1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,920 Hello and welcome to the Arise Church Podcast. 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,040 We are so glad you're here and want to thank you for joining us 3 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:13,080 today for the audio version of our Sunday morning message. 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,520 We want to invite you to join us in person at our Sunday morning 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,920 celebration every Sunday at 10 AM. 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,520 We are located on Old Jenks Rd. in Apex, NC. 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,760 God. Bless you, God bless you. 8 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,440 My name is Jim Scott and I was saved after watching the movie 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,000 The Exorcist. I love to say that because I 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,600 love to celebrate the way God brings people to him. 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,120 You know, St. Jesus dies on the cross. 12 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,280 We talk about salvation, we preach salvation, we love 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,000 salvation, and then you hear the stories of how people get to 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,960 salvation. I went to see a girl's head spin 15 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,760 and met Christ. Now I've not watched that movie 16 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,200 since I saw it that first time in 1974 in Fresno, CA while I 17 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,280 was doing my undergraduate work to become a cop. 18 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,680 I I have not seen that movie since. 19 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,480 And I don't encourage you to use it in your evangelistic work in 20 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,960 your neighborhood, irrespective of the fact that we're coming up 21 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:08,680 on Halloween. And you might think, oh, God 22 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,440 speaking to me now, No, he is not speaking to you right now. 23 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,720 The legacy of the church is not found in the things they do now. 24 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,000 It's what comes from the church and its ministry. 25 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,160 And the body of Christ has produced you and me, men and 26 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,280 women who have been faithful to the proclamation. 27 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,720 Planting of seed in intentional and unintentional ways are why 28 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,240 we're here. And until Jesus returns, we 29 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,240 continue. And today I get to talk to you 30 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,200 about one family in this great body, this family called 31 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,520 Foursquare. I found Foursquare. 32 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,640 I was not born into Foursquare. I, as I said, law enforcement 33 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,840 was my first desire and passion. My highest desire was to drive 34 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,160 the wrong way on a one way street with my lights and siren 35 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,120 on. So you can see I was not 36 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,360 pointing high down here somewhere. 37 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,920 Found my way into ministry, found my way into serving and 38 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,080 wondering what God would do in and through me serving in the 39 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,160 body of Christ. And I found Foursquare because I 40 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,040 had to have an internship in my seminary. 41 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,640 Go find a church so you can practice. 42 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,040 And that church let me practice that. 43 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,240 That says a lot about the church today because I don't know in a 44 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,800 lot of places if people like me could have practiced. 45 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,600 They let that young man get up there who's not really sure what 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,680 he's doing in the Bible yet. Let him preach a sermon in front 47 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,400 of a bunch of a bunch of folks. How much stuff will he break 48 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,520 while he's up there? My uncle, who was a Christian, 49 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,360 was in that first service, that first preaching, and we got in 50 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,080 the foyer. He was telling me how great I 51 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,760 was doing. And as I grew in ministry, I 52 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,560 realized everything he said was not true. 53 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,480 It was aspirational. When he said it was a great 54 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,360 sermon, what he really meant is someday you're going to preach a 55 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,280 great sermon. But I got to do that with you. 56 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:55,720 You know what I mean? I got to do it with you. 57 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,320 I got to see the smiles and the frowns and almost falling 58 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,040 asleep, you know, the getting up and going to the bathroom. 59 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,200 I got to be with you, the body of Christ, and you shaped me. 60 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,120 That's what the church does. I want to talk to you about what 61 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,720 the Foursquare Church has done. One tribe, one group within this 62 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,000 body. When I was getting in between, 63 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,760 between the historic way, we took photographs with that thing 64 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,880 called a camera that they have in museums now and to what 65 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,040 really works now in terms of iCloud and having a phone. 66 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,320 You can do it anywhere at anytime, anyplace. 67 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,120 We began to digitize all of our old photos. 68 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,480 If you're my age, I'm 71 years of age, you've got a lot of 69 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,280 photos, boxes of heavy books called albums. 70 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:39,640 And we would take them out. And we didn't do it like with a 71 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,280 company. We took our phones and took 72 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,560 pictures of it. So in my phone, I've got 73 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,720 generations of photographs. My little grand nephew Silas was 74 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,240 in school, kind of preschool school, and they talked in one 75 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,160 class about where we come from. Because you all know you came 76 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,000 from somewhere. Unless you're Native American, 77 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,680 you weren't born here. We all came from somewhere and 78 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,960 that's a part of our story. Where was great, great, great, 79 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:06,760 great, great, great, great great grandma from. 80 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,280 Well, Silas says to me, Uncle Jim, can you tell me where we've 81 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,840 come from? And when I asked him why me, he 82 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,880 said you're old. And I assumed that he thought I 83 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:18,760 knew them all. You know you've met them. 84 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,240 Can you tell me about them? So Silas and I sat down on the 85 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,600 couch and we began to go through my phone and I'm showing him 86 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,480 pictures that looked old even in the in the photograph of the 87 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,960 picture. And I'm saying, this is your 88 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,120 uncle and this is your great grandma, and this is a cousin 89 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,840 that you've never met. And it just, you know, all the 90 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:38,640 telling stories. They work at this kind of job 91 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,760 and they lived in this area. And Silas was both interested 92 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,720 and disinterested. But at the same time, I noticed 93 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,600 that he was recognizing that whoever these people are, my 94 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,080 uncle has them on his phone. And they must be important 95 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,560 people, and they are important people because they've shaped 96 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:01,120 who the Scott family is. Foursquare has a similar kind of 97 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,160 story. If you believe that churches are 98 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,200 spiritual families and if you believe God gives birth to 99 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,840 movements, then it's not a stretch to say that God gave 100 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:16,160 birth to a church and that church now has adna or some kind 101 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,160 of legacy. That we were born for a reason 102 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,200 hasn't been that your your quest hasn't. 103 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,360 Haven't you wanted to know why you are here? 104 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,760 Have you ever cried out to heaven and said guy, why me? 105 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,440 Why here? Why in North Carolina or 106 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,520 Brooklyn or wherever it was on the same way we asked the 107 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:38,760 question about Foursquare God, why in 1923 in Los Angeles, CA 108 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,920 did a woman who was an evangelist plant a church that 109 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,960 grew to 22 services a week and sending missionaries around the 110 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,280 world? How did that happen with us and 111 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:54,880 what do you have in mind in us for that? 112 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,560 It's been 100 plus years and there's so much to say about 113 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,200 what the Holy Spirit has done through the Foursquare Church 114 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,720 and in the Foursquare Church. The impact of Sister McPherson, 115 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,080 Angela's Temple and all of the congregations that have grown 116 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,160 out of that, which includes this church in this community. 117 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,120 The generational influence, the church planting, the pastors who 118 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,920 have grown up as children and who are now leading that that 119 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,720 kind of legacy is happening all the time. 120 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:23,760 And it's around the world. The Foursquare Church today is 121 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:28,760 in 150 nations. In Brazil, it's over 14,000 122 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,560 churches. The Sri Lankan Foursquare Church 123 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,400 is the largest Christian Church ever in Solange, Sri Lanka. 124 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,960 That's your church around the world serving, doing great, 125 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,680 great things. And so today is about 126 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,120 celebrating, but not inappropriate celebrating. 127 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,720 I have no desire today to lift up Amy someone McPherson to some 128 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,880 kind of St. In fact, I will tell you how 129 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,040 broken she was. I don't want to celebrate the 130 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,920 good old days. Our church is 100 years old. 131 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,680 I'm 71, I've been alive 3/4 of that time. 132 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,880 And the good old days are old and they weren't that good. 133 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,920 It isn't about going back. It's about understanding backs, 134 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,840 looking forward as to what God might have for us in the future, 135 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,200 to understand our DNA, to understand Our Calling, to 136 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,200 understand the purposes of God in birthing us and then us 137 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,000 finding ourselves in that purpose because as we know, DNA 138 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,840 doesn't change. I was interested in reading my 139 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,120 Old Testament and recognizing when it was time to take the 140 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,160 land. God did not send the group in as 141 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,160 a whole. He gave them names, broke them 142 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:36,560 into tribes, and gave them a job. 143 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,320 I think the nominations today at their best, and we have not 144 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,520 always been at our best, but at our best. 145 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,320 Down nominations are a similar thing. 146 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,240 A family of people who come together to get an assignment 147 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,360 and do it. Wickliffe translates Bibles. 148 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,720 They don't do disaster relief. We don't fault them for not 149 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,280 doing disaster relief. That's not their job. 150 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,480 Their job is doing Bibles. They do their job well. 151 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,680 We have Bibles all around the world. 152 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,000 If they start doing disaster relief, they'll make less Bibles 153 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:11,680 and they won't be doing their job. 154 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,800 So what's Foursquare's job? That's part of the question we 155 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,520 want to answer today. So what can the past inform us 156 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,800 about what God intended and what He's working in and through us? 157 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,560 What does it mean that an evangelist planted a church that 158 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,640 became the leading church in America? 159 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,240 What does it mean that we're part of a denomination that has 160 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,960 more churches outside America then we have inside America? 161 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,120 What does it mean that on the front edge of our mission we 162 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,560 talked about leaving and going? Why are we like that? 163 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,000 Not faulting any other group in the world. 164 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,800 I speak against no church serving. 165 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,160 I want to know what we're supposed to do. 166 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,680 What are we called to do? Could there be a spiritual DNA 167 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:59,200 and identity available of an anointing available to us that 168 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,200 we can share in? Could it be that the question of 169 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,240 why you're here is because you are US and don't know it, You're 170 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,880 anointing, you're gifting, your calling is US and you don't know 171 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:09,400 it. And once you know it, you can 172 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,360 align and say, look, I'm being everything God called me to be 173 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,080 because I'm in the family I'm supposed to be in. 174 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:17,960 Maybe that could happen today for you. 175 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,600 I pray it will. What are the doors open to us 176 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,080 because of who we are? Not because of how great we are, 177 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,520 how perfect we are, our doctrine, but how God intended 178 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,800 us to serve what he intended us to do. 179 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,320 Foursquare Church identity is captured in three simple words. 180 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,040 Those three simple words are word, spirit, and mission. 181 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,160 Or more explicitly, the Word of God, the Holy Spirit and the 182 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,920 mission of God. Not the mission of Foursquare 183 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,520 Church. Our mission is measured by the 184 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,160 mission of God. Whether we're doing the right 185 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,080 thing has nothing to do with us. However dedicated we are. 186 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,080 However, the doctorate said whatever books we've written, 187 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,920 whatever sounds good, whether or not our mission is relevant and 188 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:04,880 right has nothing to do with what we've said. 189 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,080 It's what the book says. And if we're doing that, we have 190 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,960 a mission. So the Foursquare identity today 191 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,200 that you'll hear, it's going to be woven through stories and 192 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,920 pictures about the Word of God and about the movement of the 193 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,600 Holy Spirit and about the mission that we must serve. 194 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,880 Please hear me. Strategy and methods will always 195 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,840 change. They have to change and we won't 196 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,600 be relevant to speak the word. How shall they hear without a 197 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,000 preacher? And you preach differently in 198 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,240 2025 that you did in 1950. So I, I have no fault with the 199 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,880 Internet, have no fault with new methodologies and technologies. 200 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,400 You do what you have to do now to be heard. 201 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:50,640 But what does not change is the Word, the Holy Spirit and the 202 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,840 mission. And so today our effort is to 203 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,960 hopefully that perfectly God help us with this, to help you 204 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,200 capture that. And I really hope you see 205 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,720 yourself today. I pray you see yourself today. 206 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,080 We must never surrender our identity and we must never make 207 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,080 our methodologies and our strategy strategies sacred and 208 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,840 unchanging. We must always be rooted in the 209 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,160 word of God unapologetically. We must be caring to the 210 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,360 communities we serve. We must lift people above 211 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,200 politics and policies and the trends of the day. 212 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:32,600 We need to set a pace and set up a context where somebody might 213 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,320 someday might have seed planted in their heart intentionally or 214 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:40,040 unintentionally, and then go to a movie where a girl's head spin 215 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:47,360 and know what to do afterwards and know what to do afterwards. 216 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,320 Isn't that exciting? I mean, doesn't that inspire you 217 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:55,360 to greatness? Don't you? 218 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,120 Can you imagine you doing some great exploit right now? 219 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,360 If we can just plant a little seed and some good ground and 220 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,600 see what God does, My hope is that's what the Foursquare 221 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,360 Church will always be. This presentation humbly reminds 222 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,320 us of who we are as a movement, who we are in the Word of God, 223 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,520 who we are by the work of the Holy Spirit, and who we are as 224 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,640 we have served our mission for 102 years. 225 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,400 Amy Elizabeth Kennedy, known to us as Amy Symbol McPherson, was 226 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,440 born October 9th in 1890 in Ingersoll, ON. 227 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,360 Let me start by saying we were founded by an immigrant. 228 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:33,720 I'm going to settle that in you because immigrants have a bad 229 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,040 Rep right now. The church you're a part of was 230 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,080 founded by a Canadian citizen who came here to tell us about 231 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:43,960 Jesus and founded a great movement that's gone on for 102 232 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:49,080 years. She came here, she was raised in 233 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,360 Ingersoll, ON. She met Robert Simple, Robert 234 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,560 James Simple on August 12th, 19 O 8, while he was preaching an 235 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:59,480 evangelistic sermon in a Pentecostal rescue mission. 236 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,560 I've always wondered what that was like. 237 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:06,520 When this little girl who grows up to be a young lady goes into 238 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,280 a revival service of Pentecostal and Pentecostals around the turn 239 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,960 of the century, then they were way less tame than you are. 240 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:17,120 You know, people are nodding their head. 241 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,920 You've seen some of the videos. I mean, it's, you know, it's 242 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,400 flag marching and it's shouting and screaming and it's, it's 243 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,440 believing God and, and telling the truth and shaming the devil 244 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,440 and it's telling the testimony of what God has done in my life. 245 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:32,640 I imagine what Amy was like sitting there. 246 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,120 But what one thing we know about that is she was enlivened by the 247 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,840 fact that God was more than just someone. 248 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,480 We talked about in a book that he was alive and he was moving 249 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,160 and he was challenging people and he was filling people with 250 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,280 his power and God was doing something that man could not do. 251 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,480 So she fell in love with this guy and she married him. 252 00:13:52,280 --> 00:14:01,440 And Robert and Amy got on a got on a boat, June 1910, took a 253 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,000 boat to China to be missionaries. 254 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:07,440 Now think for a second what that's like today. 255 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,520 We get on a plane to fly to China and if we're lucky, we'll 256 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,200 stop somewhere. We'll get there in a few hours. 257 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:21,320 But in 1910, you get on a boat, not a cruise ship. 258 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,360 You know, you're saying, well, I went to Alaska, not on her boat, 259 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,400 you didn't. And they took their boat there. 260 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,640 The tragedy is Robert, almost as soon as they got there, 261 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,320 contracted dysentery Milleri and died within months. 262 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,880 Amy didn't know she was pregnant and gave birth to Roberta. 263 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:50,560 Imagine being 20 years old in China for just months with a 264 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:55,320 brand new baby. She was confused, she was upset. 265 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,040 She didn't know what's going on. She returns to the United States 266 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,400 and this begins her life in ministry. 267 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,040 She gets back to the state. She's disoriented. 268 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:06,480 She don't know what to do, where to go. 269 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,120 She's got a baby. She goes back home to mom and 270 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,720 dad. God renews his call in her. 271 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,560 She begins to do evangelistic ministry and evangelistic work. 272 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:16,840 We'll talk about that in a moment. 273 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,080 And in doing that work, she begins to realize God has 274 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,480 anointed her for something. She meets Harold McPherson, she 275 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,720 marry, marries Harold McPherson. From that union, Rolf is born. 276 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,080 Rolf McPherson was the president of our Foursquare Church. 277 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,440 Following Amy's death, we've had Rolf in our home. 278 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,640 He's now with Jesus, He's been in our home. 279 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,320 It was delightful talking to him about the history and about his 280 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,280 mother and about what was going on in those days. 281 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,120 He loved Jesus, served our denomination for decades. 282 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,800 With two babies and a new husband. 283 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,960 They begin to evangelistic work, travelling around, running 284 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,320 around in an old car and telling people about Jesus. 285 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,320 It was very hard for Harold. He had committed to do it when 286 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,080 they married. But it's easy to say I'll go and 287 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,400 it's really hard to go to put a strain on their marriage, as you 288 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,640 can imagine. And after a while, they they 289 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,520 divorced. Now she's a divorced mother of 290 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:15,680 two in the ministry, a woman travelling around in a car 291 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,440 telling people about Jesus. It's in the context of that, in 292 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,720 that kind of event that God is working in and through her. 293 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,480 What is striking about her? And I want you to feel something 294 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,400 right now. The Bible says in Second 295 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,000 Corinthians 4/7 that we have this treasure in earthen 296 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:39,280 vessels, We have this treasure in earthen vessels. 297 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:42,480 Each of you is an earthen vessel with a treasure in it. 298 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:52,640 And sometimes the vessel cracks it breaks, it chips, it doesn't 299 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,760 look as good today as it did some years ago. 300 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,000 And this so describes Sister McPherson as she's going through 301 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,680 this tragedy and others in her life. 302 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:06,000 We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellence of 303 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,960 the power may be of God and not of us. 304 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,079 Please hear this. To the degree you let people see 305 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:17,280 your broken vessel, to that's the degree they will believe in 306 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:21,520 the power of God, because once they see how wrecked you are, 307 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,319 they know you got nothing to do with the good that's coming out 308 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:27,480 of your life. Now, we're not. 309 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,680 We don't want to do that. Some of us Polish up our vessels 310 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,080 pretty good, and we never talked about a crack in our vessels, 311 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,400 and then we mistakenly think you're the one that's creating 312 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,200 all of this. But that's a fool's errand that 313 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,840 will never, ever satisfy. We are broken vessels. 314 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,640 And when we can celebrate weakness, as the apostle Paul 315 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,520 said, therefore I will boast in my weakness that God may be 316 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,240 glorified. So I'm going to boast in Amy's 317 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,160 weakness for a moment. I want to tell you how broken 318 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,120 this woman was. She was vulnerable and lonely, 319 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:00,920 yet used to God. She was so fragile that at times 320 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,280 she was ill and depressed. She was a wife, a widow, 321 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,000 divorced, a single mom, remarried with the birth of a 322 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,200 son, and she was a wounded healer. 323 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,920 She experienced periodic physical illness, family and 324 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,280 personal relationship pain, and emotional problems. 325 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,640 Sister McPherson had an emotional nervous breakdown in 326 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,760 1931. She was out of the pulpit for a 327 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:27,200 year and there was a Watchtower service everyday praying that 328 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:31,880 she would live. There were troubling issues that 329 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,120 resulted in controversies. She may have had a medication 330 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:37,840 dependency on sleeping aids and other prescribed medication. 331 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,600 She died on September 27th, 1944, fifty three years of age. 332 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,960 From quote from her death certificate. 333 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:51,000 Shock contributed to an adrenal image and respiratory failure 334 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,800 from an accidental overdose of Barbatol compound. 335 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,040 The sleeping pills she was taking entered her bloodstream 336 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,440 through her intestine and she died. 337 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:09,320 She was a very troubled woman. She got married 1/3 time to 338 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:13,960 David Hutton and in a class that she was teaching in Life Bible 339 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,720 College, she broke down and began to cry. 340 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,440 In this very troubled marriage, it ended up in another divorce 341 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,880 and confessed to her students that I only married him because 342 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:27,360 I was lonely. She was a mess. 343 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,440 And yet she founded a movement that has trans transferred all 344 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,880 around the world and has some of the finest churches in the 345 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,880 world. Please hear this. 346 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,880 If God can use Amy, he can use you because you're only as 347 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,080 broken. You can only be as broken as 348 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:48,800 her. You're a mess. 349 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:50,920 You're only as much a mess as she was. 350 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,280 She was a mess and yet God used her. 351 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,840 I take great comfort in that. I tell Melinda all the time my 352 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:02,960 vessel's fine. Melinda looks at me and says 353 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:09,080 it's not all that fine. So I will bolster my weakness 354 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,320 today and tell you that to the degree I can get out of the way, 355 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,840 God will do great things through me and He will do great things 356 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,960 in you. Let me give you a little 357 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,800 historical context what Melinda's going to share with 358 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,000 you. It's important that you 359 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,880 understand the day she lived in to understand the greatness of 360 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,680 the things she did. You know, if you don't remember 361 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,160 the day, you don't remember what's going on. 362 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,480 You might think, oh, well, we see that all the time today. 363 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,320 You're going to hear things. You need to understand we're 364 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,120 never done before. She will have been the first. 365 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,960 You will hear these things, the historical context. 366 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,200 She began her ministry around 1913 when she was renewed in her 367 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,040 call. Woodrow Wilson was the 368 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,440 president, you know, so. OK, so we're starting this with 369 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:51,360 Woodrow 19141918. We have the World World War One, 370 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,120 so her ministry now is evangelistic around America 371 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:59,280 while we're fighting in Europe. In 1916, Jeanette Rankin of 372 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,640 Montana becomes the first woman elected to the House of 373 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,240 Representatives. A woman had never been in the 374 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,720 House of Representatives for the first time in 1916, Nineteenth 375 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,160 Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. 376 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:18,280 In 1920, ladies, you got the right to vote finally here. 377 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:25,720 This her ministry's going when she could not vote. 1932 Hattie 378 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,440 Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas becomes the first woman elected 379 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,000 to the Senate and was only on the ballot because her husband 380 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,720 had died. In this context, we have a woman 381 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,000 evangelist traveling around the country and building a church 382 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,480 that should cause you to go. Wow. 383 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,840 I wonder what obstacles she ran into. 384 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,600 Ladies who pastor today, what kinds of obstacles are today? 385 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,080 The word Foursquare is a wonderful word. 386 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:54,640 I love when I'm, you know, travelling. 387 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,520 I'm talking to people. What denomination? 388 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,760 Foursquare. Foursquare. 389 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,840 Is that the kids game. You guys are about the kids 390 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:01,720 game. Foursquare. 391 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:04,760 Foursquare has a distinct meaning. 392 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,080 I don't know anybody here like Rod Serling. 393 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,080 Twilight Zone. Have you watched it on TV? 394 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,680 If you haven't, you're not as old as me. 395 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,640 You didn't grow up with it, but you might see it on the sci-fi 396 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,280 Channel. Sometimes I'll do a marathon on 397 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,560 a day. Look for Mr. Dingle the Strong. 398 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,600 That's one of the Twilight Zone episodes and Mr. Dingle the 399 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,960 Strong is a kind of a wimpy guy. 22 headed spaceman. 400 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,800 Isn't this great to hear? 2 headed spaceman comes out of 401 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,480 space and lands in the end that he's at and they make him really 402 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:32,960 strong. He's tearing telephone books in 403 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,360 half. Telephone books, for those of 404 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:36,440 you that don't know, was a big book that had phone numbers. 405 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,520 Now why am I telling you all that? 406 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,040 Am I having a psychotic blip right now? 407 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:48,400 No, in Mr. Dingle the Strong, the word Foursquare is used. 408 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,720 Yes, I know. It's like they talked about our 409 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,080 church. No, they did not. 410 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,200 And it wasn't a children's game. It was the use of Foursquare. 411 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:01,120 In those early days, the word Foursquare meant strong, solid, 412 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:04,600 dependable. In the in that Mister Dingle the 413 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,320 Strong the bar keeper says I stand Foursquare behind booths 414 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:13,680 for women. When you said Foursquare back in 415 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,160 the day, you were saying something was strong and 416 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,640 dependable, but it was also an acronym for those things on your 417 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:23,400 building. We summarize the the work of 418 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,760 Jesus in for a critical cardinal beliefs. 419 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:34,600 He is a savior, the baptizer with the Holy Spirit, Amen, the 420 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:41,000 healer, the soon coming king. That's the four square gospel. 421 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,560 I had a pastor, theologian from another denomination really 422 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:49,200 pushed back and he said there is no denominational gospel. 423 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,880 There's only the gospel from the Bible. 424 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,080 You can't call it the Foursquare Gospel. 425 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,640 I said what denomination you are? 426 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:58,920 He told me. I said, what do you believe? 427 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:00,720 He told me. I said, that's your 428 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,440 denominations gospel. Whether or not it is the gospel 429 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,040 is the book. Here's what Foursquare believes. 430 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:09,520 Some of us know we believe. Here's what we believe. 431 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,920 He's a savior Baptizer with the Holy Spirit. 432 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,080 He's the healer. He's soon coming king. 433 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,960 That's what we believe. That is what we believe. 434 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,600 What else do you believe? We believe a lot of stuff, but 435 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,920 we believe that does do some of your beliefs change how they 436 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,400 modify get into eschatology? We can have a fight pre Trib, 437 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,120 post Trib, pan Trib. I mean, I just want the first 438 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:31,720 bus out, but whatever, you know what I mean? 439 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,960 Though there are theologies that we wrestle with, but here's what 440 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,560 we do not wrestle about. Savior, Baptizer with the Holy 441 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:39,840 Spirit, Healer and soon coming King. 442 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,800 And it it represents. The unchanging gospel. 443 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,920 And whatever denomination you are, you should believe those 444 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,080 four things. We'll allow divergent. 445 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,840 The body of Christ is a diverse body the the stream of orthodoxy 446 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,880 is wide. Believe me it it has width to 447 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,160 it. But what should never change the 448 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,040 Savior baptized with the Holy Spirit. 449 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,200 Here soon coming came Hebrews 13/8. 450 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,480 Is our verse Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and 451 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:10,720 forever? I don't know if you know the 452 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,000 story about how that came about. Let me read to you what Sister 453 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,920 McPherson wrote about why she picked that verse out of the 454 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,480 multitude of verses that she could have had. 455 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,400 Foursquare gospel means. Foursquare good news, I did not 456 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,560 want anything sad in the declaration of Angeles Temple. 457 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,400 When it came time to choose the central motto to appear above 458 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:35,080 the platform, someone suggested whoa, we have all sinned and 459 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,680 come short of the glory of God. But we all know that. 460 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,360 And anyway, that's not good news. 461 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:45,840 What is it? The heart of the good. 462 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,920 News, she said. The good news focuses on this 463 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,040 point. Jesus Christ is the same 464 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:58,200 yesterday, today and forever. That verse would become the 465 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,200 central motto of the Church of the Foursquare Gospel. 466 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,440 Notice how she picked it. Good news, this motto was hand 467 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,280 carved onto a plaque that was printed as her presented to her 468 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,320 by the gypsy tribes whose king had come to Christ under her 469 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,440 ministry. And that was the motto that. 470 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:23,640 Stood in the sanctuary. Amy simple. 471 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,800 McPherson was a famous celebrity. 472 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:33,600 Famous celebrity in her time. In fact, the LA Times says that 473 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:39,920 she was the most famous woman in America in the 1920s and 1930s. 474 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:47,800 At least one story every single week was done about her in the 475 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,720 LA Times in the 1920s. And when I say famous, I mean 476 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,520 famous. Do you remember the song Hooray 477 00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:00,280 for Hollywood? I mean, she was in Hollywood. 478 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,840 Hooray for Hollywood. Hollywood. 479 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,240 From Shirley Temple to Amy, Simple. 480 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:16,200 You're in that denomination that is famous. 481 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,600 And even in the Hollywood song. Did you know that? 482 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,040 Some of you know some. Of you are too young to even 483 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:31,280 know that song, there's pictures that show thousands gathered in 484 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,560 front of LA City Hall where Sister Amy and the mayor of the 485 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:40,960 city at the time, Shaw, reviewed a mile long procession of 486 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,920 Angeles Temple members and Foursquare Church pastors and 487 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:52,600 leaders with four bands going through the streets of LA for 488 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,880 our Four squares 13th Annual condition, the Los Angeles 489 00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,640 Times. Most of these pictures and most 490 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,960 of the stats I'm going to give you today did not necessarily 491 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,160 come from our Foursquare archives. 492 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,720 It came through the newspapers of the day. 493 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:15,640 We've had so much fun finding all of these particular things 494 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,800 from the newspapers of the day. The Fresno Morning Republic, not 495 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,960 just in LA. Fresno, 1922 world renowned 496 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,320 evangelist will arrive in Fresno this morning at 11 O clock on 497 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,600 the Southern Pacific. She will be escorted by the 498 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,160 chairman of the local committee to City Hall where she will be 499 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,560 welcomed to Fresno by the mayor and the city officials. 500 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:44,520 But not just in LA, Kansas, Wichita, KS. 501 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:50,720 This is one of my favorite ones. 1922 The Wichita merchants 502 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:58,000 estimated that more than $100,000 was made in May because 503 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,360 of Amy coming to town. Thousands of people came from 504 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:09,360 out of town to hear Sister Amy. She was first and foremost an 505 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:14,160 evangelist. She would go wherever God called 506 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,040 her to go. In fact, there's a wonderful 507 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,360 story of one, one time of God calling her to go to this small 508 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,480 little town, into this small little church. 509 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:28,400 And so she gladly went to this little church and she was an 510 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,600 evangelist, so she wanted people to hear about Jesus. 511 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:37,080 So she goes into this little church and the very first Sunday 512 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,400 she looks and there's like three people in the church. 513 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,840 OK, well, she. Preaches her guts out. 514 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,080 She's preaching away preaching away to these three people. 515 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:51,960 Well, tomorrow, you know, there'll be more. 516 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,040 We're having a revival. This is going to be a revival 517 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,760 service. So the next day she comes and. 518 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,840 There's three people. Are just there, pastor. 519 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:06,000 Where is your congregation? It goes well. 520 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:12,520 This is my congregation. She looks out the doors of the 521 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,200 church. She goes. 522 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,800 Hmm, follow me. She grabs a chair from the from 523 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,760 the concrete from the church. She goes out in the middle of 524 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,560 the square of the church, OK of the city. 525 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,320 She goes out in the middle of the square and she gets on her 526 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,080 chair and she stands on the chair and does this. 527 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,480 All of a sudden, these people. Are all stopping and they're 528 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:46,200 saying what is going on with this weird lady that is standing 529 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,960 like this in the middle of the church in the middle of the the 530 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,960 community. Then all of a sudden she goes 531 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,440 hurry, hurry, come quick quick, quick all the people start just 532 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,680 falling there. They go right into the church. 533 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:04,760 She goes shut the doors. I want to tell you about Jesus. 534 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,120 It ends up. At the end of that week it is 535 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:18,120 told that there were over 500 salvations that happened because 536 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:23,200 she was willing to go outside of the church. 537 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:29,960 The love of winning souls for Jesus Christ sets a fire burning 538 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:35,480 in one bones soul. Winning is the most important 539 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,920 thing in the world. She was passionate about winning 540 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,760 souls. And she very boldly said, and 541 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,720 you know what? They're not going to necessarily 542 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:52,240 come to you. You've got to go outside the 543 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,680 doors of the church and you need to go to them. 544 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:03,320 San Diego Revival 1921 For years God's people in San Diego and 545 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,880 prayed. Lord, send us a revival of the 546 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:10,320 gospel of Jesus Christ that will awaken the churches and bring 547 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,400 sinners and hundreds to the cross. 548 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,880 Well, God opened the door and Amy and her team agreed to go to 549 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,360 San Diego. Get this one. 550 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,320 This is so fun. The Methodist, the Baptist, the 551 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:31,320 Presbyterians, the Pentecostals, and the Nazarene pastors all 552 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,960 work together along with the YMCA and the Epworth League and 553 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:41,880 many other Christian groups organizing this time together in 554 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,680 San Diego. Well, they decided they needed 555 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,920 to rent the biggest auditorium that they could find in San 556 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,680 Diego, so they found the Dreamland Center, the Dreamland 557 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,880 Arena. The Dreamland Arena was known 558 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:02,080 for their boxing matches. This was the place where 559 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:07,600 everybody went on Friday night to go to have their boxing 560 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,960 matches. So the the manager of the arena, 561 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,680 Sister, I really think it would be important if you could come 562 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:19,520 the night before your revival starts and just come and talk to 563 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:20,920 the people that are going to be there. 564 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,000 Imagine, did does anybody remember boxing? 565 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,960 I mean, I remember my, my dad was a Baptist minister and on 566 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,920 Wednesday nights we had to run home from church because he was 567 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,240 really into boxing. And I remember running home to 568 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,040 see see the boxing. Boxing. 569 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,360 Was the worst sinners in the community. 570 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:51,440 I mean, they were the ones that were cussing and spitting and 571 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,440 they were just screaming out, yelling. 572 00:33:54,760 --> 00:34:00,240 So imagine sweet sister Amy in her white uniform and the other 573 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,480 women that were with her. There were probably some men 574 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:07,560 that were with her as well, going into this sinner's den of 575 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,000 iniquity. And she goes. 576 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,360 In and imagine they're all cussing. 577 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:17,080 She goes in the middle of the in the middle of the boxing time. 578 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,000 They lift up the cord for her to go in and here she is. 579 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,199 There's probably blood, There's probably teeth on the ground. 580 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:29,480 You know, I mean, it's a foxy arena and she goes in there. 581 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:37,080 She says, all right, tomorrow night, I invite you to come back 582 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:42,280 to this arena. We are going to see the biggest 583 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:49,639 fight of all times and you're going to see Jesus slump the 584 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:54,199 devil. Come on back, come on back. 585 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,880 In fact, don't you just come? I want you to bring the worst 586 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,000 thinner. You know the worst one is that 587 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:07,720 your husband is that you? You bring him because you're 588 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:10,600 going to see a fight tomorrow night. 589 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:17,000 Was she bold? She was so bold. 590 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:26,200 Come to find out, that arena only hold held 3000, so they had 591 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:33,240 to move it because this five week revival outgrew the outgrew 592 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:36,320 that arena. They took it to Balboa Park 593 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,040 where the police and park commissioners estimated that 10 594 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:49,720 to 30,000 people came, 10 to 30,000 people came because they 595 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:54,640 knew Jesus could slump the enemy. 596 00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:00,680 Thousands were praying for Amy is said is is she would say it's 597 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:06,480 getting dark and there are lots and lots of people that we still 598 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,880 need to pray for. And we have out of that revival 599 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:14,800 in San Diego many, many documented healings. 600 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:20,720 Not just in. LA not just on the West Coast. 601 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:29,720 Boston Boston revival 1931 The Boston Globe says this at the 602 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,160 end of the revival the next morning. 603 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:40,760 Headline 40,000 Here Amy More than 5000 were turned away and 604 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,360 the officials were forced to close the door. 605 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:50,680 Boston. She was the only evangelist, the 606 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:55,120 only person to pack out the Boston God. 607 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:08,520 Portland Revival, a newspaper. From Boston, went to Portland 608 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,880 because of that. Well, if this little lady's 609 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,560 going to come to Boston, I need to find out about her and 610 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,360 whether or not she's going to really be accepted in Boston. 611 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,040 So this newspaperman said this about Sister Amy. 612 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,520 Amy's religion is a religion of joy. 613 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:32,240 There's happiness in it. Her voice is easy to listen to. 614 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:36,960 She does not appeal to the brain and try to hammer religion into 615 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,800 the heads of her audience. Rather, she appeals to the 616 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,680 hearts of her ears. She radiates friendliness. 617 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,760 She creates an atmosphere that is warning. 618 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,000 She is persuasive rather than forceful. 619 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:59,120 She's gracious and kindly rather than compelling. 620 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:06,960 Fundamentally, she takes the whole Bible literally from cover 621 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,200 to cover. She broke down the walls of 622 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,360 denominationalism you already heard about in San Diego, all 623 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:18,560 these denominations coming together to have her at at the 624 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,080 that the San Diego revival. But on the Cornerstone 625 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:28,480 Evangelist Temple, January 1st, 1923, it states this dedicated 626 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,560 bunch of the cause of interdenominational and 627 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:37,640 worldwide evangelism. On Dedication Sunday, over 70 628 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:42,920 denominational pastors walk down the aisle with her, dedicating 629 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,520 themselves to the Foursquare Gospel. 630 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,000 They were dedicating themselves to the Foursquare Church. 631 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,200 They were dedicating themselves to the Foursquare Gospel. 632 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,760 That Jesus is our Savior. Jesus is our baptized of the 633 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,800 Holy Spirit. Jesus is our our healer and 634 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,680 Jesus is our soon coming King. She held credentials with the 635 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,280 salvation of our army. She held credentials with the 636 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,760 Assembly of God. She held credentials with the 637 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,520 Methodist. She held credentials with the 638 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:15,280 Baptist Methodist Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church. 639 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:21,000 You'll see that on there she was called to build a revival center 640 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,880 where people would be saved, baptized in the Holy Spirit, 641 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,040 healed, trained, and sent out. Why? 642 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:33,720 Because Jesus was coming back soon. 643 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,280 We don't have time to fool around. 644 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:41,880 They were not saved to just sit in the church and be entertained 645 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:46,640 each week. Jesus is coming back. 646 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,520 You need to be ready and you need to get everybody else ready 647 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:55,240 as well. February 1923. 648 00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:59,920 She opened up the Bible Institute, opening it up for 649 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,800 training people to train people of how to go out and tell people 650 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,360 about Jesus. October 1923, the first 651 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,200 Churchill planted right away she started planting churches. 652 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:18,680 February 27, first missionaries were sent out to I1927. 653 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,480 There were over 100 churches already planted all around 654 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,320 there. She broke down the walls of the 655 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,760 traditional church. She broke down the walls of the 656 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,720 traditional experience of the Church of the day. 657 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,840 Charlie Chaplin. She was in Hawaii and she was in 658 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,360 in Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin would help her 659 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:44,680 build her sets. She rode motorcycles down the 660 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,600 aisle. Sometimes people would say, 661 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,520 well, that story isn't really true. 662 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,080 She didn't really. I mean, come on, This little 663 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,440 lady wrote a motorcycle down the aisle of the Yes, she did. 664 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,240 Doctor Marcus Bach. We found this noted historian 665 00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:04,760 who wrote an eyewitness account to it, and he said this. 666 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:10,360 The sermon was entitled The Green Light is on the Opening 667 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,920 Remarks. With a deafening roar of a 668 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:18,360 motorcycle speeding down the ramp, the world's greatest 669 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,320 evangelist sat in the saddle dressed as a speed cop. 670 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:28,600 She drove recklessly to the front of the auditorium, slammed 671 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:34,440 on the brakes, blew a screech on a police whistle, raised a white 672 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:40,080 glove hand to the congregation and shouted stop, you're headed 673 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:44,560 to hell. Now do you think you'd fall 674 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,480 asleep? In a sermon like that, I don't 675 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,760 think so. She had firemen repelling from 676 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,120 the balcony. She had live animals. 677 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,280 In fact, one of my favorite stories, I asked pastor if it 678 00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,720 was OK for me to tell the story as it really happened. 679 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,960 She was going to preach on Adam and Eve and she was going to 680 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,160 preach about the Garden of Eden. So she had her step builders 681 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:11,120 build her a big set and these happened every single Sunday 682 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,160 night. She had these dramatic sermons. 683 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:18,440 So she had the set being built and it was the gardening Eden. 684 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:21,440 And just before they're getting ready to start service, she goes 685 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,120 out there and she goes, it looks kind of dead. 686 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,560 You know, we need some lights into this set. 687 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,760 So the circus was in town. She goes go down and get some 688 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,080 birds. You know, we need some birds, 689 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,960 just bring some birds on the platforms. 690 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,240 So she goes, the people go out and run out and get her some 691 00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:41,160 birds and she puts them on the platform. 692 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,760 They have their wonderful worship time. 693 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,520 They're worshipping and praying to God. 694 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,880 She's getting ready to preach her sermon and she walks down 695 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,000 and she always walked in very dramatically and very royally. 696 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,520 She walked on that platform and all of a sudden this macabre 697 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:03,320 bird in the back of her platform, there was a go to 698 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,600 hell. This was a circus. 699 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,400 Bird. Can you imagine the people? 700 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,520 In the congregation. Did that bird just tell? 701 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:21,200 Sister Amy to go to hell. Well, she didn't let anything. 702 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:27,400 Go to waste, she goes. What did you say I go to hell, 703 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,440 she goes. Let. 704 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:35,880 Me tell you about hell. I want to tell you, you will go 705 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,280 to hell. And she gave the whole pile of 706 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,120 salvation. I'm sure, sure. 707 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:40,600 And we'll see that bird in heaven. 708 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:46,040 I'm sure we will see that we call bird in heaven. 709 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:57,160 Eventually. They asked why do I preach A 710 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,240 dramatic sermon? Who was her response? 711 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:07,800 Our God is a dramatic God. I can think of nothing more 712 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:13,880 dramatic than Elijah on the mountaintop, then rolling back 713 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,480 the Red Sea. Nothing more dramatic than the 714 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:23,240 crucifixion, the resurrection, his ascension, the tons of fire 715 00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:29,520 on the day of Pentecost. I hope a dramatic God will shake 716 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,600 us up. Wait a minute. 717 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,480 Foursquare Church, I believe a dramatic God. 718 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:46,680 And what a dramatic God. To shake us up, Amy broke down 719 00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,120 the walls of traditional pastoral experience. 720 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:56,040 Eventually, God gently but unquestionably began to show me 721 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,960 that he'd led me to Los Angeles to build a house under the Lord. 722 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:05,120 His message and courage shout for the Lord hath given you the 723 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:09,000 city. She pastored the whole city. 724 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:14,360 She had a parish Messiology. In other words, she didn't just 725 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,960 pastor her church. She believed God had given her 726 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,520 the whole city when men were out of prison, not men from the 727 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,360 church. When mid got out of prison, she 728 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:29,120 would find work for those men that got out of prison. 729 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,160 In fact, she had the city sisters that had a free 730 00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:37,840 employment agency right there at the church. 150 a 150 people 731 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,720 would register every single month for free and there would 732 00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:45,600 be employers and employees. So you need a job. 733 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,840 OK, here's an employer that has a job. 734 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:50,400 You need a person to work for you. 735 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,120 OK, here's some people that need to work. 736 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,880 She had that going on right there in the church. 737 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,720 Women having babies, not women in the church having babies. 738 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,520 If there were women in the city that were having babies, she 739 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,080 would have the women of the church being making the little 740 00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,720 layouts they bought it and making blankets and having them 741 00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:11,200 passed out to all the people in the city. 742 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,760 Roberta, her daughter, talks about when she lived in the 743 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:18,080 Parsonage, she never had her own room because mom was always 744 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,240 bringing home these young girls that got pregnant out of 745 00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:22,920 wedlock, thrown out of their house. 746 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,880 She'd bring them home to her house and she'd have them live 747 00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,520 with her her and live with her daughter until she had they had 748 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:34,520 the baby and then they would work it out AT though also 749 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,320 Angela's temple opened in Echo Park. 750 00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:43,360 But she wanted the whole of the place that God has given her to 751 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,760 know about Jesus. So there was this little thing 752 00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:51,080 that happened every New Year's Day in this little town called 753 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:56,240 Pasadena. So the Rose Parade, the year 754 00:46:56,280 --> 00:47:00,440 that they opened up Angela's Temple, she put a float in the 755 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:05,120 Rose Parade. She won the grand prize. 756 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,880 Many times. She would put floats in the Rose 757 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,640 Parade because God had given her the city. 758 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:19,320 She would preach 10 to 15, preach 10 to 15 * a week. 759 00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:25,400 Could you imagine that after 15 to 10 to 15 * a week? 760 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,400 The annual report in 1930 had the formal membership. 761 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:34,320 This was 1930. She was the first mega church. 762 00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:41,920 Had 16,248 people. Just 77 years the church seated 763 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:47,480 5300 people and so there was standing room only many times. 764 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,960 Reports often that 2000 people were turned away every single 765 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,800 Sunday. A typical week would be 22 766 00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:00,200 services throughout the building and around the campus, and there 767 00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:07,000 were 130 Sunday school classes with an average of 2000 people 768 00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,800 in the Sunday school classes. But get. 769 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:15,000 This remember the years that we're talking about here, the 770 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,080 Sunday School classes according to their Bulletin of 1925. 771 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:24,200 OK, if you speak English, this is where you need to go for your 772 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,520 English speaking classes. If you speak Spanish, this is 773 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:31,400 the Spanish classes. If you speak Japanese, this is 774 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,200 where you need to go for the Japanese spoken word. 775 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,400 If you speak Armenian, this is where you need to go, and if you 776 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,320 speak German, this is where you go. 777 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,520 She believed. That God had given her the city 778 00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,000 and it didn't matter if you didn't speak English. 779 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:51,240 We need to reach the whole city for Jesus. 780 00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,240 So how do we do it? We need to speak the heart 781 00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:57,800 language. So let's speak the heart 782 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,920 language. She was known and best known as 783 00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:06,040 a faith healer, but she did not like that title because she 784 00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,440 would always say only Jesus heals, it's not me. 785 00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,320 She had two classes on divine healing. 786 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,480 She had 3500 people in each class. 787 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,560 She had the students walking around and learning how to pray 788 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,200 for the sick. Doctor Jeffrey's one of our 789 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,480 fathers in the Faith, writes this. 790 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,400 One side of the temple was lying from the door, entering the 791 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,920 sanctuary to the platform with wheelchairs. 792 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,880 As hands were laid on those with infirmities, they would 793 00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:40,560 immediately rise. They would immediately rise and 794 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,920 pushing their wheelchairs ahead of them, they would begin 795 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:48,520 praising the Lord. Crutches were thrown away, the 796 00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:54,280 blind received their sight, the deaf herd still braces were 797 00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,880 removed, and the list goes on and on and on. 798 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:04,880 Ambulances would drop people off in front of Angeles Temple and 799 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,280 then would drive away because they knew at the end of the 800 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,880 service they were not going to be needed. 801 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,800 The Parsonage today, you can go there and it has eyeglasses, has 802 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,760 crutches, has many kinds of things that were left behind 803 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:22,960 because of those miracle services. 804 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:28,000 But not only that, they have names and addresses that you can 805 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,240 go and check out that. This was really a true story at 806 00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:34,600 the time. Of course these were documented 807 00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:38,360 healings, but she more than once emphasized this. 808 00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:44,400 I want to save souls, not cure ailments. 809 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:50,640 Jesus is the healer, but I'm only the office girl who opens 810 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:55,320 the door and says come on in Powerful. 811 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,480 She broke down the walls that separated people, languages, 812 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,200 socio economic, ethnicity and culture. 813 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:08,240 Amy was countercultural. She had Kingdom values over 814 00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:10,840 world values. She loved people. 815 00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:15,520 During the Depression, Angela's Temple commissary would feed and 816 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:21,320 clothe more than 1.5 million people, more than all of the LA 817 00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,160 social services. You'll love this one because 818 00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,360 thinking about Thanksgiving and thinking about being hungry? 819 00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:33,480 December Bridal call 1926. Through a prominent meat 820 00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:38,200 merchant of Pasadena, Sister's been offered the opportunity to 821 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:45,400 buy the choicest of meats at the unbelievable low rate of $5 for 822 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:50,640 £100. Many have donated or pledged 823 00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:54,440 money toward the purchasing of this meat in this way for use in 824 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:59,040 the temple's newest aid to the unemployed, the soup kitchen, 825 00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:06,600 where one may receive a good warm Stew, coffee and bread from 826 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:12,600 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM every single day. 827 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:17,480 She had the soup kitchen. Going during that time, Anthony 828 00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:21,120 Quinn, the very famous Academy Award winner, said this. 829 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:26,920 If it wasn't for Amy, most of the Mexican people would have 830 00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:31,360 died during the Depression. She didn't ask your race or 831 00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:35,320 where you came from. If you were hungry and called 832 00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:40,480 the church, within an hour a basket of food would be on your 833 00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,440 doorstep. Amy. 834 00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:48,160 Was counter cultural. She confronted and broke down 835 00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:53,240 the walls of racism anchored in Jim Crow segregation laws, rules 836 00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:56,000 and customs. One of our pastors, the late 837 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,840 Bishop Joe Sutton, one of our fine African American pastors, 838 00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:05,800 he says this that in many Foursquare Church in Minneapolis 839 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:10,160 for many years stated that interdenominational in the 1920s 840 00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:14,400 often included race as well as different churches theologies 841 00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,280 coming together. One of the most painful issues, 842 00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:21,840 especially in her day, was the relationship between blacks and 843 00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,920 whites. Few, if any, Christian leaders 844 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,080 would even want to touch that subject. 845 00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:31,080 Yet Sister the person did not deter away from it. 846 00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:38,200 In January 19, 2819, eighteen Key West, FL after she held her 847 00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,680 meetings with the white community, she said, Now I'm 848 00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:44,120 going to hold it with the black community. 849 00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:50,680 For the first time, blacks and whites worshipped together. 850 00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,840 For the very first time, she travelled with an African 851 00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:59,040 American singing group. Her daughter Roberta was 852 00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:03,800 baptized by an African American pastor right here in the 853 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,680 Carolinas. Can you imagine that? 854 00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:12,120 How much community standards of the South view that baptism? 855 00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:15,840 She was brave, She was very brave. 856 00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:20,080 She broke down walls of gender and age so that all can 857 00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:21,640 minister. The good news. 858 00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:25,360 The whole congregation was released on Sunday afternoons of 859 00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:30,680 the children were given the sanctuary, the children held 860 00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:35,920 revival services, the children prayed for the sick, the 861 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,880 children saw miracles. She didn't let the fact that she 862 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:44,120 was a woman hinder her at all. In fact, she had paparazzi 863 00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:45,400 following her all over the place. 864 00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:49,160 She was a celebrity. She had paparazzi following her 865 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:50,600 all over. And they would say to her 866 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:55,080 sister, do you like to hear a woman preach? 867 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:56,880 They thought, oh, we're going to get her. 868 00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,720 She goes, well, no, not necessarily. 869 00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:02,240 We got the headlines for tomorrow. 870 00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:04,920 Sister doesn't like to hear a woman preach. 871 00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:10,600 She goes on to say, But I don't really like to hear a man preach 872 00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,600 either. But I. 873 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:19,920 Love to hear God speak and I don't care if it's from a man or 874 00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:26,000 a woman, I want to hear God. She was a woman before her time. 875 00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:31,960 Amy was not the first woman to purchase her own radio station, 876 00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:37,240 but in 1924 she was the most certainly the first woman to own 877 00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:40,280 and operate a Christian radio station. 878 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:46,560 By 1925, Spanish was spoken over the radio and occasionally could 879 00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,680 even be heard all the way to Cuba and Australia. 880 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:58,400 KFSKSFG with its call letters was granted a permit to 881 00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:04,560 broadcast television in November of 1931. 882 00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:11,480 She was a woman before her time. At that time in 1946, there were 883 00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:17,280 only 8000 televisions in homes. But she heard God and she was 884 00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,760 ready to go for it. She was a songwriter that wrote 885 00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:26,040 hundreds of songs and operas. She had a prayer tower that 886 00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:32,280 prayed 24 hours a day. Just remember what? 887 00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,280 Jim said to us right at the very beginning, she was an immigrant 888 00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:40,240 from Canada. She was young, she was widowed. 889 00:56:40,720 --> 00:56:44,840 She was twice divorced. She was a single mother. 890 00:56:45,240 --> 00:56:48,880 She was lonely. She had family issues. 891 00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:53,440 She had health issues. She had social issues, 892 00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:57,120 especially as a female evangelist in the 1920s. 893 00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:03,800 She was kidnapped 3 different times and she died way too young 894 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:06,160 at the. Age of 53. 895 00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:14,240 Thank you, Melinda. Let's put up this the next one. 896 00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:19,240 This is a children's department certificate for my mommy. 897 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,920 I had never heard the story. Of Angela's Temple or Amy Simple 898 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:25,560 MacPherson. I was not raised in a Christian 899 00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,000 home. We never went to church. 900 00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,240 I was dedicated as an infant in the Congregational Church in 901 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:35,320 Whittier, CA Didn't know anything about Angela's Temple. 902 00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:39,800 I leave law enforcement, I find Foursquare, I develop a 903 00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:43,400 relationship, I get credentialed, and I tell my mom 904 00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,720 and my dad that I'm now a Foursquare minister. 905 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:48,800 My mother says is that. Angela's Temple. 906 00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:51,080 He said. Yeah, Amy, simple. 907 00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,760 McPherson, I said. Yeah, I hear her go in the 908 00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,960 bedroom and she's in the closet and den was against the closet 909 00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,240 wall and I can hear my mom in the boxes, you know, through the 910 00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,680 wall looking for something. And she came out with two 911 00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,360 certificates. 1 was. Abbs. 912 00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:09,920 Certificate and this one my mother went to Angela's temple 913 00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,800 for one year she. Went to Sunday school and look 914 00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:13,720 how. Often she attended. 915 00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,000 Look at all those stars. That's my. 916 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:20,760 Mommy, the reason I'm showing? You this the next one show the 917 00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:22,320 next slide. The reason I'm showing you this 918 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:26,040 is that this is a larger from the top of that and notice what 919 00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:27,560 it says. This is Angela's temple. 920 00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,680 But notice how the children's department's assigned. 921 00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:37,200 What's it say children's department of that's a Bible 922 00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:41,520 college. Sister Mcpherson's children's 923 00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,280 ministry was not a part of the church. 924 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:49,360 It was part of a Bible college. Not only does that speak of the. 925 00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,440 Dignity she saw in children, but it also spoke to the fact that 926 00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:54,040 she was telling children where they ought to be going. 927 00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:58,480 The entire children's. Department was a part of that 928 00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:01,360 Bible college, so wouldn't it make sense to a child when they 929 00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,320 got to high school and then graduate, they should stay in 930 00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:07,440 Bible college way before her time. 931 00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:12,520 It's a it's a tremendous legacy to see, a tremendous legacy to 932 00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:14,360 have. The Foursquare Church was 933 00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:18,240 birthed in a single churches church Angela's temple. 934 00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:21,400 I want to emphasize this. You're a part of a denomination, 935 00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:25,840 a group that did not start by the collection of ministers or 936 00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:29,400 from a church split or because of doctrinal disagreement. 937 00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:31,600 We. Started in a. 938 00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:36,720 Local church in Los Angeles A pastor with a global vision 939 00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:42,000 locally expressed globally expressed today. 940 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,760 The Foursquare Church is a global church, the global 941 00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:50,080 Foursquare Church with a shared local and global vision and 942 00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:54,080 mission. So the question did you see 943 00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,440 yourself and your passions in the stories of Sister Amy in 944 00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:02,200 this developing church? The heart for people. 945 01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,120 Heart for the needy to break down the barriers between us All 946 01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:08,520 kinds of barriers. The gender barrier, Women and 947 01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:12,240 men, racial barriers, socio socio economic barriers. 948 01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:14,000 The preaching of the word of God. 949 01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:15,200 Everyone preaching the word of God. 950 01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:18,320 The love for children, seeing children's ministry missions. 951 01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:21,280 Their first missionary did not go to Mexico. 952 01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,160 Their first missionary went to India. 953 01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,280 Desiring to see. God work and move. 954 01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:30,320 What a. Tremendous. 955 01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:32,920 Legacy. Her final statement to us 956 01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:36,240 encapsulates, I think, a call that we need to hear today. 957 01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:44,720 What God wants. Is playing people with the good 958 01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:48,800 news in their hearts. We're willing to go and tell it 959 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:53,440 to others. The love of winning souls for 960 01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:58,120 Jesus Christ sets a fire burning in one's bones. 961 01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:02,720 Soul winning is the most important thing in the world. 962 01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:08,560 So here's what she says. All I have is on the altar for 963 01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:14,480 the Lord, and while I have my life and strength, I will put my 964 01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:21,080 whole being into carrying out this Great Commission. 965 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,840 Our final. Photo is a remarkable photo. 966 01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:30,760 It's a photo that has. Two things in it it has a 967 01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:35,160 statement of incredible courage and a statement of strong 968 01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:38,160 commitment. This photo is entitled. 969 01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:41,320 Stretcher day at Revival was in the Municipal Auditorium in 970 01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:47,800 Denver July 10th, 1921, the last day of a crusade that began on 971 01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:51,560 June 19th. The newspapers in Denver say not 972 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:57,400 statistics from her ministry. Denver newspapers said that 973 01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:02,400 500,000 people attended this crusade. 500,000 Half a. 974 01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,480 Million people were in this crusade. 975 01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,680 On Sunday, July. 10th which is this stretcher day. 976 01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:14,320 Two articles in the Denver Post talked about this report about 977 01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:17,240 this event. Denver Post reporter Albert 978 01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:22,520 Stone said on every side was the audience 12,000 strong, filling 979 01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:25,640 to capacity of the main floor, balconies and galleries. 980 01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:30,600 And to this picture, he said it was a revival of bodies. 981 01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:37,120 Another reporter, Alva. Swain said 1st, it's a great 982 01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:39,560 article. First, he talks about his 983 01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:43,280 credentials as a reporter, and he says it's so easy to write 984 01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:48,080 about dead bodies and gang members and speakeasies and 985 01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,160 illegal activity and robberies and murders. 986 01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,920 Then he said. But it's quite another matter to 987 01:02:55,920 --> 01:03:01,240 tell the story of Jesus through a little white gown woman having 988 01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:06,160 the souls of 2000 at a clip, or raising from sick beds, 989 01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:11,240 paralytics, consumptives, rheumatics and all other forms 990 01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:14,160 of diseased bodies by the hundreds. 991 01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:18,200 He did not know how to write about what was taking place. 992 01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:21,800 Pastor, would you come up please? 993 01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:27,560 This description speaks of the courage that I don't think I 994 01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:31,920 know personally. And I want to say. 995 01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:33,400 This, I know, this is really bold. 996 01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:35,600 And you say, Jim, you have no idea and I don't. 997 01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:41,200 But I would wonder if any pastor in North Carolina would invite 998 01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,960 all the sick of their city to come and be placed on pallets 999 01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,040 before the pulp before the pulpit to be prayed for. 1000 01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:49,800 I'm not faulting those pastors. I don't have the courage either. 1001 01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,440 There's no arrogance. In my statement, I'm talking 1002 01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:58,240 about this woman in Denver leaving so strongly. 1003 01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:01,560 This is a conviction that God heals, that she would take the 1004 01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:07,720 risk of embarrassment, ridicule in front of the world press to 1005 01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:11,480 do this kind of thing. Lay them before me so I can 1006 01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,960 pray. It's the kind of conviction. 1007 01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:19,480 And it's a kind of of courage that the church needs today. 1008 01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,600 That's why I'm ending with. This our denominations made 1009 01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:27,080 100,000 mistakes and we're in no way perfect. 1010 01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:29,480 And you go on the web, you can read all about this stuff. 1011 01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:31,600 No, we're not perfect, I confess that. 1012 01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:38,440 But the word? The Holy Spirit and the mission, 1013 01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:43,400 which is what is our identity, has remained true through the 1014 01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:45,000 generations of church development. 1015 01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:47,160 You're. In one of those. 1016 01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:50,920 Churches today, and if you see those three things here, we are 1017 01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:54,160 successful. We are propagating what we 1018 01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:58,480 believe. I'm so thankful today. 1019 01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:02,640 That because this was true once. Please hear this because this 1020 01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,240 was true once and this is my family. 1021 01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:09,600 This could be us again. Because it's us. 1022 01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:15,320 This picture is us. So wouldn't faith rise in 100 1023 01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:16,600 areas? Not just healing. 1024 01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,920 We would believe God to do exceedingly, abundantly 1025 01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:23,280 everything that we ask and think. 1026 01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:38,080 Let's see where you say I hope. Your heart is stirred like mine 1027 01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:41,960 is. Probably some of you when you 1028 01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:43,280 start. To pull out black and white 1029 01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:45,680 pictures, you think, oh cool history lesson. 1030 01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:53,080 But when I see these things, I see our future in full. 1031 01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:59,560 Colour. You know, I feel like our church 1032 01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:03,720 right now at Rise Church, we're still in seed form and a seed 1033 01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:06,480 doesn't look like much when you put it in the ground. 1034 01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:09,320 In fact, for a season, it disappears. 1035 01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:13,720 You see nothing and you can't even dig in and check in on it. 1036 01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:17,600 You're supposed to just leave it alone, make sure it's water and 1037 01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:21,800 then you know just about the right time it'll just sprout and 1038 01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:24,960 then it looks still like not much fact. 1039 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:28,960 It's pretty vulnerable at that stage and I. 1040 01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:32,080 Feel like that's kind of. Where we are, we're like between 1041 01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:34,440 that seed form and just starting to sprout up. 1042 01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:39,880 But when I see these things and when I I've seen it before the. 1043 01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:42,440 Holy Spirit in me. Starts to burn. 1044 01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:47,440 Where you know, like what's? In me connects with what's in 1045 01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:53,840 that and I remember hearing one time a really famous minister, 1046 01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:57,280 also a lady, Marilyn Hickey, and one time she said healing is the 1047 01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,520 dinner bill. So when I see. 1048 01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:03,440 Healings and I see these things and it's why we pray often for 1049 01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:07,360 healing is it's not the end all, it's the dinner bill. 1050 01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:12,360 It's telling a world that's desperate in need come here, 1051 01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:15,120 you'll have help. And what they don't know is that 1052 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,440 not only will your body be healed, but your soul will be 1053 01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,080 saved. But God will use the dinner bill 1054 01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,840 just as Jesus did. He healed them. 1055 01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:29,680 He healed them. He healed them, He healed them. 1056 01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:34,800 And so. It was at a conference, the one 1057 01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:39,240 that I mentioned earlier, that Jim and I were at together in 1058 01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:44,520 Denver, Co 100 years from this picture. 1059 01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,720 And we were standing in. This auditorium in downtown 1060 01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:54,160 Denver, I'd never seen the picture before. 1061 01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:57,240 He brought it to the conference and everything in me almost 1062 01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:00,480 exploded. Because, you know, God, there's 1063 01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:04,640 appointed times for things. So I'm standing in Denver, a 1064 01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:09,600 part of this movement 100 years to the year. 1065 01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:13,760 And we all are on this. Platform and God and the I mean 1066 01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:17,120 the Holy Spirit starts to just move and I just blurted out we 1067 01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:20,560 will see stretcher days again and it. 1068 01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:22,279 Wasn't. A hope. 1069 01:08:22,399 --> 01:08:26,560 It was like something in me. Rallied behind it. 1070 01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,880 And it was like, this will be us. 1071 01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:35,080 And I was thinking our movement and our denomination. 1072 01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:37,800 I wasn't so much at that time thinking of a rise church. 1073 01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:41,720 But I just sense that. The Lord, as I look around the 1074 01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,760 room and I see who God's brought to our church, I just feel like 1075 01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:48,080 the Lord's drawn many of you here because you have something 1076 01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:52,840 in you that says yes to this and that's why you're here. 1077 01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:55,279 It's because it won't be on one lady. 1078 01:08:55,279 --> 01:08:57,920 I mean, when I look at the the ministers, look at all these 1079 01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:01,279 people laying hands on people, they're in. 1080 01:09:01,279 --> 01:09:03,359 Suits. They're the women are in the 1081 01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:06,200 they're white robes. The patients are there. 1082 01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:09,760 There's every kind of color ministering there. 1083 01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:15,399 So it's not just Sister Amy. It's an entire army of people 1084 01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:20,120 ministering, ministering, ready to go, prayed, trained to do 1085 01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:22,319 this. This is where we're headed. 1086 01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:25,640 So some of you say, well, this doesn't make any sense to me. 1087 01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:27,240 That's all right. Just hang around long enough. 1088 01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:31,120 And you can spectate. While the rest of us move into 1089 01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:35,960 this, because we will, we will in Jesus name, would you close 1090 01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:41,120 your eyes right where you're at? I'm going to ask Pastor Jim. 1091 01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:47,040 And Melinda, both of them to pray over us that as elders in 1092 01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:52,920 this movement that we would receive as a church. 1093 01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:57,000 Not just good. Information, but the DNA. 1094 01:09:59,880 --> 01:10:02,680 And that some of you I. Just feel like today I just want 1095 01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:04,640 to welcome you to the Foursquare Church. 1096 01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:10,320 But you're now you got. This DNA you're, you're, you're 1097 01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:13,840 in the fam now. So I'm going to ask them to pray 1098 01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:16,400 and then we'll wrap up our time together. 1099 01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,440 We want to thank you again for. Joining us for the Arise Church 1100 01:10:22,440 --> 01:10:25,120 podcast, we hope you were encouraged by what you heard 1101 01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:26,360 today. You can find 1102 01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:31,120 us.online@arisechurchn-c.com and on Instagram at Arise Church NC. 1103 01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:34,520 If you need prayer or support or are interested in learning more 1104 01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:38,200 about Arise Church, we encourage you to connect with us online or 1105 01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:40,280 in person at our Sunday morning service. 1106 01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:41,800 Thank you and God bless.