¤ 00:00:04.73\00:00:07.37 >>> HELLO AND WELCOME BACK TO 3ABN "TODAY LIVE." 00:00:09.67\00:00:13.38 I'M HERE WITH PASTOR JOHN LOMACANG. 00:00:13.38\00:00:15.41 JOHN, IS THIS EXCITING OR WHAT? >> VERY EXCITING PROGRAM. 00:00:15.41\00:00:20.82 AS WE LOOK AT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOVE OF GOD AROUND THE 00:00:20.82\00:00:25.85 WORLD. WE THINK OF EVANGELISM AS THE 00:00:25.85\00:00:28.92 PROFESSIONALS COMING IN, SETTING UP SCREENS, GETTING PEOPLE 00:00:28.92\00:00:32.49 EXCITED FOR TWO, FOUR, OR SIX WEEKS, BUT THIS IS AN EVERY DAY 00:00:32.49\00:00:37.20 THING THAT CAN HAPPEN. AND EVANGELISM IS NOT JUST 00:00:37.20\00:00:40.60 PREACHING, BUT SOMETIMES TAKING SOX TO SOMEONE. 00:00:40.60\00:00:42.77 >> THERE YOU GO. >> OR A FISH DINNER. 00:00:42.77\00:00:45.64 >> YES. >> OR TOUCHING PEOPLE IN 00:00:45.64\00:00:48.74 HOSPITALS. THIS IS TOTAL MEMBER 00:00:48.74\00:00:51.11 INVOLVEMENT, AND WHILE EVERYONE CAN'T DO EVERYTHING, EVERYONE 00:00:51.11\00:00:53.92 CAN DO SOMETHING. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:00:53.92\00:00:55.38 >> I LIKE THE FACT THAT ELDER WILSON MADE A REFERENCE TO 00:00:55.38\00:01:00.99 TESTIMONIES VOLUME 9. WE MENTIONED 116 -- 00:01:00.99\00:01:05.26 >> AND 117 TOO. >> HE MENTIONED 117. 00:01:05.26\00:01:10.40 THAT'S RIGHT. THERE IS AN INTERESTING QUOTE. 00:01:10.40\00:01:13.13 IT SAYS THOSE WHO HAVE THE SPIRITUAL OVERSIGHT OF THE 00:01:13.13\00:01:18.31 CHURCH COULD DEVISE WAYS AND MEANS BY WHICH AN OPPORTUNITY 00:01:18.31\00:01:23.51 MAY BE GIVEN TO EVERY MEMBER OF THE CHURCH TO ACT SOME PART IN 00:01:23.51\00:01:27.35 GOD'S WORK. AND SO WE HAVE SEEN, DANNY, HOW 00:01:27.35\00:01:31.09 THIS INITIATIVE HAS IMPACTED RWANDA, AND OVER 100,000 00:01:31.09\00:01:38.06 BAPTISMS IN AFRICA, AND I THINK THE SECOND HALF OF THE PROGRAM 00:01:38.06\00:01:43.77 IS GOING TO SEE MORE WONDERFUL THINGS. 00:01:43.77\00:01:45.50 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> BIBLE PROPHECY LETS US KNOW 00:01:45.50\00:01:48.97 THAT CERTAIN REPRESENTS MUST TAKE PLACE BEFORE THE 00:01:48.97\00:01:52.84 CULMINATION OF THE GOSPEL. WE READ THE BACK OF THE BOOK AS 00:01:52.84\00:01:56.34 YOU SAID. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:01:56.34\00:01:57.88 >> SO TIMING IS A BIG PART OF IT. 00:01:57.88\00:02:00.65 AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT, AND IT LEAD ME TO THE THOUGHT OF 00:02:00.65\00:02:04.29 A SONG. THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS NOT OUT 00:02:04.29\00:02:06.89 OF TIME. GOD IS ALWAYS IN TIME. 00:02:06.89\00:02:08.82 AND GOD IMPRESSED YOU TO WRITE A SONG CALLED JUST IN TIME. 00:02:08.82\00:02:12.79 TELL US ABOUT THAT, DANNY. >> OKAY. 00:02:12.79\00:02:15.00 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS UNIQUE -- OF COURSE WE THINK 00:02:15.00\00:02:18.00 OF -- THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF 00:02:18.00\00:02:22.10 BELIEFS THAT ARE UNIQUE. THE SABBATH, THE STTE OF THE 00:02:22.10\00:02:26.31 DEAD, BUT PROPHECY IS VERY UNIQUE. 00:02:26.31\00:02:29.61 MANY CHURCHES TODAY, THEY LITERALLY HAVE NO CONNECTION TO 00:02:29.61\00:02:33.98 IT. THEY DON'T TEACH ABOUT IT. 00:02:33.98\00:02:35.68 BUT WE BELIEVE IN THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, SO WE'RE SO THANKFUL 00:02:35.68\00:02:40.72 FOR ELLEN WHITE AND FOR THE WRITINGS IN SO MANY VOLUMES, 00:02:40.72\00:02:47.03 MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF WORDS HAVE BEEN PENNED AND WE KNOW IT 00:02:47.03\00:02:51.17 WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO WAS DOING IT. 00:02:51.17\00:02:52.80 WE WERE DOING A PROJECT OF THE SECOND COMING, AND I WAS READING 00:02:52.80\00:02:56.57 IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, AND THINKING ABOUT THE END TIMES. 00:02:56.57\00:03:00.51 BEING AN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN AS WE ALWAYS SAY WE 00:03:00.51\00:03:03.88 HAVE READ THE BACK OF THE BOOK, SO WE'RE NOT DISCOURAGED WHEN 00:03:03.88\00:03:07.85 WE'RE TRAVELING ALONG LIFE'S PATHWAY, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS 00:03:07.85\00:03:11.89 TO YOU, YOU STILL CAN BE ENCOURAGED, BECAUSE THE DEVIL 00:03:11.89\00:03:16.19 WITH ROB YOU OF YOUR HOME, YOUR FINANCES, YOUR HEALTH, BUT HE 00:03:16.19\00:03:22.00 CANNOT ROB YOU OF YOUR SOUL. YOUR SOUL BELONGS TO GOD WHO 00:03:22.00\00:03:27.44 CREATED YOU. BUT WITH SO MANY THINGS GOING ON 00:03:27.44\00:03:30.27 IN THE WORLD, PEOPLE GET DISCOURAGED, AND THE DEVIL IS 00:03:30.27\00:03:34.54 ALWAYS TRYING TO DISCOURAGE PEOPLE. 00:03:34.54\00:03:36.51 THAT'S WHAT HE DOES. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:03:36.51\00:03:38.45 >> SO I WAS READING IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY. 00:03:38.45\00:03:42.32 AND I SAID LORD THIS IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. 00:03:42.32\00:03:47.12 AND THE LORD JUST GAVE ME A SONG. 00:03:47.12\00:03:52.99 AND WE ASKED YVONNE LEWIS TO DO IT. 00:03:52.99\00:03:56.43 AND WE TOOK PARTS OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY AND SHE ACTUALLY 00:03:56.43\00:04:04.27 READS PART OF IT, AS PART OF THE SONG. 00:04:04.27\00:04:07.01 SO NO MATTER WHAT YOUR PROBLEM IS THERE, GOD IS THERE, JUS IN 00:04:07.01\00:04:11.98 TIME. >> AMEN. 00:04:11.98\00:04:12.61 ¤ 00:04:12.61\00:04:15.72 ¤ THERE WAS FAMINE AND EARTHQUAKE WITH TROUBLE ALL 00:04:35.64\00:04:41.74 AROUND ¤ ¤ THE HEAVENS DID SHAKE ¤ 00:04:41.74\00:04:47.35 ¤ NO PEACE COULD BE FOUND ¤ ¤ THERE WERE WARS AND STRIFE ¤ 00:04:47.35\00:04:57.99 ¤ ON EVERY HAND ¤ ¤ IT SEEMED GOD HAD 00:04:57.99\00:05:16.34 [ INAUDIBLE ] ¤ ¤ WHERE IS YOUR GOD, THE DEMONS 00:05:16.34\00:05:20.12 CRIED ¤ ¤ HE HAS LEFT YOU HERE TO DAY ¤ 00:05:20.12\00:05:26.86 -- DIE ¤ ¤ YOUR TRUTH HAS FAILED ¤ 00:05:26.86\00:05:32.23 ¤ IT HAS ALL BEEN A LIE ¤ ¤ BUT A SHOT FROM HEAVEN CAME 00:05:32.23\00:05:48.18 DOWN TO EARTH ¤ ¤ IT CAME FROM GOD, THE LIVING 00:05:48.18\00:05:58.95 WORD ¤ ¤ THEN JUST IN TIME ¤ 00:05:58.95\00:06:04.26 ¤ THE SAVIOR CAME ¤ ¤ JUST IN TIME ¤ 00:06:04.26\00:06:11.97 ¤ HE CALLED MY NAME ¤ ¤ SALVATION FOR THE COMMON MAN ¤ 00:06:11.97\00:06:25.68 ¤ REDEMPTION BY THE GREAT I AM ¤ >> SOON THERE APPEARS IN THE 00:06:25.68\00:06:37.76 EAST A SMALL BLACK CLOUD HALF OF THE SIZE OF A MAN'S HAND. 00:06:37.76\00:06:41.16 IT IS THE CLOUD WHICH SURROUNDS THE SAVIOR, AND WHICH SEEMS IN 00:06:41.16\00:06:45.10 THE DISTANCE TO BE SHROUDED IN DARKNESS. 00:06:45.10\00:06:48.37 THE PEOPLE OF GOD KNOW THIS TO BE THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN. 00:06:48.37\00:06:53.74 IN SOLEMN SILENCE THEY GAVE THE PUNDIT AS IT DRAWS NEARER THE 00:06:53.74\00:07:00.25 EARTH UNTIL IT IS A GREAT WHITE CLOUD, IT'S FACE A GLORY LIKE 00:07:00.25\00:07:05.15 CONSUMING FIRE, AND ABOVE IT THE RAINBOW OF THE COVENANT. 00:07:05.15\00:07:10.53 JESUS COMES FORTH AS A MIGHTY CONQUERER, NOW NOT A MAN OF 00:07:10.53\00:07:16.90 SORROWS, HE COMES VICTOR IN HEAVEN AND EARTH TO JUDGE THE 00:07:16.90\00:07:21.10 LIVING AND THE DEAD WITH ANTHEMS OF MELODY, THE HOLY ANGELS OF 00:07:21.10\00:07:27.78 VAST NUMBERS AT TEN HIM ON HIS WAY, THE FIRM AMENT SEEMS FILLED 00:07:27.78\00:07:35.65 WITH RAID ANT DRN RADIANT FORMS, NO MORE TALL MIND IS 00:07:35.65\00:07:46.16 ADEQUATE TO CONCEIVE ITS SPLENDOR. 00:07:46.16\00:07:50.07 THE EARTH WAS FULL OF HIS RAYS, AND HIS BRIGHTNESS WAS LIKE THE 00:07:50.07\00:07:53.87 LIGHT, AS THE LIVING CLOUD COMES STILL NEAR US, EVERY EYE BEHOLD 00:07:53.87\00:07:58.64 THE PRINCE OF LIFE. NO PROMISE SCORNS NOW THAT 00:07:58.64\00:08:05.31 SACRED HEAD, BUT RESTS ON HIS HOLY GROWN. 00:08:05.31\00:08:09.98 HE OUTSHINES THE DAZZLING BRIGHTNESS OF THE NOON DAY SUN, 00:08:09.98\00:08:15.49 AND ON HIS ROLE, AND ON HIS SIDE, THE NAME, KING OF KINGS, 00:08:15.49\00:08:23.30 AND LORD OF LORDS. ¤ THEN JUST IN TIME ¤ 00:08:23.30\00:08:27.40 ¤ THE SAVIOR CAME ¤ ¤ JUST IN TIME ¤ 00:08:27.40\00:08:48.09 ¤ REDEMPTION BY THE GREAT I AM ¤ ¤ SALVATION FOR GOD HAS COME ¤ 00:08:48.09\00:09:09.04 ¤ REDEMPTION ¤ ¤ FROM THE GREAT I AM ¤-¤ AMEN, AMEN ¤ 00:09:09.04\00:09:26.26 ¤ AMEN ¤ ¤ AMEN ¤ 00:09:26.26\00:09:34.34 >> PRAISE THE LORD. THANK YOU, JESUS. 00:09:43.31\00:09:46.78 >> AMEN. AMEN. 00:09:46.78\00:09:49.72 WHENEVER I HEAR THA SONG, I REMEMBER THE DAY WHEN I WAS 00:09:49.72\00:09:52.99 STANDING IN THIS CHOIR, AND YVONNE WAS RECITING THOSE WORDS, 00:09:52.99\00:09:58.03 DANNY, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO HOLD THE TEARS BACK. 00:09:58.03\00:10:01.20 BECAUSE WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT A SONG THAT WAS LOVELY AND 00:10:01.20\00:10:05.63 BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, AND PRAISE GOD FOR THE INSPIRATION OF THAT 00:10:05.63\00:10:09.04 SONG, BUT IT WAS REMINDING US OF THE DAY WHEN OUR LORD DOES PART 00:10:09.04\00:10:13.38 THE HEAVENS AND COMES TO TAKE US HOME, WHAT A JOYFUL EVENT THAT 00:10:13.38\00:10:17.18 IS GOING TO BE. AND YVONNE -- I BELIEVE SHE WAS 00:10:17.18\00:10:21.85 ENRAPTURED IN THAT MOMENT, BECAUSE YOU COULD NOT SPEAK AND 00:10:21.85\00:10:26.59 SING THAT WAY EXCEPT FOR THE ANOINMENT OF THAT TIME. 00:10:26.59\00:10:35.36 EVANGELISM. WE KNOW THE TIMING IS RIGHT FOR 00:10:35.36\00:10:37.33 THE LORD TO PUSH HIS PEOPLE TO GET READY. 00:10:37.33\00:10:39.57 AND I BELIEVE THESE FINAL MOVEMENTS WILL BE RAPID BECAUSE 00:10:39.57\00:10:43.17 OF TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:10:43.17\00:10:44.81 >> FROM THE YOUNGEST CHILD IN THE CONGRESS -- CONGREGATION TO 00:10:44.81\00:10:53.62 THE MOST EXPERIENCED CLERGY, I WOULD SAY JUST IN TIME TOTAL 00:10:53.62\00:10:57.82 MEMBER INVOLVEMENT HAS BEEN BORN IN THE MIND AND HEART OF OUR 00:10:57.82\00:11:01.12 GENERAL CONFERENCE LEADERS. AND WE WANT TO THROW IT BACK TO 00:11:01.12\00:11:04.86 ELDER WILSON THERE. >> I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THIS 00:11:04.86\00:11:08.26 IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. WHY WE AS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 00:11:08.26\00:11:13.03 CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO BE SO EXCITED. 00:11:13.03\00:11:15.20 WE OUGHT TO BE THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH, BECAUSE 00:11:15.20\00:11:20.08 GOD HAS GIVEN US AN END TIMES M 00:11:20.08\00:11:26.48 MESS -- MESSAGE FOR AN END TIMES PEOPLE. 00:11:26.48\00:11:35.69 GOD COULD SEE PEOPLE WILLING TO GIVE THEIR LIVES UNTO DEATH IF 00:11:35.69\00:11:40.70 NECESSARY, FOR THE CAUSE OF GOD. WHAT A PRIVILEGE, WHAT AN 00:11:40.70\00:11:46.10 OPPORTUNITY, AND YET WHAT A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY TO BE A 00:11:46.10\00:11:50.17 CHRISTIAN IN THE CLOSING MOMENTS, BECAUSE WE HAVE GOOD 00:11:50.17\00:11:53.94 NEWS FOR THE WORLD. THERE IS NO WAY TO GET OUT OF 00:11:53.94\00:11:56.81 THIS WORLD. WE'RE ALL BORN TERMINALLY ILL, 00:11:56.81\00:12:01.48 RIGHT? THAT'S IT EXCEPT FOR JESUS 00:12:01.48\00:12:04.05 CHRIST AND HIS GREAT LOVE FOR FELON MAN FOR THAT SACRIFICE. 00:12:04.05\00:12:08.39 SO NO MATTER WHAT IS HAPPENING, THE DEMONS CAN CRY OUT AND ALL 00:12:08.39\00:12:11.86 OF THE THINGS THAT THINK SONG SAID -- AND I AGAIN, I GOT MUCH 00:12:11.86\00:12:15.73 OF THAT FROM READING THE GREA CONTROVERSY FROM ELLEN WHITE, 00:12:15.73\00:12:25.27 AND I TOOK A LOT OF THAT FROM THE BEAUTIFUL I WILL PENNED, SO 00:12:25.27\00:12:30.18 JUST IN TIME, WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS ARE, GOD HASN'T FORGOTTEN 00:12:30.18\00:12:35.92 YOU. AND WE HAVE A MESSAGE TO LIVE A 00:12:35.92\00:12:38.72 LOST AND DYING WORLD. A MESSAGE OF HOPE AND VICTORY, 00:12:38.72\00:12:42.82 AND PRAISE GOD FOR ELDER TED WILSON AND NANCY FO YOUR 00:12:42.82\00:12:47.40 LEADERSHIP THERE AT THE GENERAL CONFERENCE. 00:12:47.40\00:12:53.87 PRAISE GOD FOR ALL OF THESE COMMUNICATION TOOLS THAT WE 00:12:53.87\00:12:57.14 HAVE. BUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING -- AND 00:12:57.14\00:13:00.38 I'M SO THANK FORFUL THIS IS AGAINING EVERYONE INVOLVED. 00:13:00.38\00:13:04.08 GO YE INTO ALL OF THE WORLD. IT DIDN'T JUST SAY MARK FINLEY, 00:13:04.08\00:13:11.09 IT SAYS GO YE, AND EVERYBODY LISTENING SHOULD SAY I'M A YE. 00:13:11.09\00:13:15.86 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> BECAUSE WE'RE ALL YE'S, AND 00:13:15.86\00:13:24.47 ELLEN WHITE HAS OUR GREATEST ASSET IS OUR OWN PERSONAL 00:13:24.47\00:13:32.07 TESTIMONY. SO WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE GONE TO 00:13:32.07\00:13:34.31 THE SEMINARY, OR BE A PREACHER, JESUS GIVES US THAT 00:13:34.31\00:13:40.18 RESPONSIBILITY AND PRIVILEGE TO RIGHTLY VREPRESENT HIM. 00:13:40.18\00:13:50.36 SO WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO HOPE CHANNEL, AND ELDER WILSON, 00:13:50.36\00:13:57.47 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING, AND SHARING WITH US, 00:13:57.47\00:14:02.44 GIVING OUR CHURCH LITERALLY A WORLD VISION, BECAUSE WHATTY ARE 00:14:02.44\00:14:08.98 DOING AND AIN US TO BE A PART OF, THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE 00:14:08.98\00:14:13.92 END. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS 00:14:13.92\00:14:16.12 INITIATIVE TO THE WORLD CHURCH. >> AND JUST BEFORE WE GO BACK, 00:14:16.12\00:14:19.32 THIS INSPIRES ME AS THE DIRECTOR OF WORLD EVANGELISM. 00:14:19.32\00:14:24.53 NOW I HAVE TO REACH OVER AND CONNECT WITH THE GENERAL 00:14:24.53\00:14:29.66 CONFERENCE. WE DON'T JUST SEND OUT PREACHERS 00:14:29.66\00:14:33.47 BUT PARTNER WITH OUR GENERAL CONFERENCE GROUP. 00:14:33.47\00:14:37.34 THANK YOU ELDER WILSON, BACK TO YOU SGHCHL 00:14:37.34\00:14:41.54 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, DANNY AND JOHN. 00:14:41.54\00:14:42.84 AND WHAT A MARVELOUS WAY TO INTRODUCE THIS PARTICULAR 00:14:42.84\00:14:47.28 SEGMENT WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL SONG "JUST IN TIME." 00:14:47.28\00:14:52.42 THE PHRASE THAT REALLY TOUCHED ME WAS JUST IN TIME HE CALLED MY 00:14:52.42\00:14:59.83 NAME. THIS IS OUR HIGH PRIEST WHO IS 00:14:59.83\00:15:07.97 INTERCEDING IN US, AS OUR HIGH PRIEST AND SOON-COMING KING. 00:15:07.97\00:15:13.04 JESUS HAS DONE EVERYTHING FOR US. 00:15:13.04\00:15:15.51 AND IF ANY OF YOU ARE WATCHING RIGHT NOW AND WONDERING, BUT CAN 00:15:15.51\00:15:20.58 I BE SAVED? GOD GIVES US HIS ANSWER IN THE 00:15:20.58\00:15:27.09 SCRIPTURE. AND THAT'S WHAT TOTAL MEMBER 00:15:27.09\00:15:28.16 INVOLVEMENT IS ALL ABOUT. TRYING TO REACH SOMEONE AND 00:15:28.16\00:15:31.39 TELLING THEM JESUS HAS A PLAN FOR ALL OF US. 00:15:31.39\00:15:34.60 AND I LOVE THAT DANNY WHAT YOU SAID, I'M A YE. 00:15:34.60\00:15:39.37 GO YE. ALL OF US HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY. 00:15:39.37\00:15:41.77 I WANT TO INTRODUCE A NEW PART OF OUR PANEL HERE TODAY, THAT IS 00:15:41.77\00:15:48.18 PASTOR DEREK MORRIS WHO HAS BEEN NOW THE PRESIDENT OF HOPE 00:15:48.18\00:15:52.18 CHANNEL FOR ALMOST A YEAR. IT HARDLY SEEMS POSSIBLE. 00:15:52.18\00:15:56.02 SO MUCH HAS BEEN HAPPENING, AND IN JUST A MOMENT DEREK IS GOING 00:15:56.02\00:16:01.26 TO SHARE WITH US WHAT HE EXPERIENCED IN ROMANIA. 00:16:01.26\00:16:04.39 BUT I JUST WANT TO BOUNCE OFF OF SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED 00:16:04.39\00:16:08.50 ABOUT -- WHAT DUANE WAS TALK ABOUT IN TERMS OF HOLDING MANY 00:16:08.50\00:16:13.50 MEETINGS ALL ACROSS A COUNTRY AS OPPOSED TO SIMPLY ONE MEETING. 00:16:13.50\00:16:17.87 FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU HAVE 2017 MEETINGS WHICH ROMANIA HAS 00:16:17.87\00:16:24.01 SCHEDULED AND EVEN MORE. IN RWANDA THEY HAVE MANY MORE. 00:16:24.01\00:16:33.09 IF YOU EVEN HAVE FIVE PEOPLE JOINING THE CHURCH AND FALLING 00:16:33.09\00:16:35.69 AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS, YOU HAVE, FOR INSTANCE, IN ROMANIA, 00:16:35.69\00:16:41.33 APPROXIMATELY 10,000 PEOPLE, AS OPPOSED TO ONE LARGE MEETING 00:16:41.33\00:16:44.83 WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE MANY PEOPLE COMING, AND IT'S A POWERFUL 00:16:44.83\00:16:49.44 THING TO DO THT FROM TIME TO TIME, BUT YOU MAY ONLY HAVE 00:16:49.44\00:16:55.14 1500, 2,000 BAPTISMS. ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT IS 00:16:55.14\00:17:00.08 THAT YOU INVOLVE EVERYONE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. 00:17:00.08\00:17:03.05 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL THING THAT 00:17:03.05\00:17:05.55 I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT, THIS IS REALLY TOTAL MEMBER 00:17:05.55\00:17:09.92 INVOLVEMENT. IN RWANDA, I WOULD SAY AT LEAST 00:17:09.92\00:17:14.30 TWO-THIRDS OF MEETINGS PRESENTED WERE BY LAY PEOPLE. 00:17:14.30\00:17:18.73 IN ROMANIA, APPROXIMATELY HALF OF THE MEETINGS, 2,000 MEETINGS, 00:17:18.73\00:17:24.71 ABOUT 1,000 OR SO BY LAY PEOPLE. EVERYBODY CAN GET INVOLVED IN 00:17:24.71\00:17:29.51 DOING SOMETHING FOR JESUS. AND LET ME, AGAIN, INTERJECT AND 00:17:29.51\00:17:34.08 SAY THAT TMI, TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT, IS NOT JUST HOLDING 00:17:34.08\00:17:39.62 PUBLIC EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS. IT IS EVERYTHING THAT INVOLVES 00:17:39.62\00:17:43.43 LEADING UP TO THE MEETINGS, AND THEN EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWS 00:17:43.43\00:17:46.83 THOSE MEETINGS, EMPOWERING NEW MEMBERS, HELPING CHURCH MEMBERS 00:17:46.83\00:17:52.50 TO AGAIN GO OUT AND SHARE IN CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE, REACHING 00:17:52.50\00:17:57.41 PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES, COMMUNITIES, THIS IS WHAT TOTAL 00:17:57.41\00:18:01.48 MEMBER INVOLVEMENT IS. AND I'LL TELL YOU MY REAL PRAYER 00:18:01.48\00:18:07.38 OBJECTIVE, AND I HOPE YOU'LL JOIN ME, AND I APPEAL RIGHT NOW, 00:18:07.38\00:18:11.49 THOSE OF YOU LIVING IN EUROPE, I AM HOPING THAT THE INCREDIBLE 00:18:11.49\00:18:16.46 EXPERIENCE THAT HAS HAPPENED IN EASTERN EUROPE, UKRAINE, 00:18:16.46\00:18:22.40 MOLDOVA, DIFFERENT PLACES, THAT THIS WILL BECOME THE EXPERIENCE 00:18:22.40\00:18:25.37 OF ALL OF EUROPE, OF ALL OF NORTH AMERICA, OF ALL OF MANY 00:18:25.37\00:18:30.01 OTHER PLACES, EVERYBODY DOING SOMETHING FOR JESUS. 00:18:30.01\00:18:34.08 JOIN ME IN THAT PRAYER, WHERE LAY PEOPLE WILL SAY, YOU KNOW 00:18:34.08\00:18:38.45 WHAT, WE CAN DO THAT TOO WITH A LITTLE MODIFICATION FOR OUR 00:18:38.45\00:18:42.32 PARTICULAR AREA OF THE WORLD. WE CAN ADAPT. 00:18:42.32\00:18:46.09 WE CAN DO THIS TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT. 00:18:46.09\00:18:48.39 DEREK, YOU WERE RIGHT THERE. >> YES. 00:18:48.39\00:18:50.56 >> YOU ARE PRESIDENT OF HOPE -- LET ME PAUSE FOR A 00:18:50.56\00:18:54.10 SECOND. THIS IS AN AMAZING THING 00:18:54.10\00:18:56.30 HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:18:56.30\00:18:58.53 >> THE PRESIDENT OF HOPE CHANNEL HOSTING US HERE IN HIS 00:18:58.53\00:19:01.87 STUDIO -- OR OUR STUDIO. >> RIGHT. 00:19:01.87\00:19:04.74 >> THE PRESIDENT OF ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO, AND HIS WONDERFUL 00:19:04.74\00:19:11.75 LOVELY WIFE KATHY. ONE OF THE LEADERS OF 3ABN, CA 00:19:11.75\00:19:17.85 AND IRMA, AND WE'RE IN CONNECTION, OF COURSE, WITH 00:19:17.85\00:19:21.46 DANNY AND JOHN, AND THIS IS 3ABN TODAY. 00:19:21.46\00:19:25.16 CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT IS WORKING IN THIS 00:19:25.16\00:19:28.53 INCREDIBLE WAY TO REACH OUT TO PEOPLE THROUGH MEDIA. 00:19:28.53\00:19:31.17 WE WERE TALK ABOUT LITTLE DERIVATIVES. 00:19:31.17\00:19:34.47 ANOTHER ONE THAT I GOT JUST YESTERDAY, I THINK IT WAS, OR 00:19:34.47\00:19:37.84 THE DAY BEFORE, SOMEONE SAID TOTAL -- TMI IS TOTAL MEDIA 00:19:37.84\00:19:42.81 INVOLVEMENT. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:19:42.81\00:19:43.81 >> AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE GOT RIGHT HERE. 00:19:43.81\00:19:45.48 >> AMEN. >> DEREK YOU WERE NOT 00:19:45.48\00:19:50.19 FUNCTIONING AT HOPE CHANNEL PRESIDENT IN ROMANIA WHEN YOU 00:19:50.19\00:19:53.59 WERE HOLDING MEETINGS. YOU WERE FUNCTIONING AS AN 00:19:53.59\00:19:58.16 EVANGELIST. TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE. 00:19:58.16\00:20:01.30 >> I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR INVITING US TO BE PART OF THIS 00:20:01.30\00:20:08.30 AMAZE MOVEMENT OF GOD. IT WAS INTERESTING WHEN WE WENT 00:20:08.30\00:20:12.24 OVER THERE, WE PARTNERED TOGETHER. 00:20:12.24\00:20:14.48 YOU SEE THE GOAL IS TO MOVE PEOPLE FROM VIEWERS TO 00:20:14.48\00:20:19.78 LISTENERS, TO CONNECT THEM WITH THE LOCAL CHURCH, AND THAT'S 00:20:19.78\00:20:23.32 WHAT WE SAW HAPPENING IN AN AMAZING WAY. 00:20:23.32\00:20:28.32 SO I THINK THERE'S THAT PARTNERSHIP OF MOVING TOGETHER, 00:20:28.32\00:20:31.96 BUT YOU KNOW, WE CAN HAVE STATISTICS, BUT ACTUALLY IT'S 00:20:31.96\00:20:37.63 INDIVIDUAL LIVES CHANGED. AND I JUST WANT TO SHARE ONE 00:20:37.63\00:20:42.10 STORY, IF I CAN, THAT REALLY IMPACTED ME. 00:20:42.10\00:20:45.24 A COUPLE HAD BEEN PRAYING FOR THEIR NEIGHBOR FOR 31 YEARS. 00:20:45.24\00:20:49.94 >> WOW. >> WOW. 00:20:49.94\00:20:51.45 >> SHE DIDN'T OWN A TELEVISION, BUT SHE HAD BEEN LISTENING TO 00:20:51.45\00:20:55.38 VOICE OF HOPE. AND THEY HAD BEEN PRAYING FOR 00:20:55.38\00:20:57.69 HER, DOING ACTS OF KINDNESS, CA, THAT -- JUST CONNECTING. 00:20:57.69\00:21:02.82 WHEN THE MEETINGS CAME, THEY SAID WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU 00:21:02.82\00:21:06.33 TO OUR MEETINGS. WE ONLY HAD ABOUT BETWEEN 150 TO 00:21:06.33\00:21:14.47 250 IN ATTENDANCE, BUT MULTIPLY THAT, AND YOU HAVE 150,000 00:21:14.47\00:21:21.18 PEOPLE. AND THAT'S THE STRENGTH OF TOTAL 00:21:21.18\00:21:24.98 MEMBER INVOLVEMENT. THE LAST DAY, THEIR NEIGHBOR 00:21:24.98\00:21:28.15 MADE THE DECISION TO BE BAPTIZED. 00:21:28.15\00:21:30.49 >> AMEN. >> ONE OF THE STRENGTHS, I 00:21:30.49\00:21:33.56 BELIEVE, OF WHAT HAPPENED IN ROMANIA, THE PASTORS ARE WORKING 00:21:33.56\00:21:37.06 TO FOLLOW UP, THERE'S HUGE BAPTISM PLANNED FOR JUN 3RD, 00:21:37.06\00:21:43.00 AND MANY OTHER BAPTISMS DURING THE SUMMER, BUT WE WERE 00:21:43.00\00:21:46.43 STREAMING THE -- THE MEETINGS, AND ON SOME OF THE SITES WERE WE 00:21:46.43\00:21:56.18 STREAMING, AND SOMEONE MENTIONED -- WE WOULD MEET EVERY 00:21:56.18\00:21:59.65 MORNING FOR A DEBRIEFING, AND SOMEONE MENTIONED TALK TO THE 00:21:59.65\00:22:04.65 CAMERA AND INVITE FOLKS WHO ARE JOINING US ONLINE TO COME TO THE 00:22:04.65\00:22:10.86 MEETING FOR THE LAST WEEKEND. SO I DID THAT, I SAID I WANT TO 00:22:10.86\00:22:14.73 INVITE YOU TO COME TO THE MEETING, IF YOU ARE WATCHING 00:22:14.73\00:22:18.57 ONLINE. FRIDAY NIGHT A YOUNG MAN NAMED 00:22:18.57\00:22:22.74 STEPHAN FROM MOLDOVA BUT STUDYING AT BUCHAREST, HE CAM 00:22:22.74\00:22:27.31 AND TALKED TO THE PASTOR AND THEN HE CAME TO ME, AND HE SAID 00:22:27.31\00:22:31.18 I WATCHED EVERY MEETING ONLINE, AND I MADE MY DECISION TO BE 00:22:31.18\00:22:36.15 BAPTIZED, AND CAME AND TALKED TO THE PASTOR THAT NIGHT. 00:22:36.15\00:22:39.05 >> AMEN. >> THAT'S THE POWER OF CHRISTIAN 00:22:39.05\00:22:42.39 MEDIA. BECAUSE SOMETHING IS HAPPENING 00:22:42.39\00:22:43.96 IN ONE LOCATION, IT CAN BE SHARED AROUND THE WORLD. 00:22:43.96\00:22:48.00 MARK FINLEY SENT US A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF TWIN BOYS SITTING ON 00:22:48.00\00:22:52.30 THE COUCH EATING POPCORN, AND THERE IS A PICTURE OF A 00:22:52.30\00:22:56.40 TELEVISION, AND THEY SAID WE COULDN'T COME TO MARK'S MEETINGS 00:22:56.40\00:22:59.54 EVERY NIGHT, BUT THEY WATCHED ON HOPE CHANNEL BULGARIA, AND WHEN 00:22:59.54\00:23:05.61 PASTOR MARK SPOKE ABOUT BAPTISM AND MADE AN APPEAL, SITTING 00:23:05.61\00:23:09.25 THERE ON THE COUCH, BOTH OF THOSE BOYS DECIDED TO BE 00:23:09.25\00:23:15.42 BAPTIZED. >> AMEN. 00:23:15.42\00:23:16.36 >> AND THAT MEETING OF MARK'S IS BROADCAST TO 1600 LOCATIONS. 00:23:16.36\00:23:23.20 >> RIGHT. >> SO I GUESS THERE'S LOTS OF 00:23:23.20\00:23:28.10 WAYS. BUT WE ALL DO SOMETHING FOR 00:23:28.10\00:23:30.04 JESUS. >> AMEN.-AND YOU WERE MENTIONING ABOUT 00:23:30.04\00:23:32.77 MARK FINLEY, ONE OF OUR PRE-EMINENT EVANGELISTS IN THE 00:23:32.77\00:23:37.75 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, AND HE WAS HOLDING MEETINGS IN 00:23:37.75\00:23:41.88 BULGARIA, AND AS YOU SAID THERE, KEY, HIS MEETINGS WERE BEING 00:23:41.88\00:23:48.42 TRANSMITTED TO 1600 LOCATIONS AND HE WAS TRAINING PASTORS AND 00:23:48.42\00:23:52.59 WORKING WITH THE CHURCH, BECAUSE IN SEPTEMBER THEY ARE GOING TO 00:23:52.59\00:23:55.56 HAVE A COUNTY WIDE TMI APPROACH, AND IT IS SO EXCITING WHAT IS 00:23:55.56\00:24:01.34 GOING TO HAPPEN IN BULGARIA. NOW WHAT IS INTERESTING ALSO, IS 00:24:01.34\00:24:04.84 THAT IF ANY OF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ACTUALLY PREACHING 00:24:04.84\00:24:08.04 A SERIES OF MEETINGS IN YOUR LOCAL CHURCH, IN YOUR LIVING 00:24:08.04\00:24:12.58 ROOM, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE IT IS, WE HAVE ALL OF THE TOOLS. 00:24:12.58\00:24:16.75 WE HAVE ALL OF THE SERMONS. MARK FINLEY AND DUANE THEY HAVE 00:24:16.75\00:24:25.49 PREPARED MATERIALS. IT CAN GO ON TO A SCREEN, IF YOU 00:24:25.49\00:24:28.80 NEED THAT. AND IT'S ALL PACKAGED IN SUCH A 00:24:28.80\00:24:32.43 WAY THAT ANYBODY -- TALKING ABOUT I'M ONE OF THE YE, GO YE 00:24:32.43\00:24:37.37 INTO ALL OF THE WORLD -- DANNY THAT WAS A GREAT THOUGHT -- IF 00:24:37.37\00:24:40.98 YOU FEEL IMPRESSED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO BE PART OF ONE OF 00:24:40.98\00:24:46.18 THOSE YE PEOPLE, YOU CAN SHARE IN THE SETTING OF YOUR LIVING 00:24:46.18\00:24:49.82 ROOM. IT DOESN'T MATTER. 00:24:49.82\00:24:53.05 GOD WILL USE YOU IN AN INCREDIBLE WAY. 00:24:53.05\00:24:58.13 LET ME SHARE A TEXT WITH YOU, AND THEN I'M GOING TO ASK 00:24:58.13\00:25:02.30 NANCY -- BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN VERY QUIET. 00:25:02.30\00:25:04.90 SHE IS USUALLY SO VIVACIOUS, AND SHE WILL BE, BUT SHE IS GOING TO 00:25:04.90\00:25:10.77 TALK ABOUT A PERSONAL APPROACH AND WHAT HAPPENED IN THE CHURCH 00:25:10.77\00:25:17.38 WHERE SHE WAS, AND THEN WE CAN SHARE SOME PERSONAL TESTIMONIES 00:25:17.38\00:25:21.68 OF HOW THE LORD LEAD PEOPLE DURING THE MEETING. 00:25:21.68\00:25:26.39 BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS MARVELOUS TEXT IN ROMANS 10, WHERE PAUL 00:25:26.39\00:25:31.13 WAS SAYING, WHOEVER CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD IS GOING TO BE 00:25:31.13\00:25:37.27 SAVED. BUT THEN IT SAYS HOW SHALL THEY 00:25:37.27\00:25:40.54 THEN CALL ON HIM IN WHOM THEY HAVE NOT BELIEVED? 00:25:40.54\00:25:43.34 AND HOW ARE THEY GOING TO BELIEVE IF THEY HAVEN'T HEARD? 00:25:43.34\00:25:46.27 AND HOW ARE THEY GOING TO HEAR WITHOUT A PREACHER? 00:25:46.27\00:25:49.44 AND HOW ARE THEY GOING TO PREACH EXCEPT THEY ARE SENT? 00:25:49.44\00:25:54.88 NOW I HAVE TO TELL YOU, THAT NANCY, EVEN THOUGH SHE IS A VERY 00:25:54.88\00:26:01.76 VIVACIOUS PERSON, SHE WAS HESITANT ABOUT ACTALLY GETTING 00:26:01.76\00:26:05.16 UP AND SPEAKING IN PUBLIC IN TERMS OF EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS, 00:26:05.16\00:26:09.50 BUT NANCY, IF YOU ARE NOT SENT, THOSE PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAVE 00:26:09.50\00:26:18.21 HEARD. MAYBE SOMEBODY ELSE WOULD HAVE 00:26:18.21\00:26:19.71 BEEN SENT. BUT I KNOW I HAVE A GREAT 00:26:19.71\00:26:22.54 EXPERIENCE WHENEVER I PREACH THE MESSAGE -- IT'S LIKE I GET 00:26:22.54\00:26:26.51 RECONVERTED ALL OVER AGAIN. IT JUST ENERGIZES ME, THE WORD 00:26:26.51\00:26:30.39 OF GOD, AND THE PROPHETIC UNDERSTANDING IS SO POWERFUL, 00:26:30.39\00:26:34.32 AND THE ADVENT MESSAGE IS SO THOROUGH AND FOUNDATIONAL. 00:26:34.32\00:26:38.56 WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE, AND TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHURCH SDMVM 00:26:38.56\00:26:44.53 >> IT WAS THE MOST WONDERFUL LITTLE CHURCH. 00:26:44.53\00:26:45.67 WAS A LITTLE VILLAGE ABOUT AN HOUR OUTSIDE OF BUCHAREST. 00:26:45.67\00:26:53.07 WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL MEMBERS. IT -- THE CHURCH SEATS, I THINK 00:26:53.07\00:26:56.78 ABOUT 200 PEOPLE, THEY HAVE A CHOIR THAT COULD SING ANYWHERE. 00:26:56.78\00:27:03.45 THEY ARE PROFESSIONAL SINGERS. IT WAS JUST -- IT FED MY SOUL 00:27:03.45\00:27:08.56 EVERY NIGHT. BUT WHEN IRMA WAS TALKING LAST 00:27:08.56\00:27:14.10 HOUR ABOUT HER -- THE ANXIETY OF GETTING UP AND PREACHING BEFORE 00:27:14.10\00:27:17.93 PEOPLE, I JUST -- I KEPT THINKING OF MY OWN EXPERIENCE 00:27:17.93\00:27:21.67 AND HOW -- YOU KNOW, YOU ARE THE PROFESSIONAL, I'M NOT. 00:27:21.67\00:27:25.44 AND HE WOULD SEE ME WORKING ON MY SERMONS, DON'T SWET IT, 00:27:25.44\00:27:30.51 DON'T SWEAT IT, HE WOULD SAY. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:27:30.51\00:27:32.68 >> AND I WOULD BE NERVOUS. >> AND SHE IS VERY 00:27:32.68\00:27:38.72 CONSCIENTIOUS. SHE WANTS TO MAKE SURE SHE HAS 00:27:38.72\00:27:40.36 IT RIGHT. >> BUT WE'RE ALL BROKEN VESSELS. 00:27:40.36\00:27:45.53 AND ALL GOD NEEDS IS A WILLING HEART. 00:27:45.53\00:27:48.53 >> THAT'S RIGHT >> AMEN. 00:27:48.53\00:27:50.50 >> AND TO ME THE THING THAT WAS SO PROFOUND, I FELT, YOU KNOW, 00:27:50.50\00:27:56.00 SOME NIGHTS JUST -- I FELT SO GOOD ABOUT, AND OTHER NIGHTS, 00:27:56.00\00:28:01.48 OH, I WASN'T SO SURE. DID THIS GET ACROSS? 00:28:01.48\00:28:05.28 WAS I CLEAR? AND, YOU KNOW, EVERY NIGHT THAT 00:28:05.28\00:28:09.12 I HAD THAT KIND OF DOUBT IN MY -- YOU KNOW, HOW -- HOW DID 00:28:09.12\00:28:12.32 THEY RECEIVE THIS? OR DID THEY UNDERSTAND IT? 00:28:12.32\00:28:16.26 I BELIEVE GOD SENT SOMEONE TO ME EVERY NIGHT AS SOON AS WE HAD 00:28:16.26\00:28:20.60 THE CLOSING PRAYER, I COULD GO OUT TO THE BACK OF THE CHURCH 00:28:20.60\00:28:24.27 AND SHAKE EVERYONE'S HANDS AND HUG THEM, AND THEY ARE JUST THE 00:28:24.27\00:28:29.27 MOST WONDERFUL PEOPLE, AND EVERY NIGHT I HAD DOUBTS ABOUT MY OWN 00:28:29.27\00:28:35.01 PRESENTATION. SOMEONE WOULD COME BY AND SHAKE 00:28:35.01\00:28:36.75 MY HAND AND TELL ME I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT SO CLEARLY 00:28:36.75\00:28:42.98 BEFORE. >> PRAISE GOD. 00:28:42.98\00:28:44.09 >> AND I KNOW IT WASN'T ME. AND TO ME THE THRILLING THING 00:28:44.09\00:28:49.02 IS, THAT WE AS BROKEN VESSELS WHO ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL AT ALL, 00:28:49.02\00:28:54.10 THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING -- HE'S THE ONE WHO DOES ALL OF THE 00:28:54.10\00:28:58.83 WORK. WE ARE SIMPLY THE -- THE 00:28:58.83\00:29:02.14 PATHWAY, AND THE LORD IS DOING EVERYTHING. 00:29:02.14\00:29:06.04 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND IT'S JUST -- AND THEN 00:29:06.04\00:29:10.01 WHEN YOU MAKE A CALL AND YOU SEE PEOPLE RESPOND, THERE IS 00:29:10.01\00:29:14.25 NOTHING -- >> NOTHING. 00:29:14.25\00:29:17.05 >> NOTHING LIKE IT. AND -- 00:29:17.05\00:29:20.82 >> YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ORDAINED MINISTER, OR A 00:29:20.82\00:29:26.06 PROFESSIONAL PREACHER, ANYBODY -- CHILDREN CAN -- CAN 00:29:26.06\00:29:28.90 SHARE. >> YES. 00:29:28.90\00:29:29.53 >> YOUNG PEOPLE CAN SHARE. THE WORD OF GOD IS OPEN FOR 00:29:29.53\00:29:33.64 EVERYONE TO SHARE. >> UH-HUH. 00:29:33.64\00:29:35.40 >> AMEN. >> THIS IS WHAT TOTAL MEMBER 00:29:35.40\00:29:37.84 INVOLVEMENT IS ALL ABOUT. BUT TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR VERY 00:29:37.84\00:29:41.58 LAST MEETING AND THE CALL YOU MADE, AND HOW PEOPLE RESPONDED. 00:29:41.58\00:29:46.51 >> WE SHOULD LET DUANE ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THAT. 00:29:46.51\00:29:50.35 IT WAS -- IT WAS SABBATH -- OH, YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT SABBATH 00:29:50.35\00:29:55.22 MORNING. OH, I HOPE I CAN DO THIS. 00:29:55.22\00:29:58.39 I SPOKE ABOUT HEAVEN, WHICH IS VERY DEAR TO MY HEART, AND 00:29:58.39\00:30:04.67 I -- I SAID LET'S -- TODAY IS MY LAST DAY. 00:30:04.67\00:30:08.57 I DON'T KNOW WHEN I'LL BE SEEING YOU ALL AGAIN, BUT LET'S MAKE AN 00:30:08.57\00:30:13.94 APPOINTMENT IN HEAVEN, THE SECOND SABBATH, TO THE RIGHT OF 00:30:13.94\00:30:22.42 THE RIVER OF LIFE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY, WE WILL HAVE HAD CHURCH 00:30:22.42\00:30:26.65 TOGETHER AND LET'S MEET THERE AFTER THE SERVICE, AND I STARTED 00:30:26.65\00:30:31.56 BREAKING DOWN -- MY TRANSLATOR -- SHE WAS HAVING A 00:30:31.56\00:30:36.73 HARD TIME TRANSLATING. EVERYBODY IN THE CHURCH IT 00:30:36.73\00:30:39.90 SEEMED WERE -- WERE CRYING. WE HELD HANDS AND WE PRAYED 00:30:39.90\00:30:44.94 TOGETHER. AND IT WAS JUS POWERFUL. 00:30:44.94\00:30:47.21 AND IT'S REAL. IT'S REAL. 00:30:47.21\00:30:49.51 IT'S NOT A FAIRYTALE. IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:30:49.51\00:30:52.48 AND I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T ALL 00:30:52.48\00:30:56.45 HAVE TO PREACH SERMONS. EVERYBODY SHOULD DO IT AT LEAST 00:30:56.45\00:31:00.16 ONCE. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:31:00.16\00:31:01.36 >> AT LEAST ONCE FOR YOUR OWN SELF. 00:31:01.36\00:31:03.99 >> YOU HAVE DONE IT TWICE NOW. >> I HAVE DONE IT TWICE. 00:31:03.99\00:31:08.13 AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE -- I TOLL PEOPLE INITIALLY I DID IT FOR 00:31:08.13\00:31:12.17 VERY SELFISH REASONS, BECAUSE EVERYONE I TALKED TO SAID IT IS 00:31:12.17\00:31:17.47 SUCH A BLESSING. NOTHING -- IT'S SOMETHING THAT 00:31:17.47\00:31:20.51 WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. AND SELFISHLY I THOUGHT, I WANT 00:31:20.51\00:31:25.51 THAT. SO THAT'S WHY I AGREED TO DO IT. 00:31:25.51\00:31:28.05 BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, THOSE OF US WHO HAVE KNOWN BIBLICAL TRUTH 00:31:28.05\00:31:35.49 ALL OF OUR LIVES THERE IS NOTHING LIKE TEACHING IT TO 00:31:35.49\00:31:39.36 HAVING IT -- IT'S A WONDERFUL REVIEW, BUT YOU REALIZE HOW 00:31:39.36\00:31:45.50 BEAUTIFUL, HOW BEAUTIFUL BIBLICAL TRUTH IS. 00:31:45.50\00:31:47.34 I MEAN THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT. AND IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE, AND 00:31:47.34\00:31:51.37 YOU WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO KNOW, SO IT'S -- IT WAS -- IT 00:31:51.37\00:31:54.84 WAS A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. AND NOW ONE OF THE -- I THINK 00:31:54.84\00:32:00.92 ONE ADVANTAGE OF GOING INTO A SMALL CHURCH IS, NOW MY 00:32:00.92\00:32:05.79 TRANSLATOR WHO HAS HER PhD IN LINGUISTICS, SHE WAS A MARVELOUS 00:32:05.79\00:32:12.69 TRANSLATOR, SHE AND HER SISTERS ARE HAVING A SERIES OF MEETINGS 00:32:12.69\00:32:16.40 IN A LITTLE VILLAGE NEAR WHERE THEY LIVE. 00:32:16.40\00:32:19.87 >> PRAISE THE LORD. THERE'S A DOUBLE BIT THAT COMES 00:32:19.87\00:32:25.24 INTO PLAY HERE. IT'S FOR THE SPEAKERS AS WELL 00:32:25.24\00:32:29.64 AS -- I REMEMBER THAT LAST SABBATH WHEN THE WHOLE PLATFORM 00:32:29.64\00:32:34.95 WAS COVERED WITH PEOPLE WHO MADE THE DECISION TO BE BAPTIZED. 00:32:34.95\00:32:40.62 AND TO SEE YOU AND YOUR RESPONSE. 00:32:40.62\00:32:43.32 AND WE HAD WHAT 40? >> I THINK WE HAD ABOUT 45 00:32:43.32\00:32:47.03 PEOPLE THAT WENT TO ROMANIA, UKRAINE, GEORGIA -- 00:32:47.03\00:32:51.67 >> MOLDOVA. >> MOLDOVA -- 00:32:51.67\00:32:55.27 >> AND BULGARIA. >> AND BULGARIA, YES. 00:32:55.27\00:32:58.74 >> AND JUST THE EXCITEMENT, THEY WERE INVOLVED. 00:32:58.74\00:33:09.42 IT CHANGES OUR HEARTS. >> I HAD A YOUNG LADY PLAYING 00:33:09.42\00:33:13.05 THE VIOLIN. WE HAD A LITTLE CHOIR TOO. 00:33:13.05\00:33:15.96 AND SHE WOULD PLAY THE VIOLIN ALMOST EVERY NIGHT. 00:33:15.96\00:33:19.16 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT SHE HAD BEEN THROUGH A GREAT CRISIS IN THE 00:33:19.16\00:33:23.23 PREVIOUS YEAR. SHE WAS IN HER MID-TO LATE 00:33:23.23\00:33:26.74 TEENS. SHE HAD BEEN THROUGH A GREAT 00:33:26.74\00:33:29.57 CRISIS. HER PARENTS HAD BEEN PRAYING FOR 00:33:29.57\00:33:32.31 HER, BUT IF EVERYONE DOES SOMETHING FOR JESUS, THE SPIRIT 00:33:32.31\00:33:35.94 OF GOD BLESSES US AS WE ARE BEING USED TO BLESS OTHERS. 00:33:35.94\00:33:40.88 SO THE LAST SABBATH THEY HAD A LITTLE MEAL FOR THOSE OF US WHO 00:33:40.88\00:33:46.15 WERE PART OF THE TEAM AND SHE WAS THERE, BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN 00:33:46.15\00:33:49.26 PLAYING HER VIOLIN. AND SHE CAME UP TO ME, AND SHE 00:33:49.26\00:33:52.59 SAID GOD HAS TOUCHED MY HEART THROUGH THESE MEETINGS. 00:33:52.59\00:33:55.50 I SAID TO HER, ROXANA, HAVE YOU BEEN BAPTIZED? 00:33:55.50\00:34:00.10 AND SHE SAID NO, BUT I'M MAKING A DECISION TO BE BAPTIZED. 00:34:00.10\00:34:08.21 AND IT WAS HER PARENTS WHO PRAYED FOR 31 YEARS FOR THEIR 00:34:08.21\00:34:12.38 NEIGHBOR. YOU KNOW THEY HAD BEEN PRAYING 00:34:12.38\00:34:15.12 FOR THEIR DAUGHTER TOO. WHEN WE GET INVOLVED, TOTAL 00:34:15.12\00:34:18.75 MEMBER INVOLVEMENT, WE ARE BLESSED AS WE SERVE. 00:34:18.75\00:34:20.86 >> AND WE HAD A YOUNG LADY, NICKKY KAUFMAN, 15, IT WAS HER 00:34:20.86\00:34:28.83 FIRST TIME. AND SHE WAS SCARED ALMOST TO THE 00:34:28.83\00:34:32.33 POINT SHE COULDN'T TALK, BUT SHE DOVE RIGHT IN, AND BY THE SECOND 00:34:32.33\00:34:40.71 NIGHT, HER TESTIMONY WAS STRONG. BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT A 00:34:40.71\00:34:45.01 FELLOW WHO WAS OUT OF THE CHURCH FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. 00:34:45.01\00:34:48.28 AND I WOULD SEE HIM SITTING DIRECTLY IN FRONT EVERY NIGHT. 00:34:48.28\00:34:51.69 HE IS ON A CHAIR LIKE THIS EVERY NIGHT. 00:34:51.69\00:34:55.22 AND HE IS WATCHING ME, WATCHING ME, GOING BACK AND FORTH. 00:34:55.22\00:34:59.73 AND I GOT THIS TEXT ON MY PHONE AND IT SAID WHO KNEW THAT THE 00:34:59.73\00:35:03.23 COLOR OF HOPE WOULD BE BLACK? [ LAUGHTER ] 00:35:03.23\00:35:07.67 >> AND HE SAID I HAVE A -- I'M SITTING FORWARD BECAUSE I HAVE A 00:35:07.67\00:35:12.11 KIDNEY INFECTION, I CANNOT SIT BACK, AND I SHOULD NOT BE HERE, 00:35:12.11\00:35:16.01 BUT I'M GOING TO BE HERE EVERY NIGHT. 00:35:16.01\00:35:21.42 I HAVE TO BE AT THESE MEETINGS. HE PAINTED A PICTURE, ONE FOR 00:35:21.42\00:35:29.72 HER, ONE FOR ME. HE PAINTS IN HIS SPARE TIME, BUT 00:35:29.72\00:35:33.33 IS A MASTER PAINER, BEFORE OUT OF THE CHURCH FOR MANY, MANY 00:35:33.33\00:35:38.20 YEARS, AND HE GAVE HIMSELF TO THE LORD, AND IT TURNS OUT 00:35:38.20\00:35:41.44 BECAUSE HE WAS SITTING THERE WATCHING ME EVERY NIGHT. 00:35:41.44\00:35:44.74 >> IS THAT NOT BEAUTIFUL? >> YEAH. 00:35:44.74\00:35:46.51 >> I'M THINKING OF SOMEONE WHO ISN'T HERE, BUT LAURA, FIRST 00:35:46.51\00:35:58.29 TIME SHE HAD EVER HELD MEETINGS. AND SHE HAD A UNIQUE POPULATION. 00:35:58.29\00:36:04.43 IT'S A SUBGROUP -- A GYPSY GROUP. 00:36:04.43\00:36:07.93 >> A GABOR. >> YEAH, A GABOR GROUP. 00:36:07.93\00:36:12.07 AND THE LADIES SEWED AN OUTFIT FOR HER, BUT FIRST TIME -- AND 00:36:12.07\00:36:18.77 SHE DEALT WITH SOME ANXIETY TOO, BUT THE LAT NIGHT OF THE 00:36:18.77\00:36:23.18 MEETINGS -- THE LAST DAY GIVE AN APPEAL. 00:36:23.18\00:36:30.05 16 PEOPLE RESPONDED FROM A LITTLE CHURCH THAT WAS BETWEEN A 00:36:30.05\00:36:34.02 TIRE SHOP AND SOME OTHER -- I MEAN IT WAS A POOR PART OF TOWN. 00:36:34.02\00:36:39.93 BUT A MAN CAME UP TO HER AND SAID, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THESE 00:36:39.93\00:36:44.27 MEETINGS HAVE SAVED MY MARRIAGE. HE WAS WORKING IN ANOTHER 00:36:44.27\00:36:48.44 COUNTRY, BUT HIS WIFE CAME TO THE MEETINGS, HER HEART 00:36:48.44\00:36:52.64 RESPONDED TO THE MESSAGE THAT WAS PREACHED. 00:36:52.64\00:36:54.98 AND HE SAID I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU. 00:36:54.98\00:36:57.68 SO THE HEALING IS NOT JUST A SPIRITUAL HEALING. 00:36:57.68\00:37:00.55 IT CAN HEAL MARRIAGES. IT CAN HEAL CHURCHES THAT MAY BE 00:37:00.55\00:37:04.49 IN FRICTION, WHEN WE GET INVOLVED IN SHARING THE GOOD 00:37:04.49\00:37:08.39 NEWS ABOUT JESUS. >> LAWRIE ASKED ME ON THE LAST 00:37:08.39\00:37:13.29 DAY OF SABBATH, WHERE ARE WE GOING NEXT YEAR? 00:37:13.29\00:37:17.07 [ LAUGHTER ] >> AND I SAID I THINK ZAMBIA IS 00:37:17.07\00:37:22.70 A GOOD LOCATION. AND SHE TOLD ME SHE CALLED HER 00:37:22.70\00:37:28.14 HUSBAND AND SAID HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO VACATION IN ZAMBIA NEXT 00:37:28.14\00:37:33.18 YEAR. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:37:33.18\00:37:34.22 >> THIS IS TRANSFORMING PEOPLE'S LIVES. 00:37:34.22\00:37:36.62 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> WE HAD TWO ATTORNEYS FROM THE 00:37:36.62\00:37:40.02 OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD. 00:37:40.02\00:37:43.22 WE HAD TWO PEOPLE FROM OUR HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICE. 00:37:43.22\00:37:46.36 WE HAD MANY OTHER INDIVIDUALS COMING. 00:37:46.36\00:37:48.66 IT WAS JUST INCREDIBLE. >> RIGHT. 00:37:48.66\00:37:51.70 >> AND, YOU KNOW, IT -- IT'S POWERFUL TO SEE HOW THE LORD 00:37:51.70\00:37:56.77 CHANGES LIVES, MARRIAGES, SAVES THEM, AND CHURCHES. 00:37:56.77\00:38:00.14 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> BECAUSE CHURCHES THAT DO HAVE 00:38:00.14\00:38:03.48 SOME PROBLEMS AND FRICTION AND WHAT NOT WHEN THEY ARE INVOLVED 00:38:03.48\00:38:08.02 IN EVANGELISM, THERE IS A FOCUS, THERE'S AN EXCITEMENT, THERE IS 00:38:08.02\00:38:15.96 A SWEET SPIRIT THAT SETTLES DOWN. 00:38:15.96\00:38:19.33 LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT ONE YOUNG MAN. 00:38:19.33\00:38:22.76 HE IS PROBABLY MID-30S OR SO. HE SHOWED UP ONE NIGHT ON THE 00:38:22.76\00:38:28.50 FRONT ROW. I HAD NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE. 00:38:28.50\00:38:31.27 I MADE A NUMBER OF APPEALS. AND THERE WAS SOME HESITANCY ON 00:38:31.27\00:38:36.51 THE PART OF SOME TO MAKE AN APPEAL, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT SURE 00:38:36.51\00:38:39.98 WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND MAYBE IT IS NOT THE CUSTOM, BUT 00:38:39.98\00:38:43.85 I WAS MAKING A NUMBER OF APPEALS, AND AT THE EARLY PART 00:38:43.85\00:38:47.32 WE HAD A NUMBER OF PEOPLE COMING FORWARD FOR BAPTISM. 00:38:47.32\00:38:51.89 THE GROUP WAS WATCHING. IN ROMANIA, THEY ARE KEEPING 00:38:51.89\00:38:55.40 THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE DECISIONS AT THOSE MEETINGS IN 00:38:55.40\00:39:00.40 PARTICULAR, UNLESS THEY HAVE BEEN STUDIED WITH BEFORE, THEY 00:39:00.40\00:39:05.17 ARE KEEPING THEM IN BAPTISMMALL BIBLE STUDY CLASSES UNTIL 00:39:05.17\00:39:14.65 JUNE 3RD. AND THEY INTEND TO HAVE A 00:39:14.65\00:39:18.55 MASSIVE BAPTISM ALL OVER ROMANIA IN THE MANY CHURCHES ACROSS THAT 00:39:18.55\00:39:23.66 COUNTRY. SO THEY WILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME 00:39:23.66\00:39:25.86 TO REALLY DIG INTO THE WORD OF GOD AND BECOME COMPLETELY 00:39:25.86\00:39:30.37 ORGANIZED AND FOUNDED IN THE WORD OF GOD. 00:39:30.37\00:39:32.10 >> AMEN. >> BUT MANY PEOPLE CAME FORWARD 00:39:32.10\00:39:35.67 WHEN I MADE AN APPEAL -- YOU KNOW, A SMALL CHURCH, I SAY 00:39:35.67\00:39:41.31 MANY. MANY IN COMPARISON. 00:39:41.31\00:39:42.58 BUT ONE NIGHT I MADE THIS APPEAL. 00:39:42.58\00:39:45.01 AND AS I WAS MAKING THE APPEAL. AND YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER, IF 00:39:45.01\00:39:49.38 NOBODY COMES FORWARD, YOU HAVE AT LEAST GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY. 00:39:49.38\00:39:52.69 I WAS ABOUT READY TO FINISH AND NO ONE HAD COME, AND FINALLY, 00:39:52.69\00:39:57.23 JUST BEFORE I WAS GOING TO PRAY, THIS YOUNG MAN ON THE FRONT ROW 00:39:57.23\00:40:03.37 CAME FORWARD. AND IT WAS A HUGE BREAK THROUGH. 00:40:03.37\00:40:07.77 >> UH-HUH. >> BECAUSE I LEARNED LATER THAT 00:40:07.77\00:40:11.87 HE WAS THE SON OF THE CHURCH TREASURER, AND THIS YOUNG MAN 00:40:11.87\00:40:17.61 HAD BEEN DISTANT FROM THE CHURCH FOR A LONG TIME, AND HAD COME 00:40:17.61\00:40:21.58 THAT NIGHT AND MADE HIS DECISION -- 00:40:21.58\00:40:23.42 >> PRAISE GOD. >> -- TO FOLLOW THE LORD. 00:40:23.42\00:40:25.89 AND I HEAR LATER THAT THE HEAD ELDER, WHEN HE SAW THIS 00:40:25.89\00:40:30.99 HAPPENING, HE WAS JUST WEEPING. >> WOW. 00:40:30.99\00:40:33.23 >> AMEN. >> THE LORD CAN CALL OUR FAMILY 00:40:33.23\00:40:37.70 MEMBERS, COMPLETE STRANGERS, DOESN'T MATTER WHO, CALLS THEM 00:40:37.70\00:40:41.04 TO THE FOOT OF THE CROSS WHERE THIS PRECIOUS MESSAGE TAKES 00:40:41.04\00:40:45.37 OVER, JUST IN TIME. JUST AS WE HEARD THAT MARVELOUS 00:40:45.37\00:40:48.81 SONG. >> AMEN. 00:40:48.81\00:40:49.74 >> IT'S JUST AMAZING. >> SOME PEOPLE MAY BE WONDERING 00:40:49.74\00:40:54.58 WHY WOULD YOU AND NANCY BE AN HOUR OR SO OUTSIDE OF THE 00:40:54.58\00:41:01.02 CITY -- BUCHAREST.-IF ELDER WILSON WOULD HAVE A MEETING IN BUCHAREST, YOU MIGHT 00:41:01.02\00:41:10.20 AS WELL FORGET HAVING ANY OTHER MEETINGS THERE. 00:41:10.20\00:41:13.17 ALL OF THE OTHER CHURCHES WOULD SUPPORT THAT MEETING. 00:41:13.17\00:41:16.64 AND AS WE SAID BEFORE, THIS IS ABOUT TOTAL PREACHER 00:41:16.64\00:41:22.41 INVOLVEMENT, AND TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT, SO WE FELT TO BE 00:41:22.41\00:41:28.78 FAIR FOR YOU TO GO OUTSIDE OF THE CITY, BUT OTHER PEOPLE 00:41:28.78\00:41:32.59 WITHIN THE GENERAL CONFERENCE COULD HAVE MEETINGS WITHIN THE 00:41:32.59\00:41:37.06 CITY. AND EVERYONE HAD A GREAT 00:41:37.06\00:41:39.06 EXPERIENCE. AND THAT'S PART OF THAT SYNERGY 00:41:39.06\00:41:40.93 THAT WE BUILT AS WE ALL PARTICIPATED AND DID IT 00:41:40.93\00:41:43.40 TOGETHER. AND I THINK FOR YOU TO HAVE A 00:41:43.40\00:41:46.50 MEETING IN A SMALLER CHURCH AND GOT TO KNOW PEOPLE IN A SPECIAL 00:41:46.50\00:41:50.31 WAY, AND YOU TOO NANCY, IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR YOU. 00:41:50.31\00:41:53.41 >> OH, IT WAS JUST A PRECIOUS EXPERIENCE. 00:41:53.41\00:41:56.68 I JUST AM THRILLED WITH THAT LITTLE CHURCH, AND I HAD TO 00:41:56.68\00:42:00.25 LEARN HOW TO SAY IT CORRECTLY, AND IT HAS AN I AT THE END BUT 00:42:00.25\00:42:07.22 YOU DON'T REALLY PRONOUNCE THE I MUCH. 00:42:07.22\00:42:10.13 BUT THEY ARE PRECIOUS PEOPLE. WONDERFUL PEOPLE. 00:42:10.13\00:42:13.56 YOU JUST -- YOU JUST BOND WITH THEM. 00:42:13.56\00:42:15.50 AND YOU FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU NEED TO STAY THERE FOR A WHILE, 00:42:15.50\00:42:19.20 BUT ONE OF THESE DAYS WE'LL BE TOGETHER IN HEAVEN AND IT WILL 00:42:19.20\00:42:23.07 BE MARVELOUS, BUT IT'S JUST A PRECIOUS EXPERIENCE TO PREACH A 00:42:23.07\00:42:27.54 SERIES ANYWHERE. AND AS YOU KNOW, DUANE, I HAVE 00:42:27.54\00:42:32.71 COMMITTED TWO WEEKS, TWO AND A HALF WEEKS OUT OF EVERY YEAR FOR 00:42:32.71\00:42:39.22 EVANGELISM, AND IT FEEDS MY SOUL -- 00:42:39.22\00:42:40.96 >> AMEN. >> AND ALSO HELPS US TO BE 00:42:40.96\00:42:44.93 TOGETHER, AND I'M HOPING THAT ALL PASTORS THAT ALL 00:42:44.93\00:42:50.83 ADMINISTRATORS, THAT ALL OF US WORK TOGETHER WITH LAY PEOPLE, 00:42:50.83\00:42:53.97 BECAUSE WE HAVE GOT TO BE WORKING TOGETHER AS WE TALKED 00:42:53.97\00:42:57.11 ABOUT. JOHN, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU THAT 00:42:57.11\00:42:59.34 YOU WENT AND LOOKED AT TESTIMONIES VOLUME 9 AND LOOKED 00:42:59.34\00:43:06.35 AT PAGE 116, BECAUSE 116, AND 117, IN FACT THE WHOLE CHAPTER 00:43:06.35\00:43:12.02 IS VERY POWERFUL. BUT 116 DOES SAY IN REFERENCES 00:43:12.02\00:43:17.36 THAT IF -- IF CHURCH LEADERS LIKEWISE GENERALS WILL ORGANIZE 00:43:17.36\00:43:21.96 WORK FOR THE CHURCH MEMBERS, THIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL THING, 00:43:21.96\00:43:26.80 BASICALLY THAT CAN HAPPEN, THAT WHOLE IDEA. 00:43:26.80\00:43:30.64 AND I URGE EVERYONE TO LOOK THAT UP, IF YOU HAVE A SET OF 00:43:30.64\00:43:34.68 TESTIMONIES FOR THE CHURCH VOLUME 9, PAGES 116, 117, READ 00:43:34.68\00:43:39.15 THE WHOLE CONTEXT, BECAUSE ALL OF US HAVE TO BE WORKING 00:43:39.15\00:43:42.32 TOGETHER. >> YEAH, I THINK THIS IS -- I 00:43:42.32\00:43:44.62 SUSPECT THIS IS THE LOGICAL EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC EVANGELISM. 00:43:44.62\00:43:49.52 NOT THAT THE DAY OF LARGER MEETINGS IS OVER, BUT THE 00:43:49.52\00:43:54.00 SMALLER MEETINGS ARE SO MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE. 00:43:54.00\00:43:56.26 AND YOU CAN COVER SO MUCH MORE TERRITORY, PLUS IT GIVES THE 00:43:56.26\00:44:02.87 EVANGELIST AN INTIMACY THAT YOU COULDN'T HAVE. 00:44:02.87\00:44:06.21 WE ALL DEVELOPED VERY TIGHT BONDS WITH OUR -- OUR -- OUR 00:44:06.21\00:44:09.88 CHURCHES. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:44:09.88\00:44:10.71 >> I THINK IT'S A LOGICAL EVOLUTION, PLUS IT IS JUST 00:44:10.71\00:44:14.52 FUN -- I WAS TEACHING MY PASTOR AMERICAN PHRASES, AND I WAS 00:44:14.52\00:44:18.82 TELLING HIM -- BECAUSE DUANE SAID DON'T JUST GO AND SIT, HE 00:44:18.82\00:44:23.96 SAID MEET THE PEOPLE. I SAID WE CALL THAT PRESS THE 00:44:23.96\00:44:28.53 FLESH. AND BY THE SECOND MEETING HE 00:44:28.53\00:44:31.67 SAID LETS GO PRESS THE FLESH. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:44:31.67\00:44:35.97 >> YOU GET AN INTIMACY THAT YOU WOULD NOT HAVE WITH A LARGER 00:44:35.97\00:44:42.68 MEETING. >> I HOPE THIS WILL BE AN 00:44:42.68\00:44:46.05 INSPIRATION TO OTHER CHURCH ADMINISTRATORS AND PASTORS AND 00:44:46.05\00:44:51.09 LAY PEOPLE. SOME ADMINISTRATORS AND PASTORS 00:44:51.09\00:44:55.19 HAVE TOLD ME, I AM TOO BUSY. I JUST DON'T HAVE TIME. 00:44:55.19\00:45:01.30 IF THEY COULD SEE YOUR CALENDAR -- 00:45:01.30\00:45:03.60 [ LAUGHTER ] >> ONE OF THE ADMINISTRATORS 00:45:03.60\00:45:06.13 SAID THIS IS SO LIFE CHANGING. HE SAID IF I DIDN'T HAVE SO MUCH 00:45:06.13\00:45:12.01 WORK TO DO, I WOULD DO ONE EVERY THREE MONTHS. 00:45:12.01\00:45:16.64 >> LET ME JUST SAY, IN SOME P PARTS OF THE WORLD, SOME PEOPLE 00:45:16.64\00:45:26.15 SAY PUBLIC EVANGELISM, IT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE. 00:45:26.15\00:45:30.03 IT MAY NOT WORK QUITE LIKE IT DID, BUT IT WILL WORK IN A VERY 00:45:30.03\00:45:34.63 POWERFUL WAY IF YOU GIVE IT A CHANCE. 00:45:34.63\00:45:36.93 >> AMEN. >> BUT ON THE OTHER WAY, IF IT 00:45:36.93\00:45:40.20 DOESN'T WORK, IF YOU DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK, WHAT DOES WORK? 00:45:40.20\00:45:44.34 WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL WORK? WHATEVER YOU THINK WILL WORK -- 00:45:44.34\00:45:47.68 >> DO THAT. >> -- DO IT IN THE POWER OF THE 00:45:47.68\00:45:54.22 HOLY SPIRIT. IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT DEAD. 00:45:54.22\00:45:56.89 IT IS ALIVE AND WELL IN SO MANY PLACES, BUT IF SMALL GROUPS ARE 00:45:56.89\00:46:01.89 THE APPROPRIATE THING, IF HOME GROUPS IN A LIVING ROOM, A -STOREFRONT, PERSON-TO-PERSON, 00:46:01.89\00:46:10.83 WHATEVER IT IS, DO IT, BUT SHARE THE PRECIOUS WORD OF GOD. 00:46:10.83\00:46:16.04 NANCY I INTERRUPTED YOU, I'M SORRY. 00:46:16.04\00:46:18.97 >> I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN 00:46:18.97\00:46:22.21 BEING A MOTHER. AND WE HAVE THREE DAUGHTERS AND 00:46:22.21\00:46:25.48 TEN GRANDCHILDREN, BUT FOR THOSE MOTHERS OUT THERE WHO THINK, BUT 00:46:25.48\00:46:29.48 I DON'T -- I CAN'T LEAVE MY HOME, WHAT CAN I DO? 00:46:29.48\00:46:32.95 LET ME TELL YOU, YOU CAN TRAIN YOUR CHILDREN TO BE SOUL 00:46:32.95\00:46:36.69 WINNERS, AND YOU CAN TOUCH YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR FRIENDS, EVEN 00:46:36.69\00:46:40.20 WHEN YOU HAVE TINY CHILDREN -- I DON'T KNOW A CHILD WHO DOESN'T 00:46:40.20\00:46:45.50 LIKE TO DRAW. MAKE CARDS FOR A SICK NEIGHBOR, 00:46:45.50\00:46:49.14 OR MAYBE SOMEONE NEW IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. 00:46:49.14\00:46:52.54 BAKE COOKIES OR A LOAF OF BREAD, GO WITH YOUR CHILDREN AND VISIT 00:46:52.54\00:46:57.45 THE NEIGHBOR. HAVE THEM LEARN A SONG. 00:46:57.45\00:47:01.35 THEY CAN BRING CHEER, BRING SMILES TO -- TO THEIR NEIGHBORS, 00:47:01.35\00:47:07.29 TO -- YOU KNOW, RETIREMENT HOME, SO THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT 00:47:07.29\00:47:11.76 YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR CHILDREN AT HOME JUST REACHING THOSE AROUND 00:47:11.76\00:47:17.73 YOU. AND TRAIN THEM TO START THINKING 00:47:17.73\00:47:19.53 OF OTHERS, AND REACHING OUT AND TOUCHING THEIR LIVES. 00:47:19.53\00:47:22.94 >> UH-HUH. AND FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT WANT TO 00:47:22.94\00:47:25.97 HOLD A MEETING BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE, SAYLORRY LAWRIE 00:47:25.97\00:47:36.28 AND LAWRIE, THERE WERE TWO LAWRIES FROM HR, WE ALL HOLD THE 00:47:36.28\00:47:42.82 SAME MEETING, AND WE HAD PEOPLE VISITING FROM ANOTHER PART OF 00:47:42.82\00:47:46.86 THE TOWN, AND THEY COULD KEEP COMING TO MEETINGS, BUT HAVING 00:47:46.86\00:47:51.80 THAT BEAUTIFUL VIDEO PRESENTATION WITH THE SLIDES AND 00:47:51.80\00:47:54.24 IN ROMANIAN AS WELL AS THE ENGLISH TEXT FOR US, IT WAS SO 00:47:54.24\00:47:59.11 WELL DONE, AND -- AND REALLY, HONESTLY, ANYONE COULD DO IT. 00:47:59.11\00:48:03.71 I THINK THAT THAT WAS THE STRENGTH OF IT. 00:48:03.71\00:48:05.85 YOU HAVE THAT PREPARED. WE'RE NOT ASKING PEOPLE TO WRITE 00:48:05.85\00:48:11.09 17 SERMONS OR 24 SERMONS THAT RESOURCE WAS AVAILABLE. 00:48:11.09\00:48:14.99 >> IF YOU CAN READ, YOU CAN PREACH, AND IF YOU CAN'T READ, 00:48:14.99\00:48:19.76 YOU CAN MEMORIZE IT. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:48:19.76\00:48:22.40 >> A TEXT THAT I THINK -- WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TOTAL MEMBER 00:48:22.40\00:48:26.13 INVOLVEMENT, WE NEVER REALLY THOUGHT IT WOULD TAKE ON A LIFE 00:48:26.13\00:48:29.04 OF ITS OWN LIKE IT HAS. >> THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POWERFUL. 00:48:29.04\00:48:33.04 >> ALL AROUND THE WORLD WE SEE ALL OF THE MATERIALS. 00:48:33.04\00:48:37.08 MANILA, ONE WHOLE WALL IN THE OFFICE AS YOU COME INTO THE 00:48:37.08\00:48:42.45 OFFICE, TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT. 00:48:42.45\00:48:45.05 I THINK IT WORKS VERY WELL, AND APPLIES HERE FOR OUR DAY, LOOK 00:48:45.05\00:48:49.56 AMONG THE NATIONS AND WATCH, BE UTTERLY ASTOUNDED FOR I WILL 00:48:49.56\00:48:55.70 WORK A WORK IN YOUR DAYS, WHICH YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE. 00:48:55.70\00:49:01.84 >> AMEN. >> AMEN. 00:49:01.84\00:49:03.30 >> AS A PASTOR I HAVE HELD MANY, MANY MEETINGS IN NEW YORK CITY 00:49:03.30\00:49:08.78 MOST OF THEM. AND YOU ARE HOLDING YOUR 00:49:08.78\00:49:11.48 MEETING, AND THERE IS SOMETHING FABULOUS -- I DON'T WANT TO USE 00:49:11.48\00:49:17.25 THE WORD MYSTICAL, BUT THERE IS -- I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE 00:49:17.25\00:49:23.63 CORRECT WORD IS, BUT THERE IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU 00:49:23.63\00:49:26.86 KNOW OTHERS ARE DOING EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING, AT THE SAME 00:49:26.86\00:49:31.10 TIME YOU ARE DOING IT, UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A 00:49:31.10\00:49:36.20 FABULOUS FEELING. WHEN WE WENT TO LONDON, WE WENT 00:49:36.20\00:49:39.11 WITH THE IDEA OF ONE BIG CITY MEETING. 00:49:39.11\00:49:42.24 THE CITY QUICKLY TOLD US THAT IS NOT GOING TO WORK.-SO THIS IDEA 00:49:42.24\00:49:48.12 OF SMALL MEETINGS IS JUST A FABULOUS IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME AND WHICH WILL DO -pMUCH TO 00:49:48.12\00:49:56.02 FINISH THE WORK I DO. >> MARK FINLEY CALLED ME UP AN SAID I WOULD LIKE TO INSPIRE AND 00:49:56.02\00:49:59.63 TALK TO THE DIVISION PRESIDENTS ABOUT DOING -- HAVING A MILLION 00:49:59.63\00:50:04.33 SMALL GROUPS THAT WOULD SEED TMI ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 00:50:04.33\00:50:07.80 >> AMEN. >> AMEN. 00:50:07.80\00:50:09.64 >> WE COULD DO THAT. >> AMEN. 00:50:09.64\00:50:12.27 >> AT THE VERY END OF OUR MEETING WHEN WE HAD A BAPTISM. 00:50:12.27\00:50:17.38 THIS WAS TWO WEEKS OR SO AGO, AND WE HAD -- YEAH, ABOUT TWO 00:50:17.38\00:50:22.05 AND A HALF WEEKS -- WE HAD THE BAPTISM OF SIX PEOPLE. 00:50:22.05\00:50:26.69 THEY HAD BEEN COMING TO THE MEETINGS, AND IT WAS EXCITING TO 00:50:26.69\00:50:30.73 SEE THEM BEING PREPARED. AND AFTER THE BAPTISM, I MADE 00:50:30.73\00:50:34.73 ANOTHER APPEAL FROM THE BAPTISMAL POOL, AND TO SEE THE 00:50:34.73\00:50:41.44 PEOPLE WHO CAME FORWARD AFTER VISUALLY OBSERVING THIS DYING TO 00:50:41.44\00:50:47.21 THE OLD SELF, COMING UP A NEW CREATURE IN JESUS CHRIST, PEOPLE 00:50:47.21\00:50:52.48 CAME FORWARD AS WE MADE THE APPEAL, AND THERE WAS IN ONE 00:50:52.48\00:50:56.95 PARTICULAR INSTANCE, A WHOLE FAMILY. 00:50:56.95\00:50:58.89 THESE ARE BROTHERS AND SISTERS -- 00:50:58.89\00:51:01.49 >> YES. >> BECAUSE A HUSBAND AND WIFE 00:51:01.49\00:51:03.96 HAD BEEN BAPTIZED, AND THE HUSBAND'S FAMILY, MANY OF THEM 00:51:03.96\00:51:07.86 WERE NOT MEMBERS, AND THESE ARE ADULT PEOPLE, AND THEY CAME 00:51:07.86\00:51:12.93 FORWARD AND THEY WERE JUST SOBBING. 00:51:12.93\00:51:15.44 THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD TOUCHED THEIR LIVES, IT WAS JUST 00:51:15.44\00:51:18.91 AMAZING. AND THIS IS IN A LITTLE CHURCH, 00:51:18.91\00:51:21.94 YOU KNOW, PRAISE GOD FOR EVERY INSTANCE WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:51:21.94\00:51:26.55 DRAWS PEOPLE. IT'S HIS WORK, NOT OUR WORK. 00:51:26.55\00:51:29.65 >> AMEN. >> PRAISE GOD. 00:51:29.65\00:51:31.59 >> YOU MENTIONED PASTOR WILSON THAT -- INVOLVING THE CHURCHES. 00:51:31.59\00:51:36.26 AND IT'S SO EXCITING FOR THE MEMBERS IN THE CHURCHES, SO THAT 00:51:36.26\00:51:41.86 OTHERWISE WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED JUST BEING IN THE 00:51:41.86\00:51:44.63 ROUTINE OF THINGS, AND THEN THEY -- SOMEONE IS COMING TO THE 00:51:44.63\00:51:50.51 CHURCH. THEY -- THEY LOOK AT US LIKE WE 00:51:50.51\00:51:53.48 ARE ALL THESE BIG PEOPLE AND THEY COME INTO CHURCH, BUT 00:51:53.48\00:51:57.05 THAT -- AND THAT MOVES THEM TO ALSO BE INVOLVED AND DO THINGS, 00:51:57.05\00:52:02.32 AND SO THAT THIS EMPOWERS THE CHURCH ITSELF. 00:52:02.32\00:52:06.05 AND MY EXPERIENCE WAS, YOU KNOW, WAS AMAZING FOR ME, BECAUSE I 00:52:06.05\00:52:12.29 FELT VERY -- >> INADEQUATE. 00:52:12.29\00:52:15.90 >> INADEQUATE. BUT EVERY TIME -- LIKE WE 00:52:15.90\00:52:20.54 FINISH, AND THE PEOPLE CAME TO SHAKE YOUR HANDS, THEY WERE 00:52:20.54\00:52:24.14 TELLING ME THE SAME THING, THAT OH, I NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE 00:52:24.14\00:52:29.21 THAT WAY. OR THEY WERE WOULD EXPRESS THAT 00:52:29.21\00:52:33.58 THEY HAVE FELT THROUGH THE MEETING. 00:52:33.58\00:52:35.35 THE YOUNG PEOPLE -- WE HAD SOME YOUNG PEOPLE -- ONE FAMILY, A 00:52:35.35\00:52:39.02 BOY, TEN YEARS OLD, DAVID, HIS BROTHER, ALEX, WAS HELPING OUT 00:52:39.02\00:52:44.06 WITH THE AUDIO, AND THEN WE HAVE MARK, THE SON OF THE LADY THAT 00:52:44.06\00:52:51.03 PLAYED NATALIA, WONDERFUL TRANSLATOR. 00:52:51.03\00:53:02.01 BUT THIS PARTICULAR LITTLE BOY, HE WAS TEN OR SO, I THINK, 00:53:02.01\00:53:06.82 DAVID. HE WAS THERE EVERY NIGHT. 00:53:06.82\00:53:09.08 THE FIRST -- SECOND NIGHT, ONE OF THE FRIENDS GAVE ME THIS 00:53:09.08\00:53:13.46 BEAUTIFUL PICTURE THAT SHE MADE FOR ME, THANKING ME FOR BEING IN 00:53:13.46\00:53:20.10 THERE, AND SO DAVID COMES TO SAY SOMETHING TO ME, AND SHE 00:53:20.10\00:53:24.30 SAID -- SHE SAID DAVID, WE ARE NOT FRIENDS. 00:53:24.30\00:53:27.54 AND I SAID REALLY? YES, HE SAID. 00:53:27.54\00:53:31.07 NO, WE ARE NOT FRIENDS. I DON'T LIKE DAVID. 00:53:31.07\00:53:33.78 SO I ASKED WHY. DAVID ATE HIS CHICKEN IN SCHOOL. 00:53:33.78\00:53:41.25 [ LAUGHTER ] >> HIS LUNCH. 00:53:41.25\00:53:43.08 AND HE ATE HER CHICKEN. SO SHE WILL NOT TALK TO HIM 00:53:43.08\00:53:46.82 ANYMORE. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:53:46.82\00:53:47.99 >> SO, BUT THROUGH THE WEEK, THEY STARTED TALKING, AND THEY 00:53:47.99\00:53:51.19 WERE TALKING, AND DAVID EVERY NIGHT HE WAS ALWAYS TELLING ME, 00:53:51.19\00:53:55.43 YOU KNOW, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING. 00:53:55.43\00:53:58.00 THANK YOU FOR -- FOR THESE MEETINGS. 00:53:58.00\00:54:00.10 I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH. HE WAS IN TEARS WHEN -- AT THE 00:54:00.10\00:54:04.54 LAST SABBATH, AND -- AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE. 00:54:04.54\00:54:08.24 HE JUST KEPT BEING CLOSE TO ME, AND SO I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, YOU 00:54:08.24\00:54:12.88 KNOW, YOU DON'T THINK YOU ARE ADEQUATE, BUT IT'S NOT YOU. 00:54:12.88\00:54:17.95 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS WORKING. EVEN IF ONE PERSON -- EVEN IF 00:54:17.95\00:54:22.49 IT'S A CHILD -- >> AMEN. 00:54:22.49\00:54:24.39 >> LIKE YOU HAD SUCH WITH THE MESSAGE OF THAT. 00:54:24.39\00:54:26.96 >> BEAUTIFUL. >> IT'S SO IMPORTANT. 00:54:26.96\00:54:29.76 >> CA BEFORE MAYBE WE CLOSE -- I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE TIME WE 00:54:29.76\00:54:32.53 HAVE GOT, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT -- I JUST GOT WORD VERY 00:54:32.53\00:54:37.57 RECENTLY FROM KENYA, AND THE EAST CENTRAL AFRICA DIVISION 00:54:37.57\00:54:44.35 WHERE RWANDA IS LOCATED, AND THEY ARE PLANNING MORE MEETINGS 00:54:44.35\00:54:48.68 THIS YEAR THAN LAST YEAR. AND IN KENYA THEY ARE HOLDING 00:54:48.68\00:54:52.92 EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS RIGHT NOW, AND DOING ALL KINDS OF COMMUNITY 00:54:52.92\00:54:57.06 OUTREACH THINGS. IT IS AMAZING, THE TOTAL MEMBER 00:54:57.06\00:55:00.26 INVOLVEMENT. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE, RAMON IS 00:55:00.26\00:55:04.60 THERE, AND HE GAVE ME THIS INCREDIBLE REPORT, AND HE SAID 00:55:04.60\00:55:09.04 THAT THE PEOPLE ARE PLANNING BY GOD'S GRACE, AND THIS IS 00:55:09.04\00:55:17.18 UNBELIEVABLE, 400,000 BAPTISMS. >> WOW. 00:55:17.18\00:55:20.15 >> WE DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE TOTAL WILL BE, BUT CAN YOU 00:55:20.15\00:55:25.25 IMAGINE WHEN LAY PEOPLE TAKE CHARGE, THEY KNOW WHAT GOD CAN 00:55:25.25\00:55:28.39 DO. PRAISE GOD. 00:55:28.39\00:55:29.82 AND I ASK FOR PRAYERS FOR OUR EFFORTS IN JAPAN FOR NEXT YEAR, 00:55:29.82\00:55:33.53 AND WE'LL HAVE MANY OTHER ASPECTS, BUT IN JAPAN, TRY TO 00:55:33.53\00:55:37.73 REACH THAT VERY SECULAR AND NON-CHRISTIAN SETTING. 00:55:37.73\00:55:41.34 PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS AND CHURCH MEMBERS IN JAPAN. 00:55:41.34\00:55:45.81 >> PRAISE GOD. ELDER WILSON, I'M GLAD YOU HAD 00:55:45.81\00:55:52.05 THE CHANCE TO PUT A LITTLE BOW ON THIS, BECAUSE OUR TIME IS 00:55:52.05\00:55:55.68 RUNNING OUT, BUT WE SEE THAT TMI HAS BEEN EMBRACED BY THE CHURCH. 00:55:55.68\00:56:00.29 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE IT BACK TO DANNY AND TO JOHN JUST NOW TO 00:56:00.29\00:56:04.69 SORT OF TAKE US OUT. THANK YOU SO MUCH GENTLEMEN FOR 00:56:04.69\00:56:07.73 STANDING BY WITH US, AND FOR HOSTING THIS PROGRAM. 00:56:07.73\00:56:11.30 DUANE AND KATHY, ELDER DEREK MORRIS, ELDER WILSON, AND NANCY, 00:56:11.30\00:56:17.71 WE'RE SAYING GOOD-BYE, AND WE'LL SEND IT BACK TO YOU GUYS. 00:56:17.71\00:56:21.81 TAKE US HOME. >> PRAISE THE LORD. 00:56:21.81\00:56:24.35 >> THIS TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT IS SOMETHING WE WANT TO 00:56:24.35\00:56:29.45 ENCOURAGE EVERYONE ONE OF YOU. DANNY THE TIME HAS COME, WHAT DO 00:56:29.45\00:56:33.76 YOU SAY? >> I SAY PRAISE GOD FOR LEADER 00:56:33.76\00:56:38.69 SWHIP A VISION. THE BIBLE SAYS WHERE THERE IS NO 00:56:38.69\00:56:40.96 VISION, THE PEOPLE PARRISH. THE REVERSE OF THAT IS WITH 00:56:40.96\00:56:45.83 VISION WE CAN FLOURISH. SO THANK YOU ELDER WILSON AND 00:56:45.83\00:56:49.77 YOUR TEAM, EVERYONE THERE AT THE GENERAL CONFERENCE, HOPE 00:56:49.77\00:56:53.14 CHANNEL, ALL OF US BENG ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER TO TAKE THIS GREAT 00:56:53.14\00:56:57.31 GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM INTO ALL OF THE WORLD. 00:56:57.31\00:57:00.48 OUR TIME IS ALL GONE FOR TODAY, UNTIL WE SEE YOU NEXT TIME, MAY 00:57:00.48\00:57:05.72 THE LORD RICHLY BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY MORE THAN YOU COULD 00:57:05.72\00:57:10.39 EVER ASK OR THINK. ¤ 00:57:10.39\00:57:16.23