WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.575 (MUSIC) 00:06.905 --> 00:09.708 - GOOD EVENING LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. 00:09.808 --> 00:12.211 GOOD EVENING LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. 00:12.311 --> 00:16.149 I SAID GOOD EVENING LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. 00:16.248 --> 00:18.751 THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE. 00:18.852 --> 00:22.155 HOW MANY OF YOU ARE GLAD AND REJOICING IN IT? 00:23.155 --> 00:26.425 OH, YOU'RE NOT ACTING LIKE IT. I'M EXCITED ABOUT TODAY. 00:26.626 --> 00:28.928 BECAUSE IT'S ANOTHER DAY THAT HE GAVE. 00:29.027 --> 00:32.231 ANOTHER DAY THAT WE GET TO COME IN WITH THE BODY OF BELIEVERS 00:32.332 --> 00:35.801 AND WORSHIP TOGETHER AND GIVE PRAISE AND GLORY TO THE KING. 00:35.835 --> 00:37.771 LET'S GO. 00:40.506 --> 01:01.293 (UPBEAT MUSIC) 05:32.540 --> 06:12.372 ♪ WORSHIP MUSIC ♪ 07:12.064 --> 07:57.843 ♪ WORSHIP MUSIC ♪ 12:51.770 --> 12:55.508 - HALLELUJAH, WE GIVE YOU GLORY IN THIS PLACE LORD. 12:56.775 --> 13:00.947 WE GIVE YOU GLORY TONIGHT. WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE. 13:02.447 --> 13:06.485 WE MAGNIFY YOUR HOLY NAME. YOU'RE WORTHY, YOU'RE WORTHY OF 13:06.519 --> 13:13.326 ALL PRAISE. OUR PRAYER, LORD, IS TO FLOOD OUR SOUL WITH YOUR 13:13.360 --> 13:19.032 GLORY. WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE TONIGHT, LORD. 13:20.666 --> 13:26.404 MAGNIFICENT, MAGNIFICENT IS YOUR NAME. OH, WE MAGNIFY YOU. 13:26.605 --> 13:32.645 WE MAGNIFY YOU TONIGHT, LORD. WE THINK ABOUT WHAT A 13:32.711 --> 13:39.019 PRIVILEGE IT IS TO KNOW YOU. WHAT A PRIVILEGE WE HAVE THAT 13:39.052 --> 13:44.823 WE CAN CHOOSE YOU. WE CAN CHOOSE LIFE. YOU GIVE US A CHOICE. 13:44.857 --> 13:48.360 YOU'VE MADE US FREE WILL CREATURES. WE CAN CHOOSE YOU, 13:48.394 --> 13:51.831 LORD. WE THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND WE COUNT IT AN HONOR AND 13:51.865 --> 13:54.967 A PRIVILEGE TO MAKE A CHOICE TO FOLLOW YOU. 13:55.234 --> 13:59.370 HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS. 13:59.572 --> 14:04.311 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE WITH YOU AS THE TEAM SANG TONIGHT THROUGH 14:04.344 --> 14:10.015 ETERNITY. THROUGH ETERNITY. PEOPLE WE DON'T HAVE A GRASP 14:10.049 --> 14:13.953 OF WHAT ETERNITY IS. WE HAVE FINITE MINDS. 14:13.986 --> 14:15.721 WE CAN'T REALLY FIGURE IT OUT SOMETIMES. 14:15.754 --> 14:19.457 WHAT IS ETERNITY? IT'S SO IMMENSE. 14:20.559 --> 14:25.965 YOU KNOW, WE THINK A BILLION IS A LOT. AND IT IS. DO YOU 14:25.999 --> 14:29.379 REALIZE THAT, TASHA, IF YOU WERE GOING TO START TONIGHT 14:29.379 --> 14:35.529 COUNTING TO A BILLION, IT WOULD TAKE YOU 31.7 YEARS. 14:36.759 --> 14:40.870 AND THAT'S WITHOUT EATING OR SLEEPING. CONTINUALLY 14:40.870 --> 14:44.409 COUNTING, ONE DIGIT PER SECOND, IT WOULD TAKE YOU 31 14:44.409 --> 14:48.490 YEARS TO COUNT TO A BILLION. WE TALK ABOUT TRILLIONS, YOU 14:48.490 --> 14:52.000 KNOW, OUR GOVERNMENT'S GOT A 40 MILLION, $40 TRILLION 14:52.000 --> 14:55.720 DEBT OR WHATEVER. WE DON'T REALIZE WHAT THAT IS. DO YOU 14:55.720 --> 14:59.440 KNOW, TASHA, IF YOU TRIED TO COUNT TO A TRILLION, IT 14:59.440 --> 15:05.078 WOULD TAKE YOU 31,000 YEARS TO COUNT TO A TRILLION. 15:05.078 --> 15:07.149 THAT'S HOW BIG A TRILLION, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE WITH 15:07.149 --> 15:09.940 OUR LORD TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS OF 15:09.940 --> 15:16.809 YEARS. WE CAN'T GRASP THAT. AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 15:16.809 --> 15:19.778 COIN, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT IS THE 15:19.778 --> 15:24.578 FACT THAT PEOPLE THAT DO NOT KNOW JESUS ARE GOING TO BE 15:24.578 --> 15:29.716 IN HELL FOR ETERNITY. AND THAT'S THE SAD FACT. AND 15:29.716 --> 15:32.139 THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT IN THIS LITTLE SLIVER OF 15:32.139 --> 15:39.458 TIME THAT WE HAVE ON EARTH, OUR 70, 80, 90, 100, 120 15:39.458 --> 15:42.759 YEARS, WHATEVER IT IS WE HAVE, WE HAVE TO DO ALL WE 15:42.759 --> 15:47.169 CAN TO REACH PEOPLE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE'S WORTHY AND HE'S 15:47.169 --> 15:51.730 GIVEN US A PLAN AND HE'S GIVEN US GRACE. WE COULD ALL 15:51.730 --> 15:55.899 BE DESTINED TO HELL, BUT HE HAS A PLAN FOR US. THANK 15:55.899 --> 15:58.750 YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS. PRAISE GOD, WE 15:58.750 --> 16:01.509 WORSHIP YOU, LORD. THANK YOU, LORD. HALLELUJAH, WE 16:01.509 --> 16:04.089 GIVE YOU GLORY IN THIS PLACE TONIGHT. WHAT AN HONOR IT IS 16:04.089 --> 16:07.028 TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 16:07.028 --> 16:12.730 WE ARE PRIVILEGED PEOPLE. WE COULD BE OUT IN THE BARS, WE 16:12.730 --> 16:16.448 COULD BE IN A HOSPITAL, WE COULD BE DOING A LOT OF 16:16.448 --> 16:21.490 THINGS, IN A GAMBLING CASINO, BUT YOU FOLKS CHOSE 16:21.490 --> 16:25.629 TO HIRE. BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND WORSHIP HIM. 16:25.629 --> 16:27.610 AND THE SAME FOR YOU THAT ARE WORSHIPPING WITH US 16:27.610 --> 16:32.470 ONLINE TONIGHT. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. HALLELUJAH. 16:32.470 --> 16:37.120 THANK YOU, JESUS. WE WORSHIP YOU, LORD. THE LORD SAID TO 16:37.120 --> 16:42.698 ME, "ABSENT." AND I'M TRYING TO- I THINK I KNOW WHAT 16:42.698 --> 16:48.783 THAT- WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO HERE. ABSENT IS THERE'S 16:48.783 --> 16:50.440 SOMEONE EITHER WATCHING ONLINE OR YOU'RE HERE 16:50.440 --> 16:55.480 TONIGHT AND YOU'RE DEALING WITH AN ABSENCE IN YOUR LIFE 16:55.480 --> 16:59.320 AND THAT COULD BE A RELATIONSHIP CHANGE BECAUSE 16:59.320 --> 17:02.679 SOMEONE BROKE OFF A RELATIONSHIP, MAYBE IT'S 17:02.679 --> 17:07.598 SOMEONE MOVED, MAYBE IT'S A DEATH, WHATEVER IT IS, IT'S 17:07.598 --> 17:11.529 BEEN EXTRA HEAVY ON YOU RECENTLY THAT YOU'RE MISSING 17:11.529 --> 17:17.618 THIS PERSON. YOU'RE LONELY AND FEELING SOME GRIEF MAYBE 17:17.618 --> 17:24.759 DUE TO THIS ABSENCE THAT'S HAPPENED. AND GOD SAYS 17:24.759 --> 17:29.710 TONIGHT HE WANTS TO RESTORE YOUR JOY AND HELP YOU TO 17:29.710 --> 17:32.529 MOVE FORWARD IN EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE CALLED TO DO. IS 17:32.529 --> 17:34.839 THERE ANYONE HERE AND YOU'RE SAYING THAT FITS MY 17:34.839 --> 17:38.619 DESCRIPTION, I FELT THAT ABSENCE IN MY LIFE BECAUSE 17:38.619 --> 17:41.230 OF A CHANGE IN A RELATIONSHIP, WHATEVER IT 17:41.230 --> 17:46.269 MIGHT BE. IS THAT ANYONE HERE? COME ON OVER HERE AND 17:46.269 --> 17:48.519 WE'RE GOING TO PRAY. I KNOW WHAT IT IS. IN YOUR CASE, 17:48.519 --> 17:53.759 SHE'S OUT OF TOWN. SHE'S AWAY TO SCHOOL, RIGHT? 17:54.880 --> 17:58.150 THAT'S OKAY. OKAY. YOU KNOW WHAT? IF YOU'RE FEELING 17:58.150 --> 18:02.589 THOSE THINGS, GOD'S CHOOSING TO SAY TO YOU TONIGHT, BOAZ, 18:02.589 --> 18:06.039 THIS IS THE NIGHT THAT HE WANTS TO JUST CALL YOU OUT 18:06.039 --> 18:08.230 AND JUST SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY. I'M 18:08.230 --> 18:13.450 GOING TO RESTORE THAT JOY. YOU MISS HER? THAT'S OKAY. 18:13.450 --> 18:16.690 THAT'S NATURAL TO HAVE THAT FEELING. WHEN YOU LOVE 18:16.690 --> 18:20.109 SOMEONE, YOU MISS THEM. YOU DESIRE TO BE WITH THEM. BUT 18:20.109 --> 18:22.419 YOU KNOW WHAT? GOD'S GOT A BIGGER PLAN, AND YOU'RE 18:22.419 --> 18:25.390 GOING TO JUST PATIENTLY GET THROUGH THIS. IT'S GOING TO 18:25.390 --> 18:28.269 MAKE YOU STRONGER. IT'S GOING TO MAKE HER STRONGER. 18:28.269 --> 18:31.058 AND THEN, I'M NOT PROPHESYING MARRIAGE OR 18:31.058 --> 18:34.076 ANYTHING, BUT I'M JUST SAYING, WHATEVER HAPPENS, 18:35.230 --> 18:37.419 YOU'RE BOTH GOING TO BE MUCH MORE POWERFUL. LET'S JUST 18:37.419 --> 18:41.950 SAY IT THAT WAY. IS THAT OKAY, MOM? OKAY, OKAY. LET'S 18:41.950 --> 18:45.069 DO THIS. PASTOR KEITH, WOULD YOU JUST LAY YOUR HANDS ON 18:45.069 --> 18:48.849 HIM AND PRAY FOR GOD TO RESTORE HIS JOY AND HELP HIM 18:48.849 --> 18:51.970 DURING THIS TIME OF SEPARATION. AND IF YOU'RE 18:51.970 --> 18:54.940 WATCHING ONLINE TONIGHT, AND THAT'S YOU THAT I'VE 18:54.940 --> 18:59.470 IDENTIFIED, WE PRAY ALSO IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS 18:59.470 --> 19:01.929 THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE RESTORED, THAT YOU'RE 19:01.929 --> 19:05.679 FULFILLED, THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT MINISTER TO YOU RIGHT 19:05.679 --> 19:10.539 WHERE YOU'RE AT IN A POWERFUL WAY TO COMFORT YOU, 19:10.539 --> 19:14.919 TO GIVE YOU THE ABILITY TO MOVE ON THROUGH THIS 19:14.919 --> 19:19.690 UNDERSTANDING THAT GRIEF AND SEPARATION AND LOSS CAN BE 19:19.690 --> 19:23.558 DIFFICULT BUT GOD CAN RESTORE THAT JOY TO YOU AND 19:23.558 --> 19:26.589 THE JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH AND HE WILL GIVE 19:26.589 --> 19:29.769 THAT TO YOU AS YOU MOVE FORWARD AND PRESS INTO HIM 19:29.769 --> 19:32.589 AND THE BIBLE SAYS AS WE DRAW NEAR TO GOD, HE WILL 19:32.589 --> 19:35.500 DRAW NEAR TO US AND THAT'S YOUR ASSIGNMENT NOW IF 19:35.500 --> 19:38.529 YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE IS TO DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND THEN HE 19:38.529 --> 19:41.079 WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU AND COMFORT YOU THROUGH THIS 19:41.079 --> 19:43.450 TIME PERIOD AND THEN YOU'LL BE ABLE TO REACH OUT TO 19:43.450 --> 19:46.779 OTHERS AND HELP THEM IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU WERE 19:46.779 --> 19:50.066 COMFORTED. IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, THAT'S OUR PRAYER. 19:50.066 --> 19:54.750 HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. GLORY TO GOD. PRAISE GOD. THANK 19:54.750 --> 19:58.431 YOU, JESUS. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 19:58.464 --> 20:00.250 IS THERE SOMEONE HERE AND YOU'VE GOT ARM 20:00.250 --> 20:05.079 PAIN? I'M THINKING IN YOUR RIGHT ARM, ARM PAIN, JUST 20:05.079 --> 20:08.829 LIKE IT'S RADIATING DOWN YOUR ARM. IS THAT SOMEONE 20:08.829 --> 20:14.339 HERE TONIGHT? IF IT'S SOMEONE ONLINE, YOU CAN LET 20:14.339 --> 20:17.730 US KNOW. BUT I'M GONNA PRAY FOR THAT. IS THERE SOMEONE 20:17.730 --> 20:20.880 HERE? QUICKLY, I WANT YOU TO JUST RESPOND IF THERE IS 20:20.880 --> 20:25.740 ANYONE HERE. THAT SEEMS TO PERSIST IN YOUR RIGHT ARM IS 20:25.740 --> 20:28.920 WHAT I'M FEELING. OKAY, IT'S PROBABLY SOMEONE ONLINE. 20:28.920 --> 20:31.140 FATHER, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WE REACH OUT TO THAT 20:31.140 --> 20:34.410 PERSON THAT HAS ARM PAIN, AND IF YOU'RE AT HOME OR 20:34.410 --> 20:36.390 WHEREVER YOU'RE AT, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO TAKE 20:36.390 --> 20:39.720 YOUR LEFT HAND, LAY THAT ON YOUR RIGHT ARM, AND IN THE 20:39.720 --> 20:43.440 NAME OF JESUS, WE COMMAND HEALING BY THE STRIPES OF 20:43.440 --> 20:49.380 JESUS INTO THAT ARM. AND WE SAY, "ARM BE WHOLE, PAIN GO, 20:49.380 --> 20:52.650 DEVIL TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF OF THIS INDIVIDUAL." WE SAY, 20:52.650 --> 20:58.230 "COMPLETE HEALING," AND THAT THAT ARM IS RESTORED TO 20:58.230 --> 21:02.819 NORMAL IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AMEN, AMEN. PRAISE 21:02.819 --> 21:06.450 GOD. THANK YOU, JESUS. WELL, HALLELUJAH. WHY DON'T YOU DO 21:06.450 --> 21:09.240 THIS TONIGHT? TURN AROUND AND SHAKE HANDS WITH SOMEONE 21:09.240 --> 21:11.261 AND LET THEM KNOW IT'S GOOD TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE 21:11.261 --> 21:12.404 LORD ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 21:12.439 --> 21:51.377 (UPBEAT MUSIC) 21:51.411 --> 21:55.315 - ALL RIGHT, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. WHAT A GREAT 21:55.347 --> 21:58.109 LEAD-IN TO AN OFFERING MESSAGE, ALREADY THINKING 21:58.109 --> 22:03.150 ABOUT TRILLIONS. HOW BIG IS OUR FAITH? I THINK IT JUST 22:03.150 --> 22:07.140 EXPANDED TONIGHT. WELL, IT'S SO POWERFUL WHEN GOD SHOWS 22:07.140 --> 22:09.660 UP. AND BEFORE I GET INTO TONIGHT'S OFFERING MESSAGE, 22:09.660 --> 22:11.700 I WANNA MAKE A QUICK PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. AND 22:11.700 --> 22:13.920 THIS REALLY GOES OUT TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS, THE 22:13.920 --> 22:17.400 THOUSANDS OF FRIENDS WE HAVE ONLINE, ABOUT THE ONE VOICE 22:17.400 --> 22:21.299 TV APP. MAKE SURE YOU GO OUT AND MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE 22:21.299 --> 22:23.400 WHETHER YOU'RE ON APPLE OR YOU'RE ON ANDROID. AND THIS 22:23.400 --> 22:25.144 COULD BE FOR THE FOLKS IN THE ROOM TOO, IF YOU USE THE 22:25.144 --> 22:28.500 APP. MAKE SURE YOU GET THAT UPDATED. SO GO TO YOUR APP, 22:28.500 --> 22:32.789 UPDATE IT, MAKE SURE IT'S UPDATED. WE HAVE, AS PASTOR 22:32.789 --> 22:34.680 SHANE HAS MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES, WE'VE LAUNCHED SOME 22:34.680 --> 22:38.130 NEW CAPABILITIES AND A NEW LOOK AND FEEL TO THE APP AND 22:38.130 --> 22:40.859 THE OVTV WEBSITE. AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE YOU DON'T 22:40.859 --> 22:43.319 MISS ANYTHING BECAUSE IF WE SHUT OFF THE APPS, THE OLD 22:43.319 --> 22:46.140 APPS, WE WANNA MAKE SURE YOU'RE ON THE NEW APP. AND 22:46.140 --> 22:48.660 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REACH 22:48.660 --> 22:51.329 OUT TO US. WE LOVE YOU ONLINE VIEWERS AND WE LOVE 22:51.329 --> 22:53.836 EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING 22:53.836 --> 22:56.220 HERE. YOU KNOW, FOR TONIGHT'S OFFERING MESSAGE, 22:56.220 --> 22:59.430 I WANNA SPEAK TO PEOPLE THAT MIGHT THINK AND FEEL A 22:59.430 --> 23:01.980 LITTLE BIT LIKE I DID AT SOME POINT IN MY LIFE. 23:03.240 --> 23:06.660 USHERS, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND STAND IN THE AISLE WITH THE 23:06.660 --> 23:10.259 ENVELOPES, AND IF YOU COULD PLEASE PUT UP THE OFFERING 23:10.259 --> 23:13.140 INFORMATION ON THE BOARD. THESE ARE ALL THE WAYS TO 23:13.140 --> 23:15.720 DONATE INTO THE MINISTRY. THESE ARE ALL THE WAYS THAT 23:15.720 --> 23:17.700 YOU CAN SHARE YOUR TITHES, YOUR GIFTS, AND YOUR 23:17.700 --> 23:23.039 OFFERINGS. YOU KNOW, I HAD A TIME IN MY LIFE WHEN I GAVE 23:23.039 --> 23:25.890 MY LIFE TO THE LORD, I WAS READING MY BIBLE EVERY DAY, 23:25.890 --> 23:30.119 I WAS PRAYING FREQUENTLY, ATTENDED CHURCH EVERY WEEK, 23:30.119 --> 23:34.589 EXCUSE ME, BUT SOMETHING WAS MISSING. SOMETHING WAS 23:34.589 --> 23:36.809 IMPORTANT AND IT WAS MISSING, AND I GUESS I MIGHT 23:36.809 --> 23:39.480 BE LIKE SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THIS ROOM, OR 23:39.480 --> 23:43.589 MAYBE SOME OF YOU ONLINE. THE THING THAT WAS MISSING 23:43.589 --> 23:46.470 THAT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT, OR MAYBE EVEN MORE 23:46.470 --> 23:49.920 APPROPRIATELY, I DIDN'T WANNA FIGURE OUT, WAS I 23:49.920 --> 23:54.994 WASN'T TITHING. AND LIKE I SAID, EVEN THOUGH MY LIFE IN 23:54.994 --> 23:59.819 CHRIST WAS THRIVING, SOMETHING WAS MISSING. MY 23:59.819 --> 24:01.920 WIFE AND I, WE GAVE SOME OFFERINGS, WE EVEN GAVE SOME 24:01.920 --> 24:05.339 BIG OFFERINGS. SO I THOUGHT I WAS DOING WHAT SCRIPTURE 24:05.339 --> 24:08.549 TOLD ME TO DO, BUT I WAS STILL MISSING THAT TITHING. 24:08.549 --> 24:10.680 AT THE TIME I HAD A BUDDY AND HIM AND I WERE SUPER 24:10.680 --> 24:16.230 SPIRITUAL. SO WE BELIEVED THAT WHEN JESUS CAME AND 24:16.230 --> 24:20.009 DIED AND WHEN HE ROSE AGAIN, HE FULFILLED THE LAW AND IN 24:20.009 --> 24:24.210 FULFILLING THE LAW, TITHING WENT OUT THE WINDOW. SO WE 24:24.210 --> 24:26.220 WERE EXCITED. WE HAVE MORE MONEY IN OUR POCKET, WE'RE 24:26.220 --> 24:31.109 DOING GOOD. BUT THE REALITY IS OUR CHRISTIAN WALK, AND I 24:31.109 --> 24:34.799 CAN ONLY SPEAK FOR TASHA'S AND MINE, WE REALIZED THE 24:34.799 --> 24:39.299 SOLE REASON WE WERE NOT OVERCOMING, ESPECIALLY IN 24:39.299 --> 24:42.509 FINANCES, WAS BECAUSE WE HADN'T MADE THAT COMMITMENT 24:42.509 --> 24:45.000 YET. LIKE I SAID, THERE MIGHT BE SOME PEOPLE IN THIS 24:45.000 --> 24:46.859 ROOM, THERE MIGHT EVEN BE SOME PEOPLE ONLINE THAT ARE 24:46.859 --> 24:49.859 IN THAT SAME POSITION. AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU 24:49.859 --> 24:55.349 BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE GOD SHOWED UP. AND IN OUR LIFE, 24:55.349 --> 24:58.349 THERE WERE INCREDIBLE WAYS THAT GOD STEPPED IN. HE 24:58.349 --> 25:02.430 NEVER CONDEMNED US, NEVER TOLD US WE WERE WRONG, BUT 25:02.430 --> 25:05.279 HE WORKED ON MY WIFE'S AND MY HEART TO THE POINT WHERE 25:05.279 --> 25:08.400 WE STARTED TO TITHE. YOU KNOW, MY WIFE AND I BOTH 25:08.400 --> 25:11.670 MADE A GOOD SALARY AND OUR FAMILY WAS IN ORDER. WE WERE 25:11.670 --> 25:14.400 IN A GOOD SPOT IN LIFE, BUT WE LITERALLY WERE STILL 25:14.400 --> 25:17.460 DROWNING IN SOME THINGS. SO AS SOON AS WE STARTED TO 25:17.460 --> 25:20.160 TITHE, AND I'M NOT JUST TRYING TO TELL YOU A NICE 25:20.160 --> 25:22.769 STORY FOR A MESSAGE, I'M SHARING EXACTLY WHAT 25:22.769 --> 25:26.309 HAPPENED, OUR DEBT LIKE LITERALLY STARTED TO 25:26.309 --> 25:30.630 DISAPPEAR. AND IT WAS OUR FAITHFULNESS AND TITHING 25:30.630 --> 25:33.660 THAT OPENED THAT DOOR. WE WERE ACTUALLY ULTIMATELY 25:33.660 --> 25:36.240 FULFILLING SCRIPTURE. DEBT WAS MIRACULOUSLY PAID OFF, 25:36.240 --> 25:39.119 LIKE I SAID. WE STARTED HAVING MORE MONEY THE MONTH. 25:40.440 --> 25:43.710 SOMETIMES THAT'S A CHALLENGE TO WRAP YOUR BRAIN AROUND. 25:43.710 --> 25:45.779 AND WE ALSO HAD MONEY TO SUPPORT THE THINGS THAT WE'D 25:45.779 --> 25:48.960 NEVER HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BEFORE. AND LIKE I SAID, THE 25:48.960 --> 25:51.569 BEST PART OF THAT STORY FOR US, THE MOST HEARTFELT PART 25:51.569 --> 25:54.480 IS GOD NEVER CONDEMNED US, HE NEVER PUNISHED US, HE 25:54.480 --> 25:57.720 JUST WALKED US THROUGH IT. SO IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING 25:57.720 --> 26:00.960 IN OUR LIVES TO FINALLY GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE 26:00.960 --> 26:05.519 SURRENDERED TO THE LORD, WE MADE THAT LAST STEP. AND I 26:05.519 --> 26:07.650 WANNA ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY HERE IN THE SOUND OF MY 26:07.650 --> 26:10.410 VOICE, I THINK THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE AND PEOPLE 26:10.410 --> 26:12.779 ONLINE THAT MIGHT BE IN THAT SAME POSITION, YOU HAVEN'T 26:12.779 --> 26:16.559 MADE THAT FINAL STEP. I BELIEVE RIGHT NOW TONIGHT, 26:16.559 --> 26:20.730 GOD IS DOING THAT SAME THING FOR YOU. HE'S GIVING YOU 26:20.730 --> 26:23.069 THAT CONFIDENCE AND THAT COURAGE TO STEP OUT IN 26:23.069 --> 26:25.650 FAITH. WHETHER YOU'RE HERE IN THIS ROOM, WHETHER YOU'RE 26:25.650 --> 26:29.460 WATCHING ONLINE, OR WHETHER LONG AFTER THIS SERVICE IS 26:29.460 --> 26:33.000 OVER, YOU'RE HEARING THIS MESSAGE, IT'S FOR YOU. AND I 26:33.000 --> 26:35.130 REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU WITH THAT TONIGHT. I'VE GOT 26:35.130 --> 26:39.450 TWO SCRIPTURES TO SHARE, PROVERBS 3:9-10. IF YOU 26:39.450 --> 26:43.140 UNDERSTAND WHAT THE WORLD WAS LIKE WHEN SOLOMON PENNED 26:43.140 --> 26:46.589 THESE WORDS, IT WAS AN AGRARIAN CULTURE, SO IT WAS 26:46.589 --> 26:50.099 AGRICULTURE. SO THAT'S WHY THE REFERENCE IS, AS WE GET 26:50.099 --> 26:53.160 INTO VERSE 10, VERSE NINE SAYS, "HONOR THE LORD WITH 26:53.160 --> 26:55.289 YOUR POSSESSIONS "AND WITH THE FIRST FRUITS OF ALL YOUR 26:55.289 --> 26:58.619 INCREASE." VERSE 10, THIS IS WHERE THE AGRARIAN COMES IN, 26:58.619 --> 27:02.579 AND SOMETIMES AS 21ST CENTURY PEOPLE, THIS DOESN'T 27:02.579 --> 27:06.210 MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF SENSE. PROVERBS 3:10 SAYS, "SO YOUR 27:06.210 --> 27:08.490 BARNS WILL BE FILLED "WITH PLENTY AND YOUR VATS WILL 27:08.490 --> 27:13.079 OVERFLOW WITH NEW WINE." I KNOW PASTOR HANK SAYS THE 27:13.079 --> 27:19.109 NEW HT, THE NEW RBPT, ROBERT BLACK PETTIGREW TRANSLATION, 27:19.109 --> 27:24.089 MIGHT SAY, "SO YOUR HOUSE WILL BE FILLED WITH PLENTY 27:24.089 --> 27:27.240 "AND SO THAT YOUR ACCOUNTS WILL OVERFLOW "WITH NEW 27:27.240 --> 27:30.779 FINANCES, NEW MONEY." THAT MIGHT BE A CONTEMPORARY WAY 27:30.779 --> 27:33.269 TO LOOK AT THAT. AND IF THAT MAKES SENSE, I WOULDN'T 27:33.269 --> 27:35.400 ENCOURAGE YOU TO REWRITE THE BIBLE AND PLEASE DON'T THINK 27:35.400 --> 27:37.859 I JUST DID THAT. I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT IN MAYBE 27:37.859 --> 27:40.980 SOME MORE REAL TERMS. THE SECOND SCRIPTURE IS ONE 27:40.980 --> 27:43.108 WE'VE HEARD A LOT. IT'S MALACHI 3:10, AND IT'S THE 27:43.108 --> 27:48.720 LATTER PART OF THIS VERSE. AND TRY ME NOW IN THIS. 27:48.720 --> 27:50.670 FIRST PART OF IT SAYS, "BRING ALL THE TITHES INTO 27:50.670 --> 27:54.690 THE STOREHOUSE, "THAT THERE MAY BE FOOD IN MY HOUSE." 27:54.690 --> 27:58.890 AND TRY ME, GOD, TRY GOD NOW IN THIS, SAYS THE LORD OF 27:58.890 --> 28:02.279 HOSTS. "IF I WILL NOT OPEN FOR YOU THE WINDOWS OF 28:02.279 --> 28:06.359 HEAVEN "AND POUR OUT TO YOU SUCH A BLESSING, "OR FOR YOU 28:06.359 --> 28:09.390 SUCH A BLESSING, "THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH ROOM TO 28:09.390 --> 28:13.230 RECEIVE IT." THAT'S OUR CHALLENGE. AND IF YOU WALK 28:13.230 --> 28:15.599 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BOB AND TASHA PETTIGREW AND YOU GET 28:15.599 --> 28:18.599 TO A POINT IN YOUR FAITH WHERE YOU'RE NOT SURE, OR 28:18.599 --> 28:21.599 MAYBE YOU'VE LISTENED TO SOME TEACHINGS THAT MAY NOT 28:21.599 --> 28:24.569 BE 100% CORRECT ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT VERSUS THE OLD 28:24.569 --> 28:27.690 TESTAMENT, I WANNA CHALLENGE YOU TO GO BACK TO GOD'S 28:27.690 --> 28:31.529 WORD, RELY ON THOSE SCRIPTURES, PRAY THEM, 28:31.529 --> 28:35.819 DECLARE THEM, AND STEP OUT IN FAITH AND BEGIN TO TITHE. 28:35.819 --> 28:38.040 I THINK IT'LL CHANGE YOUR LIFE LIKE IT CHANGED TASHA'S 28:38.040 --> 28:41.099 AND MY LIFE. I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND PRAY NOW. IF YOU 28:41.099 --> 28:44.970 CAN PUT BACK UP THE GIVING INFORMATION, GIVE ME A 28:44.970 --> 28:46.799 CHANCE TO PRAY. AND IF YOU CAN JOIN ME IN PRAYER, I 28:46.799 --> 28:50.519 WOULD APPRECIATE IT. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK 28:50.519 --> 28:52.920 YOU, LORD, FOR THIS TIME THAT WE CAN COME TOGETHER 28:52.920 --> 28:56.339 AND WE CAN WORSHIP YOU IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. LORD, 28:56.339 --> 28:58.859 WE THANK YOU FOR THE ANOINTING THAT IS ON THIS 28:58.859 --> 29:02.549 HOUSE, THE ANOINTING THAT'S ON OUR PASTORS, AND LORD, 29:02.549 --> 29:07.049 THAT THAT ANOINTING FLOWS TO US. HEAVENLY FATHER, I ASK 29:07.049 --> 29:10.650 FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT CAN HEAR MY VOICE, THE GRACE 29:10.650 --> 29:14.009 AND THE MERCY THAT YOU SHOWED TASHA AND I, TO GIVE 29:14.009 --> 29:19.230 THEM THE CONFIDENCE AND THE COURAGE TO TURN THEIR 29:19.230 --> 29:23.160 FINANCES OVER TO YOU, LORD, AND THEN PUT YOUR WORD TO 29:23.160 --> 29:26.400 THE TEST AND PUT YOU, THE LORD OF HOSTS, TO THE TEST, 29:26.400 --> 29:28.799 THAT YOU WILL OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POUR 29:28.799 --> 29:32.369 OUT A BLESSING THAT THEY CANNOT EVEN CONTAIN IT. GOD, 29:32.369 --> 29:35.400 AS I STAND HERE TODAY, I CAN TESTIFY TO YOU IN MAN, 29:35.400 --> 29:38.519 THAT'S WHAT YOU DID FOR US. AND LORD, I PRAY THAT THOSE 29:38.519 --> 29:44.549 WORDS, LORD, WOULD RING IN SOMEONE'S HEART, LORD, AND 29:44.549 --> 29:47.700 THAT THROUGH YOUR MIGHTY POWERFUL HAND, YOU WILL 29:47.700 --> 29:51.119 ENCOURAGE THEM JUST AS YOU'VE ENCOURAGED US. LORD, I ASK THAT 29:51.119 --> 29:54.394 YOU MULTIPLY EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR THAT COMES INTO THIS MINISTRY TO 29:54.394 --> 29:57.596 FULFILL YOUR WILL AND YOUR DESIRE. AND LORD, I THANK YOU 29:57.631 --> 30:02.433 FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE IN JESUS' MIGHTY NAME, AMEN. 30:02.433 --> 30:07.366 THANK YOU. I'M GONNA TURN IT BACK OVER TO PASTOR DOUG. 30:07.366 --> 30:10.405 - AMEN, THANK YOU, BOB. APPRECIATE THAT 30:10.405 --> 30:13.539 VERY MUCH. YOU CAN NEVER OUT GIVE THE 30:13.539 --> 30:19.029 LORD, AND THE GOOD NEWS IS HE WILL REBUKE THE DEVOURER 30:19.029 --> 30:23.680 ON OUR BEHALF. AND SO THAT'S WHY TITHING IS SO POWERFUL, 30:23.680 --> 30:27.130 BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS THE DEVIL ON YOUR BACK. AND IT'S 30:27.130 --> 30:34.690 WORTH 10% TO GET THE DEVIL OFF YOUR BACK. AMEN. I DON'T 30:34.690 --> 30:40.420 HAVE ANY JOKES TO START WITH TONIGHT. SO I GUESS I'LL 30:40.420 --> 30:43.269 JUST GET RIGHT INTO MY MESSAGE, AND THEN WE CAN GET 30:43.269 --> 30:47.109 YOU OUT OF HERE A LITTLE SOONER MAYBE. I CAN'T 30:47.109 --> 30:50.769 PROMISE I CAN GET YOU OUT BEFORE DARK, BECAUSE IT'S 30:50.769 --> 30:53.230 JUST GETTING DARK TOO QUICKLY ANYMORE, I TELL YOU. 30:53.230 --> 30:57.309 IT'S LIKE I LOATHE THE DAY THAT WE HAVE TO TURN OUR 30:57.309 --> 31:00.309 CLOCKS BACK ANOTHER HOUR, AND IT'S GOING TO BE DARK AT 31:00.309 --> 31:03.579 5 O'CLOCK. AND I WAS LIKE, OH, NO. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? 31:03.579 --> 31:10.240 SPRING IS COMING. SO THAT'S GOOD. WELL, HOW MANY OF YOU 31:10.240 --> 31:13.073 EVER HEARD OF A GUY BY THE NAME OF JOHN NELSON HYDE? 31:14.410 --> 31:18.009 I'LL DIG DEEP INTO YOUR HISTORICAL RESERVOIRS 31:18.009 --> 31:20.140 TONIGHT. BUT HE WAS AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY THAT 31:20.140 --> 31:24.460 WENT TO INDIA. AND HE WAS KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS 31:24.460 --> 31:28.690 "PRAYING HYDE." YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THAT TERM BEFORE. 31:28.690 --> 31:33.880 BECAUSE OF HIS PERSISTENT PRAYER LIFE, AND IT LED TO 31:33.880 --> 31:38.650 MANY SPIRITUAL REVIVALS, HE WOULD SPEND ENTIRE NIGHTS IN 31:38.650 --> 31:42.819 PRAYER. AND HIS MAIN FOCUS ON PRAYER WAS, "FATHER, GIVE 31:42.819 --> 31:49.720 ME SOULS OR I DIE." THAT WAS WHAT HE WAS KNOWN FOR. AND 31:49.720 --> 31:52.930 HIS LIFE AND MINISTRY INSPIRED THOUSANDS, AND 31:52.930 --> 31:56.380 THERE WAS A GREAT SPIRITUAL AWAKENING IN THE PART OF 31:56.380 --> 32:00.670 INDIA THAT HE WAS CALLED TO, AND IT WAS ATTRIBUTED TO HIS 32:00.670 --> 32:04.480 PERSISTENT PRAYER LIFE. AND SOMETIMES AFTER WE'VE BEEN 32:04.480 --> 32:10.630 SAVED, IT'S EASY TO LOSE OUR ZEAL AND FORGET THAT WE NEED 32:10.630 --> 32:14.410 TO BE SHARING CHRIST WITH OTHERS. AND AS CHRISTIANS, I 32:14.410 --> 32:18.557 KNOW IT'S REALLY EASY TO FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER. AND 32:18.557 --> 32:22.823 WE LOVE BEING WITH OTHER CHRISTIANS. AND SOMETIMES IT'S 32:22.823 --> 32:25.517 JUST EASIER TO HANG AROUND OTHER CHRISTIANS THAN IT IS TO LOOK 32:25.517 --> 32:30.349 FOR WAYS TO SHARE CHRIST WITH THOSE THAT DO NOT KNOW HIM YET. 32:30.383 --> 32:34.213 AND WE NEED TO ALWAYS BE AWARE. IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY 32:34.213 --> 32:37.682 TO MAINTAIN A VISION AND A ZEAL TO REACH THE LOST. AMEN? 32:39.130 --> 32:41.799 JESUS SPOKE OF THAT CONDITION 2,000 YEARS AGO, 32:42.849 --> 32:45.430 AND IT'S STILL TRUE TODAY. LET'S LOOK AT MATTHEW 32:45.430 --> 32:49.359 9:36-38, FAMILIAR SCRIPTURE, I'M GONNA READ IT OUT OF THE 32:49.359 --> 32:52.000 NEW LIVING. IT SAYS, "WHEN HE SAW THE CROWD," SPEAKING 32:52.000 --> 32:55.630 OF JESUS, "HE HAD COMPASSION ON THEM, "BECAUSE THEY WERE 32:55.630 --> 33:00.759 CONFUSED AND HELPLESS, "LIKE SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD. 33:00.759 --> 33:04.990 "HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, 'THE HARVEST IS GREAT, BUT 33:04.990 --> 33:09.759 THE WORKERS ARE FEW.' SO PRAY TO THE LORD WHO IS IN 33:09.759 --> 33:13.119 CHARGE OF THE HARVEST. ASK HIM TO SEND MORE WORKERS 33:13.119 --> 33:18.670 INTO THE FIELDS." AMEN. AND IT'S GOOD TO BE REMINDED OF 33:18.670 --> 33:22.329 THE GREAT COMMISSION THAT JESUS ASSIGNED US. IT'S OUR 33:22.329 --> 33:27.069 PRIORITY JOB AS CHRISTIANS TO BRING THE LOST TO JESUS. 33:27.069 --> 33:31.029 AWARENESS IS A BIG PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT. IT'S EASY TO 33:31.029 --> 33:33.640 BECOME WRAPPED UP IN OUR DAILY LIVES AND FORGET ABOUT 33:33.640 --> 33:37.390 THOSE THAT GOD HAS PLACED IN OUR CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE. AND 33:37.390 --> 33:42.279 THREE POINTS TO DO THAT. WE NEED TO DEVELOP AWARENESS OF 33:42.279 --> 33:45.369 THOSE THAT ARE NOT PART OF GOD'S FAMILY, THOSE THAT 33:45.369 --> 33:48.880 HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED GOD'S GRACE, AND THOSE THAT DO NOT 33:48.880 --> 33:51.099 HAVE THAT ASSURANCE OF ETERNAL LIFE. WE TALKED 33:51.099 --> 33:53.829 ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE AND UNDERSTANDING ETERNITY 33:53.829 --> 33:56.710 TONIGHT. WELL, THE TEXT VERSE THAT I HAVE FOR 33:56.710 --> 34:00.670 TONIGHT IS A SHORT ONE. IT COMES OUT OF ACTS 16:9-10. 34:02.829 --> 34:05.259 BUT I WANT TO GIVE YOU JUST A BRIEF CONTEXT OF HISTORY 34:05.259 --> 34:09.309 BEFORE WE LOOK AT THAT VERSE. THIS SCRIPTURE 34:09.309 --> 34:12.519 DESCRIBES WHAT BIBLE SCHOLARS REFER TO AS THE 34:12.519 --> 34:15.369 MACEDONIAN CALL. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT TERM BEFORE, 34:15.369 --> 34:19.360 THE MACEDONIAN CALL? OKAY, IT'S A VISION THAT THE 34:19.360 --> 34:23.829 APOSTLE PAUL RECEIVED IN A DREAM. IN THIS DREAM, PAUL 34:23.829 --> 34:28.840 SEES A MAN FROM MACEDONIA PLEADING WITH PAUL IN THIS 34:28.840 --> 34:32.679 DREAM. HE'S HAVING A DREAM AND THE MAN IS PLEADING WITH 34:32.679 --> 34:36.550 HIM AND HE'S SAYING, "COME OVER TO MACEDONIA AND HELP 34:36.550 --> 34:42.760 US." PAUL BELIEVED THAT THAT DREAM WAS A DIRECT, DIVINE 34:42.760 --> 34:46.659 INSTRUCTION FROM GOD FOR HIS LIFE. AND IT COMPLETELY 34:46.659 --> 34:50.710 TURNED PAUL'S MISSIONARY PLANS UPSIDE DOWN. HE HAD 34:50.710 --> 34:54.400 INTENDED, PAUL HAD INTENDED TO CONTINUE HIS MISSIONARY 34:54.400 --> 34:58.179 WORK IN ASIA MINOR, WHICH IS MODERN DAY TURKEY. AND THE 34:58.179 --> 35:01.239 INSTRUCTION FOR PAUL AT THAT TIME TO TAKE HIS MISSIONARY 35:01.239 --> 35:04.750 WORK TO MACEDONIA WAS A BIG THING BECAUSE THAT WOULD 35:04.750 --> 35:08.739 MEAN HE WOULD HAVE TO GO TO EUROPE. HE WAS LEAVING ASIA, 35:08.739 --> 35:11.260 GO TO EUROPE SO THAT HE COULD GO FOLLOW GOD'S 35:11.260 --> 35:17.409 COMMAND TO HELP THIS MAN IN MACEDONIA. THE MACEDONIA 35:17.409 --> 35:21.010 REGION TODAY INCLUDES A LARGE PART OF GREECE. SO 35:21.010 --> 35:23.800 THAT'S WHERE HE HAD TO GO FROM THE AREA THAT WE NOW 35:23.800 --> 35:28.480 CALL TURKEY, HE HAD TO GO TO GREECE. SO THINK ABOUT THIS. 35:28.480 --> 35:31.179 UP TO THAT POINT IN HISTORY, THE GOSPEL MESSAGE HAD BEEN 35:31.179 --> 35:36.010 LIMITED TO ASIA. BECAUSE OF PAUL'S OBEDIENCE TO THE 35:36.010 --> 35:37.840 MACEDONIAN CALL, WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT WHEN WE READ 35:37.840 --> 35:42.579 THIS SCRIPTURE, THE PEOPLE OF EUROPE AND THE WESTERN 35:42.579 --> 35:47.110 WORLD WERE THEN EXPOSED TO CHRISTIANITY. WHO KNOWS WHEN 35:47.110 --> 35:50.829 THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF PAUL HADN'T OBEYED. LET'S 35:50.829 --> 35:53.289 READ THE VERSE NOW THAT I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. THIS IS 35:53.289 --> 35:58.090 ACTS 16:9-10. I'M READING AGAIN OUT OF THE NEW LIVING 35:58.090 --> 36:02.019 TRANSLATION. IT SAYS, "THAT NIGHT, PAUL HAD A VISION. "A 36:02.019 --> 36:05.139 MAN FROM MACEDONIA IN NORTHERN GREECE "WAS 36:05.139 --> 36:09.460 STANDING THERE PLEADING WITH HIM, "COME OVER TO MACEDONIA 36:09.460 --> 36:16.960 AND HELP US." SO, THIS IS PAUL SPEAKING. WE DECIDED TO 36:16.960 --> 36:21.820 LEAVE FOR MACEDONIA AT ONCE, HAVING CONCLUDED THAT GOD 36:21.820 --> 36:26.380 WAS CALLING US TO PREACH THE GOOD NEWS THERE. SO, TONIGHT 36:26.380 --> 36:30.070 MY MESSAGE IS ENTITLED, A VISION FOR THE HARVEST. I'M 36:30.070 --> 36:32.170 BELIEVING TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA BE ENCOURAGED AND 36:32.170 --> 36:37.989 RECHARGED WITH A ZEAL TO REACH PEOPLE FOR CHRIST. THE 36:37.989 --> 36:40.539 APOSTLE PAUL'S AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF ONE 36:40.539 --> 36:43.599 THAT HAD A VISION, AND THEN HE TOOK ACTION IMMEDIATELY 36:43.599 --> 36:46.900 TO ACCOMPLISH HIS ASSIGNMENT. THE SCRIPTURE 36:46.900 --> 36:50.139 PASSAGE THAT WE JUST READ SAID THAT PAUL HAD A VISION. 36:50.139 --> 36:54.789 WE SEE THAT, THAT FIRST PART OF ACTS, VERSE NINE. THIS 36:54.789 --> 36:58.000 WAS A SUPERNATURAL VISION OF A MAN PLEADING FOR PAUL TO 36:58.000 --> 37:03.219 COME HELP HIM. AND EACH OF US NEED A VISION TODAY. WE 37:03.219 --> 37:05.949 NEED TO KNOW WHAT GOD'S CALLING US TO AS 37:05.949 --> 37:09.909 INDIVIDUALS, SPECIFICALLY WHILE WE'RE HERE ON THIS 37:09.909 --> 37:16.239 EARTH. IN 1983, THE CHRISTIAN BAND PETRA 37:16.239 --> 37:21.550 RELEASED A SONG CALLED NOT OF THIS WORLD. BOB REMEMBERS 37:21.550 --> 37:25.780 THAT SONG. I LOVE THAT SONG BECAUSE IT'S A REMINDER, I 37:25.780 --> 37:28.869 REMEMBER LISTENING TO IT IN THE 80S, IT'S A REMINDER OF 37:28.869 --> 37:31.389 OUR DUTY AND CALLING DURING THE BRIEF PERIOD THAT WE'RE 37:31.389 --> 37:34.780 HERE ON THIS EARTH. AND PART OF THE LYRICS IS AS FOLLOWS, 37:34.780 --> 37:39.429 IT SAYS, "WE ARE STRANGERS, WE ARE ALIENS, "WE ARE NOT 37:39.429 --> 37:44.949 OF THIS WORLD. "WE ARE ENVOYS. "WE MUST TARRY WITH 37:44.949 --> 37:49.179 THIS MESSAGE THAT WE MUST CARRY. "THERE'S SO MUCH TO 37:49.179 --> 37:53.889 DO BEFORE WE LEAVE "WITH SO MANY MORE WHO MAY BELIEVE. 37:53.889 --> 37:57.400 "OUR MISSION HERE CAN NEVER FAIL "AND THE GATES OF HELL 37:57.400 --> 38:00.099 WILL NOT PREVAIL." BOB, MAYBE YOU SHOULD COME UP AND 38:00.099 --> 38:03.338 SING THAT SONG FOR US. I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW IT AND 38:03.338 --> 38:06.489 IT'S LIKE, I CAN'T SING, BUT I CAN REPEAT THE LYRICS. 38:06.489 --> 38:09.280 IT'S REALLY BETTER WHEN YOU HEAR IT WITH THE MUSIC. SO 38:09.280 --> 38:11.110 YOU MIGHT WANT TO LOOK THAT UP ON YOUTUBE OR SOMETHING 38:11.110 --> 38:14.980 AND LISTEN TO IT. IT'S A GREAT SONG. BUT IT TALKS 38:14.980 --> 38:17.710 ABOUT WE'RE ENVOYS. ENVOYS WOULD BE SIMILAR TO WHAT WE 38:17.710 --> 38:20.860 WOULD MAYBE USE THE WORD AMBASSADOR. IT MEANS THAT 38:20.860 --> 38:24.550 WE'RE A MESSENGER OR A REPRESENTATIVE ON A 38:24.550 --> 38:30.159 DIPLOMATIC MISSION. AND 2 CORINTHIANS 5:20 TELLS US 38:30.159 --> 38:33.429 EXACTLY THAT. IT SAYS WE'RE CHRIST'S AMBASSADORS. GOD'S 38:33.429 --> 38:37.840 MAKING HIS APPEAL THROUGH US WHILE WE'RE ON THIS EARTH. 38:37.840 --> 38:40.659 AND WE'RE JUST HERE FOR THIS SHORT TIME. WE'RE ALIENS, 38:40.659 --> 38:43.900 WE'RE NOT OF THIS WORLD. WE ARE IN THE WORLD, BUT WE'RE 38:43.900 --> 38:45.969 NOT OF IT. WE DON'T PARTICIPATE IN ALL THE 38:45.969 --> 38:49.239 THINGS THAT THE WORLD DOES, BUT WE'RE HERE ON A MISSION, 38:49.239 --> 38:52.239 AREN'T WE? FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, AND WE HAVE 38:52.239 --> 38:54.969 TO ACCOMPLISH AS MUCH AS WE CAN WHILE WE'RE HERE. AND 38:54.969 --> 38:58.150 SOMETIMES I THINK WE GET SO INVOLVED IN ALL OF OUR DAILY 38:58.150 --> 39:03.219 DUTIES AND ACTIVITIES, WE LOSE SIGHT OF WHY WE'RE HERE 39:03.219 --> 39:06.369 IN THE GREAT COMMISSION. IT'S OUR MANDATE AS 39:06.369 --> 39:09.730 CHRISTIANS TO WIN SOULS FOR JESUS, BUT EACH OF US HAVE 39:09.730 --> 39:13.570 SPECIFIC GIFTS AND CALLINGS. GOD'S GIVEN US SPECIFIC 39:13.570 --> 39:17.110 EQUIPMENT AND ANOINTINGS SO THAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THE 39:17.110 --> 39:20.590 VISION THAT HE HAS FOR OUR INDIVIDUAL LIVES. THE 39:20.590 --> 39:24.099 PERSONAL VISION FROM GOD IS A DIVINE CALLING FOR YOUR 39:24.099 --> 39:28.360 LIFE. IT'S A UNIQUE PLAN OF HOW YOU CAN BEST FULFILL 39:28.360 --> 39:32.920 YOUR PURPOSE AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE OVERALL PLAN OF GOD 39:32.920 --> 39:36.940 FOR MAN. THE VISION THAT GOD GIVES YOU WILL LIKELY 39:36.940 --> 39:41.139 INVOLVE BECOMING MORE LIKE CHRIST, DEVELOPING NEW 39:41.139 --> 39:44.769 DESIRES THAT ALIGN WITH GOD'S HEART, AND USING YOUR 39:44.769 --> 39:48.309 SPECIFIC GIFTS FOR PURPOSES LIKE WORSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP 39:48.309 --> 39:52.989 AND DISCIPLESHIP, MINISTRY AND EVANGELISM. LET'S LOOK 39:52.989 --> 39:58.000 AT ROMANS 12:6, I THINK, THROUGH 8. THIS SCRIPTURE 39:58.000 --> 40:02.619 EXPLAINS IT VERY WELL. IT SAYS, "IN HIS GRACE, GOD HAS 40:02.619 --> 40:06.070 GIVEN US DIFFERENT GIFTS FOR DOING CERTAIN THINGS WELL." 40:07.150 --> 40:10.449 SO IF GOD HAS GIVEN YOU THE ABILITY TO PROPHESY, SPEAK 40:10.449 --> 40:14.045 OUT WITH AS MUCH FAITH AS GOD HAS GIVEN YOU. IF YOUR 40:14.045 --> 40:17.856 GIFT IS SERVING OTHERS, SERVE THEM WELL. IF YOU'RE A 40:17.856 --> 40:22.206 TEACHER, TEACH WELL. IF YOUR GIFT IS TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS, 40:22.206 --> 40:27.096 BE ENCOURAGING. IF IT'S GIVING, GIVE GENEROUSLY. IF 40:27.096 --> 40:29.346 GOD HAS GIVEN YOU LEADERSHIP ABILITY, TAKE THE 40:29.346 --> 40:32.735 RESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY. AND IF YOU HAVE A GIFT FOR 40:32.735 --> 40:36.036 SHOWING KINDNESS TO OTHERS, DO IT GLADLY. THAT 40:36.036 --> 40:39.096 ENCOMPASSES A LOT. EVERY ONE OF US CAN FIND SOMETHING IN 40:39.096 --> 40:43.925 THERE THAT WE CAN DO. AS GOD DIRECTS US TO DEVELOP THIS 40:43.925 --> 40:46.865 VISION, WE HAVE AN INCREASED SENSE OF PURPOSE AND 40:46.865 --> 40:49.715 DIRECTION FOR OUR LIVES. CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE NO 40:49.715 --> 40:53.286 CLEAR VISION ARE SOMETIMES JUST ABSORBED IN THEMSELVES, 40:53.286 --> 40:55.416 OR SOMETIMES THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO RUN WITH 40:55.416 --> 40:58.025 SOMEONE ELSE'S VISION, AND THAT USUALLY DOESN'T WORK 40:58.025 --> 41:01.835 OUT. THEN THEY COME TO THE END OF THEIR LIFE REALIZING 41:01.835 --> 41:04.565 THAT THEY DIDN'T ACHIEVE GOD'S PURPOSE OR PLAN FOR 41:04.565 --> 41:09.215 THEIR LIFE. EARL ROBERTS LEARNED EARLY IN HIS 41:09.215 --> 41:12.996 MINISTRY THAT GOD HAD A UNIQUE CALLING FOR HIM AND 41:12.996 --> 41:15.936 IT WAS NOT TO IMITATE OTHERS. IN THE EARLY YEARS 41:15.936 --> 41:18.996 OF HIS MINISTRY, EARL HAD A NOTION THAT HE HAD TO 41:18.996 --> 41:22.326 IMITATE OTHER FAMOUS PREACHERS TO BE SUCCESSFUL 41:22.326 --> 41:25.626 IN HIS OWN PREACHING. AND THERE WERE A LOT OF FIERY 41:25.626 --> 41:30.335 PREACHERS AND EVANGELISTS OF THAT TIME THAT EARL ADMIRED. 41:30.335 --> 41:32.585 BUT HE SOON REALIZED THAT GOD DIDN'T CALL HIM TO 41:32.585 --> 41:37.295 BECOME AN ECHO OF ANOTHER PREACHER. HIS CALLING WAS TO 41:37.295 --> 41:42.485 BE A VOICE FOR GOD, NOT AN ECHO. AND THAT REALIZATION 41:42.485 --> 41:45.096 BROUGHT A SHIFT IN THE STYLE AND THE CONTENT OF EARL'S 41:45.096 --> 41:47.916 PREACHING. ONE DAY, EARL FELT THE LORD DIRECTED HIM 41:47.916 --> 41:51.965 TO READ THROUGH THE FOUR GOSPELS AND THE BOOK OF ACTS 41:51.965 --> 41:57.666 THREE TIMES IN A 30-DAY PERIOD. THE FOUR GOSPELS AND 41:57.666 --> 42:02.496 THE BOOK OF ACTS THREE TIMES IN 30 DAYS. AND HE WAS TO DO 42:02.496 --> 42:06.005 IT ON HIS KNEES. THAT'S WHAT THE LORD DIRECTED HIM TO DO. 42:06.005 --> 42:09.246 AND HE FELT IMPRESSED THAT GOD WOULD SHOW HIM JESUS AND 42:09.246 --> 42:11.916 HIS HEALING POWER IF HE WOULD FOLLOW THAT DIRECTION. 42:11.916 --> 42:15.936 ORAL OBEYED, AND IMMEDIATELY HE FELT A CHANGE AS HE 42:15.936 --> 42:19.865 PREACHED. AT THAT POINT, HE SENSED HE WAS STANDING ON 42:19.865 --> 42:23.735 FIRM GROUND DOING WHAT HE WAS CALLED TO DO. AND THAT 42:23.735 --> 42:26.976 WAS ONE OF GOD'S IMPARTATIONS THAT INFLUENCED 42:26.976 --> 42:30.065 ORAL ROBERTS TO DEVELOP HIS UNIQUE AND AUTHENTIC 42:30.065 --> 42:34.626 MINISTRY STYLE. OUR MISSION IS A GOAL AND A DIRECTION 42:34.626 --> 42:38.675 FOR OUR LIVES. PROVERBS 29:18 SAYS, "WHERE THERE'S 42:38.675 --> 42:43.385 NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH." AND WHEN CHRISTIANS 42:43.385 --> 42:45.606 BECOME INVOLVED WITH A CLEAR VISION, THEY MOVE INTO 42:45.606 --> 42:49.326 ACTION, AND OFTEN THEY CAN SEE GREAT RESULTS IF THEY 42:49.326 --> 42:52.565 HAVE THAT VISION. WHEN THE VISION OR MANDATE IS 42:52.565 --> 42:55.715 LACKING, IT'S EASY TO GET ABSORBED INTO OUR DAILY LIFE 42:55.715 --> 42:59.556 OR DEMANDS AS WE'VE TALKED, AND THEN IT BRINGS US TO A 42:59.556 --> 43:04.715 POINT THAT WE JUST DO NOT PRODUCE FRUIT. NOW, MANY OF 43:04.715 --> 43:07.925 YOU WERE EXCITED TO INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO 43:07.925 --> 43:11.826 BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY. IT HAPPENED BECAUSE WE HAD A 43:11.826 --> 43:15.545 PLAN AND A VISION FOR THAT DAY. IF WE'D NEVER TALKED 43:15.545 --> 43:18.396 ABOUT IT, IF WE'D NEVER GIVEN YOU INVITATIONS, IF 43:18.396 --> 43:21.485 WE'D NEVER PREPARED FOR IT, IF KAMALA HADN'T SET UP THE 43:21.485 --> 43:25.056 FOOD TRUCKS, IF PASTOR MARK HADN'T ORDERED THE PICNIC 43:25.056 --> 43:28.806 TABLES AND THE TENTS, AND WE HADN'T GOT YOU EXCITED ABOUT 43:28.806 --> 43:32.286 INVITING PEOPLE, IT WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. THOSE 43:32.286 --> 43:34.596 HUNDRED GUESTS THAT CAME THAT DAY AND WERE EXPOSED TO 43:34.596 --> 43:38.766 CHRIST WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE PROBABLY, BECAUSE WE 43:38.766 --> 43:43.416 HAD A PLAN. WE UNDERSTOOD THE PURPOSE FOR THE PLAN. WE 43:43.416 --> 43:46.416 USED THE OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE PEOPLE TO CHURCH. AND 43:46.416 --> 43:49.865 EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP, IF YOU TRIED AND YOU TRIED 43:49.865 --> 43:54.545 TO INVITE PEOPLE, YOU MAY HAVE PLANTED A SEED. I HAVE 43:54.545 --> 43:58.085 A TESTIMONY THAT I CAN SHARE. THIS IS RANDY 43:58.085 --> 44:01.925 NOVOTNY. HE INVITED A COWORKER BY THE NAME OF 44:01.925 --> 44:04.565 JESSE, AND I HAVE PERMISSION TO USE JESSE'S NAME BECAUSE 44:04.565 --> 44:07.505 JESSE'S STILL ATTENDING THIS CHURCH, BY THE WAY, AND 44:07.505 --> 44:12.275 THAT'S GOOD NEWS. BUT RANDY WORKS WITH JESSE, INVITED 44:12.275 --> 44:15.155 HIM TO ATTEND BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY. JESSE CAME THAT 44:15.155 --> 44:19.596 SUNDAY, AND HE BROUGHT TWO OF HIS FOUR CHILDREN, AND HE 44:19.596 --> 44:22.206 ENJOYED THE SERVICE, AND HE STAYED FOR LUNCH OUTSIDE. 44:22.206 --> 44:25.085 THE NOVOTNYS HAD LUNCH WITH HIM. BUT THEN THE SECOND 44:25.085 --> 44:27.786 SUNDAY, JESSE RETURNED AND HE BROUGHT HIS OTHER TWO 44:27.786 --> 44:30.635 CHILDREN. I THINK HE HAS A SITUATION WHERE HE 44:30.635 --> 44:33.876 ALTERNATES TAKING CARE OF CHILDREN WITH HIS EX-WIFE 44:33.876 --> 44:36.275 PROBABLY OR SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW ALL THE STORY, 44:36.275 --> 44:38.706 BUT ANYWAY, HE BROUGHT THE OTHER TWO, SO ALL FOUR 44:38.706 --> 44:41.436 CHILDREN WERE EXPOSED TO THE CHURCH. HE ENJOYED THE 44:41.436 --> 44:45.815 SERVICE AND HE CAME BACK ON A THIRD SUNDAY. THIS TIME HE 44:45.815 --> 44:47.735 BROUGHT ALL FOUR CHILDREN WITH HIM, SO HE MUST HAVE 44:47.735 --> 44:51.275 HAD FULL ABILITY TO HAVE ALL HIS KIDS THAT WEEKEND. SO 44:51.275 --> 44:54.996 THAT WAS GREAT. AND THEN RANDY HAD A CONVERSATION 44:54.996 --> 44:57.215 WITH JESSE, AND JESSE TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD QUIT 44:57.215 --> 45:00.485 DRINKING BEER THREE SUNDAYS PRIOR. IN OTHER WORDS, ON 45:00.485 --> 45:02.885 BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY, THAT WAS THE DAY THAT HE DECIDED 45:02.885 --> 45:08.646 TO QUIT DRINKING. AMEN. HE SAID HE WOULD USUALLY BUY 45:08.646 --> 45:10.896 BEER ON THE WEEKENDS AND DRINK WHILE THE KIDS WERE AT 45:10.896 --> 45:14.166 HOME WITH HIM. HE SAID HE WAS SURPRISED AT HOW MUCH 45:14.166 --> 45:17.106 MORE TIME HE HAD NOW THAT HE'S NOT DRINKING AND THAT 45:17.106 --> 45:19.327 HE ACTUALLY FEELS GOOD WHEN HE WAKES UP IN THE MORNING. 45:21.425 --> 45:25.956 HE ALSO TOLD US HOW HIS KIDS NOTICED AT THE STORE THE 45:25.956 --> 45:29.076 OTHER DAY THAT SOMEONE HAD BEER IN THEIR CART AND THEY 45:29.076 --> 45:31.896 SAID TO DAD, "LOOK, DAD, THAT'S THE SAME KIND OF BEER 45:31.896 --> 45:35.675 YOU USED TO DRINK." JESSE SAID HE DIDN'T REALIZE HIS 45:35.675 --> 45:39.306 CHILDREN WERE WATCHING HIM. TWO ARE IN SEVENTH GRADE, 45:39.306 --> 45:42.275 ONE IN FIFTH GRADE, AND ONE IN THIRD GRADE. BUT HERE'S 45:42.275 --> 45:46.085 THE CASE. THIS DAD HAS BEEN IMPACTED, PLUS FOUR CHILDREN 45:46.085 --> 45:50.525 WERE IMPACTED, AND THEY'RE STILL ATTENDING. LOOK HOW 45:50.525 --> 45:53.496 ONE INVITATION CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. NOW I HAVE 45:53.496 --> 45:58.686 ANOTHER THING TO TELL YOU ABOUT THIS STORY. RANDY HAD 45:58.686 --> 46:04.596 INVITED JESSE TO OPEN THE HEAVENS A WEEK BEFORE. JESSE 46:04.596 --> 46:09.365 COULDN'T MAKE THAT. BUT RANDY DIDN'T GIVE UP. HE 46:09.365 --> 46:11.556 SAID HE DIDN'T COME TO OTH, SO I'M GONNA INVITE HIM TO 46:11.556 --> 46:14.615 BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY. SO LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU 46:14.615 --> 46:17.045 DON'T GIVE UP AND YOU'RE PERSISTENT. WHAT IF RANDY 46:17.045 --> 46:19.596 HAD SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, HE SAID HE DIDN'T WANNA COME TO 46:19.596 --> 46:21.965 OPEN THE HEAVENS, I DON'T WANNA EMBARRASS MYSELF NOW 46:21.965 --> 46:24.815 AND GO ASK HIM TO COME TO BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY. YOU 46:24.815 --> 46:28.326 KNOW, I JUST LOOK LIKE A FOOL DOING THAT. IF HE'D 46:28.326 --> 46:31.565 HAVE DONE THAT, JESSE WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY, HE 46:31.565 --> 46:34.775 WOULDN'T HAVE GIVEN UP ALCOHOL, AND HIS CHILDREN 46:34.775 --> 46:41.106 WOULDN'T BE EXPOSED TO THE GOSPEL. THAT'S THE POWER AND 46:41.106 --> 46:44.615 THE IMPACT OF US HAVING ZEAL, ENERGY, AND 46:44.615 --> 46:50.615 PERSISTENCE, AMEN? WELL, THE TRUTH IS THE VAST MAJORITY 46:50.615 --> 46:53.525 OF PEOPLE ALIVE ON EARTH TODAY HAVE NO IDEA THAT GOD 46:53.525 --> 46:57.485 HAS A SPECIFIC PLAN FOR THEIR LIVES. THEY'RE LOST 46:57.485 --> 46:59.646 AND WITHOUT HOPE, AND THEY THINK THE ONLY THING THAT 46:59.646 --> 47:01.746 THEY'RE ALIVE FOR IS WHAT THEY ACHIEVE IN THIS 47:01.746 --> 47:04.476 LIFETIME AND WHAT THEY CAN ACCUMULATE AND THE MONEY AND 47:04.476 --> 47:09.036 PLEASURE THAT THEY CAN ENJOY BECAUSE OF THEIR NATURAL 47:09.036 --> 47:11.106 THINKING AND THEIR NATURAL ABILITIES. THAT'S THE 47:11.106 --> 47:14.976 MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ON THE EARTH. BUT MANY CHRISTIANS 47:14.976 --> 47:17.525 WHO ARE SAVED AND ON THEIR WAY TO HEAVEN STILL HAVE A 47:17.525 --> 47:20.525 LIMITED UNDERSTANDING THAT GOD HAS A PLAN AND A 47:20.525 --> 47:22.326 DIRECTION FOR THEIR LIVES AND THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO 47:22.326 --> 47:25.416 BE DOING SOMETHING WHILE THEY'RE HERE. WHY ARE WE 47:25.416 --> 47:28.626 HERE? WHY DID GOD SPECIFICALLY BRING TOGETHER 47:28.626 --> 47:31.655 LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH AND INCLUDE YOU AS PART OF IT? 47:31.655 --> 47:34.985 WHAT IS YOUR MISSION? IF WE CAN'T ANSWER THOSE 47:34.985 --> 47:37.476 QUESTIONS, THEN WE NEED TO FIND THE ANSWERS SO THAT WE 47:37.476 --> 47:41.646 CAN ACHIEVE GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR LIVES. AT THIS POINT, I 47:41.646 --> 47:44.496 WANT TO ASK CONTROL TO GO AHEAD AND ROLL THAT VIDEO. 47:44.496 --> 47:47.432 TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO THE SCREENS. I WANT YOU TO SEE AN 47:47.432 --> 47:51.103 ILLUSTRATION OF THE IMPACT THAT YOUR LIFE CAN HAVE ON OTHERS. 47:51.137 --> 47:57.150 [MUSIC PLAYING] 47:57.150 --> 48:02.268 - THIS IS NATE. NATE BECAME A CHRIST FOLLOWER TWO WEEKS AGO 48:02.268 --> 48:05.139 AND IS STILL A BIT GIDDY ABOUT IT. NOW, HE'S TRYING NOT TO DO 48:05.139 --> 48:09.965 CARTWHEELS IN PUBLIC. NATE BECAME A BELIEVER PARTLY BECAUSE 48:09.965 --> 48:14.615 OF KIM. YET, ODDLY ENOUGH, KIM AND NATE HAVE NEVER MET. 48:14.615 --> 48:19.175 NOW, IS THIS POSSIBLE? WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK. KIM LOVED 48:19.175 --> 48:22.266 JESUS FROM AN EARLY AGE, AND IN COLLEGE, SHE HAD A HUGE 48:22.266 --> 48:25.266 IMPACT ON HER FRIENDS. WHILE MOST OF HER PEERS USED THEIR 48:25.266 --> 48:29.195 COLLEGE YEARS TO, WELL, EXPERIMENT, KIM DIDN'T. SHE 48:29.195 --> 48:31.985 REMAINED COMMITTED TO HER FAITH, AND IT SHOWED. IT 48:31.985 --> 48:35.016 ESPECIALLY SHOWED TO LISA, HER ROOMMATE, WHO CONFESSED 48:35.016 --> 48:37.056 TO KIM THAT SHE WANTED WHATEVER IT WAS THAT MADE 48:37.056 --> 48:41.045 KIM SO STRONG. KIM SHARED HER FAITH WITH LISA, AND 48:41.045 --> 48:44.735 LISA BELIEVED. YEARS LATER, AT LISA'S FIRST REAL JOB, 48:44.735 --> 48:47.916 SHE MET THOMAS. THOMAS WAS HIT BY A DRUNK DRIVER WHEN 48:47.916 --> 48:50.226 HE WAS 13 AND STILL CARRIED A LOT OF ANGER AND 48:50.226 --> 48:53.869 BITTERNESS. THOMAS AND LISA BECAME FRIENDS, AND IT 48:53.869 --> 48:55.925 WASN'T LONG BEFORE HE STARTED GOING TO CHURCH WITH 48:55.925 --> 48:58.806 LISA AND HER HUSBAND. AFTER A LOT OF STUDYING AND 48:58.806 --> 49:02.945 SEARCHING, THOMAS GAVE HIS LIFE TO CHRIST. FAST FORWARD 49:02.945 --> 49:06.365 A FEW YEARS. THOMAS BECAME A PUBLIC SPEAKER AND WAS OFTEN 49:06.365 --> 49:09.365 ASKED TO SPEAK AT LARGE EVENTS. SEE, WHEN HE BECAME 49:09.365 --> 49:12.996 A BELIEVER, THOMAS DEVELOPED A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE. 49:12.996 --> 49:15.425 HE STOPPED RESENTING WHAT HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM HIM AND 49:15.425 --> 49:17.525 STARTED BEING THANKFUL FOR THE SECOND CHANCE HE HAD 49:17.525 --> 49:20.976 BEEN GIVEN. ON ONE PARTICULAR DAY, THOMAS 49:20.976 --> 49:23.346 SHARED ABOUT OVERCOMING HARDSHIP AND WHAT IT MEANS 49:23.346 --> 49:26.436 TO CHOOSE JOY. HE WAS SO PASSIONATE THAT A NUMBER OF 49:26.436 --> 49:30.425 PEOPLE TO SHARE A LINK TO HIS VIDEO. THE VIDEO OF 49:30.425 --> 49:33.755 THOMAS INSPIRED JAMES TOO. AND IF ANYONE NEEDED 49:33.755 --> 49:38.076 INSPIRATION, IT WAS HIM. JAMES HAD A TON OF ISSUES. 49:38.076 --> 49:40.925 HE SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE AS A PASSIVE HUSBAND, AN ABSENT 49:40.925 --> 49:44.135 FATHER, AND A HORRIBLE FRIEND. THAT SAID, NO ONE 49:44.135 --> 49:47.016 DISLIKED HIM MORE THAN HE DISLIKED HIMSELF. BUT 49:47.016 --> 49:49.206 EVERYTHING CHANGED THE NIGHT HE HAPPENED TO WATCH THOMAS 49:49.206 --> 49:52.115 ONLINE. SOMETHING CLICKED AND HE KNEW WHAT HE HAD TO 49:52.115 --> 49:54.876 DO. HE SURRENDERED HIS MISERABLE LIFE TO SOMEONE 49:54.876 --> 49:58.476 GREATER, AND HE WAS FOREVER CHANGED. JAMES FOUGHT HARD 49:58.476 --> 50:01.266 TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOST YEARS WITH HIS FAMILY. AND 50:01.266 --> 50:03.545 HE ALSO BEGAN WORKING WITH YOUNG MEN WHO WERE IN DANGER 50:03.545 --> 50:07.865 OF THROWING THEIR LIVES AWAY. ONE OF THOSE MEN WAS 50:07.865 --> 50:11.161 NATE. NATE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW HIS OWN DAD, AND HE HAD 50:11.161 --> 50:14.255 NO REAL DIRECTION IN LIFE, ULTIMATELY BOUNCING FROM ONE 50:14.255 --> 50:17.376 BAD DECISION TO ANOTHER. BECAUSE OF THAT, HE OFTEN 50:17.376 --> 50:20.076 FOUND HIMSELF IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW. NO ONE HAD 50:20.076 --> 50:21.936 EVER SHOWED HIM WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE TO BE A REAL 50:21.936 --> 50:25.536 MAN. THAT IS, UNTIL HE MET JAMES. JAMES BECAME THE 50:25.536 --> 50:28.396 FIRST FATHER FIGURE NATE EVER HAD. HE LEARNED ABOUT 50:28.396 --> 50:31.905 HONESTY, SELF-CONTROL, HUMILITY AND INTEGRITY, AND 50:31.905 --> 50:35.326 WHERE THOSE TRAITS COME FROM. TWO MONTHS LATER, NATE 50:35.326 --> 50:38.536 PUBLICLY DECLARED HIS BELIEF IN CHRIST. AND OF COURSE, 50:38.536 --> 50:45.766 JAMES WAS THERE. NOW YOU CAN SEE THE CONNECTION. NATE WAS 50:45.766 --> 50:50.626 IMPACTED BY JAMES, WHO WAS INFLUENCED BY THOMAS. THOMAS 50:50.626 --> 50:53.956 SAW AN UNCOMMON JOY IN LISA, WHO LEARNED OF JESUS FROM 50:53.956 --> 51:01.255 KIM. KIM'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD EVENTUALLY LED TO NATE'S. 51:01.255 --> 51:06.599 FUNNY HOW THESE TWO PEOPLE HAVE NEVER MET AND NEVER WILL. 51:13.440 --> 51:20.945 - AMEN. GOOD ILLUSTRATION, ISN'T IT, OF HOW THE IMPACT 51:20.945 --> 51:23.806 CAN JUST FLOW FROM ONE TO ANOTHER. WHO 51:23.806 --> 51:30.135 KNOWS WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU REACH ONE PERSON? NOW, 51:30.135 --> 51:32.655 WE HAVE THAT MANDATE TO FULFILL THE GREAT COMMISSION 51:32.655 --> 51:36.818 FROM JESUS. FIVE TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND 51:36.818 --> 51:39.166 THERE'S PROBABLY MORE, I'M JUST GOING TO MENTION, FIVE 51:39.166 --> 51:43.996 TIMES JESUS GAVE US DIRECTION IN SOME FORM 51:43.996 --> 51:46.965 CONCERNING THE GREAT COMMISSION. I WANT TO READ 51:46.965 --> 51:50.146 THESE FIVE VERSES THAT COME OUT OF THE FOUR GOSPELS AND 51:50.146 --> 51:52.996 THE BOOK OF ACTS. AND WE'RE GOING TO READ THOSE QUICKLY 51:52.996 --> 51:56.469 AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON HERE TONIGHT. MATTHEW 28:19-20 51:56.469 --> 52:01.335 SAYS, "GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES 52:01.335 --> 52:03.255 OF ALL THE NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME 52:03.255 --> 52:06.615 OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING 52:06.615 --> 52:09.166 THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU. 52:09.166 --> 52:11.746 AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF 52:11.746 --> 52:15.405 THE AGE." AMEN. THAT'S MATTHEW. LET'S GO TO MARK 52:15.405 --> 52:21.016 CHAPTER 16:15. AND HE SAID TO THEM, "GO INTO ALL THE 52:21.016 --> 52:24.646 WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE." LET'S 52:24.646 --> 52:47.655 MOVE TO THE BOOK OF LUKE CHAPTER 24:46-47. AND THEN 52:47.655 --> 52:52.786 LET'S MOVE TO THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 20:21. SO JESUS 52:52.786 --> 52:57.405 SAID TO THEM AGAIN, "PEACE TO YOU. "AS THE FATHER HAS 52:57.405 --> 53:02.085 SENT ME, I ALSO SEND YOU." AND THEN LET'S MOVE TO THE 53:02.085 --> 53:05.056 BOOK OF ACTS, VERSE ONE, CHAPTER EIGHT, I'M SORRY, 53:05.056 --> 53:08.865 CHAPTER ONE, VERSE EIGHT SAYS, "BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE 53:08.865 --> 53:11.206 POWER "WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU "AND YOU 53:11.206 --> 53:16.306 SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME IN JERUSALEM "AND IN ALL JUDEA 53:16.306 --> 53:20.956 AND SAMARIA "AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH." AMEN. SO 53:20.956 --> 53:25.485 JESUS BASICALLY SAID THE SAME THING IN FIVE DIFFERENT 53:25.485 --> 53:27.795 PASSAGES IN EACH OF THE GOSPELS AND THE BOOK OF 53:27.795 --> 53:30.976 ACTS. JUST IN A LITTLE DIFFERENT WAY, DIDN'T HE? 53:30.976 --> 53:34.606 TOLD US TO GO. AND WHEN GOD SPEAKS SOMETHING ONCE IN THE 53:34.606 --> 53:38.293 BIBLE, DO YOU THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO LISTEN? HOW 53:38.293 --> 53:41.746 ABOUT IF HE SAYS IT FIVE TIMES, THOMAS? IT'S PROBABLY 53:41.746 --> 53:47.746 VERY IMPORTANT, ISN'T IT? FIVE TIMES HE SAID THAT. GOD 53:47.746 --> 53:51.766 HAS CALLED US AND ALL OF US AT LORD OF HOSTS AND THOSE 53:51.766 --> 53:53.985 VIEWING ONLINE, YOU'RE INCLUDED TOO TO SHARE THE 53:53.985 --> 53:57.226 GOSPEL OF CHRIST. IT'S OUR JOB TO HELP PEOPLE COME TO 53:57.226 --> 54:01.335 FAITH IN CHRIST AND DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, 54:01.335 --> 54:04.065 TO BE WATER BAPTIZED AND BE DISCIPLED AND BROUGHT TO 54:04.065 --> 54:07.606 SPIRITUAL MATURITY SO THEY KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE AND HOW 54:07.606 --> 54:11.146 TO ACT AS A CHRISTIAN, AND THEN TO BE EQUIPPED TO CARRY 54:11.146 --> 54:14.686 ON THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH THEMSELVES. NOW, AS WE 54:14.686 --> 54:18.346 CONTINUE LOOKING AT OUR TEXT SCRIPTURE TONIGHT, ACTS 54:18.346 --> 54:21.436 16:9, WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO THAT REALLY QUICK. WE SEE 54:21.436 --> 54:23.596 THAT THERE WAS A PLEADING VOICE IN THIS. IT SAYS, 54:23.596 --> 54:27.106 "THERE STOOD A MAN OF MACEDONIA AND PRAYED TO HIM, 54:27.106 --> 54:30.856 SAYING, 'COME OVER INTO MACEDONIA AND HELP US.'" HE 54:30.856 --> 54:35.536 WAS PLEADING WITH PAUL AT THAT POINT. "COME HELP US." 54:35.536 --> 54:37.755 AND SOMETIMES WE LOOK AT PEOPLE'S LIVES AND WE 54:37.755 --> 54:43.246 WRONGLY ASSUME THAT THEY ARE HAPPY IN THEIR LOST 54:43.246 --> 54:48.706 CONDITION. THEY'RE NOT. THE WORLD HAS NO ANSWERS FOR 54:48.706 --> 54:52.755 THOSE STRUGGLING WITHOUT DIRECTION OR HOPE. THE 54:52.755 --> 54:55.905 DEVIL'S OUT TO KILL, STEAL, AND DESTROY. THAT'S HIS 54:55.905 --> 54:58.846 MISSION. AND THAT'S WHAT HIS MISSION IS FOR LIFE AND 54:58.846 --> 55:01.126 THROUGH ETERNITY. PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH THEIR 55:01.126 --> 55:04.365 MARRIAGES, WITH SICKNESS AND DISEASE, WITH FINANCIAL 55:04.365 --> 55:06.976 PROBLEMS, WITH FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND CHILDREN 55:06.976 --> 55:09.556 THAT ARE IN TROUBLE. AND WE COULD GO ON AND ON LISTING 55:09.556 --> 55:12.706 ALL THE THINGS, I DON'T NEED TO DO THAT, THAT PEOPLE ARE 55:12.706 --> 55:16.246 INVOLVED IN AND HAVE ISSUES WITH. BUT IN THE OUTWARD 55:16.246 --> 55:19.215 APPEARANCE, PEOPLE CAN APPEAR TO BE COPING OKAY AND 55:19.215 --> 55:24.045 DOING OKAY. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE STATISTICS, WE CAN 55:24.045 --> 55:27.405 SEE IT'S NOT SO, IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY. LOOK AT THE 55:27.405 --> 55:29.865 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ADDICTED TO PRESCRIBED 55:29.865 --> 55:34.755 SEDATIVES AND STIMULANT DRUGS. WE SEE PSYCHOLOGIST 55:34.755 --> 55:38.115 OFFICES ARE JAMMED EVERYWHERE. PEOPLE ARE SAD 55:38.115 --> 55:41.025 AND LIVE WITH TRAGEDY AND THEY DON'T HAVE ANSWERS. THE 55:41.025 --> 55:46.726 GOSPEL THAT WE CARRY IS THEIR ONLY HOPE. PEOPLE WILL 55:46.726 --> 55:50.385 NEVER BE FULFILLED WITHOUT GOD IN THEIR LIVES. THERE'S 55:50.385 --> 55:55.097 A VACUUM IN EVERY PERSON'S LIFE WHEN THEY'RE BORN AND 55:55.097 --> 55:59.746 IT ONLY CAN BE FILLED BY GOD. THE BIBLE SAYS IN 55:59.746 --> 56:05.356 ISAIAH 57:20, BUT THE WICKED ARE LIKE THE TROUBLED SEA 56:05.356 --> 56:08.715 WHEN IT CANNOT REST WHOSE WATERS CAST UP MIRE AND 56:08.715 --> 56:14.175 DIRT. THERE IS NO PEACE, SAYS MY GOD FOR THE WICKED. 56:14.175 --> 56:17.266 THERE YOU HAVE IT IN SCRIPTURE. THEY MAY LOOK 56:17.266 --> 56:20.896 IMPRESSIVE. THEY MAY LOOK SUCCESSFUL. THEY MAY LOOK 56:20.896 --> 56:24.255 LIKE THEY HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER. BUT THEY DON'T 56:24.255 --> 56:29.835 HAVE PEACE UNLESS THEY HAVE JESUS. SO YOU'RE NEVER GOING 56:29.835 --> 56:34.846 TO JUST ASSUME THAT SOMEONE, OH, DOESN'T NEED GOD BECAUSE 56:34.846 --> 56:37.936 THEY LOOK SUCCESSFUL ON THE OUTSIDE. NEVER DO THAT. 56:37.936 --> 56:39.856 THAT'S JUST ONE OF THE DEVIL'S TRICKS TO TRY AND 56:39.856 --> 56:43.036 KEEP YOU FROM TALKING TO HIM. WE HAVE THE ANSWER. 56:44.146 --> 56:47.835 PEOPLE ARE HURTING AND ONLY JESUS CAN IMPROVE THEIR 56:47.835 --> 56:53.956 LIVES. WE HAVE TO TELL THEM. JESUS SAID IN JOHN 14, 27, 56:53.956 --> 56:57.376 PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU. MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU, NOT AS 56:57.376 --> 57:01.155 THE WORLD GIVES TO YOU. DO I GIVE TO YOU? LET NOT YOUR 57:01.155 --> 57:04.365 HEART BE TROUBLED, NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID. AND GOD'S 57:04.365 --> 57:07.726 PRIMARY FOCUS IS PEOPLE. IT'S HIS CREATION THAT HE'S 57:07.726 --> 57:11.898 CONCERNED ABOUT. NOTICE, AGAIN, ACTS 16:9-10, 57:11.931 --> 57:16.373 PAUL SAW A MAN PLEADING. IT WASN'T AN ANGEL, AND IT 57:16.373 --> 57:18.885 WASN'T A VOICE OF GOD THAT PAUL SAW IN THAT DREAM. HE 57:18.885 --> 57:24.045 SAW A MAN PLEADING TO PAUL, "COME, GIVE ME SOME HELP IN 57:24.045 --> 57:28.275 MACEDONIA." GOD WANTS US TO KNOW THAT OUR FOCUS SHOULD 57:28.275 --> 57:32.445 BE ON PEOPLE. OUR TIME AND ENERGY AND RESOURCES ARE NOT 57:32.445 --> 57:35.505 PRIMARILY INTENDED FOR THE PURSUIT OF FUN AND 57:35.505 --> 57:39.976 ENTERTAINMENT AND PLEASURE. THERE WAS A MISSIONARY THAT 57:39.976 --> 57:42.795 WAS WAITING IN A PASTOR'S OFFICE ONE DAY, AND WHEN THE 57:42.795 --> 57:45.976 PASTOR ENTERED, THE MISSIONARY COMMENTED, "YOU 57:45.976 --> 57:49.335 REALLY HAVE AN IMPRESSIVE LIBRARY." AND THE YOUNG 57:49.335 --> 57:52.036 PREACHER AGREED AND RESPONDED, "YES, IT'S A 57:52.036 --> 57:55.666 GREAT COLLECTION, BUT THE TRUTH IS IT'S ALL GOING TO 57:55.666 --> 57:59.175 BURN UP SOMEDAY." WELL, HERE'S THE POINT OF THAT 57:59.175 --> 58:03.556 STORY FOR US. THE SAME THING CAN BE SAID OF OUR HOMES, 58:03.556 --> 58:07.545 OUR AUTOMOBILES, OUR FURNITURE, OUR COMPUTERS. 58:07.545 --> 58:11.115 JARED, OUR COMPUTERS ARE GONNA BURN UP SOMEDAY. AND 58:11.115 --> 58:13.065 ALL THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE IN THE BANK. JARED SAYS, 58:13.065 --> 58:18.376 "HALLELUJAH, I WON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEM ANYMORE." WE 58:18.376 --> 58:21.735 LOVE COMPUTERS AROUND HERE. WE HAVE TO HAVE THEM. BUT IT 58:21.735 --> 58:24.856 HELPS US GET THE GOSPEL OUT, DOESN'T IT? THAT'S RIGHT. 58:24.856 --> 58:28.005 BUT IT IS ALL GOING TO BURN UP SOMEDAY. AND WHEN WE USE 58:28.005 --> 58:31.965 THOSE MATERIAL POSSESSIONS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US, OUR 58:31.965 --> 58:35.295 HOMES, OUR VEHICLES, OUR MONEY, TO PROMOTE THE GOSPEL 58:35.295 --> 58:38.266 AND HELP OTHERS, THEN WE'RE INVESTING IN OUR HEAVENLY 58:38.266 --> 58:41.835 BANK ACCOUNT. WE'RE STORING UP INVESTMENTS FOR THE 58:41.835 --> 58:45.675 FUTURE OF ETERNITY AND BRINGING PEOPLE WITH US TO 58:45.675 --> 58:48.286 HEAVEN. AND DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME. I'M NOT 58:48.286 --> 58:51.405 SAYING THAT GOD DOESN'T WANT US TO HAVE FUN OR TO SAVE 58:51.405 --> 58:54.885 FOR OUR FUTURE OR TO HAVE NICE THINGS. THAT'S NOT THE 58:54.885 --> 58:58.876 POINT OF MY MESSAGE. I'M SAYING WE CAN'T FOCUS 58:58.876 --> 59:02.115 OURSELVES ENTIRELY ON THAT. WE HAVE TO REALIZE WE'RE 59:02.115 --> 59:04.965 STEWARDS IN WHAT WE'RE HERE TO ACCOMPLISH. WE'RE NOT OF 59:04.965 --> 59:09.525 THIS WORLD, BOB. WE'RE ALIENS. WE'RE ENVOYS. WE'RE 59:09.525 --> 59:13.695 AMBASSADORS. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IS OUR PRIMARY 59:13.695 --> 59:16.815 FOCUS? OUR PRIMARY FOCUS SHOULD BE ON GOD AND HIS 59:16.815 --> 59:19.876 KINGDOM AND ON REACHING PEOPLE. WHY? BECAUSE WE CAN 59:19.876 --> 59:23.505 TAKE PEOPLE TO HEAVEN WHEN WE GO. BECAUSE GOD'S FOCUS 59:23.505 --> 59:28.005 IS ON PEOPLE. AND BECAUSE JESUS DIED FOR PEOPLE. GOD 59:28.005 --> 59:31.215 GAVE US A HEART OF LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE IS MY 59:31.215 --> 59:34.306 PRAYER. GOD GIVE US A HEART OF COMPASSION AND LOVE FOR 59:34.306 --> 59:39.675 PEOPLE. OLIVER CROMWELL WAS SERVING AS THE LORD 59:39.675 --> 59:42.286 PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND BACK 59:42.286 --> 59:46.065 IN THE EARLY 1600S. AND ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT HE 59:46.065 --> 59:50.760 FACED DURING THIS TIME WAS A SEVERE SHORTAGE OF SILVER. 59:52.036 --> 59:54.735 AND WITHOUT THAT PRECIOUS METAL, THE NATION RAN INTO 59:54.735 --> 01:00:00.226 THE PROSPECT OF BEING UNABLE TO MAKE COINS. AND CROMWELL 01:00:00.226 --> 01:00:03.525 ORDERED HIS ADVISORS TO SCOUR THE COUNTRY, LOOKING 01:00:03.525 --> 01:00:07.516 FOR ANY SOURCE OF SILVER THAT THEY COULD FIND. AND 01:00:07.516 --> 01:00:11.896 AFTER THE SEARCH OF A LOCAL CATHEDRAL, HIS MEN REPORTED, 01:00:11.896 --> 01:00:15.346 "THE ONLY SILVER THAT WE CAN FIND IS IN THE STATUES OF 01:00:15.346 --> 01:00:18.916 THE SAINTS STANDING IN THE CORNERS OF THE CATHEDRAL." 01:00:20.356 --> 01:00:24.195 SATISFIED WITH THE ANSWER, CROMWELL RESPONDED, "GOOD. 01:00:24.195 --> 01:00:26.835 THEN WE'LL MELT DOWN THE SAINTS AND PUT THEM IN 01:00:26.835 --> 01:00:31.751 CIRCULATION." WELL, THAT'S WHAT THE AMERICAN CHURCH 01:00:31.751 --> 01:00:34.512 NEEDS TODAY, ISN'T IT? WE NEED TO BE PUT BACK INTO 01:00:34.512 --> 01:00:38.021 CIRCULATION. WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF REVIVAL AND 01:00:38.021 --> 01:00:42.461 REFORMATION. PEOPLE ARE RIPE FOR HARVEST, AND WE NEED TO 01:00:42.461 --> 01:00:48.431 BE IN CIRCULATION, JUST LIKE THOSE COINS. CIRCULATE AMONG 01:00:48.431 --> 01:00:50.742 PEOPLE AND TOUCH LIVES AND HEARTS WITH OUR LOVE AND 01:00:50.742 --> 01:00:54.041 TESTIMONY OF HOW GOD'S WORKED IN OUR LIVES. WHEN 01:00:54.041 --> 01:00:57.851 THE HOLY SPIRIT POINTED PAUL TO HIS NEXT ASSIGNMENT, THE 01:00:57.851 --> 01:01:01.271 PLACE THAT PAUL WAS TO SERVE, HE IMMEDIATELY 01:01:01.271 --> 01:01:03.791 ENDEAVORED TO GO THERE. HE DIDN'T SAY, WELL, GOD, I'M 01:01:03.791 --> 01:01:06.731 GOING TO PRAY ABOUT THAT FOR A WHILE. AND MAYBE IN 30 01:01:06.731 --> 01:01:09.161 DAYS OR 60 DAYS, WE'LL FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET TO 01:01:09.161 --> 01:01:12.072 MACEDONIA. HE IMMEDIATELY EMBARKED ON THE JOURNEY, IT 01:01:12.072 --> 01:01:15.041 SAID. AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN EASY IN THOSE DAYS. HE 01:01:15.041 --> 01:01:17.501 HAD TO TAKE A SHIP TO ONE PLACE AND THEN GO... 01:01:17.501 --> 01:01:19.213 I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE STORY 01:01:19.213 --> 01:01:22.931 ABOUT HOW DO YOU GET TO- MAYBE YOU KNOW THAT ONE, 01:01:22.931 --> 01:01:24.641 DAN. YOU CAN EXPLAIN THAT SOME TO ME. BECAUSE THEY 01:01:24.641 --> 01:01:26.532 DIDN'T HAVE PLANES BACK IN THAT DAY. THEY COULDN'T FLY 01:01:26.532 --> 01:01:31.362 LIKE YOU COULD, BUT THEY HAD TO GET THERE SOMEHOW. AND 01:01:31.362 --> 01:01:37.240 TAKING SHIPS WAS ABOUT THE ONLY WAY. SO ACTS 16.10, IT 01:01:37.240 --> 01:01:40.481 SAYS, "AFTER HE'D SEEN THE VISION, IMMEDIATELY WE 01:01:40.481 --> 01:01:43.632 ENDEAVORED TO GO TO MACEDONIA." SO HE DIDN'T 01:01:43.632 --> 01:01:48.492 WAIT. THAT WAS PAUL'S HEARTBEAT, TO BE WORKING, 01:01:48.492 --> 01:01:52.092 LABORING, AND SEE A GREAT INGATHERING OF PEOPLE TO 01:01:52.092 --> 01:01:57.192 CHRIST'S KINGDOM. HE WENT IMMEDIATELY. EACH OF US HAVE 01:01:57.192 --> 01:01:59.831 A VINEYARD, A PLACE TO REAP, AND A MISSION FIELD IN OUR 01:01:59.831 --> 01:02:02.922 LIVES. GOD'S PLANTED EACH OF US IN A SPECIAL PLACE WHERE 01:02:02.922 --> 01:02:06.612 WE CAN MOST EFFECTIVELY SPEAK UP AND SHARE THE GOOD 01:02:06.612 --> 01:02:10.601 NEWS. AND THOSE OF YOU IN THE TABERNACLE TONIGHT WERE 01:02:10.601 --> 01:02:13.871 PLACED IN THE OMAHA METRO AREA TO WITNESS FOR CHRIST. 01:02:13.871 --> 01:02:18.731 THIS IS WHERE GOD HAS PLANTED YOU, FOR NOW. FOR 01:02:18.731 --> 01:02:20.652 THOSE OF YOU JOINING US ONLINE AND AROUND THE 01:02:20.652 --> 01:02:24.342 NATION, WHEREVER GOD HAS PLANTED YOU IS YOUR 01:02:24.342 --> 01:02:28.061 TERRITORY. THAT'S WHERE YOU NEED TO OCCUPY AND REAP A 01:02:28.061 --> 01:02:31.333 HARVEST, UNLESS GOD UPRICH YOU AND DECIDES TO MOVE YOU 01:02:31.333 --> 01:02:33.342 TO OMAHA TO BE PART OF THIS CHURCH, AND THAT'S FINE, 01:02:33.342 --> 01:02:37.318 TOO. BUT FOR NOW, BE FAITHFUL WHERE YOU'RE AT. 01:02:38.592 --> 01:02:41.442 GOD PUTS YOU WHERE YOU ARE SO YOUR NEIGHBORS CAN FIND 01:02:41.442 --> 01:02:44.771 GOD'S FORGIVENESS, SO YOUR CO-WORKERS CAN SEE THE 01:02:44.771 --> 01:02:48.882 LIGHT, SO YOUR FRIENDS CAN HEAR THE GOSPEL. GOD IS VERY 01:02:48.882 --> 01:02:51.311 SERIOUS ABOUT US BEING FRUITFUL WHERE WE ARE 01:02:51.311 --> 01:02:54.731 PLANTED. MANY OF US GET ALONG GREAT WITH OUR FRIENDS 01:02:54.731 --> 01:02:57.311 AND NEIGHBORS AND CO-WORKERS. WE TALK SPORTS 01:02:57.311 --> 01:03:01.362 WITH THEM, OR WE MAYBE TALK ABOUT OUR HOME OR OUR KIDS, 01:03:01.362 --> 01:03:04.601 OR WE DISCUSS THE WEATHER OR POLITICS. BUT THE MAIN 01:03:04.601 --> 01:03:07.291 QUESTION IS, HAVE WE EVER SHARED OUR FAITH WITH THEM? 01:03:08.711 --> 01:03:11.202 SOMETIMES A SIMPLE INVITATION TO CHURCH CAN 01:03:11.202 --> 01:03:14.112 OPEN THE DOOR OR LEAD TO A CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR 01:03:14.112 --> 01:03:17.742 FAITH. IN THE LIGHT OF ETERNITY, IT DOESN'T MATTER 01:03:17.742 --> 01:03:21.041 WHO IS GOING TO WIN THE SUPER BOWL, OR WHAT THE BEST 01:03:21.041 --> 01:03:25.751 RECIPE IS FOR APPLE CAKE, OR HOW GOOD YOUR GOLF GAME IS. 01:03:27.161 --> 01:03:30.222 THE VISION THAT PAUL AND HIS TEAM DESCRIBES IN ACTS 01:03:30.222 --> 01:03:34.001 16:9-10 IS REFERRED TO, LIKE I MENTIONED, AS THE 01:03:34.001 --> 01:03:39.882 MACEDONIAN CALL. WE HAVE THE LORD OF HOSTS CALL. IT 01:03:39.882 --> 01:03:44.112 DOESN'T QUITE HAVE THE SAME RING TO IT, BUT GOD HELPED 01:03:44.112 --> 01:03:48.041 US TO ANSWER THE CALL. EVERYONE HERE IS EITHER A 01:03:48.041 --> 01:03:53.081 MISSION FIELD OR A MISSIONARY. THINK ABOUT 01:03:53.081 --> 01:03:56.501 THAT. EVERY ONE OF YOU, EVERY ONE OF YOU WATCHING 01:03:56.501 --> 01:03:58.692 CAN BE IN ONE OF TWO CATEGORIES. YOU'RE EITHER A 01:03:58.692 --> 01:04:02.501 MISSIONARY OR YOU'RE A MISSION FIELD. THAT MEANS 01:04:02.501 --> 01:04:06.492 YOU'RE SAVED AND ON YOUR WAY TO HEAVEN OR YOU NEED 01:04:06.492 --> 01:04:11.231 CHRIST, ONE OF THE TWO. AND IF YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO 01:04:11.231 --> 01:04:14.922 HEAVEN, YOU'RE PART OF GOD'S ARMY, WE NEED TO BE IN THE 01:04:14.922 --> 01:04:17.891 MISSION FIELD WORKING THE FIELD, WORKING OUR VINEYARD. 01:04:21.672 --> 01:04:24.192 YOU SAY, "WOW, I'M NOT SURE I KNOW WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO 01:04:24.192 --> 01:04:28.512 DO." OKAY, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU FIVE WAYS THAT YOU CAN 01:04:28.512 --> 01:04:31.572 EASILY WORK YOUR HARVEST FIELD OR YOUR VINEYARD AT 01:04:31.572 --> 01:04:34.871 LORD OF HOSTS OR WHEREVER YOU LIVE IN THE NATION. 01:04:34.871 --> 01:04:38.981 NUMBER ONE, SIMPLY INVITE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES TO 01:04:38.981 --> 01:04:43.063 CHURCH OR TO WATCH ONLINE. IF YOU'RE LIVING SOMEWHERE 01:04:43.063 --> 01:04:45.791 AND YOU'RE WATCHING, YOU'RE TUNING IN TONIGHT, YOU CAN 01:04:45.791 --> 01:04:49.121 DO THAT. YOU CAN INVITE SOMEONE TO TUNE IN JUST LIKE 01:04:49.121 --> 01:04:51.402 YOU ARE DOING, OR MAYBE INVITE THEM OVER TO YOUR 01:04:51.402 --> 01:04:56.382 HOME TO WATCH WITH YOU. BUT SEND THEM A TEXT AND REMIND 01:04:56.382 --> 01:05:00.612 THEM HOW TO GET TUNED IN TO OUR- GIVE THEM OUR WEBSITE 01:05:00.612 --> 01:05:03.492 ADDRESS. GIVE THEM OVM INFORMATION, WHATEVER YOU 01:05:03.492 --> 01:05:08.382 NEED TO DO TO HELP THEM TO TUNE IN. JOIN OUR EVANGELISM 01:05:08.382 --> 01:05:11.981 TEAM. ONE SATURDAY A MONTH, ONLY ONE SATURDAY A MONTH, 01:05:11.981 --> 01:05:15.461 WE ASK PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN EVANGELISM. THEY MEET IN 01:05:15.461 --> 01:05:18.025 OUR CENTRAL MAINTENANCE BUILDING. I THINK IT'S THE 01:05:18.025 --> 01:05:20.592 SECOND SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH. IS THAT RIGHT, RANDY? 01:05:20.592 --> 01:05:23.922 WHAT TIME, NINE O'CLOCK? NINE O'CLOCK. AND THEY GO 01:05:23.922 --> 01:05:28.271 OUT, THEY TRAIN YOU. YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW ANYTHING. 01:05:28.271 --> 01:05:32.141 YOU CAN JUST SHOW UP. AND THEY'LL TRAIN YOU TO GO OUT. 01:05:32.141 --> 01:05:34.032 AND THEY WON'T EVEN PUT YOU ON THE SPOT AND MAKE YOU 01:05:34.032 --> 01:05:37.512 WITNESS THE FIRST TIME. YOU CAN JUST GO WATCH. OR EVEN 01:05:37.512 --> 01:05:41.021 THE SECOND TIME. BUT GO, GET INVOLVED WITH THAT. YOU 01:05:41.021 --> 01:05:44.112 KNOW, GIVE UP A SATURDAY MORNING FOR CHRIST TO GET 01:05:44.112 --> 01:05:46.632 INVOLVED. RANDY WOULD LOVE IT IF HE HAD 100 PEOPLE SHOW 01:05:46.632 --> 01:05:51.192 UP AND GO OUT AND DO THAT. THAT WOULD BE GREAT 01:05:51.192 --> 01:05:54.282 TRAINING. JUST TO EVEN GO ONE TIME AND WITNESS LIKE 01:05:54.282 --> 01:05:57.101 THEY DO AND EXPERIENCE THAT AND LEARN TO DO IT WOULD 01:05:57.101 --> 01:05:59.592 JUST BE GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE BECAUSE IT HELPS 01:05:59.592 --> 01:06:03.012 YOU THEN WHEN YOU'RE JUST IN YOUR NORMAL CIRCLE OF 01:06:03.012 --> 01:06:05.231 INFLUENCE, MEETING AND GREETING PEOPLE, YOU'LL KNOW 01:06:05.231 --> 01:06:10.481 HOW TO DO IT. YOU HAVE A PROCEDURE, A PLAN. THIRDLY, 01:06:10.481 --> 01:06:12.972 DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS THAT CAN OPEN 01:06:12.972 --> 01:06:16.692 DOORS OF EVANGELISM. ONE OF OUR MEMBERS HERE TOLD ME 01:06:16.692 --> 01:06:20.382 SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THIS WAS JUST A SIMPLE THING SHE DID, 01:06:20.382 --> 01:06:22.961 BUT I THOUGHT, WHAT A NEAT IDEA. AND IT'S GETTING 01:06:22.961 --> 01:06:25.061 ALMOST TO THE TIME OF YEAR, YOU PROBABLY CAN'T DO IT A 01:06:25.061 --> 01:06:27.972 WHOLE LOT MORE THIS YEAR, BUT THINK ABOUT IT FOR NEXT 01:06:27.972 --> 01:06:31.032 SPRING OR NEXT SUMMER. WHAT SHE DID WAS DEVELOPED A 01:06:31.032 --> 01:06:34.541 LITTLE FLYER SHE TOOK TO ABOUT 10 OF HER NEIGHBORHOOD 01:06:34.541 --> 01:06:37.992 HOUSEHOLDS. AND SHE INVITED THEM TO COME ON A, I DON'T 01:06:37.992 --> 01:06:39.911 KNOW IF IT WAS A SATURDAY AFTERNOON OR A SUNDAY 01:06:39.911 --> 01:06:43.331 AFTERNOON, AND HAVE ICE CREAM IN HER DRIVEWAY. SHE 01:06:43.331 --> 01:06:46.391 SET OUT FOLDING CHAIRS, SHE BOUGHT THE ICE CREAM, AND 01:06:46.391 --> 01:06:49.302 SHE TOLD THEM TO BRING THE TOPPINGS. AND SHE BROUGHT 01:06:49.302 --> 01:06:52.811 NEIGHBORS IN FROM ALL AROUND HER, AND THEY JUST HAD A 01:06:52.811 --> 01:06:56.532 LITTLE SOCIAL GATHERING. SHE PROVIDED ICE CREAM, DID IT. 01:06:56.532 --> 01:06:59.172 AND THEN SHE GOT TO KNOW HER NEIGHBORS. IT'S DEVELOPING 01:06:59.172 --> 01:07:01.842 THOSE RELATIONSHIPS SO THAT YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES AT 01:07:01.842 --> 01:07:03.911 LEAST, AND THEN YOU CAN START HAVING A CONVERSATION. 01:07:03.911 --> 01:07:06.641 WELL, WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? OR WHERE DO YOU GO 01:07:06.641 --> 01:07:10.181 TO CHURCH OR WHATEVER? AND THAT'S THE START. YOU KNOW, 01:07:10.181 --> 01:07:12.041 MOST PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THEIR NEIGHBORS ARE 01:07:12.041 --> 01:07:19.601 ANYMORE. LET'S MOVE ON. I HIT A SORE SPOT THERE, I 01:07:19.601 --> 01:07:22.740 THINK. SO WE DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT ONE ANYMORE. 01:07:26.532 --> 01:07:29.351 LEARN HOW TO TAKE THE BIBLE AND LEAD SOMEONE TO CHRIST. 01:07:30.371 --> 01:07:34.411 IF YOU GO TO OUR INFORMATION CENTER, I'VE GOT THEM HERE, 01:07:35.592 --> 01:07:40.842 WE HAVE BOOKLETS THAT YOU CAN PICK UP. ONE NEW BOOK 01:07:40.842 --> 01:07:42.791 THAT WAS JUST WRITTEN BY PASTOR BRENDA IS CALLED 01:07:42.791 --> 01:07:45.581 BIBLE BASICS. IT'S A GREAT ONE TO HAND OUT TO PEOPLE. 01:07:45.581 --> 01:07:49.601 AND THE LAST PAGE OF IT HAS A PRAYER FOR SALVATION. SO 01:07:49.601 --> 01:07:52.005 YOU CAN JUST READ THIS PRAYER WITH THEM AND GET 01:07:52.005 --> 01:07:54.672 THEM SAVED. BUT YOU'RE GIVEN THE BIBLE BASICS OF HOW TO 01:07:54.672 --> 01:07:57.101 UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE. THIS IS A GREAT ONE. IF YOU WANT 01:07:57.101 --> 01:07:59.021 TO GO A DIFFERENT ROUTE, THERE'S ANOTHER BOOKLET THAT 01:07:59.021 --> 01:08:01.722 WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF. IT'S CALLED THE NEW BIRTH, 01:08:01.722 --> 01:08:04.271 WRITTEN BY KENNETH HAGEN. AND IT EXPLAINS WHAT THE NEW 01:08:04.271 --> 01:08:06.731 BIRTH IS AND WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE BORN AGAIN. 01:08:06.731 --> 01:08:08.952 SO THOSE ARE FREE. YOU CAN PICK THEM UP RIGHT AT OUR 01:08:08.952 --> 01:08:16.271 INFORMATION CENTER. AND LASTLY, EVERY BELIEVER 01:08:16.271 --> 01:08:19.391 SHOULD GIVE MONETARILY TO FINANCE THE GOSPEL TO THE 01:08:19.391 --> 01:08:23.351 REST OF THE WORLD. WE HAVE A DROP DOWN ON OUR GIVING HERE 01:08:23.351 --> 01:08:26.231 AT LORD OF HOSTS. IT'S CALLED MEDIA OUTREACH AND 01:08:26.231 --> 01:08:29.591 MISSIONS. AND WHEN YOU GIVE TO THAT, IT EITHER GOES INTO 01:08:29.591 --> 01:08:31.902 REACHING PEOPLE THROUGH MEDIA OR INTO THE 01:08:31.902 --> 01:08:37.452 MISSIONARIES THAT WE SUPPORT THAT HAVE WORK IN OTHER 01:08:37.452 --> 01:08:40.332 PARTS OF THE WORLD, AND SOME IN THE UNITED STATES, TO WIN 01:08:40.332 --> 01:08:43.481 PEOPLE, WIN THE LOST. SO THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT 01:08:43.481 --> 01:08:46.511 YOU CAN DO IS SUPPORT MISSIONS. MY PRAYER TONIGHT 01:08:46.511 --> 01:08:50.112 IS THAT GOD WILL HELP EACH OF US TO ANSWER THE CALL TO 01:08:50.112 --> 01:08:54.792 REACH THE HARVEST THAT HE'S ASSIGNED TO US. AMEN. IN 01:08:54.792 --> 01:08:59.231 CONCLUSION, CHAPLAIN JEFF CONGDON TELLS A STORY THAT'S 01:08:59.231 --> 01:09:02.681 WORTH SHARING. WHEN JEFF WAS IN BIBLE COLLEGE, HE WAS 01:09:02.681 --> 01:09:06.462 ASSIGNED BY A PROFESSOR TO WITNESS THREE TIMES AND THEN 01:09:06.462 --> 01:09:11.202 WRITE A REPORT ON EACH WITNESSING ENCOUNTER AND 01:09:11.202 --> 01:09:13.362 TURN THEM IN BY A CERTAIN DATE. AND THE DUE DATE 01:09:13.362 --> 01:09:17.471 ARRIVED AND JEFF REALIZED THAT HE WAS STILL SHORT ONE 01:09:17.471 --> 01:09:19.782 OF HIS WITNESSING ENCOUNTERS. HE HADN'T DONE 01:09:19.782 --> 01:09:22.782 THE THIRD ONE AND HE NEEDED TO DO IT. AND HE SAID, 01:09:22.782 --> 01:09:25.452 "WHERE COULD I FIND SOME PEOPLE TO WITNESS TO?" HE 01:09:25.452 --> 01:09:28.061 ASKED HIMSELF, AND THEN HE REMEMBERED THAT THE PIER ON 01:09:28.061 --> 01:09:31.931 LAKE MICHIGAN ALWAYS HAD MANY PEOPLE JUST HANGING 01:09:31.931 --> 01:09:35.381 AROUND, STROLLING AROUND THAT TIME OF DAY. SO HE WENT 01:09:35.381 --> 01:09:38.292 DOWN TO THE MICHIGAN PIER AND THERE WAS A MARRIED 01:09:38.292 --> 01:09:41.442 COUPLE SITTING ON THE BENCH. HE WALKED UP TO THEM AND HE 01:09:41.442 --> 01:09:43.572 TOLD THEM ABOUT HIS ASSIGNMENT AND HE ASKED THEM 01:09:43.572 --> 01:09:46.212 IF THEY COULD HELP OUT BY LISTENING TO HIS 01:09:46.212 --> 01:09:50.532 PRESENTATION. AND THEY AGREED TO. AND THEN HE WENT 01:09:50.532 --> 01:09:53.231 THROUGH THE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS TRACT. HOW MANY EVER 01:09:53.231 --> 01:09:55.662 REMEMBER THOSE LITTLE TRACTS THAT WERE THE FOUR SPIRITUAL 01:09:55.662 --> 01:09:58.872 LAWS? SOME OF YOU DO REMEMBER THOSE. AND, WELL, 01:09:58.872 --> 01:10:01.452 WE WON'T TALK ABOUT THAT. BUT IT JUST EXPLAINED HOW TO 01:10:01.452 --> 01:10:05.261 HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. IF I CAN REMEMBER IT, 01:10:05.261 --> 01:10:08.171 I THINK IT WAS GOD LOVES YOU AND HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR 01:10:08.171 --> 01:10:13.747 LIFE. ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF GOD'S GLORY. JESUS IS 01:10:13.779 --> 01:10:17.184 GOD'S PROVISION FOR US, AND YOU HAVE TO RECEIVE JESUS 01:10:17.216 --> 01:10:22.055 CHRIST AS , FOURTHLY, TO GO TO HEAVEN.THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT 01:10:22.099 --> 01:10:25.591 THE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS WERE. SO, HE GAVE THAT TRACK TO THEM 01:10:25.625 --> 01:10:32.332 AND ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH IT. AND SHE SAID, THE LADY GOT TEARS 01:10:32.368 --> 01:10:35.368 IN HER EYES, SHE SAYS "I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS ALL MY LIFE. 01:10:36.536 --> 01:10:41.112 I GO TO CHURCH SOMETIMES, BUT I'VE NEVER HEARD THE STEPS TO 01:10:41.112 --> 01:10:43.806 SALVATION." AND JEFF CONCLUDED IN PRAYER 01:10:43.806 --> 01:10:47.371 WITH THIS LADY, AND SHE WEPT AS SHE CONFESSED JESUS AS 01:10:47.371 --> 01:10:51.372 HER SAVIOR. HER NAME WAS WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE, 01:10:51.372 --> 01:10:57.649 AND HER DESTINATION THAT DAY WAS CHANGED FROM HELL TO HEAVEN. AND 01:10:57.649 --> 01:11:01.582 ALL OF THAT HAPPENED BECAUSE JEFF WAS REQUIRED TO FULFILL AN 01:11:01.582 --> 01:11:06.231 ASSIGNMENT FOR A CLASS. THERE AGAIN, HE WAS 01:11:06.231 --> 01:11:09.921 DIRECTED, HE WAS ON A MISSION. AS WE CONCLUDE 01:11:09.921 --> 01:11:12.921 TONIGHT, I WANT TO MENTION THAT EVERY ONE OF YOU SHOULD 01:11:12.921 --> 01:11:15.351 HAVE RECEIVED ONE OF THESE AGAIN. YOU THINK I'M TRYING 01:11:15.351 --> 01:11:16.777 TO GET RID OF THESE CARDS THE WAY WE'RE HANDING THEM 01:11:16.810 --> 01:11:19.221 OUT ALL THE TIME, YOU KNOW. SO WE ARE TRYING TO GET RID 01:11:19.221 --> 01:11:20.782 OF THEM BECAUSE THERE'S A PURPOSE BEHIND THEM. THERE'S 01:11:20.782 --> 01:11:24.021 DIRECTION FOR THEM. BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED ONE OF 01:11:24.021 --> 01:11:26.271 THESE AS YOU CAME IN. AND IF YOU DIDN'T, THERE'S MORE AT 01:11:26.271 --> 01:11:28.671 THE INFORMATION CENTERS FOR YOU TO PICK UP. EVERY ONE OF 01:11:28.671 --> 01:11:31.372 YOU SHOULD HAVE THESE IN YOUR WALLET, IN YOUR PURSE, 01:11:31.372 --> 01:11:34.402 IN YOUR POCKETS, OR WHATEVER. AND I WANNA 01:11:34.402 --> 01:11:37.072 CHALLENGE YOU TONIGHT. WE'VE GOT IT UP HERE ON THE SCREEN 01:11:37.072 --> 01:11:39.292 SO YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. BUT I'M GONNA 01:11:39.292 --> 01:11:45.141 CHALLENGE YOU TO DO THIS. PERSONALLY INVITE ONE PERSON 01:11:45.141 --> 01:11:48.921 TO CHURCH DURING THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. CARRY A CARD 01:11:48.921 --> 01:11:51.801 WITH YOU. AND IF YOU HAPPEN TO RUN INTO SOMEONE AT THE 01:11:51.801 --> 01:11:55.582 BARBERSHOP, THE GROCERY STORE, YOUR NEIGHBOR WHEN 01:11:55.582 --> 01:11:59.362 YOU'RE OUT WALKING THE DOG OR GETTING THE MAIL, MAYBE 01:11:59.362 --> 01:12:01.731 YOU GO TO THE GAS STATION AND THERE'S SOMEONE GETTING 01:12:01.731 --> 01:12:05.931 GAS NEXT TO YOU, YOU CAN INVITE HIM TO CHURCH. WHO 01:12:05.931 --> 01:12:09.171 KNOWS? BUT EVERY ONE OF US, UNLESS YOU'RE ISOLATED IN 01:12:09.171 --> 01:12:12.171 YOUR HOME AND SHUT IN YOUR HOME FOR SEVEN DAYS SOLID 01:12:12.171 --> 01:12:15.952 AND NEVER LEAVE, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY 01:12:15.952 --> 01:12:18.322 TO MEET SOMEONE OR SEE SOMEONE. MAYBE YOU'RE AT A 01:12:18.322 --> 01:12:22.072 RESTAURANT AND THE WAITRESS, WHEN YOU GIVE HER THE TIP, 01:12:22.072 --> 01:12:25.192 YOU CAN SAY, "BY THE WAY, DO YOU HAVE A CHURCH?" THINK 01:12:25.192 --> 01:12:28.942 OUTSIDE OF THE WALLS OF YOUR NORMAL LIFE. WE JUST GO 01:12:28.942 --> 01:12:32.542 THROUGH LIFE LIKE ROBOTS, MEETING AND DEALING WITH 01:12:32.542 --> 01:12:36.622 PEOPLE, BUT NEVER THINKING ABOUT THEIR SOULS. AND I'M 01:12:36.622 --> 01:12:40.551 GONNA CHALLENGE YOU THIS WEEK, USE THIS CARD FOR ONE 01:12:40.551 --> 01:12:43.282 PERSON. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY'LL COME. IT DOESN'T 01:12:43.282 --> 01:12:46.761 MEAN THAT THEY'LL NECESSARILY GET SAVED, BUT 01:12:46.761 --> 01:12:49.761 IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT A SEED CAN 01:12:49.761 --> 01:12:53.662 DO IN SOMEONE'S LIFE. MAYBE THEY'RE SEARCHING. MAYBE 01:12:53.662 --> 01:12:55.462 THEY'RE SEARCHING RIGHT AT THIS POINT, AND YOU'LL BE 01:12:55.462 --> 01:12:59.332 THE ONE THAT GOD SENDS TO GIVE THEM AN ANSWER. AMEN? 01:12:59.332 --> 01:13:02.631 AMEN. WELL, I WANT EILEEN TO COME RIGHT NOW. SHE'S GOING 01:13:02.631 --> 01:13:05.061 TO LEAD US IN A PRAYER FOR THE LOST. I THINK THAT'S A 01:13:05.061 --> 01:13:08.362 GOOD WAY TO CONCLUDE TONIGHT. AND LET'S ALL PRAY 01:13:08.362 --> 01:13:14.782 FOR A BURNING ZEAL AND URGENCY TO REACH THE LOST 01:13:14.782 --> 01:13:18.322 THAT ARE IN OUR CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE. AMEN. EILEEN, 01:13:18.322 --> 01:13:23.481 YOU'RE HERE. GOOD. - WELL, AFTER THAT LITTLE- THAT 01:13:23.481 --> 01:13:27.231 MESSAGE AND THAT LITTLE VIDEO CLIP, HOW MANY OF US 01:13:27.231 --> 01:13:29.332 ARE GOING TO HAVE A STORY LIKE WHAT WE SAW IN THAT 01:13:29.332 --> 01:13:34.431 VIDEO? THAT'S A CHALLENGE. AND WE PROBABLY ALREADY DO 01:13:34.431 --> 01:13:39.322 SOME, BUT LET'S DO IT. SO DOUG ASKED ME TO PRAY FOR 01:13:39.322 --> 01:13:41.872 THE HARVEST. AND THEN THERE'S A COUPLE AREAS I'M 01:13:41.872 --> 01:13:45.652 GOING TO HIT. AND THEN WE'LL ALSO PRAY FOR US AS THE 01:13:45.652 --> 01:13:51.231 ANSWER TO GO OUT INTO THE HARVEST. SO JUST RIGHT NOW, 01:13:51.231 --> 01:13:53.452 JUST THINK ABOUT THAT PERSON, OR MAYBE THERE'S A 01:13:53.452 --> 01:13:58.612 GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ARE IN YOUR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 01:13:58.612 --> 01:14:01.252 THAT YOU KNOW NEED CHRIST. SO WE'RE GONNA BE PRAYING 01:14:01.252 --> 01:14:04.101 FOR THOSE PEOPLE. AND THEN WE'LL ALSO BE PRAYING THAT 01:14:04.101 --> 01:14:09.622 GOD WOULD TURN THE HEARTS OF ALL PEOPLE ON EARTH. YOU 01:14:09.622 --> 01:14:12.112 KNOW, I THOUGHT OF THE SCRIPTURE AS PASTOR DOUG WAS 01:14:12.112 --> 01:14:16.792 PREACHING, THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, "APOLLOS WATERED." I 01:14:16.792 --> 01:14:18.832 PLANTED THE SEED, "APOLLOS WATERED," I THINK IS HOW IT 01:14:18.832 --> 01:14:22.612 GOES, BUT IT IS GOD WHO GIVES THE INCREASE. SO HE'S 01:14:22.612 --> 01:14:26.542 RESPONSIBLE. WE'RE JUST RESPONSIBLE TO OBEY AND TO 01:14:26.542 --> 01:14:29.752 PLANT SEED AND TO WATER AND TO BE ENCOURAGEMENT. WE 01:14:29.752 --> 01:14:34.402 CAN'T FORCE ANYBODY, BUT WE ARE COMMANDED TO SHARE AND 01:14:34.402 --> 01:14:38.752 TO GIVE OF OURSELVES. SO THINK ABOUT THAT PERSON. AND 01:14:38.752 --> 01:14:42.021 ALSO, IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, JOIN US AS WE ARE 01:14:42.021 --> 01:14:45.921 PRAYING FOR THOSE PEOPLE IN YOUR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 01:14:45.921 --> 01:14:49.612 THAT YOU KNOW NEED TO COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST. SO 01:14:49.612 --> 01:14:52.492 FIRST, THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT AREAS WE'RE GOING 01:14:52.492 --> 01:14:54.921 TO HIT. AND I'M ONLY GOING TO PRAY A FEW MINUTES. 01:14:54.921 --> 01:14:58.131 PASTOR DOUG SAID NO MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES. SO WHEN 01:14:58.131 --> 01:15:01.971 IT'S FIVE MINUTES, LET ME KNOW. ANYWAY, WE'RE GOING TO 01:15:01.971 --> 01:15:05.391 PRAY THAT GOD SOFTENS THEIR HEARTS AND THAT THEY WOULD 01:15:05.391 --> 01:15:09.532 TURN TO JESUS FOR SALVATION, THAT THIS IS THE PEOPLE OF 01:15:09.532 --> 01:15:13.131 THE WORLD, YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR ACQUAINTANCES, AND ALL 01:15:13.131 --> 01:15:18.322 PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. EZEKIEL 11:19 SAYS, "I WILL GIVE 01:15:18.322 --> 01:15:21.051 THEM A NEW HEART, AND I WILL PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN 01:15:21.051 --> 01:15:24.712 THEM. I WILL TAKE THE HEART OF STONE, THE HARDENED 01:15:24.712 --> 01:15:27.591 HEART, OUT OF THEM, AND WILL GIVE THEM A HEART THAT IS 01:15:27.591 --> 01:15:30.952 SENSITIVE AND RESPONSIVE TO THE TOUCH OF THEIR GOD." SO, 01:15:30.952 --> 01:15:34.551 FATHER GOD, WE ASK YOU NOW, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, TO 01:15:34.551 --> 01:15:38.631 REMOVE THE STONY HEARTS FROM PEOPLE. WE GIVE THEM, GIVE 01:15:38.631 --> 01:15:43.192 PEOPLE A NEW HEART THAT IS RECEPTIVE TO YOU. FATHER, I 01:15:43.192 --> 01:15:46.761 PRAY THAT THEY WOULD HAVE EARS TO HEAR. WE BIND UP THE 01:15:46.761 --> 01:15:50.811 DEVIL AND THE LIES THAT ARE SPOKEN TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE 01:15:50.811 --> 01:15:54.891 KEPT THEM IN BONDAGE. WE BIND SATAN FROM CAUSING 01:15:54.891 --> 01:15:59.181 BLINDNESS IN PEOPLE. FATHER, I ASK YOU TO MOVE AND WORK 01:15:59.181 --> 01:16:02.061 IN BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE LOVE AND CARE ABOUT AND 01:16:02.061 --> 01:16:05.002 THAT ARE AROUND US AND ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND THIS 01:16:05.002 --> 01:16:09.322 EARTH. OH FATHER, WE ASK FOR THAT GREAT, GREAT HARVEST, 01:16:09.322 --> 01:16:13.042 THAT GREAT HARVEST NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS. AND IT 01:16:13.042 --> 01:16:17.064 STARTS BY SOFTENING HEARTS. AND I BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE 01:16:17.064 --> 01:16:20.782 BEGUN THAT WORK IN THIS NATION AND AROUND THIS 01:16:20.782 --> 01:16:24.832 WORLD. FATHER, WE'RE SEEING HARVEST ALREADY, BUT I'M NOT 01:16:24.832 --> 01:16:28.612 SATISFIED. WE HAVE NOT SEEN ENOUGH, AND SO WE PRAY THAT 01:16:28.612 --> 01:16:31.881 YOU SOFTEN HEARTS, THAT YOU WOO PEOPLE, THAT YOU DRAW 01:16:31.881 --> 01:16:36.261 THEM IN, FATHER. I THANK YOU. PLACE A LONGING IN 01:16:36.261 --> 01:16:38.872 PEOPLE'S HEARTS FOR A RELATIONSHIP THAT HAS 01:16:38.872 --> 01:16:44.032 MEANING, THAT GIVES THEM PURPOSE AND HAS ETERNITY IN 01:16:44.032 --> 01:16:47.662 HEAVEN WITH YOU. I THANK YOU THAT YOU SNATCH PEOPLE OUT 01:16:47.662 --> 01:16:50.601 OF THE JAWS OF THE DEVIL. I THANK YOU THAT YOU ARE 01:16:50.601 --> 01:16:55.551 MOVING IN BEHALF OF PEOPLE'S LIVES AND MAKING THEM OPEN 01:16:55.551 --> 01:16:58.462 TO YOU. I THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT THEIR HEARTS ARE 01:16:58.462 --> 01:17:01.612 SOFTENED TO HEAR YOUR GOSPEL, TO HEAR YOUR WORD. 01:17:06.381 --> 01:17:10.252 POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH, O GOD. FATHER, 01:17:10.252 --> 01:17:12.532 LIKE YOU DID IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, YOU POURED OUT YOUR 01:17:12.532 --> 01:17:16.731 SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH. AND YOU SAID THAT IN THE LAST DAYS, 01:17:16.731 --> 01:17:20.002 OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WOULD PROPHESY. WE WOULD SEE SIGNS 01:17:20.002 --> 01:17:23.391 AND MIRACLES AND WONDERS. FATHER, I AM NOT SATISFIED. 01:17:23.391 --> 01:17:26.811 I HAVE NOT SEEN ENOUGH. AND I WANT TO BE A PART OF THAT. 01:17:26.811 --> 01:17:29.542 SO I THANK YOU THAT YOU'RE MOVING IN BEHALF OF PEOPLE'S 01:17:29.542 --> 01:17:33.322 LIVES. I THANK YOU, FATHER. ALSO, SECOND, WE ASK THAT 01:17:33.322 --> 01:17:36.832 YOU SEND A SPIRIT OF CONVICTION. FATHER, WE PRAY 01:17:36.832 --> 01:17:39.141 FOR THE SPIRIT OF CONVICTION TO BE RELEASED INTO THE 01:17:39.141 --> 01:17:42.202 HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE PRAYING FOR. ACCORDING 01:17:42.202 --> 01:17:46.011 TO JOHN 16:8, YOU SAID YOU WOULD CONVICT THE WORLD OF 01:17:46.011 --> 01:17:49.612 SIN AND ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT AND THE JUDGMENT THAT IS TO 01:17:49.612 --> 01:17:52.582 COME. SO WE ASK YOU, FATHER GOD, THAT YOU POUR OUT YOUR 01:17:52.582 --> 01:17:56.551 CONVICTION, YOUR CONVICTING SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH, AND 01:17:56.551 --> 01:17:58.912 THAT THERE WOULD BE A REPENTANCE AND A TURNING TO 01:17:58.912 --> 01:18:04.101 YOU. LET PEOPLE SEE, THE PEOPLE WE SEE, LET THEM SEE, 01:18:04.101 --> 01:18:08.152 THE PEOPLE THAT WE MEET, LET THEM SEE YOU IN US. SEE YOUR 01:18:08.152 --> 01:18:12.652 LOVING KINDNESS AND YOUR TENDER MERCIES THROUGH US. 01:18:12.652 --> 01:18:18.622 [SPEAKING IN TONGUES] MAY THERE BE A CONVICTION, A 01:18:18.622 --> 01:18:22.761 CONVINCING OF ETERNITY AND THE TRUTH CONCERNING HEAVEN 01:18:22.761 --> 01:18:26.601 AND HELL AND OF THE REALITIES OF THOSE. FATHER, 01:18:26.601 --> 01:18:30.082 I THANK YOU THAT PEOPLE COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS 01:18:30.082 --> 01:18:34.780 CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 01:18:34.822 --> 01:18:38.752 AND THIRD, FATHER, WE ASK YOU, GOD, TO SEND A SPIRIT 01:18:38.752 --> 01:18:42.502 OF WISDOM AND REVELATION TO THOSE WHO NEED JESUS. OPEN 01:18:42.502 --> 01:18:45.171 THEIR MINDS AND THEIR HEARTS TO THE REVELATION THAT THEY 01:18:45.171 --> 01:18:48.351 NEED A SAVIOR, AND IT IS JESUS THAT THEY ARE LOOKING 01:18:48.351 --> 01:18:51.502 FOR. FATHER, WE PRAY ACCORDING TO EPHESIANS 1, 01:18:51.502 --> 01:18:54.801 THAT YOU WOULD GIVE THEM A SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND 01:18:54.801 --> 01:18:58.101 REVELATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOU, THAT THE EYES OF 01:18:58.101 --> 01:19:00.351 THEIR HEARTS, THAT THEIR UNDERSTANDING WOULD BE 01:19:00.351 --> 01:19:03.231 ENLIGHTENED, SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW WHAT IS THE HOPE 01:19:03.231 --> 01:19:06.171 OF YOUR CALLING, WHAT ARE THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF 01:19:06.171 --> 01:19:09.891 YOUR INHERITANCE, AND WHAT IS THE SURPASSING GREATNESS 01:19:09.891 --> 01:19:13.131 OF YOUR POWER TOWARDS THOSE THAT BELIEVE. I THANK YOU, 01:19:13.131 --> 01:19:15.891 FATHER, THAT YOU SEND A SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND 01:19:15.891 --> 01:19:19.431 REVELATION, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH DREAMS OR VISIONS, 01:19:19.431 --> 01:19:25.912 ANGELIC VISITATIONS, OR AS IN JOB 3:33, IN A DREAM IN 01:19:25.912 --> 01:19:29.271 THE NIGHTTIME, YOU, I FORGET HOW THE SCRIPTURE GOES 01:19:29.271 --> 01:19:33.322 EXACTLY, BUT YOU OPEN PEOPLE'S EARS AND YOU SEAL 01:19:33.322 --> 01:19:36.681 THEIR INSTRUCTIONS. ACCORDING, THAT'S WHAT YOU 01:19:36.681 --> 01:19:40.761 SAID IN JOB 33, AND I THANK YOU, YOU MOVE UPON PEOPLE, 01:19:40.761 --> 01:19:44.601 WHETHER IT'S A DREAM, A VISITATION THROUGH SOMEONE. 01:19:44.601 --> 01:19:48.712 FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT YOU ARE REAPING YOUR HARVEST AND 01:19:48.712 --> 01:19:51.832 PULLING PEOPLE INTO YOUR KINGDOM. FATHER, I ALSO 01:19:51.832 --> 01:19:55.192 FOURTHLY PRAY FOR A REVELATION OF YOUR LOVE FOR 01:19:55.192 --> 01:19:58.252 EACH PERSON. FATHER, WE ASK THAT THESE PEOPLE WILL BE 01:19:58.252 --> 01:20:01.881 OVERWHELMED WITH YOUR LOVE. ROMANS 2:4, "IT IS THE 01:20:01.881 --> 01:20:05.601 GOODNESS OF GOD THAT DRAWS MEN TO REPENTANCE." FATHER, 01:20:05.601 --> 01:20:08.601 I THANK YOU THAT THEY ARE DRAWN BY YOUR GOODNESS. THAT 01:20:08.601 --> 01:20:11.841 THEY WOULD GET THEIR EYES OFF OF WHAT THEY THINK IS 01:20:11.841 --> 01:20:14.962 GOOD IN THIS WORLD AND REALIZE THERE IS MORE TO IT. 01:20:14.962 --> 01:20:18.532 FATHER, I THANK YOU THERE IS A DISSATISFACTION WITH THE 01:20:18.532 --> 01:20:22.402 THINGS OF LIFE. PEOPLE ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH THINGS ON 01:20:22.402 --> 01:20:26.631 THIS EARTH. FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT YOU PLACED INSIDE 01:20:26.631 --> 01:20:31.101 EACH PERSON THIS VACUUM THAT CAN ONLY BE FILLED WITH YOU. 01:20:31.101 --> 01:20:34.131 SO I THANK YOU FOR THAT. I PRAY THAT THE EYES OF THEIR 01:20:34.131 --> 01:20:36.457 UNDERSTANDING WOULD BE ENLIGHTENED. THAT THEY WOULD 01:20:36.457 --> 01:20:40.627 UNDERSTAND THAT SATAN IS THEIR ENEMY, BUT YOU, JESUS, 01:20:40.627 --> 01:20:43.358 YOU CAME TO GIVE THEM LIFE AND TO GIVE IT TO THEM 01:20:43.358 --> 01:20:47.018 ABUNDANTLY ACCORDING TO JOHN 10. I THANK YOU FOR THAT. 01:20:47.018 --> 01:20:50.287 AND NOW, LASTLY, LORD, I PRAY ACCORDING TO MATTHEW 01:20:50.287 --> 01:20:54.667 938. WE ASK YOU, THE LORD OF THE HARVEST, TO SEND US AND 01:20:54.667 --> 01:20:57.907 SEND ALL CHRISTIANS AS WORKERS INTO YOUR HARVEST 01:20:57.907 --> 01:21:00.818 FIELD. FATHER, WE ASK YOU, THE LORD OF THE HARVEST, TO 01:21:00.818 --> 01:21:04.145 SEND LABORERS INTO THE FIELD. THIS COUNTRY IS A 01:21:04.145 --> 01:21:07.268 RIPE FIELD FOR THE HARVEST. THANK YOU THAT YOU'RE ALWAYS 01:21:07.268 --> 01:21:11.078 AT WORK, WATCHING OVER YOUR WORD AS IT GOES OUT AND YOU 01:21:11.078 --> 01:21:17.287 DRAW PEOPLE TO YOURSELF. AND FATHER, WE ASK YOU, 01:21:17.287 --> 01:21:22.957 ACCORDING TO ISAIAH 6, ISAIAH SAID, "WHO SHALL I 01:21:22.957 --> 01:21:26.167 SEND?" YOU ASKED THE QUESTION OF ISAIAH, "WHO 01:21:26.167 --> 01:21:28.926 SHALL I SEND AND WHO WILL SPEAK FOR ME? WHO WILL GO 01:21:28.926 --> 01:21:33.247 FOR ME?" AND ISAIAH SAID, "HERE AM I, LORD, SEND ME." 01:21:33.247 --> 01:21:37.148 SO FATHER, I ASK YOU TO RAISE UP EACH OF US IN THIS 01:21:37.148 --> 01:21:40.087 AS A SPIRIT OF THE EVANGELIST TO GO AFTER THE 01:21:40.087 --> 01:21:42.697 PEOPLE WHO ARE DYING AND HURTING. I THANK YOU THAT 01:21:42.697 --> 01:21:45.728 YOU COMMISSION US NOW FOR THE HARVEST FIELD. AND WE 01:21:45.728 --> 01:21:50.078 SAY, "HERE AM I, LORD, SEND ME." HALLELUJAH. I THANK YOU 01:21:50.078 --> 01:21:55.268 FOR IT. SAY THIS WITH ME. "HERE AM I, LORD..." NOW SAY 01:21:55.268 --> 01:21:57.547 IT AND THEN LET'S REPEAT IT TOGETHER. HERE AM I, LORD, 01:21:57.547 --> 01:22:03.488 SEND ME. HERE AM I, LORD, SEND ME. THANK YOU, FATHER. 01:22:03.488 --> 01:22:14.768 [APPLAUSE] - HOW ABOUT THAT? 01:22:14.768 --> 01:22:19.207 AM I ON? OK. GOOD JOB. POWERFUL PRAYER, EILEEN, AND 01:22:19.207 --> 01:22:24.457 YOU DID IT IN FIVE MINUTES, SO THAT'S GREAT. SHE'S NOT 01:22:24.457 --> 01:22:27.997 EVEN RESPONDING. OKAY, WELL, HEY, I'M GOING TO GET YOU 01:22:27.997 --> 01:22:30.488 OUT OF HERE TONIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO SAY GOODBYE TO OUR 01:22:30.488 --> 01:22:33.457 ONLINE AUDIENCE IN A MINUTE. I JUST WANTED TO MENTION, WE 01:22:33.457 --> 01:22:36.368 DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS COMING SUNDAY, JOHN 01:22:36.368 --> 01:22:42.007 AMAKUCHU, AMACHUKWU, WHATEVER, I'LL GET IT 01:22:42.007 --> 01:22:45.938 EVENTUALLY. I'M WORKING ON IT. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME 01:22:45.938 --> 01:22:49.926 THERE, BOB. BUT HE'LL BE HERE, AND HE IS WORTH COMING 01:22:49.926 --> 01:22:53.947 TO HEAR. HE'S BOLD AS A LION, AND HE HAS A GREAT 01:22:53.947 --> 01:22:56.797 MESSAGE FOR THIS CHURCH. SO DON'T MISS SUNDAY. BRING A 01:22:56.797 --> 01:22:59.347 FRIEND IF YOU CAN. DON'T FORGET RESCUING A 01:22:59.347 --> 01:23:04.387 GENERATION, OCTOBER 29TH, INTERCEDING FOR CHILDREN AND 01:23:04.387 --> 01:23:07.717 FAMILIES. THAT'S GOING ON. IT'LL BE AN ONLINE-ONLY 01:23:07.717 --> 01:23:10.478 BROADCAST, BUT YOU'LL WANT TO TAKE PART IN THAT. AND 01:23:10.478 --> 01:23:13.597 THEN DON'T FORGET THE OMAHA VICTORY CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 6 01:23:13.597 --> 01:23:17.257 THROUGH THE 8TH WITH BROTHER KENNETH COPELAND AND SEVERAL 01:23:17.257 --> 01:23:19.539 OTHER GUEST SPEAKERS. IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT TIME HERE. AND 01:23:19.539 --> 01:23:22.113 WE WANT TO BE HERE TO SUPPORT BROTHER COPELAND. SO GOD BLESS 01:23:22.113 --> 01:23:26.533 YOU. THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT. AND DON'T FORGET, YOU 01:23:26.533 --> 01:23:30.041 HAVE AN ASSIGNMENT FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. AMEN? WE'RE 01:23:30.041 --> 01:23:33.088 GOING TO GET SOME MORE PEOPLE SAVED IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN. 01:23:33.088 --> 01:23:36.884 GOD BLESS YOU. HAVE A WONDERFUL NIGHT. WE'LL SEE YOU SUNDAY.