I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to another
3ABN Today Family Worship
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and Happy Sabbath.
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It is always a joy
to worship with you.
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This is a family
worship, family worship,
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and I'll explain
it in just a minute.
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But the topic for
discussion is sharing is caring.
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We are taking it
back to the basics.
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And I know probably
when you were a child,
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your mother probably taught you
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or your father
probably taught you
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that sharing is caring
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and we're going
to dive into that
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in just a minute.
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But here with me, I
have mom, Yvonne Shelton.
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I have pop, Danny Shelton.
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I've got Aunt
Chris, and Chris Shelton,
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Uncle Kenny, Kenny Shelton,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton,
it's great to have you all here
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and to be able to
have worship together.
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Yeah. Yes.
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Amen. And sharing is caring.
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Before we open with
scripture and all of that
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I just want us to pray.
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And so, Pop, I'm gonna
ask you to do the honors.
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Yes, I will.
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Lord, we thank You for
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this another Sabbath
day that we can worship You.
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We thank You that
we can be here together
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not only with family here
but for those around the world
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who are watching
and joining with us
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and celebrating
this time with us
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the day that You've set
aside to be with us even more
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than usual not because of yours,
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of course, because of us.
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We're so busy during the
week but today, we thank You
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that we can come to You
and have this day of rest
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every week as a reminder
of who we are and who You are.
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Now we pray for the anointing
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of the Holy
Spirit upon this program,
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that everything
that's said and done
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will be done to Your
honor and to Your glory
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in Jesus' name I pray.
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Amen. Amen.
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Our opening scripture
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is taken from Luke 22:32,
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and it says, but I
have prayed for you,
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this is Jesus speaking,
"But I have prayed for you
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that your faith should not fail.
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And when you
have returned to Me,
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strengthen your brethren."
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Now I found a lot
of interesting things
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in this particular scripture.
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So this part where it
says, but I have prayed for you,
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you have that
intercession taking place
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that your faith should not fail.
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That doesn't mean that you won't
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make a mistake or
something like that
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and fall down.
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But then he says,
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and when you
have returned to Me,
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not if you return to Me,
but when you return to Me,
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strengthen your brethren.
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And if you
consider Proverbs 24:16,
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it says, "For a righteous
man may fall seven times
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and rise again, but the
wicked shall fall by calamity."
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The interesting thing here too,
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is that in John 21:15-17,
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you see where Jesus came back,
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it was like the
breakfast by the sea,
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and he was basically
talking to Simon Peter,
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and he was just like,
Simon, do you love Me,
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you know, feed my sheep.
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And He asked them three times,
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and then He gave
them something to do.
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So it was like in
this verse in Luke 22:32,
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you see, the
precursor, if you will,
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of what is to
come in John 21:15-17,
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that was powerful to me.
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What stands out
in that verse to you?
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I think you've
covered most of it actually.
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One of the things is that,
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you know, Jesus
says, I've prayed for you.
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He prays, prayed
for us, and He's still,
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He ever liveth to
make intercession for us.
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So He prays for us.
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There's something
so intimate about that.
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The fact that He
prays for us and then
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He prayed that our
faith would not fail
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that our confidence in
God, that our trust in Him
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would not fail.
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He knew that, you know,
there would be so many things
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that could pull us away and yet
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He prayed that our
faith would not fail.
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And the important thing to Him
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was that when we return to Him,
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then we would
share, it would strengthen
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the brethren because
sharing is caring, right?
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I mean, when you
think of the Creator
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of the universe praying for you,
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you can't lose.
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Oh, that's good.
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Yeah, it's true.
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It's a done deal.
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It's just up to us.
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And that's why it
says, don't lose faith.
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Don't give up.
Don't lose the hope.
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I've prayed for you.
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I mean, you know, His
prayers don't fail, right?
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Creator of the universe,
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so it's really
just encouraging us
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that no matter
what happens around you,
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you just continue.
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So I'm not gonna
base God's love for me
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on what's happening around me.
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The Bible says, "All who live
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godly shall suffer persecution."
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Get into some of
that more later I'm sure.
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But to me, it's just incredible
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that the Creator of the universe
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and like He said with Peter,
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you know, when
thou art converted,
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strengthen thy brethren.
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When it didn't say
if you're converted,
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I prayed for you.
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You know, Peter,
basically is what he's saying.
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And when you're converted,
strengthen your brethren.
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So it wasn't
like, well, let's see
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if you choose at some
point, he already knew.
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His prayer is going to work.
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He's praying for
us, if they don't work
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because we reject them.
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Right. Amen.
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It's good. Amen.
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We need their hearts
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and I think we could
probably break this down
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and spend the whole
hour on that one word.
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One thing you mentioned
was when He talked to Peter.
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Peter had
denied Him three times.
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And I believe he
said it three times,
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if I remember correctly.
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But He didn't just
say, Peter, feed My sheep.
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He also said, feed My lambs.
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A sheep, you think
someone's grown in the faith,
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they're stronger in the faith,
but we have a lot of lambs
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that come up.
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And we have to be very
careful, because the lambs,
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you know, they're just on milk.
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They don't
understand a lot of things.
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And so many lambs
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that have walked into the church
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walk into people's
lives have absolutely been
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totally discouraged by
what was presented to them.
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And sometimes you
never see those lambs again.
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So Jesus was saying, you
know, you feed the sheep,
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and you feed the lambs.
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We must treat each one
of them a little different,
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a little more
delicate for those lambs.
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Amen.
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And I guess Peter wasn't...
I wanna say it this way.
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He wasn't capable
before he was converted.
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He had one way
in which to do it.
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But Jesus says
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there are different
ways in which to do it.
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I like the part of
strengthening because,
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you know, I know in my own life
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and I think probably
each one of us as Christians,
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we know that we can't,
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as it were,
through the Holy Spirit,
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strengthen
anybody, if we're not there.
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You see, we need
to be strengthened,
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we need to be born again.
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We need to have the power of
the Holy Spirit inside of us,
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then we can help
somebody else along the way.
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There's lot of people
who try to help other people
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when they need
some help themselves,
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you know, and we all do.
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But again, fill that cup, right,
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give that which overflows,
and then we can strengthen.
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To me, it's what the
lesson is about, is sharing.
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And so how do
we share, you know?
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And some people say, well, I
never had the opportunity or,
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you know, I can't say it,
nobody's gonna listen to me.
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It might be the way
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in which we've
conducted ourselves
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for what we're saying
or how we're saying it.
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And so this lesson
really brings out to me,
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look at Jesus,
follow in His footsteps.
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And He says, here, right
there when you're strengthened,
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right, when He's
coming, I'm gonna pray for you
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and when it's all said and done,
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I'm going to use you.
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And I'm like Danny.
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I'm just, I'm awed at that,
I could just stop at that verse
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and just say, I'm
just humbled to the dust
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to say the
Creator of the universe
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knows you so well.
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He has His eye on you
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and He's just
interceding for you
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right now.
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I'm gonna say take advantage.
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Is that okay to say?
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Take advantage
of that right now.
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He's interceding.
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We want to make it to
heaven any man intercede so,
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that's such a
powerful verse there.
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Amen.
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The principle I try
to use in my own life
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is when you're dealing
with all of these situations,
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everything that comes
to you is the principle
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of living in the
spiritual or the physical.
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When we're
dealing in the physical,
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we're going to have
all kinds of situations,
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our faith is going to be shaken.
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We're going to be discouraged.
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We're going to do
whatever, but when Jesus says,
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I prayed for you He
did it in the spirit,
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it's in the spiritual,
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and so now when
I'm going through life
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and things don't go well,
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have to look to the
spiritual side of it and say,
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I can't lose this.
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I don't care what
happens right now.
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And I can say it if I die today,
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this very second, my life.
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I've been blessed over and over.
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So it's not how
long I live here.
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But the fact of knowing
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that when after the short sleep,
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when I wake up,
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and first face I'll
see is the face of Jesus.
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So in the spiritual, you can...
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If you stay in the
spiritual, how do you do that?
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Through prayer and
study of God's Word
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and that constant...
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I'm sure you're like me.
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All day long, it
seems like to myself,
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even if I'm by myself sometimes
out loud if I'm in the car,
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and she's not with me,
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I'll be talking to
the Lord just praying.
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Say, okay, Lord, what do you...
What should I do here what?
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But if we can
concentrate on the Bible
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and the word and so
it's the foundation.
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And now when
somebody gets to say
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something terrible about me,
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it's like, you know,
great peace have they
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which love thy love.
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But I'm in the physical,
it's like you know what?
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I had them with that.
Wait till they hear me.
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I got a mouth and
I'm going to use it,
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you know what I'm saying?
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But then you have to
say, no, wait a minute.
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I got to get back in
there what's the Bible say?
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And so if we can do
that and concentrate,
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these other things
won't bother us so much.
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Amen.
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Very true. Very well said.
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But I'm gonna need you to
stay awake for a while, Pop.
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There's no going to sleep.
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All right, now. Yeah.
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Whatever the Lord
says. That's right.
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Yes, well, we
pray you stay awake.
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But why don't you take this...
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I saw you've
been on this program
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before we come out,
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old as I'm in
turn fall to sleep.
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We did have one dear sweet lady
who I won't mention her name
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because we love her so much.
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She used to do programs here.
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She was getting older.
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I can say that now being
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the older but
she's getting older.
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So sometimes she had guests
and she was interviewing them
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and she would kind
of start going to sleep
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so we have just honest truths.
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Some of the production knows.
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So we tied a
little string on her ankle
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and the guest would have
it while they were talking.
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When they're
about ready for her,
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they saw her like this
they would give a little pull.
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She would wake up and
she was always right back.
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And she could never
lose because she'd say things
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like no matter what they said.
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Isn't God good?
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What about this,
that and the other,
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you know, but she did,
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but the programs
turned out great.
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So hey, you know,
what I was thinking Jay
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is maybe I'm
gonna fall asleep here
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but either way.
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I don't think we
have a string anywhere.
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Well, she got an
elbow. I can nudge him.
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There we go.
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Why don't you take us
away with our next verse?
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This one was
specifically given to you
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'cause when I read this
verse you came to mind on this,
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so Matthew 28:19-20.
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Well, I've lived on this for,
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you know, 37 years or so.
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We talk about the 19-20,
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go you therefore and
teach all nations but,
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and Jesus came and
spake unto them saying,
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all power's given
Me in heaven and earth.
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Once again, Kenny
you said advantage.
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There's that advantage.
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So when Jesus says, go
you into all the world.
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Now, let's say, Jay, I love
you but if you said hey, Pop,
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go do such and
such, I could say, well,
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Jay, I don't have the resource.
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I can't do that
or can't whatever.
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Kenny says it to
me or I say it to you
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say Kenny you should
go do, you know, go do,
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and he's like,
well, I don't have any.
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But when Jesus
says He starts off
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before He gives
a great commission.
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It says all power's
given Me in heaven and earth,
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go ye therefore.
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So all of a sudden
now there are no excuses.
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You have no excuse
because what He has
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He's willing to give to
you to get the job done.
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And so, to me,
that word all is really,
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you know, all power is
given me small but it's big.
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I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me,
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for my God shall
supply all of your needs
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according to His
riches and glory.
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I can go on and on.
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There are so many scriptures,
but that's the beauty of it.
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I love the words you said,
I'm gonna keep using it today,
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the advantage.
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What an advantage
we have as Christians,
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because of ourselves,
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we can't play this game of life.
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You can't do it, but
we have an advantage.
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It's like on a basketball
team, we're not that tall,
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but we get Jay, he's
about 6'1" on our team,
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gives us a little advantage.
00:14:21.36\00:14:22.69
He can get some rebounds.
Hopefully, he'll pass to me.
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Well, that's questionable.
00:14:26.09\00:14:29.06
That's not a good example,
00:14:29.10\00:14:30.47
he's been
shooting threes lately.
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I have to get John
Stanton back here 6' 9.5",
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you remember John, but
no, you have an advantage.
00:14:36.14\00:14:38.61
So here He says,
00:14:38.64\00:14:40.78
all power's given
me in heaven and earth.
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Go ye, therefore,
teach all nations,
00:14:43.28\00:14:45.01
baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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the Son, and the Holy Ghost
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and then teaching them to
observe some of the things.
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Oh, there's that
little word again,
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all of the things.
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I wonder if that means
like all the Ten Commandments,
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not necessarily part of it.
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Teaching them to
observe all things
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whatsoever I have commanded you.
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And lo, I'm with you always
even to the end of the world.
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So, Dr. Thompson,
I've said it many times,
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I probably say it again.
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He said to me a long time
ago, Danny, when Jesus said,
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Go ye into all the
world, He counted his resources,
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and found in advance and
found that he's not wanting.
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So there's nothing we can't do.
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So when we're here, as a
board, and we're here working,
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well, what are we going to
do or should we do this or that.
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It's always good to
know, wait a minute,
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Jesus said, go ye
into all the world.
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"Ask me and I'll
give you the heathen
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for thine inheritance
and the uttermost parts
00:15:36.83\00:15:39.13
of the earth
for thy possession."
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Psalms 2:8 I think.
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So how can you say no?
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But the only
way you can do that,
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you can't give
what you don't have.
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Very true.
00:15:48.98\00:15:50.31
So once you come to
the foot of the cross,
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once you understand who you are,
00:15:52.51\00:15:54.78
and accept who you
are, and who Jesus is,
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you submit and
commit your life to Him.
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Guess what?
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Everything changes.
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So I can tell you,
Kenny will be with me.
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We've never doubted,
I can honestly say this,
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I would not say it
put my soul in jeopardy.
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I've never once from
the time we were impressed
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to build a station
to reach the world,
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I've never been discouraged
or thought it might not work.
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I haven't, because
00:16:17.94\00:16:19.51
we've trusted in
the faith of Jesus,
00:16:19.54\00:16:21.21
not my faith.
00:16:21.24\00:16:22.58
My faith is weak
00:16:22.61\00:16:23.95
but, you know,
the faith of Jesus,
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we talked about in Revelation,
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those who keep the
commandments of God
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and have the faith of Jesus.
00:16:28.55\00:16:29.88
So I say, Lord,
my, my faith is human.
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It's weak.
00:16:32.09\00:16:33.42
I want to be in the spiritual.
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I want Your faith.
00:16:34.82\00:16:36.16
You said when I'll pray for you,
00:16:36.19\00:16:37.53
and then when you're converted,
strengthen your brethren.
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So now, I'm weak.
00:16:40.13\00:16:41.96
So it's not my faith.
00:16:42.00\00:16:43.33
So I say, Lord, I'm
trusting in your faith, so,
00:16:43.37\00:16:45.53
because of that, and this
just seems like a small thing.
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I've never once doubted
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and you haven't
either I can tell you.
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You've never have doubted.
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Well, what's going to happen?
00:16:53.58\00:16:54.91
Maybe this is not
going to work out.
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Even today, it's
30 some years later,
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it's cost more money.
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It's a bigger, you know,
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huge to get the
gospel to the world
00:17:02.65\00:17:05.79
and then 3ABN and all
of us the board members,
00:17:05.82\00:17:08.69
Greg and Jill,
everybody working and you
00:17:08.72\00:17:10.93
those of you home.
00:17:10.96\00:17:12.39
But I can honestly say
I never lose sleep over,
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well, I wonder if
we're gonna make it.
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Lord has prayed for us.
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Amen.
00:17:20.97\00:17:22.30
And look at 3ABN Russia.
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Now go strengthen the brethren.
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There you go. That's it.
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I like that.
Look at 3ABN Russia.
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Yeah. I mean that story.
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It's amazing.
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Very humbling. Yeah, incredible.
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And that's how it happened there
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when we baptized
00:17:38.12\00:17:39.45
through Elder
Carter's meetings, 2532 people,
00:17:39.49\00:17:43.36
and you find out there in
52 million constituencies,
00:17:43.39\00:17:47.76
they only had in that
city of Nizhny Novgorod,
00:17:47.80\00:17:50.63
3.5 million people
00:17:50.67\00:17:52.00
they only had
one Adventist Church,
00:17:52.03\00:17:53.74
which would
only hold 200 people.
00:17:53.77\00:17:56.07
And it's pretty
full on Sabbaths.
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And now you got 2532 more.
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So now, good
problem, but it's a problem.
00:18:00.98\00:18:04.35
Now, what are you gonna do?
00:18:04.38\00:18:06.08
How you going to
take care of those people
00:18:06.11\00:18:07.75
because if you don't,
00:18:07.78\00:18:09.55
after a few
months, they're gone.
00:18:09.58\00:18:11.92
So we saw a lot of
baptisms in Moscow,
00:18:11.95\00:18:15.76
but they didn't have facilities,
00:18:15.79\00:18:17.33
didn't have, couldn't
house them in after a bit,
00:18:17.36\00:18:20.16
about 80% of the people
disappeared from the church.
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But years later, two
or three years later,
00:18:23.77\00:18:26.33
after the
evangelistic series there,
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80% of the
people were still there
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but they had a facility.
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But that's when, you
know, the conference...
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In Nizhny. In Nizhny Novgorod.
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The people said to me,
the conference leadership.
00:18:36.98\00:18:40.25
Well, this is a great
problem, but it's a big problem.
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What are we gonna do?
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And so, you know, that's when
00:18:44.89\00:18:47.26
I literally went
outside Roseau Hotel,
00:18:47.29\00:18:49.72
and I stood just overlooking
the Volga River, beautiful.
00:18:49.76\00:18:52.43
And you could see
the old Kremlin there.
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And I looked out and I said,
00:18:54.66\00:18:56.00
"Lord, how are we
going to do this?"
00:18:56.03\00:18:57.37
This is You, we're
in a foreign country.
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Communism had just fallen.
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It's May of 1992
when we saw these bad,
00:19:01.07\00:19:05.47
what are we going to do?
00:19:05.51\00:19:06.94
And that's when it came to me.
00:19:06.98\00:19:09.14
Literally, I had
to go look it up,
00:19:09.18\00:19:10.65
make sure it was right.
00:19:10.68\00:19:12.01
Ask of me.
00:19:12.05\00:19:13.38
I'll give you the
heathen for thine inheritance
00:19:13.42\00:19:15.42
and the uttermost
parts of the earth
00:19:15.45\00:19:17.92
for thy possessions.
00:19:17.95\00:19:19.45
Well, where am I?
00:19:19.49\00:19:20.82
I'm halfway around the world.
00:19:20.86\00:19:22.19
To me, I mean, you in a place
00:19:22.22\00:19:23.56
you've only heard
about all your life,
00:19:23.59\00:19:25.09
cold war and all this.
00:19:25.13\00:19:26.46
Doors are open and you're there.
00:19:26.49\00:19:28.26
So I said, "Okay,
Lord, we'll do it."
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Amen. We'll do it.
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You supply all the
needs as you have been
00:19:31.20\00:19:34.14
and He has to this day.
00:19:34.17\00:19:36.20
This coming year
will be 30 years.
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We'd love to go back
into a 30-year celebration.
00:19:39.34\00:19:42.98
And so, it's
amazing caring and sharing.
00:19:43.01\00:19:47.15
So, there's only one word
if I don't say any more today,
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I want to say that
what little vocabulary
00:19:51.45\00:19:53.39
I've had over the years.
00:19:53.42\00:19:54.92
It's gone down to one.
00:19:54.96\00:19:56.29
It's evangelism, evangelism.
00:19:56.32\00:19:58.16
It's evangelism.
00:19:58.19\00:19:59.63
What is evangelism?
00:19:59.66\00:20:01.06
It's basically
telling people about Jesus
00:20:01.10\00:20:03.83
and then showing
him in your own life.
00:20:03.87\00:20:05.70
Because we may be the only Jesus
00:20:05.73\00:20:08.80
that a lot of people see.
00:20:08.84\00:20:10.27
So people you
mentioned earlier about
00:20:10.31\00:20:12.81
people coming to
church and they leave,
00:20:12.84\00:20:14.78
they're discouraged.
00:20:14.81\00:20:16.14
That's because we try
to make people look like
00:20:16.18\00:20:19.31
what we think a Christian
should resemble and look like,
00:20:19.35\00:20:22.25
rather than reflect
the character of Jesus
00:20:22.28\00:20:24.92
in our own lives,
00:20:24.95\00:20:26.29
let it go out and
then they see Jesus
00:20:26.32\00:20:29.09
and then let the Holy
Spirit do the reaping.
00:20:29.12\00:20:31.29
We want to do the
sowing and the reaping.
00:20:31.33\00:20:33.03
Okay, here it is.
00:20:33.06\00:20:34.46
Now, you look like
me, you act like me,
00:20:34.50\00:20:36.83
you sound like me,
you do the music I like,
00:20:36.87\00:20:39.37
you don't lift your
hands or you don't do whatever
00:20:39.40\00:20:42.07
if I don't like it.
00:20:42.10\00:20:43.44
And if you do, I'm
disappointed in you.
00:20:43.47\00:20:46.07
Rather than just
giving the gospel.
00:20:46.11\00:20:48.74
Give your own
personal testimony,
00:20:48.78\00:20:50.91
it's the greatest
asset that we have
00:20:50.95\00:20:52.75
because that's believable.
00:20:52.78\00:20:54.28
People don't care
how much you know,
00:20:54.32\00:20:56.18
they want to see how you act,
especially in time of trouble.
00:20:56.22\00:20:59.05
That's good. Amen.
00:20:59.09\00:21:00.42
Yeah. You're preaching a sermon.
00:21:00.46\00:21:01.79
That's good. Amen.
00:21:01.82\00:21:05.59
Did anybody else have anything
they wanted to add to that?
00:21:05.63\00:21:08.16
He covered well. Oh,
that was really good.
00:21:08.20\00:21:11.80
There are just so many
things that you could touch on
00:21:11.83\00:21:13.97
and what made me stop and say,
00:21:14.00\00:21:16.00
you said,
evangelism, evangelism.
00:21:16.04\00:21:17.41
I used to hear the
blessing is on the go.
00:21:17.44\00:21:20.08
And who has He called?
00:21:20.11\00:21:21.44
All of you.
00:21:21.48\00:21:23.41
You know, the
blessing is on the go,
00:21:23.45\00:21:25.25
and the blessing
has been on the go.
00:21:25.28\00:21:27.25
You know, last night, I
started looking at this,
00:21:27.28\00:21:29.68
and I kept getting
kind of sidetracked.
00:21:29.72\00:21:31.39
And I thought, okay, I'm
going to look at it again today,
00:21:31.42\00:21:33.52
my phone started ringing and,
00:21:33.56\00:21:35.19
and so I started
talking to this lady,
00:21:35.22\00:21:37.33
and then pretty soon
00:21:37.36\00:21:38.96
I told her that we were up here,
00:21:38.99\00:21:40.33
and we're going to
do a program here today.
00:21:40.36\00:21:41.83
And she's like, oh, wow.
00:21:41.86\00:21:43.97
She said, you know my brother,
00:21:44.00\00:21:45.77
I think it was her
brother's into Christian music.
00:21:45.80\00:21:47.97
And she said you
guys are really something,
00:21:48.00\00:21:49.74
something like that.
00:21:49.77\00:21:51.11
I'd have to look see
exactly what she said.
00:21:51.14\00:21:52.81
And I said, "Well,
we're not but the Lord is."
00:21:52.84\00:21:56.28
That our Lord and Savior,
the one that gave so much
00:21:56.31\00:21:59.68
for each of us so that
we could come back to Him
00:21:59.71\00:22:02.68
and have full salvation
00:22:02.72\00:22:04.35
so that we could
strengthen the brother.
00:22:04.39\00:22:06.25
I said, He is and I
just started talking and then
00:22:06.29\00:22:10.49
we said, "Goodbyes and
bless you," blah, blah, blah.
00:22:10.53\00:22:12.73
And so then, as I was praying
to start studying this again,
00:22:12.76\00:22:17.13
I thought you need
to give her a book.
00:22:17.17\00:22:19.63
You see, this is
something all of you can do.
00:22:19.67\00:22:21.64
The problem is,
sometimes we get these ideas,
00:22:21.67\00:22:24.57
and we don't act on it.
00:22:24.61\00:22:25.94
So I text her back.
00:22:25.97\00:22:27.31
I said, "As I was praying,
00:22:27.34\00:22:28.68
I thought about
giving you a book.
00:22:28.71\00:22:30.05
I've got these beautiful
books, they're illustrated.
00:22:30.08\00:22:33.08
And it's been
called the Desire of Ages,
00:22:33.11\00:22:35.52
that it's about
the life of Christ.
00:22:35.55\00:22:37.49
Would you like to have it?
00:22:37.52\00:22:38.85
Will you send me your address,
and I'll get it sent to you."
00:22:38.89\00:22:41.62
And she sure did.
00:22:41.66\00:22:43.32
And then she said 3ABN,
she said I don't have a dish
00:22:43.36\00:22:46.80
because I told her
where she can get 3ABN.
00:22:46.83\00:22:48.90
She said if I watch online.
00:22:48.93\00:22:50.37
So I took a
screenshot and circled the app.
00:22:50.40\00:22:53.60
I said, here you go.
00:22:53.64\00:22:55.14
There's an app you can download.
00:22:55.17\00:22:57.11
And then I'll tell you what we
were talking some more I said,
00:22:57.14\00:23:00.41
you know, you just
reminded me of a story
00:23:00.44\00:23:03.04
that I had said in the
program on Friday evening,
00:23:03.08\00:23:06.15
I'm gonna send that to you.
00:23:06.18\00:23:07.65
And she was so happy.
00:23:07.68\00:23:10.29
But it's a
blessing and I thought,
00:23:10.32\00:23:12.99
well, if I don't
get anything else done,
00:23:13.02\00:23:15.46
actually what the Lord did
00:23:15.49\00:23:17.36
was what we're talking
about sharing is caring.
00:23:17.39\00:23:20.63
And this lady
the way we met her,
00:23:20.66\00:23:24.70
Kenny and I, years ago,
00:23:24.73\00:23:27.87
we had started a side business,
00:23:27.90\00:23:30.24
thinking that it
would give us an income
00:23:30.27\00:23:32.27
when we retire and
that type of thing.
00:23:32.31\00:23:34.04
But it has, and it's
just been a real struggle.
00:23:34.08\00:23:36.75
And we just finished a house
and she gave us a full offer.
00:23:36.78\00:23:41.28
But then she
started to back out later
00:23:41.32\00:23:43.59
after everything
was pending and da-da-da
00:23:43.62\00:23:46.92
and she's called back,
she's called back for prayer
00:23:46.96\00:23:50.96
and just different
things and I told her,
00:23:50.99\00:23:53.83
I said, you can call anytime.
00:23:53.86\00:23:55.26
Even though she's backed
out, I still care for her.
00:23:55.30\00:23:59.83
I think it was
more God's providence,
00:23:59.87\00:24:04.01
because of where her
mindset is right now.
00:24:04.04\00:24:06.74
And so I just pray
that book will do some good,
00:24:06.78\00:24:10.88
that app will do some good,
00:24:10.91\00:24:12.31
and that she'll start
watching this channel.
00:24:12.35\00:24:14.92
Because I mean, we have
people come in off the streets.
00:24:14.95\00:24:17.72
We've had people
over the years come in,
00:24:17.75\00:24:19.85
because they're
watching the program.
00:24:19.89\00:24:21.82
And this is giving,
00:24:21.86\00:24:23.19
this is sharing the Word of God.
00:24:23.22\00:24:25.16
And they say we
want to be baptized,
00:24:25.19\00:24:27.56
what can we do?
00:24:27.60\00:24:28.93
What do we need to do?
00:24:28.96\00:24:30.30
You know, it's
just such a blessing.
00:24:30.33\00:24:31.97
Can I just talk about
something out of order here?
00:24:32.00\00:24:35.17
Because all
this stuff reminds me
00:24:35.20\00:24:37.37
of John 15:5 it says,
00:24:37.41\00:24:39.47
"I am the vine and
you're the branches.
00:24:39.51\00:24:43.31
He who abides in Me and
I in him bears much fruit.
00:24:43.35\00:24:47.95
For without Me
you can do nothing."
00:24:47.98\00:24:50.95
You can't do anything.
00:24:50.99\00:24:53.46
And so, we've kind
of all touched on that,
00:24:53.49\00:24:55.69
he touched on that too.
00:24:55.72\00:24:57.43
Because if we're not
filled with the Spirit of God
00:24:57.46\00:24:59.79
and if we're not
studying and eating
00:24:59.83\00:25:02.26
and Spirit of Prophecy say
even neglecting the prayer.
00:25:02.30\00:25:05.93
What a privilege that we
have that we can bow our...
00:25:05.97\00:25:09.30
Even if you can't bow your head,
00:25:09.34\00:25:10.74
you may be
driving down the road,
00:25:10.77\00:25:12.11
but you can still
shoot up a prayer to heaven.
00:25:12.14\00:25:14.04
What power?
00:25:14.08\00:25:15.64
You know, what is a branch?
00:25:15.68\00:25:17.15
We say we're the branches.
00:25:17.18\00:25:18.51
If a branch is
disconnected from the vine,
00:25:18.55\00:25:21.15
it just withers and dies,
00:25:21.18\00:25:23.28
but if it's
connected, it draws that power,
00:25:23.32\00:25:26.79
it draws that strength,
00:25:26.82\00:25:28.82
you know, it
draws that perseverance,
00:25:28.86\00:25:30.99
it draws that nourishment
and then we can give all that
00:25:31.03\00:25:34.70
to other people because
this whole thing about caring
00:25:34.73\00:25:39.13
is because we are to help
pull people out of the fire.
00:25:39.17\00:25:43.51
Mrs. White says
you're plucking souls
00:25:43.54\00:25:45.64
out of the fire.
00:25:45.67\00:25:47.01
And so as you're sharing
the good news of the gospel,
00:25:47.04\00:25:50.25
you're planting seeds.
00:25:50.28\00:25:51.78
And we pray that
the Holy Spirit will
00:25:51.81\00:25:53.82
continue to grow these seeds
00:25:53.85\00:25:56.08
so that those
people will replace
00:25:56.12\00:25:59.05
the fallen angels
someday in the kingdom.
00:25:59.09\00:26:01.89
So that's why we
care enough to share.
00:26:01.92\00:26:04.49
Amen. That was beautiful.
00:26:04.53\00:26:07.33
What's on your mind, Mr. Kenny?
00:26:07.36\00:26:09.23
Oh, there's a lot
on my mind right now.
00:26:09.26\00:26:11.70
Everybody's opened
up avenues of thought
00:26:11.73\00:26:13.84
and I think that's
what these programs
00:26:13.87\00:26:15.20
are really foreign
for those who are at home.
00:26:15.24\00:26:17.14
So Holy Spirit opened our hearts
00:26:17.17\00:26:18.97
and our minds to some thoughts.
00:26:19.01\00:26:20.91
And I have just
a quick one here.
00:26:20.94\00:26:22.28
I love the book you
talked about Desire of Ages.
00:26:22.31\00:26:24.48
I want to read just
a quick quote from it,
00:26:24.51\00:26:25.85
make a couple comments.
00:26:25.88\00:26:27.22
Desire of Ages, 152, it
says, "Let the world see
00:26:27.25\00:26:31.19
that we are not selfishly
absorbed in our own interest,
00:26:31.22\00:26:35.12
but we desire others to share
our blessings and privileges.
00:26:35.16\00:26:40.53
Let them see that our
religion does not make us
00:26:40.56\00:26:44.20
unsympathetic and exacting.
00:26:44.23\00:26:46.00
Notice, let all who
profess to have found Christ
00:26:46.03\00:26:49.60
minister as He did
for the benefit of man."
00:26:49.64\00:26:53.38
This is sharing we look to who?
00:26:53.41\00:26:55.34
To Jesus, give
several examples here, Jesus,
00:26:55.38\00:26:58.41
He shared the gospel,
when He shared Himself.
00:26:58.45\00:27:02.78
He is the gospel, is He not?
00:27:02.82\00:27:04.92
And then how else did He do it?
00:27:04.95\00:27:06.82
Personal contact.
00:27:06.86\00:27:08.19
I wrote this
down, personal contact
00:27:08.22\00:27:10.23
and association, that
Jesus, He trained His disciples.
00:27:10.26\00:27:14.16
So if we are going
to share if we care,
00:27:14.20\00:27:16.87
and we want to
share Jesus Christ,
00:27:16.90\00:27:18.73
there must be personal contact.
00:27:18.77\00:27:21.37
And then we have
to have association.
00:27:21.40\00:27:24.31
That means we come together
like we do in the program.
00:27:24.34\00:27:26.81
Association with you,
those at home, were associated.
00:27:26.84\00:27:29.18
And then wherever people
were, notice, to receive,
00:27:29.21\00:27:33.18
Jesus went
wherever there was people.
00:27:33.21\00:27:36.12
But He made sure He was
open to talking about the gospel
00:27:36.15\00:27:40.66
and presenting the gospel.
00:27:40.69\00:27:42.32
He was very much aware of that
through prayer from His Father,
00:27:42.36\00:27:44.69
He knew exactly
00:27:44.73\00:27:46.06
the people who had an
interest and He went to them.
00:27:46.09\00:27:48.00
So wherever people
were, you find Christ
00:27:48.03\00:27:51.57
was heading in that direction.
00:27:51.60\00:27:53.40
This is for us.
00:27:53.44\00:27:54.77
Remember, we're
following His example here.
00:27:54.80\00:27:57.21
Somebody here
mentioned, He didn't command
00:27:57.24\00:28:01.14
people to follow Him.
00:28:01.18\00:28:03.08
Yeah, I think, He's
kind of talking about that
00:28:03.11\00:28:04.45
you don't
command somebody do it.
00:28:04.48\00:28:06.92
"Follow me," that's all He said.
00:28:06.95\00:28:08.78
He presented the
gospel, He presented Himself
00:28:08.82\00:28:11.12
and then He
simply said, "Follow me."
00:28:11.15\00:28:13.29
I like that now.
00:28:13.32\00:28:15.02
And notice what He did, too.
00:28:15.06\00:28:16.39
We want to be soul winners,
00:28:16.42\00:28:17.76
we want to
share the gospel here.
00:28:17.79\00:28:19.13
He took His disciples those of
whom He was training with Him.
00:28:19.16\00:28:24.27
This is for us today, those
who are a little more educated
00:28:24.30\00:28:27.74
in that line or
experienced in soul winning,
00:28:27.77\00:28:31.04
it's very good.
00:28:31.07\00:28:32.41
I think that
sometimes some of us
00:28:32.44\00:28:34.11
may be who are a
little green, right,
00:28:34.14\00:28:36.48
is to go with individuals
as they give a Bible study
00:28:36.51\00:28:40.62
to listen to them, to sit down.
00:28:40.65\00:28:43.05
I can think of my
own life in the early
00:28:43.08\00:28:44.82
when and I kinda use his named
00:28:44.85\00:28:46.52
Pastor Carpenter many years ago.
00:28:46.55\00:28:48.89
He would say to
me go working all day
00:28:48.92\00:28:50.73
and we did and then we're young,
00:28:50.76\00:28:52.09
and so on, so forth, he'd say,
00:28:52.13\00:28:53.46
and he had Bible
studies going all the time.
00:28:53.50\00:28:55.06
He'd say, "Kenny, I
want you to go with me.
00:28:55.10\00:28:56.97
We're going to give
a Bible study tonight."
00:28:57.00\00:28:58.50
And I'm
thinking, "Oh, no, I'm not.
00:28:58.53\00:28:59.87
I can't give no Bible study.
00:28:59.90\00:29:01.24
I don't know what about."
00:29:01.27\00:29:02.60
He said, "I want
you to go with me
00:29:02.64\00:29:03.97
and I want you
to sit next to me."
00:29:04.01\00:29:06.44
Okay, well, that's good.
00:29:06.47\00:29:07.81
I want to because I
won't have any answers.
00:29:07.84\00:29:09.18
I don't have anything to say.
00:29:09.21\00:29:11.15
Bring your Bible.
00:29:11.18\00:29:12.51
So what he would do,
be giving a Bible study
00:29:12.55\00:29:14.02
and he's sitting
there have his Bible open
00:29:14.05\00:29:16.38
and, of course,
he was one of those
00:29:16.42\00:29:17.75
who wrote in the
margins all the time,
00:29:17.79\00:29:19.15
you know, he had all
kinds of stuff right there,
00:29:19.19\00:29:20.66
he opened, he was
talking somebody like that,
00:29:20.69\00:29:22.49
and I see his finger
go down to that text,
00:29:22.52\00:29:24.39
he looked over at
me, he says, right.
00:29:24.43\00:29:27.96
He showed me a text in the Bible
00:29:28.00\00:29:29.50
that pertained to
what we were talking about.
00:29:29.53\00:29:31.03
So in the margin of my
Bible, I would write that text.
00:29:31.07\00:29:33.74
Yeah.
00:29:33.77\00:29:35.10
He was teaching and
training on the gospel,
00:29:35.14\00:29:37.91
and that was such a blessing.
00:29:37.94\00:29:39.87
So you know, he
took them with him,
00:29:39.91\00:29:41.88
so they could...
00:29:41.91\00:29:43.24
His disciples so they could
see and so that they could hear.
00:29:43.28\00:29:47.15
Remember, sometimes, we see
00:29:47.18\00:29:48.95
and sometimes we need
to hear and I need both.
00:29:48.98\00:29:50.55
I need to see, I need to
hear, I need to pay attention.
00:29:50.59\00:29:52.92
And then he connected himself
00:29:52.95\00:29:58.19
with those whom
he was working with.
00:29:58.23\00:30:00.03
They felt a real
personal connection with Him.
00:30:00.06\00:30:03.06
He connected with them.
00:30:03.10\00:30:04.43
And all of a
sudden, they were doing
00:30:04.47\00:30:06.07
what He was doing.
00:30:06.10\00:30:07.44
And they never
really realized it.
00:30:07.47\00:30:09.87
As He sat some time
at the carpenter's bench
00:30:09.90\00:30:12.97
when the world was
agitating some time,
00:30:13.01\00:30:15.74
and the people were around Him.
00:30:15.78\00:30:17.31
I read Desire of Ages.
00:30:17.35\00:30:19.35
And they would come to
Him and they were complaining
00:30:19.38\00:30:21.45
because of what was going on.
00:30:21.48\00:30:23.05
We don't like this,
and we don't like that.
00:30:23.08\00:30:25.15
Desire of Ages said
He would start singing.
00:30:25.19\00:30:28.72
This is King of
king and Lord and Lords.
00:30:28.76\00:30:31.29
He will start singing a verse,
00:30:31.33\00:30:32.69
right maybe
something out of Isaiah.
00:30:32.73\00:30:34.80
And he said, before you knew it,
00:30:34.83\00:30:36.36
everybody around Him joined in
00:30:36.40\00:30:38.43
and was singing and
nobody was complaining.
00:30:38.47\00:30:41.44
Man, just to follow that example
00:30:41.47\00:30:43.81
they united with Him in His way.
00:30:43.84\00:30:47.98
So I'm encouraging
people, let's unite with Him.
00:30:48.01\00:30:50.65
Let's show Him
that we're not selfish
00:30:50.68\00:30:52.01
and then not have
selfish interests,
00:30:52.05\00:30:53.92
but we're going to
come close to Christ.
00:30:53.95\00:30:56.08
And we need to
minister for others
00:30:56.12\00:30:59.25
to benefit man.
00:30:59.29\00:31:00.92
This is what it's all about
00:31:00.96\00:31:02.29
is simply to is to
minister to others.
00:31:02.32\00:31:04.99
And I've often said I
love that, was a song this.
00:31:05.03\00:31:07.86
Remember if you're couples,
I'm gonna be quiet in a minute,
00:31:07.90\00:31:10.17
I just can't hardly do it.
00:31:10.20\00:31:12.30
No, the cup is
full I've often said
00:31:12.33\00:31:14.37
oh, Lord, fill my cup.
00:31:14.40\00:31:16.34
Over and over
He'd say it's not all.
00:31:16.37\00:31:19.11
Fill my cup, Lord,
you know, what He'd say?
00:31:19.14\00:31:21.31
Kenny, you can only give
that which runs over the top.
00:31:21.34\00:31:24.61
Your cup has to
be filled in order
00:31:24.65\00:31:26.92
for it to be My will
00:31:26.95\00:31:28.72
and to do it the
way I want it to be.
00:31:28.75\00:31:30.29
But you're going to
give that which runs over.
00:31:30.32\00:31:32.79
And what was the one that said?
00:31:32.82\00:31:35.09
Darrell Marshall, I'm
drinking from the saucer
00:31:35.12\00:31:38.29
because my cup is overflowed.
00:31:38.33\00:31:40.23
That's it.
00:31:40.26\00:31:41.60
And I'm trying to
figure somebody sing a line.
00:31:41.63\00:31:44.50
He's singing now I better cry.
00:31:44.53\00:31:45.97
But it goes down into...
00:31:46.00\00:31:48.14
That's all that you can give
00:31:48.17\00:31:50.67
and that's always
him that's running over.
00:31:50.71\00:31:52.34
So, you know just, man, do
that today that cup before.
00:31:52.37\00:31:56.61
Let it run over
into that saucer.
00:31:56.64\00:31:58.78
And I'm telling you,
your life will change
00:31:58.81\00:32:00.18
and all the people around
you life would change too.
00:32:00.22\00:32:03.92
You shouldn't ask me
brother what I had on my mind.
00:32:03.95\00:32:07.02
That's why you're here.
00:32:07.06\00:32:09.62
That's right.
That's really good.
00:32:09.66\00:32:10.99
We need that.
That was a great word.
00:32:11.03\00:32:12.69
Yeah, you know, our life
should reflect our leader.
00:32:12.73\00:32:17.57
So we're
witnessing and we're sharing
00:32:17.60\00:32:20.90
and from a loving
place as Christ does,
00:32:20.94\00:32:24.57
our life should
reflect our leader.
00:32:24.61\00:32:26.78
So, you know, often
you do see the opposite.
00:32:26.81\00:32:31.01
Well, you see the
opposite leader, right?
00:32:31.05\00:32:34.45
I should say that.
00:32:34.48\00:32:35.82
So you see some
people trying and share,
00:32:35.85\00:32:38.35
but really they're condemning,
00:32:38.39\00:32:39.72
as opposed to
sharing from a loving place.
00:32:39.75\00:32:43.43
And so I love how you guys
touched on this earlier about
00:32:43.46\00:32:46.59
how we are to share is just
00:32:46.63\00:32:50.90
as important as
what we are to share.
00:32:50.93\00:32:53.13
Mercy.
00:32:53.17\00:32:54.50
One thing I
learned years and years ago
00:32:54.54\00:32:57.01
was to pray for an open door.
00:32:57.04\00:32:59.47
A lot of people think
it's their job to go and open
00:32:59.51\00:33:02.98
everybody's door.
00:33:03.01\00:33:04.95
And then that leaves a bad taste
00:33:04.98\00:33:07.25
a bad feeling and maybe they'll
never be receptive again,
00:33:07.28\00:33:11.12
but if you pray
for an open door,
00:33:11.15\00:33:13.05
it's amazing what God will do.
00:33:13.09\00:33:15.32
I mean, even back
when I was in college,
00:33:15.36\00:33:17.33
I'd pray for an open door
00:33:17.36\00:33:18.76
and there'd be times
I'd be in my car for hours.
00:33:18.79\00:33:21.66
I can remember one young lady
00:33:21.70\00:33:23.06
just having Bible
study after Bible study.
00:33:23.10\00:33:25.73
But you pray for the open
door, and then the Lord will
00:33:25.77\00:33:29.10
do that and give you the words.
00:33:29.14\00:33:30.84
I mean, there
were a lot of times,
00:33:30.87\00:33:32.21
we were talking about
Scripture memorization
00:33:32.24\00:33:34.44
before we started and I said,
00:33:34.48\00:33:36.18
you know, the older I get,
I don't remember as I used to.
00:33:36.21\00:33:38.88
But there are so many
times that in that moment
00:33:38.91\00:33:43.25
that God answers His own promise
00:33:43.28\00:33:46.12
to give you these messages,
to give you the passages
00:33:46.15\00:33:49.39
that is needed
right then right there.
00:33:49.42\00:33:52.33
It's just amazing.
00:33:52.36\00:33:53.70
If you're connected to the vine,
00:33:53.73\00:33:55.23
one thing you said is
about staying connected.
00:33:55.26\00:33:58.30
You didn't use those words,
00:33:58.33\00:33:59.67
but you know how
we stay connected.
00:33:59.70\00:34:01.20
And that's what's
really important too.
00:34:01.24\00:34:03.07
In order to share
you've got to fill up your cup.
00:34:03.10\00:34:06.98
And how do you do that?
00:34:07.01\00:34:08.34
You need to be praying,
you need to be studying.
00:34:08.38\00:34:10.45
We need to be walking
through that sanctuary room,
00:34:10.48\00:34:13.48
you know, eating
the bread of life and,
00:34:13.52\00:34:15.82
and having our
prayer and then witnessing.
00:34:15.85\00:34:18.35
But you can't do it if
we don't fill up first,
00:34:18.39\00:34:20.79
you've got to
have something in there
00:34:20.82\00:34:22.16
and then the Holy
Spirit will bring it out.
00:34:22.19\00:34:25.13
And don't pray for the open door
00:34:25.16\00:34:26.80
if you're not
willing to walk through it.
00:34:26.83\00:34:29.26
Now that's right.
00:34:29.30\00:34:30.63
What happens if you got
nothing to give or to share
00:34:30.67\00:34:32.27
why pray for the open door
00:34:32.30\00:34:33.64
when you got
really nothing to go do.
00:34:33.67\00:34:36.30
It can cause, Brother Danny.
00:34:36.34\00:34:38.21
I'm glad you brought
that because that can cause
00:34:38.24\00:34:40.14
more damage than good
00:34:40.18\00:34:43.18
because you're going
to lead someone astray,
00:34:43.21\00:34:45.01
someone's going to
hear something that's not
00:34:45.05\00:34:46.38
what they need to be
00:34:46.41\00:34:47.75
and they're
going to be turned off.
00:34:47.78\00:34:49.12
So, good, when you not, like,
00:34:49.15\00:34:50.49
you have something to
give and the only thing
00:34:50.52\00:34:52.49
we can give is
Jesus, we know that.
00:34:52.52\00:34:53.86
I'm sorry, go ahead.
00:34:53.89\00:34:55.22
I spent a young part
of my life doing that.
00:34:55.26\00:34:57.63
Yes, wanting to be an example,
00:34:57.66\00:34:59.73
but really, not
really being an example.
00:34:59.76\00:35:02.56
So the door opens
up and then you end up
00:35:02.60\00:35:05.13
showing flesh
rather than the Spirit.
00:35:05.17\00:35:07.37
I'm talking about
when we used to play
00:35:07.40\00:35:08.87
softball fast-pitch
we do 200 games a year,
00:35:08.90\00:35:12.34
and stuff even on the
Sabbath I've told before,
00:35:12.37\00:35:14.34
I won't go the whole story,
00:35:14.38\00:35:15.71
but we would play
right up till sundown.
00:35:15.74\00:35:17.75
And then if the team
won, you play then Saturday,
00:35:17.78\00:35:21.48
it'd be like Saturday evening.
00:35:21.52\00:35:22.85
So we'd go to the ballpark.
00:35:22.88\00:35:24.29
And as soon as
sundown we'd be dressed,
00:35:24.32\00:35:26.32
then we jumped put
ourselves in the game.
00:35:26.35\00:35:28.12
So we could go ahead
and play and we thought
00:35:28.16\00:35:30.03
we were being an
example to people
00:35:30.06\00:35:32.49
keeping the Sabbath really.
00:35:32.53\00:35:34.16
I mean, what was on our mind,
00:35:34.20\00:35:35.63
we're dressed in
a ball suit heading
00:35:35.66\00:35:37.60
to the ball field
before sundown just waiting.
00:35:37.63\00:35:40.00
So we call
timeout and getting game.
00:35:40.04\00:35:42.17
So, Kenny said oh my life.
00:35:42.20\00:35:43.77
I'm not telling you, Brother.
00:35:43.81\00:35:45.47
Now go ahead. Bring it on in.
00:35:45.51\00:35:48.58
I did catch myself saying
we, I should have said me.
00:35:48.61\00:35:51.65
I meant to say me.
00:35:51.68\00:35:53.38
We both were in
the same vehicle,
00:35:53.42\00:35:55.38
and we both had our suits on
and we both went in the game.
00:35:55.42\00:35:58.19
You said that now, I didn't.
00:35:58.22\00:35:59.79
I'm thankful God is impressed
and it changed our thinking.
00:35:59.82\00:36:02.86
But I'm saying
that kind of thing
00:36:02.89\00:36:04.73
is not a good door you pray for,
00:36:04.76\00:36:06.36
well, let me be a
witness to these teammates.
00:36:06.39\00:36:09.33
And then they
didn't see anything
00:36:09.36\00:36:10.70
that represented Christ.
00:36:10.73\00:36:12.13
We just saw
people who didn't play
00:36:12.17\00:36:15.34
because that's was their
legalistic belief or whatever.
00:36:15.37\00:36:18.51
They didn't really
see the Jesus in us.
00:36:18.54\00:36:20.28
So, but aren't you
glad God is patient
00:36:20.31\00:36:24.25
and is long suffering?
00:36:24.28\00:36:25.61
Oh, absolutely. Amen.
00:36:25.65\00:36:27.55
Absolutely.
00:36:27.58\00:36:28.92
We succumb to pressure. Yeah.
00:36:28.95\00:36:31.05
As people do sometimes
00:36:31.09\00:36:32.45
they're
pressured through family,
00:36:32.49\00:36:33.82
they're pressured through job,
00:36:33.86\00:36:35.19
they're
pressured to do something
00:36:35.22\00:36:36.56
rather than do it
from the willing heart,
00:36:36.59\00:36:37.93
mind that's given to Jesus.
00:36:37.96\00:36:41.03
I don't know, I felt that
00:36:41.06\00:36:42.40
the pressure from our teammates,
00:36:42.43\00:36:44.30
because we played so many games,
00:36:44.33\00:36:46.47
and we had come so far
00:36:46.50\00:36:47.84
as it were in that
realm and they would say,
00:36:47.87\00:36:50.97
oh, we got, not that they did.
00:36:51.01\00:36:52.64
We've got to have you.
00:36:52.67\00:36:54.01
We've got to have you guys,
man you can't let us down now.
00:36:54.04\00:36:56.88
And so we kind
of let our religion
00:36:56.91\00:36:58.68
go and kind of justified
00:36:58.71\00:37:00.68
and I'm encouraging
people don't do that.
00:37:00.72\00:37:02.58
There's a standard
stay by that standard,
00:37:02.62\00:37:04.82
man, by the grace
of God, stand by there.
00:37:04.85\00:37:07.12
Follow the example.
00:37:07.16\00:37:08.49
What would Jesus have done?
00:37:08.52\00:37:10.43
Not what we did.
00:37:10.46\00:37:11.83
Seek ye first
the kingdom of God.
00:37:11.86\00:37:13.56
Amen.
00:37:13.60\00:37:14.93
Mom, you have our
next verse, Mark 8:38.
00:37:14.96\00:37:18.93
Yes.
00:37:18.97\00:37:20.44
And it says, "For
whoever is ashamed of me
00:37:20.47\00:37:23.94
and my words in this
adulterous and sinful generation
00:37:23.97\00:37:27.58
of him, the Son of
Man also will be ashamed
00:37:27.61\00:37:31.25
when He comes in
the glory of His Father,
00:37:31.28\00:37:33.72
with the holy angels."
00:37:33.75\00:37:36.12
Now when I read that,
00:37:36.15\00:37:39.25
it brought to mind an incident
00:37:39.29\00:37:43.59
with me that with Facebook.
00:37:43.63\00:37:49.43
Many times, we have friends
who are of different religions,
00:37:49.46\00:37:53.27
different cultures,
and I have Jewish friends
00:37:53.30\00:37:56.34
in New York.
00:37:56.37\00:37:59.27
I've just wondered,
like, how do I witness to them
00:37:59.31\00:38:03.18
because the ones
that I've witnessed
00:38:03.21\00:38:07.52
to just have resented
it, like if I send them...
00:38:07.55\00:38:12.19
I have one friend that
00:38:12.22\00:38:14.56
was helping me with a project
00:38:14.59\00:38:19.33
and I sent an article
that I saw about Jesus,
00:38:19.36\00:38:22.16
and when you go to do that,
00:38:22.20\00:38:25.33
there's this kind of hesitation
like am I gonna offend them?
00:38:25.37\00:38:29.74
Is this gonna be offensive
00:38:29.77\00:38:31.34
because everybody
that I've reached out to
00:38:31.37\00:38:33.68
about Jesus that's Jewish
00:38:33.71\00:38:36.11
has pulled back or
resented it or been angry?
00:38:36.14\00:38:40.12
So it's like how
do I witness to them?
00:38:40.15\00:38:45.09
So I was looking
up something and,
00:38:45.12\00:38:47.32
and this is for
anybody and everybody
00:38:47.36\00:38:49.66
who wants to
witness across religious
00:38:49.69\00:38:52.69
and cultural lines.
00:38:52.73\00:38:54.56
There are five tips here.
00:38:54.60\00:38:56.16
So the first one is to listen.
00:38:56.20\00:38:58.93
To listen to them.
That's really good.
00:38:58.97\00:39:01.37
James 1:19 says, "So
then, my beloved brethren,
00:39:01.40\00:39:05.07
let every man be swift to hear,
00:39:05.11\00:39:07.74
slow to speak, slow to wrath."
00:39:07.78\00:39:11.41
Listening gives respect
and honor to the other person.
00:39:11.45\00:39:15.98
It doesn't mean that
you're agreeing with them
00:39:16.02\00:39:18.29
because you're
listening, as you're listening,
00:39:18.32\00:39:21.22
you're not necessarily agreeing
with their point of view,
00:39:21.26\00:39:24.53
but you're giving them
the respect that they deserve,
00:39:24.56\00:39:28.40
as you want to
convey your ideas,
00:39:28.43\00:39:33.10
you have to listen to theirs.
00:39:33.13\00:39:35.27
So it says, when you listen,
00:39:35.30\00:39:38.17
it actually disarms hostility
00:39:38.21\00:39:41.84
and it says that
you value the person.
00:39:41.88\00:39:45.11
So then listening number
two leads to understanding
00:39:45.15\00:39:48.88
because then you
kind of understand
00:39:48.92\00:39:50.85
their perspective.
00:39:50.89\00:39:52.22
So one of the things like,
00:39:52.25\00:39:55.52
when I reached out
to this Jewish friend,
00:39:55.56\00:39:58.16
I sent this
information about Jesus,
00:39:58.19\00:40:00.76
I prayed before I sent
it and I was like, Lord,
00:40:00.80\00:40:02.90
please just let it, you
know, let the person accept it.
00:40:02.93\00:40:07.67
And that's all we can
do really like you can't...
00:40:07.70\00:40:10.51
We're not the Holy
Spirit to bring in us, right?
00:40:10.54\00:40:13.41
We're not the Holy Spirit.
00:40:13.44\00:40:15.24
Our job is to just share, right?
00:40:15.28\00:40:18.41
So, when you listen
to their point of view,
00:40:18.45\00:40:22.18
it leads to an understanding
and then you can use that,
00:40:22.22\00:40:27.36
their perspective,
you can use the Bible
00:40:27.39\00:40:30.33
to address their
perspective on things.
00:40:30.36\00:40:32.83
So the first thing is listen,
00:40:32.86\00:40:34.70
the second thing listening
leads to an understanding.
00:40:34.73\00:40:37.37
The third thing
is don't be fragile.
00:40:37.40\00:40:40.07
If somebody doesn't
agree with your perspective,
00:40:40.10\00:40:45.17
it's not your
job to convict them.
00:40:45.21\00:40:47.58
It's your job to share.
Don't get all tore up about it.
00:40:47.61\00:40:50.05
Exactly, and don't
take it personally.
00:40:50.08\00:40:53.28
It doesn't mean
that they hate you
00:40:53.31\00:40:55.85
but their own culture,
their own belief system
00:40:55.88\00:41:01.49
might be very
different from yours,
00:41:01.52\00:41:03.83
and the Holy Spirit
has to work on them.
00:41:03.86\00:41:07.33
So you're just
planting the seed.
00:41:07.36\00:41:09.30
So don't be fragile.
00:41:09.33\00:41:11.60
Just, you know,
don't take it personally.
00:41:11.63\00:41:14.04
The fourth thing is,
00:41:14.07\00:41:15.40
don't be afraid to be different.
00:41:15.44\00:41:17.61
We are different as Christians.
00:41:17.64\00:41:20.48
We are not like everybody else
00:41:20.51\00:41:22.94
and we're
called to be different.
00:41:22.98\00:41:25.41
1 Peter 1:9 says, "For
you are a chosen generation,
00:41:25.45\00:41:29.48
a royal
priesthood, a holy nation,
00:41:29.52\00:41:32.72
His own special people,
00:41:32.75\00:41:34.52
that you may
proclaim the praises of Him
00:41:34.56\00:41:37.33
who called you out of darkness
into His marvelous light."
00:41:37.36\00:41:42.23
So don't be
afraid to be different.
00:41:42.26\00:41:44.53
We are a chosen generation.
00:41:44.57\00:41:48.04
We are a royal priesthood.
00:41:48.07\00:41:49.90
When I look at that
and there's so many people
00:41:49.94\00:41:52.61
who don't have an identity,
00:41:52.64\00:41:54.51
this is really, it
gives us an identity in Him.
00:41:54.54\00:41:58.01
So we don't have to
be afraid to tell people
00:41:58.05\00:42:01.45
who Jesus is and what He's done,
00:42:01.48\00:42:03.52
because we've
been chosen to do that.
00:42:03.55\00:42:05.59
And then number five,
00:42:05.62\00:42:07.09
treat this as a
life and death situation
00:42:07.12\00:42:10.46
because it is.
00:42:10.49\00:42:12.99
1 John 5:12 says, "He
who as the Son has life.
00:42:13.03\00:42:16.97
He who does not
have the Son of God
00:42:17.00\00:42:19.50
does not have life."
00:42:19.53\00:42:22.30
So many are going
to Christless graves
00:42:22.34\00:42:24.37
because they
don't know about Jesus.
00:42:24.41\00:42:27.48
And so, we've been
chosen to share Him
00:42:27.51\00:42:30.35
and there are people who,
00:42:30.38\00:42:32.01
again, might resent
it, might not like it,
00:42:32.05\00:42:35.22
there might be some kind of
00:42:35.25\00:42:39.45
Facebook rising against
what you say but all in all,
00:42:39.49\00:42:45.16
we have to ask the
Lord to give us the courage
00:42:45.19\00:42:48.83
to stand up for Jesus
00:42:48.86\00:42:51.70
in the midst of a
culture that is against,
00:42:51.73\00:42:55.90
we're going against the tide.
00:42:55.94\00:42:58.11
And we have to ask the Lord
00:42:58.14\00:42:59.47
to just give us the
courage to stand up.
00:42:59.51\00:43:01.94
And that's to me,
that's how we reach across
00:43:01.98\00:43:05.91
cultural and
other religious lines.
00:43:05.95\00:43:08.38
That's really good.
00:43:08.42\00:43:10.25
I'm always amazed at how,
00:43:10.29\00:43:12.72
I can explain
something in 30 minutes
00:43:12.75\00:43:14.89
and talk and talk and talk
00:43:14.92\00:43:16.62
and she can do
it in five minutes.
00:43:16.66\00:43:18.83
She gets all the
points that I made and more,
00:43:18.86\00:43:21.53
we tried to make and she
can do it in five minutes
00:43:21.56\00:43:23.73
while I'm just
talking in circles
00:43:23.77\00:43:25.27
going around you always have it,
00:43:25.30\00:43:26.97
you do that
beautifully, you're outstanding.
00:43:27.00\00:43:29.14
But what I'm hearing from
you is we have to love people
00:43:29.17\00:43:31.41
enough to take risks, right?
00:43:31.44\00:43:33.81
You've to take risk. Thank you.
00:43:33.84\00:43:36.44
Kenny and Chris
live across from us
00:43:36.48\00:43:38.41
about 1000 plus feet to the road
00:43:38.45\00:43:40.88
and another 150 feet
but we see their house
00:43:40.92\00:43:43.05
every day and they see ours.
00:43:43.08\00:43:44.95
So the middle of the night.
00:43:44.99\00:43:48.29
You look out the window,
00:43:48.32\00:43:50.06
and you see
their house is on fire.
00:43:50.09\00:43:52.06
Their garage is on fire.
00:43:52.09\00:43:53.43
Well, it's 2
o'clock in the morning.
00:43:53.46\00:43:55.60
You say, honey,
call Kenny and Chris
00:43:55.63\00:43:58.40
to make sure they're okay
00:43:58.43\00:43:59.83
or we run over there
call the fire department,
00:43:59.87\00:44:02.00
call Kenny and Chris
make sure they're okay.
00:44:02.04\00:44:03.81
And I say, are you kidding me?
00:44:03.84\00:44:05.17
It's 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:44:05.21\00:44:07.08
They're sleeping.
00:44:07.11\00:44:08.44
Do you think
I'm gonna offend him
00:44:08.48\00:44:09.98
by waking and calling
him at two in the morning?
00:44:10.01\00:44:12.15
No way am I gonna do that.
00:44:12.18\00:44:14.05
Now, do I love them?
00:44:14.08\00:44:16.25
Apparently not
if talk like that.
00:44:16.28\00:44:19.09
What happens?
00:44:19.12\00:44:20.56
Normally I'd never call them
at two in the morning unless
00:44:20.59\00:44:23.02
there's some
great emergency, right?
00:44:23.06\00:44:25.29
But now you tell me
their house is on fire.
00:44:25.33\00:44:28.13
I don't have to go
run and look and say,
00:44:28.16\00:44:30.17
well, let me see, are you sure
00:44:30.20\00:44:31.73
is if you say the house is
on fire and you see blazes,
00:44:31.77\00:44:34.67
what am I going to do?
00:44:34.70\00:44:36.47
I'm going to love
them enough to offend them.
00:44:36.50\00:44:39.37
And they'll thank
us later when we do it,
00:44:39.41\00:44:41.98
because hopefully
they'll live through it.
00:44:42.01\00:44:43.78
And maybe they were
asleep and we woke them up.
00:44:43.81\00:44:45.98
That's the same
way with the gospel.
00:44:46.01\00:44:47.35
People say, well, I
got these neighbors,
00:44:47.38\00:44:50.62
and they're such and such,
00:44:50.65\00:44:51.99
or whatever but I
don't want to offend them.
00:44:52.02\00:44:54.92
I was in a state,
00:44:54.96\00:44:57.86
I'll just say
long ways from here.
00:44:57.89\00:45:00.20
And that was one of the
things I went to the night
00:45:00.23\00:45:03.43
before the church service.
00:45:03.47\00:45:04.80
Some people talk
to me, they said,
00:45:04.83\00:45:06.23
Well, we're in
this big controversy
00:45:06.27\00:45:08.90
in our church, and
maybe you could settle it,
00:45:08.94\00:45:11.14
don't tell him I talk to you
00:45:11.17\00:45:12.57
before the elders in the church,
00:45:12.61\00:45:14.28
but maybe you and your sermon,
you could just bring this out
00:45:14.31\00:45:17.51
because there
are people up here.
00:45:17.55\00:45:19.41
It's a lot of Roman
Catholic, Lutheran area.
00:45:19.45\00:45:24.12
And there's people
who want to pass out
00:45:24.15\00:45:26.42
the Great Controversy,
00:45:26.45\00:45:28.06
but there's a whole
group who doesn't want
00:45:28.09\00:45:30.69
to and this kind of
splitting our church.
00:45:30.73\00:45:32.69
So he said, so maybe
you could address the folk.
00:45:32.73\00:45:35.76
I said great I'd love to what,
I said, what side are you on?
00:45:35.80\00:45:39.20
And he said, well,
now that you asked,
00:45:39.23\00:45:41.67
he said, I'm against it.
00:45:41.70\00:45:43.17
And I said, you
don't want to pass out
00:45:43.20\00:45:45.31
the Great Controversy?
00:45:45.34\00:45:46.68
He said, no, he said, because
there are so many people here,
00:45:46.71\00:45:49.48
and we had to
live with these people.
00:45:49.51\00:45:50.95
We don't want to be offensive.
00:45:50.98\00:45:52.31
He said when you
read some of that stuff,
00:45:52.35\00:45:54.35
it's very offensive.
00:45:54.38\00:45:55.72
So he said, I'd
rather love the people.
00:45:55.75\00:45:59.05
He said I'd rather...
00:45:59.09\00:46:00.42
So he said,
rather than to do that...
00:46:00.46\00:46:03.16
Well, when he said it, I said,
well, how would you end people?
00:46:03.19\00:46:06.83
Oh, I'd rather love a man.
00:46:06.86\00:46:08.76
And I said, well, I like that.
00:46:08.80\00:46:10.33
And so he said,
well, then will you talk
00:46:10.37\00:46:12.70
about that tomorrow
about loving people?
00:46:12.73\00:46:14.34
I said absolutely.
00:46:14.37\00:46:16.04
I said, I'll
definitely talk about
00:46:16.07\00:46:17.94
that but I said do
have a question. Yeah.
00:46:17.97\00:46:20.64
I said, how long have you
been member of this church?
00:46:20.68\00:46:23.11
Since 1948.
00:46:23.14\00:46:24.55
This is about 10
years ago, since 1948.
00:46:24.58\00:46:27.62
As you can imagine
they're older folk.
00:46:27.65\00:46:29.38
And I said, how long have
you subscribed to loving people
00:46:29.42\00:46:33.29
and by not offending them
00:46:33.32\00:46:34.99
with books and things like that?
00:46:35.02\00:46:36.83
Always said
just most of my life,
00:46:36.86\00:46:39.19
I said, well, just so
I'll know clear in mine,
00:46:39.23\00:46:41.60
how many people have
you loved in your way?
00:46:41.63\00:46:43.73
Love your neighbors and
your friends and all that.
00:46:43.77\00:46:46.80
How many have you loved in?
00:46:46.84\00:46:49.07
And he looked at his wife
00:46:49.10\00:46:50.64
and she said, well,
back about 20 years ago,
00:46:50.67\00:46:53.07
there was one couple that came
but they never got baptized.
00:46:53.11\00:46:56.91
So I said, well, let
me get this straight.
00:46:56.95\00:46:58.71
You're against
somebody trying something.
00:46:58.75\00:47:00.82
You've been doing
something now for 40 years,
00:47:00.85\00:47:03.49
45 years old, it's not working.
00:47:03.52\00:47:05.62
You can't even talk about it.
00:47:05.65\00:47:07.22
And I said, I'm
on the other side,
00:47:07.26\00:47:09.79
I'm for anything
somebody else is willing to try.
00:47:09.82\00:47:12.93
I would do it
because you're in a rut,
00:47:12.96\00:47:14.63
when you cannot.
00:47:14.66\00:47:16.00
If you've not won anything,
seen anybody to the Lord,
00:47:16.03\00:47:19.07
no one's come
in through your way
00:47:19.10\00:47:21.04
of what you think is love.
00:47:21.07\00:47:22.50
So really, who cares the
most, the house is on fire.
00:47:22.54\00:47:25.41
That's right.
00:47:25.44\00:47:26.94
We don't care.
00:47:26.98\00:47:28.31
We're gonna put that book
00:47:28.34\00:47:29.68
and if they
don't want to read it,
00:47:29.71\00:47:31.05
they can throw it away, right?
00:47:31.08\00:47:32.41
But we're not
going to do nothing
00:47:32.45\00:47:33.92
and just smile at them and say,
00:47:33.95\00:47:35.38
hey, how you doing and love them
00:47:35.42\00:47:36.82
so to speak from a distance.
00:47:36.85\00:47:38.35
We're loving them by
showing them we care.
00:47:38.39\00:47:41.19
Sharing and caring, right, Jay,
by doing something different,
00:47:41.22\00:47:45.43
and this folk want to
pass out the Great Controversy.
00:47:45.46\00:47:48.46
I'm all for that side.
00:47:48.50\00:47:49.90
I said, you still want me
to talk about it tomorrow.
00:47:49.93\00:47:52.93
Well, you don't
need to worry about that.
00:47:52.97\00:47:55.07
He said, I get you.
00:47:55.10\00:47:56.44
No use getting
involved in our problem.
00:47:56.47\00:47:57.91
Oh, my.
00:47:57.94\00:48:02.44
So guess what I did?
00:48:02.48\00:48:04.38
Talk about it. Oh, boy.
00:48:04.41\00:48:06.05
I couldn't help it there
was some division going on.
00:48:06.08\00:48:10.39
So I said, we have
to talk about the truth.
00:48:10.42\00:48:12.19
I didn't expose
him or what he did.
00:48:12.22\00:48:14.62
I just said, you know,
00:48:14.66\00:48:15.99
I understand
there are some things
00:48:16.02\00:48:17.59
and talking to people.
00:48:17.63\00:48:18.96
But you know, hey,
if it's not working,
00:48:18.99\00:48:20.96
you've been 40
some years and your way
00:48:21.00\00:48:23.20
of loving people is not working,
00:48:23.23\00:48:24.57
let's try something different.
00:48:24.60\00:48:27.90
I think that we
see that issue a lot
00:48:27.94\00:48:30.61
especially today
because so many people
00:48:30.64\00:48:32.74
want you to be their enabler,
00:48:32.77\00:48:34.54
rather than teaching them
00:48:34.58\00:48:35.91
that they can gain the
victory over something.
00:48:35.94\00:48:37.88
So they want you to
agree with their lifestyle.
00:48:37.91\00:48:39.91
They want you to go
00:48:39.95\00:48:41.32
with them in the
direction that they're going.
00:48:41.35\00:48:43.42
When they're headed
in the wrong direction
00:48:43.45\00:48:45.15
they don't want to be rerouted.
00:48:45.19\00:48:46.82
They don't want to make changes,
00:48:46.86\00:48:48.69
you know, with
growth and stuff like that.
00:48:48.72\00:48:52.76
It can be an
uncomfortable process
00:48:52.79\00:48:55.53
because you're shifting
gears, you're being redirected
00:48:55.56\00:49:00.00
and so it can be an
uncomfortable process,
00:49:00.04\00:49:02.10
but the end result is sweet.
00:49:02.14\00:49:03.81
Yeah, you opened a
whole another can of worms
00:49:03.84\00:49:05.84
that we have to
talk about on another.
00:49:05.87\00:49:07.81
We should do another
program about people wanting
00:49:07.84\00:49:11.18
the church to change
and the people to change
00:49:11.21\00:49:13.62
and the beliefs to
change to fit their system.
00:49:13.65\00:49:16.48
They wanna come in
00:49:16.52\00:49:17.85
and be baptized
and join the church
00:49:17.89\00:49:19.42
but look, I don't believe
this, I don't believe that,
00:49:19.45\00:49:22.32
I don't want to do, you
know, and though it's not
00:49:22.36\00:49:24.56
what we personally want is,
00:49:24.59\00:49:25.99
well, look, I always
say if you don't love it,
00:49:26.03\00:49:27.86
leave it or if you don't
agree with it don't join.
00:49:27.90\00:49:30.47
In other words, don't
come in and try to change
00:49:30.50\00:49:32.73
everything around
and cause division
00:49:32.77\00:49:34.84
and problems within the church
00:49:34.87\00:49:36.20
'cause that just won't happen
but that's for another day.
00:49:36.24\00:49:39.77
A lot of people
want to be saved in sin,
00:49:39.81\00:49:41.61
but not from sin.
00:49:41.64\00:49:42.98
And that's a
lack of understanding
00:49:43.01\00:49:44.81
of what the gospel
message is all about,
00:49:44.85\00:49:47.12
you know, because we
don't realize as human beings
00:49:47.15\00:49:50.19
how far we have
fallen from grace.
00:49:50.22\00:49:52.32
And it's all these
things, it's all these passages
00:49:52.35\00:49:55.89
we've been talking about that
puts us back on the right track
00:49:55.92\00:49:59.86
back on that ladder
that leads to Jesus,
00:49:59.89\00:50:02.83
that leads to heaven.
00:50:02.86\00:50:04.30
And so many thoughts
have come to my mind.
00:50:04.33\00:50:07.54
I was in tears, really,
through a part of yours,
00:50:07.57\00:50:10.81
Sister Yvonne,
because it reminded me
00:50:10.84\00:50:14.01
of the storms that
we have recently had,
00:50:14.04\00:50:16.01
we had one December 5th of 2021,
00:50:16.04\00:50:19.05
and then one December 10th.
00:50:19.08\00:50:21.22
And the December 10th
00:50:21.25\00:50:24.29
didn't hit this
area quite as bad
00:50:24.32\00:50:26.69
as it did a
little south from here,
00:50:26.72\00:50:28.09
but we didn't know.
00:50:28.12\00:50:29.46
And that's what
brought me to tears
00:50:29.49\00:50:33.83
is because a lot of
their cases is closed,
00:50:33.86\00:50:37.67
their probation has ended.
00:50:37.70\00:50:39.83
And so my thought was,
00:50:39.87\00:50:41.57
you know, when God
lays something on our heart,
00:50:41.60\00:50:44.47
to say, or to
share, or to give a book,
00:50:44.51\00:50:47.74
or to pass out
the Great Controversy,
00:50:47.78\00:50:49.64
you don't know if that'll
be the recipients' last chance
00:50:49.68\00:50:54.22
to accept the gospel message.
00:50:54.25\00:50:56.72
And so, you know,
I've often thought
00:50:56.75\00:50:58.45
as I listened and I
read about these stories,
00:50:58.49\00:51:01.32
you know, where
were their hearts,
00:51:01.36\00:51:03.53
where were their lives?
00:51:03.56\00:51:04.89
Did they know Jesus?
00:51:04.93\00:51:06.26
Were they saved, you know?
00:51:06.29\00:51:09.16
Then when you were
talking about the fire
00:51:09.20\00:51:12.30
on the December 10th storm,
00:51:12.33\00:51:14.44
you guys probably
have your phone set
00:51:14.47\00:51:16.10
where they go
off at about 12:30.
00:51:16.14\00:51:18.37
It starts going
off this storm coming
00:51:18.41\00:51:20.01
moving 80 miles an hour
with wind gusts over 60.
00:51:20.04\00:51:23.14
And I'm thinking about a
couple that just lived here,
00:51:23.18\00:51:25.65
just moved here.
00:51:25.68\00:51:27.02
They're on 3ABN property,
00:51:27.05\00:51:28.62
but they're in a travel trailer.
00:51:28.65\00:51:31.02
And they, we had
talked to them that day.
00:51:31.05\00:51:33.76
We were hoping
they were going to get
00:51:33.79\00:51:35.52
the block bathroom open.
00:51:35.56\00:51:37.89
So they'd have a storm shelter,
but apparently, they didn't.
00:51:37.93\00:51:40.93
And so, I'm like I
don't know what I did to do.
00:51:40.96\00:51:43.16
I wonder if they know,
00:51:43.20\00:51:44.53
I wonder if
their phones went off.
00:51:44.57\00:51:45.93
So about 1 o'clock
here it goes again,
00:51:45.97\00:51:47.97
and I could hear it coming.
00:51:48.00\00:51:49.47
And I slipped out and
went into another room
00:51:49.50\00:51:51.07
and I called I
said don't hate me.
00:51:51.11\00:51:52.61
Oh, I've got a basement.
00:51:55.81\00:51:57.15
You guys can come you know,
do whatever you need to do,
00:51:57.18\00:51:59.48
you know, but this is coming.
00:51:59.51\00:52:01.92
And so I knew they were praying,
00:52:01.95\00:52:04.05
I was praying another lady.
00:52:04.09\00:52:05.42
There was probably
people all over here.
00:52:05.45\00:52:07.76
The next day, I
don't know if you noticed,
00:52:07.79\00:52:09.82
but there were
trees down, down, down,
00:52:09.86\00:52:12.49
and just right on the
other side of the old church
00:52:12.53\00:52:16.26
it stopped on
149 heading this way
00:52:16.30\00:52:19.43
because I could hear it.
00:52:19.47\00:52:20.90
And as they were on
the phone, they're like,
00:52:20.94\00:52:22.64
I think it's stopped.
00:52:22.67\00:52:24.51
And I thought it
really has stopped.
00:52:24.54\00:52:27.04
Well, people were praying.
00:52:27.08\00:52:29.51
God's angels were
so busy that night.
00:52:29.54\00:52:31.45
We had no idea.
00:52:31.48\00:52:33.28
You know, there were
a lot of miracle stories
00:52:33.31\00:52:35.62
that came out of these storms.
00:52:35.65\00:52:37.45
But my whole point
was sharing is caring.
00:52:37.49\00:52:41.82
And if we care for people,
00:52:41.86\00:52:43.56
we need to share this
gospel message to help people.
00:52:43.59\00:52:47.03
How many times have we
seen that over the years
00:52:47.06\00:52:49.46
our master
control operators watching
00:52:49.50\00:52:51.37
the weather and
it's headed right to down
00:52:51.40\00:52:54.17
149 or headed right
to 3ABN and it separates
00:52:54.20\00:52:59.31
and literally may come
down on the other side.
00:52:59.34\00:53:01.61
Quickly, about 10,
11 years or so ago.
00:53:01.64\00:53:05.11
She came here and move to
we weren't married of course
00:53:05.15\00:53:09.15
and she moved to Marion.
00:53:09.18\00:53:12.25
And so, she called one
night about 10 o'clock.
00:53:12.29\00:53:15.12
There's tornado warnings
and it was windy and rainy
00:53:15.16\00:53:18.43
and she's new to the area
so whatever many years ago,
00:53:18.46\00:53:22.43
new to the area so she
calls and she says I don't know.
00:53:22.46\00:53:25.50
She lives in an apartment there,
00:53:25.53\00:53:26.97
first floor, it's not
built out of concrete.
00:53:27.00\00:53:29.67
No place to hide she
goes, "There must be a tornado.
00:53:29.70\00:53:32.37
This is terrible.
I hear this sound."
00:53:32.41\00:53:34.31
And I say, "No it's
okay." I said, "Don't panic."
00:53:34.34\00:53:36.95
I said, "It's Southern Illinois,
00:53:36.98\00:53:38.31
you'll get a lot of
storms this time of year."
00:53:38.35\00:53:40.22
She goes, "No, I feel
like this is really bad."
00:53:40.25\00:53:43.45
I said, "No." so I walk outside.
00:53:43.49\00:53:45.35
Did you pray for me?
00:53:45.39\00:53:46.72
I did but I walk outside.
00:53:46.76\00:53:48.09
I was praying
to calm her nerves.
00:53:48.12\00:53:50.16
You know because
she's overreacting,
00:53:50.19\00:53:52.46
it's just a storm, right?
00:53:52.49\00:53:54.30
Well, what I don't know
is a tornado came over Marion
00:53:54.33\00:53:58.37
and that's when it
hit into Harrisburg.
00:53:58.40\00:54:00.57
So it went right over her house
literally and a few miles later
00:54:00.60\00:54:04.11
and killed I think
four or five, six people
00:54:04.14\00:54:06.74
was a devastating tornado.
00:54:06.78\00:54:09.04
And she was saying, "Oh
my whole house is shaken."
00:54:09.08\00:54:11.18
I said, no, because
I'm just 12 miles away.
00:54:11.21\00:54:13.35
Mine's fine, and I
don't hear anything
00:54:13.38\00:54:15.48
so I said no, you're upset.
00:54:15.52\00:54:18.05
It's not that bad
you come to find out,
00:54:18.09\00:54:20.42
so maybe that's another
thing, Jay, about sleeping.
00:54:20.46\00:54:23.39
We need to listen to
the warnings and the signs
00:54:23.43\00:54:26.26
and don't be asleep, wake up.
00:54:26.29\00:54:28.80
When she says, hey,
there's this tornado coming
00:54:28.83\00:54:31.27
I need to be saying, all
right, let's pray quickly.
00:54:31.30\00:54:34.14
Well doesn't seem bad here.
00:54:34.17\00:54:35.60
It seemed okay here,
00:54:35.64\00:54:37.61
but that was a
devastating tornado,
00:54:37.64\00:54:39.77
but it spared you.
00:54:39.81\00:54:41.14
That's good. You
know that for sure.
00:54:41.18\00:54:42.51
Yeah, I think it went around me
00:54:42.54\00:54:44.18
but my apartment
was literally shaken.
00:54:44.21\00:54:46.95
It had been close.
00:54:46.98\00:54:48.32
It just landed a few
miles to the east of you.
00:54:48.35\00:54:51.35
Yeah.
00:54:51.39\00:54:52.72
When we do
evangelistic series there's one
00:54:52.75\00:54:56.22
I think that's entitled
Don't sleep through the Sirens
00:54:56.26\00:55:00.33
and that's all of us right now.
00:55:00.36\00:55:02.26
You know, if there are not
sirens going off in the land,
00:55:02.30\00:55:05.30
if the trumpets
are not sounding.
00:55:05.33\00:55:09.04
I guess, we'd all be asleep
00:55:09.07\00:55:11.27
'cause I just
feel like there are
00:55:11.31\00:55:12.87
so many things
that are happening
00:55:12.91\00:55:15.08
to tell us that, that
Christ's second coming
00:55:15.11\00:55:17.75
is very near the
door and we need to do
00:55:17.78\00:55:20.98
what we can to not
sleep through the sirens.
00:55:21.02\00:55:23.79
It's so important.
00:55:23.82\00:55:26.05
And there's so much
going on in the world today.
00:55:26.09\00:55:28.82
It's easy for us to just kind
00:55:28.86\00:55:31.36
of be lulled into this
false sense of security,
00:55:31.39\00:55:34.83
or to ignore what's going on
00:55:34.86\00:55:37.70
because we're distracted
by the cares of this life,
00:55:37.73\00:55:40.47
or the deceitfulness of
riches, as the sower you know.
00:55:40.50\00:55:45.67
So all of these things
are our wake-up calls for us.
00:55:45.71\00:55:50.75
Yes.
00:55:50.78\00:55:52.11
And we need to at
this point in time
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share what we know
and share the gospel.
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Sharing is caring.
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That's such a good title
to, and the way Jesus did.
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Quickly a couple of
things I jotted down,
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He reached out,
Jesus reached out for them,
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we got to reach out for them.
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He sought them. He met them.
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He carried.
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He carried the gospel
at all times with Him,
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and He loved them.
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And He showed very
strong personal interest
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in what they were doing.
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These are things
that will help us
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in soul winning and
talking about sharing is caring,
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we're going to do that.
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We need to seek people out.
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That's what Jesus did.
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And one thing I
need to learn quickly
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is Jesus saw in
every individual soul
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that needs to be saved.
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So every individual I
see is someone for heaven.
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Lord, help me to see
that in every bunker,
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how they look, how they act.
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Oh, it's good.
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I'm so glad that
you brought that up
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because that's the thing.
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We can't judge the
recipient of the gospel.
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So someone's tatted
up if they've got tattoos
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on their face and everything.
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They look like a
rock star or whatever.
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They need Jesus just
as much as the next person
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and they may have a
heart that is more on fire
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than the person
that is clean-faced
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and everything
that's their past.
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That's not their future.
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God knows where they can head
so don't judge the recipient.
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I can't believe our
time is just about up.
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Where did it go?
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I believe it started.
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This has escaped us so fast.
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This has been wonderful.
00:57:19.13\00:57:20.47
Thank you so much for
all of the contributions,
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the thoughts that
you have provided,
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and I'm gonna have
to watch this again,
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so I can take it all in.
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I hope that you've
been blessed by this.
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I hope you have a Happy Sabbath
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and remember that
sharing is caring.
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God bless.
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