Welcome, it is a
privilege to be here with you.
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How many of you have had
a good time at this place?
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Just show by raising
your hand... Wonderful!
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I, too, have been blessed.
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Many times you get invited
to come and be a part of the
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presenting team and you think
you will be the one blessing.
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Many of those times, it's
you who gets the blessing.
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It has been like that with me.
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The title of our
message this morning is:
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"The Great Controversy and
The Temple of the Holy Spirit"
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I'd like to start with reading
a text that is found in the
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book of Revelation 12:7...
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Let us pray...
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Our Father in
Heaven, We thank You for Your
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plan which
involves the Holy Spirit.
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It is Him who searches
the deep things of God.
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Because you are
God who is loving,
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You do not seek that we
dance around, that we sing
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and scratch ourselves
for You to be present.
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You did not wait for us to
be holy for You to be with us.
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As we entered into this place,
You were already waiting for us.
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The heavens are Your
throne, and the earth is
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is the footstool of Your throne.
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Where can we invite You so
we enter into Your presence
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into the presence of
the Holy Spirit seeking for
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but one thing...
that He reveals to us
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the deep things of God.
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This is our prayer,
in Jesus name... Amen
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I seem only to be
able to go to the earliest
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memories that I
have is when I was 5.
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If you know anything
about the country of my birth,
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around 1979 when I was 5,
there was a war that was raging.
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The natives of the
land had risen up against
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the government of the time.
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They wanted to be
recognized as a people,
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so a war broke
out in my country.
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Now it so happened that
these natives had gone to their
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neighboring countries...
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To the east of Zimbabwe is
a country called "Mozambique,"
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and they were
coming in from Mozambique
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into what was
known then as Rhodesia.
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Why I remember this particularly
is because it is at this
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point of this
time of our country,
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the struggle that was going on
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that I have my
earliest memories.
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In fact, there is a
particular incident,
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I can't remember
anything beyond that incident.
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A battle that was
fought around my village
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I remember very well
because my two brothers
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were at a boarding
school that was nearby.
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I can see a few people
from Zimbabwe around here
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that would know
what I'm talking about.
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Now the schools had
been closed two days earlier,
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but my brothers
had not arrived home,
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and a battle had started
that involved all the people
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in our village.
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We were confined to our
houses, not even to our yards,
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we stayed indoors.
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But the battle was so
heated, to an extent that you
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could feel that
even at a young age,
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that the situation was intense.
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Not even the two brick
walls could protect you
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from what was happening outside.
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It was as if it
was only a curtain,
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not even the zinc roof
was enough to protect you
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from what was going on.
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My earliest
memories when I think of...
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because in our
country, we do not have storms,
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we do not have the ocean.
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When I think of a
storm, when I think of the
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hurricanes and everything,
I remember the mango tree
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in our yard being
blown by the helicopter,
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the wind that comes
from the helicopters
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as it was being
swayed to and fro...
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This is my earliest memories
of what can be like a storm.
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In fact, my mother
was singing a song.
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She could not kneel down to
pray - she only sang a song,
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and the song went
something like this...
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It's found in the old hymnal.
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"Master, the tempest is raging!
The billows are tossing high!
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Carest not Thou that we perish,
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when each moment so
madly is threat'ning."
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This is the song that
my mother was singing.
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In fact, what had happened...
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a stranger had stormed
into our house late at night,
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and said, "Please I
need a place of refuge."
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"I'm running away,
they are seeking for me,
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if they find me,
they will shoot me."
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So we allowed him to come in.
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As he was talking to my father,
he said, "On my way here,
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I passed through the
river, I saw many bodies,
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and some of the bodies there
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that had been killed, some
of them had school uniforms on,
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and they are boys."
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You can imagine what is
happening to my father's mind.
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He thinks, maybe,
it could be his boys.
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So he got into
his car, drove out...
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the roads were landmined,
but he could some back way
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roads to go and
try and find his boys.
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He had this hope
that he could find them.
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He went against
my mother's will.
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Four days, he was away.
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It is at this time that I
learned what it means to pray.
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Because the only thing
that mother could do was pray
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through a song.
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"Master, the tempest is raging!
The billows are tossing high!
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The sky is
o'ershadowed with blackness.
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No shelter or help is nigh."-
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Even my young mind could
grasp that emotional need
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that she had at that
moment in time as she sang...
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"Carest not Thou
that we are perishing?
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When each moment so
madly is threatening."
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She kept on singing that
stanza for the next 4 days.
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On the 4th day, I
could not have missed the
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drone of the engine in the far
distance as it was coming back.
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I knew dad was coming back home,
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and soon enough he
arrived. Guess what?
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Two brothers
with him in the car.
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It is then that
mom changed the stanza.
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"Master that terror is over.
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The elements sweetly rest."
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It is because the boys
and father were back home.
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What I'm trying to say
to you, my friends, is that
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war is bloody - and I don't
mean bloody in a swearing sense.
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I mean it is an
adjective of the word "blood."
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My young eyes, at that moment,
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began to see what
war can do to a people.
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And the Bible
is telling us here,
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that there was war in heaven.
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Now two parties were involved,
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and Andrew tried
to explain to us...
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I'm just taking off
from where he started...
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The Bible says that on
one side was Captain Michael,
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and I have no time to
start to get into explaining
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who Michael is.
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If we had the time, we'd
go into the book of Daniel.
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He is this mighty angel
that comes to Daniel at a time
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when he is in trouble.
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In fact, Gabriel
comes to Daniel and says,
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"You know what, on the
day when you started praying,
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I was sent to you 21 days
ago, and it is Michael who has
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come to my rescue."
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What it suggests is that
Michael is a mighty angel.
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The Bible says about him...
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"When He stands up,
there's a time of trouble
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such as never was."
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In fact, in the book
of Jude, he is introduced
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to us as the Archangel.
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In the book of 1 Thessalonians,
it is the Archangel who
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blows the trumpet and the
dead in Christ are resurrected.
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It must be Christ.
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He must be that angel
that Joshua saw when he was
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praying alone because that angel
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allowed himself
to be worshipped.
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Joshua fell at the feet
of the angel and worshipped.
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But angels, as we
know in Revelation 19:10,
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angels refuse
the worship of men.
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What kind of an angel is this
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that accepted the
worship of Joshua?
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It must have been Michael,
a mighty Archangel... Jesus.
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So Jesus is standing with
His angels, fighting against
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the dragon and we
know, from Revelation 12:9,
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that the dragon is the devil.
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And the devil with his
angels, they are fighting.
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Now, with my
experience, I know that wherever
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there is a war,
there are arms involved.
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What kind of a machine gun
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would have been
involved in this?
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What kind of ammunition
was involved in this war?
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Could you come with
me as we explore this...
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The Bible tells
us in Isaiah 14...
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This time as we go to
Isaiah 14, we are only doing
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so to find out the kind of
ammunition the devil was using.
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When we are finished with that,
we will look at the ammunition
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that Jesus was using in
this war... is that fair?
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Let's find out
what kind of weapons.
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Here are the
weapons of mass destruction
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the devil would
have used that day...
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Isaiah 14:12, listen with
me, are you there with me?
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I'm reading...
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Those that are
coming to my workshop,
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we are going to
talk a little bit
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about the sides of the north.
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So listen
carefully as we read this...
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It appears to me, there is
something that the devil is
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holding on to that
he is using in this war.
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In Ezekiel 28, my brother Henry,
read this and explained this,
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but let's read it again.
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Chapter 28 and I'm
reading from verse 16-17...
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"By the multitude
of thy merchandise...
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Are you there, I will
wait for you to get there...
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Ezekiel 28:16-17
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"By the multitude
of thy merchandise,
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they have filled the
midst of thee with violence,
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and thou has sinned; therefore,
I will cast thee as profane
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out of the mountain of
God, and I will destroy thee,
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oh covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire.
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Thine heart was lifted
up because of thy beauty.
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Thou has corrupted thy wisdom
by reason of thy brightness.
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I will cast thee
out to the ground,
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I will lay thee before the kings
that they may behold thee."
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So we read this about the devil.
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Let me lay down the principle
that is working here...
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It's called the
"Mystery of Iniquity"
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This is the principle
with which the devil is working
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as the devil is fighting,
the principle behind him
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that is propelling him...
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We are talking today
about "moved by the spirit."
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What spirit is moving the devil?
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What is powering him as
he is doing it is called:
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"The Mystery of Iniquity"
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Are you here with me church?
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It's called "The
Mystery of Iniquity"
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What is it?
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The Bible tells us about
this "Mystery of Iniquity."
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It's found in the
book of 2 Thessalonians,
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the Letter to the Thessalonians.
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We don't know exactly
what Paul is addressing.
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We can suppose that Paul
has received a letter from the
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Thessalonians saying,
"Some people have come to us
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preaching unto us
that the end has come."
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And Paul is responding to that,
and this is what he says...
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You get that principle again?
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Who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is
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called God or
that is worshipped...
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So what is the
"Mystery of Iniquity?"
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Catch this... There
appears to be this creature,
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a created being who
is exalting himself,
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so that he,
though he is a creature,
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sits as if he is the Creator.
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So this is the principle
that the devil is working with.
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Sometimes, we see this
principle even in human beings.
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Did you realize that
the first fall of man
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actually involved
this same principle.
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Let me read to you from
the inspired writings...
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The pen of inspiration says
this, "Patriarchs and Prophets"
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It's talking about
the fall of Adam and Eve.
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Eve has wandered away
from Adam - listen to this...
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"By partaking of this
tree, the devil declares,
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they would attain a
more exalted sphere.
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They would attain a more
exalted sphere of existence.
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They would enter a
broader field of knowledge.
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Then he reasons, "I, myself,
have eaten of the forbidden
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fruit, and as a result, I have
acquired the power of speech.
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Eve, don't you want to enter
an exalted sphere of existence?"
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When this principle begins
to work with human beings,
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what is operational here,
it's not the theme we have here.
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They are not being
powered by the Spirit.
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They are not being
moved by the Spirit.
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There is another
spirit that is moving them.
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It is the Mystery of Iniquity.
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Are you here with me church?
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Now this was when the
devil was speaking to Eve.
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Let's introduce Adam to this.
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Eve was perfectly
happy in her Eden home,
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by her husband's
side... Are you here with me?
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"Patriarchs and Prophets,"
p.57, sorry, I'll go back...
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After his transgression,
Adam, at first, imagined
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himself entering upon a
higher state of existence.
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You get what's happening here?
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Exactly the same principle
that was operational in the
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devil's mind - is
now operating with Adam.
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After his transgression,
Adam is thinking...
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He imagines to
himself, "I'm going to enter
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upon a higher
state of existence."
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Let me read
again... page 60, this time.
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"Eve was perfectly happy in her
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Eden home, by
her husband's side,"
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but like restless modern
Eves, listen to this now...
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She was flattered that
there was a higher sphere than
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that which God had assigned her.
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But in attempting to
climb higher than her original
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position, she fell far below it.
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This will most
assuredly be the result
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with the Eves of
the present generation
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if they neglect to cheerfully
take up their daily duty
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in accordance with God's plan.
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What is moving
this kind of a thing?
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I say this is called
the "Mystery of Iniquity."
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Sometimes this mystery is part
of the ammunition of the devil.
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Sometimes if we are not
careful, we can go about
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fighting God's war
using the devil's ammunition.
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It's not possible to
fight God's war using the
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ammunition that
belongs to His enemy.
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Now what we want to
do now is to find out
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the mystery that is
operational on the other side.
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It's called "the
Mystery of Godliness."
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We are seeing the war.
Are you here with me church?
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What we are exploring
here is the Great Controversy.
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On one side, there
is a mystery of iniquity
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that involves pride,
that involves exalting
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a creature thinking that I
can enter as a higher sphere
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of existence and be like God.
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Haven't you heard, in
our day, people saying,
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"Just look there right within
you, there are pure places
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that within you, you sit as God.
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You can do it alone!
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Now let's look at
the other principle...
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"The Mystery of Godliness"
found in 1 Timothy 3:16
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Are you there with me
church? 1 Timothy 3:16
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What is that?
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That God was
manifest in the flesh.
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Now, do you see
what is happening here?
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This is exactly the
opposite of the other principle.
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This principle
involves the Creator who is God,
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humbling Himself and
becoming like a created being.
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On the other side, we
have a creature exalting itself
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or himself or
herself wanting to be God.
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This time, the
mystery of godliness,
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our minds cannot wrap around
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the fact that God can
become like a human being.
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That's the mystery of godliness.
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The Creator has
become like a creature,
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He has become a creature,
the mystery of godliness.
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In fact, Paul puts it better
in this book, in his letter
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to the Philippians,
in Philippians 2:6-9
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This what he says...
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Did you see what's happening?
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The warning in the
inspired pen says...
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"When she exalted herself,
when she thought she could enter
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into a higher state of
existence," what happened?
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She fell far below it,
just as the devil as he said
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in his heart, "I will enter into
a higher sphere of existence."
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He says, "You will be brought
down to the pit of hell."
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You get the point?
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Now in the
"Mystery of Godliness,"
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the way up is not
up, the way up is down.
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That is the opposite.
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We find that God has reduced
Himself, has humbled Himself,
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He is found now as a creature.
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Now this
principle involves humility.
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Now sometimes, in this
world, when the Bible says,
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"Wives submit,"
we think submission
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is a point of weakness.
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We actually
discovered in something here,
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that in the
principle of godliness,
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in the midst of godliness,
submission is a position
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of power because
this is the ammunition
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that Jesus is using
in the Great Controversy.
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Are you here with me church?
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Let's follow this through...
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So the "Mystery of Godliness,"
the Creator humbles Himself
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to be like the creature.
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Oh how I wish...
because the book of Philippians,
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the letter to the
Philippians that we read,
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we started reading from verse 6,
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the reason why that
text was given to us
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it's as if Paul is
saying, "You Philippians,
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you want power, let the mind
that was in Christ be in you,
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because this mind it is
the power that moved heaven
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as it was
fighting against the devil.
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If you want to win, Philippians,
let the mind that was in Christ,
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be in you,"
because sometimes as men,
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when we hear that we
are the heads of our home,
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we think this thing
is bossy leadership.
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Actually, God is calling
us to servant leadership.
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We are the
servants of our homes.
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Do you know, do you realize that
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as Jesus is
going to the cross...
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Church, can I just
speak to you from my heart?
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Because I'm going to read
from the Spirit of Prophecy...
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Jesus, as He is going,
His mind is preoccupied
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with what's going to
happen to Him on Friday.
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It's a Thursday and they
are getting into Jerusalem;
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He's preparing
for the Last Supper.
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But His mind is drawn to
his disciples because in the
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minds of the disciples,
they are fighting even at this
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critical hour - what
is in their mind is...
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"Who is the greatest among us."
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So Jesus is saying, "What kind
of sermon can I preach to them
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that, with this kind
of thinking, the principle
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the power that moves
heaven, is not with them.
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So Jesus is thinking of a
sermon, He says, "This time,
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it's not going to be words,
I'm going to do it practically."
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Listen to this -
let me read to you
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from the book, "Desire of Ages,"
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"The strife of the highest
place was the outworking of
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that same spirit."
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This is talking about the
disciples and Jesus is going
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into the upper room for the
Last Supper with the disciples.
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He is saying, "the strife,"
that's the context there.
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"The strife of the
highest place was the outworking
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of the same spirit
which was the beginning of the
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great controversy
in the world above
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which had brought
Christ from heaven to die."
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I hope you are
getting the sense.
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There rose up before
Him, a vision of Lucifer,
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the son of the morning in
glory surpassing all the angels
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that surrounded the
throne, and united closest
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ties to the Son of God.
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Lucifer had said, "I
will be like the most high."
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"And the desire of
self exaltation had brought
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strife into the
heavenly courts and he had
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banished a multitude
of the hosts of God."
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Had Lucifer really desired,
please listen to this...
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Had Lucifer really desired
to be like the Most High,
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He would never had deserted
his appointed place in heaven...
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For the Spirit
of the Most High is
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manifested in
unselfish ministry.
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Lucifer desired God's
power, but not His character!
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Because what we find in
Lucifer is the love of power.
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What we find in
Christ is the power of love!
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So Lucifer desired God's
power, but not His character.
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He thought for
himself the highest place,
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and every being who is actuated
by his spirit will do the same.
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I'll say that
again, because right here,
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this is where the
church used to say, "Amen."
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His thought for
himself, the highest place,
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and every being who is actuated
by his spirit will do the same.
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That alienation, discord,
strife will be inevitable.
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Dominion becomes the
prize of the strongest.
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The kingdom of Satan
is the kingdom of force.
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Every individual regards
every other as an obstacle
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on the way of
his own advancement,?
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or a stepping stone on
which he, himself, may climb
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to a higher place.
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While Lucifer
counted it a thing to be
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grasped to be equal with
God, Christ, the exalted One,
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listen to that now...
made Himself of no reputation.
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Now the cross
was just before Him,
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and His own disciples were
so filled with self-seeking.
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Do you think sometimes...
can I just be honest with you,
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The reason why the church
has no power is because we have
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forgotten this principle...
this same principle of heaven.
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Because sometimes, I
see a lot of vegetarians,
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and few Christians.
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How can I have a long
skirt, and with it, a long face?
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And, by no means, am I
putting the principles down,
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please understand me.
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I'm thinking, pastor, are
we getting something wrong
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in the way we
are doing ministry?
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We have made good vegetarians,
but bad Christians...
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Because the principle
of heaven that wins wars,
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is submission; it is humility.
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There is a lot of
striving for the mastery...
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stepping on each others
shoulders as I try to reach
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a higher place, a
higher sphere of existence.
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Now we were
still in Revelation 12.
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I just have enough time to
look at something else here.
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This was at the beginning...
it's as if John says to himself,
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"I've gone ahead of myself,"
then he comes back to verse 7.
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John has started in verse
1, can we go back to verse 1?
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Are you here with me church?
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"And there
appeared a great wonder..."
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We're in Revelation, by the way.
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There appeared a
great wonder in heaven,
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a woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet,
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and upon her head,
a crown of 12 stars."
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By the way, the
title of this message is:
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"The Great Controversy and
the Temple of the Holy Spirit"
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"And she, being with child,
cried, travailing in birth,
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and pained to be delivered.
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There appeared another
wonder in heaven; and behold
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a great red dragon
having 7 heads and 10 horns,
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and 7 crowns upon his
heads; and his tail drew a third
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part of the stars of heaven,
and he did cast them to the
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earth; and the dragon
stool before the woman
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which was ready to be delivered,
for to devour her child
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as soon as it was born."
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And Andrew
explained this in detail...
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"And she brought forth a
man child who was to rule
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all nations with a rod of iron;
and the child was caught up
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unto God and to His throne."
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Something is screaming
at us as we read this text.
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There are other chapters
that are coming to our minds.
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If we are students of the
Bible, there are other chapters
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that are coming to
our minds right now
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where we find the
same characters together;
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the woman, the seed of
the woman, and the serpent.
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Have we met this before?
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Therefore,
Revelation 12:7 is saying to us,
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"HEY, come to me,
come to me now..."
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In Genesis 3:15, "This is
the fulfillment of the Messiah
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as promised in
Genesis 3:15, right?
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"The seed of the woman shall
crush the head of the serpent."
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You remember that?
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But I'm thinking of
another chapter this time.
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Andrew told us yesterday
morning - that the woman
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is the church...
Should I get my hands
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dirty with that or can I move
on - in the interest of time.
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We understand that the
woman is the church, right?
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So this woman is the
church, and who is the child,
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who is the seed?
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It is Jesus - Jesus is the seed.
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We are not told... in fact,
it is not stretching it to say,
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this child is the
firstborn of this woman.
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So this child is the firstborn
among many brethren - hello?
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He is the
firstborn of many brethren.
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Now - question...
Are we not stretching it?
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Is it evident that in this
chapter, this seed has brothers
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and sisters?
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Is it evident in this
chapter? Yes, verse 17
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I'm not stretching
it - it's right there
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before our very eyes.
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The dragon was wroth with
the woman and went to make war
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with the remnant
of her seed. Hello?
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The remnant of her seed
which means this son here
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is just the firstborn, but the
woman went on to give birth...
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You don't look convinced...
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The woman had other children.
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There's a problem
with African preachers...
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If you don't agree with
them, they don't move on.
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They stop right there...
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So if you want us
to finish this sermon,
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you better agree with
me. Audience laughs...
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Now let's go back... there's
a reason why we are doing this.
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We want to find out...
if this seed has brothers
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and sisters, it would, therefore
suggest that the way in which
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he was born, is the same
way the brothers and sisters
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would be born too. Correct?
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So how is this man born?
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How is this firstborn born?
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Matthew 1... If
there's anything we find in the
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book of Matthew... I'm not
too sure I'm preaching or maybe
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we are doing a Bible study.
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The pen of inspiration
says, "There should be less of
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sermonizing and
more of teaching."
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Chapter 1 of the
book of Matthew...
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Have you ever been bored
by reading Matthew chapter 1?
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Because it's so and
so begetting so and so,
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and so and so begetting...
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And you ask yourself,
"What's inspiring about that?"
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What spirituality
is there in me knowing
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who the father of Abraham was?
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But I think Matthew has a
point he's trying to put across.
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His point is this...
Here are the children of men,
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if you were going to
be tempted to think that
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Jesus is born of
men, you are wrong,
00:37:57.83\00:38:01.67
so Matthew wants us to see that.
00:38:01.70\00:38:03.91
So and so is
begetting so and so;
00:38:03.94\00:38:05.99
so and so is
begetting so and so;
00:38:06.02\00:38:07.66
so and so is
begetting so and so...
00:38:07.69\00:38:09.14
But we get to
verse 18 and he says,
00:38:09.17\00:38:11.27
"NOW," That word
can also be translated,
00:38:11.30\00:38:16.08
check with your Greek;
it can also be translated,
00:38:16.11\00:38:17.91
but it's a transitional word.
00:38:17.94\00:38:20.99
Now the birth of Jesus
Christ was on this wise.
00:38:21.02\00:38:25.82
Church, are you there with me?
00:38:25.85\00:38:27.73
He has been talking
about... in fact the word there
00:38:27.76\00:38:30.89
"begets," if you read in
the original, it suggests genes.
00:38:30.92\00:38:36.10
"Gennao," that's where
we get the word "genes."
00:38:36.13\00:38:39.60
Now he's saying, "As for Jesus,
His birth is not of this genes."
00:38:39.63\00:38:45.63
Hello?
00:38:45.66\00:38:47.39
Now as the birth of Jesus
Christ, it was on this wise...
00:38:47.42\00:38:51.66
When as his mother,
Mary, was espoused to Joseph,
00:38:51.69\00:38:54.98
before they came together,
to give the genes into Mary...
00:38:55.01\00:39:01.79
Before they came
together, Joseph... sorry
00:39:01.82\00:39:07.89
Before they came together,
she was found with the Child
00:39:07.92\00:39:11.13
of the Holy Spirit... um
um, you're not here with me.
00:39:11.16\00:39:16.99
And Matthew, just in
case you missed the point,
00:39:17.02\00:39:20.70
Matthew will have to
repeat it, so you can get it...
00:39:20.73\00:39:24.81
that he means what he's
saying, it's not a mistake!
00:39:24.84\00:39:28.28
Here's the verse, verse 20...
00:39:28.31\00:39:32.89
"But while he brought on these
things, behold the angel of
00:39:32.92\00:39:35.85
the Lord appeared
unto him in a dream saying,
00:39:35.88\00:39:37.88
"Joseph, thou son of
David, fear not, take unto thee
00:39:37.91\00:39:43.43
Mary thy wife, for that
which is conceived in her
00:39:43.46\00:39:47.81
is of the Holy Ghost.
00:39:47.84\00:39:50.38
Question - and I'm
not trying to suggest that
00:39:50.63\00:39:57.80
when Jesus is saying,
"Our Father in heaven,"
00:39:57.83\00:40:00.35
He is referring
to the Holy Spirit,
00:40:00.38\00:40:01.80
I'm talking about the
birth of Jesus right now.
00:40:01.83\00:40:04.62
Hear me now...
00:40:04.65\00:40:07.05
According to the birth of Jesus
on earth, who is the father?
00:40:07.08\00:40:12.91
Are you comfortable saying that?
00:40:12.94\00:40:16.19
I'm asking you again -
you are not comfortable.
00:40:16.22\00:40:18.12
Remember the African preacher?
00:40:18.15\00:40:20.78
He's not going to move on.
00:40:20.81\00:40:22.23
According to this, who
is the father of Jesus?
00:40:22.26\00:40:25.92
The Holy Spirit.
00:40:25.95\00:40:29.12
I have a question for you...
00:40:29.15\00:40:33.86
If Jesus, in this case,
as of his earthly birth,
00:40:33.89\00:40:41.64
His Father is the Holy Spirit,
and he has brothers and sisters.
00:40:41.67\00:40:45.64
Can I tell you a story, quickly.
00:40:45.67\00:40:48.79
My brother was walking
down the road the other day,
00:40:48.82\00:40:54.18
I was age 10 then,
and this is what happened.
00:40:54.21\00:40:59.72
He sees 2 boys, about age 15.
00:40:59.75\00:41:02.76
They are standing and
learning to smoke weed,
00:41:02.79\00:41:07.11
these 15-year-old boys,
and they are doing their thing.
00:41:07.14\00:41:10.61
A small, little girl
comes on her way from the shops
00:41:10.64\00:41:15.17
with groceries in her
hand; she has some change.
00:41:15.20\00:41:18.83
As she gets to these 2 boys,
they take away the paper bags;
00:41:18.86\00:41:23.42
they take away the
change, the money that she has,
00:41:23.45\00:41:26.49
and my brother is watching this.
00:41:26.52\00:41:28.42
My brother, at
this time, is around 21.
00:41:28.45\00:41:31.42
Then he says, "This is wrong."
00:41:31.45\00:41:33.15
He goes to the boys,
dust them up a little bit;
00:41:33.18\00:41:36.78
get the paper bags and
the money and gives the
00:41:36.81\00:41:39.75
things back to the little girl,
00:41:39.78\00:41:41.53
and the little
girl goes on her way.
00:41:41.56\00:41:45.00
So this is on a different day.
00:41:45.03\00:41:46.95
Remember I said I
was 10, the boys were 15.
00:41:46.98\00:41:50.04
My brother was 21.
00:41:50.07\00:41:53.39
Now these boys, I
had never met them.
00:41:53.42\00:41:57.49
On a different day, I
am minding my own business,
00:41:57.52\00:42:02.16
peacefully walking down the
road and the boys looked at me.
00:42:02.19\00:42:07.05
You see, my crime that day
was I looked like my brother.
00:42:07.08\00:42:15.10
So they looked at me
and immediately they said,
00:42:15.13\00:42:19.06
"Yes, here's the young brother
of the big brother who beat us."
00:42:19.09\00:42:23.72
They look so much alike
and they were so enraged
00:42:23.75\00:42:30.68
with the remnant of the seed
00:42:30.71\00:42:31.82
of the firstborn brother...
Laughter from audience
00:42:31.85\00:42:36.77
Do I need to finish the story?
00:42:36.80\00:42:40.54
Because I cannot explain to
you today what I saw that day.
00:42:40.57\00:42:44.18
And my crime is I
looked like my brother.
00:42:44.21\00:42:47.00
Do you understand what is
happening in Revelation 12:17?
00:42:47.03\00:42:51.33
Why the devil is
angry with the woman,
00:42:51.36\00:42:53.98
and is making a war
with the remnant of her seed.
00:42:54.01\00:42:57.52
It is because the remnant of
the seed, this remnant church,
00:42:57.55\00:43:00.96
they are not a proud church,
they now look like Jesus.
00:43:00.99\00:43:05.14
And the devil looks at
these, they knows yet me,
00:43:05.17\00:43:09.42
they remind me of
the love of Jesus.
00:43:09.45\00:43:11.70
Look at how humble they are.
00:43:11.73\00:43:14.80
Look at them! I hate
this kind of behavior!
00:43:14.83\00:43:19.09
They are gentle, they are calm.
00:43:19.12\00:43:21.82
They are not as aggressive.
00:43:21.85\00:43:23.22
These ones, I hate
them for their gentleness.
00:43:23.25\00:43:31.83
The Mystery of
Iniquity is selfishness.
00:43:31.86\00:43:35.29
It is self-exaltation,
self- centeredness.
00:43:35.32\00:43:40.37
It is pride. It is destruction.
00:43:40.40\00:43:43.30
It is devilish taking and
taking and taking and overtaking
00:43:43.33\00:43:48.89
in the Mystery of Iniquity.
00:43:48.92\00:43:50.95
But in the Mystery of
Godliness, it is selflessness,
00:43:50.98\00:43:54.82
it is humility, it
is life, it is love,
00:43:54.85\00:44:02.45
it gives and gives
and gives, and forgives.
00:44:02.48\00:44:08.19
It is submission.
00:44:08.22\00:44:13.53
So how can it
be... Paul has just said,
00:44:13.56\00:44:16.34
"Let this mind that...
those things over there,
00:44:16.37\00:44:19.94
let this mind be in
you," how can I have it?
00:44:19.97\00:44:23.03
Simple - it's a matter of genes.
00:44:23.06\00:44:29.23
It's a matter of
genes, we have to share in the
00:44:29.26\00:44:32.37
same Father and in the
same Mother with Jesus.
00:44:32.40\00:44:36.61
This is the reason why Jesus
is at pains explaining things
00:44:36.64\00:44:42.52
that night to Nicodemus
and he says, "Nicodemus,
00:44:42.55\00:44:46.55
I want you to
understand something...
00:44:46.58\00:44:49.84
You have asked me
a great question...
00:44:49.87\00:44:53.18
Here is how it happens,
you need to be born again,
00:44:53.21\00:44:55.81
and, listen, this is
how you get born again.
00:44:55.84\00:44:58.20
When everyone is born,
the waters break. Hello?
00:44:58.23\00:45:07.10
This woman has the
womb, she has a womb.
00:45:07.13\00:45:16.35
The pastor is not the
father, he is the midwife.
00:45:16.38\00:45:22.79
When they are in the baptismal
pool, have you ever seen
00:45:22.82\00:45:25.09
what happens when
the child comes out?
00:45:25.12\00:45:28.28
The waters break...
Nicodemus, you have to be
00:45:28.31\00:45:32.13
born again of water because
of the womb of the woman.
00:45:32.16\00:45:38.04
But Nicodemus... just in
case you missed the point,
00:45:38.07\00:45:40.67
you need your father.
00:45:40.70\00:45:42.11
No child has ever been
born without their father,
00:45:42.14\00:45:44.48
and the father
is the Holy Spirit.
00:45:44.51\00:45:45.86
Be born again of water
and of the Holy Spirit.
00:45:45.89\00:45:49.42
Let the Holy Spirit be in you!
00:45:49.45\00:45:54.37
The woman gives
birth... we have a problem.
00:45:54.40\00:46:01.07
Programs do not give birth.
00:46:01.10\00:46:06.87
From program A to program
X, they do not give birth.
00:46:06.90\00:46:13.36
The church needs to be
at onement with the husband
00:46:13.39\00:46:17.59
and then it
happens automatically.
00:46:17.62\00:46:20.81
And we don't have stillbirths,
we have children that are alive.
00:46:20.84\00:46:29.40
We do not need a list of
what to do and what not to do
00:46:29.43\00:46:32.80
on the Sabbath because
the Father is leading them...
00:46:32.83\00:46:36.75
"And He walks with me,
and He talks with me...
00:46:36.78\00:46:42.62
And the joys we
share when we tarry there,
00:46:42.65\00:46:46.88
none other is ever known."
00:46:46.91\00:46:48.74
As He leads me and He
tells me "no not there,
00:46:48.77\00:46:52.03
today is Sabbath."
00:46:52.06\00:46:53.45
No one has to tell me
this because the Holy Spirit
00:46:53.48\00:46:56.29
is leading me.
00:46:56.32\00:46:57.56
Don't you
understand, when He sees them,
00:46:57.59\00:46:59.57
...Revelation 14 says,
"These are they that follow
00:46:59.60\00:47:02.64
the Lamb wither
soever He goeth."
00:47:02.67\00:47:05.60
This is what is
called "Christianity."
00:47:05.63\00:47:10.69
My friends, I had a friend...
as I come to the close,
00:47:10.72\00:47:16.55
I was preaching in
a place for 3 weeks.
00:47:16.58\00:47:24.13
On the second
week of the campaign,
00:47:24.16\00:47:31.75
right in the
middle of the second week,
00:47:31.78\00:47:33.10
a man comes into
the tent from the back,
00:47:33.13\00:47:38.14
and I can see from
where I'm standing...
00:47:38.17\00:47:40.84
...You ask these preachers,
they will tell you that
00:47:40.87\00:47:42.40
they have a relationship from
the pulpit with people who come;
00:47:42.43\00:47:46.88
they know who is in there,
they know who is struggling
00:47:46.91\00:47:49.28
with a decision - while
they are standing on the pulpit.
00:47:49.31\00:47:52.81
Now, I saw a drunkard
come in, he sat at the back.
00:47:52.84\00:47:57.19
Most of the sermon, he was
asleep, never heard a thing.
00:47:57.22\00:48:01.38
He only woke up as
I was making a call,
00:48:01.41\00:48:06.88
and then he is coming up front.
00:48:06.91\00:48:10.09
He is making a
little bit of noise
00:48:10.12\00:48:12.29
as he is staggering forward...
00:48:12.32\00:48:14.97
And the deacons and
the ushers stood up,
00:48:15.00\00:48:17.73
they wanted to
withhold him from coming up,
00:48:17.76\00:48:21.21
but I'm looking at him
from where I'm standing,
00:48:21.24\00:48:22.89
and I'm thinking, "Wow,
this is going to be a chaos day.
00:48:22.92\00:48:26.08
Let him come up."
00:48:26.11\00:48:27.63
So I say, from where I'm
standing, the pulpit has power.
00:48:27.66\00:48:31.38
Let him come...
so they let him come.
00:48:31.41\00:48:35.68
And he walks
down, he gets there.
00:48:35.71\00:48:38.25
The guys were writing down
names are reluctant to write,
00:48:38.28\00:48:42.56
so I stepped down, I
take a pen and a paper and I
00:48:42.60\00:48:45.04
ask, "What is your name?"
00:48:45.07\00:48:47.04
And the guy
says, "My name is "BB."
00:48:47.07\00:48:48.94
And I said, "BB,
what does that mean?"
00:48:48.97\00:48:53.41
"Ben the boozer."
00:48:53.44\00:48:56.50
Well, where we come from,
drinking is called "boozing."
00:48:56.53\00:49:00.70
So I don't ask
any further questions,
00:49:00.73\00:49:02.22
and I write "Ben the boozer."
00:49:02.25\00:49:05.60
And he is gone - he sits down.
00:49:05.63\00:49:08.36
The next day, I preach
on the subject of the day...
00:49:08.39\00:49:11.61
Ben the boozer is
there, but today he is sober.
00:49:11.64\00:49:14.43
He comes and
sits right in front.
00:49:14.46\00:49:17.17
He listens to the
subject of the day,
00:49:17.20\00:49:18.98
I make a call, he stands
up, and the day after that,
00:49:19.01\00:49:22.78
and the day after
that, and the day after that.
00:49:22.81\00:49:24.56
On the Sabbath,
on the last Sabbath,
00:49:24.59\00:49:26.25
Ben the boozer is baptized.
00:49:26.28\00:49:29.32
He becomes a Christian,
and I went away from that.
00:49:29.35\00:49:31.39
That place was 430
kilometers away from my city.
00:49:31.42\00:49:37.06
Two years later, my
phone rings, I pick it up...
00:49:37.09\00:49:42.89
on the other end is a
person who is showering me with
00:49:42.92\00:49:47.11
Bible texts and SOP quotations.
00:49:47.14\00:49:50.24
Somewhere within the
texts, I managed to find a place
00:49:50.27\00:49:55.46
to insert... "Who is
this?" Audience laughter
00:49:55.49\00:49:58.80
And then he says, "This is BB."
00:49:58.83\00:50:02.08
And I say, "BB...
remind me again, who is BB."
00:50:02.11\00:50:06.62
And he mentions
the name of the place,
00:50:06.65\00:50:09.31
I say, "Wow, Ben the boozer."
00:50:09.34\00:50:11.79
And he says, "No, not Ben
the boozer, Ben the baptizer."
00:50:11.82\00:50:18.26
What has changed Ben the
boozer to Ben the baptizer?
00:50:18.29\00:50:21.95
The Power of the Holy
Spirit in a human temple.
00:50:21.98\00:50:26.47