In today's troubled
world people are wondering
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where we are headed.
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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I'm very glad that
you are here tonight.
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Tonight, a vital subject.
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A subject of immense
prophetic importance.
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What role if any does
the United States play
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in end time Bible prophecy?
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Does the Bible talk
about the United States at all?
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Since 9/11 things have
really changed in this world
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and in this country
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but does any one have any
bearing on last day events.
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Does it matter in
the prophetic panorama?
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Since this nation was
founded, it stood for freedom.
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Will that still be the case
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towards the end of
this world's history?
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Tonight, the United
States in Bible prophecy
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the presenter
of Revelation Today
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is once again, Ron Halvorsen.
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Good to see you here tonight.
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But let's bow our
heads in a the word of prayer
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before we begin tonight.
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Our subject will be
we're gonna look at the subject
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the "United States in Prophecy."
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Father God which art in heaven,
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I pray as we open this prophecy
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that You'll give us
wisdom and understanding
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and we'll recognize
the time in which we live.
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What we realize
that time is short,
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that we've been
brought here for a purpose
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and a reason to know the
way the truth in the life.
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I pray God that You'll teach us,
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and we know in our
hearts that we love You
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and we want to serve You fully.
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And now Lord,
open Your word to us
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in, Christ's
name, amen and amen.
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The United States of
America, the great land
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that we love has been
founding on the principles
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of "one nation under God
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with liberty
and justice for all"
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and it just
didn't happen overnight.
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More than 500 years
before Christopher Columbus
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stumbled on the Americus
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and then there was
the Spanish conquistador,
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I mean years before
Christopher Columbus
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he came here to La Florida
to find the fountain of youth.
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He didn't find it
but I'm still looking
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because I live in Florida.
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But even before that,
my ancestors the Vikings,
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rode across the ocean
and landed in Labrador
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and then they
came down through -
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to Canada down into Maine
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and they found a
colony there in Maine.
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They were the first that
we know of from over there.
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By the 18th century,
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what it become
13 American colonies
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were subject to British
rule and British taxation
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and taxation
without representation.
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In fact, that led to
the Boston Tea Party.
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That's a little bit
of our history isn't it?
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It was over that
taxation without representation
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and then we come to the fact
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that let
freedom ring in America.
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I mean that freedom
ring and yet in a sense now,
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Liberty wears chains.
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Came 1774, 1775
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and you'll recall
how the Paul Revere,
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the midnight cry of Paul Revere
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you learn that
in your school books
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and that was when Dr.
Joseph Warren commissioned him
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to go over the
Lexington, Massachusetts
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and warn Samuel
Adams and John Handcock
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that British troops
were marching to arrest them.
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And remember the two lanterns
and not by land but by sea
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and then he brought the news
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and he came galloping
into Lexington and Concord
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and I've been in
Lexington and Concord.
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I've been over
the little bridge,
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I mean it's a
beautiful little spot
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and I was there
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and he had galloped
into the city telling them
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the British are
coming the British are...
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someone said, we'll be quiet.
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He said it's not
gonna be quiet very long.
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And it wasn't, it
wasn't that freedom ring
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and then came July 4
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and that was a wonderful
time for America in 1776.
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This is a little
bit of our history.
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There was the
Declaration of Independence.
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It was unanimously approved
by the Continental Congress
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and these United
States far from perfect
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but they had
declared themselves free
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and the Declaration
of Independence said,
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"We hold these
truths to be self-evident,
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that all men are created equal
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and they are
endowed by their creator
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with a certain
unalienable Rights,
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that among these
are Life, Liberty
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and the pursuit of Happiness."
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What a wonderful state.
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They're trying to defeat us now,
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they're trying to
take away that from us
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but it's under the Creator God,
they don't want to hear that,
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that this nation was founded
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under the
direction the Creator God
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and we're gonna see
the prophetically God said
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this nation would come
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and this nation would
be a nation under God.
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That was the desire then,
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we hold these
truths to be self-evident.
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This America let freedom
reign and the Statue of Liberty,
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I remember the first time
I saw the Statue of Liberty.
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I was a young boy
my momma brought me
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down to Brooklyn lower Brooklyn.
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We were gonna take
a ride on the ferry
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the Staten Island ferry.
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For nickel you could
ride across the narrows
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and then across the Hudson River
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and over the Staten Island.
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And I stood there it
was early in the morning
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I remember it
was a cold bleak day
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a touch of snow, I mean
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and sleek was beginning to
fall and it touched with white
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as if you were aging
the Statue of Liberty.
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I stood there
quietly almost reverently
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looking out across the narrows
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from my vantage point
in Brooklyn, New York.
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She stood told tall that woman
I mean with torch in her hand
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and the waves of
two rivers beating
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under her feet Lady Liberty.
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And I know because
I've been taught in school,
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there was one time we
were proud of America,
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we are proud to be Americans
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and we were
taught those great things
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and I knew what was
there in that inscription
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it was saying, "Give
me your tired, you poor,
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your huddled masses
yearning to be free,
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the wretched refuse
of your teeming shore.
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Send these, the
homeless, tempest-tost to me,
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I lift my lamp
beside the golden door!"
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It was an
invitation for my family,
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my ancestors to leave
Norway to come across the ocean
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to this great
land to find a job,
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to work and to
build this country.
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This is where the
Halvorsen's are now
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in this great country America.
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But there was the
promise, there was the open door
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to come to this great
land a land of opportunity,
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a land of
equality, a land of freedom,
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but Liberty wears chains.
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This ideal is no longer true.
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Abraham
Lincoln, game this speech
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I want to read it to you.
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In a speech, it was 1863 listen,
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"We have been the recipients
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of the choicest
bounties of Heaven.
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We have been
preserved, these many years,
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in peace and prosperity.
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We have grown in
numbers, and wealth and power,
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as no other
nation has ever grown.
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But we have forgotten God.
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We have
forgotten the gracious hand
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which preserved us in peace,
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and multiplied and
enriched and strengthened us
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and we have vainly imagined,
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in the
deceitfulness of our hearts,
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that all these
blessings were produced
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by some superior
wisdom and virtue of our own.
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Intoxicated with
unbroken success,
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we have become
too self-sufficient
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to feel necessity of
redeeming and preserving grace,
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too proud to pray to
the God that made us."
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We don't hear from
statesmen like that any longer.
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Amen. It's right.
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It was men like that,
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that made this
country what it should be.
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Abraham Lincoln, he
recognized the problem.
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I mean, he saw
America in decline.
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"In God we trust" was
stamped upon their coins
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but it was not
written in their hearts.
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And the nation is a
strong has its faith in God,
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its faith in God.
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I ran across the poem
recently, in this poem,
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I think describes
America now describes at least
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it describes our
culture in America.
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"This is the age
of the half-read page.
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The Quick hash, the mad dash.
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The bright night
with nerves tight.
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The plane hop
and the brief stop.
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And the lamp tan in brief span.
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The big shot in a soft spot.
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And the brain
stain and the heart pain.
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And the cat naps
till the spring snaps,
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and the fun's done."
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It may not be good poetry
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but I believe it describes
the age in which we live.
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I believe this is our problem,
you see this is the age,
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this is the age of dry
eyes, hard noses, and cold feet.
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I mean, it follows the
windy, it loves the vacuum,
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it's beatitude by the
way, its beatitude is,
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"Blessed are the mighty
for they shall make money."
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That's the beatitude of our age.
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I mean its beatitude of
"Blessed are those smooth
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for they shall
never get wrinkled."
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You see, its
beatitude is this, its beatitude
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"Blessed are the cool
for they shall never sweat."
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This age sits around bragging
about its accomplishments.
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Look, see what we have done?
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We have split atoms,
we have split nations,
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we have split homes,
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and we have split personalities.
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That is our age.
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That is the age
in which we live.
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This age we send tons
up tin out into outer space
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and we don't know what to
do with the space we have.
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We walk in space
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but we can't walk
in some neighborhoods.
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I mean, we talk
about brotherhood
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but we recognized
they are more hoods
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than there are our brothers.
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That's our age come
on now, that's our age.
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I mean this is
the age we talk about.
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Well, you and I
are trying to decide
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what kind of TV dinner
to pop into the microwave,
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20 new corpses turn
up on American streets,
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that's our age.
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Why for what
reason someone turned down
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the wrong street
at the wrong time?
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Someone is
walking home from work
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at the wrong
time in a wrong place.
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Someone was coming
from school with the wrong-
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someone was
sitting in their house
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and a bullet comes through
the window at the wrong time.
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This is America,
listen to me, this is America.
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A young innocent married
man jogging for his health
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someone shot
into fulfill a fantasy
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of some violent filmy
watched a night before.
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I say they're more
hoods in our brothers,
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I mean what a-
what an age it over eat,
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it over drinks, it over plays,
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it over spends, an
age we walk delicately,
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we think slovenly,
we live dallyingly,
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we sleep poorly, we listen,
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we take a pill to
go to bed at night
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and a pill to
wake up in the morning.
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That's right. That's right.
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A pill to slow us up
and a pill to get us going.
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That's right. That's right.
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And that's our age
and that's our nation,
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a nation so uptight, it's about
to have a nervous breakdown.
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We talk about overpasses
and we talk about underpasses,
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we talk about bypasses,
I mean, that's our age,
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men's hearts
filling them for fear.
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And that's what the
Bible says, what an age.
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Grown men wrapped in swaddling
clothes of intellectualism,
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long sentences, long
words, short on meaning.
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We know
everything about everything
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and nothing about everything.
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You see Liberty wears
chains in America, in America.
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I mean look around, I
mean the real America,
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the real America
with its crowded ghettos,
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with its poor and its forgotten.
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I mean a real America
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we can't mention
the name of Jesus,
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in our educational system.
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I mean a real
America where it's a crime
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to put a Cross on
your on your door,
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put a Cross on your lawn
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or to put up Ten Commandments
in new municipal building.
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I mean there is a
crack in the Liberty Bell.
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We judge man by
the color of his skin
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rather than the
content of his character,
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that's our age.
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That's our age,
Liberty wears chains.
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To once religious
nation under God is no longer
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the America we come to know,
the America we come to love.
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In its beginning there
seemed to be a little doubt
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that God was responsible
for founding of this united-
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this United States of America.
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It was to be to all people
a safe place to worship God.
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That's what it was all about.
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You see those pilgrims that
came across, those pilgrims,
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"In God We Trust"
was then put on our bills
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but when those pilgrims
first came the Bible teaches us,
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that when those
pilgrims first came
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they found America open
to their religious freedom.
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They came here for
that reason, they came here,
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they came here to America,
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to find freedom of
speech and freedom of religion
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and we no longer have
that freedom, no longer.
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Look at this quotation
from the Sydney Morning Herald,
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September 2002,
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"Americans
should admit the truth
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and face up to
their responsibilities
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as the undisputed
masters of the world.
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The fact is no country has been
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as dominant
culturally, economically,
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technologically or militarily
in the history of the world
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since the Roman Empire."
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The question of Liberty
looms large in our time.
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And by the way,
the question of liberty
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looms large in the end time
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and God is not going
to be caught by surprise.
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God is not going to
be caught by surprise.
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He knows what's gonna
happen to this nation.
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He knows what's gonna
take place in transpire
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and my dear
friend, we should know.
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We need to
know, we need to know.
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Let's look at some of
the nations of the past
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and how God spoke
nations mentioned in the Bible.
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There was first of all
remember if you were here
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that night I talked on
the four great nations,
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supreme powers of past history.
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There was mighty
Babylon 605 to 539 B.C.
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God says, he puts
kings upon their throne
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and then He removes them.
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And there was mighty
Babylon from 605 to 539 B.C.,
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it was the golden
empire, the golden city,
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until God said, enough is enough
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and Belshazzar saw the
handwriting on the wall,
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"you are weighed in the balance,
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you are found wanting,"
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judgment has come
to this house that day
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and the Medes
and Persians came in
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and the Second World Kingdom
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came upon the
scene of new events.
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It was right in the
Bible, right in prophecy,
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if God could tell us
about the first kingdom,
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if God could
revealed the second kingdom.
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If God would go on to
reveal the third brazen kingdom,
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the Greece in
empire 331 B.C to 168 B.C.,
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if God would
revile the fourth kingdom
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and the kingdom
iron which was Rome
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the mighty Roman Empire
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where our blessed Lord was born.
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It was a Roman
cross the crucified Him,
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it was a Roman
seal on His grave,
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it was Roman
soldiers that stood there
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until He broke forth
from the grave and they shook
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and they fell to the
face, face of the earth.
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It was a Roman
Empire, but the Roman Empire
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would not last forever and ever.
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God said, that kingdom
superpower would crumble.
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When God says, enough is enough,
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enough is enough.
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When God looks
at America and says,
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enough is enough,
it will be its end.
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Amen. Amen.
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And then the
divisions of that great kingdom
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there was four
universal kingdoms
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then that came the
divisions of those kingdoms
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that was Europe
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and they were the
feet and toes of history.
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Remember the ten
nations of Europe?
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And then later a
little horn would come up
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and it would pluck up
three of those kingdoms.
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And but there it
was, there was Babylon,
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there was Medo-Persia
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on down to the feet
and toes of human history.
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We look at both
Daniel 2 and Daniel 7
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and we see the prophecies
said that Rome would be divided
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and it was until the
little horn comes up power.
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And commentators
believe this is the same power
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as the beast of Revelation
13 and I agree with it.
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Revelation 13, it says,
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"I stood upon
the sand of the sea."
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By the way, sea and waters
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in Revelation in symbols
are many peoples, multitudes.
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When you say sea
it came by multitudes
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and many peoples.
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"And I saw a beast
rise up out of the sea,
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having seven
heads and ten horns,
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and upon his horns ten crowns,
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and upon his
heads the name of" what?
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"Blasphemy."
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The Bible tells
us about this nation.
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And he says, came up.
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And then I want you to notice,
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"And the beast which I
saw was like unto a leopard,
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and his feet" this
is a ferocious beast.
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And by the way beast is
not a beast it's a nation.
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The symbol of
beast in Revelation
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and in Daniel is a nation.
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So when he talks
about the four beasts,
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he's talking
about the four nations.
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What four nations?
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Well, the four nations
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Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome.
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It doesn't take
a rocket scientist.
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Take a great theologian.
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You can understand
it. You can understand it.
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And notice, notice it goes on,
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"And I saw one of his heads
as it were wounded to death."
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That's that beast,
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that ferocious beast
or that ferocious nation.
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"And his deadly wound was healed
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and all the world
wondered after the beast
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and they worshipped the dragon"
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who's the dragon?
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Satan. That's
the symbol of Satan.
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"Which gave
power on to the beasts"
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and now, notice, we go on "
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and they worship
the beast saying,
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Who is like unto
the beast like power?
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Who is able to
make war with him?"
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And then he goes on,
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"And I beheld another beast
coming up out of the" what?
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Not out of the sea.
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You see out of
the sea is multitudes
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and crowds and
people like Europe,
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but this one is not
coming out of Europe.
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This is coming out of the
land, out of the wilderness.
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And yeah "two horns like a lamb,
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and he speak like a" Dragon.
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This lamb like nation
is not the Lamb of God,
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Jesus but you know, it must
be a religious nation it must be
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because it fashions
itself after the lamb.
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The two horns of the
civil and religious freedoms
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of that nation we're gonna see.
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And notice, there are no crowns
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on its heads like
the other nations.
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Did you notice that?
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You see Europe has
its crowned its monarchies
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but this nation comes
out in the wilderness,
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this nation doesn't have a
monarchy at all, not at all.
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You see no kingly authority,
there are no crowns here,
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what we're
seeing here is something
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that stands for freedom.
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And so here's what we know,
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we know about
this beast like power.
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The two horns on
this beast like power.
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There it was the
pilgrims they came to America,
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they came for freedom.
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Listen to me, you
should have the freedom
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in this country to worship God.
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If you're a Christian
you should have that freedom.
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If you're a Jew you
should have that freedom.
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If you're a Muslim you
should have that freedom.
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Whatever your religious
is you should have freedom
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to worship, freedom to
serve but what's happening now
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is these an attack on
Christianity and Christians
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that's what's happening
in our country right now.
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And we sit back Christians
and we do nothing about it,
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we say nothing about it.
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Listen we know
something about this beast
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"And I beheld another
beast coming up out of the earth
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he had two horns like a
lamb, and he spake as a dragon."
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Listen we know this,
we know first of all,
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it rises out the
sparsely populated area
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out of the wilderness.
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We know secondly,
it is a young nation.
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Why?
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It's a young nation
because it says it comes up
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during the wound
of the big beast.
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Now, I'm not gonna get into that
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but 1798 was the
wound of the big beast.
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And it came about that
time and I'm gonna show you that
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when we look at the
beast of Revelation, all right?
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But just follow along with me.
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Around 1798,
around 70- what 1776
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what nation came out
the wilderness in 1776?
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What nation?
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A young nation,
there was no monarchy.
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What nation came up
out of the wilderness
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and was a young nation
and there was no monarchy?
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It would assume a position of
worldwide power and influence.
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All the world
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just like all the world
wandered after the beast
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all the world wanders
after the super like power
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and I mean it assumes its power.
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It assumes its power.
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America established
something entirely new
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than any other nation
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and that was freedom
of worship as you wish
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without government interference.
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Listen to me, rather than
a monarchy lamb like horns
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denote an innocent
young non oppressive,
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peace-loving spiritual
nation and that's what it was.
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Jesus is mentioned as a
lamb 28 times in Revelation.
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So this new government
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is trying to uphold
the principles of the lamb.
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Who is the lamb?
That's Christianity.
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You see, America is
truly a great country
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with its freedom of
conscience, press, speech,
00:22:53.69\00:22:56.62
and enterprise the protection
00:22:56.65\00:22:58.77
it provides its
golden opportunities,
00:22:58.80\00:23:01.05
its sense of fair play,
the sympathy for the underdog
00:23:01.08\00:23:04.65
and its strong
Christian orientation.
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That made us a great nation.
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It's not perfect, no
because we are people
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and I haven't met
a perfect person yet.
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I met one
recently, she thought she was
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she said I haven't
sinned in six months.
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I said you just did.
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The Bible says, you see-
00:23:24.94\00:23:26.03
sin you're a
liar get out of here.
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I took off, perfect.
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I haven't met a perfect person.
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The only perfect
person I know is Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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And that's why I love
and serve Him Jesus Christ.
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The Bible says,
that this nation,
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I mean this nation that taught
these Christian principles,
00:23:41.97\00:23:45.36
that taught these principles
of freedom of religion
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that something would
happen to this nation
00:23:47.74\00:23:49.94
and then it would
begin to speak like a dragon.
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Here's the lamb like
beast and now all of a sudden
00:23:54.52\00:23:57.17
he turns and he begins
to speak like a dragon.
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Like a dragon.
00:24:02.09\00:24:05.20
This nation, this
was a republicanism,
00:24:05.23\00:24:10.53
this was Protestantism,
00:24:10.56\00:24:12.87
this was a
government without a king.
00:24:12.90\00:24:15.89
This was where
you could worship God
00:24:15.92\00:24:17.27
if you're catholic, if
are you to a Protestant,
00:24:17.30\00:24:19.43
you could
worship God in freedom.
00:24:19.46\00:24:21.72
This is why the
pilgrims came here,
00:24:21.75\00:24:23.74
this is why your- they came here
00:24:23.77\00:24:26.92
and even those who
were brought over here
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found a strong
roots of Christianity
00:24:29.41\00:24:31.65
and they have become the great
foundation of Christians today.
00:24:31.68\00:24:35.00
What influence
more, than a bondage,
00:24:41.18\00:24:45.42
than a Israel in
bondage, than a people
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who came over here in bondage.
00:24:48.43\00:24:51.00
Loving God, it's all here.
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The lamb like horns
denote innocent young,
00:24:53.97\00:24:57.52
peace-loving and yet
some things happened.
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When it rose it was
known as the new world
00:25:00.21\00:25:02.85
it was a haven for people
escaping religious persecution
00:25:02.88\00:25:06.05
and was founded on
the freedom of religion
00:25:06.08\00:25:08.43
and the freedom of government.
00:25:08.46\00:25:11.54
But according to
what we read the Bible
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it would come a time
when it would change.
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And how do I know?
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And change comes about
over the heart of the nation.
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He speaks like a dragon.
00:25:24.87\00:25:26.86
This great America we love,
isn't what it was used to be,
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isn't what it's supposed to
be and the reason it isn't is
00:25:30.91\00:25:34.72
because we are not
what we supposed to be
00:25:34.75\00:25:37.97
and what we should be.
00:25:38.00\00:25:40.44
Once a fervent
faithful prayerful people
00:25:40.47\00:25:45.53
now well you know tourists, -
00:25:45.56\00:25:50.72
not pilgrim's taking a
weekly journey tourists
00:25:50.75\00:25:57.52
and he speaks like a
dragon and the dragon is Satan.
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So Satan is now speaking.
00:26:01.63\00:26:03.47
When I listen to what I hear
on the news Satan is speaking.
00:26:03.50\00:26:08.35
When I listen to what
they try to do to the laws
00:26:08.38\00:26:10.12
to try to change the laws
so that now in New Mexico,
00:26:10.15\00:26:15.24
the cruces New Mexico
there's a law that everybody
00:26:15.27\00:26:18.15
all ministers have to
register with the council
00:26:18.18\00:26:20.39
and the council can
decide where he could preach
00:26:20.42\00:26:22.84
or not to preach that's America.
00:26:22.87\00:26:28.13
Our founding fathers
would turn over in a grave.
00:26:28.16\00:26:31.39
And so the Bible
mentions can you imagine
00:26:34.75\00:26:40.03
this nation with freedom
and responsibility this nation.
00:26:40.06\00:26:44.97
"And I beheld another
beast coming up out of the earth
00:26:45.00\00:26:47.07
and he had two
horns like a lamb,
00:26:47.10\00:26:48.37
and he spake as dragon."
00:26:48.40\00:26:50.17
This American laws we wonder
why they are speaking this way,
00:26:50.20\00:26:52.66
you wonder why the
politicians are acting this way
00:26:52.69\00:26:55.05
because the Bible
prophesied it would happen.
00:26:55.08\00:26:58.56
The Bible said, they
would change in their attitude,
00:26:58.59\00:27:00.85
they change in their theology,
they change in their thinking
00:27:00.88\00:27:03.74
that that change
and they would change
00:27:03.77\00:27:05.95
and they begins to
speak like the dragon.
00:27:05.98\00:27:09.66
This nation was
once refuge for those
00:27:09.69\00:27:11.51
who wanted to worship
God, today we see the forces
00:27:11.54\00:27:14.21
directly opposing
the gospel of God.
00:27:14.24\00:27:17.53
I mean, they've infiltrated
every area of our culture,
00:27:17.56\00:27:20.67
every area of our society
and corrupted immortality
00:27:20.70\00:27:24.43
appalling behavior is rewarded.
00:27:24.46\00:27:26.56
There's no longer
any real moral restraint.
00:27:26.59\00:27:31.02
If it feels good do it.
00:27:31.05\00:27:34.48
If it's good for
you it's all right.
00:27:34.51\00:27:37.63
There's no black and white,
good and bad, good and evil.
00:27:37.66\00:27:44.97
If you feel it do it and
that's the voice of Satan.
00:27:45.00\00:27:52.25
The voice of Satan.
00:27:52.28\00:27:54.84
Anything goes society
00:27:54.87\00:27:56.97
and we don't even
react anymore to things
00:27:57.00\00:27:58.76
that not so long ago
would have been scandalous.
00:27:58.79\00:28:02.49
It is hard for a Christian
even to watch television.
00:28:02.52\00:28:06.04
Glorifying evil.
00:28:10.20\00:28:12.57
The media
glorifies sin and immorality
00:28:12.60\00:28:15.20
and people seen
that no shame anymore.
00:28:15.23\00:28:20.94
What happened to America?
00:28:20.97\00:28:23.82
God has been chased
out of the classroom.
00:28:23.85\00:28:25.64
God has been chased
out of the courtroom.
00:28:25.67\00:28:27.61
God has been chased- listen
00:28:27.64\00:28:29.21
and worst of all
out of the family
00:28:29.24\00:28:31.31
and out of the living room.
00:28:31.34\00:28:34.42
The nation has
forgotten the one who made them
00:28:34.45\00:28:41.08
the one who made them,
00:28:41.11\00:28:44.85
is the only one
who can save them.
00:28:44.88\00:28:48.67
And the Bible
says, "And he exerciseth
00:28:48.70\00:28:50.68
all the power
of the first beast"
00:28:50.71\00:28:52.02
or like that beast like power.
00:28:52.05\00:28:53.54
Revelation 13 religious
power that will force us
00:28:53.57\00:28:58.57
that religious power
that will come to a place
00:28:58.60\00:29:01.54
where you won't be
able to buy or sell.
00:29:01.57\00:29:03.04
It's all in Revelation 13,
00:29:03.07\00:29:04.15
I'm gonna deal with
that an another night.
00:29:04.18\00:29:06.05
I can't deal with
it all in one night
00:29:06.08\00:29:08.17
but I'm gonna deal with that.
00:29:08.20\00:29:09.87
What's gonna happen to America
00:29:09.90\00:29:10.93
when you can't buy or sell
in this nation as a Christian?
00:29:10.96\00:29:15.91
You see the church in an attempt
00:29:15.94\00:29:17.27
to return to God's ways
00:29:17.30\00:29:18.80
there will be a
movement at the end time
00:29:18.83\00:29:20.60
which instead will
lead people away from God.
00:29:20.63\00:29:23.01
A good deception always closely
00:29:23.04\00:29:24.71
mirrors the
genuine article right?
00:29:24.74\00:29:26.88
And people in the end
time are going to be encouraged
00:29:26.91\00:29:29.37
to receive the mark of the beast
00:29:29.40\00:29:30.98
thinking it's a good thing.
00:29:31.01\00:29:36.94
Bible says, to us
that he will use its power
00:29:36.97\00:29:41.91
to elevate the
first beast, what?
00:29:41.94\00:29:45.82
The lamb like beast America's
gonna exalt the other beast,
00:29:45.85\00:29:50.17
the other nation,
the other religious power
00:29:50.20\00:29:52.30
and it will exalt that
power to a high position.
00:29:52.33\00:29:58.25
And revelation says,
00:29:58.28\00:29:59.46
the act of
worship will be enforced.
00:29:59.49\00:30:01.72
What kind of worship?
00:30:01.75\00:30:04.47
What kind of worship
in the act of worship?
00:30:04.50\00:30:08.05
"Righteousness exalts a nation."
00:30:08.08\00:30:10.29
There's no righteousness
any longer in this nation.
00:30:10.32\00:30:13.53
When I travel around the
world sometimes I'm embarrassed.
00:30:13.56\00:30:18.31
I'm embarrassed when I see
what's happening in my country.
00:30:18.34\00:30:24.68
When I see there are places
00:30:24.71\00:30:25.74
that you and I cannot go
at night, in this nation.
00:30:25.77\00:30:31.19
When little ladies are being
mugged and killed on the street
00:30:31.22\00:30:35.51
for nothing more
than a little few bucks.
00:30:35.54\00:30:38.87
When gangs are
fighting each other
00:30:38.90\00:30:42.54
and drugs are raping
up culture to pieces.
00:30:42.57\00:30:49.18
And our children are growing
up in a Christless nation.
00:30:49.21\00:30:53.94
I mean, listen,
00:30:53.97\00:30:57.22
you see, it forces
to go- force our minds
00:30:57.25\00:31:01.99
and he says,
righteousness exalts this nation
00:31:02.02\00:31:05.49
and yet there's a problem
that comes even to the church.
00:31:05.52\00:31:09.07
The church of Jesus
Christ and the Bible,
00:31:09.10\00:31:11.67
John revelator
says, watch it its coming.
00:31:11.70\00:31:14.13
This lamb like beast is gonna
speak like the dragon be ready.
00:31:14.16\00:31:17.95
Be aware.
00:31:17.98\00:31:19.44
"And he causeth all,
both small and great,
00:31:19.47\00:31:21.12
rich and poor, free and bond,
00:31:21.15\00:31:22.92
to receive a mark
in their right hand,
00:31:22.95\00:31:24.78
or in his foreheads."
00:31:24.81\00:31:25.84
Notice the mark of the beast
00:31:25.87\00:31:27.89
I'm gonna talk
about it another night.
00:31:27.92\00:31:29.89
"No man might be
able to buy or sell,
00:31:29.92\00:31:31.71
save he that had the
mark, or the name of the beast,
00:31:31.74\00:31:35.45
or the number of his name."
00:31:35.48\00:31:37.31
Now, if this is a
threat to your freedom,
00:31:37.34\00:31:40.12
if this is a threat
to your religious faith,
00:31:40.15\00:31:42.61
then you better
learn what it is.
00:31:42.64\00:31:46.48
And the only place
you're gonna learn what it is,
00:31:46.51\00:31:49.45
is from the Bible.
00:31:49.48\00:31:51.68
And I'm going to open a
Bible to you on that subject.
00:31:51.71\00:31:56.37
Now, let me tell you something,
00:31:56.40\00:31:58.91
this mark isn't a credit card
pushed in your brain come on,
00:31:58.94\00:32:02.78
for long time
people have been saying
00:32:02.81\00:32:04.76
that the mark of the
beast is going to be something
00:32:04.79\00:32:06.71
that governs buying and selling
00:32:06.74\00:32:09.13
such as a smart
card or a silicon chip
00:32:09.16\00:32:12.02
implanted in the skin.
00:32:12.05\00:32:14.46
Whatever the mark of
the beast is follow me,
00:32:14.49\00:32:16.58
there will be some people
who do not want to receive it.
00:32:16.61\00:32:19.36
That's me, come
on that's you I hope.
00:32:19.39\00:32:23.31
I mean, there some people
00:32:23.34\00:32:25.68
that won't want
to go along with it.
00:32:25.71\00:32:27.48
So in order to force people
accept it, it will be said
00:32:27.51\00:32:30.85
that if you don't
take the mark of the beast
00:32:30.88\00:32:33.85
you won't be
able to buy or sell.
00:32:33.88\00:32:37.12
Wow, its interesting isn't it?
00:32:37.15\00:32:40.88
You won't be
able to buy or sell.
00:32:40.91\00:32:44.14
What is that mechanism
00:32:44.17\00:32:45.80
that prevents people
from buying and selling?
00:32:45.83\00:32:48.17
Well, we do not
know, but we know
00:32:48.20\00:32:49.71
that we live in a society now
00:32:49.74\00:32:51.37
that's edging closer
and closer and closer
00:32:51.40\00:32:54.41
to being able to
control people spending
00:32:54.44\00:32:56.50
or they're buying
and they're selling.
00:32:56.53\00:32:58.99
Even your pay check
goes right in your bank.
00:32:59.02\00:33:02.18
Someone else
collects it every Friday.
00:33:02.21\00:33:05.14
You hope he
keeps it safe for you.
00:33:05.17\00:33:10.08
It's either direct deposit in
or you have a bank or a check.
00:33:10.11\00:33:13.31
Do you think that a process
that could be manipulated?
00:33:13.34\00:33:17.85
Sure, it is.
00:33:17.88\00:33:19.78
How do people
get cash these days?
00:33:19.81\00:33:22.19
With the card, ATM.
00:33:22.22\00:33:24.28
Ever hear- how many
of you heard of ATM?
00:33:24.31\00:33:27.46
Well, you few of you have.
00:33:27.49\00:33:31.64
Do you think it will be
hard to control the process?
00:33:31.67\00:33:34.04
No.
00:33:34.07\00:33:35.10
A huge amount of
trading is done with cards,
00:33:35.13\00:33:37.12
credit cards, debit card.
00:33:37.15\00:33:38.63
Have you ever been told sorry
00:33:38.66\00:33:40.71
but you're card is being denied?
00:33:40.74\00:33:42.60
Yes. What can you do then?
00:33:42.63\00:33:46.04
You sure can't buy,
you sure can't sell.
00:33:46.07\00:33:50.59
Now, I'm not
suggesting any of these methods
00:33:50.62\00:33:52.89
is how people are going to be
00:33:52.92\00:33:54.27
prevented from
buying and selling.
00:33:54.30\00:33:56.00
I'm only telling
you that for certain
00:33:56.03\00:33:57.75
that none of these
are the mark of the beast.
00:33:57.78\00:34:02.31
But what we see is that
already living in a time
00:34:02.34\00:34:05.12
when buying and
selling can be controlled
00:34:05.15\00:34:07.09
any new developments
just makes it easier to do
00:34:07.12\00:34:11.09
what is largely
already being done.
00:34:11.12\00:34:13.26
That's right. That's right.
00:34:13.29\00:34:15.44
But hear me carefully,
whatever this mechanism
00:34:15.47\00:34:18.94
is to prevent a person
from buying and selling
00:34:18.97\00:34:21.78
that's not the
mark of the beast,
00:34:21.81\00:34:23.34
it is just a way to enforce it.
00:34:23.37\00:34:26.80
To enforce it.
00:34:26.83\00:34:29.91
A person's behavior
can surely be influenced
00:34:29.94\00:34:33.16
when they can't pay
their rent or buy their food.
00:34:33.19\00:34:36.12
That's right. That's right.
00:34:36.15\00:34:38.51
It's very old practice
there's nothing new about it,
00:34:38.54\00:34:40.97
sanction, boycotts
have you ever heard to that?
00:34:41.00\00:34:44.73
We sanction sending food,
00:34:44.76\00:34:46.95
sending supplies
to another country.
00:34:46.98\00:34:50.72
We've done that for years,
00:34:50.75\00:34:52.33
to some of the country
one country right close to us.
00:34:52.36\00:34:55.62
I mean and the people have
suffered by it, haven't they?
00:34:55.65\00:34:59.46
During war time
there was rationing.
00:34:59.49\00:35:01.95
That little ration books you got
00:35:01.98\00:35:04.06
and you had to spend it
you could only remember?
00:35:04.09\00:35:06.82
So many green
points or whatever,
00:35:06.85\00:35:08.97
my mother, father remembered,
00:35:09.00\00:35:10.13
I don't know I'm
too young for that.
00:35:10.16\00:35:13.92
But I'm still
rationed, my wife gives me.
00:35:13.95\00:35:20.78
It's still
rationing men hasn't changed
00:35:20.81\00:35:24.33
we are rationed.
00:35:24.36\00:35:26.11
I mean, during war time
there was rationing people
00:35:26.14\00:35:28.21
could simply buy and
sell like they we're used to,
00:35:28.24\00:35:31.76
they couldn't
buy certain things.
00:35:31.79\00:35:33.73
They couldn't get a
hold of certain thing.
00:35:33.76\00:35:35.27
Come on you some
of you remembered
00:35:35.30\00:35:36.82
at least you read about it.
00:35:36.85\00:35:39.16
I mean, the Bible is
clear on this subject
00:35:39.19\00:35:42.40
and we read the Bible
00:35:42.43\00:35:43.46
and the Bible tells us
that the time is coming
00:35:43.49\00:35:45.12
when you won't be
able to buy or sell.
00:35:45.15\00:35:46.73
Now, the Bible doesn't lie,
00:35:46.76\00:35:47.92
so therefore I
come to a conclusion,
00:35:47.95\00:35:49.69
that there must gonna be a day
00:35:49.72\00:35:51.64
when I won't be
able to buy or sell
00:35:51.67\00:35:57.18
unless I have the
mark of the beast.
00:35:57.21\00:35:59.30
So, looks like I'm
gonna go without buying.
00:35:59.33\00:36:03.32
And then I'm gonna
have to go without selling
00:36:03.35\00:36:05.86
because my allegiances
is with the seal of God
00:36:05.89\00:36:08.63
in the Book of Revelation.
00:36:08.66\00:36:09.69
My allegiance is
with Jesus Christ.
00:36:09.72\00:36:16.31
We can all agree the only thing
00:36:16.34\00:36:18.58
that will save this world's
return to God's principles.
00:36:18.61\00:36:22.77
The problem is the beast
power will confuse the world
00:36:22.80\00:36:25.13
into believing
they are honoring God
00:36:25.16\00:36:27.12
when in fact they
are dishonoring God.
00:36:27.15\00:36:30.20
And dishonoring His
holy law time is coming
00:36:30.23\00:36:33.09
when He might of this
great nation will be misused
00:36:33.12\00:36:35.97
and abused to
enforce this mark on the mind
00:36:36.00\00:36:39.77
and the heart of
the whole nation.
00:36:39.80\00:36:43.40
That's why, the Bible says,
00:36:43.43\00:36:45.52
"And he had power to give life
unto the image of the beast,
00:36:45.55\00:36:48.20
the image of the
beast should both speak,
00:36:48.23\00:36:49.88
and cause that as
many as would not worship
00:36:49.91\00:36:51.76
the image of the
beast should be" what?
00:36:51.79\00:36:53.78
"Killed."
00:36:53.81\00:36:54.84
Gonna come a time, when you
won't be able to buy or sell
00:36:54.87\00:36:59.46
and then he says, not only that
00:36:59.49\00:37:01.34
they will come a time
when they will kill you.
00:37:01.37\00:37:04.95
You say oh, no
brother, I would- I mean
00:37:04.98\00:37:06.99
that's why the church has to go.
00:37:07.02\00:37:08.48
I mean, you know I- I
only serve God if I can live.
00:37:08.51\00:37:14.32
Serve God only
because you can live?
00:37:14.35\00:37:18.03
Listen to this,
these are your apostles.
00:37:18.06\00:37:24.13
Mark died in Alexandria,
Egypt, after being dragged
00:37:24.16\00:37:27.46
by horses through the
streets until he was dead.
00:37:27.49\00:37:31.62
Matthew suffered
martyrdom in Ethiopia.
00:37:31.65\00:37:34.54
He was killed by a
sword run through him.
00:37:34.57\00:37:37.89
Luke was hanged in Greece,
00:37:37.92\00:37:40.68
as a result in tremendous
preaching to the lost.
00:37:40.71\00:37:44.30
John faced
martyrdom, was boiled in oil
00:37:44.33\00:37:46.89
but the king couldn't kill him.
00:37:46.92\00:37:49.50
So he sent in the
packed masterly minds
00:37:49.53\00:37:51.77
at 98 years old or so
00:37:51.80\00:37:53.99
put him in minds but
that couldn't kill him
00:37:54.02\00:37:56.25
because when God is
with you they can't kill you.
00:37:56.28\00:38:04.10
But they can martyr
you. They can martyr you.
00:38:04.13\00:38:11.08
You say, Brother Ron,
00:38:11.11\00:38:12.94
fear not him who
can kill the body,
00:38:12.97\00:38:14.60
but him both whole
person soul and body in hell.
00:38:14.63\00:38:19.55
Peter was crucified upside down.
00:38:19.58\00:38:22.40
Listen, James the Just,
00:38:22.43\00:38:23.75
the leader of the
church in Jerusalem,
00:38:23.78\00:38:25.75
was thrown over
a hundred feet down
00:38:25.78\00:38:27.14
from pinnacle of the
temple and he crushed down there
00:38:27.17\00:38:30.82
and he lay there he was
not dead yet, so they came
00:38:30.85\00:38:33.90
and they beat him for
death with fuller's club.
00:38:33.93\00:38:38.86
That's your apostles
that's the disciples,
00:38:38.89\00:38:41.10
the follows of Jesus.
00:38:41.13\00:38:42.65
Come follow me Peter I'm
going to take you to a course.
00:38:42.68\00:38:48.77
You're like pretty little
sermons with bubbling brooks.
00:38:48.80\00:38:52.98
Look at this,
look at this, James,
00:38:56.86\00:39:03.60
James mention by Josephus,
00:39:03.63\00:39:06.75
James was openly
be headed in Jerusalem
00:39:06.78\00:39:11.94
and a Roman soldier saw
him there preaching thrice
00:39:11.97\00:39:15.53
before they brought down the axe
00:39:15.56\00:39:18.22
and he was so convicted,
00:39:18.25\00:39:19.89
he laid his head
upon the same block
00:39:19.92\00:39:22.12
and had his head cut off.
00:39:22.15\00:39:26.16
No tribulation Brother
Halvorsen, no, ask Peter.
00:39:26.19\00:39:30.85
Bartholomew also
known as Nathaniel
00:39:35.06\00:39:38.55
was a missionary to Asia.
00:39:38.58\00:39:40.23
He witnessed to our
Lord in present day Turkey.
00:39:40.26\00:39:43.05
Bartholomew was martyred
for his preaching in Armenia
00:39:43.08\00:39:46.42
and when he believed he
was flayed to death by a whip.
00:39:46.45\00:39:49.79
They wiped him to death.
00:39:49.82\00:39:55.81
Andrew saluted at that
hour when they were whipping him
00:39:55.84\00:40:03.10
and he says, "I
have long desired
00:40:03.13\00:40:07.38
and expected this happy hour.
00:40:07.41\00:40:13.13
The cross has been consecrated
00:40:13.16\00:40:14.74
by the body of
Christ hanging on it.
00:40:14.77\00:40:17.20
He continued to
preach to his tormentors
00:40:17.23\00:40:19.83
for two days until he expired."
00:40:19.86\00:40:24.00
Thomas was stabbed
through with a spear
00:40:24.03\00:40:27.00
on this
missionary trip to India.
00:40:27.03\00:40:29.51
Jude, the brother of
Jesus, was killed with arrows
00:40:29.54\00:40:31.97
when he refused to
deny his faith in Christ.
00:40:32.00\00:40:34.41
Matthias, was
chosen by the apostle
00:40:34.44\00:40:36.54
to replace Judas Iscariot,
00:40:36.57\00:40:39.80
and Matthias was stoned
at Jerusalem by the Jews
00:40:39.83\00:40:42.67
and then beheaded.
00:40:42.70\00:40:43.91
Barnabas was stoned
to death at Salonika.
00:40:43.94\00:40:47.22
And Philip was crucified
according to the plaque
00:40:47.25\00:40:50.10
in the church of holy apostles.
00:40:50.13\00:40:51.73
I mean Paul was
believe to have been tortured
00:40:51.76\00:40:54.23
and then beheaded by
the Emperor Nero in Rome.
00:40:54.26\00:41:01.03
Instead I would like to go Spain
00:41:01.06\00:41:02.39
but I've got to go to Rome.
00:41:02.42\00:41:05.54
I have to go to Rome.
00:41:05.57\00:41:10.72
Well, child is coming
00:41:10.75\00:41:13.96
get strong in Christ its coming.
00:41:13.99\00:41:17.76
He will try to deceive you,
he will try to persecute you,
00:41:17.79\00:41:20.85
he we will die to
do everything he can
00:41:20.88\00:41:23.30
so you will lose your faith.
00:41:23.33\00:41:25.27
Hold on, be faithful to God.
00:41:25.30\00:41:29.67
Be faithful to
God to the very end,
00:41:29.70\00:41:33.03
be faithful
always be faithful to God
00:41:33.06\00:41:37.36
that has been the cry of belief,
00:41:37.39\00:41:39.65
believes ever since the golden
image on the plains of Dura.
00:41:39.68\00:41:43.21
Those three Hebrew worthies
00:41:43.24\00:41:44.57
went to the
fire for their faith.
00:41:44.60\00:41:46.37
God walked among
them, He will be with us.
00:41:46.40\00:41:48.84
I will be with you always,
even unto the end of the world.
00:41:48.87\00:41:52.62
I was preaching in
one big city in America
00:41:52.65\00:41:56.26
and I was preaching that night
and 3,000 people were coming
00:41:56.29\00:42:01.65
and when I finish preaching
00:42:01.68\00:42:02.77
I was telling my
story my conversion
00:42:02.80\00:42:04.85
a gang banger
came up to the front,
00:42:04.88\00:42:06.99
he had all the tattoos
out of a prison, you know,
00:42:07.02\00:42:10.48
and I knew right away
where he had come from,
00:42:10.51\00:42:13.52
he spent 14 of his
first 27 years incarcerated.
00:42:13.55\00:42:19.34
He came up and he put
his head on my shoulder
00:42:19.37\00:42:22.91
and he started to cry.
00:42:22.94\00:42:25.72
This is one tough gang banger.
00:42:25.75\00:42:31.12
MS13 that's and he says
00:42:31.15\00:42:36.40
I want what you have
00:42:36.43\00:42:39.47
and then I shared
the gospel with him.
00:42:39.50\00:42:43.02
I shared Jesus.
00:42:43.05\00:42:45.21
By the way that's the only thing
00:42:45.24\00:42:46.41
I know to share.
00:42:46.44\00:42:49.03
You can seek out
your little molehills
00:42:49.06\00:42:51.68
and try to find who
the King in the North is,
00:42:51.71\00:42:54.02
I want to know who
the king of heaven is.
00:42:54.05\00:42:55.84
You can count your 144,000
00:43:00.60\00:43:02.89
I want to be one of the pieces
of sand at the feet of Jesus.
00:43:02.92\00:43:08.71
That led the
gang banger to Christ.
00:43:08.74\00:43:11.47
He was so- I mean
he was so much on fire.
00:43:11.50\00:43:15.12
I mean he wanted to
tell everybody about Jesus
00:43:15.15\00:43:17.27
but- he said, man, I
got a break from the gang
00:43:17.30\00:43:20.65
and you don't
break from those gangs.
00:43:20.68\00:43:24.42
He said, I don't
know, pastor he says,
00:43:24.45\00:43:27.97
I don't know if I'll be alive,
but I'm gonna stand for Jesus.
00:43:28.00\00:43:31.73
This is America,
this is now not years ago
00:43:31.76\00:43:36.25
not somewhere
else this is America.
00:43:36.28\00:43:39.61
And I remember he
planned his baptism,
00:43:39.64\00:43:42.38
we planned his baptism,
00:43:42.41\00:43:45.56
he was living with a lovely girl
00:43:45.59\00:43:47.49
and loved her and we
planned his marriage.
00:43:47.52\00:43:49.54
We had a beautiful
wedding and a beautiful baptism.
00:43:49.57\00:43:52.89
By the way, we can do both
00:43:52.92\00:43:57.84
and I- we are planning a baptism
00:43:57.87\00:43:59.57
and I went to visit
him down in the barrio
00:43:59.60\00:44:02.41
and let me tell you, I
ran through the barrio.
00:44:02.44\00:44:07.08
When they said
something in Spanish,
00:44:07.11\00:44:09.04
I didn't know what
they said I just ran faster.
00:44:09.07\00:44:13.62
And I had a
wonderful visit on his porch
00:44:13.65\00:44:15.42
we prayed together I
put my arms around him,
00:44:15.45\00:44:17.97
there he was at gang
banger struck too all over
00:44:18.00\00:44:21.21
I mean 14 of his 27 years
incarcerated and there he is,
00:44:21.24\00:44:25.38
I mean he was on every drug
you can do and now he is clean.
00:44:25.41\00:44:29.73
That's the only, God is
the only one that can do that.
00:44:29.76\00:44:32.58
You talk about rehab
come to the foot of the Cross,
00:44:37.12\00:44:40.02
kneel at the foot of the
Cross that is real rehab.
00:44:40.05\00:44:43.95
And so came Thursday night,
00:44:43.98\00:44:47.82
Friday night and
he didn't show up
00:44:47.85\00:44:51.07
and the pastor
I was working with
00:44:51.10\00:44:53.40
who was working
for him and with him,
00:44:53.43\00:44:55.40
he came up he said, he
was killed Thursday night.
00:44:55.43\00:45:00.86
They drove around the corner
00:45:00.89\00:45:01.92
they heard he was going to be
a Christian gonna be baptized,
00:45:01.95\00:45:04.00
drove around the corner.
00:45:04.03\00:45:05.59
Blew him away, he died.
00:45:05.62\00:45:09.10
And I didn't want him to
be buried a pauper's grave
00:45:09.13\00:45:13.03
so I stood up before
that congregation at night
00:45:13.06\00:45:14.91
and I said, I want this boy
to be buried a Christian grave
00:45:14.94\00:45:18.21
I want him to be
buried in a best cemetery
00:45:18.24\00:45:21.58
in this county.
00:45:21.61\00:45:24.27
And we raise $5,000
that night people give
00:45:24.30\00:45:26.62
and not only that a
man came up to me says,
00:45:26.65\00:45:28.21
I got a I got a
lot a cemetery lot
00:45:28.24\00:45:30.97
in the most beautiful cemetery
00:45:31.00\00:45:32.73
and he said I want
him to be buried there.
00:45:32.76\00:45:35.16
We buried him there,
00:45:35.19\00:45:36.44
listen to me he
died for his faith.
00:45:36.47\00:45:40.17
That takes something
00:45:40.20\00:45:42.10
I can't wait till
this day when Jesus comes
00:45:42.13\00:45:44.91
and he's lifted up and
all those saints will see
00:45:44.94\00:45:47.73
what a sinner looks
like saved by grace.
00:45:47.76\00:45:53.96
Saved by grace.
00:45:53.99\00:45:58.43
Yes, Jesus will come,
00:45:58.46\00:46:01.16
America turn back to
God before its too late,
00:46:01.19\00:46:05.09
for the God who
saved us in the past
00:46:05.12\00:46:08.40
will be the God
who'll save us in the future.
00:46:08.43\00:46:11.87
The God who let us in the past,
will lead us in the future.
00:46:11.90\00:46:17.41
And that God is none other
than the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:46:17.44\00:46:22.18
your Savior and mine.
00:46:22.21\00:46:23.94
God bless you.
00:46:23.97\00:46:25.18
In Matthew 4:4
the Word of God says,
00:46:47.56\00:46:50.22
"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
00:46:50.25\00:46:53.36
but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.'
00:46:53.39\00:46:57.21
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Now, we read
another Bible question,
00:47:36.38\00:47:37.74
let's look at this one.
00:47:37.77\00:47:39.30
How can I share
my faith with others,
00:47:39.33\00:47:42.69
without getting them upset?
00:47:42.72\00:47:45.12
Okay, carefully and prayerfully.
00:47:45.15\00:47:51.05
It's easy for people
to get so excited about
00:47:51.08\00:47:54.34
their new faith in Jesus
that they become obnoxious.
00:47:54.37\00:47:57.51
Jesus, said " "You
are the salt of the earth"
00:47:57.54\00:47:59.51
and some people
when they meet Jesus
00:47:59.54\00:48:00.88
they become the chilly
power of the earth, you know.
00:48:00.91\00:48:04.07
And they'll become
a little distasteful.
00:48:04.10\00:48:05.86
You don't want to do that.
00:48:05.89\00:48:07.27
Now, you just want to go ahead
00:48:07.30\00:48:09.16
and enjoy being
a believer in Jesus
00:48:09.19\00:48:11.30
and share your faith and witness
00:48:11.33\00:48:12.95
you want to do that.
00:48:12.98\00:48:14.26
Don't let anything
stop you from doing it.
00:48:14.29\00:48:16.49
I don't why- I don't
want to offend anybody.
00:48:16.52\00:48:18.23
Well, just don't be
offensive, share your faith.
00:48:18.26\00:48:20.53
Sometimes people are gonna be
offended no matter what you do.
00:48:20.56\00:48:23.93
So, pray, tell God you
want to share your faith
00:48:23.96\00:48:26.55
and then ask God
for opportunities.
00:48:26.58\00:48:28.73
Ask God to give
you wisdom to know
00:48:28.76\00:48:31.17
which is an
opportunity and which is not.
00:48:31.20\00:48:34.00
Sometimes God will say that guy,
00:48:34.03\00:48:35.44
go and talk to him about Jesus
00:48:35.47\00:48:36.80
other times God will
say no, no its not the guy,
00:48:36.83\00:48:40.09
you are running
ahead of Me here.
00:48:40.12\00:48:41.72
Remember some
people want to watch a DVD,
00:48:41.75\00:48:43.56
some people want
to listen to an audio,
00:48:43.59\00:48:45.52
some people would
like a track or a book
00:48:45.55\00:48:47.15
and some people just
need an invitation to church.
00:48:47.18\00:48:49.89
Pray about the way you
should approach a person.
00:48:49.92\00:48:52.83
I would simply
say, just to keep it
00:48:52.86\00:48:54.50
short and simple
00:48:54.53\00:48:55.69
be careful, be
prayerful, stay close to God,
00:48:55.72\00:48:59.28
be bold enough
to share your faith.
00:48:59.31\00:49:01.23
God bless you for wanting
00:49:01.26\00:49:02.42
to share your faith with others.
00:49:02.45\00:49:05.49
But, the question I believe
was how do I share my faith
00:49:05.52\00:49:08.09
with somebody else
with out them getting upset?
00:49:08.12\00:49:12.08
That's kind of I
can't give you a guarantee,
00:49:12.11\00:49:14.16
there is no magic formula.
00:49:14.19\00:49:15.62
Well, if you go ahead
in the Spirit of Jesus
00:49:15.65\00:49:19.21
determine to share your
faith with others kindly
00:49:19.24\00:49:22.46
God will give you wisdom.
00:49:22.49\00:49:24.12
Remember, James 1:5
"If any of you lack wisdom,
00:49:24.15\00:49:26.86
let him ask of God, who
gives all men liberally,
00:49:26.89\00:49:29.85
and upbraideth not and
it shall be given him."
00:49:29.88\00:49:34.89
God will give you
the wisdom that you need.
00:49:34.92\00:49:38.47
Now, here is
another Bible question
00:49:38.50\00:49:39.70
that I'd like to share with you.
00:49:39.73\00:49:41.86
I seem to keep on
falling back under the same sins
00:49:41.89\00:49:44.40
a lot of them just silly things.
00:49:44.43\00:49:47.17
How do I stop being so up
and down and failing so much?
00:49:47.20\00:49:51.69
Great question.
00:49:51.72\00:49:52.78
Did you know
something about Jesus?
00:49:52.81\00:49:55.75
Hebrews 1:3 says,
00:49:55.78\00:49:57.38
"That He up holds all things
by the word of His power."
00:49:57.41\00:50:03.21
Now, point number
one, He will up hold you.
00:50:03.24\00:50:05.56
Point number two, how?
By the word of His power.
00:50:05.59\00:50:08.70
Now, I can't speak to
you because I don't know
00:50:08.73\00:50:10.42
but I know what a lot
of people do or don't do.
00:50:10.45\00:50:13.45
They say, okay I've
got to be a good person now
00:50:13.48\00:50:15.15
and they try their
hardest and they keep slipping
00:50:15.18\00:50:17.82
because will power
will only get you so far.
00:50:17.85\00:50:20.38
It isn't will power
you need you want Jesus
00:50:20.41\00:50:22.84
to keep your
will that's different.
00:50:22.87\00:50:25.33
I mean you could say,
00:50:25.36\00:50:26.40
oh, man I haven't
eaten M&M'S in the long time,
00:50:26.43\00:50:28.74
and breakdown right and
eat a hand full of M&M'S,
00:50:28.77\00:50:31.13
it works spiritually too.
00:50:31.16\00:50:32.88
Not gonna lose my temper.
00:50:32.91\00:50:34.13
I'm not going to lose my temper.
00:50:34.16\00:50:35.47
I'm not going to-
it works for so long
00:50:35.50\00:50:38.93
and then it
doesn't work any longer.
00:50:38.96\00:50:42.66
What you want to
do is go to Jesus
00:50:42.69\00:50:44.44
and claim about promises
00:50:44.47\00:50:46.62
that He makes to
you in the Bible.
00:50:46.65\00:50:50.09
Let me share some of them.
00:50:50.12\00:50:51.46
First, Philippians 2:13
"It is God who works in you,
00:50:51.49\00:50:57.47
both to will and to do
for his good pleasure."
00:50:57.50\00:51:00.93
When Jesus gets in your life
00:51:00.96\00:51:02.27
and starts
living His life in you
00:51:02.30\00:51:03.75
well, He is gonna keep you up.
00:51:03.78\00:51:06.94
He is gonna sustain you He
is going to strengthen you.
00:51:06.97\00:51:09.37
He's strength will
do that wonderful work.
00:51:09.40\00:51:11.64
Praise the Lord.
00:51:11.67\00:51:13.81
Can I think about another verse?
00:51:13.84\00:51:14.87
Yes, in John 15 Jesus said,
00:51:14.90\00:51:18.43
"Without me you can do nothing."
00:51:18.46\00:51:20.59
And then He said over
in Philippians Chapter 4,
00:51:20.62\00:51:22.57
well, Paul wrote,
"I can do all things
00:51:22.60\00:51:24.64
through Christ
who strengthens me."
00:51:24.67\00:51:26.18
That means I can my temper.
00:51:26.21\00:51:27.66
Through Christ,
00:51:27.69\00:51:29.01
I don't have to look at
these in appropriate websites.
00:51:29.04\00:51:31.80
Through Christ I
can be kept from that.
00:51:31.83\00:51:34.05
I don't have to cheat on my text
00:51:34.08\00:51:35.45
or tell lies to my parents.
00:51:35.48\00:51:37.25
Through Christ
00:51:37.28\00:51:39.00
I can find the
strength to keep it straight.
00:51:39.03\00:51:41.34
It's Jesus strength
living in your life.
00:51:41.37\00:51:43.35
I'll give you another one,
Jude verse 24 "Now unto him
00:51:43.38\00:51:47.12
who is able to
keep you from falling."
00:51:47.15\00:51:50.60
You don't have to fall
back of the same old stuff.
00:51:50.63\00:51:53.08
Doesn't it get frustrating?
00:51:53.11\00:51:54.27
You come to Jesus you say,
00:51:54.30\00:51:55.77
I got a new
life now, hallelujah.
00:51:55.80\00:51:58.10
You know that God
doesn't want you to drink liquor
00:51:58.13\00:52:00.85
and then what do you
know, oh, men you have
00:52:00.88\00:52:03.37
I don't know
watching a football game
00:52:03.40\00:52:04.78
and before you know
you drunk three beers
00:52:04.81\00:52:07.12
and oh, you said
I was doing so well,
00:52:07.15\00:52:10.06
it had been six months.
00:52:10.09\00:52:12.76
And you go well
for another six months
00:52:12.79\00:52:14.19
and you stumble again.
00:52:14.22\00:52:17.66
You know, all we need
and it really is this simple,
00:52:17.69\00:52:22.30
is Jesus living His life in us.
00:52:22.33\00:52:24.42
I shall read you,
1 Corinthians 10:13
00:52:24.45\00:52:27.82
"There hath no
temptation taken you
00:52:27.85\00:52:29.43
but such as is common to
man, but God is faithful,
00:52:29.46\00:52:33.94
who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able
00:52:33.97\00:52:37.71
but will," listen to this,
00:52:37.74\00:52:39.85
"but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape,
00:52:39.88\00:52:44.11
that ye may be able to bear it."
00:52:44.14\00:52:46.17
Thank God for that.
00:52:46.20\00:52:48.24
When temptation comes
the way of escape is there.
00:52:48.27\00:52:51.76
You got to look for it
00:52:51.79\00:52:53.29
and not to mean hunt for
it like a hidden treasure
00:52:53.32\00:52:55.26
I simply mean reach out of Jesus
00:52:55.29\00:52:58.81
and claim the way of escape.
00:52:58.84\00:53:00.42
Christianity doesn't
have to be up and down.
00:53:00.45\00:53:03.92
Having said that let me
balance it up with something.
00:53:03.95\00:53:07.93
When you come to
Jesus and you are born again
00:53:07.96\00:53:10.09
that would make
you a spiritual baby.
00:53:10.12\00:53:13.20
Before you become a spiritual
giant there is some growth
00:53:13.23\00:53:16.58
that needs to take
place and along the way
00:53:16.61\00:53:19.76
you might learn some
lessons the hard way.
00:53:19.79\00:53:23.15
That's just true.
00:53:23.18\00:53:25.18
You might make some mistakes,
you might- the baby learning
00:53:25.21\00:53:28.27
to walk falls down a lot
but the parents don't say,
00:53:28.30\00:53:32.76
I'm done with this
baby the baby falls over.
00:53:32.79\00:53:34.81
The parents say,
let's just keep on working.
00:53:34.84\00:53:37.84
Let's try again.
00:53:37.87\00:53:40.02
And when the baby
falls you don't hate the baby
00:53:40.05\00:53:42.35
you just love the baby.
00:53:42.38\00:53:45.88
You know something,
00:53:45.91\00:53:48.65
along the ways we
grow in this world,
00:53:48.68\00:53:50.62
there are times we
fall I am not making excuses
00:53:50.65\00:53:53.39
because God can keep you
from falling and He wants to
00:53:53.42\00:53:56.78
but when its part of
your spiritual growth
00:53:56.81\00:53:59.37
be patient you don't want to be,
00:53:59.40\00:54:02.81
well, I fell back in to
the sin of smoking cigarettes
00:54:02.84\00:54:06.15
27 times today.
00:54:06.18\00:54:07.55
Oh, I don't mean that,
00:54:07.58\00:54:09.05
that's just presumption
and excuse making in,
00:54:09.08\00:54:12.77
maybe the laziness
there I don't know.
00:54:12.80\00:54:16.43
Your spouse keeps blowing
up and losing their temper
00:54:16.46\00:54:19.15
and they say I know
him growing as a Christian
00:54:19.18\00:54:21.39
no, you are just
making an excuse as a whistle
00:54:21.42\00:54:23.84
that's what you are doing.
00:54:23.87\00:54:26.57
You come to Jesus you will grow.
00:54:26.60\00:54:30.04
There is power
in the Word of God.
00:54:30.07\00:54:31.40
Let me make a practical
suggestion I will be quick.
00:54:31.43\00:54:35.65
Let's say there's a promise
00:54:35.68\00:54:37.07
I can do all
things through Christ
00:54:37.10\00:54:38.37
who strengthens me.
00:54:38.40\00:54:39.96
You are sitting in
traffic somebody honks at you
00:54:39.99\00:54:42.87
they are here on the
back of their neck, stand up,
00:54:42.90\00:54:44.85
the horns on your head pop out
00:54:44.88\00:54:47.00
that the fangs spring
out and the claws grow.
00:54:47.03\00:54:49.88
You know that
transformation that takes place
00:54:49.91\00:54:52.39
then you are ready to give that
person a piece of your mind.
00:54:52.42\00:54:56.78
I think you will run to Jesus,
you say no, that's not my will.
00:54:56.81\00:54:59.30
Christ is convicting you.
00:54:59.33\00:55:00.55
He's saying don't
go there I can help.
00:55:00.58\00:55:03.11
And you claim the Word of God.
00:55:03.14\00:55:05.12
I can- I can do all things
00:55:05.15\00:55:06.43
through Christ who strengths me.
00:55:06.46\00:55:07.71
Jesus, I need your help
00:55:07.74\00:55:08.94
or "Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace,
00:55:08.97\00:55:11.99
whose mind is stayed on thee,
because he trusts in thee."
00:55:12.02\00:55:15.20
Isaiah 26:3. Claim the promises.
00:55:15.23\00:55:18.34
God you have said my God
shall supply all your need
00:55:18.37\00:55:22.93
according to his righteous
and glory by Christ Jesus
00:55:22.96\00:55:25.44
and Lord right
now, I need peace,
00:55:25.47\00:55:27.32
I need to be calm, I
need to control my temper.
00:55:27.35\00:55:31.16
You think God is gonna
come through it for you
00:55:31.19\00:55:33.31
in a situation like that?
00:55:33.34\00:55:34.96
Yes, He is.
00:55:34.99\00:55:36.46
And you will
say wait, a day ago,
00:55:36.49\00:55:39.21
I would have fallen
back and God kicked me up.
00:55:39.24\00:55:43.25
Then you can learn to do
that again and again and again
00:55:43.28\00:55:48.13
and you are falling
less and less and less.
00:55:48.16\00:55:50.99
And you are growing
in the grace of Jesus.
00:55:51.02\00:55:54.15
Eyes for India is
giving sight to the blind
00:56:08.11\00:56:11.49
and you can be a part of this
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Fifteen million
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00:56:15.36\00:56:17.82
more than any other
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00:56:17.85\00:56:20.07
And many of the blind
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Every $75 you give gives
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Eyes for India,
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00:57:10.52\00:57:12.90
and opening hearts
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