Believe me, it's good
to see everyone here again,
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and we're going to pick up
where we left off on our last,
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you know, look at
spiritual formation.
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I encourage you as
you're able to take notes.
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This is something that is...
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It's sweeping the
Christian world right now
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and few people realize
the roots of this movement,
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where it came from.
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I know, you know,
once we get through this
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and we start in on our
next part of the presentation,
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you're going to
be really startled
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because we're going
to bring it home to now,
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to modern day.
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So let's open with
the word of prayer,
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Father in Heaven,
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our lives are in Your hands,
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and, Father, we thank You
that when You are in charge,
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everything falls
exactly where it's supposed to.
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Father, teach us
each day to trust in You,
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keep us in perfect peace
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because our minds are
stayed and anchored in Thee.
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Send Your holy
angels, Lord Jesus Christ,
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surround,
protect, and strengthen us.
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Reveal Your power and
Your love in our lives.
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In Jesus' name, we ask believing
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and we thank You
because You cannot lie.
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Amen.
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So we ended our last session
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talking about
Dr. Kellogg's wife,
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Ella Eaton, and...
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Her greatest spiritual
influence was the Director
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and President of the university,
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Alford Center.
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His name was Dr. Abram H Lewis
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and Ella introduced
this man because she held him
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in such high
regard to Dr. Kellogg.
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She was anxious for
the two of them to meet
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because Kellogg was a brilliant,
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you know,
physician and this man was,
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you know, in her eyes a
very brilliant man of God.
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Dr. Lewis who
lived from 1836 to 1908
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was an accomplished speaker.
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He was also known as the voice
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of the
Seventh-day Baptist Church
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and the author
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of the denomination's
leading periodical
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called The Sabbath Recorder.
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And when I was putting
this presentation together,
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I went online, that paper
is still being produced today.
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But back then, I don't
think it's that way now,
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but back then, it was known that
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The Sabbath Recorder
was steeped in pantheism,
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in the doctor of pantheism.
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Pantheism is the belief
that God is in all things.
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Some believe He's
only in living things like,
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you know,
fruits, and vegetables,
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and animals, and humans.
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But others go even
farther and they say that God
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or deity is
actually in everything,
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whether it's alive or not alive,
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it makes no difference.
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According to Lewis,
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he had experienced
his own shaking of faith
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while he was
yet 17 years of age.
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While he was yet
only 17 years of age,
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when under the
influence of a brilliant skeptic
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and physician, and
through the rationalism...
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I'm sorry, let
me start that again.
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And through the rationalism
of this dangerous span,
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the young Lewis reported
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that he nearly lost
all faith in the Bible
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and Orthodox Christianity.
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So Lewis's own writings,
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he said this is
what happened to him.
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At 17 years of age,
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he was
introduced to this physician
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and because of this
physician's influence,
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Lewis almost gave up God.
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He actually had written
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to the Seventh-day
Baptist denomination
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and asked them to remove
his name from their books
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because he said,
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"I can't even profess
to believe in God anymore."
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And there was a
pastor in the church who saw,
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you know, God did not
want to give up on Lewis
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even though Lewis was
about to give up on Him.
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And he refused to
remove his name from the books.
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Dr. Lewis and his
wife Melissa visited
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and joined the
Battle Creek Sanitarium
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after hearing of the
success of its many patients
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in regaining their health.
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And in 1895, Lewis
and his wife Melissa
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became honored
guests at the Kellogg home.
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I don't know how
extensive the stay was,
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if he was only there,
you know, for a few weeks
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or if they stayed
for a prolonged visit,
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but they
regularly began visiting
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and spending time together.
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Kellogg greatly admired Lewis
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and it is said that
over the next two years,
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he received and read every issue
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of Lewis's publication,
The Sabbath Recorder.
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Now remember, that publication
was steeped in pantheism.
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But it was worded in such a way
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that you couldn't
put your finger on it.
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And there's a reason
why Ellen White even said,
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she said, "We have
got to be very careful
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when we're
talking about pantheism."
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She said, "Because..."
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And I had to learn this,
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there were many
things I was doing
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where I would wind up
quoting all of these pantheists,
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and then I would sit
back, and I would realize,
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I've got to go get
on my knees and pray
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because as I was
quoting these people,
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when I was writing,
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the influence that
had influenced them
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began to try to
influence my thoughts.
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And I would have
to step back and say,
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go open God's Word and
claim the blood of Christ.
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So even in these presentations
and these messages,
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I'm trying to be very
careful on what we quote.
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Although Dr. Kellogg
had been entertaining
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the potential of these
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pantheistic
theories as new light,
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since before James
White's death in 1881,
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it was not until
the pre-conference talks
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held at the Ministerial
Institute in Lincoln,
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Nebraska in 1897 that
he made these views public.
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At this conference, at
the pre-conference talks,
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he and some of the other
men were having discussions,
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and he began to
publicly come out in the open
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with what he believed.
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And unfortunately,
because of arrogance and pride
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that had somehow
found its way into his life,
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he was unwilling to
yield even when Sister White
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and other men and
women of God had warned him
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that the path he
was on was dangerous.
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His first presentation
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that was given
at that conference
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was given on February 16th
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and it was titled God in Nature,
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in which he drew
heavily upon the statements
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from the pen of Ellen White,
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taking them out of context
in order to lay a foundation
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for the messages that followed.
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There's places where Ellen White
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will talk about how God's power
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can be seen in
every created thing,
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that the law of God,
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His character can be
revealed in every created thing.
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But it doesn't say that
God was in every living thing.
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So Kellogg under the
influence of the enemy
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began to see these
statements in a false light
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and he quoted
extensively from her
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in that first presentation.
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Kellogg's second
message was titled God in Man.
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And it was here
that the first hints
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of an iceberg were revealed.
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This is a quote from Kellogg,
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"Gravitation
acts instantaneously
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throughout all space.
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By this mysterious
force of gravitation,
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the whole
universe is held together
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in a bond of unity.
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We have here the evidence
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of a universal Presence,
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an intelligent
Presence, an all-wise Presence,
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and an all-powerful Presence."
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He's talking about gravitation.
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You jump off
the house, you fall.
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He said, "There's a presence
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there within
this law of gravity."
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"A presence by the aid of which
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every atom of the
universe is kept in touch
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with every other atom.
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This force that
holds all things together,
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and that is everywhere present,
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thrills
throughout the whole universe
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and acts instantaneously
throughout boundless space.
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This intelligence can be
nothing else than God Himself."
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And then Kellogg went on to say,
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"What a wonderful thought
that this same God is in us
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and in everything."
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William Spicer,
he was a missionary,
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did not even know he
had any involvement in this,
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and I bought one
of his books recently
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and great missionary stories.
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He was serving as a
missionary in Southern Asia
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and he was the
Editor of our publication
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called The Oriental Watchmen.
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He had been well acquainted
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with the Hindu
teachings of pantheism
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through his work as a
missionary there in Asia.
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A lot of people
don't realize this
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but when I was
in the martial arts,
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I began in the
Chinese art of kung fu.
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And in my mind,
growing up in those arts,
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you know, from
the age 14 onward,
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I had in my mind that,
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you know, the grandmasters,
it's all about China.
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And the last
grandmaster I trained under,
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I remember the first time
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that I went to
visit him at his home,
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he had a training
facility there at his home.
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And I remember after
we finished training,
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he asked me to come in,
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if I wanted to
get something to eat.
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And we went into his home
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and on almost
every wall in that home,
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there were
these huge tapestries.
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And I expected to
see Chinese everything
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'cause this man
was a grandmaster
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in Shaolin Kung Fu.
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When I got inside there,
every one of the tapestries...
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were of Hindu gods.
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And it was like, I
remember going home that day
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thinking Shaolin Kung Fu,
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Hinduism, why does
he have these Hindu gods
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on all the walls of his house,
if he's a Shaolin grandmaster.
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At that point, I still
had not done enough research
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to know that everything
in China came from India.
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India is where
Hinduism spread out.
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When it went to China,
they had to modify Hinduism
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because the Chinese people,
their culture was different.
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So it's like Christianity
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but you've got all
these different denominations.
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That's what
happened to Hinduism.
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Hinduism became
Buddhism in China
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and they called
it Chan Buddhism.
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In Japan, they called
the same art Zen Buddhism.
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But all of its roots go
back to the Hindu god of India,
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the Hindu religion.
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It says, he had
become well acquainted
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with the Hindu
teachings of pantheism.
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However upon returning
to Battle Creek in 1901,
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he was shocked to discover that
the same religious principles
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and errors that
were now being espoused
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and advocated by Dr.
Kellogg and his followers.
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He was hearing
Kellogg and some of the men
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that had fallen
under Kellogg's influence
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and he was thinking,
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"I just got back from
India, this is the same thing
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their religion is saying."
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Writing of a conversation
which he and Dr. Kellogg held
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after his return to
America, Spicer writes,
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and this is a quote,
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"By any
understanding I had of language,
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I was listening to the ideas
of the pantheistic philosophy
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that I had met with in India.
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In fact, I was told by
Kellogg that pure pantheism
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as the early teachers
conceived it was indeed right.
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That God was in
the things of nature,
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a personality was
in every blade of grass
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and every plant."
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It's important to
make a note of this.
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I don't have
this quote on screen.
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But Sister White
made a statement.
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She said, "We are
not to concern ourselves
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with identifying
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or understanding the presence
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and personality of God."
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She said,
"Silence is eloquence."
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It means, we know God has a form
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because we were
made in His image,
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we know He was
in heaven, His Son,
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His only begotten Son
was in the water in Jordan
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and when Christ
came up out of the water,
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and the heavens were
opened, and God spoke, and said,
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"This is My beloved Son
in whom I am well pleased."
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God sent His Spirit upon His Son
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in the form of a dove.
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We have never been told
that we need to comprehend
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or understand that.
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Ellen White said,
"It's a matter of faith."
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Right now within our own church,
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and I'm not even
going to get into this,
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but there's a huge conflict
going on over the personality
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and the presence of God.
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Let me tell you something...
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And I didn't have any
intention even bringing this up.
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Every Seventh-day
Sabbath keeping Christian
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in the world is going
to have conflict soon.
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The entire world is
going to come against us.
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We don't need to
be divided over things
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that God said are not
essential for our salvation.
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And that means...
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And I've got
friends that are on one side
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and I've got friends
that are on the other
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and I'm like, "Guys,
00:16:33.22\00:16:35.06
this person is
addicted to drugs,
00:16:35.09\00:16:37.36
this person's
addicted to pornography.
00:16:37.39\00:16:39.66
This person's got a
father that beat him
00:16:39.69\00:16:42.63
when they were a child.
00:16:42.66\00:16:44.00
This person was
abused by their uncle
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when they were a child.
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This person's about
to go through a divorce.
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Why don't we focus on
setting the captives free?
00:16:51.51\00:16:56.71
Why don't we put
our focus on the things
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that matter the most?"
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We just read that
quote from Kellogg
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and what Elder Spicer
said, now listen to this quote.
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This is a Hindu guru.
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He says, "Each soul
is potentially divine."
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And I'm going to be careful
00:17:23.84\00:17:25.17
'cause we know the
Bible says in 2 Peter 1:4
00:17:25.21\00:17:28.44
that "By God's promises,
00:17:28.48\00:17:30.35
we are made partakers of," what?
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"The divine nature."
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Remember that word, I
told you, make a note of that,
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that's important,
that word "nature."
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Nature doesn't
mean just character.
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It's not the same word.
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Character and nature...
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Nature can include
parts of character,
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but they're not the same.
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You could have two dogs,
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brother and
sister or two brothers,
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they were born from
the same mother dog.
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One of them lives
over here across the road,
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they have to keep him caged
up, he's mean, and vicious,
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and angry, and ugly.
00:18:15.39\00:18:17.19
This one over here would
go home with the mailman,
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if you let him.
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They both have canine nature.
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But they have two
different characters.
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Do you understand?
00:18:30.14\00:18:31.77
Nature and character
are not the same thing.
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I want to throw this in
00:18:39.68\00:18:41.02
because this is something
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we're going to
talk about at the end.
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The Bible says, "God
alone has immortality."
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Right?
00:18:49.92\00:18:51.26
What does immortality mean?
00:18:51.29\00:18:53.09
You can't die. You can't die.
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The word God in Greek is Theos.
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That's the Greek word,
in Strong's Concordance.
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Do you know what
the definition is?
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It has two definitions,
only two, deity and divinity.
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The 144,000, they
won't die, will they?
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Will they?
00:19:20.69\00:19:23.22
Do you know why?
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Because they have been made
partakers of the divine nature.
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Through faith and obedience,
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death has no dominion over them.
00:19:33.80\00:19:39.27
They perfectly reflect
the character of Christ
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and they have been
made by faith partakers
00:19:45.38\00:19:49.72
of His very nature,
not just His character.
00:19:49.75\00:19:54.92
He says, "Each soul
is potentially divine."
00:19:58.79\00:20:01.86
You see how two
paths running side-by-side?
00:20:01.90\00:20:05.63
She said, "You
can hardly distinguish
00:20:05.67\00:20:07.74
the truth from the error
until you get to the end."
00:20:07.77\00:20:12.01
Because the farther
you go down that path,
00:20:12.04\00:20:14.28
it starts one inch off
here but a 100 yards out,
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it's 25 feet off.
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Do you understand?
00:20:20.78\00:20:22.85
"The goal is to
manifest this divinity
00:20:22.88\00:20:26.42
within inwardly by
controlling nature,
00:20:26.45\00:20:32.36
nature, external nature,"
00:20:32.39\00:20:35.83
that means your
flesh, "and internal nature.
00:20:35.86\00:20:40.80
Do this either by work, or
worship, or psychic control,
00:20:40.84\00:20:46.98
or philosophy.
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By one or more or all
of these, and be free...
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This is the whole of religion."
00:20:54.48\00:20:56.69
That's what the Hindus say.
00:20:56.72\00:20:58.59
Now let me show you
the same Hindu teaching
00:21:01.39\00:21:04.86
in a modern context.
00:21:04.89\00:21:07.30
How many people here
have ever heard of the movie,
00:21:07.33\00:21:09.40
the film series, Star Wars?
00:21:09.43\00:21:12.33
Disney just
bought all the rights,
00:21:12.37\00:21:14.37
you know, two years ago,
I think, three years ago.
00:21:14.40\00:21:18.51
George Lucas,
00:21:18.54\00:21:19.87
those movies have
done more to affect people
00:21:19.91\00:21:23.78
for unrighteousness
than probably any other thing
00:21:23.81\00:21:27.72
that's ever been put out.
00:21:27.75\00:21:29.78
Because originally, he
said they were supposed to be
00:21:29.82\00:21:32.45
children's movies
but now it's like,
00:21:32.49\00:21:35.79
there's a whole
generation since 1970
00:21:35.82\00:21:38.56
something when the
first film came out,
00:21:38.59\00:21:40.73
that they're
enthralled by the story.
00:21:40.76\00:21:44.17
This is out of episode five,
00:21:44.20\00:21:46.10
listen to what it said here
by this little green creature,
00:21:46.13\00:21:49.14
who sort of looks like a
demon, to his apprentice.
00:21:49.17\00:21:53.07
He says, "My
ally is "the Force,"
00:21:53.11\00:21:56.38
life breeds it, makes it
grow, its energy surrounds us
00:21:56.41\00:22:01.78
and binds us.
00:22:01.82\00:22:03.82
Luminous beings we
are, not this crude matter."
00:22:03.85\00:22:08.76
And then he tells Luke,
00:22:08.79\00:22:11.59
"You must feel the
force around you, Luke,
00:22:11.63\00:22:15.76
between you and me,
00:22:15.80\00:22:18.30
the tree, the ship, the rock."
00:22:18.33\00:22:23.61
He was saying
the exact same thing.
00:22:23.64\00:22:26.01
And when you watch
some of the other series
00:22:26.04\00:22:28.98
that we've done on
this, we quote Lucas.
00:22:29.01\00:22:31.65
Lucas got every bit of
this from Hinduism and Buddhism.
00:22:31.68\00:22:36.69
He said, "This is what
I was trying to teach."
00:22:36.72\00:22:39.69
"The first printing of
Kellogg's Living Temple
00:22:43.46\00:22:46.13
was in 1903,
00:22:46.16\00:22:48.53
and of this danger
00:22:48.56\00:22:49.90
God's people had been warned..."
00:22:49.93\00:22:53.10
Ellen White says,
00:22:53.13\00:22:54.47
"There is a class of literature,
00:22:54.50\00:22:56.24
more defiling than leprosy,
00:22:56.27\00:22:59.37
and more deadly than
the plagues of Egypt,
00:22:59.41\00:23:02.54
against which
our publishing houses
00:23:02.58\00:23:05.95
need unceasingly to guard.
00:23:05.98\00:23:10.05
In accepting commercial work,
00:23:10.09\00:23:13.69
let them beware lest matters
00:23:13.72\00:23:16.26
presenting the
very science of Satan
00:23:16.29\00:23:19.69
be admitted into
our institutions.
00:23:19.73\00:23:23.37
Let not work setting forth
the soul-destroying theories
00:23:23.40\00:23:28.17
of hypnotism,
spiritualism, Romanism,
00:23:28.20\00:23:33.11
or other mysteries of iniquity
00:23:33.14\00:23:35.58
find a place in
our publishing houses."
00:23:35.61\00:23:39.21
Now I'm going to introduce
something here, just a thought.
00:23:39.25\00:23:43.55
It says hypnotism.
00:23:43.59\00:23:45.59
Most people
think of hypnotism of,
00:23:45.62\00:23:48.16
you know, I'm dangling
some trinket on a chain
00:23:48.19\00:23:52.03
and I get you to
fall into a sleep
00:23:52.06\00:23:54.10
or I flash a light
or something in order
00:23:54.13\00:23:57.63
to take over
your conscious mind.
00:23:57.67\00:24:02.67
The first case of
hypnotism, Ellen White says,
00:24:02.70\00:24:07.38
happened in Eden.
00:24:07.41\00:24:10.65
And she said,
"Satan sought to exercise
00:24:10.68\00:24:15.68
that same power
00:24:15.72\00:24:18.35
over our Savior
in the wilderness
00:24:18.39\00:24:21.69
when he was tempting him."
00:24:21.72\00:24:23.69
And when I read that, I
thought, my first thought,
00:24:23.73\00:24:27.66
I hate to say
it, it was ignorance.
00:24:27.70\00:24:29.23
I thought, "How in the
world did the devil think
00:24:29.26\00:24:32.20
for a moment he was
going to hypnotize Christ?"
00:24:32.23\00:24:34.74
I mean, really?
00:24:34.77\00:24:37.31
And then the Lord
spoke to me and He was like,
00:24:37.34\00:24:39.77
"Eric, don't forget about NLP."
00:24:39.81\00:24:42.68
And we're not going
to do a session on that
00:24:42.71\00:24:44.71
but NLP, it's Neuro
Linguistic Programming.
00:24:44.75\00:24:48.45
I heard about that 20 years ago.
00:24:48.48\00:24:51.59
People were really
warning people in our church
00:24:51.62\00:24:54.69
as well as other
churches, this is coming in.
00:24:54.72\00:24:58.43
I didn't realize that almost
00:24:58.46\00:25:00.70
every college and
university in America,
00:25:00.73\00:25:04.73
secular colleges, you
go online and find out
00:25:04.77\00:25:08.54
almost every one of
them offer courses in NLP.
00:25:08.57\00:25:12.71
Do you know why?
00:25:12.74\00:25:14.18
Because they're
teaching corporate America
00:25:14.21\00:25:17.11
to use NLP to
influence all the workers
00:25:17.15\00:25:21.22
in their
corporation and then their...
00:25:21.25\00:25:24.15
whatever their business is.
00:25:24.19\00:25:26.05
They are teaching
pastors how to do it,
00:25:26.09\00:25:28.66
to influence
their congregations.
00:25:28.69\00:25:31.93
They are teaching
professors how to use it,
00:25:31.96\00:25:34.96
so that they can influence
a 150 students in a class
00:25:35.00\00:25:39.87
without having
to dangle something.
00:25:39.90\00:25:44.17
NLP works because
you get the other person
00:25:44.21\00:25:49.81
into dialogue and conversation.
00:25:49.84\00:25:53.58
And then you take what
they're responding with,
00:25:53.62\00:25:57.32
and you turn it
just a little bit,
00:25:57.35\00:26:00.06
and then you lead
them to say things
00:26:00.09\00:26:03.02
that they never had
any intention of saying.
00:26:03.06\00:26:06.03
You enter into their mind.
00:26:06.06\00:26:09.43
For that reason,
Ellen White said,
00:26:09.46\00:26:11.27
"Christ would not enter
into conversation with Satan.
00:26:11.30\00:26:16.24
When Satan came to tempt Him,"
00:26:16.27\00:26:18.47
she said, "He knew he's trying
to use that same power on Me
00:26:18.51\00:26:24.01
that he did on Adam and Eve."
00:26:24.05\00:26:26.98
So he would not
enter into conversation.
00:26:27.02\00:26:29.38
Do you know what He did?
00:26:29.42\00:26:31.25
"Thus saith the Lord.
00:26:31.29\00:26:34.12
It is written."
00:26:34.16\00:26:35.89
Period.
00:26:35.92\00:26:37.33
Not written in a book,
00:26:37.36\00:26:38.73
I'm not saying that
the book doesn't matter,
00:26:38.76\00:26:40.96
but where does the
Bible say God's Word
00:26:41.00\00:26:42.60
is supposed to be written?
00:26:42.63\00:26:45.17
And that
promise he has given us,
00:26:45.20\00:26:48.07
"I will write My law
00:26:48.10\00:26:50.04
in your hearts
and in your minds,
00:26:50.07\00:26:52.67
not with ink
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.68
Not on tables of stone
00:26:58.21\00:27:02.05
but in the fleshly
tables of your heart,"
00:27:02.08\00:27:04.79
2 Corinthians 3: 3.
00:27:04.82\00:27:07.92
A lot of times we look
at God's law and we say,
00:27:07.96\00:27:10.43
"It was written
on tables of stone
00:27:10.46\00:27:12.19
'cause it will stand forever."
00:27:12.23\00:27:13.63
It didn't stand for 40 days.
00:27:13.66\00:27:15.86
Have you ever
thought about that?
00:27:15.90\00:27:18.03
God wrote it with His own finger
00:27:18.07\00:27:19.93
on tables of stone,
00:27:19.97\00:27:21.37
how long did it last
before it was broken?
00:27:21.40\00:27:24.57
Forty days.
00:27:24.61\00:27:25.94
Moses came down, they
were already in apostasy,
00:27:25.97\00:27:29.21
and he broke
them, and God was like,
00:27:29.24\00:27:31.41
"Bring them back up,
00:27:31.45\00:27:32.78
you know, I'll
come back up here,
00:27:32.81\00:27:34.15
I'll write them again."
00:27:34.18\00:27:36.12
Zechariah Chapter...
00:27:36.15\00:27:37.99
I think it's Chapter 7,
00:27:38.02\00:27:39.39
actually it says why
God wrote them on stone.
00:27:39.42\00:27:42.02
He said, "Because
you had made your hearts
00:27:42.06\00:27:44.63
like an adamant stone."
00:27:44.66\00:27:47.10
That's why Ezekiel 36 says,
00:27:47.13\00:27:49.60
"I'm going to have to
take out your heart of stone,
00:27:49.63\00:27:52.70
and give you a heart of flesh,
00:27:52.73\00:27:54.80
and then I will write My law
on a heart that is surrendered
00:27:54.84\00:28:00.81
and loves Me."
00:28:00.84\00:28:02.91
That's what changes you.
00:28:02.94\00:28:04.71
"Today, they are coming in
to educational institutions
00:28:09.42\00:28:13.36
and into the churches
00:28:13.39\00:28:14.72
everywhere
spiritualistic teachings
00:28:14.76\00:28:17.76
that undermine faith
in God and in His Word.
00:28:17.79\00:28:23.70
The theory that God is
an essence," or an energy,
00:28:23.73\00:28:27.90
"pervading all
nature is received by many
00:28:27.94\00:28:31.51
who profess to
believe the Scriptures.
00:28:31.54\00:28:34.54
These beautiful representations
are similar to the temptation
00:28:34.58\00:28:39.75
that the enemy brought
to Adam and Eve in Eden.
00:28:39.78\00:28:44.02
But however beautifully clothed,
00:28:44.05\00:28:47.19
this theory is a
most dangerous deception.
00:28:47.22\00:28:50.89
This theory surely
tends not only to mislead,
00:28:55.63\00:29:01.70
but to debase men.
00:29:01.74\00:29:04.21
Darkness is its
element, sensuality its sphere.
00:29:04.24\00:29:08.64
The result of accepting
it is separation from God.
00:29:08.68\00:29:14.15
And to fallen human
nature this means ruin...
00:29:14.18\00:29:20.16
Living Temple contains
the Alpha of these theories.
00:29:20.19\00:29:25.09
The Omega would
follow in a little while,
00:29:25.13\00:29:28.50
and I tremble for our people..."
00:29:28.53\00:29:31.43
She said what was revealed
to her in Living Temple,
00:29:34.37\00:29:39.37
what Kellogg was
writing about was the Alpha,
00:29:39.41\00:29:43.04
the beginning.
00:29:43.08\00:29:45.61
It contained this idea
that God was in everything.
00:29:45.65\00:29:50.89
And she said, "This
was dangerous enough,"
00:29:50.92\00:29:55.72
she said, "What
would come in the end
00:29:55.76\00:29:59.63
was even more dangerous."
00:29:59.66\00:30:01.30
She said, "I
tremble for our people,
00:30:01.33\00:30:03.80
the deception is
going to be that great."
00:30:03.83\00:30:07.80
I want to show you a little bit
of how that's about to happen,
00:30:07.84\00:30:11.37
how it's happening now.
00:30:11.41\00:30:15.54
"Satan has long been preparing
00:30:15.58\00:30:17.98
for his final effort
to deceive the world.
00:30:18.01\00:30:21.88
The foundation of his
work was laid by the assurance
00:30:21.92\00:30:25.45
given to Eve in Eden,
'You shall not surely die...'
00:30:25.49\00:30:30.86
for 'in the day ye eat thereof,
00:30:30.89\00:30:33.53
your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods..."'
00:30:33.56\00:30:38.67
Give me another word for
your eyes shall be opened,
00:30:38.70\00:30:43.27
enlightened, enlightenment.
00:30:43.30\00:30:46.51
That phrase "enlightenment,"
00:30:46.54\00:30:47.98
you can find in all
the occult societies,
00:30:48.01\00:30:51.21
all the Eastern
mystical religions
00:30:51.25\00:30:53.65
and philosophies.
00:30:53.68\00:30:55.45
To enlighten someone.
00:30:55.48\00:31:00.06
He says, "For the
day ye eat thereof,
00:31:00.09\00:31:03.16
your eyes shall be
opened and ye shall be as gods,"
00:31:03.19\00:31:08.60
knowing both good and evil.
00:31:08.63\00:31:11.57
I used to think Satan
was telling Adam and Eve,
00:31:11.60\00:31:14.34
"You're going to be gods,"
00:31:14.37\00:31:16.27
literally, and that
was as far as it went.
00:31:16.30\00:31:19.34
And it hit me,
00:31:19.37\00:31:21.38
how much more
like God can you be
00:31:21.41\00:31:23.51
than Adam and Eve was.
00:31:23.55\00:31:26.35
What was it like the day
that Adam first opened his eyes
00:31:26.38\00:31:30.05
after Christ had formed him
00:31:30.09\00:31:32.92
with His own hands out
of the dirt and the clay?
00:31:32.95\00:31:37.39
And then Christ
did mouth-to-mouth,
00:31:37.43\00:31:40.83
if you want, you know,
to look at it that way.
00:31:40.86\00:31:43.67
He breathed into
Adam, the breath of life.
00:31:43.70\00:31:48.84
And Adam opened his eyes.
00:31:48.87\00:31:52.21
What did Jesus say to him?
00:31:52.24\00:31:55.78
Do you know what Luke
says when it speaks about
00:31:55.81\00:31:58.18
the lineage of Jesus?
00:31:58.21\00:31:59.81
It traces it from Jesus
all the way back in Luke
00:31:59.85\00:32:04.65
through Mary's lineage,
00:32:04.69\00:32:06.65
all the way back
from Jesus to Adam.
00:32:06.69\00:32:11.43
The last statement it says is,
00:32:11.46\00:32:13.76
"And Adam was the Son of God."
00:32:13.80\00:32:18.80
Adam...
00:32:18.83\00:32:20.17
And this is my
sanctified thoughts, okay?
00:32:20.20\00:32:23.24
These are my thoughts.
00:32:23.27\00:32:25.37
Adam opened his
eyes and he's like...
00:32:25.41\00:32:27.24
What do you do when you wake up?
00:32:27.28\00:32:28.68
'Cause he woke up as
a full-grown mature man,
00:32:28.71\00:32:32.45
not as an infant
like we do, right?
00:32:32.48\00:32:36.69
What thoughts were
going through his mind?
00:32:36.72\00:32:39.15
Can you imagine that?
00:32:39.19\00:32:42.19
And there's Jesus.
00:32:42.22\00:32:44.33
And He said, "You're My son.
00:32:44.36\00:32:49.83
I created you.
00:32:49.86\00:32:52.30
I'm your elder brother.
00:32:52.33\00:32:54.00
You are a son of God
00:32:57.21\00:33:00.94
by creation."
00:33:00.98\00:33:04.75
How much more
like God could you be?
00:33:04.78\00:33:08.05
But Satan said something,
"If you eat of this fruit...
00:33:08.08\00:33:12.82
if you taste
00:33:12.85\00:33:15.26
of what I'm
telling you and you try it,
00:33:15.29\00:33:18.99
you can't just look at the food,
00:33:19.03\00:33:21.13
you've got to taste it.
00:33:21.16\00:33:23.10
If you'll try what
I'm telling you to do,
00:33:23.13\00:33:26.37
you will be as gods."
00:33:26.40\00:33:28.44
And then he said,
"Knowing both good and evil."
00:33:28.47\00:33:32.27
The word "knowing"
means discerning for yourself.
00:33:32.31\00:33:36.41
And I went back
and I read Patriarchs
00:33:36.44\00:33:38.28
and Prophets Chapter 1.
00:33:38.31\00:33:40.22
And do you know what Satan said?
00:33:40.25\00:33:44.49
He said, "I don't need
God's divine influence,
00:33:44.52\00:33:49.32
I don't need you
whispering in my ear
00:33:49.36\00:33:51.56
what's right and wrong.
00:33:51.59\00:33:53.29
You made me holy,
00:33:53.33\00:33:55.40
I can no more
sin than you can sin.
00:33:55.43\00:33:59.07
Let go of my hand,
daddy, I can do it for myself."
00:33:59.10\00:34:03.64
That's what Satan said,
00:34:03.67\00:34:06.64
"I can decide for
myself what's right and wrong,
00:34:06.68\00:34:09.38
I don't need you telling
me what's right and wrong."
00:34:09.41\00:34:13.78
That's the same thing he
told the children of Israel,
00:34:13.82\00:34:16.89
"You don't need God's law
00:34:16.92\00:34:18.45
to tell you
what's right and wrong,
00:34:18.49\00:34:20.19
you can decide for yourself.
00:34:20.22\00:34:22.19
I mean, you all are grownups,
you can make your own mind up."
00:34:22.22\00:34:26.56
He's telling the
world the same thing.
00:34:26.59\00:34:30.73
"Little by little
Satan has prepared the way
00:34:30.77\00:34:34.30
for his masterpiece of deception
00:34:34.34\00:34:37.17
in the
development of spiritualism."
00:34:37.21\00:34:40.38
His masterpiece of deception,
00:34:40.41\00:34:44.25
the greatest deception
00:34:44.28\00:34:45.91
that mankind is
ever going to face.
00:34:45.95\00:34:50.09
"He has not yet reached
00:34:50.12\00:34:52.59
the full
accomplishment of his designs
00:34:52.62\00:34:56.12
but it will be reached
00:34:56.16\00:34:59.33
in the last remnant of time."
00:34:59.36\00:35:03.97
That's where
we're going with this.
00:35:04.00\00:35:07.67
You want to know what's
at the end of the story,
00:35:07.70\00:35:10.07
that's where this is going,
00:35:10.11\00:35:12.54
that's where we're
going to go in these messages.
00:35:12.57\00:35:15.01
We're going to show not
only what Satan is going to do
00:35:15.04\00:35:18.08
through this
last great deception,
00:35:18.11\00:35:20.25
but we're going to
show what God is going to do
00:35:20.28\00:35:23.28
among His people.
00:35:23.32\00:35:25.65
Amen. Amen.
00:35:25.69\00:35:27.02
"The period of
Christ's personal ministry
00:35:29.86\00:35:32.29
among men was the
time of greatest activity
00:35:32.33\00:35:35.76
for the forces of
the kingdom of darkness.
00:35:35.80\00:35:38.83
New life, and love,
00:35:38.87\00:35:40.87
and power from
heaven were moving
00:35:40.90\00:35:43.81
upon the hearts of men."
00:35:43.84\00:35:47.64
Now I want you to think
about this for a moment.
00:35:47.68\00:35:50.28
In Proverbs, God tells us,
00:35:50.31\00:35:52.28
"My son, My
daughter, give Me your heart."
00:35:52.31\00:35:57.12
He doesn't say,
00:35:57.15\00:35:58.49
"Just give Me your
mind, your intellect."
00:35:58.52\00:36:01.22
Yes, He wants the
intellect but He says,
00:36:01.26\00:36:03.66
"Give Me your heart."
00:36:03.69\00:36:05.66
That means your
affections, your loyalty.
00:36:05.69\00:36:10.43
I want this, this is the throne.
00:36:10.47\00:36:14.57
"And the prince of
evil was aroused to contend
00:36:18.67\00:36:21.54
for the
supremacy of his kingdom.
00:36:21.58\00:36:25.11
Satan summoned all his forces,
00:36:25.15\00:36:28.12
and at every step he
contested the work of Christ."
00:36:28.15\00:36:33.89
Ellen White says,
00:36:33.92\00:36:35.26
"He was instilling
00:36:35.29\00:36:36.66
within men doubt," doubt.
00:36:36.69\00:36:42.96
"So it will be in
the great final conflict
00:36:43.00\00:36:46.50
of the controversy
between righteousness and sin.
00:36:46.53\00:36:49.97
While new life and
light and power are descending
00:36:50.01\00:36:53.84
from on high upon
the disciples of Christ,
00:36:53.88\00:36:57.61
a new life is
springing up from beneath...
00:36:57.65\00:37:02.18
energizing the
agencies of Satan.
00:37:02.22\00:37:05.79
Intensity is
taking possession..."
00:37:05.82\00:37:10.93
That's not just...
00:37:10.96\00:37:12.56
She didn't use these words
00:37:12.59\00:37:15.43
just because
they were good words.
00:37:15.46\00:37:18.37
There's a meaning there.
00:37:18.40\00:37:20.17
"Intensity is taking possession
of every earthly element.
00:37:20.20\00:37:26.98
With a subtlety gained
00:37:27.01\00:37:28.44
through the
centuries of conflict,
00:37:28.48\00:37:30.71
the prince of evil
works under a disguise.
00:37:30.75\00:37:35.45
He appears clothed
as an angel of light,
00:37:35.48\00:37:39.49
and multitudes are 'giving
heed to seducing spirits,
00:37:39.52\00:37:43.79
and the doctrines and
teachings of devils."'
00:37:43.83\00:37:48.66
Now I want to look at a quote,
00:37:48.70\00:37:50.07
and I know most of you
are familiar with this.
00:37:50.10\00:37:54.20
"When Protestantism
shall stretch her hand
00:37:54.24\00:37:57.57
across the gulf
to grasp the hand
00:37:57.61\00:38:01.54
of the Roman power.
00:38:01.58\00:38:04.25
When she shall reach
00:38:04.28\00:38:05.68
over the abyss to clasp
hands with spiritualism...
00:38:05.71\00:38:12.05
When, under the influence
of this threefold union,
00:38:12.09\00:38:15.82
our country shall make provision
00:38:15.86\00:38:18.39
for the propagation," or spread,
00:38:18.43\00:38:20.96
"of papal
falsehoods and delusions...
00:38:21.00\00:38:23.77
Then we may know
that the time has come
00:38:23.80\00:38:27.30
for the
marvelous working of Satan
00:38:27.34\00:38:30.61
and that the end is near."
00:38:30.64\00:38:33.51
Growing up as a
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:38:33.54\00:38:37.08
I can see the
Protestant churches of America
00:38:37.11\00:38:40.88
clasping hands with Rome.
00:38:40.92\00:38:42.92
Our own church has
done that for years.
00:38:42.95\00:38:45.85
I mean, you can see it.
00:38:45.89\00:38:48.92
You see leaders in our
church going and shaking hands
00:38:48.96\00:38:53.29
with the UN director,
00:38:53.33\00:38:54.93
and shaking hands with the Pope,
00:38:54.96\00:38:57.03
and shaking
hands with, you know,
00:38:57.07\00:38:59.23
different papal leaders.
00:38:59.27\00:39:01.77
So I could see
us shaking hands...
00:39:01.80\00:39:04.11
That's literal.
00:39:04.14\00:39:06.11
But I thought spiritualism,
00:39:06.14\00:39:09.08
my mind says spiritualism
00:39:09.11\00:39:11.18
is the state of the dead, right?
00:39:11.21\00:39:13.78
That's how I
grew up being taught,
00:39:13.82\00:39:15.82
spiritualism is...
00:39:15.85\00:39:17.39
Grandma really
died, she's really dead,
00:39:17.42\00:39:19.65
the dead know not anything.
00:39:19.69\00:39:22.19
That's spiritualism.
00:39:22.22\00:39:24.13
And I thought,
"How do we shake hands
00:39:24.16\00:39:26.83
with spiritualism?"
00:39:26.86\00:39:28.20
Because even in the
churches that are in apostasy,
00:39:28.23\00:39:31.80
I haven't yet seen a
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:39:31.83\00:39:35.57
that's teaching that
when grandpa or grandma die,
00:39:35.60\00:39:38.71
they go straight
to heaven or hell.
00:39:38.74\00:39:40.34
I haven't seen that yet.
00:39:40.38\00:39:41.71
I've seen some really bad stuff,
00:39:41.74\00:39:43.61
but I haven't seen that one.
00:39:43.65\00:39:46.82
How do we shake
hands with spiritualism?
00:39:46.85\00:39:49.32
It hit me.
00:39:52.42\00:39:54.66
Here we see
modern Protestantism,
00:39:54.69\00:39:59.19
evangelicals
shaking hands with Rome.
00:39:59.23\00:40:03.73
Here we see Rome
00:40:03.77\00:40:07.17
shaking hands with spiritualism.
00:40:07.20\00:40:11.17
The dragon in Revelation,
yes it represents Satan.
00:40:11.21\00:40:15.28
But on a physical level,
00:40:15.31\00:40:17.85
it also is the
symbol of Eastern mysticism.
00:40:17.88\00:40:22.28
If you go to a
Chinese restaurant,
00:40:22.32\00:40:24.05
I guarantee you're going to
see a dragon over the doorway,
00:40:24.09\00:40:28.16
somewhere in the house.
00:40:28.19\00:40:29.52
Do you know why?
00:40:29.56\00:40:30.89
Because when they put
that over the doorway,
00:40:30.93\00:40:32.43
it's like it's
being put upon your head,
00:40:32.46\00:40:34.60
your forehead.
00:40:34.63\00:40:36.10
They're saying
this is who empowers
00:40:36.13\00:40:38.33
and blesses this business.
00:40:38.37\00:40:40.34
If you go into any
martial arts school,
00:40:40.37\00:40:42.70
you're going to see a
dragon, almost guaranteed,
00:40:42.74\00:40:45.37
either a painting, or a picture,
00:40:45.41\00:40:47.31
or on a t-shirt, or on a uniform
00:40:47.34\00:40:50.35
because that is
the highest power known
00:40:50.38\00:40:54.82
in the martial
arts world, the dragon.
00:40:54.85\00:40:58.69
In Chinese Qigong
and Chinese Bagua,
00:40:58.72\00:41:02.52
in Tai Chi,
00:41:02.56\00:41:04.63
the dragon is known
as the spirit power,
00:41:04.66\00:41:08.96
the greatest spiritual power.
00:41:09.00\00:41:11.87
So how do you get if we...
00:41:11.90\00:41:15.30
If I was Rome, if I
was the symbol for Rome
00:41:15.34\00:41:18.67
and I get all of
those Protestants
00:41:18.71\00:41:21.01
to come on board with me
00:41:21.04\00:41:22.44
except for that
little remnant of people
00:41:22.48\00:41:24.41
that are keeping the
Sabbath, okay, so fine,
00:41:24.45\00:41:27.42
you got the Christians,
00:41:27.45\00:41:28.78
what about the
Buddhists and the Hindus?
00:41:28.82\00:41:31.89
They outnumber the
Christians unbelievably.
00:41:31.92\00:41:34.99
How do you get
them to come to Rome?
00:41:35.02\00:41:37.49
I mean, they could care
less about the Pope, right?
00:41:37.53\00:41:41.63
How do you get them there?
00:41:41.66\00:41:43.80
What about the Muslim world?
00:41:43.83\00:41:45.33
How are you going to get
all those Muslims back to Rome?
00:41:45.37\00:41:48.07
Well, that's a little easier
than the Buddhists and Hindus.
00:41:48.10\00:41:52.87
You have to find common ground.
00:41:52.91\00:41:57.18
Spiritualism saying
that God is in everything
00:41:57.21\00:42:02.78
is common ground
with the Buddhists,
00:42:02.82\00:42:05.22
and the Hindus, and the
Taoist, and the Shinto religion.
00:42:05.25\00:42:09.79
It's common ground.
00:42:09.82\00:42:12.46
Rome is joining
the world together.
00:42:12.49\00:42:16.50
Revelation 16 says,
00:42:21.80\00:42:23.51
"I saw three unclean
spirits like frogs..."
00:42:23.54\00:42:29.41
What is the common thing
00:42:29.44\00:42:31.31
that you think
about with a frog?
00:42:31.35\00:42:32.68
If you ask a little child,
00:42:32.71\00:42:34.05
"Show me what a frog
does or what they look like,"
00:42:34.08\00:42:36.38
what's the child going to do?
00:42:36.42\00:42:38.02
They stick their tongue out.
00:42:38.05\00:42:39.65
That's like common.
00:42:39.69\00:42:41.46
They hop and they
stick the tongue out.
00:42:41.49\00:42:45.49
The tongue is tongues.
00:42:45.53\00:42:48.56
When you say you
speak in tongues,
00:42:48.60\00:42:50.87
we know that is
words, languages, right?
00:42:50.90\00:42:56.71
"I saw three
unclean spirits like frogs,"
00:42:56.74\00:43:01.61
tongues, languages, words,
00:43:01.64\00:43:05.18
Jesus said, "The
words I speak unto you,
00:43:05.21\00:43:07.42
they are spirit
and they are life."
00:43:07.45\00:43:11.29
When the devil speaks words,
00:43:11.32\00:43:14.62
there are spirits that
are inspiring those words.
00:43:14.66\00:43:20.90
"These spirits came out
of the mouth of dragon,"
00:43:20.93\00:43:24.27
out of the mouth of
the dragon, spiritualism,
00:43:24.30\00:43:26.97
"out of the mouth of the beast,"
00:43:27.00\00:43:28.70
Roman Catholicism,
00:43:28.74\00:43:30.44
"and out of the mouth
of the false prophet,"
00:43:30.47\00:43:33.34
apostate Protestantism.
00:43:33.38\00:43:36.51
These three
powers are all speaking
00:43:36.54\00:43:40.52
under the inspiration of
Satan and his fallen angels.
00:43:40.55\00:43:45.22
"For they are the spirits
of devils working miracles,
00:43:45.25\00:43:49.09
which go forth unto
the kings of the earth
00:43:49.12\00:43:51.89
and the whole
world to gather them
00:43:51.93\00:43:54.60
to the battle of the great day
00:43:54.63\00:43:57.20
of El Shaddai, God Almighty."
00:43:57.23\00:44:02.24
He's gathering them
together to make war with him
00:44:02.27\00:44:06.64
that sits upon the horse.
00:44:06.68\00:44:08.31
Spiritism, it means
the study of communication
00:44:11.51\00:44:15.28
with spirit entities.
00:44:15.32\00:44:16.89
And we talked about
this in our last session.
00:44:16.92\00:44:19.45
It was introduced
into the Christian West
00:44:19.49\00:44:21.79
by a man named Allen Kardec,
00:44:21.82\00:44:24.06
who lived from 1804 to 1869.
00:44:24.09\00:44:29.70
Spiritualism, which Ellen
White uses these two phrases
00:44:29.73\00:44:34.27
interchangeably many times,
00:44:34.30\00:44:38.21
the practice of
communicating with the dead,
00:44:38.24\00:44:42.18
usually through the
use of a medium or channel.
00:44:42.21\00:44:47.88
Now I want to
interject something,
00:44:47.92\00:44:50.12
just some food for thought
00:44:50.15\00:44:51.49
'cause we can't pass
over these things lightly.
00:44:51.52\00:44:55.69
When my wife and
I first got married,
00:44:55.72\00:44:58.99
we were on fire
for sharing the gospel,
00:44:59.03\00:45:01.96
for helping people to
know Christ is coming.
00:45:02.00\00:45:04.97
So we would, you
know, we would meet somebody
00:45:05.00\00:45:07.24
and invite them
over for Bible study
00:45:07.27\00:45:09.30
or ask if we could
come over and they'd say,
00:45:09.34\00:45:12.07
"Oh, I would love that,
you know, I'm a Christian too."
00:45:12.11\00:45:14.88
And so we set up a time,
00:45:14.91\00:45:16.68
we could have
dinner or whatever,
00:45:16.71\00:45:18.18
and my wife and I would go home,
00:45:18.21\00:45:19.88
and we would pull out our list,
00:45:19.91\00:45:21.75
"Okay, what Bible
studies do we do?"
00:45:21.78\00:45:25.02
Okay, here's one,
two, three, four, five...
00:45:25.05\00:45:26.59
Here's ten of the
things they don't know about.
00:45:26.62\00:45:29.99
Well, within those top five,
00:45:30.03\00:45:31.99
it's always the
state of the dead, right?
00:45:32.03\00:45:35.20
That's common.
00:45:35.23\00:45:36.56
You hit people with that.
00:45:36.60\00:45:39.03
What I have realized
over the last few years is,
00:45:39.07\00:45:44.57
if that person is struggling
with sin in their life,
00:45:44.61\00:45:48.01
what difference does it make now
00:45:48.04\00:45:51.21
where grandma is at?
00:45:51.25\00:45:54.15
I'm not saying
that it's not important,
00:45:54.18\00:45:56.55
but this person's
got a bigger issue.
00:45:56.58\00:45:58.95
This woman, her husband
00:45:58.99\00:46:00.72
just left her
and their children,
00:46:00.76\00:46:03.16
and I come, and
I'm going to give her
00:46:03.19\00:46:04.53
a Bible study on
the state of the dead.
00:46:04.56\00:46:06.09
And she's
thinking, "My husband's gone.
00:46:06.13\00:46:10.40
I need help with that."
00:46:10.43\00:46:13.44
I'm not saying that
the truth is not important.
00:46:13.47\00:46:16.54
Do you understand?
00:46:16.57\00:46:18.81
But there's a greater truth.
00:46:18.84\00:46:21.08
Ellen White said that
every doctrine we have,
00:46:21.11\00:46:25.25
Christ should be
the center of it.
00:46:25.28\00:46:27.88
And I was like, "So
how do you do that?"
00:46:27.92\00:46:30.45
And then I read some
sermons by WW Prescott
00:46:30.49\00:46:34.06
that he gave in
Australia in 1895,
00:46:34.09\00:46:37.43
and it changed my life.
00:46:37.46\00:46:39.26
Ellen White was there.
00:46:39.29\00:46:40.63
He spoke more than 30
times at that one camp-meeting,
00:46:40.66\00:46:43.53
more than 30 messages.
00:46:43.57\00:46:46.07
And she said, "I have never seen
00:46:46.10\00:46:48.20
the Spirit of God upon a
man like this since 1888."
00:46:48.24\00:46:53.31
And do you know what he did?
00:46:53.34\00:46:54.88
He presented
every truth and doctrine
00:46:54.91\00:46:57.95
we have without ever telling you
00:46:57.98\00:47:00.08
he was teaching a doctrine.
00:47:00.12\00:47:02.08
He presented Christ.
00:47:02.12\00:47:04.32
And I'll give you an example.
00:47:04.35\00:47:06.25
State of the dead.
00:47:06.29\00:47:10.39
If I tell someone,
00:47:10.43\00:47:11.83
"You were
crucified with Christ,"
00:47:11.86\00:47:13.60
and they say, "Yeah,
but I wasn't even alive."
00:47:13.63\00:47:15.60
"Yeah, but you were in Him,
you were crucified with Christ,
00:47:15.63\00:47:20.34
you were buried by
baptism with Christ,
00:47:20.37\00:47:24.67
you are risen to
newness of life in Christ."
00:47:24.71\00:47:29.81
And they say,
00:47:29.84\00:47:31.18
"Well, yeah, but
I've got this sin problem
00:47:31.21\00:47:33.42
that I can't get rid of."
00:47:33.45\00:47:34.78
And you go,
"Well, the Bible says,
00:47:34.82\00:47:36.48
'If any man or
woman is in Christ,
00:47:36.52\00:47:39.15
they are a new creation."'
00:47:39.19\00:47:42.92
Old things are passed away,
00:47:42.96\00:47:48.20
that's dead.
00:47:48.23\00:47:50.47
Grandma passed
away, grandpa passed away,
00:47:50.50\00:47:53.80
rest in peace.
00:47:53.84\00:47:55.27
And the dead know not anything.
00:47:55.30\00:47:58.67
That means,
00:47:58.71\00:48:00.04
if I'm still
talking to the old man,
00:48:00.08\00:48:04.05
the one that had
left his wife and children
00:48:04.08\00:48:07.75
and done all the
terrible things I had done,
00:48:07.78\00:48:10.22
if I'm still
communicating with him,
00:48:10.25\00:48:12.72
that's spiritualism
00:48:12.75\00:48:15.32
because he died with Christ.
00:48:15.36\00:48:19.89
Paul says,
"Forgetting those things
00:48:19.93\00:48:22.20
that are behind,
00:48:22.23\00:48:23.67
we are to press forward."
00:48:23.70\00:48:28.17
We have to reckon ourselves
00:48:28.20\00:48:30.77
to be dead indeed unto sin
00:48:30.81\00:48:34.71
but alive unto God
through Christ Jesus.
00:48:34.74\00:48:39.11
When you share that with
someone who's struggling,
00:48:39.15\00:48:42.72
then all of a sudden
they're excited and they go,
00:48:42.75\00:48:45.72
"Man, I never
thought about that.
00:48:45.75\00:48:47.99
I did die with
Jesus, the Bible says..."
00:48:48.02\00:48:50.56
"Yeah, but I don't feel dead."
00:48:50.59\00:48:51.93
It doesn't matter how you feel,
00:48:51.96\00:48:54.50
believe it and
walk in newness of life
00:48:54.53\00:48:58.07
because God's
called you to do so.
00:48:58.10\00:49:01.20
And then you can go,
00:49:01.24\00:49:02.57
"Oh, yeah, by the way,
if you're worried about
00:49:02.60\00:49:04.47
what happened to
your son or daughter,
00:49:04.51\00:49:06.78
you know, look this
is what the Bible says."
00:49:06.81\00:49:08.91
Then it becomes
important to them.
00:49:08.94\00:49:11.25
"As we near the close of time,
00:49:16.02\00:49:18.72
there will be greater
00:49:18.75\00:49:20.09
and still
greater external parade
00:49:20.12\00:49:23.69
of heathen power."
00:49:23.73\00:49:25.16
External, that means
you're going to see it,
00:49:25.19\00:49:28.93
of heathen power.
00:49:28.96\00:49:31.17
"Heathen deities," pagan gods,
00:49:31.20\00:49:35.97
"will manifest
their signal power
00:49:36.00\00:49:39.04
and will exhibit themselves
00:49:39.07\00:49:41.01
before the cities of the world."
00:49:41.04\00:49:42.98
When I first heard
someone preach on this
00:49:43.01\00:49:45.55
and I thought that can't...
00:49:45.58\00:49:46.92
but Ellen White didn't say that.
00:49:46.95\00:49:48.82
And I had to go look it up.
00:49:48.85\00:49:50.19
And then I was like,
"Oh, wow, it's there."
00:49:50.22\00:49:53.22
And I was like, so
there's actually...
00:49:53.25\00:49:55.06
we're going to
see demonic spirits
00:49:55.09\00:49:57.96
physically manifest.
00:49:57.99\00:49:59.69
And then I read a
little bit farther.
00:49:59.73\00:50:02.26
"And this delineation,"
what she just described,
00:50:02.30\00:50:06.33
"has already
begun to be fulfilled."
00:50:06.37\00:50:10.34
And I thought,
"How are people...?
00:50:10.37\00:50:13.84
Where?
00:50:13.88\00:50:15.21
Where are these demons
00:50:15.24\00:50:16.58
manifesting
themselves physically,
00:50:16.61\00:50:18.41
where we can see
them with our eyes?"
00:50:18.45\00:50:21.85
And then she says,
00:50:21.88\00:50:23.22
"All need wisdom carefully
00:50:23.25\00:50:26.12
to search out the
mystery of iniquity
00:50:26.15\00:50:30.46
that figures so largely
00:50:30.49\00:50:32.53
in the winding up of
this earth's history."
00:50:32.56\00:50:35.46
There are two mysteries
spoken of in Scripture.
00:50:35.50\00:50:40.27
Two mysteries.
00:50:40.30\00:50:41.84
I should say there may be more
00:50:41.87\00:50:43.30
but there's two
that are prominently
00:50:43.34\00:50:45.84
brought before us.
00:50:45.87\00:50:47.81
The first one is the
mystery of godliness,
00:50:47.84\00:50:52.68
talks about that
in first Timothy 3:16.
00:50:52.71\00:50:56.32
The mystery of godliness
00:50:56.35\00:50:58.29
is that God was manifest
00:50:58.32\00:51:02.19
in human flesh.
00:51:02.22\00:51:05.86
The next mystery,
Paul talks about and warns,
00:51:05.89\00:51:09.06
it's called the
mystery of iniquity.
00:51:09.10\00:51:11.20
So if the mystery of godliness
00:51:11.23\00:51:14.24
is God manifests in human flesh,
00:51:14.27\00:51:17.87
the mystery of iniquity
00:51:17.91\00:51:19.87
could it be Satan
manifest in human flesh?
00:51:19.91\00:51:24.58
This began to make sense to me.
00:51:30.59\00:51:32.39
There's something
else I want to share here
00:51:32.42\00:51:33.99
but I'm going to save that.
00:51:34.02\00:51:35.62
Let me show you
what we have found.
00:51:35.66\00:51:39.29
Paul says,
00:51:39.33\00:51:40.66
"Let no man
deceive you by any means.
00:51:40.70\00:51:43.20
For that day of Christ's return,
00:51:43.23\00:51:45.63
shall not come
00:51:45.67\00:51:47.44
except there
come a falling away,"
00:51:47.47\00:51:51.34
an apostasy,
00:51:51.37\00:51:53.21
"first and that man
00:51:53.24\00:51:56.34
of sin be revealed,"
00:51:56.38\00:52:00.52
that word in Greek
means unmasked or unveiled.
00:52:00.55\00:52:05.02
Do you remember
Christ veiled his deity
00:52:05.05\00:52:09.86
with humanity?
00:52:09.89\00:52:12.13
He put us on, right?
00:52:12.16\00:52:16.26
Does the Bible not say
00:52:16.30\00:52:17.63
that we are to put ye
on the Lord Jesus Christ?
00:52:17.67\00:52:23.74
So just like Christ stepped
into a human flesh and bone,
00:52:23.77\00:52:29.64
he tells us,
00:52:29.68\00:52:31.21
"Put me on and
don't make provision
00:52:31.25\00:52:34.95
for your flesh to
fulfill the lusts thereof."
00:52:34.98\00:52:38.59
That means don't
buy an insurance policy
00:52:38.62\00:52:41.22
in case of failure,
00:52:41.26\00:52:43.39
don't make
provision for the flesh.
00:52:43.43\00:52:46.16
Well, what if we fail?
00:52:46.19\00:52:47.90
That's what
happened at Mount Sinai,
00:52:47.93\00:52:50.00
God said, "These are promises."
00:52:50.03\00:52:53.54
I promise, every
command is a promise.
00:52:53.57\00:52:57.54
Ellen White said
that in Education page 126
00:52:57.57\00:53:01.68
and I remember
reading that I thought
00:53:01.71\00:53:03.68
how can the
commandments be promises.
00:53:03.71\00:53:06.11
God said, "Read it out
loud with your name in it.
00:53:06.15\00:53:12.15
Don't read it
for somebody else."
00:53:12.19\00:53:14.59
This is written
to you personally.
00:53:14.62\00:53:17.89
Make the Bible a letter
that God has written to you.
00:53:17.93\00:53:23.06
And I was like I
still don't understand,
00:53:23.10\00:53:24.97
God said read it
out loud, I said...
00:53:25.00\00:53:27.67
Okay, I'll give you an example,
the one I fell at the most,
00:53:27.70\00:53:31.51
"Thou shalt not
commit adultery,"
00:53:31.54\00:53:33.38
God was like, "Now read it again
00:53:33.41\00:53:35.48
with your name in it."
00:53:35.51\00:53:36.85
I was like,
"Thou," okay, all right...
00:53:36.88\00:53:40.18
"Eric William Wilson,
00:53:40.22\00:53:42.32
I promise you
won't commit adultery."
00:53:42.35\00:53:47.42
And I was like, "Oh, wow!"
00:53:47.46\00:53:51.66
That changes everything.
00:53:51.69\00:53:54.00
I used to hear this as
a young man growing up,
00:53:54.03\00:53:58.83
"Thou shall not commit adultery
or else I will kill you."
00:53:58.87\00:54:04.57
That's how I saw God.
00:54:04.61\00:54:07.08
That's how God
wants people to see Him.
00:54:07.11\00:54:11.01
God said, "I
promise, if you will surrender
00:54:11.05\00:54:16.85
and let My Son
come and live inside you
00:54:16.89\00:54:19.55
and if you will abide in Him,
00:54:19.59\00:54:21.02
I promise, you
won't commit adultery,
00:54:21.06\00:54:23.83
even in your heart."
00:54:23.86\00:54:26.13
Let this mind be in you,
which was in Christ Jesus.
00:54:26.16\00:54:31.20
He never consented to
sin, even in his thoughts.
00:54:31.23\00:54:36.87
All of a sudden it
began to make sense.
00:54:36.91\00:54:39.54
Christ said,
00:54:39.57\00:54:40.91
"Don't make
provision for failure,
00:54:40.94\00:54:43.28
don't buy an insurance policy."
00:54:43.31\00:54:45.21
"Well, what if I fail,
God?" There is no what if.
00:54:45.25\00:54:48.85
Ellen White said,
00:54:48.88\00:54:50.22
"Christ's life
demonstrates to us
00:54:50.25\00:54:52.65
that humanity united to deity
00:54:52.69\00:54:57.09
does not commit sin.
00:54:57.13\00:55:01.06
You can read
that in 1st John 3:9.
00:55:01.10\00:55:04.87
Look it up in
Ellen White's writings.
00:55:04.90\00:55:06.70
That's a powerful promise.
00:55:06.74\00:55:09.24
We've got to be united to Him.
00:55:09.27\00:55:14.54
"And that man of
sin will be unveiled
00:55:14.58\00:55:18.55
as the son of perdition,
00:55:18.58\00:55:21.32
who opposeth
and exalteth himself
00:55:21.35\00:55:24.49
above all that is called God,
00:55:24.52\00:55:27.19
or that is worshipped,
00:55:27.22\00:55:29.39
so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God,
00:55:29.42\00:55:34.70
showing himself that he is God."
00:55:34.73\00:55:38.73
I want to show you something
00:55:38.77\00:55:40.10
and I want you to
make a note of this.
00:55:40.14\00:55:42.00
I want you to go
home tonight or tomorrow
00:55:42.04\00:55:44.54
and read Desire of
Ages page 160 to 161,
00:55:44.57\00:55:49.41
Desire of Ages, page 160 to 161.
00:55:49.44\00:55:52.81
Paul tells us in
1st and 2nd Corinthians,
00:55:52.85\00:55:55.82
"Know ye not that you
are the temple of God,
00:55:55.85\00:56:00.72
and that the Spirit
of God dwells in you?"
00:56:00.76\00:56:03.63
Right?
00:56:03.66\00:56:05.96
"He as God sitteth
in the temple of God."
00:56:05.99\00:56:10.00
I'm not denying
00:56:10.03\00:56:11.37
that one day we
may see something
00:56:11.40\00:56:13.37
over in the Middle East.
00:56:13.40\00:56:15.17
I'm not denying that.
00:56:15.20\00:56:16.54
It's very likely
that we could see
00:56:16.57\00:56:18.61
Rome possibly move,
00:56:18.64\00:56:21.98
you know, their
headquarters there.
00:56:22.01\00:56:25.11
But let me tell you something,
00:56:25.15\00:56:26.51
that's not near as
important as knowing
00:56:26.55\00:56:28.82
that Satan wants
to take the throne
00:56:28.85\00:56:30.69
of your heart personally.
00:56:30.72\00:56:34.82
"Know ye not that ye
are the temple of God
00:56:34.86\00:56:38.89
and that the Spirit
of God dwelleth in you.
00:56:38.93\00:56:42.30
If any man
defiles the temple of God,
00:56:42.33\00:56:45.93
him shall God destroy.
00:56:45.97\00:56:48.50
For the temple of God is
holy, which temple we are."
00:56:48.54\00:56:53.64
I used to think
00:56:53.68\00:56:55.01
God's going to
be so angry at me,
00:56:55.04\00:56:56.38
if I mess up,
He's going to kill me.
00:56:56.41\00:56:58.98
God said, "I want to
come and live inside of you
00:56:59.01\00:57:02.18
and I am a consuming fire.
00:57:02.22\00:57:05.75
I'm a consuming fire.
00:57:05.79\00:57:08.22
If you keep bringing
those things into my temple,
00:57:08.26\00:57:11.83
I'm here, and
I'm a consuming fire.
00:57:11.86\00:57:16.87
I don't want to burn you."
00:57:16.90\00:57:22.67
Does that make sense?
00:57:22.70\00:57:25.57
When we come
back tomorrow evening,
00:57:25.61\00:57:27.61
we're going to
really, really open this up.
00:57:27.64\00:57:29.98
I can't wait
till tomorrow evening.
00:57:30.01\00:57:32.31
So I look forward
to seeing you all then.
00:57:32.35\00:57:34.98