Participants: Danny Shelton (Host), C.A. Murray (Host), John Lomacang, Mollie Steenson, Brian Hamilton, Yvonne Lewis, Greg Morikone, John Dinzey
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY015057A
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00:01 I want to spend my life Spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words Let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people. 01:07 Hello, and welcome to "3ABN Today." 01:09 My name is C.A Murray 01:11 and allow me to thank you once again for sharing 01:13 just a little of your no doubt busy day with us. 01:16 We've got an exciting hour. 01:17 We got a lot to talk about. 01:19 Danny Shelton, our founder and president is here. 01:21 And, Danny, I'm very excited 01:23 because the subject that we are gonna sort of 01:26 dive into today. 01:28 I'm excited because we see what the world is doing. 01:32 We see what the country is doing. 01:34 We see the way the world is headed. 01:36 Now there are two things that you can do 01:38 when trouble faces you. 01:40 One, you can run in a corner and hide. 01:43 Two, you can re-establish your mission, 01:46 and double down on your efforts 01:48 and make sure that you are going in the way 01:49 that God has asked you to go. 01:52 And that's what this program is all about. 01:54 We're calling it "3ABN Today" visioning 01:57 because we see 01:59 some of the things that the country has voted 02:01 in just the last little bit 02:02 and we choose to re-establish ourselves in the mission of God 02:07 to double down on our efforts 02:08 because God has taught us and told us 02:10 to do nothing else but that. 02:12 So that's what we're gonna do today. 02:14 We're gonna talk to you. 02:15 We're gonna re-cast the vision, we're gonna re-shine the light, 02:19 we're gonna re-double our efforts 02:21 and we're gonna bring you into the family of work. 02:24 I call this, Danny, "The age of do." 02:27 Oh, I like it, okay. We are in the age of do. 02:29 We got a sermon on that called "The age of do." 02:30 I love it. And we're going to do. 02:32 Okay. 02:33 And we got a lot of folks to help us, 02:35 tell us what to do and how to do it. 02:38 So lets-- we got a new hat 02:40 for our pastor, our friend, John Lomacang. 02:42 He gets a new hat today. Okay. 02:44 And you gonna tell him about the new hat. 02:45 I will. 02:46 We got Mollie Steenson, vice president and general manager, 02:48 and flower among- 02:49 That's enough hats. 02:51 Yes, and rose among the thorns. We've got Brian Hamilton. 02:54 He gets a new hat today. 02:56 Well it's actually it's another feather in the cap. 02:58 You're right, he gets another hat. 02:59 Yeah, he gets another hat. 03:00 We got to wear multiple hats. 03:02 Yvonne Lewis, Dare to Dream general manager. 03:06 Greg Morikone, our production manager 03:08 and John Dinzey, general manager of 3ABN Latino. 03:11 And we're all on board 03:13 because you've got some stuff to tell us 03:14 and we cannot wait to hear it, man, 03:16 because it's a good stuff 03:17 and we know that as you slept upon your bed, 03:18 in fact, you didn't sleep, you are awake. 03:20 As you are awake upon your bed, 03:22 God had some things that He planted in your spirit 03:25 that you begun to share with us 03:26 and you've let a fire in our souls, man. 03:29 Oh, praise the Lord. 03:30 And we want to share it with the world. 03:31 Absolutely. 03:33 First of all, I want to thank all of you for being here today 03:35 and again as C.A. said for our viewers 03:37 and our supporters, our listeners, thank you. 03:40 For without you there would be no 3ABN. 03:42 We'd all just be sitting here together 03:44 talking and getting nothing done 03:46 but as C.A. talked about it and in lieu of recent events 03:51 and the Supreme Court ruling to five to four 03:54 on re-defining marriage. 03:56 How do you redefine something that God created? 03:58 That's right. That God sanctified. 04:00 I mean, that's amazing 04:01 that our country that founded on Christian principles 04:05 could now be trampling on God and His law. 04:08 Basically shaking your fist to God and saying, 04:11 "We want to live without you." 04:14 Or a lot of people are saying, "We don't even believe in you, 04:17 we don't even think there is a God." 04:19 I mean the times in which we are living in 04:21 are incredible. 04:23 Who would have dreamed that, five years ago, ten years ago, 04:26 this nation would be headed to where it is. 04:29 Who would dream all the problems 04:31 around the world coming up? 04:34 ISIS groups, all these people, 04:35 all around the world, not only in foreign countries, 04:38 but here and there are so much unrest. 04:41 And the reason is we kicked God out of our nation. 04:44 We took him out of our schools, 04:45 we didn't want to take Him out of our educational system. 04:48 When I was a kid in school, 04:50 we could actually start school with a prayer if we wanted to. 04:53 But you know, as the times goes on 04:55 and people, anti-God, anti-Bible, anti, 04:59 you know, everything that seems like, right? 05:01 That we have fallen into uh, what do you call it? 05:05 A trap, a trap that we can't get out of, 05:08 only with the Lord Jesus Christ 05:10 and the only way we can get out of this trap, 05:11 and this trap is called it's terminal, it's death. 05:15 It's a no way out. 05:16 The devil got us into a trap. How do we get out of that? 05:18 By looking to Jesus, to the Cross of Calvary. 05:21 And it's time that we stand up as a nation 05:23 and as Christians and in particular, 05:26 here at 3ABN Angels Broadcasting Network, 05:28 we want the world to know where we stand. 05:31 We stand on the side of God and on the word of God 05:34 because without God there is no hope, 05:36 there is no future and so He is the only answer 05:39 for this world's problems today. 05:42 3ABN, we've always been committed 05:44 to taking an undiluted Three Angels' Messages. 05:47 One that would counteract, 05:48 the counterfeit into all the world. 05:51 I didn't know what that meant when it first came to me. 05:53 I'm still learning what that means. 05:55 But at times we may be giving a Three Angels' Messages 05:58 for those who are more in Seventh-day Adventist, 06:01 understand more Revelation 14. 06:04 the Three Angels' Messages 06:05 but for some of the rest I'd say not sure what it is, 06:09 Revelation 14 talks about an end time message 06:11 for an end times people. 06:13 Well, Christians all over believe 06:14 we are living in the end times. 06:16 You can turn on almost any television network 06:18 and they are telling you that. 06:20 But God is calling a particular people. 06:22 He's saying, "Come out of her, my people, 06:24 come out of Babylon, come out of confusion." 06:26 And then He's telling us 06:28 that "I'm coming very soon 06:30 and for those of you who are willing to stand up 06:32 to obey me rather than man, 06:36 now once you accept me as Lord and Savior of your life, 06:38 you understand the consequences of sin, death, 06:42 disease and sickness, 06:43 now go and tell everybody around you." 06:45 Jesus says, "Go ye unto all the world." 06:47 3ABN, we've been doing that for about 30 years. 06:50 But now we have to look at the situations around us. 06:54 We can't do business as usual 06:57 as we've been doing for the past 30 years. 06:59 Yes, it's worked in thousands here, 07:01 hundreds of thousands. 07:03 Jim Gilley says, "Millions have come to the Lord 07:06 and to the church through 3ABN." 07:08 We don't have any kind of counters 07:10 that say and yeah, this happened. 07:12 But as we traveled around the world, 07:13 we get reports from around the world. 07:15 Praise God for your support of this ministry. 07:18 But what are we gonna do today, that is an eye-opener. 07:21 There are so many things to distract us, 07:23 so many smokes grains that we say what can we do, 07:27 Lord, what would you have me to do? 07:29 I never thought, few months ago, 07:32 that I'd be sitting in this seat 07:34 that it started in for 24 years as president, 07:37 founder and president. 07:38 But through events that had happened. 07:41 Elder Gilley, Gilley retiring, 07:45 I said, "Okay, I'll step back in, 07:47 the Board asked me to do it." 07:48 And I did it with a little hesitation. 07:51 But as soon as I said, 07:52 Lord I want to do what you want me to do, 07:54 I said, "Okay, this is where I'm supposed to be." 07:56 Just as surely as when we started 24 years ago. 08:00 And I think Brother Gilley, who is not here with us today, 08:02 he's traveling but I thank him for his support 08:05 in saying "I'm gonna continue to support this ministry. 08:07 I love 3ABN." 08:09 But some people have written and said, 08:11 "Why is he resigning?" 08:13 And he's written a letter 08:15 and tell us why he is resigning. 08:16 One of the reasons is, 08:18 I don't think he minds me saying this, 08:19 since he's talked about it himself, 08:21 he's 75 years old. 08:22 So everybody says, 08:23 "I didn't think he was near that old." 08:25 That's a compliment. 08:26 But any of us when we get to a certain age, 08:28 we should be able to not have all the responsibilities 08:31 and all the so called "headaches" 08:33 'cause there is a lot in ministry, 08:35 believe it or not. 08:36 For those of you who think there's nothing going on, 08:38 it's all easy doing. 08:39 But Jim is retiring but he is not quitting. 08:44 Uh, he's still traveling. He's going to be in churches. 08:46 He's still supportive of this ministry, 08:48 we are still supportive, we want to work together 08:51 and we want to work together with you. 08:53 But we've said what can we do to reach the world that is, 08:58 it looks totally different than it did, 09:01 to me a few weeks ago, a few months ago. 09:04 What can we do to wake up call to the world? 09:07 So what we decided to do, 09:08 number one, C.A. is to beef up evangelism. 09:11 Amen. 09:12 But it's tough, Brian 09:14 because Brian is letting us with all the financially 09:16 we are actually this year, 09:18 we've been actually spending more money 09:21 than we are bringing in. 09:22 And for the last couple of years, 09:23 we've been doing that. 09:25 Now we have some assets of course 09:27 but liquid cash and to be able to have that money on hand, 09:30 that's a tough job. 09:32 And only can we stay in, I hate to use the word business 09:35 but in ministry as you continue to support this ministry. 09:40 But how can we go forward if we are running low on cash. 09:46 And Johnny reminded me, do you remember, Johnny, 09:49 and when you came and said years ago, 09:52 "I think we need to start Latino?" 09:53 Yes. 09:54 I had just talked to them and said, 09:56 "Well, we are million dollars down." 09:57 But when Johnny said that I said, "Okay, let's do it" 10:01 and like it shocked him but it shocked me more than him. 10:05 Because I hadn't planned on that, 10:07 wait a minute, we are million dollars down 10:08 and I'm telling him, "Let's start a whole new network. 10:11 Now I take no credit for that, 10:12 in my flesh I just said no 10:15 but I had to say, "Lord what would you have me to do?" 10:17 And I know that the Lord pricked my mind and said, 10:20 "This is the time." 10:21 So I heard myself, I was just as surprised as you, 10:23 "Let's do it." 10:25 But God honored it. 10:26 He not only were we able to build the network, 10:28 He made up that million dollars 10:29 that we really needed when we were running behind. 10:31 Right now is the time when we decide, 10:33 we are not gonna look at the money, 10:34 we are not gonna-- 10:36 if we do, we're gonna become maintenance people. 10:37 We're just maintaining, 10:39 we're just people out bobbing into water. 10:41 We're not gonna do that. 10:42 We said Lord, we have committed to go forward. 10:44 We are gonna go forward. 10:45 So what the Lord has really been in prompting me 10:48 in all of you here and our people here in 3ABN, 10:51 we've been very excited, having meeting after meeting. 10:54 You can hear my voice is hoarse, 10:55 I've been talking for a lot in the last week or two, 11:00 maybe even more than the normal, 11:03 But what can we do to get this gospel of the kingdom 11:06 into all the world. 11:08 Some of us, older folks have done the math. 11:10 We've realized if Jesus doesn't come for too long, 11:12 we have to waste time in death. 11:14 And I hate wasting time. 11:16 Death is to me, 11:17 I'll accept it if that's where the Lord's will 11:20 but it's a waste of time. 11:21 So I'm not interested in it. 11:23 I'd like to be doing things 11:24 and not be wasting my time doing nothing. 11:27 And I'm sure some of you feel the same way. 11:29 But what is that we can do 11:30 and we need to do to take the gospel. 11:33 So it means change. Change is not always easy. 11:36 But what are some of the things that we're going to do? 11:38 So we decided, Let's re-focus on evangelism, 11:42 so one of the things that came to me, 11:44 Brian and I, we were sitting there, 11:45 Mollie was gone last week 11:47 but we were sitting there saying, how can we cut cost. 11:50 And we started looking over 11:51 all the satellites and we decided, 11:53 there is a satellite that we can cut 11:55 yet we can still reach to people 11:57 and we can still reach maybe more than ever. 11:59 And we are talking about Europe. 12:01 There is numerous ways we can reach Europe 12:03 and we said, there's certain, we want a couple of satellites 12:06 that's reaching so as we are trying to cut cost, 12:09 all of a sudden it hits me, we need to go to Europe. 12:12 When you look at Europe, 12:13 it's compared to the rest of our church 12:15 within our church, it's-- the divisions in Europe, 12:18 the numbers are much smaller. 12:20 Brazil is into millions, 12:21 Africa's into millions you know. 12:24 I think, what is it, is it 400,000 or something? 12:26 Under 500,000, well under. 12:28 In all of Europe. 12:30 So we said, why don't we go to a place like London 12:33 and really have a tremendous evangelistic outreach 12:36 to reach potentially hundreds of thousands 12:39 and millions of people 12:41 because you can do it live around the world. 12:44 And who should we go with? 12:46 We will take our own pastor, Pastor John Lomacang 12:49 to come and then we decided, 12:51 we started talking, meeting with pastors here in the area. 12:54 Maybe we should have some satellite outreach first. 12:56 Go early, go to different towns 12:59 and already prepared people coming for-- 13:03 to the Lord and for baptisms and then 3ABN go over there. 13:06 We can promote ways to watch the Roku box. 13:09 Moses got a new thing called My SDA TV, 13:13 that literally for $35, 13:15 you can watch all the Adventist channels. 13:18 If you want a Roku, 13:19 you can watch hundreds of channels. 13:20 You pay $49 for one time 13:23 and there is no, we don't own Roku, 13:25 we have nothing to do with it, 13:26 we're just telling you easy ways around the world. 13:29 You can take a Roku with you as long as you got internet, 13:31 plug it in and watch hundreds of channels 13:34 including all the 3ABN channels, I think Hope channels 13:37 and there will be some of the other channels 13:39 for a one time purchase. 13:42 I mean, that's amazing to me that God is allowing us. 13:45 Your cell phones, your mobile phones, 13:48 your what we call, iPads, all of those things, 13:51 you can watch 3ABN. 13:52 But how do we get into countries? 13:54 So suddenly I started talking to folks. 13:56 We started getting excited about evangelism. 13:59 So couple of mornings ago, I said, man I can't sleep, 14:01 I woke up at 4 o'clock, 14:03 Lord, we're gonna beef up our evangelism, 14:07 yet, Brian is telling me that financially 14:10 we are in a really tough spot, 14:11 tougher than we've been in years. 14:13 How do we deal with all of these? 14:14 Well, the blessing is on the go. 14:16 Amen. 14:17 Little book recently, we didn't talk about it, 14:19 maybe, if you want that little book, 14:21 it's only 90 to 100 pages. 14:23 You call in tonight or email us and we'll send you on free. 14:25 I don't know if we planned on a free gift, 14:27 let's just make that our free gift 14:30 for those of you that's here watching. 14:32 So we'll do that. 14:33 Call whenever you see this program, we'll give, 14:35 it had to be other than Sabbath hours of course. 14:37 And we'll be happy to send you one of these books. 14:40 But the blessing is on the go. 14:42 So as the team has started talking to our team members, 14:45 what can we do? 14:46 I woke up and I said, this is amazing, 14:48 there is over 18 million Seventh-day Adventists baptized 14:52 I believe membership give or take a million or two. 14:55 That in itself is amazing because in 1984 and 1985, 15:00 Brian, they were only about five million to six million 15:03 Seventh-day Adventists around the world. 15:05 A million or two would have made a huge difference. 15:07 Now it's growing so much in the last 30 years 15:10 that we say give or take a million or two. 15:12 There's 18 million of us. 15:14 But only about, and I want you to think about this. 15:17 Only about eight to nine thousand people 15:21 even give one dollar to 3ABN a month, is that right, Brian? 15:25 Yes, that's right. 15:26 Eight thousand people give say five dollars, 15:29 ten dollars give a month, 15:32 and those aren't regular, everybody who does that. 15:34 Some of them as a one time gift 15:36 and there are some monthly donors. 15:38 But I said, Lord, how is this, 15:40 we've got 18 million Seventh-day Adventists, 15:43 they believe like us. 15:44 There is time to get the gospel into all the world, 15:47 we're seeing world events that Jesus is coming very soon 15:51 and we want to get this gospel to the world. 15:53 But only eight or nine thousand people 15:55 even give any donation to 3ABN monthly. 15:59 I said, please give us some idea. 16:01 How can we get people involved to support? 16:04 And this little idea came to me that the blessing is on the go. 16:08 So here is what we want you to do and to think about. 16:11 We want you to pray and say, ask the Lord. 16:14 Should I be a monthly contributor to 3ABN? 16:17 Now it doesn't make any difference 16:18 how much you and the Lord can decide that 16:20 'cause five dollars or thousand dollars, 16:22 that will be between you and the Lord. 16:24 But anybody who wants to be a monthly contributor, 16:27 that says yes, I will, we want to put in your hands, 16:30 evangelism tools 16:32 because we can't do it all by ourselves. 16:35 You can't do it but together we can. 16:37 We can take advantage of the technology 16:39 that we have in your commitment. 16:42 So we want you and I would like to see 16:44 eight or ten thousand people 16:46 in the next before the end of the year 16:48 who sign on to say, you know what? 16:50 I'll be a monthly contributor. 16:52 Not just because of the money that you are giving, 16:55 of course, we need that money 16:56 but also for your participation 16:58 for us to work together to reach the world. 17:01 Wherever you live, your friends and neighbors 17:03 need to hear the gospel too. 17:05 We don't need always just planned 17:07 going to some other country, going somewhere else, 17:09 what about right here at home? 17:10 That's right. 17:12 So what we've done is we've actually started 17:14 it's called, The Blessing Is on the Go! 17:16 Evangelistic Team Member 17:19 and I'm happy to show the very first one. 17:22 This was printed up today 17:23 and the very first person to commit, 17:25 she didn't know it, but now she knows it, 17:27 to be an Evangelistic Team Member 17:30 that every month she'll give a donation, 17:32 is Sister Yvonne Lewis, Yvonne, thank you for your donation. 17:35 Well, thank you for informing me of my donation. 17:39 We happen to know you are monthly donor anyway. 17:42 Well, it's so exciting to me really. 17:44 This whole idea of the team, the evangelistic team 17:48 because we are commissioned to go forward so I'm happy. 17:52 I'm happy to be the first member 17:54 of The Blessing Is on the Go! 17:56 Evangelistic team. 17:57 Amen. Amen. 17:58 So what we are asking you to do and here is the deal. 18:01 When you say, "I want to be a team member, 18:03 I want to be a Blessing on the Go, 18:05 this official team member with 3ABN, 18:09 that I'll give a monthly gift of any size, 18:11 we want to equip you with evangelistic tools. 18:14 If you are Evangelistic Team Member, 18:17 that means we don't expect you to be 18:19 just sitting doing nothing, right? 18:21 We want you to participate with us. 18:23 Jesus says, "Go ye into all the world." 18:25 Every one of us is a ye. 18:27 I don't think anybody could sit here 18:29 watching or listening say, 18:30 "Oh, that doesn't really refer to me. 18:32 "Go ye into all the world." 18:34 But some of us say I really can't do much. 18:36 Maybe you are home, you are retired, 18:37 your health is not good, and you know what? 18:39 When you become a team member, 18:41 if it's $5 a month or $10 or 20, 18:44 we will send you evangelistic tools. 18:46 We may send you the sermon of the month, 18:48 maybe it's a Bible study, maybe it's prophecy seminars, 18:51 we can send it on DVD. 18:53 You can invite people to your home and show this. 18:56 You don't have to be a preacher, 18:58 you don't have to be a teacher, you don't have to be a singer 19:00 but you can invite people to come. 19:01 Some of you say, well, I'll watch it 19:03 but I'm not in a position, 19:05 you don't have a home, that's fine. 19:07 Give it to someone else you know in your church 19:09 who says, we'll invite people to our home 19:13 and we'll show this DVD. 19:14 Maybe it's the studies on prophecy. 19:16 Maybe it could be a study on a Sabbath, 19:18 maybe just salvation. 19:21 It can be anything but every month, 19:23 we want to send you and it's absolutely free. 19:26 We're going to give you the studies 19:29 and pay the postage for you or send in it to you 19:33 and return for your commitment to say, 19:34 "I want to be a team member." 19:36 This does several things. 19:37 It helps us tremendously financially 19:39 because if 10,000 of you gave $10 a month, 19:43 that's a lot of money. 19:45 How much is that? $10 million, isn't it? 19:46 It's 10,000, 19:47 a month would actually be. 19:50 So that's a lot of money, 19:51 tremendous amount of money right now. 19:53 But what it also does, it joins us together 19:57 rather than just a TV glass 19:59 between us and you being cheer leader, 20:01 hey keep going guys, we love what you do. 20:04 Jesus said, "Go ye into the world." 20:05 So I'm asking you to take responsibility 20:09 for hey, you know what? 20:10 Just giving is not enough. 20:12 But when I give, 3ABN will send me evangelistic tools 20:17 so that I too can become a "Go ye into all the world." 20:20 And it takes you from being a sitter 20:22 to an action, right? 20:24 To a goer. 20:26 All right, I know that's wrong, I wouldn't pass 20:27 any English test right now 20:29 but I think you are getting my point 20:31 of what we want to do. 20:32 So we want to send, it's very nice. 20:34 You can frame this. 20:35 We'd like for you to frame it, share this with church members 20:38 and encourage them to become 20:40 an Evangelistic Team Member of 3ABN. 20:43 Every month we will send you. 20:45 So please right now you pray about it, 20:48 you think about it, you contact us and say, 20:51 I want to be a monthly contributor. 20:53 You decide. 20:54 You and the Lord decide how much 20:56 and I want to be a official team member of evangelism 21:00 working partnering with 3ABN, then we will again, 21:03 we will send you every month we'll equip you with tools 21:07 you can use or share with church members 21:09 or your neighbors 21:11 but it helps you to be a part of "Go ye in to all the world." 21:14 So you all can tell, I got all these folks here. 21:16 I'm getting excited 21:18 because I believe this is from God. 21:20 Brian, I really expect we should double 21:23 and I'm praying that we double the amount 21:25 even before the end of this year 21:27 of the monthly donors 21:28 and the donors that we have. 21:30 But those that will give every month 21:32 because I'll tell you why, 21:33 with the laws, the way they are, 21:35 when 3ABN says, we are not going to compromise 21:37 with the ruling of the nation on marriage 21:41 that now it's just between any two people, 21:43 the government will have the right to come in and say, 21:46 "Okay, we are going to take your non-profit status away 21:49 because this is law of the land." 21:52 3ABN, I can tell you now 21:53 has no intentions of compromising, 21:56 we are gonna put God first, no matter what man says. 21:58 We want to obey the laws of the land. 22:01 But we will not de-- 22:04 literally deviate away 22:06 from where we're supposed to be, right? 22:08 We are not gonna move in any other direction. 22:10 We can't. It's not about us. 22:12 It's about God and His word. 22:14 So we preached the word 22:16 and that's all we can do is give truth. 22:18 So when we, when this happens, 22:21 we're going to need a lot of support 22:23 and if we get thousands and thousands of people 22:25 giving $10, $20 22:27 then you are not so concerned. 22:28 I'm not when I get $20 22:29 about a tax write-off. 22:31 For the larger businesses, that would hit them very hard. 22:34 So a lot of our guests are from larger donors 22:36 who have one time gifts over the end of the year. 22:39 So we want to build up our base. 22:41 But we want you to join us and this is 22:45 literally a new thrust for us in evangelism. 22:48 We are beefing up evangelism, cutting cost already. 22:51 Things have happened. 22:53 Brian and I last week, 22:54 we've come up with the ways to cut a million dollars 22:56 out of our budget for next year. 22:58 Praise the Lord for that. Amen. 23:00 That we are able to put money, 23:01 more money into evangelism 23:03 to take the gospel to the world. 23:05 3ABN will continue. 23:07 We're going to do different programs, 23:10 we are doing some 3ABN family worship, 23:12 we are going to be doing some more set around the piano, 23:15 musical programs, that you used to like 23:17 when we set around on Today programs, 23:19 we are going to be doing more of those. 23:21 We are going to be doing some 23:22 where we go to the worship centre, 23:23 15 or 20 people, 23:25 questioning and letting people talk about current events 23:28 to keep you up so you don't always have to go to CNN or Fox 23:31 or whoever you go to 23:32 try to keep up 23:34 because how does all of this relate to us as Christians? 23:36 How relevant is all of these decisions? 23:38 It's gonna effect each and everyone of us. 23:41 Now is the time not to go to sleep in that rocking chair 23:44 but to become a official evangelistic member of 3ABN, 23:48 The Blessing Is on the Go! Team. 23:50 You are a team member and we trust you. 23:53 We are not going to be we just call it dones, 23:55 I don't know what to call it done 23:56 and you ever hear that you are old enough to say boy 23:58 that I'm this guy is doning me, he wants his money. 24:00 I'm not old enough. 24:02 Oh, you are. 24:03 Greg seriously said "I never heard of that." 24:05 Anybody else heard that. 24:07 You haven't. Oh, boy. 24:09 They don't use it in Brooklyn. 24:10 I'm older than everybody then. 24:12 You know, Danny, we believe the Lord, 24:16 we have no idea where the Lord is going to take this. 24:19 It's kind of a new thrust or new vision 24:24 for us as a ministry to be refocusing on evangelism. 24:29 I was just sharing with our office team 24:31 because there is logistics to have to work out 24:34 and we don't have all the logistics worked out yet 24:37 you know, but we are working on it. 24:38 And one of our employees said what happens if I want, 24:43 if I get one of those tools 24:45 and I really like the tool and I want ten of them. 24:48 Will we'd be able to ten of them. 24:49 I thought that's a good question. 24:51 Yes, I think, we'll be able to do ten of them. 24:53 We'll find a way 24:54 for you to get ten of whatever that tool is or twenty of it 24:57 if you have a way to distribute that, 25:00 to share it with your friends, 25:01 your neighbors, people you work with. 25:03 So I mean, 25:05 this thing can go in all kinds of directions. 25:07 And it's really exciting to-- 25:09 I'm gonna be watching to see 25:11 how the Lord takes this thing with a dream. 25:13 One of the things that I know pastor wants to speak 25:17 that's exciting, one, is that we have for years 25:21 highlighted others evangelistic efforts 25:24 which we should have done. 25:26 But now we are dare I say upping the ante 25:29 because we are stepping into aggressively 25:31 doing things for the Lord evangelistically 25:34 and I'm glad that the Lord impressed you to go to Europe 25:39 because I said to someone the other day 25:41 that we've always called Africa the Dark Continent. 25:43 And really, it's spiritually, Europe is the Dark Continent. 25:47 And it needs the light of the gospel 25:50 and I think 3ABN is perfectly positioned 25:53 to do that. 25:55 To go to Europe and to shine the light of Christ 25:58 and I think it's an exciting thing 25:59 and one of the things that let's you know 26:02 that it's of the Lord is when you begin to share a vision, 26:04 if others catch it without a lot of prompting, 26:06 'cause if this is of God you shouldn't have to sell it. 26:08 It should sell itself. 26:09 So when I spoke 26:10 with the President of the South England Conference, 26:13 he literally jumped through the phone. 26:15 If he could have jumped across Atlantic Ocean 26:17 to give me a hug, 26:19 I think he would have done so. 26:20 Very, very enthusiastic and they are making plans, 26:23 they want to talk, they want to partner, 26:25 they want to work with us 26:26 to lift up the gospel in England. 26:28 I think it's a great, a great, great thing. 26:30 Moses Primo said to me just a few days ago 26:33 you know, "You remember, Danny, 26:34 when we went to Russia, 26:36 thousands of people have been baptized 26:38 and still through that facility," 26:40 "do you remember, when we went to" 26:41 uh, he said "when we went to New Guinea, 26:44 we built stations to reach the whole country, 26:47 you remember when we went to the Philippines, 26:48 you remember when we teamed up 26:50 with Maranatha went to India, the excitement 26:53 and to see thousands 26:55 and hundreds of thousands of people 26:56 and we haven't been doing that lately. 26:58 We need to go forward and then we said, 27:00 man, Europe what a place to be 27:02 because where the reformation started 27:05 is probably the least amount, 27:08 I hate to say they were dead but spiritually 27:10 that of any continent here on earth. 27:15 It's like fewer Christians 27:17 and people not seemingly like so many 27:20 but we have a lot of people 27:22 that have not bow their knees to Bale in Europe, 27:26 that we want to get these tools into their hands 27:29 and we want to see a new reformation 27:31 right here a brand new reformation 27:33 that the world is going to be talking about. 27:35 Once again, Europe and all the excitement 27:38 and the gospel going to the world 27:40 and you can be part of that, we can be part of that. 27:43 And so because of that I said, we need to re-focus 27:46 so I called Pastor John, I said, John, 27:48 we want a world evangelism department. 27:51 We never really had a world evangelism department 27:55 and we need somebody to head it. 27:56 Well, who better than Mr. World traveler, right? 27:59 He preached on every continent staying in the world. 28:03 Then John has a vision for world evangelism 28:07 and John said- 28:09 I'm excited about it. Let me tell you why. 28:10 We are living in uncertain times 28:12 and what's better time to give the trumpet a certain sound. 28:16 Amen. come on. 28:17 The world is uncertain about its future, 28:18 the financial position of our country is uncertain. 28:22 The political landscape is uncertain. 28:24 The moral landscape is uncertain. 28:27 Everything is going downhill. 28:28 It's time for God's people to give the trumpet 28:30 a certain sound. 28:32 Now I mentioned this to Danny, 28:33 I said, we are 3ABN, 28:35 Three Angels Broadcasting Network. 28:37 What better thing to do than to, 28:39 than to infuse into evangelism, 28:42 something that is lacking in our world. 28:44 That is the preaching of the Three Angels' Messages. 28:46 Now that's the basis of this ministry. 28:49 3ABN. 28:50 But you know, the world right now is perishing, 28:52 the world is perishing 28:54 for the lack of the unmixed word. 28:57 Now what I mean by that is tradition has taken over 29:00 the preaching of the word and right now, 29:03 many of us could see this, 29:05 you can preach the gospel 29:06 and leave out the everlasting gospel. 29:10 You can preach so many stories in the Bible 29:12 but leave out the story of the urgency of the hour. 29:15 I believe we talk about present truth, 29:18 the present truth, the message for this hour 29:20 is the Three Angels' Messages, 29:22 warning of the judgment hour, warning of Babylon's fall, 29:25 the warning that's going to be soon 29:27 on the landscape as you said, Danny. 29:28 Right now we are having to make a moral decision in our nation 29:32 about something we thought would never happen. 29:33 That's true. 29:34 But look at what happened. 29:36 For centuries the Sabbath has been trampled. 29:38 That's the first thing God blessed in Eden before sin. 29:41 What else did he blessed? 29:42 The family. 29:44 So Satan has successfully trampled 29:45 on the two institutions God established. 29:47 What should the church do? 29:49 Should we hide? No. 29:50 Absolutely not. We should not hide. 29:52 We should give the trumpet a certain sound, right? 29:54 And so I've said this many times, 29:57 I'm not looking forward to it. 29:58 But one day I was sitting with John Dinzey 30:00 at lunch at church and I said, "John, 30:01 you want to do, you want to join me in prison?" 30:03 He said, "What?" 30:04 You know, John, I said. 30:06 He said, "What do you mean by that? 30:07 I said, "Well, you know what? 30:09 When it comes to choosing between 30:10 following the laws of the land or following the law of God, 30:13 I'm gonna choose the law of God. 30:14 And you know, that's where we are. 30:16 We have to choose to follow God 30:17 and give the trumpet a certain sound. 30:19 There was a quotation 30:20 I want to share this very quickly. 30:22 When Ellen White talks about 30:23 the Revelation message of the Three Angels, 30:25 she said, she said, 30:27 the messages that are given in their order in Revelation 30:29 are to occupy the first place in our minds, 30:33 nothing else is to be allowed to engross our attention. 30:36 So as world evangelism, 30:37 we're taking the Three Angels' Messages 30:39 back to the world through the portal of 3ABN. 30:42 And Mollie has a script. 30:44 I'm going to ask her to read in just a moment 30:45 because you know what? 30:46 This is the hour. 30:48 The hour is to grasp or hold of the vision 30:50 and to make it plain to give the trumpet 30:52 a clear sound and you know what? 30:54 Europe needs to hear it. 30:56 Africa has blown the trumpet, Brazil has blown the trumpet, 30:59 the Philippines has blown the trumpet. 31:00 The Caribbean has blown the trumpet. 31:01 America has blown the trumpet. 31:03 But we have to clear the message up in America 31:05 and light the message up in Europe. 31:08 So God wants to ignite us, He wants to empower us 31:11 and I'm excited about what God is going to do 31:13 in this ministry coming at real soon. 31:15 That text about what God is going to do- 31:18 The marching order a little bit. 31:19 The marching order. 31:20 Well, what I've got is the vision, right? 31:23 I want to do the vision. 31:24 Haggai 2:2 and I hope 31:27 that our viewers are catching this 31:29 because there is such stirring in our spirit 31:33 because the vision is being refreshed within us 31:37 and this morning Danny came in and continued to share 31:42 and I got so excited 31:44 and that's all this program about today, 31:47 is we want to share the vision 31:49 and get you excited about the vision here at 3ABN. 31:52 And the scripture says, 31:54 "Then the Lord answered me and said, 31:56 'Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, 32:00 that he may run who reads it 32:02 for the vision is yet for an appointed time 32:05 but at the end it will speak and it will not lie. 32:08 Though it tarries, wait for it 32:10 because it will surely come, it will not tarry." 32:13 So as this vision is been stirred within us, 32:17 we're giving, being given direction to head in. 32:20 We are reading it. 32:22 We are catching it and now we're running with it. 32:24 Because this is the appointed time. 32:26 Yes, it is. 32:28 This is the appointed time. That's right. 32:29 We all know, we all, sense it. 32:30 Brian, we are saying how can we get people involved. 32:33 Brian, we started a new 3ABN, Prison Ministry. 32:37 Now this is not a Prison Ministry 32:39 where we are saying, send a lot of money, 32:40 we want to do this, 32:42 there is a lot of Prison Ministries out there 32:43 that we support. 32:45 But Brian, starting here just a few years ago, 32:48 and getting church members involved 32:51 Of out of the pews, 32:52 volunteering to go into prison seen people's lives changed, 32:57 it's such a model of success, 32:58 I said, "Brian, can you give this vision 33:01 to people around, 33:02 all around the world 33:04 that you can do it in your own community?" 33:05 We did it here, without a budget, 33:07 without hiring one person, 33:09 Brian's not going to be paid for the prison ministry, 33:11 he's still CFO, 33:13 he's still here but he's done this on his own 33:15 because he said you know, 33:17 what he's saying by his actions, 33:18 yeah, I work there all the time, 33:20 whether it is 40 hrs, 50 hrs, 33:21 but on my own time what am I doing. 33:23 I'm still, I am a preacher. I'm going out. 33:25 You are a preacher by the way. 33:27 And I'm going out to still continue 33:29 to give the gospel message. 33:30 Tell us just a little bit about what we can expect 33:33 and tools may be we can give to help in Prison Ministries. 33:36 Okay. 33:38 One of the things that we learned fairly soon, 33:42 in our Prison Ministry was 33:44 that the prisoners that we have 3ABN 33:48 at least radio and some of them television in, 33:51 it re-enforced our teaching. 33:53 Okay. 33:54 So, we'd present a lesson 33:56 but then they would get in during the week, 33:59 they would get re-enforcements through the programs on 3ABN 34:02 and they'd come and tell us about it. 34:03 Oh, I saw this or I saw heard this 34:05 and so I got, okay, that's a neat tool. 34:10 So one of our main goals 34:13 for Prison Ministry is to, get 3ABN into every prison. 34:17 Okay. We want 3ABN in every prison. 34:20 And we started along the way. 34:22 We are in probably 30, 40 prisons right now. 34:24 Good, okay 34:25 But that's just a drop in a bucket 34:27 compared to all the prisons. 34:28 And they are captive audiences. You know. 34:31 I wanted to say that so I said it. 34:35 But they are. 34:37 And so we are working with cable companies right now. 34:40 They provide viewing in prisons 34:44 we are working with them right now 34:45 to get on the line up 34:46 and so we want to see this grow. 34:49 Well, every place that we have 3ABN in a prison, 34:52 boy it will sure be good to have an Adventist service. 34:57 Local, church members coming into that prison 34:59 every week to teach the word, to spread the message. 35:03 Absolutely. 35:05 And so we want 35:06 if we don't have an Adventist team, 35:07 we want to inspire the local churches in that area 35:11 to start a ministry and get into the prisons. 35:14 Sure. 35:15 Where we do have an Adventist presence and 3ABN, 35:18 then we want to come there and help grow their work. 35:23 And we do that by what we call Awareness Events. 35:26 Every prison needs an Awareness Event. 35:28 It could be a concert, it could be Lemuel Vega, 35:31 with Christmas Behind Bars and the literature. 35:34 But in that event, we publicized both 3ABN 35:37 and how they can get it and also the local ministry 35:41 that's happening every week 35:42 in their facility encourage them to go. 35:45 That will grow the attendance and spread the word. 35:48 So that's a couple of things that we have dreaming about 35:52 that we are excited about going forward on. 35:54 It's great and what's happening here 35:56 is literally and I didn't realize it 35:59 when we were just, just been in the last week or so, 36:02 starting this, it's a grassroots movement 36:04 of revival and reformation that we want. 36:07 We've got a tool, 36:09 God has blessed us here in little Southern Illinois 36:10 in a little corn fields, 36:12 ex-corn fields and corn all around us, 36:14 We'd have in summer time but He has blessed us with the tool 36:18 that we literally can reach the world. 36:19 What a shame if we are not using it to the fullest. 36:23 Not using it for to for the cause of God 36:25 in every way that we can so again, 36:28 what Brian is saying is intent 36:30 for you to be able to do something. 36:33 Maybe you are sitting in home, you give to 3ABN, that's great. 36:35 But what are you doing yourself to prepare the world around you 36:40 and keep yourself refreshed and renewed 36:43 by the Holy Spirit by saying, 36:45 "Lord, how are you going to use me today?" 36:47 You, if you have any inclination, 36:49 you pray about it. You can contact us here. 36:51 Brian will send you tools 36:53 to help you to do what he is doing. 36:55 How to get 3ABN in the prisons, 36:58 maybe how to get teams together, 36:59 volunteers together. 37:01 It's the same way with "The Blessing Is on the Go! 37:03 For those of you just watching us, 37:05 this we want to send you. 37:06 Anybody that sends a monthly gift of any size 37:10 that it makes you an official "The Blessing Is on the Go! 37:12 OFFICIAL, Evangelistic Team Member. 37:15 So 3ABN, it's got a little seal on it. 37:17 3ABN, and it says, 37:19 "All authority is given to me in heaven and earth." 37:21 It's a reminder of the great gospel commission 37:23 of Matthew 28:18 to 20. 37:26 Of "Go ye into all the world." 37:28 So we want to join with you. 37:29 Now we are saying, 37:31 let's go to places that the gospel doesn't seem-- 37:34 Brazil is growing tremendously. 37:36 South America, Africa, amazing. 37:39 We went to General Conference session 37:40 but very few in comparisons to Europe, 37:43 so the Lord is really dealing on our hearts to go. 37:47 We're already seeing with your phone call 37:49 with the Conference president 37:50 that we want to see revival break out in Europe. 37:53 It's not been seen since the 15th, 16th century. 37:57 That's going to be amazing and it can happen 38:00 even more than it did then because of all the tools 38:03 that God has given us, 38:04 Most of all, we want to get you involved. 38:06 We want you to become 38:07 a team member and you know what? 38:09 If we were sitting here by ourselves, 38:10 we can do very little but out of 18 million, 38:13 Seventh-day Adventists 38:15 and 8 or 9,000 is all that give 38:17 support 3ABN and in that way, 38:19 I believe that God is calling us 38:21 to work together when you give, we'll give you supplies, 38:25 we'll give you evangelistic tools 38:27 so that you now can reach those around you 38:30 and so we want to continue this thought 38:33 but what I am saying here is that 38:35 what we are doing is not just preaching. 38:37 It's one thing to say, okay, we got this sermon on, 38:40 we got that sermon on. 38:42 We have another sermon on, this is all good, 38:43 we got this music, no. 38:45 Right now, it's a time, the appointed time, 38:47 John was saying for all of us to get up. 38:49 Stand up together and say, 38:51 "Lord, what would you have me to do." 38:54 And we can do that by joining together. 38:55 So we are going to ask you to become 38:57 an official evangelistic team member, 39:00 here of the "The Blessing Is on the Go! 3ABN. 39:03 When you first told me about the vision, 39:07 I was so excited because, 39:09 because instead of just having programming as you just said, 39:13 now we are really being intentional. 39:16 We are putting intention behind this. 39:19 We've been wanting to share the gospel anyway 39:22 but now we have focused activities on doing that. 39:26 And to me, it's so exciting 39:28 because all of the viewers can play a part. 39:30 Everybody can play a role 39:32 in getting this gospel out to the world 39:35 and it doesn't matter about the size of the donation, 39:40 the point is that everybody is doing something. 39:43 They are going to get an evangelistic tool 39:45 that they can pass out to someone else 39:47 and it can just make a huge difference. 39:50 We don't need to think that, 39:51 well, that's somebody else's job, let them do it. 39:54 No, it's our job. 39:55 We are the "ye" as you said 39:57 and so we must go forward with the power 40:01 and anointing of God to do this and it can be done. 40:05 It's God's blessing is in it. 40:07 This is all about Him. 40:09 This isn't about 3ABN. 40:11 This is about getting God's word out to the masses 40:14 and so... 40:16 You can tell us spirit is moving, everybody's like-- 40:21 There is John, there's Mollie, there's Brian, 40:24 Johnny Dinzey and Greg, 40:25 we'll get you in a minute too, you haven't said much. 40:27 But go ahead. 40:28 I'm just thinking of those that feel like you know, 40:30 I can't do anything 40:32 and I want to back to that scripture 40:33 that you quoted just a little earlier 40:36 there in Matthew, that says, "Go ye." 40:39 But why before that He says, what does Jesus say, 40:42 "All powers given unto me in heaven and earth. 40:45 And you know what He did? 40:47 He took that power and says, "Here, now go, you go." 40:50 You are not going in your own strength, 40:52 you are not going in your own power, 40:53 you are going into strength 40:55 and the power of the Almighty God. 40:56 He is giving it to you and you can do it. 40:59 Now, there's a formula in the scripture that, 41:01 that's powerful Mollie. 41:02 We need a 4 hour program Danny, 41:05 but there's a formula in Isaiah 41:07 that is so powerful that guarantees success 41:11 to the preaching of the gospel. 41:12 First of all, the Lord came to ignite us. 41:15 Not to consume us but there is a here it is, very quickly, 41:18 look at the conditions of the world. 41:20 Look at this formula. 41:21 "For behold," Isaiah 60, verse 2, "For behold, 41:23 darkness shall cover the earth." 41:25 Is that true? Yes. 41:27 And "and gross darkness the people: 41:29 but the Lord will arise over you, 41:32 and His glory will be seen upon you," 41:33 and what's gonna happen? 41:35 "The Gentiles shall come to your light, 41:37 and the kings to the brightness of your rising." 41:39 That's the formula. 41:41 He said the world is getting darker 41:42 but you're gonna get lighter. 41:44 If the glory of God is going to be seen on us, 41:45 that's the first angel's message. 41:46 "Fear God and give glory to Him." 41:48 So at this glory, at this dark hour, 41:50 the glory needs to be reignited on God's people. 41:53 That glory will lead us to the final message 41:56 that this generation is gonna ever hear. 41:58 So this is the right time, the appointed time. 41:59 Yes. 42:01 Forgive me Greg, forgive me Johnny, 42:02 forgive me Brian. 42:03 I get the host chair, I get to tap. 42:08 We raised a lot of money and spent a lot of money 42:10 recently because we had to, we had to get up to standard 42:14 enough to code so that we can broadcast. 42:16 Right. 42:18 So now we're ready. 42:20 It's like you got this new battleship. 42:22 There's a certain country 42:24 that they don't want to get an atomic bomb why? 42:27 Because they know if that country 42:29 gets the atomic bomb, they are going to use it. 42:31 We got the atomic bomb. 42:33 We got to blow something up, man. 42:35 You made me stare at you, yeah experience it. 42:37 Yeah. 42:38 Experience that in there. 42:39 Yeah, we've got-- we've got something. 42:43 And it's time to share it with the world. 42:46 You can't hold it back. 42:48 One you get the bomb, 42:49 you're going to press the button. 42:50 We're ready to press the button, man, 42:52 and unleash, unleash the power of the gospel 42:56 on a whole continent. 42:58 And you don't think God is in that? 42:59 That's what God wants us to do. 43:01 One of the first times I went to Russia, 43:02 I was speaking with translator and I said, 43:04 we need to set people on fire, you know, 43:07 and Julia didn't want to translate it, 43:09 I'm not sure what she's established 43:10 she said, "What do you mean by that?" 43:12 I said, well, you know 43:13 set people on fire with the gospel, 43:14 she goes, "Oh, I don't know if they'd understand 43:16 that over here what you mean." 43:18 That sounds really bad, to set people- 43:20 So we have to sometimes like, 43:21 we're spiritually we're going to blow things up. 43:24 All right. Greg, Johnny. 43:26 No, go for it pastor. 43:28 Uh, well, I'm excited because 43:30 I believe the Lord is going to bless 3ABN 43:33 with unparalleled growth, 43:36 growth unlike ever before 43:38 because as more people join in, 43:42 going to all the world, 43:44 joining this evangelism, team member. 43:48 It's going to bless us to be able to grow 43:50 more than we have ever before. 43:52 Reach more people for Christ and you know, 43:54 you've mentioned there 8 to 9,000 people 43:57 that support 3ABN, 43:58 I believe not all of those are Seventh-day Adventists. 44:01 Uh, I remember a story that 44:03 when I was in pastoral, a man called and said, 44:05 "I've been watching you guys for several years, 44:07 I'm not a Seventh-day Adventist, 44:08 but send me some envelopes. 44:10 You have blessed my life. 44:11 I want to help your ministry." 44:13 So I want to encourage those 44:14 that are watching to join in this effort 44:17 to reach the world for Jesus Christ 44:19 and this is going to go. 44:22 You know, I was sharing with Danny, 44:24 yesterday about, 44:25 I was praying the week before, 44:27 Lord, we need to get into some places 44:28 where we have very little presence right now 44:31 as far as 3ABN Latino, 44:32 being on cable or on some local channel 44:34 and I'd mentioned, you know, Uruguay, Paraguay, 44:37 Spain that we, even Cuba, that we're not in, 44:41 we have plans for Cuba 44:42 that we'll share later another time. 44:46 Spain, somebody wrote an email to us, 44:48 there's a channel there uh, actually in several cities. 44:51 They are reaching over ten and a half million people. 44:53 They don't have enough programming 44:55 and they said, "We want to team up with you. 44:57 So we believe this is going to go faster. 45:03 The donations coming will be fuelled 45:05 to get us to get into those other places. 45:07 Amen. Greg. 45:09 Yeah, you know, I'm really excited about this 45:10 because its, I believe we are in end times for sure 45:13 and things are rapidly taking place 45:16 not only in the United States but around the world 45:19 and I think about the Israelites. 45:21 I believe we are getting close to Canaan 45:22 which to me is heaven. 45:24 Come on. 45:25 So the Israelites, you know, 45:26 they are wandering in the wilderness 45:28 but they're at the Jordon River 45:29 and it's flooding, right? 45:30 So the priest thinking of the "Go ye" 45:32 what did they have to do? 45:33 They didn't just sit back, wait for the Jordon to open up. 45:36 They stepped out into the water that went, the Jordon opened 45:39 and they passed into the Promised Land. 45:40 I think this is an opportunity. 45:42 Right now, there's that song, what is it? 45:44 "Work for the night is coming." 45:45 And I believe the night is coming, 45:47 we have an opportunity right now. 45:48 This evangelism tool that we've got, 45:50 not only does it help 3ABN, which is worldwide, 45:53 but you as an individual, at home can participate. 45:57 Talk to your neighbors, your friends, 45:58 the people you associate with, 45:59 it's an opportunity to win-win all the way. 46:01 Absolutely and one of the things 46:02 that we want to do is that we are looking for layman 46:06 that, I'm going to use this, "on fire" for Jesus all right, 46:10 spiritually "on fire" for Jesus. 46:12 Layman, who your feet are itching 46:14 and you say, "Man, I want to do something" 46:17 send us some videos in a CDs of your preaching. 46:20 3ABN was founded by a layman 46:23 and over the years it seems like 46:24 we have less and less. 46:26 We want to open this back up. This is for everybody. 46:29 Anybody who has a burden to get the gospel to the world, 46:32 we are looking for younger speakers. 46:34 We want some of you, you know, 46:35 some of us have gone to the older side now 46:38 but we are looking for young people 46:39 that love Jesus and who is willing to stand up. 46:42 Whether you're preaching, whether you're singing, 46:44 whether it's teaching, whatever it is, 46:46 we, this is a new day, 46:48 we, our time is short, we believe it. 46:50 All of us here, not one of us doubt 46:53 that time is even much shorter than I thought a few weeks ago. 46:56 After, when I turned on the news, like CNN, 46:59 and I saw the White House in the gay colors, 47:01 I said, who would have ever dreamed, 47:03 I would have dreamed, I would have thought 47:05 a National Sunday law would have come first 47:07 'cause that's less understood. 47:09 This we know better and to do this. 47:12 So when I saw that I said, things are got to change. 47:14 We have to re-focus the direction 47:17 of where we're going as 3ABN and you, as team members, 47:21 please consider being a team member 47:23 of "The Blessing Is on the Go" 47:25 because it is, when you move forward, 47:27 the evangelistic team member with 3ABN. 47:30 A monthly gift of any size, 47:32 we would like to see what we are getting now doubled 47:34 literally in the next few months. 47:36 Doesn't make any difference how much, 47:38 then we are gonna equip you with evangelistic tools, 47:41 resources from Bible studies to DVDs 47:44 to whatever it takes that you need, 47:46 Brian says, we are going to try to get it to you 47:48 and because you are a team member of 3ABN. 47:51 So it brings us in a relationship together. 47:54 You need to support, excuse me, 47:56 we're going to support you. 47:57 Amen. 47:59 I was you know, you're mentioning 48:00 you are going to empower people with tools. 48:02 We want to encourage people to-- 48:03 when they get that DVD, the sermon blesses you. 48:06 Make copies okay, or make copies 48:09 as many as you can to distribute to other people 48:11 so they can also be blessed, It's an evangelistic tool. 48:15 Use it. 48:16 You know, the Lord has given us the statement of a guarantee 48:19 that the church is going to succeed. 48:21 When he says, "Upon this rock I build my church 48:23 and the gates of heaven should not prevail against it, 48:25 "I used to think that we had to be holding up our guard 48:28 as hell is coming against us but really when I study that, 48:31 Mollie and pastors here when I studied that 48:34 it was saying the church is going forward 48:36 with such force 48:37 that the gates of hell can't stop it. 48:39 Yeah, gates are stationary. They don't move. 48:42 We have to go up against it. 48:43 The gates can't prevent the church from going forward 48:46 so it is how when people may tend to be fearful. 48:49 Uh, people might say what do we do, 48:50 should we stand up? 48:52 This is the hour to stand. 48:54 "Be of good courage, do not be afraid." 48:57 God has called us to remember that 48:59 He has called us to the battle. 49:01 The battle is coming. 49:02 This great day of the battle of God Almighty, 49:04 the battle of Armageddon. 49:05 The sides are polarizing today. 49:07 We have to give a trumpet, 49:09 we have to give the trumpet a certain sound. 49:10 If it's not certain, 49:12 who will prepare for the battle? 49:13 That's right. Absolutely. 49:14 So if someone wants to become a team member 49:17 what's the process and what do they do? 49:20 All right, we are actually gonna do a newsbreak 49:22 that gives you an idea in our September newsletter. 49:26 We are going to tell you how to do it but right now, 49:28 you call us, you email us 49:29 and just say 'cause this is so new. 49:31 It's happening. 49:32 Say, I want to be an Evangelistic Team Member, 49:34 I'll be a monthly donor 49:36 and we'll put you on the list right away. 49:38 So you can call, you can email us 49:40 and Brian and Mollie where should, 49:41 any particular attention to any one. 49:44 They can send it to my attention. 49:46 Okay. 49:47 Attention Mollie. 49:49 I hope you get thousands of "Attention Mollies" 49:52 Or email us at mail, 49:54 just mail@3ABN.org 49:57 That will work just as well. 49:59 Call, ask for Jill or Mollie 50:01 because I'm thinking the phone calls may be... 50:03 All right, the quickest way. 50:05 Quickest way to do it is, write your check right now, 50:08 put it in an envelope 50:10 if you are doing a snail mail they say, 50:13 and say I want to be a team member. 50:15 I'm a monthly contributor. 50:17 So I want to be a "Blessings Is on the Go." 50:19 If you call with credit cards, you are gonna give a donation, 50:23 tell whoever you're giving it to. 50:24 I want to be, I'm a team member now. 50:26 So your name will automatically go into that. 50:29 We'll automatically put you on the list. 50:31 Start supplying the tools. 50:33 And I think accounting has opened something else up. 50:35 Yeah, we have a donation category 50:40 called "Blessing on the Go Evangelism." 50:42 Oh, I didn't know. Awesome. 50:43 Just happened this morning. 50:45 You guys are quick. Awesome. 50:46 Okay, well, scratch what I'm saying 50:48 listen to these folks. 50:49 They know. Blessing is on the Go. 50:51 So you could go to online, it's no problem. 50:52 You can call in. 50:54 I've gone over the call center and they've been cued 50:56 that something coming this way 50:58 and it's going to be an avalanche. 51:00 "The Blessing Is on the Go." 51:02 -- so "Blessing Is on the Go." 51:04 They got a link right on the Homepage. 51:05 Click "The Blessing is on the Go" link and donate. 51:08 Oh, I love it. Yeah. 51:09 So and around the world, you can do it through PayPal. 51:12 Right? Anywhere in the world. 51:13 People used to say, 51:14 I'd love, they come to GC meetings, 51:16 they still do. 51:17 "I'd love to give to 3ABN. 51:19 We could give $50 a month or $100 a month. 51:21 But we don't know how to get our money." 51:23 You can go to PayPal 51:24 and send money from anywhere in the world. 51:25 That's right. 51:27 It's simple 'cause I know, I've learned how to do it. 51:29 So if I can do it, anyone can do it. 51:31 You know, a quick testimony. 51:32 I'm sorry to steal your moment. 51:34 But Pastor Hernan Hernandez talked to me about Panama. 51:39 He has been visiting the prison. 51:41 He's trying to establish 51:43 a Prison Ministry in Panama 51:44 and he talked to them about 3ABN Latino 51:46 and said, I would like to uh, 51:48 ask you to consider having a-- 51:52 one of the prisons to have 3ABN to see what an impact 51:55 it is gonna have on your prisoners. 51:56 And he told them about 3ABN Latino and they said, 51:59 you know, this sounds so good to us. 52:01 We don't want you to put in one prison, 52:02 we want you to put in all the prisons 52:04 in Panama. 52:05 Which are about four or five of them 52:06 so the doors are opening up and we need to go through. 52:09 You know, there is a text, I can't remember 52:11 if it is 1 Corinthians 2:14 or 2 Corinthians 2:14 52:14 but it says this, 52:15 "Thanks be to God, 52:17 who causes us always to triumph in victory 52:20 through Jesus Christ." 52:21 You know, one of the easiest things 52:23 to do is get on board a train 52:24 that you know is going some place. 52:26 And you can feel, 52:28 you can feel that we are on board a train 52:30 that's going some place, man. 52:32 And God is in this thing from it's, 52:35 from the bottom to the top. 52:36 So success is assured. 52:39 We are getting ready to lighten a continent for Jesus Christ. 52:43 That is the most humbling thing 52:46 and it's so exciting, 52:47 it makes you want to get up early 52:49 and stay up late and work really hard 52:51 and line up behind evangelists 52:54 you know, he is-- I've known him 40 years. 52:56 I knew him when he was a stripling 52:58 with the head of black hair. 53:00 My hair has stood on. 53:03 That's wisdom up there you know. 53:04 Yeah, okay. 53:05 Little slow on a roof 53:07 and we are excited to see what God is going to do 53:10 through the man of God. 53:11 It's just, you know, you can feel 53:12 you are on a cusp of something. 53:14 It's just in your bones 53:15 that God is going to do something great. 53:17 Absolutely. 53:19 I'll tell you, I'm looking forward to 53:20 and I'm excited about all of you, You-- 53:22 because I see the vision that each of you have 53:25 and it's a new day, 53:28 things just happening in the world, 53:30 I've said, Lord, I re-commit my life 53:32 and I hope you are doing the same too. 53:34 We're going to have to take a break just for a moment. 53:36 Go to newsbreak, 53:38 and then we'll back for closing thought. 53:47 Hello, I'm Jill Morikone 53:49 and as the events in our country 53:51 and around the world change quickly, 53:53 we recognize the signs of Jesus' soon return. 53:57 Three Angels Broadcasting Network 53:59 was founded to reach the world 54:01 with the undiluted Three Angels messages 54:03 of Revelation 14 54:05 which urge us to worship our creator God 54:08 to come out of Babylon or religious confusion 54:11 and to obey God's laws over the laws of man. 54:14 The laws of the world are changing quickly 54:16 and when they go against the laws of God, 54:19 people everywhere sense that end time events are here. 54:23 As Christians, we realize the urgency 54:25 to fulfill the great commission of Mark 16. 54:28 When Jesus spoke to all of us saying, 54:30 "Go ye into all the world 54:32 and preach the gospel to every creature." 54:35 So we've been doubling our efforts 54:37 to proclaim the gospel and we're starting in Europe. 54:40 The Seventh-day Adventist Church 54:42 now has some 18 million members 54:44 but while other continents have millions of Adventists. 54:47 The entire European continent has less than 400,000. 54:51 Already, plans are being laid from major evangelistic series 54:56 culminating in a two-week live broadcast 54:58 from London, England. 55:00 You'll be hearing much more about it in the upcoming weeks. 55:03 But in order to move forward we need your support. 55:07 We know that the blessing is on the go 55:09 but each month only 8 to 9,000 55:11 support 3ABN financially 55:14 so won't you pray and ask the Lord 55:16 if you should be a monthly giver. 55:19 Of course we want to equip you 55:20 for evangelism in your neighborhood as well. 55:23 So for those who become Evangelism Team Members, 55:26 by giving a monthly gift of any size, 55:29 we will send you an evangelism tool 55:31 every month in return, postage paid. 55:33 It may be a sermon or Bible study on Salvation 55:36 or the Sabbath or even a Prophesy study program. 55:40 You can invite your neighbors to watch with you 55:42 or gift to someone else. 55:44 Anyone can participate 55:46 and your monthly support helps 3ABN's ministry tremendously. 55:51 But most importantly it joins us together 55:53 in mission for our Lord. 55:55 We want to send you your personalized copy of this, 55:57 Blessing Is on the Go, 55:59 Evangelism Team member Certificate 56:01 to show our appreciation. 56:03 Please pray earnestly 56:04 and if the Holy Spirit impresses you 56:06 to be a monthly supporter, you may sign up on our website, 56:09 3abn.tv or call us any day at (618) 627-4651. 56:16 It's easy to sign up online. 56:17 But if you wish you may continue 56:19 to send your tax deductible gifts to 3ABN, 56:22 Post Office Box 220, 56:24 West Frankfort, IL 62896. 56:27 Thank you for your prayers, your love 56:29 and your financial support and may God richly bless you. 56:42 That is good information. 56:44 Uh, we wanted to mention, for those of you who do give, 56:46 we would like you to give on a monthly basis 56:48 because this initiative is going to take 56:50 ongoing support. 56:52 I want to read this text really, really quickly 56:53 that I already referred to. 56:55 It is 2 Corinthians chapter 2: 14. 56:57 "Now thanks be to God 56:58 who always leads us in triumphs in Christ 57:01 and through us diffuses the fragrance 57:04 of his knowledge in every place." 57:07 We are about to spread 57:08 the knowledge of Christ in every place. 57:10 We are about to become the aroma of Jesus Christ. 57:12 Come on, come on. 57:14 In the dark place, we are about to become 57:15 the light of Jesus Christ. 57:17 All right. Come on. 57:18 We are about to become the gift of Christ to the world. 57:21 We are going to give Jesus to a whole continent 57:23 and men and women will be saved. 57:26 I'm sure. 57:27 Our time is fast slipped into eternity. 57:29 Allow me to close this on behalf of all us 57:31 to wish you both grace and peace 57:32 through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 57:34 We'll see again soon. 57:35 Bye-bye and God bless you. Amen. |
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