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Jack Graham - Making Disciples

March 16, 2025 | S25:E11

Jack Graham - Making Disciples
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.
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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Making Disciples | March 16, 2025
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • Turn in your bibles to matthew chapter 28...
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  • Matthew chapter 28.
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  • When jesus called... when he chose those original disciples,
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  • He said, "follow me and i will make you fishers of men." so if
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  • You are following christ, you are fishing for men; you are
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  • Catching men and women and boys and girls alive for christ. if
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  • You're not fishing, you're not following because when you're
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  • Following jesus and walking with him, you will be his
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  • Witness. so making disciples.
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  • The last words of jesus before he ascended to heaven are in
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  • Matthew 28, and jesus said to them:
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  • 18) “all authority is given in heaven and on earth and it has
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  • Been given to me. 19) and go, therefore, and make disciples
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  • (there it is) of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
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  • The father and the son and of the holy spirit.”
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  • We witnessed that today. we keep doing what jesus has
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  • Commanded us and called us to do. and then verse 20:
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  • 20)“teaching them to observe all that i have commanded you
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  • And behold, or lo, i am with you always to the end of the
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  • Age.”
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  • Some translations give it "to the end of the earth." the best
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  • Translations "to the end of the age." as long as there's time,
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  • We will take... keep taking the gospel to the ends of the
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  • Earth... to the end of time. we are making disciples, then we
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  • Are marking disciples in believer's baptism. this is a
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  • Testimony of our faith. we are maturing disciples, teaching
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  • Them to observe the things of christ and how to walk with
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  • Christ. and... and we multiplying disciples. because
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  • What god has called every church to do... every pastor to
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  • Do is to equip the saints to do the work of the ministry and to
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  • Fulfill this call, this commandment that he has given
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  • To every christian, and that is to multiply to the ends of the
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  • Earth.
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  • You know healthy churches along with healthy christians
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  • Multiply. and when you read the story of the new testament
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  • Church in the book of acts, and throughout the new testament,
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  • You see how it's not just addition of new members and new
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  • Christians, but it was multiplication. it was a
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  • Veritable evangelism explosion as one would tell one, and two
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  • Would tell four, and four would tell eight, and so on. this is
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  • The magnificent work of the church. making disciples.
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  • And you are to be a disciple maker, because god called every
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  • One of us. our supreme team... the team supreme. our commander
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  • In chief has given us as his church, as his people, our
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  • Marching orders. and we are to march off the map.
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  • There's a wonderful thing here that is promised. his command
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  • Is not only a command, but it is a promise. the command is
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  • Linked to the promise because, remember, jesus will never ask
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  • You to do anything that he will not enable you and empower you
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  • To do. i know some of you are already nervous when we start
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  • Talking about witnessing and sharing your faith. but god
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  • Will never ask you or call you or command you to do anything
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  • That he will not enable you to do. so jesus said, “i am with
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  • You as you are going in this world, sharing the gospel. i'm
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  • With you all the way to the end. i'm with you all the way
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  • To the finish line. and so god has called every christian and
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  • Has commanded us all to make disciples.
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  • So the first point. and i've already kind of entered point
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  • One, and that is, who is making disciples? who is making
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  • Disciples? well, the who is you. if you are a christ
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  • Follower, you are speaking jesus. you're talking about
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  • Jesus. we talk about things we get excited about.
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  • I like... no, i love winning [clap] people [clap] to jesus
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  • [clap]! that's what really fires me up. and it embarrasses
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  • Me sometimes. i can talk more about the rangers winning the
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  • World series, than i may have talked about jesus. so i want
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  • To challenge every one of you and remind each one of us that
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  • If you're excited ... there's an old gaither song, "get all
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  • Excited, go tell everybody that jesus christ is king" and so we
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  • Get excited about sharing jesus.
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  • And when you've been with jesus... they tried to shut up
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  • The disciples and shut down the witness of the church in the
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  • Early days. they told them never speak the name of jesus
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  • Again. and the disciples... the apostle john and peter said,
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  • "we cannot help but speak of what we've seen and heard." we
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  • All speak jesus, because we have experienced his live, his
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  • Love in our life! so the who is you!
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  • Unfortunately, in many cases the great commission has become
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  • The great omission. you know like there things of
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  • Commission... there's things that we do that we ought not to
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  • Do. somebody asked a little boy in a sunday school class,
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  • "what's the sins of commission and what's the sins of
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  • Omission?" "well," he said, "the sin of commission is when
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  • You do the things... you commit the things that you ought not
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  • To commit. and the sin of omission is when you don't
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  • Commit sins that you wish you could." [laughter]
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  • No, the sin of omission... the bible says, "he who knows what
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  • Is right and doesn't do it has sinned against god." and that's
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  • James 4:17. we're often sinfully silent. silence is not
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  • Golden. silence sometimes is just plain yellow. and what god
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  • Needs to do is to give us courage and boldness. jesus
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  • Said, "as the father has sent me, i send you." the same god
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  • That sent his son into the world that we celebrate every
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  • Day, but at this season of the year, the same father who sent
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  • The son to seek and to save the lost. "you shall call his name
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  • Jesus for he will save his people from their sins." the
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  • Same god who sent jesus, is sending you in the name of
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  • Jesus, in the power of jesus to speak his dear name. and not
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  • Only with our lives, but with our lips we are to verbally and
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  • Personally share our faith.
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  • And you think, "well, i... not me. i'm just not equipped. i'm
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  • Not that able. i don't have the ability to do that." yes, you
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  • Do. if you are saved, you can be a witness. the only ability
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  • You need is availability. and maybe some expendability that
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  • Goes along with that, if you're willing to do what god has
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  • Called you to do. in this passage, he says, "look, all
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  • Authority is given unto me. all power is given, all authority."
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  • What does that mean? that we have the authority of jesus
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  • Christ. when it says "all authority has been given unto
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  • Me." it means that he is lord of all; that he is lord of
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  • Life, and he has the authority to send us and then ... not
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  • Only to save us but to send us and then to make us
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  • His ambassador.
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  • The who is you! and you may be thinking: "who? me?" yes, you!
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  • And you and you and you and you and you. we are god's plan to
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  • Reach the world with the gospel until he comes again.
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  • There's no plan b. god is using people.
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  • He uses technology; he uses programming... he uses things
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  • And buildings and all the rest. but he uses you and me! and
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  • What a privilege this is because each one of us, if you
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  • Are a believer and a follower of jesus, you are made for this
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  • Mission. and as a jesus follower, filled with the holy
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  • Spirit, you can do this. you're better than you think! you're
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  • More than you can possibly imagine.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • God is faithful! these aren't just words. they're a truth
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  • That deepen each day of our lives when we focus on the
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  • Promises of god's word.
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  • Faithfulness isn't just something he does. he does it,
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  • But it's really who he is - god is faithful. that's why i've
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  • ‘til the whole world hears.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Now i know some of you have never even tried to bring a
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  • Person to faith in jesus christ. i mean, personally.
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  • You've given your money, and thank god that you've been
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  • Faithful in your giving and you serve in many ways. but upwards
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  • Of 95 percent of professing christians have never had the
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  • Experience of personally inviting and leading a person
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  • To faith to jesus christ. most of the time it's because of
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  • Fear or some kind of anxiety, or maybe frustration. maybe you
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  • Tried it and it didn't work out. so you are reluctant.
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  • You... you're reluctant to tell your family members.
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  • And i know many people have friends... you have friends
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  • That you've never talked to about jesus. now god
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  • Understands and knows our fears and our frustrations, so that's
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  • Why he gives us a promise... he gives us this promise that
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  • "when you do this, i will be with you." here's a special
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  • Sense in which the lord is with us when we by faith take a step
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  • To give a bold witness of the gospel. amen?
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  • And there's incredible joy in sharing jesus. the bible... the
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  • Bible tells us that when one lost soul comes to faith in
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  • Jesus christ, all of heaven explodes with praise to god,
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  • And joy! there's joy in the presence of god! god himself is
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  • Celebrating when one person comes to faith in christ. it's
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  • Always... it's never about the crowd; it's always about the
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  • One, the one person, the one family that comes to faith in
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  • Jesus christ. and so, if that brings joy in heaven, what do
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  • You think that's going to do in your heart and your life? it's
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  • Going to bring incredible joy. you know the happiest
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  • Christians i know are soul-winning christians! full
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  • Of gratitude to god, and therefore, we just can't help
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  • But spill out and praise god, to speak the name of jesus.
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  • "love god. love jesus. share the gospel. have fun." that's
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  • What i'm telling you this morning. you know, the upright
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  • Get so uptight when we talk about sharing the faith. "the
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  • Little child shall lead them." and a little child can bring
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  • People to jesus and so can you... so can you. so you say,
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  • "well, i'm not all that equipped. i'm not trained."
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  • Well, you need to get trained and you should learn all you
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  • Can. but you don't have to wait around to take some course or
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  • Some class or to get some method down before you start
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  • Sharing jesus. just tell people what jesus has done in your
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  • Life. that's what the apostle paul did. paul went everywhere
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  • Just saying, "i met jesus on the damascus road; he changed
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  • My life!"
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  • Sometimes people ask "well, should i... should i share my
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  • Faith with my life... with my example, or with my words?" the
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  • Answer is yes! yes! both and... that's like two wings of the
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  • Airplane; they're both important. so many times our
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  • Example compromises our witness and so it's a motivation for
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  • Each one of us to share our faith, that we would pray that
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  • God's spirit would cleanse us and prepare us and make us
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  • Useable for him.
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  • I said availability. another one would maybe we should ...
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  • Useability because god wants to use us and he will use us
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  • And... but our example needs to be strong. many people, of
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  • Course, reject christ because they've seen so much hypocrisy.
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  • Don't be an unbeliever... a non-believer's alibi or excuse
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  • For not receiving or knowing christ. when we know jesus,
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  • Everything is changed; the way we speak, our language changes.
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  • Our lives change, what we do changes. and people see that.
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  • And look, you are the only bible... the only new testament
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  • That some people are going to read. you're a walking, talking
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  • Bible to so many people. and therefore, live your faith and
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  • Love people and share people... share with people faithfully
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  • This good news of what christ has done in your life.
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  • So that's the who... and the who is you. and the what? what
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  • Is it? we're to make disciples. where are we to share the
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  • Gospel? everywhere we go. literally when jesus said, "go
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  • Into all the world." it's written in the language of the
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  • New testament which says "as you are going." or on your way,
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  • Witness. as you are going... wherever you go.
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  • And he said, "go into all the world." personalize that. go
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  • Into all of your world. you have a world; you have a sphere
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  • Of influence. and in your world... in your circle of
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  • Friendships and relationships, this is your world. we're to
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  • Take the gospel globally, but we're to share the gospel
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  • Personally with family and friends and neighbors and
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  • Co-workers and classmates, and people that we meet along the
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  • Way. and there are divine appointments waiting for us
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  • Every single day if we will just be alert and be awakened
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  • To the opportunity that we have.
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  • David shivers is a bold witness for the lord and you know that
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  • If you've been around david. and i asked david, you know,
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  • What's your method? what... what's your mission? how do you
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  • Keep doing this? and david sent me a text and he said, "every
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  • Day, often before my feet hit the floor, i pray, 'lord, thank
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  • You for today. (that's a good place to start.) lord, thank
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  • You for this day, another day of life. secondly, thank you
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  • For the gift of salvation. "thank you... (every day preach
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  • The gospel to yourself.) thank you, lord, for your salvation;
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  • For saving me from my sin and giving me the gift of eternal
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  • Life." and then he prays one more thing. again, before he
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  • Ever gets up. "lord, help me to share this incredible gift with
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  • Someone today."
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  • All around us are people who are lost and dying and on their
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  • Way to judgment and hell. we walk by them; all around us are
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  • Broken people, hurting people who need jesus in their lives.
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  • And, often, unfortunately, because we don't pray... all of
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  • This begins with concern, doesn't it? it all begins with
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  • Caring. you gotta... you gotta care to share. that sounds like
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  • A christian cliché, but it's true. you gotta care first.
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  • Before evangelism and sharing the gospel is a program, it's a
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  • Passion that is in your heart. and if you will begin to pray,
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  • God will give a burden to fight spiritual battles every day and
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  • To win people from satan's kingdom into the kingdom of
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  • God. amen?
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  • Look, the kingdom of jesus is unstoppable. this is why jesus
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  • Said, "go to the ends of the earth, to the end of time; just
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  • Keep going and going and going and going and going, until
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  • We're done. he said, "occupy till i come." he said to all of
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  • Us... you know what that means? occupy till i come. that means
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  • Take care of business until i come again. make sure that
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  • You're doing what god has called you to do.
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  • You say, “well, i'm not a preacher. i'm not a
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  • Missionary.” well, that's probably good. we need people
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  • In the business sector, in the education sector. we need
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  • People all over the world in your world sharing the gospel.
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  • And in many ways, you can be more effective than i am. i
  • 00:19:33.595 --> 00:19:37.199
  • Mean, people know i'm a preacher, they think “well,
  • 00:19:37.199 --> 00:19:39.334
  • He's paid to say all that stuff.” but you are a satisfied
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  • Customer. you are someone who knows jesus.
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  • You say, "well, i'm not david shivers. i just don't have that
  • 00:19:46.141 --> 00:19:48.510
  • Kind of personality." okay, but be the best version of you. you
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  • Be a witness for christ and god will use your testimony, but
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  • You've got to care. you got to be concerned. you have to be
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  • Willing to be willing to let god use you. because this is an
  • 00:20:03.158 --> 00:20:07.262
  • Inclusive command. no one gets to opt out. all of you. god
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  • Loves all people. he died for everyone. not just a few, not
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  • Just the elect. jesus died for all. "for god so loved the
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  • World..." and so no one is excluded; everyone is included.
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  • And that means that all people are lost without jesus but
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  • There's not one person who is not loved by jesus. and when we
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  • Love people, because we love jesus, then we will see jesus
  • 00:20:41.663 --> 00:20:47.069
  • Change peoples' lives. everyday we can tell people what christ
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  • Has done for us.
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  • And you know, this gospel is to go to every person in the
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  • World. and that's why we give and go in mission opportunity.
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  • Every race, every religion, every color, every creed, every
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  • Language, every life-style, everyone in the world needs
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  • Jesus. all 6 billion people in the world need jesus!
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  • And why should people hear the gospel multiple times when so
  • 00:21:13.495 --> 00:21:17.499
  • Many people have never heard the gospel even one time? but
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  • I'll guarantee you this: most of the people that we live with
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  • Every single day in good old god-blessed texas-america,
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  • Still in this place, used to be the buckle of the bible belt we
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  • Said. and yet most people... are you listening? most people
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  • In your circle of influence have never ever heard a clear
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  • Witness of the gospel of christ. how did he save? the
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  • Grace of god, the salvation, the cross and what it means;
  • 00:21:44.893 --> 00:21:48.230
  • And the resurrection of the lord jesus christ. this is what
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  • God has called you to do. this is the heartbeat of god for the
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  • World.
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  • I saw an article a number of years ago in the houston
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  • Chronicle and it was a photo with the article of an older
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  • Woman with her ear on the chest of a young man in a hospital
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  • Room. she was bent over, her face, her head down on the
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  • Chest of that young man. and the article went on to describe
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  • What was happening there. the woman's child had died. the
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  • Child's heart was now in the heart of this patient, and she
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  • Bent down to listen to the heart of her son beating in the
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  • Heart of another human being.
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  • When you see that, you have to think if we could just hear the
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  • Heart of god! if we, like the apostle john at the last
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  • Supper, put our head over on the chest of jesus as he leaned
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  • Over on him, and hear the heartbeat of god for a lost and
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  • Broken world. if we could just get that part... that's where
  • 00:23:10.712 --> 00:23:14.249
  • It starts; it starts in the heart... in the heart of god
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  • And god has poured out his love in us by the holy spirit. we're
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  • To do this as long as god gives us breath and god gives up life.
  • 00:23:23.825 --> 00:23:28.263
  • Why make disciples? we are motivated by the fact that we
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  • Want to glorify god in doing this. and honor god and obey
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  • God and show our love for god, and to revive our hearts and to
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  • Grow the church. so many evangelistic witnessing
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  • Churches are growing churches. the reason that so many
  • 00:23:46.982 --> 00:23:50.986
  • Churches do not grow, they dry and die. the old saying is:
  • 00:23:50.986 --> 00:23:57.192
  • We'll either evangelize or we'll fossilize. and the reason
  • 00:23:57.192 --> 00:24:01.096
  • That so many churches are dead and or dying? no evangelism,
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  • Not witness. the people are not prepared; the people are not
  • 00:24:04.232 --> 00:24:10.005
  • Equipped. starting in the pulpit so often.
  • 00:24:10.005 --> 00:24:14.309
  • So god grows the church. be in a church that's going, and
  • 00:24:14.309 --> 00:24:19.047
  • Therefore, growing in the witness of the gospel. your
  • 00:24:19.047 --> 00:24:24.185
  • Faith is too good to keep. it is. too good to keep. and how
  • 00:24:24.185 --> 00:24:31.893
  • Do we make disciples? again, by caring and sharing, living out
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  • The gospel. here's what paul... the apostle paul said, and i'll
  • 00:24:37.198 --> 00:24:40.936
  • Close with this: he said, "we proclaim christ... (this is
  • 00:24:40.936 --> 00:24:44.105
  • Colossians 1:28, phillips paraphrase.) we proclaim
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  • Christ. we want everyone we meet and we teach everyone we
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  • Can all that we know about him so that, if possible, we may
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  • Bring every man up to his full maturity in christ."
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  • This is what we do. why we do it is because god has commanded
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  • Us. that's good enough for me. jesus said, “do it.” if i'm not
  • 00:25:09.397 --> 00:25:16.605
  • Doing it, then i'm disobeying my commander in chief. so do it
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  • And keep doing it, church. so many of you are so effective
  • 00:25:22.510 --> 00:25:25.213
  • And so heartfelt in your work and your witness of the gospel.
  • 00:25:25.213 --> 00:25:31.686
  • If you're not dead.
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  • So the last place is... the last point is how are we to do
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  • It, where are we to do it and when are we to do it? we're to
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  • Do it now. don't wait till your loved one dies without christ
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  • Before you tell them who jesus is and how he can change him.
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  • Don't wait till your neighbor's marriage and family blows up
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  • Until you tell them how jesus can put their family and their
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  • Life back together. in the emergency, urgency of these
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  • Times, now is the time. "today is the day of salvation." for
  • 00:26:05.153 --> 00:26:10.625
  • Such a time as this god has raised up his church, and god
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  • Has raised up you as a christian, like hadassah, the
  • 00:26:13.461 --> 00:26:16.531
  • Queen ester's story, "for such a time as this...".
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  • This is why our church is still here. this is the only reason
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  • We're still here. and if you want to know the truth, it's
  • 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:28.643
  • The only reason i'm still here. i keep showing up and doing
  • 00:26:28.643 --> 00:26:35.050
  • This because i want to see people come to faith in jesus
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  • Christ. and i want to see the church get up and get out and
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  • Go in jesus' name, and reach the world with the gospel of
  • 00:26:42.624 --> 00:26:46.995
  • Christ. and so i say to myself... i say to you, if
  • 00:26:46.995 --> 00:26:51.166
  • You're not dead, you're not done! [applause] keep going!
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  • March off the map! keep doing what god has called you to do.
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  • You know, i'm just a... i like to say it this way: i'm just a
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  • Nobody, trying to tell everybody about a somebody who
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  • Will save anybody who puts their faith and trust in him.
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  • And his name is jesus! [applause]
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  • ♪♪♪
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