Live from the
3ABN Worship Center
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welcome to the
Pillars of our Faith event.
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Well good evening once
again and welcome to the
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Thompsonville 3ABN Worship
Center for our continuation
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of Spring Camp Meeting 2011.
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We have been
blessed wonderfully so far.
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Can we all say
Amen to that? Amen!
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We began our evening with
Pastor Jim Gilley: a wonderful
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message and then
followed by Pastor David Shin.
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But I want you to stay tuned
because Pastor C.A. Murray...
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The message is entitled
The Remnant and Its Mission.
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If you are within the
southern Illinois area
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or you don't mind driving, we'd
like to encourage you to come.
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Even there are many here
from Huntsville, Alabama,
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already. Am I right?
Anybody from California tonight?
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OK, we have people that
drove all week long to get here.
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And so if you want to determine
to be part of this wonderful
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Spirit-filled weekend where
we are talking about the pillars
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of our faith, we
encourage you to come.
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We have some excellent speakers.
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You can go to our 3ABN.org
website and look at the lineup
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of all the messages tomorrow.
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We have on Friday
a wonderful concert.
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The new Pillars project is going
to be released about the hymns.
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It's wonderful; you
don't want to miss that.
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But tonight we want you
to sit tight as the Lord
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opens our hearts and our
minds for a wonderful message.
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We just heard about God's
church... how precious it is.
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And we know in the
last days God has a remnant,
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does He not? But the
remnant also has a mission.
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And the devil will do anything
he can to thwart the mission
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of the remnant
church. But tonight there's
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encouragement
in the Word of God.
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And it's my privilege
to introduce my pastor,
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Pastor C.A. Murray, who
was my pastor when I was in
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New York City out in the world.
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Every Sabbath I would come
to church and Pastor Murray
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would preach to me until
one day the Lord broke through.
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So I'm his pastor now
but he's still my pastor.
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But tonight I want
you to put your hearts
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where God wants them to
be. Pray for the Spirit of God
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to open your ears to
listen to what the Lord has
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to say to you. The Lord has
also given me the opportunity
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to begin this
meeting with a song.
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You know, I think that
the blessing of the remnant,
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even its mission, is because
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there is still power in
the blood of Jesus Christ.
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There's a fountain
that continues to flow.
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And I pray that the Lord
will speak to your heart tonight
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as you listen to this message.
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After the song the
next voice you will hear
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will be that of
Pastor C.A. Murray.
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There is a fountain
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filled with blood
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Draw from Immanuel's veins;
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And sinners plunged
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beneath that flood,
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Lose all their guilty
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stains;
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Lose all their guilty
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stains,
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Lose all their guilty
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stains;
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And sinners plunged
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beneath that flood,
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Lose all their guilty
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stains.
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The dying thief
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rejoiced to see
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That fountain in his day;
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And there may I,
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though vile as he,
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wash all my sins
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away;
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Wash all my sins
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away,
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Wash all my sins
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away;
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And there may I,
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though vile as he,
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Wash all my sins
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away.
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Ever since by faith
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I saw that stream
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Thy flowing wounds
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supply,
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Redeeming love
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has been my theme,
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And shall be
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till I die;
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And shall be till I
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die,
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Yes, it shall be till
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I die;
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Your redeeming love
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has been my theme,
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And shall be till
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I die...
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And shall be
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till I
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die.
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Amen.
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Thank you my pastor, my friend.
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Sometimes as his pastor I have
to give him a little correction
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still. But we've
known each other for
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well over 30 years
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and we have been good
friends that whole time.
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I knew him
before he married Angie
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when she was one
of the fair damsels
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in the Bethel
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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in Brooklyn, New York.
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Angie was much sought after
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but she had eyes only for John.
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And she corralled him,
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and they have
been happy ever after.
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My burden tonight is
the remnant and its mission.
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And when I began
to study the remnant
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the theme that I was
running into I wasn't really
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that happy with.
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Because I read some
of the BRI material.
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I read some of the
things that were in
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the 27 Fundamental Beliefs.
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And I didn't want to
move in that direction
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because there was a
redemptive aspect that
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I thought was... was missing.
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And so I wanted to
change and I prayed about it
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and then I found out
that one of the other speakers
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was going to be covering
that same material from a
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different aspect... so it
left me free to do what I wanted
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to do. I wanted to be
a little more eclectic
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as we talked about
the remnant this night.
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And I wanted to get through
the remnant with all due respect
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to my good buddy David Shin.
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I wanted to talk about
the remnant without mentioning
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cloth or material.
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I wanted to come from an
entirely different place...
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a little more
esoteric look at the remnant.
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So I ask you to turn with
me to that text which stirred
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the hearts of our forefathers
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a century and a half
ago: Revelation chapter 12
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and verse 17 as we talk about
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the remnant and its mission.
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Revelation 12 and 17.
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But before we dare
read the Word of God,
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let us talk to the Lord.
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Gracious Father, we do
praise you and thank you
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for Your Word which
is a lamp unto our feet
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and a light that
shines on the path to glory.
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Open now our understanding
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as we open the scriptures
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so that we may
see and know and do.
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And we thank you
in Jesus' name, Amen.
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I am reading and you're hearing
Revelation chapter 12 verse 17
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from the New King James.
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The Bible says: "And
the dragon was enraged
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with the woman
and went to make war
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with the rest of
her offspring... "
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Your Bible I think
says in the King James
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"the remnant of her seed. "
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"Who keep the
commandments of God
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and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ. "
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Since our
earliest days we have known
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and called
ourselves "the remnant. "
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Now I hasten to
say not A remnant
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but THE remnant...
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because there is
only one true remnant.
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In 1846 a young Ellen Harmon
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yet to be married to James White
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wrote the first and
only tract that she wrote as
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a single woman.
And it was entitled
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To The Little
Remnant Scattered Abroad.
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Ellen Harmon knew -
even as a young girl -
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that she was
part of the remnant.
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And even in the wake of that
great disappointment of 1844...
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you know about October 22, 1844,
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when the Millerite Adventists
to many in the evangelical world
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had become a laughingstock.
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A joke; a byword.
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Even in the wake
of that tough time
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the early pioneers knew
that they were a remnant.
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In fact, it was remnant
theology that allowed them
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to make sense out of
such a great disappointment.
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It was remnant
theology that allowed them
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to hold up their heads.
You know, I am tempted to...
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to drift off into May 21,
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2011, but I will
resist the temptation.
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Yeah, I'll resist it.
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But it was remnant
theology that allowed them
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to holds their heads
up in the face of what
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must have been a devastating
time for the believers.
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You see, remnant can be a
group of unified believers
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gathered together as
we are in this place.
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Or it can be
individuals in single places
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or groups scattered
all around the world.
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Because what defines
remnant is not proximity.
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In fact, that which
makes a person, a group,
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a church, or a
nation part of the remnant
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is only partially discernable -
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I need you to stick with me -
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Because the remnant is in here
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and the remnant is in here
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and most importantly
the remnant is in here.
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The remnant has
always been, is now,
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and will always be
part of what is found in
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Colossians chapter 1 verse 27.
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"Christ in you...
the hope of glory. "
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In fact, one the translations
that I saw the other day
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says: "Christ in you...
the ONLY hope of glory. "
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And so as the Advent
pioneers studied, they saw
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a remnant theology
playing out in their own lives.
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And they were drawn
to this marvelous text:
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Revelation chapter 12 verse 17.
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They read that the
dragon was wroth, was enraged
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with the woman - that
is, the church - and went
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to make war. And they
saw that as the answer
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to the reasons why
they were gettin' beat up.
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They were gettin' beat
up because they were at war.
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And when you're at
war, you get beat up.
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And so the scattered
brethren saw their plight,
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their disappointment
and subsequent chagrin
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as further evidence that
they were the remnant of God.
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This text said to them
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that Satan was intent on
the destruction of the woman.
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And they saw the woman in
Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 2
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as the church. Satan was
setting out to annihilate
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the end-time manifestation
of the people of God.
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These pioneers knew
that the devil had always
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trained his guns
on the people of God.
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And they realized
that in these last days
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Satan would
train his guns on us!
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So they accepted the
dictum of Revelation 12:12
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that Satan would come
down having great wrath
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because he knows...
Ladies and gentlemen,
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I assure you Satan knows.
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And even if you don't, he does!
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He doesn't
conjecture; he doesn't suppose.
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He doesn't guess;
he doesn't think...
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Satan KNOWS his time is short.
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And even if you don't, he does.
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We are, therefore, a
people of the eschaton.
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You know that word.
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A people of the
end. Our ecclesiology
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is driven by our
eschatology. In other words,
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how we do church is
informed by the fact
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that we don't
have long to do church.
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What we do every day
and on Sabbath is guided
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by what Christ
has done, is doing,
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and one day soon will do.
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We are moved and
motivated by the fact
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that Jesus is coming again
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and He's coming soon. Amen.
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So attacking the remnant
is Satan's last shot at God.
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It's not about us.
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Satan doesn't
care about you or me.
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We're just pawns.
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The great controversy is
between Christ and Satan.
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Heaven has a 7,000-year
score to settle with the devil.
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The devil hates Jesus.
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He can't get to Jesus any more,
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so he hurts Christ by hurting
those for whom Christ died.
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You know, somebody puts
their hands on your child
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they're putting
their hands on you.
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So Satan can't get to Christ.
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So attacking the remnant
is his last-ditch attempt
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to hurt Jesus.
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Satan has known his unalterable,
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inevitable,
unavoidable fate for a long time
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ladies and gentlemen.
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In John chapter 12
verse 31 the Bible says:
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"Now is the
judgment of this world;
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now is the ruler of
this world cast out. "
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And when Jesus said: "It
is finished, " Satan knew
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he was too.
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Matthew 25 verse 41 says
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hell fire was prepared
for the devil and his angels.
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Don't you think
Satan knows that?
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And I submit to you
ladies and gentlemen:
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that is one party
you don't want to crash.
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There are no engraved tickets
for you at that occasion,
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so why would you
print one for yourself?
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Satan knows and
understands Jesus.
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He knows and understands
that his end is not far.
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Satan knows that you can't
pin it on the Roman soldiers.
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You can't pin it on Caiaphas.
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You can't pin it on the Jews.
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The ultimate person responsible
for the death of Christ
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is him...
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and he will have to pay.
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Is there anyone here... is
there anyone in this building
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that thinks Satan is
not watching the clock?
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You'd better believe
he's watching the clock.
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He knows his time is short.
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He knows what's going to happen.
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He knows better than
we that God is not slack
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concerning His promises...
and that's any of His promises.
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And so he's got the
Laodicean church asleep
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and he wants us to stay asleep
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because Satan knows
something that we may not know.
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He has a true
understanding of the remnant.
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Now let me tell
you what I now know
00:19:14.31\00:19:19.45
that Satan has always known.
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When we contemplate remnant -
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this is Remnant 101...
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When we contemplate
remnant we are not talking about
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one remnant but three.
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Or more accurately,
three manifestations
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of the same remnant.
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When we parse remnant
00:19:43.79\00:19:46.33
we come out with three
facets or manifestations.
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One: we have the
historical remnant.
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What did I say?
Historical remnant.
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Secondly we have
the faithful remnant.
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What did I say?
Faithful remnant.
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And thirdly the
eschatological remnant.
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Eschatological
remnant. That's what I said!
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They can and have and do exist
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individually, simultaneously,
and sequentially.
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Now we're going to work
our way through all of that.
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What is
remnant? What is remnant?
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Ideologically remnant
is anything that is left
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after a catastrophe.
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The technical
definition of remnant.
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A catastrophe is something
that tears or rips apart
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anything that is
intended to be a whole.
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Biblically, remnant
exists anytime, anywhere
00:20:37.80\00:20:42.31
there is a dividing of
categories and classes.
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Now you're in remnant
school so stick with me.
00:20:47.55\00:20:49.69
Any time there's a
dividing into categories.
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Faithful and
faithless. Godly; godless.
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True; false. Sheep; goats.
00:20:57.75\00:21:00.50
Wheat; tares. Just; unjust.
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Canonical; apocryphal.
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Heterodoxy; orthodoxy.
00:21:05.69\00:21:08.91
Fidelity; perfidy.
00:21:09.11\00:21:11.55
Good; bad. Right; wrong.
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Any time there's a
division you've got a remnant.
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In short, remnant
coreference is judgment.
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When you think
remnant think judgment.
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It is sanctified
and it is judgment.
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So then, remnant and judgment
exist much like law and sin.
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Whenever God creates separation,
00:21:37.05\00:21:41.75
when God chooses
to drop a plumb line,
00:21:41.95\00:21:46.15
that act of
separation is ipso facto
00:21:46.35\00:21:52.02
judgment.
00:21:52.22\00:21:53.26
And one of the
two remaining groups
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as you divide something -
00:21:57.51\00:21:59.60
that's a
catastrophe, that's judgment -
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is de facto
apostate... the other, remnant.
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As such, judgment and remnant
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function in the
same co-relative sense
00:22:13.64\00:22:17.50
as do law and sin.
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Now what did he just say?
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I John chapter 3 verse 4:
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"He who commits sin
transgresses also the law
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for sin is the
transgression of the law. "
00:22:29.64\00:22:32.54
Let's see if I can remember
my Greek. "He who commits
00:22:32.64\00:22:34.55
hamartia - missing the mark -
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also transgresses the
law for hamartia is anomia. "
00:22:36.48\00:22:40.28
In other words,
there can be no sin
00:22:40.48\00:22:45.64
without law.
00:22:45.85\00:22:48.45
You know that.
In order to have sin
00:22:48.65\00:22:50.77
you've gotta have law.
00:22:50.97\00:22:52.02
Where there is no
law there can be no...
00:22:52.22\00:22:54.51
because sin is the
transgression of the...
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So you don't have
law you cannot have...
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So sin presupposes law.
00:22:59.76\00:23:04.38
In fact, sin is defined by law.
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You understand that?
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I submit that where
there is no judgment
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there can be no remnant
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because remnant is
defined by judgment.
00:23:16.83\00:23:21.69
Sin presupposes law,
00:23:21.89\00:23:25.25
remnant presupposes judgment,
00:23:25.45\00:23:28.68
and Satan knows it.
00:23:28.88\00:23:32.13
Because remnant
defines God's kingdom
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so it also must define his.
00:23:36.44\00:23:39.26
Because you will
forgive my pejorative English
00:23:39.46\00:23:42.39
either you is or you aint.
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Amen? Amen. So if
you're in God's kingdom
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you can't be in Satan's kingdom.
00:23:52.35\00:23:55.48
And if you're in Satan's kingdom
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EXCUSE ME
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you can't be in... So
if you're in the remnant
00:24:03.53\00:24:08.47
you can't be in Satan's kingdom.
00:24:08.67\00:24:10.77
And Satan knows that.
00:24:11.07\00:24:12.81
Painfully aware of that.
00:24:14.15\00:24:16.59
And so remnant is as old as Eden
00:24:16.89\00:24:21.70
and as modern as today.
00:24:21.90\00:24:24.47
It is remnant theology
that allows us to call ourselves
00:24:24.67\00:24:28.71
spiritual Israel. Amen.
00:24:28.91\00:24:30.94
That's remnant theology.
00:24:31.14\00:24:32.47
Remnant theology is all
through the Bible even though
00:24:32.67\00:24:35.69
the name remnant
may not be there.
00:24:35.79\00:24:37.82
Spiritual Israel is
a remnant statement.
00:24:38.12\00:24:43.32
Every time you
say spiritual Israel
00:24:43.52\00:24:46.76
you are making a
remnant statement that's part of
00:24:46.96\00:24:50.75
remnant theology.
00:24:50.85\00:24:51.92
It is remnant theology
that allows us to appropriate
00:24:52.12\00:24:54.94
to ourselves and
accept the promises
00:24:55.04\00:24:58.69
given to Abraham
as pointing to us.
00:24:58.79\00:25:02.21
That's remnant theology.
00:25:03.77\00:25:05.37
Abraham looked for a city
00:25:05.57\00:25:08.25
whose builder and maker is God.
00:25:08.45\00:25:12.60
Well hey! I'm
looking for the same town.
00:25:12.80\00:25:16.39
What about you?
00:25:17.63\00:25:19.67
And the promises
that God gave to Abraham
00:25:19.97\00:25:24.27
I take for myself
because of remnant theology.
00:25:24.48\00:25:29.64
If I'm in Christ
00:25:29.94\00:25:32.66
then I am Abraham's seed.
00:25:32.86\00:25:36.46
That's a remnant statement.
00:25:36.66\00:25:37.94
That is remnant theology.
00:25:38.14\00:25:40.09
"And heirs according
to the promise. " Now,
00:25:40.29\00:25:42.44
that's remnant speak.
We're going to get to a text -
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Hebrews 11:40...
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I want you to prepare to
put your dancing shoes on
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so when we get to it
if you don't dance...
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Well, you will.
00:25:56.77\00:25:58.94
Galatians chapter 3 verse 29.
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What book did I say?
00:26:01.19\00:26:02.41
Galatians
chapter 3 and verse 29.
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Love this text!
00:26:06.05\00:26:07.68
"If you are
Christ's... " that's judgment
00:26:07.88\00:26:11.07
because either you
are or you're not...
00:26:11.27\00:26:14.03
"then you are Abraham's
seed... " that's remnant...
00:26:14.53\00:26:18.82
"and heirs... " that's remnant.
00:26:19.02\00:26:21.73
Christ is
historical remnant theology.
00:26:21.97\00:26:25.27
Abraham's seed:
faithful remnant theology.
00:26:25.47\00:26:28.98
Heirs:
eschatological remnant theology.
00:26:29.18\00:26:32.02
All in that one text.
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So if the remnant is
a last-day definition,
00:26:34.04\00:26:37.96
where is the first?
00:26:38.16\00:26:40.38
Well, we have to go
back to the Old Testament
00:26:40.58\00:26:43.02
to a line beginning with Adam,
00:26:43.22\00:26:47.60
running through Abel,
00:26:47.80\00:26:50.80
then to Seth and to
the patriarchs of old,
00:26:51.00\00:26:54.85
to Israel as a nation,
00:26:55.06\00:26:58.28
but within the reality
of the historical remnant.
00:27:00.63\00:27:05.06
See the historical
remnant is easy to spot.
00:27:05.26\00:27:07.01
When you say historical remnant
00:27:07.21\00:27:08.82
you're really
talking about Israel.
00:27:08.93\00:27:10.59
Plain and simple. They're
there; they're easy to spot.
00:27:10.79\00:27:14.21
The challenge comes
00:27:16.70\00:27:18.55
that within the
historical remnant
00:27:18.95\00:27:23.80
there has always
been a faithful remnant.
00:27:24.00\00:27:28.70
They're a
little tougher to spot.
00:27:28.90\00:27:31.93
You see, the game changed -
00:27:33.35\00:27:38.21
if I can use that terminology -
00:27:38.42\00:27:41.77
the terrain shifted
when God called a people.
00:27:41.97\00:27:47.68
When it was one on
one - God and Adam,
00:27:49.14\00:27:52.99
God and Eve, God and Seth -
00:27:53.19\00:27:55.40
then God changed the game
00:27:57.24\00:28:02.59
by calling a people.
00:28:04.10\00:28:06.08
Now let me give
you a news flash:
00:28:06.28\00:28:09.56
putting truth in
the hand of human beings
00:28:12.84\00:28:18.72
is risky business.
00:28:18.92\00:28:20.92
Say Amen.
00:28:21.12\00:28:24.05
If you can't say Amen, say ouch.
00:28:24.25\00:28:27.18
But putting truth
in the hands of people
00:28:29.80\00:28:34.94
is risky, risky business.
00:28:35.14\00:28:39.49
When you take the oracles of God
00:28:41.09\00:28:44.64
and give it to a
frail human being
00:28:44.94\00:28:49.09
expecting that
human being to handle it
00:28:49.40\00:28:54.38
with the
deference to which it is due
00:28:54.58\00:28:57.04
and to rightly
represent the giver...
00:28:57.34\00:29:02.36
that's risky business.
00:29:02.66\00:29:05.56
When you've got a
message that is of divine
00:29:06.06\00:29:11.96
sublime origin and
you put it in the tongue
00:29:12.16\00:29:17.39
of a frail human being
00:29:17.59\00:29:20.05
you're taking a big chance.
00:29:20.25\00:29:23.43
When I was studying for my
doctorate in mass communications
00:29:24.86\00:29:29.70
one of the things they
told us in crisis management
00:29:29.90\00:29:31.59
is that when you've
got a message to get out -
00:29:31.79\00:29:34.32
particularly if
you're in a crisis -
00:29:34.52\00:29:35.84
give it to one person.
00:29:36.04\00:29:37.65
Yeah. You notice when
you want to get a message
00:29:38.35\00:29:41.48
from the White House
everybody doesn't speak
00:29:41.58\00:29:43.16
for the president.
You go to his press person
00:29:43.26\00:29:46.73
and that's the only person
who speaks for the president.
00:29:46.93\00:29:50.06
Because when you give
your message to a lot of people
00:29:50.26\00:29:53.51
the message can get muddled.
00:29:53.71\00:29:56.53
That's the first
thing about crisis.
00:29:58.00\00:29:59.30
When you've got a
crisis one person speaks...
00:29:59.50\00:30:01.56
not everybody.
00:30:03.23\00:30:06.14
And that is because truth -
00:30:06.44\00:30:10.24
listen to me -
truth, though taught,
00:30:10.44\00:30:16.43
the vision that
underscores and undergirds truth
00:30:18.79\00:30:24.63
is not taught... it is caught.
00:30:25.03\00:30:30.27
Truth has to be taught,
00:30:32.00\00:30:33.50
but the vision
that upholds truth -
00:30:33.70\00:30:37.39
the foundation really
upon which truth stands -
00:30:37.59\00:30:41.93
is not taught... it is caught.
00:30:42.13\00:30:47.24
Now I can teach you
"God so loved the world. "
00:30:47.44\00:30:52.81
I can teach you that.
00:30:53.01\00:30:55.14
But those are just words
00:30:55.44\00:30:58.23
until you realize
that God so loved the world
00:30:58.63\00:31:04.53
that He gave Jesus for you.
00:31:04.73\00:31:08.23
I can't teach you that.
00:31:08.44\00:31:10.71
You've got to catch that.
00:31:10.74\00:31:13.59
You follow me?
00:31:13.79\00:31:15.28
I can teach you the words.
00:31:15.38\00:31:16.52
I can drill the
Bible into your head.
00:31:16.72\00:31:19.97
But the reality of
that, the beauty of that,
00:31:20.17\00:31:23.64
the pathos of that,
the strength of that...
00:31:23.85\00:31:25.93
you've got to catch that.
00:31:26.13\00:31:28.32
Cannot be taught.
00:31:28.62\00:31:31.59
In fact, catching the
gospel is so important
00:31:32.71\00:31:35.97
that the Bible tells
us precisely the moment
00:31:36.17\00:31:39.14
that Jesus caught it.
00:31:39.34\00:31:41.08
You remember that famous trip?
00:31:42.86\00:31:45.34
That Passover
voyage of Mary and Joseph
00:31:45.54\00:31:50.76
where they lost Jesus.
00:31:51.06\00:31:54.22
Lost the Son of God.
00:31:54.42\00:31:58.82
Thought He was somewhere
in the back of the mini-van.
00:31:59.12\00:32:03.22
Lost Him.
00:32:05.32\00:32:07.28
But He wasn't lost.
00:32:07.59\00:32:09.82
He was about His
Father's business.
00:32:11.29\00:32:13.25
And as He went to the
temple, He went to the services
00:32:13.55\00:32:19.29
and saw the priests...
00:32:19.49\00:32:21.77
You read that
wonderful book Desire of Ages,
00:32:22.07\00:32:24.72
has to be the best book ever
written on the life of Christ
00:32:24.92\00:32:27.78
by Ellen White,
00:32:27.89\00:32:28.96
she says that He stood there
in the court and He watched
00:32:29.16\00:32:32.61
what was going on.
He began to perceive.
00:32:32.81\00:32:34.73
He saw the
priests and their garments
00:32:34.93\00:32:37.68
and He saw the lamb
and He saw the sacrifice
00:32:37.88\00:32:40.68
and He watched it
all. He watched it all.
00:32:40.88\00:32:43.78
He watched it all
and as He stood there
00:32:43.98\00:32:46.38
a young boy at age 12,
all of the things that Mary
00:32:46.58\00:32:50.76
taught Him coalesced in His mind
00:32:50.96\00:32:54.72
and He said: "Wait a minute.
00:32:54.92\00:32:56.84
This is Me. "
00:32:58.70\00:33:00.87
"This is all about Me. "
00:33:02.43\00:33:04.48
"This is the stuff
that My mother taught me. "
00:33:06.01\00:33:10.99
And at that moment He caught it.
00:33:11.30\00:33:15.77
He understood that
He was the Lamb of God
00:33:17.23\00:33:19.72
slain from the
foundation of the world.
00:33:19.92\00:33:22.88
Mary taught it
00:33:23.08\00:33:25.86
but it was in the
temple that Jesus caught it
00:33:26.06\00:33:30.14
and began to ask questions.
And the Pharisees said:
00:33:30.44\00:33:34.77
"Who is this kid? "
00:33:34.97\00:33:37.72
"He didn't go to our schools. "
00:33:39.86\00:33:41.58
"I didn't teach Him. "
00:33:41.78\00:33:45.20
"Where'd He get this stuff? "
00:33:45.40\00:33:47.88
He got it through
His mother from God.
00:33:50.30\00:33:55.42
I say again:
giving truth to people
00:33:58.70\00:34:02.71
is risky business.
00:34:02.91\00:34:05.68
And putting truth in the
hands of frail human beings
00:34:05.88\00:34:09.78
is risky. When God called
a people, He called Abraham.
00:34:10.08\00:34:14.77
And Abraham caught
it... Sarah didn't.
00:34:15.06\00:34:20.08
Right off the bat, 50 per cent
of the church doesn't get it.
00:34:20.28\00:34:23.71
Abraham caught
it; Sarah laughed.
00:34:26.66\00:34:30.00
Didn't get it.
00:34:30.30\00:34:32.97
And that singular lack
of faith has produced issues
00:34:38.65\00:34:42.52
that we are
wrestling with to this very day
00:34:42.72\00:34:45.37
in the Middle East.
00:34:45.57\00:34:47.35
And the truth is,
brothers and sisters,
00:34:49.36\00:34:51.40
except for a very short time
00:34:51.60\00:34:54.68
Israel as a nation -
though she taught it -
00:34:54.88\00:35:00.41
never caught it.
00:35:00.71\00:35:03.11
Never caught it.
00:35:03.41\00:35:04.98
They could spew it out.
00:35:05.18\00:35:07.46
I've got a Mishnah this
thick that says they knew
00:35:07.66\00:35:11.51
how to teach it.
They just never caught it.
00:35:11.71\00:35:15.68
Never really understood.
00:35:17.85\00:35:20.40
And history has
shown, indeed is showing,
00:35:20.60\00:35:23.27
that when you have a
group of people, a remnant,
00:35:23.37\00:35:25.80
a clan... call
it what you will...
00:35:26.00\00:35:29.14
oft times
everybody in the remnant
00:35:29.34\00:35:31.98
is not in the remnant.
00:35:32.18\00:35:34.50
Um-hmm.
00:35:36.69\00:35:38.29
Everybody in the
remnant is not in the remnant...
00:35:40.02\00:35:44.60
and Satan knows that.
00:35:44.80\00:35:48.89
He knows that
everybody in this room
00:35:49.19\00:35:54.19
is not in Jesus.
00:35:54.39\00:35:56.90
He knows that.
00:36:02.63\00:36:04.46
Tell you who else knows.
00:36:04.76\00:36:06.46
Jesus knows.
00:36:06.66\00:36:08.64
You may or may not know.
00:36:08.84\00:36:11.94
Um-hmm.
00:36:12.24\00:36:14.88
Don't look at me...
00:36:16.57\00:36:18.69
look at Jesus.
00:36:19.29\00:36:21.53
That's your problem:
looking at me. Look at Him.
00:36:21.83\00:36:25.89
Satan knows everybody in the
remnant is not in the remnant.
00:36:26.19\00:36:30.81
And as it was in ancient Israel
so it is in latter-day Israel.
00:36:33.24\00:36:37.62
Everybody in the
remnant is not in the remnant.
00:36:37.65\00:36:40.48
There is no guarantee
that everybody in the world,
00:36:40.68\00:36:43.19
everybody in the church,
00:36:43.29\00:36:44.29
everybody watching tonight,
00:36:44.39\00:36:45.81
everybody in this
room is in the remnant.
00:36:46.01\00:36:49.19
Because I say again:
everybody in the remnant
00:36:49.39\00:36:52.16
is not in the remnant.
00:36:52.36\00:36:54.76
In other words,
everybody in the church
00:36:58.05\00:37:01.61
is not necessarily in Christ.
00:37:01.92\00:37:06.35
And everybody in Christ
may not be in the church...
00:37:09.37\00:37:15.23
yet.
00:37:15.43\00:37:17.61
Matthew chapter 13 verse 30
00:37:21.70\00:37:24.86
the Bible says: "Let the
wheat and tares grow together"
00:37:25.06\00:37:28.06
which presupposes
that some of us are wheat
00:37:28.27\00:37:32.71
and are growing together.
00:37:39.23\00:37:41.08
Amen!
00:37:41.38\00:37:43.34
And that's the way
it's supposed to be.
00:37:43.54\00:37:45.10
And it's not your
job to pluck up wheat
00:37:45.30\00:37:48.92
or tares...
because you don't know.
00:37:49.12\00:37:52.59
And in your grabbin'
00:37:52.80\00:37:57.02
So the Bible says: "Let the
wheat and tares grow together. "
00:37:57.32\00:38:03.26
Now why does it say that?
00:38:03.46\00:38:04.68
It says that because there
are some tares in the church
00:38:04.88\00:38:08.40
right along with the wheat.
00:38:08.60\00:38:09.94
Amen.
00:38:10.14\00:38:12.34
So just glance at the
person the other side of you.
00:38:12.54\00:38:16.21
Don't stare...
that'd be impolite.
00:38:17.37\00:38:19.07
Wheat and tares
growing together.
00:38:23.06\00:38:24.69
Amen?
00:38:24.89\00:38:26.97
Some are saints; some are aints.
00:38:27.37\00:38:32.92
Wheat and tares
is remnant theology
00:38:35.70\00:38:38.39
because a dividing line,
a judgment has been made.
00:38:38.60\00:38:41.95
Some are in; some are out.
00:38:42.15\00:38:43.25
That's remnant theology.
00:38:43.45\00:38:44.77
Those of us who are in
the church and in Christ
00:38:45.07\00:38:48.81
are the true remnant.
That's the faithful remnant
00:38:49.01\00:38:51.90
or the remnant
within the remnant.
00:38:52.10\00:38:53.82
Remember I said
the remnant can exist
00:38:54.02\00:38:57.42
coincidentally, sequentially,
or at the same time.
00:38:57.62\00:39:03.25
The faithful remnant is
the remnant within the remnant.
00:39:04.64\00:39:07.99
Or the faithful remnant in
the eschatological remnant,
00:39:09.52\00:39:13.87
which is the
latter-day manifestation
00:39:14.82\00:39:16.51
of the historical remnant.
00:39:16.71\00:39:19.19
You want to know
who your Daddy is?
00:39:20.52\00:39:25.20
Remnant of what?
00:39:28.71\00:39:30.89
Then go with me to
Hebrews chapter 11.
00:39:31.49\00:39:35.36
My wife, Irma, is
sitting back there.
00:39:37.18\00:39:40.15
She has watched
me write sermons.
00:39:40.35\00:39:42.36
She knows every now and again
00:39:42.66\00:39:44.71
in the middle of a sermon
I will get up and just walk
00:39:44.91\00:39:46.94
around the room.
00:39:47.04\00:39:48.60
Just can't sit down.
00:39:48.91\00:39:50.61
I'll get up and just shake.
00:39:50.81\00:39:53.22
I'll just walk around
the dining room table.
00:39:57.51\00:39:59.49
She's seen me doing
that many, many times.
00:39:59.69\00:40:01.20
When I hit this,
this was a walking time.
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Hebrews chapter 11 verse 32.
00:40:07.40\00:40:11.83
This is the who's
your Daddy answer.
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I'm at verse 32.
00:40:23.26\00:40:25.36
"And what more shall I say?
00:40:25.66\00:40:27.94
For time would fail
me to tell of Gideon,
00:40:28.14\00:40:31.99
and Barak and Samson
00:40:32.19\00:40:35.57
and Jephthah. Also
of David and Samuel
00:40:35.77\00:40:39.78
and the
prophets, who through faith
00:40:39.98\00:40:44.28
subdued kingdoms,
worked righteousness,
00:40:44.48\00:40:48.59
obtained promises,
stopped the mouths of lions,
00:40:48.79\00:40:53.14
quenched the violence of fire,
00:40:53.34\00:40:56.02
escaped the edge of the sword,
00:40:56.22\00:40:58.51
out of weakness,
praise God, were made strong;
00:40:58.71\00:41:02.25
became valiant in battle,
00:41:02.45\00:41:04.87
turned to flight
the armies of aliens.
00:41:05.07\00:41:08.03
Women received their
dead raised to life again. "
00:41:08.23\00:41:11.67
Praise God.
00:41:11.88\00:41:13.25
"Others were tortured,
not accepting deliverance
00:41:13.45\00:41:18.88
that they might obtain
a better resurrection. "
00:41:19.08\00:41:23.56
Hallelujah!
00:41:23.76\00:41:25.07
"Still others had trials
of mockings and scourgings,
00:41:25.27\00:41:28.31
yes, of chains and imprisonment.
00:41:28.51\00:41:31.28
They were stoned;
they were sawed in two;
00:41:31.48\00:41:36.11
were tempted; were
slain with the sword.
00:41:36.31\00:41:40.74
They wandered about in
sheepskins and goatskins,
00:41:40.94\00:41:46.67
being destitute, afflicted,
00:41:46.87\00:41:50.34
tormented...
00:41:50.54\00:41:52.64
of whom the
world was not worthy.
00:41:52.84\00:41:57.83
They wandered in deserts
00:41:58.03\00:42:01.22
and mountains, in dens
and caves of the earth.
00:42:01.42\00:42:05.91
All these having obtained
00:42:06.11\00:42:10.21
a good testimony through faith
00:42:10.41\00:42:13.30
did not receive the promise. "
00:42:13.50\00:42:15.92
That, ladies and gentlemen...
00:42:17.00\00:42:19.22
those are your
spiritual progenitors.
00:42:19.42\00:42:24.60
That's the heritage
00:42:25.00\00:42:27.23
from which we
get remnant theology.
00:42:27.24\00:42:31.89
It is their blood
00:42:32.19\00:42:36.12
spiritually that
flows through our veins.
00:42:36.32\00:42:39.84
We are their progeny.
00:42:40.04\00:42:43.87
Those are the
ones who went before
00:42:44.07\00:42:47.75
who set the
example. When we say remnant
00:42:47.96\00:42:52.35
these are the ones
that we are tied to.
00:42:52.65\00:42:56.63
You know, I think sometimes...
00:42:57.03\00:42:58.73
Irma and I were talking
about this the other night...
00:42:58.93\00:43:00.90
You know one of the best times
to have a good conversation
00:43:01.00\00:43:03.55
with your wife is
when you're laying in bed,
00:43:03.75\00:43:06.17
day's over, and you're
just beginning to talk stuff.
00:43:06.37\00:43:09.44
One of the things I said
to her the other night...
00:43:10.91\00:43:13.20
we may have still
been in the dining room...
00:43:13.41\00:43:16.78
"I wonder if I
could have taken it. "
00:43:16.98\00:43:21.53
You ever think about that?
00:43:23.12\00:43:24.89
I wonder if I
could have taken it?
00:43:26.28\00:43:29.57
You're in an arena
00:43:32.25\00:43:34.81
and all you've got
to say is: "I give"
00:43:35.02\00:43:39.05
and they'll pull that lion
back who's approaching you.
00:43:39.25\00:43:43.68
Or a tiger or a leopard. I
don't even like house cats!
00:43:43.98\00:43:49.24
We had one for a little while.
00:43:51.11\00:43:53.49
Nope.
00:43:54.95\00:43:57.08
You ever think about that?
00:43:59.12\00:44:00.84
I wonder if I
could have taken it?
00:44:02.28\00:44:04.53
I don't know if I could have.
00:44:04.73\00:44:09.10
Roman dungeon,
living in your own filth,
00:44:09.30\00:44:12.88
the lash, the whip, torture.
00:44:13.08\00:44:18.18
The Inquisition.
00:44:19.81\00:44:21.36
Having my eyes plucked out.
00:44:22.88\00:44:25.05
Fingernails ripped and torn.
00:44:25.25\00:44:28.17
The tortures of the Middle Ages.
00:44:28.37\00:44:31.41
Being burned at the stake
00:44:31.61\00:44:33.04
or stretched out on the rack.
00:44:33.35\00:44:36.47
Or nails driven
through your fingers...
00:44:39.30\00:44:41.60
all because you love Jesus.
00:44:41.81\00:44:43.62
I wonder. I wonder sometimes.
00:44:45.32\00:44:48.76
Could I have taken it?
00:44:48.96\00:44:50.82
But they did.
00:44:56.08\00:44:57.71
And they loved their
lives not unto death.
00:44:59.17\00:45:01.78
I've read Fox's Book of Martyrs
00:45:01.98\00:45:04.29
where Polycarp,
Bishop of Smyrna,
00:45:05.69\00:45:07.67
praised the name of God.
And so they made a metal chair
00:45:07.87\00:45:11.04
and heated it to red-hot glowing
00:45:11.24\00:45:13.61
and then for the name of
Jesus they sat him in it.
00:45:16.23\00:45:20.28
Story about a man - I
can't remember his name.
00:45:24.91\00:45:26.58
I heard it just the other day.
00:45:26.78\00:45:27.80
Was in England.
00:45:28.00\00:45:30.07
Part of the
Protestant Reformation.
00:45:30.37\00:45:32.68
His life was
threatened and he recanted.
00:45:32.88\00:45:36.39
Wrote a bunch of
things against the church
00:45:36.59\00:45:38.32
and became a titular Catholic.
00:45:38.52\00:45:40.86
And then he changed his mind
00:45:42.14\00:45:44.05
because the Spirit
of God touched him.
00:45:44.15\00:45:45.55
And he said: "I can't do this.
00:45:45.85\00:45:48.09
I'm a Protestant.
I believe in Jesus. "
00:45:48.29\00:45:51.54
And the Catholics
burned him at the stake.
00:45:51.74\00:45:54.58
And he said: "I'm going to
put the hand that wrote against
00:45:54.78\00:45:58.69
Jesus in the fire first. "
00:45:58.89\00:46:00.36
Volitionally he
put that hand in first.
00:46:00.56\00:46:03.84
I don't know if
I could do that...
00:46:05.90\00:46:07.68
I just don't know.
00:46:10.34\00:46:11.91
But this one thing I do know:
00:46:13.93\00:46:16.15
I know that every
second, every minute,
00:46:16.36\00:46:22.11
every hour of every day
00:46:22.31\00:46:25.20
we - you and I -
are under an attack.
00:46:25.40\00:46:29.88
A persistent,
focused, insistent,
00:46:30.95\00:46:34.85
incessant, unrelenting,
00:46:35.06\00:46:37.56
insidious, virulent,
00:46:37.76\00:46:40.51
unmitigated,
malignant assault of the devil.
00:46:40.71\00:46:45.37
And we will overcome today
00:46:45.57\00:46:48.95
like our brothers and
sisters overcame years ago.
00:46:49.15\00:46:53.03
By the same
faith we will overcome
00:46:53.23\00:46:58.63
as the saints of old overcame
00:46:58.83\00:47:01.87
for they are our brothers. Amen.
00:47:02.07\00:47:05.96
Abel is my brother.
00:47:06.16\00:47:07.56
And Seth is my brother.
00:47:07.76\00:47:09.52
And Noah is my brother.
00:47:09.72\00:47:11.37
And Abraham is my brother.
00:47:11.57\00:47:13.24
And Isaac, and
Jacob, and Joseph.
00:47:13.44\00:47:15.45
And Samson, and
Gideon, and Abraham.
00:47:15.65\00:47:17.80
And Moses, Caleb, and Joshua.
00:47:18.00\00:47:20.22
Josiah, Elijah,
Elisha, the faithful kings.
00:47:20.42\00:47:24.47
And my sisters Rahab and Ruth
00:47:24.67\00:47:29.13
and Naomi and
Esther and Elizabeth.
00:47:29.33\00:47:32.77
And Mary and Deborah
and Dorcas and Miriam.
00:47:32.97\00:47:36.97
And Matthew and
Mark and John and Luke
00:47:37.17\00:47:39.90
and Saul named Paul
and the apostolic fathers.
00:47:40.10\00:47:43.85
And 1,000 members of the
family that I will never know.
00:47:44.05\00:47:48.19
And the unknown soldier.
00:47:48.39\00:47:50.05
Tens of
thousands killed by Nero.
00:47:50.35\00:47:53.35
Hundreds of
thousands killed by Diocletian.
00:47:53.38\00:47:56.28
Millions killed by the
Roman church in the Middle Ages
00:47:56.48\00:47:59.97
who we will only
meet in paradise.
00:48:00.17\00:48:03.18
The Albigencies who
were totally exterminated
00:48:03.39\00:48:06.73
from the face of the earth
in the 12th and 13th centuries.
00:48:06.93\00:48:09.38
The Cathars, the Lollards,
00:48:09.58\00:48:11.48
driven nearly to extinction.
00:48:11.68\00:48:13.18
The Waldenses and Huguenots.
00:48:13.38\00:48:14.96
The Subbotniks in Russia,
00:48:15.16\00:48:16.62
The Goas in India.
00:48:16.82\00:48:18.01
Who all took the
torture and loved their lives
00:48:18.21\00:48:22.99
not unto death.
00:48:23.19\00:48:24.76
How can I claim to be
family members with them?
00:48:24.96\00:48:29.48
Very simple: different mother,
00:48:29.68\00:48:32.52
same Father. Amen.
00:48:32.72\00:48:35.57
They are mine
because I am the remnant,
00:48:35.97\00:48:40.29
and victory for them is
the same as victory for us.
00:48:40.69\00:48:46.62
The words of our testimony
and the blood of the Lamb.
00:48:48.13\00:48:54.06
So now we go back
and read that one text
00:48:54.26\00:48:59.18
that I omitted.
Hebrews chapter 11
00:48:59.38\00:49:02.62
verses 39 and 40.
00:49:03.02\00:49:07.55
Thirty-nine and forty.
00:49:07.85\00:49:11.24
"All these having
obtained a good testimony
00:49:12.87\00:49:17.51
through faith did not
receive the promise. "
00:49:17.72\00:49:21.91
Now this is what
makes God so good.
00:49:23.89\00:49:26.79
"God having provided
something better for us
00:49:28.39\00:49:34.34
that they should
not be made perfect
00:49:34.64\00:49:40.60
apart from us. "
00:49:40.81\00:49:42.35
Now the only reason you
are not standing on your chairs
00:49:43.66\00:49:47.86
and swinging from this ceiling
00:49:48.26\00:49:53.17
is because one...
you're too Methodist;
00:49:53.37\00:49:58.18
two... you haven't
been trained right;
00:49:58.38\00:50:02.60
three... you don't understand
what this text just said.
00:50:02.90\00:50:07.56
God is saying
here as good and great
00:50:09.12\00:50:14.74
and marvelous and God-filled
00:50:14.94\00:50:17.88
as those saints of old were,
00:50:18.08\00:50:20.97
it's God's design that
they don't get into glory
00:50:22.25\00:50:26.96
one second before you.
00:50:27.16\00:50:30.77
Amen.
00:50:31.07\00:50:32.28
They apart from
us... not gonna get it.
00:50:32.58\00:50:37.70
God has determined
we all go in together!
00:50:38.11\00:50:44.04
Amen?
00:50:44.24\00:50:45.67
That's why I
know I'm the remnant.
00:50:45.97\00:50:47.82
Because God's
holding them for me.
00:50:48.02\00:50:52.50
They without us? Not
going to be made perfect.
00:50:55.85\00:51:01.31
Didn't receive the promise.
00:51:01.51\00:51:02.98
But one day the
promise is coming
00:51:03.18\00:51:07.30
and we will go in together.
00:51:07.60\00:51:09.50
Now I've got to leave that
and run to mission real quick
00:51:09.70\00:51:12.03
before my time gets away.
00:51:12.13\00:51:13.24
Mission is kind of simple
00:51:13.54\00:51:15.58
because our mission
was given to us by Jesus.
00:51:15.88\00:51:18.55
Matthew 18:19-20.
00:51:18.95\00:51:20.99
"Go ye therefore...
teach, preach, and baptize. "
00:51:21.19\00:51:23.92
Period.
00:51:24.22\00:51:25.57
That's just not the preacher's
job, that's everybody's job.
00:51:25.67\00:51:28.41
Everybody can
preach; everybody can teach.
00:51:28.61\00:51:30.93
And preaching is not
just standing in the pulpit
00:51:31.13\00:51:32.84
yelling at folk.
00:51:33.04\00:51:34.47
Amen.
00:51:34.67\00:51:36.28
Preaching is telling what
good thing God has done for you.
00:51:38.37\00:51:43.27
That's preaching.
00:51:43.57\00:51:45.46
Amen? And
that's everybody's job.
00:51:45.66\00:51:48.94
Everybody's job.
00:51:49.35\00:51:50.92
Preach, teach, and baptize.
00:51:51.12\00:51:53.36
Now, why did Christ do that?
00:51:53.57\00:51:55.15
You've got to go to the
verse before where He says
00:51:55.35\00:51:57.74
"All power is given to Me
00:51:57.94\00:52:01.78
and I'm giving it to you. "
00:52:01.98\00:52:04.32
You've got what you need to
do what I've asked you to do.
00:52:04.52\00:52:08.86
Amen? Amen.
00:52:09.06\00:52:10.26
That's the gospel.
00:52:10.46\00:52:11.74
That's the gospel.
00:52:11.94\00:52:13.02
Time is going to
get away from me.
00:52:13.12\00:52:14.44
Four reasons for the church:
00:52:14.64\00:52:15.83
David did a nice
job, going to add to that.
00:52:16.13\00:52:17.74
Four reasons why
the church exists:
00:52:17.94\00:52:19.16
1. Visible manifestation
of the people of God.
00:52:19.36\00:52:21.85
God needed something visible...
00:52:22.05\00:52:23.64
because you've got 30,000
people saying "I'm here. "
00:52:23.84\00:52:26.94
30,000 people can't be hid.
00:52:27.44\00:52:32.45
So the church exists
because God needed a visible
00:52:34.20\00:52:37.37
manifestation to draw people to.
00:52:37.48\00:52:39.03
2. Friendship, fellowship,
information, encouragement,
00:52:39.23\00:52:42.33
and inspiration. You
need to hang out with people
00:52:42.43\00:52:44.97
who think and act like you do.
00:52:45.17\00:52:46.71
Amen. I love going to
Panama with my wife's family.
00:52:46.91\00:52:52.73
And I can do pretty
good in Spanish one on one.
00:52:52.93\00:52:55.03
But when they get together
at the table and everybody's
00:52:55.23\00:52:57.19
cracking jokes, I'm like
"I'll see you when you land. "
00:52:57.29\00:53:01.14
I can't keep up.
00:53:02.94\00:53:04.40
So I'm looking for
somebody to speak English.
00:53:04.70\00:53:07.15
Because my wife, bless her
heart, speaks both languages
00:53:07.35\00:53:09.63
well. But when she finds
somebody that speaks Spanish
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lights out.
00:53:12.54\00:53:14.01
It's Spanish from now on.
00:53:14.21\00:53:15.92
So I'll see you when
you land. I'll be here.
00:53:16.12\00:53:18.47
So one of the reason
that it's called the church
00:53:18.67\00:53:20.36
is because we need the
fortification that comes from
00:53:20.46\00:53:22.72
hanging out with people
who think and act like you do.
00:53:22.92\00:53:25.04
Amen? That's
what... fellowship is
00:53:25.24\00:53:27.35
an important part of worship.
00:53:27.55\00:53:29.29
An important part
of being with the Lord.
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All right. 3. Regularization
of the gospel message.
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Focus and synchronization
00:53:35.49\00:53:37.91
so that we're all
preaching the same thing.
00:53:38.01\00:53:39.65
One of the good things about
going to an Adventist church
00:53:39.85\00:53:41.44
anywhere in the world - those
of you who travel, you know -
00:53:41.54\00:53:43.39
when you step into an Adventist
church on Sabbath morning
00:53:43.40\00:53:46.20
anywhere on planet
earth you pretty much know
00:53:46.41\00:53:48.08
what you're going to get.
00:53:48.18\00:53:49.21
Amen? It may not be in a
language you can understand
00:53:49.41\00:53:53.83
but you know
they're telling the truth.
00:53:54.03\00:53:55.51
Amen. Amen.
00:53:56.83\00:53:58.17
I used to... I used
to... In fact, Yvonne Lewis
00:53:58.28\00:54:00.22
and I used to do a talk
show on another channel.
00:54:00.42\00:54:02.22
For years... we
kind of honed our skills.
00:54:02.42\00:54:05.30
When I came to 3ABN they
talked about hosting a show.
00:54:05.50\00:54:07.94
They said: "Are you nervous?
" I said: "Are you kidding? "
00:54:08.14\00:54:09.63
We used to talk to people...
in the evangelical world
00:54:09.93\00:54:13.71
used to talk to their
dead relatives and stuff.
00:54:13.81\00:54:15.34
You know, all
that kind of stuff.
00:54:15.54\00:54:16.63
At 3ABN I could ask a question
and have to... don't worry
00:54:16.83\00:54:18.80
about the answer.
But on this other channel
00:54:18.90\00:54:21.00
we used to have to
arm wrestle our guests
00:54:21.20\00:54:24.60
'cause they'd say
something and as Christians we'd
00:54:24.80\00:54:27.37
have to find some nice way
of kind of cleaning that up
00:54:27.48\00:54:30.89
'cause that aint the gospel and
we couldn't leave it out there.
00:54:31.10\00:54:33.50
So it's nice to be around
people who talk the same way
00:54:33.80\00:54:37.68
as you do. So when you
go anywhere on planet earth
00:54:37.88\00:54:40.50
even if you can't
speak the language
00:54:40.70\00:54:41.98
it's all right 'cause
they're Seventh-day Adventist,
00:54:42.19\00:54:43.66
they're telling
the truth. Amen. Amen.
00:54:43.76\00:54:46.43
So that's
important. And number 4:
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The launching pad
for gospel mission.
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The reason the church
exists is because of mission.
00:54:50.93\00:54:53.90
Now, the mission of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:54:54.10\00:54:56.73
is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
I'm kind of speeding up
00:54:56.83\00:54:58.49
because time is
getting away from me.
00:54:58.69\00:54:59.72
Revelation chapter
14 verses 6 through 12.
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Those are the
three angels' messages.
00:55:01.73\00:55:04.66
That's the mission of the church
00:55:05.62\00:55:06.94
and the early pioneers knew it.
00:55:07.14\00:55:08.88
1. "Fear God, give glory to Him
00:55:09.08\00:55:12.12
for the hour of... "
These are the most solemn
00:55:12.32\00:55:16.95
and serious messages
ever given to the world
00:55:17.15\00:55:20.86
because they are
the last messages
00:55:21.06\00:55:23.80
ever given to the world.
00:55:24.00\00:55:25.32
And it is God's answer
to the almost overwhelming
00:55:25.72\00:55:29.81
irresistible Satanic deception
00:55:29.91\00:55:32.16
that is and will sweep the
world before Christ returns.
00:55:32.36\00:55:37.68
Matthew 24:24
gives that warning:
00:55:37.98\00:55:42.35
tells us that we've got to
be in the Word and of the Word.
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So message #1: "Fear
God and give glory to Him
00:55:47.55\00:55:49.71
for the hour of His
judgment is coming... "
00:55:49.91\00:55:52.57
Then message #2:
00:55:52.67\00:55:55.61
"Babylon is fallen. "
00:55:55.81\00:55:57.06
Everybody that claims the
name of Jesus is not in Jesus.
00:55:57.26\00:56:00.98
There's a lot of fake out there
00:56:01.18\00:56:03.15
so you need to study the Word.
00:56:03.35\00:56:05.32
Because God is
dropping a plumb line.
00:56:05.52\00:56:07.95
And if you're in a church
that doesn't preach the truth,
00:56:08.15\00:56:10.78
the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth,
00:56:10.98\00:56:12.89
then for God's sake get
out and find one that does.
00:56:13.09\00:56:18.41
Because Babylon is fallen...
00:56:18.61\00:56:20.06
the churches have lost
their spiritual franchise.
00:56:20.26\00:56:22.90
You need to find one
that preaches the truth
00:56:23.10\00:56:25.53
and lives the truth. Amen?
00:56:25.73\00:56:27.92
Amen and Amen.
00:56:28.12\00:56:30.56
And then angel #3:
identification and condemnation.
00:56:30.76\00:56:36.07
God is saying: "If
you worship the beast,
00:56:36.27\00:56:38.87
then you're going to receive
the punishment of the beast. "
00:56:39.07\00:56:42.28
So you need to
check your pedigree
00:56:43.83\00:56:46.26
and make sure
that you're in Jesus.
00:56:46.46\00:56:49.66
And then once
you've found a church
00:56:49.96\00:56:53.32
worth dying for, live for Jesus.
00:56:53.52\00:56:58.33
Walk with Jesus.
00:56:59.38\00:57:01.12
Follow Jesus
00:57:01.32\00:57:03.42
and then call men and
women to the side of Jesus.
00:57:03.62\00:57:09.30
Pray to Jesus.
00:57:10.50\00:57:11.93
Talk to Jesus.
00:57:12.13\00:57:14.19
Stand for Jesus.
00:57:14.49\00:57:16.79
Live for Jesus
00:57:17.09\00:57:19.97
and, if
necessary, die for Jesus.
00:57:20.17\00:57:24.69