It's a privilege to be with you
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again to study
God's word together,
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and it has been a
very interesting week.
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We praise the Lord for
His goodness and mercy,
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and we want to
express our thanksgiving
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to the Lord for that.
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We're going to study a
topic that is called...
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"In All the World"
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And we're going to
look at some Scriptures that
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tell us that Jesus
Christ is coming soon!
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Before we begin, I'd like to go
to the Lord in prayer again...
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And so I will kneel
and you may remain seated,
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but we're going to
go to the Lord in prayer
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and ask Him to bless us
with the message we need...
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Our Loving Heavenly Father,
We thank You so much, Lord,
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that You are merciful and kind
to each and every one of us.
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Surely Your hand of mercy
has been extended and it is by
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grace and Your mercy
that we are alive today.
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We ask You, Father,
that You Lord, will bless
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with a message from heaven.
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I place myself aside,
Lord, and I ask You to bless me
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with Your Holy
Spirit that every word will
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come from Your Throne of Grace.
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And we pray for
a blessing upon all
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and we ask it in
Jesus' name... Amen, Amen
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Jesus came with a
message to the world!
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A message of His
transforming grace!
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And the name of Jesus has
been heard all over the world.
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They say that one time
Napoleon was asked WHO is the
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greatest general in the history
and he said, "Jesus Christ
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is the greatest general...
because without an army,
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He has conquered the
world." Praise the Lord!
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I would like to invite you
to look at one of the vital
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signs of the
return of Jesus Christ
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found in Matthew 24.
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One of the vital signs that
help us find a period of time
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when Jesus will
return and we'll talk
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a little bit about that later.
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But Matthew 24:14 says...
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and then... what will
happen? ...the end shall come.
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How many long for that
day when the end will come
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and Jesus will return
in the clouds of glory
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and we will see
Him face-to-face.
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Would you raise your hand again?
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Praise the lord - that day will
come soon brothers and sisters.
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This is one of the vital signs
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of the second
coming of Jesus Christ...
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The gospel going
to all the world.
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I would like to tell you
that it was God's intention
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to bring the gospel
to the world through His
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chosen people -
the people of Israel.
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It was God's intention
that THEY would carry this
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message to the
uttermost part of the earth.
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But we know that in the
New Testament it describes
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the time when
Jesus came and it says...
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"And He came unto His own
and His own received Him not...
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But as many as received
Him, to them gave He power
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to become the sons of God."
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Now, we have to understand
that the Jews had a role
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to play in the
spreading of the truth of God.
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I invite you to turn in your
Bibles to the book of Romans,
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Romans 3 and we're
going to read two verses there
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that help us understand
one of the roles that the
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people of Israel had in
spreading the truth of God.
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If you found it, say Amen.
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They had the great privilege
to receive the oracles of God.
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Profit after profit came
with a message to the people
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of Israel and a message for us!
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To them were committed
the Holy Scriptures in what we
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know of as the "Old Testament."
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And I tell you that the
Jews had a part in spreading
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the gospel to the
world, not the whole nation,
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but many Jews did.
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For this, I invite you
to consider how much work
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they actually were doing.
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Let's go to Matthew 23:15,
they spread the word of God,
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but, unfortunately, by the
time that Jesus Christ came,
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corruption was growing more
and more and it was spreading
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even to the leadership
of the clergy - even the
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Scribes and the
Pharisees and in Matthew 23:15,
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it gives you an idea of
how zealous they were to bring
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the message to those
that were not even Jews.
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Notice verse
15, Matthew 23:15...
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So in other words, they did
bring the message to the world,
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some of the message.
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Now it is interesting to
note that the truth of God
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was spreading to the world.
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God used circumstances
in the world and things that
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happened to the Jews,
persecution that happened
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even among the Jews...
so that the Jews would leave
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that area and go to another
area to spread the news of God,
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the real God, the Creator
God that it is not unto idols
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that you are to follow...
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You're not to follow
idols and sacrifice to God,
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you are to follow the
Creator God and Mrs. White
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said they
encompassed sea and land.
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They didn't limit
themselves to just land.
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They went sea and land.
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So they did part of the work
of bringing the knowledge of
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God to the world.
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I told you that God uses
circumstances, situations,
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and things to spread
the gospel to the world.
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After Jesus was crucified,
a turning point occurred
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on the day of Pentecost.
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I would like to invite
you to go to your Bibles
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in the book of
Acts, the book of Acts,
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in the book of Acts
2, we are going to read
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verses 1 through 4.
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Book of Acts 2:1-4, we
have several Scriptures
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to go through - if
you found it say Amen.
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A supernatural thing took
place, a miracle took place
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for a reason.
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It was not for a testimony
of those that were in the room,
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but for those that were
outside of the upper room.
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So they went outside and
began to speak the language
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as the Holy Spirit
gave them utterance...
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And the results
are presented to us
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in Acts 2:5-11,
follow me there...
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God used the situation.
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Behold, are not all
these which speak Galileans?
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In other words, they
should not be speaking
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the language we are
hearing, they're Galileans.
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Amen!
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So God uses opportunities.
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There were multitudes that
had come for Pentecost time.
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What did they hear? The gospel.
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What did they do?
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After things were
done, they went back to
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their nations and they did what?
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They spread the
news of the gospel.
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You see, the gospel
has to go to all the world,
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and this gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached
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in all the world for a witness
unto all nations and then
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the end shall come.
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So the Jews had a part
in bringing the gospel to
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the world.
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In Acts 1- turn the
page, Acts 1 notice verse 8.
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You may remember that
Jesus told His disciples
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when He first sent them
out, just go to the lost
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sheep of the house of Israel.
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Don't go anywhere
else, but go to the lost
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sheep of the house of Israel.
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But in Acts 1, Jesus begins to
tell them something different.
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The same thing is Matthew
28, but let's look at Acts 1.
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Notice verse 8...
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We just talked about the Holy
Spirit descending upon them.
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We read in Acts 2-
where were they then?
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In Jerusalem.
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But the time was coming
when they were supposed to go to
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Judea, Samaria and unto the
uttermost part of the earth.
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They were to leave
their home, their land and go
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find the people that need the
Lord and that's the whole world.
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Do people need the Lord today?
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Would you say
Amen if that's true?
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"Amen," people
need the Lord today,
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and I think there are
people that need the Lord here.
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How many people
here need the Lord?
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Praise the Lord...
I also need the Lord.
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And brothers and sisters,
God, throughout history,
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you can look at
events, situations and history,
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and you will see God removing
obstacles so that the gospel
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can go forward.
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Removing obstacles so
the gospel can go forward.
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We'll talk about
some of those in a moment.
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But, let's move
now to Acts 5:28-29,
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remember He came unto His own
and His own received Him not.
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Many did, but
the majority did not.
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In Acts 5, you see a time when
the disciples were taken captive
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by the leaders of Israel
to question them because after
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Jesus died, they thought the
people of Israel - the leaders,
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we've killed the
leader, they're going to go
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scattered as sheep.
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In fact, when the leaders
came to take Jesus at the
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Garden of Gethsemane,
what did the disciples do?
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Everybody ran - so
for them it's over.
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We got the Guy, we've
got the leader - it's over.
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But little did they
know, they should have known,
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that something would
happen just as Jesus said...
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"I will be crucified and on the
third day, I will arise again."
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Praise the Lord!
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So they took the
disciples captive and in Acts 5,
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notice what
happens in verse 28...
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Talking to the
disciples saying...
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We'll stop at verse 28 a moment.
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They had what?
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Filled Jerusalem
with the doctrine.
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Everybody in Jerusalem knew
about Jesus. Praise the Lord!
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Now verse 29 says...
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Brothers and sisters, what
Peter said has been repeated
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by others throughout history.
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When they were told,
"Don't do this anymore,"
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and they put people in
jail and out they were again
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preaching the gospel.
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And you remember, if you
read in the verses before,
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they had put the
disciples in prison.
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You see, they tried to
STOP the gospel from spreading.
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They put the
disciples in prison.
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And as you read in Acts 5,
you will notice that an angel
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came and did what?
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Delivered them from prison.
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And what did the
angel say to them to do?
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"Go out and preach the gospel."
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Now somebody might
say, "Wow, they just put us
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in jail for doing this
thing, go out there again?"
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Did they fear?
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See, when God is with
you, you don't need to fear.
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When you love
Jesus, the Bible says,
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"Perfect love casts out fear."
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When you love
Jesus, you know you are
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under His care and so an
angel, a miracle happened
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and delivered them from death,
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delivered them from
the hands of the people.
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And when they said, "Go
get those men, we want to
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question them,"
they went there...
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"We can't find
them, they're not there."
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"What do you mean,
they're not there?"
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"Didn't you put them there?"
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"Yes, they're
not there anymore."
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And they found
them outside preaching.
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And they brought
them again and this is
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what we're reading about now.
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But notice now
in verses 38-39...
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I'm going to add
a few verses here
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that I didn't put in the notes.
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In Acts 5:40...
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Would you say Amen to that?
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And because they did not cease,
you have the gospel today.
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Because they did not
stop, you have the gospel today.
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Because they chose to
obey God rather than men,
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you have the gospel today.
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You see, throughout
different times of history,
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Satan has tried to kill
off the light of the gospel,
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but God intervenes.
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God does something
to prevent the gospel
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from being
completely snuffed out.
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And during the Dark
Ages, horrendous crimes
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were committed
against God's children.
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Some suffered burnings,
some were fed to beasts,
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and when you read the
book, "The Great Controversy,"
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there's an
interesting statement there...
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It said, "This is strange,
it's like the blood of these
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people is like seed that keeps
sprouting." Praise the Lord!
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So God has made it, as
some people say, "His business
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to make sure the
gospel message is alive." Why?
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Because this is not
of men, this is of God.
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The gospel has to
go to all the world.
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The world needs to
know that there IS a Savior,
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and His name is Jesus Christ.
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I would like to bring you
to another sign of the return
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of Jesus Christ.
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And this is, what I
believe, is the first time
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that a statement is made
concerning the period of time
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when Jesus will return
in the clouds of glory.
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It's in the book of Daniel.
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Let's go to
Daniel 2, in Daniel 2,
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we're going to read
verses 42 through 44.
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Daniel
2:42-44... Daniel 2:42-44...
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If you found it, say Amen. Amen!
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Let's read...
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We're talking about the
statue that Nebuchadnezzar saw.
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So the toes are part
of iron and part of clay.
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Even as iron is mixed
with clay and in the days
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of these kings -
shall the God of heaven...
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What's He gonna do?
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Praise the Lord!
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We're talking
about the Kingdom of God
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reigning for ever and ever.
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You see, God gave Nebuchadnezzar
a view of what was coming
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in the world
throughout the end of time.
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He didn't know what it
meant, but God used His servant,
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Daniel, to let King
Nebuchadnezzar know that
00:22:17.47\00:22:21.40
there's a God in heaven.
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You see, God used the four
world kingdoms to bring the
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knowledge of God and to
bring the knowledge of the truth
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to the world.
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The first kingdom was what?
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I think the people left
me here, are they all gone?
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The first kingdom
was what? Babylon!
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Thank you very much...
some of them came back!
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Babylon! And it is interesting
what happens in Babylon...
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In Daniel 3, we have a
time when King Nebuchadnezzar
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decides to make an
image and command people
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to worship that image.
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But there were some individuals
that knew that it is God
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that should be worshipped
and not men, nor statues.
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So let's go to Daniel
3:28-29, Daniel 3:28-29
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beginning in verse
28, the Bible says...
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Therefore, I make a decree that
every people and every.. what?
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nation and language which
speak anything amiss against
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the God of Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego.
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shall be cut in pieces and
their houses shall be made a
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dunghill because
there IS no other God
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that can
deliver after this sort.
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Praise the Lord!
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So what do you see here?
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The kingdom of
Babylon was a world kingdom,
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it dominated the then known
world that was at their reach.
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Dominated! And
that decree about the
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LIVING God went to all the
nations... Praise the Lord!
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You see, God used
even these world kingdoms
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to spread the news of
the truth and the living God.
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Can you think of another one?
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You have the
Meds and the Persians,
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but I want to talk about Greece.
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Does anybody remember the
name "Alexander the Great?"
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What language did
Alexander the Great speak?
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Greek - that's right.
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This is the kingdom of
Greece, the third world kingdom,
00:25:13.41\00:25:18.01
and history reveals
that Alexander the Great,
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as a young man, was an
incredible commanding general.
00:25:22.22\00:25:28.72
And very quickly, he
dominated the then known world
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reaching far, far, far -
even unto Africa they say.
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So where they went,
they brought knowledge of the
00:25:40.00\00:25:43.47
Greek language
and the Greek culture.
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An interesting thing happens
in those days when a nation
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was overcome by another nation,
they lost faith in their God.
00:25:52.35\00:26:00.92
You see it time after
time in the Old Testament
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because they thought
their God could deliver them
00:26:03.96\00:26:06.70
from the other
nations... they were idols,
00:26:06.73\00:26:11.03
they couldn't do anything.
00:26:11.07\00:26:12.43
But they said, "Our
god will deliver us from
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the other nation and
when that nation was defeated,
00:26:14.64\00:26:19.37
the nation that was
victorious would say, "Our god
00:26:19.41\00:26:22.31
is greater than your god."
00:26:22.34\00:26:24.31
So when Greece went all over
the place conquering kingdoms,
00:26:24.35\00:26:30.59
they lost faith in
their gods and then the Greek
00:26:30.62\00:26:35.79
language began to
spread and something happens
00:26:35.82\00:26:41.70
with 70 scholars of the Jews.
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They decide to translate -
what? The Scriptures into the
00:26:46.94\00:26:52.97
Greek language.
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And if it's in the
Greek language, it could go
00:26:55.98\00:27:00.08
wherever Greek is
spoken. Praise the Lord!
00:27:00.12\00:27:04.32
So they translated
the five books of Moses,
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and, praise the Lord,
because of this, it is evidence
00:27:09.49\00:27:14.56
of the - what's the
word I'm looking for,
00:27:14.60\00:27:20.37
I'm wrestling with
two languages you know...
00:27:20.40\00:27:23.71
How close or how exact the
translation you have today is
00:27:23.74\00:27:30.25
of the Old Testament.
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You see, God has preserved
the Scriptures because the world
00:27:32.55\00:27:36.08
needs a knowledge of God,
because the Scriptures are
00:27:36.12\00:27:39.32
able to make us
wise unto salvation.
00:27:39.35\00:27:43.39
So the Greek language
spread through the world.
00:27:43.43\00:27:47.76
Then along came the
Romans in the second century
00:27:47.80\00:27:52.90
before Christ -
the who? The Romans.
00:27:52.93\00:27:57.01
The Romans reigned longer
than any of the other kingdoms,
00:27:57.04\00:28:02.94
and they too
spread the Greek language.
00:28:02.98\00:28:07.88
Not only did the Romans do this,
but they also did something
00:28:07.92\00:28:14.52
that helped the
spreading of the gospel.
00:28:14.56\00:28:19.13
One of the things the Romans
did in order to facilitate
00:28:19.16\00:28:22.60
their conquering of the
world and being able to get
00:28:22.63\00:28:24.90
from one place to
another quickly was build roads.
00:28:24.93\00:28:28.04
Roads that spread for
thousands of miles - so if they
00:28:28.07\00:28:32.94
heard of a nation that was
beginning to rebel against them,
00:28:32.97\00:28:36.38
they quickly would dispatch
soldiers that would travel
00:28:36.41\00:28:39.21
quickly through the roads
they have made to put an end
00:28:39.25\00:28:42.75
to the
rebellion in that country.
00:28:42.78\00:28:47.52
You see the progress and
advance of civilization provides
00:28:47.56\00:28:52.19
for the progress and
advance of the gospel.
00:28:52.23\00:28:56.60
So the disciples, the apostles
used these roads to travel
00:28:56.63\00:28:59.90
from one city to another,
from one country to another
00:28:59.93\00:29:03.27
to bring the good news
of salvation to every nation
00:29:03.30\00:29:07.51
they could
reach. Praise the Lord!
00:29:07.54\00:29:09.51
But you see, God
is removing obstacles,
00:29:11.55\00:29:14.48
and God is opening
doors for the gospel to reach
00:29:14.52\00:29:17.49
every nation, kindred
and tongue and people. Amen!
00:29:17.52\00:29:26.19
God also uses laws.
00:29:26.23\00:29:29.46
You see, God uses laws.
00:29:29.50\00:29:33.20
You see, in
every country, I would
00:29:33.23\00:29:36.40
say to you, God has people.
00:29:36.44\00:29:38.14
They may not be Christians,
but they hold to principles
00:29:38.17\00:29:44.38
that identify
with God and His laws.
00:29:44.41\00:29:49.68
That's why today, you
can go down a list of nation
00:29:49.72\00:29:54.89
after nation and
there is religious liberty
00:29:54.92\00:29:58.89
practically all over the
world, all over the world.
00:29:58.93\00:30:05.80
Praise the Lord!
00:30:05.83\00:30:08.97
This allows for
the gospel to spread.
00:30:09.00\00:30:12.84
Let me mention a good law...
00:30:12.87\00:30:15.41
During the times of the
Romans, it was not lawful
00:30:16.98\00:30:21.35
for anyone to put a
Roman to death and the Jews
00:30:21.38\00:30:26.22
were upset with Paul.
00:30:26.25\00:30:27.59
He was going all over the
place preaching the gospel,
00:30:27.62\00:30:31.56
so they wanted to
take him and kill him,
00:30:31.59\00:30:35.16
they tried several times.
00:30:35.20\00:30:39.17
And it was because
Paul was a Roman citizen
00:30:39.20\00:30:43.00
that they could not do it.
00:30:43.04\00:30:47.38
The laws protected
Paul, just as the laws
00:30:47.41\00:30:52.58
protect your right to practice
any religion that you desire.
00:30:52.61\00:30:58.25
Is there religious
liberty in the U.S.?
00:30:58.29\00:31:00.36
Thank God for that.
00:31:00.39\00:31:03.63
You see that provides for
the spreading of the gospel.
00:31:03.66\00:31:07.96
But let's talk about
some instruments that God has
00:31:08.00\00:31:12.43
for spreading the gospel...
00:31:12.47\00:31:17.07
Up until about the
1800s, people could travel
00:31:17.11\00:31:22.11
no faster than the people
traveled in the time of Abraham.
00:31:22.14\00:31:26.98
How did Abraham travel?
00:31:27.02\00:31:28.68
How did the people
of those days travel?
00:31:28.72\00:31:30.82
By foot, by some animal,
camel, a donkey, a horse,
00:31:30.85\00:31:37.49
that's how they could get along.
00:31:37.53\00:31:39.46
It took a long time to
get to places, long time,
00:31:39.49\00:31:44.77
and yet, those means were used
00:31:44.80\00:31:47.54
to bring the
gospel to other people.
00:31:47.57\00:31:49.40
Jesus walked from place to place
bringing the gospel to people,
00:31:49.44\00:31:54.51
from village to village
preaching the gospel to people.
00:31:54.54\00:31:59.05
But you see, as time
gets closer to the end,
00:31:59.08\00:32:02.78
there must be a
means to get to places
00:32:02.82\00:32:06.92
faster than ever before.
00:32:06.96\00:32:09.82
So even when you
look at... I talked about
00:32:09.86\00:32:14.10
land transportation,
even when you look at
00:32:14.13\00:32:16.03
transportation by
sea, for a long time people
00:32:16.06\00:32:19.83
depended on muscle power
in the water to get to places,
00:32:19.87\00:32:25.51
and the wind, but eventually
they invented engines.
00:32:25.54\00:32:30.61
And they could put them in
ships and get to places faster.
00:32:30.65\00:32:34.55
Praise the Lord.
00:32:34.58\00:32:36.79
So missionaries
sometimes traveled to other
00:32:36.82\00:32:39.12
distant lands - it look months,
months to get there - months!
00:32:39.15\00:32:45.13
But they went and they
sacrificed and they went to
00:32:45.16\00:32:48.26
China, and they went to
India, Africa, missionaries have
00:32:48.30\00:32:52.63
been sent all over the world.
00:32:52.67\00:32:54.87
People that love the Lord
deprive themselves of luxuries
00:32:54.90\00:32:59.37
deprive themselves of
food and deprive themselves
00:32:59.74\00:33:03.51
of things that you
may have in this country
00:33:03.55\00:33:05.95
that are not
available in that country.
00:33:05.98\00:33:09.28
Idalia and I and some
of the 3ABN Latino staff
00:33:09.32\00:33:11.49
have been to some other
countries and we've seen
00:33:11.52\00:33:14.62
some very rough places - people
that don't have electricity
00:33:14.66\00:33:22.46
inside their homes.
00:33:22.50\00:33:24.43
We had the privilege to
go to some place in Mexico,
00:33:24.47\00:33:27.37
it was just about 5 to 7
years ago - a pastor took us
00:33:27.40\00:33:31.97
in a little plane and we
went to this place that was
00:33:32.01\00:33:35.94
on top of mountains and there
the - I'm sorry I don't know
00:33:35.98\00:33:40.05
what they call them in
English, the Huichol Indians,
00:33:40.08\00:33:45.09
it was his mission to preach
the gospel to those Indians.
00:33:45.75\00:33:49.02
There was no other
religious group there.
00:33:49.06\00:33:52.79
It was only the
Seventh-day Adventist pastor.
00:33:52.83\00:33:55.33
Praise the Lord.
00:33:55.36\00:33:57.33
The only way to get
there quickly was by plane.
00:33:57.37\00:34:03.87
If you wanted to go
there by some animal,
00:34:03.91\00:34:06.81
it would take you days
even in today's modern time
00:34:06.84\00:34:10.15
because you have
to go on some animal.
00:34:10.18\00:34:13.38
If you wanted to venture out
on a vehicle, it would be rough,
00:34:13.42\00:34:17.22
rough terrain and it took
you days to get there as well.
00:34:17.25\00:34:20.72
By plane, we got there quickly
and he has a church there.
00:34:20.76\00:34:27.56
Praise the Lord.
00:34:27.60\00:34:29.20
Because the gospel
has to go to all peoples.
00:34:31.67\00:34:35.47
Let's talk about
some inventions...
00:34:35.50\00:34:39.27
It has been made possible
to identify where people are
00:34:39.31\00:34:45.25
by the use of
planes and satellites.
00:34:45.28\00:34:48.58
They know where the
people are - that's why you have
00:34:48.62\00:34:52.35
maps today to identify every
country, every little tribe
00:34:52.39\00:34:57.26
they know where they are.
00:34:58.09\00:34:59.66
And I praise the Lord that
the Bible has been translated to
00:35:01.46\00:35:04.17
nearly every
language in the world...
00:35:04.20\00:35:06.80
would you say Amen to that? Why?
00:35:06.84\00:35:10.14
Because Jesus Christ is
coming soon and the gospel
00:35:10.17\00:35:14.08
has to get to the whole world.
00:35:14.11\00:35:16.21
And I want to tell you
that besides travel by sea,
00:35:16.24\00:35:21.85
eventually they had engines
and eventually the invention
00:35:21.88\00:35:29.32
of motor vehicles came along...
00:35:29.36\00:35:31.09
I read an article where
they were rejoicing that
00:35:31.13\00:35:34.56
vehicles, cars, could
travel one mile an hour...
00:35:34.60\00:35:39.80
No sorry, it was a mile
a minute, a mile a minute.
00:35:39.83\00:35:46.31
But today, cars travel
over a 100 miles a minute.
00:35:46.34\00:35:55.02
How many people
here have traveled over
00:35:55.05\00:35:57.95
100 miles per hour? Laughter...
00:35:57.99\00:36:02.46
A few dare not
raise their hands,
00:36:02.49\00:36:04.43
but I know
there are more of you.
00:36:04.46\00:36:06.33
You see, with cars, you
can get to places quickly.
00:36:06.36\00:36:10.53
In less than a week, you
can go anywhere in the U.S.,
00:36:10.57\00:36:14.34
perhaps even, I don't know
how long it takes to go from
00:36:14.37\00:36:18.74
one end of the U.S. to the
other, but you can get quickly
00:36:18.77\00:36:21.74
to places. Praise the Lord!
00:36:21.78\00:36:25.31
So that allows for the
gospel to get to places quickly
00:36:25.35\00:36:29.32
because Jesus
Christ is coming soon.
00:36:29.35\00:36:32.79
But if you want to get
even quicker to places,
00:36:32.82\00:36:35.52
what do you do?
00:36:35.56\00:36:36.99
You get on a plane.
00:36:37.03\00:36:40.06
While a car may take days,
you may take an hour or two
00:36:40.10\00:36:43.93
to get there and I say
that helps the spreading
00:36:43.97\00:36:48.14
of the gospel.
00:36:48.17\00:36:50.54
Now let's talk about
some obstacles that have
00:36:50.57\00:36:55.98
prevented the
gospel from getting out.
00:36:56.01\00:37:01.22
Before I talk about
them, I want to remind you
00:37:01.25\00:37:04.69
that in Revelation 7,
it talks about four angels,
00:37:04.72\00:37:11.03
and what are these angels
doing, they're holding the winds
00:37:11.06\00:37:15.60
from blowing on the
earth which is strife and wars.
00:37:15.63\00:37:21.70
Praise God for those angels!
00:37:21.74\00:37:24.97
You see, today, if
you go all over the world,
00:37:25.01\00:37:28.88
you live in relative peace.
00:37:28.91\00:37:30.88
Pretty much, you
can go anywhere...
00:37:30.91\00:37:33.52
With your U.S. passport,
you can practically get to
00:37:33.55\00:37:37.82
any country without a visa.
00:37:37.85\00:37:39.75
There are a few that require
a visa, but you can go in,
00:37:39.79\00:37:43.22
do whatever you need
to do and get out easily,
00:37:43.26\00:37:48.03
business people
do it all the time.
00:37:48.06\00:37:50.97
3ABN - some were 3ABN personnel,
00:37:51.00\00:37:53.30
they do it with
some degree of frequency.
00:37:53.34\00:37:56.54
This allows for the
preaching of the gospel...
00:37:56.57\00:38:00.48
Would you say Amen to that?
00:38:00.51\00:38:03.01
I'm trying to help you see
that we don't have much time
00:38:03.04\00:38:07.85
people to bring the
gospel to the world.
00:38:07.88\00:38:10.29
The world needs
to know about Jesus.
00:38:10.32\00:38:13.82
Let's talk about
some obstacles...
00:38:13.86\00:38:17.29
One of the obstacles
that I would like to mention
00:38:17.33\00:38:20.66
is communism - it was an
obstacle to the preaching
00:38:20.70\00:38:24.77
of the gospel.
00:38:24.80\00:38:26.33
And so, in Romania,
there was a man by the name of
00:38:26.37\00:38:30.14
Nicolae Ceausescu, the
leader of the Communist Party
00:38:30.17\00:38:36.81
and a dictator in
Romania for many years...
00:38:36.85\00:38:40.55
Do you know that if
you went to Romania during
00:38:40.58\00:38:43.39
his dictatorship,
before you get in, they ask you
00:38:43.42\00:38:47.46
this question... "Do
you have any Bibles?"
00:38:47.49\00:38:50.13
If you had any, you
couldn't come in with them.
00:38:50.16\00:38:54.00
You had to leave
them on the other side.
00:38:54.03\00:38:59.50
But you see, God
has to remove obstacles
00:38:59.53\00:39:02.37
so the gospel can be preached.
00:39:02.40\00:39:04.14
Yet during the time
of Nicolae there were,
00:39:04.17\00:39:07.58
during the time of Ceausescu,
there were Christians,
00:39:07.61\00:39:11.18
but they were suppressed!
00:39:11.21\00:39:13.48
Do you know what they
taught the children to say
00:39:13.52\00:39:16.38
in the school? "What's
the name of your mother?"
00:39:16.42\00:39:19.15
"Ceausescu"
00:39:19.19\00:39:20.92
"Your father's
name?" "Ceausescu"
00:39:20.96\00:39:24.09
"What's the name of
your God?" "Ceausescu"
00:39:24.13\00:39:27.93
That's what the children
were taught and many went to
00:39:27.96\00:39:31.70
prison for believing
in God, so question...
00:39:31.73\00:39:35.24
Was than an obstacle
to preaching the gospel?
00:39:35.30\00:39:38.74
Yes... So God had to remove
that obstacle and I tell you
00:39:38.77\00:39:43.28
that that obstacle was removed.
00:39:43.31\00:39:46.41
You see, in December of
1989, that obstacle was removed.
00:39:46.45\00:39:55.32
The people were upset,
they couldn't tolerate anymore
00:39:55.36\00:39:59.63
the sufferings.
00:39:59.66\00:40:01.13
Do you know what a multitude
of people were chanting
00:40:01.16\00:40:04.30
in front of the palace?
His palace was enormous!
00:40:04.33\00:40:08.20
We believe in
God! We believe in God!
00:40:08.24\00:40:11.14
We believe in
God! Praise the Lord.
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A mob of people overran
the palace, captured Ceausescu,
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and on December 25, 1989,
Ceausescu was put to death.
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Freedom to preach the
gospel happened in Romania.
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Obstacle removed.
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A man heard that it
was over and he said,
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"Oh, this is great, now I
can bring Bibles with freedom
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to Romania."
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So he packed his car
FULL of Bibles and he said,
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"I'm going to
bring these Bibles,"
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and he just drove and drove.
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They say he drove
nearly 300 miles into Romania;
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didn't know where to go,
didn't know where to stop.
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But he stopped at a little city
and he said he found somebody...
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"Excuse me, is
there a church nearby?"
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"Oh yes! Just
go down the street,
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turn right and
it's right there."
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He went there and they
just happen to be having a
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church service during that
time and he sat in the back.
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Interestingly enough,
the pastor was preaching...
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"Brothers and sisters,
we need to study God's word,
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we need to pray more,
you need to open your Bibles
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and read the Scriptures."
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And after doing that for
several minutes, somebody said,
00:41:31.79\00:41:34.16
"Pastor, we love to read
the Bible, but not all of us
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have Bibles! We need Bibles!"
00:41:37.23\00:41:39.19
"Yes, I know - perhaps
now that communism is dead,
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we can get Bibles in here."
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And the man in the back
raised his hand, "I have Bibles
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for everybody in
here, there're in my car!"
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Praise the Lord and everyone
that needed a Bible there
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received a Bible.
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You see,
obstacles are being removed
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for the gospel to go places.
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I heard that when Danny was
talking, in different places,
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about preaching the gospel
and that God told him that he
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should build a
television station to bring the
00:42:14.76\00:42:17.23
"undiluted Three Angels
Messages to the whole world,"
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then somebody said, "Oh
that's great, it's wonderful
00:42:20.37\00:42:24.14
that you want to do
that, but how are you going
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to get into Russia
with the Iron Curtain?"
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That was back then...
Danny said these wise words,
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"I don't know, that's not my
problem, that's God's problem."
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Did anybody go
to war with Russia?
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Anybody here went to the Russian
and U.S. war? There was none!
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And praise the
Lord, communism went down.
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The Iron Curtain went down
without a fight, without a war.
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Why? Because God
is removing obstacles
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for the gospel to be preached
in liberty and if you've been
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watching 3ABN for a
while, you know that
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miracles took place!
00:43:11.09\00:43:13.39
And we have video
tapes when Pastor John Carter
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invited Three Angels
Broadcasting Network to go to
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Russia to record the series
in "Nizhny Novgorod, Russia."
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By the way, they are
celebrating 20 years...
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Two-thousand, I remember,
2,521 people were baptized,
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and I remember the words
that May Chung came back with.
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You see, she was there
with her little camera,
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and May Chung had
this ability to bring
00:43:44.39\00:43:47.06
back video that was very shaky.
00:43:47.09\00:43:50.53
And she was there with her
little camera when the doors
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were closed of the
palace of sports in Nizhny,
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and the doors were closed
and the people were outside
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wanting to get in.
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Wouldn't it be wonderful
if in every church there were
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people outside
wanting to get in,
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but they shut the doors because
no more people could come in.
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They had every
seat accounted for,
00:44:14.68\00:44:18.45
but yet, the
people wanted to come in.
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And there was one
man that May Chung said,
00:44:20.49\00:44:22.92
"What is that
man, there, saying?"
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An elderly man...
"What is he saying?"
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And the translator
listened and he said,
00:44:26.86\00:44:30.70
"This man is saying, "We
have waited for 72 years to hear
00:44:30.73\00:44:36.20
the preaching of God's word,
let us in." Praise the Lord!
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And you know what?
Many of them did get in.
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You see, when people
want to do something,
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they find A? WAY!
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People went around to
the back of the building,
00:44:53.25\00:44:57.49
and there was a window broken.
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I don't know if they broke
it, but they went in through a
00:44:58.89\00:45:00.56
broken window, into
the basement and went
00:45:00.60\00:45:04.03
to find a place to
sit - there were no
00:45:04.07\00:45:07.40
seats so they were standing.
00:45:07.44\00:45:08.90
So every night for
several days, they were saying,
00:45:08.94\00:45:11.97
"Well what are all
these people doing standing?"
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Because they went through
the basement and they came in
00:45:16.31\00:45:18.45
because they wanted to
hear God's word, being preached.
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Praise the Lord.
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And that gave birth, as
you know, to Three Angels
00:45:23.79\00:45:28.86
Broadcasting Network
in Russia and over 2 radio
00:45:28.89\00:45:32.89
and T.V. stations,
3ABN Russia is preaching
00:45:32.93\00:45:36.97
the everlasting
gospel in RUSSIA!
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So what's the
answer to the question?
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How are you going to get
into Russia? We don't know.
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That's not our
problem, that's God's problem.
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And for any obstacle remaining,
we may not know the answers,
00:45:49.18\00:45:52.91
but God does because
Jesus Christ is coming soon.
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Obstacles are being
removed, so when you talk about
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internet and we'll talk
about that in a moment...
00:46:01.29\00:46:02.99
we're talking about God
removing obstacles and having
00:46:03.02\00:46:07.30
instruments to preach
the gospel in the world.
00:46:07.33\00:46:10.00
You already know some of them.
00:46:10.03\00:46:11.93
The printed page... when
did that come into being?
00:46:11.97\00:46:15.10
It was in the 1440s.
00:46:15.14\00:46:16.50
The printed page came
into existence and you could
00:46:16.54\00:46:20.98
then print the Bible and
the Bible began to be printed
00:46:21.01\00:46:23.58
in the 1400s. Praise the Lord!
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So instead of hand-written
Bibles that took long,
00:46:26.41\00:46:29.28
long periods of time, now
you can print them faster!
00:46:29.32\00:46:32.35
And Idalia and I had
the privilege to go to
00:46:32.39\00:46:34.76
"Remnant Publications" and
they told us that in less than
00:46:34.79\00:46:39.26
5 minutes, you can
print a whole Bible.
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Wow! Praise the Lord!
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So I tell you, as far
as literature is concerned,
00:46:45.70\00:46:48.44
one of the instruments
that God has for preaching
00:46:48.47\00:46:50.91
the gospel... millions and
millions of pieces of literature
00:46:50.94\00:46:55.21
have been distributed all over
the world in practically every
00:46:55.24\00:46:59.71
language and
dialect in the world.
00:46:59.75\00:47:02.28
You think of "Remnant
Publications," you can think
00:47:02.32\00:47:04.79
of James
Rafferty and Ty Gibson...
00:47:04.82\00:47:08.62
what's the name
of that ministry?
00:47:08.66\00:47:09.99
"Light Bearers," they
have printed millions of pieces
00:47:10.03\00:47:12.83
of literature and taken
them in different languages
00:47:12.86\00:47:15.66
to the world.
00:47:15.70\00:47:17.03
Talking about the printed
page, I remember receiving
00:47:17.07\00:47:20.87
a call long ago at
3ABN and a man was saying...
00:47:20.90\00:47:24.61
"I thank the Lord that
even though I left the church
00:47:24.64\00:47:28.68
many years ago, I found a
book that helped me to realize
00:47:28.71\00:47:32.75
I need to come back
to Jesus... on a beach,
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one of Danny's books and
I think it was the book...
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"Does God Love Sinners forever?"
00:47:39.92\00:47:43.06
I named another
book, do you remember it?
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Perhaps you went out into the
street to distribute this book?
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"The Ten
Commandments Twice Removed"
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And I don't remember how many
ministers of other denominations
00:47:54.24\00:47:58.07
have accepted the Sabbath,
but it's over 30 ministers
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from other denominations
that have accepted the Sabbath
00:48:01.28\00:48:03.55
after reading that book and
some have read it several times.
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Jesus Christ can
come very, very soon.
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We can make this happen very
soon with the power of the Lord.
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So brothers and sisters, I say
to you - what needs to be done?
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You see, there's one
more instrument, powerful,
00:48:26.53\00:48:31.17
to preach the
gospel and that is - you.
00:48:31.21\00:48:36.75
That is YOU and the
testimony that God has given you
00:48:36.78\00:48:40.62
to help someone
else come to Jesus.
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And today, you don't
even have to leave your house
00:48:44.52\00:48:47.76
and you can preach the gospel.
00:48:47.79\00:48:49.39
You can use telephones,
you can use the internet,
00:48:49.42\00:48:52.76
you can make copies of
sermons, copies of pamphlets,
00:48:52.79\00:48:55.83
send pamphlets from your house.
00:48:55.86\00:48:57.60
You can go online and order
a book and send it to people.
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There are many ways
to preach the gospel
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even without
leaving your house...
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So what do we need to do?
00:49:06.31\00:49:09.34
Let us cooperate with
Jesus that this may happen.
00:49:09.38\00:49:13.08
I invite you to
go to Matthew 9:35...
00:49:13.11\00:49:15.82
Jesus left us an example
that we should do all that is
00:49:26.56\00:49:30.67
in our part to do to bring
the gospel to other people.
00:49:30.70\00:49:33.74
Jesus did all that was
in His power to do to bring
00:49:33.77\00:49:37.81
the gospel to other people.
00:49:37.84\00:49:39.31
And we, by the grace of
God and through the Holy Spirit
00:49:39.34\00:49:43.75
can bring the
gospel to someone else.
00:49:43.78\00:49:47.05
Let's go to verses 36 and 37...
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Amen.
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This prayer needs
to be answered today.
00:50:13.61\00:50:19.98
We need laborers...
people that will say,
00:50:20.02\00:50:24.72
"Here I am, Lord, -
what do You want me to do?"
00:50:24.75\00:50:27.56
"Send an email..." "Yes, Lord."
00:50:27.59\00:50:29.42
"Do a phone
call..." "Yes, Lord."
00:50:29.46\00:50:31.63
"Put something on the
internet..." "Yes, Lord."
00:50:31.66\00:50:34.73
"Go to someone's
house..." "Yes, Lord."
00:50:34.76\00:50:37.60
Because what God asks you to do,
00:50:37.63\00:50:40.37
He will give
you the power to do.
00:50:40.40\00:50:42.70
I have some bad news for you...
00:50:42.74\00:50:46.37
I heard this last week
and I said, "Idalia, we need
00:50:48.28\00:50:50.75
to share this."
00:50:50.78\00:50:52.81
And it goes like this... I
know that all of you will be
00:50:52.85\00:50:55.78
saddened to learn this
week of the death of one of our
00:50:55.82\00:50:59.55
most valuable acquaintances,
the name of that person is
00:50:59.59\00:51:06.19
"someone else."
00:51:06.23\00:51:09.43
You see, someone's
passing creates a vacancy that
00:51:09.46\00:51:13.74
will be difficult to fill.
00:51:13.77\00:51:15.90
Our friend had been
with us for many years,
00:51:15.94\00:51:18.61
and for every one of those
years, "someone else" did more
00:51:18.64\00:51:24.35
than the normal
person's share of the work.
00:51:24.38\00:51:26.58
Whenever leadership was
called for, this wonderful
00:51:26.61\00:51:30.65
individual "someone else"
was looked to for inspiration
00:51:30.69\00:51:36.16
as well as the results.
00:51:36.19\00:51:37.99
Whenever there was a job
to do, a problem to tackle,
00:51:38.03\00:51:41.43
a meeting to attend, one
name was on everyone's lips...
00:51:41.46\00:51:45.83
"Let someone else do
it," everybody would say.
00:51:45.87\00:51:49.60
It was common knowledge
that whenever the need arose,
00:51:49.64\00:51:53.88
"someone else" was one of
the biggest contributors of time
00:51:53.91\00:51:58.01
spirit, self and resources.
00:51:58.05\00:51:59.91
Whatever the
shortfall, everyone assumed that
00:51:59.95\00:52:02.92
"someone else" would
make up the difference.
00:52:02.95\00:52:05.75
"Someone else" was
an extraordinary person,
00:52:05.79\00:52:10.29
almost
superhuman, but a person can
00:52:10.33\00:52:13.86
only do so much.
00:52:13.90\00:52:15.40
Were the truth known,
everyone expected too much
00:52:15.43\00:52:19.37
of "someone else."
00:52:19.40\00:52:22.47
"Someone else" set a wonderful
example for us to follow,
00:52:22.50\00:52:27.38
but now "someone else" is gone.
00:52:27.41\00:52:32.91
So who is going to do all
the things that we expected
00:52:32.95\00:52:36.95
"someone else" to do?
00:52:36.99\00:52:40.29
We can't depend on
"someone else" anymore,
00:52:40.32\00:52:43.86
so who will take
"someone else's" place?
00:52:43.89\00:52:47.63
By God's grace - I want
to be one of those people
00:52:51.33\00:52:56.27
that take
"someone else's" place.
00:52:56.30\00:52:58.64
Anybody else here
want to say to the Lord,
00:52:58.67\00:53:01.04
"Lord, I want to do more
for Jesus than ever before.
00:53:01.08\00:53:06.28
I want to follow Him
with all of my heart.
00:53:06.31\00:53:08.95
I want to let the light
so shine that they may see my
00:53:08.98\00:53:13.42
good works and
glorify God in heaven.
00:53:13.46\00:53:17.79
So I read to you
now from Romans 13...
00:53:17.83\00:53:20.93
Let's begin
reading in verse 10...
00:53:20.96\00:53:23.10
People need to see the
love of Jesus in our words,
00:53:32.64\00:53:37.95
and in our actions.
00:53:37.98\00:53:40.02
Verse 11...
00:53:40.05\00:53:41.95
That is the day of Jesus Christ.
00:54:02.70\00:54:04.91
Brothers and sisters, it
is time for God's children
00:54:13.25\00:54:17.09
to put the love of the world
aside, the lust of the flesh,
00:54:20.66\00:54:26.33
the pride of
life, the love of gain,
00:54:26.36\00:54:29.20
the pride, the
arrogancy, the selfishness,
00:54:29.23\00:54:35.77
the criticizing of others,
the lies, or whatever may be
00:54:35.80\00:54:42.58
the obstacle that's
keeping you from fulfilling
00:54:42.61\00:54:46.45
that which God knows
He can do through you.
00:54:46.48\00:54:52.85
It's time to put those things
aside and by the grace of Jesus,
00:54:52.89\00:54:57.89
do what He wants you to do.
00:54:59.49\00:55:01.96
So brothers and sisters,
let me finish reading...
00:55:02.00\00:55:06.74
Verse 13...
00:55:06.77\00:55:10.21
Amen...
00:55:29.56\00:55:30.93
So simple question
for you today is...
00:55:30.96\00:55:35.76
Would you stand today,
if you want to do as it is
00:55:35.80\00:55:40.07
written here - put on
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:55:40.10\00:55:46.54
Would you put on
the Lord Jesus Christ?
00:55:46.57\00:55:48.98
Would you say to Jesus,
"Here I am Lord, take my heart,
00:55:49.01\00:55:52.05
make me what You want me to be,
use me how You want to use me."
00:55:52.08\00:55:57.85
Praise the Lord
for these decisions.
00:55:57.89\00:56:00.76
I stand with you and I praise
the Lord for this opportunity
00:56:00.79\00:56:06.33
to see you say to
Jesus, "Here I am, Lord."
00:56:06.36\00:56:14.27
I ask one more question...
00:56:14.30\00:56:17.97
How many of you are
willing to say to the Lord,
00:56:18.01\00:56:21.24
"Lord, help me in somehow
or some way reach at least
00:56:21.28\00:56:27.95
one for Jesus this year."
00:56:27.98\00:56:29.42
Would you raise your
hand? Praise the Lord!
00:56:29.45\00:56:31.79
It could be through
passing a pamphlet, sharing some
00:56:31.82\00:56:34.96
good news in some way
through some of the means
00:56:34.99\00:56:37.76
or instruments
we have mentioned.
00:56:37.79\00:56:39.39
Would you raise your hand again
if it's true? Praise the Lord,
00:56:39.43\00:56:42.66
praise the Lord.
00:56:42.70\00:56:44.33
Let's go to the
Lord in prayer...
00:56:44.37\00:56:45.70
If it is possible for
you, I invite you to kneel...
00:56:45.73\00:56:50.27
Our Loving Heavenly Father,
We thank you, Lord, that we can
00:56:51.97\00:56:56.04
look in the
Scriptures, look in history,
00:56:56.08\00:57:00.35
look around the world
and see that Jesus Christ
00:57:00.38\00:57:04.59
is coming soon.
00:57:04.62\00:57:06.25
That we can see that
the gospel work can be done
00:57:06.29\00:57:09.49
in a short time.
00:57:09.52\00:57:11.49
Help us to be among those
that answers the call of Jesus,
00:57:11.53\00:57:16.43
the prayer of Jesus - that there
are more laborers in the field.
00:57:16.46\00:57:19.63
We thank You, Lord, for everyone
that has raised their hands.
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We pray, Lord, that according
to what they have signaled
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by raising their
hands, that You will help them
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to understand what they
can do to help someone else
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give their heart to Jesus.
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We thank You, Heavenly
Father, that by Your grace,
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we can put on the
Lord Jesus Christ,
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and we thank You for
the sacrifice on the Cross
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that has made it possible
for us to be saved by grace
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through faith and that
not of ourselves because
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it is Your gift to us.
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We thank You for hearing
us and we pray for Your name
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to be glorified in us.
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In Jesus' Holy and
blessed name... Amen, Amen
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