We have a very
special friend of 3ABN.
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She's Danny's sister
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and she always
is a blessing to me.
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I love the songs that she sings.
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She sings the
songs that I grew up on.
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And she's-- Tammy, come on out.
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She's going to minister to us
a beautiful song this morning.
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She's gonna sang, sing,
'This world is not my home.'
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Mollie, I heard a rumor.
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What rumor did you hear?
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I heard that you were nervous
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that you didn't
know if I was here or not
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and that you're just gonna
have to talk a few more minutes.
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Well, I was looking
for you because I knew
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that when they
started playing the music
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to, 'This world is not my home,'
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that I could just snap
my fingers or something.
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But when God graced people
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with the
ability to carry a tune,
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I must have
been in another room.
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I am so glad you're here.
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I want to say a hello
to a dear friend of mine
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that lives in
Walla Walla, Washington.
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And you know, this
world is kind of a struggle
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and we have a lot of
things that we have to endure.
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And how could we
ever do without friends?
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We know that our heavenly Father
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is our heavenly Friend,
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but we need
friends here on earth too.
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And so I have a good one in her,
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and I want to say hello to her
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and I want to say
good morning to you all.
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And I hope you enjoy this song.
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This world is not my home
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I'm just a-passing through
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My treasures are laid up
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Somewhere beyond the blue
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The angels beckon me
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From heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at home
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In this world anymore
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Oh Lord, You know
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I have no friend like you
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If heaven's not my home
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Lord, Lord what will I do?
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The angels beckon me
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From heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at home
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In this world anymore
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Just over in glory land
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We'll live eternally
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The saints on every hand
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Are shouting victory
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Their songs of sweetest praise
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Drift back from heaven's shore
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And I can't feel at home
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In this world anymore
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Oh Lord, You know
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I have no friend like you
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If heaven's not my home
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Lord, Lord what will I do?
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The angels beckon me
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From heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at home
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In this world anymore
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They're all expecting me
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And that's one thing I know
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My savior pardoned me
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And now I onward go
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I know He'll take me through
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Though I am weak and poor
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And I can't feel at home
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In this world anymore
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The angels beckon me
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From heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at home
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In this world anymore.
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Amen.
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I always appreciate
her soft gentle voice.
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She just ministers the
song and touches people.
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You know, I've
asked David to come on out
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because I know
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that he doesn't need
much of an introduction.
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Besides being seen on 3ABN
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and everybody
knows him and loves him,
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I just wanted to mention to--
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Do you love me too Mollie? I do.
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And there's not a
thing you can do about it.
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I just love him to pieces
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and he touches and
ministers to people
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that others can't reach.
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My son, Jeremy.
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How many of you will
pray for Jeremy for me?
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You know, he is watching today.
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And he, I told him
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David Asscherick's
going to be speaking at 10:30.
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He said, "Oh, David!
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Yeah, I'll come
and watch David,"
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because this is
one of the few people
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that he really
has ministered to God.
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Keep Jeremy in your prayers.
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He is a loved young man.
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David not only is
one of the mini-ministers
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that we have here on 3ABN,
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but he is the president
and founder of ARISE institute.
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ARISE institute
is a training centre
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for angelist.
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Now occasionally,
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we will be out at
GYC or at other locations
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and we will tape young men.
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And we will watch
them and we will say,
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"Mmm, I know where
he went to school."
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Because something
that we have found that is,
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you know, the greatest
form of flattery is what?
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Imitation.
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And so David, I want you to know
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you're training up a
group of young men and women
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that are
touching the whole world
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with the power of
the Lord Jesus Christ
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and we appreciate you for that.
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Praise God. Thank you, Mollie.
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Well, don't you love her voice?
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Yes!
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Mollie, is that your voice
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that's on the answer
machine when you call 3ABN?
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Yes, sometimes I
call just to listen to it.
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You have reached 3ABN.
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I'm just--
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Now, lady, you know,
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the lady will come
on and say, you know,
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"Is there anything
that I can do to help you?"
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No, just put me back
on that answering machine.
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I just, I absolutely love
her voice, it is so sweet.
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I just-- she should
do like some, reading
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of children's
books or something.
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I tell you, she just
has the most lovely voice,
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record them and
make them available
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for those of us with children.
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My children would love that.
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It's a great
privilege to be with you here
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again this morning.
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Did I get that right? Yeah.
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Good.
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Have you recovered
from yesterday's seminar?
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Yes. Right.
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I told you that yesterday
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was just the setup punch, right.
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The knock out punch is today
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and it looks like some of you
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are just absolute
gluttons for punishment.
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You have chosen to
come knowing good and well
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that you will be afflicted
in your comfortability, right,
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your comfortness.
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And I am looking forward
to our presentation today,
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as I said you yesterday
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and I say this with
complete transparency
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and complete candor
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that I have a real
burden on my heart.
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I have a huge burden on my heart
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about the
condition of our churches.
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And you all said
amen to that yesterday
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and then I quickly reminded
you that you are the churches.
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Amen. Amen.
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I am not talking
about a roofing problem
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or a carpet color,
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I mean, we have some real issues
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that we need to
address in our churches.
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And I think from
my study of the word
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that fundamental
to many of the issues
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that we are encountering
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is that we have left
the missionary spirit
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for a mere membership model.
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And that's what
we are talking about.
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As I said yesterday
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and I make no
apologies for this.
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You could throw a hand grenade
into many of our churches
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and hit many members
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but you may not
hit a missionary.
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And I think that
should be a cause for concern
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because as we learned yesterday,
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"Every true disciple
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is born into
the kingdom of God,"
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as a what?
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As a missionary.
"As a missionary."
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So that means that our churches
should be filled, with what?
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Missionaries.
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Missionaries.
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So let's pray
together and let's pray
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that God will give us
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the spirit of not
just looking at others
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and the problems that they have,
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not just looking at
the corporate church
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or even our own local church.
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Let's pray that God
will give us the spirit
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of looking at ourselves, right.
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It's very easy to
see the great big beam
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in someone else's eye.
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But may be, just may be,
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God is going to give us
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a new beginning
in our understanding
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of what it truly means
to be a disciple of Jesus
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at this camp meeting.
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Are you with me?
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So let's pray
for ourselves today.
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I would ask you to
kneel in your hearts
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and all kneel here as
we ask the spirit of God
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to be with us in
a very special way
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as we commence
with our presentation.
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Father in heaven, we
come to you just now,
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thanking You and praising
You that You are God in heaven
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and we are but dust.
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Father,
yesterday we have learned
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that You are a God of love,
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infinite,
unfathomable, immeasurable love.
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And so we cast our
helpless souls on You, Father.
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We are looking to You
for salvation, for grace,
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for mercy, for victory.
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And Father, we
are looking to You
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here today at camp meeting,
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3ABN camp meeting
for a new beginning.
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Father, we don't want that
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just to be a
cute colloquial title.
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We need a new beginning,
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many of us in our
spiritual experience.
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Many of us have been satisfied
oh, God to be mere members,
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when You have
called us each and everyone
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to be mighty missionaries.
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Father, today as we
continue our discussion
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of the interconnectedness
and the interrelationship
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between character and converts,
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I pray that You
would melt our hearts,
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and Father,
chasten us in our apathy,
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chasten us in our
indifference to lost souls.
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Give us here
today biblical clarity
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that we may go from here
in the strength of Christ,
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believing that
God has called us,
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yes, even us to
be winners of souls,
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missionaries, and communicators
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of the great good
news of the gospel.
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Revive us again, oh
God, and give us a revival
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of primitive discipleship
evangelism and godliness.
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In Jesus' name,
let everyone say--
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Amen. Amen.
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Say it with me if you would.
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"Every true disciple
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is born into the
kingdom of God as a missionary."
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And we asked a
question yesterday,
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"Why would Ellen
White used the word 'true'
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to modify disciple here?"
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Right?
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Every true disciple is born
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into the kingdom of
God as a missionary."
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And the answer must be
that she was setting apart,
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disciples, regular, old
run-of-the-mill disciples
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from true disciples.
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Now, I don't know about you
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but I want to
be a true disciple.
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Are you with me, yes or no?
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And so we learned yesterday
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that we have a
functional equivalence here,
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we have a
grammatical equivalence here.
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If I am a true disciple,
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then by definition, I am a what?
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Missionary, and this
gives us a litmus test
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by which to gauge our
own Christian experience.
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Because we can ask ourselves,
if you sometimes wonder:
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am I really a
Christian, am I really disciple,
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am I a true disciple.
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We can very
easily ask ourselves,
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"Am I a missionary?"
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And if the answer to
that question is yes,
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then chances are you
are, in fact, a true disciple.
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However, if the answer
to that question is no,
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then what would be the
answer to the question,
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are you a true disciple?
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The answer would be no
because every true disciple
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is born into the
kingdom of God as missionary.
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We also learned yesterday,
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marvelous statement
from the Great Controversy,
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the Spirit of Christ is
a missionary spirit, right.
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The Spirit of Christ is a what?
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Missionary spirit.
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And we talked about
the various attributes
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that
philosophers and theologians
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attribute to God, right.
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Omnipotence, and omniscient,
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and
omnibenevolence, omnipresence
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and we were asking the question,
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if we were able to peel
back all of these properties
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that God possesses
and that theologians,
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these labels that
they attached to Him
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and we were to get
in to the very heart
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of heart of the
germ of the nucleus
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of what makes God tick,
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what did we say we
would discover there?
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Love. That's exactly correct.
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And then we said,
well, what is love?
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Does anyone
remember what is love?
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Self sacrifice.
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It is the principle of
putting others first, right.
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And where, does anyone remember
where is that little verse,
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where was that
little phrase from a verse
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that basically summed up
the essence of what love is.
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1 Corinthians 13:5,
and what was the phrase?
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"Love seeketh not her own."
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And so here from
this one little phrase
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we establish a
biblical president
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for what real love is,
not namby-pamby, willy-nilly,
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fuzzy-wuzzy
emotional fanciful love.
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We are talking about real love.
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And real love is not an emotion,
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it's not a
flight, it's not a fancy,
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it's not a feeling.
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Real love is a
principle that says
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others are more
important than me.
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Can you say amen?
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And that was evinced, of course,
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in the most
marvelous demonstration of love
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that the universe has ever seen
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when God himself,
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in the person of
His Son, Jesus Christ,
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the incarnate
God, went to the cross.
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And the message of the cross was
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that God would
rather endure hell for you
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than enjoy heaven without you.
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Amen.
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And so Jesus could say,
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"Greater love
has no man than this,
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that a man would
lay down his life
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for his friends."
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And God went even
a step beyond that.
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God laid down His
life for his enemies.
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And let's not forget
to the apostle Paul says
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in Romans 5:10,
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"For if when we
were enemies of God,
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we were reconciled to
Him by the death of his Son,
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much more,
having been reconciled,
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we shall be saved by His life."
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And so God goes above and beyond
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not just laying down
His life for his friends,
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but even laying His
life for His enemies.
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And so we are
asking the question,
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if this what
causes the heart of God
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to beat, to palpate, to pulse,
to seek and to save the loss.
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That's what Jesus
said in Luke 19:10.
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And if the spirit of
Christ is the missionary spirit,
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I would be very
comfortable saying
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that God is the
greatest missionary.
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Amen.
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All subsequent missionaries
are simply feeding off
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of the great love
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and magnanimity
and munificence of God
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in going out to bring
the message of salvation.
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Jesus was the first missionary.
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Are you with me?
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And so we said, well,
what is holiness, right.
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We sometimes
have these very weird
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and I believe
contrived and unfortunate
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use of what holiness is.
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Holiness is simply godlikeness.
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Are you comfortable
with that, yes or no?
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God says, "Be
therefore holy for I am holy."
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So holiness is being
like God and God is love.
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Are you with me?
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And so yesterday we talked
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just about some
of the wonderful,
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beautiful, important things
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that we as
Seventh-day Adventists
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hold to be true
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and no one would take away
things like returning tithe,
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and being a vegetarian,
and keeping the Sabbath
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and being a
member of the church.
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Those are all important things.
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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But those things
in and of themselves
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do not give me enough
in common with the God
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who would hang
bruised and bloodied
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and beaten on a tree
for me to reasonably expect
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to spend eternity with that God.
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Are you with me, yes or no?
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God's heart beats to
seek and to save the lost
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and if at some fundamental level
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my heart does not beat to
seek and to save the loss,
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I do not have that
much in common with God.
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That's basically a review
of what we learnt yesterday.
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And are we all on the
same page up to that point?
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Yes. Okay.
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Now let's
transition and begin to talk
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about the two things
that we closed on yesterday.
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And that is the
interconnectedness
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of working for converts
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and a Christ
like character, okay.
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There are only two things
that you can take to heaven.
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How many things?
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Two things.
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And those to things are
character and converts, okay.
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A Christ like
character and converts.
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And many of us
have perhaps known that,
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perhaps believe that,
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may be you've
heard me say that before.
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Character and converts,
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that's all
you're taking to heaven.
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But what I want to try
and understand here today,
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and the whole purpose
of today's presentation
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will be to show that
it is not too unrelated
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independent entities,
character and converts.
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It's not like, over one thing
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that can go with me
to heaven is over here
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and that's a
Christ like Character.
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And over here is another
thing that I can now- converts.
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What we are going to see today
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is that far from
being independent,
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these two things
are interdependents.
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Do you want a
Christ like character?
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Do you want a
Christ like character?
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There is more to that
than being a vegan vegetarian.
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Amen. Amen.
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Important as that is.
And you're looking at one.
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So it's important as that is.
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And I believe it's important.
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Especially in this day in
a, age on earth's history,
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there is more to
having a Christ like character
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than simply being a vegetarian.
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Christ's heart,
His whole mission,
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His whole passion was to
seek in to save the lost.
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And if I want a
character like that,
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I've got to be involved in
seeking and saving the what?
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The lost.
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Now I was married April 4th 1999
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and I had
already made up my mind.
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Before I was ever married,
00:19:09.71\00:19:11.05
before I had ever
even met my future wife,
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I already knew what
the name of my first child
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was going to be.
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You know how that
works? You just, I just--
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I had already decided
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this will be the
name of my first child.
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And so after I was married
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and lo and behold
my wife got pregnant.
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I love it when they said
that, "well, she got pregnant."
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You know, there is a
cause effect relationship here
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which some people
don't seem to understand.
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And so my wife
just got pregnant.
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You know those
things just sometimes happen
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with married couples.
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And so my wife turns up pregnant
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and I waited, I
waited, I wanted to see
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because my name
was a boy's name.
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And so we waited to
do the little photograph,
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you know, it doesn't
look like anything to you
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but it looks like
something to the expert
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on the other end of the camera.
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They said, "It's a
boy. Can't you see?"
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and I am like, looks
like a bunch of static on
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and it screamed to me.
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But okay, it's a boy.
I'll take your word for.
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And so, I knew it was a
boy. So now I am in a dilemma.
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You can appreciate men.
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Some of you have this
dilemma on other issues.
00:20:01.00\00:20:02.33
And that is,
you've got this great idea
00:20:02.36\00:20:03.90
that you already
made up your mind on.
00:20:03.93\00:20:05.37
But now you have
to persuade your wife
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that it's her idea.
00:20:06.90\00:20:08.24
Can anyone else relate to
what I am saying here today?
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"Sweetheart, I
think it's a great idea
00:20:17.65\00:20:18.98
that we should get
a new fishing bowl.
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You know, I am glad
you came up with that.
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Brilliant." You
know, that kind of a thing.
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So here I've got this name
and I've already picked it out
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and, and my wife, I sort of--
to be honest, what I did is,
00:20:26.19\00:20:29.86
I started throwing
out some sub par names.
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None of which I
will mention, by the way,
00:20:33.60\00:20:35.06
because invariably one of them
will be in the audience, right.
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So I started just,
00:20:37.57\00:20:38.90
I started just throwing
out a few names, you know,
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just to sort of soften
her up to where she would say,
00:20:40.30\00:20:42.30
"No, my, no child of
mine is gonna be marry that."
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And I throw out another
one, then she's, "No, no, no."
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And I was softening her up
00:20:47.04\00:20:49.44
so I could spring on her my name
00:20:49.48\00:20:52.41
which would sound so
wonderful in juxtaposition
00:20:52.45\00:20:54.68
to all of these
bad names, right.
00:20:54.72\00:20:57.42
So the time came and I said,
00:20:57.45\00:20:58.89
"Well, what do you
think about, Barnabas?"
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You know the reaction
that you are giving me
00:21:08.73\00:21:10.07
is identical to
the reaction she gave.
00:21:10.10\00:21:11.77
I remember her
exact words to this day
00:21:15.64\00:21:17.27
because my spirit
was utterly crushed
00:21:17.31\00:21:18.64
because I've already decided
00:21:18.67\00:21:20.01
that was gonna be the
name of my first child,
00:21:20.04\00:21:21.38
like four years
before, right, Barnabas.
00:21:21.41\00:21:24.11
And she said, I'll
never forget that she said,
00:21:24.15\00:21:27.58
"No son of mine is
gonna be named Barney."
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And at the time,
00:21:34.72\00:21:36.06
I have an uncle
Barney and he is dear to me.
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He's passed away now.
00:21:37.66\00:21:38.99
But at the time, you know,
00:21:39.03\00:21:40.36
he has this
dancing purple dinosaur,
00:21:40.40\00:21:42.26
this ubiquitous
dancing purple dinosaur
00:21:42.30\00:21:44.27
named Barney
00:21:44.30\00:21:45.63
and I had-- it
never dawned on me
00:21:45.67\00:21:47.10
that Barnabas
shortened to Barney.
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Now you might be
sitting there and thinking,
00:21:51.54\00:21:52.87
why in the world would you say?
00:21:52.91\00:21:54.64
Why had you made up your mind
00:21:54.68\00:21:56.31
that your son was
going to be named Barnabas?
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Right.
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Incidentally that is not
the name of my first son.
00:22:00.02\00:22:02.88
So mission not
accomplished, okay.
00:22:02.92\00:22:06.99
Now why would
you choose that name?
00:22:07.02\00:22:08.36
Now, let me tell you
why I chose that name.
00:22:08.39\00:22:09.72
I was studying
to the Book of Acts
00:22:09.76\00:22:11.09
and I came across Acts 11.
00:22:11.13\00:22:13.23
Now many of us are aware
00:22:13.26\00:22:14.60
that Barnabas was a
biblical figure, right.
00:22:14.63\00:22:16.87
But if I say to you,
00:22:16.90\00:22:18.23
take out a piece
of paper right now
00:22:18.27\00:22:19.67
and write down ten
things about Barnabas.
00:22:19.70\00:22:23.91
Could you do it?
No. Probably not.
00:22:23.94\00:22:26.51
But if I say for example
take out a piece of paper
00:22:26.54\00:22:28.08
and write ten
things about Peter.
00:22:28.11\00:22:30.81
Could you do
that? Yeah, probably.
00:22:30.85\00:22:32.31
So we know
great deal about Peter
00:22:32.35\00:22:33.68
but we don't know
much about Barnabas.
00:22:33.72\00:22:35.35
We just do know
that much about him.
00:22:35.38\00:22:37.99
But in Acts 11:24,
00:22:38.02\00:22:39.95
why don't you
turn there with me?
00:22:39.99\00:22:41.42
In Acts 11:24,
00:22:41.46\00:22:43.63
we learn everything we
need know about Barnabas.
00:22:43.66\00:22:47.40
And it is this verse
that inspired me to make
00:22:47.43\00:22:49.96
what is probably in
retrospect an irrational choice
00:22:50.00\00:22:52.53
to name my first son,
before I had even met my wife.
00:22:52.57\00:22:55.50
But you will appreciate I think,
00:22:55.54\00:22:56.91
the strength of this verse.
00:22:56.94\00:22:59.37
Acts 11:24, describing Barnabas.
00:22:59.41\00:23:02.14
The Bible simply
says, "He was a good man,
00:23:02.18\00:23:08.08
full of the Holy
Ghost and of faith,
00:23:08.12\00:23:14.06
and much people was
added unto the Lord."
00:23:14.09\00:23:19.23
Can you say amen to that? Amen.
00:23:19.26\00:23:21.03
Now beloved, if
everything else in your life
00:23:21.06\00:23:24.17
was a complete failure
by any worldly standard,
00:23:24.20\00:23:26.74
by any of your peer's standard,
00:23:26.77\00:23:28.80
if you could come to
the end of your life,
00:23:28.84\00:23:30.31
to the end of
your sojourn on earth,
00:23:30.34\00:23:32.11
and on your tomb
stone, your epitaph
00:23:32.14\00:23:34.11
or whatever it might be,
00:23:34.14\00:23:35.48
if all that was
said about you was,
00:23:35.51\00:23:36.95
she was a good woman,
00:23:36.98\00:23:38.31
full of the holy
ghost and of faith
00:23:38.35\00:23:39.88
and much people was
added unto the Lord,
00:23:39.91\00:23:41.75
would you trade in
every worldly attainment
00:23:41.78\00:23:44.19
for just that to be said
in truth about you, yes or no?
00:23:44.22\00:23:47.66
Of course.
00:23:47.69\00:23:50.96
"He was a good man,
00:23:50.99\00:23:52.33
full of the Holy
Ghost and of faith
00:23:52.36\00:23:53.70
and much people was
added unto the Lord."
00:23:53.73\00:23:55.06
Now let's just
sort of unpack this.
00:23:55.10\00:23:56.43
He was a good man, character,
00:23:56.46\00:23:59.90
full of the
Holy Ghost, character
00:23:59.93\00:24:04.14
and of faith, character.
00:24:04.17\00:24:06.41
This is describing you
the kind of person that he was
00:24:06.44\00:24:09.08
and much people was
added unto the Lord, converts.
00:24:09.11\00:24:16.02
Are you with me, yes or no?
00:24:16.05\00:24:17.42
There is an interrelationship,
there is a interdependency
00:24:17.45\00:24:21.36
between these two notions
of character and converts.
00:24:21.39\00:24:26.86
Do you want a
Christ like character?
00:24:26.90\00:24:29.26
Yes or no?
00:24:29.30\00:24:30.63
Then you must work for converts.
00:24:30.67\00:24:35.94
So I am reading to
this book, it's an old book.
00:24:35.97\00:24:37.54
You've probably
never heard of it.
00:24:37.57\00:24:38.91
It's called
'The Desire of Ages.'
00:24:38.94\00:24:42.98
It wasn't written
by Max Lucado either.
00:24:43.01\00:24:44.95
And on page 142, I
come across this statement
00:24:48.18\00:24:51.22
and you and I are going to spend
00:24:51.25\00:24:52.59
a few moments on this statement
00:24:52.62\00:24:53.96
because we are
going to understand it
00:24:53.99\00:24:55.49
whether you like it or not.
00:24:55.52\00:24:58.23
Amen? Amen.
00:24:58.26\00:24:59.63
Now, before I
read to the statement,
00:24:59.66\00:25:01.00
again I want to do
what I did yesterday.
00:25:01.03\00:25:02.36
I want to apologize to you
00:25:02.40\00:25:03.73
on behalf of--
in many instances,
00:25:03.77\00:25:05.83
the Seventh-day
Adventist ministry
00:25:05.87\00:25:07.20
for not telling you
00:25:07.24\00:25:08.57
what I am about
ready to tell you.
00:25:08.60\00:25:10.01
Because some of us
start, "Oh, you know,
00:25:10.04\00:25:11.81
it's good to be a Christian,
00:25:11.84\00:25:13.17
and I stopped
doing all those things.
00:25:13.21\00:25:15.04
I don't go to movies
anymore, and I'm even working,
00:25:15.08\00:25:17.48
I'm even cutting
meat out of my diet
00:25:17.51\00:25:19.41
and I'm just, I am
feeling like a Christian.
00:25:19.45\00:25:21.28
And in the unlikely
event that I ever get a chance
00:25:21.32\00:25:24.29
to actually witness,
I am willing to do it."
00:25:24.32\00:25:27.46
Right.
00:25:27.49\00:25:28.82
We have somehow
disassociated in our minds
00:25:28.86\00:25:31.26
being a Christian
and being a witness.
00:25:31.29\00:25:34.86
It's the
difference, it's the dichotomy
00:25:34.90\00:25:36.56
between being a member
and being a missionary, okay.
00:25:36.60\00:25:40.60
So I want to apologize.
That has been communicated.
00:25:40.64\00:25:42.60
I think it, it is
been communicated,
00:25:42.64\00:25:44.37
if not overtly, covertly
and you know it's the case
00:25:44.41\00:25:47.44
because that's why you
go to many of our churches
00:25:47.48\00:25:49.21
and they are filled to the brim
in many instances with members
00:25:49.24\00:25:51.41
but scarcely a missionary there.
00:25:51.45\00:25:55.05
So, Desire of Ages.
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Page 142, and we
are going to love this
00:25:56.45\00:25:59.65
whether we like it or not.
00:25:59.69\00:26:03.46
"God could have
reached His object
00:26:03.49\00:26:04.96
in saving
sinners without our help.
00:26:04.99\00:26:08.30
Right. That's
the first sentence.
00:26:08.33\00:26:09.66
Now that seems to
be axiomatically true.
00:26:09.70\00:26:11.67
Right. That
seems to be the case.
00:26:11.70\00:26:13.23
"God could have
reached His object
00:26:13.27\00:26:14.60
in saving sinners
without our help."
00:26:14.64\00:26:15.97
Do you agree with that? Yes.
00:26:16.00\00:26:17.34
Very simple.
00:26:17.37\00:26:18.71
We have instances about it
in the scripture, don't we?
00:26:18.74\00:26:20.08
On one occasion,
00:26:20.11\00:26:21.44
God used the
donkey to speak to man.
00:26:21.48\00:26:23.61
On another occasion
God used the great fish,
00:26:23.65\00:26:25.75
some translation say
a whale to speak to man.
00:26:25.78\00:26:29.05
Jesus even spoke to
Peter through a rooster,
00:26:29.08\00:26:31.29
so he's not
averse to using chickens.
00:26:31.32\00:26:33.36
And on one occasion Jesus said,
00:26:33.39\00:26:35.49
if these should be quite,
00:26:35.52\00:26:36.86
if these should
hold their peace,
00:26:36.89\00:26:38.49
even the very
stones would cry out.
00:26:38.53\00:26:40.53
So God can use
donkeys, God can use fish,
00:26:40.56\00:26:42.80
God can use roosters
and God can use stones
00:26:42.83\00:26:45.10
but let me tell
you something here.
00:26:45.13\00:26:46.47
There would be a huge causality.
00:26:46.50\00:26:50.21
There would be a
tremendous causality,
00:26:50.24\00:26:54.04
a catastrophe if
you will, catastrophe,
00:26:54.08\00:26:56.75
if God chose to reach
sinners through chickens,
00:26:56.78\00:27:00.35
and donkeys and fish and rocks.
00:27:00.38\00:27:03.32
And do you know who
that causality would be?
00:27:03.35\00:27:07.96
You are a smart group.
00:27:07.99\00:27:10.79
I am so pleased.
00:27:10.83\00:27:12.19
There is a spiritual IQ
00:27:12.23\00:27:14.20
that seems to be
just a little higher here
00:27:14.23\00:27:16.56
at the 3ABN camp meeting.
00:27:16.60\00:27:17.93
And it thrills my soul.
00:27:17.97\00:27:19.67
You have got all the
right answers so far.
00:27:19.70\00:27:22.00
Now, of course, at the end
we will make an appeal for you
00:27:22.04\00:27:23.57
to actually do something
with those write answers.
00:27:23.61\00:27:25.24
But at least you are
giving the right answers.
00:27:25.27\00:27:28.71
Amen? Amen.
00:27:28.74\00:27:30.08
So God could have
reached His object
00:27:30.11\00:27:31.71
in saving sinners without
our help, without our aid
00:27:31.75\00:27:33.85
but-- now the word but,
00:27:33.88\00:27:39.05
an important word in
the English language.
00:27:39.09\00:27:40.49
Yes or no? Okay.
00:27:40.52\00:27:42.06
It's a conjunction.
00:27:42.09\00:27:43.43
That's its grammatical
use. It's a conjunction.
00:27:43.46\00:27:45.69
It's like the word,
'and' but it is very different
00:27:45.73\00:27:47.66
in some senses
from the word 'and.'
00:27:47.70\00:27:49.43
The word 'and' is also
a grammatical conjunction.
00:27:49.46\00:27:51.33
So you might say something
like, I like pizza and pasta.
00:27:51.37\00:27:54.94
I like soup and salad.
Are you with me, yes or no?
00:27:54.97\00:27:57.87
And, 'and' joins
two ideas together,
00:27:57.91\00:28:00.61
two nouns, two phrases together
00:28:00.64\00:28:02.34
but it does not indicate a turn.
00:28:02.38\00:28:04.55
It's just, I like
soup and salad, right.
00:28:04.58\00:28:07.62
Pizza and pasta, right.
00:28:07.65\00:28:09.18
Are you with me
everyone? And, and.
00:28:09.22\00:28:10.85
Okay, now the word
'but is also a conjunction
00:28:10.89\00:28:12.85
but it indicates a
turn of events, okay.
00:28:12.89\00:28:15.89
It is a conjunction,
00:28:15.92\00:28:17.26
it can join two
clauses, two nouns, two ideas
00:28:17.29\00:28:20.70
but it indicates
a change or a turn.
00:28:20.73\00:28:23.03
So for example,
in the illustration,
00:28:23.06\00:28:24.67
I like to use this,
If you applied for a job
00:28:24.70\00:28:27.04
and you filled
out your application,
00:28:27.07\00:28:29.90
you sent in your resume,
you went in for the interview
00:28:29.94\00:28:32.01
and you just answered
every question deftly,
00:28:32.04\00:28:34.04
and you were just
sure you got the job.
00:28:34.08\00:28:35.54
I mean, just sure and so.
00:28:35.58\00:28:36.91
You know, a week later
or whatever it is later
00:28:36.95\00:28:38.41
you get a letter in
the mail and it says
00:28:38.45\00:28:40.05
"Dear sir, dear madam,
00:28:40.08\00:28:41.42
thank you so much for
coming into interview with us.
00:28:41.45\00:28:42.78
It was a pleasure spending
the other morning with you
00:28:42.82\00:28:44.15
and we appreciate the time
00:28:44.19\00:28:45.52
you took out of
your busy schedule
00:28:45.55\00:28:46.89
to come and meet with us but...
00:28:46.92\00:28:48.26
Do you need to read
the rest of the letter?
00:28:52.89\00:28:54.73
You don't need to
read the rest of the letter
00:28:54.76\00:28:56.10
because it's telling you
00:28:56.13\00:28:57.47
but we chose to fill
this position internally
00:28:57.50\00:28:58.83
or whatever they say.
00:28:58.87\00:29:00.20
The moment that
you encounter the word
00:29:00.24\00:29:01.57
but you know that we are
like going this direction,
00:29:01.60\00:29:03.41
"Oh, yeah, it was
good to see you too
00:29:03.44\00:29:04.77
and it was really.
00:29:04.81\00:29:06.14
And you ran up
against the but, right?
00:29:06.17\00:29:08.31
Now you know you are not
walking that way anymore.
00:29:08.34\00:29:09.84
Now you are
walking this way, right.
00:29:09.88\00:29:11.81
So 'but'
indicates a U turn, okay.
00:29:11.85\00:29:15.32
So now listen, God
could have reached His object
00:29:15.35\00:29:18.62
in saving sinners
without our aid but...
00:29:18.65\00:29:23.83
Are you with me?
00:29:23.86\00:29:25.19
Incase if we
were walking this way,
00:29:25.23\00:29:26.56
"Oh yeah, God can use donkeys,
00:29:26.59\00:29:27.93
and God can use roosters,
and God can use chickens,
00:29:27.96\00:29:29.83
and God can use stones,
00:29:29.86\00:29:32.63
but--
00:29:32.67\00:29:36.60
Now we are walking
this way, aren't we?
00:29:36.64\00:29:38.61
Are you ready for the 'but'?
00:29:38.64\00:29:40.78
"But
00:29:40.81\00:29:42.14
in order for us to develop
a character like Christ's,
00:29:42.18\00:29:47.82
we must share in His work.
00:29:47.85\00:29:52.19
In order for us to
enter into His joy," His joy,
00:29:52.22\00:29:56.86
"the joy of seeing souls
redeemed by His sacrifice,
00:29:56.89\00:29:59.89
we must participate in His
labors for their redemption."
00:29:59.93\00:30:05.20
Are you with me, yes or no?
00:30:05.23\00:30:06.57
Now you will notice that
she employs the phrase two times
00:30:06.60\00:30:09.17
"in order to."
00:30:09.20\00:30:11.01
Did you get that? "In
order to," "In order to."
00:30:11.04\00:30:14.11
Now what does that phrase,
00:30:14.14\00:30:15.48
what is the
function of that phrase?
00:30:15.51\00:30:16.85
Very simply, the
phrase "in order to"
00:30:16.88\00:30:19.38
denotes a
necessary sequence of events.
00:30:19.41\00:30:23.28
Are you with me?
00:30:23.32\00:30:24.65
Okay, in order for
me to start my car,
00:30:24.69\00:30:27.89
I must turn the key.
00:30:27.92\00:30:30.73
In order for me to have a
full stomach I must eat, right?
00:30:30.76\00:30:34.23
In order to, in other
words if you want to get to B,
00:30:34.26\00:30:36.73
you got to go through A.
00:30:36.77\00:30:38.67
Okay, now I want you
to listen to it again.
00:30:38.70\00:30:40.34
"In order for us to develop
a character like Christ,"
00:30:40.37\00:30:42.84
how many of us want to
develop a character like Christ?
00:30:42.87\00:30:44.67
So that's B, that's
over there, that's B.
00:30:44.71\00:30:46.81
I want B over there,
right I'm headed towards B,
00:30:46.84\00:30:49.54
so in order for me to
develop a character like Christ,
00:30:49.58\00:30:51.78
I must share in His labors.
00:30:51.81\00:30:55.55
So question, can I
develop a character like Christ
00:30:55.58\00:30:58.72
without participating in
His labors for their redemption?
00:30:58.75\00:31:02.12
Okay, in order to
enter into His joy,
00:31:02.16\00:31:04.49
do I want the joy of Jesus?
00:31:04.53\00:31:06.16
She says it's "the
joy of seeing souls
00:31:06.19\00:31:07.53
redeem by His sacrifice."
00:31:07.56\00:31:08.90
So that's over there, that's B.
00:31:08.93\00:31:10.27
I want to enter into that joy.
00:31:10.30\00:31:11.63
How do I enter into that joy?
00:31:11.67\00:31:13.00
I must share in His
labors for their redemption.
00:31:13.03\00:31:18.17
Are you tracking with me?
00:31:18.21\00:31:20.21
Do you want to
character like Christ?
00:31:20.24\00:31:23.18
You can not get it,
00:31:23.21\00:31:25.18
if you are not
working for converts.
00:31:25.21\00:31:30.39
Clear enough?
00:31:30.42\00:31:31.82
All this is by the
way is a recapitulation,
00:31:31.85\00:31:34.42
a restating of
our opening mantra,
00:31:34.46\00:31:37.56
"Every true disciple
00:31:37.59\00:31:40.03
is born into the
kingdom of God as a missionary."
00:31:40.06\00:31:45.20
It's simply a
recapitulation of that idea,
00:31:45.23\00:31:47.34
if you want the
character of Christ,
00:31:47.37\00:31:49.34
you must participate
in the works of Christ
00:31:49.37\00:31:51.84
because how are you ever going
00:31:51.87\00:31:53.94
to identify with the God
who would give everything
00:31:53.98\00:31:57.35
even His own
existence for others,
00:31:57.38\00:31:59.18
if you are not
giving something for others?
00:31:59.21\00:32:02.75
And what was our
Bible study yesterday,
00:32:02.78\00:32:04.12
what was that phrase
00:32:04.15\00:32:05.49
that we looked at
in the New Testament,
00:32:05.52\00:32:06.86
"He gave," what did He give?
00:32:06.89\00:32:08.26
"Himself."
00:32:08.29\00:32:09.62
"He gave
himself," "He gave himself,"
00:32:09.66\00:32:11.59
"He gave himself."
00:32:11.63\00:32:12.96
Do you want to spend eternity
with the God that gave Himself?
00:32:12.99\00:32:16.93
Then you better start
giving yourself for others.
00:32:16.97\00:32:20.80
Amen.
00:32:20.84\00:32:22.94
Otherwise it's just not
reasonable for you to expect
00:32:22.97\00:32:27.24
that you have
enough in common with God
00:32:27.28\00:32:29.18
to prepare you to
spend eternity with Him.
00:32:29.21\00:32:31.38
You just don't relate.
00:32:31.41\00:32:33.55
Amen.
00:32:33.58\00:32:35.68
We will return to that point.
00:32:35.72\00:32:39.19
I love the fact
that Tammy is saying
00:32:39.22\00:32:41.62
"my treasures are laid out
somewhere beyond the blue."
00:32:41.66\00:32:45.19
Did you hear that?
00:32:45.23\00:32:46.56
"The angles backing
me from heavens open to
00:32:46.59\00:32:49.03
my treasures are laid out
somewhere beyond the blue."
00:32:49.06\00:32:51.57
How many of you
have heard the phrase
00:32:51.60\00:32:53.74
"to lay your
treasure up in heaven."
00:32:53.77\00:32:56.20
How many of you
heard that, that notion?
00:32:56.24\00:32:57.74
Matthew Chapter
6, okay we've heard.
00:32:57.77\00:32:59.77
What is that what is
the treasure in heaven?
00:32:59.81\00:33:02.04
What is the
treasure laid up in heaven?
00:33:10.59\00:33:14.26
Well, can I show
you from the Bible?
00:33:14.29\00:33:16.22
Is that fair?
00:33:16.26\00:33:17.59
Now we're going to do this
00:33:17.63\00:33:18.96
by looking at two
parallel passages.
00:33:18.99\00:33:20.43
Okay, they're both in Matthew.
00:33:20.46\00:33:22.03
So go to Matthew
Chapter 6, let's put our,
00:33:22.06\00:33:24.93
we'll, actually look at--
00:33:24.97\00:33:27.00
well, yeah, let's go to
Matthew Chapter 6, go there.
00:33:27.04\00:33:31.07
Matthew Chapter 6,
00:33:31.11\00:33:34.14
and if you got
one of these ribbons
00:33:34.18\00:33:36.95
or a pen or a finger
or your neighbor's finger
00:33:36.98\00:33:39.58
what ever you need,
00:33:39.61\00:33:42.08
just take that and put
that right there, okay.
00:33:42.12\00:33:44.75
And then the other passage
00:33:44.79\00:33:46.12
we're gonna go to
is Matthew Chapter 19.
00:33:46.15\00:33:48.22
Okay.
00:33:48.26\00:33:49.59
Matthew Chapter 19,
00:33:49.62\00:33:51.19
so we have one in
Matthew 6 and one in Matthew 19.
00:33:51.23\00:33:55.60
All right, are we
all together on that?
00:33:55.63\00:33:58.10
So let's read the passage
in Matthew Chapter 6 first.
00:33:58.13\00:34:00.24
Matthew 6:19. Matthew 6:19.
00:34:00.27\00:34:04.11
This is the passage
that we're familiar with.
00:34:04.14\00:34:06.11
"Do not lay up for
yourselves treasures," where?
00:34:06.14\00:34:09.24
"On earth where
moth and rust destroy,
00:34:09.28\00:34:10.95
and where thieves break
in" and what did they do?
00:34:10.98\00:34:13.15
"Steal." "But"
there is the "but" right.
00:34:13.18\00:34:16.55
"But lay up for yourselves
treasures," where everyone?
00:34:16.58\00:34:20.56
"In heaven where
neither moth nor rust destroys
00:34:20.59\00:34:23.32
and where thieves do
not break in and steal."
00:34:23.36\00:34:26.76
Okay, so far so good.
00:34:26.80\00:34:28.16
So Jesus says don't lay
your treasures up on earth
00:34:28.20\00:34:30.67
because they are perishable.
00:34:30.70\00:34:32.27
But put your treasures in heaven
00:34:32.30\00:34:33.64
because they are imperishable.
00:34:33.67\00:34:35.00
Well, my question is
what are those heaven,
00:34:35.04\00:34:36.37
what does that mean?
00:34:36.40\00:34:37.74
Sometimes we have these
very powerful, very profound,
00:34:37.77\00:34:39.47
very robust Bible passages
00:34:39.51\00:34:41.91
and we turn them into
cute little colloquial sayings
00:34:41.94\00:34:44.78
that we cross stitch
00:34:44.81\00:34:46.41
and then we
hang above the toilet
00:34:46.45\00:34:47.78
in the guest bathroom.
00:34:47.82\00:34:49.58
Oh, isn't that nice you know,
00:34:49.62\00:34:51.22
though I speak with the tongues
00:34:51.25\00:34:52.59
of men and of
angles in heaven, I love.
00:34:52.62\00:34:54.86
And we cross stitch
00:34:54.89\00:34:56.22
and we put that
little blue birds
00:34:56.26\00:34:57.59
and we hang it
up above the toilet
00:34:57.63\00:34:58.96
in the guest bathroom.
00:34:58.99\00:35:00.33
Beloved, when you read
00:35:00.36\00:35:01.70
1 Corinthians
Chapter 13 and its context,
00:35:01.73\00:35:03.06
it is a scathing rebuke
to the people of Corinth.
00:35:03.10\00:35:07.20
And we sometimes
neutral the word of God
00:35:07.24\00:35:09.34
when we turn it to just
cute little proverbial sayings.
00:35:09.37\00:35:12.81
Oh, I love that one,
the treasures in heaven,
00:35:12.84\00:35:15.61
let's cross stitch that up
00:35:15.64\00:35:17.15
and I have nothing against
cross stitching, by the way.
00:35:17.18\00:35:18.91
Nothing at all.
00:35:18.95\00:35:20.28
But let's cross stitch
that up treasures in heaven
00:35:20.32\00:35:21.72
with a little blue birds
and a flower and a sun shining
00:35:21.75\00:35:24.55
and the little, oh, perfect.
00:35:24.59\00:35:25.92
And we put it
somewhere. Isn't that cute?
00:35:25.95\00:35:27.66
But what does it mean?
00:35:27.69\00:35:30.19
Are you with me? Yes or no?
00:35:30.23\00:35:31.69
What does it mean,
treasures in heaven?
00:35:31.73\00:35:33.70
But look at Matthew 19. Okay.
00:35:33.73\00:35:36.06
You are there
Matthew 6 Jesus counsels,
00:35:36.10\00:35:37.83
don't put your
treasures on earth,
00:35:37.87\00:35:39.20
but put your treasure in heaven
and look at Matthew 19:21.
00:35:39.23\00:35:43.71
Matthew 19:21.
00:35:43.74\00:35:45.77
Jesus here is speaking
to the rich young, what?
00:35:45.81\00:35:48.38
Ruler.
00:35:48.41\00:35:49.74
Right, So "Jesus said to
him, 'if you want to be perfect,
00:35:49.78\00:35:55.15
go and sell what you
have and give to the poor
00:35:55.18\00:36:00.49
and you will
have treasure'" where?
00:36:00.52\00:36:02.56
"In heaven."
00:36:02.59\00:36:03.93
And then He says
something very interesting.
00:36:03.96\00:36:05.29
"And come and follow me."
00:36:05.33\00:36:09.03
Okay, now the rich
young ruler was probably rich.
00:36:09.06\00:36:12.07
That's why we call
him the rich young ruler.
00:36:12.10\00:36:13.74
Are you with me?
00:36:13.77\00:36:15.10
Okay, now I don't
know how he got his wealth,
00:36:15.14\00:36:16.71
but lets just say for
the sake of illustration
00:36:16.74\00:36:18.17
that he got his wealth
from, he was a business man.
00:36:18.21\00:36:20.71
Let's just say he
was a business man.
00:36:20.74\00:36:22.18
Okay, now I want you to
look at that phrase there
00:36:22.21\00:36:24.11
"follow me."
00:36:24.15\00:36:26.08
What's the phrase
everyone? "Follow me" Right.
00:36:26.11\00:36:28.25
"Follow me and you'll
have treasure in heaven."
00:36:28.28\00:36:30.02
Okay.
00:36:30.05\00:36:31.39
That phrase "follow me,"
00:36:31.42\00:36:32.75
you study that
in the New Testament
00:36:32.79\00:36:34.12
and that is an invitation
by Jesus to discipleship.
00:36:34.16\00:36:39.89
Are you with me?
00:36:39.93\00:36:41.26
It's not just an
ordinary, it's not just,
00:36:41.30\00:36:42.86
this is not just an
ordinary run-of-the-mill,
00:36:42.90\00:36:44.63
general invitation here.
00:36:44.67\00:36:46.87
When He says to the
rich young ruler "follow me,"
00:36:46.90\00:36:49.70
this is just
exactly like what He said
00:36:49.74\00:36:51.77
to Levi or Matthew there
at the receipt of custom,
00:36:51.81\00:36:53.61
he said "follow me."
00:36:53.64\00:36:55.18
And what he said to
Peter, James and John
00:36:55.21\00:36:56.61
down by the Sea of Galilee?
00:36:56.64\00:36:57.98
Follow me.
00:36:58.01\00:36:59.35
So He says to the rich
young ruler, "Follow me."
00:36:59.38\00:37:01.48
Are you with me
everyone? Yes or no?
00:37:01.52\00:37:03.08
Now I want you to notice
something very interesting,
00:37:03.12\00:37:04.59
let's talk about that phrase.
00:37:04.62\00:37:06.65
Let's talk about that invitation
00:37:06.69\00:37:08.02
that Jesus gave there
to Peter, James and John.
00:37:08.06\00:37:09.39
Now follow this through.
00:37:09.42\00:37:10.76
We're goanna put,
imagining in our minds eye,
00:37:10.79\00:37:12.13
we've got track one here
and track two here, okay.
00:37:12.16\00:37:15.50
So Jesus is speaking
to Peter, James and John.
00:37:15.53\00:37:17.40
What was their
vocation? They were fishermen.
00:37:17.43\00:37:20.10
Okay, so watch
this very carefully.
00:37:20.14\00:37:21.70
Jesus says to fishermen
"follow me," that's right here,
00:37:21.74\00:37:26.94
"and I will make
you fishers of men."
00:37:26.98\00:37:29.98
Tracking with me,
yes or no? Follow me.
00:37:30.01\00:37:31.98
What was that an invitation to?
00:37:32.01\00:37:34.05
To be my disciple.
00:37:34.08\00:37:35.78
Come and be my disciple
00:37:35.82\00:37:37.15
and I'll teach you
how to fish for men.
00:37:37.19\00:37:38.52
Okay, so Jesus is
speaking to fishermen
00:37:38.55\00:37:39.89
and he says I'll
make you fishers of men.
00:37:39.92\00:37:41.36
So now Jesus, that's track one,
00:37:41.39\00:37:43.06
now Jesus is
speaking to a wealthy man,
00:37:43.09\00:37:45.19
perhaps a businessmen, right?
00:37:45.23\00:37:46.56
A man who is interested
00:37:46.59\00:37:47.93
in material
possessions, treasures.
00:37:47.96\00:37:49.66
And He says "Follow me,
00:37:49.70\00:37:53.84
and you'll get treasure" where?
00:37:53.87\00:37:57.24
"In heaven." What
is this invitation to?
00:37:57.27\00:38:00.11
It's an
invitation to discipleship.
00:38:00.14\00:38:01.48
Now when you lay
00:38:01.51\00:38:02.84
both of these right down side,
beside one another parallel,
00:38:02.88\00:38:05.15
it makes perfect sense.
00:38:05.18\00:38:06.51
Jesus says to the
fishermen "follow me
00:38:06.55\00:38:08.12
and I'll make
you fishers of men,"
00:38:08.15\00:38:09.48
of course, He employ
that kind of language,
00:38:09.52\00:38:10.85
He was speaking to fishermen.
00:38:10.89\00:38:12.22
But when Jesus was
speaking to a businessmen,
00:38:12.25\00:38:13.59
He is giving the same
invitation "follow me"
00:38:13.62\00:38:15.82
but he doesn't say
I'll make you fishers of men
00:38:15.86\00:38:17.36
that may not
have appealed to a man
00:38:17.39\00:38:18.73
is was a
businessmen or a wealthy men.
00:38:18.76\00:38:20.10
He says follow me
00:38:20.13\00:38:21.46
and I'll give you
an even better treasure
00:38:21.50\00:38:22.83
than the material good you
could accumulate here on earth.
00:38:22.86\00:38:24.63
But in both instances,
the invitation to discipleship
00:38:24.67\00:38:27.60
was an invitation to
become a partner with Jesus
00:38:27.64\00:38:30.97
in the
evangelization of the world
00:38:31.01\00:38:33.11
in the preaching of the gospel.
00:38:33.14\00:38:34.68
Amen.
00:38:34.71\00:38:36.04
When he speaks to
fishermen he says you know what,
00:38:36.08\00:38:37.68
I got it, you
will be fishers of men
00:38:37.71\00:38:39.41
and what he speaks
to businessmen he says,
00:38:39.45\00:38:40.82
I give you treasures in heaven.
00:38:40.85\00:38:42.28
Well, what does it
mean to the fishers of men?
00:38:42.32\00:38:44.29
It means to be a
co-worker with God.
00:38:44.32\00:38:46.52
Are you with me, yes or no?
00:38:46.55\00:38:47.89
What does that mean to
have treasures in heaven?
00:38:47.92\00:38:49.26
It means to be a
co-worker with God.
00:38:49.29\00:38:53.36
Do you follow that?
It's very, very simple.
00:38:53.40\00:38:55.06
So what is the
treasure in heaven?
00:38:55.10\00:38:58.73
Well, it's two fold.
00:38:58.77\00:39:01.20
It's two fold.
00:39:01.24\00:39:04.17
It's souls saved
00:39:04.21\00:39:07.18
and the
character that you develop
00:39:07.21\00:39:09.21
by working in partnership
with God to save those souls.
00:39:09.24\00:39:12.55
It's character
and it's converts.
00:39:12.58\00:39:16.42
Are you tracking with me?
00:39:16.45\00:39:17.92
Now you thing I made that up?
00:39:17.95\00:39:20.92
You thought I made that up?
00:39:20.96\00:39:22.59
I didn't. I didn't.
00:39:22.62\00:39:25.09
It's not original with me.
00:39:25.13\00:39:26.59
I think it's exactly
00:39:26.63\00:39:27.96
what the Bible is teaching
in a variety of passages
00:39:28.00\00:39:29.83
and I think it's also exactly
00:39:29.86\00:39:31.53
what Ellen White
affirmed in the book
00:39:31.57\00:39:33.00
Thoughts From the
Mount of Blessing,
00:39:33.03\00:39:34.37
when she commented on the phrase
00:39:34.40\00:39:35.80
"do not lay up for
yourselves treasures is on earth
00:39:35.84\00:39:37.94
"do rather
treasures is in heaven."
00:39:37.97\00:39:39.31
So I'd like to
read you part of that.
00:39:39.34\00:39:41.74
Are you tracking
with me? And here it is.
00:39:41.78\00:39:45.31
The treasure
which Christ esteems
00:39:45.35\00:39:47.18
as treasures above all estimate
00:39:47.22\00:39:49.98
is the richest of the glory of
his inheritance in the saints.
00:39:50.02\00:39:55.92
Ephesians 1:18.
00:39:55.96\00:39:57.29
That's another way of saying
the treasure is soul saved,
00:39:57.33\00:40:00.46
saints that will be in heaven.
00:40:00.50\00:40:02.23
The disciples of
Christ are called His jewels,
00:40:02.26\00:40:04.37
His precious and
peculiar treasure.
00:40:04.40\00:40:08.40
He says they shall
be as stones of a crown,
00:40:08.44\00:40:10.97
"I will make a man more
precious than fine gold,
00:40:11.01\00:40:13.27
even a man than the
golden wedge of Ophir"
00:40:13.31\00:40:15.98
quoting from Isaiah 13:12.
00:40:16.01\00:40:17.51
"Christ looks upon his people
00:40:17.55\00:40:18.88
and their purity and perfection
00:40:18.91\00:40:20.25
as the reward of
all His sufferings,
00:40:20.28\00:40:22.62
His humiliation and His love
00:40:22.65\00:40:24.39
and the supplement of His glory,
00:40:24.42\00:40:26.05
Christ the great
centre from whom all radiates,
00:40:26.09\00:40:29.02
from which radiates all
glory," second paragraph.
00:40:29.06\00:40:31.63
"We are
permitted to unite with Him
00:40:31.66\00:40:33.56
in the great work of redemption
00:40:33.60\00:40:35.33
and to be sharers
with Him in the richest,
00:40:35.36\00:40:38.40
which is death and
suffering have won."
00:40:38.43\00:40:40.27
The apostle Paul wrote to
the Thessalonians Christians,
00:40:40.30\00:40:42.44
"What is our hope or our joy
00:40:42.47\00:40:44.51
or our crown of rejoicing?
00:40:44.54\00:40:47.08
Are not even you
00:40:47.11\00:40:49.04
in the presence of the Lord
00:40:49.08\00:40:50.41
Jesus at His coming for
you are our glory and joy?"
00:40:50.45\00:40:53.38
Paul was saying
you are our treasure.
00:40:53.42\00:40:56.72
When we came there
and we preached the gospel
00:40:56.75\00:40:58.32
and you where turn form
the darkness and ravages
00:40:58.35\00:41:00.16
and superstitions of heathendom
00:41:00.19\00:41:01.76
and you put your faith in Jesus,
00:41:01.79\00:41:03.39
you have become
00:41:03.43\00:41:04.76
you are now in
inheritance of God,
00:41:04.79\00:41:06.39
you are saint and
you are our treasure.
00:41:06.43\00:41:11.40
Paul now has people
00:41:11.43\00:41:12.77
friends with who he
will not just be friends
00:41:12.80\00:41:14.50
for a decade or two or
three or several years.
00:41:14.54\00:41:17.17
These are eternal friends.
00:41:17.21\00:41:19.01
This is the treasure for
which Christ bids us labor.
00:41:23.68\00:41:28.05
This is the
treasure, what is the treasure?
00:41:28.08\00:41:30.12
Converts. Now watch.
00:41:30.15\00:41:31.89
This is amazing,
00:41:31.92\00:41:33.25
she says
"every-I'm continuing on here,
00:41:33.29\00:41:36.16
"Character is the
great harvest of life.
00:41:36.19\00:41:38.99
And every word or deed
00:41:39.03\00:41:40.36
that through the grace of Christ
00:41:40.40\00:41:41.73
shall kindle in one soul
00:41:41.76\00:41:43.10
and impulse that
reaches heavenward,
00:41:43.13\00:41:44.47
every effort that tends
00:41:44.50\00:41:45.83
to the formation of
a Christ like character
00:41:45.87\00:41:47.70
is laying up
treasure in heaven."
00:41:47.74\00:41:49.57
It is inescapable
in this one paragraph,
00:41:49.60\00:41:51.91
she says we work for converts
00:41:51.94\00:41:53.61
and those
people are our treasure
00:41:53.64\00:41:55.14
and this gives us a
character like Christ
00:41:55.18\00:41:56.98
and that is our treasure.
00:41:57.01\00:41:58.68
So this brings us
back to Desire of Ages 142,
00:42:01.58\00:42:04.42
God could have
reached his object
00:42:04.45\00:42:05.79
and saving
sinners without our aid
00:42:05.82\00:42:07.46
but in order for us to
develop a character like Christ
00:42:07.49\00:42:12.79
we must participate in His
labors for their redemption.
00:42:12.83\00:42:17.37
Amen.
00:42:17.40\00:42:20.10
What does it mean to
lay up treasure in heaven?
00:42:20.14\00:42:21.77
It's so cute, it's so
nice when it's cross stitched
00:42:21.80\00:42:23.77
and hanging above the
toilet in the bathroom.
00:42:23.81\00:42:25.54
What it means
is be a missionary.
00:42:25.57\00:42:28.51
Amen.
00:42:28.54\00:42:30.28
You're not taking your SUV,
you're not taking your house,
00:42:30.31\00:42:32.71
you're not
taking your portfolio,
00:42:32.75\00:42:34.38
you're not
talking your RV to heaven
00:42:34.42\00:42:36.72
but you can take a
Christ like character to heaven.
00:42:36.75\00:42:39.22
Well, how am I going to
get a Christ like character?
00:42:39.25\00:42:40.59
I am gonna stop eating pickles
and I am going to return tithe.
00:42:40.62\00:42:43.29
Fine. Do it.
00:42:43.32\00:42:44.83
But start
working for souls. Amen.
00:42:44.86\00:42:50.43
Do you want to
resonate with the God
00:42:50.47\00:42:52.33
whose whole heart beats to seek
into save that which was lost?
00:42:52.37\00:42:56.37
Your heart better start beating
00:42:56.40\00:42:58.01
to seek and to save the lost.
00:42:58.04\00:43:00.84
If it doesn't,
disabuse your mind of the notion
00:43:00.88\00:43:03.95
that you have
enough in common with God
00:43:03.98\00:43:05.71
to reasonably expect to
spend eternity with Him.
00:43:05.75\00:43:08.25
Amen.
00:43:08.28\00:43:09.62
Are we together everyone? Yes.
00:43:12.15\00:43:14.22
So look at Luke 12
00:43:14.26\00:43:15.59
and I can utterly
demonstrate biblically
00:43:15.62\00:43:18.53
that that is exactly
what the treasure is.
00:43:18.56\00:43:20.46
Look at this Luke 12
00:43:20.50\00:43:21.83
and this will make
very good sense to us now.
00:43:21.86\00:43:23.57
Luke 12:13.
00:43:23.60\00:43:26.33
Luke 12 and what verse everyone?
00:43:26.37\00:43:28.80
Thirteen.
00:43:28.84\00:43:30.27
"Then one from the
crowd said to him--"
00:43:30.31\00:43:31.64
we'll, pick it up in verse 16.
00:43:31.67\00:43:33.54
"Then he spoke to
parable to them saying,
00:43:33.58\00:43:34.98
'The ground of a certain
rich man yielded plentifully."
00:43:35.01\00:43:38.55
Okay. He was making money.
00:43:38.58\00:43:40.95
It says,
"Fields were bountiful."
00:43:40.98\00:43:43.39
Verse 17, "And He
thought within himself saying,
00:43:43.42\00:43:45.59
'What shall I do,
00:43:45.62\00:43:46.96
since I have no
room to store my crops?'
00:43:46.99\00:43:48.76
" Man, what am I gonna
do with all this good stuff,
00:43:48.79\00:43:50.69
all this money, all
this material possessions?
00:43:50.73\00:43:52.83
Verse 18, "So he
said, 'This is what I'll do.
00:43:52.86\00:43:54.93
I will pull down my barns,'"
00:43:54.96\00:43:56.90
probably it's
significant expense to himself,
00:43:56.93\00:43:58.97
"and build greater barns,'"
00:43:59.00\00:44:00.70
even greater expense to himself,
00:44:00.74\00:44:02.30
'"and I will store up
all my crops and my goods.
00:44:02.34\00:44:05.61
And I'll say to soul, ah, soul
00:44:05.64\00:44:08.54
'You have many of
goods laid up for many years.
00:44:08.58\00:44:10.88
Take your ease;
eat, drink and be merry.'
00:44:10.91\00:44:15.88
'" Verse 20,
00:44:15.92\00:44:17.25
"But God said to him--"
00:44:17.29\00:44:18.62
what is the first thing
that God says to that mentality?
00:44:18.65\00:44:20.62
Fool.
00:44:20.66\00:44:21.99
Now when God says fool,
00:44:22.02\00:44:23.36
He is not saying
Na-na-na-na-na-na.
00:44:23.39\00:44:26.49
You're a fool.
00:44:26.53\00:44:27.86
You know, it's not--
00:44:27.90\00:44:29.23
what He is
saying is unwise choice.
00:44:29.26\00:44:31.57
That's what a fool is
in the Bible by the way,
00:44:31.60\00:44:32.93
It's not name calling.
00:44:32.97\00:44:34.30
God is not being pejorative.
00:44:34.34\00:44:35.67
He is not saying
nanny, nanny, boo, boo.
00:44:35.70\00:44:37.04
When God says you're a fool,
00:44:37.07\00:44:38.51
He says you're not
making wise choices.
00:44:38.54\00:44:42.41
Are you with me?
00:44:42.44\00:44:44.05
He says, "Fool!"
00:44:44.08\00:44:45.65
Unwise choice.
00:44:45.68\00:44:47.92
Well, what was so
unwise about the choice?
00:44:47.95\00:44:50.19
"Tonight your soul
will be required of you."
00:44:50.22\00:44:53.05
It's very
interesting, by the way,
00:44:53.09\00:44:54.42
for those of you who pay
attention to these things.
00:44:54.46\00:44:55.79
God doesn't say
I'll kill you to night.
00:44:55.82\00:44:57.26
What He says is
00:44:57.29\00:44:58.63
you didn't know that
tonight was your night to die.
00:44:58.66\00:45:00.63
There is a big
difference. Are you with me?
00:45:00.66\00:45:02.73
He says, "You fool!
00:45:02.76\00:45:04.10
Tonight your life
will be required of you.
00:45:04.13\00:45:05.63
Then whose will those things
be which you have provided?"
00:45:05.67\00:45:08.50
And that's what the
whole Book of Ecclesiastes
00:45:08.54\00:45:09.97
is about, by the way.
00:45:10.01\00:45:11.47
Solomon says, "I
accumulated all these goods
00:45:11.51\00:45:13.27
with vanity and vanities.
00:45:13.31\00:45:14.64
When I die,
somebody else gets that
00:45:14.68\00:45:16.21
didn't have to work for it."
00:45:16.24\00:45:19.25
And that's when He says,
He says, "You're a fool!"
00:45:19.28\00:45:20.72
Didn't you read the
Book of Ecclesiastes?
00:45:20.75\00:45:22.25
You accumulated all these stuff,
00:45:22.28\00:45:23.62
but when you die
what good is it to you--
00:45:23.65\00:45:25.55
and then look at verse 21.
00:45:25.59\00:45:27.99
"So is he--"
00:45:28.02\00:45:29.42
Do you know what
that means, "So is he?"
00:45:29.46\00:45:31.56
He is a fool.
00:45:31.59\00:45:35.36
Are you with me?
00:45:35.40\00:45:36.87
He is a fool, "Who lays
up treasure for himself,
00:45:36.90\00:45:40.57
and is not rich toward God."
00:45:40.60\00:45:46.47
Wait a minute. Wait a
minute. Wait a minute.
00:45:46.51\00:45:47.84
Let's understand that phrase,
'who is not rich toward God'.
00:45:47.88\00:45:50.88
And we might read that.
00:45:50.91\00:45:52.25
Somebody might stand up
in an offering appealing
00:45:52.28\00:45:53.62
and saying you
should be rich toward God.
00:45:53.65\00:45:54.98
You should give
an appeal, "Fine.
00:45:55.02\00:45:56.35
Fine, fine, fine.
00:45:56.38\00:45:57.72
I have no problem with
giving faithful offerings.
00:45:57.75\00:45:59.09
We should be giving
sacrificial offerings
00:45:59.12\00:46:00.46
at these times
in earth's history.
00:46:00.49\00:46:01.82
Can you say Amen?
00:46:01.86\00:46:03.19
I mean, listen, this
thing is almost over, okay.
00:46:03.22\00:46:05.46
And a good friend of
mine is quite a wealthy man.
00:46:05.49\00:46:07.23
I loved it one time
when I was talking to him
00:46:07.26\00:46:08.60
and he said, "Hey, listen,
00:46:08.63\00:46:09.96
what do you think
that price of real estate
00:46:10.00\00:46:11.33
was in the days of Noah
when the rain started to fall?"
00:46:11.37\00:46:14.14
Right. This
thing is almost over.
00:46:14.17\00:46:15.60
So if ever there was a
time when we shall be making
00:46:15.64\00:46:17.37
sacrificial gifts to
God, that time is now.
00:46:17.41\00:46:19.07
Can you say amen?
00:46:19.11\00:46:20.44
But that is not what
this text is teaching.
00:46:20.48\00:46:22.84
When the text says
to be rich toward God,
00:46:22.88\00:46:26.31
it means to give God
what is truly His treasure.
00:46:26.35\00:46:29.75
You know what His treasure is?
00:46:29.78\00:46:31.25
It's you saved and
those who are saved
00:46:31.29\00:46:34.16
by Him through your agency.
00:46:34.19\00:46:36.59
Amen.
00:46:36.62\00:46:39.59
Are you with me?
00:46:39.63\00:46:40.96
You see, when you
start working for souls,
00:46:44.87\00:46:47.87
all of the
things that you thought
00:46:47.90\00:46:49.47
were so difficult, so hard,
00:46:49.50\00:46:51.01
so whatever in your
spiritual experience
00:46:51.04\00:46:53.17
suddenly disappears like
dew before the rising sun.
00:46:53.21\00:46:57.21
Reason that we have some of
the cantankerous curmudgeons
00:46:57.25\00:47:00.28
in our church that we do
is, they are not doing anything
00:47:00.32\00:47:02.95
except cantankerous curmudgeons.
00:47:02.98\00:47:08.02
I like to say that the horse
that is pulling right here--
00:47:08.06\00:47:11.63
put a horse put a
cart on the horse.
00:47:11.66\00:47:13.46
The horse that is
pulling doesn't kick
00:47:13.50\00:47:16.46
because he is working.
00:47:16.50\00:47:18.80
We do a lots of time to kick
00:47:18.83\00:47:20.17
and argue about this,
that and the other thing
00:47:20.20\00:47:21.90
into getting to little
00:47:21.94\00:47:23.27
theological
foolishness over nothing
00:47:23.30\00:47:25.54
because we are not
really winning souls.
00:47:25.57\00:47:27.94
We are not out in the
contact with the people.
00:47:27.98\00:47:30.21
We are in our little
Adventist parochial world
00:47:30.25\00:47:32.75
and we are insolated from the--
00:47:32.78\00:47:34.35
we are basically like
the Jews of their day.
00:47:34.38\00:47:36.79
Amen.
00:47:36.82\00:47:38.22
We are just insolated
ourselves from people.
00:47:38.25\00:47:41.59
Oh, you want to be
a part of our club?
00:47:41.62\00:47:44.89
Or you better talk
the way we talk, I mean,
00:47:44.93\00:47:46.43
we may not say that
but we communicate that
00:47:46.46\00:47:48.73
in just the way
that we do, church.
00:47:48.76\00:47:51.13
Sometimes people say to
me, "Well, pastor, I, I--
00:47:54.60\00:47:57.31
" I mean, I'll tell you, I
have a whole another seminar.
00:47:57.34\00:47:59.01
I have to do
sometime here at 3ABN
00:47:59.04\00:48:00.38
call the 15 most common mistakes
00:48:00.41\00:48:02.08
made by new soul winners, right.
00:48:02.11\00:48:04.65
Listen, you want
be a soul winner,
00:48:04.68\00:48:06.01
you get out there and
people are just making mistakes.
00:48:06.05\00:48:07.38
But here is the good thing
00:48:07.42\00:48:08.75
and I'll just give you a
quick recapitulation of that.
00:48:08.78\00:48:10.32
Can anyone in this
room ride a unicycle?
00:48:10.35\00:48:17.03
Okay, there is one
of you. Okay, good.
00:48:17.06\00:48:19.13
There are two of you, okay.
00:48:19.16\00:48:20.96
I am not one of them.
I cannot ride a unicycle.
00:48:21.00\00:48:24.37
It seems like a very bad
design to me to be honest.
00:48:24.40\00:48:28.47
I think the two
wheels is a better
00:48:28.50\00:48:30.44
and I think even three wheels
is getting a little farther.
00:48:30.47\00:48:32.37
I mean, you know, you
just, you lose stability
00:48:32.41\00:48:34.51
because of the
principle of triangulation.
00:48:34.54\00:48:35.94
A unicycle ride?
Have you ever tried it?
00:48:35.98\00:48:39.45
It ain't easy.
00:48:39.48\00:48:41.38
Its last year at
a rise-- two, two--
00:48:41.42\00:48:43.12
a young lady and another
young man brought unicycles
00:48:43.15\00:48:45.09
and just to watched them
buzzer on the parking lot.
00:48:45.12\00:48:47.22
I mean, I am a
healthy, young fit guy.
00:48:47.26\00:48:48.72
It was like, give me that thing.
00:48:48.76\00:48:50.19
You know. Oh!
00:48:55.13\00:48:58.27
You know, I--
00:48:58.30\00:49:00.07
so I leaned on a big strong man,
00:49:00.10\00:49:01.44
here I lean, okay
you got me, and...
00:49:01.47\00:49:04.64
You got me? Got you.
00:49:04.67\00:49:06.01
Okay, get ready, I am gonna let
go, and, you know just, I mean.
00:49:06.04\00:49:09.28
The moment I-- I
cannot ride a unicycle.
00:49:09.31\00:49:12.18
It's hard. Let me
ask you this question.
00:49:12.21\00:49:15.12
Do you think I ever quit
learn to ride a unicycle?
00:49:15.15\00:49:17.62
Yes. Do you think it's possible?
00:49:17.65\00:49:18.99
Yes.
00:49:19.02\00:49:20.36
You know what I asked to do
in order to learn a motor cycle
00:49:20.39\00:49:21.72
or learn to ride a unicycle?
00:49:21.76\00:49:23.73
Let me tell what you have to do.
00:49:23.76\00:49:25.09
You're saying practice but you
know what you're really saying?
00:49:25.13\00:49:27.36
You'd have to
make some mistakes.
00:49:27.40\00:49:31.43
Are you with me?
00:49:31.47\00:49:32.80
Because what happens is,
is you lean too far forward
00:49:32.83\00:49:34.24
and you think you're developing
a battery of information
00:49:34.27\00:49:36.84
that basically says,
"the last time you did that.
00:49:36.87\00:49:38.21
This resulted.
00:49:38.24\00:49:39.57
And that's an
undesirable result.
00:49:39.61\00:49:40.94
Let's try this."
00:49:40.98\00:49:42.31
And the more mistakes you make,
00:49:42.34\00:49:43.68
you start to
develop an encyclo...
00:49:43.71\00:49:45.05
a battery of information.
00:49:45.08\00:49:46.41
And the more mistakes you make
00:49:46.45\00:49:47.78
the more aware you will
be of how to do it wrong
00:49:47.82\00:49:50.25
so that you can stop doing
that and start doing it right.
00:49:50.29\00:49:52.85
Do you know what
the most common mistake
00:49:52.89\00:49:54.72
made by new soul winners is?
00:49:54.76\00:49:56.83
They are not
making enough mistakes.
00:49:56.86\00:49:58.59
I would love as a minister
00:50:03.53\00:50:05.53
to have a church
member come to me and say,
00:50:05.57\00:50:07.64
"Oh pastor,
00:50:07.67\00:50:09.07
I was giving a
Bible study this last week
00:50:09.10\00:50:10.94
to my friend, you know, Kathy.
00:50:10.97\00:50:13.07
It's Kathy friend and
I said the wrong thing.
00:50:13.11\00:50:15.91
I said all the wrong things."
00:50:15.94\00:50:17.28
I would say, "Praise the Lord!"
00:50:17.31\00:50:18.65
Somebody would say, "Oh,
you know, pastor, I went out,
00:50:21.12\00:50:22.45
I just decided I
felt such a burden
00:50:22.48\00:50:23.82
that Jesus is coming soon.
00:50:23.85\00:50:25.19
I went out and I
started knocking on doors
00:50:25.22\00:50:26.55
of my neighborhood and
uh, I did it all wrong."
00:50:26.59\00:50:28.72
Praise the Lord!"
00:50:28.76\00:50:31.59
I would love to be
inundated with tales of failure
00:50:31.63\00:50:36.06
from church members
00:50:36.10\00:50:37.43
because you know
00:50:37.47\00:50:38.80
that they are going to
get it right eventually
00:50:38.83\00:50:41.04
but you are just
not going to, you know,
00:50:41.07\00:50:42.57
become a Christian,
00:50:42.60\00:50:43.94
go into the
proverbial phone booth and go...
00:50:43.97\00:50:46.68
Super soul winner!
00:50:46.71\00:50:49.61
It doesn't work that way.
00:50:49.64\00:50:50.98
Are you with me?
00:50:54.08\00:50:55.42
Listen, the first evangelistic
series I ever preached,
00:50:59.62\00:51:02.76
the first evangelistic
series I ever preached,
00:51:02.79\00:51:04.23
and I'll tell the
story very, very quickly.
00:51:04.26\00:51:05.59
I was up preaching and,
even I was, I do nothing.
00:51:05.63\00:51:09.20
I was praying, praying, praying
new Seventh-day Adventist.
00:51:09.23\00:51:11.43
I've been an Adventist
for about a year and half
00:51:11.47\00:51:12.80
and I brought up a stack of
Time magazines about 25 thick.
00:51:12.83\00:51:15.37
It was on
'Science of the Times'.
00:51:15.40\00:51:16.74
I am like, puffff.
00:51:16.77\00:51:18.11
Open your bible to Mathew 24.
00:51:18.14\00:51:19.47
And I am sure
you're blasting them
00:51:19.51\00:51:20.84
with all these
news paper articles
00:51:20.88\00:51:22.21
and I was coming to the summary,
00:51:22.24\00:51:23.58
I wanted to tell
them it's so obvious
00:51:23.61\00:51:24.95
that Jesus is coming soon.
00:51:24.98\00:51:26.31
It's so plain that
Jesus is coming soon.
00:51:26.35\00:51:27.68
I said, "Jesus is coming soon!
00:51:27.72\00:51:29.05
It's as plain as "and
my mind went just blank.
00:51:29.08\00:51:31.19
Just.
00:51:31.22\00:51:34.86
And for some
reason this word just came
00:51:34.89\00:51:38.29
floating into my mind.
00:51:38.33\00:51:40.70
And here it came, and we
will have that experience
00:51:40.73\00:51:42.20
for you're about
ready to say something
00:51:42.23\00:51:43.57
and you know you're
about ready to say it
00:51:43.60\00:51:44.93
but you don't want to say.
00:51:44.97\00:51:46.30
But, it's so, it's like...
00:51:46.33\00:51:49.80
I said "Jesus is coming
soon and it's as plain as
00:51:49.84\00:51:53.88
cheese."
00:51:53.91\00:51:55.24
And I was, I was like...
00:52:02.48\00:52:03.82
I just kept preaching,
I just kept preaching.
00:52:06.72\00:52:10.03
And even when I was
preaching, I was thinking,
00:52:10.06\00:52:11.39
"Did you just say
'it's as plain as cheese?'
00:52:11.43\00:52:12.76
Anyway, we don't
have time for that.
00:52:12.79\00:52:14.13
Keep preaching."
00:52:14.16\00:52:15.50
So, anyway, here is
point, here is point.
00:52:15.53\00:52:16.87
When we got down
to the end of that it
00:52:16.90\00:52:18.23
and I sometimes wonder,
"Man, I just see the angels,
00:52:18.27\00:52:19.60
you know, the
angels are just like,
00:52:19.63\00:52:20.97
they are sitting there,
you know because, you know,
00:52:21.00\00:52:22.34
here is this new young preacher
and they are behind the people.
00:52:22.37\00:52:24.47
Here he goes again. Nope. Okay.
00:52:30.58\00:52:34.82
Anyway here's the point.
00:52:34.85\00:52:37.85
Halleluiah! Sweet Jesus!
00:52:37.89\00:52:39.45
Seventeen people are
baptized in that meeting.
00:52:39.49\00:52:41.92
Seventeen people.
00:52:41.96\00:52:43.29
And I said "plain as cheese."
00:52:43.32\00:52:45.66
And listen, I got
short amount of time.
00:52:45.69\00:52:49.36
So don't clap. I
got to get going.
00:52:49.40\00:52:52.53
Listen, listen, listen, here
is the point, here is the point.
00:52:52.57\00:52:53.94
You want to know what?
00:52:53.97\00:52:55.30
I have never since
said that in a sermon.
00:52:55.34\00:53:00.91
I've said many
other stupid things
00:53:00.94\00:53:02.98
but I've never said that one.
00:53:03.01\00:53:05.41
Are you with me?
00:53:05.45\00:53:06.78
So I am
learning from my mistakes
00:53:06.82\00:53:08.88
and the most common
mistake made by new soul winners
00:53:08.92\00:53:11.42
is they are not out
making enough mistakes.
00:53:11.45\00:53:15.36
It is better to
do something for God
00:53:15.39\00:53:17.73
and to get it completely wrong
00:53:17.76\00:53:19.46
than to do nothing and
to get it completely right.
00:53:19.49\00:53:21.53
What does it mean to
have treasure in heaven?
00:53:25.50\00:53:26.84
It's very simple.
00:53:26.87\00:53:28.20
By the way, by the way,
I've just got to tell you this,
00:53:28.24\00:53:29.57
write this time very quickly.
00:53:29.60\00:53:30.94
Mark 1:17. Mark 1:17.
00:53:30.97\00:53:32.47
When Jesus gives the
invitation, Mark 1:17,
00:53:32.51\00:53:34.94
Mark records it differently.
00:53:34.98\00:53:36.31
He doesn't just say, "Follow me
00:53:36.34\00:53:37.68
and I will make
you fishers of men."
00:53:37.71\00:53:39.61
In Mark, Mark
records it this way.
00:53:39.65\00:53:41.28
He says, "Follow Me,
00:53:41.32\00:53:42.65
and I will make you to
become fishers of men."
00:53:42.68\00:53:46.55
Oh, that is so beautiful beloved
00:53:46.59\00:53:48.02
because fishers
of men are not born.
00:53:48.06\00:53:50.16
They are created as they
work in partnership with God.
00:53:50.19\00:53:53.16
You might make
mistake after mistake
00:53:53.19\00:53:54.83
and failure after failure
00:53:54.86\00:53:56.20
and all, listen,
Jesus is making you
00:53:56.23\00:53:58.33
to become a fishers of men.
00:53:58.37\00:54:01.04
It's a process.
00:54:01.07\00:54:02.80
Can you say amen to that? Amen.
00:54:02.84\00:54:05.74
Lay up treasure in heaven.
00:54:05.77\00:54:07.11
Do you want
Christ like character?
00:54:07.14\00:54:08.48
Do you want
Christ like character?
00:54:08.51\00:54:09.84
Yes or no? Yes.
00:54:09.88\00:54:11.28
Let me tell you,
if you don't have
00:54:11.31\00:54:12.65
a Christ like
character, you will not see God.
00:54:12.68\00:54:17.39
I just don't know how I
can say that anymore plainly.
00:54:17.42\00:54:19.85
Without holiness
no man will see God.
00:54:19.89\00:54:22.72
"Blessed are the pure in
heart for they shall see God."
00:54:22.76\00:54:25.23
Do you want
Christ like character?
00:54:25.26\00:54:26.59
Do you? Yes or no? Yes.
00:54:26.63\00:54:27.96
Then you've got to get
busy working with Jesus
00:54:28.00\00:54:30.90
for the
redemption of other people.
00:54:30.93\00:54:32.63
Working for
converts is the surest way
00:54:32.67\00:54:34.94
to develop a
character like Christ.
00:54:34.97\00:54:37.21
Character and converts.
Character and converts.
00:54:37.24\00:54:40.54
C.T. Studd, one of the great
missionaries of yesteryear,
00:54:40.58\00:54:43.78
one of the Cambridge seven,
00:54:43.81\00:54:45.61
who dedicated his life to China.
00:54:45.65\00:54:47.15
In fact, he said in
one occasion, He said,
00:54:47.18\00:54:48.58
"I've given my life to China."
00:54:48.62\00:54:50.39
And he said, "If God
gave me a thousand more lives,
00:54:50.42\00:54:52.69
I give them all to China."
00:54:52.72\00:54:56.12
And as he was coming
to the end of his life,
00:54:56.16\00:54:57.49
C.T. Studd, that
marvelous missionary
00:54:57.53\00:54:59.23
that gave his everything
00:54:59.26\00:55:00.60
for the salvation
of souls, he said,
00:55:00.63\00:55:02.26
"Some want to live
00:55:02.30\00:55:03.63
within the sound of
church or chapel bell,
00:55:03.67\00:55:07.80
but me, I want
to run a rescue shop
00:55:07.84\00:55:11.67
within a yard of hell."
00:55:11.71\00:55:13.11
Let me tell you, when he
stands on the sea of glass
00:55:17.51\00:55:19.68
and Jesus comes walking to him,
00:55:19.71\00:55:21.68
he will have
something in common with Jesus.
00:55:21.72\00:55:24.62
When Jesus says "do
you know what I mean?"
00:55:24.65\00:55:26.45
C.T. Studd will be
able to say, "Yeah."
00:55:26.49\00:55:28.66
Beloved when you
stand on the sea of glass
00:55:32.89\00:55:34.23
and you look
Jesus right in the eyes,
00:55:34.26\00:55:36.63
are you going to have
something in common with Him?
00:55:36.67\00:55:39.03
Now I am not just
talking about vegetarianism
00:55:39.07\00:55:40.50
or returning tithe or
even keeping the Sabbath.
00:55:40.54\00:55:42.40
Here's a God who
gave everything to save.
00:55:42.44\00:55:44.81
Are you gonna have anything
in common with that God?
00:55:44.84\00:55:49.14
How is it with you?
00:55:49.18\00:55:51.21
Would you rather live
within the sound of church
00:55:51.25\00:55:52.71
or chapel bell?
00:55:52.75\00:55:54.08
In the comfort of your
little church environment
00:55:57.05\00:56:01.52
or do you, like
C.T. Studd evolved
00:56:01.56\00:56:03.93
and like Jesus Christ
himself, do you say no?
00:56:03.96\00:56:06.36
"Rather live
within the sound of church
00:56:06.39\00:56:07.73
or chapel bell, I'd
rather run a rescue shop
00:56:07.76\00:56:10.83
within a yard of hell."
00:56:10.87\00:56:14.77
God want's to save
you. Can you say amen?
00:56:14.80\00:56:16.74
Amen.
00:56:16.77\00:56:18.97
He wants you to be laying
up your treasures in heaven.
00:56:19.01\00:56:20.74
Can you say amen? Amen.
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And those treasures
are character and converts.
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Do you want a
Christ like character?
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Start working for converts.
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