No Greater Joy Ministries

Good & Evil Animation Clip 3

No Greater Joy Ministries — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:00:32 +0000

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[music] Lot's Uncle: Please don't be angry; this is the last time I will ask you. What if there are only ten righteous people in the city? Will you destroy it still? Angel 1: No, if I can find ten righteous souls, I will not destroy the city. Lot's Uncle: If you can't find ten, will you please warn my nephew, Lot? Angel 1: We will visit him tonight. Narrator: The two angels went into the city that evening and walked by Lot's house. Angel 2: This is perverted, worse than I thought. Angel 1: Now I see why God is going to destroy everyone, even the children and animals. Lot: Hey! You strangers, you can't stay in the street tonight. It isn't safe. Come into my house for the night. Crowd Member: Hey, they are kind of cute. We will tell the guys about them. Crowd Member: Lot, send those men out so that we can have sex with them. Lot: Go away! You can't do this evil thing. Crowd Member: Who does he think he is, so high and mighty? Bigoted hypocrite. Crowd Member: We'll break the door down and do worse to you, you foreigner! Crowd Member: Hate monger! Crowd Member: We don't want your daughters. We want the beautiful men. Angel 1: The Lord God make you blind! Crowd Member: Where are they? Crowd Member: Who turned off the lights? Crowd Member: I can't see. What happened? What kind of power is this? Angel 1: You must leave the city tomorrow morning. Warn whom you will. God is righteous and will no longer tolerate this sin. Tomorrow, God is going to rain down fire from heaven on this place. Everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah will die. Hurry! The fire will soon fall. No one will escape. Lot: God says you are not to look back at the city as it burns. Don't look back! [screams] Woman 1: Oh no, Father! Mother disobeyed God! She has turned into salt! Lot: Don't look! Keep going! Narrator: Every living thing in Sodom and Gomorrah died that day. God is righteous and he hates sin, especially perverted sex, men with men and women with women. Sexual sins involving children are the worst of all. God had promised never to destroy the world with water, but he didn't say anything about fire. The next time, it will be by fire. The penalty of any sin is death, physical death and eternal death in the Lake of Fire. By the grace of God, Lot was saved from the judgment of God. But his wife did not believe God was serious when he warned them not to look back. The penalty for all sin is always death. No exceptions. [music]

Oklahoma Disaster Relief – Tragedy Strikes and Help Arrives!

Chuck Joyner — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:39:17 +0000

Soon after the reports of the devastation in Oklahoma started coming in, local efforts began to go and help. One of the local Amish men and his sons, as well as several others started making their way to Oklahoma. They took some of their own equipment and are renting a skid steer and purchasing tarps. They will also incur other travel expenses. These men are prepared to cover their own expenses, but No Greater Joy wants to offer our supporters the opportunity to support these disaster relief efforts. They are the hardworking type of men you want on the ground to get the jobs done. As in Alabama back in 2011, many of the men, women, and children offering assistance will also have opportunity to share the Gospel and minister to spiritual needs as well. All Disaster Relief Designated funds will go to covering the expenses of the relief effort. Thank you for doing what you can!

Google Judgment

Michael Pearl — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:25 +0000

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[music] Announcer: How would you be judged by your Google search records? As believers, we know that it is not only our online behavior that will one day be made known to all. Michael Pearl: If you were to do a survey of the Christian life and the sinner's life from afar—if you just surveyed the fruit, the joy, the peace, the life, the quality of life—the Christian would win out every time. In other words, our life is better. The fruit in old age is better than the fruit of a sinner. Everything about the Christian life is better, except going to the mission field, and suffering, or being persecuted and martyred, and that sort of thing that comes about when we serve God. But what a Christian does different than a sinner is we have to exercise a whole lot of self-control and self-denial. The end result is that the Christian is living a life of not doing what he feels like doing, whereas the sinner does the easy thing, what he feels like doing. When he does what he feels like doing, the end result is some pretty bad outcomes—a lot misery, a lot of suffering in this life. The fact is, if it were not for the hope beyond, without belief in the eternal, in a day of judgment, in a God who cares what we do and how we live, if it were not for that, we wouldn't exercise self-denial. We wouldn't deny ourselves immediate gratification. The sinner just immediately gratifies himself. We constantly battle our flesh and do what is right rather than what we feel like doing in this world. It's not in order to gain eternal life that we do that, but it is the sure and certain knowledge that we are eternal people and that good is good, and it's holy, and it's pure, and it's lovely. That's what we want to be, now and in eternity. We want to please God and honor God, but at the same time we do fear God. We fear God. We fear of the Day of Judgment. It constrains us. The love of Christ constrains us and the fear of coming judgment constrains us. If you profess to believe in eternity, that you are an eternal being, that you will stand before God, and you deny yourself many things because of that, but there are secret indulgences where you pretend to be a Christian but, in fact, you live like a heathen in some secret ways, then I submit unto you that you don't really believe in eternity. You really don't believe that you are an eternal creature who will live forever in the presence of God. You'd be a sheer fool to harbor secret sins, knowing they'll only be secret for a very short time. They're all coming to light. When I was at the knife throw, beside me in the lane was a new thrower from California. Big, nice looking, bright young fellow. I said to him, "What do you do for a living?" He said, "I am an engineer for Google." I said, "Then, you know all about us, don't you?" He said, "Everything." He said, "I know everything." He said, "I know everything that everybody does. What they watch, what they see, what they research. We have the records and they never go away." I said, "You can publish mine if you want. You can publish it." Now, he said that ominously. [laughs] He did. He felt the power that was in his hands. He knows everybody that's on any kind of media at all. He knows you. The records are there, and they stay there. He has the power. If he didn't like me, he’d go back and dig all that stuff out and make it public. The people who work there—just common, old, ordinary people—if they get the notion, they can look you up and publish everything about you. Now, would that change your habits any, if you knew you had an enemy in Google? [laughter] Michael: What about the fact that God is keeping records? That the angels are observing? That everything will be brought into judgment, with every secret thing? Everything will be made manifest in that Day of Judgment. If you really believed that, it would change the way you live. If you have secret sins, you don't believe that. You're living in some kind of a delusion, that somehow it won't be known. That's called a fool. That's an idiot fool. If you really are a believer, and you really believe, it will affect the way you live here and now, and in secret. What you do now will affect your eternity. [music] Announcer: We're really glad you listened today and we hope that you were blessed. Remember, check our always changing online specials.

Bible Basics: Part 4 Session with Michael Pearl from the Big Texas Shindig

Michael Pearl — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:05 +0000

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[music] Michael Pearl: More than 3,000 times the Bible references God speaking. I just looked these up about four days ago. "Thus sayeth the Lord," 854 times. "The word of the Lord came under the prophet," 277 times. "And God sayeth," 46 times, "The Lord said," 221 times. "The Lord sayeth," 12 times. "Lord spake," 13 times. "Voice from heaven say," 9. "Spirit sayeth," "The Lord has said," "Lord spake," "The Lord has spoken." Now, there's additional ones. That's all I could get on the page. But it totals out to about 3,000 times. The Bible claims that God is speaking. Now, the word of God, which people will still admit is the word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is composed of words. Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and the judgments, and all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the Lord has said will we do." Now, think about it. God's name is the word of God. Jesus' name is the word of God. And when He gave us a book, he gave it to us in words. Not words which man's wisdom teacheth, but words which the Holy Ghost teacheth. He said write the words down, write all the words down. Write them plain. All the words which the Lord has said will be do. Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with us concerning all these words. Joshua said of the children of Israel, come hither and hear the words of the Lord your God. Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God and took a great stone and set it there on the oak. There was a sanctuary, the Lord and Joshua said, "Unto all the people behold these stones shall be a witness unto us. For it hath heard. The stone heard all the words of the Lord which he spake onto us. It shall be there for witness unto you lest ye deny your God." You remember that passage in the New Testament when the people were praising Jesus and the scribes and Pharisees said tell them to be quiet? Jesus said if they didn't praise me, the stones would cry out. That's based on that passage right there. They put a stone up, and they read the words of God, and let the stone hear the words of God. When he got through, he said, "Now that's going to be a witness because that stone has heard all the words of God." Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people. He came to pass when Jeremiah made to speaking unto all the words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord their God had sent to them. Even all these words. The scripture's wonderful. [laughs] I love it. It cuts, the Bible says, like a knife. Piercing to the dividing us under soul and spirit and joints and marrow. It is the discerner of the thoughts and intents the heart. In these two lessons, the Holy Spirit will discern your thoughts and intents, and see if you're a Bible believer or a man believer. Now, I'm going to go beyond the Scripture. I'm going to go into history. I'm going to go into some of the different writers and what some people have said. I'm going to show you the facts of the case. The word is composed of words. They believe they're His words. They sang His praise. "Thou art my portion oh Lord, I've said that I would keep thy words. Turn it my repute, behold all, pour out my spirit upon you, and I'll make known my words unto you." The reason why I'm reading all these verses is I could say this once or twice and it would go over your head. But I'm doing what they do in school. Repetition. I'm showing you that this is not some abstract concept I've pulled out of a few verses. This is the tenet of what God has given us. If you neglect this, you're neglecting the entire word of God. "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand." God's word and words are identical. The Lord said unto Moses, "Is the Lord's hand waxed short? That it shall not see whether my word will come to pass"‑‑ notice the word "word," singular ‑‑ "shall come to pass unto thee." Moses went out and told people the words. So, God has identified his word, singular, with his words, plural. They're one and the same. [music]

What to Do with a Foolish Child

Michael Pearl — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:59:06 +0000

In this episode, Mike and Debi Pearl discuss foolish and silly children. Show Description: Pearls of Wisdom follows the No Greater Joy team as they discuss and answer questions about raising children, marriage, simple living, gardening, homeschooling, and more! Each week will cover different topics - topics that YOU - the viewer choose! This is a great show for the whole family and anyone who wants some extra "Pearls of Wisdom" to come their way.

Artist Needed!

Debi Pearl — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:12:12 +0000

My new book on Homeschooling is near completion, but I need illustrations. Do you want to give it a try? Create your own illustrations but this simple style is what I like: Here are four of the story lines that need illustrations:

Child videoing siblings acting out a Bible scene.
Children playing hopscotch.
Parent dressed as a historic figure and children guessing who it is (Moses, Washington, Churchill, etc.).
Children singing while at work (gardening, stacking firewood, sweeping, etc.).

Send your submissions to cjoyner@nogreaterjoy.org and NGJ will pay $50 for each illustration that I use in the book, and you will be named as the illustrator.

The Harding Family

No Greater Joy Ministries — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:58:26 +0000

For more on the Great Ozark Mountain Shindig in September, click here.

Young Adults & Marriage – Part 1

Michael Pearl — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:00:29 +0000

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[music] Announcer: Where do you even start when it comes to preparing your kids for young adulthood? Mike has got a few answers. Michael Pearl: Probably the most difficult time is that transition between 15 and 20. Maybe even between 17 and 19, somewhere in there. That time when the girl realizes she's a woman. "You're a woman. I'm an adult, almost. You're an adult, and I have passions, ambitions, expectations out of life. I don't see things the way you do. I don't like the way you see things. I see things differently. I can't be held down. I can't be pinned down. I can't be limited. I've got to go." They're not old enough yet and smart enough to make all the right choices. They're vulnerable, and they're going to get in trouble. You know that. But when you try to say anything, you look like an old fogey. You look like the killjoy. That boy, when he gets about 17, 18, and he has all of life in front of him, and here's a momma who wants to prevent him from being a man. Daddy's preoccupied, Daddy's busy, Daddy doesn't know, and he's ready to go. He's old enough almost to join the military. Go overseas. Walk down the streets of Thailand and Bangkok. It’s kind of bad over there. He's old enough to go out and drink, do whatever he wants to do, and here you are holding him back. It's pretty difficult to hold them back. Close to impossible, in fact. If they want to go, they can go. They can hit the road. They can put out their thumb and they can go somewhere. That girl can pick up a guy, a guy can pick up her, and she can be gone at 16, and you'll never see her again if that's what she wants. It's a very difficult time. You can't just spank them into obedience. You can't just intimidate them anymore. You can't just threaten them. They are a bit too sophisticated for that. It's about too late if you haven't done some things to put your values—assuming you have the right values—in them, if you haven't made them to where they want to choose the right path, to where they have the wisdom to choose the right path. Then there's not much hope at that age. Maybe if you'd cry and repent and suddenly have a revival in your own soul, you could bring them to conversion—if not salvation—to a conversion of perspective on the world, and get them to come over to your side and work with you a couple more years before they actually leave home. That's possible. But still, it's tenuous at that age. The battle of 17, 18 years old has to be fought when they're 3 or 4, and 10, and 11, and 12. Let me address the needs of a teenager, and see if you're providing that now. What a teenager is going to be looking for when they're 16, 17 years old is they're going to be looking out beyond the family to what is next. What is next is a job, friends, a social life, wife, husband, their own home. What you have to do when a child is very young, you have to begin giving them a vision. Key word here is vision. Everybody needs a vision. Your teenagers need a vision, and they have to believe that the culture you've provided provides a fulfillment of their future drives and desires. Give you an illustration. If the social life that you provide for your children does not provide a spouse or potential spouses, they're going to jump the fence. If you get an 18-year-old daughter, say, 19, that gets scary. She looks around and all she's got is some nerds and jerks in the environment that you've provided. There's no men in that little circle. Then she's going to jump the fence because she's in heat. Maybe not physically, but you know what happens to a cow. A cow gets in heat. She goes up to the edge of the fence and starts bellowing for the bull in the next pasture. One of those fences, or both of them, are going to come down. It's her time that she's going to have a bull. It may be crude to you. You may not like that, but that's exactly what happens to a 19-year-old girl. She starts needing a man. She doesn't exactly know why she needs him if she's been raised quite innocently. But she knows she needs a man. She might have seen two or three little movies, some rinky-dink stuff. But they're enough to say boy meets girl, lives happily ever after. She wants to meet boy and live happily ever after. You cannot protect them from that. If they've got normal growth and development and hormones, that's what they want. The guy, it starts a lot sooner with him. When he turns 13 or 14, he starts thinking girl. Eat, eat. When he gets 16 or 17, he's looking around picking him out one. When he gets about 18 or 19, if the circle you've got him in has got a bunch of girls that don't suit his fancy and he believes that there's no hope for him in this circle, then he's going to jump the fence. He's going to find one, and the one he finds may not be very suitable at all. Young people have to have some fun. They have to have some entertainment. They have to laugh and get rowdy and noisy. Cut up and act silly and stupid, and go out and just wear their self out. You're not going to be able to keep one happy in your home if you don't provide that somewhere. If all you do is want to have devotionals with them and put principles in them, they're going to come to hate you. The church today, has Christian socials for young people. And any time you get ten young people, girls and boys together, there's going to be some sex. Maybe not copulation necessarily, but there's going to be some sexual talk, some sexual desires. That's inevitable anytime. You meet in a home church, four families, the guys are going to have sexual drives. But when you get them together at nighttime where they can go outdoors or on the way home where they can rendezvous, or one of them is driving or something, you're going to have some problems. If not out of every one of them, out of enough of them to spoil the group. It's real difficult to have a balance to provide a social life, a culture in which they can get acquainted with females or males, in which they can learn how to relate to the opposite sex, in which they can have some hope of a partner when they get 19 or 20 or however old they are, and at the same time, not spoil their bodies or minds before that happens. Now, if you say, I'm going to pick out several kids. We're going to bring them to our house, and we're not going to have a really laughing time. We're just going to have a sober, serious time, spiritual renewal here, and separate the boys one night and the girls another. They're not going to come to your house. The boys and girls are going to have to get together somehow. [music] Announcer: Thanks for listening. We hope this helps or encourages you in some way today. As always, remember to check out our ever-changing specials.

How to Study Your Bible: Part 4 Session with Nathan Pearl from the Big Texas Shindig

Nathan Pearl — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:00:34 +0000

Transcription [music] Nathan Pearl: So, why is Bible study crucial for laymen and leaders alike? The Bible says in Timothy, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." So we see here division. That God says that you all are to study to show that you are approved to God. You're studying to show yourself approved to God; "a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." Now I once was working on a house—I do construction—and a guy was laying up a stone chimney. He laid the chimney up all day and worked on the stone chimney and all these big pieces—it was about 4:30 and they were quitting at 5:00—and the whole thing fell down; all that he worked on all day. All over the floor. Hundreds of pounds of stone. He just bowed his head and dropped his shoulders. He was ashamed of himself. He was a workman that was ashamed because his work didn't hold up. If you don't study the Word of Truth, you should—and will eventually—be ashamed of yourself. You'll be like that guy. It says in Romans, "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us [the saints] shall give account of himself to God." There's coming a day when you will stand before the God of heaven and earth and explain to him your stand on his Word. TJ once said, "I'm okay with standing before God and saying ‘I was a dumb hillbilly and I believed in what you said when you wrote it.’ I'm not okay with standing there and just saying ‘Well, I didn't think that you meant it.’" At one point I'm going to stand before God, and I'm going to give an account for how I've handled his Book, and all the other things that I've done. But it's not just going to be the things that I've done bad. It says in Corinthians "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." Someday you'll stand before God and give an account whether you've done what was right or whether you've done what was wrong. [music]

Good & Evil Audio Clip: Fiery Serpents

No Greater Joy Ministries — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:30:19 +0000

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Announcer: Here we have a clip for you from Good and Evil episode 4. We hope you like it. We sure had fun making it. [music] Man 1: There came a day when their complaints and unbelief caused God to bring judgment upon them. [snakes hissing] Woman 2: Snakes! Lot of them! [snakes hissing] Man 1: God prepared many poisonous snakes to enter the camp and seek out warm flesh. God is merciful, but He will not allow sin to continue forever. Soon the camp was filled with poisonous snakes. Man 2: God help us! Man 1: The snakes even found them in their tents at night. Man 2: Help me! I've been bitten! [snakes hissing] Woman 3: No! [screams] Woman 4: [scream] No! Joab! Child 1: Mother! [cries] Man 1: Even the children suffered for the sins of their parents. From all over the camp, cries of the suffering and grieving could be heard. The wages of sin are terrible. Man 3: It is like this all over the camp, growing worse by the minute. Many have already died. Man 4: We must find Moses. Surely this is the work of God. He is angry with the people for their sins. Man 3: You must talk to God. We deserve this punishment, but ask him to show mercy. Man 5: When will the people learn that God is serious about sin? They must obey his commandments and be a holy nation. Oh, God, please be merciful to your people. Forgive their sins. God: Go. Make a serpent of brass just like the ones biting the people. Place it on a pole for all to see. Tell them to simply look upon the brass serpent and they will be instantly healed. Man 4: God has provided a way! Just look at the brass serpent and you will be healed! Woman 5: He is going to die. Man 7: No, God has provided a way. Just open your eyes and look. Look and live! Woman 5: It's a miracle! Man 7: We must tell others. Man 8: It worked for me. I will tell the others. Look and live! Man 9: Others have looked and been made whole. Woman 6: Why do you tease him with a false hope? Man 10: Can't you see that I'm dying? Why do you bother me with such foolishness? Woman 6: He's . . . dead. Man 4: I am sorry he wouldn't believe. Woman 6: He had a lot of pride. Man 1: Once again the people saw the power of God. The camp moved away from the serpents and life returned to normal. Announcer: I am certainly glad we don't have to deal with those fiery serpents now, and that we can all learn from what has gone on before. As always, please remember to check out our ever-changing NGJ specials.