In today's troubled world,
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people are
wondering 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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Some years ago, my wife
and I had the good fortune
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to do a lot of traveling
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backwards and forwards
across the United States
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and we visited big
cities and we visited small,
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out of the way hamlets.
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And one thing
we noticed was that
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many of the churches or
at least some of the churches
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had very interesting names.
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They weren't just first
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whatever their denomination was,
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it was--
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Well, they were interesting.
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Many of them very creative.
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We realized, wow, there's
a lot of churches around,
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different churches
and not just churches
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but a lot of different
Christian denominations.
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Not just a lot of different
Christian denominations
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but lot of different religions.
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So, why? Why is that the case?
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Jesus said, upon this
rock, speaking of Himself
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I will build my church.
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It doesn't seem as
though Jesus imagined
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there will be hundreds
of different denominations.
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Tonight's subject is
titled, "Why so Many Churches?"
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And the presenter
for Revelation Today
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tonight is Ron Halvorsen.
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Why so many
Churches? Revelation Today.
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The year was 1990,
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the month was
February to be exact.
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It was the end of a movement
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that locked
Christianity out of Russia
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and much of the
world for seven years.
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Lenin and his
satanic religion had fallen.
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Christianity is alive
again in the motherland.
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Headlines said about
Lenin, the God that failed.
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Governments around the
world once pinned their hopes
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on this idealistic
dream, this communist dream,
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an economic
theory, born out of failure
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the 19th century
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are overthrowing
these communist ideologies.
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Those communist Gods, as
the New York Times put it,
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"'Renouncing the
Revolution's Holy Writ."
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Yes, multitudes
are now turning back
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to the God of their fathers,
to the God of their mothers,
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to the God of the Bible.
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In fact, there is
resurgence of Christianity
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in the eastern block
countries that are now free.
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Tens of thousands
around those nations
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that are coming back to God.
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Coming back to the
Bible and now being free,
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free in conscience.
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Thousands in
Russia, Romania, Hungary,
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Czechoslovakia,
Latvia, Lithuania,
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I mean, Bulgaria are
turning back to Christ.
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The Revolution is on.
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The wall that fell
gave millions hope.
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Communism failed to recognize
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what Pascal called
the God shaped vacuum
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in the human soul.
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There is something
within the human soul
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that cries out,
you cannot stifle it.
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There is something
within the human mind
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and the human heart
that calls out to a God,
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to something
superior, to the supernatural.
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There is
something in the natural man
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that cries for the supernatural.
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One scientist once said,
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well, this is a
kind of fictitious story
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but you can follow,
it's a preacher's story.
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He was so smart, he
decided he would create a man.
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And so, he got
the best materials
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and formed this man.
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The skin was almost real.
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He put the brain
in the right place.
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The heart shape
in the right place.
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Everything was
perfect, this man.
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And the scientist
was molding and making
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and feeling so
superior and so good
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and all of a sudden
this man-monster sat up.
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Now, this scientist jumped back.
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It's alive!
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And the first words
out of this monster-man,
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created by the mind of science,
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cries out,
"You've given me a brain,
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you've given me a
body, give me a soul."
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The scientist
didn't know what to do.
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So, he turned and ran out
of his laboratory, afraid.
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And the monster-man
followed him yelling,
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"Give me a
soul, give me a soul."
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You see, man
cannot give man a soul.
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Only God can do that.
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Amen.
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Only God can do that.
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And so around the
world there's a cry for God.
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Around the world,
demonstrations go on.
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And there is a new protestant
or protesting message.
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And by the way,
that's what it meant,
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Protestant, protesting,
they were protesting.
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And a belief system
was crumbling around them.
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Faith in the Bible was
slowly taken from them.
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The Bible was taken from them.
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They chained the
Bible to monastery walls.
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They took the Bible
and hid them in catacombs.
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The people could
not open a Bible.
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The Bible wasn't
available to common man.
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And so came the reformation.
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The reformation came
not because they were angry.
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The reformation came
because they thirsted
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for the Word of God.
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They needed to
have the Word of God.
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That's how it began.
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It began in that way.
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Began in that way.
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But with this reformation
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there comes a
counter-reformation.
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It deals with
the social conditions
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without addressing the root
cause of spiritual condition.
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A lack of true godliness,
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filling a highly
marketed religion.
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All the glitz of
Hollywood productions now
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that's what we see.
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The vacuum of many
causes, youth revolutionaries
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are now armed with
bricks and stones and sticks,
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run wildly through
the streets of Egypt,
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and wildly through the
streets of Syrian riot,
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wildly through the
streets of America.
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I mean, picture the world scene,
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young people's faces covered
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standing up
against soldiers and guns.
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College students,
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I mean, the
placards and glib quotations.
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Remember, Tiananmen Square?
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One of the most
dramatic pictures
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that came out
of Tiananmen Square
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was there that young boy
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standing in the
street facing a tank.
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No gun, no placards,
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just standing
in front of a tank,
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standing for freedom,
crying out for freedom,
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willing to sacrifice
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in Tiananmen Square for freedom.
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What are we willing
to sacrifice for God?
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What are we willing
to sacrifice for truth?
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You see, history has showed us
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that this symbol,
the price of freedom,
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others around the
world are marching for cause,
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one cause after another.
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I mean, you see it everywhere.
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In New York, when I was there,
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there was
marches for poor housing
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and the so-called
American imperialism
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and then there were
the marches for women lib
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and abortion and women's rights,
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and neighborhood watch groups,
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and goes on and
on and on and on.
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Just recently, few
weeks, some months ago,
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was a march on Washington.
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It reminded me of
the Civil Rights Movement
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and the words of the
great leader Martin Luther King.
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That it's not
the color of the skin
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but the content of character.
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We have people in
the inter-cities trying
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to march up
against the crack houses,
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and the drug pushers
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and pushing them
out of the neighborhood
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and trying to clean
up their neighborhood,
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good causes have come to
the mind of men and women.
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Good causes have
come to the mind of those
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because they have protested.
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It's time for the church
of Jesus Christ to protest.
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It's time for the church
of Jesus Christ to stand up
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and to be accounted for,
not to be politically correct
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but to be spiritually correct.
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It's time.
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All around us we have all
these environmental groups
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and anti-capital
punishment groups
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and tree huggers and
holding frail creatures
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and animal
rights, fine, that's good.
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But what about the
rights of religion?
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What about the rights
of freedom to worship?
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What about the
rights of Christians?
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By the way, good
causes have come,
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have come to the
mind of John Doe citizen.
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We've been aroused by
this new Protestant movement
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or this new protesting era
attacking with even emotions,
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the so called
established society.
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I mean, I was there,
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I was there back in the
'60s and '70s in New York,
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ministering for
the street people,
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the hippies and the
yuppies and the wang-gumps
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and the freebie gypsies.
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What a wonderful time
it was, I fit right in.
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I had a coffee house down there
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just in Greenwich
Village for the street people,
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to get them in and
they read poetry to me.
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And then we sung
hymns and we prayed
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and I taught them prayer.
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And it was a wonderful
time, a lot of experience.
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They were always
protesting something.
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It was interesting
being down in the village.
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They always had some
cause to protest against.
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This is the new Protestant
era, the new protesting era.
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And I think the
church of Jesus Christ
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must become proactive
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when it comes to
protesting against the evil
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that's capturing our
imagination in our world.
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You see, we have to
stand up to the truth of God.
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I mean, the religious world
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to this very
foundation uncovers the lie.
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They attack
tradition with the Word of God,
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a time in
history when the minority
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of Christians fought
error and for the truth.
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I mean, they stood up even
at the peril to their lives
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and they stood up
against the church
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because the church
was church and government.
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The church was
the spiritual power
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and the political power,
they were one and the same.
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What the church said
was both the political thing
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and the religious thing
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and so they stood up against it.
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They stood up against the idea
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that you could
absolve yourself of sin
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by just giving
a little offering.
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They protested
against absolution,
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they protested
against the papacy,
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they protest against--
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it was a spiritual protest.
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I mean, it was a protest
against religious intolerance
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and heresy, it was a war against
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the holy Word of God
and the traditions of men
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and they said, no, the
church is not the leader,
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Christ is the
leader of the church
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not the church
the leader of Christ.
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And they were persecuted for it.
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The protest
against papal tyranny,
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against religious bigotry.
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Was a voice raised in Wittenberg
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it was that great
man of Wittenberg.
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It took place in Germany
in the month October 1517.
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And that voice of
that fearless monk,
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Martin Luther.
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And Luther was beating
himself trying to get good
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and trying
through works to get holy
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and yet he felt so far from God
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and one day he is
walking through the monastery
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and he sees a
Bible chained to a wall
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and he sits by that
Bible chained to the wall
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and he begins to read.
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And there was a text
that kindled his heart.
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"The just, the just,
shall live by faith."
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That was the rallying
cry for this man, Luther,
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there on the church in
Rome crawling up the stairs,
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trying to get right with God.
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All of a sudden
it burned in his soul
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"The just shall live by
faith," he sprung up, ran out
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and there came the reformation.
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One man under the
power of the Holy Spirit.
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One man standing for
what he knew to be right.
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One man and look what he did?
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One person here can change
the direction of the world.
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One person full
of the Holy Ghost,
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one person determined
to stand for the truth
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if the heavens fall.
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Like Luther of old, we
need men with conscience,
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we need women with conscience.
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You see, actually
demand to the reformation,
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long centuries before Luther.
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I mean, God had
predicted the protest would come
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and it would be a wedding
of paganism and Christianity
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and they would
stand up against it.
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"Let no man
deceives you by any means
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for that day shall not come,
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except there come a falling away
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that the man of sin be revealed,
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the son of perdition,
and who is he who opposeth
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and exalteth himself
above all that is called God,
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or that is worshiped
so that he as God sitteth
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in the temple of God,
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shewing himself that he is God."
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What heresy he speaks of?
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"Remember ye not,
that, when I was with you,
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I told you these things?
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And now you
know what withholdeth
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that he might be
revealed in his time."
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And then he goes on,
"For the mystery of iniquity
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doth already work,
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only he who will
letteth will let,
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until he be
taken out of the way."
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And what, "And then
shall that wicked be revealed."
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And what happens?
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"The Lord will consume
with the spirit of His mouth
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and shall destroy with
the brightness of His coming."
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Wow, "whose coming
is the working of Satan
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with all power
and signs and wonders,
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and deceivableness
of unrighteousness
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in them that perish," Why?
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"Because they received
not the love of the truth,
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that they might be saved."
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So John, the
revelator he writes from Patmos.
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And listen to what he says.
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Revelation Chapter 18,
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"And after these
things." What things?
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All the things
that are happening
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in the world we're seeing now.
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"After these things" he said,
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"I saw another angel
come down from heaven,
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having great power,
the earth was lightened
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with his glory.
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And he cried mightily
with a strong voice, saying,
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"notice, he says, "Babylon
the great is fallen, is fallen,
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and is become the
habitation of devils,
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and the hold of
every foul spirit,
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and the cage of every
unclean and hateful bird.
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For all nations have
drunk of the wine of the wrath
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of her fornication,
and the kings of the earth
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have committed fornication
with her," and notice,
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"and the merchants of
the earth are waxed rich
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through the
abundance of her delicacies.
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And I heard another
voice from heaven, saying,
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come out of her, my people,
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that ye shall not be
partakers of her sins,
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that ye receive
not of her plagues."
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The call to God in the last days
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in the last reformation
will be a call out of Babylon.
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The call would be
from those who have adhered
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to the Word of God,
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those who have been
faithful to the Word of God.
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"Come out of her, my people,
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that you be not
partakers of her sin."
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And what was her sin?
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Her sin was putting
tradition above the Word of God.
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What was her sin?
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Her sin was trying to
exalt the throne above
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the throne of God.
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What was her sin?
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To deceive through
counterfeit tradition,
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to deceive men and women
and bring them away from God.
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And he warns us there.
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Babylon means, what?
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Babylon means
confusion, it means, confusion.
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And truly it is
confusing, isn't it?
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I mean, we're seeing
the fulfillment of prophecy
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before our very eyes.
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It's like one little girl said,
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when invited to
go to Sunday school
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with another
little girl, she says,
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"I can't because my parents
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belong to a
different abomination."
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And that's what the problem is.
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Why is it, we have one Bible,
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we have one Lord
and we have one Savior,
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and we have so
many denominations.
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I mean, the Bible says,
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men aren't willing to follow
the simple teachings of Jesus.
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They're not willing
to follow the truth.
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They listen to the voice of men.
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They listen to the
voice of the church.
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They listen to the
voice of the leader,
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instead of
listening to the voice of God.
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You have a Bible. You
are intelligent people.
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You can open the Word
of God and read the truth.
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You don't need someone
interpreting it for you.
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You don't need the
church to interpret it for you.
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I tell you, you have His word.
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You can see it
interpret itself for you.
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My momma said-- what
does momma have to do?
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What did the Father say?
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What did the Father say?
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And so there we are one
Lord, one faith, one Bible.
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Now there is
enough light in the Bible
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for us to be
guided into the kingdom,
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don't you think?
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I mean, there is
enough light in the Bible
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that we do not need
tradition or philosophy.
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Truth is progressive,
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more and more
unto the perfect day.
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Someone says, oh, I
wish I never met you,
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Ron Halvorsen, Why?
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Because we shared truth.
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Well, truth is more and
more unto the perfect day.
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Thank God, He's given you truth.
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Amen.
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Thank God.
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It's not a pain
pill you're taking.
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Thank God,
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of all the people
here, He chose you.
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Of all the people
here, He shared with you.
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And so there is enough
light for us to follow.
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And the Bible
says, God will guide us
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more and more
unto the perfect day.
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The New Testament has
enough light, isn't there?
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Come on.
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And you're not really confused.
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It's just the hardness of
breaking away from the past
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and going into a
new present future.
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That's what the problem is,
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it's not, "Brother
Ron, I don't see that."
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It's, "Brother Ron, I see it
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but I don't want to believe it."
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Amen.
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And that's what happened
during this reformation.
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Tens of thousands of
people heard the gospel
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being preached
justification by faith.
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In another words,
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you are just as
if you never sinned.
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When you come to give
your heart to Jesus Christ
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and believe in Him
just as if you never sinned.
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And by the way, when a
person makes that decision
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whether he's old or
young, parents, teachers,
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no one should stand between it
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because they are no
better than the papacy
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to decide for someone else
who's gonna get saved and when.
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When God saves a
person let him be saved,
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let him be saved.
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I hear it all the time.
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This is not a Bar
Mitzvah, this is a baptism.
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And Jesus said,
what hinders you?
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The apostle
says, what hinders you?
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Nothing, there is
deep water, I'm in.
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That's the
apostles. Peter, follow me.
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No, no, Uncle John won't be here
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until next February.
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What is that about?
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That moment he left
and he followed his master.
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No, he said no, Lord, I
don't know quite enough.
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No, in fact, if he knew too much
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he never would
have made that decision.
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I have found people that
are always putting it off,
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putting it off to know
more, never make the decision,
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never make the decision,
because they waited too long.
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You see, it's not
knowing, it's being.
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It comes from the
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit.
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And so we hear that
light more and more.
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And that's called
the three angels' message
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flying in the midst of heaven.
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They have a protesting message,
its mighty truth of God.
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It's a threefold
message against Babylon.
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Revelation 14 says
the message will protest
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against the false Gospel.
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It will protest
against the false Sabbath,
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it will protest against
the false religious power.
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That's what the three angels do.
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The three angels don't
fly over people's heads
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and beat them to
death as holy as they are.
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That's not the three
angels, that's three devils
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acting like they're
followers of three angels.
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I can preach when I want to.
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And I want the
church to hear it.
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Self righteous,
that's the false gospel,
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the false Sabbath.
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Happy Sabbath doesn't
mean you are a Sabbath keeper.
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False religious power.
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I mean, it'd be
the last voice raised,
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we know that, the three angels--
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I mean, the last voice
calling men back to the book,
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back to the Bible.
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Let's get cantered in the Bible.
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Some of you people don't
know what you are reading,
00:20:51.10\00:20:52.81
the Bible or some other book.
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You don't know which
it is, read the Bible.
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A man was on the telephone
some time ago to me said,
00:20:58.98\00:21:01.38
if you're saved you
can go to any church.
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I said, well,
what church you go to?
00:21:03.96\00:21:05.50
He told me one
church. I said, that's nice.
00:21:05.53\00:21:07.73
What does your church
teach about the second coming?
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I don't know.
00:21:11.71\00:21:13.69
What does your
church teach about heaven?
00:21:13.72\00:21:16.33
Well, we're
gonna go there, yeah.
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What does your church
teach about the judgment?
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What does your church
teach about the Sabbath?
00:21:21.20\00:21:22.64
What does your church
teach about the Bible?
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What does your church-- Vague.
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No answer.
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Finally, I said,
well, how come you go?
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Well, my momma went there
00:21:29.25\00:21:30.36
and it's the
closest church to my house.
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Thank God it's not
the church of Satan
00:21:33.78\00:21:35.53
closest to his house.
00:21:35.56\00:21:39.47
I mean, if Satan
knows why you don't belong
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you should know why you belong.
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Come on now, amen.
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That's what the
reformation is about,
00:21:46.52\00:21:48.57
that's what the
reformation is about.
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You see, 50 percent
of people were asked
00:21:50.95\00:21:53.15
why you go to a certain church.
00:21:53.18\00:21:54.31
They said, because of
the doctrine, the belief.
00:21:54.34\00:21:56.44
Asked what about the
belief, they were very vague.
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Listen, 40 percent said
because my parents belong.
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Then what does
the Bible tell us?
00:22:02.01\00:22:04.29
Another man told me,
00:22:04.32\00:22:05.63
well, we're all going
in different directions,
00:22:05.66\00:22:07.35
we'll get there.
00:22:07.38\00:22:09.39
What a dumb philosophy that is.
00:22:09.42\00:22:11.70
If I'm going to
Chicago from here,
00:22:11.73\00:22:14.01
I'm not gonna go east.
00:22:14.04\00:22:18.04
There is a big pond
between there and Chicago.
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Fifty percent of beliefs,
40 because their parents belong
00:22:23.51\00:22:26.18
10 percent
because it was close, wow.
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Peter says, "But sanctify
the Lord God in your hearts
00:22:29.01\00:22:31.55
and be ready
always to give an answer
00:22:31.58\00:22:33.40
to every man that
asketh you a reason
00:22:33.43\00:22:35.55
of the hope that is in
you with meekness and fear."
00:22:35.58\00:22:38.38
You better study this book
00:22:38.41\00:22:40.77
because they're
gonna take it from you.
00:22:40.80\00:22:42.96
And you better
ponder it in your heart now,
00:22:42.99\00:22:45.24
don't think you
can be a tourist,
00:22:45.27\00:22:47.21
you need to be a pilgrim.
00:22:47.24\00:22:49.41
You need to be a pilgrim.
00:22:49.44\00:22:51.71
They've chained
a Bible to the wall
00:22:51.74\00:22:53.69
and this monk, a
monk, a Catholic monk,
00:22:53.72\00:22:57.65
never forget it,
they were godly men,
00:22:57.68\00:23:00.81
Roman catholic monks
and priests who love God
00:23:00.84\00:23:03.88
and wanted to know
what the Bible said.
00:23:03.91\00:23:05.86
Amen.
00:23:05.89\00:23:07.39
And when they did, they changed.
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.85
You can't read this
Bible and remain the same.
00:23:09.88\00:23:13.84
I can't read this
Bible and remain the same.
00:23:13.87\00:23:17.96
It'll happen soon.
00:23:17.99\00:23:20.13
Why was this change?
00:23:20.16\00:23:21.19
There came a falling away.
00:23:21.22\00:23:23.10
It was soon after the
last disciple died, after John
00:23:23.13\00:23:26.20
and the early church fathers
00:23:26.23\00:23:27.75
and soon they
began to compromise
00:23:27.78\00:23:29.95
and a little compromise here
and a little compromise there
00:23:29.98\00:23:32.35
and you see that's how sin
00:23:32.38\00:23:33.66
really gets rooted
in your heart, isn't it?
00:23:33.69\00:23:35.35
A little compromise, a little,
00:23:35.38\00:23:36.79
you know, that's not so bad
00:23:36.82\00:23:37.86
and before you know
it, you're captured by it.
00:23:37.89\00:23:40.97
Before you know it
you're controlled by it,
00:23:41.00\00:23:42.53
you are chained.
00:23:42.56\00:23:45.00
The Bible was chained.
The church chained the Bible.
00:23:45.03\00:23:49.06
And doctrines of
the Bible were twisted
00:23:49.09\00:23:50.88
and corrupted
over the centuries.
00:23:50.91\00:23:53.26
And little
changes that occurred,
00:23:53.29\00:23:54.73
slowly made the
Bible of non-effect,
00:23:54.76\00:23:57.00
salvation by works
as if you could work
00:23:57.03\00:23:59.09
your way to heaven.
00:23:59.12\00:24:02.13
That's not only the dilemma
of the Roman Catholic Church,
00:24:02.16\00:24:05.30
that's the dilemma of
some of our Protestant churches
00:24:05.33\00:24:07.87
and that's the
dilemma of some times
00:24:07.90\00:24:09.60
of those even within the
truth, the true church of God.
00:24:09.63\00:24:14.41
You can't earn
your way to heaven.
00:24:14.44\00:24:16.48
You never will
earn your way to heaven.
00:24:16.51\00:24:18.66
Your good works do
not bring you to heaven,
00:24:18.69\00:24:21.04
your good works show you
00:24:21.07\00:24:22.69
that you're living
in the state of heaven.
00:24:22.72\00:24:26.52
I'm living already
in the state of heaven.
00:24:26.55\00:24:28.98
I mean, then
came infant baptism.
00:24:29.01\00:24:31.15
That was simple
00:24:31.18\00:24:32.30
and let your
parents make your decision.
00:24:32.33\00:24:35.19
Let your parents
make your decision?
00:24:35.22\00:24:39.78
Where do you read
that in the Bible?
00:24:39.81\00:24:42.36
Sale of indulgences.
00:24:42.39\00:24:44.76
Then came purgatory.
00:24:44.79\00:24:46.49
And then the church
kept committing spiritual--
00:24:46.52\00:24:49.71
Sunday for the true worship.
00:24:49.74\00:24:51.53
And then the Sabbath was changed
00:24:51.56\00:24:53.66
and on and on into
darkness, darkness, darkness,
00:24:53.69\00:24:56.30
and then they started
to fight against those
00:24:56.33\00:24:58.57
who were fighting
against the church,
00:24:58.60\00:24:59.79
who stood up
against the church, said,
00:24:59.82\00:25:01.32
no, you can't go there.
00:25:01.35\00:25:03.16
And so they took them
and burned them at the stake
00:25:03.19\00:25:04.97
and they sawed them
in sunder and the lions.
00:25:05.00\00:25:09.13
But hey, don't you
get too comfortable
00:25:09.16\00:25:10.91
because later on when
they built denominations
00:25:10.94\00:25:13.08
soon the denominations,
00:25:13.11\00:25:14.51
the Protestants were persecuting
00:25:14.54\00:25:15.93
the poor
Catholics and killing them.
00:25:15.96\00:25:21.07
You're not absolved from it.
00:25:21.10\00:25:23.80
Not absolved.
00:25:23.83\00:25:26.10
There was the
burning of the heretics.
00:25:26.13\00:25:28.24
Then in Germany,
Saint Augustine monk
00:25:28.27\00:25:30.89
Martin Luther decided
it's time to resist it.
00:25:30.92\00:25:33.51
Ninety five theses nailed
00:25:33.54\00:25:35.06
to the church
door at Wittenberg.
00:25:35.09\00:25:37.22
It led to the
great Protestant era.
00:25:37.25\00:25:39.17
But Luther wasn't alone.
00:25:39.20\00:25:40.26
Wycliffe before him was
called the Morning Star.
00:25:40.29\00:25:42.87
He was called the Morning Star
of this wonderful reformation.
00:25:42.90\00:25:46.17
That was Wycliffe.
00:25:46.20\00:25:47.78
Hus and Jerome,
00:25:47.81\00:25:49.47
a hundred years
before Luther were burned
00:25:49.50\00:25:50.98
at the stake for their faith.
00:25:51.01\00:25:52.68
You see what they were doing?
00:25:52.71\00:25:53.99
They were coming out
step by step by step by step.
00:25:54.02\00:25:58.45
They were
learning from each other.
00:25:58.48\00:26:01.11
They did not say,
"Oh, you're Hussites.
00:26:01.14\00:26:03.87
I don't want to learn
anything from the Hussites."
00:26:03.90\00:26:06.99
They accepted the
Biblical belief of the Hussites.
00:26:07.02\00:26:11.60
And they believed what
the others were teaching
00:26:11.63\00:26:13.87
that was with the Word of God.
00:26:13.90\00:26:16.29
And it was this
that kept going brighter
00:26:16.32\00:26:19.23
and brighter and
brighter and brighter.
00:26:19.26\00:26:21.85
And the
reformation moved forward
00:26:21.88\00:26:23.17
out of the darkness
back into the light.
00:26:23.20\00:26:25.12
God was trying to
bring us back to the Bible,
00:26:25.15\00:26:27.33
He was trying to bring
us back to the early truths
00:26:27.36\00:26:29.35
of the early Christian Church.
00:26:29.38\00:26:30.98
He was trying to
get the church moved
00:26:31.01\00:26:32.62
out of darkness
into the light again.
00:26:32.65\00:26:36.04
Have you ever been in a cave?
00:26:36.07\00:26:37.68
The dark recesses of a cave?
00:26:37.71\00:26:39.56
The closer you came towards
the opening, what happened?
00:26:39.59\00:26:42.16
The opening seemed to get
bigger and bigger and bigger.
00:26:42.19\00:26:44.06
You notice, when
you're way back in the cave
00:26:44.09\00:26:45.90
just a tiny
little pinpoint of light.
00:26:45.93\00:26:47.80
Say, I can't fit through there.
00:26:47.83\00:26:49.93
But the closer you come,
00:26:49.96\00:26:51.77
you see, that's what
was happening with the--
00:26:51.80\00:26:53.50
what was
happening with reformation.
00:26:53.53\00:26:56.38
Reformers were
trying to go more and more
00:26:56.41\00:26:58.88
unto that perfect day.
00:26:58.91\00:27:01.25
They were trying
to learn more and more
00:27:01.28\00:27:03.95
so that they might be
faithful to God in all ways.
00:27:03.98\00:27:08.52
You see they used
the light to guide them.
00:27:08.55\00:27:15.22
At first, just a
pinpoint of light, right?
00:27:15.25\00:27:18.20
And then more and more and more.
00:27:18.23\00:27:20.11
Someone came up to
me recently right here,
00:27:20.14\00:27:22.13
and said, you know, I
have learned more in a month
00:27:22.16\00:27:24.71
here than I learned in
my 35 years in my church.
00:27:24.74\00:27:30.23
Because it's more and
more unto that perfect day.
00:27:30.26\00:27:33.77
The light is more and more,
00:27:33.80\00:27:36.12
more and more just as
the Book of Proverbs said,
00:27:36.15\00:27:39.31
slowly out of darkness.
00:27:39.34\00:27:40.74
Unfortunately,
now listen carefully,
00:27:40.77\00:27:43.66
men became the
followers of the reformers.
00:27:43.69\00:27:47.79
Do you hear me?
00:27:47.82\00:27:50.07
They did not use the
truth as the stepping stone.
00:27:50.10\00:27:53.02
They began to build
churches and denominations
00:27:53.05\00:27:55.54
and name them
after the reformers.
00:27:55.57\00:27:57.46
So there came about
a counter reformation
00:27:57.49\00:27:59.89
and name Jesuit priesthood
00:27:59.92\00:28:01.38
was formed to
extinguish that truth and Luther
00:28:01.41\00:28:04.64
and that's where we
got the rapture from.
00:28:04.67\00:28:06.33
I taught you that the
other day if you were here.
00:28:06.36\00:28:08.61
Remember, the rapture, it
didn't come from the Bible,
00:28:08.64\00:28:11.57
it came from
Roman Catholic Church.
00:28:11.60\00:28:13.31
It said the antichrist would
come down at the end of time
00:28:13.34\00:28:16.01
because the reformers said
the antichrist was the papacy.
00:28:16.04\00:28:19.35
And so the
papacy didn't like that,
00:28:19.38\00:28:21.14
you could imagine.
00:28:21.17\00:28:22.20
And so the Jesuits were formed,
00:28:22.23\00:28:23.75
that order,
theological, brilliant men
00:28:23.78\00:28:27.39
and they were to
counter the reformation.
00:28:27.42\00:28:29.57
And the counter
of the reformation
00:28:29.60\00:28:30.90
was to try to teach that
00:28:30.93\00:28:31.96
antichrist was at the
end of time called futurism
00:28:31.99\00:28:35.16
and they bought into it.
00:28:35.19\00:28:39.11
And they bought into it.
00:28:39.14\00:28:42.54
You see, church
was trying to get back
00:28:42.57\00:28:47.12
and those who
were leading the church
00:28:47.15\00:28:48.41
was trying to lead
them deeper in darkness.
00:28:48.44\00:28:51.87
I mean, and so the protest came
00:28:51.90\00:28:54.01
not against the
good Catholicism.
00:28:54.04\00:28:57.35
Against the good catholic
people of who there are many,
00:28:57.38\00:29:01.53
many and many and many.
00:29:01.56\00:29:04.03
I've had the
privilege of being in India
00:29:04.06\00:29:07.96
and I visited the
house of dying sister Teresa,
00:29:07.99\00:29:11.61
I met with them.
00:29:11.64\00:29:13.63
Hey, listen to me, Godly people,
00:29:13.66\00:29:18.06
and they're
working with the down tribe
00:29:18.09\00:29:20.41
you haven't any idea.
00:29:20.44\00:29:23.27
Little teenage girls,
all they have is a saree
00:29:23.30\00:29:26.03
and sandals to their
feet and we kids in our church
00:29:26.06\00:29:29.50
some times they
read Vogue magazine
00:29:29.53\00:29:31.53
but they say happy Sabbath
00:29:31.56\00:29:32.74
you think
they're going to heaven.
00:29:32.77\00:29:34.27
Listen to me, wake
up and smell the roses,
00:29:34.30\00:29:37.12
good news that
comes from the heart
00:29:37.15\00:29:38.79
comes only from God.
00:29:38.82\00:29:42.07
The Protestants began
to persecute the Catholics
00:29:42.10\00:29:44.81
and Catholics will fight
00:29:44.84\00:29:46.19
instead they're trying to
get together in the Word of God
00:29:46.22\00:29:48.53
and find the truth
00:29:48.56\00:29:49.73
so there would be
a true ecumenical.
00:29:49.76\00:29:52.46
There would be a true
movement for our one faith.
00:29:52.49\00:29:56.27
But no, they rejected the Bible
00:29:56.30\00:29:59.87
or they only accepted the truth
00:29:59.90\00:30:01.24
they wanted to
accept and that's worst.
00:30:01.27\00:30:04.74
Because of
intolerance and persecution
00:30:04.77\00:30:07.18
and they were
prisoned but later on
00:30:07.21\00:30:09.12
many of those poor
people had to flea.
00:30:09.15\00:30:10.79
They had to come.
00:30:10.82\00:30:11.86
The pilgrims came here why?
00:30:11.89\00:30:13.31
Because of the intolerance.
00:30:13.34\00:30:15.46
Groups of Roman
Catholics came here
00:30:15.49\00:30:17.03
because you're persecuted
in Europe they came here.
00:30:17.06\00:30:19.29
And Protestants came here
00:30:19.32\00:30:21.03
and they wanted
freedom to worship
00:30:21.06\00:30:22.51
and God was
trying to lead them back,
00:30:22.54\00:30:25.29
trying to get them
back for the Bible.
00:30:25.32\00:30:27.03
There was the Wesley Brothers
00:30:27.06\00:30:28.30
I mean, they
brought light to the--
00:30:28.33\00:30:30.24
I mean wonderful
truth experiment religion,
00:30:30.27\00:30:33.11
what we've learned
and you see the movement
00:30:33.14\00:30:34.93
the last movement,
the three angels' movement
00:30:34.96\00:30:36.98
it's not a
denomination it's a movement
00:30:37.01\00:30:39.44
that accepts what Wesley taught
00:30:39.47\00:30:41.30
when it was taught
from the Word of God
00:30:41.33\00:30:43.07
they accepts what Hus
taught and what Jerome taught
00:30:43.10\00:30:45.97
and Hussites and the Wycliffe's
00:30:46.00\00:30:48.66
and I mean, taking
those wonderful truths
00:30:48.69\00:30:51.61
and incorporating into
the one truth with a movement,
00:30:51.64\00:30:57.42
not some
denomination, with a movement
00:30:57.45\00:31:00.10
because we'd accepted
00:31:00.13\00:31:01.53
what has been
true of all churches.
00:31:01.56\00:31:05.23
Down through the centuries
and came William Miller.
00:31:05.26\00:31:07.42
William Miller
was studying the Bible
00:31:07.45\00:31:09.34
and he studied the judgment
00:31:09.37\00:31:10.42
he said in
1844, Jesus would come
00:31:10.45\00:31:12.77
they were called the Millerites.
00:31:12.80\00:31:14.88
And by the way many--
00:31:14.91\00:31:16.30
thousands
followed the Millerites,
00:31:16.33\00:31:18.00
Roman Catholics and Protestants
00:31:18.03\00:31:19.62
and people of all
faith they became Millerites,
00:31:19.65\00:31:22.07
they became believers
in the return of Christ.
00:31:22.10\00:31:24.25
They thought He was
going to come at exact time
00:31:24.28\00:31:26.50
but no man knows
the day or hour but--
00:31:26.53\00:31:29.15
that was William
Miller, he was a farmer.
00:31:29.18\00:31:31.29
He was a
wonderful Christian man,
00:31:31.32\00:31:32.78
a brilliant man
but he misinterpret it.
00:31:32.81\00:31:35.79
He tried to push it too far.
00:31:35.82\00:31:37.47
Don't push scripture.
00:31:37.50\00:31:38.76
Let's scripture
lead, don't push it.
00:31:38.79\00:31:42.17
Some times that
happens and I went to the spot
00:31:42.20\00:31:46.90
where they stood
on that great rock,
00:31:46.93\00:31:49.65
those early
believers in New England
00:31:49.68\00:31:52.06
and they looked to go home
00:31:52.09\00:31:54.18
and there came the
great disappointment.
00:31:54.21\00:31:57.28
By the way, man's disappointment
00:31:57.31\00:31:58.87
God's appointment.
00:31:58.90\00:32:01.80
Amen, come on.
00:32:01.83\00:32:03.13
Man's disappointment
becomes God's appointment
00:32:03.16\00:32:06.35
because God brought
to those Millerites,
00:32:06.38\00:32:08.93
God brought after
the Millerite movement
00:32:08.96\00:32:11.25
that God raised up the church,
00:32:11.28\00:32:14.84
the church that
follows the commands of God
00:32:14.87\00:32:16.71
and the testimony of Jesus.
00:32:16.74\00:32:18.47
But you follow me
please, carefully, follow me,
00:32:18.50\00:32:21.85
the Lutherans were found 1524.
00:32:21.88\00:32:24.63
They came to
justification by faith,
00:32:24.66\00:32:26.79
faith in Christ alone.
00:32:26.82\00:32:28.13
But then they build walls
and soon they became Lutherans
00:32:28.16\00:32:31.50
and then the
Episcopal came along
00:32:31.53\00:32:33.29
and they had
some truth to share.
00:32:33.32\00:32:34.88
1534, the
Congregational, listen,
00:32:34.91\00:32:37.82
and the
Presbyterians and the Baptist,
00:32:37.85\00:32:40.50
they were trying to bring us
00:32:40.53\00:32:41.59
back to the much
of the Word of God
00:32:41.62\00:32:43.62
and they were bring us back.
00:32:43.65\00:32:45.99
But what
happened is, they stopped.
00:32:46.02\00:32:50.99
And they thought,
that's good enough for me.
00:32:51.02\00:32:54.20
And so when God
showed them the truth
00:32:54.23\00:32:56.59
the second coming of
Christ, they stopped.
00:32:56.62\00:33:00.29
They didn't take the
next step and the next step,
00:33:00.32\00:33:03.63
and the next step.
00:33:03.66\00:33:06.08
And so we find
the Quakers, 1647.
00:33:06.11\00:33:12.10
I learned
something from the Quakers.
00:33:12.13\00:33:14.24
I learned about
meditations from the Quakers.
00:33:14.27\00:33:17.02
Little Quaker
woman taught me that.
00:33:17.05\00:33:18.98
I was praying with her
and when I finished prayer
00:33:19.01\00:33:20.72
and I had to make so many visits
00:33:20.75\00:33:21.99
so I was getting
up, she says, oh, wait,
00:33:22.02\00:33:23.64
we got to listen to God now.
00:33:23.67\00:33:27.39
I learned now
about listening to God.
00:33:27.42\00:33:31.68
I learned from the Methodist.
00:33:31.71\00:33:34.42
I learned about
experimental religion.
00:33:34.45\00:33:36.72
I learned about--
and by the way we learned
00:33:36.75\00:33:38.43
about our Sabbath
school from the Sunday school.
00:33:38.46\00:33:41.21
Listen, that's
the Methodist Church
00:33:41.24\00:33:42.86
and we learned
from the Baptist Church
00:33:42.89\00:33:44.62
baptism by immersion
and we didn't reject it
00:33:44.65\00:33:47.43
because it was
Baptist or Methodist or--
00:33:47.46\00:33:49.44
we accepted it
because it was truth.
00:33:49.47\00:33:51.61
Amen.
00:33:51.64\00:33:55.08
We are in a church,
00:33:55.11\00:33:56.90
of
denomination, we are movement.
00:33:56.93\00:34:00.32
And when God sheds
light on us we take the step.
00:34:00.35\00:34:06.09
Disciples of Christ
and later day saints
00:34:06.12\00:34:08.59
and Seventh-day Adventist, 1843.
00:34:08.62\00:34:11.05
Well, let me tell
you, someone was asking,
00:34:11.08\00:34:12.65
when did Seventh-day
Adventist church start?
00:34:12.68\00:34:14.72
Well, I was tempted to say 1843.
00:34:14.75\00:34:16.61
But no, you see,
00:34:16.64\00:34:18.54
Enoch was the first
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:34:18.57\00:34:20.61
Amen.
00:34:20.64\00:34:21.73
He believed in return
of Christ the second time
00:34:21.76\00:34:24.02
the Messiah and
he kept the Sabbath.
00:34:24.05\00:34:26.40
Come on now.
00:34:26.43\00:34:27.93
Amen.
00:34:27.96\00:34:30.20
Anyway, lets go on.
00:34:30.23\00:34:32.42
You see, how God
let us out of darkness?
00:34:32.45\00:34:34.81
Righteousness by Faith.
00:34:34.84\00:34:36.66
Baptism by Immersion.
00:34:36.69\00:34:38.40
Experimental Religion.
00:34:38.43\00:34:40.22
Tomorrow night I
am gonna tell you why
00:34:40.25\00:34:41.56
I became a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
00:34:41.59\00:34:43.17
I wasn't brought upon one
but I'm gonna tell you why,
00:34:43.20\00:34:45.54
one of the pillars of faith
and I am gonna let you hear it.
00:34:45.57\00:34:48.84
Now I have testified
you, you be sure to be here
00:34:48.87\00:34:52.39
because you want to know
00:34:52.42\00:34:53.52
why this man
ticks the way he ticks.
00:34:53.55\00:34:56.39
You want to know
why I act the way I act,
00:34:56.42\00:34:59.52
that's tomorrow night.
00:34:59.55\00:35:01.79
All right,
that's some commercial.
00:35:01.82\00:35:05.51
And so there it was
experimental religion,
00:35:05.54\00:35:07.62
religious freedom and liberty
and high standard of morality.
00:35:07.65\00:35:11.61
You can't tell the
church from the world.
00:35:11.64\00:35:14.40
Horatius Bonar said,
"I looked for the church
00:35:14.43\00:35:16.30
and I found it in the world.
00:35:16.33\00:35:17.44
And I look for the world
and I found it in a church."
00:35:17.47\00:35:22.06
There was a time you could tell.
00:35:22.09\00:35:24.35
A Christian
walking down the street,
00:35:24.38\00:35:26.31
you could tell.
Now you can't tell.
00:35:26.34\00:35:29.82
If it's a call girl
walking down the street.
00:35:29.85\00:35:32.80
And then, come on now.
00:35:32.83\00:35:35.34
Well, Halverson,
you're getting too hard.
00:35:35.37\00:35:36.75
Well, maybe I
am backup a little.
00:35:36.78\00:35:39.49
Not far but
I'll backup a little.
00:35:39.52\00:35:42.15
You see, step by step
God was leading His people
00:35:42.18\00:35:45.66
just like God is
leading His people today.
00:35:45.69\00:35:49.35
Listen to me, you're
not giving up anything.
00:35:49.38\00:35:54.15
You're getting everything.
00:35:54.18\00:35:56.89
You're not giving up anything.
00:35:56.92\00:35:59.17
You see, step by step
God was leading people
00:35:59.20\00:36:01.20
out of papal
tyranny, satanic philosophy
00:36:01.23\00:36:03.53
corrupt counsels in theology.
00:36:03.56\00:36:06.37
Then there came a
young Methodist girl.
00:36:06.40\00:36:11.39
An old Baptist sea captain.
00:36:11.42\00:36:13.25
That's right, you see we
have the truth of the Sabbath
00:36:13.28\00:36:16.38
from a Methodist girl
and a Baptist sea captain.
00:36:16.41\00:36:21.07
That's right, because they said,
00:36:21.10\00:36:23.73
one day, Joseph Bates--
00:36:23.76\00:36:26.21
I mean, I get it
right, sea captain.
00:36:26.24\00:36:28.04
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:28.07\00:36:29.25
All right, was
crossing over the bridge
00:36:29.28\00:36:31.02
and someone
stopped them and said,
00:36:31.05\00:36:32.17
what do you-- what's new?
00:36:32.20\00:36:33.26
He said, the seventh day
00:36:33.29\00:36:34.43
is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God.
00:36:34.46\00:36:35.75
That's a Baptist preaching.
00:36:35.78\00:36:37.27
And you see when he found that
00:36:37.30\00:36:38.93
he didn't say,
whoa, I am a Baptist.
00:36:38.96\00:36:46.75
Everybody tells me you're church
00:36:46.78\00:36:48.01
can't get you in the heaven
but they are, I am a Baptist.
00:36:48.04\00:36:50.80
What does that mean?
00:36:50.83\00:36:51.98
That Baptist sea captain said,
00:36:52.01\00:36:53.91
the Sabbath is the seventh day.
00:36:53.94\00:36:58.03
We got it from a Baptist sea
captain and a Methodist girl.
00:36:58.06\00:37:00.78
And that Methodist girl
was a beautiful Christian girl.
00:37:00.81\00:37:03.64
And by the way, she was of the--
00:37:03.67\00:37:05.19
she was of the charismatic
part of the Methodist church.
00:37:05.22\00:37:08.30
When they came to church
they played the tambourine.
00:37:08.33\00:37:11.90
I know that's
frightens some of you people.
00:37:11.93\00:37:14.30
Amen.
00:37:14.33\00:37:16.91
You want to know, I
know something about it.
00:37:16.94\00:37:21.94
But they didn't
stop. They went on.
00:37:21.97\00:37:26.60
They put, they put
their arms around the truth.
00:37:26.63\00:37:29.65
They served God in a truth.
00:37:29.68\00:37:32.22
They were willing to say hey,
00:37:32.25\00:37:34.06
any where Jesus
leads me I can safely go.
00:37:34.09\00:37:37.09
Amen.
00:37:37.12\00:37:40.10
There came the remnant
out of all these churches.
00:37:40.13\00:37:45.98
You want to know what
to believe tomorrow night
00:37:46.01\00:37:47.28
I will show you
13 pillars of faith.
00:37:47.31\00:37:49.82
So you have to know. I can't.
00:37:49.85\00:37:51.56
No, well you got
a Ph.D in the stuff.
00:37:51.59\00:37:54.95
You don't have to
know you have to be here
00:37:54.98\00:37:59.05
till that you know.
00:37:59.08\00:38:01.33
Commandment keeping
faith living people,
00:38:01.36\00:38:05.48
an organized church,
an organized movement
00:38:05.51\00:38:07.57
that will go out at
the end of the earth.
00:38:07.60\00:38:09.18
I am gonna show you
something startling tomorrow
00:38:09.21\00:38:10.92
about this movement.
00:38:10.95\00:38:14.20
Progressive light, more and more
00:38:14.23\00:38:16.13
into the righteousness by faith.
00:38:16.16\00:38:17.55
More and more on
to the perfect day.
00:38:17.58\00:38:19.12
Baptism by immersion more
and more into the perfect day.
00:38:19.15\00:38:21.61
Experimental
religion in other words
00:38:21.64\00:38:23.06
religion should
change your life.
00:38:23.09\00:38:24.77
And we learned it
from religious freedom
00:38:24.80\00:38:26.40
and liberty and
we followed that.
00:38:26.43\00:38:28.21
We wanted to be the
high standard of morality.
00:38:28.24\00:38:30.72
We wanted to be moral people.
00:38:30.75\00:38:35.15
The judgment hour,
before judgment revelation,
00:38:35.18\00:38:39.01
second coming of
Christ, Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:38:39.04\00:38:43.20
Not denying the things
we have already learned.
00:38:43.23\00:38:45.72
Not turning from that
but incorporating that
00:38:45.75\00:38:50.05
and then taking the next step.
00:38:50.08\00:38:52.54
Hey, walk that way.
00:38:52.57\00:38:54.74
Walk in that spirit.
00:38:54.77\00:38:56.93
And they were those,
those early Minarites
00:38:56.96\00:38:59.95
and they were studying
now the second coming of Jesus
00:38:59.98\00:39:02.76
and this disappointment
that they discovered the Sabbath
00:39:02.79\00:39:05.38
and others the few
Sabbath believers in New England
00:39:05.41\00:39:08.34
and they are believing
all these things they learned
00:39:08.37\00:39:10.24
before through these
great wonderful churches.
00:39:10.27\00:39:14.32
"And I saw another angel
fly in the midst of heaven,
00:39:14.35\00:39:17.07
having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them."
00:39:17.10\00:39:19.82
That's the good
news of salvation.
00:39:19.85\00:39:21.96
"To every nation, and kindred,
and tongue, and people."
00:39:21.99\00:39:24.17
It's not just
one small movement,
00:39:24.20\00:39:25.60
one small super
church out in Los Angeles.
00:39:25.63\00:39:28.14
This is the movement
that reaches around the world.
00:39:28.17\00:39:32.81
"And saying with a
loud voice, Fear God,
00:39:32.84\00:39:34.22
give glory to Him for the hour
00:39:34.25\00:39:35.46
of His judgment is come
00:39:35.49\00:39:36.78
and worship Him that
made heaven, and earth,
00:39:36.81\00:39:38.50
and the sea, and the
fountains of waters."
00:39:38.53\00:39:41.01
And listen he goes on say.
00:39:41.04\00:39:42.58
"And there followed
another angel, saying,
00:39:42.61\00:39:44.27
Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city,
00:39:44.30\00:39:46.85
because she made
all nations drink
00:39:46.88\00:39:48.42
of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication."
00:39:48.45\00:39:50.47
And notice what it says.
00:39:50.50\00:39:52.13
"And the third
angel followed them,
00:39:52.16\00:39:53.44
saying with a loud
voice, if any man," What?
00:39:53.47\00:39:56.33
"If any man worship
the beast and his image,
00:39:56.36\00:39:58.77
and receive a
mark in his forehead,
00:39:58.80\00:40:00.73
or in his hand."
00:40:00.76\00:40:01.97
What will happen?
00:40:02.00\00:40:03.07
"The same shall drink
00:40:03.10\00:40:04.23
of the wine of the wrath of God,
00:40:04.26\00:40:05.53
which is poured without mixture
00:40:05.56\00:40:06.87
into the cup of
his indignation."
00:40:06.90\00:40:08.60
And it says.
00:40:08.63\00:40:09.66
"And he shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone
00:40:09.69\00:40:12.22
in the presence
of the holy angels."
00:40:12.25\00:40:13.87
And he goes on.
00:40:13.90\00:40:14.95
"And in the
presence of the Lamb,
00:40:14.98\00:40:16.65
And the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up for ever and ever
00:40:16.68\00:40:19.35
and they have no
rest day nor night,
00:40:19.38\00:40:20.69
who worship the
beast and his image
00:40:20.72\00:40:22.59
and whosoever
receiveth the mark of his name.
00:40:22.62\00:40:26.16
Here is the
patience of the saints.
00:40:26.19\00:40:28.24
Here are they that keep
the commandments of God,
00:40:28.27\00:40:30.58
and the faith of Jesus."
00:40:30.61\00:40:32.35
Come out of Babylon.
That's what it means.
00:40:32.38\00:40:35.26
That's what you
people are doing.
00:40:35.29\00:40:36.44
You're coming out of Babylon.
00:40:36.47\00:40:39.14
You're coming
out for Jesus Christ.
00:40:39.17\00:40:41.78
That's what that means.
00:40:41.81\00:40:43.86
"And after these things I saw
00:40:43.89\00:40:45.64
another angel
come down from heaven,
00:40:45.67\00:40:47.70
having great power and the earth
00:40:47.73\00:40:49.14
was lightened with his glory.
00:40:49.17\00:40:50.26
And he cried mightily
with a strong voice, saying,"
00:40:50.29\00:40:53.08
notice "Babylon the
great is fallen, is fallen,
00:40:53.11\00:40:57.00
become the habitation of devils,
00:40:57.03\00:40:58.91
and the hold of
every foul spirit,
00:40:58.94\00:41:01.40
the cage of every
unclean and hateful bird."
00:41:01.43\00:41:04.17
What a description?
00:41:04.20\00:41:05.62
And he says "All
nations have drunk
00:41:05.65\00:41:07.85
of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication,
00:41:07.88\00:41:09.63
the kings of the earth
00:41:09.66\00:41:10.70
have committed
fornication with her."
00:41:10.73\00:41:12.41
And again he repeats it.
00:41:12.44\00:41:14.16
"And the merchants of
the earth are waxed rich
00:41:14.19\00:41:15.83
through the
abundance of her delicacies.
00:41:15.86\00:41:17.57
And I heard another
voice from heaven, saying,
00:41:17.60\00:41:19.53
Come out of her, my people."
00:41:19.56\00:41:21.07
Not a people but my people.
00:41:21.10\00:41:23.39
"That ye be not
partakers of her sins,
00:41:23.42\00:41:25.54
and that ye receive
not of her plagues."
00:41:25.57\00:41:28.59
You see, all the
world followed the beast.
00:41:28.62\00:41:33.13
Well, not all
because there are many
00:41:33.16\00:41:36.56
who come out of Babylon.
00:41:36.59\00:41:38.07
Amen. Amen.
00:41:38.10\00:41:39.28
Who come out of
Babylon. All the world.
00:41:39.31\00:41:44.24
There will be a religious
00:41:44.27\00:41:45.56
political coalition in last day.
00:41:45.59\00:41:49.21
My friend, it's gonna be
uniting of all the religions
00:41:49.24\00:41:52.40
because they already
agree on some things.
00:41:52.43\00:41:55.08
And they're going to united
00:41:55.11\00:41:56.60
against the people
of God that's truth.
00:41:56.63\00:41:59.56
And all good causes
00:41:59.59\00:42:01.58
many family values, that's good.
00:42:01.61\00:42:04.05
Outlaw I mean, that's good,
00:42:04.08\00:42:06.13
restore worship I
mean, this is all good.
00:42:06.16\00:42:08.57
One faith, one
religion it sounds good.
00:42:08.60\00:42:12.33
"And I beheld another
beast coming up out of the earth
00:42:12.36\00:42:14.45
and he had two
horns like a lamb,
00:42:14.48\00:42:15.79
and he spoke as a dragon.
00:42:15.82\00:42:17.02
And he exercises the power
of the first beast before him."
00:42:17.05\00:42:20.89
Now you remember I talked
00:42:20.92\00:42:22.53
on the United
States and Bible prophecy.
00:42:22.56\00:42:24.62
Here is that prophecy again.
00:42:24.65\00:42:26.26
He says, the United
States is gonna give this power.
00:42:26.29\00:42:29.25
A religion political power
00:42:29.28\00:42:31.26
to unite the
nations, this is it.
00:42:31.29\00:42:33.84
"And causeth the earth and them
00:42:33.87\00:42:35.42
which dwell therein to
worship the first beast,
00:42:35.45\00:42:37.21
whose deadly wound was healed.
00:42:37.24\00:42:38.47
And causeth all,
both small and great,
00:42:38.50\00:42:40.28
rich and poor, free and bond."
00:42:40.31\00:42:41.67
What?
00:42:41.70\00:42:42.73
"To receive a mark in his
right hand, in his foreheads.
00:42:42.76\00:42:45.95
That no man might buy or
sell, save he that had the mark,
00:42:45.98\00:42:49.86
and the name of the beast,
and the number of his name."
00:42:49.89\00:42:55.44
So the call is God. Call of God.
00:42:55.47\00:42:58.60
"Protestants and
Catholics" listen to this
00:42:58.63\00:43:00.84
"would 'join hands'
00:43:00.87\00:43:01.90
uniting together
to exalt Sunday."
00:43:01.93\00:43:05.07
Its coming, watch its coming.
00:43:05.10\00:43:08.70
Beautiful book
Great Controversy.
00:43:08.73\00:43:11.09
McCord, J.C.
McCord, historian said
00:43:11.12\00:43:13.97
"The End of the Protestant Era."
00:43:14.00\00:43:15.03
There is nothing
to protest any longer.
00:43:15.06\00:43:16.97
If they're all
agreeing on tradition
00:43:17.00\00:43:18.61
and its nothing to protest
00:43:18.64\00:43:20.29
but only as there
some people in the world
00:43:20.32\00:43:21.54
who believe the Bible
00:43:21.57\00:43:22.60
and Bible only, we will protest.
00:43:22.63\00:43:25.14
We'll stand up and
proclaim the Word of God
00:43:25.17\00:43:27.18
no matter how hard it is
00:43:27.21\00:43:28.66
because it's the
truth and it's the way,
00:43:28.69\00:43:30.94
the truth and its the light.
00:43:30.97\00:43:33.14
"Since Protestantism
has lost its moorings,
00:43:33.17\00:43:35.46
has nothing to protest,
00:43:35.49\00:43:37.19
it has no other
alternative than to" What?
00:43:37.22\00:43:39.73
"Then to unite."
00:43:39.76\00:43:40.95
There is gonna be uniting
00:43:40.98\00:43:42.16
of these
religious powers and forces.
00:43:42.19\00:43:45.80
"Protestants of
the United States
00:43:45.83\00:43:47.44
will reach over the abyss
00:43:47.47\00:43:48.50
to clasp hands
with the Roman power."
00:43:48.53\00:43:50.58
That's prophetic.
00:43:50.61\00:43:51.68
That's exactly what's happening.
00:43:51.71\00:43:53.27
"Come out of her, my
people." That's the call of God.
00:43:53.30\00:43:56.50
The call of God is
for you is to come out.
00:43:56.53\00:43:58.11
Jesus Christ is calling
you out that's the fact.
00:43:58.14\00:44:02.11
He wants to call you out.
00:44:02.14\00:44:03.55
"The dragon was
angry with woman."
00:44:03.58\00:44:04.78
That's the church.
00:44:04.81\00:44:05.85
"And he went to make the war
00:44:05.88\00:44:06.91
with the remnant of the church."
00:44:06.94\00:44:08.30
By the way God has His
people in many churches.
00:44:08.33\00:44:10.33
You never forget that.
00:44:10.36\00:44:11.50
But God is calling them out
00:44:11.53\00:44:12.82
so they might be the proclaimed
00:44:12.85\00:44:14.22
of the true message of
Jesus Christ in the Bible
00:44:14.25\00:44:16.71
that's all He is
calling them out.
00:44:16.74\00:44:18.44
Just like He called
them out in the past.
00:44:18.47\00:44:20.41
This is the final reformation.
00:44:20.44\00:44:24.45
And He says "the
remnant of her seed,
00:44:24.48\00:44:26.48
which keep the
commandment of God,
00:44:26.51\00:44:28.08
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
00:44:28.11\00:44:31.07
The testimony.
00:44:31.10\00:44:32.57
Someone well how do we
know which is the true.
00:44:32.60\00:44:35.35
Well, if you
have the right address
00:44:35.38\00:44:36.77
you'll find the true place.
00:44:36.80\00:44:38.96
All right, I remember I
took my first trip to Florida.
00:44:38.99\00:44:43.41
And I always want to go there
00:44:43.44\00:44:44.70
because you know it sounded nice
00:44:44.73\00:44:47.01
and my wife and I
00:44:47.04\00:44:48.12
we're gonna go
from where are living
00:44:48.15\00:44:50.06
and we put the
kids in the backseat.
00:44:50.09\00:44:51.63
And we packed up. My
wife packs everything.
00:44:51.66\00:44:53.74
You know when she goes
winter cloths even in Florida
00:44:53.77\00:44:56.89
and you know finally
you got to trunk shut
00:44:56.92\00:44:59.09
and we're driving down the road.
00:44:59.12\00:45:00.47
You know two minutes out
of town, how much further?
00:45:00.50\00:45:04.11
You know, come on.
And so we got there.
00:45:04.14\00:45:07.29
And I said, honey,
what's the address?
00:45:07.32\00:45:09.34
She said, 1110, Palma Avenue,
That's 1110, Palmer Avenue.
00:45:09.37\00:45:15.10
So I pulled in
there a gas station
00:45:15.13\00:45:16.66
and I don't
trust anything but that
00:45:16.69\00:45:18.04
I said where is Palmer Avenue?
00:45:18.07\00:45:19.58
So that its just easy
that's just three blocks up.
00:45:19.61\00:45:21.56
Turn left and two blocks
down. I was getting late.
00:45:21.59\00:45:24.06
I was tired.
00:45:24.09\00:45:25.12
The kid's peanut
butter and jelly sandwich
00:45:25.15\00:45:27.34
stuck all over my head.
00:45:27.37\00:45:28.49
And you know, and
I want to go to bed
00:45:28.52\00:45:30.79
and drive three
blocks and turn two
00:45:30.82\00:45:33.20
and there it is, Palmer Avenue.
00:45:33.23\00:45:35.16
So, I turned on it and I
looked it is a beautiful mansion
00:45:35.19\00:45:37.50
I said your grandparents
00:45:37.53\00:45:38.96
don't live here
something is wrong.
00:45:38.99\00:45:41.33
You know, like I sure
happen to be a good evangelists
00:45:41.36\00:45:43.11
and I called anybody home?
00:45:43.14\00:45:44.85
I rang the bell, I
knocked on the door,
00:45:44.88\00:45:46.45
and ran around the house.
00:45:46.48\00:45:47.75
I said something is wrong.
00:45:47.78\00:45:49.13
I had to look
through the phonebook.
00:45:49.16\00:45:52.29
Have you ever tried to look
00:45:52.32\00:45:53.35
through an Orlando
phonebook for address?
00:45:53.38\00:45:56.64
And I found I said,
honey, you know get that.
00:45:56.67\00:45:59.97
She took it out
and the letter her
00:46:00.00\00:46:01.03
she says 1110,
1110 Palmer street.
00:46:01.06\00:46:07.12
I said what? What?
00:46:07.15\00:46:11.47
Three hours ago I
get out of the car
00:46:11.50\00:46:14.52
walked around
three times, got back in.
00:46:14.55\00:46:18.07
I said, honey, three hours
ago you said Palmer Avenue.
00:46:18.10\00:46:21.41
She, you know, does
it make a difference?
00:46:21.44\00:46:24.80
Does it make a difference?
00:46:24.83\00:46:28.41
I found Palmer Street
1110, found her grandparents
00:46:28.44\00:46:32.81
and continued that
wonderful vacation.
00:46:32.84\00:46:36.30
Let me tell you, you
can find the address.
00:46:36.33\00:46:39.27
Want to know the
address I'll share it with you.
00:46:39.30\00:46:41.31
I have been trying to share
00:46:41.34\00:46:42.38
the address with
you for four weeks now.
00:46:42.41\00:46:44.87
Amen, come on now. Amen.
00:46:44.90\00:46:46.61
I have been trying
to share the address
00:46:46.64\00:46:47.94
with you for four weeks.
00:46:47.97\00:46:49.56
And God is calling His people.
00:46:49.59\00:46:51.82
And God wants you
to stand for the truth.
00:46:51.85\00:46:55.14
You'll find the true
mode of baptism in the truth.
00:46:55.17\00:46:58.35
Sabbath,
sanctification, conversion,
00:46:58.38\00:47:00.69
judgment, health
message, the gift of prophecy
00:47:00.72\00:47:03.25
I am gonna teach on that
on Saturday morning here.
00:47:03.28\00:47:05.97
I am gonna, on that
special seminar class
00:47:06.00\00:47:08.64
and we're gonna have a
big rally here in this place.
00:47:08.67\00:47:10.79
You want to come for that,
you don't want to miss that.
00:47:10.82\00:47:13.29
That will be the highlight.
And you can be a part of it.
00:47:13.32\00:47:16.80
Those people that are
watching night after night
00:47:16.83\00:47:19.56
you have heard the message.
00:47:19.59\00:47:20.62
You can make the decision
00:47:20.65\00:47:21.72
in fact you can
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Another Bible question to
look at and it is this one.
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"I don't
understand what Babylon is.
00:49:36.78\00:49:39.02
I thought it was
destroyed a long time ago
00:49:39.05\00:49:40.83
and its ruins are
some where in Iraq.
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Can you explain Babylon
00:49:42.79\00:49:44.38
and why we need to
get out of Babylon?"
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Let me do that for you.
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Revelation Chapter
17, Revelation Chapter 17
00:49:51.08\00:49:57.48
we'll turn there together.
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Revelation 17
what is this Babylon?
00:50:00.20\00:50:06.17
I'm going to read
several verses here
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I hope you'll follow with me.
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Chapter 17, verse 1 in
the Book of Revelation.
00:50:11.05\00:50:15.05
"And there came
one of the seven angels
00:50:15.08\00:50:16.62
which had the seven
vials, and talked with me,
00:50:16.65\00:50:18.52
saying unto me, Come hither,
00:50:18.55\00:50:21.30
I will shew unto thee the
judgment of the great whore
00:50:21.33\00:50:24.13
that sitteth upon many waters,
00:50:24.16\00:50:26.89
with whom the kings of the earth
00:50:26.92\00:50:28.13
have committed
fornication, and the inhabitants
00:50:28.16\00:50:31.30
of the earth
have been made drunk
00:50:31.33\00:50:33.32
with the wine
of her fornication.
00:50:33.35\00:50:35.72
So he carried me away
00:50:35.75\00:50:36.97
in the spirit
into the wilderness
00:50:37.00\00:50:38.23
and I saw a woman sit
upon a scarlet colored beast,
00:50:38.26\00:50:42.37
full of names of blasphemy,
00:50:42.40\00:50:44.29
having seven
heads and ten horns.
00:50:44.32\00:50:47.83
And the woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet color,
00:50:47.86\00:50:50.25
and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls,
00:50:50.28\00:50:52.69
having a golden cup in
her hand full of abominations
00:50:52.72\00:50:56.06
and filthiness
of her fornication."
00:50:56.09\00:50:59.40
Verse 5, "And upon her
forehead was a name written,
00:50:59.43\00:51:03.37
Mystery, Babylon The Great,
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The Mother Of Harlots And
Abominations Of The Earth."
00:51:05.69\00:51:11.39
So there is
Babylon and what you see
00:51:11.42\00:51:14.62
is that there is an impure woman
00:51:14.65\00:51:19.66
and it's fascinating that she is
00:51:19.69\00:51:22.43
the mother of impure women.
00:51:22.46\00:51:26.72
Now in Bible
prophecy a woman is a symbol
00:51:26.75\00:51:31.33
that represents a church.
00:51:31.36\00:51:34.54
So we can be confident
what God is showing us.
00:51:34.57\00:51:38.52
Here's a symbol
of an impure church.
00:51:38.55\00:51:41.71
It's fascinating
here that she is portrayed
00:51:41.74\00:51:46.33
as sitting upon a beast.
00:51:46.36\00:51:50.22
In Bible prophecy a
beast represents a nation.
00:51:50.25\00:51:55.13
So here there is a
church that has amalgamated
00:51:55.16\00:52:00.84
or united with
the power of the state
00:52:00.87\00:52:05.14
an impure church
state we could say.
00:52:05.17\00:52:10.33
Now what's
interesting is the Bible says
00:52:10.36\00:52:13.15
that this woman,
this church has made
00:52:13.18\00:52:15.68
the world drunk, confused
00:52:15.71\00:52:20.23
and how the church
has confused people.
00:52:20.26\00:52:22.39
Well, they
shouldn't confuse anybody
00:52:22.42\00:52:24.42
but what we have in
the world is the situation
00:52:24.45\00:52:26.46
where false
teaching down the end of time
00:52:26.49\00:52:30.46
has confused the world.
00:52:30.49\00:52:33.08
You know the
Bible is pretty simple.
00:52:33.11\00:52:36.49
I'm not talking about
Zechariah's challenging visions
00:52:36.52\00:52:39.03
and some of the interesting
things Ezekiel wrote.
00:52:39.06\00:52:41.22
They can text your grey matter.
00:52:41.25\00:52:43.76
But love God and
love your neighbor.
00:52:43.79\00:52:46.47
You know, yield for
Jesus, follow the Bible,
00:52:46.50\00:52:50.83
be kind, forsake sin,
confess sin, pretty simple.
00:52:50.86\00:52:58.13
In the end of
time God still wants
00:52:58.16\00:53:00.04
those who are new
covenant Christians to live
00:53:00.07\00:53:04.17
according to the
terms of the new covenant.
00:53:04.20\00:53:06.34
God writes His
law in our hearts,
00:53:06.37\00:53:08.52
puts it in our
mind and He is our God
00:53:08.55\00:53:11.29
and we are His
people, pretty easy.
00:53:11.32\00:53:13.99
So if you don't want
to be part of Babylon
00:53:14.02\00:53:16.74
you follow Christ, He
is your Lord and Savior
00:53:16.77\00:53:20.54
and you live
according to the Word of God.
00:53:20.57\00:53:22.23
Now, the Babylon of the
Bible in the Book of Revelation
00:53:22.26\00:53:26.80
isn't the Babylon
in the Middle East.
00:53:26.83\00:53:29.21
Its not Iraq, it's not
Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon.
00:53:29.24\00:53:32.90
In the Book of Revelation
especially God will take
00:53:32.93\00:53:37.57
a geographical
location and refer to it
00:53:37.60\00:53:40.87
but whereas in the Old Testament
00:53:40.90\00:53:42.25
it was literal and local.
00:53:42.28\00:53:43.92
Literal Babylon in a locality.
00:53:43.95\00:53:46.84
In the Book of Revelation
it is spiritual and worldwide.
00:53:46.87\00:53:50.01
Spiritual Babylon
all over the world.
00:53:50.04\00:53:52.41
This is something
that takes your salvation.
00:53:52.44\00:53:54.49
Its very
important to remember that.
00:53:54.52\00:53:56.42
So when it comes to
being part of Babylon
00:53:56.45\00:53:59.86
you don't want to be in it
00:53:59.89\00:54:00.93
because the Bible says this
in chapter 18 of Revelation,
00:54:00.96\00:54:05.62
"Babylon is fallen, is fallen,
00:54:05.65\00:54:10.14
and is become the
habitation of devils,
00:54:10.17\00:54:12.84
and the hold of
every foul spirit,
00:54:12.87\00:54:14.36
and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird."
00:54:14.39\00:54:16.40
In verse 4 God says,
"Come out of her, my people,
00:54:16.43\00:54:22.24
that ye be not
partakers of her sins,
00:54:22.27\00:54:24.02
and that ye receive
not of her plagues."
00:54:24.05\00:54:26.02
It might not seem
like a terrible thing today
00:54:26.05\00:54:28.41
to believe wrong and associate
yourself in certain areas
00:54:28.44\00:54:32.00
and let a few things
go spiritually speaking
00:54:32.03\00:54:35.66
but God wants your whole heart.
00:54:35.69\00:54:37.75
People who go to
heaven are people who love God
00:54:37.78\00:54:40.18
with their whole heart.
00:54:40.21\00:54:41.49
The people who live forever
00:54:41.52\00:54:42.75
in the presence of God
are people who love now
00:54:42.78\00:54:45.42
to live in the presence of God
and let Jesus have their will.
00:54:45.45\00:54:49.04
Ultimately
Babylon will be destroyed,
00:54:49.07\00:54:51.28
followers of
Jesus will be saved.
00:54:51.31\00:54:55.02
You be sure that you
are a follower of Jesus,
00:54:55.05\00:54:57.11
everything is gonna be okay.
00:54:57.14\00:54:58.76
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