Participants: Dr. Paul Ratsara
Series Code: TL
Program Code: TL016513A
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16:36 MISSION. THE GO AND BAPTIZE AND CLEAR,
16:46 VERY CLEAR IN CHAPTER 28 BUT WE CAN SEE IN THE BOOK OF ACTS 16:51 WHICH IS AC S CHAPTER THAT SAYS YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME. 17:04 ACTS CHAPTER ONE AND VERSE EIGHT BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN 17:07 THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES 17:15 TO ME IN JERUSALEM AND IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA AND TO THE END OF 17:25 THE EARTH. THAT IS THE GREAT COME MISSION 17:28 IN THE BOOK OF ISSION IN THE BOOK OF ACTS. 17:39 THE FIRST IS THE GREAT COMISSION. 17:40 IF WE TAKE THE GREAT COMISSION THAT ALL OF US -- WE PART OF 17:47 THIS PERSONALLY THAT WILL MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. 17:54 SO LET'S JUST REMEMBER THE FIRST GREAT -- THE GREAT COMISSION. 17:59 AND YOU KNOW, I WILL TALK A BIT MORE ABOUT THIS GREAT COMISSION. 18:04 YOU KNOW, THE GREAT COMISSION SOMETIMES IT BECOMES IT BECOMES 18:23 OPTIONAL. FOR US TO HAVE THE COMING OF 18:28 JESUS CHRIST IT SHOULD NOT BEEN OPTIONAL OR SUGGESTION, BUT IT 18:32 HAS TO BE A COMISSION IN MANDATE. 18:35 THAT MEANS ONCE WE DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS, THEN WE HAVE 18:41 SURRENDERED OUR CHOICE. WE HAVE NO CHOICE THEN TO DO THE 18:48 WILL OF GOD AND TO DO TO FOLLOW THIS GREAT COMMAND. 18:54 SO THE FIRST IS TO BE INVOLVED TO BE INVOLVED TO MAKE THIS AS 19:02 MANDATORY AND NOT OPTIONAL. >> I LOVE THE FACT THAT HERE -- 19:08 AND I NEVER LOOKED AT THIS AS THE ECHO OR THE REFLECTION OF 19:12 THE GREAT COMISSION IN ACTS CHAPTER ONE VERSE EIGHT. 19:16 WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IT BEING MANDATORY YOU SHALL 19:21 RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU. 19:24 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IN YOU, HE'S THE SPIRIT NOT ONLY OF 19:28 HOLINESS BUT THE SPIRIT OF LOVE BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE. 19:33 SO, THEN YOU HAVE THAT DESIRE. GOD GIVES YOU HIS DESIRE TO 19:42 REACH OTHER PEOPLE. SO, YES, IT'S A MANDATE. 19:45 BUT IT'S ONE THAT WHEN YOU'RE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOU 19:49 JUST CAN'T HELP BUT SHARE BECAUSE YOU'RE FILLED WITH THE 19:51 LOVE OF GOD AND YOU SEE THESE LOST AND SUFFERING PEOPLE. 19:55 >> THAT IS VERY TRUE. THAT IS VERY TRUE BECAUSE WHEN 20:01 WE STUDY ACTS CHAPTER ONE, WE SEE THE TIME AFTER THE 20:09 RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST SPENT 40 DAYS WITH 20:17 THE DIDSCIPLES AND CHAPTER ONE IS ACTUALLY THE 40TH DAY OF THAT. 20:29 JESUS AFTER GIVING 3.5 EDUCATION TO THE DISCIPLES SOMEHOW AFTER 20:36 THE RESURRECTION HE STARTED GRADUATE STUDIES AND THE HOLY 20:40 SPIRIT IS THE TEACHER OF THE SECOND DID HE TKPWRAOEFPLT THE 20:45 FIRST DEGREE IS ALMOST LIKE A COLLEGE DEGREE GIVEN TO THE 12 20:54 DISCIPLES AND FOR 40 DAYS, JESUS CHRIST GAVE AN INTENSIVE STUDY 21:00 AND HE TALKED ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT -- HE TALKS ABOUT THE 21:03 HOLY SPIRIT AND THE BIBLE. YOU REMEMBER THEY WALKED -- THEY 21:13 HAD UNDERSTANDING AND SO JESUS CHRIST EXPANDED ON THE SCRIPTURE 21:17 AND THEN RIGHT HERE IN VERSE THREE, TO WHOM MAY BE WE CAN 21:23 READ THAT, ONE OF US CAN READ ACTS CHAPTER ONE AND VERSE -- WE 21:31 CAN START WITH VERSE ONE TO VERSE THREE BECAUSE WE ARE 21:34 STUDYING TOGETHER, ACTS CHAPTER ONE, IF YOU CAN READ THAT. 21:38 >> WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ THAT, JOANNE? 21:43 >> SURE. OF ALL THAT JESUS BEGAN BOTH TO 21:46 DO AND TEACH UNTIL THE DAY IN WHICH HE WAS TAKEN UP, AFTER 21:51 THAT, HE, THROUGH THE HOLY GHOST HAD GIVEN COMMANDMENTS TO THE 21:56 APOSTLES TO WHOM HE HAD CHOSEN AND SHOWED HIMSELF ALIVE AFTER 22:03 HIS PASSION BY MANY INFALLIBLE PROOFS AND SPEAKING OF THE 22:10 THINGS PERTAIN TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 22:13 >> WE CAN SEE THE 40 DAYS, THE 40 DAYS SPENT BY JESUS CHRIST 22:18 WITH THE DISCIPLES. THE FIRST THING THAT JESUS 22:22 CHRIST WAS CERTAIN THAT THE DISCIPLES BELIEVED THAT HE IS 22:27 ALIVE. >> AMEN. 22:28 >> HE'S ALIVE. THAT THE TOMB IS EMPTY. 22:33 >> HALLELUJAH. >> JESUS CHRIST IS ALIVE. 22:36 BEFORE SENDING THEM, HE HAD TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THAT 22:42 POWER OF THE RESURRECTION. SO, JESUS CHRIST -- THEY 22:47 WANTED -- JESUS CHRIST WANTED THEM TO BELIEVE IN THE LIVING 22:53 SAVI SAVIOR RESURRECTED. 22:58 SO THAT'S TO STRENGTHEN THEIR FAITH AND THAT'S WHY THEY TOOK 23:02 TIME TO PROVE TO THOMAS, FOR EXAMPLE, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT 23:05 THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT JESUS IS ALIVE. 23:09 AND HE ALREADY, WE CAN SEE, THAT TO BE STRONG, FOR US TO DO THIS 23:14 FIRST GREAT THAT IS THE GREAT COMISSION. 23:18 FIRST THING IS FOR US TO KNOW THAT JESUS IS ALIVE. 23:22 THAT HE IS ALIVE AND HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIS CLOSE AND 23:31 PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH US. THAT IS THE POWER OF JESUS 23:40 ALIVE. AND THEN IT IS SAID HERE THAT 23:42 AFTER A SUFFERING BY MANY AND FALLIBLE PROOFS BEING SEEN BY 23:48 THEM DURING 40 DAYS AND SPEAKING OF THINGS PERTAINING TO THE 23:55 KINGDOM OF GOD. THE KINGDOM OF GOD STARTING HERE 23:58 AND THEN THE KINGDOM TO COME. AND THAT IS THE COMING OF JESUS 24:04 CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST WANTED THEM TO HAVE 24:07 THAT HOPE OF THE KINGDOM TO COME. 24:10 BUT THAT KINGDOM MUST BE -- MUST START IN THEIR HEART OF 24:17 EVERYONE. SO I TOTALLY AGREE THAT THE 24:24 GREAT COMISSION IS THE POWER OF RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST 24:30 ALIVE. >> WHAT THE POWER OF THE HOLY 24:33 SPIRIT DOES IS IT CONSTRAINS US AND COMPELS US TO GO AHEAD AND 24:37 DO THINGS PASSIONATELY AND COMPASSIONATELY FOR GOD. 24:40 I LOVED WHAT YOU SAID THAT WHEN WE HAVE THIS IN US WE CAN'T HELP 24:44 BUT FEEL THAT WE WANT TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE. 24:47 IT'S NOT A BURDEN OR SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO CONVINCE 24:51 OURSELVES TO DO EVERY DAY. WE JUST CAN'T HELP IT. 24:55 AND THEN WE TEST OUR FAITH THROUGH ASKING GOD TO BE WITH US 24:58 AND TO ANSWER OUR PRAYERS AND AS BABY CHRISTIANS WE ASK FOR BABY 25:03 THINGS, BUT THEN AS WE BECOME MORE CONVINCED OF THE REALITY OF 25:07 GOD IN OUR LIVES, WE TEST HIM WITH BIGGER THINGS AND THEN AS 25:11 WE TEST HIM WITH BIGGER THINGS HE GIVES US BIGGER AND GREATER 25:16 RESPONSIBILITIES. BUT THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE 25:18 ALWAYS ATTACHED TO BEING COMPASSIONATE AND LOVING TOWARDS 25:22 OUR FELLOW MAN AS WELL AS TOWARDS GOD. 25:28 I THINK THE PLACES THAT HAS SENT US TO SERVE PEOPLE. 25:32 THERE IS ALWAYS A BLESSING THAT COMES BACK TO US IN LETTING US 25:38 FIND PEOPLE TO HELP AND THOSE PEOPLE SOMEHOW COMPLETE US AS 25:41 WELL. >> ABSOLUTELY. 25:44 >> YES. >> I THIN÷%d&YÅs 26:39 REALLY SPECIAL FRIEND. A LOT OF MINISTRY IS AT A LEVEL 26:47 WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO SPEND WITH AN 26:49 INDIVIDUAL. BUT IT'S SO SPECIAL FROM FIRST 26:52 LEARNING ABOUT JESUS TO BEING CONVICTED OF THE LOVE OF GOD IN 26:55 THEIR LIFE AND THEN SEEING THEM BAPTIZED. 27:04 ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES THIS HAPPENED IN MY LIFE WAS WITH A 27:08 LOVELY LADY CALLED HANNA. WE MET MIRACULOUSLY. 27:17 THE CONVICTION WAS SOMEHOW I WOULD BE HELPING HER BUT SHE'S 27:23 BEEN A FRIEND FOR MANY, MANY YEARS AND ANOTHER LADY I ASKED 27:29 GOD WOULD HE PROVIDE A BIBLE STUDY FOR ME AND VERY NEXT DAY A 27:34 74-YEAR-OLD LADY WHO SHORTLY AFTERWARDS WHO TOLD SHE HAD 27:38 CANCER AND SHE WENT ON TO DIE SOON AFTER. 27:42 BUT DURING THE YEAR THAT WE STUDIED SHE AND I BECAME FIRM 27:46 FRIENDS AND SHE WAS ABLE TO MINISTER TO MY HEART IN A WAY 27:48 THAT I NEVER THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE AND THIS DEAR OLD LADY 27:52 JUST LOVED THE LORD SO MUCH AND EACH WEEK IN CHURCH SHE WOULD 27:56 LIFT HER HANDS TO THE LORD AND SING WITH SUCH PASSION AND IT 28:00 TOUCHED MY HEART AND I SO LOOKED FORWARD TO SEEING HER AGAIN IN 28:04 HEAVEN. AND THEN ONLY LAST OCTOBER I 28:06 PRAYED AGAIN. I SAID SEND ME ANOTHER PERSON TO 28:09 STUDY THE BIBLE WITH AND GOD SENT ME A BEAUTIFUL NEW FRIEND, 28:13 EMILY, WHO IS A GREEK LADY IN SOUTH AFRICA AND EACH WEEK WE 28:19 STUDIED TOGETHER. BUT WE CAN HAVE UP TO 19 PEOPLE 28:22 WITH US. SHE'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE OWNERS 28:25 OF A HOTEL IN SOUTH AFRICA. AND SHE JUST LOVES THE LORD SO 28:29 MUCH THAT SHE INVITES MANY OF THE WORKERS ALONG. 28:32 AND SO IN ASKING GOD TO HELP ME TO SHARE THE BIBLE, I'VE ENDED 28:35 UP WITH A BEAUTIFUL FRIEND AND THAT'S HOW GOD WORKS. 28:43 HE MINISTERS TO BOTH THE PERSON THAT WANTS TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE 28:48 ABOUT GOD BUT THE PERSON WHO GETS THAT AND ABLE TO SHARE THAT 28:52 BEAUTIFUL LOVE THAT THEY HAVE. >> WHICH MAGNIFIES THE GREAT 29:21 COMISSION. THE NEXT IS THE GREAT PROMISE. 29:23 THAT IS IN ACTS CHAPTER ONE VERSE EIGHT. 29:28 BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER. WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME 29:34 UPON YOU AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME, JERUSALEM AND 29:42 ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA AND THE END OF THE EARTH, YOU SHALL 29:47 RECEIVE POWER. THE GREAT POWER OF GOD IS FOR US 29:51 TO BE FILLED WITH THE POWER OF GOD. 29:54 GOD HAS PROMISED THIS POWER TO US TO ALL OF US AND THE 29:58 DISCIPLES AND DURING THIS TIME WHEN JESUS CHRIST -- JESUS 30:06 CHRIST SPENT 40 DAYS AFTER THE RESURRECTION -- DURING THAT TIME 30:10 JESUS CHRIST ASSURED THEM THAT THEY WILL GO -- THEY WILLOW BAY 30:17 THIS COMMAND, THIS GREAT COMISSION AND FULFILL THIS GREAT 30:22 COMISSION NOT BY MIGHT BUT THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 30:29 WHEN GOD ASKS US TO DO SOMETHING HE GIVES US THE POWER TO DO IT. 30:33 AND THIS IS THE POWER FROM ABOVE. 30:37 WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT HOW TO RECEIVE THIS POWER THAT PROMISED 30:44 THAT BY GOD. BUT FOR NOW LET US EMPHASIZE THE 30:52 FACT THE GREAT PROMISE, THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 30:57 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE POWER OF GOD AND HOW GOD HAS GIVEN 31:07 THAT. YOU SEE, WHEN WE LOOK AROUND, WE 31:10 SEE MANY THINGS. WE CAN SEE ISAIAH TALKS ABOUT 31:15 THE DARKNESS THAT COVERS THE EARTH. 31:20 BUT WE SHOULD NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY THE DARKNESS BECAUSE THERE IS 31:26 POWER THAT CAN ACTUALLY COUNTERACT THIS POWER OF 31:33 DARKNESS. IT IS THE POWER OF GOD THROUGH 31:36 THE HOLY SPIRIT. SO WE CAN PROCEED INTO THE NEXT 31:53 ONE. I WILL COMMENT ON ONE OF THE 31:55 GREAT STUDIES SOMEHOW OMITTED SEVERAL TIMES. 31:58 WHAT IS THE GREAT -- THE FOURTH GREAT? 32:03 THAT IS THE GREAT HOPE. YOU SEE, IN ACTS CHAPTER ONE 32:12 VERSE 9-11, MAYBE JOANNE, YOU CAN READ THAT AGAIN. 32:16 ACTS CHAPTER ONE VERSE 9-11. >> AND WHEN HE HAD SPOKEN THESE 32:21 THINGS WHILE THEY BEHELD HE WAS TAKEN UP AND A CLOUD RECEIVED 32:26 HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHTS AND WHILE THEY LOOKED STEDFASTLY 32:31 TOWARD HEAVEN WHEN THEY WENT UP TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN WHITE 32:36 APPAREL WHO ALSO SAID YOU MEN OF GALILEE THIS SAME JESUS WHICH 32:45 TAKEN UP TO YOU FROM HEAVEN SHALL COME FROM LIKE MANNER AS 32:48 YOU HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN. 32:51 >> THIS IS THE GREAT HOPE THAT WE HAVE THAT JESUS WILL COME 32:59 AGAIN AND COME SOON. SO WE SEE THAT THE THREE GREATS 33:06 ARE LINKED: THE GREAT COMISSION AND THE GREAT PROMISE AND THAT 33:09 WILL BRING TO THE GREAT HOPE. THE GREAT HOPE, THIS IS THE 33:14 HOPE, THE ONLY SOLUTION OF THIS WORLD ACTUALLY IS THE COMING OF 33:18 JESUS CHRIST. YES, WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, WE 33:23 JUST HAVE IT TEMPORARILY, BUT THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION OF OUR 33:29 PROMISE IS THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST. 33:31 THAT KINGDOM THAT HE TALKED ABOUT, THE KINGDOM THAT WILL 33:36 COME, THAT IS THE SOLUTION AND THAT SHOULD BE OUR HOPE. 33:46 WE SHOULD NEVER LOSE HOPE IN OUR HEART. 33:50 AND WE SHOULD NEVER LOSE SIGHT. MANY TIMES OUR PROBLEM IS WE 33:53 START MAYBE NOT TO FOCUS MUCH ON THIS. 34:00 WE MAY BELIEVE BUT WE DON'T HAVE THIS EAGERNESS. 34:05 BUT IT HAS TO BE WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS EAGERNESS THAT JESUS -- YOU 34:12 SEE THE WORD MARANATHA. IT WAS THE GREETINGS OF THE 34:18 DISCIPLES OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN WHICH IS THE CHRIST IS COMING. 34:23 CHRIST IS COMING. ACTUALLY THE WORD MARANATHA CAN 34:29 BE TRANSLATED INTO THREE DIFFERENT VERSIONS. 34:33 THE FIRST ONE IS JUST AN AFFIRMATION. 34:38 MARANATHA, THE LORD IS COMING. AND THEN ANOTHER VERSION IS THAT 34:46 THE LORD WILL COME. BUT IF WE DIVIDE -- IF WE DIVIDE 34:55 THE WORD MARANATHA INTO THREE, MARA-NA-ATA. 35:06 THAT MEANS THE NATHA IS PLEASED. THAT MEANS PLEASE, LORD. 35:11 PLEASE COME. PLEASE COME. 35:16 LORD, COME. WHENEVER WE SAY MARANATHA THAT 35:19 MEANS IT'S A PRAYER AND NOT JUST AN AFFIRMATION. 35:24 AND THAT SHOULD BE OUR EXPERIENCE EVERY DAY. 35:29 THAT DESIRE TO SEE JESUS COMES SOON AND THAT IS OUR HOME AND 35:35 THAT IS THE GREAT HOPE THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. 35:39 >> I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT SOMETHING BECAUSE IN THE ENGLISH 35:45 LANGUAGE, HOPE CAN BE ALMOST LIKE -- SOMETIMES PEOPLE TREAT 35:48 FAITH OR THEY TREAT HOPE AS IF IT'S A CEREAL. 35:52 ARE YOU GOING ON VACATION THIS YEAR? 35:54 I HOPE SO. MAYBE. 35:57 YOU KNOW. BUT IN THE GREEK, HOPE MEANT 36:02 EAGER EXPECTATION. SO, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE GOD 36:06 OF HOPE OR THE HOPE THAT WE FIND THE BLESSED HOPE THE EAAOEG 36:13 KPEGTTATION OF BEING RESURRECTED AND JOINED TO OUR LOVED ONES 36:18 AGAIN AND HEAR -- I LOVE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THIS IS THE GREAT 36:22 HOPE. IF WE'RE EAGERLY EXPECTING HIS 36:27 RETURN IT'S GOING TO HELP US IN THE GREAT COMISSION. 36:30 WE'RE GOING TO BE MOTIVATED. >> DEFINITELY. 36:33 IN FACT, I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE THREE VERSIONS, THREE 36:39 TRANSLATIONS OF MARANATHA. THE FIRST ONE AS I SAID ALREADY, 36:44 IT IS AN AFFIRMATION. JESUS IS COMING. 36:48 IT IS NOT SAID JESUS MAY COME, BUT JESUS IS COMING. 36:53 THE LORD IS COMING. BUT ANOTHER VERSION OF THIS AS 37:01 WELL, IN HEBREW THERE IS ONE LETTER THAT CAN CHANGE THE TENSE 37:09 OF THE VERB IF CONGREGATED IN THE PAST. 37:13 IF WE PUT THAT LETTER IT BECOMES FUTURE. 37:18 SO THESE -- JESUS -- THE LORD IS COMING. 37:25 SO MOST OF THE TIME USING THAT LETTER SO IT IS LIKE JESUS, THE 37:32 LORD HAS COME. AND THAT IS IN THE MINDSET OF 37:38 THE HEBREW PEOPLE IS YOU KNOW THE REASON THROUGH CONCRETE TO 37:45 UNDERSTAND THE ABSTRACT. FROM THE GREEK IT IS FROM 37:49 ABSTRACT TO THE CONCRETE. BUT FOR THE HEBREW FROM THE 37:53 CONCRETE TO ABSTRACT TO UNDERSTAND A CONCEPT THEY START 37:57 WITH THE CONCRETE. SO, IF THIS IS THE KEY HERE, 38:03 THAT MEANS FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE ASSURANCE OF 38:09 THE COMING OF JESUS IS TOTALLY GUARANTEED. 38:14 THEN THEY USE THAT LETTER THAT CHANGED THE FUTURE INTO PAST 38:23 BECAUSE THE SUREST THINGS IN LIFE IS THE THINGS THAT HAVE 38:29 HAPPENED ALREADY. LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, YESTERDAY I 38:35 CAME HERE. NO ONE SHOULD DEBATE THAT. 38:38 IT WAS A FACT. IT IS THE SUREST THING. 38:41 SO FOR THE EARLY CHRISTIANS IN THE BIBLE, THE COMING OF JESUS 38:47 IS SO SURE THAT THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE IT IS IN THE PAST. 38:54 THAT MEANS THE ASSURANCE THAT WE HAVE IS JUST LIKE THE ASSURANCE 39:00 THAT WE HAVE WHEN WE DESCRIBE THINGS THAT HAPPEN ALREADY IN 39:03 THE PAST. SO IN THE WORD MARANATHA, THERE 39:08 IS THAT ASSURANCE OF THIS GREAT HOPE. 39:12 THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT JESUS IS COMING AND THAT'S WHY THE THIRD 39:17 TRANSLATION IS, OH, LORD, SINCE YOU ARE COMING, PLEASE COME 39:22 SOONER. WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO COME. 39:26 >> SHOWING UP AFTER 40 DAYS THAT SHOULD ADD TO THEIR COMMITMENT. 39:29 >> THAT'S TRUE. >> I MEAN, THAT'S -- NOT JUST 39:37 EVERYBODY CAN BE RESURRECTED. >> YES. 39:42 SO THE PROMISE HERE IS IT IS CLEAR. 39:47 THIS SAME JESUS WAS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN. 40:00 AND WE CAN PAUSE FOR A MOMENT JUST TO REFLECT ON THIS IN OUR 40:08 LIVES. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT IF WE 40:10 REALLY BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS COMING SOON IF WE BELIEVE THAT 40:28 JESUS IS COMING SOONER THAN LATER THE WAY OF DEALING WITH 40:32 EACH OTHER, THE WAY OF DOING THINGS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS. 40:48 IF WE PASS FOR PRIORS THEN WE KNOW IT'S TEMPORARY. 40:55 EVEN IF WE SUFFER OR PASS THROUGH TRIBULATION AND ALL OF 40:58 THIS, WE SHOULD NOT BE DISCOURAGED. 41:03 SOON. >> YOU KNOW, WE HAD A FRIEND 41:07 RECENTLY WHO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A VERY ADVANCED AND AGGRESSIVE 41:12 CANCER AND GIVEN ONLY TWO MONTHS TO LIVE. 41:15 AND IT MADE ME PAUSE TO THINK HOW WOULD I LIVE DIFFERENTLY IF 41:25 I ONLY HAD TWO MONTHS. AND THEN I THOUGHT WHAT I WOULD 41:29 DO IF I THOUGHT I ONLY HAD TWO WEEKS OR TWO DAYS TO LIVE. 41:35 NONE OF US KNOW HOW LONG WE HAVE TO LIVE BUT IT MADE US TO GO TO 41:40 THE NEXT PLACE. HOW I WOULD ACT IF I THOUGHT 41:43 CHRIST WERE RETURNING IN TWO MONTHS OR TWO WEEKS OR TWO 41:47 DAYS&THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THAT THE GREAT HOPE IS SOMETHING WE 41:51 SHOULD REMIND OURSELVES OF DAILY THAT HE IS COMING BACK. 41:55 AND IT COULD BE SOON. FOR SOME OF US IT COULD BE 42:01 TONIGHT. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN OUR TIME ON 42:03 EARTH IS UP. SO WE NEED TO LIVE 42:07 INTENTIONALLY. WE NEED TO BE AUTHENTIC. 42:09 BUT WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS GREAT POWER THAT HE HAS GIVEN TO 42:15 US, REMEMBER THE GREAT HOPE, AND GET OUT AND FULFILL THE GREAT 42:18 COMISSION. >> I THINK THAT'S THE KEY. 42:20 THE KEY IS THE HOLY SPIRIT. WE CAN'T SIT THERE AND WORRY 42:24 ABOUT WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH EACH DAY BECAUSE IF YOU DID 42:28 THAT THEN YOU WOULD BE TRYING TO PLAN YOUR OWN FUTURE. 42:32 I THINK WHAT'S WONDERFUL ABOUT A SPIRIT FILLED LIFE THAT IS GOD 42:37 CREATES THE OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET THE RIGHT PERSON ON THE 42:41 RIGHT DAY AND SAY THE RIGHT THING TO THAT PERSON ON THAT DAY 42:44 AND GOD PUTS THE WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH AND THIS IS THE JOY OF 42:49 LIVING WITH GOD DIRECTING YOUR LIFE. 42:53 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PLANNING TO DO THOSE THINGS, GOD 42:56 DOES IT FOR YOU. GOD ARANGES THOSE APPOINTMENTS. 42:59 >> THERE IS THAT INTENTIONALITY THAT I KNOW ANY TIME I'VE PRAYED 43:03 FOR A DIVINE APPOINTMENT GOD HAS GIVEN ME ONE. 43:06 >> YES, TRUE. >> AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING 43:10 PRAYING FOR HIM TO SEND SOMEONE THAT YOU CAN DO BIBLE STUDIES 43:17 WITH. >> AND EVEN SURRENDER YOUR DAY. 43:20 GOD WILL SEND PEOPLE FOR YOU. >> EXACTLY. 43:31 JESUS CHRIST DID THAT. HE ASKED HIS FATHER TO SHOW HIM 43:37 WHAT TO DO AND SURRENDER HIS LIFE LIFE. 43:56 SO FAR WE HAVE SEEN THREE GREATS. 43:58 FIRST ONE IS THE GREAT COMISSION. 44:02 AND THE SECOND ONE IS -- >> THE GREAT PROMISE. 44:07 >> AND THE THIRD ONE WHICH HEWE'LL SEE -- THE FOURTH ONE IS THE 44:16 GREAT HOPE. GENERALLY SPEAKING, WE DON'T 44:24 EMPHASIZE THIS MUCH. LET'S GO BACK TO OUR MAIN TEXT. 44:29 MAIN TEXT. REMEMBER THE LESSON, THE 44:34 INTENSIVE, INTENSIVE GIVEN BY JESUS CHRIST 40 DAYS AFTER 44:41 ISRAEL'S RESURRECTION HE TAUGHT THE DISCIPLES AND IN VERSE FOUR, 44:46 MAYBE SOMEONE CAN READ THIS CHAPTER ONE AND VERSE FOUR. 44:49 >> AND BEING A SYMBOL TOGETHER WITH THEM, HE COMMANDED THEM NOT 44:56 TO DEPART FROM JERUSALEM BUT THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER WHICH HE 44:59 SAID YOU HAVE HEARD FROM ME. >> AND VERSE FIVE? 45:02 >> FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED WITH WATER BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED 45:08 WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT NOT MANY DAYS FROM NOW. 45:11 >> WE CALL THIS THE GREAT COMMAND. 45:16 BECAUSE BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM HE COMMANDED THEM NOT 45:22 TO DEPART. IN OTHER WORDS, TO STAY IN 45:27 JERUSALEM AND DEPART AND TO WAIT FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER. 45:34 THE COMMAND TO STAY. BEFORE WE GO, WE MUST STAY. 45:43 BEFORE WE DEPART WE MUST STAY. AND THIS IS THE GREAT COMISSION. 45:57 WE JUMP QUICKLY TO THE GREAT COMISSION AND WE KEEP THIS ONE 46:03 OR SOMEHOW WE DOWNPLAY THISCrñ ONE, BUT BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING 46:21 GREAT YOU MUST -- JESUS CHRIST, FOR EXAMPLE, HE HAS BEEN WITH 46:27 HIS FATHER FOR 30 YEARS, BUT BEFORE HE ENTERED INTO THE 46:33 PUBLIC MINISTRY, THEN HE STAYED AND WAITED AND YOU PRAYED AND 46:39 FASTED FOR 40 DAYS. SO THIS IS THE WAITING PART AND HE, AGAIN, 46:45 JESUS CHRIST SAID TO THE DISCIPLES, YES, I'M GIVING YOU 46:51 THIS GREAT COMISSION. THIS IS CRITICAL. 46:55 EVERYONE MUST DO THIS. BECAUSE FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED 47:16 WITH WATER, BUT YOU SHOULD BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT 47:20 NOT MANY DAYS FROM NOW. THAT MEANS FOR YOU TO RECEIVE 47:25 THE GREAT PROMISE YOU MUST STAY. WE MUST STAY TO BE FILLED WITH 47:47 THE HOLY SPURT. >> THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS 47:52 INTERESTING. SOMETIMES -- I DON'T DO THIS IN 47:55 A CONGREGATION NECESSARILY, BUT IF I AM TEACHING AT A RETREAT 48:00 ASK WE TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DAY BY DAY SURRENDERING AND 48:06 BEING FILLED FRESH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND I WILL OFTEN DO A 48:12 TEACHING TALKING ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS. 48:16 FIRST THING IN THE MORNING TO PRAY THAT THE LORD LEADS YOU BY 48:21 HIS GOOD SPIRIT, THAT YOU OPEN YOUR HEART TO RECEIVE THIS 48:26 SPIRIT. BECAUSE WE CAN GRIEVE, RESIST, 48:29 QUENCH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD AND IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT I 48:33 THINK DAY BY DAY IT'S SO IMPORTANT AND PEOPLE WILL OFTEN 48:37 SAY, YES, THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. I'M SO GLAD AND YOU EMPHASIZE 48:43 AND EMPHASIZE AND THE NEXT DAY WHEN THEY COME IN AND YOU'RE 48:47 GOING FOR ANOTHER SESSION, SAY, HOW MANY OF YOU PRAYED THIS 48:51 MORNING TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND TO BE LED BY THE 48:55 HOLY SPIRIT AND IT'S AMAZING HOW FEW PEOPLE RAISE THEIR HANDS. 49:07 THIS IS SOMETHING WE REALLY HAVE TO START DOING IN OUR LIVES. 49:10 AND WE SEE IT BUT SOMETIMES -- I TRY EVERY MORNING TO DO THAT. 49:15 BUT SOMETIMES I QUENCH THE SPIRIT BY MID-AFTERNOON AND I'LL 49:20 BE DOING SOMETHING WITH LOTS OF FERVOR AND NO SPIRIT, YOU KNOW, 49:26 AND I REALIZE OH, LORD, I'VE GONE AHEAD OF YOU. 49:30 >> THE THING I'VE LEARNED WHENEVER YOU INVITE THE HOLY 49:35 SPIRIT IN THAT'S ESPECIALLY WHAT I DO EVERY MORNING. 49:39 IT'S REFRESHING AND NOW WE'RE STARTING AND WE'RE READY TO GO 49:44 NOW BECAUSE I'VE GIVEN HIM PERMISSION TO ALLOW ME THAN TO 49:49 PARTICIPATE ACCORDING TO HIS WILL AND GLORY. 49:52 >> WHEN YOU DO GOD'S WILL AND YOU FEEL SO EXCITED BECAUSE WHAT 49:58 YOU'VE DONE HAS BEEN SUCH A BLESSING TO SOMEONE ELSE THE 50:01 NEXT DAY YOU WANT TO GO MORE THAOUS IS A /* ENTHUSIASTICALLY 50:11 AND DO IT AGAIN. WE ARE PROMISED WE CAN HAVE THIS 50:14 TODAY IN A GREATER DOSE THAN WHEN THEY HAD IN ACTS. 50:36 THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE SICK INTO THE STREETS AND LAID THEM ON 50:39 BEDS AND COUCHES THAT AT LEAST THE SHADOW OF PETER PASSING BY 50:42 MIGHT OVERSHADOW SOME OF THEM AND IT CAME ALSO A MULTITUDE OF 50:49 THE CITIES ROUNDABOUT OUT OF JERU 50:55 JERUSALEM. AND THEY WERE HEALED EVERYONE. 50:56 I MEAN, DON'T YOU THINK THAT PETER WOULD HAVE FELT SO EXCITED 51:02 ABOUT SEEING THE POWER OF GOD WORKING IN HIS LIFE THAT JUST 51:07 HIS SHADOW WOULD GO OVER PEOPLE AND THEY WERE HEALED. 51:11 >> IT WASN'T PETER'S POWER BUT HE WAS SO FILLED WITH THE HOLY 51:15 SPIRIT. >> SO EVERY DAY HE'S SAYING, GOD 51:18 LET ME DO IT AGAIN. >> BUT WE CAN ONLY BE FILLED 51:21 WITH THE SPIRIT TO WHICH WE HAVE IN OURSELF AND THAT IS THE 51:25 PROBLEM. >> SO WE WILL TALK MORE ABOUT 51:36 HOW TO WAIT AND HOW TO STAY AND THAT IS THE TIME WE'LL TALK 51:39 ABOUT PRAYER AND FAITH. BUT FOR NOW, I JUST WANT TO US 51:44 TO EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT WE SHOULD NEVER OMIT -- WE SHOULD 51:50 NEVER DOWNPLAY THIS ONE. WE SHOULD NOT BE A GREAT 51:56 OMISSION THAT WE OMIT. MANY TIMES WE ARE BUSY DOING 52:00 THIS AND TOO BUSY TO PRAY. MANY TIMES WE THINK WE ARE 52:06 BUSIER THAN JESUS BECAUSE JESUS WAS SO BUSY, BUT HE FOUND TIME 52:11 TO PRAY TO WAIT. SO I'M SURE JESUS CHRIST WAS 52:15 EAGER FOR THE DISCIPLES TO GO AND PREACH THE GOSPEL BUT JESUS 52:22 SAID, DON'T GO YET. YOU MUST WAIT. 52:24 AND THE DISCIPLES OBEYED THIS COMMAND, THIS GREAT COMMAND. 52:30 THEY DID NOT GO RIGHT AWAY. BUT THEY WAITED AND THEY WAITED 52:44 UNTIL THEY RECEIVED THE POWER. THEY BELIEVED IN THE GREAT 52:46 PROMISE. THEY DID NOT DOUBT. 52:49 AND THEY HAVE DONE MANY THINGS IN THE UPPER ROOM. 52:53 THEY RECONCILED EACH OTHER AND ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS AND 52:57 CONFESSED THEIR SINS AND THE SPIRIT OF UNITY AND PRAYER AND 53:01 THAT IS THE WAITING PART. AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE 53:17 BOOK OF ACTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND IT IS INTERESTING 53:40 IT IS BED DIE /* BY DESIGN. THE 53:47 THE LAST BOOK OF ACTS IS YET TO BE WRITTEN. 53:50 IT'S THROUGH EVERYONE OF US. THAT IS THE GREAT, GREAT POWER. 53:57 SO, LET'S SUMMARIZE WHAT WE HAVE STUDIED SO FAR. 54:02 IF SOMEONE WOULD JUST LIKE TO SUMMARIZE AND TALK ABOUT THE 54:05 FOUR GREATS AND THEN WE WOULD LIKE NOW WITH THE FEW MINUTES WE 54:13 HAVE TO ARRANGE TO THE SEQUENCE OF THE FOUR GREATS SO THE ONE 54:19 WILL NOT BE A GREAT OMISSION BUT THE GREAT COMMAND INDEED. 54:23 LET'S SUMMARIZE. WHAT IS OUR FIRST GREAT. 54:27 >> THE GREAT COMISSION. >> THE GREAT COMISSION. 54:29 GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES, BAPTIZE AND TEACH THE GREAT PROMISE, YOU 54:43 WILL RECEIVE POWER AND THEN WE JUMPED INTO THE GREAT HOPE, THE 54:46 GREAT HOPE THAT JESUS CHRIST WILL COME. 54:48 BUT NOW, LET'S TRY -- WHERE SHOULD WE PUT THE GREAT COMMAND? 54:56 WHERE? IS IT THE THIRD OR THE SECOND 54:58 ONE? WHERE IS IT? 54:59 OF COURSE WE CANNOT REALLY HAVE A CLEAR CUT ON THE -- THEY 55:06 OVERLAP SOMETIMES. BUT WE CAN SEE THE SEQUENCE. 55:10 THE GREAT -- WHAT IS THE FIRST ONE? 55:12 >> COMISSION. >> THE GREAT COMISSION. 55:14 >> TO GO. TO GO. 55:18 >> BUT WE NEED TO WAIT. SO THE GREAT COMMAND SHOULD BE 55:25 AT LEAST THE SECOND ONE OF THE THE GREAT COMISSION. 55:28 GOD HAS GIVEN THE COMISSION THEN BEFORE YOU GO YOU MUST WAIT. 55:35 WE CAN EVEN SAY THAT THE GREAT COMMAND SHOULD BE THE FIRST. 55:40 >> I WOULD SAY THAT. >> THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 55:44 THIS IS THE FOUNDATION FOR US TO FULFILL THE MISSION OF GOD. 55:51 SO, WE TALKED ABOUT THE GREAT COMMAND AND THEN THE GREAT 55:57 COMISSION. WHEN YOU STAY THEN YOU'LL 56:01 RECEIVE THE GREAT PROMISE. WHEN YOU STAY, THE GREAT COMMAND 56:05 THEN YOU RECEIVE THE GREAT PROMISE. 56:07 AND WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE GREAT PROMISE YOU WILL DO -- YOU OBEY 56:13 THE GREAT COMMAND, THE GREAT COMISSION WITH POWER AND WHEN WE 56:17 DO THAT, THEN THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL WILL BE FINISHED SO 56:22 FAST THAT JESUS WILL COME AND THAT IS THE GREAT HOPE. 56:29 >> WE'RE COMING TO THE TOP OF OUR -- THE END OF THE FIRST HOUR 56:33 COMING TO THE TOP OF THE HOUR. AND WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO IS 56:38 REMIND YOU THAT THIS IS A LIVE PROGRAM. 56:40 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND US YOUR QUESTIONS YOU MAY CALL US 56:42 AT 618-627-4651 OR SEND YOUR QUESTIONS TO LIVE @ THREE 56:53 ABN.TV. WE ALSO -- AND WE ALSO HAVE THE 56:56 FREE OFFER. THAT'S 618-627-4651 AND ALSO AT 57:05 FREEOFFER @ THREE ABN TV AND IT IS RIGHT HERE. "TEACH US TO 57:17 PR WE'LL BE BACK IN THE SECOND HOUR 57:26 AND TALKING ABOUT THESE FOUR GREATS THAT ARE ALSO REPEATED, 57:32 AS HE ALREADY HAD GIVEN ME A LITTLE TEASE IN THE OLD 57:37 TESTAMENT WE'LL SEE THE MIRROR REFLECTION OF THIS IN THE OLD 57:40 TESTAMENT. TAKE A QUICK BREAK AND WE'LL BE 57:42 BACK IN TWO MINUTES AND WE HOPE YOU'LL BE WITH US. 57:46 >> AMEN. ♪ |
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