Telling The TRUTH
100712 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. Even the righteousness of God, which is through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and all who believe, for there is no difference. Romans 3.22, New King James. God's Word is clear. God is no respecter of persons. Everybody, everywhere, can become a child of God, no matter what the background, what environment, what the heritage. God is willing to save to the uttermost those who are willing to put their trust in His Son, Jesus Christ. Have you done this? If you have it, you can today. Believe, receive, and then tell people. God wants every one of us to be members of His family, but He is not going to force the issue. He leaves a decision up to every individual and there is no difference. So, when you as a believer in Christ are willing to share your faith in Him with others, the multiplication takes place. When you share Christ with someone, and they believe, and they share Christ, and another believes, and then another, and another, that's the way the gospel goes forth. It's been that way since the beginning, and it continues every single day. So, there's a specific question I want to ask you. Will you participate? God is willing to forgive you and me of every trespass, of every mess up, every shortcoming, every sin, and all of the above is sin. Sin separates us from the Lord. Listen to Romans 325, New King James Version, whom God set forth to be a propitiation by His blood through faith to demonstrate His righteousness because in His forbearance, God had passed over the sins that were previously committed. That's right. God passes over our sins when we confess them to Him and ask Him to forgive us. When we turn to Jesus from our sins, it's an about face. It's receiving God's grace. His forgiveness is available, and there are people who are hurting, who don't know that, and you and I have the privilege of telling anyone, everyone that we possibly can, to admit they have sinned, to turn to Jesus from their sins, to really believe on Him, and then to tell others they believe that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. When we share that message, God works wonderfully in the hearts of people who will respond. So what will you do about that message today? Will you pray for people? Will you pray with other believers? Will you read the Word of God? Wonderful things have happened for everyone who has believed on Christ and turned to Him from their sins. Listen to Romans 326, New King James, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Listen to that again. His righteousness that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus, is that you? I hope it is, because when He is just and the justifier, God makes everything totally different than it was before. In every aspect of the life of every believer, but there are people out there who do not understand the Word of God. They have never read the Scriptures. They have never known that Christ died for their sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He rose again on the third day for them to be just and the justifier. So whom will you tell? Will you pray with other believers? Will you read the Word of God? Will you pray consistently as you go and tell the truth to someone who needs the Lord? Someone is waiting. You have to make the decision to go to them and tell them that Jesus loves them if they'll believe they can be saved. Listen to Romans 327, New King James Version. Where is boasting then? It is excluded by what law of works? No, but by the law of faith. What is the law of faith? It's when implicit faith is placed in the shed blood of Jesus Christ for the cleansing of the sin of the individual who will believe on the Lord Jesus. It is that faith that is the first faith step toward many to come in all of the tomorrow's of the believer. But until the first step is taken, until redemption happens, until the individual is born again by the Holy Spirit, then nothing can happen no matter how much faith is placed in what or whomever except the Lord Jesus. So when we understand that, let's share the law of faith to people who need to know Christ and let's help them know that their sins can be forgiven no matter what they have done nor with whom they have done it nor to whom. God is willing to forgive. But first, the faith must be placed in God the Son, Jesus Christ. Share it. That's who Jesus is. The forgiver and the giver of life that lasts forever. Somebody is waiting to hear that story. Will you tell them? Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. Romans 3, 28, New King James Version. The plan of salvation is an explanation of faith in Christ and what it does. It begins by believing after we have confessed our sins to the Lord and turn to Him from our sins, believing then we are to share. If you will confess with your mouth, the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved for with the heart when believes under righteousness and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. Are you willing to be a confessor of Christ that way? We have something for you. We have a packet of God's ABCs we want to send to you free. All you have to do is to request them. You can call us or you can write us and let us know how many ABCs you can prayerfully use to give to people who need the Lord. It's one way you can multiply your ministry and ours together as we partner in sharing the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus with people who need Him. That telephone number is area code 812-867-2418. That's 812-867-2418. Call and we'll send you ABCs. If you have believed on the Lord Jesus and you have turned to Him from your sins and you are willing to tell others we have something special for you. It's called God's ABCs. The plan of salvation Romans 3 23, Romans 6 23, John 3 16, Romans 10 9 and 10 all spelled out behind the message believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. To get yours simply write our call us now. Area code 812-867-2418. That number again area code 812-867-2418. And we will send you as many ABCs as you would like to have. They are small but they are God's Word and you can share them. We will send you your ABCs as many as you want. Just let us know how many you would like to have. Romans 3 30, New King James says, "Since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. It becomes our opportunity to help people place their faith in Christ but they have to hear and you are the one who can tell them. So will you pray with other believers, read the Word of God and then go with the gospel. Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not. On the contrary we establish the law. Romans 3 31, New King James Version. If law is the moral law then the gospel fulfills it because it is through Christ that people are empowered by the Holy Spirit to live in a way that pleases God. The faith factor makes all the difference in the world. We need to tell people to put their faith in Christ. That's why we are offering to you God's plan of salvation, the ABCs of the gospel, that you can give to as many people as you would like because of their need for knowing how to receive the gift of God, eternal life. Just write to us or call us and we will get them to you. We want you to know that what people need to do is to admit they have sinned, to believe on Christ, to confess Him publicly, and God will wonderfully give the new birth to the new believer. Pray, fellowshiping with other believers, read God's Word, and then do what the gospel tells us to do, which is to share it. That's what Jesus said, "Go, and we can go. You can go to people you know who need to know Him, whom to know are right is life eternal." 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. Triple T Christian Youth Ministries is a coalition with Teen Missions International, AIDS Orphans and Street Children, and Motorcycle Sunny School Mission. AIDS Orphans and Street Children has made a tremendous difference in the lives of so many orphans and widows. Currently, Teen Missions has 39 AIDS Orphans rescue units, and each of them are doing amazing outreaches in their communities. Not only are orphans provided with school fees and supplies, needed medications, agricultural training and spiritual help, but many others in the surrounding villages have benefited as well. The orphans have formed work teams to assist in gathering firewood, picking up trash, repairing roads as well as assisting area widows and gardening. The stigma normally associated with these orphans is that they are useless as individuals, and they are invaluable. These projects prove that although disadvantaged, they can think of others and find joy in assisting those around them. The children also enjoy singing, and the community listens, and as they go door to door to share about Jesus, the transformed lives of these children are a great testimony, and many have accepted Christ as their Savior. The Lord willing, Teen Missions plans to build an AIDS Orphans rescue unit in southern Sudan in the summer of 2013, using one of the North American teams. This new country has endured wars of civil action, genocide and fear, and the appreciation of your prayers is just tremendous for this brand new AIDS Orphans rescue unit. Pray that it will be a light in the darkness and that these people will learn the hope that is found in Christ. Trippetication Youth Ministries is sponsoring two of these AIDS Orphans rescue units and eleven motorcycle Sunday schools across Africa. Teen Missions is currently running 38 boot camps around the world, and each year over 3,000 national young people go through the program. As a result of their participation, churches are being built, youth camps refurbished, service projects such as outhouses and bridges completed, children's programs are carried out. The gospel is being shared through films and drama and choirs and sports outreaches and door-to-door evangelism. Teens come to the program from all walks of life and at different points in their spiritual journey. Teen Missions is blessed each year to hear the testimonies of how the Lord has changed lives. Some are impacted by memorizing Bible verses, others by seeing an answer to prayer, and thankfully many accept Jesus as their personal Savior. As we travel the world, we can find former teen members who stop and say God has used teen missions to change their lives, and many are continuing to serve the Lord in many, many different places. There are Bible missionary and work training centers now, in country after country. There are now 24 schools on several continents, and the graduates are facilitators at the AIDS-arphones rescue units, the motorcycle Sunday school mission. There are circuit riders, and several are running and working at many of the overseas bases. In Indonesia, they have added a government-approved bachelor's program that certifies the graduates to be teachers of religion and Bible in that country. Many graduates have gone on to be pastors of churches or hold other ministry positions. Here at the United States base at Bear Island, Florida, students are invaluable in their ministry and in the setup of the life-sized tabernacles and the boot camp itself. During their year-long turn-turnships, they provide needed assistance to overseas bases and even some, hopefully, here at Triple T. We're excited to be a part of Teen Missions International to partner together as we have done for lots and lots of years now, and we thank the Lord for the privilege that we have of serving Him together. We want you to know that we tithe every dollar that comes in to Triple T. Christian Youth Ministries to the Motorcycle Sunday School Mission because we want to keep them going. We were able to establish 11 of them last year. We're maintaining 11 this year and hoping by December the 12th, 2012, to add our 12th Motorcycle Sunday School Unit. This is the way it works. It's like the old-fashioned Methodist Circuit Riders. There are two facilitators who ride motorcycles back into the jungle. They provide a Sunday School for the village, and the kids come into the Sunday School. They learn phonetics. They learn the gospel. They memorize the Scripture. They learn all kinds of things to help them go forward, and many of them are teaching even their grandmothers. Almost all of the kids are orphans whose parents have died of AIDS, but some of their elderly aunts or grandmothers are still there, and so they share with them, helping them learn to write after reading. And so it's a magnificent ministry, and we're delighted to be a part of all of that, and to help people understand that God loves them, and Jesus died for them, and if they will believe in the Lord Jesus, they can have life that lasts forever. One of the marvelous things that we do through teen missions, outreaches, and the rescue units is to teach the orphans how to plant vegetables, especially pumpkins and things like that, how to cultivate it, how to cook it, how to prepare it, how to do all kinds of things with it. And it's a very nourishing thing for them and for their families, and for some of the friends whom they can reach out to as they go out into their villages. And so God's working around the world, and we're thrilled to be a part of all of this. We need you to pray with us and for us, and prayerfully consider being a Tiger teammate. Did you know that by just giving $20, you can supply a scholarship for another teen or preteen to be trained in peer evangelism, and leadership? It can happen when you send just $20. Others of you can go beyond that, giving $20 or more monthly. Whatever God leads you to do, prayerfully consider doing it now. We're going to give you more information in just a few moments, so I want you to stay tuned. But meanwhile know that we have had the wonderful opportunity of sharing the gospel out across the tri-state already this fall. We've been in all three states. We've been in community after community, and we have had the opportunity of sharing God's Word and of seeing people come to know Jesus. And we want to multiply this ministry by going again and again and again and having people like you to participate and to partner with us in every possible manner and means that you possibly can. And so prayerfully consider being a Tiger teammate. Whatever category God leads you to, certainly to start by a $20 contribution, letting us know that you're praying. Now, here's the address. It's TTT Christian Youth Ministries. 13,000, that's 1-3-0-0-0 U.S. Highway 41 North. Evansville, Indiana 477-25 That address again. TTT, 13,000 U.S. Highway 41 North. Evansville, Indiana 477-25 Or you can call us. Here we go to 812-867-2418. We invite you to come tonight to Triple T. It's going to be an exciting happening. It's a super Saturday and so everybody is welcome. We have a good news club. What we call the outreach opportunity for kids between the eighties of six and nine in a separate venue. And they're all going to be able to devour the free corn dogs tonight at Triple T. And of course youth workers who bring them get their share. Teenagers, preteens. And we invite you to check us out to see what's going to happen tonight. We have an exciting group coming. They are a band and they're coming to us from Bone Gap and West Salem, Illinois. And I heard them when we were in their meeting place just a couple of weeks ago and invited them to come and be with us at our next super Saturday, which is tonight, October 6th. So come and bring some friends and have a marvelous, marvelous Saturday. Stay tuned. As I shared with you, Triple T. Christian Youth Ministries, partners with other ministries in every way that we possibly can. And one of our special partners is Teen Missions International and their divisions, AIDS orphans and street children, and the Motorcycle Sunday School Mission. Motorcycle Sunday School Mission has a goal by 12-12-12 of having 212 Sunday schools across Africa. Triple T now has 11. We want to have our 12th one by that date too. So pray with us and for us as we reach out and as we cooperate in every possible way, we have sent teenagers from the tri-state around the world through Teen Missions International. The slogan, "Gole, get dirty for God" and they've spent their summers out in various places on every continent that's populated and in many, many different countries. This coming year, in 2013, teen missions will be sending teens, teenagers and preteens to Canada to the United States right here at Triple T this summer, to the Bahamas to Belize to Haiti to Honduras to Panama to Ecuador to Peru, to Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Estonia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Israel, and in Africa, southern Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Cameroon, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, South Africa, teens will be going to Russia, to Mongolia, to India, to Myanmar, to Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, and on it goes, and as these young people and very special adults as leaders go, they will be making an impact that will last far, far, far beyond the summer, and again, we're excited about the fact that we'll be hosting a team again. Here at Triple T this summer, they'll be coming after they have trapeced across the Appalachian Trail, and it is so exciting to work with these youth from everywhere. Last summer they came from, I forgot how many states, but a whole bunch of them, I think it was 10 or 11 different states, and this summer, they're coming again, a different team will be on its way here, and they'll be going out to the fairs when we do what we call fair share, we're hoping to enlarge our tents and to go to more different fairs than we've been able to go to in the past. Last summer we were at 11, so before that we were at 10, and this summer we hoped to go to 20, that's the goal, that's the hope on the horizon, if we have enough vehicles and we have enough people and enough leaders, we can do it, we need your prayers and your support to cause this to happen, again, we invite you to personally be a Tiger teammate. As I said before, I'll repeat, Tiger means teens involved going evangelizing regularly. We invite you to check us out. We have a display of what God has done across the decades, across the years that we've been privileged to be here, 46 and a half years now, moving toward our 47th birthday this coming February, and meanwhile, we are thrilled about what God has already done, but really anticipatory about what he's going to do in the days ahead. As God brings more people into the picture, as we have more Tigers, teens involved going evangelizing regularly, trained in pure evangelism, and youth leadership, we're going to be able to make a larger and larger impact on more and more communities for Christ, and so you are invited to be a teammate, 20 dollars gets you started, and that provides a scholarship for another teen or pre-teen. It's been our privilege to host teens from teen missions across many, many years, we've only had one summer where we didn't have the opportunity of working together here, although we've been there every year since 1980, and we've been privileged to share there, we've been privileged to challenge people from there who are from everywhere when they get back from their mission trip, to go back and get a Bible Club going or growing on their campuses and to put together a Tiger Team Impact Evangelistic Youth effort, and that's what we're working toward now across the tri-state, and we need your prayers and your support to make it happen, so if you're listening to this broadcast, if you don't send anything, let us know you're hearing us, and if you're a Christian that you're praying for us, and if you're willing, then to please send something. Christ through you can change the world. Every Saturday at 7.27pm, 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, 477-25. Tune in to Telling the Truth next week at this same time on This Same Station. [MUSIC] (dramatic music)