Generation. Youth. Christ.

“Satan’S Worst Nightmare”

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Program Code: GYC180004A


00:33 Please stand with us and sing our theme song,
00:35 "This Witness I Will Bear."
00:51 Have you heard the story told
00:56 Of the Man whose heart was sold
01:00 To save my dying soul?
01:04 Oh, what love untold
01:09 To the end He's always sought me
01:13 To the end He's always loved me
01:17 To the end I long to follow
01:21 For He bore my cross of sorrow
01:26 I will stay here in the hollow of His care
01:31 And I will go anywhere to the end
01:38 This witness I will bear
01:42 To the end
01:50 In the grove I heard Him say
01:54 Oh, my Father, please just stay
01:58 Through broken hearted pain
02:02 He did pave the way
02:06 To the end His heart is faithful
02:10 To the end His hand is able
02:14 To the end I can now follow
02:18 For He bore my cross of sorrow
02:22 I will stay here in the hollow of His care
02:27 And I will go anywhere to the end
02:33 This witness I will bear
02:37 To the end
02:45 As they took Him off to die
02:49 There His friendship I denied
02:53 Forgiveness in His eyes
02:57 He did not despise
03:01 To the end His love constrains me
03:04 To the end He has restored me
03:08 To the end I will still follow
03:12 For He bore my cross of sorrow
03:16 I will stay here in the hollow of His care
03:21 And I will go anywhere to the end
03:27 This witness I will bear
03:31 This witness I will bear
03:35 To the end
03:50 Thank you for singing. You may be seated.
03:53 Please be seated.
03:55 Please turn to your Bibles.
03:57 Turn on your Bibles.
03:58 Turn to your Bibles to Acts 1.
04:02 Acts 1 is where our theme for this conference is found.
04:06 If you're there, please say amen.
04:10 If you're not there, hurry up.
04:14 If you're there, please say amen.
04:16 Amen.
04:17 If you're still not there, say "Please have mercy on me."
04:20 Hurry up.
04:22 You're making this sermon way too long.
04:26 Acts 1:1, amen?
04:28 Amen.
04:30 The Bible says in the New King James Version,
04:33 "The former account I made, O Theophilus,
04:35 of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
04:41 until the day in which He was taken up,
04:43 after He through the Holy Spirit
04:45 had given commandments to the apostles
04:47 whom He had chosen,
04:48 to whom He also presented Himself alive
04:51 after His suffering by many infallible proofs,
04:54 being seen by them during forty days
04:56 and speaking of the things
04:57 pertaining to the kingdom of God.
04:59 And being assembled together with them,
05:02 He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem,
05:04 but wait for the Promise of the Father,
05:06 'which,' He said,
05:07 'you have heard from Me,
05:09 for John truly baptized with water,
05:11 but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit
05:13 not many days from now.'
05:15 Therefore,
05:16 when they had come together,
05:18 they asked Him, saying,
05:19 'Lord, will You at this time
05:21 restore the kingdom to Israel?' "
05:22 Acts 1:7.
05:23 "And He said to them,
05:25 'It is not for you to know the times or seasons
05:27 which the Father has put in His own authority.'
05:29 And Acts 1:8,
05:31 "'But you shall receive power
05:33 when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
05:34 and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem,
05:37 and in all Judea and Samaria,
05:40 and to the end of the earth.' "
05:45 Speaker of the hour is Elder Gary Blanchard.
05:48 He is the General Conference World Youth Director,
05:50 which means he is the lead pastor
05:52 for all the youth leaders all around the world.
05:56 He has one wife, Erica.
05:58 Amen?
06:00 Amen.
06:01 He has 3 young adult children and 1.5 dogs.
06:06 It's a German Shepherd and a Wiener-Dog.
06:09 He's originally from Maine.
06:11 And before coming to the General Conference,
06:13 his previous post was serving here
06:16 in the Texas Conference as Youth Director.
06:19 He's better known as PG or Pastor Gary.
06:23 When you come to the General Conference,
06:25 you get the Elder attached to your name.
06:27 He had devout two schools of evangelism
06:30 called SENT and GLAD REAPER,
06:31 and currently he's part of a GC initiative
06:35 to get 100,000 youth-led evangelistic series
06:40 around the world and online.
06:43 I've known Gary to have a real passion
06:45 to pass on three things.
06:47 One, our identity as it is in Jesus.
06:51 Two, our mission as Seventh-day Adventists.
06:55 And three,
06:56 local church leadership to the younger generation.
06:59 We share a wall together at the General Conference.
07:02 We share the same burden to reach this generation
07:05 to reach the world.
07:06 He's been a great friend of GYC
07:08 and a great blessing to the world church.
07:12 After the musical offering and a video presentation,
07:15 the next voice you'll hear
07:17 will be that of Elder Gary Blanchard.
07:42 There are no unknown soldiers
07:46 God knows them all by name
07:51 His army cannot march
07:54 Beyond His care
07:59 Their blood type has established
08:03 Their royal identities
08:07 And when the roll is called up yonder
08:11 Every soldier will be there
08:17 There are no unknown soldiers
08:21 In the army of the Lord
08:26 No wounded left to die
08:29 Along the way
08:33 No missing in the action
08:37 Commissioned by our King
08:41 Every soldier's coming home
08:44 At last to stay
08:49 Every soldier's coming home
08:52 At last to stay
09:01 The final battle's ended
09:05 The noise of conflict's still
09:09 The ravaged fields lie baking in the sun
09:15 For a mighty trumpet sounded
09:20 All the troops they were called home
09:23 There was not a soldier missing
09:27 When this great war was done
09:32 There are no unknown soldiers
09:36 In the army of the Lord
09:40 No wounded left to die
09:43 Along the way
09:47 No missing in the action
09:51 Commissioned by our King
09:54 Every soldier's coming home
09:57 At last to stay
10:02 Every soldier's coming home
10:05 At last to stay
10:09 He's never wondered where we are
10:13 He has our DNA
10:16 And soon in grand formation
10:20 We will fall in line to say
10:24 There are no unknown soldiers
10:29 In the army of the Lord
10:35 No wounded left to die along the way
10:42 No missing in the action
10:45 Commissioned
10:47 By our King
10:54 Every soldier's coming home
10:58 At last to stay
11:03 Every soldier's coming home
11:07 At last to stay
11:19 To stay
11:31 Billions of people around the world
11:32 live in cities.
11:34 There are over 100 cities
11:36 with a population greater than 1 million.
11:39 Many people living in these cities
11:41 have no knowledge of Jesus.
11:43 They are surrounded by crime, racism,
11:46 disease, corruption, and godlessness.
11:50 What will you do?
11:53 Will you stand by and watch?
11:54 Or will you go
11:56 and demonstrate the love of Jesus?
11:58 Evangelism is the essential work
12:00 for this time
12:01 and will result in starting a mighty movement
12:04 such as we have not yet experienced.
12:07 The everlasting gospel is the only real antidote
12:09 for the godlessness found in the cities of the world.
12:13 Do you hear His voice calling you
12:14 into the cities?
12:16 There is only one effective method
12:18 of evangelism,
12:19 Christ method alone.
12:21 He is calling you to be part of a mighty army of youth,
12:25 who will socialize, sympathize, serve,
12:28 and share His love with those in the cities.
12:31 One Year in Mission.
12:32 Are you ready?
12:33 If you're a committed Seventh-day Adventist
12:36 from ages 18-35, active in your local church,
12:40 graduated from high school, a good team player,
12:43 highly recommended by your pastor,
12:45 and determined to take an entire year off
12:48 to focus on this ministry.
12:50 One Year in Mission is for you.
12:53 Why wait?
12:54 Let's take the cities now.
12:56 Find out more at www.Youth.Adventist.org
13:05 Happy Sabbath, GYC.
13:07 Happy Sabbath.
13:09 Happy Sabbath, Texas.
13:11 It's good to have everybody here today.
13:14 Are you enjoying the Sabbath?
13:16 You know, when I go places,
13:18 I always have a little pass it on thing we do.
13:21 We're trying to pass on
13:22 to the younger generation identity in Christ,
13:24 mission as Seventh-day Adventist,
13:26 and leadership in the local church.
13:28 What do you think about that? Amen.
13:29 So what I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say pass it on,
13:31 you're gonna shout back to me,
13:32 "Identity, mission, leadership, pass it on."
13:35 Can you do that?
13:36 Okay, here it goes.
13:37 Pass it on.
13:39 Identity, mission, leadership.
13:42 I let you guys off easy.
13:44 Normally, I had people jump up in the air.
13:48 What did you say? You wanted to do that?
13:49 Okay, we're gonna do that. All right.
13:51 So I'm gonna shout pass it on to you, you're gonna say,
13:52 "Identity, mission, leadership,"
13:54 and then you're gonna step and go "Pass it on."
13:56 Okay? Can we try it?
13:58 Only the young people are allowed to do this.
14:01 Old folks, stay seated
14:02 'cause you don't have the energy to...
14:04 No, I'm just kidding. Anybody.
14:05 Here we go. Pass it on!
14:07 Identity, mission, leadership, pass it on!
14:11 Amen.
14:13 Amen. Amen.
14:15 What a blessing to be here.
14:17 I don't know how many of you were here last night
14:18 to hear Moise's wonderful message
14:20 about not to leave anyone behind.
14:23 Amen?
14:24 Powerful message.
14:26 I want to begin with a word of prayer
14:27 at this time
14:29 and really thank the Lord for already being here.
14:31 I'm not gonna ask the Lord to be here
14:32 because I don't know about you, but I sense His presence.
14:34 Amen.
14:35 So let's thank Him for being here.
14:37 Let's bow our heads.
14:39 "Heavenly Father,
14:40 what a great honor it is
14:41 to be standing before the army of the Lord,
14:44 Generation Youth Christ.
14:48 Father, we believe with all our heart
14:50 that this work can be finished in this generation.
14:54 And, Father, we believe this work can be finished
14:57 by young and old alike
14:58 working together intergenerationally.
15:01 And, Father, we believe that our message is Jesus
15:03 and we want to present Him, Lord,
15:05 with the power of the Holy Spirit
15:08 because we realized, Lord, that He is the only Savior,
15:10 there is none other.
15:12 So we love You, Lord, and we thank You for being here.
15:14 In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
15:16 You know, wherever I go, people ask me two questions.
15:18 Usually, they'd ask me,
15:20 "Why did they choose you to be the World Youth Director?"
15:22 That's the first question.
15:24 That makes me a little bit nervous.
15:26 The second question is
15:28 "What is your vision for youth ministry."
15:30 So I have an answer for the first one.
15:32 The first one is very simple.
15:34 I don't know if you guys have read this anywhere,
15:35 but the Bible actually teaches that
15:37 God calls the foolish things of the world.
15:41 And also, the Bible says,
15:42 "His power is made perfect in..."
15:44 Help me out.
15:45 "Weakness." "Weakness."
15:47 So that's my only reason
15:48 why I'm the World Youth Director today,
15:50 but I feel very blessed.
15:51 Amen? Amen.
15:53 The other question that people ask me is
15:55 "What is your vision for youth ministry?"
15:57 But I got to tell you right now, GYC, with all my heart,
16:00 we need less visions from men and more visions from God.
16:06 Instead of asking a mere mortal
16:08 what their vision is for youth ministry,
16:11 maybe we should ask God.
16:13 What do you say? Amen.
16:15 And what I'm really excited about today is that
16:17 God has given us His vision and His provision.
16:22 In Acts 1:8,
16:25 if you want to know God's vision for youth ministry
16:27 or God's vision for the church,
16:29 if you want to know God's provision
16:31 or power to make it happen, it's all there in Acts 1:8.
16:37 Amen? Amen.
16:38 Right here, in Acts 1:8,
16:42 is the secret to going big so we could go home.
16:45 Amen.
16:47 I don't know about you but I'm ready to go home.
16:49 Are you ready? Amen.
16:51 The secret to going home, going big,
16:53 and going home is right here,
16:55 God's vision and God's provision, in Acts 1:8.
16:59 How many of you got your Bibles out?
17:02 Let's read this together, okay?
17:06 "But you..."
17:08 Now notice how personal this is.
17:10 Twice the Bible says you.
17:13 "But you shall receive power
17:15 when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
17:18 And you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem,
17:21 in Judea, and Samaria and," what?
17:25 It's right up here on the stage.
17:26 And what?
17:28 "To the end."
17:29 Now what's very interesting here is God's vision
17:32 comes after God's provision.
17:34 You'll notice here the provision comes first,
17:36 "And you shall receive power
17:38 when the Holy Spirit has come upon you."
17:40 And then here comes the vision,
17:42 "And you shall be witnesses to me,
17:45 in Jerusalem, and Judea, and Samaria,
17:47 and to the end of the earth."
17:49 Can you say amen? Amen.
17:50 Right there, you have a very simple plan.
17:53 God says, "Look, here's My vision
17:56 and here's My provision for making it happen,
17:58 Seventh-day Adventist Church.
18:00 GYC, if you want to be a witness to the end,
18:03 you must receive my baptism of the Holy Spirit."
18:07 You see, God's vision,
18:09 "And you will be witnesses to Me to the end."
18:14 That is God's vision.
18:15 "You will be witnesses of Me to the end."
18:18 You know, it's very interesting,
18:20 in the book of Acts, the Bible tells us
18:21 that God sets up the borders of the nations.
18:24 But very interestingly, when it comes to His church,
18:27 there are no borders.
18:31 We are to go to the end.
18:33 We are to permeate like yeast.
18:35 We are to permeate like light, but there are no borders.
18:40 And by the way, if you're a racist,
18:42 you will not like the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
18:46 I thought I'd get more amens on that one.
18:48 Amen.
18:49 This is a church that goes to Samaria, and Judea,
18:53 and Jerusalem, and to the end of the age.
18:55 This is a church for every nation,
18:58 kindred, town, and people.
19:01 That's God's vision.
19:03 That's why you don't want some
19:04 beastly weak vision from a man.
19:06 You want a powerful big vision from God.
19:12 You know, I love Ellen White, bought right into this.
19:15 I love you.
19:17 You know this quote,
19:18 "With such an army," help me out,
19:20 "With such an army of workers," what,
19:23 "as our youth," what, "rightly trained might furnish,
19:28 how soon the message of a crucified, and risen,
19:32 and soon-coming Savior could go," where,
19:35 "to the whole world."
19:38 Very interesting.
19:40 Ellen White basically takes Acts 1:8
19:42 and applies it to young people.
19:43 GYC!
19:45 Generation Youth for Christ!
19:47 Amen?
19:50 Jesus has a vision here
19:53 that every young person becomes a spirit-filled
19:56 missionary to the end.
20:00 No borders, everywhere!
20:03 God's vision is every young person,
20:05 a spirit-filled missionary to the end of the world.
20:11 Wow!
20:13 You know, I have a theory about young people.
20:16 And the theory is that young people were designed
20:19 to live dangerously.
20:22 Now Jesus apparently had the same theory
20:24 because right here, it says,
20:26 "But you shall receive power
20:27 when the Holy Spirit is come upon you,
20:29 and you shall be martyrs."
20:32 Did you hear me?
20:34 The actual word for witness here
20:35 in Acts 1:8 is the word for martyr.
20:41 Jesus is calling His church to live dangerously
20:44 that others might be saved,
20:47 even if it means laying down your life
20:49 because you know that your eternity is secured in Jesus,
20:52 but they don't have the assurance of eternity.
20:56 A movement of young missionaries,
20:58 spirit-filled, to the end.
21:00 Not only to the end of the earth
21:02 but also to the end of their lives.
21:05 It's a big vision.
21:08 You know, there's a powerful verse in the Bible.
21:11 It's in Psalms 127:4.
21:14 And it actually describes young people
21:17 as arrows in the hands of a warrior.
21:19 Can you say amen? Amen.
21:21 Now I'm gonna invite
21:23 my wonderful assistant to come out here.
21:24 And how many of you ever seen a bow and arrow before?
21:27 Okay.
21:29 You don't know how many security clearances
21:31 I have to pass to get this.
21:33 They all know I'm emotionally unstable,
21:35 so they were very worried,
21:37 especially when I said I need somebody
21:38 that could be a moving target and somebody with an apple
21:40 and as a volunteer.
21:42 When I said that, they really freaked out.
21:45 But the Bible says in Psalms 127:4,
21:47 and don't worry, guys, you're safe.
21:48 I'm not gonna put the arrow in here.
21:50 But the Bible actually tells us that young people
21:53 are like arrows in the hands of a warrior.
21:56 Can you say amen? Amen.
21:57 Now notice, the Bible does not say young people are arrows...
22:00 are like arrows in the hands of an archer
22:04 because if they were arrows in the hands of an archer,
22:06 maybe these young people
22:07 could just be used for target practice,
22:09 like they are in many churches today.
22:12 But the Bible says there,
22:14 they're arrows in the hands of a warrior.
22:17 When a warrior shoots an arrow,
22:18 it's always into the most dangerous places of the earth,
22:22 the enemy's frontlines.
22:24 The Bible is telling us something very clearly
22:26 and Jesus has affirmed it,
22:28 young people were designed to live for God,
22:31 even to death
22:33 and even to the ends of the earth.
22:39 You're all safe now. I'll put this down.
22:43 I got a couple amen's on that.
22:47 One of the questions I hear all the time is
22:49 "Pastor Gary, how do we keep our young people?"
22:51 Have you heard this one?
22:53 Raise your hand if you've heard that before.
22:54 Maybe you've said it. It's a great question.
22:56 How do we keep our young people?
22:58 I want to tell you right now,
22:59 here's how we keep Seventh-day Adventist young people,
23:01 stop keeping them, start sending them.
23:08 It's not your seating capacity.
23:10 It's not how many arrows you have in the quiver.
23:12 It's how many you're shooting.
23:15 It's how many you're sending
23:16 into the most dangerous places of the earth.
23:18 God help us if the King of the Universe comes back
23:21 and finds our quiver full of arrows
23:23 that could have been sent to the enemy frontlines.
23:25 You want to keep your young people, stop keeping them
23:28 and start sending them.
23:29 Rightly train them and send them.
23:32 Give them work to do for God.
23:33 Amen? Amen.
23:35 Send them out to plant churches.
23:37 By the way, young people can plant churches.
23:38 They're doing it in the South Pacific Division.
23:41 Beautiful pictures of young people
23:42 who have decided to go and plant churches.
23:44 Amen? Amen.
23:45 What if we planted churches in every university in Texas
23:48 and every university in your area?
23:50 What if we started planting churches with young people,
23:53 like arrows in the hands of a warrior?
23:55 You know, I've noticed as I traveled around,
23:57 there are three areas
23:58 that I believe we really need to focus
24:01 sending our beautiful young people in that direction.
24:04 By the way, you know what Jesus said,
24:05 if you're willing to lay down your life for Him,
24:07 you'll actually find it.
24:09 So Jesus is not calling us to die in the negative sense.
24:12 He's calling us to die that we might live,
24:15 that we might really experience life.
24:18 There will be times when we lay down our lives.
24:20 You know, it breaks my heart, just earlier this year,
24:22 we heard about Berni Kunu, a 24-year-old young man
24:26 who was supposed to be married this month
24:29 laid down his life in Papua, Indonesia in 2018 in March.
24:36 Laid down his life, and what was his crime?
24:38 Going to the most remote part of that area
24:41 and trying to heal people in the name of Jesus,
24:44 and he was murdered.
24:46 But, you know what's interesting
24:47 when they wrote about his report?
24:49 They actually said that
24:50 so many young people showed up to his funeral and signed up.
24:53 "We want to go. We want to serve God.
24:55 We want to be missionaries for the Master."
24:57 Young people are designed to live dangerously.
24:59 You mark my words, they were designed for this.
25:02 And the reason we lose young people
25:03 is we try to keep them safe instead of challenging them.
25:07 They live dangerously for the Lord Jesus.
25:08 Amen?
25:10 The first place we need to target
25:12 is we need to target the cities of the world.
25:13 Can you say cities? Cities.
25:15 In fact, Jesus right here, in His beautiful...
25:18 Verse eight here,
25:21 He starts with a city, Jerusalem.
25:22 That's where we need to start. It's the cities.
25:24 Amen?
25:25 The cities of the world.
25:27 I could give you tons of quotes
25:28 that Ellen White has given us on this.
25:29 But do you know that
25:31 at least 50% of the world population lives in cities,
25:34 and the other 50% are dependent on the cities.
25:37 You know, people, we desperately need
25:39 to see One Year in Mission starting in all of our cities.
25:42 I praise God for One Year in Mission.
25:44 You just saw a video on this.
25:45 Young people like you are getting together in teams
25:48 and taking a year off to reach the city
25:50 through Christ method alone, which is, what is His method?
25:54 To sympathize and serve, right?
25:57 Socialize, sympathize, serve and to save,
25:59 young people reaching the cities,
26:01 we've got to reach the cities
26:03 in these last days, very important.
26:06 The other area that we need to target
26:07 is we need to target the universities.
26:09 Can you say amen? Amen.
26:11 We need to send our young people
26:12 to the most dangerous places of the earth
26:14 and the universities have become like this.
26:16 But our young people must go like Daniel did.
26:18 Amen?
26:19 By the way, I really appreciate Adventist Christian Fellowship,
26:23 which is the PCM,
26:25 which is the branch of PCM here in the North American Division.
26:28 Adventist Christian Fellowship, this is where you get trained,
26:31 these young people go into the universities
26:33 and reach the people for Jesus.
26:35 By the way, do you know what the first PCM group was?
26:39 It's actually found in Daniel 1.
26:42 Daniel and his three friends,
26:44 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
26:45 they went to where?
26:47 The University of what?
26:49 Babylon. They're the first PCM team.
26:51 They target the worst and the most wicked city of all,
26:54 and they go in there and they stand for Jesus.
26:57 They live dangerously for Christ.
27:00 And they actually are able to influence Nebuchadnezzar,
27:02 the greatest leader of that time.
27:04 Do you know that in every university around the world,
27:07 there are people that are staying up late at night
27:09 like Nebuchadnezzar?
27:10 They understand the times they're living in,
27:12 and they have no hope, and they don't know what to do.
27:16 But PCM teams, they go into those universities,
27:19 and they help people hear the wonderful news
27:21 of the Second Coming of Jesus.
27:22 Amen? Amen.
27:24 And call them to Christ.
27:25 We need to target the cities.
27:28 We need to target the universities.
27:30 And, people, can I just be blunt with you?
27:31 We must target the 10/40 window.
27:35 We have neglected this window for far too long.
27:39 I am afraid that Jesus would have to apologize
27:43 to the people living from North Africa
27:45 through the Middle East Asia if He came back
27:47 and they've never heard the message.
27:50 You know, the 2/3 of the world's population
27:53 lives in the 10/40 window
27:55 and 90% have never heard the everlasting gospel?
28:01 Folks, we must target the 10/40 window.
28:06 There is a great call now for carpenters to go there,
28:09 for builders to go there, for doctors to go there,
28:13 for businessmen to go there.
28:14 Some of these places are too dangerous for you to go
28:17 as a "missionary" or as a "pastor"
28:19 or as an "evangelist,"
28:20 but you can go as a businessman, businesswoman.
28:25 We must reach these cities.
28:27 You'd say, "Pastor Gary, Jesus would never
28:30 call people to live dangerously, would He?"
28:32 Well, didn't He say to His disciples,
28:34 "I send you out among wolves"?
28:35 That sounds pretty dangerous.
28:37 You know what Jesus said, "Don't go stupid though."
28:42 That's my translation.
28:44 He said, "I send you out among wolves,
28:46 but don't go stupid, go like the Waldensians did."
28:49 Amen?
28:50 Wise as serpents, strategic.
28:53 Amen?
28:54 And as gentle as Jesus or the Holy Spirit.
28:56 Amen? Or as a dove.
28:57 Come on now.
28:59 God is calling us to live dangerously for Him.
29:01 I don't know if maybe you've heard the story
29:03 of the husband and wife that went to the dentist one day.
29:07 And the wife spoke to the dentist,
29:08 and the dentist says, "Okay.
29:09 How can I help you?"
29:11 And she said, "Yes, we need a cavity removed,
29:12 but we don't want any Novocain, no painkiller, nothing.
29:16 We got to have this cavity removed, no painkiller."
29:20 Doctor said, "That's weird.
29:21 But okay, show me the cavity."
29:23 She turned to her husband and said,
29:24 "Show him your tooth, dear."
29:30 Many of us are very happy to let J.N. Andrews,
29:37 and Abram La Rue,
29:42 or Berni Kunu
29:43 go through the suffering and the pain
29:45 that others might live, while we sit back
29:48 and we watch the next series on Netflix.
29:58 It got off a little quiet in here.
29:59 It's a little concerning.
30:02 We need to get serious. Amen?
30:05 You know, I got to tell you something,
30:06 it's okay to be SDA.
30:08 I just wanted to tell you that, I just wanted to say that.
30:10 It's okay to be SDA. Can you say it?
30:12 It's okay to be SDA.
30:14 How come you can't say that with more passion?
30:15 It's okay to be SDA. It's okay to be SDA.
30:19 Are you proud to be a Seventh-day Adventist?
30:20 Amen.
30:22 Listen, I got to tell you something.
30:23 We're not better than the other denominations.
30:26 We're not.
30:27 We're not better.
30:29 But God gave us, listen to me, a greater responsibility.
30:35 Do you know what Sister White says,
30:37 "The most solemn," and I'm quoting,
30:39 "The most solemn ever...
30:42 most solemn message ever given to mortals was given to us."
30:48 Amen.
30:51 No, we're not better,
30:52 but we have a greater responsibility.
30:53 Thank you very much.
30:55 And we can be proud,
30:56 well, we can also be humble and realize that,
30:58 "Yes, God trusted us with just a simple message,
31:02 but we have not gone."
31:05 Our cities are almost entirely neglected.
31:08 And there are some places in the 10/40 window
31:11 where there's not even an Adventist.
31:13 And here people say things like,
31:14 "Well, you know what, you know,
31:16 they don't listen to people foreigners.
31:17 We foreigners can't go there.
31:18 You know, we got to work with the indigenous people."
31:20 Guess what, there are no indigenous people to work with.
31:24 If somebody does not go from here
31:25 and raise that people there,
31:29 there will be some countries that won't even be reached.
31:31 We go to get serious.
31:33 Young people, you need to go to the booths.
31:34 And what do you say at the booths?
31:36 The booths.
31:37 Sign up for a ministry.
31:38 Sign up for a mission.
31:40 Get serious this weekend.
31:41 What do you say? Amen.
31:43 I hope all of you are gonna go to Iceland.
31:45 I've always wanted to go to Iceland.
31:47 This is my big chance.
31:48 That's connected to the end of the earth, right?
31:53 We'll see.
31:56 I don't know if you noticed the fires in California,
32:00 devastating fires, over 1,000 people missing.
32:06 Paradise, that area there,
32:08 I understand they lost their entire Church.
32:09 And most of them,
32:11 all of the members lost their homes.
32:13 And the tragedy of this was, it was beyond the pale.
32:18 And somebody sent me a tweet.
32:19 I saw it was so...
32:21 It just moved my heart.
32:23 It was a woman who sent this tweet out.
32:25 And it's kind of gone viral everywhere.
32:27 And somebody sent it to me, I hope it's true.
32:30 But in the tweet it says,
32:33 "Whoever honked their horn..."
32:35 This is the woman that escaped the fires.
32:37 The tweet said, "Whoever honked their horn obnoxiously
32:39 at 2:00 in the morning and woke me up, thank you.
32:43 You saved my life." Amen.
32:47 Isn't it interesting?
32:48 That the three angles' message is a loud message,
32:51 it's almost like God is honking,
32:53 warning the world.
32:54 The three angels' message is not for you, it's for them.
33:00 Acts 1:8 is for you.
33:03 Revelation 14 is for them.
33:04 They must hear the message.
33:06 We must be faithful like Noah was.
33:08 We must be faithful like Jonah eventually became.
33:11 But we must preach the most solemn message
33:15 ever given to mortals to the world.
33:17 Amen.
33:19 We lost the arrows out of the quiver.
33:22 We must go into the most dangerous places of the earth.
33:25 Young people, you don't have to wait for a mighty warrior,
33:27 like your youth pastor or whatever to send you.
33:28 If God is calling you, don't ask for permission.
33:31 Go. Amen.
33:32 The reason Jonathan was able to beat the Philistines
33:35 is because he didn't ask permission,
33:36 he just went with his armor bearer.
33:39 Go.
33:40 God is calling you. Go.
33:42 Be an arrow, straight and true.
33:43 They need to hear the most solemn message
33:44 ever given to morals.
33:48 You know,
33:51 we've been so blessed to have a wonderful Savior,
33:52 haven't we?
33:55 You know,
33:56 I've often wondered
33:58 what happened to the missionary zeal.
34:00 I mean, don't get me wrong,
34:02 there are missionaries out there on fire for God
34:03 in some of the most remote places of the earth.
34:05 I just shared an example of one of them.
34:07 But overall, how many?
34:08 Twenty million Seventh-day Adventists,
34:10 I mean how fast could we move if we all went, right?
34:16 I've wrestled with that why.
34:19 And I believe that there is a philosophy
34:22 floating around,
34:24 it's a sinister little philosophy.
34:26 And if we don't pay attention,
34:29 it can eat the heart
34:32 out of missionary passion.
34:36 It's called pluralism.
34:39 Let me tell you what it is.
34:40 Pluralism goes like this,
34:42 "Hey, listen,
34:43 all religions are equal and valid."
34:46 Did you hear me?
34:48 Or "There are many paths to God."
34:51 Or "We shouldn't judge others.
34:53 God knows their heart."
34:55 Or "Preach the gospel.
34:58 Use words if necessary."
35:02 It's pluralism.
35:03 It's eating the heart of our mission.
35:05 We go to preach the gospel.
35:06 People aren't just saved by your life,
35:08 they're saved by Jesus.
35:11 Silent witness is an oxymoron.
35:15 Yes, we are to shape our lives
35:17 that we truly serve the Lord.
35:18 Amen? Amen.
35:20 Our lives need to get credibility to our words,
35:22 but, people, we go to speak, we got to open our mouths.
35:25 Amen.
35:26 People are not gonna be saved by your good behavior.
35:30 Amen.
35:32 People will be saved by His good behavior,
35:36 His righteousness, not yours.
35:43 I like preaching to you guys,
35:44 but my blood pressure's going up.
35:46 Calming down here.
35:50 You know,
35:52 if there were many paths to God,
35:53 then why the Cross?
35:55 Is that just some mean experiment God placed on Jesus?
35:59 "Jesus, you go ahead and die on the cross,
36:00 but there's gonna be other opportunities,
36:02 you don't need to find the way to...
36:03 the word for excruciating pain comes from out of the cross,"
36:07 It means out of the cross, excruciating.
36:10 He just allowed His Son to go through that
36:15 because there are other paths to God?
36:16 No, the cross proved that there are no other paths to God
36:19 except for Jesus.
36:20 "I am the way, the truth, and the life.
36:23 No man comes to the Father but by me," said Jesus.
36:25 Come on now. Amen.
36:28 You see, what pluralism is,
36:30 it's an attack at the Cross of Jesus.
36:33 It's a satanic attack at the Cross.
36:37 Yeah, there may be many paths to God,
36:39 but only one will actually get you to Him.
36:46 And if there's many paths to God,
36:48 then why Gethsemane?
36:50 I mean, that seems like a great time for God
36:51 to let Jesus in on a secret.
36:55 Jesus said, "Lord, if it is possible,
36:58 is there's any other way for people to be saved,
37:00 take this cup from me.
37:01 Nevertheless, not my will, but thine."
37:03 And that was God's perfect time to say,
37:05 "And guess what, Islam, Buddhism,
37:07 anything else, there's other options.
37:09 Jesus, stand up, it's gonna be okay."
37:11 But you know what, Jesus gets silenced
37:13 'cause there's no other way.
37:16 This brilliant God that can figure out
37:18 a lot of ways to get me out of trouble
37:20 could only come up with one way to us,
37:22 and that's it.
37:23 There's no other way.
37:25 It's Jesus.
37:26 The Bible says the world was already condemned
37:28 and they were already heading for destruction.
37:29 But God came up with a way to save Muslims,
37:32 and Hindus, and Christians, and Seventh-day Adventists
37:36 through His Son Jesus who died on the cross.
37:39 That's His plan.
37:41 God came up with a plan to save us.
37:42 That's how wonderful He is.
37:46 This is why we need God's power in our lives.
37:48 Amen?
37:49 This is why we need His vision,
37:52 and this is why we need His provision,
37:54 which is the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
37:56 A friend of mine was telling me one day
37:57 that he was driving down the road heading to church
37:59 and he noticed that in the middle of the road
38:02 was a mother duck and all of her little babies.
38:05 And the mother duck had been run over and was dead,
38:08 but all the little babies were clutched around her
38:10 and moving around very scared around her.
38:12 They didn't know what to do. And the cars are going by.
38:14 And he drove and he saw this,
38:15 and he was like, "Oh, my goodness."
38:16 And he pulls over.
38:18 He's like, "Oh, I got to do something to help them."
38:19 He's looking both ways, he gets
38:20 one of those igloos out of the back.
38:22 You guys in Texas know about this, those igloos, right?
38:24 Big old igloos.
38:25 Takes his big old ice chest, he runs out
38:27 and he looks both ways,
38:28 he starts to scoop all the ducks
38:31 inside the igloo and take them back to safety.
38:35 And they all get in there but one of them.
38:38 One of them is scared to death of him,
38:40 and so he goes running of as fast as he can
38:42 into the brush where it's even more dangerous.
38:46 So the guy goes and puts the other ducks in there,
38:48 and he goes running and trying to find this other little duck,
38:50 trying to make all kinds of duck sounds,
38:52 I don't know if he tried some Donald Duck stuff,
38:53 I don't know.
38:55 But the duck kept going further and further
38:57 and getting more and more in dangerous situation.
39:01 Finally, the guy had an idea.
39:03 He went back to his car, true story,
39:06 reached in there and grabbed one of his siblings.
39:09 Crossed the road,
39:11 held the little duck in his hand,
39:12 and the little duck started quacking.
39:15 And sure enough, his little sister came out
39:17 when it heard her brother or whatever it was calling.
39:23 He was able to save them.
39:25 What an incredible story!
39:27 What an incredible story about what God has called us to do.
39:30 "And you shall see power
39:32 when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,
39:34 and you should be witnesses of Me.
39:39 Jerusalem and Judea and to the ends of the earth."
39:41 Can you say amen? Amen.
39:43 See, it's our job to go out there and tell people
39:45 what God is like,
39:46 and to show them what He's like,
39:48 and tell about the cross,
39:49 the only way God provided for the salvation of man.
39:52 God's vision is we go to the ends
39:54 and tell them it's the only way out of here, it's Jesus.
40:05 God's vision,
40:08 God's provision.
40:10 Very interested in Acts 1:8.
40:12 It does not say that you achieve the Holy Spirit.
40:14 I know a lot of people are seemed to be praying
40:16 as if they're trying to achieve the right
40:17 to receive the Holy Spirit.
40:19 "If I just pray harder,
40:20 I can achieve the baptism of the Holy Spirit."
40:22 But that's not what Jesus says here.
40:24 He says, "But you shall receive power,"
40:30 not achieve power.
40:31 That's how the world does it.
40:33 You achieve power
40:35 and then you witness for yourself.
40:38 That's the world's way.
40:40 But the Bible says here
40:41 that the way we get baptized with the Holy Spirit
40:44 is we receive the Holy Spirit.
40:46 Every morning, here at GYC,
40:48 when you see young people gathering around praying,
40:50 they're not trying to achieve the Holy Spirit,
40:52 they're opening up their hearts to what?
40:55 Receive, emptying self that they might receive.
40:59 Coming into one accord, confessing their sins,
41:02 not to achieve, but to what?
41:06 People, we need young people,
41:07 we need to be gathering together
41:08 around in small groups,
41:10 need to find our own Upper Room,
41:11 and we need to be receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
41:16 And you'd be receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
41:22 You know, I believe very soon
41:24 that God is gonna launch a movement
41:26 around this world like we've never seen before.
41:30 But we need to not wait for that day.
41:33 We need to begin now
41:35 praying for the filling of the Holy Spirit upon our lives
41:38 that we might be empowered to go.
41:39 Amen?
41:41 Isn't it so interesting?
41:42 Isn't it so wonderful that
41:44 Jesus did not leave us with the Force from Star Wars?
41:48 I know a lot of people today talk about the Holy Spirit
41:50 as being a force.
41:51 I don't agree with that.
41:53 I tell you why I don't agree with that 'cause Jesus doesn't.
41:56 Over and over again,
41:57 and you can read for yourself in John 14-16,
42:00 Jesus uses a personal pronoun to describe the Holy Spirit.
42:06 He did not leave us with a force,
42:08 He left us with a dear, wonderful,
42:10 powerful, Christ-like, God-glorifying person.
42:16 Amen.
42:18 And don't let anybody rob you of that.
42:20 Jesus didn't make you an orphan.
42:23 By the way, Jesus can be closer with you
42:26 that even was with the disciples now
42:28 through the Holy Spirit.
42:29 You don't cry a tear, sister,
42:32 that the Holy Spirit doesn't know about.
42:34 All right, check it out for yourself,
42:36 the last verse of 2 Corinthians says
42:38 that we can actually have fellowship
42:39 with the Holy Spirit,
42:40 intimacy with the Holy Spirit. Come on!
42:43 Also, right there in that last verse,
42:45 it also puts the Holy Spirit right in the Holy Trinity
42:48 right there in the last verse of 2 Corinthians.
42:50 Amen? Amen.
42:54 What a wonderful God we serve.
42:55 He didn't leave us as orphans.
42:57 He gave us the power of the Holy Spirit,
42:58 the comforter, the helper.
43:00 Come on. Amen?
43:01 But I don't know
43:03 how you could not see the person of the Holy Spirit
43:04 read the book of Acts.
43:06 Guys, He directs the church, He leads the church,
43:09 He tells them to go, He tells them not to go.
43:12 He whispers in the ear where they need to share,
43:14 where they need to step back, the Holy Spirit is in control.
43:16 In fact, some people have said, "The book was named wrong.
43:19 It should have been called The Acts of the Holy Spirit."
43:22 Amen.
43:23 We desperately need The Acts of the Holy Spirit again.
43:25 Amen?
43:26 We need to come together in one accord as a people.
43:30 We need to receive the Holy Spirit
43:32 by emptying ourselves
43:33 of all of our petty issues with each other.
43:38 Look, I get the fact that iron needs to sharp an iron,
43:40 I get that.
43:42 It's all right if there's a little sparks
43:43 that fly back and forth.
43:44 Can you say amen? Amen.
43:46 But when you begin to mock, and malign,
43:48 and mistreat the church, you should step back.
43:51 Amen.
43:53 Let me tell you why
43:55 because I'm married.
43:59 When I got married, I learned something.
44:02 You can say whatever you want about me,
44:06 but you talk about my wife...
44:09 Let me put this in Texas terms.
44:12 We might have to throw down.
44:14 Amen.
44:16 The church is God's wife. Amen.
44:27 I might need an escape car or something.
44:43 You know, somebody once said something very powerful.
44:45 He said,
44:47 "If it wasn't for the cross,
44:50 only God would know how much He loves us."
44:56 Think about that.
44:59 He said, "The cross
45:00 will refine the God's incredible love for us."
45:01 Amen? Amen.
45:04 Also, we refined our hatred towards sin
45:06 because we see what sin did to the Son of God
45:07 and what He took for us.
45:09 Amen?
45:10 So at the cross, we experience God's love.
45:16 You know, I love that little phrase in Amazing Facts,
45:18 not Amazing Facts, that too,
45:20 but in the song "Amazing Grace,"
45:23 "T' was grace that taught my heart to fear,
45:27 and grace my fears relieved."
45:32 You know, what the Bible's saying there,
45:33 you know what that verse is saying?
45:35 That hymn I should say is saying,
45:36 here's what it's saying.
45:38 The hymn is saying this,
45:39 "That it was grace that taught us to fear."
45:41 In other words, "Out of kindness,
45:43 God warned the world of what is coming upon the earth."
45:46 He warned us out of kindness, grace His kindness,
45:49 out of kindness, He taught our hearts to fear,
45:51 He taught us to know that the end of the world is near.
45:54 The cities of the world will be destroyed.
45:56 Those in the 10/40 window without Jesus
45:59 will die without God and without hope.
46:01 He has taught our heart to fear, His grace,
46:03 His love has warned us.
46:06 But
46:09 His grace
46:11 for those who believe
46:14 has caused,
46:15 has relieved our fears.
46:16 Amen?
46:18 Because we know that on the cross,
46:20 Jesus Christ took the punishment,
46:22 and condemnation,
46:23 and the wrath of God in our place,
46:25 and that's the way the Father wanted it.
46:27 He wanted all of us to be saved.
46:28 Come on. Amen.
46:29 Can you give Him glory? Amen.
46:35 God is good. Is He not?
46:37 All the time. All the time.
46:38 Preach it.
46:48 I'll never forget a situation
46:50 that happened to me many years ago,
46:51 many, many, many years ago.
46:53 My mom told me not to play with matches.
46:57 I don't know if you've ever had a Mom like that.
46:59 Now my wife tells me
47:01 not to play with matches, just as...
47:02 I'll tell you something there but...
47:06 Don't play with matches.
47:08 And so with my simple nature as it is,
47:11 I decided to play with some matches.
47:15 And I went out front of the house
47:17 or in the back of the house actually,
47:19 I started to light little fires with the grass.
47:20 It was a very dry time of year in Ohio.
47:23 Anybody here from Ohio?
47:25 Okay, good.
47:26 I'm safe, I can keep going. All right.
47:29 And I started a little fire, and it blew up,
47:31 and then I would put the fire out.
47:34 Felt really good. Yeah.
47:37 My mom doesn't know anything.
47:39 Light another fire.
47:41 This time, I spun around.
47:43 It got a little bigger.
47:45 Yeah. Yep.
47:48 My mom doesn't know anything.
47:51 Then I don't know what I was thinking.
47:53 I wasn't thinking, okay?
47:56 I lit a fire,
47:58 and I decided to run around the house.
48:05 Now about here, I feel this gust of wind
48:08 and realized the terrible mistake I had made.
48:12 Come around the other side.
48:14 The whole backyard is on fire.
48:18 The only good news about it
48:20 is the fire is heading to the neighbor's house, not ours.
48:26 My mother comes running out,
48:28 "Oh, you're so in trouble, Gary,"
48:29 and we started to fight the flames.
48:31 "Hi, Mom." I know she's watching.
48:32 And we are fighting the flames. Whoa!
48:34 Trying to stop the fire.
48:36 And finally, we just called the fire department in Monnett,
48:39 Ohio, and they never had anything this exciting before.
48:44 They had a brand new fire truck,
48:46 brand new cop car,
48:48 everybody was clean and neat.
48:49 We just saw a dust cloud coming our way.
48:52 Those guys got out,
48:54 started to spray down the fire,
48:57 and they put it out in no time,
48:59 and they all walked around me.
49:05 They said, "Kid..." That's a Texas accent, but...
49:08 "Kid,
49:11 stop playing with matches.
49:14 Listen to your mother."
49:16 For the many years later after that,
49:18 I'm sure I was known as Pyro Boy in that town.
49:22 I tell you that story because there's gonna come a day
49:25 when the devil's gonna screw up.
49:29 He's not gonna be paying attention to the fire,
49:31 he's gonna run around,
49:32 he's not gonna be looking around,
49:33 and there'll be some young people in Texas,
49:36 there'll be some young people in dorm rooms,
49:38 there'll be some people on the Internet,
49:40 there'll be some young people in their churches
49:42 that will come together
49:44 and they'll pray for God's vision and God's provision.
49:47 And He will be running around the side of the house.
49:49 One latter rain will hit, whoa!
49:51 He'll realize his mistake.
49:52 He'll come around the corner. It's too late.
49:55 Revelation 18:1. Boom, boom!
49:59 And the whole earth is lit up with His glory.
50:02 I don't know about you,
50:04 but I wanna go big so we can go home.
50:08 Young people, I wanna make an appeal right now,
50:10 and then I wanna get off the stage.
50:14 Not just young people, everybody.
50:18 By the way, I want you to all know
50:23 that you're never gonna hear me say
50:24 the youth of the church of today.
50:25 You're never gonna hear me say that,
50:27 "The youth of church of today."
50:29 "The youth of..."
50:31 I'll do other dumb stuff but not that.
50:32 "The church of today." Don't get me wrong.
50:35 The youth are part of the church of today.
50:38 But what about the 80-year-old guy?
50:41 What about the 70-year-old guy?
50:42 What is he on, some kind of retirement plan?
50:46 By the way, did you know something?
50:47 God has no retirement plan. Amen.
50:50 Right?
50:52 If you're still alive, He has a work for you to do.
50:55 Amen. Amen?
50:56 We are all the church of today.
50:58 In fact, Malachi 4 tells us that in the last days,
51:01 there'll be an intergenerational movement.
51:05 Hearts of the fathers will turn to the children.
51:08 Hearts of the children will turn to the fathers.
51:10 Come on.
51:11 Intergenerational movement,
51:13 what that means is the older generation
51:15 must do what Elijah did.
51:18 They must pass on leadership to the younger generation.
51:21 By the way, Elijah didn't wanna do it either.
51:24 How we know is God commanded him
51:25 to throw his mantle around Elisha.
51:27 And it almost seems like Elijah didn't wanna do it.
51:29 Have you noticed?
51:30 He comes up to Elisha and says, "Hey, kid, younger generation."
51:36 Elisha actually has to run after the prophet,
51:39 "Hey, I'll do it.
51:41 I'll do it."
51:42 A lot of our young people are like,
51:44 "I wanna help in church, please."
51:46 And the pastor's running off here, the youth leader.
51:49 No, no, no, no, no.
51:50 I didn't say
51:53 dump it on kids,
51:55 I said pass it on,
51:58 your observation, participation,
52:03 and activation like Jesus did, but pass it on.
52:13 So I want to speak to everybody not just the young.
52:20 If we go to the church right now,
52:22 if we go to the cross right now,
52:24 you'll notice that when they killed...
52:26 When Jesus died on the cross, they put the spear in His side,
52:30 two things flowed out from His side.
52:33 And I don't think there are any mistakes in the Bible,
52:35 there are no unnecessary details,
52:37 there's so much richness and the details in the Bible,
52:40 right?
52:46 Here's the good news, young and old alike,
52:49 if you will go to the cross,
52:53 you'll find it flowing from Christ's side,
52:57 His blood for pardon, for all of your sins.
53:01 There's not a sin in your life that's so stained on you that
53:05 the blood of Jesus can't wash it away.
53:07 I don't know what your problem is.
53:08 Stop running away from Jesus,
53:10 you're running away from the wrong guy.
53:11 He's the Savior.
53:13 Stop trying to take a bath before you take a shower.
53:15 It doesn't make any sense.
53:17 He's the one that claims you. Go to Him as you are.
53:19 Amen. Go to the cross.
53:21 In the mind of faith, go to the cross
53:23 and remember that Jesus washes away your sin.
53:25 You can be free.
53:28 Young people, I wanna appeal to you today.
53:30 If it is your desire right now
53:32 to have Jesus wash away your sins,
53:34 I wanna invite you to come forward right now,
53:36 and I want you to come symbolically
53:37 like you're coming to the cross.
53:39 "Jesus, my sin I bring before you.
53:41 Wash it away in Your blood, Jesus.
53:43 I'm coming right now as I am.
53:45 I'm not trying to clean my life up first.
53:46 I'm coming as I am."
53:49 You know what Ellen White says,
53:50 "You don't even have to be repentant
53:52 to come to God."
53:53 Did you know that?
53:55 Ellen White does not say you have to be repentant
53:57 to come to God.
53:58 She says, "If you go to Him, He'll give you repentance."
54:01 Come on. There's the gift.
54:06 Maybe some of you are here today
54:08 that wanna say, "Jesus,
54:09 yes, I say yes to Your vision to go to the ends of the earth.
54:13 I see the vision that You have, divine vision.
54:18 Oh, God, I have my mind on that vision."
54:21 If you wanna say yes to God's vision,
54:24 "You should be witnesses of Me to the end."
54:28 I wanna invite you to come forward as well.
54:32 Maybe you're coming forward
54:33 and maybe you've already come forward too.
54:35 You can vote twice by the way here.
54:37 If you are thinking to yourself,
54:40 "Oh, God, I know your vision, I love your vision,
54:44 but I really need your provision.
54:46 I want you to fill me with the Holy Spirit.
54:50 I want to be filled with Jesus."
54:55 You know, the devil's not afraid of any of us here,
54:59 but he is afraid of Jesus in you.
55:01 And he doesn't just have to deal with Jesus now.
55:03 He has to deal with Jesus in everybody
55:05 who's filled with His Spirit.
55:06 That's pretty scary.
55:08 That's like Halloween for the devil.
55:10 That's scary for him.
55:11 That's why Sister White says,
55:13 "There's nothing Satan fears more.
55:15 And the people of God shall remove every hindrance,
55:18 and that God might pour His Spirit
55:20 upon a languishing Church and an impenitent congregation.
55:25 And she even said that,
55:27 "Satan's worst nightmare is that you get
55:28 filled with the Holy Spirit."
55:30 Now he's got to deal with Jesus in you,
55:31 His words, His wonders, and His works.
55:37 You know, maybe some of you are here today
55:39 that need to be baptized
55:40 because, you know, that's your first step.
55:41 By the way,
55:43 you don't have to be baptized in water first
55:45 to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
55:46 Can you say amen? Amen.
55:48 We know in the book of Acts,
55:49 it sometimes works the other way.
55:50 Sometimes, you receive the baptism first
55:52 and then there's water baptism.
55:53 But you know what, water baptism is the first step
55:55 as a missionary.
55:56 You want to take that first step to be part of God's
55:58 discipleship movement.
56:00 This movement has Spirit-filled missionaries to the end.
56:04 You need be baptized with the Holy Spirit
56:06 if that's your passion.
56:11 I want you to invite you to be baptized today.


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