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00:20 ♪ ♪ ♪ WELCOME TO 3 ABM HOMECOMING
00:34 2019. FEATURING INSPIRED MESSAGES FROM 00:38 YOUR 3 ABN FAMILY AND UPLIFTING CHRISTIAN MUSIC, ALL TO PREPARE 00:42 YOUR HEART FOR THE COMING OFF THE LORD. 00:46 HELLO AND WELCOME TO FALL. I ALMOST SAID SPRING, I DON'T 00:50 KNOW WHY. BECAUSE WE HAVE A FABULOUS FALL 00:53 BACKGROUND BEHIND US. WELCOME TO FALL CAMP MEETING 00:58 HAPPY SAP BATH -- SABBATH. THERE IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS 01:02 MADE. WE WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN 01:04 IT. THIS IS OUR HOMECOMING VERSION OF THE SABBATH SCHOOL 01:10 PANEL. WE HAVE A DIFFERENT BACKGROUND 01:11 THAN WE NORMALLY DO WITH SABBATH SCHOOL PANEL BUT THIS IS THE 01:15 LAST LESSON OF THE THIRD QUARTER, COMMUNITY OF SERVANTS 01:20 AND WE ARE SO GLAD YOU HAVE JOINED US AT HOME AND DELIGHTED 01:24 OUR 3 BM FAMILY IS HERE IN THE HOUSE WITH US AS WE STUDY THE 01:28 WORD OF GOD TOGETHER. I WANT TO INTRODUCE THE PANEL AT 01:33 THIS TIME AND THEY REALLY NEED TO INTRODUCTION. 01:38 >> OUR PASTOR, GOOD TO BE HERE THIS MORNING. 01:40 >> GOOD TO BE HERE. PRAISE THE GOD. 01:42 >> HERE IS RYAN DAY, ANNOINTED MUSICIAN AND SPEAKER OF THE 01:46 WORD. >> AMEN. 01:47 GOOD TO BE HERE. >> SITTING NEXT TO HIM IS MY 01:50 SISTER, SHELLEY QUINN, SHELLEY, ALWAYS LOVE TO HEAR YOU SHARE 01:53 FROM THE WORD OF GOD. >> AND IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE 01:55 TO STUDY TOGETHER, BECAUSE WE LEARN FROM EACH OTHER. 01:59 >> AMEN. AND MOLLY STINSON HAS COME WE 02:03 CAN SAY OUT OF RETIREMENT. HE LIVES IN DECATUR, ALABAMA BUT 02:10 SHE CAME HOME FOR FALL COMING AND IT IS A JOY TO HAVE YOU 02:12 HERE. >> IT IS A JOY TO BE HERE. 02:14 >> BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER WITNESS STAND TOP WORD OF THE 02:17 GOD WE WANT TO GO TO THE LORD OF. 02:20 >> PRECIOUS FATHER THIS MORNING 0 AS WE OPEN YOUR WORD, PLEASE 02:24 OPEN OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS SO THAT WHEN WE SPEAK, LORD, WE 02:26 WILL KNOW WE ARE NOT DOING SUCH ON OUR OWN STRENGTH AND A IN OUR 02:32 OWN INTELLECT BUT THAT YOU ARE POURING INTO US AND POURING 02:35 THROUGH US, SEND YOUR HOLY SMIRK TO CAUSE OUR EARS TO HEAR WHAT 02:40 THE SPIRIT SAYS TO THE CHURCH AND MAY IT ALL EXALT YOU AND 02:43 LIFT UP YOUR HOLY NAME, IN JESUS' NAME WE PRAY, AMEN. 02:47 >> AMEN. WE ARE IN LESSON NUMBER 13, 02:51 COMMUNITY OF SERVANTS, I WANT TO ASK YOU TO START, WITH WHAT IS 02:54 THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH? >> NOW YOU MIGHT SAY IT IS A 02:58 PLACE FOR SINNERS TO FIND A SAVIOR. 03:01 WOULD THAT BE ACCURATE? ABSOLUTELY. 03:03 IT IS A PLACE FOR BELIEVERS TO LEARN HOW TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL. 03:08 IS THAT ACCURATE? IT IS A PLACE FOR MEMBERS TO 03:12 BUILD UP THE BODY OF CHRIST. AND THAT IS ACCURATE TOO. 03:17 BUT THE FOCUS OF THE LESSON ESPECIALLY THIS LESSON IS THAT 03:21 THE CHURCH IS CALLED TO BE THE HANDS AND THE FEET OF JESUS. 03:26 WE ARE CALLED TO SERVANT HOOD, TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOD STEPS OF 03:31 OUR MASTER .. WE ARE CALLED TO REACH OUT WITH ACTS OF LOVE AND 03:36 SERVICE TO THOSE WHO ARE AROUND US, TO THOSE WHO ARE LOST AND 03:40 DON'T EVEN KNOW JESUS. THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WE 03:43 READ ABOUT THEM IN ACTS CHAPTER 2. 03:46 THEY WERE EVANGELISTICALLY MINDED, THEY SACRIFICED TO 03:50 SPREAD THE GOSPEL. THEY TOOK CARE OF THE NEEDS 03:55 WITHIN THE CHURCH. THEY SHARED FOOD AND POSSESSIONS 03:57 AND THEY SHARED THEM IN COMMON. THEY SHARED FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE 04:03 ANOTHER. I LOVE THAT WORD, COIN NIA, THE 04:07 SPIRITUAL FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER. 04:09 AND THEY PREACHED THE GOSPEL, CLEARLY THEY PREACHED THE 04:13 GOSPEL, THEY STUDIED GOD'S WORD A AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THEY 04:17 LIVED THE GOSPEL. ON SUNDAY'S LESSON WHICH I HAVE 04:19 THE PRIVILEGE TO TALK ABOUT WE LOOK AT AT OF CHANGE. 04:23 NOW WE KNOW JESUS TALKED ABOUT THE CHURCH AND JESUS TALKED 04:26 ABOUT BELIEVERS AS SALT AND LIGHT, BUT WE ARE NOT GOING 04:29 STUDY THAT TODAY. WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT SOME OF 04:32 THE PAUL'S METAPHORS FOR THE CHURCH. 04:35 PAUL'S METAPHORS FOR BELIEVERS. NOW THERE ARE FOUR METAPHORS 04:38 THAT ARE TALKED ABOUT IN SUNDAY'S LESSON, I DON'T KNOW IF 04:41 WE ARE GOING TO GET TO ALL OF THEM. 04:43 WE WILL FIND OUT. BUT THE FOUR WE WILL START AND 04:45 SEE HOW FAR WE GET. THE FIRST METAPHOR IS THE 04:48 BELIEVERS AS A SACRIFICE. THAT'S IN ROMANCE 12, TURN WITH 04:52 ME TO ROMANCE 12, THE SECOND METAPHOR IS CHRIST, THE CHURCH 04:56 OF CHRIST'S BODY. AND THEN THE THIRD IS THE CHURCH 05:01 AS CHRIST'S AMBASSADORS AND THE FOURTH IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING 05:04 THAT HAS SOMETHING NO DO WITH SMELL. 05:06 THE CHURCH AS PERFUME. SO LET'S SEE IF WE GET TO ALL OF 05:10 THEM BUT WE ARE GOING TO START WITH THE SACRIFICE, ROWE MANZ 05:17 12:1. >> BY THE MERCIES OF GOD THAT 05:19 YOU PRESENT YOURSELVES, YOUR BODIES, A .. LIVING SACRIFICE, 05:27 HOLY, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE. 05:32 NOW THAT WORD SACK FITS WE PRESENT OUR BODIES A LIVING 05:35 SACRIFICE OR IT CAN BE MEAN AN OFFERING AS BELIEVERS WE ARE 05:39 CALLED TO PRESENT OURSELVES AS AN OFFERING TO THE LORD, HOLY 05:44 THAT WORD HOLY IN GREEK MEANS TO BE SET APART. 05:49 SET APART BY AND FOR GOD. TO BE SET APART. 05:54 WE ARE CALLED TO BE SET APART THE LIVING SACRIFICE, LIVING 06:00 OFFERING SETS APART, IT SAYS IT IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE, 06:03 SERVICE CAN BE TRANSLATED YOUR SPIRITUAL ACT OF WORSHIP. 06:07 NOT JUST SERVICE BUT WORSHIP. SO I WANT TO TALK -- YOU KNOW 06:12 THIS, GIRL, PASTOR JOHN WOULD SAY JILL, YOU KNOW, I HAVE -- I 06:16 AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT FIVE LESSONS THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM 06:21 THIS IMAGE OR THE SYMBOLISM OF 06 OF BELIEVERS BEING A 06:27 SACRIFICE TO GO. LESSON NUMBER ONE, TRUE WORSHIP, 06:29 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WORSHIP, LESSON ONE, TRUE WORRY SHIP IS 06:35 RATIONAL. GOD NEVER CALLS US TO WORSHIP 06:37 APART FROM TRUTH. HE NEVER CALLS US TO WORSHIP 06:41 APART FROM THE MIND AND THE WORD OF GOD. 06:45 JOHN 4:24, GOD IS SPIRIT AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP HIM MUST 06:49 WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. 06:53 ROMANCE 12:1 SAYS WE MUST PRESENT OUR BODIES AS A LIVING 06:56 SACRIFICE AND THAT IS OUR REASONABLE ACT OF WORSHIP. 07:01 IT ALSO MEANS OUR RATIONAL ACT OF WORSHIP. 07:04 THE NEXT VERSE, VERSE 2, DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD BUT 07:08 BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND. 07:13 SO TRUE WORRY SHIP IS RATIONAL. NUMBER 2, TRUE WORRY SNIP IS 07:18 SACRIFICIAL, .. WE PRESENT OUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE. 07:24 SOMETIMES IT COSTS SOMETHING TO FOLLOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 07:27 IT DEFINITELY COSTS OURSELVES BEING GIVEN TO HIM. 07:33 SOMETIMES IT COSTS A FAMILY MEMBER. 07:35 THEY SAY I DON'T WANT TO WALK WITH JESUS. 07:37 AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE. AM I GOING TO FOLLOW JESUS OR AM 07:42 I GOING TO FOLLOW MY FAMILY? SOMETIMES WE HEAR STORIES OF 07:46 PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS, SOMETIMES WORSHIP COSTS EVEN SOMEONE'S 07:51 LIFE. I HAVE DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS, 07:55 REGARDLESS OF ANYTHING. TO WORSHIP IS SACRIFICIAL. 07:59 TO WORRY LIP IS HOLY. WE ARE CALLED TO BE SET APART. 08:04 WE ARE CALLED TO HAVE THAT HOLY ACCEPTABLE SERVICE TO GOD. 08:08 SECOND TIMOTHY 1:9, WHO HAS FAITH AND CALLED WITH US A HOLY 08:13 CALLING? NOT ACCORDING TO OUR WORK BUT 08:15 ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE WHICH WAS GIVEN TO US IN 08:20 CHRIST JESUS BEFORE TIME BEGAN. I LIKE THAT SCRIPTURE BECAUSE WE 08:23 ARE CALLED WITH A HOLY CALLING BUT IT IS NOT BECAUSE WE ARE 08:28 HOLY, IT IS NOT ACCORDING TO OUR OWN WORKS, BECAUSE MY WORKS, MY 08:33 RIGHTEOUSNESS IS A FILTHY RAG. BUT IT TELLS US THAT ACCORDING 08:36 TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE IT IS THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS 08:40 CHRIST THAT CHANGES US. HIS GRACE TRANSFORMS OUR HEARTS, 08:45 TRUE WORRY SHIP IS RATIONAL, IT IS SACRIFICIAL AND IT IS HOLY, 08:49 IT INVOLVED DEATH. NOW WE DON'T LIKE TO THINK ABOUT 08:51 THAT WORD VERY MUCH BUT IT INVOLVES THE DEATH TO MY OWN 08:55 SELF AND CLEARLY THE DEATH TO -- ROMANS 6, 6 AND 7, KNOWING THE 09:04 OLD MAN THAT WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM THAT SIN WOULD BE DONE AWAY 09:08 AND WE WILL NO LONG PER SLAVES TO SIN, FOR HE WHO HAS DIED HAS 09:13 BEEN FREED FROM SIN AND NUMBER 5, TRUE WORSHIP INVOLVED LIVING 09:18 FOR CHRIST. WE DON'T JUST DIE TO THE OLD 09:21 LIFE, WE ARE CALLED TO RISE UP IN NEWNESS OF LIFE AND TO WALK 09:25 IN THAT, REGULATIONS 2:20, I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, 09:31 THAT'S DEATH TO THE OLD LIFE THAT IS NO LONGER I WHO LIVE BUT 09:35 CHRIST THAT LIVES IN ME AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE 09:38 FLESH I LIVE BY FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE 09:42 HIMSELF FOR ME. THAT IS THE CHURCH AS A 09:47 SACRIFICE. LET'S LOOK AT NUMBER 2, THE 09:49 CHURCH AS CHRIST'S BODY. TURN WITH ME TO FIRST 09:53 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 12, THIS IS WHERE WE SEE PAUL'S AM IS I 09:57 DIDN'T OF CHRIST'S CHURCH IT IS A BODY. 10:00 FIRST CORINTHIAN 12. I LIKE READING AND WHEN YOU 10:04 START A BOOK WHAT DOES THE BOOK USUALLY START WITH, PREFACE, 10:08 SOMETHING AT THE BEGINNING AND SOMETIMES THAT TELLS YOU A 10:10 LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING FURTHER IN THE 10:14 BOOK SO THE, OUR PASSAGE BEGINS IN VERSE 12 WITH THE DISCUSSION 10:17 OF THE BODY, BUT THE PREFACE TO THAT IS THE DISCUSSION OF THE 10:22 SPIRITUAL GIFTS WHICH ARE GIVEN TO THE CHURCH. 10:24 THOSE ARE THE GIFTS OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE AND FAITH AND 10:29 HEALING, MIRACLES, PROPHECY, DISCERNING OF SPIRITS, DIFFERENT 10:33 TONGUES, INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES, THERE IS A WHOLE LIST 10:35 OF GIFTS THAT THE SPIRIT GIVES BEFORE THIS DISCUSSION OF THE 10:41 BODY. THE INTERESTING VERSE TO ME IS 10:44 IN VERSE 11, VERSUS 11 IT SAYS BUT ONE AND THE SAME SPIRIT 10:49 WORKS ALL OF THESE THINGS DISTRIBUTING TO EACH ONE 10:53 INDIVIDUALLY AS WHO -- AS HE WILLS. 10:56 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS ME? THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ONE WHO 11:00 MADE US DIFFERENT. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ONE A WHO 11:04 GAVE US DIFFERENT GIFTS. AND DIFFERENT CALLS. 11:08 THAT MEANS THAT THE DIFFERENCES WE SEE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, 11:13 THOSE ARE DIVINE. NOW, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT 11:16 DIFFERENCES AS WHEN WE ARGUE. THAT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT DIVINE. 11:20 BUT THE DIFFERENCES AS IN THE CALLING AND THE GIFTS THAT GOD 11:24 GIVES PEOPLE ARE DIVINE. SO LET'S LOOK AT THAT AS WE LOOK 11:27 AT THE BODY OF CHRIST. LOOK AT THE FACT THAT THESE 11:31 DIFFERENCES ARE DIVINE. THESE ARE THE LESSONS, THERE ARE 11:35 SIX LESSONS I HAVE HERE THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE CHURCH AS THE 11:39 BODY OF CHRIST. LESSON NUMBER ONE, UNITY DOES 11:43 NOT MEAN UNIFORMITY. READ VERSE 12. 11:46 FOR THE BODY IS ONE AND HAS MANY MEMBERS, BUT ALL THE MEMBERS OF 11:51 THAT ONE BODY BEING MANY ARE ONE BODY, SO ALSO IS CHRIST. 11:55 SO YOU NOTICE THAT? THERE ARE MANY MEMBERS IN THE 11:58 BODY, AND AS WE GO ON THERE IS THE EYES AND THE HAND AND THE 12:02 FEET, DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PHYSICAL BODY, THEY MAKE A 12:06 UNITED HOLE -- THEY ARE STILL INDIVIDUAL, UNITY DOES NOT MEAN 12:15 UNIFORMITY,ED TO DOES NOT CALL US TO BE EXACT COOKIE CUTTER 12:19 CHRISTIANS, PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT. 12:20 NUMBER 2 OUR DIFFERENCES DO NOT HAVE TO DIVIDE US. 12:23 THEY CAN UNITED US. AS LONG AS WE ARE IN CHRIST. 12:29 VERSE 13. FOR BY ONE SPIRIT WE WERE ALL 12:32 BAN TIED INTO ONE BODY, WHETHER JEWS OR GREEKS, SLAVES OR FREE, 12:36 AND HAVE ALL BEEN MADE TO DRAIN INTO ONE SPIRIT. 12:41 SO JEW OR GREEK, FLAVOR FREE, RACE, ETHNICITY, CLASS, ORIGINS, 12:47 NONE OF THAT MATTERS. WE ALL CAN BE MADE ONE IN THE 12:52 BODY OF CHRIST. WE ARE ALL CALLED TO BE ONE. 12:55 OUR DIFFERENCES DON'T HAVE TO DIVIDE US. 12:58 THEY CAN UNITED US AS LONG AS WE ARE IN THE BODY. 13:01 AS LONG AS WE ARE TOGETHER. NUMBER 3, JEALOUSY CANNOT EXIST 13:07 IN THE BODY. JEALOUSY CANNOT EXIST IN THE 13:11 BODY OF CHRIST. IN FACT, IT IS ALMOST HUMOROUS 13:17 PAUL'S ANALOGY YOU READ THE NEXT COUPLE OF VERSES, 15, THE FOOT 13:22 SHOULD SAY I AM NOT A HAND, THEREFORE I AM NOT OF THE BODY 13:24 AND THE EAR SHOULD SAY I AM NOT AN EYE BECAUSE I AM NOT OF THE 13:30 BODY. IT IS ALMOST HUMOROUS, OF COURSE 13:32 YOU WOULD NOT SAY THAT, BUT YET WE OFTEN SAY THAT, OH I AM NOT 13:36 THIS, I AM NOT THE EYE, I AM NOT THE HAND, I AM NOT AS IMPORTANT, 13:39 RIGHT? AND WE BECOME JEALOUS OF WHAT 13:44 GOD HAS GIVEN TO SOMEONE ELSE IN THE CHURCH JEALOUSY CANNOT EXIST 13:49 IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. NUMBER 4, ALL ARE ESSENTIAL TO 13:54 THE WORK. ALL ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT IN THE 14:00 WORK. VERSE 20 SAYS NOW INDEED THERE 14:03 ARE MANY MEMBERS YET ONE BODY AND THE EYE CANNOT SAY TO THE 14:06 HAND, I HAVE NO NEED OF YOU. NOR AGAIN THE HEAD TO THE FEET, 14:10 I HAVE NO NEED OF YOU. YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A MAN WHO 14:14 HAD A TREE. HE WAS CUTTING TREES DOWN AND A 14:17 TREE FELL ON HIS LEG AND PINNED HIM. 14:20 NOW, THAT'S A HORRIBLE THING AND HE WAS WITHOUT A PHONE. 14:22 HE WAS WITHOUT ANY -- NO ONE ELSE WAS THERE AND WHAT WHERE 14:26 YOU SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN A TREE IS ON HIS LEG? 14:28 YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID? HE CUT IT OFF? 14:30 HE TOOK A SAW AND HE CUT IT OFF. NOW I AM I AM JUST TELLING YOU THAT 14:34 IS EXTREME. WHEN I HEAR THAT I WOULD NEVER 14:37 WANT TO CUT OFF -- YOU KNOW, IF THAT HAPPENED TO HE I WOULD 14:40 NEVER WANT TO CUT OFF MY LEG AND YET HOW WILLINGLY WE OFTEN CUT 14:47 OFF A PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. 14:51 WE SAY, I DON'T NEED YOU, YOU ARE NOT ESSENTIAL TO THE WORK OF 14:57 GOD, AND JUST AS WE WOULD NEVER WANT TO CUT OFF A PHYSICAL PART 15:01 OF OUR BODY, WE ALMOST EAGERLY CUT OFF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS 15:08 SISTERS. ALL ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE WORK. 15:12 ALL ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT. THERE SHOULD BE NO HIERARCHY IN 15:16 THE CHURCH. NUMBER 5. 15:21 EXERCISE CARE INSTEAD OF COMPETITION. 15:25 DON'T CRITICIZE AND JUDGE SOMEONE ELSE HARSHLY. 15:27 WE ARE CALLED TO BUILD UP, TAKE CARE, HAVE COMPASSION ON THE 15:31 WEAKER PARTS OF THE BODY. FINALLY NUMBER 6. 15:36 IF ONE MEMBER SUFFERS WE ALL SUFFER AS WELL. 15:40 WE ALL SUFFER EQUALLY. VERSE 26. 15:46 VERSE 26. AND IF ONE MEMBER SUFFERS ALL 15:49 THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT. OR ONE MEMBER IS HONORED ALL 15:53 MEMBERS REJOICE WITH IT. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER SUBBED 15:57 YOUR STUBBED STUBBED YOUR TOE OR OWE BROKE YOUR TOE, YOUR WHOLE 16:01 LEG HURTS AND I HAVE EVEN GOTTEN A FEVER WHEN I BROKE A BONE 16:05 BEFORE BECAUSE THE BODY IS AFFECTED. 16:07 IF ONE MEMBER OF THE BODY SUFFERS WE ALL SUFFER EQUALLY. 16:11 WE CLEARLY WON'T GET TO THE OTHER TWO METAPHORS AND 16:15 ANALOGIES. BUT CHRIST HAS CALLED US TO BE A 16:20 SACRIFICE AS BELIEVERS .. AND HE HAS CALLED US TO OPERATE WITHIN 16:23 THE BODY. THAT UNITY DOES NOT MEAN 16:26 UNIFORMITY. DIFFERENCES DO NOT HAVE TO 16:28 DIVIDE US. JEALOUSY CANNOT EXIST IN THE 16:31 BODY. WE ARE ALL ESSENTIAL TO THE WORK 16:34 AND EQUALLY IMPORTANT. WE ARE CALLED TO CARE FOR ONE 16:38 ANOTHER INSTEAD OF COAT WITH ONE ANOTHER AND ALL SUFFER EQUALLY 16:42 AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE NEXT CHAPTER, FIRST 16:46 CORINTHIANS 13 THAT LOVE COVERS EVERYTHING. 16:51 PASTOR JOHN. >> CAN WE SAY AMEN TO THAT? 16:53 THANK YOU, JILL. I THOUGHT SHE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH 16:58 TIME, BUT THERE ARE SOME MORE REMAINING BUT THANK YOU FOR THAT 17:01 WONDERFUL START. NOW WE ARE ON THE REMNANT 17:06 SERVANT THE MONDAY LESSON AND I WOULD LIKE YOU TO TURN WITH ME 17:08 TO REVELATION CHAPTER 12 BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL IN ORDER TO 17:12 UNDERSTAND THE REMNANT SERVANT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE TERM 17:15 REMNANT AND IN STUDYING THE LESSON, YOU WILL FIND THAT THE 17:19 WORD REMNANT IS REALLY AN OLD TESTAMENT WORD. 17:23 IT ONLY APPEARS TWICE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND IT IS NOT A TERM 17:27 THAT IS NATIVE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. 17:30 BUT IT IS FULFILLED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 17:34 IT IS ESTABLISHED IN THE OLD BUT IT IS FULFILLED IN THE NEW 17:37 BECAUSE THE VERY WORD REMNANT DOESN'T JUST MEAN THAT WHICH IS 17:41 LEFT OR THE LAST PIECE. IT HAS A DEEPER MEANING TO IT 17:45 AND I WANT TO WALK THROUGH THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THE LESSON BUT 17:48 LET'S GO AHEAD AND FIND WHAT I MIGHT REFER TO AS THE MOST 17:51 COMMON PASSAGE THAT REFERS TO THE REMNANT. 17:54 REVELATION CHAPTER 12:17 AND I WAS EXCITED ABOUT THIS BECAUSE 17:59 AS A PERSON WHO LOVES REVELATION FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, IT IS NAMED 18:03 AFTER ME, BUT THEN AGAIN YOU DIDN'T GET THAT? 18:07 I JOHN SAW, I ALWAYS LIKE THAT. GOD HAD A WONDERFUL PLAN FOR MY 18:13 LIFE, PRAISE HIM FOR THAT. REVELATION 12:17 I AM READING IN 18:17 THE KING JAMES VERSE VERSION BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE WORD 18:21 REMNANT COMES IN. REST, REMNANT IS THE LAST PART. 18:25 AND THE DRAGON WAS -- THAT THE DRAGON IS SATAN. 18:31 WAS BROUGHT, WITH ANGRY WITH A WOMAN, THE SYMBOL OF THE CHURCH, 18:35 AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED. 18:40 NOW, THAT TERM REMNANT OF HER SEED, IT FIRST PLACE THE SEED IS 18:45 INTRODUCED IS IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS, I WILL PUT ENMITY 18:49 BETWEEN THEE AND THE WOMAN, BETWEEN THY SEED AND HER SEED. 18:54 WHEN YOU LOCHTE TRAJECTORY OF THE ISRAEL LIGHTS I DID AN 18:57 ENTIRE SERMON CALLED THE SEA, NOT ADVERTISING BUT IT IS AT -- 19:03 BUT THE REASON I DID THAT IS BECAUSE THE SEED IS SO 19:05 SIGNIFICANT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE YOUR HONOR AT THIS OF THE 19:08 ISRAEL LIGHTS SATAN'S NUMBER ONE PLAN WAS TO STOP THE SEED .. HE 19:13 WANTED TO PREVENT THAT STEED FROM GERMINATING. 19:16 HE WANTED TO PREVENT CHRIST FROM COMING INTO THE WORLD. 19:19 HE LOST IN THE FIRST ROUND IN HEAVEN SO HIS AIM WAS TO 19:22 DETERMINE TO STOP THE SEED. THAT'S WHY WHEN HE COULDN'T STOP 19:25 THE SEED FROM BEING PLACED IN MARY AS A YOUNG CHILD, AS A 19:29 YOUNG GIRL, HE TRIED TO PREVENT THE SEED FROM COMING TO LIFE OR 19:35 GROWING UP AND SO HE PUT AN EDICT TO KILL THE FIRST-BORN, 19:40 THOSE TWO YEARS OLD AND UNDER, WHEN HE COULDN'T DO THAT HE 19:43 TRIED TO PAINT THE LIFE OF CHRIST WITH SAME AND PAINT HIP 19:47 AS AN OUTCAST OR PERSON WHO WAS AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD. 19:50 BUT WAYN'T TO SAY SOMETHING THERE. 19:52 ONCE YOU ARE BROUGHT INTO THE WORLD, THERE IS NO ONE, WE SAY 19:56 THIS VERY CLEARLY, NO ONE THAT COMES INTO THE WORLD IS 20:01 ILLEGITIMATE. HOW YOU MAY COME IN MAY NOT BE 20:03 ORDAINED OF GO AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE I WAS BORN IN A COUPLE 20:09 THAT WAS NOT MARRIED, BUT LOOK AT ME TODAY. 20:12 TO GOD BE THE GLORY. SO WE ALWAYS CALL CHILDREN 20:16 ILLEGITIMATE, WHOEVER DID THAT NEEDS TO BE BEAT TEN WITH MANY 20:19 STRIPES, BECAUSE THE CHILD DIDN'T DO ANYTHING BAD. 20:22 THE CHILD JUST SHOWED UP. HERE I AM. 20:24 MAYBE THAT'S WHY THEY HID THEM WHEN THEY COME. 20:27 I DON'T KNOW. BUT THAT WHOLE TERM ILLEGITIMATE 20:31 DOESN'T FIT CHRIST AT ALL AND DOESN'T FIT ANY OF US. 20:34 BUT WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE SEED, THE DEVIL IS ANGRY WITH THE FACT 20:38 HE COULD NOT STOP CHRIST IN HEAVEN. 20:40 HE COULD NOT DEFEAT HIM AT THE CROSS. 20:44 SO THEREFORE HE IS GOING AFTER WHAT IS REMAINING. 20:47 AND THE DEEPER TERM, LET'S FINISH THE REST OF IT BECAUSE 20:49 THE REMNANT IS DESCRIBED. WHO ARE THEY? 20:52 WHICH KEEPS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF 20:54 JESUS CHRIST. I HAD A WONDERFUL DISCUSSION 20:56 LAST NIGHT WITH AN ON FIRE BIBLE WORKER AND DID MY BEST TO 21:02 CONVINCE HER TO MOVE TO THOMPSONVILLE AND WHETHER SHE 21:05 CAUGHT THE HOOK OR NOT, I DON'T KNOW BUT SHE WAS FIRING ME UP 21:08 AND SHE SAID SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING WHICH I DON'T 21:11 OFTEN BORROW A LOT BUT THIS IS WONDERFULLY, FIT, AND SHE SAID 21:16 WHILE GOD'S PEOPLE AND HIS REMNANT CHURCH IS DESCRIBED AS 21:19 THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND A HAVE THE TESTIMONY 21:22 OF JESUS CHRIST, THEY THERE ARE ONLY REALLY TWO CATEGORIES, THE JUST 21:28 AND THE UNJUST. THE FILTHY AND THE -- AND THOSE 21:33 WHO ARE NOT FILTHY, THE HOLY AND UNHOLY, REALLY ONLY TWO 21:36 CATEGORIES SO WHEN WE GO TO REVELATION, WE ARE NOW WHICH 21:42 CATEGORY DO YOU WANT TO BE IN? WASN'T THAT DEP? 21:45 THANK YOU FOR THAT. WE NOW DOWN THE ENTIRE -- WE 21:50 DISTILL CHRISTIANITY TO WHICH CATEGORY WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN 21:52 THE JUST OR THE UNJUST. THE HOLY OR THE UNHOLY, THE ONLY 21:55 TWO CATEGORIES SO SATAN HAS TAKEN THAT SEED AND IN THE ACT 21:59 OF MULTIPLICITY HE HAS CAUSED CONFUSION. 22:02 SO TODAY, THE GREAT QUESTION IN KRISTENSEN.COM WHO REPRESENTS 22:08 THE SEED AND THE BIBLE IS CLEAR .. THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMAND. 22:12 OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST BUT THAT IS NOT A 22:15 TERM OF EXCLUSIVITY BUT A TERM OF INVITATION. 22:20 YOU GET THAT? BRINGING OTHERS INTO IT, BUT THE 22:23 TERM, LET'S GO TO A COUPLE MORE PASSAGES SINCE THE BIBLE 22:26 DESCRIBES THAT AND IN THE ANCHOR BIBLE DICTIONARY THE PHRASE 22:30 REMNANT MEANS WHAT IS LEFT OF A COMMUNITY AFTER IT UNDERGOES A 22:37 CATASTROPHE. NOW THIS IS POWERFUL. 22:39 BECAUSE THE REMNANT, I WANT TO BREAK IT DOWN THIS WAY, LET ME 22:42 GO FURTHER DOWN AND BREAK IT BACK UP. 22:44 THERE ARE THREE COMPONENTS TO THE REMNANT. 22:46 HOW MANY DID I SAY? THREE. 22:48 THERE IS A REMNANT MESSAGE. THERE IS A REMNANT CHURCH. 22:51 AND THERE IS A RECOMMEND FANT PEOPLE. 22:54 NOW THIS IS VERY POWERFUL BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE OLD 22:56 TEST. AND WE HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE, WE WERE EXCITED ABOUT 22:59 THE STUDY OF EZRA AND ANY MICAH OVERWHELMED WE DID 13 IN THREE 23:03 DAYS BUT MAN IT HAS BECOME ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOX. 23:05 MY WIFE AND I IF YOU WANT TO READ A CHAPTER ABOUT THE GRACE 23:09 OF GOD, NEHEMIAH 9, AMAZING, THE UNRELENTING WILLINGNESS ON GOD'S 23:16 PART NOT TO CUT OFF THE REMNANT, NEHEMIAH CHAPTER 9. 23:19 LOOK AT THIS, SECOND KINGS 19:4 I AM PICKING OUT PIECES OF 23:23 THAT AND YOU WILL SEE THE THREAD, JUST A PORTION OF THAT 23:27 SECOND KINGS 19 VERSE 4, I AM ONLY USING A CERTAIN PORTION 23:31 THAT SAID, THEREFORE, LIFT UP YOUR PRAYER FOR THE REMNANT THAT 23:36 IS LEFT. NOTICE THAT IS LEFT, DENOTING 23:41 THAT SOMETHING HAPPENS THAT THERE IS ONLY A MUST BE THAT IS 23:45 LEFT. SOMETHING HAPPENED. 23:47 SECOND KINGS 19 VERSE 30. AND THE REMNANT WHO HAVE ESCAPED 23:52 OF THE HOUSE OF JUTA SHALL AGAIN TAKE ROOT DOWNWARD AND BE A 23:57 FRUIT UPWARD, SO ROOTS TWO DOWNWARD, FRUITS GO UPWARD, 24:00 NOTICE WHAT HAPPENS. THE REMNANT WHO HAVE ESCAPED 24:04 SOME CATASTROPHE OCCURRED THAT THEY MADE IT OUT. 24:06 SOME PEOPLE MAY SAY, WELL, HOW MANY SURVIVED? 24:08 THEY ARE THE REMNANT. ANOTHER ASPECT EZRA 9:8, LET'S 24:17 LOOK AT THAT. AND YOU CAN TURN THERE QUICKLY 24:20 IF YOU COULD, BUT IF NOT I WILL GO AHEAD AND READ IT. 24:22 AND NOW FOR A LITTLE WHILE, GRACE HAS BEEN SHOWN FROM THE 24:27 LORD OUR GOD TO LEAVE US A RECOMMEND FANT TO ESCAPE. 24:33 NOTICE, ALWAYS AFTER SOME CATASTROPHIC EVENT SOME SHAKING 24:36 AND WE KNOW THAT WHEN THE REMNANT RETURNED NEHEMIAH IS 24:41 INTRODUCED, THE BOOK, THE REMNANT, IS IN DISREPAIR AND 24:47 DISCOURAGED. THEY ARE BROKEN DOWN. 24:49 EVERYTHING ABOUT THE REMNANT IS NOT WHERE GOD WANTS IT TO BE. 24:51 AND THAT'S A FITTING PICTURE OF US TODAY. 24:54 WE HAVE A REMNANT MESSAGE. THIS IS A REMNANT CHURCH. 24:58 BUT IN MANY CASE IT IS PEOPLE OF GOD, THE REMNANT ARE IN 25:01 DISREPAIR. AND THE QUESTION IS, HOW MANY 25:04 ARE GOING TO BE LEFT? AFTER THIS GREAT CATASTROPHE OCCURS? 25:09 AND WHAT IS THE CATASTROPHE FOR THE REMNANT CHURCH TODAY? 25:13 THE SHAKING, THE SHIFTING, HOW MANY ARE GOING TO BE LEFT? 25:17 BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THE REMNANT CHURCH IS MADE UP OF TWO GROUPS. 25:24 FIVE WIVES, FIVE, FIVE WISE, FIVE FOOLISH, WE CANNOT BY 25:29 LOCKING AT THE EXTERNAL DETERMINE WHICH CATEGORY ANYBODY 25:31 IS IN BUT WHAT MADE THAT CLEAR TO PETER? 25:34 SHALL I GO OUT AND ROOT OUT -- NO, YOU DON'T HAVE THAT 25:38 DISCRETION, MY ANGELS WILL DO THAT. 25:40 ANOTHER PASSAGE. NEHEMIAH, EZRA 9:14, ONCE AGAIN 25:44 THE LORD SAYS, WOULD YOU NOT BE ANGRY WITH US UNTIL YOU HAVE 25:49 CONSUMED US SO TERE WOULD BE NO REMNANT OR SURVIVOR? 25:53 ONCE AGAIN LOOK AT THIS, WHO IS GOING TO SURVIVE THE ANGER OF 25:56 THE LORD? AND THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY, FOR 26:00 WE ARE LEFT AS A REMNANT, AS IT IS THIS DAY. 26:04 HERE WE ARE BEFORE YOU IN OUR GUILT, THOUGH NO ONE CAN STAND 26:09 BEFORE YOU BECAUSE OF THIS. THE REMNANT CAN BE BEST 26:13 DESCRIBED THEN AS THOSE THAT REMAIN AFTER THE SHAKING AND THE 26:16 SHIFTING SO THIS IS VITALLY IMPORTANT AND THIS IS WHERE OUR 26:19 DEDICATION COMES IN BECAUSE MANY OF US HAVEN'T REALLY GONE 26:22 THROUGH A SHIFTING OR A SHAKING YET IN OUR LIVES. 26:25 AND THAT'S WHY WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SEASON OF THE STRESS THAT 26:29 THEY TALK ABOUT IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, THE SEASON OF 26:31 DISTRESS AND ANGUISH THAT IS BEFORE US, AFTER WE -- AFTER WE 26:36 SURVIVE THAT, THAT IS THE DISTILLED GROUP THAT SATAN NOW 26:41 PUTS ON HIS FULL ARMOR AND SAYS, THEY ARE THE ONES WE HAVE GOT TO 26:47 GET RID OF BECAUSE THEY SURVIVED THE BEST THAT WE HAVE 26:52 HAD TO THROW AT THEM. SO RIGHT NOW, WHILE WE HAVE THE 26:56 REMNANT CHURCH, AND THE REMNANT MESSAGE, I WILL BE VERY 27:00 RESPECTFUL BY SAYING THE DEVIL IS NOT THREATENED BY SOME OF US. 27:06 SOMEBODY ONCE SAID IF YOU DON'T RUN INTO THE DEVIL YOU BOTH ARE 27:09 GOING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. IF YOU HAVE NO CONFLICT WITH 27:18 HIM, YOU ARE GOING -- IF YOU DON'T BUTT HEADS YOU ARE GOING 27:21 IN THE SAME DIRECTION. SO THE REMNANT IS POWERFUL. 27:24 THE REMNANT MENTAL, WHAT IS THE REMNANT MESSAGE? 27:27 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL OR THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL HAS ALWAYS 27:31 BEEN SALVATION BY CHRIST IN GRACE ALONE. 27:34 BE 2 REMNANT MESSAGE HAS A REMNANT MESSAGE ATTACHED TO IT. 27:38 BECAUSE YOU COULD NOT PREACH THE REMNANT MESSAGE OF THE THREE 27:42 ANGELS UNTIL THE REMNANT TIME. UNTIL THE LATTER DAYS. 27:48 EVERY NATION, TONGUE AND PEOPLE, YOU CAN'T PRESSURE THAT IN 27:52 GENESIS. THE LORD HAD THE WILL TO PREACH 27:54 THAT BUT HE WOULD NOT SUCCUMB TO HIS GOINS SO UNTIL THE LORD 27:58 REESTABLISHED AND BROUGHT ARE A REMNANT THROUGH THE DARK AGES 28:01 AND RAISED UP A REMNANT MESSAGE IN THE 1,800S, AND STARTED 28:06 ESTABLISHING A REMNANT PEOPLE WE HAVE A GOD-GIVEN OBLIGATION TO 28:10 PROCLAIM A REMNANT MESSAGE WHICH IS IN FACT TO INCLUDE REVELATION 28:15 18 TO PULL THE REMNANTS TOGETHER. 28:18 THAT REVELATION 18 IS IS THE CALL OF THE REMNANT. 28:21 AND WHERE ARE THEY? COME OUT OF HER. 28:24 THEY ARE EVERYWHERE. THEY WILL BE ALLEGIANT TO THE 28:29 REMNANT MENTAL. SO WHILE I AM IN THE REMNANT 28:31 CHURCH AND PROCLAIMING THE REMNANT MESSAGE I WANT TO BE 28:36 LEFT AFTER THE SHAKING AND THE SHIFTING. 28:39 WHAT DO YOU SAY? HERE WE ARE AND ONE LAST 28:41 COMPONENT I WANT TO ADD VERY QUICKLY. 28:43 BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS THE PART OF THE LESSON AND I WANT TO ASK 28:45 THE QUESTION. WHEN THE LORD WAS ANGRY WITH THE 28:51 ISRAELITES, WHEN THE LORD WAS ANGRY WITH THE ISRAEL LIGHTS AND 28:55 MOSES INTERCEDED AND THE LORD RELENTED .. I WANT TO MAKE IT 28:58 VERY CLEAR, MOSES DIDN'T CHANGE GOD'S MIND. 29:02 IT IS ALMOST MAKING MAN THE CONTROLLER OF GOD. 29:07 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD IS NOT A MAN THAT HE SHOULD LIE NOR A SON 29:11 OF MAN THAT HE SHOULD REPENT SO WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED THERE? 29:15 THAT WAS THE ONE INSTANCE IN THE BIBLE WHERE MOSES WAS A FIGURE 29:20 OF CHRIST. SECOND REASON WHY THE LORD 29:27 RELENTED WAS HE WAS 415, AND I KNOW WE WILL ALL IDENTIFY, WHEN 29:32 WE HAVE FALLEN INTO SIN, THE WAGE OF SIN IS -- 29:35 >> DELAWARE. >> WHY ARE WE ARE STILL ALIVE WE 29:41 HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHO SYMPATHIZES WITH OUR WEAKNESSES. 29:44 BUT WHEN WE REPENT HE RELENGTHS. AMEN. 29:49 PRAISE THE LORD. >> BRIAN. 29:52 >> I SO ENJOY SABBATH SCHOOL PANEL BECAUSE AS I AM SITTING 29:56 HERE LISTENING TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU YOU GUYS UP HERE ON 30:00 ON THE PANEL, I LEARN 0 SO MUCH, AMEN AND SUCH A BLESSING TO SIT 30:03 ON THIS PANEL BECAUSE AS I LISTEN TO JILL WITH HER 30:07 INCREDIBLE LIST, THERE IS SO MUCH INFORMATION THERE AND IT IS 30:11 AWESOME, AMAZING BIBLICAL INFORMATION AND I JUST GLEAN AND 30:14 PASTOR MCCAIN IS LIKE DRINKING FROM A FIRE HYDRANT OVER HERE 30:17 SHE AMAZING AND SHELLEY AND NOLLY, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, 30:21 PASTOR KENNY, IT IS JUST A BLESSING TO BE A PART OF THIS 30:23 WONDERFUL PANEL. TUESDAY'S LESSON IS ENTITLED 30:27 REACHING SOULS. IS IT IMPORTANT TO REACH SOULS? 30:30 IS GOD IN THE BUSINESS OF REACHING SOULS? 30:32 I BELIEVE THAT WITH ALL OF MY HEART. 30:35 AND, IN FACT, IT BRINGS ME BACK A FEW YEARS BACK TO 2013, I 30:40 REMEMBER VERY CLEARLY THERE WAS A GROUP OF YOUNG ADULTS, A GROUP 30:45 OF YOUNG KIDS FRESH OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE THAT HAD A 30:50 MEETING TWO OR THREE TIMES A WEEK HAVING BIBLE STUDY IN A 30:52 LIVING ROOM IN ARKANSAS. AND WE, INCLUDING MYSELF AND 30:59 MYSELF, MY WIFE, STEPHANIE, MY BROTHER, DAKOTA, HIS WIFE ANNA 31:03 AND OUR FRIEND JORDAN AND A FEW OTHERS WE WERE ALL MEETING TWO 31:06 OR THREE TIMES A WEEK AND WE WERE HAVING A SPIRITUAL REVIVAL 31:09 IN OUR LIVING ROOM AS WE WERE STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD BUT 31:12 THERE CAME THAT MOMENT THIS TIME WHERE WE WERE LIKE YOU KNOW 31:15 WHAT? AS WE WERE COMING TO LEARN MORE 31:17 ABOUT AND COMING TO GROW AND KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS JESUS OF 31:20 THE BIBLE WE BEGAN ASKING THE QUESTION, WHAT ARE WE GOING DO 31:24 AMOUNT? IT, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THIS 31:26 WONDERFUL GOD, HE IS SUCH A WONDERFUL SAVIOR BUT HOW MANY 31:29 PEOPLE OUT THERE DON'T KNOW THIS JESUS AND WE BEGIN ASKING THE 31:33 QUESTION, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? 31:35 WELL IT LED US TO BASICALLY ENROLL AND ENLIST IN WHAT IS 31:39 KNOWN TODAY IT IS A AMAZING CENTER OF EVANGELISM, I HAVE TO 31:45 GIVE MY SHOUT OUT TO AFCO, CHANGED MY LIFE. 31:50 AND I AM PUTTING THAT IN THERE BECAUSE THIS LESSON BEGINS WITH 31:54 A POWERFUL QUOTE FROM THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, FOUND IN THE 31:57 MINISTRY OF HEALING PAGE 143, OUR ENTIRE AFCO SESSION, THAT 32:04 FOUR MONTH SESSION EACH AND EVERY DAY GOING TO CLASS, YOU 32:08 KNOW, ATTENDING ALL ALL OF THE WONDERFUL EVANGELIST CLASSES 32:12 THEY WERE TEACHING US HOW TO WIN SOULS AND NINE STORE TO THE 32:16 NEEDS OF OTHERS, IT WAS ALL CENTRALIZED ON FOUNDATION OF 32:18 THIS FAMOUS QUOTE. THIS QUOTE FROM THE MINISTRY OF 32:21 HEALING, 143 IS ONE OF ELLEN'S TOP TWO OR THREE QUOTE THAT MOST 32:26 PEOPLE RECOGNIZE VERY CLEARLY BUT NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS. 32:29 IT IS VERY PROFOUND. SHE STARTS BY SAYING, CHRIST'S 32:34 METHOD ALONE. LET'S STOP RIGHT THERE. 32:37 OKAY? THERE IS A SCRIPTURE SOMEWHERE, 32:39 IT SAYS SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF 27 LORDS, 14,000 SAVES 32:48 AND 15 BAPTISMS, DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? 32:53 ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM, AND WHAT DOES SHE SAY 32:58 HERE? CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE. THERE IS 33:01 NO OTHER METHOD, MY FRIENDS YOU READ THE BIBLE FROM GENERAL S 33:05 REVELATION IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO REACH SOULS THERE IS ONLY 33:07 ONE EXAMPLE, THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY IN ALL OF SCRIPTURE AND THAT 33:11 IS CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE THAT WILL WIN AND REACH SOULS, AMEN. 33:15 SO SHE CONTINUES, CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE WILL GIVE TRUE 33:18 SUCCESS IN REACHING THE PEOPLE. THE SAVIOR, NOTICE THIS, SHE 33:23 DESCRIBES HOW THE SAVIOR MINGLED WITH MEN AS ONE WHO DESIRED 33:28 THEIR GOOD. HE SHOWED HIS SYMPATHY FOR THEM, 33:31 MINISTERED TO THEIR NEEDS AND WON THEIR CONFIDENCE. 33:34 SO NOTICE HE HAD DONE ALL OF THAT AND THEN ONCE HE HAD 33:37 MINISTERED TO THEIR NEEDS AND DESIRED THEIR GOODS AND GAINED 33:41 AND WON THEIR CONFIDENCE THEM HE MADE THEM FOLLOW ME AND SHE GOES 33:45 ON TO DESCRIBE HOW THAT LOOKS LIKE. 33:46 SHE SAYS THE POOR ARE TO BE RELIEVED, THE SICK CARED FOR, 33:50 THE SORROW AND THE BE PROCEED COMFORTED, AND THE IGNORANT 33:56 INSTRUCTED. THE INEXPERIENCED COUNSELED, WE 33:58 ARE TO WOAP WITH THOSE THAT WEEP AND REJOICE WITH THOSE THAT 34:03 REJOICE. CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE. 34:05 YOU SEE, EVANGELISM IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF FOLLOWING THE 34:10 EXAMPLE OF CHRIST AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A FEW YEARS AGO I WAS 34:13 ATTENDING THIS CERTAIN CHURCH AND I REMEMBER ONE OF THE ELDERS 34:17 AS WE WERE DISCUSSING AND I WAS ENCOURAGING THEM TO DO 34:20 EVANGELISM, I REMEMBER ONE OF THE ELDERS OF THIS PARTICULAR 34:23 CHURCH, VERY SHOCKINGLY SPOKE UP AND SAID WELL DO WE REALLY NEED 34:26 TO GO OUT THERE TO THEM? I MEAN THEY KNOW WE ARE RIGHT OVER 34:30 HERE. WE HAVE BEEN HERE FOR MANY 34:31 YEARS, WHY DON'T THEY JUST COME TO US. 34:37 NOTICE, NOTICE THE COMMISSION FROM CYST TO HIS APOSTLES IN 34:42 MATTHEW CHAPTER 10:1 THROUGH 8, NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS HERE, AS YOU 34:47 GO. OKAY? 34:48 SO DID CHRIST GO TO THEM OR WAIT FOR THEM TO COME TO HIM? 34:51 HE WENT TO THEM, HE WENT TO THEM. 34:55 HE MIX AND MINGLED WITH THE PEOPLE AND WON THEIR CONFIDENCE. 34:59 IT SAYS AND AS YOU GO, NOTICE, PREACH, SAYING THE KINGDOM OF 35:03 HEAVEN IS AT HAND. HEAL THE SICK, CLEANSE THE 35:07 LEPERS, RAISE THE DEAD, CAST OUT DEMONS. 35:11 FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED -- I LOVE, THIS AND REALLY GIVE, YOU 35:15 KNOW WHAT GOD IS SAYING IN THIS PARTICULAR PASSAGE? 35:17 HE IS SAYING LOOK I HAVE DONE ALL OF THIS GOOD STUFF FOR YOU. 35:20 I HAVE GIVEN TO YOU AND PROVIDED FOR YOU. 35:22 I HAVE GIVEN MY LIFE FOR YOU. I HAVE LOVED YOU. 35:27 WITH A LOVE BEYOND MEASURE. NOW I WANT YOU TO GO DO THAT TO 35:29 MY PEOPLE. I WANT YOU TO TWO DO THAT TO 35:32 YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST. 35:34 YOU SEE IF WE WERE EVER GOING REACH THE HEARTS OF THOSE AROUND 35:37 US WE MUST LEARN TO MINISTER TO THEIR NEEDS, MY FRIENDS, AND 35:40 THAT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN THIS -- I THINK 35:43 WE LIVE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. 35:47 AMERICA. IT IS A WONDERFUL COUNTRY TO 35:48 LIVE IN AND I AM VERY BLESSED TO BE AN AMERICAN. 35:51 BUT I CAN TELL YOU WITH THIS WESTERN CULTURAL MINDSET, THIS 35:57 CULTURAL WHAT DO WE CALL IT, THE AMERICAN DREAM, ALMOST HAS 36:00 TURNED INTO THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE FOR MANY PEOPLE. 36:03 BECAUSE WE HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION ALMOST THAT AMERICAN 36:06 DREAM IS ALMOST -- IT IS SO SELFISH, ALMOST A SELFISH 36:09 CONNOTATION TO IT THAT WE HAVE BECOME SO SELF PROMOTING IN 36:13 ADVANCING SELF, ADVANCING SELF, ADVANCING SELF TO GET WHATS WHAT IT IS 36:17 WE WANT BUT AT THE OWNED OF THE DAY MY REND, CHRIST IS SAYING 36:20 WHAT ABOUT YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS? I WANT YOU TO REACH 36:22 THEM? I DIED FOR THEM JUST LIKE I DIED 36:24 FOR YOU, AMEN, PRAISE THE LORD. FIRST PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 36:28 11 AND 12, I LOVE THIS, HE SAYS, BELOVED I BEG YOU AS SOJOURNERS 36:33 AND PILGRIMS, ABSTAIN FROM FLESHLY LUST WHICH WORE AGAINST 36:37 THE SOUL. HAVING YOUR CONDUCT HONORABLE 36:40 AMONG THE GENTILES THAT MEANS YOU KNOW WHAT IF YOU MY PEOPLE 36:43 AND MY REMNANT, THERE IS THE, SOME OTHER PEOPLE NOT 36:46 TECHNICALLY A PART OF THAT RECOMMEND THAN THE YET BUT I 36:48 HAVE SHEEP OF ANOTHER FOLD YOU DON'T KNOW OF I WANT THEM TO BE 36:51 A PART OF THIS REMNANT TOO. HE SAYS NOTICE AMONG THE 36:54 GENTILES THAT THEY SPEAK AGAINST YOU AS EVILDOERS, THEY MAY I BE 36:59 YOUR GOOD WORKS, WHICH THEY OBSERVE, GLORIFY GOD IN THE DAY 37:03 OF VISITATION. SO HE SAYS, BY YOUR GOOD WORKS 37:06 AND I AM REMINDED OF REVELATION, TO ALL SEVEN CHURCH AGES, WHAT 37:10 DID HE SAY, I KNOW YOUR FAITH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE OFTEN GO 37:14 TO THAT SCRIPTURE OF PAUL, WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH 37:17 FAITH, YOU KNOW, IT IS INTERESTING, CHRIST COULD EDES I 37:19 WILL HAVE SAID I KNOW YOUR TATE BUT HE DIDN'T SAY THAT TO EACH 37:24 OF THE -- HE SAID I KNOW YOUR WORKS BECAUSE HE IS LOOKING TO 37:29 SEE HOW WE ARE LOVING AND TREATING EACH OTHER. 37:32 PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 2:14 AND 15, I LOVE THIS, DO ALL THINGS 37:37 WITHOUT COMPLAINING AND DISPUTING THAT YOU MAY BECOME 37:40 BLAMELESS AND HARMLESS, CHILDREN OF GOD WITHOUT FAULT IN THE 37:44 MIDST OF A CROOKED AND PERVERSE GENERATION, AMONG WHOM YOU SHINE 37:49 AS LIGHTS IN THE WORLD. SO HERE WE ARE, YOU KNOW, WE ALL 37:52 HAVE BEEN IN THAT SIMPLE PRISON CELL, RIGHT? 37:54 WE WERE IN THAT PRISON CELL AND CHAINED TO THE TO THE WALL AND 37:57 JESUS COMES IN AND SETS US FREE BECAUSE WE HUMBLE OURSELVES TO 38:00 HIM AND SAY LORD I RECOGNIZE THAT MY BACK IS AGAINST THE WALL 38:03 AND I NEED YOU, I NEED A SAVE YOUR AND SO HE SET UP FREE FROM 38:08 THOSE CHAINS AND HE SAYS NOW CHECK THE DOOR AND WE GO TO THE 38:11 DOOR OF THE DUNGEON OR DOOR OF THE PRISON AND WE CHECK DOOR AND 38:13 IT IS OPEN AND WE WALK OUT AND WE ARE FREE IN JESUS CHRIST BUT 38:17 YOU KNOW WHAT WE SAYS NOW? I WANT YOU TO TWO BACK INTO THAT 38:21 PRISON. IT IS A DARK SINFUL PRISON AND I 38:23 WANT YOU AS A BEACON OF LIGHT TO GO BACK INTO THAT PRISON BECAUSE 38:26 I HAVE MORE LOST SOULS IN THERE, PEOPLE IN NEED OF THE LOVE OF 38:29 JESUS THAT THEY NEED TO SEE THROUGH YOU. 38:32 AMEN. SO NOTICE WHAT IT CONTINUES TO 38:34 SAY HERE. WE JUST READ PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 38:37 2 SO WE NEED TO GO BACK IN THE PRISONS AND SHINE OUR LIGHT. 38:40 THE WORLD MAY BE WICKED MY FRIEND BUT GOD STILL WANTS OUR 38:44 REPUTATION AND WITNESS TO BE A PECULIAR RIGHTEOUS EXAMPLE TOWN 38:47 THEM. WE MUST LIVE OUT WHAT WE 38:50 PRESSURE. OTHER BUSINESS, OUR WITNESS IS 38:54 TAINTED. I WANT YOU TO TURN WITH ME TO 38:56 FIRST JOHN CHAPTER 3. PROBABLY OF ALL THE PASSAGES I 38:59 COULD READ THIS MORNING AND SHARE, FIRST JOHN -- WE ARE 39:02 GOING TO GO TO BROTHER FIRST JOHN, CHAPTER 3, WE ARE GOING TO 39:05 READ VERSES 16 THROUGH 18, VERY SIMPLE BUT VERY PROPOUND, I LOVE 39:09 THIS TEXT. AND IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT 39:11 COULD SUM UP WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IN REACHING SOULS, IT IS 39:14 THIS PASSAGE RIGHT HERE. FIRST JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSES 16 39:19 THROUGH 18 THE BIBLE SAYS BY THIS WE KNOW LOVE, BECAUSE HE 39:25 LAID DOWN HIS LIVE FOR US, AND WE ALSO OUGHT TO LAY DOWN OUR 39:30 LIVES FOR THE BRETHREN. BUT WHOEVER HAS THIS WORLD'S 39:36 GOODS AND SEES HIS BROTHER IN NEED AND SHUTS UP HIS HEART FROM 39:42 HIM HOW DOES THE LOVE OF GOD ABIDE IN HIM? 39:45 HE SAYS MY LITTLE CHILDREN LET US NOT LOVE IN WORD OR IN TONGUE 39:50 BUT IN DODO AND IN TRUTH. YOU KNOW, CAN I SPEAK PLAIN THIS 39:56 MORNING? I WANT TO BE TRANSPARENT WITH 39:58 YOU. AS MUCH AS I CAN, BUT RESPECTFUL 40:02 RESPECTFUL. WE CAN ALL AS SEVENTH DAY 40:05 ADVENTISTS HAVE THE TRUTH AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING AS 40:08 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS WE HAVE THE TRUTH, WE GLOW THE TRUTH S 40:10 WE CAN POINT TO THE TRUTH, WE CAN PREACH THE TRUTH, WE CAN 40:13 KNOW THIS BIBLE FROM COVER TO COVER AND BE THE GREATEST 40:18 THEOLOGIANS AND GREATEST TEACHERS AND PREACHERS THE WORLD 40:21 HAS TO GIVE. BUT MY FRIENDS AT THE END OF THE 40:24 DAY, THERE IS A LOT OF THAT I FEEL HAVE A FEARFUL LOOKING 40:28 FORWARD TO JUDGMENT IF WE DON'T COME TO KNOW THE GOD OF LOVE WE 40:32 ARE PROAMPG ABOUT AND SHARING BECAUSE WE CAN HAVE THE TRUTH 40:34 ALL DAY LONG AND MET INDIVIDUALS WHO, YOU KNOW, THEY SAY WELL, 40:37 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS CRY ALOUD AND SPARE NOT, SHOW MY 40:41 PEOPLE THEIR IS SINS, YES, WE ARE TO FOLLOW THT COMMAND AND 40:44 THERE IS AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO DO SO, BUT AT THE OWNED THE DAY 40:47 MY FRIENDS, WE ARE POSSESS GOING TO WIN ANYONE OVER BY USING THE 40:51 BIBLE AS A WEAPON TO BEAT SOMEONE OVER WITH THE TRUTH, WE 40:55 ARE TO SHARE THE LOVE, WE ARE TO MIX AND MINGLE WITH OUR BRETHREN 40:58 AND SHOW THEM LOVE OF JESUS AND MEET THEIR THE NEEDS. 41:02 BE WITH THEM THERE WHEN THEY ARE IN HEAD TO AND THEN WHEN WE HAVE 41:04 WON THEIR CONFIDENCE AND THEY SEE JESUS IN US, WHAT DOES OWES 41:09 SAY THEN DO, ASK THEM TO FOLLOW YOU AND THEN SHOW THEM TRUTH AND 41:12 POINT THEM TO ME AND SAY HEY THIS IS MY SAFE WROTE, COME 41:15 FOLLOW HIM. APEN. 41:17 PHRASE LORD. JAMES CHAPTER 2, VERSE 14 41:19 THROUGH SEVEN TONE. WHAT DOES IT THE PROFIT MY 41:23 BRETHREN IF SOMEONE SAYS HE HAS FAITH BUT DOES NOT HAVE WORKS. 41:28 CAN FAITH SAVE HIM? IT SAYS IF A BROTHER OR SISTER 41:31 IS NAKED AND DESTITUTE OF DAILY FOOD AND ONE OF YOU SAYS TO THEM 41:35 DEPART THE PEACE, BE WARM AND FILLED BUT DON'T GIVE THEM THE 41:39 THINGS THAT ARE NEED FORD BODY, WHAT DOES IT PROFIT PROPHET? 41:44 >> ALSO FATE, FAITH BY ITSELF DOES NOT HAVE WORKS IS DEAD. 41:52 ARE WE THE REMNANT? DOES GOD HAVE A PECULIAR PEOPLE? 41:58 >> THE BIBLE TELLS US IN FIRST PETER CHAPTER 2 VERSE 9 THAT 42:03 YOU, YOU NONE OF US ARE HERE BY HAPPENSTANCE OR COINCIDENCE MY 42:07 FRIEND, YOU HAVE BEEN CREATED FOR A PURPOSE. 42:09 THE BIBLE SAYS YOU ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, A 42:14 HOLY NATION, YOUR OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE HE MAY CLAIM THE PRAISES 42:19 OF HIM TO BE CALLED FROM DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS 42:23 LIGHT. IN CLOSING I WOULD LIKE TO READ 42:25 ONE LAST QUOTE FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE GOSPEL WRITERS, OSWALD 42:29 CHAMBERS AND LOVE THIS QUOTE HERE. 42:30 USING PAUL AS AN EXAMPLE HE SAYS PAUL'S UNDERSTANDING OF HOW 42:34 CHRIST HAD DEALT WITH HIM IS THE SECRET BEHIND HIS DEERMINATION 42:38 TO SERVE OTHERS. THE OIL WAS FORMERLY A 42:43 BLASPHEMER, A PERSECUTOR AND A STONE LENT PAN, NO BADLY OTHERS 42:48 HAVE TREATED PAUL THEY NEVER COULD HAVE TREATED HIM WITH THE 42:50 SAME DEGREE OF SPITE AND HATRED IN WHICH HE HAD TREATED JESUS 42:55 CHRIST. ONCE WE REALIZE THAT JESUS HAS 42:57 SERVED US EVEN TO THE DEPTHS 0 OF OUR MEAGERNESS, OUR 43:02 SELFISHNESS AND SIN, NOTHING WE ENCOUNTER FROM OTHERS WILL BE 43:04 ABLE TO EXHAUST OUR DETERMINATION TO SERVE OTHERS 43:07 FOR HIS SAKE. MAY GOD'S PEOPLE WAKE UP AND MAY 43:10 WE START REACHING SOULS WITH THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST. 43:13 AMEN. AMEN. 43:15 THANK YOU. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU WERE TALKING 43:18 ABOUT -- LET ME ASK YOU, IF YOU PLAYING A VIOLIN, DO YOU GO BEAT 43:23 SOMEBODY OVER THE HEAD WITH A VIOLIN TO TRY TO CONVINCE THEM 43:26 HOW BEAUTIFUL THE MUSIC IS? NO. 43:29 AND THAT'S WHAT SOME PEOPLE DO WITH THE BIBLE. 43:31 IT IS ALSO WHAT THEY DO WITH THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. I REMEMBER 43:35 WHEN I WAS BRAND-NEW ADVENTIST AND OUT PREACHING AT A CHURCH ON 43:42 SALVATION BASED ON FIRST JOHN FIVE:10 THROUGH 12, BUT SOMEBODY 43:47 CAME UP TO ME AND SAID, WHY CAN'T YOU HAVE ASSURANCE OF 43:52 SALVATION? HE IS JUST POUNDING ON ME AND AS 43:54 I RESEARCHED IT, THEY HAD TOTALLY TAKEN IT OUT OF CONTEXT 43:58 BECAUSE MRS. WHITE WAS TEACHING THE SAME THING I WAS TEACHING. 44:02 ALL RIGHT. I INVITE YOU, IF YOU WILL, TO 44:06 TURN TO EPHESIANS CHAPTER 3. THANK YOU, RYAN. 44:13 FOR YOUR IMPASSIONED DELIVERY THERE. 44:16 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 3. LET ME TELL YOU, DID YOU KNOW 44:22 THAT GOD'S REPUTATION IS HANGING ON YOU? 44:36 REMEMBER WHEN GOD SAID TO SATAN, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT 44:42 JOB? HE WAS POINTING TO JOB'S 44:45 FAITHFULNESS AND JOB WAS A TESTIMONY TO THE FALLEN AND THE 44:50 UNFALLEN ANGELS. BUT WHAT HAPPENED IS GOD ALLOWS 44:57 HIS REPUTATION TO HANG ON OUR LIFE AND NOW HE HAS EXPANDED 45:01 THAT FROM JUST A FEW OF THE SAINTS TO THE CHURCH. 45:05 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 3:10. PAUL SAYS HIS INTENT WAS THAT -- 45:13 NOW THROUGH THE CHURCH THE MANIFOLD WISDOM, OH I LOVE THAT 45:19 WORD MANIFOLD, IT IS AN OLD RARE WORD AND IT MEANS MANY -- 45:24 MULTIFACETED, MANY COLORED, LIKE A JEWEL. 45:27 SO THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD SHOULD BE MADE KNOWN TO THE 45:32 RULERS AND AUTHORITIES IN THE HEAVENLY REALM. 45:37 HOW? THROUGH THE CHURCH, HE SAID. 45:40 SO WHAT IS PAUL SAYING? THE UNFOLDING DRAMA OF THE 45:48 REDEEMED CHURCH COMMUNITY IS WITNESSING TO THESE 45:54 PRINCIPALITIES OF THE AIR, BOTH HOLY AND FALLEN ANGELS. 45:58 BEFORE CHRIST WE WERE GOD'S ENEMIES. 46:01 WERE WE NOT? WE FOLLOWED WAYS OF THE WORLD. 46:05 WE WERE ENSLAVED TO SIN AND COMMITTED SIN BUT NOW BECAUSE OF 46:14 CHRIST WE HAVE BEEN ADOPTED AS HIS CHILDREN. 46:17 HE HAS GIVEN U THE 50 OF SALVATION. 46:20 WEWE HAVE GOT HIS MERCY AND WE NOW SAND FOR TRUTH. 46:24 AND WE ARE MADE ALIVE WITH CHRIST AND WE ARE FREE TO LOVE 46:30 OTHERS, TO REFLECT HIS LOVE. HIS LIFE AND THE CHURCH 46:38 COMMUNITY IS REFERRED TO AS THE FAMILY OF GOD. 46:44 THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD. TURN BACK A CHAPTER TO EPHESIANS 46:50 2:19. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GRACE 46:53 WITHIN THE CHURCH. NOW, IN HE -- EPHESIANS 2:19, 46:59 PAUL WRITES YOU ARE THEREFORE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS. 47:03 NOW FOREIGNERS WAS A SHORT-TERM TRANSIENTS, THEY HAD NO RIGHTS. 47:07 STRANGERS WERE SIMILAR BUT THEY WERE RESIDENT FOREIGNERS WHO 47:11 SETTLED AND THEY HAD LIMITED RIGHTS. 47:13 SO THESE ARE TERMS THAT WERE USED OF THE GENTILES BEFORE 47:20 CHRIST, BUT SAID KOUACHI YOU ARE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND 47:24 FOREIGNERS. YOU ARE FELLOW CITIZENS WITH 47:30 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD. HEY, YOU ARE FELLOW CITIZENS. 47:34 YOU ARE CITIZENS -- YOUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN, THERE 47:39 ARE NO SECOND CLASS CITIZENS. IN HEAVEN. 47:43 WE ARE MEMBERS OF GOD'S HOUSEHOLD. 47:46 THAT'S OUR POSITION. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THAT, 47:51 DOESN'T THAT DESCRIBE A TOGETHERNESS, AN INTIMACY? 47:54 WE ARE TO BE UNITED WITH THE SAINTS AND ENJOY ALL OF THE 47:59 PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSEHOLD. NOW TURN TO GALATIANS CHAPTER 6 48:03 AND VERSE 10. GALATIANS CHAPTER 6 VERSE 10. 48:09 SO WHAT ARE WE 0 TO DO, AS CITIZENS OF GOD'S KINGDOM AND 48:14 MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS? 48:17 HE SAYS, TO THE GALATIANS, SIX:10, THEREFORE AS WE HAVE 48:25 OPPORTUNITY LET US DO GOOD TO ALL, ESPECIALLY TO THOSE WHO ARE 48:30 THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH. LET ME ASK YOU, WHEN IS LAST 48:36 TIME GOD GAVE YOU OPPORTUNITY? DID YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT? 48:42 I MEAN, THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY EVERY DAY TO DO GOOD TO THE 48:48 HOUSEHOLD. IT IS OUR UNIQUE PRIVILEGE AS 48:54 CHRISTIANS TO DO GOOD THINGS IN THE NAME OF CHRIST, ESPECIALLY 48:59 FOR THE HOUSEHOLD OFFED TO -- OF GOD. 49:03 WE BELONG TO THE SAME FAMILY .. AND IT IS NECESSARY THAT WE 49:08 SUPPORT EACH OTHER. DID YOU KNOW THAT OUR LOVE FOR 49:11 EACH OTHER IS THE PRIMARY TEST OF WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE A 49:17 CHRISTIAN? FIRST JOHN 4:20 SAYS THIS. 49:23 IF SOMEONE SAYS I LOVE GOD AND HE HATES HIS BROTHER, HE IS 49:28 TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY IN THE CHURCH, THAT UNLOVEABLE PERSON 49:32 THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO AVOID, IF YOU SAY YOU LOVE GOD BUT YOU 49:38 HATE YOUR BROTHER, HE IS A LIAR. FOR HE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS 49:44 BROTHER WHOM HE HAS SEEN, HOW CAN HE LOVE HIS BROTHER WHOM HE 49:48 HAS NOT SEEN. NOW I INVITE YOU TO TURN TO 49:53 ROMANS CHAPTER 12, BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO SEE IF THERE IS 49:57 GOING TO BE GRACE IN THE CHURCH. AND IF THERE .. IF THERE ISN'T 50:03 GRACE WITHIN THE CHURCH, WE ARE DAMAGING GOD'S REPUTATION. 50:10 BUT ROMANCE CHAPTER 12, PAUL WRITES TO THE ROMANS, BEGINNING 50:16 IN VERSE 10 WHAT WE OUGHT TO BE LIKE. 50:19 BE KINDLY, AFFECT MINUTE TO, AFFECTIONATE TO OTHERS WITH 50:25 BROTHERLY LOVE .. NOW THIS IS A FAMILY SORT OF LOVE. 50:28 I SHOULDN'T SAY THIS. BUT DON'T TELL ANYBODY. 50:33 OKAY? EVERY NOW AND THEN I RUN INTO A 50:40 LESSON 11 -- A 11 ROUSE PERSON IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 50:44 EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU GO TO A CHURCH .. AND YOU HAVE SOME MAN 50:47 WHO COMES UP TO YOU THAT IS A TOTAL STRANGER AND GIVES YOU A 50:50 BODY HUG THAT MAKES YOU ABSOLUTELY FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. 50:57 THIS IS -- WHEN HE IS SAYING BE KINDLY AND AFFECTIONATE WITH 51:02 BROTHERLY LOVE, LEARN THE A-FRAME HUG, I MEAN I JUST HAVE 51:05 GOT TO SAY THAT. YOU KNOW WHAT? 51:08 I DO. I AM NOT KIDDING. 51:10 THIS IS WHAT I DO. ACT LIKE YOU GOING TO HUG ME I 51:15 PUT ANY HAND HERE AND PUT MY ARM INBETWEEN US. 51:20 LEARN THE A-FRAME HUG. OKAY. 51:26 IN HONOR, THIS IS LIVE, ISN'T IT? 51:31 IN HONOR GIVING PREFERENCE TO ONE ANOTHER, PUTTING THEM FIRST. 51:35 WE ARE TO PUT OTHERS FIRST. AND HE SAYS, NOT LACKING IN 51:42 DILIGENT, FERVENT IN SPIRIT, SERVING THE LORD, PATIENT IN 51:47 TRIBULATION. CONTINUING STEADFASTLY IN 51:49 PRAYER, DISTRIBUTING TO THE NEEDS OF THE SAINTS, GIVEN TO 51:57 HOSPITALITY. WHETHER IT IS THE LOCAL 51:58 COMMUNITY OF THE CHURCH OR THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH, WE NEED TO 52:03 LIVE UP TO OUR HIGH CALLING. WE ARE TO BE A COMMUNITY OF THE 52:08 SPIRIT OF GOD AND TO TREAT OTHERS WITH JUSTICE AND LOVE AND 52:14 GRACE AND WE ARE TO TREAT THE LEAST OF THESE WITH DIGNITY AND 52:22 FAIRNESS. YOU KNOW,, JESUS GAVE THIS 52:24 COMMAND THIS JOHN 13:34. AND 35. 52:30 IT IS INTERESTING HOW HE SAYS THIS. A NEW COMMAND I GIVE TO 52:38 YOU. LOVE ONE ANOTHER. 52:39 WELL, WHAT IS NEW ABOUT THAT? LEVITICUS 19, 18 SAID WE SHOULD 52:45 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF, I AM THE LORD. 52:48 LOVE ONE ANOTHER. THIS IS A NEW COMMAND. 52:52 HIGHJACK. BUT LOOK WHAT HE SAYS. 52:55 AS I HAVE LOVED YOU. SO YOU MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER. 53:03 BY THIS, EVERYONE WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES IF YOU LOVE 53:08 ONE ANOTHER. THAT IS THE DISTINGUISHING MARK 53:11 OF A CHRISTIAN. IS, IS THAT WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER. 53:16 AND WE ARE TO FOLLOW JESUS' EXAMPLE OF SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE 53:24 AND YOU KNOW WHAT? WE CAN'T DO THAT IN OUR OWN 53:26 STRENGTH BUT ROMANS 5:5 SAYS THAT GOD FORCES LOVE INTO OUR 53:32 HEARTS BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND AS WE SEE DAY BY DAY 53:36 TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AS WE SEEK THAT, WE JUST 53:40 PRAY, LORD, FILL ME WITH YOUR LOVE. 53:43 LET ME -- YOU KNOW, WHEN WE SAY THAT WE LOVE YOU, WE DO. 53:46 WE ARE NOT JUST SAYING THAT. AND IT IS NOT TO OUR -- I MEAN, 53:52 WE DON'T GET ANY CREDIT FOR IT. WE PRAY. 53:54 I KNOW I PRAY. AND SAY, LORD, FILL ME WITH YOUR 53:59 LOVE FOR YOUR PEOPLE. I LOVE YOU. 54:01 YOU ARE MY BROTHERS AND MY SISTERS. 54:04 AND LET ME READ THIS TO YOU. TURN TO FIRST JOHN, CHAPTER 3. 54:10 BOY, WE CAN BET IN FIRST JOHN AND JUST PREACH, COLDN'T WE? 54:13 WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER WITH THAT SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE, 54:19 BECAUSE THIS IS HOW THE WORLD RECOGNIZES THAT WE ARE FOLLOWERS 54:23 OF CHRIST. FIRST JOHN CHAPTER 3 AND WE WILL 54:26 LOCK AT VERSE 7. LITTLE CHILDREN LET NO ONE 54:30 DECEIVE YOU, HE WHO PRACTICES RIGHTEOUSNESS IS RIGHTEOUS. 54:34 JUST AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS. YEAH. 54:36 IT IS ISSUES ARENESS BY FAITH BUT YOU HAVE GOT TO PUT IT INTO 54:39 PRACTICE. HE WHO SINS IS WHAT? 54:42 OF THE DELVE DEAF. FOR THE DEVIL HAS SINNED FROM 54:45 THE BEGINNING AND FOR THIS PURPOSE THE SON OF GOD WAS 54:48 MANIFESTED, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. 54:52 WHOEVER HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD DOES NOT STAND FOR HIS SEED, 54:56 CHRIST'S STEED REMAINS IN HIM. HE CANNOT SIN BECAUSE HE HAS 54:59 BEEN BORN OF GOD. NOW DON'T GET TOO DISCOURAGED 55:01 HERE SHE TALKING ABOUT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LIVE IN ABOUT JULY 55:06 SIN. HABIT YOU WILL SINCE HABITUAL 55:09 SINCE, IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE CHILDREN OF THE 55:12 DEVIL ARE MANIFEST .. WHOEVER DOES NOT PRACTICE RIGHTEOUSNESS 55:15 IS NOT OF GOD NOR IS HE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER. 55:25 WE HAVE AN ERRONEOUS WAY OF SAYING, WE ARE ALL GOD'S 55:31 CHILDREN. THAT'S NOT WHAT JESUS SAID. 55:33 HE SAID YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL TO THE PHARISEES. 55:38 WE ARE ALL BORN IN THE IMAGE OF GOD AND YOU CAN GO BACK AND I 55:43 GUESS YOU CAN SAY THAT IN A WAY, BUT LET ME TELL YOU, YOU ARE 55:47 EITHER A CHILD OF GOD OR YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE DEVIL. 55:53 AND YOU CAN'T BE IN BOTH FAMILIES SIMULTANEOUSLY. 55:55 AND WHAT DOES IT SAY HERE? GENUINE LOVE, CHRISTIAN LOVE HAS 56:01 TO BE PRACTICAL. WE HAVE TO FIND OUR MOTIVATION 56:06 IN SERVING ONE ANOTHER AND JESUS EVEN SAID LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. 56:11 LET ME TELL YOU LOVE IS AN EMOTION. 56:14 IT IS NOT AN EMOTION. IT IS A CHOICE. 56:17 AND YOU HAVE TO ASK THE GIFT FROM GOD. 56:22 THANK YOU, MS. SHELLEY. IS SHE NOT A UNIQUE PERSON? 56:26 WE DO APPRECIATE HER. I WANT ALL OF YOU TO TURN IN 56:30 YOUR BIBLE TO OUR MEMORY TEXT AND THAT WOULD BE HEBREWS THE 56:35 TENTH CHAPTER WHERE I AM GOING LOOK AT VERSES 23 THROUGH 25. 56:41 HEBREWS. CHAPTER 10, 23 THROUGH 25. 56:46 AND I TALKED TO YOU TODAY ABOUT ENCOURAGING EACH OTHER TO GOOD 56:53 WORKS. THESE BIBLE TEACHINGS THAT JILL, 57:01 PASTOR RYAN AND SHELLEY SHALL HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT OF LOVING 57:05 EACH OTHER AND ENCOURAGING EACH OTHER, HELPING EACH OTHER, YOU 57:09 KNOW, THAT IS THE HEART OF THE MINISTRY, ISN'T IT? 57:12 BUT THAT GOES TO THE VERY ROOT OF IT. 57:14 BUT HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN DISCOURAGED? 57:22 HAVE YOU EVER GROWN WARY? IT SEEMS THAT -- IT SEEMS TO ME 57:27 LIKE DISCOURAGEMENT MAY BE ONE OF THE MAIN TOOLS THAT THE ENEMY 57:32 USES TO GET US OFF TRACK. -- PASTOR FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND 57:41 IN ALL HONESTY THAT CAN BE DISCOURAGING. 57:45 NOW, I KNOW THAT LOOKS AS PASTOR MCCAIN AN ANGIE, YOU THINK THAT 57:51 BEING A PASTOR AND HIS WIFE IS JUST THIS WONDERFUL, FABULOUS 57:58 OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO TRAVEL THE WORLD AND PREACH ALL OVER THE 58:01 WORLD. DO YOU KNOW THAT THEY WERE OVER 58:03 IN, I THINK IT WAS AFRICA RECENTLY; IS THAT TRUE? 58:05 HE WAS SICK AND SHE WAS SICK. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? 58:10 THEY DIDN'T MISS A SERVICE. IT IS HARD WORK AND IT CAN BE 58:15 DISCOURAGING. AND OH IF I CAN SAY ANYTHING TO 58:17 ANYBODY IS PRAY FOR YOUR PASTORS. 58:20 PRAY FOR YOUR PASTORS. WE PASTORED FOR SEVERAL YEARS 58:24 AND I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN THERE WAS A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN OUR 58:30 CHURCH AND THEY WERE JUST IRATE WITH LEADERSHIP, WITH LEADERSHIP 58:34 WHICH I WAS A PART OF, WE WERE THE MAIN TWO TARGETS UP THERE. 58:38 WE -- AND THEY WERE JUST IRATE WITH US ABOUT A DECISION THAT 58:42 LEADERSHIP HAD MADE CONCERNING OUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL. 58:48 AND THEY WERE VERY LOUD AND THEY WERE VERY VERBAL. 58:51 AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING, RUNNING AROUND TO OTHER 58:53 GROUPS IN THE CHURCH TRYING TO TALK PEOPLE INTO SEEING THINGS 58:57 THEIR WAY. HAVE YOU EVER -- HAVE YOU SEEN 59:00 THAT? SO THEY WERE TRYING TO PERSUADE 59:03 OTHERS TO SEE THINGS AS THEY SAW THINGS. 59:08 WELL, WE WENT HOME AND AFTER THE SERVICE 0 AND WE WERE JUST 59:15 DISCOURAGED. AND WE HAD ABOUT COME TO THE 59:18 CONCLUSION THAT IT MIGHT BE BETTER IF WE WERE TO JUST QUIT, 59:24 IF WE WERE TO LET SOMEONE ELSE TAKE THE MINISTRY AND MAYBE THEY 59:29 CAN MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY. AND WE WERE SO DISCOURAGED WE 59:34 WERE THINKING ABOUT QUITTING. NOW LET ME ASK YOU THIS. 59:37 HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN SO DISCOURAGED YOU THOUGHT ABOUT 59:40 QUITTING? OH LET ME TELL YOU, THAT IS THE 59:44 ENEMY. THAT IS NOT OUR HOLY GOD. 59:46 THAT IS THE ENEMY. AND AT THIS BELIEVE AT THAT TIME 59:50 THAT THE LORD IMPRESSED UPON MY HEART TO LOOK AT THIS THING 59:55 LOGICALLY. NOW, I KNOW THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS 01:00:00 RECEIVE THINGS FROM THE LORD IN A LOGICAL MANNER. 01:00:03 I MEAN, THE LORD CAN IMPRESS THINGS UPON OUR HEARTS ANYWAY HE 01:00:07 CHOOSES. BUT HE JUST ENCOURAGED KNOW LOOK 01:00:10 AT THINGS LOGICALLY. AND I LOOKED AT THE NUMBER OF 01:00:14 PEOPLE THAT WERE SO LOUD AND SO VERBAL AND YOU KNOW, THERE WERE 01:00:18 ONLY ABOUT NINE. AND THEY WERE ALL IN ONE FAMILY 01:00:23 OR ASSOCIATED WITH ONE FAMILY. AND WE LOOKED AT THE REST OF THE 01:00:29 CONGREGATION, AND YOU KNOW THAT WAS ONLY TO THREE PERCENT. 01:00:33 BUT THAT THREE PERCENT WAS WHAT WAS IN OUR FACE, THEY WERE SO 01:00:37 LOUD, THEY WERE SO DISCOURAGING, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, THEN OH 01:00:43 HOW ENCOURAGING, THERE WERE 97 PERCENT OF SHEEP THAT JUST 01:00:47 LOVED US AND -- BUT THEY WEREN'T THE ONES THAT WERE BEING LOUD 01:00:52 AND VERBAL. OH SO LET ME HE COUNSEL -- 01:00:55 ENCOURAGE YOU IN THIS. WHEN YOU SEE THAT SOMEONE IS 01:00:57 UNDER ATTACK. BE AN ENCOURAGE TORE THAT 01:01:01 PERSON. LIFT THEM UP. 01:01:02 PICK THEM UP. THE NAYSAYERS ARE SO LOUD. 01:01:05 WE NEED TO HEAR A VOICE THAT IS A LOVING VOICE TO ALMIGHTY GOD. 01:01:13 WHAT SHOULD WE HAVE DONE AND THAT'S WHERE OUR SCRIPTURES COME 01:01:16 INTO PLAY. AGAIN, I HAVE NOT YOU IN HEBREWS 01:01:20 CHAPTER 10 AND WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT VERSES 23 THROUGH 25. 01:01:25 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS LET US HOLD FAST THE CONFESSION OF OUR HOPE 01:01:32 WITHOUT WAIVING FOR HE WHO PROMISED US WHAT IS FAITHFUL, 01:01:37 LET'S US HOLD FAST OUR CONFESSION .. AND OUR CONFESSION 01:01:42 OF OUR HOPE -- NOW WHAT IS OUR HOPE? 01:01:45 IT IS THE SOON RETURN OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST? 01:01:47 IS THAT OUR BLESSED HOPE? LET US HOLD FAST SO YOU CAN ONLY 01:01:51 HOLD FAST TO THE CONFESSION OF YOUR FAITH OF YOUR HOPE OF THOSE 01:01:56 THINGS AS SHELLEY TALKED SO BEAUTIFULLY LAST NIGHT THAT YOU 01:02:00 HAVE HID IN YOUR HEART AND THEY HAVE BECOME A LIVING PART OF 01:02:04 YOU. SO THOSE SCRIPTURES THAT YOU 01:02:07 SPEAK OVER YOUR LIFE, THOSE SCRIPTURES THAT ARE A LIVING 01:02:11 REALITY TO YOU, HOLD FAST TO THOSE, BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE 01:02:16 SCRIPTURES THAT WILL GET YOU THROUGH ROUGH. 01:02:18 BUT LET ME TELL YOU, IN THE TIME OF A PLEASANT VALLEY, IN THE 01:02:22 TIME WHEN THINGS ARE GOING WELL FOR YOU, THAT IS THE TIME FOR 01:02:28 YOU TO HIDE GOD'S WORD IN YOUR HEART AND TO MAKE THAT HEART A 01:02:31 LIVING REALITY, SO HOLD FAST TO THAT WORD THAT YOU HAVE HIDDEN 01:02:35 IN YOUR HEART. BECAUSE HE WHO PROMISED IT IS 01:02:41 FAITHFUL. LET'S GO ON, VERSE 24. 01:02:43 AND LET US CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER IN ORDER TO STIR UP LOVE AND 01:02:49 GOOD WORKS, VERSE 25. NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING OF 01:02:55 OURSELVES TOGETHER AS IS THE MANNER OF SOME BUT EXHORTING ONE 01:03:00 ANOTHER IN SO MUCH THE MORE AS YOU SEE THE DAY APPROACHING. 01:03:06 NOW I AM GOING TO PULL A JIM MARCONI ON YOU, I AM GIVING YOU 01:03:11 THREE STEPS HERE. THREE STEPS, OKAY. 01:03:14 STEP NUMBER ONE. IN WHAT WE SHOULD DO WHEN WE ARE 01:03:19 BEING DISCOURAGED OR WHAT WE SHOULD DO CONSIDERING THIS WORD. 01:03:22 AND THE FIRST IS TO STIR UP LOVING GOOD WORKS. 01:03:27 LOOK AT THAT. IN VERSE 24. 01:03:32 AND LET US CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER IN ORDER TO DO WHAT? STIR UP 01:03:38 LOVE AND GOD WORKS. SO HOW DO YOU DO THAT? HOW DO 01:03:42 YOU STIR UP LOVE AND GOOD WORKS? AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT. 01:03:47 DO YOU ALL REMEMBER, I WAS ONE OF THE ONES ON THE SABBATH 01:03:50 SCHOOL PANEL THAT GOT -- NEHEMIAH AND I AM TELLING YOU 01:03:55 THOSE ARE POWERFUL BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. 01:03:57 THEY HAVE REALLY IMPACTED I THINK ALL OF US. 01:04:01 AND SO REMEMBER IN EZRA, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD BE G 01:04:06 UNTO REBUILD THE TEMPLE AND THEY GOT DISCOURAGED, WHAT DID THE 01:04:11 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO WHEN THEY GOT THAT REMNANT THAT WAS SENT 01:04:17 BACK TO BUILD THE TEMPLE, THEY GOT DISCOURAGED AND WHAT DID 01:04:20 THEY DO? THEY QUIT BUILDING. 01:04:25 THEY STOPPED WHAT THE LORD HAS DIRECTED THEM TO DO. 01:04:29 BECAUSE THEY WERE DISCOURAGED. NOW, YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THE 01:04:32 REASONS THEY WERE DISCOURAGED AND WANT YOU TO KNOW HAD I LIVED 01:04:36 BACK THEN, I AM NOT SAYING I WOULD HAVE 01:04:39 WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OUT THERE BUILDING THE TEMPLE WHERE 01:04:42 EVERYONE QUIT. I EXPECT WE WOULD ALL HAVE BEEN 01:04:45 DISCOURAGED. IT WAS REALLY DIFFICULT TIMES. 01:04:47 BUT IN EZRA, CHAPTER 5, VERSES 1 AND 2 I THINK YOU WERE IN EZRA 01:04:55 CHAPTER 9. EZRA CHAPTER 5, 1 AND 2, IT SAYS 01:04:58 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THEN THE PROPHET HAGGAI AND ZACHARIA 01:05:04 IMPROVE SIDE TO THE JEWS SO HERE IS SOMETHING OF ENCOURAGEMENT, 01:05:07 ANY TIME YOU ARE DOWN GOD IS GOING TO HAVE HAVE SOMEONE BRING YOU 01:05:12 A HELPFUL WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO YOU. 01:05:15 GOD SEES YOU RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE AND HE LOVES YOU AND HE IS 01:05:18 CONCERNED ABOUT YOU. NOW, IN EZRA IT DOESN'T GIVE THE 01:05:22 WORD THAT THE LORD BROUGHT THROUGH HAG I GO AND ZACHARIA 01:05:26 BUT IT TELLS US THAT WORD IN HAGGAI AND THE LORD STRAIGHTEN 01:05:29 THOSE PEOPLE OUT, IT WASN'T JUST A WORD OF .. OH GOD BLESS YOU, 01:05:34 THIS IS A WORD OF THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING WRONG, IT WAS A 01:05:39 WORD OF CORRECTION AS WELL, SO HERE IS HOW THE CHILDREN THAT -- 01:05:47 THIS IS HOW THEY RESPONDED. NOW, WHAT WAS THEIR STATE IN 01:05:50 THEY WERE DISCOURAGED AND THEY HAD QUIT. 01:05:53 AND SO IN VERSE 2, EASY REMARKS CHAPTER 5 VERSE 2 SAYS SEARCH 01:06:00 RUB BELL AND JOSHUA DID WHAT? THEY ROSE U AND BEGAN TO BUILD 01:06:05 THE HOUSE OF GOD. SO WHAT DID THAT WORD FROM GOD 01:06:08 ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO? THEY ROSE UP AND THEY WENT BACK 01:06:11 ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM. 01:06:14 BUT NOW HERE IS THE PART, THE LAST PART OF THAT SCRIPTURE IS 01:06:18 THE PART THAT I UNDERLINED IN MY BIBLE, I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT 01:06:22 THIS. AND THE PROPHETS OF GOD WERE 01:06:26 WITH THEM DOING WHAT? >> HELPING THEM. 01:06:29 SO THE PROPHETS OF GOD DIDN'T SAY LOOK AT US, WE ARE PROPHETS. 01:06:35 HEY, GOD GAVE US THE WORD, SO THAT MAKES US THE SELECT OF THE 01:06:41 ELECT. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID? 01:06:42 THEY GOT DOWN AND THEY WORKED WITH THEM. 01:06:45 SO HOW HOW TO STIR UP PEOPLE TO ACTION? 01:06:50 DON'T TRY TO LEAD AND MOTIVATE WITH WORDS ONLY. 01:06:55 LEAD BY YOUR ACTIONS. ENCOURAGE BY YOUR ACTIONS. 01:07:00 OH I LOVE WHAT YOU SHARED, BRIAN. 01:07:03 JESUS MINGED WITH THE PEOPLE. HE GOT RIGHT OUT IN THE MIDDLE. 01:07:07 HE DIDN'T SAY, HEY, LOOK, I AM THE MESSIAH, NONE OF YOU HAVE A 01:07:12 SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW ME. 01:07:14 JESUS DIDN'T TELL THEM THAT. YOU KNOW WHAT? 01:07:18 HE WENT OUT THERE AND HE LOVED THEM AND HE DREW THEM IN .. 01:07:23 THAT'S WHAT HE DID, HE MINGLED WITH THEM. 01:07:27 SO DON'T JUST ENCOURAGE WITH YOUR WORDS. 01:07:32 WORDS ARE IMPORTANT, ENCOURAGE WITH YOUR ACTIONS TOO. 01:07:35 ALL RIGHT. NOW, VERSE 25. 01:07:39 THE NEXT IS NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING OF YOURSELVES 01:07:44 TOGETHER. OH, MY GOODNESS, HOW TIME FLIES. 01:07:50 OKAY. I WOULD -- I HAVE ALWAYS 01:07:53 ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO COME TO 3 ABN MEETING TO GET TO THIS 01:07:57 CONGREGATION AND BE A PART OF IT. 01:08:00 WHY? IT IS SO MUCH MORE EXCITING TO BE AROUND FULL OF 01:08:06 BELIEVERS THAT RECEIVING THE TRUTH. 01:08:08 SO DON'T FORSAKE THE ASSEMBLING OF YOURSELVES TOGETHER. 01:08:12 THANK GOD FOR 3 ABM TELEVISION AND ALL OF THESE OTHER MEDIA 01:08:15 OUTLETS BUT THERE IS JUST SOMETHING ABOUT BECOME TOGETHER 01:08:20 -- BEING TOGETHER. AND AS WE ARE TOGETHER, BE A 01:08:23 BLESSING AND NOT JUST HERE TO GET A BLESSING. 01:08:26 OKAY. I HAVE GOT TO HURRY ON. 01:08:27 I HAVE GOT ONE MINUTE LEFT. EXHORTING ONE ANOTHER. 01:08:31 LET YOUR WORDS BE WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, WORDS LIKE COME 01:08:34 ON, YOU CAN DO IT. HERE, LET ME HELP YOU WITH THAT. 01:08:38 I SURE RECEIVED UNDERSTANDING FROM -- JUST ENCOURAGE THE 01:08:41 PEOPLE THAT ARE AROUND YOU. TELL YOUR PASTOR, BOY, YOU 01:08:45 OPENED MY EYES TO SOMETHING. DO YOU REALIZE THAT THE WORD -- 01:08:48 THE WORDS OF KINDNESS THAT YOU SAY TO SOMEONE DURING A DAY 01:08:52 MIGHT BE THE ONLY ACT OF KINDNESS THEY RECEIVE ALL DAY 01:08:55 LONG? TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EVERY 01:08:58 OPPORTUNITY. LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO 01:09:01 ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER. NOW I HAVE TO GET TO THIS. 01:09:06 WE HAVE OUR WORDS TO SHARE BUT ALSO HUGS AND SHELLEY SHARED 01:09:11 WHAT SHE SHARED, I STILL WANT TO SHARE THIS ABOUT HUGS. 01:09:15 A FAMILY THERAPIST TOLD US WE NEED FOUR HUGS A DAY TO SURVIVE. 01:09:20 WE NEED EIGHT HUGS A DAY FOR MAINTENANCE. 01:09:24 WE NEED 12 HUGS A DAY FOR GROWTH. 01:09:26 I AM A HUGGER. I LOVE TO HUG. 01:09:28 IF YOU HAVE A WARM BODILY HUG IT WITH THE A-FRAME. 01:09:32 DON'T FORGET THE A-FRAME. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH MS. MOLLY 01:09:40 AND SHELLEY, PASTOR RYAN, THE PASTOR JOHN. 01:09:43 WE HAVE PUN TOGETHER. I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW WE 01:09:47 LEARNED TODAY ABOUT THE A-FRAME HUG AND SNOWBALL'S CHANCE. 01:09:52 NO. SERIOUSLY, WE LEARNED ABOUT THE 01:09:55 CHURCH AS A COMMUNITY OF SERVANTS. 01:09:59 WE ARE THE BED OF CHRIST AND GOD CALLS US TO LOVE EACH OTHER AND 01:10:04 TO SERVE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND THOSE OUTSIDE OF THE 01:10:07 COMMUNITY. WE HAVE JUST A FEW MOMENTS LEFT. 01:10:09 WANT TO GIVE EACH ONE OF YOU A MOMENT TO SHARE A CLOSING 01:10:13 THOUGHT. PASTOR JOHN. 01:10:14 >> I LIKE WHAT I HEARD A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. 01:10:18 HE IS DECEASED NOW, PASTOR SAMUEL. 01:10:22 PASTOR THOMAS. NOT SAMUEL THOMAS, HIS FATHER. 01:10:25 I LIKE WHAT HE SAID AND I THINK THIS FITS IN THE REMNANT. 01:10:29 I AM WHO I AM NOT BECAUSE OF WHO I AM. 01:10:34 I AM WHO I AM NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT I AM. 01:10:38 I AM WHO I AM BECAUSE THE GREAT I AM MADE ME WHAT I AM. 01:10:43 THAT'S ALL I WANT TO BE. PRAISE THE LORD. 01:10:46 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD IS LOVE. NOT JUST MERE LOVING BUT SHE 01:10:53 LOVE. AND I THINK IT IS SAFE TO SAY, 01:10:55 MOLLY, WE DON'T HAVE A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IF WE DON'T 01:10:59 SURRENDER AND HUMBLE OURSELVES TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT 01:11:02 WE MIGHT REPLICATE THE LOVE AND THE CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST. 01:11:05 SO PAY WE IN THESE LAST DAYS. MY PRAYER IS RYAN AND EVERYONE 01:11:11 ON THIS PANEL AND EVERYONE AT HOME WATCHING, EVERYONE HERE IN 01:11:14 THIS BUILDING THAT WE COME TO SURRENDER OURSELVES TO JESUS, 01:11:17 REPLICATE THE LOVE AND THE CHARACTER OF JESUS, THAT WE 01:11:22 MIGHT REAP SOULS. >> OVERLOOKING INSUPPLEMENTS, 01:11:24 NOT FIGHTING BACK, PUTTING OTHERS WELFARE BEFORE OUR OWN IS 01:11:29 SOMETIMES DIFFICULT. WAS WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS 01:11:33 BUT FIRST THESSALONIANS 3:13, FIRST THESSALONIANS THREE AND 01:11:41 13, MAY THE LORD INCREASE AND ABOUND IN LOVE AND AS HE DOES, 01:11:45 HE SAYS HE WILL ESTABLISH YOUR HEART BLESSED AND HOLY. 01:11:48 >> WE NEED EACH OTHER. ANY TASK, CAUSE OR PROJECT IS 01:11:55 MORE EASILY ACHIEVED WHEN WE WORK TOGETHER. 01:11:58 WE NEED EACH OTHER. AND SOMETHING THAT I ALWAYS 01:12:02 LIKED TO SHARE IS NONE OF US HAVE IT ALTOGETHER. 01:12:05 DON'T EVER THINK YOU DO. BUT TOGETHER WE HAVE IT ALL. 01:12:08 >> AMEN. THANK YOU SO MUCH, EACH ONE OF 01:12:10 THE PANEL, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, AND WE THANK YOU FOR JOINING 01:12:14 US AT HOME AS WELL. WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO STUDY GOD'S 01:12:17 WORD TOGETHER. I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU DO NOT 01:12:20 GO AWAY. WE ARE TAKING A 15-MINUTE BREAK. 01:12:23 WE ARE GOING SHARE SOME WONDERFUL KIDS PROGRAMS WITH YOU 01:12:26 AND WE WILL BE BACK IN 15 MINUTES WITH THE DIVINE WORRY 01:12:30 SHIP HOUR WITH DANNY SHELL ON THE. 01:12:33 ♪ ♪ ♪ |
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