1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,240 Hello and welcome back to the PHSA Podcast. My name is David Bigford. I'm the pastor 2 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,960 here at SalmonArm. This is a very special podcast series where I'm going to be sharing 3 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:23,060 with you messages from our most recent conference in Prescott, Arizona, the Beyond Limits Conference 4 00:00:23,060 --> 00:00:30,720 with a theme of to preach the gospel in the regions beyond from 2 Corinthians 10-16. I'm 5 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:37,000 going to share all of the sermons from this conference series to include Greg Mitchell, 6 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:44,400 our head pastor, Joe Campbell, Richard Ruby, Tom Payne, and many, many others during this 7 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:49,600 series. So I'll be sharing these with you over the next couple of weeks, and I hope 8 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:55,040 you really enjoy these messages. If you'd like to see these messages in a video format, 9 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:01,720 you can go to prescottpottershouse.com where all of these will be available for you to 10 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:07,140 view in a video format. So without further ado, I'm going to pass, I'm going to go ahead 11 00:01:07,140 --> 00:01:12,200 and move on to the messages and I hope you enjoy them. God bless. 12 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:19,800 Amen. What a privilege to be a part of this fellowship and be able to attend these conferences. 13 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:24,960 Can you say amen? It's a great honor to be asked to preach and it's very humbling to 14 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:30,480 preach on Thursday night. So let's believe God together. Amen. Matthew chapter 28, if 15 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:43,640 you'll turn with me. The word of God. In my opinion, the Jesus People movement was God's 16 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:54,560 response to the hippie rebellion of the late 60s. It really was a bitter failure, had, 17 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:03,320 you know, much idealism. And our version of the Jesus People movement got started at the 18 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:12,080 end of 69, but properly 1970 is where we, is where we mark that. And it's predictable 19 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:21,160 that the people, the young people of that era were bankrupt of anything like a solution. 20 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:28,040 There was a need for change. There was lots of things happening. But here I came across 21 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:34,280 a very interesting example of this that some of you will remember. In 1969, they had the 22 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:40,000 Woodstock Festival in New York. One of the bands that performed there was called Ten 23 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:48,640 Years After. And that band featured a singer, guitarist named Alvin Lee. In his day, he 24 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:58,600 was amazing. But two years later, he wrote a song titled I'd Love to Change the World. 25 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:05,160 And I was revisiting this song a couple weeks ago. And I thought the lyrics today would 26 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:12,080 be considered extremely right wing. Here are some of the lyrics. Everywhere is freaks and 27 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:24,880 harries, dykes and fairies. Tell me where is sanity? Tax the rich, feed the poor, till 28 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:31,520 there are no rich no more. But the hook is really what got me. And you're going to love 29 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:38,520 this. This is so 70s. Go ahead and play the hook. 30 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:20,720 Sorry. That was a little more lead break than we needed. But it was fun. I'd love to change 31 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:27,680 the world, but I don't know what to do. So I'll leave it up to you. Well, that's nothing 32 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:38,480 if not honest. And I'm thinking it's kind of prophetic. As if it was sung to the converts 33 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:44,760 of the Jesus People movement. And even more so to our part of that movement that God had 34 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:55,000 birthed a year before in Prescott, Arizona, because God gave us a solution. And in reality, 35 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:02,120 when it comes to world evangelism and changing the world, the title of my sermon is we know 36 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:09,080 exactly what to do. And I want to read a very familiar portion of scripture for us. Matthew 37 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:15,680 28, let's read verse 18 through 20. When Jesus came and spoke to them saying all authority 38 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:21,480 has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the 39 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:28,080 nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 40 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:34,400 teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always 41 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:43,200 even to the end of the age. Amen. We know exactly what to do. I want to look first of 42 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:49,760 all at God given principles. Memorial stones reminds us of Pastor Mitchell's journey. 43 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:58,200 It's so valuable and you need to take the time to watch those. And it tells of his beginnings, 44 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:06,120 his progression through ministry all the way to our fellowship. Here was a frustrated pastor 45 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:12,560 hungry for fruit for something that resembled New Testament Christianity as it pertained 46 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:20,000 to the Great Commission. So he began to pray and he began to seek God. He began to desire 47 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:27,880 the glory of God and asked for a strategy to fulfill the command of world evangelism. 48 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:35,440 And because Pastor Mitchell prayed and because he sincerely sought God, God heard and answered 49 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:46,760 that prayer powerfully. In response, he choreographed events, circumstances. He began to help Pastor 50 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:53,840 Mitchell to regain the scriptural truths, got breakthroughs which resulted in what we 51 00:06:53,840 --> 00:07:02,240 would call our pattern or our vision. It was God given. It was a design and a template 52 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:12,320 that could be used to change the world. In our text, verse 19 and 20, go therefore and 53 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:19,800 make disciples of all the nations. Verse 20, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded 54 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:29,440 you. So Jesus by preaching and teaching, by making disciples, by sending them, commanded 55 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:36,240 us to do the same until the coming of the Lord. And because Pastor Mitchell sought God, 56 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:46,240 he would say he rediscovered evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. And the powerful thing 57 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:54,660 is these things can be taught. This is what Jesus said. You're going to teach the nations 58 00:07:54,660 --> 00:08:00,880 is what King James says. And that's what a disciple is. A disciple is somebody who has 59 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:10,040 become a pupil or a student of a man who is seeking to fulfill the great commission. He 60 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:16,860 said, you are going to make disciples. And in the King James, he says, commanding them, 61 00:08:16,860 --> 00:08:22,760 that literally means to guard. It means that you're building a fortress, that you're going 62 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:32,400 to keep a sharp eye out. And the idea is that when we seek God to fulfill his purpose, God 63 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:42,720 provides principles and patterns and fundamentals that can be taught and can be learned because 64 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:48,760 God really wants to help us. I really recently became aware of an example of this that goes 65 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:57,960 back to the 1700s. And this is in the realm of music. A man named Johann Sebastian Bach. 66 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:04,560 I know in Germany they would say it different, but I attempt to speak English. And so I'm 67 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:15,480 going to pronounce it like you would in English. He was a musician. He was in a family of musicians. 68 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:21,840 He decided he wanted to be a composer, but he had a firm belief that music is from God. 69 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:30,000 And that music must be used to glorify God. So here's a man that is seeking God to glorify 70 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:38,240 God. Here's a picture of Bach. This is a portrait. And here's a man that in those days they didn't 71 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,840 have cameras. So he would sit in front of a painter and they painted him. And that's 72 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:48,920 one of the, I think, two portraits of him. And you can take that down for now. But the 73 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:56,120 story of Bach, if you've never studied this man, you should take the time. This is fascinating 74 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:04,760 that this man who began to seek God and glorify God, as a result, God gave this man musical 75 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:16,280 revelation. He all of a sudden came into possession with some principles, some fundamentals, and 76 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:26,320 literally changed the world of music. Bach converted to Christ, sought God, wanted to 77 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:33,520 worship God. And he said these words, all music should have no other end and aim than 78 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:38,240 the glory of God and the soul's refreshment. Where this is not remembered, there is no 79 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:48,600 real music, only a devilish hubbub. Bach sought God and it became obvious that God gave, put 80 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:56,600 something in this man. If you read the historical record about him, he proceeded to write worship 81 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:04,680 music. This is what he wrote, worship music. In doing so, he revolutionized music. His 82 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:11,120 output was prolific. He wrote worship music, but he also wrote instructionals and taught 83 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:22,160 people about music. He composed at an incredible frenetic pace. And he introduced some concepts 84 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:30,560 that are still very much at use today in many, many different genres, counterpoint and harmony. 85 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:36,400 And they say that he brought this to a level that did not exist. He produced volumes. One 86 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:42,520 historian said Bach enriched the established German styles through his mastery of counterpoint, 87 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:49,040 harmonic, and motivic organization. Counterpoint is one of the most complex aspects of music 88 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:58,320 theory. His ability here seems almost supernatural. At one point he became the worship leader 89 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:05,560 for a church. He wrote what was called a cantata every week. Every week he would write this 90 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:13,600 composition with a quill pen and a jar of ink. He would draft a musical score for each instrument 91 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:20,600 by hand, and there were dozens. He composed the musical score for all the singers by hand, 92 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:27,160 and there were often dozens if not hundreds. He would make copies for each individual instrument 93 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:35,640 and each singer by hand every week. And as they study this man's body of work, the result 94 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:47,680 is some of the most beautiful, the most complex music ever written. It is divine genius. And 95 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:53,880 in addition to this, he wrote guides and variant exercises. In his lifetime they credit him 96 00:12:53,880 --> 00:13:03,000 with over 1,100 compositions, and they hold musicians in awe today. One historian, John 97 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:12,800 Sebastian Bach, 1685 to 1750, is unquestionably the most revered figure in the entire history 98 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:20,600 of Western music, having been called the father of music himself on several occasions, and 99 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:26,920 often being referenced to by other composers like Chopin, Mozart, Hayden, and Beethoven, 100 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:33,840 who all admired him and collected his music, they considered him as key inspiration. Mozart, 101 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:44,760 I learned, was trained by two of his sons. We're going to get to discipleship in a minute, 102 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:54,120 because we're talking about revelation from God. Mozart said of him, Bach is the father, 103 00:13:54,120 --> 00:14:04,160 and we are the children. 1922 modern-day accomplished guitarist Pat Metheny said, compared to Bach, 104 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:15,720 we all suck. I know I said I'm using English, excuse the French. The point is that what 105 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:22,080 God did for music, for a man who wanted to glorify him, God has done for those who seek 106 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:27,920 to fulfill the Great Commission. And you can find this in the Gospels, in the Book of Acts, 107 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:33,480 throughout church history, all the way to the Jesus People movement and Pastor Mitchell 108 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:42,160 and our fellowship. The principles that God gave our pastor are beyond human wisdom. We 109 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:52,800 have a template so that when it comes to world evangelism, we know exactly what to do. I'm 110 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:57,760 going to look secondly at the public domain. One of the great struggles of modern music 111 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:08,840 industry are the endless lawsuits, copyright, royalties, lawsuits, everything from the estates 112 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:17,080 of the old Delta Blues musicians that most of the white rock and rollers ripped off directly. 113 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:25,080 Sampling. And even, you know, how ridiculous, church worship songs now, you know, at one 114 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:31,360 point, how many of you remember that, where you had to buy a license, you know. What's 115 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:38,400 interesting is I studied this and I began to delve into Bach and this amazing man. When 116 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:44,320 you study the effect of Bach on modern music, it's amazing how many modern musicians openly 117 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:55,320 admit that they wrote songs directly copying him with no fear of lawsuit. And the reason 118 00:15:55,320 --> 00:16:06,400 simple all of Bach's material is in what is called the public domain. That define means 119 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:12,200 creative materials that are protected by, that are not protected by intellectual property 120 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:18,760 laws such as copyright, trademark or patent laws. What I believe, and this is where I'm 121 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:24,080 going with this, is I believe that God not only gave Bach revelation about music, because 122 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:34,240 music comes from heaven, that he intended it to help anyone who woke up and decided 123 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:43,360 they wanted to succeed in music. I was reading about the 1970s, a man named Ron Altbach with 124 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:48,000 the Beach Boys. He's just over one of his friend's house in the band, Al Jardine, and 125 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,640 he's just on the piano. He had gone to school and studied classical music and he's playing 126 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:57,680 Bach's Jesus Joy of Man's Desire. Because if you're going to play Bach, you're going 127 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:04,120 to play worship music. Al Jardine heard this, got excited. He said, man, we need to turn 128 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:09,000 that into a song. Let's write a song. So they altered the tempo and they wrote a song called 129 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:17,240 Lady Linda, which became the name of their next album and gave them a hit song for their 130 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:24,920 band. Back in the 70s, it became trendy. If you want to have a hit, add a little Bach. 131 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:35,720 Because it's genius and it's available and it works and it's in the public domain. I 132 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:42,320 think that most people are unaware of the impact this man made on Western music. When 133 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:50,600 I was in Gallup the first time around 2005, Pastor Greg came back from South Africa and 134 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:56,640 he was here in Prescott. He called me, he said, Tom, stop what you're doing right now 135 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:02,600 and you need to go buy a CD called Play. It's guitar. I said, who is it by? He said, Brad 136 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:11,160 Paisley. I never heard of him. Brad Paisley. I looked him up. He's a country Western player. 137 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:16,080 Like I'm not a country Western player. I'm like a humbucker kind of guy. You know, I'm 138 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:23,280 like Brad Paisley. And so I finally got around to it. I finally, okay, all right. I went 139 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:31,400 and bought this and I'm listening to this and I'm like, whoa, this music is profound. 140 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:36,320 One of the songs that I remember and I still have it on my phone called Departure. I listened 141 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:47,400 to this and I was like, this is complex, man. This has layers. This is moving. I learned 142 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:53,840 just within the last week or two that he stated somewhere that Bach was his inspiration. This 143 00:18:53,840 --> 00:19:03,960 man studied music. So we're talking about a cowboy hat and a telecaster and cowboy boots. 144 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:12,000 Another point, I want to tell you something. God is generous with people that seek him. 145 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,320 And if that's true in music, how much more in reaching the world for Jesus? In verse 146 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:28,120 19 again, go and make disciples of all the nations. That's our marching orders. And here 147 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:34,880 we are on Thursday night. Thousands of us just, that's just a small representation of 148 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:44,880 our fellowship. People on online. God wants every person to succeed in world evangelism. 149 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:55,800 So much so that he is generous with revelation. He is generous with the wherewithal to succeed. 150 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:05,120 And it's all in the public domain. Mark 16, 15, the companion verse, go and preach the 151 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:12,400 gospel. Go ye and preach the gospel. And it talks about getting filled with the Holy Spirit, 152 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:19,400 speaking in tongues, healing, deliverance from demons. Verse 18 of our text, all authority 153 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:25,120 has been given to me in heaven and on earth. You go there for. In other words, all the 154 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:29,720 authority that I've gained from the death, burial and resurrection and the ascension 155 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:36,280 to the right hand of the power, I am now vesting in you. I am generously offering this to you 156 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:47,160 because I want you to succeed. Think about preaching, discipling, baptizing miracles. 157 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:52,680 Everything we need is right in the word of God. And if that's not enough, if that's 158 00:20:52,680 --> 00:21:04,400 not enough, God in our fellowship has given us a clear pattern. Think about think about 159 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:11,400 what informs us about sending churches internationally or planting churches domestically. Ninety 160 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:18,040 percent of it's in the public domain. You know, there's still old recorded sermons. 161 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:24,040 You can go back and into how many of you still got cassettes? I mean, I got cassettes of 162 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:34,000 some of the best preachers on earth, man. Warren Johnson, Pastor Mitchell. You know, 163 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,920 these these preachers, if you don't know what that is, you can go to the Smithsonian and 164 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:47,640 find out. But I'm telling you, man, it's out there. And then CDs, MP3s before there was 165 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:52,320 the World Evangelism video, there was the World Evangelism movie. How many of you remember 166 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:57,960 the World Evangelism movie? I remember that when God called me to be a missionary was 167 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:05,080 at the end of one of those movies. And Pastor Mitchell said, the reason I bring these young 168 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:10,440 preachers to the Philippines is I want them to stay up at night. I want them not to be 169 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:16,200 able to sleep till they do something about the nations of the world. And I'm telling 170 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:26,480 you, something came on my life. We know exactly what to do. And we've known it for decades 171 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:39,520 because God gave our leader revelation. And if that's not enough, you know, books, we 172 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:46,880 can take the land. The open door, Mitchell and his men. I loved hearing Pastor Greg talk 173 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:53,720 afresh about Richard Brooks, you know, here's this guy, he's an American, he tried to smuggle 174 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:59,720 some drugs into Australia, gets caught, goes to prison. So in prison, he's given a Bible 175 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:05,160 and he's given a copy of the book, We Can Take the Land. And long story short, he ends 176 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:11,560 up getting saved. He gets out, goes back to the US, finds a gospel church that took him 177 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:17,840 on a mission trip to Romania. And while there he met a girl and married her. As Nigel would 178 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:29,580 say, as you do. He stayed and using the Bible and his dog-eared paperback copy of We Can 179 00:23:29,580 --> 00:23:36,880 Take the Land began to build a work for God. And was being successful because he was like, 180 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:41,640 let's read the Bible and then let's read We Can Take the Land and let's do this. And he 181 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:48,880 did it. And it was years later that God's sovereignty caused him to meet Jeff Renz 182 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,800 and then meet Pastor Mitchell and then Pastor Greg went there, they did a crusade and a 183 00:23:53,800 --> 00:24:01,040 thousand people were saved. We heard a testimony tonight from our brother. Today there are 184 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:07,240 ten churches there and seven missionaries in four other countries because we know exactly 185 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:15,220 what to do. And it's in the public domain. It's where you can get to it. It's there 186 00:24:15,220 --> 00:24:23,560 generously provided by God so that we can fulfill our destiny. You know, I was remembering 187 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:28,920 the 90s. You know, thank God for the breakthroughs that we've had in healing. Thank God for that. 188 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,360 How many of you remember the 90s when we were all reading books? We were reading the books 189 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:37,940 by these different, and some were good and some were not so good and some were really 190 00:24:37,940 --> 00:24:47,240 not good at all. And we're trying to break through and we're believing God and look where 191 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:55,440 God's brought us. You know, Pastor Greg just finished a book on healing. And I want to 192 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,360 tell you something, I haven't read every book on healing that's ever been written on planet 193 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:04,960 earth, but I've been enough, I've read enough to know that's the best I've read anywhere. 194 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:10,200 I mean, if you want to break into the healing, it's right there. We know exactly what to 195 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:20,920 do and not because we're special because God wants us to know. It's in the public domain. 196 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:33,880 I want you to put the picture of Bach up again. You notice he's holding a piece of paper there. 197 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:39,960 And if you can move it to the next one where it's the close up, the next picture, it's 198 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:45,880 called a Canon Triplex. I'm not going to go into all what that means, but that six VOC 199 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:52,760 means six voices. And a voice would be an instrument or a line of music. And the thing 200 00:25:52,760 --> 00:26:02,360 that's puzzling about that, there's only three lines. So each line is one voice or one instrument. 201 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:09,200 So this was a mystery. It took years for people to figure this out. Somebody finally decoded 202 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:15,640 it. The issue is he's handing the musical score to us as the viewers and we see three 203 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:22,200 lines, but he's looking at it from a different view. He sees the same three lines upside 204 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:33,080 down. Let's go to the next picture. That's the way he sees it. Somebody figured it out. 205 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:45,420 They said each line, if taken the upside down inverted line from his view, placed above 206 00:26:45,420 --> 00:26:53,280 itself in our view, this is what you get. Go to the next picture. And I'm not going 207 00:26:53,280 --> 00:27:01,920 to play that, but you might Google that. That is profound. That each line is in perfect 208 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:13,720 counterpoint harmony. And what you have there is a very simple, complex, profound piece 209 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:21,320 of writing. If I wasn't saved and I was studying Bach, I'd think this guy is an alien. He's 210 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:30,920 got like other worldly IQ from another galaxy. Or he's had a direct download from God. 211 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:43,320 And that's what he claimed. But go back to the portrait. One historian said, what Bach's 212 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:52,080 doing here is he's handing future generations his business card. He's saying, listen, God 213 00:27:52,080 --> 00:28:01,160 help me with some things and I want to help you. I'd love to teach you this. Try this. 214 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:08,840 Here are some fundamentals and this works. I did an AI search on all the musicians over 215 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:14,920 the years that reference Bach as a source for music they copied, directly, shamelessly 216 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:22,560 copied, or have used as influence for their songs. And the list came out to hundreds, 217 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:31,040 if not thousands. Many of the Beatles songs, Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven and others, 218 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:42,120 Edgar Winter, The Doors, Simon and Garfunkel, Sting, said every day we sit at Bach's feet. 219 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:49,020 I made a short video of artists and songs they admit copied or inspired and it switches 220 00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:53,480 to a shorter list of churches inspired by Pastor Mitchell. Let's just look at that real 221 00:28:53,480 --> 00:29:14,000 quick. 222 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:33,760 That list was a month ago. I'm sure it's outdated already. But I promise you'll be 223 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:47,520 outdated before this night's over. Hallelujah. So I want to close with whosoever will. The 224 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:54,920 mystery, there are people that are enthralled with how God has helped us, but actually resist 225 00:29:54,920 --> 00:30:02,120 doing what we do. Pastor Mitchell used to say of some, they want to be like us, but 226 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:12,040 they don't want to be like us. He said you can't be what we are if you don't do what 227 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:21,680 we do. 29 Palms, California, Jake and Jennifer Snyder, you know they're there, disciple from 228 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:28,160 Prescott, Arizona, replicating the pattern, amazing results. I think the church would, 229 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:37,040 something like, gone from 15 to 130 people. And recently, you know, within the last year 230 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:41,840 or two, God opened a door for them to rent a church building. This isn't just any church 231 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,160 building. You know, you think about, well they're renting a church building, I think 232 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:49,720 of one of these old gothic brick things that's about to fall over. I got to visit there, 233 00:30:49,720 --> 00:31:01,720 and they got eight acres, 12,000 square feet, from a congregation that's been dying for 234 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:08,840 years. It's now a congregation under 20 people, and the ages of the people in the church are 235 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:18,120 like between 60 and 90 years old. And they're good Christian people. But this church has 236 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:24,880 been there for decades. So they go in and they're, you know, they're allowed to do 237 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:32,960 some remodeling and painting and they're functioning in the sanctuary. And the church itself actually 238 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,640 meets, you know, on Sunday morning for a little while before the regular services, but they 239 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:44,040 have it for revivals morning, evening. But there's offices and there's desks and there's 240 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:52,800 bookshelves. And one of the people in the Snyders Church, converts, was looking through 241 00:31:52,800 --> 00:32:04,360 the bookshelf and they found a book. This is the book, this is the open door. They found 242 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:14,760 this book on this old dying church's bookshelf. And they asked the people in the church, so 243 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,680 they said, where did this come from? They said, we don't have any idea where it came 244 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:23,080 from, but it's likely to have been sitting there for 15 or 20 years, because we haven't 245 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:35,680 touched those bookshelves in a long, long time. Wow. This church, like Richard Brooks, 246 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:46,240 had the book, but unlike Richard Brooks, they ignored it. And now they're dying. And in 247 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:55,080 the meantime, they're renting to a couple who had been discipled, has the revelation 248 00:32:55,080 --> 00:33:02,760 exploding with revival and they didn't even know this book existed. Jennifer is my daughter. 249 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:11,960 She called me, she said, dad, have you ever read this book? I said, Jennifer, I would 250 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:16,560 have thought this was required reading, man. I lost track. That was a, I went to bed too 251 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:31,160 many times since this book came out. Of course I've read this book. An old church totally 252 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:38,440 ignored it. They said that they've decided recently that their method to grow their church 253 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:47,040 is to sponsor a little league team. Mark Olson said, it's not that our pattern has been tried 254 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:58,920 and found wanting too often. It's just not been tried. And I want to tell you, my experience, 255 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:04,360 I was privileged to be saved in the Prescott church and trained for ministry and sent out 256 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:10,560 in the Prescott church. And I had a fundamental understanding, you know, that we have a pattern 257 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:16,760 and our job is to reproduce the pattern. I remember going to the Philippines the first 258 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:22,880 time and I had never been that far away from the United States. I couldn't believe it. 259 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:30,660 I got on an airplane in LA and we just kept going west for 13 hours till I thought my 260 00:34:30,660 --> 00:34:37,800 brain was going to leak out my ears. We land in Manila. We spent the night. The next day 261 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:43,800 I was asked to preach in one of the baby churches. They put me on a bus and we went into the 262 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:51,800 jungle for, it seemed to me like two hours. They brought a guide with me, which was good. 263 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:59,060 We got off the bus. We had to walk probably a half a mile to the church that had already 264 00:34:59,060 --> 00:35:08,160 started their song service. And I got maybe a half a block away and I heard the music. 265 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:16,160 It was just like it was in a different language. I walked into that iron shack and it was like 266 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:28,480 I was in any fellowship church on planet earth. I preached through an interrupter. We had 267 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:36,320 an altar call and then the pastor, proud as punch, walked me back to the bus stop. He 268 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:43,760 said, Pastor Payne, I am a disciple of Pastor Mark Hurley and we are reproducing the Prescott 269 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:58,280 congregation in the Philippines. So proud of that. You know, there's people, you know, 270 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:04,800 in our fellowship, you just, you blanch at that. For some people the fellowship becomes 271 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:15,280 the F word. Whose disciple are you? Who would you proudly say you're patterning your life 272 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:25,640 after? Who's your teacher? What are you reproducing? Just before I had the privilege of going to 273 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:31,400 Kenya from Farmington, New Mexico, I had the privilege of going first to the Netherlands 274 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:37,880 and then to Davao City where Mark Olson was. And at the time I considered them two of the 275 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:45,000 most profound and exciting examples of the Prescott vision reproduced in the earth and 276 00:36:45,000 --> 00:37:01,040 I returned convinced what we do works anywhere in the world. Amen. This is genius. This is 277 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:09,800 amazing. And I went there determined. It is not our talent. It is a divine spark. It is 278 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:18,680 a gift. We need to learn. You need to learn what we do and do it with God. And the problem 279 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:24,080 is some people birthed in this are actually attracted to and tempted by the religious 280 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:31,000 world. Come on, man. Are you kidding me? In Perth I had a good natured debate with some 281 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,800 of the church kids about music and I would show up to the outreach. We had it going on, 282 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:42,520 Murray Street Mall, North Bridge. We could do these outreaches outside and pump music 283 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:51,880 and gather two, three hundred people and preach to them. And I showed up at one of the outreaches 284 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:58,320 and I'm listening to the music and my heart's thinking, that's horrible. What the heck are 285 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:05,160 they playing here? And it didn't work. We didn't draw a crowd. And I said, what in the 286 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:09,720 world are you guys doing? I'm not saying that you've got to be playing Leonard Skinner or 287 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:16,240 anything. I'm not insisting on the 70s, but whatever you're doing, what is that? And I 288 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:22,000 had to ask around. I found out they were all listening to this government funded radio 289 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:31,480 station. Could you imagine getting your inspiration off an NPR? I said, guys, listen, with all 290 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:41,120 due respect, the reason the bands are on that station is because they suck. They can't make 291 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:46,240 it in the marketplace. There's nobody that wants to listen to them. There's no sponsors 292 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:55,920 that want to affiliate with them. And so they're on music welfare. Oh, but isn't that the rub? 293 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:03,000 No, but we're musicians too. Who needs Bach Schmuck? Who needs to be confined by the boundaries? 294 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:11,240 We have our own inspiration. You suck. I'm sorry for my French, but it's just a better 295 00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:19,880 word than you stink. I'll say that if I should. You know, they have a term for people like 296 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:29,360 you. It's called starving artist because only you and seven of your weird friends like what 297 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,760 you're doing. What you really need to do is find the peak of the bell curve, right? What 298 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:39,040 are humans like? This is what heavenly music is about. This is what Bach discovered. There's 299 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:46,340 certain, you know, there's certain harmonics and chords and scales that move human beings 300 00:39:46,340 --> 00:39:53,000 and God knows what he's doing. Everything else is devilish hubbub. You're serving up, 301 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:59,360 you know, it's, I don't even just stop me here. Help me. I, I was having a hard, I was 302 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:08,800 telling them music has a math, it has a symmetry. What's wrong with you guys? We ended up picking 303 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:15,680 a song that was, you know, like number one for two years. I rewrote it. We put some music 304 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:20,040 to it, got some singers on it and immediately, man, we start playing that in Mercy Street 305 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:26,720 while we draw 300 people. It wasn't like my cup of tea was, it was kind of boy toy Bruno 306 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:33,960 Mars stuff from the nineties, man. I'm like, I can't even relate to this, but at least 307 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:42,960 they're obeying some sort of sanity. You know, that experience caused one of those church 308 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:48,800 kids, one of these men, he said, pastor pain. It was that experience. I decided to become 309 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:55,520 a disciple. Why? I said, he said, because I realized our leaders know what they're doing. 310 00:40:55,520 --> 00:41:02,200 We know exactly what to do. I'm not being proud. I'm not being arrogant. I'm telling 311 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:12,520 you, if you want to succeed in world evangelism, if you want to exceed in church planting, 312 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:22,360 I tell men, those that ask questions do the best. It's not just what we do. That's the 313 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:30,240 principle. It's you got to know why we do what we do. There's reasons we do morning 314 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:36,920 prayer. There's reasons for our altar calls and the correct way to do an altar call. There's 315 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:46,680 reasons for our leadership as male. There's Lee. There's reasons for standards of ministry. 316 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:55,040 Why didn't somebody ask pastor Yohan Sebastian Bach? What are you holding in your hand there, 317 00:41:55,040 --> 00:42:01,840 man? Like, you know how long it takes to paint those pictures? Months. He's standing there 318 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:06,840 holding that picture. And then after he was alive for how many years after not money said, 319 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:14,440 pastor, with all due respect, you know, what's with the six voices thing? You said, oh yeah, 320 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:18,400 you want to see something cool? Look at it from my point of view, turn it upside down, 321 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:29,600 put it together like this, and you're going to get a lot of people saved. Hallelujah. 322 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:34,280 I'm going to close with one more illustration of this. People ask, what do you preach on 323 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:39,560 World Evangelism night? I always said it really comes down to what I call the give and go. 324 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:45,120 I don't understand basketball the same way, say, Joe Campbell and Jeff Day does, but I 325 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:50,800 do remember in my youth a coach talking about the give and go. Many people don't know that 326 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:56,140 the man that invented basketball, his name was Dr. James Naismith. We can see a picture 327 00:42:56,140 --> 00:43:00,480 of him. He was a Christian missionary. He decided to create a sport to attract young 328 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:08,840 men, win them to Christ, invented basketball in 1898, developed into a worldwide phenomenon, 329 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:14,400 not exactly reaching people for Christ. But the give and go is still a fundamental. The 330 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:21,240 question is, is the give and go still relevant? You know, the Hollywood Showtime fast break, 331 00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:28,400 run and gun. I put together a little give and go video. Let's take a look at that. 332 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:34,840 There's the give and go. One player gives or passes the ball to a teammate and goes 333 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:40,920 or cuts to the basket to receive a return pass for a shot. Let's check it out. 334 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:50,360 There's the give. There's the go. Hey, it's Pastor Harold Warner. There's the give. There's 335 00:43:50,360 --> 00:44:00,480 the go. These are NBA professionals, man. There's the give. There's the go. This last 336 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:05,520 one's amazing. There's the give. There's the go. He's just throwing it where he's supposed 337 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:13,640 to be. That's called faithfulness, being where you're supposed to be, when you're supposed 338 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:23,120 to be there, and God will throw you the ball. That's what we're going to do tonight. We're 339 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:31,920 going to do the give and go. It's a basic. How do you reach the world? There's going 340 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:42,060 to be people that go and everybody's going to give. We know exactly what to do. And when 341 00:44:42,060 --> 00:44:48,680 you do, God's going to bless you. Pastor from Holland, dear Pastor Payne, when we decided 342 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:54,400 to invest in Kenya and make the trips every year with the other pastors, God began to 343 00:44:54,400 --> 00:45:01,560 bless our church. A woman in our city deposited 50,000 euros into our bank account. Another 344 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:09,480 pastor, inspired by a statement Mark Olson made about our faith and believing God for 345 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:14,680 family to get saved, he said, you took the world of evangelism offering. When I gave 346 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:20,280 the offering, I prayed for my son to get saved. I'm going to abbreviate this. He said he did, 347 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:25,680 but shortly after that, got into an accident and went home to be with Jesus. And I wonder 348 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:34,040 what would have happened if I didn't participate. Kevin Foley, after a Thursday that I preached 349 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:39,280 and talked about our descendants blessed by our obedience in the offering, he said he 350 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:46,320 gave very generously to believe God to not only meet the need for the missionaries, but 351 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:52,440 to bless his baby churches and his descendants. He said somebody shortly after that gave a 352 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:59,480 check three times his offering. And that year, the Northwest Conference had more than enough 353 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:07,640 to pay for itself. Unlike the misguided youth of the seventies, they admitted they didn't 354 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:17,920 know what to do. God gave us revelation. We're called to change the world and we know exactly 355 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:27,560 what to do. And God is expecting this of you. I'd like every head bowed and every eye closed. 356 00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:38,440 Heads are bowed, eyes are closed. We know exactly what to do. We need to go into all 357 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:46,960 the world and we need to give generously tonight to facilitate that. What a gift. What an amazing 358 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:53,680 revelation that God has given us. And we're going to open these altars and I believe God's 359 00:46:53,680 --> 00:47:01,920 not done calling people to the nations of the world. We're going to see a demonstration 360 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:08,520 of our vision tonight, but there's always tomorrow night. And we know exactly what to 361 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:15,400 do. Heads are bowed, eyes are closed. Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and 362 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:22,920 rose from the dead and he's alive. And by faith and repentance you can be born again. 363 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:28,000 You can have a brand new life. And if you're in here and you're not saved you know exactly 364 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:33,680 what to do. God brought you here and you understand you're not ready for eternity but you want 365 00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:37,240 to be. Somebody's going to pray with you and if you want to get saved, you want to get 366 00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:41,320 right with God, I want you to signify that by raising your hand all over this place quickly, 367 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:45,160 all over this place. How many would there be? Amen? All over this place. Praise God 368 00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:51,760 quickly, quickly, quickly. Hands unsaved, backslider, man or woman, God's dealing with 369 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:56,360 you. Thank you for that hand. Somebody else, thank you for that hand. Somebody else, join 370 00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:00,400 these. Say, pastor, I don't want to play games anymore. I need to get right with God. Here's 371 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:05,560 my hand. There's another hand over here. There's another hand over here. How many more? You 372 00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:11,480 join these. You want to be a part of this prayer. Don't hesitate. Only way to be made 373 00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,440 right with God is through the blood of Jesus and faith and repentance quickly. There's 374 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:20,000 another hand over there. Every one of you that raised your hand, I want you to stand 375 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,840 up right now. Just stand to your feet. Unsaved, backslider, young or old, stand to your feet, 376 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:28,120 stand to your feet, stand to your feet. I want you to come to the altar. Just come from 377 00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:33,780 where you are. And we need some altar workers to meet them. Meet these precious souls as 378 00:48:33,780 --> 00:48:48,060 they come, as they come. Men with men, women with women. Changing the appeal. I'd love 379 00:48:48,060 --> 00:48:56,160 to change the world, but I don't know what to do. So I leave it up to you. You know who 380 00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:03,080 he's talking about? He's talking about us. Fifty years. The Jesus people converts have 381 00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:09,800 been taking that responsibility. We know exactly what to do. What about you? Whose disciple 382 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:16,480 are you? How do you process the revelation that God has given to Pastor Wayman Mitchell 383 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:25,880 and passed down to the leaders of our fellowship and now Pastor Greg Mitchell? Is that infringing 384 00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:36,160 upon your creativity? Is that somehow an impediment? I want to tell you, if that's the way you're 385 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:43,160 looking at it, that's extremely foolish. Because it's a gift. That means common people like 386 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:51,840 me, common people like you can have a viable part. There's fundamentals in our fellowship. 387 00:49:51,840 --> 00:50:20,200 And tonight, we're going to give and go. And every person in this room, I'm live.