MISSION. THE  GO
AND BAPTIZE AND CLEAR,
00:16:36.56\00:16:46.17
VERY CLEAR IN CHAPTER 28 BUT
WE CAN SEE IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
00:16:46.17\00:16:51.41
WHICH IS AC S CHAPTER THAT SAYS
YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME.
00:16:51.41\00:17:04.49
ACTS CHAPTER ONE AND VERSE EIGHT
BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN
00:17:04.49\00:17:07.79
THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON
YOU AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES
00:17:07.79\00:17:15.53
TO ME IN JERUSALEM AND IN JUDEA
AND SAMARIA AND TO THE END OF
00:17:15.53\00:17:25.07
THE EARTH. THAT IS
THE GREAT COME MISSION
00:17:25.07\00:17:28.54
IN THE BOOK OF
ISSION IN THE BOOK OF ACTS.
00:17:28.54\00:17:39.02
THE FIRST IS
THE GREAT COMISSION.
00:17:39.02\00:17:40.79
IF WE TAKE THE GREAT COMISSION
THAT ALL OF US -- WE PART OF
00:17:40.79\00:17:47.73
THIS PERSONALLY THAT
WILL MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.
00:17:47.73\00:17:54.84
SO LET'S JUST REMEMBER THE FIRST
GREAT -- THE GREAT COMISSION.
00:17:54.84\00:17:59.81
AND YOU KNOW, I WILL TALK A BIT
MORE ABOUT THIS GREAT COMISSION.
00:17:59.81\00:18:04.78
YOU KNOW, THE GREAT COMISSION
SOMETIMES IT BECOMES IT BECOMES
00:18:04.78\00:18:23.90
OPTIONAL. FOR US
TO HAVE THE COMING OF
00:18:23.90\00:18:28.57
JESUS CHRIST IT SHOULD NOT BEEN
OPTIONAL OR SUGGESTION, BUT IT
00:18:28.57\00:18:32.84
HAS TO BE A
COMISSION IN MANDATE.
00:18:32.84\00:18:35.91
THAT MEANS ONCE WE DECIDED
TO FOLLOW JESUS, THEN WE HAVE
00:18:35.91\00:18:41.95
SURRENDERED OUR CHOICE. WE
HAVE NO CHOICE THEN TO DO THE
00:18:41.95\00:18:48.02
WILL OF GOD AND TO DO TO
FOLLOW THIS GREAT COMMAND.
00:18:48.02\00:18:54.66
SO THE FIRST IS TO BE INVOLVED
TO BE INVOLVED TO MAKE THIS AS
00:18:54.66\00:19:02.40
MANDATORY AND NOT OPTIONAL.
>> I LOVE THE FACT THAT HERE --
00:19:02.40\00:19:08.51
AND I NEVER LOOKED AT THIS
AS THE ECHO OR THE REFLECTION OF
00:19:08.51\00:19:12.65
THE GREAT COMISSION IN
ACTS CHAPTER ONE VERSE EIGHT.
00:19:12.65\00:19:16.55
WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
IT BEING MANDATORY YOU SHALL
00:19:16.55\00:19:21.82
RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE
HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU.
00:19:21.82\00:19:24.49
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IN
YOU, HE'S THE SPIRIT NOT ONLY OF
00:19:24.49\00:19:28.23
HOLINESS BUT THE SPIRIT
OF LOVE BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.
00:19:28.23\00:19:33.44
SO, THEN YOU HAVE THAT DESIRE.
GOD GIVES YOU HIS DESIRE TO
00:19:33.44\00:19:42.58
REACH OTHER PEOPLE.
SO, YES, IT'S A MANDATE.
00:19:42.58\00:19:45.05
BUT IT'S ONE THAT WHEN YOU'RE
FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOU
00:19:45.05\00:19:49.35
JUST CAN'T HELP BUT SHARE
BECAUSE YOU'RE FILLED WITH THE
00:19:49.35\00:19:51.85
LOVE OF GOD AND YOU SEE
THESE LOST AND SUFFERING PEOPLE.
00:19:51.85\00:19:55.72
>> THAT IS VERY TRUE.
THAT IS VERY TRUE BECAUSE WHEN
00:19:55.72\00:20:01.93
WE STUDY ACTS CHAPTER
ONE, WE SEE THE TIME AFTER THE
00:20:01.93\00:20:09.14
RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST.
JESUS CHRIST SPENT 40 DAYS WITH
00:20:09.14\00:20:17.38
THE DIDSCIPLES AND CHAPTER
ONE IS ACTUALLY THE 40TH DAY OF
00:20:17.38\00:20:29.59
THAT. JESUS AFTER GIVING
3.5 EDUCATION TO THE DISCIPLES
00:20:29.59\00:20:36.33
SOMEHOW AFTER THE RESURRECTION
HE STARTED GRADUATE STUDIES AND
00:20:36.33\00:20:40.37
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE
TEACHER OF THE SECOND DID HE
00:20:40.37\00:20:45.21
TKPWRAOEFPLT THE FIRST DEGREE
IS ALMOST LIKE A COLLEGE DEGREE
00:20:45.21\00:20:54.42
GIVEN TO THE 12 DISCIPLES AND
FOR 40 DAYS, JESUS CHRIST GAVE
00:20:54.42\00:21:00.16
AN INTENSIVE STUDY AND HE TALKED
ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT -- HE
00:21:00.16\00:21:03.86
TALKS ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT
AND THE BIBLE. YOU REMEMBER THEY
00:21:03.86\00:21:13.40
WALKED -- THEY HAD UNDERSTANDING
AND SO JESUS CHRIST EXPANDED ON
00:21:13.40\00:21:17.54
THE SCRIPTURE AND THEN RIGHT
HERE IN VERSE THREE, TO WHOM MAY
00:21:17.54\00:21:23.11
BE WE CAN READ THAT, ONE OF
US CAN READ ACTS CHAPTER ONE AND
00:21:23.11\00:21:31.29
VERSE -- WE CAN START WITH VERSE
ONE TO VERSE THREE BECAUSE WE
00:21:31.29\00:21:34.96
ARE STUDYING TOGETHER, ACTS
CHAPTER ONE, IF YOU CAN READ
00:21:34.96\00:21:38.16
THAT. >> WOULD YOU
LIKE TO READ THAT, JOANNE?
00:21:38.16\00:21:43.50
>> SURE. OF ALL
THAT JESUS BEGAN BOTH TO
00:21:43.50\00:21:46.70
DO AND TEACH UNTIL THE DAY
IN WHICH HE WAS TAKEN UP, AFTER
00:21:46.70\00:21:51.84
THAT, HE, THROUGH THE HOLY GHOST
HAD GIVEN COMMANDMENTS TO THE
00:21:51.84\00:21:56.58
APOSTLES TO WHOM HE HAD CHOSEN
AND SHOWED HIMSELF ALIVE AFTER
00:21:56.58\00:22:03.18
HIS PASSION BY MANY INFALLIBLE
PROOFS AND SPEAKING OF THE
00:22:03.18\00:22:10.06
THINGS PERTAIN TO
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:22:10.06\00:22:13.90
>> WE CAN SEE THE 40 DAYS, THE
40 DAYS SPENT BY JESUS CHRIST
00:22:13.90\00:22:18.47
WITH THE DISCIPLES.
THE FIRST THING THAT JESUS
00:22:18.47\00:22:22.80
CHRIST WAS CERTAIN THAT THE
DISCIPLES BELIEVED THAT HE IS
00:22:22.80\00:22:27.64
ALIVE. >> AMEN.
00:22:27.64\00:22:28.94
>> HE'S ALIVE.
THAT THE TOMB IS EMPTY.
00:22:28.94\00:22:33.35
>> HALLELUJAH. >>
JESUS CHRIST IS ALIVE.
00:22:33.35\00:22:36.22
BEFORE SENDING THEM, HE HAD
TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THAT
00:22:36.22\00:22:42.49
POWER OF THE RESURRECTION.
SO, JESUS CHRIST -- THEY
00:22:42.49\00:22:47.03
WANTED -- JESUS CHRIST WANTED
THEM TO BELIEVE IN THE LIVING
00:22:47.03\00:22:53.13
SAVI SAVIOR RESURRECTED.
00:22:53.13\00:22:58.81
SO THAT'S TO STRENGTHEN THEIR
FAITH AND THAT'S WHY THEY TOOK
00:22:58.81\00:23:02.11
TIME TO PROVE TO THOMAS, FOR
EXAMPLE, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT
00:23:02.11\00:23:05.88
THERE IS NO DOUBT
THAT JESUS IS ALIVE.
00:23:05.88\00:23:09.28
AND HE ALREADY, WE CAN SEE, THAT
TO BE STRONG, FOR US TO DO THIS
00:23:09.28\00:23:14.72
FIRST GREAT THAT IS
THE GREAT COMISSION.
00:23:14.72\00:23:18.03
FIRST THING IS FOR US TO
KNOW THAT JESUS IS ALIVE.
00:23:18.03\00:23:22.96
THAT HE IS ALIVE AND HE WOULD
LIKE TO HAVE THIS CLOSE AND
00:23:22.96\00:23:31.64
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH
US. THAT IS THE POWER OF JESUS
00:23:31.64\00:23:40.15
ALIVE. AND THEN
IT IS SAID HERE THAT
00:23:40.15\00:23:42.92
AFTER A SUFFERING BY MANY AND
FALLIBLE PROOFS BEING SEEN BY
00:23:42.92\00:23:48.76
THEM DURING 40 DAYS AND SPEAKING
OF THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
00:23:48.76\00:23:55.30
KINGDOM OF GOD. THE
KINGDOM OF GOD STARTING HERE
00:23:55.30\00:23:58.33
AND THEN THE KINGDOM TO COME.
AND THAT IS THE COMING OF JESUS
00:23:58.33\00:24:04.07
CHRIST. JESUS
CHRIST WANTED THEM TO HAVE
00:24:04.07\00:24:07.61
THAT HOPE OF
THE KINGDOM TO COME.
00:24:07.61\00:24:10.85
BUT THAT KINGDOM MUST BE --
MUST START IN THEIR HEART OF
00:24:10.85\00:24:17.05
EVERYONE. SO I
TOTALLY AGREE THAT THE
00:24:17.05\00:24:24.73
GREAT COMISSION IS THE POWER
OF RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST
00:24:24.73\00:24:30.83
ALIVE. >> WHAT
THE POWER OF THE HOLY
00:24:30.83\00:24:33.60
SPIRIT DOES IS IT CONSTRAINS US
AND COMPELS US TO GO AHEAD AND
00:24:33.60\00:24:37.54
DO THINGS PASSIONATELY
AND COMPASSIONATELY FOR GOD.
00:24:37.54\00:24:40.81
I LOVED WHAT YOU SAID THAT WHEN
WE HAVE THIS IN US WE CAN'T HELP
00:24:40.81\00:24:44.81
BUT FEEL THAT WE
WANT TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE.
00:24:44.81\00:24:47.68
IT'S NOT A BURDEN OR SOMETHING
THAT WE HAVE TO CONVINCE
00:24:47.68\00:24:51.29
OURSELVES TO DO EVERY
DAY. WE JUST CAN'T HELP IT.
00:24:51.29\00:24:55.09
AND THEN WE TEST OUR FAITH
THROUGH ASKING GOD TO BE WITH US
00:24:55.09\00:24:58.69
AND TO ANSWER OUR PRAYERS AND AS
BABY CHRISTIANS WE ASK FOR BABY
00:24:58.69\00:25:03.90
THINGS, BUT THEN AS WE BECOME
MORE CONVINCED OF THE REALITY OF
00:25:03.90\00:25:07.50
GOD IN OUR LIVES, WE TEST HIM
WITH BIGGER THINGS AND THEN AS
00:25:07.50\00:25:11.61
WE TEST HIM WITH BIGGER THINGS
HE GIVES US BIGGER AND GREATER
00:25:11.61\00:25:16.34
RESPONSIBILITIES. BUT
THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE
00:25:16.34\00:25:18.58
ALWAYS ATTACHED TO BEING
COMPASSIONATE AND LOVING TOWARDS
00:25:18.58\00:25:22.92
OUR FELLOW MAN AS
WELL AS TOWARDS GOD.
00:25:22.92\00:25:28.46
I THINK THE PLACES THAT
HAS SENT US TO SERVE PEOPLE.
00:25:28.46\00:25:32.19
THERE IS ALWAYS A BLESSING THAT
COMES BACK TO US IN LETTING US
00:25:32.19\00:25:38.13
FIND PEOPLE TO HELP AND THOSE
PEOPLE SOMEHOW COMPLETE US AS
00:25:38.13\00:25:41.44
WELL. >> ABSOLUTELY.
00:25:41.44\00:25:44.57
>> YES. >> I THIN÷%d&YÅs
00:25:44.57\00:26:39.33
REALLY SPECIAL FRIEND. A
LOT OF MINISTRY IS AT A LEVEL
00:26:39.33\00:26:47.74
WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE A
LOT OF TIME TO SPEND WITH AN
00:26:47.74\00:26:49.97
INDIVIDUAL. BUT IT'S
SO SPECIAL FROM FIRST
00:26:49.97\00:26:52.57
LEARNING ABOUT JESUS TO BEING
CONVICTED OF THE LOVE OF GOD IN
00:26:52.57\00:26:55.74
THEIR LIFE AND THEN
SEEING THEM BAPTIZED.
00:26:55.74\00:27:04.89
ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES THIS
HAPPENED IN MY LIFE WAS WITH A
00:27:04.89\00:27:08.86
LOVELY LADY CALLED
HANNA. WE MET MIRACULOUSLY.
00:27:08.86\00:27:17.10
THE CONVICTION WAS SOMEHOW I
WOULD BE HELPING HER BUT SHE'S
00:27:17.10\00:27:23.27
BEEN A FRIEND FOR MANY, MANY
YEARS AND ANOTHER LADY I ASKED
00:27:23.27\00:27:29.21
GOD WOULD HE PROVIDE A BIBLE
STUDY FOR ME AND VERY NEXT DAY A
00:27:29.21\00:27:34.82
74-YEAR-OLD LADY WHO SHORTLY
AFTERWARDS WHO TOLD SHE HAD
00:27:34.82\00:27:38.39
CANCER AND SHE WENT
ON TO DIE SOON AFTER.
00:27:38.39\00:27:42.02
BUT DURING THE YEAR THAT WE
STUDIED SHE AND I BECAME FIRM
00:27:42.02\00:27:46.03
FRIENDS AND SHE WAS ABLE TO
MINISTER TO MY HEART IN A WAY
00:27:46.03\00:27:48.53
THAT I NEVER THOUGHT WAS
POSSIBLE AND THIS DEAR OLD LADY
00:27:48.53\00:27:52.77
JUST LOVED THE LORD SO MUCH AND
EACH WEEK IN CHURCH SHE WOULD
00:27:52.77\00:27:56.77
LIFT HER HANDS TO THE LORD AND
SING WITH SUCH PASSION AND IT
00:27:56.77\00:28:00.31
TOUCHED MY HEART AND I SO LOOKED
FORWARD TO SEEING HER AGAIN IN
00:28:00.31\00:28:04.31
HEAVEN. AND THEN
ONLY LAST OCTOBER I
00:28:04.31\00:28:06.85
PRAYED AGAIN. I SAID
SEND ME ANOTHER PERSON TO
00:28:06.85\00:28:09.28
STUDY THE BIBLE WITH AND GOD
SENT ME A BEAUTIFUL NEW FRIEND,
00:28:09.28\00:28:13.99
EMILY, WHO IS A GREEK LADY
IN SOUTH AFRICA AND EACH WEEK WE
00:28:13.99\00:28:19.29
STUDIED TOGETHER. BUT
WE CAN HAVE UP TO 19 PEOPLE
00:28:19.29\00:28:22.83
WITH US. SHE'S
ACTUALLY ONE OF THE OWNERS
00:28:22.83\00:28:25.30
OF A HOTEL IN SOUTH AFRICA.
AND SHE JUST LOVES THE LORD SO
00:28:25.30\00:28:29.14
MUCH THAT SHE INVITES
MANY OF THE WORKERS ALONG.
00:28:29.14\00:28:32.17
AND SO IN ASKING GOD TO HELP ME
TO SHARE THE BIBLE, I'VE ENDED
00:28:32.17\00:28:35.48
UP WITH A BEAUTIFUL
FRIEND AND THAT'S HOW GOD WORKS.
00:28:35.48\00:28:43.12
HE MINISTERS TO BOTH THE PERSON
THAT WANTS TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE
00:28:43.12\00:28:48.89
ABOUT GOD BUT THE PERSON WHO
GETS THAT AND ABLE TO SHARE THAT
00:28:48.89\00:28:52.76
BEAUTIFUL LOVE THAT THEY HAVE.
>> WHICH MAGNIFIES THE GREAT
00:28:52.76\00:29:21.26
COMISSION. THE NEXT
IS THE GREAT PROMISE.
00:29:21.26\00:29:23.76
THAT IS IN ACTS
CHAPTER ONE VERSE EIGHT.
00:29:23.76\00:29:28.40
BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER.
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME
00:29:28.40\00:29:34.24
UPON YOU AND YOU SHALL BE
WITNESSES TO ME, JERUSALEM AND
00:29:34.24\00:29:42.31
ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA AND
THE END OF THE EARTH, YOU SHALL
00:29:42.31\00:29:47.48
RECEIVE POWER. THE
GREAT POWER OF GOD IS FOR US
00:29:47.48\00:29:51.99
TO BE FILLED
WITH THE POWER OF GOD.
00:29:51.99\00:29:54.42
GOD HAS PROMISED THIS
POWER TO US TO ALL OF US AND THE
00:29:54.42\00:29:58.63
DISCIPLES AND DURING THIS
TIME WHEN JESUS CHRIST -- JESUS
00:29:58.63\00:30:06.10
CHRIST SPENT 40 DAYS AFTER THE
RESURRECTION -- DURING THAT TIME
00:30:06.10\00:30:10.27
JESUS CHRIST ASSURED THEM THAT
THEY WILL GO -- THEY WILLOW BAY
00:30:10.27\00:30:17.08
THIS COMMAND, THIS GREAT
COMISSION AND FULFILL THIS GREAT
00:30:17.08\00:30:22.75
COMISSION NOT BY MIGHT BUT
THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:30:22.75\00:30:29.32
WHEN GOD ASKS US TO DO SOMETHING
HE GIVES US THE POWER TO DO IT.
00:30:29.32\00:30:33.93
AND THIS IS THE
POWER FROM ABOVE.
00:30:33.93\00:30:37.30
WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT HOW TO
RECEIVE THIS POWER THAT PROMISED
00:30:37.30\00:30:44.77
THAT BY GOD. BUT FOR
NOW LET US EMPHASIZE THE
00:30:44.77\00:30:52.68
FACT THE GREAT PROMISE,
THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:30:52.68\00:30:57.49
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE POWER
OF GOD AND HOW GOD HAS GIVEN
00:30:57.49\00:31:07.03
THAT. YOU SEE,
WHEN WE LOOK AROUND, WE
00:31:07.03\00:31:10.23
SEE MANY THINGS. WE
CAN SEE ISAIAH TALKS ABOUT
00:31:10.23\00:31:15.57
THE DARKNESS
THAT COVERS THE EARTH.
00:31:15.57\00:31:20.58
BUT WE SHOULD NOT BE DISCOURAGED
BY THE DARKNESS BECAUSE THERE IS
00:31:20.58\00:31:26.45
POWER THAT CAN ACTUALLY
COUNTERACT THIS POWER OF
00:31:26.45\00:31:33.49
DARKNESS. IT IS THE
POWER OF GOD THROUGH
00:31:33.49\00:31:36.12
THE HOLY SPIRIT. SO WE
CAN PROCEED INTO THE NEXT
00:31:36.12\00:31:53.64
ONE. I WILL
COMMENT ON ONE OF THE
00:31:53.64\00:31:55.81
GREAT STUDIES SOMEHOW
OMITTED SEVERAL TIMES.
00:31:55.81\00:31:58.98
WHAT IS THE GREAT
-- THE FOURTH GREAT?
00:31:58.98\00:32:03.08
THAT IS THE GREAT HOPE.
YOU SEE, IN ACTS CHAPTER ONE
00:32:03.08\00:32:12.73
VERSE 9-11, MAYBE
JOANNE, YOU CAN READ THAT AGAIN.
00:32:12.73\00:32:16.26
ACTS CHAPTER ONE VERSE 9-11.
>> AND WHEN HE HAD SPOKEN THESE
00:32:16.26\00:32:21.37
THINGS WHILE THEY BEHELD HE WAS
TAKEN UP AND A CLOUD RECEIVED
00:32:21.37\00:32:26.24
HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHTS AND
WHILE THEY LOOKED STEDFASTLY
00:32:26.24\00:32:31.61
TOWARD HEAVEN WHEN THEY WENT UP
TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN WHITE
00:32:31.61\00:32:36.38
APPAREL WHO ALSO SAID YOU MEN
OF GALILEE THIS SAME JESUS WHICH
00:32:36.38\00:32:45.09
TAKEN UP TO YOU FROM HEAVEN
SHALL COME FROM LIKE MANNER AS
00:32:45.09\00:32:48.56
YOU HAVE SEEN
HIM GO INTO HEAVEN.
00:32:48.56\00:32:51.80
>> THIS IS THE GREAT HOPE THAT
WE HAVE THAT JESUS WILL COME
00:32:51.80\00:32:59.54
AGAIN AND COME SOON. SO
WE SEE THAT THE THREE GREATS
00:32:59.54\00:33:06.15
ARE LINKED: THE GREAT COMISSION
AND THE GREAT PROMISE AND THAT
00:33:06.15\00:33:09.58
WILL BRING TO THE GREAT HOPE.
THE GREAT HOPE, THIS IS THE
00:33:09.58\00:33:14.26
HOPE, THE ONLY SOLUTION OF THIS
WORLD ACTUALLY IS THE COMING OF
00:33:14.26\00:33:18.89
JESUS CHRIST. YES,
WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, WE
00:33:18.89\00:33:23.03
JUST HAVE IT TEMPORARILY,
BUT THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION OF OUR
00:33:23.03\00:33:29.24
PROMISE IS THE
COMING OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:33:29.24\00:33:31.37
THAT KINGDOM THAT HE TALKED
ABOUT, THE KINGDOM THAT WILL
00:33:31.37\00:33:36.01
COME, THAT IS THE SOLUTION
AND THAT SHOULD BE OUR HOPE.
00:33:36.01\00:33:46.72
WE SHOULD NEVER
LOSE HOPE IN OUR HEART.
00:33:46.72\00:33:50.13
AND WE SHOULD NEVER LOSE SIGHT.
MANY TIMES OUR PROBLEM IS WE
00:33:50.13\00:33:53.66
START MAYBE NOT TO
FOCUS MUCH ON THIS.
00:33:53.66\00:34:00.57
WE MAY BELIEVE BUT WE
DON'T HAVE THIS EAGERNESS.
00:34:00.57\00:34:05.87
BUT IT HAS TO BE WE HAVE TO HAVE
THIS EAGERNESS THAT JESUS -- YOU
00:34:05.87\00:34:12.51
SEE THE WORD MARANATHA.
IT WAS THE GREETINGS OF THE
00:34:12.51\00:34:18.15
DISCIPLES OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN
WHICH IS THE CHRIST IS COMING.
00:34:18.15\00:34:23.02
CHRIST IS COMING.
ACTUALLY THE WORD MARANATHA CAN
00:34:23.02\00:34:29.23
BE TRANSLATED INTO
THREE DIFFERENT VERSIONS.
00:34:29.23\00:34:33.10
THE FIRST ONE IS
JUST AN AFFIRMATION.
00:34:33.10\00:34:38.87
MARANATHA, THE LORD IS COMING.
AND THEN ANOTHER VERSION IS THAT
00:34:38.87\00:34:46.21
THE LORD WILL COME. BUT
IF WE DIVIDE -- IF WE DIVIDE
00:34:46.21\00:34:55.19
THE WORD MARANATHA
INTO THREE, MARA-NA-ATA.
00:34:55.19\00:35:06.23
THAT MEANS THE NATHA IS PLEASED.
THAT MEANS PLEASE, LORD.
00:35:06.23\00:35:11.44
PLEASE COME. PLEASE COME.
00:35:11.44\00:35:16.71
LORD, COME. WHENEVER
WE SAY MARANATHA THAT
00:35:16.71\00:35:19.58
MEANS IT'S A PRAYER AND
NOT JUST AN AFFIRMATION.
00:35:19.58\00:35:24.05
AND THAT SHOULD BE
OUR EXPERIENCE EVERY DAY.
00:35:24.05\00:35:29.69
THAT DESIRE TO SEE JESUS COMES
SOON AND THAT IS OUR HOME AND
00:35:29.69\00:35:35.56
THAT IS THE GREAT HOPE
THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
00:35:35.56\00:35:39.07
>> I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT
SOMETHING BECAUSE IN THE ENGLISH
00:35:39.07\00:35:45.07
LANGUAGE, HOPE CAN BE ALMOST
LIKE -- SOMETIMES PEOPLE TREAT
00:35:45.07\00:35:48.04
FAITH OR THEY TREAT
HOPE AS IF IT'S A CEREAL.
00:35:48.04\00:35:52.85
ARE YOU GOING ON
VACATION THIS YEAR?
00:35:52.85\00:35:54.98
I HOPE SO. MAYBE.
00:35:54.98\00:35:57.92
YOU KNOW. BUT IN
THE GREEK, HOPE MEANT
00:35:57.92\00:36:02.42
EAGER EXPECTATION. SO,
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE GOD
00:36:02.42\00:36:06.36
OF HOPE OR THE HOPE THAT WE
FIND THE BLESSED HOPE THE EAAOEG
00:36:06.36\00:36:13.57
KPEGTTATION OF BEING RESURRECTED
AND JOINED TO OUR LOVED ONES
00:36:13.57\00:36:18.14
AGAIN AND HEAR -- I LOVE WHAT
YOU'RE SAYING THIS IS THE GREAT
00:36:18.14\00:36:22.91
HOPE. IF WE'RE
EAGERLY EXPECTING HIS
00:36:22.91\00:36:27.58
RETURN IT'S GOING TO HELP
US IN THE GREAT COMISSION.
00:36:27.58\00:36:30.05
WE'RE GOING TO BE
MOTIVATED. >> DEFINITELY.
00:36:30.05\00:36:33.96
IN FACT, I WAS TALKING
ABOUT THE THREE VERSIONS, THREE
00:36:33.96\00:36:39.33
TRANSLATIONS OF MARANATHA.
THE FIRST ONE AS I SAID ALREADY,
00:36:39.33\00:36:44.33
IT IS AN
AFFIRMATION. JESUS IS COMING.
00:36:44.33\00:36:48.54
IT IS NOT SAID JESUS MAY
COME, BUT JESUS IS COMING.
00:36:48.54\00:36:53.31
THE LORD IS COMING. BUT
ANOTHER VERSION OF THIS AS
00:36:53.31\00:37:01.68
WELL, IN HEBREW THERE IS ONE
LETTER THAT CAN CHANGE THE TENSE
00:37:01.68\00:37:09.49
OF THE VERB IF
CONGREGATED IN THE PAST.
00:37:09.49\00:37:13.90
IF WE PUT THAT
LETTER IT BECOMES FUTURE.
00:37:13.90\00:37:18.87
SO THESE -- JESUS
-- THE LORD IS COMING.
00:37:18.87\00:37:25.74
SO MOST OF THE TIME USING THAT
LETTER SO IT IS LIKE JESUS, THE
00:37:25.74\00:37:32.45
LORD HAS COME. AND
THAT IS IN THE MINDSET OF
00:37:32.45\00:37:38.92
THE HEBREW PEOPLE IS YOU KNOW
THE REASON THROUGH CONCRETE TO
00:37:38.92\00:37:45.63
UNDERSTAND THE ABSTRACT.
FROM THE GREEK IT IS FROM
00:37:45.63\00:37:49.80
ABSTRACT TO THE CONCRETE.
BUT FOR THE HEBREW FROM THE
00:37:49.80\00:37:53.23
CONCRETE TO ABSTRACT TO
UNDERSTAND A CONCEPT THEY START
00:37:53.23\00:37:57.77
WITH THE CONCRETE. SO,
IF THIS IS THE KEY HERE,
00:37:57.77\00:38:03.61
THAT MEANS FOR THEM TO
UNDERSTAND THAT THE ASSURANCE OF
00:38:03.61\00:38:09.78
THE COMING OF JESUS
IS TOTALLY GUARANTEED.
00:38:09.78\00:38:14.06
THEN THEY USE THAT LETTER THAT
CHANGED THE FUTURE INTO PAST
00:38:14.06\00:38:23.97
BECAUSE THE SUREST THINGS
IN LIFE IS THE THINGS THAT HAVE
00:38:23.97\00:38:29.34
HAPPENED ALREADY. LIKE,
FOR EXAMPLE, YESTERDAY I
00:38:29.34\00:38:35.01
CAME HERE.  NO ONE
SHOULD DEBATE THAT.
00:38:35.01\00:38:38.15
IT WAS A FACT. IT
IS THE SUREST THING.
00:38:38.15\00:38:41.02
SO FOR THE EARLY CHRISTIANS IN
THE BIBLE, THE COMING OF JESUS
00:38:41.02\00:38:47.62
IS SO SURE THAT THE BEST WAY
TO DESCRIBE IT IS IN THE PAST.
00:38:47.62\00:38:54.46
THAT MEANS THE ASSURANCE THAT WE
HAVE IS JUST LIKE THE ASSURANCE
00:38:54.46\00:39:00.77
THAT WE HAVE WHEN WE DESCRIBE
THINGS THAT HAPPEN ALREADY IN
00:39:00.77\00:39:03.57
THE PAST. SO IN THE
WORD MARANATHA, THERE
00:39:03.57\00:39:08.51
IS THAT ASSURANCE
OF THIS GREAT HOPE.
00:39:08.51\00:39:12.08
THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT JESUS IS
COMING AND THAT'S WHY THE THIRD
00:39:12.08\00:39:17.99
TRANSLATION IS, OH, LORD, SINCE
YOU ARE COMING, PLEASE COME
00:39:17.99\00:39:22.59
SOONER. WE WOULD
LIKE YOU TO COME.
00:39:22.59\00:39:26.06
>> SHOWING UP AFTER 40 DAYS THAT
SHOULD ADD TO THEIR COMMITMENT.
00:39:26.06\00:39:29.80
>> THAT'S TRUE. >> I
MEAN, THAT'S -- NOT JUST
00:39:29.80\00:39:37.57
EVERYBODY CAN BE
RESURRECTED. >> YES.
00:39:37.57\00:39:42.74
SO THE PROMISE
HERE IS IT IS CLEAR.
00:39:42.74\00:39:47.18
THIS SAME JESUS WAS
TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN.
00:39:47.18\00:40:00.33
AND WE CAN PAUSE FOR A MOMENT
JUST TO REFLECT ON THIS IN OUR
00:40:00.33\00:40:08.44
LIVES. CAN YOU
IMAGINE THAT IF WE
00:40:08.44\00:40:10.61
REALLY BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS
COMING SOON IF WE BELIEVE THAT
00:40:10.61\00:40:28.39
JESUS IS COMING SOONER THAN
LATER THE WAY OF DEALING WITH
00:40:28.39\00:40:32.46
EACH OTHER, THE WAY OF DOING
THINGS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS.
00:40:32.46\00:40:48.38
IF WE PASS FOR PRIORS
THEN WE KNOW IT'S TEMPORARY.
00:40:48.38\00:40:55.48
EVEN IF WE SUFFER OR PASS
THROUGH TRIBULATION AND ALL OF
00:40:55.48\00:40:58.12
THIS, WE SHOULD
NOT BE DISCOURAGED.
00:40:58.12\00:41:03.32
SOON. >> YOU
KNOW, WE HAD A FRIEND
00:41:03.32\00:41:07.03
RECENTLY WHO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH
A VERY ADVANCED AND AGGRESSIVE
00:41:07.03\00:41:12.27
CANCER AND GIVEN
ONLY TWO MONTHS TO LIVE.
00:41:12.27\00:41:15.60
AND IT MADE ME PAUSE TO THINK
HOW WOULD I LIVE DIFFERENTLY IF
00:41:15.60\00:41:25.41
I ONLY HAD TWO MONTHS. AND
THEN I THOUGHT WHAT I WOULD
00:41:25.41\00:41:29.98
DO IF I THOUGHT I ONLY HAD
TWO WEEKS OR TWO DAYS TO LIVE.
00:41:29.98\00:41:35.76
NONE OF US KNOW HOW LONG WE HAVE
TO LIVE BUT IT MADE US TO GO TO
00:41:35.76\00:41:40.06
THE NEXT PLACE. HOW I
WOULD ACT IF I THOUGHT
00:41:40.06\00:41:43.20
CHRIST WERE RETURNING IN
TWO MONTHS OR TWO WEEKS OR TWO
00:41:43.20\00:41:47.77
DAYS&THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THAT
THE GREAT HOPE IS SOMETHING WE
00:41:47.77\00:41:51.71
SHOULD REMIND OURSELVES OF
DAILY THAT HE IS COMING BACK.
00:41:51.71\00:41:55.94
AND IT COULD BE SOON.
FOR SOME OF US IT COULD BE
00:41:55.94\00:42:01.02
TONIGHT. WE DON'T
KNOW WHEN OUR TIME ON
00:42:01.02\00:42:03.28
EARTH IS UP. SO WE NEED TO LIVE
00:42:03.28\00:42:07.16
INTENTIONALLY. WE
NEED TO BE AUTHENTIC.
00:42:07.16\00:42:09.59
BUT WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS
GREAT POWER THAT HE HAS GIVEN TO
00:42:09.59\00:42:15.53
US, REMEMBER THE GREAT HOPE, AND
GET OUT AND FULFILL THE GREAT
00:42:15.53\00:42:18.93
COMISSION. >> I
THINK THAT'S THE KEY.
00:42:18.93\00:42:20.67
THE KEY IS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
WE CAN'T SIT THERE AND WORRY
00:42:20.67\00:42:24.07
ABOUT WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO
WITH EACH DAY BECAUSE IF YOU DID
00:42:24.07\00:42:28.48
THAT THEN YOU WOULD BE
TRYING TO PLAN YOUR OWN FUTURE.
00:42:28.48\00:42:32.01
I THINK WHAT'S WONDERFUL ABOUT
A SPIRIT FILLED LIFE THAT IS GOD
00:42:32.01\00:42:37.72
CREATES THE OPPORTUNITIES
TO MEET THE RIGHT PERSON ON THE
00:42:37.72\00:42:41.42
RIGHT DAY AND SAY THE RIGHT
THING TO THAT PERSON ON THAT DAY
00:42:41.42\00:42:44.63
AND GOD PUTS THE WORDS IN YOUR
MOUTH AND THIS IS THE JOY OF
00:42:44.63\00:42:49.83
LIVING WITH GOD
DIRECTING YOUR LIFE.
00:42:49.83\00:42:53.40
YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
PLANNING TO DO THOSE THINGS, GOD
00:42:53.40\00:42:56.87
DOES IT FOR YOU. GOD
ARANGES THOSE APPOINTMENTS.
00:42:56.87\00:42:59.64
>> THERE IS THAT INTENTIONALITY
THAT I KNOW ANY TIME I'VE PRAYED
00:42:59.64\00:43:03.75
FOR A DIVINE APPOINTMENT
GOD HAS GIVEN ME ONE.
00:43:03.75\00:43:06.61
>> YES, TRUE. >> AND
THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING
00:43:06.61\00:43:10.29
PRAYING FOR HIM TO SEND SOMEONE
THAT YOU CAN DO BIBLE STUDIES
00:43:10.29\00:43:17.99
WITH. >> AND EVEN
SURRENDER YOUR DAY.
00:43:17.99\00:43:20.63
GOD WILL SEND
PEOPLE FOR YOU. >> EXACTLY.
00:43:20.63\00:43:31.74
JESUS CHRIST DID THAT. HE
ASKED HIS FATHER TO SHOW HIM
00:43:31.74\00:43:37.95
WHAT TO DO AND
SURRENDER HIS LIFE  LIFE.
00:43:37.95\00:43:56.26
SO FAR WE HAVE
SEEN THREE GREATS.
00:43:56.26\00:43:58.43
FIRST ONE IS
THE GREAT COMISSION.
00:43:58.43\00:44:02.70
AND THE SECOND ONE IS
-- >> THE GREAT PROMISE.
00:44:02.70\00:44:07.01
>> AND THE THIRD ONE WHICH
HEWE'LL SEE -- THE FOURTH ONE IS
00:44:07.01\00:44:16.62
THE GREAT HOPE.
GENERALLY SPEAKING, WE DON'T
00:44:16.62\00:44:24.69
EMPHASIZE THIS MUCH.
LET'S GO BACK TO OUR MAIN TEXT.
00:44:24.69\00:44:29.03
MAIN TEXT.
REMEMBER THE LESSON, THE
00:44:29.03\00:44:34.77
INTENSIVE, INTENSIVE GIVEN
BY JESUS CHRIST 40 DAYS AFTER
00:44:34.77\00:44:41.64
ISRAEL'S RESURRECTION HE TAUGHT
THE DISCIPLES AND IN VERSE FOUR,
00:44:41.64\00:44:46.61
MAYBE SOMEONE CAN READ
THIS CHAPTER ONE AND VERSE FOUR.
00:44:46.61\00:44:49.18
>> AND BEING A SYMBOL TOGETHER
WITH THEM, HE COMMANDED THEM NOT
00:44:49.18\00:44:56.36
TO DEPART FROM JERUSALEM BUT THE
PROMISE OF THE FATHER WHICH HE
00:44:56.36\00:44:59.73
SAID YOU HAVE HEARD
FROM ME. >> AND VERSE FIVE?
00:44:59.73\00:45:02.73
>> FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED WITH
WATER BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED
00:45:02.73\00:45:08.30
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
NOT MANY DAYS FROM NOW.
00:45:08.30\00:45:11.77
>> WE CALL THIS
THE GREAT COMMAND.
00:45:11.77\00:45:16.75
BECAUSE BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER
WITH THEM HE COMMANDED THEM NOT
00:45:16.75\00:45:22.82
TO DEPART. IN
OTHER WORDS, TO STAY IN
00:45:22.82\00:45:27.76
JERUSALEM AND DEPART AND TO WAIT
FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER.
00:45:27.76\00:45:34.96
THE COMMAND TO STAY.
BEFORE WE GO, WE MUST STAY.
00:45:34.96\00:45:43.97
BEFORE WE DEPART WE MUST STAY.
AND THIS IS THE GREAT COMISSION.
00:45:43.97\00:45:57.15
WE JUMP QUICKLY TO THE GREAT
COMISSION AND WE KEEP THIS ONE
00:45:57.15\00:46:03.93
OR SOMEHOW WE DOWNPLAY THISCrñ
ONE, BUT BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING
00:46:03.93\00:46:21.08
GREAT YOU MUST -- JESUS CHRIST,
FOR EXAMPLE, HE HAS BEEN WITH
00:46:21.08\00:46:27.02
HIS FATHER FOR 30 YEARS,
BUT BEFORE HE ENTERED INTO THE
00:46:27.02\00:46:33.42
PUBLIC MINISTRY, THEN HE STAYED
AND WAITED AND YOU PRAYED AND
00:46:33.42\00:46:39.66
FASTED FOR 40 DAYS. SO THIS IS
THE WAITING PART AND HE, AGAIN,
00:46:39.66\00:46:45.63
JESUS CHRIST SAID TO THE
DISCIPLES, YES, I'M GIVING YOU
00:46:45.63\00:46:51.71
THIS GREAT
COMISSION. THIS IS CRITICAL.
00:46:51.71\00:46:55.84
EVERYONE MUST DO THIS.
BECAUSE FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED
00:46:55.84\00:47:16.70
WITH WATER, BUT YOU SHOULD
BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:47:16.70\00:47:20.20
NOT MANY DAYS FROM NOW.
THAT MEANS FOR YOU TO RECEIVE
00:47:20.20\00:47:25.11
THE GREAT PROMISE YOU MUST STAY.
WE MUST STAY TO BE FILLED WITH
00:47:25.11\00:47:47.76
THE HOLY SPURT. >>
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS
00:47:47.76\00:47:52.47
INTERESTING.
SOMETIMES -- I DON'T DO THIS IN
00:47:52.47\00:47:55.00
A CONGREGATION NECESSARILY, BUT
IF I AM TEACHING AT A RETREAT
00:47:55.00\00:48:00.94
ASK WE TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE
OF DAY BY DAY SURRENDERING AND
00:48:00.94\00:48:06.92
BEING FILLED FRESH WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT AND I WILL OFTEN DO A
00:48:06.92\00:48:12.52
TEACHING TALKING
ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS.
00:48:12.52\00:48:16.22
FIRST THING IN THE MORNING TO
PRAY THAT THE LORD LEADS YOU BY
00:48:16.22\00:48:21.20
HIS GOOD SPIRIT, THAT YOU
OPEN YOUR HEART TO RECEIVE THIS
00:48:21.20\00:48:26.23
SPIRIT. BECAUSE WE
CAN GRIEVE, RESIST,
00:48:26.23\00:48:29.80
QUENCH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD
AND IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT I
00:48:29.80\00:48:33.27
THINK DAY BY DAY IT'S SO
IMPORTANT AND PEOPLE WILL OFTEN
00:48:33.27\00:48:37.81
SAY, YES, THAT'S SO IMPORTANT.
I'M SO GLAD AND YOU EMPHASIZE
00:48:37.81\00:48:43.52
AND EMPHASIZE AND THE NEXT
DAY WHEN THEY COME IN AND YOU'RE
00:48:43.52\00:48:47.06
GOING FOR ANOTHER SESSION,
SAY, HOW MANY OF YOU PRAYED THIS
00:48:47.06\00:48:51.99
MORNING TO BE FILLED WITH THE
HOLY SPIRIT AND TO BE LED BY THE
00:48:51.99\00:48:55.73
HOLY SPIRIT AND IT'S AMAZING HOW
FEW PEOPLE RAISE THEIR HANDS.
00:48:55.73\00:49:07.38
THIS IS SOMETHING WE REALLY HAVE
TO START DOING IN OUR LIVES.
00:49:07.38\00:49:10.95
AND WE SEE IT BUT SOMETIMES --
I TRY EVERY MORNING TO DO THAT.
00:49:10.95\00:49:15.38
BUT SOMETIMES I QUENCH THE
SPIRIT BY MID-AFTERNOON AND I'LL
00:49:15.38\00:49:20.49
BE DOING SOMETHING WITH LOTS OF
FERVOR AND NO SPIRIT, YOU KNOW,
00:49:20.49\00:49:26.96
AND I REALIZE OH,
LORD, I'VE GONE AHEAD OF YOU.
00:49:26.96\00:49:30.60
>> THE THING I'VE LEARNED
WHENEVER YOU INVITE THE HOLY
00:49:30.60\00:49:35.77
SPIRIT IN THAT'S ESPECIALLY
WHAT I DO EVERY MORNING.
00:49:35.77\00:49:39.97
IT'S REFRESHING AND NOW WE'RE
STARTING AND WE'RE READY TO GO
00:49:39.97\00:49:44.08
NOW BECAUSE I'VE GIVEN HIM
PERMISSION TO ALLOW ME THAN TO
00:49:44.08\00:49:49.98
PARTICIPATE ACCORDING
TO HIS WILL AND GLORY.
00:49:49.98\00:49:52.72
>> WHEN YOU DO GOD'S WILL AND
YOU FEEL SO EXCITED BECAUSE WHAT
00:49:52.72\00:49:58.09
YOU'VE DONE HAS BEEN SUCH A
BLESSING TO SOMEONE ELSE THE
00:49:58.09\00:50:01.00
NEXT DAY YOU WANT TO GO MORE
THAOUS  IS A /* ENTHUSIASTICALLY
00:50:01.00\00:50:11.07
AND DO IT AGAIN. WE ARE
PROMISED WE CAN HAVE THIS
00:50:11.07\00:50:14.61
TODAY IN A GREATER DOSE
THAN WHEN THEY HAD IN ACTS.
00:50:14.61\00:50:36.00
THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE SICK INTO
THE STREETS AND LAID THEM ON
00:50:36.00\00:50:39.17
BEDS AND COUCHES THAT AT LEAST
THE SHADOW OF PETER PASSING BY
00:50:39.17\00:50:42.94
MIGHT OVERSHADOW SOME OF THEM
AND IT CAME ALSO A MULTITUDE OF
00:50:42.94\00:50:49.24
THE CITIES
ROUNDABOUT OUT OF JERU
00:50:49.24\00:50:55.28
JERUSALEM. AND THEY
WERE HEALED EVERYONE.
00:50:55.28\00:50:56.58
I MEAN, DON'T YOU THINK THAT
PETER WOULD HAVE FELT SO EXCITED
00:50:56.58\00:51:02.92
ABOUT SEEING THE POWER OF GOD
WORKING IN HIS LIFE THAT JUST
00:51:02.92\00:51:07.46
HIS SHADOW WOULD GO OVER
PEOPLE AND THEY WERE HEALED.
00:51:07.46\00:51:11.23
>> IT WASN'T PETER'S POWER BUT
HE WAS SO FILLED WITH THE HOLY
00:51:11.23\00:51:15.70
SPIRIT. >> SO EVERY
DAY HE'S SAYING, GOD
00:51:15.70\00:51:18.21
LET ME DO IT AGAIN. >>
BUT WE CAN ONLY BE FILLED
00:51:18.21\00:51:21.24
WITH THE SPIRIT TO WHICH WE
HAVE IN OURSELF AND THAT IS THE
00:51:21.24\00:51:25.78
PROBLEM. >> SO WE
WILL TALK MORE ABOUT
00:51:25.78\00:51:36.93
HOW TO WAIT AND HOW TO STAY
AND THAT IS THE TIME WE'LL TALK
00:51:36.93\00:51:39.56
ABOUT PRAYER AND FAITH.
BUT FOR NOW, I JUST WANT TO US
00:51:39.56\00:51:44.00
TO EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT WE
SHOULD NEVER OMIT -- WE SHOULD
00:51:44.00\00:51:50.07
NEVER DOWNPLAY THIS
ONE. WE SHOULD NOT BE A GREAT
00:51:50.07\00:51:56.91
OMISSION THAT WE OMIT.
MANY TIMES WE ARE BUSY DOING
00:51:56.91\00:52:00.25
THIS AND TOO BUSY TO
PRAY. MANY TIMES WE THINK WE ARE
00:52:00.25\00:52:06.02
BUSIER THAN JESUS BECAUSE JESUS
WAS SO BUSY, BUT HE FOUND TIME
00:52:06.02\00:52:11.23
TO PRAY TO WAIT. SO
I'M SURE JESUS CHRIST WAS
00:52:11.23\00:52:15.96
EAGER FOR THE DISCIPLES TO GO
AND PREACH THE GOSPEL BUT JESUS
00:52:15.96\00:52:22.27
SAID, DON'T GO
YET. YOU MUST WAIT.
00:52:22.27\00:52:24.94
AND THE DISCIPLES OBEYED THIS
COMMAND, THIS GREAT COMMAND.
00:52:24.94\00:52:30.25
THEY DID NOT GO RIGHT AWAY.
BUT THEY WAITED AND THEY WAITED
00:52:30.25\00:52:44.23
UNTIL THEY RECEIVED THE POWER.
THEY BELIEVED IN THE GREAT
00:52:44.23\00:52:46.53
PROMISE. THEY DID NOT DOUBT.
00:52:46.53\00:52:49.73
AND THEY HAVE DONE MANY
THINGS IN THE UPPER ROOM.
00:52:49.73\00:52:53.47
THEY RECONCILED EACH OTHER
AND ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS AND
00:52:53.47\00:52:57.27
CONFESSED THEIR SINS AND THE
SPIRIT OF UNITY AND PRAYER AND
00:52:57.27\00:53:01.71
THAT IS THE WAITING PART.
AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE
00:53:01.71\00:53:17.89
BOOK OF ACTS IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT AND IT IS INTERESTING
00:53:17.89\00:53:40.32
IT IS BED DIE /* BY DESIGN. THE
00:53:40.32\00:53:45.15
THE LAST BOOK OF
ACTS IS YET TO BE WRITTEN.
00:53:47.19\00:53:50.86
IT'S THROUGH EVERYONE OF US.
THAT IS THE GREAT, GREAT POWER.
00:53:50.86\00:53:57.53
SO, LET'S SUMMARIZE
WHAT WE HAVE STUDIED SO FAR.
00:53:57.53\00:54:02.67
IF SOMEONE WOULD JUST LIKE
TO SUMMARIZE AND TALK ABOUT THE
00:54:02.67\00:54:05.77
FOUR GREATS AND THEN WE WOULD
LIKE NOW WITH THE FEW MINUTES WE
00:54:05.77\00:54:13.38
HAVE TO ARRANGE TO THE SEQUENCE
OF THE FOUR GREATS SO THE ONE
00:54:13.38\00:54:19.42
WILL NOT BE A GREAT OMISSION
BUT THE GREAT COMMAND INDEED.
00:54:19.42\00:54:23.16
LET'S SUMMARIZE.
WHAT IS OUR FIRST GREAT.
00:54:23.16\00:54:27.46
>> THE GREAT COMISSION.
>> THE GREAT COMISSION.
00:54:27.46\00:54:29.63
GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES, BAPTIZE
AND TEACH THE GREAT PROMISE, YOU
00:54:29.63\00:54:43.48
WILL RECEIVE POWER AND THEN WE
JUMPED INTO THE GREAT HOPE, THE
00:54:43.48\00:54:46.41
GREAT HOPE THAT
JESUS CHRIST WILL COME.
00:54:46.41\00:54:48.95
BUT NOW, LET'S TRY -- WHERE
SHOULD WE PUT THE GREAT COMMAND?
00:54:48.95\00:54:56.29
WHERE? IS IT THE
THIRD OR THE SECOND
00:54:56.29\00:54:58.73
ONE? WHERE IS IT?
00:54:58.73\00:54:59.73
OF COURSE WE CANNOT REALLY
HAVE A CLEAR CUT ON THE -- THEY
00:54:59.73\00:55:06.30
OVERLAP SOMETIMES. BUT
WE CAN SEE THE SEQUENCE.
00:55:06.30\00:55:10.47
THE GREAT --
WHAT IS THE FIRST ONE?
00:55:10.47\00:55:12.71
>> COMISSION. >>
THE GREAT COMISSION.
00:55:12.71\00:55:14.91
>> TO GO. TO GO.
00:55:14.91\00:55:18.41
>> BUT WE NEED TO WAIT. SO
THE GREAT COMMAND SHOULD BE
00:55:18.41\00:55:25.09
AT LEAST THE SECOND ONE
OF THE THE GREAT COMISSION.
00:55:25.09\00:55:28.09
GOD HAS GIVEN THE COMISSION THEN
BEFORE YOU GO YOU MUST WAIT.
00:55:28.09\00:55:35.23
WE CAN EVEN SAY THAT THE GREAT
COMMAND SHOULD BE THE FIRST.
00:55:35.23\00:55:40.74
>> I WOULD SAY THAT.
>> THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:55:40.74\00:55:44.87
THIS IS THE FOUNDATION FOR US
TO FULFILL THE MISSION OF GOD.
00:55:44.87\00:55:51.45
SO, WE TALKED ABOUT THE
GREAT COMMAND AND THEN THE GREAT
00:55:51.45\00:55:57.42
COMISSION. WHEN
YOU STAY THEN YOU'LL
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RECEIVE THE GREAT PROMISE.
WHEN YOU STAY, THE GREAT COMMAND
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THEN YOU RECEIVE
THE GREAT PROMISE.
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AND WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE GREAT
PROMISE YOU WILL DO -- YOU OBEY
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THE GREAT COMMAND, THE GREAT
COMISSION WITH POWER AND WHEN WE
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DO THAT, THEN THE PREACHING OF
THE GOSPEL WILL BE FINISHED SO
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FAST THAT JESUS WILL COME
AND THAT IS THE GREAT HOPE.
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>> WE'RE COMING TO THE TOP OF
OUR -- THE END OF THE FIRST HOUR
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COMING TO THE TOP OF THE HOUR.
AND WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO IS
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REMIND YOU THAT
THIS IS A LIVE PROGRAM.
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IT IS RIGHT HERE.  "TEACH US TO
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PR WE'LL BE BACK
IN THE SECOND HOUR
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AND TALKING ABOUT THESE FOUR
GREATS THAT ARE ALSO REPEATED,
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AS HE ALREADY HAD GIVEN
ME A LITTLE TEASE IN THE OLD
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TESTAMENT WE'LL SEE THE MIRROR
REFLECTION OF THIS IN THE OLD
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TESTAMENT. TAKE A
QUICK BREAK AND WE'LL BE
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BACK IN TWO MINUTES AND
WE HOPE YOU'LL BE WITH US.
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>> AMEN. ¤
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