WEBVTT 00:00.191 --> 00:02.853 [SPEAKER_01]: At this time, I like to ask Brother David Warren, come forward. 00:04.074 --> 00:05.235 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm very appreciative of him. 00:06.418 --> 00:12.480 [SPEAKER_00]: I, when I have a surgery done, I had no idea when I was gonna feel at this time. 00:13.180 --> 00:19.582 [SPEAKER_00]: And he was very kind and him and the church decided they would come and help me out and I really appreciate it. 00:19.602 --> 00:22.003 [SPEAKER_00]: Cause I had no idea how I was gonna be. 00:22.563 --> 00:23.663 [SPEAKER_01]: I really appreciate it, brother. 00:23.803 --> 00:24.243 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you very much. 00:24.263 --> 00:25.023 [SPEAKER_00]: You're really good. 00:25.343 --> 00:33.386 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you, I feel much better and I thought I was gonna be, you go back this the couple days ago and I was a mess. 00:33.406 --> 00:33.866 [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning. 00:35.401 --> 00:41.306 [SPEAKER_01]: You love Jesus A.A. Man, God good all the time is he not A. 00:41.326 --> 00:41.826 [SPEAKER_01]: Man A. 00:41.846 --> 00:45.189 [SPEAKER_01]: Man, well in case you don't know, I'm Pastor David Warren. 00:45.849 --> 00:59.420 [SPEAKER_01]: He was playing his Baptist Church and I just want to tell you what a blessing Pastor Philip has been to the Arch Church, you know, when we had a thing there where we needed to place the worship, all Pastor Philips and explained what was going on and he said, I'm on over. 01:04.883 --> 01:05.583 [SPEAKER_01]: I gave my call. 01:05.603 --> 01:06.663 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, I'm on over. 01:06.683 --> 01:09.044 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at the water going and get it heated ready to go. 01:09.884 --> 01:11.465 [SPEAKER_01]: So he's been blessing for us. 01:11.805 --> 01:18.106 [SPEAKER_01]: And so when he asked us to made to come over and speak today or our church said, yes, we'll come. 01:18.906 --> 01:19.287 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 01:20.027 --> 01:20.487 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 01:20.947 --> 01:22.607 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's always good to be in the house of the Lord. 01:25.808 --> 01:27.108 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's have a little word of prayer. 01:28.109 --> 01:28.989 [SPEAKER_01]: It's about our heads. 01:30.899 --> 01:35.385 [SPEAKER_01]: If all of you just come to your Lord, we want to give you all the thanks and we want to give you all the praise, Lord. 01:35.665 --> 01:39.971 [SPEAKER_01]: We want to open up the Word of God and we also want to open up our hearts to hear the Word of God this morning. 01:40.491 --> 01:45.658 [SPEAKER_01]: And if all of you come before you lift me up, pastor Philip and his church family as you recover from surgery. 01:46.158 --> 01:47.540 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, you are the great physician. 01:48.021 --> 01:49.342 [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing is too difficult for you. 01:50.003 --> 01:53.506 [SPEAKER_01]: We thank you for bringing Pastor to fill up through the procedure safely. 01:54.306 --> 01:58.249 [SPEAKER_01]: Now we ask you for your healing touch on his mind, his body, and his spirit. 01:58.849 --> 02:02.091 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we thank you for the medical team for their wisdom and steady hands. 02:02.752 --> 02:05.894 [SPEAKER_01]: Father, please, ease any pain, using these swelling or information. 02:06.274 --> 02:14.800 [SPEAKER_01]: And restore every function of his body completely, rapidly and his entire congregation, your peace that passes all understanding. 02:15.560 --> 02:15.781 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord. 02:16.521 --> 02:39.404 [SPEAKER_01]: Heavenly Father sustains church family as he support him and let your presence be felt strongly within this church Lord in Jesus mighty and healing name we pray a man a man well if you return turning your bibles this morning to the book of Acts chapter four Book of Acts chapter four verse five and start that's what we're gonna start our reading 02:44.722 --> 03:04.957 [SPEAKER_01]: Acts, chapter 4, verse 5, and while you're looking that up, we, you know, we had, we was up here at the Liberty Fall Festival this weekend, Friday and Saturday, trying to do our best influence people for the Lord Jesus Christ, passing out tracks and gospel messages, talking to people. 03:05.417 --> 03:08.760 [SPEAKER_01]: It's always a blessing to be up there and saying, there's our fifth year, one year we've 03:11.484 --> 03:18.792 [SPEAKER_01]: rounds right through there, but you know what, if not just us, it was there, I understand your church was praying for us. 03:20.554 --> 03:22.596 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not just, you know, that's important. 03:22.616 --> 03:24.939 [SPEAKER_01]: That's fact that's why the most important part is a prayer part. 03:25.507 --> 03:30.849 [SPEAKER_01]: So you guys are right there with us, even though you weren't there physically, your prayers were there and they were felt and we need them. 03:31.169 --> 03:34.910 [SPEAKER_01]: And of course, with all the rain and everything, we came out probably half as many as we usually do. 03:34.930 --> 03:40.973 [SPEAKER_01]: I probably did about, I would say, 700 to gospel messages to people, come by. 03:41.573 --> 03:45.294 [SPEAKER_01]: Usually we do twice that much, but this year with all the rain, everything going on. 03:45.694 --> 03:47.315 [SPEAKER_01]: Plus we had this Latino, 03:48.016 --> 03:52.363 [SPEAKER_01]: Restaurant truck right across from us, and they put on their loudspeaker in anger. 03:52.503 --> 03:59.014 [SPEAKER_01]: I had us right that was kind of hard to hear But he was asked Acts chapter four first five if you've earned by his has gotten there 04:00.293 --> 04:04.237 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we were just trying to be an influence for the Lord Jesus Christ, amen, which we all should be. 04:04.898 --> 04:19.952 [SPEAKER_01]: And it says here in Acts 4.5, and it came to pass on the moral that the rulers and elders inscribes, and I and I as the high priests and chyapas and John and Alexander, as many as were the kinder of the high priests, together together at Jerusalem. 04:20.793 --> 04:31.084 [SPEAKER_01]: And when they set them in the mist, they ask, by what power and by what name have you done this, then Peter, fill with the Holy Ghost, sit in him, you rulers of the people, and elders of Israel. 04:31.937 --> 04:51.263 [SPEAKER_01]: If we this day be examined of the good deed, done to this important man, by what means is he may hold, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him to this man stand before you hold. 04:51.783 --> 04:56.545 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a stone which was set at naught of your builders, which has become the head of the corner. 04:57.285 --> 05:04.707 [SPEAKER_01]: These are salvation to any other, but there is no other name under heaven, given among men where by you must be saved. 05:05.487 --> 05:18.271 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, when we saw the bonus of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearning an ignorant man, they marveled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus, a man, a man, a man. 05:18.291 --> 05:23.853 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, the influence, the power of influence, you know, is unquestionable. 05:24.533 --> 05:24.793 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 05:25.113 --> 05:27.794 [SPEAKER_01]: And each and every one of us have that influence in our lives. 05:27.834 --> 05:30.095 [SPEAKER_01]: We, there's somebody's life, you out there, you touch. 05:30.115 --> 05:34.116 [SPEAKER_01]: You said, well, I'm just, I'm just a small piece of this puzzle, right? 05:34.376 --> 05:36.717 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, every piece that makes it's important to be there, right? 05:37.337 --> 05:38.618 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you take it. 05:38.638 --> 05:39.538 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a dark world. 05:39.598 --> 05:40.499 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not that we live in. 05:41.179 --> 05:44.800 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you can't turn on the TV and watch the news and see if we are not in a dark world. 05:45.240 --> 05:47.001 [SPEAKER_01]: And I guarantee you going to dark room. 05:47.261 --> 05:48.501 [SPEAKER_01]: You've just lied a little candle. 05:48.962 --> 05:49.562 [SPEAKER_01]: It makes a difference. 05:49.582 --> 05:50.002 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't not. 05:51.132 --> 05:53.853 [SPEAKER_01]: And each and every one of us are little candles for the Lord Jesus Christ. 05:54.094 --> 05:56.395 [SPEAKER_01]: Each one of us can put a light in that this dark world. 05:56.815 --> 05:58.296 [SPEAKER_01]: We're all there. 05:59.216 --> 05:59.657 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 06:00.037 --> 06:00.297 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 06:00.317 --> 06:03.639 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like you take East, you put in the dough, it spreads throughout. 06:04.039 --> 06:04.659 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't stop. 06:04.959 --> 06:05.500 [SPEAKER_01]: You're endless. 06:05.760 --> 06:07.181 [SPEAKER_01]: Your influence continues on. 06:07.401 --> 06:08.341 [SPEAKER_01]: You take a little pebble. 06:08.561 --> 06:09.882 [SPEAKER_01]: You throw it out there in the water. 06:10.142 --> 06:10.722 [SPEAKER_01]: What does it do? 06:11.083 --> 06:12.083 [SPEAKER_01]: It makes a ripple effect. 06:12.103 --> 06:12.583 [SPEAKER_01]: Does it not? 06:13.164 --> 06:14.104 [SPEAKER_01]: There is an influence. 06:14.745 --> 06:16.566 [SPEAKER_01]: And you all should be making some ripples out there. 06:16.946 --> 06:18.607 [SPEAKER_01]: But whatever it's like, Christian influence 06:21.148 --> 06:22.388 [SPEAKER_01]: And no one is neutral. 06:22.529 --> 06:25.249 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody lives in this neutral life. 06:25.329 --> 06:27.310 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody lives on an island by themselves. 06:28.291 --> 06:29.071 [SPEAKER_01]: You know? 06:29.111 --> 06:32.432 [SPEAKER_01]: I think I could ask anybody live on dessert now and not you're all here, right? 06:32.992 --> 06:40.155 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey man, it says in Romans 147, for none of us live at to himself, and no man die at to himself. 06:41.315 --> 06:45.937 [SPEAKER_01]: For whether we live, we live into the Lord and whether we die, we die into the Lord. 06:46.557 --> 06:48.738 [SPEAKER_01]: Whether we live there for or die, 06:51.942 --> 06:53.424 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody's living out here on an island. 06:53.644 --> 06:55.066 [SPEAKER_01]: We touch and somebody's lives. 06:55.146 --> 06:56.848 [SPEAKER_01]: We're influenced somebody out there. 06:57.349 --> 06:59.552 [SPEAKER_01]: We will influence our lives one way or another. 07:00.113 --> 07:03.717 [SPEAKER_01]: We can either influence them for good, or we can influence them for bad. 07:04.358 --> 07:08.463 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, our lives may lift people up or we could drag people down. 07:09.357 --> 07:15.525 [SPEAKER_01]: The fact is, each one of us resides the influence of it undeniable and inexcapable influence in this world. 07:16.146 --> 07:19.430 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a marvelous thing to behold Christians' influence in this world. 07:20.411 --> 07:24.476 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'd like to see more Christians speaking up and being out there for the Lord Jesus Christ. 07:25.377 --> 07:30.160 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I want to point out three secrets of being a Christian, today, a Christian's influence. 07:30.780 --> 07:35.763 [SPEAKER_01]: And before I do that, let me set the scene what's happening here with Peter and John. 07:36.964 --> 07:39.065 [SPEAKER_01]: The scene is the Sanhedrin was in session. 07:39.606 --> 07:43.748 [SPEAKER_01]: The Sanhedrin was the living body of the like the Supreme Court. 07:43.948 --> 07:47.851 [SPEAKER_01]: They mean they had the final say and whatever the religious thing was they was going to do it. 07:48.331 --> 07:50.913 [SPEAKER_01]: Lou, the said, Hendron had the power and the authority. 07:51.294 --> 07:55.297 [SPEAKER_01]: It was composed of the leaders who represented the highly priestly class. 07:55.577 --> 08:00.201 [SPEAKER_01]: It was the head of the leading citizens of the nation, the lawyers, the Pharisees, they were all there. 08:00.462 --> 08:06.287 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the electric of their authority must have just rinked to that place where John, John, was and peered. 08:06.307 --> 08:11.211 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, but you know, if you can talk to God all mighty, you can talk to anybody. 08:11.801 --> 08:12.181 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 08:12.701 --> 08:16.303 [SPEAKER_01]: If you can talk to God Almighty, you should be able to talk to anybody. 08:17.063 --> 08:25.226 [SPEAKER_01]: And so in the middle of this parallel body of men, we're two simple men, former fishermen that hadn't been that long before they had that career, right? 08:25.647 --> 08:27.687 [SPEAKER_01]: And in this ruling body, they're looking at these guys. 08:27.928 --> 08:30.949 [SPEAKER_01]: And they're saying, these men are just unlearning an ignorant man. 08:31.883 --> 08:33.144 [SPEAKER_01]: Well we know they weren't unlearned. 08:33.164 --> 08:34.125 [SPEAKER_01]: We know they weren't ignorant. 08:34.585 --> 08:36.867 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean we can read what they wrote in the Word of God, right? 08:36.947 --> 08:37.307 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 08:37.688 --> 08:38.368 [SPEAKER_01]: And there they are. 08:38.849 --> 08:42.351 [SPEAKER_01]: They're not unlearned, but they were saying is they didn't come from our schools. 08:42.592 --> 08:45.614 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't go to graduate from our seminary in areas, right? 08:45.954 --> 08:47.796 [SPEAKER_01]: They can't say them five-letter words. 08:47.816 --> 08:50.097 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they make a word, you learn down in seminary, right? 08:50.478 --> 08:52.319 [SPEAKER_01]: They just put the Word of God, right? 08:52.439 --> 08:55.482 [SPEAKER_01]: Straight through where it needed to be, which is where we all have to put it. 08:56.314 --> 09:02.077 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, and John appeared, you know, you know, there was never the pastor or minister or her to get up and give a speech once. 09:02.737 --> 09:06.659 [SPEAKER_01]: And he got up and he said, I have my BA born again. 09:06.679 --> 09:10.521 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm working on my MA, mission accomplished. 09:12.022 --> 09:16.144 [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't have any for PhD post-Odeager, right? 09:16.485 --> 09:20.567 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey man, hey, the word of God, that's available each number one of us. 09:21.910 --> 09:22.810 [SPEAKER_01]: Each and every one of us. 09:23.470 --> 09:28.032 [SPEAKER_01]: And so these men were ever at the fact that they had been to another kind of school, right? 09:28.252 --> 09:30.572 [SPEAKER_01]: They had been setting at the field of Jesus, right? 09:30.592 --> 09:31.893 [SPEAKER_01]: It was the difference in their lives. 09:32.553 --> 09:35.794 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the scripture says they saw their boldness and John and Peter. 09:36.634 --> 09:39.174 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, there was something about these guys that they were fearless. 09:39.274 --> 09:41.475 [SPEAKER_01]: There was something that's inescapably frank about them. 09:41.875 --> 09:43.095 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they were courageous. 09:43.356 --> 09:44.316 [SPEAKER_01]: They were confident. 09:44.636 --> 09:48.517 [SPEAKER_01]: They could stand at the midst of this authority, were religious body. 09:49.257 --> 09:52.358 [SPEAKER_01]: And speaking, what he said had to mean to be said, they could say it. 09:52.758 --> 09:56.158 [SPEAKER_01]: They put it right across the plate where anybody could hit hit it, right? 09:56.618 --> 09:57.759 [SPEAKER_01]: And they expressed themselves. 09:57.899 --> 09:59.679 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was their amazing Christian influence. 09:59.759 --> 10:03.800 [SPEAKER_01]: It carries their message across the lives of those who were listening to what they were having to say. 10:03.820 --> 10:05.820 [SPEAKER_01]: But there was some secret to life. 10:05.840 --> 10:07.660 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, what was the secret of these men? 10:08.020 --> 10:08.760 [SPEAKER_01]: What was it? 10:09.721 --> 10:11.881 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the answer is found in the course of the simple statement. 10:13.241 --> 10:14.121 [SPEAKER_00]: They had been with Jesus. 10:16.402 --> 10:17.322 [SPEAKER_01]: They had been with Jesus. 10:18.533 --> 10:21.496 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, some people, well, that means they were his disciples. 10:22.737 --> 10:24.679 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it was a lot more than just being their disciples. 10:25.740 --> 10:29.183 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they meant being like they were like Christ from what they were saying. 10:30.044 --> 10:32.286 [SPEAKER_01]: They were like in Christ and the manner that they said it. 10:33.187 --> 10:35.549 [SPEAKER_01]: They were like Christ and their attitude towards life. 10:36.690 --> 10:40.034 [SPEAKER_01]: They were demonstrating the influence of Christ in and throughout their lives. 10:41.281 --> 10:43.282 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it wasn't just a 24-7th thing. 10:43.482 --> 10:44.182 [SPEAKER_01]: Christ was there. 10:44.242 --> 10:45.122 [SPEAKER_01]: They've been with Him. 10:45.963 --> 10:47.623 [SPEAKER_01]: And the great influence of Christ is there. 10:47.843 --> 10:50.924 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that personal experience you have with the Lord Jesus Christ? 10:52.225 --> 10:53.765 [SPEAKER_01]: And that can be found in three things. 10:54.225 --> 10:55.706 [SPEAKER_01]: Three secret areas of your influence. 10:56.166 --> 10:59.047 [SPEAKER_01]: The first one there is their personal experience. 10:59.247 --> 11:00.707 [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry with that conversion experience. 11:01.167 --> 11:02.368 [SPEAKER_01]: When Jesus Christ said, come. 11:03.441 --> 11:05.522 [SPEAKER_01]: They left it all behind and came and followed him. 11:06.342 --> 11:08.963 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like many of you, which Jesus said, I need come. 11:09.403 --> 11:10.864 [SPEAKER_01]: You came to the altar to do not. 11:11.444 --> 11:13.785 [SPEAKER_01]: You came, she had, yes, right? 11:14.145 --> 11:16.426 [SPEAKER_01]: You had that, that was a spiritual experience. 11:16.886 --> 11:21.268 [SPEAKER_01]: We are by an individual, turn from his sins and from their self will to Christ. 11:21.908 --> 11:24.089 [SPEAKER_01]: That's where Jesus Christ becomes their Lord. 11:24.529 --> 11:26.550 [SPEAKER_01]: His pumps are literate. 11:26.890 --> 11:30.232 [SPEAKER_01]: He becomes the first uno in our life, amen? 11:31.628 --> 11:36.650 [SPEAKER_01]: and they have a new motivation, a new direction in which they live their lives. 11:37.770 --> 11:39.651 [SPEAKER_01]: Thus, there's a new manifestation within them. 11:39.771 --> 11:45.693 [SPEAKER_01]: This is something that's happened, that they have now been with the Lord Jesus Christ and they started with that conversion spirit. 11:45.713 --> 11:49.855 [SPEAKER_01]: They started that part, we're saying, I will follow Jesus, I will accept that salvation. 11:49.875 --> 11:52.236 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll make him Lord and Savior of my life. 11:53.495 --> 11:57.337 [SPEAKER_01]: The second part of that personal experience, of course, is that communion they had with him. 11:57.557 --> 12:01.958 [SPEAKER_01]: That relationship that they built with him, who they spent three and a half years. 12:01.978 --> 12:04.479 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it wasn't just Sunday morning, right? 12:04.499 --> 12:05.360 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't just Sabbath. 12:05.900 --> 12:07.321 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't come and spend an hour or two. 12:07.821 --> 12:09.081 [SPEAKER_01]: He was a 24-thing. 12:09.762 --> 12:10.482 [SPEAKER_01]: They were with him. 12:10.622 --> 12:11.442 [SPEAKER_01]: They did what he did. 12:11.502 --> 12:12.323 [SPEAKER_01]: They ate where he ate. 12:12.643 --> 12:13.923 [SPEAKER_01]: They slept where he was gone. 12:14.103 --> 12:15.044 [SPEAKER_01]: They went where he went. 12:16.224 --> 12:16.884 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what? 12:17.265 --> 12:18.085 [SPEAKER_01]: There was an experience. 12:18.345 --> 12:21.126 [SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus chose these 12 that they might be with him 12:25.302 --> 12:26.943 [SPEAKER_00]: What's your relationship with Jesus Christ? 12:27.064 --> 12:27.284 [SPEAKER_00]: Light. 12:30.647 --> 12:32.248 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, he chose him for one good reason. 12:32.268 --> 12:34.210 [SPEAKER_01]: He wanted a relationship with them. 12:35.311 --> 12:37.012 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus wants a relationship with you. 12:40.595 --> 12:44.599 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants more than just, yeah, I'm gonna save your life. 12:44.779 --> 12:45.960 [SPEAKER_01]: I have my far escape, right? 12:48.462 --> 12:49.903 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants a relationship. 12:50.984 --> 12:52.746 [SPEAKER_01]: And he don't want it just to be Sunday morning thing. 12:54.546 --> 12:57.229 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants you him to be with you 100% all the time. 12:59.791 --> 13:04.496 [SPEAKER_01]: And these disciples are companionship and create a change in their lives based on their personal experience, their conversion. 13:04.936 --> 13:06.237 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is an eternal principle. 13:06.397 --> 13:10.581 [SPEAKER_01]: Your companionships will always affect, affect your influence. 13:11.421 --> 13:12.422 [SPEAKER_01]: Who are you going around with? 13:12.502 --> 13:13.383 [SPEAKER_01]: Who do you talk to? 13:13.883 --> 13:16.405 [SPEAKER_01]: They have an influence on you, right? 13:17.246 --> 13:19.388 [SPEAKER_01]: Are you going around with the television show? 13:19.628 --> 13:20.389 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it the internet? 13:20.809 --> 13:23.611 [SPEAKER_01]: Those are the influencers or are out there in influence for your life. 13:23.651 --> 13:27.335 [SPEAKER_01]: Right now, your companionships, right? 13:27.415 --> 13:31.238 [SPEAKER_01]: If you want to know what your kids do and school, look at their companions, right? 13:31.638 --> 13:32.819 [SPEAKER_01]: See who their companions are. 13:34.020 --> 13:35.061 [SPEAKER_01]: They have an influence. 13:35.482 --> 13:36.703 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just like the sun in the moon. 13:37.813 --> 13:39.834 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, this moon doesn't give out a song white. 13:40.514 --> 13:42.015 [SPEAKER_01]: The sun comes from the sun. 13:42.035 --> 13:43.695 [SPEAKER_01]: They only reflect the light of the sun. 13:44.916 --> 13:46.676 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the way we as Christians, we are like the moon. 13:47.057 --> 13:52.259 [SPEAKER_01]: We should be reflecting the sun out into a dark world that needs the Lord Jesus Christ. 13:52.439 --> 13:54.199 [SPEAKER_01]: We shall all be full moons, amen? 13:54.479 --> 13:57.441 [SPEAKER_01]: Not half moons, not quarter moons. 13:57.461 --> 13:59.021 [SPEAKER_01]: We had the clips up very long ago. 13:59.501 --> 14:00.682 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what the clip is, right? 14:00.842 --> 14:01.302 [SPEAKER_01]: Of the moon? 14:02.142 --> 14:04.683 [SPEAKER_01]: It would be where the earth got between the sun 14:07.713 --> 14:09.133 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the same way in our Christian life. 14:09.694 --> 14:13.975 [SPEAKER_01]: When we allow the world to get between us and the Lord Jesus Christ, gets what happens. 14:14.175 --> 14:15.015 [SPEAKER_01]: Our light goes out. 14:17.276 --> 14:20.197 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't shine for the world, for the right kind of influence. 14:21.857 --> 14:23.778 [SPEAKER_01]: And the third thing, the third secret here. 14:23.798 --> 14:36.042 [SPEAKER_01]: The third experience with Jesus Christ related in their commitment to their lives, to his life, and his teachings. 14:37.112 --> 14:39.014 [SPEAKER_01]: This means that he had complete control. 14:39.034 --> 14:41.095 [SPEAKER_01]: He had complete control of their lives. 14:41.776 --> 14:43.657 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, what does that mean in your life? 14:44.538 --> 14:46.119 [SPEAKER_01]: Does he have complete control in your life? 14:46.680 --> 14:51.123 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if he describes what's show up and not going your door, you open up and he was standing right there. 14:51.143 --> 14:54.446 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, what kind of reaction would you have? 14:54.606 --> 14:56.448 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, you know what, I wanna come and live with you. 14:58.034 --> 14:58.795 [SPEAKER_01]: Would he be welcome? 14:59.395 --> 15:01.317 [SPEAKER_01]: Was there anything in your life you would have to change? 15:01.697 --> 15:03.119 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, I'm gonna come and live with you. 15:03.979 --> 15:07.262 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, if you have a business, you're doing your paperwork and stuff. 15:07.523 --> 15:10.165 [SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden, you look up and there's Jesus Christ right there. 15:10.826 --> 15:12.607 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, I wanna be a business partner with you. 15:13.388 --> 15:16.050 [SPEAKER_01]: Is there anything you would change in your life in your business? 15:16.611 --> 15:18.212 [SPEAKER_01]: If Jesus Christ, if your business partner? 15:20.134 --> 15:21.235 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, how about you, young people? 15:21.375 --> 15:22.576 [SPEAKER_01]: You got one out of the days? 15:23.137 --> 15:24.138 [SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus Christ says, hey, 15:25.557 --> 15:26.377 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to go with you. 15:27.438 --> 15:33.100 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be setting the back seat, but it changed how you went out on that day, right? 15:33.120 --> 15:34.980 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like his preachers. 15:35.020 --> 15:35.860 [SPEAKER_01]: I like the preachers. 15:35.880 --> 15:40.282 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the preachers, you know, the young ladies should bring their bibles with you. 15:40.302 --> 15:41.102 [SPEAKER_01]: Wouldn't that make a difference? 15:41.502 --> 15:42.083 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, your bibles? 15:42.603 --> 15:45.164 [SPEAKER_01]: Young men, but young ladies should bring their bibles, amen? 15:46.004 --> 15:48.765 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's awful hard for that guy to get over Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. 15:52.307 --> 15:53.870 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but see, wouldn't it make a difference? 15:54.511 --> 15:55.192 [SPEAKER_01]: It make a difference. 15:55.272 --> 15:57.937 [SPEAKER_01]: But you know what, in reality, he is with you 100% of the time. 15:57.977 --> 15:58.698 [SPEAKER_01]: He is there. 16:00.281 --> 16:01.103 [SPEAKER_01]: He is there. 16:02.739 --> 16:10.982 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, so Jesus fact, he's with us, you know, and that one person that tremendous influence is the one who has committed to Jesus Christ in his life and his teachings. 16:11.482 --> 16:18.905 [SPEAKER_01]: And that is the secret of Peter and John, that is the secret of your Christian influence, and people notice whether we have the likeness of Jesus Christ. 16:19.225 --> 16:26.288 [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's why Jesus Christ, that's why Jesus is in his goal is to be more like Jesus Christ every day, to be conformed to his image. 16:27.275 --> 16:30.596 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, he is the statue, he is the measurement that where he measures each and one of us. 16:30.916 --> 16:33.477 [SPEAKER_01]: We should be aiming for that goal of perfection. 16:33.637 --> 16:34.997 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, well, I can never be perfected. 16:35.217 --> 16:37.077 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, but he set the goal high. 16:37.457 --> 16:38.818 [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't set a low goal for us. 16:39.318 --> 16:41.158 [SPEAKER_01]: He set a goal for that depth and goal we should be. 16:41.198 --> 16:47.060 [SPEAKER_01]: Like Jesus Christ, it says in Ephesians 413, till we all come in the unity of faith. 16:47.560 --> 16:52.961 [SPEAKER_01]: And the knowledge of the Son of God, unto the perfect man, unto the measure of the statue and the fullness of Christ. 16:53.421 --> 16:55.842 [SPEAKER_01]: See, he wants us to come together in unity of our faith. 16:57.995 --> 17:02.759 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants us to come more than knowledge of the Son of God and how to do that to get in your Bibles. 17:02.999 --> 17:03.699 [SPEAKER_01]: You learn more and more. 17:03.739 --> 17:04.460 [SPEAKER_01]: You come to church. 17:04.860 --> 17:05.620 [SPEAKER_01]: You learn more and more. 17:05.841 --> 17:12.105 [SPEAKER_01]: And to the perfect man, and over to Jesus Christ, and over to God, He says, I'm setting for you to be like the Lord Jesus Christ. 17:12.465 --> 17:15.007 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, He is the measure and the statue of the fullness. 17:15.087 --> 17:15.827 [SPEAKER_01]: He is the measurement. 17:15.847 --> 17:17.609 [SPEAKER_01]: He is the statue of where He is, and we're supposed to measure it. 17:17.629 --> 17:19.470 [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing of the person is setting to your right or your left. 17:20.648 --> 17:22.089 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what I'm measuring ourselves to. 17:22.790 --> 17:25.772 [SPEAKER_01]: Not somebody, you know, not measure yourself to the pastor, right? 17:25.812 --> 17:27.474 [SPEAKER_01]: Or to the guest speaker, right? 17:27.894 --> 17:29.836 [SPEAKER_01]: You put your measurement to Jesus Christ. 17:31.997 --> 17:32.518 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 17:32.698 --> 17:33.098 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 17:34.139 --> 17:37.962 [SPEAKER_01]: And so there's three, there's some eternal, there's some mental lessons in this. 17:40.024 --> 17:42.166 [SPEAKER_01]: Bearing John, we're unlikely follows to Jesus Christ. 17:42.206 --> 17:44.188 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he turned the world upside down to, they nod. 17:45.117 --> 17:46.198 [SPEAKER_01]: They turned the world sign up. 17:46.378 --> 17:50.882 [SPEAKER_01]: These very men who change the world, and cry, make the same thing in your life. 17:51.102 --> 17:59.028 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're just willing to make ourselves available to him, an abling Kansas, in the hometown of D.Y. 17:59.169 --> 18:01.931 [SPEAKER_01]: Eisenhower, or some museum, this museum, right? 18:02.792 --> 18:07.135 [SPEAKER_01]: And then there is a Sunday school, at last, since our Sunday school records of him, right? 18:07.175 --> 18:07.696 [SPEAKER_01]: Going to school. 18:08.296 --> 18:12.519 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine that Sunday school teacher, man or woman, because they don't know who it was, 18:13.352 --> 18:16.333 [SPEAKER_01]: But can you imagine you have that little boy in your classroom? 18:17.074 --> 18:21.876 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't realize, you know, that person did not ever realize, that sentence guilty did not realize. 18:22.136 --> 18:29.059 [SPEAKER_01]: It's one of these, this was going to be the president, the United States, the president, the leader of the free world, sitting in her classroom. 18:30.239 --> 18:32.340 [SPEAKER_01]: Think of the influence you have in the lives. 18:32.660 --> 18:33.681 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't know where that ripple. 18:33.701 --> 18:35.402 [SPEAKER_01]: You throw that pebble in there and that ripple goes out. 18:35.442 --> 18:36.082 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't know. 18:36.562 --> 18:37.963 [SPEAKER_01]: It continues on down through there. 18:39.884 --> 19:02.413 [SPEAKER_01]: And just like in the book of Acts, well, Jesus Christ pulled out what Paul, and also he does three missionary journeys, you realize that how fast the Roman Empire turned to Christianity, spread and throughout there, it's amazing when you study history, how the Christian religion just went right through the Roman Empire from one end to the other. 19:03.293 --> 19:05.394 [SPEAKER_01]: The second lesson is we should be aware 19:09.150 --> 19:12.993 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, let us look at the, you know, it says redeeming the time for the days or evil. 19:13.013 --> 19:18.658 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's a lot of time when we've allowed the world to block off Jesus Christ that sunlight. 19:20.560 --> 19:21.941 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's time we've lost. 19:23.222 --> 19:24.924 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible says redeem that time. 19:25.164 --> 19:25.564 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 19:25.945 --> 19:26.866 [SPEAKER_01]: Redouble your effort. 19:26.886 --> 19:27.386 [SPEAKER_01]: Get out through. 19:27.406 --> 19:28.927 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't put your light under a bushall. 19:28.987 --> 19:30.208 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that not what the Bible says? 19:31.179 --> 19:34.500 [SPEAKER_01]: Let it shine, you know, just like, well, are you doing with your life? 19:34.540 --> 19:35.861 [SPEAKER_01]: What are you doing with your life? 19:36.301 --> 19:38.342 [SPEAKER_01]: What does Jesus having your life that he can use? 19:39.082 --> 19:41.243 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it possible that you can waste your influence? 19:41.303 --> 19:43.724 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is possible to waste your influence. 19:44.404 --> 19:51.727 [SPEAKER_01]: We miss his will, you know, when we're not sharing the word of God and sharing with other people, because we have people in our life that we touch. 19:52.548 --> 19:55.049 [SPEAKER_01]: Every single day, or if it's throughout the week, or whenever. 19:55.789 --> 19:57.370 [SPEAKER_01]: The third lesson is Christian's influence 20:00.991 --> 20:03.093 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you said, well, I'm just one little drop of rain. 20:03.674 --> 20:11.682 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you put all these drops of rain and they keep coming down, guess where they go, they go down in the Missouri River, they go down in the Mississippi River, and they go out into eternity. 20:12.343 --> 20:13.664 [SPEAKER_01]: Your influence has an influence. 20:13.924 --> 20:21.712 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like when Paul started out in the Roman Empire, that is continuing on through us right here, on and on through an eternity. 20:22.611 --> 20:25.392 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there was a, I heard a story about an X-Marine. 20:26.193 --> 20:28.794 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said he's going to go, and he's been out in the battlefield, right? 20:29.134 --> 20:33.416 [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, he's going back, he's going to get a GI, he's going to go back to college, take advantage of that. 20:33.837 --> 20:37.719 [SPEAKER_01]: And while he was setting, or he noticed a young lady, and he says there's something different about her. 20:38.939 --> 20:39.600 [SPEAKER_01]: It's different. 20:39.620 --> 20:40.240 [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't bother. 20:40.280 --> 20:41.521 [SPEAKER_01]: He said there's something really different. 20:41.721 --> 20:46.543 [SPEAKER_01]: And he had it, eventually, come and say, you know, I've been noticing, you know, and there's just something about your life. 20:46.583 --> 20:49.304 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was just wondering, I don't know what, is there, what else is there still different? 20:49.505 --> 20:50.285 [SPEAKER_01]: Why makes you different? 20:52.600 --> 20:58.663 [SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing different about me except I'm a Christian and I'm trying to live my life for Christ the best I can. 21:00.364 --> 21:05.727 [SPEAKER_01]: When you like people has talked to you and say that about you, say that as one has been with Jesus. 21:06.027 --> 21:07.548 [SPEAKER_01]: That's somebody who's been with Jesus. 21:08.328 --> 21:13.110 [SPEAKER_01]: When you like that people will say that when they just notice there's something different in your life. 21:14.371 --> 21:20.114 [SPEAKER_01]: Because Jesus is there and you're letting that light shine from your life on and to other and being influenced for him. 21:21.555 --> 21:24.916 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's a secret if I haven't, you've not secret for his relationship. 21:24.936 --> 21:30.717 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, have you made that wonderful discovery, knowing that Jesus Christ personally, have you made that conversion? 21:30.797 --> 21:33.338 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you have, have you made yourself committed? 21:33.358 --> 21:41.800 [SPEAKER_01]: I, this I'm gonna live my life for the Lord Jesus Christ, 100% not a 90% 100% a man, 24, seven. 21:43.880 --> 21:44.920 [SPEAKER_01]: Now's the time, amen. 21:45.881 --> 21:46.961 [SPEAKER_01]: If you haven't made that commitment, 21:48.198 --> 21:51.754 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's have our music of import and the invitation would be fine.