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01:40 church has one foundation. 05:54 When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word 06:04 What a glory He sheds on our way! 06:14 While we do His good will, He abides with us still 06:24 And with all who will trust and obey 06:36 Trust and obey, for there's no other way 06:45 To be happy with Jesus, but to trust and obey 07:01 Trust and obey, for there's no other way 07:16 To be happy with Jesus, 07:23 Jesus, but to trust and obey. 08:32 Good morning and happy Sabbath, 08:36 as we trust the God of our salvation and obey 08:40 Him in love as He has invited us to come 08:43 before Him in worship on this wonderful 08:45 Sabbath morning. I would like to welcome 08:48 you to the ASI convention as it 08:50 celebrates it 60th anniversary, 08:55 we have been sent greetings from the 08:57 President of our World Church Elder Jan Paulsen 09:01 and I share in the sentiments that he has sent. 09:04 And so I would like to offer that greeting for 09:07 you, Elder Paulsen writes: I greet you with the 09:12 words of the psalmist, better is one day in your 09:16 courts Lord then a thousand elsewhere, 09:20 I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house 09:22 my God then dwell in the tents of the wicked, 09:25 for the Lord God is a son and shield. 09:30 It is in the close association that we are 09:32 invited to engage in the mission 09:35 of telling the world. It is a partnership which 09:40 involves all believers of all cultures, 09:44 laity, youth and others, I value highly the ASI 09:51 commitment to mission and to work closely 09:54 with the rest of the church in serving God. 09:58 I commend you for your commitment, 10:01 yours and obedience to Christ Elder Jan Paulsen, 10:06 might we be blessed today as we 10:08 lift up the name of Jesus. 10:19 Please stand with me as we sing 10:20 "O worship the King" our opening song. 12:48 I just like to remind everyone as we are 12:51 gathered here before the Lord and His holy 12:54 angels, that we request that you do not applaud, 12:59 that if you are blessed by the music or the 13:03 message that you please say amen, amen. 13:07 Please bow your heads with me as we pray. 13:11 Our dear gracious kind heavenly Father, 13:14 we thank you so much for bringing us together 13:17 on this your holy Sabbath day. 13:21 We thank you dear Lord for the blessings 13:24 of this past week and the wonderful messages 13:27 that we have been blessed as well as the 13:29 testimonies that we have heard throughout 13:33 the past few days. We pray that as we enter 13:37 into your holy worship hour that our hearts will 13:40 be pierced and our minds refreshed through your 13:44 Holy Spirit. That the message that is received 13:49 will be taken from this place and used in many 13:53 ways to spread the gospel of your soon coming. 13:57 Pray that you will anoint our speaker this 14:00 morning with your Holy Spirit and that his 14:04 message will reflect the glory of Your goodness 14:07 and mercy to each one of us. Amen. 14:10 We thank You and praise You and ask this 14:13 all in Jesus Holy name amen, amen. 14:29 Don't let your heart be troubled. 14:34 If you believe in God, believe, why not 14:40 believe also in Me, also in Me. 14:46 Why don't you set your troubled hearts at ease 14:52 If you are trusting God, then put all of your trust 14:59 also in Me, also in Me. 15:04 For in my Father's house are many mansions. 15:12 Many mansions and I am going there 15:17 To prepare, prepare a place for you 15:22 So don't let your hearts be troubled, 15:27 I am coming back again to receive you unto myself 15:34 That where I am you maybe also, 15:43 for in my father's house are any mansions. 15:52 Many mansions and I am going there 15:58 To prepare, prepare a place for you 16:04 So don't let your hearts be troubled, 16:09 I am coming back again to receive you unto myself 16:17 That where I am you maybe also, 16:25 you maybe also. Amen. 16:45 We've come to that special part of our 16:47 worship service, for we worship through giving, 16:52 I know we have worship this morning 16:54 by study as we have listened to the Sabbath 16:56 school lesson. We've worshiped through 16:58 music, hasn't the music been wonderful? Amen. 17:02 We're gonna be worship through the spoken 17:04 word here in a little while as our worship 17:06 service continues but now it is time for us to 17:09 worship through giving. If you look in your 17:14 programs, if you've had opportunity to look in 17:16 your programs, the 60th anniversary issue program. 17:19 You will note in there that there are 40 17:22 different projects from around the world that 17:26 your ASI organization, your ASI leadership has 17:29 chosen to feature for our offering this year, 17:32 that means the dollars that you put in to the 17:35 offering this morning are gonna go and touch 17:37 ministries in number of 40 around the world. 17:41 Now this morning we have chosen to bring 17:46 four of those ministries before you, to let them 17:48 tell you their story of what they're going to be 17:51 doing with the offering that is given to them, 17:54 what they are gonna be doing to glorify and 17:57 promote God's work. You know, 60 years is a 18:01 longtime for an organization to be 18:03 around and ASI is proud that we have 18:05 made 60 years but you know in reality 18:08 wouldn't we all really rather be some place 18:10 else like the kingdom of heaven. 18:14 But I wanna tell you that while we're still 18:16 here God gives us the privilege of giving to 18:20 His cause and helping to empower this gospel 18:22 that goes around the world and I want you to 18:23 just say as you listen to this individuals as they 18:27 share what they're gonna be doing with 18:29 their offering that you give today to forward 18:32 God's work. I want you to keep in mind some, 18:34 a couple of special points, number one 18:38 that's since 1993, 14 conventions ago. 18:43 We have take in this offering multiple 18:46 millions of dollars for God's cause, and I want 18:50 to say thank you to every single one of you 18:52 that have given because you have empowered 18:55 the gospel of Jesus Christ to go out in 18:57 powerful ways around this world that will only 18:59 be measured in the kingdom of heaven. 19:02 Now, I want to introduce to you the 19:04 first of the four groups that will be coming out 19:07 Claus Nybo, Claus is from Sweden, 19:12 Lifestyle Television in Sweden and Claus, 19:14 please share what God has laid on your heart. 19:19 Thank you Dan for giving us the time to 19:22 share, you know ASI has meant the world to 19:25 us in the years that we have been here. 19:27 It is through the inspiration of faith, 19:29 sacrifice and commitment that we've 19:31 seen here that we have dared to venture out 19:35 into the mission that we have done. 19:37 But the Lord called us to in starting a TV station, 19:41 I wanna bring you to an area of the 19:43 world as Dan mentioned in Sweden, 19:45 an area that often is known as being ahead 19:48 in technological development, 19:51 in the standard of living and other innovations. 19:55 But did you know that the UN also accounts 19:57 Sweden as the most secular country in the 20:01 world, an area where less then 2 percent 20:04 attends church. And it's in this area 20:07 that we were called to serve God in a capacity 20:10 of a TV station, I wanna share a little clip with 20:13 you about what has happened over the last 20:16 year and half at Lifestyle TV. 22:20 Amen. Praise the Lord for what he has done, 22:23 I am humbled when I see the way that 22:26 he provides every single month for the needs 22:29 of this ministry, in an area that is less 22:33 than 1500 square feet this whole ministry operates 22:36 with studios, with offices, master control, 22:39 student living quarters and everything else. 22:42 And today we are at the point where we need 22:45 to expand and are dreaming of the time 22:48 when we could have a real studio where we can 22:50 produce more programs. So, often as we walk 22:53 the fields we wonder when will the Lord open 22:56 that door, and we were excited this winter 22:59 when we heard from ASI that they had accepted 23:02 to take us as part of their offering for this 23:05 morning to help lay the foundation of a 23:09 new studio. The results that we are hearing from 23:12 people around in Scandinavia that are 23:14 walking into churches is amazing, 23:16 just the other day here at ASI one of your 23:19 members came up to me from Norway 23:21 and said I was just in a church three weeks ago 23:24 in Norway and there was a lady that was in church 23:28 because of Lifestyle TV. She had never heard 23:30 of Adventists before, this is happening all 23:32 the time and we wanna see more of it 23:35 and we wanna do more program, programming. 23:37 And we thank you ASI for all of your support 23:40 and inspiration that you have been to us in 23:43 reaching out to Scandinavia. 23:44 Thank you. Amen. 23:56 Good morning ASI family and happy Sabbath. 23:59 Good morning. Dr. Fleck, I understand that 24:04 gospel outreach does outreach work 24:07 in 46 different countries and it works hand 24:10 in hand with the global mission of the 24:13 Seventh-day Adventist church. Yes Jeremy, 24:15 we're privileged and it's a thrill to be part of 24:17 finishing God's work, you know we're told that, 24:20 that nobody is going anywhere until the gospel 24:23 is going everywhere. And in China there are 24:27 1.3 billion people they need to hear about Jesus. 24:31 Now, I have been hearing about this exciting 24:33 new project could you tell us about it? 24:36 Oh! It's very exciting just in the last two months, 24:41 we have now had the opportunity to talk about 24:43 what we're doing right now and that is that 24:45 we're gonna be putting because of the project 24:47 of ASI today. We're gonna be able to put 24:51 Desire of Ages, we're gonna be able to put 24:53 Christ Object Lessons and some of these incredible 24:56 books into the hands of the Chinese people, 25:00 this is awesome. Well, Dr. Fleck is this, 25:07 is this, the Desire of Ages lesson Chinese, 25:10 that's it Kimberly is it. This very book one 25:15 of my favorite books is gonna be able to go 25:18 into all the China, into all the libraries, 25:21 into the university libraries in China 25:23 this is awesome. So, are you telling us that 25:26 these books are going to be in public libraries? 25:30 Yes, there gonna be in the university libraries 25:33 and in some many of the public libraries, 25:34 it's incredible. Amen. Eleven Chinese, 25:43 where the students gonna be able to find them, 25:46 like why are they in libraries and book stores? 25:48 Well see Kimberley in China believe it or not 25:51 a lot of people don't know this but a lot of 25:53 the young people in high school and in universities 25:56 and colleges they have to read the Bible. 25:58 Okay, it's obligatory, but study does literature 26:02 not as a religion book and many of them 26:04 just like me I didn't do very well in literature 26:07 in college. And so they have hard time 26:10 understanding the Bible, but with these, 26:12 with these books right next to the Bible 26:16 in the libraries they're going to be able 26:18 to understand the Bible and not only as a book 26:22 but also maybe we hope they can learned 26:24 to have a meaning in their life and the personal 26:27 relationship with Jesus. Amen, so are you 26:31 telling us this morning that there gonna be 26:33 books stowed in China and other countries? 26:37 See, this is another incredible miracle 26:38 and that is just in the last six weeks 26:41 we have found out that is now possible 26:43 after 50 years to have colporteurs again in China. 26:47 Wow, amen. And this is incredible you know 26:49 this is how our work spread all over the world 26:52 and so for the first time they have given us 26:54 permission that if these men and women, 26:57 literature, evangelist if their license to me 27:00 they after pay a fee, a peddlers fee 27:03 to the government. But now they're able to sale 27:05 these books in door-to-door 27:07 in the streets and even in the public book 27:10 stores in China but only the books that are 27:12 approve by The Three-Self Patriotic Movement 27:15 in the Chinese Christian Commission which 27:18 their government regulate forces for, 27:20 for religion and this book over 30 years ago 27:25 and Christ Object Lesson they have been approve 27:27 by The Three-Self and so they will be 27:29 the first one that will saw this is incredible. 27:31 Amen. So, Jeremy what do you think about 27:34 this awesome ASI project that is living 27:36 to be reached? Wow, I'm so excited about 27:40 this project that is going on here at ASI, 27:43 if I was young person in China studying the Bible 27:46 as a literature I would love to have a book, 27:49 a lesser light to lead me and guide me 27:51 to the greater light, to help me understand 27:54 this greater light. So, I'm so excited about 27:56 this project. Amen. I just wanna thank everyone 28:00 for this incredible support for gospel outreach, 28:03 ASI has been tremendous support 28:05 and each one of you will have a part when these 28:07 books going to these libraries, 28:09 when there going to the book stores either home, 28:11 each one of you will be going with those books, 28:13 thank you so much. Amen. 28:23 Good morning. Good morning. 28:24 I'm Justin McNeilus and this is my 28:27 friend and boss, Israel Ramos and we wanna 28:30 tell you just a little bit about GYC 28:32 and I just asked Israel maybe just to tell us 28:34 a little bit about what it is in case 28:35 you're not aware of it. Justin, GYC is a place 28:40 where young people can seat at the feet of 28:43 some of our churches most capable ministers, 28:47 health professionals and businessmen. 28:50 Imagine with me the opportunity that a 28:52 young person has who maybe is not able 28:54 to attend a public college or university 28:57 or a high school. They don't know much about 28:59 the Bible, they don't know much how 29:01 they can connect with the Seventh-day 29:02 Adventist church and here you allow them 29:04 the opportunity to seat at the feat of some 29:07 of the most capable church leaders in the 29:09 world today. They're godly, 29:11 they're successful in their areas of ministry 29:14 and leadership and they're able to train 29:16 our young people to follow Jesus Christ 29:19 that is what GYC is? Amen. And I think very 29:22 early on in GYC we decided we wanted 29:24 to be more than just an organization where 29:26 people come and listen, but rather an organization 29:29 where they give back a little bit. 29:31 So, we decided in Sacramento we would 29:33 send young people out, we sent out 1200 young 29:37 people into the streets of Sacramento. 29:39 We decided we do more in Chattanooga, 29:42 we sent out 8, excuse me, one thousand eight 29:45 hundred and fifty young people into the 29:48 cities of Chattanooga, amen. Amen. 29:50 But than that was not enough so we went 29:51 to Baltimore, in Baltimore we filled up 29:53 28 full size buses and that wasn't enough 29:57 there was 1200 people who went out on the 30:00 streets into the middle, excuse me the downtown 30:03 Baltimore and ask people if they wanted 30:05 Bible studies. But it seems to me Israel, 30:09 that these ASI people they are more than just 30:11 what happen in the past aren't they? 30:13 Yeah, they would rather know what we're gonna 30:15 do in the future. And if we focus on the past, 30:17 we will never give a stage again Justin, 30:19 we need to talk about the future. Imagine with me, 30:22 we have about 3000 at least people here at 30:26 ASI look around, look around and if you imagine 30:29 with me 80 percent of the people here, 30:32 imagine 80 percent of the people here getting up 30:35 after the church service, going outside 30:38 where about 20 to 30 buses, 30:40 school buses will be waiting for them. 30:41 And going out in Minnesota knocking 30:44 on doors, now GYC is held in the winter 30:46 that's the only time where young people 30:48 have time to do evangelism during their 30:50 Christmas break. Where in Minnesota it's 20 below 30:54 zero people have to go, the North face company 31:00 is gonna make a lot of money. 31:02 People are going out there with their jackets 31:04 because it's dangerous out there, they have 31:06 to be excited because if they're not 31:07 they're gonna freeze to death. 31:08 And they're knocking on doors; they're knocking 31:11 on doors because they want to share the gospel 31:14 with Minnesota. Amen. But we're not just gonna 31:17 stop there because of what ASI 31:19 is doing for GYC, we're gonna have an 31:21 evangelistic series following up Minneapolis. 31:24 Now, our slogan at GYC is higher than the highest, 31:28 so we don't think just because we're in 31:30 Minnesota and just because it's freezing 31:31 that we're knock and do some evangelism, 31:33 amen. Amen. So, we're gonna send out people 31:36 probably 30 plus buses, we're gonna go 31:38 into the heart of Minneapolis 31:40 and we're gonna ask for Bible studies. 31:42 And after that we're working with the 31:43 Minnesota conference, we're gonna have some 31:45 evangelistic meetings led out by young people, 31:48 preach by young people and it's gonna be put 31:51 on by young people, amen. Amen. 31:53 And it's because what ASI is doing that 31:55 this is a possibility for GYC. 31:59 Justin, we don't have to imagine because what 32:01 ASI is gonna contribute will help this to be 32:04 a reality for young people, but it's not 32:06 gonna stop dear friends, 32:08 it's not gonna stop there. Someone is gonna 32:10 come to GYC, he or she is gonna knock on 32:13 some doors, that person is gonna go back 32:16 to their local church, where there are not 32:18 other young people that have the support 32:20 that they will find at GYC. That person is gonna 32:23 understand that outside of doing ministry 32:26 for Jesus they're gonna die, so that young 32:28 person is gonna go and in his or in her 32:31 local church, in his or in her country. 32:34 They're gonna want to do something for 32:36 Jesus; it's not gonna stop there, the impact, 32:39 the impact that ASI will have on a GYC 32:42 young person will be an impact that will last 32:45 throughout eternity. Israel before you wrap this up, 32:49 I just wanna give them a special invitation. 32:52 And I just wanna beyond us with you for a second, 32:54 I've grown up in the church, went to a 32:56 Seventh-day Adventist school and church 32:58 is all my life. But the most exciting powerful 33:02 time I saw a God work was at GYC 33:05 and I would invite ASI members to come up 33:09 and on our Sabbath afternoon activity 33:11 I want you to come up and sit behind a stage. 33:14 Because when you come and you see 2000 plus 33:18 young people stand up at the same time, 33:21 get all on the buses, go into the community. 33:24 You know that God is working, amen, 33:26 it's a sea of young people that go out into 33:30 a city and I invite you to come to that. 33:32 Israel thank them again, thank you ASI for 33:35 making this possibility for us. Amen. Amen. 33:42 I'd like to introduce you to Pastor Paul Ratsara, 33:44 President of the Southern African-Indian 33:47 Ocean Division of Seventh-day Adventist 33:49 and Reginald Sibanda from the villages of Africa. 33:52 Pastor Ratsara, the Southern African-Indian 33:56 Ocean Division is partnering with ASI 33:58 in a unique project what's the origin of 34:01 that project? Thank you very much; 34:05 the fact is that we want to go home 34:07 as soon as possible. Amen. And I was working 34:12 in Bible studies and the spirit of prophecy 34:15 just to find the key to finish God's work 34:19 not in the next generation, 34:21 but in this generation. And the Lord answered prayer 34:25 and He showed the key to finish God's work 34:31 right in this generation. And the fact is that 34:34 we need to have the repeat of the book of Acts, 34:39 what we read in the book of Act should be not 34:42 only to be read, but to live by. 34:44 And also the end time prophecies about us 34:48 to be fulfilled in our lifetime, 34:51 so one component of that key is what we call 34:56 fishers of men based on Matthew 35:00 chapter 4 verse 19: "Follow me, 35:03 and I will make you fishers of men." 35:05 And in Christians Service page 9: 35:09 Every true disciple is born into the kingdom 35:13 as a missionary. So this program is to train 35:16 and equip lay people for service. 35:20 You piloted it in a very difficult area in 35:24 Zimbabwe, how many members did we have 35:27 in that area when you began this lay 35:28 training program? And actually the idea is that 35:32 every new member once they are baptized 35:36 or even before being baptized we'll involve 35:39 them intentionally to win souls. So, we started it 35:44 with a pilot project in Zimbabwe 35:47 what they call district, Mwenezi district, one of 35:50 the hardest territory, with 273 members. 35:55 Pastor, you come from the villages 35:58 you are district is the Mwenezi district with 36:01 273 members four years ago, how many members 36:05 do you have today? Thank you pastor, 36:08 today we have 21,348 members. 36:13 You have grown from 273 members in four years 36:17 to 21,000, how many churches did you pastor 36:21 when you went to the district? 36:22 We had ten churches. How many do you 36:25 have today? One hundred and seventy two churches. 36:28 You are the conference president? 36:30 No, I'm the district pastor. 36:32 You pastor a hundred and seventy two churches, 36:36 how many associate pastors do you have? 36:38 I have one associate pastor. 36:40 And are you training some lay people? 36:43 Yes, we train, this year we managed to train 36:47 one thousand and fifty lay people to 36:49 conduct meetings. A thousand and fifty 36:52 lay people to conduct the evangelistic meetings 36:54 in your district and they're your lay pastors. 36:57 Now, Pastor what is the, what principles 37:01 do you operate on to take a church district 37:04 from two hundred and seventy three 37:06 to twenty one thousand? 37:09 We use the concept of faith, prayer, 37:13 training the lay people and hard work. 37:16 Prayer, tell me about your personal prayer life? 37:23 I pray for up to 4 hours a day, I wake up at 2 am 37:28 and I pray up to 6 am. You're spending 4 hours 37:32 a day in prayer, now that would be difficult 37:35 for many of us do you have a prayer list? 37:38 Yes, I have prayer list that I update 37:41 every morning. And how many projects 37:43 on your prayer list? Sometimes I have up to 37:46 800 prayer requests, sometimes it comes 37:49 down to 60, sometimes to nothing. 37:52 Why does it come from 800 to 60? 37:55 Because the Lord would give answer the prayers 37:57 and I will delete from the list. 38:00 The Lord answers the prayers, amen, 38:02 you told me about an experience. 38:05 Now folk, this is a miracle, Reginald and 38:08 groups were traveling on rough roads, 38:11 they were traveling into a village to hold an 38:13 evangelistic meeting. They have to bring food 38:16 into that village because they were gonna be 38:18 there for a long time, they were going to hold 38:22 the evangelistic meetings for 3 or 4 weeks. 38:24 They needed gas or petrol to go and 38:26 they had 200 liters of petrol on the back 38:28 of the truck with the food, what happened? 38:31 The drum was damaged with all the petrol leak 38:35 into the food, so all the food was spoiled. 38:38 Was the food saturated with gas? 38:41 Yes, the food was saturated with gas 38:43 and when we got to the places where we were 38:46 to distribute the food, we discovered that 38:48 all the food with gas. Did you see it with 38:51 your eyes? Yes, we could see, we could smell it, 38:55 the drum was emptied. Two hundred liters 38:58 across the food, yes, what did you do? 39:01 We discovered that we have nothing to do 39:04 so we prayed and we give out the food to the 39:07 lay people who were preaching. 39:09 And two hours of prayers the people 39:12 never had that the food with gas, 39:14 there was no smell in the food, 39:16 all the preachers ate the food. 39:19 And there was no smell of gas in the food at all, 39:21 not at all, God worked a miracle, 39:24 another answer of prayer of what God is doing, 39:26 the Holy Spirit being poured out like 39:28 in the days of Acts. A police officer reacted 39:31 negatively against the meetings and 39:33 he was gonna arrest Reginald what happened? 39:36 What happened was that the police officer, 39:38 actually their police in-charge said 39:41 not in this area, you cannot visit homes here. 39:44 So, I'm going to arrest your pastor, 39:46 you cannot do this. So, the lay people 39:50 and the pastors, they prayed 39:53 and when they prayed after two days a big truck, 39:56 a police truck came in front of the house 40:00 of the police officer who stopped the lay people 40:02 to preach and with the letter, 40:04 he said, look you are transferred. 40:06 You need to pack and today you need to go, 40:11 so you had to leave and a new man came 40:16 and the population in that area said, 40:20 look we would like to give you a piece of advice. 40:23 Don't ever mess up with the Adventist? 40:26 If you mess up with them, 40:27 you will be transferred also? Little did they know 40:33 that this new police officer in-charge is 40:36 an Adventist? Amen. You trained a thousand fifty 40:41 lay preachers, are they conducting evangelistic 40:44 meetings right now? Yes, they are conducting 40:47 the Bible studies with people right now. 40:49 And how many do you anticipate will be baptized 40:52 in your district from this ASI initiative, 40:55 the ASI has founded this. 40:56 We hope, by the grace of God to baptize 40:59 over 15000 people. Fifteen thousand, 41:02 so from 273 to over to thirty five thousand 41:07 members in your district. Pastor Paul, 41:11 I know that some people are thinking that 41:13 these people are being baptized quite quickly, 41:15 quite rapidly that we baptize just a lot 41:19 and they have superficial experiences 41:21 is that true? No, not in that district, 41:24 since this is pilot project to make sure that we, 41:27 we have not only the quantity but the 41:30 quality meaning we have to teach them the 41:34 Bible doctrine and about 90 percent of them. 41:38 They are faithful stewards and they are winning 41:41 souls not only they are present, 41:43 but they are there to share the good news. 41:46 Now, after evangelistic meeting like this in a 41:49 hundred and seventy two churches where you train 41:52 these lay people. You must need a lot of pastors 41:56 to command, now are you looking for more pastors 41:58 to come into your district. 42:00 No, we are not looking for more pastors, 42:03 because we are training the lay people to look 42:06 after the members and also. You are not looking 42:08 for more pastors, no, not more people from 42:10 North America to hold the evangelistic meeting 42:11 in your district. No, you don't want me to come. 42:14 No, we don't want you to come. 42:16 Thank you very much, you wanna train the lay 42:19 people there. Now, but I let you know to baptize 42:24 these thousand of people it must take you, 42:26 how long does it take you to baptize, 42:28 what's the longest period you've ever baptized? 42:31 Each one time after conducting the meetings, 42:34 we baptized continuously for 14 days, 14 days 42:38 continually, yes, when did you baptized 42:41 during those fourteen days. We're baptized 42:43 in some places it was in the morning, 42:45 some places it was in the afternoon 42:48 and in the evening. How did you get from 42:49 place to place? Sometimes we'd walk 42:52 from place to place to baptize. 42:54 How far you walk sometimes, 42:55 so further should walk? I walked for 45 kilometers. 42:59 That's about 25 miles between place to place 43:02 to place to baptize, to baptize, 43:04 to baptize for fourteen days. 43:05 Pastor, what is your vision for your entire 43:10 division how can that ASI help specifically, 43:13 what are your needs? Thank you very much, 43:16 the idea is that, this is pilot project 43:19 and we would like this to be adopted throughout 43:23 entire territory of the division SID 43:26 twenty three countries, 8 unions, 38 conferences 43:30 and fields. So, we need to duplicate this into 43:35 the different districts, we need picture rolls, 43:39 fifty thousand picture rolls. 43:42 What will happen with fifty thousand picture 43:43 rolls in your district? We've just one picture 43:47 roll, many people will watch and will study 43:52 the word of God. What else do you need? 43:55 We need DVDs ten thousand DVDs, 43:58 DVD players, DVD players we need Bibles, 44:03 we need Bible lessons. How many members 44:06 in your division? Almost 2.2 million now, 44:09 how many lay people can be equip to train 44:11 in your division. Actually our goal is to train 44:15 up to 85 percent of the lay people to win souls. 44:20 Amen. And God will move. Now Pastor Reginald, 44:24 I want you to make an appeal to this group 44:28 to help you in Africa. I've told you before 44:32 that you remember, you remember one of the 44:35 prayer request that's Pastor Reginald, 44:38 Pastor Reginald, what are your prayer requests, 44:41 you were praying, what were you praying about, 44:43 you're gonna hold a hundred and seventy six 44:45 big evangelistic meetings, a thousand small ones, 44:47 there was a need what were you praying about? 44:50 We were praying in April that the Lord 44:52 will provide us with the funds to be able to 44:55 conduct these meetings. And as you prayed 44:58 what were you impressed to do? 45:00 As I prayed I met Pastor Mark Finley 45:03 and I told him about the meetings 45:06 and the requests and the Lord blessed us, 45:09 he got the funds for us. You know where I got 45:11 those funds? From ASI. Amen, I got a call from the 45:16 villages of Africa this man found a telephone 45:19 some place and he called me and said Pastor Mark, 45:22 I am in the villages we want to hold these 45:25 massive evangelistic meeting, we need 45:27 some funds. And I called ASI and ASI said, 45:32 we have some extra funding we have found 45:34 and right now you are funding over 45:37 one thousand fifty lay evangelistic meetings 45:41 that will accommodate this fall and a hundred 45:43 and seventy six meetings in Africa. 45:45 If you want to go you can watch, 45:48 but the lay people of Africa will preach, 45:51 in one sentence make an appeal Brother 45:54 Reginald to this group. I like to make an appeal 45:59 to ASI and to everyone who is here today, 46:03 that this gospel will be preached to every nation, 46:08 and tongue, and kindred and people then shall 46:11 the end come. Amen. So, I like to appeal that 46:14 all of us need to unite and work together 46:18 to spread this gospel and tell everyone 46:21 and tell them now Jesus will come 46:23 in this generation. The book of Acts being 46:25 repeated in Africa amen, amen, amen. 46:35 Great Controversy, page 612, Ellen White writes 46:39 there that the work of God is not to be finished 46:42 with less manifestation of the spirit of God 46:44 than in begin in apostolic times. Amen. 46:46 You have just heard testimony with that spirit 46:48 of God is moving on that continent of Africa 46:51 in a very powerful way. And He is moving all 46:52 around the world wouldn't you agree? Amen. 46:56 I want to just draw your attention to several 46:57 things and first of all I want you to know as 47:00 we come to appeal with this offering. 47:02 I want you to begin silently praying 47:04 while I'm talking about what you're gonna 47:06 write down on this envelop, 47:08 what you're gonna write on the check that 47:10 you are getting ready to insert in this envelop. 47:12 By the way this envelop should have been 47:13 on your seat, if you do not have one 47:15 of these envelops, I want you to, 47:17 to raise your hand, we want to get this 47:19 envelop into your hands. There are some people 47:21 that do not have envelops, so we've got 47:22 someone around that has some extra envelops 47:24 please pass those there. We'll have our 47:26 offering people coming up in a just moment 47:28 but you need an envelop, if you don't 47:30 have one, turn to someone that might have 47:32 one close to you. I just want to point out 47:36 a couple of things while you're praying silently 47:38 Lord what would you have me to write down 47:40 on this envelop, what would you have me 47:41 to put on that check write by dollar sign. 47:45 I just want to point out, you know this book 47:48 over here that you saw Kimberly pickup right 47:51 here the, the book in Chinese, 47:54 the Desire of Ages. You know that for $12, 47:59 you will be able to put a set of those books 48:02 into the hands of a colporteur into a 48:04 public library, you for, $240 can put 20 sets 48:10 of those out there in China, 48:12 I want you to note that $240. You heard 48:15 them talk about DVDs for $75 you can 48:18 put up DVD player and a full DVD with all our 48:21 sermon notes into the hands of a lay pastor. 48:24 Just 10 of those, 10 of those DVDs 48:26 and empower ten lay pastors that's $750. 48:30 You heard them talk about picture rolls, 48:32 you heard Pastor Reginald talk about picture rolls, 48:35 20 bucks, $20 will put a picture roll and 48:39 the full set of sermon materials in the hands 48:41 of the lay evangelists. You can empower fifty 48:45 lay evangelist with picture roll and materials 48:47 to go out in evangelize and they have meetings 48:50 as many as three times a week when you put 48:51 this in their hands. As many as a hundred people 48:53 come into each site, every one of those if you do 48:58 fifty of them that's a thousand bucks, 48:59 I just want you to note for nineteen hundred 49:02 and ninety dollars, ten dollars less than 49:04 two thousand dollars. You could put those 49:06 multiples and empower just those. 49:08 I just want you to think about how you can 49:10 make a difference with your checkbook 49:12 this morning. Now I just want to tell 49:15 you a little story. In the great world war that 49:20 took place last century on the continent 49:22 of Europe the major powers were bombing 49:25 each other, trying to knock out there industrial 49:27 capability to fight the war. This story took place 49:31 in the city of London, little girl maybe 49:34 3, 4 years old their family would have to run 49:36 down into the bomb shelter every now 49:38 you could hear the tremendous explosions 49:39 all around then one night down the bomb shelter 49:42 the lights went off and it was totally 49:45 and completely dark in that place. 49:48 And this little voice, so this little girl 49:50 cried out somebody like the dark, 49:52 somebody like the dark, would you agree 49:55 with me that our world is a dark place today? 49:58 You have the opportunity ASI members, lay people 50:01 all around have the opportunity to 50:02 light the dark, you have the ability with your 50:05 offering this morning to empower the lighting 50:07 of our entire world with people who are willing 50:09 to go to do it. I wanna ask you in your offering 50:11 this morning to consider what you do with your 50:13 own life and I want you to consider what 50:14 you're gonna do as you put something on this 50:16 envelop. Now, I want you to just a few words, 50:20 kneel where you are with me as we pray, 50:22 as the offering is about to be taken, 50:23 I want you to kneel with me if you would. 50:24 We're gonna ask God to bless 50:26 this offering in a very special way. 50:32 God in heaven, you have told us through your 50:37 servant that the work on this world to bring 50:41 the gospel to everyone, so that you can come 50:44 again will not be finished with less of a 50:46 manifestation of your power and your spirit 50:48 than it began with your apostles. 50:51 And Lord we pray that as we see the evidences 50:54 of that beginning to happen around our world, 50:56 that Lord you will help us all, to recommit our 50:58 lives again today to light this world for you 51:02 with our lives, with our checkbooks, 51:04 with our influence with everything we've got, 51:06 bless everyone hear as they decide 51:08 what they're gonna give this morning 51:09 I pray in Jesus name, amen. 51:24 There is a candle in every soul 51:31 Some brightly burning, some dark and cold 51:39 There is a Spirit who brings the fire. 51:46 Well, you heard the tremendous appeals 51:48 and you've heard the testimonies 51:50 of what is happening around the world 51:53 incredible story as I've talked to Pastor Paul, 51:55 I have interviewed him. Incredible stories 51:57 of what God is doing to lead and guide 52:00 and direct and today this is your opportunity, 52:03 so we're praying that you will give as the 52:05 Holy Spirit impresses you to help projects 52:07 around the world, to help hasten the soon 52:10 coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 52:12 You can write to the address that's on your 52:14 screen and the address is ASI Ministries, 52:17 2501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, 52:20 MD, 20904. And so we just ask you as the 52:26 Holy Spirit impressing to help and so Lord 52:30 in fact say a prayer, Lord, what would 52:31 you have me to do to help this great 52:34 cause getting the gospel literally unto all 52:37 the world. God is blessing 3ABN and 52:40 I was thankful to be partnering with ASI 52:43 and showing these programs around the world 52:46 and those of you at home while you're watching, 52:48 just let ASI no write to them and say we watch 52:51 the ASI programs on 3ABN and we wanna do 52:54 our part to join with you to get the gospel 52:57 into all the world, thank you and God bless you. 52:59 So carry your candle, run to the darkness 53:04 Seek out the lonely, the tired and worn 53:11 And hold out your candle for all to see it 53:18 Take your candle, and go light your world 53:25 Take your candle, and go light your world 53:33 'Cause we are a family whose hearts are amazing 53:41 So lets raise our candles and light up the sky 53:47 Praying to our Father, in the name of Jesus 53:54 Make us a beacon in the darkest times 54:01 Carry your candle, run to the darkness 54:08 Seek out the helpless, deceived and poor 54:14 Hold out your candle for all to see it 54:21 Take your candle, and go light your world 54:28 Take your candle, and go light your world 54:47 Go light your world. |
Revised 2014-12-17