🎵Piano Music🎵
Good evening and welcome to Verity Baptist Church. Let's go ahead and find our seats this evening.
Welcome to the last evening of the Youth Next Generation Youth Rally. Find a seat, find your bulletin and find that song sheet inside your bulletin.
We're going to be singing I'm On The Winning Side, the Wednesday evening April 10th song sheet. I'm On The Winning Side. Let's go ahead and sing it out on the first.
Once I drifted out in sin, had no hope, no joy within. And my soul was burdened down with pride.
Then my soul came along and he showed me I was wrong. Now I know I'm on the winning side. Sing it out.
Well, I'm on the winning side. Yes, I'm on the winning side.
Then no more will I abide.
I've enlisted in the fight for the cause of truth and right.
Praise the Lord, I'm on the winning side. We're going to sing it out on the second, but we have to wake up this evening, alright?
So teenagers, I want to hear all of you. Alright, we've got to sing it out. I'm on the winning side on the second.
I will never have a fear, for my Lord is ever near. And in Him so often I confide.
He's a keeper of my soul, since I gave Him full control. And He placed me on the winning side.
Let's go ahead and sing it out on the chorus.
Well, I'm on the winning side. Yes, I'm on the winning side. Out in sin no more will I abide.
I've enlisted in the fight for the cause of truth and right.
Praise the Lord, I'm on the winning side. Amen.
Amen. Well, we want to welcome you to the last evening service of the Next Generation Youth Rally.
We're so glad that you are with us. We hope that the young people have had a good time with us.
And of course, we're going to have a great time even tonight.
We've got all sorts of games and things that we'll be doing tonight.
And then of course, we'll have preaching from the Word of God. And we'll have the final wrestling show tonight.
So let's go ahead and begin the service with a word of prayer. Let's bow our heads together.
Heavenly Father, Lord, we do love You. We thank You for allowing us to gather together today.
Lord, we pray that You would bless the time that we have set aside for the preaching of Your word,
for the singing, for the games, the entertainment, Lord.
We pray that You would bless this evening and bless these young people that would take time to be here.
Bless their parents for bringing them out to a conference like this.
Lord, I pray that this would be a time in their lives that would help them to get set on serving You and following You with their lives.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen. Let's grab our song books and turn to page number 322.
Song number 322.
Living for Jesus. Song number 322.
Living for Jesus. A life that is true. Sing it out on the first.
Living for Jesus. A life that is true.
Striving to please Him in all that I do.
Yielding allegiance, glad-hearted and free.
This is a pathway of blessing for me.
O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to Thee.
For Thou in Thine atonement didst give Thyself for me.
I, O no other master, my heart shall be Thy throne.
My life I give henceforth to live.
O Christ, for Thee alone.
Song number 322. Sing it out on the second.
Living for Jesus. Who died in my place.
Varying on Calvary, sin and disgrace.
Such love constrains me to answer His call.
Follow His leading and give Him my all.
O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to Thee.
For Thou in Thine atonement didst give Thyself for me.
I, O no other master, my heart shall be Thy throne.
My life I give henceforth to live.
O Christ, for Thee alone.
Sing it out on the third.
Living for Jesus wherever I am.
Doing each duty in His holy name.
Willing to suffer affliction and loss.
Naming His trial, a part of my cross.
O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to Thee.
For Thou in Thine atonement didst give Thyself for me.
I, O no other master, my heart shall be Thy throne.
My life I give henceforth to live.
O Christ, for Thee alone.
You guys are singing well. Finish strong on the last.
Living for Jesus through earth's little while.
My dearest treasure, the light of His smile.
Taking the lost ones, He died to redeem.
Bringing the weary to fineness in Him.
One last time.
O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to Thee.
For Thou in Thine atonement didst give Thyself for me.
I, O no other master, my heart shall be Thy throne.
My life I give henceforth to live.
O Christ, for Thee alone. Amen.
All right. I'm going to go to this mic here.
Okay. Well, let's go ahead and do some announcements real quickly.
And if you have your bullets in there, of course, we've already gone through most of the events.
We're here at the very last evening service of the Next Generation Youth Rally.
And I hope that everybody's been having a good time.
And we appreciate everybody, of course, being here.
So just to recap what happened today, of course, we had the morning service this morning.
And we had Pastor Tabner preach the great sermon this morning to the young people.
And then we had a very competitive game of Jeopardy between the Wranglers and the Cowboys.
And then, of course, they did target practice out on the field.
They did bowling. So it's been a busy day. It's been a good day.
And then, of course, we're here at the evening service.
So just to kind of give you an idea of what's going to happen tonight.
Tonight, here when I'm done with the announcements, we're going to have a few games.
So you're going to have more opportunities to earn points.
And then we're going to have, of course, the preaching of God's Word.
And after the preaching, at the end of the service, after the song, after the preaching,
then what we're going to do is we're going to raffle off just a bunch of things.
So throughout the youth rally, the young people have been receiving tickets for participation and things of that nature.
So all of those tickets need to be in the tumbler that's in the back.
Now, we'll give you an opportunity if you have some with you.
We'll give you an opportunity because you're going to earn some during the games to put them in the tumbler.
We're going to bring it up here. We're going to pull names out.
And we're going to be giving out a bunch of t-shirts, a bunch of hats.
We're going to be raffling off whatever Amazon gift cards we have left over.
And then once all that's done, then we're going to raffle off the big prize, the one wheel, valued at $1,050.
So that's the grand prize for tonight.
And of course, if you drove here, then you can just ride it home.
No, I'm just kidding. You can't ride that home.
If you drove here and you have a vehicle, then we can package it up for you.
You can take it with you.
If you flew here and we can package it up, if you want to check it in and take it with you, that's fine.
Otherwise, we can ship it to you.
We'll get that all figured out, of course.
And then after the grand prize, then we're going to do the team prize.
So then we'll announce the final numbers and see who won this year at the Next Generation Youth Rally,
whether it was the Cowboys or the Wranglers.
So let me just go ahead and give you some stats regarding where you are up to this point.
So the young people went out bowling this afternoon.
And when they were out bowling, they were divided into teams.
So when they were bowling, there was kids from the Wranglers, and then there was kids from the Cowboys,
and they were bowling against each other.
So every time that they got a strike, they got a certain amount of points.
How many points did they get for a strike?
1,000.
1,000 points.
Every time they got a spare, they got 500 points.
And then every game that a team won, they got 5,000 points.
So let me give you the numbers for the bowling event.
So for the big bowlathon, the Wranglers ended the bowling event with a total of 74,000 points.
And the Cowboys ended the bowling event with a total of 79,000 points.
All right, good.
So let me give you the totals, and then we're going to get into some games.
So right now, as it stands, up to this point, the numbers are this.
Wranglers, 720,000 points, and the Cowboys, 759,000 points.
So the Cowboys are in the lead, but don't despair.
You're going to have some opportunities right now to earn some points.
You can earn some points.
And let me just say this.
The games we're playing tonight, they're going to involve a lot of people,
so you're also going to have opportunities to get raffle tickets for the raffle later on.
So we're going to go ahead and begin with the first game.
And for the first game, I'm going to need a lot of volunteers.
I'm going to need five members from each team.
Five members from each team.
So I need five Wranglers.
I need five Cowboys.
All right, so you, you come on up, yep.
You come on up too.
Let's see who else hasn't.
You come on up.
All right, how many is that?
One, two, three, four.
You've done a lot of them, right?
Yeah.
You, come on up.
I'm trying to find a guy to represent the guys.
What is that?
Is that too many?
Oh, man.
All right.
Sorry.
Can one of you guys esteem the other better than yourselves?
Okay.
Well, now they both did it.
Oh, man, a thousand points just for that.
I mean, that, God bless you.
One, two, three, four, five.
Now eight of them are going to come up.
Okay, I need, I need five.
So one, you did something.
Two, you haven't done anything.
I haven't seen it.
Three, I haven't seen you do anything.
Four, go ahead and come up.
Five, five.
We've got five right there.
All right.
One, two, three, four, five.
Look at these guys.
They volunteer.
They don't even know what they're going to do.
This is the skewer eating contest, all right?
So this is how it's going to work.
On each one of these tables, it's never a good sign when they give you wipes, all right?
Just a hint for future youth rallies.
On each one of these tables, we have a skewer.
There are five things on this skewer, and there are five of you.
Each one of you is going to have to eat something off this skewer, all right?
So let me just explain to you.
They're both exactly the same.
Let me explain to you what's on here.
For the first thing is we have a sardine sandwiched in marshmallows, all right?
Can you see that?
That is a sardine sandwiched in marshmallows, all right?
Then we've got a full pickle, a whole pickle.
We have a bell pepper, and then we've got a scorpion in a marshmallow.
Scorpion in a marshmallow, and we have a gummy snake.
Gummy snake.
This is, of course, Western theme.
So you've got the scorpion, you've got the snake, you've got the bell pepper.
So here's what's going to happen.
When we say go, one of you is going to pick up the skewer.
You might want to decide what you want to eat and rearrange yourselves.
Each person has to eat one thing off the skewer.
So you'll come up, you'll take the first sardine sandwich, you'll set the skewer down, and you'll eat it.
The next member, the next member of the team cannot begin to eat the next thing
until the person that's currently eating has ate everything and can show us an open mouth,
that nothing's in your mouth.
Next member cannot start until the first person that's eating, the first team to eat everything wins.
Go ahead and decide what you want to eat.
Get yourself in that position.
You've got the sardine marshmallow sandwich, whole pickle, bell pepper, you've got the scorpion,
the marshmallow scorpion, and then the gummy bear snake, gummy bear serpent.
So a couple of things. Please listen to me.
Listen to me very carefully. All eyes up here.
The skewers are sharp.
So grab them with the handle, use your hand, and don't touch it.
Make sure you grab it and don't cut yourselves.
Please don't cut yourselves. Just be careful because they're a little sharp.
Is there anything else? Where's my wife?
Is there anything else I need to explain?
We're going to give them, what are we giving them? Are we timing them?
We're giving them 50,000 points for the team that wins.
No, are we giving them a timer?
No timer. We're just going to start.
We're going to do 25,000 points because 50,000 is kind of much.
He's real generous when he's not paying. No, I'm just kidding.
25,000 points for the team that wins.
Do you guys have any questions?
Anybody want to quit?
Maybe you want to steam others better than yourself now?
On your mark, get set, go!
You can't start. You got it done? Okay.
She's got to get it out of her mouth before you start.
Okay, you're going for it.
Let me see your mouth. Let me see your mouth.
She's good. You can start.
She's going for it. He's going for it.
He's got it! All right.
His breath smells like pickles.
Still working on the pickle. Still working on the pickle.
She's at the bell peppers.
Too much pickle. Too much pickle.
She's eating that bell pepper like an apple.
All right.
Too much. Too much. Don't throw up.
If you got to throw up, throw up right here.
Working on the bell pepper. Working on the pickle.
Almost done with the pickle. Almost done with the pickle.
Almost done with the pickle.
It's your mouth? Not yet. Not done.
Don't choke.
She's got it. Let me see it. Let me see it. Let me see it.
Let me see your mouth. All right. She's got it.
Get it! Get it! Get it!
Good.
Be careful. Be careful with the skill.
He's from Arizona. He's eight Scorpions.
Done. What?
You got a tumbler coming there, okay?
Whose idea was this?
And then I need tickets for all of them.
Done. All right. He's got it.
Done. All right.
It's down to the snake.
Down to the snake. Down to the snake.
Down to the snake.
Almost. Almost. Let's see it.
Come on. Come on!
Come on! Come on!
The cardboard's got it!
All right. All right. Good job.
Okay. Here you go.
Amazon gift card. Amazon gift card.
Amazon gift card.
Oops. Sorry. Sorry.
Amazon gift card.
Okay. Take it. Take it.
Take it.
You guys did a good job. Your breath smells like pickles.
Take it. Take it.
All right. You guys get participation tickets.
God bless you. Do you want to finish that?
No. Okay. All right.
You guys can go ahead and have a
seat. God bless you.
Good job. That was a good one.
Good job.
Okay. The next game
is not as intense, I think.
Next game
is a lasso
toss. Lasso toss.
Obviously it's a western themed
game. So here's what's going to happen.
We're going to need
two members from
each team. We're going to play this game twice.
So we'll have two girls
go against two girls, two boys
go against two boys.
And what you're going to do is you're going to
try to lasso your partner.
All right. You're going to lasso your partner.
So what you have over
here. Hold on a second.
Let me just show you. Let me give you all.
So what you have over here is kind of this
ringed lasso.
And you and your partner
is going to be on the other side of this line.
You're going to throw the lasso
and try to lasso
them. But your partner can try to help.
So they shouldn't just stand there like this.
They can try to
catch and help
you into it. We're going to do it for a certain
amount of time. What's the time
that we're doing that for?
I don't see a time here. What's the time? Are we doing it
for a certain amount of time?
Okay.
So
5,000 points per
successful lasso toss.
5,000 points bonus for the team that
wins. All right.
Are we supposed to be doing a time on this?
They just have to do it.
Oh, you have to lasso each other. That's what it is.
All right. So you have to lasso
your partner. Then they have to lasso
you. First team to get that
wins. Any questions?
Why are you guys all waving at me?
Julia, you can come on up.
Who didn't come up that wanted to come up
that went down? Who was that? Was that you?
Who?
Oh, come on up. Come on up.
Let's see.
Oh, yeah. Come on up.
Come on up.
Okay. We've got two from each team.
So I need one of you over here.
And then I need one of you over here.
So you've got to be across
from your partner. Across from your partner.
So
the red's
right here. The blue's right here.
Okay, so again
you're going to throw the lasso
lasso her.
Once she's lassoed, she's going to throw the lasso
lasso you. The same thing.
First team to get both lassos wins.
You get 5,000
points per lasso. So make sure
we keep track of that. And
10,000 points for the team that
wins. Any questions?
On your mark, get set,
go.
Let's cheer for them. Cheer for them.
No, you got to stay behind the blue line.
You got to stay behind the blue line. Sorry about that.
Keep your foot behind the blue line.
Throw that back to her so she can do it again.
Alright, if she lassoed
you keep it on.
Okay.
No, no.
Now Jazzy, you got to lasso
her. Did she lasso you?
Okay.
The
win. You won.
You won. We got
the Wranglers.
Alright, good job.
Amazon gift cards.
Here, here. Get your tickets.
Get your tickets.
Your girls get a
participation ticket. Do me a favor. Put the
lassos back.
Okay, we're going to do it again.
I need four boys.
You can put them right there.
Four boys. One.
Two. Jamie, come on up.
Three.
Four. Daniel, come on up.
Alright, four boys.
Okay, just to be clear, you got to stand
behind the blue line.
When you get lassoed, keep
your lasso on so I know
that you got lassoed.
And the first
team to lasso both wins.
Does that make sense? Any questions?
So let's give them two lassos on this side.
Everybody should have a lasso.
So when you get lassoed, keep it on.
First team to lasso both wins.
Let's cheer for our teams.
Mark and set go.
5,000 for each lasso and
10,000 for winners.
I need an Amazon card.
Two Amazon cards.
You got it? Alright.
Okay, your cards are coming.
Alright, who was that? The Cowboys?
The Cowboys, there you go.
Amazon gift cards.
You guys heard of Amazon?
It's this new up and coming thing.
Alright, God bless you guys.
Good job.
Alright.
Yeah, let's give them a round of applause.
For the next game
and the
last game
we're going to do, I think,
the best game.
And that is
Name
That Western
Tune.
Name That Western Tune.
Western themed. We're going to have hymns too.
Alright, hymns and western themed
songs. So here's how it's
going to work. Alright, we need
six members
from each team
and what you're going to do is you're going to
stand in line. Alright, now I know
a lot of you are homeschooled and you don't know how to stand in line
but the way
it works
Let me switch this around.
The way it works
is you're going to stand in line
Let's set this right.
And when
the piano begins to play
you're going to have a few seconds to identify
the song. If you know the
name of the song
somebody probably should give me a sheet with the names of the songs
or you just, you tell me if
they're right. I don't know it.
If you know the name of the song
we'll hear the buzzer go off
and then you'll guess. If you don't
guess it correctly then
the other person will get a chance to guess it. If neither
one guesses it correctly, we'll move on to the next one.
If you get it correctly, we'll get it.
We're going to have six of you lined up, so you're going to do one
then you go to the back of the line
and we'll just go through, cycle through
as many as possible.
Does that make sense? Is that correct
Brother Andrew? Did I get all that right?
Okay, six of your
best musicians.
Did you just do that one? Okay, did you do one?
Okay, one.
You did one. Two.
Daniel, you just did one.
Three.
Four. Did you just do one?
Is there anybody else?
How many do we have here? One, two, three, four?
I need two more.
Two more? Okay, come on up.
Okay, I need
six on this side. Who hasn't
done something tonight?
Let's start there. One.
You haven't done something tonight? Two. Three.
Four. Five.
I need a six.
Have you done something
tonight?
Nope, come on up, six.
No, that's only five. I need one more.
Six, come on up.
All right.
Let me go.
I'm going to stand over here.
Okay, so I need you guys
to get in line. Get in line.
Maybe base it off IQs.
No, I'm just kidding.
So can you guys get in line? Get in line where you're standing in front of the buzzer.
Standing in front of the buzzer. Who's going to go first?
Who's going to go first?
Get in line where you're going to stand in front of the buzzer.
You understand?
You're going to buzz, get the points,
or not get the points, or whatever.
Move down, and we'll go through as many as possible.
How many points for a song?
A thousand points for every song you get right.
And how many points for the winning team?
Five thousand points for the winning team.
Any questions?
So, some of these songs are
Western. Some of these songs
are hymns.
But the whole thing is Western themed.
All right? On your mark, get set, go.
Come on, Razor!
Was it the old account was settled?
No.
You get a chance to- you know it?
She'll be coming down the mountain when she comes.
All right, got it. A thousand points.
All right, move on to the next one.
Let's try to do this quickly. Go ahead.
Just to close the rock with you, a thousand points.
All right, next one.
Yep, go to the end of the line.
All right, next one. Oh, be careful.
Engine over the hilltop. Got it.
All right, come on up.
She said what a day Gloria said that would be.
Take it, got it. A thousand points.
Next, come on up.
On the winning side, got it.
Come on up, come on up. A thousand points.
We just sang it.
All right, come on.
Next one.
All right, they didn't get it. Move on, move on.
They didn't get it. Come on up.
They don't even know what song it is.
Will We Gather at the River, yep.
A thousand points, good.
Come on up.
Who got that first?
You did? In the Sweet Bye Bye.
In the Sweet Bye Bye, got it.
New name or not, Gloria. Got it.
All right.
You guys have to let me know when we're done.
All right.
She's quoting it. She's quoting the song right.
Are you taking that?
She was quoting the words. Is that fine?
You take that?
That's not the title.
Do you know the title?
I already thought I got it.
A thousand points.
Next one.
How many of these do we have?
Oh, Susanna.
That was it, right? Got it.
All right, good job.
In the Garden, got it.
Next.
Who was it?
Were you first?
Got it.
Next.
I think she was first.
Higher ground, got it.
All right, good.
Standing on promises, got it.
Yankee Doodle, got it.
We all get the heaven, got it.
Can you give me a try?
Washing the ball lamp, got it.
She's a sharp shooter.
Spot on the blood, got it.
All fly away?
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
You know what it is?
Don't start singing, man.
All right, you didn't get it.
Move on.
Next song.
Is that it?
Let's give them all a round of applause.
Hold on a second, hold on a second.
Everybody gets tickets
and you get Amazon gift cards.
I'm not even sure who won,
but let me get some Amazon gift cards.
I'm not even sure who won,
but let me get some Amazon gift cards.
I didn't keep track of that.
Tickets, let's get your tickets.
Sorry, no, you're good.
Let's get your tickets, your tickets,
your tickets, your tickets.
Stay up here, stay up here, because I'm not sure who won.
Tickets, I'll let
Brother Prince Ali announce it.
Tickets, tickets.
I need three more tickets.
Three more tickets.
And then give us
which team got what
in a climactic way.
Who were the three that didn't get?
One, two, three.
So we had 6,000 for the Wranglers.
6,000 for the Wranglers, good job.
11,000 for the Cowboys.
11,000 for the Cowboys, good job.
All right, God bless you guys.
Here you go.
One, two, three, four,
five, six.
Don't ever say I don't give you anything.
All right, good job.
Okay, thank you guys very much.
I'm not going to give you the points breakdown right now,
because we'll give it to you at the end of the night.
Oh, thank you very much.
But let's go ahead and take
thank you, appreciate it.
Let's go ahead and take our
chorus of the week.
Let's see if you can
guess this song.
We're going to sing
and how I've been telling you
this the couple days.
We purposely chosen these songs
just
to be songs for young people.
Obviously they're good for everyone,
but songs for young people
that we want you to really
consider a prayer.
We're going to sing this song,
but think about the words
and really meditate upon them
and we hope that they become a prayer
of your heart.
The second song on the
insert, my life is yours to control.
Sing it out on the first
with my whole heart.
Now use my life, oh Lord,
I pray.
I yield
my stubborn will
completely.
May your
commandments light the way.
My life, Lord,
is yours
to control.
I give you
my heart
and my soul.
I'll seek your
will, never mind.
Treasures
to find.
Give
wisdom
to choices I
make.
Along
every path
that I take.
So
when I
complete
life's ways,
well done, you
will say.
Good, let's sing it out on
the second.
Your word has promised me
the victory.
And all
I need to do is
claim
your strength to
soar with wings as
he goes.
To walk, to
run, and not to
faint.
My life,
Lord, is yours
to control.
I give
you my heart
and my soul.
I'll seek your
will, never
mind.
Treasures
to find.
Give
wisdom to
choices I make.
Along
every path
that I take.
So
when I
complete life's
ways, well
done, you will
say.
Amen. All right, well, good singing.
We'll help the guys come up and help us with the
offering at this time. And let's
go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, Lord, we do love you. We thank you for allowing
us to gather together tonight. Lord, we thank you for these young
people. We pray that you'd bless the offering, the
gift, and the giving, and the preaching to come. In Jesus'
name we pray. Amen.
Amen.
There is no success without succession.
If we fail to pass down our faith to the next generation, we have failed.
The decisions you're making today will set the trajectory for the rest of your life.
The friends you're making, the choices you're making,
but the places you are going will be things that you carry with you into the rest of your life.
And now introducing our preacher for the night, the pastor of Verity Baptist Church here in Sacramento, California, give an exciting Next Generation Youth Rally welcome to the host pastor of this conference, Pastor Roger Jimenez.
And God can forgive you, and God can heal you, but wouldn't it be better to just bypass it altogether? I mean, wouldn't it be better to just not have to have those regrets?
Alright, we've got some Next Generation Youth Rally hats here. Who wants some?
Alright, this one's mine.
Alright, God bless you guys. Thank you.
Let's take our Bibles if you don't have an open and go to Daniel chapter number one. Daniel chapter number one.
And of course we're there in Daniel chapter one, and this is a very famous portion of scripture, especially with dealing with young people.
And I'd like you to look down there at Daniel chapter number one, and we'll just begin reading right there in verse number one.
The Bible says this, in the third year of the reign of Jehoiachim, king of Judah, came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
And that word, besiege, is a military term that means to surround.
And what the Bible is telling us here is that this man, Nebuchadnezzar, if you study world history, you'll know that Nebuchadnezzar was a very powerful king.
And he comes from Babylon to Jerusalem. He surrounds the city, and he besieged it, verse two.
And the Lord gave Jehoiachim, king of Judah, into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar, to the house of his God.
And he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his God, and the king, verse three, Nebuchadnezzar,
spoke unto Ashpinas, the master of the eunuchs, that he should bring certain, I want you to notice this here in verse three,
that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes.
And what we're reading about here is the captivity of the children of Israel, or specifically the Hebrew children, that are going to be carried into Babylon.
And the Bible says that this invading army from Babylon comes to Jerusalem, besieged the city, they took the city.
The Bible says that the Lord gave Jehoiachim, king of Judah, into his hand, and then king Nebuchadnezzar then instructs Ashpinas, the master of his eunuch,
that he should bring certain. The word certain there is referring to some but not all.
I want you to notice there in verse three, certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes.
Now he said, I want you to bring some of the children. And the reason that this is such a famous passage in regards to young people,
and preaching for young people, is because here we see these children, these young people, were taken out of their home,
they were taken captive out of Jerusalem, away from their parents, away from their family, they were taken over to Babylon.
Notice there verse four. Now it says in verse three, it says certain. And then in verse four, we're told how they chose. Notice there verse four.
Children in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science,
and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning of the tongue of the Chaldean.
So notice that when they decided to take these kids, they took the best. They took the cream of the crop.
The Bible says they took children in whom was no blemish, but well favored. What does that mean?
It means that they took the best looking children. They actually looked at the kids and decided who are the good looking kids,
who are the not so good looking kids, and they chose the best of the kids.
One thing that can comfort some of you is that they wouldn't have taken you, and that's okay. There's a benefit to being ugly sometimes.
But they took here children that had no blemish, well favored, not just that, also skillful in all wisdom, cunning in knowledge,
and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace.
So they picked the best looking kids, they picked the smartest kids, they picked the kids that were most talented,
and they brought them to Chaldea. Look at verse 5.
And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat and of the wine which he drank,
so nourishing them three years that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
So for three years they were being prepared and they were being made ready to meet Nebuchadnezzar.
You've got to keep in mind, Nebuchadnezzar at this time is the most powerful man on earth.
This is like the president of the United States. This is the most powerful king on earth.
And I want you to notice here in verse 6 we find these characters.
Now among these were the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
And of course Pastor Thompson brought up these characters last night in his sermon.
But we have these four Hebrew children, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
Verse 7, under whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names.
Notice they changed their names.
And he gave unto Daniel the name Belteshazzar and unto Hananiah.
For the three Hebrew children, these are their more common names that they're known by.
Hananiah of Shadrach, of Mishael of Meshach, and to Azariah of Abednego.
And then notice there, we're going to skip down to verse number 18 just here for a minute.
We're going to come back and look at this passage, all of it completely,
but skip down to verse number 18.
And if I can get one of the ushers, if you can get me one of those little towels, I would appreciate the help with that.
Verse number 18, notice how the story ends.
So we see their capture in verses 1 through 4.
And we see their custody in verses 5 through 7.
And then in verse 18 we see the consequence of the story.
And we're going to come back and get to this consequence, but I want you to notice how it ends.
Verse 18, now at the end of the days, this is referring to the three years,
that the king had said he should bring them in, then the princes of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
Look at verse 19.
And the king communed with them, and among them all was found, notice these words,
was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
Therefore stood they before the king, and in all matters of wisdom and understanding
that the king inquired of them, I want you to notice these words.
In fact, if you're a young person, and if you've got a pen, if you're willing to maybe put a mark in your Bible,
I think every young person should underline this little phrase.
He found them ten times better.
He found them ten times better. Thank you very much, appreciate it.
Ten times better. What's interesting to me about the story is that these kids were already the cream of the crop.
All of them.
All the kids that went to Babylon were already good looking kids, smart kids, had good people skills.
They were chosen for that reason.
But then of the cream of the crop, the Bible says that Nebuchadnezzar found these Hebrew children,
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, he found them ten times better. Ten times better.
I want to speak to you tonight on this subject of ten times better. What does that mean?
When the Bible says that Nebuchadnezzar met these, he's meeting all sorts of young people.
He's having some sort of event where these kids have been captured, they're the cream of the crop,
like we've already seen, they're the most intelligent, they've got the best people skills,
they're the best looking kids, they've been brought now on top of that for three years,
they've been trained, they've been prepared, they've been given all sorts of teachings
and understanding. Now they have this event where Nebuchadnezzar goes through and meets all of them,
and for some reason he identifies Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
and he says these four right here, these are ten times better than anyone else.
What does he mean by that? When he looked at them and he said they were ten times better,
here's what he meant by that. He says they're not average. They're not mediocre.
They're not ordinary. They're not common. He says they're not like everyone else.
They're different than all these other kids. He says these young people,
when he said that they were ten times better, what he meant by that is that they were superior,
that they were exceptional, that they were remarkable, that they were outstanding.
And it is my belief that this should be the testimony of every child of God.
Every child of God, not just teenagers, all Christian people,
but especially since we're talking here in the text about young people and we're here at a youth rally,
I would say this, that every teenager ought to have the goal of having the testimony of being found ten times better.
And I want to challenge you young people tonight to be ten times better.
I want you to be ten times better than all the other kids out there.
I don't want you to be. I want you to decide. I don't want to be average. I don't want to be mediocre.
I don't want to be ordinary. I don't want to be common. I want to be superior. I want to be exceptional.
I want to be remarkable. I want to be outstanding. These young people were found ten times better,
and I think it's possible for every young person here to have the testimony that you are ten times better.
Here's what I know about you, and I don't need to know you to know this.
I know that there's somebody in your life who thinks, who sees potential in you,
and who has a desire that you be ten times better.
Because your mom and dad wouldn't have came all the way out here.
Your parents wouldn't have dragged you all the way out here.
They wouldn't have signed you up for this youth rally,
or they wouldn't have allowed you to sign up for this youth rally and brought you here
and taken time off of work and put in all the energy and put in all the money
and put in all the sacrifice to bring you here to sit in a hot room
in Sacramento, California. They wouldn't have done that if they didn't have a desire for you to be ten times better.
They want you to be ten times better, and I'd like to give you tonight, quickly,
several thoughts regarding this idea of being ten times better.
I'd like to look at this passage and see where these children were ten times better.
Now let me just say this. I'm going to say something to you young people
that if you've ever heard me preach, you probably haven't heard me say before,
and you may never hear it again, but here's what I want you to do.
I want you to be in Daniel chapter number one.
We're going to get our main points tonight from Daniel chapter one,
and then I'm going to read a lot of passages to you.
Now I'm not going to have you turn to all those passages because it's hot.
It's hot and it's late, and we're going to try to move through this sermon as quickly as possible.
You stay in Daniel, and I'll read to you these passages.
Don't you worry. I'll be reading all the King James Bible. You can trust that.
I'll read these passages for you. If you want to jot them down, you can jot them down,
but I'm not going to ask you to turn and be flipping these passages.
In fact, what I'd like is for you to just put your eyes up here for just a few minutes.
I know there's not much to look up at here, but just look up here for just a few minutes,
and I want you to consider this idea of being ten times better.
How were these young people ten times better?
Well, number one, I want you to notice that they were ten times better in their purpose.
Ten times better in their purpose. Their purpose made them ten times better.
In Daniel chapter one and verse number eight, we have this very famous verse.
I want you to see it. Daniel chapter one and verse eight.
Now keep in mind, keep in mind that Daniel has now been taken away from his family.
Daniel has now been taken away from his parents.
Daniel has now been taken away from his spiritual leadership, from his spiritual authority,
everyone that he knows and everyone in his life, an aunt or an uncle, a grandparent or anybody
that might have invested in him and been a good influence on him.
He's now away from all those individuals, and the Bible says
in response to this place Babylon, and we already said that the king had made provision for them.
He had already given them certain things to eat, and the Bible says in Daniel chapter one and verse eight,
but Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat,
nor with the wine which he drank, therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
I want you to notice here that Daniel the Bible says he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat.
Now I do want you to understand just the context here. Of course we're in the Old Testament.
The children of Israel are under the Old Covenant, and there are some dietary restrictions that have been given unto them,
and Nebuchadnezzar isn't following those dietary restrictions.
And this was a religious stand for Daniel, but I want you to notice that here we have a young man who away from mom,
away from dad, away from his pastor, away from his pastor's wife,
away from everyone and anyone that he would know, he just decided on his own.
The Bible says he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat.
And here's what I want you to understand about Daniel.
Daniel decided that he was better than that.
When they offered them the portion of the king's meat, they offered him the wine to drink,
they offered him these things that would be wrong for him under the Old Testament Covenant to take,
he said, you know, I'm better than that.
I don't want to go down that road. I don't want to eat what everyone else is eating.
I don't want to consume what everyone else is consuming.
I don't want to be average. I don't want to be common. I don't want to be mediocre.
I don't want to be ordinary. He decided I'm better than that.
And here's what you need to understand.
When you as a young person decide I'm better than that, you'll be found ten times better.
Ten times better in your life when you make a decision.
You need to be better than that. You say, Pastor Jimenez, what are you talking about?
I'm talking about ten times better in your separation.
Ten times better in your separation. You keep your place there in Daniel chapter 1.
Let me read to you these verses. Many of these passages have been read already in the last couple of days.
Let me read this to you. The Bible says in Romans chapter 12 and verse 1,
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And here's what the Bible says in Romans chapter 12 and verse 2,
Be not conformed to this world.
God commands that we be not conformed to this world. What does that mean? To not be conformed.
He said I don't want you to pattern yourself after the world.
I don't want you to try to be like the world.
Literally what's being said here when the Bible says be not conformed to this world,
Paul is telling the church in Rome, he said don't be average.
Don't be mediocre. Don't be ordinary. Don't be common.
He says be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
That idea of being transformed, that's the same idea of being ten times better,
superior, exceptional, remarkable, outstanding.
Hey you young people, I want to challenge you tonight that you ought to decide
I'm going to be ten times better in my separation.
I'm not going to try to live this life where, and look, I get it.
First of all, let me just say this. You young people, know this.
Pastor Jimenez and everyone in this room is for you.
We love you. We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't care about you.
We want you to succeed. We want to see you succeed.
We see the potential that God has for you in your life,
but what we want is for you to see the potential
and for you to decide I'm better than that.
And often times, Christian young people, their greatest goal in life is to be like everyone else in the world.
To try to dress like everyone else in the world, to try to look like everyone else in the world,
to try to be like everyone else in the world.
Why would you make it your goal in life? To be common, to be average,
to be ordinary, to be just like everyone else.
Why not say, hey, I'm better than that. I want to be ten times better. Why not be superior?
I'm saying you ought to be ten times better in your separation.
Let's get specific. I'm saying you ought to be ten times better with regards to drugs and alcohol.
You know what the Bible says in Proverbs 31?
The Bible says in Proverbs 31 and verse number 4, this is a mother writing to her son,
and here's what she said. She said, it is not for kings, O Lemuel.
It is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink.
Now this is a mother who is literally talking to her son, who is a prince and a future king.
And she's telling her son, it is not for kings, O Lemuel.
It is not for kings to drink wine, nor princes strong drink.
You know what she's saying when she says, it's not for kings to drink wine, it's not for princes to drink strong drink.
She's saying, you're better than that. She's saying, you're a king, you're a prince, you're better than that.
Now you might hear me say that and say, well that was a king and that was a prince, that's not me.
Let me tell you something, if you are saved tonight, you are a child of God,
the Bible says that we are kings and priests unto God and his Father,
and I'm here to tell you, hey, you're better than that.
And you young people ought to make a decision tonight and just decide, I'm better than that.
I don't want to go down that road when you say, but everyone else is drinking,
everyone else is experimenting with drugs, everybody else is doing it as well.
Why do you want to be average? Why be mediocre? Why be ordinary? Why be common?
Why not decide I want to be ten times better?
You ought to make a decision and say, you know what, I'm better than that.
In fact, I'd like to just hear you say that, I'm going to give you some points.
I'd like to hear the wrangler say, can you just help me, I just want to hear you say, I'm better than that.
I was good, I was alright, let's hear the cowboys, I'm better than that.
I was okay, let's hear it again, I'm better than that.
I'm better than that.
Here's what I'm telling you young people, let's give them all 5,000 points, alright, I'm better than that.
When someone comes to you and says, hey you want to smoke this? You know what your response ought to be?
I'm better than that.
Hey, you want to drink this? No, I don't want to drink that, I'm better than that.
Hey, you want to shoot this up? No, I don't want to shoot that up, who do you think I am?
I'm not ordinary, I'm not common, I'm not filth, I'm a child of the king, I'm better than that.
Your mom thinks you're better than that, your dad thinks you're better than that,
your pastor thinks you're better than that, your grandma thinks you're better than that.
Why don't you decide and say, hey I'm better than that, I want to be 10 times better.
I don't care what the world's doing.
When it comes to drugs and alcohol, listen young people, you need to just make a decision right now,
alcohol will never touch my lips.
Just say I'm better than that.
I'm never going to experiment with drugs, I'm better than that.
You never have to go down that road.
The Bible says in Proverbs 23, 29, who hath woe, who hath sorrow, who hath contention,
who hath babblings, who hath wounds without cause, who hath redness of eyes,
they that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine,
look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup,
when it moveth itself aright.
Just decide right now, I'm better than that.
I don't have to look at it.
You know what the Bible says, Proverbs 20 verse 1, wine is a mocker.
Alcohol will mock you.
Strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not white.
Look, just because the whole world is deceived by alcohol tonight,
you ought to decide, I'm better than that.
I don't want to be ordinary.
I don't want to be common.
I don't want to, just because it's common for young people to be drunk, drinking in their teens,
and it's common to be smoking marijuana in their teens,
you ought to decide, you know what, I am better than that.
And when you make the decision, and you realize, I'm better than that,
I'm here to tell you something, you'll be found ten times better.
Ten times better.
You say, well why does it matter?
What's the big deal?
You know the big deal is this,
that the choices of today will be the chains of tomorrow.
The choices you make, the reason that we make,
look, we preach like this to everybody,
but the reason that you think, my parents are so strict,
and my pastor, he's so strict,
and my pastor's wife, you know, and they've got all these standards,
and they're trying to protect me, and they're trying to keep me.
You know what we understand is this,
not only from just observation and 13 years of ministry and experience,
but research even shows this,
that when young people engage in things that can become addictions in their teen years,
they're way more likely to struggle with that for the rest of their lives.
So the message is this,
the choices of today will become the chains of tomorrow.
And you might think, well, we're just kids,
and we're just having a good time,
and we're just drinking, and we're just smoking,
and we're just popping that pill, or doing this or doing that,
it's just a good time.
But it's not going to be a good time when you wake up 20 years later,
30 years later, and you're a drunkard.
And you're a drug addict.
And you say, oh well, you know, I believe in,
and so every drunkard started as a social drinker.
You know what's best?
It's just the purpose in your heart not to defile yourself.
Just make the decision up front and say,
I don't want to go down that road.
Hey, I'm better than that.
It's not for kings who'll let me around.
I think you ought to be 10 times better in your separation.
I think you ought to be 10 times better with regards to drugs and alcohol.
How about this one, you ought to be 10 times better in your music.
10 times better in your music.
The Bible says in Psalm 40 and verse 3,
And ye have put a new song in my mouth,
Even praise unto our God,
Many shall see it and fear it,
And shall trust in the Lord.
Why don't you just decide, I'm going to be 10 times better.
Anybody can turn on the radio and listen to the world's music.
Anybody can turn on the radio and think,
well that's the coolest stuff to listen to.
That's the hip stuff to listen to.
Why don't you decide, give me the songs of Zion,
give me the good old hymns,
give me the songs of God.
Hey, I want to be better than that.
You ought to make a decision.
I want to be 10 times better in my separation.
I want to be 10 times better in regards to drugs and alcohol.
You ought to be 10 times better in your music.
You ought to decide, look, I don't want the world trashy.
You say, I really like hip hop.
Talking a bunch of songs with a bunch of cuss words in them,
talking about drugs and alcohol.
Why don't you decide you're better than that?
Why don't you decide you're above that?
You're above that.
You're a child of God.
You're a child of the king.
Decide to be 10 times better.
How about this one, 10 times better in your appearance?
10 times better in your appearance.
We already saw it, Romans 12 and verse 10,
and be not conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewed of your mind.
Hey, why young people and you young men,
why do you feel the need
and why do you feel like there's some value
in trying to dress as worldly as possible?
Why not just decide, I want to be 10 times better?
And you know, I really don't get it today.
Because at least when I was a kid,
people dressed worldly,
but at least when people dressed worldly,
they still looked like normal people.
The funny thing is that today,
I'm talking about young guys,
today the dressing worldly is dressing like a queer.
I mean, dressing worldly is looking like
you're on the other side.
I mean, just these tight little shorts.
That's a cool fat today, tight little shorts,
long flowing hair.
Why would you want that?
Why not just decide, hey, 10 times better?
I want to be 10 times better.
I don't want to be average, mediocre, common.
I want to be exceptional.
I want to honor God with my clothing.
I want to be better than that.
I'm better than that.
Hey, you're better than that.
You're better in your separation and drugs,
in regards to drugs and alcohol and music and appearance.
How about 10 times better in regards to tattoos?
You ought to be 10 times better.
Look, we're talking about your appearance.
That's not better.
So many Christian young people today,
they get to say, as soon as I turn 18,
I'm going to go get these tattoos.
Everyone else is doing it.
Well, why are you trying to be mediocre?
And look, I realize we live in a society today
where everyone has tattoos.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
They're not cool.
You know when tattoos are cool?
When you're 18.
You know when tattoos are cool?
When you're 19, when you're 20, when you're in your 20s.
But you know what happens around 30?
Your brain matures and you realize,
oh, maybe putting this thing on my face
wasn't the most intelligent idea.
Maybe putting all these marks all over my...
And look, if you're here tonight and you got tattoos,
I love you, I'm not against you,
I'm trying to help some of these young kids
not make some stupid decisions.
And you know, when you're 19 and 20 years old
and you put that little fairy girl
on your lower back, you might think it's cool,
but when you're 50 years old
and that little fairy looks like a bat,
it's not that cool.
It's not cool!
And all your little tattoo, you're 19 years old
and you're all ripped, let me tell you something,
you're not going to be all ripped forever.
You're going to put that on that skin,
that skin's going to stretch.
And all of a sudden, that tribal warrior look
you were looking for looks like a ink mat,
you look like a Picasso painting,
it's like there's all these wrinkles
and why not decide to be 10 times better?
Why settle for mediocre?
Why settle for average?
Why settle for stupidity?
Why settle, why everybody else is doing it?
Look, if everybody else is doing it,
you ought to stop right there and ask yourself,
you ought to get on the narrow path.
Broadest away that lead to destruction.
And many of their people which go in there,
I'm saying you ought to be, look,
and I'm not picking on anybody,
I'm just telling you young kids,
I'm talking to you young people,
you're better than that.
10 times better in your separation.
10 times better, you ought to be in the prison.
I've never tasted drugs, I've never tasted alcohol,
I've never gone down that road.
And God bless you if you have and you got saved
and you're getting recovery
and God bless you if you've had a tattoo in your past,
we're not mad at you,
but I'm here to tell these young people
they don't have to make the same mistakes
that everyone else is making,
you can decide right now,
I want to be 10 times better.
10 times better in your separation.
10 times better in your music.
10 times better in your appearance.
Some of these things have already been hit
but it's good to hit them again.
Hey, 10 times better in your appearance,
you young men, don't get into this fad
of this long hair garbage.
The Bible says does not even nature itself
teach you that if a man have long hair
it is a shame unto him.
You say well everybody is doing it.
So?
It's the cool thing.
So?
Why don't you decide I'm better than that,
I want to honor God,
the Bible says that man ought to have short hair,
I'm reading a verse to you,
I'm not saying I'm better than that,
I want to honor God,
I'm not just telling you this,
this is not my opinion.
1 Corinthians 11.14
Does not even nature itself
teach you that if a man have long hair
it is a shame unto him.
And you know whenever I preach this
then guys,
well how long is long?
Listen to me,
if you can do that it's long.
If you got to ask the question it's long.
If you got to ask the question
is this too long? It's long.
By the way, young ladies,
if you got to ask the question
is this too short? It's short.
Because if it's short on the man
you don't have to ask the question.
And again, you do what you want,
you do you.
But look, I'm just saying
as a teenage boy,
I would not want to be, you know,
standing in line at a restaurant
or standing in line at a Starbucks,
and have somebody standing behind me
and thinking, huh,
I wonder what's that,
what the pronouns are there.
I mean, long hair,
tights, little shorts,
little effeminate looking,
and you think is that a he, a she,
is it a them?
Look, I realize there's not much
to look at here, but I hope
when you look at Pastor Jimenez
it's clear what this is.
You look at me and say,
hey, that's a man.
I like that you look at my wife
and it's real clear,
that's a beautiful woman.
And look, the world today,
you know what the world
is leading us towards?
This transgender garbage,
which is what Pastor Thompson
was bringing up last night.
You're always preaching
about women wearing pants,
women wearing pants.
We used to preach against
women.
I think they're all crazy.
Why don't you just decide
in your heart,
why don't you just decide,
I'm better than that,
ten times better.
Young man having long hair,
young ladies dressing immodestly.
Proverbs 7 and verse 10 says,
and behold there met him a woman
with the attire of a harlot.
You know the Bible says
there's such a thing
as the attire of a harlot?
A woman whose body is for sale.
The Bible says,
and behold there met him a woman
with the attire of a harlot
and subtle of heart.
She is loud and stubborn.
You know that's the opposite
of 1 Peter 3 and 4,
meek and a quiet spirit.
Her feet abide not in her house,
now is she without,
not on the streets,
and lieth and wade at every corner.
You know, young ladies,
I'm better.
I'm better than looking like a harlot.
I have more respect for myself than that.
I'm a daughter of the king.
I'm a daughter of God.
I'm going to dress modestly.
I'm going to dress appropriately.
And look, we're not telling you
you've got to dress like a back lady or something.
You can dress modestly
and dress very beautifully.
But why not decide
when it comes to my clothing,
I want to be ten times better.
All the other girls,
yeah, but why be average?
Why be common?
Why be ordinary?
Do you really want your life,
and this is the point
that I'm trying to get to you,
teenagers get this idea
and they say, well,
I want to be just like the world.
Okay, so your entire goal in life,
my goal in life is
be mediocre.
Why not be superior?
Why not be ten times,
much pertaineth unto a man?
Neither shall a man put on
a woman's garment,
for all that do so are an abomination
unto the Lord thy God.
We need that more today
than we've ever needed that.
And look, I'm not backing off on this.
Why don't you decide?
You young ladies, you young girls,
why don't you decide?
I'm ten times better.
Ten times better regarding tattoos.
Hey, how about ten times better
in your purity?
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6 18,
Flee fornication.
Fornication is a reference
to the physical relationship
that should happen
within the bounds of marriage
and should not happen
before you are married.
God says flee fornication.
And here's what's interesting
that God says about fornication.
He says flee fornication.
Every sin that a man doeth
is without the body.
God says every sin that someone does
is outside your body.
But he that committed fornication
sinneth against his own body.
God has a little caveat here
in 1 Corinthians 6 18.
He says flee fornication
and he says you need to understand this.
There is something different
about sexual sin
than any other sin.
Every sin that a man doeth
is without the body,
but he that committed fornication
sinneth against his own body.
Well, I think he's talking about disease,
teen pregnancy,
things of that nature.
But you know the truth of the matter is this.
I've been in the ministry now.
My wife and I have been in the ministry
now for 13 years.
We started Verity Baptist Church
in our living room 13 years ago.
And as a result of being
in ministry for 13 years,
we've counseled a lot of people
and we've tried to help a lot of people
Oftentimes when people meet with us
and people need to talk to us
and people need some sort of
counseling and help,
and in the instances
where they bring stuff up
about their childhoods,
you know when a 40-year-old
needs to talk about
something they did in their teens,
when a 15-year-old
needs to confess something
that they did in their teens,
when a 30-year-old
has these regrets of things
they did in their teens,
you know that inevitably
what they bring up
is always sexual sin.
Fornication.
I mean, nobody comes to us
when they're 40 years old saying,
I've got to talk to you, Pastor.
You know, when I was 13 years old,
my mom, she said,
I needed to eat my broccoli
and when she wasn't looking,
I gave it to the dog
and I've just been so burdened about that.
You know, they're 50 years old
and they're like,
when I was 16 years old,
I stole a bag of M&M's from the store.
Now look, stealing bags from M&M's
from the store, don't do that.
But usually these are not
heavy regrets and burdens.
You know what haunts people
for the rest of their life
is fornication.
This is why God says,
Flee fornication.
Every sin that a man doeth
is without the body,
you ought to listen and say,
I'm better than that.
You ought to make the goal tonight
and say, my goal in life
is to get married one day
and when I walk down that aisle,
I want to walk down pure.
I want to walk down as a virgin.
I'm not going to give that gift away
to just anyone at any time.
I'm going to keep that
for the day that I'm married.
You ought to say,
I'm better than that.
If some boyfriend
tries to tempt you
to do something you ought not do,
you ought to just tell him,
I'm better than that.
I don't want to do that.
You ought to be ten times better.
I think Pastor Thompson
brought up these verses,
but they're good to remember.
You say, how do I stay pure?
1 Corinthians 7 verse 1,
Now, considering the things
whereof he wrote unto me,
it is good for a man
not to touch a woman.
When you're a young person,
you ought to just decide,
I want to be ten times better.
Ten times better in my separation
and ten times better
with regards to drugs and alcohol
and ten times better in my music
and ten times better in appearance
and ten times better
with regards to tattoos
and ten times better in my purity.
You ought to flee fornication.
Do you know, young people,
you ought to just make this decision as well.
You ought to abstain from pornography
that affects young men.
Job said, I made a covenant with mine eyes.
Why then should I think upon a maid?
But I say unto you, Jesus said,
that whosoever looketh on a woman
to lust after hath committed adultery
with her already in his heart.
And I'm just here to tell you,
the choices of today
will be the chains that haunt
your future marriage.
So just decide right now.
I'm better than that.
Don't open that door.
Don't go down that road.
We're not going to give you
unfiltered access to the internet.
We're not just going to let you
have devices that you can go
and get whatever you want from.
We're not going to do that.
Instead of being mad at mom
and mad at dad,
they're always trying to limit me.
You ought to say, thank God
that I have a mom and dad
who think I'm better than that,
who are trying to protect
my future marriage.
You know, often times
you see alcohol, these things,
like drugs, and they think,
oh, I'm just young, it's no big deal,
it's no big deal.
But then it's the chains that burden you
and have you in bondage
for the rest of your life.
Why not just decide, I'm better than that?
Ten times better in your purity.
The choices you make
will be the chains of tomorrow.
Look at Daniel chapter one there.
Look at verse number eight.
I said number one tonight,
what made them better was their purpose.
The kings made them ten times better.
And look, you need to purpose in your heart,
you need to purpose in your heart
not to defile yourself with the king's meat.
You need to make the decision right now,
not in the heat of the moment,
not at the moment of the temptation,
not at the moment when somebody's asking you
or tempting you or giving you an opportunity
to do the wrong thing.
You need to decide right now
before the question even comes
and decide, no, I'm not going to listen to that,
no, I'm not going to drink that,
no, I'm not going to smoke that,
no, I'm not going to wear that,
no, I'm not going to go there,
no, I'm not going to be that type of person,
just purpose in your heart,
that you're better than that
and you'll be found ten times better.
They were ten times better in their purpose.
I'd like you to notice also
not only do we see that they were
ten times better in their purpose,
they were ten times better in their personality.
Look at the verse,
Daniel chapter one and verse eight.
But Daniel purposed in his heart
not with the combination of the king's meat
nor with the wine in which he drank.
Now I want you to notice
because this verse is really interesting to me.
He purposed in his heart
that he would not defile himself
with the portion of the king's meat.
Now here's the thing,
this is the King James Bible,
this is the word of God,
this is narrated by the Holy Spirit
so we know that everything
that's being said here is true.
Daniel purposed in his heart
that he was not going to do this.
This is what it tells us.
Last part of verse number eight.
Therefore he demanded,
is that what it says?
Therefore, the word therefore
is connected to this thought
because Daniel purposed in his heart
that he would not defile himself
with the portion of the king's meat,
therefore he requested
of the prince of the eunuchs.
Notice he didn't demand.
Notice he didn't roll his eyes.
Notice he didn't have a bad attitude.
Notice he wasn't rude about it.
He made the decision
but then he requested
of the princes of the eunuchs
that he might not defile himself.
He already purposed in his heart
and I'm not going to defile myself
but when he went to his authority
he went to his authority with respect.
He went to his authority with a good attitude.
I want you to notice that these young people
not only were they ten times better in their purpose
but they were ten times better in their personality
and look at the response in verse nine.
Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender.
Love with the prince.
Daniel had a good personality
and a good attitude
and therefore his authority
responded well to him.
You know I think you young people
ought to be ten times better
in your purpose
but let me say this,
you ought to be ten times better
in your personality.
You ought to decide that you're going to be
ten times better in your attitude.
Look at Daniel chapter six.
This is the only place I'm going to have you turn.
Daniel chapter six is right there in the book of Daniel.
You're there in Daniel chapter one.
Look at Daniel chapter six verse three.
Daniel chapter six verse three.
Then this Daniel was, look at the words, preferred.
He was preferred.
Why? Because he was superior.
Why? Because he was exceptional.
Why? Because he was remarkable.
Why? Because he was outstanding.
Therefore Daniel was preferred
above the presidents and princes.
Why? Look at it. Don't miss it.
I want you to see it.
Because an excellent spirit was in him.
They were ten times better in their attitude.
They were ten times better in your attitude.
Hey, young person,
why don't you just decide right now,
I've been doing this thing with mom.
I've been doing this thing with dad.
I've been doing this rebellious thing.
I've been doing this attitude thing.
I've been doing this rude thing.
I'm just going to knock that off.
Here's the thing.
Eventually most people actually literally grow out of it.
If you look around you're going to find that
you find thirty year olds and forty years old
that have their moms and dads alive
and they get along with their parents very well.
And they respect their parents and they love their parents.
Do you know how you can do that at thirteen and fourteen
and fifteen and sixteen and seventeen and eighteen and nineteen?
I'm not telling you your parents are perfect.
I'm not telling your parents are ridiculous.
You might say, well if you knew my parents,
if I knew you,
if I knew your parents,
I know your parents.
I know your parents are sinners.
I know you're a sinner too.
But I know that your attitude is a choice you make.
Your attitude is a decision you make.
And some of you kids need to just decide right now
and say, you know what?
All teens are just known for being rebellious.
They're just known for being rude.
They're just known for being mean.
They're just known for rolling their eyes.
They're just known for slamming the door.
I'm better than that.
It doesn't mean that you're not going to disagree
with mom and dad from time to time.
It doesn't mean that you're not going to be unhappy
from time to time.
But why aren't you deciding I'm better than that?
And you might find when you make the decision
that you are better than that,
you're 10 times better.
Their attitude has really changed.
You might find that they start being nicer to you.
You might find that they start giving you
a little more liberty and a little more freedom.
Look, I'm not down on you.
I'm trying to help you out here.
I'm just telling you, why don't you decide
to be 10 times better in your attitude,
10 times better in your rebellion?
Look, I'm just saying, some of you need to go home
and hug mom.
Some of you need to go home
and look at your dad in the eye
and say, hey dad, thank you.
You don't have to take me all the way to Sacramento.
Hey mom, thank you.
I know I've been giving you a lot of crap lately.
I know I've been real rude to you lately.
Thank you for giving me life.
Thank you for changing my diapers.
Thank you for loving me.
Thank you for investing in me.
Thank you for being here for me.
Why don't you change your attitude?
10 times better in your attitude.
Hey young people, you ought to be 10 times better
in your language.
You know the Bible says, let no corrupt
communication proceed out of your mouth.
Listen to me, any fool can string off
a bunch of cuss words.
You don't require, it doesn't require
a lot of intellect to string along
a bunch of cuss words.
Why don't you decide, I'm better than
a drunken sailor.
I don't want my communication skills
to be at the same level as a sailor.
Why don't you read a book,
learn some vocabulary, and get,
look, you don't need to be using
the F word, and the S word, and the B word,
and I don't know what other words
that are there.
You're better than that!
Why not just, I don't need to talk like that.
Everybody else talks like that.
Everybody else is an idiot.
You don't need to be mediocre.
You don't need to be average.
You don't need to be like everyone else.
You can have excellence and superiority.
You can learn and have vocabulary
and actually communicate and actually speak
like a normal person.
You can do that!
You don't have to be like every other
bozo out there.
You ought to decide I'm going to be
ten times better.
Ten times better in my attitude.
Ten times better in my language.
How about this one?
Ten times better in your friendships.
You know the Bible says,
iron sharpened to the iron,
so a man sharpened to the countenance
of his friend?
You know the reason some of you
are like that?
You know what's funny to me
is that you get these teenagers
who maybe, I don't know,
really actually have bad parents
and then they're like angry at their parents
but then they get around with their friends
and then the friends, they have good parents!
But then these kids start acting like
their parents are some drug addict or something.
And it's just because your friends
are acting like this.
Hey, why don't you just decide,
maybe I need some better friends?
Why don't you decide I'm going to be
some better friends?
It's been said before,
show me your friends
and I'll show you your future.
It's been said before,
your friends will determine
the quality and direction of your life.
It's been brought up
because it's an important subject
especially for young people
but listen to me,
it's been said over and over
but you will be the sum product
of your friends.
Maybe 10 times better friends.
Or maybe what you need to decide is
I need to start being a better friend.
I need to stop being the stinking kid
who's always mouthing off,
who's always having a bad attitude,
who's always encouraging everyone else
to do something wrong or be rebellious.
Why don't you decide
I want to be 10 times better as a friend?
Why don't you decide I'm better than that?
I can be better than that.
10 times better in your attitude,
10 times better in your language,
10 times better in your preparation.
Daniel chapter 1, look at verse 17.
I want you to notice
one other area these young people were better.
Their purpose made them 10 times better,
their personality made them 10 times better.
Number 3,
their preparation made them 10 times better.
Notice what the Bible,
what Nebuchadnezzar actually sees in them
and what the Bible actually says.
Daniel 1.17.
As for these four children,
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah,
God gave them knowledge
and skills in all learning and wisdom.
I want you to notice this.
God gave them knowledge
and skills in all learning and wisdom.
Now, that's talking about their secular education.
These young people were 10 times better
in their preparation.
And look, I'm just saying to you,
you ought to decide you ought to be 10 times better
in your education.
Some of you kids need to go home
and start taking your schoolwork seriously.
You need to start doing your assignments.
You need to actually start trying.
You need to actually start paying attention.
You need to try to get some good grades.
Listen, right now is the time for your education.
Now the truth of the matter is this,
that every productive adult
makes a decision to be a lifelong learner.
And we're all learning
and we all should be learning
and we all should be growing.
But you know what often happens in adulthood
is that people have to spend years
and sometimes decades trying to catch up
on everything they missed
when they were a young person.
And what adults are often saying,
and I wish I would have just paid attention.
I wish I would have just taken it seriously.
I wish I would have just done well
and done my best.
I'm just telling you,
you ought to be 10 times better
in your education.
You ought to take your homework seriously
and learn and take intellect seriously
and realize you have a great opportunity
right now to learn and to grow
and to develop skills.
Don't be like everyone else.
You're spending 40 hours a week playing video games
and they're idiots.
Why not be 10 times better?
Why not to decide,
I'm better than that.
I want to be 10 times better.
You ought to be 10 times better in your education.
Notice there Daniel 1.17,
and for these four children,
God gave them knowledge and skill
and all learning and wisdom.
That's secular education.
Understanding in all visions and dreams.
Not only were they good in their secular education,
but they also excelled in their spiritual education.
Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
You ought to decide,
I want to be 10 times better
not only in my secular preparation,
but how about your spiritual preparation?
Don't tell me that teenagers can't live for God.
You ever read the Bible?
Pastor Thompson preached a great sermon about it last night.
I mean, it's a ridiculous amount of young people in the Bible.
Teenagers in the Bible that are serving God
and fighting battles and making decisions
and doing great things for God.
Look at the life of Joseph.
The Bible says Joseph was 17 years old
and twice in the life of Joseph the Bible says
the Lord was with Joseph.
And if the Lord can be with a 17 year old Joseph,
the Lord can be with a 17 year old you.
You can walk with God.
You can have a walk with God
and you ought to decide,
you're going to be 10 times better.
Hey, how about being 10 times better in your Bible reading?
10 times better in your prayer time?
10 times better in your soul winning?
You ought to decide.
You say, I don't know if I can be a soul winner.
If you're a teenager,
it's time for you to be a soul winner.
I've got the good news.
I've got the gospel.
I'm saved and I want to go out
and get somebody else saved.
Hey, 10 times better in your soul winning
and 10 times better in your serving.
You ought to get involved in church, young people.
It's interesting to me
how when children are the least able to help
because of their youngness,
they're the most willing to help.
And they're often trying to get,
can I help with this and can I help with that?
And I'm like, well, you know,
the thing is that if you help with that,
it's going to be like twice as long.
And obviously as good parents,
we always try to involve them.
But here's what's interesting.
When children are the least able to help,
they're often the most willing to help.
And then when teenagers are the most able to help,
oftentimes they're the least willing.
Why don't you change your attitude, young person?
Why don't you decide?
I want to be helpful.
Be helpful at home.
You've got strength.
You've got ability.
You can get involved.
You can do things.
You can help around the church.
Hey, I'm just saying, why not decide?
Why not decide right now in your life?
I don't want to be average.
I don't want to be mediocre.
I want to be 10 times better.
Because your mom believes that.
Your dad believes that.
Your pastor believes that.
Your pastor's wife believes that.
Anyone that is trying to help you,
and love you, and encourage you,
and the things of the Lord,
they see potential in you.
And they understand that you can be
one of these young people
that is 10 times better.
But oftentimes the battle that we have
to fight with young people
is not us telling you that you're 10 times better,
or you couldn't be 10 times better.
It's you making the decision,
yes, I want to be 10 times better!
And you young people,
need to start seeing in yourselves
what we see in you.
That you're better than that.
You're better than that.
So why not decide,
I want to be 10 times better.
Look, I'm just telling you,
you ought to be 10 times better
in your separation.
You ought to be 10 times better
with regards to drugs and alcohol.
When it comes to drugs and alcohol,
you ought to decide,
I'm better than that.
I don't want to go down that road.
10 times better in your appearance.
10 times better with regards to tattoos.
10 times better in your purity.
10 times better in your attitude.
10 times better in your language.
10 times better in your friendship.
10 times better in your education.
10 times better in your Bible reading.
10 times better in your prayer time.
10 times better in your soul winning.
10 times better in your service.
Why don't you decide,
I don't want to be average.
I don't want to be mediocre.
I don't want to be ordinary.
I want to be what everyone around you
sees you can be.
And what most importantly
your Heavenly Father knows about you.
That you can be superior
and exceptional, remarkable, and outstanding.
You could stand out amongst this generation
and the world can look out at you
and say, I don't know what it is
but there's something about that young person.
They're just 10 times better.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father,
Lord we do love you.
And Lord we thank you
and we ask Lord that you would just help these young people
to see in themselves
what we all see in them
and what God sees in them,
what their Heavenly Father sees in them.
That they're better than that.
They can be 10 times better than that.
And Lord I pray that real decisions would be made.
I pray that real choices would be made.
I pray that there would be young people here tonight
who would make some decisions tonight
that would really change the trajectory
of the rest of their lives.
That they would make decisions that would help them
be 10 times better.
That they would see themselves as God sees them.
That they would realize, I'm better than that.
And that they would be found 10 times better.
We love you.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Alright well let's go ahead and take our song books.
We're gonna sing one song from page number 306.
Page number 306.
We're gonna sing,
Have Thine Own Way Lord,
Have Thine Own Way,
306,
Have Thine Own Way.
Like we've been telling you
the couple days you've been here,
we've been choosing these songs as a prayer
and we've been choosing these songs
for you to really think about and meditate.
So like you young people,
really think about these words.
If you're asking yourself, should I do that?
Should I go down that road?
Maybe you should let God have His own way.
Let's go ahead and sing it out on the first 306.
Have Thine Own Way Lord,
Have Thine Own Way.
Thou art the potter,
I am the clay.
Mold thee and make me
after Thy way.
While I am waiting,
yielded and sealed.
Have Thine Own Way Lord,
Have Thine Own Way.
Search me and try me,
Master to me,
Master today.
Wider than slow,
watch me just now.
As in Thy presence
humbly I am.
306.
We're going to sing it out on the third.
Just a little bit.
Let's just slow it down just a little bit.
I want you young people to think about it
as we sing the words on the third.
Have Thine Own Way
Lord,
Have Thine Own Way.
Wounded and weary,
help me I pray.
Power all power,
power all power.
Surely is thine, sing it.
Surely is thine,
touch me and heal me.
Savior divine.
We're going to sing the four sides.
So think of these words.
Have Thine Own Way Lord,
Have Thine Own Way.
Hold all my being,
absolute sway,
filled with Thy Spirit
till all shall see,
Christ only always
living in me.
I hope you'll make that your prayer tonight.
Let's sing it out on the fourth.
Sing it like a great choir.
Have Thine Own Way
Lord,
Have Thine Own Way.
Hold all my being,
absolute sway,
filled with Thy Spirit
till all shall see,
filled with Thy Spirit
till all shall see,
Christ only always
living in me.
Christ only always
living in me.
God bless you kids.
Thank you for being here tonight.
We're coming toward to the end
of this Next Generation Youth Rally
and we've got some things
that we've got to take care of
here at the end.
So I'm going to give you some instructions
and we're going to get on to some things.
First of all,
we need to deal with this matter
about the raffles.
So we're going to raffle off.
We've got several things here.
We're going to raffle off tonight.
We're going to begin by raffling off.
These are a lot. Good night.
We're going to raffle off
these t-shirts here
and these are generously donated
by Pastor Thompson
and Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
So these are King James Bible only t-shirts.
We're going to raffle these off
and here's what we're going to do.
We're going to raffle them off
and then if you win,
you can come up here and look for your size,
grab your size
and then we're going to just raffle off
as many of those as possible
and then we've got these
Next Generation Youth Rally hats
and these are some really nice looking hats.
We've got the black
Next Generation Youth Rally
so we're going to go ahead and raffle these off
and then we've got,
because you guys weren't that great
at these competitions,
we've got so many of these Amazon gift cards left over.
Now we're just going to go ahead
and raffle some of these off as well.
So here's how it's going to work.
We've got this,
I don't know what this thing is called,
a tumbler or something
and we got the raffle tickets in here
so we're just going to go ahead
and we're going to take,
give me one second and we're going to get there.
I'm going to spin that
and then we're going to get your names out of there.
Now I realize that some of you probably have tickets.
Raise your hand if you have tickets in your seat.
None of you pay attention
when we tell you to put things.
So here's what we're going to do.
I'm going to give you an opportunity right now
to bring your ticket up
and put it in.
So if you've got a ticket,
get up right now
and bring it in.
Can we get some pens?
These kids are just, they're not prepared.
Get them some pens.
Do you have a pen?
Do you have more than one?
We have like a million pens back there.
Who needs a pen?
Put your names on there.
Goodnight.
Hold on.
Alright, let's put them in there.
Put them in there.
That's okay.
Just put those in there.
We want to make sure we don't miss any of these.
We don't want to miss any of these.
Oh, and of course, the big prize
is the powered scooter.
The Onewheel.
That's the last one we're going to give out tonight.
And then also we're going to announce the winners
of the teams.
So we want to make sure,
man, we had a great altar call tonight.
Look at all these kids coming down the aisle,
getting saved and right with God.
Look at this altar call.
Praise the Lord.
Any more tickets?
Make sure you get your tickets in here.
Get your tickets in here.
Why does that say Dwight Kidd?
No, I'm just kidding.
Alright, any other tickets?
Last chance. Any other tickets?
You sure? You sure?
Alright, we're going to start off,
so we need to move this quickly, okay?
We got to move this quickly.
I'm just going to start picking names.
First thing we're going to give out is t-shirts.
We're going to give out t-shirts.
So come up here and grab that one wheel, alright?
We're giving t-shirts,
so make sure that you do that.
Alright, so our first winner
of a King James Bible or t-shirt is
Ella Tavern.
Ella, where's she at?
Pastor Taverner's daughter?
Is she here? Where's she at? She's shy?
Come on up! Come on up! Grab a t-shirt.
Alright, give her a round of applause.
Ella Taverner.
Alright, Diamond from Chicago.
Diamond from Chicago, come on up.
It doesn't say Chicago, I remember.
Girls, just grab, look at those t-shirts,
look at the sizes and grab your size, alright?
Look at the size, I don't know what your size is,
so you're going to have to figure that one out.
Okay, let's pick another one.
Connor Yu. Connor Yu, where's Connor? Come on up.
Grab a t-shirt, grab a t-shirt,
grab a t-shirt, quickly, quickly,
sense of urgency, sense of urgency.
Diamond again, but we're not going to wear the t-shirt,
I'm just going to put that back in there, okay?
Why do like half of these say Diamond?
That's odd.
Let me switch them out again.
Okay, let's see.
I can't read this.
Junabella? Naomi?
Is that you? Come on up, come on up.
Alright, sorry.
Your handwriting is so beautiful, I couldn't read it.
Okay, alright, come on up, grab a t-shirt, grab a t-shirt,
just grab, look at the size there and grab it.
Jasmine Coffney, I have a t-shirt for you.
Is there any size that fits you?
It's kind of harder with the t-shirts.
They all look the same, just grab one.
Alright, let's get them.
You don't have any size, any size that fits you?
You don't have any size that fits you?
What are all the sizes?
Why are all these Pastor Thompson size?
Good night.
Alright, well we got like a million, do you,
see if you can find a t-shirt there.
Is that one? Got it?
That one good? Good? Alright.
Okay, this is, we're going to put the rest of these
out there for kids to just grab
because that's going to be a little too hard to get them,
they don't even know their own sizes,
they got to call their mom and then it just,
so let's move on to the hats.
Alright, those are one size fits all.
Alright, let's, good night.
Okay, we're giving out Next Generation Youth Rally
black hat, this one goes to Logan.
Logan, where you at?
Logan, I'm just going to throw it at you,
you guys are moving too slow.
Where you at? Chris Segura, where you at?
Chris Segura, alright, got it.
Let's do this quickly.
Amy from the UK.
Sorry, sorry.
Okay.
Jocelyn Cottrell.
Jocelyn Cottrell, alright, here you go.
Can I get somebody to come up here
and help me with this please?
Where's Molly?
Oh, right here.
Just hold it so it doesn't keep falling, thank you.
Just, where's your rugs?
Celise, Celise.
We're playing a new game, if I pick your name,
I'm trying to, okay, what are you doing?
Just leave, just hold it, yeah, just hold it.
Just don't do anything.
Ah, good night.
Good night.
Can you just get the white kid to do this?
Charlotte, Charlotte Milstead, Charlotte, there you go.
Oops, sorry.
Hit the wrong kid, hit the wrong kid.
Jacob Pozarnski, Jacob Pozarnski.
Got it, alright.
Zoya, Zoya, where she at?
Zoya, alright, let's see if I can hit her.
Okay, good.
Elisa Dicken, Elisa Dicken, there you go.
Logan something, Logan's humble, who's, is that you?
Did you already get one?
Alright, why don't I give you another one?
Sorry, you don't have two heads.
Emma, Emma Rawson, Emma, there you go.
Milana, Milana, that's one of these girls here.
Milana, ah, that was not even close.
Milana, okay, last two, Black Hats go to,
I can't read this, can you read that?
Burger, Burger and Englehart.
Ber, Ber, anybody have a name as close to that?
What's your name?
You already have one, alright, okay, good.
Well you shouldn't get one anyway.
Milana, Milana has one, good night.
Sagan, Sagan, alright.
The Segura kids are making out like bandits.
Autumn, Autumn Chesick.
Sorry, alright, good, alright, those are the hats.
These shirts are all for Pastor Thompson,
so we'll just leave that.
And then we've just got a bunch of Amazon gift cards.
Amazon gift cards, I'm not gonna throw these,
you're gonna have to come up and grab these, alright?
But let's do it quickly.
Johan Snyder, Johan, come on up, come on up.
Sorry, it doesn't work.
Okay, so for these one, even if you got another gift,
you can just come up and get it,
because we just want to get rid of these, okay.
Good night, can you?
This is Parker, Parker?
Oh Parker, alright, that's what I said, alright.
Good, sorry.
Briar, E, Briar, there you go, alright.
That one was better.
Amy, UK, can I throw it?
Alright.
Noah Sweetin, Noah Sweetin.
10,000 points for me.
Emily Gessler, Emily Gessler.
Andrea Santos, and it's just the entire orchestra,
the entire...
Julia Gessler, Julia Gessler.
That's crazy.
Jasmine Coffney.
I am not doing that on purpose, I promise.
Emily Gessler, we're not doing it again.
Good night.
Chris Segura, Chris Segura.
No, no, your dad, your dad.
I got it.
Same thing, who's that?
You read that.
Naomi, Arabella Naomi.
Arabella Naomi, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't want to hit those girls.
Sorry, sorry.
Joel Jimenez.
Sorry.
Get one chance to hit my kids.
We're so ya, we're so ya.
Alright.
I keep hitting her.
Sorry, I'm not doing that on purpose, I promise.
Michael F, Michael F, alright.
Okay, let's close this up again.
Because I think we're down to the grand prize.
Can you just spin it, can you spin it?
Okay, so we're down to the grand prize.
These t-shirts we're just going to put out front,
and if you happen to be, if it happens to be your size,
then you guys can just take them.
The grand prize is this Onewheel, alright.
It is a Onewheel Pint electric skateboard,
valued at $1,050.
We promise it's brand new, but the staff guys were playing with it,
so it looks a little used.
But we have the box and the receipt, we promise.
And again, you can take it with you, if you can take it with you,
if not, we'll ship it to you.
But this is the big prize, this is the big one, alright.
So, have you spinned it enough?
Let's spin it a few more times, just to make sure.
Alright, the main prize for the night,
the main prize for the entire conference,
is going to go to one lucky individual.
You guys want to pray about it?
I'm going to close my eyes.
I'm going to search, I'm just, I'm looking for the one that says,
Pastor Jimenez.
Alright, the grand prize winner.
The grand winner of the Onewheel,
valued at $1,050,
is Jocelyn Kitcall.
Jocelyn Kitcall, am I saying that right?
Is that you, sorry?
I can't read your handwriting, but I think it's you.
You're the winner!
Congratulations, let's get, can we get a picture?
We need to get a picture.
We got to get one picture, let's get a picture.
Do you think you can ride this?
Yeah, I ride on my uncles all the time.
Alright, well there you go, there you go.
Are your mom and dad here?
Where's mom and dad?
Are she allowed to have that?
Alright, congratulations.
You know what's really funny about that?
Is that last year's winner was also named Jocelyn.
So we only give gifts to girls named Jocelyn, apparently.
Okay, we got one last thing.
I need the numbers for the teams.
God bless you, I hope you're happy with that.
Okay, we got one last thing.
I need the numbers for the teams.
God bless you, I hope you're happy with that.
You texted it to me? Okay.
So we've got one last point of business to deal with.
And what we have for the team.
So everybody got their gifts, everybody got their prize.
What we have for the team, so the team that won,
you know this was a hard-fought race, obviously.
You guys were, I mean there was sweat, there was blood,
there was tears, there was a lot of rolling of the eyes.
And so what we have is for the team that wins,
you're gonna get this Next Generation Youth Rally candy bar.
And on the back it says, congratulations winner.
Alright, so we got a candy bar for every member,
alright, so we got a candy bar for every member of the winning team.
So, the winning team, we have of course these two teams
that competed against each other.
In fact, let's just hear one last time for every team
before I even announce it.
One last time, Wranglers, let's hear your cheer.
Cowboys, let's hear your cheer.
Alright, the winner of the 2024 Next Generation Youth Rally,
coming in at 810,000 points, is, the winner is, the Cowboys!
Alright, good job.
So let's get these young people, they've got,
we've got candy bars here for the young people,
it says winners on the back.
But for you guys, let me just give you your prize,
cause you guys did a good job too.
The Wranglers, they competed hard, they had a good attitude,
the Cowboys came in at 810,000 points,
the Wranglers came in at 780,000 points.
Let's give them a round of applause as well.
780,000 points.
And, we don't want to disappoint, you get a candy bar as well,
but yours says, loser.
Maybe next year, is what it says.
Alright, so God bless you, you can have a candy bar as well.
Alright, well I think that's it for all of the announcements,
so what we're going to do is go ahead and pray,
and then we're going to take about a five minute break,
five minute breaks, if I can get the ushers and the staff
and everyone else to help us get these chairs all turned around,
in about five minutes we're going to begin the last wrestling match
of the Next Generation Youth Rally.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer,
Heavenly Father, thank you for this night,
thank you for this conference, thank you for these young people,
Lord I pray you'd bless them, I pray you'd help them,
I pray that every sermon that's been preached
from the very first morning session all the way to the last evening service,
that the sermons would touch the hearts of these young people,
that they would make decisions to serve you, to love you,
to separate themselves unto you,
and that they would rise up as this next generation
that would do great things for God.
We love you, we love them, and Lord I pray that you would help them
to identify in themselves what we all see in them,
the potential to be ten times better.
In the matchless name of Jesus Christ we pray, Amen.
God bless you, you are dismissed.
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