(174) “Jesus Revolution on Long Island” with Dan Reiter

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One night the police stopped and they said,

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what's going on here?

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They were sure that we were selling drugs

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or smoking pot or whatever.

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And said, we're talking about Jesus.

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They laughed and laughed and laughed all the way back

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into their police car.

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Wow.

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They couldn't believe this whole thing.

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And so that was the beginnings of things.

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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit

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on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring.

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Where we contend for that promise outpouring,
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We equip for that outpouring,

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So that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Buss.

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And I'm Sharon Buss.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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We have with us a very special guest,

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Dan Reiter from Community Christian Fellowship

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in Matatuck, New York on Long Island.

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And he has had some amazing conversations

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and he has had some amazing experiences

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in the things of God and experiencing the outpouring

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right here on Long Island.

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We're so glad that you've joined us today.

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Thank you so much for tuning in.

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Before we get started, we just want to encourage you,

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if you haven't already done so,

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to go to our website, globaloutpouring.net

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and be sure that you have subscribed to our email list.

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We want to be able to communicate with you

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and keep in touch with you,

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let you know what we're doing.

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We have a prayer meeting that you can join with every day

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on the telephone so that you can help us contend

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for the outpouring.

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And we have equipping things that are going on all the time.

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The next thing that's coming up is our School

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of the Supernatural Translation by Faith

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with Dr. Bruce Allen and his wife Reshma

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and Michael Van Vleimen and his wife, Cordana.

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We're going to be learning about the things

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that God is preparing for his saints

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as we move deeper into the hour that we're living in

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so that we can know the scriptural basis of translation,

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just like Philip did in the New Testament

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in the Book of Acts where God took him to a place

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and he ministered to the Ethiopian eunuch

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and when his job there was done, he was gone.

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And he found himself elsewhere.

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It's perfectly scriptural and that is what we are learning

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and also learning to discern what's the real thing

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and what's the false thing.

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So we encourage you to see the events we have coming up

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on our website and join in if you are able.

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So Dan, it's such a pleasure to be with you today

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and have this opportunity to share some of the things

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that God has done in your life.

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Thanks for joining us.

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Sure, no thank you very much.

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So tell us a little bit about your upbringing.

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Were you raised in a Christian home?

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I was raised, my parents were Lutheran

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and so I was brought up in a Lutheran church.

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They had to bribe me to go to Sunday school.

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But I finally did do that

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and we had a very wonderful pastor looking back.

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But what you learned of the Lord was, it was so-so.

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You were never brought to a point to make a decision.

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And so I knew the things.

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I've heard Bible stories, things of this nature,

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good sermons, I looked back at maybe some of them

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that I could remember some things.

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And had I been awakened to the Lord and to his spirit,

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I would have heard it very differently.

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But I was young so that was a story.

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And so I was brought up in a Lutheran church.

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However, my mother was Jewish.

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But she had converted to Christianity, she met the Lord.

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And that all happened through my older sister.

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She started at a young age going to a Baptist church.

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She got some word in her.

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Oh, yes.

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So what happened, she became born again.

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And of course, my mother was very worried about her.

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Would actually follow her to church.

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Oh, wow. Oh, my.

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And became born again.

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She met the Lord and asked the Lord to her life.

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Wow.

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And so that was the influences on my life.

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My father was a very quiet man, big man.

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And worked underwater all his life.

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He was a captain of fishing boats, things of that nature.

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And I'd always find my father in the morning,

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looking at scripture or something like that, a devotional.

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And all I knew, that was an important thing.

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Because if dad took time for it, it was important.

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He didn't talk about it so much.

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Wow.

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But I could just tell as a kid, this is an important thing.

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So how did you come to know Jesus?

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Well, really the way that I came to know Jesus

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was simply on television,

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whenever Billy Graham seemed to come on.

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I would listen, I understood what he was saying.

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And I must have gone forward to the television

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at least 16 or 17 times.

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Wow.

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Didn't wanna miss a chance.

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Right. Yeah.

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But again, the understanding

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and the kind of follow-up teaching you would get,

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I wasn't getting.

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But as a kid, that's what I did.

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So the Lord was real to me,

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but not as a relationship, but I believed in his reality.

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And I believe that he died on the cross for my sin

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as much as I understood what that all was.

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So that's how I came to the Lord.

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How old were you?

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I was, well, I would tell you that I went forward

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ever since I was 12 years old.

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And finally it dawned on me,

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probably around 17 years old,

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that I needed to ask Jesus into my life

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and that he came to save me from my own sin

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and to bring me into a relationship

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through himself with the Father.

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Beautiful.

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And I began to understand that.

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However, it was still something wasn't grabbing my life.

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It was a belief.

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It was something like a tack on to my life.

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You know, I understood it, but it wasn't,

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it didn't consume me.

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You know, it wasn't really in my heart.

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So that was a story up until around 17, 18 years old.

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And then through a bunch of different circumstances,

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how would I say this to you?

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But I ended up in a rock and roll band.

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Tell us about it.

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And I loved it.

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I'll make no bones about it.

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I loved every bit about it.

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I sang and there were three other fellows,

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you know, guitars and drums, et cetera,

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kind of a typical band.

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But over time we started to,

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we had gotten quite good and quite well known.

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And so that really started to consume my life.

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And as I say, I loved it.

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We're in recording studios.

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We're doing this, doing that, playing a lot of jobs.

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And after a while you find yourself eating, sleeping,

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drinking the music.

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You know, it consumes you and you love it.

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And so there was a time and I think I was maybe

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20 years old then.

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There was a fellow who said he'd like to meet with me.

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And I said, sure.

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And I met with this fellow, his name was Greg.

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And he was kind of a little strange,

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had long hair like all of us did back then.

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But he looked a little strange

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and he talked a little strange.

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And he says, I hear that you pray

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before you guys go on stage.

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I said, yeah, we've always done that.

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We pray together.

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That was always my idea.

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And the other fellas do what's fine with.

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And so Greg says, you know, I met the Lord

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while I was at college.

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And he said, you know, the Lord has just filled me.

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And he started talking to me

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as if he had had breakfast with Jesus.

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And kind of came to tell me about it.

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And I was very enthralled by what he said.

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And then he kind of laughed at the end of our conversation.

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He said, you know, they call us Jesus freaks.

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And you know, that appealed to me.

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Somehow that appealed to me.

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I liked that.

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Don't ask me what grabbed me about that,

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but it just made everything about the Lord so current.

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So real for right now.

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And so we played a job that night.

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And I can remember this like it were yesterday.

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I had come home and I think we got home about,

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I got home maybe two or three in the morning.

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That was usually when you got back.

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And I would go down, I'd gotten to bed

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and I would always lay there.

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And every set that we played would go through my head

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before I could go to sleep.

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I would hear every mistake.

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I would hear this, I would hear that.

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So all the songs played and finally was over

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and I'm ready to go to sleep.

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And I just said this little prayer.

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I said, Lord, I don't know what that guy Greg has,

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but whatever he has, I want it.

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And all I can tell you, all of a sudden,

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something started like at my forehead.

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It went down to my feet.

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And I was laying in bed laughing my head off.

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And I really, I was just laughing and laughing

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and something was happening to me

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and I kind of knew it, but it was pleasant.

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And I slept well that night and it was,

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and I woke up and it was like,

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there were birds singing,

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but I'd never heard them before till it was you,

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until I'd met Jesus.

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And so things change, needless to say.

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And so it wasn't long after that,

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the Lord started asking me,

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and I could hear this in my heart.

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Do you love me or do you love the band?

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And I said, Lord, you know, I love you.

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And I said, you're gonna be so proud of me.

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I said, you know, if we cut that record

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and I meet, you know, X, Y and Z,

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I'm gonna have the opportunity to witness to them.

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And that didn't go very far.

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And so, you know, things continued.

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And a second time, same thing happened.

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I came out with the same lame answer looking back.

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And then somewhere as I had read in Job,

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and this is my paraphrase,

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but if the Lord speaks to you three times,

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the third time, you better listen.

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So basically the Lord spoke a third time.

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And what I said, I said, Lord,

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I couldn't leave even if I wanted to.

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I'm just too steeped into this.

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And I love it so much.

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And I said, if you want me out though,

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if you arrange it so I come out of it,

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I'll certainly do it, I'll follow.

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And all of a sudden, the group started to fall apart.

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And we were on the midst of a recording contract

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and a few other things, you know,

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that look like the opportunities that, you know,

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everybody would wish for.

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And things started and I recognized what was happening.

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And so I just took this step out.

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And a friend who was in another band came,

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he asked me, he said, what on earth did you do?

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Why'd you leave music?

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And I said, well, come over the house Saturday night

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and I'll tell you.

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And so I shared with him what happened to me.

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And he asked Jesus into his life.

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Glory to God.

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Praise God.

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And he said to me, he said,

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can I bring some friends over next Saturday?

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I said, yeah.

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And he brought about 10 people over the next Saturday.

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He said, Ted, tell them what you told me,

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you know, why you left the music.

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And so I told a story, all 10 of them came to the Lord.

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And this started going on the whole summer.

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And it ended up that first fellow who came over,

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who ended up a close friend, a fellow that I really loved,

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his name was Ed Hanson.

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Ed and a fellow, Greg, who had witnessed me originally.

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By the end of the summer,

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the three of us were on the front stoop of my folks' house

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where there was a big, big lawn in the front.

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And there were about 200 young people

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that would come just to hear us speak about the Lord.

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Wow.

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And it was just happening naturally.

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Something was going on.

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We didn't know what.

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Wow.

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I think that was the beauty of it, looking back.

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Yeah.

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We did not know.

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We were just reliant on the Lord.

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Whatever he showed us,

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whatever we sensed he was telling us.

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That's what we did.

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I'm sure we made many, many errors and mistakes,

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but gosh, the Lord was so gracious and loving

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and merciful to say the least.

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And so not only did so many young people,

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but three Catholic priests were coming.

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Wow.

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And they were enjoying it.

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I can still remember the one fellow

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from the Polish Catholic Church.

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He wore one of these big, I don't know, things on his head.

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And we said, this has gotta stop.

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And so we took his hat off one night

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and put an engineer's hat on him.

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And he loved it.

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He wore it all the time.

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And it was just a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful time.

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And so that's how things began,

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at least out here on Eastern Long Island.

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Wow.

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And again, we did not know what was happening,

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but started reading in Time Magazine

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and Newsweek Magazine at the time

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about this thing called the Jesus Movement

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or the Jesus Revolution all over the country.

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But that's how it started,

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at least out here on Eastern Long Island.

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But then we had friends who went out to California

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and they said, you're never gonna guess

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what we found out here.

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We found Jesus.

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Oh, glory to God.

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And they said, we ended up at some place

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called Calvary Chapel, this guy Chuck Smith.

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And so we realized this was going on all over the place.

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Something was happening coast to coast.

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But again, it wasn't defined, it wasn't understood

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by any of us, but it was happening and we all knew it.

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And the one thing we knew, Jesus was real.

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We knew Jesus was real.

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We didn't understand doctrine and all the things

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that happened that end up dividing everybody.

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But we understood Jesus.

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And we knew he loved us.

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I can still remember a kid,

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he was on this wall doing back flips.

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And I went by my car and I said, what are you doing?

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He said, I'm flipping out for Jesus.

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Oh, I love it.

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And you know, it was just,

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this is what people were saying, talking about.

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And the people in town were talking about

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what's going on.

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One night the police stopped and they said,

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what's going on here?

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They were sure that we were selling drugs

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or smoking pot or whatever.

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And he said, we're talking about Jesus.

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They laughed and laughed and laughed all the way back

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into their police car.

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Wow.

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They couldn't believe this whole thing.

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And so that was the beginnings of things.

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Yeah.

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How long did that last?

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That lasted, well, in a crazy way, it's still going on.

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Amen.

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You know, it's maybe died down a little bit,

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because it's a generation that started back then.

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And now we're all a little bit older.

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They're back to heck, I'm a lot older.

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And so, but I see something happening

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with another generation that everybody's considered lost.

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And lost generations are good

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because we're sin abounds, grace abounds much more.

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Amen. Yes, amen.

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So I'm sure that something is stirring again.

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And, but the meantime, you know,

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the Lord was always teaching us, always moving us.

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And, you know, just to go on from where I kind of ended there

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just a second ago, I had gone on to graduate school

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in Tallahassee, Florida, Florida State.

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While I was at Florida State, somehow,

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it's a long story, so I'm not gonna tell you the whole thing,

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but I ended up in music again.

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But this time singing about the Lord

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in a group called the Burning Bush.

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And Florida State, there were 22,000 students.

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Wow.

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And so we somehow, when we played around campus

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and around the town of Tallahassee,

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we seemed to bring together all the different groups.

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They all came to hear us.

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Wonderful.

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Campus Crusade, which was a giant group,

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the local charismatic people,

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and then the university people,

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the more scholarly I would call it.

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But they all used to come.

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And so my last year of graduate school,

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there was a friend who used to call me bro.

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And he said, what would you think

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about running a Jesus people party in the student elections?

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Oh, wow.

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And I said, well, what would be the point of that?

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He said we could witness to 22,000 people face to face.

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Oh, what a great idea.

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I said, you know, John, sounds pretty good to me.

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And he was looking for me for kind of my okay

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for whatever reason, I don't know.

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He was just a good friend, a little bit younger than I was,

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but a good friend,

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another student, an undergraduate student,

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but we both knew the Lord.

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And so we went to all of the groups on campus

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and presented this idea.

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And we formed a party.

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Wow.

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Called the Jesus people party.

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That's great.

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And our aim was, and everybody took hold of this.

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We're going in not to win anything.

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We don't wanna win.

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We wanna witness.

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And we wanna witness to every student on campus.

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This is great.

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And everybody agreed.

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And we actually did it.

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And here's the funny thing.

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We tied, every position tied for first place.

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Wow.

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Which meant there had to be a runoff election.

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Oh, wow.

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So one more chance to follow up on our witnessing.

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And then the miracle of miracles happened.

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The election came and we lost.

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Every one of us lost.

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Wow.

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And we were so pleased.

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We rejoiced.

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Because no one wanted to, you know,

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be in the student politics.

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But it was a wonderful opportunity.

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But you know, that's how it was a vibrancy.

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Yeah.

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You know what I mean?

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Two guys could have an idea.

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You share it with a few more.

439
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And the next thing, you know, you're witnessing the 22,000.

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Glory to God.

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I didn't like that.

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And it was just because we were too dumb

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to make it complicated.

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We're just lifted up to the Lord in prayer.

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Yeah.

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And would go ahead, take the chance.

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And the Lord would either open doors or shut doors.

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Wow.

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That's the way we worked.

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That's fantastic.

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And that was the beauty of the times.

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So over the years, we've learned how to complicate

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a little bit more.

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So it's taking a while.

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But I think we're coming to a point

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where we've overly complicated ourselves.

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Perhaps divided ourselves too much.

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And, but I think there is a move to towards unity.

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I believe so.

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You know, but our unity is in Christ.

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It's no place else.

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And even a small group like we are here in Matatuckabee,

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if you call, ask us a lot of questions,

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you're going to find out we all have a lot

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of very different opinions.

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And a lot of different thoughts.

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But on the other side of it, do we love each other?

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In Christ, we really do.

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Yeah.

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You know, and we're not going to let opinions

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or our own tastes or anything else separate us

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from what God has really joined.

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And not only joined marriage, but he's joined

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brothers and sisters, the body of Christ.

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Beautiful.

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Yeah.

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So.

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Well, we've noticed that being with you

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in your congregation, that it's very much

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a New Testament style church.

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Can you give us a little bit of how you came to that vision?

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Well, in the beginning, we just wanted to do

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what the Lord wanted.

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And so we looked at the Book of Acts, how did they meet?

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And that was the beginning of it.

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And then lo and behold, we had met a few people

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along the way, one fellow named Lance Lambert.

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Lance was in England at the time.

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And of course, as we knew him, and you probably know this,

490
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he lived in Jerusalem for the most of his,

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a good part of his life.

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Yes.

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And another fellow, another gentleman, Stephen Kahn.

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Stephen translated, wrote all of Watchman's books.

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And Stephen was just a dear brother.

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In fact, he married my wife and I.

497
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Wow.

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Just a lovely, lovely man.

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Very humble Chinese gentleman.

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Just went to be with the Lord recently,

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he was at 106 years old.

502
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Wow.

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And he preached right up until the end.

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Glory to God.

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And just a dear brother.

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But they brought us this understanding

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of the church.

508
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You know, all of a sudden,

509
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the church was more than a Sunday meeting.

510
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It was the corporate man that God always wanted.

511
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Yes.

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For his son.

513
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Yes.

514
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And it just, at least for me,

515
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it started to change my walk in the Lord

516
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and everything else.

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And so we started to see the church

518
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as something precious to the Lord.

519
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And we saw it a place of unity,

520
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we saw principles, not so much,

521
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what would I say?

522
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It was an organism and not an organization.

523
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Amen.

524
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That's good.

525
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Something living.

526
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Exactly, that was one of the first principles

527
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that we began to understand,

528
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that it's organic within itself.

529
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And it'll grow if it's nourished correctly.

530
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Yes.

531
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And so we realized in the Book of Acts

532
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that they really didn't have a pastor.

533
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It was plurality of leadership.

534
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And it started to make a lot of sense to us

535
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because one man, you're gonna just get

536
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,440
what one man really sees.

537
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,840
And a lot of times, one of the greatest things happened

538
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,640
as we tried to bring this into being,

539
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,960
we would go before the Lord with everything.

540
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,040
We'd say, Lord, how do you want us to do this?

541
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:53,880
Yeah.

542
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,240
So we have five or six men praying.

543
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,520
Five or six men hear the Lord differently.

544
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:01,080
So now what do we do?

545
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,160
Divide into six denominations or what?

546
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,720
Or do we keep going before the Lord

547
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,720
till we have a unanimity?

548
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,440
And then we found out that that's important.

549
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,280
It saves us from going down a lot of wrong roads.

550
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:15,120
Yeah.

551
00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,920
And so that was a tremendous help.

552
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,320
When we met, we were taught somehow,

553
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,040
and Lance and Stephen had a lot to do with this.

554
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,680
I think looking back,

555
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,920
but just put the Lord's table in the midst.

556
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:31,760
Yeah.

557
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,560
Let the Holy Spirit lead you.

558
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:34,400
Yes.

559
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,400
You don't need someone to lead you through something.

560
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,040
Let the Lord lead you.

561
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,200
It's easier said than done because every once in a while,

562
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,440
you get somebody come into the fellowship

563
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,360
and they see a perceived void

564
00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:52,440
and they wanna take over right away.

565
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:57,440
Or when God brings a light someplace,

566
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,880
it dispels the darkness, but it also attracts bugs.

567
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,040
And once in a while, you get a bug.

568
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,880
And you got to, but over the years,

569
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,600
we've learned how to deal with this more and more.

570
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,840
So we're not worried about being off the wall

571
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:15,880
or anything else.

572
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,240
And so it gives chance for testimony.

573
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,760
But the beautiful thing that it does,

574
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,840
when you have a plurality of leadership,

575
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,240
and obviously you can tell we're not big on titles.

576
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,760
We're big on function, but we're not big on titles.

577
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,840
Because titles seem to separate.

578
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,400
You end up with a clergy and a laity.

579
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:37,240
Right.

580
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,520
You know, a division right within.

581
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,840
And so we try to stay away from those kinds of things

582
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,360
and stay away from the titles.

583
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:49,040
And it's a better way to go.

584
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:49,880
Yes.

585
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,800
You know, and we might not all agree on that, I think.

586
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,000
Sometimes, you know, especially in recent years.

587
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,320
But at the same time,

588
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,760
it works towards the building up of the body.

589
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:03,600
Yeah.

590
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,400
You know, and when everybody's expected

591
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,640
to give something of themselves.

592
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:09,480
Right.

593
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:10,840
You know, it's- Every joint supplies something.

594
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:11,680
Amen.

595
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:12,840
That's what the church is.

596
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:13,680
Yeah.

597
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,280
And that's, again, what we were taught.

598
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,720
The church is the place where every joint supplies.

599
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:18,560
Beautiful.

600
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,040
Every joint's not supplying.

601
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,440
Do you really have the church?

602
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:22,280
Mm-hmm.

603
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,120
I don't know.

604
00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:23,960
It's true.

605
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:24,800
So-

606
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,000
Well, it's kind of like if you have a big picture puzzle

607
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,720
and there's some pieces missing.

608
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:29,560
Mm-hmm.

609
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:30,800
You don't have the big picture.

610
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:31,640
Exactly.

611
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,440
Everybody has to play their part.

612
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,560
And that comes from every individual

613
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,000
becoming responsible to have relationship with God.

614
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:40,840
Amen.

615
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:45,120
You know, if we don't have our very own relationship

616
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:48,480
and learning things from the Lord himself,

617
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,720
we're missing what the New Covenant is all about.

618
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:53,920
It's about knowing him.

619
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:54,760
That's right.

620
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,000
It's about, yes, it's about erasing all of our sins.

621
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,600
And yes, it's about him being our God

622
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:02,880
and we being his people.

623
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,520
But it's about getting his word inscribed in our hearts

624
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,200
and in our minds and knowing him.

625
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,120
And that's something that comes from relationship with him

626
00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:15,840
and spending time with him and talking to him and listening.

627
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:16,680
Exactly.

628
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,600
And when everybody's listening,

629
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,000
they hear something to share with the body

630
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,680
and then we get the big picture.

631
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,840
And I think the Lord's longing, and it always has been.

632
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,800
I mean, you start to see scripture.

633
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,720
It begins with a wedding.

634
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,920
It ends with a wedding.

635
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,120
You flop open your Bible right to the middle.

636
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:37,960
What do you have?

637
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:38,800
Song of Solomon.

638
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:39,640
You have a wedding.

639
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:40,480
Beautiful.

640
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,280
You know, what does the Lord,

641
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,280
what does the Father want for the Son?

642
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,120
A bride.

643
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:46,240
Yeah, exactly.

644
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,760
And so when everyone's in a relationship with the Lord

645
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,840
and relationship with one another,

646
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,680
I can't help but believe

647
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,720
that the Lord is getting what he wants.

648
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,200
Somehow that's translated up into

649
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,360
what we call the New Jerusalem.

650
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:03,760
That's the gold.

651
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,920
That's the pearl.

652
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,320
That's the precious stone.

653
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:07,160
Beautiful.

654
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,480
You know, there's something beautiful about that.

655
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,720
So that's what I can tell you about

656
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,760
what was called the Jesus Revolution.

657
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:15,600
Okay.

658
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,520
That's how it's worked in our lives out here.

659
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,360
Beautiful.

660
00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,640
And God willing, as long as we live,

661
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,720
we wanna keep pursuing the Lord.

662
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,840
And then after that,

663
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,080
I'm sure we'll still pursue in a sense.

664
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:28,920
Amen.

665
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:29,760
Amen.

666
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,320
You know, I'm reminded of the move of God

667
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,800
that happened in the Hebrides Islands off of Scotland

668
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,360
in the late 1940s, early 50s,

669
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:45,360
where there were two older lady intercessors,

670
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,520
I think they were in their 80s.

671
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:47,360
You're right.

672
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,200
And they got to praying.

673
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,840
And then there was also this group of men

674
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,080
that got to praying.

675
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,440
And they were praying in a barn,

676
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,680
and the ladies were praying in their little house,

677
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:57,800
their little cottage.

678
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,400
And at one point,

679
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:01,960
and they were praying about the young people

680
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:06,520
because they had had a revival in their generation.

681
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,480
And there had been revivals throughout the generations

682
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,120
on those islands.

683
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,800
And people would recognize,

684
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,080
okay, the young people are drifting,

685
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,880
we need a revival.

686
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,880
And they'd pray through and God would give a revival.

687
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,520
And this particular time was one of those.

688
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,120
And God sent a revival,

689
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:34,120
and all the young people got thoroughly revived,

690
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,400
thoroughly transformed.

691
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,240
Just a footnote to that,

692
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,720
Lance knew the two ladies.

693
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:42,540
Really?

694
00:29:42,540 --> 00:29:43,380
Oh wow.

695
00:29:43,380 --> 00:29:44,220
Lance knew everybody.

696
00:29:44,220 --> 00:29:45,060
Oh wow.

697
00:29:45,060 --> 00:29:46,440
Lance knew King Hezekiah.

698
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,600
I mean, Lance knew everybody.

699
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:53,520
But, and he was sharing with us how in England,

700
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:54,440
in the Halford House,

701
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,800
that was the name of the fellowship that he was part of.

702
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,560
But they began by praying for a couple of years,

703
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,360
and that's all they did, they prayed.

704
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,400
They turned every meeting into a prayer meeting.

705
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:07,240
Wow.

706
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:08,880
For a move of God,

707
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,440
because they were very encouraged

708
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,760
by the Hebrides revival, you know, in his generation.

709
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:14,600
Yeah.

710
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,200
And so, and he talked about this one night,

711
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,200
he said, it was a thick fog, a dreary night,

712
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,280
only a few people showed up,

713
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,840
and he said, the heavens opened.

714
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:26,680
Oh.

715
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,840
And we knew God heard our prayers from all the years.

716
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:30,680
Wow.

717
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,680
And they said, the next thing he knew,

718
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,280
they were hearing about people speaking in tongues,

719
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,240
things he didn't even know about at the time,

720
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,600
all over the world.

721
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:41,440
Wow.

722
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,480
And that's when the Jesus revolutions broke out

723
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:44,440
in the United States.

724
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:45,520
Wow.

725
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,440
So, those two ladies,

726
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,440
this little group from Halford House,

727
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,400
that stayed faithful, and other groups.

728
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,520
Yes.

729
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,040
Certainly you've read Reese Howell,

730
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:57,880
probably a long way.

731
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:58,720
Oh yes, absolutely.

732
00:30:58,720 --> 00:30:59,680
Yeah.

733
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,720
It's another person that he knew.

734
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:02,540
Really?

735
00:31:02,540 --> 00:31:04,520
Yeah, I tell you, he knew everybody.

736
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,720
But anyway, it was just tremendous.

737
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,600
But it's been so helpful to us,

738
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,920
for God to have put those people in our lives,

739
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,120
to help us to grow, and to see, and to have vision.

740
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:19,960
Yes.

741
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,040
You know, they opened up the way,

742
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,480
and the Lord opened up our hearts,

743
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,280
and I'm so thankful, I really am.

744
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,120
Wow.

745
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,720
You know, I'm reminded of that wonderful movie

746
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,040
that came out a few years ago, called War Room,

747
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,120
where there was this intercessor,

748
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,280
powerful, powerful little intercessor,

749
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,120
and she began to pray,

750
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,560
Lord, send me someone to mentor.

751
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,200
I want to teach somebody what I know

752
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,120
before you take me home.

753
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,400
Or maybe, I don't remember exactly the plot,

754
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,560
whether it was the Lord that spoke to her,

755
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,920
and said, you need to pass this on to somebody

756
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:54,840
before I take you home.

757
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,120
I don't remember just which direction it went.

758
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,400
But the point was that she prayed for someone

759
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,520
to come into her life, that she could teach

760
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,920
the secrets of intercession, to pray,

761
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,800
and to change situations, change family situations,

762
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,600
change all the things that we pray for,

763
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,960
all the things that we intercede for,

764
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,960
all the things we contend for.

765
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,480
And we're contending, and God has already been moving.

766
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,240
He started this revival in Asbury

767
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,280
back in February of this year.

768
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:26,960
This is 2023.

769
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,800
And there've been other moves already

770
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,680
that have sort of started like popcorn.

771
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,600
You know, when you make popcorn,

772
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,840
first there's one.

773
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,840
And then there's another, and then there's another,

774
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:39,680
and then there's another,

775
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,760
and pretty soon it's pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,

776
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,920
pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, and the whole thing fills up.

777
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,000
And I feel like we're on the verge of that.

778
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,680
We've had the first few kernels have popped.

779
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:56,680
And it's time for this to increase in speed

780
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:02,320
and influence throughout America, throughout the world.

781
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,320
It's about the Joel 2.28 move of God

782
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,880
that is the outpouring that he has promised

783
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,080
that's gonna be like Niagara Falls.

784
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,600
And lives are gonna be transformed.

785
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,920
People are gonna be changed.

786
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,600
What do you see for that?

787
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,160
Do you see anything in your walk with the Lord?

788
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,120
Is he speaking to you along those lines?

789
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,440
I wanna say what I'm seeing is more important

790
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,720
than ever before is holding on to the Lord.

791
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:29,560
Yes.

792
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,440
And just trusting him for everything that's going to come.

793
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,760
You know, I realize if this generation,

794
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,480
if there is an outpouring in it,

795
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:45,080
things are so different now than they've ever been before.

796
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:45,920
True.

797
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,680
And if I don't hold on for the Lord,

798
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,240
I'm gonna already judge it as it can't happen.

799
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,680
So I gotta hold on to the Lord and trust him.

800
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:54,520
Yes.

801
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:59,520
And for my acceptance of however the Lord goes.

802
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,280
But yes, do I see, I mean, I see trouble for the world

803
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,400
and I see trouble for the nations on the other side of it.

804
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,520
I can't see how God and his mercy

805
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,920
will not have one more great outpouring.

806
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,560
And not only in the United States.

807
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:15,400
Oh yeah.

808
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:16,440
But all over the world.

809
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:17,640
He said on all flesh.

810
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:18,840
There has to be.

811
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:19,680
Yeah.

812
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:20,920
There has to be.

813
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:21,760
Yeah.

814
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,920
You know, before this world is totally judged.

815
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:24,760
It's true.

816
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:25,600
It has to be.

817
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,400
It's an amazing harvest.

818
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,240
It will be.

819
00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:29,080
It will be.

820
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,560
Our hearts need to stay soft.

821
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:31,400
Exactly.

822
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:32,720
And that's what I'm trying to say.

823
00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:33,960
Yes, yes.

824
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,320
Would you pray for our listeners before we close?

825
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:37,160
I would love to.

826
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:38,920
That would be a great privilege.

827
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,240
Lord Jesus, everyone here agrees that you are wonderful.

828
00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:44,080
Yes.

829
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,760
And Lord, we want, we want more than anything else

830
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,280
for that which is wonderful about you,

831
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,520
which is absolutely everything.

832
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,640
Lord, to be made known to mankind,

833
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,160
to every man and woman that we know,

834
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:03,720
every child, young, old people, it doesn't matter.

835
00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:06,680
Lord, show your great loving kindness.

836
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,760
We ask for a pouring out.

837
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:09,600
Yes.

838
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:10,480
All over the nations.

839
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,800
And Lord, begin with our own hearts.

840
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:13,840
Yes, Lord.

841
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,640
Keep them soft and pliable before you.

842
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:17,520
Lord, help us.

843
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,680
Help us to see Jesus in everything that we do.

844
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:21,520
Thank you, Father.

845
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:22,680
Precious Holy Spirit.

846
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:23,760
Thank you, Jesus.

847
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,520
Get the bride that you want for the son.

848
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:27,360
Yes.

849
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,480
Get it from our lives.

850
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:29,320
Yes.

851
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,160
This is our prayer together tonight.

852
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:33,280
In Jesus' name.

853
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,120
Amen.

854
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:34,960
Amen.

855
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:35,800
Amen.

856
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:36,640
Amen.

857
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:37,480
Amen.

858
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:38,320
Amen.

859
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,160
Amen.

860
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:40,000
Amen.

861
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,280
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862
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,960
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863
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,440
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864
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,760
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865
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,960
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866
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867
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,320
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868
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,080
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869
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,760
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870
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,560
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871
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,040
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872
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,760
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873
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,160
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874
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,520
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875
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:34,200
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