00:26:17.03
Isaiah the 43 Chapter.
00:26:17.04\00:26:19.04
See creation makes
all the difference,
00:26:19.05\00:26:21.28
if I am just a
biological accident,
00:26:21.29\00:26:23.73
if I am jus skin covering bone.
00:26:23.74\00:26:26.12
If I am just an
intelligent animal
00:26:26.13\00:26:28.49
just a little more
intelligent than a dog,
00:26:28.50\00:26:30.69
a cat or an ape.
00:26:30.70\00:26:32.03
Then I wonder through
life with little meaning,
00:26:32.04\00:26:34.70
with little purpose,
but if God created me
00:26:34.71\00:26:37.02
and God shaped me,
00:26:37.03\00:26:38.36
if the all wise
God of the universe
00:26:38.37\00:26:40.16
and the all powerful God of
the universe has created me.
00:26:40.17\00:26:43.67
I can put my life in
his hand and trust him.
00:26:43.68\00:26:46.67
Isaiah the 43
Chapter we look there.
00:26:46.68\00:26:49.71
Isaiah 43 verse 1,
the scripture says,
00:26:49.72\00:26:56.02
But now, thus saith the Lord,
00:26:56.03\00:26:57.90
who created you O Jacob,
And who formed you, O Israel,
00:26:57.91\00:27:02.71
Fear not for have redeemed you,
00:27:02.72\00:27:04.51
I have called you by
your name, you are Mine.
00:27:04.52\00:27:08.32
When you pass
through the waters,
00:27:08.33\00:27:09.57
I will be with you,
and through the rivers
00:27:09.58\00:27:11.03
they will not overflow you.
00:27:11.04\00:27:12.10
When you walk through the fire
00:27:12.11\00:27:13.21
you will not be burned,
00:27:13.22\00:27:14.52
nor shall the flame scorch you.
00:27:14.53\00:27:16.80
For I am the Lord, your God,
00:27:16.81\00:27:18.49
the Holy One of
Israel, your Savior.
00:27:18.50\00:27:20.33
I have Egypt for your ransom,
00:27:20.34\00:27:22.30
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
00:27:22.31\00:27:24.54
Since you are
precious in My sight,
00:27:24.55\00:27:26.26
you've been
honored, and I've loved you.
00:27:26.27\00:27:27.41
God says you're precious.
00:27:27.42\00:27:28.86
God says, I've honored
you, God says I've loved you.
00:27:28.87\00:27:30.88
You do say come on, preacher,
00:27:30.89\00:27:32.09
what are you talking about.
00:27:32.10\00:27:33.31
There are some
six billion people
00:27:33.32\00:27:34.83
on the face of planet
earth, how can God care for me?
00:27:34.84\00:27:39.22
How can God be interested in me.
00:27:39.23\00:27:42.01
I mean, come on
now, if I am lost
00:27:42.02\00:27:43.50
it's not gonna make any
difference in the world.
00:27:43.51\00:27:45.12
Because God has another billion,
00:27:45.13\00:27:50.13
two billion, three
billion, five billion people.
00:27:50.14\00:27:52.00
They're gonna be saved anyway.
00:27:52.01\00:27:53.25
How could I make
that difference to God.
00:27:53.26\00:27:55.82
I mean, and then if I'm lost,
00:27:55.83\00:27:57.06
come on now, he's
got the cherubims,
00:27:57.07\00:27:58.46
the seraphims,
and all the angels.
00:27:58.47\00:28:00.69
Are you trying to suggest
00:28:00.70\00:28:02.12
or even think we indicate
00:28:02.13\00:28:05.37
that there is a place
in God's heart only for me.
00:28:05.38\00:28:10.33
And then if for
some reason I am lost,
00:28:10.34\00:28:13.44
the creator of the
universe will be lonely for me
00:28:13.45\00:28:19.41
through the
ceaseless ages of eternity.
00:28:19.42\00:28:22.28
You know, I may not be
fully able to illustrate it,
00:28:22.29\00:28:24.59
but let's suppose I
am walking over here and,
00:28:24.60\00:28:26.85
let's suppose this
is a porcelain vase
00:28:26.86\00:28:29.19
and I am little careless tonight
00:28:29.20\00:28:30.58
and I kicked the vase.
00:28:30.59\00:28:31.82
And the thing goes
falling down on the flour
00:28:31.83\00:28:34.34
and as it falls,
it crashes and breaks
00:28:34.35\00:28:36.80
and so I'll go to the president
00:28:36.81\00:28:37.92
of the college
after, and I've looked
00:28:37.93\00:28:39.83
at the porcelain vase.
00:28:39.84\00:28:40.83
And I say now, Dr.
Beats, I was a little careless,
00:28:40.84\00:28:43.84
I was kind of not
watching where I was going
00:28:43.85\00:28:45.58
and I tripped and
fell over the vase
00:28:45.59\00:28:47.55
and knocked it on the floor.
00:28:47.56\00:28:49.43
And I'm looking
and I realized that
00:28:49.44\00:28:51.76
I got my allowance this
month and so I've got about $15.
00:28:51.77\00:28:55.15
And I say, you know what?
00:28:55.16\00:28:57.85
I will pay you $15
00:28:57.86\00:28:59.05
that's about what
that vase is worth.
00:28:59.06\00:29:01.23
Now I notice Dr.
Beats' mouth drops,
00:29:01.24\00:29:05.12
and his eyes get
bigger and bigger,
00:29:05.13\00:29:07.51
and he said, could you
please come in to my office.
00:29:07.52\00:29:10.82
And so I go to the
president of the college office
00:29:10.83\00:29:13.48
and we sit down.
00:29:13.49\00:29:14.47
He said, now Mark, I have
got to explain something to you.
00:29:14.48\00:29:17.90
Southern Adventist
University got that vase
00:29:17.91\00:29:20.24
and it was
donated by a benefactor
00:29:20.25\00:29:23.58
and there is only one
like it in the world one other,
00:29:23.59\00:29:27.28
and it's been in an
antic store in New York City.
00:29:27.29\00:29:30.42
You see that was a Persian Vase
00:29:30.43\00:29:33.73
and it dates more
than 2,500 years old.
00:29:33.74\00:29:39.17
And for your program tonight
00:29:39.18\00:29:40.60
since you were tapping on 3ABN
00:29:40.61\00:29:42.50
we wanted to put our vase there
00:29:42.51\00:29:44.28
and it's worth $250,000.
00:29:47.59\00:29:52.80
And there is only
one like it in the world.
00:29:52.81\00:29:55.31
What made the vase so valuable?
00:29:55.32\00:29:58.95
Its uniqueness made it value.
00:29:58.96\00:30:01.81
That which cannot be replaced,
00:30:01.82\00:30:04.87
that which is irreplaceable
become of immense value.
00:30:04.88\00:30:10.90
Suppose here is a
woman, she has five children
00:30:10.91\00:30:13.79
and one of those
children playing football,
00:30:13.80\00:30:17.78
running out for a pass,
10-year-old boy, front lawn.
00:30:17.79\00:30:20.45
Runs out for the pass,
looks over the shoulder,
00:30:20.46\00:30:22.28
runs out into the road,
00:30:22.29\00:30:24.34
a car comes down the
road 30-40 miles an hour,
00:30:24.35\00:30:27.29
the man can't stop,
hits the brakes, skids,
00:30:27.30\00:30:29.24
hits the boy, kills him.
00:30:29.25\00:30:32.74
A pastor friend of
mine are on our way
00:30:32.75\00:30:34.54
to counsel the woman, and I say,
00:30:34.55\00:30:37.15
don't worry about this,
I've got this one covered,
00:30:37.16\00:30:39.79
I'll counsel her.
00:30:39.80\00:30:40.94
You sit back,
don't worry about it,
00:30:40.95\00:30:42.12
let me handle this.
00:30:42.13\00:30:43.44
So we go into the house
and she is living over here
00:30:43.45\00:30:46.33
in Collegedale and I sit down.
00:30:46.34\00:30:47.90
And she said, oh Pastor Finley,
00:30:47.91\00:30:48.95
it's so good to see you.
00:30:48.96\00:30:49.93
I said, now, we're
gonna pray with you
00:30:49.94\00:30:50.96
and I wanted to talk a
little bit about your boy,
00:30:50.97\00:30:53.48
I was thinking
about it a little bit.
00:30:53.49\00:30:55.92
You know, I want you to
think positively about this.
00:30:55.93\00:30:59.86
Because when you
actually analyze it,
00:30:59.87\00:31:02.54
now you don't have to
send five kids through academy.
00:31:02.55\00:31:06.47
Elementary, school,
academy, and college,
00:31:06.48\00:31:07.99
I want you to
figure out the money
00:31:08.00\00:31:09.33
you're gonna save
just on this one boy.
00:31:09.34\00:31:11.86
I mean, think of that money.
00:31:11.87\00:31:13.80
Second thing I want
you to think about is this,
00:31:13.81\00:31:16.28
did you ever pick up
after him in the house,
00:31:16.29\00:31:17.92
you don't have
to do that anymore.
00:31:17.93\00:31:19.95
And the other thing I want
you to think about is this,
00:31:19.96\00:31:21.54
you've got four
kids, you know, my wife
00:31:21.55\00:31:23.61
and I have three and,
00:31:23.62\00:31:24.63
you know, that
takes us time and,
00:31:24.64\00:31:26.90
you know, but you've got four.
00:31:26.91\00:31:28.61
So what difference does it make
00:31:28.62\00:31:30.17
if you lost
one, if you got four.
00:31:30.18\00:31:32.81
Is that the way I'd
counsel some Southern woman.
00:31:32.82\00:31:36.44
Do Southern
woman have rolling pins
00:31:36.45\00:31:38.11
they hit crazy
preachers over the head with.
00:31:38.12\00:31:41.64
What would she say to me,
00:31:41.65\00:31:43.95
she would say,
nobody can replace Billy.
00:31:43.96\00:31:46.28
You know, I can have Johnny,
00:31:46.29\00:31:47.26
I can have
Pete, I can have Mary,
00:31:47.27\00:31:48.65
and I can have Sally,
00:31:48.66\00:31:49.63
but nobody is
gonna replace Billy.
00:31:49.64\00:31:50.92
Nobody replaces his smile,
00:31:50.93\00:31:53.52
there is a place in
my heart only for him,
00:31:53.53\00:31:56.96
and you can tell me
about all my other kids,
00:31:56.97\00:31:59.47
but I'm lonely for my
boy that I don't have.
00:31:59.48\00:32:02.76
There is a God in heaven
00:32:02.77\00:32:05.32
that has the
infinite capacity to love
00:32:05.33\00:32:08.88
and he loves you more
than you can ever recognize.
00:32:08.89\00:32:11.94
And when He had created you,
00:32:11.95\00:32:13.14
he broke the mold and
through over the pattern
00:32:13.15\00:32:15.39
and there is nobody else
like you in the Universe.
00:32:15.40\00:32:18.30
This God created you,
00:32:18.31\00:32:20.24
you want an
amazing text in the Bible?
00:32:20.25\00:32:22.39
Psalms, Chapter
33, just like a mother
00:32:22.40\00:32:27.20
has an individual
love for every child
00:32:27.21\00:32:30.77
and if she has three,
she doesn't split her love,
00:32:30.78\00:32:33.73
one third, one third,
one third among the three.
00:32:33.74\00:32:37.88
If she has 10 she doesn't give
00:32:37.89\00:32:39.38
everyone 10% of her love.
00:32:39.39\00:32:42.17
She gives
everyone all of her love.
00:32:42.18\00:32:46.08
All of her love.
00:32:46.09\00:32:48.49
Psalms 33, and
we're looking there
00:32:48.50\00:32:51.83
at verse 13, 14, and 15.
00:32:51.84\00:32:54.77
The Lord looks from heaven,
He sees all the sons of men.
00:32:54.78\00:32:58.65
From the place of
His habitation He looks.
00:32:58.66\00:33:03.35
On all the
inhabitants of the earth,
00:33:03.36\00:33:05.37
He fashions their
hearts individually,
00:33:05.38\00:33:08.70
He considers all their works.
00:33:08.71\00:33:09.86
The scripture says,
what, what does God do?
00:33:09.87\00:33:12.32
He fashions their hearts
individually, God knows you.
00:33:12.33\00:33:16.41
He knows your joys,
He knows your sorrows,
00:33:16.42\00:33:19.02
He knows your heartache,
He knows your disappointment.
00:33:19.03\00:33:21.85
God knows you, He knows your ups
00:33:21.86\00:33:24.19
and you knows your downs.
00:33:24.20\00:33:25.64
Walk through life with dignity,
00:33:25.65\00:33:27.83
walk through life
with your head up,
00:33:27.84\00:33:29.69
walk through life
with a smile on your face,
00:33:29.70\00:33:32.10
walk through life
with a sense of purpose,
00:33:32.11\00:33:34.08
a sense of meaning.
00:33:34.09\00:33:35.26
Walk through life with a sense
00:33:35.27\00:33:36.87
that the God of all
the universe created you.
00:33:36.88\00:33:41.22
You are precious to Him,
you mean something to Him
00:33:41.23\00:33:46.94
and if you are lost,
00:33:46.95\00:33:49.23
and where ever you
are watching today,
00:33:49.24\00:33:52.97
this broadcast around the world,
00:33:52.98\00:33:55.60
if you are lost
there will be an emptiness
00:33:55.61\00:33:58.26
in God's heart forever.
00:33:58.27\00:34:02.83
Because He longs for you,
it is finished at creation.
00:34:02.84\00:34:08.68
Creation is something God did.
00:34:08.69\00:34:11.98
I noticed, the
Berkeley Student Newspaper,
00:34:11.99\00:34:14.96
in Berkeley,
California this week.
00:34:14.97\00:34:17.97
Student Newspaper advertising
00:34:17.98\00:34:22.35
Ten to thirty
five thousand dollars
00:34:22.36\00:34:25.40
for female student's eggs.
00:34:25.41\00:34:28.68
Ten to thirty five thousand.
00:34:28.69\00:34:30.30
now you have to have
a SAT score over 1300
00:34:30.31\00:34:33.26
and you have to be
have a model like figure.
00:34:33.27\00:34:37.66
Model like figure.
00:34:37.67\00:34:39.61
Why do
geneticists want those eggs?
00:34:39.62\00:34:45.25
Obviously to sell them
off to highest bidders,
00:34:45.26\00:34:49.10
to try to produce
some kind of super child.
00:34:49.11\00:34:55.28
God has already
produced a super person in you,
00:34:55.29\00:34:58.92
he's already produced
a super person in you.
00:34:58.93\00:35:01.74
When the genes and chromosomes
00:35:01.75\00:35:03.23
came together for the
unique biological structure,
00:35:03.24\00:35:05.60
your personality,
00:35:05.61\00:35:06.72
God said, this one is special,
00:35:08.46\00:35:11.27
this one is special.
00:35:11.28\00:35:13.60
God said I've created
you, creation it is finished.
00:35:13.61\00:35:16.94
The second time it is finished
00:35:16.95\00:35:17.92
is used in Bible is John 19,
00:35:17.93\00:35:20.17
take your Bible and turn.
00:35:20.18\00:35:21.77
It is finished in the garden,
00:35:21.78\00:35:24.42
it is finished on a
hill called Calvary,
00:35:24.43\00:35:27.06
and it is finished at the
end in the book of Revelation.
00:35:28.13\00:35:31.01
John Chapter 19, it is finished
00:35:31.02\00:35:33.18
in the Garden speaks of works,
00:35:33.19\00:35:35.07
it is finished on
the hill called Calvary,
00:35:36.14\00:35:39.83
speaks of freedom from guilt,
00:35:39.84\00:35:41.94
it speaks of freedom
from the bondage of sin.
00:35:41.95\00:35:44.96
It speaks of freedom
from the fear of death.
00:35:44.97\00:35:47.46
John the 19th Chapter.
00:35:47.47\00:35:49.35
We look there
at John Chapter 19,
00:35:49.36\00:35:50.93
verse 30 leading up to
that verse Jesus has taken out
00:35:50.94\00:35:54.80
and he climbs
Golgotha's mountain.
00:35:54.81\00:35:58.24
And there, nails are
driven through Jesus hands,
00:35:58.25\00:36:00.96
there a crown of thorns
is placed upon his head,
00:36:00.97\00:36:03.57
their blood is
running down his face.
00:36:03.58\00:36:06.14
There he hangs
between heaven and earth,
00:36:06.15\00:36:08.77
Jesus is dying,
Peter has denied Him,
00:36:08.78\00:36:12.85
Judas has forsaken Him.
00:36:12.86\00:36:15.54
The disciples have
turned their backs on Him,
00:36:15.55\00:36:19.32
the Jews have
cried out, crucified Him
00:36:19.33\00:36:21.97
and the Romans have
driven nails through his hands.
00:36:21.98\00:36:24.51
It is Friday,
dark, dark, Friday.
00:36:24.52\00:36:27.96
The clouds roll in that Friday,
00:36:27.97\00:36:30.47
the thunder rolls that Friday,
00:36:30.48\00:36:32.48
the lightening flashes
that Friday, it is dark,
00:36:32.49\00:36:35.39
dark Friday and the son of God
00:36:35.40\00:36:37.50
with blood
running down his face.
00:36:37.51\00:36:39.56
And sweat tinged on his brow
00:36:39.57\00:36:42.44
hangs between heaven and earth.
00:36:42.45\00:36:44.67
Who is this man with bloody,
00:36:44.68\00:36:47.90
with blood
running down in his hands?
00:36:47.91\00:36:49.66
Who is this man with
such a agony in His eyes,
00:36:49.67\00:36:52.60
who is this man with such
a sorrowful look on his face?
00:36:52.61\00:36:55.69
Who is this man that hangs
00:36:55.70\00:36:57.20
His head in the rain and dies?
00:36:57.21\00:36:58.71
He is Jesus.
00:36:58.72\00:37:00.10
The divine son of God,
00:37:00.11\00:37:01.92
He is the one
worshiped by millions of angels,
00:37:01.93\00:37:04.60
He is the one at
whose very name angels
00:37:04.61\00:37:06.63
wing their way to worlds afar,
00:37:06.64\00:37:08.70
and sang holy, holy, holy.
00:37:08.71\00:37:10.73
He is the one that Cherubims
00:37:10.74\00:37:12.17
and Seraphims
worship and sing hosanna.
00:37:12.18\00:37:15.15
He is the one that spoke
00:37:16.44\00:37:17.69
and the worlds
came into existence.
00:37:17.70\00:37:19.92
He is the one that
commanded and it stood fast.
00:37:19.93\00:37:22.88
He is the one that
brought forth worlds and stars
00:37:22.89\00:37:26.85
and planets and set
all of creation in motion.
00:37:26.86\00:37:30.69
But now on a cross he
hangs his head and dies,
00:37:30.70\00:37:33.13
and He says, it, verse 30.
00:37:33.14\00:37:37.24
John 19, verse 30,
00:37:37.25\00:37:38.96
so when Jesus had
received the sour wine,
00:37:38.97\00:37:41.38
he said, "It is finished."
00:37:41.39\00:37:43.13
Now notice it does
not say He is finished,
00:37:43.14\00:37:45.46
it was finished,
but He was not finished.
00:37:45.47\00:37:47.97
It was finished,
but he was not finished.
00:37:49.42\00:37:51.04
And scripture
doesn't say he was finished.
00:37:51.05\00:37:53.73
'Cause you don't
finish you off with nails
00:37:53.74\00:37:55.26
the divine son of God.
00:37:55.27\00:37:58.12
Jesus rested in the
tomb and three days later,
00:37:58.13\00:38:01.31
he came out in all his glory.
00:38:01.32\00:38:03.33
It is finished, now,
00:38:03.34\00:38:04.31
what does he mean when
he says, it is finished?
00:38:04.32\00:38:06.43
Those words, "it is finished,"
00:38:07.50\00:38:08.80
echo and reecho
down the centuries
00:38:08.81\00:38:11.30
and they speak to us
00:38:11.31\00:38:12.34
at Southern
Adventist University tonight.
00:38:12.35\00:38:14.97
What is the
significance of those words
00:38:14.98\00:38:19.60
"it is finished,"
how does it relate to,
00:38:19.61\00:38:22.57
how do they relate to
a junior biology major?
00:38:22.58\00:38:26.07
How do the
words, "it is finished"
00:38:26.08\00:38:27.78
on the cross
related a chemistry major,
00:38:27.79\00:38:30.77
theology major,
business major, nursing major.
00:38:30.78\00:38:34.23
How are those words
cracking through my life,
00:38:34.24\00:38:38.28
living 2000 years
plus after the event?
00:38:38.29\00:38:42.29
I like to probe them
for a little while with you,
00:38:42.30\00:38:44.63
I like to look
at their relevance.
00:38:44.64\00:38:47.38
To me there are three aspects
00:38:47.39\00:38:49.08
of significance in
these words, "it is finished."
00:38:49.09\00:38:53.89
First, what is finished?
00:38:53.90\00:38:57.17
When Jesus died on the cross,
00:38:57.18\00:39:00.34
the guilt of sin is gone.
00:39:00.35\00:39:03.68
There is no
condemnation to those
00:39:03.69\00:39:05.65
that live in Christ Jesus.
00:39:05.66\00:39:08.08
No matter how much
you have failed this week
00:39:08.09\00:39:11.35
or this month, there is somebody
00:39:11.36\00:39:13.95
sitting here
tonight thinking, you know,
00:39:13.96\00:39:18.21
I've really failed, I've
really blown it in my life.
00:39:18.22\00:39:23.12
I haven't lived the
way I wanted to live.
00:39:23.13\00:39:26.26
And I wonder is
there any hope for me?
00:39:26.27\00:39:29.77
Echoing and
reechoing from a cross,
00:39:29.78\00:39:32.73
Jesus speaks to
you, it is finished.
00:39:32.74\00:39:35.58
All of that
guilt, all of that shame,
00:39:35.59\00:39:38.91
all of those
Saturday night's excursions,
00:39:38.92\00:39:42.89
you know what I'm talking about,
00:39:42.90\00:39:44.11
somebody here tonight.
00:39:44.12\00:39:45.94
All of those Saturday
night forays in Chattanooga.
00:39:45.95\00:39:50.72
You know, God says to you,
00:39:50.73\00:39:53.68
bring all that guilt
and all that shame to me.
00:39:53.69\00:39:56.36
I wanna make you a new man,
00:39:56.37\00:39:58.21
I wanna make you a new woman.
00:39:58.22\00:39:59.90
I wanna change your life.
00:39:59.91\00:40:02.53
It is finished.
00:40:02.54\00:40:04.64
The guilt that that
we bear in our lives
00:40:04.65\00:40:08.65
need no longer
crush out our joy.
00:40:08.66\00:40:13.10
That guilt at the
cross is finished,
00:40:13.11\00:40:15.69
because on that cross,
00:40:15.70\00:40:16.94
Jesus bore the
condemnation of your sin,
00:40:16.95\00:40:19.59
and Jesus bore the
condemnation of my sin.
00:40:19.60\00:40:22.04
He bore the shame of it all.
00:40:22.05\00:40:25.29
"It is finished."
00:40:25.30\00:40:26.64
Now, there is a second
thing that was finished
00:40:26.65\00:40:28.74
when Jesus said, it
is finished on the cross.
00:40:28.75\00:40:30.91
Second thing, it's this.
00:40:30.92\00:40:32.97
Satan threw at
Jesus throughout His life,
00:40:32.98\00:40:36.74
all of his temptations,
00:40:36.75\00:40:39.11
he threw at
Jesus all of his life,
00:40:39.12\00:40:42.57
all of his temptations,
00:40:42.58\00:40:46.75
everything that
you can throw at him.
00:40:46.76\00:40:49.44
But what happened?
00:40:49.45\00:40:51.13
Jesus facing those temptations
00:40:51.14\00:40:53.75
was an over comer.
00:40:53.76\00:40:55.21
The bondage of sin
was broken at the cross
00:40:55.22\00:41:00.48
because even rejection,
ridicule, physical, mental,
00:41:00.49\00:41:05.38
emotional, psychological pain
00:41:05.39\00:41:08.33
could not get Jesus to yield.
00:41:08.34\00:41:11.10
And because Jesus
was an over comer,
00:41:11.11\00:41:14.06
His grace not
only pardons our past,
00:41:14.07\00:41:17.63
but it gives us
strength to live in the present.
00:41:17.64\00:41:23.09
Grace, is grace that
is sufficient to deal
00:41:23.10\00:41:27.34
with my past
guilt, but it is grace
00:41:27.35\00:41:30.79
that is sufficient to empower me
00:41:30.80\00:41:33.22
to be a new man,
new woman in Christ.
00:41:33.23\00:41:37.21
Sometime ago, in fact it
was just a couple of months ago,
00:41:37.22\00:41:40.58
my wife and I
were visiting on behalf
00:41:40.59\00:41:42.91
of the general
conference in a country
00:41:42.92\00:41:47.56
that does not
have religious freedom.
00:41:47.57\00:41:50.64
We're visiting
Adventist believers.
00:41:50.65\00:41:53.33
I was scheduled to preach
in that particular country,
00:41:53.34\00:41:56.85
but the government
after reading my sermon,
00:41:56.86\00:41:59.78
and knowing who I was,
00:41:59.79\00:42:01.06
refused me the
opportunity to preach.
00:42:01.07\00:42:04.26
But I was allowed to go
00:42:04.27\00:42:05.25
and visit with our believers.
00:42:05.26\00:42:07.22
While I was in
that particular country,
00:42:07.23\00:42:09.06
I came to one
church and the pastor said,
00:42:09.07\00:42:12.81
"Pastor Mark, we
wanted to give greetings."
00:42:12.82\00:42:15.16
I said, "fine, how
long should my greetings be?
00:42:15.17\00:42:17.67
He said, my
sermon will be 7 minutes,
00:42:17.68\00:42:19.41
your greetings
should be one hour."
00:42:19.42\00:42:22.56
You cannot preach, but
need to give greetings.
00:42:22.57\00:42:25.96
So I came to the
prophet and I said,
00:42:25.97\00:42:28.15
I wanna give you
greetings from the Apostle John,
00:42:28.16\00:42:32.76
he lived 2000 years ago,
00:42:32.77\00:42:35.62
he can't be here to
talk to you tonight.
00:42:35.63\00:42:38.63
Soon I like to
bring greetings from him
00:42:38.64\00:42:40.13
and I would like to
say what he would say
00:42:40.14\00:42:42.03
if he could be here.
00:42:42.04\00:42:43.69
He wrote a book,
and I wanna talk to you
00:42:43.70\00:42:46.60
about that book.
00:42:46.61\00:42:47.86
I cannot preach to you,
00:42:50.14\00:42:52.15
but I can give you
greetings from John.
00:42:52.16\00:42:54.94
So I gave them
greetings from John
00:42:54.95\00:42:57.03
and a few of the other apostles,
00:42:57.04\00:42:59.20
some of the prophets
in the Old Testament.
00:42:59.21\00:43:02.59
They were giving him greetings.
00:43:02.60\00:43:04.52
After the sermon, the pastor
00:43:04.53\00:43:07.94
and two of his associates
said to my wife and I,
00:43:07.95\00:43:12.10
we wanna talk to you.
00:43:12.11\00:43:13.49
So we came into a
little room privately
00:43:13.50\00:43:16.45
and as we talked,
we talked about faith
00:43:16.46\00:43:18.16
in that particular country,
00:43:18.17\00:43:19.37
we talked about
what God was doing?
00:43:19.38\00:43:21.81
How God was moving there
00:43:21.82\00:43:23.75
in spite of the
difficulties and hasn't told me
00:43:23.76\00:43:26.59
about yourselves,
that you always been
00:43:26.60\00:43:28.43
Seventh-day Adventists?
00:43:28.44\00:43:30.69
And the senior pastor said,
00:43:30.70\00:43:31.92
well I will start the story
00:43:31.93\00:43:34.40
and then my
associate will finish it.
00:43:34.41\00:43:36.87
He said, now you're aware that
00:43:36.88\00:43:37.94
in this particular
country it is not possible
00:43:37.95\00:43:42.72
to print Christian literature.
00:43:42.73\00:43:46.76
And he said, in
one of our unnamed,
00:43:46.77\00:43:50.47
unmentioned
presses, if you understand,
00:43:50.48\00:43:54.71
we were printing Desire of Ages
00:43:54.72\00:43:56.21
and other books by Ellen White.
00:43:56.22\00:43:58.59
With one of the elders
of the church, he said,
00:43:58.60\00:44:01.33
I brought these
books to a train station
00:44:01.34\00:44:05.27
to deliver them
to our believers.
00:44:05.28\00:44:06.71
We're gonna go on a
train and deliver them.
00:44:06.72\00:44:08.58
On the way, I was
stopped by the police
00:44:08.59\00:44:10.38
and arrested for
bringing these books.
00:44:10.39\00:44:13.95
The elder and I went into prison
00:44:13.96\00:44:15.71
and the preacher said,
00:44:15.72\00:44:17.23
they only keep me for 24 hours,
00:44:17.24\00:44:18.85
but keep the elder for 14 days.
00:44:18.86\00:44:21.61
All those of you thinking about
00:44:21.62\00:44:22.73
going into the ministry.
00:44:22.74\00:44:24.59
You know, the
preacher was only there
00:44:24.60\00:44:26.06
for 24 hours, the elder for,
00:44:26.07\00:44:27.50
the lay person for 14 days.
00:44:27.51\00:44:29.16
If that doesn't
motivate you to go
00:44:29.17\00:44:30.50
into the
ministry, you missed it.
00:44:30.51\00:44:32.70
You have to let your
girlfriend explain it to you.
00:44:32.71\00:44:34.35
Okay, so,
00:44:34.36\00:44:39.86
Preacher said, I
was there for 24 hours,
00:44:39.87\00:44:42.28
but the elder stayed 14 days.
00:44:42.29\00:44:44.45
Then he said, when
the elder was in prison
00:44:44.46\00:44:47.06
for the first 48 hours,
00:44:47.07\00:44:50.44
he was beaten up
two or three times.
00:44:50.45\00:44:53.26
What happens is,
as your initiation
00:44:53.27\00:44:55.50
to that particular prison,
00:44:55.51\00:44:57.07
the toughest guys in prison,
00:44:57.08\00:44:58.57
and I mean they're tough,
00:44:58.58\00:45:00.53
they beat you to a pulp.
00:45:00.54\00:45:02.51
Black in your
eyes, blood in your nose,
00:45:02.52\00:45:05.49
and the elder had
come to the cross.
00:45:05.50\00:45:11.69
He knew that in
Christ, his guilt was gone,
00:45:11.70\00:45:14.20
he knew that in Christ,
00:45:14.21\00:45:15.38
the bondage of sin
in his life was broken
00:45:15.39\00:45:18.24
and he resisted any retaliation.
00:45:20.75\00:45:24.33
For two days he was beaten.
00:45:24.34\00:45:26.51
A thief, a rebel
rouser standing in the corner,
00:45:26.52\00:45:30.91
saw this man and he saw the way
00:45:30.92\00:45:34.94
that in the cross
of Christ he gloried.
00:45:34.95\00:45:38.43
And this man
said, my Jesus had nails
00:45:38.44\00:45:40.58
through his hands
and he did not retaliate.
00:45:40.59\00:45:43.38
My Jesus had a crown
of thorns upon his head
00:45:43.39\00:45:45.48
and he did not retaliate.
00:45:45.49\00:45:47.30
My Jesus said, Father,
00:45:47.31\00:45:48.46
forgive them for they don't know
00:45:48.47\00:45:49.45
what they are doing
and I want to reach out
00:45:49.46\00:45:50.97
to forgive you
because you don't know
00:45:50.98\00:45:52.05
what you're doing either.
00:45:52.06\00:45:53.09
The young rebel
rouser thief in the corner
00:45:54.68\00:45:56.74
seeing the beating
that the elder took,
00:45:56.75\00:45:59.78
said to him, I wanna talk to you
00:46:02.10\00:46:03.64
about this Christ of the cross.
00:46:03.65\00:46:05.62
This Christ that forgives,
00:46:05.63\00:46:06.97
this Christ that
breaks the bondage,
00:46:06.98\00:46:08.70
this Christ that enables you
00:46:08.71\00:46:10.38
not even to fear
death, see when Jesus said
00:46:10.39\00:46:12.49
that it is finished
on the cross, he meant,
00:46:12.50\00:46:14.47
guilt is
finished, shame is finished,
00:46:14.48\00:46:16.29
condemnation is finished.
00:46:16.30\00:46:17.87
He meant
secondly that the bondage
00:46:17.88\00:46:19.34
and shackles of
sin are finished.
00:46:19.35\00:46:20.87
He meant thirdly, the
fear of the death is finished,
00:46:20.88\00:46:22.66
because Jesus went
into the grave and came out.
00:46:22.67\00:46:24.56
That young thief
and the elder took,
00:46:26.91\00:46:29.52
had Bible studies in prison.
00:46:29.53\00:46:31.71
When the thief
got out of prison,
00:46:31.72\00:46:32.98
three years later he
came to the Adventist church.
00:46:32.99\00:46:35.58
And today, years later,
00:46:35.59\00:46:37.58
the thief who saw the
elder beaten in prison
00:46:37.59\00:46:41.41
is the associate
pastor of that church
00:46:41.42\00:46:43.81
in that unnamed country.
00:46:43.82\00:46:46.20
Because the power of
Jesus is still available
00:46:46.21\00:46:52.42
to enable men and women
to have their sins forgiven
00:46:52.43\00:46:56.10
and the bondage of
sin broken in their lives.
00:46:56.11\00:46:59.14
It is finished at creation says,
00:46:59.15\00:47:01.16
you have worth in God's sight.
00:47:01.17\00:47:03.00
It is finished on a
hill called Calvary says,
00:47:03.01\00:47:05.58
all the shame and
guilt can be gone,
00:47:05.59\00:47:07.73
you need don't to
bear that guilt and shame
00:47:07.74\00:47:09.71
in your life anymore.
00:47:09.72\00:47:10.89
It is finished
all that condemnation.
00:47:10.90\00:47:13.28
All that pains of
conscience when you violate
00:47:13.29\00:47:16.68
those inner moral convictions
00:47:16.69\00:47:18.83
that the spirit has
placed in your heart,
00:47:18.84\00:47:20.41
at the cross all
that is finished.
00:47:20.42\00:47:22.39
At the cross,
the bondage of sin,
00:47:22.40\00:47:24.81
the falling, again and
again on the same point
00:47:24.82\00:47:27.05
that's broken and at the cross
00:47:27.06\00:47:28.49
the fear of death is gone,
00:47:28.50\00:47:29.66
because Jesus went
into the grave and came out.
00:47:29.67\00:47:32.65
When you come to
the book of Revelation
00:47:32.66\00:47:33.72
you have the
last two expressions.
00:47:33.73\00:47:34.88
"It is finished"
Revelation Chapter 16.
00:47:34.89\00:47:37.66
Revelation the 16th Chapter,
00:47:37.67\00:47:40.26
it is finished at
creation, speaks of our origin,
00:47:40.27\00:47:43.21
it speaks of our worth.
00:47:43.22\00:47:44.85
It is finished
on Calvary's hill,
00:47:44.86\00:47:46.81
speaks of
redemption that is in Christ.
00:47:46.82\00:47:49.45
And it is finished in
Revelation Chapter 16,
00:47:49.46\00:47:53.10
Church and state unite,
00:47:53.11\00:47:56.27
universal death
degree is enforced,
00:47:56.28\00:47:59.09
no man can buy or sell.
00:47:59.10\00:48:01.62
When every human being has made
00:48:01.63\00:48:02.95
their final
irrevocable decision,
00:48:02.96\00:48:06.41
plagues report out.
00:48:06.42\00:48:07.57
Revelation Chapter 16,
00:48:07.58\00:48:10.22
Revelation Chapter 16 verse 17.
00:48:10.23\00:48:14.49
Then the seventh angel
00:48:14.50\00:48:15.75
poured out his
bowl upon the air,
00:48:15.76\00:48:17.37
and a loud voice came
out of the temple of heaven
00:48:17.38\00:48:20.10
from the throne,
saying, "It is done."
00:48:20.11\00:48:22.83
In other words, it is finished.
00:48:22.84\00:48:24.18
What is finished?
00:48:24.19\00:48:25.16
What is it talking
about in Revelation 16?
00:48:25.17\00:48:27.60
Every man, every
woman, every boy,
00:48:27.61\00:48:29.57
every girl has made their
final irrevocable decision
00:48:29.58\00:48:33.68
for or against Christ.
00:48:33.69\00:48:35.48
It is done, probation
does not close in heaven
00:48:35.49\00:48:40.45
merely because
of an arbitrary act
00:48:40.46\00:48:43.07
on the part of God.
00:48:43.08\00:48:44.59
It is not that God
is run out of mercy,
00:48:44.60\00:48:46.60
it's not that God
is run out of love.
00:48:46.61\00:48:48.47
This idea that probation
may have closed already
00:48:48.48\00:48:51.33
and you maybe lost.
00:48:51.34\00:48:52.37
It's not
biblical, it's not biblical.
00:48:52.38\00:48:55.06
When scripture says
it is done in heaven,
00:48:56.94\00:48:59.50
when it talks about
the close of probation,
00:48:59.51\00:49:02.30
it is revealing
the eternal truth,
00:49:02.31\00:49:05.98
that one day every
human being will fully make
00:49:05.99\00:49:09.63
their decision
for or against Christ.
00:49:09.64\00:49:12.14
Every seed will go to harvest.
00:49:12.15\00:49:15.08
It's not that if God
waited another two years,
00:49:15.09\00:49:18.33
three years, two
months, three months,
00:49:18.34\00:49:20.27
a thousand more
people would be saved.
00:49:20.28\00:49:22.30
There comes a point in
the divine drama of destiny.
00:49:22.31\00:49:25.98
There comes a
point in the panorama
00:49:25.99\00:49:28.26
of the controversy
between good and evil.
00:49:28.27\00:49:30.35
That issues are so clear
00:49:30.36\00:49:32.68
that everybody
makes their decision,
00:49:32.69\00:49:34.51
and it's at that
point that probation closes.
00:49:34.52\00:49:37.31
If God waited
another week, another month,
00:49:37.32\00:49:40.28
another two years,
another five years,
00:49:40.29\00:49:42.83
another hundred years,
nobody else will be saved
00:49:42.84\00:49:45.18
because they have sealed
their decision for eternity.
00:49:45.19\00:49:48.73
Kind of reminds me a
little bit of years ago,
00:49:48.74\00:49:53.10
traveling up to Alaska.
00:49:53.11\00:49:54.75
The Alaskan highway
was a muddy road of ruts,
00:49:54.76\00:49:59.11
and there was a sign
00:49:59.12\00:50:00.09
at the beginning of
that road went 500 miles.
00:50:00.10\00:50:03.39
Sign at the beginning
of the Alaskan highway
00:50:03.40\00:50:04.79
that said this,
"choose your rut carefully,
00:50:04.80\00:50:09.23
you will begin it
for the next 500 miles."
00:50:09.24\00:50:11.30
There comes a point,
based on the decisions
00:50:12.87\00:50:16.32
that we make
everyday that shapes
00:50:16.33\00:50:19.57
and molds our characters.
00:50:19.58\00:50:22.66
Today, in the
decisions you make,
00:50:22.67\00:50:25.81
you're settling your destiny.
00:50:25.82\00:50:28.86
And it's never too late to begin
00:50:28.87\00:50:30.79
to make good
decisions, never too late
00:50:30.80\00:50:34.26
to begin to make good decisions.
00:50:34.27\00:50:35.66
It is finished,
probation is closed,
00:50:35.67\00:50:38.24
decisions have been made.
00:50:38.25\00:50:40.91
The door of
mercy is open tonight,
00:50:40.92\00:50:43.00
and may be you've
been going one way
00:50:43.01\00:50:45.03
with the decisions
you've been making and God said,
00:50:45.04\00:50:49.01
soon, every
human being will make
00:50:49.02\00:50:52.92
their final irrevocable decision
00:50:52.93\00:50:55.21
for or against Christ.
00:50:55.22\00:50:56.65
Soon, every human
being will make decisions
00:50:56.66\00:51:02.96
either for heaven or for hell,
00:51:02.97\00:51:06.04
for eternity and
salvation or for eternal loss.
00:51:06.05\00:51:10.11
And Jesus says to
you and to me tonight,
00:51:10.12\00:51:13.51
my heart longs to save you.
00:51:13.52\00:51:16.11
I'll be lonely
forever if you are lost.
00:51:16.12\00:51:19.16
I died for you.
00:51:20.85\00:51:22.57
All the shame and guilt
and accusation can be gone.
00:51:22.58\00:51:26.28
The power of sin can be broken.
00:51:26.29\00:51:28.32
The fear of death can be gone.
00:51:28.33\00:51:31.04
Jesus has come, come to me.
00:51:31.05\00:51:33.44
Revelation Chapter 21,
Last time in the Bible,
00:51:35.16\00:51:40.17
it is finished at creation,
00:51:40.18\00:51:43.15
it is finished on a
hill called Calvary,
00:51:43.16\00:51:46.02
it is finished at
the close of probation.
00:51:46.03\00:51:48.78
Revelation Chapter 21,
00:51:48.79\00:51:51.50
and we look there
starting with verse 3,
00:51:51.51\00:51:53.88
Revelation 21, verse 3.
00:51:53.89\00:51:55.90
And I heard a loud
voice from heaven saying,
00:51:55.91\00:51:57.86
Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
00:51:57.87\00:52:00.59
and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people,
00:52:00.60\00:52:03.84
and God himself
shall be with them,
00:52:03.85\00:52:05.74
and be their God.
00:52:05.75\00:52:06.86
And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes,
00:52:06.87\00:52:09.57
and there will
be no more sorrow,
00:52:09.58\00:52:11.66
nor death, nor crying.
00:52:11.67\00:52:13.16
There will be no more
pain for the former things
00:52:13.17\00:52:14.86
are passed away.
00:52:14.87\00:52:16.41
Verse 5, And he that
sat upon the throne said,
00:52:16.42\00:52:18.60
Behold, I make all things new.
00:52:18.61\00:52:20.20
And he said to me,
00:52:20.21\00:52:21.18
write for these words
are true and faithful.
00:52:21.19\00:52:23.05
And he said to me, it is done,
00:52:23.06\00:52:24.48
it is finished, it is finished.
00:52:24.49\00:52:27.44
Disease and
disaster and death are over,
00:52:27.45\00:52:30.49
it is finished, war and worry
00:52:30.50\00:52:32.91
and want are
over, it is finished.
00:52:32.92\00:52:36.23
Pollution and poverty
and pestilence are over,
00:52:36.24\00:52:39.56
it is finished.
00:52:39.57\00:52:40.85
Hurricanes and horror
are over, it is finished.
00:52:40.86\00:52:44.94
One day the earth will shake,
00:52:44.95\00:52:47.17
one day the sky
will be illuminated
00:52:47.18\00:52:49.06
with the glory of God.
00:52:49.07\00:52:51.26
One day Jesus will come
00:52:51.27\00:52:53.68
with 10,000 times 10,000 angels.
00:52:53.69\00:52:57.53
No more distended
bellies for children crying out
00:52:57.54\00:53:01.93
because their
mothers milk is dried up.
00:53:01.94\00:53:04.67
One day there
will be no more bombs
00:53:04.68\00:53:06.93
that drop that blow off innocent
00:53:06.94\00:53:08.88
children's hands and legs.
00:53:08.89\00:53:11.20
One day there will
be no more drug shot
00:53:11.21\00:53:15.57
in back alleys in the
great cities of America.
00:53:15.58\00:53:19.54
One day no more
drunken men coming home
00:53:19.55\00:53:22.49
to blacken their wives eyes.
00:53:22.50\00:53:24.87
One day no more
tears, no more sorrow,
00:53:24.88\00:53:28.04
no more cancer,
no more heartache,
00:53:28.05\00:53:30.29
no more death.
00:53:30.30\00:53:31.83
One day, one pulse of gladness
00:53:31.84\00:53:35.13
and harmony will be
throughout the vast creation.
00:53:35.14\00:53:37.96
And all things
that God has created
00:53:37.97\00:53:40.13
will declare God is love.
00:53:40.14\00:53:43.28
History is not some
circular evolutionary cycle.
00:53:43.29\00:53:47.89
Seventh-day Adventists
are Seventh-day Adventists
00:53:47.90\00:53:50.26
because they're Adventists.
00:53:50.27\00:53:52.09
They believe that
God created the world
00:53:52.10\00:53:55.07
at a moment in time.
00:53:55.08\00:53:56.74
They believe that
Christ broke through history
00:53:56.75\00:53:58.89
at a moment in time,
and died on the cross.
00:53:58.90\00:54:01.29
And they believed
that history will not go
00:54:01.30\00:54:03.71
round and round and round.
00:54:03.72\00:54:05.52
There is hope for a
really war torn world.
00:54:05.53\00:54:07.90
There is hope for a poverty
stricken polluted planet.
00:54:07.91\00:54:10.93
There is hope to the
world that's in deep trouble.
00:54:10.94\00:54:13.10
When the sociologists
and the psychologists
00:54:13.11\00:54:16.05
and the political scientists
00:54:16.06\00:54:18.37
and the great political leaders
00:54:18.38\00:54:19.72
cannot solve the
problems of our world,
00:54:19.73\00:54:21.68
Jesus Christ can.
00:54:21.69\00:54:24.89
If there is ever a
time for young people
00:54:24.90\00:54:26.50
to stand up, it's today.
00:54:26.51\00:54:28.24
If there is ever a
time that God needs
00:54:28.25\00:54:30.32
young people to give a
message of hope to a world
00:54:30.33\00:54:33.83
that's in deep
trouble, it is today.
00:54:33.84\00:54:36.60
This is our
hour, this is our time.
00:54:36.61\00:54:40.45
This is the time for a group
00:54:40.46\00:54:41.75
of Adventist
young people to say,
00:54:41.76\00:54:44.60
we live to prepare the
world for the coming of Jesus.
00:54:44.61\00:54:48.92
Whatever God has called
you to do as a profession,
00:54:49.97\00:54:53.24
something beyond your
profession is a calling.
00:54:54.44\00:54:57.22
You may be a computer scientist,
00:54:58.35\00:55:01.49
you may be a chemist,
you may be a biologist,
00:55:01.50\00:55:06.29
you may be an
engineer, you may be a teacher,
00:55:06.30\00:55:10.14
you may be a nurse.
00:55:10.15\00:55:11.83
That is your
profession, or your occupation.
00:55:11.84\00:55:15.73
God has called you
to be a witness for him.
00:55:15.74\00:55:21.11
In the last
generation, would you like today
00:55:21.12\00:55:24.53
to say "I wanna stand for you."
00:55:24.54\00:55:27.25
I wanna stand for
you. I love that song.
00:55:27.26\00:55:30.35
Stand up, stand up
for who? For Jesus.
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We're going to
sing it from the screen,
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you wanna stand
right now for me?
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Let's stand
together, we're going to sing.
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This song was
written by Dudley Ting in,
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actually by George Duffield,
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Dudley Ting was a
preacher, Great Revival,
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Great Revival in the
City of Philadelphia,
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5000 people coming out
to Dudley Ting's meetings,
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he was 28 years old.
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At the end of
one of the meetings,
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he left, got in an
accident, was killed instantly.
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But as he was lying
there, his last words,
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this 28 year
preacher, last words,
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he had just had a
thousand come forward
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in an alter call,
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Dudley Ting looked
at George Duffield.
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Duffield was
holding Ting in his arms,
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Dudley Ting said,
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"Pastor George, tell
my people to stand up,
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stand up for Jesus."
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George Duffield
preached that weekend
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and he went
home, wrote the song,
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"stand up, stand up for Jesus."
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If there ever is a group,
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if God ever had a need
for a group of young people
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to stand up for
Jesus, it's today.
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We're going to sing the
first verse of this song,
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let's sing together.
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Stand up, stand up For Jesus!
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Ye soldiers of the cross
Lift high His royal banner,
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It must not suffer loss.
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From victory unto
victory His army shall He lead,
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Till every foe is vanquished,
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And Christ is Lord indeed.
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We're going to pray.
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Oh my Father,
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we come tonight
and stand before you,
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believing that you created us,
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believing that we were fashioned
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and shaped by a loving God.
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And Father, we know that the one
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that created has
not forgotten us.
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If there is somebody here
in this auditorium tonight
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bearing a great
burden, lift that burden,
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help them to know that
the God that created them
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loves them with immense love.
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Father, there is somebody
watching this program tonight
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that needs your loving touch.
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The warmth of
your arms around them,
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they may feel that
presence of God right now.
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And Father, we
sense that at the cross,
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all of our guilt
and all of our shame
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and all of our weakness
and all of our powerlessness,
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and all of our fear of
death, all that is gone.
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Oh Father, if
Jesus came to die for us,
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the least we can
do is live for him.
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And we hear the call
in the final generation,
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that one day the
suffering and sorrow,
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and heartache and horror
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and disappointment of the world,
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with all of its
sickness and all of its war,
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all of its famine,
and all of its emptiness
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and shallowness and
superficiality will be gone.
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Oh Father, may we
be that generation.
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