Again it's good
to see everyone here.
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We've got a good group tonight.
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We're going to pick up
where we left off last evening.
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And I want to start
by opening God's Word
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before we pray.
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If you have a Bible,
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turn with me to
Isaiah Chapter 14.
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Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28
are both very familiar texts
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that describe
what happened to Satan
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before and during his fall.
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But we're going to
go to Isaiah 14:12.
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And 12 through 14.
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It says, "How art
thou fallen from heaven,
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O Lucifer, son of the morning!
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how art thou cut
down to the ground,
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which did weaken the nations!
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For thou hast
said in thine heart,
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I will ascend into heaven,
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I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God:
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I will sit also upon the
mount of the congregation,
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in the sides of the north:
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I will ascend
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above the heights of the clouds,
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I will be like the most High."
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Satan declared in his heart
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I will be like the most High,
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I'm going to
sit upon His throne.
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There's no way
in a million years
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that he really thought
he was going to sit up there
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and he was, he was defeated.
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Christ defeated
him and threw him down.
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So what was the
throne that he was saying
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that he was going to take?
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It's what we spoke
about the other night,
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it was the
throne of men's hearts.
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It actually says,
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I will sit also upon the
mount of the congregation.
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We know that in scripture,
Jerusalem here on the earth
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was a physical shadow
of the heavenly Jerusalem.
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And the scripture
tells us that New Jerusalem
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is the mother of us all.
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It's God's people.
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Yes, it is a literal city.
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I'm not denying that
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but just like Fresno if you
say well, Fresno was destroyed,
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well, you can be
talking about the buildings
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or you can be
talking about the people,
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the people are what
make the city a city.
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Without the
people it's meaningless.
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Just like a church.
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A church is a building
but it's more importantly,
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it's the people
that make up that church.
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Does that make sense?
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So Satan said,
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"I will sit upon the
mount of the congregation."
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And when you look in Revelation,
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it actually
describes New Jerusalem
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and it gives the dimensions.
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It says that lies four square
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and its height is
equal to each of its sides.
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So either you have a
cube or you have a pyramid.
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My personal opinion is
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I could see it very
well being a pyramid
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because the Bible all
through the Old Testament
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talks about the
mountain of the Lord
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and that equates
that with His people.
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And if you ask any child
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over three years
old to draw mountain
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they're going to draw a pyramid.
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Very simple.
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Anyway that is where Lucifer
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said he would take possession,
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he would sit up on that throne.
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So I want us to
keep that in mind as we,
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as we go through
tonight's messages.
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Let's open with
a word of prayer.
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Father in heaven, we
thank You for Your Son,
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the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And, Father, that word
Lord means the sovereign King.
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Father, we
claim and we thank You
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for Your promise
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that at the name of Jesus Christ
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every knee shall bow
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and every tongue shall confess
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both in heaven and on earth.
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We ask that
You'll send holy angels
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that excel in strengths tonight.
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Fill this house
with Thy presence.
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Binding cast out all
the powers of darkness
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that would seek to interfere
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with Your work in
ministry and our lives.
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And, Father, most of all,
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cause us to see Your glory
and to hear Thy voice alone.
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In Jesus' name we ask,
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in Him we believe and thank You.
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Amen.
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I'm going to open and reread
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something we
looked at last night.
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This comes from
one of the testimonies
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that Sister White gave to us.
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She said, "As we
near the close of time,
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there will be greater
and still greater external,
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outward parade
of heathen power..."
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What's the difference
between a group of people
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that are just walking silently
down the road in a parade?
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A parade seeks to
draw attention to itself.
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This statement tells
us that demonic entities
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are going to be seeking
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recognition by mankind.
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"And heathen deities
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will manifest
their signal power,
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and exhibit them-selves
before the cities of the world,
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and this delineation
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has already
begun to be fulfilled."
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And we spoke
about that last night.
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When I first read this,
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I thought this is
talking about fallen angels
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that we will see with our eyes.
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I thought, I mean,
is this taking place
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'cause Ellen White said
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this has already
begun to be fulfilled.
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And then I kept reading.
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"All need wisdom carefully
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to search out the
mystery of iniquity
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that figures so largely
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in the winding up of
this earth's history."
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And I started seeing something
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that is so
important for us to know.
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Two mysteries, the
mystery of godliness
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which 1 Timothy 3:16
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tells us that is God
manifest in the flesh.
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And then the second mystery
is the mystery of iniquity.
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If you want to know
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what the mystery of iniquity is,
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all you have to do is know
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what the
mystery of godliness is.
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God manifest in the flesh.
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The mystery of iniquity is Satan
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and his fallen angels
manifest in the flesh.
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"Let no man
deceive you by any means:
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for that day of
Christ return shall not come,
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except there come
ad apostasy first,
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and that man of sin be unveiled
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as the son of perdition.
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Who opposeth
and exalteth himself
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above all that is called
God, or that is worshipped,
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so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God,
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shewing himself that he is God."
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Christ said
something in the gospels,
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He said, why do you call me,
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"Lord, Lord, but yet
don't do the things that I say."
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And He actually said
something very similar
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through the Apostle Paul.
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He said, "Don't you realize
that to whom you yield yourself
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as a servant to obey
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that whose servants you are."
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I want you to remember that
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because if Christ reigns
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within a man or a woman's heart,
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do you know that
scientists now have seen
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what Darwin never
even thought was possible.
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They have looked
inside of the human cell
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and they have
seen it is more complex
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and more active
than an entire city,
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one cell, one human cell.
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There are these
tiny little microbes
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and all these little things
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that are
obeying the instructions
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that are given
to them by the DNA.
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That DNA is
actually the instructions
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or the book of life
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according to what
scientists are saying.
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So that means that
every organ of our body,
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every cell of our body
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is supposed to be
under the authority
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and the reign of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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That's how
Jesus healed the sick.
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When men
surrendered their heart to Him,
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He took the driver's seat
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and He commanded
every organ of their body,
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every gland, every
nerve, and every cell
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obey, bring
yourself into submission.
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And He causes
that to happen today
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just as He did 2,000 years ago.
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But when sin is introduced,
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it's like a virus in a computer.
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It corrupts the
perfect code of life
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that God gave to us in His Word.
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That's why Christ says,
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"If you will abide
in Me, the Word of God,
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and if My words
which are spirit and life
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abide in you,
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you can ask what you will,
and it will be done for you."
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Satan said, "I want
to take that throne.
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I want to be the one
that issues the commands."
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The Apostle Paul tells us,
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"Know ye not that you
are the temple of God,
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and that the Spirit
of God dwells in you?
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If any man
defiles the temple of God,
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him shall God destroy."
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For our God is a consuming fire.
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Now I want to...
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I want to show
you just a little bit
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of where spiritualism is today
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and how we are
seeing evil spirits
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manifest physically, externally.
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This was a picture of me
and the first grandmaster
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I trained under.
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And you can tell
when you look in my eyes
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that it was, I was
a different person.
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I don't even like
looking at the pictures anymore
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of what I was like back then.
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Even my family pictures,
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it's like I
told my wife, I said,
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"I want to just take them down.
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I walked by and it's
not even the same person
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because of what I had
allowed into my life through sin
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and through participation
in these dark arts."
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I want to tell a
story real quickly.
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The last
grandmaster I trained under,
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I trained under
two over the 25 years
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that I was active
in the martial arts
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and eastern mysticism.
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The last
grandmaster I trained under,
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he was a 10th
dawn or 10th degree
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in two systems of kung
fu of Chinese martial arts.
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He was also a master instructor
in what's called medical qigong
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or acupuncture, acupressure,
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laying on hands
and healing people.
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He could put his hands on you
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and he could
tell you had a disease
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and what it was.
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And it wasn't physical,
the spirits would speak to him.
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It had nothing to do with you
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really being able to
put your hands on there.
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You just put your hands there,
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sometimes somebody
would just walk in the room
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and you knew what
was wrong with them.
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And you didn't
know how you knew.
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But the devil would tell you
was because of your training.
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And pride would grow and
you would become more sure
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of your ability.
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But I went to train
with this man one night
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and it was a
one day, one weekend
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and he taught only black belts.
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The second
grandmaster I trained under.
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You had to be a black belt,
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didn't matter
what style it was in.
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So he was training
all of us black belts
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and then he would depend on us
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to take what we learn
from him to teach our students.
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But we trained all day
long, everybody was exhausted.
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And he asked us, he
said, "Why don't we, you know,
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hang around here,
we can get some food."
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We were training at
his home where his studio,
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his training hall was.
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And so we all were
excited about the fact that,
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you know, he invited us to stay
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'cause that means
you're going to get little
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special things that he
doesn't normally disclose
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to other people.
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And so we sat, and we ate,
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and we talked,
and turn the TV on,
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and just hung out for a while.
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And it got later and later
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and I started watching
the other black belts there
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and they were
getting really tired.
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And then the grandmaster
started talking about
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conspiracy theories
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like the
Illuminati and Freemasons
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and all anything out there.
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And I know a lot of it's true
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but none of these
guys were interested
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and you could see
them, they were...
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I mean, they were
doing everything they could
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to stay awake
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and you didn't
want to fall asleep
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because if the
grandmaster is talking
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and you fall
asleep on them, you know,
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you're not going to be promoted.
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That can put you
back at least a year,
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maybe two years
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before you're
even up for promotion.
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So everyone is fighting
to keep their eyes open.
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And when he started talking
about conspiracy theories,
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I woke up, I
mean, I was just like,
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"Okay, I'm interested in this."
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And sometime after 12
or 1 o'clock that night,
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late, when everyone
was really exhausted,
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he changed his line
of thought in an instant.
00:15:27.32\00:15:31.69
He's talking about all
these different things,
00:15:31.73\00:15:34.96
and then all of a sudden
he looked at us and he said,
00:15:35.00\00:15:38.77
"You know, I teach you
all how to tap into this power
00:15:38.80\00:15:44.01
that we call chi energy.
00:15:44.04\00:15:46.88
He said, but let me tell you
if you want to see this energy
00:15:46.91\00:15:49.98
demonstrated,
00:15:50.01\00:15:51.35
he said, the easiest place
to see this power demonstrated
00:15:51.38\00:15:55.98
is look at Jimi
Hendrix, look at Eric Clapton.
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Look at a lot of the movie stars
00:15:59.95\00:16:01.66
that are out there.
00:16:01.69\00:16:03.02
He said they are
using the same power
00:16:03.06\00:16:07.40
that we use in the martial arts,
00:16:07.43\00:16:09.96
only they use it
for a different reason.
00:16:10.00\00:16:13.44
And when he said that,
00:16:13.47\00:16:15.37
it was like a red
flag went up in my mind
00:16:15.40\00:16:19.17
because I knew, I mean,
00:16:19.21\00:16:20.54
I was still going
to church every week
00:16:20.58\00:16:22.54
and, you know, I
was still "a Christian."
00:16:22.58\00:16:27.38
But I knew Jimi Hendrix
was not a God fearing man.
00:16:27.42\00:16:30.85
I knew Eric Clapton
was not a God fearing man.
00:16:30.89\00:16:33.96
I knew some of the
Hollywood stars he talked about
00:16:33.99\00:16:37.03
were not church
going, God fearing,
00:16:37.06\00:16:39.86
Bible believing Christians.
00:16:39.89\00:16:42.43
And he said they were using
the same power that we were,
00:16:42.46\00:16:47.17
but they were
using it to hypnotize,
00:16:47.20\00:16:53.17
to enthrall their audiences.
00:16:53.21\00:16:56.04
One day I was there at
the studio alone with him.
00:16:59.85\00:17:03.75
And he was teaching me
00:17:03.79\00:17:06.55
and one of the black
belts came running in,
00:17:06.59\00:17:08.92
and he had a
huge piece of artwork
00:17:08.96\00:17:11.29
that was wrapped
up in brown paper.
00:17:11.33\00:17:13.70
And he said, see
Joe, grandmaster,
00:17:13.73\00:17:15.86
he said, it's
finished, it's finished.
00:17:15.90\00:17:18.53
And the
instructor, he nodded to him,
00:17:18.57\00:17:22.14
you and dismissing him
and he unwrapped the paper
00:17:22.17\00:17:26.04
and there was this
beautiful Chinese calligraphy
00:17:26.07\00:17:28.68
on the paper, on the parchment.
00:17:28.71\00:17:31.51
And he had
hired a Chinese artist
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to paint this calligraphy.
00:17:34.25\00:17:36.85
And he looked at
it and I could tell
00:17:36.89\00:17:41.29
he was very proud of it.
00:17:41.32\00:17:42.76
And I looked at it
and it was beautiful,
00:17:42.79\00:17:44.89
but I had no idea what it said.
00:17:44.93\00:17:47.70
And he looked at me
knowing what I was thinking.
00:17:47.73\00:17:51.33
And I asked him, I said,
"See Joe, what does it mean?"
00:17:51.37\00:17:57.94
And he looked at the floor.
00:17:57.97\00:17:59.71
I'll never forget this.
00:17:59.74\00:18:01.38
And then he looked back
up in my eyes and he said,
00:18:01.41\00:18:05.08
"The easiest
translation in English is,
00:18:05.11\00:18:09.92
it's the devil
that's in the details."
00:18:09.95\00:18:13.86
I should have run.
00:18:17.13\00:18:19.09
I mean, I should have run.
00:18:19.13\00:18:20.76
But you know what I did?
00:18:20.80\00:18:22.13
Because I've been
training in these arts
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for over 20
years, I made excuses.
00:18:23.77\00:18:27.54
Well, that may mean that
to him but I know, you know,
00:18:27.57\00:18:31.34
it doesn't mean that to me.
00:18:31.37\00:18:34.21
And people do the same thing
00:18:34.24\00:18:35.58
when they talk to me about yoga.
00:18:35.61\00:18:37.05
They say, "Well, I know
they're praying to Hindu gods,
00:18:37.08\00:18:39.95
but I'm praying to
Jesus when I do yoga."
00:18:39.98\00:18:43.02
And I'm like,
"You know, you can't,
00:18:43.05\00:18:45.19
why are you in an idols temple?
00:18:45.22\00:18:47.26
You know, why even go there?"
00:18:47.29\00:18:50.49
He told me it's the
devil that's in the details.
00:18:50.53\00:18:54.40
And that was such
an important truth
00:18:54.43\00:18:56.93
in those arts that we trained in
00:18:56.97\00:18:59.70
that he paid a lot of money
00:18:59.73\00:19:01.07
to have this
Chinese artist paint that.
00:19:01.10\00:19:03.51
Now I want to show you
00:19:07.24\00:19:08.74
what Sister White
was talking about.
00:19:08.78\00:19:11.75
This is Robin Williams, he
passed away a few years ago.
00:19:11.78\00:19:15.72
I hate what the enemy did to him
00:19:15.75\00:19:19.25
because there's
numerous interviews
00:19:19.29\00:19:21.86
that they have done with
him on different magazines,
00:19:21.89\00:19:25.33
different TV shows and he was,
00:19:25.36\00:19:28.03
he was a tormented man.
00:19:28.06\00:19:31.13
And he knew why
he was tormented,
00:19:31.17\00:19:33.44
he knew what it was,
00:19:33.47\00:19:35.97
he wound up committing suicide
00:19:36.00\00:19:37.74
because of what these
evil spirits did to him.
00:19:37.77\00:19:41.24
Listen to what he said
00:19:41.28\00:19:42.61
in this
interview with US Weekly.
00:19:42.64\00:19:46.48
He said, "Yeah!
00:19:46.51\00:19:47.85
Literally, it's like possession,
00:19:47.88\00:19:50.39
all of the sudden you're in,
00:19:50.42\00:19:52.12
and because it's in
front of a live audience,
00:19:52.15\00:19:55.02
you just get this energy
that it just starts going.
00:19:55.06\00:20:00.50
But there's also that
thing, it is possession.
00:20:00.53\00:20:05.13
In the old days,
you'd be burned for it.
00:20:05.17\00:20:08.30
But there's
something empowering about it.
00:20:08.34\00:20:12.61
I mean, it's a place
where you are totally,
00:20:12.64\00:20:16.18
it's like Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
00:20:16.21\00:20:19.15
where you really can
become this other force.
00:20:19.18\00:20:23.72
Maybe that's why
I don't need to play
00:20:23.75\00:20:25.75
evil characters in movies,
00:20:25.79\00:20:28.32
because sometimes
onstage you can cross that line
00:20:28.36\00:20:33.83
and still come back."
00:20:33.86\00:20:35.96
He was talking about
when he was a live comedian.
00:20:36.00\00:20:40.37
He was talking about comedy
before he became an actor.
00:20:40.40\00:20:46.07
He said, "It's possession.
00:20:46.11\00:20:49.04
You get up there
and you start talking
00:20:49.08\00:20:50.95
and he said,
something else comes in
00:20:50.98\00:20:53.55
and all of a sudden
00:20:53.58\00:20:54.92
you're completely
different person."
00:20:54.95\00:20:56.35
You all know who this is.
00:20:59.85\00:21:02.26
Oprah Winfrey.
00:21:02.29\00:21:04.33
Listen to what she said.
00:21:04.36\00:21:06.83
She said, "I
asked God for grace."
00:21:06.86\00:21:11.13
And I want to
ask you a question.
00:21:11.17\00:21:12.60
What does the word
grace mean in Greek?
00:21:12.63\00:21:15.00
What's the original?
00:21:15.04\00:21:16.37
Unmerited favor.
00:21:19.27\00:21:20.61
Did you know that's
the second definition
00:21:20.64\00:21:22.71
when you look it up in Strong's?
00:21:22.74\00:21:24.48
I did not know that
till a few years ago.
00:21:24.51\00:21:26.75
And I looked it up one day.
00:21:26.78\00:21:28.12
Do you know what
the first definition is?
00:21:28.15\00:21:30.69
The divine
influence upon the heart
00:21:30.72\00:21:34.59
and its reflection
as seen in the life,
00:21:34.62\00:21:38.86
it's the Spirit of God.
00:21:38.89\00:21:43.13
Now with that in mind,
listen to what she says.
00:21:43.16\00:21:46.37
"I asked God for grace,
00:21:46.40\00:21:50.14
and the power of the spirits."
00:21:50.17\00:21:54.24
Plural.
00:21:54.28\00:21:56.54
"Calling on you.
00:21:56.58\00:21:57.91
Calling on you...
00:21:57.95\00:21:59.38
I really believe I can
call her, the spirit up.
00:21:59.41\00:22:04.32
Her and so many others.
00:22:04.35\00:22:07.49
Oprah Winfrey calls
these her 'go there' moments,
00:22:07.52\00:22:11.79
spiritual
episodes of divine guidance
00:22:11.83\00:22:14.96
that far transcend
the chatty exchanges
00:22:15.00\00:22:18.63
with her studio audiences.
00:22:18.67\00:22:21.04
Winfrey says
she has come to know
00:22:21.07\00:22:23.67
each of them personally
00:22:23.71\00:22:26.54
and she calls them in at
will to guide her in her work."
00:22:26.57\00:22:32.58
That's from Time Magazine.
00:22:32.61\00:22:36.32
That, I mean,
that's frightening.
00:22:36.35\00:22:38.15
You want to know how
she got where she is?
00:22:38.19\00:22:41.32
That's how.
00:22:41.36\00:22:44.03
And I have probably
00:22:44.06\00:22:46.53
more than 100
different testimonies
00:22:46.56\00:22:48.66
from different people.
00:22:48.70\00:22:50.03
And we're only going
to show you just a few.
00:22:50.07\00:22:52.87
Do y'all recognize this man?
00:22:52.90\00:22:55.37
Michael Landon,
Little House on the Prairie.
00:22:55.40\00:22:58.04
I grew up and we
were allowed to watch
00:22:58.07\00:23:00.88
Walt Disney one
day a week, you know,
00:23:00.91\00:23:03.68
came on Sunday
evenings for an hour.
00:23:03.71\00:23:06.48
And we could watch
Little House on the Prairie.
00:23:06.51\00:23:08.42
And sometimes Andy Griffith,
00:23:08.45\00:23:10.55
you know, those were
what you call safe, right?
00:23:10.59\00:23:13.36
They're family
friendly, people will say,
00:23:13.39\00:23:16.06
well, they're Christian.
00:23:16.09\00:23:17.56
Listen to what
Michael Landon said.
00:23:17.59\00:23:20.43
He said,
00:23:20.46\00:23:21.80
"I felt my
father's presence with me."
00:23:21.83\00:23:24.23
This is after
his father had died.
00:23:24.27\00:23:27.04
"I felt my
father's presence with me,
00:23:27.07\00:23:29.77
enlightening my memories,
00:23:29.80\00:23:32.27
helping me to commit to
paper the feelings I had.
00:23:32.31\00:23:37.51
I really heard my
father speaking to me
00:23:37.55\00:23:41.72
from the other dimension,
00:23:41.75\00:23:44.75
filling my mind with
just the right words.
00:23:44.79\00:23:48.56
The story came so
fast and was so right.
00:23:48.59\00:23:52.03
In three days the
script was complete."
00:23:52.06\00:23:55.30
His daughter actually wrote
00:23:55.33\00:23:57.47
a whole book on
the life of her father.
00:23:57.50\00:24:00.50
And she said
there was oftentimes
00:24:00.54\00:24:02.77
when they were doing
Little House on the Prairie
00:24:02.80\00:24:05.44
or Touched by an Angel.
00:24:05.47\00:24:08.28
There was another one
of those films he did.
00:24:08.31\00:24:10.51
I don't remember the name of it.
00:24:10.55\00:24:12.28
It was a television series.
00:24:12.31\00:24:14.75
And she said, "They would be
struggling to get the script."
00:24:14.78\00:24:19.29
And he would take
00:24:19.32\00:24:20.96
a piece of paper
or a pad of paper,
00:24:20.99\00:24:23.16
go into his
bedroom and lock the door
00:24:23.19\00:24:26.29
and he would come
out the next morning
00:24:26.33\00:24:28.13
with the entire
script wrote, complete.
00:24:28.16\00:24:31.43
That's not possible.
00:24:31.47\00:24:33.74
I've done one script in my life
00:24:33.77\00:24:35.64
and it was
unbelievably a long, hard haul
00:24:35.67\00:24:40.34
to put down those thoughts
00:24:40.38\00:24:42.38
in the order
they're supposed to be in.
00:24:42.41\00:24:44.85
He did it in one night.
00:24:44.88\00:24:47.02
And he did it numerous times.
00:24:47.05\00:24:49.72
But he would go in there
and he would speak with spirits
00:24:49.75\00:24:53.66
and they would
give him the story.
00:24:53.69\00:24:57.06
I'm going to skip...
00:24:57.09\00:24:58.76
It was Little Joe Bonanza? Yes.
00:24:58.79\00:25:01.50
I'm going to skip this one.
00:25:01.53\00:25:03.37
I will tell you, I'm hoping
that I'll be able to show it
00:25:03.40\00:25:06.43
later this week.
00:25:06.47\00:25:07.80
It's an interview from
with Denzel Washington.
00:25:07.84\00:25:11.47
And the interview
was done on 60 Minutes.
00:25:11.51\00:25:14.24
He said the exact same thing.
00:25:14.28\00:25:16.31
The interviewer was asking him,
00:25:16.34\00:25:18.41
"How did you play this
part so well in this film."
00:25:18.45\00:25:23.28
And Denzel said, "I
could never do that,
00:25:23.32\00:25:27.12
there's no way in the world
00:25:27.16\00:25:28.49
I could ever make
a conscious decision
00:25:28.52\00:25:30.26
to act that part."
00:25:30.29\00:25:32.49
And he asked him, he said,
"Well, how did you do that?"
00:25:32.53\00:25:34.93
This was a powerful scene.
00:25:34.96\00:25:37.07
He said, well, he said,
00:25:37.10\00:25:38.43
"I went into the room
and got down on my knees
00:25:38.47\00:25:40.94
and I asked the
spirits to come in."
00:25:40.97\00:25:44.71
He said, "When I got
up, it wasn't me anymore."
00:25:44.74\00:25:50.55
And you can look that up online.
00:25:50.58\00:25:53.95
Revelation Chapter 18 says,
00:25:53.98\00:25:56.18
"After these things I saw
00:25:56.22\00:25:57.75
another angel
come down from heaven,
00:25:57.79\00:26:00.72
having great power,
00:26:00.76\00:26:03.09
and the earth was
lightened with his glory,
00:26:03.12\00:26:06.53
and he cried
mightily with a strong voice."
00:26:06.56\00:26:09.83
That means a loud cry saying,
00:26:09.86\00:26:13.10
"Babylon the great
is fallen, is fallen,
00:26:13.13\00:26:16.71
for she is become the
habitation of devils."
00:26:16.74\00:26:22.98
There's two cities in scripture.
00:26:23.01\00:26:26.08
There's Jerusalem
and there's Babylon.
00:26:26.11\00:26:30.75
Yes, they are literal cities.
00:26:30.79\00:26:32.62
But more importantly,
00:26:32.65\00:26:33.99
they are
symbolic of God's people
00:26:34.02\00:26:37.86
and Satan's people.
00:26:37.89\00:26:40.53
Babylon has fallen
00:26:40.56\00:26:42.50
and become the
habitation of devils,
00:26:42.53\00:26:45.77
"and the hold or
stronghold of every foul spirit,
00:26:45.80\00:26:50.31
and a cage of every
unclean and hate-filled bird.
00:26:50.34\00:26:54.48
And I heard
another voice from heaven,
00:26:54.51\00:26:57.58
saying, 'Come out
of her, my people,
00:26:57.61\00:27:00.28
that ye be not
partakers of her sins,
00:27:00.32\00:27:03.42
and that ye
receive not of her plagues.
00:27:03.45\00:27:06.86
For her sins have
reached unto heaven,
00:27:06.89\00:27:10.06
and God hath
remembered her iniquities.'"
00:27:10.09\00:27:14.96
Before our Savior returns,
00:27:15.00\00:27:18.43
every man, woman or child
00:27:18.47\00:27:21.14
on this earth will be possessed.
00:27:21.17\00:27:24.51
One hundred percent,
00:27:24.54\00:27:26.41
they will either be filled
00:27:26.44\00:27:27.78
with the Spirit
of the Living God
00:27:27.81\00:27:30.01
or they will be the
dwelling place of demons.
00:27:30.05\00:27:34.68
Now I grew up as a Christian,
00:27:34.72\00:27:36.52
as a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian
00:27:36.55\00:27:38.15
and I kind of thought
demon possession was, you know,
00:27:38.19\00:27:41.59
somebody's cutting
themselves and they've got,
00:27:41.62\00:27:44.19
you know, tattoos
all over their face
00:27:44.23\00:27:46.39
and they're
throwing up and they're,
00:27:46.43\00:27:48.06
you know, acting crazy.
00:27:48.10\00:27:50.53
And then I read
the story about Judas
00:27:50.57\00:27:53.20
that Ellen White
wrote, and she said,
00:27:53.23\00:27:54.97
"Judas was possessed
with a demon of selfishness."
00:27:55.00\00:28:00.74
Selfishness.
00:28:00.78\00:28:02.98
That's what caused
him to lose his life.
00:28:03.01\00:28:08.12
And she said, "Christ
did everything he could
00:28:08.15\00:28:11.75
to keep Judas close
to Him to win his heart."
00:28:11.79\00:28:17.59
If Judas had surrendered,
00:28:17.63\00:28:19.66
Christ would have commanded
that evil spirit to leave.
00:28:19.69\00:28:23.13
He would have evicted it.
00:28:23.16\00:28:25.83
But Judas wouldn't kneel.
00:28:25.87\00:28:28.27
And because of that,
that spirit became stronger
00:28:28.30\00:28:31.84
and he brought other spirits in.
00:28:31.87\00:28:35.94
Something to make a note of
it, says here about Babylon,
00:28:35.98\00:28:39.98
her sins have
reached unto heaven
00:28:40.02\00:28:42.35
and God has
remembered her iniquities.
00:28:42.38\00:28:47.72
If you look up the
promise of the new covenant
00:28:47.76\00:28:51.13
in Jeremiah 31, and
Hebrews 8, and Hebrews 10,
00:28:51.16\00:28:55.90
it tells us this is the covenant
00:28:55.93\00:28:57.87
I will make with
the house of Israel.
00:28:57.90\00:29:00.47
That means
those that have faith.
00:29:00.50\00:29:03.51
He said, "I will
forgive your sins
00:29:03.54\00:29:07.18
and iniquities,
00:29:07.21\00:29:08.54
and I will
remember them no more."
00:29:08.58\00:29:12.95
Babylon, their
sins are remembered
00:29:12.98\00:29:16.08
because they have no faith.
00:29:16.12\00:29:18.89
They have no faith.
00:29:18.92\00:29:23.39
But Israel, it says
in the Old Testament,
00:29:23.43\00:29:27.93
you will search
for your iniquities
00:29:27.96\00:29:30.30
and they won't be found.
00:29:30.33\00:29:31.80
Amen.
00:29:34.87\00:29:36.64
And you know when that happened?
00:29:36.67\00:29:38.47
Two thousand years ago.
00:29:38.51\00:29:40.18
"The days in which we live
are eventful and full of peril.
00:29:45.78\00:29:50.19
The signs of the
coming of the end
00:29:50.22\00:29:52.25
are thickening all around us,
00:29:52.29\00:29:54.56
and events to come to pass
00:29:54.59\00:29:56.83
that will be of a
more terrible character
00:29:56.86\00:29:59.36
than any of the
world has yet witness.
00:29:59.39\00:30:02.76
For when they shall
say, peace and safety,
00:30:02.80\00:30:05.97
then sudden
destruction will come upon them
00:30:06.00\00:30:08.97
as a woman with child,
and they shall not escape.
00:30:09.00\00:30:13.98
We are to realize that
00:30:14.01\00:30:15.84
the judgments of
God are about to fall."
00:30:15.88\00:30:19.31
We're living in this time now.
00:30:19.35\00:30:21.95
It's not five years from now.
00:30:21.98\00:30:23.99
It's not, it's now.
00:30:24.02\00:30:27.02
"The judgments of God are
about to fall upon the earth.
00:30:27.06\00:30:30.79
Solemn events before
us are yet to transpire."
00:30:30.83\00:30:37.27
I want you to pay
attention to this.
00:30:37.30\00:30:40.07
"They are yet to transpire."
00:30:40.10\00:30:42.47
Look at the next thing she says.
00:30:42.50\00:30:44.67
"Trumpet after
trumpet is to be sounded."
00:30:44.71\00:30:49.98
This is not controversy.
00:30:50.01\00:30:52.05
I encourage you to do
the research on your own.
00:30:52.08\00:30:55.45
There's other places
where Ellen White says
00:30:55.48\00:30:57.42
the seven trumpets,
00:30:57.45\00:30:59.35
they were not fulfilled
00:30:59.39\00:31:01.89
a 150, 200, 300 years ago.
00:31:01.92\00:31:04.86
They are yet to sound.
00:31:04.89\00:31:07.30
When you look at
the Old Testament,
00:31:07.33\00:31:11.67
the plan, the
way of God's working
00:31:11.70\00:31:15.70
in the Old Testament,
00:31:15.74\00:31:17.37
He had certain
special days on the calendar
00:31:17.41\00:31:21.31
that marked events.
00:31:21.34\00:31:22.91
You had Passover in the spring.
00:31:22.94\00:31:25.21
You had firstfruits
which was three days after.
00:31:25.25\00:31:29.48
Then you had Pentecost,
and then you had the summer,
00:31:29.52\00:31:33.96
and then you had trumpets,
00:31:33.99\00:31:36.89
Day of Atonement, tabernacles.
00:31:36.93\00:31:41.33
If you look at Day of Atonement,
00:31:41.36\00:31:44.63
we as Seventh-day Adventist,
00:31:44.67\00:31:46.67
we would call
that close of probation
00:31:46.70\00:31:49.60
because on that day
every case was decided
00:31:49.64\00:31:53.01
if you were a
member of Israel, right?
00:31:53.04\00:31:57.25
Before the Day of
Atonement happened,
00:31:57.28\00:32:01.82
10 days prior to it
00:32:01.85\00:32:04.35
God commanded
them to blow trumpets
00:32:04.39\00:32:08.66
to warn the people and
tell them to get ready.
00:32:08.69\00:32:14.56
When you look in
Revelation at the trumpets,
00:32:14.60\00:32:17.83
almost every one of
the trumpets it says
00:32:17.87\00:32:20.57
and men repented not.
00:32:20.60\00:32:23.57
That means they still
had opportunity to repent.
00:32:23.61\00:32:27.78
God sends these
trumpet judgments with mercy
00:32:27.81\00:32:31.91
because He's
striving to win men's hearts
00:32:31.95\00:32:36.42
before the close of probation,
00:32:36.45\00:32:39.22
before that final
day of decision is ended.
00:32:39.25\00:32:44.39
She says, "Trumpet after
trumpet is to be sounded.
00:32:44.43\00:32:48.03
Vial after vial
poured out one after another
00:32:48.06\00:32:51.73
upon the
inhabitants of the earth,
00:32:51.77\00:32:54.07
and we should most earnestly
present before the people
00:32:54.10\00:32:58.24
the warning that the Lord
has commissioned us to give."
00:32:58.27\00:33:03.35
Paul tells us
in 2 Thessalonians,
00:33:03.38\00:33:06.21
"Remember ye not, that,
when I was yet with you,
00:33:06.25\00:33:09.32
I told you these things?
00:33:09.35\00:33:11.95
But now you know
he that withholdeth
00:33:11.99\00:33:16.32
so that he might be
unveiled in his time.
00:33:16.36\00:33:21.03
For the mystery of
iniquity doth already work."
00:33:21.06\00:33:25.10
I don't want to
spend a lot of time on this
00:33:25.13\00:33:27.14
'cause we've discussed
this in some other messages.
00:33:27.17\00:33:30.81
But our current
Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis,
00:33:30.84\00:33:37.71
you can do the
research on your own,
00:33:37.75\00:33:41.25
his sister as well as many
of the cardinals and bishops
00:33:41.28\00:33:46.42
when Pope Francis was
elected to take that position,
00:33:46.45\00:33:50.83
he also went into a room
and close the door alone.
00:33:50.86\00:33:55.80
And they said when
he came out of the room,
00:33:55.83\00:34:00.04
he was a
completely different man.
00:34:00.07\00:34:02.74
His sister's own words
when she wrote about him.
00:34:02.77\00:34:06.27
She said, "I no longer
know the man that is the pope."
00:34:06.31\00:34:10.71
She said, "You know, I
love him, he's my brother."
00:34:10.75\00:34:13.58
She said, "But he's not the
one that went into that room."
00:34:13.62\00:34:17.09
She said, "He was
never charismatic.
00:34:17.12\00:34:19.35
And now he's kissing
babies, and hugging people,
00:34:19.39\00:34:22.76
and playing contemporary
Christian rock music,
00:34:22.79\00:34:26.80
and smiling, and
laughing, and hugging.
00:34:26.83\00:34:29.43
She said, "He never
would have done that."
00:34:29.46\00:34:32.30
Even the other bishops there
in the Catholic Church said
00:34:32.33\00:34:36.81
a change happened
00:34:36.84\00:34:38.77
and it happened
in that short time
00:34:38.81\00:34:40.91
he went into that room
alone and closed that door.
00:34:40.94\00:34:44.25
Is it possible that
something went in to him
00:34:44.28\00:34:50.19
for this last time?
00:34:50.22\00:34:54.42
"The message of
Christ's righteousness
00:34:54.46\00:34:56.39
is to sound from one end
of the earth to the other
00:34:56.42\00:35:00.63
to prepare the way of our Lord.
00:35:00.66\00:35:04.40
This is the glory of God,
00:35:04.43\00:35:07.27
which closes the
work of the third angel."
00:35:07.30\00:35:10.41
Christ's righteousness,
00:35:10.44\00:35:13.31
the word righteousness
we looked it up last night
00:35:13.34\00:35:16.61
and it literally means
00:35:16.64\00:35:18.78
holiness, purity,
innocence, victory
00:35:18.81\00:35:24.62
and perfect
righteousness, perfection.
00:35:24.65\00:35:29.76
Several have
written to me inquiring
00:35:29.79\00:35:31.96
if the message of
justification by faith
00:35:31.99\00:35:34.96
is the third angel's message.
00:35:35.00\00:35:36.77
They were struggling
00:35:36.80\00:35:38.13
because in many minds the
third angel's message was,
00:35:38.17\00:35:41.84
we've got to warn
the world about Babylon.
00:35:41.87\00:35:44.67
We've got to warn the world
about the mark of the beast
00:35:44.71\00:35:47.11
and about who the pope is.
00:35:47.14\00:35:48.84
And that's true,
00:35:48.88\00:35:50.51
but it doesn't stop
00:35:50.55\00:35:52.05
on just a physical description.
00:35:52.08\00:35:57.69
What God was wanting
to reveal to the world
00:35:57.72\00:36:01.69
was the righteousness
00:36:01.72\00:36:03.99
that we can have today
00:36:04.03\00:36:07.96
by faith in His promises,
00:36:08.00\00:36:10.90
by, we can have victory today.
00:36:10.93\00:36:13.80
He says that in
Hebrews Chapter 3 and 4.
00:36:13.84\00:36:17.04
He says it in 2 Corinthians 6:2,
00:36:17.07\00:36:20.78
He says, "Today is
the day of your salvation,
00:36:20.81\00:36:24.41
not next week,
00:36:24.45\00:36:27.78
not 10 years from now.
00:36:27.82\00:36:30.89
Today."
00:36:30.92\00:36:32.75
When those two men,
the demoniacs of Ghidorah,
00:36:32.79\00:36:36.22
they came running
down the beach at Jesus.
00:36:36.26\00:36:40.00
And Ellen White says that
00:36:40.03\00:36:41.63
when they were
running toward him
00:36:41.66\00:36:43.87
the men that were in the
backseat of that vehicle,
00:36:43.90\00:36:48.50
their body, the men
that owned that body
00:36:48.54\00:36:52.37
they had been gagged and tied up
00:36:52.41\00:36:54.54
and they were in the backseat.
00:36:54.58\00:36:56.78
Demons, legions of fallen angels
00:36:56.81\00:36:59.48
had taken
possession of these men
00:36:59.51\00:37:01.48
and they saw Jesus
and they were like,
00:37:01.52\00:37:04.19
He can set us free.
00:37:04.22\00:37:05.95
And they ran towards
Him in hope for freedom.
00:37:05.99\00:37:10.03
And it says that when they open
their mouth to ask for help,
00:37:10.06\00:37:14.36
the demons spoke through them
00:37:14.40\00:37:16.77
rather than allowing
them to speak, the demons did.
00:37:16.80\00:37:20.87
And Jesus saw
what was happening.
00:37:20.90\00:37:24.21
And I want to
tell you something.
00:37:24.24\00:37:26.14
Do you know
those men asked Jesus,
00:37:26.17\00:37:27.78
they said, we
want to go with you.
00:37:27.81\00:37:31.55
Jesus did not tell them.
00:37:31.58\00:37:33.28
You need to go home
00:37:33.31\00:37:34.65
and spend the next 12
months on Bible studies,
00:37:34.68\00:37:37.62
then come back and talk to me,
00:37:37.65\00:37:39.12
and we can ordain you
00:37:39.15\00:37:40.66
and then you can go out
and start sharing the gospel.
00:37:40.69\00:37:44.19
Do you know what Jesus said?
00:37:44.23\00:37:46.33
Go now
00:37:46.36\00:37:48.00
and tell what great
things God has done for you.
00:37:48.03\00:37:52.43
When He set them free,
00:37:52.47\00:37:54.60
it was not an
evolutionary process.
00:37:54.64\00:37:58.87
The only reason it takes us time
00:37:58.91\00:38:03.28
for perfection of character
00:38:03.31\00:38:05.18
is because of the
lack of our faith.
00:38:05.21\00:38:08.68
I know some men
00:38:08.72\00:38:10.09
that have struggled
with cigarettes for 40 years
00:38:10.12\00:38:13.09
and they would
surrender to Christ.
00:38:13.12\00:38:14.89
They would fight for
one night on their knees
00:38:14.92\00:38:17.49
and they'd get
up the next morning
00:38:17.53\00:38:19.06
and they never
touched another cigarette.
00:38:19.09\00:38:22.10
One night and I
know other people
00:38:22.13\00:38:24.93
that have spent
10 years battling
00:38:24.97\00:38:27.04
and still
haven't got the victory.
00:38:27.07\00:38:29.30
Is the difference
00:38:29.34\00:38:30.67
because Christ power
is less in person's life
00:38:30.71\00:38:34.04
or is it a matter of faith,
00:38:34.08\00:38:36.44
believing that God
will do what He says.
00:38:36.48\00:38:41.72
Amen. It's faith.
00:38:41.75\00:38:44.29
When He told that man
at the pool of Bethesda,
00:38:44.32\00:38:47.76
take up your bed and walk.
00:38:47.79\00:38:49.69
He didn't put him on a
rehabilitation program.
00:38:49.72\00:38:53.36
I'm a firm believer
in the health message.
00:38:53.40\00:38:55.13
I drink carrot juice every day.
00:38:55.16\00:38:57.63
I love to eat healthy.
00:38:57.67\00:39:00.54
But that's not the
miracle of healing.
00:39:00.57\00:39:05.04
It's part of it.
00:39:05.07\00:39:07.98
But God says, "I
speak righteousness."
00:39:08.01\00:39:12.11
Just like that man
at the pool of Bethesda
00:39:12.15\00:39:14.45
had been laying there.
00:39:14.48\00:39:16.89
He spoke the word
and the man believed it.
00:39:16.92\00:39:21.82
Remember that.
00:39:21.86\00:39:24.46
"Several have
written to me, inquiring
00:39:24.49\00:39:26.49
if the message of
justification by faith
00:39:26.53\00:39:29.43
is the third angel's message,
00:39:29.46\00:39:32.00
and I have answered,
00:39:32.03\00:39:34.07
'It is the third
angel's message in verity!'
00:39:34.10\00:39:39.24
For the prophet declares,
00:39:39.27\00:39:40.98
'After these things
00:39:41.01\00:39:42.61
I saw another angel
come down from heaven,
00:39:42.64\00:39:45.91
having great power,
00:39:45.95\00:39:48.12
and the earth was
lightened with his glory!'"
00:39:48.15\00:39:53.25
I want to show you something.
00:39:53.29\00:39:55.36
They were asking is
justification by faith,
00:39:55.39\00:39:59.49
is that the
third angel's message?
00:39:59.53\00:40:01.96
When you look up
the word justification,
00:40:02.00\00:40:04.43
and I'm going to show
this over and over again
00:40:04.47\00:40:06.63
because it's that important.
00:40:06.67\00:40:09.07
It means to declare and render
00:40:09.10\00:40:12.94
innocent, just, clean, holy,
00:40:12.97\00:40:17.38
righteous, pure and perfect.
00:40:17.41\00:40:22.25
That's what justification is.
00:40:22.28\00:40:25.55
That thief on the
cross, I can't tell you
00:40:25.59\00:40:27.99
how many Christians
have written to me and said,
00:40:28.02\00:40:30.53
"Well, you've given
me this list of things
00:40:30.56\00:40:32.66
that I have to do.
00:40:32.69\00:40:34.13
What about that
thief on the cross?"
00:40:34.16\00:40:36.20
I'm not throwing out God's law.
00:40:36.23\00:40:40.87
But I'm encouraging us,
00:40:40.90\00:40:42.77
let's not put the
cart in front of the horse.
00:40:42.80\00:40:47.24
Jesus came to set us free
00:40:47.28\00:40:50.11
so that we could live
holy and righteous lives.
00:40:50.15\00:40:55.88
Because as long as you're
in bondage to the old man,
00:40:55.92\00:41:00.52
you're going to work really hard
00:41:00.56\00:41:02.69
and still never make it.
00:41:02.72\00:41:05.36
You'll never
achieve what you want.
00:41:05.39\00:41:09.33
That's what
Nicodemus was battling with.
00:41:09.36\00:41:12.10
And Jesus said, "You
have to be born again."
00:41:12.13\00:41:15.60
It's not you just
having something else
00:41:15.64\00:41:17.64
to add to your
list of do's and don'ts,
00:41:17.67\00:41:20.58
you have got to be
begotten over again
00:41:20.61\00:41:25.01
by the Spirit of the living God.
00:41:25.05\00:41:27.38
And once your
insides are changed,
00:41:27.42\00:41:30.39
the outside will
delight to obey me.
00:41:30.42\00:41:35.36
In Romans Chapter 8,
00:41:35.39\00:41:37.03
Paul tells us the carnal
mind is enmity against God.
00:41:37.06\00:41:43.00
It's not subject
to the law of God
00:41:43.03\00:41:45.80
and neither indeed can it be.
00:41:45.83\00:41:49.50
When we have people
that will call our house
00:41:49.54\00:41:51.97
and they're like,
"I can't get my husband
00:41:52.01\00:41:54.31
to stop watching rated R movies.
00:41:54.34\00:41:56.18
I can't get my
son or my grandson
00:41:56.21\00:41:58.85
to quit listening
to rock and roll music.
00:41:58.88\00:42:00.95
And, you know, what can I do?"
00:42:00.98\00:42:02.78
And I'm like, the first
thing you've got to ask is,
00:42:02.82\00:42:04.99
have they been born again?
00:42:05.02\00:42:07.66
Have they surrendered
their lives to Christ?
00:42:07.69\00:42:11.63
Because if they
have not done that
00:42:11.66\00:42:13.93
and all you're trying
to do is fix the externals,
00:42:13.96\00:42:18.37
that's what the Pharisees did,
00:42:18.40\00:42:20.70
they washed the
outside of the tombs
00:42:20.74\00:42:23.81
and inside it was
full of dead men's bones.
00:42:23.84\00:42:29.04
That child, or that
husband, or that wife,
00:42:29.08\00:42:32.28
or your brother, or sister,
or mother, or father, if they,
00:42:32.31\00:42:36.48
if you go to them and say,
you've got to stop eating pork
00:42:36.52\00:42:39.32
or you've got to start
going to church on Saturday,
00:42:39.35\00:42:41.72
and they
haven't been born again,
00:42:41.76\00:42:43.46
you know what they're thinking,
00:42:43.49\00:42:45.26
"Look, I'm already
trying to do these nine
00:42:45.29\00:42:48.20
and you've just given me
one more that I can't do,
00:42:48.23\00:42:50.70
I don't need more things to do.
00:42:50.73\00:42:53.34
I'm not doing well
on the ones I've got.
00:42:53.37\00:42:57.74
The carnal mind is not
subject to the law of God,
00:42:57.77\00:43:02.41
it can't be.
00:43:02.44\00:43:04.65
That's why the Bible says,
00:43:04.68\00:43:06.08
"Let this mind be in us
which was in Christ Jesus."
00:43:06.11\00:43:11.89
There has to be a change inside
00:43:11.92\00:43:15.36
so that the outside will blossom
00:43:15.39\00:43:18.43
and produce the
fruits of righteousness.
00:43:18.46\00:43:20.76
Listen to what the
servant of the Lord says.
00:43:24.87\00:43:27.57
"As yet, we certainly
have not seen the Light
00:43:27.60\00:43:32.37
that answers to
this description.
00:43:32.41\00:43:35.41
God has Light for His people,
00:43:35.44\00:43:38.35
and all who will accept it
00:43:38.38\00:43:40.62
will see the
sinfulness of remaining
00:43:40.65\00:43:43.79
in a lukewarm condition.
00:43:43.82\00:43:46.79
They will heed the
counsel of the True Witness
00:43:46.82\00:43:49.92
when He says,
00:43:49.96\00:43:51.89
'Be zealous
therefore, and repent.
00:43:51.93\00:43:56.56
Behold, I'm standing
00:43:56.60\00:43:58.40
at the door of
your heart knocking,
00:43:58.43\00:44:01.10
and if any man
will hear My voice,
00:44:01.14\00:44:05.41
My word and open the door,
00:44:05.44\00:44:09.14
I will come into you
00:44:09.18\00:44:11.85
and I will sup with
you, and you with Me."
00:44:11.88\00:44:16.22
Do you know what that sup means?
00:44:16.25\00:44:18.59
It means He'll
have dinner with you.
00:44:18.62\00:44:20.99
What does He feed us?
00:44:21.02\00:44:22.69
The bread of life.
00:44:22.72\00:44:24.73
He said, that's what
John 6 was all about.
00:44:24.76\00:44:28.06
Eat my words, make
them part of your life.
00:44:28.10\00:44:31.70
Satan is doing
the exact same thing.
00:44:31.73\00:44:34.60
He told Eve at the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
00:44:34.64\00:44:39.34
If you will just eat
of what I'm offering you,
00:44:39.37\00:44:44.25
then you'll be like
God knowing good and evil.
00:44:44.28\00:44:48.42
He wanted them to
partake of his words
00:44:48.45\00:44:52.35
and his spirit rather than
the Spirit of the living God.
00:44:52.39\00:44:58.03
Serpent's whisper
in the shadow of doubt.
00:44:58.06\00:45:02.23
The serpent's whisper.
00:45:02.26\00:45:04.73
This takes us back all
the way to the very beginning,
00:45:04.77\00:45:08.74
and tomorrow
evening and tonight,
00:45:08.77\00:45:10.57
but tomorrow evening especially,
00:45:10.61\00:45:12.57
we're going to
bring together again
00:45:12.61\00:45:14.91
these pieces of the puzzle,
00:45:14.94\00:45:16.75
and we're going to show
00:45:16.78\00:45:18.11
how this relates
to spiritual formation
00:45:18.15\00:45:20.38
in the emerging church.
00:45:20.42\00:45:22.15
We did some of that last night
but tomorrow night especially.
00:45:22.18\00:45:26.52
But I want you to
listen to what we're told.
00:45:26.55\00:45:31.13
What exactly is
spiritual formation?
00:45:31.16\00:45:35.16
I have many people
that will talk to me,
00:45:35.20\00:45:37.13
they'll meet at a conference
or something and there'll say,
00:45:37.17\00:45:42.44
"I don't even know what it is.
00:45:42.47\00:45:44.14
What is spiritual formation?"
00:45:44.17\00:45:46.37
They know people say it's bad,
but they don't know what it is.
00:45:46.41\00:45:50.81
And I have to
admit, I knew it was bad.
00:45:50.85\00:45:54.05
I knew that you had
this liberal theology
00:45:54.08\00:45:56.55
that was attached to it
but I wondered, I was like,
00:45:56.58\00:46:00.16
"What does that mean?
00:46:00.19\00:46:01.52
Why does it have that
name, spiritual formation?"
00:46:01.56\00:46:05.69
Here's a couple of
colleges and universities
00:46:05.73\00:46:08.36
that are heavy
promoters of this.
00:46:08.40\00:46:11.30
I don't want to name names,
00:46:11.33\00:46:12.67
but you can read
those there for yourself.
00:46:12.70\00:46:16.30
It's in every denomination,
00:46:16.34\00:46:18.24
not just ours, it's everywhere.
00:46:18.27\00:46:23.58
When you see what
the Apostle Paul says,
00:46:23.61\00:46:26.18
it makes this clear.
00:46:26.21\00:46:28.72
He says, "My little children
00:46:28.75\00:46:30.39
of whom I travail in birth again
00:46:30.42\00:46:35.32
until Christ be formed in you.
00:46:35.36\00:46:40.43
For we, brethren,
just as Isaac was,
00:46:40.46\00:46:44.70
are the children of promise.
00:46:44.73\00:46:47.64
But as then he
which was born after
00:46:47.67\00:46:51.81
or begotten by the
flesh persecuted him
00:46:51.84\00:46:55.68
that was born by the
Spirit, even so it is now."
00:46:55.71\00:47:01.45
Spiritual formation
is forming a man or woman
00:47:01.48\00:47:05.99
into the image of God.
00:47:06.02\00:47:08.59
Do you remember
what Satan said to Eve?
00:47:08.62\00:47:11.49
If you will obey,
00:47:11.53\00:47:13.53
if you'll listen to my
words and eat of my words,
00:47:13.56\00:47:17.17
you will be like God's.
00:47:17.20\00:47:22.54
How much more
like God could you be?
00:47:22.57\00:47:25.47
They were already
made in His image.
00:47:25.51\00:47:28.94
Adam, Luke says, was
the son of God by creation.
00:47:28.98\00:47:33.52
You can't be any more like God
than to be His son or daughter.
00:47:33.55\00:47:39.22
But Satan said,
"You're not really,
00:47:39.25\00:47:42.42
you're not really
like God, taste and see,
00:47:42.46\00:47:47.06
try what I'm offering you
and then you'll be like God."
00:47:47.10\00:47:51.33
The first sin that caused
00:47:51.37\00:47:54.20
the fall of the entire
human race was doubting
00:47:54.24\00:47:58.27
who they were as
sons and daughters
00:47:58.31\00:48:01.58
of the living God.
00:48:01.61\00:48:03.75
Do you know what
the first temptation
00:48:03.78\00:48:05.21
that Christ faced
in the wilderness was?
00:48:05.25\00:48:09.02
The exact same thing.
00:48:09.05\00:48:11.45
Satan came to him
and Ellen White says,
00:48:11.49\00:48:14.36
"It's when Satan said if that
00:48:14.39\00:48:17.79
then Christ
recognized who he was."
00:48:17.83\00:48:20.73
Satan appeared as
an angel of light.
00:48:20.76\00:48:23.67
Christ did not recognize him
until Satan started speaking.
00:48:23.70\00:48:28.10
And Satan told Christ,
"If Thou be the Son of God,
00:48:28.14\00:48:33.07
command this
stone to be made bread."
00:48:33.11\00:48:36.24
When he said if,
Christ recognized this is him.
00:48:36.28\00:48:42.08
And he...
00:48:42.12\00:48:43.45
Amen. That's right.
00:48:43.49\00:48:45.89
When he came up
out of the River Jordan
00:48:45.92\00:48:48.62
after being baptized,
00:48:48.66\00:48:50.23
his father had
declared from heaven,
00:48:50.26\00:48:53.60
"Thou art My beloved Son,
in Thee am I well pleased."
00:48:53.63\00:48:59.13
Christ had to walk by faith.
00:48:59.17\00:49:03.00
Now I want to
encourage you with something
00:49:03.04\00:49:04.81
and I also want
to challenge you.
00:49:04.84\00:49:06.78
Do you know what
it says in 1 John?
00:49:06.81\00:49:09.64
It says, "Now are
you the sons of God.
00:49:09.68\00:49:14.95
And it does not yet
appear what we shall be like,
00:49:14.98\00:49:19.09
but we know
that when he appears,
00:49:19.12\00:49:22.12
we will be like Him, for
we shall see Him as He is."
00:49:22.16\00:49:28.16
We're not waiting for some
day to become children of God.
00:49:28.20\00:49:32.80
And the word sons in
Greek means children begotten,
00:49:32.83\00:49:36.17
so it means sons and daughters.
00:49:36.20\00:49:38.31
I'm not trying to
pervert scripture but, I mean,
00:49:38.34\00:49:41.54
we can take that and know
that we're on safe ground.
00:49:41.58\00:49:45.31
Man and woman. Mankind.
00:49:45.35\00:49:47.38
Mankind.
00:49:47.42\00:49:50.79
But it says now,
00:49:50.82\00:49:53.39
now, we are the children of God.
00:49:53.42\00:49:57.69
And then look
what it says in John 1.
00:49:57.73\00:50:00.53
"Born not of blood, nor
of the will of the flesh,
00:50:00.56\00:50:06.37
nor of the will or
power of man but of God."
00:50:06.40\00:50:12.67
I cannot tell you
00:50:12.71\00:50:14.04
how many Christians are
striving with all their might
00:50:14.08\00:50:17.58
to achieve something
00:50:17.61\00:50:18.98
that's impossible for man to do.
00:50:19.01\00:50:22.18
You have to believe it.
00:50:22.22\00:50:24.32
And then it becomes yours.
00:50:24.35\00:50:27.02
That's called
fighting the fight of faith.
00:50:27.06\00:50:31.09
You have to
believe God's promise
00:50:31.13\00:50:34.00
and appropriate it as your own.
00:50:34.03\00:50:36.46
And when you take hold
of that promise and you say,
00:50:36.50\00:50:39.80
"It's yay and
amen in Christ Jesus.
00:50:39.83\00:50:43.34
I am His, He is mine,
that promise is mine."
00:50:43.37\00:50:48.18
When you do that
and you speak faith,
00:50:48.21\00:50:50.95
Ellen White says,
"You will have faith."
00:50:50.98\00:50:54.02
And Hebrews 11 says,
00:50:54.05\00:50:55.55
"Faith is the very
substance of the things
00:50:55.58\00:50:58.45
you have been given
confidence and assurance of."
00:50:58.49\00:51:01.29
Amen. Amen.
00:51:01.32\00:51:02.79
To whom God would make
known what is the riches,
00:51:06.16\00:51:11.20
the abundance of the
glory of this mystery.
00:51:11.23\00:51:15.84
Remember, we talked
about those two mysteries,
00:51:15.87\00:51:18.54
the mystery of godliness
and the mystery of iniquity.
00:51:18.57\00:51:21.88
Paul is talking about the
mystery of godliness here.
00:51:21.91\00:51:25.11
He says to us,
00:51:25.15\00:51:26.72
"To whom God would make known
00:51:26.75\00:51:29.75
what is the abundance of
the glory of this mystery
00:51:29.78\00:51:34.29
among the gentiles.
00:51:34.32\00:51:36.26
Even that mystery
00:51:36.29\00:51:38.66
which hath been hidden
from ages and from generations,
00:51:38.69\00:51:44.00
but now is made
manifest to his saints.
00:51:44.03\00:51:48.80
Today, if you
will but hear my voice
00:51:48.84\00:51:53.14
which is Christ in
you, the hope of glory."
00:51:53.17\00:51:58.21
Every promise in Christ
Jesus is yay and in Him, amen.
00:51:58.25\00:52:04.85
He says, if you only believe
00:52:04.89\00:52:07.46
and I can remember when
I was battling to get free,
00:52:07.49\00:52:11.43
I told the Lord one day, it
was like, I saw it, it says,
00:52:11.46\00:52:14.63
whosoever
believes shall be saved.
00:52:14.66\00:52:17.53
And the word saved does not mean
00:52:17.57\00:52:19.57
you have a free
ticket to get into heaven.
00:52:19.60\00:52:21.90
The word saved in
Greek and Hebrew means
00:52:21.94\00:52:24.77
rescued, delivered, set free,
00:52:24.81\00:52:28.64
healed and made whole.
00:52:28.68\00:52:31.61
And I looked at that day
00:52:31.65\00:52:32.98
'cause I was crying
out to God for freedom.
00:52:33.01\00:52:35.88
I mean, the martial arts
and eastern mysticism was just,
00:52:35.92\00:52:39.75
that was just a tiny
little part of the sins
00:52:39.79\00:52:43.09
I had been in bondage to.
00:52:43.12\00:52:45.09
Going through that
divorce with my wife
00:52:45.13\00:52:47.30
and I committed
adultery and I had,
00:52:47.33\00:52:49.76
I had baggage
from all the way back
00:52:49.80\00:52:51.57
when I was a child.
00:52:51.60\00:52:53.20
And I was begging God,
00:52:53.23\00:52:55.64
"I need freedom,
I need salvation."
00:52:55.67\00:53:00.54
And God told me, He said,
00:53:00.58\00:53:02.08
"You don't even know
what the word saved means."
00:53:02.11\00:53:04.68
He said, "Look it
up." And I looked it up.
00:53:04.71\00:53:06.92
And it said that
00:53:06.95\00:53:08.35
freedom, rescue,
deliverance, healing
00:53:08.38\00:53:12.45
and to make you whole.
00:53:12.49\00:53:14.16
And I said, "GOD,
there's five definitions.
00:53:14.19\00:53:16.93
Which one is right?"
00:53:16.96\00:53:18.46
And you know what He told me?
00:53:18.49\00:53:20.56
Which one do you need today?
00:53:20.60\00:53:24.53
Where are you? Do you
need physical healing?
00:53:24.57\00:53:27.60
And you know what?
00:53:27.64\00:53:28.97
When He spoke that to
me, I started that day,
00:53:29.00\00:53:32.84
I opened up the gospels,
00:53:32.87\00:53:34.24
I said, I'm not
leaving the gospels.
00:53:34.28\00:53:36.24
I got a notepad out
00:53:36.28\00:53:37.98
and I just started
reading the gospels
00:53:38.01\00:53:40.92
and I made a
note every single time
00:53:40.95\00:53:44.09
I saw a captive set free,
00:53:44.12\00:53:46.45
I saw someone healed,
I saw someone forgiven,
00:53:46.49\00:53:49.89
I saw a prostitute forgiven.
00:53:49.92\00:53:52.23
And I was like, God, you
know, I committed adultery
00:53:52.26\00:53:55.20
but I've never
charged somebody for it.
00:53:55.23\00:53:58.00
And God was like,
I know, I can handle.
00:53:58.03\00:54:00.94
You don't have a sin
that's bigger than Me.
00:54:00.97\00:54:05.14
And I made a note
of every single time
00:54:05.17\00:54:09.04
Christ healed
and set someone free.
00:54:09.08\00:54:13.55
And every time it
was based on one thing.
00:54:13.58\00:54:16.62
Did they believe
00:54:16.65\00:54:18.59
what God had
already promised to do?
00:54:18.62\00:54:22.22
And I told, I
told the Lord, I said,
00:54:22.26\00:54:25.39
I'm there in
the house by myself.
00:54:25.43\00:54:26.86
My wife is a school teacher,
00:54:26.90\00:54:28.26
my children are going to school.
00:54:28.30\00:54:29.80
And I looked up
because I was so desperate.
00:54:29.83\00:54:33.03
I said, "How do I believe,
00:54:33.07\00:54:37.07
I can't even
make myself believe."
00:54:37.11\00:54:41.28
Faith cometh by hearing
and hearing by the Word.
00:54:41.31\00:54:45.81
And the Lord Jesus
Christ told me in Romans 10:17,
00:54:45.85\00:54:50.59
He said, "Eric, quit reading
My Word silently in your head.
00:54:50.62\00:54:55.52
Start reading it out loud."
00:54:55.56\00:54:58.39
And I'll never forget the man
00:54:58.43\00:55:00.20
that first
encouraged me to do that.
00:55:00.23\00:55:02.00
He was an older man of God.
00:55:02.03\00:55:03.67
I don't even know
what church he went to
00:55:03.70\00:55:05.40
but I had
called him on the phone
00:55:05.43\00:55:07.07
because I
desperately needed help.
00:55:07.10\00:55:09.40
And he asked me that question.
00:55:09.44\00:55:11.51
He said, "Eric,
when you read God's Word,
00:55:11.54\00:55:13.78
do you read it in your head
or do you read it out loud?"
00:55:13.81\00:55:16.44
I said, "In my head."
00:55:16.48\00:55:18.25
He said, "When you pray,
00:55:18.28\00:55:19.61
do you pray only in your
head or do you pray out loud?"
00:55:19.65\00:55:23.35
I said, "In my head."
00:55:23.39\00:55:24.99
And then he asked me a
question I'll never forget.
00:55:25.02\00:55:26.96
He said, "Why?"
00:55:26.99\00:55:29.36
And I said, "I don't
want the devil to hear me."
00:55:29.39\00:55:33.29
And you know what he said?
00:55:33.33\00:55:35.10
He said, "Do you
think the devil is stronger
00:55:35.13\00:55:37.17
than the one you're praying to?"
00:55:37.20\00:55:40.30
And I went, "Oh, wow."
00:55:40.34\00:55:44.84
That was the last time
00:55:44.87\00:55:46.34
I worried about the
devil hearing my prayers.
00:55:46.37\00:55:49.58
If I don't want the
devil to hear what I'm saying,
00:55:49.61\00:55:51.58
you know what I do?
00:55:51.61\00:55:52.95
I say, Lord Jesus Christ,
00:55:52.98\00:55:54.62
I want this prayer to be between
00:55:54.65\00:55:57.02
me and you and my
Father in heaven and that's it.
00:55:57.05\00:56:00.89
I ask You in Your name.
00:56:00.92\00:56:02.59
And Jesus said, "If you
ask anything in My name,
00:56:02.62\00:56:04.83
I will do it."
00:56:04.86\00:56:06.19
Amen.
00:56:06.23\00:56:07.73
We don't fear the devil.
00:56:07.76\00:56:10.03
It doesn't mean we have
to be arrogant and foolish.
00:56:10.07\00:56:13.64
But greater is He that is in us
than he that is in this world.
00:56:13.67\00:56:18.44
And as I started
reading His promises out loud,
00:56:18.47\00:56:23.88
faith grew like I have never...
00:56:23.91\00:56:26.98
I never could have imagined
how much the faith grew.
00:56:27.02\00:56:30.42
And I still
battle, I still have days
00:56:30.45\00:56:33.46
where I come under attack
and my wife, I'll call her.
00:56:33.49\00:56:36.73
And when I'm having a bad day,
00:56:36.76\00:56:38.29
the Lord will have
her on top of the mountain
00:56:38.33\00:56:40.73
and she'll say, "Let
me pray with you, Eric."
00:56:40.76\00:56:42.86
And she'll speak
those promises out loud
00:56:42.90\00:56:45.67
and she'll say,
00:56:45.70\00:56:47.04
"Don't speak the doubt,
speak faith in His word."
00:56:47.07\00:56:50.44
And Ellen White
said the same thing.
00:56:50.47\00:56:52.27
She said, "Don't talk about
what the devil's done to you,
00:56:52.31\00:56:55.58
talk about the
promises of your Savior
00:56:55.61\00:56:58.15
and your mighty God."
00:56:58.18\00:57:00.85
Amen. Amen.
00:57:00.88\00:57:03.95
Let's close with
a word of prayer.
00:57:03.99\00:57:05.59
Father in heaven,
00:57:08.92\00:57:11.23
we thank You
that You are not a man
00:57:11.26\00:57:13.13
that You should
lie nor the son of man
00:57:13.16\00:57:15.36
that you should
change Your mind.
00:57:15.40\00:57:18.07
Your word has gone forth
00:57:18.10\00:57:19.93
and it shall not
return unto You void.
00:57:19.97\00:57:24.57
Father, You have spoken
and You will make it good.
00:57:24.61\00:57:29.14
Father, You have told us
through faith and patience,
00:57:29.18\00:57:32.18
we inherit the promises.
00:57:32.21\00:57:34.88
And, Father, we are
going to do like Jacob did.
00:57:34.92\00:57:37.82
We are going to grab
hold on your son and say,
00:57:37.85\00:57:42.22
"I will not let Thee
go except Thou bless me,"
00:57:42.26\00:57:45.93
not because we are
worthy but because He is worthy
00:57:45.96\00:57:50.47
and because You are
faithful and cannot lie.
00:57:50.50\00:57:54.24
Father, we pray for
every family and individual
00:57:54.27\00:57:56.91
that is
represented here tonight.
00:57:56.94\00:57:59.81
Father, let us not
only discern the evil
00:57:59.84\00:58:02.64
but most importantly,
00:58:02.68\00:58:04.48
let us see and know
your power in our lives.
00:58:04.51\00:58:08.78