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Had a child at the children's
story this morning.
And he was here.
At the end of the children's
story, he came up to me and he
said, "Pastor, would you pray
for the coronavirus?"
And I'm thinking to myself that
this story is
just kind of slipping in between
the cracks, and the children
aren't getting it.
Let me tell you something.
The children are all getting it.
They hear you talking.
They hear
their favorite adults carry
on conversations.
They know.
And I want to honor that little
boy's request.
I think we ought to pray
right now, don't you?
By the way, I had someone who
was a university student
in first service, came
and saw me in between services,
and he said, "You know
something, Pastor?
It's amazing how we do this,
but we keep putting people
in the hot seat.
We identify who they are
and then we say, 'You know what?
Look out for them.'"
He's an Asian student.
He said, "Sometimes, you just
feel it.
I said, "You're talking
about on campus?"
He said, "No,
but it's just society."
And I thought to myself, "Man,
it can't happen that way
in the faith community,
not this community.
We don't isolate anybody.
We embrace -- Love on the move
means you embrace everybody."
I grew up in an Asian country,
14 years.
I love Asians. Come on.
You'd be...
Anyway, you got the point.
We just can't do it.
We just cannot do it.
I don't care
if they do it out there.
I don't care if they do it on TV
or on the radio.
We don't do it.
We're all in this together.
Let's pray.
Father, this coronavirus
thing -- we can't figure it out.
The stock market -- plunging.
What's up with that?
So the little boy makes
a good point.
Instead of talking about it,
we can pray about it.
And so we are right now.
We're praying that you will
give wisdom to the doctors
in every nation on Earth
who are racing to find
some stopgap that can bring
the ravages to a halt.
You've done it before.
You can do it again.
And here we are in worship.
We're all one family in worship.
Let our teaching be clear,
very clear.
We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
One of the most-watched
videos of TED Talks in history,
viewed by 11.8 million people,
was a short talk delivered by
a gentleman named Simon Sinek.
And maybe you've seen it.
The title of the YouTube, "How
Great Leaders Inspire Action."
Here's Sinek's point.
He says, "You have to embrace
the power of why."
Why do I exist?
Why am I here?
What's up with this?
What's the purpose of my life
right now?
Sinek's point -- you have to
embrace the power of why because
if you don't understand your
why, you will never get your how
right.
Turns out Simon Sinek and our
friend, the Angel Gabriel --
both know the truth.
Until you know the why,
you'll never get your how.
So, let's go to Gabriel.
Simon Sinek, we got it.
Let's go to Gabriel.
Luke chapter 1.
We were there last week,
but there's a line here.
Oh, there's a line that I've
been brooding on for a bunch of
months now.
I don't know what this
coronavirus means on the planet.
I don't know how pieces fit.
It's not for me to know, but I'm
thinking more and more if I --
And I've taped this, by the way,
where I have "worship" right on
the wall.
I'm thinking more and more,
"If we don't get this right,
we're gonna be here forever."
So, here's the one line that
I've been brooding over.
I want to share it with you.
Open your Bible to
Luke chapter 1.
Now, Luke, Chapter 2 is the big
Christmas story.
Everybody loves Christmas.
But this is chapter 1, which
is the pre-Christmas story.
So, something's gonna happen
now.
A baby's gonna get born.
Two babies get born, one in
chapter 2 and one in 1.
This is the baby in 1.
So, let's drop down to verse 11.
"Then an angel of the Lord
appeared to him."
We'll find the angel's name in
just a moment.
"Angel of the Lord appeared to
him --" that would be elderly
Zechariah -- "standing at the
right hand of the altar of
incense.
And when Zechariah saw the
angel --" I would have certainly
reacted the same way, and I
suppose you would, as well --
"he was startle and was
gripped," choked, throttled,
"with fear."
Well, I'd be throttled.
"And the angel said to him,
'Do not be afraid.'"
I love that because once you
understand the why, all this
nervousness about, "How do I
pull off the how?" is drained
away.
"You don't have to be afraid,"
the angel says.
"Listen, your prayer has been
heard."
Keep reading.
"'Your wife Elizabeth will bear
you a son, and you are to call
him John.'"
"Now, listen, Zechariah.
Are you listening to me?"
The man can hardly breathe.
"Are you listening to me?
Because I am now gonna give you
the why for your baby's life,
and it is up to you, sir, to
tell this baby what his why is."
And if you're a young parent, as
we just had two young parents
standing here, it is your
mission, Mommy and Daddy, to
tell your child what her why is,
what his why is.
You've got to tell them.
So, Zechariah -- Listen to me.
Verse 16. Here it comes.
"He --" your baby -- "will bring
back many of the people of
Israel to the Lord their God."
Verse 17 -- "And he --" John --
"will go on before the Lord, in
the spirit and power of Elijah,
to turn the hearts of the
parents to their children and
the disobedient to the wisdom of
the righteous -- to make ready a
people prepared for the Lord."
Now, Zechariah has just been
given this stunning why for his
baby, but Zechariah, so human,
does what we humans do.
We don't celebrate the why.
We start asking the how.
And I'm afraid it's that way in
the church, as well.
We've forgotten the why perhaps,
but we've got all kinds of hows
going on -- "How this, how that,
try this, how, how, how, how,
how."
And God is saying, "What are you
talking about, how, how, how?
I'm talking to you about why,
why, why."
Until you know the why -- the
power of why, Simon Sinek --
Until you know the power of why,
your hows won't matter.
You have to know why you exist.
That's true for an institution,
a congregation, and you and me
as people.
Do you know why you exist?
I'm asking you.
Why were you born?
Why are you on this planet
right now?
There is a reason.
You have to know it.
Now, what Gabriel has just done
is the one-line mission
statement, the powerful,
stunning why for
John the Baptist.
John the Baptist was to get them
ready for the Messiah's first
coming.
Guess what.
You came along just in time to
get the world ready for the
Messiah's second coming.
And I'm telling you, fellow
groupies watching the horizon,
the evidence is mounting that
Jesus is coming soon.
I didn't think I get an "Amen"
anyway.
Amen.
Huh?
Yeah, He is coming soon, whether
you "amen" it or not.
 Amen.
 "To make ready --" Let's put
that on the screen, please.
"To make ready a people prepared
for the Lord."
That's the great why.
And Zechariah -- bless his
heart -- he doesn't say, "I want
to celebrate the why."
His first word -- what's the
first word out of his mouth?
Look at the next verse.
It would be chapter 1, verse 18.
Put it on the screen for us,
please.
Zechariah asks the angel what?
"Yo, how? How? How?
How can I be sure of this?
I am an old man, and my wife is
well along in years."
And by the way, gentlemen, since
this is Family Life Day with a
little baby dedication going on,
that's how you talk about your
wife's age -- "I'm old, but
she's well along in years."
That's the best way to do it
'cause if you say, "I'm old and
she's old," you may not live to
be old.
[ Laughter ]
So just take a lesson out of the
playbook of Zechariah.
"I'm old, and she's well along
in years.
How?"
Gabriel says, "Excuse me?
Excuse me?
Did you just ask how?
I just gave you the why, and
you're asking me how?
Do you know who I am?"
Look at the next verse.
"Do you know who I am?
I am Gabriel.
I am the prime minister of this
universe."
Do you understand there is a
King and the next highest being
to the King is the prime
minister?
Do you understand that?
You'd have to be from the U.K.
to figure that out, but that's
how it works.
"I am the prime minister.
My name is Gabriel.
I stand in the very presence of
God, and I came here to give you
some good news.
And you're talking to me, boy,
about how?"
Until you get your why straight,
you will never know how.
I'm telling you, we are just
like -- Well, Simon Sinek knew
how to talk to us and Gabriel
knew how to talk to Zechariah
because we're all the same.
Human nature -- "How, how, how,
how, how, how, how, how?"
We have all these hows running
around, and nobody knows the
why.
Isn't that sad?
One line -- could you put it on
the screen for us again, please?
"To make ready a people prepared
for the Lord," which is why, by
the way, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John all quote one line from
the ancient prophet Isaiah.
Isn't that amazing?
They don't agree, often, all
four of them, with the same
material, but they do this one.
So, go over to Luke chapter 3.
Come on. Go to Luke chapter 3.
Because when you find this why,
as it's expressed in Luke 3,
there will be a how thrown in,
and it's that how that you and I
are gonna kind of say,
"Whoa, there's the how."
Watch this. Luke chapter 3.
Luke is a historian,
plus being a physician.
And it can happen this way.
The historians -- you know,
they got a lot of footnotes.
And so Luke has thrown in these
footnotes.
We'll go ahead and read them in
verse one of Luke chapter 3.
"In the 15th year, the reign of
Tiberius Caesar --" we're
talking about the big emperor --
"when Pontius Pilot was governor
of Judea --" you've heard of
him -- "Herod, tetrarch of
Galilee --" we all know him --
"his brother Phillip, tetrarch
of Iturea and Traconitis, and
Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene --
during the high-priesthood of
Annas and Caiaphas --" here we
go now -- "the Word of God came
to John, son of Zechariah,
in the wilderness.
He went into all the country
around the Jordan, preaching a
baptism of repentance and
forgiveness of sins."
Now, here it comes.
All four Gospels quote this
line.
"As it is written in the book of
the words of Isaiah the prophet:
'A voice of one calling in the
wilderness, "Prepare the way for
the Lord and make straight paths
for Him."'"
Hey, let's iso that line and put
it on the screen right now.
"A voice of one calling in the
wilderness, 'Prepare the way for
Him.'"
You say, "Dwight, I see the why
there.
The why is "To make ready a
people prepared for the Lord."
Where's the how?
The how is sitting right in
front of us -- "A voice of one
calling in the wilderness."
When you know that you have the
the why -- "To make ready a
people prepared for the Lord" --
the modus operandi for the why
is voice.
It's voice.
You have a voice.
I have a voice.
We use the voice.
You say, "Ah, Dwight, come on."
No, no, seriously. That's it.
The big why -- "Make ready a
people prepared for the Lord."
How do we do it?
You be a voice.
I have good news for you.
It doesn't say "the voice"
because that really makes me
nervous.
If it says "the voice," I'm
thinking, "Man, all of Heaven is
looking on me for this?
Please deliver me from that
pressure."
No, it doesn't say "the voice."
It says "a voice."
Just as there was a voice before
the Messiah came the first time,
there will be thousands of
voices -- so, they'll be all
little "a voices" -- before the
Messiah comes the second time.
You're that voice, and I'm that
voice.
And guess what?
It doesn't have to be a voice,
voice.
It can be an electronic voice.
Listen to this.
I just learned this last week.
I met a guy that I'd never met
before in my life.
His name is Bakar.
I just met him last week, last
Thursday, as a matter of fact.
Bakar is from the country of
Georgia.
Now, we're not talking about
Atlanta, Georgia.
We're talking about Tbilisi,
Georgia.
It's a little country south of
Russia and north of Iran, okay?
There is Georgia.
The Georgian language is one of
the 10 oldest languages on this
planet.
Guess what.
There aren't a lot of people
that speak one of the 10 oldest
languages of Earth.
They've all died off.
But there are people who have
been driven out of Georgia
because of political changes
over the years, and they live in
New York and in L.A. and in
Paris.
There are Georgian-speaking
people all over this planet,
about four million of them.
Bakar came over here to go to
school.
He got his major in landscaping,
and then he got a job in
Chicago, so he lives in this
community and he works in
Chicago.
But Bakar has been thinking,
"You know what?
There's a why for my life."
Bless his heart. He got it.
"The why for my life is to make
ready a people prepared for the
Lord," and he says, "I got to
do something.
God, what can I do?"
Well, one of the great rules
of life, one of the great
tips for living is this --
find a need and fill it.
That's how great things get
done.
Somebody finds a need and says,
"Hey, well, I'll do it."
There's nobody communicating to
the Georgians.
And you know what he says?
"I'm gonna communicate to my
fellow Georgians wherever they
live on this planet.
I'm gonna start a YouTube
station, and I'm gonna --
Oh, brother, I can't.
There's no literature for my
faith community in Georgian.
Oh, they have a little book
called "Steps to Christ," but
that's it.
So you know what he did?
He found some English study
guides.
He said, "I'll translate these."
He got his little smartphone.
He put up a table in his
apartment, one lamp -- that's
all you need -- and a laptop.
He's good to go.
And he starts recording messages
in Georgian to anybody out there
that might speak Georgian.
Well, how are they gonna find
out about this?
Well, he has a little
social-media account, and he
starts posting, "Hey, I've
started a little Georgian
YouTube station.
You need to check it out.
Hey, I've started this
Instagram.
I started a new -- Check it
out."
And slowly people started
checking it out.
Now, hold onto your pew because
he says, "Well, then I'm gonna
record some more," so he records
more.
And they're posted.
And the diaspora of the
Georgians has taken him to the
whole planet, but they're all
tuning in.
To the place today, he has
94,000 viewers who are following
and tracking his humble little
"To make ready a people prepared
for the Lord."
 Amen!
 Huh?
Listen, you can be social-media
missionary.
It says you're gonna use a
voice, a voice of one crying in
the wilderness.
Well, you got a social-media
voice.
Use that voice.
You don't have to stand in front
of 94,000 people.
And by the way, Bakar never knew
that this thing would explode
like that.
But the God of the universe who
laid His laid on Bakar's heart
the great why said, "Once you
get the why, I'll help you
with the how."
In fact, would you put that on
the screen, please?
"When you know your why, God
will guide you to your how."
That's the way it works.
Wow, Bakar. 94,000?
"Yeah, but, Dwight, I got to
tell you something -- I can't
speak."
Well, nobody said you had to
speak to 94,000 people, but
through social media, you can
surely speak.
All you need is a smartphone --
I repeat -- a laptop, and a
light bulb, and you can become a
voice in the wilderness of
social media saying, "The Lord I
believe in is coming soon.
You need to meet Him before
He comes."
You can do it.
We're not talking about rocket
science here.
Wow.
A voice of one crying out.
I got a love on -- Listen,
speaking of love on the move --
So, one of our members here
said, "Hey, Dwight, I got a
'love on the move' story for
you."
Well, I think this will fit
right here perfectly.
So, a few years ago -- well,
this would be less than three --
about two and a half years ago,
in September.
Adamere -- Adamere is thinking.
[ Speaking foreign language ]
He's thinking right here in this
little village called
Berrien Springs.
And he goes to his wife, Abby,
and he says, "Yo, Abby, what do
you think?
Could I do something like this?"
She says, "Well, you could try."
So, what does he do?
He carves out a new website.
He gives it a name.
He says, "Okay, I have a goal,
God.
I need --" What was the goal?
"I need 100,000 people by the
end of the year.
By December 26th, just after
Christmas, I went to check the
results and, to my surprise,
thanks be to God, I had reached
more than 300,000 people."
Hoo!
And, by the way, I've been to
his website.
It's not a picture of him
talking.
He's not doing any talking at
all.
He's pulling quotations in.
He's just putting stuff out.
He has other people talking.
You don't even see their faces.
Wow.
And he says, "Oh, by the way --"
because he's from Brazil.
He said, "I have a family
reunion in Brazil that occurs
every second Sunday of January,
so I went to Brazil and left the
campaign running.
I promoted it on Facebook and,
you know, all the links and so
on and so on, two websites that
I host.
To my amazement and complete
surprise, when I returned to the
U.S. of 'A' and went to check
the campaign, the results were
astonishing.
I had reached an unbelievable
number of more than 1.8 million
people."
Started in September.
He's got 1.8 million by January.
Come on, guys.
The guy is not a Web producer.
He's sitting right here.
Looks a lot like you.
You can do this.
Electronic voice -- you can have
electronic voice.
And then he gets a phone call.
in March.
So, you got September,
Christmas, January.
Now, in March, he gets a phone
call from somebody in
Mozambique.
And in Mozambique, they speak
Portuguese.
So, this guy is speaking broken
Portuguese, and he says, "Hey,
you the guy that's running this
thing?"
WhatsApp -- he got the call on
WhatsApp.
He says, "You the guy that's
running this thing?"
He said, "I am."
He said, "Hey, yo, what church
are you?"
He says, "That ought to be
obvious to you."
It wasn't.
He said, "Seventh-Day
Adventist."
"Oh, really?"
He starts carrying on a
conversation a few weeks later.
Somebody else contacts him.
"They say we're having a big
series in --" What's the name of
the city?
"Maputu." Maputo.
"And would you mind plugging it
in the U.S.?
You just plug it on your
social-media sites.
Plug this new series."
They had this series.
Guess what.
Now they were reaching more
than 4.8 million people on that
website.
And he writes here, "Dwight,
it's not a typo.
4.8, capital 'M,' with more than
458 baptisms.
To God be the glory."
Isn't that something?
You don't have to do nothing but
put up that little smartphone,
get that laptop moving, hang a
lamp.
And if you don't want to talk,
get somebody else to talk.
You want to just put text on it.
4.8 million people.
Once you know the why -- Let's
put that on the screen again.
"When you know your why, God
will guide you into your how."
You say, "Dwight, I don't know
what to do.
I can't speak."
You already mentioned that.
But I remind you -- there was
somebody else that couldn't
speak.
God said, "Hey, I have a big how
for you now that you know --
"My why --" God said to him,
"Moses, my why is to make ready
a people prepared for the Lord."
And Moses said, "Yo, forget it.
I can't speak.
Put it on the screen.
Let's see this little breakout
dialogue.
"Moses said to the Lord, 'Pardon
your servant, Lord.
I have never been eloquent,
neither in the past nor since
you have spoken to your servant.
I am slow of speech and
tongue.'"
"And I stutter.
I don't even know the language
of Egypt, and you're asking me
to go to Pharaoh?
You got to forget it."
God responds, not real happily,
but He responds.
And the Lord said to Moses, "Who
gave human beings their
mouths -- you or me?"
Moses said, "You did."
Then God says, "Now go then.
I will help you speak, and I
will teach you what to say."
So, this business about, "Well,
I just can't talk to people, I'm
just this little wallflower that
doesn't say a word" -- Come on.
God says, "I've given you a
voice, girl.
Use the voice for me.
You just open your mouth and
you'll start speaking and I will
speak through you.
Don't -- Don't worry."
"Yeah, but you know what?
I'm too young."
Oh, come on.
"You know, I'm a Gen-Z'er, but
I'm way too young to --"
Well, talk to Bakar about that,
number one.
Number two, are you really too
young?
You're the guys that own
cyberspace right now.
You're not too young.
I mean, Jeremiah tried that one.
God says, "Good luck, Jeremy."
Watch this -- Jeremiah 1:6.
"'Alas, Sovereign Lord,' I said,
'I do not know how to speak;
I am too young.'
And the Lord says to me, 'Do not
say, "I am too young."
You must go to everyone I send
you to and say whatever I
command you.
So don't be afraid for them --
don't be afraid of them, for I
am with you and I will rescue
you,' declares the Lord."
Folks, it doesn't get any better
than that.
Once you know your why, God will
give you your how, and the how
often starts with a mouth, the
use of the mouth.
You'll be okay.
You can do it.
I've been brooding on this line
for a long time -- "To make
ready a people prepared for the
Lord."
And I'm just wondering --
are we ready?
Are we even doing anything
about it?
How can we just sit here, get
entertainment on Sabbaths, go
home and live life the way we
always lived it, and we're
making no appreciable difference
on this planet?
You have a voice.
Now, it's true -- you may have a
printed voice.
You may be a writer.
You may have an electronic
voice, of course.
You may have -- You may have a
social-media voice, of course.
You may have just a simple
voice, but the voice needs to be
used.
That's how communication takes
place.
To make read a people prepared
for the Lord.
Wow.
We had a kid that was standing
right here on Thursday at
chapel.
His name is Justin Ku.
And he's using his social-media
platform to beat the band.
Now, the kid is smart, and he --
I talked to him afterwards.
I said, "Listen, would you be
willing to come back here
sometime?
We'll just have a little
training session for people who
want to use social media for
proclaiming the Gospel of the
Lord Jesus."
He said, "Sure, I'd be happy to
come anytime."
He started using social media
on his barber, okay?
He has an atheist barber.
He's using social media on him,
and the barber gets baptized.
[ Chuckles ] "Are you serious?"
"Yeah, I spoke to him in a
language he could understand --
social media."
He told a fascinating story,
a fascinating story.
Listen, it doesn't matter how
old you are or how young you
are.
It doesn't matter to God at all.
You got a voice, use it.
You don't have a voice,
you have no vocal cords,
that's fine.
You've got this voice.
Use this voice.
This is your voice.
Use it. Use it. Use it. Use it.
"Speak for me.
In the wilderness of this
culture, cry out for me.
Tell them I'm coming."
"Come to Jesus.
Come to Jesus now."
Wow.
How many stories do you need?
The point is -- Put on the
screen again -- when you know
your why, God will guide you
to your how.
Don't worry about solving this
whole thing.
Sit down with the Holy Spirit.
Take your little smartphone.
You got a note app on there.
And just write down, "I could
do this," or, "I might try
this," or, "I think I might --"
"What do you think, Holy Spirit?
I got eight suggestions of ways
I could raise a voice."
And let the Holy Spirit just
kind of say, "You know what,
boy?
You know what, girl?
I think -- Why don't you try
that one first?"
That's what He does for a
living.
He needs your voice.
That's how the planet hears --
human voices.
Oh, Jesus did say, "Listen, if
you guys don't speak, I'm gonna
have the rocks crying out.
The rocks will proclaim my
coming if you keep silent,
Adventists."
You keep calling yourself
Adventists.
You don't even believe Jesus is
coming soon.
"Have mercy" is right.
Just quit calling yourself an
Adventist then.
Just say, "Well, I don't know
what I am, but, you know,
obviously, I don't believe..."
Nah, don't do that.
You got a voice.
Use the voice for the King.
So, you don't want to be a
social missionary.
I get it.
You know what?
Be a student missionary.
Bunch of college students,
university students sitting
right here.
You can be a university student.
You don't want to be a
social-media missionary?
Fine. Be a university student.
Listen, I'll tell you whether
you're made for a student
missionary or not.
I'm gonna give you a little
checklist, and you go check,
check, check in your mind.
Okay, here comes number one.
If you have a little adventure
in your soul -- Do you have
adventure in your soul?
I can tell just by looking at
you.
You have it, okay? Check.
Okay, here comes number two.
Number two -- you have a heart
for faraway places.
Oh, come on.
There's no Gen-Z'er who doesn't
have a heart for faraway places.
Here's number three -- you have
a stomach for foreign food.
And that's not Taco Bell, by the
way.
That's foreign food.
You got a heart for that.
You got a stomach for it.
Oh, here's one more -- and you
have a spirit for becoming a
missionary even for just a year.
Check!
"To make ready a people prepared
for the Lord" is the perfect why
for student missionaries at
Andrews University.
Now, the leaders of this campus
know we have far too few student
missionaries.
I agree with them.
It's not their fault.
You got to sign up to be a
student missionary.
They can't use conscription.
You got to say, "You know what?
I've been thinking about it,
Dwight.
I could take a year off.
I'm getting ready to graduate
this spring.
I need a year just to kind of
cool my heels.
I want to be out where people
are in need.
I'll take a year off, and then
I'll come back and work on that
next step in my career."
You could do that.
"You know, it's my sophomore
year.
It's a perfect time for me to
take a year off.
I could do that, Dwight.
It's a piece of cake."
Of course you could.
I've watched student
missionaries go and I've watched
them come back and I tell you
what -- almost to a man and a
woman, they come back
radicalized.
Do you know what that means?
I'll show you what it means.
Let me put the words of
David Brooks on the screen for
you, one of the brilliant
commentators and writers in this
generation.
He's just written a book called
"The Second Mountain."
I quoted extensively from it
last week, but here's just one
line from him.
Put it on the screen for you.
Watch this -- David Brooks
writing, "I no longer
believe --" David Brooks.
"I no longer believe that the
cultural and moral structures of
our society are fine, and all we
have to do is fix ourselves
individually."
Nope, nope, nope.
His book is deeply concerned
over the moral -- the moral
collapse in this culture.
"Over the past few years as a
result of personal, national,
and global events,
I have become radicalized."
It's time for Seventh-Day
Adventist young to become
radicalized with the great why
that you've been entrusted --
to make ready a people prepared
for the Lord.
We need some radical young
missionaries.
You can be a social missionary.
You can be a student missionary.
You can be a simple missionary.
We need you. God needs you.
I'm gonna put this on the
screen for you -- two ways that
you can become a missionary.
Number one, if you're a student,
go to Campus Ministries or text
269-281-4383.
Just text them.
Say, "Hey, I need to talk to you
next week."
You still have one more week
before they they close off
sign-up.
You can do it. I know you can.
So text them.
Drop into Campus Ministries
next week.
You say, "Dwight, I'm not a
student."
Okay, there's another website
for you --
adventistvolunteers.org.
I went to that website.
Listen to this. I counted them.
253 openings right now for you
to serve on this planet in the
U.S. and the entire planet.
You want to to take a year off?
Your career's kind of going
through a transition right now?
This would be the great year to
do it.
Go onto that website.
Don't -- I'm not making you
commit to anything.
Just go to the website.
Check it out.
You can sign up right there.
Fact of the matter is, we've all
been called to be missionaries.
I read this in "Desire of Ages"
just yesterday, had already
written the sermon, then came
across this line.
Isn't this something?
"Desire of Ages" -- "In the very
family, the neighborhood, the
town, where we live, there is
work for us to do as
missionaries for Christ."
Hallelujah.
Our divine why is God's divine
"go."
That's what it is.
Jesus said, "Go into all the
world.
Make disciples of everybody.
Come on. Go for me.
Go, go, go, go."
Jesus is coming, so we need to
be going.
That's the deal.
It's as simple as that -- "To
make ready --" one more time,
please, on the screen.
"To make ready a people prepared
for the Lord."
That's your how.
That's your why, rather.
That's your why.
The how is -- use your voice,
a voice, in any form you wish.
Please use it to share the
good news.
What do you say to that?
 Amen!
 Before you go, let me take an
extra moment to share with you
an opportunity to get into the
Bible in a fresh, new way.
All across the world,
more and more people are hearing
the call to examine Scriptures
for themselves.
If you've felt drawn to learn
more about God's Word
but you don't know where to
start or you're just looking
for a more in-depth examination
of Bible truths,
then I have something right here
that I believe
you're going to enjoy.
I want to send a series
of guides to get you started.
This one is entitled
"Why Does God Allow Suffering?"
Each guide begins with a story
and an introduction of the
subject.
Then, through a series
of focus questions, you'll be
learning portions of the Bible
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And when you're through,
you'll be able to share
with others some of these
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So, just call our toll-free
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Our friendly operators
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Once again, that's 877-HIS-WILL.
Call that number.
And then, again, join me next
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