For those of you who
were not here last night
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our evening
speaker is Dr. Eric Walsh.
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He is living
proof that good things
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can come from
California. Not only is
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he a family man and
an esteemed physician
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he is also a deep
convicting passionate
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preacher of the word of God.
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And I know that
we'll be blessed tonight
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by his message. But before
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he speaks we'll
be blessed in song.
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Good evening. One
night I lay a sleeping
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There came a dream so fair,
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I stood in the old Jerusalem
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Beside the temple there
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I heard the children singing
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And ever as they sang,
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I thought the voice of angels
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From heaven in answer rang
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I thought the
sweet voice of angels
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From heaven in answering
Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
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Hark! How the angels sing,
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Hosanna in the highest.
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Hosanna to your lowly King!
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Now suddenly my
dream was changed
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The streets no longer rang
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Hush now the glad hosannas
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The little children once sang
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The Sun grew dark with mystery,
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The morn was cold and chill
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As the shadow of a cross arose
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Upon Golgotha's heel.
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As the shadow of his cross arose
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Upon that lonely hill
Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
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Lift up your gates and sing.
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Hosanna in the highest.
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Hosanna to the risen King!
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But once again
my dream was changed
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New earth there seemed to be,
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I saw the holy
city Behind a glassy sea
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The light of
Christ was on her streets
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The gates were open wide,
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That all who
would might enter there
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And no one was denied.
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No need of moon
or stars by night,
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Or Sun to rule by day,
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For this was the New Jerusalem
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That would not pass
away It was our New Jerusalem
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That would never ever pass away
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Oh Jerusalem! Oh Jerusalem!
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Sing for your night is over
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Hosanna in the
highest Hosanna for evermore!
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Hosanna in the
highest Hosanna for evermore!
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Amen. Happy Sabbath GYC.
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Happy Sabbath, Happy Sabbath.
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Let me just also say
to you Happy New Year.
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The Bible says in the evening
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and the morning
were the first day,
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so we don't wait till midnight
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for balls to drop. We know that
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when the sun
sets the day is ended
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and the new one
is begun and so we,
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I want to be the
first, or one of the first to
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welcome you into
2011, a year that I know
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God has filled with opportunity
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and promise for the
spreading of the Gospel,
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for reaching out
to others and even for
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some of us to
deal with some issues
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in our own lives,
so I praise God for
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the new year.
Because that's one more year
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that he allowed
me to live to see,
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and another year he's
given us on opportunity
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to be his servants
and, we are, I think
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we're a little
short on time tonight.
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So I'm gonna try and
be obedient to the clock.
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Somebody ought
to say amen, amen.
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I'm gonna do my
best. But at the same time
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I want what God
has to be preached
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to be preached.
And so I ask that
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you pray for me,
and pray with me.
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Turn with me in your Bibles to
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Second Timothy
chapter 3. We're gonna
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continue tonight in
our three part series
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on the book of Second Timothy.
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Our message tonight is entitled
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Unflinching
Faith. Second Timothy
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chapter 3 and I'll
read verses 1 through 5,
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Second Timothy
chapter 3 verses 1 through 5,
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the Bible says this know also
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that in the last
days, perilous times
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shall come. For
men shall be lovers of
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their own selves,
covetous, boasters,
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proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents,
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unthankful,
unholy without natural
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affection, truce breakers,
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false accusers,
incontinent, fierce,
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despisers of
those that are good,
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traitors, heady, high-minded,
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lovers of pleasures
more than lovers of God.
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Having a form of
godliness, but denying
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the power thereof:
from such turn away.
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Our message again tonight,
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is entitled Unflinching Faith.
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Unflinching Faith.
Let us pray. Father God,
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we thank you Lord for this year
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Holy Sabbath day.
We thank you Father
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for a new year. And
Father God I just ask
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right now that you
make me an instrument
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of your peace, a
vessel for your truth,
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and a canvas for your glory.
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Let Eric Walsh
not be seen or heard
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tonight Lord. But
Lord bring us a word
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from the very
throne room of grace.
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This is our
prayer in Jesus' name.
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Amen, amen. Paul is
still in the dungeon.
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He is still
living in very difficult
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situation. He is
writing Timothy trying to warn
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Timothy, trying
to encourage Timothy.
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Paul is a
disheveled, angry, not angry
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but hungry man as
he is trying to deal
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with the difficulties
of being a prisoner of
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what is truly a
mad man in narrow.
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But Paul understood
that when he was writing to
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Timothy that by
writing to Timothy he would get
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word that would
go far. He understood
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the importance of
what he was writing,
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in fact when you
look at the New Testament
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much of the New Testament of
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Paul's writings were
submitted as affidavits
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in Paul's defense.
So the people who went
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to try Paul when Paul
was to go before Nero,
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actually would
have probably read
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many of them much
of the New Testament
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in doing so. Also
what would have been
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submitted are the two
books written by Luke,
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the Apostle Luke's
Gospel as well as the
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Book of Acts. So much
of the Bible was submitted,
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so when Paul is
writing here, he understands
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that not only
hopefully this Timothy
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get the letter and he
is hoping that Timothy
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gets to him while
he is still alive,
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but also the Roman power itself
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would get this
letter. Because he was a
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prisoner that it
would be read before it was
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distributed any
further. So Paul is writing
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to multiple
audiences but tonight I wanna
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focus on the audience of us.
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The fact that Paul
is writing as I said
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last night a message
to the last generation,
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a message to
those who would be alive
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at the close of earth's history.
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Paul is writing to
try and give the same
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admonition he's
given to Timothy,
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to those of you young
people who would enter
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into a work for
Christ in the last days.
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He's trying to
prepare you for the
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disappointment
that will come from
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being attached to the church
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of the living
God. That difficult
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and perilous times would come.
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And Paul is trying
to make sure that you
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understand upfront
what you signed up for.
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You live in a time
when people will try
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and trick you, dupe
you. Get you to buy things
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without you understanding it
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or get you to
sign up for programs
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and when you get
into this you say no
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that's not what I
want, but it's too late
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you signed up. God doesn't deal
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with us like that. He
is giving us a warning
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in the book of
Second Timothy so that
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you cannot say you didn't know
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it was coming.
In fact as we read
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Second Timothy
chapter 3 it reminds us of
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something else
and that is that Paul
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was not just a
great writer who helped to
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expand on some of the
most important doctrines
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in scripture. Like
righteousness by faith
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and the importance of fellowship
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and other things that
Paul really focuses on,
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the importance
of dealing with sin,
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in a serious way but
Paul also was a prophet.
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And here you get a
glimpse of Paul writing
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as a prophet, as
he begins to write in
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Second Timothy chapter
2, chapter 3 and verse 1
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he says, this know
also that in the last days
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perilous times shall
come. The word perilous
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in the Greek can also
be stated that fierce times
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will come, in fact it
is the same word used to
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describe the
Gadarenes the men who were
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possessed by
demons, there were fierce.
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He says there
were fierce with the
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connotation of a
demonic element at work.
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The last days would be
perilous but that's not
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the only definition
you can get, it also says
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that they would, if
you look at the Greek
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that these would be days that
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would be hard to bear.
Not impossible to bear,
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but these days,
these last days would be
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difficult days to
live in, difficult to
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survive in; no
these are days that if you
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call yourself a
Christian it will not be
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easy days for
you to get through.
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It says listen,
the last days Timothy,
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the last days GYC are
gonna be perilous times.
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And so Paul begins
to outline the type of
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behaviors that
you'll see in the last days.
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He says that men
would be lovers of
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their own selves,
that's how he starts it off.
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Men would love
themselves they would be
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covetous, they
want other people have,
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they would be
boasters, proud, blasphemers,
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that they would be disobedient
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to their parents,
unthankful, and unholy.
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And there's so
much, so much in this.
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For the truth we live
in a time when people love
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themselves to a
point where it literally
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creates disease in individuals.
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They are so much more
concern about themselves
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so selfish, so self-centered,
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so worried about the
me and I and how people
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view them that in
fact diseases that
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historically never
existed like anorexia
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and bulimia, body dimorphic,
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disorders have
come into existence
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because people are so
focused on themselves.
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Have you ever seen
the images of the people
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who spend tens of
thousands of countless
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dollars on plastic surgery,
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only to wind-up a
greater and more hideous
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monster than they
could have ever dreamed
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of being? They
paid to look ugly.
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God had created them just fine,
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but under the scalpel
of the plastic surgeon
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men like Michael
Jackson. You look at
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pictures of Michael
Jackson when he was a
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child and you look
at him at the time of
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his death and when you want how
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he transforms during his life,
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it is one of the
most befuddling things
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you could ever
imagine. Yet he is almost
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worshiped in our
time. Why, because these are
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perilous times
so that people who
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don't even
really know themselves
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and in are a
constant war with themselves,
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so focused on
themselves that they mutilate
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themselves, are
worshiped in themselves
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as if they were small GODS.
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So when Michael Jackson dies,
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we live in a
time when churches had
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whole services
dedicated to the life of
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Michael Jackson.
Whole choir put on one glove
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and sang Beat
It. Perilous times,
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they'd be
covetous, they would want
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what everybody else
has. In fact when you look at
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America's
economics collapse recently
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it speaks to the
fact that we live
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in a society where
people were so concerned
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with keeping up
into Jones' that they
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literally borrowed away their
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very futures to do
it. Boasters, proud,
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blasphemers. You
look at there was a great
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documentary I watched
once called Hollywood's
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war on God and
this Christian filmmaker
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shows how all of
the Hollywood movies
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have this running
theme through them,
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and one of the
themes that you will notice
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that they can consistently
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and repeatedly
like 60 or 70 percent
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of the movies made
will directly blaspheme
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the name of God.
And more so they really
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as you can tell if
you watch the documentary,
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they really want to
blaspheme the name of
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Jesus Christ. And
so when Christians go
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and spend their
money to watch these movies
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whether at home or
in the theater literally
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they are paying for an
industry that in large,
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part not all of
it, but in large part
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has signed up to
literally pick away
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at our God by making,
blaspheming the name of
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God a part of the
common vernacular.
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Perilous times,
kids will be disobedient
00:18:49.33\00:18:55.60
to parents. Live in
a time when kids tell
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parents what to do.
You couldn't tell my mother
00:18:59.23\00:19:02.26
what to do. You
would be waken-up,
00:19:02.26\00:19:07.13
trying to figure
out what hit you.
00:19:07.93\00:19:09.86
My mother wasn't
afraid to, and then I heard
00:19:12.50\00:19:15.10
kids say, I'll
call child protective
00:19:15.10\00:19:17.16
services, my mother
said, go ahead I'll have
00:19:17.16\00:19:19.53
your bag packed
when they get here.
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We live in a time
when the kids are,
00:19:25.13\00:19:26.90
I remember working
there again, little kids
00:19:26.90\00:19:28.60
would come in and
like little ninjas
00:19:28.60\00:19:30.80
they would just be
doing flips over the gurneys
00:19:30.80\00:19:33.70
and tables and the
parents can't control,
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I mean they. If you
can't control a child
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when they're two
or three years old,
00:19:41.16\00:19:42.60
what else do you
have in controlling
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or having any
influence on the child
00:19:45.90\00:19:47.36
when they're 17
or 18 years of age.
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We live in a time
when we have confused love
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for a child with
spoiling a child.
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And so children have no respect
00:19:59.10\00:20:00.70
for their
parents and the problem
00:20:00.70\00:20:02.10
with that history
tells us is that if you can't
00:20:02.10\00:20:04.60
respect your
mother and your father,
00:20:04.60\00:20:06.40
why in the world
would you ever respect
00:20:06.80\00:20:08.00
the police or the teacher in the
00:20:08.00\00:20:10.80
classroom?
Perilous times are gonna
00:20:10.80\00:20:14.56
come up on us.
The scripture says
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that they would be
unthankful, unholy,
00:20:20.26\00:20:22.90
without natural affectionate,
00:20:24.00\00:20:26.13
the very affection,
the way that people are
00:20:26.13\00:20:28.20
drawn to each other wouldn't be
00:20:28.20\00:20:29.50
natural
anymore. Unnatural things
00:20:29.50\00:20:32.93
would begin to, to become common
00:20:32.93\00:20:35.00
and be raised up,
and I told you last night
00:20:35.00\00:20:38.13
I talked to you a
little bit more about
00:20:38.13\00:20:40.13
some of the
national meetings that
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I've been to.
And I've been amazed
00:20:42.56\00:20:47.10
when I go to these meetings.
00:20:47.10\00:20:48.53
Where really the
agenda is a discussion
00:20:48.53\00:20:53.26
about sexual health,
so from a public health
00:20:53.26\00:20:55.50
stand point theoretically
00:20:55.50\00:20:56.86
we're looking and how
do you make it so that
00:20:56.86\00:20:59.50
America has a better
profile as it were of
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sexual health. So there would be
00:21:03.73\00:21:05.06
less diseases more,
less diseases more deaths
00:21:05.06\00:21:08.76
from some of those diseases.
00:21:08.76\00:21:09.83
Less unwanted
pregnancies they would
00:21:09.83\00:21:12.80
say, they would
say things like more
00:21:12.80\00:21:15.20
fulfilling relationships maybe.
00:21:15.20\00:21:16.86
What I found was
amazing unnatural affection.
00:21:18.90\00:21:23.70
There were people
there one of whom had a
00:21:25.10\00:21:28.63
doctorate in
divinity. From another
00:21:28.63\00:21:33.16
denomination I was
amazed when this man
00:21:33.16\00:21:36.16
would say things
like there's nothing wrong
00:21:36.16\00:21:38.66
with a man and a
boy having relations.
00:21:38.66\00:21:41.50
I would be amazed
to hear leaders in
00:21:45.53\00:21:48.06
our country,
people who are over whole
00:21:48.06\00:21:51.60
university systems, or over
00:21:51.60\00:21:53.80
schools of
theology. As they would say
00:21:53.80\00:21:57.60
that their Bible
does not say anything
00:21:57.60\00:21:59.63
that would
prohibit homosexuality.
00:21:59.63\00:22:02.00
And I would be amazed
as I'll be sitting there
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and there would
just be a few of us
00:22:06.66\00:22:08.46
who would be trying to speak up
00:22:08.46\00:22:10.10
and say wait a minute
maybe there's something
00:22:10.10\00:22:13.23
protective about
God's plan for men and women
00:22:13.23\00:22:17.46
and relationships.
Maybe there's something
00:22:17.46\00:22:20.00
protective and you
would be ridiculed.
00:22:20.00\00:22:22.90
What was amazing
in these meetings?
00:22:23.66\00:22:26.16
Is that yes you
would be ridiculed by
00:22:27.23\00:22:29.06
the liberals who
don't believe in God.
00:22:29.06\00:22:31.36
The people that
are far political left.
00:22:31.36\00:22:33.40
What began to
shock me after while is
00:22:35.00\00:22:37.60
their ability to produce people,
00:22:37.60\00:22:39.33
who are members of churches,
00:22:39.33\00:22:41.36
who are leaders in
religious organizations.
00:22:41.36\00:22:45.46
Who would literally
back the argument of people
00:22:46.06\00:22:49.86
who don't know
God. And after while
00:22:49.86\00:22:53.93
I started to realize
there is truly a work of
00:22:53.93\00:22:58.00
foot in this
country. And in this world
00:22:58.00\00:23:01.36
that is working to do away,
00:23:01.36\00:23:03.30
to erase as it
were. To erase as it were
00:23:03.30\00:23:07.96
all semblance of moral purity.
00:23:07.96\00:23:12.40
There was a work of
foot in these last days
00:23:13.83\00:23:16.56
that is going to
try to make it so that
00:23:16.56\00:23:18.80
the most debase
things are normal and common.
00:23:18.80\00:23:22.63
Listen, the church
can't be silent anymore.
00:23:24.86\00:23:27.26
You can't do Bible studies
00:23:30.00\00:23:31.36
and skip the sections
on purity, sexual purity.
00:23:31.36\00:23:36.33
You got to, if
you're gonna, you have to
00:23:36.33\00:23:38.36
instruct people
of what God requires
00:23:38.36\00:23:40.53
for them in that
room, because it has become
00:23:40.53\00:23:43.10
so common place
that they had an exchange
00:23:43.10\00:23:45.80
sexual partners
is like going out
00:23:45.80\00:23:48.13
and just buying
a meal of or just,
00:23:48.13\00:23:50.33
it's a simple or as
common as, as jumping on
00:23:50.33\00:23:52.93
a roller coaster,
and you just jump from
00:23:52.93\00:23:55.10
one roller
coaster to the next one.
00:23:55.10\00:23:56.90
Serial monogamy
has been come the way
00:23:58.36\00:24:00.96
for many but even
now, even that is being
00:24:00.96\00:24:03.53
eroded and we're
seeing that multiple
00:24:03.53\00:24:05.70
sexual partners has
again become the order
00:24:05.70\00:24:08.20
of the day in
America. Let me submit
00:24:08.20\00:24:15.16
to you as Paul saw
that in the last days
00:24:15.16\00:24:18.16
there would be
great moral decline.
00:24:18.16\00:24:20.03
What's, it's not so
shocking that the world
00:24:21.46\00:24:24.70
has great moral
decline. What's shocking
00:24:25.30\00:24:28.73
and what Paul is
really speaking to,
00:24:28.73\00:24:31.10
is that great moral decline has
00:24:31.10\00:24:33.96
entered the church. That in fact
00:24:33.96\00:24:38.33
the divorce rate
is the same inside of
00:24:38.33\00:24:41.03
Christendom in the United States
00:24:41.03\00:24:42.53
as outside.
Pastors don't stand up in
00:24:42.53\00:24:47.53
pulpits anymore
and say things like
00:24:47.53\00:24:49.13
if you divorce
your wife for anything
00:24:49.13\00:24:51.70
except adultery, and
you go and marry someone
00:24:51.70\00:24:55.10
else the new marriage
is not accepted by God,
00:24:55.10\00:24:58.40
they don't preach that anymore.
00:24:58.40\00:24:59.96
We don't say that stuff anymore.
00:25:02.20\00:25:03.70
Why, because our
congregations are
00:25:04.46\00:25:06.33
full of divorcees
and we don't wanna offend
00:25:06.33\00:25:08.80
anyone but the
problem is then we set a
00:25:08.80\00:25:11.23
new norm for
the next generation.
00:25:11.23\00:25:13.13
And we're living in
a time when we don't
00:25:15.80\00:25:18.20
understand that
the media and now even
00:25:18.20\00:25:20.53
the governments are
working to move America
00:25:20.53\00:25:23.83
and the rest of
the world into a dark
00:25:23.83\00:25:26.46
moral decline. Paul
could see it not just in
00:25:26.46\00:25:32.80
the future prophetically
but he was watching
00:25:32.80\00:25:35.10
as it was
unfolding in ancient Rome.
00:25:35.10\00:25:37.90
Paul could see
that Rome herself would
00:25:39.30\00:25:41.76
eventually
collapse because one of the
00:25:41.76\00:25:45.10
major ways that it
would happen is that
00:25:45.10\00:25:47.03
moral decay would set
up so deep into the fabric
00:25:47.03\00:25:50.70
of the civilization
that was ancient Rome
00:25:50.70\00:25:53.50
that eventually
Rome would not be able to
00:25:53.50\00:25:56.06
sustain herself. And
eventually Rome fell.
00:25:56.06\00:26:01.83
And if you draw
a parallel between
00:26:03.33\00:26:05.20
ancient Rome, her
over expansion into
00:26:05.20\00:26:09.03
territories, her
inflation, the fact that
00:26:09.03\00:26:12.40
Rome began to stop
using solid silver coins
00:26:12.40\00:26:16.20
as their currency
and started to use base
00:26:16.20\00:26:18.53
metals and barely
covered them in silver,
00:26:18.53\00:26:20.50
it remind you of
United States of America now,
00:26:20.50\00:26:23.20
where we are living a
country where they just
00:26:24.66\00:26:26.50
print money. So you
know the federal government
00:26:26.50\00:26:30.23
always is solvent because,
00:26:30.23\00:26:31.70
yeah the federal
government if they need
00:26:31.70\00:26:33.80
more money they just print it.
00:26:33.80\00:26:36.90
So what is not
backed by anything,
00:26:38.26\00:26:40.53
we're America, the
same kind of arrogance,
00:26:42.06\00:26:46.36
just like Rome.
They also predict that by
00:26:46.36\00:26:50.16
2050 China will be a
much more stable strong
00:26:50.16\00:26:53.06
and powerful economy to ours,
00:26:53.06\00:26:54.70
if the American
economy doesn't change,
00:26:54.70\00:26:56.76
the same things are happening
00:26:56.76\00:26:58.80
in the last days to
this world power as happened
00:26:58.80\00:27:02.23
to that one. But I
want to submit to you
00:27:02.23\00:27:08.36
that just as Paul is saying here
00:27:08.36\00:27:10.70
when you look at this without
00:27:10.70\00:27:12.16
natural
affection, he goes on he says
00:27:12.16\00:27:17.13
truce breakers, false
accusers, incontinent,
00:27:17.13\00:27:19.46
fierce and look at
the last part of verse 3,
00:27:19.46\00:27:21.50
he says despisers
of those that are good.
00:27:21.50\00:27:25.50
There was a man that came out
00:27:28.33\00:27:29.60
in the early part
of the last century,
00:27:29.60\00:27:33.00
a man named Aleister Crowley.
00:27:33.00\00:27:34.36
Aleister
Crowley's mother called him
00:27:35.23\00:27:37.13
the beast. He
wanted to be known as the
00:27:37.13\00:27:40.50
most wicked man whoever lived.
00:27:40.50\00:27:42.00
And something
happened by him he was able to,
00:27:43.36\00:27:46.76
the British man; he was
able to infect the world
00:27:46.76\00:27:50.73
by infecting key
people in popular culture.
00:27:50.73\00:27:53.80
The Beatles' Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts
00:27:54.56\00:27:57.66
Club album has a
picture of him on the cover.
00:27:57.66\00:28:01.20
Michael
Jackson's Dangerous album
00:28:03.13\00:28:05.06
has a picture of him
on the cover looking at
00:28:05.06\00:28:07.20
Michael Jackson's
great hand holding a
00:28:07.20\00:28:10.86
naked boy in it. And
the naked boy is holding
00:28:10.86\00:28:17.20
the skull of a
dragon. Aleister Crowley's
00:28:20.06\00:28:23.70
influence goes through to many,
00:28:23.70\00:28:25.73
he's the one who
introduced this new
00:28:25.73\00:28:27.90
occult movement that
is a foot in Hollywood
00:28:27.90\00:28:30.03
called Qabalah.
Aleister Crowley infiltrated
00:28:30.03\00:28:35.56
so much that
even when you look at
00:28:35.56\00:28:37.60
someone like Jay-Z,
Aleister Crowley's Book
00:28:37.60\00:28:40.70
of the Law which
eventually leads to
00:28:40.70\00:28:43.66
the satanic church
and their one commandment,
00:28:43.66\00:28:46.96
which is, Do what thou
wilt shall be the whole
00:28:46.96\00:28:50.56
of the law. The
whole law in the church of
00:28:50.56\00:28:54.36
Satan is that you
can do whatever you want.
00:28:54.36\00:28:56.56
And I've pictures
in some of my seminars
00:28:59.23\00:29:00.90
where I saw Jay-Z,
the most popular wrapper
00:29:00.90\00:29:03.50
of all time
wearing a racowear T-shirt
00:29:03.50\00:29:06.33
that says on
it, do as thou wilt.
00:29:06.33\00:29:08.90
The literal one
commandment of the
00:29:10.50\00:29:12.56
Church of Satan
straight from Aleister Crowley.
00:29:12.56\00:29:15.03
But you see that's
the state in the world,
00:29:16.80\00:29:18.73
it wouldn't be
such perilous times.
00:29:20.13\00:29:21.90
It was easy to see
that the world has accepted
00:29:25.30\00:29:28.33
these crazy
doctrines and if gone into this
00:29:28.33\00:29:32.10
de-moral decline,
it wouldn't be bad,
00:29:32.10\00:29:33.96
but the problem is
if you come into church
00:29:33.96\00:29:36.33
and the church no
longer has any standards.
00:29:36.33\00:29:38.80
That in fact the
doctrines of many of
00:29:40.63\00:29:43.23
the denominations
now really are a doctrine
00:29:43.23\00:29:46.03
of what they call
complete liberation.
00:29:46.03\00:29:48.46
If I am in Christ
Jesus I cannot be lost.
00:29:49.20\00:29:52.66
So I can do whatever I want.
00:29:54.10\00:29:56.66
And hence they use and they take
00:29:57.60\00:30:01.26
the grace of God and
turn it into disgrace.
00:30:01.26\00:30:04.70
Taking the very
grace and mercy of God
00:30:05.53\00:30:08.23
and they take it
in what they've done
00:30:08.23\00:30:09.93
with it is they've
actually used it to take
00:30:09.93\00:30:12.33
the one commandment
of the church of Satan
00:30:12.33\00:30:14.70
and move that one commandment
00:30:14.70\00:30:16.80
into a command of
the Christian churches.
00:30:18.90\00:30:21.63
When Paul says
we'll be living in
00:30:23.23\00:30:24.83
perilous times.
We get to see it.
00:30:24.83\00:30:28.06
We are living in times
when you have got to be
00:30:29.60\00:30:32.13
totally and completely committed
00:30:32.13\00:30:34.96
to Jesus Christ.
Because on all sides you are
00:30:34.96\00:30:39.96
being moved to
believe that you are fanatic,
00:30:39.96\00:30:42.26
if you stand for anything.
00:30:42.26\00:30:43.86
Paul goes on to say
there would be traitors
00:30:51.40\00:30:55.10
in verse 4, heady, high minded,
00:30:55.10\00:30:58.03
lovers of pleasures
more than lovers of God.
00:30:58.96\00:31:01.76
One of the mistakes
that are churches are making,
00:31:01.76\00:31:03.70
and I'm sorry if
I'm gonna be a little
00:31:04.46\00:31:06.06
real tonight. One of
the mistakes that our
00:31:06.06\00:31:10.03
churches are
making is that we believe
00:31:10.03\00:31:11.60
that the way that
will keep young people is
00:31:11.60\00:31:14.60
if we find a way
to entertain them.
00:31:14.60\00:31:16.30
And I'm not against
kids playing softball
00:31:20.33\00:31:22.20
and having a good
time and fellowship,
00:31:22.20\00:31:24.43
that's not my, I
don't have a problem
00:31:24.43\00:31:26.20
with that. I think
it should go on hikes,
00:31:26.20\00:31:29.93
and they should
do things together,
00:31:29.93\00:31:31.13
they should have fellowship,
00:31:31.13\00:31:32.73
but there's a
fundamental problem
00:31:34.13\00:31:36.06
when we're willing to not teach
00:31:36.06\00:31:38.16
young people
anything. And instead we replace
00:31:38.16\00:31:43.76
no truth, no
doctrine, we replace it simply
00:31:44.40\00:31:48.70
with stay around
the church at all cost,
00:31:48.70\00:31:51.50
because all we
really care about is that
00:31:51.50\00:31:53.50
you're here. In
fact it was Time Magazine
00:31:53.50\00:31:59.46
I believe it was that
actually ran an article
00:31:59.46\00:32:02.76
on all of the
young adults in the
00:32:03.43\00:32:05.33
United States who are
leaving the evangelical
00:32:05.33\00:32:08.46
church in droves. And they went
00:32:08.46\00:32:11.16
and they didn't
interview of these
00:32:11.16\00:32:12.46
young people and
ask the hard question
00:32:12.46\00:32:14.40
why is that after
you were raised a Baptist
00:32:14.40\00:32:17.76
or a Methodist or
whatever denomination
00:32:17.76\00:32:19.80
it was, why is it that
you left and are now not
00:32:19.80\00:32:22.70
attending church at
all in your mid to late 20s
00:32:22.70\00:32:25.26
what is that shifted
that you no longer are
00:32:25.26\00:32:27.70
connected with
church in that way.
00:32:27.70\00:32:29.10
You know what young people said,
00:32:30.43\00:32:31.90
because we had an
MTV Church experience.
00:32:33.23\00:32:36.03
And one of the things
they say in this article
00:32:38.30\00:32:40.00
is they say the
reason is that when we got to
00:32:40.00\00:32:43.40
college and
they challenged us on
00:32:43.40\00:32:46.40
evolution and
creation and they challenged us
00:32:46.40\00:32:48.80
on homosexuality
and they challenged us
00:32:48.80\00:32:51.40
on pre-marital sex
we could not give a
00:32:51.40\00:32:53.80
defense for what we believe.
00:32:53.80\00:32:55.50
And because we
couldn't defend what we believe
00:32:58.30\00:33:00.20
we seized to believe anything.
00:33:00.20\00:33:03.83
The scripture says in verse 5,
00:33:09.33\00:33:11.70
having a form of
Godliness but denying
00:33:13.23\00:33:19.53
the power thereof.
From such turn away,
00:33:19.53\00:33:27.10
having a form of
godliness but denying
00:33:28.60\00:33:34.80
the power there of,
from such turn away.
00:33:34.80\00:33:41.06
I'm gonna submit to
you, that we live in a time
00:33:43.76\00:33:47.80
when for many
people being religious
00:33:47.80\00:33:51.53
is very popular. It's
a part of their culture
00:33:51.53\00:33:56.36
more than it is a part
of their spiritual life.
00:33:56.36\00:33:58.93
And so people are
religious but they don't
00:34:00.96\00:34:04.10
necessarily have an
abiding relationship
00:34:04.10\00:34:06.26
with Jesus
Christ. And one of the
00:34:06.26\00:34:09.03
manifestations of that
is that by having a form
00:34:09.03\00:34:12.43
of Godliness but
denying the power thereof
00:34:12.43\00:34:14.90
is that people
will outwardly appeared
00:34:16.30\00:34:18.30
to be very
religious inside the church.
00:34:18.30\00:34:20.80
But the power of God
which is the power of,
00:34:21.56\00:34:23.76
to convert you, to convict you,
00:34:23.76\00:34:26.20
and to change the way you live.
00:34:26.20\00:34:28.13
Is absent in their
lives. So instead of
00:34:28.93\00:34:32.53
being a Christian
who is bold for Christ
00:34:32.53\00:34:36.33
and the evidence
that they have Christ
00:34:36.33\00:34:39.10
in their lives is
seen in how they live
00:34:39.10\00:34:41.50
their lives
instead, they actually live
00:34:41.50\00:34:43.70
just like the world
and hold on to a title
00:34:43.70\00:34:46.43
of being Christian.
That's a dangerous place
00:34:46.43\00:34:50.30
to be. In fact in Revelation
00:34:50.30\00:34:52.33
the Bible says,
that God would rather you
00:34:52.33\00:34:54.16
were hot or you're
cold. And not lukewarm
00:34:54.16\00:34:56.90
and that he would
spew the people out there
00:34:56.90\00:34:58.90
were in this
condition, this is one of the
00:34:58.90\00:35:00.46
reasons that Paul
says you should turn away
00:35:00.46\00:35:02.26
from these people.
It's a dangerous thing
00:35:02.26\00:35:05.30
to be around those
who think they have
00:35:05.30\00:35:07.30
and they know
God. Think they're in a
00:35:07.30\00:35:08.96
relationship with
God and really don't want
00:35:08.96\00:35:10.63
anything to do with
him. It's a dangerous
00:35:10.63\00:35:13.86
place to be. And
it's amazing because
00:35:13.86\00:35:17.03
you know you
watch televangelists.
00:35:17.03\00:35:18.56
Guys like Creflo
Dollar. Creflo Dollar has
00:35:19.53\00:35:23.93
this incredible
Gospel of prosperity
00:35:23.93\00:35:25.83
that he preaches.
And I was wondering
00:35:25.83\00:35:28.76
how he got the name
Dollar and he kind of
00:35:28.76\00:35:32.60
preaches about
money all the time,
00:35:32.60\00:35:33.90
maybe he changed
his name I don't know.
00:35:33.90\00:35:35.63
And there are many
people who are moved
00:35:37.26\00:35:40.00
to believe that the evidence,
00:35:40.00\00:35:41.60
don't miss this,
the evidence that
00:35:41.60\00:35:43.30
you are in a relationship with
00:35:43.30\00:35:44.43
Jesus Christ is not
that you begin to grow
00:35:44.43\00:35:48.26
in Chris and that
you begin to lay aside
00:35:48.26\00:35:51.30
the sins that so
used to easily beset you,
00:35:51.30\00:35:53.40
that you begin to
be a different person,
00:35:53.40\00:35:55.23
a new creation, a new
creature in Christ Jesus
00:35:55.23\00:35:58.10
but that the
evidence that you're in a
00:35:58.10\00:36:00.16
relationship with
Jesus Christ in these last
00:36:00.16\00:36:02.13
and terrible perilous
days. For so many people
00:36:02.13\00:36:05.23
now is how prosperous you are.
00:36:05.23\00:36:07.86
How much you have in the bank,
00:36:08.63\00:36:10.43
how nice your car
is. It's a terrible thing
00:36:10.43\00:36:15.10
when people are
being duped to believe
00:36:15.10\00:36:17.03
that if they are
in a relationship with
00:36:17.03\00:36:18.80
Jesus Christ what
happens is you get rich.
00:36:18.80\00:36:23.40
And being wealthy
is the litmus test.
00:36:25.40\00:36:28.13
Among so many
Christians that they have a
00:36:28.96\00:36:33.96
relationship with Jesus Christ,
00:36:33.96\00:36:35.33
Paul says that
this is having a form of
00:36:35.33\00:36:38.46
Godliness but
denying the power thereof,
00:36:38.46\00:36:41.26
from such he says turn
away and the reason for
00:36:41.26\00:36:44.10
this is people do
not want a relationship
00:36:44.10\00:36:47.16
that will cause them
to have to move to change
00:36:47.16\00:36:50.53
their lives. In fact in
those meeting in Atlanta
00:36:50.53\00:36:55.16
one of the interesting
stories that happened,
00:36:55.16\00:36:56.80
was when we had a
host they brought me
00:36:57.63\00:36:59.76
out for one of the meetings
00:36:59.76\00:37:00.76
and it was on
religion and sexuality.
00:37:00.76\00:37:03.10
And again I was
amazed that they produced
00:37:03.10\00:37:05.86
church leaders, deans
of the schools of theology,
00:37:05.86\00:37:11.03
all kinds of Muslim
women and all of them
00:37:11.03\00:37:14.83
believed in his
radical, non-Biblical ideas of
00:37:14.83\00:37:18.73
sexuality
impurity. And I remember
00:37:18.73\00:37:21.70
when I came around to meet,
00:37:21.70\00:37:23.03
to talk about my
religion and what I
00:37:23.03\00:37:24.83
believe and I said
let me start by saying
00:37:24.83\00:37:26.90
I believe in a
separation of church
00:37:26.90\00:37:29.30
and state. I said
in fact the Bible says
00:37:29.30\00:37:34.56
and I quoted the
scripture on purpose
00:37:34.56\00:37:36.03
to them, the Bible
says that Jesus speaking
00:37:36.03\00:37:38.66
that you should render
on to Caesar that things
00:37:38.66\00:37:40.80
that are Caesar's,
and unto God the things
00:37:40.80\00:37:43.46
that are God's. I
said so guess what?
00:37:43.46\00:37:46.16
I don't care
what do you guys say,
00:37:46.16\00:37:48.76
I don't care what
laws they pass in the
00:37:48.76\00:37:51.26
United States as
for me and my house
00:37:51.26\00:37:53.26
we're gonna serve the Lord.
00:37:54.53\00:37:55.70
And I could see
that someone have began
00:37:58.06\00:37:59.56
to get upset and
they began to try
00:37:59.56\00:38:02.40
and rebuttal, now
you remember these are
00:38:02.40\00:38:03.83
mostly people who
teaches in the schools
00:38:03.83\00:38:06.46
of theology of
America, divinity schools.
00:38:06.46\00:38:09.86
These are
leaders of large churches
00:38:09.86\00:38:12.10
and bishops even.
And I remember it was
00:38:12.10\00:38:16.70
spiritual warfare
because one of the
00:38:16.70\00:38:18.56
persons at the table
began to stare at me.
00:38:18.56\00:38:20.96
I mean stare at me
and you know like he was
00:38:22.46\00:38:24.73
trying to give me an
evil eye or something.
00:38:24.73\00:38:26.43
As they make it
I called it Ovea.
00:38:26.43\00:38:28.56
And they would just stare at me
00:38:30.66\00:38:32.26
and I remember as I
went around to this person
00:38:32.26\00:38:34.66
and this person was
an interesting person,
00:38:34.66\00:38:36.63
she had gone
through general surgery
00:38:36.63\00:38:40.33
and learned plastic
surgery and she said
00:38:40.33\00:38:42.40
that her glow was
to go into low income
00:38:42.40\00:38:44.90
and poor
neighborhood and that's what she
00:38:44.90\00:38:46.83
wanted to do in these low income
00:38:46.83\00:38:48.76
and poor neighborhood
is provide inexpensive
00:38:48.76\00:38:52.13
and chief transgender surgeries
00:38:52.13\00:38:54.66
for individuals.
Making it easy and cheap
00:38:54.66\00:38:59.73
for poor people
in America to go from
00:38:59.73\00:39:01.70
being male to
female, or female to male
00:39:01.70\00:39:03.80
that was her calling.
Now what you didn't know
00:39:03.80\00:39:09.60
upfront is that
she used to be a he.
00:39:09.60\00:39:12.33
And she stared at me now.
00:39:14.70\00:39:16.80
She's staring at
me now. I say, Lord,
00:39:22.30\00:39:26.86
I just started to pray
and as it begins to move
00:39:28.70\00:39:33.63
around the table
and she gets her turn
00:39:33.63\00:39:37.30
and I used at
first I would mess up
00:39:38.20\00:39:40.36
and call her he all the time
00:39:40.36\00:39:42.00
and I always get corrected,
00:39:42.00\00:39:43.93
I even slipped
once and said shim,
00:39:43.93\00:39:46.00
she and him and I shouldn't have
00:39:46.00\00:39:48.40
done that. I
shouldn't have done that.
00:39:48.40\00:39:51.90
But she looked at me
and she looked at me,
00:39:55.46\00:39:58.56
and when came to
her then she said
00:39:58.56\00:39:59.80
I was a man once.
She said an I was engaged
00:39:59.80\00:40:03.23
to be married
and I was a Catholic
00:40:03.23\00:40:04.70
and I went to the Canaan classes
00:40:04.70\00:40:07.36
and I guess that's
what the Catholic church
00:40:07.36\00:40:08.40
does, they
prepare you for marriage
00:40:08.40\00:40:10.00
and I was
married and she was a man
00:40:10.00\00:40:12.56
then she was married to a woman
00:40:12.56\00:40:13.66
and I was married
and it didn't work
00:40:13.66\00:40:15.00
because I was a woman
trapped in a man's body.
00:40:15.00\00:40:17.83
And she said and
she started to try
00:40:18.60\00:40:20.13
and quote scripture
and just messed it all up.
00:40:20.13\00:40:22.60
That couldn't put
two scriptures together.
00:40:22.60\00:40:24.53
'cause she was
trying to make the point
00:40:25.26\00:40:26.43
that she'd been
religious. She was a
00:40:26.43\00:40:28.66
Catholic and she
gave up church she said
00:40:28.66\00:40:30.83
because it was too restrictive.
00:40:30.83\00:40:32.83
She gave up on
God because He was too
00:40:34.66\00:40:36.80
restricted and
right now I'm sitting here
00:40:36.80\00:40:39.23
and next to me is
the assistant to the
00:40:39.23\00:40:41.40
former surgeon
general of the United States
00:40:41.40\00:40:43.36
and the former
surgeon general is two seats
00:40:43.36\00:40:45.33
over from me and David Satcher,
00:40:45.33\00:40:47.86
and he's sitting there
and when he gets to her
00:40:47.86\00:40:49.46
she says and that's
why now I no longer go to
00:40:49.46\00:40:52.63
church. She said I'm
a Wiccan. David Satcher
00:40:52.63\00:40:57.53
leans over his assistant to me
00:40:57.53\00:40:59.00
and says what does
it mean that she's a
00:40:59.00\00:41:01.33
Wiccan. And I
said, she's a witch.
00:41:01.33\00:41:03.73
He said what
Blunt, she's a what?
00:41:10.80\00:41:12.70
Why, because if
you're in Christ Jesus
00:41:15.13\00:41:17.90
and if you're
studying God's word
00:41:18.63\00:41:20.63
and you have a relationship with
00:41:20.63\00:41:22.23
Jesus Christ the
word itself begins to
00:41:22.23\00:41:25.06
bother you, but people want a
00:41:25.06\00:41:28.06
form of Godliness. So
now into the church sees
00:41:28.06\00:41:32.03
witchcraft and voodoo
and all of these things
00:41:32.03\00:41:35.43
start to come in and
I was talking to one of
00:41:35.43\00:41:38.00
my friends today and
they were talking about
00:41:38.00\00:41:39.33
their church where they
brought in a congo drums
00:41:39.33\00:41:42.70
and the guy was
walking around the church,
00:41:42.70\00:41:44.50
doing the African,
some kind of rights of
00:41:44.50\00:41:47.33
passage ritual and I
was like you, you got to be
00:41:47.33\00:41:50.90
careful that could be voodoo.
00:41:50.90\00:41:52.60
Why? Because the devil
will let you do whatever
00:41:56.96\00:42:00.76
you want and he
delights, he knows
00:42:00.76\00:42:04.66
that man like
in Loma Linda says,
00:42:04.66\00:42:06.40
to make man whole he
knows that man is whole
00:42:06.40\00:42:08.83
when there's a spiritual aspect,
00:42:08.83\00:42:10.53
so if he's gonna
remove Christianity out,
00:42:10.53\00:42:12.93
a form of
Godliness must replace it.
00:42:12.93\00:42:15.90
Matter of fact Paul
goes further in verse 6
00:42:21.53\00:42:23.50
and says for this
sort they which creep into
00:42:23.50\00:42:26.30
houses and lead
captive silly women
00:42:26.30\00:42:29.03
laid in which sins, led
away with diverse lusts.
00:42:29.03\00:42:32.66
Ever learning and
never able to come to a
00:42:33.46\00:42:36.46
knowledge of the truth.
He says that look in the
00:42:36.46\00:42:40.56
last days,s it's
gonna get so terrible
00:42:40.56\00:42:42.70
that evil forces
will worm their way
00:42:42.70\00:42:45.36
into houses. You
would almost think
00:42:45.36\00:42:48.50
Paul understood
that there would be
00:42:48.50\00:42:50.06
high speed Internet
running into the houses
00:42:50.06\00:42:52.40
of the last days.
That he would understand
00:42:52.40\00:42:55.00
that satellites
would be linked up,
00:42:55.00\00:42:56.50
that cable would be linked up
00:42:56.50\00:42:57.73
and that all of a
sudden the evil influences
00:42:57.73\00:43:00.06
of the world would
no longer need to knock
00:43:00.06\00:43:02.43
on the front door of
your house to get in.
00:43:02.43\00:43:04.56
But in fact you
would download the devil.
00:43:04.56\00:43:07.80
Paul seems to understand
that in the last times
00:43:12.90\00:43:15.73
the availability of
evil to quickly get around
00:43:15.73\00:43:19.33
the globe would not,
would be like nothing
00:43:19.33\00:43:21.53
that the world has ever seen.
00:43:21.53\00:43:23.13
And short enough I call this the
00:43:25.20\00:43:26.86
Oprah Winfrey effect.
They creep into houses
00:43:26.86\00:43:33.33
and Oprah Winfrey
now is gonna start
00:43:33.33\00:43:35.56
her own network called OWN.
00:43:35.56\00:43:39.30
But isn't that
amazing that Oprah Winfrey
00:43:40.26\00:43:41.86
who runs this huge,
she was gonna run this huge
00:43:41.86\00:43:44.46
network also through
her, Eckhart Tolle has
00:43:44.46\00:43:47.50
started the world's
largest on-line church
00:43:47.50\00:43:49.53
and when you go online
I challenge you to Google
00:43:49.53\00:43:51.76
or YouTube some of
the stuff on Oprah Winfrey
00:43:51.76\00:43:54.16
where she literally
has people who walk away
00:43:54.16\00:43:56.90
from
Christianity and despise it.
00:43:56.90\00:43:59.73
To say they have
been so enlightened now.
00:44:01.83\00:44:03.43
They're no longer Christians,
00:44:04.76\00:44:06.50
no longer Baptists,
no longer Methodists.
00:44:06.50\00:44:09.80
They've been
liberated by this doctrine,
00:44:11.00\00:44:13.60
this theology that Oprah Winfrey
00:44:13.60\00:44:15.26
and Eckhart Tolle preaching.
00:44:15.26\00:44:16.66
Says if Paul understood that,
00:44:19.13\00:44:21.00
he says for of this
sort of they which creep into
00:44:21.00\00:44:24.00
houses and lead
captive silly women laden
00:44:24.00\00:44:27.30
with sins, led
away with diverse lusts.
00:44:27.30\00:44:29.63
Ever learning,
never able to come
00:44:31.03\00:44:34.40
to the knowledge of the truth,
00:44:34.40\00:44:35.80
if you drop down
Paul is still writing
00:44:37.80\00:44:39.86
in his dungeon
cell, still writing the
00:44:39.86\00:44:42.16
Timothy in verse 10 he says,
00:44:42.16\00:44:43.53
But thou hast
fully known my doctrine,
00:44:43.53\00:44:45.83
manner of life,
purpose, faith, long-suffering,
00:44:45.83\00:44:49.36
charity, patience, Persecutions,
00:44:49.36\00:44:51.90
afflictions, which
came unto me at Antioch,
00:44:51.90\00:44:54.33
at Iconium, at
Lystra, and Lystra is where
00:44:54.33\00:44:56.56
Timothy met Paul
in the first place.
00:44:56.56\00:44:58.30
Timothy watched Paul bestowed,
00:44:58.30\00:45:00.80
almost beaten to
death. You can read that
00:45:00.80\00:45:03.60
story in the Book of
Acts, the 14th chapter
00:45:03.60\00:45:05.86
where Paul is, after
he, he was a cripple man
00:45:05.86\00:45:09.80
and the Greeks
want to worship him
00:45:09.80\00:45:12.00
as one of the Gods,
come down from heaven
00:45:12.00\00:45:14.06
and he refuses and
the Jews railed him up
00:45:14.06\00:45:16.40
and they tried to
kill him, they beat him,
00:45:16.40\00:45:18.46
dragged him out of
time, but Timothy is probably
00:45:18.46\00:45:21.33
standing there to
see when Paul gets back
00:45:21.33\00:45:23.66
on his feet and dust himself off
00:45:23.66\00:45:25.46
and praises God for
the opportunity to be
00:45:25.46\00:45:28.50
abused for the
gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:45:28.50\00:45:30.93
By the time Paul
comes back to Lystra,
00:45:33.30\00:45:35.40
Timothy by now is a disciple,
00:45:35.40\00:45:37.96
he's called the
disciple in this scripture
00:45:37.96\00:45:39.60
and he is on his
way to serving God.
00:45:39.60\00:45:41.46
He says, Timothy
you know what I've been
00:45:41.46\00:45:43.66
through. But he
says but out of them all
00:45:43.66\00:45:48.53
the Lord delivered
me. In verse 12 he says,
00:45:48.53\00:45:54.06
Yea, and all
that will live godly
00:45:54.06\00:45:55.90
in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
00:45:55.90\00:46:01.90
It says in
verse 13, but evil men
00:46:04.43\00:46:06.33
and seducers shall
wax worse and worse,
00:46:06.33\00:46:08.90
deceiving, and being deceived.
00:46:09.63\00:46:11.43
But continue thou in
the things which thou hast
00:46:11.80\00:46:13.83
learned and
hast been assured of,
00:46:13.83\00:46:15.26
knowing of whom
thou hast learned them,
00:46:15.26\00:46:17.43
And that from a
child thou hast known
00:46:17.43\00:46:20.03
the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make
00:46:20.03\00:46:22.66
thee wise unto
salvation through faith
00:46:22.66\00:46:24.63
which is in Christ
Jesus. Look at verse 16,
00:46:24.63\00:46:27.40
it's an important
text. Paul says to Timothy
00:46:27.40\00:46:30.20
speaking to us he
says, all scripture is
00:46:30.20\00:46:32.76
given by inspiration of God,
00:46:32.76\00:46:35.56
and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof,
00:46:36.83\00:46:39.86
for correction,
for instruction in
00:46:39.86\00:46:42.43
righteousness. In
fact when churches say
00:46:42.43\00:46:44.46
they are non-denominational
00:46:44.46\00:46:46.03
the challenge I
have with them is
00:46:46.03\00:46:47.70
denominations are
defined by doctrine.
00:46:47.70\00:46:51.20
So if you're non-denominational,
00:46:52.06\00:46:54.13
are you saying that
you are non-doctrinal?
00:46:54.13\00:46:57.40
And what you find
that there are churches
00:46:59.30\00:47:00.96
that literally and
I spoke at Saddleback
00:47:00.96\00:47:02.56
Church in Orange
County, Rick Warren's
00:47:02.56\00:47:04.23
big church and the
purpose driven life
00:47:04.23\00:47:05.86
church and I remember
having this discussion
00:47:05.86\00:47:08.36
at the church and
then they able to say
00:47:08.36\00:47:09.50
you know what we,
we can't just believe
00:47:09.50\00:47:11.76
different things.
What you mean about
00:47:11.76\00:47:14.56
some of us are pre-millennial
00:47:14.56\00:47:16.00
some of us are intermillennial,
00:47:16.00\00:47:17.60
and some of us
are post-millennial.
00:47:17.60\00:47:19.20
I said so your
church is kind of like go
00:47:19.80\00:47:21.63
into a buffet at
the Indian Restaurant.
00:47:21.63\00:47:23.43
You got to pick
which you believe.
00:47:26.30\00:47:27.90
But the Bible says
no, all scripture is given
00:47:30.26\00:47:33.03
by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for
00:47:33.03\00:47:35.40
doctrine, for
reproof, for correction,
00:47:35.40\00:47:37.83
for instruction
in righteousness.
00:47:37.83\00:47:39.80
That the man of God
may be what, perfect.
00:47:40.83\00:47:44.63
The word perfect
here means from the Greek,
00:47:47.70\00:47:49.66
perfectly suited
to do or work for God.
00:47:50.43\00:47:54.56
Perfectly put together
to do something for God.
00:47:55.26\00:47:58.30
That the man of
God maybe perfect
00:47:59.06\00:48:01.00
thoroughly
furnished unto all good work.
00:48:01.00\00:48:04.00
Let me tell you
something brothers
00:48:07.06\00:48:08.36
and sisters we
live in some hard times.
00:48:08.36\00:48:09.86
It is being
based in the scripture.
00:48:11.86\00:48:13.96
They used to say
it's Sola scriptura,
00:48:14.70\00:48:17.40
the Bible and the Bible alone
00:48:18.16\00:48:22.00
because of all
of the philosophies
00:48:23.93\00:48:25.40
of the world when
it begin to come down
00:48:25.40\00:48:26.90
on you if you
begin to believe them
00:48:26.90\00:48:28.23
you'll get led off
into some crazy stuff.
00:48:28.23\00:48:30.30
And the devil would
take you on a rat race,
00:48:31.63\00:48:34.03
in fact as you
look at the world,
00:48:34.80\00:48:37.13
the devil will bless
you, he will even multiply
00:48:37.13\00:48:40.50
and prosper you
in order to keep you
00:48:40.50\00:48:44.13
from really getting
back into God's word
00:48:44.13\00:48:46.26
in scripture and
following what God
00:48:46.26\00:48:48.26
want you to do. Our
faith must be unflinching.
00:48:48.26\00:48:54.56
You've got to
be so serious about
00:48:55.76\00:48:58.06
your relationship
with Jesus Christ because
00:48:58.06\00:49:00.13
you live in perilous and hard
00:49:00.13\00:49:02.56
and difficult
times. Some of you that you
00:49:02.56\00:49:11.86
can't be used,
you wonder if you gone
00:49:11.86\00:49:15.10
too far from God to be used.
00:49:15.10\00:49:16.76
Let me to
challenge you tonight that
00:49:18.10\00:49:19.93
you too can be perfect.
You can become a perfect
00:49:19.93\00:49:24.03
vessel in the
hand of the living God.
00:49:24.03\00:49:26.26
I'm here to
challenge you tonight
00:49:27.63\00:49:29.13
that your
righteousness is by faith
00:49:29.86\00:49:31.50
and that your
problems is not doing problem,
00:49:32.43\00:49:35.63
it's a believing
problem. That we've got to put
00:49:35.63\00:49:38.83
our trust in God and
when we begin to lean
00:49:38.83\00:49:41.63
on the
everlasting arms Jesus himself
00:49:41.63\00:49:44.20
will show up and
the love of Christ will
00:49:44.20\00:49:46.30
constrain us and the
things you used to do.
00:49:46.30\00:49:48.46
As you get
information from the scripture
00:49:49.26\00:49:51.16
as to what should be put aside,
00:49:51.16\00:49:52.70
easily those things
will fall off of you,
00:49:52.70\00:49:55.16
if you're in
Christ. He's looking
00:49:55.16\00:50:02.16
to redeem you.
Stories told to the young man,
00:50:02.16\00:50:07.20
went out drinking
one night and playing
00:50:10.23\00:50:11.90
pokers a true
story. Happened in the
00:50:11.90\00:50:17.60
South Western part
of the United States
00:50:17.60\00:50:19.60
but not in California,
that I would like to say
00:50:20.96\00:50:24.26
some good things can
come out of California.
00:50:24.26\00:50:26.53
And as this young man
went out to play poker,
00:50:28.90\00:50:31.76
he got into an
argument with the man
00:50:32.36\00:50:34.36
sitting across
the table from him.
00:50:34.36\00:50:35.80
And when he got into
this argument he reached
00:50:37.43\00:50:40.50
down into his
bag and grabbed a gun
00:50:40.50\00:50:42.20
and pointed it across the table.
00:50:42.20\00:50:43.90
And he shot and
killed the man sitting
00:50:44.63\00:50:48.10
across the table from
him. The man in the chair
00:50:48.10\00:50:51.33
fell over dead, the police came
00:50:51.33\00:50:54.93
and arrested this
young man who shot
00:50:54.93\00:50:56.96
this other young
man. He has taken down
00:50:56.96\00:51:02.13
to the and then he was booked
00:51:02.13\00:51:03.50
and had his
first round of trials
00:51:03.50\00:51:05.83
and he was sent to
jail and later he went
00:51:05.83\00:51:09.80
before the judge
and jury and he was
00:51:09.80\00:51:11.43
convicted of
first degree murder.
00:51:11.43\00:51:13.60
Jury sentenced him to death
00:51:18.50\00:51:22.70
in the electric
chair. The process of course
00:51:22.70\00:51:28.13
took a few years and
true story his family
00:51:28.13\00:51:30.53
in the mean time
working, trying to help
00:51:30.53\00:51:35.36
him arguing that he was drunk,
00:51:35.36\00:51:36.73
he's really wasn't
him, he is not really
00:51:36.73\00:51:38.90
a murderer. They
were trying to get
00:51:38.90\00:51:42.80
when the conviction came down
00:51:42.80\00:51:45.90
and he was sentenced
to the death penalty,
00:51:45.90\00:51:47.93
they tried not
to get him released
00:51:47.93\00:51:51.30
from the conviction
but just to get a stay of
00:51:51.30\00:51:54.26
execution. So
everybody in the family
00:51:54.26\00:51:59.60
began to write
petitions and all of them in
00:51:59.60\00:52:04.56
his signed and
sin the next house,
00:52:04.56\00:52:06.30
and in the next
house and the whole
00:52:06.30\00:52:07.96
street signed in.
Then the next street
00:52:07.96\00:52:11.00
and the next
street and the next block,
00:52:11.80\00:52:13.86
till the whole
town and the next town
00:52:13.86\00:52:16.16
until finally one
day after it seemed as
00:52:16.16\00:52:18.73
though the whole state
had signed the petition
00:52:18.73\00:52:20.93
to stay this young
man's execution and leave him
00:52:20.93\00:52:25.10
with just life in
prison. Eventually what
00:52:25.10\00:52:29.00
happens is a knock
is made on the governor
00:52:29.00\00:52:32.73
of the state's door
and a basket of petitions
00:52:32.73\00:52:35.33
is brought and dropped
in front of the governor
00:52:35.33\00:52:37.70
of the state. The
governor of the state
00:52:37.70\00:52:43.33
was a Christian and
when he realized that
00:52:43.33\00:52:45.70
he was mercy and
grace that the citizens
00:52:45.70\00:52:48.46
of his state wanted to
apply to this young man
00:52:48.46\00:52:51.73
he was so happy that
he sat down immediately
00:52:51.73\00:52:54.43
because so many
years had passed now
00:52:54.43\00:52:57.10
and he wrote out a full pardon
00:52:57.10\00:52:59.50
for the young
man. A full pardon was
00:52:59.50\00:53:03.26
written for the
young man. The governor was
00:53:03.26\00:53:08.06
gonna go down to
death roll to deliver
00:53:08.06\00:53:09.76
the letter in
person. So before he left
00:53:09.76\00:53:15.23
he went into his
closet and he slipped
00:53:15.23\00:53:16.80
on of preaches
road. He said in his mind
00:53:16.80\00:53:20.46
you know how what
better way to deliver
00:53:20.46\00:53:22.50
this message and
dressed up like a preacher.
00:53:22.50\00:53:24.80
He gets down via
limousine to the state
00:53:26.30\00:53:31.43
penitentiary and
he, is met by the warden
00:53:31.43\00:53:33.86
and he runs
upstairs to death row.
00:53:33.86\00:53:35.66
The warden points to
cell where the young man
00:53:38.06\00:53:40.13
is being kept. And the governor,
00:53:40.13\00:53:43.70
as he begins to
walk into the cell
00:53:43.70\00:53:45.56
the young man
jumps off of his bunk
00:53:45.56\00:53:47.30
and yells at the
governor, get out.
00:53:47.30\00:53:51.60
The governor says
well hold on I've got news,
00:53:52.90\00:53:55.30
I've got the best
news, the young man says
00:53:55.30\00:53:59.90
I was raised a
Christian and look where
00:53:59.90\00:54:02.06
its landed me get
out. The governor says
00:54:02.06\00:54:06.90
hold man I've got
news, I've got good news.
00:54:06.90\00:54:10.20
It says you are the
third preacher has been
00:54:10.20\00:54:13.60
ahead as week, get
out. If the governor tries
00:54:13.60\00:54:18.36
one last time he
says you don't understand
00:54:18.36\00:54:20.26
I've got good
news. The young man says
00:54:20.26\00:54:26.70
if you don't get out
I'm calling the governor,
00:54:26.70\00:54:28.43
I'm calling the
warden and the guards
00:54:28.43\00:54:32.20
and I'm gonna have you put out.
00:54:32.20\00:54:33.33
Governor drops his
head and folds up the paper
00:54:35.80\00:54:39.13
and sticks in his
pocket and walks out
00:54:39.13\00:54:40.70
and the warden gets
him and wished him off
00:54:40.70\00:54:43.00
to the limousine and
he's taken back to the
00:54:43.00\00:54:44.76
governor's mansion and
the warden is happy now,
00:54:44.76\00:54:47.20
he comes running into the cell
00:54:47.20\00:54:48.60
and sits to at young man he says
00:54:48.60\00:54:50.20
how did your visit
with the governor go?
00:54:50.20\00:54:52.00
The young man
says you mean that man
00:54:53.30\00:54:55.76
dressed up like
a preacher was the
00:54:55.76\00:54:57.06
governor? He
says yes, and he had a
00:54:57.06\00:55:00.60
full pardon for you.
You were gonna be let out.
00:55:00.60\00:55:05.63
The young man says you
gotta be kidding give me
00:55:07.66\00:55:10.06
some paper let me
write dear governor
00:55:10.06\00:55:12.40
I'm so sorry I
didn't know that was you.
00:55:12.40\00:55:16.20
The warden takes the
letter and he delivered
00:55:20.40\00:55:22.43
to the governor and
the governor gets it
00:55:22.43\00:55:23.93
and with tears
streaming down the
00:55:23.93\00:55:26.03
governor's face,
he reads the letter
00:55:26.03\00:55:27.90
and he turns it over
and writes on say back
00:55:27.90\00:55:30.20
no longer
interested in this case.
00:55:30.20\00:55:34.46
The day comes for
that young man to be put
00:55:37.33\00:55:39.20
to death by
electrocution and as he sitting
00:55:39.20\00:55:43.73
in the chair they
asked him do you have
00:55:43.73\00:55:45.86
any of last
words do you wanna say
00:55:45.86\00:55:47.76
before you die.
The young man says yes,
00:55:47.76\00:55:52.10
tell the young men
of America that I'm not
00:55:52.10\00:55:55.30
dieing because of
a murderer tell them
00:55:55.30\00:55:59.10
that I'm dieing
because of what I did but tell
00:55:59.10\00:56:03.56
that I'm die today
because I refused to
00:56:03.56\00:56:08.06
accept the pardon.
People let me tell you,
00:56:08.06\00:56:13.83
you've got a
remember when you go after
00:56:15.53\00:56:16.90
your Bible studies
and even in your own
00:56:16.90\00:56:18.46
personal life when you
look at yourself nobody
00:56:20.00\00:56:23.36
is gonna be lost
because the, of what they did
00:56:23.36\00:56:26.23
per say, because
anyone of us who decides to
00:56:26.23\00:56:31.20
accept the full pardon
that is in Jesus Christ
00:56:31.20\00:56:34.33
will be saved.
Jesus, the great governor
00:56:34.33\00:56:39.50
of the universe,
when the petitions
00:56:39.50\00:56:43.83
of our sins came up before him,
00:56:43.83\00:56:46.13
he didn't put on a
robe of a governor,
00:56:46.13\00:56:48.00
he slipped on the
flesh of a baby and was born
00:56:48.00\00:56:51.00
in a manger. And
with his own blood
00:56:51.00\00:56:54.60
he wrote out a full pardon for
00:56:56.00\00:56:59.40
everyone of us,
have unflinching faith,
00:56:59.40\00:57:04.03
because you too can
be perfect if you can
00:57:04.80\00:57:07.60
accept the blood
of Jesus in your life.
00:57:07.60\00:57:10.10
As the appeal song
is sung, you want to
00:57:11.56\00:57:15.30
come down front and accept that
00:57:15.30\00:57:16.63
pardon, join me down front.
00:57:16.63\00:57:19.16
My sin is great,
my strength is weak,
00:57:29.36\00:57:34.83
my path he set
with snares, but thou
00:57:34.83\00:57:40.56
O Christ has died for
me, and thou will hear
00:57:40.56\00:57:48.00
my prayer. To
thee are the crucified.
00:57:48.00\00:57:58.06
The savior's only
plea, relying on thy promised
00:57:58.06\00:58:08.40
grace. My faith
still clings to thee.
00:58:08.40\00:58:17.33