Telling The TRUTH
051014 Telling The Truth 28 Minute Program
[music] You're listening to "Telling the Truth" from Triple T. Christian Youth Ministries, "Telling the Truth to and Through Teenagers." Here is Triple T. Founder and President George Dumes. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are you putting on the whole armor of God?" Listen to Ephesians 614, New King James Version. "Stand, therefore, have been girded your waste with truth." Have you done that? Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." "No one comes to the Father except by me." "You shall know the truth," Jesus said, "and the truth shall set you free." Are you telling the truth to people who need to know how to get to heaven? God's Word is quick, powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword. But unless people hear it, they won't know what it says. The Bible is true. Unless you tell them, how will they know the truth? Someone is waiting for you to let them know how to get to heaven. Let them know first that they have sinned. "To believe on the Lord Jesus, to confess Him publicly." Each day when we come to you, we share with you the challenge to share the gospel with people who need Jesus. Pray, read God's Word, get a prayer partner, and then go with the gospel. We have God's ABCs available to you. Join many, many who have called or written and get yours. Call 812-867-2418. Let us know how many you can prayerfully use 867-2418. God wants each of us to know that He has His righteousness available to us. All of ours is His filthy rags. But listen to Ephesians, chapter 6, verse 14, having put on the breastplate of righteousness. It's something you do. It's something I do. It's available to us from God, but we have to put it on. We have to be willing to admit we have sinned. Turn to Jesus from our sins to realize that we have nothing that we can put on outside of Him. But through Him, in Him, and with Him, we can accomplish tremendous things for His glory. The thing that is closest to God's heart is people. People who need the Lord. Do you know Him? If you don't, you can. If you turn to Jesus believing on the Lord Jesus, that God raised Him to the dead, you can share your faith in Him with others. God's ABCs, The Plan of Salvation, Romans 323, Romans 623, John 3 16, Romans 10 9 and 10, in printed form are available to you to share with people. Call 812-867-2418. Determine who you are going to share Jesus with today. Call 812-867-2418. Let us know how many ABCs you will prayerfully use. God bless you as you call. Listen, please, to Ephesians 615, New King James Version. And having shod your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Preparation is an interesting word. God wants you and me to be prepared to go into action, to go into battle. The battle is the Lord's, but He needs warriors. He needs you and me to follow Him. Follow His leadership, His guidance, His direction, and through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, we can share God's good news. That's what the Gospel is, and we can do it personally. We can do it with compassion, we can do it earnestly, and we can do it effectively. How? By memorizing Scripture, or by sharing the Scriptures that let people know how to get to heaven. I highly recommend that you personally read and heed the Gospel. Romans 323. Romans 623. John 3 16. Romans 10 9 and 10 are all talking about the Gospel, the death, the burial, the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Memorize those Scriptures, and then order copies of God's ABCs that have all those in printed form, and give them to people. Call 812-867-2418. The number? 812-867-2418, and go with the Gospel. Someone is waiting for you to tell them the truth, will you? Ephesians 616, you can change version. Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. Have you put your faith implicitly in the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you really believe that God allowed Christ to die for our sins, to be buried and to rise again on a third day, according to the Scriptures? Are you sharing that truth with people who need the Lord? God will make you usable and use you if you are willing to allow that to happen. There are people waiting for you to tell them how to get to heaven. But do you have the faith to believe personally that you're going there? Not by works of righteousness which you have done, but according to God's mercy, he has saved you. Has he? If he has, you are saved to serve, and serving means sharing, and sharing means telling, and telling means telling the truth, and the truth is that Jesus saves. Will you let people know that they need to admit they have sinned, to believe in the Lord Jesus, to tell other people that they believe? We'll put together God's ABCs for you to give to people, if you will. You can. You can share God's wonderful plan of salvation with folk who need Jesus. Call, 812-867-2418. Let us know how many will prayerfully present to people who need the Lord. Pray, read God's Word, go with the Gospel. Call now, 812-867-2418. Listen to Ephesians 617, New King James. It begins, "And take the helmet of salvation." Have you done that? This helmet of salvation is the relationship that is established between you and God's only begotten sons, Jesus Christ. The way it happens is for you to repent of your sins, turn to Jesus from your sins, believing on the Lord Jesus personally, tell other people that you believe. Children and other people is so needed now in all of Christianity. Every person who is a believer in Christ needs to share the Gospel with people who are not yet believers. This is how you know you are for sure saved. You want people to go to heaven with you. The gift of God, eternal life, is available. So will you go with the Gospel? Will you tell people to admit they've sinned to believe on Christ to confess Him publicly? Will you do it today? We have tools for you. God's ABCs, these scriptures are in print. You can invite people to go to heaven with you. If you are going, don't go alone. Call 812-867-2418. That number? 812-867-2418. Let us know how many copies of God's ABCs you will prayerfully present to people who need Jesus. We'll pray for you if you'll allow us to do that, but you have to call us, and then we'll get those ABCs to you so that people you know can know Him to know right is life eternal. Ephesians 6, 17 concludes, and the sort of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. God's Word is available to you. By the way, if you have not sent for yours, we have a free copy of the Bible, New King James Version, for you. Or you can give it to somebody who needs the Lord inside the front flap, or God's ABCs. Inside back, God's top 10, the Ten Commandments. God's Word is quick and powerful. And as I said earlier, repeating what God's Word says sharper than a two-edged sword. And so what we need to do is take the sort of the Spirit, the Word of God, and share it with people. But first, hide it in your heart. Get a prayer partner and pray together about what you can do with the sort of the Spirit, and then take the Gospel to people who need Jesus. Use God's Word, share God's Word, and present God's Word. We have God's ABCs of salvation available to you, all scripture. Call 812-867-2418 to get yours. Let us know how many you will present to people, and we will send as many as you will prayerfully use. Call 812-867-2418. Take those parts of the sort of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and use them prayerfully and effectively. Again, call 812-867-2418, and we will send you the tools God's ABCs, His Word. If you have truly believed in the Lord Jesus, you have the privilege and power of prayer. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. Ephesians 16-18, New King James Version. If you have God's Word, and understand that He will allow you to talk with Him when you are praying constantly, and when you are praying consistently. God hears and answers prayer, and we have seen it time and time and time again. We need your prayers personally for the ministry that God has us to do. But what we really want to do is to multiply the ministry by having folklike you to become Christian communicators, tellers of the truth, to folk who need the Lord. That's why we offer you Bibles that are free, and God's ABCs. You can get yours by calling 812-867-2418. The ABCs are Romans 323, Romans 623, John 3 16, Romans 10, 9 and 10. Memorize those scriptures and take them to people who need the Lord. In printed form, they are available to you, 812-867-2418. Go with the Gospel, will you? There are people that can be reached if you will be the one to communicate the Gospel. Every Saturday at 727pm, you are invited to attend a live youth event at Triple T, 13,000 US-41 North at Boone Building Harmony Road, Midway between I-64 and Evansville Regional Airport. Every first Saturday, a good news club for ages 6 to 9 is available in a separate room. For more information, call 812-867-2418 or visit www.tripletchristianyouth.org. [Music] Tonight at Triple T at 727pm, we're going to be showing the movie The Harvest. It's a true story, and interestingly, one of the guys who is in the film, at least the person that his character plays, is a friend of ours. Person with whom we have had lots and lots of interactions, encounters, and continue to have happenings together to reach people with the Gospel. Jesus shares the harvest principles in Matthew 13, verses 1-52, using several parables. Jesus again speaks about the harvest. "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say there are still four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look to the fields. For they are already white for harvest. And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together." That's John 4, 34, 35, 36, New King James Version. Paul provides several specific evangelistic insights. "I planted, Apollo's watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor." That's 1 Corinthians 3, 6, 7, and 8, New King James Version. Praying intelligently for the harvest to happen is the need of the hour. Your personal input will help determine where to go when for fair share 2014. We have this dilemma. We have more fairs to go to than we have people and vehicles available. But God knows where we should be when and who should go where. And so we need your prayers and your support as we continue to determine what God would have us to do to go with the gospel. The theme last week was, "Watch, stand fast in the faith. Be brave, be strong, let all that you do be done with love." That's 1 Corinthians 16, 13, and 14. Tell me, challenge each person to stand fast in liberty, stand in the gospel, and be careful that they aren't trying to stand on their own strength. But stand and watch, find out what God wants you to do, and then do it. We showed a video briefly documenting fair share 2013, followed by the challenge to be involved in fair share 2014. The interview with Richard Comer, which was broadcast earlier last Saturday morning, was followed by videos of the traveling tigers during Triple T's 1500th consecutive Saturday. It featured two of Pastor Comer's daughters, another Pastor Friend's daughter, and several others. It brought back lots of memories and challenged current teenagers to prayerfully consider being 2014 traveling tigers. Icebreakers that Shelley put together in involvements followed the theme. Then each person grouped around the name of their county where they attend school. Everyone prayed for fair share 2014, and especially for their county, and asked God to guide regarding their personal participation. As always, the gospel was presented with an invitation to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Project Proclaim is going with the gospel in every possible way as effectively as we can. Tammy's working out the logistics and the training for 2014 fair share, and the plans will be implemented. Two adult couples, 16 college age BMW, that's Bible missionary work, training center students, and several 10 to 13 year olds will be coming. After being trained at Teen Missions International, they will arrive the first week of fair share. Then we have this wonderful, wonderful happening on the 12th of July. Jesus Christ changed in the world's Summit 25. It is in keeping with our culture, and it is a wonderful way to put together people who are also doing God's work, sharing the gospel with people. It's our culture of cooperation. And so as we gather on the 12th of July, it will be the end of the first week of five weeks of fair share 2014. We're excited about all the things that God is doing and what He wants us to do. And we're especially thrilled about the possibility of an impact, a continuing, ongoing impact in my hometown of Mount Carmel, Illinois, my home county of Wabash. We're going to be going at least twice, God willing this summer, with fair share there. And we'll be watching the Lord do tremendous things through people who love Him and those who need to know Him will be told about how they can go to Heaven. Again, God can make you usable and He can use you. We invite you to come tonight to watch the Harvest movie and to be informed about what God is wanting to do through folks just like you. Today at Triple T at 1130 begins Tiger Team Training. We have guys and girls that are coming in to be trained as traveling tigers for fair share 2014. We're excited about who's already made the commitment or who is endeavoring to make it, but we need more. And we are church centered, we are Bible believing, we are aggressively evangelistic as a ministry. Our vision, every youth before turning 20 to have the opportunity to hear the Gospel with an invitation to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The mission to communicate Christianity to and through teenagers, to win them to Christ and train them for Christ, teaching them how to share their faith through their local churches on their campuses, throughout their communities, into their world wherever God leads them in their future. We are privileged to work together with Teen Missions International. We are sponsoring 13 Motorcycle Sunday Schools in Asia and Africa. We're now in six different nations with one more coming up soon. And we have these 13 Motorcycle Sunday Schools that are being attended by an average of 100 to 200 kids every week across the world. The Gospel is always presented and they are taught and trained and they are faith sharers. And so it's a delight to do that along with our radio outreach now on 39 stations across the country and all the other things that happen between Saturdays. Our objective is to be involved in harvest evangelism, planting, watering and harvesting. Listen to Psalm 126, 6, New King James. He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. Seed time and harvest sowing and reaping is very biblical. The word harvest is used a total of 68 times in the New King James Version, 53 in the Old Testament, 15 in the New Testament. The first time is Genesis 6, 22, while the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and hot, winter and summer, and day and night, shall not cease. The first time in the New Testament is Matthew 9, 36 through 38. But when he Jesus saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd. Then he said his disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few, therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labors into his harvest." Lack of labors was the problem then and it's the problem today. More laborers is the need of the hour and the answer is the same, pray. The book "Reaching Youth for Christ" by Tori Johnson and Bob Cook was first distributed in October 1944 as the Chicago Stadium Victory Rally, just 13 weeks after Chicago Land Youth for Christ began on May the 27th, 1944 at Orchestra Hall. The chapter "Getting Started in Your Town" says the first, second and third things to do in "Getting Started" are in order of their importance, one pray, two pray, three pray. Organization is not the prime factor, as you might expect. It's important, but more well-intentioned schemes have gone adrift upon the rocks of organizational prayerlessness than anywhere else. Triple T was born through Bible-based prayer power. Again and again, God has heard and answered prayer for over 48 years and counting. In 1973, "Youth of Amazon Association" began by prayer. It's a network of ministries to teenagers using a biblical approach in ministry methods and standards. Each affiliate is locally governed using a variety of ideas and methods that is consistent in behavior and an endeavor to reach teenagers effectively. The plan of salvation and an invitation to publicly profess personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is included in all public meetings. And we've been involved in this since its very, very inception in 1973. And consistently, we have gone with the gospel. We have seen it happen again and again, and we praise the Lord for what He has done and for the privilege of talking with you. My heart's desire and prayer is to keep going with the gospel, keep praying and keep listening. We have more to share. If you are a believer in Christ, will you please pray as we continue to develop the Tiger Team Impact Key Action Plan? Tiger means teens involved going evangelizing regularly. Team means to gather everyone accomplishes more. Impact, I must personally advance Christianity today. Key, keep evangelizing youth. It's an action plan. Training and resources for adult youth workers, equipping them to serve as coaches in local Bible believing churches and organizations. Tiger Team Youth trained in peer evangelism and encouraged and supported by adult youth worker coaches are challenged to implement evangelistic youth efforts to impact their communities for Christ. You too are invited to pray, get utter believers, adults and youth where you live to pray with you. Together, claim your community for Christ. Jesus says, "And again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask will be done for them by my Father in Heaven, for where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there for them." That's Matthew 18, 1920, New King James Version. And so you can be a partner, you can be a Tiger Team Encourager in larger or expander when you pray and give to the Lord through TTT Christian Youth Ministries, you help keep the harvest happening. We invite you to come tonight or any Saturday night to TTT. You'll learn more about us and we will give you a copy of the New King James Bible that you will see a copy of our billboard on the front cover. And then on the inside flap you will find God's ABCs. We've shared it before but I want to reiterate it one more time. A, admit you've sinned, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3, 23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God has eternal life. In Christ Jesus our Lord, Romans 6, 23. Be believe on Christ, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that who believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life, John 3, 16. See, confess Christ publicly, that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes under righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation, Romans 10, 9, and 10. When you turn to the Lord Jesus from your sins, and believe on him, receiving God's gift of eternal life through Jesus, you have four opportunities, privileges, and responsibilities. As a believer now, you can pray anytime, any place. When you pray in Jesus' name, God the Father hears you. You can find answers to problems of all kinds and directions for all of your tomorrows by reading the Bible and responding to the messages in this holy, inspired, inerrant, changeless Word of God. When you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you become a member of God's family, and you can find fellowship with other Christians by getting involved in a Bible believing church, Sunday school and youth group. The greatest way to grow in Christ is to share your faith in him with your family and your friends. The inside back cover of the Bible that you'll be given when you come to Triple T is God's top ten, the Ten Commandments. God's top ten are more than guidelines, they are commandments. You now have the power to say yes to purity, and no to premarital sex, alcohol, drugs, and tobacco. Here's how. As a believer, be all you can be for God's glory. Respond to the challenge of Romans 12, 1 and 2. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Christ through you can change the world. Every Saturday at 7.27 p.m. you are invited to attend a live youth event at Triple T, 13,000 US-41 North at Boone Building Harmony Road, midway between I-64 and Evansville Regional Airport. Every first Saturday, a good news club for ages 6 to 9 is available in a separate room. For more information, call 812-867-2418 or visit www.tripletchristianyouth.org. For your free copy of The Telling the Truth newsletter, call 812-867-2418, 812-867-2418, or write Triple T, 13,000 US-41 North, Evansville, Indiana, 477-25. Tune in to Telling the Truth next week at the same time on this same station. [MUSIC]