Participants: Danny Shelton (Host), John Lomacang (Host), Doug Batchelor
Series Code: TLA
Program Code: TLA011506
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00:01 Hello and welcome to 3ABN Live.
01:02 Thank you for joining us as you do each 01:04 and everyday, and we especially love doing 01:07 this live program, don't we Pastor John? 01:08 Oh we sure do especially when 01:10 we have really good guest. 01:11 Well we do and tonight we have such 01:13 one, and do you this fellow that we have tonight? 01:15 Yeah he looks familiar I think have 01:16 seen him in the past before, my good 01:18 friend Pastor Doug Batchelor. 01:20 Hi Doug it's good to have you here tonight. 01:21 Good to be here Danny. 01:22 And coming all the way from California. 01:26 More directly from Nashville, but yes, 01:28 oh okay via California. Yeah, we hear you 01:30 have some meetings in Nashville and so 01:32 you just drove on up, yup. 01:34 Alright, we're glad that you are here, 01:36 and it's always a treat and pleasure to have 01:38 you and Doug for people John that literally, 01:42 how many years you been on in 3ABN approximately? 01:45 Well it must have been 17 years, 01:47 because it was just before Steven 01:48 was born and he is 17 now. 01:50 Yeah, I know this from getting a little 01:52 bit of handle on things, I really when 01:55 it comes to people writing letters or 01:56 saying we came to the truth, and came to the 01:59 Lord you know through 3ABN, 02:01 a good percentage at that time, your name 02:03 is mentioned among some of the other 02:05 fellows too, but almost always we hear, 02:08 thanks to Pastor Doug Batchelor. 02:09 So, Doug you have, God has blessed you, 02:12 you are tremendous communicator, 02:14 and God has given you a gift for that, 02:17 and of course your love for Jesus comes 02:18 out and you are person, I said to someone the 02:21 other day I said, if I ever really got in 02:23 trouble and I had to be somewhere before 02:26 anybody and I had to explain you know 02:28 myself I said I want to take Doug with me. 02:31 So, I take Doug Batchelor maybe he 02:32 could get me out if I am in a jam, oh yeah, 02:35 because he knows how to do it. 02:36 I will make it worse. No, you know Bob, 02:41 Bobby Davis said if he had a nickel for 02:43 every time somebody said you know Pastor 02:45 Doug, Pastor Doug he said he will be rich 02:47 man right now, yeah because of all the 02:49 people that watch and listen and take Bible 02:52 questions at all, yeah. Oh yeah, we had fun 02:55 throughout the years doing that together. 02:56 But, we are here and we are not trying to 02:58 lift up Doug Batchelor, but we are trying to 03:00 lift up the Jesus say amen, amen. 03:01 God has people on the frontlines; 03:03 we want you to pray for Pastor Doug. 03:05 I can't see all the hands at home but 03:07 I would love to say how many of you will 03:08 pray for Pastor Doug and Amazing Facts. 03:10 He is President of Amazing Facts, 03:12 and Amazing Facts as you have been there a 03:15 number of years, but it's been existence 03:17 since how many? 45 years now, 25 years, 03:20 45, 45 years yeah and. I've been there 16, 03:24 16 you have been that long, boy that's amazing. 03:27 And anyway we are glad that you are here 03:28 tonight and thank you at home for those of 03:30 you joining us as we said already that 03:33 thank you for your love and your prayers 03:35 and financial support of 3ABN as when we 03:38 will be able to take this gospel of 03:39 kingdom into all the world, it's been 20 03:42 over 26 years actually going on 27 Doug, 03:45 when the Lord impressed me to build a television 03:47 station to reach the world. 03:48 And thanks to people like yourself and 03:50 Pastor Lomacang and Pastor C.A. Murray 03:52 and the list goes on, that the undiluted 03:55 Three Angels messages is continuing to get to 03:58 the lost and dying world, amen. 04:00 There are many ways we can do it, many, 04:02 many ways that we can get the gospel to 04:04 the world and one of those is through music. 04:06 And John we have a special guest tonight 04:09 do you know the young lady that singing? 04:10 Oh yes, we have a wonderful song 04:12 Melody Firestone, she is gonna be singing 04:16 one of her newer song from her new CD, okay. 04:19 A song that I love very much 04:20 is entitled "Change Me Now". 04:41 You were denied, then crucified 04:51 Yet You prayed to Your father 04:55 To forgive us We caused you pain, 05:05 time and again Still You laid down Your life 05:13 Because You loved us I was guilty then, 05:22 here I am again Against You only 05:31 have I sinned So change me now 05:40 Never let my heart grow cold 05:46 Change me somehow Purify this needy soul 05:56 Look into my heart Tell me what You see 06:05 Cleanse me when You find Any wicked ways in me 06:14 With Your tender touch Lord, I need you 06:20 so much To change me now 06:30 The seeds I've sown, the deeds I've done 06:38 By the power of Your blood Please remove them 06:48 Restore my joy, I need you, Lord 06:56 I need more of Your love So You can use me 07:05 Will You search my heart? With Your holy light 07:16 Take every wrong and make it right Lord hear my cry 07:27 Please change me Never let this heart grow cold 07:37 Change me somehow Purify this needy soul 07:47 Will You look into my heart 07:51 Tell me what You see Cleanse me when 07:57 You find Any wicked way in me 08:05 This very hour Fill me with Your power 08:13 I want to be so close to You Jesus 08:18 Nothing stands between us With Your tender touch 08:26 Lord, I need You so much 08:31 To change me now Lord change me now 09:01 Thank you Melody that's still my baby 09:03 girl you know. Wonderful song too. 09:05 Well it is and she does a great job, 09:06 she is like Doug has a gift for communication. 09:10 She used to talk very little and I don't know 09:12 now she is kind of coming out of her 09:13 shell I said she may end up hosting some 09:15 programs here Doug who know. 09:17 I told her that she laugh, but I said hey 09:19 you are starting to talk some and you got a 09:21 lot to say and I appreciate Melody 09:23 and Greg and all the grand kids, 09:26 I mean they are just wonderful and it's great. 09:28 Once again it's good to have Pastor Doug 09:30 Batchelor here with Amazing Facts. 09:33 Doug give us a little bit of background 09:34 what's happen in Amazing Facts, 09:36 and I'm sure we have got some topic that 09:39 we really wanna talk about tonight. 09:41 But, we wanna let people know as we 09:43 are going a little further now, getting 09:45 into this if you have questions and 09:46 comments things come up we want you 09:48 to start calling in, because the second 09:50 hour we intent to take some of our questions. 09:52 And if you have any questions about the 09:54 Bible you got Pastor Doug and Pastor John here, 09:57 so I'm sure that would be a great place to start. 10:00 But, John we have free offer tonight too. 10:02 Oh yes we do, it's a little book by Joe 10:04 Crews actually it's Joe Crews is the one who 10:07 started Amazing Facts I understand and it's 10:09 entitled "Is It Easier to Be Lost or to Be Saved". 10:12 And this is our free offer tonight if you 10:14 like to get a copy of that, you can email us 10:16 at freeoffer@3abn.org or call us at 10:19 618-627-4651 for your free copy. 10:23 That's really good question, is it easier to 10:25 be saved or to be lost? A lot of times people 10:28 think it's easy to be lost, but this book 10:30 really opens your eyes about 10:32 which one is really easier. And so you wanna 10:34 copy of this book tonight. Good alright, Pastor 10:37 Doug update us little bit what's happening 10:40 in your life, in our ministry? 10:42 Well we're really excited about of course all 10:45 these different aspects of evangelism 10:47 that are available. We are so close 10:49 I think to the Lord is coming, 10:52 you know you just look what's happening 10:53 to the world. Praise the Lord. 10:54 And in particular everyone knows in 10:57 the news recently we've seen enormous 10:59 transition in the Middle East and I've 11:02 been studying, John and I were eating 11:04 together last night and I was picking his 11:06 brain little bit for his ideas about Islam in 11:09 prophecy, because we've seen tremendous 11:12 transition in you know Libya, Egypt, 11:16 Tunisia, I've been to Egypt and Tunisia not 11:20 been to Libya yet, and just through the whole 11:23 region Bahrain and it's been real interest 11:27 to us because Amazing Facts has been we've been 11:29 we've been translating some materials into 11:32 some of the Islamic languages, 11:35 Farsi and Arabic and we are planning some 11:39 meetings now in this year, I'm going in 11:43 August to Dubai to do little revival series 11:47 among the Christians there. We got to be very 11:49 careful about public evangelism, that's true 11:51 in this Islamic countries. They have laws were 11:54 it's you know forbidden to proselytize, but you 11:57 can minister to people of the existing faith 12:01 and then from there 09/11 which is gonna 12:04 be the 10 year anniversary of 09/11 12:08 it's 2011, we'll be preaching the gospel 12:14 in Jakarta which is the most populous 12:16 Islamic country in the world. 12:18 And so we were excited about that, 12:20 we listen everybody's prayers and you know 12:24 I think it's interesting and I'm just gonna 12:27 I will share this as just sort of background 12:30 information with all that's happening in the 12:33 Middle East and I was talking to John last 12:35 night saying you know I'm not 12:36 claiming I know what all these answers are, 12:39 but I think it's just worthy of mention in 12:42 Daniel chapter 12 just before the 12:43 end of the world. And it says in verse 1, 12:46 At that time Michael will stand up, 12:48 the great prince who stands for the sons of 12:50 your people; And there will be a time of 12:52 trouble, such as never was since there was a 12:54 nation even on to that same time. 12:57 And then it goes on and it talks about 12:58 many of those who sleep in the dust of 13:00 the earth awake the resurrection, 13:03 just before Michael stands up probation 13:06 closes, the end of the world, time of 13:07 trouble, resurrection. It's specifically 13:10 mentions in verse 43 Egypt and Libya 13:16 along with four other Islamic countries. 13:20 And you see everything that's 13:22 happening in the world today with the 13:24 I mean the economies of the world right now 13:27 are just teetering on a very volatile edge, 13:31 oil which still drives the economy of the 13:35 world in many ways powers things. 13:37 You know it's so dependent on that 13:39 region and these international 13:41 relationships and problems with the 13:44 commodities of the world and the value, 13:46 you know over spending in the 13:47 country and it just it feels like, 13:50 I know that's not a very good theological 13:52 way to put it, but it just feels like, 13:57 it's never felt before. That's good isn't it? 14:00 Yeah I tell you what it hit me when I started 14:03 listening in the last couple of months and 14:05 seeing all the up risings I said. 14:08 This is not a coincidence, divine providence. 14:11 Something has to change in order for 14:13 the gospel to get there. These people are standing 14:15 up and trying to get rid of some of the 14:17 leadership saying we want freedom, 14:19 we want and with freedom like what 14:21 happen to Russia you know what happen 14:23 and all of us know what happened as 14:24 soon as the Government failed, 14:26 all of a sudden they welcome this, 14:28 even though they didn't agree many of 14:30 the people but, they wanted to say, 14:31 we wanna participate in freedom, 14:33 so you can come in, you can preach things 14:35 it's never happen, so I think this has got or 14:38 dangerous like the wall you know it's 14:42 Berlin the wall is coming down, 14:44 the iron curtain coming down. 14:46 And I think this is an opening God is gonna 14:48 use this mightily and we all need to be right 14:51 there as it happens, and be some of the 14:53 first ones in, so thank you for what you are 14:55 doing and we wanna support what you are doing. 14:58 Well we're really excited you know 15:00 people see what's happening in the 15:01 Middle East and it's very volatile and folks 15:03 are free that you know will this trigger some 15:06 kind of war with Israel and Iran and 15:08 what's gonna happen in, I think the Lord is 15:10 using the way you just mention that it 15:13 shocked everybody how all of the sudden 15:16 this whole nation with 11 time zone was 15:19 open to the gospel. And Karen and I were, 15:22 this was before Steven was even born 15:23 we were one of the first teams that went 15:25 in back then and did meetings in Stavropol, 15:28 and something has to happen in China, right. 15:31 So, you know the Bible says the gospel 15:34 will be preached in all the world for witness 15:36 to the nations and then the end will 15:38 come Matthew 24:14. And 3ABN now you 15:43 know you are sowing seed all over the world. 15:44 I still think that something needs to 15:46 happen on the ground where you can get 15:48 boots on the ground, yes sure, so to speak. 15:50 And that's where you know the word they 15:52 got the aerial assault and they get boots on 15:54 the ground at some point, sure. 15:55 And so 3ABN is doing like the air 15:58 force does before, we are softening up and 16:01 preparing in many of these countries. 16:04 And but I think the things are changing in 16:07 China right now, and we have some 16:11 missionaries over there. We have a Chinese 16:14 website Amazing Facts. The cosmic conflicts 16:17 just been translated into Chinese, 16:19 into Mandarin and some copies made it 16:21 over, and it's been mass produce, 16:24 I'm sure it's in the black-market and 16:25 people are selling it, but one of our 16:28 workers over there who I'll only call 16:30 Mr. Who, I don't want to say what his name 16:33 right now, so we call Mr. and Miss Who, 16:36 that's good. You couldn't brethren their 16:38 name or they are out. Remember there is a 16:40 dignitary that came, it was from China when 16:42 they say well who is in the Whitehouse and 16:44 it's exactly well who is there he is. 16:46 That was his name that's right. 16:48 Well we just this is sort of an affection in 16:49 term for a couple that we have over there, 16:51 but they said they don't know a 16:54 Christian from any denomination that has 16:57 not now seen the final events in Chinese, wow. 17:00 They think that's gonna happen with 17:01 the cosmic conflict, so there is a tremendous 17:04 work, and we are one of many ministries 17:05 yeah is working in China right now, 17:07 it's a lot of people, and so we're very 17:12 excited about that. We are excited about 17:14 working with the world church in this 17:16 emphasis this year especially on revival, yes. 17:19 I feel that need in my life and I think 17:22 everybody resonates with that, right. 17:25 And something else we've been talking to 17:27 3ABN about, I don't know if it's to 17:28 premature mention this just yet but, 17:31 oh I would. It seems like as you go from 17:35 church to church there are more people on 17:38 the books that are actually missing or 17:40 inactive members. We have some in 17:42 Sacramento Central too. And there is all these 17:47 phantom members out there that either got 17:49 discouraged, or they have problems with 17:54 doctrine, or somebody hurt their feelings, 17:59 and they are disaffected or offended somehow. 18:02 And so we've been talking about what 18:05 can we do to reclaim these missing members? 18:07 And so usually once a year Amazing Facts 18:10 and 3ABN get together and we do 18:12 kids meeting or the teen meeting we did 18:14 this last year, right. And so we are looking 18:16 this fall of doing a special series that will 18:18 emphasize how do we reclaim people? 18:21 That maybe we were raised in the message, 18:23 they went to our schools, or they went 18:25 to church they were baptized, but 18:27 something happen and either they have 18:29 problems doctrinally or somebody offended 18:32 them, or they became discourage or 18:36 distracted by the things of the world. 18:39 And so we've been talking about developing a 18:41 special series this fall to reclaim missing 18:44 members, that might be kids who have 18:46 been raised in the faith or people who 18:49 were members but for one of these usually 18:51 three reasons they become discouraged. 18:54 You know we have lot of, lot of people 18:55 who are discourage nowadays because 18:56 they are loosing jobs, and they are loosing 18:59 their homes, they are loosing the things that 19:01 seem to have been the most constant thing. 19:03 If you got at home people will say will 19:04 I be here for the rest of my life, well that's 19:06 not the case any longer. If I get a job it's gonna 19:08 be secure for the rest of my life because 19:10 this way I'm comfortable that's not the case in 19:12 some people, when they loose the things 19:14 that they trust in the most, the first thing 19:17 that suffers is their spiritual walk. 19:18 So, they stay home and create what I refer 19:21 to as their own pity party or sometimes 19:24 not a pity party but they just get so 19:26 discourage because they loose trust and hope. 19:29 Well Doug the reason I think its such an 19:30 incredible, the timing of this is so perfect is 19:33 because it may come a shock to some of us, 19:36 but the way we are gonna get him back 19:37 is love him back. And most of the people 19:40 that I talk to and you guys are pastors, 19:42 but when I travel and people talk to me their 19:45 son left the church, their daughter, 19:47 their grand children, it was not over the 19:49 doctrines, it's usually over their feelings 19:51 been hurt, someone didn't treat them right 19:54 in a loving church, and they expect 19:56 everybody to be saints. Now I don't know 19:58 why we do that because none of us 20:00 are saints but we expect people to treat 20:02 us, so there is awful lot and usually there 20:05 is, when it's comes to I've notice in our 20:07 church when people leave, they rarely just 20:10 stared attending other church they just kind a, 20:13 kind a, kind of quite going to church. 20:15 But, some of these folk will still pay tithe 20:17 I know some right now, that send some 20:18 tithe already here that's not attending 20:21 church but send some tithe answers, 20:23 we don't go to church anymore but you 20:25 know but these folk all just need love, 20:28 And we can decide that that's what 20:30 it's all about, loving people right where 20:32 they are. You know I know that you can 20:35 wrap everything that you do is wrapped in 20:37 love and of course God is love, 20:39 so it's wrapped in Jesus. I think it's a tremendous 20:42 idea and I think you should have 20:44 tremendous success because if nothing 20:45 else it gets each of us understanding maybe 20:48 we have to point some fingers at our self 20:51 John, that's right. Why some of these 20:52 folks are out there, we can't just say well 20:54 they whatever, look at our self, look at our 20:57 church, why do we here for, what do we 20:59 do to love people and to keep them in the church. 21:03 You know I don't think there is any easy 21:05 answer and you know I'm for one not 21:08 pretending that we are gonna have a meeting 21:10 that's gonna bring everybody back, 21:12 or is that one thing will do it. 21:15 But, I try to ask myself if I was on an 21:17 aeroplane for two hours or so. 21:20 And I'm sitting next to somebody and 21:21 talking to them I find out I was raise in the church. 21:26 And I found out that they either got 21:29 discouraged with somebody offending 21:31 them, or they got distracted by the cares 21:34 of life, or there was a problem with 21:37 doctrine, what would I say to them? 21:41 And if we could develop a program, 21:42 and I've really been praying about this, 21:43 I thought about this for years, but if we 21:45 could develop a program where we 21:47 could give members a DVD you know 21:50 broadcast it for them to have material 21:53 where they could go to somebody and give 21:56 them something and say you know I know 21:58 that use to be a part of our church, I like you 21:59 to just take a look at this. 22:01 And a presentation that might help be the 22:04 catalyst for having them come and visit 22:07 the church for a special friendship Sabbath. 22:09 You know folks come to me all the time and 22:12 and I know do you and they say I've got 22:13 this love one, what can I do to reach them? 22:17 And I actually learn this from C.D. Brooks 22:19 and I've never found the better answer, 22:21 but is really there is three things, 22:22 there is only three things you can't really 22:24 add to it or diminish from it, there are three 22:27 things you can do to reach people that you 22:29 wanna reach. One is be a good example, 22:33 love them. Pray for them, and that's often 22:38 mention as a sort of dismissive way off 22:41 you can pray as though that's nothing 22:43 but it's very powerful. And so we like to 22:45 develop like a prayer reminder card and 22:48 have people put down the name of the one or 22:50 ones who are trying to reach and really focus 22:52 prayers on that person. And the other thing is 22:55 share information if they are willing. 22:57 Now you can't force information on people 22:58 that say, don't preach to me. 23:00 But, if they are open you can give him a 23:02 book, you can give him a CD or DVD or something. 23:05 And if you do all those things together 23:09 you certainly increase the odds that you 23:11 gonna bring some of these people back. 23:14 And I've just really been praying because 23:17 everywhere I go, it seems like we are 23:20 hearing about churches and I'll say how many 23:22 members do you have? And they will say, 23:23 what do you want to know what's on the 23:24 book or how many come, right, right. 23:26 In some cases you will have an example 23:29 25 people attend a 125 on the books, 23:33 have mercy. And you now this folks all over 23:36 that knew the message and for one 23:40 of this three reasons they don't attend anymore. 23:43 That's true, a lot of churches are 23:44 identified by their capacity rather than 23:47 their attending membership. 23:49 They say hey come to my church we hold 23:50 400, they will say how many show up, well. 23:54 Yeah you mention on an aeroplane you are sitting, 23:58 I was going out west sometime ago, 24:01 and I had to go away, I went to Denver, 24:04 the flight I shouldn't say the name because 24:07 they are all late but it's an airlines that 24:09 was late and for their own connection. 24:11 So, I had to go totally all they way. 24:13 I mean I was trying to get out to the west 24:16 upper west like Washington, and ended up going to 24:19 California, and then making a couple of stops, 24:21 it took me I could have to Russia about as quick. 24:25 And it was when so I was frustrated but the 24:27 last flight was a small plane, and smaller 24:31 plane I think it had 18 rows or something, 24:33 and because of the switching I was on the 24:35 last row in the last seat, and I said this is 24:40 the way my day has been going and there 24:41 was a guy sitting across from me. 24:43 And we know we also got to the back of the plane, 24:47 yeah that's right its a small plane, 24:49 and there was a guy sitting across from me 24:51 that he had when he was asked for drink 24:53 he had ordered beer and he was sitting 24:55 there, so he was, we were up there talking, 24:57 and when they got back to the snacks 24:59 with my hand up the lady said I'm sorry 25:02 I just ran out, we don't really have any 25:05 snacks left like to you know the crackers or 25:07 pretzels whatever they give you. 25:09 So, I just start laughing, and I said 25:11 that's alright that's because this whole 25:12 day has been that way, but at least we 25:15 are in the air, so the guy when she left he 25:17 said, well he said I have to say you are in 25:19 pretty good mood he said, that here all the 25:21 places you have been. And I said well you 25:24 know what everything I said I believe 25:26 happens by divine providence. 25:27 So, I'm fine we are still alive we are doing good. 25:30 So, I said I believe my life is in Lords hands 25:33 and I'm okay with it, and he said you know 25:35 I've been watching you for while and he 25:38 said I we were talking earlier he said I didn't 25:41 want tell you this but I'm a member of same 25:45 church you are Adventist, but I haven't been to 25:48 church in several years, wow. 25:50 And he said I'm headed out to the 25:51 same town where you work is my folk city, 25:54 my folks live out there. And he said I've been, 25:56 I think he said 6, 8 years. And he said when I go 25:59 every time I go to my folk's house they wanna 26:02 on every TV in the house to 3ABN, 26:05 hoping that I will see it. And so he said I knew 26:08 who you were, I just didn't say anything, 26:10 but he says you what he said I'm glad I got 26:13 to meet you and so we talked a bit and I said 26:15 well tell what you are gonna tomorrow, 26:17 he said well I'm going rafting. 26:18 I said I want you to come to church. 26:20 He said all the roof would fall in, 26:21 I said no, I said why don't you come, 26:23 oh people you know they don't want to see 26:25 me, I said no they love you I can tell you 26:27 already they love you there is people want 26:29 you be there. You know what next 26:31 morning 11'o clock service hour big 26:33 church he walked in the back and sit down. 26:36 And so that was his start of coming back 26:38 he said I know I should have done this 26:40 long time I got my feelings hurt, I been 26:43 offended and now the more I put it off the 26:45 harder it is to come back to church but he came. 26:49 And all those delays you had were God's 26:52 way of making that appointment. 26:53 Yeah, it was divine providence. 26:55 It's amazing how that happens. 26:57 You know never know the reason for 26:58 all that until you finally get to the end 27:00 of the road and say, yeah. Well this is why the 27:02 Lord had me switching, it's kind of like checkers 27:05 do you both are they are not by your design 27:08 but by God's design. He has been moving 27:10 you into position to meet somebody, 27:12 he want to use me. Two days ago I was 27:13 on a flight and I sit across to me was 27:16 Hulk Hogan and his wife. So, I didn't get much 27:19 chance to talk but when I left he is about 27:21 this big and his arms are bigger my legs 27:23 and I said. I just want let you know lucky 27:26 for you I'm not in a wrestling mood today. 27:28 So, I'm just gonna let you off easy I told him. 27:30 So, they he thank me and his wife both said 27:32 well thanks we appreciate you, 27:34 you know not to work me over, so but no 27:37 you don't know who you are gonna meet 27:38 but it's great point and there are people all 27:41 around that need to know that they are 27:43 loved, and most of all Jesus loves them. 27:45 So, Doug we wanna be a part of this, 27:47 I know Jim wants to be a part of this, 27:49 all of us here at 3ABN and whatever 27:52 we can do to help in our audience, 27:54 let's get them above right. 27:56 And the main thing is prayer, you know this 27:59 whole year we were praying about revival 28:01 in our lives, but I think the most 28:03 important reason for revival is that we can 28:05 be better witnesses. And you know one of 28:08 the first things that Jesus wanted to do, 28:11 is to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 28:13 And so the first area of evangelism for us 28:16 as we are engaged in revival is our families, 28:20 and the people that we are once our brethren 28:22 that have become discourage. 28:23 We should start with those lost sheep and 28:26 they already know the fundamentals and for 28:28 whatever reason they have got distracted, 28:32 and we need to pray for them. 28:34 I would like to encourage everybody 28:35 to be praying about this project because 28:38 it's so very dynamic right now. 28:39 We've been looking about the best date 28:41 and location and you know it will be easy 28:45 for us to put it off, but we are so close to the 28:47 end, we are trying to move it up, right, 28:48 and get it done and we just really need prayer. 28:53 Reach a program to reach missing 28:56 members, yeah. You know a missing member. 28:58 Sure, and we can get all the churches 28:59 involved to let people know when the 29:01 meetings are coming, we want you at home 29:03 to because you all I'm sure every church 29:05 there are certain members and maybe 29:07 make special contact with these, and let 29:10 them know that you know if they don't get 29:12 us at home, they can come to the church 29:13 and watch it, you know this is great, 29:16 I think it's wonderful. And you also have to 29:18 pray for wisdom on that, because you 29:20 know in the Bible there are number of 29:21 people when the Lord gave the parable of 29:24 the lost coin, the lost sheep, the lost son, 29:26 there are some who are lost that don't 29:29 know they are lost, that's right. 29:30 The others that are lost that required a lot 29:32 of effort to find them, and then there are 29:34 some that are lost that don't want you to 29:36 come after them, the Prodigal Son he just 29:38 have to pray for them till the Lord opens up 29:42 their eyes to their circumstances and 29:43 they will come back on their own recognizance. 29:46 So, I think that what we could to prepare 29:47 for that is maybe go through our list in the 29:50 directory and start praying for those 29:51 names and you will be amazed the number 29:54 of stories we told about people that were 29:56 converted and baptized because some people 29:58 just picked names out of the phone book and 30:00 and pray for them. And when the 30:01 baptism time came they got the particular 30:03 story, we will come back to that later on 30:05 the program. Seven, out of the many 30:08 people 7 of those people were people 30:10 that lady just picked names out of her 30:13 towns phone book and pray for them, 30:15 really, and saw 7 of them getting baptized. 30:18 Let me just say word here, I wanna hi to 30:20 Miss Batchelor and the Batchelor boys. 30:23 And by the way Danny you will get a 30:24 kick out this, I wish I'd saved for a weeks 30:27 and kept listening to it. I got this voice mail 30:30 on my phone and it said grandpa will you 30:35 please call me and in the background I hear 30:36 my voice, and it was our daughter Jessie 30:41 who was in the Mexico, she ran into 30:43 the program on Dish Network, and she 30:46 thought oh there he is, I wanna talk to him 30:48 and so she was watching 3ABN, alright. 30:50 I thought it was so precious but Karen is 30:53 becoming more involved in our membership 30:55 list Sacramento Central, okay. 30:56 And she is just want into get updated and 30:58 organize and in the process she calls 31:02 people to say is your address right, and she 31:04 always says you know are you going some 31:06 more else we haven't seen you lately and 31:08 you know our big cities its easy to, 31:09 people go to different churches and they 31:11 don't know which they transfer. 31:13 And some people only wanted a phone 31:15 call and they started coming back again, wow. 31:18 They wanted someone to say where have you 31:20 been, I notice you are missing. 31:23 And so a big percentage of these people that 31:25 are missing wanna come back, but they 31:28 just want someone to notice they are gone, 31:30 and invite him back, everyone wants 31:32 to be wanted. Right oh sure, 31:34 but how does this work hand in hand 31:35 with the revival and its wonderful because, 31:38 if we can maybe get people to come back 31:40 to church but, if nothing is changed 31:42 they maybe leaving again. So, this year revival 31:44 and reformation within a church it 31:47 gives a several months for that and 31:48 when people come in and see a new 31:50 anointing of the Holy Spirit, they are gonna 31:52 wanna be a part of this. That's your new spirit. 31:55 Everybody is at the bottom and looking up. 31:57 Everybody has a homing device that's 32:00 says we are really strangers here 32:01 sojourners and our real place is heaven, 32:05 that's right. We just have to help him. 32:08 Yeah it's absolutely the priority right now, 32:12 and we can't wait until we see the 32:13 heavens part before we realize our need to 32:16 be right with God. And you know as the 32:19 years ago by I become painfully aware of 32:23 that everyday is a gift and while you've got 32:27 your strength and you've got some 32:28 clarity of mind, you need to just be ready 32:32 to for the Lord at any moment. 32:35 And what you were just saying about 32:36 meeting that gentleman on the aeroplane, 32:39 it's occurred to me that God is so 32:41 powerful that if we tell him everyday we 32:43 are willing to be use by you Lord to reach 32:46 people, that he will arrange providence all 32:49 through the day where everything it happens 32:51 well accomplish one of two things, 32:52 everything that happens, will he would be 32:55 working to save us or working to save 32:57 others through us usually both. 33:01 And so every little thing be a late for a 33:04 flight or missing a plane or you know 33:06 any kind of blessing, or problem that may 33:08 come you have to always recognize in 33:11 the great picture God is wanting to use us 33:13 somehow to sanctify me or to reach other 33:17 people through me, and so I'm just gonna 33:19 thank him and praise him for, good. 33:21 People wanna to know truth, I mean 33:23 that's a thing they wanna know truth, 33:24 in the last few years I sat by two professional 33:27 athletes that I ended up praying with 33:29 holding hands with them praying right on 33:30 an aeroplane, they both had left their 33:33 respective churches, one was a professional 33:36 wrestler, big time big name wrestler. 33:38 They have dolls you can go into Wal-Mart 33:40 and some buy dolls of him and another was 33:43 football player with Indiana Colts. 33:45 And the Lord just work to where we sat 33:47 you know right next to each other fairly 33:50 long trips and both of these guys told me, 33:54 said these separate flights the same story. 33:57 When they were young, one of them 33:59 lost their mother, and everybody told him 34:02 God took their mother to heaven. 34:04 So, they say well he said I was raised 34:06 without mother, every school function. 34:08 I didn't have a mother, everybody has had a mother. 34:11 Everything I want to do, and then he said 34:13 all the Christians around me said well 34:15 God took your mother he wanted her to you 34:17 know be in heaven. So, he said I don't 34:18 have anything to do with God. 34:20 You know the other one was the same 34:22 thing so I begin to share him now John 10:10 34:25 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to 34:28 kill, and to destroy Jesus says I've came 34:30 to give you life and give it more abundantly. 34:32 So, we started going through these things 34:34 and literally I was able to pray with both of them. 34:37 And I call one of him later out in Texas and 34:39 talk to him and give him some books of 34:41 Desire of Ages, Great Controversy. 34:43 And he said this is so life changing, 34:45 we don't hear that and we never, why didn't 34:48 we know this information. Amen, yeah, there is 34:51 always wonderful opportunities. 34:54 I wanna ask you a question going back 34:56 to the issue about the Muslim, but first what 34:58 I wanna do is remind our audience about 34:59 our special offer, okay sure. 35:01 Because you just talked about salvation 35:02 and reclaiming missing members has a lot to 35:05 do with salvation and some of that maybe 35:07 asking this question. Is it easer to be saved 35:10 or to be lost, and if you like a free copy 35:12 of this you can call us here at 618-627-4651, 35:17 or you can send at freeoffer@3abn.org 35:21 for a copy of this freeoffer@3abn.org. 35:24 And it's written by Joe Crews connected 35:26 to Amazing Facts, the pioneer of Amazing Facts. 35:30 Getting back to the issue of Muslims, 35:31 one of the things I'm noticing also there is a 35:35 climate around the world religiously on 35:38 one end the doors are opening for people to 35:41 be able to preach Christianity in more 35:43 parts of the world. But on the other side 35:45 of that there is movement to prohibit 35:47 what you can actually say when you preach? 35:51 So, how do you see that fitting into the 35:54 picture of the gospel getting to the world 35:57 when you almost being told what you 35:58 can and cannot say in certain parts of the world. 36:02 Yeah that was such a great controversy, 36:04 and at the same time you've got this Titanic 36:07 War that's raging between the forces of 36:09 good and evil, between God's angels 36:10 and the devil's angels. God is trying to open 36:13 the doors through his providence. 36:15 And well of course you know the God 36:17 can do anything by force if he wanted 36:18 too, but he is working through humans and 36:21 his angels and we don't know who he cooperate. 36:25 And so you've seen opportunity opening 36:26 up in some of these countries that are 36:28 predominately Buddhist or Muslim or Hindu. 36:33 At the same time in the Western world 36:36 and the first world countries, 36:38 they are saying anything negative you 36:40 might say about anyone else's religion, 36:43 so if you were to talk about you know the 36:45 Beast of Revelation, or if you were to talk 36:48 about Godly Living and you know say 36:50 anything negative about same sex marriage. 36:52 It's classified as hate speech, and people 36:55 are being shutdown for these things. 36:58 There are some countries where our 37:00 teams go and matter of fact this week I met 37:02 with some broadcasters from another country, 37:05 said we really appreciate your program, now 37:07 keep in mind in our country we preview 37:10 the programs and we have to pull the 37:12 programs if you say anything that has any 37:15 kind of a negative slant on the 37:17 homosexual lifestyle. And I mean you 37:23 basically and sensibly you could just open 37:25 up the Bible and read what it says about 37:28 you know man is not supposed to lie with a 37:30 man as with the woman, yeah and they 37:31 says that's hate speech. You know what, that 37:33 limits proclamation, I was telling John and 37:36 Doug today I don't know if any of you 37:38 did you hear on the news this week, 37:40 I heard in England a Pentecostal Christian 37:42 family foster parents having their kids 37:45 taken away from them for saying that they 37:48 believe in homosexual life trying to teach 37:50 these young children a homosexual lifestyle 37:53 as a sin according to the Bible. 37:55 I mean what is this world coming to, 37:57 that's amazing, so the only way they can 37:59 keep him, as you can't teach them what the 38:02 Bible says. I mean it's unbelievable I heard it 38:05 and I marveled I said are we there already, 38:07 are we that close you know that that's 38:11 happening, that happens in England 38:12 and it can happen here in United States I'm 38:14 sure it will before too long. 38:16 That you can't really, you don't really have 38:18 freedom of religion if you can't say what 38:20 you believe, yeah. On some of the prominent 38:23 commandments dealing with adultery with 38:27 covetousness and materialism with you 38:32 know honoring your parents and parental rights. 38:35 The culture through the media is they are 38:39 all under attack instead of parents 38:41 being responsible for their families and 38:43 children being taught to respect their 38:45 mother and father. Parents by the MTV 38:49 generation are being derided and marked, 38:52 and degraded and dishonoring your 38:54 parents it just seems like is promoted. 38:57 The marriage relationship you know I think that 38:59 most people know that typical television 39:02 that they figure that you introduce 39:03 yourself to somebody and next thing you 39:06 know you share bed and shake hands and 39:08 that's it like there is just marriage has lost 39:11 its sanctity and oh this is gonna sound like 39:16 what they call in television a plug. 39:19 I've been so troubled as I just finished a 39:20 book, good marriage. I was thinking it's 39:22 funny because yeah for some one name 39:25 Batchelor to write a book upon about 39:26 marriage, yeah you practice, you have 39:28 think about it, but we get so many questions 39:31 even Christian families you know the divorce 39:33 rate is about as high is in the world and it's 39:35 called romance and reality the Bible on 39:39 marriage divorce and remarriage, 39:41 because we get a lot of questions on that. 39:44 And so that's under attack in the materialism, 39:47 the commandment about covetousness, 39:49 that's right. it's like a man's life Jesus said 39:52 is not consistently abundance of things 39:54 that he possesses and yet we were spending 39:57 our souls into oblivion and lot of 39:59 people just their credit cards are maxed out, 40:03 and it's all been promoted these counter biblical 40:07 principles are being promoted by the 40:10 media of the world and that's why I'm so 40:12 thankful for 3ABN that gives the other message. 40:15 I mean I'm amazed this Bill Meyer I think 40:18 it's his name Meyer, I don't know how to 40:19 say it in HBO has a show, I'm not sure 40:24 anyway Bill he has a show and one night 40:27 I happen to see it. Somebody said you 40:29 got to watch this show and I was at hotel, 40:32 watched the show and it's okay for him to 40:35 make fun of all Christians, makes fun 40:38 of anybody who is a Christian, makes fun 40:40 anybody that believes in creation they can 40:43 do all that and that's politically correct, 40:46 isn't that amazing, it's amazing fact, that's an 40:49 amazing fact, if you can think about it, 40:51 they can do all of that and everybody 40:53 applauded him the audience did and he 40:55 had a man on their that it was talking and 40:59 he is a politician but he said you are 41:01 Christian, he said yeah and he said you 41:03 believe in creation? Yeah, you believe in God? 41:06 And he just started laughing and he said 41:07 this is how dumb basically I want paraphrase, 41:10 how dumb can you be and you are a 41:12 politician and you believe foolish stuff 41:15 like that and the audience was thrill to death. 41:18 You know like oh how wonderful, 41:19 he is really put him in a place and that's 41:22 politically correct, so why isn't that consider 41:25 a hate crime. You know what I'm 41:26 saying? Because we know that the devil is 41:28 in charge, he is the prince of this earth. 41:30 Well the whole battle between these 41:33 cultures has been fought right now in 41:36 the on the platform in North America and in 41:39 the media. And when you mention 41:42 somebody like that I sometimes I wish 41:44 I could be in a lifeboat out on a 41:47 ocean with a person like that for few days 41:50 because I used to think that way, yeah. 41:52 I used to thing anyone you know I was grew 41:55 up surrounded by my mom that was in 41:57 Hollywood who does scoffed at religion and 42:00 I scoffed at anybody who believed in creation. 42:03 And I don't think these people have 42:05 considered the logical scientific analytical 42:12 reasonable evidence that what other 42:18 alternative do you have for an explanation of 42:21 what we have in the cosmos today, 42:23 than an intelligent God. When you really break 42:25 it down it is the intelligent thing. 42:29 And so, but I loved to be able to reason with 42:31 a person like that. And what the devil 42:34 has done is let's face it, there are people 42:36 that take the name of Christ, that really give 42:39 us a bad name, sure. And they love to 42:43 highlight and hold forth in grandstand 42:46 the bad examples of Christianity and the 42:48 hypocrites that are out there. 42:51 And so they don't hear the good, the 42:53 powerful evidence, but yeah there is an 42:56 inequity between giving fair time to. 43:00 This guy did entire documentary going to 43:03 different religions around the world to 43:07 mark all of them that if they believed in 43:09 God, and they did a documentary, I mean 43:12 it's just absolutely incredible, and but 43:15 that's okay to do, but you cant teach your 43:18 foster children or it's gonna be our own 43:20 children what the Bible says about 43:22 homosexuality for instance or murder or 43:25 for whatever you wanna talk about you know. 43:28 And so freedom of religion now is open 43:29 for reinterpretation like marriage, 43:31 reinterpretation of marriage, morality all 43:35 these things have a point where they 43:37 started to be singled out and attacked, 43:39 when we say many, many years ago but 43:42 not doing a plug here, but a series I am 43:43 gonna be doing coming up later in 43:45 March is about that this last day push on 43:49 dismembering and dismantling and 43:51 breaking down every institution of morality. 43:54 And so it's actually an orchestration that's 43:56 something that's done just sporadically but 43:57 it's an orchestration. And if you were the 44:00 enemy what would you wanna do, 44:01 when you know that we are committed to 44:02 preaching the gospel, I mean how many 44:04 Christian ministries are there? 44:06 Every one of them in some sense had some 44:09 Bible truth that's reaching some heart; 44:11 if you were the devil wouldn't you try to 44:12 counteract that? So, we are trying to 44:14 counteract the counterfeit is what 44:15 he is trying to do. Yeah he is trying to 44:18 advertise and promote it, yeah and amazing. 44:21 Yeah so we are seeing this incredible tension 44:26 where on one hand the new doors are 44:27 opening up for the gospel and yet in 44:29 places that use to be the bastions of truth. 44:34 You know England was part of that great 44:36 reformation Whitefield and Wesley and Wycliffe 44:40 and Tyndale and you think about all the 44:43 heroes of faith there, and this may just be 44:47 what they call an internet fact, 44:49 you know we read all kinds of things but 44:50 I think there is some truth to it that on any 44:52 given Sunday now there are more people 44:54 in mosques in Great Britain than they are 44:57 in the churches of England. 44:58 Really, wow that would be a surprise. 45:00 And the churches of England are being 45:01 sold as mosques or restaurants, or private 45:05 homes and because of such an apathy about God. 45:11 So you've seen a shift here in the western 45:13 world, but at the same time its like the wave 45:16 is kind of left North American in some 45:18 ways in other parts of the world there, 45:20 you are seeing a revival taking place. 45:24 So, I wanna be surfing where the wave is. 45:26 But, you know wave has a duel effect it 45:29 comes in but it also goes out, yeah. 45:31 So, the wave that's coming is knocking 45:32 over all the things that are right and pulling 45:34 the things that are right out in so to 45:36 speak drowning them in this pool of, 45:40 I would say pool of popularity or 45:42 meandering at the amazing mediocrity, 45:44 it's all been broken down orchestrated 45:47 strategically and so that's what the devil is 45:49 but the wonderful thing is we have the 45:51 promise the Lord says I've set before you an 45:54 open door which no man could shut. 45:57 And that's how was until the Lord closed 45:59 the door in Noah's day, so it's gonna stay 46:01 open for us to continue to preach the 46:02 gospel, praise the Lord for that. 46:04 Yeah I think that there is going to be 46:07 opportunity God is gonna keep doors 46:08 open as we near the end, but there is 46:12 gonna be resistance you know Jesus said 46:14 to work while at his day for the night is 46:17 coming when no man can work. 46:20 And there is code from spirit of 46:22 prophecy that says and I'm paraphrasing 46:24 here, what we fail to do right now in times 46:27 of great opportunity will be compelled to 46:29 do with great opposition and resistance. 46:32 And so you know right now we have 46:35 incredible opportunities to all around the world 46:38 and you know what's happening with 46:40 satellite television and the internet, 46:42 to me it's phenomenal that you can take 46:46 you know a gospel program and stream it on the 46:49 internet and it is accessible now 46:53 all over the world, yeah. You know just 46:56 before I came over here this evening for 46:58 this live program, bless your hearts, 47:01 our Sabbath school program was on, okay. 47:03 And people here to see as how did you 47:06 change so quickly, I said I wear different shirt. 47:10 But, every week we get song requests and 47:14 people in Kuwait and you know Australia 47:18 out in the outback folks who were living 47:21 up in the woods in Canada and it's just 47:23 amazing to us, there is really no corner of the 47:25 earth that we don't get requests from. 47:28 And people say we are being watching 47:30 Sabbath school can you sing this song? 47:33 And they may not ask any Bible question 47:34 but just the fact that many people and 47:37 those are the ones who speak English 47:39 you wonder how many others are only 47:40 getting bits and pieces of it, that's right yeah. 47:42 So, it's just its mind boggling the 47:44 opportunities right now. And we have to take 47:47 advantage of those God has given us 47:48 technology thanks to all of you to literally 47:51 reach world. Maybe you two guys ought to 47:53 do a tag team on a practicality of 47:55 prophecy because right now you think 47:57 about that because we hear all prophecies 48:00 and it just as it seems to be in the mind and 48:02 not people say but that's all sounds great, 48:05 2300 days whatever but how do I do 48:07 what's happening now, right. 48:09 People need to be able to take all of that and 48:12 say, oh this is where we are living now, 48:14 this is how I deal with this, 48:16 oh I shouldn't be discouraged. 48:18 Someone said to me today who has been a 48:20 minister for 40 years called me early this 48:23 morning, not a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, 48:26 but a Christian minister called me 48:28 and he said how do you deal with the fact 48:30 how unfair everything is in this world today, 48:33 I can't deal with it anymore. 48:35 Why does God allow such terrible things to 48:39 happen in this world? And he is discouraged 48:42 and wanted he give up, and I had to really 48:44 talk to him and I am telling I'm praying 48:45 with you hang in there don't be discouraged, 48:48 but you see it's when you know the truth 48:52 the truth will set you free, right. 48:53 So, I've shared with him what I believe the 48:56 Bible says about the Satan, he is the prince 48:59 of this world. But, it doesn't make any 49:01 difference the rain falls on the justice as 49:03 well as the unjust what makes the 49:05 difference as what do we gonna do with the 49:06 70 years we have now, and where 49:08 we're gonna spend eternity? 49:10 So, if everything was perfect in this world 49:14 who would need to save you? 49:15 We had always so depended on yourself 49:17 no we have to see the results of sin. 49:20 And what they are with the practicality 49:21 I was just thinking of you two guys here 49:23 doing maybe a tag thing on this of 49:27 religion, of prophecy and how do we deal 49:30 with day to day situation. I mean today it's 49:33 beautiful, you turn on and seeing in Doug 49:36 and you see all these countries going down. 49:38 If you don't prophecy what do you 49:40 think it does to you? You know it helps to 49:44 remember this story that the Bible gives us 49:48 that behind the veil the devil is using all 49:52 of his power to affect a smear campaign on 49:56 God, okay. And so when people call and 49:59 say if God is good, if God is love then why 50:02 does he allow all this, and how can he 50:05 and just understand and even prophecy, 50:08 and prophecies in Isaiah and Ezekiel 50:10 they talk about the fall of Lucifer. 50:12 We see those same things acted out in 50:13 people's life everyday, I mean it happens 50:15 with Hollywood stars where they just 50:17 become so full of themselves that they 50:21 self destruct, there you go. 50:22 And you know that what happen to 50:25 Lucifer, he basically went mad with self love. 50:28 And Jesus is trying to save us from that 50:30 disease is a pandemic of selfishness. 50:33 Isn't that interesting that people in 50:35 Hollywood they call him stars like third of 50:37 the stars of heaven fell, you now people 50:40 want to be called stars, I means that's 50:42 interesting, falling stars, yeah. 50:44 You look like you are finding a verse. 50:45 Well the person who talked about how 50:47 different things are, and you said the 50:48 practicality of prophecy, well one of the ways 50:51 we can apply that under practical way is 50:53 to let people know that God is not 50:55 responsible for the ill things of the world. 50:59 If on one hand as preaches we see every 51:00 good and every perfect gift comes 51:02 from God from the father of light in 51:04 which there is no variation, no shadow 51:06 of turning we have to also apply the 51:09 practicality of prophecy by saying 51:11 the devil has come down with great 51:12 wrath knowing he has but a short time. 51:15 He is turning the heat up like he did on the 3 51:17 Hebrew worthies, they were in Babylon 51:19 like we are spiritually today but, the furnace 51:22 is going to get heated up. And I always said to 51:24 people don't be surprise when the 51:25 furnace gets heated up. The real issue is at 51:28 that trying out what your response are 51:30 going to be, are you gonna stand up, 51:32 or you gonna be concerned about the flames. 51:34 If you are concerned about the flames, 51:36 you gonna end up bowing down. 51:38 If you are not concerned about the 51:39 flames but your allusions is to God, 51:41 you will forth go even your life to show the 51:44 rest of the world, that you cannot be brought. 51:46 And so I think that these trials Doug and 51:48 Danny are really helping us see where 51:51 we are in our walk with God, not so 51:53 much giving us the strengths, 51:56 but showing us how weakly we really are, 51:58 when we react in a negative way like 52:00 saying I can't handle it any longer. 52:03 One of my favorite stories in the Bible is 52:05 after Jesus was crucified and he rose 52:08 its in the Luke chapter 24 starts with verse 52:11 13, it's called road to a Emmaus, and these 52:14 two disciples are so discouraged and they 52:16 are so bewildered and they are thinking why 52:18 did God allow Jesus to die. We thought he was 52:22 the Messiah, why did he, and they were just 52:25 so mystified and so sad and here Jesus is 52:30 walking right beside them, and they don't know it. 52:33 And you know it says he open their 52:35 understanding that they could 52:37 comprehend the scriptures. 52:39 As you walk down the road he basically 52:41 needed to teach them to apply the 52:44 prophecies, and by the time they got to a 52:47 Emmaus they were going from Jerusalem 52:49 to Emmaus which is you know 7 miles 52:51 maybe 2 hour sermon, I will love to have a 52:53 CD of that sermon. And during that time 52:57 it says their hearts were burning within 52:58 them as he opened their understanding 53:01 and he said oh fools and slow of heart to 53:04 believe all the prophets have spoken 53:06 not the Christ who have suffered these 53:08 things and entered into his glory and 53:10 beginning with Moses and all the prophets 53:12 he expounded on them and all the 53:13 scriptures the things concerning himself. 53:17 All the scriptures are telling us about Jesus, 53:19 and I believe all the prophecies are really 53:21 redemptive in nature. A lot of people and 53:24 I probably fall into this temptation before. 53:27 We like to talk about prophecy as they were 53:29 prognosticating, one of a guy now seta 53:31 date, a few people are setting dates for the 53:34 second coming of Jesus. That's what I heard, 53:35 that's what I heard tell us about it. 53:38 Well hopefully I'm not, I don't want to 53:40 get any one stirred up by this but, 53:43 oh go ahead. I wanna say people, well if it's 53:46 a fact, if it's fact, it's amazing fact, let us 53:49 know about it. You know for years family 53:51 radio has been around they been around 40 53:53 or 50 years I'm not sure and they got 53:56 some great programs, they have got some 53:58 good Christian music but the founder has 54:02 become in my opinion little eccentric and he 54:05 has set a couple of dates for Christ coming. 54:07 Now of course the first date he has said, 54:09 I think it was 94 came and went, yeah, and 54:12 he recalculated and he has got people stirred 54:15 up now that he is telling them that Jesus 54:16 is coming back, I think it's May 21st or 54:19 22nd of this year, I know this year, 54:21 I don't remember it's 21st, not too far from now. 54:25 And I was just at this NRB which is you 54:27 know religious broadcasters from 54:29 around the country and, there were 54:30 people there Judgment Day May 21st and 54:32 they are handing out their little flyers 54:34 telling everyone get ready for the end of 54:35 the world, really. And it saddens me to think 54:40 that so many people are gonna be 54:43 discouraged by that and we were talking 54:47 I think over lunch today and I said you 54:51 know Amazing Facts has been really 54:52 tempted to buy a full page ad in the 54:54 Oakland Paper, and offered family radio, 54:58 $100,000 to use anyway they want 55:00 with the condition that on the 30th of 55:04 May if they are still there, they sign over 55:07 the network to Amazing Facts, and if. 55:11 Because they have no use for, if Jesus 55:12 comes in we put the money in the right 55:14 place, okay. If Jesus doesn't come then 55:16 they probably shouldn't have a network, yeah 55:18 okay, you know everyone all stirred up 55:20 and misguided like that, that's right. 55:23 But that won't be the first time you know 55:24 Christ said there will be false Christs and 55:26 false prophets and, but I just, hate people 55:29 getting there, that's not the purpose of 55:31 prophecy. Jesus said no man knows the day 55:33 and the hour, that's right. And if there is 55:36 anything Christ was clear about He said, 55:38 be ready. He said in such an hours you 55:41 think not the son of man is coming, yeah. 55:43 So for people who just get stirred up with 55:45 these little surges because someone's 55:47 come along with some other end time 55:49 scenario, I don't know you guys probably get 55:53 some of, you are on some of these email 55:55 lists, and I bet you both have some 55:57 friends that there was any new conspiracy 55:59 or crisis, well sure, yeah, they say have 56:01 you heard, sure, oh yeah, is like they live 56:03 from one sensational, spicy headline to the next, 56:08 and we really need a consistent faith. 56:09 The Prophecy is so important because it 56:11 gives us hope, because you wanna 56:14 know what's gonna happen, not every 56:15 detail but you wanna know this is all part of 56:18 God's plan. I was in Florida a couple of 56:20 weeks ago; two to three weeks ago, 56:22 we were there for a couple of weeks, 56:23 doing live programs. But I met a young 56:26 lady, who I knew, and the week before got 56:30 discouraged and felt like there is no hope 56:32 for her in this world. She took a gun and 56:35 put it in her mouth and pulled the trigger 56:38 and the bullet is lodged to bottom of 56:40 her brain there, she showed me she 56:43 opened her mouth, kind of hit her tongue 56:46 too and you would see the hole in the back of 56:48 her throat. She is still alive, she lived 56:50 through it. But I encouraged her hey 56:53 God has a plan for you, you know don't 56:55 get that discourage you, got to so, 56:57 you know, and I pray for her now everyday 56:59 because people living with that hope but 57:01 that's what prophecy does, some people 57:03 like oh that's what do we care. No. 57:05 Prophecy let you know Got ultimately 57:08 is in-charge, that's right, greater is he 57:09 that is in us than he that is in the world. 57:12 And so that's what wonderful and 57:14 I appreciate both of you guys that you are 57:16 willing to stand up and give truth to the 57:18 lost and dying world. And I appreciate all of 57:20 you who support this network, support 57:23 Amazing Facts as we endeavored to take 57:26 this gospel into all the world, so thank you 57:29 for what you do. We are gonna have to take 57:30 a short break in just a moment. 57:32 You wanna call in for the free offer, also if 57:34 you have questions or comments for pastor 57:37 Doug and John just call us, but we will be 57:38 back we are gonna take short break, 57:40 we will back in just a moment. |
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