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Series Code: TDYL
Program Code: TDYL210010B
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00:10 Amen. Welcome back, my friends.
00:12 We have been talking about evangelism. 00:14 We're talking about how we all myself, 00:16 you can reach the world and play our role 00:20 and play a major part in reaching the world 00:22 with the everlasting gospel 00:23 during these very interesting times 00:25 that we're living in. 00:27 We know Jesus is indeed coming soon. 00:28 And we're here with our friends from ASI, Elder Steve Dickman, 00:33 President of ASI, and Elder Rodney Bowes, 00:36 Vice President of Evangelism for ASI. 00:39 And we, then this last hour, we learned so much about 00:42 the new 3AM Call initiative, 00:45 evangelism initiative that you guys, 00:47 the Lord inspired you actually here last year on 3ABN campus. 00:50 And here we are a year later and this thing is coming alive, 00:54 and I'm very excited about it. 00:55 But before we get into more details of this, 00:59 just a few moments ago, as we were going to break, 01:02 we got some good news about registration 01:06 for the upcoming ASI session in '21, 2021. 01:11 Brother Steve, would you like to tell us about that? 01:13 So we have just finished a few days ago, 01:17 renegotiating a contract 01:19 to meet at Rosen Shingle Creek Resort 01:22 in Orlando, Florida. 01:24 Some of you have may have been 01:25 there before with us, a beautiful resort area there. 01:27 This summer, August 4 through 7, 2021, 01:31 we will be there together again. 01:33 All right. 01:34 And registration is now open and live. 01:37 So you can go there to our website, 01:39 asiministries.org, and you can register 01:44 for our convention at August 4 through 7, 01:47 and you can join us there. 01:49 Now, things are going to be a little bit different. 01:51 It's true. 01:53 We're gonna have to practice some social distancing. 01:55 We're gonna have to... 01:57 We're kind of reducing the number of seminars, 01:59 allowing more time for personal networking 02:02 and fellowship and interaction, 02:04 but we'll still have our exhibit hall. 02:07 We will have our main sessions together. 02:10 We'll be doing a little different seating, 02:11 but we're going to be there together. 02:13 And we're just looking forward to this. 02:15 And, friends, if you've never been 02:16 to an ASI Convention, 02:18 we're inviting you to join us in Orlando. 02:20 It's gonna be an exciting time together. 02:22 Hearing stories and testimonies of laypeople 02:25 who are spreading 02:27 the three angels' messages to the world. 02:29 It's... 02:31 You know, I love our ASI Conventions. 02:33 I always leave them inspired. 02:35 And so if you're thinking about joining us, go to this website, 02:39 asiministries.org, and sign up register 02:43 for our convention in Orlando, Florida, 02:45 August 4 through 7. 02:47 We're excited that we can bring you that 02:49 good news here this evening. 02:50 And let you know registration is open 02:53 and you can be a part of the ASI Convention. 02:56 You don't have to be a member. 02:57 You can come as a visitor. 02:59 You can join us there and appreciate the interaction, 03:02 the fellowship, the inspiration you will get. 03:05 Our goal is when people leave this convention, 03:07 they will be inspired. 03:09 They will be enthused to leave and go forward to share these 03:13 three angels' messages with the world. 03:15 Amen. I love it. 03:17 Beautiful. I'm excited about that. 03:18 I'm excited too. Praise the Lord. 03:20 And again, we want to tell you if you have any questions, 03:23 I'm actually holding some right here 03:24 that just came in. 03:25 I'm gonna be asking those in just a moment. 03:27 If you have some questions you'd like to submit, 03:29 couple of ways you can do that, of course, by text, 03:31 you'll see the number on the screen there 03:33 (618) 228-3975, text it into us 03:38 or you can email us your question. 03:40 There it is right there live@3abn.tv. 03:45 So send us in your questions. 03:46 Guys, I've got a couple of them here for you. 03:48 And the first one, pretty simple. 03:50 It says, this is coming from Marshall, by the way. 03:53 And Marshall says, Will the 3AM Call program 03:57 be available in other languages?" 04:00 Well, Rodney, what about this? 04:02 So we're gonna do other languages. 04:04 Well, if we're faithful to the commission that 04:07 we have here in Revelation, it has to be. 04:10 So yes, ASI has developed a translation engine 04:15 so that we can quickly translate 04:19 the material and prepare slides 04:21 and so forth into other languages. 04:24 So what we need... Already though... 04:26 Already we have 35 languages translated 04:30 with the New Beginnings tool, 04:31 which we're gonna talk about in a few minutes. 04:32 Right. 04:34 So there are already 04:35 some things that are translated. 04:36 Now, the training itself 04:39 is going to be a little more challenging 04:41 to get it translated into many, many languages, 04:44 but probably we have to start 04:45 with some of the major languages 04:47 of the world. 04:48 Sure. 04:50 But our goal is that every layperson 04:52 in the Seventh-day Adventist Church be empowered. 04:55 And if that means we need to create this tool 04:57 in their language, 04:58 then that's just one more thing on our to-do list. 05:01 That's right. It's certainly possible. 05:02 With technology today, you know, 05:04 we can leverage what we have 05:06 and there are some amazing things. 05:08 So what I was saying earlier is we need translators though. 05:12 So maybe there's someone who's watching tonight 05:15 and you are inspired and you say, 05:18 we've got to get this material in my language. 05:21 Please reach out to us. 05:22 And we would love to partner with you 05:26 in getting this material done. 05:27 We have a whole process for translation. 05:30 So we're looking for translators. 05:31 Amen. 05:32 Well, I can tell you with certainty, 05:34 not that I'm a prophet or anything, 05:36 but I know for certainty 05:37 that it's gonna be put in other languages 05:39 because right there in our first angel's message, 05:41 it says, to every nation, tribe, tongue, 05:45 and people, and we know this is from the Lord 05:48 and it's gonna be out there for every person 05:50 in every language to receive. 05:51 So praise the Lord for that. 05:53 And different parts of it 05:54 are coming together at different times. 05:56 We're going to talk in our next segment 05:59 about the health evangelism component. 06:02 And I actually 06:03 just completed recordings in Japanese. 06:05 Okay. 06:06 Not that I was speaking Japanese, 06:08 but we got it done. 06:10 We worked together with the church in Japan. 06:11 Sure. 06:13 And so I'm speaking, my slides are in Japanese. 06:17 And so, it's a beautifully done. 06:19 So that's our plan. We want to do it. 06:22 And you weren't speaking Japanese. 06:23 Now I know enough to know that 06:24 that's not, you weren't had a translator. 06:27 No, it was a voiceover. Oh, okay. 06:30 So I was doing the talking 06:31 and the slide was in Japanese and then the voiceover. 06:34 I see. Very interesting. 06:36 It's amazing what technology can do. 06:38 It's incredible. Yeah. 06:40 Praise the Lord for that. All right. 06:42 Second question here comes in. We had Marshall last time. 06:45 This one says Marchelle and this person says, 06:49 "Would you please repeat the quote 06:51 as well as the reference from EJ Waggoner, 06:53 referring to the three angels' message." 06:56 They said "That was awesome that 06:57 you mentioned their message." 06:58 So the quote from EJ Waggoner, 07:00 could we pull that back up maybe, there it is. 07:02 And if you want to read that for us, Brother. 07:03 Sure, "The theme of greatest importance 07:06 is the third angel's message, 07:09 embracing the messages of the first and second angels. 07:13 All should understand the truth contained in these messages 07:17 and demonstrate them in daily life, 07:21 for this is essential to salvation." 07:25 Amen. 07:27 That's pretty straightforward. 07:28 I like that. That's powerful. 07:30 Clear as could be. 07:31 And we have... Yeah, go ahead. 07:32 Now there's one more question here. 07:34 Okay, go ahead. 07:35 That came in and this is what it says. 07:38 It says, I was completing 07:39 the ASI created a new account, Rodney. 07:41 So they're on this. 07:42 They're registering. That's good. 07:43 I want you to take note of that. 07:45 I got it. You're worked. 07:46 He says, "As I was signing up, it asked my local church, 07:49 but I don't, do not belong to 07:51 a Seventh-day Adventist Church as I am a Christian. 07:53 But during the pandemic, I began watching 3ABN 07:56 and want to share the 3ABN messages. 07:59 And I am thinking about joining. 08:00 Can I still be an ASI 3ABN missionary?" 08:04 What do you say, Rodney? Hallelujah. 08:06 Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. 08:09 Whoever submitted that question, 08:10 I personally want to say, thank you, 08:13 God bless you for listening to the Holy Spirit, 08:16 bringing you into this last day message. 08:18 And you know what? 08:20 We've had several people who have submitted 08:22 the same question to me by email. 08:24 I've had to reverend so-and-so, bishop, 08:27 pastor from all kinds of different denominations. 08:30 I'm reminded of when this message 08:32 was first preached in the 1800s. 08:35 You remember when William Miller 08:37 and his associates were preaching, 08:39 the judgment hour message? 08:40 People were coming in from everywhere. 08:42 It wasn't about denomination. 08:44 It was about truth. Amen. 08:46 And so I'll tell you what they put on this one. 08:49 We'd like to have you put none yet, none yet 08:54 for your local Seventh-day Adventist Church, 08:56 because we believe that 08:57 God is bringing people in, so none yet is 09:01 how you would respond to that question. 09:02 That's nice. 09:04 And, Rodney, then we'll be able to know that 09:07 indeed his appeal has been effective 09:11 and the Holy Spirit has worked on hearts. 09:13 And there are people 09:14 who will be hearing this message 09:16 and sharing this message 09:18 that maybe have never even known it before, 09:21 but they're gonna become acquainted with it. 09:22 They're gonna share it. 09:24 And it's gonna be powerful to see what God is going to do. 09:26 It's God's message. Yeah. 09:28 It is God's final appeal. 09:30 Amen. Praise the Lord. 09:32 Well, we have a couple more questions. 09:33 We're gonna get to those throughout the hour. 09:35 Yeah, go ahead, Brother. You know what? 09:37 We forgot to put up the other quote. 09:39 Good point. We shared two quotes. 09:42 Okay. That's right. 09:43 And we had the one for Ellen White to Waggoner. 09:46 The other one was 09:47 from the book Evangelism, page 119. 09:51 Absolutely. There it is. 09:52 Go ahead and read that for us. 09:54 "In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists 09:56 have been set in the world as watchmen and light-bearers. 10:00 To them has been entrusted the last warning 10:02 for a perishing world. 10:04 On them is shining wonderful light 10:06 from the Word of God. 10:09 And then, they have been 10:10 given a work of the most solemn import, 10:14 the proclamation of the first, 10:17 second and third angels' messages. 10:19 There is no other work of so great importance. 10:23 They are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention." 10:28 Nothing else. May the Lord help us. 10:30 That's right. 10:31 May the Lord help us, 10:33 that's what I'm exactly say for myself. 10:34 I mean, I'm just thinking about this. 10:36 What this is telling me 10:37 is this needs to be my top priority. 10:39 Yeah. 10:40 And can you see how the devil is working 10:43 to squeeze everything with whatever pandemic crisis, 10:48 whatever it is to get our mind off of this, 10:53 that should absorb our attention 10:54 and get us focused on whatever else it could be. 10:56 That's right. Could be ton of other things. 10:58 There's politics or whatever it is. 11:00 Right. 11:02 When we are distracted, the devil is happy. 11:04 That's right. Absolutely. 11:06 We've got to stay laser focused on the mission. 11:08 Absolutely. That's who we are. 11:10 And we have been called as a people in these last days 11:13 to take this everlasting gospel to all the world. 11:16 And that's what we're talking about tonight 11:18 as we are discussing this 3AM Call. 11:21 Again, if you wanna send in those questions, 11:23 please do so, text us at (618) 228-3975. 11:27 Or you can email us that is at live@3abn.tv. 11:32 But before we go on to talk about 11:35 some more of this 3AM Call, 11:37 we have one more special music number 11:39 brought to us again by Miss Stephanie Dawn. 11:41 Love her voice, love her music. 11:43 And this time she's going to be playing for us, 11:46 "I Surrender All." 11:48 Amen. Amen. 12:07 All to Jesus 12:10 I surrender 12:14 All to Him 12:16 I freely give 12:21 I will ever love and trust Him 12:28 In His presence 12:32 Daily live 12:36 All to Jesus I surrender 12:43 Humbly at His feet I bow 12:50 Worldly pleasures 12:54 All forsaken 12:57 Take me, Jesus, 13:01 Take me now 13:05 I surrender all 13:12 I surrender all 13:20 All to Thee, my blessed Savior 13:27 I surrender all 13:36 All to Jesus I surrender 13:43 Make me, Savior, wholly Thine 13:49 Fill me with thy Holy Spirit 13:56 Truly know that 14:00 Thou art mine 14:04 I surrender all 14:11 I surrender all 14:19 All to Thee, 14:22 My blessed Savior 14:27 I surrender all 14:44 All to Jesus 14:48 I surrender 14:51 Now I feel the sacred flame 14:58 Oh, the joy of full salvation! 15:05 Glory, glory, 15:08 To His name! 15:12 I surrender all 15:19 I surrender all 15:27 All to Thee, my blessed Savior 15:34 I surrender all 15:39 Oh, I surrender all 15:47 I surrender all 15:58 All to Thee, 16:00 My blessed Savior 16:08 I surrender all 16:31 Oh, what a blessing. 16:32 Thank you so much there, Stephanie, 16:34 it's beautiful, beautiful singing as always, 16:37 all to Jesus, 16:38 I surrender all to Him, I freely give. 16:41 Isn't that what the gospel is all about? 16:43 It's all about giving ourselves to Jesus Christ fully 100%. 16:47 And you know what? 16:48 We have that divine commission where Jesus says, 16:50 "Go ye into all nations, baptizing them 16:52 in the name of the Father and of the Son 16:54 and the Holy Spirit, teaching them 16:57 and baptizing them, 16:58 continuing to teach them, continuing to make disciples 17:01 for all nations." 17:02 That's what we're here to do. 17:04 And that's what we're here talking tonight 17:05 with our friends from ASI. 17:07 And you know, I just wanna encourage you 17:09 as you're watching at home today. 17:10 I know you guys can echo this as well. 17:12 When you have the Holy Spirit, right? 17:14 When we have the promise 17:16 and scripture, Jesus said, in fact, His last words 17:19 before He would ascend into the heavens, 17:21 He said, when you receive the Holy Spirit, 17:24 you shall receive power to be a witness. 17:27 And you know what? 17:28 That the way you witness, you know, 17:30 we all witnessed in different capacities 17:31 in different ways. 17:33 And that's what this 3AM Call is all about. 17:35 It provides us with the tools to be the best witness 17:37 that we can be for Jesus Christ. 17:39 And so I'm excited about it. 17:41 And we have still lots to discuss 17:43 about the different aspects of this 3AM Call. 17:47 I do want to... 17:48 Wouldn't we have a couple of that came in 17:50 and I wanna ask one right here, 17:51 it seems like maybe a simple one 17:53 that can be answered. 17:54 This comes from Shawn. 17:55 And Shawn says, 17:57 "Exactly what would my part be?" 18:00 What would his part be? 18:01 I love it. I love it. It's a good question. 18:03 So what happens after you register on Sunday, 18:07 you will get an email, 18:08 the title is the 3AM weekly missions. 18:13 And there are two or three weekly missions 18:16 that are very practical. 18:18 They talk about 18:19 how we can do Christ method alone. 18:22 It gives a list of things that you can do for your neighbor. 18:25 You know, a lot of us don't even know 18:26 our neighbors. 18:28 That's the reality. So what's the first step? 18:30 You get to know your neighbor, right? 18:32 And it gives you an idea, 18:34 bake some bread or bring some cookies 18:38 or whatever it is it's getting to know your neighbor. 18:41 So, Shawn, an excellent question. 18:44 We have over... 18:46 I mean, we have hundreds 18:47 of different practical things like that 18:49 that you can do to witness to people, 18:51 winning their confidence. 18:53 And then we have all the tools to share the message, 18:57 which is the, the meat, 18:59 the heart of the gospel in the three angels' messages. 19:02 Amen. Praise the Lord. 19:04 I love that. Brother, go ahead. 19:05 So Rodney, Bob from Wyoming has a question for you. 19:10 I love it. Okay. 19:12 So Bob says, "I'm interested in being a part of this 19:14 3AM Call missionary group that but we're senior citizens 19:19 and just staying home most of the time. 19:22 My question is, is if you have some tools 19:25 that can enhance our capacity for the Lord?" 19:29 Amen. 19:30 Bob, thank you so much for that question. 19:32 Yes. 19:34 This is available for every person, 19:37 no matter what the age is in this category, 19:39 senior citizens, you know, 19:41 actually we have developed this 19:43 so that it is built in, it's part of the curriculum 19:47 that you have to share it with others. 19:49 Now, a lot of what is done 19:51 is on our social media platforms. 19:53 So if you don't have a Facebook account yet, 19:56 create one, that's step number one. 19:59 And all of us have different ways 20:02 that we can share electronically, right? 20:05 How many people have email accounts? 20:06 That's right. Most people. 20:08 Most people have email, right? That's the basic thing. 20:11 Rodney, they're in the senior category. 20:12 Now there might be a few senior citizens 20:14 who'd rather write a letter. 20:16 That's totally fine as well. 20:17 Okay. That is totally fine. 20:19 It doesn't have to be only digital. 20:21 Right. 20:22 Digital is the main way, 20:24 but writing letters and adding in the Glow tract 20:28 on the three angels' messages, how many people get bills? 20:34 Yeah. Right? 20:35 Yeah, sure. And you know what? 20:36 That's free witnessing 20:38 because there's a return envelope 20:39 and it says postage paid, right? 20:42 I love that. 20:43 Glow track, three angels' messages. 20:45 There's a three angels' messages 20:47 Glow track, the final call. 20:49 You slip that right in 20:50 with the little handwritten note, right? 20:53 That's right. That's it. 20:54 That's a way that it can be shared. 20:57 How about this one, oh, Rodney? 20:59 How many people get telemarketer calls? 21:01 Have you ever... 21:03 I mean, the list is endless of the people 21:05 that want to call you and talk to you. 21:07 And if you could just divert the conversation 21:09 and say, thank you so much for calling me. 21:11 I don't necessarily wanna buy your product, 21:13 but I have something for you. 21:14 There you go. 21:16 And turn it around on them it's just this little idea... 21:17 That's exactly right. 21:18 You know, most of the time, 21:20 I'm not very interested in talking to them 21:22 because I don't have a lot of time to do that. 21:24 But if I get my mindset right, I think I could. 21:27 Just say, turn that conversation around. 21:29 Say, you know, I'm not interested in 21:32 an extended warranty for my car, 21:34 but I do have something better 21:36 than an extended warranty for you. 21:37 I have something you can get eternal life. 21:39 Do you know what, Steve? 21:40 I've actually gotten into that habit 21:43 when I'm talking to someone 21:45 either a business transaction or something else. 21:48 I've gotten into the habit of encouraging them 21:51 to go to one of many websites, 21:53 Amazing Facts is one, 3ABN, you know, 21:56 whatever it could be that 21:57 you want to use as your witnessing tool. 22:01 I am always amazed at the responses of the people. 22:04 It's like, they totally change. 22:06 Many of them say, thank you so much. 22:09 I say, you know, after your break is over, 22:11 here's a website. 22:12 I want you to check out. I'm sure you're gonna like it. 22:15 And 90 plus percent of the people, 22:18 they honestly sound like they enjoy it. 22:21 They said, can you repeat that again? 22:22 I'm gonna write that down. 22:24 So I think people are open. Amen. 22:26 A lot more open than we can think. 22:28 Absolutely. 22:30 So I have one more question. Okay. 22:31 This one comes from Anne in Boise, Idaho. 22:33 Okay. 22:34 And Anne says, "How do we witness 22:36 through this program to others? 22:38 Do you refer someone 22:40 or do we have to find someone in our own?" 22:42 All right. 22:43 The whole idea of the 3AM Call 22:45 is to use your circle of influence. 22:49 God has given us family members, 22:53 coworkers, neighbors, 22:55 and even our big Facebook audience, right? 22:59 People that we don't necessarily know, 23:01 but they're our "friends." 23:03 Right? 23:04 So as part of the course, 23:06 for an example, I'm jumping ahead. 23:08 Maybe we'll come back to the later, 23:10 but in the three cosmic messages course, 23:13 one of the assignments 23:15 is to watch the video of Mark Finley 23:18 preaching these messages. 23:19 Right. 23:21 And the assignment 23:22 then is to share it with 10 other people. 23:24 Right. 23:25 You mean like share it as in, just push the share button. 23:27 Just push the share button. Yeah, it's pretty simple. 23:29 That's it. Right on YouTube. 23:31 Seconds. 23:32 On YouTube, there's the share button. 23:34 And then YouTube opens this big window. 23:36 Do you wanna share it on Instagram, 23:38 on Facebook, on Twitter, 23:40 on all of these different platforms 23:42 or share it in the email, right? 23:44 So there's a lot of different ways 23:46 that you can share these messages 23:48 without doing it yourself, but we're getting to that 23:51 because we want everyone to actually share it. 23:54 That's right. We want everyone to sign up. 23:56 We want everyone to register. 23:57 And that actually provides me an opportunity. 23:59 We spoke briefly last hour 24:01 about this goal number that you got. 24:03 Remember, we started out at 5,000, 10,000. 24:06 Well, we were too low, even at 50,000. 24:08 Let's talk about the goal number, 24:10 the first goal number that you have 24:12 and how you want people to sign up 24:14 and refer others to this as well? 24:17 Our dream is that 24:20 before the General Conference session, 24:23 which is now been moved to 2022. 24:25 Okay. 24:27 We would like to have 24:28 1 million Seventh-day Adventists 24:31 and pre-Adventists. 24:34 Those who are not yet 24:36 part of our church are welcome to join. 24:39 Join this and share the three angels' message, 1 million. 24:42 One million? 24:43 And we believe that 24:44 if that there's a something called synergy. 24:47 Synergy is where those working together 24:50 can accomplish far more than 24:52 if we were working independently. 24:54 Right. So we have a challenge. 24:56 I wanna give a challenge to our viewing audience. 24:59 We actually would like for you to do an evangelistic campaign, 25:04 however, it may be on April 4, 25:09 that might be in your local church. 25:11 I know that's very soon. 25:13 That's only a week from Sunday. 25:15 It could be digitally, virtually. 25:19 And we'll talk more about 25:20 how you can do that, but we want everyone to be 25:23 intentionally sharing 25:24 the three angels' messages on April 4. 25:28 Amen. April 4, now that sounds soon. 25:32 But it's possible, especially in the day and time 25:34 that we have with all the technology 25:36 and opportunities that we have, 25:37 you know, you're talking about doing it. 25:39 You know, even if you can't do it 25:40 in person or, 25:41 you know, before a live audience, 25:43 you could do it digitally, right? 25:44 Whether it be through Zoom. 25:46 And I know I did an evangelistic series recently, 25:48 actually through Zoom 25:50 and YouTube at the exact same time. 25:51 I was covering two audiences. 25:53 Well, you've already got what I was gonna say. 25:55 Right. 25:56 Then let's talk about a little bit more, 25:59 how someone could actually do this. 26:01 Okay. Right? 26:03 This device right here is a powerful tool. 26:05 Yes, it is. 26:07 And simply using this tool and a Zoom account 26:11 and connected that to YouTube or Facebook. 26:15 Those are free platforms. 26:17 You just do that and you can do the series. 26:19 Amen. It is fully scripted. 26:22 It's not like we're asking people 26:23 to sit down like you did Steve, 26:26 and wrote an entire evangelistic series 26:29 on the flight so to speak. 26:32 This is fully scripted. 26:34 The graphics are incredible for our different programs 26:38 that we have. 26:39 So everything is there. 26:41 The tools are there in the tool box. 26:43 We're simply asking people 26:45 to open the toolbox and to use the tools. 26:48 Absolutely. 26:49 So you were referencing, you know, 26:51 I guess you were talking about 26:52 the New Beginnings series there. 26:53 I was. 26:55 Let's talk about that for a moment. 26:56 New beginnings, because you were telling me 26:57 a little bit of story of how that came about. 26:59 I've used the New Beginnings, they're fantastic. 27:00 And you guys have a new updated version 27:02 of these a 4.0 that people have access to. 27:06 So, Ryan, back in the day before New Beginnings 27:12 I was attending an ASI Convention 27:15 and someone challenged me 27:17 and I'm not a preacher by training. 27:19 I'm a layperson. 27:21 And they said, "You should do an evangelistic series." 27:25 And I was like, no about that. 27:27 But, you know, and they said, 27:29 "Yeah, now, everybody needs to do this." 27:31 And I saw other people who weren't preachers doing it. 27:33 And I said, "Well, maybe I do." 27:35 So we went home and prayed about it. 27:37 And we took a group of students to the Ukraine. 27:39 And our goal was to do several series 27:42 of evangelistic series concurrently. 27:45 And I didn't have a prepared series. 27:48 Right. 27:49 So I would preach at night and then I would go home 27:52 and I would study most of the rest of the night 27:54 and would get up in the morning, 27:56 study the rest of the day. 27:57 And by that night, have another sermon ready. 28:00 And I presented at that night. 28:01 And so it was like this marathon 28:04 to get ready for each one. 28:06 Right. 28:07 And I've talked to other people who had that same experience 28:10 and out of those kinds of experiences 28:13 the tool was born to say, 28:15 what if we have some really powerful graphic images 28:17 and some very well thought out scripts, 28:20 well-studied scripts that were just biblical 28:24 and truth would just ooze out of them 28:27 as you presented them. 28:29 What if we had that all arranged 28:31 so that you didn't have to do all of that? 28:34 You could just mostly focus on the presentation itself. 28:36 That's right. 28:37 And so, that's where New Beginnings was born 28:40 and developed in about 2000 or so. 28:44 It was launched in its initial stages. 28:47 And since that time, 28:49 hundreds of thousands of laypeople 28:51 around the world have been trained. 28:53 This message has gone viral 28:56 you might say in that kind of way. 28:59 And just recently we did an update. 29:01 Rodney was kind of in charge of that 29:05 and updated the graphics and the scripts 29:08 to the most modern representation 29:11 we can 4k graphics and the scripts 29:13 that are really focused on the love of God 29:15 and how that, 29:17 that is the essence of the gospel. 29:18 Absolutely. 29:20 And so, it's a new updated version 29:22 of New Beginnings. 29:23 They're on our 3AM Call website, 29:25 and anybody can go there and get them and use them. 29:26 Yeah, I think they had a graphic a few moments ago. 29:28 If you could pull that back up there, 29:30 that graphic of the New Beginnings, 29:32 powerful, this series is beautiful. 29:36 It's user-friendly, anybody can do it. 29:37 You don't, you know, 29:39 if someone's sitting at home right now saying, 29:40 I don't know how I could ever preach 29:42 an evangelistic series on my own. 29:44 This is, this is it. 29:45 This is the way you can do it 29:46 because the tools have been provided for you. 29:48 When did you preach your series? 29:50 I'm curious on New Beginning. 29:52 I think I used New Beginnings back, 29:54 I think it was probably 2012, 2013, 29:56 somewhere around there. 29:58 I had just received 29:59 one of your older versions of it. 30:00 And I incorporated it into my own evangelistic series 30:03 when I was out on the road, preaching as an evangelist. 30:06 So you will love these graphics. 30:09 You haven't seen them yet, I don't think. 30:11 All right, I don't think the new ones. 30:13 But we have a lot of artwork 30:15 that the Justinian creative group 30:17 has done specifically for this series. 30:20 It's not been seen before. 30:22 And so these graphics are amazing. 30:25 They are available in 4k HD and standard definition, 30:30 depending on what a person's need is. 30:32 What I really like about this series is that 30:35 the notes are embedded in the presentation itself. 30:39 So you don't need even a script book. 30:42 All you need is a laptop in front of you or a tablet, 30:45 which can be very inexpensive. 30:47 That's all that there is to it. That's awesome. 30:50 And some people have actually just taken the script. 30:54 They haven't been very eloquent at all. 30:56 And they've just literally read the script, 30:59 and they're reading. 31:01 Can you imagine hearing a sermon, 31:03 just being read with not a lot of emotion, Right. 31:07 But the Holy Spirit took the truth... 31:09 That's right. 31:10 And people have come forward because the call, 31:13 the appeal is in the script. 31:15 You just read it. That's right. 31:17 The Holy Spirit does the work and people come forward. 31:19 In fact, I have a story powerful 31:22 back in my home church in Northeast Arkansas, 31:24 where I grew up and 31:25 where I eventually joined the Adventist Church. 31:28 At the time, there was a... 31:29 I think she might've been 10 or 11 years old, young girl, 31:32 her father and her mother, 31:33 they had went over for a missionary trip 31:35 and they were all doing evangelistic series. 31:37 And this 10-year old girl 31:39 did an entire evangelistic series 31:42 to probably, I think it was up in the upper hundreds 31:45 or lower thousands. 31:47 Ten-year-old girl did a series for all of these people 31:49 and they were using the New Beginnings series. 31:51 So it's very user-friendly. Anyone can use it. 31:55 And so if you're sitting at home right now 31:56 saying, you know what? 31:57 I just don't know if I, if I could ever muster up 31:59 the courage or the mentality or the, 32:01 of the information on my own, or the fortitude 32:05 or whatever it is you got to muster up 32:06 to try to get through this. 32:08 You can do it because God has provided the tools for you 32:11 through the ministry of ASI. 32:12 So this is powerful. 32:13 Thank you guys so much 32:15 for all that you do for evangelism, 32:16 but we're not through yet 32:17 because you also have a health evangelism as well. 32:21 Let's talk about that? Let's definitely do. 32:23 Because in that earlier quote, 32:26 you referenced Ministry of Healing, 143. 32:29 Now minute when you read that, 32:31 I was thinking of a very profound truth. 32:34 In Matthew 4:23-25, 32:38 we see that Jesus did three things 32:40 in His ministry, preaching, teaching and healing. 32:45 Which one did He do most? 32:46 Healing. He did healing most. 32:49 That's exactly right. Should we not do the same? 32:52 And the question comes to us. Well, I'm not a doctor. 32:57 I'm not a nurse. I'm not a physical therapist. 33:00 Can I do anything? 33:02 We have a quote that we want to read right now 33:04 from Testimonies for the Church, 33:06 volume 7, page 62. 33:09 "We have come to a time 33:11 when every member of the church should do" what? 33:14 Take hold. 33:16 "Take hold of medical missionary work." 33:19 And then it gives the reason. 33:20 "The world is a lazar house." 33:23 Talking about Lazarus' sickness. 33:25 Sure. 33:26 It goes on to explain, 33:27 "Filled with victims of both physical 33:29 and spiritual disease." 33:31 Now is that next part not true today? 33:33 Amen. 33:34 "Everywhere people are perishing 33:36 for a lack of the knowledge of the truths 33:39 that have been committed to us." 33:40 Wow. 33:42 So anyone who's watching this program, 33:44 if they're not a health professional, 33:47 it's okay. 33:48 We have tools that have been developed 33:51 by health professionals that you can use. 33:54 Like if you take our course right now, 33:57 we have some great videos 33:59 that cover NEWSTART, the acronym, NEWSTART. 34:01 All you have to do is watch the video 34:04 and then share it with someone else. 34:06 Wow. Text message. 34:07 Hey, I just watched this short little video. 34:09 We have all the links for you is ready to go. 34:13 Does it get any easier than that? 34:14 It's powerful. 34:15 I mean, and for those who are health professionals, 34:17 we have things for you as well. 34:19 We have great tools for everyone. 34:21 It's powerful. 34:22 Now, Rodney, some of these just want 34:25 to kind of launch from what you've said, 34:26 because it's coming to my mind 34:28 that they can go deeper into these topics. 34:32 So just like the one from the partnership 34:34 we have with LIGHT, 34:36 which is the Lay Institute for Global Health Training. 34:40 This course that you have up 34:42 on the 3AM Call website is the introductory course. 34:45 It's just the very basic. 34:47 It's kind of scratching the surface 34:49 of what's available. 34:50 That's right. 34:52 The LIGHT website has the rest of the story you might say... 34:54 Yes. 34:56 More material available at a deeper level, 34:58 for those who wanna go deeper. 35:00 Yeah. That's exactly right. 35:01 That's exactly right. It's a stepping stone. 35:03 Right. Right? 35:04 So it's the introduction. 35:06 And I have the privilege of serving with LIGHT 35:09 as one of the division directors. 35:11 And we focus on health evangelism training. 35:14 So I'm very passionate about health evangelism 35:17 because I've seen it work like nothing else 35:19 can to break down prejudice. 35:21 And to be honest, a lot of people in the world 35:26 have some kind of prejudice against the gospel. 35:29 In the United States, 35:30 it's a prejudice because it's, what do we call it? 35:34 Gospel hardened, right? We've heard that term. 35:37 People heard it over and over again. 35:39 In other parts of the world, it's not gospel harden. 35:42 It is secular hardened. 35:44 People just have no interest, right? 35:46 Sure. They're done. 35:48 They don't wanna hear. 35:49 And other places it's religious intolerance. 35:53 There's not room for Christianity 35:55 in this rigid environment, 35:57 but health is something 35:59 that can cross all of those barriers. 36:01 And we've done health programs literally all over the world 36:05 and seen that you can reach Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists 36:10 with the health message. 36:11 It's the entering wedge. 36:12 I love it. I love it. 36:14 That's awesome. 36:16 We have couple more questions that have come in. 36:18 I wanna bring those up now. 36:19 So this person sends in the question, 36:21 this is actually a really good question. 36:23 "Are female evangelists encouraged or do they exist?" 36:27 So with what's going on now, can a female, 36:29 someone that wants to do an evangelism, 36:31 a female evangelists do what it is we're talking about? 36:33 I think I just heard, Ryan, that you talked about this 36:36 10-year old girl who did evangelism. 36:40 I remembered that story when this question came... 36:41 That's right. 36:43 And yes, you know there's a concept in the Bible 36:48 and this is the concept that I have, 36:50 that everyone is called 36:52 to help share the good news of Jesus. 36:55 Amen. 36:56 And it doesn't depend on 36:58 what ethnic background you come from. 37:02 It doesn't depend on the color of your skin. 37:06 It doesn't depend on your age. 37:08 It doesn't depend on so many of these factors 37:10 that often are used as almost excluding people 37:15 from getting involved in sharing the gospel. 37:19 God has a policy that 37:21 He calls everyone to help 37:24 share His good news in different ways, it's true. 37:27 And so someone may be 37:29 a physician like Rodney has alluded to. 37:31 Their expertise may be in helping to heal people 37:36 so that their mind is more open to hear the gospel. 37:38 Amen. 37:39 Some people are better at public presentation 37:43 and they may make a better public presentation 37:45 than someone else. 37:46 Some people are better at individually ministering 37:49 and praying with someone on an individual basis. 37:51 That's right. 37:52 So all are needed is the way I'm going to say it. 37:56 That's right. Amen. 37:57 All are needed. All are desired. 38:00 Rodney, are there any filters on this website 38:02 that would prevent someone from signing up? 38:05 We don't have anything that says, 38:08 you know, what is your gender, and exclude female? 38:11 Or what is your age? 38:12 Or what is it, older or younger? 38:13 That's exactly right. 38:15 Or what is your skin color? 38:16 Nothing like that? Nothing like that. 38:17 Okay. So it's open. 38:19 It's open. 38:20 We need a name, an email address, 38:23 and a local church. 38:24 And that's pretty much it. 38:25 And if you don't belong 38:27 to a local Seventh-day Adventist Church, 38:28 you can put none yet. 38:30 That's Rodney's words, none yet. 38:32 And you can get involved in sharing, 38:34 helping to share this message with the world. 38:35 I love that. 38:37 In fact, let's take the time 38:38 now to pull that website back up. 38:39 I just wanna do that. 38:41 We're going to pull it up again before we sign off for tonight, 38:43 but there it is asiministries.org, 38:47 but we also want to pull up the website for the 3AM... 38:49 The 3amcall.org. The 3amcall.org. 38:55 3AM Call, three angels' messages call, 38:58 and go on there and sign up for this evangelism initiative. 39:02 They've provided all the tools. 39:04 All you have to do is just be willing. 39:07 And in fact, this is actually another question 39:09 that just came in. 39:11 Interestingly enough, this is coming from Marie, 39:13 from Kingston, Jamaica. 39:15 Hello, Marie. 39:16 She says, "Hi, Ryan and co, Maranatha. 39:19 She says, "Is there any way that 39:21 an individual can receive the material 39:23 without internet connection?" 39:27 That is a good question. 39:29 And in our world today, it's so internet driven. 39:33 So at this time 39:36 that is our vehicle of giving the material. 39:39 So hopefully Marie, you're able to find someone 39:43 who has an internet connection, 39:44 so you can download the material. 39:46 Amen. 39:47 So a lot of places there are internet cafes 39:49 where you can go and you can just plug in 39:51 and maybe for a small fee, download the material, 39:54 put it on your laptop, or on a jump drive 39:58 or something so that you can get it and that's all. 40:00 We do have a lot of people 40:01 actually who send me emails on a regular basis and say, 40:05 you know, my network was kind of spotty today, 40:07 and I wasn't able to watch this or that. 40:10 And so we totally understand, but again, 40:14 technology is all around the world 40:16 and internet is growing in speed 40:19 and availability. 40:20 So that's the technology that we're leveraging. 40:23 Praise the Lord. Yeah. 40:24 I mean, we certainly do live in a day and age 40:26 where it seems like everyone, maybe not literally everyone, 40:30 but it seems like more and more people. 40:31 It's a growing number. It's growing. 40:32 We live in an internet connected world. 40:34 It is. 40:36 And, you know, it doesn't take someone 40:38 the greatest speaker, the greatest preacher, 40:40 the greatest teacher. 40:41 But you know, if you can just click a button, 40:44 a share button and share the good news 40:46 of materials that have already been provided 40:48 for you to share, 40:50 you are doing your part in sharing the good news 40:52 with the world, with everyone around you. 40:54 I can think, you know, 40:56 I have two different Facebook accounts, 40:58 also have a YouTube account. 40:59 And probably on between the two Facebook accounts, 41:02 I have about 7,000 people that I can reach with this. 41:05 And so I've signed up 41:06 and I'm gonna be sharing as much as I can. 41:08 And I wanna encourage you to do the same. 41:11 Let's talk really quickly about the three cosmic messages. 41:14 This is involving Pastor Mark Finley, right? 41:16 I should be asking you about those 41:18 because they were filmed right here at 3ABN, 41:22 but I am really excited about this. 41:24 You know I've been watching Pastor Finley 41:28 share the gospel for decades now. 41:31 And his ministry 41:33 has literally touched millions of lives. 41:37 There have been so many meetings. 41:39 And when I heard the miracle of the production 41:42 of the three cosmic messages, I was thrilled. 41:46 There it is. 41:47 Powerful series. That was a year ago. 41:49 Was it not like this week or last week or something? 41:53 Just a year ago, they were filmed here, 41:56 but I'm so excited that 41:58 not only can we share these videos 42:01 with Elder Finley preaching, they are now available for us. 42:05 That's right. They are available. 42:07 The PowerPoints fully scripted. 42:10 I worked together with our good friends 42:12 at heart research, Dan Houghton and his team. 42:16 We have the scripts, we have the PowerPoints 42:19 they're already so that we can share them ourselves. 42:23 Amen. 42:24 And I think that that's where the real power is. 42:27 Step number one is to share the video. 42:29 You watch Mark Finley preach. 42:31 You share that video. 42:33 Step number two is you preach. 42:36 You might not be the most eloquent. 42:38 You might not, you know, be the most fluid... 42:43 But it may be that you are the person, 42:47 and you may be the only person 42:49 that another person would trust. 42:51 Is gonna connect to. That's right. 42:52 Exactly. 42:54 So you don't have to be Mark Finley. 42:55 That's right. That's right. 42:56 That is exactly right. 42:58 That's powerful. So that's what we wanna do. 42:59 You see, our idea is that everyone can start somewhere, 43:03 but we all can grow a little bit more. 43:05 Absolutely. That's... 43:07 It's a progression, you know... 43:09 Absolutely God is wanting us 43:11 all to just come up a little higher. 43:12 Absolutely. 43:14 And so that's what 3AM Call does, 43:17 it taps into what your specific talents 43:20 and abilities are wherever you are 43:21 in your walk with God, wherever you are 43:23 in your particular desire to share, 43:26 there's multiple varieties of options 43:29 that people can have access to, 43:31 to share in their own way, 43:32 through this one online Mecca of resources 43:36 that ASI has produced called 3AM Call. 43:39 Did I say that right? 43:40 Did I just describe that accurately? 43:42 Yeah, that was very good. 43:43 We need to get him on for our commercial. 43:45 I was gonna to say. Happy about that. 43:46 We're gonna have to make some spots 43:48 after we're done here. 43:49 You can make some spots for 3ABN. 43:53 Yeah. 43:54 You know, I'm just excited about evangelism. 43:56 Evangelism's where my heart has always been. 43:58 There's nothing like sharing the good news 44:02 with someone and seeing 44:04 their whole world light up 44:06 because they've never heard it before or they never heard it 44:08 in the way that you're sharing it, 44:10 because perhaps, 44:11 maybe they've never been prepared. 44:13 Their heart has never been prepared for any other time 44:15 than that time that you're sharing with them 44:17 at that moment. 44:18 And that's a thing, my friends, I just wanna encourage you. 44:20 You may be sitting at home right now saying, 44:22 "Oh, I've tried the whole sharing thing. 44:23 And none of my friends and family members 44:25 or any of my acquaintances 44:26 or anyone that I've ever shared 44:28 with nobody's ever responded positively. 44:30 So obviously I don't have the ability or the talent or, 44:33 you know, what God, the ability that 44:35 God has given me to share. 44:36 I'm just, that's just not my thing." 44:37 But you never, never know people... 44:40 Things happen in people's lives, 44:42 especially with what has happened 44:43 in recent time with COVID, 44:45 the times that we're living in, 44:46 people are more open to spiritual things. 44:48 They have questions. 44:50 They're asking questions and saying, you know, 44:52 I had somebody that asked me a few weeks ago, 44:54 you know, is the mark of the beast. 44:55 It's this is this whole COVID thing 44:57 setting up for the mark of the beast? 44:58 You know what that question told me? 45:00 That what is happening around them 45:01 is sparked an interest in spiritual things, 45:04 perhaps questions that they weren't asking before. 45:07 Now they're asking, wait a second. 45:08 Is the world coming to an end? 45:10 Because no other generation 45:12 before us has seen a global pandemic in the way 45:15 that it has unfolded so quickly 45:17 as what we have witnessed in the past year. 45:19 Right. 45:20 And so, there's people out there right now. 45:22 And I just wanna encourage those watching at home. 45:24 You know, it doesn't matter 45:25 what kind of talent you have or what kind of ability 45:27 or how well spoken you are. 45:30 You are a vessel of God, God wants to use you. 45:33 He wants to reach you. 45:35 And He wants to use you for His kingdom. 45:38 And ASI Ministries has done a phenomenal thing 45:41 in creating the ultimate possibility 45:44 for you to be able to share that 3AM Call. 45:48 And let's pull that back up there again, 45:50 the website, the 3amcall.org. 45:55 And that's what we're talking about tonight. 45:56 We want you to go sign up right now. 45:58 It's simple. 45:59 I did it myself, 30 minutes 46:01 before this program started tonight, 46:03 before I showed up. 46:04 And it literally took me less than 60 seconds. 46:06 Two clicks fill out 46:08 just a couple of bars of information 46:10 and you're right in there 46:11 and have access to so much information 46:14 and tools to help you 46:16 share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 46:18 And so, I'm excited about this. 46:20 In fact, I had a friend the other day, guys, powerful. 46:24 Friend never met him before, 46:26 but he called me up, left a voicemail on my phone. 46:27 His name was Ed. Ed is a truck driver. 46:30 And Ed told me, he said, you know what? 46:31 I just love sharing. I love to evangelize. 46:33 I love to share literature. 46:35 And one of the things he shared with me, 46:37 he says, you know what? 46:38 I just don't have the tools 46:40 or the ability to create these wonderful slides, 46:42 these evangelism slides and you know, 46:45 you recently, I had recently done 46:46 a series on the United States in Bible prophecies. 46:49 Do you mind if I use your slides? 46:50 Or do you mind if I take your messages 46:51 and preach them in Spanish? 46:53 Because he speaks Spanish 46:54 and I wanna preach this message in Spanish, 46:56 to my Spanish friends. 46:57 And there's people out there just like Ed, 47:00 that would want love to have access to your tools. 47:03 And that's what we want to encourage you to do now 47:05 is go sign up the 3amcall.org, 47:11 go signup so you can have access to this 47:13 and play your part in sharing the gospel 47:16 with the world. 47:18 There's I mean, there's several other things 47:19 on this list here that 47:21 I know we can talk about in these eight minutes, 47:22 but I want to open it up to what our speakers says. 47:24 I wanna go back to one thing that you said. 47:26 Sure. 47:27 And I think it's powerful for people to understand. 47:30 There is nothing like 47:32 sharing the gospel with someone else. 47:34 There's no other experience in your life 47:36 that's going to compare with that. 47:38 I've done a lot of things in my life. 47:39 I've traveled and I have preached, 47:42 and I have instructed people 47:45 and I've taught you know, but the thing, 47:48 when you see someone respond, 47:51 when you've been just had a small part to play 47:54 and then learning about the gospel, 47:57 and when they take that step 47:58 of committing their life to Christ, 48:00 there is something about that that just, 48:03 it brings joy. 48:05 Now we're told it brings joy to God, 48:08 but it also brings joy to us 48:10 as human beings to see that happen. 48:13 So we've been in a pandemic. 48:15 People have been locked in their homes, 48:17 isolated many times. 48:19 You need some joy in your life, 48:21 start sharing Jesus with someone. 48:23 And when you see them engage with Christ 48:27 and take a step of commitment to Him, 48:30 there's gonna be a spark of joy in your life. 48:32 Not just a spark, there's gonna be 48:34 some fire in your bones 48:35 to keep doing that again and again and again. 48:38 That's right. Amen. 48:40 Praise the Lord. 48:41 You know, as we were talking between the hours tonight, 48:45 you had asked me a little bit about myself. 48:46 And I told that my wife 48:47 was the principal at our Thompsonville School 48:50 here across the road from 3ABN. 48:52 But I understand, Brother Steve, 48:53 you are also involved in a school as well. 48:57 And in the evangelistic effort there in the school, 49:00 could you tell us a little about that? 49:01 Well, yeah, we... 49:03 My day job is I run a school in Savannah, Tennessee 49:06 called Harbert Hills Academy. 49:07 Okay. 49:08 And we have young people that come from 49:10 all over the world to come to the school. 49:11 And we have, you know, 49:13 our vision is to follow God's plan of education, 49:14 which includes teaching them 49:16 about the three angels' messages... 49:17 Oh, yes. And how to share that. 49:19 And because we have an international population, 49:22 we have about eight different language 49:23 groups on our campus. 49:24 And so, one of the things we're doing right now, 49:27 we're teaching them the three angels' messages. 49:29 And then we're asking them to prepare those 49:31 and present them in their own language. 49:33 And we'll be posting them to the social media sites 49:36 in their own countries so that they can present, 49:39 not just learn it, but learn how to present it. 49:42 And so we are launching this effort to present 49:46 the three angels' messages in eight different languages 49:48 from our little campus and just nowhere in Tennessee. 49:51 And God's got to do something with that using young people. 49:55 And I don't know what He's going to do... 49:56 Amen. 49:57 But in the kingdom someday, I know that there's gonna be 50:00 some souls they're gonna say I'm here 50:03 because of these young people 50:05 sharing the good news in my language in a way that 50:09 I could understand it. 50:10 Amen. 50:11 Steve, where did you get training material 50:14 for the kids specifically? 50:16 Well, I got it from a website called 3amcall.org. 50:22 I love that. 50:23 I also wanted to mention though, 50:25 that there is a curriculum specifically 50:28 for grades 9 through 12, 50:30 that they can do a capstone project. 50:33 And it's actually... 50:34 That's the one we got 50:36 and it was from adventsource.org. 50:38 That's exactly right. 50:40 So they can go to Advent Source or they can email us 50:42 and we can help them find that curriculum 50:44 if they wanna teach it to their, 50:45 maybe there's some teachers watching tonight and say, 50:47 I'd like to do that for my class. 50:49 Fine, we can give you the curriculum. 50:51 It's available through Advent Source 50:53 and you can get the curriculum. 50:54 There's a teacher's guide. There's the curriculum. 50:56 I think it's like a two-week course 50:58 or something to go through it. 51:00 And it's just fantastic material 51:01 to train young people how to do this. 51:03 Amen. Praise the Lord. 51:04 I'm looking literally, 51:06 as we were preparing for this tonight, 51:07 I made some bullet points of all the amazing things 51:10 you guys are involved in 51:11 and helping people to evangelize 51:13 and to share the gospel. 51:14 One of the ones here, talk to us about 51:16 the reach the world next door? 51:18 Let's put up the picture just to see, you know, 51:22 reach the world next door 51:23 is a beautiful idea of how we can reach 51:25 immigrants and refugees. 51:28 If you look at the picture, 51:30 just look at the diversity that's there. 51:32 And those of us in the United States of America 51:36 have an absolutely 51:38 incredible opportunity to witness. 51:42 It's unprecedented to see, you know, 51:44 that is used in many crazy ways, 51:47 but this is God's way. 51:51 What has happened over the last several decades 51:54 is we have had people immigrate here 51:56 to the United States or find asylum 52:00 from persecution and whatever to countries 52:03 that you and I could never visit 52:05 as missionaries. 52:06 It would be impossible for you 52:08 to get a visa to go through that country. 52:10 They're here in our towns, 52:13 in our cities waiting to be reached. 52:15 And so ASAP ministries, Pastor Scott Griswold 52:20 has put together this beautiful introductory course 52:24 for our ASI 3AM Call audience, 52:29 so that we can learn how to identify those, 52:33 those populations. 52:35 Because you know, 52:36 sometimes what happens is this statistics are so sad. 52:40 People can come to America to study 52:44 and never meet a Christian. 52:46 Wow. That's right. 52:47 How can that happen? That's amazing. 52:49 How can that happen? 52:50 People have come on business trips and you know, 52:54 they've come and they've gone 52:56 and they've never been introduced to Christ. 52:58 People have been here for years. 53:00 You know, I remember as part of the course, 53:03 you'll hear it when you take that course. 53:05 But some of the world's most influential people 53:09 have come to our universities 53:11 and spent multiple years 53:15 and never once been invited to a Christian's home 53:18 to have a meal together. 53:19 That's right. 53:20 We've got to be intentional on how to reach those people. 53:23 And that course does that very thing, 53:25 short little videos, practical tools to help us 53:29 identify those people, win their confidence, 53:31 become their friends and then use New Beginnings, 53:35 three cosmic messages to share with them what really matters. 53:39 Amen. Amen. 53:40 This is... 53:42 This has been a powerful two hours together 53:43 just to open our hearts up and share about 53:46 the wonderful possibilities of evangelism. 53:50 I can say with certainty that none of us, 53:53 including myself, none of us 53:55 have an excuse not to share the good news of Jesus Christ. 54:00 And I say that respectfully in the utmost. 54:03 We are living in a day and time where we must, 54:06 we must be involved in this effort. 54:10 We must, whether it's someone that lives next door to us, 54:13 someone we work with, someone that we're kin to. 54:16 We need to be sharing the good news 54:18 as much as possible. 54:20 And we have about two and a half minutes left 54:22 before we sign off for tonight. 54:24 I wanna open it up to you guys. 54:25 Take a minute or so, just to share with our audience 54:29 what's on your heart in closing, 54:31 maybe make a final appeal as we prepare to close. 54:34 So I'll start here, Ryan, by just saying this, 54:39 I believe that we live in a very special time 54:42 in earth's history and I believe that 54:44 God is calling every single viewer tonight 54:48 and everyone who will see this program 54:50 to get engaged in helping 54:52 to spread the gospel to the world. 54:54 They may not be a Mark Finley. That's right. 54:57 They may not understand everything 55:00 that a theologian understands, 55:03 but God has called us to share what we know 55:08 with those that we know. 55:09 Amen. 55:11 And if we simply start there with simple tools, 55:14 God will do the blessing. 55:16 God will send the Holy Spirit ahead of us. 55:19 God will do the work that we cannot do anyway. 55:21 That's right. 55:23 Our job is to be available to what he wants to do. 55:26 So listener tonight, 55:28 if you're thinking about 55:29 what you should do, 55:31 I'm going to challenge you to get involved 55:33 with what you have 55:34 and where you are and who you know, 55:36 and begin to use 55:38 some of these simple tools to share the gospel. 55:41 Amen. Brother Rodney, real quick. 55:43 Yes, I see the time is just going so quickly, 55:45 but you know, there were four courses 55:47 that we didn't even get to talk about. 55:48 Well, I know the four courses. 55:50 So I'm gonna encourage us to just put up those slides 55:52 if we can real quick, because in this time 55:56 we've had to go digital with so many things. 55:58 So there are four courses 56:00 from the center for online evangelism. 56:02 Here it is online small group ministry, 56:05 how to do blogging for ministry. 56:08 The other ones are podcasting and YouTube. 56:11 I wish we had more times to talk about all of those. 56:13 I know, right. 56:15 But my appeal is the same as Steve's, get involved. 56:19 And I want to give a challenge. 56:21 I hope that you've taken your phone, 56:22 your device, whatever it is 56:24 and that you have signed up tonight. 56:26 If you have, thank you so much, but here's my challenge. 56:30 Before the end of this Sabbath, 56:34 I want to encourage you to sign up 10 other people. 56:38 Tell them the blessing that 56:39 you've received and sign up 10 other people. 56:41 Amen. Praise the Lord. 56:43 Hey, the 3amcall.org. 56:46 Go sign up, my friends, 56:48 become a part of this initiative 56:50 to reach the world with the gospel. 56:51 We wanna thank you so much for joining us tonight. 56:54 And you know what? 56:55 We're gonna continue doing what we do here at 3ABN 56:57 and taking the gospel to a lost and dying world. 57:00 We thank you for being a part of this 3ABN family, 57:03 and we will see you back here soon. 57:05 God bless. |
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