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00:13 Happy Sabbath, everyone.
00:15 Welcome to Pioneer 00:17 on this bright and sunny and warm November day. 00:22 It is good to have you here worshiping with us. 00:26 And we thank the Lord that He has brought us safely 00:29 through another week, to this time of worship. 00:32 Thank you for keeping your masks on 00:35 and for remembering to observe physical distancing 00:39 for the safety of all of us. 00:42 Our call to worship today 00:43 comes from Psalm 118:19-21, 00:50 and it says, "Open for me the gates of the righteous, 00:56 I will enter in and give thanks to the Lord. 01:00 This is the gate of the Lord 01:03 through which the righteous may enter. 01:07 I will give you thanks, oh, Lord, for You answered me, 01:11 You have become my salvation." 01:15 Let us pray. 01:18 Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on us today. 01:25 Break us, make us, melt us, 01:30 mold us, fill us full of yourself. 01:36 Breathe on us breath of God. 01:40 Fill us with life anew 01:44 that we may love the things You love 01:48 and do the things You do. 01:51 And so Prince of Peace, calm our fears, 01:54 still our hearts and teach us 01:57 how to worship you in spirit and in truth. 02:01 Amen. 02:29 You Lord, You are worthy 02:38 And no one 02:40 Can worship You for me 02:47 For all the things 02:51 You've done for me 02:57 And no one 02:59 can worship You for me 03:05 Here's my worship 03:09 All of my worship 03:14 Receive my worship 03:19 All of my worship 03:24 Here's my worship 03:28 all of my worship 03:33 Receive my worship 03:38 all of my worship 03:43 And I will 03:46 Not be silent 03:50 I will 03:53 Always worship You 04:02 As long 04:03 As I am breathing 04:09 I will 04:11 Always worship You 04:20 And I will 04:23 Not be silent 04:28 I will 04:30 Always worship You 04:39 As long 04:41 As I am breathing 04:47 I will 04:49 Always worship You 04:58 And I will 05:01 Not be silent 05:05 I will 05:08 Always worship You 05:17 As long 05:18 As I am breathing 05:24 I will 05:26 Always worship You 05:35 Here's my worship 05:39 All of my worship 05:44 Receive my worship 05:49 All of my worship 05:54 Here's my worship 05:58 All of my worship 06:02 Receive my worship 06:07 All of my worship 06:14 You Lord, You are worthy 06:30 I invite the congregation to stand with us 06:32 this wonderful morning. 06:51 We stand and lift up our hands 06:55 For the joy of the Lord 06:58 Is our strength 07:03 We bow down and worship You now 07:08 How great, how awesome is He 07:13 And together we sing 07:20 Holy is the Lord God Almighty 07:26 The earth is filled With His glory 07:32 Holy is the Lord God Almighty 07:39 The earth is filled With His glory 07:45 The earth is filled With His glory 08:03 Holy is the Lord God Almighty 08:10 The earth is filled With His glory 08:15 Holy is the Lord God Almighty 08:22 The earth is filled With His glory 08:28 The earth is filled With His glory 08:34 And it's rising up all around 08:40 It's the anthem Of the Lord's renown 08:47 And it's rising up all around 08:53 It's the anthem Of the Lord's renown 09:01 And together we sing 09:08 Everyone sing 09:14 Holy is the Lord God Almighty 09:21 The earth is filled With His glory 09:26 Holy is the Lord God Almighty 09:33 The earth is filled With His glory 09:39 The earth is filled With His glory 09:46 The earth is filled With His glory 09:56 All right, good morning, church family. 09:57 I'm so excited that you guys are all here, 09:59 you guys can see take a seat. 10:01 As we go into our last song, it's called "Do it again." 10:05 And guys, it's just wonderful, guys, 10:06 because we still get to come together here at church. 10:09 Isn't that wonderful? 10:10 When we look around the world and we see all that's going on, 10:13 all the fighting, all the bickering, 10:14 all people going, 10:16 pushing each other left and right, 10:18 they're arguing, they're fighting, 10:19 the deaths, the sickness, everything in the world, 10:21 it looks like there's no hope. 10:23 And I know there's some mornings 10:25 I get up and I'm like, I don't want to go to class. 10:27 What's the point? 10:29 Everything's falling apart? 10:31 Why am I here? 10:33 I asked myself this question this Thursday, 10:35 I believe it was, this Thursday, 10:37 I asked myself, "What's the point?" 10:38 I mean, what's the point? 10:40 Everything's falling apart around us. 10:42 Nobody can get along. 10:44 Everybody's fighting, everybody's dying. 10:46 Everybody's getting sick. 10:47 The world is falling apart as I know it. 10:51 And then I thought, 10:53 it's not our job to make things better. 10:56 And oftentimes, people think 10:58 that just because they say or do something 10:59 that's going to make things better, 11:00 and they think that it's all in our power. 11:02 But what we forget is that God is the one 11:04 that controls everything. 11:07 And God is the one that that says what happens, 11:09 it's not up to us. 11:12 All that we can do 11:13 is accept Him and accept His will. 11:17 Because at the end of the day, guys, 11:20 God is the one that holds the power 11:21 and that's what makes it so awesome. 11:23 Because we serve the God that holds all the power. 11:26 We don't have to worry about anything. 11:30 So I encourage you guys as we sing this last song, 11:32 think about the things that I've said, 11:35 because in the end God has the control 11:37 and God knows everything. 11:40 So trust Him, don't worry. 11:43 I invite you guys to sing our last song. 11:45 And it's called "Do it again." 12:10 Waking around these walls 12:16 I thought by now they'd fall 12:22 But you have never failed me Yet 12:35 Waiting for change to come 12:41 Knowing the battle's won 12:47 For you have never failed me Yet 12:59 Your promise still stands 13:03 Great is Your faithfulness 13:07 Faithfulness 13:12 I'm still in Your hands 13:15 This is my confidence 13:19 You've never failed me yet 13:37 I know the night won't last 13:43 Your word will come to pass 13:49 My heart will sing Your praise again 14:01 Jesus You're still enough 14:08 Keep me within Your love 14:14 My heart will sing Your praise again 14:26 Your promise still stands 14:29 Great is Your faithfulness 14:34 Faithfulness 14:38 I'm still in Your hands 14:42 This is my confidence 14:46 You never failed 14:51 Your promise still stands 14:54 Great is Your faithfulness 14:58 Faithfulness 15:03 I'm still in Your hands 15:07 This is my confidence 15:10 You never failed me yet 15:51 I've seen you move 15:54 You move the mountains 15:57 And I believe 16:00 I'll see you do it again 16:03 You made a way 16:06 Where there was no way 16:09 And I believe 16:12 I'll see you do it again 16:15 I've seen you move 16:18 You move the mountains 16:21 And I believe 16:24 I'll see you do it again 16:27 You made a way 16:30 Where there was no way 16:33 And I believe 16:36 I'll see you do it again 16:39 I've seen you move 16:42 You move the mountains 16:45 And I believe 16:48 I'll see you do it again 16:51 You made a way 16:54 Where there was no way 16:57 And I believe 17:00 I'll see you do it again 17:07 I'll see you do it again 17:29 Your promise still stands 17:32 Great is Your faithfulness 17:36 Faithfulness 17:41 I'm still in Your hands 17:44 This is my confidence 17:48 You never failed me yet. 18:14 Hello, this is Gillian Howard. 18:17 And I have the scripture reading for today. 18:21 Acts 2:17-21. 18:25 "In the last days, God says, 18:28 'I will pour out my Spirit on all people, 18:32 your sons and daughters will prophesy, 18:36 your young men will see visions, 18:38 your old men will dream dreams, 18:42 even on my servants, both men and women. 18:47 I will pour out my Spirit in those days, 18:51 and they will prophesy. 18:54 I will show wonders in the heavens above, 18:57 and signs on the earth below, 19:00 blood and fire and billows of smoke. 19:05 The sun will be turned to darkness 19:08 and the moon to blood 19:11 before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. 19:16 And everyone who calls 19:18 on the name of the Lord will be saved.'" 19:26 Let's pray. 19:28 Oh, God, you end the Bible with an altar call, come. 19:33 The Spirit says come. 19:36 The bride says come, all heaven says come. 19:40 Well, here we are. 19:41 We've come to this moment. 19:43 If you're making an appeal to us, 19:45 may we hear with the best hearing we have 19:52 with the clarity that only the Holy Spirit 19:54 can bring in Jesus' name. 19:56 Amen. 19:58 So here's the million dollar question 20:00 for you and me. 20:04 Can God revive America? 20:09 One of our Canadian viewers sent me a link to the CBC. 20:13 That's the Canadian Broadcasting Company. 20:15 There's an article there, she wanted me to read, 20:17 "Things fall apart in the United States 20:19 and Canada takes a hard look in the mirror." 20:22 Let's put, this is the journalist, 20:25 Aaron Wherry. 20:26 We put Aaron Wherry's words on the screen, 20:28 "The United States has offered the world 20:30 a demonstration of how things can fall apart. 20:34 Not in one cataclysmic moment." 20:36 Nope. 20:37 "But slowly and steadily over a long period of time, 20:42 as institutions and ideas erode and crumble." 20:46 And when I read that, I said, wow, that's the Roman Empire. 20:50 Are you serious? 20:52 Can God revive America? 20:56 We had a pre-election prayer meeting. 20:58 Thank you, Chaplain Jose, for pulling that off. 21:00 It was through Zoom, 21:02 Facebook Live, last Monday evening. 21:05 And one of the participants, 21:07 a friend of mine named Cliff Jones, 21:09 say, "You got to read the story of Jonah, folks." 21:12 And when we read the story, I said, 21:14 My Lord, I know it reads Nineveh, 21:18 I'm thinking America, come on. 21:20 Let's read it, when's the last time you 21:21 were even in the Book of Jonah. 21:24 Tucked away in those minor prophets, 21:27 hard to find. 21:29 Jonah Chapter 3, 21:30 we'll just catch the flavor of this. 21:33 This is absolutely amazing. 21:36 Jonah 3:1, 21:38 I'm in the New International Version. 21:40 "Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: 21:44 'Go to that great city of Nineveh 21:46 and proclaim to it the message I give you.' 21:50 This time Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord 21:52 and he went to Nineveh. 21:54 Now Nineveh was a very large city, 21:55 it took three days to go through it. 21:57 Jonah began by going a day's journey 21:59 into the city proclaiming 40 more days, 22:02 and Nineveh will be overthrown, you'll be new." 22:05 And guess what? 22:06 The Ninevites, you know, 22:08 the Assyrian Empire was the baddest 22:10 of the bad of the bad, cruel and violent. 22:14 This is amazing line, "The Ninevites believed God, 22:18 a fast was proclaimed, 22:20 and all of them from the greatest to the least 22:22 put on sackcloth. 22:25 When Jonah's warning reached the king of Nineveh, 22:27 he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, 22:31 covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in the dust. 22:35 This is the proclamation issued in Nineveh: 22:39 'By the decree of the king and his nobles, 22:41 do not let people or animals or herds or flocks, 22:44 taste anything, do not let them eat or drink, 22:47 but let people and animals be covered with sackcloth, 22:49 let everyone call urgently on God. 22:53 Let them give up their evil ways 22:54 and their violence.' 22:56 Who knows? 22:57 God may yet relent and with compassion, 23:00 turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.' 23:03 When God saw what they did, 23:07 and how they turned from their evil ways, 23:09 He relented, 23:11 and did not bring on them the destruction 23:14 He had threatened." 23:16 Look, folks, if God can spare 23:19 and save wicked Nineveh, 23:25 the question, can God revive America 23:27 turns out to be a rhetorical question. 23:29 So let me change the question. 23:31 Can we revive America? 23:34 I'm amazed at some of the suggestions 23:36 now coming out of educated circles, 23:40 with solutions for America's need 23:42 of a revival. 23:45 Husband and wife team, also viewers sent me last week, 23:51 a link to a Christianity Today website interview. 23:56 And I got to share a line from that interview with you. 23:59 They're interviewing Kim Colby. 24:01 She's a graduate of Harvard Law School. 24:03 And now with a Christian Legal Society 24:05 Center for Law and Religious Freedom. 24:08 They want to talk to her about the recent appointment 24:10 of Amy Coney. 24:11 Coney Barrett, 24:13 it's just that's the name we're living with now 24:14 to the Supreme Court. 24:16 So now in the middle of the interview, 24:18 here we go, question. 24:19 "Generally speaking Protestants and Catholics 24:22 read the Bible differently. 24:23 So do you think they would read the Constitution differently?" 24:27 Answer. 24:28 That is interesting. 24:30 I haven't thought about it myself or really explored it. 24:32 My instinct would be no, 24:34 they would not read the Constitution differently, 24:36 even though 24:37 because theologically that's true. 24:43 They read the Bible differently. 24:45 And then she relates a debate 24:47 they've been having at Harvard this summer. 24:50 I'm gonna put it on the screen for you. 24:51 These are her words, Kim Colby. 24:53 "There is a divide very recently, 24:55 where a Catholic law professor at Harvard came out and said, 25:00 "When we have the political power 25:02 to impose what's right 25:04 as we understand our faith to teach what's right, 25:08 then we should do it." 25:12 Is that a stunner or what? 25:15 Hey, listen, let's have a revival, 25:18 let's legislative revival. 25:20 Let's impose a revival. 25:23 Come on, oh, look at that line, 25:24 "When we have the political power to impose," 25:30 that's a foreboding word "to impose, 25:32 to force what's right, 25:34 as we understand our faith to teach what's right, 25:38 then we should do it." 25:41 Mercy! 25:44 Now she responds 25:45 and you need to see her response 25:47 this fellow attorney, 25:48 "And I don't agree with that. 25:50 I think it is a very dangerous idea," 25:53 and so do I by the way. 25:55 "And there was a lot of debate about that 25:58 for a few weeks this summer." 26:00 My, my, my, my, can God revive America? 26:03 Well, yeah, we can get enough power, 26:06 political power, we can force America, 26:08 we can impose upon America the agenda for God. 26:13 You got to be kidding me. 26:17 Here's the question. 26:19 Who decides whose faith is supposed to be legislated? 26:22 Is it the Roman Catholic faith? 26:24 Is it the Baptist faith? 26:26 How about the Presbyterians faith? 26:28 How about the little Seventh-day Adventist faith? 26:30 Who determines the interpretation of faith? 26:35 Answer, those who have the most votes. 26:39 That's it. 26:42 Hey, listen, 26:44 with all this bedlam that has gone on, 26:47 over counting ballots this election. 26:49 Can you imagine a roomful of clergy 26:51 and a roomful of politicians 26:53 arguing over whose faith is the faith 26:55 that we're going to legislate, 26:57 and then they cast the votes 26:58 and then they take forever to count them? 27:00 I mean, what will come out of that? 27:03 And God, can God revive America? 27:07 We end this American apocalypse with one line. 27:11 Open your Bible to the apocalypse, please, 27:12 one line, this is it. 27:14 Part 10. 27:15 Can God revive America? 27:18 I mean, we're talking about a genuine, 27:19 spiritual moral revival. 27:22 Could it happen here? 27:24 Let's go. Revelation Chapter 18. 27:26 Got your study Bible there with you? 27:29 Just one line, Revelation 18:1. 27:34 "And after this, 27:35 I saw another angel coming down from heaven. 27:40 He had great authority, 27:41 and the earth was illuminated by his splendor." 27:46 Hey, have you seen those screensavers you can get, 27:49 you can download maybe just, anyway, 27:52 I downloaded some on my Mac. 27:54 They're taken by drones over great cities in the world. 27:57 They're taken from satellites over continents. 28:01 It's just fascinating. 28:02 Since I got ADHD, I just every time that happens, 28:05 I just forget what I'm doing just a watch this thing, 28:07 it's beautiful. 28:09 Have you ever seen America at night? 28:13 I'm gonna show you right now. 28:14 In fact, our title slide is on "America at night." 28:17 American Apocalypse, here's what we know. 28:19 The best is yet to come. 28:21 So that's the title of this piece. 28:22 But let's take the words off of it. 28:25 Look at America at night. 28:27 My, my, my, my, my. 28:28 Hey, hey, wave. 28:30 There we are. 28:32 Isn't that us? 28:34 Wrong time of day. 28:37 You look at that. 28:38 What just happened in Revelation 18:1. 28:44 Apparently, it's not only describing America, 28:47 it's describing the whole planet. 28:49 Come on, Revelation 18:1 "And after this, 28:51 I saw another angel coming down from heaven 28:53 and he had great authority, 28:54 and the earth was illuminated by his splendor." 28:58 Now look, it's obvious to all of us. 29:00 It has to be the glory of Jesus, right? 29:04 I mean, you and I, 29:05 and angels we got, we're the same. 29:08 Humans and angels there is no glory 29:10 that emanates from within. 29:12 It all reflects from without. 29:16 Angels don't have glory. 29:17 They just hang around glory 24/7, 29:20 and they got it wherever they go. 29:22 They have the glory. 29:24 So it can't be an angel's glory that illumines the earth, 29:28 it has to come from someone else. 29:29 Now I remind you, 29:31 in case you've forgotten 29:32 that nearly every line in the apocalypse 29:35 is either a translation of or an allusion 29:39 to something from the Old Testament. 29:43 And what we see right here, in fact is spot on. 29:45 That's what it is. In fact, let me show it to you. 29:46 Ezekiel 43:1, "The man brought me," 29:51 young Ezekiel the Prophet. 29:54 "He brought me to the gate facing east, " 29:56 that's the direction of God, 29:58 "And I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. 30:03 His voice, God's voice was like the roar of rushing waters, 30:08 and the land was radiant with his glory." 30:10 Do you recognize that in Revelation 18:1? 30:12 Of course, there's a bow. 30:15 And by the way, if you looked at the description of Jesus, 30:19 the physical description of the glorified Christ 30:21 in Revelation Chapter 1, 30:23 you'll notice that His voice is described as the roar, 30:27 the roar of rushing waters. 30:30 And by the way, 30:31 John took one look at his face 30:33 that was as bright he said as the sun, 30:35 brighter than the sun, 30:37 and he's dead on the ground, he just passes out. 30:41 So that's what John is talking about. 30:45 This isn't the glory of an angel, 30:47 this is the glory of the mighty, ascended, 30:51 reigning and soon coming, 30:54 Lord Jesus Christ, that's the glory. 30:57 That soaks itself 30:59 into the life and story of this planet. 31:04 Wow. 31:07 What's going on here? 31:09 I'm talking about in Revelation 18, 31:10 this can't be the second coming guys. 31:12 The second coming is in Chapter 19. 31:14 What is happening here? 31:17 Apparently, this is a global intervention. 31:22 Now listen carefully. 31:23 This celestial ambassador breaks this the sound barrier, 31:30 there must have been a sonic boom 31:31 when he showed us, boom, 31:33 enters through our atmosphere, feet, 31:35 that the moment his feet touched this terrestrial ball. 31:40 The whole ball is a light of the glory of Christ. 31:46 What's going on here? 31:47 Whatever it is, I'll tell you what? 31:49 It is big, and it is global. 31:51 And that's what I love about God, 31:52 because He lives by this adage, go big or go home. 31:55 That's just the way He lives. 31:56 He didn't do puny. 31:59 He does big. 32:01 This is huge. You know what this is? 32:02 This is the last revival 32:05 in the history of the human race 32:06 and hasn't even started yet. 32:08 We're close. 32:10 Oh, go big before you come home. 32:12 That's what God is saying. 32:14 How big? 32:15 Take a look at this. 32:19 If this is the last revival, 32:21 now I suppose there'd be a clue 32:22 if we went to the first revival of the Christian Church, 32:25 the early infant, Christian movement. 32:30 Let's do it, come on, for the fun of it. 32:31 You just go back to Acts 2, 32:33 everybody knows the story of Pentecost. 32:35 I want you to see this. 32:36 Because if Pentecost is this way, 32:39 can you imagine 32:41 what the last revival on the earth will be like? 32:44 All right, Acts Chapter 2. 32:45 "And when the day of Pentecost came, 32:48 they were all together in one place, " 32:50 they're in the upper room. 32:52 "And suddenly a sound 32:54 like the blowing of a violent wind, " 32:56 notice this, it's the sound, not the movement, 32:58 the curtain stand, 33:00 the curtains don't even tremble, 33:01 but it's gale force, wind. 33:06 And then according to the Greek construction, 33:07 there appears in over their heads, 33:10 an orange ball, fire, 33:14 orange ball and an unseen hand as it were, 33:16 with a paring knife slices off from that orange ball. 33:19 And the moment that slice of fire is loosen, 33:23 shew, and it's on top of somebody. 33:25 It's on top of her, him, us. 33:31 "And all of them," 33:32 what does it say here in verse 4, 33:34 "And all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit. 33:36 And they began to speak in other tongues, 33:39 as a spirit enabled them." 33:40 We know those are other languages 33:42 because like five verses later, 33:44 people from all over the planet are saying, 33:45 "Man, how come I can hear you in my home tongue." 33:50 Peter, guests, obviously, I know 33:51 some of you think we're drunk. 33:52 We're not drunk. 33:54 It's only 9 o'clock in the morning. 33:55 I want to tell you what's happening right now. 33:57 Now listen carefully, 33:58 because he's gonna interpret the first revival 34:01 so that we can understand this, the last one. 34:03 All right, he says, listen carefully 34:04 what you were seeing today 34:06 is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel. 34:08 Okay, now we pick it up. 34:09 But I want you to read here, verse 17. 34:12 "In the last days," he's quoting Jonah. 34:15 This is a big fisherman Peter, "In the last days, God says, 34:19 'I will pour out my Spirit on all people.'" 34:22 How many people, folks? 34:24 Come on, how many people? 34:26 Could it be the whole world? 34:28 Could that be a huge clue 34:33 that whatever breaks out, 34:35 will break out simultaneously all over the planet? 34:40 "I will pour my Spirit out on all people 34:42 and your sons and your daughters 34:44 will prophesy, 34:45 your young men will see visions 34:47 and your old men will dream dreams even on my servants, 34:50 both men and women. 34:52 I will pour out my Spirit in those days 34:54 and they will prophesy." 34:56 Keep reading. 34:57 "I will show wonders in the heavens above 34:59 and signs on the earth below, 35:02 blood and fire and billows of smoke. 35:06 The sun will be turned to darkness." 35:08 Listen, if we had a session 35:10 on the powers of heaven being shaken in Luke 21. 35:13 This is right around there. 35:16 "The sun will be turned to darkness, 35:20 the moon will turn to blood 35:22 before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord." 35:25 This is just before the return of Christ and Peter. 35:31 Hey, Peter, you're messed up, buddy. 35:34 This isn't about your generation. 35:36 This is about our generation. 35:38 We're the last generation, you're at the beginning. 35:41 But he takes the description of the, 35:43 at the end of time, revival. 35:47 And he says, "We're the first, 35:51 a down payment will eventually come." 35:57 I mean, if the beginning is like this, 35:59 can you imagine what the ending will be? 36:04 Let's read again. 36:05 Verse 1, Revelation 18, 36:08 "And after this, 36:10 I saw another angel coming down from heaven, 36:11 and he had great authority and the earth, " 36:14 we're talking about the world, folks, 36:16 "the earth was illuminated by his splendor." 36:20 I got to share this line with you 36:22 from that apocalyptic classic, Great Controversy. 36:23 If you don't have that classic. 36:25 In just a moment, 36:26 you're going to get an opportunity 36:28 to get a free no cost copy. 36:31 All right. 36:32 Let's read Great Controversy on the screen, 36:34 "The angel who unites 36:35 in the proclamation of the third angel's message," 36:39 like to think of this angel as the fourth angel, 36:42 "is to lighten the whole earth with his glory." 36:45 We already got that, that's Revelation 18:1, 36:47 "A work of world-wide extent and unwonted," 36:50 that's old English. 36:52 That means extraordinary power is here foretold. 36:55 Now keep reading. 36:57 "The great work of the gospel." 36:59 Oh, I love this. 37:00 The great work of the gospel is not to close 37:02 with less manifestation of the power of God 37:04 than marked its opening." 37:06 If you have this spectacular opening, 37:09 you are assured 37:10 that there will be a triumphant ending 37:15 to this little community. 37:17 This faith community 37:18 that wanders the face of the earth 37:20 as Christianity has often did through the millennia. 37:25 Do you know what that looks like 37:27 up close and personal? 37:28 You got to see this. 37:29 This is one of my favorite lines 37:31 in Great Controversy. 37:32 Put it on the screen, please. Servants of God. 37:34 Okay, friends of God. 37:36 Friends of God, 37:37 with their faces lighted up 37:38 and shining with Holy consecration. 37:40 Well, how could your face be lighted up? 37:42 There's no glory inside of me. 37:43 Well, you gotten close to somebody with glory. 37:46 Obviously, they've drawn near to Christ 37:48 that their faces radiate with that holy consecration. 37:52 "Friends of Jesus, with their faces lighted up, 37:55 will hasten from place to place, " 37:57 hit the pause button right there. 37:58 These have to be Gen zers or maybe millennials. 38:02 When they want them to go somewhere, 38:03 all they need is what? 38:05 A plane ticket, a laptop and a passport. 38:07 They can go anywhere on the planet. 38:09 Pandemic has kind of ended that story. 38:13 But let me just say this about the pandemic, 38:14 since you brought it up. 38:16 The pandemic 38:19 is not going to go indefinitely. 38:22 I don't bring you a word from God. 38:24 I bring you the thoughts of God 38:26 that will call for this to happen. 38:31 We can't do this right now. 38:33 Servants, friends of Jesus, 38:35 going from door to door hastening from place to place, 38:39 but the day is coming. 38:41 God will not leave this planet 38:42 pinned down by the enemy of the universe. 38:47 Yeah, the devil has held a pay as it is. 38:50 All right, "Friends of God, faces lighted up, 38:54 hasten from place to place," 38:55 I like that, 38:56 "to proclaim the message from heaven." 38:58 Keep reading. "By thousands." 39:01 What's this number, folks? Thousands. 39:03 These are not just little preachers 39:05 running around. 39:06 This is not preachers. 39:07 These are by the thousands of voices, 39:11 members of a faith community 39:13 that will fan out over the human race. 39:17 You're one of them. 39:18 You're one of them. 39:20 You haven't even thought of yourself 39:21 as one of the thousands, but you are one of them. 39:23 "By thousands of voices, 39:25 all over the earth, the warning, " 39:26 what warning? 39:28 Jesus is coming soon. 39:29 And by the way, don't you dare get that mark of the beast. 39:32 Don't you get it? 39:33 It's the end. 39:35 Stay true to Jesus. 39:37 "The warning will be given. 39:40 Miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed, " 39:44 and look at this, 39:46 "and signs and wonders will follow the believers." 39:48 You remember last week, 39:50 those three ugly frogs coming out, 39:51 you remember that, coming out of the mouth. 39:52 All right. The satanic trinity. 39:54 What were those three ugly green frogs? 39:57 Spirits of demons, 39:58 performing signs and wonders 40:01 to deceive the kings of the earth. 40:03 Guess what? God gets a jump on it. 40:05 And he has His signs and wonders 40:07 ready to go through thousands of people, 40:11 including you and I hope me. 40:15 Wow. 40:16 Well, Satan's not going to take that. 40:18 Satan also works. 40:20 He's not going to let a global revival reign 40:23 on his parade. 40:24 Satan also works with lying wonders, 40:26 even bringing down fire from heaven 40:28 in the sight of men and women. 40:30 We've already read that in Revelation 13, 40:32 one more line. 40:33 "Thus, the inhabitants of the earth 40:35 will be brought to take their stand." 40:40 This massive, this mighty revival 40:42 is going to be bigger than what started it. 40:44 This go big and come home revival 40:48 of the entire planet. 40:50 This is no dress rehearsal. 40:52 This is no wimpy imitation. 40:56 It's the real deal. 40:58 It's the real deal that we've been talking about, 41:01 and some of us praying about, 41:02 for a long time. 41:04 It's the last apocalyptic rainfall 41:07 of the Holy Spirit on the human race. 41:09 You've heard people call something latter rain, 41:12 have you ever heard that? 41:13 Latter rain? 41:15 That's it right here. 41:16 It's this global revival. It's the latter rain. 41:18 I like the way my friend, Norman Gulley, 41:20 in his book, Christ is Coming. 41:21 He calls it 41:22 "The second coming of the Holy Spirit." 41:27 Oh, I like that. 41:29 Where was His first coming? 41:32 Pentecost. 41:33 There'll be a second coming. Of course. 41:35 He's never left the whole time, right here. 41:38 The second coming of the Holy Spirit, my! 41:44 And then, Norman Gulley makes the point. 41:47 If you want to be ready for the second coming of Jesus, 41:52 you got to be ready 41:53 for the second coming of the Holy Spirit first. 41:57 No second coming of the spirit in your heart, 42:00 no going to the home of the second coming Jesus. 42:05 Oh, Dwight, that's kind of rough. 42:07 Now let me just read 42:08 Gulley on the screen here for a minute. 42:11 "Here's the bottom line:" Okay. 42:12 So he's making the point. 42:14 "To be ready for the second coming of Christ 42:16 we must be ready 42:17 for the second coming of the Holy Spirit." 42:19 Yeah. 42:21 "But to be unready 42:22 for the coming of the Holy Spirit 42:24 is to be unready for the coming of Christ." 42:28 What's the point? You can't just blow this off. 42:31 Come on guys, you can't blow, ah, I'm into this Holy Spirit. 42:34 I'm not a Pentecostal, I'm not charismatic, 42:35 I'm just not into that. 42:37 You better get into it. 42:41 You got to get into it. 42:43 Your soul depends on it. 42:48 Let me explain. 42:51 Do you ever pray for somebody who's lost? 42:54 Somebody you love, somebody you know very well? 42:58 A friend of mine out in California, 42:59 just this week sent me an email say, 43:01 "Hey, Dwight, I got to share a story with you." 43:04 It turns out they're two grown men 43:06 out there on the West Coast, 43:07 I don't know who they are by the way, 43:09 who haven't been to church since they were teenagers. 43:11 Okay. So they went to church. Okay. 43:13 My teens are over, now I'm on my own, 43:15 and they had been on their own all these years. 43:19 It turns out they have a younger sister 43:22 who is relentless in her prayers 43:24 for her two older brothers. 43:26 Come on sisters, pray for your brothers, 43:28 and the other way around. 43:30 She's been praying for, 43:31 and she's been watching this series. 43:34 And so she gets hold of her two bros, 43:36 and she says, "You guys, 43:37 you need to watch American Apocalypse. 43:40 That's what you need." 43:42 And this is truly the Holy Spirit. 43:45 Moment of the story, they both decide to do that. 43:48 They're living in separate places 43:51 and they watch the series, which is ending right now. 43:56 And they give their hearts to Jesus. 43:59 Unbelievable. 44:01 Independent of each other, 44:02 they call the local pastor of the church they grew up in. 44:06 I want to come home to the church and to Jesus, 44:08 what do I need to do? 44:10 Isn't that something? 44:12 Come on, guys. 44:13 God is just softening up the earth. 44:16 One of these days, it comes, 44:20 the second coming of the Holy Spirit. 44:23 You know, when you're partnered with the Holy Spirit 44:25 like this young sister obviously is, 44:29 there is no limit what He can arrange 44:34 to be the very answer your heart is longing for most. 44:37 How does she know what to say? 44:39 She could have sent them a book or whatever. 44:42 I have no idea, but he said, tell them this. 44:44 She told them that and they got saved. 44:49 Don't blow off, by the way, the teaching of prophecy. 44:53 There is a power embedded in your study 44:56 of prophecy 45:00 that you won't find anywhere else. 45:04 Wow. 45:06 So, hey, listen, take these three action steps. 45:07 Let's just do this. Three action steps. 45:10 You want to get ready for the second coming 45:11 of the Holy Spirit? 45:12 Here are three action steps. 45:14 You want to help God reach America? 45:15 Can God revive America? 45:17 Are you kidding? Of course, He can. 45:19 Pray for your lost family members 45:21 and friends every day. 45:22 Come on. Just pray for them. 45:24 That's not hard to do. 45:26 Pray for them. Number two. 45:27 Then, and this was new for me, 45:29 then ask for the Holy Spirit to give you an idea 45:33 that will reach these you are praying for. 45:35 I'm praying for a man, 45:36 he's a professional in this community. 45:38 And I'm saying, come on, Holy Spirit, 45:40 what am I going to do? 45:41 We've become friends. 45:43 What am I going to do? 45:47 I mean, the story of that younger sister 45:48 shows you that it may be coloring outside 45:51 the box, but I'm asking you to do it. 45:55 And then number three. 45:56 Three action steps every morning. 45:59 Pray the simple prayer of asking Holy Spirit please 46:02 baptize me today with a heart and mind of Jesus. 46:06 Just baptize me today. 46:08 You remember the story of the 10 girlfriends. 46:10 Remember that parable? 46:12 The bridegroom, come on, where's the bridegroom? 46:13 And we've been here... how long we've been here? 46:15 Where is he? I don't know. 46:16 And all 10 went to sleep, true or false? 46:19 They did, 46:20 but five of them woke up and found out 46:22 that they did not have sufficient oil 46:24 and the oil petered out before the bridegroom arrived. 46:27 They went to Walmart and while they were there, 46:29 he came and that was it. 46:31 They're out. 46:34 We're all drowsy right now. 46:36 All of this pandemic 46:37 and life in America has awakened most of us. 46:42 This is the time for that oil. 46:46 You can't wait 46:47 till the big crisis comes too late. 46:50 This is the time for the oil of the Holy Spirit 46:52 for you to grow that friendship with Jesus right now 46:55 and the spirit is the huge key 46:59 to a personal friendship with Jesus. 47:01 This is it. Wow. 47:04 Can God revive America? 47:06 Please. 47:09 One lost soul at a time. 47:10 That's how He's going to do it. 47:12 Through one found soul at a time 47:16 through you and your prayers. 47:17 Don't forget number two, ask Him. 47:18 Now, listen, how should I do this 47:20 with my colleague at work? 47:22 How should I do this with the guy 47:24 that lives down the hallway in that dorm room? 47:26 I know he needs you. 47:27 What should I do? 47:30 Just ask him. 47:32 You say, I know him like a book. 47:36 I'll tell you do this. Be listening. 47:38 You'll be surprised. 47:40 How did a younger sister know, she just did something. 47:47 Can God revive America with an election like this 47:54 with social and mental disruptions, 47:57 this society now 47:59 living in disequilibrium cognitive dissonance? 48:01 Life has been thrown upside down 48:02 and you're saying, 48:04 this is really the pitiful time to reach America. 48:06 Are you kidding? It's the other way around. 48:09 This is the perfect time. 48:11 It is when people are going through cognitive dissonance 48:14 and reality does not match their expectations. 48:17 So it creates this unsettledness. 48:19 When I am unsettled, 48:20 I'm wide open for something new. 48:23 Now both sides play with that same principle. 48:26 Both sides are going to come chomping in. 48:28 Say, I got something new for you. 48:30 But you work for Jesus. 48:31 You're one of those thousands of voices 48:33 that one day will belt the planet. 48:35 What can I do? 48:37 Well, it's a huge call to pray for America daily. 48:41 I'd hope you don't stop 48:42 just because we have gotten through an election. 48:44 And who knows 48:45 whether we're through that election. 48:48 I hope you pray for America. 48:49 I do daily, daily, come on, daily. 48:54 These are huge opportunities. 48:56 If a guy could save Nineveh, my Lord, 49:00 the highest political officer of Nineveh got saved. 49:03 Why can't the highest political leaders 49:04 of America get saved? 49:06 Don't put it past God to do that. 49:09 Go big before going home. 49:14 You got to trust Him. 49:15 You got to believe. 49:19 Well, let me close with an illustration 49:21 that really did it for me. 49:23 My friend, Marvin Moore. 49:24 It's a good one. 49:26 He says, do you ever get the feeling 49:28 just kind of discouraged? 49:31 Guy in the back road, yes? 49:34 You are discouraged about, 49:35 hey, how are we going to reach America? 49:36 How are we going to reach the world? 49:38 I mean, come on. How many people? 49:39 One, two, three and how many out there? 49:41 Oh, he says, 49:44 what I need you to remember 49:46 is when you set up your Christmas tree. 49:48 Anybody's already set up the Christmas trees? 49:50 I know Walmart probably has all of them, 49:52 but I don't know. 49:56 When you set up your Christmas tree, 49:58 tell me true or false. 49:59 So you got the naked tree right there. 50:00 It could be artificial or it could be real, 50:02 doesn't matter. 50:03 You get those lights. 50:05 Don't the lights have to go on first? 50:06 Yes, they do. Thank you for reminding me. 50:08 You just start taking those lights. 50:10 They're off, 50:11 but you're going to move them around 50:12 and put a little pinpoint of light. 50:14 That would look nice if it lights up there 50:15 and then you arrange it on this branch and this branch, 50:17 you work your way all the way up to the top. 50:20 And then everybody loves this moment 50:21 in your home and mine. 50:23 Okay? 50:24 All right, kids, turn off the lights in the living room. 50:26 Let's go. 50:27 All right, Judy, you ready to go? 50:29 When I say, go, you go and the lights are off. 50:33 This dark tree is sitting there 50:35 and Junior shows that that plug 50:38 into that socket 50:40 and the tree is a wash in glory, 50:46 and everybody starts applauding, 50:49 and you take a few bows. 50:53 What happened? 50:55 Before the lights were turned on, 50:58 I was just one little pinpoint, 51:01 one little tiny bulb. 51:06 But when the day came for God to turn the power on, 51:12 I suddenly discover 51:14 there are hundreds and thousands of little lights, 51:19 just like me all around me, and I never saw them. 51:22 Here I've been complaining what a mess, 51:24 what a challenge, it won't work. 51:27 God says, just let me turn the power on. 51:30 Revelation 18:1, 51:32 "After this, I saw another angel 51:34 coming down from heaven. 51:35 He had great authority 51:36 and the earth was illuminated by his splendor." 51:38 Because the Holy Spirit hit the switch 51:41 and here hither to unknown points of light. 51:52 She was in a dorm. 51:55 How many years 51:57 have I been working with this guy? 51:58 I didn't know He was a point of light. 52:02 I tell you what, the best is yet to come. 52:05 Can I just say that? 52:06 The best is yet to come. 52:09 Because not only do we have the second coming of Jesus, 52:11 hallelujah. 52:13 We have the second coming of the Holy Spirit 52:15 before the second coming of Jesus. 52:18 And this planet has never seen that. 52:20 And you're going to be a part of it. 52:22 Thousands of you will be a part of it 52:24 because God has called you right now. 52:27 Don't you tell me you're too young? 52:28 You're not too young. 52:30 He's going to have to have an entire generation of young 52:32 because He's not waiting for everybody 52:34 to grow up is go now. 52:37 And you're it. 52:40 Oh, my. The best is yet to come. 52:44 It's always that way with Jesus, by the way. 52:46 If you give your life to Jesus, 52:48 it'll always be true. 52:50 The best is yet to come. 52:52 This is just the way He is. 52:54 He keeps giving you better, better, better, better, better. 52:59 And the best will always be yet to come. 53:02 What a Savior. 53:05 What a Spirit. 53:09 Come on. 53:10 We just waved our hands a moment ago, 53:12 that beautiful baptism of Amaar. 53:14 And by the way, we had another college dude, 53:16 Michael in first service, two beautiful baptisms. 53:20 Instead of saying amen, 53:21 how many want to put your hand up and say, 53:22 you know what, Dwight, 53:24 I want to be a part of those thousands? 53:25 I want to be a part 53:27 of that second coming of the Holy Spirit, 53:28 so that when He hits the on switch, 53:31 that this little point of light will suddenly glow 53:34 like I've never glown before. 53:39 He's coming soon. 53:41 He's ready for you now. 53:43 I say, let's go with Him. What do you say? 53:45 Yeah. 53:47 Let's take out the connect card real quick before I sit down. 53:49 Connect card pmchurch.org. 53:51 You want the digital connect card? 53:52 Here it is, pmchurch.org/connect. 53:55 And what will we find there? 53:56 You'll find the word connect. 53:57 And then my next step today 53:59 is I want to be a pinpoint of light for Jesus 54:03 in my world. 54:04 We all raised our hands and said, yep, yep, yep. 54:06 Box number two. 54:07 Please send me a copy of the Great Controversy. 54:10 I want to learn more about America and prophecy. 54:12 If you don't have this book, 54:14 all I need is an email address 54:16 and you'll have it this week, next week. 54:19 You got to have it. You have to have it. 54:21 This is dynamite. 54:24 All right. Box number three. 54:26 I want to follow Jesus in baptism, Amaar. 54:29 No, he's kind of holding back. 54:30 You heard him say, "I don't know. 54:32 Should I get baptized now? 54:33 Maybe I'll wait." 54:35 Don't do like Amaar. Say, Hey, forget a devil. 54:37 I know why don't want me to get baptized. 54:40 Say yes to Jesus 54:41 and He'll take care of the details. 54:43 Promise. 54:44 Say yes to Jesus. You put a check mark there. 54:46 We need your email address 54:48 because we want to be back in touch with you. 54:49 We'll do whatever it takes to help you. 54:51 Okay. Is there another box? 54:52 Yep. 54:54 For a book on how to be baptized daily 54:56 by the Holy Spirit, 54:57 write H-S for Holy Spirit on the prayer request line. 55:03 You'll see it there digitally. 55:04 But if you want to save a step and get the book right now, 55:06 after, after you go back to your Wi-Fi, 55:09 here's where you go, 55:10 www.steps-to-personal- 55:15 revival.info. 55:18 That's it. 55:19 You go to that website and the book that changed 55:22 reshaped my life in ministry, and by a German, 55:25 elderly German businessman named Helmut Huabeil. 55:28 That book will be waiting for you 55:30 and you'll download it 55:31 and you'll have it this afternoon. 55:33 Remember that website, 55:34 steps-to-personal-revival separated by those dashes. 55:37 God is ready to go, ready to go. 55:44 And I'm grateful that you are too. 55:48 God bless you. 55:54 I'd like to take another moment with you here 55:57 at the end of our worship service 55:58 to share a special offer. 56:00 We have a new series called "American Apocalypse" 56:03 at our New Perceptions' website. 56:05 And I hope you'll be blessed by watching it. 56:07 Given the times of uncertainty we now live in. 56:10 There's a book I mentioned every now and then 56:11 that I'd love for you to have at no charge. 56:14 It's the apocalyptic classic, "The Great Controversy, " 56:17 the dramatic story of Christianity 56:19 and the church down to the Dark and Middle Ages 56:22 into the turbulent present, and very uncertain future. 56:26 I read a lot of books on Bible prophecy. 56:28 And by far this is the most gripping 56:30 and informative. 56:31 So if you pick up the phone 56:33 and dial one of our friendly operators 56:34 at 877-HIS-WILL, 56:36 those two words 877-HIS-WILL. 56:39 Ask for The Great Controversy. 56:41 It is very much a story whose time is way overdue. 56:44 Read the book for yourself. 56:45 So call this number 877-HIS-WILL 56:49 and ask for this book by name, The Great Controversy. 56:52 And I'm gonna be praying you get as blessed as I am 56:55 every time I read it. |
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