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00:12 Good evening.
00:13 It's good to see everyone here tonight. 00:16 I would like to open with a word of prayer 00:18 and let's ask our savior and our God to be here with us. 00:24 Father in heaven, 00:26 we come to You tonight boldly and yet humbly, 00:32 Father, we ask for Your presence 00:35 and for Your Son's presence through your Holy Spirit, 00:39 be here with us, 00:42 open our eyes that we might see Your glory 00:46 and our ears that we might hear thy voice alone. 00:51 Father, we claim this property and all of the equipment 00:56 and every person that is here, 00:58 we claim the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ 01:02 over us. 01:04 And, Father, we ask that Your holy angels 01:06 that excel in strength 01:07 will bind all the powers of darkness. 01:12 Let none of the heathen say, "Where is our God?" 01:16 Thank you for hearing and for answering, 01:19 in Jesus' mighty name, amen. 01:24 I would like to open with the text of scripture 01:27 this evening. 01:28 It's found in Isaiah Chapter 45, 01:32 and we're going to read 18 and 19. 01:36 I'm gonna abbreviate it, but that's where it'll be from. 01:41 It says, "For thus saith the Lord 01:43 that created the heavens, 01:46 God himself that formed the earth and made it, 01:50 he established it, he created it not in vain, 01:56 he says, I am the Lord and there is none else. 02:02 I have not spoken in secret 02:04 in some dark place of the earth, 02:08 I said not unto the seed or children of Jacob, 02:12 seek ye me in vain, 02:15 for I the Lord speak righteousness 02:22 I declare things that are right." 02:26 Just to give you a quick introduction, 02:29 for 25 years, I was an instructor 02:32 in Chinese and Filipino, and Japanese martial arts, 02:37 as well as other forms of Eastern mysticism, 02:40 traditional Chinese medicine, 02:43 Chinese, qigong, tai chi, etcetera. 02:49 When the Lord set me free 02:52 from the bondage that the enemy had me in. 02:57 He did a number of miracles in my life 03:00 restoring my wife and I, the covenant of marriage. 03:04 He brought our family back together. 03:07 But He did exceeding abundantly 03:09 more than we ever could have imagined. 03:12 He brought me out of this world 03:14 that even as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, 03:17 I was going to church every week, 03:19 but I was going to a different church 03:21 and I was teaching in a different church, 03:24 a different setting, six days of the week. 03:29 And I remember, I asked the Lord, 03:30 after we had first done the first testimony 03:34 on the dangers of Eastern mysticism, 03:37 I said, "I don't want to spend the rest of my life 03:40 talking about this stuff." 03:42 I was so happy to be out of it and to be free 03:46 from the spiritual influences 03:49 that have been working in my life. 03:51 I didn't want to talk about it anymore. 03:53 I said, "God, you know, we've done the testimony, 03:55 Little Light Studios did a film." 03:57 I said, "Let them watch that, 03:59 I don't want to talk about this." 04:02 And God had other plans. 04:04 Praise God. 04:06 And what I found was 04:07 over the next couple of years was, 04:10 there were Christians in every denomination 04:13 that began to contact us. 04:16 And many of them, 04:19 probably 33% had had some involvement 04:24 in Eastern mysticism or martial arts, 04:27 but the other 65% to 69% had never had any involvement. 04:34 But the reason they contacted us 04:36 was they said, 04:37 "If God did this in your life, 04:41 can He set me free?" 04:44 And I started realizing that the purpose that God had 04:49 was not just in revealing facts, 04:53 but in setting every captive free. 04:58 Now I'm going to give you sort of a disclaimer. 05:02 We as Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 05:05 we're known as people of the book. 05:07 And the servant of the Lord told us, she said, 05:11 "We are almost replaying the history 05:14 of what the Jewish church was doing in Jesus' day." 05:18 Do you know many of them had head knowledge. 05:23 They knew the facts. 05:24 They knew the Bible studies. 05:26 They knew the state of the dead, 05:27 they knew the health, they knew tithing, 05:30 they knew the sanctuary, 05:32 but they did not know by personal experience, 05:38 the presence nor the power of God 05:41 in their lives. 05:43 Do you know that right now many Christians 05:45 are going through the same thing? 05:47 They are finding that, 05:50 like with the emerging church what's been said is, 05:53 is we need to find a new way to evangelize, 05:56 we're losing, we're losing members 05:59 and not just in our church, in all denominations. 06:02 So they're bringing in, you know, 06:04 contemporary Christian rock and roll music. 06:07 They're bringing in whatever, 06:09 all these new ways of preaching the gospel, 06:12 because they have bought into the lie 06:14 that that's going to fill the churches. 06:17 People don't need a new gospel. 06:20 They need the power of God in their lives. 06:24 That's what we want to reveal here. 06:27 Because when I first was brought out 06:30 of what I was involved in, 06:33 I had no idea that 10 years later 06:37 this is what God was going to be having me to share. 06:41 And what I've found over the past few years 06:43 when we were able to speak on the Emergent Church 06:46 and Spiritual Formation is, 06:48 often times we look at the bad, 06:53 we identify the danger of the Illuminati, 06:56 and the danger of the Jesuits 06:58 and we know what the mark of the beast is, 07:00 and we know this fact and that fact. 07:03 But many people are saying, I've got facts in my head, 07:09 but my heart has not been changed. 07:13 And that's what Nicodemus was asking Jesus, 07:17 I know in my head, 07:19 but I want to know Your power in my life. 07:24 That's what most of Christianity 07:26 is looking for. 07:27 That's what Satan is using 07:31 spiritual formation to counterfeit. 07:36 He knows that people are dry, the wilderness, 07:41 you know, of men's hearts is dry. 07:44 And God said, "Can these dry bones live? 07:49 Yes, I have to put My Spirit into them." 07:53 Satan said, "I'll counterfeit this. 07:55 I'll make them so dry 07:57 that they will accept anything to drink, 08:01 whether it's kosher or not." 08:04 And that's what he's doing through spiritual formation 08:06 in the emerging church. 08:09 So what we want to do 08:10 is we want to take a closer look. 08:11 Tonight we're gonna begin laying a foundation. 08:15 And over this entire week, over the next few days, 08:19 we're gonna go through and we're gonna build 08:21 on that foundation. 08:23 And by time we get to the end, 08:26 your hearts are going to burn 08:29 like they have never burned before 08:30 when you see the power of God. 08:33 So remember that, as we're looking at this, 08:36 we're gonna look at the counterfeit first. 08:45 A familiar text of scripture, Revelation Chapter 12, 08:50 and I'm paraphrasing this. 08:52 I'm reading from the King James 08:53 but I'm putting some verses in there together. 08:56 So I encourage you take notes and look these up on your own 09:00 when you're at home. 09:02 "And when the dragon saw that he was cast down 09:06 under the earth, he persecuted the woman 09:09 which brought forth the man child, 09:12 and to the woman were given two wings 09:15 of a great eagle, 09:17 so that she might fly into the wilderness 09:20 where she hath a place prepared for her by God, 09:26 that they should feed or nourish her there 09:30 away from the face 09:32 and the presence of the serpent." 09:34 Now we know who this was, in Genesis 3:15, 09:39 God made a promise to Adam and Eve, He said, 09:43 "Your son is gonna crush the serpent's head." 09:47 A little while later Abraham came along 09:49 and he made a promise to him, he said, 09:53 "Unto you and your son are these promises made, 09:58 and in your son," make a note of that, 10:02 "in your son," 10:04 not by your son alone, but in your son, 10:08 "will all the nations of the earth be blessed." 10:12 And then King David came along, and God repeated the promise. 10:16 And he said, "King David, of your own flesh, 10:21 I'm going to raise up a son, 10:24 and he's going to sit upon your throne." 10:31 A timeline of prophetic history, 10:35 growing up as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, 10:38 I can remember my mother 10:40 reading to me those little red books. 10:43 And I still have some of those same ones. 10:46 But it was almost like it was something 10:48 almost make-believe. 10:50 You know, there was this little old lady 10:52 named Ellen White, 10:54 and she wrote these things 10:56 and it was sort of disconnected from the real world. 11:01 And as I started going back doing research 11:04 after the Lord brought me out, 11:06 I was amazed to find out the historical evidence 11:11 for what was actually taking place 11:14 back in the 1800s. 11:17 And as I started putting these things together 11:19 as the Lord was revealing it, all of the sudden the things, 11:23 the truths that Ellen White was being shown 11:25 to share with you and I, they became alive. 11:32 Let me show you what was happening, 1800s, 11:38 the beginning of this country, 11:39 the Protestant Christians fled to America, 11:42 the great awakening began, 11:44 the second great awakening here in the United States. 11:48 There was a very renewed study 11:50 and comprehension of biblical prophecies, 11:53 especially in Daniel and Revelation. 11:56 And this is something that is a key. 11:59 We also saw the beginning of a huge temperance movement 12:06 in the United States. 12:08 It wasn't just Adventist, 12:11 when I was even preparing this series, 12:13 and I had to go back and do research, 12:15 it was everywhere. 12:17 There were people everywhere that were standing up saying, 12:21 "We've got to change the way we're eating." 12:24 And I thought, "Isn't that funny that God 12:27 was doing that in every denomination." 12:30 At the same time that He was revealing the truth 12:34 and the nearness of Christ's return, 12:37 the same time that He was proclaiming 12:40 the 1888 message of righteousness by faith. 12:43 He had already been preparing the world 12:47 through getting them to change 12:49 the way they were eating and living. 12:53 The law of God was being revealed 12:55 as unchanging and perpetual. 12:58 And at the same time, in 1888, 13:01 we had the Blair Sunday law legislation 13:04 being presented before Congress. 13:07 The same year that the message of righteousness by faith. 13:13 Revelation 12 goes on and tells us that 13:16 "The great dragon, that old serpent, 13:18 called the Devil, and Satan, 13:21 he cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, 13:28 so that he might cause her 13:29 to be carried away by the flood." 13:32 What is water a symbol of? 13:36 Spirit and words? 13:39 Remember what Jesus said, "The words are speak unto you, 13:42 they are spirit and they are life." 13:46 In John Chapter 7:37-39, 13:50 Jesus talked about the water and He said, 13:53 "Come unto me all you that are thirsty 13:55 and I will give you living water." 13:59 And this He spake of the Holy Spirit 14:02 which had not yet been given. 14:05 So water is a symbol 14:08 symbolically not only of people's nations, 14:11 you know, which Revelation talks about, 14:13 but more importantly 14:14 even in the Old Testament scriptures, 14:17 water is a symbol of the Word of God 14:22 and His Spirit in that Word. 14:26 Satan said, "The woman has fled, 14:29 the only way I can get her, I can't oppose her," 14:33 he tried that to destroy her during the Dark Ages. 14:36 He said, "Since I can't oppose her 14:39 and kill her, 14:40 I'll pour out such a flood after her that it'll dilute 14:46 what God is trying to do." 14:50 Now let me show you, this is interesting. 14:53 What else was happening in the 1800s? 14:56 Humanism, Frederick, 14:58 and I'm not even going to try to pronounce his last name, 15:01 Niethammer, espouses critical thinking 15:06 and rationalism over dogma and superstition. 15:10 And when he said superstition, he meant religion. 15:13 He considered Christianity to be superstition. 15:17 It's just like all the other religions out there. 15:22 Deism, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Jefferson Bible. 15:27 It was originally called the life 15:29 and morals of Jesus of Nazareth. 15:31 That was in 1820. 15:33 Thomas Jefferson when he wrote this Bible, 15:37 and we actually have photographs of the original, 15:40 he literally took scissors 15:42 and he cut pieces of the gospels out 15:45 and then he would insert 15:47 other pieces of scripture in their place. 15:50 He did away with the virgin birth, 15:52 he did away with almost 15:54 every one of the miracles that Jesus did. 15:56 In the Jefferson Bible, 15:58 what Thomas Jefferson was trying to say was, 16:01 Jesus was a good moral man, but He was not verily God. 16:08 He was not divine. 16:10 He was not born by the miraculous work 16:14 of the Holy Spirit. 16:17 Higher criticism, Friedrich Schleiemacher, 16:23 he began using the skeptical examination 16:26 of the accuracy of biblical text. 16:29 He was the one that first termed the coin, 16:33 higher criticism, in 1822. 16:37 Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 16:41 he's a well-known transcendental author. 16:45 My son and my daughter both are in college now, 16:48 and they call home and they're telling me 16:50 about what they have to learn. 16:51 And, you know, when they're sharing this, 16:54 I'm just amazed at how even today 16:57 the enemy is still using these same authors 17:01 and figures to influence 17:04 the thinking of the new generation. 17:08 Emerson heavily, was heavily influenced 17:11 by Unitarianism and by Hinduism. 17:16 I was very shocked when I realized 17:19 even in his own writings, 17:20 the influence that Hinduism had on many of these people. 17:24 He gave something called 17:26 the Harvard Divinity School address, 17:28 which really brought Transcendentalism 17:31 before the American nation in 1838. 17:36 Feminism, this was very eye opening. 17:43 And one of the reasons that I included this 17:47 was because I had heard a gentleman, 17:49 Professor Walter White that also made a reference. 17:53 And I went I looked it up, feminism was heavily promoted 17:57 by a woman named Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 18:02 She actually signed 18:04 the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments 18:06 in New York City in 1848. 18:09 And the table, you have to forgive me, 18:12 I don't remember who it belonged to, 18:14 but the table where they signed 18:16 that document was owned previously by a high occultist. 18:22 I don't remember if it was, you have to forgive me. 18:26 I know it wasn't H.P. Blavatsky, 18:28 but it was somebody that was heavily involved 18:30 in the occult 18:31 and they brought that table there 18:32 for that signing intentionally. 18:37 Mesmerism, how many people are familiar with that term. 18:41 Mesmerism, that was the old term 18:43 for what we now call hypnosis. 18:46 The original term was also called animal magnetism. 18:52 It did not have a lot to do 18:54 with using magnets in the beginning. 18:58 What Franz Mesmer said was, 19:00 he believed in studying human anatomy and science, 19:05 that there was this energy of electromagnetic force 19:11 and this force interacted with everything in nature. 19:16 And he said, "If it's in all of nature, 19:19 it has to also be within us. 19:22 And if it's in us, I should be able to tap 19:26 into that power and use it to help heal others." 19:32 So now when you read where Sister White 19:34 warns about magnetism, there's more there, 19:37 it wasn't just people picking up magnets 19:39 and, you know, taping them to certain parts of their body. 19:44 Pantheism, Henry David Thoreau 19:47 was a very strong promoter of this. 19:49 How many people have ever heard of his book, 19:51 "Walden" or "Walden Pond?" 19:54 That book is, it's a classic, it's an American classic, 19:57 it's required reading in almost every university now, 20:01 if you have a literature class or an English class. 20:04 That book is filled with Hinduism, 20:08 even the names for some of the places that he put, 20:12 they're all Indian names. 20:14 And he wrote, I found statements from him. 20:17 And he said, "Of all the places that I have seen, 20:21 and I have read, the Hindus, 20:24 they have an understanding of our world 20:27 and of what they call God 20:29 that surpasses every other religion." 20:32 So when people are reading this book 20:34 and they say, "Oh, it's just harmless reading, 20:37 you don't realize, 20:38 you can't pick a book up and it be harmless, 20:41 unless it's, you know, how to fix your lawn mower 20:44 or change the oil in your car. 20:46 If you're reading a book that has got philosophical, 20:49 or religious, or spiritual overtones, 20:52 or even political overtones, 20:54 normally there's a spirit 20:56 that is influencing that writing. 20:59 That book was first published in 1854. 21:04 Spiritism, which means the study of communication 21:09 with spirit entities was first introduced 21:12 by a man named Allan Kardec. 21:15 He's the author of a collection of books 21:17 known as the "Spiritist Codification." 21:21 These were published in 1857. 21:25 1859, Charles Darwin, 21:28 first published the "Origin of Species." 21:32 These are a lot of events 21:33 that are happening within the 1800s. 21:36 Is it just by chance? 21:40 Let me ask you a question. 21:44 What is the Sabbath a sign of? 21:46 What does the Bible say it's a sign of? 21:51 That the Lord God sanctifies us, 21:56 not we ourselves, 21:59 but that can only be done by faith. 22:02 The Sabbath is a sign of faith. 22:07 Everything, our months, our days, our years, 22:12 all of those things you can point to outer space 22:15 to our planets and our constellations, 22:18 and you can identify when the month starts, 22:20 when the day starts, when a year starts, 22:23 you cannot do that with the weekly cycle. 22:26 It's impossible. 22:27 God designed it that way. 22:30 The only place we have a record of the weekly cycle 22:35 is from God's Word. 22:37 The Sabbath is a sign of faith. 22:43 Darwinism took away the seven day creation. 22:48 All of these other things chipped away 22:51 at the foundations of our faith, 22:54 at the same time that God was proclaiming 22:58 His law of righteousness and proclaiming the message 23:03 of righteousness by faith alone. 23:07 Free Lovism, this is a picture of Herbert Spencer, 23:13 he was the author of a book 23:14 called the "System of Synthetic Philosophy." 23:17 He was recognized 23:19 as the most famous philosopher of the age, 23:23 1869, was when this book, I believe was published. 23:28 1881, Westcott and Hort introduced the revised 23:34 and I'm gonna use that term very loosely, 23:37 they're corrupt version of the Greek New Testament. 23:41 We don't have time to go into that but that was in 1881. 23:45 All of these things were there because they were undermining 23:50 our simple living faith in thus saith the Lord. 23:54 The Free Thought Movement, Robert Ingersoll. 23:59 He was the reorganizer 24:03 of an anti-Christian organization 24:05 called the National Liberal League, 24:09 it became the American Secular Union. 24:13 This organization of free thought, 24:18 they had an influence on almost, 24:20 all of our politicians, 24:22 and almost all of our authors in the United States, 24:26 Free Thought Movement. 24:29 Christian Mysticism, 24:31 how many people have heard of Edgar Cayce? 24:35 If you go to a health food store, 24:36 you can still find things 24:38 that are produced by the Cayce Foundation. 24:44 Edgar Cayce promoted a form of spiritualism 24:47 that he blended 24:49 or where he blended the communication 24:51 with spirit entities 24:53 under the guise of Christian philosophy 24:56 for healing. 24:58 So he was blending spiritualism with biblical Christianity 25:03 in order to help heal people. 25:09 Now listen to what Sister White had to say. 25:11 Desire of Ages, page 258, 25:15 "When Satan has undermined faith in the Bible, 25:18 he directs men to other sources for light and power, 25:24 and thus he insinuates himself. 25:27 Those who turn from the plain teaching of the Scripture 25:31 and the convicting power of God's Holy Spirit 25:35 are inviting the control of demons. 25:41 Criticism and speculation concerning the Scriptures 25:46 have opened the way for Spiritism and Theosophy." 25:51 If you have Ellen White's writings on a CD ROM, 25:54 or you go online and look it up, 25:56 look up the word Theosophy 25:58 and read the statement she says about that. 26:01 Those modernized forms of ancient heathenism 26:05 to gain a foothold even in the professed churches 26:08 of our Lord Jesus Christ. 26:10 This is coming into our churches 26:12 across America right now, 26:14 every denomination, every denomination. 26:20 The birth of spiritualism and spiritism in America. 26:24 How many people have heard of the Fox Sisters? 26:27 The wrappings? 26:28 I remember my mom reading to me, 26:30 you know, that and I thought, 26:33 this was just some little minor event 26:35 that happened in, you know, New England and, you know, 26:37 I just didn't pay attention as a teenager. 26:40 I had no idea, when I went back later on 26:42 and began looking it up, 26:44 there were men and women of God of every denomination 26:49 that were writing and warning 26:51 God's people about spiritualism. 26:55 The Fox Sisters lived from 1814 to 1890. 27:00 A man named Elijah Bond 27:02 introduced for the first time a board game, 27:07 which Parker Brothers I believe 27:08 bought the rights to call the Wei Chi board. 27:12 You used to be able to go to Walmart 27:14 or any department store and buy one. 27:16 It's witchcraft, it's not just a game. 27:22 That was introduced in 1890, 27:24 two years after the message of righteousness by faith. 27:29 Madam H.P. Blavatsky, you see there 27:31 on the right hand side of the screen. 27:33 She lived from 1831 to 1891. 27:37 She was there when Sister White was warning 27:43 the world about spiritualism, 27:46 and she lived in the New England states 27:49 where Ellen White did. 27:51 So when we read about Sister White 27:53 and she's warning so strongly 27:55 about spiritualism and spiritism, 27:57 this was not just some dream that she had. 28:02 She was seeing it. 28:03 It was in the newspapers, 28:05 the politicians were proclaiming 28:07 this as being new light. 28:13 She tells us in Eight Testimonies, page 290, 28:16 "We are living in an age of great light, 28:20 an illumination, 28:21 but much that is called light is opening the way 28:25 for the wisdom and arts of Satan. 28:29 Many things will be presented that appeared to be true." 28:35 The Bible tells us in 1 Timothy 6:20 28:38 that "These are called oppositions of science 28:42 falsely so called." 28:45 Isn't that amazing that 2,000 years ago, 28:47 God already knew what was gonna happen. 28:51 "Many things will be presented that appear to be true, 28:54 and yet they need to be carefully considered 28:57 with much prayer 28:59 for they be specious devices of the enemy." 29:02 This is Time Magazine, 29:04 and they say the science of yoga. 29:06 Millions of Americans are discovering 29:09 this ancient exercise. 29:11 Now here's the skinny 29:13 on why it makes you feel so good. 29:16 When I go to our churches to do presentations on yoga 29:20 and martial arts and tai chi, 29:22 I normally ask the congregation, 29:25 how many people here have had any self defense training 29:28 in the martial art? 29:30 On average, we get about 30% of the hands. 29:34 I'm sorry, about 10% or 15% will raise their hands 29:38 for martial arts and self defense. 29:41 But when I asked them about yoga, 29:44 or qigong, or energy healing, or acupuncture, 29:48 normally their hands go up 29:49 about 35% to 40% in our churches. 29:54 I just met a pastor recently on the East Coast, 29:58 a strong man of God. 30:00 He's got a lovely wife. 30:01 I mean, they're very good couple. 30:04 And she mentioned something 30:05 when she had seen the dragon revealed. 30:08 She said, "What about yoga?" 30:10 And I said, "Well, I'll loan you 30:11 a video on yoga specifically." 30:14 It wasn't one that I had done. 30:16 And she just talked to me this past Sabbath, 30:20 and she said, "We watched the video." 30:22 And I said, "What did you think?" 30:24 And she said, 30:25 "I didn't tell you when we first talked." 30:27 She said, "I'm 48. 30:28 I've been doing it since I was in high school 30:31 every week. 30:33 I had no idea what I was involved in." 30:39 When you see people doing those poses, 30:42 those stretches, every one of the stretches 30:46 is a symbolic gesture, 30:51 almost like the hand mudras, 30:57 that gesture invokes a Hindu Spiritual entity 31:01 to come into the person's life, 31:03 and to empower them, and make them feel better." 31:07 And people say, "Yeah, but it works." 31:09 Just because it works doesn't mean it's of God. 31:15 "The path of error often appears 31:18 to lie close to the path of truth. 31:20 It is hardly distinguishable from the path that leads 31:24 to holiness and heaven, 31:27 but the mind enlightened by the Holy Spirit 31:30 may discern that it is diverging 31:34 from the right way. 31:35 For after a while, 31:37 the two paths are seen to be widely separated." 31:44 Now, I want you to catch this. 31:47 I know we're sharing a lot of quotes. 31:51 But as we go through this series, 31:53 you're going to start seeing how these pieces tie together. 31:56 Listen to what we're told. 31:58 "As the right hand of the third angel's message, 32:02 God's methods of treating disease 32:05 will open the doors 32:07 for the entrance of present truth." 32:10 Present truth is the Sabbath, righteousness, 32:14 and living by faith in His Word. 32:17 By changing the way that people eat, 32:20 it opens the door for them to see, and comprehend, 32:26 and be able to take hold, as Sister White said, 32:30 an appropriate Christ-righteousness 32:32 as their own. 32:34 "Our physicians in Europe and other countries 32:37 should awake to the necessity of having health works, 32:41 literature, and messages prepared by men and women 32:45 who are on the ground, 32:47 and who can meet the people where they are." 32:51 Meet them where they are. 32:52 This is not talking about at the mall or at the bank. 32:55 It means meeting people where they are. 32:58 If someone has eaten pork their whole life, 33:02 you can't come in and give them the whole health message 33:04 in 30 minutes and say, 33:06 "You've got to do all of this right now." 33:09 You have to take steps, you have to introduce them, 33:13 and you have to give them the same freedom 33:15 that you've had to make those changes in their lives. 33:19 She says, "We are to meet the people 33:22 where they are 33:23 with the most essential instruction 33:27 that is necessary for this time." 33:31 This has an effect. 33:32 What was the first sin 33:35 that caused all of mankind to fall? 33:38 Appetite! 33:39 And you know, I used to think appetite is just 33:42 what am I eating or how much am I eating. 33:45 Do you know appetite 33:46 is not just involved with the stomach? 33:49 When you read what Sister White said, she said, 33:53 "She was shown a list of sins 33:58 that would condemn people in the last great day." 34:02 And she said, "Under appetite, 34:05 fell almost all of the other 34:08 moral or immoral transgressions, 34:13 adultery, lust, fornication," 34:15 and all the other ones we don't even want to get into. 34:18 They fell under appetite, intemperance. 34:22 Appetite is something that happens in the mind, 34:27 not in the stomach. 34:28 It's saying, 34:30 "I know this is what I should do. 34:31 I know this is right. 34:33 But there is this chemical reaction 34:37 that's happening in my brain and affecting my body. 34:41 And it's overwhelming. 34:43 And I can't say no." 34:45 Sometimes I hear people, I mean, they'll write to us, 34:49 or they'll call us and they'll say, 34:50 "I'm trying to give up caffeine, 34:52 or I'm trying to give up nicotine. 34:54 I'm trying to give up smoking." 34:55 And I go to my pastor, and they're like, 34:57 "Look, you're just going to have 34:59 to exercise more willpower." 35:01 I think, we have no idea. 35:04 If I go to some drunk on the street, and I said, 35:06 "Look, you're just gonna have to exercise willpower." 35:10 He's gonna look at me and say, 35:11 "If it was that simple, I wouldn't need your Jesus." 35:16 If it was just willpower, 35:18 one person will get the victory overnight 35:21 and another person will be struggling 35:23 for 10 years. 35:24 What's the difference? 35:27 Are we saved by willpower? 35:30 There has to be more. 35:33 God has got to come, Christ has got to come 35:37 and take possession of His temple, and change us, 35:42 and He has to cast out 35:44 and bring into captivity all of our thoughts, 35:47 and the way that we feel and our chemical reactions. 35:51 He has to take possession of His temple. 35:57 "Some of our brethren have expressed fears 36:00 that we shall dwell too much 36:03 upon the subject of justification by faith." 36:07 Pay attention to that word, justification. 36:12 "But I hope and pray 36:14 that none will be needlessly alarmed. 36:17 If there had not been a remissness in the past 36:20 to properly instruct the people of God, 36:24 there would not now be a necessity 36:26 of calling special attention to it." 36:31 To properly instruct the people of God, she says, 36:35 "You have to appropriate the promises as your own, 36:40 not as something that in the future, 36:43 one day, Jesus is going to give to you." 36:45 You've got to look and say, 36:48 "When Jesus died, I was in Him dying," right? 36:54 I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live. 36:57 When was Christ crucified? 37:01 Two thousand years ago. 37:04 If you were in Him when He died, 37:08 you are dead, as Paul said, 37:11 and your life is hid with Christ and God. 37:15 We have to appropriate not only His death, 37:20 but His resurrection. 37:21 And not only His death and resurrection, 37:24 but every victory that He gained. 37:27 You have to know, and I have to know, 37:30 "I was in Him." 37:32 And I'm going to show you the quotes from scripture 37:35 as well from Ellen White before this week is over. 37:38 You work in Him when He won those victories. 37:43 So I don't tell the Lord, 37:44 "Lord, I need You to give me victory over this temptation." 37:48 You know what He does when I say that? 37:51 He says, "Eric, I already gave you the victory. 37:55 When are you going to thank me for it 37:57 and stand up and walk in it?" 38:00 My son, I remember, you know, he's younger than my daughter. 38:04 He's 18 now, and I can remember 38:06 when he was going through high school, 38:08 he'd be rushing 38:09 to get out the door in the morning, 38:10 and he would come down sometimes, he would say, 38:13 "Dad, I've got 15 minutes, I got to go. 38:15 I need a lunch for today." 38:17 And he would be running upstairs. 38:18 I'd be like, 38:20 "I've got the lunch made for you. 38:21 It's by the door." 38:23 He came down in two minutes after he got out of the shower 38:25 and he'd say, "Dad, I've got to go. 38:28 Don't forget I need a lunch." 38:29 I say, "Connor, it's by the door." 38:32 And he'd run out of the room. 38:33 He come back a few minutes later and say, 38:35 "Okay, okay, I've got my book. Dad, I need my lunch." 38:38 And I'm like, "I made it. 38:40 It's by the door." 38:41 We do the same thing with God. 38:43 "God give me victory." 38:44 God is like, "The victory is in Christ. 38:49 Ask me to give you Christ." 38:52 And Jesus is saying, 38:54 "I'm standing at the door knocking. 38:57 If you'll just let Me in, 38:59 I will bring My victory into your life." 39:05 That's what Satan does not want us to know. 39:10 "The exceeding great and precious promises 39:12 given us in the Holy Scriptures 39:15 whereby we are made partakers of the divine nature." 39:21 Mark that down, nature. 39:23 Put a note in your mind or on a piece of paper, 39:26 nature, that's important. 39:29 "Whereby we are made partakers of the divine nature. 39:33 These have been lost sight of to a great extent, 39:36 just as the enemy of all righteousness 39:39 designed that they should be." 39:45 He is blinding us to the power that God has given us. 39:51 "He has cast his own dark shadow 39:54 between us and our God, 39:56 so that we may not see the true character of our God. 40:01 For the Lord has proclaimed Himself 40:03 to be full of mercy and gracious, 40:07 long-suffering, patient, 40:10 even under the sacrificing of self, 40:14 and abundant in goodness and truth. 40:18 Several have written to me, 40:20 inquiring if the message of justification by faith 40:23 is the third angel's message? 40:26 And I have answered. 40:28 "It is the third angel's message in verity." 40:35 I thought the three angel's message is, 40:37 "Come out of Babylon. 40:39 The pope is the antichrist. 40:42 Don't receive the mark of the beast." 40:45 That tells us there's more there 40:48 than what we've seen. 40:50 Do you know in the very end 40:53 when Rome influences this world, 40:57 which is happening right now, 41:00 and they declare a Sunday law. 41:06 Do you know that's going to be called righteousness by works, 41:10 not by faith? 41:13 That's the same thing that Satan has sought 41:15 to bring men into from the very beginning. 41:19 When we were standing at the foot of Mount Sinai, 41:23 God spoke His law. 41:26 And Ellen White says, "Every command is a promise." 41:30 Education, page 126. 41:32 Every command is a promise. 41:36 Do you know what? 41:37 God spoke those promises. 41:39 And you know what man said? 41:41 "Everything that God said, I can do." 41:48 You know what God says? 41:50 "Everything that I've said, 41:51 I will do if you'll just surrender 41:54 and let Me inside 41:56 so that I can do it in your life." 42:01 These are the words in the Greek and Hebrew 42:03 consolidated down 42:05 for justification and justified. 42:07 To declare and to render innocent, 42:12 just, clean, holy, 42:16 righteous, and perfect, 42:19 that's what it means to be justified, 42:24 to be declared. 42:25 How does God do anything? 42:28 He speaks it. 42:30 How did He create the universe? 42:33 He spoke it into existence. 42:36 How did He set the captives free 42:39 when Christ was here? 42:41 He spoke their freedom. 42:43 Do you remember the Roman centurion? 42:45 Jesus said, "I'll come to your house and heal him." 42:48 And the Roman was not even a Seventh-day Adventist. 42:52 He wasn't even Hebrew. 42:56 He said, "You don't have to come to My house, 42:58 speak the word only and I know it'll be done." 43:02 And Jesus turned and looked at all those Christians. 43:06 And he said, "I haven't found this kind of faith 43:08 in all of Israel." 43:13 "If you would stand through the time of trouble, 43:16 we must know Christ, for this is life eternal, 43:22 and we must appropriate the gift of His righteousness, 43:28 which He imputes to the repentant sinner. 43:32 No glory is to redound to man, 43:35 all human help and glory lies in the dust. 43:40 For the truth, 43:43 as it is in Jesus, 43:47 is the only available agent by which man may be saved." 43:53 And I remember 43:55 when I was struggling to get free 43:58 from the bondage I was in, 43:59 when I was in those arts 44:01 and everything else that had happened in my life. 44:04 And one day, I read that verse in John 17:17, and Jesus said, 44:10 "Sanctify them through Thy truth, 44:13 Thy Word is truth." 44:15 And in John 8, He told the disciples, 44:18 "The truth, you will know the truth, 44:20 and the truth will make you free." 44:22 And I was like, "Lord, I was raised 44:26 a Seventh-day Adventist Christian. 44:30 I don't know what this means. 44:32 What does it mean, the truth will make me free? 44:35 What does it mean, You're going to sanctify me 44:38 through Your truth?" 44:39 And God spoke to my heart and my ears. 44:43 And He said, "Eric, you don't even know 44:45 what the word truth means." 44:47 And I'm there at the house by myself, you know. 44:49 And I talked to God out loud 44:52 because I know He can read my thoughts, 44:53 but I like talking to Him. 44:56 Enoch did. 44:58 And I looked up in heaven and I said, 45:02 "Of course, I know what truth is. 45:04 It means correct doctrine." 45:06 And Jesus said, "Eric, you don't even know 45:09 what the word truth means." 45:12 And I got out my concordance and on e-Sword, 45:15 and I looked up that word. 45:16 Do you know what it means? 45:18 It means unfailing verity. 45:23 Thy Word is truth, it cannot fail. 45:29 That's what He says in Isaiah 55, 45:32 "My Word is gone forth, 45:34 it will not return unto Me void." 45:37 Do you know when my wife and I 45:38 went through that divorce that we went through? 45:41 We were separated and divorced five years legally. 45:44 The judge had signed the paper. 45:46 And my wife would go to church on Sabbath. 45:48 And you know, people would come up 45:50 after two years and they would say, 45:52 "Sarah, listen, 45:53 you need to just move on with your life. 45:55 I mean, your husband is gone. 45:57 He's not coming back. 45:59 You're destroying your children. 46:01 Let go." 46:03 And you know what she would always say? 46:04 She would say, "But God made a promise to me. 46:08 What I've joined together, let no man put asunder." 46:13 And they were like, 46:14 "Yeah, but the judge signed the paper." 46:16 She said, "Let no man put asunder. 46:20 Do I believe what that judge is written 46:22 or do I believe the Word of the living God?" 46:27 That's what God wants us to do. 46:30 When you go to the doctor and he tells somebody you love, 46:33 "You've got cancer, or you've got diabetes, 46:36 or you've got this. 46:37 You know, there's no hope of recovery from this." 46:40 You've got to say, "Thus saith the Lord. 46:43 I'm the one that forgives all your iniquities, 46:46 and I heal all of your diseases." 46:49 I've got to make a choice. 46:50 "Do I believe God's Word 46:52 or do I believe the word of mortal man?" 47:00 I'm keeping an eye on the clock. 47:05 Now we're going to start getting into why this matters. 47:10 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, he was an honored member 47:14 of the Michigan State Board of Health from 1878 to 1891. 47:20 And he also was a few years after that as well. 47:24 And he was the author of more than 50 books 47:26 and hundreds of articles on health and healing. 47:30 He was credited with the development 47:32 of cornflakes cereal, high protein meat substitutes, 47:37 acidophilus enriched soy milk, 47:39 and the unique process of manufacturing peanut butter 47:43 with boiled rather than roasted peanuts. 47:47 Kellogg is reported to have performed 47:52 surgical operations himself. 47:57 And he treated more than 47:58 200,000 patients successfully during his lifetime 48:03 and his work as a physician at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. 48:09 Some of the people that Kellogg treated, 48:12 William H.Taft, Percy Grainger, 48:15 Amelia Earhart, George Bernard Shaw, 48:20 Johnny Weissmuller, Henry Ford, 48:23 the man that founded the Ford Motor Company, 48:26 Thomas Edison, John D.Rockefeller, 48:30 Harvey Firestone, JC Penney, 48:34 a lady named Sojourner Truth, 48:37 CW Baron, Warren G.Harding, 48:41 and Booker T.Washington. 48:44 He was world-known because of the blessing 48:48 that God had put upon him. 48:50 Now I want to show you something. 48:54 The health message is being promoted strongly 48:57 in this country, 48:58 and God raises up a physician 49:00 who is a brilliant man to promote this. 49:07 Blesses him beyond measure 49:09 with knowledge of how to do the medical work, 49:14 how to help treat the sick, and it's world-known. 49:20 Same time, He's raising up Jones and Waggoner 49:24 with 1888 righteousness by faith message. 49:28 Who do you think Satan would go after to destroy 49:32 with the most evil intent? 49:36 He says, "I got to get rid of the health message 49:38 'cause if they understand health, 49:40 they'll begin to comprehend the spirituality of the law 49:45 and the righteousness by faith." 49:47 And then he said, "I've got to get rid of 49:50 the righteousness by faith." 49:51 That's why he's separated Ellen White, 49:53 and AT Jones, and EJ Waggoner. 49:56 He sent Waggoner to Europe. 49:58 I believe Jones was here and he had the conference 50:01 and Ellen White against her judgment to Australia. 50:07 Satan was like, "Divided, 50:09 they won't be able to work together. 50:11 They won't support one another." 50:13 He does the same thing in our ministries 50:16 here in the United States. 50:17 He gets us as ministries competing with one another. 50:21 You know, I've got copyright on that. 50:25 That message is copyrighted. 50:27 And you got to... 50:28 And I'm like, "God gave it to us. 50:31 Let's win souls. 50:33 We don't need to be divided anymore." 50:38 As well as these accomplishments, 50:41 Dr. Kellogg also off-authored 50:44 and published one of the most controversial books 50:48 ever written on health and spirituality 50:50 in the 20th century. 50:53 It was called "The Living Temple." 50:56 And I'm not going to go into too much detail here 50:58 because Pastor Bohr in Secrets Unsealed 51:02 as well as a few other men, 51:04 they've done a great job on the research. 51:08 You can get some resources here 51:10 from this ministry to help expand on that. 51:13 But I do want to take a look at a few things there. 51:17 "Be not deceived, many will depart from the faith 51:21 giving heed to seducing spirits and the doctrines 51:25 and teachings of devils." 51:28 Ellen White said, "We have now before us 51:32 the alpha of this danger." 51:35 What danger? 51:36 Giving heed to seducing spirits. 51:40 "The omega will be of a most startling," 51:44 what's that word? 51:46 "Nature." 51:47 Remember, I told you, mark that word down, 51:49 this is important. 51:51 "The omega will be 51:53 of a most startling nature." 51:59 "One and another come to me, asking me to explain 52:02 the positions taken in the Living Temple. 52:05 And I reply, 'They are unexplainable.' 52:09 The sentiments expressed 52:11 do not give a true knowledge of God. 52:14 We need not the mysticism that is in this book, 52:19 for those who entertain these sophistries 52:22 will soon find themselves in a position 52:25 where the enemy can talk with them, 52:30 and lead them away from God. 52:33 It is represented to me that the writer of this book 52:37 is on a false track or path, 52:40 and he knows not whither his steps are tending." 52:44 First Selected Messages, page 202. 52:49 "The theory that God is an essence 52:51 pervading all nature is received by many today 52:56 who profess to believe the Scriptures, 52:59 but however beautifully clothed, 53:02 this theory is the most dangerous deception. 53:05 For it misrepresents God and it is a dishonor 53:09 to His greatness and majesty. 53:12 And it surely tends not only to mislead, 53:16 but to debase man." 53:18 It means instead of being spiritual, 53:20 they become physically or carnally focused. 53:25 "Darkness is its element and sensuality 53:29 or the flesh is its sphere." 53:32 That's why when you look at the emerging church, 53:35 they don't want to talk about doctrine. 53:36 They want to talk about dialogue and conversation. 53:40 They want to talk about how does it make you feel, 53:43 not what as the Word say. 53:47 "These theories, 53:48 followed to their logical conclusion 53:51 do away with the necessity for the atonement, 53:54 and they make man his own savior." 53:57 The word atonement there, Ellen White in her own writing, 54:01 she gives the definition of the word atonement, 54:04 at-one-ment. 54:07 Jesus' last prayer before Calvary was, 54:11 "Father, I pray that they all might be one 54:16 as I am in You, and as You are in Me, 54:22 that they might be 54:25 one in Us." 54:30 That's what this does away with. 54:32 The book you're looking at there on the right, 54:34 this is called "Building the Living Temple 54:37 A Manual for Freemasons." 54:41 This was released within the last five years. 54:44 I think it was 2015, but I may be off. 54:47 I know it was within the last five years. 54:50 Isn't that amazing? 54:56 "Dr. Kellogg's first introduction 54:58 to spiritualism and pantheism 55:00 came at the age of 21 years old, 55:04 when he and his brother enrolled in a six-month course 55:08 under the instruction 55:09 of a physician named Russell Trall, 55:12 director of the Hygieo-Therapeutic College 55:16 in New York City. 55:18 Dr. Trall taught a doctrine known as soul-identity 55:23 and the 'everywhereness' of God." 55:27 That's pantheism under a different title. 55:30 "After completing this course, 55:32 Kellogg attended the Bellevue Hospital Medical School 55:36 where he received his M.D. license in 1875. 55:40 Kellogg then went on to become the director in 1876 55:44 of the Seventh-day Adventist 55:46 newly renamed Battle Creek Sanitarium. 55:51 Three years after in 1879, 55:55 Dr. Kellogg married 55:56 one of the nurses on the sanitarium staff, 55:59 named Ella Ervilla Eaton. 56:03 Ella Eaton had received her graduate degree 56:07 from the Alfred Center in New York City in 1872, 56:11 and she continued her education 56:13 after her marriage to Dr. Kellogg, 56:16 earning her M.A. degree in 1885. 56:21 Although united in marriage to Dr. Harvey Kellogg, 56:24 Ella chose to remain a member 56:26 of the Seventh-day Baptist denomination 56:28 in which she had been brought up." 56:30 We also know the Seventh-day Baptists 56:32 were the ones that introduce the Adventists 56:34 to the truth about the Sabbath. 56:36 "Ella's strongest spiritual influences said to have come 56:41 from the then president and pastor of this university, 56:44 a man named Dr. Abraham H.Lewis, 56:48 whom she was eager to introduce her husband." 56:54 This is where the influence of pantheism 56:59 really began to come in. 57:01 And in this next message 57:03 that we're going to have this evening, 57:06 we're going to go in even farther 57:07 and we're going to start showing 57:09 how the roots of this tree began. 57:14 What we're seeing now is the fruit. 57:16 We're beginning to see 57:18 what was happening back in the 1800s, 57:21 that it wasn't just coincidence, 57:23 it wasn't just by chance. 57:25 All of these people were involved in Hinduism 57:29 and spiritualism. 57:31 It was through these works that Satan said, 57:35 "I can cause them to doubt God's Word." 57:39 I know it says that, but it can't really mean that. 57:43 And the moment we start believing 57:45 what it says, we lose all power. 57:49 Let's close with the word of prayer. 57:53 Father in heaven, 57:55 we thank You for Your Word which cannot fail. 57:59 We thank You for Your Word which was made flesh, 58:02 our Lord, our Savior and our King Jesus Christ. |
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