[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.76,0:00:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome, all of you! Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.48,0:00:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here. This is the beginning point because \NPaul was talking about that we are all in Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.89,0:00:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a race. We are all running a race toward\Nthe goal. As soon as the gun is shooting Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.80,0:00:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't just sit down on a couch and\Njust laying there and just relaxing. Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.86,0:00:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. We have a race to run. I often\Nhave seen that. I have deceived myself Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.55,0:00:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or people deceive themselves by sitting \Nand waiting for God. Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.94,0:00:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God, what is my calling? I'm waiting \Nfor my special calling." Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.92,0:00:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is here.\NHe said to them all, "Whoever wants to be Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.46,0:00:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My disciple must deny themselves \Nand take their cross daily and follow Me." Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.72,0:00:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ladies and gentlemen, that is your\Ncalling. God has called every one of us Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.64,0:01:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. We \Ndon't have to wait for the gun to shoot. Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.59,0:01:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The race has already started. You, who are\Ndesigned with your calling, are to become Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.64,0:01:13.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like our Master Jesus Christ. Our calling\Nis to become more like Jesus. Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.51,0:01:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said, "Truly, I tell you, no one who\Nhas left homes or brothers or sisters Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.34,0:01:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or mother or father or children or fields\Nfor Me and the gospel will fail to receive Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.26,0:01:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a hundred times as much in this present\Nage, along (together) with persecution. Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.18,0:01:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read in the Bible where it says, \Neveryone who wants to live a godly life Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.60,0:01:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be persecuted. Amen? \NI didn't hear that so much in my church. Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.10,0:01:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's...this is not my word. This is \Nthe word that we read in the Bible. Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.50,0:01:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As much as we are called to bear fruit, \Nbecause Jesus said, "As the Father Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.29,0:01:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has sent Me, now I send you. Go out \Nand bear much fruit." Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.55,0:01:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many people love fruit? How many\Npeople would love to see their lives Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.34,0:02:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bear fruit? I love it. Because it really \Nencourages me to keep on going. Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.75,0:02:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as much as we are called to bear\Nfruit, we are also called to go through Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.16,0:02:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hardship, trials and persecution. The\Nbreakthrough, the fruit, will not come Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.72,0:02:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without hardship and trials. Well, let's\Ncome back to this life. Let's come back Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.90,0:02:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this--what we read in the Bible.\NBecause we are always focusing on Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.24,0:02:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need something new. We need something\Nbrand new. We need more things and so on. Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.15,0:02:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No! We don't need something new. \NWe just need to come back to this. Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.38,0:02:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This old thing! This real thing!