Latest / LOH Church Archive / 10/22/25 A Vision for the Harvest
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- 0:06- GOOD EVENING LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH.
- 0:09GOOD EVENING LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH.
- 0:12I SAID GOOD EVENING LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH.
- 0:16THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE.
- 0:18HOW MANY OF YOU ARE GLAD AND REJOICING IN IT?
- 0:23OH, YOU'RE NOT ACTING LIKE IT. I'M EXCITED ABOUT TODAY.
- 0:26BECAUSE IT'S ANOTHER DAY THAT HE GAVE.
- 0:29ANOTHER DAY THAT WE GET TO COME IN WITH THE BODY OF BELIEVERS
- 0:32AND WORSHIP TOGETHER AND GIVE PRAISE AND GLORY TO THE KING.
- 0:35LET'S GO.
- 0:40(UPBEAT MUSIC)
- 5:32♪ WORSHIP MUSIC ♪
- 7:12♪ WORSHIP MUSIC ♪
- 12:51- HALLELUJAH, WE GIVE YOU GLORY IN THIS PLACE LORD.
- 12:56WE GIVE YOU GLORY TONIGHT. WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE.
- 13:02WE MAGNIFY YOUR HOLY NAME. YOU'RE WORTHY, YOU'RE WORTHY OF
- 13:06ALL PRAISE. OUR PRAYER, LORD, IS TO FLOOD OUR SOUL WITH YOUR
- 13:13GLORY. WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE TONIGHT, LORD.
- 13:20MAGNIFICENT, MAGNIFICENT IS YOUR NAME. OH, WE MAGNIFY YOU.
- 13:26WE MAGNIFY YOU TONIGHT, LORD. WE THINK ABOUT WHAT A
- 13:32PRIVILEGE IT IS TO KNOW YOU. WHAT A PRIVILEGE WE HAVE THAT
- 13:39WE CAN CHOOSE YOU. WE CAN CHOOSE LIFE. YOU GIVE US A CHOICE.
- 13:44YOU'VE MADE US FREE WILL CREATURES. WE CAN CHOOSE YOU,
- 13:48LORD. WE THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND WE COUNT IT AN HONOR AND
- 13:51A PRIVILEGE TO MAKE A CHOICE TO FOLLOW YOU.
- 13:55HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS.
- 13:59AND WE'RE GOING TO BE WITH YOU AS THE TEAM SANG TONIGHT THROUGH
- 14:04ETERNITY. THROUGH ETERNITY. PEOPLE WE DON'T HAVE A GRASP
- 14:10OF WHAT ETERNITY IS. WE HAVE FINITE MINDS.
- 14:13WE CAN'T REALLY FIGURE IT OUT SOMETIMES.
- 14:15WHAT IS ETERNITY? IT'S SO IMMENSE.
- 14:20YOU KNOW, WE THINK A BILLION IS A LOT. AND IT IS. DO YOU
- 14:25REALIZE THAT, TASHA, IF YOU WERE GOING TO START TONIGHT
- 14:29COUNTING TO A BILLION, IT WOULD TAKE YOU 31.7 YEARS.
- 14:36AND THAT'S WITHOUT EATING OR SLEEPING. CONTINUALLY
- 14:40COUNTING, ONE DIGIT PER SECOND, IT WOULD TAKE YOU 31
- 14:44YEARS TO COUNT TO A BILLION. WE TALK ABOUT TRILLIONS, YOU
- 14:48KNOW, OUR GOVERNMENT'S GOT A 40 MILLION, $40 TRILLION
- 14:52DEBT OR WHATEVER. WE DON'T REALIZE WHAT THAT IS. DO YOU
- 14:55KNOW, TASHA, IF YOU TRIED TO COUNT TO A TRILLION, IT
- 14:59WOULD TAKE YOU 31,000 YEARS TO COUNT TO A TRILLION.
- 15:05THAT'S HOW BIG A TRILLION, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE WITH
- 15:07OUR LORD TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS OF
- 15:09YEARS. WE CAN'T GRASP THAT. AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
- 15:16COIN, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT IS THE
- 15:19FACT THAT PEOPLE THAT DO NOT KNOW JESUS ARE GOING TO BE
- 15:24IN HELL FOR ETERNITY. AND THAT'S THE SAD FACT. AND
- 15:29THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT IN THIS LITTLE SLIVER OF
- 15:32TIME THAT WE HAVE ON EARTH, OUR 70, 80, 90, 100, 120
- 15:39YEARS, WHATEVER IT IS WE HAVE, WE HAVE TO DO ALL WE
- 15:42CAN TO REACH PEOPLE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE'S WORTHY AND HE'S
- 15:47GIVEN US A PLAN AND HE'S GIVEN US GRACE. WE COULD ALL
- 15:51BE DESTINED TO HELL, BUT HE HAS A PLAN FOR US. THANK
- 15:55YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS. PRAISE GOD, WE
- 15:58WORSHIP YOU, LORD. THANK YOU, LORD. HALLELUJAH, WE
- 16:01GIVE YOU GLORY IN THIS PLACE TONIGHT. WHAT AN HONOR IT IS
- 16:04TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
- 16:07WE ARE PRIVILEGED PEOPLE. WE COULD BE OUT IN THE BARS, WE
- 16:12COULD BE IN A HOSPITAL, WE COULD BE DOING A LOT OF
- 16:16THINGS, IN A GAMBLING CASINO, BUT YOU FOLKS CHOSE
- 16:21TO HIRE. BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND WORSHIP HIM.
- 16:25AND THE SAME FOR YOU THAT ARE WORSHIPPING WITH US
- 16:27ONLINE TONIGHT. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. HALLELUJAH.
- 16:32THANK YOU, JESUS. WE WORSHIP YOU, LORD. THE LORD SAID TO
- 16:37ME, "ABSENT." AND I'M TRYING TO- I THINK I KNOW WHAT
- 16:42THAT- WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO HERE. ABSENT IS THERE'S
- 16:48SOMEONE EITHER WATCHING ONLINE OR YOU'RE HERE
- 16:50TONIGHT AND YOU'RE DEALING WITH AN ABSENCE IN YOUR LIFE
- 16:55AND THAT COULD BE A RELATIONSHIP CHANGE BECAUSE
- 16:59SOMEONE BROKE OFF A RELATIONSHIP, MAYBE IT'S
- 17:02SOMEONE MOVED, MAYBE IT'S A DEATH, WHATEVER IT IS, IT'S
- 17:07BEEN EXTRA HEAVY ON YOU RECENTLY THAT YOU'RE MISSING
- 17:11THIS PERSON. YOU'RE LONELY AND FEELING SOME GRIEF MAYBE
- 17:17DUE TO THIS ABSENCE THAT'S HAPPENED. AND GOD SAYS
- 17:24TONIGHT HE WANTS TO RESTORE YOUR JOY AND HELP YOU TO
- 17:29MOVE FORWARD IN EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE CALLED TO DO. IS
- 17:32THERE ANYONE HERE AND YOU'RE SAYING THAT FITS MY
- 17:34DESCRIPTION, I FELT THAT ABSENCE IN MY LIFE BECAUSE
- 17:38OF A CHANGE IN A RELATIONSHIP, WHATEVER IT
- 17:41MIGHT BE. IS THAT ANYONE HERE? COME ON OVER HERE AND
- 17:46WE'RE GOING TO PRAY. I KNOW WHAT IT IS. IN YOUR CASE,
- 17:48SHE'S OUT OF TOWN. SHE'S AWAY TO SCHOOL, RIGHT?
- 17:54THAT'S OKAY. OKAY. YOU KNOW WHAT? IF YOU'RE FEELING
- 17:58THOSE THINGS, GOD'S CHOOSING TO SAY TO YOU TONIGHT, BOAZ,
- 18:02THIS IS THE NIGHT THAT HE WANTS TO JUST CALL YOU OUT
- 18:06AND JUST SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY. I'M
- 18:08GOING TO RESTORE THAT JOY. YOU MISS HER? THAT'S OKAY.
- 18:13THAT'S NATURAL TO HAVE THAT FEELING. WHEN YOU LOVE
- 18:16SOMEONE, YOU MISS THEM. YOU DESIRE TO BE WITH THEM. BUT
- 18:20YOU KNOW WHAT? GOD'S GOT A BIGGER PLAN, AND YOU'RE
- 18:22GOING TO JUST PATIENTLY GET THROUGH THIS. IT'S GOING TO
- 18:25MAKE YOU STRONGER. IT'S GOING TO MAKE HER STRONGER.
- 18:28AND THEN, I'M NOT PROPHESYING MARRIAGE OR
- 18:31ANYTHING, BUT I'M JUST SAYING, WHATEVER HAPPENS,
- 18:35YOU'RE BOTH GOING TO BE MUCH MORE POWERFUL. LET'S JUST
- 18:37SAY IT THAT WAY. IS THAT OKAY, MOM? OKAY, OKAY. LET'S
- 18:41DO THIS. PASTOR KEITH, WOULD YOU JUST LAY YOUR HANDS ON
- 18:45HIM AND PRAY FOR GOD TO RESTORE HIS JOY AND HELP HIM
- 18:48DURING THIS TIME OF SEPARATION. AND IF YOU'RE
- 18:51WATCHING ONLINE TONIGHT, AND THAT'S YOU THAT I'VE
- 18:54IDENTIFIED, WE PRAY ALSO IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS
- 18:59THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE RESTORED, THAT YOU'RE
- 19:01FULFILLED, THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT MINISTER TO YOU RIGHT
- 19:05WHERE YOU'RE AT IN A POWERFUL WAY TO COMFORT YOU,
- 19:10TO GIVE YOU THE ABILITY TO MOVE ON THROUGH THIS
- 19:14UNDERSTANDING THAT GRIEF AND SEPARATION AND LOSS CAN BE
- 19:19DIFFICULT BUT GOD CAN RESTORE THAT JOY TO YOU AND
- 19:23THE JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH AND HE WILL GIVE
- 19:26THAT TO YOU AS YOU MOVE FORWARD AND PRESS INTO HIM
- 19:29AND THE BIBLE SAYS AS WE DRAW NEAR TO GOD, HE WILL
- 19:32DRAW NEAR TO US AND THAT'S YOUR ASSIGNMENT NOW IF
- 19:35YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE IS TO DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND THEN HE
- 19:38WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU AND COMFORT YOU THROUGH THIS
- 19:41TIME PERIOD AND THEN YOU'LL BE ABLE TO REACH OUT TO
- 19:43OTHERS AND HELP THEM IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU WERE
- 19:46COMFORTED. IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, THAT'S OUR PRAYER.
- 19:50HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. GLORY TO GOD. PRAISE GOD. THANK
- 19:54YOU, JESUS. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 19:58IS THERE SOMEONE HERE AND YOU'VE GOT ARM
- 20:00PAIN? I'M THINKING IN YOUR RIGHT ARM, ARM PAIN, JUST
- 20:05LIKE IT'S RADIATING DOWN YOUR ARM. IS THAT SOMEONE
- 20:08HERE TONIGHT? IF IT'S SOMEONE ONLINE, YOU CAN LET
- 20:14US KNOW. BUT I'M GONNA PRAY FOR THAT. IS THERE SOMEONE
- 20:17HERE? QUICKLY, I WANT YOU TO JUST RESPOND IF THERE IS
- 20:20ANYONE HERE. THAT SEEMS TO PERSIST IN YOUR RIGHT ARM IS
- 20:25WHAT I'M FEELING. OKAY, IT'S PROBABLY SOMEONE ONLINE.
- 20:28FATHER, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WE REACH OUT TO THAT
- 20:31PERSON THAT HAS ARM PAIN, AND IF YOU'RE AT HOME OR
- 20:34WHEREVER YOU'RE AT, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO TAKE
- 20:36YOUR LEFT HAND, LAY THAT ON YOUR RIGHT ARM, AND IN THE
- 20:39NAME OF JESUS, WE COMMAND HEALING BY THE STRIPES OF
- 20:43JESUS INTO THAT ARM. AND WE SAY, "ARM BE WHOLE, PAIN GO,
- 20:49DEVIL TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF OF THIS INDIVIDUAL." WE SAY,
- 20:52"COMPLETE HEALING," AND THAT THAT ARM IS RESTORED TO
- 20:58NORMAL IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AMEN, AMEN. PRAISE
- 21:02GOD. THANK YOU, JESUS. WELL, HALLELUJAH. WHY DON'T YOU DO
- 21:06THIS TONIGHT? TURN AROUND AND SHAKE HANDS WITH SOMEONE
- 21:09AND LET THEM KNOW IT'S GOOD TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE
- 21:11LORD ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
- 21:12(UPBEAT MUSIC)
- 21:51- ALL RIGHT, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. WHAT A GREAT
- 21:55LEAD-IN TO AN OFFERING MESSAGE, ALREADY THINKING
- 21:58ABOUT TRILLIONS. HOW BIG IS OUR FAITH? I THINK IT JUST
- 22:03EXPANDED TONIGHT. WELL, IT'S SO POWERFUL WHEN GOD SHOWS
- 22:07UP. AND BEFORE I GET INTO TONIGHT'S OFFERING MESSAGE,
- 22:09I WANNA MAKE A QUICK PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. AND
- 22:11THIS REALLY GOES OUT TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS, THE
- 22:13THOUSANDS OF FRIENDS WE HAVE ONLINE, ABOUT THE ONE VOICE
- 22:17TV APP. MAKE SURE YOU GO OUT AND MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE
- 22:21WHETHER YOU'RE ON APPLE OR YOU'RE ON ANDROID. AND THIS
- 22:23COULD BE FOR THE FOLKS IN THE ROOM TOO, IF YOU USE THE
- 22:25APP. MAKE SURE YOU GET THAT UPDATED. SO GO TO YOUR APP,
- 22:28UPDATE IT, MAKE SURE IT'S UPDATED. WE HAVE, AS PASTOR
- 22:32SHANE HAS MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES, WE'VE LAUNCHED SOME
- 22:34NEW CAPABILITIES AND A NEW LOOK AND FEEL TO THE APP AND
- 22:38THE OVTV WEBSITE. AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE YOU DON'T
- 22:40MISS ANYTHING BECAUSE IF WE SHUT OFF THE APPS, THE OLD
- 22:43APPS, WE WANNA MAKE SURE YOU'RE ON THE NEW APP. AND
- 22:46IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REACH
- 22:48OUT TO US. WE LOVE YOU ONLINE VIEWERS AND WE LOVE
- 22:51EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING
- 22:53HERE. YOU KNOW, FOR TONIGHT'S OFFERING MESSAGE,
- 22:56I WANNA SPEAK TO PEOPLE THAT MIGHT THINK AND FEEL A
- 22:59LITTLE BIT LIKE I DID AT SOME POINT IN MY LIFE.
- 23:03USHERS, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND STAND IN THE AISLE WITH THE
- 23:06ENVELOPES, AND IF YOU COULD PLEASE PUT UP THE OFFERING
- 23:10INFORMATION ON THE BOARD. THESE ARE ALL THE WAYS TO
- 23:13DONATE INTO THE MINISTRY. THESE ARE ALL THE WAYS THAT
- 23:15YOU CAN SHARE YOUR TITHES, YOUR GIFTS, AND YOUR
- 23:17OFFERINGS. YOU KNOW, I HAD A TIME IN MY LIFE WHEN I GAVE
- 23:23MY LIFE TO THE LORD, I WAS READING MY BIBLE EVERY DAY,
- 23:25I WAS PRAYING FREQUENTLY, ATTENDED CHURCH EVERY WEEK,
- 23:30EXCUSE ME, BUT SOMETHING WAS MISSING. SOMETHING WAS
- 23:34IMPORTANT AND IT WAS MISSING, AND I GUESS I MIGHT
- 23:36BE LIKE SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THIS ROOM, OR
- 23:39MAYBE SOME OF YOU ONLINE. THE THING THAT WAS MISSING
- 23:43THAT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT, OR MAYBE EVEN MORE
- 23:46APPROPRIATELY, I DIDN'T WANNA FIGURE OUT, WAS I
- 23:49WASN'T TITHING. AND LIKE I SAID, EVEN THOUGH MY LIFE IN
- 23:54CHRIST WAS THRIVING, SOMETHING WAS MISSING. MY
- 23:59WIFE AND I, WE GAVE SOME OFFERINGS, WE EVEN GAVE SOME
- 24:01BIG OFFERINGS. SO I THOUGHT I WAS DOING WHAT SCRIPTURE
- 24:05TOLD ME TO DO, BUT I WAS STILL MISSING THAT TITHING.
- 24:08AT THE TIME I HAD A BUDDY AND HIM AND I WERE SUPER
- 24:10SPIRITUAL. SO WE BELIEVED THAT WHEN JESUS CAME AND
- 24:16DIED AND WHEN HE ROSE AGAIN, HE FULFILLED THE LAW AND IN
- 24:20FULFILLING THE LAW, TITHING WENT OUT THE WINDOW. SO WE
- 24:24WERE EXCITED. WE HAVE MORE MONEY IN OUR POCKET, WE'RE
- 24:26DOING GOOD. BUT THE REALITY IS OUR CHRISTIAN WALK, AND I
- 24:31CAN ONLY SPEAK FOR TASHA'S AND MINE, WE REALIZED THE
- 24:34SOLE REASON WE WERE NOT OVERCOMING, ESPECIALLY IN
- 24:39FINANCES, WAS BECAUSE WE HADN'T MADE THAT COMMITMENT
- 24:42YET. LIKE I SAID, THERE MIGHT BE SOME PEOPLE IN THIS
- 24:45ROOM, THERE MIGHT EVEN BE SOME PEOPLE ONLINE THAT ARE
- 24:46IN THAT SAME POSITION. AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU
- 24:49BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE GOD SHOWED UP. AND IN OUR LIFE,
- 24:55THERE WERE INCREDIBLE WAYS THAT GOD STEPPED IN. HE
- 24:58NEVER CONDEMNED US, NEVER TOLD US WE WERE WRONG, BUT
- 25:02HE WORKED ON MY WIFE'S AND MY HEART TO THE POINT WHERE
- 25:05WE STARTED TO TITHE. YOU KNOW, MY WIFE AND I BOTH
- 25:08MADE A GOOD SALARY AND OUR FAMILY WAS IN ORDER. WE WERE
- 25:11IN A GOOD SPOT IN LIFE, BUT WE LITERALLY WERE STILL
- 25:14DROWNING IN SOME THINGS. SO AS SOON AS WE STARTED TO
- 25:17TITHE, AND I'M NOT JUST TRYING TO TELL YOU A NICE
- 25:20STORY FOR A MESSAGE, I'M SHARING EXACTLY WHAT
- 25:22HAPPENED, OUR DEBT LIKE LITERALLY STARTED TO
- 25:26DISAPPEAR. AND IT WAS OUR FAITHFULNESS AND TITHING
- 25:30THAT OPENED THAT DOOR. WE WERE ACTUALLY ULTIMATELY
- 25:33FULFILLING SCRIPTURE. DEBT WAS MIRACULOUSLY PAID OFF,
- 25:36LIKE I SAID. WE STARTED HAVING MORE MONEY THE MONTH.
- 25:40SOMETIMES THAT'S A CHALLENGE TO WRAP YOUR BRAIN AROUND.
- 25:43AND WE ALSO HAD MONEY TO SUPPORT THE THINGS THAT WE'D
- 25:45NEVER HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BEFORE. AND LIKE I SAID, THE
- 25:48BEST PART OF THAT STORY FOR US, THE MOST HEARTFELT PART
- 25:51IS GOD NEVER CONDEMNED US, HE NEVER PUNISHED US, HE
- 25:54JUST WALKED US THROUGH IT. SO IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING
- 25:57IN OUR LIVES TO FINALLY GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE
- 26:00SURRENDERED TO THE LORD, WE MADE THAT LAST STEP. AND I
- 26:05WANNA ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY HERE IN THE SOUND OF MY
- 26:07VOICE, I THINK THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE AND PEOPLE
- 26:10ONLINE THAT MIGHT BE IN THAT SAME POSITION, YOU HAVEN'T
- 26:12MADE THAT FINAL STEP. I BELIEVE RIGHT NOW TONIGHT,
- 26:16GOD IS DOING THAT SAME THING FOR YOU. HE'S GIVING YOU
- 26:20THAT CONFIDENCE AND THAT COURAGE TO STEP OUT IN
- 26:23FAITH. WHETHER YOU'RE HERE IN THIS ROOM, WHETHER YOU'RE
- 26:25WATCHING ONLINE, OR WHETHER LONG AFTER THIS SERVICE IS
- 26:29OVER, YOU'RE HEARING THIS MESSAGE, IT'S FOR YOU. AND I
- 26:33REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU WITH THAT TONIGHT. I'VE GOT
- 26:35TWO SCRIPTURES TO SHARE, PROVERBS 3:9-10. IF YOU
- 26:39UNDERSTAND WHAT THE WORLD WAS LIKE WHEN SOLOMON PENNED
- 26:43THESE WORDS, IT WAS AN AGRARIAN CULTURE, SO IT WAS
- 26:46AGRICULTURE. SO THAT'S WHY THE REFERENCE IS, AS WE GET
- 26:50INTO VERSE 10, VERSE NINE SAYS, "HONOR THE LORD WITH
- 26:53YOUR POSSESSIONS "AND WITH THE FIRST FRUITS OF ALL YOUR
- 26:55INCREASE." VERSE 10, THIS IS WHERE THE AGRARIAN COMES IN,
- 26:58AND SOMETIMES AS 21ST CENTURY PEOPLE, THIS DOESN'T
- 27:02MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF SENSE. PROVERBS 3:10 SAYS, "SO YOUR
- 27:06BARNS WILL BE FILLED "WITH PLENTY AND YOUR VATS WILL
- 27:08OVERFLOW WITH NEW WINE." I KNOW PASTOR HANK SAYS THE
- 27:13NEW HT, THE NEW RBPT, ROBERT BLACK PETTIGREW TRANSLATION,
- 27:19MIGHT SAY, "SO YOUR HOUSE WILL BE FILLED WITH PLENTY
- 27:24"AND SO THAT YOUR ACCOUNTS WILL OVERFLOW "WITH NEW
- 27:27FINANCES, NEW MONEY." THAT MIGHT BE A CONTEMPORARY WAY
- 27:30TO LOOK AT THAT. AND IF THAT MAKES SENSE, I WOULDN'T
- 27:33ENCOURAGE YOU TO REWRITE THE BIBLE AND PLEASE DON'T THINK
- 27:35I JUST DID THAT. I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT IN MAYBE
- 27:37SOME MORE REAL TERMS. THE SECOND SCRIPTURE IS ONE
- 27:40WE'VE HEARD A LOT. IT'S MALACHI 3:10, AND IT'S THE
- 27:43LATTER PART OF THIS VERSE. AND TRY ME NOW IN THIS.
- 27:48FIRST PART OF IT SAYS, "BRING ALL THE TITHES INTO
- 27:50THE STOREHOUSE, "THAT THERE MAY BE FOOD IN MY HOUSE."
- 27:54AND TRY ME, GOD, TRY GOD NOW IN THIS, SAYS THE LORD OF
- 27:58HOSTS. "IF I WILL NOT OPEN FOR YOU THE WINDOWS OF
- 28:02HEAVEN "AND POUR OUT TO YOU SUCH A BLESSING, "OR FOR YOU
- 28:06SUCH A BLESSING, "THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH ROOM TO
- 28:09RECEIVE IT." THAT'S OUR CHALLENGE. AND IF YOU WALK
- 28:13IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BOB AND TASHA PETTIGREW AND YOU GET
- 28:15TO A POINT IN YOUR FAITH WHERE YOU'RE NOT SURE, OR
- 28:18MAYBE YOU'VE LISTENED TO SOME TEACHINGS THAT MAY NOT
- 28:21BE 100% CORRECT ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT VERSUS THE OLD
- 28:24TESTAMENT, I WANNA CHALLENGE YOU TO GO BACK TO GOD'S
- 28:27WORD, RELY ON THOSE SCRIPTURES, PRAY THEM,
- 28:31DECLARE THEM, AND STEP OUT IN FAITH AND BEGIN TO TITHE.
- 28:35I THINK IT'LL CHANGE YOUR LIFE LIKE IT CHANGED TASHA'S
- 28:38AND MY LIFE. I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND PRAY NOW. IF YOU
- 28:41CAN PUT BACK UP THE GIVING INFORMATION, GIVE ME A
- 28:44CHANCE TO PRAY. AND IF YOU CAN JOIN ME IN PRAYER, I
- 28:46WOULD APPRECIATE IT. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK
- 28:50YOU, LORD, FOR THIS TIME THAT WE CAN COME TOGETHER
- 28:52AND WE CAN WORSHIP YOU IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. LORD,
- 28:56WE THANK YOU FOR THE ANOINTING THAT IS ON THIS
- 28:58HOUSE, THE ANOINTING THAT'S ON OUR PASTORS, AND LORD,
- 29:02THAT THAT ANOINTING FLOWS TO US. HEAVENLY FATHER, I ASK
- 29:07FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT CAN HEAR MY VOICE, THE GRACE
- 29:10AND THE MERCY THAT YOU SHOWED TASHA AND I, TO GIVE
- 29:14THEM THE CONFIDENCE AND THE COURAGE TO TURN THEIR
- 29:19FINANCES OVER TO YOU, LORD, AND THEN PUT YOUR WORD TO
- 29:23THE TEST AND PUT YOU, THE LORD OF HOSTS, TO THE TEST,
- 29:26THAT YOU WILL OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POUR
- 29:28OUT A BLESSING THAT THEY CANNOT EVEN CONTAIN IT. GOD,
- 29:32AS I STAND HERE TODAY, I CAN TESTIFY TO YOU IN MAN,
- 29:35THAT'S WHAT YOU DID FOR US. AND LORD, I PRAY THAT THOSE
- 29:38WORDS, LORD, WOULD RING IN SOMEONE'S HEART, LORD, AND
- 29:44THAT THROUGH YOUR MIGHTY POWERFUL HAND, YOU WILL
- 29:47ENCOURAGE THEM JUST AS YOU'VE ENCOURAGED US. LORD, I ASK THAT
- 29:51YOU MULTIPLY EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR THAT COMES INTO THIS MINISTRY TO
- 29:54FULFILL YOUR WILL AND YOUR DESIRE. AND LORD, I THANK YOU
- 29:57FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE IN JESUS' MIGHTY NAME, AMEN.
- 30:02THANK YOU. I'M GONNA TURN IT BACK OVER TO PASTOR DOUG.
- 30:07- AMEN, THANK YOU, BOB. APPRECIATE THAT
- 30:10VERY MUCH. YOU CAN NEVER OUT GIVE THE
- 30:13LORD, AND THE GOOD NEWS IS HE WILL REBUKE THE DEVOURER
- 30:19ON OUR BEHALF. AND SO THAT'S WHY TITHING IS SO POWERFUL,
- 30:23BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS THE DEVIL ON YOUR BACK. AND IT'S
- 30:27WORTH 10% TO GET THE DEVIL OFF YOUR BACK. AMEN. I DON'T
- 30:34HAVE ANY JOKES TO START WITH TONIGHT. SO I GUESS I'LL
- 30:40JUST GET RIGHT INTO MY MESSAGE, AND THEN WE CAN GET
- 30:43YOU OUT OF HERE A LITTLE SOONER MAYBE. I CAN'T
- 30:47PROMISE I CAN GET YOU OUT BEFORE DARK, BECAUSE IT'S
- 30:50JUST GETTING DARK TOO QUICKLY ANYMORE, I TELL YOU.
- 30:53IT'S LIKE I LOATHE THE DAY THAT WE HAVE TO TURN OUR
- 30:57CLOCKS BACK ANOTHER HOUR, AND IT'S GOING TO BE DARK AT
- 31:005 O'CLOCK. AND I WAS LIKE, OH, NO. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
- 31:03SPRING IS COMING. SO THAT'S GOOD. WELL, HOW MANY OF YOU
- 31:10EVER HEARD OF A GUY BY THE NAME OF JOHN NELSON HYDE?
- 31:14I'LL DIG DEEP INTO YOUR HISTORICAL RESERVOIRS
- 31:18TONIGHT. BUT HE WAS AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY THAT
- 31:20WENT TO INDIA. AND HE WAS KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS
- 31:24"PRAYING HYDE." YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THAT TERM BEFORE.
- 31:28BECAUSE OF HIS PERSISTENT PRAYER LIFE, AND IT LED TO
- 31:33MANY SPIRITUAL REVIVALS, HE WOULD SPEND ENTIRE NIGHTS IN
- 31:38PRAYER. AND HIS MAIN FOCUS ON PRAYER WAS, "FATHER, GIVE
- 31:42ME SOULS OR I DIE." THAT WAS WHAT HE WAS KNOWN FOR. AND
- 31:49HIS LIFE AND MINISTRY INSPIRED THOUSANDS, AND
- 31:52THERE WAS A GREAT SPIRITUAL AWAKENING IN THE PART OF
- 31:56INDIA THAT HE WAS CALLED TO, AND IT WAS ATTRIBUTED TO HIS
- 32:00PERSISTENT PRAYER LIFE. AND SOMETIMES AFTER WE'VE BEEN
- 32:04SAVED, IT'S EASY TO LOSE OUR ZEAL AND FORGET THAT WE NEED
- 32:10TO BE SHARING CHRIST WITH OTHERS. AND AS CHRISTIANS, I
- 32:14KNOW IT'S REALLY EASY TO FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER. AND
- 32:18WE LOVE BEING WITH OTHER CHRISTIANS. AND SOMETIMES IT'S
- 32:22JUST EASIER TO HANG AROUND OTHER CHRISTIANS THAN IT IS TO LOOK
- 32:25FOR WAYS TO SHARE CHRIST WITH THOSE THAT DO NOT KNOW HIM YET.
- 32:30AND WE NEED TO ALWAYS BE AWARE. IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY
- 32:34TO MAINTAIN A VISION AND A ZEAL TO REACH THE LOST. AMEN?
- 32:39JESUS SPOKE OF THAT CONDITION 2,000 YEARS AGO,
- 32:42AND IT'S STILL TRUE TODAY. LET'S LOOK AT MATTHEW
- 32:459:36-38, FAMILIAR SCRIPTURE, I'M GONNA READ IT OUT OF THE
- 32:49NEW LIVING. IT SAYS, "WHEN HE SAW THE CROWD," SPEAKING
- 32:52OF JESUS, "HE HAD COMPASSION ON THEM, "BECAUSE THEY WERE
- 32:55CONFUSED AND HELPLESS, "LIKE SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD.
- 33:00"HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, 'THE HARVEST IS GREAT, BUT
- 33:04THE WORKERS ARE FEW.' SO PRAY TO THE LORD WHO IS IN
- 33:09CHARGE OF THE HARVEST. ASK HIM TO SEND MORE WORKERS
- 33:13INTO THE FIELDS." AMEN. AND IT'S GOOD TO BE REMINDED OF
- 33:18THE GREAT COMMISSION THAT JESUS ASSIGNED US. IT'S OUR
- 33:22PRIORITY JOB AS CHRISTIANS TO BRING THE LOST TO JESUS.
- 33:27AWARENESS IS A BIG PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT. IT'S EASY TO
- 33:31BECOME WRAPPED UP IN OUR DAILY LIVES AND FORGET ABOUT
- 33:33THOSE THAT GOD HAS PLACED IN OUR CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE. AND
- 33:37THREE POINTS TO DO THAT. WE NEED TO DEVELOP AWARENESS OF
- 33:42THOSE THAT ARE NOT PART OF GOD'S FAMILY, THOSE THAT
- 33:45HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED GOD'S GRACE, AND THOSE THAT DO NOT
- 33:48HAVE THAT ASSURANCE OF ETERNAL LIFE. WE TALKED
- 33:51ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE AND UNDERSTANDING ETERNITY
- 33:53TONIGHT. WELL, THE TEXT VERSE THAT I HAVE FOR
- 33:56TONIGHT IS A SHORT ONE. IT COMES OUT OF ACTS 16:9-10.
- 34:02BUT I WANT TO GIVE YOU JUST A BRIEF CONTEXT OF HISTORY
- 34:05BEFORE WE LOOK AT THAT VERSE. THIS SCRIPTURE
- 34:09DESCRIBES WHAT BIBLE SCHOLARS REFER TO AS THE
- 34:12MACEDONIAN CALL. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT TERM BEFORE,
- 34:15THE MACEDONIAN CALL? OKAY, IT'S A VISION THAT THE
- 34:19APOSTLE PAUL RECEIVED IN A DREAM. IN THIS DREAM, PAUL
- 34:23SEES A MAN FROM MACEDONIA PLEADING WITH PAUL IN THIS
- 34:28DREAM. HE'S HAVING A DREAM AND THE MAN IS PLEADING WITH
- 34:32HIM AND HE'S SAYING, "COME OVER TO MACEDONIA AND HELP
- 34:36US." PAUL BELIEVED THAT THAT DREAM WAS A DIRECT, DIVINE
- 34:42INSTRUCTION FROM GOD FOR HIS LIFE. AND IT COMPLETELY
- 34:46TURNED PAUL'S MISSIONARY PLANS UPSIDE DOWN. HE HAD
- 34:50INTENDED, PAUL HAD INTENDED TO CONTINUE HIS MISSIONARY
- 34:54WORK IN ASIA MINOR, WHICH IS MODERN DAY TURKEY. AND THE
- 34:58INSTRUCTION FOR PAUL AT THAT TIME TO TAKE HIS MISSIONARY
- 35:01WORK TO MACEDONIA WAS A BIG THING BECAUSE THAT WOULD
- 35:04MEAN HE WOULD HAVE TO GO TO EUROPE. HE WAS LEAVING ASIA,
- 35:08GO TO EUROPE SO THAT HE COULD GO FOLLOW GOD'S
- 35:11COMMAND TO HELP THIS MAN IN MACEDONIA. THE MACEDONIA
- 35:17REGION TODAY INCLUDES A LARGE PART OF GREECE. SO
- 35:21THAT'S WHERE HE HAD TO GO FROM THE AREA THAT WE NOW
- 35:23CALL TURKEY, HE HAD TO GO TO GREECE. SO THINK ABOUT THIS.
- 35:28UP TO THAT POINT IN HISTORY, THE GOSPEL MESSAGE HAD BEEN
- 35:31LIMITED TO ASIA. BECAUSE OF PAUL'S OBEDIENCE TO THE
- 35:36MACEDONIAN CALL, WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT WHEN WE READ
- 35:37THIS SCRIPTURE, THE PEOPLE OF EUROPE AND THE WESTERN
- 35:42WORLD WERE THEN EXPOSED TO CHRISTIANITY. WHO KNOWS WHEN
- 35:47THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF PAUL HADN'T OBEYED. LET'S
- 35:50READ THE VERSE NOW THAT I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. THIS IS
- 35:53ACTS 16:9-10. I'M READING AGAIN OUT OF THE NEW LIVING
- 35:58TRANSLATION. IT SAYS, "THAT NIGHT, PAUL HAD A VISION. "A
- 36:02MAN FROM MACEDONIA IN NORTHERN GREECE "WAS
- 36:05STANDING THERE PLEADING WITH HIM, "COME OVER TO MACEDONIA
- 36:09AND HELP US." SO, THIS IS PAUL SPEAKING. WE DECIDED TO
- 36:16LEAVE FOR MACEDONIA AT ONCE, HAVING CONCLUDED THAT GOD
- 36:21WAS CALLING US TO PREACH THE GOOD NEWS THERE. SO, TONIGHT
- 36:26MY MESSAGE IS ENTITLED, A VISION FOR THE HARVEST. I'M
- 36:30BELIEVING TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA BE ENCOURAGED AND
- 36:32RECHARGED WITH A ZEAL TO REACH PEOPLE FOR CHRIST. THE
- 36:37APOSTLE PAUL'S AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF ONE
- 36:40THAT HAD A VISION, AND THEN HE TOOK ACTION IMMEDIATELY
- 36:43TO ACCOMPLISH HIS ASSIGNMENT. THE SCRIPTURE
- 36:46PASSAGE THAT WE JUST READ SAID THAT PAUL HAD A VISION.
- 36:50WE SEE THAT, THAT FIRST PART OF ACTS, VERSE NINE. THIS
- 36:54WAS A SUPERNATURAL VISION OF A MAN PLEADING FOR PAUL TO
- 36:58COME HELP HIM. AND EACH OF US NEED A VISION TODAY. WE
- 37:03NEED TO KNOW WHAT GOD'S CALLING US TO AS
- 37:05INDIVIDUALS, SPECIFICALLY WHILE WE'RE HERE ON THIS
- 37:09EARTH. IN 1983, THE CHRISTIAN BAND PETRA
- 37:16RELEASED A SONG CALLED NOT OF THIS WORLD. BOB REMEMBERS
- 37:21THAT SONG. I LOVE THAT SONG BECAUSE IT'S A REMINDER, I
- 37:25REMEMBER LISTENING TO IT IN THE 80S, IT'S A REMINDER OF
- 37:28OUR DUTY AND CALLING DURING THE BRIEF PERIOD THAT WE'RE
- 37:31HERE ON THIS EARTH. AND PART OF THE LYRICS IS AS FOLLOWS,
- 37:34IT SAYS, "WE ARE STRANGERS, WE ARE ALIENS, "WE ARE NOT
- 37:39OF THIS WORLD. "WE ARE ENVOYS. "WE MUST TARRY WITH
- 37:44THIS MESSAGE THAT WE MUST CARRY. "THERE'S SO MUCH TO
- 37:49DO BEFORE WE LEAVE "WITH SO MANY MORE WHO MAY BELIEVE.
- 37:53"OUR MISSION HERE CAN NEVER FAIL "AND THE GATES OF HELL
- 37:57WILL NOT PREVAIL." BOB, MAYBE YOU SHOULD COME UP AND
- 38:00SING THAT SONG FOR US. I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW IT AND
- 38:03IT'S LIKE, I CAN'T SING, BUT I CAN REPEAT THE LYRICS.
- 38:06IT'S REALLY BETTER WHEN YOU HEAR IT WITH THE MUSIC. SO
- 38:09YOU MIGHT WANT TO LOOK THAT UP ON YOUTUBE OR SOMETHING
- 38:11AND LISTEN TO IT. IT'S A GREAT SONG. BUT IT TALKS
- 38:14ABOUT WE'RE ENVOYS. ENVOYS WOULD BE SIMILAR TO WHAT WE
- 38:17WOULD MAYBE USE THE WORD AMBASSADOR. IT MEANS THAT
- 38:20WE'RE A MESSENGER OR A REPRESENTATIVE ON A
- 38:24DIPLOMATIC MISSION. AND 2 CORINTHIANS 5:20 TELLS US
- 38:30EXACTLY THAT. IT SAYS WE'RE CHRIST'S AMBASSADORS. GOD'S
- 38:33MAKING HIS APPEAL THROUGH US WHILE WE'RE ON THIS EARTH.
- 38:37AND WE'RE JUST HERE FOR THIS SHORT TIME. WE'RE ALIENS,
- 38:40WE'RE NOT OF THIS WORLD. WE ARE IN THE WORLD, BUT WE'RE
- 38:43NOT OF IT. WE DON'T PARTICIPATE IN ALL THE
- 38:45THINGS THAT THE WORLD DOES, BUT WE'RE HERE ON A MISSION,
- 38:49AREN'T WE? FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, AND WE HAVE
- 38:52TO ACCOMPLISH AS MUCH AS WE CAN WHILE WE'RE HERE. AND
- 38:54SOMETIMES I THINK WE GET SO INVOLVED IN ALL OF OUR DAILY
- 38:58DUTIES AND ACTIVITIES, WE LOSE SIGHT OF WHY WE'RE HERE
- 39:03IN THE GREAT COMMISSION. IT'S OUR MANDATE AS
- 39:06CHRISTIANS TO WIN SOULS FOR JESUS, BUT EACH OF US HAVE
- 39:09SPECIFIC GIFTS AND CALLINGS. GOD'S GIVEN US SPECIFIC
- 39:13EQUIPMENT AND ANOINTINGS SO THAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THE
- 39:17VISION THAT HE HAS FOR OUR INDIVIDUAL LIVES. THE
- 39:20PERSONAL VISION FROM GOD IS A DIVINE CALLING FOR YOUR
- 39:24LIFE. IT'S A UNIQUE PLAN OF HOW YOU CAN BEST FULFILL
- 39:28YOUR PURPOSE AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE OVERALL PLAN OF GOD
- 39:32FOR MAN. THE VISION THAT GOD GIVES YOU WILL LIKELY
- 39:36INVOLVE BECOMING MORE LIKE CHRIST, DEVELOPING NEW
- 39:41DESIRES THAT ALIGN WITH GOD'S HEART, AND USING YOUR
- 39:44SPECIFIC GIFTS FOR PURPOSES LIKE WORSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP
- 39:48AND DISCIPLESHIP, MINISTRY AND EVANGELISM. LET'S LOOK
- 39:52AT ROMANS 12:6, I THINK, THROUGH 8. THIS SCRIPTURE
- 39:58EXPLAINS IT VERY WELL. IT SAYS, "IN HIS GRACE, GOD HAS
- 40:02GIVEN US DIFFERENT GIFTS FOR DOING CERTAIN THINGS WELL."
- 40:07SO IF GOD HAS GIVEN YOU THE ABILITY TO PROPHESY, SPEAK
- 40:10OUT WITH AS MUCH FAITH AS GOD HAS GIVEN YOU. IF YOUR
- 40:14GIFT IS SERVING OTHERS, SERVE THEM WELL. IF YOU'RE A
- 40:17TEACHER, TEACH WELL. IF YOUR GIFT IS TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS,
- 40:22BE ENCOURAGING. IF IT'S GIVING, GIVE GENEROUSLY. IF
- 40:27GOD HAS GIVEN YOU LEADERSHIP ABILITY, TAKE THE
- 40:29RESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY. AND IF YOU HAVE A GIFT FOR
- 40:32SHOWING KINDNESS TO OTHERS, DO IT GLADLY. THAT
- 40:36ENCOMPASSES A LOT. EVERY ONE OF US CAN FIND SOMETHING IN
- 40:39THERE THAT WE CAN DO. AS GOD DIRECTS US TO DEVELOP THIS
- 40:43VISION, WE HAVE AN INCREASED SENSE OF PURPOSE AND
- 40:46DIRECTION FOR OUR LIVES. CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE NO
- 40:49CLEAR VISION ARE SOMETIMES JUST ABSORBED IN THEMSELVES,
- 40:53OR SOMETIMES THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO RUN WITH
- 40:55SOMEONE ELSE'S VISION, AND THAT USUALLY DOESN'T WORK
- 40:58OUT. THEN THEY COME TO THE END OF THEIR LIFE REALIZING
- 41:01THAT THEY DIDN'T ACHIEVE GOD'S PURPOSE OR PLAN FOR
- 41:04THEIR LIFE. EARL ROBERTS LEARNED EARLY IN HIS
- 41:09MINISTRY THAT GOD HAD A UNIQUE CALLING FOR HIM AND
- 41:12IT WAS NOT TO IMITATE OTHERS. IN THE EARLY YEARS
- 41:15OF HIS MINISTRY, EARL HAD A NOTION THAT HE HAD TO
- 41:18IMITATE OTHER FAMOUS PREACHERS TO BE SUCCESSFUL
- 41:22IN HIS OWN PREACHING. AND THERE WERE A LOT OF FIERY
- 41:25PREACHERS AND EVANGELISTS OF THAT TIME THAT EARL ADMIRED.
- 41:30BUT HE SOON REALIZED THAT GOD DIDN'T CALL HIM TO
- 41:32BECOME AN ECHO OF ANOTHER PREACHER. HIS CALLING WAS TO
- 41:37BE A VOICE FOR GOD, NOT AN ECHO. AND THAT REALIZATION
- 41:42BROUGHT A SHIFT IN THE STYLE AND THE CONTENT OF EARL'S
- 41:45PREACHING. ONE DAY, EARL FELT THE LORD DIRECTED HIM
- 41:47TO READ THROUGH THE FOUR GOSPELS AND THE BOOK OF ACTS
- 41:51THREE TIMES IN A 30-DAY PERIOD. THE FOUR GOSPELS AND
- 41:57THE BOOK OF ACTS THREE TIMES IN 30 DAYS. AND HE WAS TO DO
- 42:02IT ON HIS KNEES. THAT'S WHAT THE LORD DIRECTED HIM TO DO.
- 42:06AND HE FELT IMPRESSED THAT GOD WOULD SHOW HIM JESUS AND
- 42:09HIS HEALING POWER IF HE WOULD FOLLOW THAT DIRECTION.
- 42:11ORAL OBEYED, AND IMMEDIATELY HE FELT A CHANGE AS HE
- 42:15PREACHED. AT THAT POINT, HE SENSED HE WAS STANDING ON
- 42:19FIRM GROUND DOING WHAT HE WAS CALLED TO DO. AND THAT
- 42:23WAS ONE OF GOD'S IMPARTATIONS THAT INFLUENCED
- 42:26ORAL ROBERTS TO DEVELOP HIS UNIQUE AND AUTHENTIC
- 42:30MINISTRY STYLE. OUR MISSION IS A GOAL AND A DIRECTION
- 42:34FOR OUR LIVES. PROVERBS 29:18 SAYS, "WHERE THERE'S
- 42:38NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH." AND WHEN CHRISTIANS
- 42:43BECOME INVOLVED WITH A CLEAR VISION, THEY MOVE INTO
- 42:45ACTION, AND OFTEN THEY CAN SEE GREAT RESULTS IF THEY
- 42:49HAVE THAT VISION. WHEN THE VISION OR MANDATE IS
- 42:52LACKING, IT'S EASY TO GET ABSORBED INTO OUR DAILY LIFE
- 42:55OR DEMANDS AS WE'VE TALKED, AND THEN IT BRINGS US TO A
- 42:59POINT THAT WE JUST DO NOT PRODUCE FRUIT. NOW, MANY OF
- 43:04YOU WERE EXCITED TO INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO
- 43:07BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY. IT HAPPENED BECAUSE WE HAD A
- 43:11PLAN AND A VISION FOR THAT DAY. IF WE'D NEVER TALKED
- 43:15ABOUT IT, IF WE'D NEVER GIVEN YOU INVITATIONS, IF
- 43:18WE'D NEVER PREPARED FOR IT, IF KAMALA HADN'T SET UP THE
- 43:21FOOD TRUCKS, IF PASTOR MARK HADN'T ORDERED THE PICNIC
- 43:25TABLES AND THE TENTS, AND WE HADN'T GOT YOU EXCITED ABOUT
- 43:28INVITING PEOPLE, IT WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. THOSE
- 43:32HUNDRED GUESTS THAT CAME THAT DAY AND WERE EXPOSED TO
- 43:34CHRIST WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE PROBABLY, BECAUSE WE
- 43:38HAD A PLAN. WE UNDERSTOOD THE PURPOSE FOR THE PLAN. WE
- 43:43USED THE OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE PEOPLE TO CHURCH. AND
- 43:46EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP, IF YOU TRIED AND YOU TRIED
- 43:49TO INVITE PEOPLE, YOU MAY HAVE PLANTED A SEED. I HAVE
- 43:54A TESTIMONY THAT I CAN SHARE. THIS IS RANDY
- 43:58NOVOTNY. HE INVITED A COWORKER BY THE NAME OF
- 44:01JESSE, AND I HAVE PERMISSION TO USE JESSE'S NAME BECAUSE
- 44:04JESSE'S STILL ATTENDING THIS CHURCH, BY THE WAY, AND
- 44:07THAT'S GOOD NEWS. BUT RANDY WORKS WITH JESSE, INVITED
- 44:12HIM TO ATTEND BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY. JESSE CAME THAT
- 44:15SUNDAY, AND HE BROUGHT TWO OF HIS FOUR CHILDREN, AND HE
- 44:19ENJOYED THE SERVICE, AND HE STAYED FOR LUNCH OUTSIDE.
- 44:22THE NOVOTNYS HAD LUNCH WITH HIM. BUT THEN THE SECOND
- 44:25SUNDAY, JESSE RETURNED AND HE BROUGHT HIS OTHER TWO
- 44:27CHILDREN. I THINK HE HAS A SITUATION WHERE HE
- 44:30ALTERNATES TAKING CARE OF CHILDREN WITH HIS EX-WIFE
- 44:33PROBABLY OR SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW ALL THE STORY,
- 44:36BUT ANYWAY, HE BROUGHT THE OTHER TWO, SO ALL FOUR
- 44:38CHILDREN WERE EXPOSED TO THE CHURCH. HE ENJOYED THE
- 44:41SERVICE AND HE CAME BACK ON A THIRD SUNDAY. THIS TIME HE
- 44:45BROUGHT ALL FOUR CHILDREN WITH HIM, SO HE MUST HAVE
- 44:47HAD FULL ABILITY TO HAVE ALL HIS KIDS THAT WEEKEND. SO
- 44:51THAT WAS GREAT. AND THEN RANDY HAD A CONVERSATION
- 44:54WITH JESSE, AND JESSE TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD QUIT
- 44:57DRINKING BEER THREE SUNDAYS PRIOR. IN OTHER WORDS, ON
- 45:00BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY, THAT WAS THE DAY THAT HE DECIDED
- 45:02TO QUIT DRINKING. AMEN. HE SAID HE WOULD USUALLY BUY
- 45:08BEER ON THE WEEKENDS AND DRINK WHILE THE KIDS WERE AT
- 45:10HOME WITH HIM. HE SAID HE WAS SURPRISED AT HOW MUCH
- 45:14MORE TIME HE HAD NOW THAT HE'S NOT DRINKING AND THAT
- 45:17HE ACTUALLY FEELS GOOD WHEN HE WAKES UP IN THE MORNING.
- 45:21HE ALSO TOLD US HOW HIS KIDS NOTICED AT THE STORE THE
- 45:25OTHER DAY THAT SOMEONE HAD BEER IN THEIR CART AND THEY
- 45:29SAID TO DAD, "LOOK, DAD, THAT'S THE SAME KIND OF BEER
- 45:31YOU USED TO DRINK." JESSE SAID HE DIDN'T REALIZE HIS
- 45:35CHILDREN WERE WATCHING HIM. TWO ARE IN SEVENTH GRADE,
- 45:39ONE IN FIFTH GRADE, AND ONE IN THIRD GRADE. BUT HERE'S
- 45:42THE CASE. THIS DAD HAS BEEN IMPACTED, PLUS FOUR CHILDREN
- 45:46WERE IMPACTED, AND THEY'RE STILL ATTENDING. LOOK HOW
- 45:50ONE INVITATION CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. NOW I HAVE
- 45:53ANOTHER THING TO TELL YOU ABOUT THIS STORY. RANDY HAD
- 45:58INVITED JESSE TO OPEN THE HEAVENS A WEEK BEFORE. JESSE
- 46:04COULDN'T MAKE THAT. BUT RANDY DIDN'T GIVE UP. HE
- 46:09SAID HE DIDN'T COME TO OTH, SO I'M GONNA INVITE HIM TO
- 46:11BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY. SO LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU
- 46:14DON'T GIVE UP AND YOU'RE PERSISTENT. WHAT IF RANDY
- 46:17HAD SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, HE SAID HE DIDN'T WANNA COME TO
- 46:19OPEN THE HEAVENS, I DON'T WANNA EMBARRASS MYSELF NOW
- 46:21AND GO ASK HIM TO COME TO BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY. YOU
- 46:24KNOW, I JUST LOOK LIKE A FOOL DOING THAT. IF HE'D
- 46:28HAVE DONE THAT, JESSE WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY, HE
- 46:31WOULDN'T HAVE GIVEN UP ALCOHOL, AND HIS CHILDREN
- 46:34WOULDN'T BE EXPOSED TO THE GOSPEL. THAT'S THE POWER AND
- 46:41THE IMPACT OF US HAVING ZEAL, ENERGY, AND
- 46:44PERSISTENCE, AMEN? WELL, THE TRUTH IS THE VAST MAJORITY
- 46:50OF PEOPLE ALIVE ON EARTH TODAY HAVE NO IDEA THAT GOD
- 46:53HAS A SPECIFIC PLAN FOR THEIR LIVES. THEY'RE LOST
- 46:57AND WITHOUT HOPE, AND THEY THINK THE ONLY THING THAT
- 46:59THEY'RE ALIVE FOR IS WHAT THEY ACHIEVE IN THIS
- 47:01LIFETIME AND WHAT THEY CAN ACCUMULATE AND THE MONEY AND
- 47:04PLEASURE THAT THEY CAN ENJOY BECAUSE OF THEIR NATURAL
- 47:09THINKING AND THEIR NATURAL ABILITIES. THAT'S THE
- 47:11MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ON THE EARTH. BUT MANY CHRISTIANS
- 47:14WHO ARE SAVED AND ON THEIR WAY TO HEAVEN STILL HAVE A
- 47:17LIMITED UNDERSTANDING THAT GOD HAS A PLAN AND A
- 47:20DIRECTION FOR THEIR LIVES AND THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO
- 47:22BE DOING SOMETHING WHILE THEY'RE HERE. WHY ARE WE
- 47:25HERE? WHY DID GOD SPECIFICALLY BRING TOGETHER
- 47:28LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH AND INCLUDE YOU AS PART OF IT?
- 47:31WHAT IS YOUR MISSION? IF WE CAN'T ANSWER THOSE
- 47:34QUESTIONS, THEN WE NEED TO FIND THE ANSWERS SO THAT WE
- 47:37CAN ACHIEVE GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR LIVES. AT THIS POINT, I
- 47:41WANT TO ASK CONTROL TO GO AHEAD AND ROLL THAT VIDEO.
- 47:44TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO THE SCREENS. I WANT YOU TO SEE AN
- 47:47ILLUSTRATION OF THE IMPACT THAT YOUR LIFE CAN HAVE ON OTHERS.
- 47:51[MUSIC PLAYING]
- 47:57- THIS IS NATE. NATE BECAME A CHRIST FOLLOWER TWO WEEKS AGO
- 48:02AND IS STILL A BIT GIDDY ABOUT IT. NOW, HE'S TRYING NOT TO DO
- 48:05CARTWHEELS IN PUBLIC. NATE BECAME A BELIEVER PARTLY BECAUSE
- 48:09OF KIM. YET, ODDLY ENOUGH, KIM AND NATE HAVE NEVER MET.
- 48:14NOW, IS THIS POSSIBLE? WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK. KIM LOVED
- 48:19JESUS FROM AN EARLY AGE, AND IN COLLEGE, SHE HAD A HUGE
- 48:22IMPACT ON HER FRIENDS. WHILE MOST OF HER PEERS USED THEIR
- 48:25COLLEGE YEARS TO, WELL, EXPERIMENT, KIM DIDN'T. SHE
- 48:29REMAINED COMMITTED TO HER FAITH, AND IT SHOWED. IT
- 48:31ESPECIALLY SHOWED TO LISA, HER ROOMMATE, WHO CONFESSED
- 48:35TO KIM THAT SHE WANTED WHATEVER IT WAS THAT MADE
- 48:37KIM SO STRONG. KIM SHARED HER FAITH WITH LISA, AND
- 48:41LISA BELIEVED. YEARS LATER, AT LISA'S FIRST REAL JOB,
- 48:44SHE MET THOMAS. THOMAS WAS HIT BY A DRUNK DRIVER WHEN
- 48:47HE WAS 13 AND STILL CARRIED A LOT OF ANGER AND
- 48:50BITTERNESS. THOMAS AND LISA BECAME FRIENDS, AND IT
- 48:53WASN'T LONG BEFORE HE STARTED GOING TO CHURCH WITH
- 48:55LISA AND HER HUSBAND. AFTER A LOT OF STUDYING AND
- 48:58SEARCHING, THOMAS GAVE HIS LIFE TO CHRIST. FAST FORWARD
- 49:02A FEW YEARS. THOMAS BECAME A PUBLIC SPEAKER AND WAS OFTEN
- 49:06ASKED TO SPEAK AT LARGE EVENTS. SEE, WHEN HE BECAME
- 49:09A BELIEVER, THOMAS DEVELOPED A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE.
- 49:12HE STOPPED RESENTING WHAT HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM HIM AND
- 49:15STARTED BEING THANKFUL FOR THE SECOND CHANCE HE HAD
- 49:17BEEN GIVEN. ON ONE PARTICULAR DAY, THOMAS
- 49:20SHARED ABOUT OVERCOMING HARDSHIP AND WHAT IT MEANS
- 49:23TO CHOOSE JOY. HE WAS SO PASSIONATE THAT A NUMBER OF
- 49:26PEOPLE TO SHARE A LINK TO HIS VIDEO. THE VIDEO OF
- 49:30THOMAS INSPIRED JAMES TOO. AND IF ANYONE NEEDED
- 49:33INSPIRATION, IT WAS HIM. JAMES HAD A TON OF ISSUES.
- 49:38HE SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE AS A PASSIVE HUSBAND, AN ABSENT
- 49:40FATHER, AND A HORRIBLE FRIEND. THAT SAID, NO ONE
- 49:44DISLIKED HIM MORE THAN HE DISLIKED HIMSELF. BUT
- 49:47EVERYTHING CHANGED THE NIGHT HE HAPPENED TO WATCH THOMAS
- 49:49ONLINE. SOMETHING CLICKED AND HE KNEW WHAT HE HAD TO
- 49:52DO. HE SURRENDERED HIS MISERABLE LIFE TO SOMEONE
- 49:54GREATER, AND HE WAS FOREVER CHANGED. JAMES FOUGHT HARD
- 49:58TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOST YEARS WITH HIS FAMILY. AND
- 50:01HE ALSO BEGAN WORKING WITH YOUNG MEN WHO WERE IN DANGER
- 50:03OF THROWING THEIR LIVES AWAY. ONE OF THOSE MEN WAS
- 50:07NATE. NATE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW HIS OWN DAD, AND HE HAD
- 50:11NO REAL DIRECTION IN LIFE, ULTIMATELY BOUNCING FROM ONE
- 50:14BAD DECISION TO ANOTHER. BECAUSE OF THAT, HE OFTEN
- 50:17FOUND HIMSELF IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW. NO ONE HAD
- 50:20EVER SHOWED HIM WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE TO BE A REAL
- 50:21MAN. THAT IS, UNTIL HE MET JAMES. JAMES BECAME THE
- 50:25FIRST FATHER FIGURE NATE EVER HAD. HE LEARNED ABOUT
- 50:28HONESTY, SELF-CONTROL, HUMILITY AND INTEGRITY, AND
- 50:31WHERE THOSE TRAITS COME FROM. TWO MONTHS LATER, NATE
- 50:35PUBLICLY DECLARED HIS BELIEF IN CHRIST. AND OF COURSE,
- 50:38JAMES WAS THERE. NOW YOU CAN SEE THE CONNECTION. NATE WAS
- 50:45IMPACTED BY JAMES, WHO WAS INFLUENCED BY THOMAS. THOMAS
- 50:50SAW AN UNCOMMON JOY IN LISA, WHO LEARNED OF JESUS FROM
- 50:53KIM. KIM'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD EVENTUALLY LED TO NATE'S.
- 51:01FUNNY HOW THESE TWO PEOPLE HAVE NEVER MET AND NEVER WILL.
- 51:13- AMEN. GOOD ILLUSTRATION, ISN'T IT, OF HOW THE IMPACT
- 51:20CAN JUST FLOW FROM ONE TO ANOTHER. WHO
- 51:23KNOWS WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU REACH ONE PERSON? NOW,
- 51:30WE HAVE THAT MANDATE TO FULFILL THE GREAT COMMISSION
- 51:32FROM JESUS. FIVE TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND
- 51:36THERE'S PROBABLY MORE, I'M JUST GOING TO MENTION, FIVE
- 51:39TIMES JESUS GAVE US DIRECTION IN SOME FORM
- 51:43CONCERNING THE GREAT COMMISSION. I WANT TO READ
- 51:46THESE FIVE VERSES THAT COME OUT OF THE FOUR GOSPELS AND
- 51:50THE BOOK OF ACTS. AND WE'RE GOING TO READ THOSE QUICKLY
- 51:52AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON HERE TONIGHT. MATTHEW 28:19-20
- 51:56SAYS, "GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES
- 52:01OF ALL THE NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME
- 52:03OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING
- 52:06THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.
- 52:09AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF
- 52:11THE AGE." AMEN. THAT'S MATTHEW. LET'S GO TO MARK
- 52:15CHAPTER 16:15. AND HE SAID TO THEM, "GO INTO ALL THE
- 52:21WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE." LET'S
- 52:24MOVE TO THE BOOK OF LUKE CHAPTER 24:46-47. AND THEN
- 52:47LET'S MOVE TO THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 20:21. SO JESUS
- 52:52SAID TO THEM AGAIN, "PEACE TO YOU. "AS THE FATHER HAS
- 52:57SENT ME, I ALSO SEND YOU." AND THEN LET'S MOVE TO THE
- 53:02BOOK OF ACTS, VERSE ONE, CHAPTER EIGHT, I'M SORRY,
- 53:05CHAPTER ONE, VERSE EIGHT SAYS, "BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE
- 53:08POWER "WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU "AND YOU
- 53:11SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME IN JERUSALEM "AND IN ALL JUDEA
- 53:16AND SAMARIA "AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH." AMEN. SO
- 53:20JESUS BASICALLY SAID THE SAME THING IN FIVE DIFFERENT
- 53:25PASSAGES IN EACH OF THE GOSPELS AND THE BOOK OF
- 53:27ACTS. JUST IN A LITTLE DIFFERENT WAY, DIDN'T HE?
- 53:30TOLD US TO GO. AND WHEN GOD SPEAKS SOMETHING ONCE IN THE
- 53:34BIBLE, DO YOU THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO LISTEN? HOW
- 53:38ABOUT IF HE SAYS IT FIVE TIMES, THOMAS? IT'S PROBABLY
- 53:41VERY IMPORTANT, ISN'T IT? FIVE TIMES HE SAID THAT. GOD
- 53:47HAS CALLED US AND ALL OF US AT LORD OF HOSTS AND THOSE
- 53:51VIEWING ONLINE, YOU'RE INCLUDED TOO TO SHARE THE
- 53:53GOSPEL OF CHRIST. IT'S OUR JOB TO HELP PEOPLE COME TO
- 53:57FAITH IN CHRIST AND DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS,
- 54:01TO BE WATER BAPTIZED AND BE DISCIPLED AND BROUGHT TO
- 54:04SPIRITUAL MATURITY SO THEY KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE AND HOW
- 54:07TO ACT AS A CHRISTIAN, AND THEN TO BE EQUIPPED TO CARRY
- 54:11ON THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH THEMSELVES. NOW, AS WE
- 54:14CONTINUE LOOKING AT OUR TEXT SCRIPTURE TONIGHT, ACTS
- 54:1816:9, WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO THAT REALLY QUICK. WE SEE
- 54:21THAT THERE WAS A PLEADING VOICE IN THIS. IT SAYS,
- 54:23"THERE STOOD A MAN OF MACEDONIA AND PRAYED TO HIM,
- 54:27SAYING, 'COME OVER INTO MACEDONIA AND HELP US.'" HE
- 54:30WAS PLEADING WITH PAUL AT THAT POINT. "COME HELP US."
- 54:35AND SOMETIMES WE LOOK AT PEOPLE'S LIVES AND WE
- 54:37WRONGLY ASSUME THAT THEY ARE HAPPY IN THEIR LOST
- 54:43CONDITION. THEY'RE NOT. THE WORLD HAS NO ANSWERS FOR
- 54:48THOSE STRUGGLING WITHOUT DIRECTION OR HOPE. THE
- 54:52DEVIL'S OUT TO KILL, STEAL, AND DESTROY. THAT'S HIS
- 54:55MISSION. AND THAT'S WHAT HIS MISSION IS FOR LIFE AND
- 54:58THROUGH ETERNITY. PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH THEIR
- 55:01MARRIAGES, WITH SICKNESS AND DISEASE, WITH FINANCIAL
- 55:04PROBLEMS, WITH FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND CHILDREN
- 55:06THAT ARE IN TROUBLE. AND WE COULD GO ON AND ON LISTING
- 55:09ALL THE THINGS, I DON'T NEED TO DO THAT, THAT PEOPLE ARE
- 55:12INVOLVED IN AND HAVE ISSUES WITH. BUT IN THE OUTWARD
- 55:16APPEARANCE, PEOPLE CAN APPEAR TO BE COPING OKAY AND
- 55:19DOING OKAY. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE STATISTICS, WE CAN
- 55:24SEE IT'S NOT SO, IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY. LOOK AT THE
- 55:27MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ADDICTED TO PRESCRIBED
- 55:29SEDATIVES AND STIMULANT DRUGS. WE SEE PSYCHOLOGIST
- 55:34OFFICES ARE JAMMED EVERYWHERE. PEOPLE ARE SAD
- 55:38AND LIVE WITH TRAGEDY AND THEY DON'T HAVE ANSWERS. THE
- 55:41GOSPEL THAT WE CARRY IS THEIR ONLY HOPE. PEOPLE WILL
- 55:46NEVER BE FULFILLED WITHOUT GOD IN THEIR LIVES. THERE'S
- 55:50A VACUUM IN EVERY PERSON'S LIFE WHEN THEY'RE BORN AND
- 55:55IT ONLY CAN BE FILLED BY GOD. THE BIBLE SAYS IN
- 55:59ISAIAH 57:20, BUT THE WICKED ARE LIKE THE TROUBLED SEA
- 56:05WHEN IT CANNOT REST WHOSE WATERS CAST UP MIRE AND
- 56:08DIRT. THERE IS NO PEACE, SAYS MY GOD FOR THE WICKED.
- 56:14THERE YOU HAVE IT IN SCRIPTURE. THEY MAY LOOK
- 56:17IMPRESSIVE. THEY MAY LOOK SUCCESSFUL. THEY MAY LOOK
- 56:20LIKE THEY HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER. BUT THEY DON'T
- 56:24HAVE PEACE UNLESS THEY HAVE JESUS. SO YOU'RE NEVER GOING
- 56:29TO JUST ASSUME THAT SOMEONE, OH, DOESN'T NEED GOD BECAUSE
- 56:34THEY LOOK SUCCESSFUL ON THE OUTSIDE. NEVER DO THAT.
- 56:37THAT'S JUST ONE OF THE DEVIL'S TRICKS TO TRY AND
- 56:39KEEP YOU FROM TALKING TO HIM. WE HAVE THE ANSWER.
- 56:44PEOPLE ARE HURTING AND ONLY JESUS CAN IMPROVE THEIR
- 56:47LIVES. WE HAVE TO TELL THEM. JESUS SAID IN JOHN 14, 27,
- 56:53PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU. MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU, NOT AS
- 56:57THE WORLD GIVES TO YOU. DO I GIVE TO YOU? LET NOT YOUR
- 57:01HEART BE TROUBLED, NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID. AND GOD'S
- 57:04PRIMARY FOCUS IS PEOPLE. IT'S HIS CREATION THAT HE'S
- 57:07CONCERNED ABOUT. NOTICE, AGAIN, ACTS 16:9-10,
- 57:11PAUL SAW A MAN PLEADING. IT WASN'T AN ANGEL, AND IT
- 57:16WASN'T A VOICE OF GOD THAT PAUL SAW IN THAT DREAM. HE
- 57:18SAW A MAN PLEADING TO PAUL, "COME, GIVE ME SOME HELP IN
- 57:24MACEDONIA." GOD WANTS US TO KNOW THAT OUR FOCUS SHOULD
- 57:28BE ON PEOPLE. OUR TIME AND ENERGY AND RESOURCES ARE NOT
- 57:32PRIMARILY INTENDED FOR THE PURSUIT OF FUN AND
- 57:35ENTERTAINMENT AND PLEASURE. THERE WAS A MISSIONARY THAT
- 57:39WAS WAITING IN A PASTOR'S OFFICE ONE DAY, AND WHEN THE
- 57:42PASTOR ENTERED, THE MISSIONARY COMMENTED, "YOU
- 57:45REALLY HAVE AN IMPRESSIVE LIBRARY." AND THE YOUNG
- 57:49PREACHER AGREED AND RESPONDED, "YES, IT'S A
- 57:52GREAT COLLECTION, BUT THE TRUTH IS IT'S ALL GOING TO
- 57:55BURN UP SOMEDAY." WELL, HERE'S THE POINT OF THAT
- 57:59STORY FOR US. THE SAME THING CAN BE SAID OF OUR HOMES,
- 58:03OUR AUTOMOBILES, OUR FURNITURE, OUR COMPUTERS.
- 58:07JARED, OUR COMPUTERS ARE GONNA BURN UP SOMEDAY. AND
- 58:11ALL THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE IN THE BANK. JARED SAYS,
- 58:13"HALLELUJAH, I WON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEM ANYMORE." WE
- 58:18LOVE COMPUTERS AROUND HERE. WE HAVE TO HAVE THEM. BUT IT
- 58:21HELPS US GET THE GOSPEL OUT, DOESN'T IT? THAT'S RIGHT.
- 58:24BUT IT IS ALL GOING TO BURN UP SOMEDAY. AND WHEN WE USE
- 58:28THOSE MATERIAL POSSESSIONS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US, OUR
- 58:31HOMES, OUR VEHICLES, OUR MONEY, TO PROMOTE THE GOSPEL
- 58:35AND HELP OTHERS, THEN WE'RE INVESTING IN OUR HEAVENLY
- 58:38BANK ACCOUNT. WE'RE STORING UP INVESTMENTS FOR THE
- 58:41FUTURE OF ETERNITY AND BRINGING PEOPLE WITH US TO
- 58:45HEAVEN. AND DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME. I'M NOT
- 58:48SAYING THAT GOD DOESN'T WANT US TO HAVE FUN OR TO SAVE
- 58:51FOR OUR FUTURE OR TO HAVE NICE THINGS. THAT'S NOT THE
- 58:54POINT OF MY MESSAGE. I'M SAYING WE CAN'T FOCUS
- 58:58OURSELVES ENTIRELY ON THAT. WE HAVE TO REALIZE WE'RE
- 59:02STEWARDS IN WHAT WE'RE HERE TO ACCOMPLISH. WE'RE NOT OF
- 59:04THIS WORLD, BOB. WE'RE ALIENS. WE'RE ENVOYS. WE'RE
- 59:09AMBASSADORS. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IS OUR PRIMARY
- 59:13FOCUS? OUR PRIMARY FOCUS SHOULD BE ON GOD AND HIS
- 59:16KINGDOM AND ON REACHING PEOPLE. WHY? BECAUSE WE CAN
- 59:19TAKE PEOPLE TO HEAVEN WHEN WE GO. BECAUSE GOD'S FOCUS
- 59:23IS ON PEOPLE. AND BECAUSE JESUS DIED FOR PEOPLE. GOD
- 59:28GAVE US A HEART OF LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE IS MY
- 59:31PRAYER. GOD GIVE US A HEART OF COMPASSION AND LOVE FOR
- 59:34PEOPLE. OLIVER CROMWELL WAS SERVING AS THE LORD
- 59:39PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND BACK
- 59:42IN THE EARLY 1600S. AND ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT HE
- 59:46FACED DURING THIS TIME WAS A SEVERE SHORTAGE OF SILVER.
- 59:52AND WITHOUT THAT PRECIOUS METAL, THE NATION RAN INTO
- 59:54THE PROSPECT OF BEING UNABLE TO MAKE COINS. AND CROMWELL
- 1:00:00ORDERED HIS ADVISORS TO SCOUR THE COUNTRY, LOOKING
- 1:00:03FOR ANY SOURCE OF SILVER THAT THEY COULD FIND. AND
- 1:00:07AFTER THE SEARCH OF A LOCAL CATHEDRAL, HIS MEN REPORTED,
- 1:00:11"THE ONLY SILVER THAT WE CAN FIND IS IN THE STATUES OF
- 1:00:15THE SAINTS STANDING IN THE CORNERS OF THE CATHEDRAL."
- 1:00:20SATISFIED WITH THE ANSWER, CROMWELL RESPONDED, "GOOD.
- 1:00:24THEN WE'LL MELT DOWN THE SAINTS AND PUT THEM IN
- 1:00:26CIRCULATION." WELL, THAT'S WHAT THE AMERICAN CHURCH
- 1:00:31NEEDS TODAY, ISN'T IT? WE NEED TO BE PUT BACK INTO
- 1:00:34CIRCULATION. WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF REVIVAL AND
- 1:00:38REFORMATION. PEOPLE ARE RIPE FOR HARVEST, AND WE NEED TO
- 1:00:42BE IN CIRCULATION, JUST LIKE THOSE COINS. CIRCULATE AMONG
- 1:00:48PEOPLE AND TOUCH LIVES AND HEARTS WITH OUR LOVE AND
- 1:00:50TESTIMONY OF HOW GOD'S WORKED IN OUR LIVES. WHEN
- 1:00:54THE HOLY SPIRIT POINTED PAUL TO HIS NEXT ASSIGNMENT, THE
- 1:00:57PLACE THAT PAUL WAS TO SERVE, HE IMMEDIATELY
- 1:01:01ENDEAVORED TO GO THERE. HE DIDN'T SAY, WELL, GOD, I'M
- 1:01:03GOING TO PRAY ABOUT THAT FOR A WHILE. AND MAYBE IN 30
- 1:01:06DAYS OR 60 DAYS, WE'LL FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET TO
- 1:01:09MACEDONIA. HE IMMEDIATELY EMBARKED ON THE JOURNEY, IT
- 1:01:12SAID. AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN EASY IN THOSE DAYS. HE
- 1:01:15HAD TO TAKE A SHIP TO ONE PLACE AND THEN GO...
- 1:01:17I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE STORY
- 1:01:19ABOUT HOW DO YOU GET TO- MAYBE YOU KNOW THAT ONE,
- 1:01:22DAN. YOU CAN EXPLAIN THAT SOME TO ME. BECAUSE THEY
- 1:01:24DIDN'T HAVE PLANES BACK IN THAT DAY. THEY COULDN'T FLY
- 1:01:26LIKE YOU COULD, BUT THEY HAD TO GET THERE SOMEHOW. AND
- 1:01:31TAKING SHIPS WAS ABOUT THE ONLY WAY. SO ACTS 16.10, IT
- 1:01:37SAYS, "AFTER HE'D SEEN THE VISION, IMMEDIATELY WE
- 1:01:40ENDEAVORED TO GO TO MACEDONIA." SO HE DIDN'T
- 1:01:43WAIT. THAT WAS PAUL'S HEARTBEAT, TO BE WORKING,
- 1:01:48LABORING, AND SEE A GREAT INGATHERING OF PEOPLE TO
- 1:01:52CHRIST'S KINGDOM. HE WENT IMMEDIATELY. EACH OF US HAVE
- 1:01:57A VINEYARD, A PLACE TO REAP, AND A MISSION FIELD IN OUR
- 1:01:59LIVES. GOD'S PLANTED EACH OF US IN A SPECIAL PLACE WHERE
- 1:02:02WE CAN MOST EFFECTIVELY SPEAK UP AND SHARE THE GOOD
- 1:02:06NEWS. AND THOSE OF YOU IN THE TABERNACLE TONIGHT WERE
- 1:02:10PLACED IN THE OMAHA METRO AREA TO WITNESS FOR CHRIST.
- 1:02:13THIS IS WHERE GOD HAS PLANTED YOU, FOR NOW. FOR
- 1:02:18THOSE OF YOU JOINING US ONLINE AND AROUND THE
- 1:02:20NATION, WHEREVER GOD HAS PLANTED YOU IS YOUR
- 1:02:24TERRITORY. THAT'S WHERE YOU NEED TO OCCUPY AND REAP A
- 1:02:28HARVEST, UNLESS GOD UPRICH YOU AND DECIDES TO MOVE YOU
- 1:02:31TO OMAHA TO BE PART OF THIS CHURCH, AND THAT'S FINE,
- 1:02:33TOO. BUT FOR NOW, BE FAITHFUL WHERE YOU'RE AT.
- 1:02:38GOD PUTS YOU WHERE YOU ARE SO YOUR NEIGHBORS CAN FIND
- 1:02:41GOD'S FORGIVENESS, SO YOUR CO-WORKERS CAN SEE THE
- 1:02:44LIGHT, SO YOUR FRIENDS CAN HEAR THE GOSPEL. GOD IS VERY
- 1:02:48SERIOUS ABOUT US BEING FRUITFUL WHERE WE ARE
- 1:02:51PLANTED. MANY OF US GET ALONG GREAT WITH OUR FRIENDS
- 1:02:54AND NEIGHBORS AND CO-WORKERS. WE TALK SPORTS
- 1:02:57WITH THEM, OR WE MAYBE TALK ABOUT OUR HOME OR OUR KIDS,
- 1:03:01OR WE DISCUSS THE WEATHER OR POLITICS. BUT THE MAIN
- 1:03:04QUESTION IS, HAVE WE EVER SHARED OUR FAITH WITH THEM?
- 1:03:08SOMETIMES A SIMPLE INVITATION TO CHURCH CAN
- 1:03:11OPEN THE DOOR OR LEAD TO A CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR
- 1:03:14FAITH. IN THE LIGHT OF ETERNITY, IT DOESN'T MATTER
- 1:03:17WHO IS GOING TO WIN THE SUPER BOWL, OR WHAT THE BEST
- 1:03:21RECIPE IS FOR APPLE CAKE, OR HOW GOOD YOUR GOLF GAME IS.
- 1:03:27THE VISION THAT PAUL AND HIS TEAM DESCRIBES IN ACTS
- 1:03:3016:9-10 IS REFERRED TO, LIKE I MENTIONED, AS THE
- 1:03:34MACEDONIAN CALL. WE HAVE THE LORD OF HOSTS CALL. IT
- 1:03:39DOESN'T QUITE HAVE THE SAME RING TO IT, BUT GOD HELPED
- 1:03:44US TO ANSWER THE CALL. EVERYONE HERE IS EITHER A
- 1:03:48MISSION FIELD OR A MISSIONARY. THINK ABOUT
- 1:03:53THAT. EVERY ONE OF YOU, EVERY ONE OF YOU WATCHING
- 1:03:56CAN BE IN ONE OF TWO CATEGORIES. YOU'RE EITHER A
- 1:03:58MISSIONARY OR YOU'RE A MISSION FIELD. THAT MEANS
- 1:04:02YOU'RE SAVED AND ON YOUR WAY TO HEAVEN OR YOU NEED
- 1:04:06CHRIST, ONE OF THE TWO. AND IF YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO
- 1:04:11HEAVEN, YOU'RE PART OF GOD'S ARMY, WE NEED TO BE IN THE
- 1:04:14MISSION FIELD WORKING THE FIELD, WORKING OUR VINEYARD.
- 1:04:21YOU SAY, "WOW, I'M NOT SURE I KNOW WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO
- 1:04:24DO." OKAY, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU FIVE WAYS THAT YOU CAN
- 1:04:28EASILY WORK YOUR HARVEST FIELD OR YOUR VINEYARD AT
- 1:04:31LORD OF HOSTS OR WHEREVER YOU LIVE IN THE NATION.
- 1:04:34NUMBER ONE, SIMPLY INVITE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES TO
- 1:04:38CHURCH OR TO WATCH ONLINE. IF YOU'RE LIVING SOMEWHERE
- 1:04:43AND YOU'RE WATCHING, YOU'RE TUNING IN TONIGHT, YOU CAN
- 1:04:45DO THAT. YOU CAN INVITE SOMEONE TO TUNE IN JUST LIKE
- 1:04:49YOU ARE DOING, OR MAYBE INVITE THEM OVER TO YOUR
- 1:04:51HOME TO WATCH WITH YOU. BUT SEND THEM A TEXT AND REMIND
- 1:04:56THEM HOW TO GET TUNED IN TO OUR- GIVE THEM OUR WEBSITE
- 1:05:00ADDRESS. GIVE THEM OVM INFORMATION, WHATEVER YOU
- 1:05:03NEED TO DO TO HELP THEM TO TUNE IN. JOIN OUR EVANGELISM
- 1:05:08TEAM. ONE SATURDAY A MONTH, ONLY ONE SATURDAY A MONTH,
- 1:05:11WE ASK PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN EVANGELISM. THEY MEET IN
- 1:05:15OUR CENTRAL MAINTENANCE BUILDING. I THINK IT'S THE
- 1:05:18SECOND SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH. IS THAT RIGHT, RANDY?
- 1:05:20WHAT TIME, NINE O'CLOCK? NINE O'CLOCK. AND THEY GO
- 1:05:23OUT, THEY TRAIN YOU. YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW ANYTHING.
- 1:05:28YOU CAN JUST SHOW UP. AND THEY'LL TRAIN YOU TO GO OUT.
- 1:05:32AND THEY WON'T EVEN PUT YOU ON THE SPOT AND MAKE YOU
- 1:05:34WITNESS THE FIRST TIME. YOU CAN JUST GO WATCH. OR EVEN
- 1:05:37THE SECOND TIME. BUT GO, GET INVOLVED WITH THAT. YOU
- 1:05:41KNOW, GIVE UP A SATURDAY MORNING FOR CHRIST TO GET
- 1:05:44INVOLVED. RANDY WOULD LOVE IT IF HE HAD 100 PEOPLE SHOW
- 1:05:46UP AND GO OUT AND DO THAT. THAT WOULD BE GREAT
- 1:05:51TRAINING. JUST TO EVEN GO ONE TIME AND WITNESS LIKE
- 1:05:54THEY DO AND EXPERIENCE THAT AND LEARN TO DO IT WOULD
- 1:05:57JUST BE GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE BECAUSE IT HELPS
- 1:05:59YOU THEN WHEN YOU'RE JUST IN YOUR NORMAL CIRCLE OF
- 1:06:03INFLUENCE, MEETING AND GREETING PEOPLE, YOU'LL KNOW
- 1:06:05HOW TO DO IT. YOU HAVE A PROCEDURE, A PLAN. THIRDLY,
- 1:06:10DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS THAT CAN OPEN
- 1:06:12DOORS OF EVANGELISM. ONE OF OUR MEMBERS HERE TOLD ME
- 1:06:16SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THIS WAS JUST A SIMPLE THING SHE DID,
- 1:06:20BUT I THOUGHT, WHAT A NEAT IDEA. AND IT'S GETTING
- 1:06:22ALMOST TO THE TIME OF YEAR, YOU PROBABLY CAN'T DO IT A
- 1:06:25WHOLE LOT MORE THIS YEAR, BUT THINK ABOUT IT FOR NEXT
- 1:06:27SPRING OR NEXT SUMMER. WHAT SHE DID WAS DEVELOPED A
- 1:06:31LITTLE FLYER SHE TOOK TO ABOUT 10 OF HER NEIGHBORHOOD
- 1:06:34HOUSEHOLDS. AND SHE INVITED THEM TO COME ON A, I DON'T
- 1:06:37KNOW IF IT WAS A SATURDAY AFTERNOON OR A SUNDAY
- 1:06:39AFTERNOON, AND HAVE ICE CREAM IN HER DRIVEWAY. SHE
- 1:06:43SET OUT FOLDING CHAIRS, SHE BOUGHT THE ICE CREAM, AND
- 1:06:46SHE TOLD THEM TO BRING THE TOPPINGS. AND SHE BROUGHT
- 1:06:49NEIGHBORS IN FROM ALL AROUND HER, AND THEY JUST HAD A
- 1:06:52LITTLE SOCIAL GATHERING. SHE PROVIDED ICE CREAM, DID IT.
- 1:06:56AND THEN SHE GOT TO KNOW HER NEIGHBORS. IT'S DEVELOPING
- 1:06:59THOSE RELATIONSHIPS SO THAT YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES AT
- 1:07:01LEAST, AND THEN YOU CAN START HAVING A CONVERSATION.
- 1:07:03WELL, WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? OR WHERE DO YOU GO
- 1:07:06TO CHURCH OR WHATEVER? AND THAT'S THE START. YOU KNOW,
- 1:07:10MOST PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THEIR NEIGHBORS ARE
- 1:07:12ANYMORE. LET'S MOVE ON. I HIT A SORE SPOT THERE, I
- 1:07:19THINK. SO WE DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT ONE ANYMORE.
- 1:07:26LEARN HOW TO TAKE THE BIBLE AND LEAD SOMEONE TO CHRIST.
- 1:07:30IF YOU GO TO OUR INFORMATION CENTER, I'VE GOT THEM HERE,
- 1:07:35WE HAVE BOOKLETS THAT YOU CAN PICK UP. ONE NEW BOOK
- 1:07:40THAT WAS JUST WRITTEN BY PASTOR BRENDA IS CALLED
- 1:07:42BIBLE BASICS. IT'S A GREAT ONE TO HAND OUT TO PEOPLE.
- 1:07:45AND THE LAST PAGE OF IT HAS A PRAYER FOR SALVATION. SO
- 1:07:49YOU CAN JUST READ THIS PRAYER WITH THEM AND GET
- 1:07:52THEM SAVED. BUT YOU'RE GIVEN THE BIBLE BASICS OF HOW TO
- 1:07:54UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE. THIS IS A GREAT ONE. IF YOU WANT
- 1:07:57TO GO A DIFFERENT ROUTE, THERE'S ANOTHER BOOKLET THAT
- 1:07:59WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF. IT'S CALLED THE NEW BIRTH,
- 1:08:01WRITTEN BY KENNETH HAGEN. AND IT EXPLAINS WHAT THE NEW
- 1:08:04BIRTH IS AND WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE BORN AGAIN.
- 1:08:06SO THOSE ARE FREE. YOU CAN PICK THEM UP RIGHT AT OUR
- 1:08:08INFORMATION CENTER. AND LASTLY, EVERY BELIEVER
- 1:08:16SHOULD GIVE MONETARILY TO FINANCE THE GOSPEL TO THE
- 1:08:19REST OF THE WORLD. WE HAVE A DROP DOWN ON OUR GIVING HERE
- 1:08:23AT LORD OF HOSTS. IT'S CALLED MEDIA OUTREACH AND
- 1:08:26MISSIONS. AND WHEN YOU GIVE TO THAT, IT EITHER GOES INTO
- 1:08:29REACHING PEOPLE THROUGH MEDIA OR INTO THE
- 1:08:31MISSIONARIES THAT WE SUPPORT THAT HAVE WORK IN OTHER
- 1:08:37PARTS OF THE WORLD, AND SOME IN THE UNITED STATES, TO WIN
- 1:08:40PEOPLE, WIN THE LOST. SO THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT
- 1:08:43YOU CAN DO IS SUPPORT MISSIONS. MY PRAYER TONIGHT
- 1:08:46IS THAT GOD WILL HELP EACH OF US TO ANSWER THE CALL TO
- 1:08:50REACH THE HARVEST THAT HE'S ASSIGNED TO US. AMEN. IN
- 1:08:54CONCLUSION, CHAPLAIN JEFF CONGDON TELLS A STORY THAT'S
- 1:08:59WORTH SHARING. WHEN JEFF WAS IN BIBLE COLLEGE, HE WAS
- 1:09:02ASSIGNED BY A PROFESSOR TO WITNESS THREE TIMES AND THEN
- 1:09:06WRITE A REPORT ON EACH WITNESSING ENCOUNTER AND
- 1:09:11TURN THEM IN BY A CERTAIN DATE. AND THE DUE DATE
- 1:09:13ARRIVED AND JEFF REALIZED THAT HE WAS STILL SHORT ONE
- 1:09:17OF HIS WITNESSING ENCOUNTERS. HE HADN'T DONE
- 1:09:19THE THIRD ONE AND HE NEEDED TO DO IT. AND HE SAID,
- 1:09:22"WHERE COULD I FIND SOME PEOPLE TO WITNESS TO?" HE
- 1:09:25ASKED HIMSELF, AND THEN HE REMEMBERED THAT THE PIER ON
- 1:09:28LAKE MICHIGAN ALWAYS HAD MANY PEOPLE JUST HANGING
- 1:09:31AROUND, STROLLING AROUND THAT TIME OF DAY. SO HE WENT
- 1:09:35DOWN TO THE MICHIGAN PIER AND THERE WAS A MARRIED
- 1:09:38COUPLE SITTING ON THE BENCH. HE WALKED UP TO THEM AND HE
- 1:09:41TOLD THEM ABOUT HIS ASSIGNMENT AND HE ASKED THEM
- 1:09:43IF THEY COULD HELP OUT BY LISTENING TO HIS
- 1:09:46PRESENTATION. AND THEY AGREED TO. AND THEN HE WENT
- 1:09:50THROUGH THE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS TRACT. HOW MANY EVER
- 1:09:53REMEMBER THOSE LITTLE TRACTS THAT WERE THE FOUR SPIRITUAL
- 1:09:55LAWS? SOME OF YOU DO REMEMBER THOSE. AND, WELL,
- 1:09:58WE WON'T TALK ABOUT THAT. BUT IT JUST EXPLAINED HOW TO
- 1:10:01HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. IF I CAN REMEMBER IT,
- 1:10:05I THINK IT WAS GOD LOVES YOU AND HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR
- 1:10:08LIFE. ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF GOD'S GLORY. JESUS IS
- 1:10:13GOD'S PROVISION FOR US, AND YOU HAVE TO RECEIVE JESUS
- 1:10:17CHRIST AS , FOURTHLY, TO GO TO HEAVEN.THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT
- 1:10:22THE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS WERE. SO, HE GAVE THAT TRACK TO THEM
- 1:10:25AND ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH IT. AND SHE SAID, THE LADY GOT TEARS
- 1:10:32IN HER EYES, SHE SAYS "I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS ALL MY LIFE.
- 1:10:36I GO TO CHURCH SOMETIMES, BUT I'VE NEVER HEARD THE STEPS TO
- 1:10:41SALVATION." AND JEFF CONCLUDED IN PRAYER
- 1:10:43WITH THIS LADY, AND SHE WEPT AS SHE CONFESSED JESUS AS
- 1:10:47HER SAVIOR. HER NAME WAS WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE,
- 1:10:51AND HER DESTINATION THAT DAY WAS CHANGED FROM HELL TO HEAVEN. AND
- 1:10:57ALL OF THAT HAPPENED BECAUSE JEFF WAS REQUIRED TO FULFILL AN
- 1:11:01ASSIGNMENT FOR A CLASS. THERE AGAIN, HE WAS
- 1:11:06DIRECTED, HE WAS ON A MISSION. AS WE CONCLUDE
- 1:11:09TONIGHT, I WANT TO MENTION THAT EVERY ONE OF YOU SHOULD
- 1:11:12HAVE RECEIVED ONE OF THESE AGAIN. YOU THINK I'M TRYING
- 1:11:15TO GET RID OF THESE CARDS THE WAY WE'RE HANDING THEM
- 1:11:16OUT ALL THE TIME, YOU KNOW. SO WE ARE TRYING TO GET RID
- 1:11:19OF THEM BECAUSE THERE'S A PURPOSE BEHIND THEM. THERE'S
- 1:11:20DIRECTION FOR THEM. BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED ONE OF
- 1:11:24THESE AS YOU CAME IN. AND IF YOU DIDN'T, THERE'S MORE AT
- 1:11:26THE INFORMATION CENTERS FOR YOU TO PICK UP. EVERY ONE OF
- 1:11:28YOU SHOULD HAVE THESE IN YOUR WALLET, IN YOUR PURSE,
- 1:11:31IN YOUR POCKETS, OR WHATEVER. AND I WANNA
- 1:11:34CHALLENGE YOU TONIGHT. WE'VE GOT IT UP HERE ON THE SCREEN
- 1:11:37SO YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. BUT I'M GONNA
- 1:11:39CHALLENGE YOU TO DO THIS. PERSONALLY INVITE ONE PERSON
- 1:11:45TO CHURCH DURING THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. CARRY A CARD
- 1:11:48WITH YOU. AND IF YOU HAPPEN TO RUN INTO SOMEONE AT THE
- 1:11:51BARBERSHOP, THE GROCERY STORE, YOUR NEIGHBOR WHEN
- 1:11:55YOU'RE OUT WALKING THE DOG OR GETTING THE MAIL, MAYBE
- 1:11:59YOU GO TO THE GAS STATION AND THERE'S SOMEONE GETTING
- 1:12:01GAS NEXT TO YOU, YOU CAN INVITE HIM TO CHURCH. WHO
- 1:12:05KNOWS? BUT EVERY ONE OF US, UNLESS YOU'RE ISOLATED IN
- 1:12:09YOUR HOME AND SHUT IN YOUR HOME FOR SEVEN DAYS SOLID
- 1:12:12AND NEVER LEAVE, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY
- 1:12:15TO MEET SOMEONE OR SEE SOMEONE. MAYBE YOU'RE AT A
- 1:12:18RESTAURANT AND THE WAITRESS, WHEN YOU GIVE HER THE TIP,
- 1:12:22YOU CAN SAY, "BY THE WAY, DO YOU HAVE A CHURCH?" THINK
- 1:12:25OUTSIDE OF THE WALLS OF YOUR NORMAL LIFE. WE JUST GO
- 1:12:28THROUGH LIFE LIKE ROBOTS, MEETING AND DEALING WITH
- 1:12:32PEOPLE, BUT NEVER THINKING ABOUT THEIR SOULS. AND I'M
- 1:12:36GONNA CHALLENGE YOU THIS WEEK, USE THIS CARD FOR ONE
- 1:12:40PERSON. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY'LL COME. IT DOESN'T
- 1:12:43MEAN THAT THEY'LL NECESSARILY GET SAVED, BUT
- 1:12:46IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT A SEED CAN
- 1:12:49DO IN SOMEONE'S LIFE. MAYBE THEY'RE SEARCHING. MAYBE
- 1:12:53THEY'RE SEARCHING RIGHT AT THIS POINT, AND YOU'LL BE
- 1:12:55THE ONE THAT GOD SENDS TO GIVE THEM AN ANSWER. AMEN?
- 1:12:59AMEN. WELL, I WANT EILEEN TO COME RIGHT NOW. SHE'S GOING
- 1:13:02TO LEAD US IN A PRAYER FOR THE LOST. I THINK THAT'S A
- 1:13:05GOOD WAY TO CONCLUDE TONIGHT. AND LET'S ALL PRAY
- 1:13:08FOR A BURNING ZEAL AND URGENCY TO REACH THE LOST
- 1:13:14THAT ARE IN OUR CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE. AMEN. EILEEN,
- 1:13:18YOU'RE HERE. GOOD. - WELL, AFTER THAT LITTLE- THAT
- 1:13:23MESSAGE AND THAT LITTLE VIDEO CLIP, HOW MANY OF US
- 1:13:27ARE GOING TO HAVE A STORY LIKE WHAT WE SAW IN THAT
- 1:13:29VIDEO? THAT'S A CHALLENGE. AND WE PROBABLY ALREADY DO
- 1:13:34SOME, BUT LET'S DO IT. SO DOUG ASKED ME TO PRAY FOR
- 1:13:39THE HARVEST. AND THEN THERE'S A COUPLE AREAS I'M
- 1:13:41GOING TO HIT. AND THEN WE'LL ALSO PRAY FOR US AS THE
- 1:13:45ANSWER TO GO OUT INTO THE HARVEST. SO JUST RIGHT NOW,
- 1:13:51JUST THINK ABOUT THAT PERSON, OR MAYBE THERE'S A
- 1:13:53GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ARE IN YOUR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
- 1:13:58THAT YOU KNOW NEED CHRIST. SO WE'RE GONNA BE PRAYING
- 1:14:01FOR THOSE PEOPLE. AND THEN WE'LL ALSO BE PRAYING THAT
- 1:14:04GOD WOULD TURN THE HEARTS OF ALL PEOPLE ON EARTH. YOU
- 1:14:09KNOW, I THOUGHT OF THE SCRIPTURE AS PASTOR DOUG WAS
- 1:14:12PREACHING, THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, "APOLLOS WATERED." I
- 1:14:16PLANTED THE SEED, "APOLLOS WATERED," I THINK IS HOW IT
- 1:14:18GOES, BUT IT IS GOD WHO GIVES THE INCREASE. SO HE'S
- 1:14:22RESPONSIBLE. WE'RE JUST RESPONSIBLE TO OBEY AND TO
- 1:14:26PLANT SEED AND TO WATER AND TO BE ENCOURAGEMENT. WE
- 1:14:29CAN'T FORCE ANYBODY, BUT WE ARE COMMANDED TO SHARE AND
- 1:14:34TO GIVE OF OURSELVES. SO THINK ABOUT THAT PERSON. AND
- 1:14:38ALSO, IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, JOIN US AS WE ARE
- 1:14:42PRAYING FOR THOSE PEOPLE IN YOUR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
- 1:14:45THAT YOU KNOW NEED TO COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST. SO
- 1:14:49FIRST, THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT AREAS WE'RE GOING
- 1:14:52TO HIT. AND I'M ONLY GOING TO PRAY A FEW MINUTES.
- 1:14:54PASTOR DOUG SAID NO MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES. SO WHEN
- 1:14:58IT'S FIVE MINUTES, LET ME KNOW. ANYWAY, WE'RE GOING TO
- 1:15:01PRAY THAT GOD SOFTENS THEIR HEARTS AND THAT THEY WOULD
- 1:15:05TURN TO JESUS FOR SALVATION, THAT THIS IS THE PEOPLE OF
- 1:15:09THE WORLD, YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR ACQUAINTANCES, AND ALL
- 1:15:13PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. EZEKIEL 11:19 SAYS, "I WILL GIVE
- 1:15:18THEM A NEW HEART, AND I WILL PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN
- 1:15:21THEM. I WILL TAKE THE HEART OF STONE, THE HARDENED
- 1:15:24HEART, OUT OF THEM, AND WILL GIVE THEM A HEART THAT IS
- 1:15:27SENSITIVE AND RESPONSIVE TO THE TOUCH OF THEIR GOD." SO,
- 1:15:30FATHER GOD, WE ASK YOU NOW, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, TO
- 1:15:34REMOVE THE STONY HEARTS FROM PEOPLE. WE GIVE THEM, GIVE
- 1:15:38PEOPLE A NEW HEART THAT IS RECEPTIVE TO YOU. FATHER, I
- 1:15:43PRAY THAT THEY WOULD HAVE EARS TO HEAR. WE BIND UP THE
- 1:15:46DEVIL AND THE LIES THAT ARE SPOKEN TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE
- 1:15:50KEPT THEM IN BONDAGE. WE BIND SATAN FROM CAUSING
- 1:15:54BLINDNESS IN PEOPLE. FATHER, I ASK YOU TO MOVE AND WORK
- 1:15:59IN BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE LOVE AND CARE ABOUT AND
- 1:16:02THAT ARE AROUND US AND ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND THIS
- 1:16:05EARTH. OH FATHER, WE ASK FOR THAT GREAT, GREAT HARVEST,
- 1:16:09THAT GREAT HARVEST NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS. AND IT
- 1:16:13STARTS BY SOFTENING HEARTS. AND I BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE
- 1:16:17BEGUN THAT WORK IN THIS NATION AND AROUND THIS
- 1:16:20WORLD. FATHER, WE'RE SEEING HARVEST ALREADY, BUT I'M NOT
- 1:16:24SATISFIED. WE HAVE NOT SEEN ENOUGH, AND SO WE PRAY THAT
- 1:16:28YOU SOFTEN HEARTS, THAT YOU WOO PEOPLE, THAT YOU DRAW
- 1:16:31THEM IN, FATHER. I THANK YOU. PLACE A LONGING IN
- 1:16:36PEOPLE'S HEARTS FOR A RELATIONSHIP THAT HAS
- 1:16:38MEANING, THAT GIVES THEM PURPOSE AND HAS ETERNITY IN
- 1:16:44HEAVEN WITH YOU. I THANK YOU THAT YOU SNATCH PEOPLE OUT
- 1:16:47OF THE JAWS OF THE DEVIL. I THANK YOU THAT YOU ARE
- 1:16:50MOVING IN BEHALF OF PEOPLE'S LIVES AND MAKING THEM OPEN
- 1:16:55TO YOU. I THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT THEIR HEARTS ARE
- 1:16:58SOFTENED TO HEAR YOUR GOSPEL, TO HEAR YOUR WORD.
- 1:17:06POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH, O GOD. FATHER,
- 1:17:10LIKE YOU DID IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, YOU POURED OUT YOUR
- 1:17:12SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH. AND YOU SAID THAT IN THE LAST DAYS,
- 1:17:16OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WOULD PROPHESY. WE WOULD SEE SIGNS
- 1:17:20AND MIRACLES AND WONDERS. FATHER, I AM NOT SATISFIED.
- 1:17:23I HAVE NOT SEEN ENOUGH. AND I WANT TO BE A PART OF THAT.
- 1:17:26SO I THANK YOU THAT YOU'RE MOVING IN BEHALF OF PEOPLE'S
- 1:17:29LIVES. I THANK YOU, FATHER. ALSO, SECOND, WE ASK THAT
- 1:17:33YOU SEND A SPIRIT OF CONVICTION. FATHER, WE PRAY
- 1:17:36FOR THE SPIRIT OF CONVICTION TO BE RELEASED INTO THE
- 1:17:39HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE PRAYING FOR. ACCORDING
- 1:17:42TO JOHN 16:8, YOU SAID YOU WOULD CONVICT THE WORLD OF
- 1:17:46SIN AND ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT AND THE JUDGMENT THAT IS TO
- 1:17:49COME. SO WE ASK YOU, FATHER GOD, THAT YOU POUR OUT YOUR
- 1:17:52CONVICTION, YOUR CONVICTING SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH, AND
- 1:17:56THAT THERE WOULD BE A REPENTANCE AND A TURNING TO
- 1:17:58YOU. LET PEOPLE SEE, THE PEOPLE WE SEE, LET THEM SEE,
- 1:18:04THE PEOPLE THAT WE MEET, LET THEM SEE YOU IN US. SEE YOUR
- 1:18:08LOVING KINDNESS AND YOUR TENDER MERCIES THROUGH US.
- 1:18:12[SPEAKING IN TONGUES] MAY THERE BE A CONVICTION, A
- 1:18:18CONVINCING OF ETERNITY AND THE TRUTH CONCERNING HEAVEN
- 1:18:22AND HELL AND OF THE REALITIES OF THOSE. FATHER,
- 1:18:26I THANK YOU THAT PEOPLE COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS
- 1:18:30CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 1:18:34AND THIRD, FATHER, WE ASK YOU, GOD, TO SEND A SPIRIT
- 1:18:38OF WISDOM AND REVELATION TO THOSE WHO NEED JESUS. OPEN
- 1:18:42THEIR MINDS AND THEIR HEARTS TO THE REVELATION THAT THEY
- 1:18:45NEED A SAVIOR, AND IT IS JESUS THAT THEY ARE LOOKING
- 1:18:48FOR. FATHER, WE PRAY ACCORDING TO EPHESIANS 1,
- 1:18:51THAT YOU WOULD GIVE THEM A SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND
- 1:18:54REVELATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOU, THAT THE EYES OF
- 1:18:58THEIR HEARTS, THAT THEIR UNDERSTANDING WOULD BE
- 1:19:00ENLIGHTENED, SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW WHAT IS THE HOPE
- 1:19:03OF YOUR CALLING, WHAT ARE THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF
- 1:19:06YOUR INHERITANCE, AND WHAT IS THE SURPASSING GREATNESS
- 1:19:09OF YOUR POWER TOWARDS THOSE THAT BELIEVE. I THANK YOU,
- 1:19:13FATHER, THAT YOU SEND A SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND
- 1:19:15REVELATION, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH DREAMS OR VISIONS,
- 1:19:19ANGELIC VISITATIONS, OR AS IN JOB 3:33, IN A DREAM IN
- 1:19:25THE NIGHTTIME, YOU, I FORGET HOW THE SCRIPTURE GOES
- 1:19:29EXACTLY, BUT YOU OPEN PEOPLE'S EARS AND YOU SEAL
- 1:19:33THEIR INSTRUCTIONS. ACCORDING, THAT'S WHAT YOU
- 1:19:36SAID IN JOB 33, AND I THANK YOU, YOU MOVE UPON PEOPLE,
- 1:19:40WHETHER IT'S A DREAM, A VISITATION THROUGH SOMEONE.
- 1:19:44FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT YOU ARE REAPING YOUR HARVEST AND
- 1:19:48PULLING PEOPLE INTO YOUR KINGDOM. FATHER, I ALSO
- 1:19:51FOURTHLY PRAY FOR A REVELATION OF YOUR LOVE FOR
- 1:19:55EACH PERSON. FATHER, WE ASK THAT THESE PEOPLE WILL BE
- 1:19:58OVERWHELMED WITH YOUR LOVE. ROMANS 2:4, "IT IS THE
- 1:20:01GOODNESS OF GOD THAT DRAWS MEN TO REPENTANCE." FATHER,
- 1:20:05I THANK YOU THAT THEY ARE DRAWN BY YOUR GOODNESS. THAT
- 1:20:08THEY WOULD GET THEIR EYES OFF OF WHAT THEY THINK IS
- 1:20:11GOOD IN THIS WORLD AND REALIZE THERE IS MORE TO IT.
- 1:20:14FATHER, I THANK YOU THERE IS A DISSATISFACTION WITH THE
- 1:20:18THINGS OF LIFE. PEOPLE ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH THINGS ON
- 1:20:22THIS EARTH. FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT YOU PLACED INSIDE
- 1:20:26EACH PERSON THIS VACUUM THAT CAN ONLY BE FILLED WITH YOU.
- 1:20:31SO I THANK YOU FOR THAT. I PRAY THAT THE EYES OF THEIR
- 1:20:34UNDERSTANDING WOULD BE ENLIGHTENED. THAT THEY WOULD
- 1:20:36UNDERSTAND THAT SATAN IS THEIR ENEMY, BUT YOU, JESUS,
- 1:20:40YOU CAME TO GIVE THEM LIFE AND TO GIVE IT TO THEM
- 1:20:43ABUNDANTLY ACCORDING TO JOHN 10. I THANK YOU FOR THAT.
- 1:20:47AND NOW, LASTLY, LORD, I PRAY ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
- 1:20:50938. WE ASK YOU, THE LORD OF THE HARVEST, TO SEND US AND
- 1:20:54SEND ALL CHRISTIANS AS WORKERS INTO YOUR HARVEST
- 1:20:57FIELD. FATHER, WE ASK YOU, THE LORD OF THE HARVEST, TO
- 1:21:00SEND LABORERS INTO THE FIELD. THIS COUNTRY IS A
- 1:21:04RIPE FIELD FOR THE HARVEST. THANK YOU THAT YOU'RE ALWAYS
- 1:21:07AT WORK, WATCHING OVER YOUR WORD AS IT GOES OUT AND YOU
- 1:21:11DRAW PEOPLE TO YOURSELF. AND FATHER, WE ASK YOU,
- 1:21:17ACCORDING TO ISAIAH 6, ISAIAH SAID, "WHO SHALL I
- 1:21:22SEND?" YOU ASKED THE QUESTION OF ISAIAH, "WHO
- 1:21:26SHALL I SEND AND WHO WILL SPEAK FOR ME? WHO WILL GO
- 1:21:28FOR ME?" AND ISAIAH SAID, "HERE AM I, LORD, SEND ME."
- 1:21:33SO FATHER, I ASK YOU TO RAISE UP EACH OF US IN THIS
- 1:21:37AS A SPIRIT OF THE EVANGELIST TO GO AFTER THE
- 1:21:40PEOPLE WHO ARE DYING AND HURTING. I THANK YOU THAT
- 1:21:42YOU COMMISSION US NOW FOR THE HARVEST FIELD. AND WE
- 1:21:45SAY, "HERE AM I, LORD, SEND ME." HALLELUJAH. I THANK YOU
- 1:21:50FOR IT. SAY THIS WITH ME. "HERE AM I, LORD..." NOW SAY
- 1:21:55IT AND THEN LET'S REPEAT IT TOGETHER. HERE AM I, LORD,
- 1:21:57SEND ME. HERE AM I, LORD, SEND ME. THANK YOU, FATHER.
- 1:22:03[APPLAUSE] - HOW ABOUT THAT?
- 1:22:14AM I ON? OK. GOOD JOB. POWERFUL PRAYER, EILEEN, AND
- 1:22:19YOU DID IT IN FIVE MINUTES, SO THAT'S GREAT. SHE'S NOT
- 1:22:24EVEN RESPONDING. OKAY, WELL, HEY, I'M GOING TO GET YOU
- 1:22:27OUT OF HERE TONIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO SAY GOODBYE TO OUR
- 1:22:30ONLINE AUDIENCE IN A MINUTE. I JUST WANTED TO MENTION, WE
- 1:22:33DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS COMING SUNDAY, JOHN
- 1:22:36AMAKUCHU, AMACHUKWU, WHATEVER, I'LL GET IT
- 1:22:42EVENTUALLY. I'M WORKING ON IT. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME
- 1:22:45THERE, BOB. BUT HE'LL BE HERE, AND HE IS WORTH COMING
- 1:22:49TO HEAR. HE'S BOLD AS A LION, AND HE HAS A GREAT
- 1:22:53MESSAGE FOR THIS CHURCH. SO DON'T MISS SUNDAY. BRING A
- 1:22:56FRIEND IF YOU CAN. DON'T FORGET RESCUING A
- 1:22:59GENERATION, OCTOBER 29TH, INTERCEDING FOR CHILDREN AND
- 1:23:04FAMILIES. THAT'S GOING ON. IT'LL BE AN ONLINE-ONLY
- 1:23:07BROADCAST, BUT YOU'LL WANT TO TAKE PART IN THAT. AND
- 1:23:10THEN DON'T FORGET THE OMAHA VICTORY CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 6
- 1:23:13THROUGH THE 8TH WITH BROTHER KENNETH COPELAND AND SEVERAL
- 1:23:17OTHER GUEST SPEAKERS. IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT TIME HERE. AND
- 1:23:19WE WANT TO BE HERE TO SUPPORT BROTHER COPELAND. SO GOD BLESS
- 1:23:22YOU. THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT. AND DON'T FORGET, YOU
- 1:23:26HAVE AN ASSIGNMENT FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. AMEN? WE'RE
- 1:23:30GOING TO GET SOME MORE PEOPLE SAVED IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN.
- 1:23:33GOD BLESS YOU. HAVE A WONDERFUL NIGHT. WE'LL SEE YOU SUNDAY.