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Speaker 2: here to tell you tonight, and Barry's gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: As opposed to allowing God to do it. You realize

431
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 4: that was God, and the glory goes to him when

432
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 4: you look up and you say, God, you just use me.

433
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 4: I told you before. I after look up, I see

434
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,199
Speaker 4: Jesus looking down at me, happy with me. We can

435
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 4: give him joy, you know, we can give God joy.

436
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 4: We give him joy, and the joy of the Lord

437
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 4: is are strength. But we know that we're exactly where

438
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 4: we're supposed to be. And God just used us to

439
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 4: change the life in front of us. I got to

440
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 4: tell you, if you haven't had that experience, and you

441
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 4: can have it every day, it's so much fun. So

442
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 4: we have to get off the precipice that it's all

443
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 4: this inks and in their face. And I'm going to

444
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 4: get We've never been persecuted, Carol, I never not once.

445
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 2: It's probably coming. Don't worry.

446
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 4: Well, you know the world firstcuse is horrible around the world,

447
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,719
Speaker 4: but not here yet. It may come, but right now

448
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 4: it's not here. Particularly when you tell people God loves them,

449
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 4: it's hard for people to get mad at you when

450
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 4: you say, do you know God loves you? They just

451
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 4: they just they can't can't handle them, they can't process it.

452
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 4: An he can't. They go, after all I've done, he

453
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 4: can't possibly love me. And and when you get that

454
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 4: across from them, they're not fighting you. It just it

455
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 4: just opens them up.

456
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 2: It's it's a beautiful thing to realize that when we

457
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 2: read the scriptures, we see what the Europeans call friendship evangelism. Now,

458
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 2: apart from the likes of Billy Graham, where Billy Graham

459
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 2: uh did do at least one, maybe more of crusades

460
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 2: in Europe. Crusades don't work in the Middle East. They

461
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 2: don't work in Europe. The European model, they'll tell you

462
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 2: is that sharing the Lord is friendship of angelism. And we,

463
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 2: as a Westerners, at least in America, I should say,

464
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 2: we're impatient with that. So, for example, friendship evangelism, and

465
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: I'm kind of taking not kind of, I'm taking this

466
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 2: almost verbatim from doctor A. E. Wilder Smith who we

467
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 2: had speak at this church before he passed, and we

468
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: had the honor of having him. If you don't know

469
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,719
Speaker 2: he is, it doesn't matter. But he's in heaven now.

470
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 2: But from and against Switzerland and he he was talking

471
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: about evangelism and that that they share Christ on a

472
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 2: consistent basis with those whom they work with by how

473
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 2: they work at their jobs, their their their motivation, their

474
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 2: their response, their attitude, their demeanor. There we call it witness.

475
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 2: And I think sometimes we've gotten the demand of I

476
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 2: got to go tell somebody about Jesus, because you know,

477
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 2: we've heard people say, you know, I've told somebody about

478
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 2: Jesus every day of my life. Then we think, well,

479
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 2: I got to go out and tell somebody about Jesus.

480
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: But even in doing that, that's not the right motive

481
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: to go do it. That's just another notch in your belt.

482
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 2: Are you hearing me? It's got to be organic and

483
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 2: it has to be out of love. And doctor Walder

484
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 2: Smith said that once you've earned someone or gained someone's trust,

485
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 2: then you can bring up or you've earned the opportunity

486
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: to bring up the Gospel to them. You see, I've

487
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 2: never heard of that before. Yes, you have when you

488
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 2: read your Bible, that's very much like what it was

489
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 2: in the first century Church. There were a few exceptions

490
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 2: where there was a crowd Peter, for example, on the

491
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 2: southern steps there in Jerusalem. But many times you're reading

492
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 2: about Jesus or Paul discussing, talking, asking, and relating to people.

493
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 2: And this is something that we would love to see

494
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 2: happen more and more, not only in this church, but

495
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: in every church in America, where people just determine, I'm

496
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 2: going to love on that person. And how many of

497
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: you been a Christian for for ten years? Anybody over

498
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 2: ten years?

499
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 4: Wow, that is a lot of you.

500
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 2: So you guys have learned by now that the person

501
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 2: that hates you the most, or hated you the most,

502
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 2: the person that's the most offensive at work or the

503
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 2: most difficult relative. By now, after being a Christian for

504
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: ten years, you've discovered that by targeting them in prayer

505
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 2: and loving on them deliberately has caused a lot of

506
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 2: walls to come down, maybe not fully, but the game's

507
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: not over yet. If they're still living. You've been sowing seed.

508
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 2: Can we sow seeds of love among people rather than

509
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: pass them by? Is what we want to make sure

510
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 2: that you understand when it comes to this late hour

511
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 2: of the church age, every single one of us need

512
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 2: to be telling others about the love of God and

513
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 2: that Jesus went to the cross for them. And you

514
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 2: can get to that, you can get to all of

515
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 2: the theology that we're supposed to get to, repentance from sin,

516
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: all of that. But listen, no one's going to listen

517
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 2: to you. And I'll be quite in a moment, no

518
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 2: one's going to listen to you if they don't think

519
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 2: you care. And you know what I'm what I mean

520
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 2: by this. You have been places where there's guys carrying

521
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 2: banners with megaphones preaching. They're actually saying all they're saying

522
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 2: the verses, and I can't hear, I can't stomach. Isn't

523
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 2: that sad? I can't stomach any of what they're saying.

524
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 2: They're saying that they're quoting the truth, but they've wrapped

525
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: it in a condescending, sour demeanor where I know that

526
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 2: there's no love relationship, there's no experience here. Do they

527
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: really care for my soul? Or are they put in

528
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 2: a notch in their evangelistic belt?

529
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 4: Very yeah, I'm thinking of a book written by doctor

530
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 4: Jerry Route, The Sacrament of Evangelism, And there was a

531
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 4: time when I would be in a face sharing opportunity

532
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 4: and I'd be saying, God, come I got alive with

533
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 4: Come over here and help me. And that's absurd. Of course,

534
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 4: He's already working with everybody before we get to them,

535
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 4: and he explains eloquently, I'm just touching the high points,

536
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 4: but that when we join in with anybody, when we're

537
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 4: sharing with them, we're coming into fellowship there. It's a sacrament,

538
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 4: it's a sacred time, and the Holy Spirit's already working.

539
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 4: And quite frankly, I don't engage people to get them saved,

540
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,719
Speaker 4: and that is my endgame. I engage him to engage

541
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 4: them if they if you have another goal, they can

542
00:33:55,800 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 4: sense that. But the Holy Spirit will give witnesses of them.

543
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 4: This is real love. Most people don't have anybody loves them,

544
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 4: not one. Most people do not have one person that

545
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 4: loves them. And when you express love to them, it's

546
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 4: so quickly that they respond. And it's a spirit. It's

547
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 4: not just us, it's not just two people. It's a

548
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 4: divine holy experience and God confirms in their heart and

549
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 4: then it just starts opening up and you start the

550
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 4: in the simplest ways. You know, Oh I love that hat,

551
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 4: or I love that dress, or are you wearing a cross?

552
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 4: Or or what a beautiful family I walk through. It's

553
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 4: that's like it sounds a little silly, maybe, but kind

554
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 4: of being like a pied piper that you're just distributing

555
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 4: love everybody. Just look.

556
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't.

557
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 4: I don't want to sound like it's just crazy. But

558
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 4: when you walk just be looking at people, have a

559
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 4: smile on your face. Christian didn't walk around dour like

560
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 4: the end of the world. Would make yourself approachable. And

561
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 4: then when you make eye contact, say something to them

562
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 4: and give them a compliment. And most of the time

563
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 4: it's fine, Hi, God, bless you is have a good day.

564
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 4: But then there's those moments throughout the day where they

565
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 4: want more and you engage in conversation, and then they'll

566
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 4: be the ones where they really pursue you, and you

567
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 4: have those every day. It's just it's so much fun.

568
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 4: But just love on them. It's not hard. You know,

569
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 4: there's no rules. Love on them. There's a million ways

570
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 4: to love on them. I'll see a family and a restaurant.

571
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 4: Are walking through and there's a family of color there

572
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 4: and they're all dressed nicely, and I stopped and I say,

573
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 4: I just like to take a picture of you guys.

574
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 4: You guys, you're the American family. This is what America

575
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 4: is all about. Mama day do great. And kids, when

576
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 4: you pray tonight, I would encourage you to thank God

577
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 4: every time you pray at night. Thank them forgive your

578
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 4: parents that love on you. Do you know how most

579
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 4: kids don't have parents like this and you do and

580
00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 4: they're like yeah, and the parents are like, yeah, you

581
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 4: just brought It takes two minutes. Two minutes, but you

582
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 4: got to be thinking about it. Encourage them to think

583
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 4: they might have that discussion going home that should we

584
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 4: be praying every night. There's a million ways to do.

585
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 4: At the point is love on their move, everybody every

586
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 4: day close to Jesus. And as you do that throughout

587
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 4: the course of every day, you're going to be surprised

588
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 4: with conversations that will just blow you away because so

589
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 4: many people are hurting and wanting love and they want

590
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 4: to know more. And let them pursue you. You don't

591
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 4: go after them, You let them pursue you. You just

592
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 4: I caught throwing a chum you just like deep sea fish,

593
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 4: you know. And then they start coming up that chum line,

594
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 4: and there's nothing more exciting than seeing it. Somebody that

595
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 4: doesn't know the Lord coming up taking a bite and

596
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 4: wanting no more and more and more. That's that's great fun.

597
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. So why would we hesitate in sharing

598
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 2: like what Barry just said, for example, why why would

599
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 2: we if we saw that beautiful black family all just

600
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 2: up and that Sunday afternoon or whatever when it was,

601
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 2: and they're eating and and it's that slice of family,

602
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 2: and like you said, America, and there's hope, and there's

603
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 2: a beautiful it's the Norman Rockwell momentolutely or whatever might be.

604
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 2: You may not see the Norman Rockwell moment. It could

605
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 2: be somebody that is hurting on the side of the road.

606
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 2: But for us to stop and say something that's appropriate

607
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 2: to that situation. You guys, every single one of us

608
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 2: have that encounter at least once a day somewhere somehow.

609
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 2: And if we would begin to say things like what

610
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 2: Bury's saying, and again, we think you should have those

611
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 2: cards in your pocket. There's a lot of great information

612
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 2: on there. But even if you don't, it's not predicated

613
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 2: upon you having the seeking God card. But for you

614
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 2: just to say to them, I think that, uh, I

615
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 2: think that you look I may be prying. I don't

616
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 2: mean to you look sad? Are you okay? Anything? I

617
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 2: can't help you with? That person may not have had

618
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: someone ask them anything like that deep in a long time.

619
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 4: That happens all the time, and who refused and distress

620
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 4: around us all the time, and they need some help.

621
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 4: But I'm a little busy. I don't have time to stop.

622
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 4: You follow the nudge. Every time you follow that nudge,

623
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 4: and you live in the fog, you'll live in the

624
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 4: favor of God. You be blessed every time you stop

625
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 4: and take the time. I don't know what I'm gonna say.

626
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 4: I have no idea what I'm talking to. Somebody yesterday

627
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 4: got a friend and such turmoil. It's just bizarre. I said,

628
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 4: Can I talk to him? Yeah? I have no idea

629
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 4: what I say to him? You know I don't, But

630
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 4: God will give me the words. Let me talk to him.

631
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 4: I can't wait. But that there's no pressure. It's just

632
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 4: it's just so easy. It's it's there's no reason to

633
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 4: do it, because.

634
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 2: Are we talking about just caring for other people?

635
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 4: Just caring for other people really the end result. We

636
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 4: know where that's going, but don't fresh on that. I

637
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 4: just love on them and let the Holy Spirit do

638
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 4: the rest. And he does. He does. And where you're

639
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 4: he's speaking through here, he's speaking through that person, He's

640
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 4: bringing you together.

641
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 2: It's just it's it's amazing, Siberia. I want to talk

642
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: about some of the things that that are going on

643
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 2: now since your first time here. So example, can you

644
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: talk about and the book is out and it's having

645
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 2: a run, it's going for it, but you've started to

646
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 2: ignite your life Bible study. You've got nine sessions that

647
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 2: are going on. Can you now describe what's going on

648
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: since our last meeting? And there's a list of things.

649
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 2: I've got like nine or eight things right here. What

650
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 2: has happened since.

651
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 4: Well, our minister's been growing for a long time, been

652
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 4: doing it for a few years, but it's reaching critical

653
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 4: mass at this point. And there things that were already

654
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 4: going that we didn't talk about last time, and then

655
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 4: because of last time, we'd started brainstorming some things we

656
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 4: can go further, but most of all, those of you

657
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 4: who read the book are the most common phrase we

658
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 4: here is that book changed my life. I never knew

659
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 4: how easy it was, how fun of us share my faith.

660
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 4: It's like they have a new toy. I talked to

661
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 4: the precious lady down here two sundays ago. She's eighty

662
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 4: five years old, and she said, I didn't accept the

663
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 4: Lord till seventy five. Wow, she broke all the odds.

664
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 4: She but I was saved. But then I read your book.

665
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 4: Now I'm a faith sharing machine. And she started telling

666
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 4: all the stories. People line up. They talked to me

667
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 4: on Sunday mornings. They all want to tell me their stories.

668
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 2: But people wanted to know more.

669
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 4: How do I do that? I need to know more?

670
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 4: They want more of The book was a good starter.

671
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 4: So now we have a nine lesson Bible study. Go

672
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 4: to our website. It's there, and I think we have

673
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 4: a screen up here. How you get to go to

674
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 4: a ninth America dot com. I'll have the whole word

675
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 4: to study. It's free, it's downloadable, It's fifty pages, information

676
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 4: and videos. You cannot believe how robust this is a

677
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 4: major achievement for us. To excite you. I got to

678
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 4: tell you if if you'll get through. If it's it's

679
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 4: not an easy study. This is not just have a

680
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 4: good day kind of thing. It's in your face. But

681
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 4: every time I can do that, I can do that,

682
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 4: I can do that. By the time you get the

683
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 4: ninth one night's study, they're all about an hour in length,

684
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 4: and I actually leave it myself and then we break it.

685
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 4: I throw a comment and there's discussion, So there's discussion

686
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 4: periods through it. Each one is fun. But I got

687
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 4: each one's in your face. And when you I guarantee

688
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 4: you get through the all nine sessions, you're gonna be

689
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 4: a face sharing machine. You're gonna be there. So it's

690
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 4: we're pretty excited about this. This Bible study. You can

691
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 4: study on your own, or you could have it as

692
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 4: a group. Said you do it neither way, but anyway,

693
00:41:58,680 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 4: it's great fun.

694
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 2: Now tell us about this great idea and I want,

695
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 2: I want all of you to get in on this.

696
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 2: This is awesome. But where you online, I guess you

697
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 2: have a group or you're going to have a group

698
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: where anyone can join and you're sharing and you encourage

699
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 2: people to leave their testimony their experience at your sight,

700
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 2: and people can explain.

701
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 4: Well, to go back for a moment, most fear worried

702
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 4: about what's going on in this world, and they're already

703
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:34,919
Speaker 4: fretting over. But the fact matter, you can't do anything

704
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 4: about the world. If you are carrying the weight of

705
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 4: this world around, what's going to happen next? And you

706
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 4: know Newsom or Biden or whatever, the weight that people

707
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 4: are carrying around that you can't do anything about that.

708
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 4: What are you worrying about? You can't change that anyway.

709
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 4: Worrying about the world is worthless worrying about your world.

710
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 4: Let's bring it down to the word you impact. You

711
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 4: have influence every wonder. If you have an influence, that's

712
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 4: your world. And you're always saying that you're world. Okay,

713
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 4: doing what we're talking about here. But the great thing is,

714
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 4: just like on Sunday mornings when when people come up

715
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 4: to me, they're tell me their stories. You have a

716
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 4: faith sharing story even you can't believe it. You can't

717
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 4: wait to tell somebody you can't believe what just happening here.

718
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 4: And the moment you're that the peak of that is

719
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 4: when it just happened. And so now you you just dialove,

720
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 4: ignite yourworld. Dot Com and go to that site and

721
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 4: you can type it or you can put it in

722
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 4: my video and you can tell your story exciting about

723
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 4: right way. So you captured it, but not just for yourself,

724
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 4: for the world. And we're going to build a community

725
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 4: of people, not just Christians. What a community of Christians

726
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 4: are all over the place. You don't know if they're

727
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 4: Christian or not. Everybody says they're Christians. Faith sharing Christians

728
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 4: are a whole other thing. When you're talking about first

729
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 4: love Christians. It is bringing first love Christians together. And

730
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, I see here's a car guy

731
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 4: in Georgia that's sharing his faith. What am I gonna do? Oh?

732
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 4: I could post to him publicly and say praise God,

733
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 4: thank you for your testimony. Or I can do it privately,

734
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 4: and I can do a private post to that person

735
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 4: and connect with them, say hey, this is Barry Maguire.

736
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 4: I'm accargate too.

737
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 2: We need to talk.

738
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 4: And you start building here what I'm talking about here,

739
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 4: you start building community with faith sharing Christians that are

740
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 4: very much like yourselves all over We're gonna start something

741
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 4: here that's gonna be pretty instant. We've just launched it.

742
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 4: We've got a few people and already we give us

743
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 4: another month or two. This thing's this thing has a

744
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 4: lot of legs.

745
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 2: We're really excited about that because when testimony, which uh

746
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 2: it's it's kind of sad in our culture in this

747
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 2: day and age, I say, in church culture is a

748
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 2: testimony's not shared enough. That's why smaller groups are very

749
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:52,280
Speaker 2: very important. Uh gosh, I want to be to the point,

750
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 2: but I don't want to discourage anybody or offend anybody.

751
00:44:55,280 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 2: I bottom line is this that Sunday morning church is

752
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 2: supposed to be the cherry on top of your experience

753
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 2: of the week. Okay, so well then if Sunday morning

754
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 2: is just the cherry, then then what's what's the the

755
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 2: where's the hot fudge, where's the ice cream, where's the

756
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 2: that's the rest of the week. As a believer, he said, well,

757
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: who's who can do that? I've got I've got these

758
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 2: other things going on exactly. And this is where this

759
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 2: hits hard right now, is if there was ever a

760
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 2: time that would apply, or the term would apply. You've

761
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 2: heard this, Why are you arranging the chairs on the

762
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 2: deck of the Titanic while it's sinking? The world is

763
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 2: in a free fall. And the most important thing that

764
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 2: you can do right now is yes, have your water

765
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 2: heater tied down in case of an earthquake. Everybody should

766
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 2: have that. You should have some drinking water, some food eat.

767
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 2: Your family should be saved, and you should be telling

768
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 2: people about Jesus. Why because we don't know how long

769
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 2: we're gonna live. We don't know how long they're gonna live.

770
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 2: But Sunday mornings is where you get re equipped and

771
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 2: re energized, and you come together and what's called technically

772
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 2: and traditionally a convocation, the gathering together of the saints.

773
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 2: But then you go out into the world and you

774
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 2: do Christianity in your home and everywhere else. And we

775
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 2: in the West have been terribly distracted by things. Let's

776
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 2: be honest, we were all doing this and its might

777
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 2: be golf, or it might be softball, soccer. It's kids'

778
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 2: commitments to this, that and the other.

779
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 4: Thing.

780
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 2: I'm not knocking to it, except that it would not

781
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 2: be a good idea to have your kid be the

782
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 2: best soccer player and not know Jesus. Think about that.

783
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 2: It comes down to priority. If we sense that there's

784
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 2: an urgency in the world, in which we live in,

785
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 2: and I think you do. Then we want to tell

786
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 2: others about Jesus and then we get dry mouth and terrified.

787
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 2: But if you can say to someone, hey, excuse me,

788
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 2: but where where did you get that shirt? Or what

789
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: did you? Can I ask you something? I have a

790
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 2: jacket like that, but I know where I got mine?

791
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 2: Where did you get yours? They'll say something. Just ask

792
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 2: them something, Be honest and ask them anything.

793
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 4: There's always a always.

794
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 2: Always, And then use that at the very least to

795
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 2: say to them, you know there's anything I can pray

796
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 2: for you for.

797
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 4: Uh, but that may come way later. That may come,

798
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 4: It may not even happen in that conversation. You just

799
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 4: never know. It may it may happen. But the uh,

800
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,280
Speaker 4: the boy of it, it's just you love on everybody.

801
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 4: I mean, you just keep doing it everybody, and the

802
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 4: odds are going to come up on the right side

803
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 4: so often it just blows you away.

804
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,240
Speaker 2: I am this. Yesterday I was talking to Samonnino, County

805
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 2: Deputy sheriff. And it's not that we had an appointment.

806
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 2: We bumped into each other and I told them this

807
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 2: is kind of what I have a little shtick when

808
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 2: I meet police officers, and I tell them, hey, excuse

809
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 2: me one second. I just want you to know that I,

810
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 2: my family, and the church that I attend tremendously appreciate

811
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 2: your service and sacrifice to our community. You're prayed for,

812
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 2: and always add this and don't listen to CNN or

813
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 2: MSNBC because we do care and we do support you.

814
00:48:55,640 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 2: And for me, I throw that out to them, and

815
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 2: you'll be surprised how many of them will say, oh,

816
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 2: what church do you go to? Because when I tell

817
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 2: them our church praise for our first responders, oh what

818
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 2: church do you go to? That's just opening that door

819
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 2: a little bit. That communicates tremendous care. And that guy

820
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 2: we shook hands, and that guy walked away. I think

821
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 2: he walked away with a little bit better opinion of Christians.

822
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 2: Maybe right, I don't know, But it's not for me

823
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 2: to conclude that. It's up to God to use it,

824
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 2: but for us to start speaking up winsomely. I think

825
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 2: Christians are too we're too polite, and we're too quiet.

826
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 4: Well, it's great fun and you don't have to get

827
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 4: dry mouth when you're loving on people, and you just

828
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 4: do that. I mean, that's just obvious, but the peer pressure,

829
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 4: it's better than the peer pressure. What ignites people to

830
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 4: share the faith more than anything else is listening to

831
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 4: other people's stories about how they share their faith. And

832
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 4: one of the great benefits and I think we have

833
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 4: a slide for this Ignite your World dot com. We're

834
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 4: to tell you where to go to get it. But

835
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 4: the fact the matter is you have all the listings

836
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 4: of all these we all take these things. We have

837
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 4: spare time and we find something to look at because

838
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 4: we got fifteen minutes and we're going to use the

839
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,919
Speaker 4: pode right. Well, now you go to Ignite your World

840
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 4: and you can see one miracle story after another, after

841
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 4: another story, after another story after another story. What's that

842
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 4: going to do for you? When you hear these other stories?

843
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 4: What will ignite you? There is a phenomenon. I've seen

844
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 4: it in some people. They're sharing their faith like crazy,

845
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 4: and then it's not mentioned and they don't know anybody

846
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,879
Speaker 4: else is doing it. And it was good, But there

847
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 4: we need reinforcement. This is reinforcement. Ignite your World is

848
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 4: reinforced because it also tells you fresh ways other people

849
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 4: are doing and having success. So it'll stimulate you to

850
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 4: be in the game every day, all day long, every day,

851
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 4: and so it is a bit of pure pressure in that,

852
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 4: you might say, but it is so exciting to hear

853
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,879
Speaker 4: other people ignite to me when I come to church

854
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 4: on Sunday, I hear the stories. I'm more ignited when

855
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 4: I when I leave this.

856
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask Barry a question. But before

857
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 2: I ask him, I'm going to ask you this question,

858
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 2: and we'll say, how many honest people are in the

859
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 2: room when when you have had that nudge? Berry called

860
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 2: it the nudge. I called it the tap or the

861
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 2: pool where you sense you're interrupted with a thought that

862
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 2: you should approach that person. How many of you get

863
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 2: really nervous when when that happens? Raise your hand? Why?

864
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 2: Why my hands up too? Why?

865
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 4: Why?

866
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 2: What does that happen? Think about what I'm going to

867
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 2: go over there, introduce myself to an absolute stranger. I

868
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 2: don't know them, they don't know me. Think about how

869
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 2: silly it is for us to become apprehensive. You don't

870
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 2: know them. It's not your boss, you don't work there,

871
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 2: it's some person that Walmart. But we start to get nervous,

872
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:32,720
Speaker 2: I call we say dry mouth, start to uh, what's happening, Barry,

873
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 2: Why is it that our initial response is often fear,

874
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 2: that horrible thing of fear. And who's behind the fear?

875
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 4: Wells the author of fear, Satan. Of course, I have

876
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 4: no doubt that the number one weapon Satan uses against

877
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 4: Christians is fear. Yeah, because he not only paralyzes us,

878
00:52:56,040 --> 00:53:00,320
Speaker 4: he sterilizes us. If we're in fear, we're not in faith.

879
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 4: If we're not in faith, you can't share a faith,

880
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:06,720
Speaker 4: that's right. So we have to change our mindset. Folks,

881
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 4: all you raise your hands, and I understand that I

882
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 4: have not been there for several decades, but I understand

883
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 4: I remember when I was there. But the fun of

884
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 4: it is, this is the fun of it. You go

885
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:20,800
Speaker 4: with reckless, abandoned, you have no preparation, You just go

886
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 4: and you start loving on people, and God gives you

887
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 4: words and you do that several times, and all of

888
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:30,479
Speaker 4: a sudden you realize this is fun. It's just fun.

889
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 4: And I've never struck out, never once. I mean, he

890
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 4: always gives you the words. I mean, it's it's it's fun.

891
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 4: And for the first time, and I say, the only

892
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 4: time in you in your in your life, can you

893
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 4: be totally committed to God and open to God. Usual

894
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 4: your you're His instrument out there. We're reckless of as

895
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 4: trusting you. I don't know what I got to say.

896
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 4: Why I go to love with these people and watch

897
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 4: what happens to your life and what happens to your faith.

898
00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 4: It's life changing, it will revolutionary, it'll you know, ignite

899
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 4: your life. I mean really well, it's just amazing how

900
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 4: that works. It's it's true, it absolutely works that way.

901
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 4: So it's uh, it's just I know, it's scary to

902
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 4: think of it. And we've been trained that way. We've

903
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 4: been trained, and we're gonna get persecuted. We're gonna be trained.

904
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 4: We've been trained to all these tough questions on that.

905
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 4: Forget it, that's over, Get get rid of that. I

906
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 4: hope tonight maybe we have a joint prayer in that

907
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 4: we just get throw that away. It is. It is

908
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 4: just living for God and using allowing Him to use

909
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 4: you to be there and speak to you and change

910
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 4: lives and and you're when you get off that mentioned

911
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 4: into the game, there's no more here. There just isn't.

912
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 2: I think we were talking earlier today that one of

913
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 2: those trip hazards that we have is believing that we

914
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 2: have to somehow be schooled in apologetics. No that we've

915
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 2: got Zusa or biola or liberty or take a norse

916
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:58,240
Speaker 2: on apologetics before we could share. Listen, the Bible doesn't

917
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 2: say that. The Bible says to do the work of

918
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 2: an evangelist.

919
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 4: He didn't say, going to the world, all you who

920
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 4: have apologetics, or all you can memorized scripture, or all

921
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 4: you have a silver tongue, or none of those. You

922
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 4: just go yee. That's every one of us, every one

923
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 4: of us. None of us have an excuse. We're all

924
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 4: sent And we mentioned this last time.

925
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 2: We got a laugh.

926
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 4: Well, we're all witnesses. Probably is a lot of us

927
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 4: are witnesses for the prosecution. Do you know that most

928
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 4: Christians are not Christians because of Christians?

929
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 2: Say that again?

930
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 4: Oh you want to hear that. I like to say.

931
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 4: I like to say that because I love But it's true.

932
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 4: You talk to people. They have so many people in

933
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 4: their life they've seen that that have hurt them. Most

934
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 4: Christians who are not Christians because of Christians. We got

935
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 4: to change that. But he said, the two things you're

936
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,720
Speaker 4: supposed to do right, love him and love your neighbors yourself,

937
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 4: and he says, if you do those two things, you

938
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 4: satisfy everything. Well that's pretty good. You mean I only

939
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 4: you tell me I only have to handle two commandments

940
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 4: and it satisfies all. That's pretty Is that true? Yeah,

941
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 4: Jesus said it was true. Yeah, Well why is that? Well,

942
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 4: if you love your neighbor as yourself, you love them,

943
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 4: you're as concerned for their salvation, their salvation as you

944
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 4: are your own. Okay, that changes everything. That means everything

945
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 4: I do is leading them closer or further away from God.

946
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 4: So all of a sudden, it's not a matter of legalism. No,

947
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 4: it has nothing to do with it. I want to

948
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 4: get people around me to get saved. And so my language,

949
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 4: what I laugh at, what I look at, what I

950
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 4: indulge in. I can do all those things, you'll get

951
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,799
Speaker 4: to heaven. But if I want to get other people

952
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 4: to heaven, I need to start cleaning up my axe

953
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,879
Speaker 4: and representing the Lord. And there's joy in that. There's

954
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,240
Speaker 4: freedom in that. It's not bondage, it's just freedom.

955
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 2: You know what. You just jarred my memory last Sunday,

956
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 2: and I just asked for forgiveness in advance. If this

957
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 2: person's watching or is here right now? A woman came

958
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 2: up to me last Sunday in tears, very very distraught

959
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 2: over the fact that her father, elderly father is at

960
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 2: home hospice and dying. And she said, I am concerned

961
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 2: for his soul, and I don't know what to do.

962
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 2: And I've never met her before and I don't know her,

963
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 2: but I asked her, do you know the Gospel? Do

964
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 2: you know Christ yourself? And there was a hesitation, which

965
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 2: is which is not exactly normal in a way, if

966
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 2: I'm reading this right, She's concerned for his soul. But

967
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 2: either a, she's not concerned enough for her own soul.

968
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 2: That's probably not the case. It's probably that she's not

969
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 2: been taught right or does it know. Here's the sad thing.

970
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 2: Her dad's dying. She doesn't know exactly where her footing

971
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 2: is with God, so she doesn't know what to say

972
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 2: to her dad. In other words, you don't want to

973
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 2: go around saying something. You want to be used by

974
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 2: God to speak to somebody because you've got something to say.

975
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 2: And so we wound up getting her some immediate help.

976
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 2: But the point is, in that conversation, I asked her

977
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 2: straight up have you told him? Have you given him

978
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 2: the Gospel? And she said no, I have not because

979
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 2: I'm afraid of what he might think about me. And

980
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 2: I said, you do know he's dying? No, no, I

981
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 2: mean I was serious though as well, you do know

982
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 2: he is dying, So why would you care what he

983
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 2: thinks about you? This is not the point. If he's dying,

984
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 2: he's not going to think those thoughts. If he's if

985
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 2: he's desperate, which is a good place to be friends.

986
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 2: If you're dying and you're not desperate. Look, if you're

987
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 2: if you're a Christian and you're dying, you're not going

988
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 2: to be desperate. You're going to be like, let's go seriously.

989
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 2: But if you're not a Christian when that, when that

990
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 2: time of death is approaching, you're going to be desperate.

991
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 2: And so this this was a painful reminder that you

992
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 2: just jarred my memory about where she could have been

993
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 2: loving all over him with the te truth if he

994
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 2: if he accepted the truth or not, that's not our mission.

995
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 2: Our mission is to love and to share. And wouldn't

996
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 2: it be amazing if just look, he the Lord used

997
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 2: twelve people too, well, I mean eleven and then he

998
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 2: then he picked up Paul so twelve to change the

999
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 2: world forever. And there's more than twelve right here right now.

1000
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 2: If tonight, could you imagine, if this night tonight, before

1001
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:36,440
Speaker 2: we ended this evening, that we prayed for you to

1002
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 2: receive the the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to be

1003
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 2: the catapult for you to to clearly be bold, just

1004
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 2: to go love. Barry said, would you say reckless? Recklessly?

1005
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 4: We'll go reckless, abandon you just go for it, Just

1006
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 4: go for it. And if that, if there's fear in

1007
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 4: that and lot most you raise your hand. That's Satan.

1008
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 4: He does not want you to do that. No, no

1009
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:04,880
Speaker 4: he does. He does not want you to do that.

1010
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 4: Don't let him laugh at you. You stop. He's laughing.

1011
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 4: I stopped him again. Don't let Satan laugh at you. No,

1012
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 4: he's defeated. You got work to do and love on people.

1013
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 4: I tell you it's true. I have a story and

1014
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:24,360
Speaker 4: if I dare not say that, but I feel like

1015
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 4: I should. There's a guy named Dave Roberts that was

1016
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 4: a great car guy, and he bantered with me for

1017
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 4: twenty years about the Lord. They ever got serious. He

1018
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 4: just always had the question. He was kind about it,

1019
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:41,320
Speaker 4: but he liked the he liked the dialogue. One of

1020
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 4: the brightest guys I've ever met. And so we went

1021
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 4: to dinner with Can I can, I say, Dave Wilhelm,

1022
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 4: the greatest dentist in the world. David Wilhelm down here? Yea?

1023
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 4: And he and Victoria would And Dave wasn't a Christian yet.

1024
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 4: And he says to me in private, he says, is

1025
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 4: if you want to get to Dave, you better get

1026
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 4: to him pretty quick. David Robertson. I said, why he's dying.

1027
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 4: He's got stage four cancer. He told me wow. So

1028
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 4: I called David next. Then I said, can we have lunch?

1029
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 4: He says absolutely, and I led him to the Lord.

1030
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:22,160
Speaker 4: He was ready. After twenty years spam. You know, I've

1031
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:26,920
Speaker 4: been chimming for twenty years, and that's brilliant. I've been

1032
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 4: cheering you. I'll tell you anohing right quick. I got

1033
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 4: a call from a guy Bill in Chicago. He says,

1034
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:40,600
Speaker 4: our friend is dying in Portland, in Oregon, and he

1035
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 4: wants to talk to you. He's on a host's bed.

1036
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 4: So I knew what that was about, and it happened.

1037
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 4: I had an off afternoon and Karen now we're going

1038
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 4: to go to the movies. So we're heading over to

1039
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 4: Big new Port, said Careen new Drive. I got business

1040
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 4: to do. So I called him and I said, what's

1041
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 4: going on. I'm dying? Oh my goodness, No I didn't.

1042
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 4: I let him tell me you're dying. What do you want?

1043
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 4: I need to talk about God? You've been okay. So

1044
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 4: within twelve minutes I led him to the Lord okay,

1045
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 4: And and then I had him prayed a second time

1046
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 4: to make sure he knew what he was saying, you know,

1047
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 4: And I said, do you realize we're going to be

1048
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 4: in attorney together? He's right, I said, we're gonna spend

1049
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 4: attorney together. You realize that He hadn't thought that far.

1050
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 4: He just knew he was dying, and I'd been talking

1051
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 4: to him, you know. So in twelve minutes I led

1052
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 4: him to the Lord. Not Actually it was fifty years.

1053
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 2: That's right.

1054
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 4: I've been sharing with him for fifty years and he

1055
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 4: gave me no response, nothing, And now he's dying.

1056
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 2: Now I want to know.

1057
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Dave Roberts said, I lead day to day.

1058
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 4: He calls me the next day and he's happy, he's

1059
01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 4: but I have a problem. I said, well, he's I

1060
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 4: don't have a pastor anybody to lead my sirt. Could

1061
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 4: you lead my sir? I said, of course I could.

1062
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 4: He's right to have a church. I said, taken care

1063
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 4: of guy.

1064
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 5: I know.

1065
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 4: Why were we do it? He's would you tell my

1066
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 4: friends that I accepted Jesus? Absolutely? He said, would you

1067
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 4: give them an opportunity? Would you give them an opportunity

1068
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:26,040
Speaker 4: to receive? He's asked me all these questions online. Absolutely,

1069
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 4: it was amazing. And four hands raised and one of

1070
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 4: them was by Dennists David.

1071
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 2: Rohan, Oh wow, yeah, yeah, oh, you just do it.

1072
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:46,160
Speaker 4: There's so many stories. A wonderful couple of Sunday came

1073
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 4: to me said, you know, we got to tell you

1074
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 4: something right quick. You prayed for a son fourteen years ago.

1075
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 4: I said, where was that. We had a car show

1076
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 4: and we told you he was in trouble, he was

1077
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 4: offline and and and he said, would you pray for him?

1078
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 4: And I and one let's pray for him right now.

1079
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 4: He said, you prayed this incredible prayer for him. And

1080
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:07,919
Speaker 4: now he's a dad, he's serving the Lord, his kids

1081
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 4: are you know. It's like, I mean, you just do

1082
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 4: it all the time, and you can't begin to keep

1083
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 4: up with it. It's just your love on everybody every

1084
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 4: day without hesitation, and it starts building. It just starts building.

1085
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 4: So it's right, It's like it becomes like breathing. It's

1086
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 4: just so easy.

1087
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, I'm wondering if and this is just

1088
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 2: speculation on my part, But God never wastes anything, nothing,

1089
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,480
Speaker 2: And I think the older you'll get, the more you'll

1090
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 2: understand that where you look back, it's isn't it amazing

1091
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 2: to look back and you learn so much? Boy, I'll

1092
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 2: never do that again, or boy, I'll do more that worked.

1093
01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 2: I'm going to keep you know, you learn so much

1094
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 2: by looking back the right way through the lens of Christ. Okay,

1095
01:05:55,160 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 2: And he never wastes anything. He's so efficient. And so

1096
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 2: where you and I are living right here, right now,

1097
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 2: in this time, what's coming, what is ahead of us?

1098
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 2: We don't need to be concerned about that. We need

1099
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:19,520
Speaker 2: to be ready for that.

1100
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 4: Well, what is it?

1101
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 2: Barry's been saying it all night. God's good. Whatever it is,

1102
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 2: God's going to give us the words. He's going to

1103
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 2: give us the Holy Spirit's promised to be with us

1104
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 2: in that moment. But what if you look around this world.

1105
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 2: There's a lot of a lot of bad news and

1106
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,479
Speaker 2: a lot of ugly things going on, and the church

1107
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 2: on a general scale seems to be absent a wall

1108
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 2: nationally if you know this or not, but nationally the

1109
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:54,520
Speaker 2: church is like absent. But what if there's something coming,

1110
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 2: an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. I don't know, some

1111
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:02,560
Speaker 2: issue I don't know, But what if tonight, because God

1112
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 2: doesn't waste anything, that you're ready and there's tools that

1113
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 2: are available for you, and Barry's got some other slights

1114
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 2: to show you that you can be so ready that,

1115
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 2: believe it or not, it's exactly what you and I

1116
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 2: were supposed to be doing in the very first anyway,

1117
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 2: and that's loving others with a christ like love to

1118
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 2: where what if all the electricity goes out, people are

1119
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 2: going to be knocking on your door asking for a candle,

1120
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 2: love them. Well, what if this or that or the other,

1121
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 2: doesn't matter what it is. I believe that whatever and

1122
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 2: this is based off of history, Whatever is going to

1123
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 2: happen from here to whenever, based on history, always is

1124
01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 2: the opportunity for the Christian to share their faith. It's

1125
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 2: always an opportunity for us to help people that are

1126
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 2: hurting or terrified. It's always the moment for us there's

1127
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 2: well I'm gonna wait and see. I don't know. Listen,

1128
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 2: that's not always a good thing for the Christian waiting. Yes,

1129
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 2: of course, wait on the Lord. Always wait on the Lord.

1130
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 2: But when the door opens, you go through it, like Lord,

1131
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:26,600
Speaker 2: use me. I just heard Barry maguire. That was challenging

1132
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 2: and thrilling. I'm going to do it. And you're driving

1133
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 2: down the road and uh, you know there's there's somebody

1134
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 2: with a flat tire. Oh God, send them, send them

1135
01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:45,639
Speaker 2: someone to help. Now, I mean, use discernment, but be praying,

1136
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:49,879
Speaker 2: you know. But but let's be open. Let's be tomorrow

1137
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 2: at work. I'm a big fan of this, and I'm

1138
01:08:55,920 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 2: to God be the glory to back up what Barry saying,

1139
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 2: because it's not something that he invented, it's something that

1140
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:09,600
Speaker 2: God and his nature does. I remember some of you

1141
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 2: remember the day that Ronald Reagan was shot. Anybody remember

1142
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,400
Speaker 2: that day. I remember that day. I remember exactly where

1143
01:09:15,439 --> 01:09:20,360
Speaker 2: I was at because it was my first day at

1144
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:23,920
Speaker 2: a job. That the whole job, the whole thing, the

1145
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:27,800
Speaker 2: job was terrifying. It was just terrifying to even have

1146
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:30,640
Speaker 2: been hired for this job. And I was shaking in

1147
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 2: my boots just to begin with. It was in an

1148
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 2: orientation day for this job, and then the news was

1149
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:44,680
Speaker 2: announced that Ronald Reagan was just shot President Reagan. And

1150
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:49,320
Speaker 2: it's weird because just an hour before that, I pulled

1151
01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 2: up into this vast parking lot of this global corporation

1152
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 2: and I remember saying, Lord, I just asked you to

1153
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:04,680
Speaker 2: give me your favor, and I'm willing to share with

1154
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 2: whoever you might bring to me, but you're going to

1155
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 2: have to bring them to me. And I want you

1156
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 2: to know that was a fumbling, terrified prayer that God heard.

1157
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 2: He heard it. And over thirteen years of working there,

1158
01:10:23,439 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 2: I never once approached one individual to share Christ. And

1159
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 2: yet there were people coming to Christ as I shared

1160
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:38,639
Speaker 2: with them because here's what happened during break time and lunchtime.

1161
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 2: They asked me, can you tell me about Jesus? Well,

1162
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 2: you see, Jack, how did that happen? At break time?

1163
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 2: I would deliberately I got this. Pastor Chuck Smith was

1164
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:54,120
Speaker 2: going through the Book of Daniel at the time, and

1165
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:57,559
Speaker 2: he had just taught us the portion of scripture where

1166
01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 2: the decree was given no allowed to pray by King Newsom,

1167
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:14,000
Speaker 2: ruler of Babylon. He said, nobody's nobody's allowed to pray,

1168
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:20,479
Speaker 2: and Daniel, Daniel goes home. What does he do? Why not?

1169
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 2: He did more than that exactly. He prayed and actually

1170
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 2: reverse it. He first opened his windows and prayed towards Jerusalem.

1171
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:40,360
Speaker 2: And then all of the tattle tales went back to

1172
01:11:40,479 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 2: tell the king what was going on. And Chuck had

1173
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:50,640
Speaker 2: just taught that, and so I had. I had in

1174
01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:52,640
Speaker 2: that moment's time, the Lord had just laid it on

1175
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 2: my heart. It was wasn't even an original thought. It

1176
01:11:55,080 --> 01:12:02,599
Speaker 2: was from God, I'm sure, asked to have people come

1177
01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 2: to you. So what I did was is I went

1178
01:12:06,560 --> 01:12:10,280
Speaker 2: and at break time I would read my Bible, either

1179
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 2: in the cafeteria or outside. I want the tables and

1180
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 2: you can do anything you want at break time. And

1181
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 2: I just read my Bible. People saw that, and they're hungry,

1182
01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:23,439
Speaker 2: and they're hungry. I have to tell you, thirteen years

1183
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:32,240
Speaker 2: not one person ever said, what are you reading the comics?

1184
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 3: What was that?

1185
01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 4: A joke?

1186
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 2: Book? The Bible? What's wrong with you? I thought you

1187
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:39,800
Speaker 2: had some brains? What are you working here for if

1188
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 2: you're a person of faith. Not once and I was

1189
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 2: a supervisor of a research lab and what happened was

1190
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:50,760
Speaker 2: my manager came in one day and said, I need

1191
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:54,640
Speaker 2: to talk to you, all right, So I go to

1192
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 2: his office. He shuts the door and he said, you

1193
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 2: and I have to go down to human resources. Now

1194
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:03,080
Speaker 2: that's not a good thing. By the way, human resource.

1195
01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:06,799
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of human resources. That's how Satan

1196
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 2: gets into a company and ruins it. No one in

1197
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 2: human resources ever starts a company. They just ruin them anyway.

1198
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 2: So you know, oh, boy, what's going on. He goes,

1199
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,040
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on. So I felt really

1200
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:28,120
Speaker 2: bad because this is the guy that actually hired me.

1201
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 2: So I'm thinking, oh my goodness. We go down to HR.

1202
01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:34,320
Speaker 2: I've never told you this. We go down to HR

1203
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:36,559
Speaker 2: and there's about five people in the room. Then they

1204
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 2: shut the door. So I go from Daniel opening this

1205
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:48,639
Speaker 2: window to prayer to the lions Den and resources, human

1206
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 2: resources and R and D. They tell my manager, Mark

1207
01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 2: Mellencrot was his name. They said, we have an issue,

1208
01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 2: and that issue is people are going to jack during

1209
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 2: break time because of their broken marriages. And their suicide,

1210
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:18,839
Speaker 2: suicidal feelings and all these life issues and we're finding

1211
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 2: out about it after the fact. And I said, I

1212
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,800
Speaker 2: didn't say anything to anybody, and they said, we didn't.

1213
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 2: We didn't hear it from you. We heard it from them.

1214
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 2: They said, I was really down. I felt like killing myself.

1215
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:35,360
Speaker 2: I talked to this guy in R and D and

1216
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 2: so way, who is this person? Well it turned out

1217
01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 2: to be me sharing the word of love to them

1218
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:53,000
Speaker 2: during break time. So HR told my manager, when Jack's

1219
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:55,360
Speaker 2: involved in a study, because we had studies for those

1220
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 2: of you, it's a weird thing. When you're involved in

1221
01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 2: a study. You can't walk away from it because there's

1222
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 2: things happening. They said to my manager, when we call

1223
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 2: you Mark, you have to let him come immediately to Hr.

1224
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 2: And why because I cared when people were hurting, because

1225
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:21,599
Speaker 2: God cared for me when I was hurting. That they

1226
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:26,040
Speaker 2: bent all the rules And that was a relationship at

1227
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:30,680
Speaker 2: that corporation for thirteen years, and it was unofficial, and

1228
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 2: yet all the officials knew about it. Because if people

1229
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 2: care for other people, other people are gonna they're going

1230
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:46,559
Speaker 2: to listen to what you have to say. Wow, and yeah, yeah,

1231
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:48,559
Speaker 2: So it's a good thing.

1232
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:51,559
Speaker 4: It is. We're going to run out of time here

1233
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:54,120
Speaker 4: and we do a lot of stuff we will cover

1234
01:15:54,280 --> 01:16:01,599
Speaker 4: that we would talk about. Seriously, we have some other tools,

1235
01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 4: right quick? Can we get the slide on the e

1236
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:07,519
Speaker 4: prayer right quick? This is really cool. Okay, how many

1237
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 4: you've ever told somebody you're going to pray for them

1238
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 4: and then by the time the evening comes you forget

1239
01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:18,600
Speaker 4: if it was the ankle or the elbow, or the

1240
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:22,040
Speaker 4: ant or the cousin. Nobody's ever done that, right, you

1241
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 4: know what I'm talking about them. Here's the problem when

1242
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:26,800
Speaker 4: we when we tell somebody we're gonna pray for them.

1243
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 4: I wouldn't so much say it's a vow, but kind

1244
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 4: of because you're telling them you're going to pray for them.

1245
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:31,760
Speaker 3: It is.

1246
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:34,719
Speaker 4: And if you don't pray for them and to go south,

1247
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:38,160
Speaker 4: they're not blaming you that we're gonna blame God. So

1248
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 4: first off, be careful, don't just throw it out like

1249
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:44,639
Speaker 4: I gotta pray for you, gonna prayer. You gotta be careful.

1250
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:49,479
Speaker 4: And when you do open up your night prayer, it's

1251
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 4: it's within our nit America at website. Okay, this is

1252
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 4: this is amazing. So you take it down and say, okay,

1253
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:01,920
Speaker 4: it's your your elbow and and it did the information down. Okay,

1254
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 4: so you got it. That goes to your prayer list.

1255
01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 4: At night you get over there, it's your whole prayer list.

1256
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 4: So it's perfect. But more than that, you say to them,

1257
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 4: what's your email address? Why do you want my email dress?

1258
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:16,800
Speaker 4: Because I want to stay in touch with you. Now

1259
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 4: you may be standing in the line at Starbucks. They

1260
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 4: don't know you, but I get to tell you when

1261
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 4: you say I'm going to pray for you, I want reports.

1262
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:24,560
Speaker 4: I want to stay up with you. They'll give it

1263
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 4: to you and then guess what. Anytime you want to

1264
01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 4: hit one button that sends them an email that says

1265
01:17:29,439 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 4: I'm praying for you every day? Would you give me

1266
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:35,479
Speaker 4: an update? Or you could first slide it. This is

1267
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 4: very he remember me, Barry Maguire, I met you at

1268
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:40,920
Speaker 4: Starbucks the other day. I'm praying for you every day,

1269
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 4: and can you give me a little update. What do

1270
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 4: you think that does for that person? Nobody's praying for

1271
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:49,880
Speaker 4: them totally, nobody's loving on them. And this person I

1272
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 4: just met at Starbucks's praying from every day. Could you

1273
01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 4: imagine the relationships just get started, right. And then have

1274
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 4: you ever said you're going to pray for somebody for

1275
01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:02,800
Speaker 4: their surgery at ten o'clock on Thursday and thought it

1276
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 4: about it about two o'clock Thursday afternoon? Have you read

1277
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:09,040
Speaker 4: am I the only one that's ever done? So you

1278
01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 4: put it in there in a quarter to ten it

1279
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 4: it alerts you they're going in the surgery at ten o'clock.

1280
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 4: Is that cool? That's efer We're gonna have to skip

1281
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,680
Speaker 4: through these things pretty quickly, but we have every kind

1282
01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 4: of tool you need for sharing your faith is like

1283
01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 4: viilable now, Ignight. This has been coming for a long time,

1284
01:18:25,040 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 4: not just since our last last meeting, but that one's

1285
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 4: pretty cool. We told you about Seeking God cards, and

1286
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 4: how many Seeking God cards have we gone through here

1287
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 4: at the church?

1288
01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:36,759
Speaker 2: I don't know. Does somebody know it's in the tens

1289
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:37,480
Speaker 2: of thousands?

1290
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:40,360
Speaker 4: Well, you went through fifty thousand to begin with.

1291
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 2: Initially, I don't know what the count.

1292
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:44,920
Speaker 4: Is, but it is it's something in excess about one

1293
01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:45,559
Speaker 4: hundred thousands.

1294
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:47,280
Speaker 2: You guys have been amazing getting these cards.

1295
01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 4: But you get these cards, and what we have here

1296
01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 4: is instead of Ignite America, that we have calvery chapel.

1297
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:57,640
Speaker 4: So when you talk to people, carry these with you

1298
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 4: every day. They're free, okay, carrying with you, and your

1299
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:06,080
Speaker 4: job is to get them started. It's be a spontaneous thing.

1300
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 4: You probably you'll never see them again. But rather than

1301
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:10,640
Speaker 4: just leave them to the wind and you have no

1302
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 4: way of encourage it to God, bring somebody else into

1303
01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:16,320
Speaker 4: their life. That's what it used to be. Becide. We

1304
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:20,040
Speaker 4: need to have a leave behind and not attract. So

1305
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 4: we get him this card seeking out with a QR code.

1306
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 4: And so every time you talk to somebody spontaneously, then

1307
01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 4: you say to them it sounds like you're really interested,

1308
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 4: would you like to know more about God? They'll always

1309
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:32,280
Speaker 4: say yes, say boy, do I have something for you?

1310
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 4: This is taking there and this is a huge site.

1311
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:36,800
Speaker 4: Do you go on that site? You can't believe all

1312
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:39,599
Speaker 4: the information This card, this website would take them from

1313
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 4: zero knowledge of God to the sinner's prayer. It's all

1314
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 4: on there seeking God. That's an amazing tool, really an

1315
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:49,280
Speaker 4: amazing tool. So that one, let's see, what else do

1316
01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:50,760
Speaker 4: we want to talk about? Right quote, I got a

1317
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 4: couple of things. Yeah, you know, fear is the opposite

1318
01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 4: of faith. Just think about this for a second. If

1319
01:19:55,880 --> 01:20:01,559
Speaker 4: you're living in fear, we already talked about. Yeah, without faith,

1320
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:04,160
Speaker 4: it's apostle, please God. But look a little bit further.

1321
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:07,960
Speaker 4: Without faith, you can't share your faith. Always be ready

1322
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 4: to give a clear presentation. You can if you're not,

1323
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:12,800
Speaker 4: if you're not living in faith. More importantly, we all

1324
01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 4: want to have our prayers answered, right, that's the most

1325
01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 4: basic thing. But in James one, he says, without faith,

1326
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:23,599
Speaker 4: if you're living in fear, you're without faith. Okay, we're

1327
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 4: people of faith, we're believers, and we're living in fear.

1328
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:32,599
Speaker 4: You realize it's the This is where the church is today.

1329
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 4: The church has gone silent. We're sitting there worrying about

1330
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 4: stuff we can't even change, and all the stuff we

1331
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 4: can change we're not paying attention to. It are so

1332
01:20:39,880 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 4: wrapped up in fear. It's all convoluted. The fact of

1333
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:46,160
Speaker 4: the matter is when you're praying and you're worrying at

1334
01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:50,439
Speaker 4: the same time, you're double minded. And in James one,

1335
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:52,519
Speaker 4: he says, you're unstableed it all your ways, don't expect

1336
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 4: to receive anything from me. So there's a lot of

1337
01:20:56,160 --> 01:20:58,560
Speaker 4: you here tonight that are praying about serious issues in

1338
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:00,920
Speaker 4: your life, and you're not hearing your prayers being answered.

1339
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:03,400
Speaker 4: It's not because you're not praying. It's because you're praying

1340
01:21:03,520 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 4: and worrying at the same time. You have to get

1341
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 4: the whole hearted faith, whole heart faith. It's not nightty.

1342
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 4: I do it, clearly done it when you lived as

1343
01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:15,880
Speaker 4: long as us. We've done it the wrong way. We

1344
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 4: just talked about the right way, but we did this

1345
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 4: the wrong way A lot. Ninety eight percent faith doesn't work.

1346
01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:23,479
Speaker 4: You still have two percent of fear. You have to

1347
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 4: be a whole hearted far whole hard and faith, so

1348
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 4: hard of faith, then He answers your prayers. You want

1349
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 4: God to direct your steps right every day. Now you

1350
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:34,800
Speaker 4: need a direct just to keep you out of trouble.

1351
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:36,599
Speaker 4: You don't know what's going to happen around the corner.

1352
01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 4: You need your direct your steps. Guess what you have

1353
01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:41,519
Speaker 4: to have whole hearted faith. Trust the Lord with your

1354
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 4: whole heart right, and I'll direct your steps. It's whole

1355
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:50,800
Speaker 4: hearted faith. So this when we're not telling people to

1356
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 4: share their faith, we're robbing them of having whole hearted faith.

1357
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:57,040
Speaker 4: They're robbing them having their prayers answered. We're robbing them

1358
01:21:57,120 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 4: having their steps directed. Do you follow how this all

1359
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 4: works together? This whole subject of evangelism and sharing faith,

1360
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:07,280
Speaker 4: it's so caught up in learning this and four points

1361
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:12,080
Speaker 4: and all that and memorization and finding one person instead

1362
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:15,800
Speaker 4: of just living your life. Just love on people, let people.

1363
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:18,479
Speaker 4: Let God love people through you. When he's loving you,

1364
01:22:18,680 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 4: he's salvationing you. That's what his love is. It's all

1365
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:25,519
Speaker 4: about taking us to heaven. God's salvationing you with his love.

1366
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,519
Speaker 4: When you love on others, your salvation. Really it's God

1367
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:34,720
Speaker 4: salvationing them through you. There's nothing secular. Every conversation you have,

1368
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:37,840
Speaker 4: God is loving people through you and bring them to Him.

1369
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 4: It's supernatural. It's the Holy Spirit working. This is not

1370
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:46,320
Speaker 4: going through life and just forgetting about it's everything we

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01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 4: have is secular, folks, Every moment of every day. You

1372
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:53,200
Speaker 4: never know what the next opportunity is, and you touch

1373
01:22:53,280 --> 01:22:56,599
Speaker 4: somebody and it changed their life forever. Because I was focused,

1374
01:22:56,640 --> 01:22:59,439
Speaker 4: I was looking. I'm looking for convers You follow what

1375
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 4: I'm saying. It's a full time job. We can't just

1376
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:05,400
Speaker 4: say it's okay and then go on. And I did it.

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01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did you know?

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01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,120
Speaker 4: Two weeks ago I had a great conversation. I hear

1379
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:12,519
Speaker 4: that sometimes. No, this is every conversation every day. You

1380
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:16,479
Speaker 4: got to be all in. Spurgeon has a great quote

1381
01:23:16,560 --> 01:23:18,439
Speaker 4: on that about it if he's a part time god,

1382
01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:21,640
Speaker 4: he's not a god. Yeah, you know he can't be

1383
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:24,120
Speaker 4: part time, either all in or or not. We're talking

1384
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:27,160
Speaker 4: about being all in. So you follow that well, of course.

1385
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:30,680
Speaker 4: And finally, how do you get to that place? So whole?

1386
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:31,320
Speaker 2: Hard to faith?

1387
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:34,160
Speaker 4: The byeline of this book, if you haven't read it yet,

1388
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 4: is defeat fear with effortless faith. Defeat fear with effortless faith,

1389
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 4: because when you live for his purpose, right, you live

1390
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:48,600
Speaker 4: for his purpose. Robse A says, very well, rose to it.

1391
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:50,680
Speaker 4: We've all heard it, but we haven't paid attention to it.

1392
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:53,880
Speaker 4: We mentioned this strongly the last time. He says, when

1393
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 4: you love me and love your neighbors, yourself, When you

1394
01:23:56,479 --> 01:23:58,599
Speaker 4: love me and you live for my purpose to seek

1395
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:00,880
Speaker 4: and save the loss, when you live to do that

1396
01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 4: every moment of every day, I promise you everything in

1397
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:06,840
Speaker 4: your life will work together for good. Everything. That's his

1398
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 4: promise to you. Karen and I are living proof of this.

1399
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 4: I'm living proof of this. Karen's love meats we're married

1400
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:16,640
Speaker 4: sixty years. Stand up for a minute. This is our

1401
01:24:16,760 --> 01:24:27,920
Speaker 4: test about it. And I could tell you, folks, it's

1402
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 4: not because we're good, it's not because we're smart. It's

1403
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:32,280
Speaker 4: just because we're following God's principle.

1404
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 2: We don't have bad days.

1405
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 4: We have no worries, we have no fears, we have

1406
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 4: no anger, we have no anks. Every day's an adventure

1407
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:48,120
Speaker 4: because we've had enough decades of learning that till we

1408
01:24:48,240 --> 01:24:50,800
Speaker 4: finally come to the conclusion. It is so much fun

1409
01:24:50,960 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 4: living for the Lord every moment of every day. It's

1410
01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 4: just amazing. And that final one, of course, Isaiah forty

1411
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:58,920
Speaker 4: three ten, I appointed you as my witness. Think of that.

1412
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 4: He pointed you his witness so that you believe, not

1413
01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 4: that you believe more than to say that. He's basically saying,

1414
01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:09,200
Speaker 4: if you want to get full belief, share your faith.

1415
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:14,040
Speaker 4: Because when you share your faith His way, not reciting stuff,

1416
01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 4: not getting in your own, not having all kinds of

1417
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,519
Speaker 4: nerves right, beyind yourself and what you might say, but

1418
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 4: just for the reckless abandon When you, when you share

1419
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 4: your faith, you allow Me to speak through you to

1420
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 4: those people. It changes your life and you're living intimacy

1421
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 4: with God and you're in it right with a face.

1422
01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 2: We want you to be.

1423
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:34,320
Speaker 4: And there's nothing better than that you live in the

1424
01:25:34,439 --> 01:25:37,439
Speaker 4: favor of God. It's just just you can't say enough

1425
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:40,000
Speaker 4: about it. So you get the point. It's it's it's

1426
01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:43,599
Speaker 4: full time, it's wonderful's and it works. I often say

1427
01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:47,479
Speaker 4: when I'm speaking to people who do de scriptures work,

1428
01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:52,040
Speaker 4: they're actually true exactly what they said. We've proven them all.

1429
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 4: So what's our next right quick, just to run through? Yeah, okay,

1430
01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:59,360
Speaker 4: here's here's a you may not look to salvation this

1431
01:25:59,479 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 4: way before. Okay, and this kind of he's got you.

1432
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 4: He doesn't have you, he's got you. He didn't got you,

1433
01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 4: he's got you. Okay, just having fun with somethings very serious.

1434
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 4: First off, he created us for heaven. Right none be lost.

1435
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:20,200
Speaker 4: We know that he created us for heaven. That's where

1436
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:22,400
Speaker 4: he didn't creates for earth to trace for heaven. Right

1437
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,960
Speaker 4: none be lost. But then he gave us free choice.

1438
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 4: He had to give us free choice. Without free choice,

1439
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:30,200
Speaker 4: there'd be no relationship with be a robot. So he

1440
01:26:30,280 --> 01:26:32,160
Speaker 4: had to give us free choice. But when he gave

1441
01:26:32,280 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 4: us free choice, he knew then that most would make

1442
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 4: the wrong choice. He knew it. What's going through God's

1443
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 4: mind I'm making I'm making It's to have films. Who

1444
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 4: were you to be joint heirs with Christ? That's what

1445
01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 4: that's our promise. But most people will go the other way,

1446
01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:52,880
Speaker 4: he says, broad as the destruction. Mostly go that way

1447
01:26:53,280 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 4: narrows the way, and few will find it. We're there,

1448
01:26:55,880 --> 01:26:58,200
Speaker 4: we're finding it. We got it. Okay, So we're in

1449
01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:01,720
Speaker 4: that group. Okay. So when you do that, that's why

1450
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:05,920
Speaker 4: the angels rejoice. Understand, we're speculating how many people. What

1451
01:27:06,080 --> 01:27:10,040
Speaker 4: percentage of the world's population are saved in the United States?

1452
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:17,640
Speaker 4: Maybe ten percent, maybe less. Did you hear me? The

1453
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:21,200
Speaker 4: Poles says seventy percent, sixty percent. Everybody says they're Christians,

1454
01:27:21,320 --> 01:27:24,599
Speaker 4: you know, evangelicals. You look at what evangelicals believe to say,

1455
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:27,040
Speaker 4: they aren't even they didn't Eve believe you have to

1456
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 4: be saved anymore. It doesn't even make any sense anymore.

1457
01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:33,240
Speaker 4: About ten percent. So do you realize, for God's perspective,

1458
01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 4: if we have seven billion people, that's seven hundred million

1459
01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 4: people with that's six billion, three hundred million people are

1460
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:42,960
Speaker 4: being lost. You want to know why the angels rejoice

1461
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:46,439
Speaker 4: when we accept Jesus Christ. There's so said, we got one,

1462
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 4: we got one, we got another one for eternity. Hallelleja.

1463
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 4: There's rejoicing in heaven right and so there is. So

1464
01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 4: He's got us back. Okay, and new Christians they tell

1465
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:02,599
Speaker 4: people about Jesus, it's all wonderful. But then this happens

1466
01:28:02,600 --> 01:28:08,400
Speaker 4: where Jesus says, you've left your first love. You're here

1467
01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 4: good teaching, you're giving sacrificially your church, you're speaking to

1468
01:28:12,600 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 4: us church, but you've left your first love. You're caught

1469
01:28:16,320 --> 01:28:18,479
Speaker 4: up in something else. You've made something else more than

1470
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:23,439
Speaker 4: more important than me. And that could be a boyfriend

1471
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:25,880
Speaker 4: or a wife, or grandkids or whatever. Or it could

1472
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 4: be a very important cause fighting abortion. You can spend

1473
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 4: your whole life fighting against abortion and not get one

1474
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:42,720
Speaker 4: person to heaven, maybe not even yourself. We could take

1475
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 4: these issues that this church jack the way you run

1476
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:49,920
Speaker 4: this church, and we touched all these things, but they're

1477
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 4: not our God.

1478
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:51,559
Speaker 2: I don't run the church.

1479
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:54,680
Speaker 4: Okay, with church, you know, but don't you appreciate the

1480
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 4: fact that we're in all the issues. We're representing God everything.

1481
01:28:58,400 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 4: But there's no question who God is of this church. Right,

1482
01:29:05,680 --> 01:29:10,360
Speaker 4: So when we get distracted by things, quite frankly, and

1483
01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:13,720
Speaker 4: a lot of the more times than not, we get

1484
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:16,400
Speaker 4: hit by it because they want our money, okay, And

1485
01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:19,920
Speaker 4: we listen to their stories and there's a tinge of

1486
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:23,759
Speaker 4: anger in almost all of them. They're fighting for this cause,

1487
01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 4: they're really saying God, come help me with my God.

1488
01:29:30,600 --> 01:29:33,800
Speaker 4: And their joy and their their their prayers. Everything's tied

1489
01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:36,120
Speaker 4: up in this and we lost that in Kentucky. We

1490
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:38,000
Speaker 4: got to get more people. We need more money, you

1491
01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:40,400
Speaker 4: go to support this, and they get so caught up

1492
01:29:40,439 --> 01:29:42,040
Speaker 4: in these iss we need to swear all those things.

1493
01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 4: Don't hear me wrongly when you support those But the

1494
01:29:45,360 --> 01:29:48,040
Speaker 4: fact that is, when you make anything your God other

1495
01:29:48,160 --> 01:29:52,439
Speaker 4: than God, you're in trouble, okay. And what happens is

1496
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:54,519
Speaker 4: you start opposing the people on the other side of

1497
01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:57,160
Speaker 4: those issues to the point where you can get angry,

1498
01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:01,120
Speaker 4: if not hating them. God loves them as what he

1499
01:30:01,200 --> 01:30:01,640
Speaker 4: loves us.

1500
01:30:02,240 --> 01:30:02,680
Speaker 2: That's right.

1501
01:30:03,600 --> 01:30:07,479
Speaker 4: All the stupid stuff's going on because they're lost. Satan's

1502
01:30:07,560 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 4: blinded the rights you understand, not even sent a country

1503
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:18,320
Speaker 4: of our country. They're lost, They're lost for eternity.

1504
01:30:18,360 --> 01:30:18,880
Speaker 2: They're lost.

1505
01:30:19,200 --> 01:30:21,040
Speaker 4: Satan has blinded their eyes.

1506
01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:21,880
Speaker 2: Jesus said it.

1507
01:30:22,760 --> 01:30:24,960
Speaker 4: They see evil for good and good for evil. That's

1508
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:29,200
Speaker 4: why they actually believe this lunacy is good. And guess

1509
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:32,080
Speaker 4: what we would too, that's right. If we weren't saying,

1510
01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 4: if we weren't saying, we could easily be there. I

1511
01:30:34,400 --> 01:30:36,800
Speaker 4: remember we were watching the riots back in the day

1512
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:38,840
Speaker 4: and there's a young guy jumping on top of a

1513
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 4: burning police car and he was raised his hand and

1514
01:30:42,400 --> 01:30:47,080
Speaker 4: smoke was coming. I was so furious and in the

1515
01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:50,920
Speaker 4: middle of that, God touched me. That could be you.

1516
01:30:52,439 --> 01:30:58,080
Speaker 4: But I was raising the church to whom much is given,

1517
01:30:58,200 --> 01:31:00,639
Speaker 4: much is required. If I was raised in the streets

1518
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:03,200
Speaker 4: like that guy, I'm a pretty aggressive guy. That can

1519
01:31:03,280 --> 01:31:05,599
Speaker 4: easily be me jumping on top of that police They're lost.

1520
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:10,080
Speaker 4: We have some hating people. We hate the sin. We

1521
01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:13,719
Speaker 4: love the people. We need to love people into heaven. Folks.

1522
01:31:13,800 --> 01:31:16,160
Speaker 4: We got to get busy. We start loving everybody and

1523
01:31:16,240 --> 01:31:18,960
Speaker 4: doing with everybody every day, every moment of the day.

1524
01:31:19,320 --> 01:31:21,960
Speaker 4: When we do that, the blessings in our lives overflow,

1525
01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:24,160
Speaker 4: and you have just I mean, it's the best of

1526
01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:26,519
Speaker 4: all world. That's what life on earth is. A Christian

1527
01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:30,280
Speaker 4: is intended to be. So let's see if we have

1528
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:31,680
Speaker 4: one more. I don't know if we have one more

1529
01:31:31,760 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 4: or not. Oh, this is pretty interesting. Yeah, this is

1530
01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 4: pretty sobering. Do you know why people don't share the faith.

1531
01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:41,720
Speaker 4: There's a long list. I'm not qualified. I don't have

1532
01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:44,960
Speaker 4: the time, you know, I can't answer the tough questions.

1533
01:31:45,360 --> 01:31:48,120
Speaker 4: I don't have the personality. He didn't say going to

1534
01:31:48,120 --> 01:31:50,320
Speaker 4: the world. All you have certain personality or whatever. He

1535
01:31:50,439 --> 01:31:55,280
Speaker 4: just says, all you go. But somehow we get to

1536
01:31:55,320 --> 01:32:01,760
Speaker 4: the point we just don't care. Pinchelet told it. Well,

1537
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:04,200
Speaker 4: if if you knew what was going to hell, how

1538
01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:05,880
Speaker 4: much would he have to hate me to not tell me.

1539
01:32:07,560 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 4: We all have friends that they're lost, and we're afraid

1540
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:16,040
Speaker 4: of offending them. Well, don't offend them, love on them,

1541
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 4: never offend them. Don't tell you're going to hell. Just

1542
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:23,320
Speaker 4: love and love to see love, love to see Jesus

1543
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:25,920
Speaker 4: through you. And it may not be you, but pray

1544
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:28,000
Speaker 4: and just you know, other people could come to their

1545
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:30,840
Speaker 4: lives with the point of the factor is that is

1546
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:36,000
Speaker 4: our number one goal. We were here now and only

1547
01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 4: God knows where the end is. It could be tomorrow,

1548
01:32:38,520 --> 01:32:40,599
Speaker 4: it could be next week. What do you think God's

1549
01:32:40,760 --> 01:32:44,120
Speaker 4: number one goal is between now and when the rapture happens?

1550
01:32:44,200 --> 01:32:47,519
Speaker 4: Right now? What any idea? Yeah, how do we get

1551
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:50,760
Speaker 4: as many people into heaven as possible that dwarfs everything else?

1552
01:32:53,120 --> 01:32:56,240
Speaker 4: The founder the Salvation Army said, I would like, and

1553
01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:58,040
Speaker 4: I got this from you. You gave this a sermon

1554
01:32:58,080 --> 01:33:00,759
Speaker 4: a couple of sentays ago, I would say, and Christians

1555
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:03,960
Speaker 4: the hell for five minutes if you can read, If

1556
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:07,040
Speaker 4: you read the scriptures on hell, they'll scare the hell

1557
01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:11,280
Speaker 4: out of you, seriously, And we don't do that anymore.

1558
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:14,519
Speaker 4: Do you know the Gospel? The Gospel is heaven and Hell.

1559
01:33:14,880 --> 01:33:17,400
Speaker 4: We have it insider us who understand what good and

1560
01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:19,800
Speaker 4: evil as we understand what rewards and punishments are. We

1561
01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:22,960
Speaker 4: know that the baby knows that when they steal the

1562
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:25,600
Speaker 4: cook and they know they're in trouble, it's in the

1563
01:33:25,640 --> 01:33:28,720
Speaker 4: eate in us. You know why? Because God won that way.

1564
01:33:28,800 --> 01:33:34,400
Speaker 4: So God overachieves and everything he overachieved in heaven. But

1565
01:33:34,520 --> 01:33:36,760
Speaker 4: they're just as many scriptures how he overachieved in hell.

1566
01:33:38,320 --> 01:33:40,720
Speaker 4: And there's the two. You have a choice, But we

1567
01:33:40,800 --> 01:33:45,320
Speaker 4: stop talking about hell. It's almost non existent. Most evangelicals

1568
01:33:45,360 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 4: don't believe there's a hell anymore. What on earth? We

1569
01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:53,599
Speaker 4: just we've taken half the gospel away when you explained

1570
01:33:53,640 --> 01:33:56,960
Speaker 4: to people, and he say, if if Christians had that

1571
01:33:57,160 --> 01:34:02,719
Speaker 4: five minutes to see hell, you'd be thinking of everybody

1572
01:34:02,760 --> 01:34:08,360
Speaker 4: you're talking to differently. Yes, and it's forever. Yes, the

1573
01:34:08,439 --> 01:34:12,240
Speaker 4: most horrible part of hell is it's eternal. It's forever.

1574
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:16,080
Speaker 4: We were talking about if you put me in a

1575
01:34:16,200 --> 01:34:20,599
Speaker 4: dark room, no demons, no fire, no heat, no screaming,

1576
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:23,600
Speaker 4: just in the dark room, and I'm going to be

1577
01:34:23,680 --> 01:34:26,560
Speaker 4: there forever. A billion years from now. I'm gonna be

1578
01:34:26,600 --> 01:34:30,599
Speaker 4: there with my thoughts. I can remember how many times

1579
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:34,439
Speaker 4: I could have accepted the Lord and turned back forever.

1580
01:34:34,640 --> 01:34:39,560
Speaker 4: It never ends. The most horrible part of hell is

1581
01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:44,280
Speaker 4: it never ends. He'd say, if you see hell, you'll

1582
01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:47,880
Speaker 4: be telling people what Jesus. Then we have pigeon. Let's say,

1583
01:34:48,040 --> 01:34:49,680
Speaker 4: if you found I was going to hell, how much

1584
01:34:49,720 --> 01:34:54,040
Speaker 4: would you have to hate me? My grace is in

1585
01:34:54,120 --> 01:34:56,599
Speaker 4: the posse of Paul. We were talking about this before

1586
01:34:56,640 --> 01:35:00,160
Speaker 4: the service. Nobody knew this more than nobody understood, oh

1587
01:35:00,400 --> 01:35:04,759
Speaker 4: more than Paul. And once he say, I'd be willing

1588
01:35:04,840 --> 01:35:07,720
Speaker 4: to be forever cursed. This is God, carry it for

1589
01:35:07,840 --> 01:35:12,000
Speaker 4: the loss, he said. I would be willing to be

1590
01:35:12,080 --> 01:35:16,280
Speaker 4: forever cursed, cut off from Christ if it would save them.

1591
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:20,439
Speaker 3: That's it.

1592
01:35:20,520 --> 01:35:20,800
Speaker 2: That's it.

1593
01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 4: That's a different world than what we're living in. I

1594
01:35:24,400 --> 01:35:26,880
Speaker 4: have one quote. It wouldn't fit on the screen, so

1595
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:29,400
Speaker 4: I but I think maybe we could pull it up.

1596
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:31,800
Speaker 4: Do you have that one from Charles Spurgeon? Do you

1597
01:35:31,880 --> 01:35:34,439
Speaker 4: have a special slide on Charles Spurgeon. Yeah, look at

1598
01:35:34,479 --> 01:35:38,880
Speaker 4: this and if you want to get saved again, read

1599
01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:40,960
Speaker 4: a lot of Charles Spurgeon. Right. I mean, every time

1600
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 4: I get into this stuff is like I'm a middle

1601
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:47,720
Speaker 4: midge of a spiritual midget. If sinners be damned, at

1602
01:35:47,840 --> 01:35:50,360
Speaker 4: least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies.

1603
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:54,320
Speaker 4: And if they perish, let them let them parents with

1604
01:35:54,439 --> 01:35:57,880
Speaker 4: their arms wrapped around their knees and pouring them to stay. Wow,

1605
01:36:00,360 --> 01:36:02,040
Speaker 4: the film must be filled. Let it me filled with

1606
01:36:02,080 --> 01:36:04,560
Speaker 4: the teeth of our exertions, and let no one go

1607
01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:10,479
Speaker 4: unwarned or unprayed for. That's our world, that's where we live.

1608
01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:14,840
Speaker 4: It's gonna be our passion, folks, That's what life is

1609
01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:17,439
Speaker 4: all about. For now, until we see Jesus face in face.

1610
01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:22,240
Speaker 4: That's our calling, and when we do that, he'll make

1611
01:36:22,280 --> 01:36:26,400
Speaker 4: everything else. We're great, Kard. I learned this backpack in

1612
01:36:27,400 --> 01:36:31,560
Speaker 4: what in nineteen seventy six. We realize our business is

1613
01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:34,880
Speaker 4: not our God, it's our pulpit. And we stopped worrying

1614
01:36:34,880 --> 01:36:37,040
Speaker 4: about our business. We just started proclaiming the good news

1615
01:36:37,080 --> 01:36:39,320
Speaker 4: and telling people. And the more we talked and share God,

1616
01:36:39,479 --> 01:36:41,200
Speaker 4: the more we built our business. It was the most

1617
01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:43,960
Speaker 4: crazy thing. He does that he wants to bless us

1618
01:36:45,439 --> 01:36:47,360
Speaker 4: if we use it for him, but hold our hands lightly.

1619
01:36:47,400 --> 01:36:49,040
Speaker 4: If it goes away, he goes away. We may be

1620
01:36:49,080 --> 01:36:51,000
Speaker 4: in a tournament cats. Our joy will be the same.

1621
01:36:51,040 --> 01:36:52,599
Speaker 4: If we're in the tournament caps a couple of years

1622
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:54,200
Speaker 4: from now, I think we're gonna be in heaven. But

1623
01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:58,559
Speaker 4: whatever happens, our joy, I mean, we're gonna let us loose.

1624
01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:02,519
Speaker 4: We're gonna we're gonna have the tyre life. So you

1625
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:06,120
Speaker 4: get the point. That's what life's all about, right there,

1626
01:37:06,240 --> 01:37:09,439
Speaker 4: That's it, that's it you get. You capture that tonight

1627
01:37:12,439 --> 01:37:16,240
Speaker 4: and have that fervor. You look at everybody tomorrow differently.

1628
01:37:17,880 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 4: They're lost, We're surrounded by the lost. Start loving them,

1629
01:37:21,479 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 4: move everyone every day closer to Jesus. That's our that's

1630
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:29,599
Speaker 4: our calling, that's what he's about you. And then.

1631
01:37:32,520 --> 01:37:36,920
Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna pray. And before we do, there's

1632
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:43,960
Speaker 2: a I think it's authored by Leonard Ravenhill in the

1633
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:49,800
Speaker 2: book Soldom Had No Bible. It's it's a I don't

1634
01:37:49,840 --> 01:37:52,880
Speaker 2: recommend the book for everybody unless you're pretty grounded in

1635
01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:57,479
Speaker 2: grace and understand your scriptures. But Leonard Ravenhill is a

1636
01:37:57,600 --> 01:38:03,000
Speaker 2: powerful author. He's now and in heaven, but quite an

1637
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:11,800
Speaker 2: expert on eighteen and nineteenth century revivals. And in the

1638
01:38:11,840 --> 01:38:15,160
Speaker 2: books Sodom Had No Bible, you can probably figure out

1639
01:38:15,280 --> 01:38:19,040
Speaker 2: what he was talking about. Where Sodom was obviously terribly judged,

1640
01:38:21,200 --> 01:38:23,960
Speaker 2: and he points out it was terribly judged for its sins,

1641
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:27,720
Speaker 2: but it had no Bible. And his whole point is

1642
01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:32,560
Speaker 2: the Western world has a Bible. So how are we,

1643
01:38:32,920 --> 01:38:37,560
Speaker 2: how are we conducting ourselves any differently than Sodom? And

1644
01:38:38,920 --> 01:38:46,680
Speaker 2: he tells in his writings of an actual event in

1645
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:51,120
Speaker 2: London when a man by the name of Charlie P,

1646
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:59,519
Speaker 2: like the vegetable Pee. Charlie P had been arrested and

1647
01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:06,519
Speaker 2: charged with murder and found guilty and in those days,

1648
01:39:08,400 --> 01:39:14,759
Speaker 2: when you were condemned to hanging, you were given two weeks.

1649
01:39:14,840 --> 01:39:17,960
Speaker 2: You had two weeks to live the moment that the

1650
01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:24,880
Speaker 2: magistrates condemned you, you had two weeks automatic. And I

1651
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:32,400
Speaker 2: think this is quite merciful. Only if every day an

1652
01:39:32,520 --> 01:39:39,160
Speaker 2: Anglican priest minister would go to his cell as was

1653
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:46,560
Speaker 2: the prescription, and read Scripture to the condemned. And that

1654
01:39:47,000 --> 01:39:50,200
Speaker 2: happened to him every day. And on the last day,

1655
01:39:51,120 --> 01:40:01,120
Speaker 2: Ravenhill recounts that the minister read out of Peter and

1656
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:10,320
Speaker 2: their referenced Hell, and Charlie p said, excuse me, can

1657
01:40:10,400 --> 01:40:14,320
Speaker 2: you read Can you read that again? And so he

1658
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:18,559
Speaker 2: did that the ungodly or the unrighteous will inherit Hell,

1659
01:40:21,439 --> 01:40:28,200
Speaker 2: and he said, well, you know, I don't believe it.

1660
01:40:30,560 --> 01:40:34,240
Speaker 2: And the Anglican minister said, well, it's it's in the Bible.

1661
01:40:35,720 --> 01:40:38,160
Speaker 2: And he said, well, obviously it's in the Bible. You

1662
01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:45,400
Speaker 2: just read it. But I can't believe it because you

1663
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:51,720
Speaker 2: read that to me and you read it like it

1664
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:55,320
Speaker 2: was nothing. And I even had to ask you, what

1665
01:40:55,439 --> 01:41:02,240
Speaker 2: did you just say about Hell? He said, no, no, preacher,

1666
01:41:03,200 --> 01:41:07,479
Speaker 2: I can't believe it's real, because if it was real,

1667
01:41:09,479 --> 01:41:13,160
Speaker 2: you would have read it like that, and if it

1668
01:41:13,240 --> 01:41:18,760
Speaker 2: were real, I would have traveled across England on hands

1669
01:41:18,800 --> 01:41:23,479
Speaker 2: and knees on broken glass to tell my worst enemy,

1670
01:41:24,400 --> 01:41:30,559
Speaker 2: Wow the gospel, if hell were real, Wow. And Charlie

1671
01:41:30,600 --> 01:41:36,640
Speaker 2: p was taken out to be hanged. Now, God is

1672
01:41:36,720 --> 01:41:40,840
Speaker 2: sovereign and we leave that up to him. Charlie p

1673
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:50,599
Speaker 2: undered eternity, but that minister had opportunity and he fumbled.

1674
01:41:50,680 --> 01:41:52,559
Speaker 2: And we don't want to do it at this late hour.

1675
01:41:54,040 --> 01:41:55,559
Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask. I'll leave you to stand.

1676
01:41:55,680 --> 01:42:01,280
Speaker 2: Let's stand right down, closing, and I'm gonna I'm just

1677
01:42:01,320 --> 01:42:03,080
Speaker 2: going to tell you the Bible straight up on this.

1678
01:42:03,400 --> 01:42:07,400
Speaker 2: I don't want you your denominationalism to get the best

1679
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 2: of you. Those of you who are Christians, that is,

1680
01:42:11,400 --> 01:42:14,519
Speaker 2: your Christ's followers. The Bible says, the Holy Spirit dwells

1681
01:42:14,560 --> 01:42:17,760
Speaker 2: in you. You know that you're sealed by God, the

1682
01:42:17,960 --> 01:42:19,759
Speaker 2: Spirit of God until the day of redemption.

1683
01:42:20,560 --> 01:42:20,880
Speaker 4: You're His.

1684
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:27,720
Speaker 2: Nothing can change that, but what you do with it

1685
01:42:28,680 --> 01:42:33,040
Speaker 2: matters how you finish. So we're going to heaven. If

1686
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:39,160
Speaker 2: you trusted Christ, that's God's work. But how are you arriving.

1687
01:42:40,920 --> 01:42:46,599
Speaker 2: Are you arriving faithful or unfaithful? Are you arriving fruitful

1688
01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:52,800
Speaker 2: or unfruitful? In other words, we're going to go into

1689
01:42:52,840 --> 01:42:56,040
Speaker 2: heaven together. Why not go into heaven like Barry's been

1690
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:59,040
Speaker 2: talking about, where you have lived the rest of your

1691
01:42:59,160 --> 01:43:03,840
Speaker 2: days recklessly abandoned to the will of God to tell

1692
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:08,599
Speaker 2: others about Jesus, Because there is a hell that's worth

1693
01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:13,719
Speaker 2: you and I crawling across America or a California unbroken

1694
01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:18,639
Speaker 2: glass to tell our worst enemy to escape that place.

1695
01:43:21,560 --> 01:43:24,360
Speaker 2: And that, like all things that are good, right and

1696
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:26,120
Speaker 2: just have got to be by the power of the

1697
01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:32,280
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. And the Bible tells us that for those

1698
01:43:32,320 --> 01:43:34,040
Speaker 2: of us who have the Spirit of God in us,

1699
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:37,760
Speaker 2: that we can ask for the Spirit of God to

1700
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 2: come upon us for power to do exactly what we're

1701
01:43:41,880 --> 01:43:47,920
Speaker 2: talking about when Barry said, just love on people. The

1702
01:43:48,080 --> 01:43:52,000
Speaker 2: human nature lost and alone cannot love on other people.

1703
01:43:53,600 --> 01:43:58,480
Speaker 2: But the human nature saved and redeemed and being sanctified

1704
01:43:58,520 --> 01:44:01,639
Speaker 2: by the Spirit of God, is God loving on other

1705
01:44:01,720 --> 01:44:07,880
Speaker 2: people through us. Tonight's been all about yieldedness to the

1706
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:08,479
Speaker 2: will of God.

1707
01:44:09,479 --> 01:44:13,000
Speaker 4: Can I add one lost pointed point where there's one

1708
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:15,960
Speaker 4: line we didn't read that you and I rejoiced about back.

1709
01:44:16,080 --> 01:44:18,040
Speaker 4: I know you're excited about it. If we put that

1710
01:44:18,160 --> 01:44:20,599
Speaker 4: slide up for just a minute on, I think it's

1711
01:44:20,680 --> 01:44:26,120
Speaker 4: why people don't share their faith. Yeah, down at the bottom.

1712
01:44:26,640 --> 01:44:31,160
Speaker 4: So what's her reward? What's the end game? We often say,

1713
01:44:32,360 --> 01:44:34,400
Speaker 4: and it's so true. The only thing will matter when

1714
01:44:34,439 --> 01:44:37,360
Speaker 4: we get to heaven is how many people are in

1715
01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:45,679
Speaker 4: heaven because of our influence. What did you do today

1716
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:52,920
Speaker 4: that impacted heaven or this week or this month. We're

1717
01:44:52,920 --> 01:44:56,160
Speaker 4: all busy, you know, we can be busy and all

1718
01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:57,720
Speaker 4: that and lead people to the Lord. At the same time.

1719
01:44:57,760 --> 01:44:59,160
Speaker 4: It's not either or you can just do it. And

1720
01:44:59,240 --> 01:45:01,519
Speaker 4: the course of the thing, I'm selling car wacks, but

1721
01:45:01,600 --> 01:45:04,320
Speaker 4: what I'm selling car wax, I'm leading people to Jesus. Right.

1722
01:45:06,160 --> 01:45:07,800
Speaker 4: But in the end, the only thing that will matter

1723
01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:11,120
Speaker 4: when we die, The only thing that will matter is

1724
01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:14,160
Speaker 4: not how many bottles of car wax I sold. No,

1725
01:45:16,479 --> 01:45:18,320
Speaker 4: the only thing will matter will be how many people

1726
01:45:18,320 --> 01:45:23,280
Speaker 4: are heaven because of your influence. That's the end gate.

1727
01:45:23,360 --> 01:45:27,080
Speaker 4: And we're almost there, and some of you have. You

1728
01:45:27,200 --> 01:45:29,960
Speaker 4: could say I've not led one person yet. If you're

1729
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:33,400
Speaker 4: a normal group, about ninety percent would say I haven't

1730
01:45:33,439 --> 01:45:39,639
Speaker 4: done that once yet. Guess what you've got game. You've

1731
01:45:39,680 --> 01:45:42,320
Speaker 4: got game, and it's never been easier than right now

1732
01:45:42,760 --> 01:45:46,600
Speaker 4: because everybody's starving. Eighty percent of the lost, the unchurched

1733
01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 4: know something's wrong. They know it's supernatural. They're looking for

1734
01:45:54,280 --> 01:45:56,759
Speaker 4: somebody to tell them about God. They're looking for somebody.

1735
01:45:56,840 --> 01:46:00,519
Speaker 4: It's never been easier. The last phrase, and all that's

1736
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:05,320
Speaker 4: is prelude to this last verse. This is Paul. It's unbelievable.

1737
01:46:05,840 --> 01:46:10,880
Speaker 4: Paul understood hell as much as anybody. His love for

1738
01:46:10,960 --> 01:46:15,000
Speaker 4: the loss was as good as anybody's. Here's what he says.

1739
01:46:15,040 --> 01:46:19,519
Speaker 4: He's speaking of Thessalonians, to the ones that he's led

1740
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:25,000
Speaker 4: to the Lord. These are his kids, right, and he's

1741
01:46:25,040 --> 01:46:27,679
Speaker 4: saying to them, to the church, what gives us hope

1742
01:46:27,720 --> 01:46:31,839
Speaker 4: and joy? What will be our proud reward and crown

1743
01:46:32,280 --> 01:46:35,440
Speaker 4: as we stand before the Lord Jesus when he returns.

1744
01:46:35,280 --> 01:46:37,800
Speaker 2: What's our reward? It's you.

1745
01:46:39,560 --> 01:46:48,120
Speaker 4: It's you. It's you for eternity. You're gonna have people

1746
01:46:48,160 --> 01:46:50,880
Speaker 4: coming up to the state. I'm here because of your influence,

1747
01:46:52,360 --> 01:46:54,960
Speaker 4: because you prayed for me ten years ago, twenty years ago,

1748
01:46:55,000 --> 01:46:58,600
Speaker 4: whatever you prayed for my son, it's your inf We

1749
01:46:58,760 --> 01:47:02,000
Speaker 4: have influence. We don't need knowledge. We don't need anything.

1750
01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:09,679
Speaker 4: We just need patient for the lost. We get to heaven,

1751
01:47:09,760 --> 01:47:13,040
Speaker 4: that's our rewards, that's your joy. It's same for all

1752
01:47:13,120 --> 01:47:15,839
Speaker 4: us to get busy. I'm just saying, folks, there is payoff.

1753
01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:18,880
Speaker 4: There are rewards in heaven, and they are in their souls.

1754
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:21,479
Speaker 4: A few we need to Jesus rite. So just an

1755
01:47:21,520 --> 01:47:24,320
Speaker 4: added exclamation point of what you're saying.

1756
01:47:25,920 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 2: Let's pray. Father, you taught us in the word. You

1757
01:47:33,280 --> 01:47:38,760
Speaker 2: taught us through your son. Jesus himself said that if

1758
01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:45,000
Speaker 2: a child asked his father for bread, or for an egg,

1759
01:47:45,479 --> 01:47:49,240
Speaker 2: or for some other blessing, will the father respond and

1760
01:47:49,400 --> 01:47:54,520
Speaker 2: giving them a stone or a scorpion or something harmful?

1761
01:47:56,640 --> 01:48:03,280
Speaker 2: He said, how is it that you humans know to

1762
01:48:03,439 --> 01:48:06,559
Speaker 2: do good concerning the thing? Will not your heavenly Father

1763
01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:14,160
Speaker 2: give the Holy Spirit to you who ask? Now, friends,

1764
01:48:14,240 --> 01:48:15,800
Speaker 2: listen as we pray. In a moment, I'm going to

1765
01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:20,519
Speaker 2: ask you the believer tonight has the Holy Spirit in them.

1766
01:48:20,600 --> 01:48:22,879
Speaker 2: You're going to heaven. You're sealed into the day of redemption.

1767
01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:26,960
Speaker 2: You will be that crown of rejoicing. That Barry just

1768
01:48:27,040 --> 01:48:31,280
Speaker 2: pointed out that Paul spoke of to the Thessalonians, but

1769
01:48:31,400 --> 01:48:34,519
Speaker 2: we're talking about now leaving this building tonight and doing

1770
01:48:34,600 --> 01:48:39,799
Speaker 2: it by the power of God. And so we're asking

1771
01:48:39,920 --> 01:48:46,800
Speaker 2: right now. Jesus said, knock, keep on knocking, Seek, keep

1772
01:48:46,880 --> 01:48:54,040
Speaker 2: on seeking. He encouraged us to pursue. And in that

1773
01:48:54,560 --> 01:48:59,800
Speaker 2: very paragraph he said, and how much more shall your

1774
01:48:59,840 --> 01:49:04,080
Speaker 2: heavenly Father give you the spirit, the Holy Spirit who

1775
01:49:04,200 --> 01:49:08,280
Speaker 2: asks so church you maybe perhaps you might lift your

1776
01:49:08,320 --> 01:49:11,120
Speaker 2: hands tonight. You don't have to, but you might be

1777
01:49:11,240 --> 01:49:14,320
Speaker 2: saying tonight, as a believer, Lord, I pray tonight that

1778
01:49:14,360 --> 01:49:16,400
Speaker 2: you would baptize me afresh, and the power of your

1779
01:49:16,439 --> 01:49:22,919
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, Lord, that you'd come upon me and overcome

1780
01:49:23,040 --> 01:49:27,240
Speaker 2: my weaknesses, overcome my fears, overcome so much was mentioned

1781
01:49:27,280 --> 01:49:31,280
Speaker 2: tonight about being held captive by Satan's lies. Lord, we

1782
01:49:31,360 --> 01:49:33,120
Speaker 2: ask you to come upon us, by the power of

1783
01:49:33,200 --> 01:49:39,840
Speaker 2: your spirit, to be our empowerment, our dunamus, the dynamite

1784
01:49:39,960 --> 01:49:40,800
Speaker 2: power of God.

1785
01:49:42,120 --> 01:49:42,360
Speaker 4: Lord.

1786
01:49:42,479 --> 01:49:44,240
Speaker 2: For the man or the woman, the boy or the

1787
01:49:44,360 --> 01:49:49,200
Speaker 2: girl tonight who is saying, I want joyful, dynamic, powerful

1788
01:49:49,320 --> 01:49:53,720
Speaker 2: Christianity that matters, a real witness for Jesus. Lord, come

1789
01:49:53,840 --> 01:49:57,679
Speaker 2: upon me, Come upon us, Lord, pour out your Holy Spirit.

1790
01:50:00,280 --> 01:50:03,400
Speaker 2: Look upon us. Lord. Your words says that as a

1791
01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:06,360
Speaker 2: father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who

1792
01:50:06,400 --> 01:50:10,760
Speaker 2: fear him. Lord, we need you, We need to be

1793
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:13,479
Speaker 2: your witnesses. You've called us to do that, and you

1794
01:50:13,560 --> 01:50:17,680
Speaker 2: wouldn't have called us to do it if you did

1795
01:50:17,760 --> 01:50:19,360
Speaker 2: not intend to give us the power to do it.

1796
01:50:20,800 --> 01:50:24,439
Speaker 2: It's all of you. And Lord, You've could have done

1797
01:50:24,479 --> 01:50:27,479
Speaker 2: this all on your own, but you've invited us to

1798
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:34,720
Speaker 2: enter into the field of laborers. How is it that

1799
01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:39,200
Speaker 2: Jesus himself said, pray to the Lord of the harvest.

1800
01:50:40,920 --> 01:50:47,240
Speaker 2: The harvest is much in many, but there's few laborers. Well, Lord, please,

1801
01:50:48,439 --> 01:50:50,920
Speaker 2: at least for this place. We don't want to be

1802
01:50:51,720 --> 01:50:56,519
Speaker 2: slothful and laboring for you. So Father, come upon every believer,

1803
01:50:57,120 --> 01:51:02,080
Speaker 2: every one of your children here tonight. And Lord, we

1804
01:51:02,280 --> 01:51:05,880
Speaker 2: know how this works. They'll not feel goosebumps. They're not

1805
01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:10,519
Speaker 2: going to see visions or pass out or whatever. It's

1806
01:51:10,680 --> 01:51:14,920
Speaker 2: going to be that you manifest your power the moment

1807
01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:18,840
Speaker 2: they exercise faith. That's the way you've always worked. The

1808
01:51:19,040 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 2: moment they decide I am going to step out, I'm

1809
01:51:22,400 --> 01:51:24,160
Speaker 2: going to do this, I'm going to love on that

1810
01:51:24,280 --> 01:51:30,120
Speaker 2: person over there, Your power will be there. So Lord,

1811
01:51:30,200 --> 01:51:34,200
Speaker 2: may we not be shy Father, we thank you. We

1812
01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:36,600
Speaker 2: thank you for Barry, we thank you for Kring. We

1813
01:51:36,760 --> 01:51:39,880
Speaker 2: thank you, Father God for this global ministry of theirs.

1814
01:51:41,439 --> 01:51:45,120
Speaker 2: And we pray Lord that we would all be ignited

1815
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:50,920
Speaker 2: by your spirit to tell the world the greatest news

1816
01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:54,840
Speaker 2: that they'll ever hear in time and eternity, in time

1817
01:51:54,920 --> 01:51:59,320
Speaker 2: and memorial, is that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior,

1818
01:52:00,080 --> 01:52:05,840
Speaker 2: King of Kings, and he's the sacrificial Lamb and the

1819
01:52:06,040 --> 01:52:11,240
Speaker 2: resurrected Redeemer. And we praise you, Lord, We ask it

1820
01:52:11,320 --> 01:52:14,200
Speaker 2: in Jesus's name, and all God's people said Amen.

1821
01:52:14,960 --> 01:52:17,800
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