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I want us to experience Christ
more than anything.

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I want us to know His presence.

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I want us to know His power.

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I want us to be familiar with
the workings of His Spirit.

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I want us to fall more deeply in love.

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I want us to know more of the cross.

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I want to be able to enter in 
more with His heart.

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That's why I wanted to set Christ
before you yesterday.

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That pattern.

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I want you to see Him.

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I want there to be something of

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the Spirit of God working
through what we see,

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burning in Him and have
that etched upon us.

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I desire that.

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And one of the texts 
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that I keep coming back to in my mind

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over and over and over,

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Lord, no matter what 
You give us;

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no matter if we see conversions;

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no matter if we're 
allowed to have

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the privilege to be able
to plant churches

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or go to the mission field

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or send guys out.

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If we see these young people,
and they're coming to us

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and they're burning 
with a passion;

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I love those things!

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I don't want those things to go away,

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but I realize in the end of it,

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Lord, if You don't give us more than that,

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if You don't give us 
a sense of Yourself...

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and I come to the Scriptures and
over and over and over again

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I find in John 14:21

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I find this promise:

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Christ saying,

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"I will manifest Myself to you."

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"I will manifest Myself."

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What does that speak of?

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It speaks of an experiential
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Manifestation.

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There's an appeal to the senses.

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Christ comes near in a way

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that we feel, we sense,

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there's something that we're 
able to lay hold of.

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And I guarantee you this,

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when Christ comes near

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in a manifest expression
of glory and presence,

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it can't do anything but 
cause us to burn.

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It can't do anything but cause passion.

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You cannot have Christ come near

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except it does something in you.

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It stirs you.

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It creates heat.

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It creates fire.

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But I'll tell you this,

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Christian, I'm speaking to you

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that have a profession.

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It's conditional.

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He says if you have My commandments

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and you keep them.

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It's amazing how the church is today.

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Oh, we can see this shift.

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Are you guys going to be given up
to the providence we heard about?

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Well, providentially, you know
what's happening today.

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Everything's moving 
away from the U.S.

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It's going to China.
It's going to Korea.

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Ok, are you just going to settle down

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and settle for a nice, slow death?

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And accept that providence?

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Man, I can tell you, when we
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some brethren from the
Sovereign Grace circles

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that I love, I love to
hear them preach;

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they'd say things to me like,

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"The Lord's done."

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The Lord's done.

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The second coming 
has to be at hand.

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There's no more.

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We don't see anymore of the 
workings of God.

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We might as well throw in the towel.

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I mean, there's providence folks.

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They're all moving to Korea.

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Underground church in China.

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Ok, do that.

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Just settle in.

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Allow that.

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Take that as providence.

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Or you can rise up and say,

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no, I'm going to bust 
through that ceiling.

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Because I'll tell you this,

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you say you have any desire

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for Christ to come near?

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You say you have any desire
to experience more of Him

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than you've ever 
experienced in your life?

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You say that?

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Who was it? I think
it was Lloyd-Jones

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that said,

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Your desire for Christ;
your desire to know Him;

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your desire for Him to draw near,

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it's tested by your obedience.

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Based on texts just like that.

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In John 14:21 - just like that.

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We say, oh, we want 
Him to draw near.

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We say we want revival.

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We say we want these things.

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We're like these pathetic
hyper-Calvinists.

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Well, these were pretty
stirring meetings,

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and what we're going to do,

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we're going to sit back,

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and we're going to
hope God does something.

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You know what the basis
of hyper-Calvinism is?

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It's basically saying this,

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whether you're lost or 
whether you're saved,

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it's saying this,

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I can't do something.

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There's something that spiritually,

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in and of myself,

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I don't have the ability to carry out.

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And so, I'm going to sit back

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and I'm going to wait for God to do it.

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And then I'm going to 
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Those weren't hyper-Calvinists

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that busted through that ceiling that day.

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They said be done with that.

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We want to get to Christ.

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We want to be in His presence.

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We're going to press
in to the inner place.

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We don't care if we 
knock some dirt

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on the Pharisee's foreheads.

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Let it fall on them.

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We're getting in there.

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Folks, I'm going to start and
I'm going to end this

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by hitting on some men 
that stayed at home

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and they were faithful.

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But I'll tell you what,

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there was fire that burned there,

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and they wanted this.

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They wanted it.

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I want the missionary endeavor
for a number of reasons.

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But one of the things, folks,
that we have to come to grips with.

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Matthew 28:18-20

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We have a divine imperative.

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And if we sit here in our nice
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and we wonder why; we sit 
back, we don't do anything,

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we wonder why?

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Why are people going to sleep?

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Why is this happening?

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This is a point of obedience, folks.

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We want to amass the resources.

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We don't love to send people away.

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We don't like to separate.

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Folks, if we really have a good

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estimation of the coming 
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so be it.

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So what?

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Send them away.

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You know what?

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I don't expect that all these young guys

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coming in to our church right now

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are going to stay there.

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And so be it.

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You say you don't love them?

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No, I do.

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There are some of these guys

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I would hate to see go away,

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but you know what, if they
go off to the mission field;

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if they go off somewhere

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even if they ended 
up like the Stam's.

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Just in a few short months
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they lost their heads.

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Glory be to God.

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You know what happened when
those two got their heads cut off?

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It moved among the young
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I think they had like 
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apply to the China Inland Mission.

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I'll tell you what,

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if Jonathan Diaz or one
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put their head on the block

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and it costs them their head

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to have 700 more like him to
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I'll take it.

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Where is Jonathan?

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That's not to say you're the
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"Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,

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'All power is given unto Me in heaven

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and in earth.

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Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations,

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baptizing them in the name of the Father,

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and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost;

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teaching them to observe all things

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whatsoever I have commanded you,

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and lo, I am with you alway.'"

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Let that sink in.

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Lo, I am with you alway,
even to the end of the world.

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One of the greatest indications

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this is not for the first century
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is right there.

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I am with you to the end of the world.

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I am with you to the end of the ages.

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Amen.

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Now yesterday, I attempted to show you

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and convince you that 
the Lord Jesus Christ

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was sent from heaven by the Father

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to this earth.

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Not as some disinterested stoic.

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He is that great missionary.

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The apostle. The sent one.

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Sent of His Father.

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Sent from heaven.

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Sent here full of passion 
for the Father's honor.

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Full of passion for
the souls of men.

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He came from heaven.

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He didn't leave His passions there

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when He came.

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He came with them.

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He came with His tears.

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He came with His
bowels of compassion.

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He came full of a zeal

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for His Father's honor and glory.

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He didn't leave those things behind.

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He didn't walk around like some

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monotone robot on this world.

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He brought those tears.
He brought that zeal.

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He brought those bowels of love.

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And He went right to where sinners were.

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And the case I'm trying to make

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is that if we don't likewise 
possess something of

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the heart and the soul of Jesus Christ

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burning in our own souls,

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we can ever forget about missions.

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It's not going to happen.

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But the thing is 
we can't forget about it.

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Because we have what we have

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right there in Matthew 28.

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Folks,

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He said this:

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"As the Father hath sent Me,

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even so I am sending you."

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Here's the thing.

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Lo, I am with you always.

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And this is the thing I want you to see.

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He's promised to be with us

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even to the end of the world.

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He walks at our side.

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Though I can't see Him.

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Though I can't physically lay 
my fingers right now

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where Thomas laid his.

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He's promised.

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Think about it.

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He hasn't changed.

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Does Christ change?

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The very passions He came 
to this earth with

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burn in His heart now.

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And He's promised,
"I'm with you."

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He's promised to walk at our side

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still with Him burning;

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all this intensity, all this fervor,

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bidding us onward in the
missionary endeavor.

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Our Lord says go.

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Go to the nations.

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Go teach them.
Go disciple them.

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Go baptize them.

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Give the nations My commandments.

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And I'm convinced, it's only those

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gripped by this heart,

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by this heat of Christ,

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who are going to pull this off.

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Here's Spurgeon.

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He stayed at home.

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But listen to the heart of
this man that stayed at home.

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I don't even know what number,

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what percentage of men,

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would have been sent out of 
the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

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I didn't look into that.

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I'll tell you another man

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who sits at home.

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Not doing nothing sitting;

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Maybe I should say 
he stands at home.

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He runs at home.

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Look at a guy like John Piper.

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I can remember sitting in a meeting

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over in Owensboro,

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and having a man bring up this fact.

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That Bethlehem sent out

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80 missionaries in one summer.

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More than the collective group of churches

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being represented in that place
at that time

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in their 35 year history.

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What is it that burns in 
a man like Piper?

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What is it that burns in a
man like Spurgeon?

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I'm wondering that, because

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I'm seeking to pastor a church

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and keep that fire alive at home.

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Here's what he says,

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Spurgeon meditating on 
Matthew 28:18, 19

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He says, "While I 
was meditating in private

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upon this text, I felt myself

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carried away by its power.

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I was quite unable calmly to
consider its terms,

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or to investigate its argument.

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The command with which 
the text concludes

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repeated itself again
and again and again

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in my ears, till I found it 
impossible to study,

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for my thoughts were running
hither and thither

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asking a thousand questions,

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all of them intended to help me

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in answering for myself the 
solemn inquiry.

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How am I to go and teach
all nations,

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baptizing them in the name of the
Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost?

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My ears seemed to hear it as if

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Christ were then speaking it to me.

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I could realize His presence by my side.

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I thought I could see Him
lifted His peirced hand,

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and hear Him speak as 
He was wont to speak

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with authority blended with meekness.

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Go ye, and teach all nations,

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baptizing them in the name of 
the all glorious God.

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Oh, I would that the church 
could hear the Savior

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addressing these words to her now.

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For the words of Christ
are living words.

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Not having power in them
yesterday alone,

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but today also.

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The injunctions of the Savior

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are perpetual in their obligation.

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They were not binding 
on apostles merely,

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but upon us also.

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And upon every Christian does
this yoke fall.

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We're not exempt today from the

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service of the first followers
of the Lamb.

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Our marching orders are the
same as theirs.

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And our Captain requires from
us obedience,

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as prompt and perfect

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as from them.

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Oh, that His message may not
fall upon..."

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now listen to this!

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"Oh, that His message

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may not fall upon deaf ears,

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or be heard by stolid souls."

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Do you know what that word is?

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Indifferent, stupid, dense,
dry, dull.

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Spurgeon continuing,

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"Brethren, the heathen are perishing.

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Shall we let them perish?

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His name is blasphemed.

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Shall we be quiet and still?

345
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The honor of Christ is cast into the dust.

346
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His foes revile His person
and resist His throne.

347
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Shall we, His soldiers, suffer this

348
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and not find our hands feeling
for the hilt of our sword?

349
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The Sword of the Spirit,

350
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which is the Word of God.

351
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Our Lord delayeth His coming.

352
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Shall we begin to sleep?

353
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To eat?

354
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To be drunken?

355
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Shall we not rather gird up
the loins of our mind

356
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and cry unto Him,

357
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'Come, Lord Jesus, 
come quickly!'

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The scoffing skeptics of these last days

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have said that the anticipated conquest

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of the world for Christ is but a dream.

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It is asserted by some

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that the superstitions of the heathens

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are too strong to be battered down

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by our teachings.

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And that the strongholds of Satan

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are utterly impregnable 
against our attacks.

367
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Shall it be so?

368
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Shall we be content 
foolishly to sit still?"

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And he continues,

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"Oh, that there were might

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in some human lip

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to move the thousands of our Isreal

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to advance at once,

374
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unanimously and irresistably

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to the world's conquest.

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Like one tremendous tide rising

377
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from the depths of the ocean

378
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to sweep over the sands,
the barren sands,

379
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which are now given up to
desolation and death.

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Oh that once again the voice
of thunder could be heard."

381
00:16:24,291 --> 00:16:27,376
And right here - this is
the point I'm driving at.

382
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"And that the lightning spirit 
could penetrate each heart.

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And as one man the entire church

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might take the marching orders

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of her Lord and go teach all nations,

386
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baptizing them in the 
name of Israel's God.

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Oh, Lord, if we fail to speak,

388
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fail not Thou to speak.

389
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And if we know not how to 
bear Thy burden,

390
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or express Thine awful thoughts,

391
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yet speak that with Thou
all-constraining silent voice

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which well trained ears can hear.

393
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And make Thy servants obedient

394
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to Thee now for Christ's sake.

395
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Folks, that's it.

396
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It's the lightning spirit
penetrating each heart.

397
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And my point is this,

398
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you can try to evade this if you want.

399
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But you show me an individual,

400
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you show me a church,
a collective group of churches

401
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that is raising up men and women

402
00:17:26,597 --> 00:17:27,878
for far away places,

403
00:17:27,878 --> 00:17:30,321
sending them forth, planting churches,

404
00:17:30,321 --> 00:17:32,388
experiencing the saving power of God,

405
00:17:32,388 --> 00:17:33,506
and I'll tell you what,

406
00:17:33,506 --> 00:17:36,547
somebody there has lightning spirit.

407
00:17:36,547 --> 00:17:39,376
Someone's excited.
Someone's impassioned.

408
00:17:39,376 --> 00:17:43,185
You show me your great resources.

409
00:17:43,185 --> 00:17:45,114
Show me all your money.

410
00:17:45,114 --> 00:17:47,955
Show me your brilliant scholars
with their high IQ's.

411
00:17:47,955 --> 00:17:49,937
And you know what?

412
00:17:49,937 --> 00:17:51,552
I'll in turn show you the guy

413
00:17:51,552 --> 00:17:55,816
who has the gut level,
unstoppable lightning and desire.

414
00:17:55,816 --> 00:17:57,933
I remember some years ago,

415
00:17:57,933 --> 00:18:00,168
I think it was right after I
was first saved.

416
00:18:00,168 --> 00:18:03,056
I listened to a lot of John 
MacArthur in those days.

417
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I can remember a message that 
he did in 2 Thessalonians.

418
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And I looked that up because

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I thought it had something particularly

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00:18:09,514 --> 00:18:13,396
applicable to what I wanted to say today.

421
00:18:13,396 --> 00:18:15,965
Here's MacArthur speaking,
and I quote to you,

422
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"I remember standing with Russ Hodge

423
00:18:20,201 --> 00:18:22,761
on the infield at the
University of Oregon

424
00:18:22,761 --> 00:18:25,072
watching the triangular decathlon meet

425
00:18:25,072 --> 00:18:28,739
between the USSR, Poland, and
The United States.

426
00:18:28,739 --> 00:18:31,244
Russ was the coach of the
American team.

427
00:18:31,244 --> 00:18:33,167
He was the former world record holder

428
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in the decathlon.

429
00:18:34,164 --> 00:18:35,745
And I was standing 
there with him

430
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watching the greatest 
athletes in the world

431
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preparing to begin the meet."

432
00:18:39,962 --> 00:18:43,008
MacArthur says, "there were
some great Russian athletes.

433
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There was one who was 
a massive giant of a man.

434
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Just an awesome human specimen.

435
00:18:47,846 --> 00:18:50,057
There was a great Polish athlete.

436
00:18:50,057 --> 00:18:52,016
There were some tremendous Americans.

437
00:18:52,016 --> 00:18:55,631
I said to Russ,

438
00:18:55,631 --> 00:19:00,322
'Who is the greatest athlete here?'

439
00:19:00,322 --> 00:19:04,582
He pointed to a rather 
slender live young man.

440
00:19:04,582 --> 00:19:07,062
He said, 'he's the greatest athlete here.'

441
00:19:07,062 --> 00:19:09,214
He, by the way, is an 
outstanding Christian.

442
00:19:09,214 --> 00:19:12,727
I said, 'that's wonderful 
to know. Will he win?'

443
00:19:12,727 --> 00:19:15,097
He said, 'No, he won't win.'

444
00:19:15,097 --> 00:19:16,930
I said, 'What do you mean
he won't win?

445
00:19:16,930 --> 00:19:18,563
If he's the greatest athlete here,

446
00:19:18,563 --> 00:19:19,854
who will win?'

447
00:19:19,854 --> 00:19:22,344
He said, 'See that guy running 
around the track?

448
00:19:22,344 --> 00:19:25,244
That rather short guy over there
with the blonde wife?

449
00:19:25,244 --> 00:19:27,056
You've never heard of him.

450
00:19:27,056 --> 00:19:29,119
His name is Bruce Jenner.

451
00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:30,955
He'll win.'

452
00:19:30,955 --> 00:19:34,151
I said, 'Well, why will he win it
if he's not the greatest athlete?'

453
00:19:34,151 --> 00:19:39,140
He says, 'Because though he doesn't
have the greatest sheer talent,

454
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he's the most mentally tough competitor

455
00:19:41,355 --> 00:19:43,034
I've ever seen in my life.'

456
00:19:43,034 --> 00:19:45,057
Sure enough, the second day
in the twilight

457
00:19:45,057 --> 00:19:46,841
as he finished the distance event,

458
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number 10 event in the decathlon,

459
00:19:48,492 --> 00:19:49,986
he came through the winner.

460
00:19:49,986 --> 00:19:52,211
And two years later, the whole world

461
00:19:52,211 --> 00:19:55,727
knew who he was as he 
circled the track in Montreal

462
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with a flag in his hand.

463
00:19:57,265 --> 00:20:00,097
He had won the gold 
medal in the Olympics.

464
00:20:00,097 --> 00:20:02,541
He was named the greatest 
athlete in the world."

465
00:20:02,541 --> 00:20:04,520
I'll tell you what - here's the thing.

466
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:09,519
It wasn't the greatest sheer talent
that took the day.

467
00:20:09,519 --> 00:20:13,160
It was the greatest passion.

468
00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,412
The greatest gut-level intensity.

469
00:20:17,412 --> 00:20:20,939
That's where the drive;
that's where the determination;

470
00:20:20,939 --> 00:20:24,349
that's where the obsession
grabs hold of a man.

471
00:20:24,349 --> 00:20:26,301
That's what takes the day.

472
00:20:26,301 --> 00:20:28,875
That's how it is in the
Christian missionary endeavor.

473
00:20:28,875 --> 00:20:36,723
It's the raw passion that tends
to take the day.

474
00:20:36,723 --> 00:20:39,701
It's not always the greatest gifts,
the greatest talents,

475
00:20:39,701 --> 00:20:41,827
the greatest wealth,
the greatest intellect

476
00:20:41,827 --> 00:20:44,563
that comes through in the end.

477
00:20:44,563 --> 00:20:46,499
You know what?

478
00:20:46,499 --> 00:20:50,495
I thought as I was preparing this

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about Peter.

480
00:20:52,877 --> 00:20:54,206
I can imagine this.

481
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The Lord sends away the disciples.

482
00:20:55,861 --> 00:20:56,959
They jump in the boat.

483
00:20:56,959 --> 00:21:00,154
You know, we find them on
various occasions in the Gospels.

484
00:21:00,154 --> 00:21:02,255
They're out there on the waters;

485
00:21:02,255 --> 00:21:04,825
Sea of Galilee.

486
00:21:04,825 --> 00:21:06,907
And was wont to happen,

487
00:21:06,907 --> 00:21:11,040
the wind whips up,
the waves get big.

488
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:12,690
They get out there in the middle.

489
00:21:12,690 --> 00:21:14,554
Sometimes they had 
the Lord with them;

490
00:21:14,554 --> 00:21:15,724
sometimes they didn't.

491
00:21:15,724 --> 00:21:18,279
On this one occasion, they're out there.

492
00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:20,520
The Lord had stayed behind.

493
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:25,450
And you know they're out
there on the water.

494
00:21:25,450 --> 00:21:30,325
And they saw something you
typically don't see.

495
00:21:30,325 --> 00:21:33,162
There's a guy walking 
across the water.

496
00:21:33,162 --> 00:21:35,796
And they were terrified.

497
00:21:35,796 --> 00:21:41,981
They thought they saw a ghost.

498
00:21:41,981 --> 00:21:43,972
But here's the thing.

499
00:21:43,972 --> 00:21:47,577
Think with me about Peter.

500
00:21:47,577 --> 00:21:49,749
Because I think what happened right there,

501
00:21:49,749 --> 00:21:52,264
it's the perfect picture

502
00:21:52,264 --> 00:21:54,344
of the missionary endeavor.

503
00:21:54,344 --> 00:21:57,629
It's the perfect picture 
of what I want to see

504
00:21:57,629 --> 00:21:59,865
in our church.

505
00:21:59,865 --> 00:22:02,096
And I think would probably want to be seen

506
00:22:02,096 --> 00:22:03,269
here as well.

507
00:22:03,269 --> 00:22:06,658
And in the other churches.

508
00:22:06,658 --> 00:22:09,600
You know, the thing about 
people with passion,

509
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,347
all you've got to do is give it
an opportunity to run loose,

510
00:22:13,347 --> 00:22:15,887
and it goes.

511
00:22:15,887 --> 00:22:17,997
And the one thing you 
can't say about Peter

512
00:22:17,997 --> 00:22:20,501
is that he lacked passion.

513
00:22:20,501 --> 00:22:24,618
He's in the boat.

514
00:22:24,618 --> 00:22:27,704
They're out there,
terrified at first.

515
00:22:27,704 --> 00:22:32,445
The Lord identifies Himself.

516
00:22:32,445 --> 00:22:36,798
The King James says it was a ship.

517
00:22:36,798 --> 00:22:40,040
It was probably not so much
what we think of as a ship.

518
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,056
You've probably seen 
some of the pictures

519
00:22:42,056 --> 00:22:47,027
of some of the fishing crafts

520
00:22:47,027 --> 00:22:49,241
that they had over there
in the Sea of Galilee.

521
00:22:49,241 --> 00:22:50,936
I don't know what it would take

522
00:22:50,936 --> 00:22:52,263
to have gotten out of that.

523
00:22:52,263 --> 00:22:53,921
I don't know if a 
hand on the side

524
00:22:53,921 --> 00:22:55,307
and a jump over the side?

525
00:22:55,307 --> 00:22:58,928
But here's the Lord.

526
00:22:58,928 --> 00:23:00,870
"Come."

527
00:23:00,870 --> 00:23:04,481
I'll tell you what, 
Peter's out of there!

528
00:23:04,481 --> 00:23:06,446
That's what passion does.

529
00:23:06,446 --> 00:23:08,466
It's looking for opportunity.

530
00:23:08,466 --> 00:23:10,525
And somebody's going 
to come along and say,

531
00:23:10,525 --> 00:23:11,808
yeah, but Peter sunk.

532
00:23:11,808 --> 00:23:14,498
Hey, Peter also walked 
on the water.

533
00:23:14,498 --> 00:23:16,471
The people who jump out of the boat,

534
00:23:16,471 --> 00:23:18,429
typically do sink at times.

535
00:23:18,429 --> 00:23:21,061
But they're the ones that jump
out of the boat.

536
00:23:21,061 --> 00:23:22,882
And that's what passion does.

537
00:23:22,882 --> 00:23:24,135
His affection.

538
00:23:24,135 --> 00:23:26,067
Why do you think he 
was out of the boat?

539
00:23:26,067 --> 00:23:28,260
Not because it was such a 
neat thing to walk on the water.

540
00:23:28,260 --> 00:23:30,180
He had his eyes 
set on Christ - at first.

541
00:23:30,180 --> 00:23:32,225
Yeah, he got sidetracked a
little bit there,

542
00:23:32,225 --> 00:23:33,587
but there's passion.

543
00:23:33,587 --> 00:23:35,003
There's passion for Christ.

544
00:23:35,003 --> 00:23:36,083
"Come!"

545
00:23:36,083 --> 00:23:38,279
He's out of there!

546
00:23:38,279 --> 00:23:41,992
Isn't that "come" a 
whole lot like "go?"

547
00:23:41,992 --> 00:23:42,883
He's out of there!

548
00:23:42,883 --> 00:23:44,912
Give him a chance - he's out of there.

549
00:23:44,912 --> 00:23:46,723
What've you got the other
guys doing?

550
00:23:46,723 --> 00:23:49,179
They're sitting tight where it's safe.

551
00:23:49,179 --> 00:23:51,800
You know, we've got to 
analyze this thing.

552
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,289
We might step out of that boat,

553
00:23:53,289 --> 00:23:54,947
and we may not 
have the resources.

554
00:23:54,947 --> 00:23:57,363
We may go to the bottom.

555
00:23:57,363 --> 00:23:59,372
That's what the overanalyzers are doing.

556
00:23:59,372 --> 00:24:00,422
They're over there.

557
00:24:00,422 --> 00:24:02,047
They're trying to 
figure this out.

558
00:24:02,047 --> 00:24:04,857
Hm... we're not really certain
if this is going to work out.

559
00:24:04,857 --> 00:24:09,832
People with passion,
they're out there.

560
00:24:09,832 --> 00:24:14,689
They at times will definitely sink.

561
00:24:14,689 --> 00:24:17,746
But it's people with the passion,

562
00:24:17,746 --> 00:24:19,291
it's people with the daring,

563
00:24:19,291 --> 00:24:21,488
it's people with the believing.

564
00:24:21,488 --> 00:24:24,039
Yes, they do tend to fail at times.

565
00:24:24,039 --> 00:24:28,732
But they're the ones doing something.

566
00:24:28,732 --> 00:24:30,549
We need that.

567
00:24:30,549 --> 00:24:34,213
The ones with passion;
the ones that run;

568
00:24:34,213 --> 00:24:36,646
The ones that step out on faith;

569
00:24:36,646 --> 00:24:41,179
they're the ones typically
that see the miracles.

570
00:24:41,179 --> 00:24:43,560
We have come to the point in this country

571
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,576
especially among the Calvinistic brethren,

572
00:24:47,576 --> 00:24:50,450
where even the sound of miracles

573
00:24:50,450 --> 00:24:53,820
just grates in the ears of people.

574
00:24:53,820 --> 00:24:55,463
But I guarantee you people like

575
00:24:55,463 --> 00:24:56,921
Lloyd-Jones saw them;

576
00:24:56,921 --> 00:24:58,466
people like Tozer saw them;

577
00:24:58,466 --> 00:25:01,864
people like Duncan Campbell saw them.

578
00:25:01,864 --> 00:25:03,199
Why?

579
00:25:03,199 --> 00:25:05,669
It may have a lot more to do with faith

580
00:25:05,669 --> 00:25:09,502
than the fact that they were wild-eyed
charismatics who didn't know their Bibles.

581
00:25:09,502 --> 00:25:10,633
And I'll tell you what,

582
00:25:10,633 --> 00:25:12,555
it's typically the people with passion;

583
00:25:12,555 --> 00:25:14,727
it's people that are willing
to jump out of the boat;

584
00:25:14,727 --> 00:25:16,596
it's people willing to trust the Lord;

585
00:25:16,596 --> 00:25:20,422
it's people that are willing to 
go when they're beckoned.

586
00:25:20,422 --> 00:25:21,616
You know what?

587
00:25:21,616 --> 00:25:23,328
Every one of them could have jumped

588
00:25:23,328 --> 00:25:24,578
out of that boat in faith,

589
00:25:24,578 --> 00:25:27,567
and they would have walked on that water.

590
00:25:27,567 --> 00:25:29,302
It takes just a little faith.

591
00:25:29,302 --> 00:25:32,414
Folks, you can cast a whole 
mountain into the ocean.

592
00:25:32,414 --> 00:25:39,249
That goes for everybody.

593
00:25:39,249 --> 00:25:41,823
We have this problem today.

594
00:25:41,823 --> 00:25:44,800
Everybody's so worried about
being presumptuous.

595
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,746
Everybody wants to be cautious.

596
00:25:47,746 --> 00:25:49,618
Overanalyzing.

597
00:25:49,618 --> 00:25:50,765
But I'll tell you what,

598
00:25:50,765 --> 00:25:54,813
the overly cautious,
the overly analyzing;

599
00:25:54,813 --> 00:25:57,697
they're back in the boat.

600
00:25:57,697 --> 00:25:59,466
In fact, a whole lot of those folks

601
00:25:59,466 --> 00:26:01,285
are back on the shore.

602
00:26:01,285 --> 00:26:02,893
They're not even in the boat.

603
00:26:02,893 --> 00:26:05,581
They didn't even come that far.

604
00:26:05,581 --> 00:26:06,848
There's old William Carey.

605
00:26:06,848 --> 00:26:08,726
We've heard about him;
talked about him.

606
00:26:08,726 --> 00:26:11,367
Some of his contemporaries 
told him, sit down!

607
00:26:11,367 --> 00:26:14,342
They told him he was an enthusiast.

608
00:26:14,342 --> 00:26:16,025
Those nice high Calvinists;

609
00:26:16,025 --> 00:26:17,945
they told him he was certain to fail.

610
00:26:17,945 --> 00:26:21,234
Those are the guys 
sitting back in the boat.

611
00:26:21,234 --> 00:26:23,973
And you don't even know 
most of their names.

612
00:26:23,973 --> 00:26:25,644
And you won't find them unless you

613
00:26:25,644 --> 00:26:27,064
go read about Carey

614
00:26:27,064 --> 00:26:29,753
and find about the guys who resisted him.

615
00:26:29,753 --> 00:26:31,170
They're forgotten.

616
00:26:31,170 --> 00:26:33,984
The boat sitters are forgotten.

617
00:26:33,984 --> 00:26:37,645
I'm not saying this to make 
yourself popular.

618
00:26:37,645 --> 00:26:39,573
I'm saying it because it's reality.

619
00:26:39,573 --> 00:26:41,072
History forgets those guys.

620
00:26:41,072 --> 00:26:43,198
They don't have anything to offer us.

621
00:26:43,198 --> 00:26:44,179
Carey does.

622
00:26:44,179 --> 00:26:45,477
There was some faith there.

623
00:26:45,477 --> 00:26:46,760
There was some fire there.

624
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,132
There's something to learn.

625
00:26:48,132 --> 00:26:50,114
Carey jumped out of that boat.

626
00:26:50,114 --> 00:26:51,710
Or rather, down into the well,

627
00:26:51,710 --> 00:26:53,201
as we would say.

628
00:26:53,201 --> 00:26:54,552
Did he make mistakes?

629
00:26:54,552 --> 00:26:56,614
Certainly he did.

630
00:26:56,614 --> 00:26:58,818
Did he receive criticism from others?

631
00:26:58,818 --> 00:27:00,225
You better believe it.

632
00:27:00,225 --> 00:27:02,602
Even Calvinistic Baptists, absolutely.

633
00:27:02,602 --> 00:27:06,300
But who is it that turned the
world upside down?

634
00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:07,891
It was the enthusiast!

635
00:27:07,891 --> 00:27:10,510
That's exactly who it was.

636
00:27:10,510 --> 00:27:14,791
And his enthusiastic 
friends who stayed at home.

637
00:27:14,791 --> 00:27:18,727
The critics are forgotten.

638
00:27:18,727 --> 00:27:21,013
Peter's such an excellent 
example of all this.

639
00:27:21,013 --> 00:27:23,192
It's passion, brethren.

640
00:27:23,192 --> 00:27:24,983
It really is that.

641
00:27:24,983 --> 00:27:29,397
It's just that raw power of God

642
00:27:29,397 --> 00:27:33,232
let loose in people's lives.

643
00:27:33,232 --> 00:27:36,391
And you can read about it.

644
00:27:36,391 --> 00:27:38,440
It burned in the men like

645
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,650
the Hudson Taylors and the
Adoniram Judson's,

646
00:27:40,650 --> 00:27:42,426
the William Carey's.

647
00:27:42,426 --> 00:27:45,903
We need that, brethren, 
we need that.

648
00:27:45,903 --> 00:27:47,844
As I thought about this,

649
00:27:47,844 --> 00:27:50,131
I thought about, ok,
let's come around at this

650
00:27:50,131 --> 00:27:53,390
from the other end.

651
00:27:53,390 --> 00:27:55,271
Let's supposed you're out there,

652
00:27:55,271 --> 00:28:00,109
and you don't like passion.

653
00:28:00,109 --> 00:28:03,195
In fact, my message has just
been grating on you.

654
00:28:03,195 --> 00:28:06,947
Ok, what I'm going to do
is I'm going to help you now.

655
00:28:06,947 --> 00:28:08,364
I'd like to show you how to

656
00:28:08,364 --> 00:28:10,661
kill passion in your people,
in your churches,

657
00:28:10,661 --> 00:28:13,158
and in yourself.

658
00:28:13,158 --> 00:28:14,363
If you don't like it;

659
00:28:14,363 --> 00:28:15,822
if you see it to be dangerous,

660
00:28:15,822 --> 00:28:17,417
upsetting, unhealthy.

661
00:28:17,417 --> 00:28:20,248
I'm going to give you a 
four-step remedy

662
00:28:20,248 --> 00:28:21,976
to the infectious disease of

663
00:28:21,976 --> 00:28:24,842
passionate radicals in your church.

664
00:28:24,842 --> 00:28:28,276
And this will take care of
all the enthusiasts.

665
00:28:28,276 --> 00:28:29,662
Here it is.

666
00:28:29,662 --> 00:28:31,653
First,

667
00:28:31,653 --> 00:28:36,029
just hate passion.

668
00:28:36,029 --> 00:28:37,057
In other words,

669
00:28:37,057 --> 00:28:40,654
whenever anybody in 
the church gets excited;

670
00:28:40,654 --> 00:28:43,813
any unusual fervor,
any extraordinary weeping,

671
00:28:43,813 --> 00:28:48,063
and indication of some
Spirit-blown, God-endued intensity,

672
00:28:48,063 --> 00:28:51,090
make certain that you always

673
00:28:51,090 --> 00:28:53,750
and forever question the sincerity of it.

674
00:28:53,750 --> 00:28:54,869
Always.

675
00:28:54,869 --> 00:28:57,214
I mean they've got 
to be hypocrites, right?

676
00:28:57,214 --> 00:29:02,443
Nobody can be like that.

677
00:29:02,443 --> 00:29:04,130
If somebody raises a hand,

678
00:29:04,130 --> 00:29:06,140
somebody shouts a hallelujah,

679
00:29:06,140 --> 00:29:08,361
be sure to stare at them

680
00:29:08,361 --> 00:29:13,680
with that dooming 
glare of disapproval.

681
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,688
A pastor friend of mine,

682
00:29:15,688 --> 00:29:17,414
Bob Jennings.

683
00:29:17,414 --> 00:29:20,545
The guy gets worked up.

684
00:29:20,545 --> 00:29:25,486
He was at a Banner of Truth conference.

685
00:29:25,486 --> 00:29:29,285
Halfway through it, he shouted
out a hallelujah.

686
00:29:29,285 --> 00:29:31,943
They called him down on that!

687
00:29:31,943 --> 00:29:33,764
They told him, enough.

688
00:29:33,764 --> 00:29:34,996
You close your mouth.

689
00:29:34,996 --> 00:29:37,419
You're going to be here,
we don't want any of that.

690
00:29:37,419 --> 00:29:39,403
Yeah, make sure you do that.

691
00:29:39,403 --> 00:29:43,097
Anytime that kind of thing breaks out,
you better shut it down.

692
00:29:43,097 --> 00:29:45,383
Anytime some uncontrolled weeping
breaks out,

693
00:29:45,383 --> 00:29:48,375
you better have somebody stand up
in the church and say enough!

694
00:29:48,375 --> 00:29:50,525
We don't want anymore of that.

695
00:29:50,525 --> 00:29:52,787
We need to shut this thing down.

696
00:29:52,787 --> 00:29:53,859
Second,

697
00:29:53,859 --> 00:29:55,602
you want to get the passion out?

698
00:29:55,602 --> 00:29:59,711
Just regulate the worship so tightly,

699
00:29:59,711 --> 00:30:01,985
be so ordered, so mechanical

700
00:30:01,985 --> 00:30:04,705
in the church that any spontaneous

701
00:30:04,705 --> 00:30:06,805
outworking of the Spirit of God

702
00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,806
can never be entertained.

703
00:30:08,806 --> 00:30:10,708
Avoid at all costs any opportunity

704
00:30:10,708 --> 00:30:13,085
for something supernatural or unusual.

705
00:30:13,085 --> 00:30:16,545
Try every imaginable way to
quench the Spirit.

706
00:30:16,545 --> 00:30:19,075
You certainly don't want the living,

707
00:30:19,075 --> 00:30:22,226
fiery influences of the Spirit of God
blowing through the place.

708
00:30:22,226 --> 00:30:25,917
He and passion live together.

709
00:30:25,917 --> 00:30:27,978
If you want the zealots 
and fanatics gone,

710
00:30:27,978 --> 00:30:29,818
you better really grieve the Spirit.

711
00:30:29,818 --> 00:30:32,250
Third,

712
00:30:32,250 --> 00:30:36,066
overanalyze everything.

713
00:30:36,066 --> 00:30:38,003
Make certain that whenever some

714
00:30:38,003 --> 00:30:39,949
opportunity for outreach or missions

715
00:30:39,949 --> 00:30:42,584
or radical, sacrificial 
giving comes along.

716
00:30:42,584 --> 00:30:44,725
Make certain you examine it,

717
00:30:44,725 --> 00:30:46,076
re-examine it,

718
00:30:46,076 --> 00:30:47,176
and when you've done,

719
00:30:47,176 --> 00:30:49,160
you've got to start 
that all over again.

720
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,319
Make certain to delay, draw out,

721
00:30:51,319 --> 00:30:53,907
pray for things indefinitely.

722
00:30:53,907 --> 00:30:57,894
Just disregard the command
that says, "Go."

723
00:30:57,894 --> 00:30:59,381
That's not enough.

724
00:30:59,381 --> 00:31:00,927
You've got to look for at least

725
00:31:00,927 --> 00:31:02,816
30 or 40 other reasons first.

726
00:31:02,816 --> 00:31:04,840
Make sure you do that.

727
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,747
That's where the guys are left
back in the boat.

728
00:31:07,747 --> 00:31:10,162
Where Peter walked on the water.

729
00:31:10,162 --> 00:31:11,349
Christ said, "Come!"

730
00:31:11,349 --> 00:31:12,333
He was out of there.

731
00:31:12,333 --> 00:31:13,714
But you've got to do that.

732
00:31:13,714 --> 00:31:14,954
You've got to 
overanalyze everything.

733
00:31:14,954 --> 00:31:17,506
You've got to look at it;
you've got to question it.

734
00:31:17,506 --> 00:31:19,363
Till everybody in the church

735
00:31:19,363 --> 00:31:23,520
that had any passion are asleep.

736
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,645
See, if we do that, we're
likely to make some mistakes.

737
00:31:26,645 --> 00:31:28,415
Some bad mistakes.

738
00:31:28,415 --> 00:31:29,962
You know what?
You're going to.

739
00:31:29,962 --> 00:31:30,932
Get over that.

740
00:31:30,932 --> 00:31:32,799
People with passion do
make mistakes.

741
00:31:32,799 --> 00:31:33,612
So what?

742
00:31:33,612 --> 00:31:36,309
They also walk on water.

743
00:31:36,309 --> 00:31:37,878
Fourth,

744
00:31:37,878 --> 00:31:39,664
You want to kill it?

745
00:31:39,664 --> 00:31:44,605
Just keep on laying a good soil

746
00:31:44,605 --> 00:31:46,497
for hyper-Calvinism.

747
00:31:46,497 --> 00:31:48,802
Oh, we would never admit to it.

748
00:31:48,802 --> 00:31:50,489
But, I'll tell you what,

749
00:31:50,489 --> 00:31:52,643
all you've got to do 
is look at Matthew 25.

750
00:31:52,643 --> 00:31:53,498
What is it?

751
00:31:53,498 --> 00:31:55,062
Faith working through love.

752
00:31:55,062 --> 00:31:58,167
I expressed to you out of Galatians 5.

753
00:31:58,167 --> 00:32:01,669
And you see it worked out in 
Matthew 25.

754
00:32:01,669 --> 00:32:02,630
You know what?

755
00:32:02,630 --> 00:32:04,143
There you have people who are

756
00:32:04,143 --> 00:32:07,267
giving themselves to the needs of others.

757
00:32:07,267 --> 00:32:09,497
Just be content in your church

758
00:32:09,497 --> 00:32:11,564
to have people be on time on Sundays,

759
00:32:11,564 --> 00:32:13,060
be on time on Wednesdays;

760
00:32:13,060 --> 00:32:14,674
get to where the prayer meetings

761
00:32:14,674 --> 00:32:16,080
are about Aunt Tilda's toe,

762
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:20,757
and everything is about all of our

763
00:32:20,757 --> 00:32:24,787
physical needs and breakdowns
and sicknesses and illness.

764
00:32:24,787 --> 00:32:26,704
Nobody ever prays for souls anymore.

765
00:32:26,704 --> 00:32:27,932
Just be content.

766
00:32:27,932 --> 00:32:29,937
Yeah, they're at church twice a week.

767
00:32:29,937 --> 00:32:31,328
They're faithful to do that.

768
00:32:31,328 --> 00:32:32,203
They're on time.

769
00:32:32,203 --> 00:32:34,367
They have their little 
daily devotional deal.

770
00:32:34,367 --> 00:32:35,641
Just be content with that.

771
00:32:35,641 --> 00:32:36,706
They never reach out.

772
00:32:36,706 --> 00:32:38,275
They never really touch sinners.

773
00:32:38,275 --> 00:32:39,586
They never do any of that.

774
00:32:39,586 --> 00:32:41,905
Be content with that.

775
00:32:41,905 --> 00:32:43,434
You may call it what you want.

776
00:32:43,434 --> 00:32:45,917
But there's practical
hyper-Calvinism there.

777
00:32:45,917 --> 00:32:48,331
Just let that breed;
let that live;

778
00:32:48,331 --> 00:32:49,596
be content with that.

779
00:32:49,596 --> 00:32:51,658
Never get in somebody's face and

780
00:32:51,658 --> 00:32:54,438
really expect them, encourage them,

781
00:32:54,438 --> 00:32:57,334
stir them up to faith, to good works,

782
00:32:57,334 --> 00:32:58,954
to zeal, to love.

783
00:32:58,954 --> 00:33:00,438
Just leave them alone.

784
00:33:00,438 --> 00:33:01,886
Tell them it's ok.

785
00:33:01,886 --> 00:33:03,354
I'm happy you're on time.

786
00:33:03,354 --> 00:33:04,260
That's good.

787
00:33:04,260 --> 00:33:06,245
I'm happy your life is all 
well-ordered,

788
00:33:06,245 --> 00:33:08,780
and you don't run around in
the brothels anymore.

789
00:33:08,780 --> 00:33:10,103
Just be content with that.

790
00:33:10,103 --> 00:33:11,540
You've missed the heart.

791
00:33:11,540 --> 00:33:12,367
Get out there.

792
00:33:12,367 --> 00:33:13,992
Visit the widow.
Visit the orphan.

793
00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:15,167
Do some things.

794
00:33:15,167 --> 00:33:16,234
Radically give.

795
00:33:16,234 --> 00:33:17,518
What is this?

796
00:33:17,518 --> 00:33:19,515
We've got too many 
today in the churches

797
00:33:19,515 --> 00:33:22,598
that are all about this
legalistic tithing.

798
00:33:22,598 --> 00:33:25,285
You guys, we're one of the richest nations

799
00:33:25,285 --> 00:33:27,750
ever lived in the history of mankind.

800
00:33:27,750 --> 00:33:30,790
And you know what makes me sick?

801
00:33:30,790 --> 00:33:33,173
And I don't know if 
I've ever even seen this,

802
00:33:33,173 --> 00:33:36,699
but the thought of it is sick to me.

803
00:33:36,699 --> 00:33:38,344
That someone would even write out

804
00:33:38,344 --> 00:33:40,517
a check in an off dollar amount

805
00:33:40,517 --> 00:33:42,739
just to get the percentage right.

806
00:33:42,739 --> 00:33:44,221
What are you doing?

807
00:33:44,221 --> 00:33:45,819
Is your heart really for people?

808
00:33:45,819 --> 00:33:47,653
It is for zeal for God?

809
00:33:47,653 --> 00:33:49,321
What are you living your life for?

810
00:33:49,321 --> 00:33:50,942
To give the minimal amount?

811
00:33:50,942 --> 00:33:53,216
You guys have more than you
know what to do with.

812
00:33:53,216 --> 00:33:55,037
You say, well, it's an
economic hard time.

813
00:33:55,037 --> 00:33:56,151
Oh yeah, how many 
cars do you have?

814
00:33:56,151 --> 00:33:57,177
Look at your house.

815
00:33:57,177 --> 00:33:58,428
Look at what you're doing
with your money.

816
00:33:58,428 --> 00:33:59,929
Look at your savings accounts.

817
00:33:59,929 --> 00:34:01,850
Look at the things
you're saving up for.

818
00:34:01,850 --> 00:34:03,487
When Christ said not to lay up

819
00:34:03,487 --> 00:34:05,248
treasure on this earth.

820
00:34:05,248 --> 00:34:07,724
Just plant that good seed for 
hyper-Calvinism.

821
00:34:07,724 --> 00:34:09,473
Be content with it.

822
00:34:09,473 --> 00:34:11,168
We need to get in people's faces

823
00:34:11,168 --> 00:34:12,540
and say live the real thing!

824
00:34:12,540 --> 00:34:13,967
Live the heart of the matter.

825
00:34:13,967 --> 00:34:15,406
Go out and visit the widow.

826
00:34:15,406 --> 00:34:16,918
Live your life this way.

827
00:34:16,918 --> 00:34:18,199
Visit the stranger.

828
00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:19,839
Give yourself radically.

829
00:34:19,839 --> 00:34:21,712
If it's to stay 
here in this country,

830
00:34:21,712 --> 00:34:22,956
then work your life away,

831
00:34:22,956 --> 00:34:24,992
to give the most that you possibly can.

832
00:34:24,992 --> 00:34:27,477
Live not equal with your means,

833
00:34:27,477 --> 00:34:28,896
above your means,

834
00:34:28,896 --> 00:34:31,306
if you've got neck-deep
in credit card debt,

835
00:34:31,306 --> 00:34:32,944
what are you doing?

836
00:34:32,944 --> 00:34:34,250
What are you living for?

837
00:34:34,250 --> 00:34:38,734
You're living for this world.

838
00:34:38,734 --> 00:34:42,397
Just allow that to go on 
unstopped, unchecked in the church.

839
00:34:42,397 --> 00:34:47,820
We'll all be dead.

840
00:34:47,820 --> 00:34:50,036
Hyper-Calvinism

841
00:34:50,036 --> 00:34:58,328
Let me tell you this.

842
00:34:58,328 --> 00:35:01,554
I'm aware,

843
00:35:01,554 --> 00:35:04,789
most of us are going to be at home.

844
00:35:04,789 --> 00:35:07,595
I think, ok, what is it to really

845
00:35:07,595 --> 00:35:11,080
pull through at home?

846
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:15,181
Keep that missionary cause 
before our churches.

847
00:35:15,181 --> 00:35:20,639
Not just our own 
church, but others.

848
00:35:20,639 --> 00:35:24,298
Keep our people with
some intensity.

849
00:35:24,298 --> 00:35:26,879
We want our people
praying for the right things.

850
00:35:26,879 --> 00:35:30,255
Broken over souls.

851
00:35:30,255 --> 00:35:32,843
You know how it is.

852
00:35:32,843 --> 00:35:35,278
Brother Joe's got the sniffles.

853
00:35:35,278 --> 00:35:36,872
Wasn't able to be here tonight.

854
00:35:36,872 --> 00:35:41,415
Got to pray for him.

855
00:35:41,415 --> 00:35:43,221
I'm not out there in left field.

856
00:35:43,221 --> 00:35:47,462
Aunt Tilda's sore toe folks.

857
00:35:47,462 --> 00:35:49,801
Are we praying for the things
that really matter?

858
00:35:49,801 --> 00:35:51,381
And praying with some intensity

859
00:35:51,381 --> 00:35:59,883
like they really matter to us?

860
00:35:59,883 --> 00:36:03,131
If we had any aliveness to us,

861
00:36:03,131 --> 00:36:13,477
it would just make us shout and scream.

862
00:36:13,477 --> 00:36:15,424
Are we fasting?

863
00:36:15,424 --> 00:36:20,107
You guys find it even 
within your lifestyle,

864
00:36:20,107 --> 00:36:23,724
even within your willingness

865
00:36:23,724 --> 00:36:27,466
to set aside times to fast?

866
00:36:27,466 --> 00:36:30,246
And give yourself to particular prayer

867
00:36:30,246 --> 00:36:34,760
towards the needs of 
those in other places?

868
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,509
What is it that's going to fuel

869
00:36:36,509 --> 00:36:42,599
an atmosphere like this at home?

870
00:36:42,599 --> 00:36:45,455
I ask myself that.

871
00:36:45,455 --> 00:36:48,150
I look at who has sent missionaries forth

872
00:36:48,150 --> 00:36:49,740
and done it well.

873
00:36:49,740 --> 00:36:51,749
Who's been faithful on the home front

874
00:36:51,749 --> 00:36:53,594
all the way to the end?

875
00:36:53,594 --> 00:36:55,763
What men, what churches,
stand out as having

876
00:36:55,763 --> 00:36:57,372
that sort of reputation?

877
00:36:57,372 --> 00:36:59,584
Because whoever they are,
wherever they are,

878
00:36:59,584 --> 00:37:04,566
I want to see what it is that makes
people like that tick.

879
00:37:04,566 --> 00:37:06,460
As I thought about this,

880
00:37:06,460 --> 00:37:08,100
it occurred to me that

881
00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:10,158
I don't know that there 
are any more famous -

882
00:37:10,158 --> 00:37:12,968
there may have been some 
that have done it better,

883
00:37:12,968 --> 00:37:14,546
but I don't know that there are

884
00:37:14,546 --> 00:37:16,733
any more famous rope holders.

885
00:37:16,733 --> 00:37:18,040
Men who stayed at home,

886
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,632
serving the missionary cause,

887
00:37:19,632 --> 00:37:25,511
than those men who did support Carey.

888
00:37:25,511 --> 00:37:28,078
Now, let me tell you about these guys.

889
00:37:28,078 --> 00:37:30,552
You may know the names of some of these.

890
00:37:30,552 --> 00:37:33,023
Andrew Fuller.

891
00:37:33,023 --> 00:37:36,201
John Sutcliffe.

892
00:37:36,201 --> 00:37:38,660
Samuel Pierce.

893
00:37:38,660 --> 00:37:41,407
John Ryland, Jr.

894
00:37:41,407 --> 00:37:43,388
These are some of the guys.

895
00:37:43,388 --> 00:37:45,618
Let me tell you about these guys.

896
00:37:45,618 --> 00:37:49,271
They were a whole lot like us.

897
00:37:49,271 --> 00:37:54,081
They pastored little Baptist churches.

898
00:37:54,081 --> 00:37:56,927
It doesn't take a big 
church to be faithful.

899
00:37:56,927 --> 00:38:02,885
It doesn't take enormous
resources to be faithful.

900
00:38:02,885 --> 00:38:06,348
I started thinking about these guys.

901
00:38:06,348 --> 00:38:08,108
They were faithful.

902
00:38:08,108 --> 00:38:10,441
Listen to Fuller's quote,

903
00:38:10,441 --> 00:38:16,678
"Our undertaking to India

904
00:38:16,678 --> 00:38:20,226
really appeared to me on its commencement,

905
00:38:20,226 --> 00:38:23,133
to be somewhat like a few men

906
00:38:23,133 --> 00:38:25,292
who were deliberating about the importance

907
00:38:25,292 --> 00:38:28,552
of penetrating into a deep mine,

908
00:38:28,552 --> 00:38:31,816
which had never before been explored.

909
00:38:31,816 --> 00:38:33,875
We had no one to guide us,

910
00:38:33,875 --> 00:38:36,284
and while we were thus deliberating,

911
00:38:36,284 --> 00:38:39,028
Carey, as it were, said,

912
00:38:39,028 --> 00:38:45,352
'Well, I will go down, 
if you will hold the rope.'

913
00:38:45,352 --> 00:38:46,704
But before we went down,

914
00:38:46,704 --> 00:38:48,014
continued Fuller,

915
00:38:48,014 --> 00:38:50,274
he as it seemed to me

916
00:38:50,274 --> 00:38:53,156
took an oath from each of us

917
00:38:53,156 --> 00:38:56,708
at the mouth of the pit to this effect,

918
00:38:56,708 --> 00:38:58,453
that we, while we lived,

919
00:38:58,453 --> 00:39:01,173
should never let go of the rope.

920
00:39:01,173 --> 00:39:02,590
You understand me?

921
00:39:02,590 --> 00:39:04,831
There was great responsibility

922
00:39:04,831 --> 00:39:09,655
attached to us who began the business."

923
00:39:09,655 --> 00:39:11,584
And as one has said,

924
00:39:11,584 --> 00:39:13,726
whether we stay at home or 
whether we go,

925
00:39:13,726 --> 00:39:15,461
we should all have our hands burned

926
00:39:15,461 --> 00:39:16,301
by that rope.

927
00:39:16,301 --> 00:39:18,970
And folks, these men had the burn marks

928
00:39:18,970 --> 00:39:19,835
and the scars.

929
00:39:19,835 --> 00:39:21,511
I'm talking the guys 
that stayed at home.

930
00:39:21,511 --> 00:39:23,739
Not the Marshman's, not 
the Carey's, not the Ward's.

931
00:39:23,739 --> 00:39:26,148
I'm talking these guys: the Pierce,

932
00:39:26,148 --> 00:39:28,197
the Ryland, the Sutcliffe, the Fuller;

933
00:39:28,197 --> 00:39:29,919
the men that stayed at home.

934
00:39:29,919 --> 00:39:33,886
They had the burn marks on their hand.

935
00:39:33,886 --> 00:39:36,953
And I'm thinking, ok, 
what is it about these guys?

936
00:39:36,953 --> 00:39:38,486
I began to dig.

937
00:39:38,486 --> 00:39:40,525
I began to look through 
some of my books,

938
00:39:40,525 --> 00:39:42,218
and look on the 
Internet for some things.

939
00:39:42,218 --> 00:39:44,272
I discovered something very interesting.

940
00:39:44,272 --> 00:39:46,492
Before Carey went to India,

941
00:39:46,492 --> 00:39:47,445
listen to this,

942
00:39:47,445 --> 00:39:50,997
on Wednesday, April 27, 1791

943
00:39:50,997 --> 00:39:52,285
a special meeting was held

944
00:39:52,285 --> 00:39:56,305
by the ministers of the 
Northamptonshire Baptist Association.

945
00:39:56,305 --> 00:39:57,446
Hear this,

946
00:39:57,446 --> 00:40:00,646
in which both Sutcliffe and Fuller

947
00:40:00,646 --> 00:40:03,577
preached back-to-back.

948
00:40:03,577 --> 00:40:04,838
Now listen.

949
00:40:04,838 --> 00:40:09,700
25 years later, the pastor of the church,

950
00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:12,903
there in Clipston, where 
the special meeting was held,

951
00:40:12,903 --> 00:40:17,058
he recalled the deep 
solemnity that covered the place

952
00:40:17,058 --> 00:40:19,433
and how the entire 
congregation was overwhelmed

953
00:40:19,433 --> 00:40:21,153
by what it had heard.

954
00:40:21,153 --> 00:40:22,311
Now listen to this.

955
00:40:22,311 --> 00:40:24,775
John Ryland - he wasn't one of the
guys that preached,

956
00:40:24,775 --> 00:40:27,822
but he was one of the 
rope holders as well.

957
00:40:27,822 --> 00:40:30,821
Being there that day

958
00:40:30,821 --> 00:40:34,706
having listened to these 
two moving sermons,

959
00:40:34,706 --> 00:40:39,624
said that he and all with 
whom he talked afterwards

960
00:40:39,624 --> 00:40:50,125
felt a profound conviction 
of their great need for zeal.

961
00:40:50,125 --> 00:40:52,327
That's what they were impacted by.

962
00:40:52,327 --> 00:40:56,379
They realized that's what they needed.

963
00:40:56,379 --> 00:40:58,297
Zeal.

964
00:40:58,297 --> 00:40:59,971
And they were persuaded of the evil

965
00:40:59,971 --> 00:41:02,710
of negligence and procrastination.

966
00:41:02,710 --> 00:41:04,850
I read that. I began thinking to myself,

967
00:41:04,850 --> 00:41:07,018
ok, wait, I've got to 
find these two sermons.

968
00:41:07,018 --> 00:41:08,815
They met together 
back-to-back that day.

969
00:41:08,815 --> 00:41:10,446
I began to look. 
Is it even possible

970
00:41:10,446 --> 00:41:12,948
to find that message by Sutcliffe;
that message by Fuller?

971
00:41:12,948 --> 00:41:16,249
I found out that that indeed is the only

972
00:41:16,249 --> 00:41:21,476
full surviving sermon 
of Sutcliffe available.

973
00:41:21,476 --> 00:41:24,101
I had it in the appendix 
of one of my books.

974
00:41:24,101 --> 00:41:27,901
I was able to find Fuller's sermon online.

975
00:41:27,901 --> 00:41:29,886
Let me tell you a little bit about these.

976
00:41:29,886 --> 00:41:31,544
Fuller's sermon is called,

977
00:41:31,544 --> 00:41:36,879
"The Pernicious Influence of Delay
in Religious Concerns."

978
00:41:36,879 --> 00:41:40,381
Fuller took his text that day from 
Haggai 1:2.

979
00:41:40,381 --> 00:41:42,219
The Jews, you remember this,

980
00:41:42,219 --> 00:41:45,007
had returned from Babylonian exile

981
00:41:45,007 --> 00:41:47,524
and they refused to get to work

982
00:41:47,524 --> 00:41:49,683
on the rebuilding of the temple.

983
00:41:49,683 --> 00:41:53,462
The Lord accused His people of saying

984
00:41:53,462 --> 00:41:55,377
the time is not come.

985
00:41:55,377 --> 00:41:59,227
The time that the Lord's 
house should be built.

986
00:41:59,227 --> 00:42:00,595
And here's the thing.

987
00:42:00,595 --> 00:42:04,646
Fuller, seeing the 
procrastination of the Jews

988
00:42:04,646 --> 00:42:07,007
in delaying to rebuild the temple,

989
00:42:07,007 --> 00:42:08,781
thinking the time has not come,

990
00:42:08,781 --> 00:42:10,413
makes this point.

991
00:42:10,413 --> 00:42:13,224
Now hear this well.

992
00:42:13,224 --> 00:42:17,166
"To put off things to another time,

993
00:42:17,166 --> 00:42:19,736
like the task of missions,

994
00:42:19,736 --> 00:42:27,480
implies a lurking dislike 
to the things themselves.

995
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,600
We do not ordinarily do so,

996
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,554
except in things wherein 
we have no delight.

997
00:42:35,554 --> 00:42:39,203
Whatever our hearts are set upon,

998
00:42:39,203 --> 00:42:43,130
we're for losing no time 
till it is accomplished."

999
00:42:43,130 --> 00:42:45,335
Do you guys hear what he's saying?

1000
00:42:45,335 --> 00:42:48,623
You don't procrastinate 
about what you love.

1001
00:42:48,623 --> 00:42:51,000
You only put off and 
are slow to accomplish

1002
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:56,127
the things you have no passion for.

1003
00:42:56,127 --> 00:42:58,229
You know why the guys didn't put off

1004
00:42:58,229 --> 00:42:59,415
getting to Christ?

1005
00:42:59,415 --> 00:43:00,901
When they had the palsied man?

1006
00:43:00,901 --> 00:43:02,722
Because there was a passion there.

1007
00:43:02,722 --> 00:43:09,070
We've got to get to Christ!

1008
00:43:09,070 --> 00:43:11,139
Then, there's Sutcliffe's sermon.

1009
00:43:11,139 --> 00:43:12,591
His was actually first.

1010
00:43:12,591 --> 00:43:13,872
I hold it to last here

1011
00:43:13,872 --> 00:43:18,767
because boy, he hit this thing 
on the mark.

1012
00:43:18,767 --> 00:43:20,287
Now remember, folks,

1013
00:43:20,287 --> 00:43:24,461
these are the guys who stayed faithful.

1014
00:43:24,461 --> 00:43:27,189
And they're aware of their need of zeal.

1015
00:43:27,189 --> 00:43:29,806
And they're aware that you don't

1016
00:43:29,806 --> 00:43:31,892
procrastinate about what you

1017
00:43:31,892 --> 00:43:35,621
have a zeal for.

1018
00:43:35,621 --> 00:43:44,410
Sutcliffe

1019
00:43:44,410 --> 00:43:48,066
His message was called,

1020
00:43:48,066 --> 00:43:53,419
"Jealousy for the Lord of Hosts."

1021
00:43:53,419 --> 00:43:57,369
As Sutcliffe closed out his sermon,

1022
00:43:57,369 --> 00:44:02,344
he sees each Christian as a light

1023
00:44:02,344 --> 00:44:05,121
in this world.

1024
00:44:05,121 --> 00:44:08,322
He sees each of these 
individual lights,

1025
00:44:08,322 --> 00:44:10,578
though somewhat small in themselves,

1026
00:44:10,578 --> 00:44:13,686
all put together collectively

1027
00:44:13,686 --> 00:44:16,850
and scattered in the missionary cause

1028
00:44:16,850 --> 00:44:18,145
around the world

1029
00:44:18,145 --> 00:44:20,815
so that like the sun,

1030
00:44:20,815 --> 00:44:22,555
they might endeavor to enlighten

1031
00:44:22,555 --> 00:44:24,259
the whole earth.

1032
00:44:24,259 --> 00:44:25,533
Let them be disbursed

1033
00:44:25,533 --> 00:44:29,784
so that the whole globe 
might be illuminated.

1034
00:44:29,784 --> 00:44:32,089
And then he says this

1035
00:44:32,089 --> 00:44:39,123
"Nothing. Nothing will prompt you

1036
00:44:39,123 --> 00:44:43,457
on in this way, so to act,

1037
00:44:43,457 --> 00:44:47,494
like the divine passion;
the celestial fire

1038
00:44:47,494 --> 00:44:51,815
that burned in the bosom and
blazed in the life of Elijah.

1039
00:44:51,815 --> 00:44:54,641
What love! What zeal!

1040
00:44:54,641 --> 00:44:57,240
What activity become you when

1041
00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:58,919
thus employed.

1042
00:44:58,919 --> 00:45:01,875
Animated with jealousy for the 
Lord God of Hosts,

1043
00:45:01,875 --> 00:45:05,245
you will be like the Son when
He goeth forth in His strength,

1044
00:45:05,245 --> 00:45:08,009
or like an army terrible with banners.

1045
00:45:08,009 --> 00:45:10,555
Under the divine smile, 
Satan will fall before you

1046
00:45:10,555 --> 00:45:12,071
like lightning from heaven.

1047
00:45:12,071 --> 00:45:13,349
His power be broken.

1048
00:45:13,349 --> 00:45:14,949
His policy confounded.

1049
00:45:14,949 --> 00:45:17,208
While the empire of 
Jesus shall advance.

1050
00:45:17,208 --> 00:45:20,863
His Kingdom arise and
the crown flourish upon His head."

1051
00:45:20,863 --> 00:45:23,016
Brethren, I'm telling you,

1052
00:45:23,016 --> 00:45:25,174
these men rose up out of the

1053
00:45:25,174 --> 00:45:27,950
dead hyper-Calvinism of their day

1054
00:45:27,950 --> 00:45:30,446
They sent men into the mine.

1055
00:45:30,446 --> 00:45:32,471
They held the rope
and they knew,

1056
00:45:32,471 --> 00:45:35,618
nothing short of God-given desire,

1057
00:45:35,618 --> 00:45:38,525
heart, divine passion, celestial fire,

1058
00:45:38,525 --> 00:45:41,413
love, zeal, jealousy for
the Lord God of Hosts.

1059
00:45:41,413 --> 00:45:43,512
That's it, brethren.

1060
00:45:43,512 --> 00:45:46,230
That's what I've been trying 
to say, to prove, to show.

1061
00:45:46,230 --> 00:45:47,977
May God help us.

1062
00:45:47,977 --> 00:45:49,872
Our time is short.

1063
00:45:49,872 --> 00:45:52,030
As I wanted to stress.

1064
00:45:52,030 --> 00:45:54,052
Look, where do you get this?

1065
00:45:54,052 --> 00:45:57,045
You've got to go up on the holy mountain.

1066
00:45:57,045 --> 00:45:59,007
That's where the fire comes from.

1067
00:45:59,007 --> 00:46:01,273
You've got to go there.

1068
00:46:01,273 --> 00:46:04,245
If you're going to be content
to spend the rest of your life

1069
00:46:04,245 --> 00:46:06,469
in front of the television,
and waste it away,

1070
00:46:06,469 --> 00:46:07,678
and chasing money,

1071
00:46:07,678 --> 00:46:09,874
it's not happening.

1072
00:46:09,874 --> 00:46:12,299
Look.

1073
00:46:12,299 --> 00:46:14,479
You want to get away from
the hyper-Calvinism?

1074
00:46:14,479 --> 00:46:16,574
You don't say, well, what we
really need here

1075
00:46:16,574 --> 00:46:18,248
is for God to move.

1076
00:46:18,248 --> 00:46:20,406
You know what we find 
through the Scriptures?

1077
00:46:20,406 --> 00:46:22,338
Through history?

1078
00:46:22,338 --> 00:46:24,421
It's like Tozer said.

1079
00:46:24,421 --> 00:46:27,455
God moved when and where
His people moved.

1080
00:46:27,455 --> 00:46:29,848
Move!

1081
00:46:29,848 --> 00:46:31,846
That's what faith does.

1082
00:46:31,846 --> 00:46:33,462
Faith moves.

1083
00:46:33,462 --> 00:46:35,056
And it trusts, as I move,

1084
00:46:35,056 --> 00:46:37,459
the resources are coming.

1085
00:46:37,459 --> 00:46:38,794
I'm going to step out.

1086
00:46:38,794 --> 00:46:41,161
Brethren, I can tell you 
in these seven years,

1087
00:46:41,161 --> 00:46:43,157
the folks in our church can tell you,

1088
00:46:43,157 --> 00:46:45,530
how many times we 
haven't been able to see.

1089
00:46:45,530 --> 00:46:47,277
It's been black out there.

1090
00:46:47,277 --> 00:46:48,716
And we've felt like certainly

1091
00:46:48,716 --> 00:46:51,004
this is in line with the Great Commission.

1092
00:46:51,004 --> 00:46:52,485
Let's step.

1093
00:46:52,485 --> 00:46:54,178
We don't see where we're stepping.

1094
00:46:54,178 --> 00:46:56,625
We can't see anything.

1095
00:46:56,625 --> 00:46:58,572
And sometimes I've wondered.

1096
00:46:58,572 --> 00:46:59,766
And I've always thought,

1097
00:46:59,766 --> 00:47:01,564
Lord, if You let us fall on our face,

1098
00:47:01,564 --> 00:47:03,494
it's going to come back to You.

1099
00:47:03,494 --> 00:47:05,686
But every time, you know what?

1100
00:47:05,686 --> 00:47:08,718
Not once.
Not once!

1101
00:47:08,718 --> 00:47:12,060
We have stepped out there.

1102
00:47:12,060 --> 00:47:16,115
He's held us up.

1103
00:47:16,115 --> 00:47:18,209
We've got to have these 
passions of Christ

1104
00:47:18,209 --> 00:47:19,478
etched upon us.

1105
00:47:19,478 --> 00:47:21,972
We've got to have faith.

1106
00:47:21,972 --> 00:47:24,365
We've got to take this step.

1107
00:47:24,365 --> 00:47:26,913
Don't wait.

1108
00:47:26,913 --> 00:47:30,331
If you folks here at Community realized,

1109
00:47:30,331 --> 00:47:32,826
yes, it's true.

1110
00:47:32,826 --> 00:47:35,440
There's been a slide off in a direction

1111
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,668
we don't like.

1112
00:47:37,668 --> 00:47:39,980
We want to see something.

1113
00:47:39,980 --> 00:47:42,654
You can not live on the past.

1114
00:47:42,654 --> 00:47:44,917
You've got to live today.

1115
00:47:44,917 --> 00:47:47,565
You've got a responsibility today.

1116
00:47:47,565 --> 00:47:48,988
What are you going to do?

1117
00:47:48,988 --> 00:47:52,166
I'm going to sit here an wait
until God does something.

1118
00:47:52,166 --> 00:47:54,363
Then you're going to wait a long time.

1119
00:47:54,363 --> 00:47:55,916
No, what you've got to do is

1120
00:47:55,916 --> 00:47:57,113
you've got to step out.

1121
00:47:57,113 --> 00:47:59,026
You say, ok, if you 
come to the place,

1122
00:47:59,026 --> 00:48:00,657
you say something's wrong.

1123
00:48:00,657 --> 00:48:02,299
Something's wrong in my own life.

1124
00:48:02,299 --> 00:48:04,175
Yes, there's a coldness.

1125
00:48:04,175 --> 00:48:06,488
Then go get on the holy mount.

1126
00:48:06,488 --> 00:48:08,173
And go there and keep going there.

1127
00:48:08,173 --> 00:48:09,490
And stay there.

1128
00:48:09,490 --> 00:48:15,636
And give yourself some time.

1129
00:48:15,636 --> 00:48:17,605
I heard Paul Washer say before

1130
00:48:17,605 --> 00:48:19,318
that you know he has churches

1131
00:48:19,318 --> 00:48:21,385
that come to him and they've got problems

1132
00:48:21,385 --> 00:48:23,808
or there's weaknesses or 
something's lacking,

1133
00:48:23,808 --> 00:48:25,265
and he tells them,

1134
00:48:25,265 --> 00:48:26,827
what you need to 
do is you need to

1135
00:48:26,827 --> 00:48:28,491
gather the whole 
church together

1136
00:48:28,491 --> 00:48:29,912
and you guys need 
to go to fasting

1137
00:48:29,912 --> 00:48:31,371
until God breaks through.

1138
00:48:31,371 --> 00:48:33,331
And he says they 
don't listen to him.

1139
00:48:33,331 --> 00:48:37,227
And then they wonder 
why it doesn't work out.

1140
00:48:37,227 --> 00:48:40,509
What's our lives taken up with?

1141
00:48:40,509 --> 00:48:42,491
We have a battle to fight here.

1142
00:48:42,491 --> 00:48:44,816
And the power we need.

1143
00:48:44,816 --> 00:48:47,614
This passion isn't something 
derived in ourselves.

1144
00:48:47,614 --> 00:48:50,219
It comes from the Spirit of God.

1145
00:48:50,219 --> 00:48:51,651
Till you have that image

1146
00:48:51,651 --> 00:48:55,324
etched upon us, we need that fire
from the altar.

1147
00:48:55,324 --> 00:48:57,122
We need this coming together.

1148
00:48:57,122 --> 00:48:58,513
We've got a mission.

1149
00:48:58,513 --> 00:49:00,063
But we've got to have passion

1150
00:49:00,063 --> 00:49:01,711
to bring together with this thing.

1151
00:49:01,711 --> 00:49:03,013
They knew it.

1152
00:49:03,013 --> 00:49:05,042
25 years later, they knew it.

1153
00:49:05,042 --> 00:49:06,537
After they heard these sermons.

1154
00:49:06,537 --> 00:49:07,936
We've got to have zeal.

1155
00:49:07,936 --> 00:49:08,901
And I'll tell you what,

1156
00:49:08,901 --> 00:49:09,961
they were faithful.

1157
00:49:09,961 --> 00:49:11,736
Sutcliffe was faithful to the end.

1158
00:49:11,736 --> 00:49:13,947
Fuller. He was faithful to the end.

1159
00:49:13,947 --> 00:49:16,833
These guys went the whole distance.

1160
00:49:16,833 --> 00:49:18,171
What are we doing?

1161
00:49:18,171 --> 00:49:23,229
Are we falling out of the ranks?

1162
00:49:23,229 --> 00:49:26,479
It's not time to fall out yet.

1163
00:49:26,479 --> 00:49:29,675
Our journey's not done.

1164
00:49:29,675 --> 00:49:32,464
For some of us, we're just
at the beginning.

1165
00:49:32,464 --> 00:49:36,525
We don't know how much time we've left.

1166
00:49:36,525 --> 00:49:41,803
Eternity hastens.

1167
00:49:41,803 --> 00:49:47,237
Look, it's not how I say this.

1168
00:49:47,237 --> 00:49:51,380
It's not how our 
brother earlier says this.

1169
00:49:51,380 --> 00:49:53,049
You've got to have something

1170
00:49:53,049 --> 00:49:55,278
that only comes from God.

1171
00:49:55,278 --> 00:49:57,294
And unless you're 
determined to have it

1172
00:49:57,294 --> 00:49:58,592
at all costs,

1173
00:49:58,592 --> 00:50:02,190
or die trying to get it,

1174
00:50:02,190 --> 00:50:03,204
I'll tell you what,

1175
00:50:03,204 --> 00:50:04,534
there's got to be a resignation.

1176
00:50:04,534 --> 00:50:07,287
If you want to experience the
manifest presence of Christ,

1177
00:50:07,287 --> 00:50:09,180
you want to experience that power,

1178
00:50:09,180 --> 00:50:11,098
you want to ungrieve 
the Spirit of God,

1179
00:50:11,098 --> 00:50:12,677
if that's what's happened;

1180
00:50:12,677 --> 00:50:14,133
there's got to be obedience,

1181
00:50:14,133 --> 00:50:15,611
there's got to be 
resignation in your life.

1182
00:50:15,611 --> 00:50:17,065
You've got to lay it all down.

1183
00:50:17,065 --> 00:50:19,784
You've got to lay it out 
there on the altar.

1184
00:50:19,784 --> 00:50:21,959
We heard Matt say last week,

1185
00:50:21,959 --> 00:50:23,677
what things did you give up early on

1186
00:50:23,677 --> 00:50:25,184
in your Christian life that now

1187
00:50:25,184 --> 00:50:26,829
you're kind of drifting back to.

1188
00:50:26,829 --> 00:50:28,365
What idols did you put away,

1189
00:50:28,365 --> 00:50:30,028
that now, you're just 
kind of comfortably

1190
00:50:30,028 --> 00:50:32,034
crawling in there with?

1191
00:50:32,034 --> 00:50:35,040
What are the things in your life
that are eating up your time?

1192
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,042
What are your excuses for not

1193
00:50:37,042 --> 00:50:40,345
spending the time that you 
ought to be spending?

1194
00:50:40,345 --> 00:50:42,768
You cannot just pray these little,

1195
00:50:42,768 --> 00:50:44,990
flippant prayers and read Psalm 117

1196
00:50:44,990 --> 00:50:46,757
and think, yeah, we're going to find

1197
00:50:46,757 --> 00:50:47,968
the fire that way.

1198
00:50:47,968 --> 00:50:49,335
We're going to do our little thing.

1199
00:50:49,335 --> 00:50:50,921
And then we're just going to 
get on with our life.

1200
00:50:50,921 --> 00:50:52,081
We're going to tag it on there.

1201
00:50:52,081 --> 00:50:53,747
It's going to be this nice little thing.

1202
00:50:53,747 --> 00:50:56,036
Somehow, it's all going 
to work out in the end.

1203
00:50:56,036 --> 00:50:57,529
Look.

1204
00:50:57,529 --> 00:50:59,045
I'm not satisfied with that.

1205
00:50:59,045 --> 00:51:01,690
I don't want to be in a 
church that's dead like that.

1206
00:51:01,690 --> 00:51:04,365
If our church dies, 
if that happens sometime,

1207
00:51:04,365 --> 00:51:05,421
I want to go.

1208
00:51:05,421 --> 00:51:06,574
Or have God kill me.

1209
00:51:06,574 --> 00:51:08,356
I don't want to be there.

1210
00:51:08,356 --> 00:51:10,205
I don't want to walk through this life

1211
00:51:10,205 --> 00:51:12,264
useless and burned out.

1212
00:51:12,264 --> 00:51:14,166
We want to be the bright and shining

1213
00:51:14,166 --> 00:51:17,280
and burning lights like John the Baptist.

1214
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,141
I realize problems come.

1215
00:51:20,141 --> 00:51:22,062
Some of you may have 
fallen out of ranks

1216
00:51:22,062 --> 00:51:24,268
because life got too hard.

1217
00:51:24,268 --> 00:51:26,456
Let me tell you about Fuller.

1218
00:51:26,456 --> 00:51:28,327
He lost 8 of his 11 children,

1219
00:51:28,327 --> 00:51:30,705
and then his wife.

1220
00:51:30,705 --> 00:51:35,926
You think that's harder than
what you've gone through?

1221
00:51:35,926 --> 00:51:38,644
And he stayed true to the end.

1222
00:51:38,644 --> 00:51:41,314
In fact, maybe that's what we need.

1223
00:51:41,314 --> 00:51:43,428
I don't want to call down suffering on us,

1224
00:51:43,428 --> 00:51:45,882
but maybe that is what we need.

1225
00:51:45,882 --> 00:51:48,025
Our lives have just been too soft,

1226
00:51:48,025 --> 00:51:50,221
too cushy.

1227
00:51:50,221 --> 00:51:52,318
We've had too much.

1228
00:51:52,318 --> 00:51:54,140
May God bring us whatever we need,

1229
00:51:54,140 --> 00:51:56,541
whether it's poverty, 
whether it's persecution.

1230
00:51:56,541 --> 00:51:59,817
Just to light us on fire.

1231
00:51:59,817 --> 00:52:03,956
Don't. Don't be content

1232
00:52:03,956 --> 00:52:07,210
to let the missionary fires move away.

1233
00:52:07,210 --> 00:52:09,810
Yes, let them go to China.

1234
00:52:09,810 --> 00:52:11,768
But don't let them depart here.

1235
00:52:11,768 --> 00:52:13,283
And even if good 
brethren come along

1236
00:52:13,283 --> 00:52:15,306
and say to you, I think it's all over.

1237
00:52:15,306 --> 00:52:17,032
I think we're done in this country.

1238
00:52:17,032 --> 00:52:18,217
Don't buy it.

1239
00:52:18,217 --> 00:52:19,645
Don't accept it.

1240
00:52:19,645 --> 00:52:21,186
If you're ok with that,

1241
00:52:21,186 --> 00:52:22,704
well then go into your monastery,

1242
00:52:22,704 --> 00:52:24,363
lay down in your nice, sterile

1243
00:52:24,363 --> 00:52:25,728
reformed environment,

1244
00:52:25,728 --> 00:52:27,891
and just let the world 
go on its way to hell.

1245
00:52:27,891 --> 00:52:29,406
But you're not going to be the

1246
00:52:29,406 --> 00:52:31,597
people that will be used.

1247
00:52:31,597 --> 00:52:34,245
It's going to be the ones that burn

1248
00:52:34,245 --> 00:52:36,465
with Christlikeness;

1249
00:52:36,465 --> 00:52:38,442
that take it off the altar of God

1250
00:52:38,442 --> 00:52:40,713
and go forth in obedience

1251
00:52:40,713 --> 00:52:43,246
to what we've been told to do.

1252
00:52:43,246 --> 00:52:44,612
We've got a responsibility.

1253
00:52:44,612 --> 00:52:46,396
If you're not going in the mine,

1254
00:52:46,396 --> 00:52:48,506
you've got a responsibility to hold it.

1255
00:52:48,506 --> 00:52:50,467
That commission is to the church.

1256
00:52:50,467 --> 00:52:52,460
It's to us.

1257
00:52:52,460 --> 00:52:56,298
And it's to the end of this age.

1258
00:52:56,298 --> 00:52:58,388
We cannot go to sleep.

1259
00:52:58,388 --> 00:53:02,463
We cannot slumber.

1260
00:53:02,463 --> 00:53:06,527
Brethren, God forbid

1261
00:53:06,527 --> 00:53:10,217
that we drop the baton.

1262
00:53:10,217 --> 00:53:12,500
Spurgeon's dead.

1263
00:53:12,500 --> 00:53:14,234
Carey's dead.

1264
00:53:14,234 --> 00:53:19,116
Sutcliffe, Fuller, Pierce, Ryland.

1265
00:53:19,116 --> 00:53:21,172
Folks, they're gone.

1266
00:53:21,172 --> 00:53:22,980
This is our day.

1267
00:53:22,980 --> 00:53:27,706
This is our generation.

1268
00:53:27,706 --> 00:53:29,715
May God help us to be faithful.

1269
00:53:29,715 --> 00:53:30,462
Amen.