Let us bow our heads together.
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Our heavenly Father,
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it has been such a
privilege to be here,
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to praise Your name and song,
to hear the wonderful things
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that You are
doing around the world.
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And, Lord, we're
so blessed by You
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to be able to be a part
of Your great commission.
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As we prepare to hear more
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of the wonderful
things You do, Lord,
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and as we
prepare to study a word
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we do not want to go forward
with out Your Holy Spirit
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in our hearts leading
our minds in our midst, Lord.
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Please fill these
place with Your Holy Spirit.
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And, Lord, there are
more brothers and sisters
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and children of God watching,
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may Your Holy
Spirit visit them as well
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and may we know that
You've been with us today
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and may others know
when we go forth from here.
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In Jesus name,
amen. Please be seated.
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Without Him
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I could do nothing
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Without Him
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I'd surely fail
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Without Him
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I would be drifting
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Like a ship without a sail
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Jesus, O Jesus
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Do you know Him today?
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Do not turn Him away
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O Jesus
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My Jesus without Him
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How lost I would be
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Without Him
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I would be dying
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Without Him
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I'd be enslaved
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Without Him
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Life would be hopeless
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But with Jesus
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Thank God I'm saved
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Jesus, O Jesus
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Do you know Him today?
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You can turn Him away
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O Jesus
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My Jesus
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Without Him
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How lost I would be
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Jesus, my Jesus
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without Him
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How lost I would be
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Our panelists today
are Sikhu Hlatshwayo.
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She's the vice
president for resources
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for the Generation
of Youth for Christ.
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She's involved
with campus ministries
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on public university
campuses all over Michigan.
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She was born in the
Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe
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and then grew up in Bulawayo.
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And after winning a
scholarship to study
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in Victoria, British Columbia,
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she did the same and graduated
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from Wellesley
College in Boston.
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Wendell Lawrence
is a dental surgeon
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and he practices in
Southfield, Michigan.
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He was born in Trinidad.
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He's been ASI
member for eight years
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and he's on the board of AMEN,
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the Adventist
Medical Evangelism Network.
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Patty LaVanture
directs cooking schools
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at Country Life Natural
Food in Pullman, Michigan.
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She grew up in a
Catholic communion,
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later was trained by
Mark Antino Finley in Chicago.
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And she is assisted in
training wellness centers,
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equipping
overseas missionaries plus
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inspiring lay
people and pastor's wives
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and equipping
churches and outreach.
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Elizabeth Gonsalves-Remington
from Long Island, New York,
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She is the
president of the ASI Chapter
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in the northeast
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and she directs a
home health care agency
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and visiting nurse agency
of a 150 staff on Long Island.
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Her heart is for building
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and equipping Christian
schools in her native Guyana,
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where the institution
is grown from 100 students
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to over 350 now.
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Bill Dull leaves
in Calcutta, India
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for last 15 years
for he and his wife Lois,
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have established and
operate two orphanages
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filled with the 170 children,
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three Bible
seminars with 80 students
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and midwifery training
program for village midwives.
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Has been an ASI
member since 1979
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and has taught
medical missionaries
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in a number of
places across North America
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and other places in
the world and now in India.
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And the reason that
we've come together today
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is to review with
you the wonderful lesson
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that we've had about the
compassion of Jesus Christ
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and we think about
the quote of Emma Lazarus
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on the base of
the Statue of Liberty,
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"Give me your tired, your poor,
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your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free"
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sounds much like
the situation of mankind
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2,000 years ago in Palestine
and how does it apply today.
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"Give me your tired, your poor"
does that apply to us today?
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Amen.
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Jesus said, "Come
unto me, all ye that labor
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and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
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Take my yoke upon
you, and learn with me,
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I meek and lowly in heart
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and you will find
rest for your souls."
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Every part of his ministry
was motivated by compassion.
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You've may heard popular
3ABN personal Cheri Peters says
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"Don't forget God
is crazy about you."
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What was it about
Jesus and His ministry?
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What was it about His
ministry that large crowds,
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great multitudes
would flock to see Jesus?
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I mean, the Bible said
that many tried to touch Him
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because they felt that power
was coming out of Him to heal.
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So, He drew attention
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because power was
coming out of Him.
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Anybody else? Sikhu?
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I think in addition to that
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I gonna return
to John Chapter 9.
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In John Chapter 9 we've
the story of the gentleman
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who was blind all his
life and then he was healed
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and then when he is
taken in before the Sanhedrin
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and they have a
problem with the fact
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that he believes
Jesus to be prophet.
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In chapter 9
verse 35 it says that
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"Jesus heard that
they had cast Him out"
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they had cast
Him out of synagogue
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"and when he had
found him, he said unto him,
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Dost thou believe
on the Son of God?"
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So that Jesus who
had a personal interest
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in this gentleman
who was being ostracized
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for his faith in God
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and because of
that personal interest
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that Jesus took in individuals
it made people draw--
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people were drawn
to Him because of that
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because He individually
cared about their needs.
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Bill?
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One of the things
that I've noticed is that
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when you pay
attention to children
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the parents and older
people really take note
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and Jesus said,
"bring them to Me."
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He held them on His
knee, He blessed them
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and the people really
took note of His compassion
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for even the little children.
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Patty?
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Well in Isaiah 53 it talks about
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how Jesus had no
form or comeliness
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and He had no beauty
that we would desire Him.
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But when I think about Jesus
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there must have
been some thing amazing,
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some love that emanated
out of Him through His eyes,
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through His tone of the voice
that just drew people to Him.
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This amazing love
that they could sense
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otherwise He wouldn't
have be able to appeal
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to individuals and crowds alike.
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Elizabeth? Okay.
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You know, very
often people are drawn
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and enthuse by good oratory.
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We've read so many places
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that Jesus was such
a wonderful speaker.
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We read about the
gentleness of His voice.
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And what was most interesting
is the where he taught.
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He used the things that
people were accustomed to.
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He used the very things
that they did from day to day,
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planting and
all the other things
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to bring home a very and
much more powerful point.
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Now what I like most about it
He could have all the oratory,
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all the good speech and
if it was not accompanied
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by those personal
compassionate times
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He spent with people it
might not have meant us much
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as all the good
speaking how canon will do.
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How can we apply
these compassionate,
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love and action in the
mission were we live and work?
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Have you thought about
that the power of His love
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and compassion is really
what it was that drew people,
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even though people came
for a variety of reasons.
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According to Mark 5
and Mark 6 and John 12,
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it says that spiritual hunger
is something that drew them.
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They came to be heal,
they had a medical need,
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they were seeking
political solution,
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they were desiring relief
from a foreign occupying power
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that they were
under their pressure
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and some came
merely out of curiosity
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but what was it the phrases said
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about the way the
crowds came to see Him?
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What was the
observation that phrases said?
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In today's
language we'll say the world
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has gone mad after Him.
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He was very much like
a super star of His day.
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Multitudes came from all around.
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It was not from
the particular town
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that He was
speaking in at that time.
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The Bible says, I
think its Mark says
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that they came from
Jerusalem, from Judea,
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from Samaria, from
Galilee, from every part
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and I want you to remember
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it's not like today
were you took your car
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and you drove from Orlando
or you drove from my Miami
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or you drove from
wherever you came from.
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They came by foot in hot deserts
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and whatever they heard about
and whatever the people thought
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when there was-- in His presence
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was strong enough to
keep those multitudes
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coming day after day
and the Babylon so said
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some followed
Him from town to town
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because they just
couldn't get enough
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of what He had to say.
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Have you ever
thought what is your motive
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for following Jesus?
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I mean, Jesus said
to disciples, follow Me
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and I'll make you fishes of man.
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So I think that
our motive should be
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to make fishes of man
for Him and the same energy
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that we put into serving others
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would be the
savings of our own souls.
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Bill?
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The same way Jesus
took the little children,
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He took me.
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Well, you know,
when we think about
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we go to church some
times because of custom,
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because of
family, because of habit
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and when we stop
and ask that question,
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why is that that I follow Jesus?
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What is that draws me? Sikhu.
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I just want to say that
from working with young people
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and being a young
person I think sometimes
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because you go to church
so much and you here about
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how you follow
Christ for the wrong motives
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and that's not good
and I completely agree
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but the danger
becomes that as a young person
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I don't want to follow
Jesus for the wrong motives
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and because I know
that my motives are wrong
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I choose not to
follow Him at all
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and it may some
kind of surprising
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but there are actually
lot of young people out there
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who don't want to be a hypocrite
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and that's the reason
they don't come to church
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and yet Jesus says
come just as you are.
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And even though
your motives are wrong
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and you may be coming to
church for all the wrong reasons
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but when you're in church
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that's where
Jesus can reach you.
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Just come even if you
have the wrong motives and pray
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and God is the one
who change your motives.
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Yeah, I really appreciate
Sikhu bring out that point
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because I think young
people are so amazing.
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They can see through so much
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and they don't
want to be hypocrites
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but like you said
it's better to come
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for the wrong motives
then do not come at all
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because Jesus can
change our motives.
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And we talked
the other day about
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all the different motives
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that people had
for coming to Jesus.
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Some wanted physical healings,
some wanted spiritual healings,
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some are just curious,
some wanted to trick Him.
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They're jealous of the power
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that Jesus had over the
people and they wanted--
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may be they wanted
that for themselves
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I'm not sure but they hated Him
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for what they saw in
Him rather then loving Him.
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So it's just amazing.
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We do need to search our motives
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but like Bill said Jesus
when He came into my life
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and touched me I had to
follow Him wherever He led.
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You know, Brother Richard Bland
with United Prison Ministries
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with the captive
audience that he served,
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he said they can
really see through.
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They can tell a
phony immediately.
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They have insight
to be able to discern
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what a person's real motive
is and we need to look and see
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what our motives are really
and to be passionate about
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what we live for.
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We live in a very
impersonal world today.
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For example, if you got to
touch tone phone press one.
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We live in a iPod,
ecommerce technological age
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and how is it that compassion
relates to a personal touch
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in such an environment
that we live in today.
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You know, I missed
all the techno buzz
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and the E world we
live in, people in society
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are still yearning
for that personal touch,
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for their heart fill
personal relationship
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that nothing else can replace.
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I think if we do
that God is gonna use us
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in a powerful way
to touch someone's life
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admits all this technology
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and ecommerce in
our society today.
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You know, we can
only make a friend
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one at a time, don't we?
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And people do
business with people they like.
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And so if we make
ourselves available to others
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and win friendships
then we have to win a friend
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before we can win
a friend of Christ.
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If our life and
witness lacks power
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are we
misrepresenting the character
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and mission of Jesus?
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Absolutely.
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You know, the Bible
talks about how we have--
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we have this
treasure in earthen vessels
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and I think the more we
realize are nothingness,
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the more we
realize our need for Jesus,
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the more we realize He
is our only sufficiency.
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He is all we can give.
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So, if we go to
God, just say, Lord,
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I mean empty vessel.
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I have nothing to give
except what You put in me,
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we will have
what the world needs.
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How is that the personal
touch of someone influence you
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to accept Jesus
Christ as a personal Savior?
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Well, I could speak from--
I grew up in a Adventist home.
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So, from an early age,
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you know, my
parents personal touch
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had a huge influence in me
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making the
decision to follow Christ.
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But I particularly
remember when I left home
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and I went school in
Canada being far away
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from the home for
the first time in my life
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I went through some,
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I guess I had to
recommit myself to Christ
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and make the
decision to keep Sabbath,
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not do home work
on the Sabbath day
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and stuff like that.
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Again a challenge
that I faced is that
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the school that
I went to was about
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30 minutes away
from the nearest Church,
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30 minute drive and
I had no transportation
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and there was just
one particular family
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that took me in as their own
and they lived 30 minutes away
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from the Church in
the opposite direction.
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They would drive an
hour to come pick me up
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and hour back to the church
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and the same thing
to drop me back home.
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And that made a huge
impact and when I was deciding
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whether or not I was
gonna keep the Sabbath or not
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if this family was
willing to do that for me
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then I wanted to
be faithful to God
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because they were
being faithful to me.
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And that was a-- that
made a difference in me
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making the decision for Christ
to go all the way for Him.
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Amen. Amen.
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Henry, I know for
me God sent someone
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into the store were I worked.
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And I was thankful that
that person was listening
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to the voice of the Holy
Spirit because he had no reason
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to go into the store where I was
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and it was at a
time when I was praying
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that the Lord would
lead me to the Church
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where He wanted me to be
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and I'm just so
thankful for that person touch.
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Yeah, praise the Lord.
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I'm sure that someone
was ready at the right time.
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Even a word or
date or some literature
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or something is available
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but the personal touch of people
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is really the most
significant thing, isn't it?
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"Those who are
fighting the battle of life
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at great odds
may be strengthened
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and encouraged by
the little attentions
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that cost only a loving effort.
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Such a strong helpful grasp
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by the hand of true friend
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is worth more
than gold or silver.
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Words of kindness are as welcome
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as the smile of angels."
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According to the
Ministry of Healing, 158.
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I know when
someone who is working,
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cleaning a
restroom at the airport
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or someone who is working
at the counter at the airport
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if you say to
them, thank you very much
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for the
contribution you are making
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or thank you for
keeping this place clean
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or you have been an
answer to prayer to me today
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to someone that is
helped you at a bank
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or some other agency that
their faces can just slide up
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and it really is a, it
really is a pleasant reaction
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and you can represent in
a personal way Jesus Christ.
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Pastor Wintley
Phipps likes to say,
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"Never go next door
with a tracked in hand
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unless you first been
there with a helping hand."
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And I think that
that really is true.
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Go stack ward for a
neighbor who needs help
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or whatever it might be
that they have a need for.
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People were attracted to Jesus
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and they listen with
delight according to Mark 12,
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and they were
amazed at His teaching.
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How was He able
to personally impact
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both individuals
and crowds alike?
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He was equally effected--
effective with big crowds
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as well as individuals.
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How was it that He
was able to do that?
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We have got a classic example
of the woman at the well.
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That was a one on one contact.
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He took the time
to talk with her.
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He sure had some foreknowledge
because of who He was
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but eventually when He was able
to offer her the living water
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she brought many people
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from the village to
come and talk to Him.
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You know, it made
all the difference there
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the way He dealt with her.
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He could have just
said, "Give me some water,"
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she gave Him the water,
"thank you and left her alone."
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In today's
very, very busy world,
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you know, we
have a common greeting
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when we reach people.
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How are you doing?
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But how often have we stopped
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for a couple
seconds to hear a response
00:22:36.42\00:22:39.52
to that "How are you doing?"
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You do stop
sometimes and some of the times
00:22:41.96\00:22:44.59
you have stopped you
have to stop the conversation
00:22:44.63\00:22:48.40
because you realize that
the people are so hungry,
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people are so
wanting to talk to somebody
00:22:51.83\00:22:54.70
and say something
that's bothering them
00:22:54.74\00:22:57.51
that the
listening ear means a lot.
00:22:57.54\00:23:00.31
I have
personally promised myself
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that as often as I can
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and more often
than not make the time
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to listen a little bit.
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And when you
listen just listening,
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I have been able to
say to so many people.
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Well, do you know the Bible says
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"Come unto me, all ye that labor
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and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest."
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For me that's the best word
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we can offer to
anybody in today's world.
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Today you talk to
people and all they say to you,
00:23:29.70\00:23:32.34
"I'm stressed, I'm tired."
00:23:32.37\00:23:35.24
Now this is not the way
God intended life to be.
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And I have promised myself
00:23:38.75\00:23:40.35
that by His grace as
often as I have the opportunity
00:23:40.38\00:23:45.09
to point someone to
somebody, who is really,
00:23:45.12\00:23:49.59
personally and individually
interested in our lives.
00:23:49.62\00:23:54.60
And my favorite statement
is, God is so interested in us
00:23:54.63\00:23:59.43
and knows so much
about us that He knows
00:23:59.47\00:24:02.24
how many grains of
hair is on our head.
00:24:02.27\00:24:06.04
I am happy to have such a Savior
00:24:06.07\00:24:08.84
and I just keep asking
God to help me, to help me,
00:24:08.88\00:24:12.71
to be like Him where
I can touch another life
00:24:12.75\00:24:16.45
to bring others
to know Him better.
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Well, following on what
you have said, Elizabeth,
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how have the rest
of you found the way
00:24:21.56\00:24:23.73
to be able to minister
effectively one on one.
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You know, our home
has always been our--
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the centre of our evangelism.
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My wife has been
a great blessing.
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And when we were in New York,
00:24:39.51\00:24:41.91
we were in
Washington Square Park
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and we had-- we
would do park ministry.
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We would sing songs
and do health talks and all
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and one of the
prostitutes that the park
00:24:53.22\00:24:57.16
she came up to
us, she came up to me
00:24:57.19\00:25:01.23
and she said "I'm tired
of the life that I am living,
00:25:01.26\00:25:05.57
I would like to
come home with you,
00:25:05.60\00:25:07.07
would you take me?"
00:25:07.10\00:25:08.90
And so, we took
her out to our home.
00:25:08.94\00:25:11.21
We put her in our home
with us, with our children.
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And she just grew unbelievably
00:25:15.11\00:25:17.68
with the morning
worships and everything
00:25:17.71\00:25:20.72
and she was with
us for several months
00:25:20.75\00:25:24.65
and she eventually
wanted to go back to the city.
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We took her back to the city.
00:25:27.69\00:25:29.19
She went back into prostitution.
00:25:29.22\00:25:31.93
But then we were in the
park doing park ministry,
00:25:31.96\00:25:35.43
again she came and she
said "I don't want this life.
00:25:35.46\00:25:38.70
I want to comeback
will to take me back?'
00:25:38.73\00:25:40.77
We said, "Yes,
we will take you."
00:25:40.80\00:25:42.64
We took her back into our home.
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And she was
with us a short time.
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Three times she went to
the park, back to the park.
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But the last time she
said "I'll never do it again,
00:25:50.51\00:25:54.55
please take me again.
00:25:54.58\00:25:56.95
I want to change my life.
00:25:56.99\00:25:58.39
I want to follow
Jesus all the way."
00:25:58.42\00:26:00.16
And she did. Her
life was changed.
00:26:00.19\00:26:03.29
She said "I have a
son that I gave away
00:26:03.32\00:26:06.70
when he was born."
00:26:06.73\00:26:08.30
She said "I
want to get him back.
00:26:08.33\00:26:10.63
I want raise my boy. I
want to be a Christian."
00:26:10.67\00:26:14.20
Arleen changed
her life. Praise God.
00:26:14.24\00:26:16.57
She was baptized.
00:26:16.60\00:26:18.74
She became a secretary.
00:26:18.77\00:26:25.31
She-- just a few months ago
00:26:25.35\00:26:28.98
her son wrote me
a letter and he said
00:26:29.02\00:26:32.29
"You don't know what
you did for our family.
00:26:32.32\00:26:35.12
You changed our entire life
00:26:35.16\00:26:37.49
and I want to thank you
for what you did for me."
00:26:37.53\00:26:40.73
Amen.
00:26:40.76\00:26:42.10
It seems that Jesus wants to...
00:26:42.13\00:26:49.77
It seems that
Jesus wants to setup
00:26:49.80\00:26:51.87
a branch office in
our town, doesn't He?
00:26:51.91\00:26:54.78
Yeah He wants to
live in our neighborhood
00:26:54.81\00:26:57.65
and delve in our heart
and develop a partnership
00:26:57.68\00:27:01.48
with each one of us
00:27:01.52\00:27:03.12
and pitch His tent
in our refugee camp.
00:27:03.15\00:27:06.76
Anyone else have a
personal contact like that?
00:27:06.79\00:27:10.53
Well, you know, as a dentist
00:27:10.56\00:27:14.76
when I have
patient in the chair,
00:27:14.80\00:27:16.50
I have a very captive audience.
00:27:16.53\00:27:17.87
Indeed.
00:27:17.90\00:27:19.23
And while I'm working on them
they can't really say anything.
00:27:19.27\00:27:23.30
So I can give an
entire Bible study.
00:27:23.34\00:27:25.94
And when I'm finished
then we can ask questions,
00:27:25.97\00:27:29.88
you know, and so
from time to time
00:27:29.91\00:27:31.91
I do that in my dental chair
and God has brought many people
00:27:31.95\00:27:37.39
to knowledge of Him
through this method.
00:27:37.42\00:27:40.62
Amen.
00:27:40.66\00:27:43.46
We really are
strategically placed
00:27:43.49\00:27:45.36
for God can hear us, aren't we?
00:27:45.39\00:27:46.80
That's right.
00:27:46.83\00:27:48.16
And, Henry, you
know, that's one thing
00:27:48.20\00:27:49.53
that I think about a lot.
00:27:49.56\00:27:50.97
Each one of us is
strategically placed,
00:27:51.00\00:27:53.57
it's not about-- there's nobody
00:27:53.60\00:27:55.20
that's more important
00:27:55.24\00:27:56.57
or less important
than anybody else.
00:27:56.60\00:27:58.71
It's about God
putting each one us
00:27:58.74\00:28:01.91
where you will be in
touch with the very people
00:28:01.94\00:28:04.91
that He knows you
can be a blessing to
00:28:04.95\00:28:07.42
and also where you are going
to receive the very blessings
00:28:07.45\00:28:11.99
and trials that will
develop a character in you,
00:28:12.02\00:28:15.46
that the Lord--
that He is just trying
00:28:15.49\00:28:16.83
to paint a
picture in everyone of us.
00:28:16.86\00:28:19.13
So, wherever you
are you are there
00:28:19.16\00:28:21.20
for all those reasons.
00:28:21.23\00:28:23.97
And don't ever think that your
most humble effort are futile.
00:28:24.00\00:28:31.74
I remember as a little guy
00:28:31.77\00:28:34.31
sitting at the knee
of my dear grandfather
00:28:34.34\00:28:37.55
after he return
from South America
00:28:37.58\00:28:39.75
were he had gone to
be the first minister
00:28:39.78\00:28:43.25
of our faith
baptizing the first person
00:28:43.28\00:28:46.05
and starting the
first Church in Argentina,
00:28:46.09\00:28:48.92
Brazil and Chile
where my mother was born.
00:28:48.96\00:28:51.69
And he told about the
first series of meetings
00:28:51.73\00:28:54.70
that he had
conducted in Punta Arenas.
00:28:54.73\00:28:58.87
Punta Arenas as you know
00:28:58.90\00:29:00.64
is the further
most southern city
00:29:00.67\00:29:03.30
in the whole world
on the bottom of Chile
00:29:03.34\00:29:06.34
and you face across
the sea to the Antarctica.
00:29:06.37\00:29:10.81
And he put up
posters and hand bells
00:29:10.85\00:29:13.11
and rented a hall
and expected to be able
00:29:13.15\00:29:15.85
to get a good size crowd.
00:29:15.88\00:29:18.09
He didn't know
what God would send him.
00:29:18.12\00:29:20.36
But only one lady, one lady
00:29:20.39\00:29:24.03
and her son came to that effort.
00:29:24.06\00:29:27.26
And he went ahead and preached
00:29:27.30\00:29:28.63
as thought there were
100 or 1,000 people there.
00:29:28.66\00:29:32.67
And I didn't know what
the outcome of that was
00:29:32.70\00:29:35.70
but it's 1942 or 1943
when he told me that story
00:29:35.74\00:29:39.44
and encourage me
never to think that
00:29:39.47\00:29:42.24
what small
effort that we are able
00:29:42.28\00:29:44.15
to invest might be
able to have a result.
00:29:44.18\00:29:48.68
And a two or three years ago
00:29:48.72\00:29:50.59
my wife and I were in King Texas
00:29:50.62\00:29:52.62
for our 100th
anniversary celebration
00:29:52.65\00:29:56.02
of my mother's last
cousin who came from Argentina.
00:29:56.06\00:30:01.70
Dr. Herbert
Westphal and he was--
00:30:01.73\00:30:05.47
he recited the Ten
Commandments for us in German
00:30:05.50\00:30:08.37
and he sang for us in Spanish
00:30:08.40\00:30:10.54
and he still had
his good sense of humor.
00:30:10.57\00:30:12.97
He is awaiting
the Lords return now.
00:30:13.01\00:30:15.91
But I learned at that
time the rest of the story.
00:30:15.94\00:30:19.28
Out of that
meeting and Punta Arenas
00:30:19.31\00:30:21.38
the grandpa of
Frank Westphal had
00:30:21.42\00:30:24.02
that there came over 200
00:30:24.05\00:30:26.39
Seventh-day
Adventist Christians,
00:30:26.42\00:30:28.32
60 or 70
denominational employees,
00:30:28.36\00:30:31.56
two conference
Presidents and two Evangelists
00:30:31.59\00:30:34.23
that no doubt contributed
the thousands of others
00:30:34.26\00:30:37.40
discovering Jesus Christ.
00:30:37.43\00:30:39.47
So, he won't know
that until the kingdom.
00:30:39.50\00:30:42.60
And you and I
won't know the results
00:30:42.64\00:30:44.47
of the little things we do
00:30:44.51\00:30:45.94
where God
strategically places us
00:30:45.97\00:30:48.48
to be able to come
in contact with someone.
00:30:48.51\00:30:51.28
Now Sister Slicker
says in her prayer time
00:30:51.31\00:30:53.82
in the morning "Who today Lord?
00:30:53.85\00:30:55.88
Who today?"
00:30:55.92\00:30:57.72
Go and do like wise,
dear ones. God bless you.
00:30:57.75\00:31:05.69
Thank you, members.
00:31:07.60\00:31:09.76
You have an opportunity
and we have an opportunity
00:31:09.80\00:31:13.40
to make an
investment of the time
00:31:13.44\00:31:15.37
that we have been
given and the opportunities
00:31:15.40\00:31:18.17
He allows to cross our path
00:31:18.21\00:31:20.18
and there will be people
in the kingdom as result.
00:31:20.21\00:31:24.61
At this time you
have an opportunity
00:31:34.49\00:31:36.36
to give a Sabbath
school missions offering.
00:31:36.39\00:31:40.70
This offering
shouldn't be confused
00:31:40.73\00:31:42.30
with the ASI project offering
that will be taken later
00:31:42.33\00:31:46.77
and please don't
use the envelopes
00:31:46.80\00:31:48.67
that were on the chairs
00:31:48.70\00:31:50.24
when you came
into the auditorium.
00:31:50.27\00:31:52.77
This is the offering
that you normally give
00:31:52.81\00:31:54.64
at your home Sabbath school
and is for the World Missions
00:31:54.68\00:31:57.95
of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:31:57.98\00:32:00.72
Thank you for you generosity
00:32:00.75\00:32:02.12
and the ushers
will wade on you now.
00:32:02.15\00:32:06.39
Good morning, ASI family.
00:36:50.57\00:36:52.57
Good morning.
00:36:52.61\00:36:54.18
I can't believe eight years ago
00:36:54.21\00:36:55.88
we started taking about
New Beginnings DVD project
00:36:55.91\00:36:59.95
and it's been an
exiting eight years.
00:36:59.98\00:37:03.39
We worked closely with
00:37:03.42\00:37:04.85
It Is Written in
many other organizations
00:37:04.89\00:37:07.62
and I can't believe what
the-- how the Lord has blessed.
00:37:07.66\00:37:11.16
Amen. Amen.
00:37:11.19\00:37:12.53
You know, another
thing is that we've worked
00:37:12.56\00:37:13.90
with numerous
supporting ministries
00:37:13.93\00:37:16.33
partnering
together to share the gospel
00:37:16.36\00:37:19.10
throughout the world
00:37:19.13\00:37:20.97
and also a
partnership with ShareHim
00:37:21.00\00:37:23.94
as we go to prepare the
way for the evangelist meetings
00:37:23.97\00:37:27.28
that take place with ShareHim.
00:37:27.31\00:37:29.01
It's been a
wonderful partnership
00:37:29.04\00:37:30.38
and is continuing on
with the Lord's blessing.
00:37:30.41\00:37:33.28
We have been working
with many great organizations
00:37:33.31\00:37:36.48
and we have been particularly
with Jonathan Kuntaraf
00:37:36.52\00:37:39.59
from the world church
along with Pastor Mike Ryan
00:37:39.62\00:37:43.02
and, Pastor Mark
Finely and it's been blessing
00:37:43.06\00:37:46.66
to see how with laity and
the church working together
00:37:46.70\00:37:50.83
the things that
the Lord has done.
00:37:50.87\00:37:53.54
And I know that Viorel,
I believe is it right now
00:37:53.57\00:37:57.11
as we speak can we safely say
00:37:57.14\00:37:59.61
that someone is learning about
Jesus through this program?
00:37:59.64\00:38:03.81
Denzil, I would say
that it's safe to say
00:38:03.85\00:38:06.21
that at this very
moment and 24 hours a day
00:38:06.25\00:38:09.32
and seven days a week
somewhere in the world
00:38:09.35\00:38:11.65
it's learning about God
through the New Beginning DVD
00:38:11.69\00:38:14.96
from the
laypeople that been trained
00:38:14.99\00:38:16.79
and equipped all
around the world.
00:38:16.83\00:38:19.49
How many places have we
done this training, Viorel?
00:38:19.53\00:38:22.43
Oh, I hope you
don't ask me this.
00:38:22.46\00:38:24.80
We have so many places.
00:38:24.83\00:38:26.20
I cannot tell you
exactly the countries
00:38:26.23\00:38:28.10
but we have done over 60 places
00:38:28.14\00:38:30.97
and we trained
over 19,000 lay people
00:38:31.01\00:38:34.38
how to do evangelist series.
00:38:34.41\00:38:36.04
Trained and equipped.
00:38:36.08\00:38:37.88
Did you hear that over
19,000 laypeople have been
00:38:37.91\00:38:41.95
trained and equipped to
tell others about Jesus.
00:38:41.98\00:38:46.32
You know, Denzil, we
never would have dreamed
00:38:46.35\00:38:47.82
this about eight years ago.
00:38:47.86\00:38:49.49
We never would and this morning,
00:38:49.52\00:38:51.29
Dwight, can you--
00:38:51.33\00:38:52.66
we are gonna
highlight a few places
00:38:52.69\00:38:54.50
and, Dwight, would you
tell us about those places?
00:38:54.53\00:38:57.03
Thank you so much.
00:38:57.07\00:38:58.40
This morning we are going
to highlight places in Mexico,
00:38:58.43\00:39:02.97
in Brazil, in Philippines
and share with you a little bit
00:39:03.00\00:39:09.48
of what took place in
these particular places.
00:39:09.51\00:39:12.11
And joining me now
are Norm and Gail Reitz
00:39:12.15\00:39:15.72
and I am going to
ask them to share with us
00:39:15.75\00:39:19.15
first of all from Mexico,
what took place there, Norm?
00:39:19.19\00:39:23.93
Mexico City is the
largest city in the world
00:39:23.96\00:39:28.10
that has a
population of 26 million.
00:39:28.13\00:39:31.63
It's a Catholic country
00:39:31.67\00:39:33.00
but they are two
Adventist conferences
00:39:33.03\00:39:34.70
in Mexico City as take a mission
00:39:34.74\00:39:37.27
were last year in
the middle of the year
00:39:37.31\00:39:39.77
we trained 170
laypeople to do evangelism.
00:39:39.81\00:39:43.28
Last December
there were 500 laypeople
00:39:43.31\00:39:47.62
that came to
training in Mexico City.
00:39:47.65\00:39:51.32
In order to get our respective
on how it was so effective
00:39:51.35\00:39:55.49
I would like to
tell you a story.
00:39:55.52\00:39:58.63
When I was young lawyer working
00:39:58.66\00:40:00.00
for the navy
department in Washington
00:40:00.03\00:40:03.37
in that patriotic environment
00:40:03.40\00:40:04.83
I decided to
join the Marine Corps
00:40:04.87\00:40:07.80
and as my buddies and I
were leaving for boot camp
00:40:07.84\00:40:10.61
from Union
Station in Washington DC,
00:40:10.64\00:40:13.78
Major General William Fairborn
00:40:13.81\00:40:15.88
came down to say
good bye to wish as well.
00:40:15.91\00:40:19.68
And I learned something
that day that applies to ASI
00:40:19.71\00:40:23.02
and that is that
in the Marine Corps
00:40:23.05\00:40:26.99
the lowest recruit
and the highest officer
00:40:27.02\00:40:30.83
in head quarters
are both on the team.
00:40:30.86\00:40:35.10
We are team ASI together.
00:40:35.13\00:40:38.43
You folks provided the
money for the Mexico City.
00:40:38.47\00:40:42.67
There is an infrastructure
00:40:42.70\00:40:44.04
that allows
arrangements to be made.
00:40:44.07\00:40:46.17
When we went
money had to be wired
00:40:46.21\00:40:48.78
by the General Conference.
00:40:48.81\00:40:50.15
We couldn't take 500
DVD players through customs
00:40:50.18\00:40:53.72
so the money had to go there.
00:40:53.75\00:40:56.08
Viorel Catarama
made arrangements.
00:40:56.15\00:40:58.89
The Inter-America
Division was holy supportive
00:40:58.92\00:41:02.22
of what we were doing.
00:41:02.26\00:41:03.83
They sent Sergio
Moctezuma pastor,
00:41:03.86\00:41:06.83
they sent Carlyle
Bayne's, ministerial man
00:41:06.86\00:41:09.86
to lend their
influence to the media.
00:41:09.90\00:41:12.67
Gail, would you tell us
00:41:12.70\00:41:14.04
as they show the
pictures of Mexico
00:41:14.07\00:41:15.94
what subjects we
taught at the seminar?
00:41:15.97\00:41:19.21
Well, we gave
evangelism God's way
00:41:19.24\00:41:22.54
with combined efforts
with pastors and laity
00:41:22.58\00:41:27.08
and we also talked about
the power of the Holy Spirit
00:41:27.12\00:41:30.75
an intercessory prayer.
00:41:30.79\00:41:33.49
We also told them
how to get an audience
00:41:33.52\00:41:38.13
and then make effective
appeals and then we showed them
00:41:38.16\00:41:44.93
how to practice preaching
and that was the fun part
00:41:44.97\00:41:49.07
to see them
practice the preaching.
00:41:49.10\00:41:56.38
Then we went to Brazil.
Dwight was with us in Brazil.
00:41:56.41\00:42:00.25
Well, we found the
team that go to Brazil
00:42:00.28\00:42:02.98
that consisted of
Norm and Gail Reitz
00:42:03.02\00:42:06.82
and Darcie --
family from Mission Serve
00:42:06.86\00:42:13.33
and we went there
to train 300 lay people
00:42:13.36\00:42:17.23
in the city of
Fortaleza, Brazil.
00:42:17.27\00:42:19.80
And Norm and Gail
share a little bit
00:42:19.83\00:42:21.70
of what took
place there in Brazil.
00:42:21.74\00:42:24.47
In Brazil we had a
very young audience.
00:42:24.51\00:42:27.61
This group were mostly
between the ages of 20 and 35.
00:42:27.64\00:42:34.55
They are traveled
up to 250 kilometers
00:42:34.58\00:42:37.59
to come to the meeting.
00:42:37.62\00:42:39.05
We have to turn 40 of them away.
00:42:39.09\00:42:42.19
They love this thing,
they were enthusiastic,
00:42:42.22\00:42:44.96
they were energetic and
they proved the principle
00:42:44.99\00:42:49.46
of trained the
trainer evangelism.
00:42:49.50\00:42:52.23
There are three principles
00:42:52.27\00:42:53.87
that make this
kind of training work.
00:42:53.90\00:42:56.67
The first one is multiplication.
00:42:56.71\00:42:59.44
We can go to a meeting,
many of you have done meetings,
00:42:59.47\00:43:01.61
ShareHim is doing
meetings all the time
00:43:01.64\00:43:04.41
but if we go
and train 100 people
00:43:04.45\00:43:06.75
or 200 people or 300 people
00:43:06.78\00:43:09.18
we multiply the
benefit tremendously about
00:43:09.22\00:43:12.99
what one meeting will do.
00:43:13.02\00:43:15.66
The second principle of trained
00:43:15.69\00:43:17.09
the trainer
meetings is retention.
00:43:17.13\00:43:20.90
If your neighbor,
if your fellow worker,
00:43:20.93\00:43:23.30
if somebody beyond
culture or beyond language
00:43:23.33\00:43:26.20
is your mentor, is your teacher
00:43:26.23\00:43:28.34
you are more likely
to stay in the church.
00:43:28.37\00:43:31.04
They are there to
answer your question.
00:43:31.07\00:43:32.84
They are your friends.
00:43:32.87\00:43:34.48
And thirdly the
principles of trained
00:43:34.51\00:43:36.95
the trainer evangelism
is cost effectiveness.
00:43:36.98\00:43:41.52
You get the lot bigger
yield for your investment
00:43:41.55\00:43:44.45
that you put into it.
00:43:44.49\00:43:46.02
Gail, tell about us
some of the people that came.
00:43:46.05\00:43:48.56
Oh, we had young people
and we had elderly people
00:43:48.59\00:43:53.09
but mostly we had
young people that came
00:43:53.13\00:43:56.06
and they were so enthusiastic,
00:43:56.10\00:43:58.30
they were writing
all the time taking notes
00:43:58.33\00:44:01.74
and they were especially
happy to receive the brochure
00:44:01.77\00:44:07.74
that would go with the DVD.
00:44:07.78\00:44:09.91
his was the new idea
that we got from doing
00:44:09.94\00:44:15.22
the one in Mexico City
00:44:15.25\00:44:16.69
because the ones
in the Mexico City
00:44:16.72\00:44:19.82
we are larger ones.
00:44:19.85\00:44:21.56
And then we also
gave them the DVD
00:44:21.59\00:44:24.43
and these were in
Brazilian Portuguese.
00:44:24.46\00:44:27.93
And they where
just so happy with these
00:44:27.96\00:44:30.77
and then their DVD sets.
00:44:30.80\00:44:33.37
As far as we know
this was the first time
00:44:33.40\00:44:35.44
that the New Beginnings has been
00:44:35.47\00:44:38.17
given out in
Brazilian Portuguese.
00:44:38.21\00:44:40.74
There are about 30
languages that have been done
00:44:40.78\00:44:43.08
and so far, as far as I know,
00:44:43.11\00:44:44.88
they haven't have
been used in Chinese.
00:44:44.91\00:44:48.22
They are going to be some
meanings in China next year.
00:44:48.25\00:44:51.32
But this was the first time
for the Brazilian Portuguese.
00:44:51.35\00:44:55.02
Brazil was wonderful experience
and they have been working
00:44:55.06\00:44:58.46
and in September ShareHim
00:44:58.49\00:45:01.30
will be
conducting reaping meaning.
00:45:01.33\00:45:03.37
So please pray for the
people in Brazil as they were
00:45:03.40\00:45:07.14
and the 40 that
we had to turn away
00:45:07.17\00:45:09.77
they will be receiving
their own personal training
00:45:09.80\00:45:14.94
from the local evangelist
that was with us there.
00:45:14.98\00:45:17.58
So they don't
be left out either.
00:45:17.61\00:45:19.28
Thank you so much for sharing
00:45:19.31\00:45:20.72
what has been going
in Mexico and Brazil.
00:45:20.75\00:45:23.42
Amen. Amen.
00:45:23.45\00:45:25.02
It's exiting to
see what's taking place
00:45:25.05\00:45:26.72
all over the world.
00:45:26.76\00:45:29.46
The next place that we are going
00:45:29.49\00:45:30.83
to highlight is Costa Rica.
00:45:30.86\00:45:33.80
And you folks know
these, these young folks here,
00:45:33.83\00:45:37.20
Rusty and Joy McKee
and we had a great time
00:45:37.23\00:45:40.54
down there in Costa Rica.
00:45:40.57\00:45:43.37
And what we were doing
00:45:43.41\00:45:45.07
was doing the
training session we--
00:45:45.11\00:45:48.54
our goal was 300
00:45:48.58\00:45:49.91
and we had 300
people came for training.
00:45:49.94\00:45:52.41
And then Joy went to Costa Rica
00:45:52.45\00:45:56.52
in last couple of weeks of June,
00:45:56.55\00:45:58.45
the first part of the July
00:45:58.49\00:46:00.39
and she held her own
evangelistic meetings
00:46:00.42\00:46:02.66
in connection with ShareHim.
00:46:02.69\00:46:04.33
And so we put together this team
00:46:04.36\00:46:06.59
that work so well together.
00:46:06.63\00:46:08.06
Rusty, tell us
first about the training.
00:46:08.10\00:46:11.03
You were there
with us for the training
00:46:11.07\00:46:12.40
and what was your impression
00:46:12.43\00:46:13.84
and tell us
something about that training.
00:46:13.87\00:46:15.54
Thank you so much, Dwight.
00:46:15.57\00:46:16.91
So it's about
three months before
00:46:16.94\00:46:18.27
Joy does evangelistic series
00:46:18.31\00:46:19.94
we went down
spent all day training
00:46:19.97\00:46:23.35
on DVD home of the evangelism.
00:46:23.38\00:46:26.61
It was the end of the
day we were kind of tired,
00:46:26.65\00:46:28.95
ready to go home and
all of sudden we realized
00:46:28.98\00:46:31.02
hey, let the church
members give it a try.
00:46:31.05\00:46:33.89
So we asked three people
to come forward and they did.
00:46:33.92\00:46:36.52
First person went,
went to half a dozen slides
00:46:36.56\00:46:39.73
and you could tell
things are working,
00:46:39.76\00:46:41.10
responses from the
crowd was lot of amen's
00:46:41.13\00:46:43.37
and okay its working.
00:46:43.40\00:46:44.73
Second person
went, third person went.
00:46:44.77\00:46:47.87
And also and that third
person the slides were done
00:46:47.90\00:46:51.34
but they kept going and going.
00:46:51.37\00:46:53.58
And I'm telling, Joy,
Joy, what are we taking about?
00:46:53.61\00:46:55.74
What's he saying?
00:46:55.78\00:46:57.25
Yeah, because you
couldn't understand them.
00:46:57.28\00:47:00.12
And so I lean forward to Denzile
00:47:00.15\00:47:01.58
and Denzile saying, you
know, asked to turn to the wife.
00:47:01.62\00:47:03.39
What did we do?
00:47:03.42\00:47:04.75
He's still going,
what's he talking about?
00:47:04.79\00:47:06.25
And about that time
at the corner of my eye
00:47:06.29\00:47:08.19
I saw some movement in
aisle so I turned to looked
00:47:08.22\00:47:12.19
an entire family
was going forward.
00:47:12.23\00:47:16.40
He had made a call
for those to accept Christ
00:47:16.43\00:47:19.07
for the first time.
00:47:19.10\00:47:20.74
My first response was, you know,
00:47:20.77\00:47:22.77
may be step on aisle and say,
00:47:22.80\00:47:24.14
"Hey, hey no,
that's just the practice.
00:47:24.17\00:47:28.21
But, you know, God's
timing and His word is so true
00:47:28.24\00:47:32.25
He just wants
for us to share it.
00:47:32.28\00:47:33.92
And about one
and half month later
00:47:33.95\00:47:35.55
we find out that
whole family was baptized.
00:47:35.58\00:47:40.46
So you can imagine
when we got a report
00:47:40.49\00:47:43.79
just about a week or two later
00:47:43.83\00:47:46.09
that there had
already been 137 baptisms
00:47:46.13\00:47:49.33
due to this DVD
training in Costa Rica.
00:47:49.36\00:47:52.27
We were thrilled
00:47:52.30\00:47:53.64
and I couldn't
wait to get down there
00:47:53.67\00:47:56.00
and work with these evangelists
00:47:56.04\00:47:58.31
in the campaign,
ShareHim campaign.
00:47:58.34\00:48:00.78
So upon arrival
I met my translator
00:48:00.81\00:48:04.51
and it turns out
that she had done
00:48:04.55\00:48:06.45
the DVD series in her own home
00:48:06.48\00:48:09.85
and I believe we have a
picture of the translator
00:48:09.88\00:48:14.92
and some of the DVD training.
00:48:14.96\00:48:16.66
And I just
wanted to point her out
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and Lisa and her husband Ian.
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Ian actually was an amazing help
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during the campaign.
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He did lot of the music
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and that's him
on I guess her left.
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He had done the music
and coordinated the PA system
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and I thought what an
amazing member of this church.
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It wasn't, I believe
it's a second Sabbath
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that you in a ShareHim campaign
you preach on stewardship
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and health and it's about tithe
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and you think it's, you know,
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just a good reminder
to all the church members.
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Well, after when I went down
to greet on the church members
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and here came Ian
running down and he said.
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Oh, Joy, thank you,
thank you, thank you.
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I need it to hear that sermon.
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Oh, it touched my
heart and I said wow, Ian.
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You know, this is the
pretty fundamental understanding
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in the Christian church.
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I can't believe
that your response.
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He said well, you know,
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I am, actually you
might not know this
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but I have been
catholic my entire life.
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And I said, oh.
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He said, and I
have been struggling
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with alcoholism
for several years
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and it's put a
strain on past ten years
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of my marriage with Lisa.
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And I said, really.
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And he was like yeah and
then, you know, what happen?
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Lisa held these DVD
trainings in our home
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and studied with
people in our home
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and I decided to get baptized.
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So here only he
had been a member
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for about two months
and I couldn't believe it.
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And I said, Ian,
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what an amazing
testimony you have.
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You need to share
this during the campaign
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and he did and
I think it touched
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lot of people's life, which--
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For which I have am thrilled.
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And just keep
Ian in your prayers.
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His entire family is Catholic,
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and now he is going down
to visit his mother in Belize
00:49:56.16\00:49:59.03
to share his
victory over alcoholism.
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She is a devout Catholic
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and he is going to share
with her his new beliefs.
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Amen, and did you
notice that she said that
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before the meetings even
began there were 139 people
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who are baptized
including the four
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who came forward that day
00:50:17.01\00:50:19.05
when they were
practice preaching.
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What a wonderful blessing.
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And with the conclusion
of the evangelistic meetings
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they were nearly 600
that have been baptized
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in that part of Costa Rica.
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Praise the Lord
for His blessings
00:50:30.79\00:50:33.06
upon the people
there in Costa Rica.
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And thank you so
much for sharing with us
00:50:35.53\00:50:37.30
your work with the DVD.
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