Question for you, be honest, raise your hand
if you've testified to a lost person since
we left here yesterday, raise your hand for
me.
Thank you.
God will take that seed and make it
grow.
Raise your hand.
Keep it up, I didn't see it over
here.
Okay.
Thank you.
I was having breakfast this morning at a
hotel and I got the chance to...
Gentleman was walking out of his room, so
he's walking out, I said, hey, good morning,
where are you from?
He said, Washington.
I said, great, can I ask you a
question?
He said, yeah.
I said, if you died tonight, are you
100% assured you'll go to heaven?
Just kept walking with me.
He said, well, I'm hesitating, I guess I'm
not sure.
We sat down at the breakfast table, began
to talk.
His name is Jay.
He's here visiting from Washington.
His daughter is a senior at Antioch.
Came to visit his daughter before she graduates.
We had a great talk over breakfast.
Got a chance to tell him some good
news.
Got a chance to sign my book and
give it to him.
Why?
Because I'm not going to testify about the
Lord just in here.
I'm going to testify for the Lord outside
here, correct?
Correct?
Are you testifying about the Lord?
Your choice, if you want to do it.
I was driving in yesterday, and I turned
on the Cedarville radio station, and there was
somebody on there talking about going to see
The Matrix Revolution, and going to be one
of the first ones to see it and
stuff like that.
Because the comment she made was that she
wanted to make sure that she didn't have
other people tell her about the movie, but
that she could what?
Tell people about the movie that she saw.
She wanted to be the first one to
tell people about it.
Interesting thought.
And I wondered about that as I thought
about that.
I wonder how many times that I have
the mindset that I want to walk out,
and I want to tell people first about
Jesus Christ.
That someone doesn't have to witness to my
friends or my brothers or my dad that's
not saved.
That I've witnessed to my brothers and my
dads who are not saved.
Think about that for a second.
I went to a county fair in Atlanta,
Georgia.
I was talking to two 25-year-old
ladies there.
About 30 minutes into the conversation, I just
decided to ask a crazy question.
Can I ask y'all a question?
They said, yeah.
30 minutes into it now.
I said, have you ever read from the
Bible before?
They looked at each other.
They said, no.
I said, have you ever heard about Jesus
Christ dying on the cross for your sins
before?
They looked at each other.
They said, no.
25 years old, Atlanta, Georgia.
But I was going to testify.
Sometimes the first time they hear might be
for you.
Don't you want to testify about that?
Don't you?
When you go to the first one they
hear about that, get the wheels spinning inside.
Then you might be the 10th one.
You might be the 100th one.
The question is, will you be faithful or
not?
Matrix revolution.
Think about how many of us are going
to stand in front of the throne of
God if we died today and we actually
saw more movies than we actually witnessed to
lost people.
I used to be one of those.
Not anymore.
Revolution.
What's the word revolution mean?
Revolution means an overthrow of the current government.
Not talking Washington, D.C. here.
Who's known as the prince of the power
of the air?
Who's known as that in the Bible?
Satan is.
Prince of power of the air.
Do we need an overthrow of the current
government?
Don't we?
Oh, yes, we do.
We need a revolution of the highest regard.
Watch something very simple.
There will not be a revolution in America
until there's a revolution inside the churches and
the Christian colleges and universities around America.
Is that correct?
That is correct.
Now watch this statement.
There will not be a revolution inside this
room until there's a revolution inside here.
Has that revolution happened inside of you yet?
That revolution happens, you're going to walk out
here so radically obedient to God's word and
his Bible that you're not going to care
what people think about you.
Has that revolution happened to you yet?
You see, in order to have a revolution,
you must have one thing.
It's called a revolutionary.
There must be somebody that says, that's it.
No matter what the cost, no matter what
it's going to cost.
No matter what my friends are going to
say.
When I started getting serious about this a
few years ago, some of my relatives went
to my parents and said, hey, Mark's not
becoming one of those Jesus freaks, is he?
My mama told me.
I said, mama, go ahead and tell him.
Yes, I am.
Okay.
I don't answer it to my relatives when
I die.
I go one on one with God when
I die.
Don't you want a revolution?
You want a revolution?
I want a revolution.
It's not going to happen until we decide
it's going to happen.
Has that happened inside you yet?
That something so biblical is going to happen
on this campus, only God can get the
credit for it.
Wouldn't you want that to happen?
Wouldn't you want Cedarville to be known for
that?
Decide there's going to be a revolution inside
of you.
Make sure everything that's nasty inside you is
repented of.
Ask God to clean you out.
Then ask him to stand you up as
we were singing and testify about this Jesus
Christ.
Let me tell you something, when that revolution
is about to happen inside of you, it's
going to get fun down here.
It's going to get a lot of fun.
I taught at a Christian high school.
I left the Christian high school.
Two years later, the seniors at the Christian
high school put up a sign-up sheet
in the office of the school for all
the ninth graders to sign up on this
sheet.
We have one big music festival in that
town.
And what the seniors were doing was taking
all the ninth graders out, and we're going
to teach them how to share their faith
in Jesus Christ.
They had a sign-up sheet where they
all signed up for a certain hour they
were going to go witnessing at.
I'd been gone for two years.
Someone called me in Atlanta and told me
that I had these huge tears welled up
in my eyes.
I could not believe these seniors had done
it.
But you know what?
It hit me real quick.
It had nothing to do with me.
It had everything to do with God.
Wouldn't that be a nice legacy to leave
here?
Don't you want to leave that legacy?
The choice is yours.
Revolution is your choice.
Dare to be a revolutionary.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for just
a great chance to be here and testify
about your name.
Father God, draw Jay to you, that gentleman
I talked with this morning.
Father God, just put your spirit so strong
in him.
Father God, he wants eternal truth more than
he wants relative truth.
Draw him, Father God.
I thank you for that appointment right there.
I got a chance to talk with him.
Now, Father God, glorify your name in his
life and draw him to you.
And Father, we thank you for that.
And we do.
And we ask in the great, great name
of your Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Now, when you're sharing your faith in Jesus
Christ with something real simple you have to
talk about with everybody, okay?
And it's called sin, okay?
You got to talk about it.
Here's how you talk about it.
Watch a couple pictures here.
Do you know who Chris Farley is?
Do you know who he is?
Y'all know who Chris Farley is?
Okay.
Chris Farley making a statement, this sure is
better than a van down by the river.
Okay?
Interesting statement.
And he's making a statement, this is sure
better than a van down by the river.
And that's a quote from what skit?
Motivational speaker skit, okay.
And he was telling people to go to
the van down by the river.
Because if you go to the van down
by the river, what were they doing in
the van down by the river?
What were they doing?
Okay, they were smoking.
You watched it, go ahead and say it.
What were they smoking?
They were smoking pot.
They were smoking weed.
Because if you have a problem in your
life, go to the van down by the
river, smoke some marijuana, and everything will be
a-okay.
Is that a true statement?
Not a true statement.
The Bible says in Matthew 24 in the
end times, be careful of deception.
Watch this.
Help me out here, speak up please.
That's the light of who?
The light of who?
God.
Those are what?
The assumption is when he died, he went
to heaven when he died.
See, the assumption.
Why would you assume that?
He died at 33 years old in a
hotel room in Chicago from a drug and
alcohol overdose.
Why would you assume that?
Because the world's trying to tell you, since
we do not have a biblical worldview anymore
in our country, the world's trying to tell
you, as long as you're what type of
person, you're going to go to heaven.
What type?
A good person.
You get heaven when you walk out of
here.
Okay?
September 11th.
Very emotional.
Tombstone.
Young boys.
Daddy died.
A fireman.
Mom.
Wife died on that day.
Fire truck.
Fire ladder goes to heaven.
The assumption is all the firemen on that
day, where'd they go?
Heaven.
True statement?
Not true.
Be careful of deception in the end times.
Dale Earnhardt.
Do you know who Dale Earnhardt is?
Do y'all know what NASCAR is?
You do?
Okay.
I just spoke in Minnesota.
They had no clue.
Okay?
They had no clue.
And so we're actually giving them back to
Canada real soon.
But down south, we like to worship cars
that drive in circles for a really long
time, okay?
And Dale Earnhardt is probably the most famous
driver.
He died about a year and a half
ago at the Daytona 500.
Gates of heaven.
Hand of God.
God getting Dale Earnhardt's autograph?
Had a small problem.
So you could put a big B right
there.
It would stand for what?
That's blasphemous to think God wants your autograph.
You want his autograph in the Lamb's Book
of Life or it ain't worth having.
Think about that.
The same man who wrote this, Mike Lukovic,
he did one by Princess Diana.
Very, very similar.
Okay?
I emailed him.
I said, Mike.
I said, when everybody dies, Mike, do they
all go to heaven, Mike?
Does anybody go to hell, Mike?
And what's the separating factor in between there,
Mike?
Mike didn't email me back, but that's his
choice.
My choice is to plant the seed to
get him to think about that, okay?
George Harrison, John Lennon.
George Harrison of the Beatles died recently.
You passed the audition, I see.
Interesting.
Like it was a guitar audition, to be
right, to get to heaven when it's all
said and done.
John Lennon was famous for the statement that
the Beatles are bigger than who?
Jesus Christ.
Isn't that an interesting statement?
The day he died, he stood in front
of who he thought he was bigger than.
George Harrison, when he died, his big solo
hit was My Sweet Lord.
My Sweet Lord.
So I looked it up on the internet.
I looked up the lyrics.
My Sweet Lord.
Then it went, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, which means praise
to Yah, praise to Yahweh.
I kept digging into the song.
I said, Hare, Hare, Hare what?
Krishna.
Kept digging a little bit bigger.
Started talking about Vishnu, one of the gods
of Hinduism.
He was a devout Hindu.
I just got an article from Rolling Stone
20 years ago, and George Harrison said in
the article, he said, what I was doing
was playing a pop sound to draw people
in.
Careful now.
He said, I was using Christian lyrics to
draw who in?
Christians in, so I could teach them about
my God and my belief in Hinduism.
Deception of the highest regard.
Careful, young people, okay?
But look at this.
There's the drum kit.
Okay, that's for who?
Ringo Starr.
There's the middle microphone.
That's for who?
Paul McCartney.
So the assumption is when all of them
die, they all go to heaven because they're
what type of people?
What type of people?
Good people.
Careful.
Okay, now watch this.
Okay, watch what your Bible says.
Romans 3, 19 and 20.
If I mention Romans 3, the first verse
that comes to mind is Romans chapter 3,
verse what?
23.
For all have sinned and fall short of
the glory of God.
Now, I'm a real simple, basic person, okay?
I need some definition.
What does the word sin mean, okay?
If you dig into the Greek, it means
missing the mark.
So if you had a standard, you missed
off to the side, all right?
Well, I'm still a simple person.
What's the mark?
Very simple statement is life continues, young people
and adults, okay?
Remember a simple statement.
Let the Bible interpret the Bible.
Your answers are usually in there.
You have to dig in there and it'll
interpret itself, okay?
Don't always assume people with microphones and doctors
and professors have the right answers.
We don't always.
God does have the right answer always.
Watch what this says just a few verses
before.
Now, we know that whatever the law says,
it says to those who are under the
law that every mouth may be stopped and
all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore, by the deeds of the law, no
flesh will be justified in his sight.
For by the law is the knowledge of
sin.
So if I want the knowledge of sin,
if I know what this law is, I've
got it.
Real simple, okay?
Romans 7 says, what shall we say then?
Is the law sin?
Certainly not.
On the contrary, I would not have known
sin except through the law.
For I would not have known covetousness unless
the law had said you shall not covet.
Now, wait a minute.
If the law says you shall not covet,
where do you find you shall not covet
in the Bible?
Where?
It's the 10th of the Ten Commandments, okay?
Remember, in Jewish tradition, they had about 613
laws, but it at least is referring to
those 10 right there, okay?
10th of the Ten Commandments.
Now, I'm also a very simple person, all
right?
In the first five books of the Bible,
God repeats the Ten Commandments twice in the
first five books, Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5.
And all I know is I just learned
when I was growing up when my mama
said something twice.
She did it for a very specific reason.
What was that reason?
Son, don't you dare forget, okay?
Or you're in trouble, okay?
If God put it twice in the first
five books, I think he's trying to tell
you something, okay?
Now, watch how this goes together, and we'll
show you how it works, okay?
Galatians says, therefore, the law was our tutor
to bring us to Christ that we might
be justified by faith.
Interesting.
The law, at least the Ten Commandments, was
our tutor.
Your Bible might say schoolmaster or pedagogue to
bring us to Christ that we might be
justified by faith.
Interesting.
The world wants to be justified by what?
Works.
Exactly.
But if I use the law of God
correctly, it will carry people to Jesus Christ,
and they'll be justified by faith.
Watch how it works.
I was at a concert in Atlanta, and
I was walking.
We were outside talking, people witnessing and stuff.
So I was walking.
I was going down the escalators, and there
were these five college kids from the College
of Charleston.
So we just started talking and began to
witness to them and stuff.
And we got to the point of they
said, hey, what does it take to go
to heaven?
I said, have you heard of the Ten
Commandments?
They said, yeah.
I said, that's how you tell.
They said, okay.
I said, you ever told a lie before?
They said, yeah.
I said, what does that make you?
Well, it makes us a sinner.
I said, no, no.
I said, more specifically, what does it make
you?
If someone murders, they're a murderer.
If you rape, you're a rapist.
If you tell a lie, what does that
make you?
A liar.
And they said, a liar.
I said, you ever stole something before?
They said, yeah.
I said, what does that make you?
They said, a thief.
I said, have you ever lusted in your
heart before?
They said, yeah.
I said, Jesus said the same as committing
adultery.
He will check your insides as well as
your outsides.
Have you ever taken the Lord's name in
vain before?
They said, yeah.
I said, what is it?
They said, that's blasphemy.
I said, you ever been angry at someone
before?
They said, yeah.
I said, the same as murder, Jesus says.
He will check your thoughts as well as
your actions.
And watch what you do.
I said, you five folks just told me
that you're a liar, a thief, a blasphemer,
an adulterer, and a murderer by God's standard.
I said, would you be guilty or not
guilty on judgment day?
What'd they say?
Guilty.
I said, would that mean heaven or would
that mean hell?
What'd they say?
They said, hell.
All of a sudden, one of the young
men said, wait a minute.
Stop.
We were walking.
He said, stop.
You stop right now.
He said, you tell me right now what
it takes for me not to be guilty
on judgment day.
I want to know right now.
Do I have to go to church to
do this?
You stop and tell me right now what
I have to do.
Think about that for a second.
Because what's the law do?
It carries you right to what?
The cross.
He wanted the answer.
He so desperately wanted that answer to that
question now that he had it.
Because the law carries you to why they
need Jesus Christ.
If you walk out of here and just
share Jesus Christ with people, guess what?
They hear you, but I was a lost
guy.
I got saved at 25.
If you keep telling me about Jesus Christ,
my mind goes, well, why can't I commit
my heart to Muhammad?
Why can't I do it to Buddha?
Why can't I do it to Confucius?
Why can't I?
But if you tell me through the law
why I'm a complete, total pagan sinner, guess
what now?
Only one thing in all the religions can
cleanse me of that sin.
And what is that?
What is that?
That's that blood of Jesus Christ you sing
about.
But the question is, will I carry it
out of here and do that?
Four weeks ago, I was in Orlando, Florida,
speaking at a big Fellowship of Christian Athletes
meeting.
And I was speaking at this meeting, and
I found out that Charles Barkley and Tiger
Woods were in town filming a golf commercial
for Nike.
And I didn't have Charles number with me.
I left it in Atlanta.
And so I was like, I'd like to
go over there and kind of hang out.
And so I was like, how is this
going to work?
I said, well, I'll just show up.
And so I drove over there and you
just don't show up at things like that.
So I began to pray as I went
over there and said, Father, I said, if
you want me in this place, you better
start moving some mountains because I have to
get in here.
OK, and it's up to you.
I can't do anything now.
So I drove up to this Grand Cypress
Resort, this big resort in Orlando to find
out where it was.
And so I drove up there, pull up
the security gate, and this guy walks in
my car.
Can I help you?
Yeah.
Hey, is Charles Barkley here?
I'm meeting him here for the commercial shoot
that he's doing.
Is he here?
And he said, Charles Barkley?
I said, yeah.
And we used to room together on road
trips at Auburn University, so we're friends and
stuff.
And he said, Charles Barkley?
I said, yeah.
He said, he just left.
I said, he left?
Where did he go?
He went over to the country club where
they're going to film the commercial.
I said, oh, no.
All of a sudden, a lady walked over
the other security and picks up a telephone.
I knew what she was doing.
She was going to check the list to
see who's on the security list.
And I'm not on it.
And I know that.
I said, ma'am, excuse me, ma'am.
Yes, ma'am, you.
Can you come here for a second, please?
Yes.
And I said, what's your name?
She said, Sean.
I said, Sean, can I ask you a
question?
She said, yeah.
I said, Sean, if you died tonight, I
said, are you 100% assured you're going
to heaven?
She said, you bet I am.
I said, Sean, how do you know that
to be true?
This woman began to preach at me.
OK, I mean, she was like, whoa.
I mean, she teaches Bible study.
She was just witnessing, testifying, man.
She was going for it because she had
her opportunity.
And she was witnessing.
I said, whoa, Sean, wait a minute.
You like to read?
She said, yeah.
And I said, I just wrote a book.
And I pulled one out of the backseat
of this rental car.
I said, you wrote a book?
Yes, I did.
Gave it to her and stuff.
All of a sudden, the other guy, Joe,
the security guard comes over.
And he said, hey, I want your book.
As I was talking with him, he's lost
his all get out.
Watch how God works things sometimes.
And put a track in there.
Talk with Joe.
All of a sudden, Sean said, she said,
follow me.
I'll take you where you want to go.
I said, OK.
Awesome.
All right.
So we drive out of there.
I follow behind her.
We start driving.
We drive over through all this security.
And then, boom.
She just drops him off right in front
of where they have all the trailers and
stuff to do the commercial.
So I walk up to a guy.
I said, hey, what hole are those guys
on?
I'm supposed to go meet these guys for
the commercial.
What hole are they on?
He said, what hole are they on?
So they haven't started yet.
I said, well, I'm here.
It's Charles Barkley here.
I'm here to see him.
Charles Barkley?
I said, yeah.
He said, he was in this trailer right
here.
I said, OK.
So he goes up and opens the door.
So I walk in the trailer.
I go, Charles, how you doing, man?
And so we just hug and hang out.
And we're sitting in there, and his agent's
in there, and some other people in there.
Well, all of a sudden, we're hanging out.
And this guy walks in, 65 years old,
long silver hair down to here, big strong
guy, walks in, shakes some hands.
He's sitting around.
And he sits down.
He's the director of the commercial.
All of a sudden, I figured out who
he was.
I saw a special on this guy.
He's the most famous commercial director in the
world.
In the Super Bowl, he's known for the
commercials of the Super Bowl.
He had four or five commercials in the
Super Bowl last year.
I mean, he's big time.
So he's sitting around.
I said, hey, what do you do?
Hey, what do you do?
Then he went, hey, what do you do?
Pointed at me.
I said, well, I'm here in Orlando speaking
for Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
I'm a professional speaker, travel the country, speak
stuff like that.
He said, you're not one of those, are
you?
He put his hand like that and began
talking to somebody else.
Isn't it amazing when you're going to start
standing for the Lord that Satan's not going
to sit by and say, hey, good job?
He's not going to do that, is he?
No.
Be ready for the enemy.
All of a sudden, he came back and
said, what do you think about the movie
The Passion?
I said, well, a friend of mine just
saw it and I began to talk about
it.
He flipped his hand at me and started
going over here.
Then he came back and said, who's the
most anti-Jewish person that's ever walked on
the planet?
He just kept firing questions.
What was funny was, as he kept firing
questions at me, there were three other people
in the room besides Charles that claimed the
name of Jesus Christ.
And they sure weren't speaking up a whole
lot, were they?
He's like, OK, beat up the tall, skinny
guy.
OK, go ahead.
And they were sitting there, man.
Come on, help me out.
All of a sudden, the commercial guy stood
up and said, I want to play you
in some basketball.
I said, you what?
I said, I want to play you in
some basketball.
I said, dude, I'm 41, man.
Knee operations.
I don't play anymore.
I don't do this stuff anymore.
He said, I have no cartilage in my
legs.
I'm 65.
We're playing right now.
I'm like, OK.
OK.
He starts walking out of the trailer.
So I just start following him.
I just got on the internet.
I just got his address.
I'm going to write him a letter and
send him a book and stuff.
And I come to find out he's well
-known for holding up entire commercials so he
can play basketball.
Tiger Woods' assistant had already been in there
and said, hey, Tiger's ready to shoot this
commercial.
We're out there playing basketball.
And I said, we're shooting.
And he throws me the ball.
So I said, start playing.
Well, I'm playing.
And he's bowing me.
He's hitting me.
So I'm backing him down.
And I was like, well, it's a captive
audience.
So hey, Joe, question for you, man.
When you die, do you have any clue
where you're going to?
I'm just playing.
And so we start talking during the game.
And I go, Joe, you ever told a
lie before, Joe?
Oh, you shouldn't have done that, Joe.
And I'm just like, so I'm witnessing to
him.
So if I only get to the end
of it.
And I said, Joe, I'm about to put
you out of your misery.
Yes, hit that shot.
Beat him.
And it's always fun to beat up on
65-year-olds.
And he put the ball down and just,
boom, left.
Went to the commercial.
So we go over there and stuff.
So we're over there hanging out and stuff.
All of a sudden, Charles introduced me to
Tiger.
Tiger walked by, shook my hand, walked away.
Thanks, Tiger.
And so he just walked away.
So they were doing this commercial.
So I just don't like to hang there.
So I like to do stuff.
So all of a sudden, there was a
guy standing there.
So I walked over to him.
Hey, how you doing?
What's your name?
Richard.
Great.
Richard, what are you doing here?
He said, I'm Tiger Woods' body double.
I said, excuse me?
He said, I'm Tiger Woods' body double.
What do you do, his stunts?
It's a commercial.
I mean, what do you mean, his body
double?
You ever see a commercial where Tiger Woods'
hands on a bag?
It's not Tiger's hand.
It's Richard's hand.
OK?
If you ever see a shot of like
100, 200 feet away of Tiger, it's not
Tiger.
It's Richard.
And I said, he just got a $150
million contract with Nike, and he can't do
a hand shot?
I mean, come on now.
So we started talking, began to witness to
him.
Grew up in a church in Mississippi, but
he's drifted away from the truth.
Can that happen to some of us in
this room?
Maybe it's already happened to some of you,
OK?
Walked over, got in a talk with Vince
Coleman, the baseball player with the New York
Mets, St. Louis Cardinals.
Got in a talk with him.
His three best friends are Michael Jordan, Tiger
Woods, and Charles Barkley.
They all four hang out and play golf
together.
And I'd met him before at Charles' house.
So I began to witness to him.
He says, I go to church every single
Sunday back in Phoenix.
I said, well, I got a question for
you, Vince.
You go to church every single Sunday.
But my question is, do you want to
see Tiger, Michael, and Charles in heaven?
He said, yes.
I said, well, Vince, what are you going
to do about it?
It's one thing to want to see them
in heaven, correct?
It's another ballgame to do something about that.
So I said, I just wrote a book.
I had some cargo pants on.
I pulled the book out.
I wrote this book.
I said, hey, where's your business card?
I'll send you a copy.
He said, I want your book.
I said, no, no, I only had two
copies, one for Tiger, one for someone else,
and my car was somewhere else.
I said, where's your business card?
He said, I want your book right now.
OK?
It's a God thing.
I'm learning.
OK?
And so I signed this book.
He just, his first day in Orlando, got
there, and he got to Orlando.
He just signed on with the Atlanta Braves
to be their base running instructor.
And so his first day in Orlando, he
said, I'm going to my hotel room at
five o'clock tonight.
I've got nothing to do.
I'll probably read your entire book tonight.
OK?
And I said, Vince, maybe the whole reason
I'm here is just so you, OK, are
going to stand up with these other people
and go for it.
OK?
I thought I was going to witness.
Tiger doesn't look like it's going to happen.
All of a sudden, the commercial shoot ends.
Everyone's going to get their autograph.
Tiger had a little bit more to do.
Charles was done.
I walk up to Tiger.
There's a guy getting his autograph.
All of a sudden, he walks away.
It's like God parted the Red Sea.
Me and Tiger are standing right there.
I said, Tiger, I said, I just wrote
a book.
I want to sign a copy and give
it to you.
Is your assistant here that I can give
it to?
No, but give it to that lady right
over there.
She'll get it.
And I said, OK.
We start walking off the tee box.
All of a sudden, I began to clam
up, began to get nervous.
Does that happen to any of you when
you're about to share your faith?
Does it happen to you?
OK.
I sweat, too.
OK.
Don't worry.
OK.
I get nervous, too.
For two solid months, I've been praying for
a chance to witness to Tiger Woods.
Here's my opportunity.
I'm about to wimp out of the whole
thing.
I just felt God.
I didn't hear nothing.
I just felt God lay on my spirit.
Mark, you've been praying for it.
Go for it.
I said, Tiger.
I said, you know, I've always wanted to
ask you a question.
He said, go for it.
I said, Tiger.
I said, when you die.
I said, what do you think's on the
other side?
What do you think's out there when you
walk out of it?
He stopped dead square in his tracks, stared
up at me, and said, I don't know.
I said, Tiger, I said, you know, I
said, whether it's Payne Stewart dying.
He was at Payne Stewart's funeral a couple
of years ago.
I said, whether it's John Ritter dying or
Johnny Cash down, we all think about these
things, don't we?
He starts nodding his head.
I said, did you hear the story that
happened to Charles Barkley's brother?
He said, no.
I said, true story, Tiger.
Charles Barkley's brother had a heart attack and
died, but he came back.
You heard about near-death experiences, white lights
in tunnels, people say?
Not what he saw.
Flatline.
Spirit rose up.
He could see the flatline.
He took off to the waiting room.
He'd tell you who was in the waiting
room, what they were saying, what they were
wearing when he was clinically flatlined.
Okay?
This cannot be in his head.
This must be an external event.
Took off on a journey.
All of a sudden, he saw trees on
fire, ground smoldering around the trees.
He saw a lake of fire in front
of him when he died.
I said, Darrell, what'd you see, dude?
He said, I saw hell.
I said, God, you saw hell, man.
He will tell you to this day, what
he saw is more real than this chapel
is right here.
Your senses worked to the nth degree, so
you could feel the heat coming off that
lake of fire.
I have met seven different people that got
the hell experience and not the heaven experience
when they died.
I told that story to Tiger.
I said, Tiger, what'd you know?
Tiger's got big eyes.
Well, they went, whoop.
They doubled, man.
They were like, whoa.
Okay.
I said, Tiger, here's how to tell where
you go.
He said, I said, you ever, uh, you
heard of 10 commandments?
He said, yeah.
I said, you ever told a lie before?
He said, yeah.
I said, what does that make you?
He just blurts out a liar.
Isn't that true for all of us though?
I said, Tiger, you ever stole something before?
He said, yeah.
All of a sudden I looked at his
face and he was getting edgy.
I thought I was going to lose the
conversation because the law is written on your
what?
Your heart and your conscience.
his business.
I just answered it for him.
I said, Tiger, it makes all of us
a thief.
You ever lusted in your heart before?
He said, yeah.
Same as adultery.
According to Jesus.
I said, you ever been angry at somebody?
Same as murder.
Check your thoughts as well as your actions.
Tiger, you just told me you're a liar,
a thief, an adulterer, and a murderer by
God's standard.
Would you be guilty or not guilty on
judgment day?
Tiger was looked at me and said, guilty.
I said, would that mean heaven or would
that mean hell?
He said, probably hell.
All of a sudden as he said the
answer, all of a sudden a guy walked
up, said, Tiger, would you sign this for
me?
We got to go to the other hole
and finish the shoot.
Tiger starts walking off the tee box.
My conversation's over.
Walked up to him.
I said, hey, I pulled my book out.
I'm going to sign this for you.
I'll give it to your assistant.
Just remember where I stopped at.
That's where repentance in Jesus Christ comes in.
Bingo.
Gone.
I get in my car.
I'm driving to Tampa, Florida to visit my
brother.
I pick up my cell phone.
I call some friends in Atlanta.
I tell them I just witnessed a tiger
and it's this very famous person's Bible study.
A guy I know at it, Jeff Foxworthy,
a lot of the Falcons, John Smoltz from
the Braves.
So I told him, he goes and tells
the Bible study Thursday.
A guy there is Mike Smoltz.
Mike Smoltz is the younger brother of John
Smoltz, the pitcher for the Atlanta Braves.
He goes home and tells John Smoltz, guess
what, John Smoltz and Tiger Woods are very
good friends.
They play golf together all the time.
Uh-oh.
Watch out.
When John Smoltz heard the story, he was
excited, but he was very disappointed.
What was he disappointed about?
It's his friend.
What was he disappointed about?
That he had not taken the time to
do it.
I'm not his friend.
I want to see Tiger in heaven, though,
but it's so challenging.
That next week, Tiger was in town for
a golf tournament.
On Monday night, John Smoltz and his wife
took Tiger and his girlfriend out for dinner
and John Smoltz got to finish the whole
conversation where I ended up at.
Think about that for a second.
The very next night at the Braves game,
Tiger's girlfriend walked up to Mrs. Smoltz and
said, hey, I have a question for you.
How often do y'all go to church?
Bingo.
Okay.
All of a sudden, everyone in the box
starts talking about God and the Bible and
Jesus Christ.
A senior at Georgia Tech told me, he
said, Mark, think about this.
When you throw a pebble in the water,
what happens?
You get the little ripple effect.
He said, Mark, think about this.
If you wouldn't have been, what, obedient in
sharing your faith a week before, you couldn't
have called the guy in the Bible study.
It couldn't have got to, okay, Mike Smoltz.
It couldn't have got to John Smoltz.
He wouldn't have followed up and we'd be
at the same point we're at today.
See, it's an issue of obedience or what?
Disobedience.
Just like we talked about yesterday.
Do you think I'm glad I witnessed it,
Tiger?
Think I'm glad?
Very glad.
Don't regret it at all.
Do you think I would regret it if
I didn't do it?
I'd still regret it to this day.
I have a website called markcahill.org and
the October newsletter is the whole tiger where
there's more to it than that.
Then the November one was the whole followup.
Okay.
Now, uh, if you didn't get a book
yesterday and you want a book, raise your
hand up for me.
Okay.
All right.
What I'm going to do is I'm going
to send about probably, probably about eight more
cases of books that received.
You go to the website.
Okay.
Don't order a book off there.
You're going to scare my shipper who sends
these out.
It's just a guy sitting over there in
a house and you're going to scare him
with all your order books.
So don't do it.
Okay.
I'll send them up here.
I'll get them shipped tomorrow.
They'll be up here probably Wednesday of next
week.
Okay.
Then if there's not enough, you go to
markcahill.org and do that.
Okay.
Last thing is I walk out of here.
Okay.
Do me three things.
Pray for Joe Pitka.
He was the big, uh, rough guy who
was the commercial director.
He's been so on my heart.
I've been praying for this guy.
Okay.
Pray for Tiger Woods.
That veil finally will be lifted.
I'm finding about other people who have been
witnessing to him now.
Okay.
But pray for John Smoltz and Tiger Woods.
That their friendship's going to stay so close
that God's going to show him favor as
he stands up for that.
Last thing.
I go on an airplane in just a
little bit.
I fly to Atlanta.
I'm speaking at a conference this weekend with
Norm Geisler and Kirby Anderson, all these big
folks.
I'm not sure how I got on that
list, but I'm pretty excited.
And I'm speaking twice tomorrow in Atlanta, twice
on Saturday.
Tomorrow night, my father's coming to hear me
speak for the very first time.
My dad's never heard me speak before, and
he's lost.
And I'm excited.
I'm nervous.
I'm scared.
I don't know if he's going to walk
out, walk in.
I don't know what's going to happen.
And I'm real excited.
So, uh, my dad's name is John.
So if you think about it, if you
could pray, I'd just love to see the
Lord lift the veil from his eyes.
Every second, seven people die by the time
you put your head on your pillow tonight.
Over 600,000 people walked off into eternity,
heaven or hell as we speak, Cedarville, simple,
simple question.
Do you care?
Much tougher question though.
Do you care enough to do something about
it?
One more time.
If you feel comfortable, verbally respond.
Every second, seven people die over 600,000
people walk off planet Earth today by the
time you put your head on your pillow.
Simple question.
If you feel comfortable, just respond to it.
Okay.
Do you care?
Okay.
Much tougher one though.
Okay.
Do you care enough to do something about
it?
I'm gonna go ahead and tell you something
after talking with some of you yesterday and
just hanging out for the last couple of
days, I really feel you do.
Three words of advice, go for it.
Don't look back.
No regrets on judgment day.
Heavenly father, thank you so much for this
college and this university.
Holy spirit start a revolution on this campus
that when it's all said and done, your
name will be glorified and father God, if
we have 3000 folks and professors testifying your
name in here and testifying your name outside
of here, watch out Ohio.
Here they come.
And father, we thank you for it.
And we ask in the great name of
your son, Jesus Christ.
Amen.