Participants: Danny Shelton (Host), C.A. Murray, John Lomacang, Kenny Shelton
Series Code: TL
Program Code: TL016501B
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00:13 We are back, and that first hour went
00:14 so very, very quickly Danny Shelton, CA Murray, 00:17 John Lomacang, Kenny Shelton. 00:19 And you have to forgive us, 00:21 you have to give us a pass this night 00:22 'cause we're a little giddy, 00:23 we're little heady, one we're still jet lag. 00:25 We're not getting sleep yet. 00:27 But the subject matter is so enthralling 00:30 and so exciting to be among the people, 00:32 one who appreciate the work 00:34 that 3ABN has been called to do. 00:35 Amen. 00:36 Secondly, to be, to want to be part of that work. 00:38 Thirdly, to have so many people to be part 00:40 of the blessings on the go team. 00:42 Yes. 00:43 And then to know that, that London wants 00:46 and is ready for evangelism. 00:48 The churches know we need to be revived. 00:50 We need to have the kind of church 00:53 that when people come into it, they feel Jesus, 00:55 feel they're part in presence of the Lord. 00:57 And we are proud of that, 00:58 so forgive us for being a little giddy 01:00 and we hope that it's infectious. 01:03 We are sneezing into the camera 01:04 hoping that you will be infected, 01:06 so that you can get this energy that we have 01:09 because the Holy Spirit is here in a very good way 01:11 and it's directing our movements we do believe. 01:13 He's so kind, I'm not even going to apologize. 01:16 We're just happy to be serving the Lord, 01:18 and to have something. 01:19 One of the things, and then we're going to move on now. 01:21 We want you to call in with your questions 01:23 and your comments in a bit as you see 01:25 which direction we're going. 01:27 Several of you are writing saying, 01:28 what you're doing with the blessing on the go, 01:30 given him to correctional facility people. 01:32 Some says, I'm giving him to dental assistant. 01:34 That I see, I've seen quite often 01:37 given him to neighbors. 01:38 And that's great that your blessing on the go tours 01:40 that are sent to you. 01:42 All of that's great, but one of the things 01:44 that I saw in every church. 01:47 When Kenny was preaching, he stood up for a minute 01:50 and gave a testimony even that night and said, 01:53 "Every time you mention the word truth, 01:55 the people just almost broke out in applause." 01:58 They say, "We're ready" 01:59 because the mentality of many of us today, 02:02 not just in England but around the world 02:05 as Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 02:06 we have to be careful what you say. 02:08 That's the mentality of America for sure, 02:12 about no matter what. 02:13 You can't call sin by its right name. 02:15 You can't, we're all guilty, so I feel like 02:17 if I'm standing here judging you all, 02:19 then shame on me. 02:21 But if I can talk about sin. 02:22 Sin has affected me just like it has you. 02:24 We're all sinners in need of a savior, am I right? 02:27 That's right. 02:28 So now as a sinner saved by grace, 02:31 I get to share that. 02:33 Now, people are worried about being offended. 02:36 When Brother Murray talk, when John talk, 02:38 every time you guys mention 02:39 they're in new boat giving the truth. 02:42 You know, preaching the truth, Mark of the Beast, 02:44 Sabbath, the State of the Dead all these things 02:46 that people responded tremendously. 02:48 Yes. 02:49 But I don't know, 02:50 if I'd be exaggerating over the several meetings 02:52 if I said a hundred or several hundred people 02:56 came and said, 02:57 "Thank you for 3ABN for giving the truth for what you do, 03:00 your speakers telling it like it is. 03:02 Now in love, all of the message 03:05 we can sell we want to do if it's not love. 03:07 It's not Jesus. 03:09 So, Jesus is the center of the message 03:12 that 3ABN preaches, 03:14 an undiluted Three Angels' Messages, 03:16 one that would counteract the counterfeit 03:18 into all the world, and so, we want you to know 03:22 that 3ABN is still committed to giving the truth. 03:25 We believe that now more than ever before 03:27 people need the truth. 03:28 You know why? 03:29 There is more err now than ever before. 03:32 When you look around us, I mean, everywhere we look, 03:35 you see the err. 03:36 You see this past year changing the marriage, 03:39 redefining marriage. 03:41 How dare we something that God set up at creation 03:44 one man, one woman, for we as a nation. 03:47 And our Supreme Court going and saying, 03:49 "Well, just any two people." 03:51 You know, they say, "Adam and Steve 03:53 or whatever can marry." 03:54 That's blasphemy to God. 03:56 Just like God said, 03:58 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep Holy." 03:59 He sanctified on creation. 04:03 The Sabbath and He sanctified marriage. 04:05 So we can't trample on any of those. 04:07 No. 04:08 I believe it's our duty when we talk to you 04:10 and we say these are Bible truths. 04:12 We're not saying we have it all right. 04:14 I don't have it all right, I make lots of mistakes. 04:16 CA, John, Kenny, we'll all be the first to say, 04:18 we make mistakes, but it has nothing to do, 04:21 it's just as parents. 04:22 When you, when you have kids, all of us that have kids. 04:25 You're going to try to help your kids 04:27 and tell them the truth even if you messed up earlier, 04:30 because you don't have to do over. 04:32 So you want to tell them the truth, 04:33 so they won't go through maybe 04:35 what you've gone through, right? 04:36 I don't know if that's making any sense to you. 04:39 So we believe that you don't have to go around 04:42 if the Lord gives us the truth, whether it's the Sabbath, 04:45 the State of the Dead. 04:47 No matter what it is, the Mark of the Beast, 04:49 we don't need to go around and try to outsmart people. 04:52 There's a lot of smart people intellectually 04:54 based on man's grading system in this world, John. 04:58 There's a lot of smart people. 05:00 But when you look at it on God's grading system, 05:03 the only one the smartest people 05:04 are realizing that we're frail human agents. 05:07 We're here and destined to die from the moment we're born. 05:11 We're terminal a disease called death. 05:14 And the only way out of that is accepting the free gift 05:18 that the Lord Jesus Christ gave to us by His death, 05:20 burial and resurrection there at Calvary. 05:24 I mean, what an incredible testimony. 05:27 What an incredible truth we have to give to the world, 05:29 but as we believe we're living 05:31 and a lot of Christians say they are. 05:33 And those of us the Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 05:36 we believe God has people in all churches. 05:38 Now, if you talk to the Catholic Church 05:40 and I've done this. 05:41 I'm not dogging anybody, 05:43 I talk to a Catholic priest, John. 05:44 He said, "There's only one church. 05:46 If you're not a Catholic you're not in a church. 05:48 You talk to a Muslim, there's only one religion. 05:51 If you're not a Muslim, 05:52 you're not going to make it to heaven. 05:53 There is actually some Protestant churches who say, 05:57 "We're the only ones that are saved." 05:59 So Seventh-day Adventist, we don't believe that. 06:01 We believe that God has people in all churches, 06:03 but God has always had a people that has present truth 06:06 to give to the world for that needed time. 06:10 And we believe God has given us that truth, 06:12 because now we're living in the prophecies 06:14 2000 years ago, 06:16 or even 4000 years ago Daniel and Revelation. 06:19 These things coming but we're here living in it. 06:21 We're seeing this. 06:23 Who would have believed 50 years ago, 06:24 you'd see them in Untied States of America, 06:27 presidents of the United States, 06:28 congressmen, senators, they're standing up-- 06:30 It's not gonna get back. No. 06:31 No, all getting up and mayor saying, 06:33 "Well, we think marriage of any kind." 06:35 Some of the same people in office six years ago said 06:39 marriage between a man and woman, 06:41 if it's Bible I believe it, it's between a man and woman. 06:44 Six years later what changed? 06:45 I heard the same person running for president saying, 06:49 "Well, I think either one. 06:50 You know, it doesn't make any difference. 06:53 So the people changed, not God right, John? 06:55 The God has not changed you know-- 06:56 I got to-- I got to let up a little bit. 06:59 Keep it going 'cause I'm just about to get on board with you. 07:01 He got to tap the break-- Jump on, jump on. 07:03 I'm not getting into trouble too. 07:04 See, see we are-- 07:06 I said this before and I hope that 07:07 those who are watching remember this. 07:09 I said, "We are preaching what I call 07:12 a non politically correct message." 07:14 Thank you. 07:15 This message is too late to be politically correct. 07:18 Let me tell you why? 07:19 Paul was released by the Holy Spirit in Acts 18. 07:24 The Lord visited Paul by night, and he said this. 07:27 This is what I have grabbed on, I've soaked this in. 07:30 You know, when you drop a piece of bread 07:32 in a bowl of fluid which soaks it all up, 07:35 this what I've got by His grace has given me 07:37 the same clarion call. 07:38 He said to him by night in a vision. 07:41 He said, "Do not be afraid but speak. 07:44 And do not keep silent, for I am with you. 07:46 And no one will attack you to hurt you, 07:49 for I have many people in this city." 07:50 Okay. 07:51 And then Paul preached his heart out. 07:53 We're talking about this flyer that you're offering now. 07:55 That's right. 07:56 Is God's law, about God's authority. 08:00 Listen to what Lord-- 08:01 Listen to what they said about Paul. 08:03 Paul preached straight and they said of him then, 08:07 and they're going to say this of us 08:08 when we get to London. 08:10 This fellow persuades men to worship God 08:13 contrary to the law, the laws of the land. 08:16 This man persuades men to worship God contrary 08:20 to the laws of the land. 08:21 Okay. 08:23 We don't answer to the laws of the land 08:25 except as we accept 08:27 as they are in harmony with God's will, 08:29 the commandments of God in harmony with God's will. 08:31 But when they start-- 08:33 when they start wearing off, 08:35 we will preach and tell men to worship God 08:38 contrary to the laws of the land. 08:40 Because that's what God has called us to do. 08:43 Paul had the same injunction. 08:44 We have the same injunction today. 08:46 I see trouble coming, John. 08:47 You know what? Is this a crisis? 08:49 It is a crisis. 08:50 Infectious, Pastor, you said while ago. 08:52 Yes. 08:54 What's been going on here, and talking here, 08:56 and evangelism. 08:58 It's infectious to me. 09:00 Even though we may be been in the work a long time. 09:02 I'm feeling something, renewed inside about going out 09:07 and reaching others almost like it may be the last call. 09:10 Okay. 09:11 For some because the door of probation is about to close. 09:14 And it made me want to get back 09:16 into the book Evangelism again and just begin to read it. 09:19 Okay. 09:20 And I read page 17, 09:21 I just want to read a quick short line on it. 09:23 And it says right now. 09:24 It says, "If there was ever a crises it is now. 09:30 Decided efforts should be made to bring the message 09:33 of this time prominently before the people." 09:37 Now notice, prominently means conspicuously 09:39 you were talking about pastor. 09:41 You talk about there, it's like something. 09:43 You have a door, and conspicuous about the door 09:46 is the door knob that's sticking out. 09:48 So, our message needs to stick out. 09:50 Yeah. 09:51 It's something that if you walk through that, 09:52 it might hit you. 09:54 It's going to get your attention. 09:55 It will make you side step. 09:58 It will make you make a decision for Jesus. 10:00 This is what it means, we need it prominently. 10:03 We need to push forth the effort now, because I-- 10:06 You're like, I know many, many other people. 10:09 You wake up in the middle of the night, 10:10 and you've got this on your heart and on your mind. 10:14 Preachers wake up. 10:15 Now, John, I'm sure, you do it all day. 10:17 I preach half and I wake up worn out 10:20 in the morning 10:21 because I've been preaching all night long 10:23 trying to get the word to someone, 10:25 that doesn't make me good, bad or ugly. 10:26 It just simply says I just, we worked all night long. 10:29 I'm tired now, but when I went to bed. 10:31 But I believe, truthfully this is a crisis time. 10:35 This is a time that God is going to use 3ABN 10:38 the tool in God's hand that's going to reach 10:41 the vast multitude of people. 10:43 I'm convinced of it 10:45 because people, youth, they're ready. 10:47 They are primed, they're looking for something. 10:50 I've met so many people, 10:52 they're looking for something they're not sure what it is. 10:55 That's our job. 10:57 That's 3ABN's job is to give them 10:59 what they're looking for, 11:01 and sometimes it's just a word in due season, 11:02 they already know it. 11:03 Yeah. 11:05 But just to remind them, so I truly believe 11:06 this is the crises hour. 11:08 We have no time to lose. 11:10 It's not about finances, it's not about money, 11:13 it's not what people talk about. 11:15 Because I've been again reading the book Evangelism, 11:17 it says, "God has money people out there." 11:20 I'm sorry, if I mention this, you don't mention 11:21 but let me do it, right. 11:23 God has money people out there. 11:26 And the money people, what they're going to do. 11:28 The Holy Spirit is going to impress them. 11:31 We can't go, we talked about early in the first hour. 11:34 We can't do it. 11:35 But God has blessed us abundantly. 11:37 And we're going to give large sums 11:40 to get this gospel preached into the world. 11:42 God is going to impress men and women around the world 11:46 as they see, that you're not only preaching it. 11:49 But I believe this in all my heart. 11:51 The reason the church some time as some of us are dead. 11:53 You know, we know the message but we do not live it 11:56 by the grace of God. 11:57 God is looking for people who will live this message 12:01 and when we do, God's going to bless 12:03 our socks off. 12:05 And, you know, London is a city that's under siege 12:07 from heathenism, from secularism, from atheism, 12:12 from spiritualism. 12:14 It's a city under siege 12:15 from the growing non-Christian movements, 12:18 it's a growing non-Christian religions. 12:20 And you know what, Danny, when you read Desire or Ages. 12:23 See, in preparation for the second coming of Jesus, 12:26 the conditions are just as it was in the days 12:28 of the first half of Jesus. 12:30 Ellen White says at the time 12:31 that is when the fullness of time had come 12:33 and Jesus came, 12:34 at that time the systems of heathenism, 12:36 this is powerful were losing their hold upon the people. 12:40 Men were weary of pageant and fable, 12:42 they long for a religion that could satisfy the heart. 12:45 And so, there are people in London, 12:47 that are not all swept away. 12:49 I've got people in this city, you just said. 12:52 I've got people, 12:53 and people are longing for something different. 12:55 So while, while they right now are holding on 12:57 to what they see available. 13:00 Bad, good news is good news. 13:03 Even if everything else is bad, good news is still good news. 13:07 So God has given us. 13:09 She says, "They were thirsting 13:11 for a knowledge of the living God 13:13 and for some assurance of a life beyond the grave." 13:16 When we were leaving this famous singer David Bowie. 13:20 They said he passed away David Bowie, 13:21 he was on all the billboards. 13:23 God bless him. 13:24 You know, I'm not talking about him particularly. 13:26 But when death comes, it is the great equalizer. 13:29 Yes. You could have all this. 13:31 You could have, you could, 13:32 your house could be built on your gold, 13:34 your 500 million dollars could be under your house. 13:36 Another guy on the side of the street 13:38 that has nothing but a shopping cart dies. 13:40 And you both turn to dust in a matter of time. 13:41 Thank you. 13:43 So I believe in London, all this prosperity 13:44 is an indication that there is a deep need of God 13:48 and how, how providential is it 13:50 that God puts this vision of London 13:52 on your heart. 13:53 And he puts a man in there whose health is not as great 13:56 but he has a heart for evangelism. 13:58 And a the church now, 14:00 once they heard the word evangelism, 14:01 a number of members came up to me afterwards and said. 14:04 A young lady, she could have been about 22 14:06 she said, "God has finally heard our cry in London. 14:12 And someone has come to help us." 14:13 And when you read 14:14 what Ellen White's talk about London. 14:16 She says, "At the earliest stages of London history, 14:17 she prayed for the Lord, was praying. 14:20 "We need workers to go to London 14:21 for our people in that city." 14:23 So it's happening again. 14:25 This young lady, she said, 14:28 "Pastor, God has heard our cry in London 14:31 and send someone to help us." 14:33 That's all we are. 14:34 We are not doing the work, we're joining them 14:36 in the need that's there in London. 14:38 One of the things she said, 14:39 that hindered our work in London 14:40 a little bit she said, 14:42 "You tried to think too cheaply." 14:43 So don't try to get away cheaply. 14:45 Don't throw away your money 14:47 but don't try to get too cheap either, 14:49 you know spend every cent, 14:50 don't apologize for asking for money for evangelism. 14:54 How much can you buy a soul for? 14:55 Yeah. 14:57 Put a price on it, you can't do that. 14:58 So don't try to get do, do what's necessary you know. 15:01 When you look at the Book of John. 15:03 Christ in His dialogue with the woman at the well. 15:06 She shot a blow smoke. 15:07 Well, she worshipped in Samaria, 15:09 she worshipped in Jerusalem you know, 15:10 which was Christ said that's not the deal. 15:13 The deal is God is looking for a spirit and truth. 15:16 And I will give you your flowers 15:18 while you're alive. 15:20 It's always been for truth. 15:22 Spirit, lot of folk got spirit. 15:24 But that spirit got to be buttressed by truth. 15:27 And when you preach truth. 15:28 As you were saying, men and women 15:30 will be drawn to that truth. 15:32 And the only thing that separates us from anybody else 15:35 is I'll be preaching the truth of God. 15:37 Are we telling the truth? 15:38 And it is the truths of God that will attract men 15:40 and women and lift up the name of Jesus. 15:42 And so I'm excited to be part of the church 15:45 that tells the truth, the whole truths, 15:48 nothing but the truth. 15:50 Amen. 15:51 Who will the devil fight the hardest? 15:52 Those telling the truth. 15:54 Those who want to tell the truth. 15:55 Precisely. 15:56 So I was thinking about as you guys were talking here. 15:58 Back I grew up, you know 50, 60s. 16:00 And some of the folk grew up in 70s and 80s. 16:03 If you can go way back to that time, 16:06 and you're thinking about it. 16:08 What happened? 16:09 A lot of us grew up in a movement 16:13 Seventh-day Adventist Church a movement, 16:14 John, that knew 16:16 all of the doctrine inside and out. 16:19 But somehow, we missed a relationship 16:22 with the Lord Jesus Christ. 16:24 So Satan says, "I don't care how much truth you know, 16:26 I know truth." 16:27 But Satan is not going to be saved. 16:29 So what happened is, we have a group of people 16:32 who started instead of loving people, 16:35 and begin to beat him over the heads, 16:36 if you don't this, and you don't do that, 16:38 and you don't do this. 16:40 If you become Adventist Christian, 16:41 you can't smoke, drink, you can't do blah, blah. 16:43 These are the rules, 16:45 rather than the rule of love in itself. 16:49 God will teach us what we're to do and not to do. 16:52 And the end result will be the same. 16:55 We want to take care of our bodies. 16:56 But we don't beat people over the head. 16:58 Somebody, "Oh, we heard you joined a church and, 17:01 and you know you quit smoking" 17:02 but somebody thought they saw you smoking again. 17:05 You know so we need to disfellowship this guy, 17:07 let's get him out of church. 17:08 So, what's happened is, is over the years 17:11 you've seen people, God gives great truth. 17:15 You know, 1844 on 17:16 and you see all the movements righteous by faith, 17:18 all this thing, the 1888 thing. 17:20 Growing here, and all this truth coming out. 17:23 But somehow we're so zealous for to get the message out 17:26 and we forget what it's all about. 17:29 It's about Jesus. Thank you. 17:30 So now, as generations say our age gets older. 17:34 And we say, "Whoa, we don't want to do that, 17:36 I was raised legalistic, it was all about doing don't." 17:38 We just want to love people. 17:40 Now, we just want to love people. 17:42 But we now, we don't tell them the truth 17:43 because we're afraid that if we tell him the truth 17:45 it will hurt him. 17:46 So, the devil gets you, he doesn't care, 17:48 we've always said, 17:50 which side of boat you fall out off 17:51 as long as you fall out, right? 17:53 Thank you. 17:54 So, we are looking for and what we're asking God for 17:57 and here at 3ABN is a balance. 17:59 Because somewhere between here and there 18:02 is where God wants us to be. 18:04 There's a people who can come before the world and say, 18:07 "This is the last day message, the end times message 18:11 for an end times people." 18:12 Revelation Chapter14. 18:14 Go into the Three Angles' Messages 18:16 and it's all about love. 18:17 God is love. 18:19 And so it's all about love. 18:20 But it helps us to know people say, 18:22 "What good does it do you? 18:24 Here's what it does me and I've told a story, 18:26 so I won't go into the whole thing is. 18:28 But if you read the back of the book, 18:30 it says "Satan is defeated, those who serve God win." 18:34 So, by knowing the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, 18:38 a lot of churches throw them out. 18:39 Kenny, you know that Daniel and Revelation, 18:42 you know, that's old stuff, 18:44 we don't even look at those things. 18:46 But Daniel and Revelation of course, 18:48 Satan would want you to do it. 18:49 Because the game plan is then there, God says, 18:53 "I got a road map for you, 18:54 if you understand this prophecy, 18:56 no matter what happens, you'll not be discouraged. 18:58 You will never be defeated. 19:00 I don't care if you die, you're not defeated 19:01 because though you were dead, yet shall ye live. 19:04 That's exactly what God is saying to us. 19:06 So, what's happening is, 19:08 the message that we find 19:10 in the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, 19:12 very few churches are preaching it. 19:14 But what's the big deal about it. 19:16 People say what's the big? The big deal is this. 19:19 How many of you get discouraged when you're going down 19:22 in life's highway, where is God. 19:25 I have people do that to me all the time, you do too. 19:27 Sometimes there are even church members. 19:29 Lot of times there're people I'm meeting with, 19:31 they travel on airplanes with-- 19:32 We begin to talk. 19:34 I don't know, where is God when I need him. 19:36 And you know what tells me? 19:37 They haven't read the back of the book. 19:39 So if you understand a prophecies of Daniel-- 19:40 Why do we harp on those? 19:42 People say you harp on all these prophecies. 19:44 Because it gives us the calm assurance 19:47 that Satan is a defeated foe. 19:49 "And greater is he that is in us, 19:51 than he that is in the world." 19:53 And so, now, when we see all of these things happen. 19:56 We don't get discouraged. 19:57 We get encouraged to tell about John or Mary. 20:01 Kenny, the guy buys the book, reads the, you know, 20:04 reads the back of the book before he buys it. 20:06 Says, "John and Mary rode off the sunset happily ever after." 20:09 Takes the book home, 200 pages he's 100 pages in, 20:14 John and Mary, they were riding horses 20:15 but something spooked him. 20:17 They fell off. 20:18 Now they're on a cliff they're hanging on a limb. 20:20 It's 2,000 feet below, they're ready to die. 20:23 Now, you the reader, do you go, "Oh, no, I'm 100 pages in, 20:28 John and Mary are going to die." 20:29 You don't do that why not? You say, wait a minute. 20:32 I read back of the book. This is going to get exciting. 20:35 How is the author going to convince me believably? 20:38 How is he going to get them out of this situation to there. 20:41 That's exactly where we are when we read the Bible. 20:43 And we know, Daniel and Revelation. 20:45 We've read the back of the book, 20:46 so when Satan hits you the hardest. 20:48 When you're the most discouraged, 20:50 you feel like the whole world is against you. 20:52 Instead of being discouraged, John, you look up and say, 20:55 "Ha-ha, Satan, I've read the back of the book. 20:58 You are defeated foe, get away from me." 21:01 And you'll see this piece of God. 21:03 That's the only things kept me going for many years. 21:05 I mean, I may bring on a lot of my own problems, 21:09 I made a lot of mistakes, 21:10 had a lot of personal tragedies. 21:12 All of those things. 21:13 But I'm so glad that God is there 21:15 whether they are my fault directly, indirectly. 21:18 I'm a human being, I've got failures. 21:20 But what's kept me going 21:21 is I've read the back of the book. 21:23 I'm not going to let you, or you, 21:24 or anybody else discourage me as you said earlier. 21:27 I'm going to stand up and say, "Okay, Lord, 21:29 I'm going to say what you have done." 21:31 Now, what can I do? I'm not a theologian. 21:32 I just, my greatest asset, Ellen White says is my-- 21:35 our own personal testimony of what God has done for us. 21:39 I once was blind but now I see, right. 21:42 I was lost but now I'm found. 21:44 God saved a wretch like me. 21:46 Let me share how God is gonna turn it around. 21:47 This is energy, I was tired on the way. 21:50 Let me just give-- 21:52 When I was like about-- 21:53 And we're not on anything really. 21:54 No, no. 21:56 Fifteen minutes after seven I was sitting, I said, 21:58 "Honey, it's like 15 minutes after 1 in London. 22:00 She said, "Wake up, you've got to go to 3ABN." 22:03 So I'm awake. Praise God. 22:04 I'm awake but God is great. Let me show you. 22:07 You see, we look at the world, and we look at the church. 22:09 It's paramount to this to the famine 22:12 that had taken hold of Samaria. 22:14 When the Syrian army under Ben-hadad 22:16 had surrounded Samaria, lock them in. 22:19 Now, when I read that, I said, Lord. 22:20 And you know what? 22:22 You talk about getting up early in the morning, 22:23 when the Lord gets hold of you, 22:24 the morning before I preached this sermon. 22:26 Sorry, actually, Tuesday morning, 22:28 Wednesday morning, 22:31 sorry Thursday morning of the week 22:32 before I preached them. 22:33 I woke up at 3:45. 22:35 And then at 4 o'clock I said to my wife, "You awake?" 22:39 I'm now. 22:40 She said, and she said and now, 22:42 now some people may contribute to jet lag, 22:45 but when you cannot sleep, 22:46 because the Lord has put a message in your mind, 22:48 it can't let you go. 22:49 You woke up, so I woke up at 4 o'clock in the morning, 22:52 went into the bathroom, 22:53 thankful they had those dim lights in the bathroom. 22:56 The commode became my office chair. 22:58 The tub became my office desk. 23:00 And I stayed in there till 7:45 and all I kept hearing 23:03 Angie say, "You all right?" 23:04 I said, "Honey, I don't know, how this sounds 23:07 but the Lord and me are doing just fine." 23:10 And you know what, he said to me, he said, 23:12 "There is a famine in the world, 23:14 there's a famine in the church so much so, 23:17 that we are paying high prices for donkeys heads 23:22 and for a cup of dove's dung. 23:25 But it's going to get worse. 23:26 Follow this. 23:28 So now, that's when, that's when compromise 23:29 began to come into the church. 23:31 We started spending a whole lot of money 23:33 for nothing with any lasting value. 23:35 But it's getting even worse now, 23:36 because now we're talking about same sex marriage 23:38 and all these things 23:40 that are tearing the church apart. 23:41 It got to the place now, 23:42 where went from eating donkeys heads 23:44 paying high prices in dove's dung 23:46 to eating each other's children 23:49 Now, when that happened, the Lord said to me, 23:52 I said Lord, "What can I say about that, 23:54 that's so grose, what can I say." 23:56 He said, "John the message is, 23:58 there are things on the plate of our church 24:01 that I've never intended for our people to address." 24:06 I said unbelievable. 24:07 He said, "There are things that we are swallowing 24:09 that I've never made a part of my church's diet." 24:12 And I'm going to turn it around. 24:14 So when I read that story. 24:15 I said, "Lord, how you going to turn it around 24:16 and what made me laugh, 24:18 Angie heard me laugh in the bathroom. 24:19 She said, "What are you laughing?" 24:20 I said, "Honey, God just showed me 24:22 what the church looks like." 24:23 But even in their condition, it's not hopeless 24:24 because when we think our condition is hopeless, 24:26 God begins to speak, so he uses four lepers men 24:28 to give a picture of the church, four lepers. 24:31 They're stuck between death on one side, 24:33 death on the other and then they said, 24:35 then they said. 24:37 And the Lord said to Elisha. 24:39 He said, okay, it looks really bad but. 24:41 So somebody said, the law says, 24:43 "Here's the message from God By this time tomorrow, 24:46 I'm gonna sell you-- 24:48 I'm going to give you the best food 24:49 for next to nothing." 24:50 Go on. 24:52 "I'm going to give you the best flour 24:53 and the best barley for almost nothing, 24:55 by this time tomorrow." 24:57 So question, how do you turn around a church 25:00 that's in famine in one day? 25:03 And demand that the Elisha say that too. 25:05 He said, "That couldn't happen 25:07 even if the Lord opened heaven." 25:08 Yeah. 25:09 And poured out all his blood, that couldn't even happen 25:11 if the Lord opened the windows of him poured it out. 25:13 And Elisha said to him, 25:14 "It's not only going to happen." 25:16 Yes. 25:17 "You'll see it, but you never bet people are inspired." 25:19 You see, there are some people in church 25:20 no matter how positive you speak, 25:22 they will always think negative. 25:24 So God now brings these four leapers, 25:26 I'm going to be done on the sermon. 25:27 These four leapers 25:29 sitting there between death on one side 25:30 and death on the other 25:32 and this is where the church comes in. 25:33 In our most putrid condition, 25:35 we are still God's people coming. 25:36 Come on, say amen. 25:38 Amen. Thank you. 25:39 So, God gives the message. 25:40 And then these men, 25:42 this is where-- this is where I got 25:43 so hallelujah moment, I said hallelujah. 25:45 Angie said, "You all right?" I said, "I'm okay." 25:47 Amen. 25:48 When the leper were about to surrender 25:51 to the Syrian army, to their enemy. 25:54 When the church is about to look like 25:55 it's going to give in to Satan, 25:57 the Lord turned it around and said, 25:59 "No, I'm not gonna let you do that. 26:00 So, they got up now, 26:02 they said, "If we sit here we're gonna die. 26:03 If we go in and then they kill us, 26:05 we're going to die anyway." 26:06 In other words they say, 26:07 we're gonna die there or die here. 26:09 They didn't say we're gonna live. 26:10 If they let us live, that's lucky. 26:12 But God at that moment turned it around 26:15 and when they went into the camp 26:17 where they could have been certainly killed, 26:19 the Lord got rid of the enemy and his people prospered. 26:22 And then they said, 26:24 "This is a day of good news." 26:25 Yeah. 26:27 "If we hold our peace until the morning, 26:28 some evil is gonna come upon us." 26:30 So, Danny, here's where we are. 26:32 One leper, two lepers, three lepers, four lepers. 26:36 What are we saying. This is a day of good news. 26:39 We cannot hold our peace. 26:41 If we hold our peace until Jesus comes the morning, 26:44 an evil is going to come upon us, 26:45 so we don't have-- we don't even have an option. 26:48 I mean, I don't have an option to not tell the truth. 26:50 You don't have an option, you don't have an option. 26:52 Let me tell you what the Lord does when you, 26:54 when you take that option to tell the truth 26:56 in the midst of a bad situation. 26:59 He's going to provide everything that 3ABN needs 27:01 to keep telling the truth 27:03 just like He did for the lepers. 27:04 When they went to the camp, 27:06 they found silver, gold, and clothing. 27:08 They went to another tent, 27:09 they found good stuff there too. 27:11 But here's the key, Danny. 27:12 We cannot hide any of the blessings 27:14 God gives to us. 27:15 Is what He gives to us 27:17 is for the progress of His work. 27:18 This is a day of good news. 27:20 Let us go tell the king's household now. 27:22 Here's the kicker. Well. 27:23 London has a royal family. 27:25 Okay, come on now. 27:27 We got to tell the king's household. 27:28 Is that a two hander? Amen. 27:31 God has called us to go to London, 27:32 to the king's household 27:34 and bring the day of good news, that's where the vision came. 27:37 You know, you talk about the church and stuff a lot. 27:39 You know, and again there's one time, 27:40 just tell you a quick story, it's very interesting 27:42 'cause, you know, I was like most folks. 27:46 I was praying about the condition of the church 27:49 as a whole, 27:50 and as maybe a local church that you might pastor 27:52 because I think it's so important 27:54 if you're a preacher in a church, 27:56 you should want to know. 27:58 God can reveal where the church is at, 28:00 what they have need of. 28:02 What I have need of and you always pray for that, 28:04 what do I need first? 28:06 What does the church need? 28:08 And it was time I pray for, I want to be honest, 28:09 I said, Lord, help me to understand where the church 28:12 in general looked and where they're at 28:15 and what can I do to help, you know. 28:18 And so, I went to sleep and had a dream. 28:22 And I had a dream, I was preaching. 28:24 I was preaching up there and also, 28:25 you know, as people are, again I was preaching 28:27 and all of sudden I looked and all the people were gone. 28:31 Where did all the people go? 28:34 And I thought and I heard a little, 28:37 you know, like a little whine-whine cry. 28:39 And I thought I better go down the pews to see what happened. 28:42 So I went down in the pew and I looked 28:44 and every one of the people had turned into little babies. 28:47 Oh, mercy. 28:49 They were in little bassinets, in the bassinets. 28:52 And I said, Lord, what is going on here 28:55 with the people I was praying. 28:56 Where are they at and they were all in bassinets 28:59 and then I said, I cannot believe 29:01 this condition of the church. 29:04 I looked at myself and I'm crawling 29:06 and I had my little nightcap on it and pass a fire. 29:09 That would scare me. You got to be kidding me. 29:12 Somebody pray for me. 29:14 I have my little cap on and pass a fire. 29:16 The Lord was revealing that we need change. 29:20 With the same token 29:21 we have to be as little children 29:23 before we enter the kingdom. 29:24 But he's looking at us and saying, 29:25 we might think we're somewhere to you. 29:27 We might think that we're going to, 29:29 we might think we have-- 29:30 We need to do a video reenactment to that. 29:33 See, we think it's all about-- Let me just repeat that. 29:37 We know it's not about us, 29:38 because we ain't none the lepers. 29:40 Even on our best day, 29:41 our righteousness is as filthy rag. 29:44 Tell it like it is. 29:46 So it's about God, God chooses people that Lord have mercy. 29:50 God chooses people that don't look like 29:52 they have anything to offer, lepers. 29:54 God chooses people that look to others 29:57 like they've lost their sense of feeling, lepers. 30:00 God looks, He chooses people that may appear to the world 30:03 that they've lost their sensibilities to truth, 30:05 lepers, and they haven't. 30:07 They're just waiting for the Lord 30:09 to get the enemy out of the way. 30:10 So I'm not worried about all the isms 30:13 and the schisms and the atheists 30:15 and all the forces of darkness 30:17 because God got rid of the entire Syrian army 30:22 just so he can make a way for the proclamation. 30:24 They ran out of sound, they heard a sound. 30:27 You know, and John, I work sort of ago 30:29 and I was because I've preached on that particular-- 30:30 It's powerful. 30:31 It is powerful and the subtext is had those guys not moved 30:36 and exercise what little faith they had, 30:38 they would have never known that God had already worked. 30:41 And so many times, 30:42 and the president alluded to this Sunday at the meeting. 30:44 Sometimes, we are waiting, okay, God, do it. 30:47 And God has already done it. 30:48 You need to step out in faith and go ahead. 30:51 That's why I said you can't let people throw 30:53 dirt on your aspirations. 30:54 You've got to move. 30:55 And let me, let me just add to that. 30:57 Say that again. 30:58 You've got to move, you can't go, 30:59 you going past that with. 31:01 Blessings on the go. 31:02 Yeah, that the blessing is on the go. 31:03 You cannot sit here till we die. 31:05 Yeah. 31:06 So when we sit on the program, I'll throw it back to you, 31:08 when we sit on this time 31:09 and we're talking to those of you 31:10 who are watching and listening to this program. 31:12 You might be in your car. 31:13 The Lord may be speaking to your heart. 31:15 We cannot in this late hour of earth's history be quiet. 31:17 No. 31:19 This is a day of good news. 31:20 We are not capable in and of ourselves 31:23 to accomplish anything but we cannot as 3ABN, 31:27 God has called us in the church 31:28 and it is written all the other ministries. 31:31 None of them has the option to sit down 31:33 and wait for the circumstance to change 31:35 before they go forward. 31:36 There you go. That's the point. 31:37 We can't say, okay, 31:39 now it's clear the atheism population is going down. 31:41 No, Lord said no. 31:42 The Syrians look tough, 31:44 but you've got to move for me to make way for you-- 31:46 Yeah. That's right. 31:47 And some people don't know where to move. 31:49 They don't know what to do. When you knew, 31:50 you will find that God has already begun to work 31:51 in your behalf that God is not static 31:53 and just because we are clueless, 31:55 don't think God is. 31:56 Because we're impotent, don't think that God is. 31:58 And I'm going to 1 Hebrews 13. 32:01 Yes. 32:02 "Be free from love of money, 32:04 be content with such things as you have." 32:05 Whatever you got, throw that in the fray, 32:08 because God can use-- 32:10 I only got five dollars a week or five dollars a month. 32:13 Put that five dollars in there. 32:14 And God will take that five dollars 32:16 and multiply that five dollars. 32:19 So, be content with such things as you have. 32:21 Don't look at John, don't look at Pastor Kenny, 32:23 don't look at Danny. 32:24 Look at what God has given you 32:26 because He's given you something that you can use 32:28 for the up-building of the kingdom. 32:29 Okay. 32:31 Why should you be content with whatever you got, 32:33 be it little or small, 32:34 because He himself that is God Himself that said, 32:38 "I will in no wise fail thee." 32:40 So you can jump into the fray 32:42 knowing that success is guaranteed, 32:45 because God has said, 32:46 "I'm not going to fail you." 32:48 Whatever you got, use it for the King of God. 32:50 Neither will I in any wise forsake thee." 32:53 So He's not going to fail you. 32:55 He's not going to forsake you. 32:56 He's not gonna get you out and let you drown. 32:58 He's not gonna let anybody drown you. 33:00 He's going to take care of you and if you yielded to Him, 33:03 He will make sure that whatever you give to Him 33:05 will meet with success, I'm almost done. 33:07 Come on, now. 33:09 So that was good courage we may say. 33:11 The Old King James says boldly. 33:12 We can say, "The Lord is my helper." 33:16 So why should we fear London. 33:18 Why should we fear any city? 33:20 Ellen White said, "Sometimes I look at these cities, 33:22 and it makes me sick to my stomach, 33:23 I get sick because my burden is so strong for these cites." 33:27 And we develop that burden. 33:29 She saw them but now they're more like towns 33:30 as compared to the cities now. 33:32 London didn't have 33:34 eight and half million people back then. 33:35 No, no, but she had a burden for them. 33:36 She says, "Sometimes I just get sick 33:38 because I love to see what God is going to do. 33:40 So that with courage, good courage we may say 33:43 "The Lord is my helper." 33:45 And if you don't believe God is there with you, 33:46 don't go out there. 33:47 That's right. 33:49 You know, don't go out like the seven sons of Sceva 33:50 preaching, preaching John's got. 33:52 You got to preach God for yourself. 33:53 My God, you know. 33:55 So you can say. 33:56 "God, the Lord is my helper. 33:57 He will not forsake us. 33:59 I will not fear what shall man do unto me." 34:03 So the boldness that you hear from us, 34:07 is not a confidence in itself. 34:09 It's just that we've seen God do so much 34:13 with so little for so long, that we are sure 34:16 that He can do anything with nothing. 34:17 Amen. So it's not about us. 34:18 It's all about Him. 34:20 And God can do anything but fail, and we know that. 34:24 Going on the heels of little bit 34:26 of what Kenny said with his story. 34:28 What we're seeing in churches today, 34:31 I know as we travel, we see some churches you go in 34:34 and they go through all the motions. 34:36 We come in, we enter, we kneel, we pray, 34:38 we sing in glory and part we do all the things 34:41 that somehow we think makes us holy. 34:43 And I've been to churches where I'm convinced 34:45 the whole services have been planned 34:47 without the thought, or maybe the Holy Spirit 34:49 wants to take over and do something 34:51 because, we've got our own plans. 34:54 But yet it's right, we've got the pipe organ 34:56 at the right time, we've got everything. 34:58 You know people look right when you take up the offerings, 35:00 you do all of these things. 35:02 So we go again 35:03 and we're saying the devil doesn't care 35:04 which side of the boat you fall out off. 35:06 But I've gone to churches where I feel like the people 35:09 would know the Holy Spirit if it was there, 35:12 because we don't have 35:13 and I'm not naming any particular 35:15 but I'm saying and hopefully you understand this. 35:17 That's where we are, 35:18 so if people come in from the outside, 35:21 they see it better than we do. 35:23 You have Christians 35:24 of other faiths come in, it's like. 35:25 Well, I hear all this but I don't feel and sense 35:28 anointing of the Holy Spirit here. 35:31 Well, I'm gonna tell you a story 35:33 Kenny, it's similar to your dream. 35:34 Not, not the same but Merida that sings with Lanny Wolfe, 35:39 her husband Walter, 35:41 Walter had prayed, he's a preacher. 35:43 And he had been praying that the Lord would, would-- 35:47 He says let me experience some of the suffering of Jesus. 35:51 Now, when you say that, be careful what you say. 35:53 That's what he says. 35:55 And so, Walter began to go through, 35:56 he's been through a number of years 35:58 of really some serious suffering. 36:02 But he said, he was in the hospital, 36:03 they sent this to me and then I called him 36:05 and talked to him, John. 36:06 He was in the hospital. 36:08 And now they're of a church that's a much more excited, 36:10 there's a lot, a lot of-- 36:12 You know, it's considered Holy Ghost, 36:15 more Pentecostal type, you know. 36:18 So Walters in the hospital 36:20 and he wakes up, but he sees this, 36:23 and he doesn't know if it's a dream, 36:24 but he feels like he's awake. 36:26 But he says, he's standing with the Lord. 36:29 And he looks way over and he sees 36:31 what looks like a church building, 36:33 but it's just on fire. 36:35 So Walter says is, "What is this, is that hell." 36:38 And he said no, no, 36:41 but he said, I looked closer there was shouting. 36:43 There was, you know, dancing. 36:45 There was all kinds of things going on. 36:47 And I said, "That's your church." 36:50 The Lord said, "No, that's my church. 36:53 The people are there, but I'm not inside. 36:57 I'm outside. 36:59 You know that's revelation all the way, Danny. 37:01 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. 37:02 Hello, could somebody let me in. 37:05 That's huge. Isn't that incredible. 37:08 He says, "That's my people. 37:10 They're inside the church, but I'm outside. 37:14 I'm not there." 37:15 So whether you're-- What we call dead over here, 37:17 or we over here shouting and running around 37:20 doing all the things that look holy. 37:22 The devil doesn't care. 37:23 You know, what that is, Danny, 37:25 that's part of the message we have to give to the world, 37:27 I'm so thankful for. 37:28 If you want a balanced, 37:30 I'm talking about a balance message in the word of God. 37:33 You know, in Adventism 37:34 and I don't hide behind anything 37:36 and try to apologize for. 37:38 It's a balance message, we have unbalanced it. 37:41 But the message and the truth is balanced. 37:43 And when God gives, God gives us, 37:45 you know, the go sign. 37:47 He means go into all the world, that's exactly what he means. 37:50 And so, what you're talking about here on fire. 37:54 God said, He's going to light a fire 37:56 on this last day church. 37:58 And I want to be a part of that fire 38:00 as everyone knows I'm sure here. 38:02 I'm talking about the real thing 38:04 because the part of our message is we talk about the, 38:07 you know, Thy way, O God is through the sanctuary. 38:10 And many Adventism and people of the world 38:11 have no idea about the sanctuary. 38:13 We can follow him. 38:15 Remember, if we look at in our messages in 1844, 38:18 He left the holy place 38:20 and went into the most holy place. 38:22 But the majority of people, what? 38:24 Did not follow Him there. 38:26 And they think they have fire as it were in the holy place 38:29 where Christ is not present, He left that place 38:32 and He's in the most holy place standing before, right. 38:36 What is He standing before? 38:38 Ten Commandments, right, 38:39 he stands His last move, most holy place. 38:41 And he's pleading our cases 38:43 because we're in the hour of God's judgment. 38:45 That's right. Probation is soon to close. 38:47 And I'm so thankful to God 38:49 right now that when in this time, 38:51 our names could be coming up very shortly. 38:53 We're living in that time from, 38:55 we know from the dead to the living. 38:57 And once our name comes up, it's going to be a verdict. 39:01 He's gonna be pronounced guilty, 39:04 he's going to go and make the heaven or he-- 39:05 or we're not. 39:06 But thank God that Jesus stands, 39:08 if we've accepted Him 39:09 and I'll tell this people at home. 39:11 You must accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. 39:13 You cannot fight this battle all alone. 39:15 Sin is too heavy. 39:16 There's a price 39:18 and has to be the blood of Jesus. 39:19 Amen. 39:21 And if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior. 39:22 When our name comes up in the judgment, 39:24 Jesus steps forward. 39:26 He puts out those nail scarred hands, right? 39:28 He says it, "Father my blood." 39:31 That's good enough for the Father. 39:33 He doesn't see me, He doesn't see my mess. 39:35 He sees his son. Okay. 39:37 And because I've accepted 39:39 by faith his son and that great sacrifice. 39:40 He covered us with His righteousness. 39:41 Yeah, We're covered, 39:43 we had that robe of righteousness 39:44 that He earned, that He worked on, 39:46 that He, when He walked this earth. 39:49 And He says, "I'm gonna cloth you 39:51 with that robe of righteousness. 39:52 And I encourage the people of home, 39:54 you say, we are praying for the latter rain, right? 39:56 We're praying for that robe of righteousness. 39:58 Remember that robe of righteousness 40:00 cannot be put upon one person, 40:02 any person with one un-confessed sin. 40:05 That's a heavy message most people don't want to hear. 40:08 But it's time, it's talking about pastor, 40:09 that the message must be preached 40:11 because sin is the great issue, is a great issue. 40:15 I want that robe of Christ's righteousness. 40:18 I know everyone, God's people would. 40:19 What is sin? 40:21 Because that could be in anybody's mind 40:23 or is there a text. 40:24 What is it? 40:26 John 3:4, Transgression is sin, what? 40:27 Sin is the transgression of the law of God. 40:30 So for anybody who is saying, 40:32 well, sin is an individual thing for, 40:34 maybe I don't really look at this as sin. 40:36 So what we do, we have to have something 40:39 to compare it to know what it is. 40:41 So the actual Bible definition which many people 40:44 are shocked and surprised 40:46 is the transgression of the law. 40:48 That's right. 40:49 Right, when we disobeyed God's laws, 40:52 it's Ten Commandment law, we transgression, 40:54 so sin is the transgression of the law of God. 40:57 So it's not like, well, let's say, 40:58 I think this will be sin, this isn't sin. 41:01 You shouldn't do this. 41:02 We have to take it to the law of God 41:05 which is a literally is God's character revealed through us. 41:09 Of his character. 41:10 And those who are content 41:14 to remain lepers 41:16 which is a byproduct, by word of sin. 41:18 Those who are content to remain lepers 41:21 will not be blessed. 41:22 Their condition will remain the same. 41:24 But the Lord looks at us in our condition, 41:26 He says, "You know, I could use you. 41:29 If you want if-- 41:30 In our condition, He finds us where we are, 41:33 but He's not content to leave us. 41:35 Okay, right now may I ask you to talk to somebody home 41:37 about that, there's people who are watching saying, 41:40 I'm really been stirred. 41:42 The Holy Spirit is working with me 41:43 but I don't know now, what about me. 41:45 It's sounding pretty, pretty sober here. 41:49 Tell us about it? 41:51 You know, there are those that are watching this program, 41:52 you may be driving and listening to this program. 41:54 Let us bring the message home tonight. 41:56 One of the reasons why 41:57 our hearts are so fueled with the passion 42:00 for what God has called us to is 42:01 because we recognize 42:03 that the work is not going to be done by us. 42:06 The work is going to be done in spite of us, through us, 42:09 but for the glory of the Lord. 42:11 Okay. 42:12 There may be somebody here watching the program 42:14 or listening that thinks, 42:15 well, what does a leper have to do with me? 42:18 Well, leprosy is a condition that is not permanent. 42:21 You see God is saying, I want to restore the church. 42:23 I want to take those lives that are falling apart 42:26 and put them back together. 42:28 Somebody may have lost their sensitivity to truth. 42:31 Somebody, somebody may say, 42:33 ''Well, I was raised in the church. 42:35 I know all the doctrines." 42:36 You may be in the most dangerous position 42:38 to know all that you know and not live up to any of it. 42:41 But the Lord is saying, you might be a leper 42:43 but I can restore you. 42:44 I can rebuild your broken life. 42:46 I can restore your broken dreams. 42:48 I can take the things that are falling apart in your life 42:50 and put them back together 42:52 if you simply commit yourself to me. 42:54 So tonight, we're calling people to commit themselves. 42:57 We're not talking about financial commitment alone, 43:00 because that is needed to continue the work. 43:02 The Lord knew that, that's why He gave those four lepers 43:05 all the gold and silver and possessions of the enemy. 43:08 He knew that's what the king's household needed 43:10 but He said but you're lepers, I can use you, 43:14 but I don't want you to remain in that condition. 43:15 So tonight, if there's somebody 43:17 who has an un-confessed sin in his or her life. 43:19 Somebody might say the church has closed its doors to me. 43:24 But then I was saying God has opened His heart to you. 43:27 Somebody might say, "I'm beyond repair." 43:29 Well, the Lord looks at lepers and said. 43:31 He looked at Naaman as a leper. 43:32 And Naaman by responding 43:34 to the promptings of God's leading... 43:35 Amen. 43:37 Was restored to the flesh of a baby. 43:39 God wants to restore you to the place that you can be. 43:42 So, He sees you not just as you are, 43:44 but He sees you as you can be. 43:45 So tonight, Danny, I think right now is a good time 43:47 for us to pray 43:49 before we wind up and rush out of it. 43:50 I think we need to pray right now, 43:52 because God wants to do a new thing in his church. 43:54 He doesn't want this. 43:56 You know what they say, this is 2016, the first live, 43:59 thank you, Pastor CA, for the New Year. 44:00 Yes. God doesn't-- 44:02 One of the best ways to fail 44:04 is bring the old things into the New Year, 44:08 bring the old, try to put new wine in old wineskins. 44:12 Okay. 44:14 God wants to restore this, this fleshy un-converted life. 44:18 So He can pour into us His Holy Spirit. 44:21 And you know what's amazing about that, 44:23 I got to go to the next level before we-- 44:25 You see, I discovered in the studying of that, 44:28 the new wine, 44:29 and the new wineskins needed to be paired up. 44:32 Because when the wine was pressed from the vine. 44:35 It was in what they call active fermentation. 44:38 Meaning, it had juices that needed to be absorbed 44:41 into the wineskin, 44:42 so that it slowed down its rotting process. 44:44 Okay. 44:46 So God wants to pour things into your life 44:48 but He says I can't do it if you're wineskin is old. 44:50 God wants to do in your life a new thing. 44:52 So right now, we're going to pray 44:54 that in spite of who you were in 2015, 44:56 you can be new in Jesus. 44:58 What does the Bible says 2 Corinthians 5:17. 45:00 "If anyone is in Christ, he or she is a new creation." 45:04 Old things, 2015 have passed away, 45:07 behold all things have become new. 45:09 The Lord can only do something in your life 45:12 if you commit to the newness that He wants to be make, 45:15 to make available to you today. 45:16 So we're going to pray right now 45:18 for those hearts and lives of those. 45:20 No matter how grievous your sin, leprosy. 45:23 God can restore you to the place. 45:25 As he said to Gomer, Hosea's wife, 45:27 "I'll speak comfortably to her." 45:29 And then she will say in her broken-down condition, 45:32 I'll return to my husband, 45:34 for it was better with me then than it is now. 45:37 So, brother, sister, church, friends and family members, 45:41 God wants to do something new. 45:42 Let's pray right now for you to simply submit your heart, 45:45 say, Lord, I don't know what I can do. 45:48 You can't do anything. 45:49 He is the one that restores the leper. 45:51 Don't try to restore yourself. 45:52 Let's pray right now. 45:54 Father in heaven, 45:56 there are those listening to this program, 45:57 somebody is in his car driving, 46:00 wondering why did I turned to this station tonight. 46:03 Somebody is at home in his or her living room, 46:06 maybe a family is sitting in there, 46:07 maybe somebody that left the church last week. 46:10 Has said, I'm just not going back no matter what. 46:12 But tonight, God has called on me 46:14 not to die in my leprosy, 46:16 not to harbor the things that have caused me 46:18 in my relationship to fall apart. 46:21 But to look to the God that wants to put me back together. 46:23 Amen. 46:25 Father, there maybe even a pastor tonight 46:27 that's discouraged about the call upon his life. 46:30 Maybe the devil is attacking him at his core. 46:33 And he doesn't know how he's going to survive. 46:36 Maybe his family and his wife 46:37 is right now holding on to hope wondering what can God do to us 46:41 with the church that so asleep. 46:43 Lord, tonight, you want to wake up your churches, 46:46 restore Your people. 46:48 Give new vision to Your leaders. 46:50 Restore those whose hearts in relationships 46:52 have been broken. 46:53 Maybe there's a young lady tonight that's watching 46:55 or listening to this program who was put out 46:57 because she had a baby out of wedlock. 46:59 Lord, You've impressed me to say that. 47:01 And tonight, she says, I don't know where to go. 47:03 The doors have been shut to me, 47:04 but Lord tonight remind that young lady 47:07 that the door may be shut, but your heart is open. 47:09 That's right. 47:11 Lord, speak to the hearts of those 47:12 who may have cast her aside. 47:13 Sometimes we think 47:15 that's when the church must put someone out, 47:16 but, Lord, those are the moments 47:18 when our young people need the church 47:20 more than ever before. 47:22 Soften our hearts, we call sin by its right name, 47:25 but you have not called us to destroy sinners. 47:27 You Yourself said, 47:29 I've not come to bring condemnation, 47:32 but that through Jesus Christ, the world might be saved. 47:33 So, Lord, tonight, 47:35 we really believe this is a day of good news. 47:37 And hour of restoration, 47:38 may we be faithful to the call upon our lives, 47:41 so that You can restore us in our leprosy to reflect, 47:45 to resemble and to reveal to the world, 47:48 the glory and the righteousness of Jesus. 47:50 And, Father, when we preach a message that is straight. 47:53 May we do it through love, 47:55 may people not hear condemnation, 47:57 but may people hear Jesus saying, I've got eternal life. 48:00 I want to give it to you. 48:01 I paid for it, I want you to be with me throughout eternity. 48:04 So, Lord, give us words, 48:05 not just of wisdom in scripture. 48:07 But may our voices be filled with tears and love 48:10 that You have given to us. 48:12 So, Father, forgive us where we have failed. 48:14 Forgive us where we have lacked. 48:16 Tonight, Father, restore us that 2016 48:19 may be a year for not only evangelism, 48:22 but a year of restoration for Your people. 48:25 Touch you people we ask, touch Your people once again 48:28 in Jesus' name we pray. 48:31 Amen. Amen. 48:32 Praise the Lord. Thank you. 48:34 You know, I preached in London looking at, 48:37 we're coming close to the end of this hour also. 48:40 But I preached "The Age of Do" 48:43 that it's too late to just talk, 48:45 it's too late to get good thought. 48:47 The dividing line is now, what are you going to do? 48:51 Christ said of Mary in Mark Chapter 14, 48:55 "That whatever, whenever the gospel is preached." 49:03 This act of hers has to be mentioned 49:06 because of what she did. 49:08 She has done what she could 49:11 and whenever the gospel is preached 49:12 throughout the whole world, that which also she has done, 49:16 we've spoken of as a memorial to her." 49:18 The reason Mary is famous 49:19 is because she did what she could. 49:22 Okay. 49:23 And that's what God asked us to do. 49:25 Not to do the superhuman, 49:27 not to do anything outside of what He calls us to do 49:30 but if each of us. 49:31 Danny, John, Kenny did what we could, 49:34 just what we can, 49:36 that's what God has called us to do. 49:37 How quickly the work would be done. 49:40 God is saying do what you can, look at what you have, 49:42 look at your skills, look at your gifts. 49:44 And then yield them for service, 49:46 just do what you can. 49:47 And I will take that and bless it and multiply it. 49:50 And I will surprise you with what you can do 49:52 under the blessing 49:53 and the anointing of Jesus Christ. 49:55 Amen. Amen. 49:56 There is one more thing, I want to turn, 49:58 I'm gonna go right back to you, to share your comment. 50:00 I'm sitting in the studio of a ministry 50:05 that if Danny wasn't obedient to the vision, 50:08 I wouldn't be sitting here. 50:10 Agreed. 50:11 So we're not talking about theory, 50:14 we're talking about what God can do. 50:15 That's right. 50:17 The Adventist church, if our pioneers didn't move 50:19 to the vision God gave them, 50:20 it would not be able to work all over the world. 50:22 And so, God is saying to us. 50:24 Look at what I can do, 50:26 I've just given you a sample of what I can do, 50:28 but I'm simply calling you to be faithful. 50:30 So, Danny, I think that my inspiration 50:34 is every time I go in 50:35 and whenever discouragement comes, 50:36 I say, wait a minute. 50:39 If one, the power of one, 50:40 I think you're talking about the power of one, 50:42 of one person's faithfulness, 50:44 so I want to-- 50:45 We're going to remember to pray for you 50:47 before the program is over too, 50:48 because the devil wants to attack you. 50:49 God has, he said, 50:51 "Danny, write down the vision, make it plain. 50:53 And for 31 years God has sustained you, 50:55 now into the 32nd year and November will be 32. 50:58 He wants all the successes 51:00 that God has placed in your heart. 51:02 Satan wants to attack them 51:03 and cause them all to be a failure in his name. 51:07 So we need to pray also for the Lord 51:08 to put a hedge around you personally. 51:10 Thank you. 51:12 That he won't let the discouragements 51:14 that will come, 51:15 the dirt that's going to be thrown on you, 51:17 to become your final resting place. 51:20 But simply he's saying by faith, 51:21 come on Pastor CA, say it, 51:23 by faith what would you do with the dirt? 51:25 Shake it all, put it down. 51:27 And possible littler higher. 51:29 Thirty seconds and I've done my last feel on this. 51:31 But this, when I-- there's one word 51:34 brought chills in my chest, tears to my eyes, 51:39 I just want to read it to you 51:40 because it's hard to for us to imagine where we're at 51:43 in the history of the world. 51:45 And how difficult this work is going to become. 51:48 And God wants 3ABN to do by faith now, 51:51 everything possible Six Testimonies, 22, page 22, 51:56 1900 says this, "We have warnings now, 51:59 which we may give, a work now which we may do, 52:03 but soon it will be more difficult than we can, 52:07 the word is imagine. 52:09 More difficult than we can imagine." 52:11 And I just went plumb all through my head and my toe. 52:15 And I said, "God help us to do, 52:17 what You've assigned us to do now." 52:19 The right time. 52:20 Now this is it, 52:21 this is the hour, this is the day, 52:23 this with the leadership of 3ABN. 52:24 Press forward, let nothing stop you 52:26 from doing what you're doing. 52:28 Incorporate all that you can to get this message preaching, 52:30 Jesus is going to come soon. 52:33 It's going to be more difficult than we can even imagine. 52:35 Yeah. 52:36 And we're living in that now, she was projecting ahead, 52:40 because you go to a place like London. 52:42 And you are to say, how do you reach it. 52:44 Time on television is tremendously, 52:46 you could literally go there and we talked to Elder Carter 52:49 for what he might spend 2 to 300,000 dollars 52:52 somewhere around the world. 52:54 You could spend 5 or 6 or 7 million 52:57 comparatively in London, 52:59 to reach the same amount of people 53:01 and such a diverse population of people. 53:05 So we're there, 53:07 but it's really no different, Kenny, 53:09 'cause you know you were there when the Lord says, 53:12 build a television station that will reach the world. 53:14 That's right, that's right. 53:15 Right, that will give an undiluted 53:16 Three Angles' Messages, 53:18 yet there is not one Seventh-day Adventist 53:20 television station on planet earth. 53:22 That's right, go on. 53:23 We have no experience in television at all, 53:27 other than singing on a few channels. 53:29 But no money, no property, no equipment, no anything else, 53:32 so it can't be anymore difficult 53:34 and that's what I'm thinking that London is a breeze now. 53:37 I mean really compared to that London is a breeze. 53:40 To go in your first satellite when you had no money, 53:43 you sign a contract that says, 53:44 "You'll pay 50,000 dollars a month for satellite time. 53:48 And you've not seen 50,000 dollars 53:49 any one time in your life together, right? 53:51 That's right. It's true. 53:53 Yeah, We've not seen it together 53:56 and yet you do it and somehow 53:58 31 years later it's still there. 54:01 So what I say about London, 54:02 or any other major city in the world. 54:04 We don't need to spend too much time studying about, 54:06 we'll be discouraged. 54:08 We'll say, oh, well, there's no way to reach. 54:09 No, there is. 54:10 Everybody has a homing device built in us 54:13 that says we're sojourners, 54:14 we're strangers here and that heaven is our home. 54:18 Everybody's in need of a savior. 54:19 They just don't know it. 54:21 So people are out looking 54:22 all over here, there, everywhere 54:24 trying to serve all kinds of gods, 54:26 but there's only one creator God that the tomb is empty, 54:28 the rest of them, you can go visit him 54:30 or visit tomb but you don't. 54:32 When you go to Jerusalem we were there, 54:33 they say that's the tomb, 54:35 I don't know, if that's one or not. 54:36 With any of the tombs, they say he's there, 54:38 they're all empty, 54:39 because Jesus is now ever interceding 54:41 at the very right hand of the father 54:43 for you and for me. 54:45 Two young men, 31 years ago 54:49 walked up to a spot not believing, 54:55 believing by faith that God can do it. 55:01 Two older men 31 years later... Be careful with it now. 55:05 Two older men, 31 years later... 55:06 He said he'd preach the truth. 55:08 Older men 31 years later are sitting at a spot, 55:13 amazed at what God has done. 55:16 And God gets all the credit, all the glory. 55:18 And we talk about things 55:19 that we don't take any of the credit 55:21 except for the bad things that go on. 55:22 And the blessings on the go. 55:24 Absolutely, and we give God all the honor 55:26 and glory and praise and I hope you do too. 55:28 And tonight, God has something big for you to do. 55:31 Maybe you can't get out and do. 55:33 You can join 3ABN our evangelistic team. 55:36 The blessing is on the go team. 55:37 As you support 3ABN, and we send you tools 55:40 to help you share with those around you. 55:43 God has something special for you. 55:45 Don't let the devil, devil rob you of your joy, 55:48 because that's what he comes to do. 55:50 But remember, "Greater is He that's in us 55:53 than he that is in the world. 55:54 Great peace have they which love thy law: 55:56 nothing shall scare them, hurt them, 55:58 offend them, discourage them." 56:01 And we can do that, all we have to do 56:03 is trust Jesus, submit, commit our lives to Him, 56:06 confess our sins to Him, 56:07 He's faithful and just to forgive us from our sins. 56:10 Cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 56:12 Go and tell what God has done for you. 56:14 There's a crown awaiting you. 56:17 And that's my hope and prayer 56:19 that each and every one of us can be there. 56:21 And what a joy to sit with you guys right here, 56:24 because normally if we have guest, 56:26 we have a run sheet we call it that says 56:28 things about the guest or what they want to know. 56:30 We come out here, 56:31 and we didn't have any run sheet. 56:33 We said, I don't know, let's talk about London. 56:34 He picked out a few pictures just see where the Lord leads. 56:37 Yeah. That's right. 56:38 I don't know about you, but I think God has led 56:40 because He's led on me. 56:42 He's convicted me. 56:43 He's given me new vision, courage and strength. 56:47 Thank you for your love and your prayers 56:49 and financial support of 3ABN 56:51 as we endeavor to take this gospel 56:53 of the kingdom into all the world. 56:55 Amen. 56:56 Well, our time has fast slipped into eternity, gentlemen. 56:59 Allow me in closing to wish you both grace and peace 57:03 through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 57:04 We'll see you again soon. Good night and God bless You. |
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