Welcome.
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We're so happy that 3ABN is
today in Hyde Park, New York.
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And-- All right.
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And it's a
great convocation here
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where the Northeastern
Conference Camp Meeting.
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And we're
excited about being here.
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I want you to meet
Pastor Lawrence Brown.
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How are you, sir?
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Good morning, good
morning, good morning.
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You are in
possibly the happiest,
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holiest place in
the country right now.
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All right. Okay.
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Well, listen, we
are happy to be here.
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Tell us a little bit about
you and about the ministry here.
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We here at
Northeastern Conference,
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the last Sabbath in
June, first Sabbath in July,
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market down, we
here for Camp Meeting.
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It's been my privilege
for the last four years
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to serve as the
Sabbath School director
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for this fine Conference.
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I have a new assignment now,
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but Sabbath School
remains one of the best things
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that could ever have
happened to the church.
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And, sir, I remind
the saints everywhere
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that if they sleep in Sabbath
morning in this Sabbath School,
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they are robbing
themselves blind.
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Amen, amen.
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Well, I'm in
totally agreement with that.
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The study of God's word should
be paramount in our lives.
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Isn't that right? Amen, amen.
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There's no better place to
do that than in Sabbath School.
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And we are beginning
a new program at 3ABN
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where we will be studying
the lesson with you each day.
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It'll be a 15
minute program. Amen.
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And studying the
daily program with you.
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It'll be coming a
little later on this year.
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Amen.
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Well, if we were
giving out money,
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the folk would be
here to church on time.
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But we have given out
something better than money.
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So come get yours.
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We've got a good
group here already.
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There are some seats in
the very back, but these have--
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They've got the
best seats right here.
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Amen. That's right.
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Well, listen, how long does
this Camp Meeting take place.
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We'll be here this weekend
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and then we will
reconvene again next weekend.
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It's been a years since we've
had a full 10-day Camp Meeting,
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but for the time being
we'll do the two weekends.
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And I noticed a lot of
tents out on the ground.
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What's that all about?
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We have a number of--
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We have a youth tent, a
young adult tent, a teen tent.
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And this way a lot
of different age groups
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have a chance to come out
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and fellowship
together and worship.
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And we have a number of
special event tents as well.
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So if they're
joining us by television.
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This week they can join us
again next week live right here.
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Exactly. And
you'll have a program.
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Now somebody said the
pathfinders are here as well.
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The first Sabbath.
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Generally, the
pathfinders are in charge.
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So if you go down
to the youth tent,
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that's where the
pathfinders will be.
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They'd conducting
the whole service.
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After service is over,
they have something special
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they'll do on the
grounds, they'll walk around--
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And then tomorrow,
they have their field day
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and work around some honors.
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So it's a
really nice event. Wow.
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Well, I know that if
you haven't been here,
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you will want to come.
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This is a beautiful camp
ground, a beautiful location
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and a magnificent
part of the country.
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And not too far from the home
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of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, too.
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Well, if you'd like to say
his home is near Victory Lake.
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Okay. All right.
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Oh, that's good.
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Well, we've got
a big day planned.
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And so tell us a little
bit about the day if you could.
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Well, we have 3ABN
doing Sabbath School for us
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and then we'll have a
wonderful church service.
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Folk will get a chance to
eat lunch under the trees,
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we'll come back
together this afternoon
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for an outstanding concert,
tie off the day with vespers,
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the folk can go to bed tonight
happy and holy and healthy
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and just no one they be
the right at the right time.
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Amen.
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So we're gonna look forward
to a real day of blessing here.
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And this afternoon
we have a music program.
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What time is
that do you remember?
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I don't remember what time
it starts, but if you stay--
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If you're nearby,
you'll hear those bless strains
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and you'll know
to work this way.
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That's right, Danny
Shelton will be M.C. for that.
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We'll have a number
of singers from 3ABN.
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And I know that those
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that are watching by television
will be blessed as well.
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So we are looking forward
to that afternoon program.
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And then the church
service this morning,
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our speaker will be
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the president of the
North-American Division.
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We're looking forward to that.
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And that's Pastor Dan Jackson
and he will be bringing us
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a message of
hope, of encouragement
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and also a challenge at
11 O'clock hour this morning.
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So it's gonna be a bless time.
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It really is. Yes, it is.
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And we are all looking
forward to it quite a bit.
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Well, Pastor
Brown, thank you so much
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for telling us
about some of these things
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and helping us to feel
welcome here at Northeastern
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because you certainly have
made us feel very, very welcome.
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I also want to
greet a friend of mine.
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He's sitting right over here.
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I don't know if
they can get a camera
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on Pastor Arthur Morgan Arnold.
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That's Mr. Sabbath
School. That's right.
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When he and I first met--
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Arthur, could you
come up here a minute?
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I want the folks
to be able to see you.
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Amen.
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This is Mr. Sabbath
School, is that right?
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That's Mr.
Sabbath School. All right.
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When I became
Sabbath School director,
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he gave me a lot of good advice.
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Okay. And welcome.
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It's good to see you
again. How many years ago--
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Well, we better not
talk about that, right?
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I was a very young evangelist.
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My second evangelistic meeting
I'd held one before that.
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My second one was in
Springfield, Massachusetts
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and I called the pastor there
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and I said,
"Who was Art Morgan?"
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And I said, "I need
a very good singer."
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And he said, "There is a man
here by the name of Art Morgan."
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And at that time, you were not
a minister, you were a layman.
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And so you came and sang
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in that
evangelistic meeting for me
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and we became good friends.
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Well, just more
than good friends.
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He was my boss.
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And we anticipated
about five baptisms
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in the two weeks, we had 35.
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Praise the Lord.
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I'll tell you,
you remember things
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evangelistically
and I like that.
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The Lord did
blessed. He blessed so well.
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And we had a
tremendous fellowship together.
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And over the years and
I had lost the handbill,
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that originally handbill.
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We had a far
number of years ago.
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We lost a lot of stuff.
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And you still have
three or four of them.
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I kept three. You kept three.
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And he's gonna
send me one. Amen.
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So it's good. Thank
you, Brother Morgan.
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I appreciate
it. Good to see you.
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Well, this is
gonna be a great day
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of re-greeting friends
that we've known in the past.
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I know that many
of you here was--
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See, people, you maybe
haven't seen for a long time,
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give them a hug and welcome them
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and let them know
how much that you care.
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We're gonna invite
Pastor Richard Calhoun,
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who is the pastor of the
Flatbush Adventist Church
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to lead us in
prayer at this time.
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Good morning.
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And I invite us
to stand together
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as we present
ourselves to the Lord.
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Heavenly Father, we thank
You so much for this encampment.
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We thank You, Lord,
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for the miles
that we have traveled.
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We thank You for the safety
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for each one who has arrived
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and for those who
are yet on their way.
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We thank You most of all
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for the fellowship
that comes with believers
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as they joined
together in Christian love.
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We thank You for this
Sabbath School hour, Lord.
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And as we have come together
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to study Your word
to review Your word,
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we are so glad in
our hearts this morning,
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and we were glad
when You said unto us,
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"Come into the
house of the Lord."
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So, Lord, and humble obedience,
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we have assembled in
jubilant faith we await
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and we pray that You
will speak to our hearts,
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to our minds, to our very core.
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And so after we
have completed this,
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we will be closer to You
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and ready for
divine worship time,
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we ask all of these blessings
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in the marvelous name of Jesus,
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let all God's
children say, amen, amen.
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Thank you. God bless you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Good to see you.
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It would not be a 3ABN Event.
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Without the
individual who was right there
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at the
beginning with her father,
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when Danny
Shelton had the dream,
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was a 12-year-old girl
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that was traveling
around the country with him.
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First time I saw Melody was
in Keene, Texas with her dad
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and there she sang for us.
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And today she is
gonna be singing for us.
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She's gonna
sing a song entitled,
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"We Have This Hope."
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The saying that what
doesn't kill us makes us strong
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And I've heard it's
always darkest before the dawn
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But all I know is that
God's promises are true
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And he only wants
what's best for you
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We have this hope that
all hurting will be gone
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We have this hope that
all tears will be left behind
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I know down here life is
hard and the world is so unkind
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But hold on
because we have this hope
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Everyone of us has
heartaches and trials
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Just remember we're
only here for a short while
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Sometimes I feel I've
had more than my share
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But he won't give us
more than we can bear
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We have this hope that
all hurting will be gone
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We have this hope that
all tears will be left behind
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I know down here life is
hard and the world is so unkind
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But hold on,
because we have this hope
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And this hope for us is Jesus
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So hold on
because we have this hope
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Amen! Thank you so much, Melody.
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I've been asked to
talk a little about 3ABN.
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Let me tell you
that's a dangerous thing
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to ask me to talk about 3ABN
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because I
believe in this ministry
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more than I could
ever convey it to you.
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You know, I've been active
as a pastor, as an evangelist,
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before that I was a businessman
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involved with a
church as a lay person
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and I have worked at
different levels of the church
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all the way to
the division level.
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But I want to tell you this,
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all of those
levels are important,
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the conferences important,
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the unions, the
division, extremely important,
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but I have found nothing
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that is more
affective than the work of 3ABN.
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I want you to think
about it just for a moment.
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When 3ABN
started in 1984, Danny--
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Danny had the dream
that God gave to him.
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You've got to remember
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that the church was only about
10% the size that it is today.
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It has gained-- I mean,
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it has doubled and
doubled and doubled again.
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About 2 million
members back in those days,
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we have closed to 20
millions members today.
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Praise the Lord.
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Amazing thing
about this is that,
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at that time we had
two television programs.
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We had "Faithful Today"
that was on 30 minutes a week.
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It got free time
public service time,
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so they were not able
to talk about doctrine,
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they could get you to right in
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for a free health course
or something of that nature
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and then they would
offer you the Bible course
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and they were doing
the best they could.
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But 30 minutes a week,
folks, on Sunday morning
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when the sinners were
sleeping in and sleeping it off
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and the religious
people were at church.
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So who could you reach on
Sunday morning with 30 minutes?
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The same was true
with it is written now.
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It is written was allowed to
preach the message and they did.
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George Vandeman
preached the gospel.
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But George Vandeman
dreamed of a network
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that we did not
as a church have.
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They were number of us
that were dreaming about that.
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I was fairly young preacher,
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but I remember
going to Washington,
00:16:01.96\00:16:06.48
trying to get an appointment
00:16:06.51\00:16:07.72
with the General
Conference President
00:16:07.75\00:16:10.24
and I said to
someone, "I want to see him."
00:16:10.27\00:16:13.52
They said, "He's booked up.
00:16:13.55\00:16:14.79
There's no way you can see him."
00:16:14.82\00:16:16.69
I said, "I'm gonna
catch him at the cafeteria."
00:16:16.72\00:16:20.29
They said, "He
knows that old trick.
00:16:20.32\00:16:23.08
He doesn't go to the cafeteria."
00:16:23.11\00:16:26.23
I said, "Well, how
could I catch him?"
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And somebody told me, they said,
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"His secretary
goes to the cafeteria.
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That means no one
is guarding the door."
00:16:34.96\00:16:37.93
They said, "He brings
his lunch in a paper sack.
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And don't worry, if
the lights turned off
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because he sits there
in the dark and eats it."
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And I thought, Lord, I'm
glad for that information.
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And so I went to that office,
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I did knock a
little bit at the door
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and at his office
and he said, "Come in."
00:17:02.51\00:17:06.73
There was a small light
on, but it was basically dark.
00:17:06.76\00:17:12.36
And he was one of the
most gracious individuals
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that I have ever known.
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And he was so nice to me.
00:17:17.64\00:17:20.57
And he said, "Jim,
come on in, sit down."
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And I did.
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And I laid out the burden
that I had for television to him
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and he shook his head.
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The burdens on
our leaders, folks,
00:17:34.61\00:17:37.72
we have no
comprehension all the times
00:17:37.75\00:17:40.14
because we only have,
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you know, the burdens that
you have, you multiply them
00:17:42.30\00:17:45.89
and there are the burdens
that some of our leaders have.
00:17:45.92\00:17:48.27
And he just shook his head
00:17:48.30\00:17:49.76
and he said,
"Oh, Brother Gilley,
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you don't know how expensive,
00:17:52.07\00:17:54.97
how much money
you're talking about."
00:17:55.00\00:17:58.28
He said, "We can't afford it."
00:17:58.31\00:18:00.32
I said, "I believe that
our people will support it.
00:18:00.35\00:18:04.28
I believe that our
people will give the money.
00:18:04.31\00:18:08.16
I believe it can be
done more economically
00:18:08.19\00:18:11.47
than some people think."
00:18:11.50\00:18:14.32
And he just shook his head.
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And so I went
to the Media Center
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and I talked to
the brethren out there.
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And this was a long time ago
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before they moved to
their current location.
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And they said to me,
"It just can't be done.
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You're talking
about 24 hours a day,
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7 days a week."
00:18:35.36\00:18:36.87
I said, "That's exactly
what I'm talking about."
00:18:36.90\00:18:39.42
They said, "We do good to
produce three hours per week."
00:18:39.45\00:18:46.74
And so I had no sympathy
there, no encouragement there.
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And so I began to pray.
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And then I
heard that a young man
00:18:57.23\00:19:02.15
out in Illinois was
going to build a network.
00:19:02.18\00:19:07.85
Now see, the Pentecostals
already had trinity.
00:19:07.88\00:19:10.84
It was growing and it
was going, it was young,
00:19:10.87\00:19:13.34
but it was still moving along.
00:19:13.37\00:19:16.06
And I just felt
like that our people
00:19:16.09\00:19:18.72
would support
something like this.
00:19:18.75\00:19:21.92
And God had assured
Danny Shelton that they would.
00:19:21.95\00:19:27.63
And so he went by faith.
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Started with absolutely nothing.
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He didn't even have $100.
00:19:35.42\00:19:37.63
Folks, you got to
realize nothing from nothing.
00:19:37.66\00:19:39.73
He had nothing.
He had no credit.
00:19:39.76\00:19:44.11
He had no money,
he had no contacts,
00:19:44.14\00:19:48.31
but he started and
it's a miraculous story.
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If you have not heard that story
00:19:52.57\00:19:54.75
and you would like to have
a DVD telling you that story.
00:19:54.78\00:19:59.43
You tell C.A. Murray,
00:19:59.46\00:20:00.88
he'll make sure
you get one, all right?
00:20:00.91\00:20:03.80
But you write to
us or call us at 3ABN
00:20:03.83\00:20:07.65
and we will send you.
00:20:07.68\00:20:09.45
That is not a short story.
00:20:09.48\00:20:11.27
It is slightly longer
than "Gone with the Wind."
00:20:11.30\00:20:15.58
And if you remember,
that had an animation.
00:20:15.61\00:20:21.01
So you want to get that story
00:20:21.04\00:20:23.44
because it tells everything
about the history of 3ABN
00:20:23.47\00:20:28.92
and you want to
see how God has led.
00:20:28.95\00:20:32.88
How God has
helped us to know over
00:20:32.91\00:20:35.89
and over and over
again that is not us,
00:20:35.92\00:20:39.46
that is He is doing it
and we see Him doing it.
00:20:39.49\00:20:43.47
And of all people--
Let me tell you something.
00:20:43.50\00:20:46.05
Danny knows that above
all others that it's God.
00:20:46.08\00:20:51.31
He reminds us
over and over again
00:20:51.34\00:20:54.99
that God is in charge of
that ministry, and He is.
00:20:55.02\00:21:01.92
He is. He continues to be.
00:21:01.95\00:21:04.10
It has grown like
you would not believe.
00:21:04.13\00:21:06.97
And if you notice the
church has grown the same way.
00:21:07.00\00:21:10.98
Because now the message
is out there 24 hours a day
00:21:11.01\00:21:15.92
and 20 years went by
00:21:15.95\00:21:18.64
when 3ABN was really the only
Seventh-day Adventist Network.
00:21:18.67\00:21:24.44
Now there were programs,
00:21:24.47\00:21:25.97
but not
networks, not running 24/7.
00:21:26.00\00:21:28.84
Nine satellites
around the world.
00:21:28.87\00:21:31.51
Two billion people can
turn on their television
00:21:31.54\00:21:35.24
without adding anything,
without adding anything.
00:21:35.27\00:21:41.53
And receive the message of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:21:41.56\00:21:47.36
I'll tell you something,
that's an exciting thing.
00:21:47.39\00:21:50.73
We're all over 1,200
cable outlets in North America.
00:21:50.76\00:21:55.58
We're on Dish
Network 9393 on dish,
00:21:55.61\00:21:58.87
if you get Dish Network.
00:21:58.90\00:22:01.16
We're on to the Verizon Fios.
00:22:01.19\00:22:03.47
Now you may have Verizon Fios,
you may not be getting this.
00:22:03.50\00:22:06.99
All you got to do is call
them, tell them, I want 3ABN.
00:22:07.02\00:22:10.51
They will plug it in,
won't cost you a dime more.
00:22:10.54\00:22:13.83
And we're on so
many of these outlets.
00:22:13.86\00:22:18.88
Then Latino comes along
and how that is growing.
00:22:18.91\00:22:22.62
It is on hundreds of stations
throughout the United States
00:22:22.65\00:22:26.73
and throughout
00:22:26.76\00:22:28.98
the rest of the
southern part of the hemisphere.
00:22:29.01\00:22:34.39
And so you will
definitely be excited.
00:22:34.42\00:22:37.51
If you listen in the Spanish
language to "3ABN Latino."
00:22:37.54\00:22:42.48
Then we started "3ABN Russia."
00:22:42.51\00:22:45.50
And it's on. It's
on the Internet 24/7.
00:22:45.53\00:22:49.36
And you also can get
00:22:49.39\00:22:51.55
the Sunbeam Channel
on the Internet 24/7.
00:22:51.58\00:22:56.34
That is a
children's 24/7 program.
00:22:56.37\00:23:01.54
And now we come
along with proclaim,
00:23:01.57\00:23:04.80
which proclaim
is simply preaching,
00:23:04.83\00:23:08.00
preaching and teaching 24/7.
00:23:08.03\00:23:12.69
And, you know, 3ABN, we
have a balanced program.
00:23:12.72\00:23:15.31
We have cooking.
We have exercise.
00:23:15.34\00:23:17.18
We have everything else.
Proclaim is totally unbalanced.
00:23:17.21\00:23:21.14
It's only preaching.
00:23:21.17\00:23:24.03
And but when you
want to hear preaching,
00:23:24.06\00:23:25.88
you can turn it on.
00:23:25.91\00:23:27.64
And then little over a year ago,
00:23:27.67\00:23:30.59
we kicked off with
one of New York's on.
00:23:30.62\00:23:35.76
We kicked on a beautiful new
channel called "Dare to Dream."
00:23:35.79\00:23:43.61
All right.
00:23:43.64\00:23:44.91
Dr. Evan's gonna be
here in little later on
00:23:44.94\00:23:47.04
and you'll be able to hear sing
00:23:47.07\00:23:49.75
and to talk
about "Dare to Dream"
00:23:49.78\00:23:51.89
and how that's growing
and how it's reaching people.
00:23:51.92\00:23:56.22
And how many people we have
that call us and let us know
00:23:56.25\00:24:00.53
how blessed they
are by "Dare to Dream."
00:24:00.56\00:24:05.86
Well, listen,
these things excite me
00:24:05.89\00:24:08.23
and I know that excite you.
00:24:08.26\00:24:09.98
And I can go on and on telling
you experiences about 3ABN.
00:24:10.01\00:24:15.30
People that have
watched and could only get one.
00:24:15.33\00:24:18.66
I think of one. I just
talked to them recently.
00:24:18.69\00:24:21.48
Pastor Gene
Heinrich out in Oregon.
00:24:21.51\00:24:24.55
Pastor Heinrich
grew up Adventist,
00:24:24.58\00:24:26.92
he went to
Oklahoma State University
00:24:26.95\00:24:30.65
and he got his degree.
00:24:30.68\00:24:32.92
He left the church.
00:24:32.95\00:24:34.22
He married a
girl of another faith.
00:24:34.25\00:24:36.07
They didn't go to any church.
00:24:36.10\00:24:38.83
And then he had
one goal to get rich.
00:24:38.86\00:24:42.85
And the
operation that he was with,
00:24:42.88\00:24:45.44
ask him if he go to
Little Rock and he said, yes.
00:24:45.47\00:24:48.30
He went to
Little Rock, Arkansas.
00:24:48.33\00:24:51.05
And he told his wife, "You know,
we don't have time for cable,
00:24:51.08\00:24:54.32
we don't have
time for Dish Network
00:24:54.35\00:24:56.62
or any of those."
00:24:56.65\00:24:57.84
He said, "Let's just
hook up some rabbit ears
00:24:57.87\00:25:00.48
and we'll get the local
ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX Stations.
00:25:00.51\00:25:04.47
We can get local
television for all the time,
00:25:04.50\00:25:07.13
little time we
have, that'll be plenty.
00:25:07.16\00:25:09.08
And so they hooked up their TV,
00:25:09.11\00:25:10.96
put on their rabbit
ears and guess what?
00:25:10.99\00:25:14.82
3ABN.
00:25:14.85\00:25:16.50
That's the only
station they got.
00:25:16.53\00:25:18.95
They must have been right
under our tower or something
00:25:22.34\00:25:25.23
because it was the
only station they got.
00:25:25.26\00:25:29.01
And Gene began to watch.
00:25:29.04\00:25:31.99
And it began to rekindle
those truths in his heart.
00:25:32.02\00:25:36.50
One day he said to his wife,
00:25:36.53\00:25:38.03
"We've got to
start going to church."
00:25:38.06\00:25:39.61
She said, "Well, what
church should we go to?"
00:25:39.64\00:25:41.50
He said,
"There's only one for me."
00:25:41.53\00:25:44.53
And he went to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:25:44.56\00:25:46.84
He began active as a layman.
00:25:46.87\00:25:48.37
And one day the
pastor asked him to preach
00:25:48.40\00:25:50.91
and another time
pastor asked him to preach
00:25:50.94\00:25:53.40
and pretty soon
anytime the pastor was gone,
00:25:53.43\00:25:55.84
he asked Gene to
cover the pulpit.
00:25:55.87\00:25:58.39
And one Sabbath
Gene prayed that morning,
00:25:58.42\00:26:00.93
"Lord, if You want me
to be in the ministry,
00:26:00.96\00:26:04.81
let's somebody
tell me at the door.
00:26:04.84\00:26:08.22
Gene, you missed your calling.
00:26:08.25\00:26:12.39
You should have
been a minister."
00:26:12.42\00:26:15.20
And he preached the
sermon, went to the door
00:26:15.23\00:26:17.88
and people all went out
00:26:17.91\00:26:19.64
and not one person said
anything like that to him.
00:26:19.67\00:26:25.40
There was a lady there that day.
00:26:25.43\00:26:27.50
She got in her car
and she was driving home
00:26:27.53\00:26:31.38
and she had the
strongest impression,
00:26:31.41\00:26:33.62
turn around and go back
00:26:33.65\00:26:37.25
and she turned
around and went back
00:26:37.28\00:26:42.14
and she said, "Gene,
you missed your calling.
00:26:42.17\00:26:45.46
You should have
been a minister."
00:26:49.88\00:26:53.02
And he said, "Thank you, Lord."
00:26:53.05\00:26:54.79
He sold everything they had,
00:26:54.82\00:26:57.02
went to the
seminary, finished out.
00:26:57.05\00:26:59.80
He already had a degree,
finished his seminary work
00:26:59.83\00:27:03.57
and then he went back
actually after working
00:27:03.60\00:27:08.75
and he is a pastor in the
Portland, Oregon area today.
00:27:08.78\00:27:13.55
Praise the Lord.
00:27:13.58\00:27:15.18
I tell you God is
still reaching, using 3ABN.
00:27:15.21\00:27:18.44
We have so many
of these stories.
00:27:18.47\00:27:19.75
There's no way we can take--
00:27:19.78\00:27:21.57
Have enough time to
tell you about all of them,
00:27:21.60\00:27:24.62
but they are thrilling to us.
00:27:24.65\00:27:26.83
And every time we hear
them, we thrill as well.
00:27:26.86\00:27:32.85
Now I'm gonna ask
Melody to come back.
00:27:32.88\00:27:36.04
Melody Firestone
is singing for us.
00:27:36.07\00:27:38.92
"My Redeemer is
Faithful and True."
00:27:38.95\00:27:42.97
And when she is finished,
00:27:43.00\00:27:44.79
the next voice you will hear
is one of our favorites at 3ABN
00:27:44.82\00:27:51.01
and definitely one
of your favorites here,
00:27:51.04\00:27:55.33
Pastor C.A. Murray.
00:27:55.36\00:27:57.51
As I look back on
the road that I traveled
00:28:16.54\00:28:23.31
I see so many times
He carried me through
00:28:23.34\00:28:31.00
And if there's one thing
that I've learned in my life
00:28:31.03\00:28:37.34
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:28:37.37\00:28:44.86
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:28:44.89\00:28:52.86
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:28:52.89\00:29:00.59
Everything He
has said He will do
00:29:00.62\00:29:08.25
Every morning
His mercies are new
00:29:08.28\00:29:16.08
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:29:16.11\00:29:23.55
My heart rejoices
when I read the promise
00:29:29.43\00:29:36.57
There is a place I
am preparing for you
00:29:36.60\00:29:44.11
And I know someday I'll
see my Lord face to face
00:29:44.14\00:29:50.62
'Cause my Redeemer
is faithful and true
00:29:50.65\00:29:58.62
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:29:58.65\00:30:06.62
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:30:06.65\00:30:14.47
Everything He
has said He will do
00:30:14.50\00:30:21.99
Every morning
His mercies are new
00:30:22.02\00:30:29.99
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:30:30.02\00:30:37.99
And in every situation
00:30:38.02\00:30:42.48
He has proved His love for me
00:30:42.51\00:30:46.59
When I lack the understanding
00:30:46.62\00:30:51.07
He gives more grace to me
00:30:51.10\00:30:55.85
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:30:55.88\00:31:03.85
Everything He
has said He will do
00:31:03.88\00:31:11.62
Every morning
His mercies are new
00:31:11.65\00:31:19.62
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:31:19.65\00:31:27.62
My Redeemer is faithful and true
00:31:27.65\00:31:35.62
Good morning and happy Sabbath.
00:31:57.89\00:31:59.68
Good morning!
00:31:59.71\00:32:00.74
It is indeed a
beautiful Sabbath.
00:32:02.88\00:32:05.72
And you are a beautiful church.
00:32:05.75\00:32:10.56
I don't get back to
Northeastern that often,
00:32:10.59\00:32:13.77
so I thought
this time when I came
00:32:13.80\00:32:15.80
I would bring a
few friends with me.
00:32:15.83\00:32:19.45
And 3ABN is so very,
very pleased to be here.
00:32:19.48\00:32:25.00
Someone asked the question
sometime ago, it seems like--
00:32:25.03\00:32:29.34
It seems like you folk at a
3ABN really like each other.
00:32:29.37\00:32:33.20
I told him, that's
a magic of television.
00:32:38.01\00:32:40.82
You can fake
anything on television,
00:32:40.85\00:32:44.43
but the truth is we really do.
00:32:44.46\00:32:46.79
When I went out to 3ABN, I
didn't know what to expect,
00:32:46.82\00:32:51.24
but I found a group of
people who love each other,
00:32:51.27\00:32:57.08
who love the Lord,
who are singularly focused
00:32:57.11\00:33:02.13
on putting out a Christ filled
product for a darkened world.
00:33:02.16\00:33:09.13
It's nice to work at a place
00:33:10.21\00:33:11.73
where nobody is
out to take your job.
00:33:11.76\00:33:13.85
Nice to work at a place
00:33:21.03\00:33:22.46
where nobody is
scratching behind your back
00:33:22.49\00:33:28.58
where there is trust and love.
00:33:28.61\00:33:30.66
Are we perfect? No.
00:33:30.69\00:33:33.76
There is no perfection
in this side of heaven.
00:33:33.79\00:33:37.01
But at 3ABN, they do a pretty
good job, Pastor Dave Willis,
00:33:37.04\00:33:41.40
and it's a great place to
work and a great place to be.
00:33:41.43\00:33:46.12
If you never been to
3ABN, I'll give you directions.
00:33:46.15\00:33:50.47
You simply go to nowhere
00:33:50.50\00:33:53.37
and make a left,
you'll find 3ABN.
00:33:53.40\00:33:57.74
In the middle of
cornfield in Southern Illinois,
00:33:57.77\00:34:01.50
but God knows where we are.
00:34:01.53\00:34:04.19
And we like to say
00:34:04.22\00:34:06.75
three quarters
of the earth surface
00:34:06.78\00:34:09.31
is covered by water
and 3ABN covers the rest.
00:34:09.34\00:34:13.48
My boss likes
it when I say that.
00:34:20.54\00:34:22.08
Well, we got a Sabbath
School lesson to look at.
00:34:24.52\00:34:27.17
This has been a
fantastic quarter.
00:34:27.20\00:34:30.83
It's been a bit of a
whipping for some of us.
00:34:30.86\00:34:34.62
Mm-hmm.
00:34:37.46\00:34:39.19
For those who have not done
00:34:39.22\00:34:40.81
and are not doing
what they should do,
00:34:40.84\00:34:43.33
it's been a tough quarter.
00:34:43.36\00:34:45.58
But for those who
are on the battlefield,
00:34:45.61\00:34:48.49
witnessing for the Lord,
00:34:48.52\00:34:49.61
it's been a
quarter of encouragement.
00:34:49.64\00:34:52.20
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:34:52.23\00:34:54.23
So I wanna tell you a
couple of things you know
00:34:54.26\00:34:55.89
and perhaps a couple
of things you don't know
00:34:55.92\00:34:58.59
as we look at our
Sabbath School lesson.
00:34:58.62\00:35:00.92
The last lesson
for this quarter,
00:35:00.95\00:35:02.39
"A Perpetual
Ministry." Shall we pray?
00:35:02.42\00:35:04.62
Father God, we
praise You and thank You
00:35:04.65\00:35:07.71
for this opportunity to
study together Your word.
00:35:07.74\00:35:12.44
For truly Your word is
the lamb unto our feet,
00:35:12.47\00:35:15.93
a light into our path
00:35:15.96\00:35:17.82
and it gives us encouragement,
inspiration, information
00:35:17.85\00:35:23.78
and shows us
what You want us to do
00:35:23.81\00:35:27.56
so that we may truly be
00:35:27.59\00:35:29.33
sons and daughters
of the Most High God.
00:35:29.36\00:35:31.51
Be now our honored
guest and the teacher,
00:35:31.54\00:35:34.73
so that we may learn and do
00:35:34.76\00:35:37.00
and we thank You
in Jesus name, amen.
00:35:37.03\00:35:39.65
When we think about
the word "perpetual,"
00:35:39.68\00:35:43.09
we think about
something that is ongoing,
00:35:43.12\00:35:45.84
that is
continual, that is lasting,
00:35:45.87\00:35:50.03
that is in a
sense self-generating.
00:35:50.06\00:35:53.73
Sort of like, we
have in the states
00:35:53.76\00:35:55.65
that I'm saying this
for a worldwide audience
00:35:55.68\00:35:57.25
the energizer
buddy, it just keeps going
00:35:57.28\00:35:59.88
and going and going and going.
00:35:59.91\00:36:03.45
I want to go to the first page
00:36:03.48\00:36:04.95
because I want to
do a little reading
00:36:04.98\00:36:06.16
before I go off
into something else.
00:36:06.19\00:36:07.80
But right here,
the memory text says,
00:36:07.83\00:36:10.88
"What is the Kingdom of God like
and to what shall I compare it?
00:36:10.91\00:36:15.96
It is like a mustard seed
00:36:15.99\00:36:18.85
which a man took
and put in his garden
00:36:18.88\00:36:21.06
and it grew and
became a large tree
00:36:21.09\00:36:23.71
and the birds of the
air nested in its branches.
00:36:23.74\00:36:28.46
The thought is--
And I like this thought.
00:36:28.49\00:36:29.96
Evangelism and
witnessing are the means
00:36:29.99\00:36:33.11
by which the mustard
seed that is a Church of God
00:36:33.14\00:36:36.08
becomes a huge tree
that fills the whole world.
00:36:36.11\00:36:39.76
We are called to evangelize.
We are called to minister.
00:36:39.79\00:36:44.31
We are not
called to warmth youths.
00:36:44.34\00:36:46.96
Amen. Amen.
00:36:46.99\00:36:49.10
Pick at the
pastor or at each other.
00:36:49.13\00:36:57.02
We need to train
our guns on the enemy
00:36:57.05\00:36:58.80
and that is Satan and work
at tearing down his kingdom.
00:36:58.83\00:37:01.76
Now the lesson says,
you may have heard it said
00:37:01.79\00:37:04.78
and you may have
said to yourself.
00:37:04.81\00:37:06.13
I've done my bit,
00:37:06.16\00:37:08.69
I will now leave it
to the younger people
00:37:08.72\00:37:11.95
or I've been an
evangelism for years,
00:37:11.98\00:37:15.79
let's some of the
new ones take over.
00:37:15.82\00:37:17.53
Now I like this part.
00:37:17.56\00:37:20.39
In one sense, these kinds of
statements are understandable.
00:37:20.42\00:37:23.20
People get old, health fails,
00:37:23.23\00:37:26.21
other lives are
contentious for them
00:37:26.24\00:37:28.35
maintaining their
leadership in church ministry.
00:37:28.38\00:37:30.39
Sometimes, but--
It's letting us--
00:37:30.42\00:37:35.20
You know, you have to
take a break sometimes.
00:37:35.23\00:37:38.42
But you never retire
from serving the Lord.
00:37:38.45\00:37:44.47
You never retire
from being a Christian.
00:37:44.50\00:37:48.47
And you don't get vacation
00:37:48.50\00:37:50.73
and you don't
get days off, amen.
00:37:50.76\00:37:54.26
And you don't take
time, Pastor Morgan,
00:37:54.29\00:37:58.46
when you lay your Christianity
down to get some said.
00:37:58.49\00:38:03.50
Once you sign up with Jesus,
00:38:08.24\00:38:11.03
you're on a battlefield
till the day you die.
00:38:11.06\00:38:13.99
So there are no vacations.
00:38:17.06\00:38:20.54
There is-- There is however
00:38:20.57\00:38:22.20
a great difference between
00:38:22.23\00:38:24.08
changing ministry emphasis
and seizing to minister.
00:38:24.11\00:38:28.14
You never seize to minister.
00:38:28.17\00:38:29.58
As long we have
breath, we should,
00:38:29.61\00:38:33.17
in one capacity or
another continue to minister.
00:38:33.20\00:38:38.71
True evangelism, we're
gonna talk about in a moment,
00:38:38.74\00:38:41.04
is not an
event, it is a process.
00:38:41.07\00:38:43.19
I want to take you to
the Country of Panama.
00:38:43.22\00:38:45.72
I was in Panama a
couple of years ago
00:38:45.75\00:38:47.63
and there was a lady there
somewhat older than myself.
00:38:47.66\00:38:51.36
She was going to cut
00:38:51.39\00:38:52.80
what they called in
Spanish "Yucca or yucca.
00:38:52.83\00:38:55.55
It's cassava.
00:38:55.58\00:38:56.83
It is a root that grows
along and just under the ground.
00:38:56.86\00:38:59.35
And so since she
was older than me,
00:38:59.38\00:39:00.81
I decided I was gonna
help the little old lady out.
00:39:00.84\00:39:05.92
So I got the machete
and she got the basket
00:39:05.95\00:39:09.80
and we went out into
the field to cut yucca.
00:39:09.83\00:39:14.84
And this little old
lady pulled her skirt up
00:39:14.87\00:39:18.72
and went down to this position.
00:39:18.75\00:39:21.45
She took the machete
00:39:21.48\00:39:22.75
and she cut yucca
for about 20 minutes.
00:39:22.78\00:39:26.22
Then, she picked up
the yucca and up she came.
00:39:26.25\00:39:31.97
Now this lady
was my mother-in-law,
00:39:32.00\00:39:35.01
who at that time
was 87 years old.
00:39:35.04\00:39:39.81
Mm-hmm.
00:39:39.84\00:39:41.20
20 minutes and up she came.
00:39:41.23\00:39:46.09
Later on that year, I
was told that she stopped
00:39:46.12\00:39:49.80
taking some of the
offices at her church.
00:39:49.83\00:39:53.32
You see, she had been youth
director since the age of 80.
00:39:53.35\00:39:56.82
And she figured at age 87,
00:40:02.04\00:40:05.01
somebody else ought
to be the youth director.
00:40:05.04\00:40:06.92
She was also community services
director and head deaconess.
00:40:10.50\00:40:16.17
She said, "I will take those."
00:40:16.20\00:40:18.07
But I think you
need to get somebody
00:40:18.10\00:40:19.37
little younger to be
the youth director, amen.
00:40:19.40\00:40:23.79
80 to 87.
00:40:23.82\00:40:25.06
So if an 87-year-old lady
00:40:25.09\00:40:27.57
or an 80-year-old lady
can be the director of youth
00:40:27.60\00:40:30.51
and not a little tiny church
00:40:30.54\00:40:31.84
where she had to
be a good size church
00:40:31.87\00:40:33.91
where they had a lot of
people younger than her.
00:40:33.94\00:40:36.35
That says to me, you never get
a break from serving the Lord
00:40:36.38\00:40:40.69
as long as life last and
limb last and health last,
00:40:40.72\00:40:46.52
there is no
retirement from serving Jesus.
00:40:46.55\00:40:50.05
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:40:50.08\00:40:52.33
The problem is we have
left it to the professionals.
00:40:52.36\00:40:57.65
Mm-hmm.
00:41:01.10\00:41:02.98
To do the work of the Lord.
00:41:03.01\00:41:04.70
We figured once you
go to Oakwood or Andrews
00:41:04.73\00:41:07.05
and get a little
degree, you're a professional.
00:41:07.08\00:41:10.00
But your qualifications
for ministry come from God.
00:41:10.03\00:41:15.04
You know, we've got--
00:41:18.15\00:41:19.18
We've got a whole group of
young heart, young preachers
00:41:19.21\00:41:23.04
who didn't go to seminary route,
00:41:23.07\00:41:25.28
who didn't go the school route.
00:41:25.31\00:41:26.96
David Asscherick.
Anybody know that name?
00:41:26.99\00:41:28.55
Yes! Yeah.
00:41:28.58\00:41:30.37
He didn't go to Andrew.
He didn't go to seminary.
00:41:30.40\00:41:33.71
Doug Batchelor.
Didn't go to the seminary.
00:41:33.74\00:41:37.27
There are a lot of young
guys who are qualified by God
00:41:37.30\00:41:41.41
and who preached for God
under the unction of God.
00:41:41.44\00:41:45.99
Now seminary is good. I
don't-- I cannot complain.
00:41:46.02\00:41:49.52
I went to the seminary, I
sat, I learned, I got my degree,
00:41:49.55\00:41:53.91
but that's not a
prequalification for ministry.
00:41:53.94\00:41:57.72
Once you come to the
Lord and God fills your heart,
00:41:57.75\00:42:01.50
that's your
qualification for ministry.
00:42:01.53\00:42:03.82
And that's what you got to do.
00:42:05.50\00:42:07.10
You got to ministry until
Lord tells you to stop ministry.
00:42:07.13\00:42:11.61
Now I got some good
news and I got some bad news.
00:42:11.64\00:42:17.69
I'll give you
the good news first.
00:42:20.00\00:42:23.00
It has been stated by a number
00:42:23.03\00:42:24.85
of nationally
recognized news organizations
00:42:24.88\00:42:30.03
that the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:42:30.06\00:42:33.21
is now the
fastest growing protestant
00:42:33.24\00:42:38.03
denomination in
the Western world.
00:42:38.06\00:42:40.98
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:42:41.01\00:42:43.09
Now the bad news.
00:42:48.13\00:42:50.89
When you look at those figures,
00:42:50.92\00:42:53.51
you will find that we're
only growing in certain areas
00:42:53.54\00:42:59.15
among certain demographics.
00:42:59.18\00:43:02.54
Hello?
00:43:02.57\00:43:05.38
We're baptizing
in the most part,
00:43:05.41\00:43:10.30
immigrants to North America
00:43:10.33\00:43:13.48
who have been in the
country less than 10 years.
00:43:13.51\00:43:17.98
Did you know that?
00:43:18.01\00:43:19.53
Now we're baptizing others, too.
00:43:19.56\00:43:22.03
But for the most part,
that is the demographic
00:43:22.06\00:43:25.09
that we're reaching a baptizing
in fairly large numbers
00:43:25.12\00:43:28.60
and a large amount
of those are Latino.
00:43:28.63\00:43:32.74
So if you pull the Latinos out
00:43:32.77\00:43:36.15
and the immigrants
from the Caribbean out,
00:43:36.18\00:43:39.36
we slip from first
00:43:39.39\00:43:41.25
to the somewhere
near the back of the pack.
00:43:41.28\00:43:44.59
So that means, as a church
00:43:44.62\00:43:46.72
we have a lot of
work to do, amen.
00:43:46.75\00:43:51.06
Because we found
that once we'll get here
00:43:51.09\00:43:53.94
be the Latino, be
the African American,
00:43:53.97\00:43:56.41
be the West Indian American,
get here and get settled
00:43:56.44\00:43:59.73
and get American eyes,
we're not reaching them either.
00:43:59.76\00:44:03.88
So let's not pad up our
self on the back too much
00:44:03.91\00:44:06.47
because we've got a
lot of work to do, amen.
00:44:06.50\00:44:11.42
Television has been a
great part of that work.
00:44:11.45\00:44:17.90
If you look at the explosive
growth in the Adventist Church,
00:44:17.93\00:44:21.98
it parallels our moment
aggressively into television.
00:44:22.01\00:44:28.93
Right about the mid '80s
up until the present time,
00:44:28.96\00:44:32.44
our numbers have soared
00:44:32.47\00:44:35.61
and television has
a lot to do with that.
00:44:35.64\00:44:38.36
Give you a little
test to prove this.
00:44:38.39\00:44:40.38
How many know who Rosa Parks is?
00:44:40.41\00:44:43.23
Raise your hand.
Who know Rosa Park is?
00:44:43.26\00:44:45.86
What's she famous
for? Civil Rights.
00:44:45.89\00:44:50.49
She refused to go to
the back of a bus, amen.
00:44:50.52\00:44:57.79
When did that happen?
00:44:57.82\00:44:58.91
Give me the decade. '50s.
00:45:02.49\00:45:05.81
55. Okay.
00:45:05.84\00:45:08.28
Everybody knows about Rosa Park.
00:45:08.31\00:45:10.25
How many know the
name Irene Morgan Kirkaldy?
00:45:10.28\00:45:14.96
Not many.
00:45:14.99\00:45:17.52
Did you know that
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy
00:45:17.55\00:45:20.89
was a Seventh-day Adventist?
00:45:20.92\00:45:23.91
Did you know that
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy
00:45:23.94\00:45:25.99
was a member of the
Northeast Conference?
00:45:26.02\00:45:28.78
Did you know that
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy
00:45:28.81\00:45:30.70
was the member of the Albany,
the Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:45:30.73\00:45:33.00
in Freeport, New York?
00:45:33.03\00:45:35.27
Did you know that
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy
00:45:35.30\00:45:38.67
refused to go to
the back of the bus
00:45:38.70\00:45:41.28
10 years before Rosa Parks?
00:45:41.31\00:45:46.21
Rosa Parks' case was dealt with.
00:45:46.24\00:45:50.64
Irene Morgan
Kirkaldy's case went all the way
00:45:50.67\00:45:54.31
to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
00:45:54.34\00:45:56.86
Have you ever heard
the name Thurgood Marshall?
00:45:56.89\00:46:00.07
He was her attorney.
00:46:00.10\00:46:02.92
Went all the way to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
00:46:02.95\00:46:08.54
And in 1997, Bill
Clinton then president called
00:46:08.57\00:46:14.45
Irene Morgan
Kirkaldy to the White House
00:46:14.48\00:46:17.63
to give her a long
overdue humanitarian award.
00:46:17.66\00:46:22.77
Seventh-day Adventist.
Now here's my question.
00:46:22.80\00:46:25.64
How come everybody
knows about Rosa Parks
00:46:25.67\00:46:30.05
and hardly anybody knows
about Irene Morgan Kirkaldy?
00:46:30.08\00:46:34.34
They did the same
thing. They both went to jail.
00:46:34.37\00:46:38.29
They both went to court.
00:46:38.32\00:46:39.80
Rosa Parks is famous
and I don't regret her that,
00:46:39.83\00:46:42.79
nobody knows Irene
Morgan Kirkaldy, why?
00:46:42.82\00:46:46.80
Television. Television.
00:46:46.83\00:46:50.52
Irene Morgan
Kirkaldy refuses to go
00:46:50.55\00:46:54.00
to the back of the
bus in 1945, Pre TV.
00:46:54.03\00:46:59.07
Rosa Parks 10 years later
00:46:59.10\00:47:01.37
refused to go to
the back of the bus
00:47:01.40\00:47:03.24
and all of the
cameras were there.
00:47:03.27\00:47:05.53
Only difference, the
cases are exactly the same.
00:47:05.56\00:47:10.40
That says to me
the power of television
00:47:10.43\00:47:14.97
is far greater
than we ever believe.
00:47:15.00\00:47:17.75
It is no accident that
the civil rights moment
00:47:17.78\00:47:20.81
which had been
smoldering for years
00:47:20.84\00:47:23.47
took off in the '50s and '60s.
00:47:23.50\00:47:25.74
What was the
difference? Television.
00:47:25.77\00:47:28.31
People began to sit
in their living rooms
00:47:28.34\00:47:31.08
and watch every
night on the nightly news
00:47:31.11\00:47:33.63
the beatings and the
lynching's in the south
00:47:33.66\00:47:35.61
and they said
we're not gonna have it.
00:47:35.64\00:47:37.81
Only difference, television,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:47:37.84\00:47:40.83
is the most powerful
tool for evangelizing
00:47:40.86\00:47:46.28
that has ever been created.
00:47:46.31\00:47:47.64
Why does the devil works
so hard to get a hold of it?
00:47:47.67\00:47:51.30
Why is everything
monsters and zombies
00:47:51.33\00:47:54.75
and drinking blood
and all this dark so
00:47:54.78\00:47:57.08
because the devil knows
00:47:57.11\00:47:59.34
if he can get
television into your home,
00:47:59.37\00:48:01.64
into your head and into
your heart, he's got you.
00:48:01.67\00:48:05.75
And that's why 3ABN
works so very, very hard.
00:48:05.78\00:48:07.74
Now why I'm saying this?
00:48:07.77\00:48:08.80
I'm saying this
because the explosive growth
00:48:08.83\00:48:13.62
in the Adventist Church
is due in part to television.
00:48:13.65\00:48:19.47
We have documented proof
of over 30 first day pastors
00:48:19.50\00:48:25.50
many who brought
their whole congregation,
00:48:25.53\00:48:27.90
two of them I've talked with
and sat and talk with myself
00:48:27.93\00:48:30.96
over to the Adventist
Church through watching 3ABN.
00:48:30.99\00:48:35.68
I mean, not just a
pastor, I mean a pastor
00:48:35.71\00:48:38.21
who brings his
entire church with him.
00:48:38.24\00:48:41.46
We had a pastor who was afraid.
00:48:41.49\00:48:43.19
He took a month
off to pray about it.
00:48:43.22\00:48:46.27
And then in
January of the next year,
00:48:46.30\00:48:48.41
he told his church,
"I don't know about you,
00:48:48.44\00:48:50.78
but I've studied this
00:48:50.81\00:48:52.79
and I cannot be a
Sunday preacher anymore.
00:48:52.82\00:48:55.92
From now on I'm
keeping the Sabbath."
00:48:55.95\00:48:58.53
And then he
waited for the explosion
00:48:58.56\00:49:00.27
and a deacon boy said,
"Sir, what's the problem?
00:49:00.30\00:49:03.69
You want to keep it?
We're gonna keep it, too.
00:49:03.72\00:49:06.74
You've been sweating and taken
this battle for a whole month.
00:49:06.77\00:49:08.98
We know what you've been doing.
00:49:09.01\00:49:10.04
We know you've been
studying the Sabbath.
00:49:10.07\00:49:11.45
You want to keep it?
We're gonna keep it, too."
00:49:11.48\00:49:13.12
Whole church went with him.
00:49:13.15\00:49:17.54
But as powerful
as television is,
00:49:19.81\00:49:24.04
it cannot was never
designed to take the place
00:49:24.07\00:49:28.57
of one to one
ministry and witnessing.
00:49:28.60\00:49:33.16
We cannot do what you do.
00:49:33.19\00:49:36.74
We cannot say what you say.
00:49:36.77\00:49:39.26
We can preach the gospel,
00:49:39.29\00:49:40.76
but 3ABN is just an aid
to your personal witness,
00:49:40.79\00:49:46.01
so that when you tell
somebody about the Sabbath
00:49:46.04\00:49:49.20
or you tell somebody
about the state of the dead,
00:49:49.23\00:49:50.79
you can say to them,
00:49:50.82\00:49:51.85
if you turn on this particular
channel you'll get this 24/7.
00:49:51.88\00:49:56.44
You'll get it all the time.
00:49:56.47\00:49:57.53
So we just assist, but it
does not, cannot, will not
00:49:57.56\00:50:01.16
take the place of
what we do every--
00:50:01.19\00:50:04.74
Of what you do
rather every single day.
00:50:04.77\00:50:07.45
Now that's really
just a Sabbath part.
00:50:07.48\00:50:10.06
We're gonna go
over to Sunday now.
00:50:10.09\00:50:13.26
Never ending
witnessing an evangelism.
00:50:13.29\00:50:14.80
It must be emphasized.
I'm reading the first line.
00:50:14.83\00:50:17.53
"Again that
witnessing and evangelism
00:50:17.56\00:50:21.20
must continue as long as there
are people who need salvation.
00:50:21.23\00:50:25.08
Now I want to talk to you
about witnessing and evangelism.
00:50:25.11\00:50:26.97
Does anybody know what
Guerrilla evangelism is?
00:50:27.00\00:50:32.19
Actually you do. You
just don't know other term.
00:50:32.22\00:50:35.87
Guerrilla evangelism
is a term that I invented.
00:50:35.90\00:50:38.73
That's why you
don't know it, it's mine.
00:50:38.76\00:50:40.07
It's what I and Pastor Gilley
00:50:42.70\00:50:45.47
and most of us
practiced all the time.
00:50:45.50\00:50:47.47
You know what
Guerrilla warfare is?
00:50:47.50\00:50:49.87
Guerrilla warfare if a
person pops up in the jungle,
00:50:49.90\00:50:52.47
fires off the few bullets,
disappears backinto the jungle
00:50:52.50\00:50:55.50
and then pops up
a little bit later,
00:50:55.53\00:50:57.20
fires off a few more bullets
00:50:57.23\00:50:58.97
and then
disappears back in the jungle.
00:50:59.00\00:51:00.59
What is that sound like?
00:51:00.62\00:51:03.07
That sounds like
evangelism we tend to practice.
00:51:03.10\00:51:05.79
Amen. A 10 appears.
00:51:05.82\00:51:08.32
We fire off a few
bullets, take a few souls
00:51:11.36\00:51:14.54
and then we disappear.
00:51:14.57\00:51:15.74
And then a two or year
so later another 10 appears,
00:51:18.46\00:51:23.73
fire off a few
bullets, take a few souls
00:51:23.76\00:51:27.12
and then we disappear.
00:51:27.15\00:51:30.53
Then another pastor
comes, another 10 appears,
00:51:30.56\00:51:33.81
fire off a few bullets,
disappear back into the jungle.
00:51:33.84\00:51:37.48
And you know what?
00:51:39.49\00:51:41.27
God has blessed our Guerrilla
evangelistic efforts, He has.
00:51:41.30\00:51:48.04
The church has
grown through that.
00:51:48.07\00:51:49.69
It's been very productive.
00:51:49.72\00:51:51.69
But I don't believe
00:51:54.41\00:51:56.18
that kind of
evangelism will finish the work.
00:51:56.21\00:52:00.40
I don't think so.
00:52:03.55\00:52:04.80
Because we leave that
through the professional.
00:52:04.83\00:52:07.58
See, I pastored
in this conference.
00:52:07.61\00:52:09.46
I can name the churches.
00:52:12.37\00:52:14.29
And I ran an evangelism
crusade at every single one
00:52:14.32\00:52:18.87
and I never
baptized less than 35 people,
00:52:18.90\00:52:23.09
but that's not
gonna finish the work.
00:52:23.12\00:52:26.47
Me working up a sweat and
folks in there saying amen
00:52:26.50\00:52:30.81
was not the way God
intended to finish the work.
00:52:30.84\00:52:33.44
I'm working up a sweat now.
00:52:36.15\00:52:37.54
And it's never the way the
God intended to finish the work.
00:52:40.21\00:52:42.41
God intended
everybody, everywhere
00:52:42.44\00:52:45.05
to do everything
to everyone they can
00:52:45.08\00:52:47.60
for as long as they can,
00:52:47.63\00:52:49.29
that's how the work
is gonna be finished.
00:52:49.32\00:52:52.32
We can't leave it
to the professionals.
00:52:52.35\00:52:56.21
The
professionals are overworked.
00:52:56.24\00:52:59.72
You have to do that work.
00:52:59.75\00:53:01.89
There are places I cannot go.
00:53:01.92\00:53:03.81
There are places 3ABN cannot go.
00:53:03.84\00:53:05.64
There are work situations
that will never have 3ABN.
00:53:05.67\00:53:09.26
Did you know? And
I'll tell you a secret.
00:53:09.29\00:53:12.35
We have worked out an agreement
with the Falkland Islands.
00:53:12.38\00:53:17.66
Anybody knows where
Falkland Islands are?
00:53:17.69\00:53:19.52
Remembered hearing about
00:53:19.55\00:53:20.58
the Falkland
Islands a few years ago
00:53:20.61\00:53:22.51
where England went down
and took them from Argentina.
00:53:22.54\00:53:27.06
We just worked out agreement
with the Falkland Islands
00:53:27.09\00:53:29.96
and nobody knows it.
00:53:29.99\00:53:31.66
Well, they know it now.
00:53:31.69\00:53:34.62
To bring 3ABN into
the Falkland Islands.
00:53:34.65\00:53:37.99
Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:38.02\00:53:40.43
First and only religious
station there, Falkland Islands.
00:53:40.46\00:53:45.26
Yeah. But that's not
gonna finish the work.
00:53:45.29\00:53:47.63
It's the evangelist
and the missionaries
00:53:47.66\00:53:49.45
down there working with 3ABN,
00:53:49.48\00:53:51.67
that's gonna
finish the work, amen.
00:53:51.70\00:53:53.83
That's how it's done.
00:53:53.86\00:53:54.89
Now we talked
about event to process.
00:53:54.92\00:53:57.14
I want to go
through this really quickly.
00:53:57.17\00:54:00.26
And event is a team
meeting, revolution seminar.
00:54:00.29\00:54:07.31
Those are events.
00:54:07.34\00:54:09.76
We need to move evangelism
from an event to a process.
00:54:09.79\00:54:14.24
A process is men and
women whose livesare so in-depth
00:54:14.27\00:54:18.13
with the
community and with Jesus
00:54:18.16\00:54:19.88
that there is
constant evangelism
00:54:19.91\00:54:21.85
by meeting community needs.
00:54:21.88\00:54:23.18
I'll tell you a story.
00:54:23.21\00:54:24.24
And I was gonna tell some names,
00:54:24.27\00:54:25.38
but I won't tell their names,
00:54:25.41\00:54:26.47
I don't want to
embarrass anybody.
00:54:26.50\00:54:27.59
I am pastoring a
church in this conference.
00:54:27.62\00:54:30.24
What are my early churches?
00:54:30.27\00:54:31.72
When I got there,
there was a member there,
00:54:31.75\00:54:33.86
sweet lady who
was head deaconess.
00:54:33.89\00:54:35.93
We're talked
about was rather unusual
00:54:35.96\00:54:38.49
because she was known as
a notorious Adventist hater.
00:54:38.52\00:54:43.98
So how is this
hater of Adventist
00:54:44.01\00:54:45.72
gonna be the head deaconess?
00:54:45.75\00:54:49.45
Well, her husband was a deacon
in that particular church.
00:54:49.48\00:54:53.94
He got sick with cancer
00:54:53.97\00:54:56.30
and that church
showed her so much love.
00:54:56.33\00:55:02.35
They knew she hated them.
00:55:02.38\00:55:04.12
They knew she didn't want
any Adventist in her home.
00:55:04.15\00:55:07.12
But they love him
00:55:07.15\00:55:08.90
and they love her
through him, amen.
00:55:08.93\00:55:12.87
Had a nice funeral and
one member of the church
00:55:12.90\00:55:16.82
who was the treasurer,
a good friend of mine,
00:55:16.85\00:55:19.65
decided she was
going to practice
00:55:19.68\00:55:23.39
Escovitch Fish Evangelism.
00:55:23.42\00:55:26.25
That's what I said.
Escovitch Fish Evangelism.
00:55:32.54\00:55:38.19
No 2,300 days.
00:55:38.22\00:55:39.89
No Bible studies. Fish.
00:55:42.86\00:55:48.49
And so every Friday, she took
a fish dinner to this widow.
00:55:48.52\00:55:56.20
She had two big stripping sons
00:55:56.23\00:55:58.59
played on a
basketball team with me.
00:55:58.62\00:56:00.04
I mean, big boys. You
know, eat like locust.
00:56:00.07\00:56:03.64
She took Escovitch
fish, she took rice and peas.
00:56:03.67\00:56:08.91
She took callaloo,
00:56:13.26\00:56:17.36
she took candied yam,
00:56:17.39\00:56:23.09
lemonade and all of sip.
00:56:23.12\00:56:25.15
Well, you know
plastic knives, plastic forks
00:56:25.18\00:56:26.86
and occasionally some dessert.
00:56:26.89\00:56:29.67
She had prayer, she
set the table and she left.
00:56:29.70\00:56:35.75
Now somebody told
her during that time,
00:56:35.78\00:56:37.73
why are you taking
fish to that woman?
00:56:37.76\00:56:39.22
Adventists don't eat fish.
00:56:39.25\00:56:40.57
See, Jesus taught
you fish with the bay.
00:56:48.70\00:56:53.21
That they'll bite on
and that woman ate fish,
00:56:53.24\00:56:56.61
clean fish, amen.
00:56:56.64\00:56:59.38
So we solve that issue, amen.
00:56:59.41\00:57:02.51
Six weeks, fish evangelism.
00:57:02.54\00:57:07.77
I think she fried
it a couple of times,
00:57:07.80\00:57:09.27
multi Escovitch
because that was her favorite.
00:57:09.30\00:57:12.80
Big red snapper.
00:57:12.83\00:57:14.11
Onions.
00:57:20.16\00:57:21.30
And after six
weeks, the woman said--
00:57:25.99\00:57:29.74
I almost called her name.
00:57:29.77\00:57:30.80
The woman said,
"You know, tomorrow
00:57:30.83\00:57:34.44
when you going to
church, stop by and pick me up.
00:57:34.47\00:57:39.35
So by the time I get there,
00:57:44.85\00:57:47.56
she's the head
deaconess at a church.
00:57:47.59\00:57:51.67
Escovitch Fish Evangelism.
00:57:51.70\00:57:54.92
Find what they need
00:57:57.57\00:58:00.06
and in the name of
Jesus, give it to them.
00:58:00.09\00:58:03.57
The Bible says, "Let
them see your good works."
00:58:10.83\00:58:18.43
What's that text?
Oh, Ephesians 2:10.
00:58:18.46\00:58:23.36
Bible says, "We're
created for good works."
00:58:25.81\00:58:30.24
That's why God
made us to do good.
00:58:30.27\00:58:33.22
And when you do good,
people will come to Jesus.
00:58:33.25\00:58:37.60
That means evangelism
from an event to a process.
00:58:39.78\00:58:47.35
I realized this
when I was pastoring.
00:58:47.38\00:58:49.31
I would say, "Go
bring all your friends,
00:58:49.34\00:58:53.80
bring your
friends to the meeting."
00:58:53.83\00:58:55.56
The problem is, the
longer you are an Adventist,
00:58:55.59\00:59:00.23
the less
non-Adventist friends you have.
00:59:00.26\00:59:04.01
Your friends are
sitting in the pew next to you.
00:59:04.04\00:59:09.07
You go to church
with your friends.
00:59:09.10\00:59:10.96
You eat with your friends.
00:59:10.99\00:59:12.51
So it's hard to go get friends
unless you're making friends
00:59:12.54\00:59:18.09
not because you want
to make them Adventist,
00:59:18.12\00:59:21.72
you're making friends
because making friends
00:59:21.75\00:59:25.54
is what Christian people do.
00:59:25.57\00:59:29.12
And if you make
friends and live for Jesus,
00:59:29.15\00:59:32.95
the Adventists
stuff will come, it will.
00:59:32.98\00:59:38.06
You don't-- You don't have
00:59:38.09\00:59:39.12
this thing behind
your back shaking hands
00:59:39.15\00:59:40.77
because you're gonna pull out
00:59:40.80\00:59:41.83
this Adventist on
him, just do good.
00:59:41.86\00:59:45.00
They will see your good
00:59:45.03\00:59:47.38
and wanna glorify your
Father which is in heaven.
00:59:47.41\00:59:49.36
It worked because
God said it will work.
00:59:49.39\00:59:51.61
First, my first
funeral at the Ephesus Church.
00:59:51.64\00:59:53.44
When I was
pastoring Ephesus Church,
00:59:53.47\00:59:54.69
117 funerals I
did in Ephesus Church.
00:59:54.72\00:59:57.85
First funeral
was Kathleen Downs.
00:59:57.88\01:00:00.66
Some of you may
remember that name.
01:00:00.69\01:00:03.04
Tall, beautiful woman
about 5 foot 7, 135-140 pounds.
01:00:03.07\01:00:08.11
When I met her, she
was 5'7'' 85 pounds.
01:00:08.14\01:00:13.02
Cancer had taken her.
She was at Calvary Hospital.
01:00:13.05\01:00:15.27
The doctor told me,
01:00:15.30\01:00:16.87
"Kathleen Downs is
in apocalyptic pain."
01:00:16.90\01:00:19.94
I said, "Term the youth."
01:00:19.97\01:00:21.78
He said, "We can't
give her enough drugs
01:00:21.81\01:00:24.31
to soften the pain that
she's in and she's refusing.
01:00:24.34\01:00:28.15
She won't take it."
01:00:28.18\01:00:31.08
Cancer in every
major organ of the body.
01:00:31.11\01:00:34.33
5 foot 7 under 100 pounds.
01:00:34.36\01:00:38.52
And you know all that woman did
01:00:38.55\01:00:40.06
was sing for
Jesus day and night.
01:00:40.09\01:00:43.60
Her oncologist
said, "Who is that woman?"
01:00:43.63\01:00:47.30
When she died and
we had the funeral
01:00:49.44\01:00:51.32
at the Ephesus Church,
that 1985 late September.
01:00:51.35\01:00:56.00
You know, her oncologist
came, her floor nurse came,
01:00:56.03\01:01:00.87
her orderly came
01:01:00.90\01:01:02.80
and another nurse on the
floor came, you know why?
01:01:02.83\01:01:06.54
They said, "We just
want to see the church.
01:01:06.57\01:01:10.62
We just want to be in the church
01:01:10.65\01:01:13.79
that has members like that.
01:01:13.82\01:01:17.19
Who we couldn't give
enough drugs to kill the pain?"
01:01:17.22\01:01:21.65
And all she did
until her mouth froze
01:01:21.68\01:01:23.72
and she couldn't move.
01:01:23.75\01:01:25.67
It singed for Jesus.
01:01:25.70\01:01:27.68
She that's
witnessing. That's witnessing.
01:01:27.71\01:01:31.22
She couldn't give a Bible study.
01:01:31.25\01:01:34.58
She didn't have
talk about the 144,000.
01:01:34.61\01:01:38.35
She just sang for Jesus.
01:01:38.38\01:01:40.47
And they saw the Jesus in her.
01:01:40.50\01:01:42.35
Now, can I say we baptized
everybody in the hospital?
01:01:42.38\01:01:45.36
No, we baptized one.
01:01:45.39\01:01:47.05
Now here's my question to you.
01:01:50.08\01:01:52.04
Did Kathleen
Downs have to get cancer
01:01:52.07\01:01:54.06
for that one
person to be baptized?
01:01:54.09\01:01:55.64
Huh?
01:01:58.48\01:01:59.51
Did she have to for
that person be baptized?
01:01:59.54\01:02:03.60
I will give you my
thought. I don't think so.
01:02:03.63\01:02:09.11
But here's what I do believe
01:02:09.14\01:02:11.45
that when you stand for
Jesus, Jesus stands for you.
01:02:11.48\01:02:16.65
When you live for Jesus,
Jesus shines through you.
01:02:16.68\01:02:20.53
When Jesus shines through you,
01:02:20.56\01:02:22.76
people are going to
be attracted to Jesus.
01:02:22.79\01:02:27.17
Now I don't think she had to,
01:02:27.20\01:02:29.16
but the fact is, she
did and she did get cancer
01:02:29.19\01:02:34.11
and she did stand for Jesus
01:02:34.14\01:02:36.12
and above us when
you put that together,
01:02:36.15\01:02:38.33
that's
irresistible to some folk.
01:02:38.36\01:02:40.44
When they see that,
they're attracted to that.
01:02:40.47\01:02:43.26
Now we didn't
baptized the whole floor,
01:02:43.29\01:02:45.21
we baptized the nurse,
01:02:45.24\01:02:46.69
but everybody
saw the Jesus in her
01:02:46.72\01:02:49.28
and that seed is planted
01:02:49.31\01:02:50.87
and it's up to God
to water that seed.
01:02:50.90\01:02:52.67
So that moves evangelism now
01:02:52.70\01:02:55.19
from an event done by
evangelist and pastors
01:02:55.22\01:02:58.59
to a process, amen.
01:02:58.62\01:03:01.54
And when you do the process,
01:03:01.57\01:03:04.88
men and women
will come to Jesus.
01:03:04.91\01:03:06.52
It's an ongoing process.
01:03:06.55\01:03:08.74
We need a nurturing environment
01:03:08.77\01:03:10.98
that nurtures men and women.
01:03:11.01\01:03:12.41
Pastors would do
well to spend their time
01:03:12.44\01:03:14.89
teaching folk how
to stand on their own
01:03:14.92\01:03:17.14
and witness for themselves.
01:03:17.17\01:03:18.71
Don't need a theological degree.
01:03:18.74\01:03:20.66
All you need to talk about
is what Jesus has done for you.
01:03:20.69\01:03:24.15
I'm looking at my
buddy Pastor Larry Bailey.
01:03:28.08\01:03:31.07
I got on
television several years ago
01:03:31.10\01:03:33.58
and I told the
world I have cancer.
01:03:33.61\01:03:38.50
I was diagnosed
for prostate cancer.
01:03:38.53\01:03:40.81
Diane and Bailey
heard it and told Larry,
01:03:40.84\01:03:42.34
you better your prostate check.
01:03:42.37\01:03:44.77
He had prostate cancer, too.
01:03:44.80\01:03:47.29
Had I not said something
01:03:47.32\01:03:48.41
he may have got it
checked, maybe not?
01:03:48.44\01:03:50.53
But he did.
01:03:54.65\01:03:57.87
My wife said to me--
01:03:57.90\01:04:00.78
I said, "Well, I can
get this, I can get that,
01:04:00.81\01:04:03.17
I can get radiation, go to..."
01:04:03.20\01:04:05.81
She said, "We're not
gonna do any of that."
01:04:05.84\01:04:08.62
I said, "Oh, do we have cancer?"
01:04:08.65\01:04:10.24
I got the cancer.
01:04:16.30\01:04:17.68
But you know, you need
to listen to your wives.
01:04:17.71\01:04:21.37
So we went Eden Valley,
01:04:23.68\01:04:26.59
changed the diet,
did a bunch of stuff.
01:04:26.62\01:04:29.03
You know...
01:04:29.06\01:04:31.62
that was 2008 or 2009,
01:04:31.65\01:04:37.70
I still got prostate cancer.
01:04:37.73\01:04:40.65
I haven't done
anything, but changed my diet.
01:04:40.68\01:04:43.66
Went to the doctor sometime
ago and the doctor said,
01:04:43.69\01:04:46.32
"You know, you
got funny cancer."
01:04:46.35\01:04:47.93
He said, "Your cancer is cancer,
01:04:51.21\01:04:54.66
but it's trying to
act like it's not cancer."
01:04:54.69\01:04:57.00
He said, "It's just kind of
01:04:59.37\01:05:01.72
sitting there
and staring at us."
01:05:01.75\01:05:05.02
So the numbers have
gone up just a little,
01:05:05.05\01:05:08.80
just a little and
sooner that later I go back,
01:05:08.83\01:05:12.11
I'm supposed to
getting all the biopsy
01:05:12.14\01:05:13.17
and do the whole thing again
01:05:13.20\01:05:14.23
so you can tell me
what I already know,
01:05:14.26\01:05:15.92
because I told him--
01:05:15.95\01:05:17.47
He said-- You
know, you need to be--
01:05:17.50\01:05:19.51
I said, "This cancer
is not gonna kill me."
01:05:19.54\01:05:20.96
He said, "How do you
know?" I said, "God told me.
01:05:20.99\01:05:23.98
Yeah, I will die, but it
won't be from this cancer."
01:05:24.01\01:05:26.91
So I get calls and letters
01:05:31.06\01:05:35.61
everyday from
people around the world
01:05:35.64\01:05:37.60
who I'll never
see and never know,
01:05:37.63\01:05:39.72
what should I do with my cancer?
01:05:39.75\01:05:41.10
I said, "Go to the doctor.
01:05:41.13\01:05:42.39
And then change your diet,
01:05:44.83\01:05:48.21
do what the doctor
says and pray like crazy."
01:05:48.24\01:05:52.77
Amen.
01:05:57.69\01:05:58.98
See, your greatest witness
is what God has done for you.
01:05:59.01\01:06:04.79
That's your greatest witness.
01:06:07.18\01:06:08.52
You may know that 20, 30 days,
01:06:08.55\01:06:10.51
you may not, it's not important.
01:06:10.54\01:06:12.34
You know Jesus.
01:06:12.37\01:06:13.51
So tell him about Jesus
and let the Lord lead, amen.
01:06:13.54\01:06:19.81
Okay, now let me tell
you one other quick story.
01:06:21.79\01:06:24.99
No, let me go through lesson.
No, let me go through lesson.
01:06:25.02\01:06:27.21
Let me go through lesson. Okay.
01:06:27.24\01:06:28.80
On Sunday, there are five
points I really want you to get.
01:06:28.83\01:06:31.18
I maintain deeds of kindness
01:06:33.67\01:06:36.98
tear down walls of separation,
build bridges to salvation.
01:06:37.01\01:06:42.00
So if you want to lead,
lead with deeds of kindness.
01:06:42.03\01:06:46.56
It's hard to hate somebody
that's doing stuff for you.
01:06:46.59\01:06:50.05
So rather than
leading with your Bible,
01:06:50.08\01:06:52.95
lead with deeds of kindness.
01:06:52.98\01:06:54.76
Now on the Sunday
lessons there are five things
01:06:54.79\01:06:56.61
I want to put some leads
on it, some actuality, too.
01:06:56.64\01:06:58.71
Number one. Talking
about Jesus, example.
01:06:58.74\01:07:03.12
And of course, it's
going with the woman
01:07:03.15\01:07:04.40
at the well in Sumerian.
01:07:04.43\01:07:06.07
One, he arrested her attention
by saying, "Give me a drink."
01:07:06.10\01:07:08.69
I really like this.
01:07:08.72\01:07:10.87
Second, he secured her ringers.
01:07:10.90\01:07:14.98
Third...
01:07:15.01\01:07:18.99
Right, he
created a desire. Fourth.
01:07:21.73\01:07:26.50
He brought conviction
and then He made the call.
01:07:26.53\01:07:32.92
We need to follow
that. Secure and interest.
01:07:32.95\01:07:37.92
Look at what they're
doing and in secure into this.
01:07:37.95\01:07:40.86
Tell you a story, this is about
a General Conference official.
01:07:40.89\01:07:43.33
Now he's North-American Division
official in Washington DC.
01:07:43.36\01:07:46.05
He moved into a part of
the town in Washington DC,
01:07:46.08\01:07:50.80
where they were, he and his
wife, were the only persons of
01:07:50.83\01:07:56.23
Euro trickish hair
and Australian complexion.
01:07:56.26\01:07:59.27
You know what I mean.
01:08:05.10\01:08:08.37
And the lady next
door really didn't like it.
01:08:08.40\01:08:14.22
And so they prayed not
01:08:14.25\01:08:17.37
only do we want to win
this person as a friend,
01:08:17.40\01:08:19.92
we want to win it to Jesus.
01:08:19.95\01:08:21.06
She and her husband.
01:08:21.09\01:08:22.70
And this woman was so upset,
01:08:22.73\01:08:24.00
she almost ran the wife down.
01:08:24.03\01:08:26.35
This is a North-American
Division official.
01:08:26.38\01:08:29.38
So they prayed and they
waited for an opportunity.
01:08:29.41\01:08:31.44
Here's what happened.
01:08:31.47\01:08:33.40
Wife sitting in the
kitchen looking out the window
01:08:33.43\01:08:37.68
and the woman pulls and they
got those adjoining driveways.
01:08:37.71\01:08:40.36
The woman pulls in and she gets
01:08:40.39\01:08:43.12
a bag of groceries
out, fills this hand
01:08:43.15\01:08:46.54
and then she gets
another bag of groceries out
01:08:46.57\01:08:48.94
and fills this hand
01:08:48.97\01:08:50.48
and she tries to
close the door with her hip.
01:08:50.51\01:08:52.72
You know, you just wanna
gonna hip the door close.
01:08:52.75\01:08:55.93
So as she tries to
close the door with her hip,
01:08:55.96\01:08:58.02
so when hit the
door with her hip,
01:08:58.05\01:08:59.62
the top of the
door, zipped open the bag,
01:08:59.65\01:09:02.68
this bag of
groceries and down they went.
01:09:02.71\01:09:05.58
Now of course, your
natural reaction is to do what?
01:09:05.61\01:09:09.03
Try to catch that bag.
So what happens to this bag?
01:09:09.06\01:09:12.17
You loose both bags.
So both bags tumbled out.
01:09:12.20\01:09:14.99
Now when the bags tumbled out,
01:09:15.02\01:09:17.49
they're fell out and
exploded on the ground,
01:09:17.52\01:09:20.16
a large jar of
Maxwell House Coffee.
01:09:20.19\01:09:23.60
Sister Saint said,
"This is my opportunity."
01:09:26.92\01:09:29.97
She grabbed a
broom and a dustpan
01:09:30.00\01:09:36.56
and ran out and began sweeping.
01:09:36.59\01:09:40.58
Now some of you
folk would've said,
01:09:40.61\01:09:42.31
"Good for you, you
racist. I'm glad it happened."
01:09:42.34\01:09:44.69
But she didn't do that.
01:09:48.97\01:09:51.08
She said, "Here is a
chance for me to serve someone
01:09:51.11\01:09:55.85
who doesn't even want me there."
01:09:55.88\01:09:59.27
So she began to sweep and serve
01:09:59.30\01:10:02.63
and then she
grabbed woman and said,
01:10:02.66\01:10:04.44
"Listen, I've got
something in my house,
01:10:04.47\01:10:06.42
it's way better for
you than that coffee.
01:10:06.45\01:10:08.68
That coffee is
gonna give you caffeine.
01:10:08.71\01:10:10.51
It's gonna mess with your nurse.
01:10:10.54\01:10:12.01
I've got something in
my house that you're love.
01:10:12.04\01:10:14.07
It was either a breakfast cup
or rumor or, one of the stuff."
01:10:14.10\01:10:16.51
And she grabbed the woman,
01:10:16.54\01:10:17.92
didn't even
listen to her protest,
01:10:17.95\01:10:20.10
grabbed her by both wrist
01:10:20.13\01:10:21.50
and drugged her into the house.
01:10:21.53\01:10:25.14
So by the time elder brother man
01:10:25.17\01:10:28.73
comes home for the General
Conference head quarters,
01:10:28.76\01:10:31.73
this woman is
sitting in the kitchen,
01:10:31.76\01:10:36.11
drinking whatever that stuff
is and eating with his wife.
01:10:36.14\01:10:42.07
Now these two North-American
Division officials
01:10:42.10\01:10:44.27
have both died, they died
01:10:44.30\01:10:47.06
before they even had a chance
to know that that woman is now
01:10:47.09\01:10:50.71
a member of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
01:10:50.74\01:10:53.65
Deeds of kindness,
teardown walls of separation,
01:10:53.68\01:10:58.30
build bridges to salvation
01:10:58.33\01:11:01.40
and it's hard to reject somebody
01:11:01.43\01:11:04.28
who's doing
something good for you, amen.
01:11:04.31\01:11:07.74
So find out what they need
01:11:07.77\01:11:10.52
and give it to
them in Jesus' name.
01:11:10.55\01:11:13.11
They will see your good works
01:11:13.14\01:11:14.92
and glorify your
Father which is in Heaven
01:11:14.95\01:11:16.86
and that changes evangelism
01:11:16.89\01:11:19.22
from an event to a
process which everybody can do.
01:11:19.25\01:11:25.62
We've got to be
sensitive to your neighbors.
01:11:25.65\01:11:27.65
My mother died in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
01:11:27.68\01:11:29.50
baptized with my own two hands.
01:11:29.53\01:11:31.66
I think I did. Baptized my dad.
01:11:31.69\01:11:33.69
Praise the Lord, my sister
is here, keeping me in check.
01:11:33.72\01:11:37.49
She would have been in
a church 10 years earlier
01:11:37.52\01:11:40.01
except some good
meaning Bible person
01:11:40.04\01:11:42.97
came and put
their foot in the door
01:11:43.00\01:11:44.31
and try to give her
Bible study on Friday evening
01:11:44.34\01:11:46.22
when she was frying fish.
01:11:46.25\01:11:47.41
So the person
could mean and say,
01:11:49.89\01:11:52.68
wouldn't let her close the door
01:11:52.71\01:11:55.03
and my mother is
doing a slow burn
01:11:55.06\01:11:57.77
while in the kitchen
that fish is doing a fast burn
01:11:57.80\01:12:02.22
and she said, "I'm
not gonna join the church
01:12:02.25\01:12:04.85
where people are so
rude and unconsidered."
01:12:04.88\01:12:07.44
And then 10 years later,
a loving, considerate saint
01:12:07.47\01:12:11.56
who lived across the
street from us invited her,
01:12:11.59\01:12:15.33
my mother died in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
01:12:15.36\01:12:17.83
Deeds of kindness, tear
down walls of separation
01:12:17.86\01:12:23.09
and build bridges to salvation.
01:12:23.12\01:12:25.61
So by that means, all of us
can be witnesses for the Lord.
01:12:25.64\01:12:33.16
All of us can be
evangelists for the Lord, amen.
01:12:33.19\01:12:37.84
All of us can be
witnesses for Lord.
01:12:37.87\01:12:40.27
And I repeat, we
never ever get a vacation.
01:12:40.30\01:12:43.89
So you arrest their attention
01:12:43.92\01:12:46.54
and then you move
through those successive steps
01:12:46.57\01:12:49.81
and you will find that you
will make souls for Jesus, amen.
01:12:49.84\01:12:55.61
Bottom of the page on
Sunday, I really like this.
01:12:55.64\01:12:57.30
A question that we
need to think through.
01:12:57.33\01:13:00.61
How often-- My
wife says when you wipe,
01:13:00.64\01:13:03.10
wipe the whole head.
01:13:03.13\01:13:04.16
How often do you take advantage
01:13:07.71\01:13:10.21
or opportunities to
witness or to minister?
01:13:10.24\01:13:14.30
Isn't it true that so
often we go about our lives,
01:13:14.33\01:13:18.08
meeting people who despite
their interaction with us
01:13:18.11\01:13:20.91
have no idea of what we believe,
01:13:20.94\01:13:23.68
what we stand for or
the hope that we have.
01:13:23.71\01:13:27.07
How can we change so that
we can be better witnesses?
01:13:27.10\01:13:30.36
You know, one other
thing I was working,
01:13:30.39\01:13:31.55
I am a person who
sleeps on airplanes.
01:13:31.58\01:13:34.54
I rarely see the plane take off.
01:13:34.57\01:13:36.71
I get in, I buckle my
seatbelt and I'm gone.
01:13:36.74\01:13:41.67
I wake up in time to
get my soda and peanuts
01:13:41.70\01:13:44.27
and then I'm gone again,
01:13:44.30\01:13:48.55
but with the encouragement Irma,
01:13:48.58\01:13:50.46
I'm trying to
stay awake on planes
01:13:50.49\01:13:53.32
so that I can witness
to those people next to me
01:13:53.35\01:13:56.65
'cause for years
I slept on planes.
01:13:56.68\01:13:58.49
I just-- They closed the door
01:13:58.52\01:14:00.61
and they say
buckle your seatbelt.
01:14:00.64\01:14:01.95
I buckle it and then I'm gone.
01:14:01.98\01:14:04.26
And I wake up when
the plane is coming down.
01:14:04.29\01:14:06.24
But I'm training
myself to stay awake
01:14:06.27\01:14:09.31
because you have X number of
hours sitting next to somebody.
01:14:09.34\01:14:12.69
You can put in a
little gospel presentation.
01:14:12.72\01:14:14.58
And you have to
assault them with the Bible,
01:14:14.61\01:14:17.23
just put in a
little gospel presentation,
01:14:17.26\01:14:19.20
give him
something to think about,
01:14:19.23\01:14:21.12
that makes you an evangelist,
that makes you a Mark Finley,
01:14:21.15\01:14:24.99
that makes you an Abraham Joel,
that's makes you a Jim Gilley,
01:14:25.02\01:14:28.00
that makes you an evangelist,
01:14:28.03\01:14:29.35
that makes you a
witness for Jesus Christ, amen.
01:14:29.38\01:14:32.59
And your testimony is
what God has done for you.
01:14:32.62\01:14:35.78
Down the last 26 seconds.
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This is a powerful lesson
and a powerful set of lessons.
01:14:37.32\01:14:42.24
It is a tutorial
for you and for me.
01:14:42.27\01:14:47.66
What we need to ask the Lord
each morning is simply this.
01:14:47.69\01:14:51.78
Who do you want
me to witness to?
01:14:51.81\01:14:54.82
Prepare me to
find that opportunity,
01:14:54.85\01:14:57.48
to seize that opportunity
and to direct their lives to--
01:14:57.51\01:15:01.14