WEBVTT NOTE This file was exported by MacCaption version 7.0.11 to comply with the WebVTT specification dated March 23, 2013. 00:00:00.734 --> 00:00:02.936 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% male announcer: The following program is sponsored by friends 00:00:02.936 --> 00:00:04.771 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% of Life Outreach International. 00:00:06.740 --> 00:00:10.544 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Andrew Farley: I gotta stop trying to love God enough and 00:00:10.544 --> 00:00:15.415 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% start letting him love me and when I become a receiver instead 00:00:15.415 --> 00:00:20.187 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% of an achiever, it flips the whole Christian life upside down 00:00:20.187 --> 00:00:23.323 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% and it becomes what it was always intended to be. 00:00:23.323 --> 00:00:27.194 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% John Lynch: And it allows me to achieve more than I ever could 00:00:27.194 --> 00:00:29.529 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% in any other manner. 00:00:29.529 --> 00:00:32.866 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% announcer: Do you need to start reclaiming the radical message 00:00:32.866 --> 00:00:34.201 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% of grace? 00:00:34.201 --> 00:00:35.569 align:start line:69% position:49% size:13% Next. 00:00:35.569 --> 00:00:45.579 align:start line:10% position:89% size:8% ♪♪♪ 00:00:45.579 --> 00:00:53.420 align:start line:10% position:89% size:8% ♪♪♪ 00:00:53.420 --> 00:00:55.055 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Randy Robinson: Welcome to "Life Today." 00:00:55.055 --> 00:00:56.623 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% I'm Randy Robinson. 00:00:56.623 --> 00:00:58.926 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Blynda Lane is with me again, and if you missed the other 00:00:58.926 --> 00:01:03.397 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% program with today's guest, John Lynch and Andrew Farley, go to 00:01:03.397 --> 00:01:07.000 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% LIFEToday.org 'cause you'll need to see all of this because we're 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.004 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% talking about some, oh, some deep things but--. 00:01:11.004 --> 00:01:12.339 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% Blynda Lane: Good things. 00:01:12.339 --> 00:01:15.108 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Randy: Some liberating things, and I really wanna talk--I 00:01:15.108 --> 00:01:17.077 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% wanna, I gotta hit this today. 00:01:17.077 --> 00:01:23.350 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% The idea of works and law and how that squares with grace 00:01:23.350 --> 00:01:25.519 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% 'cause I know this is a kind of a tension that we live in. 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:27.621 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Anyway, welcome back to the program, gentlemen. 00:01:27.621 --> 00:01:29.122 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% Andrew: Thank you for having us. 00:01:29.122 --> 00:01:30.624 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% Randy: Great to have you here. 00:01:30.624 --> 00:01:32.893 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% You've challenged us, made us think when we talk about law, we 00:01:32.893 --> 00:01:35.629 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% know we don't live under the old covenant law even though we act 00:01:35.629 --> 00:01:41.435 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% like it sometimes, but the new covenant is not without rules, 00:01:41.435 --> 00:01:46.306 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% it's not without instructions, it's not without commandments. 00:01:46.306 --> 00:01:50.143 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% How should I look at those things that feel like rules, I 00:01:50.143 --> 00:01:53.780 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% should do this, I have a responsibility to do this in 00:01:53.780 --> 00:01:56.550 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% this sort of grace frame? 00:01:56.550 --> 00:01:59.252 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Andrew: Yeah, I think the biggest difference, Randy, is to 00:01:59.252 --> 00:02:01.054 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% ask, "What if I didn't? 00:02:01.054 --> 00:02:02.422 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% What if I were disobedient? 00:02:02.422 --> 00:02:03.790 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% What if I fail? 00:02:03.790 --> 00:02:05.125 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% What if I mess up?" 00:02:05.125 --> 00:02:07.828 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Because see under the law in the Old Testament law, if you failed 00:02:07.828 --> 00:02:11.064 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% in those commands, I mean, you had some pretty serious, even 00:02:11.064 --> 00:02:13.734 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% lethal consequences from God. 00:02:13.734 --> 00:02:17.437 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% But let's not forget the core message of the gospel is that 00:02:17.437 --> 00:02:21.074 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Jesus took the punishment and there's no punishment left and 00:02:21.074 --> 00:02:22.943 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% there's no condemnation for us. 00:02:22.943 --> 00:02:25.112 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% So what are these commands? 00:02:25.112 --> 00:02:28.715 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% You know, John says, "His commands are not burdensome." 00:02:28.715 --> 00:02:31.385 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% He writes that in his letter and he says, "These are his 00:02:31.385 --> 00:02:34.554 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% commands," thankfully he tells us what they are. 00:02:34.554 --> 00:02:39.192 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% He says, "To believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and to love others 00:02:39.192 --> 00:02:41.161 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% even as he has loved us." 00:02:41.161 --> 00:02:45.232 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And we know that love kinda covers a multitude of sins like 00:02:45.232 --> 00:02:47.801 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I can't love you and steal your belongings. 00:02:47.801 --> 00:02:50.804 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I can't love you and then cheat against you. 00:02:50.804 --> 00:02:54.041 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% I can't love you and take your life. 00:02:54.041 --> 00:02:57.277 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I can't love you and sin against you at the same time. 00:02:57.277 --> 00:02:59.312 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Love is the big motivator. 00:02:59.312 --> 00:03:04.217 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And I'm not talking about some mushy sort of Disney brand of, 00:03:04.217 --> 00:03:06.186 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% you know, everything's happy happy all the time. 00:03:06.186 --> 00:03:10.624 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% No, no, no, I'm talking about the powerful love of Christ 00:03:10.624 --> 00:03:16.563 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% motivating godliness from inside so it's really not about rules, 00:03:16.563 --> 00:03:21.268 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% it's about letting Christ rule in your heart by faith. 00:03:21.268 --> 00:03:27.007 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% John: In John 14:15, I can't even tell you what it was like 00:03:27.007 --> 00:03:31.678 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% when I was a new Christian, scared to death, "Am I gonna 00:03:31.678 --> 00:03:33.246 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% keep my salvation?" 00:03:33.246 --> 00:03:36.883 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And here's this verse that says, "If you love me, you'll keep 00:03:36.883 --> 00:03:39.219 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% my commandments." 00:03:39.219 --> 00:03:43.490 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And Jesus sounds like a pirate who's had too much coffee. 00:03:43.490 --> 00:03:49.696 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% It's like, "If you loved me, I don't much think she does, but 00:03:49.696 --> 00:03:54.801 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% if you loved me, you'd keep my commandments, you would." 00:03:54.801 --> 00:03:59.005 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And I don't know how many, how fast, how high, but the beauty 00:03:59.005 --> 00:04:02.242 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% of the language in that case helps so much. 00:04:02.242 --> 00:04:08.281 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% It says this, first-class conditional, meaning only this, 00:04:08.281 --> 00:04:10.183 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% because you love me. 00:04:10.183 --> 00:04:13.220 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Because you love me, you'll find yourself keeping 00:04:13.220 --> 00:04:14.554 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% my commandments. 00:04:14.554 --> 00:04:17.290 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% They're not burdensome, and it's who you are now. 00:04:17.290 --> 00:04:23.196 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% If the most real you wants to obey from the heart, not to 00:04:23.196 --> 00:04:27.634 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% religiously comply, but the most real you with this new Christ in 00:04:27.634 --> 00:04:32.105 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% your heart wants to obey from the heart. 00:04:32.105 --> 00:04:37.043 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And so if I can, even with my kids, if I can appeal to that, 00:04:37.043 --> 00:04:40.881 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% this is who you are, this is who you are, this is what the most 00:04:40.881 --> 00:04:44.017 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% real you wants to do instead of, "Hey, when are you gonna 00:04:44.017 --> 00:04:45.352 align:start line:69% position:50% size:21% do this? 00:04:45.352 --> 00:04:46.720 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% Why can't you do this? 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.054 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% What's wrong with you?" 00:04:48.054 --> 00:04:49.623 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% Which only appeals to the flesh. 00:04:49.623 --> 00:04:52.959 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% But if I wanna appeal to their new heart, I get to woo out 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:57.330 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% their new heart by calling out who they really are. 00:04:57.330 --> 00:05:00.400 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Andrew: It reminds me of that a British program which later 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:03.170 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% became a program here in the United States, "What Not 00:05:03.170 --> 00:05:04.504 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% to Wear." 00:05:04.504 --> 00:05:07.007 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% And what they would do, the hosts would raid your closet, 00:05:07.007 --> 00:05:09.809 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% they would find out what does not fit and what does not look 00:05:09.809 --> 00:05:12.345 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% good on you, and they would get rid of it and then they'd give 00:05:12.345 --> 00:05:15.415 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% you a budget and you'd go shopping and by the end of the 00:05:15.415 --> 00:05:19.085 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% program you look amazing like a whole new wardrobe. 00:05:19.085 --> 00:05:23.490 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Well, the Scripture says, "Put off bitterness, put off envy, 00:05:23.490 --> 00:05:25.859 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% put on love, put on Christ." 00:05:25.859 --> 00:05:30.397 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% That's not legalism, that's what to wear, that's what fits 00:05:30.397 --> 00:05:33.133 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% because we're saints, that's what fits. 00:05:33.133 --> 00:05:35.936 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Blynda: So you talk about in the book, we're talking about 00:05:35.936 --> 00:05:39.606 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% "Gospel Zero: Reclaiming the Radical Message of Grace" and 00:05:39.606 --> 00:05:45.645 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% you talk about lifeless religion that living under the umbrella 00:05:45.645 --> 00:05:51.685 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% of religion makes it lifeless versus this radical umbrella 00:05:51.685 --> 00:05:53.153 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% of grace. 00:05:53.153 --> 00:05:56.957 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% When we're talking about the dancing duo that you talk about 00:05:56.957 --> 00:06:00.860 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% law and grace, it does sound like by that term dancing duo 00:06:00.860 --> 00:06:05.632 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% that there is still an enmeshing somehow of understanding how law 00:06:05.632 --> 00:06:07.867 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% and grace go together. 00:06:07.867 --> 00:06:11.271 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Andrew: Yeah, well, first let me say that dancing duo is not 00:06:11.271 --> 00:06:15.141 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% something we're prescribing, actually the Scripture is 00:06:15.141 --> 00:06:16.509 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% really clear. 00:06:16.509 --> 00:06:19.779 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% It says, "We're dead to the law, not under the law. 00:06:19.779 --> 00:06:23.483 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Christ is the end of the law for all those who believe." 00:06:23.483 --> 00:06:26.953 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And Paul even goes as far to say, "Those who are led by the 00:06:26.953 --> 00:06:29.222 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% Spirit are not under the law." 00:06:29.222 --> 00:06:31.157 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% So we're saying it's not a mix. 00:06:31.157 --> 00:06:36.296 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I mean, we're saying if you have 99% grace and 1% law you've 00:06:36.296 --> 00:06:37.664 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% ruined it. 00:06:37.664 --> 00:06:39.132 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% And that's the whole point. 00:06:39.132 --> 00:06:41.468 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% So we're gonna have to trust Jesus. 00:06:41.468 --> 00:06:45.005 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I'm just bringing it back to that for everybody because, you 00:06:45.005 --> 00:06:48.441 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% know, I can't just trust him with heaven, I gotta trust him 00:06:48.441 --> 00:06:51.278 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% with the words that are coming out of my mouth, I gotta trust 00:06:51.278 --> 00:06:53.446 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% him with the decisions I'm making. 00:06:53.446 --> 00:06:57.917 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% You know, Jesus rose from the dead and he lives in us so what 00:06:57.917 --> 00:07:01.888 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% if that, what if Jesus risen from the dead living in you is 00:07:01.888 --> 00:07:04.424 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% the only reason you behave? 00:07:04.424 --> 00:07:07.327 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% That is walking by the Spirit. 00:07:07.327 --> 00:07:10.697 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Randy: Okay John, I gotta ask you, you haven't always believed 00:07:10.697 --> 00:07:13.199 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% this or lived like this, right? 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:14.567 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% What has this done? 00:07:14.567 --> 00:07:18.204 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% How has this changed the way you see God or yourself or others? 00:07:21.274 --> 00:07:25.612 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% John: I came to him so radically at age 27. 00:07:25.612 --> 00:07:29.816 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Within months I thought I must have disappointed him or 00:07:29.816 --> 00:07:34.020 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% something or did something wrong 'cause I didn't feel that 00:07:34.020 --> 00:07:35.388 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% feeling again. 00:07:35.388 --> 00:07:40.393 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so I just went on a pursuit of I'm gonna be the best 00:07:40.393 --> 00:07:43.830 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Christian who's ever lived, I'm gonna sell out so that I never 00:07:43.830 --> 00:07:47.267 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% don't have that feeling again. 00:07:47.267 --> 00:07:51.671 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% All the way into the pastorate, all the way into me preaching. 00:07:51.671 --> 00:07:56.209 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And someone gave me a book by Brennan Manning and someone gave 00:07:56.209 --> 00:08:04.584 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% me some messages on grace and I think my wife Stacey would say, 00:08:04.584 --> 00:08:08.588 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% "You're kinder, you're more playful, you're more enjoyable 00:08:08.588 --> 00:08:12.125 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% being around, but most of all, you're not second guessing 00:08:12.125 --> 00:08:13.493 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% yourself all the time. 00:08:13.493 --> 00:08:15.228 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% You know who you are." 00:08:15.228 --> 00:08:19.599 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And for this old guy, that's a remarkable statement 'cause that 00:08:19.599 --> 00:08:21.634 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% was not always so. 00:08:21.634 --> 00:08:29.409 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So I get to see Jesus as there's nobody on this planet he loves 00:08:29.409 --> 00:08:31.611 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% more than me. 00:08:31.611 --> 00:08:33.646 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% And I get to rest in that. 00:08:33.646 --> 00:08:35.014 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% Isn't that incredible? 00:08:35.014 --> 00:08:38.852 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% There's nobody on this planet that he loves more than me. 00:08:38.852 --> 00:08:44.424 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% So I get to play and enjoy, and more than anything, instead of 00:08:44.424 --> 00:08:49.329 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% proving my love to him, I'm letting him love me. 00:08:49.329 --> 00:08:51.598 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% And that's always been his endgame. 00:08:51.598 --> 00:08:56.536 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Would you let me hang out and play and love you instead of 00:08:56.536 --> 00:09:02.208 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% trying to perform enough that you love me enough. 00:09:02.208 --> 00:09:05.745 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% That's been wild in me, and so it's been passed on to my kids 00:09:05.745 --> 00:09:07.914 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% now, they believed it, they bought it. 00:09:07.914 --> 00:09:14.821 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Caleb's pastoring my old church because he believed it, and this 00:09:14.821 --> 00:09:19.893 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% trust that you talked about, that is the key, that is so key, 00:09:19.893 --> 00:09:24.297 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% is that we have to say, "I have no other way to live now. 00:09:24.297 --> 00:09:25.665 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% I can't go back. 00:09:25.665 --> 00:09:27.033 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% I've seen too much." 00:09:27.033 --> 00:09:29.803 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Randy: Is there anyone God loves less than you? 00:09:29.803 --> 00:09:32.672 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% 'Cause you say, you know, God, you know, there's no, right? 00:09:32.672 --> 00:09:34.007 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% That's the other side of that. 00:09:34.007 --> 00:09:36.976 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Andrew: Yeah, so for everyone watching right now, you might 00:09:36.976 --> 00:09:40.947 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% think, "Well, this gospel is great for those folks," or "Oh, 00:09:40.947 --> 00:09:44.884 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% he's a preacher" or that sort of thought might creep in. 00:09:44.884 --> 00:09:49.222 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% We gotta remember, this is not about us and our resumes or what 00:09:49.222 --> 00:09:50.590 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% we've done. 00:09:50.590 --> 00:09:55.161 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% This is about being inspired and motivated by the deep and high 00:09:55.161 --> 00:10:00.033 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% and long love of Christ, I mean that's what Paul says, right? 00:10:00.033 --> 00:10:01.468 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Be filled with the Spirit. 00:10:01.468 --> 00:10:02.836 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% We wonder what that is. 00:10:02.836 --> 00:10:04.204 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? 00:10:04.204 --> 00:10:08.308 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Well, two chapters earlier in the same letter he says, "Get to 00:10:08.308 --> 00:10:12.912 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% know the ginormous love of Christ and you will be filled to 00:10:12.912 --> 00:10:16.316 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% the measure of the fullness of God. 00:10:16.316 --> 00:10:17.717 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% Now, that's pretty serious. 00:10:17.717 --> 00:10:23.089 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Like that tells me I gotta stop trying to love God enough and 00:10:23.089 --> 00:10:28.228 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% start letting him love me and be impressed with the size of his 00:10:28.228 --> 00:10:32.632 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% love and when I become a receiver instead of an achiever, 00:10:32.632 --> 00:10:36.903 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% it flips the whole Christian life upside down and it becomes 00:10:36.903 --> 00:10:39.005 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% what it was always intended to be. 00:10:39.005 --> 00:10:42.876 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% John: And it allows me to achieve more than I ever could 00:10:42.876 --> 00:10:44.978 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% in any other manner. 00:10:44.978 --> 00:10:49.115 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% When Paul says, "I am what I am, but by grace." 00:10:49.115 --> 00:10:50.817 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% I am what I am. 00:10:50.817 --> 00:10:55.455 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And by his grace I worked harder than all the rest of them, not 00:10:55.455 --> 00:10:57.223 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% me, but his grace. 00:10:57.223 --> 00:10:59.025 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% Isn't that crazy good? 00:10:59.025 --> 00:11:03.463 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Blynda: So what it really makes me think about is in John 15:5 00:11:03.463 --> 00:11:06.432 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% he says, "I am the vine and you are the branches. 00:11:06.432 --> 00:11:09.202 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% If I remain in you and you remain in me you will bear much 00:11:09.202 --> 00:11:10.937 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% fruit, but apart from me you can do nothing." 00:11:10.937 --> 00:11:15.174 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% It makes me think that this whole thing about grace is how 00:11:15.174 --> 00:11:18.778 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% close do we stay to the Father, how close do we stay to Jesus 00:11:18.778 --> 00:11:22.248 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% because that's really the only way that we will then be able to 00:11:22.248 --> 00:11:24.217 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% walk out this grace filled life. 00:11:24.217 --> 00:11:25.552 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% Is that right? 00:11:25.552 --> 00:11:26.920 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Andrew: Yeah, so here's what I would say. 00:11:26.920 --> 00:11:31.157 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I mean, what a pleasure, what an honor to be in Christ and we 00:11:31.157 --> 00:11:35.328 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% talk about closeness, but I think we're really talking about 00:11:35.328 --> 00:11:37.130 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% growing and learning. 00:11:37.130 --> 00:11:42.602 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% We're not actually inching closer because we are one spirit 00:11:42.602 --> 00:11:44.103 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% with the Lord. 00:11:44.103 --> 00:11:48.408 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So we Christians, we use a lot of language out there and I grew 00:11:48.408 --> 00:11:49.742 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% up with it. 00:11:49.742 --> 00:11:51.811 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% In the Bible Belt there's a lot of things in the Bible Belt that 00:11:51.811 --> 00:11:55.582 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% aren't in the Bible and I had to learn that the hard way. 00:11:55.582 --> 00:11:59.619 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And one of those things is man if I just do enough quiet times, 00:11:59.619 --> 00:12:02.355 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% man if I just study the word enough, if I just go to church 00:12:02.355 --> 00:12:05.625 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% enough, I will get closer to God. 00:12:05.625 --> 00:12:09.295 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And what I learned is the very verses you're talking about. 00:12:09.295 --> 00:12:12.765 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Wait a minute, I got a vine branches intimacy. 00:12:12.765 --> 00:12:15.168 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% That word abide means live. 00:12:15.168 --> 00:12:16.569 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% I don't abide in Adam. 00:12:16.569 --> 00:12:17.937 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% I abide in Christ. 00:12:17.937 --> 00:12:20.106 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I'm not a branch that's gonna be burned. 00:12:20.106 --> 00:12:21.574 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% I'm a branch in the vine. 00:12:21.574 --> 00:12:26.446 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I live in Christ and now in him I'm gonna learn and I'm gonna 00:12:26.446 --> 00:12:31.618 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% grow, even as I'm perfectly one with him I'm still learning 00:12:31.618 --> 00:12:32.952 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% and growing. 00:12:32.952 --> 00:12:34.854 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% But it's not like, "Oh my goodness he's just around 00:12:34.854 --> 00:12:36.189 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% the corner. 00:12:36.189 --> 00:12:37.690 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% If I could do enough I could get to him. 00:12:37.690 --> 00:12:41.160 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% And I gotta try to remain I gotta work hard to get close 00:12:41.160 --> 00:12:42.528 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% and stay." 00:12:42.528 --> 00:12:46.933 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% It's him and me and me and him, the verse that I wrote in my 00:12:46.933 --> 00:12:50.136 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% son's yearbook that I want him to know for the rest of his life 00:12:50.136 --> 00:12:56.109 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% is 1 Corinthians chapter 6. It says "Anyone who has joined 00:12:56.109 --> 00:12:59.779 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% himself to the Lord is one spirit with him." 00:12:59.779 --> 00:13:01.714 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% That is as close as you can get. 00:13:01.714 --> 00:13:03.916 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% Randy: Okay, I have a question. 00:13:03.916 --> 00:13:08.955 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% James says, "Draw near to God and he will draw near to you." 00:13:08.955 --> 00:13:12.091 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% Doesn't that imply some distance, some separation? 00:13:12.091 --> 00:13:15.228 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Andrew: So we forgot one word in there and I know you know that, 00:13:15.228 --> 00:13:20.199 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% but we forgot "Draw near you sinners, cleanse your hands, you 00:13:20.199 --> 00:13:24.737 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% sinners," and it was written, it says chapter 1 verse 1, "To the 00:13:24.737 --> 00:13:28.975 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% tribes of Israel scattered," and it's evangelistic. 00:13:28.975 --> 00:13:33.179 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And he's saying if you're not yet in Christ draw near to him 00:13:33.179 --> 00:13:36.315 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% you will find God in Messiah Jesus. 00:13:36.315 --> 00:13:40.787 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Come to Jesus you scattered tribes of Israel, we want you to 00:13:40.787 --> 00:13:42.488 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% be in Christ. 00:13:42.488 --> 00:13:47.427 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so we are never referred to as sinners, now that we're in 00:13:47.427 --> 00:13:49.128 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% Christ we're saints. 00:13:49.128 --> 00:13:54.434 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% We did draw near, we sought and we found, we knocked and the 00:13:54.434 --> 00:13:55.802 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% door was opened. 00:13:55.802 --> 00:13:58.771 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% We were hungry and now we've been filled and Jesus says, "You 00:13:58.771 --> 00:14:03.076 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% will no longer hunger or thirst because you've been filled." 00:14:03.076 --> 00:14:06.679 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% So sinner and saint, there's a difference and it's important 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:08.014 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% when we read Scripture. 00:14:08.014 --> 00:14:10.349 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Randy: Well, context, I mean, you're bringing context into it 00:14:10.349 --> 00:14:13.619 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% and we put a lot of sermons don't like that, you know, we 00:14:13.619 --> 00:14:14.954 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% nitpick, all right. 00:14:14.954 --> 00:14:19.092 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% John: I was thinking just as you were speaking before. 00:14:19.092 --> 00:14:24.630 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% What change would it make if we actually believed what it says 00:14:24.630 --> 00:14:27.300 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% in John 15:9. 00:14:27.300 --> 00:14:31.137 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% "As my Father has loved me so also I love you, to the," this 00:14:31.137 --> 00:14:37.477 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% is Jesus talking, "to the exact extent that my Father loves me." 00:14:37.477 --> 00:14:39.879 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% And that's some pretty significant love. 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:46.319 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% So also I love you and you and you and you and you. 00:14:46.319 --> 00:14:49.689 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Question his taste, but don't question his character. 00:14:49.689 --> 00:14:52.225 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% He said that's true about me. 00:14:52.225 --> 00:14:57.830 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% So how would I live if I knew that was true, that I am loved 00:14:57.830 --> 00:15:01.467 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% as much as his father loves him. 00:15:01.467 --> 00:15:04.804 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% Oh my, I would stop performing. 00:15:04.804 --> 00:15:06.139 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% I would stop grinding. 00:15:06.139 --> 00:15:07.507 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% I would stop striving. 00:15:07.507 --> 00:15:11.110 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% I would stop making this faith so miserable. 00:15:11.110 --> 00:15:16.549 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I would get to just relax and trust that he is doing this work 00:15:16.549 --> 00:15:18.451 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% in me from the inside out. 00:15:18.451 --> 00:15:20.887 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Blynda: I think somebody watching right now, do you have 00:15:20.887 --> 00:15:24.524 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% some, I think they're hearing this and they're saying, "Okay, 00:15:24.524 --> 00:15:26.526 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% this is blowing my mind, but I need more." 00:15:26.526 --> 00:15:30.229 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Can you directly speak to the person who is needing to hear 00:15:30.229 --> 00:15:31.831 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% this message so clearly. 00:15:31.831 --> 00:15:35.001 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Andrew: Yeah, I would say this that first of all you need to 00:15:35.001 --> 00:15:39.071 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% know you're not an obstacle to God, you are his instrument, 00:15:39.071 --> 00:15:40.439 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% you're his child. 00:15:40.439 --> 00:15:41.774 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% He embraces you. 00:15:41.774 --> 00:15:45.945 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% He's not trying to replace you, he wants to embrace you and 00:15:45.945 --> 00:15:47.346 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% there is a difference. 00:15:47.346 --> 00:15:49.348 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% He's not trying to get rid of you. 00:15:49.348 --> 00:15:51.184 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% He invited you in. 00:15:51.184 --> 00:15:55.121 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% You get to be yourself and express Jesus at the exact 00:15:55.121 --> 00:15:56.455 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% same time. 00:15:56.455 --> 00:15:58.524 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% That's what it means to have a new identity. 00:15:58.524 --> 00:16:03.196 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% It's not just about feeling good or having self esteem now, it's 00:16:03.196 --> 00:16:06.532 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% about recognizing you're a perfect fit with Christ. 00:16:06.532 --> 00:16:09.468 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% That vine branches relationship is a gift. 00:16:09.468 --> 00:16:13.272 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% There is nothing special about us here on this program, we're 00:16:13.272 --> 00:16:15.141 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% not special Christians. 00:16:15.141 --> 00:16:17.043 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% We're all in Christ. 00:16:17.043 --> 00:16:20.012 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% You're in Christ if you've received him. 00:16:20.012 --> 00:16:23.816 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Everybody has the honor and privilege of being that close, 00:16:23.816 --> 00:16:28.554 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% that oneness with Jesus is yours right now. 00:16:28.554 --> 00:16:30.723 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Randy: John, what would you say to someone who may be hearing 00:16:30.723 --> 00:16:35.294 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% this and is having to rethink some of what they learned like 00:16:35.294 --> 00:16:37.230 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% you have. 00:16:37.230 --> 00:16:40.700 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% John: You've heard a lot today and in the last time you got to 00:16:40.700 --> 00:16:45.671 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% hear the show, and it's overwhelming because we've 00:16:45.671 --> 00:16:47.673 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% heard differently. 00:16:47.673 --> 00:16:53.012 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Some of you are watching and you feel this shame and you don't 00:16:53.012 --> 00:16:54.513 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% know how to escape it. 00:16:54.513 --> 00:16:57.650 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Guilt says you've done something wrong, shame says there is 00:16:57.650 --> 00:17:01.087 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% something uniquely and irrevocably and irreparably 00:17:01.087 --> 00:17:04.290 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% wrong with who you are in your very core of your being, and no 00:17:04.290 --> 00:17:07.426 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% matter what you do you'll never change it. 00:17:07.426 --> 00:17:13.599 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And what if you could hear Jesus saying, "I made you. 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.969 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% I wanted you on this planet before the world began. 00:17:16.969 --> 00:17:18.304 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% I'm not disgusted. 00:17:18.304 --> 00:17:20.006 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% I'm not ashamed. 00:17:20.006 --> 00:17:25.044 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% I shed blood, purchased my ability to be able to love you 00:17:25.044 --> 00:17:28.414 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% with everything in me, and nothing, not even you can 00:17:28.414 --> 00:17:30.416 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% stop me." 00:17:30.416 --> 00:17:36.455 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So you can relax, rest, and walk out and do the good works of 00:17:36.455 --> 00:17:42.194 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Jesus in the safety of knowing how loved you are. 00:17:42.194 --> 00:17:43.529 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% Randy: That's good. 00:17:43.529 --> 00:17:45.131 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% Why do you call this book "Gospel Zero?" 00:17:45.131 --> 00:17:48.634 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Andrew: Getting back to ground zero, starting with the 00:17:48.634 --> 00:17:51.103 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% foundation, rebuilding. 00:17:51.103 --> 00:17:54.840 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% You know my birthday is October 31 and that is also 00:17:54.840 --> 00:17:58.644 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% coincidentally the birthday of the Protestant Reformation. 00:17:58.644 --> 00:18:03.215 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% When a gentleman many hundreds of years ago nailed 95 theses to 00:18:03.215 --> 00:18:07.887 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% a door and said, "Hey, we need to fix a whole lot of things 00:18:07.887 --> 00:18:09.255 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% around here." 00:18:09.255 --> 00:18:12.725 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And in this book "Gospel Zero" we're saying maybe there's a 00:18:12.725 --> 00:18:16.696 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% little more fixing to be done, you know, a little bit more 00:18:16.696 --> 00:18:21.233 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% change in how good we believe God is, how forgiving we believe 00:18:21.233 --> 00:18:25.271 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% we are, and what it means to really be new and to be a child 00:18:25.271 --> 00:18:30.309 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% of God, one with Jesus, like we've got a gospel, but it's a 00:18:30.309 --> 00:18:33.646 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% whole lot more powerful than we might imagine. 00:18:33.646 --> 00:18:36.615 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% John: I think as you read each chapter, you see that we go 00:18:36.615 --> 00:18:41.120 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% after the Pharisee and really just spare him nothing, spare 00:18:41.120 --> 00:18:46.258 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% her nothing, but for the one trying, as you said, this one 00:18:46.258 --> 00:18:49.929 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% scared to death but wanting to move forward, we're trying to 00:18:49.929 --> 00:18:54.367 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% give life and hope and possibility and see that it's 00:18:54.367 --> 00:18:58.237 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% doable and that such as us are living it. 00:18:58.237 --> 00:18:59.605 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% Blynda: And it does that. 00:18:59.605 --> 00:19:00.940 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% It does that. 00:19:00.940 --> 00:19:02.742 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% May I never be found the Pharisee. 00:19:02.742 --> 00:19:04.176 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% May I never be. 00:19:04.176 --> 00:19:05.511 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Randy: Yeah, I want people to get this. 00:19:05.511 --> 00:19:07.780 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% Blynda: Yeah, it's so great. 00:19:07.780 --> 00:19:09.815 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Randy: It is and it's something you're gonna have to work 00:19:09.815 --> 00:19:12.852 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% through, but this is how we'd like you to get it 'cause we 00:19:12.852 --> 00:19:17.690 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% would love to send "Gospel Zero" to you when you participate in 00:19:17.690 --> 00:19:22.161 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% an outreach that is expressing what God's given to us that 00:19:22.161 --> 00:19:27.466 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% unearned grace that love, that just pure love. 00:19:27.466 --> 00:19:29.668 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% We do it through our mission outreaches. 00:19:29.668 --> 00:19:32.004 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% We want you to be a part of it because people are in 00:19:32.004 --> 00:19:33.706 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% desperate need. 00:19:33.706 --> 00:19:37.910 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So watch this and pray about how you can be involved. 00:19:43.582 --> 00:19:46.786 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% announcer: One hundred hours. 00:19:46.786 --> 00:19:50.322 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% On average, that's how long the human body can survive 00:19:50.322 --> 00:19:53.826 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% without water. 00:19:53.826 --> 00:19:57.596 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% In the face of death by dehydration, water like this is 00:19:57.596 --> 00:20:01.934 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% the only choice for many. 00:20:01.934 --> 00:20:06.539 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Recently, while in East Africa, we spoke with Fatina, a mother 00:20:06.539 --> 00:20:08.574 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% personally impacted by this crisis. 00:20:10.709 --> 00:20:12.478 align:start line:53% position:50% size:70% Fatina: [speaking in foreign language] 00:20:32.331 --> 00:20:34.834 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% announcer: Unclean water is a common hardship throughout 00:20:34.834 --> 00:20:36.735 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% the world. 00:20:36.735 --> 00:20:41.140 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% And when something is common, it's easy to get used to. 00:20:41.140 --> 00:20:47.480 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% But should losing a child ever be something we get used to? 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:50.583 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Contaminated water has already taken Fatina's son. 00:20:54.987 --> 00:20:58.257 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% In Cambodia, Samnang lost his daughter to a 00:20:58.257 --> 00:21:02.561 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% waterborne illness. 00:21:02.561 --> 00:21:06.098 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Miriam Venegis from Central America stands by the grave of 00:21:06.098 --> 00:21:09.835 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% her five month old baby boy who died from drinking 00:21:09.835 --> 00:21:12.037 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% contaminated water. 00:21:12.037 --> 00:21:16.942 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% It came from this river, the only source Miriam has available 00:21:16.942 --> 00:21:18.477 align:start line:69% position:48% size:18% to her. 00:21:18.477 --> 00:21:22.581 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% His death still haunts Miriam to this day, knowing clean water 00:21:22.581 --> 00:21:23.916 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% could have prevented it. 00:21:27.520 --> 00:21:30.923 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% For years, you've helped Life Outreach provide clean water in 00:21:30.923 --> 00:21:35.361 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% thousands of areas across the globe. 00:21:35.361 --> 00:21:39.031 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Right now, mothers like Fatina also need clean water in their 00:21:39.031 --> 00:21:44.503 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% villages before tragedy strikes again. 00:21:44.503 --> 00:21:45.838 align:start line:53% position:50% size:70% Fatina: [speaking in foreign language] 00:21:54.113 --> 00:21:56.749 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Randy: I can't tell you how difficult it is to sit with a 00:21:56.749 --> 00:22:01.153 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% mother who has lost a child, to hear the wailing and the 00:22:01.153 --> 00:22:05.624 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% weeping, or to see a child who is wasting away because of some 00:22:05.624 --> 00:22:07.760 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% waterborne disease. 00:22:07.760 --> 00:22:12.531 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% I couldn't do it if I didn't know that I had the ability to 00:22:12.531 --> 00:22:16.335 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% come back and talk to you and that you would do something that 00:22:16.335 --> 00:22:20.039 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% you would reach out in love and say, "We're gonna provide clean 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:23.008 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% water for those people." 00:22:23.008 --> 00:22:24.376 align:start line:63% position:50% size:41% That's my heart. 00:22:24.376 --> 00:22:28.447 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% I believe it's the heart of God, and I believe it's the heart of 00:22:28.447 --> 00:22:30.716 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% so many of you watching right now. 00:22:30.716 --> 00:22:35.821 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% And that's why I invite you in to save a life, to share the 00:22:35.821 --> 00:22:38.824 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% love of God with people. 00:22:38.824 --> 00:22:43.395 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% In word and in deed we do preach the gospel to them, but we 00:22:43.395 --> 00:22:45.464 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% demonstrate it as well. 00:22:45.464 --> 00:22:50.035 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% So I'm asking you right now to join us in Water for Life, go 00:22:50.035 --> 00:22:53.305 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% online, go to the phone, make the best gift you can. 00:22:53.305 --> 00:22:57.977 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% What you do today will have ramifications far beyond what 00:22:57.977 --> 00:23:01.714 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% you can see, I think into eternity. 00:23:01.714 --> 00:23:05.884 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% And so as we wrap up this campaign on the air, this is the 00:23:05.884 --> 00:23:09.088 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% last week we'll be talking about it during this campaign, we're 00:23:09.088 --> 00:23:12.758 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% gonna continue year round drilling. 00:23:12.758 --> 00:23:16.395 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% I hope we surpass our goal of 350 water wells in the 20 00:23:16.395 --> 00:23:17.763 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% nations where we work. 00:23:17.763 --> 00:23:21.066 align:start line:58% position:46% size:68% We can only do it with your support. 00:23:21.066 --> 00:23:24.370 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% Blynda, I love what we do. 00:23:24.370 --> 00:23:26.805 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% I hate the pain that people go through. 00:23:26.805 --> 00:23:31.277 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% But you know, this is our calling, this is what we can do. 00:23:31.277 --> 00:23:36.148 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% Blynda: It's both sobering and yet exciting that we get to 00:23:36.148 --> 00:23:39.485 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% partner with the Lord and help save lives. 00:23:39.485 --> 00:23:41.954 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% It's not something small that you're doing. 00:23:41.954 --> 00:23:47.192 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% When you decide to give a gift, you are saving a life. 00:23:47.192 --> 00:23:49.428 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% You are changing lives. 00:23:49.428 --> 00:23:52.798 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% You saw that mom say, "I don't ever want any of my other 00:23:52.798 --> 00:23:55.367 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% children, I don't want them to die." 00:23:55.367 --> 00:24:00.939 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% And you get to do that, you get to be a part of saving a family. 00:24:00.939 --> 00:24:04.843 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% And I just, it's sobering because the need feels so big, 00:24:04.843 --> 00:24:10.416 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% but yet it's also precious that we know that every time we give, 00:24:10.416 --> 00:24:11.750 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% we are making a difference. 00:24:11.750 --> 00:24:13.118 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% Randy: Oh, absolutely. 00:24:13.118 --> 00:24:15.587 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% You know, proverbs says that when you are generous to the 00:24:15.587 --> 00:24:18.123 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% poor, you lend to the Lord. 00:24:18.123 --> 00:24:21.527 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% Well if God doesn't need us to lend to him. 00:24:21.527 --> 00:24:22.895 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% Why is that language used? 00:24:22.895 --> 00:24:25.464 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% It's because we enter into a contract that God says, "I wanna 00:24:25.464 --> 00:24:26.832 align:start line:63% position:50% size:35% make with you. 00:24:26.832 --> 00:24:29.268 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% I wanna repay you for your good deed." 00:24:29.268 --> 00:24:31.704 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And that makes me very excited. 00:24:31.704 --> 00:24:36.909 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% And so I want you right now if you can, pray first. 00:24:36.909 --> 00:24:39.845 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% Don't do anything out of guilt or out of just the emotion and 00:24:39.845 --> 00:24:41.213 align:start line:63% position:48% size:23% the need. 00:24:41.213 --> 00:24:42.548 align:start line:63% position:48% size:38% It's very real. 00:24:42.548 --> 00:24:44.583 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% That's why we show it to you, but just do it out of obedience, 00:24:44.583 --> 00:24:46.018 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% do it out of love. 00:24:46.018 --> 00:24:49.455 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% A gift right now $48 will provide clean drinking water for 00:24:49.455 --> 00:24:50.789 align:start line:63% position:48% size:28% ten people. 00:24:50.789 --> 00:24:53.659 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% $144 will provide that for 30 people. 00:24:53.659 --> 00:24:58.030 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% Maybe you can drill an entire well with a gift of $4800. 00:24:58.030 --> 00:25:02.668 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% Whatever God puts on your heart, go online, go to the phone, make 00:25:02.668 --> 00:25:04.970 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% the best gift you can. 00:25:04.970 --> 00:25:08.774 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% You will be saving a life today. 00:25:08.774 --> 00:25:12.211 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% announcer: Every day thousands of lives are lost to waterborne 00:25:12.211 --> 00:25:15.147 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% disease, and nearly half of those are children under the age 00:25:15.147 --> 00:25:16.515 align:start line:63% position:50% size:21% of five. 00:25:16.515 --> 00:25:19.785 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% Through Mission Water for Life, you can give mothers hope and 00:25:19.785 --> 00:25:24.123 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% children a future as we provide clean, fresh drinking water, 00:25:24.123 --> 00:25:26.358 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% free from the fear of death. 00:25:26.358 --> 00:25:30.496 align:start line:53% position:45% size:73% With your gift today, you can help drill and establish 350 00:25:30.496 --> 00:25:32.297 align:start line:58% position:50% size:56% water wells this year. 00:25:32.297 --> 00:25:35.701 align:start line:58% position:50% size:65% Your gift of $24 will help provide clean water for 00:25:35.701 --> 00:25:37.035 align:start line:63% position:50% size:35% five children. 00:25:37.035 --> 00:25:41.840 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% A gift of $48 will help provide for ten, and $144 will help 00:25:41.840 --> 00:25:45.611 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% provide life-giving water for 30 people for a lifetime. 00:25:45.611 --> 00:25:49.715 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% With a gift of any amount, we'll send you "Discovering the Joy of 00:25:49.715 --> 00:25:51.116 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Reading God's Word." 00:25:51.116 --> 00:25:54.787 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% Whether you've read the Bible for years or are just beginning, 00:25:54.787 --> 00:25:58.257 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% this book invites you to experience Scripture in a fresh, 00:25:58.257 --> 00:25:59.658 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% more intimate way. 00:25:59.658 --> 00:26:03.929 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% With your gift 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good shepherd. 00:26:33.659 --> 00:26:35.060 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% This is the last week. 00:26:35.060 --> 00:26:39.364 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% Please call, write, or make your gift online. 00:26:39.364 --> 00:26:40.866 align:start line:58% position:46% size:68% Randy: You really can bless someone. 00:26:40.866 --> 00:26:42.568 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% You can save a life today. 00:26:42.568 --> 00:26:45.671 align:start line:58% position:46% size:68% Be a part of this beautiful mission outreach. 00:26:45.671 --> 00:26:49.675 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% It's urgent, it's needed, and it's a glorious thing 'cause we 00:26:49.675 --> 00:26:51.043 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% do it in the name of Jesus. 00:26:51.043 --> 00:26:52.878 align:start line:58% position:46% size:68% I appreciate you guys being here. 00:26:52.878 --> 00:26:55.914 align:start line:58% position:47% size:53% Request "Gospel Zero" with your gift today. 00:26:55.914 --> 00:26:58.550 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% We'd love to send it to you and I wanna thank both of you guys 00:26:58.550 --> 00:26:59.918 align:start line:58% position:48% size:38% for being here. 00:26:59.918 --> 00:27:01.253 align:start line:58% position:48% size:33% It's so good. 00:27:01.253 --> 00:27:02.621 align:start line:58% position:47% size:58% John: What a privilege. 00:27:02.621 --> 00:27:04.389 align:start line:58% position:46% size:68% Randy: JohnLynchSpeaks.com. 00:27:04.389 --> 00:27:08.227 align:start line:53% position:46% size:68% AndrewFarley.org as well as BibleQuestions.com. 00:27:08.227 --> 00:27:09.995 align:start line:53% position:50% size:50% More resources. Appreciate you guys. 00:27:09.995 --> 00:27:11.463 align:start line:58% position:50% size:45% Andrew: Thank you. 00:27:11.463 --> 00:27:12.798 align:start line:58% position:46% size:68% Randy: You've been blessed. 00:27:12.798 --> 00:27:14.132 align:start line:58% position:50% size:65% Blynda: It's been awesome. Randy: t's been awesome. 00:27:14.132 --> 00:27:15.467 align:start line:53% position:44% size:78% Blynda: I'm gonna have to watch and rewatch this episode, 00:27:15.467 --> 00:27:16.969 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% so it's great, thank you. 00:27:16.969 --> 00:27:18.303 align:start line:58% position:46% size:68% Randy: And come back again. 00:27:18.303 --> 00:27:20.606 align:start line:53% position:50% size:81% We've got more to bless you here on Life Today. 00:27:20.606 --> 00:27:30.616 align:start line:10% position:89% size:8% ♪♪♪ 00:27:30.616 --> 00:27:40.626 align:start line:10% position:89% size:8% ♪♪♪ 00:27:40.626 --> 00:27:50.636 align:start line:10% position:89% size:8% ♪♪♪ 00:27:50.636 --> 00:28:00.646 align:start line:10% position:89% size:8% ♪♪♪ 00:28:02.481 --> 00:28:04.182 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Jordan Ruben: Money doesn't grow on trees, but 00:28:04.182 --> 00:28:05.684 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% medicine does. 00:28:05.684 --> 00:28:08.654 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% announcer: Jordan Ruben turns ancient biblical wisdom into 00:28:08.654 --> 00:28:12.558 align:start line:63% position:25% size:61% modern practical application for healing. 00:28:12.558 --> 00:28:15.127 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% "Life Today" is made possible by the supporters of Life 00:28:15.127 --> 00:28:16.461 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Outreach International. 00:28:16.461 --> 00:28:18.330 align:start line:58% position:50% size:65% Your gift will be used exclusively for the exempt 00:28:18.330 --> 00:28:19.665 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% purposes of life. 00:28:19.665 --> 00:28:22.100 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% The ministry features specific outreaches as examples of the 00:28:22.100 --> 00:28:23.602 align:start line:58% position:50% size:50% programs it supports and conducts. 00:28:23.602 --> 00:28:25.737 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% Gifts are considered to be without restriction as to use 00:28:25.737 --> 00:28:27.472 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% unless explicitly stipulated by the donor. 00:28:27.472 --> 00:28:29.474 align:start line:58% position:50% size:61% The ministry is a member of the ECFA.