Caption transcript for The Lobstermen: “Blaze of Glory!” (9/10)

• 00:10 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
• 00:12 Caleb Colson: So I'm here waiting for the cast and crew to
• 00:15 join me in this Mormon van of victory.
• 00:18 Ryan.
• 00:19 Ryan Economy: Hey.
• 00:21 Caleb: He's the only faithful one here.
• 00:22 He got the call time.
• 00:23 He says, "I got to be in the van."
• 00:25 He was on time.
• 00:26 Everybody else is 10 minutes late, but they'll show up.
• 00:27 It's okay. Here's Dimitri.
• 00:29 Dimitri Hale: What's up, guys? Caleb: Dimitri is ready.
• 00:32 Dimitri: Right.
• 00:33 And it's not too cold out here, so it's beautiful.
• 00:35 Caleb: Join the Mormon van.
• 00:37 It's what Josh calls my van at home.
• 00:39 'Cause I have five kids so I have a 12-seater.
• 00:42 Yeah, I have a 12-seater van, so.
• 00:43 male: You're a glutton for punishment.
• 00:45 ♪♪♪
• 00:51 ♪♪♪
• 00:56 ♪♪♪
• 01:06 ♪♪♪
• 01:18 ♪♪♪
• 01:27 ♪ Ninety-nine houses of light on the coast, ♪
• 01:29 ♪ ninety-nine houses of light. ♪
• 01:30 ♪ A hurricane hits and blows it to bits, ♪
• 01:32 ♪ 98 houses of light on the coast. ♪
• 01:33 ♪ Ninety-eight houses of light on the coast, ♪
• 01:35 ♪ ninety-eight houses of light. ♪
• 01:36 ♪ A hurricane blows and blows it to bits, ♪
• 01:38 ♪ ninety-seven houses of light on the coast. ♪♪
• 01:41 Caleb: Okay, this could go on forever.
• 01:42 I'd like to talk about the Bible right now 'cause that's why
• 01:45 we're going to the lighthouse.
• 01:46 Joshua Colson: Oh, it's not to see the pretty houses of the
• 01:49 light shining and leading mankind into the right path?
• 01:51 Caleb: No.
• 01:53 I want to talk about the last days, guys.
• 01:54 You know, when you read Scripture, you see two polar
• 01:57 opposites in the last days.
• 01:59 You see a great move of God, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit;
• 02:02 and then on the other side you see terrible darkness and evil.
• 02:06 In fact, 2 Timothy 3:1-3 says, "But mark this: There will be
• 02:10 terrible times in the last days.
• 02:12 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
• 02:15 boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
• 02:18 ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous,
• 02:21 without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good."
• 02:25 And Joel 2:28-31 says, "I will pour out my Spirit in the last
• 02:28 days and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men
• 02:31 will see visions, your old men will dream dreams."
• 02:33 That's kind of really bizarre, this presence of light and
• 02:36 darkness in the end.
• 02:38 Joshua: Especially considering that all it seems like we really
• 02:40 see right now is the darkness side.
• 02:42 You started reading that list and I was like, "Wait a minute.
• 02:43 That sounds like the last 4 years in America."
• 02:46 Caleb: It's kind of crazy.
• 02:48 Joshua: Obviously, God is not going to let that evil go on for
• 02:51 long without empowering his people.
• 02:52 Caleb: Israel, you've been around much longer than we have.
• 02:54 What do you see coming up?
• 02:56 I mean, do you see that change?
• 02:57 Israel Hanna: I am looking for one of the--I am looking forward
• 02:59 to one of the greatest revivals in the history of the church,
• 03:03 and the church definitely needs to be revived along with the
• 03:06 rest of us actually.
• 03:08 We'll come back to life.
• 03:09 We'll be walking in the gifts of the Spirit.
• 03:13 The disciples, they saw blind eyes opened, the deaf heard, the
• 03:16 lame walk, the--you know, the dead were risen up
• 03:20 and resurrected.
• 03:21 And those kind of miracles, I do believe, that Joel prophesied
• 03:24 about are going to actually happen.
• 03:26 Caleb: Yeah.
• 03:27 I mean, it started in the 1st century on the day of Pentecost
• 03:30 when Peter stood up on Shavuot and he said, "These are the last
• 03:34 days that was prophesied."
• 03:35 And the Holy Spirit was poured out.
• 03:37 But then he had this lull, you know, and I believe this--the
• 03:40 presence of God is going to be released again but in greater
• 03:44 effect than it was in the past.
• 03:45 Joshua: Now, this is a confusing thing because I know I got
• 03:47 corrected by you 47 times in one of our last series.
• 03:50 I need you to explain really quickly the difference between
• 03:52 the last days and the end times 'cause I think people get
• 03:55 confused by that delineation.
• 03:56 Caleb: You got a point.
• 03:57 Well, the last days are the days leading up to the end of this
• 04:00 age, the church age that we are living in now.
• 04:03 And when the church age ends, that's when the tribulation will
• 04:07 begin; and that's the time of judgment, of God's wrath being
• 04:09 poured out on the world and on the wicked, which I believe
• 04:12 we're going to be spared from when we go to the Rapture, and
• 04:15 that's the end times.
• 04:16 That's that time where you do see an outpouring of the Holy
• 04:19 Spirit in a way that the two witnesses go out and preach the
• 04:22 Word of God and 144,000 of those Jewish evangelists are going to
• 04:26 go around the world doing signs, wonders, and miracles.
• 04:28 I believe we're going to have the outpouring of Holy Spirit
• 04:30 before that moment.
• 04:32 Joshua: So CliffNotes, Josh version, end times doesn't begin
• 04:34 till after the harpazo.
• 04:38 Caleb: What do you think, Mike?
• 04:40 Mike Ferland: Yeah, I think it's clearly of God that he would
• 04:45 move so mightily in those last days to give, again, another
• 04:50 chance, a greater chance for people because we know that it's
• 04:54 God's heart that none should perish.
• 04:55 And even in the darkest of times before the Rapture, I believe as
• 05:00 Israel believes that there's going to be a mighty move
• 05:03 of God.
• 05:04 There's going to be signs and wonders.
• 05:05 There's going to be, I think, bunches of people coming to know
• 05:09 the Lord.
• 05:10 Joshua: We know the Bible says the signs and wonders exist to
• 05:12 point man to God.
• 05:13 Like, the point of signs and wonders is for the people to see
• 05:15 and believe, and we live in a time period where people crave
• 05:18 the supernatural.
• 05:19 All of our television shows, our movies, all the series, anything
• 05:21 from mutants to magic to all of this, you know, hybridization of
• 05:26 human chimeras turning in and getting powers.
• 05:28 So we're in a time period where people want to see that, but the
• 05:30 problem is all they've seen is the enemy's version of it.
• 05:33 But God's going to come in with the supernatural power and
• 05:35 restore and heal and change, and we're going to see it for the
• 05:39 good and we're going to see the real form of it.
• 05:41 Israel: Guys, you know the important part--you know, it's
• 05:44 interesting I kind of--Jesus comes back to earth.
• 05:47 He comes to earth as the Messiah, the born, you know, for
• 05:51 the virgin Mary.
• 05:52 And then when he goes to the temple and preaches one of his
• 05:55 first sermons, he actually quotes, I think, it's believe--I
• 05:59 believe in Luke.
• 06:00 He says these things will happen, and I believe that they
• 06:02 are going to happen.
• 06:03 We're going to all be part of it, guys.
• 06:05 And my prayer is that our listeners will be a big part of
• 06:07 it, too.
• 06:08 Ryan: So, like, I think another question that should be asked,
• 06:11 let's say Jesus comes back next week or next month or we know
• 06:14 when he's coming back.
• 06:16 Between now and then, what do we need to change about ourselves?
• 06:19 Caleb: True.
• 06:20 If we knew that Yeshua, Jesus, was coming back soon, are we
• 06:24 going to live in complacency or are we going to live hardcore
• 06:27 for him?
• 06:28 And Paul tells us exactly what happens if we do choose to live
• 06:31 hardcore for him.
• 06:33 He finishes to Timothy in 2 Timothy 3:12-13.
• 06:36 He said, "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in
• 06:38 Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
• 06:40 Evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and
• 06:44 being deceived."
• 06:46 What happens to us if we live in righteousness?
• 06:47 We get persecuted, but we get rewarded for living for Yeshua.
• 06:51 Mike: Yeah, so really we have to ask ourselves, what are we going
• 06:54 to choose to do?
• 06:55 Are we going to choose to follow after--full throttle after God
• 06:58 and be persecuted or are we going to instead kind of submit
• 07:03 to the world, live like the world just to have a little bit
• 07:06 easier time?
• 07:07 Caleb: Yeah.
• 07:09 Joshua: Oh, look, a house of light.
• 07:10 Ryan: Oh my--
• 07:11 Joshua: It's warning me not to fall in the ocean.
• 07:13 What is your problem?
• 07:14 Ryan: Dude, the lighthouse, bro.
• 07:15 Joshua: You love them so much. Ryan: So much.
• 07:22 Joshua: 1 Corinthians 2:1 and 4-5, "And I, brethren, when I
• 07:25 came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of
• 07:28 wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God.
• 07:31 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words
• 07:34 of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and
• 07:37 of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but
• 07:42 in the power of God."
• 07:44 Joshua: I don't see it. Where's it at?
• 07:46 Israel: Josh, Josh, it's over that way.
• 07:47 Mike: It's that.
• 07:49 Joshua: Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah, I dig that.
• 07:51 So that makes sense why people come here.
• 07:53 Israel: Sometimes we actually miss the light, don't we?
• 07:55 Mike: It's true.
• 07:57 I mean, people miss a lot of things, right?
• 07:58 I mean, I passed through a church for 14 years.
• 08:01 And I know that the church, especially here in America, is
• 08:05 missing the light on the Holy Spirit.
• 08:07 You know, the--it's the--it is unfortunate.
• 08:10 It's the topic that most churches don't even talk about.
• 08:13 Israel: Right. It's true.
• 08:16 Mike: It is scary.
• 08:17 That's why--they have this fear, right?
• 08:19 But the Bible teaches us, right, in 2 Timothy 1:7 that he didn't
• 08:22 give us a spirit of fear but a spirit of power, love, and a
• 08:26 sound mind.
• 08:27 The church today by ignoring the role of the Holy Spirit is
• 08:30 basically, like, you know, how EV cars are the rage.
• 08:34 Well, what happens if you don't plug them in?
• 08:37 Joshua: Ooh, ooh, they're just giant paperweights.
• 08:39 Mike: Exactly.
• 08:41 And the church is kind of this giant paperweight because it's
• 08:43 trying to do the work that God has called them to do without
• 08:47 being powered up.
• 08:49 So few people actually study or learn the role of the
• 08:53 Holy Spirit in our life.
• 08:54 We'll talk about God the Father, we'll talk about Jesus the Son,
• 08:58 but what about that third part of the Trinity?
• 09:00 The Holy Spirit, what is his role in our life?
• 09:03 Caleb: It's terrifying for most people because it's surrendering
• 09:07 the level of control in your life that you don't want to give
• 09:10 up 'cause you don't know what that Holy Spirit will do.
• 09:14 Mike: But isn't it the job of the church to teach people what
• 09:18 the role of the Holy Spirit is, right?
• 09:20 He tells us in John 14:26, right, that the Father is going
• 09:24 to send the helper, the Holy Spirit, whose job it is to,
• 09:28 what, teach us all things, remind us of the things that
• 09:31 Jesus taught us?
• 09:33 Joshua: But the controversy is if we rely on the Holy Spirit to
• 09:36 teach us what to do, then the church doesn't have control over
• 09:39 what's being preached because the Holy Spirit might move and
• 09:41 might say, "Hey, we just--we should stay longer than the
• 09:43 Super Bowl.
• 09:45 Hey, we should come here and do this.
• 09:46 Hey, you shouldn't be doing this anymore."
• 09:47 And if that happens in that moment, then all of a sudden the
• 09:49 best laid plaids--plans of man fall apart, and that's what's
• 09:52 prevented them for so many years from not only just fully
• 09:56 preaching the understanding of it but from walking in it.
• 10:00 Mike: Yeah.
• 10:01 And I think there's also that fear of the Holy Spirit and
• 10:05 seeing people use it the wrong way.
• 10:07 You know, I've said for--
• 10:09 Caleb: It's been abused in the past.
• 10:10 Mike: Exactly. And I've said it for years.
• 10:11 It's just because something has been done wrong doesn't mean
• 10:13 it's wrong.
• 10:15 So hiding from the Holy Spirit or not teaching the
• 10:17 Holy Spirit, we're being derelict in our duty as men of
• 10:24 faith teaching about Christ, teaching about the Holy Spirit,
• 10:27 teaching about the Father.
• 10:28 Israel: It's actually the power of the Holy Spirit that gives us
• 10:31 the strength to overcome evil, and we all need to do that.
• 10:35 I know I do, and I can't do it on my own.
• 10:38 I need the Holy Spirit to help me because he is my strength and
• 10:42 he is my power.
• 10:44 Joshua: I equate it a lot to going to the gym.
• 10:45 I can go to the gym and I can be really tired because I don't
• 10:47 have proper nutrition.
• 10:50 Sometimes I'll take a pre-workout supplement, right,
• 10:51 and it's a supplement that's full of these vitamins and
• 10:53 minerals that help give me the opportunity to be at my prime
• 10:57 when I'm in the gym lifting.
• 10:59 As opposed to going without the Holy Spirit, it's all
• 11:01 works, right?
• 11:02 It's all me and my flesh.
• 11:03 And even though I'm a Christian and I have the Bible on my side,
• 11:06 without the Holy Spirit to supercharge me, to give me that
• 11:10 strength and understanding and wisdom and even to operate in
• 11:12 the miraculous when it's necessary, you know, then I'm
• 11:16 still doing everything under Josh's strength, which is really
• 11:19 strong but not strong enough yet.
• 11:22 Israel: You know, Josh, one of the things that we need--turn
• 11:24 around and look at that.
• 11:25 Just look at that. What is that up there?
• 11:26 That's the light.
• 11:28 When we focus on the light, the evil disappears.
• 11:30 We got to focus on the lighthouse, which is the
• 11:33 Holy Spirit and God in our life.
• 11:34 Caleb: Well, let's head to the lighthouse now.
• 11:35 Israel: That's not a bad idea.
• 11:37 Joshua: Can I stare straight into it or will it burn
• 11:39 my retinas?
• 11:40 Caleb: You'll be fine. Mike: No, you'll be fine.
• 11:41 Joshua: 'Cause it's daylight,
• 11:43 so I can stare into it in daylight, just not at night?
• 11:45 Let me take a look at it.
• 11:46 Caleb: Ephesians 4:1-3, "As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I
• 11:50 urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you
• 11:53 have received.
• 11:54 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one
• 11:58 another in love.
• 11:59 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the
• 12:02 bond of peace."
• 12:05 Joshua: Oh my gosh.
• 12:06 Israel: What's he doing now?
• 12:08 Ryan: Oh my gosh, the fog came in so fast.
• 12:11 Caleb: You can't see anything through that, dude.
• 12:12 Joshua: You got to put a quarter.
• 12:14 Mike: What are you looking at?
• 12:15 Ryan: Well, the fog now.
• 12:17 Israel: No, Ryan.
• 12:18 You have to look at the light.
• 12:19 Turn around and look at the light, Ryan.
• 12:21 The light shines through.
• 12:22 Joshua: Actually, I think that takes loonies.
• 12:24 Caleb: This is--guys, this is the prime example of what we're
• 12:26 talking about, how quickly the fog, the darkness of this world
• 12:29 just comes in and blankets you and blinds you to the light, to
• 12:34 the truth.
• 12:35 You know, when I--Josh and I love studying about past
• 12:37 revivals, past great awakenings, past move of God; and they're
• 12:41 so amazing.
• 12:42 They come on so quick and in power, but then they are
• 12:44 silenced so quickly by man who tries to control them.
• 12:48 I know in 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 it says, "Do not quench
• 12:52 or restrain the Spirit.
• 12:54 Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold
• 12:57 on to what is good, reject every kind of evil."
• 13:01 Guys, you cannot put God in a box and tell him, "This is when
• 13:05 you show up, and this is when you have to leave."
• 13:07 And this is the hard part because we need to learn to
• 13:11 submit our will to the Holy Spirit.
• 13:13 He's a gentleman.
• 13:14 He's not going to try control us.
• 13:15 Joshua: And I love what you said, that he's a gentleman.
• 13:17 Because I pray with so many people and I ask them, I say,
• 13:19 "Well, did you give God permission yet?"
• 13:21 He goes, "No, I asked."
• 13:22 I said, "I understand that you asked."
• 13:24 I said, "But did you give him permission to act in your life?"
• 13:28 You know, there's a lot of gentlemanly things that are lost
• 13:31 nowadays, right?
• 13:32 The idea of opening a door for a lady or things like that.
• 13:34 The whole concept is "I show deference to you."
• 13:36 It's not an age thing.
• 13:38 It's not a big machismo thing.
• 13:40 It's I'm showing deference to you, right?
• 13:42 And when you do that and you mean it with all your
• 13:45 heart--even if you're afraid, you say, "I, by faith, give
• 13:47 you control.
• 13:48 My emotions don't line up."
• 13:50 It's not about your emotions feeling it.
• 13:51 If you say, "I give you that permission," then you see the
• 13:53 Holy Spirit operate.
• 13:54 Caleb: You know, Josh, that reminds me of another very
• 13:55 important Scripture.
• 13:57 1 Corinthians 2:13-14 says, "These things we also speak, not
• 14:01 in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy
• 14:04 Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
• 14:07 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit
• 14:10 of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them,
• 14:14 because they are spiritually discerned."
• 14:16 It's very hard for man to understand the ways of God, but
• 14:20 we have been called to be lighthouses to the nations.
• 14:23 We are the children of light, the light of the world.
• 14:27 Let's show the world what that means.
• 14:32 Joshua: We are the BBB.
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• 14:53 Joshua: Jesús. Caleb: --to the entire world.
• 14:55 Joshua: Whoo.
• 14:57 ♪♪♪
• 15:05 both: Wake up, wake up, wake up.
• 15:07 Mike: There's a really bad storm, like wicked bad.
• 15:10 Caleb: I'm not Yeshua. He's in the other boat.
• 15:15 Joshua: This is Pinchy. Be free, Pinchy.
• 15:16 He's a fighter. He's a fighter.
• 15:18 Y'all on a diet? Lobster light.
• 15:21 Israel: Females love me, I'm telling you.
• 15:23 Joshua: Right?
• 15:25 Caleb: Look at that. That is the main lighthouse.
• 15:28 Mike: That is--certainly is.
• 15:29 It doesn't get much more main than that.
• 15:31 Caleb: Yes.
• 15:33 Ryan: Well, what's the coolest thing about lighthouses is that
• 15:36 they are really bright and they can be really loud.
• 15:39 At, like, nighttime the light's going to be on, so lobster men
• 15:43 and just other people on the boats can see that, "Hey,
• 15:46 there's giant rocks there."
• 15:48 So the lighthouses, they have a huge purpose in life.
• 15:50 It's not just beautiful, take selfies and stuff like that.
• 15:54 Caleb: But I love doing that.
• 15:55 Ryan: We can take some good selfies.
• 15:56 I didn't say there's something wrong with that.
• 15:58 It's multiple purposes.
• 15:59 I think we also have multiple purposes as well.
• 16:00 So in Matthew 5:13-16, "You are the light of the world.
• 16:06 A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.
• 16:09 No one lights up a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on
• 16:12 a lampstand, and it gives light for all those who are in
• 16:15 the house.
• 16:16 In the same way, let your light shine before others so that they
• 16:20 may see the good works and give glory to the Father in heaven."
• 16:24 And, like, it's really cool 'cause if I have a light that I
• 16:28 can shine upon you or Mike, then that can help bring your light
• 16:34 out and then you can shine among others.
• 16:37 So the lighthouse; yes, it's helping this rock and make sure
• 16:40 we're not going to crash into it, but there's going to be
• 16:43 other lighthouses around that are going to be having the
• 16:45 same purpose.
• 16:47 When lighthouse light off, it's not going to have its purpose.
• 16:50 Caleb: Like you said, there's more than one situated all along
• 16:53 the coastline of Maine, just like we're supposed to just
• 16:56 spread out the world.
• 16:58 And if all of us are shining that beacon of light around the
• 17:01 world, there's not going to be any darkness.
• 17:03 And as it says in John, the light shines in the darkness and
• 17:06 the darkness cannot comprehend it.
• 17:09 So if we want the darkness out of this world, we just got to
• 17:11 shine brighter.
• 17:12 And it's not our own light, it's the glory of God shining through
• 17:15 us and just filling the whole earth.
• 17:18 And what a responsibility that we have, but we're really not
• 17:22 doing anything.
• 17:24 We're just submitting to God in obedience to Yeshua and then he
• 17:29 can work through us to reach others.
• 17:31 Mike: You know, sometimes when you're in your darkest moment,
• 17:34 all that you need is just a little bit of light, to see a
• 17:38 little bit of light to give you hope.
• 17:41 And then as more and more of you--like you were saying, that
• 17:44 as we connect the light gets brighter and brighter and can
• 17:47 start to shine on more and more things in our life and we can
• 17:50 start to have hope in more than just salvation.
• 17:54 Hope in our marriage, hope in our families, hope in our work.
• 17:59 It's an awesome thing.
• 18:00 Ryan: That's awesome.
• 18:01 Caleb: Look, the other guys decided to join us, hey!
• 18:04 Joshua: Hey, I'm the light of the world, baby, it's me!
• 18:08 Caleb: Me, too!
• 18:09 Joshua: No, no, no, I am! Caleb: No, no, no, no, me too!
• 18:12 Joshua: No, I'm the light of the world!
• 18:15 Caleb: We all are!
• 18:17 Joshua: Heck, I'm the king of the world!
• 18:19 Catch me, Jack! I'm flying!
• 18:23 Why am I not flying?
• 18:25 What's the deal here? Israel, come here, help me fly.
• 18:27 Israel: What do you need?
• 18:28 Joshua: Come here, put your hands behind me on my hips
• 18:31 like this...right here.
• 18:33 Catch me, Israel! I'm flying!
• 18:35 I'm the king of the world!
• 18:38 ♪♪♪
• 18:45 Joshua: Caleb, what are you teaching about?
• 18:47 Caleb: We were teaching about Yeshua being the light of the
• 18:49 world, and now we are the city on the hill.
• 18:52 Joshua: Yeshua is the light of the world.
• 18:53 That's beautiful. You know what else Yeshua did?
• 18:55 Caleb: What? Joshua: He performed miracles.
• 18:56 Caleb: Okay.
• 18:57 Joshua: You ever seen the loaves and the fishes?
• 19:00 Caleb: You just got our camera man.
• 19:03 I don't want your stinky fish.
• 19:05 Joshua: It's a miracle.
• 19:07 Ryan: Throw it back. Throw it back.
• 19:09 Caleb: I don't want to touch it.
• 19:13 This could be some lobster's food!
• 19:15 Come on!
• 19:17 How are we going to catch lobster if we lose all
• 19:18 our fishes?
• 19:22 Israel: You know, Josh, being out here next to the lighthouse
• 19:24 was a good reminder that we are called actually to be the light
• 19:28 of the world.
• 19:29 Joshua: It's true.
• 19:30 Israel: Yeshua Hamashiach was the light.
• 19:32 He came to dispel the darkness.
• 19:34 That's why our lights has to shine.
• 19:36 Isaiah chapter 60 says, "Rise and shine, for the light has
• 19:40 come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon the darkness.
• 19:44 And gross darkness shall cover the earth."
• 19:47 And in that darkness we are called to be the light.
• 19:50 It's important that our light, everyone's light--yours, Mike's
• 19:54 and Joshua and the rest of us--we're here to try to be the
• 19:57 light to the people around us wherever we go.
• 20:00 Joshua: Well, it can be easy to think that, "You know, I don't
• 20:03 need to say something.
• 20:04 I don't want to get caught up in arguing or controversy."
• 20:06 But the problem is the darkness is so vocal about its stance.
• 20:10 We live in a world today where they're literally trying to
• 20:13 program our children to the smallest of ages of these ideas
• 20:16 and beliefs that are so against the Bible and so against what
• 20:19 the Father has for us.
• 20:20 So if we think that by keeping our mouths shut that we aren't
• 20:24 compromising, we're wrong because to be quiet and not to
• 20:27 stand up for the truth is a sin just as it is to actually commit
• 20:30 a sin.
• 20:32 Because you know the truth, you have to do it.
• 20:33 And so we're not talking about getting up and just fighting for
• 20:36 the sake of fighting or getting in arguments for the sake of it,
• 20:39 but we're talking about defending the truth by being
• 20:41 the light.
• 20:42 Live the right way.
• 20:44 Be the example through your lifestyle.
• 20:45 And when there's an opportunity to speak the truth in love, you
• 20:48 do so because it is that truth and, from a heart of love, that
• 20:52 will bring about change.
• 20:53 Israel: Yes, and it's so important.
• 20:55 You know, Joshua, yesterday or somewhere in our travels I met a
• 21:00 mother with five beautiful, little girls like I've got, and
• 21:04 I asked her this question, Josh.
• 21:05 "Are you a Christian?"
• 21:07 And she stepped back and she said, "I certainly am not."
• 21:11 And basically walked away.
• 21:13 And I looked at those five little girls and I wonder what
• 21:16 kind of life they'll have because of that kind
• 21:19 of attitude.
• 21:21 They dismissed God in their life, and it's--broke my heart
• 21:25 to see this--them walk off like that.
• 21:28 But how would they know unless somebody tells them?
• 21:30 And we have to tell them because we are the light.
• 21:32 Joshua: And that's the thing.
• 21:34 A lot of people, when you approach them, they're very
• 21:36 turned off to the idea of church, the idea of the term
• 21:39 Christianity, other things that support an institution because
• 21:43 unfortunately these institutions in the name of Jesus have
• 21:47 performed a lot of heinous things.
• 21:48 They've hurt a lot of people.
• 21:50 And so when you talk to people about "church," quote unquote,
• 21:52 or even about Christianity at times, they all have something
• 21:55 that probably is a wound to them, a moment that they'll
• 21:58 remember from their childhood or when they were maybe not at
• 22:01 their best and the people that should have been embracing them
• 22:04 turned them away.
• 22:05 People want change, I believe.
• 22:08 People don't want to necessarily believe that they're a bad
• 22:10 person, but shame and condemnation has put them in a
• 22:13 place where they've accepted, "This is who I am."
• 22:16 And that's why love exposes that and says, "No, you are worthy.
• 22:19 You are worthy to receive this love."
• 22:21 And they just need to meet the real Jesus.
• 22:23 They need to stop meeting the Episcopal Church, the Baptist
• 22:26 Church, the--and I'm not trying to offend any denominations.
• 22:28 I named two.
• 22:30 I get it.
• 22:31 But the point is it's not about meeting the denomination, it's
• 22:33 about meeting Jesus.
• 22:35 And so if we have him on the inside of us and he radiates out
• 22:38 from us, that's who they should be meeting.
• 22:40 Without us--it's cold-- even having to say a word,
• 22:43 they should know there's something different.
• 22:44 That should be what we strive for.
• 22:46 Israel: I'm just going to say this.
• 22:47 I mean, my first prophecy that I ever heard--you know, 40 years
• 22:52 ago, I got saved.
• 22:54 The guys came out to my little house there.
• 22:56 I had a campfire going and I have some hot dogs in northern
• 22:59 Minnesota, and the guys come out from the church.
• 23:01 Now, I know nothing about this.
• 23:02 I'm a partier. I'm a drinker.
• 23:04 I get saved and this is all new to me.
• 23:06 So one guy brings a guitar along, and we got this beautiful
• 23:09 fire going and I was praying and singing songs and then this guy
• 23:13 stands up and he gives a prophecy, Josh.
• 23:16 Now, I've heard 1,000 prophecies since that time, but this is
• 23:18 what he said 40 years ago.
• 23:21 "There's a day coming," and I believe this is going to
• 23:24 actually happen, "that little campfires like this all around
• 23:27 the world are being lit outside the walls of the church and my
• 23:32 people will seek him, to seek the Lord through spirit and
• 23:36 truth around those little campfires and that's where my
• 23:38 remnant will be found."
• 23:40 Forty years ago, that's my first prophecy I ever heard.
• 23:43 Joshua: I think that's incredible, and I think that's
• 23:45 important because I think that what--it's time for us to stop
• 23:48 blame-shifting on the church, time for us to stop saying it's
• 23:52 their job and time for us to get together around the little
• 23:56 campfires in the name of Yeshua or on a lobster boat
• 24:03 with Bubba and Jake--that's right.
• 24:05 Israel: Awesome.
• 24:06 Joshua: I want to go eat one of their catch.
• 24:07 There's got to be a lobster somewhere.
• 24:11 Joshua: Matthew 5:13, "You are the salt of the earth; but if
• 24:13 the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?
• 24:16 It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled
• 24:19 underfoot by men."
• 24:21 ♪♪♪
• 24:26 Caleb: I don't know about you guys, but I feel that sense of
• 24:28 urgency every day.
• 24:30 With each passing day, there's no time left.
• 24:32 I never want to waste a second of broadcast time, personal
• 24:36 time, anything without letting people know that Yeshua loves
• 24:38 them and that he's coming back soon.
• 24:40 So, I mean, what happens if we do waste our time?
• 24:42 Just a minute?
• 24:43 If we can tell Bob the neighbor next door or the lawn care
• 24:46 worker or anybody that Yeshua is Lord and he can save them--
• 24:49 taking back to the message of Ezekiel in chapter 3, he's
• 24:53 called to be a watchman.
• 24:55 And if he doesn't warn people of the coming of the enemy or even
• 24:59 the coming of Yeshua like a thief in the night, then their
• 25:02 blood is on his hands.
• 25:03 So we are going to have to give an account someday for the time
• 25:06 that we've wasted.
• 25:07 No, we're not judged for our sins anymore, that's covered by
• 25:09 Yeshua's blood, but we have to give an account on judgment day
• 25:12 at the beam of the judgment seat of Christ for how we wasted or
• 25:16 how we utilized our time to benefit Yeshua's call in
• 25:20 our lives.
• 25:21 Joshua Aaron: Unfortunately, the Middle East is just unbelievably
• 25:24 full of extremist Islam and they're trying to get rid of any
• 25:28 sort of Christian--anything except extreme Islam in all of
• 25:32 Middle East, you know.
• 25:33 And I remember several years ago watching they were murdering our
• 25:36 Christian brothers and sisters in--brothers in Syria.
• 25:39 There's orange jumpsuits on.
• 25:41 They put it up on the screen to prove this.
• 25:44 I remember just being so angry, like furious.
• 25:46 Like, how--why isn't the world not doing anything?
• 25:48 And especially America as, like--still considered a
• 25:51 Christian nation, like, we weren't going over to
• 25:53 defend them.
• 25:54 And I was just so angry.
• 25:56 And I remember reading this Bible passage that said that God
• 25:58 hears the souls of the saints cry out from the ground,
• 26:01 "Avenge us."
• 26:02 This is, like, forward and I'm like, "Whoa."
• 26:04 I was, like, getting all, like--I was just so angry and
• 26:06 not that I--like, vengeance is not mine.
• 26:09 It's the Lord's. I know that.
• 26:10 And I just grabbed my guitar and I wrote this song.
• 26:12 I started writing this song. And I called up my buddy.
• 26:14 He's a Native American Indian chief.
• 26:16 I said, "Chief, I think you're supposed to help me write
• 26:18 this song."
• 26:19 And he knew all these warrior Scriptures.
• 26:21 Like, he's all about warriors, you know.
• 26:22 He knows Jesus. He's a believer.
• 26:24 I just started this song with this just little--this
• 26:26 little--in Judaism we have our own sort of tongues.
• 26:29 It's called nigunim.
• 26:31 You know, you say dididi, yoyoyo.
• 26:32 If you just make some sounds, you're saying something to God,
• 26:35 but it's more of a learned tongues, you know.
• 26:38 But this--I was just singing this like...
• 26:40 ♪ Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh. ♪
• 26:47 ♪♪♪
• 26:55 ♪ Oh, every tribe, every tongue, ♪
• 26:58 ♪ Immanuel, your King, shall come. ♪
• 27:01 ♪ Endure sorrows. ♪
• 27:02 ♪ Endure pain. ♪
• 27:04 ♪ Come and praise Creator's name. ♪
• 27:06 ♪ Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh. ♪
• 27:12 ♪ Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh. ♪
• 27:17 ♪ Speak to the land, oh, man of war, ♪
• 27:20 ♪ to every isle and distant shore. ♪
• 27:22 ♪ All God's people say amen. ♪
• 27:25 ♪ Raise a shout. ♪
• 27:26 ♪ He's come again. ♪
• 27:28 ♪ Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh. ♪
• 27:33 ♪ Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh. ♪♪
• 27:41 Israel: That's awesome, yes.
• 27:46 [shofar and didgeridoo sounding inharmoniously]
• 27:53 Joshua: Freedom!
• 27:57 Joshua: Didgeridoo to the shofar, yeah.
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