(MUSIC)
00:00:00.56\00:00:33.43
>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS, AND WELCOME TO
00:00:33.43\00:00:34.70
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
I'D LIKE TO EXTEND A VERY WARM
00:00:34.70\00:00:37.53
WELCOME TO OUR FRIENDS JOINING
US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
00:00:37.53\00:00:40.33
THE WORLD AND ALSO TO OUR
MEMBERS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY
00:00:40.33\00:00:43.60
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT YOU HAVE
00:00:43.60\00:00:46.33
CHOSEN TO JOIN US
THIS SABBATH MORNING.
00:00:46.33\00:00:48.40
AS YOU NOTICE WE'RE DOING
OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR
00:00:48.40\00:00:52.00
PROGRAM RIGHT
HERE AT OUR NEW CHURCH.
00:00:52.00\00:00:54.96
THIS IS VERY EXCITING FOR US.
WE'RE GOING THROUGH OUR STUDY IN
00:00:54.96\00:00:58.20
THE ADULT LESSON
QUARTERLY ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE.
00:00:58.20\00:01:01.63
SO IN A FEW MOMENTS WE'LL BE
STUDYING TOGETHER BUT BEFORE WE
00:01:01.63\00:01:04.63
GET TO THE LESSON, I'D
LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
00:01:04.63\00:01:06.80
LEADERS TO COME OUT AND JOIN US
AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE LEADING
00:01:06.80\00:01:09.30
US IN SOME
BEAUTIFUL HYMNS TODAY.
00:01:09.30\00:01:12.06
THANK YOU DEBBIE,
JOLYNE, AND SHERRY.
00:01:12.06\00:01:18.43
>>WE ARE SO EXCITED
TO BE BACK WITH YOU,
00:01:18.43\00:01:21.70
OUR FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD,
AND I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE BEEN
00:01:21.70\00:01:25.86
WAITING TO SING WITH US AND
WE'VE BEEN WAITING TO SING WITH
00:01:25.86\00:01:29.60
YOU AS WELL. SO
WELCOME AND LET'S TURN IN OUR
00:01:29.60\00:01:33.06
HYMNALS TO THE FIRST SONG, I
WILL FOLLOW THEE - #623 - AND
00:01:33.06\00:01:39.16
WE WILL SING THE
FIRST AND LAST STANZAS.
00:01:39.16\00:01:42.00
JOIN WITH US - #623. (MUSIC)
00:01:42.00\00:01:50.93
I WILL FOLLOW THEE, MY SAVIOR,
WHERESOE'ER MY LOT MAY BE.
00:01:50.93\00:01:59.36
WHERE THOU GOEST I WILL FOLLOW;
YES, MY LORD, I'LL FOLLOW THEE.
00:01:59.36\00:02:08.33
I WILL FOLLOW THEE, MY SAVIOUR,
THOU DIDST SHED THY BLOOD FOR
00:02:08.33\00:02:15.10
ME; AND THOUGH ALL MEN SHOULD
FORSAKE THEE; BY THY GRACE I'LL
00:02:15.10\00:02:23.23
FOLLOW THEE.
THOUGH TO JORDAN'S ROLLING
00:02:23.23\00:02:29.00
BILLOWS, COLD AND DEEP, THOU
LEADEST ME, THOU HAST CROSSED
00:02:29.00\00:02:36.83
THE WAVES BEFORE ME, AND
I STILL WILL FOLLOW THEE.
00:02:36.83\00:02:43.63
I WILL FOLLOW THEE, MY SAVIOUR,
THOU DIDST SHED THY BLOOD FOR
00:02:43.63\00:02:50.83
ME; AND THOUGH ALL MEN SHOULD
00:02:50.83\00:02:54.83
FORSAKE THEE; BY THY
GRACE I'LL FOLLOW THEE.
00:02:54.83\00:03:04.36
>>WE HAVE GREAT NEWS! FOR THOSE
OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN WONDERING,
00:03:04.36\00:03:07.73
YOU CAN SEND IN
YOUR FAVORITE SONG,
00:03:07.73\00:03:09.83
LIKE YOU DID
BEFORE - ABSOLUTELY!
00:03:09.83\00:03:11.96
SO YOU CAN GO AND SEND
YOUR FAVORITES AND, OF COURSE,
00:03:11.96\00:03:16.03
WE WILL SING THOSE
ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM.
00:03:16.03\00:03:18.26
OUR NEXT SONG FOLLOWS IN
THE THEME OF OUR LESSON TODAY,
00:03:18.26\00:03:22.73
THE CALL TO
DISCIPLESHIP , AND YOU WILL FIND
00:03:22.73\00:03:25.86
I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS ON #311.
WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST
00:03:25.86\00:03:31.00
AND LAST STANZAS OF
#311 - I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS.
00:03:31.00\00:03:34.56
(MUSIC) EARTHLY
PLEASURES VAINLY CALL
00:03:34.56\00:03:46.63
ME; I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS;
NOTHING WORLDLY SHALL ENTHRALL
00:03:46.63\00:03:54.93
ME; I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS.
BE LIKE JESUS, THIS MY SONG,
00:03:54.93\00:04:05.46
IN THE HOME AND IN THE THRONG;
BE LIKE JESUS, ALL DAY LONG!
00:04:05.46\00:04:16.63
I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS.
THAT IN HEAVEN HE MAY MEET ME,
00:04:16.63\00:04:27.70
I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS;
THAT HIS WORDS "WELL DONE" MAY
00:04:27.70\00:04:35.16
GREET ME, I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS.
BE LIKE JESUS, THIS MY SONG,
00:04:35.16\00:04:46.76
IN THE HOME AND IN THE THRONG;
BE LIKE JESUS, ALL DAY LONG!
00:04:46.76\00:04:58.16
I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS.
>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
00:04:58.16\00:05:09.20
JOINING WITH US IN
OUR FAVORITE SONGS.
00:05:09.20\00:05:11.56
>>FROM TIME TO TIME HERE AT
THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR,
00:05:11.56\00:05:15.80
WE'RE GOING TO BE FEATURING
A LITTLE HIGHLIGHT OR A MISSION
00:05:15.80\00:05:19.06
REPORT OF SOME KIND OF
MISSIONARY ACTIVITY THAT'S BEEN
00:05:19.06\00:05:21.73
DONE BY THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH
MEMBERS OR BY AMAZING FACTS OR
00:05:21.73\00:05:24.56
AFCOE, KIND OF LETTING YOU
KNOW SOME OF THE EXCITING THINGS
00:05:24.56\00:05:27.90
THAT ARE HAPPENING AROUND
THE WORLD IN SHARING THE GOSPEL.
00:05:27.90\00:05:30.53
SO JOINING ME UP HERE ON
STAGE IS CARISSA MCSHERRY.
00:05:30.53\00:05:33.33
SHE'S THE ASSISTANT
AFCOE DIRECTOR AND AFCOE IS THE
00:05:33.33\00:05:37.16
AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
EVANGELISM. AND JUST RECENTLY,
00:05:37.16\00:05:40.20
IN DECEMBER, WE HAD A MISSIONARY
TEAM FROM AFCOE GO ALL THE WAY
00:05:40.20\00:05:45.10
OVER TO NEPAL TO CONDUCT
SOME EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS.
00:05:45.10\00:05:49.30
AND SO CARISSA, I
WANT TO ASK YOU JUST A FEW
00:05:49.30\00:05:51.63
QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT EXCITING
MISSION TRIP THAT YOU WERE
00:05:51.63\00:05:53.60
INVOLVED WITH. YOU ACTUALLY
LED THE TEAM. THE QUESTION IS,
00:05:53.60\00:05:56.43
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE
OF AFCOE GOING TO NEPAL?
00:05:56.43\00:05:59.36
>>SO AT THE END OF EVERY AFCOE
FOUR-MONTH PROGRAM, WE LIKE TO
00:05:59.36\00:06:03.06
TAKE THE STUDENTS ON AN
EVANGELISTIC SEMINAR PROGRAM.
00:06:03.06\00:06:06.10
WE WANT TO TAKE THEM TO A
FOREIGN COUNTRY SO THAT THEY CAN
00:06:06.10\00:06:09.03
APPLY ALL THAT THEY'VE BEEN
LEARNING DURING THAT FOUR-MONTH
00:06:09.03\00:06:11.86
PERIOD. THEY CAN DO PERSONAL
EVANGELISM, PUBLIC EVANGELISM
00:06:11.86\00:06:14.16
- THEY'RE MEETING THE
NEEDS IN THAT RURAL COMMUNITY.
00:06:14.16\00:06:16.83
AND, AGAIN, THE BLESSING OF
IT IS THAT WE LEARNED NEPAL HAS
00:06:16.83\00:06:18.86
ONLY TWO PERCENT OF
CHRISTIANS IN THAT COUNTRY.
00:06:18.86\00:06:22.93
WE REALIZED THERE ARE SO MANY
PEOPLE THAT ARE UNREACHED AND
00:06:22.93\00:06:25.93
THEY NEED TO HEAR THE
GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:06:25.93\00:06:28.60
>>DID ANY OTHER MINISTRIES WORK
WITH AFCOE ON THIS NEPAL MISSION
00:06:28.60\00:06:32.23
PROJECT? >>WE HAD
THE BLESSING OF WORKING
00:06:32.23\00:06:35.20
WITH A GREAT
MINISTRY CALLED AMEN .
00:06:35.20\00:06:37.50
THEY SUPPLIED THE DENTISTS
AND THE DOCTORS THAT WE NEEDED.
00:06:37.50\00:06:39.43
I REMEMBER ONE DAY WE WENT
TO THIS RURAL COMMUNITY AND,
00:06:39.43\00:06:42.66
IN THIS COMMUNITY, THEY
WERE LESS THAN RECEPTIVE TO
00:06:42.66\00:06:47.03
CHRISTIANS. IN FACT,
OPENING NIGHT OF OUR SEMINAR HAD
00:06:47.03\00:06:49.86
TO BE DELAYED BECAUSE SOME
HINDUS IN THAT VILLAGE CAME TO A
00:06:49.86\00:06:53.76
CHRISTIAN MAN'S HOME AND THEY
STABBED HIM FOR EVANGELIZING.
00:06:53.76\00:06:57.46
SO AGAIN, HERE WE'RE GOING TO
THAT COMMUNITY; WE WANT TO HAVE
00:06:57.46\00:07:00.76
A PROPHECY SEMINAR - HOW DO
YOU DO THAT? AND WE REALIZED THE
00:07:00.76\00:07:03.70
ONLY WAY TO DO THIS WOULD BE TO
MEET THE NEEDS OF THAT COMMUNITY
00:07:03.70\00:07:07.13
- TO MEET THEIR PHYSICAL
NEEDS AND THEIR EMOTIONAL NEEDS.
00:07:07.13\00:07:10.50
SO WE HAD THE BLESSING OF TAKING
THAT AMEN DENTIST AND MEDICAL
00:07:10.50\00:07:13.63
TEAM TO THAT REMOTE VILLAGE
AND THAT DAY, WHEN WE ARRIVED,
00:07:13.63\00:07:17.50
THERE WAS A LINE OF PEOPLE
THAT NEEDED DENTAL SERVICES.
00:07:17.50\00:07:22.06
AGAIN, WE'RE
LOOKING AT THIS LINE AND
00:07:22.06\00:07:23.26
SAYING, 'THERE'S
NO WAY WE CAN HELP ALL
00:07:23.26\00:07:25.10
OF THESE PEOPLE.' BUT IN
ONE DAY, ONE DENTIST SAW 40
00:07:25.10\00:07:31.83
PATIENTS. BY THE GRACE OF GOD
HE WAS ABLE TO MEET THE NEED OF
00:07:31.83\00:07:35.56
THOSE PATIENTS. WE
WERE ABLE TO PRAY WITH EVERY
00:07:35.56\00:07:37.80
SINGLE ONE OF THEM AND
GOD OPENED THE DOORS FOR OUR
00:07:37.80\00:07:40.53
PROPHECY SEMINAR TO CONTINUE
IN THAT RURAL COMMUNITY.
00:07:40.53\00:07:43.86
>>NOW CARISSA, WHAT
WAS IT LIKE FOR YOU AND THE
00:07:43.86\00:07:46.03
REST OF THE TEAM TRAVELING
TO SOME VERY REMOTE PLACES OUT
00:07:46.03\00:07:49.13
THERE IN NEPAL?
>>THEY WERE CERTAINLY REMOTE.
00:07:49.13\00:07:53.33
WHEN YOU THINK OF NEPAL,
YOU THINK OF THE BEAUTIFUL
00:07:53.33\00:07:54.80
HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS
AND MOUNT EVEREST AND -
00:07:54.80\00:07:56.76
AND THE CRAZY ROADS
THAT WE WOULD DRIVE ON.
00:07:56.76\00:08:00.50
EVERY DAY WE WERE TRAVELING FOR
ABOUT FOUR HOURS AND YOU WOULD
00:08:00.50\00:08:03.66
BE RIGHT ALONG A CLIFF AT TIMES
AND CARS WOULD BE PASSING EACH
00:08:03.66\00:08:06.63
OTHER ALONGSIDE THIS
CLIFF. BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT.
00:08:06.63\00:08:10.30
I REMEMBER ONE DAY, AS
WE WERE TRAVELING TO OUR
00:08:10.30\00:08:12.50
SITE, I MET THE
TAXI DRIVER'S FRIEND -
00:08:12.50\00:08:15.53
HE HAD COME ALONG FOR THAT
AFTERNOON - AND AS WE BEGAN TO
00:08:15.53\00:08:18.73
SHARE WITH HIM WHAT WE
WERE DOING THERE, HE SAID,
00:08:18.73\00:08:20.66
"SO WHO IS THIS JESUS? I
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM."
00:08:20.66\00:08:24.93
I MEAN, THAT IS
THE QUESTION THAT WE
00:08:24.93\00:08:26.36
PRAY FOR - WE WOULD LOVE
TO HEAR. "WHO IS THIS JESUS?"
00:08:26.36\00:08:29.93
AND FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS WE
BEGAN TO SHARE WITH HIM WHO THIS
00:08:29.93\00:08:32.30
JESUS IS AND WHAT HE
HAS DONE IN OUR LIVES.
00:08:32.30\00:08:36.10
>>AMEN. WELL, WHAT WAS THE
RECEPTION YOU HAD FROM THE LOCAL
00:08:36.10\00:08:38.86
HINDUS IN SOME OF THESE
REMOTE AREAS THAT YOU'RE DOING
00:08:38.86\00:08:41.96
EVANGELISM AND OUTREACH?
>>THE RECEPTION WAS VERY,
00:08:41.96\00:08:45.86
VERY POSITIVE. AGAIN,
WE WERE SOMEWHAT NERVOUS
00:08:45.86\00:08:47.46
OF THIS, BUT BECAUSE WE
WERE TRULY - BY GOD'S GRACE -
00:08:47.46\00:08:50.20
MEETING THE NEEDS, THE
PEOPLE WERE OPEN AND RECEPTIVE.
00:08:50.20\00:08:53.30
I REMEMBER ONE SITE
WE WERE WORKING WITH,
00:08:53.30\00:08:55.60
OUR EVANGELIST
BY THE NAME OF STAN,
00:08:55.60\00:08:57.50
HE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE COMING
TO HIS MEETINGS AND ONE LADY,
00:08:57.50\00:09:00.66
IN PARTICULAR, WAS
ABOUT 18 - 20 YEARS OLD.
00:09:00.66\00:09:03.70
SHE WAS EXCITED.
SHE WAS DEDICATED.
00:09:03.70\00:09:05.96
SHE ACCEPTED
CHRIST AS HER SAVIOR.
00:09:05.96\00:09:07.83
SHE ACCEPTED THE
SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH.
00:09:07.83\00:09:09.36
SHE WANTED TO GO ALL THE WAY
WITH JESUS IN BAPTISM AND THAT
00:09:09.36\00:09:13.13
AFTERNOON, STAN WENT
TO HER HOUSE TO VISIT
00:09:13.13\00:09:15.56
WITH HER AND CLEAR UP
ANY QUESTIONS SHE MIGHT HAVE.
00:09:15.56\00:09:18.73
AND AS STAN WAS AT HER HOUSE HE
NOTICED THAT SHE WAS TREMBLING -
00:09:18.73\00:09:23.83
LITERALLY TREMBLING -
IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM.
00:09:23.83\00:09:27.56
HE ASKED HIS
TRANSLATOR, "WHAT'S WRONG?
00:09:27.56\00:09:29.63
WHY IS SHE SO AFRAID?"
00:09:29.63\00:09:31.23
AND THE TRANSLATOR TOLD
HIM, "HER FAMILY IS HINDU.
00:09:31.23\00:09:35.53
THEY WANT NOTHING TO
DO WITH CHRISTIANITY.
00:09:35.53\00:09:38.53
SHE IS TERRIFIED OF WHAT THEY
WILL DO TO HER WHEN THEY LEARN
00:09:38.53\00:09:42.16
THAT SHE WANTS
TO BE A CHRISTIAN."
00:09:42.16\00:09:44.36
STAN SPENT THE NEXT FEW HOURS
TALKING WITH THE FAMILY AND
00:09:44.36\00:09:47.20
ANSWERING QUESTIONS THAT THEY
HAD ABOUT CHRISTIANITY AND IT
00:09:47.20\00:09:50.53
WASN'T LONG BEFORE HER PARENTS
TURNED TO STAN AND THEY SAID,
00:09:50.53\00:09:54.30
"WE LOVE OUR DAUGHTER. WE
WANT TO SUPPORT OUR DAUGHTER.
00:09:54.30\00:09:58.10
AND IF SHE WANTS
TO BE A CHRISTIAN,
00:09:58.10\00:10:00.13
WE WILL SUPPORT
HER IN THAT DECISION."
00:10:00.13\00:10:03.33
>>SO SOME EXCITING REPORTS
COME ALL THE WAY FROM NEPAL.
00:10:03.33\00:10:06.90
I KNOW THE AFCOE TEAM IS
PLANNING ANOTHER EVANGELISTIC
00:10:06.90\00:10:10.56
SERIES AND WE'RE NOT FINAL
ON WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING
00:10:10.56\00:10:13.20
JUST YET, BUT I
HEARD MAYBE THAILAND?
00:10:13.20\00:10:16.40
SO STAY TUNED FOR MORE
INFORMATION AS WE TELL YOU ABOUT
00:10:16.40\00:10:19.63
SOME UPCOMING
EVANGELISTIC OPPORTUNITIES.
00:10:19.63\00:10:22.23
THANK YOU, CARISSA,
FOR SHARING WITH US.
00:10:22.23\00:10:23.46
OUR LESSON TODAY IS IN THE
LESSON QUARTERLY ON THE BOOK OF
00:10:23.46\00:10:28.53
LUKE. WE'RE ON
LESSON #4 AND WE HAVE A
00:10:28.53\00:10:32.00
FREE OFFER THAT GOES
ALONG WITH THE LESSON FOR TODAY.
00:10:32.00\00:10:34.03
WE'D LIKE TO MAKE THAT AVAILABLE
TO ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE
00:10:34.03\00:10:36.70
WATCHING. THE BOOK
IS CALLED ALONE IN THE
00:10:36.70\00:10:39.13
CROWD AND IF YOU'D
LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS,
00:10:39.13\00:10:41.56
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CALL OUR
RESOURCE NUMBER - THE NUMBER IS
00:10:41.56\00:10:44.56
866-788-3966 AND YOU
CAN ASK FOR THE OFFER #714.
00:10:44.56\00:10:52.43
AGAIN, THAT NUMBER
IS 866-STUDY-MORE -
00:10:52.43\00:10:55.53
788-3966 - ASK FOR THE
BOOK ALONE IN THE CROWD .
00:10:55.53\00:10:59.30
YOU CAN ALSO READ THIS BOOK FOR
FREE IF YOU GO TO THE AMAZING
00:10:59.30\00:11:02.06
FACTS WEBSITE -
JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG .
00:11:02.06\00:11:04.76
WELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY,
I INVITE YOU JUST TO BOW YOUR
00:11:04.76\00:11:08.93
HEADS AS WE ASK
GOD'S SPECIAL BLESSING.
00:11:08.93\00:11:11.06
DEAR FATHER, WE
RECOGNIZE THAT THE BIBLE IS
00:11:11.06\00:11:13.86
YOUR BOOK AND WHEN WE STUDY
THE SCRIPTURES, WE NEED THE HOLY
00:11:13.86\00:11:16.46
SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE
OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
00:11:16.46\00:11:18.90
AND SO WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US
WITH YOUR SPIRIT IN THE STUDY.
00:11:18.90\00:11:22.33
LORD, LEAD US INTO A FULLER AND
A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS
00:11:22.33\00:11:25.13
VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT OF
BEING A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST,
00:11:25.13\00:11:29.63
FOR WE ASK THIS
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:11:29.63\00:11:32.53
OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL
BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR SENIOR
00:11:32.53\00:11:35.63
PASTOR, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG.
00:11:35.63\00:11:45.33
>>GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.
AND I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO
00:11:45.33\00:11:48.50
ARE JOINING US HERE AT THE
GRANITE BAY SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS
00:11:48.50\00:11:51.93
AND OUR FRIENDS THAT
MAY BE STUDYING WITH US.
00:11:51.93\00:11:53.96
I THINK WE'RE STREAMING NOW,
AS WELL AS RECORDING FOR THE
00:11:53.96\00:11:56.96
LATER BROADCAST. AND
WE'RE VERY EXCITED BECAUSE
00:11:56.96\00:12:00.60
IT'S BEEN MANY MONTHS SINCE
WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO RECORD OUR
00:12:00.60\00:12:03.30
SABBATH SCHOOL IN AN ACTUAL
SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS - IT'S BEEN
00:12:03.30\00:12:08.23
PRE-RECORDED IN A STUDIO - AND
SO WE'RE EXCITED. NOW, SOME OF
00:12:08.23\00:12:12.46
IT - BECAUSE WE'RE STILL
ACTUALLY WIRING OUR STUDIO THIS
00:12:12.46\00:12:15.36
COMING WEEK - WE'RE NOT
DONE ENGINEERING EVERYTHING.
00:12:15.36\00:12:19.13
A LITTLE LATER WE'LL BE ABLE TO
HAVE SOME OF THE INTERACTION WE
00:12:19.13\00:12:22.86
HAD BEFORE WITH
THE CLASS MEMBERS HERE,
00:12:22.86\00:12:25.43
AND WE MIGHT EVEN BE DOING
SOMETHING WHERE WE'RE GOING TO
00:12:25.43\00:12:28.66
BE TAKING SOME TEXTED QUESTIONS
ON THE LESSON IN THE FUTURE.
00:12:28.66\00:12:31.86
SO WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND
MAKE OUR SABBATH SCHOOL AS
00:12:31.86\00:12:34.50
INTERACTIVE AS WE CAN BE,
BUT TODAY IS GOING TO BE KIND OF
00:12:34.50\00:12:36.80
A BARE BONES STUDY WHERE
I'M GOING TO JUST BE PRETTY MUCH
00:12:36.80\00:12:40.03
TEACHING THE LESSON BECAUSE
WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN ALL THE OTHER
00:12:40.03\00:12:42.10
MICROPHONES WIRED
IN SO THAT WE CAN DO -
00:12:42.10\00:12:44.96
DO IT LIKE WE NORMALLY
DO. BUT, AS PASTOR ROSS SAID,
00:12:44.96\00:12:48.23
WE ARE IN THE BOOK OF
LUKE. WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING
00:12:48.23\00:12:51.00
LESSON #4 WHERE IT
TALKS ABOUT DISCIPLESHIP.
00:12:51.00\00:12:53.96
AND LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR STUDY
TODAY BECAUSE HERE'S WHERE WE
00:12:53.96\00:12:58.76
TALK ABOUT JESUS
AND FISHING FOR MEN.
00:12:58.76\00:13:02.03
AND THIS IS ONE OF
MY FAVORITE SUBJECTS.
00:13:02.03\00:13:04.73
IF YOU TURN IN YOUR BIBLES
TO THE BOOK OF LUKE - NOW THIS
00:13:04.73\00:13:13.06
LESSON IS DEALING, PRINCIPALLY,
WITH LUKE CHAPTER 5 AND LUKE
00:13:13.06\00:13:16.26
CHAPTER 6, AND
THE LESSON IS CALLED
00:13:16.26\00:13:18.73
THE CALL OF DISCIPLESHIP .
AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
00:13:18.73\00:13:22.76
THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM LUKE 9,
VERSE 23 AND YOU CAN EITHER FIND
00:13:22.76\00:13:28.16
THAT IN YOUR LESSON, OR
YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ IT OUT
00:13:28.16\00:13:31.73
LOUD WITH ME. LUKE
9:23 - AND I'VE GOT THE NEW
00:13:31.73\00:13:35.23
KING JAMES VERSION
HERE. ARE YOU READY?
00:13:35.23\00:13:37.40
"THEN HE SAID TO THEM ALL,
'IF ANYONE DESIRES TO COME AFTER
00:13:37.40\00:13:42.90
ME, LET HIM DENY HIMSELF,
AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS DAILY,
00:13:42.90\00:13:47.73
AND FOLLOW ME.'" NOW
YOU'LL FIND THAT PASSAGE,
00:13:47.73\00:13:50.90
OR ONE VERY MUCH LIKE
IT, IN THE OTHER GOSPELS,
00:13:50.90\00:13:54.13
BUT LUKE SAYS SOMETHING
THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE.
00:13:54.13\00:13:57.33
HE SAYS, 'TAKE UP
HIS CROSS DAILY.' THAT
00:13:57.33\00:14:00.60
WORD DAILY REALLY
MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE.
00:14:00.60\00:14:02.63
WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR DECISION
TO BE A CHRISTIAN, IT ISN'T
00:14:02.63\00:14:06.66
NECESSARILY A ONE-TIME DECISION.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DO DAILY.
00:14:06.66\00:14:11.06
YOU KNOW HOW PAUL
SAID, 'I DIE DAILY?'
00:14:11.06\00:14:13.20
WELL, WHEN YOU TAKE UP
YOUR CROSS, YOU'RE DYING DAILY.
00:14:13.20\00:14:16.26
AND SO YOU NEED TO DENY YOURSELF
- IT'S A DAILY CHOICE TO DENY
00:14:16.26\00:14:20.23
YOURSELF, TAKE UP YOUR
CROSS AND TO FOLLOW JESUS.
00:14:20.23\00:14:23.43
BEING A DISCIPLE FOR CHRIST
IS REALLY THE HIGHEST CALLING IN
00:14:23.43\00:14:27.83
THE WORLD THAT
ANYONE COULD RECEIVE.
00:14:27.83\00:14:30.13
AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT
THE LORD CALLING THE DISCIPLES,
00:14:30.13\00:14:32.70
TODAY, IN A NUMBER
OF DIFFERENT ASPECTS.
00:14:32.70\00:14:34.93
THE FIRST THING WE WANT TO
CONSIDER IS FISHERS OF MEN.
00:14:34.93\00:14:37.56
SO TURN TO LUKE CHAPTER 5 AND IN
LUKE CHAPTER 5 THERE'S A STORY
00:14:37.56\00:14:42.40
- WE'LL READ
VERSES 1 THROUGH 10.
00:14:42.40\00:14:45.33
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT IT
A LITTLE BIT - LUKE 5 - WE'LL
00:14:45.33\00:14:48.26
START WITH VERSE 1, "SO IT WAS,
AS THE MULTITUDE PRESSED ABOUT
00:14:48.26\00:14:52.96
HIM TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD,
THAT HE STOOD BY THE LAKE OF
00:14:52.96\00:14:56.80
GENNESARET," - THIS
IS GALILEE - THIS IS
00:14:56.80\00:15:00.73
THE LAKE OF TIBERIUS - IT
GOES BY TWO OR THREE NAMES.
00:15:00.73\00:15:03.53
IT'S THE ONE LAKE THERE,
GALILEE - AND SAW TWO BOATS
00:15:03.53\00:15:07.00
STANDING BY THE LAKE; BUT
THE FISHERMEN HAD GONE FROM
00:15:07.00\00:15:10.03
THEM AND WERE
WASHING THEIR NETS.
00:15:10.03\00:15:12.30
THEN HE GOT INTO ONE OF
THE BOATS, WHICH WAS SIMON'S,
00:15:12.30\00:15:15.16
AND ASKED HIM TO PUT
OUT A LITTLE FROM THE LAND.
00:15:15.16\00:15:17.43
AND HE SAT DOWN AND TAUGHT
THE MULTITUDES FROM THE BOAT.
00:15:17.43\00:15:21.50
WHEN HE HAD STOPPED
SPEAKING, HE SAID TO SIMON,
00:15:21.50\00:15:25.60
'LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP AND
LET DOWN YOUR NETS FOR A CATCH.'
00:15:25.60\00:15:29.10
BUT SIMON ANSWERED
AND SAID TO HIM, "MASTER,
00:15:29.10\00:15:32.23
WE HAVE TOILED ALL
NIGHT AND CAUGHT NOTHING;
00:15:32.23\00:15:34.26
NEVERTHELESS AT YOUR
WORD'" - YOU'RE A CARPENTER,
00:15:34.26\00:15:37.96
BUT IF YOU SAY SO -
"'I WILL LET DOWN THE NET.
00:15:37.96\00:15:40.50
AND WHEN THEY HAD DONE THIS,
THEY CAUGHT A GREAT NUMBER OF
00:15:40.50\00:15:44.23
FISH, AND THEIR
NET WAS BREAKING.
00:15:44.23\00:15:47.40
SO THEY SIGNALED TO THEIR
PARTNERS IN THE OTHER BOAT TO
00:15:47.40\00:15:50.26
COME AND HELP THEM. AND
THEY CAME AND FILLED BOTH
00:15:50.26\00:15:52.90
THE BOATS, SO THAT
THEY BEGAN TO SINK.
00:15:52.90\00:15:55.66
WHEN SIMON PETER
SAW IT," - I MEAN,
00:15:55.66\00:15:58.93
HE'D BEEN FISHING ALL HIS LIFE,
HE'D NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE
00:15:58.93\00:16:00.70
THIS - "WHEN SIMON PETER SAW IT,
HE FELL DOWN AT JESUS' KNEES,
00:16:00.70\00:16:03.66
SAYING, 'DEPART FROM ME,
FOR I AM A SINFUL MAN, O LORD!'
00:16:03.66\00:16:07.80
FOR HE AND ALL WHO WERE WITH HIM
WERE ASTONISHED AT THE CATCH OF
00:16:07.80\00:16:11.83
FISH WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN;
AND SO ALSO WERE JAMES AND JOHN,
00:16:11.83\00:16:14.50
THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE, WHO
WERE PARTNERS WITH SIMON.
00:16:14.50\00:16:17.36
AND JESUS SAID TO
SIMON, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID.
00:16:17.36\00:16:20.90
FROM NOW ON YOU
WILL CATCH MEN.'"
00:16:20.90\00:16:24.00
- VERSE 11 SAYS, "SO
WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEIR
00:16:24.00\00:16:26.96
BOATS TO LAND, THEY
FORSOOK ALL AND FOLLOWED
00:16:26.96\00:16:29.40
HIM." NOW WAS THIS
THE FIRST TIME THEY
00:16:29.40\00:16:32.80
HAD MET JESUS? >>NO.
00:16:32.80\00:16:34.80
>>NO, BECAUSE YOU
READ EARLIER IN JOHN
00:16:34.80\00:16:36.70
CHAPTER 1, AT
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS,
00:16:36.70\00:16:39.56
THAT'S WHEN FIRST ANDREW
INTRODUCED PETER TO JESUS.
00:16:39.56\00:16:42.83
NOW THAT HAPPENS
AT THE JORDAN RIVER,
00:16:42.83\00:16:45.93
NOT AT THE SEA OF GALILEE,
AND THAT HAPPENS NORTH OF THE
00:16:45.93\00:16:49.40
DEAD SEA SO, YOU KNOW,
IT'S 50 MILES AWAY FROM WHERE
00:16:49.40\00:16:53.43
THIS HAPPENS. THEY THEN
DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS.
00:16:53.43\00:16:56.46
THEY BELIEVED HE WAS
THE MESSIAH BUT, YOU KNOW,
00:16:56.46\00:16:59.23
THEY HAD TO MAKE A LIVING AND SO
THEY MAY HAVE LISTENED TO HIM.
00:16:59.23\00:17:02.10
AND JESUS WENT INTO THE
WILDERNESS FOR 40 DAYS AFTER HIS
00:17:02.10\00:17:04.90
BAPTISM AND THEY PROBABLY MET
WITH HIM SOME AFTER THAT WHEN HE
00:17:04.90\00:17:09.50
RETURNED TO THE JORDAN,
BUT EVENTUALLY THEY WENT BACK
00:17:09.50\00:17:12.33
AND RETURNED TO THEIR FISHING,
SO IT HADN'T BECOME A FULL-TIME
00:17:12.33\00:17:14.63
BUSINESS YET. SEVERAL
THINGS ABOUT THIS STORY
00:17:14.63\00:17:18.10
I THINK THAT WE CAN
LEARN: FIRST OF ALL,
00:17:18.10\00:17:21.76
JESUS FILLED PETER'S BOAT AFTER
PETER REALIZED HE COULDN'T.
00:17:21.76\00:17:31.53
IN OTHER WORDS,
WHAT IF PETER HAD HAD A
00:17:31.53\00:17:34.03
SUCCESSFUL NIGHT FISHING?
HIS BOAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO FULL
00:17:34.03\00:17:37.46
OF FISH HE WOULDN'T
HAVE HAD ROOM FOR JESUS.
00:17:37.46\00:17:39.83
BUT IT WAS ONLY AFTER HE HAD
HAD A VERY UNSUCCESSFUL NIGHT
00:17:39.83\00:17:43.60
FISHING THAT HE WAS AT
THE POINT OF SURRENDER.
00:17:43.60\00:17:46.66
WHEN HE GAVE HIS BOAT
TO JESUS FOR A PLATFORM,
00:17:46.66\00:17:52.13
THEN HE WAS SUCCESSFUL
IN FISHING. YOU REMEMBER?
00:17:52.13\00:17:55.66
JESUS IS
SURROUNDED BY THE CROWD.
00:17:55.66\00:17:57.70
THEY'RE KIND OF PUSHING HIM OFF
IN THE WATER AND A NATURAL WAY
00:17:57.70\00:18:00.50
FOR HIM TO, SORT OF, GET
A LITTLE SEPARATION - AND
00:18:00.50\00:18:03.60
THE VOICE CARRIES VERY WELL OVER
THE WATER - IS HE SAID, 'LOOK,
00:18:03.60\00:18:06.90
I'LL GET IN THE
BOAT. IT'LL BE A PULPIT.
00:18:06.90\00:18:08.90
WE'LL PUSH OUT A LITTLE BIT SO
PEOPLE CAN ALL SEE ME AND HEAR
00:18:08.90\00:18:12.86
ME.' AND SO, BASICALLY,
PETER OFFERED HIS BOAT AS A
00:18:12.86\00:18:16.30
PLATFORM FOR JESUS'
MINISTRY AND WHEN HE DID THAT,
00:18:16.30\00:18:20.26
THEN THE LORD
COULD FILL HIS BOAT.
00:18:20.26\00:18:22.43
SOMETIMES THE LORD CAN'T
BLESS OUR BUSINESS BECAUSE WE
00:18:22.43\00:18:24.86
HAVEN'T REALLY
SURRENDERED IT TO JESUS.
00:18:24.86\00:18:27.46
AND SO PETER DOES THIS AND
HE OFFERS HIS BOAT - I MEAN,
00:18:27.46\00:18:31.36
HE WAS BUSY CLEANING HIS NETS
AND HE COULD HAVE SAID, 'LORD,
00:18:31.36\00:18:35.66
YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT
WORK TO DO.' BUT HE
00:18:35.66\00:18:36.90
STOPPED WHAT HE WAS DOING
AND MADE IT AVAILABLE TO JESUS.
00:18:36.90\00:18:40.76
AND SO JESUS PREACHES
AND THEN AFTER HE PREACHES,
00:18:40.76\00:18:44.06
INSTEAD OF GOING IN AND
HEALING AND TOUCHING THE PEOPLE,
00:18:44.06\00:18:46.03
HE CALLS PETER
AND HE SAYS, 'LOOK,
00:18:46.03\00:18:48.26
THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR
BOAT, I'D LIKE TO RECIPROCATE.
00:18:48.26\00:18:51.20
LET'S GO FISHING.' AND PETER
- I'M PARAPHRASING HERE - PETER
00:18:51.20\00:18:55.50
SAYS, 'LORD, I REALLY
APPRECIATE THE THOUGHT,
00:18:55.50\00:18:58.63
BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
HOW THINGS HAPPEN HERE.
00:18:58.63\00:19:01.26
WE FISH AT NIGHT.
WE FISH WITH NETS.
00:19:01.26\00:19:05.20
WE HANG A LAMP OFF
THE BACK OF THE BOAT.
00:19:05.20\00:19:08.06
THE FISH, AT NIGHT,
ARE ATTRACTED TO THE LIGHT.
00:19:08.06\00:19:10.86
THEY COME TO THE LIGHT AND WE
PULL IN THE NET AND WE CATCH THE
00:19:10.86\00:19:14.46
FISH.' IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
IT'S ABYSMAL OPPORTUNITY FOR
00:19:14.46\00:19:17.10
FISHING. YOU'RE
JUST - YOU'RE NOT GOING
00:19:17.10\00:19:19.00
TO CATCH
ANYTHING. THE FISH GO DOWN.
00:19:19.00\00:19:20.70
NOW I'VE DONE
SOME FISHING WITH NETS,
00:19:20.70\00:19:23.76
FISHING WITH LIGHTS AT
NIGHT - AND SOME OF YOU, MAYBE,
00:19:23.76\00:19:27.06
HAVE BEEN IN HAWAII AND I DON'T
KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER DONE ANY
00:19:27.06\00:19:29.66
NIGHT FISHING. I'M A
VEGETARIAN BUT I LOVE
00:19:29.66\00:19:31.70
GETTING OUT IN THE WATER AND
I'VE GOT FRIENDS THERE THAT GO
00:19:31.70\00:19:33.76
FISHING AND I GO WITH THEM.
AND I REMEMBER SEVERAL TIMES
00:19:33.76\00:19:36.93
WE'VE GONE AND ANCHORED DOWN BY
THE SOUTH PART OF THE BIG ISLAND
00:19:36.93\00:19:40.83
OF HAWAII AND WE
FISHED ALL NIGHT.
00:19:40.83\00:19:42.76
AND A FRIEND I
WAS WITH, NAMED STEVE,
00:19:42.76\00:19:45.83
HE HAD A RADAR
DETECTOR ON HIS BOAT.
00:19:45.83\00:19:50.03
IT WAS A PRETTY
SOPHISTICATED FISHING BOAT.
00:19:50.03\00:19:51.93
NOT VERY BIG BUT, I MEAN,
IT WAS SERIOUS FOR FISHING.
00:19:51.93\00:19:53.73
AND THE SCREEN OF THE DETECTOR
WAS ALWAYS BLUE UNLESS A FISH
00:19:53.73\00:19:57.86
GOES BY AND THE FISH APPEARS
AS A RED BLIP ON THE SCREEN.
00:19:57.86\00:20:01.83
AND SO ONE NIGHT WE ANCHORED OFF
THE SOUTH POINT OF HAWAII THERE
00:20:01.83\00:20:05.70
AND THE WATER WHERE WE ANCHORED
IS, YOU KNOW, HUNDREDS OF FEET
00:20:05.70\00:20:09.30
DEEP, BUT HE HAD THE ANCHOR
LINE. AND THE SUN WENT DOWN -
00:20:09.30\00:20:14.60
WE ATE THERE ON THE BOAT,
SOMETHING WE'D BROUGHT WITH US -
00:20:14.60\00:20:17.23
THEN WHEN IT GOT DARK HE HOOKED
A LIGHT TO - IT'S A WATERPROOF
00:20:17.23\00:20:22.83
LIGHT THAT HE
DROPPED OFF INTO THE WATER.
00:20:22.83\00:20:24.46
HE HOOKED THE LIGHT TO A COUPLE
OF 12-VOLT - A 12-VOLT BATTERY
00:20:24.46\00:20:28.96
AND JUST DROPPED THE LINE OFF IN
THE WATER WHILE WE WERE EATING.
00:20:28.96\00:20:31.83
AND WE LOOKED AT THE SCREEN AND
WE SAW - FIRST THERE WAS JUST A
00:20:31.83\00:20:34.43
FEW LITTLE RED DOTS CAME AROUND
AND THEN WE SAW SOME MORE LIGHTS
00:20:34.43\00:20:39.06
CAME AROUND - SOME MORE DOTS
CAME AROUND - AND PRETTY SOON
00:20:39.06\00:20:41.93
THE SCREEN TURNED PINK AND WE
LOOKED OFF AND - THE WATER'S SO
00:20:41.93\00:20:46.86
CLEAR ON THE
SOUTH PART OF HAWAII,
00:20:46.86\00:20:48.60
YOU CAN SEE DOWN HUNDREDS OF
FEET - ESPECIALLY IF A LIGHT'S
00:20:48.60\00:20:50.96
IN THE WATER - AND WE LOOKED OFF
THE BACK OF THE BOAT AND IT WAS
00:20:50.96\00:20:54.43
JUST A CLOUD OF FISH
THAT HAD COME TO THE LIGHT.
00:20:54.43\00:20:57.06
SO FISH ARE ATTRACTED TO LIGHT,
WHICH IS SOMETHING TO REMEMBER
00:20:57.06\00:21:00.83
WHEN JESUS SAID HE WILL
MAKE US FISHERS OF MEN, RIGHT?
00:21:00.83\00:21:02.80
DURING THE NIGHT, IN
OUR EXCITEMENT OF FISHING,
00:21:02.80\00:21:06.16
SOMEONE BUMPED THE LITTLE
ALLIGATOR CLIPS THAT HELD ON TO
00:21:06.16\00:21:09.63
THE BATTERY AND THE LIGHT
WENT OUT AND IT WAS AMAZING.
00:21:09.63\00:21:14.40
WE FUMBLED AROUND IN THE DARK
FOR A FEW MINUTES AND WE PLUGGED
00:21:14.40\00:21:17.16
IT BACK IN. AS SOON AS THE LIGHT
WENT OUT, THE FISH WERE GONE.
00:21:17.16\00:21:20.23
AND THERE WAS ANOTHER BOAT A
COUPLE HUNDRED YARDS AWAY AND
00:21:20.23\00:21:23.83
THEY ALL BEGAN TO GET VERY
EXCITED BECAUSE THE FISH HAD ALL
00:21:23.83\00:21:26.20
COME OVER TO THEIR LIGHT.
SO YOU'VE GOT TO BE CONSISTENT
00:21:26.20\00:21:28.80
WITH YOUR LIGHT.
ANYWAY, SO HE SAID,
00:21:28.80\00:21:31.63
'LORD, YOU KNOW,
THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR
00:21:31.63\00:21:33.53
FISHING, BUT AT YOUR WORD,
IF YOU INSIST, WE'LL DO IT.'
00:21:33.53\00:21:36.26
AND THEY LET DOWN THE NET AND
YOU KNOW, IT ENCOMPASSED SUCH A
00:21:36.26\00:21:41.06
GREAT MULTITUDE OF FISH THAT
ONE FISHING BOAT - YOU KNOW,
00:21:41.06\00:21:45.36
THAT TELLS YOU SOMETHING
ABOUT THEIR NETS. THEIR NETS,
00:21:45.36\00:21:47.90
EVIDENTLY, WERE
DESIGNED TO CATCH MORE FISH
00:21:47.90\00:21:50.76
THAN THE BOAT COULD HOLD BECAUSE
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE NET WAS
00:21:50.76\00:21:54.43
SO FULL OF FISH THAT NOT ONLY
WAS IT TOO MANY FISH FOR ONE
00:21:54.43\00:21:58.93
BOAT, WHEN THEY
SIGNALED TO JAMES AND
00:21:58.93\00:22:01.40
JOHN, IT WAS TOO
MANY FISH FOR TWO
00:22:01.40\00:22:03.63
BOATS. BOTH
BOATS WERE DOWN TO THE
00:22:03.63\00:22:05.96
GUNWALES READY TO SINK
FROM THE BURDEN OF FISH.
00:22:05.96\00:22:10.00
THIS ALL HAPPENED WHEN THEY
DECIDED TO COOPERATE WITH JESUS.
00:22:10.00\00:22:14.63
NOW, THAT WAS AN
UNCONVENTIONAL WAY
00:22:14.63\00:22:18.20
OF FISHING, BUT IF
WE'RE WORKING FOR THE
00:22:18.20\00:22:21.80
LORD IN FISHING FOR MEN,
CAN THE LORD SOMETIMES BLESS
00:22:21.80\00:22:24.83
IN WAYS THAT YOU
WOULD NEVER DREAM?
00:22:24.83\00:22:27.66
IT'S AMAZING HOW THE
LORD - I MEAN, YOU KNOW,
00:22:27.66\00:22:30.26
GOD OFTEN DOES THINGS IN WAYS
THAT JUST DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
00:22:30.26\00:22:32.60
WHAT MILITARY
LEADER WOULD EVER SAY,
00:22:32.60\00:22:35.33
'I WANT YOU TO MARCH AROUND THE
CITY AND BLOW A HORN AND SHOUT?'
00:22:35.33\00:22:37.90
I MEAN, A LOT OF
THINGS THAT THE LORD
00:22:37.90\00:22:40.90
DID JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
BUT IT WAS GOD'S WAY OF SAYING,
00:22:40.90\00:22:44.63
'TRUST ME. FOLLOW ME.
FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTION.
00:22:44.63\00:22:47.86
DON'T QUESTION MY WORD AND I CAN
BLESS YOU AND FILL YOUR NETS.'
00:22:47.86\00:22:51.93
SO THIS IS A WONDERFUL LESSON.
00:22:51.93\00:22:54.76
YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT
ACTUALLY A - I'VE GOT A
00:22:54.76\00:22:56.80
LITTLE STUDY I DID A FEW YEARS
EARLIER - BECAUSE JESUS NOW SAYS
00:22:56.80\00:23:01.76
TO PETER, 'FOLLOW
ME AND I'LL MAKE YOU A
00:23:01.76\00:23:04.70
FISHER OF MEN.' IF
PETER WAS A SHEPHERD,
00:23:04.70\00:23:07.26
HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE
USED A DIFFERENT ANALOGY,
00:23:07.26\00:23:09.66
BUT THAT TEACHES US A
LESSON ABOUT EVANGELISM.
00:23:09.66\00:23:12.53
JESUS SPOKE TO PETER IN
TERMS PETER COULD UNDERSTAND.
00:23:12.53\00:23:15.43
IF JESUS WAS TALKING
TO A TAILOR, HE WOULD SAY,
00:23:15.43\00:23:19.56
'YOU DON'T TAKE A PIECE OF
UNSHRUNK CLOTH AND SEW IT ON A
00:23:19.56\00:23:24.23
PIECE OF OLD CLOTH.'
HE'D USE THAT ILLUSTRATION.
00:23:24.23\00:23:27.76
IF HE WAS TALKING TO
SOMEBODY WHO HAD A VINEYARD,
00:23:27.76\00:23:30.83
HE'D TALK ABOUT WINE SKINS.
00:23:30.83\00:23:32.20
IF HE WAS TALKING
ABOUT - TALKING TO SHEPHERDS,
00:23:32.20\00:23:34.23
JESUS WOULD TALK ABOUT SHEEP.
FARMERS, HE'D TALK ABOUT SEED.
00:23:34.23\00:23:36.70
WHEN HE WAS TALKING TO
FISHERMEN HE TALKED ABOUT FISH.
00:23:36.70\00:23:40.30
JESUS ALWAYS KNEW HOW TO RELATE
TO THE AUDIENCE HE WAS WITH.
00:23:40.30\00:23:44.90
AND HE SAID, 'LOOK,
FOLLOW ME AND I'LL MAKE YOU A
00:23:44.90\00:23:47.86
FISHER OF MEN.' WHEN COULD JESUS
MAKE PETER A FISHER OF MEN?
00:23:47.86\00:23:52.80
WHAT DID PETER HAVE TO DO FIRST?
00:23:52.80\00:23:54.80
HE FELL DOWN AND HE
SAID, 'LORD, DEPART FROM ME,
00:23:54.80\00:23:59.26
I AM A SINFUL MAN.' HE WAS
THINKING THAT JESUS WAS LIKE ONE
00:23:59.26\00:24:02.36
OF THE RELIGIOUS
LEADERS OF THE DAY.
00:24:02.36\00:24:04.50
DON'T - 'LORD, I
MIGHT CONTAMINATE YOU IF YOU
00:24:04.50\00:24:06.33
STAY TOO CLOSE, SO
YOU BETTER LEAVE.' BECAUSE
00:24:06.33\00:24:09.30
THEY WERE ALWAYS SO PREOCCUPIED.
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS DIDN'T
00:24:09.30\00:24:11.60
WANT TO BE RENDERED
UNCLEAN BY THE SINNERS.
00:24:11.60\00:24:14.76
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THEY CAME
TO JESUS AFTER MATTHEW CAME TO
00:24:14.76\00:24:17.33
FOLLOW CHRIST? AND MATTHEW MADE
A FEAST FOR HIM AND THEY SAID,
00:24:17.33\00:24:22.66
'WHAT IS YOUR MASTER
DOING EATING WITH PUBLICANS AND
00:24:22.66\00:24:24.86
SINNERS? THEY'LL
DEFILE HIM.' AND SO PETER,
00:24:24.86\00:24:28.96
NATURALLY THINKING JESUS THOUGHT
THAT WAY, SAID, 'DEPART FROM ME,
00:24:28.96\00:24:31.30
I'M A SINFUL
MAN.' AND JESUS SAID,
00:24:31.30\00:24:34.66
'YOU'VE COME TO THE
POINT OF REPENTANCE.
00:24:34.66\00:24:38.03
NOW I CAN USE YOU.
NOW I CAN TEACH YOU.
00:24:38.03\00:24:41.40
YOU'VE
SURRENDERED.' AND HE SAID,
00:24:41.40\00:24:44.00
'FOLLOW ME AND I'LL MAKE
YOU A FISHER OF MEN.' NOW,
00:24:44.00\00:24:47.16
DOES THE BIBLE
TEACH VARIATIONS OF VALUE?
00:24:47.16\00:24:50.13
YOU KNOW, WE'RE
LIVING IN A WORLD AND A
00:24:50.13\00:24:52.86
CULTURE TODAY WHERE EVERYTHING
IS JUST, SORT OF, BLURRED AND,
00:24:52.86\00:24:54.86
YOU KNOW, YOU START
TO WONDER WHAT'S MORE
00:24:54.86\00:24:58.53
IMPORTANT, PEOPLE OR
WHALES? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
00:24:58.53\00:25:01.50
PEOPLE WILL DIE TO SAVE
WHALES. THEY'VE GOT, YOU KNOW,
00:25:01.50\00:25:04.23
IT'S COMMENDABLE THERE ARE
PEOPLE THAT CARE ABOUT NATURE.
00:25:04.23\00:25:06.63
YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN SOME OF THE
GREENPEACE EXPEDITIONS THAT JUST
00:25:06.63\00:25:09.73
ABOUT GET RUN OVER BY SHIPS
BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO SAVE
00:25:09.73\00:25:12.33
THE WHALES. AND THERE ARE PEOPLE
WHO WILL DIE - THERE ARE LOGGERS
00:25:12.33\00:25:17.00
THAT - OR PEOPLE THAT WERE
TRYING TO SAVE TREES AND THEY
00:25:17.00\00:25:21.13
GOT BIVOUACKED UP IN THE TOP OF
THESE TALL TREES AND THE TREES
00:25:21.13\00:25:24.93
FELL AND THEY DIED - TRYING TO
SAVE A TREE. NOW, I DON'T KNOW
00:25:24.93\00:25:29.06
ABOUT YOU, BUT I THINK
I'M WORTH MORE THAN TREE.
00:25:29.06\00:25:30.90
I THINK I'M WORTH
MORE THAN A WHALE.
00:25:30.90\00:25:33.76
AND JESUS SAID - EVEN THOUGH
THEY'RE BIGGER - KEEP THAT IN
00:25:33.76\00:25:37.50
MIND, GOD DOES
NOT CHOOSE VALUE BASED
00:25:37.50\00:25:40.96
ON SIZE. THERE ARE
VARIATIONS OF VALUE.
00:25:40.96\00:25:45.30
NOW, I KNOW, SOME OF
YOU MAY BE OFFENDED BUT
00:25:45.30\00:25:47.03
YOU'RE WORTH MORE
THAN YOUR DOG AND CAT.
00:25:47.03\00:25:48.80
AND YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WORTH
MORE THAN YOUR DOG AND CAT.
00:25:48.80\00:25:52.43
AND WE HAVE DOGS AND CATS BUT,
YOU KNOW, AMERICANS SPEND A LOT
00:25:52.43\00:25:56.80
MORE ON DOGS AND CATS THAN SOME
COUNTRIES DO ON THEIR PEOPLE.
00:25:56.80\00:26:00.36
ANYONE STILL
WANT TO BE MY FRIEND?
00:26:00.36\00:26:05.73
THE BIBLE SAYS
JESUS SAID, 'YOU KNOW,
00:26:05.73\00:26:09.53
YOUR FATHER NOTICES A
SPARROW WHEN IT FALLS,
00:26:09.53\00:26:11.40
BUT' - HE SAID - 'YOU'RE
OF MORE VALUE THAN MANY SHEEP.
00:26:11.40\00:26:13.70
YOU'RE OF MORE VALUE THAN MANY
SPARROWS.' YOU CAN LOOK AT THE
00:26:13.70\00:26:19.13
ORDER OF CREATION AND GOD DID
THINGS IN ORDER OF THEIR VALUE.
00:26:19.13\00:26:22.73
HE MADE THE BARE ELEMENTS
AND THEN HE MADE THE LESSER
00:26:22.73\00:26:27.16
CREATURES AND THEN HE MADE
MAN AS THE CROWNING ACT OF HIS
00:26:27.16\00:26:29.43
CREATION. AND SO,
GOD SAYS TO PETER,
00:26:29.43\00:26:33.90
'YOU ENJOY
FISHING FOR FISH. YEAH,
00:26:33.90\00:26:37.00
THAT'S EXCITING
WHEN YOU CATCH A FISH.
00:26:37.00\00:26:38.60
HOW MUCH MORE EXCITING
SHOULD IT BE IF YOU CATCH A MAN?
00:26:38.60\00:26:40.63
AND YOU CATCH A
FISH AND, YOU KNOW,
00:26:40.63\00:26:44.56
YOU CLEAN IT - IT STARTS TO
STINK IF YOU DON'T EAT IT IN A
00:26:44.56\00:26:47.96
FEW DAYS AND WHAT ARE YOU
GOING TO DO WITH IT? IT'S FISH.
00:26:47.96\00:26:52.13
BUT WHEN YOU CATCH A MAN AND HE
BECOMES A SOUL WINNER AND YOU'RE
00:26:52.13\00:26:55.83
GOING TO SEE THAT PERSON IN
HEAVEN FOREVER.' SO JESUS WAS
00:26:55.83\00:26:57.96
SAYING, 'HOW MUCH
BETTER? FOLLOW ME.'
00:26:57.96\00:26:59.76
BUT PETER WAS, YOU
KNOW, HE REALLY LIKED FISHING.
00:26:59.76\00:27:04.03
NOW, WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING
THE DISCIPLES DECIDED TO DO
00:27:04.03\00:27:06.66
AFTER THE RESURRECTION?
THEY SAID - WHILE THEY WERE
00:27:06.66\00:27:09.90
WAITING FOR JESUS THEY
SAID, 'LET'S GO FISHING.' THEY
00:27:09.90\00:27:12.53
COULDN'T GET IT
OUT OF THEIR SYSTEM.
00:27:12.53\00:27:14.40
AND EVEN AFTER THEY
FIRST FOLLOWED JESUS,
00:27:14.40\00:27:16.26
THEY ENDED UP BACK AT
GALILEE FISHING AGAIN.
00:27:16.26\00:27:18.36
AND JESUS FINALLY SAID, 'LOOK,
FOLLOW ME.' AND IT SAYS THEY
00:27:18.36\00:27:20.86
FORSOOK THEIR NETS.
THEY FINALLY HAD TO FORSAKE
00:27:20.86\00:27:23.10
THEIR NETS AND THEIR
BOATS AND FOLLOW HIM.
00:27:23.10\00:27:26.90
IT'S REAL EASY TO KEEP
GOING BACK TO THE OLD WAYS.
00:27:26.90\00:27:29.40
ONE THING I'VE NOTICED
ABOUT FISHING: FISHING CAN BE
00:27:29.40\00:27:32.53
ADDICTIVE. ANY OF
YOU KNOW ANYBODY THAT'S
00:27:32.53\00:27:35.93
ADDICTED TO FISHING?
EVER MEET ANYBODY LIKE THAT?
00:27:35.93\00:27:40.13
IT'S LIKE THE SIGN OUT IN FRONT
OF THE BARBER SHOP - IT SAID,
00:27:40.13\00:27:43.26
'WE'LL BE CLOSED NEXT THURSDAY
DUE TO THE WEATHER.' AND SOMEONE
00:27:43.26\00:27:46.86
ASKED THE BARBER,
'HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE
00:27:46.86\00:27:48.56
WEATHER'S GOING
TO BE NEXT THURSDAY?'
00:27:48.56\00:27:50.40
HE SAID, 'WELL, IF IT'S RAINING,
I'M GOING TO BE FISHING.
00:27:50.40\00:27:52.80
IF IT'S SUNNY I'M
GOING TO BE FISHING.
00:27:52.80\00:27:54.50
IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE WEATHER.'
NO MATTER WHAT, SOME PEOPLE ARE
00:27:54.50\00:27:59.40
ADDICTED TO FISHING AND
THEY'RE FISHOHOLICS, I GUESS.
00:27:59.40\00:28:05.66
IF YOU WANT TO CATCH FISH - NOW
HERE'S SEVERAL POINTS ON FISHING
00:28:05.66\00:28:10.63
- MAYBE I SHOULD INCLUDE
THESE IN THE NOTES LATER.
00:28:10.63\00:28:12.83
IF YOU WANT TO CATCH FISH,
IT'S IMPORTANT TO GO TO WHERE
00:28:12.83\00:28:15.23
THE FISH ARE. JESUS DID NOT SAY
TO PETER, 'LET'S STAY HERE ON
00:28:15.23\00:28:20.50
THE SHORE AND SEE IF ANY
FISH JUMP IN THE BOAT.' HE SAID,
00:28:20.50\00:28:23.30
'LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP.'
YOU'VE GOT TO GO OUT INTO THE
00:28:23.30\00:28:26.63
DEEP IF YOU WANT
TO CATCH THE FISH.
00:28:26.63\00:28:29.06
YOU'VE GOT TO GO
WHERE THE FISH ARE.
00:28:29.06\00:28:30.73
NOW, IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE
GOT TO GET IN THE WATER OR YOU
00:28:30.73\00:28:33.30
END UP LIKE JONAH AND THE FISH
CATCH YOU. BUT YOU DO HAVE TO
00:28:33.30\00:28:36.80
GO TO WHERE FISH ARE TO CATCH
FISH. SOME PEOPLE WANT TO DO
00:28:36.80\00:28:39.00
MISSION WORK AND THEY NEVER
REALLY REACH OUT. THEY HAVE NO
00:28:39.00\00:28:41.03
FRIENDS OUTSIDE OF THEIR CHURCH
- AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO WIN
00:28:41.03\00:28:44.23
SOULS TO CHRIST, YOU NEED
TO HAVE SOME RELATIONSHIPS THAT
00:28:44.23\00:28:46.63
ARE BESIDE JUST YOUR
CHURCH RELATIONSHIPS, AMEN?
00:28:46.63\00:28:49.96
BEING PATIENT - IF YOU WANT
TO BE A FISHERMAN - YOU KNOW,
00:28:49.96\00:28:54.76
PEOPLE LOVE TO SEE FISHING
WHERE SOMEONE'S ACTUALLY GOT ONE
00:28:54.76\00:29:01.06
HOOKED AND THEY'RE REELING IT IN
AND THEY'RE FIGHTING THE FISH.
00:29:01.06\00:29:03.23
IT'S EXCITING, BUT IN REALITY,
YOU KNOW WHAT FISHING IS?
00:29:03.23\00:29:05.63
A LOT OF WAITING
AROUND IN THE SUN,
00:29:05.63\00:29:09.90
ROCKING BACK AND FORTH IN
THE BOAT, SITTING ON THE DOCK,
00:29:09.90\00:29:13.80
REELING IT IN AND FINDING
OUT THE FISH TOOK YOUR BAIT AND
00:29:13.80\00:29:16.50
YOU'VE GOT AN EMPTY HOOK AND
YOU'VE GOT TO HOOK IT UP AGAIN
00:29:16.50\00:29:18.96
AND THROW IT BACK OUT
AGAIN, AND IT TAKES PATIENCE.
00:29:18.96\00:29:23.40
SOUL WINNING TAKES PATIENCE.
PEOPLE DON'T NECESSARILY CONVERT
00:29:23.40\00:29:27.90
AND LEARN EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY.
TO BE A SUCCESSFUL FISHERMAN,
00:29:27.90\00:29:31.43
YOU'VE GOT TO
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE.
00:29:31.43\00:29:33.36
THERE'S A VIDEO THAT YOU CAN
ACTUALLY SEE ON YOUTUBE OF SOME
00:29:33.36\00:29:39.90
FISHERMEN IN SOUTH AMERICA
- IT'S AN INCREDIBLE VIDEO.
00:29:39.90\00:29:42.16
I THINK I'VE SHOWED IT
TO SEVERAL FRIENDS BEFORE -
00:29:42.16\00:29:44.60
A TRIBUTARY OF THE
AMAZON CALLED THE MEQUENS
00:29:44.60\00:29:51.33
RIVER AND THEY GO OUT
AT NIGHT, THESE FISHERMEN,
00:29:51.33\00:29:56.03
AND THEY TAKE A SPOTLIGHT -
A BATTERY POWERED SPOTLIGHT,
00:29:56.03\00:29:59.60
AND THEY SHINE IT ON THE WATER
AND THERE'S THIS INCREDIBLE
00:29:59.60\00:30:02.60
YOUTUBE OF ALL OF A SUDDEN THE
FISH GET REAL EXCITED AND THEY
00:30:02.60\00:30:05.26
BEGIN TO JUMP. AND
THEY START JUMPING AND
00:30:05.26\00:30:08.23
JUMPING AND YOU'RE WATCHING
THIS VIDEO OF THE FISH LITERALLY
00:30:08.23\00:30:11.80
JUMPING INTO THE BOAT.
THE MAN NEVER PUTS A NET DOWN.
00:30:11.80\00:30:15.43
HE NEVER PUTS A POLE OUT,
NEVER PUTS A HOOK IN THE WATER -
00:30:15.43\00:30:17.36
ALL HE DOES IS SHINE A LIGHT ON
THE WATER AND THE FISH ATTRACTED
00:30:17.36\00:30:20.56
TO THE LIGHT, JUST
START JUMPING LIKE MAD.
00:30:20.56\00:30:22.93
NOW THE THEORY IS THE LIGHT
ATTRACTS THE BUGS AND THE FISH
00:30:22.93\00:30:24.83
JUMP FOR THE BUGS
BUT, IN THE PROCESS,
00:30:24.83\00:30:27.16
HIS BOAT WAS FILLED WITH FISH
FROM LETTING THE LIGHT SHINE.
00:30:27.16\00:30:32.96
AND I BELIEVE, IN A
COMMUNITY THE SIZE OF
00:30:32.96\00:30:37.00
SACRAMENTO - THERE'S SO MANY
PEOPLE HERE THAT THERE'S PLENTY
00:30:37.00\00:30:41.26
OF SINNERS OUT THERE - IF WE
LET THE LIGHT SHINE - YOU KNOW,
00:30:41.26\00:30:45.10
SOMETIMES CHURCHES GET
COMPETITIVE AND THEY SAY, 'OH,
00:30:45.10\00:30:48.16
YOUR CHURCH IS TOO CLOSE TO
MY CHURCH' AND 'DON'T ADVERTISE
00:30:48.16\00:30:51.60
YOUR EVANGELISM IN MY DISTRICT.'
AND I REMEMBER ONE OF OUR
00:30:51.60\00:30:55.10
CONFERENCE
PRESIDENTS YEARS AGO SAID,
00:30:55.10\00:30:57.70
'THERE ARE PLENTY OF SINNERS
TO GO AROUND.' THERE'S A LOT OF
00:30:57.70\00:31:01.70
LOST PEOPLE OUT THERE AND YOU'VE
JUST GOT TO LET THE LIGHT SHINE
00:31:01.70\00:31:05.36
AND THEY'LL COME. FISH
ARE ATTRACTED TO GOOD FOOD.
00:31:05.36\00:31:07.90
IN FISHING, BEFORE
YOU - YOU NEED TO KNOW,
00:31:07.90\00:31:11.86
FIRST OF ALL, WHAT THE FISH
LIKE. DIFFERENT FISH GO AFTER
00:31:11.86\00:31:15.03
DIFFERENT FOOD AND YOU
PUT THE FOOD WHERE THEY ARE.
00:31:15.03\00:31:18.40
IF YOU'RE GOING AFTER TUNA - IN
HAWAII THEY CALL THEM GORILLAS -
00:31:18.40\00:31:23.46
THE BIG TUNA - THEN YOU SUSPEND
THE LINE DOWN HUNDREDS OF FEET
00:31:23.46\00:31:26.90
DOWN - IT MIGHT EVEN BE A
THOUSAND FEET DOWN - THESE GREAT
00:31:26.90\00:31:30.40
BIG FISH ARE DOWN THERE.
AND IF YOU'RE TRYING TO CATCH
00:31:30.40\00:31:32.80
MARLIN THEN YOU
TROLL ACROSS THE SURFACE.
00:31:32.80\00:31:35.70
I MEAN, ALL THE DIFFERENT FISH
HAVE THEIR DIFFERENT HABITS.
00:31:35.70\00:31:38.33
YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEIR FOOD
OF PREFERENCE IS AND WHERE TO
00:31:38.33\00:31:41.10
FISH FOR THEM. AND IT TAKES SOME
STUDY LIKE THAT IN SOUL-WINNING.
00:31:41.10\00:31:44.53
BEST WAY TO CATCH
FISH IS WITH A FRESH FISH.
00:31:44.53\00:31:48.43
I REMEMBER WE WERE OUT FISHING
IN HAWAII ONE TIME AND I CAUGHT
00:31:48.43\00:31:53.20
JUST A LITTLE TUNA ABOUT THAT
BIG FROM THE BOAT WITH A POLE.
00:31:53.20\00:31:56.16
I WAS SO EXCITED I THOUGHT
WE'D MOUNT IT OR SOMETHING.
00:31:56.16\00:31:58.50
THAT'S AN
EXAGGERATION, BUT STEVE,
00:31:58.50\00:32:02.76
THE CAPTAIN OF THAT LITTLE BOAT,
HE KIND OF TOOK IT AWAY FROM ME
00:32:02.76\00:32:05.96
AND, WITHOUT ASKING ME,
HE WAS VERY DEXTROUS WITH HIS
00:32:05.96\00:32:09.96
FISHING BOX AND HIS HANDS
AND WHILE THAT FISH WAS STILL
00:32:09.96\00:32:13.00
GULPING AIR, RIGHT
AFTER I PULLED IT OUT OF
00:32:13.00\00:32:14.93
THE WATER, AND VERY LIVELY,
HE STRAPPED A HOOK TO THE BACK
00:32:14.93\00:32:19.13
OF THAT POOR THING,
THREW IT BACK IN THE WATER -
00:32:19.13\00:32:21.70
HOOKED IT TO A POLE. I SAID,
'WHAT'D YOU DO WITH MY FISH?'
00:32:21.70\00:32:24.86
HE SAYS, 'AH,' - HE
SAYS - 'NOW WE'RE GOING
00:32:24.86\00:32:26.63
TO CATCH A REAL FISH.' AND
SURE ENOUGH, WITH THAT FISH,
00:32:26.63\00:32:29.10
WE CAUGHT A MARLIN. BEST
WAY TO CATCH A FISH IS WITH
00:32:29.10\00:32:32.30
A LIVE FISH. YOU
KNOW WHO THE BEST SOUL
00:32:32.30\00:32:35.90
WINNERS ARE? NEW CONVERTS.
00:32:35.90\00:32:38.43
NEW CONVERTS HAVE
THAT RAW ENTHUSIASM.
00:32:38.43\00:32:41.83
THEY'RE NOT AFRAID TO
TELL ANYBODY ABOUT THEIR FAITH.
00:32:41.83\00:32:44.30
THEY'VE GOT THAT FIRST LOVE.
THEY WANT TO TELL EVERYONE.
00:32:44.30\00:32:46.26
THEY HAVEN'T HEARD YET THEY'RE
NOT SUPPOSED TO ACT THE WAY
00:32:46.26\00:32:48.80
THEY'RE ACTING AND BE SO
EXUBERANT AND UP-FRONT ABOUT
00:32:48.80\00:32:55.43
THEIR FAITH.
THEY'LL TALK TO ANYBODY.
00:32:55.43\00:32:57.23
SO YOU CAN CATCH
FISH WITH FRESH FISH.
00:32:57.23\00:33:00.53
IF YOU WANT TO
CATCH FISH, SOMETIMES,
00:33:00.53\00:33:02.83
INSTEAD OF LOOKING DOWN IN THE
WATER, YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK UP.
00:33:02.83\00:33:05.60
YOU HAVE TO BE IN
AN ATTITUDE OF PRAYER.
00:33:05.60\00:33:08.26
MY FRIEND, STEVE, I
REMEMBER HE'D BE DRIVING OUT
00:33:08.26\00:33:10.93
IN THIS TRACKLESS OCEAN AND ALL
OF A SUDDEN HE'D - HE WAS JUST
00:33:10.93\00:33:13.46
GOING ALONG FOR HOURS
- HE'D TAKE A SHARP TURN.
00:33:13.46\00:33:15.96
I SAID, 'WHAT ARE
YOU DOING?' I SAID,
00:33:15.96\00:33:18.83
'DID YOU SEE A SIGN SOMEWHERE
THAT SAID 'TURN HERE?''
00:33:18.83\00:33:21.26
HE SAID, 'NO, SEE
THE BIRDS OUT THERE?'
00:33:21.26\00:33:23.43
HE SAID, 'THE BIRDS
ARE WORKING THE WATER.
00:33:23.43\00:33:25.36
THEY'RE WORKING THE WATER
BECAUSE THERE'S LITTLE FISH.
00:33:25.36\00:33:27.53
WHERE THERE'S LITTLE FISH,
THERE'S GOING TO BE BIGGER FISH.
00:33:27.53\00:33:29.50
YOU'VE GOT TO WATCH THE BIRDS.
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR
00:33:29.50\00:33:32.43
THE LEADING OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO KNOW WHERE TO GO.
00:33:32.43\00:33:35.13
HAVE YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF
ACTS HOW MANY TIMES THE APOSTLES
00:33:35.13\00:33:37.30
SAID, 'WE ASKED
ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:33:37.30\00:33:39.83
WE TRIED TO GO HERE AND
THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID, 'NO,
00:33:39.83\00:33:41.66
INSTEAD I WANT YOU TO GO
TO MACEDONIA.'' OR - AND SO,
00:33:41.66\00:33:43.80
YOU'VE GOT TO STAY OPEN AND
BE PRAYING ABOUT WHERE TO FISH,
00:33:43.80\00:33:46.86
OR YOU COULD WASTE A LOT OF
TIME. FISHING PAYS FOR FISHING.
00:33:46.86\00:33:51.90
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I
RUN INTO CHURCHES AND
00:33:51.90\00:33:55.03
CONFERENCES THAT SAY, 'WE
CAN'T AFFORD TO DO EVANGELISM.
00:33:55.03\00:33:57.93
THAT IS THE KISS OF DEATH
WHEN YOU HEAR ANYONE SAY THAT.
00:33:57.93\00:34:00.60
BECAUSE IF A FISHERMAN SAYS,
'I CAN'T GO FISHING BECAUSE I
00:34:00.60\00:34:04.76
DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
MONEY TO FISH TODAY.' WELL,
00:34:04.76\00:34:07.46
THE WAY YOU GET MONEY IS BY
FISHING - IF YOU'RE A FISHERMAN.
00:34:07.46\00:34:09.33
AND SO, YOU'VE GOT
TO GO OUT FISHING TO
00:34:09.33\00:34:13.03
GET MORE FISH TO PAY FOR YOUR
FISHING. AND SO, YOU KNOW, IF -
00:34:13.03\00:34:20.26
I REMEMBER ONE TIME,
PETER NEEDED SOME MONEY.
00:34:20.26\00:34:23.40
YOU KNOW WHAT
JESUS TOLD HIM TO DO?
00:34:23.40\00:34:24.80
HE WAS GOING TO
PAY THE TEMPLE TAX.
00:34:24.80\00:34:26.53
HE SAID, 'GO OUT TO THE LAKE,
PUT YOUR LINE IN THE WATER,
00:34:26.53\00:34:28.93
YOU'LL CATCH A FISH WITH GOLD IN
ITS MOUTH.' AND IF YOU WANT THE
00:34:28.93\00:34:32.00
TITHE IN A CHURCH OR
OFFERINGS IN A CHURCH TO GO UP,
00:34:32.00\00:34:34.66
YOU NEED MORE PEOPLE TO
PRODUCE TITHE AND OFFERINGS.
00:34:34.66\00:34:37.06
I KNOW THAT SOUNDS PRETTY
CRASS, BUT IT WORKS THAT WAY.
00:34:37.06\00:34:40.30
IF YOU WANT YOUR CHURCH TO GROW,
YOU'VE GOT TO WIN NEW PEOPLE AND
00:34:40.30\00:34:43.13
YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY
BE BRINGING THEM IN AND THAT
00:34:43.13\00:34:46.46
SUBSIDIZES MORE EVANGELISM TO
BRING IN MORE PEOPLE AND THAT'S
00:34:46.46\00:34:48.70
THE WAY IT WORKS.
FISHING PAYS FOR FISHING.
00:34:48.70\00:34:52.36
WHEN YOU FISH
PREDATORS WILL COME.
00:34:52.36\00:34:55.40
SEVERAL TIMES I'VE SEEN IT WHERE
YOU HOOK UP A BIG FISH AND IN
00:34:55.40\00:34:59.56
FIGHTING THAT, I
REMEMBER WE CAUGHT THIS MARLIN
00:34:59.56\00:35:03.13
ONE TIME AND WE WERE FIGHTING IT
INTO THE BOAT AND - IT TAKES A
00:35:03.13\00:35:06.40
LONG TIME. YOU
REEL THEM IN AND THEY -
00:35:06.40\00:35:08.23
ZHHHHH - THEY TAKE
THE LINE BACK OUT AGAIN.
00:35:08.23\00:35:09.90
YOU REEL THEM IN - YOUR ARM
FEELS LIKE RUBBER AFTER AWHILE.
00:35:09.90\00:35:11.66
AND, ONE TIME, IN PARTICULAR,
BY THE TIME WE GOT THAT FISH IN
00:35:11.66\00:35:14.46
THE BOAT, THERE
WERE THREE LARGE BROWN
00:35:14.46\00:35:17.46
SHARKS THAT WERE WANTING TO TAKE
A PIECE OUT OF THAT FISH BEFORE
00:35:17.46\00:35:21.16
WE EVEN GOT IT IN.
THEY SMELLED THE BLOOD.
00:35:21.16\00:35:23.90
HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER
HEARD OF THAT BEFORE?
00:35:23.90\00:35:26.20
I USED TO PUT A LINE IN THE
WATER - I'D CATCH A FISH BEFORE
00:35:26.20\00:35:29.23
I'D GO TO SCHOOL, IN
FLORIDA - DAD HAD A HOUSE ON
00:35:29.23\00:35:32.90
THE WATER - MY BROTHER AND
I, WE'D CAST OUR LINES OUT,
00:35:32.90\00:35:35.56
WE'D TIE THEM OFF REAL GOOD
TO THE DOCK, WE'D GO TO SCHOOL,
00:35:35.56\00:35:38.56
COME BACK, AND
EXPECT TO REEL IT IN.
00:35:38.56\00:35:40.30
WELL, WE'D FIND
OUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED
00:35:40.30\00:35:42.30
IS WE CAUGHT A FISH AND WHILE
THAT POOR THING WAS ON THE LINE,
00:35:42.30\00:35:44.36
ANOTHER BIGGER FISH CAME AND
ATE THAT FISH AND WE ENDED UP
00:35:44.36\00:35:46.40
CATCHING A FISH
WITH A FISH IN IT.
00:35:46.40\00:35:48.33
SO WHEN YOU CATCH
FISH, PREDATORS COME IN.
00:35:48.33\00:35:54.36
AND IF YOU'RE DOING EVANGELISM,
YOU'RE GOING TO ENCOUNTER
00:35:54.36\00:35:56.56
RESISTANCE. WHEN THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
00:35:56.56\00:35:59.66
COMING OUT OF EGYPT,
PHARAOH RAN AFTER THEM.
00:35:59.66\00:36:02.70
AND YOU CATCH MORE
FISH BY WORKING TOGETHER.
00:36:02.70\00:36:06.60
THIS SAME OCCASION, WHEN
WE CAUGHT THIS BIG MARLIN,
00:36:06.60\00:36:11.00
WE NEEDED ONE GUY
TO STEER THE BOAT.
00:36:11.00\00:36:14.13
WE'D BE YELLING
AT HIM, 'TURN LEFT!
00:36:14.13\00:36:16.23
THE THING'S GOING TO WRAP THE
LINE AROUND THE PROPELLER.' SO
00:36:16.23\00:36:18.46
ONE GUY'S STEERING THE BOAT,
ANOTHER GUY WAS GETTING THE GAFF
00:36:18.46\00:36:20.60
READY, AND SOMEONE
ELSE WAS PULLING ON
00:36:20.60\00:36:23.66
THE LINE WITH THEIR HANDS WHILE
I WAS REELING. ANOTHER GUY WAS
00:36:23.66\00:36:26.73
TAKING PICTURES, I MEAN,
EVERYONE WAS WORKING TOGETHER.
00:36:26.73\00:36:28.70
IT'S KIND OF NEAT WHEN
YOU SEE A CHURCH ALL ENGAGED -
00:36:28.70\00:36:31.63
EVERYONE USING THEIR SPIRITUAL
GIFTS IN FISHING FOR MEN.
00:36:31.63\00:36:34.80
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING.
00:36:34.80\00:36:36.03
WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR STORY
WE JUST READ WHEN JESUS FILLED
00:36:36.03\00:36:40.20
PETER'S NET, THEY
SIGNALED TO THEIR PARTNERS
00:36:40.20\00:36:43.23
- THEIR FRIENDS
- JAMES AND JOHN.
00:36:43.23\00:36:45.33
THEY CAME OVER AND HELPED
AND THEY ALL WORKED TOGETHER AND
00:36:45.33\00:36:47.80
THEY FILLED BOTH BOATS -
NOT JUST PETER'S BOAT BUT,
00:36:47.80\00:36:51.16
BECAUSE THEY WORKED TOGETHER,
BOTH BOATS WERE FILLED.
00:36:51.16\00:36:53.73
EVEN THOUGH JESUS
WAS IN ONE OF THE BOATS,
00:36:53.73\00:36:56.33
BECAUSE THEY WORKED TOGETHER,
BOTH BOATS WERE FILLED.
00:36:56.33\00:36:59.60
SOMETIMES WE'LL GO TO AN
AREA WHERE WE'LL DO EVANGELISM
00:36:59.60\00:37:02.26
WHERE SEVERAL
CHURCHES WORK TOGETHER.
00:37:02.26\00:37:04.53
AND EVEN THOUGH THE
MEETING MIGHT BE IN ONE CHURCH,
00:37:04.53\00:37:06.93
THE LORD CAN STILL FILL ALL
THE CHURCHES THAT WORK TOGETHER.
00:37:06.93\00:37:10.96
SO - AND THEN THE FINAL POINT,
AND THIS IS JUST POINTS ABOUT
00:37:10.96\00:37:13.93
THIS TRUTH
ABOUT FISHING FOR MEN,
00:37:13.93\00:37:16.70
IS THAT IT'S ALWAYS A GREAT JOY
WHEN YOU GO BACK TO SHORE AND
00:37:16.70\00:37:24.96
YOUR BOAT IS FULL OF FISH.
LIKE THE SHEPHERD WHO REJOICES
00:37:24.96\00:37:30.33
WHEN HE'S FOUND
THAT MISSING SHEEP,
00:37:30.33\00:37:31.93
WHEN A FISHERMAN COMES
BACK EMPTY, IS HE SAD OR HAPPY?
00:37:31.93\00:37:34.10
>>HE'S SAD. >>HE'S SAD.
00:37:34.10\00:37:36.66
WHEN HE COMES BACK AND
HE'S GOT A TROPHY FISH,
00:37:36.66\00:37:40.20
HE WANTS TO TELL
EVERYBODY - HE'S HAPPY.
00:37:40.20\00:37:43.16
THERE'S NO GREATER JOY THAN
KNOWING YOU HAVE CAUGHT MEN -
00:37:43.16\00:37:46.76
THAT YOU'VE WON SOULS TO JESUS.
AND ANYTHING YOU DO IN THIS
00:37:46.76\00:37:51.96
WORLD IS TEMPORARY,
BUT WHEN YOU WIN SOULS,
00:37:51.96\00:37:54.86
THE RESULTS OF
THAT LAST FOREVER.
00:37:54.86\00:37:57.40
SO IN HEAVEN,
THROUGH ETERNITY - I REMEMBER
00:37:57.40\00:37:59.60
WHEN WE CAUGHT THIS MARLIN -
THIS BIG MARLIN - IT WAS A BIG
00:37:59.60\00:38:04.46
300-POUND MARLIN - IT'S - WHICH
IS, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE WANTS TO
00:38:04.46\00:38:06.60
CATCH A MARLIN - AND WE WERE
ON OUR WAY BACK INTO KONA AND
00:38:06.60\00:38:13.20
THERE WERE OTHER FISHING
BOATS THAT WERE GOING OUT - AND
00:38:13.20\00:38:16.20
THIS FISH WAS SO BIG IT
WOULDN'T FIT IN THE FISH BOX.
00:38:16.20\00:38:18.10
ITS NOSE WAS STICKING UP KIND OF
OUT OF THE BACK AND ITS TAIL WAS
00:38:18.10\00:38:20.80
STICKING UP BY
THE STEERING SEAT.
00:38:20.80\00:38:22.60
IT JUST, KIND OF, WAS
LAYING IN THERE AND EVERYONE
00:38:22.60\00:38:25.10
COULD SEE YOU HAD A FISH. STEVE,
HE DROVE OUT OF HIS WAY TO GO BY
00:38:25.10\00:38:28.16
THE OTHER BOATS SO
THEY COULD SEE OUR FISH -
00:38:28.16\00:38:30.80
BECAUSE YOU'RE
HAPPY WHEN YOU CATCH FISH.
00:38:30.80\00:38:37.53
AND IT'S REALLY
EXCITING WHEN YOU WIN SOULS.
00:38:37.53\00:38:40.63
AND I'LL JUST TELL YOU,
IT'S FUN - YEARS AFTER BAPTIZING
00:38:40.63\00:38:43.86
PEOPLE - WHEN YOU LOOK AND YOU
SAY 'THIS PERSON IS DOING THIS
00:38:43.86\00:38:47.06
FOR THE LORD AND THAT PERSON IS
DOING THIS FOR THE LORD' AND YOU
00:38:47.06\00:38:49.60
CAN SAY, TO YOUR FRIENDS 'I
BAPTIZED THEM' OR 'I SAW THEM
00:38:49.60\00:38:52.83
COME TO JESUS' OR 'I BROUGHT
THEM TO THEIR FIRST BIBLE
00:38:52.83\00:38:56.50
STUDY.' AND YOU
REJOICE IN DOING THAT FOREVER.
00:38:56.50\00:38:59.06
SO JUST A FEW
THOUGHTS ON FISHING.
00:38:59.06\00:39:01.03
THAT'S CERTAINLY NOT
OUR WHOLE LESSON TODAY.
00:39:01.03\00:39:02.93
ALRIGHT, SO NOW IN
ORDER TO BE A FISHER,
00:39:02.93\00:39:08.63
JESUS DIDN'T JUST SAY,
'I WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS OF
00:39:08.63\00:39:11.80
MEN.' WHAT DID HE
SAY YOU HAD TO DO?
00:39:11.80\00:39:13.70
'FOLLOW ME AND THEN I WILL MAKE
YOU FISHERS OF MEN.' YOU WILL
00:39:13.70\00:39:18.66
NOT AUTOMATICALLY BECOME A
FISHER OF MEN AND WOMEN UNLESS
00:39:18.66\00:39:21.23
YOU FOLLOW. AND SO HE SAID,
'FOLLOW ME AND I WILL MAKE YOU
00:39:21.23\00:39:24.36
ONE.' SO HE ALSO SAYS THAT,
BY THE WAY, IN MATTHEW 4:18.
00:39:24.36\00:39:28.66
ALRIGHT, THE NEXT SECTION IS THE
00:39:28.66\00:39:30.93
SELECTION OF THE TWELVE -
MEANING THE TWELVE APOSTLES -
00:39:30.93\00:39:34.53
AND YOU CAN JUMP WITH ME TO LUKE
5:28 - 27 RATHER - AND IT SAYS,
00:39:34.53\00:39:41.16
"AFTER THESE THINGS HE WENT OUT
AND SAW A TAX COLLECTOR NAMED
00:39:41.16\00:39:44.13
LEVI, SITTING AT THE TAX
OFFICE. AND HE SAID TO HIM,
00:39:44.13\00:39:48.20
'FOLLOW ME.' SO HE LEFT
ALL, ROSE UP, AND FOLLOWED HIM."
00:39:48.20\00:39:52.46
WE'RE GOING TO TALK MORE
ABOUT THAT LATER - THE COST OF
00:39:52.46\00:39:54.43
DISCIPLESHIP.
MATTHEW LEVI GOT UP AND HE
00:39:54.43\00:39:56.63
WALKED AWAY FROM HIS CASH
REGISTER AND HE FOLLOWED JESUS.
00:39:56.63\00:40:00.23
PETER, JAMES, JOHN,
ANDREW - THEY WALKED AWAY FROM
00:40:00.23\00:40:05.63
THEIR NETS. WE
DON'T KNOW FOR SURE,
00:40:05.63\00:40:08.60
WE KNOW AT LEAST ONE OF
JESUS' APOSTLES WAS A SCRIBE.
00:40:08.60\00:40:13.33
WHICH ONE WAS
THAT? PROBABLY JUDAS.
00:40:13.33\00:40:16.93
YOU REMEMBER THE PASSAGE WHERE
IT SAYS THAT THERE WAS A CERTAIN
00:40:16.93\00:40:21.30
SCRIBE THAT SAID,
'I'D LIKE TO FOLLOW YOU,
00:40:21.30\00:40:24.40
MASTER.' MATTER OF FACT,
YOU FIND THAT IN MATTHEW 8:19,
00:40:24.40\00:40:26.83
"THEN A CERTAIN SCRIBE" -
MATTHEW 8:19 - "CAME AND SAID TO
00:40:26.83\00:40:29.70
HIM, 'TEACHER, I WILL
FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU
00:40:29.70\00:40:31.80
GO.' AND JESUS SAID TO HIM,
'FOXES HAVE HOLES AND BIRDS OF
00:40:31.80\00:40:34.73
THE AIR HAVE NESTS, BUT
THE SON OF MAN HAS NOWHERE
00:40:34.73\00:40:37.33
TO LAY HIS HEAD.'" NOW,
THE REASON - IF YOU READ IN THE
00:40:37.33\00:40:40.16
SPIRIT OF PROPHECY,
IT SAYS THAT WAS JUDAS.
00:40:40.16\00:40:42.33
WHY DID JESUS SAY THIS?
00:40:42.33\00:40:45.10
BECAUSE HE WAS THINKING, 'OH,
CHRIST IS GOING TO ESTABLISH AN
00:40:45.10\00:40:49.36
EARTHLY KINGDOM AND I WANT TO BE
THERE AND I WANT TO BE ABLE TO
00:40:49.36\00:40:51.96
CASH IN ON THAT
KINGDOM.' AND, YOU KNOW,
00:40:51.96\00:40:54.90
JESUS WAS TELLING JUDAS WHAT HE
SAID TO THE OTHERS: 'IF YOU'RE
00:40:54.90\00:40:56.96
FOLLOWING ME FOR AN EARTHLY
MANSION, I HAVE NOWHERE TO LAY
00:40:56.96\00:41:01.56
MY HEAD DOWN HERE.' SO HE WAS
MAKING IT CLEAR 'YOU'VE GOT TO
00:41:01.56\00:41:07.13
LIQUIDATE.' SO FISHERMEN,
TAX COLLECTOR, SCRIBE - THE NAME
00:41:07.13\00:41:12.56
PHILIP MEANS SOMETHING -
HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH HORSES.
00:41:12.56\00:41:16.20
SOME HAVE WONDERED IF MAYBE
HE WAS A KEEPER OF HORSES OR
00:41:16.20\00:41:19.10
SOMETHING. OTHERS
MAY HAVE BEEN SHEPHERDS.
00:41:19.10\00:41:21.20
WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT
ALL THEIR OCCUPATIONS,
00:41:21.20\00:41:22.90
BUT AT LEAST FOUR
OF THEM WERE FISHERMEN.
00:41:22.90\00:41:26.03
SOMEONE ELSE SAID,
'LORD, LET ME FIRST' - HE SAID,
00:41:26.03\00:41:30.26
'FOLLOW ME' - AND HE
SAID, 'LET ME FIRST GO BURY MY
00:41:30.26\00:41:32.60
FATHER.' AND JESUS SAID,
'FOLLOW ME AND LET THE DEAD BURY
00:41:32.60\00:41:35.66
THEIR DEAD.' THAT COULD
HAVE BEEN THOMAS WHO SAID,
00:41:35.66\00:41:38.66
'I CAN'T FOLLOW YOU NOW.'
AND HE WAS ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE
00:41:38.66\00:41:40.83
OBSTACLES - 'YOU KNOW, MY
DAD IS OLD AND WEAK AND I'VE
00:41:40.83\00:41:43.16
GOT TO BE AROUND TO TAKE
CARE OF HIM.' AND HE SAID,
00:41:43.16\00:41:44.90
'YOU FOLLOW ME.' AND THEN IF
YOU LOOK IN JOHN 1:43 HE SAYS TO
00:41:44.90\00:41:55.40
PHILIP, 'FOLLOW ME.' WHAT
DOES IT MEAN TO FOLLOW THE LORD?
00:41:55.40\00:42:05.33
I JUST GRABBED A VERSE
FROM 1 KINGS 14:8 AND HE SAYS,
00:42:05.33\00:42:11.60
"...YOU HAVE NOT
BEEN AS MY SERVANT DAVID,
00:42:11.60\00:42:13.13
WHO KEPT MY COMMANDMENTS
AND FOLLOWED ME WITH ALL HIS
00:42:13.13\00:42:15.60
HEART..." IS THERE
A CONNECTION BETWEEN
00:42:15.60\00:42:18.70
KEEPING GOD'S
COMMANDMENTS AND FOLLOWING HIM?
00:42:18.70\00:42:21.03
IT SAYS DAVID 'FOLLOWED
WITH ALL HIS HEART...WHO KEPT MY
00:42:21.03\00:42:24.26
COMMANDMENTS.' NOW,
WHEN HE SELECTS THE TWELVE,
00:42:24.26\00:42:28.30
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT EVENT.
00:42:28.30\00:42:30.60
IT SAYS - AND YOU CAN READ ABOUT
THIS - NOW WE'RE IN LUKE CHAPTER
00:42:30.60\00:42:34.76
6 - IN LUKE 6, VERSE 12,
"NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE
00:42:34.76\00:42:40.60
DAYS THAT HE WENT OUT
TO THE MOUNTAIN TO PRAY,"
00:42:40.60\00:42:42.86
- AND JESUS FREQUENTLY
DID THAT BUT THIS TIME HE -
00:42:42.86\00:42:45.73
"CONTINUED ALL
NIGHT IN PRAYER TO GOD."
00:42:45.73\00:42:51.26
I'M NOT GOING TO ASK
YOU TO RAISE YOUR HANDS,
00:42:51.26\00:42:52.43
BUT HAVE YOU EVER SPENT AN
ENTIRE NIGHT AWAKE PRAYING?
00:42:52.43\00:42:55.40
YOU CAN FALL
ASLEEP ON YOUR KNEES.
00:42:55.40\00:42:59.00
BUT JUST - I KNOW A LOT OF
US PROBABLY HAVE BEEN PART OF A
00:42:59.00\00:43:02.20
24-HOUR PRAYER VIGIL WHERE YOU
DIVIDE UP A CLOCK AND SOMEONE
00:43:02.20\00:43:05.73
SAYS, 'LOOK, I'LL
PRAY THIS HOUR.' AND
00:43:05.73\00:43:08.53
SOMEONE SAYS, 'AND
THEN YOU CAN GO BACK TO
00:43:08.53\00:43:09.96
SLEEP AND I'LL WAKE UP AND I'LL
PRAY FOR THIS HOUR.' YOU KNOW
00:43:09.96\00:43:12.43
HOW THE DISCIPLES STRUGGLED TO
PRAY WITH JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF
00:43:12.43\00:43:15.43
GETHSEMANE AND THEY
KEPT FALLING ASLEEP?
00:43:15.43\00:43:18.73
AND WHEN THEY WERE ON THE MOUNT
OF TRANSFIGURATION - THEY'RE
00:43:18.73\00:43:20.76
PRAYING, THEY'RE FALLING
ASLEEP? JESUS PRAYED ALL NIGHT.
00:43:20.76\00:43:23.20
NOW, WHAT WAS HE
PRAYING ABOUT WHEN
00:43:23.20\00:43:25.20
HE PRAYED ALL NIGHT? IT'S
THE DAY BEFORE HE ORDAINED
00:43:25.20\00:43:27.73
THE TWELVE APOSTLES AND
THE WHOLE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
00:43:27.73\00:43:33.03
HINGED UPON THIS DECISION
AND THIS PRAYER BEING ANSWERED.
00:43:33.03\00:43:37.83
IT SAYS HE "CONTINUED
ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER TO GOD.
00:43:37.83\00:43:41.63
AND WHEN IT WAS
DAY," - HE TOOK A NAP.
00:43:41.63\00:43:44.90
NO - "WHEN IT WAS DAY,
HE CALLED HIS DISCIPLES TO
00:43:44.90\00:43:47.43
HIMSELF; AND FROM
THEM HE CHOSE TWELVE
00:43:47.43\00:43:50.43
WHOM HE ALSO NAMED
APOSTLES:" - I WANT TO PAUSE.
00:43:50.43\00:43:54.46
WHY DID JESUS
CHOOSE TWELVE APOSTLES?
00:43:54.46\00:43:58.10
WERE THEY ALL FROM
TWELVE DIFFERENT TRIBES?
00:43:58.10\00:44:00.50
FIRST LET'S ESTABLISH HE DIDN'T
CHOOSE TWELVE BECAUSE THEY WERE
00:44:00.50\00:44:04.16
FROM TWELVE DIFFERENT TRIBES.
IF YOU'VE GOT TWO SETS OF
00:44:04.16\00:44:06.96
BROTHERS - PETER AND ANDREW,
JAMES AND JOHN - IT'S IMPOSSIBLE
00:44:06.96\00:44:11.00
TO HAVE THOSE TWELVE
FROM TWELVE SEPARATE TRIBES.
00:44:11.00\00:44:15.30
THE ORIGINAL TWELVE
WERE ONE FROM EACH TRIBE.
00:44:15.30\00:44:18.56
AND WHEN THEY SENT OUT THOSE
TWELVE SPIES - ONE FROM EACH
00:44:18.56\00:44:21.46
TRIBE - EQUAL REPRESENTATION.
WHY DID JESUS PICK TWELVE?
00:44:21.46\00:44:25.06
THE TWELVE TRIBES WERE
NOT THERE IN ISRAEL ANYMORE.
00:44:25.06\00:44:27.80
MANY OF THEM HAD BEEN CONQUERED
BEFORE JESUS WAS EVER BORN.
00:44:27.80\00:44:33.86
THEY WERE CONQUERED
IN THE DAYS OF HEZEKIAH.
00:44:33.86\00:44:36.83
THE KING OF ISRAEL WAS CONQUERED
BY THE ASSYRIANS AND CARRIED OFF
00:44:36.83\00:44:41.50
CAPTIVE AND MANY OF THOSE TRIBES
INTERMARRIED AND DISPERSED.
00:44:41.50\00:44:44.36
AND I'VE MET ASSYRIANS - TODAY
- ANCIENT SYRIANS - AND THEY SAY
00:44:44.36\00:44:48.96
THAT 'WE'RE RELATED TO SOME
OF THOSE TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL' -
00:44:48.96\00:44:53.16
BUT THEY ALL KIND OF
INTERMARRIED SO IT IS ALMOST
00:44:53.16\00:44:56.60
IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A PERSON
WHO IS PURE-BRED, PURE-BLOOD,
00:44:56.60\00:45:00.50
ZEBULAN, NAPHTALI, MANASSEH,
ISSACHAR - YOU KNOW WHY ELSE
00:45:00.50\00:45:08.43
THAT'S IMPORTANT? WHEN YOU
READ, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 7,
00:45:08.43\00:45:11.86
'AND I SAW 144,000 FROM
THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL'
00:45:11.86\00:45:15.20
AND IT NAMES THE TRIBES,
ARE THEY LITERAL JEWS FROM THOSE
00:45:15.20\00:45:18.76
TRIBES? IS THE
LORD GOING TO RAISE UP
00:45:18.76\00:45:21.83
12,000 PEOPLE FROM MANASSEH?
I CHALLENGE YOU TO FIND 12,000
00:45:21.83\00:45:25.40
TODAY. EVEN AT THE TIME OF
CHRIST, TEN OF THOSE TRIBES - OR
00:45:25.40\00:45:30.76
AT LEAST NINE OF THOSE TRIBES
- WERE PRETTY WELL INTERMARRIED.
00:45:30.76\00:45:33.83
NOW MATTHEW MAY HAVE
BEEN FROM LEVI - MATTHEW LEVI.
00:45:33.83\00:45:37.23
PAUL SAID HE WAS FROM THE
STOCK OF WHAT TRIBE? BENJAMIN.
00:45:37.23\00:45:41.66
AND THEN, OF COURSE,
YOU'VE GOT THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
00:45:41.66\00:45:45.40
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM IS ALL
THAT REALLY CAME BACK FROM THE
00:45:45.40\00:45:48.00
BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, WHICH
WAS JUDAH, BENJAMIN, AND LEVI.
00:45:48.00\00:45:52.36
AND SO A LOT OF
THOSE TRIBES DISAPPEARED.
00:45:52.36\00:45:54.90
WHY DID HE PICK TWELVE?
00:45:54.90\00:45:56.76
BEFORE YOU ANSWER - NOT THAT
I'VE BEEN LETTING YOU ANSWER,
00:45:56.76\00:46:02.56
BUT - PEOPLE WON'T HEAR YOUR
ANSWER - WHY DID THE LORD WAIT
00:46:02.56\00:46:09.36
UNTIL JUDAS WAS REPLACED BEFORE
THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT?
00:46:09.36\00:46:14.80
ACTS CHAPTER 1 - YOU KNOW,
THE LAST THING THAT HAPPENS
00:46:14.80\00:46:16.80
BEFORE THE HOLY
SPIRIT'S POURED OUT?
00:46:16.80\00:46:18.43
THEY'RE MISSING AN APOSTLE.
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE TWELVE,
00:46:18.43\00:46:22.26
THEY'VE ONLY GOT
ELEVEN. PETER SAID,
00:46:22.26\00:46:23.93
'IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE REPLACE
THE MISSING APOSTLE.' WHY?
00:46:23.93\00:46:27.76
AND OF THE TWO MEN THAT THEY
PICKED TO CAST LOTS AMONG - WHY
00:46:27.76\00:46:34.23
DIDN'T THEY JUST PICK TWO AND
MAKE ONE OF THEM AN ALTERNATE?
00:46:34.23\00:46:36.60
THEY SAID, 'THERE'S
GOT TO BE TWELVE.' THAT
00:46:36.60\00:46:39.33
NUMBER MUST HAVE MEANT
SOMETHING, DO YOU AGREE?
00:46:39.33\00:46:41.23
IT MEANT
SOMETHING TO JESUS, WHY?
00:46:41.23\00:46:42.93
CHRIST WAS FOLLOWING THE PATTERN
FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT ISRAEL,
00:46:42.93\00:46:46.76
BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID HE PICK
TWELVE APOSTLES, HE THEN PICKED
00:46:46.76\00:46:50.06
70 - AT ANOTHER POINT - TO SEND
THEM OUT. MOSES HAD THE TWELVE
00:46:50.06\00:46:54.06
PRINCES OF ISRAEL AND
HE ALSO HAD 70 ELDERS.
00:46:54.06\00:46:57.66
IT'S INTERESTING THAT BOTH JESUS
AND MOSES HAD TWELVE AND 70.
00:46:57.66\00:47:00.93
NOW THERE'S A STATEMENT -
OH, LET ME TELL YOU THEIR NAMES,
00:47:00.93\00:47:04.26
"SIMON, WHOM HE
ALSO NAMED PETER,"
00:47:04.26\00:47:07.23
- SIMON'S OFTEN AT THE TOP
OF ALL THE LISTS OF ALL THE
00:47:07.23\00:47:09.36
APOSTLES - "AND ANDREW
HIS BROTHER; JAMES AND JOHN;
00:47:09.36\00:47:12.73
PHILIP AND
BARTHOLOMEW; MATTHEW AND THOMAS;
00:47:12.73\00:47:14.93
JAMES THE SON OF ALPHAEUS,"
- SOME HAVE WONDERED IF JAMES,
00:47:14.93\00:47:17.96
THE SON OF ALPHAEUS WAS
ALSO THE BROTHER OF JESUS AND -
00:47:17.96\00:47:21.83
THE ONE WHO WROTE
THE BOOK OF JAMES.
00:47:21.83\00:47:25.60
I'VE READ SCHOLARS THAT MAKE AN
ARGUMENT FOR THAT - "AND SIMON
00:47:25.60\00:47:28.83
CALLED THE ZEALOT;
JUDAS THE SON OF JAMES,
00:47:28.83\00:47:31.93
AND JUDAS ISCARIOT WHO
ALSO BECAME A TRAITOR."
00:47:31.93\00:47:34.66
NOW IF YOU READ IN THE BOOK
DESIRE OF AGES - AND I'M MAKING
00:47:34.66\00:47:39.26
A SPECIAL POINT OF THIS
BECAUSE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT,
00:47:39.26\00:47:41.66
YOU'RE GOING TO RUN INTO
CHRISTIANS TODAY THAT SAY,
00:47:41.66\00:47:43.66
'JESUS DID NOT ORDAIN THE TWELVE
APOSTLES.' THE WORD ORDAIN IS A
00:47:43.66\00:47:49.53
WORD THAT SIMPLY MEANS
'SET ASIDE; OR APPOINTED.' THE
00:47:49.53\00:47:53.40
PRINCIPLE - THE WORD MEANS
THINGS - YOU KNOW HOW WORDS TAKE
00:47:53.40\00:47:56.23
ON DIFFERENT MEANING
ETYMOLOGY, AS TIME GOES BY?
00:47:56.23\00:47:59.13
WHEN WE SAY THE WORD ORDAINED
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO
00:47:59.13\00:48:02.30
HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY APPOINTED
- SET ASIDE FOR A PARTICULAR
00:48:02.30\00:48:04.76
PURPOSE - AND WE
UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS.
00:48:04.76\00:48:07.40
JESUS SET ASIDE TWELVE.
DOES ANYONE QUESTION THAT?
00:48:07.40\00:48:10.43
THEN OTHERS ARGUE, 'IT
DOESN'T SAY HE LAID HANDS
00:48:10.43\00:48:13.06
ON THEM.' WELL,
YOU KNOW, THAT'S TRUE.
00:48:13.06\00:48:15.26
YOU CAN'T FIND A
VERSE WHERE IT SAYS,
00:48:15.26\00:48:17.20
'AND HE LAID HANDS ON THE
TWELVE.' YOU DO FIND WHERE JESUS
00:48:17.20\00:48:20.23
LAID HANDS ON PEOPLE.
YOU FIND WHERE THE APOSTLES
00:48:20.23\00:48:24.26
LAID HANDS ON THOSE THAT
WERE CHOSEN. THERE'S A DOCTRINE
00:48:24.26\00:48:27.13
CALLED THE DOCTRINE OF
THE LAYING ON OF HANDS .
00:48:27.13\00:48:29.30
BUT YOU DO READ IN DESIRE OF
AGES - AND THIS IS WHY I WANTED
00:48:29.30\00:48:32.26
TO MAKE A NOTE OF THIS - DESIRE
OF AGES P. 296, "HE GATHERED THE
00:48:32.26\00:48:34.96
TWELVE AFTER THAT NIGHT OF
PRAYER. HE INSTRUCTED THEM.
00:48:34.96\00:48:40.86
WHEN JESUS ENDED HIS
INSTRUCTION - DESIRE OF AGES P.
00:48:40.86\00:48:45.40
296 - "TO HIS DISCIPLES,
HE GATHERED THE LITTLE BAND
00:48:45.40\00:48:49.63
CLOSE ABOUT HIM AND
KNEELING IN THE MIDST OF THEM,
00:48:49.63\00:48:52.56
LAYING HIS HANDS UPON THEIR
HEADS," - IS THIS AN ORDINATION?
00:48:52.56\00:48:58.63
IT IS - "HE OFFERED A PRAYER
DEDICATING THEM TO THE SACRED
00:48:58.63\00:49:02.73
WORK. THUS THE
LORD'S DISCIPLES WERE
00:49:02.73\00:49:05.16
ORDAINED TO THE
GOSPEL MINISTRY."
00:49:05.16\00:49:07.76
NOW, IF YOU
BELIEVE THE SPIRIT OF
00:49:07.76\00:49:08.86
PROPHECY, THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL A
00:49:08.86\00:49:09.96
SLAM-DUNK. YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:49:09.96\00:49:13.06
IT'S VERY CLEAR HE DID LAY HANDS
ON THEM. HE DID ORDAIN THEM.
00:49:13.06\00:49:16.76
HE DID SET THEM
ASIDE AS SOMETHING UNIQUE.
00:49:16.76\00:49:20.13
NOW THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE
THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION
00:49:20.13\00:49:21.70
TODAY ABOUT ORDINATION AND
PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SAY IT
00:49:21.70\00:49:25.13
DOESN'T MATTER AND
NOTHING REALLY HAPPENED.
00:49:25.13\00:49:28.06
AND THEN, NOT ONLY
WERE THEY SET ASIDE,
00:49:28.06\00:49:30.33
THEY ARE COMMISSIONED. HE
GIVES THEM THEIR WORK TO DO.
00:49:30.33\00:49:33.80
YOU CAN READ ABOUT
THIS IN LUKE 9:1 TO 6;
00:49:33.80\00:49:37.06
ALSO MATTHEW 10 IS VERY
EXTENSIVE - "THEN HE CALLED HIS
00:49:37.06\00:49:41.13
TWELVE DISCIPLES TOGETHER AND
GAVE THEM POWER AND AUTHORITY
00:49:41.13\00:49:43.46
OVER ALL DEMONS,
AND TO CURE DISEASES.
00:49:43.46\00:49:46.36
HE SENT THEM TO PREACH THE
KINGDOM OF GOD AND TO HEAL THE
00:49:46.36\00:49:49.20
SICK. AND HE SAID TO THEM,
'TAKE NOTHING FOR THE JOURNEY,
00:49:49.20\00:49:52.16
NEITHER STAFFS NOR
BAG NOR BREAD NOR MONEY;
00:49:52.16\00:49:55.10
AND DO NOT HAVE
TWO TUNICS APIECE.
00:49:55.10\00:49:58.36
WHATEVER HOUSE
YOU ENTER, STAY THERE,
00:49:58.36\00:50:00.66
AND FROM THERE
DEPART.'" - IN OTHER WORDS,
00:50:00.66\00:50:03.33
MAKE THAT YOUR LAUNCHING POINT
- "'AND WHOEVER WILL NOT RECEIVE
00:50:03.33\00:50:06.56
YOU, WHEN YOU GO
OUT OF THAT CITY,
00:50:06.56\00:50:08.33
SHAKE OFF THE VERY DUST FROM
YOUR FEET AS A TESTIMONY AGAINST
00:50:08.33\00:50:10.63
THEM.'" YOU EVER HEARD
THAT TAUGHT IN EVANGELISM CLASS?
00:50:10.63\00:50:14.53
SHAKING THE DUST OFF
YOUR FEET IF YOU GO TO A TOWN?
00:50:14.53\00:50:18.86
SOMETHING JESUS SAID - "SO THEY
DEPARTED AND WENT THROUGH THE
00:50:18.86\00:50:23.96
TOWNS, PREACHING
THE GOSPEL AND HEALING
00:50:23.96\00:50:25.80
EVERYWHERE." SO THEY
MET WITH A GREAT DEAL OF
00:50:25.80\00:50:29.76
SUCCESS BUT HE
GAVE THEM AUTHORITY.
00:50:29.76\00:50:32.10
NOW DOESN'T JESUS SAY IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 28 'ALL AUTHORITY IS
00:50:32.10\00:50:38.66
GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN
AND EARTH, GO YE THEREFORE?'
00:50:38.66\00:50:41.80
IS THIS JUST FOR THE APOSTLES OR
DID THE LORD GIVE BELIEVERS AND
00:50:41.80\00:50:46.50
DISCIPLES A CERTAIN AUTHORITY?
DOESN'T HE SEND US OUT?
00:50:46.50\00:50:49.96
IF THE LORD SENDS YOU,
HE HAS AUTHORIZED YOU TO BE
00:50:49.96\00:50:52.93
SHARING THE TRUTH.
AND THEN WE'LL JUMP DOWN -
00:50:52.93\00:50:58.93
IT TALKS ABOUT
SENDING OUT THE SEVENTY.
00:50:58.93\00:51:00.76
NOW YOU FIND THIS IN LUKE.
00:51:00.76\00:51:02.76
YOU DON'T FIND THIS IN
SOME OF THE OTHER GOSPELS.
00:51:02.76\00:51:04.50
LUKE 10, VERSE 1,
"AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD
00:51:04.50\00:51:08.93
APPOINTED SEVENTY OTHERS ALSO,
AND SENT THEM TWO BY TWO BEFORE
00:51:08.93\00:51:13.50
HIS FACE INTO EVERY CITY AND
PLACE WHERE HE HIMSELF WAS ABOUT
00:51:13.50\00:51:17.10
TO GO." NOW NOTICE THIS:
HE'S SENDING THEM OUT TO DO A
00:51:17.10\00:51:21.30
PREPARATION WORK.
THIS IS A GOOD PLAN FOR
00:51:21.30\00:51:23.63
EVANGELISM. THEY'RE
GOING OUT - WHAT ARE
00:51:23.63\00:51:26.83
THEY DOING? THEY'RE HEALING.
00:51:26.83\00:51:28.50
IT'S NOT A BAD IDEA,
BEFORE YOU HAVE A PUBLIC
00:51:28.50\00:51:31.10
EVANGELISTIC MEETING, TO
HAVE ANOTHER TEAM GO OUT IN
00:51:31.10\00:51:35.66
ADVANCE WHERE THE EVANGELISTIC
MEETING IS GOING TO BE,
00:51:35.66\00:51:38.80
AND PREPARE THE GROUND
BY HAVING BRIDGING PROGRAMS.
00:51:38.80\00:51:42.70
THERE WAS HEALING THAT WAS
HAPPENING AND THERE WAS CASTING
00:51:42.70\00:51:46.10
OUT OF DISEASE AND MAYBE,
YOU KNOW, STUFF WITH DEPRESSION
00:51:46.10\00:51:49.63
RECOVERY AND DOING PROGRAMS
- COOKING SCHOOLS - IN OTHER
00:51:49.63\00:51:54.70
WORDS, THEY WERE PREPARING THE
WAY SO THAT WHEN EVANGELISTIC
00:51:54.70\00:51:57.86
MEETINGS HAPPENED, THEY
HAD A LOT BIGGER SUCCESS.
00:51:57.86\00:52:00.80
YOU HEARD ME
MENTION, I THINK, LAST WEEK,
00:52:00.80\00:52:02.83
ABOUT OUR SERIES WE RECENTLY DID
IN THE PHILIPPINES AND I THINK
00:52:02.83\00:52:07.16
THE REASON IT WAS SO
SUCCESSFUL - IT'S, YOU KNOW,
00:52:07.16\00:52:09.76
THE BEST MEETING
WE'VE EVER HAD THERE.
00:52:09.76\00:52:12.86
THE HALL THAT SEATS LIKE 12,000
PEOPLE WAS FULL EXCEPT FOR
00:52:12.86\00:52:17.86
THE PLACE BEHIND THE SCREEN
WHERE NO ONE COULD SEE ANYTHING
00:52:17.86\00:52:20.23
- AND THERE WERE 596 BAPTISMS -
BUT IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF WHAT I
00:52:20.23\00:52:25.13
DID IN TEN DAYS. IT'S -
OR THE AMAZING FACTS TEAM
00:52:25.13\00:52:29.53
- IT'S WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE OF
OUR EVANGELISM TRAINING PROGRAM
00:52:29.53\00:52:32.86
- WHAT THEY DID IN THREE
MONTHS BEFORE WE EVER GOT THERE.
00:52:32.86\00:52:35.93
AND SO, THE
PRE-WORK IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:52:35.93\00:52:39.30
SO JESUS WAS
SENDING OUT THE SEVENTY.
00:52:39.30\00:52:41.03
THEY MAYBE DIDN'T HAVE THE
SAME INTENSIVE TRAINING AS THE
00:52:41.03\00:52:44.50
TWELVE, BUT THEY WERE DOING
A SPECIAL PRE-WORK, OBVIOUSLY.
00:52:44.50\00:52:47.53
AND YOU CAN SEE IN
MATTHEW 10, VERSE 5,
00:52:47.53\00:52:50.36
"THESE TWELVE JESUS
SENT OUT AND COMMANDED THEM,
00:52:50.36\00:52:53.10
SAYING: 'DO NOT GO INTO
THE WAY OF THE GENTILES,
00:52:53.10\00:52:55.73
AND DO NOT ENTER A
CITY OF THE SAMARITANS.
00:52:55.73\00:52:58.03
BUT GO RATHER TO THE LOST
SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL."
00:52:58.03\00:53:01.20
WHERE DID HE SEND THEM FIRST?
BOTH THE TWELVE AND THE SEVENTY?
00:53:01.20\00:53:03.26
HE SAID, 'I WANT
YOU TO GO FIRST TO THE
00:53:03.26\00:53:06.10
HEBREW TOWNS. IF
YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU
00:53:06.10\00:53:09.93
KNOW THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE,
WHERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO START?
00:53:09.93\00:53:14.73
START WITH PEOPLE WHO
HAVE ACCEPTED CHRIST BUT MAYBE
00:53:14.73\00:53:18.66
DON'T KNOW THE
THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE.
00:53:18.66\00:53:20.43
THESE ARE THE LOST
SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
00:53:20.43\00:53:22.66
THEN, FROM THERE, YOU
GO TO THE HIGHWAYS AND THE
00:53:22.66\00:53:25.66
HEDGES AND THE BYWAYS,
BUT YOU START WITH PEOPLE WHO
00:53:25.66\00:53:28.16
HAVE, OSTENSIBLY, ACCEPTED
THE INVITATION TO THE FEAST,
00:53:28.16\00:53:31.73
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:53:31.73\00:53:33.23
SOMETHING ELSE I THOUGHT WAS
INTERESTING - OH, BY THE WAY,
00:53:33.23\00:53:36.26
YOU'LL FIND REFERENCE TO
THE SEVENTY ALSO IN THE OLD
00:53:36.26\00:53:38.30
TESTAMENT - NUMBERS 1:44,
"THESE ARE THE ONES WHO WERE
00:53:38.30\00:53:42.33
NUMBERED, WHOM
MOSES AND AARON NUMBERED,
00:53:42.33\00:53:44.30
WITH THE LEADERS OF
ISRAEL, TWELVE MEN..."
00:53:44.30\00:53:46.30
AND THEN NUMBERS 11:24, "SO
MOSES...GATHERED THE SEVENTY
00:53:46.30\00:53:50.76
MEN OF THE ELDERS...AND PLACED
THEM AROUND THE TABERNACLE."
00:53:50.76\00:53:54.30
YOU'VE GOT THE TWELVE
AND YOU'VE GOT THE SEVENTY,
00:53:54.30\00:53:56.23
JUST LIKE JESUS
HAD. ONE OTHER THOUGHT,
00:53:56.23\00:53:58.50
AND I SEE I'M
RUNNING OUT OF TIME HERE,
00:53:58.50\00:54:00.83
IN ACTS CHAPTER 1 HOW
MANY WERE IN THE UPPER ROOM?
00:54:00.83\00:54:05.70
BEFORE THE HOLY
SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT?
00:54:05.70\00:54:09.40
A HUNDRED AND TWENTY.
00:54:09.40\00:54:11.60
WHEN YOU ADD SEVENTY AND
TWELVE, WHAT DO YOU COME TO?
00:54:11.60\00:54:14.90
82 - I KNEW KAREN
WOULD GET THAT RIGHT AWAY.
00:54:14.90\00:54:18.56
SHE DOES THE CHECKBOOK.
SO YOU'VE GOT SOME LEFT OVER,
00:54:18.56\00:54:23.63
DON'T YOU? WHO
WAS IN THE UPPER ROOM?
00:54:23.63\00:54:25.66
I BET IT WAS SOME OF THE
SEVENTY - MAYBE NOT ALL OF THEM.
00:54:25.66\00:54:28.56
THE TWELVE WERE THERE BECAUSE -
THEY WEREN'T TWELVE YET - ELEVEN
00:54:28.56\00:54:31.63
OF THEM - AND IT SAYS THE WOMEN
THAT FOLLOWED HIM WERE THERE.
00:54:31.63\00:54:35.30
IT WAS A SMALL GROUP: SOME FROM
GALILEE, SOME FROM JERUSALEM,
00:54:35.30\00:54:38.93
PROBABLY LAZARUS,
MARTHA, MARY WERE UP THERE.
00:54:38.93\00:54:42.33
BUT THAT'S LARGELY THE ONES WHO
THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT
00:54:42.33\00:54:46.23
ON IN THE TIME OF PENTECOST.
AND THEN FINAL THOUGHT.
00:54:46.23\00:54:51.50
IT SAYS HERE THE COST OF
DISCIPLESHIP - LUKE 9:23,
00:54:51.50\00:54:55.60
"IF ANYONE DESIRES TO COME
AFTER ME, LET HIM DENY HIMSELF,
00:54:55.60\00:54:59.73
AND TAKE UP HIS
CROSS DAILY, AND FOLLOW ME.
00:54:59.73\00:55:02.56
FOR WHOEVER DESIRES TO
SAVE HIS LIFE WILL LOSE IT,
00:55:02.56\00:55:06.10
BUT WHOEVER LOSES HIS
LIFE FOR MY SAKE WILL SAVE IT.
00:55:06.10\00:55:09.56
FOR WHAT PROFIT IS IT TO A
MAN IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD,
00:55:09.56\00:55:12.36
AND IS HIMSELF
DESTROYED OR LOST?"
00:55:12.36\00:55:14.76
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
STATEMENT MADE IN THE
00:55:14.76\00:55:17.10
OLD TESTAMENT - YOU KNOW WHEN
ONE COUNTRY CONQUERS ANOTHER
00:55:17.10\00:55:21.10
COUNTRY IN A WAR THEY ASK FOR
WHAT THEY CALL AN UNCONDITIONAL
00:55:21.10\00:55:23.93
SURRENDER. WHAT
DOES JESUS WANT FROM US?
00:55:23.93\00:55:28.20
IT'S GOT TO BE AN
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
00:55:28.20\00:55:32.10
WE DON'T GIVE HIM
TERMS OF SURRENDER.
00:55:32.10\00:55:34.50
AND KING AHAB SAID TO THE
KING OF SYRIA, 'MY LORD, O KING,
00:55:34.50\00:55:40.00
JUST AS YOU SAY, I
AND ALL THAT I HAVE ARE
00:55:40.00\00:55:42.83
YOURS.' I AND ALL THAT I
HAVE ARE YOURS.' HE THAT FINDS A
00:55:42.83\00:55:49.03
TREASURE OF GREAT PRICE, HE GOES
AND HE SELLS ALL THAT HE HAS.
00:55:49.03\00:55:52.46
THE MERCHANT FINDS
THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE,
00:55:52.46\00:55:54.93
HE GOES AND HE
SELLS ALL THAT HE HAS.
00:55:54.93\00:55:57.63
AND SO WHAT IS THE
COST OF DISCIPLESHIP?
00:55:57.63\00:56:00.06
THE LORD WANTS YOUR
HEART. HE WANTS ALL OF IT.
00:56:00.06\00:56:02.66
AND WHAT DOES HE
GIVE US BACK? MUCH MORE.
00:56:02.66\00:56:05.70
CHRISTIANITY COSTS BUT IT
PAYS MUCH MORE THAN IT COSTS.
00:56:05.70\00:56:10.00
SO ONE MORE TIME I'D LIKE TO
REMIND YOU WE HAVE A FREE OFFER
00:56:10.00\00:56:15.13
FOR OUR STUDY TODAY. YOU
CAN ALSO READ THIS ONLINE AT
00:56:15.13\00:56:17.73
AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . IF
YOU'D LIKE TO SEND FOR IT,
00:56:17.73\00:56:21.26
CALL THE NUMBER: 866-STUDY-MORE
- THAT'S 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR
00:56:21.26\00:56:27.43
OFFER #714 WHEN YOU DO.
AND NEXT WEEK WE'RE GOING TO BE
00:56:27.43\00:56:31.40
STUDYING LESSON #5 IN OUR
STUDY ON THE BOOK OF LUKE.
00:56:31.40\00:56:34.13
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, FRIENDS,
FOR JOINING US AND WE'LL LOOK
00:56:34.13\00:56:36.90
FORWARD TO
STUDYING WITH YOU NEXT WEEK.
00:56:36.90\00:56:40.10
>>(CRICKETS
CHIRPING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC)
00:56:40.10\00:57:23.73
>>MOMMY! DADDY! HELP
ME! >>NO, I DON'T THINK SO.
00:57:23.73\00:57:29.56
YOU DIDN'T DO VERY WELL ON YOUR
REPORT CARD THIS LAST QUARTER
00:57:29.56\00:57:32.56
SO...NO. >>YOU
HAVEN'T BEEN PULLING YOUR
00:57:32.56\00:57:35.26
WEIGHT AROUND HERE
LATELY. YOU WANT HELP?
00:57:35.26\00:57:37.33
WELL, I WANTED HELP
WITH THE DISHES LAST NIGHT.
00:57:37.33\00:57:40.03
HELP YOURSELF! >>HUH?
00:57:40.03\00:57:42.80
>>HONEY, DID YOU
BRING THE MARSHMALLOWS?
00:57:42.80\00:57:45.03
>>(COUGHING) (SIRENS) (MUSIC)
00:57:45.03\00:58:10.50
(MUSIC)
00:58:10.50\00:58:11.50