ONCE AGAIN SHARING A LITTLE OF YOUR DAY WITH US. 00:01:15.54\00:01:19.64 WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE AND PRAYERS OF THIS PROGRAM AND OF 00:01:19.64\00:01:22.74 THIS MINISTRY. WE REALIZE WE COULD NOT DO WHAT 00:01:22.74\00:01:25.55 WE ARE CALLED TO DO WITHOUT YOUR PARTNERSHIP AND YOUR 00:01:25.55\00:01:28.78 PARTICIPATION AND SUPPORT. SO WE SAY THOSE WORDS OFTEN. 00:01:28.78\00:01:32.05 BUT WE MEAN THEM BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IT's WORKING TOGETHER THAT 00:01:32.05\00:01:34.86 WE WILL LIFT UP THE NAME OF JESUS AND SEND THIS GOSPEL TO 00:01:34.86\00:01:38.53 THE FURTHEST ENDS OF THE WORLD. SO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. 00:01:38.53\00:01:44.33 REALLY EXCITED TO FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. 00:01:44.33\00:01:46.13 NUMBER ONE THE SUBJECT MANNER. WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT SIGNS OF 00:01:46.13\00:01:49.30 THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS AND HOW TO PREPARE FOR THAT AND 00:01:49.30\00:01:52.54 ANYTHING THAT PERTAINS TO THAT OR SWIRLS IN THAT ORBIT AS WE 00:01:52.54\00:01:57.88 GET READY FOR AN EVENT THAT IS SOON TO COME AND THAT's A CLIMAX 00:01:57.88\00:02:04.09 OF THIS EARTH's HISTORY AS WE KNOW IT USHERING OF A NEW ERA 00:02:04.09\00:02:08.36 AND TIME AS WE GO HOME TO BE WITH THE LORD. 00:02:08.36\00:02:10.93 WE'RE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. 00:02:10.93\00:02:14.73 TO WADE OUR WAY THROUGH THAT, WE GOT TWO BUDDIES WITH US TONIGHT. 00:02:14.73\00:02:20.74 JOHN WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF 3ABN LATINO. 00:02:20.74\00:02:30.18 GOOD FRIEND AND PERSON. EVERY NOW AND THEN WE SIT DOWN 00:02:30.18\00:02:34.38 AND JUST TALK AND HAVE A GOOD TIME TOGETHER. 00:02:34.38\00:02:36.69 WONDERFUL MAN OF GOD AND A GOOD FRIEND. 00:02:36.69\00:02:40.32 AND THEN MR. DECASPER. I NEED TO REFER OUR DEFER TO YOU 00:02:40.32\00:02:47.36 FOR YOUR TITLE WHICH IS RATER NEW.-YOU LEFT US AS JOHNNY WAS 00:02:47.36\00:02:52.13 SAYING. SORT OF DROPPED US LIKE A HOT 00:02:52.13\00:02:54.27 POTATO AND WENT AWAY TO PANAMA AND CAME BACK AND I SAID, WHERE 00:02:54.27\00:03:01.58 IS DEE. WALK US THROUGH WHAT YOU NOW DO. 00:03:01.58\00:03:04.98 >> MY NEW ROLE IS BRAND EVANGELIST FOR AR TV WHICH IS ON 00:03:04.98\00:03:11.12 DEMAND MEDIA PLATFORM. DIGITAL PUBLISHING AND DIGITAL 00:03:11.12\00:03:16.36 MEDIA IS THE NEW PUBLISHING WORK. 00:03:16.36\00:03:18.09 WE'RE ADVANCING TO THIS. NETFLIX LIKE IN ITS FEEL AND 00:03:18.09\00:03:22.63 STAND ALONE PLATFORM THAT YOU CAN ACCESS FROM YOUR APPLE TV 00:03:22.63\00:03:28.34 AND ROKU AND ANDROID AND IT's SHORT SHAREABLE CONTENT AND IT's 00:03:28.34\00:03:33.71 FREE. EVEN I CAN AFFORD THAT. 00:03:33.71\00:03:36.48 MISSIONARIES CAN AFFORD FREE. 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I KNOW WE HAVE IT FOR APPLE TV 00:04:25.39\00:04:29.33 AND IPHONE AND ANDROID SHOULD BE COMING VERY SOON AND KINDLE FIRE 00:04:29.33\00:04:34.07 IS COMING VERY SOON AND XBOX IS NOT TOO FAR DOWN THE LINE AS 00:04:34.07\00:04:43.65 WELL. IT ALIGNED WITH REVIEW. 00:04:43.65\00:04:46.45 >> IT's PART OF THE REVIEW. IT'S THE MIA WING OF SORTS. 00:04:46.45\00:04:50.12 >> NOW YOU ARE BASED OUT OF WHERE? 00:04:50.12\00:04:51.95 >> I'M LIVING IN THE CAT KNEWING TKPWA /* /* -- 00:04:51.95\00:05:01.93 CHATTANOOGA AREA >> REASON THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE 00:05:01.93\00:05:04.03 AND WHY WE HAVE KEPT YOU SLAVING AWAY THIS WEEK TALK TO US ABOUT 00:05:04.03\00:05:07.77 THE NEW PROGRAMMING THAT YOU'RE DOING? 00:05:07.77\00:05:09.27 >> WE ARE EXCITED. I SAY WE THERE IS ONLY ONE OF ME 00:05:09.27\00:05:12.67 BUT THERE WERE TWO OTHERS AND THEY LEFT ME TODAY. 00:05:12.67\00:05:16.58 A PROGRAM CALLED RAW QUESTIONS RELEVANT ANSWERS. 00:05:16.58\00:05:21.82 IT'S A Q & A AND DISTRIBUTED THROUGH YOUTUBE AND FACEBOOK AND 00:05:21.82\00:05:27.46 WE'RE DEALING WITH HEAVY HARD ISSUE STUFF WITH YOUNG PEOPLE. 00:05:27.46\00:05:32.29 I HAD TWO GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE. A COLLEGE PROFESSOR AT SOUTHERN 00:05:32.29\00:05:36.20 AND FREELANCE FILMMAKER, THE THREE OF US BASICALLY WERE 00:05:36.20\00:05:40.30 DEALING WITH THOSE ISSUES. WE DO IT THEMATICALLY. 00:05:40.30\00:05:50.68 WE DID TWO SEASONS WORTH. SO THE FIRST SEASON IS IN JULY 00:05:50.68\00:05:53.52 IN JUST A SERIES OF MONTHS. SO WE'RE PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT 00:05:53.52\00:05:58.49 THAT. PEOPLE CAN FOLLOW THE FACEBOOK 00:05:58.49\00:06:01.66 PAGE ON FACEBOOK TO GET UPDATES ON WHEN IT's GOING TO RELEASE 00:06:01.66\00:06:04.79 AND WHERE TO FIND THEM AND DEVELOPING A WEBSITE SOON. 00:06:04.79\00:06:07.76 I'M SURE YOU HAVE PROMOS AND STUFF THAT WILL BE WEARING 00:06:07.76\00:06:10.37 THROUGH THE NETWORK TO KEEP PEOPLE UP TO DATE AS WELL. 00:06:10.37\00:06:13.67 WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT. >> EXCELLENT. 00:06:13.67\00:06:17.24 YOU SAID MICHELLE. I WAS IN SEMINARY WITH A MIKE. 00:06:17.24\00:06:20.71 >> THAT's HER DAD. HE'S A PASTOR. 00:06:20.71\00:06:22.94 >> THAT's HER DAD. SO MAKE ME FEEL OLD. 00:06:22.94\00:06:29.58 THAT's HER DAD? >> THAT's HER DAD. 00:06:29.58\00:06:31.95 SHE'S A PASTOR's KID. HE GOES TO MY COACH IN SOUTH 00:06:31.95\00:06:37.03 BAY. >> NEXT TIME YOU SEE HIM PLEASE 00:06:37.03\00:06:39.83 GIVE HIM MY REGARDS. IT'S BEEN MANY YEARS SINCE WE IN 00:06:39.83\00:06:46.74 THE SEMINARY. WE'RE EDITING A NEW SEASON AND 00:06:46.74\00:06:49.24 GOT 10 SHOWS AT LEAST ROUGHED OUT THIS WEEK. 00:06:49.24\00:06:52.67 IT's BEEN A HEAVY WEEK. >> WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING 00:06:52.67\00:07:03.12 ABOUT SIGNS OF THE SECOND COMING AND HOW WE MAY BE PREPARED ABOUT 00:07:03.12\00:07:06.55 THAT.-AND ABOUT FAILURE. IT REALLY INTERESTED ME. 00:07:06.55\00:07:14.46 THIS IS A KIND OF A BOARD. TABLE SETTING IS THE SECOND 00:07:14.46\00:07:17.20 COMING BUT WE MAY TOUCH ON ANY NUMBER OF ISSUES, ITEMS AND 00:07:17.20\00:07:20.27 THINGS THAT FLOW INTO THAT AS WE PREPARE FOR THAT EVENT. 00:07:20.27\00:07:24.97 SO OUR PALLET IS VERY BROAD BASED AND I'LL PAINT WITH BRUSH 00:07:24.97\00:07:29.01 STROKES. BUT HERE's WHAT WE WANT YOU TO 00:07:29.01\00:07:32.08 DO. IT OCCURRED TO ME TO MAKE US A 00:07:32.08\00:07:34.55 LITTLE MORE INTERACTIVE THAN WE NORMALLY DO, GENERALLY IF YOU 00:07:34.55\00:07:39.19 CAN BRING THAT QUESTION UP, THIS IS A QUESTION WE WANT YOU TO 00:07:39.19\00:07:42.22 RESPOND TO AND WE WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THE QUESTION AND BEGIN 00:07:42.22\00:07:45.16 WRITING EVEN NOW BECAUSE WE WANT TO TAKE YOUR OPINION ON SOME OF 00:07:45.16\00:07:47.50 THE THINGS WE DISCUSSED. I NEED TO WARN YOU, I CANNOT SAY 00:07:47.50\00:07:50.83 IT's A TRICK QUESTION, BUT I WILL SAY IT IS A LOADED QUESTION 00:07:50.83\00:07:56.14 AND DEE THE AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT SOME ASPECTS OF THIS. 00:07:56.14\00:08:00.94 HERE's THE QUESTION WE WANT YOU TO RESPOND TO. 00:08:00.94\00:08:04.01 HOW WOULD YOU LIVE TODAY IF YOU KNEW THAT CHRIST WAS COMING 00:08:04.01\00:08:08.98 TOMORROW OR THAT THIS WAS YOUR LAST DAY? 00:08:08.98\00:08:12.05 IS HOW WOULD YOU ALTER YOUR ACTIVITIES? 00:08:12.05\00:08:16.69 HOW WOULD YOU ARRANGE YOUR DAY OR PROSECUTE YOUR DAY IF YOU 00:08:16.69\00:08:20.96 KNEW THIS WAS YOUR LAST DAY; HOW WOULD YOU STRUCTURE THAT DAY? 00:08:20.96\00:08:25.83 IT IS A LOADED QUESTION. BUT WE WANT YOUR HONEST 00:08:25.83\00:08:28.70 QUESTIONS. JUST GIVE US YOUR FIRST NAME. 00:08:28.70\00:08:30.51 WE DON'T WANT LAST NAMES. BUT WE WANT YOU TO E-MAIL. 00:08:30.51\00:08:33.94 WE'RE NOT TAKING PHONE CALLS TONIGHT. 00:08:33.94\00:08:35.28 WE WANT TO DO THIS JUST THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA. 00:08:35.28\00:08:41.65 E-MAIL US AT LIVE@3ABN.TV. PUT THE QUESTION BACK UP IF YOU 00:08:41.65\00:08:52.96 WILL JUST ONE MORE TIME. BRING THAT QUESTION BACK. 00:08:52.96\00:08:59.23 HOW WOULD YOU LIVE TODAY IF YOU KNEW THAT CHRIST WAS COMING 00:08:59.23\00:09:03.84 TOMORROW OR THAT THIS WAS YOUR LAST DAY? -PLAY WITH THAT JUST A 00:09:03.84\00:09:09.71 LITTLE BIT AND THEN SEND US YOUR ANSWERS. I'M VERY, VERY CURIOUS 00:09:09.71\00:09:12.51 TO SEE HOW YOU RESONATE WITH THAT QUESTION OR HOW THAT 00:09:12.51\00:09:16.79 QUESTION RESONATES WITH YOU THOSE OF US WHO ARE WATCHERS AND 00:09:16.79\00:09:20.09 LISTENERS, RESPOND TO THAT IF YOU WILL. AND BEGIN DOING SO 00:09:20.09\00:09:23.63 NOW. THE MORE WE GET THE MORE WE CAN RESPOND TO. 00:09:23.63\00:09:27.86 BECAUSE WE'RE VERY CURIOUS PARTICULAR ASPECT WHERE WE LIVE 00:09:27.86\00:09:30.57 AND HOW WE ARE WORKING OUR WAY TO THE END OF THIS EARTH's 00:09:30.57\00:09:34.60 HISTORY. COUPLE OTHER THINGS I WANT TO 00:09:34.60\00:09:38.74 DO. PERHAPS I WILL GO NOW TO OUR 00:09:38.74\00:09:41.84 MUSIC AND WE CAN TAKE A BREAK AND THEN COME BACK AND SORT OF 00:09:41.84\00:09:45.91 WADE INTO -- BECAUSE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT I WANT TO 00:09:45.91\00:09:50.12 READ AS WE SET UP WHAT WE WANT TO DO. 00:09:50.12\00:09:52.42 OUR MUSIC TODAY IS COMING OUR GOOD BUDDY TIM WHO IS GOING TO 00:09:52.42\00:10:02.23 BE PLAYING "ONLY TRUST HIM." 00:10:02.23\00:10:11.74 >> WELL DONE. "ONLY TRUST HIM" I'M IN THE 00:13:18.23\00:13:22.83 COMPANY OF PASTOR. I THINK I'M GOING TO START 00:13:22.83\00:13:28.97 CALLING YOU PASTOR. AND WE'RE GOING TO WADE INTO 00:13:28.97\00:13:34.11 THOUGHTS ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD. 00:13:34.11\00:13:35.98 I WANT TO READ SOMETHING FROM CHRISTIAN EDUCATION THAT's 00:13:35.98\00:13:39.81 INTERESTING THAT YOU BROUGHT SOME THINGS FROM EDUCATION ALSO. 00:13:39.81\00:13:45.79 GREAT PAINS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO KEEP THIS SUBJECT BEFORE THE 00:13:45.79\00:13:51.13 PEOPLE. THE SOLEMN FACT IS TO BE KEPT 00:13:51.13\00:13:53.13 NOT ONLY BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD BUT BEFORE OUR OWN 00:13:53.13\00:13:58.33 CHURCHES ALSO. THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL 00:13:58.33\00:14:01.90 COME SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY. THE FEARFUL WARNING OF THE 00:14:01.90\00:14:08.74 PROPHETS TO EVERY SOUL IS TO EVERY SOUL. 00:14:08.74\00:14:12.31 LET NO ONE FEEL THAT HE IS SECURE FROM THE DANGER OF BEING 00:14:12.31\00:14:19.62 SURPRISED. LET NO ONE's INTERPRETATION OF 00:14:19.62\00:14:25.49 PROPHECY AND THE CONVICTION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF EVENTS WOULD 00:14:25.49\00:14:28.63 SHOW THAT THIS GREAT EVENT IS NEAR AT HAND. 00:14:28.63\00:14:34.34 THIS IS PAGE 336 WRITTEN 1895. JUST A COUPLE MORE. 00:14:34.34\00:14:38.41 THERE ARE MANY WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES 00:14:38.41\00:14:41.58 RELATING TO THESE DAYS AND THEY MUST BE INLIGTED AND DUTY OF 00:14:41.58\00:14:47.65 BOTH WATCHMAN AND LAYMAN TO GIVE THE TRUMP ANT A CERTAIN SOUND. 00:14:47.65\00:14:53.22 GIVE THE MESSAGE WHICH IS PRESENT TRUTH FOR THIS TIME AND 00:14:53.22\00:14:57.53 LET US SHOW THE PEOPLE WHERE WE ARE IN PROPHETIC HISTORY. 00:14:57.53\00:15:03.53 SO THE IDEA -- THE FACT THAT CHRIST IS COMING SOON IS TO BE 00:15:03.53\00:15:07.07 SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO REVISIT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND 00:15:07.07\00:15:12.44 AGAIN, BECAUSE AS ROMANS 12:2 TELLS US IT's FAIRLY EASY TO BE 00:15:12.44\00:15:17.18 OVERCHARGED WITH THE CARES OF THIS WORLD. 00:15:17.18\00:15:18.75 YOU GOT TO EAT AND SUPPORT YOUR FAMILY AND THINGS THAT MUST BE 00:15:18.75\00:15:22.88 DONE AND EASY TO SORT OF LET THAT FLOAT TO THE SURFACE AND 00:15:22.88\00:15:29.92 UNAWARE OF THE FACT THAT ONE DAY ALL OF THIS WILL COME TO AN END. 00:15:29.92\00:15:32.79 WE DO WELL WHEN WE REMIND OURSELVES THAT CHRIST IS COMING 00:15:32.79\00:15:36.83 SOON. THE CHURCH HAS A RULE HAS ALWAYS 00:15:36.83\00:15:40.70 WORKED -- WE REVERSE THE TREND. WE START AT THE END AND WORK 00:15:40.70\00:15:51.41 BACK. YOU LOOK AT THE END AND YOU 00:15:51.41\00:15:53.35 PREPARE FOR THAT END. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT's GOING TO 00:15:53.35\00:15:59.59 BE BUT IT OUGHT TO BE DONE SO WITH THE END IN MIND. 00:15:59.59\00:16:03.16 YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE END IN MIND BECAUSE THAT's WHAT WE ARE 00:16:03.16\00:16:10.63 LIVING FOR. I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO HARRY 00:16:10.63\00:16:23.14 TRUMAN. THIS IS NOT THE HARRY TRUMAN.-pTHE S IN HARRY S. 00:16:23.14\00:16:34.02 TRUMAN DOESN'T STAND FOR ANYTHING. IT'S JUST S. 00:16:34.02\00:16:35.69 HE HAD A FATHER-IN-LAW AND ANOTHER RELATIVE WHOSE NAMES 00:16:35.69\00:16:41.03 WERE S. SO WHEN HE WAS BORN, HIS PARENTS 00:16:41.03\00:16:43.67 PUT AN S SO THAT BOTH OF THEM WOULD THINK THAT HE WAS NAMED 00:16:43.67\00:16:50.54 AFTER THEM. IT DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING SO 00:16:50.54\00:16:52.21 EVERYBODY WAS HAPPY. THE BUT THIS IS HARRY R. TRUMAN 00:16:52.21\00:16:57.58 AND LET ME READ WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT HIM. 00:16:57.58\00:17:00.22 VERY FEW PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT HARRY R. TRUMAN. 00:17:00.22\00:17:02.62 HE'S NOT THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 00:17:02.62\00:17:05.89 HE LIVED IN A LODGE CALLED SPIRIT LAKE LODGE. 00:17:05.89\00:17:09.42 THAT's BROTHER TRUMAN RIGHT THERE. 00:17:09.42\00:17:14.13 THE ONLY ONE LEFT IN THE LODGE. THEY KNEW AND UNDERSTOOD THAT 00:17:14.13\00:17:18.93 MOUNT ST. HELENS WAS GOING TO EXPLODE IN MAY OF 1981 FOR QUITE 00:17:18.93\00:17:23.64 A WHILE. THEY SAW THE SHAPE OF THE 00:17:23.64\00:17:29.64 MOUNTAIN CHANGING. THERE WERE A LOT OF SEISMIC 00:17:29.64\00:17:33.68 ACTIVITIES GOING ON. THERE WERE MEN AND WOMAN GOING 00:17:33.68\00:17:36.02 UP THERE STUD 80ING THESE THINGS. 00:17:36.02\00:17:38.15 IT WAS FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN AND UNDERSTOOD THIS MOUNTAIN WAS 00:17:38.15\00:17:40.46 GOING TO GO AND WHEN IT ID GO IT WAS GOING TO GO LARGE. 00:17:40.46\00:17:45.16 MOST OF THE HOTELS AND MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE IMMEDIATE 00:17:45.16\00:17:50.23 VICINITY EVACUATED. HAIRY TRUMAN ALMOST LIVED AT THE 00:17:50.23\00:17:54.84 BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN. ONLY ONE LEFT AND HE WOULD NOT 00:17:54.84\00:17:57.64 LEAVE. THEY TRIED TO GET HIM TO LEAVE. 00:17:57.64\00:17:59.24 HE WAS 84 YEARS OF AGE. JUST KIND OF HARD HEADED. 00:17:59.24\00:18:06.68 AND WOULDN'T GO. THE SIGNS WERE THERE AND HE 00:18:06.68\00:18:09.05 WOULDN'T LEAVE. OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T FIND HIS 00:18:09.05\00:18:12.29 BODY. THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT. 00:18:12.29\00:18:14.99 COUPLE OTHER GEOLOGISTS WERE THERE THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT 00:18:14.99\00:18:20.06 EITHER. HE HAD AMPLE WARNING. 00:18:20.06\00:18:21.80 THERE WAS NO NEED TO BE LOST EXCEPT HIS OWN STUBBORNNESS 00:18:21.80\00:18:33.61 THERE ARE SIGNS AND WARNINGS. SO GOD IS NOT TRYING TO SNEAK 00:18:33.61\00:18:42.08 ANYTHING ON US. HE WANTS US TO BE AWARE THAT THE 00:18:42.08\00:18:44.45 TIME IS SHORT. SO THERE ARE SIGNS AND SIGNS AND 00:18:44.45\00:18:48.12 SIGNS AND SIGNS ALL OF WHICH SAY CHRIST IS COMING SOON. 00:18:48.12\00:18:52.69 AND IF WE WILL HEED THESE SIGNS WE CAN BE READY FOR THE SECOND 00:18:52.69\00:18:55.90 COMING OF THE LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. 00:18:55.90\00:19:39.51 THERE WERE MANY WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE IN THAT DATE EITHER AND 00:19:39.51\00:19:42.88 HOW THOSE WHO WERE WAITING FOR THATTIC ITLER DATE THOUGHT IT 00:19:42.88\00:19:47.52 WAS THE LAST DAY. SOME PRETTY MUCH LIVED THEIR 00:19:47.52\00:19:50.39 LIVES LIKE THEY WERE ALWAYS DOING. 00:19:50.39\00:19:52.79 OTHERS PRAYD AND WAITED QUIETLY AND SOME SOLD BUSINESSES AND 00:19:52.79\00:19:56.42 OTHER LEFT POTATOES IN THE FIELD. 00:19:56.42\00:20:01.46 WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU THOUGHT IT WAS YOUR LAST DAY IFYOU 00:20:01.46\00:20:04.20 THOUGHT CHRIST WAS COMING TOMORROW. 00:20:04.20\00:20:07.47 HOW WOULD YOU LIVE THAT DAY IF TOMORROW MORNING CHRIST WAS 00:20:07.47\00:20:11.27 GOING TO BE HERE. TRUTH TO BE TOLD WE NEED TO PREPARE FOR THAT 00:20:11.27\00:20:15.04 DAY BECAUSE THAT's THE BIGGEST EVENT EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE 00:20:15.04\00:20:26.19 WORLD. GENTLEMEN, WHO WANTS TO WEIGH IN 00:20:26.19\00:20:28.02 ON THIS? IS>> YOU REMINDED ME OF TWO 00:20:28.02\00:20:36.13 GUYS THAT WERE INTERVIEWED DURING THE TIME WHEN THE 00:20:36.13\00:20:38.87 HURRICANE WAS GOING THROUGH NEW ORLEANS. 00:20:38.87\00:20:41.17 I THINK IT WAS NEW ORLEANS. AND THEY SHOWED LINES AND LINES 00:20:41.17\00:20:46.11 OF CARS OF PEOPLE LEAVING THE AREA AND SO THE NEWS PEOPLE WERE 00:20:46.11\00:20:51.38 TRYING TO INTERVIEW PEOPLE ABOUT THEM LEAVING BUT THEY SHOWED TWO 00:20:51.38\00:20:57.15 GUYS AND THEY ASKED THEM, SO, WHY AREN'T YOU LEAVING? 00:20:57.15\00:21:00.16 IS OH, NO, WE'RE GOING TO STAY HERE. WE'RE GOING TO RIDE OUT 00:21:00.16\00:21:04.83 THIS STORM. BUT THIS IS A BIG STORM. 00:21:04.83\00:21:07.13 ARE YOU SURE -- OH, YEAH, WE'RE GOING TO RIDE OUT THIS STORM. 00:21:07.13\00:21:11.13 I SAID, MAN, IN MY MIND I SAID THIS IS A HUGE MISTAKE. 00:21:11.13\00:21:17.31 BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW THE FORCE OF THE WINDS THAT ARE COMING. 00:21:17.31\00:21:22.41 THEY WERE STRONG WINDS, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT ALL THIS. 00:21:22.41\00:21:27.15 ONCE IT HITS YOU YOU THINK YOU'RE READY. 00:21:27.15\00:21:29.35 BUT WHEN THE FORCE OF THE WIND KNOWS, WHAT YOU THINK AS THE 00:21:29.35\00:21:34.82 PREPARATION YOU HAVE MADE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH. 00:21:34.82\00:21:37.03 SO I SAID BOY, I SURE HOPE THESE GUYS SURVIVE AND OF COURSE THE 00:21:37.03\00:21:42.06 NEWS NEVER CAME THROUGH TO FIND OUT, HEY, YOU STAYED HERE AND 00:21:42.06\00:21:46.94 YOU SURVVED. I NEVER FOUND OUT WHAT HAPPENED 00:21:46.94\00:21:49.87 TO THESE GUYS. BUT FOR ME IT WAS A QUESTION IN 00:21:49.87\00:21:56.88 MY MIND WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT KNOWING THE DANGER THAT YOU 00:21:56.88\00:22:02.95 ARE IN AND LIKEWISE IN THE SECOND COMING THE LORD TALKS 00:22:02.95\00:22:05.05 ABOUT THE SIGNS FOR THE SECOND COMING AND SO, THE QUESTION 00:22:05.05\00:22:10.19 COMES TO US WHY WOULD YOU NOT PREPARE? 00:22:10.19\00:22:14.76 BECAUSE THE BLESSING OF BEING PREPARED IS THE BLESSING OF 00:22:14.76\00:22:18.17 GIVING YOUR HEART TO THE LORD IS THAT YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY 00:22:18.17\00:22:24.14 WITHOUT PAIN, SUFFERING, SICKNESS AND DEATH. 00:22:24.14\00:22:26.88 AND THAT SHOULD HAVE BE THE MOTIVATING FACTOR. 00:22:26.88\00:22:38.69 YOUR LOVE FOR THE LORD SHOULD SUSTAIN YOU FOR WHATEVER 00:22:38.69\00:22:46.26 CIRCUMSTANCES YOU FACE. I REMEMBER THE WORDS, I KNOW 00:22:46.26\00:22:55.84 THAT MY REDEEMER -- JOBE, HE SAID THINGS LIKE, THOUGH HE SLAY 00:22:55.84\00:23:03.14 ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM. THAT's LOVE FOR GOD. 00:23:03.14\00:23:10.49 >> IMPORTANT POINT. THE ONLY THING THAT CAN HOLD US 00:23:10.49\00:23:13.02 IS A PREEXISTING CONDITION. IN MEDICINE, A PREEXISTING 00:23:13.02\00:23:18.33 CONDITION CAN GET TO YOU KICKED OFF YOUR PLAN, BUT IN THE 00:23:18.33\00:23:25.20 SPIRITUAL REALM A PREEXISTING CONDITION IS NECESSARY TO BE AN 00:23:25.20\00:23:29.37 OVERCOMER IN THIS LIFE. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A WORKING 00:23:29.37\00:23:35.11 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD, THE LURE OF HEAVEN AND WE 00:23:35.11\00:23:38.45 WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS -- I MENTIONED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, 00:23:38.45\00:23:41.38 IT's NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH TO KEEP YOU. 00:23:41.38\00:23:48.02 THE THOUGHT OF SOMEPLACE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN, YOU REALLY DON'T 00:23:48.02\00:23:50.26 KNOW WHAT's THERE AND YOU GOT A LOOMING TEMPTATION IN FRONT OF 00:23:50.26\00:23:55.30 YOU THE IDEA OF HEAVEN WON'T KEEP YOU. 00:23:55.30\00:24:15.58 NEED SOMETHING THAT CAN GET IN YOUR HEART AND HEAD AND HOLD YOU 00:24:15.58\00:24:18.79 AND THAT's LOVING CHRIST. HE DIDN'T SAY HE CAN'T GO TO 00:24:18.79\00:24:29.96 HEAVEN. >> I WAS TEACHING AT HERITAGE 00:24:29.96\00:24:32.83 ACADEMY AND TEACHING A CLASS -- I WAS DOING THE DOCTRINES OF THE 00:24:32.83\00:24:39.07 7TH DAYED A 5-SEVENTIST CHURCH. I GOT TO THE LAW OF GOD IS AT 00:24:39.07\00:24:51.02 THAT TIME ONE OF THE BOOKS WAS THIS WHITE SIMPLE LOOKING BOOK 00:24:51.02\00:24:59.89 THERE WAS SERMON FROM SOMEONE IN THERE I NEVER HEARD OF LEWIS R. 00:24:59.89\00:25:05.30 WALTON WHO IS A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE. 00:25:05.30\00:25:07.57 BUT IT WAS CALLED THE ROLE OF THE LAW IN SALVATION. 00:25:07.57\00:25:10.04 WHAT's HE GOTTO SAY AND HE MAKES THIS AMAZING POINT THAT 00:25:10.04\00:25:12.74 THE DESIRE FOR HEAVEN OR THE FEAR OF HELL BOTH KIND OF PANDER 00:25:12.74\00:25:19.01 TO THE SAME INSTINCT AND THAT SATAN CAN WORK TOWARDS THAT SAME 00:25:19.01\00:25:22.72 INSTINCT AND TRIP US UP. IT'S AN AMAZING PREMISE. 00:25:22.72\00:25:26.82 HE SAYS WHEN SOMEONE IS LOOKING TO AVOID THE PERILS OF HELL HE 00:25:26.82\00:25:32.33 SAYS THIS ONE SUBSTANCE SEEMS TO EMERGE AND HE USES THE WORD EGO 00:25:32.33\00:26:03.36 EGOCENTRICITY, SELF CENTERNESS. SATAN CAN TEMPT US TO SOMETHING 00:26:03.36\00:26:04.83 AND HE HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF PROXIMITY. 00:26:04.83\00:26:05.86 SO WE GET THE REWARD OF SOMETHING RIGHT NOW FROM HIM 00:26:05.86\00:26:08.00 BECAUSE HEAVEN IS FAR OFF. WE'LL ABANDON OUR FUTURE 00:26:08.00\00:26:10.77 AMBITION FOR WHAT HE HAS TO OFFER NOW AND SAME THING GOES 00:26:10.77\00:26:13.07 FOR FEAR. HE CAN MAKE US AFRAID OF PEER 00:26:13.07\00:26:16.60 PRESSURE. HE ASKED THE QUESTION IN THE 00:26:16.60\00:26:17.91 CONTEXT OF YOUTH. HE WONDERS IF THIS IS WHY SO 00:26:17.91\00:26:20.78 MANY OF THE YOUTH FAIL IN THE FACE OF PEER PRESSURE BECAUSE 00:26:20.78\00:26:24.48 YOU MAY BE AFRAID OF HELL BUT THAT HE A LONG WAY FROM NOW AND 00:26:24.48\00:26:26.92 I HAVE THE REJECTION OF MY FRIENDS RIGHT NOW YOU AND MAKE 00:26:26.92\00:26:30.59 UP MAKING DECISIONS INSTEAD OF THE IMMEDIATE INSTEAD OF THE 00:26:30.59\00:27:05.65 ETERNAL. HE HROUFZ AND HE'LL FORGIVE FOR 00:27:05.65\00:27:08.42 YOUR SINS AND THEN THERE IS THE BY-PRODUCT BY THE WAY YOU'RE 00:27:08.42\00:27:15.96 GOING TO LIVE ETERNALLY AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE HAPPINESS 00:27:15.96\00:27:23.47 THROUGHOUT ETERNITY. THAT's THE REASON WHY MANY WHY 00:27:23.47\00:27:31.38 PEOPLE HAVE JOINED THE CHURCH OR DECIDED TO JOIN JESS. 00:27:31.38\00:27:34.35 THE BIBLE DOES SAY WHEN PERSECUTIONS COME AND ALL THESE 00:27:34.35\00:27:41.76 THINGS THEN YOU'LL WEED OUT WHO IS GOING TO BE A TRUE FOLLOWER 00:27:41.76\00:27:48.73 OF CHRIST ONLY MOTIVATION STRONG ENOUGH IS THE LOVE OF GOD. 00:27:48.73\00:27:51.67 FEAR CAN GET YOU STARTED BUT TAKES LOVE TO KEEP YOU GOING AND 00:27:51.67\00:27:56.40 I KNOW THAT BECAUSE MY MOM GOT SCARED INTO THE CHURCH. 00:27:56.40\00:28:09.18 I KNEW MY MOTHER WAS READY. SHE WAS ONE OF THOSE HOLIDAY 00:28:09.18\00:28:14.66 METHODISTS, EASTR, CHRISTMAS, THAT KIND OF THING. 00:28:14.66\00:28:17.16 BUT SH HAD RESPECT FOR IT AND THEED A 50-SEVENTIST CHURCH AND 00:28:17.16\00:28:24.40 T DOCTRINE. 00:28:24.40\00:28:42.38 I TOO BEEN HER TO HELL AND HELD HER OVER THE FLAME AND I TOOK 00:28:42.38\00:28:43.82 HER TO HEAVEN AND THE CROSS. I DID EVERYTHING AND SHE WAS -- 00:28:43.82\00:28:45.22 SHE IS SITTING AND ROCKING AND CRYING AND ROCKING CAN CRYING 00:28:45.22\00:28:46.65 AND I KNOW SHE'S READY TO GO. I CAN'T GET HER OUT OF THAT 00:28:46.65\00:28:49.72 SEAT. I WALKED DOWN AND WALKED DOWN 00:28:49.72\00:28:52.63 AND PUT MY HAND ON HER SHOULDERS AND WALKED BOY HER AND SHE'S 00:28:52.63\00:29:00.84 ROCKING AND CRYING. FEAR CAN GET YOU STARTED BUT 00:29:00.84\00:29:24.76 IT's NOT STRONG ENOUGH MOTIVATION. 00:29:24.76\00:29:27.20 THIS GANG WILL BEAT ME UP MAYBE I'LL TAKE THE BEATING FROM THE 00:29:27.20\00:29:30.53 ONE GUY. I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE KIDS MY 00:29:30.53\00:29:33.90 MOTHER HAD A WEAPON OF PUNISHMENT CALLED THE STRAP. 00:29:33.90\00:29:36.91 ABOUT 3 FEET LONG AND INCH WIDE AND 2 INCHES THICK AND SHE SAID 00:29:36.91\00:29:40.68 GO GET THE STRAP. IT WAS ALWAYS UNDER THE BED IN 00:29:40.68\00:29:43.98 THE BEDROOM. WE REPENALTIED. 00:29:43.98\00:29:49.95 WE SAW THE LORD. IT WAS THE FATE, THE PUNISHMENT 00:29:49.95\00:30:03.26 THAT HE HAD ILLICIT UPON HIMSELF. 00:30:03.26\00:30:05.57 YOU CAN MAKE SOMEONE FEEL BAD FOR DOING WRONG BY PUNISHMENT. 00:30:05.57\00:30:09.27 BUT WHAT WILL KEEP YOU FROM DOING WRONG IS LOVE FOR CHRIST. 00:30:09.27\00:30:12.54 >> I WANT TO JUMP ON ONE MORE POINT OF THIS AND THIS IS EMMA 00:30:12.54\00:30:21.38 WHITE's MOTHER. IT WASN'T A BIBLICAL TEACHING 00:30:21.38\00:30:25.25 AND THEY WERE GROWING ON THIS. INSTEAD OF PREVENTING THE 00:30:25.25\00:30:43.37 SALVATION OF SINNERS IT WILL BE THE MEANS OF WINNING THEM TO 00:30:43.37\00:30:45.67 CHRIST. IF THE LOVE OF GOD WILL NOT 00:30:45.67\00:30:49.64 INDUCE THE YIELD THE TEARERS OF AN ETERNAL HELL WILL NOT DRIVE 00:30:49.64\00:30:53.52 THEM. IT DOES NOT SEEM THE PROPER WAY 00:30:53.52\00:30:56.38 TO WIN SOULS TO JESUS BY APPEALING TO ONE OF THE LOWEST 00:30:56.38\00:31:03.39 ATTRIBUTE OF THE MIND ABDUCT FEAR. 00:31:03.39\00:31:19.11 >> WHEN PEOPLE REALIZE THAT AS THE SONG SAYS AMAZING GRACE, 00:31:19.11\00:31:25.78 THAT SAVE THE WRETCH LIKE ME, WHEN PEOPLE COME TO THAT 00:31:25.78\00:31:28.78 REALIZATION IT's WHEN THEY WILL BE WILLING TO FOLLOW CHRIST. 00:31:28.78\00:31:31.45 >> AMEN. >> AND FOR THE RIGHT REASON. 00:31:31.45\00:31:34.76 BECAUSE HE HAS LOVED ME ENOUGH TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR ME AND 00:31:34.76\00:31:39.66 FORGIVE ME TO ARE MY SINS GOD DOESN'T JUST WANT TO FORGIVE FOR 00:31:39.66\00:31:46.33 YOUR SINS BUT HE WANTS TO CHANGE YOU. 00:31:46.33\00:31:48.20 HE WANTS TO MAKE YOU RIGHTEOUS. THAT's SOMETHING THAT IS A 00:31:48.20\00:31:52.94 MIRACLE THAT TAKES PLACE EVERY DAY. 00:31:52.94\00:32:02.78 IF YOU TAKE A PIG YOU AND WASH HIM AND PUT BLEACH ON HIM AND 00:32:02.78\00:32:07.26 EVEN PUT THE FINEST PERFUME WHICH I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE IT 00:32:07.26\00:32:10.73 IS. BY THE WAY, PASTOR HAS SOME GOOD 00:32:10.73\00:32:14.10 SMELLING ONES, COLORADO HROPBZ, BUT IF YOU DO THIS AND GOD 00:32:14.10\00:32:31.88 DOESN'T WANT TO JUST FORGIVE US AND CLEANSE US. 00:32:31.88\00:32:35.32 HE WANTS TO MAKE US RIGHTEOUS. THAT's WHAT WE NEED TO COOPERATE 00:32:35.32\00:32:48.06 WITH THE LORD. YES, I THINK THE LOVE OF THE 00:32:48.06\00:32:52.17 LORD IS THE BEST THING TO PRESENT. 00:32:52.17\00:33:01.18 >> SHE DOESN'T SAY CONTEMPLATE THE FLAMES OF HELL FOR AN EVERY 00:33:01.18\00:33:06.21 DAY. THINK ABOUT BAD IT's GOING TO BE 00:33:06.21\00:33:07.88 FOR YOU IF YOU END UP IN HELL. SHE SAYS CONTEMPLATE THE LOVE OF 00:33:07.88\00:33:13.59 CHRIST AND SACRIFICE FOR YOU. THAT WILL MOTIVATE YOU TO DO 00:33:13.59\00:33:16.52 RIGHT AS OPPOSED TO THINKING ABOUT TURNING OVER LIKE A 00:33:16.52\00:33:20.93 BARBECUE PIT ABOUT THE FLAMES OF HELL. 00:33:20.93\00:33:22.40 THAT's NOT ENUGH TO KEEP YOU GOING. 00:33:22.40\00:33:25.90 THE YOU HAVE TWO PLACES WE CANNOT RELATE TO. 00:33:25.90\00:33:28.67 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HELL IS LIKE. WE DON'T. 00:33:28.67\00:33:30.51 NOT REALLY. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HEAVEN IS 00:33:30.51\00:33:32.67 LIKE. NOT REALLY. 00:33:32.67\00:33:33.38 >> WE CAN ONLY ASSUME. MAYBE EVEN PRESUME. 00:33:33.38\00:33:36.71 BUT WE DONT KNOW EITHER. THE FEAR OF HELL AND THE REWARD 00:33:36.71\00:33:41.02 OF HEAVEN NEITHER ARE ENOUGH. IT'S ONLY THE LOVE OF CHRIST 00:33:41.02\00:33:44.12 WHICH IS A LIVING THING WHICH IS ENOUGH TO KEEP YOU FROM SINNING. 00:33:44.12\00:33:50.26 >> I KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT HELL NOT TO DESIRE IT. 00:33:50.26\00:33:54.56 [LAUGHTER] >> I MEAN I HAVE DURING CERTAIN 00:33:54.56\00:33:57.50 TIMES OF MY LIFE BURNED MYSELF ON SOME HOT FLAME OR 00:33:57.50\00:34:02.87 ACCIDENTALLY PLACED MY HAND ON A HOT STOVE AND I KNOW IT's NOT 00:34:02.87\00:34:06.57 PLEASANT. SO THE BIBLE TALKS TO US ABOUT 00:34:06.57\00:34:09.01 THE WICKED BEING TOSSED INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE TO EXPERIENCE THE 00:34:09.01\00:34:15.42 REWARD FOR OUR SINS. AND EVENTUALLY THE BIBLE SAYS 00:34:15.42\00:34:19.49 THE WAGE OF SIN IS DEATH. BUT THERE IS A TIME OF SUFFERING 00:34:19.49\00:34:23.49 IN THE LAKE OF FIRE THAT IS DETERMINED BY THE AMOUNT OF OUR 00:34:23.49\00:34:26.43 SINS. AND THE GRAVITY OF OUR SINS BUT 00:34:26.43\00:34:28.36 THEN THE BIBLE SAYS THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. 00:34:28.36\00:34:31.93 SO, I KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT THAT TO SAY I DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE. 00:34:31.93\00:34:47.95 THESE ARE SOME OF THE RESPONSES COMING IN TO THE QUESTION, IF 00:34:47.95\00:34:51.72 YOU PUT THAT QUESTION BACK UP ON THE SCREEN FOR ME HERE's THE 00:34:51.72\00:34:54.29 QUESTION WE ARE WRESTLING WITH JUST NOW. 00:34:54.29\00:34:58.49 HOW WOULD YOU LIVE TODAY -- WHAT WOULD YOU DO TODAY IF YOU KNEW -THAT CHRIST WAS COMING TOMORROW 00:34:58.49\00:35:04.43 OR THAT THIS DAY WAS YOUR LAST DAY? 00:35:04.43\00:35:10.71 HOW WOULD YOU PROSECUTE THIS PARTICULAR DAY GIVING THE 00:35:10.71\00:35:13.44 UNDERSTANDING THIS DAY WAS YOUR LAST DAY? 00:35:13.44\00:35:15.84 HOW WOULD YOU LIVE THIS DAY? REMEMBER, WE SAID IT IS NOT A 00:35:15.84\00:35:19.15 TRICK QUESTION, BUT IT IS A LOADED QUESTION. 00:35:19.15\00:35:21.38 A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION. WHAT WOULD YOU DO TODAY AND 00:35:21.38\00:35:25.32 WE'RE NOT SAYING WHAT WOULD YOU DIFFERENTLY BUT WHAT WOULD YOU 00:35:25.32\00:35:27.89 TODAY IF YOU KNEW THIS WAS YOUR LAST DAY AND CHRIST WAS COMING 00:35:27.89\00:35:32.53 TOMORROW. SOONER OR LATER WE'LL GET TO 00:35:32.53\00:35:35.10 MATTHEW 24 BECAUSE WHENEVER YOU TALK ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF 00:35:35.10\00:35:37.57 THE LORD IN PREPARATION FOR THAT, YOU CAN HARDLY AVOID 00:35:37.57\00:35:40.90 MATTHEW 24. BUT WE'RE TRYING TO SET SOME 00:35:40.90\00:35:43.61 GROUNDWORK HERE. THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE MUST LEAVE 00:35:43.61\00:35:46.04 EACH DAY IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING THAT CHRIST IS 00:35:46.04\00:35:48.58 COMING VERY, VERY SOON. AND WE MUST BE PREPARED FOR THAT 00:35:48.58\00:35:53.72 COMING. AND PREPARE AS BEST WE CAN TO 00:35:53.72\00:35:58.99 THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD. GENTLEMEN, ANYONE WANT TO WEIGH 00:35:58.99\00:36:14.24 IN ON THIS AT THI POINT? >> WE TALKED ABOUT THE LOVE OF 00:36:14.24\00:36:18.21 GOD THAT's GOING TO KEEP US. WE'RE TOLD HOW TO EXPERIENCE 00:36:18.21\00:36:24.21 THAT. WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST 00:36:24.21\00:36:37.19 LOVED US. SO I THINK IT A's GOOD PLACE TO 00:36:37.19\00:36:39.69 START IF WEIGH WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE READY WE NEED TO DWELL AS 00:36:39.69\00:36:47.10 REGULARLY AS POSSIBLE UPON THE PRICE THAT CHRIST HAS PAID FOR 00:36:47.10\00:36:52.51 US. >> I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION WE'RE 00:36:52.51\00:36:54.01 TALKING ALSO ABOUT THE SECOND COMING. 00:36:54.01\00:37:00.22 EVEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE OLD TESTAMENT THE MESSAGE IS THERE 00:37:00.22\00:37:03.18 ABOUT THE SECOND COMING. THIS IS JOBE 19:25 BEGINNING 00:37:03.18\00:37:19.57 THERE. FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER 00:37:19.57\00:37:23.61 LIVES AND HE SHALL STAND AT LAST ON THE EARTH AND AFTER MY SKIN 00:37:23.61\00:37:27.41 IS DESTROYED THIS I KNOW THAT IN MY FLESH I SHALL SEE GOD. 00:37:27.41\00:37:41.62 AT THE VERY END WHEN THIS WORLD WAS CONSUMED I'LL SEE MY 00:37:41.62\00:37:45.86 REDEEMER AND OF COURSE I HAD ANOTHER ONE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO 00:37:45.86\00:37:49.86 MENTION IT MENTIONS AN OLD TESTAMENT INDIIDUAL AND IT 00:37:49.86\00:37:55.67 SAYS, JUDE 14 CHAPTER 114. TO CONVICT ALL WHO ARE UN-GODLY 00:37:55.67\00:38:09.52 AND ALL OF THEIR UN-GODLY DEEDS WHICH THEY HAVE COMMITTED IN AN 00:38:09.52\00:38:16.19 UN-GODLY WAY. WE HAVE THE MESSAGE THERE. 00:38:16.19\00:38:21.06 >> I NEED TO MENTION ALSO THAT WHEN WE PUT THIS PROGRAM 00:38:21.06\00:38:25.57 TOGETHER, WE CONCEDED OR ASKED TO PRODUCE IT AS A GUY's NIGHT 00:38:25.57\00:38:28.94 OUT. WE'VE GOT GUYS HERE TODAY. 00:38:28.94\00:38:30.57 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE PASTOR AND HE'S LITERALLY ON THE OTHER SIDE 00:38:30.57\00:38:34.48 OF THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. HE'S FAR, FAR AWAY. 00:38:34.48\00:38:38.91 HE'S IN NEW GUINEA. HE'S FAR, FAR AWAY AND SOME OF 00:38:38.91\00:38:45.49 THE OTHERS ARE SERVING THE LORD. I'M JUST GLAD THAT DEE POPPED IN 00:38:45.49\00:38:58.23 AND YOU JUST GOT BACK HOURS AGO. GIVE US A FLAVOR BUT THE TEXT I 00:38:58.23\00:39:09.08 WANT TO GO TO BEFORE WE READ THESE THINGS IS 1 JOHN 1:7. 00:39:09.08\00:39:20.72 BECAUSE IT SAYS, BUT IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT AS HE IS IN THE 00:39:20.72\00:39:24.56 LIGHT, WE ARE FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER AND THE BLOOD OF 00:39:24.56\00:39:28.33 CHRIST, HIS SON, CLEANSES US FROM ALL SIN. 00:39:28.33\00:39:30.97 AS WE PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF 00:39:30.97\00:39:34.00 THINGS WE NEED TO DO. ONE WE NEED TO FIND LIGHT AND 00:39:34.00\00:39:39.51 BACK IN THAT LIGHT. YOU'RE DUTY AS A CHILD OF GOD 00:39:39.51\00:39:42.58 AND CHRISTIAN AND HUMAN BEING IS TO FIND LIGHT AND WALK IN THAT 00:39:42.58\00:39:49.35 TRUTH. A COUPLE OF THINGS ARE 00:39:49.35\00:39:53.72 CONSEQUENTIAL OF WALKING IN TRUTH. 00:39:53.72\00:39:55.16 IF YOU WALK IN THE LIGHT YOU GET FELLOWSHIP. 00:39:55.16\00:39:57.29 THAT's WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE. THESE ARE MY FELL LOW. 00:39:57.29\00:40:02.43 IT IS WONDERFUL TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE WALKING 00:40:02.43\00:40:06.77 THE SAME ROAD I AM FEELING THE SAME PRESSURES AS I AM AS A 00:40:06.77\00:40:10.31 CHRISTIAN AND NON CHRISTIAN SOCIETY WHO CAN ENCOURAGE ME AND 00:40:10.31\00:40:12.87 WE CAN HAVE FELLOWSHIP ONE WITH ANOTHER. 00:40:12.87\00:40:15.58 TWO OF US ARE MARRIED AND ONE IS NOT. 00:40:15.58\00:40:18.41 AND WE'LL LEAVE IT THERE. SO, YOU'VE GOT A WIFE TO WALK 00:40:18.41\00:40:22.45 WITH YOU. BUT IT's ALSO GOOD TO HAVE GUY 00:40:22.45\00:40:26.96 FELLOWS TO WALK WITH YOU AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH TO 00:40:26.96\00:40:29.02 WALK WITH YOU TO HAVE A SOCIETY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WALKING THE 00:40:29.02\00:40:35.06 WAY YOU WALK AND WALKING AS YOU WALK WHO YOU CAN LEAN ON INS 00:40:35.06\00:40:38.37 TIMES OF TROUBLE AND ENCOURAGE YOU AND MOVING IN THE SAME 00:40:38.37\00:40:41.07 DIRECTION AS YOU. SO ONE OF THE CONSEQUENCES THE 00:40:41.07\00:40:44.44 BY-PRODUCTS OF WALKING IN CHRIST IS THAT YOU HAVE FELLOWSHIP ONE 00:40:44.44\00:40:48.84 WITH THE OTHER AND THE BLOOD OF CHRIST CLEANSES YOU FROM ALL 00:40:48.84\00:40:51.55 SINS. THAT's A PRETTY GOOD PACKAGE 00:40:51.55\00:40:53.38 THAT THE LORD ASSISTS YOU IN THE CHURCH IS WALKING YOU INTO A 00:40:53.38\00:41:14.20 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD THAT GOES TO THE WHOLE BIBLE AND 00:41:14.20\00:41:17.94 TEACHES TRUTH FROM THE BIBLE AND PRACTICES WHAT IT PREACHES. 00:41:17.94\00:41:22.51 THAT's PART OF YOUR DUTY AS A HUMAN BEING AND AS A WOULD BE 00:41:22.51\00:41:26.75 SAINT AND CHILD OF GOD. FIND A CHURCH. 00:41:26.75\00:41:32.19 YOU CAN SERVE THE LORD IN YOUR HOUSE BUT IT's DIFFICULT TO STAY 00:41:32.19\00:41:35.12 IN THE LORD AND STAY STRONG IN THE LORD AND GET ENCOURAGEMENT 00:41:35.12\00:41:40.30 YOU NEED READING A BIBLE BY YOURSELF. 00:41:40.30\00:41:43.70 SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GET OUT AND SHARE. 00:41:43.70\00:41:45.37 YOU WILL FIND IF YOUR SPIRITALITY IS FATIGUING SHARE 00:41:45.37\00:41:50.24 THE GOSPEL WITH SOMEBODY ELSE AND IN HELPING THEM YOU'LL DE 00:41:50.24\00:41:57.25 FACTO HELP YOURSELF. WHEN YOU MEET SOMEONE THAT IS 00:41:57.25\00:42:26.04 STRUGGLING WITH THE SAME THING THAT I WAS AND I REMEMBER IN 00:42:26.04\00:42:27.81 THAT MOMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME I FELT HUMAN. 00:42:27.81\00:42:31.88 I WAS NO LONGER JUST SOME LOSER OR ANIMAL. 00:42:31.88\00:42:35.52 SOMEONE UNDERSTOOD WHAT IT WAS I WAS CONTENDING AND I LIKE THAT 00:42:35.52\00:42:38.22 VERSE THAT's INCLUDED HERE BUT IT DOESN'T STOP THERE. 00:42:38.22\00:42:40.69 NO TEMPTATION IS OVERTAKEN YOU AND THEN HE SAYS BUT GOD IS 00:42:40.69\00:42:45.99 FAITHFUL. WHO NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TEMPTED 00:42:45.99\00:42:48.23 BEYOND WHAT YOU WERE ABLE BUT WITH THE TEMPTATION WILL MAKE 00:42:48.23\00:42:51.50 THE ESCAPE YOU MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT. 00:42:51.50\00:42:56.47 WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS WHAT IS IMPLIED EVERY TIME YOU'RE 00:42:56.47\00:42:59.57 ATTEMPTED TO SIN THERE IS A FORK IN THE ROAD AND THIS IMPLIES 00:42:59.57\00:43:02.11 THERE IS NEVER A TIME IN WHICH YOU'RE TEMPTED THAT YOU HAVE TO 00:43:02.11\00:43:04.95 SIN FIRST OF ALL. AND ONE OF THE MOST HELPFUL 00:43:04.95\00:43:08.45 ANALOGIES OF THIS HAS BEEN THE STORY OF THE WOMAN AT THE WELL. 00:43:08.45\00:43:12.25 IT HAS THIS STRANGE LINE IN JOHN CHAPTER 4 THAT JESUS IS ON HIS 00:43:12.25\00:43:16.52 WAY IN GALILEE AND HE NEEDS TO GO THROUGH SOME AREA. 00:43:16.52\00:43:30.51 IN ANYONE IS GOING TO BE U.S.A.ED IT's CERTAINLY NOT 00:43:30.51\00:43:33.11 THEM. THEY'RE LIKE THIS STRANGE HALF 00:43:33.11\00:43:34.74 BREED THAT WE WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH. 00:43:34.74\00:43:36.75 BUT JESUS NEEDS TO GO THERE, WHY? 00:43:36.75\00:43:39.31 BECAUSE THERE A WOMAN THERE WHO IS HURTING IN THE THROWS OF 00:43:39.31\00:43:42.32 TEMPTATION. HER MEANS OF ESCAPE FROM THE 00:43:42.32\00:43:45.19 BROKENNESS AND THE PERILS OF HER LIFE IS HER WATER POD. 00:43:45.19\00:43:48.96 THIS IS WHAT SHE DOES TO ESCAPE THE PROBLEMS SHE HAS. 00:43:48.96\00:43:52.83 WHEN SHE GOES TO THIS WELL IT's HIGH NOON AND BLAZING HOT 00:43:52.83\00:43:57.23 OUTSIDE AND NO ONE IN THE RIGHT MIND WOULD BE THERE AND THAT's 00:43:57.23\00:43:59.90 WHY SHE'S THERE. SHE'S RUNNING FROM HER PROBLEMS, 00:43:59.90\00:44:02.94 SHE'S HAD 5 HUSBANDS AND THE MAN SHE'S LIVING WITH NOW IS NOT HER 00:44:02.94\00:44:06.17 HUSBAND. BUT I LOVE THE FACT IT's JUST 00:44:06.17\00:44:09.08 LIKE JESUS TO SHOW UP TO OUR WELLS WHEN WE'RE RUNNING TO 00:44:09.08\00:44:12.48 ESCAPE THE PROBLEMS OF OUR LIVES AND WHAT HE SAYS WHAT I HAVE TO 00:44:12.48\00:44:16.25 OFFER IS VASTLY BETTER THAN WHAT YOU'RE COMING HERE FOR. 00:44:16.25\00:44:50.52 IT'S LITERALLY A LIFE LINE FROM HEAVEN WHERE HE'S TELLING YOU I 00:44:50.52\00:44:53.92 LOVE YOU. I BELIEVE IN YOU AND I'M 00:44:53.92\00:44:56.29 OFFERING YOU SOMETHING BETTER. IF WE VIEW CONVICTION IN THIS 00:44:56.29\00:45:00.06 LIGHT WE WOULDN'T DO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING AND I THINK THE 00:45:00.06\00:45:03.20 CONVICTION IS AN ALLY IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST SIN AND OUR 00:45:03.20\00:45:05.77 PREPARATION FOR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 00:45:05.77\00:45:16.98 I'M SURE MOST OF US CAN REMEMBER THAT WE KNEW OF AN ALTERNATIVE 00:45:16.98\00:45:20.38 IN THAT MOMENT. BUT WE CHOSE WRONGLY. 00:45:20.38\00:45:28.49 WHEN WE SAY WHY HE TO JESUS IN OUR MOMENTS OF TEMPTATION WE 00:45:28.49\00:45:34.86 DON'T DIE. IT'S NOT ALL THAT BAD. 00:45:34.86\00:45:37.40 WE REALIZE I DIDN'T DIE THE LAST TIME. 00:45:37.40\00:45:40.07 MAYBE I SHOULD RESPOND THIS TIME. 00:45:40.07\00:45:41.97 SO I THINK RESPONDING TO THE PROMPTING OF THE SPIRIT IS ONE 00:45:41.97\00:45:44.84 OF THE BEST WAYS WE CAN BE PREPARING CONVICTION TO MY MIND 00:45:44.84\00:45:58.69 IS THE UNDERSTANDING THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG. 00:45:58.69\00:46:03.02 YOU COME TO A POINT WHERE YOU'RE CONVICTED AND SOMETHING IS 00:46:03.02\00:46:05.93 WRONG. CHRIST NEVER LEAVES YOU AT 00:46:05.93\00:46:08.70 CONVICTION. BECAUSE HE WILL STATE TO YOU 00:46:08.70\00:46:11.27 DIRECTLY OR THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT SOMETHING IS WRONG. 00:46:11.27\00:46:14.60 BUT IN THE NEXT SENTENCE HE'S TELLING YOU HOW TO GET IT RIGHT. 00:46:14.60\00:46:16.74 IF YOU STAY AT CONVICTION YOU'LL BE DEPRESSED. 00:46:16.74\00:46:32.42 CONVICTION AND CONVERSION KIND OF LOOK ALIKE BUT THEY'RE NOT. 00:46:32.42\00:46:35.59 BECAUSE CONVICTION IS JUT GUILT RIDDEN BUT IF YOU STAY THERE 00:46:35.59\00:46:44.40 IT's GOING TO DEPRESS YOU AND YOU'RE GOING TO TURN YOUR BACK 00:46:44.40\00:46:47.74 ON THE LORD OR JUST KIND OF WASH OUT. 00:46:47.74\00:46:55.28 YOU GOT TO MOVE FOM CONVICTION TO CONVERSION. 00:46:55.28\00:46:57.08 BECAUSE CONVERSION IS GETTING IT RIGHT. 00:46:57.08\00:47:27.08 HE HAD GUILT BUT HE DIDN'T MOVE TO CONVERSION. 00:47:27.08\00:47:36.85 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TRUE REPENTANCE WHICH IS GODLY SORROW 00:47:36.85\00:47:43.59 FOR SIN AND THEN THERE IS THE DESIRE OF THE PERSON WHO IS BORN 00:47:43.59\00:47:47.30 IN GOD WHO SAYS I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT ANYMORE. 00:47:47.30\00:47:53.70 AND SO, THERE ARE SCRIPTURES THAT SAY JESUS THEY'RE ABOUT TO 00:47:53.70\00:48:03.88 THROW HIM OVER THE CLIFF. HE ESCAPED OUT OF THEIR HANDS. 00:48:03.88\00:48:22.00 HE HAS THIS GUILT BUT HE DOESN'T MOVE TO CONVICTION. 00:48:22.00\00:48:24.23 HE DOESN'T SEE JESUS 100% AS MY SAVIOR HE SEES HIM AS A GOOD MAN 00:48:24.23\00:48:34.58 THAT HAVE TAKEN THE THRONE BUT HE CHOSE NOT TO. 00:48:34.58\00:48:38.21 HE HAD ALL THE MAKINGS OF BEING THE KING RIGHT NOW BUT HE DIDN'T 00:48:38.21\00:49:17.69 GO. WE CONTINUE TO HOLD ON TO THIS 00:49:17.69\00:49:19.92 AND DON'T WANT TO GIVE IT UP. THERE'S THIS STRONG STRUGGLE 00:49:19.92\00:49:24.29 THAT WE HAVE THAT WE SAY BECAUSE WE TRY TO DO IT ON OUR OWN. 00:49:24.29\00:49:41.18 WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE LORD, AND YOU LET HIM RULE YOUR 00:49:41.18\00:49:44.55 LIFE YOU'RE GOING TO BE A VICTORIOUS CHRISTIAN. 00:49:44.55\00:50:28.92 SO WE LIVE THIS LIFE IN THE FLESH THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. 00:50:28.92\00:50:31.89 >> IT's THE LOVE OF CHRIST THAT COMPELS US. 00:50:31.89\00:50:51.18 HER IMMEDIATE REACTION WAS TO GO SHARE. 00:50:51.18\00:50:55.78 AND SHE BECAME A MANAGER FOR A KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 00:50:55.78\00:51:29.82 HE THOUGHT HE WOULD PICK UP A FEW COINS IN THE DEAL. 00:51:29.82\00:51:33.79 WE GET CHRIST TO TAKE THE THRONE AND TAKE OVER WHICH WE ALL KNOW 00:51:33.79\00:51:37.26 HE'S GOING TO DO AND HEY, I PICK UP SOME COINS. 00:51:37.26\00:51:42.63 GOOD DEAL. THEN WHEN CHRIST ALLOWED HIMSELF 00:51:42.63\00:51:46.30 TO BE TAKEN THE TRAIN CAME OFF THE TRACKS. 00:51:46.30\00:51:48.20 IF YOU LOOK AT JUDITH's SIN WHICH WAS GREED HE WAS A PRODUCT 00:51:48.20\00:51:53.17 OF A CULTURE THAT EVEN JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS NOT A -- JOHN THE 00:51:53.17\00:52:00.12 BAPTIST THOUGHT CHRIST WOULD SET OO OF COURSE JOHN THE BAPTIST's 00:52:00.12\00:52:04.59 DISCIPLES SAID, JESUS CAME TO SET THE PEOPLE FREE. 00:52:04.59\00:52:07.72 YOU AIN'T FREE. YOU'RE IN PRISON. 00:52:07.72\00:52:13.36 YOU'RE NOT FREE. HE'S GETTING DEPRESSED BECAUSE 00:52:13.36\00:52:20.17 HE THINKS CHRIST WILL DO THIS INCH THIS. 00:52:20.17\00:52:24.21 SO THEY'VE ALL GOT THAT. PETER DENIES HE'S EVEN PART OF 00:52:24.21\00:52:46.03 THIS WHOLE -- I DON'T KNOW THIS GUY. 00:52:46.03\00:52:57.11 BUT PETER CARRIES A LOT OF WEIGHT THERE. 00:52:57.11\00:53:03.58 2232. HE SAYS SATAN HAS DESIRED TO 00:53:03.58\00:53:06.55 SIFT YOU AS WHEAT. BUT I PRAYED FOR YOU WHEN YOU 00:53:06.55\00:53:13.19 ARE CONVERTED. HIS's APPROACH WAS THE SAME. 00:53:13.19\00:53:41.32 JESUS WASHES JUDAS's FEET AT THE LAST HOUR AND HE TURNS HIS BACK 00:53:41.32\00:53:44.52 ON JESUS AND THERE'S THIS MOMENT WHERE JESUS LOOKS THROUGH THE 00:53:44.52\00:53:49.49 COURTYARD AND MAKES EYE CONTACT WITH PETER. 00:53:49.49\00:53:51.73 WHAT HE SEES IS NOT SHAME AND CONDEMNATION. 00:53:51.73\00:53:54.46 WHAT HE SEES IS MERCY AND COMPASSION AND IT RECOLLECTS 00:53:54.46\00:53:57.23 HIM. AND THIS IS WHAT DRIVES PETER TO 00:53:57.23\00:53:59.70 CONVERSION. IT's THE GOODNESS OF GOD. 00:53:59.70\00:54:02.84 THE GOODNESS OF GOD LEADS TO REPENTANCE AND I BELIEVE THAT's 00:54:02.84\00:54:07.01 THE REPENTANCE THAT DOESN'T NEED TO BE REPENTED OF. 00:54:07.01\00:54:43.24 THE LORD AND TURNED AND LOOKED AT PETER AND THE LOOK SAID TO 00:54:43.24\00:54:46.08 HIM, PETER, I LOVE YOU. IT WASN'T I TOLD YOU PETER. 00:54:46.08\00:55:37.80 IN IDEA THAT CHRIST DOESN'T ALWAYS GIVE YOU WHAT YOU DESERVE 00:55:37.80\00:55:40.47 AT THAT POINT IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BREAK YOUR HEART. 00:55:40.47\00:55:44.24 LET's LOOK AT SIMON THE LEPER. WE FIND FROM JOHN CHAPTER 12 00:55:44.24\00:55:51.28 THAT JUDAS IS SIMON's SON. IT'S RIGHT THERE IN PLAIN SIGHT. 00:55:51.28\00:56:39.56 SIMON REALIZES THAT CHRIST KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON AND COULD 00:56:39.56\00:56:42.70 EXPOSE HIM AT HIS OWN PARTY SURROUNDED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE. 00:56:42.70\00:57:02.35 HE WAS HEALED AND I'LL USE MY TERM, HE WAS STILL A RAT. 00:57:02.35\00:57:08.89 HE HASN'T CHANGED BUT THE FACT THAT CHRIST DID NOT DO THAT THAT 00:57:08.89\00:57:12.66 BROKE HIS HEART AND HE DID BECOME A LOVING DISCIPLE BECAUSE 00:57:12.66\00:57:15.63 HE DIDN'T GET WHAT HE DESERVES AND THAT SHOWS THE LOVE AND 00:57:15.63\00:57:22.90 GOODNESS OF THE LORD. WE HAVE COME DOWN TO THE FIRST 00:57:22.90\00:57:37.19 END OF THE FIRST HOUR. I LOVE TALKING ABOUT THIS 00:57:37.19\00:57:39.12 SUBJECT. WE'LL COME BACK AND BEGIN 00:57:39.12\00:57:41.02 READING SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT YOU SENT IN. 00:57:41.02\00:57:43.26 AGAIN, SEND THEM IN AND WE'LL READ THEM. 00:57:43.26\00:57:45.46 WE'LL BE BACK IN TWO MINUTES AND TWO SECONDS. 00:57:45.46\00:58:01.58