Participants:
Series Code: TDYL
Program Code: TDYL240009A
|
00:02 I want to spend my life Mending broken people
00:15 I want to spend my life removing pain 00:36 I want to spend my life Mending broken people 00:47 I want to spend my life Mending broken people 01:07 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today Behind the Scenes 01:10 live program. 01:14 You know, you are part of our 3ABN family. 01:16 It's always nice to spend these two hours with you each 01:19 Thursday evening. 01:23 because it's really about what the Lord is doing through His 01:26 ministry, your ministry, 3ABN. 01:29 You know, the world that we live in right now, there seems 01:31 to be so much confusion, a lot of chaos. 01:34 People are trying to find truth. 01:36 They're trying to find encouragement and 3ABN is able 01:39 to broadcast to the entire world and it's humbling to 01:42 actually be participating with God in such an effort. 01:46 But we do say thank you for your continued prayers and your 01:50 financial support for the ministry of 3ABN. 01:52 You know, whatever the Holy Spirit impresses you to give, 01:55 we know that you give and nothing is too little because 01:58 in the hands of God He multiplies it and here at 3ABN 02:02 we continue to see miracles. 02:03 Mr. Danny has seen miracles from the very beginning all the 02:06 way through to now and we have seen that too since we've been 02:09 here twenty some years. 02:10 God continues to work miracles. 02:12 I think about the children of Israel where the Lord said that 02:15 their sandals did not wear out when they were in the 02:17 wilderness. 02:17 I think about it here at 3ABN. 02:19 Moses Primo, our director of broadcast and engineering, you 02:22 know what he tells us? 02:26 lasting all these years, but they are so we praise God for 02:29 that. 02:31 miracles that we see on a daily basis. 02:33 We also see the people talking specifically about that. 02:39 Amen. 02:40 Absolutely. 02:43 there is no gift too large as well. 02:47 God can use all of us. 02:49 He wants to use our funds. 02:51 He wants to use our prayers. 02:53 He wants to use our hearts for evangelism. 02:56 As you partner with us at 3ABN, tonight we have some of our 03:01 family around the table. 03:03 We're going to trade out guests for the first and the second 03:06 hour. 03:08 We sure are. 03:12 the first hour specifically. 03:14 We're focused on our 3ABN School of Discipleship which 03:17 just finished. 03:18 Now that is evangelism; in person evangelism that then 03:22 spreads when the students go back to their home churches and 03:25 communities. 03:28 time. 03:31 but we love each other and we love to have a good time. 03:35 We had some great laughter just before we started rolling this 03:38 open. 03:39 We had Mr. Danny and Dr. Yvonne. 03:40 So glad you both are here. 03:41 Thank you. 03:42 It's always good to be here. 03:43 What a privilege to serve the Lord in the closing moments of 03:46 Earth's history. 03:48 And time goes on, Ryan. 03:50 It goes on many, many years. 03:52 It's soon going to be 40 years from the idea. 03:54 And I have to say I think I'm more enthused and more excited 03:58 today than I was back then. 04:00 So it just doesn't wear off because you see what God is 04:04 doing. 04:07 And the miracles that you talked about and you know in 04:11 the beginning I never really thought about all the different 04:14 communication highways that God was going to open up during 04:18 these years. 04:19 But the one that I overlooked totally and thanks to some of 04:22 you all, we'll talk about it today, your vision was the 04:24 School of Discipleship right here on 3ABN campus. 04:28 One of the greatest moves ever. 04:30 Thank you all so much. 04:31 Praise the Lord. 04:32 Praise the Lord. 04:37 Stephanie. 04:41 Music Networks. 04:42 Stephanie serving as his assistant there. 04:44 But also you coordinate our School of Discipleship and this 04:47 is, praise the Lord, thanks to the vision that God gave you. 04:50 So glad you both are here tonight. 04:52 Such a blessing to be here and I just want to say thank you to 04:55 all of our viewers, because there would be no SOD without 04:58 you guys, and so praise the Lord for all of the prayers and 05:01 support. 05:03 Yeah, I'm excited about tonight's program Ryan and of 05:04 course all of you but to talk about the School of 05:06 Discipleship and what just took place, the graduation just took 05:09 place, Sabbath night, just less than a week ago so we're going 05:11 to talk about how it all went. 05:13 Very exciting. 05:14 Coming around the table here, we have Ian Vandervalk and his 05:17 beautiful wife Angela. 05:19 Ian of course is producer here at 3ABN and his wife serves in 05:24 many capacities with makeup and floor directing and camera and 05:28 many other things. 05:30 Ian of course assists Ryan with coordinating for the School of 05:33 Discipleship and Angela works with him as well. 05:35 So glad you both are here tonight. 05:37 Thank you so much. 05:38 It was, I can't even begin to tell you how humbling it is to 05:42 be a part of School of Discipleship and just how 05:44 incredible to see God working in the lives of each 05:46 individual. 05:47 It's just... it's amazing. 05:48 I'm so happy we get to talk about it especially having just 05:51 gone through it and the things we experienced in the last 05:53 class. 05:55 And then here but we don't want to forget is not here is Pastor 05:59 James Rafferty and his wife Rise. 06:01 They were not able to join us but they're also part of the 06:03 leadership of School of Discipleship here at 3ABN. 06:06 They just traveled back home to California and so trying to 06:09 work out those connection things and time differences but 06:12 they're also an incredible blessing to 3ABN but also to 06:15 the School of Discipleship. 06:17 Absolutely. 06:19 and we want to get into that. 06:20 But Ryan, why did God put this on your heart? And talk to us a 06:24 little bit about the vision; the impetus for starting this. 06:27 Amen. 06:32 all, is just... I take the commission that Christ gave us 06:36 very seriously. 06:37 You know, go you into all nations making disciples, okay? 06:41 And so, that's important, that's not just a suggestion, 06:44 that's a command. 06:45 We are all commanded to participate and play our role 06:49 in sharing the good news, and not just sharing truth but also 06:53 leading and guiding and playing our role to disciple others. 06:57 And so, both myself and Stephanie, and Ian have participated in 07:03 similar schools like this one. 07:04 For instance, the Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism; we 07:07 attended and it changed our life. 07:09 And so, I remember when I first set foot on campus, I think it 07:12 was the very first day Danny invited me over to his house. 07:14 I think I had only been on campus for about a week and of 07:18 course green and new and I was the freshman on campus and 07:20 didn't know anything but I remember sitting in his home 07:23 and I just pitched the idea. 07:24 I said, you know Danny, what do you think about a 3ABN like 07:27 evangelism school or school of the prophets or I think I said 07:30 something like that. 07:34 we should talk about that" or "further develop it" or 07:37 something. 07:40 week here because I know how great of an impact it made on 07:43 my life. 07:48 It's one thing to have a theory or an idea of the teachings of 07:53 Christ and know about the Bible; know about Jesus. 07:55 It's a whole another thing to be able to really live that 07:59 commission out and to be able to be a true disciple for 08:03 Christ. 08:04 And so, that's always been on my heart. 08:06 And so, I remember I presented it, I waited to think about a 08:09 year or so after I'd been here and you had become president at 08:12 that time and what really sparked my idea to present it 08:16 to you is at camp meeting when Danny had kind of handed you 08:21 the reins and said, you know, you're gonna lead. 08:23 I remember John Dinzey telling a story about how he pitched the 08:26 Latino idea to Danny thinking that Danny would kind of be 08:30 hesitant but Danny was just so welcome to receive it. 08:33 And I thought, okay, Lord, maybe I should present that 08:35 again. 08:39 It was like 2019 or 2020 or something. 08:43 And so, I remember presenting that to you and you're like, 08:45 you know, that sounds like a great idea. 08:47 We just need to further develop this. 08:49 It was during COVID at the time so nothing was really able to 08:52 take root because of the challenges of COVID. 08:54 But I think we had maybe a couple of more meetings after 08:57 that and eventually when Rafferty kind of came in with 09:00 the support of him saying, "Dude, I think this is a great 09:03 idea. " 09:05 Praise the Lord. 09:06 You said, "well, let's do something. 09:07 We may not be able to do a 13 - week, you know, three-month 09:10 program but let's start off small and see what happens. " 09:14 And so, I was just thrilled and still am on fire and excited 09:18 about what God is doing through this school. 09:20 I mean, it's still in its early stages. 09:22 It's still developing and getting better, but now having 09:25 done our second training program; I mean, we are already 09:29 seeing lives transformed and even mine, I mean, leading out 09:33 in it. 09:36 Our lives are being transformed through this to see other 09:39 people still on fire and ignited for the Gospel of Jesus 09:42 Christ. 09:43 These people are not just going to go back and be fans of 09:46 Jesus. 09:49 They're not going to be sitting on the bench or warming a pew 09:52 but they're going to go back home on fire for Jesus and 09:55 start, as I say, house fires and church fires. 09:58 And I'm excited about that because that's what SOD's 10:00 about. 10:04 preaching doctrines and preaching ideas but sharing the 10:08 character; sharing the good news of the Gospel and the 10:11 transformative, amazing life of Christ with others so that they 10:15 can have that same victory and that same power in today's time 10:19 in these closing events of Earth's history. 10:21 Praise the Lord. 10:24 this and I love this house fire, church fire thing because 10:27 you're talking about spiritual fire, a revival taking place in 10:30 the churches and their local homes and in the local 10:33 communities which to me is just a powerful thing. 10:35 During COVID we were talking about should we do an online 10:38 school of evangelism or School of Discipleship and we're like 10:41 no, there's nothing like having in person, right? 10:43 Something really special about that and Stephanie, I know 10:46 you've experienced like going to a school of evangelism like 10:48 Ryan was mentioning, but why to you is that something special 10:51 as far as to actually have people here in person? 10:54 I know online is good and there's a place for that, but 10:56 what makes that extra special having in person? 10:58 You can't connect with people as well if you're not in person, 11:02 and to have those one-on-one meetings makes all the 11:05 difference. 11:09 whole thing. 11:10 You can't do that as much online. 11:12 And one thing you mentioned about the one-on-one meetings; 11:15 maybe explain that Ian; about what does that mean, because 11:17 that's one neat aspect about three events School of 11:19 Discipleship. 11:23 I mean, I think this actually sets the tone for our School of 11:26 Discipleship because you know having been to another 11:29 evangelism school and knowing what some others do, we actually 11:33 set aside time after class to spend that one-on-one time with 11:37 students. 11:38 So you know we have sign-in sheets and they can sign up for 11:41 a specific speaker and a specific person and just kind 11:44 of share what God has put on their heart and maybe things 11:47 they're struggling with or you know need some guidance or you 11:50 know, they're wondering what's next for me? 11:52 I don't know what's the next step. 11:53 How do I know I'm surrendered? 11:54 You know, or I'm struggling with this. 11:55 So instead of just this classroom where you know you 11:58 have 40 some people in there plus the instructors; and this 12:02 is that one-on-one personal time real discipleship where 12:05 we're guiding them and we're sharing things that we've 12:07 experienced and things that we know and things that God has 12:11 shared with us and we're just passing it along to the 12:13 students and you can see you know light bulbs go off you can 12:16 see them just stopping and thinking and you know and their 12:19 whole lives start to transform and that so it's a combination 12:22 of yes they're getting all the head knowledge and they're 12:25 going through the classes and you know the instructors are 12:28 sharing what they know in different things but then 12:30 afterwards having this dedicated time with an 12:32 instructor or staff member makes all the difference with 12:35 the student and really it's life transforming for them. 12:39 So Angela you and Ian got to minister because you guys would 12:42 as part of like after class it's what from 5:30 to what time 12:45 in the evening? 12:46 So we do it from 6 till 9 p. m. 12:48 6 to 9 p. m. 12:51 What's that like? 12:52 That was amazing. 12:53 It was to relate to them and to help them and they need that 12:59 counseling guidance. 13:00 I know when Ian started his walk with Christ he needed 13:03 guidance and praise God he put Pastor John Lomacang in his 13:07 way but to have these Bible scholars and just so amazing 13:11 people that we can relate to and just help; it's just a 13:14 blessing, and I know that sometimes that's all they 13:17 really, you know that just right there I feel changes them a lot 13:21 and helps them because a lot of people just like what do I do I 13:24 want to follow Christ but what do I do what should I do with 13:27 this in my life and just to sit there and pray with them and 13:30 just speak to them and just tell them to follow God and 13:33 help them it's just it's amazing. 13:35 Sharing your testimony because then people relate to that you 13:38 can share your own experiences. 13:39 They sure do. 13:40 I just want to share something really quickly you know we take 13:44 evangelism and obviously the commission very seriously and 13:48 many people think they have the idea of the correct way to do 13:52 evangelism and the correct way to share Christ. 13:54 Well at the end of the day there's not 27 ways to win 13:56 someone to Christ we are told that there's only one way and 13:59 that is Christ method alone and so this has kind of become the 14:03 foundation of our evangelistic or discipleship training and I 14:06 just want to read this. This comes from Ministry of Healing 14:09 page 143- 144, it says "Christ method alone will give true 14:13 success in reaching the people" and then it gives the process 14:16 of how that works and this is what we implement in the school 14:19 through the one-on-one discipleship the training. It's 14:21 not just giving a bunch of knowledge; giving them a bunch 14:23 of truth and saying, " now go follow Jesus". You have to build 14:26 their confidence in that and you have to set them on fire so 14:29 that they know they're ready and equipped to go out and do 14:31 that, so it goes on to say, "The Savior mingled with men as one 14:34 who desired their good. He showed His sympathy for them. 14:38 He ministered to their needs and won their confidence, then He 14:41 bade them; follow me. " 14:43 Notice how Christ didn't come with, you know, the heavy 14:46 hitter doctrines and say, "now go follow it". 14:48 You know, He spent time with them, He discipled them, He 14:50 befriended them. 14:52 He basically carried out what we teach is, friendship 14:54 evangelism. Which is what we teach here at SOD. 14:57 Teaching how to befriend someone and how to really teach 15:00 them on a personal level, so that you gain that confidence 15:03 in them, to share with them now those amazing and life-changing 15:06 truths in God's Word. 15:08 Yvonne, you came home kind of excited the other day. 15:11 You were over there and talking to the people, meeting people. 15:14 What did that do for you? 15:15 Oh, it was great. 15:17 It was, first of all, to know that people took time out of 15:20 their schedules to come here. 15:23 That's great. 15:24 And then seeing how enthusiastic they were, how 15:28 receptive they were. 15:31 I just, I feel like the whole SOD idea is such a blessing 15:37 because you guys are not just telling, you're showing. 15:43 The fact that you extend your day to 9:30 at night from early 15:48 morning; that's Jesus' method; to be with people where they 15:53 were. 15:57 I've started with transitional housing to partner, praise the 16:01 Lord, with SOD to see if the SOD students would be 16:07 interested in being a part of Restoration House, which is 16:12 transitional housing for returning citizens from 16:15 incarceration. 16:20 involved because they want to take what they're learning here 16:24 and apply it. 16:25 Not just intellectual accent, but actual living discipleship. 16:33 So, praise the Lord for this school. 16:36 What hit me really strongly, for 40 years I've traveled to 16:40 churches speaking and telling about 3ABN and giving witness 16:44 and practically every church. 16:47 And sometimes you do a couple of weeks, sometimes every other 16:50 month or I mean every other week, something like that. 16:53 But I've gone to hundreds and hundreds of churches over the 16:57 years and out of the group, maybe you're speaking to a 17:00 hundred or maybe you're speaking to a thousand. 17:02 There'll always be a few at the end when you're shaking hands 17:05 with people that'll come up and say, boy, praise the Lord. 17:09 The Lord's been dealing with me that I really want to do 17:12 something, but I don't really know where to begin. 17:14 How did you begin? 17:15 Well, it's hard for me to tell the whole story. 17:19 You know, after church, you're shaking hands with everybody, 17:21 but there will always be a few. 17:24 Well, the other morning when you asked me to speak, I went 17:26 over and there was the 40 students over there and it hit 17:29 me. 17:32 we've always said the blessing of God is on the go. 17:36 And so every one of these people, it's like you go to a 17:39 bunch of churches to get 40 people that are really 17:42 dedicated enough and strong enough to say, you know what? 17:46 I'm not happy where I am. 17:48 I don't want to just stay where I am. 17:50 I want to do more for the Lord. 17:52 So I want to go. 17:53 And the very fact I said that they got plane tickets or 17:56 gotten a card or took time off from work. 17:58 Or did whatever, came here. 18:01 I mean, these are the people, they were 100% ready. 18:04 And I thought you can go to 50 churches and not get this many 18:07 people that solid, that excited about evangelism. 18:12 And of course, that's what 3ABN is all about, is 18:15 evangelism. 18:19 and their testimonies are incredible. 18:22 I mean, actually two or three of them, I went home and I told 18:26 her, I said, these are amazing people and their testimonies of 18:30 how they got here and what the devil tried to do to keep them 18:33 from getting here. 18:35 Probably most of them had that testimony, but they're here. 18:38 And thank you again, all of you for what you're doing and your 18:42 commitment to the Lord and to SOD. 18:44 Because that's just, I mean, go ye into all the world. 18:47 And now these folk are saying, here am I, send me. 18:51 There may be someone that's saying, well, I don't 18:53 necessarily need to go to SOD or go to a training school to 18:56 know how to share Christ. 18:57 I already know that. 18:58 Well, yeah, there's ways that we naturally as we're led by 19:01 the Holy Spirit to be able to share that, I'd done this even 19:04 before I was sharing Jesus before I ever went to AFCOE, 19:07 before I ever received that training. 19:08 However, what the SOD does and what many of these other 19:11 schools do, we raised up for the purpose of communicating 19:13 further principles and tactics that help make you even more 19:16 successful. 19:19 you have the Navy, you have the Marines and then of course, you 19:23 have the Air Force and the National Guard. 19:25 You have all these different branches, and you have those 19:27 members that are of those, those soldiers that are of 19:30 those different branches. 19:32 But among all of those branches, you have the special 19:35 forces. 19:36 Come on now. 19:37 A specially trained advanced group that goes out. 19:40 So basically what SOD is doing, the purpose of SOD, the goal of 19:43 SOD is to train up remnant special forces. 19:47 That's right. 19:48 That's what we do, remnant special forces. 19:52 So we talked some about the impact and the discussions, 19:55 especially in the evening, the one-on-one that you have. 19:57 But let's talk about what people can expect if they were 20:00 to attend SOD, some of the instruction and some of the 20:03 courses and what takes place. 20:04 And when the next one is going to be held too. 20:06 So a typical day and something that we added to this class 20:10 that we didn't have in the first one, and I can tell you 20:13 from having talked to a lot of the students and different 20:17 testimonies, we incorporated prayer time. 20:20 So we set about an hour, maybe a little bit more in the 20:23 morning that was designed that Daniel Perrin led out and it 20:27 kind of walked them through prayer. 20:28 And we had some students that said, I didn't really even know 20:31 how to pray. 20:32 And this class just opened up my eyes, having this set aside, 20:35 just opened up my eyes on how to talk to God. 20:37 I think one of the days my wife attended and she told me about 20:41 it and it was you had to talk to God, but you couldn't thank 20:45 Him. 20:46 And you couldn't ask for anything. 20:50 So it completely changes. 20:51 It's like now you have to have a dialogue. 20:55 You just share. 20:56 You share what's on your heart and you're just dialoging with 20:59 God. 21:01 talking to my wife or my mom talking to you. 21:03 Learn how to talk to him as a friend. 21:04 Right. 21:08 And I think that was incredible and really sets the tone for 21:10 the whole day. 21:14 for about 30, 35 minutes. 21:16 And then afterwards of that, we would have devotional time. 21:20 And honestly, I know God is using Ryan in a special way 21:24 because in the last class, we had a theme for hymns that we 21:27 would sing. 21:31 And I had never heard of it before. 21:33 Me either. 21:33 It was a great hymn. 21:34 And I loved it. 21:36 I mean, I am never going to forget that hymn. 21:38 And I actually am going to apply the things that are in 21:41 that hymn to my whole life, to my own life, to my own walk. 21:44 But then after that, after devotional, it's you hit the 21:46 ground running. 21:49 trainings. 21:53 which James Rafferty teaches; both of them. 21:56 Then we also did Church History. 21:59 And then Ryan came in and taught. 22:01 What were some of the classes again for evangelism? 22:04 So I taught evangelism, the principles of evangelism. 22:08 And of course, that consisted of friendship and personal 22:11 evangelism, as well as a Defending Your Faith segment 22:15 where we talk more about that a little bit. 22:17 It was pretty fun. 22:18 I had to do Defending Your Faith. 22:19 And then my brother, Dakota, came in and did a whole section 22:22 on, or several sessions on public evangelism. 22:25 And that was something new that we didn't also have in the last 22:27 class. 22:31 Information to Transformation". 22:34 And it was really about, you know, practical Christianity 22:37 and what it really means, and about justification, 22:39 sanctification, baptism, but things in our own lives. 22:42 And that was one of our favorite courses from the 22:46 students. 22:50 And Risë, 22:50 We had health. 22:51 Had a health. 22:53 And that was amazing. 22:54 The students were really involved and they were learning 22:57 things. 22:58 And I'm just, "oh, I didn't know about that". 23:01 I'm going to have to rethink some of my practices. 23:05 She does a good job. 23:06 She did. 23:06 She's an incredible speaker. 23:08 And she does something at the end about "conquering the crave", 23:12 you know. 23:15 which is just mind blowing. 23:16 You learn so much. 23:18 And then she talks about conquering the crave using 23:20 Romans 6, 7 and 8. 23:21 And it's just the way that she breaks it out is so simple, but 23:24 it's so profound. 23:26 And it just, it speaks to everybody on their, at whatever 23:29 level that they're at. 23:30 And one of the things that I really love about SOD, you 23:33 know, you mentioned earlier about, you know, some people 23:36 might think, Well, I already know how to share Jesus. 23:38 I've already been, you know, I've been an elder in the 23:40 church for, you know, so many years. 23:42 But the great thing about the School of Discipleship is 23:44 there's the other end of the spectrum. 23:47 We actually had two young teenagers. 23:49 They were 16 and they, you know, we allowed them to come 23:52 because they came with a parent that was also attending the 23:54 school. 23:58 So everything to them is just fresh. 24:02 So you don't have to be this Bible scholar to come to the 24:06 School of Discipleship. 24:07 You can be somebody who doesn't, you know, who might 24:09 feel, well, I don't know a whole lot. 24:11 This class is for everybody. 24:12 It's from the beginner all the way to the experienced. 24:15 And it doesn't matter either way where you are in your walk 24:18 with God. 24:19 It's transformative. 24:20 I saw so many lives completely transformed to, I actually 24:24 really want to talk about one family. 24:26 I'm not going to say their name, but we had a student that 24:30 came in the first class and he came here baptized but was not 24:33 really converted. 24:35 He just kind of did it because he started going to church and 24:38 with, you know, because his wife went to church, which her 24:41 and I can relate to because in the beginning I just was kind 24:44 of going to church to make my wife happy. 24:47 But then that was kind of the same as what he did. 24:49 He just kind of, you know, was going to make his wife happy 24:53 and SOD really changed his life. 24:56 When he left, he was a completely different person, a 24:59 whole new person. 25:02 experienced to his wife and his daughter. 25:04 So then in this class, both his wife and his daughter attended 25:08 and then they all came together. 25:09 And before we had a special ceremony, before he began was 25:12 the first Sabbath of SOD where this student actually got 25:15 rebaptized and he is on fire. 25:19 And you could just see the whole family unit be healed, all 25:23 because of what God is doing here at SOD. 25:25 And it's just brought the family together, closer 25:28 together in a relationship with God. 25:30 You can see them healing as married couples and as a 25:33 family. 25:34 It's just, it was amazing. 25:35 And to see this happen and to just play a small role in that 25:39 is just, it's incredible. 25:41 It's incredible to watch it happen. 25:42 It's incredible to see the miracles, to see God at work. 25:46 We're going to trade out the ladies in just a moment here. 25:49 And then we'll bring on Pastor John Lomacang and Daniel 25:52 Perrin. 25:55 share one more time maybe something that impacted you 25:58 about this particular SOD or a way it touched your own life or 26:02 I don't know what's on your heart. 26:03 So what touched my life is the story Ian was talking about. 26:07 And this lady comes with her husband and she's like, you 26:10 know how sometimes you do programs and you just think 26:13 you're in front of a camera and who knows who will watch it? 26:16 This lady came and she's like, it was because of your 26:19 testimony that I heard that I shared with my husband that 26:22 changed our life and that started us on our journey 26:25 through SOD. 26:27 And just like, wow, how God can use us in spite of us because 26:31 it's like, who am I? 26:32 I'm, you know, it's just how God uses us. 26:35 And that really inspired me and just how when she left in her 26:40 family it's just how they all came together and it was a 26:43 miracle and that was an inspiration to me. 26:46 And just how all the students came there and they thought 26:49 they wanted, I heard one guy, this is what I want to do. 26:52 But when he left, he's like, I don't think that's what God 26:55 wants me to do. 26:56 And just how you go to SOD thinking, you know, this is 26:58 what I'm going to do and you leave like, no, that's not 27:01 where God really wants me. 27:03 So that was an inspiration to me. 27:05 Amen. 27:06 That's powerful. 27:07 Well, you're, you know, aren't you the registrar? 27:10 I am. 27:13 can only take like 40 or so at a time we're trying to keep it 27:16 small for a reason, you know, what's that like to be looking 27:19 at those names? 27:22 and purpose for, you know, this group. 27:24 So, you know, as you're processing that and as the 27:26 group comes together, you know, there's a lot of prayer. 27:29 Yeah, yeah. 27:30 To the students. 27:37 And so that part is a little tough, but we do know that like 27:41 we're praying about these things and we know that God has 27:45 a plan for those people that are here and that they're here 27:49 for a reason. 27:50 And so that's what's really nice about it. 27:52 That's not special. 27:53 Yeah. 27:53 And what about this too? 27:55 So I know we've got, because some students can't afford to 27:58 come, right? 27:58 So we also have a... 27:59 We have a worthy student fund. 28:01 So that's something that's still available for those 28:03 coming up, right? 28:04 And we had several or one... 28:05 We did. 28:08 Yeah. 28:09 And they made quite a long trip to be here. 28:12 So it was good. 28:13 It was hours that they drove in. 28:14 So it was good. 28:16 The big picture for me is I've watched it and watching what's 28:21 happening. 28:22 The impact is not just, you know, coming here 40 people. 28:25 It's an income on world events. 28:29 Because what happens is we're a church of Laodicea. 28:33 We believe we're living in the last days. 28:35 Church of Laodicea. 28:37 Then there comes a shaking that's going to get people, you 28:40 know, you're either going to be in or you're going to be out. 28:44 That's true. 28:45 Then it leads to the latter rain. 28:47 So what this does is it gets us thinking spiritually. 28:51 Because as Christians, I won't just say Adventists, but 28:54 religious people, forgive me for saying this, religious 28:58 people are the meanest people I've met on Earth. 29:01 They really are. 29:02 Look on Facebook. 29:03 Religious people are mean. 29:05 So the world doesn't need to hear from religious people. 29:08 They need to hear from people who have a relationship with 29:11 Jesus. 29:12 So what this is teaching, people come and say, I'm a 29:16 member of the church, but I'm baptized. 29:19 They're looking for that relationship. 29:21 And that's what you're introducing them to is Jesus. 29:24 So what's happening is when they go back, that led to 29:28 seeing church that most of us are, if we believe the Bible, 29:31 it only takes one to go back to their church and say, you know, 29:35 folks, we really got to get excited about the Lord. 29:38 Then all of a sudden you get people upset and you say, why 29:41 are they upset? 29:42 They should be happy about this. 29:43 Like when we started television, everybody ought to 29:46 be, no, they weren't people within the church. 29:48 Well, you can't do that. 29:49 Why would you do that? 29:50 You know, blah, blah, blah. 29:51 So it's not all going to be good. 29:53 But what it's doing, it's raising awareness. 29:55 People are seeing Jesus in action and people are going to 29:59 say, I want that. 30:01 That Jesus, he says, "if I be lifted up from this earth, 30:04 we'll draw all men unto me". 30:06 So the school of evangelism, what you're doing here or 30:09 discipleship, making disciples is incredible because each one 30:13 of these go back to their home, can affect a whole church, a 30:17 whole literally community, a whole conference. 30:20 And so I mean, how many folk are going to go back right now 30:24 and see changes and which eventually we're coming down to 30:28 the closing moments of Earth's history. 30:30 So it's going to help bring in the latter rain. 30:32 I mean, this is an incredible event. 30:34 Amen. 30:35 Yeah, thank you so very much. 30:36 Like Jill said, we're going to do some musical chairs. 30:39 Thank you, Stephanie. 30:43 standing with your husband there too. 30:44 What a great team. 30:45 Angela, the same for you and Ian too. 30:46 Great team. 30:47 Thank you for your vision and hard work. 30:49 You know, I think about heaven. 30:50 That's where we're going to see the full impact of the work, 30:52 these long hours, the fruits of all this. 30:55 Yeah, it's going to be well worth it. 30:56 Amen. 30:57 We have a roll. 30:58 We do. 30:59 Brandon Armstrong put this together. 31:01 He was running throughout SOD, doing video and put together 31:04 this roll. 31:08 SOD. 31:27 I am super excited because today is day one of the SOD 31:33 intensive. 31:34 This is registration day and this is where all of our 31:37 students are going to be flying in, traveling in from all over 31:40 the world to attend the 3ABN School of Discipleship. 31:44 This is where we get to meet everybody that's coming in from 31:46 all across the country. 31:47 We even have some that are coming from another country 31:50 just to come and attend this 3ABN School of Discipleship. 31:54 So this is registration. 31:55 You can see all the bags. 31:57 They're 3ABN SOD care packages where they get to wear their 32:00 backpacks and feel like they're in school all over again. 32:09 We're spending an hour each morning learning about and 32:12 putting into practice things that will strengthen our prayer 32:15 life. 32:19 to God and a deeper life of prayer. 32:23 The prayer time that we had early in the morning was one of 32:26 the biggest parts of the School of Discipleship program. 32:30 Well, prayer has helped me because I had no idea how to 32:36 pray. 32:46 Sing it out loud. 32:48 Here we go. 33:00 Teach me thus thy steps to trace Strong to follow... It's all about 33:09 Jesus going and doing and healing... how to love from thee 33:16 Loving Him who first loved me. Love in loving finds employ In 33:29 obedience all her joy. Ever new that joy will be, loving 33:43 Him who first loved me. 34:01 To the March 2024 School of Discipleship class, What I 34:06 would like to leave with you is, I think many of you came 34:11 here with certain expectations. 34:15 You thought that you were going to come here and leave with 34:18 something very specific. 34:20 And I think you found that to be not really the case. 34:23 Whatever he's revealed in your life and how to move forward, 34:26 don't let it go. 34:28 And whatever he's called you to do, whatever he's asked you to 34:31 give up, whatever life - transforming experience that 34:35 you've had here, remember that. 34:37 So there's one thing that I would like to say to every 34:39 student that comes through here. 34:41 Psalm 51, verses 10 through 13. 34:53 Now you know what verse 13 says, the very next verse says? 34:57 Then will I teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will be 35:03 converted unto you. 35:04 In the end, it's that connection with God. 35:06 It's that reliance on God. 35:07 It's that new heart experience, that joy of salvation that will 35:10 actually allow God to work through us to convert sinners 35:13 to him. 35:17 been through the program and now are preparing to leave and 35:21 go back home, don't go back home and go back to what you 35:25 were doing before. 35:28 Go back home and make a difference. 35:31 Go back home and transform lives. 35:34 Go back home and light a fire. 35:37 Go back home and awaken the dried bones in your church and 35:41 in your community. 35:43 And show people the true Jesus. 35:47 Amen. 35:51 see a picture of what took place at SOD. 35:55 I know my heart was so blessed. 35:57 Just Greg and I had opportunity to go over for the worships in 36:00 the morning, spend a little bit of time I think with the 36:03 different presenters hearing what God was using and how he 36:06 was using them with the students and of course 36:08 interacting with the students who came. 36:09 What an incredible blessing 3 ABN School of Discipleship is 36:13 and was last week and will be for the coming one that we're 36:17 going to talk to you about in just a moment. 36:19 But we've traded out some guests here. 36:21 We have Daniel Perrin, Professor Perrin, and Pastor 36:24 John Lomacang here this evening. 36:25 And you both taught at the School of Discipleship and I 36:28 know Daniel you led out in the prayer as well. 36:30 Pastor John, let's start with you. 36:32 What was your experience and tell us a little bit about the 36:35 class that you taught from information to transformation. 36:39 Right, I mean the reason why that came to my mind is because 36:43 I saw a deficit in almost all of our schools of evangelism 36:47 which has, as a pastor, we baptize people. 36:52 They get excited about the doctrines there. 36:54 But I began with the example in Mark and Matthew where it says 36:58 no one puts new wine in old wine skins except the wine 37:02 skins will burst and the wine will be spilled out. 37:06 And the same thing applies. 37:07 You can't put new doctrines into old lives and expect the 37:10 old life to survive. 37:12 So a lot of people bring their old lives to evangelistic 37:15 series. 37:18 experience an old change. 37:20 So they'll endure for a while but the picture of the wine 37:24 skins is amazing because the wine skins, not like bottles, 37:29 the walls of the leather wine skins, they absorb the wine. 37:33 And initially, when the wine skins are brand new, they could 37:36 expand but as they absorb more and more they start getting 37:39 hard and brittle. 37:41 And when they get brittle, which is the development of 37:45 that old nature, you put new wine in it and it starts to 37:48 expand and it bursts. 37:50 And so what happens is the old human nature is soaked in to 37:55 our lives. 37:56 And then all of a sudden you put new wine in it and it's 37:58 going to start fermenting. 38:00 That's the growing knowledge of the doctrines for fermentation. 38:03 All of a sudden they realize they can't handle it. 38:06 So they burst and that means they go back to their church 38:09 and they substitute the transformation of character to, 38:13 I like music. 38:14 So they settle for music instead. 38:16 They want to have a worship experience and never experience 38:19 a change of nature. 38:21 So what I did was I decided, in Ellen White I talked about in 38:25 Testimonies for the Church, Volume 4, page 67, she said, "in 38:28 order to lead souls to Jesus there must be a knowledge of 38:31 human nature and the study of the human mind". 38:34 And I thought, how many times do I hear topics on human 38:37 nature and the study of the human mind? 38:39 Never. 38:40 And I said, well, this school of discipleship has to be 38:43 different. 38:44 So instead of just the principles of evangelism, 38:48 people have to know what they're dealing with. 38:49 So the nutshell of it was familiarizing people with what 38:54 you're bringing to the field in sports. 38:57 You don't just give a guy a uniform and make him a New York 38:59 Knick. 39:01 That's a lot of training. 39:02 You don't just put the uniform on, although people try to do 39:05 that. 39:07 officer's uniform. 39:08 You don't become a victorious Christian by just putting on a 39:12 new garment. 39:13 So let's think about that. 39:15 You know, if we confess our sins, we like that. 39:17 He's faithful to his justice. 39:18 He cleanses us from all unrighteousness. 39:20 And we say that's the key to the new life. 39:23 No, you're just being declared, you're just being exonerated. 39:26 Your sins have just been wiped out. 39:28 A criminal whose sins have just been wiped out, which we are 39:31 criminals. 39:32 The Bible says we are enemies. 39:34 When the sins are wiped out, it doesn't make you a holy person. 39:37 It just makes you an innocent person. 39:40 So we've thought of innocence as holiness. 39:43 And it's not. 39:45 You just declared, you just wiped out all the sins. 39:48 And you say now go live a holy life. 39:49 And all you did was just let him out of jail. 39:52 And recidivism kicks in when he realizes I just got out of 39:56 jail, 1 John 1, 9. 39:58 I've just been declared innocent. 40:00 All my sins have been atoned for. 40:03 Now I have to live into this new society. 40:05 How do I do it? 40:06 And so this is what human nature... and then we went to the 40:09 desire and will. 40:10 You know, Ellen White says, "desire is the highest law". 40:14 And when you think of Genesis 3, 16, the Lord told Adam and 40:19 Eve, specifically Eve, He said your desire will be for your 40:23 husband, and he will rule over you. 40:26 So desire is the highest law. 40:28 And then that's why you go to now Romans 6. 40:33 Then Paul talks about how to get rid of that husband. 40:36 He has to be drowned. 40:37 That's what baptism is. 40:39 And then Romans chapter 7 says, The woman is bound by the law 40:42 to her husband as long as he lives. 40:44 So we have this nature that's binding us because we don't 40:47 know how to get rid of it. 40:50 Desire, as far as it goes, is good. 40:52 But if you stop there, you accomplish nothing. 40:54 And Ellen White says "many will go down to ruin while desiring 40:58 to live a righteous life". 40:59 But they don't do the next step. 41:00 They put their will in. 41:01 And if you look at Christ, "not my will, but Yours be done". How 41:06 did Lucifer get to the place where he wanted to now 41:08 overthrow God's government? 41:10 I will, I will, I will, I will, I will. 41:12 He desired it first. 41:14 Then he put it into action. 41:15 So we could desire to do right, but we have to put it into 41:17 action. 41:21 information. 41:22 Now take the information and begin to work on 41:25 transformation. 41:29 going on and people were saying, you know, you're right. 41:33 I'm doctrinally sound. 41:34 And Danny and Yvonne, as we reach out to people of 41:36 different denominations, this is where the dividing line is 41:40 completely broken between denominations. 41:44 We have doctrinal integrity, but characteristical integrity is 41:49 even higher. 41:51 We know what's right, but to do what's right is the great 41:55 demand. 41:58 of what we have. 42:00 And so we time, and I'm not beating us up, but I'm a pastor 42:02 so I could do this. 42:04 We tend to think that our knowledge of truth means our 42:09 holiness. 42:11 No, it means we are intellectually informed, but we 42:14 are characteristically not transformed. 42:17 So how do you get, be transformed by the renewing of 42:20 your mind, because the battle starts in your mind. 42:23 Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it comes 42:25 the issues of life. 42:27 So we have this doctrinal integrity, but look what the 42:29 doctrinal integrity did to the Jews in the days of Christ. 42:33 They were such good Sabbath keepers, they had such great 42:35 diet, they knew the sanctuary message, they knew the truth so 42:38 well that they crucified Christ. 42:40 And I'm not saying that that's a blanket statement because 42:45 many are growing, but to assume that information means 42:49 transformation is the biggest misconception. 42:52 So we talked about information, desire, human will first of 42:56 all, know what you're dealing with, the desire, know where 43:00 the desire starts, but now you got to put that into action. 43:04 "Not my will, but yours be done". 43:07 And that's where they talked about the work of a lifetime. 43:09 And it's not difficult. 43:11 And lastly, justification, what is it? 43:14 I've been justified, but am I sanctified? 43:18 No. 43:19 And how sanctified are we? 43:21 Paul says to sanctify you holy; mind, soul, and body. 43:26 So we have to be completely sanctified, mind, soul, that's 43:29 the nature, and then the whole body is transformed. 43:32 And when you begin with the mind, it brings all other 43:35 faculties. 43:37 So if a guy decides to shoot the basket, what's going to 43:39 happen, Danny? 43:39 His hand has to move, right? 43:42 I got to pass it. 43:43 His hands got to move. 43:45 It starts in the mind, it acts out on the body, it transforms 43:48 the entire person. 43:49 And you get excited because you made the shot. 43:51 So I think that this needs to be something. 43:53 I want to do an evangelistic series on this alone. 43:57 Because I've seen that this is the deficit. 44:00 Why the numbers of people leaving our church are so high 44:03 is because they run into the wall of human nature. 44:07 That's kind of what it was. 44:08 Good word. 44:08 Yeah, amen. 44:12 or we even say a 10-day intensive. 44:14 And you can tell, right, we're talking about four hours some 44:16 of these classes are, but it's not a solid four hours. 44:18 There's like every hour, right? 44:21 the church. 44:23 So a lot of the students were walking around, I saw them 44:25 during the breaks, then right back at it. 44:27 But it's like drinking from a fire hydrant. 44:29 But Daniel, you did church history, right? 44:32 Yes, I did. 44:33 Yes, and tell us your experience. 44:34 I remember I saw a table there with a whole lot of books on 44:37 it. 44:38 Well, I went a little overboard perhaps, but we have a lot of 44:42 evidence of the fact that God has led in this church 44:45 movement. 44:45 Amen. 44:48 gives us a path that we've been on, which you cite back the 44:51 path and then it shows you where to go forward. 44:54 And we are living in a time where there is an unfinished 44:57 church history, but there's not much left to complete. 45:01 And so to be fully established on both the truths and the 45:04 experiences and the sacrifice and commitment of others 45:07 encourages and strengthens us and inspires and sometimes 45:11 reproves us when we start complaining about things in our 45:14 church and then we look back and realize what others have 45:16 gone through and we realize I've got nothing to complain 45:19 about, the Lord has been good in the past and He's promised 45:22 He'll be good in the future and He is revealed and He is 45:25 instructed and He is guided and He will do the same for us when 45:28 we commit to Him. 45:29 So it's important to learn those details. 45:31 You may not hold it all in your mind, but you get the big 45:34 picture and you realize God is with us, He is still working, 45:38 He has not yet abandoned His people, nor will He. 45:40 Amen, praise the Lord. 45:41 And you also touch on the Spirit of Prophecy. 45:44 Correct, you talk about that also. 45:45 Quite a bit, quite a bit. 45:51 Seventh -day Adventist Church movement, the Spirit of 45:54 Prophecy, God has been working, giving instruction and that 45:57 instruction has been there all along. 45:58 It's been there in God's Word. 46:01 But sometimes we forget about it or we misinterpret it, 46:03 misunderstand it, we sideline it. 46:06 And so through Ellen White's writings especially you have a 46:09 light shine right on Scripture showing you what we have 46:12 forgotten, what we have kind of avoided and giving us 46:16 instruction through that. 46:17 Amen. 46:21 We talked a little bit before you came on about that. 46:23 Thinking about the "sod" metaphor, if you've got the 46:26 grass, you've got to have roots. 46:28 And the prayer, your prayer life is the roots that really 46:32 gives nourishment and nutrition to what happens, what you do, 46:35 your praises, your worship, your offering, your sacrifice, 46:38 all those things come from a deep relationship with Jesus. 46:42 So which one of us? 46:43 None of us does not need to grow in our prayer life. 46:48 I firmly believe that God can teach us. 46:51 He's the one who helps us grow. 46:53 So students arrived, those who wanted to, this was an optional 46:57 part, but many of them thought I don't want to miss this. 47:00 So from 6 o'clock in the morning to 7 and this happened 47:03 right on the day when the time changed. 47:06 So it felt like 5 or something. 47:09 There was a couple, there was several who came from Oregon, 47:12 so their bodies felt like 3AM. That's Three Angels 47:16 Message. 47:17 So they felt very early but they were there and so I 47:21 arrived at 5:30 and there was already a couple of people 47:24 waiting at the door to get in. 47:26 And this wasn't a class where I lectured, I gave a little bit 47:30 of encouragement and principles from God's Word and then set 47:34 them free and said go on out there and put this into 47:37 practice and try these things out. 47:39 Because you can learn a little bit about prayer in the 47:42 classroom but when you go into your closet, shut the door and 47:45 commune with your Heavenly Father, He teaches you. 47:48 And that's why the disciples said to Jesus teach us how to 47:52 pray. 47:56 Word augmented with some beautiful statements from the 48:00 Spirit of Prophecy. 48:01 I think about that line from Steps to Christ, page 94 and 48:04 95. 48:07 to pray when prayer is the key in the hand of faith that opens 48:12 Heaven's storehouses, where are treasured the resources of 48:16 omnipotence". 48:17 So if we don't pray, then we don't have power. 48:22 So just one final comment here on that. 48:24 I think it was Charles Spurgeon who said I would rather teach 48:27 one man to pray than 10 men to preach. 48:30 Because just like what you said, you can have preachers 48:33 who don't have a heart that's transformed. 48:35 If you have a heart that's transformed, you're going to be 48:38 a preacher whether behind a pulpit or whether behind an 48:41 ironing board. 48:41 It doesn't matter. 48:42 You're going to be preaching the Word of God. 48:45 I just want to say we have this school of discipleship I 48:50 believe is the best. 48:52 Because we're focused on the Word of God, focused on 48:56 transformation. 48:58 I believe some of the best teachers in the Seventh-day 49:01 Adventist Church are right here. 49:03 Pastor John Lomacang and Daniel and Ryan and Pastor James 49:07 Rafferty and each one who shared during the school of 49:11 discipleship. 49:16 and to be transformed to learn these biblical truths and then 49:21 to be a light in your church and in your community. 49:24 So let's talk about this coming SOD in July. 49:27 I don't know who wants to talk about that but talk about the 49:29 dates for that and how people can sign up for the next one. 49:32 Yeah, absolutely. 49:37 through July 14. 49:39 So you arrive on a Friday and you'll get your SOD care 49:43 package get signed in and assigned to your apartments 49:46 here on campus and then we'll have an entire day basically at 49:51 the worship center on Sabbath just getting to know each 49:53 other, hearing a fine message, fellowshipping have some great 49:57 food and then start on Sunday morning the 7th we hit the 50:02 ground running from 6 a. m. 50:04 prayer time all the way until the optional time in the 50:07 evening for the students who want of course which is 6 to 9 50:11 p. m. 50:11 in the evening. 50:15 that will be from each day from about 6 a. m. 50:18 to 9 p. m. 50:19 in the evening. 50:22 Okay, some people may hear that and go, oh, that's too intense 50:25 of a schedule. 50:26 Well, some of the things are optional. 50:28 The prayer is optional and of course the evening sessions are 50:31 optional but what we find is what we do is we try to offset 50:35 the time frame by not giving any homework and so we don't 50:38 want to just give you busy work or things that you have to go 50:42 home and feel tied down in your room in the evenings after 50:45 spending all day in the classroom learning, taking 50:48 notes and doing different activities as groups and so we 50:51 want to be able to free up that time in the evening for the 50:53 students if they want to just go for a walk, if they want to 50:56 break away and take a drive or whatever. 50:58 They just want to go back home and get in bed early. 51:00 They can choose to do that but what we find is most of the 51:04 students they don't find an issue with the intense schedule 51:07 because they're there to learn and so each day 6 a. m. 51:12 all the way to 9 p. m. 51:14 in the evening and we repeat that for about 5 or 6 days in a 51:17 row and it truly is an intensive, but different classes 51:21 as we've already mentioned that you'll experience, we provide 51:24 breakfast every morning from 7 a. m. 51:27 to 7.30 a. m. 51:28 and then we provide a lunch, one hour lunch from 12 p. m. 51:32 to 1 p. m. 51:33 and of course the students will be responsible for their own 51:36 dinner if they choose to eat a dinner and we wanted to provide 51:39 that option for them in case they wanted something special 51:42 that they wanted to prepare for themselves but they'll have 51:45 that option as well. 51:46 And then we also give 3ABN 51:47 tours while they're here. 51:49 We take a day where we say, hey, let's break away for a 51:51 couple of hours, let's go over and take a look at the tours. 51:54 You get to come in and actually see the studios like this one 51:57 right here in studio A that we're recording this in, and 51:59 they're always amazed to see what they're, you know, to be 52:02 in the studio that they see on TV all the time and see where 52:05 we film and we take them over to the call center and they get 52:08 to look through all of our literature and the books and 52:11 the bibles and the different things that we offer there and 52:14 we even let them take home cases of Brother Danny's new 52:17 books that he's written, him and Yvonne on the truth series, 52:21 the new truth series. 52:23 And so it's truly an intensive and then we finish up the week 52:26 with a powerful Q&A and of course a powerful Sabbath where 52:30 Pastor Lomacang gives us a nice big ending message and 52:33 then we have fellowship dinner and then of course graduation. 52:37 So that's a very juiced version of how what you're going to 52:40 experience when you get there but it's truly a powerful 52:43 experience. 52:44 And so I'll let Ian tell how they can go on and apply. 52:48 Yeah, absolutely. 52:53 on your phone and you can type in 3ABNSOD.com Again, that's 52:59 3ABNSOD.com So go and check out that website. 53:01 We have a handbook in there for you. 53:03 I want to really stress to please, please, please read that 53:07 handbook. 53:07 Please read the handbook. 53:09 Say it again. 53:11 Read the handbook. 53:13 And it's not a long handbook. 53:15 It's only like 12 pages. 53:16 It'll take you about 15 minutes tops to read it. 53:19 So a lot, a lot of your questions are going to be 53:22 answered in that handbook and then what I encourage you to do 53:25 is if you do have additional questions there's a link on our 53:27 website where you can contact us via email and you can send 53:30 your questions through there and we will be more than happy 53:33 to answer them for you but please go to 3ABNSOD.com Read 53:37 the handbook. 53:38 We have a lot of information in there. 53:39 You'll kind of also get a nice little snapshot of what the day 53:42 is going to look like for you but I know for a fact that if 53:46 the Lord is even having you question whether or not you 53:49 should be here. 53:50 I'm telling you you should. 53:51 I saw so many lives transformed. 53:54 People thinking they were coming here for one thing and 53:56 leaving with something way more than what they expected. 53:59 So it doesn't matter where you are in your walk with God. 54:02 Whether you're just coming into the church or you've even been 54:05 an elder for several years. 54:06 School of discipleship is for you, and it's for everyone. 54:10 Amen. 54:10 Thank you. 54:14 Right. 54:20 Amen. 54:23 Make a decision and put the action into play and the 54:26 transformation will come. 54:28 And don't be surprised when obstacles get in your way 54:31 because the devil doesn't want you here. 54:34 So he's going to try to put up obstacles. 54:36 But you say Lord if it's your will you will open the door. 54:39 I just rebuke what the enemy I don't work for the devil I work 54:42 for the Lord. 54:43 Right. 54:43 Amen. 54:48 But when people come and they say wow we almost didn't make 54:52 it. 54:53 Amen. 54:57 alive. 55:01 moments of our history. 55:03 Yeah. 55:04 Yeah. 55:04 There you go. 55:05 I love that. 55:06 Remnant special forces. 55:07 I've never met we have not we've put through over at this 55:11 point over 80 students to our school. 55:13 Not a single one of them have said oh it really wasn't what 55:17 it was cracked up to be. 55:19 It didn't do me any good. 55:21 I kind of wish I didn't come. 55:22 Every single one has said praise God that I came to this. 55:25 It's changed my life. 55:27 We've even had a couple of staff that come through. 55:31 Every single staff member that has come through said I want to 55:35 be a part of this somehow. 55:36 I want to get involved. 55:37 I want to do something with SOD. 55:39 So it's even reaching the staff that is here and changing them 55:42 as well and giving them a closer relationship with God. 55:44 And they see what SOD is doing for others and within 55:47 themselves and they're just saying I want to be a part of 55:49 it. 55:50 Praise the Lord. 55:55 series. 55:56 I won't say what ministry he's from but he said now I've got 55:59 to change my evangelistic approach because we were 56:02 putting testing truths before people before they even got the 56:05 skills like throwing somebody in the ninth inning on the 56:08 field and say hit a home run. 56:08 We need you. 56:09 Put a uniform. 56:10 Get a hat. 56:11 You know we hired you. 56:12 You're going to pay you. 56:13 How am I going to do it? 56:14 And I've learned more and more and more and more that if we 56:17 don't have the right character we're not going to make the 56:20 kingdom. 56:21 And that's what the Lord wants to do in us. 56:22 He says the good news is, "it has not yet been revealed what we 56:26 shall be, but we do know that when he is revealed, we shall be 56:29 like him". 56:33 it. 56:35 While we're being reshaped like Him he's given us grace to 56:39 become like Him. 56:41 And Jill why don't you share the details and then take us 56:43 out of this first hour here but the details in case someone 56:45 can't attend but they just feel impressed by the Holy Spirit to 56:47 help support whether we're the student or actually help the 56:51 school of discipleship Yes, you can go online to 3ABN.TV and 56:54 you just click on that donate button and you can donate. 56:57 There's a button called worthy student fund and you can 57:01 support that. 57:04 that you want to support someone else who can't afford 57:07 to come. 57:10 school of discipleship. 57:11 We're going to trade out guests here for the second hour so 57:14 Ryan and Pastor John and Daniel and Ian thank you for your 57:17 leadership with SOD. 57:22 continuing forward. 57:24 And we thank you Danny and Yvonne. You're going to stay 57:25 with us, yay! 57:27 More people coming, more evangelism coming up next hour. |
Revised 2024-03-21