Telling The TRUTH
051212 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. Has anyone ever done you wrong? Have you ever felt really, really oppressed because of outward circumstances? Listen to 1 Peter 2.19, New King James Version. For this is commendable. If because of conscience toward God, one endures grief, suffering wrongfully. God wants us to understand that nothing is going to come our way that's too hot for us to handle. He's not going to give us the guidance and direction and help that are necessary unless we turn to Him. Yes, sometimes things happen that are not right, not good, and grief comes our way because others inflicted it. But let's love everyone we possibly can, and that means everyone. God says to love Him with all of our heart. Love the Lord your God, and then others, your neighbor as yourself. We try to practice the joy formula in our ministry. Jesus first, others second, yourself last. But keep yourself in tune with the Lord. Pray, read His word, fellowship with other believers, and then go with the gospel to those who need Jesus. Some of them probably have caused you to suffer wrongfully. Share God's love with each one of them. Know that when you do this, things change. There's a big difference between the what and the why things happen. Listen to 1 Peter 2.20, New King James Version. For what credit is it, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently. But when you do good and suffer for it, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. Get the difference. If you're beaten because you have done things that are not right and don't complain, you don't get brownie points. But if you do good stuff, and you suffer for doing good, and you are patient and painstakingly able to be forgiving of those who are punishing you, then God commends you. This is commendable before God, the Bible says, so be careful what you do and always look at the why because the why is extremely important, much more than the what. The greatest why you can ask is why did Jesus Christ really die? He died for sinners, to save them, to redeem them. He died for you and me. He will forgive us and them once we and they believe on Him. Will you take that message to someone now? Pray. Read the word of God, and then go with the gospel. Are you having difficulties? You feel like someone is trying to do you in? Are you suffering? How badly are you suffering? Listen to the comparison between what happens to us and what happened to Jesus. First Peter, 221, New King James, for to this you were called because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow His steps. Have you ever sweat great drops of blood? Have you been nailed to a cross? Have you, and you can fill in the blanks? Can you compare in any way what has happened to you and what Jesus did for you? The answer is very definitely no. God wants us to understand that Jesus died in our behalf. And yes, we do go through some difficulties, some problems come our way, even some suffering. But it is nothing compared to what Jesus did for us, and we are to identify with His suffering. When we do this, sometimes we have a greater compassion for the lost, for people who don't know Jesus, who won't go to heaven unless someone tells them how. Will you be that someone? Let them know that Christ died for their sins, He was buried and He rose again. Listen to this very special scripture talking about Jesus, who committed no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth. That's 1 Peter 222, New King James Version. What a wonderful scripture that is about the suffering Christ, the Christ who died because you and I have sinned, and He never sinned. The Christ who spoke only the right things, the things that God wanted Him to speak as His Son. God wants you and me to understand that Jesus needs to be lifted high. We need to, as much as possible, follow Him. We need to abide in Him because He abides in us. We need to understand that once we have believed on Christ, the Holy Spirit indwells us, and we have the comforter within, and we have the privilege of going with the truth. Let's pray, fellowship with other believers, as we read God's Word and heed God's Word, and then let's tell people Jesus saves. Tell them to admit that they have sinned, to believe on Christ, and then to stand up and be counted for Him, to confess with their mouths the Lord Jesus, believing in their hearts that God did indeed raise them from the dead. Listen to these special words about the Lord Jesus. Who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return? When He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously. 1 Peter 2, 23, New King James. That's who Jesus is. Reviled, but didn't respond. Didn't reach out or lash out to others. Suffered, but didn't threaten others when He did suffer. But instead, He committed Himself to Him, God the Father, who judges righteously. God is not a respecter of persons, and He knew that Jesus was going to have these difficulties. Because He is omniscient, He knows everything. He is omnipotent, all-powerful, and Christ died for you and me. He didn't need to die for Himself. He was perfect. But you are not perfect, and I am not perfect. And so that's why Jesus had to suffer and die, for us, and all others who have sinned. Now we need to live for Him. We need to tell other people how they, by trusting Jesus, can live forever. Are you praying for someone? Are you praying with someone for that someone, and will you go to that someone with the gospel? Listen very carefully to 1 Peter 2, 24, New King James, who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed. That says a lot, doesn't it? That explains the why of Jesus dying, to bear our sins on Himself. It was His body that was almost mutilated. Can you understand what Jesus did for you, because you were a sinner? I know what He did for me, because I am a sinner, and I am so glad that we can now die to sin through Jesus, and then we can live for righteousness, because it was by His stripes we were healed. God did it for us. Yes, discouraging that Jesus went through was awful, terrible, but He did it for your sins and my sins, for you and for me. And now we need to tell other people, He did it for them too. If they will trust, and if they will believe, they can receive the gift of God, eternal life, through Christ Jesus, our Lord. Will you pray with other believers, reading God's Word, heating God's Word, and then going to someone who needs to know Christ? For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of our souls. 1 Peter 2, 25, New King James. Sheep. Sheep needs shepherds. Every sheep needs a special shepherd, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the good shepherd. God wants you and me to follow the leadership of the Lord Jesus. He wants us to know that all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned each one to His own way, and the Lord has laid upon Him, that is the Lord Jesus, the iniquity, the sin, the shortcoming of us all. So let's follow the shepherd. Let's know the Lord is our shepherd, and we don't have to want anything if we will get in tune with Him. He wants us to serve Him. He wants us to love Him. He wants us to share His story with the world in desperate need of knowing who Jesus Christ really is. Will you pray? Will you read the Word of God? Will you be in fellowship with other believers, and together will you communicate Christianity to those who are the lost sheep in need of the good shepherd? Jesus is waiting. He's waiting for you and for me to go tell the truth. 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 those in first through fifth grades is available in a separate area. For more information call 812-867-2418 or visit www.tripletchristianyouth.org. Continue earnestly in prayer. Being vigilant in it with thanksgiving, meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the Word to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains. That I might make it manifest as I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Colossians 4, 2-6, New King James Version. Triple T Saturday nights are exciting and they certainly are different. Meaning first timers and seeing second timers back again at Triple T is refreshing. And when youth return three times most of them return again and many invite friends. Last Saturday on May the 5th, Tammy shared special scriptures and stories of two different Dave's who reached out to her. One in high school, the other in college. Interestingly, she reconnected with both Dave's in the same two weeks. She challenged each person to make a difference by being a faithful Christian friend and being ready and willing to share the Gospel. Interaction time, the three teams with a leader for each team led them in prayer for fair share. Number one, traveling tigers willing to be trained and participate. Two, available dependable adult leaders. Three, reliable transportation for up to four fairs simultaneously. Four, adequate finances. Standing the first commandment, you shall have no other gods before me. I asked the students to name other gods. Excellent feedback came from many of the students here. And then I related Jesus' last temptation by the devil from Matthew 4, 8-11. And then presented the Gospel, followed by a challenge to pray for friends who need the Lord, to get the Gospel to them, or get them to the Gospel at Triple T Saturday nights. May his grad month at Triple T, and every Saturday beginning last week, again tonight and in the next two weeks, we're saluting eighth grade and high school graduates. It's great to commemorate milestones. May 19 is the next Tiger Team training day. A key action possibility package will be presented to every adult who attends a luncheon for pastors and youth workers. Project Proclaim is an ongoing series of outreaches across the tri-state and beyond. A group of 17 of us, Tigers and leaders, were at the House of Hope's generation-to-generation night of music at the center last Friday May 4. The Tigers opened the program presenting a flag routine from Hosanna Highway using Christian flags to lift Jesus high. They did an excellent job admitting the audience voiced appreciation for those Triple T kids. In fact, we've even received an email commending the Triple T kids for their involvement and their participation and their excellence in their presentation. God opens doors and we try to go through them. Many of these Tigers are prayerfully considering receiving further training and being traveling Tigers for one to five weeks between July 9 and August 11. Please pray for them and others ages 10 to 19 and adult leaders to be involved. Pray for the Teen Missions students and leaders that are becoming to be with us July 11 through 28. We received information just today about some who are excited about endeavoring to come. As God provides people and resources, we could take fair share to as many as 20 tri-state counties between July 9 and August 11. Please pray much for Jesus Christ's change in the world summit Saturday, July 14. As plans develop, more details will be made available and we'll share them with you. Christian organizations and local church youth ministries are being invited to participate. Connecting and reconnecting with people brings unexpected blessings. A week ago yesterday was a very significant day. We learned some refreshing things from Betsy Butterfield McGarvey from Indianapolis, who was working to bring Anne Graham Locks to her town next April. Betsy, as an eighth grader, went with the Triple D group to an only Lake, Indiana, to the 25th anniversary of Youth for Christ International at the convention there. It was there that Betsy accepted the Lord Jesus as her personal Savior. Now, she is reaching out to women with God's Word and is very excited about the forthcoming "Just Give Me Jesus" event with Billy Graham's daughter, Anne. Triple T team, Shelly Bernard, Richard Comer, Kim Foltz, and Tammy Mary and I, and some of the world's greatest teenagers and pre-teens were at the House of Hope event at the Center in downtown Evansville. Several Triple D alumni and friends came by Triple T's table. Many new folk learned more about Triple T Christian Youth Ministries. We were privileged to get Bibles to several 10 to 19-year-olds. Please pray for more people to catch the vision of reaching every youth with the gospel. Every investment of time, talent, and treasure helps the ministry continue. Pray for wisdom to know how to bring more partners in youth evangelism together for the July 14th, Jesus Christ changed in a world's summit. This will be an important peg point in the 100 weeks thrust to multiply your ministry. It began back on January the 28th and is to go God willing through December 28, 2013. What will prayerfully be Triple T's 2500th consecutive Saturday? Please keep praying for the physical, financial, and emotional needs of many people. For all who have shared with us, we're very grateful. Tell us how we can pray for you. All you got to do is call us, air code 812-867-2418. And we will pray for you. We get calls from all kinds of places, from all kinds of people. We get emails and we get letters and we get phone calls asking us to send Bibles. And we send them everywhere. We're excited about the privilege that we have, the God-given privilege of getting God's word out to folk. We want you to have one of our Bibles. And to get yours, all you have to do is call us, air code 812-867-2418. Air code 812-867-2418. If you'd rather write us, the address is TTT Christian Youth Ministries. 13,000, that's 1-3-0-0-0. US Highway 41 North, Evansville, Indiana, 477-11. And we'll send you a Bible and we'll send you information about what's going on here at Triple T. As more people come and get acquainted with what we're doing, we are really, really thrilled about it. And again, as I shared earlier, we are giving something special to 8th grade and high school graduates. As youth leave the 8th grade and the inner high school, we provide only a Triple T New King James Bible with a custom cover but a copy of God's Promises for the Graduate, with Bible answers to 83 questions. And then high school graduates give the Triple T New King James Bible. They get God's Promises for the Graduate and also 7 men who rule the world from the grave by Dave Breeze. It is very important that these maturing teenagers be reminded why the First Commandment says, "You shall have no other gods before me." It is of the utmost importance. Look at the devil's final attempt to try to attempt Jesus. Again, the devil took him up on an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their glory, and he said to him, "All these things I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me." Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan, for it is written, "You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve." That's Matthew 4, 8-10, New King James. The philosophies of 7 men have permeated society. Dave Breeze writes, "The influencer must produce in the minds of those he influences a kind of little God." This God, lowercase of the mind, is a real thing he plants in the mentality of unsuspecting people. All during their student days, these seniors have been exposed, some inundated, by the gods proclaimed and produced by Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Julius Wellhausen, John Dewey, Sigmund Freud, John Maynard Keynes and Soren Kierkegaard. It is very important before they enter institutions of higher learning that these special young adults know the dangers of the teaching and philosophy of these seven men. They need to heed the warnings of Triple T's biblical mandate, 2 Corinthians 4, 1 through 7. Stay tuned and I'll share that with you. If you know someone who's a graduating senior or an 8th grade grad, tell them to come to Triple T tonight and get these very special gifts that we are presenting and providing. You've probably heard me tell you before, but Triple T has three distinctives. We are church-connected, Bible-believing, and aggressively evangelistic. This is our biblical mandate that I promised I would share with you. Take a listen to 2 Corinthians 4. Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds, the God of this age, has blinded, who do not believe, thus the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. We do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For it is the God who commended light to shine out of darkness, who has shown in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earth and vessels that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us. Again, that's 2 Corinthians 4 verses 1 through 7. Stalking about the light of the world is talking about the darkness of the world. It's talking about people being blinded, who are following the wrong gods. And gods can be anything. As we shared last Saturday night, we asked those who were here in attendance, teenagers and preteens, to name some gods, and they named all kinds of things. It was really, really interesting. They named such things as Internet. They named cell phones. They named sports. They named grades. They even named family and friends. And we explained to them if they only put them above Jesus, that's the problem, but family and friends should always be respected and reached out to. And so on it went as they shared all kinds of things that were gods that they had been affected by. And so you and I need to know that God is no respecter of persons, as I said earlier. But He wants all of us to come to repentance. Jesus said, "And I, if I be lifted high, will there all men unto me?" That's why the flag routine that we did to the song "White Flag" was so effective, because all of these Christian flags were lifted high, and the tall guy in the center who had played Jesus during the Hosanna Highway happening was the one who lifted that high, high, flying flag so everybody could see it. And as he did it here at Triple T, as he did it at the center last week, people were reminded of who Jesus is and what we're supposed to do, because on that Christian flag is a flag of white but then a field of blue and on the field of blue a touch of red in the form of a cross, representing the blood of the Lord Jesus that was shed for everybody. And it was Jesus' blood that cleanses all of us from every sin if we will admit we have sinned, if we will turn to Jesus from our sins, we'll believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. We want you to know that Triple T, Jesus Ministries is reaching out to as many people as we possibly can, going to as many tri-state counties as we can, hopefully and prayerfully, going to as many as 20 different counties in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky between the weekend of July 7 and going all the way up to August 11. God is opening doors, and we want to go through those doors, but we need to pray for the right people being available. We're giving cups of cold water in Jesus' name, and last summer we were at ten different counties, and we gave away thousands and thousands and thousands of cups of cold water, and we want to do even more of that this summer. And we also take a survey about teenagers, and then we share with them God's plan of salvation if they are interested. And we offer a Bible to everybody between the ages of ten and nineteen, and last year we gave away hundreds of Bibles, and this year we hope to accelerate even that Bible distribution. So pray with us and for us as we go with God's glorious gospel. Here's our vision. Our vision is very simple and forthright. Every youth to have the opportunity to hear the gospel with an invitation to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ before turning twenty. That's why we are saluting eighth graders and high school seniors tonight, and again next Saturday and the next here at Triple T. If you know someone who's a graduate, get them here, because we have a very special package to give to them, and we want them to be saluted. Christ through you can change the world. [music] 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 those in first through fifth grades is available in a separate area. For more information call 812-867-2418 or visit www.tripletchristianyouth.org [music] For your free copy of The Telling the Truth newsletter call 812-8672418 812-8672418 or write Triple T, 13,000 US-41 North, Evansville, Indiana 47725. Tune in to Telling the Truth next week at this same time on this same station. [music] [MUSIC PLAYING]