(MUSIC) >>I LOVE THE QUOTE: "THE
GREATEST WANT OF THE WORLD IS
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THE WANT OF MEN ... MEN WHO WILL
STAND FOR THE RIGHT THOUGH THE
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HEAVENS FALL." YET
STUDIES ARE SHOWING, FOR
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SEVERAL YEARS NOW, THE SECULAR
MEDIA AND CULTURE HAVE SOUGHT
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TO PORTRAY MEN AS
THE FAMILY IDIOTS.
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SADLY, RESPECT FOR THE ROLE OF
FATHERS AND HUSBANDS HAS REACHED
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AN ALL-TIME LOW. SO
NOW, AS THE DISPIRITED MEN
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ABANDON THEIR ROLES OF GODLY
LEADERSHIP, IT'S NOT SURPRISING
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THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING A
MORAL FREE-FALL IN OUR COUNTRY.
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THAT'S WHY, STARTING SEPTEMBER
30TH I'LL BE PRESENTING A NEW
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PROGRAM CALLED
MIGHTY MEN OF GOD .
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USING BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES, THIS
ENCOURAGING FOUR-PART SERIES
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WILL ADDRESS HOW TO BE A LOVING
FATHER, FAITHFUL HUSBAND, AND
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ALL-AROUND MAN OF GOD IN
THE FAMILY CHURCH AND NATION.
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PLEASE PLAN NOW TO JOIN ME FOR
THIS LIVE EVENT AND LEARN FROM
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THE WORD HOW TO LIVE
COURAGEOUSLY FOR THE KING.
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(MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME
AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR AND ESPECIALLY THOSE
JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD - PART
OF OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL
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CLASS - A VERY WARM WELCOME
TO YOU. AND ALSO THE MEMBERS AND
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THE VISITORS HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
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GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN HERE
THIS MORNING READY TO STUDY.
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WE'RE DEALING WITH OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY ENTITLED
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THE ROLE OF THE
CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY .
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WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE
EXAMPLE OF JESUS AND LEARNING
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FROM HIS EXPERIENCE HOW WE
CAN MINISTER TO THOSE AROUND US.
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WE'RE NEARING THE END OF OUR
STUDY SO TODAY WE'RE IN LESSON
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#12 AND IT'S ENTITLED URBAN
MINISTRY IN THE END OF TIME.
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IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF OUR
STUDY, YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING
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FACTS WEBSITE - JUST
AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN
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DOWNLOAD LESSON #12 ENTITLED
URBAN MINISTRY IN THE END OF
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TIME AND YOU CAN
STUDY ALONG WITH US.
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WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT
GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY,
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IT'S CALLED A COLOSSAL CITY IN
SPACE AND THIS IS AVAILABLE TO
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ANYBODY [IN NORTH
AMERICA] WHO WOULD CALL AND ASK.
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THE NUMBER TO CALL IS
866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR
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OFFER #115.
AGAIN, THAT NUMBER IS
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866-788-3966 - ASK FOR OFFER
#115. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU
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THIS STUDY GUIDE - A
COLOSSAL CITY IN SPACE .
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IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH
AMERICA AND YOU'D LIKE TO READ
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THIS, JUST GO TO THE
AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE.
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THERE'S A LITTLE SEARCH BAR AND
YOU CAN TYPE IN COLOSSAL CITY IN
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SPACE AND YOU CAN READ
THE STUDY RIGHT THERE ON LINE.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY, WE'D LIKE TO
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BEGIN BY LIFTING
OUR VOICES IN PRAISE.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
LEADERS TO JOIN ME HERE ONSTAGE.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. THIS
IS OUR TIME TO CELEBRATE AND
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TO LIFT OUR VOICES IN PRAISE TO
OUR SAVIOR AND OUR LORD IN SONG.
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AND, AS WE DO EVERY WEEK, I
INVITE YOU - THOSE THAT ARE AT
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HOME - TO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS.
HERE, PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND
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WE'RE GOING TO SING HYMN
#485 - I MUST TELL JESUS .
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AND I HOPE THAT AS YOU GO
THROUGH YOUR WEEK, THAT THIS IS
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ON YOUR MIND AND THIS IS ON YOUR
HEART THAT 'I MUST TELL JESUS
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ABOUT THIS; I MUST TELL JESUS
ABOUT THIS; I MUST TELL JESUS
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ABOUT THIS.' HE KNOWS IT ALL BUT
HE WANTS US TO COMMUNE WITH HIM,
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SO THAT'S WHAT THIS SONG IS
ABOUT. #485 - I MUST TELL JESUS
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. WE'LL SING ALL
THREE VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC)
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I MUST TELL JESUS ALL
OF MY TRIALS; I CANNOT BEAR
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THESE BURDENS ALONE, IN MY
DISTRESS HE KINDLY WILL HELP ME,
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HE EVER LOVES AND
CARES FOR HIS OWN.
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I MUST TELL
JESUS! I MUST TELL JESUS!
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I CANNOT BEAR MY BURDENS
ALONE; I MUST TELL JESUS!
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I MUST TELL JESUS! JESUS
CAN HELP ME, JESUS ALONE.
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I MUST TELL JESUS ALL OF
MY TROUBLES, HE IS A KIND,
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COMPASSIONATE FRIEND; IF I
BUT ASK HIM, HE WILL DELIVER,
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MAKES OF MY
TROUBLES QUICKLY AN END.
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I MUST TELL
JESUS! I MUST TELL JESUS!
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I CANNOT BEAR MY BURDENS
ALONE; I MUST TELL JESUS!
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I MUST TELL JESUS! JESUS
CAN HELP ME, JESUS ALONE.
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O HOW THE WORLD
TO EVIL ALLURES ME!
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O HOW MY HEART
IS TEMPTED TO SIN!
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I MUST TELL JESUS, AND HE
WILL HELP ME OVER THE WORLD THE
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VICT'RY TO WIN. I MUST
TELL JESUS! I MUST TELL JESUS!
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I CANNOT BEAR MY BURDENS
ALONE; I MUST TELL JESUS!
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I MUST TELL JESUS! JESUS
CAN HELP ME, JESUS ALONE.
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>>OUR NEXT SONG WE'RE GOING TO
SING IS WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN
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JESUS . NOW, THE
FOUR OF US LADIES ARE
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GOING TO SING A
SPECIAL TUNE WITH IT FOR YOU.
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THIS WAS TAUGHT TO ME BY KELLY
MOWER, A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE
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THAT MOST OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF.
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SHE LIKES TO MIX PIECES TOGETHER
- WORDS WITH DIFFERENT TUNES -
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AND IF YOU GO THROUGH OUR HYMNAL
YOU'LL SEE THAT THAT IS WHAT WAS
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DONE ALL
THROUGHOUT OUR HYMNAL ALSO.
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SO SIT BACK AND LISTEN TO WHAT A
FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS AND JUST
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REALLY CONTEMPLATE THE
WORDS. WE HARDLY EVER GET
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THE CHANCE TO DO THAT.
AND SO, JUST ENJOY AND BASK IN
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THE FACT THAT JESUS
TRULY IS OUR BEST FRIEND.
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(PIANO MUSIC - THE ROSE )
>>WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN
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JESUS, ALL OUR
SINS AND GRIEFS TO BEAR!
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WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO CARRY
EVERYTHING TO GOD IN PRAYER O
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WHAT PEACE WE OFTEN FORFEIT,
O WHAT NEEDLESS PAIN WE BEAR,
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ALL BECAUSE WE DO NOT CARRY
EVERYTHING TO GOD IN PRAYER.
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HAVE WE TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS?
IS THERE TROUBLE ANYWHERE?
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WE SHOULD NEVER BE DISCOURAGED;
TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER.
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CAN WE FIND A FRIEND SO FAITHFUL
WHO WILL ALL OUR SORROWS SHARE?
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JESUS KNOWS OUR EVERY WEAKNESS;
TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER.
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ARE WE WEAK AND HEAVY LADEN,
CUMBERED WITH A LOAD OF CARE?
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PRECIOUS SAVIOR, STILL OUR
REFUGE TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN
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PRAYER. DO THY
FRIENDS DESPISE, FORSAKE THEE?
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TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER.
IN HIS ARMS HE'LL TAKE AND
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SHIELD THEE; THOU WILT FIND
A SOLACE THERE. DO THY FRIENDS
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DESPISE, FORSAKE THEE?
TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER.
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IN HIS ARMS HE'LL TAKE AND
SHIELD THEE; THOU WILT FIND A
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SOLACE THERE. OUR
SOLACE THERE. OUR SOLACE THERE.
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>>AMEN! >>AT
THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS
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WILL HAVE PRAYER.
>>AMEN. I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU
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TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE
OPEN WITH A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
PRIVILEGE IT IS, INDEED, TO HAVE
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A FRIEND THAT WE CAN TAKE
ALL OF OUR BURDENS AND CARES TO.
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AND, LORD, YOU HEAR EACH OF OUR
HEARTS CRY, BUT FATHER, YOU ALSO
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HEAR THE HEART CRY OF THOSE THAT
HAVE NEVER HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
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HEAR ABOUT YOU AND YOU'VE ASKED
US TO SHARE GOOD NEWS WITH THEM.
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TODAY, AS WE TALK ABOUT HOW
WE CAN BE EFFECTIVE WITNESSES IN
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OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND IN THE
CITIES, WE ASK, LORD, FOR YOUR
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BLESSING. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS - AND
THANK YOU HANDERSON AND LADIES,
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FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL
RENDITION OF THAT SONG.
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FAMILIAR WORDS, FAMILIAR
MELODY, BUT BLENDED DIFFERENTLY.
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MORNING! >>MORNING!
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>>HAPPY SABBATH. I WANT TO
WELCOME OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
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WATCHING VIA THE INTERNET OR
ON TELEVISION AROUND THE WORLD.
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AND WE ALSO HAVE SOME OF OUR
EXTENDED CLASS - WE WELCOME YOU
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AS WELL TO THE GRANITE BAY
CHURCH. WE ARE GOING TO BEGIN,
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IN JUST A MOMENT, WITH
LESSON #12 IN THE BOOK.
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
THE CHURCH IN COMMUNITY.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING INTO
OUR LESSON #12 NOW THAT DEALS
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WITH URBAN MINISTRY IN THE
END OF TIME AND WE HAVE A MEMORY
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VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE
IS FROM JEREMIAH 29, VERSE 7.
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HERE IN YOUR LESSON IT'S FROM
THE NIV VERSION, SO YOU CAN READ
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IT RIGHT OUT OF THE
LESSON, IF YOU'D LIKE.
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JEREMIAH 29,
VERSE 7 - ARE YOU READY?
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"SEEK THE PEACE AND THE
PROSPERITY OF THE CITY TO WHICH
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I HAVE CARRIED YOU INTO EXILE.
PRAY TO THE LORD FOR IT, BECAUSE
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IF IT PROSPERS,
YOU TOO WILL PROSPER."
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HE'S TALKING ABOUT BEING CARRIED
INTO A CITY - AND WE'RE TO BE
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SEEKING THE PROSPERITY OF THOSE
CITIES WHERE WE'RE CARRIED.
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NOW, WHEN WE SAY 'URBAN
MINISTRY', YOU KNOW, WE'RE
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REALLY TALKING ABOUT MINISTRY
WHERE THE CONCENTRATIONS OF
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PEOPLE ARE: CITY
MINISTRY. WHAT'S A CITY?
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HOW BIG - HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU
NEED TO HAVE BEFORE YOU START TO
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QUALIFY AS A CITY? IN
OUR LITTLE TOWN OF COVELO
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WE CALL IT A ONE-HORSE
TOWN - EXCEPT THE HORSE DOESN'T
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EVEN HAVE A SADDLE. YOU
CAN DRIVE THROUGH - THERE'S
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NO TRAFFIC LIGHTS IN THE TOWN.
THAT'S - QUALIFIES AS A TOWN.
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THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS WENT
THROUGH THE VILLAGES AND THE
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CITIES, AND SO YOU'VE GOT BOTH.
AND SO, JESUS HAD TOWN/COUNTRY
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MINISTRY; HE
HAD A CITY MINISTRY.
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NOW, IT'S JUST AN INTERESTING
FACT THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED
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WITH HOW MANY PEOPLE IN
THE WORLD LIVE IN THE CITIES.
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FOR EXAMPLE, LOOK AT THIS:
IN 1800 - LET ME ASK YOU, WHAT
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PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE IN
THE WORLD DO YOU THINK LIVED IN
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CITIES IN 1800?
WANT TO TAKE A GUESS?
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>>LESS THAN TEN. >LESS THAN TEN?
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THREE PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S
POPULATION - ONLY THREE PERCENT
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LIVED IN CITIES IN THE
1800S. BY 1900 14 PERCENT OF THE
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WORLD'S
POPULATION LIVED IN CITIES.
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OF COURSE, BACK THEN, THERE WERE
ONLY TWELVE CITIES THAT HAD A
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MILLION PEOPLE. YOU
KNOW THAT'S CHANGED.
00:14:21.19\00:14:24.23
BY 1950 30 PERCENT OF THE
WORLD'S POPULATION LIVED IN
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WHAT WOULD QUALIFY AS A
CITY. AND NOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT
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THERE'S OVER A HUNDRED - OH NO,
WAIT - THERE'S OVER 83 CITIES
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IN THE WORLD THAT
HAVE OVER A MILLION PEOPLE.
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THE WORLD HAS GROWN - IN
2008, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE
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WORLD'S POPULATION, IT WAS SPLIT
EVENLY - 50/50 LIVED IN THE
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COUNTRY/LIVED IN THE CITY.
NOW, HERE WE ARE IN 2016 - OVER
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50% OF THE PEOPLE IN THE
WORLD ARE LIVING IN THE CITIES.
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SO, WE NEED TO COME TO TERMS
WITH 'HOW ARE WE GOING TO REACH
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PEOPLE IN THESE
METROPOLITAN AREAS.
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AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN AFCOE
CLASS - MATTER OF FACT, THEY'RE
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MEETING RIGHT NOW, NEXT DOOR
- NOT THIS MOMENT, BUT THEY HAVE
00:15:07.50\00:15:12.71
THEIR MEETINGS NEXT DOOR -
AND WE TEACH THEM DOOR-TO-DOOR
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MINISTRY. AND WHEN
I - I USED TO DO SALES
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WHERE, YOU KNOW, SOME CITIES
- SOME SUBURBS YOU CAN GET INTO
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A NEIGHBORHOOD AND GO DOOR
TO DOOR. WHERE WE LIVE, OVER THE
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YEARS, WE'VE HAD
PEOPLE COME DOOR TO DOOR.
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YOU GET INTO THE CITIES LIKE
NEW YORK AND THERE ARE DOORMEN
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THERE AND THERE ARE BUZZERS
THAT GET YOU INTO THE APARTMENT
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BUILDINGS AND IT'S REALLY
DIFFICULT, WHEN YOU'RE IN THE
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HIGH-RISE CITIES,
TO GO DOOR TO DOOR.
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AND SO, HOW DO YOU
REACH THESE PEOPLE?
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WHEN I WAS IN NEW YORK CITY
EARLIER THIS YEAR, I THINK I
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TOLD SOME OF YOU I POSTED
SOMETHING ONLINE THAT I WAS DOWN
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ON 42ND STREET AND BROADWAY AND
I WAS THERE FOR A MEETING - I
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WAS GOING TO VISIT MY COUSIN
THAT LIVED UP TOWN AND NEEDED TO
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TAKE THE SUBWAY AND I - I HADN'T
BEEN THERE IN SO LONG, EVEN
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THOUGH I GREW UP THERE I
COULDN'T FIND THE SUBWAY.
00:16:06.23\00:16:08.43
AND THERE ON THE CORNER ON 42ND
AND BROADWAY, THERE WERE TWO
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GUYS PREACHING. YOU
KNOW, THE OLD SOAPBOX
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STREET PREACHERS, AND
THEY WERE STANDING ON A LITTLE
00:16:15.77\00:16:18.87
PLATFORM AND HE HAD A LITTLE
BATTERY-POWERED MEGAPHONE AND HE
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WAS SPEAKING INTO THIS MEGAPHONE
AND HE WAS READING FROM THE
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BIBLE ON HIS IPAD - OR ON
HIS SMART PHONE - AND HIS FRIEND
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WAS HOLDING UP
SIGNS, YOU KNOW, 'REPENT!
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JESUS IS COMING!' AND SO FORTH.
AND I THOUGHT, WELL, IF I'M
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GOING TO TALK TO SOMEONE
I'D JUST AS SOON TALK TO THEM.
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SO I WENT UP AND I
SAID, 'HEY, GOOD JOB.
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KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
I CAN'T FIND THE SUBWAY
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ENTRANCE, WHERE IS IT?'
AND HE GOES, 'SACRAMENTO!'
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HE WATCHED OUR PROGRAMS.
YOU KNOW, THAT MADE ME THINK.
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HERE THESE GUYS ARE, THEY'RE
PREACHING THEIR HEARTS OUT ON
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THE STREETS - THERE WERE
JUST THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE - THE
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PICTURE'S PROBABLY STILL ON MY
FACEBOOK PAGE IF YOU WANT TO SEE
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IT - THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE GOING
BY - ALL KINDS OF INTERESTING
00:17:01.52\00:17:04.32
PEOPLE - AND NOBODY WAS
STOPPING TO LISTEN TO THEM.
00:17:04.32\00:17:10.53
BUT WHEN THEY SAW ME THEY SAID,
'WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE OF
00:17:10.53\00:17:14.20
MEDIA.' SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
I THINK ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO
00:17:14.20\00:17:18.67
REACH THE PEOPLE IN THE
CITY IS - THEY'RE GETTING THEIR
00:17:18.67\00:17:21.54
INFORMATION THROUGH THE
INTERNET, THROUGH TELEVISION,
00:17:21.54\00:17:25.14
THROUGH RADIO, THROUGH MEDIA.
YOU CAN GET INTO THEIR HOMES.
00:17:25.14\00:17:28.94
BUT LET'S
SUPPOSE YOU REACH PEOPLE.
00:17:28.94\00:17:30.78
AMAZING FACTS GETS LETTERS ALL
THE TIME FROM PEOPLE LIVING IN
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METROPOLITAN AREAS BECAUSE WE'RE
ON THEIR CABLE, WE'RE IN THEIR
00:17:33.05\00:17:35.45
APARTMENTS AND THEY
SAY, 'NOW WHERE DO I GO?'
00:17:35.45\00:17:40.32
YOU THEN NEED TO SEND
THEM TO A LOCAL CHURCH.
00:17:40.32\00:17:43.49
HOW DO THE CHURCHES RECEIVE
THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE YOUR CITY
00:17:43.49\00:17:47.20
DWELLERS WHEN THEY COME?
THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG QUESTIONS
00:17:47.20\00:17:50.37
WE'RE GOING TO
GRAPPLE WITH TODAY.
00:17:50.37\00:17:51.70
BUT NOW - I'M
GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF.
00:17:51.70\00:17:53.77
ANYWAY, SO MOST OF THE PEOPLE
LIVE IN THE CITIES - WE'VE GOT
00:17:53.77\00:17:57.34
TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO REACH
THE PEOPLE IN THE CITIES AND -
00:17:57.34\00:18:00.14
BEFORE I GET TO
THAT LET ME READ THIS.
00:18:00.14\00:18:01.74
KAREN REMINDED ME
THIS, THIS MORNING.
00:18:01.74\00:18:03.71
SHE WAS READING THROUGH MY
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON, AND I
00:18:03.71\00:18:06.35
STUDY THREE WEEKS AHEAD SO
SHE WAS READING LESSON #12 EVEN
00:18:06.35\00:18:09.72
THOUGH WE'RE RECORDING IT
EARLY, AND SHE TOLD ME SOMETHING
00:18:09.72\00:18:12.69
I HADN'T SEEN IN THE LESSON.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS ARE A
00:18:12.69\00:18:16.49
LITTLE BIT CONFLICTED
WHEN IT COMES TO CITY MINISTRY.
00:18:16.49\00:18:19.23
WE'RE A LITTLE
BIPOLAR. YOU KNOW WHY?
00:18:19.23\00:18:22.50
SCHIZOPHRENIC - WHATEVER
YOU WANT TO CALL IT - BECAUSE WE
00:18:22.50\00:18:25.27
HAVE A LOT OF COUNSEL TO
FLEE THE CITIES AND LIVE IN THE
00:18:25.27\00:18:29.07
COUNTRY AND THEN WE'VE GOT
COUNSEL TO WORK THE CITIES AND
00:18:29.07\00:18:32.84
WE WONDER, 'HOW DO
YOU RECONCILE THIS?'
00:18:32.84\00:18:35.24
WE WOULD ALL AGREE, CITIES
ARE A CONCENTRATION OF PEOPLE.
00:18:35.24\00:18:42.72
PEOPLE IN A LOST WORLD - THE SIN
- THE HUMAN HEART IS SINFUL AND
00:18:42.72\00:18:46.55
UNCONVERTED. AND
SO, WHEN YOU'VE GOT A
00:18:46.55\00:18:48.06
CONCENTRATION OF UNCONVERTED
PEOPLE THAT ARE MOTIVATED BY
00:18:48.06\00:18:50.93
SELFISHNESS AND GREED, CITIES
CAN BE HOTBEDS OF CRIME, DRUGS,
00:18:50.93\00:18:56.80
VIOLENCE, MERCHANDISING, WORLDLY
DISTRACTIONS AND SO FORTH.
00:18:56.80\00:19:04.14
SO, AS CHRISTIANS, ARE WE TO
GO INTO THE CITIES OR RUN FROM
00:19:04.14\00:19:07.21
THEM? THERE'S THE DILEMMA:
HOW DO YOU BALANCE THAT?
00:19:07.21\00:19:13.01
HERE'S WHAT KAREN READ
THIS MORNING: "A SEVENTH-DAY
00:19:13.01\00:19:15.88
ADVENTIST EXPERT IN URBAN
MINISTRY DID A STUDY IN THE
00:19:15.88\00:19:18.99
E.G. WHITE PERIODICAL INDEX
REGARDING HER COUNSEL ON MOVING
00:19:18.99\00:19:22.66
OUT OF THE CITIES. OUT
OF 107 ARTICLES, 24 ARTICLES
00:19:22.66\00:19:27.86
GAVE INSTRUCTION ON MOVING OUT
OR ESTABLISHING INSTITUTIONS ON
00:19:27.86\00:19:31.57
THE OUTSIDE OR THE EDGES OF THE
CITIES." - THIS IS ONE REASON
00:19:31.57\00:19:36.34
THAT WE'RE INVOLVED, RIGHT
NOW, IN BUILDING AN EVANGELISM
00:19:36.34\00:19:38.47
TRAINING CENTER ON THE OUTSKIRTS
OF SACRAMENTO - 'OUT OF THE 107
00:19:38.47\00:19:43.18
ARTICLES, 24 ARTICLES GAVE
INSTRUCTION ON MOVING OUT AND
00:19:43.18\00:19:47.95
ESTABLISHING INSTITUTIONS
OUTSIDE THE CITIES, BUT 75
00:19:47.95\00:19:51.35
ARTICLES GAVE SPECIFIC
INSTRUCTION TO MOVE INTO THE
00:19:51.35\00:19:54.22
CITIES WITH MEETING HOUSES', IT
SAYS, 'AND MAYBE RESTAURANTS TO
00:19:54.22\00:19:59.93
REACH THE CITIES. THE
OTHER EIGHT ARTICLES WERE
00:19:59.93\00:20:03.16
NEUTRAL.' A CHURCH HISTORIAN
SUMMARIZED ELLEN WHITE'S COUNSEL
00:20:03.16\00:20:06.80
ON CITY WORK, SHOWING THAT
RELATING TO INSTITUTIONS, SHE
00:20:06.80\00:20:10.74
ADVOCATED WORKING FROM OUTPOST
CENTERS OUTSIDE THE CITY, AND
00:20:10.74\00:20:14.98
WHEN DEALING WITH LOCAL CHURCH
WORK OR WITH RESTAURANTS, SHE
00:20:14.98\00:20:18.48
ADVOCATED WORKING FROM WITHIN
THE CITY, OR IF YOU CAN HAVE A
00:20:18.48\00:20:21.05
CLINIC WHERE YOU'RE
DOING, YOU KNOW, JUST
00:20:21.05\00:20:23.18
ON-THE-STREET MINISTRY. AND
WE'RE TRYING TO FOLLOW THAT.
00:20:23.18\00:20:28.06
AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY HERE
IN THE NOTES - AND THIS IS IN
00:20:28.06\00:20:30.56
YOUR LESSON UNDER FRIDAY, "WHY
SHOULD NOT FAMILIES WHO KNOW THE
00:20:30.56\00:20:34.46
PRESENT TRUTH, - WHY
SHOULD NOT FAMILIES WHO KNOW THE
00:20:34.46\00:20:38.77
PRESENT TRUTH
SETTLE IN THESE CITIES?
00:20:38.77\00:20:41.17
THERE WILL BE LAYMAN WHO WILL
MOVE INTO THE CITIES THAT THEY
00:20:41.17\00:20:44.34
MAY LET THE LIGHT THAT GOD
HAS GIVEN THEM SHINE FORTH TO
00:20:44.34\00:20:46.94
OTHERS.
REVELATION 14:6, "THEN I SAW
00:20:46.94\00:20:52.01
ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN
THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING THE
00:20:52.01\00:20:54.78
EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH TO
THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH -
00:20:54.78\00:20:59.19
TO EVERY NATION,
TRIBE, TONGUE, AND PEOPLE."
00:20:59.19\00:21:02.59
SO HOW FAR ARE WE
TO GO WITH THE MESSAGE?
00:21:02.59\00:21:05.09
WE NEED TO GO EVERYWHERE AND
THAT MEANS, YES, EVEN INTO THE
00:21:05.09\00:21:09.36
CITIES AND RISK EXPOSURE TO THAT
CONCENTRATION OF CRIME AND EVIL.
00:21:09.36\00:21:15.20
WHEN MISSIONARIES GO TO FOREIGN
COUNTRIES - I USED TO WONDER -
00:21:15.20\00:21:20.34
YOU KNOW, YOU'D START
READING ABOUT WHEN YOU BECOME A
00:21:20.34\00:21:22.21
CHRISTIAN, YOU
WANT TO BE MODEST.
00:21:22.21\00:21:27.22
AND I REMEMBER READING
JOE CREWS' BOOK ON CREEPING
00:21:27.22\00:21:29.95
COMPROMISE - GREAT BOOK,
I RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYBODY.
00:21:29.95\00:21:33.32
IT'S GOT A CHAPTER IN
THEIR ON MIXED SWIMMING.
00:21:33.32\00:21:36.12
I'M REALLY DEALING WITH
SOME INTERESTING SUBJECTS TODAY.
00:21:36.12\00:21:38.69
HE TALKS ABOUT HOW CAN A
CHRISTIAN FAMILY GO TO A PUBLIC
00:21:38.69\00:21:42.53
BEACH THE WAY THAT PEOPLE DRESS?
WE TOOK IN A LITTLE OF THE
00:21:42.53\00:21:49.57
OLYMPICS THIS LAST FEW
WEEKS, COMING TO YOU FROM RIO.
00:21:49.57\00:21:55.38
AND THEY WOULD TAKE THE CAMERA
DOWN AND GET A COUPLE OF THE
00:21:55.38\00:21:57.38
CULTURAL SCENES
ON THE RIO BEACH.
00:21:57.38\00:22:00.88
SOME OF IT WAS RATED
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES.
00:22:00.88\00:22:04.45
THAT JUST MEANS IT WAS IMMODEST.
BUT HERE YOU HAVE A MISSIONARY
00:22:04.45\00:22:08.16
- SOME OF THESE EARLY
MISSIONARIES, YOU READ ABOUT
00:22:08.16\00:22:09.69
PATTON AND SOME OF THE OTHERS -
JOHN PATTON - THEY WENT TO WORK
00:22:09.69\00:22:12.66
WITH CANNIBALS AND PEOPLE THAT
WERE LIVING VERY PRIMITIVELY
00:22:12.66\00:22:17.77
AND DRESSING VERY PRIMITIVELY.
HOW DO YOU GO WORK WITH PEOPLE
00:22:17.77\00:22:21.57
LIKE THAT, THAT ARE - THEY
DON'T HARDLY WEAR ANYTHING.
00:22:21.57\00:22:25.71
SOME OF THE FIRST MISSIONARIES
IN NORTH AMERICA AND OTHER
00:22:25.71\00:22:27.48
PLACES - DO YOU SAY,
'WELL, I CAN'T GO WORK WITH THE
00:22:27.48\00:22:30.11
MISSIONARIES BECAUSE
THEY'RE NOT MODESTLY DRESSED'?
00:22:30.11\00:22:33.18
YOU SEE THE
DILEMMA I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:22:33.18\00:22:35.55
AT SOME POINT YOU'VE GOT TO BITE
THE BULLET AND PRAY FOR GRACE -
00:22:35.55\00:22:38.99
AND YOU'VE GOT TO REACH PEOPLE
WHERE THEY'RE AT AND THAT MEANS,
00:22:38.99\00:22:41.76
YES, YOU MIGHT NEED TO EXPOSE
YOURSELF TO RISK AND YOU PRAY
00:22:41.76\00:22:46.63
THAT GOD GOES WITH YOU.
AND SO - NOW, THAT'S NOT ALL AN
00:22:46.63\00:22:50.27
ENDORSEMENT TO GO TO THE
BEACH, YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT
00:22:50.27\00:22:53.00
I'M TALKING ABOUT?
YOU'VE GOT TO PICK CAREFULLY
00:22:53.00\00:22:57.37
WHAT BEACH YOU GO TO.
ANYWAY, SO - FIRST CITY IN
00:22:57.37\00:23:04.78
THE BIBLE - WASN'T GOOD.
WHO BUILT THE FIRST CITY?
00:23:04.78\00:23:07.85
WHO KNOWS? CAIN.
00:23:07.85\00:23:11.65
NIMROD BUILT THE FIRST
CITY AFTER BABEL, BUT BEFORE THE
00:23:11.65\00:23:15.06
TOWER OF BABEL - GENESIS 4:16
- THEN CAIN MURDERS HIS BROTHER,
00:23:15.06\00:23:19.33
"THEN CAIN WENT OUT FROM
THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD" - THAT
00:23:19.33\00:23:21.63
OUGHT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING
RIGHT THERE - "AND DWELT IN THE
00:23:21.63\00:23:23.93
LAND OF NOD ON THE EAST OF EDEN.
AND CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE, AND
00:23:23.93\00:23:26.94
SHE CONCEIVED AND BORE ENOCH.
AND HE BUILT A CITY, AND CALLED
00:23:26.94\00:23:31.67
THE NAME OF THE CITY AFTER
THE NAME OF HIS SON - ENOCH."
00:23:31.67\00:23:34.21
THE FIRST CITY WAS
NOT BABEL, IT WAS ENOCH.
00:23:34.21\00:23:37.95
NOW WE READ IN ACTS - THE LESSON
TAKES US TO ACTS 17 - IT TALKS
00:23:37.95\00:23:42.55
ABOUT PAUL'S
APPROACH TO CITY MINISTRY.
00:23:42.55\00:23:45.69
GO TO ACTS 18, VERSE 7.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
00:23:45.69\00:23:49.92
IN JUST A MOMENT,
LUKE 4:43. WHO HAS THAT?
00:23:49.92\00:23:52.89
RIGHT UP FRONT HERE, OKAY?
00:23:52.89\00:23:55.30
IN ACTS 18:7, "AND HE DEPARTED
THENCE, AND ENTERED INTO A
00:23:55.30\00:23:58.47
CERTAIN MAN'S HOUSE, NAMED
JUSTUS, ONE THAT WORSHIPPED GOD,
00:23:58.47\00:24:02.94
WHOSE HOUSE JOINED HARD TO [OR
RIGHT UP AGAINST] THE SYNAGOGUE.
00:24:02.94\00:24:06.51
AND CRISPUS, THE CHIEF RULER OF
THE SYNAGOGUE, BELIEVED ON THE
00:24:06.51\00:24:09.54
LORD WITH ALL HIS HOUSE;" -
SO SEE, SOME OF THOSE IN THE
00:24:09.54\00:24:12.35
SYNAGOGUES THAT WERE
JEWS, DID ACCEPT JESUS.
00:24:12.35\00:24:15.22
AND WE KNOW SOME ALSO REJECTED
HIM - HE "BELIEVED ON THE LORD
00:24:15.22\00:24:18.35
WITH ALL HIS HOUSE; AND
MANY OF THE CORINTHIANS HEARING
00:24:18.35\00:24:21.49
BELIEVED, AND WERE BAPTIZED.
NOW THE LORD SPOKE TO PAUL IN
00:24:21.49\00:24:25.89
THE NIGHT BY A VISION, 'DO NOT
BE AFRAID, BUT SPEAK, AND DO NOT
00:24:25.89\00:24:30.30
BE SILENT; FOR I AM WITH YOU,
AND NO ONE WILL ATTACK YOU TO
00:24:30.30\00:24:34.34
HURT YOU.'" - 'FOR I AM WITH
YOU AND I WILL PROTECT YOU IN A
00:24:34.34\00:24:36.60
SPECIAL WAY' - "FOR I
HAVE MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY."
00:24:36.60\00:24:40.61
WELL, HOW DO YOU
KNOW WHERE THEY ARE?
00:24:40.61\00:24:43.75
DO YOU THINK THAT GOD, IF HE
SPOKE TO US TODAY - NOW, WE'RE
00:24:43.75\00:24:46.98
BROADCASTING FROM THE GREATER
SACRAMENTO AREA - CAN I SAY
00:24:46.98\00:24:50.12
THAT? WOULD GOD SAY, 'I
HAVE MUCH PEOPLE IN THIS CITY?'
00:24:50.12\00:24:54.19
>>AMEN. >>WHAT
DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
00:24:54.19\00:24:55.39
IF THEY'RE NOT ON OUR CHURCH
BOOKS, WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY 'I
00:24:55.39\00:24:57.53
HAVE MUCH PEOPLE IN THIS CITY?'
IT MEANS HE KNOWS WHO THEY ARE.
00:24:57.53\00:25:01.26
THEY'RE HIS PEOPLE.
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR CHURCH
00:25:01.26\00:25:02.86
TRUTH AND THEY'RE NOT HERE YET.
I THINK WE HAVE A VISITOR WITH
00:25:02.86\00:25:06.57
US TODAY I'LL NOT IDENTIFY, THAT
TOLD US A FEW WEEKS AGO, 'I'VE
00:25:06.57\00:25:09.30
BEEN WATCHING YOU GUYS ON TV FOR
YEARS - FINALLY DECIDED TO COME.
00:25:09.30\00:25:13.24
THAT WAS ONE OF THE
LORD'S PEOPLE IN THE CITY.
00:25:13.24\00:25:16.85
>>AMEN. >>AND HE
WANTS TO REACH THEM -
00:25:16.85\00:25:18.45
BUT IT'S NOT ALL GOING
TO HAPPEN THROUGH MEDIA.
00:25:18.45\00:25:21.42
SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS BY
OUR GETTING OUT IN THE STREETS,
00:25:21.42\00:25:24.82
MEETING THE PEOPLE - YOU
CAN DO IT WITH HEALTH MINISTRY.
00:25:24.82\00:25:28.49
YOU CAN DO IT
WITH CLOTHING MINISTRY.
00:25:28.49\00:25:30.49
YOU CAN DO IT WITH
HEALTH-FOOD MINISTRIES.
00:25:30.49\00:25:35.46
THERE'S JUST A BROAD
SPECTRUM. WHAT MINISTRY SHOULD A
00:25:35.46\00:25:38.17
CHURCH DO IN THE
CITY? WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:25:38.17\00:25:41.34
THAT DEPENDS ON THE GIFTS
OF THE PEOPLE IN THAT CHURCH.
00:25:41.34\00:25:45.74
SOMETHING I'VE LEARNED THE HARD
WAY AS A PASTOR - SOMETIMES I'D
00:25:45.74\00:25:48.21
GET BRIGHT IDEAS - 'WE OUGHT TO
DO THIS MINISTRY' - AND I'D TRY
00:25:48.21\00:25:50.35
TO FORCE THE CHURCH INTO DOING
A PARTICULAR MINISTRY - BUT NO
00:25:50.35\00:25:53.98
MEMBER REALLY EMBRACED IT.
AND THEN, IT'S LIKE TRYING TO
00:25:53.98\00:25:58.22
PUSH A NOODLE
UPHILL; YOU JUST CAN'T DO IT.
00:25:58.22\00:26:02.16
BUT WHEN I FIND THE LORD LAYS A
BURDEN ON A MEMBER IN THE CHURCH
00:26:02.16\00:26:06.16
AND SOMEONE SAYS, 'I'VE GOT A
BURDEN FOR HOMELESS MINISTRY' -
00:26:06.16\00:26:09.80
WE'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE
HERE THAT HAVE A BURDEN.
00:26:09.80\00:26:11.30
BOY, THEY GOT BEHIND IT, THEY
MADE IT ALL HAPPEN, THEY GOT THE
00:26:11.30\00:26:13.37
HOMELESS BAGS TOGETHER AND
- AND IT WAS ON THEIR HEART.
00:26:13.37\00:26:16.81
SOMEONE ELSE SAYS, 'I'VE GOT A
BURDEN TO FEED PEOPLE DOWNTOWN'
00:26:16.81\00:26:21.31
- AT OUR LAST CHURCH - CENTRAL
CHURCH - THEY GOT TOGETHER, THEY
00:26:21.31\00:26:24.11
BUILT THE ROVING BARBECUE AND
THEY ORGANIZED THE WHOLE THING.
00:26:24.11\00:26:27.25
WE'D GO DOWNTOWN EVERY WEEK AND
WE'D FEED PEOPLE AND PREACH TO
00:26:27.25\00:26:29.65
THEM AND - BUT SOMEBODY HAD
TO HAVE THE LORD LAY A BURDEN ON
00:26:29.65\00:26:33.76
THEIR HEART. THEY HAD A GIFT.
AND, AS PASTORS, WE FOUND THE
00:26:33.76\00:26:36.89
BEST THING TO DO IS FIND
OUT WHAT GIFTS GOD HAS GIVEN AND
00:26:36.89\00:26:39.46
EMPOWER THOSE PEOPLE TO DO
THE MINISTRY GOD HAS GIVEN THEM.
00:26:39.46\00:26:43.43
DON'T WAIT FOR YOUR PASTOR TO
TELL YOU EVERYTHING THE CHURCH
00:26:43.43\00:26:46.63
OUGHT TO DO, BECAUSE I
DON'T SEE IT WORKS THAT WAY.
00:26:46.63\00:26:49.97
I FIND IT WORKS THE BEST WHEN
THE MEMBERS SAY, 'I'VE GOT A
00:26:49.97\00:26:52.61
PASSION FOR A CLOTHING
MINISTRY.' I'VE GOT A FRIEND I -
00:26:52.61\00:26:57.25
HE'S A CHRISTIAN - I PLAY
RACQUETBALL WITH HIM AND HE
00:26:57.25\00:26:59.38
SAYS, 'PASTOR DOUG, I
JUST - YOU GOT ANY OLD CLOTHES?
00:26:59.38\00:27:01.62
I WANT TO TAKE CLOTHES
AND GIVE THEM TO THE POOR.'
00:27:01.62\00:27:03.75
AND THE LORD JUST
LAID THAT ON HIS HEART.
00:27:03.75\00:27:05.82
I SAID, 'YEAH, WE'LL
GET YOU SOME OLD CLOTHES.
00:27:05.82\00:27:08.19
I'VE GOT TONS AT OUR HOUSE.' AND
SO, YOU - THE LORD MAY GIVE YOU
00:27:08.19\00:27:13.40
A MINISTRY, BUT THESE ARE THE
WAYS WHERE YOU GET OUT AND YOU
00:27:13.40\00:27:16.03
TOUCH AND YOU CONNECT WITH THE
PEOPLE IN THE CITY, SO THAT IF
00:27:16.03\00:27:19.33
THEY DO SEE SOME MEDIA, MAYBE
THEY'LL MAKE THE CONNECTION.
00:27:19.33\00:27:23.57
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US, PLEASE, LUKE 4:43.
00:27:23.57\00:27:27.04
>>"BUT HE SAID TO THEM, 'I MUST
PREACH THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO THE
00:27:27.04\00:27:30.01
OTHER CITIES ALSO, BECAUSE FOR
THIS PURPOSE I HAVE BEEN SENT.'
00:27:30.01\00:27:34.32
AND HE WAS PREACHING IN
THE SYNAGOGUES OF GALILEE."
00:27:34.32\00:27:37.89
>>YEAH, SO JESUS, HE SAID -
NOW, I THINK IT'S INTERESTING.
00:27:37.89\00:27:41.52
DID JESUS FIND A SOAP BOX
ON THE CORNER AND STAND THERE?
00:27:41.52\00:27:44.39
OR WHERE DID HE GO
TO PREACH IN THE CITY?
00:27:44.39\00:27:45.99
>>SYNAGOGUES.
>>WHAT DOES THE WORD
00:27:45.99\00:27:47.86
'SYNAGOGUE' MEAN? IT
ACTUALLY MEANS 'GATHERING'.
00:27:47.86\00:27:52.40
IT IS THE SAME AS A CHURCH,
BUT IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE THEY
00:27:52.40\00:27:54.47
GATHERED - A GATHERING PLACE -
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES
00:27:54.47\00:27:59.14
AN INTERESTING PARADIGM FOR A
CITY MINISTRY - GO TO WHERE THE
00:27:59.14\00:28:05.45
PEOPLE ARE. AND
THAT'S WHAT PAUL DID.
00:28:05.45\00:28:08.95
PAUL WOULD GO TO, YOU KNOW, HE'D
GO TO ATHENS AND HE'D SAY, 'OH,
00:28:08.95\00:28:12.22
ALL THE PHILOSOPHERS
ARE GATHERING ON MARS HILL.'
00:28:12.22\00:28:14.62
WHEREVER THE CROWD IS,
THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING TO GO.
00:28:14.62\00:28:17.56
IT BECOMES AN OPPORTUNITY. I
KNOW SOME PEOPLE, THEY'VE GOT
00:28:17.56\00:28:20.13
A MINISTRY THAT WHENEVER THERE'S
A BASEBALL GAME OR WHENEVER
00:28:20.13\00:28:22.76
THERE'S SOME PUBLIC GATHERING,
THEY GET DOWN IN THE PARKING LOT
00:28:22.76\00:28:25.00
- THEY GET A PERMIT - THEY
GO TO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE.
00:28:25.00\00:28:28.90
I KNOW OUR AFCOE
STUDENTS AND PEOPLE FROM WEIMAR,
00:28:28.90\00:28:31.24
THEY'VE GOTTEN
PERMITS FROM WAL-MART.
00:28:31.24\00:28:33.34
IF YOU SOMETIMES GO TO WAL-MART
YOU'LL SEE THERE'S LITTLE THINGS
00:28:33.34\00:28:35.24
SET UP OUTSIDE - WHETHER IT'S
VETERANS OR VOTER REGISTRATION -
00:28:35.24\00:28:38.65
WHATEVER IT IS - YOU CAN ALSO
HAVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES THAT
00:28:38.65\00:28:41.68
GO OUT THERE AND
THEY GIVE OUT LITERATURE.
00:28:41.68\00:28:44.35
AND SO THEY GO TO
WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE.
00:28:44.35\00:28:46.39
AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS DID
WHEN HE WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUE.
00:28:46.39\00:28:48.72
IF YOU CAN GET INVITED TO A
CHURCH IN A CITY TO SHARE THE
00:28:48.72\00:28:53.53
THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE,
GO TO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE.
00:28:53.53\00:28:56.40
ACTS 18 - YOU KNOW, I REALLY
RESPECT AND ADMIRE PEOPLE THAT
00:28:56.40\00:29:01.67
HAVE THE COURAGE - WHEN WE
DO OUR RADIO PROGRAM ON SUNDAY,
00:29:01.67\00:29:05.87
PASTOR ROSS AND I OCCASIONALLY
GET A CALL FROM A GUY WHO IS A
00:29:05.87\00:29:09.08
STREET PREACHER. IF
YOU'VE LISTENED TO BIBLE
00:29:09.08\00:29:11.45
ANSWERS LIVE YOU'VE HEARD
ABOUT THIS STREET PREACHER
00:29:11.45\00:29:14.08
THAT CALLS US. AND
I'VE GOT GREAT RESPECT FOR
00:29:14.08\00:29:16.12
PEOPLE THAT CAN JUST GET
OUT THERE ON A BUSY INTERSECTION
00:29:16.12\00:29:18.49
AND STAND ON A BOX
AND START PREACHING.
00:29:18.49\00:29:21.02
SOMETIMES IT'S FIRE AND
BRIMSTONE BUT THEY START
00:29:21.02\00:29:22.69
PREACHING TO PEOPLE
THERE ON THE STREET.
00:29:22.69\00:29:24.66
I'VE NOT SEEN A LOT OF
SUCCESS COME FROM THAT.
00:29:24.66\00:29:29.46
I DO KNOW ONE OR TWO PEOPLE THAT
SAY THEY WERE CONVERTED FROM A
00:29:29.46\00:29:32.17
STREET PEOPLE -
FROM A STREET PREACHER.
00:29:32.17\00:29:34.24
SALVATION ARMY USED
TO DO A LOT OF THAT.
00:29:34.24\00:29:36.34
THEY'D USUALLY FIND THE CORNERS
WHERE ALL THE DERELICTS WERE
00:29:36.34\00:29:38.84
AND THEY'D PREACH
TO THEM RIGHT THERE.
00:29:38.84\00:29:40.24
AND THEY BUILT
THEIR BRAND DOING THAT.
00:29:40.24\00:29:43.68
BUT IN OUR WORLD TODAY,
COMMUNICATIONS HAVE CHANGED A
00:29:43.68\00:29:47.75
LITTLE BIT AND YOU'VE GOT TO
KIND OF CHANGE WITH IT AND FIND
00:29:47.75\00:29:50.79
OUT HOW YOU REACH THE PEOPLE.
GOING ON WITH THIS SAME PART IN
00:29:50.79\00:29:54.89
ACTS - JUMP NOW TO ACTS
18:24 - "NOW A CERTAIN JEW NAMED
00:29:54.89\00:30:00.46
APOLLOS, BORN AT ALEXANDRIA," -
HE WAS BORN IN A BIG CITY - "AN
00:30:00.46\00:30:04.50
ELOQUENT MAN AND MIGHTY IN THE
SCRIPTURES, CAME TO EPHESUS."
00:30:04.50\00:30:10.14
AND IT SAYS THIS MAN WAS
"...INSTRUCTED IN THE WAY OF THE
00:30:10.14\00:30:14.28
LORD; AND BEING FERVENT
IN SPIRIT," - NOTICE THAT?
00:30:14.28\00:30:18.08
SPIRIT FILLED - "HE
SPOKE AND TAUGHT ACCURATELY THE
00:30:18.08\00:30:20.92
THINGS OF THE LORD, THOUGH HE
KNEW ONLY THE BAPTISM OF JOHN.
00:30:20.92\00:30:23.99
SO HE BEGAN TO SPEAK
BOLDLY IN THE SYNAGOGUE."
00:30:23.99\00:30:27.76
- AGAIN, HE WENT TO THE
SYNAGOGUE - "WHEN AQUILA AND
00:30:27.76\00:30:30.43
PRISCILLA HEARD HIM, THEY TOOK
HIM" - THEY SAID, 'THIS GUY'S
00:30:30.43\00:30:32.63
BRIGHT. HE'S GOT
TALENT. HE'S GOT POTENTIAL.
00:30:32.63\00:30:35.70
HE JUST DOESN'T HAVE THE WHOLE
MESSAGE. AND "...THEY TOOK HIM
00:30:35.70\00:30:39.27
ASIDE AND EXPLAINED TO HIM
THE WAY OF GOD MORE ACCURATELY."
00:30:39.27\00:30:44.27
- TALKED ABOUT JESUS, THE
OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT AND ALL
00:30:44.27\00:30:47.04
THAT HAD HAPPENED - "AND WHEN HE
DESIRED TO CROSS TO ACHAIA, THE
00:30:47.04\00:30:51.41
BRETHREN WROTE, EXHORTING THE
DISCIPLES TO RECEIVE HIM, AND
00:30:51.41\00:30:54.38
WHEN HE ARRIVED, HE GREATLY
HELPED THOSE WHO HAD BELIEVED
00:30:54.38\00:30:58.32
THROUGH GRACE; FOR HE VIGOROUSLY
REFUTED THE JEWS PUBLICLY,
00:30:58.32\00:31:02.56
SHOWING FROM THE SCRIPTURES
THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST."
00:31:02.56\00:31:06.96
SO, YOU MAY NOT KNOW THIS, BUT I
AM FULLY QUALIFIED TO DO SPECIAL
00:31:06.96\00:31:12.37
MUSIC. I CAN SING AND I
CAN PLAY - IN A SMALL CHURCH.
00:31:12.37\00:31:19.77
PEOPLE IN A SMALL CHURCH WILL
SAY, 'AMEN' BECAUSE WHEN YOU GO
00:31:19.77\00:31:24.81
TO A SMALL CHURCH YOU HAVE A
LIMITED POOL OF TALENT AND I CAN
00:31:24.81\00:31:28.82
GET AWAY WITH BEING SPECIAL
MUSIC IN A LITTLE BITTY CHURCH.
00:31:28.82\00:31:34.16
YOU GET INTO A BIGGER CHURCH -
THERE'S A POINT WHERE I'M GOING
00:31:34.16\00:31:37.49
- YOU GET INTO A BIGGER CHURCH
WHERE YOU GET A LITTLE MORE
00:31:37.49\00:31:39.19
SOPHISTICATION, A LITTLE MORE -
BIGGER POOL OF TALENT - YOU EVER
00:31:39.19\00:31:43.63
HEARD ABOUT BEING A
BIG FISH IN A LITTLE POND?
00:31:43.63\00:31:47.64
WHEN YOU'VE GOT MORE
PEOPLE, YOU NEED MORE POWER.
00:31:47.64\00:31:51.94
YOU NEED MORE ELOQUENCE.
YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO REACH
00:31:51.94\00:31:55.14
EVERYBODY AND ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IS - AND
00:31:55.14\00:32:00.65
ELLEN WHITE SPEAKS ABOUT THIS
- SHE SAYS, 'WE NEED MINISTERS.
00:32:00.65\00:32:05.32
WE NEED PEOPLE WHO ARE MIGHTY IN
THE SCRIPTURES THAT CAN GO INTO
00:32:05.32\00:32:09.52
THESE LARGE CENTERS AND
HOLD LARGE CROWDS - HOLD THEIR
00:32:09.52\00:32:13.90
ATTENTION. THIS
IS WHAT APOLLOS DID.
00:32:13.90\00:32:16.77
BUT YOU NOTICE THE PART - IT
SAID, 'MIGHTY IN THE SPIRIT'.
00:32:16.77\00:32:21.04
YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT
THE KEY IS TO CITY MINISTRY?
00:32:21.04\00:32:25.87
ACTS CHAPTER 2: THEY WERE ALL
GATHERED IN ONE PLACE AND THEY
00:32:25.87\00:32:30.48
WERE OF ONE ACCORD.
WHERE WERE THEY? IN A CITY.
00:32:30.48\00:32:33.82
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED
OUT, IT WAS NOT IN THE COUNTRY.
00:32:33.82\00:32:38.75
THEY WERE GATHERED IN A CITY
AND THERE WERE MANY THAT WERE
00:32:38.75\00:32:41.69
GATHERED IN JERUSALEM THAT DAY
AND THE LORD FILLED THAT UPPER
00:32:41.69\00:32:45.16
ROOM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND
IT WAS THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT.
00:32:45.16\00:32:49.70
WOULDN'T THAT BE NICE
IF THAT HAPPENED AGAIN?
00:32:49.70\00:32:52.00
>>AMEN. >>CAN YOU IMAGINE?
00:32:52.00\00:32:53.27
IT SAYS THEY HEARD THE SOUND
OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND AND THE
00:32:53.27\00:32:56.20
PEOPLE HEARING THE
SOUND RAN TOGETHER.
00:32:56.20\00:32:58.47
THEY HEARD SOMETHING THAT
SOUNDED LIKE A TORNADO COMING
00:32:58.47\00:33:00.34
FROM THIS UPPER ROOM AND ALL THE
PEOPLE RAN TO THE COURTYARD AND
00:33:00.34\00:33:04.15
THOUGHT, 'WHAT IN
THE WORLD IS THAT?
00:33:04.15\00:33:05.55
AND THEY POURED OUT ON THE
BALCONY AND BEGAN TO PREACH TO
00:33:05.55\00:33:08.38
THEM IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUES.
WOULDN'T THAT BE SOMETHING?
00:33:08.38\00:33:10.69
YOU EVER BEEN TO NEW YORK CITY?
00:33:10.69\00:33:12.45
GO TO - KAREN AND I
WERE IN LOS ANGELES.
00:33:12.45\00:33:14.12
WE PREACHED THERE TWO WEEKS
AGO AND JUST - IT WAS PACKED.
00:33:14.12\00:33:19.56
NOW - THE WHITE MEMORIAL CHURCH
- BUT WE SPOKE TO PEOPLE WHO
00:33:19.56\00:33:22.20
WERE RUSSIAN, VIETNAMESE, FROM
ONE OF THE MANY LANGUAGES OF
00:33:22.20\00:33:27.84
INDIA - EVERYTHING FROM TELAGU
TO HINDI TO TAMAL, CHINESE, A
00:33:27.84\00:33:33.07
LOT OF FILIPINOS, SPANISH,
GERMAN - I MEAN, LITERALLY, JUST
00:33:33.07\00:33:38.48
THAT ONE DAY WE RAN INTO -
AND WE DIDN'T TALK TO EVERYBODY.
00:33:38.48\00:33:42.15
WOULDN'T IT BE SOMETHING IF, IN
L.A., ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE WAS,
00:33:42.15\00:33:45.79
ON A CALM DAY, THE SOUND OF A
MIGHTY RUSHING WIND COMING FROM
00:33:45.79\00:33:49.62
BUILDING AND ALL THE PEOPLE
WONDERED, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD IS
00:33:49.62\00:33:51.63
GOING ON?' THEY
COME TOGETHER AND
00:33:51.63\00:33:52.99
CHRISTIANS CAME POURING OUT
PREACHING TO THEM THE WORD OF
00:33:52.99\00:33:56.23
GOD IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUES.
I THINK GOD - THAT MAY NOT
00:33:56.23\00:34:00.64
HAPPEN WITH THE GIFT OF TONGUES,
BUT I THINK GOD IS GOING TO DO
00:34:00.64\00:34:04.94
SOMETHING IN THE - DO YOU THINK
THE LATTER RAIN OF THE HOLY
00:34:04.94\00:34:08.58
SPIRIT IS GOING TO HAVE LESS
MANIFESTATION OF POWER THAN THE
00:34:08.58\00:34:11.85
FORMER RAIN? SOMETHING'S
GOING TO HAPPEN. SHOULD WE BE
00:34:11.85\00:34:15.92
SURPRISED IF GOD DOES IT IN
THE CITY? I'D BE SURPRISED IF HE
00:34:15.92\00:34:18.62
DIDN'T, BECAUSE IF HE DID IT OUT
IN A ONE-HORSE TOWN, WHO'S GOING
00:34:18.62\00:34:22.32
TO HEAR ABOUT IT?
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:34:22.32\00:34:25.49
SO I THINK THE LORD IS GOING TO
POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT IN A CITY.
00:34:25.49\00:34:28.16
SO IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR US
TO BE AROUND WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
00:34:28.16\00:34:30.33
THAT'S WHY WE
CAN'T ABANDON THE CITIES.
00:34:30.33\00:34:33.60
GOD NEEDS PEOPLE THAT ARE
GOING TO BE THERE TO WORK.
00:34:33.60\00:34:35.67
ALRIGHT, SO APOLLOS IS ONE
OF THESE SPIRIT-FILLED PREACHERS
00:34:35.67\00:34:39.77
WHO DID A LOT OF GOOD AND
HE WENT - HE COULD REACH THE
00:34:39.77\00:34:42.74
CITIES. HE WENT
FROM PLACE TO PLACE.
00:34:42.74\00:34:44.71
CITIES ARE A HURTING PLACE.
THE WORD 'CITY' IS FOUND 1300
00:34:44.71\00:34:50.15
TIMES IN THE BIBLE - OR
SOME DERIVATIVE OF THE WORD -
00:34:50.15\00:34:53.99
JEREMIAH 4:26: "I BEHELD, AND
INDEED THE FRUITFUL LAND WAS A
00:34:53.99\00:34:59.59
WILDERNESS, AND ALL ITS CITIES
WERE BROKEN DOWN AT THE PRESENCE
00:34:59.59\00:35:03.23
OF THE LORD, BY HIS FIERCE
ANGER." HAVE YOU EVER READ
00:35:03.23\00:35:06.50
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS?
HOW DOES THE BOOK BEGIN?
00:35:06.50\00:35:10.04
"A MAN BY THE
NAME OF" - >>CHRISTIAN.
00:35:10.04\00:35:12.74
>>CHRISTIAN IS
FLEEING FROM - >>DESTRUCTION.
00:35:12.74\00:35:15.51
>>NOT JUST DESTRUCTION - THE
CITY OF DESTRUCTION. BY THE WAY,
00:35:15.51\00:35:19.58
HE'S QUOTING FROM THE BIBLE.
THERE'S A PHRASE THAT SAYS ONE
00:35:19.58\00:35:21.68
OF THE CITIES WILL BE
THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION.
00:35:21.68\00:35:24.32
AND SO, HE'S FLEEING FROM
THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION AND HE'S
00:35:24.32\00:35:27.22
GOING TO THE CANAAN LAND
AND PEOPLE OFTEN THINK ABOUT THE
00:35:27.22\00:35:31.33
CITIES AS A PLACE OF MISERY AND
WOE. AND, WHEREVER YOU'VE GOT
00:35:31.33\00:35:35.63
SIN - YOU'VE GOT A CONCENTRATION
OF PEOPLE, YOU HAVE A
00:35:35.63\00:35:38.33
CONCENTRATION OF
SIN. SIN BRINGS SUFFERING.
00:35:38.33\00:35:40.67
CITIES ARE GOING TO BE A
CONCENTRATION OF SUFFERING.
00:35:40.67\00:35:44.74
WHERE IS IT GOING TO BE
THE HARDEST IN THE LAST DAYS?
00:35:44.74\00:35:48.51
IN A LOT OF HER COUNSEL, ELLEN
WHITE SAYS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE
00:35:48.51\00:35:50.68
SPIRIT OF GOD IS WITHDRAWN,
IT IS GOING TO BE VERY HARD FOR
00:35:50.68\00:35:53.42
THOSE THAT ARE STUCK IN
THE CITIES AT THAT TIME.
00:35:53.42\00:35:56.58
THAT'S WHY THE BEST THING IS IF
YOU CAN WORK THE OUTPOSTS - LIVE
00:35:56.58\00:35:59.15
IN THE OUTPOSTS AND
THEN WORK THE CITIES.
00:35:59.15\00:36:01.02
YOU KNOW, IT'S EASIER
TODAY THAN IT'S EVER BEEN.
00:36:01.02\00:36:04.26
BACK WHEN THAT COUNSEL WAS
WRITTEN, PEOPLE RODE HORSES.
00:36:04.26\00:36:08.20
AND SO, IF YOU SAID, 'I'M GOING
TO GO WORK DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO
00:36:08.20\00:36:11.80
TODAY', WELL, YOU BETTER TAKE
ABOUT FIVE HOURS TO GET THERE.
00:36:11.80\00:36:15.60
MAYBE NOT THAT LONG BUT,
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:36:15.60\00:36:18.44
BUT NOW YOU CAN BE THERE IN 20
MINUTES/HALF AN HOUR BECAUSE OF
00:36:18.44\00:36:21.88
OUR CARS. AND SO,
IT'S A LITTLE EASIER NOW
00:36:21.88\00:36:25.01
TO LIVE IN A MORE RURAL
SETTING AND WORK THE CITY
00:36:25.01\00:36:27.98
THAN IT USED TO BE.
THAT'S THE IDEAL, BUT
00:36:27.98\00:36:29.95
CITIES ARE HURTING PLACES.
EXODUS 2 - SOMEONE'S GOING TO
00:36:29.95\00:36:33.69
READ FOR ME, IN JUST A
MINUTE, EXODUS 6, VERSE 5, OKAY?
00:36:33.69\00:36:37.33
I'M GOING TO READ EXODUS 2,
VERSE 23, "AND IT CAME TO PASS
00:36:37.33\00:36:41.23
IN PROCESS OF TIME, THAT
THE KING OF EGYPT DIED: AND THE
00:36:41.23\00:36:45.63
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL" - THERE'S -
IN THAT CITY OF ISRAEL - "SIGHED
00:36:45.63\00:36:49.40
BY REASON OF THE BONDAGE, AND
THEY CRIED, AND THEIR CRY CAME
00:36:49.40\00:36:52.87
UP UNTO GOD BY
REASON OF THE BONDAGE.
00:36:52.87\00:36:55.11
AND GOD HEARD THEIR GROANING,
AND GOD REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT
00:36:55.11\00:36:58.25
WITH ABRAHAM, WITH
ISAAC, AND WITH JACOB."
00:36:58.25\00:37:01.15
NOW, YOU KNOW, EVEN AFTER ALL
THIS GROANING AND THIS SUFFERING
00:37:01.15\00:37:05.69
- GET TO - NOW
THAT'S FORTY YEARS LATER.
00:37:05.69\00:37:08.86
NOW KATRINA'S GOING TO
READ A VERSE - FORTY YEARS LATER
00:37:08.86\00:37:11.39
THEY'RE STILL SUFFERING.
GO AHEAD, READ EXODUS 6:5.
00:37:11.39\00:37:14.86
>>"AND I HAVE ALSO HEARD
THE GROANING OF THE CHILDREN OF
00:37:14.86\00:37:18.13
ISRAEL, WHOM THE EGYPTIANS
KEEP IN BONDAGE; AND I HAVE
00:37:18.13\00:37:22.57
REMEMBERED MY COVENANT."
>>SO FROM THE TIME MOSES
00:37:22.57\00:37:25.37
IS BORN, WHEN THEY'VE BEEN
ENSLAVED, UNTIL GOD FINALLY
00:37:25.37\00:37:30.18
SENDS MOSES BACK TO LIBERATE
THEM, FORTY YEARS HAVE GONE BY.
00:37:30.18\00:37:35.68
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE
SUFFERING IN THE CITIES FOR
00:37:35.68\00:37:37.39
YEARS. WHAT WERE THE ISRAELITE'S
00:37:37.39\00:37:38.49
DOING FOR THE EGYPTIANS?
THEY WERE BUILDING THEIR CITIES.
00:37:38.49\00:37:44.46
THAT'S WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS -
AND IT NAMES RAMSES AND A NUMBER
00:37:44.46\00:37:47.93
OF OTHER CITIES
THAT THEY WERE BUILDING.
00:37:47.93\00:37:50.00
AND THEY MADE THEM SERVE WITH
RIGOR - HARD LABOR - THERE'S A
00:37:50.00\00:37:53.70
LOT OF SUFFERING IN THE CITIES.
PSALMS 12:5, "FOR THE OPPRESSION
00:37:53.70\00:37:58.77
OF THE POOR, FOR THE SIGHING
OF THE NEEDY, NOW WILL I ARISE,
00:37:58.77\00:38:03.75
SAITH THE LORD; I WILL
SET HIM IN SAFETY FROM HIM
00:38:03.75\00:38:06.38
THAT PUFFETH AT HIM." AND
BECAUSE OF THE OPPRESSION OF
00:38:06.38\00:38:10.02
THE CITY - CITIES ARE GOING
TO BE PLACES THAT WILL, IN A
00:38:10.02\00:38:12.45
SPECIAL SENSE, FEEL THE
JUDGMENTS IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:38:12.45\00:38:17.49
JOB 24:12, "MEN GROAN FROM OUT
OF THE CITY, AND THE SOUL OF THE
00:38:17.49\00:38:23.03
WOUNDED CRIETH OUT: YET GOD
LAYETH NOT FOLLY TO THEM." SO, I
00:38:23.03\00:38:28.40
THINK WE ALL KNOW - YOU KNOW,
WHAT'S REALLY HARD, UM - IS WHEN
00:38:28.40\00:38:37.55
YOU SEE SUFFERING IN A CITY AND
YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
00:38:37.55\00:38:43.89
NOW, I GREW UP IN - I WAS BORN
IN LOS ANGELES, GREW UP IN NEW
00:38:43.89\00:38:50.09
YORK CITY, MIAMI, BOSTON -
MY MOTHER LIVED IN LONDON - I'VE
00:38:50.09\00:38:57.57
BEEN TO LONDON, BEIJING,
SHANGHAI, MANILA, MEXICO CITY, I
00:38:57.57\00:39:04.91
MEAN, YOU NAME MOST OF THE MAJOR
CITIES OF THE WORLD - INDIA -
00:39:04.91\00:39:09.21
AND YOU GO DOWN THE STREETS LIKE
INDIA - JUST TAKE THAT AND YOU
00:39:09.21\00:39:14.12
SEE PEOPLE JUST
LAYING ON THE STREET.
00:39:14.12\00:39:15.98
ANY OF YOU BEEN TO INDIA?
YOU SEE PEOPLE BY THE HUNDREDS
00:39:15.98\00:39:19.89
LAYING ON THE STREET -
CHILDREN BEGGING - THEY
00:39:19.89\00:39:23.63
LITERALLY HAVE NOTHING.
THEY BEG FOR THEIR FOOD.
00:39:23.63\00:39:27.73
THEY WASH IN PUBLIC FOUNTAINS
AND THEY'RE JUST SO POOR.
00:39:27.73\00:39:31.20
AND YOU WANT TO STOP AND TAKE
EVERY ONE OF THEM HOME, BUT YOU
00:39:31.20\00:39:34.64
CAN'T. AND IT'S JUST REALLY
A STRUGGLE SOMETIMES TO SEE ALL
00:39:34.64\00:39:39.61
THAT SUFFERING AND THAT
OPPRESSION. WHAT'S THE BEST WAY
00:39:39.61\00:39:44.08
- YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION
'GIVE A MAN A FISH OR TEACH HIM
00:39:44.08\00:39:47.12
TO FISH, WHAT'S
BETTER? >>TEACH HIM TO FISH.
00:39:47.12\00:39:49.52
>>WHEN YOU GO INTO THE CITIES
AND YOU TEACH THE GOSPEL, A LOT
00:39:49.52\00:39:52.32
OF WHAT'S BRINGING THE SUFFERING
ON THE PEOPLE THERE IS NOT
00:39:52.32\00:39:55.86
KNOWING THE GOSPEL AND
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL.
00:39:55.86\00:39:58.89
FOR EXAMPLE, IN INDIA,
THERE IS GREAT WEALTH IN INDIA.
00:39:58.89\00:40:03.63
INDIA IS, RIGHT NOW, GOING
THROUGH - THEY'RE BECOMING A
00:40:03.63\00:40:06.07
FIRST WORLD COUNTRY WHEN IT
COMES TO TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY
00:40:06.07\00:40:09.67
AND IN SOME OF THE CITIES,
YOU'LL SEE SUCH MODERN WEALTH
00:40:09.67\00:40:13.51
AND CONVENIENCE IN SOME OF
THESE CITIES - THE NEW ONES THEY
00:40:13.51\00:40:15.98
BUILT. YOU DRIVE A FEW MILES AND
YOU'LL JUST SEE PEOPLE DYING OF
00:40:15.98\00:40:19.18
LEPROSY IN THE STREETS.
ONE REASON IT'S THAT WAY IS
00:40:19.18\00:40:23.82
BECAUSE THEY
DON'T KNOW THE GOSPEL.
00:40:23.82\00:40:26.32
BECAUSE OF THE INDIAN RELIGIONS,
A LOT OF IT HINDUISM, THEY HAVE
00:40:26.32\00:40:30.23
A FATALISTIC CASTE MENTALITY
THAT SOME OF THESE POOR
00:40:30.23\00:40:33.53
UNTOUCHABLES - THEY, IN THEIR
FORMER LIVES, THEY DID SOMETHING
00:40:33.53\00:40:36.73
WRONG AND THEY'RE
GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE.
00:40:36.73\00:40:38.13
AND THEY DON'T INTERVENE TO TRY
TO HELP THE POOR THAT ARE RIGHT
00:40:38.13\00:40:41.64
AT THEIR DOORS,
BECAUSE OF THEIR RELIGION.
00:40:41.64\00:40:45.01
WHEN THEY LEARN CHRISTIANITY
THEY SAY, 'MAYBE WE SHOULD CARE
00:40:45.01\00:40:49.11
FOR OUR LOCAL POOR SUFFERING.'
AND YOU'RE CHANGING THE COUNTRY
00:40:49.11\00:40:52.78
BY PREACHING THE GOSPEL.
THE LOCAL PEOPLE, WHO SHOULD
00:40:52.78\00:40:56.05
HAVE THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY,
WHEN THEY'RE MIDDLE-CLASS
00:40:56.05\00:40:58.55
WEALTHY PEOPLE, FOR HELPING
THE POOR AT THEIR DOORSTEP.
00:40:58.55\00:41:01.89
YOU KNOW THE PARABLE OF
THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS?
00:41:01.89\00:41:04.13
HE DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE ABOUT
THE POOR MAN AT HIS DOORSTEP.
00:41:04.13\00:41:07.73
AND SO, WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO
GO INTO ALL THESE CITIES AND ALL
00:41:07.73\00:41:11.67
THESE COUNTRIES AND HELP EVERY
POOR PERSON AND EVERY ORPHAN AND
00:41:11.67\00:41:14.77
EVERY WIDOW, BUT WHEN YOU PREACH
THE GOSPEL, YOU EMPOWER THEIR
00:41:14.77\00:41:18.87
NEIGHBORS TO HELP
THE SUFFERING AMONG THEM.
00:41:18.87\00:41:21.91
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? >>YES.
00:41:21.91\00:41:23.41
>>AND SO, THIS IS ONE OF
THE IMPORTANT THINGS: GOING INTO
00:41:23.41\00:41:25.78
THESE COMMUNITIES, TEACHING THEM
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL AND
00:41:25.78\00:41:28.85
HOW JESUS REACHED THEM.
JUST CLOSING OFF THE SECTION ON
00:41:28.85\00:41:32.92
HURTING; PAUL SAYS - ROMANS 8:22
- "FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE
00:41:32.92\00:41:38.36
CREATION GROANS AND TRAVAILS
IN PAIN TOGETHER UNTIL NOW."
00:41:38.36\00:41:43.93
SOWING AND REAPING IN THE CITIES
- ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO MATTHEW
00:41:43.93\00:41:46.40
13 - MATTHEW 13. THIS
IS A FAMILIAR PARABLE.
00:41:46.40\00:41:51.04
"THEN HE SPOKE MANY THINGS
TO THEM IN PARABLES, SAYING:
00:41:51.04\00:41:54.41
'BEHOLD, A SOWER
WENT FORTH TO SOW.
00:41:54.41\00:41:57.51
AND WHEN HE SOWED, SOME SEED
FELL BY THE WAYSIDE; AND THE
00:41:57.51\00:42:01.52
FOWLS CAME AND DEVOURED THEM
UP: SOME FELL UPON STONY PLACES,
00:42:01.52\00:42:05.62
WHERE THEY HAD NOT MUCH EARTH:
AND FORTHWITH THEY SPRUNG UP,
00:42:05.62\00:42:10.13
BECAUSE THEY HAD NO DEEPNESS OF
EARTH: AND WHEN THE SUN WAS UP,
00:42:10.13\00:42:13.06
THEY WERE SCORCHED; AND BECAUSE
THEY HAD NO ROOT, THEY WITHERED
00:42:13.06\00:42:17.10
AWAY. AND SOME
FELL AMONG THORNS;
00:42:17.10\00:42:19.00
AND THE THORNS SPRUNG UP,
AND CHOKED THEM: BUT OTHER FELL
00:42:19.00\00:42:21.67
INTO GOOD GROUND, AND
BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT, SOME AN
00:42:21.67\00:42:24.71
HUNDREDFOLD, SOME
SIXTYFOLD, SOME THIRTYFOLD.
00:42:24.71\00:42:27.38
WHO HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM
HEAR." AND THEN, IF YOU GO TO
00:42:27.38\00:42:31.18
VERSE 18, JESUS THEN INTERPRETS
WHAT HIS PARABLE SAYS. "HEAR
00:42:31.18\00:42:35.35
YE...THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER.
WHEN ANY ONE HEARETH THE WORD OF
00:42:35.35\00:42:38.65
THE KINGDOM AND UNDERSTANDETH IT
NOT, THEN COMETH THE WICKED ONE,
00:42:38.65\00:42:41.82
AND CATCHETH AWAY THAT WHICH WAS
SOWN IN HIS HEART. THIS IS HE
00:42:41.82\00:42:45.19
WHICH RECEIVED
SEED BY THE WAYSIDE.
00:42:45.19\00:42:47.60
BUT HE THAT RECEIVED THE SEED
INTO STONY PLACES, THE SAME IS
00:42:47.60\00:42:50.73
HE THAT HEARETH THE WORD, AND
ANON WITH JOY RECEIVETH IT; YET
00:42:50.73\00:42:54.74
HATH HE NOT ROOT IN HIMSELF,
BUT DURETH FOR A WHILE: FOR WHEN
00:42:54.74\00:42:58.41
TRIBULATION OR PERSECUTION
ARISETH BECAUSE OF THE WORD, BY
00:42:58.41\00:43:01.78
AND BY HE IS OFFENDED.
HE ALSO THAT RECEIVED SEED
00:43:01.78\00:43:04.95
AMONG THE THORNS IS HE
THAT HEARTH THE WORD; AND THE
00:43:04.95\00:43:07.22
CARE OF THIS WORLD, AND THE
DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES, CHOKE
00:43:07.22\00:43:10.62
THE WORD, AND HE
BECOMETH UNFRUITFUL.
00:43:10.62\00:43:13.72
BUT HE THAT RECEIVED SEED
INTO THE GOOD GROUND IS HE THAT
00:43:13.72\00:43:17.86
HEARTH THE WORD, AND
UNDERSTANDETH IT; WHICH ALSO
00:43:17.86\00:43:20.40
BEARETH FRUIT, AND BRINGETH
FORTH, SOME AN HUNDREDFOLD,
00:43:20.40\00:43:23.26
SOME SIXTY, SOME THIRTY."
SO, NOW IF - SOMEONE'S GOING TO
00:43:23.26\00:43:26.80
READ FOR ME PSALM
126:6 IN JUST A MOMENT, OKAY?
00:43:26.80\00:43:31.07
WHAT'S THE POINT OF THE PARABLE?
OF THE SEED SOWN, HOW MANY
00:43:31.07\00:43:36.01
DIFFERENT KINDS OF
SOIL ARE MENTIONED?
00:43:36.01\00:43:38.75
FOUR. WHAT PERCENTAGE SPRANG UP?
00:43:38.75\00:43:44.49
ONE OUT OF FOUR - WELL, I MEAN,
WHAT PERCENT, I SHOULD SAY, BORE
00:43:44.49\00:43:47.36
FRUIT? SEE, ONE
OF THEM DIDN'T EVEN
00:43:47.36\00:43:50.16
SPRING UP - THE RAVENS ATE
IT. THREE OUT OF FOUR SPRANG UP,
00:43:50.16\00:43:53.93
BUT ONLY ONE OUT OF FOUR -
TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT BORE FRUIT.
00:43:53.93\00:43:58.33
WHEN YOU'RE WORKING IN THE
CITIES, YOU'RE SCATTERING SEED.
00:43:58.33\00:44:02.14
BY THE WAY, YOU
KNOW WHAT THIS IS CALLED?
00:44:02.14\00:44:04.41
WHEN THEY USED TO HAVE A BAG OF
SEED AND THEY WENT THROUGH THE
00:44:04.41\00:44:06.14
FIELDS - THEY DIDN'T
HAVE THE MECHANICAL SOWERS?
00:44:06.14\00:44:08.74
THEY USED TO TAKE A HANDFUL OF
GRAIN AND THEY WOULD VERY DEFTLY
00:44:08.74\00:44:12.11
THROW IT AND THAT WAS
CALLED 'BROADCASTING'.
00:44:12.11\00:44:16.08
THAT'S WHERE YOU GET
THE WORD 'BROADCASTING'.
00:44:16.08\00:44:18.12
AND SO, WHEN - IN MEDIA WHEN
WE'RE DOING BROADCASTING, IT
00:44:18.12\00:44:21.46
VERY MUCH IS RELATED
TO SPREADING OF THE SEED.
00:44:21.46\00:44:25.33
IS ALL OF IT GOING TO SPRING UP?
THE MORE SEED YOU SPREAD, THE
00:44:25.33\00:44:30.60
BETTER THE CHANCE YOU HAVE
SOMEONE'S GOING TO RESPOND.
00:44:30.60\00:44:34.07
NOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT - I MIGHT
BE WRONG ON THE STATISTICS, BUT
00:44:34.07\00:44:38.71
I UNDERSTAND THAT MORMON
MISSIONARIES, WHEN THEY'RE
00:44:38.71\00:44:40.61
TRAINED, YOU KNOW, BLESS THEIR
HEARTS, THEY'RE GOING DOOR TO
00:44:40.61\00:44:42.21
DOOR. IT'S ADMIRABLE.
WOULD WE ALL WENT DOOR TO DOOR.
00:44:42.21\00:44:46.85
BUT THEY KNOW AHEAD OF
TIME THAT THEY HAVE TO GO TO -
00:44:46.85\00:44:49.82
I FORGET WHAT THE NUMBER IS -
THIRTY - FIFTY HOMES BEFORE THEY
00:44:49.82\00:44:52.75
SECURE ONE BIBLE STUDY.
AND THEN, OUT OF ALL THE BIBLE
00:44:52.75\00:44:55.12
STUDIES, IT'S A SMALL PERCENTAGE
THAT ACTUALLY BECOME A CONVERT.
00:44:55.12\00:44:59.03
SO THEY DON'T GET DISCOURAGED
BECAUSE THEY KNOW GOING INTO IT
00:44:59.03\00:45:02.83
THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO
SOW SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT WASTED
00:45:02.83\00:45:06.77
GRAIN, BUT TWENTY-FIVE
PERCENT'S GOING TO SPROUT.
00:45:06.77\00:45:11.27
I'M JUST MAKING UP THE NUMBERS
HERE, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:45:11.27\00:45:14.01
SO WHEN YOU'RE WORKING IN THE
CITY, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO REACH
00:45:14.01\00:45:15.88
EVERYBODY. AND
YOU CAN GET FRUSTRATED
00:45:15.88\00:45:18.81
STANDING ON A CORNER HANDING OUT
TRACTS AND YOU SEE THAT EIGHTY
00:45:18.81\00:45:22.72
PERCENT - NINETY PERCENT OF THE
TRACTS THAT YOU HAND OUT, HALF
00:45:22.72\00:45:25.89
A BLOCK AWAY THEY'RE IN
THE GARBAGE OR ON THE GROUND.
00:45:25.89\00:45:28.96
BUT YOU'RE NOT
WORRIED ABOUT THAT.
00:45:28.96\00:45:31.49
YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT TEN
PERCENT THAT TAKE IT HOME AND
00:45:31.49\00:45:34.93
READ IT AND IT
CHANGES THEIR HEART.
00:45:34.93\00:45:36.56
>>AMEN. >>YOU
KNOW, WHEN WE DO PUBLIC
00:45:36.56\00:45:38.30
EVANGELISM IN A CITY - A LITTLE
AMAZING FACT FOR YOU - THERE
00:45:38.30\00:45:41.54
IS A FORMULA, MOST EVANGELISTS
KNOW, THAT IN THE CITIES, FOR
00:45:41.54\00:45:47.54
EVERY THOUSAND HANDBILLS THAT
YOU SEND OUT, YOU WILL GET TWO
00:45:47.54\00:45:52.45
TO THREE PEOPLE THAT
WILL COME TO THE MEETING.
00:45:52.45\00:45:55.72
WHAT IS THAT? TWO TO
THREE OUT OF A THOUSAND?
00:45:55.72\00:45:59.59
THAT'S NOT EVEN ONE PERCENT.
BUT DO WE STOP DOING IT?
00:45:59.59\00:46:02.99
NO, WE JUST SAY, 'IF WE WANT,
YOU KNOW, THIRTY PEOPLE TO COME
00:46:02.99\00:46:08.20
TO OUR MEETING, WE NEED TO
SEND OUT TEN THOUSAND HANDBILLS.
00:46:08.20\00:46:12.60
AND IT'S JUST AN
ACCEPTED COST, BUT IT WORKS.
00:46:12.60\00:46:16.24
YOU CAN ALMOST ALWAYS - IF
YOU'VE GOT A DECENT HANDBILL,
00:46:16.24\00:46:18.67
YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT TO -
YOU CAN'T SEND OUT A TERRIBLE
00:46:18.67\00:46:20.31
HANDBILL, BUT IF YOU'VE GOT A
GOOD EVANGELISTIC HANDBILL AND
00:46:20.31\00:46:23.85
YOU TIME WHEN YOU SEND IT OUT -
NOW, THE SMALLER THE COMMUNITY -
00:46:23.85\00:46:27.28
I'VE BEEN IN LITTLE TOWNS
WHERE WE GOT FIFTY PEOPLE PER
00:46:27.28\00:46:30.85
THOUSAND. SO, IN
THE SMALL COMMUNITIES,
00:46:30.85\00:46:33.46
THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO.
'HEY, THERE'S A MEETING' - AND
00:46:33.46\00:46:35.96
THERE'S NO THEATER -
THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO -
00:46:35.96\00:46:39.26
THEY GO TO THE
MEETING. AND SO, THAT'S TRUE.
00:46:39.26\00:46:41.80
BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE
CITIES, PEOPLE ARE BUSY.
00:46:41.80\00:46:44.33
I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU TWICE
I WAS IN 42ND AND BROADWAY A
00:46:44.33\00:46:50.74
COUPLE MONTHS AGO, AND SOMEBODY
CALLED AND SAID, 'PASTOR DOUG,
00:46:50.74\00:46:55.41
WE CAN GET YOU A DEAL
ADVERTISING FOR AMAZING FACTS ON
00:46:55.41\00:46:59.48
42ND STREET.' AND I HEARD
WHAT THE PRICE WAS AND I SAID,
00:46:59.48\00:47:03.02
'NOPE.' THEY SAID, 'NO?' I
SAID, 'NO.' I SAID, 'THAT'S
00:47:03.02\00:47:06.32
WONDERFUL BUT HAVE YOU BEEN
TO 42ND STREET? THERE IS SO MUCH
00:47:06.32\00:47:10.13
THERE'S AN ABSOLUTE
BLIZZARD OF ADVERTISEMENTS.
00:47:10.13\00:47:12.83
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK LIGHTS
FLASHING, NOISES, COMMERCIALS,
00:47:12.83\00:47:15.40
VIDEO, ANIMATION, SIGNS -
AND PEOPLE WALKING BY DON'T EVEN
00:47:15.40\00:47:21.30
KNOW IT. IT'S LIKE A BLUR.
00:47:21.30\00:47:24.04
SO YOU CAN SPEND A LOT OF MONEY
SO YOU CAN SAY, 'WE'RE ON 42ND
00:47:24.04\00:47:26.04
STREET', BUT WILL
ANYBODY EVEN NOTICE?
00:47:26.04\00:47:29.64
AND SO, YOU
HAVE TO BE SELECTIVE.
00:47:29.64\00:47:32.25
BUT IN DOING CITY EVANGELISM,
JUST KNOW - LIKE SOWING SEEDS -
00:47:32.25\00:47:35.82
OF ALL THE HOMELESS PEOPLE THAT
YOU FEED, OR FOLKS THAT MAY COME
00:47:35.82\00:47:39.75
TO YOUR CLINIC OR FOLKS
THAT COME TO YOUR HEALTH FOOD
00:47:39.75\00:47:42.79
RESTAURANT, YOU'RE SOWING
SEEDS. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
00:47:42.79\00:47:45.03
REACH A HUNDRED
PERCENT. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
00:47:45.03\00:47:46.76
REACH FIFTY PERCENT.
YOU MAY NOT REACH TWENTY
00:47:46.76\00:47:49.16
PERCENT, BUT YOU'RE EXCITED
ABOUT THAT TEN PERCENT AND THOSE
00:47:49.16\00:47:53.13
TEN PERCENT, IT SAYS
SOME OF THEM PRODUCE THIRTY -
00:47:53.13\00:47:56.27
SIXTY - A HUNDREDFOLD. >>AMEN.
00:47:56.27\00:48:00.91
>>SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT YOU
REACH WILL TURN INTO AN APOLLOS
00:48:00.91\00:48:05.28
THAT BECOME MIGHTY IN THE LORD -
THAT WILL BE REACHING THOUSANDS
00:48:05.28\00:48:09.58
OF OTHERS. >>AMEN.
00:48:09.58\00:48:11.32
>>BUT YOU'LL NEVER KNOW IT
UNLESS YOU GO OUT AND YOU REACH
00:48:11.32\00:48:13.39
THEM. I'VE NEVER
UNDERSTOOD CHURCHES
00:48:13.39\00:48:18.43
OR CONFERENCES SAY,
'WELL, PUBLIC EVANGELISM IS SO
00:48:18.43\00:48:21.53
EXPENSIVE.' THAT, TO ME, IS THE
CRAZIEST THING. THAT'S LIKE A
00:48:21.53\00:48:25.73
BUSINESS FAILURE PLAN. >>AMEN.
00:48:25.73\00:48:28.87
>>BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF CHURCHES
THRIVE AND SURVIVE AND SPREAD
00:48:28.87\00:48:31.51
BASED UPON TITHE INCOME AND
YOU'RE NOT BRINGING IN NEW TITHE
00:48:31.51\00:48:34.84
PAYERS, THEN
YOU'RE GOING BACKWARDS.
00:48:34.84\00:48:39.48
YOU'VE GOT TO ALWAYS BE
INVESTING IN EVANGELISM AND THAT
00:48:39.48\00:48:42.65
BRINGS IN MORE PEOPLE AND THEY
END UP SUPPLYING MORE RESOURCES.
00:48:42.65\00:48:45.85
THE MORE SOULS THAT YOU WIN,
THE MORE PREACHERS YOU CONVERT,
00:48:45.85\00:48:49.26
RIGHT? THE MORE
EVANGELISTS YOU REACH.
00:48:49.26\00:48:52.13
AND SO, YOU JUST
CAN'T GET DISCOURAGED.
00:48:52.13\00:48:55.46
LIKE A FISHERMAN YOU'RE GOING TO
HAVE A LOT OF FISH THAT'LL GET
00:48:55.46\00:48:58.60
AWAY. YOU'RE
GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF
00:48:58.60\00:49:00.90
FISH THAT SLIP THE NET
AND YOU CAN'T SAY, 'OH, I'M
00:49:00.90\00:49:03.54
GOING TO GIVE UP FISHING.
I FISHED ALL DAY AND I DIDN'T
00:49:03.54\00:49:05.61
CATCH ANYTHING.' DIDN'T
PETER AND THE APOSTLES SAY THAT?
00:49:05.61\00:49:09.64
'FISHED ALL DAY, DIDN'T CATCH
ANYTHING.' YOU MAY FIND, IF
00:49:09.64\00:49:12.81
YOU'RE A COLPORTEUR, IF YOU'RE
WORKING IN THESE CITIES AND
00:49:12.81\00:49:15.12
YOU'RE HANDING OUT LITERATURE
AND YOU'RE SELLING BOOKS, YOU
00:49:15.12\00:49:17.79
MAY GO DAYS WHERE NOTHING
HAPPENS. BUT THEN, YOU SELL A
00:49:17.79\00:49:20.49
BOOK TO SOMEBODY, AND IT
TURNS INTO A GEORGE VANDEMAN.
00:49:20.49\00:49:24.09
AND YOU'VE JUST GOT TO
KEEP THE BIG PICTURE IN MIND.
00:49:24.09\00:49:26.86
SO IT'S LIKE
THAT SOWING/REAPING.
00:49:26.86\00:49:28.80
ALRIGHT, PLEASE
READ FOR US PSALM 126:6.
00:49:28.80\00:49:32.07
>>PSALM 126:6, "HE WHO
CONTINUALLY GOES FORTH WEEPING,
00:49:32.07\00:49:35.94
BEARING SEED FOR SOWING,
SHALL DOUBTLESS COME AGAIN WITH
00:49:35.94\00:49:39.41
REJOICING, BRINGING
HIM SHEAVES WITH HIM."
00:49:39.41\00:49:42.54
>>DOING CITY MINISTRY YOU MIGHT
SHED A LOT OF TEARS AND THINK,
00:49:42.54\00:49:46.61
'I DON'T KNOW IF
WE'RE GETTING ANYWHERE.
00:49:46.61\00:49:49.22
WE'VE BEEN PAYING TO
BROADCAST. WE'VE BEEN DOING
00:49:49.22\00:49:51.99
THIS FOOD MINISTRY.
WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS HEALTH
00:49:51.99\00:49:54.36
MINISTRY AND WE'LL' - OH, YOU'RE
JUST WEEPING - 'ALL THIS WORK?'
00:49:54.36\00:49:59.53
BUT WHAT'S THE PROMISE?
"...SHALL DOUBTLESS COME AGAIN
00:49:59.53\00:50:03.30
WITH REJOICING,
BRINGING HIS SHEAVES WITH HIM."
00:50:03.30\00:50:06.53
YOU MAY NOT SEE YOUR HARVEST
UNTIL YOU GET TO THE KINGDOM.
00:50:06.53\00:50:09.20
BUT IF YOU'RE SOWING SEED,
CHRIST PROMISED: 'MY WORD WILL
00:50:09.20\00:50:12.27
NOT RETURN TO ME VOID.' IF YOU
CAST YOUR BREAD ON THE WATER, IT
00:50:12.27\00:50:17.11
WILL RETURN TO YOU.
YOU WILL HAVE BLESSINGS.
00:50:17.11\00:50:20.95
JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 10:22 -
"AND YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL
00:50:20.95\00:50:25.32
FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.
BUT HE WHO ENDURES TO
00:50:25.32\00:50:27.92
THE END WILL BE SAVED.
WHEN THEY PERSECUTE YOU IN THIS
00:50:27.92\00:50:31.53
CITY," STOP DOING CITY
MINISTRY. IS THAT WHAT HE SAID?
00:50:31.53\00:50:37.33
"...WHEN THEY PERSECUTE YOU
IN THIS CITY FLEE TO ANOTHER."
00:50:37.33\00:50:41.84
AND THEN JESUS MAKES AN
INTERESTING STATEMENT, "FOR
00:50:41.84\00:50:44.47
ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, YOU
WILL NOT HAVE GONE THROUGH THE
00:50:44.47\00:50:47.41
CITIES OF ISRAEL
BEFORE THE SON OF MAN COMES."
00:50:47.41\00:50:50.85
THAT'S AN INTERESTING STATEMENT.
HE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU'RE GOING
00:50:50.85\00:50:53.88
TO HAVE CITY MINISTRY
- YOU'LL NEVER FINISH IT.
00:50:53.88\00:50:56.75
EVEN WHEN I COME, YOU'LL
HAVE NOT FINISHED YOUR CITY
00:50:56.75\00:50:59.65
MINISTRY.'
THERE'S SO MUCH TO DO.
00:50:59.65\00:51:01.79
THE HARVEST IS GREAT. WHAT'S
THE PROBLEM? LABORERS ARE FEW.
00:51:01.79\00:51:07.73
SO THERE'S A LOT
OF WORK TO BE DONE.
00:51:07.73\00:51:09.43
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING
TO READ FOR ME GALATIANS 6:2.
00:51:09.43\00:51:12.53
HAFDIS? I'M GOING TO READ FIRST.
00:51:12.53\00:51:14.94
THIS IS THE SECTION MAKE IT
PERSONAL - WHAT'S GOING TO REACH
00:51:14.94\00:51:18.27
THEM? IF WE HAVE LOVE.
JOHN 15:12, "THIS IS MY
00:51:18.27\00:51:23.61
COMMANDMENT, THAT YOU LOVE ONE
ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU."
00:51:23.61\00:51:27.72
WHEN PEOPLE DO COME IN THROUGH
OUR HEALTH MINISTRY, THROUGH OUR
00:51:27.72\00:51:31.15
RADIO MINISTRY, THROUGH THE TV
MINISTRY, THROUGH THE LITERATURE
00:51:31.15\00:51:34.22
MINISTRY - THROUGH WHATEVER
IT IS YOU'RE DOING IN YOUR
00:51:34.22\00:51:35.86
COMMUNITY - THEY FINALLY SHOW UP
AT CHURCH ONE DAY, WHAT DO THEY
00:51:35.86\00:51:38.99
NEED TO SEE? LOVE.
WELL, HOPEFULLY THEY SEE IT
00:51:38.99\00:51:41.63
IN YOUR MINISTRY AS
WELL. PLEASE READ FOR
00:51:41.63\00:51:44.43
US GALATIANS 6:2.
>>"BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S
00:51:44.43\00:51:48.97
BURDENS, AND SO
FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST."
00:51:48.97\00:51:53.38
>>WHEN THEY SEE
THAT YOU CARE ABOUT THEM.
00:51:53.38\00:51:56.28
JAMES 1:27, "PURE AND UNDEFILED
RELIGION BEFORE GOD AND THE
00:51:56.28\00:52:01.62
FATHER IS THIS: TO VISIT ORPHANS
AND WIDOWS IN THEIR AFFLICTION,
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AND TO KEEP ONESELF
UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD."
00:52:06.19\00:52:09.26
AND THEN JOHN 13:35, "BY THIS
WILL ALL MEN KNOW THAT YOU ARE
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MY DISCIPLES," -
WHAT'S THE REST OF THAT?
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- "IF YOU HAVE
LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER."
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AND SO, EVERYBODY OUT THERE IS
LOOKING FOR THE REAL THING AND
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IF WE'VE GOT LOVE FOR ONE
ANOTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO KNOW
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THAT WE'RE HIS
DISCIPLES. SO HOW MANY DOES THE
00:52:24.37\00:52:27.51
LORD WANT TO SAVE? >>ALL.
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>> REACHING OUT TO THE CITY
- 2 PETER 3:9, "THE LORD IS NOT
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SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE,
AS SOME COUNT SLACKNESS, BUT IS
00:52:33.15\00:52:36.69
LONGSUFFERING TO USWARD, NOT
WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH
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BUT THAT ALL SHOULD
COME TO REPENTANCE."
00:52:41.36\00:52:43.49
SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN
PREDESTINATION - THAT GOD ONLY
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WANTS SOME TO BE
SAVED. THE BIBLE SAYS HE WANTS
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EVERYBODY TO BE SAVED. >>AMEN.
00:52:48.40\00:52:50.03
>>1 TIMOTHY 2:4, GOD - "WHO WILL
HAVE ALL MEN TO BE SAVED," - HE
00:52:50.03\00:52:55.14
WANTS EVERYONE TO BE
SAVED - TO COME TO THE TRUTH.
00:52:55.14\00:52:57.17
JESUS WANTS - HE LOVES
ALL THESE PEOPLE IN THE CITY.
00:52:57.17\00:52:59.37
YOU KNOW JOHN 3:16?
"WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN
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HIM WILL NOT
PERISH." GOD WANTS US TO REACH
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THE 'WHOSOEVERS'. >>AMEN.
00:53:06.65\00:53:08.92
>>ALRIGHT,
RUNNING OUT OF TIME HERE.
00:53:08.92\00:53:11.59
I'M GOING TO READ SOMETHING
FROM MEDICAL MINISTRY, PAGE 304,
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"THERE IS NO CHANGE IN THE
MESSAGE THAT GOD HAS SENT IN THE
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PAST THAT THE WORK IN
THE CITIES IS ESSENTIAL.
00:53:19.33\00:53:23.10
IT IS THE
ESSENTIAL WORK FOR THIS TIME.
00:53:23.10\00:53:25.50
WHEN THE CITIES ARE WORKED AS
GOD WOULD HAVE THEM WORKED, THE
00:53:25.50\00:53:28.44
RESULTS WILL BE SETTING IN
OPERATION A MIGHTY MOVEMENT
00:53:28.44\00:53:32.24
SUCH AS YET WE
HAVE NOT WITNESSED.
00:53:32.24\00:53:34.64
SO WE NEED TO SEE THAT
OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT AGAIN.
00:53:34.64\00:53:38.08
AND, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT I'D END
WITH A POSITIVE STORY ABOUT CITY
00:53:38.08\00:53:42.72
MINISTRY. LOOK AT PHILIP.
ACTS 8:5 - MY LAST VERSE - "THEN
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PHILIP WENT DOWN TO THE CITY
OF SAMARIA, AND PREACHED CHRIST
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UNTO THEM" AND MULTITUDES
BELIEVED WITH ONE ACCORD.
00:53:52.53\00:53:56.20
THEY HEEDED THE THINGS
SPOKEN BY PHILIP, HEARING AND
00:53:56.20\00:53:58.73
SEEING THE
MIRACLES WHICH HE DID."
00:53:58.73\00:54:00.74
YOU KNOW, I THINK IF YOU'RE
WORKING IN THE CITIES, GOD DOES
00:54:00.74\00:54:02.37
MIRACLES FOR YOU. >>AMEN.
00:54:02.37\00:54:04.14
>>"FOR UNCLEAN SPIRITS, CRYING
WITH A LOUD VOICE, CAME OUT OF
00:54:04.14\00:54:08.14
MANY THAT WERE POSSESSED
WITH THEM: AND MANY TAKEN WITH
00:54:08.14\00:54:09.68
PALSIES, AND THAT
WERE LAME, WERE HEALED.
00:54:09.68\00:54:11.65
AND THERE WAS
GREAT JOY IN THAT CITY."
00:54:11.65\00:54:14.52
THERE WAS GREAT REVIVAL THROUGH
THE PREACHING OF THE WORD AND
00:54:14.52\00:54:17.22
GREAT JOY IN THE CITY. IT
KIND OF STARTS OUT WITH THE
00:54:17.22\00:54:20.22
CITY OF CAIN - GREAT MISERY.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE CITIES
00:54:20.22\00:54:23.36
JESUS WENT THROUGH AND WHEN
HE GOT DONE THERE WASN'T ONE
00:54:23.36\00:54:25.53
SICK PERSON IN THE CITY. >>AMEN.
00:54:25.53\00:54:27.86
>>NOT IN HIS HOME TOWN.
THEY SAID, 'OH, WE KNOW JESUS.
00:54:27.86\00:54:31.63
HE GREW UP HERE.
WHAT DOES HE KNOW?'
00:54:31.63\00:54:34.74
AND IT SAYS HE
COULDN'T DO MANY MIRACLES THERE.
00:54:34.74\00:54:37.21
BUT THE PLACES THAT RECEIVED
HIM? GREAT JOY IN THE CITY.
00:54:37.21\00:54:41.58
WELL, WE ARE OUT OF
TIME FOR OUR LESSON.
00:54:41.58\00:54:43.75
I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT
WE HAVE A STUDY - IT'S TALKING
00:54:43.75\00:54:46.15
ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL
GOING TO LIVE IN A CITY SOMEDAY.
00:54:46.15\00:54:48.65
YOU'LL HAVE A COUNTRY HOME
AND YOU'LL HAVE A CITY HOME.
00:54:48.65\00:54:50.59
AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW
ABOUT THAT CITY HOME IT'S CALLED
00:54:50.59\00:54:52.92
A COLOSSAL CITY IN
SPACE . IT TALKS ABOUT
00:54:52.92\00:54:54.69
THE NEW JERUSALEM.
JUST CALL AND SEND FOR
00:54:54.69\00:54:57.19
THIS AND YOU CAN ASK FOR
IT. IT'S OFFER #115 AND THE
00:54:57.19\00:55:00.63
NUMBER IS
866-788-3966. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO
00:55:00.63\00:55:04.97
SEND YOU A FREE
OFFER. THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE.
00:55:04.97\00:55:08.00
GOD BLESS YOU,
FRIENDS. WE ARE OUT OF TIME.
00:55:08.00\00:55:09.97
DON'T FORGET, IN TWO MORE WEEKS
WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN OUR NEW
00:55:09.97\00:55:12.87
QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE BOOK
OF JOB AND THAT'S GOING TO BE
00:55:12.87\00:55:15.68
REALLY GOOD. AND GOD
BLESS YOU 'TIL WE STUDY
00:55:15.68\00:55:18.21
HIS WORD TOGETHER
AGAIN NEXT TIME. (MUSIC)
00:55:18.21\00:55:21.58
>>I LOVE THE QUOTE: "THE
GREATEST WANT OF THE WORLD IS
00:55:21.58\00:55:24.49
THE WANT OF MEN ... MEN WHO WILL
STAND FOR THE RIGHT THOUGH THE
00:55:24.49\00:55:27.76
HEAVENS FALL." YET
STUDIES ARE SHOWING, FOR
00:55:27.76\00:55:30.69
SEVERAL YEARS NOW, THE SECULAR
MEDIA AND CULTURE HAVE SOUGHT
00:55:30.69\00:55:34.56
TO PORTRAY MEN AS
THE FAMILY IDIOTS.
00:55:34.56\00:55:37.23
SADLY, RESPECT FOR THE ROLE OF
FATHERS AND HUSBANDS HAS REACHED
00:55:37.23\00:55:41.90
AN ALL-TIME LOW. SO
NOW, AS THE DISPIRITED MEN
00:55:41.90\00:55:45.67
ABANDON THEIR ROLES OF GODLY
LEADERSHIP, IT'S NOT SURPRISING
00:55:45.67\00:55:49.44
THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING A
MORAL FREE-FALL IN OUR COUNTRY.
00:55:49.44\00:55:52.78
THAT'S WHY, STARTING SEPTEMBER
30TH I'LL BE PRESENTING A NEW
00:55:52.78\00:55:55.85
PROGRAM CALLED
MIGHTY MEN OF GOD .
00:55:55.85\00:55:59.02
USING BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES, THIS
ENCOURAGING FOUR-PART SERIES
00:55:59.02\00:56:02.39
WILL ADDRESS HOW TO BE A LOVING
FATHER, FAITHFUL HUSBAND, AND
00:56:02.39\00:56:06.19
ALL-AROUND MAN OF GOD IN
THE FAMILY CHURCH AND NATION.
00:56:06.19\00:56:09.86
PLEASE PLAN NOW TO JOIN ME FOR
THIS LIVE EVENT AND LEARN FROM
00:56:09.86\00:56:13.44
THE WORD HOW TO LIVE
COURAGEOUSLY FOR THE KING.
00:56:13.44\00:56:21.61
>>AMAZING FACTS
HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE.
00:56:21.61\00:56:23.61
>>AND I JUST PRAISE
GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS.
00:56:23.61\00:56:25.75
>>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY
DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE.
00:56:25.75\00:56:28.28
>>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING
WHERE I AM TODAY - I FELT GOOD
00:56:28.28\00:56:31.75
ABOUT THAT. I
DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED.
00:56:31.75\00:56:33.15
>>I BEGAN
READING THE BIBLE AND -
00:56:33.15\00:56:35.62
>>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST -
00:56:35.62\00:56:37.79
>>I REALIZED THAT
THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE.
00:56:37.79\00:56:40.26
>>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS.
>>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME.
00:56:40.26\00:56:42.50
>>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO
POWERFUL. >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST
00:56:42.50\00:56:44.50
WHEREVER HE GOES.
>>AMAZING FACTS. MORE THAN
00:56:44.50\00:56:48.64
45 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING
GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
00:56:48.64\00:56:53.21
>>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS
ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS .
00:56:53.21\00:56:57.31
I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS
00:56:57.31\00:56:59.58
WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S
ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE
00:56:59.58\00:57:02.55
I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND
ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE
00:57:02.55\00:57:06.65
NEVER HEARD THIS
BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK
00:57:06.65\00:57:08.59
THROUGH AND FIND THIS.
THEN I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH.
00:57:08.59\00:57:10.79
>>AND SO I STARTED
DOING BIBLE STUDIES.
00:57:10.79\00:57:12.83
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS
STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING
00:57:12.83\00:57:16.87
MYSELF. >>MY
QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID
00:57:16.87\00:57:19.77
THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?'
THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT
00:57:19.77\00:57:22.97
AND - AND I
ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A FATHER.
00:57:22.97\00:57:25.57
>>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS
WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD
00:57:25.57\00:57:29.91
MISSING IN MY LIFE.
>>I WENT TO A PROPHECY
00:57:29.91\00:57:32.18
SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT.
THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND
00:57:32.18\00:57:37.22
SO IRREFUTABLE, I
JUST WENT, 'THIS IS REAL.
00:57:37.22\00:57:40.09
THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.'
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
00:57:40.09\00:57:45.86
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:45.86\00:57:48.16
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:48.16\00:57:52.10
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:57:52.10\00:57:55.34
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00:57:55.34\00:57:58.31
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