Welcome to Anchors Of Truth,
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live from the Community
Adventist Fellowship Church.
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Present Truth with John Carter.
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Well, we do welcome you
to Los Angeles California,
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to the city of Arcadia, which
is where this beautiful edifice,
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which also serves
as the headquarters
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for The Carter
Report, is located.
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Pastor John Carter has
been here for many years now,
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and this beautiful facility,
that he tells me God gave
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to this congregation.
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And certainly, He opened the
doors and opened the pocketbooks
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of those who support
this ministry in order to make
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this purchase possible.
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And what a
beautiful place it is.
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We just praise God
that we can be here.
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We are enjoying getting better
acquainted with the members here
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and visiting with
people, talking to some of you
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that have become Seventh-day
Adventists and become
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Sabbath keepers and accepted
the three angels messages
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from watching Three
Angels Broadcasting Network,
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and you have come to be with us.
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And this has been
an exciting few days
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that we're here already.
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And tonight is absolutely
going to be no exception in this
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series that our friend,
John Carter, is presenting
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on present truth.
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The subject tonight is
one that I hope you will
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call your friends
and tell them to watch.
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It's, The Blood Atonement.
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And this is the most important
subject, in my way of thinking,
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of any that we could every
look at from the word of God.
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It talks about
salvation and the atonement
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that Jesus Christ
bought for each one of us.
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Well tonight, I'm going to
invite John Lomacang to come.
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John Lomacang is pastor of the
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Thompsonville
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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which meets in the
Three Angels Broadcasting
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worship center.
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And Pastor John and his
wife, Angie, who's right there
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on the front row, are
very important members
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of the 3ABN team.
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And I'm going to ask
you, John, to do something.
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If you would, before
you sing, two things;
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have a word of prayer and then
tell us a little bit about the
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message of the song
that you're bringing tonight.
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Let's bow our heads.
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Gracious Father in
heaven, tonight we sit under
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the inspiration
of Your Holy spirit.
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We thank You, Lord, for
your manservant, who unashamedly
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and with courage
proclaims the good news of
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Jesus Christ and His redemption.
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Tonight Lord, prepare
our minds to receive and to
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fully understand the
atoning blood of Jesus.
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We pray a blessing,
not only that we understand
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that our salvation has
been bought, but help us to
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understand the
impact on our changed lives.
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And so Lord, tonight, we
pray a blessing on Elder Carter
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as he breaks the bread of
life for those who are watching
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and listening to the
program, even the audience
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that is assembled here.
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We pray that tonight, Your name
will be honored and glorified.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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My wife and I have
had the distinct privilege
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of traveling around the
world with The Heritage Singers.
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As a matter of fact, I was
one of them and sang with them
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for a number of years.
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I travelled full
time from 1984 to 1986.
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And to be traveling
with 15 family members,
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as we referred to it, was
sometimes quite a challenge.
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There were days
when we wanted to quit.
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There were days
when we wanted to sing
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for the rest of our lives.
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On this particular week,
we had a tremendous challenge.
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It seemed like
nothing was going right.
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And we were determined, my
wife and I were determined,
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at the end of this
week, this is 1985,
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that we were going to quit
the group and go back to life,
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quote unquote, "normal living."
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And while I was there with
Art Mapa loading my portion
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of the Heritage
Singers bus with the equipment,
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I song poured into my
mind with all the lyrics.
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I ran on the bus,
wrote all the words down,
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and that was the first
song the Lord gave to me.
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You know, it goes along the
line of the text in Isaiah 43:1,
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which says, "Fear not,
for I have redeemed you;
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I have called you by thy name."
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And the song title goes along
with the end of that verse,
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"You are Mine."
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So tonight, if you're encourage
or discouraged, I pray that
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you remember, whether
you pass through the waters
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as they rise or as your finances
fall, do not forget that
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you belong to the
Lord and He belongs to you.
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There are times I
wonder why I'm here,
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and I wonder if He really cares.
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Then I wonder if He died for me
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when He gave
His life on Calvary.
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Then I see the
sun begin to shine,
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and the warmth I
feel brings peace of mind.
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Through the rays He
says, I love you so.
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You are Mine.
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He said to me, you are Mine.
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For you I died on Calvary.
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You are Mine.
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Through My blood I set you free.
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So when the
clouds begin to gather,
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remember you are Mine.
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My Lord, I want to understand
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just how I fit
into Your master plan;
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if the fruit I
bear is from Your tree,
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and if the world can
see Your love through me.
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But now I know, oh
Lord, just why I'm here,
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and now it's plain
to see You really care.
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So I thank You now
because I'm glad to know
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that You are mine.
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He said to me, you are Mine.
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For you I died on Calvary.
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You are Mine.
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Through My blood I set you free.
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So when the
clouds begin to gather,
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remember you are Mine.
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You are Mine.
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For you I'm coming back again.
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You are Mine.
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I'll be with you till the end.
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Through your life, I know
that the world will understand
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that you are Mine.
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And oh, you are Mine.
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I have saved you
through My grace.
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And I know one day, one
day I'll see you face to face.
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So when the
clouds begin to gather,
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yes, when the
clouds begin to gather,
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and when the
clouds begin to gather,
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remember you are Mine.
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Amen, amen.
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Praise the Lord.
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Thank you very much, John.
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I appreciate that message.
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John just has a
wonderful, wonderful
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story to tell of his life.
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And if you haven't
heard him present the gospel,
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you need to hear him.
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Well listen, I'm going to invite
Pastor John Carter to come now.
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He is no stranger
to the viewers at 3ABN.
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He could introduce me,
but it's been my privilege
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to introduce him.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
this is Dr. James Gilley,
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the President of 3ABN and
my friend for many, many years.
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Yes.
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I just want you to know that it
is an honor to be your friend,
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and to be friends with
your dear wife, Beverly,
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and with all of your
children, especially David.
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It's very nice of you
to say these nice thoughts.
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Well we appreciate
you so very, very much.
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Now can I just give you a...
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Can we just talk a little?
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Oh, of course we can.
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Just as old friends
over the back fence?
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Yes. Okay.
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In Texas where we
worked together for some time.
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Where we had a back fence.
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You're a Seventh-day
Adventist church leader.
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Yes, yes. Well I guess.
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A lot of folks, as you
know, don't know much about
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Seventh-day Adventists.
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A person asked me in
Australia once years ago,
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was I a Seventh-day Adventurer?
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I said, that about explains it.
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But then I told him a
little bit more what a
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Seventh-day Adventist is.
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That we are Christians.
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Absolutely.
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When folks ask me,
Jim, my religion, I say,
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"First and
foremost, I'm a Christian."
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Now you know, just a struggling
sinner saved by grace.
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I'm saved by grace,
but I'm a Christian.
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Remember what John Newton said.
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He said, "My memory is almost
gone, my eye sight is gone.
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I can remember just two things;
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I'm a great sinner and
Christ is a great Savior."
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Amen, and that's
enough to remember.
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Now, you're the President of
this wonderful Christian network
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that's called, 3ABN.
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What does Christ
mean to you personally?
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You know, Jesus Christ means
everything to me personally,
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Pastor John, everything.
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He's my Lord, my God,
my Savior, my Counselor.
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He has led in all my
life, totally, completely,
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from the time that I gave
Him my life as a young man.
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I have not always
followed when He was leading.
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Sometime I got off the track.
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But you know something?
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It's like He waits for
you to get back on track.
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I made a wise decision
when I was 15 years old.
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I asked Him to take
charge of choosing the woman
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I would spend my life with.
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And boy, that's an amazing
decision for a 15 year old
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that had very
few serious thoughts.
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You got a gem.
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But I tell you, the
Lord heard my prayer.
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Yes He did.
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And He gave me this
wonderful wife that I have.
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And when I gave my life to
Jesus, He gave me life eternal.
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He covered my
sins with His blood.
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He gave me the
assurance of life eternal.
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He will not carry me screaming
and kicking into the kingdom
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if I decided that
I did not want to.
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I don't believe in
once saved always saved.
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But I do believe that if
a person wants to be saved,
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gives their life to
the Lord Jesus Christ,
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he says, "No one can
pluck you out of My hands."
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So I don't think others
can pluck you out of His hands.
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You can pluck yourself.
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He gives you the
right of free choice.
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But I don't
think anyone else can.
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As long as we trust in Him,
believe in Him, rely upon Him,
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then we have the assurance.
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So we believe in Jesus.
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Absolutely, totally. Absolutely.
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That's what the
meeting is about tonight.
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Absolutely.
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We're going to
talk tonight about the
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precious atoning blood.
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And we'll be praying
for you as you're sharing
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this beautiful truth.
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Thanks for being my friend, Jim.
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Thanks for being mine.
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God bless you.
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So tonight we're going to talk
about, not an important subject,
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but perhaps the most
important subject in the Bible.
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And that is,
the blood atonement.
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Now this is a question that
I've been asked, my friends,
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down through the years.
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Do Adventists believe that they
are saved by keeping the law?
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A lot of people think that
we believe that we're saved
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by keeping the law.
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Or do they believe,
do we believe, you see,
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in salvation
through the blood of Christ?
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I want to say to every person
watching this telecast tonight
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that Jim Gilley
believes, I believe, we believe,
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that we are saved,
not by keeping the law,
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but through the blood
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I want you to take
your Bibles with me please,
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and turn over here to
the book of Hebrews chapter 9
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and verse 22.
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And this makes it very apparent.
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Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 22.
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That text is found over
here in the New Testament.
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Got that text?
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I want to give a
welcome to the audience around
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the world tonight.
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To my great friends
across this great land
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of the United States of
America, up there into Canada,
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down into the Caribbean.
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Also right across Europe.
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We get letters also from
places like Saudi Arabia.
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We want to say to our
viewers in Saudi Arabia,
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God bless you.
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And we say this to you,
God bless you in the name of
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the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And I want to send
greetings to my old home land,
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because I've got
a new home land now.
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But I want to send
greetings to my old home land;
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the land of Australia,
and all my friends over there.
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I've still got some left.
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Look at Hebrews
chapter 9 verse 22.
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The Bible says, "In
fact, the law requires
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that nearly everything
be cleansed with blood,
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and without the shedding of
blood there is no forgiveness."
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It's very, very plain in the
Bible that you can't be saved
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by keeping the law, you
can't be saved by keeping the
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commandments, you can't be
saved by being good enough.
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Because the only
person who is good enough
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is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And so, I want to come over here
to my super hi-tech blackboards.
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I've been using this
sort of stuff now for,
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as they say in
Australia, for donkey's years.
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And donkeys live
for a long, long time.
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I want to put up two words, and
these words are precious to me.
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We are saved by Jesus only.
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And the Bible tells
me that we are saved...
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I want to say this to all
of my friends out there in
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the Christian world.
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I want to say to my
friends in the great
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Roman Catholic church.
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We want you to know that God
loves you, and we love you too.
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I want to say to the
Baptists and the Presbyterians,
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I don't care
what religion you are,
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our friends in the
great Salvation Army.
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We want to say this
to you, God loves you.
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And we love you too.
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And we want you to know that
we believe that we are saved
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by Jesus only, and we're
saved by the blood of Christ.
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The Bible talks
about two mountains.
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There's a mountain
that is called Sinai.
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And that's where the
holy law of God was given.
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My friend, I
believe in the law of God.
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But I don't believe the
law was given to save me.
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But the Bible tells me
that there is a mountain
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by the name of Sinai.
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But you'll never get
home to glory by trying to
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climb up the quaking
sides of Mount Sinai.
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You can never be
saved by keeping the law,
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and by trying to get right
with God by your own obedience.
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The Bible tells me
that I am saved by works;
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Christ's works.
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The Bible tells me I am saved,
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I am saved by
works, yes; Christ's works.
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I am saved by goodness;
His goodness, not my goodness.
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And the Seventh-day
Adventist Church believes in the
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great doctrine of...
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I preach this
over and over again.
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People think I know Latin.
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I do, about 10 words.
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...solus Christus. What is it?
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Only Christ.
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Sola scriptura.
What does it mean?
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Only scripture.
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We don't have two Bibles,
we don't have three Bibles.
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We believe in sola scriptura.
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And if you can't
get it out of the Bible,
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you shouldn't be
getting it, my friend.
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So, solus
Christus, sola scriptura.
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Sola gratia.
What does that mean?
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Only grace.
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You're saved by grace and
by grace alone; sola gratia.
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Sola fide, the reformer said.
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Only faith.
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Not faith and works.
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You are not saved
by faith and work.
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You are saved by
a faith that works.
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So I want you folks to
know tonight that we on 3ABN,
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and I'm proud to be...
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Now I'm not employed by 3ABN.
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What do you say "no" for?
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You're saying that
as though you're glad.
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Somebody working for
3ABN, I said I'm not employed
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by 3ABN, and she
said, "No, you're not."
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And sort of sighed.
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I guess Jim Gilley
got her to say that.
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But I'm proud to be
associated with 3ABN,
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because 3ABN
believes in Jesus only.
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And we believe in
the blood of the cross.
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You'll never get home
by trying to climb up the
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quaking sides of Sinai.
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The only way you can be saved
is through the cross of Calvary.
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So you've got these two
mountains; Sinai and Calvary.
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Sinai is law,
but Calvary is grace.
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And we need the blood
of Christ because of sin.
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And the Bible teaches,
"All have sinned and fall short
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of the glory of God."
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I want you to turn over here to
Romans chapter 6 and verse 23.
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Are you glad to be
here in church tonight?
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Now say it loud.
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Are you glad to be
here in church tonight?
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I'm glad to be here
in church tonight because
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the Spirit of God is
here tonight, my friend.
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Romans 6 and verse 23.
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Got that text?
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The great apostle
Paul says, are you ready,
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"For the wages of
sin..." What is it?
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"...the wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God
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is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
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The Bible tells me
the wages of sin is death.
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And the Bible tells me
that we are a race of sinners.
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We are a race of sinners
and we can never be saved
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by our own works.
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Because all of our
works are polluted.
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It's pretty hard for the
carnal nature to accept that,
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because pride says, "I'm a good
person, I'm a righteous person."
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Look at Romans
chapter 5 and verse 12.
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And this chapter tells us
the need for a blood atonement.
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The Bible says, "Therefore,
just as sin entered the world
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through one man..."
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Who was that?
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I believe in
Genesis, I believe in Adam.
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"...and death through
sin, and in this way death came
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to all men, because all sinned."
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What I'm going to tell
you now is not a made up idea.
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But the Bible tells me that Adam
was the head of the human race.
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He was the representative
of the human race.
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And when Adam
sinned, I sinned in Adam.
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You understand that?
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He was driving the car
and we were in the back seat.
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And when the car
went off the road, we went
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off the road with him.
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And we were lost in Adam.
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And as one great preacher,
the prince of preachers said,
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"In us is the blood of Adam, and
it's coursing through our veins.
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And because we are born
sinners, we need a Savior."
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People say, "No, you
grow up and after a while,
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you become a sinner.
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And then you need a Savior."
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I need a Savior from the
very moment when I am born.
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Because the Bible
says, "In Adam all die.
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Even so, in Christ
shall all be made alive."
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So we've got the
blood of Adam in our veins.
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And sin raises
its head everywhere.
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Have you heard the
story of the man...
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And all my stories are true.
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Not like Elder Gilley's.
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No, his are true
too. But mine are truer.
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A man who use to walk through
the gates of a great big factory
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every night
pushing a wheelbarrow.
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They thought he
was steeling stuff.
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And every night they would
stop him and they would take
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the wheel off the
wheelbarrow and examine it.
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And look in the
handles of the wheelbarrow.
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And this went on for months.
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And each night, he
walked through the gates
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with a wheelbarrow.
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They couldn't find
out what he was stealing.
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Later on, they discovered
he was stealing wheelbarrows.
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Now I want you to
know, I want you to know,
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sin raises its head everywhere,
in the most unlikely places.
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We are a race of sinners,
and we need the blood of Christ.
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I want to quote from a
great American evangelist;
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Dr. Billy Graham.
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Can you say amen?
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And that is why I tell you
tonight; sin is so powerful,
00:27:14.96\00:27:18.33
it is so
devastating, we need a Savior.
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We need Christ tonight.
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Nobody but Christ to come
and save us from our sins.
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There have been, I have
observed, different theories
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to explain the human condition.
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There was Karl Marx
who said our problems were
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political and economic.
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The grave Russian experiments
show that Marx was ugly
00:27:50.39\00:27:54.96
and completely wrong; with
the deaths of 50 million people
00:27:54.99\00:28:00.04
butchered by the communists.
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Sigmund Freud,
the psychotherapist
00:28:02.62\00:28:06.02
who said that our problems
were tied up with the self,
00:28:06.03\00:28:11.94
and particularly associated
with our sexual urges.
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Of course, he had some truth.
00:28:16.61\00:28:18.64
Others are saying prominently
today, our problem is
00:28:19.90\00:28:24.08
fixed in our genes.
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It is our DNA and we
are born to be what we are,
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and nothing can
change the human condition.
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Now DNA, of course, does
have something to do with it.
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I hold here a card from
one of my beautiful daughters
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who sent this to
me for Father's Day.
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"Dad, I know growing up, I was
sometimes a little difficult,
00:28:50.55\00:28:57.57
a little stubborn,
00:28:59.05\00:29:01.12
a bit of a know-it-all.
00:29:01.97\00:29:05.08
But there was a
good reason for it.
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Heredity."
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It's true.
00:29:21.11\00:29:23.17
We pass it on.
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So it is in our DNA.
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It is in our genes.
00:29:29.94\00:29:31.75
But I tell my children
that insanity also is catching.
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You know what they
say, insanity is infectious.
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Have you heard this?
00:29:41.10\00:29:42.11
Insanity is
infectious or contagious.
00:29:42.14\00:29:47.07
You catch it from your kids.
00:29:47.70\00:29:49.42
Now these theories have, all
these theories have some truth.
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But there's more to man
than economics, politics,
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and psycho
analysis, and his DNA.
00:30:03.81\00:30:08.02
There was a wonderful
Baptist missionary lady doctor
00:30:09.40\00:30:13.91
in the heart of Africa.
00:30:13.94\00:30:15.37
I've been to Africa
on a number of occasions.
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I love Africa.
00:30:17.94\00:30:19.64
I think God blessed
Africa with the most wonderful
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wildlife, mountains.
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It's God's own country.
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I've just come back from South
Africa, a wonderful country.
00:30:29.37\00:30:32.90
But in the Congo, there
was a Baptist missionary.
00:30:34.47\00:30:38.37
I'm glad to have friends in
the Baptist church, aren't you.
00:30:38.40\00:30:42.02
I'm glad to have friends in
the great Roman Catholic church.
00:30:42.53\00:30:46.14
Did you know God has got
my beloved ones here tonight?
00:30:46.17\00:30:50.71
God has got a big family.
00:30:50.74\00:30:52.99
And when people are in
Christ, they are in Christ.
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You see, as Dr. Gilley said.
00:30:57.35\00:30:59.57
There was this awful virus
that broke out in this village
00:31:00.40\00:31:04.49
deep in the Congo.
00:31:04.52\00:31:06.31
The symptoms were devastating.
00:31:07.12\00:31:09.50
Firstly a little
cough, then some spots,
00:31:09.51\00:31:13.43
then a raging fever,
00:31:13.46\00:31:15.56
and then ulcers on the
tongue and ulcers in the mouth.
00:31:15.59\00:31:19.10
And then death always followed.
00:31:19.11\00:31:21.75
This Baptist missionary
worked with grace, diligence,
00:31:22.88\00:31:28.74
and devotion.
00:31:28.77\00:31:30.10
And then one day, she
was carrying out an autopsy.
00:31:32.86\00:31:38.43
She wanted to send some of the
tissue back to the scientists
00:31:38.83\00:31:42.29
in New York City.
00:31:42.32\00:31:43.68
They would try to find
out what this thing was.
00:31:43.71\00:31:47.17
And that day, the knife slipped
and she nicked her finger.
00:31:47.20\00:31:51.58
She immediately ran to
the tap and turned on the
00:31:51.61\00:31:55.88
explosion of water.
00:31:55.91\00:31:57.82
But within a few days,
she had a blinding headache.
00:31:58.59\00:32:02.19
And then spots on her tongue.
00:32:02.22\00:32:04.27
And then the
ulcers in the throat.
00:32:05.38\00:32:08.79
And she died.
00:32:08.82\00:32:10.63
The doctors in New
York received the tissue.
00:32:12.43\00:32:16.32
And even though they
donned protective care,
00:32:17.96\00:32:21.48
some of those doctors
working in the laboratories
00:32:21.51\00:32:24.86
caught the fever,
called the ELISA virus.
00:32:24.89\00:32:28.36
There was a fear that never
got onto the streets of America
00:32:29.76\00:32:33.40
because they covered it up.
00:32:33.43\00:32:34.94
Because they said, "If
this thing gets out onto the
00:32:34.97\00:32:38.39
streets of New York,
New York will perish,
00:32:38.42\00:32:41.78
they will die."
00:32:41.81\00:32:43.33
Later, they discovered
it was caused by rats.
00:32:44.63\00:32:48.29
It was a virus
that could be contained,
00:32:48.94\00:32:53.47
but there was no cure.
00:32:53.48\00:32:55.75
Thousands of years ago, a
virus got loose in the universe,
00:32:57.46\00:33:04.35
my friend, and it
spread down to this earth.
00:33:04.38\00:33:08.09
And everywhere it goes, there
is pain and suffering and death.
00:33:08.12\00:33:12.49
It is called, sin.
00:33:13.36\00:33:14.96
And there's only
one cure for sin.
00:33:15.81\00:33:18.38
It is not psychology,
it is not philosophy,
00:33:18.41\00:33:23.13
it is not more education.
00:33:23.16\00:33:25.36
Even though all of
those things are good.
00:33:25.39\00:33:27.83
There is only one
cure for the virus of sin.
00:33:27.84\00:33:32.39
It is the blood of Jesus.
00:33:32.42\00:33:34.35
And the Bible tells me,
without the shedding of blood,
00:33:35.50\00:33:38.52
there is no remission.
00:33:38.55\00:33:40.80
Let me say it slowly.
00:33:42.21\00:33:43.79
There is only one
thing that can give us hope,
00:33:43.82\00:33:47.53
peace, forgiveness, a life
that satisfies, and a life that
00:33:48.65\00:33:54.31
only increases in worth as
the years of eternity role;
00:33:54.34\00:33:58.20
and that is the blood of Jesus.
00:33:59.52\00:34:01.47
I want you to turn
to Romans chapter 5
00:34:02.74\00:34:05.39
and notice verses 20 and 21.
00:34:06.57\00:34:09.84
And I'm an old
fashioned Bible preacher.
00:34:12.83\00:34:15.04
That is why I pause
and turn to the text.
00:34:15.07\00:34:17.58
I believe the power
is found in the Word.
00:34:20.57\00:34:23.37
"The law was added so that
the trespass might increase.
00:34:24.44\00:34:27.95
But where sin increased,
grace increased all the more."
00:34:28.35\00:34:33.58
Spurgeon called
this, abounding grace.
00:34:33.61\00:34:36.98
"So that just as sin reigned in
death, so also grace might reign
00:34:37.77\00:34:43.74
through righteousness
to bring eternal life
00:34:43.75\00:34:47.22
through Jesus Christ our Lord."
00:34:47.25\00:34:50.94
I want to say to every
person who is watching today,
00:34:51.56\00:34:54.72
I need more than
a perfect example.
00:34:56.63\00:34:59.70
I believe that
Jesus is our example.
00:35:01.04\00:35:04.53
But I need much more
than the Jesus who is
00:35:04.98\00:35:09.02
just a perfect example.
00:35:09.05\00:35:11.05
If I am in a raging
current and I'm going down
00:35:11.97\00:35:16.37
for the third time, I need
more than a swimming lesson.
00:35:16.40\00:35:21.07
I need a Savior.
00:35:23.04\00:35:25.12
I need a lifeline.
00:35:25.15\00:35:27.70
And I need more than a
Christ who comes down from glory
00:35:28.65\00:35:32.39
and says, "Do this
and thou shalt live."
00:35:32.42\00:35:35.81
I need a Christ who will
redeem me with His own blood.
00:35:36.64\00:35:41.24
Years ago, I was
friends with a great scientist.
00:35:43.28\00:35:48.61
A man who had
PhD's, many of them.
00:35:49.01\00:35:53.00
A wonderful mind, a
great mind, and a great man.
00:35:53.88\00:35:58.19
But he lost his way.
00:36:00.08\00:36:01.78
He found it difficult to
reconcile the discoveries
00:36:01.81\00:36:05.57
of science with
the words of scripture.
00:36:05.60\00:36:08.98
But we must recognize
that there are many things that
00:36:09.81\00:36:13.10
we will never understand.
00:36:13.13\00:36:15.26
And so he lost his faith.
00:36:15.56\00:36:17.61
But a little while
before he died, when he was
00:36:18.57\00:36:21.33
out in Australia, he made
this remark to his friends
00:36:21.36\00:36:25.35
as they were out
walking on a Saturday afternoon.
00:36:25.38\00:36:27.99
He said, "There are
many things I do not know."
00:36:28.02\00:36:31.22
But I do know
this, I need a Savior."
00:36:31.25\00:36:34.20
And I need a Savior tonight.
00:36:37.31\00:36:39.06
The greatest
teaching in all the Bible...
00:36:40.78\00:36:42.91
I want to say to my Baptist
friends, my Catholic friends,
00:36:42.94\00:36:46.15
I want to say to every person,
and to my Adventist friends,
00:36:47.27\00:36:51.51
the greatest teaching
in all the Bible is the
00:36:51.54\00:36:54.54
blood atonement of Christ.
00:36:54.57\00:36:56.71
And for a few moments now, I
want to talk upon this subject,
00:36:57.67\00:37:00.57
which is the most
wonderful of all topics.
00:37:00.58\00:37:03.61
Would you please come to
Romans 1 and verses 16-18.
00:37:03.64\00:37:10.86
Romans chapter 1
verses 16, 17, and 18.
00:37:10.89\00:37:17.45
"I'm not ashamed of the gospel,
because it is the power of God
00:37:19.09\00:37:24.01
for the salvation of
everyone who believes;
00:37:24.04\00:37:26.13
first for the Jew,
then for the Gentile.
00:37:26.43\00:37:30.07
For in the gospel, a
righteousness from God
00:37:30.10\00:37:33.34
is revealed, a
righteousness that is by faith
00:37:33.37\00:37:36.89
from first to last,
just as it is written,
00:37:36.92\00:37:40.95
'The righteous
will live by faith.'"
00:37:40.98\00:37:43.35
So we are saved by the
good news of the gospel.
00:37:43.38\00:37:46.19
And the word "gospel" means
good news, not good advice;
00:37:46.61\00:37:50.43
contrary to a thousand sermons.
00:37:50.46\00:37:54.23
The gospel does not
tell you what to do,
00:37:54.68\00:37:58.15
it tells you what
has been done for you.
00:37:58.18\00:38:00.55
It is good news.
00:38:01.57\00:38:03.22
Now the next verse is a
verse that we should read.
00:38:04.47\00:38:07.43
"The wrath of God is
being revealed from heaven
00:38:10.02\00:38:14.53
against all the godlessness
and wickedness of men
00:38:14.54\00:38:18.51
who suppress the
truth by their wickedness."
00:38:18.52\00:38:21.76
The Bible talks about
the righteousness of God,
00:38:21.79\00:38:25.73
and it talks
about the wrath of God.
00:38:25.76\00:38:28.10
We live is a
dreadfully superficial age.
00:38:30.40\00:38:33.87
But the Bible talks
about the righteousness of God,
00:38:34.45\00:38:38.45
and because God is
righteous, God hates sin
00:38:38.48\00:38:42.11
while loving the sinner.
00:38:42.73\00:38:44.25
But the Bible talks
about the wrath of God.
00:38:45.47\00:38:48.57
The wrath of God.
00:38:49.13\00:38:50.66
People say, "This is a concept
I could never believe in;
00:38:51.76\00:38:56.03
the wrath of God."
00:38:56.06\00:38:57.51
I believe it because of
the righteousness of God.
00:38:58.34\00:39:01.62
And the Bible tells me that
because of the righteousness
00:39:02.89\00:39:06.64
of God, God by His
nature reacts against sin.
00:39:06.67\00:39:12.31
Hence, we need
a blood atonement.
00:39:14.65\00:39:16.89
Would you come over here
to Romans 3 verses 4 and 5.
00:39:16.90\00:39:20.26
And follow this logic, please.
00:39:20.73\00:39:23.37
"Not at all.
00:39:30.19\00:39:31.48
Let God be true,
and every man a liar.
00:39:32.60\00:39:36.09
As it is written, 'So
that You may be proved right
00:39:36.12\00:39:40.17
when You speak and
prevail when You judge.'"
00:39:40.20\00:39:42.70
God is a righteous
God, and God will judge the
00:39:42.73\00:39:46.24
world in righteousness.
00:39:46.27\00:39:47.71
"But if our unrighteousness
brings out God's righteousness
00:39:48.11\00:39:51.83
more clearly, what shall we say?
00:39:51.86\00:39:54.10
That God is unjust in
bringing His wrath on us?"
00:39:54.13\00:39:58.42
So the Bible talks about
the wrath of almighty God.
00:39:58.82\00:40:03.56
I want these great truths...
00:40:05.40\00:40:07.70
And I'm talking to a
wonderful television audience,
00:40:07.73\00:40:10.84
and I say this to you tonight,
in the name of the Christ
00:40:10.87\00:40:14.47
who sent me to preach.
00:40:14.50\00:40:16.10
I want you to know
that God loves you.
00:40:16.64\00:40:19.61
He loves you with a heart
that is bigger than the universe
00:40:21.19\00:40:26.41
and bigger than eternity.
00:40:27.06\00:40:28.59
He loves you.
00:40:28.62\00:40:29.94
But there's this
virus in the universe.
00:40:32.06\00:40:34.55
And this virus
destroys everything it touches.
00:40:34.58\00:40:38.84
And because God is righteous,
God reacts against that sin.
00:40:39.33\00:40:44.38
And God shows wrath towards sin.
00:40:45.90\00:40:50.57
There was a great English
reformer, his name was Tyndale.
00:40:52.66\00:40:56.14
He said the book of Romans is:
00:40:56.17\00:40:58.05
And I want you to
notice some of the most amazing
00:41:06.64\00:41:10.18
words ever written in Holy Writ.
00:41:10.21\00:41:13.31
Romans chapter 3,
verse 20 and onwards.
00:41:13.34\00:41:16.43
These are not easy verses.
00:41:17.71\00:41:20.56
But the best things in
life are hard to attain.
00:41:21.30\00:41:24.79
Please notice them.
00:41:24.82\00:41:26.21
Verse 20, "Therefore no
one will be declared righteous
00:41:26.48\00:41:30.01
in His sight by
observing the law."
00:41:30.04\00:41:32.32
Because we've all broken it.
00:41:32.35\00:41:33.73
"Rather, through the law
we become conscious of sin.
00:41:34.74\00:41:37.73
But now a righteousness from
God, apart from law, has been
00:41:38.13\00:41:42.58
made known, to which the
Law and the Prophets testify.
00:41:42.61\00:41:46.03
This righteousness from
God comes through faith in
00:41:46.06\00:41:50.08
Jesus Christ to all who believe.
00:41:50.11\00:41:53.15
There is no difference,
for all have sinned and
00:41:53.45\00:41:57.14
fall short of the glory of God."
00:41:57.17\00:41:58.79
It says, "fall short
of the glory of God."
00:41:58.82\00:42:00.73
That means everybody
continues to fall short
00:42:00.74\00:42:04.58
of the glory of God.
00:42:04.59\00:42:05.64
"All have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God,
00:42:09.00\00:42:11.46
and are
justified..." declared freely,
00:42:11.76\00:42:14.58
justified declared righteous,
00:42:15.26\00:42:17.50
"...freely by His
grace through the redemption
00:42:17.97\00:42:20.72
that came by Christ Jesus.
00:42:20.75\00:42:22.42
God presented Him as a
sacrifice of atonement,
00:42:22.45\00:42:27.36
through faith in His blood.
00:42:28.20\00:42:30.97
He did this to
demonstrate His justice."
00:42:31.00\00:42:35.56
Now listen carefully.
00:42:37.65\00:42:38.90
We need to ask
ourselves the question.
00:42:40.71\00:42:44.47
Who killed Christ?
00:42:46.39\00:42:48.36
This is a
pertinent searching question.
00:42:52.21\00:42:54.86
Who killed Christ?
00:42:55.55\00:42:57.63
The Bible says that Christ
gave Himself as a sacrifice
00:42:57.66\00:43:02.24
of atonement
because of our sins,
00:43:02.27\00:43:04.75
because of the
wrath of God against sin.
00:43:04.78\00:43:07.65
Now who killed Him?
00:43:08.68\00:43:09.92
Would you come to Acts chapter 2
00:43:09.93\00:43:11.97
and verses 22 and 23.
00:43:13.01\00:43:18.25
"Men of Israel, listen to this:
Jesus of Nazareth was a man
00:43:18.88\00:43:27.05
accredited by God to you by
miracles, wonders and signs,
00:43:27.08\00:43:31.17
which God did among you through
Him, as you yourselves know.
00:43:31.18\00:43:35.64
This man was handed over
to you by God's set purpose
00:43:35.67\00:43:40.46
and foreknowledge."
00:43:40.49\00:43:41.67
God did it.
00:43:41.70\00:43:42.80
"And you," the Jewish people,
"with the help of wicked men,"
00:43:43.31\00:43:47.77
the Roman
soldiers, "put Him to death
00:43:47.78\00:43:50.22
by nailing Him to the cross."
00:43:50.32\00:43:53.46
The Bible tells me, the
Jewish leaders crucified Him.
00:43:55.08\00:44:00.48
You know that.
00:44:00.51\00:44:01.85
The Bible tells me the Roman
solders drove in the nails.
00:44:02.38\00:44:07.13
And the Bible tells me
God did this by handing
00:44:08.48\00:44:12.78
Jesus over to them.
00:44:12.81\00:44:15.61
Therefore, it was God's
purpose that Christ should die.
00:44:16.19\00:44:21.78
So the Jews were guilty.
00:44:23.66\00:44:26.83
The Romans were guilty.
00:44:26.86\00:44:29.80
God was finally responsible.
00:44:29.83\00:44:33.06
But the Bible
teaches, personally
00:44:33.09\00:44:36.38
it was my sin
00:44:39.59\00:44:41.29
that nailed Him to the cross.
00:44:42.29\00:44:44.97
And the Bible teaches this.
00:44:45.97\00:44:47.43
Would you please
come to 2 Corinthians 5
00:44:47.46\00:44:50.45
and verses 20 and 21.
00:44:51.25\00:44:54.02
Look at these
words. Profound words.
00:45:00.18\00:45:04.44
"We are therefore
Christ's ambassadors, as though
00:45:04.47\00:45:09.57
God were making
His appeal through us.
00:45:09.60\00:45:12.35
We implore you on Christ's
behalf; be reconciled to God.
00:45:12.38\00:45:17.47
God made Him who had
no sin," He was sinless.
00:45:17.50\00:45:21.33
Never say that He
was a sinner, friend.
00:45:21.36\00:45:23.97
"God made Him, Christ, who
had no sin to be sin for us,
00:45:24.88\00:45:29.99
so that in Him we might become
the righteousness of God."
00:45:30.02\00:45:35.25
I pray earnestly now, as people
are watching the telecast,
00:45:37.91\00:45:43.26
as you are participating,
I pray for the miracle now
00:45:43.29\00:45:46.89
of the
illumination of the Holy Spirit.
00:45:47.82\00:45:50.22
We now enter the Holy of Holies.
00:45:51.77\00:45:54.75
I am a poor faltering sinful man
00:45:56.51\00:46:01.68
who dares talk
about this subject.
00:46:02.57\00:46:04.99
What happened
on the Roman cross.
00:46:06.95\00:46:11.67
The Romans nailed Him
there, the Jews gave Him up.
00:46:13.55\00:46:16.41
But it was God's purpose,
00:46:16.42\00:46:19.17
because God knew that
we were lost and damned and
00:46:20.10\00:46:23.45
on our way to hell unless
there was a blood atonement.
00:46:23.48\00:46:27.17
And on the cross, we put
our Lord, our blessed Lord,
00:46:28.76\00:46:33.48
our Lord Jesus
Christ, over here.
00:46:33.51\00:46:36.11
We put us over here.
00:46:37.00\00:46:38.83
And we are sinful.
00:46:39.62\00:46:42.63
We are unrighteous.
00:46:43.29\00:46:46.87
This is the
teaching of holy scripture.
00:46:46.90\00:46:50.67
We need not debate these points.
00:46:51.21\00:46:54.06
The court has sat
and the verdict is in;
00:46:54.76\00:46:59.89
we are guilty.
00:46:59.92\00:47:01.30
Sinful, unrighteous; and
our reward is eternal death,
00:47:02.80\00:47:11.35
separation from God.
00:47:12.14\00:47:14.40
Our blessed Lord is
sinless. Can you say amen?
00:47:14.43\00:47:20.69
He is righteous.
00:47:20.89\00:47:23.77
Look upon Jesus. Sinless is He.
00:47:23.80\00:47:27.31
And because He is who
He is, He has eternal life,
00:47:27.61\00:47:34.44
in communion with
the God of the universe
00:47:34.47\00:47:38.14
who has wrath against sin.
00:47:38.17\00:47:40.51
The righteous God
00:47:40.54\00:47:42.07
on the cross.
00:47:43.08\00:47:44.37
Do I understand
this? Of course not.
00:47:44.40\00:47:46.45
Nobody understand this.
00:47:47.48\00:47:49.33
The great
transaction that in some way,
00:47:49.73\00:47:52.69
incomprehensible to our
minds, Jesus our blessed Lord
00:47:52.72\00:47:59.05
came and stood over here.
00:47:59.08\00:48:02.23
And the sin of the
world was imputed to Him.
00:48:03.46\00:48:08.49
He was sinless.
00:48:10.93\00:48:12.23
But upon His sinless
soul, the sin of the world;
00:48:12.26\00:48:17.02
your sin, my sin, the
sin of every human being,
00:48:17.05\00:48:22.66
every adulterer, every
murderer, every Sabbath breaker,
00:48:22.69\00:48:28.23
every proud Pharisee,
the sin of Adolph Hitler,
00:48:28.24\00:48:33.55
everything was placed upon Him.
00:48:33.58\00:48:36.35
He felt the weight of a
terrible unrighteous world.
00:48:36.38\00:48:41.29
And He tasted eternal death.
00:48:42.71\00:48:46.24
One great theologian
said, listen to this,
00:48:47.93\00:48:54.57
"He could suffer more in
six hours than the human race
00:48:55.67\00:49:01.03
could suffer in a trillion
years because He was God."
00:49:01.06\00:49:06.13
His capacity for
suffering was infinite.
00:49:06.53\00:49:09.62
On the cross, He felt
the doom of the damned.
00:49:11.18\00:49:17.25
And from His lips came the cry,
00:49:22.51\00:49:26.27
"My God, My God! Why
have You forsaken Me?"
00:49:26.30\00:49:33.66
A famous Roman Catholic,
Bishop Fultun Sheen, said,
00:49:36.41\00:49:41.37
"For one brief hour in time,
He was unfurled on the cross
00:49:41.40\00:49:47.85
like a wounded eagle."
00:49:47.88\00:49:49.74
The same great bishop told
the story of the born fools;
00:49:52.62\00:49:56.87
a group of Baptist Christians
in the Gulag Archipelago
00:49:57.34\00:50:01.93
in the Soviet Union.
00:50:01.96\00:50:03.38
And in those days, the communist
officials would take prisoners
00:50:05.10\00:50:09.59
and beat them to pulp,
and sometimes murder them
00:50:09.62\00:50:13.52
with their own batons.
00:50:13.55\00:50:15.04
They killed millions.
00:50:15.07\00:50:16.52
That's atheism in practice.
00:50:16.55\00:50:18.80
No hope, no God.
00:50:19.22\00:50:21.07
Man is nothing.
00:50:21.45\00:50:22.84
Man is a cosmic accident.
00:50:23.14\00:50:25.03
He is a mistake.
00:50:25.40\00:50:26.77
He is a product of time
plus matter plus chance.
00:50:26.80\00:50:29.80
He is animated mud
on the way to dust.
00:50:29.83\00:50:31.96
And when they would come
to beat some of the atheists,
00:50:34.46\00:50:38.25
the Baptist
Christians said to the guards,
00:50:38.28\00:50:41.19
"Don't beat them,
because they curse and
00:50:41.22\00:50:44.23
they blaspheme so much.
00:50:44.26\00:50:45.80
And so much more poison is
spread out into the world."
00:50:45.84\00:50:49.20
The Baptists said, "Beat
us, and we will praise God."
00:50:50.58\00:50:55.74
They said, "You fools."
00:50:56.73\00:50:58.70
So they called them, born fools.
00:50:59.39\00:51:02.86
And so these Baptist Christians,
in a sense, took upon themselves
00:51:03.68\00:51:10.06
the sins of the
unbelievers, and were beaten.
00:51:10.09\00:51:14.60
In a very real
sense, Jesus felt the pain
00:51:20.45\00:51:26.20
of every person
who has ever lived.
00:51:27.78\00:51:30.25
The person dying of
cancer; He felt the pain,
00:51:31.28\00:51:34.25
the anguish, the heartache.
00:51:34.28\00:51:36.93
He felt the despair and
the damnation of the man who
00:51:36.96\00:51:42.04
is shut outside the
kingdom of God at the very end.
00:51:42.05\00:51:45.42
Ellen White said, "Hanging
on the cross was the gospel."
00:51:51.76\00:51:55.21
It's true.
00:51:56.07\00:51:57.32
What sort of God
is this, I ask you?
00:51:58.49\00:52:01.17
I ask you, what
sort of God is this?
00:52:01.20\00:52:03.85
What sort of people are we?
00:52:03.88\00:52:05.76
The God who made the universe...
00:52:08.64\00:52:10.84
I've studied astronomy a little.
00:52:11.24\00:52:13.56
I am overwhelmed by the
incomprehensible mysteries
00:52:14.16\00:52:18.45
of the universe, the vastness.
00:52:18.48\00:52:20.51
But the hand that made the
stars was the hand that was
00:52:21.07\00:52:25.59
nailed to the cross.
00:52:25.62\00:52:27.10
How He must love us.
00:52:27.11\00:52:29.01
On the cross, He made a
perfect blood atonement for the
00:52:31.67\00:52:37.19
sins of the world.
00:52:37.22\00:52:38.28
We do not believe in the
moral influence theory that says
00:52:38.29\00:52:42.32
He was a great example.
00:52:42.35\00:52:43.71
I need more than an example.
00:52:43.74\00:52:46.23
I need a Savior.
00:52:48.19\00:52:49.82
I do.
00:52:50.59\00:52:51.63
No one can ever
say, no one can ever say,
00:52:52.67\00:52:56.34
"God doesn't
understand how I feel."
00:52:56.74\00:52:59.44
There is infinite
power in His blood.
00:53:04.47\00:53:06.86
You must experience it.
00:53:08.68\00:53:10.29
You must come to Him tonight,
you must believe in Him.
00:53:10.32\00:53:13.21
You must put away unbelief.
00:53:13.81\00:53:15.41
Come to Him and know that
this is bigger than anything
00:53:15.44\00:53:18.13
you've ever heard.
00:53:18.16\00:53:19.25
Infinite power in His
blood to forgive, to justify,
00:53:20.10\00:53:23.11
to transform, to redeem,
00:53:23.14\00:53:25.55
from the gutter
most to the utter most.
00:53:25.58\00:53:28.07
Elder Gilley, a dear friend,
was a friend of H.M.S. Richards;
00:53:29.25\00:53:35.08
the dean of our
preachers, a great preacher.
00:53:36.77\00:53:39.62
He knows the story.
00:53:40.08\00:53:41.30
Some of you will know it too.
00:53:41.31\00:53:42.61
When Harold Richards,
a man who raised up the
00:53:44.26\00:53:47.84
Voice Of
Prophecy, was a little boy,
00:53:47.87\00:53:51.19
he was always
teasing his brother.
00:53:51.22\00:53:52.81
He had his brother
screaming, almost hysterical.
00:53:55.70\00:53:59.64
His beautiful mother
said, "Harold, this must stop.
00:53:59.67\00:54:02.40
You're driving your brother
crazy, it's got to stop."
00:54:03.19\00:54:06.32
"Oh, I won't do it
again if you tell me not to."
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But he couldn't help himself.
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That's how it is with sin.
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You can't help yourself.
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You try, but you
can't help yourself.
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You know what you need?
00:54:19.58\00:54:20.61
The blood.
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You need to know
that God loves you.
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She said, "Harold,
if you ever do it again,
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I'm not going to beat
you, you're going to beat me."
00:54:27.84\00:54:30.48
Oh never.
00:54:30.51\00:54:31.89
He said "I'll
never do it again."
00:54:31.92\00:54:34.28
But he couldn't control the sin.
00:54:36.16\00:54:38.01
His mother sent him
down to the creek at the back
00:54:38.04\00:54:40.74
of the property to get a
stick, a big one to beat her.
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He came back with one this long.
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She sent him
back time after time
00:54:47.04\00:54:49.06
until he came back with a rod.
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And H.M.S. Richards
told the story how his mother
00:54:50.89\00:54:53.87
took him into the bedroom,
sat him down on the bed,
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and bared her shoulders,
and said, "Harold, beat me."
00:54:56.55\00:55:01.01
He said, "I can't
beat you, mother."
00:55:01.75\00:55:03.38
He spoke of the
terrible struggle;
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obedience to his mother
who stood for him in the
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place of God, and
his love for his mother.
00:55:12.08\00:55:14.21
But she said, "Harold, beat me."
00:55:15.83\00:55:17.44
She bent over the bed and he
lifted up, lifted up the rod,
00:55:17.47\00:55:21.46
and tried to bring it down.
00:55:21.49\00:55:23.64
Then he broke down.
00:55:25.27\00:55:26.96
And his mother put her arm
around the shoulder of H.M.S.
00:55:27.73\00:55:31.93
and told him the story of
how the innocent was beaten
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by the guilty, for the
guilty, with the guilty.
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That's when he found
out that Jesus loved him.
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Listen.
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I just wish, I just wish tonight
that every person here tonight
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would know this;
that God loves us so much
00:55:53.84\00:55:58.01
that He went to
the cross for us.
00:55:59.88\00:56:01.72
You think of it.
00:56:01.75\00:56:03.06
God went to the cross for us.
00:56:03.09\00:56:05.94
And He paid the price for
our sins with His own blood.
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I need more than an
example, I need a Savior.
00:56:10.45\00:56:13.97
And if you and I come
to Him as little children,
00:56:15.98\00:56:21.32
recognize that we are sinners
and open up our heart to Christ,
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He takes away all of our
guilt and all of our sin.
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And He gives us
everlasting life.
00:56:33.47\00:56:36.51
Hallelujah, hallelujah.
00:56:36.54\00:56:39.48
Let us pray.
00:56:39.68\00:56:41.17
Oh my Father,
thank You for Christ.
00:56:42.13\00:56:45.87
Thank You for the
sufferings of the Son of God,
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which were the infinite
sufferings of an infinite God.
00:56:51.45\00:56:56.05
We raise our hands
tonight, we raise our hearts.
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Lift up your hands and
say, "Thank You, Jesus."
00:57:00.66\00:57:04.86
Say it.
00:57:05.28\00:57:06.39
Thank You, Jesus.
00:57:06.42\00:57:07.74
Thank You for
the blood atonement.
00:57:07.77\00:57:10.16
Cover me with the
blood of the cross tonight.
00:57:11.50\00:57:14.02
I rejoice tonight.
I thank You tonight.
00:57:16.08\00:57:20.07
In Jesus' name,
in Jesus' name, amen.
00:57:20.97\00:57:27.16
And God bless you all.
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