WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.300 --> 00:00:02.600 Listen to me. 2 00:00:04.300 --> 00:00:05.900 This is for you. 3 00:00:05.900 --> 00:00:11.400 I want to thank you so much for the invite because I have come to tell 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:12.500 you a story. 5 00:00:12.500 --> 00:00:17.200 That's so true. A story about a special man. 6 00:00:17.200 --> 00:00:23.200 That I knew but Son of God has come and I'm a witness. 7 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:31.100 I'm a witness when God came to man and he lived among us dwelt 8 00:00:31.100 --> 00:00:31.800 with us. 9 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:34.000 I lived with him for so long. 10 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:41.400 Here embodied in a man named Jesus. I'm an apostle. 11 00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:47.000 You know me better as Peter's brother. 12 00:00:48.100 --> 00:00:49.700 Yeah, my name is Andrew. 13 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:52.500 Now I may not look like an apostle to you. 14 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:53.500 That's because I am a 15 00:00:55.300 --> 00:01:02.600 fisherman by trade. A plain man, you might say I did take seriously the 16 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:06.000 call to be fisher of men. 17 00:01:07.700 --> 00:01:08.500 But I haven't talked. 18 00:01:08.500 --> 00:01:13.600 I have not come here to talk about myself there really isn't much to 19 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:14.600 say about me. 20 00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:19.100 not compared to my brother Peter and don't get me started. 21 00:01:19.100 --> 00:01:23.100 I've always taken a second seat to Peter. 22 00:01:23.100 --> 00:01:24.200 Who am I they would say? Well I'm Andrew. Who? 23 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:28.300 I'm Peters brother. 24 00:01:28.300 --> 00:01:34.100 Oh, yeah Peters brother the insignificant the feeling pretty small out 25 00:01:34.100 --> 00:01:39.900 of place totally inadequate Andrew, you know, I'm kind of feeling this 26 00:01:39.900 --> 00:01:41.600 the right now at the Seminary. 27 00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:44.600 I'm not a scholar among students. 28 00:01:44.600 --> 00:01:48.800 I'm certainly not a powerful influence like your professors. 29 00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:52.000 I have no great background. 30 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:54.300 But 31 00:01:55.300 --> 00:02:02.900 I have witnessed and I've got to tell you the Son of God has come. I 32 00:02:02.900 --> 00:02:06.500 tell you his story from beginning to end. 33 00:02:06.500 --> 00:02:12.500 The Son of God has come have I always told you that and I'm a witness. 34 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:19.100 My father really was the first witness he he talked to me and my 35 00:02:19.100 --> 00:02:24.900 brother Peter about the days that would come when I Messiah would come 36 00:02:24.900 --> 00:02:26.200 as promised. 37 00:02:26.200 --> 00:02:28.500 But you know, what as I saw my 38 00:02:30.100 --> 00:02:31.300 Father's face. 39 00:02:31.300 --> 00:02:33.000 It always was sad. 40 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:38.000 But we had not heard from God for 400 years. 41 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:45.500 No Prophet has spoken to us about the kingdom of God until that day. 42 00:02:45.500 --> 00:02:50.200 We had heard that there was a strange man out in the wilderness with 43 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:55.200 strange clothes with a very strange way of eating. 44 00:02:56.600 --> 00:02:59.100 I want you to know when I went to go see him. 45 00:03:00.100 --> 00:03:01.200 Hear him preach. 46 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:04.800 I did offer him some fish, but he always refused. 47 00:03:07.100 --> 00:03:13.100 But it was his strange speaking that drew me and Peter to hear him 48 00:03:13.100 --> 00:03:17.300 because he spoke as God. 49 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.200 And I told Peter he's the Messiah. 50 00:03:22.200 --> 00:03:31.100 He said no way but he did admit that this strange man did speak as a through a 51 00:03:31.100 --> 00:03:31.900 prophet. 52 00:03:31.900 --> 00:03:36.500 So we tried to talk to him as much as we could and he began to 53 00:03:36.500 --> 00:03:38.800 instruct us as one of his disciples. 54 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:40.000 We were so excited. 55 00:03:43.900 --> 00:03:46.700 He finally said no, I'm not the Messiah. 56 00:03:46.700 --> 00:03:51.900 There's one that will come after me. The Advent of someone 57 00:03:53.500 --> 00:04:00.400 was to come he said soon he said if I came baptizing with water, I was 58 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:06.400 here and called to prepare the way of the Lord. And he spoke these 59 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:11.500 words so loud repent. Peter and I we hit the floor on our knees. 60 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:15.800 I mean when you see the strange man in this Wilderness and he says 61 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:18.500 repent, you hit the deck. 62 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:22.100 And we got baptized too. 63 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:24.300 Because 64 00:04:26.200 --> 00:04:28.200 we felt so guilty with our sin. 65 00:04:28.200 --> 00:04:34.500 We tried so many Passover's to get rid of that sin. 66 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:36.800 And so we were baptized. 67 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.800 We wanted to be clean if he was coming soon. 68 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.100 We want to be prepared for his coming. 69 00:04:45.300 --> 00:04:48.400 Then John pointed he said, 70 00:04:49.500 --> 00:04:50.400 the Lamb of God. 71 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.100 That takes away the sin of the world. 72 00:04:57.100 --> 00:05:00.900 Behold, he is the Son of God. 73 00:05:02.500 --> 00:05:08.600 I am so pleased and honored to be here just because you have people 74 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:14.300 focused on the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. On the 75 00:05:14.300 --> 00:05:16.200 altar of sacrifice there 76 00:05:16.200 --> 00:05:20.100 he was slain to rid us all of sin. 77 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:24.000 It was just the very next day. 78 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.000 He said it again. 79 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.700 There was this Jesus his relative walking along the River Jordan and 80 00:05:30.700 --> 00:05:31.600 he said behold. 81 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:35.400 Andrew, 82 00:05:37.400 --> 00:05:41.200 the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. 83 00:05:43.700 --> 00:05:52.100 I looked at John and I looked at this Lamb he knew what I wanted. I was 84 00:05:52.100 --> 00:05:56.900 devoted, committed to John as his disciple, but I so much wanted to 85 00:05:56.900 --> 00:06:01.700 follow the Lamb and they gave me that nod he says it's okay. 86 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:04.500 He must increase. 87 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:07.300 I must decrease. 88 00:06:09.700 --> 00:06:11.800 And not only that Andrew. 89 00:06:13.100 --> 00:06:14.400 He will baptize you. 90 00:06:15.900 --> 00:06:16.900 With the Holy Spirit. 91 00:06:16.900 --> 00:06:19.900 I was kind of nervous. 92 00:06:19.900 --> 00:06:21.600 I mean would he accept me ? Would he accept you? Would he even 93 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.300 know me a fisherman from Galilee. 94 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:31.100 Maybe John had given him a few words of encouragement. 95 00:06:31.100 --> 00:06:35.900 Take this guy under your wing because well, he's not as courageous as 96 00:06:35.900 --> 00:06:39.800 his brother Peter, in fact Peter wasn't even with me. 97 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:44.000 I was hoping he would. He'd be the bold one. He'd come up to Jesus and 98 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.400 say hey, I want to be your disciple. 99 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:54.700 But he wasn't there and I was very shy and pretty embarrassed because 100 00:06:54.700 --> 00:07:00.400 I just walked behind him just a few steps not saying a word until he 101 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:02.200 stopped and it stopped me in my tracks. 102 00:07:02.200 --> 00:07:06.700 He turned to me and it says, what are you seeking? 103 00:07:06.700 --> 00:07:07.900 What am I seeking? What am I seeking? 104 00:07:07.900 --> 00:07:10.400 I got to give him the answer. 105 00:07:10.400 --> 00:07:14.900 This will be the only way I could get into his his group. 106 00:07:14.900 --> 00:07:16.800 What it what are you seeking? 107 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:18.500 Ah, you're the Messiah. 108 00:07:18.500 --> 00:07:18.800 No. 109 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:18.900 No. 110 00:07:18.900 --> 00:07:20.000 No, I I can't say that right away. 111 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:23.500 I was wondering if you were the Son of God. 112 00:07:23.500 --> 00:07:23.900 No, no. 113 00:07:23.900 --> 00:07:29.900 No, I can't I cannot say that. I heard it being said that you 114 00:07:29.900 --> 00:07:37.300 were the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. No I can't start with that word. What would be the best answer and it just 115 00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:38.200 slipped out of my mouth. 116 00:07:39.900 --> 00:07:41.400 But where are you staying? 117 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:44.600 Where are you staying? 118 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.900 That's the best I could come up with for 119 00:07:47.900 --> 00:07:50.600 what are you seeking? Where you staying? 120 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:55.000 He looked at me with a smile with eyes of kindness and compassion 121 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:57.500 with eyes of purpose. 122 00:07:57.500 --> 00:08:04.600 He smirked and he says well come and you'll see. I'll never forget 123 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:05.000 that day. 124 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.300 We talked so long about so many things. 125 00:08:09.300 --> 00:08:11.600 Actually I did hardly any of the talking. 126 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:14.900 I just asked him a questions and he just gave me the answers. 127 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:19.200 And I of course I got to see where he was staying. I went back 128 00:08:20.300 --> 00:08:22.900 home I was looking for Peter at the house. 129 00:08:22.900 --> 00:08:23.500 He wasn't there. 130 00:08:23.500 --> 00:08:25.300 I went to the beach the shore. 131 00:08:25.300 --> 00:08:26.000 He wasn't there. 132 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.200 The the nets there he was cleaning the nets who as those fishermen would. 133 00:08:30.200 --> 00:08:35.700 And I brought the other disciple with me a good friend of John's too 134 00:08:35.700 --> 00:08:41.000 because I have a feeling Peter would not believe me. 135 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:45.200 I said to him we have found the Messiah. 136 00:08:47.500 --> 00:08:53.700 He said yeah sure, show me well I didn't know where he was so I took me 137 00:08:53.700 --> 00:09:00.800 over and as I was about to introduce the two of them Jesus says Simon 138 00:09:00.800 --> 00:09:02.800 son of John 139 00:09:04.700 --> 00:09:07.600 You shall be called Cephas that means Peter. 140 00:09:09.500 --> 00:09:15.500 And then you looked at me and I was waiting for something like Andy you 141 00:09:15.500 --> 00:09:20.900 are Andrew and you will be manly, courageous, brave and a warrior. 142 00:09:22.500 --> 00:09:26.600 But I think when he saw me he says, oh you're Peters brother 143 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.200 come on, 144 00:09:29.300 --> 00:09:30.500 I'll call you too. 145 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:34.600 I was in. 146 00:09:36.300 --> 00:09:37.100 I was a witness. 147 00:09:37.100 --> 00:09:41.200 I was going to be a fisher of men. 148 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.900 Yeah, I would be a disciple and later an Apostle I would be a 149 00:09:45.900 --> 00:09:49.000 witness and you know, that's really my claim of fame. 150 00:09:50.300 --> 00:09:57.300 I knew Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world 151 00:09:57.300 --> 00:10:01.200 and I'll tell you there's nothing in the world that can motivate you 152 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.900 more than to look into the eyes of the Lamb. 153 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:09.500 Knowing he's going to slaughter and he turns to you and says come 154 00:10:09.500 --> 00:10:10.500 follow me. 155 00:10:12.500 --> 00:10:16.000 What a tremendous difference that made in my life it turned my life 156 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:17.400 upside down. 157 00:10:17.400 --> 00:10:21.200 You see I was just a fisherman just doing my work. 158 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.700 Just waiting and I didn't even know what I was waiting for. 159 00:10:29.700 --> 00:10:36.200 But when the Son of God comes into your life, you become a witness. 160 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:41.500 He wasn't calling me to a easy life, but when you witness. 161 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:48.200 There was that time where you just raised the little boy from the dead. 162 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:52.600 This man have life in himself. 163 00:10:54.300 --> 00:10:57.600 And he could get that life to anyone 164 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:02.500 he chose. No one had ever done that before, you know, if you're not 165 00:11:02.500 --> 00:11:04.500 getting anything out of my story. 166 00:11:05.400 --> 00:11:07.900 Let me tell you this one fact. 167 00:11:09.400 --> 00:11:12.400 His story is worth telling. 168 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:18.000 Be a witness talk about Jesus and start with your family. 169 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:19.300 Even if it's Peter. 170 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:26.300 Let him know who Jesus is and have them meet him the Lamb of God 171 00:11:26.300 --> 00:11:32.000 that takes away the sin of the world and and witness to children. 172 00:11:33.500 --> 00:11:35.600 Children there was a time 173 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:37.900 I brought a little small boy to meet Jesus. 174 00:11:37.900 --> 00:11:42.900 He had a lunch fish and bread. 175 00:11:42.900 --> 00:11:45.600 But I tell you it changed his life forever. 176 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:47.600 He got the meat the bread of life. 177 00:11:48.900 --> 00:11:54.700 And don't be afraid to witness cross-culturally. Those diverse 178 00:11:54.700 --> 00:11:55.700 cultures 179 00:11:55.700 --> 00:11:59.200 it is your tradition that I went to India. 180 00:12:00.500 --> 00:12:07.200 If you learn nothing from me, but just follow my example go to the 181 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:10.000 mission field course, I have heard here in America. 182 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:17.200 Jesus is bringing the mission field to your doorstep. Open the door 183 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:22.500 invite them in and let him meet the Lamb of God who takes away the sin 184 00:12:22.500 --> 00:12:28.400 of the World. Open up your churches has let them know that Jesus is the 185 00:12:28.400 --> 00:12:33.600 Messiah the Son of God who takes away the sin of the world have. I 186 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:35.300 stayed that long enough? 187 00:12:37.900 --> 00:12:38.800 Because 188 00:12:40.300 --> 00:12:41.200 I was a witness. 189 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:44.400 That he will come back again. 190 00:12:46.100 --> 00:12:47.600 Because he said so. 191 00:12:49.300 --> 00:12:50.400 And I'm a witness. 192 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:54.200 Thank you for the invite.