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Youth Reports And Randy Skeete: Tell God, Tell Him Now - Friday Evening

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01:00 We want to talk about the impact that this
01:03 program has had on our communities here.
01:08 And we have here first we are going
01:10 to have John, John Foote here,
01:13 why don't you step up here and may be
01:15 you guys can step back a little back a little bit.
01:17 John, anybody who knows John loves John,
01:21 and it is. John, what would you say
01:25 what kind of an impact has this had,
01:27 but before we even get into that,
01:28 why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself.
01:30 You grew up in a church, how did you end up,
01:33 up here tonight if you grew up in a church.
01:35 I mean a faithful churchgoer for many,
01:38 many years I presume is that correct?
01:42 Not as many as I would like to have been.
01:46 Okay, why don't you tell us about that.
01:49 Ladies and gentlemen and the auditorium
01:52 audience and television viewers,
01:56 I grew up in the city of Louisville.
01:59 I went to the church out on Fourth Street
02:03 that I believe is now called the First Church.
02:09 My mother graduated from that school,
02:12 went to nursing school. I had an uncle that
02:14 graduated from there. If you know teenagers
02:21 there is an awful lot of, when they get about 14,
02:25 15 years old, there ain't nobody
02:28 as smart as you are. I can say that I
02:35 have tried many different churches,
02:40 but no church could ever get me because
02:43 they didn't worship on the right day.
02:47 So as you grew up basically in the
02:49 Seventh-day Adventist church what happened,
02:52 why are you up here today?
02:54 Tell us about yourexperience in the
02:57 Adventist church, going to church
02:59 every week for however many years,
03:03 or is that so? I rejoined the Adventist
03:08 church in California, kind of a biblical name
03:13 community Antioch. And I drifted away
03:19 again for about 33 years, there was a sign on
03:27 highway 55 and highway 53,
03:33 it says, welcome Adventist church.
03:38 I told my wife I should find out where
03:41 that church is because I am going back.
03:44 And that's here in Louisville.
03:47 Shelbyville, Shelbyville, excuse me Shelbyville,
03:52 the Louisville area. Right, and so how
03:56 long were you going so now you had been
03:57 away from the church for 33 years.
04:00 That's a lifetime, that's affirmative.
04:02 And so how did you, so tell me little bit
04:06 more about that. Here we are tonight,
04:09 backed up a few weeks possibly.
04:11 I returned, I just one Sabbath
04:15 I walked into the church. Loving awesome take
04:24 your right hand and this I remembered as a child.
04:34 Three weeks ago tomorrow I was re-baptized
04:37 into the Adventist church, amen. Thank God,
04:44 and I would like to say if I may this ASI group,
04:52 these young people oh my goodness
04:55 what an inspiration. Amen. The Lord is truly
04:59 speaking through them, amen, amen.
05:03 Thank you very much John and you
05:04 have been an inspiration to all of us,
05:07 to all young people. Thank you Kevin,
05:09 we just love this guy John here.
05:11 We are so grateful he came back.
05:22 And this here is Andy, Andy was over at
05:27 the New Albany church side and we are
05:29 very excited to take on New Albany right
05:34 from the beginning. They had a lot of youth
05:36 there and we like the youth obviously.
05:38 We like everyone but we like working especially
05:40 with the youth. And so Andy,
05:42 why don't you tell us a little bit
05:43 about your experience. How did you,
05:47 obviously you were a church member
05:48 over at New Albany and so you heard
05:51 about the meetings and then ASI through
05:54 being in the church. And tell us a little bit
05:55 about what this has done for you,
05:57 being a church member. Well I found out ,
06:04 I made up an acronym for ASI,
06:06 Adventist Secret Investigation but
06:10 I found out really what Adventist laymen
06:12 service and ministries, but just I stand
06:19 before you all tonight to tell you that ASI
06:23 has literally changed my life, amen.
06:27 I have seen preachers,
06:29 you see the televangelists,
06:31 you see them make these awesome
06:32 sermons sometimes. I have never in my
06:36 life seen people with such a passion for the Lord,
06:40 amen. I have never, even well seasoned
06:44 preachers I had never seen them just rolling
06:48 with the Lord's word and they were the coolest
06:51 people that came here and I'm gonna miss
06:53 when they go but my testimony basically is,
06:58 I'd a spiritual revival, amen and over seven
07:05 years ago they mention this I was re baptized
07:08 because ASI is so powerful, amen.
07:10 But seven years ago I was paralyzed in a
07:17 wheelchair and three years ago,
07:25 lo and behold the Lord blessed me,
07:28 I'm walking again, amen. But I don't wanna,
07:35 I don't wanna be self righteous or
07:38 focus on me or anything because it was a
07:40 spiritual revival, you have a spiritual body
07:42 and you have a physical body.
07:45 ASI has revived that in me and I have never,
07:51 any city that holds reluctance for ASI
07:54 to come to should not have it.
07:56 No city would ever do that no, no.
08:00 But they said I'm back to physical part they
08:03 said be a miracle in the magnitude
08:05 at the Red Sea party. Moses planning
08:07 the red sea, that's exactly what
08:08 my doctor said, the surgeon,
08:10 but I'm up here now. And Jerry Higgs,
08:13 my pastor, he got a pray circle around me
08:17 to get me up walking and I had legs
08:21 literally dead to the world.
08:23 But that's the physical part,
08:24 spiritual part ASI has revived me but
08:29 and I have see my friend Jeremy Wong
08:33 he is out there somewhere, seventeen years old
08:37 and he was one half of the tag team you can
08:41 call them to preach the Lord's word
08:44 and he did it with such passion I have never,
08:48 I keep saying tonight, I have never seen it.
08:51 And ASI is definitely should be supported
08:55 and Jeremy, Keith, Cal, all of them,
08:59 there is too many to mention but they all
09:01 are such inspirations and I'm gonna miss them.
09:05 But we will all be one day united in heaven
09:07 I say that. Thank you Andy,
09:09 thank you very much.
09:13 These church members have been such an inspiration
09:16 to us they don't even understand.
09:19 Brenda, come on over here and Brenda
09:21 is gonna try and contain her excitement tonight
09:24 she is just an excited, on fire. Brenda,
09:28 tell us, now you came to the meetings at
09:31 the Pewee Valley Church, is that correct?
09:34 That's correct. And how did you find out about
09:36 these meetings, you are not a member
09:37 of the church, no, how did you find out
09:39 about these meetings? I have two friends that
09:41 are very nagging friends and they would not
09:44 leave me alone about coming up
09:46 to the Bible study that John and Paula
09:48 having at their home. John and Paula are
09:51 church members, they are husband
09:52 and wife that were a part of the two that
09:55 were nagging her so to speak, yes,
09:57 they had a Bible study at their home
09:59 if I could interrupt you, yeah sure.
10:00 They had a Bible study at their home where
10:03 they had twenty non Adventist people
10:06 every Sunday coming to their Bible study,
10:09 friends that's not a Bible study that's
10:11 a church plant, amen. And so they were,
10:14 Brenda was one of their victims.
10:18 Well, John had said this one thing to me
10:20 and it stuck like glue. He said learn to love,
10:24 fall in love with the truth and embrace the truth
10:28 and that God would set me free from
10:30 all of these confusion upon all of these
10:31 different denominations that
10:32 I have been a part of. I come from the Catholic
10:35 background, went to Baptist,
10:37 got into a Pentecost movement,
10:39 got into somewhere God and I was so confused.
10:42 So, then Brenda tried to straighten me out
10:44 and I'd just said no way, there is too much laugh
10:46 coming from her and I have just didn't
10:49 associate love with the Seventh-day
10:50 Adventist so anyway. And so Brenda was
10:55 another friend from the Adventist church
10:57 where you getting this love from, yes,
11:00 she loved me through the whole thing her
11:02 and Paula and John loved me into the
11:04 Seventh-day Adventist church,
11:05 amen. It was all about love.
11:07 Soul winning is easy isn't it?
11:09 Yes and then I got baptized Tuesday,
11:13 that was Tuesday night I got baptized
11:16 and there was just a feeling when I come up
11:19 out of the water that it was just different
11:21 then the first time when I got Baptized
11:23 which was twelve years ago.
11:25 Brenda is the one that Pastor Rich said her
11:27 eyes were like this, I don't remember
11:30 going up like this, well they said I did
11:32 but it was awesome, it was the most awesome
11:35 experience in this whole week God has opened
11:38 up doors like you would never believe,
11:41 amen. And I didn't think I be up here
11:42 tonight at all, I told Kevin I said all those
11:45 people I can't talk in front of all those people,
11:47 we knew she could. He had a tone in his
11:54 so that's why I'm here but I mean it's love
11:57 that brought me to the church,
11:58 that's the bottom line, amen.
11:59 And Brenda had so many questions,
12:02 I remember when I first met her and she just
12:05 had question after question after question
12:08 and that is what we love.
12:10 We love when people have questions
12:12 and so we are able to answer her questions
12:15 and she has just been a tremendous
12:17 blessing to the church, to all of the ASI and we
12:20 just love Brenda. Every time something
12:22 comes up about clothes or jewelry or food,
12:25 especially food I tell him I wanna seen
12:29 in the Bible you show me the Bible
12:31 and I will believe anything.
12:32 Amen. It's what he does with me,
12:34 he takes me straight to the word.
12:35 And what an example right here, yeah,
12:39 that's exactly how Brenda is.
12:41 She would not argue but she would have her
12:44 things that she was going to present to us
12:47 and if then she would say if you can show me
12:50 in the Bible then I will do it and immediately
12:53 as we showed her in the Bible it was gone
12:56 out of her life, it was so amazing
12:57 so we were praise the Lord for Brenda.
13:00 The Fourth Commandment God said,
13:01 remember to keep it Holy, Sabbath day Holy
13:05 and you know I were work for many doctors
13:08 and they want me to work on Saturdays.
13:09 Well I told them, I can't do that no more,
13:11 amen. I said I honor the fourth commandment
13:13 why don't you, and it really kind of put
13:16 the ball in their corner, but they were really
13:18 sweet with me. They gave me hugs,
13:20 they told me go on, you don't wanna work,
13:22 but they don't like it one bit.
13:23 But I love it, I'm so excited. Amen.
13:26 Already she loves the Sabbath amen,
13:28 I'm gonna scream it in the parking lot tomorrow.
13:32 Well Brenda, thank you very much,
13:34 Andy and John, thank you very much
13:36 and thank you every one. Amen.
13:46 You know we have so many more
13:47 testimonies like that, and I just wish all of
13:49 you could come and visit us at least for
13:51 like a twenty four hour period,
13:53 and I'm going to just invite you to,
13:55 if you ever get a chance next show it
13:57 will be in Tampa, Florida. And so,
14:00 if you live in that area or if you're visiting
14:03 in the month of July, you need to come
14:05 and experience this year for yourself.
14:08 Well, I have three youths here who have been
14:10 part of our youth for Jesus program
14:12 this year and of course it's called ASI
14:16 youth for Jesus, because we want
14:18 to impact youth who have a passion
14:21 and love to spread the word of God with
14:23 others and to share the love of Jesus.
14:26 And I have, here with me Jeremy Wong,
14:29 now Jeremy what church are you with?
14:33 I'm with the New Albany Seventh-day
14:34 Adventist Church in Indiana.
14:38 And where do you live? I live in Sellersburg,
14:39 Indiana which is about five minutes
14:40 from New Albany. Okay, now we met you
14:44 last year because you were,
14:46 you had organized an evangelistic
14:50 meeting in your church for the youth.
14:53 That's correct. How did you do that?
14:57 Well, it all started at GYC 2005 in
15:00 Chattanooga, Tennessee. I was attending a
15:04 seminar the Pastor Mark Finley talking about
15:07 the logic project and that's where I caught
15:10 fire and that's where the fire started.
15:13 I was so excited to go back to my church,
15:15 talk to my pastor, talk to my parents,
15:17 saying we need, we need to get involved with this,
15:22 youth need to be getting involved in evangelism,
15:25 amen. So, I went back to my church,
15:27 I told my parents, I talked to my pastor
15:30 and after seven and half long months
15:33 my dream finally came true in October of last
15:37 year me and seven other young people
15:41 preached our first evangelistic series
15:43 through their logic project.
15:49 You know when we met eremy and his friends,
15:52 we knew we have to get them involved
15:53 in our youth for Jesus program,
15:55 because you know he planned and organized
15:57 this without any training. And so we thought he
16:00 needs our training, he needs the experience
16:03 of ASI youth for Jesus and so how did that
16:06 change your view on evangelism and how to
16:10 organize your next one? Amen,
16:14 ASI has been such a blessing to me through
16:17 the training and to talk into the staff
16:19 and talking with the different teachers,
16:21 they've really equipped me now to really
16:24 plan an evangelistic series be able to
16:26 preach better. I remember talking to Kevin Sears,
16:29 he gave me so much information,
16:31 so much tips on how to preach better,
16:34 to win souls for Christ. And through this ASI
16:36 youth for Jesus, I'm better equipped
16:39 to preach the Gospel and win many souls for Christ.
16:42 Amen. Now, you're going to be a senior
16:45 in high school this year and after that what
16:48 are your plans? My plans is I'm gonna
16:52 go to Southern Chattanooga,
16:55 Tennessee and I'm planning to major
16:58 in theology and minor in business.
17:02 So, you're going to, so winning souls is
17:06 going to be your profession.
17:09 By God's grace it is. Amen.
17:12 Now, we have Sherene Becca and Sherene,
17:15 tell us where are you from?
17:16 I am from Austin, Texas. And how did you hear
17:20 about ASI youth for Jesus?
17:22 Its a little interesting, its kind of a long story
17:24 but I'll make it short, I never heard of
17:28 ASI youth for Jesus until the end of May.
17:31 And this was kind of a little late
17:34 in the ball game, at the end of May
17:38 I heard about the program and basically
17:40 I just prayed and I said you know Lord,
17:41 if you want me to go you will find a way
17:43 for me to go. And I just want to
17:45 tell you that God is real,
17:46 because I'm a college student,
17:49 I go to Baylor University,
17:51 I'm a Freshman I just started last month
17:53 and I did the first summer session.
17:56 But that wasn't the plan, the plan was for me
17:58 to go for the whole entire month of July
18:01 and this had been set up from back in about April.
18:06 And in April everything was set and still,
18:09 so come May there was no way that
18:12 I was gonna be able to come out to this
18:13 program and I just said, you know what Lord,
18:15 if you want me to go you will find a way
18:17 and he found a way. And I have been
18:19 blessed as a result of that,
18:21 I just want to say that God is here in Louieville
18:24 and he is not leaving. Amen. I was seen
18:29 that in this program. Amen. now, you had a
18:35 goal that you wanted to accomplish while
18:37 you were here, for when you go back
18:39 to Baylor University and what was that?
18:42 Well, my goal is basically I want to
18:44 minister to all the students there,
18:48 you know like I said earlier God's here
18:50 in Louieville and he is not leaving.
18:51 I wanna take God back to Baylor and I don't want,
18:53 I don't wanna see him leave.
18:54 I want him to be there forever and I just
18:56 wanna use what I've learned here,
18:58 you know the classes that we've doing
19:00 that the youth for Jesus program
19:01 they have been so helpful.
19:02 I've learned more spiritually within myself
19:06 and I hope that as I go out to campus,
19:09 go out and stay on campus that I can just
19:11 reflect God in all ways that I know and I'm,
19:14 also the evangelistic stuff,
19:16 the door knocking, that helped me also
19:18 I had the pleasure of working with the NAPS
19:21 group and through that I've learned so much,
19:24 I'd never done door knocking in my life
19:26 and this program has just been so beneficial.
19:28 I wanna go back to Waco,
19:30 Texas and just serve God and bring glory
19:33 to his name, amen, I'm excited.
19:36 So, you have been equipped to go back to
19:37 public university campus to be a witness,
19:42 a powerful witness for him, yes.
19:43 Well we will be keeping you in our prayers,
19:44 thank you Sherene, thank you.
19:50 Now, this is Alicia Zimmerman and Alicia
19:55 tell me are you, have you been a
19:57 Seventh-day Adventist all your life?
19:59 I have been an Adventist all my life
20:01 and I'm actually a 5th generation Adventist.
20:05 Fifth generation Adventist, that's right,
20:07 so you know what being a Seventh-day Adventist
20:10 Christian is all about. Yes, I grew up believing
20:14 in everything that Adventist teach
20:16 and my parents taught me everything from
20:19 basically the time I was born.
20:22 And where were you born? I was born in Zambia,
20:24 Africa. So, you're a missionary kid, I was.
20:28 And so, your spiritual life was just perfect
20:31 and you were ready to be translated.
20:35 No, actually I felt like being a Christian was
20:40 just all about works, like all about doing
20:43 stuff and rules and everything and I didn't
20:46 have experience with God, with God for myself.
20:51 And how did you come to ASI Youth
20:53 for Jesus program? I actually came because
20:56 my mom wanted me too and I didn't really
20:58 wanna come in the first place,
21:00 but she convinced me to come and I'm so
21:02 glad that I came. Now, how did this change
21:06 your outlook on what Christianity
21:08 is all about? I realize that God is about love,
21:13 that God loves us and it's the devil that wants
21:17 to make us unhappy not God.
21:19 And how did that change your life?
21:22 Well, I really want to share God and I realize
21:25 too that like if we just keep things to
21:29 ourselves it's not gonna help us,
21:32 but if we share with others that's what
21:33 helps us more than anything.
21:35 As we bless others we are blessed more,
21:38 okay, great. And, now you made a decision
21:41 while you were here and what was decision?
21:43 I decided to be re-baptized and this last
21:46 Tuesday night I was re-baptized, amen.
21:52 Thank you Alicia. You know as we work
21:55 with this youth and we see them just change
22:01 their lives, just right in front of our eyes.
22:04 And we have had such wonderful staff
22:06 that have pleaded with God for each one
22:09 and it was just such a blessing because
22:12 you know we would see this young person
22:13 struggling and our staff would meet
22:16 and we would pray and we would plead with
22:18 God for that young person.
22:20 And the next day we would see a complete change,
22:23 you know we would see an improvement
22:24 in their attitudes, improvement in
22:26 their outlook, improvement in their
22:28 desire to, to grow in their
22:30 Christian experience. And this year we have
22:33 had twelve students; ASI students that have
22:36 either been baptized for the first time
22:38 or have been re-baptized.
22:42 Thank you so much, now the fourth
22:47 objective of our ASI Youth for Jesus
22:50 program is to make this so that it
22:52 can be duplicated, not just once a
22:55 year event at an ASI convention city.
22:59 But we encourage and teach the students
23:01 to take it back to their own churches,
23:03 their communities, their schools,
23:05 wherever they are and light a fire under
23:08 their churches and their schools and their
23:10 communities. And I want Olivia and Mary
23:13 Jo to come up right now, because these were two
23:16 of our students, first time students
23:19 last year at Dallas, ASI Youth for Jesus program.
23:23 Now, Olivia and Mary Jo, this is your second year?
23:26 Yes, and but last year you came to youth
23:31 for Jesus and what was the result,
23:35 what was the end result of your attending
23:38 youth for Jesus? Well, youth for Jesus,
23:40 we enjoyed all the classes,
23:42 all the inspiration from all the staff and
23:45 both of us felt called at youth for Jesus,
23:46 we felt like we couldn't just go home
23:48 and go back to how life used to be.
23:50 We felt like we knew, we learned so much
23:53 and we have such a passion that we couldn't
23:54 just go home and let that die,
23:57 we decided to go home and do something about it.
24:00 And Mary Jo, what was that?
24:02 Well, during one of the classes we had actually,
24:06 I think it was Pastor Shawn Boonstra I can't
24:07 remember for sure for, but he was saying
24:10 you know this is not hard to you guys
24:11 you can do it if you're a youth.
24:13 It doesn't really matter,
24:14 it just lot of work but you can do it
24:16 and that just planted a seed in my mind
24:18 and I started thinking well is that possible.
24:21 Can I really take it home and so we've
24:23 heard about it, you know we prayed
24:25 about it for a really long time and when
24:27 I got home I talked to my pastor and my parents
24:30 and everybody was all for it so.
24:32 We started organizing an evangelistic
24:35 series at home. So, you were sixteen
24:37 at the time and you were seventeen right.
24:40 So, when you got back and you approached
24:42 your church board and your church pastor
24:45 and you said we want to organize an
24:47 evangelistic meetings, what was that like?
24:51 My pastor and my whole church family actually
24:53 were supportive from the very beginning,
24:55 it was so awesome because my dad would
24:57 actually told me before he was like now
24:59 remember you are sixteen years old
25:01 and the pastor he may say.
25:03 Well, that's a lot of money I don't know
25:05 about it but we prayed about it and when
25:07 I went in before my pastor he was
25:09 like definitely, just tell me what you
25:11 need for me and I will help you
25:12 anyway I can so. I had so much
25:14 support from my entire church family.
25:17 Amen. So, now you've decided to duplicate
25:23 what you've learned at ASI Youth for Jesus
25:25 and take it to your home church and what was
25:28 your church like? Well, my church it was
25:31 really interesting because I hadn't even,
25:32 our church had a new pastor at the time
25:34 I hadn't even met him yet so.
25:36 The first time I meet him I come up to him,
25:38 and he said well I hear you had a busy summer
25:41 and I said yeah and he said well,
25:43 tell me what you wanted to do and so
25:45 I just laid it on i n front him and told him
25:48 what our goals were and he was right behind
25:51 me the whole way, he just said alright
25:53 take it and run with it. He helped a whole lot,
25:55 it was awesome. Praise the Lord for
25:57 supportive pastors, okay so now how
26:04 did this impact your church,
26:06 I mean you're just teenagers, so how did,
26:08 how did your meetings impact your church?
26:12 Well, I think that God, they used to little bit
26:14 more involeved I mean my friends came an helped us
26:16 out it was so cool to see how it just,
26:19 it pulled our church together,
26:20 really we are really a small church.
26:22 And if there is any youth out there that
26:23 are thinking well I can't do it,
26:25 I'm just a kid thatis way too
26:27 hard. Well, it is a lot of work but you
26:29 really can do it, it's possible. Amen.
26:33 And Olivia, how did this impact your church?
26:35 Well, my church had actually a couple years
26:37 before had gone through kind of a rough time
26:39 and we have a low membership but
26:42 it was built, starting to built backup.
26:43 But people were still kind of,
26:46 I don't know we weren't as united as we
26:47 should be and there was still a lot of issues
26:49 but it was on its way to recovery
26:51 and when we did the series of meetings,
26:53 we had church training for this Sabbaths before.
26:56 And the meetings were the best thing that's
26:58 never happened to our church,
27:00 it pulled our church together and everybody
27:03 worked together and I was explaining to Lisa,
27:05 I was like it was so cool because everybody
27:06 was so focused on God, so focused on trying
27:09 to win others to Jesus,
27:11 that they forgot to fight.
27:12 And we forgot to be worried about
27:13 others stuff, so it was a real
27:15 blessing and pulled our church together.
27:18 Amen. The youth are the church of today amen?
27:24 Amen, they're not the church of tomorrow
27:26 and they can win souls and even pull churches,
27:29 fighting churches together.
27:31 Thank you so much, you know we all
27:34 have work to do. Every single one of us,
27:41 whether you are 16, 17, 13 or 80 or 90
27:46 we all have work that we need to do
27:49 outside of our walls. Amen, amen, amen.
28:23 Within these walls we join our hearts
28:32 We come together to be set apart
28:40 But worshiping on Sabbath
28:44 Is just a way to hide.
28:48 If we can't face on Monday
28:52 The dying world outside.
28:58 Do the crying know we care?
29:02 Do the lonely find us there?
29:06 Are we so involved,
29:08 we do not hear them call.
29:14 Everywhere men are searching
29:19 They're wondering why they're hurting
29:23 Do they see the love of Jesus
29:27 at all outside these walls?
29:48 Within our hearts He planted a seed
29:56 A love that we can count on
30:00 for everything we need
30:04 But safe in our seclusion
30:09 How can we grow
30:12 When outside these walls
30:16 There are fields we need to sow
30:22 Tell me do the crying know we care?
30:27 Do the lonely find us there?
30:31 Are we so involved,
30:33 we do not hear them call?
30:39 Everywhere men are searching
30:43 They're wondering why they're hurting
30:47 Do they see the love of Jesus
30:51 at all outside these walls?
30:59 O Lord, through our lives
31:03 please let others see
31:07 Your love reflecting through us perfectly
31:14 Everywhere men are searching
31:19 They're wondering
31:20 why they're hurting
31:22 Do they see the love of Jesus
31:26 at all outside these walls?
31:35 Do they see the love of Jesus
31:41 at all outside these walls?
32:09 This is my privilege this evening to introduce
32:12 this speaker for the hour,
32:14 he needs no introduction to young people,
32:16 students and especially young professionals.
32:19 His name is Randy Skeete,
32:23 he is currently the Director or In-charge
32:26 of Campus evangelism, he is our evangelism
32:29 Director for Secular University Students.
32:33 Prior to working as full time evangelist
32:35 for Secular University students,
32:38 Randy Skeete served as a Director for Academic
32:42 enrichment for the University of Michigan
32:44 Medical School. He has lead and
32:47 guided many medical students through
32:49 the program, and six years ago the Lord
32:53 convicted him to dedicate the entire
32:57 reminder of his life to the service of the Lord.
33:00 Waking us an evangelist, evangelizing secular
33:03 universities and having a special
33:06 heart for Africa. Randy Skeete is a
33:09 studious Bible student. He has literally
33:12 memorized a substantial section of the Bible.
33:16 One thing I appreciate most from him is he
33:19 brings a life of excellence,
33:22 doctrinal clarity and a sense of urgency
33:26 to the task of evangelism.
33:30 He is gonna be our speaker tonight,
33:33 pray for him as he speaks to us. Amen.
33:43 Good evening everyone, may the Lord bless us as
33:46 we study His word tonight whether
33:47 we are here or watching by television,
33:50 let us pray because time is moving quickly.
33:53 Our Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus
33:54 we come to you, I ask today God to
33:56 bless me quickly, speak through me,
34:00 take control of my mind and enlightened
34:02 the understanding of your sons and daughters
34:03 who have come. I offer this pray
34:05 from my heart, in Jesus name, amen, amen.
34:09 In your bulletins the sermon is entitled,
34:11 Right But Not Righteous Under The Force
34:13 of A Conviction, I have had to change
34:15 that the titled is now "Tell God Tell Him Now."
34:19 In John 17 verses 3 and 4 I won't wait for you to
34:22 find it because that will eat up my time.
34:24 The Bible says, And this is life eternal,
34:27 that they might know thee the only true God,
34:29 and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
34:31 Now, verse 4, listen carefully:
34:33 I have glorified thee on the earth:
34:36 I have finished the work which
34:38 thou gavest me to do. Now what was this
34:41 work that Jesus Christ declares very confidently
34:45 to whom have finished? I have finished
34:48 the work which thou gavest me to do.
34:51 Before answering that question let me tell us
34:54 what the work was not. Now, in 1st John 5:19
34:59 the beloved disciple of Christ John
35:01 writes these words: And we know that
35:03 we are of God, and the whole world
35:06 lieth in wickedness. These was written
35:09 2000 years ago, the same author
35:12 John in the book of Revelation chapter
35:14 13 verse 8 he writes: And all that dwell
35:17 upon the earth shall worship him,
35:19 whose names are not written in the book of
35:20 the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
35:23 Seeing things as they would be
35:25 in the end of time, a revelation given
35:28 to John by Christ, John sees that most
35:32 of the world would worship the beast.
35:35 In Revelation 13 verse 3 John writes:
35:38 And I saw one of his heads as it were
35:40 wounded to death; and his deadly wound
35:42 was healed: and all of the world
35:44 wondered after the beast.
35:46 When you read all the world,
35:48 you must include except a few of them,
35:51 what I am saying is this.
35:52 It was clear in the days of John,
35:55 as it was in the days of Noah that most
35:58 of the world was wicked, as it was in the days of
36:01 Noah so shall it be in the days of the
36:04 coming of the son of man,
36:05 most of the world is wicked. Ellen White writes
36:09 in Christ Triumphant page 36 and paragraph 5:
36:13 The great majority of the earth's inhabitants
36:17 are in the kingdom of Satan.
36:21 She wrote that about 1903, now it says the
36:23 Bible teaches the world is getting worse,
36:26 we know the situation must be worse now
36:29 overwhelmingly I say the great majority of
36:33 the inhabitants of the earth are in the
36:36 kingdom of God. She writes in Gospel Workers
36:39 page 26, paragraph 2: The great majority of
36:43 earth's inhabitants have given their allegiance
36:45 to the enemy. That is what we are up against
36:48 as a church. So it is clear that in the end
36:51 time most people will not be save Jesus Christ
36:56 laments the condition in the last days when
36:59 He says in Luke 18:8: Nevertheless, when the
37:02 son of man cometh, shall he find faith on
37:05 the earth? And the obvious answer is no,
37:08 there will be little faith found on the earth
37:11 when Jesus Christ comes back.
37:13 Now, if this is the case and it is, any
37:18 organization who makes as his mission baptizing
37:23 the whole world is planning for failure,
37:25 are you listening to me? If our goal as a church
37:32 is to baptize the whole world, we are planning
37:36 for expensive failure. Now, don't
37:39 misunderstand me, evangelism is an
37:42 expression of a converted heart,
37:44 because one of the evidences of a converted
37:46 man or woman is a burden for souls do
37:50 you understand that. But the Bible is still clear
37:53 when Jesus comes back shall he find faith on
37:57 the earth and the answer is no in the
37:59 sense that he will find very little faith when
38:02 the flood came and destroyed the world,
38:04 8 people went into the Ark.
38:06 When the fires came to destroy Sodom,
38:07 Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim and Bella,
38:10 three people came out of Sodom and
38:12 only one is described as righteous.
38:19 Are you following me? Amen, our subject is
38:22 tell God, tell him now let's go back to John 7
38:25 and 4, the mission of Jesus Christ was not to
38:28 convert the whole world. It never was, it never
38:33 will be and the mission of the church cannot be
38:36 different from the mission of Christ.
38:39 Because Christ said in John 17 verse 18:
38:43 As thou hast sent me into the world,
38:45 even so have I also sent them into the world.
38:48 He says similar words in John 20 verse 21:
38:51 As the Father has sent me, so send I you.
38:54 Nor the manner of coming but the mission
38:57 for which he came, and the mission for Christ
39:00 is the mission for the church that is why when
39:03 Jesus said: I have glorified thee on the earth:
39:06 I have finished the work which thou gavest
39:08 me to do. Jesus was saying the mission
39:11 I came to fulfill I have fulfilled, which was the
39:15 glorification of God. Now, what is that,
39:20 what did that Jesus mean when He said I have
39:22 glorified thee on the earth, what is glory?
39:26 Ellen White writes in God's Amazing Grace
39:30 page 322 and paragraph 2, God's glory is his
39:34 character, somebody say amen? Amen,
39:37 God's glory is his character, she writes
39:40 in the same book, God's Amazing Grace page 322
39:43 and paragraph 3: This character was revealed
39:47 in the life of Christ, then she writes, same book
39:52 God's Amazing Grace same page 322 and paragraph 4:
39:57 Christ desires his followers to reveal
40:00 in their lives this same character, amen.
40:05 Now, let me introduce you an expression with
40:08 which we are familiar, The Great Controversy,
40:12 everything that Jesus did. He did within a
40:17 context of The Great Controversy;
40:20 His mission was a part of His Father's plan to win
40:24 The Great Controversy. The church which Christ
40:27 has authorized to carry on his work must conduct
40:31 it's business in the light of The Great Controversy
40:35 and what is The Great Controversy?
40:37 It is that battle that began when Lucifer
40:39 made unfair charges against God's character
40:42 and against God's law we do not have the
40:44 transcript of his speech forbidden,
40:47 but by reasoning from scripture to scripture
40:49 we can conclude that if the devil succeeding
40:53 and getting one third of perfect angels to
40:55 follow him into his kingdom. He must
40:57 have said something false about God's kingdom,
41:00 are you with me? Yeah, Bible study requires
41:04 reasoning, if Satan succeeded in getting
41:09 perfect angels to accept his worship then
41:13 he must have convinced them to express doubt
41:16 in God's word. Somehow the devil cast aspersions
41:21 on the character of God and to impune the
41:24 character of God is to impune God's law.
41:28 Because the law of God is an expression of the
41:30 character of God when we pray the Lord's pray,
41:33 thy will be down on earth as it is in heaven,
41:35 what it means that the way God is obeyed in
41:38 heaven he must be obeyed on earth.
41:40 If that is the case and the Ten Commandments
41:42 are the whole duty of man than the duty of
41:45 man is no different from the duty of angels,
41:47 which is perfect obedience to God, amen.
41:51 That amen was weak, say it again. Amen.
41:56 Perfect obedience to God's word, to God's law,
41:59 Satan convinced some angels and he convinces
42:05 us that God's law cannot be kept,
42:09 God's law is unfair, God's law represents
42:12 a standard that is so Himalayan no one can
42:15 reach it. Here comes Jesus to demonstrate
42:22 in his life don't sleep, don't talk to people
42:26 next to you, here comes Christ to demonstrate
42:31 in his life and through his life that Satan's
42:35 charge was false, wrong, no foundation in fact.
42:42 And at the end of his life he is moving toward
42:45 the cross, he is hours away from the cross
42:48 and Jesus says in John 7 and 4, I have glorified
42:52 thee on the earth, glory is character this was
42:56 what God demonstrated to Moses in Exodus 34
42:59 verse 6: And the Lord passed by before him
43:02 and declared, "The Lord, the Lord, merciful
43:04 and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in truth.
43:09 He showed Moses his character and Jesus
43:13 Christ said in my life I have glorified you,
43:18 I have reflected your character but as we
43:23 continue with tell God tell him now.
43:26 And I have ten minutes and five seconds to go,
43:30 Jesus is only one man, listen to me carefully.
43:35 Christ was one man on this earth, so in Christ
43:40 in his life proclaimed the fairness of God's law
43:43 and the beauty of God's character.
43:45 The devil said but you are just one witness
43:47 for the glory of God. Now in the jury system,
43:51 any claim had to be establish in the mouth
43:54 of how many witnesses at least, 2.
43:58 So, here is Jesus and he says in my life
44:02 I have glorified God, I have reflected
44:05 his character, Satan you were wrong my Father
44:07 is just and righteous his law can be kept.
44:10 The devil said but you are one man and you
44:14 inspired mortals to right, in Deuteronomy 19:15:
44:17 One man shall not rise up, one witness shall not
44:20 rise up against a man for any iniquity,
44:23 in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth
44:26 of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three,
44:28 shall the matter be established.
44:30 Satan says, Jesus you need one more witness,
44:36 your testimony by itself cannot stand.
44:41 Jesus needs another witness to the glory of
44:45 the character of God, Jesus needs another
44:48 witness to stand with him that the universe might
44:51 know forever that God is good, how many,
44:55 much of the time? All the time, now who will that
45:00 second witness be the church, the church.
45:07 This is the mission of the church, to rise up
45:12 and reflect in our lives, the character
45:15 Jesus tried to reflected in his that Satan's
45:18 mouth maybe stopped, amen. Not every knee
45:23 bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ
45:26 is the Lord but as long as the testimony of
45:29 Jesus hangs by itself. The controversy cannot
45:34 come to an end, God needs another witness,
45:37 for in the mouth of two or three God just needs
45:41 one more and that's you and that's me that is
45:44 the church, amen. Now, my Seventh-day tell
45:47 God tell him now, we need to understand
45:51 that as a church. The reason Christ has not
45:55 come is not because Muslims are not getting
45:56 baptized. I say that with respect,
46:00 Christ has not come not because Jews not
46:03 accepting Adventism, not because the Buddhist
46:05 are not accepting, or the Hindus or the followers
46:08 of Hinduism or Taoism or Jainism.
46:11 Christ has not yet come because of his people,
46:14 amen. When he came the first time the world
46:18 was not ready because his people have not
46:21 prepared the world. Now, so while we're planning
46:26 all kinds of expensive strategies to reach the
46:29 post modern mind and pre-modern mind
46:34 and the Jurassic Park mind someone needs to
46:38 tell God how do I reach the Adventist mind.
46:42 To led them understand the responsibility is
46:45 theirs to bring me back. Amen.
46:49 By representing in their lives my character,
46:53 this is the mission of the church.
46:55 Now, evangelism is an expression of that mission.
47:00 But it is not the end all and the be all,
47:03 let me tell you something with respect.
47:07 If every person on earth became a Seventh-day
47:10 Adventist today and Christ came tomorrow,
47:15 most of the world would still be lost, amen.
47:22 Now, that should effect our evangelism.
47:25 Jesus can save everyone I am not undermining
47:29 evangelism, I am saying evangelism must replace
47:33 in it's proper context and the context is the
47:35 Great Controversy between Christ and Satan
47:38 and the last piece missing is the reflection
47:42 of Christ in his people, amen.
47:46 And so in Christ Object Lessons page 69
47:49 and paragraph 1, our servant, our messenger,
47:52 our prophetess Ellen White, come on give
47:54 Ellen White an amen. We live in a day when
47:58 she gets no respect, don't join that bandwagon.
48:01 She writes, Christ is waiting with longing
48:04 desired for a manifestation of
48:06 himself and his people when the character of
48:08 Christ shall be perfectly reflected or represented
48:11 in them, then he will come not when every
48:14 Muslim has been baptized, amen.
48:18 I am talking about prospective,
48:21 the prospective, the context of evangelism
48:24 must be the Great Controversy.
48:27 God's name has some mud on it.
48:29 Jesus whipped off course some, it is up
48:34 to us to whip off the rest. By committing
48:39 ourselves to living a Christ like life but if
48:44 we don't believe that victory over sin
48:46 is possible, now some of us don't.
48:49 We can never contribute to the Great Controversy
48:52 on God's side, alright, amen. If we don't know
48:56 whether Christ had a human nature or not,
48:57 if we don't know whether the atonement finished
48:59 at the cross or not if we don't know these things
49:02 how can the character of God be revealed in us.
49:04 Because God's character is associated with truth,
49:08 amen that's right. God according to Rome is 2:24,
49:17 the name of God is blasphemed among
49:19 the Gentiles because of whom you,
49:22 God's people. No unbeliever can does
49:26 got a bad name because he does not claim
49:28 to have a relationship with God, those of us
49:31 who make that claim we give God a bad name.
49:34 And so to take the honors of ourselves,
49:39 we try to make others perfect.
49:43 So we wanna baptize every Muslim,
49:45 wanna baptize every Hindu, wanna baptize
49:49 every person who is not Adventism.
49:52 You know we have sociologists in our church,
49:55 we have biostatisticians, we have everyone
49:57 who can develop instruments to measure
50:00 the benefits of drinking soy milk and the
50:03 benefits of eating almonds and the benefits
50:05 of riding a bicycle and swimming.
50:07 We need someone to develop an instrument
50:09 to determine who is converted into church,
50:11 amen. The results maybe embarrassing
50:15 yes they are thirteen million members
50:17 I understand that, but how many are converted,
50:20 amen. Three minutes and eight seconds,
50:27 my brothers and my sisters, we need to
50:32 understand that God's problem is not the Buddhist.
50:39 His problem is not the Muslim, he knows
50:44 how to reach them when his people are already
50:46 to receive them. Jesus said in Matthew 23 and
50:50 verse 15: Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees,
50:52 hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land
50:55 to make one proselyte, and when he is come
50:57 you make him twice to tried of hell as yourselves.
51:00 God knows that if many people came to this church
51:03 we would make them like we are, because
51:05 organizations produce after their kind.
51:11 And so God is waiting there are thousands that
51:14 God is holding back and no evangelistic expert
51:17 can win them if God is holding them back, amen.
51:20 You wanna see evangelistic success,
51:22 lets get our lives right with Christ, amen.
51:28 God knows how to convert people,
51:30 there is nothing to stop God from giving the
51:33 vision to some tribe lead into the jungle
51:35 somewhere and telling him look there is the
51:36 Sabbath, keep it. Can we stop God for doing that?
51:40 No, God used an Ass to talk to Balaam, amen.
51:44 But no one can tell God how to reach Adventism,
51:48 my subject is tell God, tell him now how do
51:52 I reach my church, amen. Listen to me,
51:59 not because it's just me but I'm coming from
52:01 the word of God. God needs a people in these
52:06 last days in whose life? His character is
52:12 perfectly reflected, amen. Not 99 percent,
52:17 God does not lower his standards to incorporate
52:19 our creative recommendations,
52:24 are you understanding me? Yeah, tell God,
52:27 tell him now, tell him what how do I awake
52:30 my church up and get them to understand
52:33 that I am waiting for them, not the Buddhists.
52:40 God's program has always held up frustrated
52:43 and delayed, retarded by his people.
52:45 My brothers, my sisters you and I must make
52:47 individual commitments to not tonight by the
52:50 grace of God, I offer myself to God that in
52:53 my life the character of God maybe seen.


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