I heard the voice
of the Lord, saying,
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"Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us?"
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Then I said,
"Here am I, send me. "
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Music...
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More music...
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Three Angels
Broadcasting Network
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and the South England
Conference present: London 2016.
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What a blessing it
is for us to be here
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at Croydon and in London as
the 3ABN... your 3ABN Family
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and what a blessing it
is for me to be able to sing
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with the Croydon Gospel Choir
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this song that was written
by Lanny Wolfe and Beethoven
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so, it's a wonderful,
wonderful worship song
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so join with us as we worship
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our God and
praise His Holy Name.
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Audience: "Amen. "
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Music...
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More music...
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Some more music...
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Music,
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More music,
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Some more music,
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music
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ending music...
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Praise the Lord
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from whom all blessings flow
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for He has washed
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and made me white as snow
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I'm redeemed
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from all my sin and shame
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for now and forever...
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praise His Holy Name...
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praise His Holy Name
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Praise His Holy Name...
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To God be the glory
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now and forever
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praise His Holy Name
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Music...
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More music...
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some more music...
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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Above all others
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let His name be raised...
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Saints and angels
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evermore proclaim
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that He alone is worthy
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praise His Holy Name...
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Praise His Holy Name...
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Oh praise His Holy Name...
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To God be the glory
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Now and forever
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Praise His Holy Name...
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Praise His Holy Name
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Praise His Holy Name,
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To God be the glory
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To God be the glory...
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To God be the glory,
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to God be the glory
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to God be the glory...
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Now and forever...
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Praise His Holy Name.
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Background: Praise His Holy Name
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Background:
Praise His Holy Name...
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Yvonne: Praise His Name...
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praise His Name...
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To God be the glory
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now and forever
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Praise His Holy
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Name...
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Name.
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Audience: "Amen" clapping...
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Wow, praise the Lord, huh,
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This service Pastor John...
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already I have felt
the presence of the Lord.
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Audience: "Amen. "
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He's going to have to be on His
game today with the Holy Spirit
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we've had blessed music,
the baptisms... what a blessing
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I don't know where I
could be anywhere in the world
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than to be happier to be
right here today with you all
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in Croydon Seventh-day
Adventist Church here in London
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and for those of you that
are watching around the world
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you get to see part of it but
there's nothing like being here
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and sensing and feeling the
anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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Audience: "Amen. "
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I want to say...
we've been talking...
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appreciation
for a lot of people,
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this campaign throughout
London would not have happened
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without Elder Richard de Lisser.
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Audience: "Amen. "
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And we want to
be praying for Him
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as he's struggling with some...
some health problems right now,
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but we know God is in control,
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and without him, this
wouldn't have happened.
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When C.A. Murray...
Pastor Murray called him,
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he said, "Come
over... let's talk about it"
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and he said,
"My health is bad...
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they put me back
as Conference... "
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or... "put me in as
Conference President...
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I'm not sure why... but now I do
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I believe God has put me
here for such an hour as this
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so I want to join
hands together with 3ABN
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and let's bring the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ
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and the three angels' messages
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to all the folk
throughout London
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and England and by
television around the world... "
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so thank you Pastor de
Lisser for what you're doing,
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Elder, we're praying
for you, God bless you
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and for Pastor John
Lomacang who's been in charge
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who literally... he's
our World Evangelism Director
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thank you for the tremendous
work that you're doing
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and Angie... for
the support you also...
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for what you're doing
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because we know them,
we've known them for years,
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we're literally
neighbors with them
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we work with them every day
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and their burden is to
take the three angels...
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the undiluted
three angels messages
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into the entire world
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because only then
will Jesus come back
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so thank you all once again
for your love and your prayers
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and thank you for saying,
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"This is not the end but
this is just the beginning
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of something good
because I know many of you
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have been blessed,
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how many have been reignited...
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if we can use that
word... on fire for Jesus Christ
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because now, even
more than ever before
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you want to go out
and talk to your friends
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and your neighbors...
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those that always say...
your friends and your enemies...
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everybody around
you but let them know
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that Jesus is coming soon,
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God bless you, thank you.
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Audience: "Amen. "
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Pause... Pastor
John Lomacang on stage.
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Let us pray...
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Father in heaven,
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you have called...
and we have answered
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and Father, I
pray this one more time
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that you would send your Spirit
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to speak to the
hearts of your people
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we stand on the
portal of the eternal world
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and we peer through
the doors of joy and peace
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but as yet, Father,
there are still many souls
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to be rescued from
the hand of the enemy
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and Father, you ordained
today to be a day of deliverance
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for someone else
that they may attend
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the banquet of the redeemed
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and so, come
now, Heavenly Spirit,
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come now Holy Father,
may Jesus be glorified
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in His precious and
Holy name I pray, amen. "
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Audience: "Amen. "
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Matthew chapter
24 verse 32 and 33,
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pause...
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What do we do in a world
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where more than one
million people perish every day?
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Pause...
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What do we do in a society where
human life has lost its value?
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What do we do where hatred,
crime, disease and poverty
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are unstoppable and
apparently overwhelming?
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What do we do where it
seems impossible to hide
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from disease and
sorrow and death?
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The answer... to
me... has been very simple
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what God has called me to
do for the last 13 nights,
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the answer to the
question, "What do we do?"
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is... is we lift up Jesus.
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This is the hour
to lift Jesus higher
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than He's ever
been lifted before.
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The answer for our world
today is the Man Christ Jesus,
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can somebody say, "Amen" today?
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Audience: "Amen. "
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This is the
hour to run to Jesus.
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The cross behind
us, the crown before us,
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let us run to Jesus,
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Satan pursues us
but Jesus invites us,
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let us run to Jesus...
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destructions surround us
and eternal peace awaits us
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let us run to Jesus,
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can the church
say, "Amen" today?
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Audience: "Amen. "
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The prophet of God in
such inspiring language
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says to us today,
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in Prophets and
Kings page 537 she says,
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"The present... the present is
a time of overwhelming interest
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to all living... "
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listen carefully,
this documentary is...
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is as contemporary
as you'll find one.
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She says,
"Rulers and Statesmen...
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men who occupy positions
of trust and authority...
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thinking men and
women of all classes,
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have their attention fixed upon
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the elements
taking place about us,
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they are watching
the restless relations
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that exist among the nations.
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They observe the intensity
that is taking possession
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of every earthly element
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and they recognize
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that something great and
decisive is about to take place
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and that the world is on the
verge of a stupendous crisis. "
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Brothers and
Sisters, I've got good news
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in the midst of
all this bad news
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and the good news is...
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Jesus is coming
again... what do you say?
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Audience: "Amen. "
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We've got to keep our
eyes focused and clear
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not on the
trials that surround us
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but on the Lord that calls us
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this journey that
we have traveled...
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this journey of
refinement and enlightenment
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this journey where the devil has
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tried the very
fibers of our intellect,
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this journey where we
have had moments of terror
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and hours of
tears and difficulty,
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we have had moments
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where it seemed as
though God has abandoned us,
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but I want to tell you,
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"The absence of
God in His silence,
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doesn't mean the
absence of God in its actuality"
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our Lord promises
never to leave us...
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never to forsake us
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but there are signs
around us that are thickening
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and as we look at the
signs of the coming of our Lord,
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there are signs that the
world has chosen to ignore
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and one very clear sign
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is the rejection of the evidence
that Jesus is coming again,
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we know that
summer is on its way...
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the evidences are abundant,
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if you look at the
world around us today
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it is abundantly clear
that Jesus is soon to return
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as the now, resting in peace,
H.M.S. Richards Junior would say
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when his father was
preaching on Voice of Prophecy,
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he would always say,
"Jesus is coming again... "
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and his Father was laid to rest
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and his son picked
up the torch and said,
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"Jesus is coming again... "
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and when he was
visited in the hospital
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in the closing
moments of his life,
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someone said to
him, "Elder Richard,
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your father was laid to
rest and Jesus hasn't come... "
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he said, "You've
said for years...
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Jesus is on His
way... and Jesus hasn't come"
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and he said, "Elder Richards,
what are your parting words?"
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And he said,
"Jesus is on His way... "
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Brothers and Sisters,
Jesus has not forgotten us,
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Jesus is on His way, and
so, this promise of His return
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cannot be delayed
by those who scoff
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and choose not to believe
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when you look at
the signs around us...
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they are thickening,
earthquakes, violence,
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floods, terrorism,
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things that are threatening
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the very thought of
safety in our world,
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is increasing
exponentially around us
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all signs... and
continued evidence
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that Jesus said, what
would occur before His return
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and friends... if Jesus said it,
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we can believe
it, what do you say?
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Audience: "Amen. "
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But it says in His
Word, "In the last days,
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people will see the signs
and they would open their eyes
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but rashly deny them as
they did in the days of Noah.
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Notice the words of a converted
man by the name of Peter,
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2nd Peter
chapter 3 verse 3 and 4
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and he says to this generation,
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"Knowing this first:
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that scoffers will come in
the... " what days... Church?
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"In the last days, walking
according to their own lusts,
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and they will be saying,
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'Where is the
promise of His coming?
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For since the
fathers fell asleep,
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all things continue as they were
from the beginning of creation'"
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only a fool would say that
things continue as they were
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from the very beginning,
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in my generation alone
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it is not the same world that it
used to be when I was growing up
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our generation has gone mad
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their minds are... as it were...
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possessed by spirits
that are uncontrolled,
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the media has made its agenda
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the destruction
of human morality,
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our world is now
locked into a spinning cycle
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that is leading man
downward, moment by moment
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humans have come to the place
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where they now exalt things
that dumb animals won't do
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but Jesus said that
would happen in the last days
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before He returns,
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and so I say, "Let
us not ignore the signs
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for each of them are
signposts along the way
00:17:57.47\00:17:59.91
reminding us that
soon and very soon
00:17:59.94\00:18:02.68
we are going to see the King.
00:18:02.71\00:18:04.05
Audience: "Amen. "
00:18:04.08\00:18:05.41
But Peter said,
"They willingly forget... "
00:18:05.45\00:18:06.82
they don't forget because
there's not enough evidence,
00:18:06.85\00:18:09.82
they choose to forget,
00:18:09.85\00:18:11.25
but the writer of
Hebrews says to us...
00:18:11.32\00:18:14.16
that have been holding
on... that have been praying
00:18:14.19\00:18:16.93
that have been laying
our loved ones to rest...
00:18:16.96\00:18:19.63
the writer of Hebrews
says, "For yet a little while,
00:18:19.66\00:18:22.93
and he that shall come
will come, and will not tarry. "
00:18:22.96\00:18:25.80
Can the Church say, "Amen?"
00:18:25.83\00:18:27.17
Audience: "Amen. "
00:18:27.20\00:18:28.54
I was raised by a lady
who taught me this message
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abandoned by my parents...
but now hindsight tells me
00:18:31.97\00:18:35.61
I was not abandoned,
00:18:35.64\00:18:36.98
I was simply planted
where God knew I needed to be
00:18:37.01\00:18:39.88
to become who I have become...
00:18:39.91\00:18:42.62
Audience:
"Amen... praise the Lord"
00:18:42.68\00:18:44.25
And so God takes
us from situations
00:18:44.29\00:18:45.79
that could spell our destruction
00:18:45.82\00:18:47.26
and puts us on the path where
He can mold us and shape us
00:18:47.29\00:18:51.09
and file us down
and I want to tell you
00:18:51.13\00:18:53.43
I have been molded,
I have been shapened
00:18:53.46\00:18:55.53
and I'm still being filed
down because all that matters is
00:18:55.56\00:18:59.47
that when Jesus comes
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I will be ready to
walk into that square city,
00:19:00.87\00:19:03.84
somebody ought to
say, "Amen" today...
00:19:03.87\00:19:05.21
Audience: "Amen. "
00:19:05.24\00:19:06.57
Somebody once said to me,
00:19:06.61\00:19:07.94
"Pastor, you seem to be pretty
square and out of touch... "
00:19:07.98\00:19:10.05
I said, "That's all right,
I'm going to remain square
00:19:10.08\00:19:12.85
because Jerusalem
is perfectly square,
00:19:12.88\00:19:14.62
I'll fit right in perfectly. "
00:19:14.65\00:19:17.59
Audience: Laughing...
00:19:17.62\00:19:18.95
But just like 9...
11... the world has confronted
00:19:18.99\00:19:21.32
and also comforted
by the false reports
00:19:21.36\00:19:24.26
I can't forget 9... 11...
00:19:24.29\00:19:27.60
when our President stepped
forward just a few weeks later
00:19:27.63\00:19:30.30
after this
earth-changing tragic event
00:19:30.33\00:19:33.34
and he said to us in America,
00:19:33.37\00:19:34.97
"Go back to life
as it usually was,
00:19:35.00\00:19:39.17
let us just go back
to the world that was
00:19:39.21\00:19:42.51
before this
incident occurred... "
00:19:42.54\00:19:43.98
he said that while...
while those who were in Congress
00:19:44.01\00:19:47.65
were going to
work with gas masks
00:19:47.68\00:19:49.38
and he's telling us, "Go
back to the world as it was"
00:19:49.42\00:19:52.42
Jeremiah says,
00:19:52.45\00:19:54.46
"Our world has been
comforted by the false reports
00:19:54.49\00:19:57.53
that we tend to give... "
00:19:57.56\00:19:59.49
because we are
locked in... life, liberty
00:19:59.53\00:20:03.03
and the pursuit of happiness,
00:20:03.06\00:20:04.40
but I want to tell you today,
I am locked into life... liberty
00:20:04.43\00:20:07.74
but the happiness that I want
00:20:07.77\00:20:09.10
is the happiness that
comes only from Jesus,
00:20:09.14\00:20:10.77
what do you say?
Audience: "Amen. "
00:20:10.81\00:20:12.54
Jeremiah 6:14, he says,
00:20:12.57\00:20:18.05
The Bible says, "But you
brethren are not in darkness"
00:20:25.32\00:20:30.03
we are not in darkness,
come on say "Amen" somebody,
00:20:30.06\00:20:33.40
we have got the evidences,
00:20:33.43\00:20:35.06
God has given us an
unshakeable message,
00:20:35.10\00:20:37.73
God has not only
given us fundamentals,
00:20:37.77\00:20:40.37
God has been so gracious to us
00:20:40.40\00:20:42.20
to allow us through the
inspiration of the written Word
00:20:42.27\00:20:46.14
and the spoken Word,
00:20:46.17\00:20:47.54
through the humble
servant of Ellen White,
00:20:47.58\00:20:49.78
God has given us a
glimpse behind the curtain,
00:20:49.84\00:20:52.85
we can see with eyes
that have been cleared up
00:20:52.88\00:20:55.85
by the salve of God's Word,
we don't need to be reminded
00:20:55.88\00:20:59.95
of the things that surround us
but still Satan has found a way
00:20:59.99\00:21:04.19
to inoculate us... some of us...
00:21:04.23\00:21:05.69
are in the pews
sleeping... not aware...
00:21:05.76\00:21:08.86
living as though Jesus
will not come in a 1,000 years,
00:21:08.93\00:21:12.20
Brothers, my message to you
00:21:12.23\00:21:13.57
as we close out
this campaign in London,
00:21:13.60\00:21:15.90
now it is high time to
awake for now is our salvation
00:21:15.97\00:21:20.68
nearer than when
we first believed
00:21:20.74\00:21:22.58
the night is far
spent, the day is at hand,
00:21:22.61\00:21:25.48
let us, therefore, cast
off the works of darkness,
00:21:25.51\00:21:28.12
let us put on
the armor of light,
00:21:28.15\00:21:30.39
let us walk
honestly as in the day...
00:21:30.42\00:21:32.42
not in
drunkenness and wantonness,
00:21:32.45\00:21:34.69
let us be sober, be vigilant...
00:21:34.72\00:21:36.69
because our adversary the devil
00:21:36.73\00:21:38.83
walketh about
like a roaring lion
00:21:38.86\00:21:40.93
seeking whom he may devour,
00:21:40.96\00:21:42.46
this morning heaven
added some more names
00:21:42.50\00:21:45.73
to the guest list,
somebody ought to say, "Amen. "
00:21:45.77\00:21:47.64
Audience: "Amen. "
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.00
You're going to be at the dinner
00:21:49.04\00:21:50.41
if you are faithful till
the end you will be there.
00:21:50.44\00:21:52.11
Audience: "Amen. "
00:21:52.14\00:21:53.64
Oh the dinner, I'm just
getting a peak at the menu...
00:21:53.68\00:21:56.78
if Jesus is the bread
of life, I can tell you,
00:21:56.81\00:22:00.82
if there's nothing
but bread on my plate,
00:22:00.88\00:22:03.69
that's all I
need... Audience: "Amen. "
00:22:03.72\00:22:06.45
I don't need a mansion,
just give me a sleeping bag
00:22:06.52\00:22:08.86
as long as I'm in there,
00:22:08.89\00:22:10.23
I don't need a
house with many floors,
00:22:10.26\00:22:12.26
I just want to
see the face of Jesus,
00:22:12.29\00:22:14.03
somebody ought to
say, "Amen" today...
00:22:14.06\00:22:15.73
I just want to shake
His hand and tell Him,
00:22:15.76\00:22:18.70
"Thank you for delivering me
00:22:18.73\00:22:20.67
from the world that
I would have been on"
00:22:20.70\00:22:22.04
as a songwriter said,
"I can tell you my story...
00:22:22.07\00:22:25.87
without Jesus I
would have failed
00:22:25.91\00:22:27.38
but I cannot
fail with Jesus... "
00:22:27.44\00:22:28.84
he found me in the
burrows of New York City...
00:22:28.88\00:22:31.65
on the streets of
destruction, in the clubs...
00:22:31.68\00:22:34.32
where pleasure
seemed to have inoculated me
00:22:34.38\00:22:36.99
beyond the reach of God...
00:22:37.02\00:22:38.39
but there is nobody
that Jesus cannot reach.
00:22:38.42\00:22:41.52
Audience: "Amen. "
00:22:41.56\00:22:42.89
And the evidence of
the coming of the Lord...
00:22:42.92\00:22:44.79
is that I'm preaching...
00:22:44.83\00:22:47.40
nobody could have told me
00:22:47.43\00:22:49.90
that God can turn a
sinner into a preacher
00:22:49.93\00:22:52.80
but God can turn a corrupt mind
00:22:52.83\00:22:55.54
into a mind where the
glory of God is being revealed.
00:22:55.57\00:22:58.01
Audience: "Amen. "
00:22:58.07\00:22:59.47
The evidence that
Jesus is coming soon
00:22:59.51\00:23:01.71
that some of you have been
saved come on say, "Amen. "
00:23:01.74\00:23:03.45
Audience: "Amen. "
00:23:03.48\00:23:04.91
Somebody used to be a drunkard,
they are now a child of God,
00:23:04.98\00:23:08.32
God can save drug addicts,
00:23:08.35\00:23:10.59
God can turn a
thief into a treasurer,
00:23:10.62\00:23:13.86
oh, I tell you
brothers and sisters,
00:23:13.89\00:23:15.72
the message of salvation
00:23:15.76\00:23:17.09
is all about sufficiency
in the blood of Jesus
00:23:17.13\00:23:19.59
but the world doesn't know it,
00:23:19.63\00:23:21.66
you see, there are
still many prisoners of war
00:23:21.70\00:23:24.67
that have not heard this message
00:23:24.70\00:23:26.33
and so, we have
not come to London
00:23:26.37\00:23:28.34
just to talk to
you for 14 nights,
00:23:28.40\00:23:30.34
we have come to
London to say to you,
00:23:30.37\00:23:31.71
"It is time to turn
London inside out... "
00:23:31.74\00:23:33.58
Audience: "Amen. "
00:23:33.61\00:23:34.94
I was walking down
some of the streets
00:23:34.98\00:23:36.54
and I saw people
passing out false literature
00:23:36.58\00:23:38.91
and I said, "Where
are the people of God?"
00:23:38.95\00:23:41.18
In this hour of urgency
where are the people of God?
00:23:41.22\00:23:46.25
We've come to equip you,
00:23:46.29\00:23:48.09
when we leave, you cannot
allow the light to be dimmed...
00:23:48.12\00:23:51.23
you cannot allow your
hope to be turned down,
00:23:51.29\00:23:53.43
you cannot go
back to life as normal,
00:23:53.50\00:23:55.80
we are living in a
constant 9... 11... environment,
00:23:55.83\00:23:58.87
God is saying to His
church, "Let me in... "
00:23:58.90\00:24:01.60
somebody once said that if Jesus
never came inside the church...
00:24:01.64\00:24:05.67
if the Holy Spirit
was withdraw today...
00:24:05.71\00:24:08.41
one person said, "the activity
that takes place in our church
00:24:08.44\00:24:11.91
will continue as usual... "
00:24:11.95\00:24:13.28
that's why the final
message to this church is,
00:24:13.31\00:24:15.68
"Behold I stand at
the door and knock... "
00:24:15.72\00:24:18.12
Jesus is saying,
"Let me back in my church"
00:24:18.15\00:24:20.49
and I want to tell you,
Jesus cannot be in a church
00:24:20.56\00:24:23.32
and we be complacent
about the coming of our Lord,
00:24:23.36\00:24:26.09
He cannot be in your heart and
you don't want to tell somebody
00:24:26.13\00:24:28.60
about the coming of our Savior,
00:24:28.63\00:24:30.07
you cannot say that you love
the Lord... and remain indolent
00:24:30.10\00:24:33.74
while people are
going to Christ-less graves,
00:24:33.80\00:24:35.97
there's a storm approaching
00:24:36.00\00:24:38.47
of a magnitude the
world has never seen before,
00:24:38.51\00:24:40.78
one day... all
restraint of evil angels
00:24:40.81\00:24:45.28
will be released and
hell in all of its fury
00:24:45.31\00:24:48.78
will take hold of this planet,
00:24:48.82\00:24:50.35
brethren, we
cannot even imagine that,
00:24:50.39\00:24:52.65
if all the
prisons on this earth...
00:24:52.69\00:24:54.92
if every evil criminal was...
00:24:54.96\00:24:56.96
all of a sudden... released
to the streets of London
00:24:56.99\00:24:59.49
and they were told,
"Do whatever you want... "
00:24:59.53\00:25:01.43
they will still fall far short
00:25:01.46\00:25:04.83
of what evil angels are
planning for every one of us,
00:25:04.87\00:25:07.40
Satan is planning for this day,
00:25:07.44\00:25:09.90
it's called the
Battle of Armageddon,
00:25:09.94\00:25:11.27
and we are told in evangelism,
angels are now restraining...
00:25:11.31\00:25:15.44
holy angels are now
restraining the winds of strife,
00:25:15.48\00:25:18.88
until the world shall be
warned of its coming doom
00:25:18.91\00:25:22.28
but a storm is
gathering, let me say it again,
00:25:22.32\00:25:24.79
Brothers and
Sisters, a storm is gathering,
00:25:24.82\00:25:27.26
ready to burst upon the earth
00:25:27.29\00:25:29.52
and when God shall bid
His angels loose the winds,
00:25:29.59\00:25:32.76
there will be such a scene
of strife as no pen can picture.
00:25:32.79\00:25:37.30
My wife and I were sitting
on the train the other day
00:25:37.33\00:25:40.20
on our way to... to...
00:25:40.24\00:25:42.54
Station Saint Pan Christa
00:25:42.57\00:25:44.81
to catch the train to
spend the day in Paris
00:25:44.84\00:25:47.18
with some of our friends,
00:25:47.21\00:25:48.54
and we opened up
our... our devotionals
00:25:48.58\00:25:52.51
and began to read
00:25:52.55\00:25:54.32
and God had given us a quiet
car just so He can talk to us
00:25:54.38\00:25:59.59
and I said to my wife,
as the train was going by,
00:25:59.62\00:26:03.53
speeding as it were...
00:26:03.56\00:26:05.33
passing people that
have never heard about Jesus,
00:26:05.36\00:26:09.26
people that have closed their
ears to His calls for safety
00:26:09.30\00:26:13.13
and redemption and repentance
00:26:13.17\00:26:14.90
and I said,
"Honey, can you imagine...
00:26:14.94\00:26:18.01
what would happen...
00:26:18.04\00:26:22.84
if God removes the restraint
from these evil angels...
00:26:22.88\00:26:28.05
a cacophony of demonism
will be unleashed on this world
00:26:28.08\00:26:33.25
as no human pen
can ever write... "
00:26:33.29\00:26:35.79
evil... of a magnitude that
we have never, ever experienced,
00:26:35.82\00:26:40.56
you put Hitler and
everybody else together
00:26:40.60\00:26:43.33
that have carried out atrocities
beyond human description
00:26:43.37\00:26:46.33
and you pour them
into our major cities,
00:26:46.37\00:26:48.54
when all the lights that have
dazzled the eyes of humanity,
00:26:48.57\00:26:52.17
when all the entertainment...
00:26:52.21\00:26:53.61
God pulls the plug
on the power of earth,
00:26:53.64\00:26:56.04
when this city is plunged
into irreversible darkness,
00:26:56.08\00:26:59.41
only then... the only
hope you have at that moment,
00:26:59.45\00:27:02.55
is to have Christ, the
light of life in your life.
00:27:02.58\00:27:05.65
Audience: "Amen. "
00:27:05.69\00:27:07.02
The only hope for
humanity at that moment,
00:27:07.06\00:27:08.89
is to be sealed as it were,
the Psalmist, David, said...
00:27:08.92\00:27:12.39
oh my brethren...
there's a time coming...
00:27:12.43\00:27:15.13
he says, "He that dwelleth
00:27:15.16\00:27:18.43
in the secret
place of the most High
00:27:18.47\00:27:22.67
shall abide... " in that moment
00:27:22.70\00:27:24.47
"under the
shadow of the Almighty.
00:27:24.51\00:27:26.17
And I will say of the Lord,
He is my refuge and my fortress:
00:27:26.21\00:27:29.38
my God; in Him will I trust.
00:27:29.44\00:27:31.88
Surely... " oh, I want
to say that word again,
00:27:31.91\00:27:34.98
"Surely He shall
deliver me from the pestilence
00:27:35.02\00:27:37.49
and from the noisome
and grievous sore... "
00:27:37.52\00:27:39.49
and he said, "A
thousand will fall at thy side,
00:27:39.52\00:27:42.29
and ten thousand
at thy right hand... "
00:27:42.32\00:27:44.33
but because of God's grace,
"it shall not come nigh thee"
00:27:44.36\00:27:47.23
Audience: "Amen. "
00:27:47.26\00:27:48.60
"Only with thine eyes
shall you behold and see
00:27:48.63\00:27:51.17
the reward of the wicked.
00:27:51.20\00:27:52.53
But because you
have made the Lord,
00:27:52.57\00:27:54.40
even the Most
High... your habitation,
00:27:54.44\00:27:56.27
He will give His
angels charge over you... "
00:27:56.30\00:27:59.87
Audience: "Amen. "
00:27:59.91\00:28:01.24
God's got a way to hide His
saints in the time of trouble,
00:28:01.28\00:28:03.95
they talk about technology,
00:28:03.98\00:28:05.85
they say they can find you
wherever they can look for you,
00:28:05.88\00:28:08.25
oh, they don't
know about my God.
00:28:08.28\00:28:10.25
Audience: "Amen. "
00:28:10.29\00:28:11.62
He can hide us in a secret place
that not even NSA knows about.
00:28:11.65\00:28:15.09
He can hide us where the
FBI has no clue... exists...
00:28:15.12\00:28:18.96
"under His wings
shall we trust... "
00:28:18.99\00:28:20.96
Audience: "Amen. "
00:28:21.00\00:28:22.56
My Brothers and Sisters,
00:28:22.60\00:28:23.93
it doesn't make sense to have
all this provision for salvation
00:28:23.97\00:28:27.80
and to walk away
from it, complacent...
00:28:27.84\00:28:30.61
complacent... as though we
got all the time in the world,
00:28:30.64\00:28:35.98
oh, let me continue
to talk to you today,
00:28:36.01\00:28:38.45
look at the world around
us, earthquakes and violence
00:28:38.48\00:28:41.78
and floods and places that
floods have never been before,
00:28:41.82\00:28:45.05
in Europe... people
are now becoming victims
00:28:45.12\00:28:48.66
of unrestrained rivers,
00:28:48.69\00:28:50.03
fires... all
these are harbingers
00:28:50.06\00:28:53.09
just a forecast...
God is showing man...
00:28:53.16\00:28:57.57
in these little judgments,
00:28:57.63\00:28:59.43
He says... He's
giving man an opportunity
00:28:59.47\00:29:01.64
to break free, because He says,
00:29:01.67\00:29:03.37
there is not yet those
who have not stood for Satan
00:29:03.41\00:29:06.11
but they have not
heard the message yet,
00:29:06.14\00:29:08.44
the calamities by land and sea,
the unsettled state of society
00:29:08.51\00:29:13.72
the alarms of
war are portentous...
00:29:13.75\00:29:16.25
they are everywhere,
00:29:16.28\00:29:18.05
the forecasts... they
forecast approaching events
00:29:18.09\00:29:21.32
of the greatest magnitude,
00:29:21.36\00:29:23.09
the evil angels...
00:29:23.12\00:29:24.79
the agencies of evil
are combining their forces
00:29:24.83\00:29:27.90
and they are consolidating.
00:29:27.93\00:29:29.40
When I read the text in
Revelation where the Bible says,
00:29:29.43\00:29:32.10
"and the dragon and
His angels fought... "
00:29:32.13\00:29:34.34
I looked behind the curtain
to find out what that meant,
00:29:34.37\00:29:37.24
now, what that meant was,
00:29:37.27\00:29:38.61
in hell... even the
angels don't like each other,
00:29:38.64\00:29:42.08
Audience: Laughing...
00:29:42.11\00:29:43.55
If you think you're selfish,
00:29:43.58\00:29:47.45
evil angels are
more selfish than you,
00:29:47.48\00:29:49.38
they all contend
amongst each other,
00:29:49.42\00:29:51.95
but for the final
battle of Armageddon,
00:29:51.99\00:29:54.42
they are all going to put aside
their differences and turn on us
00:29:54.46\00:29:57.53
like they did in Nehemiah...
00:29:57.59\00:30:00.96
Sanballat, Tobiah, the
Arab... they all got together
00:30:01.03\00:30:03.33
because of one man concerned
about the goodness of God,
00:30:03.37\00:30:06.20
all the evil
angels for a brief moment
00:30:06.23\00:30:08.37
will put aside
their their grievances
00:30:08.40\00:30:10.41
just to turn
their angers against us,
00:30:10.44\00:30:12.27
Inspiration tells us,
00:30:12.31\00:30:14.84
"they are strengthening
for the last great crisis,
00:30:14.88\00:30:19.81
great changes are soon
to take place in our world
00:30:19.85\00:30:24.49
and the final movements
will be... rapid ones... "
00:30:24.55\00:30:29.16
the stage is set,
00:30:29.19\00:30:33.66
our world is just
like it was in Noah's day,
00:30:33.70\00:30:36.20
violence is sold and applauded,
00:30:36.23\00:30:39.07
just the other day on the news,
00:30:39.10\00:30:41.87
my wife and I were
looking at a broadcast
00:30:41.90\00:30:44.71
just the other day on the news
00:30:44.74\00:30:46.34
as we were getting ready,
00:30:46.37\00:30:48.61
I spent most of my
day in the hotel room,
00:30:48.64\00:30:50.85
I saw London through the window,
00:30:50.88\00:30:53.72
but I wasn't here
to look at London,
00:30:53.78\00:30:56.32
I was here on a
mission from God.
00:30:56.35\00:30:58.85
Audience: "Amen. "
00:30:58.89\00:31:00.22
And I looked at the news
when I heard about a crime
00:31:00.26\00:31:02.36
that I had never heard before,
00:31:02.39\00:31:03.76
and I said,
"Honey, what is that?"
00:31:03.79\00:31:06.03
she said, "I don't
even know what that is"
00:31:06.06\00:31:07.66
and I listened... as Satan
is still inventing new crimes
00:31:07.73\00:31:11.37
of such low degree
00:31:11.40\00:31:13.13
that I'm thinking, "What is
the depth of human depravity?"
00:31:13.17\00:31:16.30
We don't even know the
depth of human depravity
00:31:16.34\00:31:18.74
but when the
angels release the winds,
00:31:18.77\00:31:20.91
our world will be just like
it was... in the days of Noah,
00:31:20.98\00:31:24.48
the Bible says in
Genesis 6 and verse 11,
00:31:24.51\00:31:26.48
Is that sign being
fulfilled in our day?
00:31:32.05\00:31:35.16
Audience: "Yes. "
00:31:35.22\00:31:36.56
The earth is
filled with violence...
00:31:36.59\00:31:37.93
it's sold in the movies,
00:31:37.96\00:31:39.29
it has become the entertainment
of our hearts' desire,
00:31:39.33\00:31:43.43
that's why we have to be careful
about the society around us
00:31:43.47\00:31:47.80
the world forecasts
an imploding society,
00:31:47.84\00:31:50.51
but Satan's plan is to bring
the church down with the world,
00:31:50.54\00:31:54.01
that's why you have to be
careful with all these devices,
00:31:54.04\00:31:57.45
all this... iThis and iThat...
00:31:57.48\00:31:59.88
and Samsung
here and iPhone there
00:31:59.91\00:32:02.25
and Android
there... all these devices...
00:32:02.28\00:32:04.59
they have a function...
00:32:04.65\00:32:06.35
but what many of
us don't understand
00:32:06.42\00:32:08.16
is they have an
additional function...
00:32:08.22\00:32:10.59
Satan's plan is
to capture our minds
00:32:10.63\00:32:12.99
so that we are so
filled with foolishness
00:32:13.03\00:32:15.10
that we cannot hear
the voice of God anymore.
00:32:15.13\00:32:18.00
A young man was standing in one
of my churches a few years ago,
00:32:18.03\00:32:21.47
and I saw him standing
on the wall in the foyer
00:32:21.50\00:32:23.77
and listening in his
earplugs and I thought,
00:32:23.81\00:32:25.77
"Surely... he must be
listening to something
00:32:25.81\00:32:27.74
to get ready for
the main service"
00:32:27.78\00:32:29.14
and I walked past him
00:32:29.18\00:32:30.71
and the music was so loud
it almost blew my head off,
00:32:30.75\00:32:34.08
and I just pulled those
earplugs out of his ears...
00:32:34.12\00:32:36.99
and said, "This
is God's house...
00:32:37.02\00:32:38.35
that foolishness
does not belong in here,
00:32:38.39\00:32:40.36
put that stuff away. "
00:32:40.39\00:32:41.72
Stand fast in the authority
that God has given to you,
00:32:41.76\00:32:45.29
we've got to be people
that are unwilling to stand by
00:32:45.33\00:32:49.10
and watch our young
people destroy themselves.
00:32:49.13\00:32:51.63
I heard this story about
a lady who was so excited
00:32:51.70\00:32:55.57
that a young lady that
had a baby out of wedlock...
00:32:55.60\00:32:59.44
she stood up... when
the church had voted...
00:32:59.47\00:33:01.28
she stood up to give her support
00:33:01.31\00:33:04.25
to this young lady
being read out of the church,
00:33:04.28\00:33:06.78
and when she stood
up the pastor said,
00:33:06.82\00:33:08.72
"You ought to sit down...
00:33:08.75\00:33:10.19
you watched this young lady
00:33:10.22\00:33:11.59
from the time she
was a little girl,
00:33:11.62\00:33:12.95
and you saw her going
astray, you knew her family
00:33:12.99\00:33:15.52
and you did
nothing to stem this tide,
00:33:15.56\00:33:17.73
we don't need a
vote to put her out,
00:33:17.76\00:33:19.59
we need a vote to keep her in. "
00:33:19.63\00:33:21.43
Audience
loudly: "Amen... amen. "
00:33:21.46\00:33:23.33
When a person is fallen in sin,
00:33:23.37\00:33:25.17
you don't kick them out,
we don't shoot our wounded,
00:33:25.20\00:33:27.57
they need us then
more than ever before.
00:33:27.60\00:33:29.64
Audience: "Amen. "
00:33:29.67\00:33:31.07
If God loves us so
much, He can forgive us,
00:33:31.14\00:33:32.81
we ought to extend
the same forgiveness
00:33:32.84\00:33:34.44
to those who are
bound in trespasses and sin.
00:33:34.48\00:33:37.75
The Bible says...
the world that once was
00:33:37.78\00:33:40.98
is being duplicated
again, Genesis 6 and verse 5
00:33:41.02\00:33:43.75
listen to the words
of a faithful man of God,
00:33:43.79\00:33:46.49
"Then the LORD saw
00:33:46.52\00:33:47.99
that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth... "
00:33:48.02\00:33:50.29
and once again, it is great...
00:33:50.33\00:33:51.93
"and that every intent
of the thoughts of his heart
00:33:51.96\00:33:55.03
was only... " what?
00:33:55.06\00:33:56.77
"evil continually... "
00:33:56.80\00:33:58.40
I can't even fathom
that, I know some evil people
00:33:58.43\00:34:01.30
but I praise God they
ain't evil continually,
00:34:01.37\00:34:05.74
amen somebody,
00:34:05.77\00:34:07.41
Audience: "Amen. "
00:34:07.44\00:34:08.98
The Bible says, we are
quickly approaching a generation
00:34:09.01\00:34:14.02
where the agenda of
hell is to make sure that
00:34:14.05\00:34:18.52
everybody that has not accepted
the saving grace of Jesus
00:34:18.55\00:34:23.16
their thoughts are
only evil continually.
00:34:23.19\00:34:26.39
Pause...
00:34:26.43\00:34:28.66
We are living in an evil age,
00:34:28.70\00:34:30.77
the perils of the last
days sticking around us
00:34:30.80\00:34:34.60
and the reason
is clear because...
00:34:34.64\00:34:36.34
love has grown
cold... iniquity abounds...
00:34:36.37\00:34:40.64
but listen to Paul as he
spoke to his young protégé
00:34:40.68\00:34:45.01
by the name of Timothy, he said,
00:34:45.05\00:34:46.82
"I am passing off the scene
00:34:46.85\00:34:48.58
but when you begin to see
00:34:48.62\00:34:50.32
this kind of
environment unfold before you,
00:34:50.35\00:34:53.25
you know... my Brother
00:34:53.32\00:34:54.66
that you got to preach
more than ever before... "
00:34:54.69\00:34:56.62
here's what he said...
00:34:56.66\00:34:58.29
2nd Timothy
chapter 3 verses 1 to 5,
00:34:58.33\00:34:59.89
listen to the faithful words,
00:34:59.93\00:35:01.43
upon whom we have been
given a message for us today
00:35:01.46\00:35:05.00
he says, "This know also,
that in the last days... "
00:35:05.03\00:35:08.50
say it church...
"perilous times shall come. "
00:35:08.54\00:35:12.27
Let me change that...
"perilous times have come... "
00:35:12.31\00:35:15.51
"For men shall be
lovers of their own selves... "
00:35:15.54\00:35:18.71
if you don't believe
that, go down to Paris,
00:35:18.75\00:35:21.65
go down to Piccadilly Circus,
00:35:21.68\00:35:24.69
"covetous,
boasters... " "Look at me... "
00:35:24.75\00:35:32.13
Sometimes, even the word
"selfie" makes me shiver...
00:35:32.19\00:35:36.50
Pause...
00:35:36.53\00:35:39.30
The devil has got us in a web,
00:35:39.33\00:35:42.34
we got to pray to be
delivered from... "selfie... "
00:35:42.37\00:35:45.61
"men shall be
lovers of their own selves,
00:35:45.64\00:35:48.81
covetous, boasters, proud... "
00:35:48.84\00:35:52.35
let me pause on
that for a moment...
00:35:52.41\00:35:53.98
don't ever think that
because you got a degree...
00:35:54.02\00:35:56.35
you're smarter than God.
00:35:56.38\00:35:57.72
Audience loudly: "Amen... "
00:35:57.75\00:35:59.09
Some folk get a degree...
00:35:59.12\00:36:00.46
they get all
these letters behind
00:36:00.49\00:36:02.66
and in front of their name
00:36:02.72\00:36:04.06
and they forget that God
is God and they are not...
00:36:04.09\00:36:05.89
They get a nice
house and a beautiful car
00:36:05.93\00:36:10.30
and they think that
they've captured the world,
00:36:10.37\00:36:13.30
they have arrived,
00:36:13.34\00:36:14.67
only to realize that
they will arrive all right,
00:36:14.70\00:36:17.71
but at the wrong
place without Jesus.
00:36:17.74\00:36:19.07
Audience: "Amen. "
00:36:19.11\00:36:20.44
I told this story before, I
don't think I've told you this
00:36:20.48\00:36:22.18
but we had a young man
growing up in New York together,
00:36:22.21\00:36:24.15
when his mother passed away
00:36:24.18\00:36:25.91
he sold the house
that she'd purchased
00:36:25.95\00:36:28.25
for many, many more dollars...
thousands of dollars more
00:36:28.28\00:36:31.35
ten times this
house had appreciated...
00:36:31.39\00:36:33.62
he got his 300,000 plus
dollars, moved out of New York
00:36:33.66\00:36:36.62
and moved down to...
moved down to Miami, Florida
00:36:36.66\00:36:38.89
and when he got down to Miami
00:36:38.93\00:36:41.46
and bought his beautiful
house not too far from the bay
00:36:41.53\00:36:43.63
he said, "The church is only
for people that can't do better"
00:36:43.67\00:36:47.20
so he left the
church but God said,
00:36:47.24\00:36:51.27
"No... no... you need to
be back in the church... "
00:36:51.31\00:36:54.01
so God sent a storm by
the name of Hurricane Hugo...
00:36:54.04\00:36:56.58
Audience: laughing...
00:36:56.61\00:36:58.78
I am so glad that
God loves us so much...
00:36:58.81\00:37:00.78
He sent storms in our lives,
00:37:00.82\00:37:02.15
come on
somebody... Audience: "Amen. "
00:37:02.18\00:37:03.79
He's got to send storms to
blow away your foolishness,
00:37:03.82\00:37:06.45
so He can let you know that
what you brought in this world
00:37:06.49\00:37:10.13
is exactly what you're
taking out... nothing...
00:37:10.16\00:37:11.96
Audience: "Amen. "
00:37:11.99\00:37:13.33
That hurricane
nearly tore his house apart,
00:37:13.36\00:37:15.56
he's back in
church still today...
00:37:15.60\00:37:17.20
Audience: Laughing...
00:37:17.23\00:37:18.83
I see him on
Facebook now and then
00:37:18.90\00:37:20.24
talking about
the goodness of God,
00:37:20.27\00:37:21.60
God loves us so much He
would do whatever needs to do
00:37:21.64\00:37:24.14
to break down our nonsense,
00:37:24.17\00:37:25.61
oh, I praise God this
morning that He loves us
00:37:25.64\00:37:28.51
with an everlasting love,
00:37:28.54\00:37:30.28
I cannot get my
Savior so angry with me
00:37:30.31\00:37:32.61
that He doesn't
want to talk to me,
00:37:32.65\00:37:34.88
that's why I'm always
concerned when people say,
00:37:34.92\00:37:37.25
"Me and God ain't
on talking terms... "
00:37:37.29\00:37:39.39
I said, "Well, whom are
you talking to... the devil?"
00:37:39.42\00:37:40.99
Audience: Laughing...
00:37:41.02\00:37:42.36
can you imagine the Christian
00:37:42.39\00:37:43.73
who's not on
talking terms with God?
00:37:43.76\00:37:45.23
I want to tell you, if
you're in that condition,
00:37:45.26\00:37:47.56
the devil will
accept your call any day
00:37:47.60\00:37:49.33
but he can't answer your call
00:37:49.36\00:37:51.40
but the Lord says,
"Before you call, I will answer"
00:37:51.43\00:37:54.70
that's the kind of
God that I want to have
00:37:54.74\00:37:57.17
the prophet continues, he said,
00:37:57.21\00:37:59.87
"They'll be
disobedient to parents... "
00:37:59.91\00:38:01.58
come on parents... I
need an "amen" somewhere,
00:38:01.64\00:38:03.28
Audience: "Amen... "
00:38:03.31\00:38:04.65
"unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection... "
00:38:04.68\00:38:09.82
Lord, have mercy,
00:38:09.88\00:38:11.55
"trucebreakers... "
can't even keep a promise
00:38:11.59\00:38:15.02
"false accusers... " lying...
00:38:15.09\00:38:17.33
When they know
it's not the truth
00:38:17.36\00:38:19.56
"incontinent... "
can't control their minds...
00:38:19.59\00:38:22.76
they are so wavering...
they are inconsistent,
00:38:22.83\00:38:26.43
"fierce, despisers of
those that are good... "
00:38:26.47\00:38:30.07
that always catches me,
00:38:30.11\00:38:31.44
how could someone
despise somebody that's good?
00:38:31.47\00:38:34.14
"Traitors, heady, high-minded,
00:38:34.18\00:38:38.18
lovers of pleasures
more than lovers of God;
00:38:38.21\00:38:41.62
Having a form of
godliness... " but what else?
00:38:41.65\00:38:44.99
denying the power thereof... "
00:38:45.02\00:38:47.56
and we got four words,
"from such... " do what?
00:38:47.59\00:38:50.06
Audience: "turn away... "
00:38:50.09\00:38:51.43
Don't even hang out with them.
00:38:51.46\00:38:52.79
They deny the evidences
of the coming of Christ
00:38:52.83\00:38:56.90
but the other evidence
is, increasing immorality,
00:38:56.93\00:39:02.07
increasing immorality,
Luke 17 verse 28 and 29,
00:39:02.10\00:39:07.21
the Bible
continues speaking to us,
00:39:07.24\00:39:10.11
of the environment
that is going to precede
00:39:10.15\00:39:13.58
the glorious return of Jesus,
00:39:13.62\00:39:14.95
Luke says, "Likewise as it
was also in the days of Lot:
00:39:14.98\00:39:20.09
They ate, they drank,
they bought, they sold,
00:39:20.12\00:39:25.26
they planted,
they built; but... "
00:39:25.29\00:39:28.13
God always got to
insert a "but" in there
00:39:28.16\00:39:31.17
while you are having fun but...
00:39:31.20\00:39:33.13
God brings it back
center into reality...
00:39:33.17\00:39:36.71
"but on the day that
Lot went out of Sodom,
00:39:36.74\00:39:40.18
it rained fire and
brimstone from heaven... "
00:39:40.24\00:39:43.65
and what does the Bible say?
00:39:43.68\00:39:45.21
"and destroyed them all... "
00:39:45.25\00:39:46.72
I don't want to be
a bearer of bad news
00:39:46.75\00:39:49.48
but another
destruction is coming...
00:39:49.52\00:39:52.25
Audience: "Amen... "
00:39:52.29\00:39:53.62
And you can
deny it all you want,
00:39:53.66\00:39:56.96
you could act like
you found a better way
00:39:56.99\00:40:01.03
you can even fool
yourself into thinking
00:40:01.06\00:40:05.07
that your financial resources
00:40:05.10\00:40:06.70
will get you
through the time of trouble,
00:40:06.74\00:40:09.00
you can put up all
the foods you want,
00:40:09.04\00:40:12.84
and you can have
the best retirement plan
00:40:12.87\00:40:14.64
but unless it gets
you out of this world
00:40:14.71\00:40:16.44
you need to cancel it.
00:40:16.48\00:40:18.95
Jesus is the only way out
00:40:18.98\00:40:21.38
the human heart
has become so immoral
00:40:21.42\00:40:24.89
that we live in a world
that exalts sexual depravity
00:40:24.92\00:40:28.29
that's right, that's what
I'm going to tell you about,
00:40:28.32\00:40:31.66
it's darker than
its ever been before,
00:40:31.69\00:40:34.23
I know London
doesn't like to hear this,
00:40:34.26\00:40:36.77
but I ain't ever...
00:40:36.83\00:40:39.47
sorry, let me clean it
up with your pretty accent,
00:40:39.53\00:40:42.90
I will never... and
I reiterate... never...
00:40:42.94\00:40:47.84
accept the immorality...
that has been legislated
00:40:47.88\00:40:52.88
as though it's
normal in the sight of God.
00:40:52.91\00:40:55.38
Audience loudly: "Amen. "
00:40:55.42\00:40:57.22
My Bible tells me what's
highly esteemed among men
00:40:57.29\00:40:59.49
is a reproach to God.
00:40:59.52\00:41:00.86
Don't ever let people...
and let me make it very clear...
00:41:00.89\00:41:04.16
because sometimes I'd say these
things and people would say,
00:41:04.19\00:41:06.46
"He must be out of
touch, he must not have... "
00:41:06.49\00:41:08.56
I've got family... that's in the
same category of which I speak,
00:41:08.60\00:41:14.44
I love them with an
everlasting, unchanging love...
00:41:14.47\00:41:19.97
Audience: "Amen. "
00:41:20.01\00:41:21.34
But I ain't ever going
to approve what they do.
00:41:21.38\00:41:23.28
Audience: "Amen. "
00:41:23.31\00:41:24.65
If they call me, I'll be there
00:41:24.68\00:41:27.28
and I'll talk to
them about Jesus,
00:41:27.32\00:41:30.39
I'll pray with
them just before we eat
00:41:30.42\00:41:32.72
and I'll mention,
"In Jesus' name... "
00:41:32.75\00:41:35.02
just to remind them
that He's still around...
00:41:35.06\00:41:37.19
Audience loudly: "Amen. "
00:41:37.23\00:41:38.56
As it was in the days of Lot...
00:41:38.59\00:41:41.03
as it was in the days of Noah...
00:41:41.06\00:41:43.50
one of the signs that we're
living in the time of the end
00:41:43.53\00:41:46.30
is... Society
applauds things that even...
00:41:46.33\00:41:49.90
and I said "dumb animals"
I'm going to change that...
00:41:49.94\00:41:51.87
some animals are
smarter than we are.
00:41:51.91\00:41:53.91
I've never seen a
lion smoking a cigarette,
00:41:53.94\00:41:58.01
I've never seen a horse
drinking a bottle of alcohol,
00:41:58.05\00:42:01.85
we wouldn't do to our
animals what we do to ourselves,
00:42:01.88\00:42:05.65
if you had a horse race
00:42:05.69\00:42:07.69
and you had a horse
that you knew could win,
00:42:07.72\00:42:09.66
would you keep him up
to 2:30 in the morning
00:42:09.72\00:42:11.59
and feed him junk food
00:42:11.63\00:42:12.96
and expect him
to win the next day?
00:42:12.99\00:42:14.96
No... the Lord says to us,
we've got to value ourselves
00:42:15.00\00:42:18.13
above the value that
Society has placed on us
00:42:18.17\00:42:20.77
and even though it may
be approved and legitimized
00:42:20.80\00:42:23.81
and legalized,
00:42:23.84\00:42:25.17
because it's legal it
doesn't make it moral.
00:42:25.21\00:42:27.74
Audience: "Amen. "
00:42:27.81\00:42:29.14
Even so, it will be in the day
when the Son of Man is revealed
00:42:29.18\00:42:33.55
in Noah's day...
immorality was applauded
00:42:33.58\00:42:36.45
with great intensity,
00:42:36.48\00:42:37.82
in Noah's day, the voice of
God was ignored with impunity,
00:42:37.85\00:42:41.46
in Noah's day, pleasure consumed
the minds of that society,
00:42:41.49\00:42:45.13
in Noah's day,
salvation was ignored
00:42:45.19\00:42:47.66
and sin was preferred,
00:42:47.70\00:42:49.13
in Noah's day, men's
minds became continuously evil,
00:42:49.16\00:42:54.50
our world has
joined the society of Noah,
00:42:54.54\00:42:58.54
the Noah Chronicles can
now be repeated in our world
00:42:58.57\00:43:02.18
you pick the city,
it's happening there,
00:43:02.24\00:43:04.41
it may be a small
hubble outside of London
00:43:04.48\00:43:06.25
or outside of New York
00:43:06.31\00:43:07.65
or even in the small
outlying areas of the Midwest
00:43:07.68\00:43:11.32
but evil is everywhere
00:43:11.35\00:43:12.69
the Apostle Paul
tells us what kind of world
00:43:12.72\00:43:16.49
is being formed before us,
00:43:16.52\00:43:18.46
Romans 1 verse 26
and 27, the Bible says,
00:43:18.49\00:43:21.60
man became so
vile... the Bible says,
00:43:21.63\00:43:24.20
"For this reason
God gave them up to... "
00:43:24.23\00:43:26.43
what kind of affections?
00:43:26.47\00:43:27.80
"Vile affections.
For even their women
00:43:27.84\00:43:30.47
exchanging the natural use
for what is against nature.
00:43:30.51\00:43:34.68
Likewise also men, leaving
the natural use of the woman,
00:43:34.71\00:43:38.85
burned in their
lust for one another,
00:43:38.91\00:43:42.68
men with men
committing what is shameful,
00:43:42.75\00:43:46.45
and receiving in themselves
the penalty of their error
00:43:46.49\00:43:49.99
which was due. "
00:43:50.03\00:43:51.49
You cannot sin with impunity
and not expect some kind of
00:43:51.53\00:43:54.80
ramifications... the wages
of sin will always be death,
00:43:54.83\00:43:58.07
but I tell you today
00:43:58.10\00:43:59.77
I'd rather be preaching
against a perverted agenda
00:43:59.80\00:44:03.71
and persecuted by man
than prosecuted by God.
00:44:03.74\00:44:06.78
If speaking out
against prevailing iniquity
00:44:06.84\00:44:09.84
brings persecution...
00:44:09.88\00:44:11.21
I'd rather be persecuted
by man than prosecuted by God.
00:44:11.25\00:44:14.32
If preaching against
orchestrated darkness
00:44:14.35\00:44:17.62
will bring persecution,
00:44:17.65\00:44:18.99
I'd rather be persecuted
by man than prosecuted by God,
00:44:19.02\00:44:22.72
what do you say?
00:44:22.76\00:44:24.09
Audience: "Amen. "
00:44:24.13\00:44:25.46
Sign number three,
00:44:25.49\00:44:26.83
the destruction of our society
00:44:26.86\00:44:28.80
John 3 and verse
19... the Bible says,
00:44:28.83\00:44:31.40
"And this is the condemnation...
00:44:31.43\00:44:33.44
And this is the condemnation,
that light has come... "
00:44:33.47\00:44:36.91
where? "into the world,
00:44:36.94\00:44:38.41
and men loved
darkness rather than... " what?
00:44:38.44\00:44:40.51
Audience: "light... "
00:44:40.58\00:44:41.91
"The reason is because
their deeds were evil. "
00:44:41.94\00:44:44.18
It's amazing to me, you
can go out in the streets
00:44:44.21\00:44:46.38
and give out tracts and
say, "Here's something...
00:44:46.41\00:44:48.58
come to the Evangelistic series"
00:44:48.62\00:44:50.35
And somebody will
look at that and say,
00:44:50.39\00:44:51.99
"Naw... naw... I got
something else to do"
00:44:52.02\00:44:53.56
I want to tell you... they said
the same thing in Noah's day
00:44:53.59\00:44:56.79
but when the doors of the
ark closed... all of a sudden...
00:44:56.83\00:44:59.56
that something they had to
do was no longer important.
00:44:59.59\00:45:02.30
We got to see people
on the streets out...
00:45:02.33\00:45:05.03
the other night a man
was walking by the church
00:45:05.07\00:45:06.80
and an invitation was extended
00:45:06.84\00:45:08.87
and somebody...
he asked somebody,
00:45:08.90\00:45:10.81
"Well, what are they
doing on the inside?"
00:45:10.84\00:45:12.17
"Well, we're singing about
Jesus preaching about Jesus... "
00:45:12.21\00:45:14.38
he said, "Well
I'll come one in... "
00:45:14.44\00:45:15.78
and he came in
and he sat down...
00:45:15.81\00:45:17.15
A simple
invitation... Audience: "Amen. "
00:45:17.18\00:45:19.38
Pause...
00:45:19.41\00:45:22.55
you should have a signpost
on the front of your church,
00:45:22.58\00:45:24.72
when people
pass by, just pick...
00:45:24.75\00:45:26.09
"here's a... here's a flyer... "
00:45:26.12\00:45:27.46
God can have a blessed
Bible Study we never give,
00:45:27.49\00:45:30.53
this world has rejected
the light of God's Word,
00:45:30.56\00:45:33.90
this world has turned
off the light for so long
00:45:33.93\00:45:37.20
that our eyes are beginning
to adjust to the darkness
00:45:37.23\00:45:39.83
and the sad reality of
the darkness of our world
00:45:39.87\00:45:42.44
is not that it's dark
00:45:42.47\00:45:43.81
but when we
become accustomed to it,
00:45:43.84\00:45:46.07
and see nothing wrong
with it and become a part of it
00:45:46.11\00:45:49.61
we lose our connection with God,
00:45:49.64\00:45:52.41
when sin no longer convicts us,
00:45:52.45\00:45:55.15
when we've lost the feeling
for something done wrong,
00:45:55.18\00:45:59.99
when we... when we...
when we develop callous...
00:46:00.02\00:46:02.72
against something that is evil,
00:46:02.79\00:46:05.13
and it no longer brings pain
to our hearts and our minds...
00:46:05.16\00:46:08.83
that had been so...
so shut away from God
00:46:08.86\00:46:11.07
that we can contemplate darkness
00:46:11.10\00:46:13.10
and our minds
actually bring us to the place
00:46:13.13\00:46:15.04
where we smile in anticipation,
00:46:15.07\00:46:16.77
but the Bible tells us
about the world that we live in
00:46:16.81\00:46:20.64
Isaiah 60 verse 2,
we read these words,
00:46:20.68\00:46:24.85
"For, behold, the
darkness shall cover the earth,
00:46:24.88\00:46:28.55
and gross
darkness the people... "
00:46:28.58\00:46:31.25
let me tell you, that's
exactly what's happening today
00:46:31.32\00:46:33.89
"but the LORD
shall arise upon thee,
00:46:33.92\00:46:36.96
and his glory shall
be seen upon thee. "
00:46:37.03\00:46:39.39
There is a reason
why the Lord says,
00:46:39.43\00:46:41.76
"Let your light so shine... "
00:46:41.80\00:46:43.16
God is looking
for a witness today,
00:46:43.23\00:46:45.40
what is He looking for Church?
00:46:45.43\00:46:46.84
Audience: "Witness. "
00:46:46.87\00:46:48.20
He's not looking for
necessarily a preacher,
00:46:48.24\00:46:50.44
He wants somebody
in this dark world
00:46:50.47\00:46:53.38
to be a silent witness
00:46:53.44\00:46:56.21
to the ability that
He can change any life,
00:46:56.24\00:47:00.72
deliver anybody, turn
any bad situation around
00:47:00.75\00:47:03.79
and make it a good
situation to His glory,
00:47:03.82\00:47:06.89
but this dark world
has caused us some time
00:47:06.92\00:47:09.72
to become so indolent
00:47:09.79\00:47:11.56
we become like
the children of Israel
00:47:11.59\00:47:13.96
on their way to the Promise Land
00:47:14.00\00:47:15.33
on their way they forgot
the purpose of their journey
00:47:15.36\00:47:18.27
and look at what 1st Corinthians
chapter 10 and verse 7 said,
00:47:18.30\00:47:21.14
this is what
happened to the people of God
00:47:21.17\00:47:22.87
"And do not become
idolaters as some of them were.
00:47:22.90\00:47:26.98
As it is written,
'The people sat down... '"
00:47:27.01\00:47:30.28
to do what?
00:47:30.31\00:47:31.65
"eat and drink,
and rose up to play. "
00:47:31.68\00:47:34.45
Oh, Brothers and Sisters,
00:47:34.48\00:47:36.85
we can't allow our world to
cause us to just eat and drink
00:47:36.89\00:47:40.82
and have social
gatherings and rise up and play
00:47:40.86\00:47:44.19
and forget that
this is an urgent hour,
00:47:44.23\00:47:46.26
God has not saved us... just
to add our names to the roll,
00:47:46.29\00:47:51.27
He calls us to be an army,
what does He call us to be?
00:47:51.30\00:47:54.50
An army... that's convinced
00:47:54.57\00:47:56.81
that in the Battle of Armageddon
we'll stand on the side of right
00:47:56.84\00:48:00.51
but you've got to
stand for the side of right
00:48:00.54\00:48:03.31
before the battle begins.
00:48:03.35\00:48:04.71
Reading an article, they said,
00:48:04.75\00:48:08.78
"By the year 2020,
00:48:08.85\00:48:10.19
there'll be 9.2 billion
Smartphones subscriptions"
00:48:10.22\00:48:14.26
and I began to look at the
exponential growth of our earth
00:48:14.32\00:48:17.03
and I said, "By 2020... there
won't be 9.2 billion people,
00:48:17.06\00:48:19.49
how is that possible?"
00:48:19.53\00:48:20.86
They said, "People are so
enamored by their Smartphones
00:48:20.90\00:48:24.63
that they buy two and
three at the same time
00:48:24.70\00:48:26.60
and by that time, they said,
00:48:26.63\00:48:29.00
"there'll be 50
billion more new devices...
00:48:29.04\00:48:30.94
all dependent on
the internet... "
00:48:30.97\00:48:33.98
some folk come to
church and can't even unplug.
00:48:34.01\00:48:36.44
God's trying to speak to them
and they're facing Facebook,
00:48:36.48\00:48:40.25
well, let me tell you,
00:48:40.28\00:48:41.92
"This is the book you
have to face" amen somebody...
00:48:41.95\00:48:43.69
Audience loudly: "Amen. "
00:48:43.72\00:48:45.05
Stop texting and
start reading text.
00:48:45.09\00:48:46.69
Audience: "Amen. "
00:48:46.72\00:48:49.32
Audience agreeing...
00:48:49.36\00:48:51.89
Paul screams at us with
urgency, Romans 12 and verse 2,
00:48:51.96\00:48:57.30
"Do not be
conformed to this world,
00:48:57.33\00:48:58.77
but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind,
00:48:58.80\00:49:02.84
that you may prove
what is that good... "
00:49:02.87\00:49:05.74
let's say together,
"and acceptable... "
00:49:05.77\00:49:08.71
and what else?
"perfect will of God. "
00:49:08.74\00:49:11.61
I want to do
something out of the ordinary,
00:49:11.68\00:49:16.32
quite out of the ordinary,
00:49:16.38\00:49:19.32
at this point in the
sermon, I want you to know
00:49:19.35\00:49:23.93
that God will never leave you,
00:49:23.99\00:49:26.43
God will never leave you...
00:49:26.46\00:49:28.86
I want this message
in song to be so clear
00:49:28.90\00:49:32.07
that on the other
side of this message,
00:49:32.10\00:49:35.17
I'm going to make my appeal,
00:49:35.20\00:49:36.54
I'm going to invite
Melody Shelton Firestone
00:49:36.57\00:49:39.11
to come up and sing
this song because some of us
00:49:39.14\00:49:41.48
have been here at these
meetings night after night,
00:49:41.51\00:49:43.81
God's voice has called them
over and over and over again
00:49:43.85\00:49:48.18
and we don't
understand that the voice of God
00:49:48.22\00:49:51.69
is one that
cannot be turned down...
00:49:51.72\00:49:53.42
turned off or ignored,
00:49:53.46\00:49:55.02
but as she sings this song
that God will never leave you
00:49:55.06\00:49:58.86
I want that message
to resonate in your mind
00:49:58.89\00:50:01.66
as I prepare to make
a call to open the doors
00:50:01.70\00:50:04.37
and invite somebody else
to come into the ark of safety
00:50:04.43\00:50:07.37
before it is ever too late.
00:50:07.40\00:50:09.10
Music...
00:50:09.17\00:50:17.25
Some more music...
00:50:17.28\00:50:24.05
more music...
00:50:24.09\00:50:27.59
Wandering in the wilderness
00:50:27.62\00:50:31.39
stumbling in the dark
00:50:31.43\00:50:34.36
life put me on a road of praying
00:50:34.40\00:50:38.67
I never have to walk,
00:50:38.73\00:50:41.84
Helpless and
uncertain staring at a wall,
00:50:41.87\00:50:48.91
I wondered where
the Lord was in it all
00:50:48.94\00:50:56.52
But God said,
"I'll love you forever...
00:50:56.55\00:51:04.09
I will never
leave you alone... "
00:51:04.13\00:51:09.90
And days went...
00:51:09.93\00:51:14.80
You feel your
heart can't take it,
00:51:14.84\00:51:19.07
"I will be the one
to make you strong...
00:51:19.11\00:51:26.61
and I'll be there
to help you carry on...
00:51:26.65\00:51:34.09
I will never leave you alone. "
00:51:34.12\00:51:41.46
Music...
00:51:41.50\00:51:48.74
More music...
00:51:48.77\00:51:53.01
Picking up the pieces
of dreams that had to die
00:51:53.04\00:52:00.15
Trying hard to understand
and not to question "why"
00:52:00.18\00:52:07.76
It took a while to
realize what now I clearly see
00:52:07.79\00:52:14.86
That holding on to
Him and letting go of "me"
00:52:14.90\00:52:21.94
And God said, "I
love you forever...
00:52:21.97\00:52:28.88
I will never
leave you alone... "
00:52:28.94\00:52:35.75
And days when you feel
your heart can't take it,
00:52:35.78\00:52:44.66
"I will be the
one to make you strong
00:52:44.69\00:52:52.23
and I'll be there
to help you carry on...
00:52:52.27\00:52:59.77
I will never
leave you alone... "
00:52:59.81\00:53:07.38
Music...
00:53:07.42\00:53:15.86
More music...
00:53:15.89\00:53:19.49
Some more music...
00:53:19.53\00:53:20.86
God said,
00:53:20.90\00:53:23.30
"I love you forever...
00:53:23.33\00:53:27.94
I will never leave you alone"
00:53:27.97\00:53:33.17
And days when you feel
your heart can't take it
00:53:33.21\00:53:42.22
I will be the one
to make you strong...
00:53:42.25\00:53:49.66
and I'll be there
to help you carry on...
00:53:49.72\00:53:57.10
I will never leave you
00:53:57.13\00:54:01.37
alone...
00:54:01.40\00:54:08.34
I will never leave you
00:54:08.38\00:54:15.62
alone... "
00:54:15.68\00:54:20.62
Background singers:
00:54:20.66\00:54:24.59
"I will never leave
00:54:24.63\00:54:26.73
you... "
00:54:26.76\00:54:33.50
Audience: "Amen. "
00:54:33.54\00:54:41.88
Music...
00:54:41.91\00:54:46.58
As I stand here this morning
00:54:46.61\00:54:48.52
one day heaven
is going to dispatch
00:54:48.55\00:54:54.66
an innumerable host of
angels with only one mission
00:54:54.69\00:55:01.96
the Father is going to say,
00:55:02.00\00:55:05.53
"It's time...
go get my children"
00:55:05.57\00:55:07.00
Audience: "Amen. "
00:55:07.04\00:55:08.50
and on that frightful day,
00:55:08.57\00:55:11.91
Jesus will lay off
His robe of ministry
00:55:11.94\00:55:14.38
and put on His
robe of vengeance,
00:55:14.41\00:55:17.28
the angels will bow as
00:55:17.31\00:55:21.48
the King of the Universe
approaches His steed of war
00:55:21.52\00:55:25.49
and there will be a
silence in heaven...
00:55:25.55\00:55:31.29
of numbing decibels
00:55:31.36\00:55:37.27
He will mount
that steed of salvation
00:55:37.30\00:55:42.07
and He will give the call,
00:55:42.10\00:55:46.37
"It's time to go
get our children"
00:55:46.41\00:55:49.58
there will be such a
stirring in that Kingdom
00:55:49.61\00:55:54.02
the angel will say,
"Father, is it time?"
00:55:54.05\00:55:57.59
He'll say, "It's
time to go get my children
00:55:57.62\00:56:01.12
I've borne with sin long enough,
00:56:01.16\00:56:03.83
I've seen too much death
and sorrow and suffering,
00:56:03.86\00:56:07.30
it's time to go get my children"
00:56:07.33\00:56:09.56
and the Father will
bid His Son, "Go... "
00:56:09.60\00:56:13.10
and over London and
over New York and over Paris
00:56:13.13\00:56:16.91
and over California,
00:56:16.97\00:56:18.31
in the midst of
a shopping mall...
00:56:18.34\00:56:21.14
and in the midst of
horse racing and gambling...
00:56:21.18\00:56:23.75
somebody's going
to pause and say,
00:56:23.78\00:56:25.18
"I see something
that I cannot recognize...
00:56:25.21\00:56:27.92
it looks... it's
dark and it's far away...
00:56:27.95\00:56:30.62
but the best that I can tell,
00:56:30.65\00:56:32.45
it looks like... about
the size of a man's hand"
00:56:32.49\00:56:34.82
Pause...
00:56:34.86\00:56:36.52
and somebody in
Paris will notice it,
00:56:36.56\00:56:38.93
and somebody in Guam will see it
00:56:38.96\00:56:40.40
and someone in the
Caribbean will see it
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and in Asia in their language
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they'll begin
to describe this...
00:56:43.33\00:56:44.93
this small object, as it were,
00:56:45.00\00:56:46.57
coming closer and
closer to the earth
00:56:46.60\00:56:48.60
and all of a sudden
00:56:48.64\00:56:51.31
somebody would hear
the sound of a trumpet
00:56:51.34\00:56:54.34
as though it's
echoed in the distance
00:56:54.38\00:56:56.11
and louder and yet louder
00:56:56.14\00:56:58.38
as this dark
sign becomes brighter
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and brighter and brighter
00:57:02.32\00:57:04.75
and the earth is wrapped
in impenetrable darkness,
00:57:04.79\00:57:08.32
and the voice of the
Life-Giver goes forth,
00:57:08.36\00:57:12.56
"Come ye blessed of my Father,
00:57:12.59\00:57:15.40
inherit the
kingdom prepared for you
00:57:15.43\00:57:17.57
from the
foundation of the world..."
00:57:17.60\00:57:19.63
the last great miracle will
be transformed before our eyes
00:57:19.67\00:57:23.67
the dead in
Christ will begin to rise
00:57:23.71\00:57:26.68
from their dusty beds,
00:57:26.71\00:57:29.24
no sign of sin and suffering
no more pain, no more heartache,
00:57:29.28\00:57:33.72
they have come forth to
see the third angel's message
00:57:33.75\00:57:37.25
triumph with glory...
00:57:37.29\00:57:38.62
They've believed
the promises of God,
00:57:38.65\00:57:41.16
they've held on
to the Word of God,
00:57:41.19\00:57:43.76
they've fought a good fight,
00:57:43.79\00:57:45.46
they've finished their
course, they've kept the faith
00:57:45.49\00:57:47.36
and ringing in their ears is,
00:57:47.40\00:57:49.06
"There's a crown of
righteousness laid up for me
00:57:49.10\00:57:51.97
but not for me only...
00:57:52.00\00:57:53.34
but for all those
that love His appearing. "
00:57:53.37\00:57:56.07
Audience: "Amen. "
00:57:56.10\00:57:57.44
I want to say this morning,
00:57:57.47\00:57:58.84
there's a crown waiting
for somebody here today,
00:57:58.87\00:58:00.68
God wants to put a
new name on a new crown,
00:58:00.71\00:58:03.65
there are some new crowns,
00:58:03.68\00:58:05.01
come one, somebody say, "Amen. "
00:58:05.05\00:58:06.38
Audience: "Amen... "
00:58:06.41\00:58:07.75
I like all that got crowns,
come and join me up here...
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all those baptized today...
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