Welcome to Anchors Of Truth
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live from the
3ABN Worship Center.
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Well tonight we are
with part two of this series,
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The Revelation of
Whom, with Pastor Lee Venden.
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And I am looking
forward to tonight's subject.
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Because last night's subject
was something that really
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opened my eyes to some
new concepts and new views
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of the hot and the cold and
the Laodicean of Revelation.
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Tonight we're going to continue
in the book of Revelation
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with, Who Gets the Glory.
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And I tell you, one
of my favorite songs is,
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To God Be The Glory.
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And I cannot believe that
it is not going to be answered
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in that same way tonight.
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Because I believe
that is exactly what
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Pastor Lee Venden is
going to be sharing with us.
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If you don't know who
Lee Venden is, he is a pastor
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of over 30 years in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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And he and his wife, Marji,
have been married, I think,
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36 years, and they
have two wonderful children.
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And he's educated, of
course, in our schools.
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His father was also a pastor,
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and his
grandfather was a pastor.
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And I don't know
how far it goes back.
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And each pastor is in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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He is now the Revivalist in
the Upper Columbia Conference.
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And we have appreciated
very much his being with us.
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He's going to be
leading us in prayer before
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the sermon tonight.
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And before he comes, I'm
going to ask our good friend
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C.A. Murray to sing for
us, I'll Tell The World.
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I'll tell the world
that I'm a Christian,
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I'm not ashamed
His name to bear.
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I'll tell the world
that I'm a Christian,
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I'll take Him
with me everywhere.
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I'll tell the
world how Jesus saved me,
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and how He gave
me a life brand new.
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And I know that
if you trust Him,
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that all He gave
me He'll give to you.
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I'll tell the world
that He's my Savior,
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no other one could love me so.
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My life, my all, is His forever,
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and where He leads me I will go.
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I'll tell the
world Jesus is coming,
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and it may be
near or far, far away.
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But we've got to
live as if that coming
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could be tomorrow or today.
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For when He
comes and life is over,
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for those who love
Him there's more to be.
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Eyes have never seen the wonders
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that He's
preparing for you and me.
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Go tell the world
that you're a Christian,
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don't be ashamed
His name to bear.
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Just tell the world
that you are a Christian,
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and take Him
with you everywhere.
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I'll tell the
world how Jesus saved me,
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and how He gave
me a life brand new.
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And I know that
if you trust Him,
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that all He gave to
me He'll give to you.
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I'll tell the world
that I'm a Christian,
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I'm not ashamed
His name to bear.
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I'll tell the world
that I'm a Christian,
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I'll take Him with me anywhere.
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I'll take Him with me anywhere.
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I want to pray again, so
I'm just going to ask you to
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join me as we do that.
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Lord Jesus, I
know I am insufficient.
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And I am asking for You
to distribute some loaves and
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some fishes for us.
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I remember when the disciples
were there, that You said,
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"Feed them," and they
said, "We don't have anything."
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And You, "Well, here.
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We'll take this little boy's
lunch and we'll distribute it.
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Please Lord Jesus, hand out the
loaves and fishes to us tonight.
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Use me in any way that You can.
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But may the
message come from You.
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And Lord, also would You just
give us the ears and the eyes,
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the spiritual eyesight, the
glasses and the hearing aids
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that we need
spiritually to hear Your voice
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speaking from
this book, Your book.
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I pray this in Your
name, Lord Jesus, amen.
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We are continuing to look for
Jesus in the book of Revelation.
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Looking for
Jesus in His own book.
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And tonight we're going
to specifically look for Him
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in a portion of the
book that is known as the
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three angels' portion.
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The three angels'
messages of Revelation 14.
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Now traditionally,
when Seventh-day Adventists
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think about what are
the three angel's messages
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in Revelation 14,
the traditional sort of
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thought that comes
to most of our minds
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would be, first of all, a
warning about the judgment
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in verse 7, a plea to stay out
of false churches in verse 8,
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and an indictment of
the beast in verse 9.
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That's the typical
way that we tend to unpack
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these three angels.
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But I am highly
motivated to look for Jesus
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in this message.
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And in fact, over the years I
have gathered an assortment...
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In fact, I have more
than fourteen of them.
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...of quotations
from inspired commentators
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that I write in
the front of my Bible.
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And they say things like
this, "Never should any message
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or any doctrine be preached
or given that doesn't make Jesus
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the heart and core and
central pivotal theme."
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So I'm thinking, let's try to
do that with the three angels.
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I already mentioned, if
you ask most people what
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they think of, let's
take the first angel's message
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for example, they would
probably say, "The hour of God's
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judgment is come."
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That's the typical.
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But is that really the message?
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Is that really the message?
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Revelation 14:6 says,
"Then I saw another angel
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flying in the
midst of heaven..."
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Now underline that
word, "everlasting."
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And then underline, "gospel."
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So, the message is
the everlasting gospel.
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This angel is setting us
up for the three messages
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that are coming, see.
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And he says it's
the everlasting gospel.
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Now, let me ask you a question.
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What's the everlasting gospel?
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What is it?
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If it's to be given to
every nation, every kindred,
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every tongue, and every people,
would that include Muslims?
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Yeah.
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Would that include Buddhists?
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Yeah.
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So what would be the message
that we would need to take
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to Muslims and Buddhists?
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Watch out for judgment,
stay out of false churches,
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and beware of the beast?
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What would Muslims and Buddhists
do with that kind of a message?
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Actually, that's not
the message we're to take.
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We're suppose to take
the everlasting gospel.
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That's the message.
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So what is the
everlasting gospel?
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Revelation 14:7...
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"For the hour of His judgment
is come," is in the message.
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It's there.
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But it's not "the" message.
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It's in it, but
it's not "the" message.
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It's only a part.
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And I will suggest that
it's a significant part,
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but it's not "the" message.
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For starters, we noticed
a moment ago, and I told you
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to underline it.
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It's the everlasting gospel
that we're to take to every
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kindred, tongue,
nation, and people.
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Well is, "the hour
of God's judgment,"
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the everlasting gospel?
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According to Daniel,
the hour of God's judgment
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began in the 1800's.
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So now if something
began in the 1800's,
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it wouldn't be everlasting.
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Right?
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So it's going to have
to be something other than
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something that
began in the 1800's.
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What is the "everlasting"
part of this message?
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What is it?
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Well in order to figure
it out, my preacher father
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decided to try and do something
that you might remember
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having to do when you
were in elementary school.
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Or maybe you did it in
high school, I don't know where.
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I kind of forget
now where it was,
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but it was
diagramming sentences.
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I did not look forward to
that part of my education,
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diagramming sentences.
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And since having
finished school, I still don't
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look for opportunities
to diagram sentences.
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One of the things I've
discovered is that when you
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diagram a sentence,
there seems to be about as many
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interpretations of what
would be a correct way to
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diagram it as there
are English professors.
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And so you might
think you did a good job,
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and then there will be
someone else that'll say,
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"Well, no this is..." you know.
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But anyway, so my dad decided
to try and see if we could
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make a little more sense of
what the everlasting gospel is,
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or the "everlasting"
part of the message is,
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by diagramming the sentence.
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So we're going to try and
give a graphic on the screen
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to show you.
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This is a compound sentence.
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And part one of the
message was, "Fear God."
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Now if you were going to diagram
that, what would the verb be?
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The verb would be, "fear."
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Are you getting on the screen?
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Yeah you're getting it. Okay.
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What would the object be?
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"God."
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Alright, so far we have the
verb and we have the object.
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But what is the subject.
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The subject is
actually not even in the verse.
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The subject is what
they would say is understood.
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The subject is, "you."
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"You." You fear God.
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"You" are the subject.
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Now let's go on to
part 2 of the message.
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It said, "Fear God," okay.
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Part 2 is, "Give glory to Him."
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Alright, so what's the subject?
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"You."
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What's the verb?
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"Give."
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What's the object?
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"Glory." "Glory."
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So where does
the, "to Him," come in?
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I guess I'd call it
a prepositional phrase,
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but maybe someone will
tell me that's not right.
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But anyway, for the
sake of our diagram,
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I put it as a
prepositional phrase.
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Alright?
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But once again, you
see the subject is, "you."
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Understood.
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Now let's come
to the third part.
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"Worship Him."
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Alright.
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The verb is, "worship."
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The object is, "Him."
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But what's the subject?
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Once again it's,
"you." It's understood.
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Alright?
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So now, after the
"everlasting" part...
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Because these are
the "everlasting" parts.
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After the "everlasting" parts,
where does judgment fit in.
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Well it sounds a little bit
like a prepositional phrase;
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"The hour of
God's judgment is come."
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Maybe.
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My dad thought maybe it
would be a prepositional phrase.
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And he suggested that, a
little bit unsure of himself
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when he did, in a meeting.
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And it was actually being
held at the Pacific Press.
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And the people who were
workers at the Pacific Press
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were there in the audience.
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And he suggested that it
may be a prepositional phrase.
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But a book editor told
him actually it wasn't.
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"The hour of God's
judgment" was actually an
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adverbial clause, he said.
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An adverbial clause.
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Aren't you glad to know that?
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Are you going to sleep
better tonight knowing that it's
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an adverbial clause?
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My dad felt good knowing
that he had this from an editor.
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So the next time he was
speaking on this subject,
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he was actually speaking
at Loma Linda University.
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And he said that it
was an adverbial clause
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feeling that he was in,
you know, that's he's going to
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look a little more credible now.
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But after that presentation,
an English professor
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from Loma Linda told him that
it was not an adverbial clause.
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She hated to disagree
with the book editor from the
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Pacific Press, but
that it actually was a
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conjunctive clause.
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Well dad, you know, he
wanted to do the right thing.
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And he thought, "I
suppose an English professor
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has rank over a book editor."
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And so, you know, the next time
he presented on this subject,
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he said, "The hour
of God's judgment,"
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feeling like he had some
authority behind him now,
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he said, "the hour
of God's judgment," is a
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conjunctive clause.
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Well he was preaching
that at Andrews University,
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and a Greek professor
caught him after the meeting
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and said, "Actually, if you look
at it in the original language,
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the best way we
could, what we'd call it,
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it would be a causal clause."
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"The hour of God's
judgment," is a causal clause.
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So in order to be safe tonight,
because I don't want to run
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the risk that my dad
ran, I'm going to refer to,
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"The hour of
God's judgment," as a
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causal adverbial conjunctive
prepositional phrase clause.
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Alright?
00:18:21.23\00:18:22.26
And that ought to cover it.
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But what's the real point?
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The real point is that,
"The hour of God's judgment,"
00:18:26.36\00:18:30.05
is subsidiary to and not
the main part of the message.
00:18:30.08\00:18:35.99
Okay?
00:18:36.39\00:18:37.42
It's not the main part.
00:18:37.63\00:18:39.62
It's subsidiary
to the main message.
00:18:40.07\00:18:43.25
The main message
is, "You fear God,"
00:18:43.53\00:18:47.10
"You give glory to
Him," "You worship Him,"
00:18:47.13\00:18:51.59
"for the hour of
His judgment is come."
00:18:51.62\00:18:54.37
See?
00:18:54.92\00:18:55.95
Well, this is a common thread.
00:18:57.37\00:19:02.31
And we're going to be unpacking
the three angels looking for
00:19:02.34\00:19:04.85
Jesus in them in these
next few presentations.
00:19:04.88\00:19:08.61
We're going to notice something
that I'm going to draw your
00:19:08.84\00:19:11.04
attention to right
now, and that is this;
00:19:11.07\00:19:12.66
there's a common
thread in all three messages.
00:19:12.69\00:19:15.65
And that common thread is...
00:19:15.68\00:19:17.13
That's the common thread.
00:19:30.73\00:19:32.30
And you're going to
see that common threat
00:19:32.33\00:19:34.45
going all the way
through the angels' messages.
00:19:35.01\00:19:39.29
I'm told that the British
Navy, in order to identify
00:19:39.32\00:19:42.35
the ropes that they use in their
rigging, have a scarlet thread
00:19:42.38\00:19:46.12
that goes through the center
of all of their braided rope.
00:19:46.15\00:19:48.95
And they can tell
their rope in a heartbeat
00:19:48.98\00:19:51.20
because it's the rope with the
scarlet thread going through it.
00:19:51.23\00:19:53.73
That belongs to
the British Navy.
00:19:53.76\00:19:55.34
The thread going through
the three angels' messages
00:19:55.67\00:19:58.95
is a warning against self
worship or self dependence,
00:19:58.98\00:20:02.27
and an invitation to
the deeper life of faith,
00:20:02.55\00:20:04.45
especially in
the time of judgment.
00:20:04.48\00:20:05.77
So at this point I'd
like to read three paragraphs
00:20:05.80\00:20:09.54
that were written to
our church many years ago.
00:20:09.57\00:20:13.42
The first one comes from
a manuscript, Manuscript 15.
00:20:13.77\00:20:18.10
It was written in 1888,
and this is what it says.
00:20:18.13\00:20:20.76
"...but few, even of those
who claim to understand it..."
00:20:36.23\00:20:40.78
Here's the second paragraph.
00:20:41.86\00:20:43.37
Testimonies, volume 5.
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Wow.
00:20:55.81\00:20:56.86
And here comes the third
one from the book called,
00:20:57.74\00:20:59.47
Evangelism, page 196.
00:20:59.50\00:21:01.59
Now let me ask you a question.
00:21:20.27\00:21:21.88
Is, "watch out for the
beast," the only hope for a
00:21:22.18\00:21:26.27
perishing world?
00:21:26.30\00:21:27.87
Actually, it's not.
00:21:28.58\00:21:29.83
Towards the end of the
nineteenth century there was
00:21:31.88\00:21:34.40
a group of people
who got very excited
00:21:34.43\00:21:38.48
about the subject of
Jesus and His righteousness,
00:21:38.51\00:21:42.53
and His matchless charms,
and the privilege of having
00:21:42.56\00:21:46.84
a personal meaningful intimate
ongoing relationship with Him.
00:21:46.87\00:21:52.15
They got very excited about that
00:21:52.18\00:21:53.78
back towards the end
of the nineteenth century.
00:21:54.49\00:21:57.20
And they got so excited
that there was another group...
00:21:57.82\00:22:01.96
Now I'm referring to
some of the roots in history
00:22:02.69\00:22:05.65
of the church I belong to.
00:22:05.95\00:22:07.91
...another group got nervous.
00:22:08.52\00:22:10.10
The old guard got nervous.
00:22:10.43\00:22:12.71
I would suggest to you that the
old guard still gets nervous.
00:22:17.10\00:22:20.60
It hasn't changed,
things haven't changed.
00:22:21.21\00:22:22.94
But the old guard got
nervous with the focus on Jesus
00:22:23.24\00:22:26.70
and relationship.
00:22:26.73\00:22:27.76
They got nervous.
00:22:27.79\00:22:29.08
And they said, "We need to
stick to our pillar doctrines."
00:22:29.37\00:22:33.04
And then they cited them.
00:22:33.07\00:22:34.36
They said, "We need
to be preaching about the
00:22:34.39\00:22:36.69
seventh day Sabbath.
00:22:36.72\00:22:38.11
We need to be preaching about
the condition of man in death.
00:22:38.14\00:22:41.26
We need to be
preaching the 2300 day prophecy.
00:22:41.29\00:22:44.08
We need to be preaching
the second coming of Christ.
00:22:44.11\00:22:46.91
We need to stick to
our pillar doctrines."
00:22:46.94\00:22:50.52
They were nervous.
00:22:50.55\00:22:51.59
Well so many of the
old guard wrote letters
00:22:52.31\00:22:56.49
to our church periodical
expressing their concerns.
00:22:57.31\00:23:01.55
So many of them wrote letters
that in the April 1st edition
00:23:01.58\00:23:10.30
of 1890 in our church periodical
were penned these words
00:23:10.50\00:23:14.91
in response to the
old guards concern.
00:23:14.94\00:23:17.68
"Several have
written me inquiring..."
00:23:19.26\00:23:22.12
Now what does,
"in verity," mean?
00:23:37.63\00:23:39.32
That would be
another way of saying,
00:23:39.61\00:23:41.29
"You better believe it is."
00:23:41.32\00:23:43.82
That would be
another way of saying,
00:23:44.65\00:23:46.02
"Is that the
message? Oh, you bet it is."
00:23:46.05\00:23:49.78
"Absolutely, that's what it is."
00:23:50.13\00:23:52.91
Wow.
00:23:54.77\00:23:55.94
The third angel's message is
the message of righteousness by
00:23:56.75\00:23:59.72
faith in Christ alone in verity.
00:23:59.75\00:24:02.65
Well how could we be
so off base as to think
00:24:04.02\00:24:07.44
it was these other things?
00:24:07.47\00:24:09.72
Well maybe you're saying,
"Were we really off base?
00:24:10.38\00:24:12.83
Maybe you're being a
little bit hard on our pioneers.
00:24:12.86\00:24:17.16
Were we really off base?"
00:24:17.46\00:24:19.67
Well in that same
journal, our church periodical,
00:24:21.36\00:24:25.74
September 3, 1889,
these words were penned.
00:24:26.14\00:24:30.64
Not one in a what?
00:24:47.57\00:24:49.14
Not one in a hundred.
00:24:49.74\00:24:51.76
Understands what?
00:24:52.18\00:24:54.21
The message of justification
by faith in Christ alone.
00:24:54.24\00:24:58.10
Not one in a
hundred understand that.
00:24:58.13\00:24:59.95
Now just a moment ago, I read
you from the same periodical
00:24:59.99\00:25:03.72
that the message of the
three angels is the message
00:25:04.42\00:25:08.75
of justification by
faith in Christ alone.
00:25:08.78\00:25:11.60
Just read that.
00:25:11.80\00:25:12.83
So now put these two
together and use a little logic.
00:25:13.14\00:25:17.08
If it is true that justification
by faith is the third angel's
00:25:17.98\00:25:22.43
message in verity, and
if not one in a hundred
00:25:22.46\00:25:25.66
understand justification
by faith, then the conclusion
00:25:25.69\00:25:29.70
would be that not one
in a hundred understand the
00:25:29.73\00:25:32.50
three angels' messages.
00:25:32.53\00:25:33.90
And yet, it is the message of
absolute and highest importance
00:25:36.23\00:25:42.28
for the world
at the end of time.
00:25:43.18\00:25:44.75
I don't know if you're aware
of this, but we've been told
00:25:44.78\00:25:46.85
that just before the end of
time, just before Jesus comes,
00:25:46.88\00:25:49.74
during the closing
scenes, this message is going to
00:25:49.77\00:25:52.40
swallow up ever other
message and encircle the globe
00:25:52.43\00:25:56.00
like fire in stubble.
00:25:56.03\00:25:57.72
And yet, not one in a
hundred understand it correctly.
00:25:58.76\00:26:01.62
Whoa, I'm glad
those weren't my words.
00:26:02.05\00:26:04.61
Because someone might take
a shot at me for saying that
00:26:05.38\00:26:07.31
if they thought it was my words.
00:26:07.34\00:26:09.16
Well you might say, "Yeah, well
that was the nineteenth century,
00:26:11.18\00:26:14.68
end of the nineteenth century.
00:26:14.71\00:26:16.43
Sure glad we
didn't live back then.
00:26:17.21\00:26:19.16
Sure glad we're enlightened."
00:26:19.83\00:26:21.97
Well I'm going to
tell you something
00:26:25.27\00:26:26.71
about our enlightenment.
00:26:27.54\00:26:29.25
For the last five and a
half years, my wife and I have
00:26:30.57\00:26:33.12
been fulltime Revivalists for
the Upper Columbia Conference.
00:26:33.15\00:26:37.20
I believe that was
mentioned just a few moments ago
00:26:37.77\00:26:39.76
in the introduction.
00:26:39.79\00:26:40.85
Next week we're going to be
taking our "All About Jesus"
00:26:44.93\00:26:47.64
revival seminar to
Kelowna British Columbia.
00:26:47.67\00:26:50.36
It will be the 100th
church we've done the seminar at
00:26:50.39\00:26:53.57
since we started
five and a half years ago.
00:26:53.60\00:26:55.71
Part of what we've done
as we do the seminar is,
00:26:57.41\00:26:59.93
at the end we give a survey out.
00:26:59.96\00:27:02.38
It's anonymous, you don't
sign your name or anything.
00:27:02.41\00:27:04.77
We ask five
questions to help us understand
00:27:04.80\00:27:07.72
if we've
scratched where it itched.
00:27:07.75\00:27:09.37
One of the questions,
the very first question is,
00:27:10.00\00:27:13.80
"Please describe your
personal spiritual life prior
00:27:13.83\00:27:17.55
to attending the "All
About Jesus" revival seminar.
00:27:17.75\00:27:20.63
Then there are three choices for
them to look at and circle one.
00:27:20.98\00:27:23.79
The first choice is, "Distant
from God, disinterested in Him.
00:27:23.82\00:27:27.01
Fairly rebellious."
00:27:27.04\00:27:28.47
Okay, that's the first choice.
00:27:28.50\00:27:29.91
The second choice is,
"Regular in church attendance,
00:27:30.33\00:27:33.46
but no daily time
alone with Christ."
00:27:33.49\00:27:35.98
The third choice is,
"Regular daily time with Jesus
00:27:37.03\00:27:42.01
and excited to
share with others."
00:27:42.04\00:27:44.54
That's the third choice. Okay.
00:27:44.85\00:27:47.21
Now the people who would
come to an "All About Jesus"
00:27:47.55\00:27:50.84
revival seminar
would be the people who are
00:27:50.87\00:27:52.97
most interested in Jesus.
00:27:53.00\00:27:54.36
Right?
00:27:54.39\00:27:55.49
I mean, that's who would
come to that kind of a seminar.
00:27:55.52\00:27:57.34
In any given church, the people
who would come to that seminar
00:27:57.37\00:28:00.55
are the people most
interested in Jesus.
00:28:00.58\00:28:02.23
I'm going to tell you
what the cumulative average is.
00:28:03.38\00:28:05.88
We've taken the survey in large
churches and small churches.
00:28:05.91\00:28:09.03
Churches with thousands
of members, churches with
00:28:09.06\00:28:11.41
just 30 or 40
members, all over the country
00:28:11.44\00:28:14.13
and outside of the
country around the world.
00:28:14.16\00:28:16.82
Alright, here's the answer.
00:28:18.63\00:28:20.79
70 to 80% of the
people who attend...
00:28:21.92\00:28:26.83
...circled B as their answer.
00:28:28.73\00:28:31.08
"Regular in church attendance,
but little or no daily
00:28:31.70\00:28:35.54
time with Christ one on one."
00:28:35.57\00:28:38.59
What does that tell me?
00:28:41.90\00:28:43.12
The message of righteousness
by faith in Christ alone
00:28:44.13\00:28:47.68
is about a personal
relationship with Him.
00:28:50.01\00:28:54.46
That's what it's about.
00:28:54.70\00:28:56.00
It's about
knowing Him as friend.
00:28:56.48\00:28:58.14
It's about communing with Him.
00:28:58.17\00:28:59.43
It's about becoming
better acquainted with Him
00:28:59.46\00:29:01.02
on a daily basis.
00:29:01.05\00:29:02.08
It's about
spending time in His Word.
00:29:02.11\00:29:03.56
It's about
speaking to Him in prayer.
00:29:03.59\00:29:06.24
It's about sharing to
others what you are learning
00:29:06.27\00:29:09.22
about this wonderful friendship
that you are cultivating and
00:29:09.25\00:29:12.11
nurturing on a daily basis.
00:29:12.14\00:29:13.71
That's what it's all about.
00:29:13.74\00:29:15.19
It does not exist, righteousness
by faith does not exist
00:29:15.22\00:29:18.36
outside of a
relationship with Christ.
00:29:18.39\00:29:20.30
It's by faith in Christ.
00:29:21.06\00:29:22.66
So if 70 to 80% of the
people who attend church
00:29:23.84\00:29:29.03
in this enlightened
time that we live in
00:29:29.06\00:29:31.75
don't have a
daily walk with Jesus,
00:29:32.76\00:29:35.09
then it would appear to me that
they're still relevant, see.
00:29:36.39\00:29:39.23
When you're talking experiential
now, not one in a hundred
00:29:41.95\00:29:46.46
understand for
themselves the message of
00:29:47.36\00:29:49.36
justification by faith?
00:29:49.39\00:29:51.24
Wow.
00:29:52.49\00:29:53.52
Okay, so what is the message
of justification by faith?
00:29:53.55\00:29:56.99
Testimonies to Ministers, "What
is justification by faith...
00:29:57.93\00:30:01.35
Well how much can
man do for himself?
00:30:12.91\00:30:14.90
Well let's just look
to Jesus for the answer
00:30:17.39\00:30:20.15
on that one, shall we?
00:30:20.18\00:30:21.47
John 15:5, Jesus said...
00:30:21.50\00:30:24.79
He talks about abiding in Him.
00:30:33.68\00:30:35.42
And then He says, "Without
Me, you can do nothing."
00:30:35.45\00:30:39.85
Wow, well how much is nothing?
00:30:42.21\00:30:43.59
Someone says, zero.
00:30:45.61\00:30:46.88
But actually you could say,
nothing is what you have left
00:30:47.42\00:30:49.47
after you take the
peeling off of a zero.
00:30:49.50\00:30:51.74
If you would peel a
zero, what's left is nothing.
00:30:51.77\00:30:54.14
Nothing; Jesus said, "Without
Me, you can do nothing."
00:30:55.08\00:30:57.07
Now many people like this
other verse, Philippians 4:13.
00:30:57.27\00:31:00.77
They like this
one a little better.
00:31:00.80\00:31:01.99
How does it read?
00:31:02.59\00:31:03.87
Now let's put
those two together.
00:31:11.00\00:31:15.61
If without Him I can do nothing,
00:31:16.50\00:31:19.53
but with Him I
can do all things,
00:31:20.91\00:31:23.84
then who's responsible
for the "all things?"
00:31:26.09\00:31:30.81
Because see, when
I'm by myself, zip.
00:31:31.74\00:31:34.45
When I'm with Him, all
things. What does that mean?
00:31:34.48\00:31:37.09
It means somebody
else is responsible
00:31:37.12\00:31:38.64
for the "all things,"
because when I'm without
00:31:38.67\00:31:40.20
Him there's nothing happening.
00:31:40.23\00:31:41.35
But with Him,
everything is happening.
00:31:41.38\00:31:42.55
All things are
happening. Alright.
00:31:42.58\00:31:44.39
So if He's the one responsible
for the "all things," not me...
00:31:44.42\00:31:48.98
Just a moment ago, we
noted that the message of
00:31:49.99\00:31:52.05
justification by faith
is God doing for man what he
00:31:52.08\00:31:54.56
cannot do for himself.
00:31:54.59\00:31:55.91
Okay, if He's responsible
for the "all things,"
00:31:55.94\00:31:58.20
then what would be my part?
00:31:58.23\00:31:59.58
What would be my
part? What would be my job?
00:31:59.61\00:32:01.51
My part would
be to get with Him,
00:32:01.85\00:32:05.61
and stay with Him, and
nurture a relationship with Him.
00:32:06.05\00:32:10.85
That would be my part.
00:32:10.88\00:32:11.94
His part is the "all things,"
my part is getting with Him.
00:32:12.97\00:32:15.85
And it's not something
that happens once a week.
00:32:16.03\00:32:18.03
It's something that
happens on a daily basis.
00:32:18.06\00:32:19.98
It's not just showing
up in church once a week
00:32:20.35\00:32:22.44
and singing a song
or two, and saying,
00:32:22.47\00:32:24.35
"That was a fine program.
00:32:24.38\00:32:25.54
And I was fed, the
pastor fed me well."
00:32:25.57\00:32:27.62
And I'm going to go
home and I'm going to live
00:32:27.65\00:32:29.20
for a week on that meal.
00:32:29.23\00:32:30.44
And next week, I'll come
back and get another helping."
00:32:30.47\00:32:32.39
No, it's not. It's a
daily walk with Jesus.
00:32:33.03\00:32:35.91
Sitting in church once a week
does not make me a Christian
00:32:35.94\00:32:40.05
any more than sitting
in a garage makes me a car.
00:32:40.08\00:32:43.42
Right?
00:32:43.45\00:32:44.49
There's something more.
00:32:44.52\00:32:45.91
Something more.
00:32:46.31\00:32:47.58
Well, if He is the
one responsible for the
00:32:49.80\00:32:53.36
"all things," then
who would get the glory?
00:32:53.39\00:32:55.63
Jesus would.
00:32:56.65\00:32:57.81
Right?
00:32:57.84\00:32:58.87
He would get the glory.
00:32:58.90\00:33:00.16
And now you see how
this starts to fit into the
00:33:00.19\00:33:02.89
three angels' messages.
00:33:02.92\00:33:04.15
Because it talked
about giving Him glory.
00:33:04.57\00:33:06.85
Giving Him glory.
00:33:07.11\00:33:08.41
Let's look a little
deeper at the three parts
00:33:08.44\00:33:11.33
that we had on that diagram.
00:33:11.36\00:33:12.70
Okay, the first
one was, "Fear God."
00:33:12.73\00:33:14.19
What does this mean?
00:33:14.22\00:33:15.26
Well it means to hold
Him in awe or reverence.
00:33:15.29\00:33:18.51
Nobody would ever hold
Him in awe or reverence
00:33:19.73\00:33:22.45
who did not know Him.
00:33:22.48\00:33:24.70
See, if you
don't know somebody...
00:33:24.73\00:33:26.55
...they just look
like anybody else.
00:33:29.94\00:33:31.58
But if you know them, and
you happen to know something
00:33:32.99\00:33:36.56
about them that is awe
inspiring, then you are in awe.
00:33:36.59\00:33:40.89
But you have to know
them before you can be in awe.
00:33:40.92\00:33:43.06
My daughter, Lindsey, was
travelling through the country
00:33:43.51\00:33:47.02
and she had to do a connection
flight in Salt Lake City.
00:33:47.05\00:33:53.04
So she is
walking to her concourse
00:33:54.12\00:33:59.72
looking to go to where
she's going to get on the plane.
00:34:00.83\00:34:03.22
And as she's walking along...
00:34:03.89\00:34:06.39
...she sees a
woman walking by herself
00:34:09.37\00:34:12.91
just a little bit ahead of her.
00:34:12.94\00:34:14.23
And Lindsey passes this person,
because she's in a hurry.
00:34:15.06\00:34:18.93
Lindsey is.
00:34:19.26\00:34:20.30
And as she passes the
person she noted that she liked
00:34:20.62\00:34:23.56
something that the
person was wearing.
00:34:23.59\00:34:24.75
So she looked back to take
another look at the garment.
00:34:24.78\00:34:26.99
And as she looked back,
she recognized the person.
00:34:27.02\00:34:29.90
Well you may or may not
recognize her if you saw
00:34:30.60\00:34:32.72
her in public, but her name was
Meg Ryan and she was an actress.
00:34:32.75\00:34:36.09
She's currently an actress.
00:34:36.47\00:34:38.12
She's a well known actress.
00:34:38.62\00:34:40.23
My daughter said, "As soon
as I realized that was Meg Ryan,
00:34:40.84\00:34:43.32
I said to myself, I'm not
going to go gaga over her.
00:34:43.35\00:34:47.29
I'm not going to go up
and say, 'Are you Meg Ryan?'
00:34:47.49\00:34:49.79
I'm not going to
ask for an autograph.
00:34:49.82\00:34:51.59
I'm not going to
overwhelm her with her stardom.
00:34:51.62\00:34:54.61
I'm going to
treat her with respect."
00:34:54.64\00:34:56.73
And so Lindsey
said she did slow down.
00:34:57.37\00:34:59.11
Lindsey did slow down a
little bit so that they kind of
00:34:59.14\00:35:01.14
started to catch
back to the similar...
00:35:01.17\00:35:03.19
And they walked
a little farther.
00:35:04.40\00:35:05.46
It turns out they were
going to the same gate.
00:35:05.49\00:35:08.09
And just before
Meg went to sit down,
00:35:09.86\00:35:12.27
Lindsey said to Meg, "I enjoyed
one of the films I saw you in."
00:35:12.55\00:35:20.28
And Meg said,
"Thank you, sweetie."
00:35:21.35\00:35:24.37
And then Meg put sunglasses
on and pulled up her collar,
00:35:25.67\00:35:31.13
and sat down with a
newspaper in front of her face,
00:35:31.62\00:35:33.97
waiting for the plane.
00:35:34.00\00:35:35.78
There were a group of
young men about the age of the
00:35:35.87\00:35:38.60
kind of young men who
would be interested in Meg Ryan
00:35:38.63\00:35:41.06
that were waiting
also for the plane.
00:35:42.09\00:35:43.96
And they were
sitting just behind her.
00:35:44.75\00:35:47.58
You know how sometimes
chairs are back to back.
00:35:47.61\00:35:50.10
Meg sat there reading
her article until they called
00:35:51.45\00:35:54.23
for the passengers to
board, and then she stood up
00:35:54.26\00:35:56.99
and went in with first class.
00:35:57.02\00:35:58.64
And then my daughter
turned to the guys and she said,
00:35:59.31\00:36:01.80
"Did you know that was
Meg Ryan sitting behind you?"
00:36:01.83\00:36:04.12
And they went gaga.
00:36:05.31\00:36:06.94
And they said,
"Are you kidding us?
00:36:07.25\00:36:09.25
That was Meg Ryan?"
00:36:09.28\00:36:10.31
"Yeah, it was Meg Ryan."
00:36:10.34\00:36:11.37
"Oh, we were sitting right
here and we didn't even know.
00:36:11.40\00:36:14.46
We didn't even know."
00:36:14.49\00:36:15.91
Well see, when you
don't know somebody,
00:36:16.11\00:36:19.36
you don't hold them in awe.
00:36:19.39\00:36:21.24
Now I'm not trying to
compare Meg Ryan to God.
00:36:21.27\00:36:23.16
Please don't misunderstand.
00:36:23.19\00:36:24.22
That's not the point at all.
00:36:24.25\00:36:25.29
But the point here is
that once they knew who it was,
00:36:25.84\00:36:29.67
it changed their attitude.
00:36:29.70\00:36:31.10
You're never going to fear God
or hold Him in awe or reverence
00:36:32.94\00:36:38.58
if you don't know Him.
00:36:38.61\00:36:40.39
But as you come to know
Him, you will be so humbled
00:36:40.42\00:36:43.36
and awed by who
He is and who you are
00:36:43.39\00:36:46.58
that it will just be a
natural thing to revere Him,
00:36:46.61\00:36:51.16
to hold Him in awe,
to appreciate who He is.
00:36:51.19\00:36:55.38
And that He's
inviting you into a friendship.
00:36:55.41\00:36:57.39
"You want to be friends with me?
00:36:58.06\00:37:00.50
Unbelievable."
00:37:01.58\00:37:02.86
It just takes your breath away.
00:37:02.89\00:37:04.82
Well the second phrase
that we diagrammed was,
00:37:05.31\00:37:08.03
"Give glory to Him."
00:37:08.06\00:37:09.53
"Give glory to Him."
00:37:10.17\00:37:11.46
If I have not discovered
that I cannot save myself,
00:37:11.80\00:37:14.86
if I am trying hard
to work on living up
00:37:14.89\00:37:18.52
to the standards externally...
00:37:18.55\00:37:21.34
Now the previous presentation,
yesterday's presentation,
00:37:21.38\00:37:25.70
the problem of Laodicea is
that it focuses on externals.
00:37:26.19\00:37:30.50
Remember.
00:37:31.13\00:37:32.20
And Jesus said, "You
need to have something changed
00:37:32.23\00:37:35.39
on the inside,
because focusing on externals
00:37:35.42\00:37:38.44
is your problem, Laodicea."
00:37:38.64\00:37:40.65
That's your problem.
00:37:40.95\00:37:42.05
If I am still focusing on
externals, if I'm focusing
00:37:42.81\00:37:46.52
on the standards, if I
am focusing on them to the
00:37:46.55\00:37:49.62
exclusion of taking
time alone with Christ...
00:37:49.65\00:37:52.11
Remember, 70 to 80% of
the people attending churches
00:37:52.14\00:37:55.70
say in the survey, "I'm not
taking daily time for Christ."
00:37:55.73\00:37:59.27
Then what's the conclusion?
00:38:01.13\00:38:02.88
The conclusion is,
I'm depending on myself.
00:38:04.01\00:38:06.32
If you're living apart from
Jesus except on the weekend,
00:38:07.47\00:38:10.56
you're depending on yourself.
00:38:10.59\00:38:12.14
And if I should
happen to get saved one day,
00:38:14.13\00:38:16.77
guess who will
get the glory for it?
00:38:16.80\00:38:18.79
Me. Me.
00:38:19.49\00:38:21.60
I'd get the glory.
00:38:22.27\00:38:23.37
It is so easy
to grasp for glory.
00:38:23.80\00:38:28.27
The carnal heart grasps for
glory as readily as the flower
00:38:29.28\00:38:35.41
turns towards the sun.
00:38:35.44\00:38:36.98
It's just something in us.
00:38:37.75\00:38:39.71
It is so easy to take the glory.
00:38:39.74\00:38:41.09
I was teaching Bible
at a Seventh-day Adventist
00:38:41.12\00:38:44.25
high school back in the day
when Jim Gilley's son, John,
00:38:44.28\00:38:47.82
was one of my students.
00:38:47.85\00:38:49.12
And I had a van that had
been sitting in my driveway
00:38:49.96\00:38:52.86
for months without being used.
00:38:52.89\00:38:54.95
And I had a need to go into
town one day between classes.
00:38:54.98\00:38:58.81
And I thought, I should take the
van out just to get the bugs out
00:38:59.03\00:39:02.02
and make sure it still runs.
00:39:02.05\00:39:03.08
I should just use
the van to do my errands.
00:39:03.11\00:39:04.61
So I jumped in the van, went
to turn the ignition key on,
00:39:04.64\00:39:07.22
and it kind of
went, urrr, urrr, urrr.
00:39:07.25\00:39:10.25
But then it started.
00:39:10.28\00:39:11.31
And then I thought, okay good.
00:39:11.69\00:39:12.72
It needs to be run, it needs
to get a little charge in here.
00:39:12.75\00:39:14.78
This is good for it.
00:39:14.81\00:39:15.84
So I took it on down.
00:39:15.88\00:39:16.91
And the thing I was going to
do, was I was going to make a
00:39:16.94\00:39:18.65
deposit in the bank.
00:39:18.68\00:39:19.76
So I drive into the
teller place where you...
00:39:20.17\00:39:22.56
It's a drive through
kind of thing, you know.
00:39:22.59\00:39:24.31
And it was one of those
lanes where they have curbs
00:39:24.84\00:39:27.65
on each side of the lane.
00:39:27.68\00:39:28.72
So you know, once you're in the
lane, you're there, you know.
00:39:28.75\00:39:31.54
And there's a
line of cars behind me.
00:39:31.57\00:39:33.58
And I got all the way
up to where the teller was.
00:39:33.61\00:39:36.54
And just as she slid the
little box out to help me,
00:39:36.57\00:39:40.10
the car ran out of gas.
00:39:40.13\00:39:41.58
I hadn't even checked the gauge.
00:39:42.70\00:39:43.87
And it was out of gas.
00:39:43.90\00:39:45.00
I tried turning the ignition,
and it went, urrr, urrr.
00:39:45.40\00:39:49.32
And I'm out of gas.
00:39:49.35\00:39:50.51
And the lady behind the
glass said, "Can I help you?"
00:39:52.14\00:39:54.60
And I said, "I'm out of gas."
00:39:55.00\00:39:56.76
She said, "You came
to the wrong station."
00:39:56.79\00:39:58.99
She said, "Can you
push that out of the way?"
00:40:01.26\00:40:03.12
It was a 3/4 ton van.
00:40:03.15\00:40:05.01
But I got out and eventually
I got it moved out of the way
00:40:05.98\00:40:08.05
so the rest of the
people could come through.
00:40:08.08\00:40:09.67
I had to get back to class.
00:40:10.60\00:40:12.00
I was doing this
in between classes.
00:40:12.03\00:40:14.42
And so I pushed the car out of
the way, the van out of the way,
00:40:14.68\00:40:17.65
just a little bit, and I
took off running two blocks
00:40:17.68\00:40:20.27
to where there
was a gas station.
00:40:20.30\00:40:21.36
As I came running
up, I said to this guy,
00:40:21.39\00:40:22.98
"I'm in a heap of trouble, man.
00:40:23.01\00:40:24.19
I have an appointment I
have to get to, and I just
00:40:24.22\00:40:26.13
ran out of gas in a van that has
been sitting for four months.
00:40:26.16\00:40:28.41
The battery is almost dead.
00:40:28.44\00:40:29.62
I'm not even sure that
there's going to be enough
00:40:29.65\00:40:31.32
energy in that battery to pump
the gas all the way forward.
00:40:31.35\00:40:33.76
But I need gas, I need it
quick, and I don't have time.
00:40:33.79\00:40:35.64
Can you give me
a gallon of gas?"
00:40:35.67\00:40:36.80
And so the guys like,
you know, he's putting in
00:40:37.13\00:40:38.87
the gallon of gas.
00:40:38.90\00:40:39.98
I grab the gas can
as he's giving it to me.
00:40:40.01\00:40:41.64
I start to turn around to
run and he says, "Good luck."
00:40:41.67\00:40:44.08
I said, "I need it. Thanks."
00:40:44.36\00:40:46.09
And I raced back, I poured
the gas in, I jump back in.
00:40:46.12\00:40:49.04
I'm thinking, "Man,
I've got to get to class.
00:40:49.07\00:40:50.21
I've got to teach
Bible. I've got to get back."
00:40:50.24\00:40:51.68
I turn on the ignition.
00:40:51.71\00:40:53.21
Well before I turn on the
ignition, I say to myself,
00:40:53.24\00:40:54.89
"Now man, that battery is
so low, and it has to pump gas
00:40:54.92\00:40:58.63
all the way from the back
of the van all the way to the
00:40:58.66\00:41:00.65
front of the engine.
00:41:00.68\00:41:01.71
I don't know what's
going to happen here.
00:41:01.74\00:41:02.85
I don't think it's
going to be able to handle it.
00:41:02.88\00:41:04.29
I barely got it started."
00:41:04.32\00:41:05.68
And then all of a sudden, I
thought, "Well you know what?
00:41:05.71\00:41:07.44
Why shouldn't I pray first."
00:41:07.47\00:41:09.20
So often we pray at the end.
00:41:09.92\00:41:11.42
People say, "Oh
we tried everything.
00:41:11.45\00:41:12.92
There was nothing
left to do but pray."
00:41:12.95\00:41:15.65
I thought, "Why
don't I reverse that.
00:41:16.01\00:41:17.44
Why don't I pray
at the beginning."
00:41:17.47\00:41:18.77
So I said, "Lord
Jesus, You know the van's
00:41:18.95\00:41:22.45
out of gas and I
just have the one gallon.
00:41:22.48\00:41:23.88
The battery is almost dead.
00:41:23.91\00:41:24.94
Now You know, Lord,
I am trying to get back
00:41:24.97\00:41:27.56
to teach Bible class.
00:41:27.59\00:41:30.05
Did I mention I'm
teaching Bible, Lord.
00:41:30.64\00:41:32.74
And I just wondered if
You'd be willing to make sure
00:41:32.77\00:41:37.37
the car starts for me.
00:41:37.40\00:41:38.43
I need some sort of miracle
here, so would You just do that
00:41:38.46\00:41:40.42
so I can get back to
teach Bible and talk about You."
00:41:40.45\00:41:43.27
God probably smiled.
00:41:45.02\00:41:46.48
But I turned the key
and it started instantly.
00:41:47.54\00:41:50.29
And it never
even skipped a beat.
00:41:50.32\00:41:51.80
Never stalled or nothing.
00:41:51.83\00:41:52.90
I thought, wow.
00:41:52.93\00:41:53.96
I felt a little
chill go down my spine.
00:41:53.99\00:41:55.42
Like, wow, God just
did a miracle for me.
00:41:55.45\00:41:57.79
So I whip over to
that service station and
00:41:58.26\00:41:59.92
give the guy his can back.
00:41:59.95\00:42:01.03
I said, "Quick, quick, quick.
00:42:01.13\00:42:02.16
I'm in a hurry because
I've got to go teach a class.
00:42:02.19\00:42:04.09
Just put two
dollars into the car."
00:42:04.12\00:42:06.05
That's back when you
could get four or five
00:42:06.08\00:42:07.56
gallons for two bucks.
00:42:07.59\00:42:08.62
And I said, "Just put
two bucks into the car,
00:42:08.65\00:42:10.57
and I've got to run."
00:42:10.60\00:42:11.79
So he pumps the two
dollars in, the two bucks worth.
00:42:11.82\00:42:14.46
And then he says to
me, "I thought you said
00:42:14.49\00:42:16.15
it wasn't going to start.
00:42:16.18\00:42:17.21
I thought you said
the battery was dead
00:42:17.24\00:42:18.59
and you weren't going to start."
00:42:18.62\00:42:19.65
I said, "Well you know what?
00:42:19.68\00:42:21.08
I guess I just got lucky."
00:42:21.11\00:42:22.99
And then I hurried
off to teach Bible class
00:42:24.22\00:42:27.77
and talk about the
God you can depend on,
00:42:27.80\00:42:29.85
and the God whose glory...
00:42:29.88\00:42:33.60
...we're supposed
to be proclaiming.
00:42:35.30\00:42:37.16
See how easy it is to take
the glory, take the credit?
00:42:37.70\00:42:40.95
I had a wonderful
opportunity right there.
00:42:41.15\00:42:42.80
I could have said to
him, "I don't know what you
00:42:42.83\00:42:44.02
think about prayer,
buddy, but I just said a prayer.
00:42:44.05\00:42:46.01
And I believe God
answered it, because that car
00:42:46.04\00:42:47.90
shouldn't have started."
00:42:47.93\00:42:48.96
That's all I
would have had to say.
00:42:48.99\00:42:50.02
I wouldn't have to say
to him, "Could I give you a
00:42:50.05\00:42:51.23
series of Bible
studies, maybe 27 of them?
00:42:51.26\00:42:53.14
Would you like
to meet once a week?
00:42:53.17\00:42:54.25
I could come to your house."
00:42:54.28\00:42:55.31
You know, I didn't have
to say anything like that.
00:42:55.37\00:42:56.62
But no, I just took the
easy route and I took credit.
00:42:56.65\00:42:59.82
I said, "Well I
guess I just got lucky."
00:42:59.85\00:43:01.27
Oh, it's easy to take
the glory that's not ours.
00:43:02.90\00:43:05.19
Romans 4:20, "Abraham..."
00:43:05.50\00:43:07.57
People who are strong
in faith give glory to God.
00:43:17.36\00:43:22.99
They do not take
the glory to themselves.
00:43:23.23\00:43:24.79
Oh, but it is so easy to
give glory to the wrong people.
00:43:24.82\00:43:29.21
To give glory to
the wrong person.
00:43:30.24\00:43:32.20
It is even easy in
ecclesiastical circles.
00:43:32.23\00:43:35.05
I have been a pastor
for more than 30 years.
00:43:35.77\00:43:38.03
And pastors go twice
a year, traditionally,
00:43:38.31\00:43:41.40
to what they call,
professional growth meetings.
00:43:41.43\00:43:43.55
And I was
attending professional growth
00:43:44.27\00:43:46.68
meetings in one conference.
00:43:46.71\00:43:48.74
That would be a
geographical domain or location
00:43:49.15\00:43:52.42
where we all worked as a group.
00:43:52.45\00:43:54.44
And I use to
dread going to those
00:43:55.47\00:43:56.99
professional growth meetings.
00:43:57.02\00:43:58.35
I particularly dreaded
them for one particular reason.
00:43:58.74\00:44:01.08
They would always focus on how
many people had been baptized,
00:44:01.72\00:44:05.42
and how many you had baptized,
and how many they had baptized.
00:44:05.45\00:44:08.91
And then they would
call the person to the front
00:44:09.12\00:44:11.37
who had baptized the most people
and they would present them
00:44:11.40\00:44:14.35
with a $150 Bible.
00:44:14.38\00:44:16.37
And then they would ask
that person to tell all the
00:44:16.57\00:44:18.93
tricks of the trade and
the secrets, and so on, that he
00:44:18.96\00:44:21.10
used to get that
many people baptized.
00:44:21.13\00:44:23.21
And I would sit there
at the back of that room
00:44:23.53\00:44:26.43
with all these other
pastors feeling about this big.
00:44:26.46\00:44:29.94
The reason being that I
just didn't seem to have those
00:44:30.15\00:44:32.97
kinds of numbers to report
that other people reported.
00:44:33.00\00:44:36.51
And I'd just go away
from these meetings feeling
00:44:36.71\00:44:39.74
discouraged and depressed like
I didn't even belong in there.
00:44:39.77\00:44:42.17
"I shouldn't be a pastor.
00:44:42.20\00:44:43.33
I'm not pastor material.
00:44:43.36\00:44:44.85
I'm not getting the numbers.
00:44:44.88\00:44:46.16
I don't have
this badge of success.
00:44:46.19\00:44:47.92
I can't quote and show
pictures of the number of
00:44:47.95\00:44:50.13
people I baptized."
00:44:50.16\00:44:51.64
I use to sit in the back
row with a guy named Dan,
00:44:52.78\00:44:54.90
another preacher.
00:44:54.93\00:44:56.00
He was a pastor to
the Native Americans
00:44:56.34\00:44:58.76
in our conference.
00:44:59.32\00:45:00.77
And Dan and I would
commiserate together.
00:45:01.61\00:45:03.51
Because he felt
the same way I did.
00:45:03.92\00:45:05.56
He'd say, "When I go
home from these meetings,
00:45:05.59\00:45:07.27
I'm always discouraged.
00:45:07.30\00:45:08.33
It always takes me a while to
get back into the groove again
00:45:08.36\00:45:11.24
after coming to these meetings."
00:45:11.27\00:45:12.91
So you can imagine my
surprise and Dan's surprise
00:45:13.56\00:45:16.73
when one day at those meetings
our conference president said,
00:45:16.76\00:45:23.92
"The Bible is
going to be given to Dan.
00:45:24.70\00:45:26.91
Pastor Dan.
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Dan, would you come forward?"
00:45:28.94\00:45:30.38
Dan looked at me like...
00:45:30.41\00:45:31.51
I looked at him.
00:45:34.09\00:45:35.31
And Dan went
forward scratching his head.
00:45:36.25\00:45:38.09
And the president said,
"Probably some of you are
00:45:39.27\00:45:41.16
wondering how is it
that we're giving it to Dan.
00:45:41.19\00:45:42.66
Is it a mistake here?
00:45:42.69\00:45:43.88
Not a mistake," he said.
00:45:44.08\00:45:45.11
"We decided to do it
this time on per capita."
00:45:45.14\00:45:48.70
So he said, "You might not
think that Dan had very many
00:45:49.41\00:45:52.07
people baptized in his area.
00:45:52.10\00:45:54.61
But based on the number of
people he had to draw from,
00:45:54.64\00:45:58.09
he's the leader of the pack.
00:45:58.12\00:45:59.52
So Dan, here's the Bible."
00:45:59.93\00:46:01.09
And he hands the Bible to Dan.
00:46:01.12\00:46:02.44
And he says, "Dan,
tell us a little bit about
00:46:02.70\00:46:04.69
your secret of success.
00:46:04.72\00:46:06.50
What are the things you
do to make that happen?"
00:46:06.53\00:46:08.66
I will never
forget what happened next.
00:46:09.60\00:46:11.24
Dan just stood there
gulping, swallowing hard.
00:46:11.27\00:46:15.55
It was clear that he was
having a hard time speaking.
00:46:16.46\00:46:19.41
And then he said,
"Actually, Mr. President,
00:46:19.98\00:46:25.39
these meetings have just been
a source of discouragement to me
00:46:28.48\00:46:31.52
every time I come.
00:46:31.55\00:46:33.10
And when I left the
last time six months ago,
00:46:33.87\00:46:36.91
I was so discouraged that
I thought of resigning from
00:46:37.01\00:46:39.65
the ministry because I
just can't produce the numbers
00:46:39.68\00:46:42.15
that you measure as success."
00:46:42.18\00:46:43.88
He said, "In tears I
knelt before God and I said,
00:46:44.99\00:46:47.40
'God, I can't do it. I
don't know how to do it.
00:46:47.43\00:46:49.23
I try the things they say and
it doesn't make any difference
00:46:49.26\00:46:51.91
with people I work with.'
00:46:51.94\00:46:53.00
In tears I said to Him,
'Lord Jesus, I think maybe
00:46:54.20\00:46:56.40
I'm not pastoral material.
00:46:56.43\00:46:58.31
So what I'm going to do
for the next six months,
00:46:59.15\00:47:01.22
maybe before I just
quit, is I'm just going to
00:47:01.73\00:47:04.77
tell people what
Jesus means to me.
00:47:04.80\00:47:07.10
That's all I'm going to do.
00:47:07.13\00:47:08.16
I'm just going to tell
people what Jesus means to me.
00:47:08.19\00:47:09.95
I'm just going to share
what You are to me, Lord Jesus,
00:47:10.23\00:47:12.39
and I'm going to leave You in
charge of whatever else happens.
00:47:12.42\00:47:15.40
And if I should still be in
the ministry, well that's okay
00:47:15.43\00:47:17.66
with me if it's okay with You.
00:47:17.69\00:47:18.99
But I'm just going to do that,
it's all I'm going to do.'"
00:47:19.02\00:47:20.91
And he's crying as he's saying
this in front of all of us.
00:47:20.94\00:47:24.03
And he takes the Bible and he
hands it back to the President.
00:47:24.27\00:47:27.89
And he says to
him, "Mr. President,
00:47:27.92\00:47:29.83
you just gave the
Bible to the wrong guy.
00:47:30.09\00:47:32.63
All the glory, if
there's any, belongs to Jesus.
00:47:33.34\00:47:37.96
He did it all, I did
nothing except tell people
00:47:37.99\00:47:41.03
what He means to me.
00:47:41.06\00:47:42.51
He gets all the glory."
00:47:42.75\00:47:44.20
Even in ecclesiastical
circles we can get confused
00:47:44.23\00:47:48.08
about who gets the glory.
00:47:48.11\00:47:49.36
Michael Card, a
Christian musician, song writer,
00:47:50.43\00:47:53.18
who loves to sing about
Jesus and talk about Jesus,
00:47:53.21\00:47:56.23
was doing a concert in
the Denver area in Colorado.
00:47:56.73\00:47:59.56
As he started his first song,
which everybody recognized,
00:47:59.85\00:48:03.37
they began to applaud.
00:48:03.90\00:48:05.43
He stopped the song
right in the middle of it,
00:48:05.53\00:48:08.47
and he said, "I
know you all mean well,
00:48:08.50\00:48:11.06
and I'm sure that in your
heart you're responding to your
00:48:11.09\00:48:13.56
love for Jesus and
the message that the song
00:48:13.59\00:48:15.70
invokes in your
heart, but would you please
00:48:15.73\00:48:17.67
not do that anymore.
00:48:17.70\00:48:18.73
Because when you
applaud, I get confused about
00:48:18.76\00:48:21.29
who is Creator
and who is creature.
00:48:21.32\00:48:23.89
And you do me a big
favor if you wouldn't applaud.
00:48:23.92\00:48:26.79
It's too easy for me to
take the glory that's not mine."
00:48:26.82\00:48:31.31
I admire Michael Card for that.
00:48:31.34\00:48:33.63
I admire him.
00:48:33.66\00:48:35.47
It is so easy to take the glory.
00:48:35.95\00:48:38.29
But there is no glory for
the work of man in the gospel.
00:48:38.44\00:48:41.49
All the glory goes to Jesus.
00:48:41.52\00:48:43.43
Well what
happens to man's glory?
00:48:43.46\00:48:45.39
Man's glory goes to the dust.
00:48:45.42\00:48:48.21
To the dust.
00:48:48.51\00:48:49.95
I read you that
just a few moments ago.
00:48:50.47\00:48:52.25
"It is the work of God in laying
the glory of man in the dust,
00:48:52.28\00:48:57.31
and doing for him what
he cannot do for himself."
00:48:57.65\00:49:00.13
You know what?
00:49:01.42\00:49:02.47
They didn't like Jesus
when He walked our planet.
00:49:02.91\00:49:05.62
And they didn't like Him because
they didn't like this message.
00:49:05.99\00:49:09.91
They liked to blow
trumpets prior to giving prayer
00:49:11.81\00:49:14.28
in public places.
00:49:14.31\00:49:15.66
They didn't want to admit
that the Shekinah was gone.
00:49:15.94\00:49:20.74
But one woman figured it out.
00:49:22.29\00:49:25.95
And she named her son, Ichabod.
00:49:26.63\00:49:28.58
Which meant, the
glory has departed.
00:49:29.35\00:49:32.71
Has departed.
00:49:33.17\00:49:34.43
Friends, when
God's glory is absent,
00:49:34.63\00:49:37.72
man's glory rises to the top.
00:49:37.75\00:49:41.03
And we entertain ourselves
with mutual admiration parties
00:49:41.06\00:49:45.68
where we talk
about our successes.
00:49:46.18\00:49:48.98
Oh we've learned how to
be clever with our words.
00:49:49.18\00:49:51.18
We say we give God all
the glory, but we're really
00:49:51.21\00:49:53.32
telling people how
much we have accomplished.
00:49:53.35\00:49:56.57
Ill disguised glory sessions.
00:49:56.97\00:49:59.90
When God's glory is
absent, man's rises to the top.
00:50:00.43\00:50:03.66
But when God's
glory rises to the top,
00:50:03.69\00:50:06.83
man's glory goes to the dust.
00:50:06.86\00:50:09.71
Remember John the Baptist?
00:50:09.74\00:50:11.04
Do you remember what
he said to his disciples?
00:50:11.59\00:50:13.86
He said, "He must
increase and I must decrease."
00:50:14.15\00:50:22.17
"Glory for me, to the dust.
00:50:22.20\00:50:24.51
To the dust."
00:50:24.54\00:50:26.18
"Oh, but what about
a little glory, Lord?
00:50:26.39\00:50:29.08
Couldn't we have
just a little bit?"
00:50:29.11\00:50:30.39
You know, achievers
and self-made people love
00:50:30.42\00:50:33.13
to worship themselves.
00:50:33.16\00:50:34.75
And they don't
like this message.
00:50:35.48\00:50:37.48
The people who have, you
know, done it themselves,
00:50:37.74\00:50:41.68
they don't like this message.
00:50:42.00\00:50:43.33
They hate it.
00:50:43.36\00:50:44.44
"Couldn't we have a
little? What about self-esteem?
00:50:44.54\00:50:46.27
You've got to have some
sense of human worth and value,
00:50:46.30\00:50:48.14
a little self-esteem, Lord.
00:50:48.17\00:50:49.31
How about a little
glory, just a little glory?"
00:50:49.34\00:50:50.89
1 Corinthians 5:6 says,
"Your glory is not good..."
00:50:50.92\00:50:55.44
"Not even a little glory, Lord?
00:51:02.56\00:51:03.76
Not even a little glory?"
00:51:03.79\00:51:05.33
Which is why Paul
said in Galatians 6:14...
00:51:05.43\00:51:07.90
There's only one place
that glory is appropriate.
00:51:14.39\00:51:17.55
It's in Jesus.
00:51:17.58\00:51:18.82
I have a good friend, a pastor,
in the Washington Conference.
00:51:18.85\00:51:21.59
His name is Bill Roberts.
00:51:21.62\00:51:23.13
You've probably heard
other pastors pray this,
00:51:23.16\00:51:24.76
but every time Bill preaches,
before he preaches he prays.
00:51:24.79\00:51:29.83
And he always says at
the close of his prayer
00:51:29.86\00:51:32.29
before he says amen,
he says, "And Lord Jesus,
00:51:32.32\00:51:34.99
we will be careful," he says,
"to give all the glory to You.
00:51:35.29\00:51:41.23
Hide us behind the cross so that
we give all the glory to Jesus."
00:51:41.26\00:51:48.08
So, "God forbid that I
should glory, save in the cross
00:51:48.66\00:51:50.99
of our Lord Jesus Christ."
00:51:51.02\00:51:52.44
Ramses the Great, one
of the Pharaohs of Egypt,
00:51:52.47\00:51:55.57
for years they thought
he was the greatest Pharaoh
00:51:55.60\00:51:57.49
that ever ruled in Egypt.
00:51:57.52\00:51:59.24
The reason they
thought this was because
00:51:59.44\00:52:01.25
one of the things that the
Pharaohs did was they would
00:52:01.28\00:52:03.39
have objects
made in their honor.
00:52:03.42\00:52:06.20
Statues and various monuments,
and things, and pillars.
00:52:06.23\00:52:10.03
Obelisks and so on.
00:52:10.06\00:52:11.59
And then they would
have their names engraved
00:52:11.62\00:52:13.79
across the bottom of
whatever that object was.
00:52:14.00\00:52:16.92
And for years archeologists
thought that Ramses the Great
00:52:17.34\00:52:22.47
was the greatest Pharaoh of all.
00:52:22.78\00:52:24.50
Because he had more monuments
to his name than anybody else
00:52:24.53\00:52:29.52
of antiquity.
00:52:29.55\00:52:30.97
And then some clever
archeology revealed something
00:52:31.00\00:52:36.68
that they hadn't
noticed at first.
00:52:36.71\00:52:38.53
Actually, Ramses had
just chiseled everybody else's
00:52:38.75\00:52:42.90
names off and then engraved
his in the space that remained.
00:52:42.93\00:52:46.37
He took other people's monuments
and took credit for himself.
00:52:46.69\00:52:50.34
He has become known
since as the great Chiseler
00:52:50.37\00:52:53.91
rather than the
greatest Pharaoh.
00:52:54.43\00:52:56.33
And perhaps the poet
Shelley was thinking of him
00:52:56.70\00:52:59.25
when he wrote a poem about
a toppled monument that he saw
00:52:59.75\00:53:04.43
in the deserts of Egypt.
00:53:04.46\00:53:06.02
The close of the poem that
Shelley wrote goes like this,
00:53:06.77\00:53:10.21
"My name is
Ozymandias, king of kings.
00:53:10.24\00:53:14.23
Look upon my works,
ye mighty, and despair.
00:53:14.26\00:53:18.52
Nothing beside remains.
00:53:18.98\00:53:21.31
Round the decay...the lone and
level sands stretch far away."
00:53:21.34\00:53:28.42
"Look upon my works.
00:53:28.78\00:53:30.83
I am Ozymandias, king of kings."
00:53:31.34\00:53:36.20
Into the sand,
into the dust; broken.
00:53:36.40\00:53:40.54
Contrast that to Charles T.
Everson's beautiful thought.
00:53:41.09\00:53:43.95
"We live in a time when
centuries are compressed
00:53:43.98\00:53:47.07
into a few short years.
00:53:47.10\00:53:48.92
The names of great
men appear on the horizon,
00:53:48.95\00:53:52.46
flicker for a moment
and then are lost forever
00:53:52.49\00:53:55.49
in a sea of forgetfulness.
00:53:55.52\00:53:57.04
But there is one
name that grows brighter
00:53:57.07\00:53:59.22
with every passing year.
00:53:59.25\00:54:01.09
It is the name of Jesus."
00:54:01.12\00:54:04.08
The name of Jesus.
00:54:04.11\00:54:06.18
Well the third sentence we
diagrammed said, "Worship Him."
00:54:06.21\00:54:08.90
If God is not being worshiped,
man is the only other person
00:54:08.93\00:54:11.56
who is left to be worshiped.
00:54:11.59\00:54:12.89
If I do not know a
daily relationship with Jesus,
00:54:12.92\00:54:15.50
if I'm not
worshiping Him six days a week,
00:54:15.53\00:54:17.94
there's serious
question as to whether I'm
00:54:17.97\00:54:20.13
worshiping Him on the weekend.
00:54:20.16\00:54:21.82
See, I'm worshiping
myself all week long
00:54:21.85\00:54:24.11
because I have no time for Him.
00:54:24.14\00:54:25.61
Self-dependent people
aren't worshiping God,
00:54:25.94\00:54:28.79
they're worshiping themselves
on the weekend as well.
00:54:28.82\00:54:32.14
Well why should He be worshiped?
00:54:32.79\00:54:34.47
Revelation 15:3 tells us
the reason for worshiping.
00:54:34.50\00:54:38.51
Oh, that's why we
should worship Him.
00:54:47.39\00:54:51.35
He does good work.
00:54:51.38\00:54:52.99
He does great work.
00:54:53.23\00:54:55.67
Helen Steiner Rice, who writes
many poems on hallmark cards
00:54:56.34\00:55:00.91
and others, she wrote
this little message on a card
00:55:00.94\00:55:03.89
I was looking through
one time as I stood there
00:55:03.92\00:55:06.12
in that section.
00:55:06.15\00:55:07.23
And it said these
words, "Help me to always
00:55:07.26\00:55:10.56
remember the story
that Thine is the kingdom,
00:55:10.59\00:55:14.59
the power, and the glory."
00:55:14.62\00:55:17.90
The glory.
00:55:17.93\00:55:19.25
Well the book,
Testimonies to Ministers,
00:55:20.65\00:55:22.77
says, "All power is given
into His hands," Jesus' hands...
00:55:22.80\00:55:28.20
What is the message?
00:55:53.23\00:55:54.55
Watch out for the beast?
00:55:54.58\00:55:56.59
No, the message is,
draw close to Jesus.
00:55:56.89\00:56:02.12
Seek Jesus.
00:56:02.15\00:56:03.42
You worship Him,
you give Him glory,
00:56:03.45\00:56:06.18
you bring Him praise,
you spend time with Him.
00:56:06.21\00:56:09.67
You experience this
wonderful gift of justification
00:56:09.70\00:56:13.25
by faith in Christ alone.
00:56:13.28\00:56:14.85
The message is that He
has gifts, gifts, to give men.
00:56:14.88\00:56:20.88
Including His righteousness.
00:56:21.18\00:56:22.55
Including power
to be an overcomer.
00:56:22.58\00:56:25.17
Obedience is the
result of His work in me.
00:56:25.41\00:56:28.42
And He wants to give me that.
00:56:28.68\00:56:30.72
He says, "I give
you My Sabbath as a sign
00:56:30.75\00:56:32.36
that I am the God
who sanctifies you."
00:56:32.39\00:56:34.53
Sanctification has
to do with obedience,
00:56:34.56\00:56:36.75
and Christ-like characters,
and victory, and overcoming.
00:56:36.78\00:56:38.93
So that's the message.
00:56:39.96\00:56:41.41
"Come to Me," He
says. "Come to Me."
00:56:41.51\00:56:44.22
What do you do to get a gift?
00:56:44.25\00:56:45.47
You come into the
presence of the Giver.
00:56:46.18\00:56:47.51
You don't work for it,
because if you work for it,
00:56:47.54\00:56:49.09
you would have earned it.
00:56:49.12\00:56:50.16
You come into the
presence of the Giver.
00:56:50.28\00:56:51.72
Think, relationship with Christ.
00:56:51.75\00:56:53.45
And then you accept with
gratitude what He has given.
00:56:53.48\00:56:56.54
And so Jeremiah says it right,
"This is what the Lord says..."
00:56:57.03\00:57:00.78
Let's pray.
00:57:14.30\00:57:15.46
Lord Jesus, I want
to know You better.
00:57:15.49\00:57:17.56
I want to see You not
only in the three angels',
00:57:17.59\00:57:20.33
I want to see You morning
by morning and day by day.
00:57:20.36\00:57:22.67
And I pray that for every person
within the sound of my voice.
00:57:22.71\00:57:25.42
In Jesus' name, amen.
00:57:25.45\00:57:28.01