Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021638A
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00:01 (MUSIC) >>I LOVE THE QUOTE: "THE GREATEST WANT OF THE WORLD IS
00:03 THE WANT OF MEN ... MEN WHO WILL STAND FOR THE RIGHT THOUGH THE 00:06 HEAVENS FALL." YET STUDIES ARE SHOWING, FOR 00:10 SEVERAL YEARS NOW, THE SECULAR MEDIA AND CULTURE HAVE SOUGHT 00:13 TO PORTRAY MEN AS THE FAMILY IDIOTS. 00:17 SADLY, RESPECT FOR THE ROLE OF FATHERS AND HUSBANDS HAS REACHED 00:21 AN ALL-TIME LOW. SO NOW, AS THE DISPIRITED MEN 00:25 ABANDON THEIR ROLES OF GODLY LEADERSHIP, IT'S NOT SURPRISING 00:28 THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING A MORAL FREE-FALL IN OUR COUNTRY. 00:32 THAT'S WHY, STARTING SEPTEMBER 30TH I'LL BE PRESENTING A NEW 00:35 PROGRAM CALLED MIGHTY MEN OF GOD . 00:38 USING BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES, THIS ENCOURAGING FOUR-PART SERIES 00:41 WILL ADDRESS HOW TO BE A LOVING FATHER, FAITHFUL HUSBAND, AND 00:45 ALL-AROUND MAN OF GOD IN THE FAMILY CHURCH AND NATION. 00:49 PLEASE PLAN NOW TO JOIN ME FOR THIS LIVE EVENT AND LEARN FROM 00:52 THE WORD HOW TO LIVE COURAGEOUSLY FOR THE KING. 01:00 (MUSIC) 01:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY 01:38 HOUR AND ESPECIALLY THOSE JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY 01:40 AND AROUND THE WORLD - PART OF OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL 01:43 CLASS - A VERY WARM WELCOME TO YOU. AND ALSO THE MEMBERS AND 01:47 THE VISITORS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH. 01:49 GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN HERE THIS MORNING READY TO STUDY. 01:52 WE'RE DEALING WITH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY ENTITLED 01:54 THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY . 01:56 WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS AND LEARNING 01:59 FROM HIS EXPERIENCE HOW WE CAN MINISTER TO THOSE AROUND US. 02:02 WE'RE NEARING THE END OF OUR STUDY SO TODAY WE'RE IN LESSON 02:05 #12 AND IT'S ENTITLED URBAN MINISTRY IN THE END OF TIME. 02:10 IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF OUR STUDY, YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING 02:13 FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN 02:16 DOWNLOAD LESSON #12 ENTITLED URBAN MINISTRY IN THE END OF 02:20 TIME AND YOU CAN STUDY ALONG WITH US. 02:22 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY, 02:25 IT'S CALLED A COLOSSAL CITY IN SPACE AND THIS IS AVAILABLE TO 02:30 ANYBODY [IN NORTH AMERICA] WHO WOULD CALL AND ASK. 02:32 THE NUMBER TO CALL IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR 02:38 OFFER #115. AGAIN, THAT NUMBER IS 02:42 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR OFFER #115. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU 02:48 THIS STUDY GUIDE - A COLOSSAL CITY IN SPACE . 02:50 IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA AND YOU'D LIKE TO READ 02:53 THIS, JUST GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE. 02:55 THERE'S A LITTLE SEARCH BAR AND YOU CAN TYPE IN COLOSSAL CITY IN 02:59 SPACE AND YOU CAN READ THE STUDY RIGHT THERE ON LINE. 03:02 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR LESSON QUARTERLY, WE'D LIKE TO 03:05 BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN PRAISE. 03:07 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO JOIN ME HERE ONSTAGE. 03:14 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. THIS IS OUR TIME TO CELEBRATE AND 03:20 TO LIFT OUR VOICES IN PRAISE TO OUR SAVIOR AND OUR LORD IN SONG. 03:25 AND, AS WE DO EVERY WEEK, I INVITE YOU - THOSE THAT ARE AT 03:28 HOME - TO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS. HERE, PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND 03:31 WE'RE GOING TO SING HYMN #485 - I MUST TELL JESUS . 03:35 AND I HOPE THAT AS YOU GO THROUGH YOUR WEEK, THAT THIS IS 03:38 ON YOUR MIND AND THIS IS ON YOUR HEART THAT 'I MUST TELL JESUS 03:42 ABOUT THIS; I MUST TELL JESUS ABOUT THIS; I MUST TELL JESUS 03:45 ABOUT THIS.' HE KNOWS IT ALL BUT HE WANTS US TO COMMUNE WITH HIM, 03:49 SO THAT'S WHAT THIS SONG IS ABOUT. #485 - I MUST TELL JESUS . 03:54 WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC) 03:59 I MUST TELL JESUS ALL OF MY TRIALS; I CANNOT BEAR 04:06 THESE BURDENS ALONE, IN MY DISTRESS HE KINDLY WILL HELP ME, 04:14 HE EVER LOVES AND CARES FOR HIS OWN. 04:19 I MUST TELL JESUS! I MUST TELL JESUS! 04:24 I CANNOT BEAR MY BURDENS ALONE; I MUST TELL JESUS! 04:31 I MUST TELL JESUS! JESUS CAN HELP ME, JESUS ALONE. 04:39 I MUST TELL JESUS ALL OF MY TROUBLES, HE IS A KIND, 04:45 COMPASSIONATE FRIEND; IF I BUT ASK HIM, HE WILL DELIVER, 04:53 MAKES OF MY TROUBLES QUICKLY AN END. 04:58 I MUST TELL JESUS! I MUST TELL JESUS! 05:03 I CANNOT BEAR MY BURDENS ALONE; I MUST TELL JESUS! 05:10 I MUST TELL JESUS! JESUS CAN HELP ME, JESUS ALONE. 05:18 O HOW THE WORLD TO EVIL ALLURES ME! 05:23 O HOW MY HEART IS TEMPTED TO SIN! 05:28 I MUST TELL JESUS, AND HE WILL HELP ME OVER THE WORLD THE 05:36 VICT'RY TO WIN. I MUST TELL JESUS! I MUST TELL JESUS! 05:43 I CANNOT BEAR MY BURDENS ALONE; I MUST TELL JESUS! 05:51 I MUST TELL JESUS! JESUS CAN HELP ME, JESUS ALONE. 06:01 >>OUR NEXT SONG WE'RE GOING TO SING IS WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN 06:05 JESUS . NOW, THE FOUR OF US LADIES ARE 06:07 GOING TO SING A SPECIAL TUNE WITH IT FOR YOU. 06:12 THIS WAS TAUGHT TO ME BY KELLY MOWER, A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE 06:15 THAT MOST OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF. 06:17 SHE LIKES TO MIX PIECES TOGETHER - WORDS WITH DIFFERENT TUNES - 06:21 AND IF YOU GO THROUGH OUR HYMNAL YOU'LL SEE THAT THAT IS WHAT WAS 06:24 DONE ALL THROUGHOUT OUR HYMNAL ALSO. 06:28 SO SIT BACK AND LISTEN TO WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS AND JUST 06:32 REALLY CONTEMPLATE THE WORDS. WE HARDLY EVER GET 06:35 THE CHANCE TO DO THAT. AND SO, JUST ENJOY AND BASK IN 06:40 THE FACT THAT JESUS TRULY IS OUR BEST FRIEND. 06:46 (PIANO MUSIC - THE ROSE ) >>WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN 06:58 JESUS, ALL OUR SINS AND GRIEFS TO BEAR! 07:08 WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO CARRY EVERYTHING TO GOD IN PRAYER O 07:24 WHAT PEACE WE OFTEN FORFEIT, O WHAT NEEDLESS PAIN WE BEAR, 07:39 ALL BECAUSE WE DO NOT CARRY EVERYTHING TO GOD IN PRAYER. 07:58 HAVE WE TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS? IS THERE TROUBLE ANYWHERE? 08:13 WE SHOULD NEVER BE DISCOURAGED; TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER. 08:28 CAN WE FIND A FRIEND SO FAITHFUL WHO WILL ALL OUR SORROWS SHARE? 08:43 JESUS KNOWS OUR EVERY WEAKNESS; TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER. 09:03 ARE WE WEAK AND HEAVY LADEN, CUMBERED WITH A LOAD OF CARE? 09:17 PRECIOUS SAVIOR, STILL OUR REFUGE TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN 09:29 PRAYER. DO THY FRIENDS DESPISE, FORSAKE THEE? 09:38 TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER. IN HIS ARMS HE'LL TAKE AND 09:50 SHIELD THEE; THOU WILT FIND A SOLACE THERE. DO THY FRIENDS 10:07 DESPISE, FORSAKE THEE? TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER. 10:19 IN HIS ARMS HE'LL TAKE AND SHIELD THEE; THOU WILT FIND A 10:33 SOLACE THERE. OUR SOLACE THERE. OUR SOLACE THERE. 10:53 >>AMEN! >>AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS 10:56 WILL HAVE PRAYER. >>AMEN. I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU 11:05 TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE OPEN WITH A WORD OF PRAYER. 11:08 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS, INDEED, TO HAVE 11:10 A FRIEND THAT WE CAN TAKE ALL OF OUR BURDENS AND CARES TO. 11:13 AND, LORD, YOU HEAR EACH OF OUR HEARTS CRY, BUT FATHER, YOU ALSO 11:17 HEAR THE HEART CRY OF THOSE THAT HAVE NEVER HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO 11:20 HEAR ABOUT YOU AND YOU'VE ASKED US TO SHARE GOOD NEWS WITH THEM. 11:24 TODAY, AS WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN BE EFFECTIVE WITNESSES IN 11:27 OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND IN THE CITIES, WE ASK, LORD, FOR YOUR 11:30 BLESSING. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 11:34 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 11:40 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS - AND THANK YOU HANDERSON AND LADIES, 11:44 FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL RENDITION OF THAT SONG. 11:46 FAMILIAR WORDS, FAMILIAR MELODY, BUT BLENDED DIFFERENTLY. 11:50 MORNING! >>MORNING! 11:52 >>HAPPY SABBATH. I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE 11:54 WATCHING VIA THE INTERNET OR ON TELEVISION AROUND THE WORLD. 12:00 AND WE ALSO HAVE SOME OF OUR EXTENDED CLASS - WE WELCOME YOU 12:04 AS WELL TO THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH. WE ARE GOING TO BEGIN, 12:07 IN JUST A MOMENT, WITH LESSON #12 IN THE BOOK. 12:11 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CHURCH IN COMMUNITY. 12:14 WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING INTO OUR LESSON #12 NOW THAT DEALS 12:19 WITH URBAN MINISTRY IN THE END OF TIME AND WE HAVE A MEMORY 12:25 VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM JEREMIAH 29, VERSE 7. 12:29 HERE IN YOUR LESSON IT'S FROM THE NIV VERSION, SO YOU CAN READ 12:32 IT RIGHT OUT OF THE LESSON, IF YOU'D LIKE. 12:34 JEREMIAH 29, VERSE 7 - ARE YOU READY? 12:37 "SEEK THE PEACE AND THE PROSPERITY OF THE CITY TO WHICH 12:42 I HAVE CARRIED YOU INTO EXILE. PRAY TO THE LORD FOR IT, BECAUSE 12:47 IF IT PROSPERS, YOU TOO WILL PROSPER." 12:52 HE'S TALKING ABOUT BEING CARRIED INTO A CITY - AND WE'RE TO BE 12:55 SEEKING THE PROSPERITY OF THOSE CITIES WHERE WE'RE CARRIED. 12:59 NOW, WHEN WE SAY 'URBAN MINISTRY', YOU KNOW, WE'RE 13:04 REALLY TALKING ABOUT MINISTRY WHERE THE CONCENTRATIONS OF 13:07 PEOPLE ARE: CITY MINISTRY. WHAT'S A CITY? 13:12 HOW BIG - HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU NEED TO HAVE BEFORE YOU START TO 13:14 QUALIFY AS A CITY? IN OUR LITTLE TOWN OF COVELO 13:19 WE CALL IT A ONE-HORSE TOWN - EXCEPT THE HORSE DOESN'T 13:22 EVEN HAVE A SADDLE. YOU CAN DRIVE THROUGH - THERE'S 13:25 NO TRAFFIC LIGHTS IN THE TOWN. THAT'S - QUALIFIES AS A TOWN. 13:29 THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS WENT THROUGH THE VILLAGES AND THE 13:32 CITIES, AND SO YOU'VE GOT BOTH. AND SO, JESUS HAD TOWN/COUNTRY 13:39 MINISTRY; HE HAD A CITY MINISTRY. 13:41 NOW, IT'S JUST AN INTERESTING FACT THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED 13:45 WITH HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD LIVE IN THE CITIES. 13:48 FOR EXAMPLE, LOOK AT THIS: IN 1800 - LET ME ASK YOU, WHAT 13:53 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD DO YOU THINK LIVED IN 13:56 CITIES IN 1800? WANT TO TAKE A GUESS? 13:59 >>LESS THAN TEN. >LESS THAN TEN? 14:02 THREE PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION - ONLY THREE PERCENT 14:07 LIVED IN CITIES IN THE 1800S. BY 1900 14 PERCENT OF THE 14:15 WORLD'S POPULATION LIVED IN CITIES. 14:18 OF COURSE, BACK THEN, THERE WERE ONLY TWELVE CITIES THAT HAD A 14:21 MILLION PEOPLE. YOU KNOW THAT'S CHANGED. 14:24 BY 1950 30 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION LIVED IN 14:29 WHAT WOULD QUALIFY AS A CITY. AND NOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT 14:33 THERE'S OVER A HUNDRED - OH NO, WAIT - THERE'S OVER 83 CITIES 14:41 IN THE WORLD THAT HAVE OVER A MILLION PEOPLE. 14:43 THE WORLD HAS GROWN - IN 2008, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE 14:46 WORLD'S POPULATION, IT WAS SPLIT EVENLY - 50/50 LIVED IN THE 14:51 COUNTRY/LIVED IN THE CITY. NOW, HERE WE ARE IN 2016 - OVER 14:55 50% OF THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE LIVING IN THE CITIES. 14:57 SO, WE NEED TO COME TO TERMS WITH 'HOW ARE WE GOING TO REACH 15:00 PEOPLE IN THESE METROPOLITAN AREAS. 15:03 AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN AFCOE CLASS - MATTER OF FACT, THEY'RE 15:07 MEETING RIGHT NOW, NEXT DOOR - NOT THIS MOMENT, BUT THEY HAVE 15:12 THEIR MEETINGS NEXT DOOR - AND WE TEACH THEM DOOR-TO-DOOR 15:17 MINISTRY. AND WHEN I - I USED TO DO SALES 15:22 WHERE, YOU KNOW, SOME CITIES - SOME SUBURBS YOU CAN GET INTO 15:26 A NEIGHBORHOOD AND GO DOOR TO DOOR. WHERE WE LIVE, OVER THE 15:29 YEARS, WE'VE HAD PEOPLE COME DOOR TO DOOR. 15:30 YOU GET INTO THE CITIES LIKE NEW YORK AND THERE ARE DOORMEN 15:33 THERE AND THERE ARE BUZZERS THAT GET YOU INTO THE APARTMENT 15:36 BUILDINGS AND IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT, WHEN YOU'RE IN THE 15:39 HIGH-RISE CITIES, TO GO DOOR TO DOOR. 15:42 AND SO, HOW DO YOU REACH THESE PEOPLE? 15:45 WHEN I WAS IN NEW YORK CITY EARLIER THIS YEAR, I THINK I 15:49 TOLD SOME OF YOU I POSTED SOMETHING ONLINE THAT I WAS DOWN 15:54 ON 42ND STREET AND BROADWAY AND I WAS THERE FOR A MEETING - I 16:00 WAS GOING TO VISIT MY COUSIN THAT LIVED UP TOWN AND NEEDED TO 16:03 TAKE THE SUBWAY AND I - I HADN'T BEEN THERE IN SO LONG, EVEN 16:06 THOUGH I GREW UP THERE I COULDN'T FIND THE SUBWAY. 16:08 AND THERE ON THE CORNER ON 42ND AND BROADWAY, THERE WERE TWO 16:12 GUYS PREACHING. YOU KNOW, THE OLD SOAPBOX 16:15 STREET PREACHERS, AND THEY WERE STANDING ON A LITTLE 16:18 PLATFORM AND HE HAD A LITTLE BATTERY-POWERED MEGAPHONE AND HE 16:22 WAS SPEAKING INTO THIS MEGAPHONE AND HE WAS READING FROM THE 16:25 BIBLE ON HIS IPAD - OR ON HIS SMART PHONE - AND HIS FRIEND 16:29 WAS HOLDING UP SIGNS, YOU KNOW, 'REPENT! 16:32 JESUS IS COMING!' AND SO FORTH. AND I THOUGHT, WELL, IF I'M 16:36 GOING TO TALK TO SOMEONE I'D JUST AS SOON TALK TO THEM. 16:38 SO I WENT UP AND I SAID, 'HEY, GOOD JOB. 16:41 KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. I CAN'T FIND THE SUBWAY 16:43 ENTRANCE, WHERE IS IT?' AND HE GOES, 'SACRAMENTO!' 16:47 HE WATCHED OUR PROGRAMS. YOU KNOW, THAT MADE ME THINK. 16:54 HERE THESE GUYS ARE, THEY'RE PREACHING THEIR HEARTS OUT ON 16:56 THE STREETS - THERE WERE JUST THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE - THE 16:59 PICTURE'S PROBABLY STILL ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE IF YOU WANT TO SEE 17:01 IT - THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE GOING BY - ALL KINDS OF INTERESTING 17:04 PEOPLE - AND NOBODY WAS STOPPING TO LISTEN TO THEM. 17:10 BUT WHEN THEY SAW ME THEY SAID, 'WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE OF 17:14 MEDIA.' SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? I THINK ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO 17:18 REACH THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY IS - THEY'RE GETTING THEIR 17:21 INFORMATION THROUGH THE INTERNET, THROUGH TELEVISION, 17:25 THROUGH RADIO, THROUGH MEDIA. YOU CAN GET INTO THEIR HOMES. 17:28 BUT LET'S SUPPOSE YOU REACH PEOPLE. 17:30 AMAZING FACTS GETS LETTERS ALL THE TIME FROM PEOPLE LIVING IN 17:33 METROPOLITAN AREAS BECAUSE WE'RE ON THEIR CABLE, WE'RE IN THEIR 17:35 APARTMENTS AND THEY SAY, 'NOW WHERE DO I GO?' 17:40 YOU THEN NEED TO SEND THEM TO A LOCAL CHURCH. 17:43 HOW DO THE CHURCHES RECEIVE THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE YOUR CITY 17:47 DWELLERS WHEN THEY COME? THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG QUESTIONS 17:50 WE'RE GOING TO GRAPPLE WITH TODAY. 17:51 BUT NOW - I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. 17:53 ANYWAY, SO MOST OF THE PEOPLE LIVE IN THE CITIES - WE'VE GOT 17:57 TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO REACH THE PEOPLE IN THE CITIES AND - 18:00 BEFORE I GET TO THAT LET ME READ THIS. 18:01 KAREN REMINDED ME THIS, THIS MORNING. 18:03 SHE WAS READING THROUGH MY SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON, AND I 18:06 STUDY THREE WEEKS AHEAD SO SHE WAS READING LESSON #12 EVEN 18:09 THOUGH WE'RE RECORDING IT EARLY, AND SHE TOLD ME SOMETHING 18:12 I HADN'T SEEN IN THE LESSON. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS ARE A 18:16 LITTLE BIT CONFLICTED WHEN IT COMES TO CITY MINISTRY. 18:19 WE'RE A LITTLE BIPOLAR. YOU KNOW WHY? 18:22 SCHIZOPHRENIC - WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT - BECAUSE WE 18:25 HAVE A LOT OF COUNSEL TO FLEE THE CITIES AND LIVE IN THE 18:29 COUNTRY AND THEN WE'VE GOT COUNSEL TO WORK THE CITIES AND 18:32 WE WONDER, 'HOW DO YOU RECONCILE THIS?' 18:35 WE WOULD ALL AGREE, CITIES ARE A CONCENTRATION OF PEOPLE. 18:42 PEOPLE IN A LOST WORLD - THE SIN - THE HUMAN HEART IS SINFUL AND 18:46 UNCONVERTED. AND SO, WHEN YOU'VE GOT A 18:48 CONCENTRATION OF UNCONVERTED PEOPLE THAT ARE MOTIVATED BY 18:50 SELFISHNESS AND GREED, CITIES CAN BE HOTBEDS OF CRIME, DRUGS, 18:56 VIOLENCE, MERCHANDISING, WORLDLY DISTRACTIONS AND SO FORTH. 19:04 SO, AS CHRISTIANS, ARE WE TO GO INTO THE CITIES OR RUN FROM 19:07 THEM? THERE'S THE DILEMMA: HOW DO YOU BALANCE THAT? 19:13 HERE'S WHAT KAREN READ THIS MORNING: "A SEVENTH-DAY 19:15 ADVENTIST EXPERT IN URBAN MINISTRY DID A STUDY IN THE 19:18 E.G. WHITE PERIODICAL INDEX REGARDING HER COUNSEL ON MOVING 19:22 OUT OF THE CITIES. OUT OF 107 ARTICLES, 24 ARTICLES 19:27 GAVE INSTRUCTION ON MOVING OUT OR ESTABLISHING INSTITUTIONS ON 19:31 THE OUTSIDE OR THE EDGES OF THE CITIES." - THIS IS ONE REASON 19:36 THAT WE'RE INVOLVED, RIGHT NOW, IN BUILDING AN EVANGELISM 19:38 TRAINING CENTER ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF SACRAMENTO - 'OUT OF THE 107 19:43 ARTICLES, 24 ARTICLES GAVE INSTRUCTION ON MOVING OUT AND 19:47 ESTABLISHING INSTITUTIONS OUTSIDE THE CITIES, BUT 75 19:51 ARTICLES GAVE SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION TO MOVE INTO THE 19:54 CITIES WITH MEETING HOUSES', IT SAYS, 'AND MAYBE RESTAURANTS TO 19:59 REACH THE CITIES. THE OTHER EIGHT ARTICLES WERE 20:03 NEUTRAL.' A CHURCH HISTORIAN SUMMARIZED ELLEN WHITE'S COUNSEL 20:06 ON CITY WORK, SHOWING THAT RELATING TO INSTITUTIONS, SHE 20:10 ADVOCATED WORKING FROM OUTPOST CENTERS OUTSIDE THE CITY, AND 20:14 WHEN DEALING WITH LOCAL CHURCH WORK OR WITH RESTAURANTS, SHE 20:18 ADVOCATED WORKING FROM WITHIN THE CITY, OR IF YOU CAN HAVE A 20:21 CLINIC WHERE YOU'RE DOING, YOU KNOW, JUST 20:23 ON-THE-STREET MINISTRY. AND WE'RE TRYING TO FOLLOW THAT. 20:28 AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY HERE IN THE NOTES - AND THIS IS IN 20:30 YOUR LESSON UNDER FRIDAY, "WHY SHOULD NOT FAMILIES WHO KNOW THE 20:34 PRESENT TRUTH, - WHY SHOULD NOT FAMILIES WHO KNOW THE 20:38 PRESENT TRUTH SETTLE IN THESE CITIES? 20:41 THERE WILL BE LAYMAN WHO WILL MOVE INTO THE CITIES THAT THEY 20:44 MAY LET THE LIGHT THAT GOD HAS GIVEN THEM SHINE FORTH TO 20:46 OTHERS. REVELATION 14:6, "THEN I SAW 20:52 ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING THE 20:54 EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH TO THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH - 20:59 TO EVERY NATION, TRIBE, TONGUE, AND PEOPLE." 21:02 SO HOW FAR ARE WE TO GO WITH THE MESSAGE? 21:05 WE NEED TO GO EVERYWHERE AND THAT MEANS, YES, EVEN INTO THE 21:09 CITIES AND RISK EXPOSURE TO THAT CONCENTRATION OF CRIME AND EVIL. 21:15 WHEN MISSIONARIES GO TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES - I USED TO WONDER - 21:20 YOU KNOW, YOU'D START READING ABOUT WHEN YOU BECOME A 21:22 CHRISTIAN, YOU WANT TO BE MODEST. 21:27 AND I REMEMBER READING JOE CREWS' BOOK ON CREEPING 21:29 COMPROMISE - GREAT BOOK, I RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYBODY. 21:33 IT'S GOT A CHAPTER IN THEIR ON MIXED SWIMMING. 21:36 I'M REALLY DEALING WITH SOME INTERESTING SUBJECTS TODAY. 21:38 HE TALKS ABOUT HOW CAN A CHRISTIAN FAMILY GO TO A PUBLIC 21:42 BEACH THE WAY THAT PEOPLE DRESS? WE TOOK IN A LITTLE OF THE 21:49 OLYMPICS THIS LAST FEW WEEKS, COMING TO YOU FROM RIO. 21:55 AND THEY WOULD TAKE THE CAMERA DOWN AND GET A COUPLE OF THE 21:57 CULTURAL SCENES ON THE RIO BEACH. 22:00 SOME OF IT WAS RATED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES. 22:04 THAT JUST MEANS IT WAS IMMODEST. BUT HERE YOU HAVE A MISSIONARY 22:08 - SOME OF THESE EARLY MISSIONARIES, YOU READ ABOUT 22:09 PATTON AND SOME OF THE OTHERS - JOHN PATTON - THEY WENT TO WORK 22:12 WITH CANNIBALS AND PEOPLE THAT WERE LIVING VERY PRIMITIVELY 22:17 AND DRESSING VERY PRIMITIVELY. HOW DO YOU GO WORK WITH PEOPLE 22:21 LIKE THAT, THAT ARE - THEY DON'T HARDLY WEAR ANYTHING. 22:25 SOME OF THE FIRST MISSIONARIES IN NORTH AMERICA AND OTHER 22:27 PLACES - DO YOU SAY, 'WELL, I CAN'T GO WORK WITH THE 22:30 MISSIONARIES BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT MODESTLY DRESSED'? 22:33 YOU SEE THE DILEMMA I'M TALKING ABOUT? 22:35 AT SOME POINT YOU'VE GOT TO BITE THE BULLET AND PRAY FOR GRACE - 22:38 AND YOU'VE GOT TO REACH PEOPLE WHERE THEY'RE AT AND THAT MEANS, 22:41 YES, YOU MIGHT NEED TO EXPOSE YOURSELF TO RISK AND YOU PRAY 22:46 THAT GOD GOES WITH YOU. AND SO - NOW, THAT'S NOT ALL AN 22:50 ENDORSEMENT TO GO TO THE BEACH, YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT 22:53 I'M TALKING ABOUT? YOU'VE GOT TO PICK CAREFULLY 22:57 WHAT BEACH YOU GO TO. ANYWAY, SO - FIRST CITY IN 23:04 THE BIBLE - WASN'T GOOD. WHO BUILT THE FIRST CITY? 23:07 WHO KNOWS? CAIN. 23:11 NIMROD BUILT THE FIRST CITY AFTER BABEL, BUT BEFORE THE 23:15 TOWER OF BABEL - GENESIS 4:16 - THEN CAIN MURDERS HIS BROTHER, 23:19 "THEN CAIN WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD" - THAT 23:21 OUGHT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING RIGHT THERE - "AND DWELT IN THE 23:23 LAND OF NOD ON THE EAST OF EDEN. AND CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE, AND 23:26 SHE CONCEIVED AND BORE ENOCH. AND HE BUILT A CITY, AND CALLED 23:31 THE NAME OF THE CITY AFTER THE NAME OF HIS SON - ENOCH." 23:34 THE FIRST CITY WAS NOT BABEL, IT WAS ENOCH. 23:37 NOW WE READ IN ACTS - THE LESSON TAKES US TO ACTS 17 - IT TALKS 23:42 ABOUT PAUL'S APPROACH TO CITY MINISTRY. 23:45 GO TO ACTS 18, VERSE 7. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, 23:49 IN JUST A MOMENT, LUKE 4:43. WHO HAS THAT? 23:52 RIGHT UP FRONT HERE, OKAY? 23:55 IN ACTS 18:7, "AND HE DEPARTED THENCE, AND ENTERED INTO A 23:58 CERTAIN MAN'S HOUSE, NAMED JUSTUS, ONE THAT WORSHIPPED GOD, 24:02 WHOSE HOUSE JOINED HARD TO [OR RIGHT UP AGAINST] THE SYNAGOGUE. 24:06 AND CRISPUS, THE CHIEF RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, BELIEVED ON THE 24:09 LORD WITH ALL HIS HOUSE;" - SO SEE, SOME OF THOSE IN THE 24:12 SYNAGOGUES THAT WERE JEWS, DID ACCEPT JESUS. 24:15 AND WE KNOW SOME ALSO REJECTED HIM - HE "BELIEVED ON THE LORD 24:18 WITH ALL HIS HOUSE; AND MANY OF THE CORINTHIANS HEARING 24:21 BELIEVED, AND WERE BAPTIZED. NOW THE LORD SPOKE TO PAUL IN 24:25 THE NIGHT BY A VISION, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID, BUT SPEAK, AND DO NOT 24:30 BE SILENT; FOR I AM WITH YOU, AND NO ONE WILL ATTACK YOU TO 24:34 HURT YOU.'" - 'FOR I AM WITH YOU AND I WILL PROTECT YOU IN A 24:36 SPECIAL WAY' - "FOR I HAVE MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY." 24:40 WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ARE? 24:43 DO YOU THINK THAT GOD, IF HE SPOKE TO US TODAY - NOW, WE'RE 24:46 BROADCASTING FROM THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA - CAN I SAY 24:50 THAT? WOULD GOD SAY, 'I HAVE MUCH PEOPLE IN THIS CITY?' 24:54 >>AMEN. >>WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT? 24:55 IF THEY'RE NOT ON OUR CHURCH BOOKS, WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY 'I 24:57 HAVE MUCH PEOPLE IN THIS CITY?' IT MEANS HE KNOWS WHO THEY ARE. 25:01 THEY'RE HIS PEOPLE. THEY'RE LOOKING FOR CHURCH 25:02 TRUTH AND THEY'RE NOT HERE YET. I THINK WE HAVE A VISITOR WITH 25:06 US TODAY I'LL NOT IDENTIFY, THAT TOLD US A FEW WEEKS AGO, 'I'VE 25:09 BEEN WATCHING YOU GUYS ON TV FOR YEARS - FINALLY DECIDED TO COME. 25:13 THAT WAS ONE OF THE LORD'S PEOPLE IN THE CITY. 25:16 >>AMEN. >>AND HE WANTS TO REACH THEM - 25:18 BUT IT'S NOT ALL GOING TO HAPPEN THROUGH MEDIA. 25:21 SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS BY OUR GETTING OUT IN THE STREETS, 25:24 MEETING THE PEOPLE - YOU CAN DO IT WITH HEALTH MINISTRY. 25:28 YOU CAN DO IT WITH CLOTHING MINISTRY. 25:30 YOU CAN DO IT WITH HEALTH-FOOD MINISTRIES. 25:35 THERE'S JUST A BROAD SPECTRUM. WHAT MINISTRY SHOULD A 25:38 CHURCH DO IN THE CITY? WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? 25:41 THAT DEPENDS ON THE GIFTS OF THE PEOPLE IN THAT CHURCH. 25:45 SOMETHING I'VE LEARNED THE HARD WAY AS A PASTOR - SOMETIMES I'D 25:48 GET BRIGHT IDEAS - 'WE OUGHT TO DO THIS MINISTRY' - AND I'D TRY 25:50 TO FORCE THE CHURCH INTO DOING A PARTICULAR MINISTRY - BUT NO 25:53 MEMBER REALLY EMBRACED IT. AND THEN, IT'S LIKE TRYING TO 25:58 PUSH A NOODLE UPHILL; YOU JUST CAN'T DO IT. 26:02 BUT WHEN I FIND THE LORD LAYS A BURDEN ON A MEMBER IN THE CHURCH 26:06 AND SOMEONE SAYS, 'I'VE GOT A BURDEN FOR HOMELESS MINISTRY' - 26:09 WE'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE HERE THAT HAVE A BURDEN. 26:11 BOY, THEY GOT BEHIND IT, THEY MADE IT ALL HAPPEN, THEY GOT THE 26:13 HOMELESS BAGS TOGETHER AND - AND IT WAS ON THEIR HEART. 26:16 SOMEONE ELSE SAYS, 'I'VE GOT A BURDEN TO FEED PEOPLE DOWNTOWN' 26:21 - AT OUR LAST CHURCH - CENTRAL CHURCH - THEY GOT TOGETHER, THEY 26:24 BUILT THE ROVING BARBECUE AND THEY ORGANIZED THE WHOLE THING. 26:27 WE'D GO DOWNTOWN EVERY WEEK AND WE'D FEED PEOPLE AND PREACH TO 26:29 THEM AND - BUT SOMEBODY HAD TO HAVE THE LORD LAY A BURDEN ON 26:33 THEIR HEART. THEY HAD A GIFT. AND, AS PASTORS, WE FOUND THE 26:36 BEST THING TO DO IS FIND OUT WHAT GIFTS GOD HAS GIVEN AND 26:39 EMPOWER THOSE PEOPLE TO DO THE MINISTRY GOD HAS GIVEN THEM. 26:43 DON'T WAIT FOR YOUR PASTOR TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING THE CHURCH 26:46 OUGHT TO DO, BECAUSE I DON'T SEE IT WORKS THAT WAY. 26:49 I FIND IT WORKS THE BEST WHEN THE MEMBERS SAY, 'I'VE GOT A 26:52 PASSION FOR A CLOTHING MINISTRY.' I'VE GOT A FRIEND I - 26:57 HE'S A CHRISTIAN - I PLAY RACQUETBALL WITH HIM AND HE 26:59 SAYS, 'PASTOR DOUG, I JUST - YOU GOT ANY OLD CLOTHES? 27:01 I WANT TO TAKE CLOTHES AND GIVE THEM TO THE POOR.' 27:03 AND THE LORD JUST LAID THAT ON HIS HEART. 27:05 I SAID, 'YEAH, WE'LL GET YOU SOME OLD CLOTHES. 27:08 I'VE GOT TONS AT OUR HOUSE.' AND SO, YOU - THE LORD MAY GIVE YOU 27:13 A MINISTRY, BUT THESE ARE THE WAYS WHERE YOU GET OUT AND YOU 27:16 TOUCH AND YOU CONNECT WITH THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY, SO THAT IF 27:19 THEY DO SEE SOME MEDIA, MAYBE THEY'LL MAKE THE CONNECTION. 27:23 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, PLEASE, LUKE 4:43. 27:27 >>"BUT HE SAID TO THEM, 'I MUST PREACH THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO THE 27:30 OTHER CITIES ALSO, BECAUSE FOR THIS PURPOSE I HAVE BEEN SENT.' 27:34 AND HE WAS PREACHING IN THE SYNAGOGUES OF GALILEE." 27:37 >>YEAH, SO JESUS, HE SAID - NOW, I THINK IT'S INTERESTING. 27:41 DID JESUS FIND A SOAP BOX ON THE CORNER AND STAND THERE? 27:44 OR WHERE DID HE GO TO PREACH IN THE CITY? 27:45 >>SYNAGOGUES. >>WHAT DOES THE WORD 27:47 'SYNAGOGUE' MEAN? IT ACTUALLY MEANS 'GATHERING'. 27:52 IT IS THE SAME AS A CHURCH, BUT IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE THEY 27:54 GATHERED - A GATHERING PLACE - AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES 27:59 AN INTERESTING PARADIGM FOR A CITY MINISTRY - GO TO WHERE THE 28:05 PEOPLE ARE. AND THAT'S WHAT PAUL DID. 28:08 PAUL WOULD GO TO, YOU KNOW, HE'D GO TO ATHENS AND HE'D SAY, 'OH, 28:12 ALL THE PHILOSOPHERS ARE GATHERING ON MARS HILL.' 28:14 WHEREVER THE CROWD IS, THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING TO GO. 28:17 IT BECOMES AN OPPORTUNITY. I KNOW SOME PEOPLE, THEY'VE GOT 28:20 A MINISTRY THAT WHENEVER THERE'S A BASEBALL GAME OR WHENEVER 28:22 THERE'S SOME PUBLIC GATHERING, THEY GET DOWN IN THE PARKING LOT 28:25 - THEY GET A PERMIT - THEY GO TO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE. 28:28 I KNOW OUR AFCOE STUDENTS AND PEOPLE FROM WEIMAR, 28:31 THEY'VE GOTTEN PERMITS FROM WAL-MART. 28:33 IF YOU SOMETIMES GO TO WAL-MART YOU'LL SEE THERE'S LITTLE THINGS 28:35 SET UP OUTSIDE - WHETHER IT'S VETERANS OR VOTER REGISTRATION - 28:38 WHATEVER IT IS - YOU CAN ALSO HAVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES THAT 28:41 GO OUT THERE AND THEY GIVE OUT LITERATURE. 28:44 AND SO THEY GO TO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE. 28:46 AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS DID WHEN HE WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUE. 28:48 IF YOU CAN GET INVITED TO A CHURCH IN A CITY TO SHARE THE 28:53 THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE, GO TO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE. 28:56 ACTS 18 - YOU KNOW, I REALLY RESPECT AND ADMIRE PEOPLE THAT 29:01 HAVE THE COURAGE - WHEN WE DO OUR RADIO PROGRAM ON SUNDAY, 29:05 PASTOR ROSS AND I OCCASIONALLY GET A CALL FROM A GUY WHO IS A 29:09 STREET PREACHER. IF YOU'VE LISTENED TO BIBLE 29:11 ANSWERS LIVE YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS STREET PREACHER 29:14 THAT CALLS US. AND I'VE GOT GREAT RESPECT FOR 29:16 PEOPLE THAT CAN JUST GET OUT THERE ON A BUSY INTERSECTION 29:18 AND STAND ON A BOX AND START PREACHING. 29:21 SOMETIMES IT'S FIRE AND BRIMSTONE BUT THEY START 29:22 PREACHING TO PEOPLE THERE ON THE STREET. 29:24 I'VE NOT SEEN A LOT OF SUCCESS COME FROM THAT. 29:29 I DO KNOW ONE OR TWO PEOPLE THAT SAY THEY WERE CONVERTED FROM A 29:32 STREET PEOPLE - FROM A STREET PREACHER. 29:34 SALVATION ARMY USED TO DO A LOT OF THAT. 29:36 THEY'D USUALLY FIND THE CORNERS WHERE ALL THE DERELICTS WERE 29:38 AND THEY'D PREACH TO THEM RIGHT THERE. 29:40 AND THEY BUILT THEIR BRAND DOING THAT. 29:43 BUT IN OUR WORLD TODAY, COMMUNICATIONS HAVE CHANGED A 29:47 LITTLE BIT AND YOU'VE GOT TO KIND OF CHANGE WITH IT AND FIND 29:50 OUT HOW YOU REACH THE PEOPLE. GOING ON WITH THIS SAME PART IN 29:54 ACTS - JUMP NOW TO ACTS 18:24 - "NOW A CERTAIN JEW NAMED 30:00 APOLLOS, BORN AT ALEXANDRIA," - HE WAS BORN IN A BIG CITY - "AN 30:04 ELOQUENT MAN AND MIGHTY IN THE SCRIPTURES, CAME TO EPHESUS." 30:10 AND IT SAYS THIS MAN WAS "...INSTRUCTED IN THE WAY OF THE 30:14 LORD; AND BEING FERVENT IN SPIRIT," - NOTICE THAT? 30:18 SPIRIT FILLED - "HE SPOKE AND TAUGHT ACCURATELY THE 30:20 THINGS OF THE LORD, THOUGH HE KNEW ONLY THE BAPTISM OF JOHN. 30:23 SO HE BEGAN TO SPEAK BOLDLY IN THE SYNAGOGUE." 30:27 - AGAIN, HE WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUE - "WHEN AQUILA AND 30:30 PRISCILLA HEARD HIM, THEY TOOK HIM" - THEY SAID, 'THIS GUY'S 30:32 BRIGHT. HE'S GOT TALENT. HE'S GOT POTENTIAL. 30:35 HE JUST DOESN'T HAVE THE WHOLE MESSAGE. AND "...THEY TOOK HIM 30:39 ASIDE AND EXPLAINED TO HIM THE WAY OF GOD MORE ACCURATELY." 30:44 - TALKED ABOUT JESUS, THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT AND ALL 30:47 THAT HAD HAPPENED - "AND WHEN HE DESIRED TO CROSS TO ACHAIA, THE 30:51 BRETHREN WROTE, EXHORTING THE DISCIPLES TO RECEIVE HIM, AND 30:54 WHEN HE ARRIVED, HE GREATLY HELPED THOSE WHO HAD BELIEVED 30:58 THROUGH GRACE; FOR HE VIGOROUSLY REFUTED THE JEWS PUBLICLY, 31:02 SHOWING FROM THE SCRIPTURES THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST." 31:06 SO, YOU MAY NOT KNOW THIS, BUT I AM FULLY QUALIFIED TO DO SPECIAL 31:12 MUSIC. I CAN SING AND I CAN PLAY - IN A SMALL CHURCH. 31:19 PEOPLE IN A SMALL CHURCH WILL SAY, 'AMEN' BECAUSE WHEN YOU GO 31:24 TO A SMALL CHURCH YOU HAVE A LIMITED POOL OF TALENT AND I CAN 31:28 GET AWAY WITH BEING SPECIAL MUSIC IN A LITTLE BITTY CHURCH. 31:34 YOU GET INTO A BIGGER CHURCH - THERE'S A POINT WHERE I'M GOING 31:37 - YOU GET INTO A BIGGER CHURCH WHERE YOU GET A LITTLE MORE 31:39 SOPHISTICATION, A LITTLE MORE - BIGGER POOL OF TALENT - YOU EVER 31:43 HEARD ABOUT BEING A BIG FISH IN A LITTLE POND? 31:47 WHEN YOU'VE GOT MORE PEOPLE, YOU NEED MORE POWER. 31:51 YOU NEED MORE ELOQUENCE. YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO REACH 31:55 EVERYBODY AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IS - AND 32:00 ELLEN WHITE SPEAKS ABOUT THIS - SHE SAYS, 'WE NEED MINISTERS. 32:05 WE NEED PEOPLE WHO ARE MIGHTY IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT CAN GO INTO 32:09 THESE LARGE CENTERS AND HOLD LARGE CROWDS - HOLD THEIR 32:13 ATTENTION. THIS IS WHAT APOLLOS DID. 32:16 BUT YOU NOTICE THE PART - IT SAID, 'MIGHTY IN THE SPIRIT'. 32:21 YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE KEY IS TO CITY MINISTRY? 32:25 ACTS CHAPTER 2: THEY WERE ALL GATHERED IN ONE PLACE AND THEY 32:30 WERE OF ONE ACCORD. WHERE WERE THEY? IN A CITY. 32:33 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT, IT WAS NOT IN THE COUNTRY. 32:38 THEY WERE GATHERED IN A CITY AND THERE WERE MANY THAT WERE 32:41 GATHERED IN JERUSALEM THAT DAY AND THE LORD FILLED THAT UPPER 32:45 ROOM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND IT WAS THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT. 32:49 WOULDN'T THAT BE NICE IF THAT HAPPENED AGAIN? 32:52 >>AMEN. >>CAN YOU IMAGINE? 32:53 IT SAYS THEY HEARD THE SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND AND THE 32:56 PEOPLE HEARING THE SOUND RAN TOGETHER. 32:58 THEY HEARD SOMETHING THAT SOUNDED LIKE A TORNADO COMING 33:00 FROM THIS UPPER ROOM AND ALL THE PEOPLE RAN TO THE COURTYARD AND 33:04 THOUGHT, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT? 33:05 AND THEY POURED OUT ON THE BALCONY AND BEGAN TO PREACH TO 33:08 THEM IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUES. WOULDN'T THAT BE SOMETHING? 33:10 YOU EVER BEEN TO NEW YORK CITY? 33:12 GO TO - KAREN AND I WERE IN LOS ANGELES. 33:14 WE PREACHED THERE TWO WEEKS AGO AND JUST - IT WAS PACKED. 33:19 NOW - THE WHITE MEMORIAL CHURCH - BUT WE SPOKE TO PEOPLE WHO 33:22 WERE RUSSIAN, VIETNAMESE, FROM ONE OF THE MANY LANGUAGES OF 33:27 INDIA - EVERYTHING FROM TELAGU TO HINDI TO TAMAL, CHINESE, A 33:33 LOT OF FILIPINOS, SPANISH, GERMAN - I MEAN, LITERALLY, JUST 33:38 THAT ONE DAY WE RAN INTO - AND WE DIDN'T TALK TO EVERYBODY. 33:42 WOULDN'T IT BE SOMETHING IF, IN L.A., ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE WAS, 33:45 ON A CALM DAY, THE SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND COMING FROM 33:49 BUILDING AND ALL THE PEOPLE WONDERED, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD IS 33:51 GOING ON?' THEY COME TOGETHER AND 33:52 CHRISTIANS CAME POURING OUT PREACHING TO THEM THE WORD OF 33:56 GOD IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUES. I THINK GOD - THAT MAY NOT 34:00 HAPPEN WITH THE GIFT OF TONGUES, BUT I THINK GOD IS GOING TO DO 34:04 SOMETHING IN THE - DO YOU THINK THE LATTER RAIN OF THE HOLY 34:08 SPIRIT IS GOING TO HAVE LESS MANIFESTATION OF POWER THAN THE 34:11 FORMER RAIN? SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN. SHOULD WE BE 34:15 SURPRISED IF GOD DOES IT IN THE CITY? I'D BE SURPRISED IF HE 34:18 DIDN'T, BECAUSE IF HE DID IT OUT IN A ONE-HORSE TOWN, WHO'S GOING 34:22 TO HEAR ABOUT IT? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 34:25 SO I THINK THE LORD IS GOING TO POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT IN A CITY. 34:28 SO IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR US TO BE AROUND WHEN THAT HAPPENS. 34:30 THAT'S WHY WE CAN'T ABANDON THE CITIES. 34:33 GOD NEEDS PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE THERE TO WORK. 34:35 ALRIGHT, SO APOLLOS IS ONE OF THESE SPIRIT-FILLED PREACHERS 34:39 WHO DID A LOT OF GOOD AND HE WENT - HE COULD REACH THE 34:42 CITIES. HE WENT FROM PLACE TO PLACE. 34:44 CITIES ARE A HURTING PLACE. THE WORD 'CITY' IS FOUND 1300 34:50 TIMES IN THE BIBLE - OR SOME DERIVATIVE OF THE WORD - 34:53 JEREMIAH 4:26: "I BEHELD, AND INDEED THE FRUITFUL LAND WAS A 34:59 WILDERNESS, AND ALL ITS CITIES WERE BROKEN DOWN AT THE PRESENCE 35:03 OF THE LORD, BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." HAVE YOU EVER READ 35:06 PILGRIM'S PROGRESS? HOW DOES THE BOOK BEGIN? 35:10 "A MAN BY THE NAME OF" - >>CHRISTIAN. 35:12 >>CHRISTIAN IS FLEEING FROM - >>DESTRUCTION. 35:15 >>NOT JUST DESTRUCTION - THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION. BY THE WAY, 35:19 HE'S QUOTING FROM THE BIBLE. THERE'S A PHRASE THAT SAYS ONE 35:21 OF THE CITIES WILL BE THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION. 35:24 AND SO, HE'S FLEEING FROM THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION AND HE'S 35:27 GOING TO THE CANAAN LAND AND PEOPLE OFTEN THINK ABOUT THE 35:31 CITIES AS A PLACE OF MISERY AND WOE. AND, WHEREVER YOU'VE GOT 35:35 SIN - YOU'VE GOT A CONCENTRATION OF PEOPLE, YOU HAVE A 35:38 CONCENTRATION OF SIN. SIN BRINGS SUFFERING. 35:40 CITIES ARE GOING TO BE A CONCENTRATION OF SUFFERING. 35:44 WHERE IS IT GOING TO BE THE HARDEST IN THE LAST DAYS? 35:48 IN A LOT OF HER COUNSEL, ELLEN WHITE SAYS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE 35:50 SPIRIT OF GOD IS WITHDRAWN, IT IS GOING TO BE VERY HARD FOR 35:53 THOSE THAT ARE STUCK IN THE CITIES AT THAT TIME. 35:56 THAT'S WHY THE BEST THING IS IF YOU CAN WORK THE OUTPOSTS - LIVE 35:59 IN THE OUTPOSTS AND THEN WORK THE CITIES. 36:01 YOU KNOW, IT'S EASIER TODAY THAN IT'S EVER BEEN. 36:04 BACK WHEN THAT COUNSEL WAS WRITTEN, PEOPLE RODE HORSES. 36:08 AND SO, IF YOU SAID, 'I'M GOING TO GO WORK DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO 36:11 TODAY', WELL, YOU BETTER TAKE ABOUT FIVE HOURS TO GET THERE. 36:15 MAYBE NOT THAT LONG BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 36:18 BUT NOW YOU CAN BE THERE IN 20 MINUTES/HALF AN HOUR BECAUSE OF 36:21 OUR CARS. AND SO, IT'S A LITTLE EASIER NOW 36:25 TO LIVE IN A MORE RURAL SETTING AND WORK THE CITY 36:27 THAN IT USED TO BE. THAT'S THE IDEAL, BUT 36:29 CITIES ARE HURTING PLACES. EXODUS 2 - SOMEONE'S GOING TO 36:33 READ FOR ME, IN JUST A MINUTE, EXODUS 6, VERSE 5, OKAY? 36:37 I'M GOING TO READ EXODUS 2, VERSE 23, "AND IT CAME TO PASS 36:41 IN PROCESS OF TIME, THAT THE KING OF EGYPT DIED: AND THE 36:45 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL" - THERE'S - IN THAT CITY OF ISRAEL - "SIGHED 36:49 BY REASON OF THE BONDAGE, AND THEY CRIED, AND THEIR CRY CAME 36:52 UP UNTO GOD BY REASON OF THE BONDAGE. 36:55 AND GOD HEARD THEIR GROANING, AND GOD REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT 36:58 WITH ABRAHAM, WITH ISAAC, AND WITH JACOB." 37:01 NOW, YOU KNOW, EVEN AFTER ALL THIS GROANING AND THIS SUFFERING 37:05 - GET TO - NOW THAT'S FORTY YEARS LATER. 37:08 NOW KATRINA'S GOING TO READ A VERSE - FORTY YEARS LATER 37:11 THEY'RE STILL SUFFERING. GO AHEAD, READ EXODUS 6:5. 37:14 >>"AND I HAVE ALSO HEARD THE GROANING OF THE CHILDREN OF 37:18 ISRAEL, WHOM THE EGYPTIANS KEEP IN BONDAGE; AND I HAVE 37:22 REMEMBERED MY COVENANT." >>SO FROM THE TIME MOSES 37:25 IS BORN, WHEN THEY'VE BEEN ENSLAVED, UNTIL GOD FINALLY 37:30 SENDS MOSES BACK TO LIBERATE THEM, FORTY YEARS HAVE GONE BY. 37:35 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING IN THE CITIES FOR 37:37 YEARS. WHAT WERE THE ISRAELITE'S 37:38 DOING FOR THE EGYPTIANS? THEY WERE BUILDING THEIR CITIES. 37:44 THAT'S WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS - AND IT NAMES RAMSES AND A NUMBER 37:47 OF OTHER CITIES THAT THEY WERE BUILDING. 37:50 AND THEY MADE THEM SERVE WITH RIGOR - HARD LABOR - THERE'S A 37:53 LOT OF SUFFERING IN THE CITIES. PSALMS 12:5, "FOR THE OPPRESSION 37:58 OF THE POOR, FOR THE SIGHING OF THE NEEDY, NOW WILL I ARISE, 38:03 SAITH THE LORD; I WILL SET HIM IN SAFETY FROM HIM 38:06 THAT PUFFETH AT HIM." AND BECAUSE OF THE OPPRESSION OF 38:10 THE CITY - CITIES ARE GOING TO BE PLACES THAT WILL, IN A 38:12 SPECIAL SENSE, FEEL THE JUDGMENTS IN THE LAST DAYS. 38:17 JOB 24:12, "MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY, AND THE SOUL OF THE 38:23 WOUNDED CRIETH OUT: YET GOD LAYETH NOT FOLLY TO THEM." SO, I 38:28 THINK WE ALL KNOW - YOU KNOW, WHAT'S REALLY HARD, UM - IS WHEN 38:37 YOU SEE SUFFERING IN A CITY AND YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 38:43 NOW, I GREW UP IN - I WAS BORN IN LOS ANGELES, GREW UP IN NEW 38:50 YORK CITY, MIAMI, BOSTON - MY MOTHER LIVED IN LONDON - I'VE 38:57 BEEN TO LONDON, BEIJING, SHANGHAI, MANILA, MEXICO CITY, I 39:04 MEAN, YOU NAME MOST OF THE MAJOR CITIES OF THE WORLD - INDIA - 39:09 AND YOU GO DOWN THE STREETS LIKE INDIA - JUST TAKE THAT AND YOU 39:14 SEE PEOPLE JUST LAYING ON THE STREET. 39:15 ANY OF YOU BEEN TO INDIA? YOU SEE PEOPLE BY THE HUNDREDS 39:19 LAYING ON THE STREET - CHILDREN BEGGING - THEY 39:23 LITERALLY HAVE NOTHING. THEY BEG FOR THEIR FOOD. 39:27 THEY WASH IN PUBLIC FOUNTAINS AND THEY'RE JUST SO POOR. 39:31 AND YOU WANT TO STOP AND TAKE EVERY ONE OF THEM HOME, BUT YOU 39:34 CAN'T. AND IT'S JUST REALLY A STRUGGLE SOMETIMES TO SEE ALL 39:39 THAT SUFFERING AND THAT OPPRESSION. WHAT'S THE BEST WAY 39:44 - YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION 'GIVE A MAN A FISH OR TEACH HIM 39:47 TO FISH, WHAT'S BETTER? >>TEACH HIM TO FISH. 39:49 >>WHEN YOU GO INTO THE CITIES AND YOU TEACH THE GOSPEL, A LOT 39:52 OF WHAT'S BRINGING THE SUFFERING ON THE PEOPLE THERE IS NOT 39:55 KNOWING THE GOSPEL AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL. 39:58 FOR EXAMPLE, IN INDIA, THERE IS GREAT WEALTH IN INDIA. 40:03 INDIA IS, RIGHT NOW, GOING THROUGH - THEY'RE BECOMING A 40:06 FIRST WORLD COUNTRY WHEN IT COMES TO TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY 40:09 AND IN SOME OF THE CITIES, YOU'LL SEE SUCH MODERN WEALTH 40:13 AND CONVENIENCE IN SOME OF THESE CITIES - THE NEW ONES THEY 40:15 BUILT. YOU DRIVE A FEW MILES AND YOU'LL JUST SEE PEOPLE DYING OF 40:19 LEPROSY IN THE STREETS. ONE REASON IT'S THAT WAY IS 40:23 BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW THE GOSPEL. 40:26 BECAUSE OF THE INDIAN RELIGIONS, A LOT OF IT HINDUISM, THEY HAVE 40:30 A FATALISTIC CASTE MENTALITY THAT SOME OF THESE POOR 40:33 UNTOUCHABLES - THEY, IN THEIR FORMER LIVES, THEY DID SOMETHING 40:36 WRONG AND THEY'RE GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE. 40:38 AND THEY DON'T INTERVENE TO TRY TO HELP THE POOR THAT ARE RIGHT 40:41 AT THEIR DOORS, BECAUSE OF THEIR RELIGION. 40:45 WHEN THEY LEARN CHRISTIANITY THEY SAY, 'MAYBE WE SHOULD CARE 40:49 FOR OUR LOCAL POOR SUFFERING.' AND YOU'RE CHANGING THE COUNTRY 40:52 BY PREACHING THE GOSPEL. THE LOCAL PEOPLE, WHO SHOULD 40:56 HAVE THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY, WHEN THEY'RE MIDDLE-CLASS 40:58 WEALTHY PEOPLE, FOR HELPING THE POOR AT THEIR DOORSTEP. 41:01 YOU KNOW THE PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS? 41:04 HE DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE ABOUT THE POOR MAN AT HIS DOORSTEP. 41:07 AND SO, WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GO INTO ALL THESE CITIES AND ALL 41:11 THESE COUNTRIES AND HELP EVERY POOR PERSON AND EVERY ORPHAN AND 41:14 EVERY WIDOW, BUT WHEN YOU PREACH THE GOSPEL, YOU EMPOWER THEIR 41:18 NEIGHBORS TO HELP THE SUFFERING AMONG THEM. 41:21 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? >>YES. 41:23 >>AND SO, THIS IS ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS: GOING INTO 41:25 THESE COMMUNITIES, TEACHING THEM THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL AND 41:28 HOW JESUS REACHED THEM. JUST CLOSING OFF THE SECTION ON 41:32 HURTING; PAUL SAYS - ROMANS 8:22 - "FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE 41:38 CREATION GROANS AND TRAVAILS IN PAIN TOGETHER UNTIL NOW." 41:43 SOWING AND REAPING IN THE CITIES - ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO MATTHEW 41:46 13 - MATTHEW 13. THIS IS A FAMILIAR PARABLE. 41:51 "THEN HE SPOKE MANY THINGS TO THEM IN PARABLES, SAYING: 41:54 'BEHOLD, A SOWER WENT FORTH TO SOW. 41:57 AND WHEN HE SOWED, SOME SEED FELL BY THE WAYSIDE; AND THE 42:01 FOWLS CAME AND DEVOURED THEM UP: SOME FELL UPON STONY PLACES, 42:05 WHERE THEY HAD NOT MUCH EARTH: AND FORTHWITH THEY SPRUNG UP, 42:10 BECAUSE THEY HAD NO DEEPNESS OF EARTH: AND WHEN THE SUN WAS UP, 42:13 THEY WERE SCORCHED; AND BECAUSE THEY HAD NO ROOT, THEY WITHERED 42:17 AWAY. AND SOME FELL AMONG THORNS; 42:19 AND THE THORNS SPRUNG UP, AND CHOKED THEM: BUT OTHER FELL 42:21 INTO GOOD GROUND, AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT, SOME AN 42:24 HUNDREDFOLD, SOME SIXTYFOLD, SOME THIRTYFOLD. 42:27 WHO HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR." AND THEN, IF YOU GO TO 42:31 VERSE 18, JESUS THEN INTERPRETS WHAT HIS PARABLE SAYS. "HEAR 42:35 YE...THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER. WHEN ANY ONE HEARETH THE WORD OF 42:38 THE KINGDOM AND UNDERSTANDETH IT NOT, THEN COMETH THE WICKED ONE, 42:41 AND CATCHETH AWAY THAT WHICH WAS SOWN IN HIS HEART. THIS IS HE 42:45 WHICH RECEIVED SEED BY THE WAYSIDE. 42:47 BUT HE THAT RECEIVED THE SEED INTO STONY PLACES, THE SAME IS 42:50 HE THAT HEARETH THE WORD, AND ANON WITH JOY RECEIVETH IT; YET 42:54 HATH HE NOT ROOT IN HIMSELF, BUT DURETH FOR A WHILE: FOR WHEN 42:58 TRIBULATION OR PERSECUTION ARISETH BECAUSE OF THE WORD, BY 43:01 AND BY HE IS OFFENDED. HE ALSO THAT RECEIVED SEED 43:04 AMONG THE THORNS IS HE THAT HEARTH THE WORD; AND THE 43:07 CARE OF THIS WORLD, AND THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES, CHOKE 43:10 THE WORD, AND HE BECOMETH UNFRUITFUL. 43:13 BUT HE THAT RECEIVED SEED INTO THE GOOD GROUND IS HE THAT 43:17 HEARTH THE WORD, AND UNDERSTANDETH IT; WHICH ALSO 43:20 BEARETH FRUIT, AND BRINGETH FORTH, SOME AN HUNDREDFOLD, 43:23 SOME SIXTY, SOME THIRTY." SO, NOW IF - SOMEONE'S GOING TO 43:26 READ FOR ME PSALM 126:6 IN JUST A MOMENT, OKAY? 43:31 WHAT'S THE POINT OF THE PARABLE? OF THE SEED SOWN, HOW MANY 43:36 DIFFERENT KINDS OF SOIL ARE MENTIONED? 43:38 FOUR. WHAT PERCENTAGE SPRANG UP? 43:44 ONE OUT OF FOUR - WELL, I MEAN, WHAT PERCENT, I SHOULD SAY, BORE 43:47 FRUIT? SEE, ONE OF THEM DIDN'T EVEN 43:50 SPRING UP - THE RAVENS ATE IT. THREE OUT OF FOUR SPRANG UP, 43:53 BUT ONLY ONE OUT OF FOUR - TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT BORE FRUIT. 43:58 WHEN YOU'RE WORKING IN THE CITIES, YOU'RE SCATTERING SEED. 44:02 BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS CALLED? 44:04 WHEN THEY USED TO HAVE A BAG OF SEED AND THEY WENT THROUGH THE 44:06 FIELDS - THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE MECHANICAL SOWERS? 44:08 THEY USED TO TAKE A HANDFUL OF GRAIN AND THEY WOULD VERY DEFTLY 44:12 THROW IT AND THAT WAS CALLED 'BROADCASTING'. 44:16 THAT'S WHERE YOU GET THE WORD 'BROADCASTING'. 44:18 AND SO, WHEN - IN MEDIA WHEN WE'RE DOING BROADCASTING, IT 44:21 VERY MUCH IS RELATED TO SPREADING OF THE SEED. 44:25 IS ALL OF IT GOING TO SPRING UP? THE MORE SEED YOU SPREAD, THE 44:30 BETTER THE CHANCE YOU HAVE SOMEONE'S GOING TO RESPOND. 44:34 NOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT - I MIGHT BE WRONG ON THE STATISTICS, BUT 44:38 I UNDERSTAND THAT MORMON MISSIONARIES, WHEN THEY'RE 44:40 TRAINED, YOU KNOW, BLESS THEIR HEARTS, THEY'RE GOING DOOR TO 44:42 DOOR. IT'S ADMIRABLE. WOULD WE ALL WENT DOOR TO DOOR. 44:46 BUT THEY KNOW AHEAD OF TIME THAT THEY HAVE TO GO TO - 44:49 I FORGET WHAT THE NUMBER IS - THIRTY - FIFTY HOMES BEFORE THEY 44:52 SECURE ONE BIBLE STUDY. AND THEN, OUT OF ALL THE BIBLE 44:55 STUDIES, IT'S A SMALL PERCENTAGE THAT ACTUALLY BECOME A CONVERT. 44:59 SO THEY DON'T GET DISCOURAGED BECAUSE THEY KNOW GOING INTO IT 45:02 THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SOW SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT WASTED 45:06 GRAIN, BUT TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT'S GOING TO SPROUT. 45:11 I'M JUST MAKING UP THE NUMBERS HERE, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? 45:14 SO WHEN YOU'RE WORKING IN THE CITY, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO REACH 45:15 EVERYBODY. AND YOU CAN GET FRUSTRATED 45:18 STANDING ON A CORNER HANDING OUT TRACTS AND YOU SEE THAT EIGHTY 45:22 PERCENT - NINETY PERCENT OF THE TRACTS THAT YOU HAND OUT, HALF 45:25 A BLOCK AWAY THEY'RE IN THE GARBAGE OR ON THE GROUND. 45:28 BUT YOU'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT THAT. 45:31 YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT TEN PERCENT THAT TAKE IT HOME AND 45:34 READ IT AND IT CHANGES THEIR HEART. 45:36 >>AMEN. >>YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DO PUBLIC 45:38 EVANGELISM IN A CITY - A LITTLE AMAZING FACT FOR YOU - THERE 45:41 IS A FORMULA, MOST EVANGELISTS KNOW, THAT IN THE CITIES, FOR 45:47 EVERY THOUSAND HANDBILLS THAT YOU SEND OUT, YOU WILL GET TWO 45:52 TO THREE PEOPLE THAT WILL COME TO THE MEETING. 45:55 WHAT IS THAT? TWO TO THREE OUT OF A THOUSAND? 45:59 THAT'S NOT EVEN ONE PERCENT. BUT DO WE STOP DOING IT? 46:02 NO, WE JUST SAY, 'IF WE WANT, YOU KNOW, THIRTY PEOPLE TO COME 46:08 TO OUR MEETING, WE NEED TO SEND OUT TEN THOUSAND HANDBILLS. 46:12 AND IT'S JUST AN ACCEPTED COST, BUT IT WORKS. 46:16 YOU CAN ALMOST ALWAYS - IF YOU'VE GOT A DECENT HANDBILL, 46:18 YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT TO - YOU CAN'T SEND OUT A TERRIBLE 46:20 HANDBILL, BUT IF YOU'VE GOT A GOOD EVANGELISTIC HANDBILL AND 46:23 YOU TIME WHEN YOU SEND IT OUT - NOW, THE SMALLER THE COMMUNITY - 46:27 I'VE BEEN IN LITTLE TOWNS WHERE WE GOT FIFTY PEOPLE PER 46:30 THOUSAND. SO, IN THE SMALL COMMUNITIES, 46:33 THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO. 'HEY, THERE'S A MEETING' - AND 46:35 THERE'S NO THEATER - THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO - 46:39 THEY GO TO THE MEETING. AND SO, THAT'S TRUE. 46:41 BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE CITIES, PEOPLE ARE BUSY. 46:44 I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU TWICE I WAS IN 42ND AND BROADWAY A 46:50 COUPLE MONTHS AGO, AND SOMEBODY CALLED AND SAID, 'PASTOR DOUG, 46:55 WE CAN GET YOU A DEAL ADVERTISING FOR AMAZING FACTS ON 46:59 42ND STREET.' AND I HEARD WHAT THE PRICE WAS AND I SAID, 47:03 'NOPE.' THEY SAID, 'NO?' I SAID, 'NO.' I SAID, 'THAT'S 47:06 WONDERFUL BUT HAVE YOU BEEN TO 42ND STREET? THERE IS SO MUCH 47:10 THERE'S AN ABSOLUTE BLIZZARD OF ADVERTISEMENTS. 47:12 EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK LIGHTS FLASHING, NOISES, COMMERCIALS, 47:15 VIDEO, ANIMATION, SIGNS - AND PEOPLE WALKING BY DON'T EVEN 47:21 KNOW IT. IT'S LIKE A BLUR. 47:24 SO YOU CAN SPEND A LOT OF MONEY SO YOU CAN SAY, 'WE'RE ON 42ND 47:26 STREET', BUT WILL ANYBODY EVEN NOTICE? 47:29 AND SO, YOU HAVE TO BE SELECTIVE. 47:32 BUT IN DOING CITY EVANGELISM, JUST KNOW - LIKE SOWING SEEDS - 47:35 OF ALL THE HOMELESS PEOPLE THAT YOU FEED, OR FOLKS THAT MAY COME 47:39 TO YOUR CLINIC OR FOLKS THAT COME TO YOUR HEALTH FOOD 47:42 RESTAURANT, YOU'RE SOWING SEEDS. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO 47:45 REACH A HUNDRED PERCENT. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO 47:46 REACH FIFTY PERCENT. YOU MAY NOT REACH TWENTY 47:49 PERCENT, BUT YOU'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT TEN PERCENT AND THOSE 47:53 TEN PERCENT, IT SAYS SOME OF THEM PRODUCE THIRTY - 47:56 SIXTY - A HUNDREDFOLD. >>AMEN. 48:00 >>SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT YOU REACH WILL TURN INTO AN APOLLOS 48:05 THAT BECOME MIGHTY IN THE LORD - THAT WILL BE REACHING THOUSANDS 48:09 OF OTHERS. >>AMEN. 48:11 >>BUT YOU'LL NEVER KNOW IT UNLESS YOU GO OUT AND YOU REACH 48:13 THEM. I'VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD CHURCHES 48:18 OR CONFERENCES SAY, 'WELL, PUBLIC EVANGELISM IS SO 48:21 EXPENSIVE.' THAT, TO ME, IS THE CRAZIEST THING. THAT'S LIKE A 48:25 BUSINESS FAILURE PLAN. >>AMEN. 48:28 >>BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF CHURCHES THRIVE AND SURVIVE AND SPREAD 48:31 BASED UPON TITHE INCOME AND YOU'RE NOT BRINGING IN NEW TITHE 48:34 PAYERS, THEN YOU'RE GOING BACKWARDS. 48:39 YOU'VE GOT TO ALWAYS BE INVESTING IN EVANGELISM AND THAT 48:42 BRINGS IN MORE PEOPLE AND THEY END UP SUPPLYING MORE RESOURCES. 48:45 THE MORE SOULS THAT YOU WIN, THE MORE PREACHERS YOU CONVERT, 48:49 RIGHT? THE MORE EVANGELISTS YOU REACH. 48:52 AND SO, YOU JUST CAN'T GET DISCOURAGED. 48:55 LIKE A FISHERMAN YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF FISH THAT'LL GET 48:58 AWAY. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF 49:00 FISH THAT SLIP THE NET AND YOU CAN'T SAY, 'OH, I'M 49:03 GOING TO GIVE UP FISHING. I FISHED ALL DAY AND I DIDN'T 49:05 CATCH ANYTHING.' DIDN'T PETER AND THE APOSTLES SAY THAT? 49:09 'FISHED ALL DAY, DIDN'T CATCH ANYTHING.' YOU MAY FIND, IF 49:12 YOU'RE A COLPORTEUR, IF YOU'RE WORKING IN THESE CITIES AND 49:15 YOU'RE HANDING OUT LITERATURE AND YOU'RE SELLING BOOKS, YOU 49:17 MAY GO DAYS WHERE NOTHING HAPPENS. BUT THEN, YOU SELL A 49:20 BOOK TO SOMEBODY, AND IT TURNS INTO A GEORGE VANDEMAN. 49:24 AND YOU'VE JUST GOT TO KEEP THE BIG PICTURE IN MIND. 49:26 SO IT'S LIKE THAT SOWING/REAPING. 49:28 ALRIGHT, PLEASE READ FOR US PSALM 126:6. 49:32 >>PSALM 126:6, "HE WHO CONTINUALLY GOES FORTH WEEPING, 49:35 BEARING SEED FOR SOWING, SHALL DOUBTLESS COME AGAIN WITH 49:39 REJOICING, BRINGING HIM SHEAVES WITH HIM." 49:42 >>DOING CITY MINISTRY YOU MIGHT SHED A LOT OF TEARS AND THINK, 49:46 'I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GETTING ANYWHERE. 49:49 WE'VE BEEN PAYING TO BROADCAST. WE'VE BEEN DOING 49:51 THIS FOOD MINISTRY. WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS HEALTH 49:54 MINISTRY AND WE'LL' - OH, YOU'RE JUST WEEPING - 'ALL THIS WORK?' 49:59 BUT WHAT'S THE PROMISE? "...SHALL DOUBTLESS COME AGAIN 50:03 WITH REJOICING, BRINGING HIS SHEAVES WITH HIM." 50:06 YOU MAY NOT SEE YOUR HARVEST UNTIL YOU GET TO THE KINGDOM. 50:09 BUT IF YOU'RE SOWING SEED, CHRIST PROMISED: 'MY WORD WILL 50:12 NOT RETURN TO ME VOID.' IF YOU CAST YOUR BREAD ON THE WATER, IT 50:17 WILL RETURN TO YOU. YOU WILL HAVE BLESSINGS. 50:20 JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 10:22 - "AND YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL 50:25 FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. BUT HE WHO ENDURES TO 50:27 THE END WILL BE SAVED. WHEN THEY PERSECUTE YOU IN THIS 50:31 CITY," STOP DOING CITY MINISTRY. IS THAT WHAT HE SAID? 50:37 "...WHEN THEY PERSECUTE YOU IN THIS CITY FLEE TO ANOTHER." 50:41 AND THEN JESUS MAKES AN INTERESTING STATEMENT, "FOR 50:44 ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, YOU WILL NOT HAVE GONE THROUGH THE 50:47 CITIES OF ISRAEL BEFORE THE SON OF MAN COMES." 50:50 THAT'S AN INTERESTING STATEMENT. HE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU'RE GOING 50:53 TO HAVE CITY MINISTRY - YOU'LL NEVER FINISH IT. 50:56 EVEN WHEN I COME, YOU'LL HAVE NOT FINISHED YOUR CITY 50:59 MINISTRY.' THERE'S SO MUCH TO DO. 51:01 THE HARVEST IS GREAT. WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? LABORERS ARE FEW. 51:07 SO THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE. 51:09 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME GALATIANS 6:2. 51:12 HAFDIS? I'M GOING TO READ FIRST. 51:14 THIS IS THE SECTION MAKE IT PERSONAL - WHAT'S GOING TO REACH 51:18 THEM? IF WE HAVE LOVE. JOHN 15:12, "THIS IS MY 51:23 COMMANDMENT, THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU." 51:27 WHEN PEOPLE DO COME IN THROUGH OUR HEALTH MINISTRY, THROUGH OUR 51:31 RADIO MINISTRY, THROUGH THE TV MINISTRY, THROUGH THE LITERATURE 51:34 MINISTRY - THROUGH WHATEVER IT IS YOU'RE DOING IN YOUR 51:35 COMMUNITY - THEY FINALLY SHOW UP AT CHURCH ONE DAY, WHAT DO THEY 51:38 NEED TO SEE? LOVE. WELL, HOPEFULLY THEY SEE IT 51:41 IN YOUR MINISTRY AS WELL. PLEASE READ FOR 51:44 US GALATIANS 6:2. >>"BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S 51:48 BURDENS, AND SO FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST." 51:53 >>WHEN THEY SEE THAT YOU CARE ABOUT THEM. 51:56 JAMES 1:27, "PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION BEFORE GOD AND THE 52:01 FATHER IS THIS: TO VISIT ORPHANS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR AFFLICTION, 52:06 AND TO KEEP ONESELF UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD." 52:09 AND THEN JOHN 13:35, "BY THIS WILL ALL MEN KNOW THAT YOU ARE 52:12 MY DISCIPLES," - WHAT'S THE REST OF THAT? 52:14 - "IF YOU HAVE LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER." 52:17 AND SO, EVERYBODY OUT THERE IS LOOKING FOR THE REAL THING AND 52:21 IF WE'VE GOT LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO KNOW 52:24 THAT WE'RE HIS DISCIPLES. SO HOW MANY DOES THE 52:27 LORD WANT TO SAVE? >>ALL. 52:29 >> REACHING OUT TO THE CITY - 2 PETER 3:9, "THE LORD IS NOT 52:33 SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME COUNT SLACKNESS, BUT IS 52:36 LONGSUFFERING TO USWARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH 52:41 BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE." 52:43 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN PREDESTINATION - THAT GOD ONLY 52:45 WANTS SOME TO BE SAVED. THE BIBLE SAYS HE WANTS 52:48 EVERYBODY TO BE SAVED. >>AMEN. 52:50 >>1 TIMOTHY 2:4, GOD - "WHO WILL HAVE ALL MEN TO BE SAVED," - HE 52:55 WANTS EVERYONE TO BE SAVED - TO COME TO THE TRUTH. 52:57 JESUS WANTS - HE LOVES ALL THESE PEOPLE IN THE CITY. 52:59 YOU KNOW JOHN 3:16? "WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN 53:03 HIM WILL NOT PERISH." GOD WANTS US TO REACH 53:06 THE 'WHOSOEVERS'. >>AMEN. 53:08 >>ALRIGHT, RUNNING OUT OF TIME HERE. 53:11 I'M GOING TO READ SOMETHING FROM MEDICAL MINISTRY, PAGE 304, 53:16 "THERE IS NO CHANGE IN THE MESSAGE THAT GOD HAS SENT IN THE 53:19 PAST THAT THE WORK IN THE CITIES IS ESSENTIAL. 53:23 IT IS THE ESSENTIAL WORK FOR THIS TIME. 53:25 WHEN THE CITIES ARE WORKED AS GOD WOULD HAVE THEM WORKED, THE 53:28 RESULTS WILL BE SETTING IN OPERATION A MIGHTY MOVEMENT 53:32 SUCH AS YET WE HAVE NOT WITNESSED. 53:34 SO WE NEED TO SEE THAT OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT AGAIN. 53:38 AND, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT I'D END WITH A POSITIVE STORY ABOUT CITY 53:42 MINISTRY. LOOK AT PHILIP. ACTS 8:5 - MY LAST VERSE - "THEN 53:49 PHILIP WENT DOWN TO THE CITY OF SAMARIA, AND PREACHED CHRIST 53:52 UNTO THEM" AND MULTITUDES BELIEVED WITH ONE ACCORD. 53:56 THEY HEEDED THE THINGS SPOKEN BY PHILIP, HEARING AND 53:58 SEEING THE MIRACLES WHICH HE DID." 54:00 YOU KNOW, I THINK IF YOU'RE WORKING IN THE CITIES, GOD DOES 54:02 MIRACLES FOR YOU. >>AMEN. 54:04 >>"FOR UNCLEAN SPIRITS, CRYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, CAME OUT OF 54:08 MANY THAT WERE POSSESSED WITH THEM: AND MANY TAKEN WITH 54:09 PALSIES, AND THAT WERE LAME, WERE HEALED. 54:11 AND THERE WAS GREAT JOY IN THAT CITY." 54:14 THERE WAS GREAT REVIVAL THROUGH THE PREACHING OF THE WORD AND 54:17 GREAT JOY IN THE CITY. IT KIND OF STARTS OUT WITH THE 54:20 CITY OF CAIN - GREAT MISERY. BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE CITIES 54:23 JESUS WENT THROUGH AND WHEN HE GOT DONE THERE WASN'T ONE 54:25 SICK PERSON IN THE CITY. >>AMEN. 54:27 >>NOT IN HIS HOME TOWN. THEY SAID, 'OH, WE KNOW JESUS. 54:31 HE GREW UP HERE. WHAT DOES HE KNOW?' 54:34 AND IT SAYS HE COULDN'T DO MANY MIRACLES THERE. 54:37 BUT THE PLACES THAT RECEIVED HIM? GREAT JOY IN THE CITY. 54:41 WELL, WE ARE OUT OF TIME FOR OUR LESSON. 54:43 I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE HAVE A STUDY - IT'S TALKING 54:46 ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL GOING TO LIVE IN A CITY SOMEDAY. 54:48 YOU'LL HAVE A COUNTRY HOME AND YOU'LL HAVE A CITY HOME. 54:50 AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THAT CITY HOME IT'S CALLED 54:52 A COLOSSAL CITY IN SPACE . IT TALKS ABOUT 54:54 THE NEW JERUSALEM. JUST CALL AND SEND FOR 54:57 THIS AND YOU CAN ASK FOR IT. IT'S OFFER #115 AND THE 55:00 NUMBER IS 866-788-3966. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO 55:04 SEND YOU A FREE OFFER. THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE. 55:08 GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS. WE ARE OUT OF TIME. 55:09 DON'T FORGET, IN TWO MORE WEEKS WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN OUR NEW 55:12 QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE BOOK OF JOB AND THAT'S GOING TO BE 55:15 REALLY GOOD. AND GOD BLESS YOU 'TIL WE STUDY 55:18 HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT TIME. (MUSIC) 55:21 >>I LOVE THE QUOTE: "THE GREATEST WANT OF THE WORLD IS 55:24 THE WANT OF MEN ... MEN WHO WILL STAND FOR THE RIGHT THOUGH THE 55:27 HEAVENS FALL." YET STUDIES ARE SHOWING, FOR 55:30 SEVERAL YEARS NOW, THE SECULAR MEDIA AND CULTURE HAVE SOUGHT 55:34 TO PORTRAY MEN AS THE FAMILY IDIOTS. 55:37 SADLY, RESPECT FOR THE ROLE OF FATHERS AND HUSBANDS HAS REACHED 55:41 AN ALL-TIME LOW. SO NOW, AS THE DISPIRITED MEN 55:45 ABANDON THEIR ROLES OF GODLY LEADERSHIP, IT'S NOT SURPRISING 55:49 THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING A MORAL FREE-FALL IN OUR COUNTRY. 55:52 THAT'S WHY, STARTING SEPTEMBER 30TH I'LL BE PRESENTING A NEW 55:55 PROGRAM CALLED MIGHTY MEN OF GOD . 55:59 USING BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES, THIS ENCOURAGING FOUR-PART SERIES 56:02 WILL ADDRESS HOW TO BE A LOVING FATHER, FAITHFUL HUSBAND, AND 56:06 ALL-AROUND MAN OF GOD IN THE FAMILY CHURCH AND NATION. 56:09 PLEASE PLAN NOW TO JOIN ME FOR THIS LIVE EVENT AND LEARN FROM 56:13 THE WORD HOW TO LIVE COURAGEOUSLY FOR THE KING. 56:21 >>AMAZING FACTS HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE. 56:23 >>AND I JUST PRAISE GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS. 56:25 >>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE. 56:28 >>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING WHERE I AM TODAY - I FELT GOOD 56:31 ABOUT THAT. I DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED. 56:33 >>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE AND - 56:35 >>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - 56:37 >>I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 56:40 >>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. >>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME. 56:42 >>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST 56:44 WHEREVER HE GOES. >>AMAZING FACTS. MORE THAN 56:48 45 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 56:53 >>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 56:57 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS 56:59 WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE 57:02 I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE 57:06 NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK 57:08 THROUGH AND FIND THIS. THEN I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 57:10 >>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. 57:12 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING 57:16 MYSELF. >>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID 57:19 THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT 57:22 AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A FATHER. 57:25 >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD 57:29 MISSING IN MY LIFE. >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY 57:32 SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND 57:37 SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT, 'THIS IS REAL. 57:40 THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS 57:45 PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:48 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:52 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:55 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 57:58 REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 58:02 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 58:05 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 58:08 WORD. GO DEEPER. 58:11 VISIT THE AMAZING BIBLE TIME LINE AT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. 58:17 (MUSIC) |
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