¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:00.36\00:00:06.03 ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:06.03\00:00:18.21 ¤ REMOVING PAIN ¤ ¤ LORD, LET MY WORDS ¤ 00:00:18.21\00:00:27.19 ¤ LET MY WORDS ¤ ¤ HEAL UP HEARTS THAT HURT ¤ 00:00:27.19\00:00:33.43 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:33.43\00:00:44.67 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:44.67\00:00:57.69 ¤ 00:00:57.69\00:01:00.82 >> HELLO AND WELCOME TO 3ABN "TODAY LIVE." 00:01:07.76\00:01:12.43 MY NAME IS CA MURRAY, AND ALLOW ME TO THANK YOU FOR SHARING JUST 00:01:12.43\00:01:15.74 A LITTLE OF YOUR BUSY DAY WITH US. 00:01:15.74\00:01:18.07 THANK YOU AS ALWAYS FOR YOUR LOVE, YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR 00:01:18.07\00:01:21.51 CONSISTENT SUPPORT OF 3ABN BROADCASTING NETWORK. 00:01:21.51\00:01:31.69 FOR 33 YEARS, WE HAVE LIFTED UP JESUS AND SHARED THE MESSAGE 00:01:31.69\00:01:38.16 THAT CHRIST IS COMING SOON. I AM EXCITED BECAUSE OF OUR 00:01:38.16\00:01:42.70 PROGRAM, AND I -- I -- WE CALL THEM GUESTS, BUT THEY ARE NOT 00:01:42.70\00:01:48.07 GUESTS, THEY ARE REALLY MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, THAT ARE HERE 00:01:48.07\00:01:51.74 WITH ME TONIGHT. WE SPENT A LOT OF THE WEEK 00:01:51.74\00:01:56.44 TOGETHER DOING PROGRAMMING, SO IT'S LIKE A REUNION. 00:01:56.44\00:02:00.72 >> THAT'S RIGHT. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:02:00.72\00:02:02.98 >> BUT WE HAVE A WONDERFUL PROGRAM. 00:02:02.98\00:02:06.19 WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT AGRO-EVANGELISM. 00:02:06.19\00:02:10.03 THAT'S A NEW WORD. I KNOW IT'S A NEW WORD, BECAUSE 00:02:10.03\00:02:15.13 IT'S MINE. I INVENTED IT. 00:02:15.13\00:02:16.93 I ADDED IT TO THE LEXICON. WE'RE GOING TO EXPLAIN THAT IN A 00:02:16.93\00:02:26.78 NUMBER. BUT FIRST I WANT TO INTRODUCE 00:02:26.78\00:02:30.55 THE PEOPLE HERE. JILL MORIKONE ASSISTANT GENERAL 00:02:30.55\00:02:37.05 MANAGER. >> GENERAL MANAGER AT THIS 00:02:37.05\00:02:38.95 POINT. >> THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH. 00:02:38.95\00:02:40.06 >> THAT IS MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR WHAT I CAN TAKE RIGHT NOW. 00:02:40.06\00:02:42.99 >> YOU ARE A BUSY LADY.-GENERAL MANAGER, JILL MORIKONE. >> SHE 00:02:42.99\00:02:49.23 IS. >> PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, THE PRODUCER FOR OUR 00:02:49.23\00:02:53.44 SABBATH SCHOOL PANEL, AND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER, SHELLEY 00:02:53.44\00:02:56.04 QUINN GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE. >> IT'S LOVELY TO HAVE YOU HERE. 00:02:56.04\00:02:59.37 THANK YOU. MISSED YOU OVER THESE LAST FIVE 00:02:59.37\00:03:03.28 HOURS. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:03:03.28\00:03:04.35 >> SPEAKER DIRECTOR FOR BEHOLD THE LAMB MINISTRIES, PASTOR 00:03:04.35\00:03:11.55 KENNY SHELTON. GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE? 00:03:11.55\00:03:12.95 >> IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE. >> GREG MORIKONE WHO IS THE 00:03:12.95\00:03:20.43 PRODUCTION MANAGER, AND ALSO ASSIST ANT GENERAL MANAGER. 00:03:20.43\00:03:25.70 >> YES. >> AND JOHN DINZEY, THE GENERAL 00:03:25.70\00:03:29.30 MANAGER FOR 3ABN LATINO. AND JOHNNY GOOD TO HAVE YOU 00:03:29.30\00:03:33.24 HERE, MAN. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:03:33.24\00:03:34.44 >> WE ARE TALKING ABOUTING A -- AGRO-EVANGELISM. 00:03:34.44\00:03:40.72 LET'S GO TO THE DEFINITION.-I WANT TO THANK MARK DAVIS FOR HELPING ME WITH SOME VERBIAGE. 00:03:40.72\00:03:50.93 IT'S PERSONAL EVANGELISM, CONDUCTED OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH 00:03:50.93\00:03:54.00 BY OR FOR INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SETTINGS. 00:03:54.00\00:03:59.40 THAT'S AGRO-EVANGELISM. THAT'S MY DEFINITION, AND SINCE 00:03:59.40\00:04:03.30 IT'S MY WORD, THAT'S THE DEFINITION FOR AGRO-EVANGELISM, 00:04:03.30\00:04:08.31 BUT THE KEY IT IS PERSONAL EVANGELISM. 00:04:08.31\00:04:11.58 THIS IS PERSONAL EVANGELISM. THIS IS SOMETHING WE'RE ALL 00:04:11.58\00:04:15.18 CALLED TO DO, AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT IN JUST A LITTLE 00:04:15.18\00:04:18.79 BIT. IT'S CONDUCTED OUTSIDE OF THE 00:04:18.79\00:04:20.82 CHURCH. SO THIS IS NOT BRINGING A BUNCH 00:04:20.82\00:04:23.36 OF THE PEOPLE INTO THE CHURCH TO DO A SIT-DOWN MEETING. 00:04:23.36\00:04:26.59 THIS IS A PERSONAL EFFORT BY YOU AS A CHILD OF GOD TO LEAD 00:04:26.59\00:04:30.83 SOMEONE TO JESUS CHRIST, AND HOWEVER THE LORD IMPRESSES YOU, 00:04:30.83\00:04:34.97 GIVEN THE SKILL SET THAT YOU HAVE, YOU UTILIZE THOSE SKILLS 00:04:34.97\00:04:38.14 TO LEAD PEOPLE TO JESUS CHRIST, AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT 00:04:38.14\00:04:42.01 THE VARIOUS FACETS OF AGRO-EVANGELISM, AND THAT WHAT 00:04:42.01\00:04:48.42 THIS PANEL IS FOR, TO DELVE INTO THE DIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN DO 00:04:48.42\00:04:54.39 AGRO-EVANGELISM, THE NEED FOR AGRO-EVANGELISM, AND WHY IT IS 00:04:54.39\00:04:56.69 SO IMPORTANT. THIS IS THE YEAR OF PRESENT 00:04:56.69\00:04:59.43 TRUTH HERE AT 3ABN. >> AMEN. 00:04:59.43\00:05:02.50 >> AND AGRO-EVANGELISM IS PART OF PRESENT TRUTH, THE IDEA THAT 00:05:02.50\00:05:05.97 IN THESE LAST DAYS EACH OF US IS CALLED TO GET OFF OF TH COUCH 00:05:05.97\00:05:10.67 AND INTO THE GAME IS PRESENT TRUTH. 00:05:10.67\00:05:13.58 RELIGION, CHRISTIANITY, HAS NEVER BEEN A SPECTATOR SPORT. 00:05:13.58\00:05:18.28 YOU HAVE GOT TO BE ON THE FIELD, AND IF THAT WAS EVER TRUE, IT 00:05:18.28\00:05:23.18 CERTAINLY IS TRUE NOW THAT GOD'S PEOPLE MUST BE ABOUT THEIR 00:05:23.18\00:05:26.39 FATHER'S BUSINESS, SO THAT'S WHAT AGRO-EVANGELISM IS ALL 00:05:26.39\00:05:30.29 ABOUT. IT'S EVANGELISM CONDUCTED BY 00:05:30.29\00:05:32.13 GROUPS OR INDIVIDUALS IN A PUBLIC SETTING, AGRO, MEANING 00:05:32.13\00:05:36.93 THE MARKETPLACE, OR THE PUBLIC SQUARE, WHERE A DISCOURSE WAS 00:05:36.93\00:05:43.97 HELD. THAT'S AGRO, I LIKE AGRO, YOU 00:05:43.97\00:05:49.38 HAVE HEARD THE WORD AGRO PHOBIA, FEAR OF PUBLIC PLACES. 00:05:49.38\00:05:58.29 SO THIS IS EVANGELISM CONDUCTED IN PUBLIC SPACES OUTSIDE OF THE 00:05:58.29\00:06:03.56 CHURCH. WHATEVER THE LORD CALLS DO YOU 00:06:03.56\00:06:05.99 DO THAT IS AGRO-EVANGELISM. BEFORE WE GO TO OUR MUSIC -- LET 00:06:05.99\00:06:10.53 ME DO THIS, LET ME GIVE YOU A PRIMER OF WHAT IS GOING TO 00:06:10.53\00:06:14.84 HAPPEN OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS. WE'RE GOING TO LEAD OFF 00:06:14.84\00:06:17.71 WITH -- WITH SHELLEY, AND SHE IS GOING TO BE TALK ABOUT THE 00:06:17.71\00:06:23.35 PRIESTHOOD OF ALL DELIVERS. THIS CAME AS PART OF THE 00:06:23.35\00:06:26.92 PROTESTANT REFORMATION, THE IDEA THAT ALL OF US ARE CALLED TO BE 00:06:26.92\00:06:31.59 PRIESTS, AND TO LEAD OTHERS TO CHRIST. 00:06:31.59\00:06:35.62 PASTOR KENNY WILL TALK ABOUT ELLEN WHITE'S CALL FOR EACH 00:06:35.62\00:06:39.73 MEMBER TO BE INVOLVED IN EVANGELISM. 00:06:39.73\00:06:41.93 AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE FOUND IS A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE 00:06:41.93\00:06:45.53 SCARED TO GO INTO EVANGELISM. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY OR 00:06:45.53\00:06:48.20 HOW TO SAY IT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DANNY 00:06:48.20\00:06:51.34 SAYS CONSIST ENG-- CONSISTENTLY IS START WITH YOUR PERSONAL 00:06:51.34\00:07:00.62 TESTIMONY, AND IF YOU PRAY ABOUT IT, GOD WILL SHOW YOU A WAY TO 00:07:00.62\00:07:04.22 MEET THE NEEDS OF THAT PERSON AND TURN THAT PERSON TO JESUS 00:07:04.22\00:07:07.69 CHRIST, AND IT'S EXCITING TO SEE THE MANY AND VARIED WAYS. 00:07:07.69\00:07:12.86 AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT. 00:07:12.86\00:07:15.66 AND WENT' EAR GOING TO GO TO JILL AND TALK ABOUT INTERCESSORY 00:07:15.66\00:07:22.67 PRAYER. BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF THE 00:07:22.67\00:07:27.08 OVERALL EVANGELISTIC THRUST THAT EACH PERSON CAN DO. 00:07:27.08\00:07:37.22 AND THEN THE GROWTH IN THE LATINO CHURCH. 00:07:37.22\00:07:41.56 SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS HE IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT, AND ADD 00:07:41.56\00:07:45.06 A COUPLE OF SURPRISES ALSO, AND THEN -- AND THEN GREG IS GOING 00:07:45.06\00:07:50.60 TO TALK ABOUT DOING GOOD ON THE SABBATH, HOW DOING GOOD ON THE 00:07:50.60\00:07:55.17 SABBATH CAN BE PART OF AN OVERALL EVANGELISTIC THRUST, SO 00:07:55.17\00:08:00.44 WE'RE LOOKING AT THESE FROM THE -- THE -- THE ANGLE OF 00:08:00.44\00:08:04.91 EVANGELISM, AND THEN SHOULD TIME LAST, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT 00:08:04.91\00:08:07.68 CREATIVE WAYS THAT I HAVE TRIED AND PROVEN IN MY MINISTRY TO 00:08:07.68\00:08:11.72 BRING PEOPLE TO THE LORD THAT ARE SORT OF OUTSIDE OF THE NORM, 00:08:11.72\00:08:15.26 BUT THEY DO WORK, BECAUSE I HAVE TRIED THEM. 00:08:15.26\00:08:18.39 ALSO -- WE'LL START WITH THIS NOW. 00:08:18.39\00:08:20.70 WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO SEND IN PRAYER REQUESTS US TO TONIGHT, 00:08:20.70\00:08:24.43 THAT WE WANT TO PRAYER FOR AND READ, BUT WE WANT TO GIVE YOU 00:08:24.43\00:08:29.20 SOME -- >> PARAMETERS. 00:08:29.20\00:08:31.21 >> THANK YOU, SHELLEY, I WAS GOING TO SAY STRICTURES, BUT 00:08:31.21\00:08:37.85 PARAMETERS ARE MUCH MORE APPROPRIATE. 00:08:37.85\00:08:39.61 TODAY WE DON'T WANT TO PRAY FOR OURSELVES. 00:08:39.61\00:08:42.02 WE WANT TO PRAY FOR OTHERS. IF THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS IN YOUR 00:08:42.02\00:08:45.02 FAMILY THAT YOU ARE PRAYING FOR, A LOST SON OR DAUGHTER, A 00:08:45.02\00:08:49.99 PARENT, CHILD, COUSIN, SOMEONE THAT YOU ARE PRAYING FOR, THAT 00:08:49.99\00:08:54.83 YOU ARE INTERCEDING FOR, WE WOULD LIKE TO ASSIST YOU IN THAT-INTERCESSION TONIGHT. 00:08:54.83\00:09:01.17 FIRST NAME ONLY, PLEASE, IF YOU WILL, BUT WE WANT -- AND WE KNOW 00:09:01.17\00:09:05.34 WE ALL HAVE PROBLEMS. GALLBLADDERS AND CANCER, AND 00:09:05.34\00:09:10.31 OTHER PROBLEMS, BUT TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT OTHERS 00:09:10.31\00:09:13.58 WHO WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE COME TO THE LORD, OR WHO NEED HELP FROM 00:09:13.58\00:09:17.92 THE LORD OR WHO NEED HEALING FROM THE LORD, SO WE'RE PRAYING 00:09:17.92\00:09:21.59 FOR OTHERS AS PART OF OUR OVERALL EVANGELISTIC THRUST. 00:09:21.59\00:09:26.80 SO EVEN NOW YOU CAN SEND IN THOSE NAMES IF YOU WILL CALL, 00:09:26.80\00:09:37.17 618-627-4651, 618-627-4651, OR LIVE@3ABN.TV, WE WILL GET 00:09:37.17\00:09:39.17 THOSE -- AND AS GET THOSE, WE'RE GOING TO BRING THOSE HERE AND 00:09:39.17\00:09:43.24 PRAY FOR THEM. AGAIN, WE'RE PRAYING FOR 00:09:43.24\00:09:46.25 OTHERS -- NOT FOR OURSELVES TONIGHT. 00:09:46.25\00:09:48.62 WE'RE PRAYING FOR OTHERS WHO MAY NEED HELP WHO WE ARE TRYING TO 00:09:48.62\00:09:52.19 BRING TO THE LORD. WE ARE INTERCEDING, AND WE WANT 00:09:52.19\00:09:55.96 TO ASSIST IN THAT. BEFORE WE GO TO SHELLEY QUINN, I 00:09:55.96\00:09:58.83 WANT TO TOUCH ON THIS READING, AND THEN GO TO OUR MUSIC, AND 00:09:58.83\00:10:02.70 THEN COME BACK AND SHELLEY IF YOU WILL LAUNCH OUT AT THAT 00:10:02.70\00:10:07.20 POINT. LET ME GO TO THIS READING. 00:10:07.20\00:10:10.07 THIS ACTUALLY COMES FROM A FUTURE SABBATH SCHOOL EXCEPT. 00:10:10.07\00:10:15.14 I SAW THIS EARLIER TODAY. IT'S CALLED A SACRED CHARGE. 00:10:15.14\00:10:19.65 CHRIST HAS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH A SACRED CHARGE. 00:10:19.65\00:10:24.12 EVERY MEMBER SHOULD BE A CHANNEL THROUGH WHICH GOD CAN 00:10:24.12\00:10:28.19 COMMUNICATE TO THE WORLD THE TREASURES OF HIS GRACE. 00:10:28.19\00:10:32.86 THE UN -- UNSER. ABLE RICHES OF CHRIST. 00:10:32.86\00:10:41.30 HE WILL EVENT TO THE WORLD HIS SPIRIT AND HIS CHARACTER. 00:10:41.30\00:10:44.21 THERE IS NOTHING THE WORLD NEEDS SO MUCH AS THE MANIFESTATION 00:10:44.21\00:10:48.91 THROUGH HUANITY OF THE XAVIER'S LOVE. 00:10:48.91\00:10:52.35 THAT'S WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IN THESE LAST DAYS. 00:10:52.35\00:10:54.98 >> AMEN. >> ALL HEAVEN IS WAITING FOR MEN 00:10:54.98\00:10:58.92 AND WOMAN THROUGH WHOM GOD CAN REVEAL THE POWER OF 00:10:58.92\00:11:02.69 CHRISTIANITY. I REPEAT, ALL HEAVEN IS WAITING 00:11:02.69\00:11:05.93 FOR MEN AND WOMAN THROUGH WHOM GOD CAN REVEAL THE POWER OF 00:11:05.93\00:11:10.63 CHRISTIANITY. LONG HAS GOD WAITED FOR THE 00:11:10.63\00:11:13.40 SPIRIT OF SERVICE TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE WHOLE CHURCH, 00:11:13.40\00:11:17.24 SO THAT EVERYONE SHALL BE WORKING FOR HIM ACCORDING TO HIS 00:11:17.24\00:11:23.08 ABILITY. GOD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR THAT A 00:11:23.08\00:11:24.88 LONG TIME. >> YES. 00:11:24.88\00:11:26.18 >> WHEN THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF GOD DO THEIR APPOINTED 00:11:26.18\00:11:31.15 WORK IN THE NEEDY FIELDS AT HOME, AND ABROAD, IN FULFILLMENT 00:11:31.15\00:11:36.02 OF A GOSPEL COMMISSION, THE WHOLE WORLD WILL SOON WILL BE 00:11:36.02\00:11:40.96 WARNED AND THE LORD JESUS WILL RETURN TO THIS EARTH WITH POWER 00:11:40.96\00:11:45.27 AND GREAT GLORY. >> WOW. 00:11:45.27\00:11:47.00 >> AMEN. >> AMEN. 00:11:47.00\00:11:50.24 >> SO THAT'S WHAT GOD WANTS FROM US, AND FOR US, AND THAT IS WHAT 00:11:50.24\00:11:54.44 THE WORLD NEEDS. >> YES. 00:11:54.44\00:11:56.04 >> YES. >> IT NEEDS A REVELATION OF 00:11:56.04\00:11:58.51 JESUS CHRIST. BEFORE WE GO TO SHELLEY QUINN, 00:11:58.51\00:12:01.48 WE GO NOW TO THE BURCHFIELD BROTHERS. 00:12:01.48\00:12:06.32 TWO WONDERFUL MEN WHO HAVE BEEN HERE MANY, MANY TIMES. 00:12:06.32\00:12:09.99 EXCELLENT MUSICIANS, JILL. >> OH, THEY ARE. 00:12:09.99\00:12:12.99 >> JUST FABULOUS MUSICIANS, AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE 00:12:12.99\00:12:16.97 PLAYING -- I LOVE THIS ONE -- "BE STILL MY SOUL." 00:12:16.97\00:12:20.14 ¤ 00:12:20.14\00:12:27.81 ¤ ¤ 00:13:16.39\00:14:44.41 ¤ ¤ 00:14:44.41\00:15:42.04 >> THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. BUT NOW WE'RE SO RELAXED, I 00:15:42.04\00:15:47.21 DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO THIS. THAT WAS GORGEOUS. 00:15:47.21\00:15:49.81 WHAT IS EVANGELISM? EVANGELISM IS JUST SHARING THE 00:15:49.81\00:15:54.55 EVER-LASTING GAS PELL. IN THAT IS WHAT THE FIRST 00:15:54.55\00:15:58.95 ANGEL'S MESSAGE IS, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO SHARE THE 00:15:58.95\00:16:03.76 EVER-LASTING GOSPEL WITH THE ENTIRE WORLD. 00:16:03.76\00:16:07.40 AND I LVE THE FACT THAT IT IS AN EVER-LASTING GOSPEL. 00:16:07.40\00:16:11.53 IT'S AN INTERNAL COVENANT, IT IS THE EVER-LASTING COVENANT, 00:16:11.53\00:16:18.04 BECAUSE THE LAMB WAS SLAIN FROM THE BEGINNING -- BEFORE THE 00:16:18.04\00:16:21.04 FOUNDATION. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:16:21.04\00:16:22.81 >> SO I WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE, BECAUSE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 00:16:22.81\00:16:27.58 PRIESTHOOD AND COVENANTS, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT 00:16:27.58\00:16:32.05 MEANS. SO LET ME BAC UP FOR A SECOND 00:16:32.05\00:16:34.19 TO LAY THIS FOUNDATION. WE KNOW THAT THE -- THE 00:16:34.19\00:16:39.23 EVER-LASTING COVENANT WAS INTRODUCED IN GENESIS 3:15 WHEN 00:16:39.23\00:16:46.90 GOD SAID THAT HE WAS GOING TO PUT 'EM NANTY BETWEEN THE SEED 00:16:46.90\00:16:51.34 OF THE WOMAN AND THE SURPANT. JESUS CHRIST WAS GOING TO CRUSH 00:16:51.34\00:16:57.25 THE HEAD OF THE SURPANT. THE SURPANT WOULD MERELY BRUISE 00:16:57.25\00:17:02.82 HIS HEEL. NOW THE COVENANT THEN 00:17:02.82\00:17:05.85 PROGRESSED, AND I WANT -- IF THERE'S ANYTHING I WANT PEOPLE 00:17:05.85\00:17:08.92 TO UNERSTAND, IT'S NOT THAT GOD HAS SEPARATE COVENANTS. 00:17:08.92\00:17:12.09 THE COVENANTS AR ALL A PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 00:17:12.09\00:17:17.60 >> WELL SAID -- >> -- OF GOD'S PLAN OF 00:17:17.60\00:17:21.60 SALVATION. THE COVENANT PROGRESSES TO 00:17:21.60\00:17:24.37 ABRAHAM, ABRAHAM, WE KNOW -- HIS FAITH WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM. 00:17:24.37\00:17:29.94 AND IN GENESIS 22:18 -- WE WO'T TAKE THE TIME TO TURN THERE NOW, 00:17:29.94\00:17:34.88 BUT HE SAID, IN YOUR SEED, ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH WILL 00:17:34.88\00:17:40.06 BE BLESSED, BECAUSE -- WHY? BECAUSE YOU OBEYED MY VOICE. 00:17:40.06\00:17:44.19 NOW WHEN GOD RENEWED THAT COVENANT WITH ISAAC, HE SAID THE 00:17:44.19\00:17:48.96 SAME THING. THIS IS JUST A RENEWAL OF THE 00:17:48.96\00:17:52.53 COVENANT. AFTER ABRAHAM'S DEATH HE SAID, 00:17:52.53\00:17:58.01 IN GENESIS 24:4-5. I WILL GIVE TO YOUR DESCENDANTS 00:17:58.01\00:18:09.08 ALL OF THIS LAW, AND ALL OF THE NATIONS SHALL BE BLESSED IN YOUR 00:18:09.08\00:18:14.56 SEED. WHY? 00:18:14.56\00:18:15.86 BECAUSE ABRAHAM OBEYED MY VOICE, KEPT MY COMMANDMENTS AND MY 00:18:15.86\00:18:19.79 LAWS. NOW I DO WANT YOU TO TURN TO 00:18:19.79\00:18:24.03 EXODUS 2, AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT VERSES 24 AND 25, AND 00:18:24.03\00:18:29.07 THERE IS A REASON I WANT TO DO THIS. 00:18:29.07\00:18:31.97 SOME PEOPLE THINK THE MOW SAYS AK COVENANT TEMPORARILY SET 00:18:31.97\00:18:42.48 ASIDE THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT. THAT'S NOT SO. 00:18:42.48\00:18:45.95 IT NEVER REPLACED THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT, IN FACT IT WAS 00:18:45.95\00:18:52.99 BUILDING ON IT. EXODUS 2:24-25, SO GOD HEARD 00:18:52.99\00:18:58.53 THEIR GROANING -- SPEAKING OF THE HEBREW CHILDREN WHO ARE IN 00:18:58.53\00:19:04.01 BONDAGE AND SLAVERY, AND GOD REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT WITH 00:19:04.01\00:19:11.81 ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND CAKE ON, AND GOD LOOKED UPON THE CHILDREN OF 00:19:11.81\00:19:17.75 ISRAEL AND GOD ACKNOWLEDGED THEM. 00:19:17.75\00:19:19.99 SO THIS IS A COVENANT -- I MEAN, GOD IS GETTING READY TO 00:19:19.99\00:19:25.13 REESTABLISH THE SAME COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, WITH THE 00:19:25.13\00:19:31.27 ISRAELITES. NOW LET'S LOOK AT EXODUS -- AND 00:19:31.27\00:19:33.54 I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING IN EXODUS -- LET'S LOOK AT 19:4-6. 00:19:33.54\00:19:44.78 JILL, WILL YOU READ THAT, PLEASE. 00:19:44.78\00:19:46.41 >> YOU HAVE SEEN WHAT I DID TO THE EGYPTIANS AND HOW I BORE YOU 00:19:46.41\00:19:51.45 ON ENGEL'S WINGS, AND BROUGHT YOU TO MYSELF. 00:19:51.45\00:19:55.89 >> OKAY. THIS IS COVENANT LOVE LANGUAGE. 00:19:55.89\00:19:59.53 GOD IS SAYING TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, I HAVE ALREADY SAVED 00:19:59.53\00:20:03.77 YOU. I BROUGHT YOU THROUGH -- YOU 00:20:03.77\00:20:06.03 KNOW, HE -- THEY WERE BROUGHT OUT OF THE -- OF BONDAGE, AND 00:20:06.03\00:20:11.17 INTO SALVATION. GOD HAD ALREADY SAVED THEM, AND 00:20:11.17\00:20:13.84 HE IS SAYING LOOK WHAT I HAVE DONE FOR YOU. 00:20:13.84\00:20:16.34 I HAVE BORN YOU ON EAGLES WINGS TO MYSELF. 00:20:16.34\00:20:20.45 GO AHEAD. >> NOW THEREFORE IF YOU WILL 00:20:20.45\00:20:22.92 OBEY MY VOICE AND KEEP MY COVENANT, THEN YOU SHALL BE A 00:20:22.92\00:20:28.52 SPECIAL TREASURE TO ME ABOVE ALL PEOPLE. 00:20:28.52\00:20:32.03 AND YOU SHALL BE TO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND A WHOLLY NATION, 00:20:32.03\00:20:37.27 THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH YOU SHALL SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF 00:20:37.27\00:20:40.87 ISRAEL. >> SO HE IS TELLING MOSES, YOU 00:20:40.87\00:20:44.27 TELL THESE PEOPLE THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT IS IN YOUR SEAT. 00:20:44.27\00:20:49.58 GOD BROUGHT THEM OUT AND HE WANTED THEM TO GO SHARE THE GOOD 00:20:49.58\00:20:53.28 NEWS OF THIS LOVING GOD, AND SO WHAT HE DID IN -- IN THE 00:20:53.28\00:21:02.39 TEMPORARY MOSAIC COVENANT, HE HAD THEM BUILD A SANCTUARY. 00:21:02.39\00:21:09.90 AND IN THE OUTER CORE WE SEE THERE WAS AN ALTER OF BURNT 00:21:09.90\00:21:16.47 OFFERINGS. THAT REPRESENTS THE SACRIFICE OF 00:21:16.47\00:21:20.74 JESUS CHRIST, THE CRUCIFIXION. THEN THERE WAS A LABOR. 00:21:20.74\00:21:25.75 I THINK THE PRIESTS HAD TO DAILY -- BEFORE THEY COULD GO 00:21:25.75\00:21:30.12 INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD THEY HAD TO WASH IN THIS LABOR -- 00:21:30.12\00:21:34.16 >> I'M CLOSER TO THAT. BECAUSE THERE WAS NO MITVAH 00:21:34.16\00:21:39.76 THERE, SO IT WAS THE REPRESENTATION OF THE MITVAH. 00:21:39.76\00:21:45.63 >> ABSOLUTELY. SO THEY ARE CLEANSING 00:21:45.63\00:21:47.94 THEMSELVES -- THIS WOULD BE REPENTANCE, SO THEY ARE 00:21:47.94\00:21:53.51 REPENTING BEFORE THEY GO INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 00:21:53.51\00:21:56.11 NOW WHEN YOU GO INTO THE HOLY PLACE, ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE 00:21:56.11\00:22:01.45 THERE IS THE SEVEN-BRANCH CANDLE ON ARE.-AND ANY LABOR EVENTS US 00:22:01.45\00:22:17.73 GETTING RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS 00:22:17.73\00:22:21.14 FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OF OUR SINS. 00:22:21.14\00:22:23.77 BUT THEN NOW ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE IS THE TABLE, AND JESUS 00:22:23.77\00:22:27.94 SAID I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE. HE ALSO SAID IN MATTHEW 4:4, 00:22:27.94\00:22:36.08 THAT MEN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT 00:22:36.08\00:22:41.89 COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. SO THAT BREAD REPRESENTS JESUS 00:22:41.89\00:22:45.66 CHRIST THE LIVING WORD. THEN WE HAVE GOT THE ALTER OF 00:22:45.66\00:22:49.46 INCENSE. AND AS THE INCENSE -- REVELATION 00:22:49.46\00:22:54.24 TALKS ABOUT THE BOWLS OF INCENSE, BUT CHRIST ADDS HIS 00:22:54.24\00:22:59.87 INCENSE, HIS PRAYERS TO OURS, BECAUSE HEBREW 7:25 SAYS HE IS 00:22:59.87\00:23:06.21 EVER-LIVING TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR US. 00:23:06.21\00:23:08.82 >> AMEN. >> SO THE REASON I WANTED TO DO 00:23:08.82\00:23:12.32 THAT -- >> AND WHERE IS THAT LOCATED? 00:23:12.32\00:23:14.02 >> THAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE VEIL, AND JESUS SAYS I AM THE 00:23:14.02\00:23:23.06 WAY TO TRUTH AND LIFE. HE OPENED THE VEIL SO WE GO INTO 00:23:23.06\00:23:27.20 THE HOLIEST OF HOLIES, AND THERE IS THE THROWN OF GOD. 00:23:27.20\00:23:30.67 WE HAVE ACCESS RIGHT TO THE THROWN OF GOD, TO THE FATHER. 00:23:30.67\00:23:34.81 NOW, THE REASON I WANTED TO MENTION THIS IS, WHAT WERE THE 00:23:34.81\00:23:38.45 DAILY SERVICES OF THE PRIEST? FIRST, THEY OFFERED -- THEY 00:23:38.45\00:23:45.09 RECEIVED THE OFFERINGS, AND MADE THE OFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE. 00:23:45.09\00:23:49.79 ALL RIGHT? THEY CLEANSED AT THE LABOR. 00:23:49.79\00:23:53.33 THEY ADD OIL DAILY TO THE SEVEN-STICK CANDELABRA. 00:23:53.33\00:24:00.10 ONCE A WEEK THEY CHANGED THE BREAD, AND THEN THEY WERE 00:24:00.10\00:24:03.47 MINISTERING AT THE ALTER OF INCENSE, ONLY ONCE A YEAR DID 00:24:03.47\00:24:09.91 THEY GO INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE, THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. 00:24:09.91\00:24:15.15 LET'S TURN TO 1 PETER 2:9. WE HAVE ALREADY ESTABLISHED THAT 00:24:15.15\00:24:20.06 GOD WANTED HIS PEOPLE TO BE A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS FROM THE VERY 00:24:20.06\00:24:24.53 BEGINNING. THIS IS JUST PART OF GOD'S PLAN. 00:24:24.53\00:24:26.43 I THIK IT IS AMAZING THAT HE ALLOWS US TO PARTICIPATE IN 00:24:26.43\00:24:33.54 GOING OUT AND HELPING LEAD PEOPLE TO HIM IN THE PLAN OF 00:24:33.54\00:24:38.01 SALVATION. SO I JUST LOOKED UP AT THAT 00:24:38.01\00:24:40.21 LIGHT, AND I'M BLINDED. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:24:40.21\00:24:42.84 >> LET'S LOOK AT 1 PETER 2:9, AND, GREG, WOULD YOU READ THAT 00:24:42.84\00:24:49.35 PLEASE. >> SURE, 1 PETER 2:9 SAYS BUT 00:24:49.35\00:24:52.02 YOU A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD AND HOLY NATION THAT 00:24:52.02\00:25:00.10 YOU SHOULD SHOW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO HAS CALLED 00:25:00.10\00:25:04.03 YOUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT. 00:25:04.03\00:25:06.03 >> ALL RIGHT. SO A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, WE'RE 00:25:06.03\00:25:08.94 JUST LIKE THE ISRAELITES, WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN SAVED. 00:25:08.94\00:25:12.61 IT'S NOT OUR SERVICE THAT SAVES US, BUT GOD WANTS US ALL TO BE 00:25:12.61\00:25:16.31 ABLE TO BLESS ALL OF THE NATIONS, AND LET'S LOOK AT 00:25:16.31\00:25:21.52 HOW -- AS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL PRIESTHOOD -- FIRST OF ALL A 00:25:21.52\00:25:26.45 HOLY NATION MEANS YOU ARE A SPECIAL PEOPLE. 00:25:26.45\00:25:29.36 >> AMEN. >> THERE IS SOMEBODY THAT NEEDS 00:25:29.36\00:25:31.83 TO HEAR THIS. YOU ARE WORTH NOTHING LESS THAN 00:25:31.83\00:25:36.63 THE PRICE THAT GOD PAID TO REDEEM YOU, AND THAT IS WITH THE 00:25:36.63\00:25:42.74 PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. SO HERE WE ARE NOW, A ROYAL 00:25:42.74\00:25:48.74 PRIESTHOOD, CHOSEN GENERATION, AND WHAT DO WE DO? 00:25:48.74\00:25:52.15 SAME THING THAT THE PRIESTS -- WHEN YOU SAY, WELL, 00:25:52.15\00:25:54.88 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE PART OF THE PRIESTHOOD? 00:25:54.88\00:25:59.39 WELL, NOW WE DON'T MAKE PHYSICAL SACRIFICES, BUT IF YOU LOOK BACK 00:25:59.39\00:26:06.26 AT 1 PETER 5, HE SAYS YOU ALSO HAS LIVING STONES ARE BEING 00:26:06.26\00:26:10.43 BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE, A HOLY PRIESTHOOD TO OFFER UP 00:26:10.43\00:26:17.17 SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. 00:26:17.17\00:26:20.41 >> AMEN. >> SO WE LEAD -- AS A MEMBER OF 00:26:20.41\00:26:24.25 THE ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, WE SHOULD BE A PEOPLE OF PRAISE. 00:26:24.25\00:26:28.78 WE SHOULD BE CONSTANTLY OFFERING UP AND SHOWING PEOPLE BY OUR 00:26:28.78\00:26:33.39 VERY DEMEANOR AND OUR ACTIONS THAT WE ARE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE 00:26:33.39\00:26:36.62 IN THE LORD, WHO APPRECIATE THE LORD AND HIS COVENANT. 00:26:36.62\00:26:40.76 >> YES. >> THEN WE REPENT, DAILY, ASK TO 00:26:40.76\00:26:46.00 BE CLEANSED, 1 JOHN 1:9 -- >> YES. 00:26:46.00\00:26:51.47 >> NOW WHAT ABOUT THE DAILY SERVICES OF THE PRIESTHOOD? 00:26:51.47\00:26:55.41 WHAT ABOUT THE CANDELABRA. THE SEVEN-BRANCHED CANDELABRA, 00:26:55.41\00:27:04.05 WE'RE TO REFLECT THE LIGHT OF JESUS CHRIST. 00:27:04.05\00:27:06.82 >> AMEN. >> OH, HAT'S GOOD. 00:27:06.82\00:27:09.09 >> HE IS LIKE THE SUN. WE'RE LIKE THE MOON. 00:27:09.09\00:27:13.09 WE HAVE NO LIGHT OF OUR OWN. BUT WE REFLECT THE LIGHT OF THE 00:27:13.09\00:27:19.77 SON OF GOD. >> AND SHELLEY IF I CAN JUST 00:27:19.77\00:27:24.21 PUT -- HIT THE PAUSE BUTTON FOR A SECOND, THAT YOU ARE FILLED 00:27:24.21\00:27:29.64 WITH THE SPIRIT WHICH IS THE OIL THAT YOU ARE FILLED WITH. 00:27:29.64\00:27:34.75 I WANTED TO ADD THE IDEA THAT THE SANCTUARY -- WHEN THEY WENT 00:27:34.75\00:27:38.62 TO THE SANCTUARY, THEY WERE ALSO GOING TO SCHOOL. 00:27:38.62\00:27:41.69 GOD WAS TEACHING THEM THROUGH THE SERVICES, THE INSTRUMENTS, 00:27:41.69\00:27:45.93 THE IMPLEMENTS, AND THE WORK OF THE PRIESTS, THAT THIS IS HOW 00:27:45.93\00:27:49.83 YOU ARE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE. THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE, IS ONE 00:27:49.83\00:27:54.17 OF THE SINGULAR DOCTRINES THAT THE ADVENTIST CHURCH HAS THAT IS 00:27:54.17\00:27:59.47 ADDED TO THEOLOGY, THE IDEA THAT THERE IS SALVATION IN THE LIGHT 00:27:59.47\00:28:06.21 OF THE SANCTUARY. IT'S A MIRROR OF A KIND OF LIFE 00:28:06.21\00:28:10.45 THAT THE LORD WANTS EACH OF US TO LIVE. 00:28:10.45\00:28:12.62 >> ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY. 00:28:12.62\00:28:14.52 AND THAT WAS THE PURPOSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT 00:28:14.52\00:28:16.83 THIS -- WE KNOW MOSES WAS ABLE TO READ AND WRITE, BUT THE 00:28:16.83\00:28:20.16 PEOPLE WERE NOT. >> YES. 00:28:20.16\00:28:21.60 >> THEY HAD BEEN IN BONDAGE FOR CENTURIES -- 00:28:21.60\00:28:24.50 >> PRECISELY. >> THEY COULD NOT, SO THIS IS 00:28:24.50\00:28:29.60 WHY GOD HAD THE SANCTUARY BUILT. SALOMON SAID, THY WAY OH LORD IS 00:28:29.60\00:28:40.15 IN THE SANCTUARY. >> AMEN. 00:28:40.15\00:28:42.72 >> THE PATH OF GOD, HOW TO GET BACK TO GOD WAS SHOWN IN THE 00:28:42.72\00:28:48.16 SANCTUARY, AND IT WAS A TEACHING SCHOOL. 00:28:48.16\00:28:50.13 THEY WERE IN THE SCHOL OF CHRIST, SO AS YOU SAID, CA, IN 00:28:50.13\00:28:55.83 ZECHARIAH 4, IT TALKS ABOUT THE OIL AND -- AS THOSE PRIESTS 00:28:55.83\00:29:01.07 DAILY ADDED THE OIL, THAT WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO EVERY DAY, 00:29:01.07\00:29:07.51 YOU AND I SHOULD BE ASKING GOD TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY 00:29:07.51\00:29:11.21 SPIRIT. >> AMEN. 00:29:11.21\00:29:12.01 >> THEN THE TABLE OF SHOW BREAD WOULD REPRESENT OUR BIBLE STUDY, 00:29:12.01\00:29:18.92 BUT THE PRIEST CHANGED THAT SHOW BREAD EVERY WEEK. 00:29:18.92\00:29:22.19 WE SHOULD BE GIVING OTHERS ENCOURAGEMENT. 00:29:22.19\00:29:26.56 MAYBE YOU SAY, I CAN'T LEAD A BIBLE STUDY. 00:29:26.56\00:29:29.70 IF YOU CAN'T, JOIN SOMEBODY WHO CAN. 00:29:29.70\00:29:32.40 JOIN FORCS, OR JUST WRITE OUT SOME ENCOURAGING SCRIPTURES, AND 00:29:32.40\00:29:39.21 HAND IT TO SOMEBODY ON A THREE-BY-FIVE CARD. 00:29:39.21\00:29:42.78 >> YEAH, THAT'S GOOD. >> AND THE ALTER OF INCENSE 00:29:42.78\00:29:47.25 STANDINGS FOR OUR INTERCESSORY PRAYER WHICH JILL IS GOING TO 00:29:47.25\00:29:52.85 COVER. IN ISAIAH 15:16, THE BIBLE SAYS 00:29:52.85\00:29:57.13 THAT GOD SAW THAT THERE WAS NO INTERCESSOR, AND HE WONDERED. 00:29:57.13\00:30:03.06 HE WONDERED. HE WAS IN AMAZEMENT THAT THERE 00:30:03.06\00:30:07.60 WAS NOBODY INTERCEDING ON BEHALF OF -- OF OTHER PEOPLE. 00:30:07.60\00:30:11.61 I THINK HE WONDERED WHY PEOPLE DIDN'T LOVE OTHERS ENOUGH TO DO 00:30:11.61\00:30:16.98 THAT, AND WHY THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT HE COULD REALLY 00:30:16.98\00:30:19.55 MAKE A DIFFERENCE. AND I'M GOING TO ADD ONE MORE 00:30:19.55\00:30:23.35 THING. WE KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT SAVED BY 00:30:23.35\00:30:29.99 WORKS, BY OBEDIENCE, THE WHOLE IDEA OF COVENANT, WHEN GOD WAS 00:30:29.99\00:30:34.10 TELLING HIS PEOPLE, YOU'LL BE TO ME A -- A SPECIAL TREASURE. 00:30:34.10\00:30:41.20 HE WANTED AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM THAT 00:30:41.20\00:30:46.07 WOULD INCLUDE THEIR LOYALTY, THEIR LOVE, AND OBEDIENCE IS AN 00:30:46.07\00:30:54.35 EXPRESSION OF LOVE AND LOYALTY. >> AMEN. 00:30:54.35\00:30:56.62 >> AND I DO WANT TO SAY HEBREWS 5:9 SAYS THIS, HAVING BEEN 00:30:56.62\00:31:03.69 PERFECTED, SPEAKING OF JESUS CHRIST, HE BECAME THE AUTHOR OF 00:31:03.69\00:31:08.50 ETERNAL SALVATION TO ALL WHO OBEY HIM, AS MEMBERS OF THE 00:31:08.50\00:31:14.30 PRIESTHOOD, WE SHOULD BE WALKING IN OBEDIENCE AS WELL. 00:31:14.30\00:31:19.31 >> WELL SAID. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:31:19.31\00:31:21.78 FOR EXAMPLE YOU ARE GOING TO SEE ME PASSING THESE PAPERS TO 00:31:21.78\00:31:24.85 MY -- MY COHORTS IN MINISTRY, BECAUSE I WANT THEM TO READ 00:31:24.85\00:31:28.45 THEM, AND THEY ARE COMING IN ALREADY. 00:31:28.45\00:31:30.95 SO IF YOU EACH TAKE ONE, AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO PASS THEM 00:31:30.95\00:31:34.32 DOWN. WE'RE GOING TO PRAY FOR THOSE IN 00:31:34.32\00:31:37.03 JUST A MOMENT -- IN FACT LET'S DO THIS NOW, IN PREPARATION. 00:31:37.03\00:31:42.13 PASTOR KENNY, BEFORE WE GO TO YOU, LET'S READ THOSE. 00:31:42.13\00:31:48.37 LET ME -- SHELLEY SINCE YOU JUST FINISHED, WOULD YOU PRAY FOR 00:31:48.37\00:31:52.94 THIS PARTICULAR BATCH. >> SO JILL IF YOU WOULD READ 00:31:52.94\00:31:55.74 THAT, AND THEN EACH ONE OF THEM WE'LL PRAY. 00:31:55.74\00:31:58.55 >> ABSOLUTELY. PLEASE PRAY FOR MY DAUGHTER AND 00:31:58.55\00:32:00.88 HER SON, THAT THEY WILL DO THE RIGHT THING AND WALK WITH THE 00:32:00.88\00:32:05.15 LORD OUR MAKER. >> AMEN. 00:32:05.15\00:32:07.89 >> THIS ONE SAYS PLEASE PRAY FOR COLE, GEORGE, AND STEPHANIE. 00:32:07.89\00:32:15.26 >> PAM AND MARSHALL THEY WOULD LIKE TO PRAY FOR MY CHILDREN TO 00:32:15.26\00:32:19.30 GROW UP CLOSE TO CHRIST. >> HOW MANY PARENTS ARE PRAYING 00:32:19.30\00:32:22.44 FOR THEIR CHILDREN RIGHT NOW. >> YES. 00:32:22.44\00:32:25.11 >> YES. YES. 00:32:25.11\00:32:26.98 >> GREG? >> IT SAYS PLEASE PRAY FOR THE 00:32:26.98\00:32:30.41 CONVERSION OF KEVIN AND CHERYL, KURT AND CODY, TAMMY AND RON, 00:32:30.41\00:32:34.38 MIKE AND SKYLAR, AND THIS ONE ALSO SAYS PLEASE PRAY FOR MY 00:32:34.38\00:32:40.76 NIECE CHRISTINA, ON DIALYSIS, HIS HEART IS TOO WEAK FOR A 00:32:40.76\00:32:46.36 TRANSPLANT. >> JOHNNY? 00:32:46.36\00:32:47.86 >> PLEASE PRAY FOR MY SON VAUGHN, PLEASE PRAY FOR MY 00:32:47.86\00:32:52.20 DAUGHTER THAT SHE AND HER FAMILY WILL RETURN TO THE SEVENTH-DAY 00:32:52.20\00:32:58.07 ADVENTIST CHURCH. AND PRAY FOR ARVIL, NEAL, AND 00:32:58.07\00:33:02.28 AIDEN. >> ALL RIGHT. 00:33:02.28\00:33:03.41 NOW BE ASSURED WE WILL TURN THIS OVER TO THE PASTOR DEPARTMENT. 00:33:03.41\00:33:08.02 SO THIS IS NOT A ONE AND DONE. BUT WE WANT TO PRAY FOR THESE 00:33:08.02\00:33:12.22 NOW AS THEY COME IN. WE'RE ASKING YOU FOR REQUESTS 00:33:12.22\00:33:16.29 FOR OTHER INDIVIDUALS. WE KNOW WE EACH HAVE CHALLENGES, 00:33:16.29\00:33:20.36 BUT TONIGHT WE'RE INTERCEDING FOR OTHERS. 00:33:20.36\00:33:22.53 AND JILL IS GOING TO LOOK AT THAT SUBJECT. 00:33:22.53\00:33:25.20 BUT WE'RE INTERCEDING FOR OTHERS. 00:33:25.20\00:33:27.64 SO HAVE YOUR REQUESTS BE FOR THOSE FRIENDS, FAMILY MEMBERS, 00:33:27.64\00:33:33.44 COWORKERS, NEIGHBORHOODS, WE WANT TO ASSIST YOU ON 00:33:33.44\00:33:36.75 INTERCEDING FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS. 00:33:36.75\00:33:39.35 SHELLEY. >> HEAVENLY FATHER WE COME 00:33:39.35\00:33:40.85 BEFORE YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND WE HOLD UP THESE PRAYER 00:33:40.85\00:33:45.22 REQUESTS, AND THSE THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN RECEIVED AND JUST 00:33:45.22\00:33:48.62 THOSE ON THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LISTENING TO MY VOICE 00:33:48.62\00:33:51.99 RIGHT NOW. FATHER, OUR PRAYER IS THAT YOU 00:33:51.99\00:33:54.93 WILL SHINE YOUR LIGHT INTO DARKNESS, OUR PRAYER IS THAT YOU 00:33:54.93\00:33:59.60 WILL OPEN YOUR EYES AND TURN THEM FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, AND 00:33:59.60\00:34:03.87 THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, AND AN 00:34:03.87\00:34:08.44 INHERITANCE AMONG THOSE WHO ARE SANCTIFIED BY THEIR FAITH IN 00:34:08.44\00:34:16.99 JESUS CHRIST.-AMEN. >> AMEN. 00:34:16.99\00:34:20.16 >> AMEN. AND SHELLEY THANK YOU SO VERY 00:34:20.16\00:34:23.16 MUCH FOR WALKING US THROUGH THE PRIESTHOOD OF ALL BELIEVERS. 00:34:23.16\00:34:30.03 CASTOR KENNY, YOU ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT ELLEN WHITE'S CALL 00:34:30.03\00:34:35.44 FOR EVERYONE TO BE INVOLVED IN EVANGELISM. 00:34:35.44\00:34:37.84 SHE SAID THAT SOMETIMES HER SOUL HAS GONE OUT SO MUCH FOR THOSE 00:34:37.84\00:34:44.68 THAT ARE LOST THAT SHE FEELS SHE WOULD DIE. 00:34:44.68\00:34:47.85 AND THAT'S A BURDEN FOR SOULS. AND GOD HAS CALLED US TO JOIN 00:34:47.85\00:34:53.02 HANDS WITH HIM IN EVANGELISM AROUND THE WORLD. 00:34:53.02\00:34:56.36 >> YES, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT. 00:34:56.36\00:34:59.56 THIS MAY BE QUESTION NUMBER 1. I THINK I READ SOMEWHERE WHERE 00:34:59.56\00:35:03.83 THE BREAD, TALK ABOUT WAS CHANGED ONCE A WEEK, BUT WAS 00:35:03.83\00:35:08.97 CHANGED ON THE SABBATH. WE GO TO CHURCH ON THE SEVENTH 00:35:08.97\00:35:13.14 DAY OF THE WEEK AND WE GET FRESH BREAD. 00:35:13.14\00:35:17.15 YOU GO ON THE FIRST DAY, YOU GET DAY-OLD BREAD. 00:35:17.15\00:35:21.18 [ LAUGHTER ] >> IT'S TRUE. 00:35:21.18\00:35:23.18 THERE'S A REASON WHY. GOD DIDN'T JUST SAY CHANGE IT ON 00:35:23.18\00:35:27.86 ANY OLD DAY. WE NEED FRESH BREAD, FRESH WORD 00:35:27.86\00:35:32.26 EVERY TIME WE COME TOGETHER ON A SABBATH. 00:35:32.26\00:35:34.36 AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EVANGELISM AND TRUTH, AND 00:35:34.36\00:35:38.40 GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT TO THE WORLD. 00:35:38.40\00:35:40.34 AND THE OTHER POINT WAS -- SEASON SAID ONE TIME TO 00:35:40.34\00:35:43.24 ME, THEY SAID IF YOU DO THOSE THREE THINGS YOU MENTIONED -- IT 00:35:43.24\00:35:47.71 TOUCHED MY HEART TO THINK ABOUT, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE WORD OF GOD 00:35:47.71\00:35:50.38 THAT WE READ, AND WE'RE PRAYING AND WITNESSING EVERY DAY. 00:35:50.38\00:35:55.22 THEY SAID IF YOU DO THESE THREE THINGS YOU WILL NEVER BACKSLIDE. 00:35:55.22\00:36:05.63 THAT'S WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT, THOSE THREE -- 00:36:05.63\00:36:08.50 >> LIKE A THREE-LEGGED STOOL -- >> EXACTLY. 00:36:08.50\00:36:11.70 >> KNOCK WOULDN'T -- >> AND YOU ARE TIPPING OVER. 00:36:11.70\00:36:14.97 THANK YOU PASTOR. >> SO WE'RE TALKING EVANGELISM, 00:36:14.97\00:36:19.47 AND THAT'S SOMETHING I'M ALWAYS EXCITED ABOUT, AND EVERYONE HERE 00:36:19.47\00:36:22.88 AT 3ABN IS EXCITED ABOUT. >> AMEN. 00:36:22.88\00:36:25.81 >> I LIKE WHAT YOU SAID, WHAT KIND OF LOVE DO WE HAVE? 00:36:25.81\00:36:28.88 I THINK -- I THINK THAT THIS WOULD FIT WHEN WE THINK ABOUT 00:36:28.88\00:36:32.29 THE LAW OF GOD, FOR INSTANCE. IT SAYS ON THESE TWO ARE ALL THE 00:36:32.29\00:36:38.03 LAW. IT'S OUR DUTY TO GOD, AND OUR 00:36:38.03\00:36:40.46 DUTY TO OUR FELLOW MAN. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:36:40.46\00:36:43.03 >> HOW MUCH DO WE LOVE GOD? HOW MUCH DO WE LOVE OUR FELLOW 00:36:43.03\00:36:48.60 MAN. THIS UNCOMP -- ENCOMP PASSES 00:36:48.60\00:37:00.82 EVANGELISM. DO WE LOVE THEM ENOUGH THAT WE 00:37:00.82\00:37:03.52 WERE WILLING TO SACRIFICE THE RECLINER, YOU SEE IN THE 00:37:03.52\00:37:07.92 EVENING. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:37:07.92\00:37:08.92 >> TO GO OUT AND TO GIVE BIBLE STUDIES. 00:37:08.92\00:37:11.89 WE MIGHT SAY WE'RE TOO OLD. WE'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO WORK IN 00:37:11.89\00:37:16.00 THE CAUSE OF GOD. BUT IS THERE A NEED FOR 00:37:16.00\00:37:21.04 EVANGELISM? YES. 00:37:21.04\00:37:21.70 >> AND THAT MEANS IS THERE A NEED FOR WORKERS? 00:37:21.70\00:37:25.31 AND I FOUND THIS IN LETTER 404, WRITTEN IN 1907, BECAUSE WE'RE 00:37:25.31\00:37:31.48 DOING ELLEN G WHITE CALLS FOR EACH MEMBER TO BE INVOLVED. 00:37:31.48\00:37:35.48 SO IT STANDS TO REASON, WE LOOK UP ELLEN WHITE QUOTES. 00:37:35.48\00:37:41.69 [ LAUGHTER ] >> AND IT IS SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU 00:37:41.69\00:37:44.69 WERE READING. GOD NEEDS WOMEN AND MEN WHO WILL 00:37:44.69\00:37:47.60 WORK IN THE SIMPLICITY OF CHRIST. 00:37:47.60\00:37:50.07 I AM SIMPLE-MINDED, AND I LOVE SINGLE THINGS THEY CAN 00:37:50.07\00:37:55.50 UNDERSTAND. BUT SIMPLICITY IS CHRIST. 00:37:55.50\00:37:57.67 HOW DID CHRIST TEACH? IF CHRIST WANTED TO TEACH, 00:37:57.67\00:38:02.04 WHOEVER HE COULD TAUGHT HE COULD BURY HIM. 00:38:02.04\00:38:05.41 HE DID NOT DO THAT, HE MADE IT SO SIMPLE, AND USED PARABLES SO 00:38:05.41\00:38:14.46 WHEREVER THE YOUNG COULD UNDERSTAND HIM. 00:38:14.46\00:38:16.73 LET'S DO IT IN SAMPLE WAY, TO BRING THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH 00:38:16.73\00:38:20.40 BEFORE THOSE WHO NEED IT'S CONVERTING POWER. 00:38:20.40\00:38:24.10 SO IN EVANGELISM, WHAT IS IT? WE WANT TO BRING THE GOSPEL, 00:38:24.10\00:38:28.90 TRUTH, AND POWER OF GOD, AND BRING CONVICTION SO PEOPLE WILL 00:38:28.90\00:38:33.44 BE CONVERTED. SO THEY CHANGE THEIR LIFE AND 00:38:33.44\00:38:37.58 HEART. FINALLY BROTHER BE STRONG IN THE 00:38:37.58\00:38:40.05 LORD AND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT. 00:38:40.05\00:38:42.18 >> UH-HUH. >> THAT POSES ANOTHER QUESTION. 00:38:42.18\00:38:44.79 THIS TELLS ME WE NEED POWER FOR -- FOR SUCCESS OR FOR 00:38:44.79\00:38:48.99 SERVICE. >> UH-HUH. 00:38:48.99\00:38:50.03 >> EVANGELISM, LET'S JUST GO DO IT. 00:38:50.03\00:38:52.86 NO, WE NEED POWER, AND WE HAVE TO -- WE HAVE TO APPROACH IT AS 00:38:52.86\00:38:57.77 SUCH FOR SERVICE. APOSTLE 507 SAYS WHAT THE CHURCH-NEEDS. 00:38:57.77\00:39:05.97 US. ME, YOU KNOW, FOR WHAT -- KENNY 00:39:05.97\00:39:08.11 WHAT YOU NEED IN THESE DAYS OF PERIL IS AN ARMY OF WORKERS. 00:39:08.11\00:39:12.88 THIS IS THE CHURCH GETTING INVOLVED THAT YOU WERE TALKING 00:39:12.88\00:39:15.95 ABOUT HERE. MEN WHOSE HEARTS WHERE CHRIST IS 00:39:15.95\00:39:19.09 FORMED THE HOPE OF GLORY. GA LAW SHANS 1:27. 00:39:19.09\00:39:29.70 WE MUST GO IN THE POWER OF JESUS CHRIST. 00:39:29.70\00:39:32.87 THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT. THAT'S WHAT THE CHURCH NEEDS 00:39:32.87\00:39:36.47 TODAY IS CHRIST FORMED WITHIN. BECAUSE IT GIVES US HOPE AND 00:39:36.47\00:39:40.01 GIVES US ENCOURAGEMENT. NOW TWO, EVANGELISM. 00:39:40.01\00:39:43.58 WHO DOES THE CALLING? I BELIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES 00:39:43.58\00:39:46.35 THE CALLING. THERE IS A REASON THE HOLY 00:39:46.35\00:39:48.65 SPIRIT CALLS, AND THE GOOD NEWS IS FOR YOU AT HOME, THE HOLY 00:39:48.65\00:39:53.25 SPIRIT CALLS ALL OF US. NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, HOW OLD, 00:39:53.25\00:39:57.43 HOW YOUNG YOU ARE, PRAISE GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CALLING YOU 00:39:57.43\00:40:01.00 TO GET INVOLVED TO DO SOMETHING IN THE CAUSE OF CHRIST. 00:40:01.00\00:40:03.93 >> UH-HUH. >> YEAH. 00:40:03.93\00:40:05.57 >> TO ME THAT'S EXCITING TO THINK THAT GOD CAN USE SOMEBODY 00:40:05.57\00:40:08.87 LIKE ME, CAN USE SOMEBODY LIKE YOU OUT THERE, I KNOW YOU ARE 00:40:08.87\00:40:13.48 HIDING BEHIND YOUR CHAIR RIGHT NOW, COME ON OUT. 00:40:13.48\00:40:16.38 [ LAUGHTER ] >> YOU KNOW I'M TALKING TO YOU. 00:40:16.38\00:40:20.18 [ LAUGHTER ] >> LET ME SHARE SOMETHING 00:40:20.18\00:40:21.38 QUICKLY WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT EVERYBODY BEING INVOLVED. 00:40:21.38\00:40:26.42 I REMEMBER BRINGING SOMEBODY HOME FROM A GYC ONE DAY, AND YOU 00:40:26.42\00:40:31.86 KNOW WHAT SHE SAID -- OR I ASKED HER -- I SAID, HOW DO WE KEEP 00:40:31.86\00:40:36.30 YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH? YOU KNOW WHAT SHE SAID? 00:40:36.30\00:40:40.07 GET US INVOLVED. >> AMEN. 00:40:40.07\00:40:42.00 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:40:42.00\00:40:43.41 >> SEE, I THINK THAT YOUNG -- WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING 00:40:43.41\00:40:46.71 TO THE LEADERS OF THE CHURCH. WE'RE NOT TALKING TO THE OLDER 00:40:46.71\00:40:51.71 FOLK. WE'RE TALKING TO EVERYBODY NEEDS 00:40:51.71\00:40:53.82 TO BE INVOLVED, AND WE NEED TO GET OUR CHILDREN AND OUR YOUTH 00:40:53.82\00:40:59.92 INVOLVED. >> AMEN. 00:40:59.92\00:41:01.82 AMEN. PASTOR KENNY -- AND FORGIVE ME, 00:41:01.82\00:41:05.19 BECAUSE YOU ARE AT PREGNANT PORTION HERE. 00:41:05.19\00:41:07.66 [ LAUGHTER ] >> WHEN I GOT TO -- AND I 00:41:07.66\00:41:09.63 WAS -- WHEN I GOT TO THE [ INAUDIBLE ] SEVENTH-DAY 00:41:09.63\00:41:14.30 ADVENTIST IN FREE PORT, NEW YORK, THE HEAD [ INAUDIBLE ] 00:41:14.30\00:41:18.24 BECAUSE SHE WAS A NOTORIOUS ADVENTIST HATER, BUT HER HUSBAND 00:41:18.24\00:41:25.78 WAS A DEACON IN THE CHURCH. AND WHEN HE PASSED THE CHURCH 00:41:25.78\00:41:34.66 SHOWED HER SO MUCH LOVE, THAT SHE DECIDED TO PRACTICE FISH 00:41:34.66\00:41:47.87 EVANGELISM. SHE WOULD TAKE THE CUPS, THE 00:41:47.87\00:41:52.91 PLATES, THE KNIVES, THE FOLKS, EVERYTHING, A COMPLETE DINNER 00:41:52.91\00:41:57.58 AND DESSERT AND ROBERTA CARTER HAD TWO BIG SONS, BIG GUYS, EAT 00:41:57.58\00:42:04.95 LIKE LOCUSTS. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:42:04.95\00:42:09.09 >> NO 2300 DAYS, NO 144,000, JUST FISH EVERY FRIDAY FOR SIX 00:42:09.09\00:42:19.47 WEEKS. SHE WOULD STAY THERE, CLEAN UP 00:42:19.47\00:42:22.87 EVERYTHING, PUT IT IN PLASTIC BAGS AND TAKE IT. 00:42:22.87\00:42:26.21 AFTER SIX WEEKS, ROBERTA CARTER SAID, TOMORROW WHEN YOU ARE 00:42:26.21\00:42:31.08 GOING TO CHURCH, TAKE ME WITH YOU. 00:42:31.08\00:42:33.18 >> AMEN. >> AND WHEN I WILL GET A YEAR 00:42:33.18\00:42:36.55 LATER, SHE IS THE HEAD DEACONIST IN THE CHURCH. 00:42:36.55\00:42:40.39 SO EVANGELISM IS DOING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE -- THE TRUTH 00:42:40.39\00:42:44.59 IS, SOME PEOPLE ARE TOO SCARED TO DO A BIBLE STUDY. 00:42:44.59\00:42:47.96 BUT YOU HAVE A TALENT THAT CAN BE USED. 00:42:47.96\00:42:51.17 IF YOU ARE A GOOD COOK, TAKE BREAD, BUT THERE IS SOMETHING 00:42:51.17\00:42:55.80 THAT EVERYBODY CAN DO. AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE 00:42:55.80\00:42:59.44 LEADING US TOO. >> PRAISE THE LORD, I CAN SMELL 00:42:59.44\00:43:02.98 THAT BREAD RIGHT NOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:43:02.98\00:43:04.85 >> THAT IS LURING. AND IT DOES WORK. 00:43:04.85\00:43:06.88 IF YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED IT, TRY IT. 00:43:06.88\00:43:10.39 TAKE A FRESH LOAF OF BREAD, BECAUSE THAT STILL WORKS FOR ME, 00:43:10.39\00:43:13.09 AND I HAVE BEEN IN THE CHURCH FOR A LOT OF YEARS. 00:43:13.09\00:43:18.49 [ LAUGHTER ] >> BUT AN ARTICLE SAID IN -- IF 00:43:18.49\00:43:22.16 THEY -- AND THEN I PUT WE AGAIN, IF WE GO FORWARD IN FAITH IN 00:43:22.16\00:43:27.77 GOD, WE, THEY, WILL NOT FAIL, NOR BECOME DISCOURAGED, BUT WILL 00:43:27.77\00:43:36.54 HAVE THE INSURANCE OF INFOULABLE SUCCESS. 00:43:36.54\00:43:40.22 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE AFRAID TO FAIL. 00:43:40.22\00:43:43.72 THEY ARE AFRAID THEY WON'T HAVE ALL OF THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. 00:43:43.72\00:43:47.36 ONE TIME A GUY ASKED ME A QUESTION, AND I DID NOT KNOW THE 00:43:47.36\00:43:51.09 ANSWER, BUT I SAID, I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER, BUT I'LL GET THAT 00:43:51.09\00:43:54.30 ANSWER, AND IT WILL BE FROM THE WORD OF GOD, AND I'LL BE BACK 00:43:54.30\00:43:57.77 WITH IT. >> AMEN. 00:43:57.77\00:43:59.07 >> AMEN. >> THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN UNTIL I 00:43:59.07\00:44:01.94 CAME IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST ENOUGH TO TRUST HIM, 00:44:01.94\00:44:05.21 BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID. >> AME. 00:44:05.21\00:44:07.11 >> AND I WAS AFRAID I WOULD BE EMBARRASSED. 00:44:07.11\00:44:10.68 AFRAID I WOULD BE LAUGHED AT A LITTLE BIT. 00:44:10.68\00:44:13.05 BUT AFTER WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST, WE NO LONGER FEAR 00:44:13.05\00:44:17.52 THAT, BECAUSE HOW MANY KNOW EVERYTHING? 00:44:17.52\00:44:19.69 >> WELL SAID. >> SOMETIMES WE MAY NOT HAVE IT 00:44:19.69\00:44:22.92 EXACTLY, BUT WE KNOW WHERE TO GET IT. 00:44:22.92\00:44:26.76 >> AND DO NOT SIT ON THE COUCH BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ALL OF 00:44:26.76\00:44:30.17 THE ANSWERS. >> WHEN WE GO FORWARD, THE 00:44:30.17\00:44:36.20 ASSURANCE IS WE SHALL NOT FAIL. I LIKE THIS, BECAUSE WE'RE 00:44:36.20\00:44:41.01 TALKING ABOUT -- THE BELIEVERS HERE, THE WORKING CHURCH. 00:44:41.01\00:44:45.45 A CHURCH IS NOT WORKING IS A DEAD CHURCH. 00:44:45.45\00:44:48.52 >> PLUS IT'S NOT GROWING. >> YES, THEY SAY DEADER THAN A 00:44:48.52\00:44:53.19 MACKEREL. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:44:53.19\00:44:53.96 >> SO WE NEED ONE. WE NEED SOMETHING THAT IS LIVE 00:44:53.96\00:44:56.86 AND WELL. AND HOW CAN THE CHURCH STAY 00:44:56.86\00:45:00.23 ALIVE? RATHER THAN GET STALE, AND HOW 00:45:00.23\00:45:02.13 DO YOU DO ON SABBATH MORNING, AND NOD YOUR HEAD WHEN THE 00:45:02.13\00:45:05.90 PASTOR IS SPEAKING. KEEP IT ALIVE, WELL, AND FRESH. 00:45:05.90\00:45:10.34 THE BIBLE SAYS IN JOHN 16:23, WHATSOEVER YOU SHALL ASK THE 00:45:10.34\00:45:16.48 FATHER IN MY NAME, WHAT HE WILL DO? 00:45:16.48\00:45:18.31 I'LL GIVE YOU. I'LL DO IT. 00:45:18.31\00:45:20.68 SO THAT IS ASSURANCE THAT WE HAVE HERE. 00:45:20.68\00:45:24.55 TESTIMONY OF MINISTERS. A WORKING CHRCH -- A WORKING 00:45:24.55\00:45:31.23 CHURCH THAT TRAVAILS FOR SOULS. REALLY WANTS SOMETHING TO TAKE 00:45:31.23\00:45:35.60 PLACE. WILLING TO GO OUT -- WILLING TO 00:45:35.60\00:45:37.67 SUFFER A LITTLE HURT, A LITTLE DISAPPOINTMENT -- WHO TRAVAILS 00:45:37.67\00:45:43.57 FOR SOULS WILL BE A PRAYING CHURCH, A BELIEVING CHURCH, AND 00:45:43.57\00:45:47.24 A RECEIVING CHURCH. YOU HAVE TO BE ALL THREE. 00:45:47.24\00:45:52.81 A WORKING CHURCH THAT TRAVAILS FOR SOULS, HAVE A BURDEN FOR 00:45:52.81\00:45:56.58 SOULS, THAT YOU JUST -- YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE, THIS MOVE, 00:45:56.58\00:46:01.52 PEOPLE, THE WAY JESUS LOVED HIM. THIS CHURCH HAS TO BE NUMBER 1, 00:46:01.52\00:46:06.46 A BELIEVING CHURCH. >> AMEN. 00:46:06.46\00:46:08.36 >> THEN IT HAS TO BE A CHURCH -- A PRAYING CHURCH. 00:46:08.36\00:46:11.70 YOU'LL GET INTO THAT. FIRST OF ALL A PRAYING CHURCH. 00:46:11.70\00:46:14.54 A BELIEVING CHURCH, AND THEN A RECEIVING CHURCH. 00:46:14.54\00:46:16.94 >> AMEN. >> YEAH, I LIKE THAT. 00:46:16.94\00:46:19.14 THAT RECEIVING PART, THAT'S GOOD STUFF. 00:46:19.14\00:46:22.11 >> WHY BE PRAYING? >> YES. 00:46:22.11\00:46:24.48 >> AND WHY BE BELIEVING IF YOU ARE NOT READY TO SAY, COME ON, 00:46:24.48\00:46:28.98 BRING THEM IN. I HAVE READ BEFORE, WHEN THE 00:46:28.98\00:46:32.12 CHURCH IS READY, THE PEOPLE WILL COME. 00:46:32.12\00:46:34.96 WHY BRING THEM IN IF YOU HAVE A CHURCH THAT IS NOT REALLY ON 00:46:34.96\00:46:38.03 FIRE? BRING THEM IN, SO THEY CAN GO 00:46:38.03\00:46:39.86 OUT THE DOOR AND NEVER COME BACK. 00:46:39.86\00:46:42.56 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT WE BE THESE WITNESSES. 00:46:42.56\00:46:44.90 YOU HAVE TO CUT ME OFF, PASTOR, I'M GETTING ON A ROLE. 00:46:44.90\00:46:48.40 LOOK OUT NOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:46:48.40\00:46:50.04 >> BEFORE HONOR COMES HUMILITY. THIS IS WORKING IN THE CAUSE OF 00:46:50.04\00:46:55.18 CHRIST. TO FEEL HIGH PLACES BEFORE MEN, 00:46:55.18\00:46:58.55 HEAVEN CHOOSES WORKERS WHO LIKE JOHN THE BAPTIST TAKES A LOWLY 00:46:58.55\00:47:02.78 PLACE BEFORE GOD. ONE WHO IS SEEKING NOT TO EXALT 00:47:02.78\00:47:07.72 SELF BUT TO SAVE SOULS. >> AMEN. 00:47:07.72\00:47:10.03 >> THIS BEGS THE QUESTION, AND IT DOES FOR ME -- AND IT HAS 00:47:10.03\00:47:13.29 OVER THE YEARS, IS -- DON'T ANYBODY GET OFFENDED, BECAUSE 00:47:13.29\00:47:21.24 I'M NOT PICKING ON ANYBODY OR ANYTHING, OR THAT GUY BEHIND THE 00:47:21.24\00:47:25.71 COUCH. I'M NOT TRYING TO PICK ON HIM. 00:47:25.71\00:47:28.44 BUT HOW MANY OF US WOULD DO WHAT WE ARE DOING TODAY IF WE -- IF 00:47:28.44\00:47:34.12 WE -- YOU KNOW, IF WE GOT NO RECOGNITION? 00:47:34.12\00:47:37.52 HOW MANY OF US WOULD BE DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING IF WE GOT NO 00:47:37.52\00:47:42.39 THANKS? HOW MANY OF US WOULD BE DOING 00:47:42.39\00:47:44.73 WHAT WE'RE DOING EVER DAY IF THERE WASN'T A CAMERA IN OUR 00:47:44.73\00:47:49.40 FACE? HOW MANY OF US WOULD REALLY DO 00:47:49.40\00:47:51.27 THESE THINGS? WOULD WE DO IT? 00:47:51.27\00:47:53.27 WE PRAY TO GOD WE WOULD BE DOING IT. 00:47:53.27\00:47:56.30 BUT TO ME THAT'S THE TEST. THAT WE'RE WILLING TO DO IT THE 00:47:56.30\00:48:00.08 WAY JESUS WOULD DO IT. HE WOULD RATHER BE ONE ON ONE. 00:48:00.08\00:48:04.58 HE WENT TO THE HIGHWAYS AND BIWAYS, WE COMPELLED THEM TO 00:48:04.58\00:48:09.02 COME IN. EVANGELISM IS A NICE BIG CHURCH, 00:48:09.02\00:48:12.35 WONDERFUL PEOPLE, BUT HOW ABOUT ONE ON ONE, AM I WILLING TO 00:48:12.35\00:48:16.76 SACRIFICE TIME AND MEANS TO MEET WITH THIS ONE PERSON, SOMEONE 00:48:16.76\00:48:22.83 THAT NEEDS CHRIST, SOMEONE WHO IS HURTING, AND WHO NEEDS TO BE 00:48:22.83\00:48:27.60 BROUGHT INTO THE FOLD. AND HOW DO WE KNOW THAT? 00:48:27.60\00:48:31.41 BECAUSE WE GET TO KNOW THAT PERSON AND INVITE THEM TO COME 00:48:31.41\00:48:35.51 IN. HOW MANY OF US WOULD DO -- 00:48:35.51\00:48:37.38 >> UH-HUH. >> IT GOT KIND OF QUIET IN HERE. 00:48:37.38\00:48:42.02 [ LAUGHTER ] >> THAT GUY IS STILL HIDING BACK 00:48:42.02\00:48:44.35 THERE -- >> PASTOR, WE'RE FEELING YOU. 00:48:44.35\00:48:47.02 I DON'T WANT THE BRETHREN TO BRING UPPING 00:48:47.02\00:49:01.10 A -- AGRO-EVANGELISM AGAIN. BECAUSE THAT IS THE CRUX. 00:49:01.10\00:49:05.94 IT WASN'T TH LIGHTS AND THE CAMERAS, IT WAS THAT VID WORK. 00:49:05.94\00:49:16.95 THE -- HERE IT IS. PERSONAL EVANGELISM, CONDUCTED 00:49:16.95\00:49:22.66 OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH, BY OR FOR INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS -- IT CAN 00:49:22.66\00:49:27.93 BE ME GOING MYSELF, OR JILL AND GREG GOING TOGETHER, OR A SMALL 00:49:27.93\00:49:33.17 GROUP GOING TOGETHER, IN PUBLIC, OR PRIVATE SETTINGS. 00:49:33.17\00:49:36.87 SO IT CAN BE IN THAT HOME, IN THAT CLOSET WORKING TOGETHER, OR 00:49:36.87\00:49:41.48 OUT IN THE MARKETPLACE. WE HAVE HAD PEOPLE -- TALKED TO 00:49:41.48\00:49:44.51 PEOPLE AT WAL-MART, AND OTHER KIND OF PLACES, JUST FINDING AN 00:49:44.51\00:49:51.12 OPPORTUNITY TO LIFT UP THE NAME OF JESUS. 00:49:51.12\00:49:53.15 >> I WAS GOING TO SAY PRISON MINISTRIES. 00:49:53.15\00:49:57.09 >> VERY MUCH SO. VERY MUCH SO. 00:49:57.09\00:49:59.09 PASTOR, W'LL GIVE YOU A MINUTE OR TWO MORE. 00:49:59.09\00:50:01.96 >> YEAH, ONE MORE. >> YOU ARE KIND OF ON 00:50:01.96\00:50:05.00 FIRE -- YOU ARE BURNING AND NOT BEING CONSUMED LIKE THAT BUSH. 00:50:05.00\00:50:11.67 [ LAUGHTER ] >> ONE MORE QUOTE. 00:50:11.67\00:50:12.71 I LIKE THIS, THIS IS TESTIMONIES TO MINISTERS PAGE 204, AGAIN, 00:50:12.71\00:50:18.25 TALKING ABOUT THE WORKING CHURCH. 00:50:18.25\00:50:20.05 A WORKING CHURCH ON EARTH IS CONNECTED WITH THE WORKING 00:50:20.05\00:50:23.18 CHURCH ABOVE. >> OH, PRAISE THE LORD. 00:50:23.18\00:50:25.65 >> IF WE'RE WORKING DOWN HERE, IT'S A AN AUTOMATIC CONNECTION 00:50:25.65\00:50:30.99 WITH WORKING WITH HEAVENLY BEINGS. 00:50:30.99\00:50:35.00 GOD WORKS, ANGELS WORK, AND MEN SHOULD BE WORKING FOR THE 00:50:35.00\00:50:39.13 CONVERSION OF SOULS. >> AMEN. 00:50:39.13\00:50:41.24 >> WHAT AN EXAMPLE THAT IS SET FOR US. 00:50:41.24\00:50:43.77 >> AMEN. >> HEAVEN IS ALL BUSY. 00:50:43.77\00:50:47.04 WE NEED TO BE BUSY EVANGELIZING. >> THANK YOU. 00:50:47.04\00:50:51.51 I'M GETTING EXCITED. THIS IS GOOD STUFF. 00:50:51.51\00:50:54.98 I'M GOING TO ASK THE BRETHREN IF YOU CAN PULL UP CHANGE AND 00:50:54.98\00:51:00.22 GROWTH IN GOD'S WORK. BEFORE I DO THAT, WE WANT TO 00:51:00.22\00:51:04.83 REMIND YOU, WE'RE INTERCEDING. AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT 00:51:04.83\00:51:10.00 INTERCESSORY PRAYER, BUT WE WANT YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS TO COME. 00:51:10.00\00:51:15.34 WE'RE PRAYING FOR OTHERS, FAMILY MEMBERS, COWORKERS, NEIGHBORS, 00:51:15.34\00:51:21.04 PEOPLE THAT YOU KNOW WHO NO LONGER WALK WITH HE LORD. 00:51:21.04\00:51:24.71 THOSE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE COME TO THE LORD. 00:51:24.71\00:51:27.65 I THINK WE ALL KNOW INDIVIDUALS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE COME 00:51:27.65\00:51:31.32 TO THE LORD, OR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE LEFT THE LORD. 00:51:31.32\00:51:36.19 THERE ARE MANY, MANY WHO NEED TO COME TO THE LORD OR BACK TO THE 00:51:36.19\00:51:41.13 LORD. WE WANT TO ASSIST YOU IN THAT 00:51:41.13\00:51:43.50 PRAYER THIS NIGHT. SO SEND THOSE NAMES IN. 00:51:43.50\00:51:48.47 CHANGE IN GROWTH AND GOD'S WORK. ARE WE READY FOR THAT? 00:51:48.47\00:51:51.94 OR DO I NEED TO GO TO JILL? JUST LET ME KNOW. 00:51:51.94\00:51:55.78 THEREFORE WE GO. OKAY. 00:51:55.78\00:51:57.65 VERY QUICKLY -- ELLEN WHITE SAYS, WE NEED WORKERS WHO CAN 00:51:57.65\00:52:02.12 PUT NEW LIFE INTO OLD METHODS OF LABOR, AND CAN INVENT NEW PLANS 00:52:02.12\00:52:07.79 OF AWAKENING THE INTERESTS OF THE CHURCH MEMBERS. 00:52:07.79\00:52:11.73 THE CHURCH MEMBERS NEED TO BE PIN PRICKED SOMETIMES ALSO. 00:52:11.73\00:52:15.40 >> YES. >> SO WE NEED TO FIND NEW AND 00:52:15.40\00:52:18.73 CREATIVE WAYS TO DO THAT, TO ENGUISE THE CHURCH SO THAT A 00:52:18.73\00:52:23.10 CHURCH IS READY TO RECEIVE THOSE WHO COME, AND TO GO OUT AN GET 00:52:23.10\00:52:27.71 OTHERS IN THE NAME OF JESUS. NOW THE SECOND ONE, MEANS, MEANS 00:52:27.71\00:52:32.18 WILL BE DEVISED TO REACH HEARTS, SOME OF THE METHODS USED IN THIS 00:52:32.18\00:52:37.82 WORK WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE METHODS USED IN THE WORK IN THE 00:52:37.82\00:52:41.96 PAST, BUT LET NO ONE BECAUSE OF THIS BLOCK THE WAY BY CRITICISM. 00:52:41.96\00:52:47.60 SOMETIMES YOU HAVE GOT TO DO NEW THINGS. 00:52:47.60\00:52:50.57 YOU CAN'T DO THE SAME THING, THE SAME WAY, AND EXPECT RESULTS. 00:52:50.57\00:52:54.54 3ABN 30 YEARS AGO WAS NOT EVEN HEARD OF. 00:52:54.54\00:53:00.28 TELEVISION? YOU KNOW? 00:53:00.28\00:53:01.14 SO NEW METHODS. BUT DON'T GET IN THE WAY, LET 00:53:01.14\00:53:04.85 THE LORD LEAD. AND THIS IS LETTER 45, THERE ARE 00:53:04.85\00:53:08.85 SOME MINDS WHICH DO NOT GROW WITH THE WORK. 00:53:08.85\00:53:11.75 >> UH-HUH. >> BUT ALLOW THE WORK TO GROW 00:53:11.75\00:53:15.56 BEYOND THEM. THOSE WHO -- THOSE WHO DO NOT 00:53:15.56\00:53:20.16 DISCERN AND ADAPT THEMSELVES TO THE INCREASING DEMANDS OF THE 00:53:20.16\00:53:23.57 WORK, SHOULD NOT STAND BLOCKING THE WHEELS AND THUS HINDERS THE 00:53:23.57\00:53:28.57 ADVANCEMENT OF OTHERS. WE HAVE NEW PROGRAMMING, AND 00:53:28.57\00:53:33.68 SHELLEY IN HER DEPARTMENT, THEY THINK OF NEW WAYS TO PRESENT THE 00:53:33.68\00:53:36.88 GAS PELL. IT MAY NOT BE YOUR CUP OF TEA, 00:53:36.88\00:53:40.58 BUT YOU HAVE YOUNG MINDS, THE INTERNET, JILL -- WE'RE TRYING 00:53:40.58\00:53:47.56 TO INCREASE OUR PRESENCE ON THE INTERNET. 00:53:47.56\00:53:49.39 NEW STUFF. >> I WAS JUST THINKING TWO 00:53:49.39\00:53:51.83 THINGS. NUMBER 1, I WAS SPEAKING AT AN 00:53:51.83\00:53:56.77 ISI RALLY. AND A WOMAN GOT UP TO GIVE A 00:53:56.77\00:54:00.07 TESTIMONY. AND SHE AND HER FRIEND ARE ON 00:54:00.07\00:54:02.77 YOUTUBE, AND ALL THEY -- JUST THE TWO OF THEM, THEY WERE 00:54:02.77\00:54:06.94 TAPING THEMSELVES. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID? 00:54:06.94\00:54:10.05 THEY JUST STARTED READING THE BIBLE, READING SPIRIT OF 00:54:10.05\00:54:15.22 PROPHECY, AND THEY HAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS. 00:54:15.22\00:54:19.19 IT'S JUST AMAZING. >> UH-HUH. 00:54:19.19\00:54:21.82 >> SO THAT IS ONE OF THE NEW WAYS PEOPLE REACH OUT. 00:54:21.82\00:54:28.00 BUT IF YOU ARE PLANNING AN EVANGELISTIC SERIES -- WERE EAR 00:54:28.00\00:54:32.73 NOT NECESSARILY TALKING AGRO-EVANGELISM RIGHT NOW, BUT 00:54:32.73\00:54:37.37 IF YOU ARE PLANNING AN EVANGELISTIC SERIES, THE MOT 00:54:37.37\00:54:42.28 EFFECTIVE METHOD IS NOT GOING TO BE FLYERS, ADVERTISING ON TV OR 00:54:42.28\00:54:47.28 RADIO, THE MOST EFFECTIVE METHOD IS EACH MEMBER SHOULD BE 00:54:47.28\00:54:52.92 INVITING AT LEAST ONE PERSON. >> YES. 00:54:52.92\00:54:54.66 >> UH-HUH. >> AND WHEN YOU INVITE THAT 00:54:54.66\00:54:56.86 PERSON TO AT TEN, AND THEY SAY YES, YOU PICK THEM UP. 00:54:56.86\00:55:01.30 >> THAT'S RIGHT. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:55:01.30\00:55:03.60 >> AMEN. >> SO THEY CAN'T HAVE THAT 00:55:03.60\00:55:09.60 EXCUSE NOT TO SHOW UP. AND YOU SEE CHURCHES -- AND 00:55:09.60\00:55:14.11 THERE WAS A VERY BIG NAMED PERSON WHO HAD BEEN IN PHOENIX A 00:55:14.11\00:55:17.68 COUPLE OF YEARS BEFORE US, AND WHAT I WAS TOLD WAS THEY THOUGHT 00:55:17.68\00:55:23.32 THE DRAW OF THIS PERSON WAS GOING TO BRING IN THE 00:55:23.32\00:55:26.05 PEOPLE -- AND THEY DID ALL OF THIS ADVERTISING. 00:55:26.05\00:55:29.56 GUESS WHAT? NOT EVEN THE CHURCH MEMBERS ALL 00:55:29.56\00:55:32.19 SHOWED UP. THEY JUST HAD A COUPLE OF POPLE 00:55:32.19\00:55:34.96 SHOW UP. SO NO ONE INVITED ANYBODY. 00:55:34.96\00:55:38.60 IT'S ALL ABOUT CARING ENOUGH TO WANT PEOPLE TO HEAR THE TRUTH 00:55:38.60\00:55:42.17 ABOUT GOD'S LOVE. >> AMEN. 00:55:42.17\00:55:44.34 >> TIME HAS PROVEN -- AND JILL, WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU, 00:55:44.34\00:55:48.74 A COLD CONTACT, A FLIER IN THE MAIL, THE RESPONSE IS LESS THAN 00:55:48.74\00:55:54.08 5%. USUALLY LESS THAN 1%. 00:55:54.08\00:55:56.65 YOU CAN SEND OUT 100, 000 FLIERS AND YOU WON'T GET AS MANY PEOPLE 00:55:56.65\00:56:09.16 AS SITTING NEXT TO SOMEBODY AND SAYING LISTEN,. COME TO CHURCH 00:56:09.16\00:56:17.07 WITH ME. >> JILL, I WANT YOU TO KIND OF 00:56:17.07\00:56:19.91 GET STARTED -- AND THEN WE'LL STOP AND LET YOU PICK IT UP ON 00:56:19.91\00:56:23.85 THE OTHER SIDE. MEANWHILE I'M GOING TO PASS OUT 00:56:23.85\00:56:28.08 SOME OF THESE. >> I'M EXCITED. 00:56:28.08\00:56:30.79 I'M EXCITED SHELLEY AS YOU LAUNCHED OUT AT THE BEGINNING 00:56:30.79\00:56:35.62 ABOUT THE PRIESTHOOD OF ALL BELIEVERS. 00:56:35.62\00:56:39.69 YOU DON'T HAVE TO FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO BE A CHURCH LEADER IN 00:56:39.69\00:56:43.33 ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN EVANGELISM, AND SPREAD THE 00:56:43.33\00:56:46.43 GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. GOD WANTS TO USE EACH ONE OF 00:56:46.43\00:56:50.04 YOU. AND AS WE MOVE INTO THIS 00:56:50.04\00:56:54.48 INTERCESSION, STANDING IN THE GAP, IN THE BEHALF OF SOMEONE 00:56:54.48\00:56:58.68 ELSE. I WANT TO READ THAT SCRIPTURE, 00:56:58.68\00:57:03.28 ISAIAH 59 THAT SHELLEY TALKED ABOUT. 00:57:03.28\00:57:07.66 AND YOU MIGHT SAY, I CAN'T STAND IN THE GAP FOR OTHERS. 00:57:07.66\00:57:11.73 GOD CAN USE EACH ONE OF US, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO PRAY SPECIAL 00:57:11.73\00:57:16.46 PRAYERS? WE DON'T HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING 00:57:16.46\00:57:18.53 FANCY, GOD HEARS THE CRY OF OUR HEART ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE. 00:57:18.53\00:57:23.00 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE 00:57:23.00\00:57:25.77 MORE TIME. I WANT TO PUT A LITTLE BOW ON 00:57:25.77\00:57:28.61 THAT ALSO. WE'RE COMING DOWN TO THE END OF 00:57:28.61\00:57:31.48 OUR FIRST HOUR. DON'T FORGET, WE WANT TO ASSIST 00:57:31.48\00:57:34.15 YOU IN YOUR PRAYERS. WE HAVE GOT A BUNCH OF THINGS 00:57:34.15\00:57:37.72 WE'RE GOING TO READ AT THE TOP OF THE HOUR, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE 00:57:37.72\00:57:41.39 JILL CONTINUE. STAY WITH US, WE'RE GOING TO BE 00:57:41.39\00:57:46.36 GONE FOR JUST 2 MINUTES AND 2 SECONDS, AND THEN WE'LL BE BACK. 00:57:46.36\00:57:50.50