Telling The TRUTH
101312 Telling The Truth 28 Minute Program
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 Dooms. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 4, 5, New King James Version says, "But to Him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, His faith is accounted for righteousness." God's Word lets us know that it's not the works we do, but it's the faith that we have in the Lord Jesus that provides life that lasts forever. In recent days and hours, four faithful friends who have been serving the Lord have gone to their heavenly reward. What about you? What if your life would suddenly end? Are you ready? What are you doing right now to tell people about Jesus? Are you praying? Are you reading the Word of God? Are you fellowshipping with other believers? And are you taking the gospel to those who need to know Him but who don't know Him? The need is so apparent, so obvious and so urgent, but only folk who know Jesus can share Him with those who don't. Will you be one of those to communicate Christianity today to someone who needs the Lord? Have you personally admitted you are a sin? Have you turned to Jesus from your sins? Have you believed? Have you trusted? Have you received the gift of God eternal life from Christ Himself? If so, you're headed for heaven. Tell others how they can go. For we say that faith was a Canada Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4 9 B, New King James Version. righteousness in every other aspect of life follows faith. Faith is the most important thing that anyone can possess. The more faith you have in God, in the Lord Jesus, in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, the more you can accomplish that will glorify the Lord. God wants you to pray. He wants you to read His Word. He wants you to understand what faith is all about, and the Word of God is filled with all kinds of admonitions about faith. And then God wants you to fellowship with others who are of the faith, the faith that is placed implicitly in Christ Jesus. To pray with those people about those who don't know the Lord is a privilege, an honor, an opportunity, and a responsibility. Pray for people who need to know, who don't know Jesus, and then take the gospel to them. Let them know that Jesus died. He was buried, and He rose again because of our sins. When they believe, when they trust, then they receive God's gift of eternal life. Abraham had faith. Listen to Romans 4 13, New King James Version. For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Isn't that exciting? The righteousness of faith. That can be yours also. Maybe not quite to the degree that it was for Abraham, but God has something for you to do that Abraham couldn't because you are alive now and Abraham is gone. There are people in your world for whom you can pray. You can read the Word of God. You can memorize the Word of God. You can share the Word of God. You can fellowship around the Word of God with other believers, and then you can take the Word of God to people who need the Lord. Let them know that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Let them know that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Let them know that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that her believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Let them know that they need to confess Christ publicly, believing that God raised Him from the dead. Share that story. Share that gospel. Share that message. Share it today. Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. Romans 4, 16, New King James. Abraham, the father of us all, why? Because of his faith. There was no doubting. There was no faltering. There was the fact of faith on Abraham's part that allowed him and his seed to continue to populate planet earth. God wants you to know that we too have the opportunity of having seeds planted and having those seeds bring forth fruit. The seeds of the gospel need to be shared, need to be scattered, need to be given, implanted in the hearts of people. Will you pray for God to make you usable and use you? Will you pray with other believers and for them, and then will you heed the word of God? Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Will you do that? Will you take the gospel to folk who need the Lord? You can if you will, and I hope your answer is yes. Only you can decide. You can pray. You can go. Will you today? Do you know how much faith Abraham had? Listen to Romans 4, 19, New King James. And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead, since he was about 100 years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. That's pretty intriguing, isn't it? Abraham, even though he was 100 years old, believed God, they were going to have a baby. He didn't consider it the physical factor, he just put his faith and trust in God, and God blessed Abraham, rewarded his faith, and gave us the privilege of living on planet earth because Abraham believed. Do you really believe that God can make you usable and use you to impact your world for Jesus? You can, if you will. It starts with prayer, and then you read God's word. You listen to what the Lord says to you, and you do what he says to do. You fellowship with others who are also believers in the Lord Jesus, and to gather, you plan how to go with the gospel to the most possible people in the shortest possible time. Do you have those prayer partners? Are you willing to really buy faith, trust that God will help you go, share the gospel with people who don't know Jesus yet? Are you a doubter, or are you a believer? Abraham was not a doubter, he really believed. Romans 4, 20, New King James Version says, "He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God." That's the key, giving glory to God. Whatever he has done, is doing, and you believe wants to do in you, through you, and for you, give glory to God. God is willing to hear your prayers, He is willing to answer your prayers, He is willing to do what He promises to do in His word. So read the Word of God, and heed the Word of God. Be in fellowship with other believers, and together trust God to make you usable, and use you to reach people who are unreached. As you pray, ask God to give you the right timing, the right approach, the right happenings to take the gospel to folk who really need the Lord. God wants you to be a Christian communicator. He wants you to be a gospelizer, but it's up to you. You have to make that determination in your heart of hearts. Put your faith implicitly in the Lord Jesus, and tell people about Him. Romans 5, 1, New King James, gives us the assurance, gives us the knowledge, that because of our faith, our belief, our trust, something wonderful is happening. Listen, therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. It's the only way to have peace, to have faith. And if you don't have faith, the peace will be false and very, very short lived. But if your faith is implicitly placed in Jesus Christ who died for our sins, who was buried and who rose again on the third day to provide for us eternal life, then we have something magnificent to look forward to. As I have gone through a week of losing four friends, my age, who were serving the Lord and are suddenly gone, it was a sobering series of moments and still is. So what I want to do is spend the rest of my tomorrow's getting the gospel to as many people as possible and challenging you and others to do likewise. Let's determine we are going to be ambassadors of God's good news, that we are going to take the gospel to people as quickly as we can to as many as we can as effectively as we can. Just pray, then read God's Word and fellowship with others and then don't just sit back, but go tell somebody. Tell them the truth. I am the way, the truth and the life. Newman comes to the Father except by me, Jesus said. 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 Booneville and 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. Life is short, death is sure, sin the curse, Christ the cure. Listen to God's Word, 1 Corinthians chapter 15, beginning with verse 50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit in corruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, therefore my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Those are magnificent words from God's Word, and I hope that you will maybe take a moment and read that very special 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians. Saturday nights are always different. Energetic understates the atmosphere at triple T last Saturday. The icebreaker demonstrated, but you be watchful in all things, as three students observed items placed on a table with a cover over them, and when the cover was removed, each was to name as many of the items as possible by taking a few seconds to look, memorize, and tell what they saw. The winner named five out of about twenty items. The involvement showed endure afflictions, as the audience divided into two teams, facing each other and picked up soft plastic globes to toss toward each other and when hit to be eliminated. The inspiration time presented the Scripture 2 Timothy 4.5. But you be watchful in all things; endure afflictions, do the work of evangelist, fulfill your ministry. B.G. W.S. Mann, believed God win souls, shared four songs with the audience. The band raged in age from five to fifty. The group from Bone Gap, West Salem, and Illinois was enthusiastically received. Tammy presented some fascinating facts from the Civil War. When Union soldiers found a lost copy of Confederate battle plans, it was a major turning point of the war. In October 1862, a group of Quaker ladies met for prayer with President Abraham Lincoln in his office, and he responded to Eliza Gurney, "I am glad of this interview, and glad to know that I have your sympathy and prayers. We are indeed going through a great trial, a fiery trial, in a very responsible position in which I happen to be placed, being a humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father, as I am and as we all are, to work out His great purposes. I have desired that all my works and acts may be according to His will, that it might be so. I have sought His aid, but if after endeavoring to do my best in the light of which He affords me, I find my efforts fail. I must believe that for some purpose unknown to me, He wills it otherwise. If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way, this war would have been ended before this, but we find it still continues. And we must believe that He permits it for some wise purpose of His own, mysterious and unknown to us, and though with our limited understanding we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it. Then I told how I had received the shocking news as I arrived at our Triple T Fall Festival booth on Monday morning that my longtime friend, Dr. Bryant Bloss, was on a fatal automobile accident the night before. Then someone from a radio station came in to inform us that another friend, Don Kegel, former Triple T board member whom I had helped put together a Christian radio station, had died that morning. Then I received a phone call about 2 p.m. Friday asking for prayer for the family of Dr. Jim Murray, former president of Oakland City University, saying Jim is probably going to see Jesus in the next few hours at 6 p.m. Friday, Dr. Murray passed into eternity. All three of these contemporaries do how to do the work of evangelists, each in his own unique ministry helped get the gospel to thousands. Dr. Bloss was a part of a ministry called Sports World, and it was my privilege to serve as a chaplain for that particular ministry when they first came to the tri-state area. Then I was asked if I could find someone or point them to someone who had a real interest in sports and in kids, and who could serve as the chairman. I said, "Yes, I do." He's an orthopedic surgeon. His name is Dr. Bryant Bloss, and the rest is history. Not only did he serve as the chairman of that outreach, but he later became a member of the board of that national organization and served for many, many years, and the gospel went through former athletes, guys that were pro football players with the NFL, who shared their faith in high school assemblies, and afterward shared one-on-one with people, teenagers, who asked questions, and they were responded by saying yes to Jesus. John Cable and I trafed across the Evansville area looking for a site, for a tower, for a radio station, and we thought we could put it here at triple T. We had the right location, one problem. We were too close to the airport and in the paths of the flights that were coming in and out, and so it didn't work. But we kept looking and kept praying and kept hoping, and for the first several years we had the privilege of being on that radio station twice every day. Now we're on 34 radio stations across America on a daily basis. God has been very gracious and very good, but I'll miss Don. His wife died just a few months earlier, and now they're together in eternity. Dr. Jim Murray was not only the president of a university, but he was an outstanding evangelist, and he traveled across America sharing Jesus in all kinds of venues and situations. He had served in the Marine Corps. He was a lieutenant colonel. He served in Korea and Vietnam. He was wounded in action, and he received medals and honors, and then he got into education and became the president of Oakland City and served there for many, many years. Tammy and I served under him as we taught a joint class at Oakland City University in youth evangelism and the foundations of youth ministry. Only one life will soon be passed. Only what's done for Christ will last. When I present the gospel and give an invitation to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, I'm expecting results. And when a hand is raised, we always say, we are here for you. We will pray with you personally, one-on-one. This invitation never closes. We are always here. And then I challenged every person to personify 2 Timothy 4-5 to fulfill your ministry, going with the gospel from now the rest of our lives. I challenge you, as I did the crowd Saturday night, to do precisely that. Thousands saw the message, "Believe on the Lord Jesus on both sides of Triple T's thirsty tooth food booth on Evansville's West Franklin Street, October 1-6. Forty different individuals helped to make the project a success. We are very grateful for everyone who was involved. People learned about the need for a million times for digital to place a large, constantly changing sign at Triple T facing US Highway 41. More than 25,000 vehicles passed by Triple T daily. The gospel will be displayed along with info and invitations at Triple T happenings. Please pray for this dream to be realized soon. And flat screen TVs will project the message at strategic points inside Triple T. Computer upgrades are needed now to keep the ministry moving forward. The life-sized replica of the Old Testament tabernacle is coming back to Triple T. The trailer should be along Boomville and Harmony Road later in October. By May 2013, the large tabernacle courtyard and furniture should be ready to be toured through the next October. Please pray about this major project and watch for updates on the progress. Youth Evangelism Association's annual convention is to be at Teen Missions International, Merid Island, Florida, October 22-25. Please pray for the leaders and all who will attend. The 40th anniversary, YEA Convention and Youth Workers' Intensive Training and Schedule for October 14-17, 2013 at Triple T. We'll keep you informed about what's happening here at Triple T, especially as the Youth Evangelism Convention comes this way next October. It will be the 40th anniversary of YEA. It was my privilege to be the organizing chairman. In fact, Youth Evangelism Association was named in our living room. The founders took it and ran with it, and it has spread all over America, and were delighted that it's still going and God's doing wonderful things. It was my privilege to serve as vice president under Al Metzger as our first president, and then later become the president for nine years. Now, Tammy Lee Dooms, the vice president of Triple T, is the president of Youth Evangelism Association. We really are thankful for what has happened and all the people that have been involved in every aspect of our ministry. We're so grateful for everyone who gives of their time, their talent, and their treasure to the Lord through Triple T. Those of us who served him at Fall Festival, Triple T. Saturday nights, and other evangelistic youth efforts know that our labor is not in vain in the Lord. It was a real delight to meet Dr. Tom Miller's wife, Janet, and her sister, Evelyn Stair, last Friday, and receive a very special gift. It was an honor for Tom, who accepted Christ at Triple T as a high school senior, to bring his wife and sister-in-law to the rally the first Saturday of October. Tom is a physician now in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Metroplex, and a longtime Tiger teammate. He was last here for Triple T's 2000th Saturday. It was the light to have fellowship with these folk and to show them what God has done and His doing to take them on the little tour of what we call the ongoing story of youth of evangelism in America from 1931 right up to now and projected on into the future. Mary and I had the privilege of going to my high school class get together in Mount Carmel, Illinois. There, my classmate Jean Camp, who was being inducted into the Mount Carmel High School Hall of Fame, was sitting by men informed me that my former next-door neighbor and friend since fourth grade was not expected to live more than two or three days. So Mary and I drove to Vincennes to see Jean Dean, his wife Maxine, and their daughter Bonnie. I was privileged to pray with Jean, and then with and for the family. As I was writing our prayer email, my cell phone rang with the news that Jean went to be with Jesus just a few hours after I was with him. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. The wonderful comfort is knowing that four friends and contemporaries are now in their heavenly home, but their families and friends will miss them. They'll miss them immensely, please pray much for them. Every one of these four and their wives were here at triple T on one or more occasions, some of them on many occasions. We need to pray, pray for one another. Whatever you are facing, in sorrow or joy, pray without ceasing. Tell us how to pray for you. We really, really care. God has a special plan for you, as he does for me. And my goal is to help you find what God wants you to do and to do it as effectively and as quickly as possible. We covet your prayers for us as we continue to go with the Gospel. We do a lot of traveling, and it's going to be wonderful to continue to have fellowship with other believers in various parts of the country as we go there as they come here. And then as we keep crisscrossing the tri-state, going to Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, churches and venues, wherever God opens doors of opportunity to continue this broadcast, going into your home or your car or your situation, wherever you are hearing us, maybe by podcast. But here is what we want you to know. You can be a Tiger teammate. You can invest time and talent and treasure. And if you will, God will bless you abundantly. We need your help to reach more people, more urgently, more effectively, with God's glorious Gospel. Listen to us, TTT Christian Youth Ministries, 13,000, that's 1-3-0-0-0, US Highway 41 North, Evansville, Indiana, 4-7-7-2-5. Let us know how we can pray for you and let us know that you are praying for us. If you want to touch something in the envelope to help us reach another youth with the Gospel, then do it. God bless you. 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 Booneville and 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, 4-7-7-2-5. Tune in to Telling the Truth next week at the same time on this same station. [MUSIC] (dramatic music)