3ABN Homecoming

Persisting for His Presence

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00:01 ♪ ♪ >>> WELCOME TO 3ABN'S FALL CAMP
00:29 MIEG HOMECOMING 2019. -- MEETING HOMECOMING 2019.
00:34 FEATURING INSPIRED MESSAGES FROM YOUR 3ABN FAMILY.
00:41 AND SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER, DOUG BACHELOR.
00:44 ALL TO PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD.
00:49 >>> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME! HAPPY SABBATH!
00:53 SO GLAD THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US HERE FOR YOU'RE THREE ABN FALL
00:59 HOMECOMING 2019 AND SO GLAD THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US AT HOME AS
01:03 WELL. MY SOUL HAS BEEN FED AND
01:06 NOURISHED BY THE MUSIC WE JUST HEARD.
01:09 AND TONIGHT OUR SPEAKER NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION.
01:13 PASTOR DOUG BACHELOR HAS BEEN A PART AND HAS SPOKEN AND
01:18 PARTNERED WITH THE MINISTRY OF 3ABN FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
01:22 IN FACT, WHEN WE GO OUT AND WE TRAVEL AND WE SPEAK, WE MEET
01:26 PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO SAY THEY CAME TO A KNOWLEDGE OF
01:30 TRUTH. THEY ACCEPTED THE SEVENTH DAY
01:33 ABWRATH OR SOMETHING FOUND IN GOD'S WORD BECAUSE OF THE
01:37 MINISTRY OF PASTOR DOUG PATCH LORE.
01:39 HE IS -- BACHELOR. HE'S THE PRESIDENT OF AMAZING
01:42 FACTS MINISTRIES AND ALSO THE SENIOR PASTOR OF THE GRANITE BAY
01:47 SEVENTH DAY AVENNIST CHURCH IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
01:50 AND WE'RE SO GLAD TO HAVE HE AND HIS WIFE KAREN WITH US HERE THIS
01:54 WEEKEND. HISMENTAL FOR THE HOUR IS TIGHT
01:58 LSLED PERSIST WRING FOR HIS PRESENCE.
01:59 -- PERSISTING FOR HIS PRESENCE. WHEN HE OPENS UP THE WORD OF GOD
02:03 IT ALWAYS FEEDS MY SOUL AND I KNOW IT WILL YOURS AS WELL.
02:06 BEFORE HE COMES TO PRESENT THE WORD OF GOD, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR
02:09 FROM RYAN DAY. HE WILL BE SINGING A SONG.
02:13 HE LOOKED BEYOND MY FAULT AND SAW MY NEED.
02:18 TIM WILL ACOMPANY HIM ON THE PEONO AND -- PIANO AND THEN THEY
02:25 WILL SING. THE NEXT VOICE YOU WILL HEAR
02:29 AFTER THIS IS DOUG BACHELOR. ♪ ♪
02:52 ♪ AMAZING GRACE SHALL ALWAYS BE MY SONG OF PRAISE ♪
03:59 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
06:48 >> AMEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH. TIM AND BRIAN.
06:52 I REMEMBER WHEN HE SHOWED UP AT A CAMP MEETING AND SAID I WANT
06:55 TO PREACH. AND HE AND HIS BROTHER BOTH,
06:59 THEY BOTH BECAME AMAZING FACTS EVANGELISTS.
07:02 HE'S NOT ONLY GOT A GIFT FOR MUSIC.
07:05 YOU KNOW, I TAUGHT HIM EVERYTHING HE KNOWS ABOUT
07:07 SINGING. [LAUGHTER]
07:10 >> AND -- SOMEHOW YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
07:14 BUT ANYWAY, IT'S GOOD TO SAY -- SEE THE WAY THE LORD IS BLESSING
07:19 THEIR GIFTS AND USING THEM IN THEIR SERVICE.
07:22 WE'LL BE WITH YOU THROUGH THE REST OF THE CAMP MEETING THIS
07:24 WEEKEND. I HOPE SOMETIME TOMORROW YOU
07:26 COME BY THE TABLE AND VISIT WITH KAREN AND I.
07:28 WE'LL BE HANGING OUT OFF AND ON OVER THERE.
07:31 WE HAVE A COUPLE OF GIFTS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO CAME IN PERSON.
07:34 THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT HERE IN PERSON, YOU HAVE TO GO TO OUR
07:38 WEBSITE. BUT YOU COME BACK.
07:38 WE HAVE OUR TWO NEWEST SHARING MAGAZINES.
07:42 ONE IS ON THE SANCTUARY. WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO PUT
07:45 THAT -- I TALKED ABOUT SALVATION, THE MEANING OF THE
07:48 SANCTUARY. WHAT THE SANCTUARY SAYS ABOUT
07:51 SALVATION AND PROPHECY AND YOUR BODY AND IT'S A FINAL AMAZING.
08:04 -- AN AMAZING MAGAZINE. MEET US AT THE TABLE OR SOMETIME
08:09 TOMORROW. WE'RE JUST VERY THANKFUL TO BE
08:10 WITH YOU. IT'S BEEN FUN TO VISIT AND HAVE
08:13 A WONDERFUL SPIRIT HERE AT THE CAMP MEETING.
08:16 TALKING ABOUT HOW TO LIVE ABOVE THE CROWD.
08:19 LAST NIGHT WE SHARED A LITTLE BIT FROM THE STORY PLAYING IN
08:22 THE TREE OF LIFE. AND THE WAY THAT YOU GET TALLER,
08:28 WE'RE ALL STUNTED BECAUSE OF SIN.
08:32 I'D ASK TINA TODAY, I SAID YOU WEREN'T OFFENDED AT ALL, WERE
08:35 YOU. TINA, YOU WANT TO TO LEAVE?
08:41 WE'VE KNOWN TINA FOR YEARS. WE'RE ALL STUNTED BY SIN.
08:45 AND WE GET TALLER BY CLIMBING THE TREE OF LIFE, WHICH IS THE
08:49 CROSS. TAKING UP OUR CROSS AND
08:51 FOLLOWING JESUS. AMEN?
08:55 TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT PERSISTING FOR HIS
08:59 PRESENCE. AND AS I ALWAYS DO, I LIKE TO
09:01 TAKE A STORY IN THE BIBLE AND HELP ELABORATE.
09:06 SO IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, PLEASE TURN WITH ME TO THE
09:10 SECOND CHAPTER OF MARK. MARK 2.
09:14 AND THE STORY CAN ALSO BE FOUND IN LUKE AND IN MATTHEW.
09:18 IT'S AN AMAZING, THAT'S GOING TO BE SUMMER RISESSED THIS ABOUT 12
09:22 VERSUS. -- SUMMARIZED IN ABOUT 12
09:26 VERSES. AND AGAIN, HE ENTERED CA
09:30 PERSONIUM, AND AFTER SOME DAYS IT WAS HEARD THAT HE WAS IN THE
09:35 HOUSE. AND IMMEDIATELY, MANY GATHERED
09:38 TOGETHER SO THAT THERE WAS NO LONGER ROOM TO RECEIVE THEM, NOT
09:41 EVEN NEAR THE DOOR. AND HE PREACHED THE WORD TO
09:45 THEM. AND THEN THEY CAME TO HIM
09:47 BRINGING A PARALYTIC WHO WAS CARRIED BY FOUR.
09:50 AND WHEN THEY COULD NOT COME NEAR HIM BECAUSE OF THE CROWD,
09:53 THEY UNCOVERED THE ROOF HER HE WAS -- WHERE HE WAS SO WHEN THEY
09:57 HAD BROKEN THROUGH, THEY LET THEM A BED ON WHICH THE
10:01 PARALYTIC WAS LYING. WHEN JESUS SAW THEIR FAITH, HE
10:03 SAID TO THE PARALYTIC, SON, YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN YOU.
10:09 AND SOME OF THE SCRIBES WERE SITTING THERE AND WERE REASONING
10:11 IN THEIR HEARTS, WHY DOES THIS MAN SPEAK BLASPHEMY LIKE THIS?
10:18 WHO CAN FORGIVE SINS BUT GOD ALONE?
10:20 AND IMMEDIATELY WHEN JESUS PERCEIVED IN THE SPIRIT THAT
10:23 THEY REASONED THUS WITHIN THEMSELVES, HE SAID TO THEM, WHY
10:26 DO YOU REASON ABOUT THESE THINGS IN YOUR HEART?
10:29 WHICH IS EASIER, TO SAY TO THE PARALITTIC, YOUR SINS ARE
10:33 FORGIVEN OR TO SAY ARISE AND TAKE UP YOUR BED AND WALK?
10:37 BUT THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO
10:42 FORGIVE SINS, HE SAID TO THE PEAR LITTIC, I SAY TO YOU --
10:47 PARALYTIC, I SAY ARISE, TAKE UP YOUR BED AND GO TO YOUR HOUSE.
10:50 AND IMMEDIATELY HE AROSE, HE TOOK UP THE BET, AND HE WENT OUT
10:54 IN THE PRESENCE OF THEM ALL, SO THEY WERE ALL AMAZED.
10:58 AND THEY GLORIFIED GOD SAYING, WE NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
11:02 NOW, THERE IS AN A AMAZING FACT. -- AN AMAZING FACT.
11:08 THE DISCIPLES WERE IMPRESSED BY THIS STORY.
11:11 THE GOSPELS ALL REFER TO IT. IT'S SOMETHING THEY COULD NOT
11:15 FORGET. FIRST POINT, JUST GIVE YOU THE
11:17 BACKGROUND, JESUS DID MOST OF HIS MINISTRY.
11:19 HE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM, GREW UP IN NAZARETH, BUT HE
11:23 MINISTERED AROUND THE SEA OF GALILEE.
11:27 AND HE WOULD HANG OUT FREBTLY AT THE HOUSE -- FREQUENTLY AT THE
11:30 HOUSE OF SIMON PETER. JESUS DID NOT HAVE HIS OWN
11:33 HOUSE. A CERTAIN SCRIBE WE BELIEVE WAS
11:36 JUDAS, ONCE SAID LORD, I'LL FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU GO.
11:40 HE SAID FOXES HAVE THEIR HOLES, THE BIRDS HAVE NEST, BUT THE SON
11:45 OF MAN DOES NOT HAVE HIS OWN BED.
11:47 THE ONLY PERSONAL PROPERTY OF CHRIST THAT'S MENTIONED IN THE
11:50 BIBLE IS HIS CLOTHES THAT THANK YOU TOOK AWAY AT THE CRUCIFIXION
11:53 AND THEY CAMPBELLED FOR THEM. SO HE HAD -- GAMBLED FOR THEM.
11:59 SO HE'D GO STAY WITH LAZUS AND -- LAZARUS.
12:07 HE CAME TO THE HOUSE AFTER A PREACHING TOUR.
12:10 PETER'S MOTHER WAS SICK WITH A FEVER.
12:12 AND HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW. AND JESUS HEALED HER.
12:15 AND SHE GOT UP THEN AND BEGAN TO CONTINUE SERVING.
12:20 SO HERE AFTER HE'S GONE THROUGH ANOTHER ONE OF HIS PREACHING
12:23 TOURS AROUND THE COAST OF GALILEE THIS THE CITIES THERE,
12:27 SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY JESUS COULD ESCAPE THE CROWD WAS TO
12:31 TELL THE DISCIPLES I NEED TO BORROW YOUR BOAT.
12:33 ONCE HE SAID TAKE YOUR BOAT AND PUSH IT OUT SO I CAN PREACH
12:36 BECAUSE THEY WERE PUSHING THEM OFF INTO THE WATER.
12:39 ANOTHER TIME, HE SENT THE CROWD AWAY.
12:41 THEY'RE READY TO MAKE HIM KING. AND HE HAD TO ACTUALLY WALK ON
12:45 WATER TO GET AWAY FROM THE CROWD.
12:48 FREQUENTLY WHEN JESUS HEALED SOMEONE, HE DID ONE OF THESE
12:52 ATOWNING MIRACLES WHERE HE WOULD -- ASTOUNDING MIRACLES
12:55 WHERE THEY WOULD HEAL A MAN FULL OF LEP PROSY.
13:00 AND HE SAID WOULD SAY DON'T TELL ANYBODY.
13:03 IT'S NOT THAT HE DIDN'T WANT THEM TO GLORIFY GOD.
13:05 HE JUST KNEW THAT HIS PRINCIPAL WORK WAS PREACHING THE WORD.
13:10 THE PHYSICAL HEALING WAS VERY IMPORTANT.
13:13 BUT IT IS SECONDARY AS OUR STORY IS GOING TO BRING OUT.
13:18 AND IF HIS HEALING CREATED SO MUCH COMMOTION AND SO MUCH
13:23 OPPOSITION FROM HIS ENEMIES, THAT HE COULDN'T COULDN'T WITH
13:25 HIS PREACHING -- HE COULDN'T CONTINUE WITH HIS PREACHING, HE
13:29 DIDN'T WANT THEM TO ADVERTISE IT.
13:30 HOW DO YOU KEEP IT TO YOURSELF? WHEN YOU GO THROUGH A MIRACLE
13:33 LIKE THIS, AS SOON AS HE TOLD THEM, DON'T TELL ANYBODY, THEY
13:36 WENT AND TOLD EVERYBODY. MAYBE THAT'S THE KEY FOR GETTING
13:42 THEM TO DO EVANGELISM. DON'T TELL ANYBODY, BUT DID YOU
13:47 KNOW -- [LAUGHTER]
13:52 >> BUT THEN THEY'LL TELL EVERYBODY.
13:54 SO SAYS AGAIN, HE ENTERED AND AFTER SOME DAYS THEY HEARD THE
13:59 CROWD, THAT HE WAS IN THE HOUSE, HOUSE OF SIMON PETER.
14:02 AND IMMEDIATELY MANY GATHERED TOGETHER.
14:06 SO THERE WAS NO LONGER ROOM TO RECEIVE THEM.
14:10 NO, NOT EVEN NEAR THE DOOR. AND HE PREACHED THE WORD TO
14:16 THEM. NOW, DID JESUS PREACH THE WORD
14:21 BECAUSE MANY WERE GATHERED OR WERE MANY GATHERED BECAUSE HE
14:24 PREACHED THE WORD? OR MAYBE BOTH.
14:27 NOW, I KIND OF KNOW HOW JESUS FELT THAT WHEN THERE WERE MANY
14:31 GATHERED, YOU'D WANT TO PREACH THE WORD.
14:33 YOU KNOW THE APOSTLE PAUL. THEY WOULD LIKE ARREST HIM AND
14:38 AS HE'S BEING DRUG UP THE STEPS, HE TOLD THE GUARD, CAN I TALK TO
14:42 THE CROWD. THEY JUST GOT DONE TRYING TO
14:45 TEAR HIM LIMB FROM LIMB BUT HE HE SAID, LET'S NOT WASTE A GOOD
14:50 CROWD. LET ME PREACH TO THEM.
14:52 [LAUGHTER] >> ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
14:53 WHEN YOU'RE AN EVANGELIST, YOU JUST WANT TO PREACH.
14:56 IT'S ALL I CAN DO TO RESTRAIN MYSELF WHEN EAR ON THE AIRPLANE
15:01 AND THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT HAS THE MICROPHONE, AND I SAY, WHEN
15:03 YOU'RE DONE, CAN I SAY A FEW WORDS.
15:08 I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING. [LAUGHTER]
15:10 >> YEAH, I HOPE IT'S BECAUSE I WANTED TO GLORIFY THE LORD AND
15:14 TO BRING PEOPLE TO JESUS. BUT THE LORD KNOWS MY HEART.
15:17 I'M JEALOUS SOMETIMES. I SEE ALL THESE PEOPLE COME OUT,
15:23 40,000, TO WATCH A BASEBALL OR FOOTBALL GAME.
15:25 AND I WISH THEY'D LET ME DO THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
15:27 AND SAY A FEW WORDS.-[LAUGHTER] >> I JUST -- YEAH.
15:33 I WANT TO PREACH. WHI SEE A CROWD -- WHEN I SEE A
15:38 CROWD. AND THE FUNNY THING I ONCE LIVED
15:39 IN A CAVE BECAUSE I COULDN'T STAND TO BE AROUND PEOPLE.
15:42 THE LORD REALLY CHANGES YOU, DOESN'T HE?
15:48 SO -- AND I THINK THERE WAS A CROWD BECAUSE HE PREACHED THE
15:54 WORD. WHEN WE FIRST WENT TO
15:57 SACRAMENTO, 25 YEARS AGO, KAREN AND I CAME FROM A CHURCH WHERE
16:00 WE HAD 100 MEMBERS. A LITTLE COUNTRY CHURCH.
16:02 A GREAT DEAL. LOVELY PEOPLE.
16:07 AND DON TALKED ABOUT GOING AND PASTORING THE CENTRAL SEARCH IN
16:10 THE CAPITAL OF CALIFORNIA. I THOUGHT, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN
16:13 DO THAT. AND HERE IT WAS A VERY BIG
16:17 CHURCH WHERE KAREN GREW UP. SHE WAS BAPTIZED THERE AND WE
16:22 WERE MARRIED THERE. BEFORE SHE WAS BAPTIZED.
16:25 NO. AFTER YOU'RE BAPTIZED.
16:26 GET THAT RIGHT. AND UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIMES
16:32 THESE BIG CITY CHURCHES AS THE CITY SPRAWL GROWS AROUND THEM
16:36 AND ALL THE FAMILIES MOVE TO THE OUTSKIRTS, THE FAMILIES STOP
16:40 ATTENDING, ATTENDANCE STARTED TO DROP.
16:43 AND I TOLD THE PRESIDENT, I SAID, I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE GOT
16:46 THE EXPERIENCE TO HANDLE A CHURCH LIKE THIS.
16:49 AND I -- PEOPLE SAID, HE HAS NO PASTORAL TRAINING.
16:53 WHAT ARE YOU PUTTING HIM IN A CHURCH LIKE THAT WITH ALL THESE
16:57 PROFESSIONALS. AND KAHN SAID THEY -- DON SAID
16:59 THEY DON'T NEED A PASTOR, THEY NEED AN EVANGELIST.
17:02 I WAS AN EVANGELIST IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AS WELL AS THE
17:06 CHURCH. I TALKED TO THE YOUTH PASTOR AND
17:08 SAID, DOUG, LET ME GIVE YOU SOME ADVICE.
17:12 A YOUTH PASTOR WAS OLDER THAN ME.
17:14 LET ME GIVE YOU SOME ADVICE. HE SAID I'VE BEEN HERE PASTOR.
17:16 HE'D PEN THERE 16 YEARS. HE SAID I THINK PASTORS COME AND
17:20 GO AND THEY HAVE ALL THESE PROGRAMS AND SEMINARS AND
17:22 MACHINES AND METHODS AND CAP PAGES, TO RAISE -- CAMPAIGNS TO
17:26 RAISE MONEY. HE SAID IN A CITY THIS SIZE, IF
17:28 YOU JUST PREACH THE WORD, THEY WILL COME.
17:31 AND SO I KIND OF TOOK THAT. I SAID THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO
17:35 DO. I'M GOING TO OPEN THE BIBLE AND
17:37 I'M GOING TO PREACH THE WORKED AND YOU KNOW, THE LORD BLESSED.
17:39 IT WENT FROM LIKE 120 TO 300, 400, 500.
17:43 IT JUST KEPT GROWING. AND FINALLY WE REALIZED WHEN WE
17:47 GOT TO OVER A THOUSAND, WE SAID, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PLAN
17:51 ANOTHER CHURCH, WHICH IS HOW WE ENDED UP AT GRANITE BAY.
17:55 IT'S A PLANT OF SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND ULTIMATELY, YOU
17:58 KNOW, THE PLAN WAS I WOULD MOVE OUT TO GRANITE BAY, PASTOR CHRIS
18:04 IS THE SENIOR PASTOR. BUT THE IDEA IS TO PREACH THE
18:07 WORD. THE WORLD IS HUNGRY FOR THE
18:10 WORD. AND EVERYONE IS WONDERING, WHAT
18:12 THE SECRET FORMULA IS TO DO ESLANGISM IN -- EVANGELISM IN
18:16 THESE LAST DAYS. IT HAS NEVER CHANGED.
18:19 JESUS WANTS US TO PREACH THE WORD.
18:21 THERE'S POWER THIS THE WORD. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LORD,
18:25 THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING. IT STILL CHANGES HEARTS.
18:29 I WAS AT A -- A NATIONAL RELIGIOUS BROADCAST CONVENTION A
18:34 COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN ORLANDO. AND I -- I'M ON WHAT THEY CALL
18:41 THE PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL. WE'VE BEEN PART OF NRB.
18:43 WE DO THAT TO PROTECT THE FREEDOM TO BROADCAST.
18:48 AND SO I WAS AT THE MEETING AND A GENTLEMAN CAME IN AND HE
18:52 SAID -- HE'S THE THE PASTOR OF THE LARGEST CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN
18:56 THE WORLD. USED TO BE IN SOUTH KOREA.
18:57 THAT'S NO LONGER TRUE. NOW THE LARGEST AND THE FASTEST
19:01 GROWING IS IN INDIA. A HINDU COUNTRY.
19:06 AND THE MAN'S NAME IS DR. SATTISH KUMAR.
19:09 SO HE WALKED IN THE ROOM AND EVERYONE WANTED TO VISIT.
19:12 HE WAS SORT OF THE GUEST SPEAKERRER FOR THE REGIONS
19:15 BROKERS. AND HE STOPS AND -- RELIGIOUS
19:19 BROADCASTERS. I HE SAW ME AND -- SOMETIMES
19:22 PEOPLE SEE ME AND THERE'S THAT, CULT LEADER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT
19:27 THEY'RE THINKING. AND SOMETIMES IT'S POSITIVE.
19:33 AND HE -- I WENT OUT AND SHOOK HIS HANDS.
19:36 HE SAID, DOUG BACHELOR, AMAZING FACTS.
19:39 HE SAID I WATCH YOUR PROGRAMS. I THOUGHT, PRAISE THE LORD.
19:43 THE NEXT DAY HE WAS PREACHING AND I FELT THOUGHT, I'LL COME
19:47 AND LISTEN. HE'S TALKING TO THIS ROOM FULL
19:51 OF EVANGELICAL MINISTERS AND BROADCASTERS.
19:54 DANNY HAS BEEN TO NRB. HE KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
20:00 AND DURING HIS SERMON, HE SAID I SEE BELOW PASTOR DOUG IS HERE
20:06 WITH AMAZING FACTS. IT'S PROBABLY NOT TRUE, BUT HE
20:10 SAID THAT. HE STARTS TALKING ABOUT THE
20:13 SECOND COMING AND THE SABBATH. AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, 2,000
20:18 YEARS FROM ADAM TO ABRAHAM. TWO IEWRKS THUNDERSHOWERS YEARS
20:24 FROM -- 2,000 YEARS TO JESUS. AND EVERYONE IS GOING
20:27 HALLELUJAH. HONEST.
20:29 I WENT UP TO HIM AFTERWARDS. I SAID, WE'VE GOT A TRAINING
20:32 SCHOOL IN INDIA. IF I GO VISIT OUR SCHOOL, WE'D
20:35 LIKE TO COME SEE YOU. HE SAID, I HOPE YOU DO.
20:38 SO WE DID. WE WENT TO INDIA TO MEET WITH
20:43 OUR TRAINING SCHOOL OVER THERE. AND WENT TO VISIT DR. KUMAR.
20:49 CHURCH HAS 190,000 MEMBERS. AND IN -- JUST ON THE IN
21:00 OUTSKIRTS. WHILE WE WERE THERE, HE SAID,
21:02 YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE FOR US TONIGHT.
21:07 HE SAID OF COURSE OUR SERVICES ARE IN TELLIGU.
21:14 PUT WE'RE HAVING A FRIDAY NIGHTMARE MEETING.
21:17 -- NIGHT PRAYER MEETING. AND MAYBE 10:00 TO IT YOU'D LIKE
21:20 TO TALK. HE SAD WE'LL PROBABLY ABOUT 25
21:24 HERE. IT JUST FLOWN IN TO INDIA.
21:26 THAT'S A LONG FLIGHT. AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, I LOVE
21:28 THE LORD AND I LIKE THE ABILITY -- I GOT TO WAKE UP
21:32 EARLY AND PREACH. AND I'M SUPPOSED TO PREACH AT A
21:34 CONFERENCE THAT SAME DAY. AND I'M THINKING ABOUT, AND JOHN
21:38 IS HERE WITH US, HE ELBOWS ME AND SAYS HE'S TALKING ABOUT,000.
21:44 25,000. [LAUGHTER]
21:45 >> I SAID I'LL BE THERE! [LAUGHTER]
21:50 >> I TOLD YOU ABOUT HOW I FEEL ABOUT A CROWD.
21:54 [LAUGHTER] >> WE CAME THAT NIGHT AND -- WE
21:57 SPOKE EARLIER THAT DAY AT THE CONFERENCE OFFICE.
21:59 AND LATER THIS NIGHT WE GOT THERE.
22:01 THEY PRAY ALL NIGHT. THEY STAY UNTIL 5:00 IN THE
22:06 MORNING, THEN PEOPLE HAVE TO EAT AND GO TO WORK.
22:08 TALK ABOUT COMMITMENT. AND HE STAY THERE IS WITH THEM
22:11 ALL NIGHT. HE'S NOT LIKE ONE OF THOSE
22:14 PASTORS. HE SAYS I'M GOING HOME.
22:18 SO WE GOT UP AND THE MAN IS SITTING ON ONE SIDE.
22:21 THEY SEAT 18,000 IN THE MAIN ROOM.
22:27 AND THEY -- AND HE BUILT THAT THING IN LIKE 52 DAYS.
22:31 HOW COME IT TAKES US SO LONG HERE IN CALIFORNIA?
22:34 [LAUGHTER] >> AND THEN THEY HAD ANOTHER
22:36 ROOM WITH LIKE 10,000 OVERFLOW. IT WOULD SEAT THAT.
22:40 AND HE HAS FIVE SERVICES ON SUNDAY.
22:43 AND IT WAS A PRETTY EXCITING TO BE ABLE TO GET UP AND SHARE WITH
22:48 THEM. AND I SHARED MY TESTIMONY AND WE
22:50 STAYED IN TOUCH. HE TEXTED ME A FEW DAYS AGO.
22:54 WE WENT TO SEE THEIR CHURCH ON SUNDAY.
22:57 AND GAVE US THE V.I.P. TOUR AND I THOUGHT, WHY IS THIS CHURCH
23:04 EXPLODING? HE STANDS UP THERE.
23:06 HE OPENS THE BIBLE AND HE GOES THROUGH THE BIBLE AND HE DOES
23:10 EXPOZZER TO PREACHING OF THE WORD AND THE PEOPLE THERE ARE
23:13 HUNGERING FOR IT AND IT'S JUST EXPLODING ALL OVER INDIA.
23:16 AND HE TEXTED ME AND SAID PLEASE PRAY FOR ME.
23:20 GETTING OPPOSITION FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND OTHER PASTORS
23:23 BECAUSE THE CHURCH IS GROWING SO MUCH.
23:26 AND SO WE HAVE JUST BEEN SO EXCITED TO SEE THE POWER OF THE
23:30 WORD AROUND THE WORLD. AND -- I BETTER NOT TELL YOU
23:36 THAT. ANOTHER TIME.
23:37 I WILL SOMETIME. HE PREACHES IMMEDIATELY MANY
23:46 WERE GATHERED TOGETHER. THERE WAS NO LONGER ROOM TO
23:48 RECEIVE THEM. NOT EVEN NEAR THE DOOR.
23:51 I WENT ON A CHURCH BUILDING PROJECT WITH MARANATHA, WE BUILT
23:57 70 CHURCHES IN INDIA AND WE WENT TO ONE CHURCH DEDICATION WHERE
24:01 THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE, THE VERY DAY YOU DEDICATED THE
24:05 CHURCH, THAT THERE WAS NO ROOM. YOU COULD BARELY BREATHE.
24:07 IT HAD NO AIR-CONDITIONING. AND THE DOORS WERE FULL OF
24:12 PEOPLE STARING IN THE DOORS. THE WINDOWS, THE WINDOWS WERE
24:15 BLOCKED WITH PEOPLE STAIRING IN THE WINDOWS.
24:18 -- STAIRING IN THE WINDOWS. PEOPLE WERE TOTALLY SQUASHED
24:21 TOGETHER. AND WHEN I STOOD UP TO PREACH
24:23 THAT MORNING, I WASN'T SURE WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY.
24:26 AND THIS SERMON CAME TO MY MIND, BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY THAT WAY.
24:32 AND I WAS THINKING, SEND THOSE DAYS AGAIN WHERE PEOPLE WILL
24:35 HUNGER FOR THE WORD OF GOD. RIGHT NOW THERE'S SO MANY
24:38 DISTREABSES. EVERYBODY HAS THEIR DE --
24:40 ADDITION TRACTIONS. EVERYBODY HAS -- DISTRACTIONS.
24:43 THEY CAN'T STOP TEXTING. HAVING CAR WRECKS.
24:46 EVERYBODY IS WATCHING SOME DEVICE OR THEY'RE SITTING AT THE
24:49 COMPUTER. THEY DON'T TALK TO EACH OTHER
24:51 ANYMORE. AND I'VE TEXTED KAREN FROM MY
24:56 OFFICE TO HER OFFICE. [LAUGHTER]
25:01 >> HOW MANY OF HAVE YOU DONE THAT BEFORE?
25:02 FROM ONE END OF YOUR HOUSE YOU TEXT SOMEONE ON THE OTHER.
25:06 LET ME SEE THE HANDS. CONFESS!
25:12 WE NEED TO GET BACK TO BREECHING THE WORD -- PREACHING THE WORD,
25:17 READING THE WORD. NOT EVEN NEAR THE DOOR.
25:19 AND THEN THEY CAME TO HIM BRINGING A PARALYTIC.
25:23 THIS MAN COULD NOT HELP HIMSELF. HE'S PARALYZED.
25:27 THERE'S NO WAY HE CAN GET TO JESUS.
25:29 IF YOU READ IN THE BOOK, IT'S PARALYSIS, DIRECTLY CONNECTED
25:33 WITH A PERSONAL SIN. AND THE THING HE'S LONGING FOR
25:37 MORE THAN ANYTHING IS THAT HE MIGHT HEAR THE WORD SAY YOU'RE
25:42 FORGIVEN. HE JUST FEELS SEPARATED BY GOD
25:45 AND SO MANY OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS BACK THEN, IF YOU WERE
25:48 SUFFERING FROM SOME TERRIBLE MALADY, THEY SAY YOU'RE BEING
25:52 PUNISHED FOR YOUR SINS. THIS IS SOMETHING YOU DESERVE.
25:55 ONE TIME A DISCIPLE SAW A MAN BORN BLIND.
25:58 WAS IT HIS SINS OR HIS PARENTS'? GOD WAS PUNISHING HIM IN ADVANCE
26:04 OR WAS IT THE SINS OF HIS PARENTS AND -- AND SO THEY USED
26:08 TO THINK ANYBODY SUFFERING THEY'RE GETTING WHAT THEY
26:10 DESERVE. AND SO HE JUST ALWAYS FELT LIKE
26:11 HE WAS SO -- SUCH AN OUTCAST AND SO ISOLATED FROM HIS OWN PEOPLE.
26:17 AND SO CUT OFF. BUT HE HAD SOME FRIENDS AND THEY
26:23 SAID, WE WILL BRING YOU TO THE HOUSE WHERE JESUS IS PREACHING
26:28 THE WORD. IT'S GOOD TO HAVE FRIENDS LIKE
26:33 THAT. I'VE NOT DONE THE COUNT MYSELF,
26:34 BUT I HEARD SOMEONE SAY ONCE THAT NEARLY 50% OF THE PEOPLE
26:37 THAT WERE HEALED BY JESUS WERE EITHER BROUGHT TO JESUS OR
26:42 SOMEONE INTERCEDED IN THEIR BEHALF.
26:44 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT NEED FORGIVENESS AND THEY NEED
26:48 HEALING AND THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO GET TO JESUS WITHOUT THE HELP
26:50 OF OTHERS. NOW, THESE FOUR FRIENDS, THAT
26:55 TAKES COMMITMENT. THEY GOT TO CARRY HIM.
26:59 THEY'RE NOT ROLLING HIM. YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE MOST
27:02 IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN A WAR ARE CALLED THE STRETCHER BEARERS.
27:08 AND I WAS VERY PRIVILEGED TO BE FRIENDS WITH BENJAMIN DOSS.
27:13 YOU KNOW HIS SECOND WIFE WAS A MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH IN NORTHERN
27:17 CALIFORNIA. SO WE'D SEE HIM PERIODICALLY.
27:20 AND JUST A WONDERFUL MAN. HE WAS FAMOUS BECAUSE HE PUT HIS
27:23 LIFE ON THE LINE SO MANY TIMES TO CARRY PEOPLE OFF THE FIELD OF
27:26 BATTLE SO THEY MIGHT BE HEALED. AND THOSE ARE SOME OF THE MOST
27:30 IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE WAR. AND WE'RE IN A WAR BETWEEN GOOD
27:35 AND EVIL AND GOD NEEDS STRETCHER BEARERS THAT ARE NOT JUST GOING
27:38 TO CARE ABOUT GETTING THEMSELVES SAVED AND HEALED BUT CARING
27:43 ABOUT THE OTHERS THAT ARE WOUNDED AROUND THEM.
27:47 AND SO THEY COMMITTED TO BRINGING THEIR FRIEND TO JESUS.
27:49 I LIKE DOING AMAZING FACTS. THIS GUY IVAN FREDERICKS, HE'S
27:54 BETTER KNOWN AS RUSSIAN JACK. HE AND A BUDDY WERE DOING GOLD
27:59 MINING IN HALL WEEK, WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
28:02 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW WHERE THAT IS, BUT IT'S THE END OF THE
28:05 WORLD. YOU KNOW, BY THE GREAT SANDY
28:08 DESERT. AND I'VE BEEN ALL THE WAY OUT TO
28:11 WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH, DARBY, BROOM.
28:14 THESE TOWNS, TO SPEAK TO A FEW ABORIGINES WATCHING OUTER
28:18 PROGRAMS OUT THERE. -- WATCHING OUR PROGRAMS OUT
28:23 THERE. I FLEW FIVE HOURS AND THE --
28:25 THERE'S NO CLOUDS. THE LANDSCAPE DID NOT CHANGE IN
28:30 FIVE HOURS. I HAD NO IDEA.
28:32 IT WAS SO BIG. IT WAS JUST RED DIRT.
28:36 SO THESE GUYS ARE OUT THERE GOLD MINING.
28:38 THEY RAN OUT OF FOOD. TRIED TO SHOOT A KANGAROO AND
28:42 WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS GOING TO FETCH IT, IVAN FREDERICKS'
28:46 BUDDY, HE SLIPPED AND BROKE HIS LEG.
28:48 OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. SO IVAN SAID, WELL, THE NEAREST
28:54 CLINIC IS 100 MILES AWAY. AND ALL HE HAD WAS AN OLD HEAVY
29:00 WOODEN WHEELBARROW THEY USED FOR MINING.
29:02 HE PUT HIS FRIEND IN THE WHEELBARROW AND PUSHED HIM 100
29:06 MILES. THAT'S A FRIEND.
29:11 I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE ANY FRIENDS THAT ARE THAT GOOD.
29:13 [LAUGHTER] >> CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW TIRED
29:15 YOUR ARMS WOULD BE? AND WHEN HE FINALLY WHEELED INTO
29:19 THE TOWN THERE IN WYNDHAM WHERE THERE WAS A CLINIC, AND THE
29:23 PEOPLE CAME RUNNING OUT, THEY SAW HIM COMING DOWN THE ROAD.
29:27 AND HE SAID, YOU JUST PUSHED HIM IN A WHEELBARROW 100 MILES FROM
29:32 HALL CREEK? HE SAID, YEAH.
29:33 AND HIS FRIEND THIS THE WHEELBARROW SAID, AND HE DIDN'T
29:36 MISS A SINGLE ROCK ON THE WAY, EITHER.
29:38 [LAUGHTER] >> THAT'S A FRIEND.
29:44 SO THESE FRIENDS BROUGHT THEIR FRIEND TO JESUS.
29:46 BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM IS THE CROWD ONCE
29:51 AGAIN WAS TOO TALL. WAIT A SECOND.
29:55 THIS IS THE CROWD AT THE HOUSE WHERE JESUS IS PREACHING THE
30:00 WORD. THAT'S CALLED THE CHURCH.
30:04 AND THEY WERE KEEPING PEOPLE FROM GETTING IN.
30:09 BECAUSE HE'S PARALYZED. AND I SUPPOSE AS THEY BROUGHT
30:12 THEIR FRIEND -- I KNOW WHAT THEIR NAMES WERE.
30:15 THE FOUR, MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN.
30:18 THEY'RE THE ONES WHO TYPICALLY BRING OTHERS TO JESUS.
30:20 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? I JUST MADE THAT UP, BUT THERE
30:24 IS A SPIRITUAL POINT THERE. AND SO THEY GET TO THE DOOR AND
30:28 THEY CAN'T GET ANYWHERE NEAR THE DOOR AND THEY TAPPED ON
30:32 SOMEONE'S SHOULDER AND SAID WE'VE GOT A FELLA WHO NEEDS TO
30:35 BE IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS. AND THEY SAID WE GOT HERE FIRST.
30:38 YOU KNOW, FIRST COME-FIRST SERVE.
30:41 YOU SNOOZE YOU LOSE. THIS IS OUR PLACE.
30:47 I ACTUALLY KNOW SOME PEOPLE, MEMBERS IN OUR CHURCHES, I WON'T
30:50 SAY WHAT CHURCH, BUT THEY GOT THEIR PEW.
30:53 AND IF THEY GET TO CHURCH AND SOME VISITOR HAS THE AUDACITY TO
30:58 SIT IN THEIR SPOT, THEY WILL GIVE THEM A PIECE OF THEIR MIND.
31:02 AND THEY'LL SAY, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT?
31:08 AND SEALT THEY'LL SAY, EXCUSE ME, THAT'S OUR SPOT.
31:10 AND THEY'RE GOING, I'M SORRY, FIRST TIME HERE.
31:12 I DIDN'T KNOW. ALL RIGHT.
31:15 WELL WE'LL WE'LL LET IT GO THIS TIME.
31:17 [LAUGHTER] SO YOU'RE TRYING TO BRING
31:23 SOMEONE CRIPPLED TO SCREESES AND THE CROWD HEARING THE WORD --
31:27 JESUS AND THE CROWD HEARING THE WORD WON'T LET HIM IN.
31:30 SO THEY CAN'T GET THROUGH THE DOOR.
31:31 THE CROWD HAS NO SYMPATHY FOR THIS MAN WHO OBVIOUSLY NEEDS IT
31:35 MORE THAN THEY DO. SO THEY TRY THE WINDOW.
31:38 ONE WINDOW. CAN'T GET IN.
31:40 THEY SAID, STOP PUSHING. WE GOT HERE FIRST.
31:43 AND IT'S HARDER WHEN YOU'RE CARRYING A STRETCHER TO BRING
31:45 YOUR FRIEND IN. TAKES A LITTLE MORE ROOM.
31:47 THEY DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN. THEY CAN'T GET ANYWHERE NEAR.
31:52 SO THE MAN IN THE STRETCHER, HE SAYS TO HIS BUDDIES, I REALLY
31:54 APPRECIATE IT, GUYS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TRYING.
31:59 MAYBE ANOTHER DAY. AND THEY SAID NOT ON YOUR LIFE.
32:05 THEY CARRIED YOU HERE. YOU'RE WALKING HOME.
32:07 THEY DIDN'T GIVE UP. CAN YOU SAY AMEN?
32:11 [CROWD NOISE] AMEN.
32:12 >> THERE WERE PLENTY OF OBSTACLES.
32:14 BUT THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY GOT THEIR FRIEND INTO
32:17 THE PRESENCE OF JESUS. YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHERE THE
32:23 MIRACLES HAPPEN. IF WE CAN GET PEOPLE CONNECTED
32:28 WITH THE PROCLAMATION OF THEORD, THAT'S -- WORD, THAT'S WHERE OUR
32:33 BATTLE IS. THE WORD -- BIBLE TELLS US THE
32:36 WORD OF GOD DESCENDS TO HEAVEN LIKE THE RAIN.
32:40 IT WILL ACCOMPLISH THE THING THAT I'VE ORDAINED.
32:44 AND IF WE CAN -- YOU GO AROUND, YOU GET PEOPLE, DVDs.
32:48 DOES ANYONE DO THAT ANYMORE? SOME PEOPLE.
32:51 YOU GIVE A DVD OR YOU HAVE TO GIVE A LINK TO SOMEBODY.
32:54 YOU SEND THEM A LINK. WHATEVER YOU CAN DO TO GET THEM
32:57 TO LISTEN TO THE WORD OR TO WATCH THE WORD.
33:00 AND THERE'S POWER IN THAT. THEY SAID, WELL, IT'S NOT GOOD
33:04 ENOUGH THAT THEY BRING THEIR FRIEND TO THE HOUSE WHERE JESUS
33:08 IS PREACHING THE WORD BECAUSE HOUSES DON'T SAVE ANYBODY.
33:11 THEY NEEDED TO GET THEIR FRIEND INTO THE PRESENCE OF JESUS
33:15 PREACHING THE WORD AND JESUS IS THE WORD INCARNATE.
33:20 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT
33:23 AMONG US. AND SO THEY WOULD NOT GIVE UP
33:25 UNTIL THEY GOT HIM CONNECTED WITH THE WORD.
33:27 HE HAD TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST.
33:30 AND YOU KNOW, ALL OF US ULTIMATELY, WE NEED TO COME TO
33:34 JESUS AND HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP.
33:38 WE ALL NEED A PERSONAL ENCOUNTER TO JESUS.
33:41 IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE SURROUNDING THE HOUSE WHERE
33:45 JESUS WAS, BUT THEY DIDN'T EXPERIENCE A MIRACLE THIS MAN
33:49 EXPERIENCED, BECAUSE HIS FRIENDS PERSISTED IN GETTING HIM INTO
33:52 THE PLACE WHERE JESUS WAS. NOW, WE ALL HAVE LOVED ONES THAT
33:58 WE CARE ABOUT. WE ALL HAVE FRIENDS WE'D LIKE TO
34:01 SEE SAVED THAT MAYBE DON'T KNOW THE LORD.
34:03 ONE OF THE MOST COMMON QUESTIONS THAT I GET IS, WHAT CAN I DO TO
34:10 REACH -- MY SON, MY DAUGHTER, MY GRANDKIDS, MY SPOUSE, MY
34:15 FRIENDS, MY WORK ASSOCIATES, FAMILY MEMBER.
34:18 DOUG, WHAT CAN I DO. AND THEY THINK THAT MAYBE I'VE
34:20 GOT SOME SECRET FORMULA. THREE THINGS.
34:25 I LEARNED THIS FROM STEVIE BROOKS AND I NEVER FOUND A
34:29 BETTER ANSWER. THREE THINGS YOU CAN DO FOR THE
34:32 PEOPLE THAT YOU WANT TO REACH. THERE'S ONLY THREE THINGS.
34:35 BUT THEY'RE VERY POWERFUL THINGS.
34:37 WELL, THERE'S THREE AND A HALF. ONE, IF THEY'RE OPEN, SHARE
34:42 INFORMATION WITH THEM. GIVE THEM A BOOK, A MAGAZINE.
34:47 IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE A BIBLE, GET THEM A BIBLE.
34:51 -- HAVE A BIBLE, GIVE THEM A BIBLE.
34:52 GIVE THEM A TAPE. DOES ANYONE HAVE A TAPE PLAYER
34:56 ANYMORE. HOW MANY STILL HAVE A CASSETTE
34:59 PLAYER? LOOK AT THAT, I KNEW IN THIS
35:00 GROUP I COULD ASK THAT QUESTION. [LAUGHTER]
35:02 >> SO YOU GIVE THEM A DVD OR MAGAZINE.
35:05 GIVE THEM THE WORD. AND IF THEY'LL LISTEN TO THE
35:07 WORD OR TAKE A BIBLE STUDY FROM YOU, GIVE THEM A BIBLE STUDY.
35:10 TAKE THEM TO THE AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDIES OR SOMETHING.
35:14 SO INFORMATION. IF THEY'LL LISTEN TO
35:16 INFORMATION, THAT'S ONE THING. SECOND THING, IS PRAY FOR THEM.
35:22 SOME PEOPLE SAY, WELL, ALL I CAN DO IS PRAY, AND THEY ALWAYS FEEL-LIKE THAT'S SORT OF A COPOUT,
35:28 LIKE IT'S NOT POWERFUL. BUT IF YOU'RE REALLY PRAYING,
35:32 AND ONE TIME THE DISCIPLES TRIED TO CAST OUT A DEVIL AND THEY
35:35 COULDN'T DO IT. THEY SAID LORD, HOW COME YOU CAN
35:38 CAST THEM OUT AND WE COULDN'T. HE SAID THIS KIND DOES THOUGHT
35:42 COME FORTH EXCEPT PI PRAYER AND FASTING.
35:44 -- BY PRAYER AND FASTING. SO YOU MAY EVEN FAST AND PRAY
35:47 FOR THEM. AND YOU MAY DO IT MORE THAN
35:50 ONCE. AND THEN THIRD THING IS BE A
35:52 GOOD EXAMPLE. YOU CAN BE A STRETCHER BEARER
35:57 AND BRING PEOPLE TO JESUS BY DOING THOSE THINGS.
36:02 AND THEN THE FOURTH THING, I TOLD YOU IT'S THREE AND A HALF,
36:07 DO THOSE THINGS PATIENTLY AND PERSISTENTLY.
36:11 SO ONCE YOU FIGURE IT WHAT IT'S DOING, CONTINUE TO BE A GOOD
36:14 WITNESS. IF THEY'RE OPEN, SHARE
36:15 INFORMATION. IF THEY DON'T WANT INFORMATION,
36:17 DON'T PUSH THEM. YOU'LL DRIVE THEM AWAY.
36:19 I KNOW SOME DEAR LOVING PARENTS AND THEY WANT TO REACH THEIR
36:22 KIDS AND THEY JUST KEEP BRINGING THINGS ON THEM AND THE KIDS FEEL
36:25 LIKE YOU'RE ALWAYS PREACHING TO ME, AND IT DRIVES THEM AWAY.
36:28 YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHEN TO BACK OFF.
36:29 IT'S HARD, I KNOW. AND KEEP IN MIND THAT MAN THAT
36:33 IS BROUGHT INTO THE PRESENCE OF JESUS IS NOT BROUGHT INTO THE
36:36 PRESENCE OF JESUS BY ONE PERSON. IT'S FOUR PEOPLE.
36:40 SO OFTEN WHEN SOMEONE IS SAVED, IT'S NOT THE WORK OF ANY ONE
36:44 PERSON. EVEN PAUL SAID ONE PERSON MIGHT
36:47 SOW, ANOTHER PERSON READY, CULTIVATES.
36:51 WE ALL WORK TOGETHER. I USED TO THINK I'D STOP AND
36:55 PICK UP HITCHHIKERS AND I'D WITNESS TO THEM.
36:58 THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO ME.
37:01 I PRAYED AND THIS CHRIS CHRISTIE PICKED ME AND UP -- CHRISTIAN
37:05 PICKED ME UP AND HE TALKED ABOUT THE BIBLE THE WHOLE WAY.
37:08 AND I HAD TO LIST TON HIM OR GYM -- LISTEN TO HIM OR JUMP OUT
37:11 THE CAR. YOU'VE GOT A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE.
37:14 SO I'D PICK UP HITCHHIKERS AND I'D PICK THEM UP AT POINT A AND
37:18 THEN I'D THINK, HOW FAR BEFORE THEY'RE GETTING OFF AND I HAVE
37:21 TO DO A GOSPEL PRESENTATION. I'M ONLY GOT SIX MILES.
37:25 AND I ALWAYS FELT LIKE, I WOULD MAYBE NOT PICK THEM UP IF I
37:31 DIDN'T HAVE LONG ENOUGH TO DO A GOSPEL PRESENTATION.
37:34 AND I'M SORRY TO TELL YOU THAT I ADMITTED.
37:37 I'M TURNING OFF JUST IN TWO MILES UP HERE.
37:40 HOW MUCH CAN I SHARE IN THAT TIME.
37:42 AND I DROVE BY THEM. AND ONE DAY THE LORD SAID DOUG,
37:47 WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU'RE THE ONLY PART OF THE GOSPEL THEY'RE
37:49 EVER GOING TO HEAR. SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD CARE A
37:52 LITTLE BIT. MAYBE YOU JUST GIVE THEM A RIDE
37:54 BECAUSE YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN AND THEY NEED A RIDE.
37:57 THEY NEED A RIDE. IT'S LIKE SOME OF US WON'T GIVE
38:00 A PERSON A TRACK BUT WE WON'T GIVE THEM BREAD WHEN THEY'RE
38:05 HUNGRY. SO I REALIZED, LORD, I DON'T
38:07 HAVE TO DO IT ALL MYSELF. AND WHEN I PRAY FOR PEOPLE I
38:10 LOVE, I SAY, LORD, I PRAY YOU'LL SEND PEOPLE INTO THEIR LIVES.
38:14 NOT JUST ONE PERSON. SEND PEOPLE INTO THEIR LIVES.
38:18 THAT'S FOUR STRETCHER BEARERS. JESUS SAID HE'LL SEND THE ANGELS
38:21 TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
38:23 NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, AND WEST. THE SYMBOL FOR SOMETHING JIEWNL
38:27 UNIVERSAL. FOUR ANGELS HOLDING BACK THE
38:29 FOUR WINDS OF STRIKE. GOD IS GOING TO BRING PEOPLE
38:32 FROM ALL DIFFERENT PARTS OF THEIR LIFE, ALL CORNERS, TO
38:35 REACH THEM. SO REMEMBER THAT.
38:38 HE HAS HIS WAYS. BE A GOOD EXAMPLE, SHARE
38:43 INFORMATION, AND PRAY FOR THEM, AND DO THOSE THINGS
38:48 PERSISTENTLY. SO THEY SAID WE'RE NOT GIVING
38:51 UP. AND THEN AT THAT POINT, INSTEAD
38:53 OF LOOKING HORIZONTALLY, THEY SAID WE GOT TO LOOK LOVE THE
38:58 CROWD. THAT'S OUR THEME FOR THIS WEEK.
39:00 THEY FINALLY DECIDED, WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO GO IN THROUGH THE DOOR
39:03 AND WINDOW. MAYBE WE'RE NOT THINKING ABOUT
39:05 THIS RIGHT. INSTEAD OF LOOKING THIS WAY, WE
39:07 GOT TO LOOK THIS WAY. NOW, REALLY, THERE'S BOTH
39:10 INVOLVED IN BEING A CHRISTIAN. THERE'S THE HORIZONTAL AND
39:14 THERE'S THE VERSE CAL. -- VERTICAL.
39:17 THE DOS PEL IS HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL.
39:20 GREAT INVITATION, MATH THROUGH 11, COME UNTO ME.
39:24 THIS IS THE VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP.
39:27 COME UNTO ME AND I'LL GIVE YOU THE REST.
39:28 YOU COME TO CRIETSZ. THEN YOU'VE GOT -- CITES.
39:30 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE HOZZAL, MAT -- HORIZONTAL, MATTHEW 28.
39:35 GO AND TELL THE WHOLE WORLD. WHAT ARE THE TWO COMMANDMENTS.
39:39 LOVE THE LORD AND THE VERTICAL, LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.
39:42 AS YOURSELF. AND SO THE WHOLE GOSPEL IS
39:46 SUMMARIZED INTO COMING TO JESUS AND GOING FOR JESUS.
39:50 SO THEY HAD DONE THEIR BEST TO DO THE HORIZONTAL.
39:53 AND ONE OF THEM SAID, MAYBE WE OUGHT TO LOOK UP.
39:58 AND SO THEY TOOK THEIR FRIEND AROUND BACK.
40:02 THE CROWD WAS A LITTLE THINNER THERE.
40:04 AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, IN THE BIBLE, ESPECIALLY DOWN BY THE
40:09 SEE OF GALILEE. KAREN AND I WERE THERE ABOUT A
40:12 YEAR AND A HALF AGO. AND IT'S VERY HOT DOWN BY TIE
40:19 BEERIOUS. AND THE HOUSES ARE BUILT THERE
40:20 SO THAT YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T HAVE GAS RANGES OR ELECTRIC
40:24 RANGES. THEY HAD A FIRE.
40:26 AND IN THE SUMMERTIME THEY'D -- NINE THE THE WINTER, THEY HAD A
40:29 LITTLE PLACE IN THE ROOF THAT THEY'D OPEN UP.
40:31 THEY'D PULL ASIDE SOME TILES AND SOME OF THE COVERING AND THE AIR
40:35 WOULD COME IN FROM THE DOORS AND THE WINDOWS AND THE CONVECTION
40:39 WOULD CAUSE IT TO GO OUT THE CHIMNEY UP AND THEY USED TO
40:42 BUILD THEIR HOMES BACK THEN WHERE THEY ACTUALLY WOULD GO OUT
40:44 ON THE ROOF. YOU REMEMBER PETER IS UP ON THE
40:47 ROOF. I THINK WAITING FOR DINNER.
40:48 AND YOU READ ABOUT MOSES SAID YOU'RE TO BUILD A LITTLE RAILING
40:52 ON THE ROOF OF YOUR HOUSE SO WHEN YOUR FRIENDS UP THERE, IF
40:56 HE FALLS OUT, YOU'RE NOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS BLOOD TO
40:59 PROTECT HIM. AND DAVID WAS WALKING OUT OF THE
41:01 ROOF. HE GOT IN TROUBLE FOR DOING
41:03 THAT. SO THEY WOULD GO UP ON THE ROOF.
41:06 IT WASN'T UNCOMMON. THERE WAS A PLACE ON THE ROOF.
41:08 SO THESE GUYS THOUGHT, WELL, LET'S TAKE HIM UP ON THE ROOF.
41:12 AND LET'S PULL ASIDE THE TILES THAT THEY USED FOR THE CHIMNEY.
41:17 AND WE'LL JUST -- IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO LET US IN, WE'RE NOT
41:20 GIVING UP. THE STORY WHEN PETER GOT OUT OF
41:25 PRISON, HE WENT TO THE CHURCH. YOU KNOW THAT STORY?
41:29 HE GETS OUT OF PRISON, HE GOES TO THE UPPER ROOM WHERE THE
41:31 CHURCH IS PRAYING FOR HIM. BIBLE SAYS THEY WERE PRAYING FOR
41:35 PETER WITHOUT CEASING AND HE KNOCKS.
41:38 [KNOCKING] >> AND HE WON'T OPEN THE DOOR.
41:41 AND HE KEEPS KNOCKING AND FINALLY A GIRL COMES TO THE
41:44 DOOR. SHE SAYS, WHO'S THERE.
41:46 PETER! CAN'T HELP YOU, WE'RE HAVING A
41:50 PRAYER MEETING FOR PETER RIGHT NOW.
41:52 [LAUGHTER] >> HE SAID, WHO'S THERE.
41:54 PETER? PETER, PETER.
41:55 SHE RUNS AND SHE TELLS THEM THEY'RE HAVING A PRAYER MEETING.
41:59 SHE SAYS, EXCUSE ME. HELP YOUR SERVANT PETER.
42:03 PLEASE, BRING HIM, BRING HIM OUT.
42:05 DO SOMETHING WONDERFUL. AND SHE SAID PETER'S AT THE
42:08 DOOR. YOU'RE CRAZY.
42:08 THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID. HE'S AT THE CHURCH PRAYING FOR
42:14 PETER TO BE DELIVERED AND PETER IS AT THE DOOR.
42:15 AND PETER IS STILL OUT THERE. [KNOCKING]
42:18 [LAUGHTER] >> ROMAN SOLDIERS ARE SWARMING
42:19 THE STREETS LOOKING FOR HIM. AND THEY SAID, PETER CONTINUED
42:25 KNOCKING. DON'T GIVE UP.
42:27 IF YOU GO TO THE CHURCH AND THE CROWD -- I MEAN, EVEN THOSE
42:31 DISCIPLES BACK IN PETER'S DAY THAT HAD RECEIVED THE BAPTISM OF
42:35 THE HOLY SPIRIT WEREN'T HIM BACK IN THE CHURCH.
42:38 ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? HERE HE IS A PREACH AND THEY
42:42 WON'T -- PREACHER AND HE WON'T OPEN THE DOOR FOR THEM.
42:45 BUT PETER WOULDN'T BE DISKUHNLED.
42:47 IF YOU'VE TRIED -- DISCOURAGED. IF YOU'VE TRIED TO BRING PEOPLE
42:50 TO THE CHURCH, DON'T BE DISCOURAGED.
42:53 JESUS WAS IN THAT HOUSE. IN SPITE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH
42:56 THE CROWD, ALL THROUGH THIS STORY THE CROWD IS A PROBLEM.
43:01 BUT JESUS WAS IN THE HOUSE. I'D LIKE A PREACHER ONCE -- IT'S
43:05 LIKE A PREACHER ONCE SAID, DURING TH FLOOD PROBABLY ONE OF
43:08 THE LAST PLACES IN THE WORLD YOU WOULD WANT TO BE IS IN THE ARK.
43:11 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE SEA SICKNESS THAT WOULD BE COMPOUNDED BY THE
43:15 SMELL OF THE ANIMALS AND THE AWFUL SOUNDS THAT WERE MADE?
43:19 BUT IT WAS BETTER THAN BEING ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ARK.
43:23 AND WITH ALL OF ITS FAILINGS, WITH ALL OF ITS FLAWS, THE
43:28 BOOK'S TELLS US THIS IS -- COMMENTARY ON THAT -- THAT IN
43:32 SPITE OF ITS FAILURES AND FLAWS, THE CHURCH IS THE OBJECT ON
43:36 EARTH UPON WHICH HE BESTOWS HIS SUPREME REGARD.
43:41 IT'S THE APPLE OF HIS EYE. AND YES, THE PROBLEM WITH THE
43:46 CHURCH IS THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH AND I KNOW THERE ARE
43:50 HYPOCRITES IN THE CHURCH AND THE CROWD SOMETIMES IS AN OBSTACLE
43:53 FOR JESUS. WON'T DON'T LET THAT KEEP YOU
43:56 FROM COMING BECAUSE THERE ARE HYPOCRITES.
43:59 ONE PASTOR SAID, THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE.
44:02 YOU SHOULD JOIN ANYWAY. [LAUGHTER]
44:05 >> SOMEONE SAYS, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST SO HARD TO COME TO THE
44:09 CHURCH. THEY DON'T SEEM VERY LOVING.
44:10 HAVE YOU HEARD SOMEONE SAY, I WON'T GO TO THE CHURCH THAT
44:14 SUBJECT SEEM VERY LOVING. THAT'S THE BEST CHURCH TO GO TO
44:17 BECAUSE YOU NEED TO LEARN TO LOVE.
44:19 AND IF EVERYONE IS LOVING, YOU DON'T LEARN ANYTHING.
44:21 IT'S LIKE IF YOU WANT PATIENCE, DON'T PRAY FOR PATIENCE IF
44:25 YOU'RE AN IMPATIENT PERSON BECAUSE GOD WILL SEND YOU DELAY.
44:29 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? AND IF YOU SAY, LORD, GIVE ME A
44:33 LOVING HEART. WHAT DO YOU THINK HE'S GOING TO
44:36 DO? SURROUND YOU WITH LOVING PEOPLE?
44:37 YOU SAY LORD, GIVE ME A LOVING HEART.
44:40 HE'LL SAY, OKAY, BRACE FOR IMPACT.
44:43 [LAUGHTER] >> I'M GOING TO SEND YOU PEOPLE
44:46 THAT ARE GOING TO STRETCH YOUR LOVE MUSCLES.
44:48 [LAUGHTER] >> AND YOU'RE GONNA FIND OUT
44:51 WHAT I SEE EVERY DAY S WHAT GOD -- DAY S WHAT GOD SAYS.
44:56 BUT GOD LOVES US WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS.
44:59 CHRIST DIED FOR US. SO THEY GO UP ON THE ROOF AND
45:04 THEY START PULLING THE TILES ASIDE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
45:09 THERE'S LIGHT COMES STREAMING THROUGH.
45:11 JESUS IS IN THERE AND HE'S SURROUNDED PI THE PEOPLE.
45:14 HE'S GOT THE APOSTLES. THEY'RE ALL CROWDED WITH PEOPLE
45:17 AND THE OTHER APOCKLES AND SCRIBES -- APOSTLES THE SCRIBES
45:22 AND FACER -- PHAROSES. PROBABLY SOME SPIES AND PEOPLE
45:26 CRANING THEIR NECKS IN THE DOORS AND WINDOWS LISTENING TO EVERY
45:30 WORD. SOME OF THEM ARE SINCERE
45:31 BELIEVERS. SOME OF THEM ARE JUST CURIOSITY
45:34 SEEKERS. SOME OF THEM GO WHEREVER THERE'S
45:35 A CROWD. THEY GET IN LINE.
45:37 THEY JUST -- THEY FOLLOW THE BANDWAGON WHEREVER IT GOING.
45:42 AND THEY'RE -- SO HE HAD ALL KINDS.
45:45 CHURCHES SOMETIMES HAVE ALL THOSE KINDS, TOO.
45:48 SO HE'S TEACHING. THEY START PULLING ASIDE THE
45:52 TILES AND IN THE STREAMS OF SUNLIGHT.
45:54 THE CLUTTER AND THE CLATTER UP ON THE ROOF.
45:56 AND OF SOME OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE THINKING, THESE
46:00 CRUDE PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN. YOU COME UP BY HERE BY GALILEE
46:04 AND THEY HAVE NO BREEDING. IT'S LIKE THOMASVILLE OR
46:07 SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND THEY'RE --
46:11 [LAUGHTER] >> COUNTRY FOLKS!
46:15 THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE THINKING. I DON'T MEAN THE THOMPSONVILLE.
46:19 THE RELIGIOUS LEADER, THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID.
46:21 THEY'RE GALILEANS. WHAT DO THEY KNOW.
46:22 THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE SO RUDE AND CRUDE AND THEY HAD AN ACCENT
46:27 AND THEY TALKED FUNNY. AND FORGIVE ME, ABOUT THE
46:31 THOMPSONVILLE PART. I WAS KIDDING THERE.
46:33 IT'S A JOKE. MOSTLY.
46:37 [LAUGHTER] >> NOW DOES JESUS GET UPSET?
46:45 HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE TO BE INTERRUPTED WHEN YOU'RE GIVING A
46:49 BIBLE STUDY? I MEAN, YOU KNOW -- RIGHT WHEN
46:56 YOU'RE GETTING READY TO MAKE YOUR APPEAL, SOME DEVIL PINCHES
46:59 A BABY. [LAUGHTER]
47:04 >> ARE THE KIDS ON THE FRONT ROW START PASSING THEIR PHONES BACK
47:06 AND FORTH AND SNICKERING. THEY'RE NOT PAYING ANY
47:09 ATTENTION. I I GET DISTRACT.
47:11 I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE LAUGHING AT BECAUSE I'VE GOT
47:15 ADD. AND SO NO ONE WANTS TO BE
47:17 DISTRACTED IN A SERMON, BUT HOW DOES JESUS RESPOND?
47:21 WHEN JESUS SAW THEIR FAITH, HE WAS HAPPY.
47:27 THEY LED HIM DOWN ON HIS BED AND HE SAW THEIR FAITH.
47:32 HE SAID SAID TO THE PARE A LITTIC -- PARALYTIC, SON, YOUR
47:37 SINS ARE FORGIVEN. WAIT A SECOND.
47:39 WHY DID JESUS START THERE? I WOULD THINK THAT YOU KNOW, IF
47:42 HE'S KNOWN AS A HEALER AND THIS MAN WHO'S OBVIOUSLY PHYSICALLY
47:46 HANDICAPPED IS LOWERED DOWN INTO THE PRESENCE OF JESUS, THAT
47:49 JESUS IS THINKING, HE'S PARALYZED.
47:52 HIS PROBLEM IS OBVIOUS AND YOU GO RIGHT TO THE SICKNESS.
47:56 WHY DID JESUS START WITH THE SIN?
48:00 PLEASE ALWAYS REMEMBER, THAT EVERY PHYSICAL HEALING THAT
48:05 JESUS EVER PERFORMED WAS ONLY TEMPORARY.
48:09 EVEN LAZARUS WHO WAS RESER RENTED IS NOW -- REZZER RENTED
48:13 IS NOW DEAD. YOU KNOW THAT.
48:15 BUT THE REASON THAT JESUS HEALED PHYSICALLY IS TO SHOW HIS LOVE
48:19 AND BETTER EMPOWER PEOPLE TO SEEK AFTER THE REAL PRIORITY,
48:23 WHICH IS THE SPIRITUAL HEALING. NOW, I BELIEVE IN HEALTH
48:30 MESSAGE. AND I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
48:32 BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, IF I'VE GOT TO CHOOSE THIS PERSON
48:38 COULD HAVE PHYSICAL HEALING OR THEY CAN HAVE SPIRITUAL HEALING,
48:41 WHICH HEALING IS GOING TO LAST FOREVER?
48:43 AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE COME TO US AS PASTORS AND SAY THEY'D LIKE
48:48 TO HAVE AN ANOINTING. WE WANT TO BE HEALED.
48:50 IT'S A PHYSICAL PROBLEM AND WE BELIEVE IN THAT.
48:52 AND WE'VE SEEN MIRACLES. WE HAVE, PHYSICAL HEALING,
48:57 MIRACLES. AND THE FIRST THING I SAY, WHEN
48:59 I PRAY WITH THEM, LET'S FIRST TALK ABOUT THE SIN.
49:02 BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE BIBLE TELLS US IN JAMES 5 AND IF HE OR SHE
49:07 HAS COMMITTED SINS, THEY'LL BE FORGIVEN BECAUSE THAT'S THE REED
49:11 ISSUE. -- REAL ISSUE.
49:13 JESUS CAME TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS.
49:16 WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THIS WORLD?
49:20 YOU ASK THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AT LARGE, WHAT DOES CHRISTIANITY
49:23 DO FOR THE WORLD. AND SOME MIGHT SAY, WELL, THEY
49:26 KEECH GOOD VALUES AND THEY TEACH MORALITY.
49:30 AND THERE'S BENEFIT IN THE HEALTH MESSAGE.
49:32 AND YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SAY ALL KINDS OF THINGS ABOUT
49:36 CHRISTIANITY IN GENERAL. BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT THE BIG
49:38 THING IS. WE'RE ALL PARISHING.
49:41 WE'RE GOING TO -- PERISHING. WE'RE GOING TO DIE.
49:47 THEY PAY FOR THEIR SINS. THE PENALTY OF DEATH IS DYING
49:51 AND WE'RE DYING BECAUSE OF SIN. THE MOST GOSH THINGS
49:56 CHRISTIANITY -- IMPORTANT THING CRIZTY DOES FOR THE WORLD SIT
49:59 GIVES FORGIVENESS FOR SKIN. IF YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN NO
50:03 MATTER WHAT ELSE MIGHT HAPPEN, WHEN YOU DIE YOU HAVE
50:05 EVERLASTING LIFE. IN A WORLD WHERE THERE IS NO
50:08 MORE PHYSICAL SUFFERING OR PROBLEMS OR SORROW OR PAIN OR
50:11 DEATH. SO WHAT COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT
50:13 THAN SAYING, YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN?
50:16 THEN WHEN JESUS COMES, YOU'VE GOT YOUR TICKET.
50:20 EVERYTHING ELSE WE PRAY FOR AND SO MANY PEOPLE THAT -- LIKE THE
50:24 GUY IN JAIL. HE SAYS, LORD, THIS JAIL ASK
50:29 MISERABLE. NO HEATING, NO AIR.
50:31 WILL YOU PLEASE HELP US GET SOME CENTRAL HEATING AND AIR IN THIS
50:35 JAIL. IT IS SO HOT.
50:37 IN THE SUMMER, AND AND IT'S SO COLD IN THE WINTER.
50:41 LORD, THE BED IS SO HARD. CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE THE BED MORE
50:46 COMFORTABLECH IT'S SO CROWD WITH THE PRISONERS.
50:49 LORD, CAN I HAVE CARPET FOR MY PRISON CELL.
50:52 AND THE LORD IS SAYING, WHY DON'T YOU ASK THAT I GET YOU OUT
50:55 OF JAIL. WE TYPICALLY PRAY THAT GOD WILL
50:58 MAKE US MORE COMFORTABLE IN OUR PRISON.
51:00 THAT'S RIGHT. OUR PRAYERS ARE THAT GOD WILL
51:02 BLESS US WHILE WE CONTINUE WITH THE LIFE OF SIN.
51:07 THAT'S NOT WHAT HE WANT INFORMATION DO.
51:09 HE WANTS YOU TO SAVE YOU THERE YOUR SIN BECAUSE THAT'S THE
51:13 SOURCE OF ALL OUR MISERY. AND OUR.
51:16 MAT DELIVERANCE FROM ANY PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL
51:19 PROBLEM WILL BE FORGIVENESS OF SIN.
51:22 IF YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN, THEN YOU GOT EVERYTHING.
51:27 MY GRANDFATHER USED TO SAY, IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR HEALTH, YOU'RE A
51:31 RICH MAN. AND I'VE COME TO BELIEVE THAT
51:34 THOUGH THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT, I SAY IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR
51:39 FORGIVENESS, YOU ARE A RICH MAN OR RICH WOMAN.
51:42 IF YOU KNOW YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN, THEN YOU'VE GOT
51:48 ETERNAL LIFE. HE SAID, SON, YOUR SINS ARE
51:52 FORGIVEN. SOME OF THE SCRIBES WERE SITTING
51:53 THERE. THEY'RE REASONING IN THEIR
51:54 HEARTS, WHY DOES THIS MAN SPEAK BLASPHEMIES LIKE THIS?
51:58 WHO CAN FORGIVE SINS BUT GOD ALONE?
52:00 THEY WERE RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT THE SCRIPTURES
52:03 TEACH. ONLY GOD COULD FORGIVE SIN.
52:05 NOW, THEY NEEDED TO MAKE A DECISION.
52:07 WAS JESUS GOD OR WAS HE A BLAST FEMMER?
52:13 TO PROVE THEM THAT HE WAS GOD, HE READS THE THOUGHTS OF THEIR
52:17 HEARTS. IMMEDIATELY JESUS PERCEIVED IN
52:20 THE SPIRIT, THEY REASONED THUS WESTERN THEMSELVES.
52:23 WHO CAN FORGIVE SINS? ONLY GOD?
52:25 WAS JESUS GOD? THE BIBLE SAYS GOD AND GOD ONLY
52:29 KNOWS THE THOUGHTS OF OUR HEARTS.
52:31 JESUS KNEW WHAT WAS IN MAN. JESUS FILLS ALL OF THE
52:34 DEFINITIONS OF GOD. IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED.
52:36 ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE BY CHRIST.
52:39 IS THAT RIGHT? IT SAYS, HE IS THE WORD.
52:42 THE WORD BECAME FLESH. BIBLE SAYS THERE IS ONE SAVIOR.
52:45 IT SAYS THAT JESUS WAS SAVIOR. HE'S THE ONLY NAME GIVEN AMONG
52:49 MEN WHERE SPI WE MUST BE SAVED. JESUS MUST BE GOD.
52:53 BIBLE SAYS ONLY GOD SHOULD BE WORSHIPED.
52:55 WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD. THOMAS SAID, MY LORD AND MY GOD.
52:59 AND THE OTHER DISCIPLES FELL DOWN AND WORSHIPED HIM.
53:05 EVEN ANGELS THAT DON'T WORSHIP ME WORSHIP GOD.
53:08 JESUS MEETS THE DEFCISION. AND THEY SAY ONLY GOD CAN
53:11 FORGIVE SIN. HE SAID THAT'S MY POINT.
53:14 WHY DO YOU REASON THOSE THINGS? HE'D -- HE'S RADING THE HEARTS.
53:20 TO SAY TO THE PARALYTIC YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN?
53:22 YOU WANT EVIDENCE OF GOD. SHOULD YOUR SINS BE FORGIVEN?
53:26 ARISE, PICK UP YOUR BED AND WALK.
53:28 BUT THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW THAT THE SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO
53:32 FORGIVE SINS. HE SAID TO THE SICK OF THE
53:36 PALSY, I SAY ARISES, TAKE UP YOUR BED AND GO TO YOUR HOUSE.
53:40 NOW, THAT MAN, HE WAS ALREADY HAPPY WHEN HE HEARD JESUS SAY,
53:43 YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN. HIS FACE WAS JUST FLUSHED WITH
53:47 PEACE AND REJOICE, BECAUSE THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
53:50 THAT HE WANTED. THE BOOK DESIRE -- 268.
53:55 NOW IN WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE MUSIC ON THE SUFFICIENTER
54:02 OVER -- SUFFICIENTER'S YEAR, YOUR -- SUFFERER'S EAR.
54:08 THE PEACE OF FORGIVENESS RESTS UPON HIS APPEARANCE.
54:13 HIS PHYSICAL PAIN IS GONE. HIS WHOLE BEING IS TRANSFORMED.
54:16 THE HELPLESS PARALYTIC IS HEALED.
54:20 IN SIMPLE FAITH HE ACCEPTS THE WORD OF JESUS AS THE BON OF NEW
54:25 LIFE. HE URGED NO FURTHER REQUESTS BUT
54:27 HE LAYS IN BLISSFUL SILENCE TO HAPPY FOR WORDS.
54:31 HE DOESN'T KNOW HE CAN GET UP AND WALK.
54:35 MY SINS ARE FORGIVEN. THE -- THE PEOPLE LOOKED UPON
54:39 THE SCENE WITH AWE. EVERYTHING SAW SOMETHING THAT
54:41 HAPPENED TO HIM. A PEACE COMES OVER HIM.
54:44 BUT NOW JESUS SAYS, YOU DON'T THINK THAT I'M GOD?
54:46 HE SAYS, THE MAN ARISE, PICK UP YOUR BED, AND -- IN OBEDIENCE TO
54:52 THE LORD, HE GETS UP. AND PROBABLY IS IN SHOCK
54:57 HIMSELF. HE ROLLS UP HIS STRETCHER.
55:00 THAT BED THAT CARRIED HIM AROUND, SICK, AND NOW HE CARRIES
55:06 IT OUT. AND THE BIKE SAYS, THEY WERE --
55:08 BIBLE SAYS THEY WERE ALL AMAZED. THEY SAID, THEY'D NEVER SEEN
55:11 ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE. NOW, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
55:14 IMPORTANT POINTS. JESUS SAID TO HIS FRIENDS WHEN
55:19 HE SAW THEIR FAITH -- DIDN'T SAY HIS FAITH -- WHEN THEY SAW THEIR
55:24 FAITH, THIS MAN IS HEALED AT LEAST IN PART BECAUSE OF THE
55:27 FAITH AND PERSISTENCE OF HIS FRIENDS, THAT PERSISTED TO BRING
55:33 HIM INTO THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST. DON'T GIVE UP FOR YOUR LOVED
55:35 ONES AND FRIENDS. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH
55:39 GOD. AMEN?
55:40 THE OTHER IMPORTANT POINT, IS THAT MAN CAME TO CHRIST CARRIED
55:46 BY HIS BED. IN ALL OF US AS HUMANS WE'VE GOT
55:49 THESE THREE NATURES AT WAR. WE HAVE THE SPIRIT AND THE
55:55 FLESH. THERE'S A WORD -- WAR THAT GOES
55:58 ON. EVEN AFTER YOU'VE SAVED YOU FEEL
56:00 THE WAR. BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT THE SPIRITUAL
56:02 DESIRE, THE FLESH, THE SELF ISSUENESS AND THE LUST OF THE
56:08 EYES -- SELFISHNESS. AND THE LUS OFT OF THE EYES AND WE
56:12 ALL HAVE IT. HE WENT TO THE BED -- HE WENT
56:16 WHERE THE BED TOOK HIM. AFTER HE MET JESUS, DOES HE
56:19 STILL HAVE THE BED? BUT WHO'S CARRYING WHO?
56:22 THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN YOU'RE SAVED, SIN SHALL NO LONGER HAVE
56:27 DOMINION OVER YOU. SIN NO LONGER REIGNS.
56:31 DO YOU STILL HAVE THAT CARNAL NATURE, PUT NOW CHRIST IS ON THE
56:35 THRONE IN YOUR WIFE AND YOU'RE NOT LED BY THE FLESH.
56:37 YOU ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT, AMEN? HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
56:40 WE COME INTO THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST AND WE HEAR HIM SAY, SON,
56:44 YOU KNOW WHAT HE CALLED HIM. SON, YOU'RE ADOPTED.
56:48 YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN. HE SENSE THAT BY FAITH.
56:52 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN A MIRACLE TAKES PLACE AND HE CAN WALK IN A
56:55 NEW WALK AND A NEW LIFE. THAT MAN WENT OUTSIDE WITH THE
57:01 WHOLE PACKAGE. HE'S GOT THE INNER HEALING AND
57:03 THE OUTER HEALING. YOU WANT -- JESUS THROUGH THE
57:08 POWER OF HIS WORD, HE CAN DO BOTH FOR YOU.
57:12 AS WE CLOSE TONIGHT FOR THOSE HERE AND THOSE WHO MAY BE
57:15 WATCHING, IF YOU WANT TO SAY, LORD, I WANT THAT EXPERIENCE, I
57:18 WANT TO BE IN YOUR PRESENCE AND BE COMPLETELY HEALED AND
57:21 FORGIVEN. PRAISE GOD.
57:22 WE'RE GOING TO PRAY AS WE CLOSE OUT THE PROGRAM AND ASK HIM.
57:25 FATHER IN HEAVEN, LORD, WE JUST -- WE JUST GLORIFY YOU AND
57:30 WE THANK YOU AND PRAISE YOU FOR THIS SIMPLE TRUTH THAT JESUS
57:33 CAME THAT THE WORLD TO SAVE SINNERS, THAT HIS WORD AND HIS
57:37 POWER CAN SET US FREE, LORD, THERE'S SOME HERE WE NEED TO
57:42 HEAR YOU SAY, SON, DAUGHTER, YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN AND
57:46 BELIEVE BY FAITH THAT THT'S WHY HE CAME.
57:48 HELP US NOT BE DESCOURAGED WHEN SOMETIMES THE CROWD GETS IN THE
57:53 WAY. AND LORD, I ALWAYS PRAY


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