Good evening.
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It's good to see
everyone here tonight.
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I would like to open
with a word of prayer
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and let's ask our savior
and our God to be here with us.
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Father in heaven,
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we come to You
tonight boldly and yet humbly,
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Father, we ask for Your presence
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and for Your Son's presence
through your Holy Spirit,
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be here with us,
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open our eyes that
we might see Your glory
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and our ears that we
might hear thy voice alone.
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Father, we claim this property
and all of the equipment
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and every person that is here,
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we claim the shed blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ
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over us.
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And, Father, we ask
that Your holy angels
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that excel in strength
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will bind all the
powers of darkness.
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Let none of the heathen
say, "Where is our God?"
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Thank you for
hearing and for answering,
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in Jesus' mighty name, amen.
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I would like to open
with the text of scripture
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this evening.
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It's found in Isaiah Chapter 45,
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and we're going
to read 18 and 19.
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I'm gonna abbreviate it,
but that's where it'll be from.
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It says, "For
thus saith the Lord
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that created the heavens,
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God himself that
formed the earth and made it,
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he established it, he
created it not in vain,
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he says, I am the Lord
and there is none else.
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I have not spoken in secret
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in some dark place of the earth,
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I said not unto the
seed or children of Jacob,
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seek ye me in vain,
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for I the Lord
speak righteousness
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I declare
things that are right."
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Just to give you a
quick introduction,
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for 25 years, I
was an instructor
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in Chinese and Filipino,
and Japanese martial arts,
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as well as other
forms of Eastern mysticism,
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traditional Chinese medicine,
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Chinese, qigong,
tai chi, etcetera.
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When the Lord set me free
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from the bondage
that the enemy had me in.
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He did a number of
miracles in my life
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restoring my wife and I,
the covenant of marriage.
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He brought our
family back together.
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But He did exceeding abundantly
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more than we ever
could have imagined.
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He brought me out of this world
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that even as a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian,
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I was going to
church every week,
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but I was going
to a different church
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and I was teaching
in a different church,
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a different setting,
six days of the week.
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And I remember,
I asked the Lord,
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after we had first
done the first testimony
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on the dangers of
Eastern mysticism,
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I said, "I don't want to
spend the rest of my life
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talking about this stuff."
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I was so happy to be
out of it and to be free
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from the spiritual influences
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that have been
working in my life.
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I didn't want to
talk about it anymore.
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I said, "God, you know,
we've done the testimony,
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Little Light
Studios did a film."
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I said, "Let them watch that,
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I don't want to
talk about this."
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And God had other plans.
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Praise God.
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And what I found was
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over the next
couple of years was,
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there were
Christians in every denomination
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that began to contact us.
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And many of them,
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probably 33% had
had some involvement
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in Eastern
mysticism or martial arts,
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but the other 65% to 69%
had never had any involvement.
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But the reason they contacted us
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was they said,
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"If God did this in your life,
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can He set me free?"
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And I started realizing
that the purpose that God had
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was not just in revealing facts,
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but in setting
every captive free.
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Now I'm going to give
you sort of a disclaimer.
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We as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians,
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we're known as
people of the book.
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And the servant of the
Lord told us, she said,
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"We are almost
replaying the history
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of what the Jewish
church was doing in Jesus' day."
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Do you know many of
them had head knowledge.
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They knew the facts.
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They knew the Bible studies.
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They knew the state of the dead,
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they knew the
health, they knew tithing,
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they knew the sanctuary,
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but they did not know
by personal experience,
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the presence
nor the power of God
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in their lives.
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Do you know that
right now many Christians
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are going
through the same thing?
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They are finding that,
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like with the emerging
church what's been said is,
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is we need to find a
new way to evangelize,
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we're losing,
we're losing members
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and not just in our
church, in all denominations.
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So they're
bringing in, you know,
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contemporary
Christian rock and roll music.
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They're bringing in whatever,
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all these new ways
of preaching the gospel,
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because they have
bought into the lie
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that that's going
to fill the churches.
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People don't need a new gospel.
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They need the power
of God in their lives.
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That's what we
want to reveal here.
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Because when I
first was brought out
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of what I was involved in,
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I had no idea
that 10 years later
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this is what God was
going to be having me to share.
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And what I've found
over the past few years
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when we were able to
speak on the Emergent Church
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and Spiritual Formation is,
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often times we look at the bad,
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we identify the
danger of the Illuminati,
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and the danger of the Jesuits
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and we know what the
mark of the beast is,
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and we know this
fact and that fact.
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But many people are saying,
I've got facts in my head,
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but my heart has
not been changed.
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And that's what
Nicodemus was asking Jesus,
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I know in my head,
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but I want to know
Your power in my life.
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That's what most of Christianity
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is looking for.
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That's what Satan is using
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spiritual
formation to counterfeit.
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He knows that people
are dry, the wilderness,
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you know, of
men's hearts is dry.
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And God said, "Can
these dry bones live?
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Yes, I have to put
My Spirit into them."
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Satan said,
"I'll counterfeit this.
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I'll make them so dry
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that they will
accept anything to drink,
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whether it's kosher or not."
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And that's what he's doing
through spiritual formation
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in the emerging church.
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So what we want to do
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is we want to
take a closer look.
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Tonight we're gonna
begin laying a foundation.
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And over this entire
week, over the next few days,
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we're gonna go
through and we're gonna build
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on that foundation.
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And by time we get to the end,
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your hearts are going to burn
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like they have
never burned before
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when you see the power of God.
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So remember that, as
we're looking at this,
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we're gonna look at
the counterfeit first.
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A familiar text of scripture,
Revelation Chapter 12,
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and I'm paraphrasing this.
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I'm reading from the King James
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but I'm putting some
verses in there together.
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So I encourage you take notes
and look these up on your own
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when you're at home.
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"And when the dragon
saw that he was cast down
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under the earth, he
persecuted the woman
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which brought
forth the man child,
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and to the woman
were given two wings
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of a great eagle,
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so that she might
fly into the wilderness
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where she hath a place
prepared for her by God,
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that they should
feed or nourish her there
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away from the face
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and the
presence of the serpent."
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Now we know who this
was, in Genesis 3:15,
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God made a promise to
Adam and Eve, He said,
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"Your son is gonna
crush the serpent's head."
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A little while
later Abraham came along
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and he made a
promise to him, he said,
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"Unto you and your son
are these promises made,
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and in your son,"
make a note of that,
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"in your son,"
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not by your son
alone, but in your son,
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"will all the nations
of the earth be blessed."
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And then King David came along,
and God repeated the promise.
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And he said, "King
David, of your own flesh,
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I'm going to raise up a son,
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and he's going to
sit upon your throne."
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A timeline of prophetic history,
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growing up as a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian,
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I can remember my mother
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reading to me
those little red books.
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And I still have
some of those same ones.
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But it was almost
like it was something
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almost make-believe.
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You know, there was
this little old lady
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named Ellen White,
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and she wrote these things
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and it was sort of disconnected
from the real world.
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And as I started
going back doing research
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after the Lord brought me out,
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I was amazed to find
out the historical evidence
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for what was
actually taking place
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back in the 1800s.
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And as I started
putting these things together
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as the Lord was revealing it,
all of the sudden the things,
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the truths that
Ellen White was being shown
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to share with you
and I, they became alive.
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Let me show you what
was happening, 1800s,
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the beginning of this country,
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the Protestant
Christians fled to America,
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the great awakening began,
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the second great awakening
here in the United States.
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There was a very renewed study
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and comprehension
of biblical prophecies,
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especially in
Daniel and Revelation.
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And this is
something that is a key.
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We also saw the beginning
of a huge temperance movement
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in the United States.
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It wasn't just Adventist,
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when I was even
preparing this series,
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and I had to go
back and do research,
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it was everywhere.
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There were people everywhere
that were standing up saying,
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"We've got to change
the way we're eating."
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And I thought,
"Isn't that funny that God
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was doing that in
every denomination."
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At the same time that
He was revealing the truth
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and the nearness
of Christ's return,
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the same time
that He was proclaiming
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the 1888 message of
righteousness by faith.
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He had already
been preparing the world
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through getting them to change
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the way they were
eating and living.
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The law of God
was being revealed
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as unchanging and perpetual.
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And at the same time, in 1888,
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we had the Blair
Sunday law legislation
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being presented before Congress.
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The same year that the message
of righteousness by faith.
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Revelation 12 goes
on and tells us that
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"The great
dragon, that old serpent,
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called the Devil, and Satan,
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he cast out of his mouth water
as a flood after the woman,
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so that he might cause her
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to be carried
away by the flood."
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What is water a symbol of?
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Spirit and words?
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Remember what Jesus said,
"The words are speak unto you,
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they are spirit
and they are life."
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In John Chapter 7:37-39,
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Jesus talked about
the water and He said,
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"Come unto me all
you that are thirsty
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and I will give
you living water."
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And this He spake
of the Holy Spirit
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which had not yet been given.
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So water is a symbol
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symbolically not
only of people's nations,
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you know, which
Revelation talks about,
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but more importantly
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even in the Old
Testament scriptures,
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water is a symbol
of the Word of God
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and His Spirit in that Word.
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Satan said, "The woman has fled,
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the only way I can get
her, I can't oppose her,"
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he tried that to destroy
her during the Dark Ages.
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He said, "Since
I can't oppose her
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and kill her,
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I'll pour out such a flood
after her that it'll dilute
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what God is trying to do."
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Now let me show
you, this is interesting.
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What else was
happening in the 1800s?
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Humanism, Frederick,
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and I'm not even going to
try to pronounce his last name,
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Niethammer,
espouses critical thinking
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and rationalism over
dogma and superstition.
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And when he said
superstition, he meant religion.
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He considered
Christianity to be superstition.
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It's just like all the
other religions out there.
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Deism, Thomas Jefferson
wrote the Jefferson Bible.
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It was
originally called the life
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and morals of Jesus of Nazareth.
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That was in 1820.
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Thomas Jefferson
when he wrote this Bible,
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and we actually have
photographs of the original,
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he literally took scissors
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and he cut pieces
of the gospels out
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and then he would insert
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other pieces of
scripture in their place.
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He did away with
the virgin birth,
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he did away with almost
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every one of the
miracles that Jesus did.
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In the Jefferson Bible,
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what Thomas Jefferson
was trying to say was,
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Jesus was a good moral
man, but He was not verily God.
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He was not divine.
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He was not born by
the miraculous work
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of the Holy Spirit.
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Higher criticism,
Friedrich Schleiemacher,
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he began using the
skeptical examination
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of the accuracy
of biblical text.
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He was the one that
first termed the coin,
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higher criticism, in 1822.
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Transcendentalism,
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
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he's a well-known
transcendental author.
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My son and my daughter
both are in college now,
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and they call home
and they're telling me
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about what they have to learn.
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And, you know, when
they're sharing this,
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I'm just amazed
at how even today
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the enemy is still
using these same authors
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and figures to influence
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the thinking of
the new generation.
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Emerson heavily,
was heavily influenced
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by Unitarianism and by Hinduism.
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I was very
shocked when I realized
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even in his own writings,
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the influence that Hinduism
had on many of these people.
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He gave something called
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the Harvard
Divinity School address,
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which really
brought Transcendentalism
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before the
American nation in 1838.
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Feminism, this
was very eye opening.
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And one of the
reasons that I included this
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was because I had
heard a gentleman,
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Professor Walter White
that also made a reference.
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And I went I looked it up,
feminism was heavily promoted
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by a woman named
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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She actually signed
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the Declaration of
Rights and Sentiments
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in New York City in 1848.
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And the table, you
have to forgive me,
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I don't remember
who it belonged to,
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but the table where they signed
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that document was owned
previously by a high occultist.
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I don't remember if it
was, you have to forgive me.
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I know it wasn't H.P. Blavatsky,
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but it was somebody
that was heavily involved
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in the occult
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and they
brought that table there
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for that signing intentionally.
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Mesmerism, how many people
are familiar with that term.
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Mesmerism, that was the old term
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for what we now call hypnosis.
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The original term was
also called animal magnetism.
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It did not have a lot to do
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with using
magnets in the beginning.
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What Franz Mesmer said was,
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he believed in studying
human anatomy and science,
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that there was this
energy of electromagnetic force
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and this force interacted
with everything in nature.
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And he said, "If
it's in all of nature,
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it has to also be within us.
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And if it's in us, I
should be able to tap
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into that power and use
it to help heal others."
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So now when you
read where Sister White
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warns about
magnetism, there's more there,
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it wasn't just
people picking up magnets
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and, you know, taping them
to certain parts of their body.
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Pantheism, Henry David Thoreau
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was a very
strong promoter of this.
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How many people have
ever heard of his book,
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"Walden" or "Walden Pond?"
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That book is, it's a classic,
it's an American classic,
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it's required reading in
almost every university now,
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if you have a literature
class or an English class.
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That book is
filled with Hinduism,
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even the names for some
of the places that he put,
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they're all Indian names.
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And he wrote, I
found statements from him.
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And he said, "Of all
the places that I have seen,
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and I have read, the Hindus,
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they have an
understanding of our world
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and of what they call God
00:20:27.26\00:20:29.89
that surpasses
every other religion."
00:20:29.92\00:20:32.89
So when people
are reading this book
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and they say, "Oh,
it's just harmless reading,
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you don't realize,
00:20:37.00\00:20:38.63
you can't pick a book
up and it be harmless,
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unless it's, you know,
how to fix your lawn mower
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or change the oil in your car.
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If you're reading a book
that has got philosophical,
00:20:46.11\00:20:49.94
or religious, or
spiritual overtones,
00:20:49.98\00:20:52.31
or even political overtones,
00:20:52.35\00:20:54.58
normally there's a spirit
00:20:54.62\00:20:56.15
that is
influencing that writing.
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That book was
first published in 1854.
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Spiritism, which means
the study of communication
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with spirit
entities was first introduced
00:21:09.00\00:21:12.33
by a man named Allan Kardec.
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He's the author of
a collection of books
00:21:15.24\00:21:17.21
known as the
"Spiritist Codification."
00:21:17.24\00:21:21.58
These were published in 1857.
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1859, Charles Darwin,
00:21:25.31\00:21:28.22
first published the
"Origin of Species."
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These are a lot of events
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that are
happening within the 1800s.
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Is it just by chance?
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Let me ask you a question.
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What is the Sabbath a sign of?
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What does the
Bible say it's a sign of?
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That the Lord God sanctifies us,
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not we ourselves,
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but that can
only be done by faith.
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The Sabbath is a sign of faith.
00:22:02.82\00:22:06.99
Everything, our
months, our days, our years,
00:22:07.02\00:22:12.56
all of those things you
can point to outer space
00:22:12.59\00:22:15.66
to our planets and
our constellations,
00:22:15.70\00:22:18.00
and you can identify
when the month starts,
00:22:18.03\00:22:20.64
when the day
starts, when a year starts,
00:22:20.67\00:22:23.27
you cannot do that
with the weekly cycle.
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It's impossible.
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God designed it that way.
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The only place we have a
record of the weekly cycle
00:22:30.31\00:22:35.22
is from God's Word.
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The Sabbath is a sign of faith.
00:22:37.79\00:22:43.22
Darwinism took away
the seven day creation.
00:22:43.26\00:22:48.00
All of these other
things chipped away
00:22:48.03\00:22:51.40
at the foundations of our faith,
00:22:51.43\00:22:54.10
at the same time
that God was proclaiming
00:22:54.14\00:22:58.34
His law of righteousness
and proclaiming the message
00:22:58.37\00:23:03.45
of righteousness by faith alone.
00:23:03.48\00:23:07.75
Free Lovism, this is a
picture of Herbert Spencer,
00:23:07.78\00:23:13.15
he was the author of a book
00:23:13.19\00:23:14.92
called the "System of
Synthetic Philosophy."
00:23:14.96\00:23:17.89
He was recognized
00:23:17.93\00:23:19.39
as the most famous
philosopher of the age,
00:23:19.43\00:23:23.37
1869, was when this
book, I believe was published.
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1881, Westcott and
Hort introduced the revised
00:23:28.57\00:23:34.51
and I'm gonna use
that term very loosely,
00:23:34.54\00:23:37.28
they're corrupt version
of the Greek New Testament.
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We don't have time to go
into that but that was in 1881.
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All of these things were there
because they were undermining
00:23:45.49\00:23:50.03
our simple living
faith in thus saith the Lord.
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The Free Thought
Movement, Robert Ingersoll.
00:23:54.90\00:23:59.13
He was the reorganizer
00:23:59.17\00:24:03.10
of an
anti-Christian organization
00:24:03.14\00:24:05.84
called the
National Liberal League,
00:24:05.87\00:24:09.24
it became the
American Secular Union.
00:24:09.28\00:24:13.68
This
organization of free thought,
00:24:13.72\00:24:18.79
they had an influence on almost,
00:24:18.82\00:24:20.56
all of our politicians,
00:24:20.59\00:24:22.42
and almost all of our
authors in the United States,
00:24:22.46\00:24:26.26
Free Thought Movement.
00:24:26.29\00:24:29.56
Christian Mysticism,
00:24:29.60\00:24:31.33
how many people have
heard of Edgar Cayce?
00:24:31.37\00:24:35.20
If you go to a
health food store,
00:24:35.24\00:24:36.60
you can still find things
00:24:36.64\00:24:38.11
that are produced by
the Cayce Foundation.
00:24:38.14\00:24:44.18
Edgar Cayce promoted
a form of spiritualism
00:24:44.21\00:24:47.62
that he blended
00:24:47.65\00:24:49.58
or where he
blended the communication
00:24:49.62\00:24:51.75
with spirit entities
00:24:51.79\00:24:53.76
under the guise of
Christian philosophy
00:24:53.79\00:24:56.93
for healing.
00:24:56.96\00:24:58.29
So he was blending spiritualism
with biblical Christianity
00:24:58.33\00:25:03.83
in order to help heal people.
00:25:03.87\00:25:05.53
Now listen to what
Sister White had to say.
00:25:09.07\00:25:11.87
Desire of Ages, page 258,
00:25:11.91\00:25:15.08
"When Satan has
undermined faith in the Bible,
00:25:15.11\00:25:18.41
he directs men to other
sources for light and power,
00:25:18.45\00:25:24.19
and thus he insinuates himself.
00:25:24.22\00:25:27.86
Those who turn from the
plain teaching of the Scripture
00:25:27.89\00:25:31.83
and the convicting
power of God's Holy Spirit
00:25:31.86\00:25:35.66
are inviting the
control of demons.
00:25:35.70\00:25:41.40
Criticism and speculation
concerning the Scriptures
00:25:41.44\00:25:46.17
have opened the way for
Spiritism and Theosophy."
00:25:46.21\00:25:51.71
If you have Ellen
White's writings on a CD ROM,
00:25:51.75\00:25:54.92
or you go online and look it up,
00:25:54.95\00:25:56.89
look up the word Theosophy
00:25:56.92\00:25:58.25
and read the
statement she says about that.
00:25:58.29\00:26:01.72
Those modernized
forms of ancient heathenism
00:26:01.76\00:26:04.99
to gain a foothold even
in the professed churches
00:26:05.03\00:26:08.46
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:26:08.50\00:26:10.40
This is coming into our churches
00:26:10.43\00:26:11.97
across America right now,
00:26:12.00\00:26:14.00
every denomination,
every denomination.
00:26:14.04\00:26:17.61
The birth of spiritualism
and spiritism in America.
00:26:20.64\00:26:24.81
How many people have
heard of the Fox Sisters?
00:26:24.85\00:26:27.25
The wrappings?
00:26:27.28\00:26:28.62
I remember my mom reading to me,
00:26:28.65\00:26:30.69
you know, that and I thought,
00:26:30.72\00:26:33.15
this was just
some little minor event
00:26:33.19\00:26:35.22
that happened in, you
know, New England and, you know,
00:26:35.26\00:26:37.93
I just didn't pay
attention as a teenager.
00:26:37.96\00:26:40.26
I had no idea, when
I went back later on
00:26:40.30\00:26:42.90
and began looking it up,
00:26:42.93\00:26:44.73
there were men and women
of God of every denomination
00:26:44.77\00:26:49.40
that were writing and warning
00:26:49.44\00:26:51.47
God's people about spiritualism.
00:26:51.51\00:26:55.58
The Fox Sisters
lived from 1814 to 1890.
00:26:55.61\00:27:00.28
A man named Elijah Bond
00:27:00.32\00:27:02.58
introduced for the
first time a board game,
00:27:02.62\00:27:07.06
which Parker Brothers I believe
00:27:07.09\00:27:08.96
bought the rights to
call the Wei Chi board.
00:27:08.99\00:27:12.29
You used to be
able to go to Walmart
00:27:12.33\00:27:14.23
or any department
store and buy one.
00:27:14.26\00:27:16.93
It's witchcraft,
it's not just a game.
00:27:16.97\00:27:21.97
That was introduced in 1890,
00:27:22.00\00:27:24.64
two years after the message
of righteousness by faith.
00:27:24.67\00:27:28.98
Madam H.P.
Blavatsky, you see there
00:27:29.01\00:27:31.11
on the right hand
side of the screen.
00:27:31.15\00:27:33.48
She lived from 1831 to 1891.
00:27:33.52\00:27:37.49
She was there when
Sister White was warning
00:27:37.52\00:27:43.32
the world about spiritualism,
00:27:43.36\00:27:46.09
and she lived in
the New England states
00:27:46.13\00:27:49.23
where Ellen White did.
00:27:49.26\00:27:51.03
So when we read
about Sister White
00:27:51.07\00:27:53.10
and she's warning so strongly
00:27:53.13\00:27:55.24
about
spiritualism and spiritism,
00:27:55.27\00:27:57.91
this was not just
some dream that she had.
00:27:57.94\00:28:02.04
She was seeing it.
00:28:02.08\00:28:03.58
It was in the newspapers,
00:28:03.61\00:28:05.71
the politicians were proclaiming
00:28:05.75\00:28:07.88
this as being new light.
00:28:07.92\00:28:09.95
She tells us in Eight
Testimonies, page 290,
00:28:13.52\00:28:16.62
"We are living in
an age of great light,
00:28:16.66\00:28:19.96
an illumination,
00:28:20.00\00:28:21.76
but much that is called
light is opening the way
00:28:21.80\00:28:25.40
for the wisdom
and arts of Satan.
00:28:25.43\00:28:29.50
Many things will be presented
that appeared to be true."
00:28:29.54\00:28:35.44
The Bible tells
us in 1 Timothy 6:20
00:28:35.48\00:28:38.75
that "These are
called oppositions of science
00:28:38.78\00:28:42.95
falsely so called."
00:28:42.98\00:28:45.15
Isn't that amazing
that 2,000 years ago,
00:28:45.19\00:28:47.72
God already knew
what was gonna happen.
00:28:47.76\00:28:51.16
"Many things will be presented
that appear to be true,
00:28:51.19\00:28:54.66
and yet they need to
be carefully considered
00:28:54.70\00:28:57.43
with much prayer
00:28:57.47\00:28:59.10
for they be specious
devices of the enemy."
00:28:59.13\00:29:02.50
This is Time Magazine,
00:29:02.54\00:29:04.24
and they say
the science of yoga.
00:29:04.27\00:29:06.88
Millions of
Americans are discovering
00:29:06.91\00:29:09.34
this ancient exercise.
00:29:09.38\00:29:11.71
Now here's the skinny
00:29:11.75\00:29:13.08
on why it makes
you feel so good.
00:29:13.11\00:29:16.02
When I go to our churches
to do presentations on yoga
00:29:16.05\00:29:20.72
and martial arts and tai chi,
00:29:20.76\00:29:22.92
I normally ask the congregation,
00:29:22.96\00:29:25.33
how many people here have
had any self defense training
00:29:25.36\00:29:28.26
in the martial art?
00:29:28.30\00:29:30.17
On average, we get
about 30% of the hands.
00:29:30.20\00:29:34.84
I'm sorry, about 10% or
15% will raise their hands
00:29:34.87\00:29:38.27
for martial arts
and self defense.
00:29:38.31\00:29:41.01
But when I
asked them about yoga,
00:29:41.04\00:29:44.21
or qigong, or energy
healing, or acupuncture,
00:29:44.25\00:29:48.42
normally their hands go up
00:29:48.45\00:29:49.92
about 35% to
40% in our churches.
00:29:49.95\00:29:54.59
I just met a pastor
recently on the East Coast,
00:29:54.62\00:29:58.73
a strong man of God.
00:29:58.76\00:30:00.10
He's got a lovely wife.
00:30:00.13\00:30:01.53
I mean, they're
very good couple.
00:30:01.56\00:30:04.00
And she mentioned something
00:30:04.03\00:30:05.83
when she had seen
the dragon revealed.
00:30:05.87\00:30:07.97
She said, "What about yoga?"
00:30:08.00\00:30:10.17
And I said, "Well, I'll loan you
00:30:10.21\00:30:11.57
a video on yoga specifically."
00:30:11.61\00:30:14.28
It wasn't one that I had done.
00:30:14.31\00:30:16.01
And she just talked
to me this past Sabbath,
00:30:16.04\00:30:20.05
and she said, "We
watched the video."
00:30:20.08\00:30:22.22
And I said,
"What did you think?"
00:30:22.25\00:30:23.99
And she said,
00:30:24.02\00:30:25.35
"I didn't tell you
when we first talked."
00:30:25.39\00:30:27.46
She said, "I'm 48.
00:30:27.49\00:30:28.86
I've been doing it
since I was in high school
00:30:28.89\00:30:31.43
every week.
00:30:31.46\00:30:33.56
I had no idea what
I was involved in."
00:30:33.60\00:30:39.03
When you see
people doing those poses,
00:30:39.07\00:30:42.17
those stretches,
every one of the stretches
00:30:42.20\00:30:46.37
is a symbolic gesture,
00:30:46.41\00:30:51.91
almost like the hand mudras,
00:30:51.95\00:30:57.15
that gesture invokes
a Hindu Spiritual entity
00:30:57.19\00:31:01.22
to come into the person's life,
00:31:01.26\00:31:03.89
and to empower them,
and make them feel better."
00:31:03.93\00:31:07.56
And people say,
"Yeah, but it works."
00:31:07.60\00:31:09.46
Just because it works
doesn't mean it's of God.
00:31:09.50\00:31:12.03
"The path of error often appears
00:31:15.17\00:31:18.07
to lie close to
the path of truth.
00:31:18.11\00:31:20.91
It is hardly distinguishable
from the path that leads
00:31:20.94\00:31:24.88
to holiness and heaven,
00:31:24.91\00:31:27.02
but the mind
enlightened by the Holy Spirit
00:31:27.05\00:31:30.62
may discern that it is diverging
00:31:30.65\00:31:34.06
from the right way.
00:31:34.09\00:31:35.92
For after a while,
00:31:35.96\00:31:37.29
the two paths are seen
to be widely separated."
00:31:37.33\00:31:43.97
Now, I want you to catch this.
00:31:44.00\00:31:47.07
I know we're
sharing a lot of quotes.
00:31:47.10\00:31:50.97
But as we go
through this series,
00:31:51.01\00:31:53.04
you're going to start seeing
how these pieces tie together.
00:31:53.07\00:31:56.21
Listen to what we're told.
00:31:56.24\00:31:58.58
"As the right hand of
the third angel's message,
00:31:58.61\00:32:02.55
God's methods
of treating disease
00:32:02.58\00:32:05.85
will open the doors
00:32:05.89\00:32:07.29
for the entrance
of present truth."
00:32:07.32\00:32:10.83
Present truth is the
Sabbath, righteousness,
00:32:10.86\00:32:14.33
and living by faith in His Word.
00:32:14.36\00:32:17.77
By changing the
way that people eat,
00:32:17.80\00:32:20.80
it opens the door for
them to see, and comprehend,
00:32:20.84\00:32:26.31
and be able to take
hold, as Sister White said,
00:32:26.34\00:32:30.08
an appropriate
Christ-righteousness
00:32:30.11\00:32:32.75
as their own.
00:32:32.78\00:32:34.65
"Our physicians in
Europe and other countries
00:32:34.68\00:32:37.65
should awake to the necessity
of having health works,
00:32:37.69\00:32:41.62
literature, and messages
prepared by men and women
00:32:41.66\00:32:45.73
who are on the ground,
00:32:45.76\00:32:47.76
and who can meet the
people where they are."
00:32:47.80\00:32:51.10
Meet them where they are.
00:32:51.13\00:32:52.47
This is not talking about
at the mall or at the bank.
00:32:52.50\00:32:55.00
It means meeting
people where they are.
00:32:55.04\00:32:58.41
If someone has eaten
pork their whole life,
00:32:58.44\00:33:02.01
you can't come in and give
them the whole health message
00:33:02.04\00:33:04.61
in 30 minutes and say,
00:33:04.65\00:33:06.85
"You've got to do
all of this right now."
00:33:06.88\00:33:09.08
You have to take steps,
you have to introduce them,
00:33:09.12\00:33:13.09
and you have to give
them the same freedom
00:33:13.12\00:33:15.22
that you've had to make
those changes in their lives.
00:33:15.26\00:33:19.06
She says, "We are
to meet the people
00:33:19.09\00:33:22.06
where they are
00:33:22.10\00:33:23.53
with the most
essential instruction
00:33:23.57\00:33:27.64
that is
necessary for this time."
00:33:27.67\00:33:31.41
This has an effect.
00:33:31.44\00:33:32.87
What was the first sin
00:33:32.91\00:33:35.04
that caused all
of mankind to fall?
00:33:35.08\00:33:38.35
Appetite!
00:33:38.38\00:33:39.85
And you know, I used
to think appetite is just
00:33:39.88\00:33:42.48
what am I eating or
how much am I eating.
00:33:42.52\00:33:45.32
Do you know appetite
00:33:45.35\00:33:46.69
is not just
involved with the stomach?
00:33:46.72\00:33:49.76
When you read what
Sister White said, she said,
00:33:49.79\00:33:53.03
"She was shown a list of sins
00:33:53.06\00:33:57.97
that would condemn
people in the last great day."
00:33:58.00\00:34:02.64
And she said, "Under appetite,
00:34:02.67\00:34:05.41
fell almost all of the other
00:34:05.44\00:34:08.64
moral or immoral transgressions,
00:34:08.68\00:34:13.52
adultery, lust, fornication,"
00:34:13.55\00:34:15.78
and all the other ones we
don't even want to get into.
00:34:15.82\00:34:18.35
They fell under
appetite, intemperance.
00:34:18.39\00:34:22.36
Appetite is something
that happens in the mind,
00:34:22.39\00:34:27.03
not in the stomach.
00:34:27.06\00:34:28.83
It's saying,
00:34:28.86\00:34:30.20
"I know this is
what I should do.
00:34:30.23\00:34:31.87
I know this is right.
00:34:31.90\00:34:33.77
But there is
this chemical reaction
00:34:33.80\00:34:37.41
that's happening in my
brain and affecting my body.
00:34:37.44\00:34:41.14
And it's overwhelming.
00:34:41.18\00:34:43.14
And I can't say no."
00:34:43.18\00:34:45.78
Sometimes I hear people,
I mean, they'll write to us,
00:34:45.81\00:34:49.32
or they'll call
us and they'll say,
00:34:49.35\00:34:50.89
"I'm trying to give up caffeine,
00:34:50.92\00:34:52.32
or I'm trying to
give up nicotine.
00:34:52.35\00:34:54.09
I'm trying to give up smoking."
00:34:54.12\00:34:55.82
And I go to my
pastor, and they're like,
00:34:55.86\00:34:57.83
"Look, you're just going to have
00:34:57.86\00:34:59.19
to exercise more willpower."
00:34:59.23\00:35:01.36
I think, we have no idea.
00:35:01.40\00:35:04.60
If I go to some drunk
on the street, and I said,
00:35:04.63\00:35:06.80
"Look, you're just gonna
have to exercise willpower."
00:35:06.84\00:35:10.54
He's gonna look at me and say,
00:35:10.57\00:35:11.91
"If it was that simple, I
wouldn't need your Jesus."
00:35:11.94\00:35:16.44
If it was just willpower,
00:35:16.48\00:35:18.35
one person will get
the victory overnight
00:35:18.38\00:35:21.52
and another
person will be struggling
00:35:21.55\00:35:23.18
for 10 years.
00:35:23.22\00:35:24.95
What's the difference?
00:35:24.99\00:35:27.02
Are we saved by willpower?
00:35:27.06\00:35:30.93
There has to be more.
00:35:30.96\00:35:33.70
God has got to come,
Christ has got to come
00:35:33.73\00:35:37.77
and take possession of
His temple, and change us,
00:35:37.80\00:35:42.30
and He has to cast out
00:35:42.34\00:35:44.44
and bring into
captivity all of our thoughts,
00:35:44.47\00:35:47.51
and the way that we feel
and our chemical reactions.
00:35:47.54\00:35:51.71
He has to take
possession of His temple.
00:35:51.75\00:35:57.92
"Some of our
brethren have expressed fears
00:35:57.95\00:36:00.76
that we shall dwell too much
00:36:00.79\00:36:03.16
upon the subject of
justification by faith."
00:36:03.19\00:36:07.73
Pay attention to
that word, justification.
00:36:07.76\00:36:12.50
"But I hope and pray
00:36:12.53\00:36:14.27
that none will be
needlessly alarmed.
00:36:14.30\00:36:17.04
If there had not been
a remissness in the past
00:36:17.07\00:36:20.41
to properly
instruct the people of God,
00:36:20.44\00:36:24.38
there would not
now be a necessity
00:36:24.41\00:36:26.41
of calling
special attention to it."
00:36:26.45\00:36:31.82
To properly instruct
the people of God, she says,
00:36:31.85\00:36:35.32
"You have to appropriate
the promises as your own,
00:36:35.36\00:36:40.86
not as something
that in the future,
00:36:40.90\00:36:43.03
one day, Jesus is
going to give to you."
00:36:43.06\00:36:45.57
You've got to look and say,
00:36:45.60\00:36:48.07
"When Jesus died, I
was in Him dying," right?
00:36:48.10\00:36:54.24
I am crucified with
Christ, nevertheless, I live.
00:36:54.28\00:36:57.31
When was Christ crucified?
00:36:57.35\00:37:01.18
Two thousand years ago.
00:37:01.22\00:37:04.09
If you were in Him when He died,
00:37:04.12\00:37:08.09
you are dead, as Paul said,
00:37:08.12\00:37:11.06
and your life is
hid with Christ and God.
00:37:11.09\00:37:15.73
We have to
appropriate not only His death,
00:37:15.76\00:37:20.07
but His resurrection.
00:37:20.10\00:37:21.84
And not only His
death and resurrection,
00:37:21.87\00:37:24.24
but every
victory that He gained.
00:37:24.27\00:37:27.64
You have to know,
and I have to know,
00:37:27.68\00:37:30.88
"I was in Him."
00:37:30.91\00:37:32.85
And I'm going to show
you the quotes from scripture
00:37:32.88\00:37:35.32
as well from Ellen White
before this week is over.
00:37:35.35\00:37:38.92
You work in Him when
He won those victories.
00:37:38.95\00:37:43.12
So I don't tell the Lord,
00:37:43.16\00:37:44.49
"Lord, I need You to give me
victory over this temptation."
00:37:44.53\00:37:48.86
You know what He
does when I say that?
00:37:48.90\00:37:51.43
He says, "Eric, I
already gave you the victory.
00:37:51.47\00:37:55.47
When are you
going to thank me for it
00:37:55.50\00:37:57.04
and stand up and walk in it?"
00:37:57.07\00:38:00.54
My son, I remember, you know,
he's younger than my daughter.
00:38:00.58\00:38:04.41
He's 18 now, and I can remember
00:38:04.45\00:38:06.75
when he was going
through high school,
00:38:06.78\00:38:08.12
he'd be rushing
00:38:08.15\00:38:09.48
to get out the
door in the morning,
00:38:09.52\00:38:10.89
and he would come down
sometimes, he would say,
00:38:10.92\00:38:13.15
"Dad, I've got 15
minutes, I got to go.
00:38:13.19\00:38:15.72
I need a lunch for today."
00:38:15.76\00:38:17.53
And he would be
running upstairs.
00:38:17.56\00:38:18.96
I'd be like,
00:38:18.99\00:38:20.33
"I've got the
lunch made for you.
00:38:20.36\00:38:21.70
It's by the door."
00:38:21.73\00:38:23.06
He came down in two minutes
after he got out of the shower
00:38:23.10\00:38:25.07
and he'd say,
"Dad, I've got to go.
00:38:25.10\00:38:28.14
Don't forget I need a lunch."
00:38:28.17\00:38:29.74
I say, "Connor,
it's by the door."
00:38:29.77\00:38:32.41
And he'd run out of the room.
00:38:32.44\00:38:33.81
He come back a few
minutes later and say,
00:38:33.84\00:38:35.88
"Okay, okay, I've got my
book. Dad, I need my lunch."
00:38:35.91\00:38:38.38
And I'm like, "I made it.
00:38:38.41\00:38:40.02
It's by the door."
00:38:40.05\00:38:41.58
We do the same thing with God.
00:38:41.62\00:38:43.22
"God give me victory."
00:38:43.25\00:38:44.92
God is like, "The
victory is in Christ.
00:38:44.95\00:38:49.52
Ask me to give you Christ."
00:38:49.56\00:38:52.66
And Jesus is saying,
00:38:52.69\00:38:54.30
"I'm standing at
the door knocking.
00:38:54.33\00:38:56.97
If you'll just let Me in,
00:38:57.00\00:38:59.43
I will bring My
victory into your life."
00:38:59.47\00:39:05.34
That's what Satan
does not want us to know.
00:39:05.37\00:39:10.01
"The exceeding great
and precious promises
00:39:10.05\00:39:12.81
given us in the Holy Scriptures
00:39:12.85\00:39:15.75
whereby we are made
partakers of the divine nature."
00:39:15.78\00:39:21.06
Mark that down, nature.
00:39:21.09\00:39:23.93
Put a note in your
mind or on a piece of paper,
00:39:23.96\00:39:26.70
nature, that's important.
00:39:26.73\00:39:29.66
"Whereby we are made
partakers of the divine nature.
00:39:29.70\00:39:33.03
These have been lost
sight of to a great extent,
00:39:33.07\00:39:36.84
just as the enemy
of all righteousness
00:39:36.87\00:39:39.61
designed that they should be."
00:39:39.64\00:39:41.24
He is blinding us to the
power that God has given us.
00:39:45.65\00:39:51.95
"He has cast his own dark shadow
00:39:51.99\00:39:54.32
between us and our God,
00:39:54.36\00:39:56.16
so that we may not see
the true character of our God.
00:39:56.19\00:40:00.96
For the Lord has
proclaimed Himself
00:40:01.00\00:40:03.16
to be full of
mercy and gracious,
00:40:03.20\00:40:07.77
long-suffering, patient,
00:40:07.80\00:40:10.91
even under the
sacrificing of self,
00:40:10.94\00:40:14.44
and abundant in
goodness and truth.
00:40:14.48\00:40:18.78
Several have written to me,
00:40:18.81\00:40:20.15
inquiring if the message
of justification by faith
00:40:20.18\00:40:23.92
is the third angel's message?
00:40:23.95\00:40:26.39
And I have answered.
00:40:26.42\00:40:28.56
"It is the third
angel's message in verity."
00:40:28.59\00:40:35.06
I thought the
three angel's message is,
00:40:35.10\00:40:37.53
"Come out of Babylon.
00:40:37.57\00:40:39.47
The pope is the antichrist.
00:40:39.50\00:40:42.17
Don't receive the
mark of the beast."
00:40:42.20\00:40:45.91
That tells us there's more there
00:40:45.94\00:40:48.71
than what we've seen.
00:40:48.74\00:40:50.81
Do you know in the very end
00:40:50.85\00:40:53.65
when Rome influences this world,
00:40:53.68\00:40:57.52
which is happening right now,
00:40:57.55\00:41:00.49
and they declare a Sunday law.
00:41:00.52\00:41:06.93
Do you know that's going to be
called righteousness by works,
00:41:06.96\00:41:10.00
not by faith?
00:41:10.03\00:41:12.97
That's the same
thing that Satan has sought
00:41:13.00\00:41:15.44
to bring men into
from the very beginning.
00:41:15.47\00:41:18.97
When we were standing
at the foot of Mount Sinai,
00:41:19.01\00:41:23.11
God spoke His law.
00:41:23.14\00:41:26.25
And Ellen White says,
"Every command is a promise."
00:41:26.28\00:41:30.35
Education, page 126.
00:41:30.39\00:41:32.92
Every command is a promise.
00:41:32.95\00:41:36.46
Do you know what?
00:41:36.49\00:41:37.83
God spoke those promises.
00:41:37.86\00:41:39.39
And you know what man said?
00:41:39.43\00:41:41.50
"Everything that
God said, I can do."
00:41:41.53\00:41:48.24
You know what God says?
00:41:48.27\00:41:50.11
"Everything that I've said,
00:41:50.14\00:41:51.74
I will do if
you'll just surrender
00:41:51.77\00:41:54.64
and let Me inside
00:41:54.68\00:41:56.08
so that I can do
it in your life."
00:41:56.11\00:42:01.18
These are the words
in the Greek and Hebrew
00:42:01.22\00:42:03.75
consolidated down
00:42:03.79\00:42:05.12
for justification and justified.
00:42:05.15\00:42:07.92
To declare and
to render innocent,
00:42:07.96\00:42:12.46
just, clean, holy,
00:42:12.49\00:42:16.20
righteous, and perfect,
00:42:16.23\00:42:19.10
that's what it
means to be justified,
00:42:19.13\00:42:21.00
to be declared.
00:42:24.01\00:42:25.41
How does God do anything?
00:42:25.44\00:42:28.48
He speaks it.
00:42:28.51\00:42:30.38
How did He create the universe?
00:42:30.41\00:42:33.11
He spoke it into existence.
00:42:33.15\00:42:36.38
How did He set the captives free
00:42:36.42\00:42:39.52
when Christ was here?
00:42:39.55\00:42:41.12
He spoke their freedom.
00:42:41.16\00:42:43.22
Do you remember
the Roman centurion?
00:42:43.26\00:42:45.93
Jesus said, "I'll come
to your house and heal him."
00:42:45.96\00:42:48.70
And the Roman was not
even a Seventh-day Adventist.
00:42:48.73\00:42:52.73
He wasn't even Hebrew.
00:42:52.77\00:42:56.14
He said, "You don't
have to come to My house,
00:42:56.17\00:42:58.41
speak the word only
and I know it'll be done."
00:42:58.44\00:43:02.94
And Jesus turned and
looked at all those Christians.
00:43:02.98\00:43:06.18
And he said, "I haven't
found this kind of faith
00:43:06.21\00:43:08.92
in all of Israel."
00:43:08.95\00:43:10.29
"If you would stand
through the time of trouble,
00:43:13.49\00:43:16.76
we must know Christ,
for this is life eternal,
00:43:16.79\00:43:22.93
and we must appropriate
the gift of His righteousness,
00:43:22.96\00:43:28.44
which He imputes to
the repentant sinner.
00:43:28.47\00:43:32.67
No glory is to redound to man,
00:43:32.71\00:43:35.94
all human help and
glory lies in the dust.
00:43:35.98\00:43:40.68
For the truth,
00:43:40.72\00:43:43.89
as it is in Jesus,
00:43:43.92\00:43:47.89
is the only available agent
by which man may be saved."
00:43:47.92\00:43:53.93
And I remember
00:43:53.96\00:43:55.30
when I was
struggling to get free
00:43:55.33\00:43:58.03
from the bondage I was in,
00:43:58.07\00:43:59.53
when I was in those arts
00:43:59.57\00:44:01.04
and everything else
that had happened in my life.
00:44:01.07\00:44:04.01
And one day, I read that verse
in John 17:17, and Jesus said,
00:44:04.04\00:44:10.68
"Sanctify them
through Thy truth,
00:44:10.71\00:44:13.65
Thy Word is truth."
00:44:13.68\00:44:15.48
And in John 8, He
told the disciples,
00:44:15.52\00:44:18.45
"The truth, you
will know the truth,
00:44:18.49\00:44:20.92
and the truth
will make you free."
00:44:20.96\00:44:22.86
And I was like,
"Lord, I was raised
00:44:22.89\00:44:26.86
a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian.
00:44:26.90\00:44:30.70
I don't know what this means.
00:44:30.73\00:44:32.30
What does it mean, the
truth will make me free?
00:44:32.33\00:44:35.77
What does it mean,
You're going to sanctify me
00:44:35.80\00:44:38.24
through Your truth?"
00:44:38.27\00:44:39.84
And God spoke to
my heart and my ears.
00:44:39.87\00:44:43.45
And He said,
"Eric, you don't even know
00:44:43.48\00:44:45.05
what the word truth means."
00:44:45.08\00:44:47.12
And I'm there at the
house by myself, you know.
00:44:47.15\00:44:49.68
And I talked to God out loud
00:44:49.72\00:44:52.15
because I know He
can read my thoughts,
00:44:52.19\00:44:53.92
but I like talking to Him.
00:44:53.96\00:44:56.36
Enoch did.
00:44:56.39\00:44:58.43
And I looked up
in heaven and I said,
00:44:58.46\00:45:02.76
"Of course, I
know what truth is.
00:45:02.80\00:45:04.50
It means correct doctrine."
00:45:04.53\00:45:06.84
And Jesus said,
"Eric, you don't even know
00:45:06.87\00:45:09.30
what the word truth means."
00:45:09.34\00:45:12.01
And I got out my
concordance and on e-Sword,
00:45:12.04\00:45:15.04
and I looked up that word.
00:45:15.08\00:45:16.64
Do you know what it means?
00:45:16.68\00:45:18.01
It means unfailing verity.
00:45:18.05\00:45:23.75
Thy Word is
truth, it cannot fail.
00:45:23.79\00:45:29.72
That's what He
says in Isaiah 55,
00:45:29.76\00:45:32.46
"My Word is gone forth,
00:45:32.49\00:45:34.16
it will not
return unto Me void."
00:45:34.20\00:45:37.53
Do you know when my wife and I
00:45:37.57\00:45:38.90
went through that
divorce that we went through?
00:45:38.93\00:45:41.44
We were separated and
divorced five years legally.
00:45:41.47\00:45:44.04
The judge had signed the paper.
00:45:44.07\00:45:46.14
And my wife would go
to church on Sabbath.
00:45:46.17\00:45:48.68
And you know,
people would come up
00:45:48.71\00:45:50.75
after two years
and they would say,
00:45:50.78\00:45:52.11
"Sarah, listen,
00:45:52.15\00:45:53.48
you need to just
move on with your life.
00:45:53.52\00:45:55.45
I mean, your husband is gone.
00:45:55.48\00:45:57.69
He's not coming back.
00:45:57.72\00:45:59.09
You're destroying your children.
00:45:59.12\00:46:01.26
Let go."
00:46:01.29\00:46:03.09
And you know what
she would always say?
00:46:03.12\00:46:04.86
She would say, "But
God made a promise to me.
00:46:04.89\00:46:08.60
What I've joined together,
let no man put asunder."
00:46:08.63\00:46:13.44
And they were like,
00:46:13.47\00:46:14.80
"Yeah, but the
judge signed the paper."
00:46:14.84\00:46:16.17
She said, "Let
no man put asunder.
00:46:16.20\00:46:20.28
Do I believe what
that judge is written
00:46:20.31\00:46:22.91
or do I believe the
Word of the living God?"
00:46:22.94\00:46:27.85
That's what God wants us to do.
00:46:27.88\00:46:30.55
When you go to the doctor
and he tells somebody you love,
00:46:30.59\00:46:33.79
"You've got cancer,
or you've got diabetes,
00:46:33.82\00:46:36.16
or you've got this.
00:46:36.19\00:46:37.53
You know, there's no
hope of recovery from this."
00:46:37.56\00:46:40.43
You've got to say,
"Thus saith the Lord.
00:46:40.46\00:46:43.60
I'm the one that
forgives all your iniquities,
00:46:43.63\00:46:46.33
and I heal all
of your diseases."
00:46:46.37\00:46:49.30
I've got to make a choice.
00:46:49.34\00:46:50.67
"Do I believe God's Word
00:46:50.71\00:46:52.54
or do I believe the
word of mortal man?"
00:46:52.57\00:46:55.11
I'm keeping an eye on the clock.
00:47:00.32\00:47:02.18
Now we're going to start
getting into why this matters.
00:47:05.72\00:47:10.46
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg,
he was an honored member
00:47:10.49\00:47:14.00
of the Michigan State Board
of Health from 1878 to 1891.
00:47:14.03\00:47:20.00
And he also was a few
years after that as well.
00:47:20.04\00:47:24.17
And he was the
author of more than 50 books
00:47:24.21\00:47:26.94
and hundreds of
articles on health and healing.
00:47:26.98\00:47:30.38
He was credited
with the development
00:47:30.41\00:47:32.28
of cornflakes cereal,
high protein meat substitutes,
00:47:32.31\00:47:37.22
acidophilus enriched soy milk,
00:47:37.25\00:47:39.92
and the unique process of
manufacturing peanut butter
00:47:39.95\00:47:43.46
with boiled rather
than roasted peanuts.
00:47:43.49\00:47:47.00
Kellogg is
reported to have performed
00:47:47.03\00:47:50.17
surgical operations himself.
00:47:52.90\00:47:57.24
And he treated more than
00:47:57.27\00:47:58.64
200,000 patients
successfully during his lifetime
00:47:58.67\00:48:03.85
and his work as a physician
at the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
00:48:03.88\00:48:09.82
Some of the people
that Kellogg treated,
00:48:09.85\00:48:12.39
William H.Taft, Percy Grainger,
00:48:12.42\00:48:15.96
Amelia Earhart,
George Bernard Shaw,
00:48:15.99\00:48:20.16
Johnny Weissmuller, Henry Ford,
00:48:20.20\00:48:23.60
the man that founded
the Ford Motor Company,
00:48:23.63\00:48:26.27
Thomas Edison,
John D.Rockefeller,
00:48:26.30\00:48:30.51
Harvey Firestone, JC Penney,
00:48:30.54\00:48:34.41
a lady named Sojourner Truth,
00:48:34.44\00:48:37.78
CW Baron, Warren G.Harding,
00:48:37.81\00:48:41.88
and Booker T.Washington.
00:48:41.92\00:48:44.09
He was world-known
because of the blessing
00:48:44.12\00:48:48.06
that God had put upon him.
00:48:48.09\00:48:50.33
Now I want to
show you something.
00:48:50.36\00:48:54.06
The health message is
being promoted strongly
00:48:54.10\00:48:57.20
in this country,
00:48:57.23\00:48:58.57
and God raises up a physician
00:48:58.60\00:49:00.94
who is a brilliant
man to promote this.
00:49:00.97\00:49:07.08
Blesses him beyond measure
00:49:07.11\00:49:09.61
with knowledge of how
to do the medical work,
00:49:09.64\00:49:14.08
how to help treat the
sick, and it's world-known.
00:49:14.12\00:49:20.42
Same time, He's
raising up Jones and Waggoner
00:49:20.46\00:49:24.13
with 1888
righteousness by faith message.
00:49:24.16\00:49:28.80
Who do you think Satan
would go after to destroy
00:49:28.83\00:49:32.30
with the most evil intent?
00:49:32.33\00:49:36.64
He says, "I got to get
rid of the health message
00:49:36.67\00:49:38.71
'cause if they
understand health,
00:49:38.74\00:49:40.61
they'll begin to comprehend
the spirituality of the law
00:49:40.64\00:49:45.31
and the righteousness by faith."
00:49:45.35\00:49:47.58
And then he said,
"I've got to get rid of
00:49:47.62\00:49:50.02
the righteousness by faith."
00:49:50.05\00:49:51.75
That's why he's
separated Ellen White,
00:49:51.79\00:49:53.82
and AT Jones, and EJ Waggoner.
00:49:53.86\00:49:56.36
He sent Waggoner to Europe.
00:49:56.39\00:49:58.29
I believe Jones was here
and he had the conference
00:49:58.33\00:50:01.90
and Ellen White against
her judgment to Australia.
00:50:01.93\00:50:07.74
Satan was like, "Divided,
00:50:07.77\00:50:09.80
they won't be
able to work together.
00:50:09.84\00:50:11.17
They won't support one another."
00:50:11.21\00:50:13.71
He does the same
thing in our ministries
00:50:13.74\00:50:16.01
here in the United States.
00:50:16.04\00:50:17.58
He gets us as ministries
competing with one another.
00:50:17.61\00:50:21.75
You know, I've
got copyright on that.
00:50:21.78\00:50:25.15
That message is copyrighted.
00:50:25.19\00:50:27.09
And you got to...
00:50:27.12\00:50:28.46
And I'm like,
"God gave it to us.
00:50:28.49\00:50:31.66
Let's win souls.
00:50:31.69\00:50:33.86
We don't need to
be divided anymore."
00:50:33.90\00:50:38.93
As well as
these accomplishments,
00:50:38.97\00:50:41.00
Dr. Kellogg also off-authored
00:50:41.04\00:50:44.11
and published one of
the most controversial books
00:50:44.14\00:50:48.48
ever written on
health and spirituality
00:50:48.51\00:50:50.65
in the 20th century.
00:50:50.68\00:50:53.75
It was called
"The Living Temple."
00:50:53.78\00:50:56.02
And I'm not going to go
into too much detail here
00:50:56.05\00:50:58.59
because Pastor
Bohr in Secrets Unsealed
00:50:58.62\00:51:02.56
as well as a few other men,
00:51:02.59\00:51:04.33
they've done a
great job on the research.
00:51:04.36\00:51:08.36
You can get some resources here
00:51:08.40\00:51:10.27
from this ministry
to help expand on that.
00:51:10.30\00:51:13.57
But I do want to take a
look at a few things there.
00:51:13.60\00:51:17.37
"Be not deceived, many
will depart from the faith
00:51:17.41\00:51:21.41
giving heed to seducing
spirits and the doctrines
00:51:21.44\00:51:25.58
and teachings of devils."
00:51:25.61\00:51:28.28
Ellen White said,
"We have now before us
00:51:28.32\00:51:32.19
the alpha of this danger."
00:51:32.22\00:51:35.12
What danger?
00:51:35.16\00:51:36.69
Giving heed to seducing spirits.
00:51:36.73\00:51:40.56
"The omega will be
of a most startling,"
00:51:40.60\00:51:44.17
what's that word?
00:51:44.20\00:51:46.20
"Nature."
00:51:46.23\00:51:47.57
Remember, I told
you, mark that word down,
00:51:47.60\00:51:49.40
this is important.
00:51:49.44\00:51:51.74
"The omega will be
00:51:51.77\00:51:53.11
of a most startling nature."
00:51:53.14\00:51:58.98
"One and another come
to me, asking me to explain
00:51:59.01\00:52:02.08
the positions taken
in the Living Temple.
00:52:02.12\00:52:05.95
And I reply, 'They
are unexplainable.'
00:52:05.99\00:52:09.62
The sentiments expressed
00:52:09.66\00:52:11.36
do not give a
true knowledge of God.
00:52:11.39\00:52:14.90
We need not the
mysticism that is in this book,
00:52:14.93\00:52:19.23
for those who
entertain these sophistries
00:52:19.27\00:52:22.70
will soon find
themselves in a position
00:52:22.74\00:52:25.84
where the enemy
can talk with them,
00:52:25.87\00:52:30.25
and lead them away from God.
00:52:30.28\00:52:33.05
It is represented to me
that the writer of this book
00:52:33.08\00:52:37.02
is on a false track or path,
00:52:37.05\00:52:40.02
and he knows not
whither his steps are tending."
00:52:40.06\00:52:44.36
First Selected
Messages, page 202.
00:52:44.39\00:52:49.26
"The theory that
God is an essence
00:52:49.30\00:52:51.63
pervading all nature
is received by many today
00:52:51.67\00:52:56.10
who profess to
believe the Scriptures,
00:52:56.14\00:52:59.27
but however beautifully clothed,
00:52:59.31\00:53:01.98
this theory is the
most dangerous deception.
00:53:02.01\00:53:05.81
For it misrepresents
God and it is a dishonor
00:53:05.85\00:53:09.85
to His greatness and majesty.
00:53:09.88\00:53:12.22
And it surely tends
not only to mislead,
00:53:12.25\00:53:16.76
but to debase man."
00:53:16.79\00:53:18.79
It means instead
of being spiritual,
00:53:18.83\00:53:20.70
they become
physically or carnally focused.
00:53:20.73\00:53:25.47
"Darkness is its
element and sensuality
00:53:25.50\00:53:28.97
or the flesh is its sphere."
00:53:29.00\00:53:32.37
That's why when you
look at the emerging church,
00:53:32.41\00:53:35.31
they don't want to
talk about doctrine.
00:53:35.34\00:53:36.91
They want to talk about
dialogue and conversation.
00:53:36.95\00:53:40.68
They want to talk about
how does it make you feel,
00:53:40.72\00:53:43.82
not what as the Word say.
00:53:43.85\00:53:47.59
"These theories,
00:53:47.62\00:53:48.96
followed to their
logical conclusion
00:53:48.99\00:53:51.06
do away with the
necessity for the atonement,
00:53:51.09\00:53:54.20
and they make
man his own savior."
00:53:54.23\00:53:57.67
The word atonement there,
Ellen White in her own writing,
00:53:57.70\00:54:01.00
she gives the definition
of the word atonement,
00:54:01.04\00:54:04.41
at-one-ment.
00:54:04.44\00:54:07.61
Jesus' last prayer
before Calvary was,
00:54:07.64\00:54:11.48
"Father, I pray that
they all might be one
00:54:11.51\00:54:16.15
as I am in You,
and as You are in Me,
00:54:16.18\00:54:22.59
that they might be
00:54:22.62\00:54:25.06
one in Us."
00:54:25.09\00:54:30.03
That's what this does away with.
00:54:30.07\00:54:32.17
The book you're
looking at there on the right,
00:54:32.20\00:54:34.50
this is called
"Building the Living Temple
00:54:34.54\00:54:37.44
A Manual for Freemasons."
00:54:37.47\00:54:41.28
This was released
within the last five years.
00:54:41.31\00:54:44.21
I think it was
2015, but I may be off.
00:54:44.25\00:54:47.75
I know it was
within the last five years.
00:54:47.78\00:54:50.75
Isn't that amazing?
00:54:50.79\00:54:52.12
"Dr. Kellogg's
first introduction
00:54:56.12\00:54:58.23
to spiritualism and pantheism
00:54:58.26\00:55:00.56
came at the age of 21 years old,
00:55:00.60\00:55:04.17
when he and his brother
enrolled in a six-month course
00:55:04.20\00:55:08.27
under the instruction
00:55:08.30\00:55:09.64
of a physician
named Russell Trall,
00:55:09.67\00:55:12.57
director of the
Hygieo-Therapeutic College
00:55:12.61\00:55:16.21
in New York City.
00:55:16.24\00:55:18.15
Dr. Trall taught a
doctrine known as soul-identity
00:55:18.18\00:55:23.28
and the
'everywhereness' of God."
00:55:23.32\00:55:27.22
That's pantheism
under a different title.
00:55:27.26\00:55:30.56
"After completing this course,
00:55:30.59\00:55:32.33
Kellogg attended the
Bellevue Hospital Medical School
00:55:32.36\00:55:36.00
where he received
his M.D. license in 1875.
00:55:36.03\00:55:40.50
Kellogg then went on to
become the director in 1876
00:55:40.54\00:55:44.81
of the Seventh-day Adventist
00:55:44.84\00:55:46.27
newly renamed
Battle Creek Sanitarium.
00:55:46.31\00:55:51.41
Three years after in 1879,
00:55:51.45\00:55:54.98
Dr. Kellogg married
00:55:55.02\00:55:56.82
one of the nurses on
the sanitarium staff,
00:55:56.85\00:55:59.85
named Ella Ervilla Eaton.
00:55:59.89\00:56:03.63
Ella Eaton had
received her graduate degree
00:56:03.66\00:56:07.06
from the Alfred Center
in New York City in 1872,
00:56:07.10\00:56:11.27
and she continued her education
00:56:11.30\00:56:13.60
after her
marriage to Dr. Kellogg,
00:56:13.64\00:56:16.14
earning her M.A. degree in 1885.
00:56:16.17\00:56:21.14
Although united in
marriage to Dr. Harvey Kellogg,
00:56:21.18\00:56:24.91
Ella chose to remain a member
00:56:24.95\00:56:26.61
of the Seventh-day
Baptist denomination
00:56:26.65\00:56:28.75
in which she had
been brought up."
00:56:28.78\00:56:30.55
We also know the
Seventh-day Baptists
00:56:30.59\00:56:32.45
were the ones that
introduce the Adventists
00:56:32.49\00:56:34.22
to the truth about the Sabbath.
00:56:34.26\00:56:36.93
"Ella's strongest spiritual
influences said to have come
00:56:36.96\00:56:41.16
from the then president
and pastor of this university,
00:56:41.20\00:56:44.90
a man named Dr. Abraham H.Lewis,
00:56:44.93\00:56:48.44
whom she was eager to
introduce her husband."
00:56:48.47\00:56:54.41
This is where the
influence of pantheism
00:56:54.44\00:56:59.18
really began to come in.
00:56:59.21\00:57:01.88
And in this next message
00:57:01.92\00:57:03.65
that we're going
to have this evening,
00:57:03.69\00:57:06.09
we're going to
go in even farther
00:57:06.12\00:57:07.72
and we're going to start showing
00:57:07.76\00:57:09.36
how the roots
of this tree began.
00:57:09.39\00:57:13.96
What we're
seeing now is the fruit.
00:57:14.00\00:57:16.90
We're beginning to see
00:57:16.93\00:57:18.37
what was
happening back in the 1800s,
00:57:18.40\00:57:21.60
that it wasn't just coincidence,
00:57:21.64\00:57:23.41
it wasn't just by chance.
00:57:23.44\00:57:25.94
All of these people
were involved in Hinduism
00:57:25.97\00:57:29.54
and spiritualism.
00:57:29.58\00:57:31.31
It was through these
works that Satan said,
00:57:31.35\00:57:35.52
"I can cause them
to doubt God's Word."
00:57:35.55\00:57:39.55
I know it says that, but
it can't really mean that.
00:57:39.59\00:57:43.32
And the moment
we start believing
00:57:43.36\00:57:45.59
what it says, we lose all power.
00:57:45.63\00:57:49.80
Let's close with
the word of prayer.
00:57:49.83\00:57:53.84
Father in heaven,
00:57:53.87\00:57:55.74
we thank You for Your
Word which cannot fail.
00:57:55.77\00:57:59.51
We thank You for Your
Word which was made flesh,
00:57:59.54\00:58:02.48
our Lord, our Savior
and our King Jesus Christ.
00:58:02.51\00:58:07.22