Good to see you
each and every one.
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We pray God's
blessing upon each one of us
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as we study the Word
of God together today.
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Now, we've come together
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to talk about two
edged sword, right?
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And, you know, a lot of times
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we needed to rightly
cut and rightly divide.
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So praise God for today.
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And as usual before we go,
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you know what, we believe it,
and church believes in prayer.
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And we believe that
we need to pray often.
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And so once again
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before open this
beautiful book called
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the Bible,
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I'm going to kneel
here and have prayer.
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I'd like you to
pray with me please.
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Let's pray.
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Merciful Father, in
heaven again we thank You
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for the privilege of prayer.
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We thank You
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that we can call You our Father.
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Thankful that we can be
part of the family of God.
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Today Lord, we need You,
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we need the power
of Thy Holy Spirit.
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Please send Thy
Spirit to illuminate
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these beautiful truths of
the hour in which we live,
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help us to realize
that Jesus is coming soon,
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and there is a preparation
that needs to be made.
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Pray that You'll open hearts,
and minds, and ears today.
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We're thankful
that these messages stay
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not within these walls but
they go into all the world.
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We pray now for
the mighty working
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of Thy Spirit
upon each one of us
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that we may see Jesus
in a very special way.
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In His precious name we
pray and for His sake, amen.
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So within harmony with
the children story today,
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we pray that
you've brought your sword.
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Everybody has
their sword, right?
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We need to have the sword
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because a preacher
may be lying to you.
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Somebody heard that?
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Preacher may not
be telling the truth.
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You know, not every preacher
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in the world can tell the truth.
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Let's be honest,
not maybe intentionally
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they would tell something
that's not true, truthful.
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But everybody,
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you know, telling
lot of different things
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and there's only
one truth in the Bible.
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My dad always say,
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"How many ways can
you tell the truth?"
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There's only one way.
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And we go to the
Word of God today.
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I'm going to entitle
this message for today.
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And you may say,
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"Well, we've
heard it over and over."
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But we have to realize
the hour in which we live.
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We have to realize
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that probation is soon to close,
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and that we as a
people have a work to do.
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And I know many
times in the pulpit
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you like to hear a
lot of good stories
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and have a lot
of, they say laughter,
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and good times, and leave.
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But you know we live
in a very solemn time.
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We have to realize
that probation is closing.
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And if we do not
realize these things
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and that we have a job to do
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that we will get
sidetracked with all the things
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that are going on in the world.
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And we're going to think that,
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you know, it's just
kind of a get together
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and some kind of a,
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you know, country club setting.
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This is not what
we're here today.
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We're here to
study the Word of God.
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We're going to
talk a little bit about
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that third
angel, that third angel.
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What is the
purpose of that third angel
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or the three angels'
message of Revelation 14.
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I thought it
was very interesting
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because the third...
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We realized that the power
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of the third
angel's message increases
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in its importance near
the close of earth's history.
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Now remember,
third angel's message,
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as we come nearer
to the coming of Jesus,
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it increases in importance.
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And if it
increases in importance,
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I need to know this third angel.
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I need to know the
purpose of the third angel.
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Why this message God
is giving to the church?
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Thought how interesting that is.
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And I like just
to read that quickly
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with the Revelation 14.
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This should be
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one of the most
familiar passage of Scripture,
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especially to
Seventh-day Adventist.
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If they do not know
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where the three angels' messages
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are found, shame.
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Shame on you. Is
that okay to say that?
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Shame. Why?
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Because we should
be talking about it,
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praying about it, learning.
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These are the most
important solemn three messages
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as it were to go into
the world before Jesus comes.
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These are testing
truths of the hour.
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And certainly in
Revelation 14, we'll just read.
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If you read verses 6-12,
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you've got the
three angels' message.
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You've got it in a nutshell.
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But we realize it encompasses
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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There's a lot there.
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But we're just going
to talk a little bit about
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the third angel's
message today, Revelation 14.
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Just going to
read verses 9 and 10.
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Now remember,
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there are many Christians today.
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It's not to belittle,
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it's not to try to hurt anybody.
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But if you say,
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"Have you heard about
the three angels' messages?"
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Very few people in
the world will say,
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"Yeah, I've heard
about that, they don't know,
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they've never heard."
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Now that makes me feel bad
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because I look
at myself and say,
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"You know what?
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Maybe I haven't done my job."
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I'm not look at somebody else
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trying to
criticize someone else,
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but I'm looking
deep within and saying,
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"Why haven't they heard?"
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This is the roots.
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This is what, the
thing that holds us together
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as a movement.
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It's giving out this message
to the world to wake them up
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before Jesus comes.
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The Bible said, Revelation 14:9,
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it says, "The third
angel followed them,
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saying with a loud voice,
if any man worship," what?
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"The beast and his image,
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and receive his
mark in his forehead,
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or in his hand."
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Notice what it says, it says,
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"The same shall
drink of the wine
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of the wrath of
God, which is," what?
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It's going to be
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"poured out without mixture
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there is no mercy into
the cup of his indignation,
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he shall be
tormented with," what?
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"Fire and brimstone
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in the presence
of the holy angels,
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and in the
presence of the Lamb."
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Now this is heavy
duty. This is life and death.
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This is not
something that you mess with.
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This is not
something that you think
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you can take it or leave it.
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This is laid out there
for God's last day people.
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It refers to all of us.
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We're not exempt from this.
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It encircles the whole world.
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Why?
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Have you ever
asked this question?
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Why are these
messages even given?
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What is the purpose of
giving three angels' messages?
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I've heard a lot
of people stumble
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around on that one.
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I've heard a lot of
people don't understand it.
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But, you know, to me
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it's very, very
simple when we look at it.
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These messages are given
because of the principle.
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The principles of
the churches today
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have become corrupted.
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The principle is what?
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The doctrines and the teachings
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of most churches
have become corrupted.
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And so God is going to
bring us back to center.
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He's going to bring us
back by testing truth to see
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who are His people.
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So we realized,
principles have become what?
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Corrupted.
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In Revelation 14: 9 and
10, that we just read there,
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these angels represent what?
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What do these angels represent?
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You know, as a little
child, I heard this read.
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And they say angles flying.
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Well, I always
pictured angels flying
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in the midst of
heaven giving the message.
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But you realize
that's not so farfetched
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because angels and
human beings work together.
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But we didn't realize
that these angels symbolic
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what of what?
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Of messengers, of us.
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We are those angels.
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We are those individuals
that are to give this message.
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And think about how
God has entrusted you
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with this responsibility and me,
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to give this message.
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The angels could have
done it, God could do it.
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Heaven can do it without us.
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But heaven has chosen
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to let us be a
wonderful part of giving
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this salvation
message to the world.
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How wonderful that is?
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I look at and say,
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"God must see an
awful lot that I don't see."
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And certainly He does.
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You know, 'cause really
if you look at yourself,
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do you really trust yourself.
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You know, I look
at myself and say,
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"I am untrustworthy."
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And how many would
say, you look at yourself,
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are you really trustworthy.
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Are we really trustworthy
to give these messages?
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I might add this.
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If we had been trustworthy
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to give these messages ere long,
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He would have come.
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So that says, we
haven't been trustworthy.
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That means we've
failed in our responsibility.
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Now I realize a lot of people
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don't want to
hear about failure.
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But sometimes if
we hear about failure,
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it will help us to
get our act together.
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And want to make a change
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because it
depends on this change
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the coming of
Jesus and how soon?
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Isn't that interesting?
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But when this
gospel is preached where?
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Into the whole world,
Jesus is going to come.
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This I can say
for sure that we know.
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This we know.
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God's work is
going to be finished
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under the third angel.
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See, I'm interested
in that third angel.
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And we can go in to the
mark of the beast and so on,
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the image of the beast
and so on and so forth.
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That's really not
the purpose of this.
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But we need to understand that,
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if this is the
life and death issue.
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And I'm so shocked many times
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when you talk to
people is that you say
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the mark of the
beast, "You know what it is?"
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They'll say, "No, I don't."
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And they really don't
care if they hear it or not.
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At least we should want to know.
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If I didn't know, I'd
say, "Well, what is it?
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What do you think it is?"
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It's life and death.
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The mark of the
enemy or the mark of God,
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you're going to
have one or the other.
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Seal of God, the
mark of the beast,
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it's just that simple.
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We're either going
to follow the enemy
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or we're going to follow Christ.
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But we know the work
will be finished under what?
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The third angel.
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I love the book
The Great Controversy.
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And, you know, so sad
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that many of us have these books
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and all they do is gather dust.
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We don't read the books.
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We don't spend time
underlining, circling,
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looking at every word
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because they've
been given to us by God,
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just like this right here.
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This right here
is holy men of God,
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as they are
inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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They work together.
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Notice what it says,
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and maybe we'll come
back and read it again
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after we make a
couple more comments.
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The Great
Controversy, page 613 says this,
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"When..."notice
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"When the third
angel's message closes,
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mercy no longer pleads
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for the guilty
inhabitants of the earth."
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Did you notice that it
wasn't a certain class,
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it said we're all what?
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Everybody's guilty
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because we've all
sinned and come short.
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Notice that The
Great Controversy says,
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"No mercy pleads
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for the guilty
inhabitants of the earth."
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The people, notice,
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the people of God have
accomplished their work.
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God's people are going
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to finish the work by the grace,
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right, and power
and strength of God.
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Notice the work is finished.
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I look at it today
in my little human eyes
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and I say, and
I've said all my life,
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"How can it be?
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How can this work
is so vast worldwide,
00:12:02.55\00:12:05.55
how will it be finished?
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Who's going to finish it?"
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And I see this,
we're just getting lukewarm
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and little more,
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you know, lukewarm,
and lukewarm, and lukewarm.
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We need people on
fire for Jesus today.
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What does that tell us?
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It simply tells us under
the third angel's message,
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God is going to
complete His work,
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its probation is going to close,
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no more mercy in the world.
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He that is righteous
will be righteous still.
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He that is filthy
will be filthy still.
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Notice,
probation comes to a close.
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And this is where
you have your Bible,
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turn with me.
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This is where the Book of Daniel
00:12:42.79\00:12:44.23
really comes in
very handy for us.
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Daniel 12, I've heard
many people read this,
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sometime they
relate, sometime they do not.
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This is where Daniel 12:1
comes really into effect here.
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Notice what it
says, Daniel 12:1,
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very familiar
passage of Scripture.
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Notice, this comes into play.
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It says, "At
that time shall," who?
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"Shall Michael stand up,
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the great prince would standeth
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for the children
of thy people:..."
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This is some good
news here by the way.
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This is shouting news.
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This is getting exciting news
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because Michael is
going to standeth for what?
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His people.
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There's going to be a time
that God says, "It's enough."
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There's going to be a time
He says, "I'm finished with it,
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it's done.
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They've done all
they're going to do,
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I give them every opportunity,
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every decision has been
made one way or the other."
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And Michael said,
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"Now, I'm going to
stand up for my people."
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Oh, how wonderful that is.
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"Their shall be
though a time of," what?
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"Trouble, such as never
was since there was a nation
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even to the same time."
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This is the time
we were talking about
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as probation does what?
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As closes.
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What does that
really say to you?
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You know, it says
something to me as probation
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that this closes.
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Notice in Daniel 12:1,
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it's always a debate going
on in the Christian world today.
00:14:06.47\00:14:11.51
Well, Michael it
does, it's not Christ.
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It says, Michael referred,
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you know, and on and on, and on,
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rather than to read it
and compare line upon line
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and precept upon precept.
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It's very simple to
find out who Michael is.
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It's really, I want
to say a crying shame,
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if it's all right.
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It's a pitiful shame
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that we can't find
something of this simple
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and put it together
just very quickly here today.
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Then at that time the
Bible says, at that time.
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And really that's translated
at the time of the end,
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at the time of the end,
Michael stands for what?
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He stands for His people.
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That means that Michael
comes to deliver His people.
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Why? Because they're in trouble.
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Some of us are not
getting it. We're in trouble.
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We're in deep trouble.
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We're in mud up to
here. Somebody still with me.
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I'll leave it at that.
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And we don't
realize it sometime.
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I don't think we
realize what's going on here.
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We're almost to here, you
see. And that's all she wrote.
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He comes to
deliver us, His people.
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Michael, you know,
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the name is
like, who is like God.
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Michael means, who is like God.
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Now remember and
now we get confused
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because some people said
Michael refers to the enemy.
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Why?
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Because the enemy
wants to be like God.
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Are you still with me?
He's striving to be like God.
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He wants to be like God.
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Isaiah 14 talks
about what he wants to do.
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I will sit in the place.
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But there's a real Michael
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and then there's a
counterfeit Michael.
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Right.
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For every truth
there's, you know, counterfeit.
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We know Michael who's like God.
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In the Bible he's also
referred to as the chief Prince,
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you remember that.
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And we just read
where he's described
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as Israel's protector.
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Did you get that in Daniel 12:1?
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What is it saying?
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It says, "Shall
Michael stand up,
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the great prince which standeth
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before the
children of thy people."
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He stands for us.
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Jude 9, he called the archangel.
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Jesus is called the archangel.
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And how that is associated
00:16:33.22\00:16:35.16
with 1
Thessalonians 4:16, isn't it?
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Where it says the dead come out
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of the grave at
the voice of, what?
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The archangel.
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Who calls the
sleeping saints up?
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Jesus calls them up.
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He's referred to
as the archangel.
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And how wonderful
that as they hear His voice
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and they come
forward everlasting life.
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The saints, they're coming.
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John 5, read more
about that verse 28.
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So the name Michael,
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notice this in Scripture
it seems always is used
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when there is a direct conflict
between Christ and Satan.
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Did you get it?
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When there is a conflict
between Christ and Satan,
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Michael is referred
00:17:21.20\00:17:22.54
to kind of
interesting many times
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when Michael is used.
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Wow.
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That helps us to understand,
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we have good and
then we have bad.
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Interesting. Wow.
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It says the time of trouble.
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When Christ mediation ceases.
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I mean how
sobering that is to my mind,
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that the time will come
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when we're no
longer have a mediator.
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When we have to stand aside
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of a holy God
without a mediator,
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means sin has to go.
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And each one of us may
look at our life today.
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And we're going to see things
that maybe shouldn't be there.
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It's not going to be
tolerated when probation closes.
00:18:10.52\00:18:14.29
We will have that
robe of righteousness.
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He's not putting it on us
00:18:17.33\00:18:18.66
to conceal
defective character and sin.
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It can only be put upon those
00:18:21.76\00:18:23.10
who have gained the victory
by the blood of the lamb.
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But think about it
when Christ is finished.
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Now watch my terms here.
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I'll be watchful
today because I'm saying.
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I'll tell you everything's
going to bust loose.
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Did you get it?
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Everything is
going to bust loose
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when Christ stands up
and says, "It's finished."
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When there's no
mediator anymore,
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that means Satan
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has full control
down here, look out.
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He's going to throw everything
that he possibly can throw
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at anybody and everybody,
00:18:58.53\00:19:00.47
even the saints
00:19:00.50\00:19:01.84
because there's no
such thing as a rapture.
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We'll be raptured away,
00:19:04.51\00:19:05.84
we don't have to worry about it.
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No, you will go
through the time of trouble
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if you are alive.
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God's people will
go through that time.
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Man, I'll tell you that
the devil likes it always,
00:19:15.68\00:19:18.02
if you don't worry about it
00:19:18.05\00:19:19.39
'cause, you know,
you won't be here.
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You will be here.
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The Bible is clear
that you will be here.
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Name someone in Scripture
then, give me some evidence,
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give me some evidence
from the Word of God right here
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where when they were God's
men and women were challenged
00:19:32.70\00:19:35.07
that he just took them out.
00:19:35.10\00:19:37.64
Is that why they threw
Daniel in the lions' den?
00:19:37.67\00:19:41.71
Took him out, huh?
00:19:41.74\00:19:43.14
No, the devil
want to take him out,
00:19:43.18\00:19:44.51
but, you know, that
lions weren't hungry
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at that time, I guess.
00:19:45.98\00:19:49.58
God closed their
mouth, didn't He?
00:19:49.62\00:19:52.82
But just look and
think of all the test
00:19:52.85\00:19:55.02
that God's people
have been through,
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they weren't taken out,
00:19:57.29\00:19:58.63
they went through
them by the grace of God.
00:19:58.66\00:20:01.00
By His mercy, by His
strength they made it through
00:20:01.03\00:20:03.90
and they come forth
as mighty conquerors.
00:20:03.93\00:20:06.53
That's what the
Bible talks about.
00:20:06.57\00:20:08.34
But the enemy now,
he lets loose his fury.
00:20:08.37\00:20:12.14
The Great Controversy,
we just read it while ago,
00:20:12.17\00:20:14.78
page 613 and 614 says,
00:20:14.81\00:20:18.58
what happens is no
pen can write it out,
00:20:18.61\00:20:22.32
make it a picture.
00:20:22.35\00:20:23.69
Did you get the scene of strife
such as no pen can picture.
00:20:23.72\00:20:28.52
You can't even write it down.
00:20:28.56\00:20:30.56
You've never seen
anything on the airwaves.
00:20:30.59\00:20:34.10
You've seen a
lot of junk on there.
00:20:34.13\00:20:35.50
But it's nothing when
the enemy turns loose.
00:20:35.53\00:20:38.00
What a time of trouble.
00:20:38.03\00:20:41.40
Remember, every case,
talking about the third angel.
00:20:41.44\00:20:45.47
Every case has been what?
00:20:45.51\00:20:47.18
Been decided has
it not, life or death.
00:20:47.21\00:20:51.25
Sins have
already been atoned for.
00:20:51.28\00:20:54.25
And they've been blotted out.
00:20:54.28\00:20:56.02
Notice, but we
find the other class,
00:20:56.05\00:20:58.69
the wicked who have rejected
and spurn God's long suffering,
00:20:58.72\00:21:02.36
and mercy, and
probation is just closed.
00:21:02.39\00:21:07.66
Can you really accept that?
00:21:07.70\00:21:09.03
Can you really deal
with that when you know
00:21:09.06\00:21:11.07
that's going to come someday
00:21:11.10\00:21:12.53
and you think
about maybe your husband,
00:21:12.57\00:21:14.20
your wife, your
children, your grandchildren,
00:21:14.24\00:21:16.40
they're not in
the ark of safety,
00:21:16.44\00:21:17.77
they don't even want to get in.
00:21:17.81\00:21:21.41
They wouldn't want it too
00:21:21.44\00:21:22.78
if you want to
throw them out there
00:21:22.81\00:21:24.15
in the water to save them.
00:21:24.18\00:21:25.51
Are you still with me?
00:21:25.55\00:21:26.88
Here's a tube, inner tube,
you're drowning here, here,
00:21:26.92\00:21:28.82
I threw the tube out.
00:21:28.85\00:21:30.19
No, we don't
want, we're all right.
00:21:30.22\00:21:32.05
And they've already been
under two or three times.
00:21:32.09\00:21:36.83
Can you be
content with that thought,
00:21:36.86\00:21:39.23
that it's okay
that they're lost?
00:21:39.26\00:21:41.16
Can you be
content with that thought?
00:21:41.20\00:21:43.47
By the grace of God,
00:21:43.50\00:21:44.83
if you be in that New
Jerusalem coming down,
00:21:44.87\00:21:47.20
that you see your
sons, and your daughters,
00:21:47.24\00:21:49.07
and your moms, and your
dads outside those walls,
00:21:49.10\00:21:51.74
are you going to
be happy about that?
00:21:51.77\00:21:53.84
No, you will not be.
00:21:53.88\00:21:56.21
Now it's the time to do
00:21:56.24\00:21:57.58
by the grace of
God something about it.
00:21:57.61\00:22:00.02
Now is the time to
give them the message.
00:22:00.05\00:22:02.75
Well, they
don't want to hear it.
00:22:02.78\00:22:04.12
Well, pray that
their ears will be open.
00:22:04.15\00:22:06.09
Pray that they want to hear you.
00:22:06.12\00:22:07.46
You can't give it if
they don't want to hear it.
00:22:07.49\00:22:11.99
But you have to have
that peace in your soul
00:22:12.03\00:22:16.30
that by the grace
of God you've made
00:22:16.33\00:22:17.93
every effort available.
00:22:17.97\00:22:19.70
Not just because
00:22:19.73\00:22:21.07
they'll get
little peeved at you,
00:22:21.10\00:22:22.44
not because they
won't talk to you for a week
00:22:22.47\00:22:24.14
because you bring it up.
00:22:24.17\00:22:25.51
That's too bad.
00:22:25.54\00:22:27.44
Somebody still with me?
00:22:27.48\00:22:29.44
Their soul is worth it.
00:22:29.48\00:22:33.01
Their soul is worth it.
00:22:33.05\00:22:36.89
How many people have you heard
00:22:36.92\00:22:39.15
in some kind of disaster to say,
00:22:39.19\00:22:41.56
I think maybe I
could have saved my child
00:22:41.59\00:22:43.59
or I could save my
wife if I just tried.
00:22:43.63\00:22:47.06
It could be a car
accident, it could be a fire.
00:22:47.10\00:22:49.46
If I just try.
00:22:49.50\00:22:52.90
And this is not just
some things in this life,
00:22:52.93\00:22:55.04
we're talking
about for eternity.
00:22:55.07\00:22:58.14
Well, I didn't
want to upset him.
00:22:58.17\00:23:00.94
Upset him.
00:23:00.98\00:23:03.11
It's all right,
upset him a little bit.
00:23:03.14\00:23:05.91
If you love them,
Jesus said if He loves you,
00:23:05.95\00:23:09.15
you're going to
get chastised, right?
00:23:09.18\00:23:10.52
Persecution,
00:23:10.55\00:23:11.89
there's going to be
some chastisement go on.
00:23:11.92\00:23:14.69
Oh, they live Godly in Christ,
Jesus shall suffer a little.
00:23:14.72\00:23:20.20
We know that God
has a purpose for giving
00:23:20.23\00:23:25.00
this third angel's message.
00:23:25.03\00:23:26.87
Now all three of
them we understand.
00:23:26.90\00:23:28.50
And all three of
them are valid today.
00:23:28.54\00:23:30.51
All three of them
must be given today.
00:23:30.54\00:23:32.94
But you know what?
00:23:32.97\00:23:34.31
You hear very little
about it in our own churches.
00:23:34.34\00:23:36.38
You don't hear about it
00:23:36.41\00:23:37.75
at all in other
churches to be honest.
00:23:37.78\00:23:40.92
And then in Adventism
you just hardly ever hear
00:23:40.95\00:23:43.32
because people
don't want to hear.
00:23:43.35\00:23:45.69
They want to
hear doom and gloom.
00:23:45.72\00:23:47.26
But you know
what? I like a warning.
00:23:47.29\00:23:51.53
I like somebody who
cares enough for me to say,
00:23:51.56\00:23:53.26
"Hey, be careful when
you go cut that tree down.
00:23:53.29\00:23:55.66
Be careful when
you drive the car,
00:24:00.17\00:24:02.27
fasten your seat belt."
00:24:02.30\00:24:04.34
Seems so minute,
00:24:04.37\00:24:06.34
but yet you want
them to fasten up.
00:24:06.37\00:24:08.71
Put the kids in the
car seat, fasten them up.
00:24:08.74\00:24:14.32
Be careful about this.
Don't drink this water.
00:24:14.35\00:24:16.42
Don't do...
00:24:16.45\00:24:17.79
You want to hear warnings.
00:24:17.82\00:24:19.15
But when it comes to
giving three angel's message,
00:24:19.19\00:24:20.82
well, we don't want
to hear because, oh my,
00:24:20.86\00:24:22.69
it's a time of trouble
00:24:22.72\00:24:24.06
that world has
never been through.
00:24:24.09\00:24:25.66
We don't want it.
00:24:25.69\00:24:27.03
Paul makes an
interesting statement
00:24:31.03\00:24:33.80
in Romans 13:12.
00:24:33.84\00:24:37.31
Romans 13:12.
00:24:37.34\00:24:39.17
Here's how Paul was looking
at, he said this, Romans 13:12.
00:24:39.21\00:24:43.58
Notice, it says
the night is far, what?
00:24:43.61\00:24:47.92
The night is far
spent. She's almost gone.
00:24:47.95\00:24:51.65
It's almost all over.
He's talking about in his day.
00:24:51.69\00:24:55.86
He was catching a heavenly view
that it was almost over with.
00:24:55.89\00:24:59.93
Even then he said
the night is far spent,
00:24:59.96\00:25:02.10
the day is what?
00:25:02.13\00:25:04.23
Is at hand,
00:25:04.27\00:25:05.63
let us therefore cast
off the works of darkness.
00:25:05.67\00:25:09.44
Let us put on
the armor of light.
00:25:09.47\00:25:12.77
Cast off the old enemy.
00:25:12.81\00:25:14.88
Be gone, you're dirty devil.
00:25:14.91\00:25:17.68
Some of you
probably never prayed
00:25:17.71\00:25:19.05
that or have you?
00:25:19.08\00:25:22.02
Go away you dirty devil.
00:25:22.05\00:25:25.79
Every time he attacks,
00:25:25.82\00:25:27.82
we have that right in
the name of Jesus to say,
00:25:27.86\00:25:30.23
"Get behind me."
00:25:30.26\00:25:31.59
Jesus did it, did He not,
00:25:31.63\00:25:33.90
when he was approached
about it, get behind me.
00:25:33.93\00:25:37.70
I would say, "Get behind me.
I don't want to see your face.
00:25:37.73\00:25:41.24
Don't want to hear you.
00:25:41.27\00:25:44.27
Get behind me, Satan,"
00:25:44.31\00:25:46.07
because I guarantee
00:25:46.11\00:25:47.44
if he's out there
in front of your face,
00:25:47.48\00:25:48.81
he's going to get you
00:25:48.84\00:25:50.18
because you'll be carrying
on a conversation with him.
00:25:50.21\00:25:51.88
You don't want to do that.
00:25:51.91\00:25:53.75
The night's almost gone.
00:25:53.78\00:25:55.45
We need to cast off
the works of darkness,
00:25:55.48\00:25:57.82
or the works of the enemy,
or the things of this world.
00:25:57.85\00:26:00.96
Let them go, put
on the armor of light.
00:26:00.99\00:26:04.36
Reflect Jesus
Christ to the world.
00:26:04.39\00:26:06.59
Do what you were
meant to do here.
00:26:06.63\00:26:10.80
You came in
this movement to give
00:26:10.83\00:26:12.33
the three angels' message.
00:26:12.37\00:26:13.70
And lo and behold,
most of us are not doing it,
00:26:13.74\00:26:15.44
should be ashamed.
00:26:15.47\00:26:19.31
Now remember, you
know, if you are, you aren't.
00:26:19.34\00:26:21.61
So don't
everybody get long faced
00:26:21.64\00:26:22.98
and start carrying on about it.
00:26:23.01\00:26:25.61
You know if you are.
00:26:25.65\00:26:27.38
And you know if
you aren't doing,
00:26:27.42\00:26:28.75
if you aren't
doing, you need to hear.
00:26:28.78\00:26:30.45
If you are doing it like
00:26:30.49\00:26:31.82
I'm trying to by
the grace of God,
00:26:31.85\00:26:33.19
I still need to be more,
more dedicated, more sincere,
00:26:33.22\00:26:36.69
more consecrated to
the cause of Christ.
00:26:36.73\00:26:40.20
We haven't reached that point.
00:26:40.23\00:26:43.20
So I look at
myself here and say,
00:26:43.23\00:26:44.60
"Oh, we must have fallen short."
00:26:44.63\00:26:46.70
Paul talked about it.
00:26:46.74\00:26:48.07
And then John the Revelator,
00:26:48.10\00:26:49.60
he comes up, I love
the book of Revelation,
00:26:49.64\00:26:52.44
and what a prophetic book.
00:26:52.47\00:26:54.01
What a book we need to
be reading and studying
00:26:54.04\00:26:56.04
in this hour.
00:26:56.08\00:26:57.41
He says it this way,
when he's referring to this.
00:26:57.45\00:27:00.95
There's a purpose
for giving this message.
00:27:00.98\00:27:03.02
Paul said there
was a purpose, why?
00:27:03.05\00:27:04.65
Because time's almost over with.
00:27:04.69\00:27:06.55
Get away from the old devil
00:27:06.59\00:27:08.22
and let's represent
Jesus Christ to the world.
00:27:08.26\00:27:10.39
I'm
paraphrasing, did you get it?
00:27:10.43\00:27:11.99
Now John comes along and
he says in Revelation 1:3.
00:27:12.03\00:27:16.36
He starts out
blessed, I like that.
00:27:16.40\00:27:19.07
"Blessed is he that
readeth, and they that," what?
00:27:19.10\00:27:22.60
"Hear the words
of this prophecy,"
00:27:22.64\00:27:25.67
good "and they keep those things
00:27:25.71\00:27:29.18
which are written therefore,
for the time is at hand.
00:27:29.21\00:27:35.25
John said, "The time is at hand.
00:27:35.28\00:27:37.95
Blessed the person
who reads, and hears,
00:27:37.99\00:27:40.52
and obeys those things."
00:27:40.56\00:27:42.56
You may be a reader,
it's not good enough.
00:27:42.59\00:27:45.43
You may be a
listener, it's not good enough.
00:27:45.46\00:27:48.43
You've got to read, and hear,
00:27:48.46\00:27:49.93
and understand and
then do by the grace of God
00:27:49.96\00:27:53.60
more than hearers
of the word, right?
00:27:53.64\00:27:56.60
More doers of the
word, not hearers only,
00:27:56.64\00:28:00.11
we're deceiving our own self.
00:28:00.14\00:28:02.28
Notice that.
00:28:02.31\00:28:03.65
Interesting, Jesus
has talked about it.
00:28:03.68\00:28:05.91
Paul is talking about it here.
00:28:05.95\00:28:07.72
John the Revelator comes
by and he's talking about it.
00:28:07.75\00:28:10.22
He said, the time is at hand.
00:28:10.25\00:28:12.42
Paul said, put on
the armor of light.
00:28:12.45\00:28:15.32
And John goes on
in Revelation 22:7.
00:28:15.36\00:28:20.00
You noticed, I
always had loved this,
00:28:20.03\00:28:21.73
he said, "Behold I come quickly"
00:28:21.76\00:28:25.17
you notice that,
00:28:25.20\00:28:26.53
"blessed is he that keepeth
the sayings of the prophecy
00:28:26.57\00:28:30.67
of this book."
00:28:30.71\00:28:33.01
The blessing is
always pronounced upon those
00:28:33.04\00:28:35.58
who keep the
sayings of this book.
00:28:35.61\00:28:38.21
Why is it that most
churches are not interested
00:28:38.25\00:28:41.05
in the Book of Revelation
or the Book of Daniel?
00:28:41.08\00:28:43.59
Because they are the
two books we need right now.
00:28:43.62\00:28:46.32
They are books of prophecy.
00:28:46.35\00:28:47.72
They are the ones that tell us
00:28:47.76\00:28:49.09
what is to take
place in this world
00:28:49.12\00:28:50.66
so that we're not surprised.
00:28:50.69\00:28:52.33
So that we don't say, I
knew it was going to happen
00:28:52.36\00:28:55.86
but no one
should be saying that,
00:28:55.90\00:28:58.57
no one has come in
00:28:58.60\00:28:59.93
and studied
himself into this faith.
00:28:59.97\00:29:01.70
No one is going to
sit here in this church
00:29:01.74\00:29:03.81
because you're going to
hear it over and over, and over
00:29:03.84\00:29:06.47
'cause you need
it and I need it.
00:29:06.51\00:29:08.74
I don't want to be surprised.
00:29:08.78\00:29:11.41
There's no need to be surprised.
00:29:11.45\00:29:12.78
You think Jesus wants
you to be surprised and say,
00:29:12.81\00:29:14.45
oh, I didn't know.
00:29:14.48\00:29:16.92
Absolutely not.
Oh, I didn't know.
00:29:16.95\00:29:19.35
You didn't know
00:29:19.39\00:29:20.72
because you were
watching the news
00:29:20.76\00:29:22.09
rather than reading the Bible.
00:29:22.12\00:29:25.79
Messing around rather
than reading the Word.
00:29:25.83\00:29:27.43
Let's just be
honest about these things.
00:29:27.46\00:29:29.86
Something's
going to take our time.
00:29:29.90\00:29:31.23
And whatever that might be,
00:29:31.27\00:29:32.90
we all have the
same amount of time,
00:29:32.93\00:29:34.40
and we have to make choices
00:29:34.44\00:29:35.97
of where we're
going to spend that time.
00:29:36.00\00:29:37.87
Behold I come quickly.
00:29:37.91\00:29:40.78
To me those
sounds like warnings.
00:29:40.81\00:29:43.41
Is that not a warning? Sure.
00:29:43.45\00:29:46.15
And, of course, we
realized Spirit of Prophecy
00:29:46.18\00:29:47.75
'cause lot of
warning, Manuscript 95,
00:29:47.78\00:29:50.82
this was written in 1906.
00:29:50.85\00:29:53.15
Manuscript 95, in 1906.
00:29:53.19\00:29:56.62
Notice this
little warning it says,
00:29:56.66\00:29:58.79
when probation ends...
00:29:58.83\00:30:00.70
Somebody help me now.
00:30:00.73\00:30:02.13
When probation ends,
it will come suddenly.
00:30:02.16\00:30:08.07
It will come how? Suddenly.
00:30:08.10\00:30:10.24
Unexpectedly at a time
00:30:10.27\00:30:12.91
when we are least expecting it.
00:30:12.94\00:30:17.15
So what is going on
that we're not expecting it?
00:30:17.18\00:30:20.45
Because we should expect it.
00:30:24.25\00:30:26.22
Jesus said what,
you're going to know.
00:30:26.25\00:30:28.79
You're going to know, right?
00:30:28.82\00:30:30.16
You're going to know
the signs of the time.
00:30:30.19\00:30:31.53
You're going to know
00:30:31.56\00:30:32.89
when the leaves
are on the trees.
00:30:32.93\00:30:34.26
You're going to know the season.
00:30:34.30\00:30:35.63
You're going to
know what's going on
00:30:35.66\00:30:37.00
if you're in the Word.
00:30:37.03\00:30:38.37
But now it says,
00:30:38.40\00:30:39.73
a similar comes to
most of the world as what?
00:30:39.77\00:30:41.60
As a overwhelming surprise.
00:30:41.64\00:30:44.61
We didn't know.
00:30:44.64\00:30:48.11
Preacher's not worth two cents
that doesn't warn his people.
00:30:48.14\00:30:52.45
He's not.
00:30:52.48\00:30:53.82
He needs to get him another job.
00:30:53.85\00:30:55.18
He needs to do something else.
00:30:55.22\00:30:57.22
It's about warning.
00:30:57.25\00:30:58.59
It's about
going over the message
00:30:58.62\00:30:59.95
that maybe you know and
that you've come to love.
00:30:59.99\00:31:02.39
But it's still
going over to remind us
00:31:02.42\00:31:05.19
that we have Brother John,
00:31:05.23\00:31:06.56
we have a job to do and
it's not just on Sabbath.
00:31:06.59\00:31:11.43
We have a message to
give. God has appointed you.
00:31:11.47\00:31:14.27
Listen, you chose to come in.
00:31:14.30\00:31:17.07
Nobody made you.
00:31:17.11\00:31:20.41
Did you not join the movement?
00:31:20.44\00:31:22.91
You knew the message.
00:31:22.94\00:31:24.85
You studied the message.
I've studied the message.
00:31:24.88\00:31:28.08
I'm learning all the time.
00:31:28.12\00:31:31.45
Again, God has a purpose
for giving of this message,
00:31:31.49\00:31:35.49
the third angel's message.
00:31:35.52\00:31:36.86
This is going to be a
little bit a reading here,
00:31:36.89\00:31:38.49
found in First
Selected Messages,
00:31:38.53\00:31:40.60
page 67 and 68.
00:31:40.63\00:31:43.20
It's quite a lengthy paragraph.
00:31:43.23\00:31:44.70
But listen
anybody goes to sleep,
00:31:44.73\00:31:46.33
I will catch you, all right.
00:31:46.37\00:31:49.07
I'll scream and
holler and I'll quick out.
00:31:49.10\00:31:51.47
I'll make noise,
I'll do something.
00:31:51.51\00:31:52.84
You know why?
00:31:52.87\00:31:54.21
Because your
life is on the line,
00:31:54.24\00:31:55.58
you're worth it.
00:31:55.61\00:31:57.11
My life is on the line.
00:31:57.15\00:32:01.15
It's worth waking up for Word.
00:32:01.18\00:32:04.09
It's worth being excited about.
00:32:04.12\00:32:07.16
And it just goes over First
Selected Message 67 and 68.
00:32:07.19\00:32:10.76
It goes over the responsibility
that I have chosen
00:32:10.79\00:32:15.63
by accepting Jesus Christ,
by hooking up with Jesus.
00:32:15.66\00:32:19.43
Divinity and
humanity working together.
00:32:19.47\00:32:22.60
I have said,
okay, by God's grace.
00:32:22.64\00:32:25.37
God said this is
what I want you to do.
00:32:25.41\00:32:27.28
I mean, how many
would turn that down today.
00:32:27.31\00:32:29.64
If you heard that voice
say this is what I want you do,
00:32:29.68\00:32:32.08
how many of you will say,
well, no, I don't have time.
00:32:32.11\00:32:36.85
Notice what it
says, very interesting.
00:32:36.89\00:32:39.05
God had committed to His people
00:32:39.09\00:32:41.82
a work to be
accomplished on this earth.
00:32:41.86\00:32:45.69
What has God done?
00:32:45.73\00:32:47.23
He's given us a work to do.
00:32:47.26\00:32:49.16
You remember,
00:32:49.20\00:32:50.53
He talks about
laborers all the time.
00:32:50.57\00:32:53.10
He talks about activity.
00:32:53.13\00:32:55.74
He talks about
going into, going forth,
00:32:55.77\00:32:59.17
getting up and going,
showing up, doing something.
00:32:59.21\00:33:02.78
It's always about doing,
not as a means of salvation,
00:33:02.81\00:33:06.95
but you're active.
00:33:06.98\00:33:08.35
You can't bear
just to sit all the time
00:33:08.38\00:33:10.49
and do nothing for
the cause of Christ.
00:33:10.52\00:33:12.72
He's committed.
00:33:12.75\00:33:14.29
He has a work for us to
do, notice, to accomplish
00:33:14.32\00:33:17.49
and it will be on this
earth with or without us.
00:33:17.53\00:33:20.70
And then it goes on and says,
00:33:20.73\00:33:22.06
the third angel's
message was to be given.
00:33:22.10\00:33:25.30
The minds of the
believers were be,
00:33:25.33\00:33:27.97
were to be directed
to the heavenly sanctuary
00:33:28.00\00:33:31.07
where Christ had entered
00:33:31.11\00:33:32.44
to make
atonement for His people.
00:33:32.47\00:33:36.04
When you give the
three angels' message,
00:33:36.08\00:33:37.41
what do you do?
00:33:37.45\00:33:38.78
You have to get
into the judgment hour.
00:33:38.81\00:33:40.45
You have to get
into Sabbath reform.
00:33:40.48\00:33:42.45
You've got to
get into these areas
00:33:42.48\00:33:44.22
and that's what it is about.
00:33:44.25\00:33:45.85
God said, I want
to wake the people up.
00:33:45.89\00:33:48.76
I'm getting
ready to make a move.
00:33:48.79\00:33:50.86
So this is exciting.
00:33:50.89\00:33:52.23
I'm getting
ready to make a move.
00:33:52.26\00:33:54.00
See, people can't even
figure out where He's at.
00:33:54.03\00:33:57.33
As you look at it,
they'll say, oh, I know it.
00:33:57.37\00:33:59.10
The majority of
Christian believers think
00:33:59.13\00:34:01.40
that He's still
in the holy place.
00:34:01.44\00:34:05.47
When He first
went back to heaven,
00:34:05.51\00:34:06.88
what did John talks
about it, what did he say?
00:34:06.91\00:34:09.64
He said he looked
around, what did he see up there
00:34:09.68\00:34:12.05
where Jesus was...?
00:34:12.08\00:34:13.42
Did he see the candlestick?
00:34:13.45\00:34:15.18
Table of
showbread? Altar of incense?
00:34:15.22\00:34:18.15
This is what he saw.
00:34:18.19\00:34:19.52
This is where Jesus was there,
the work that he was doing.
00:34:19.55\00:34:24.69
For many years he was doing it.
00:34:24.73\00:34:26.46
Now a change was
getting ready to be made.
00:34:26.49\00:34:29.56
We're talking 1844, aren't we?
00:34:29.60\00:34:31.70
Jesus move from the
holy to the most holy place.
00:34:31.73\00:34:36.10
Think about it,
00:34:36.14\00:34:37.47
making that move to
the most holy place.
00:34:37.51\00:34:39.14
When Jesus
move, we have to move.
00:34:39.17\00:34:43.01
We are to follow the
lamb wherever He goes.
00:34:43.04\00:34:46.55
And if we want
His mediation for us,
00:34:46.58\00:34:49.52
we have to show up
00:34:49.55\00:34:50.89
in the most holy place by faith.
00:34:50.92\00:34:52.25
Are you there?
00:34:52.29\00:34:54.52
If you do not,
00:34:54.56\00:34:55.89
you cannot be
benefited by His work.
00:34:55.92\00:34:58.79
And the majority of the world
00:34:58.83\00:35:00.36
does not even understand
the sanctuary, or that message.
00:35:00.40\00:35:03.93
And they have not followed
Him into the most holy place.
00:35:03.97\00:35:07.10
And the enemy has...
00:35:07.14\00:35:08.47
when He left the enemy came in.
I wish somebody would listen.
00:35:08.50\00:35:12.37
How disturbing Brother Mark,
00:35:17.68\00:35:19.05
how disturbing
that is to think about.
00:35:19.08\00:35:21.48
Remember when Jesus is present,
the devil can't do anything.
00:35:21.52\00:35:26.12
Are you with me?
00:35:26.15\00:35:27.49
He couldn't come
in the holy place
00:35:27.52\00:35:28.86
or he couldn't go
to the most holy place.
00:35:28.89\00:35:30.23
He couldn't go
anywhere until he's told to.
00:35:30.26\00:35:32.96
But soon as Christ
left the holy place, 1844,
00:35:32.99\00:35:36.16
he move what?
00:35:36.20\00:35:37.53
Read Daniel 8:14, 2300 days,
00:35:37.57\00:35:40.07
then shall the
sanctuary be cleansed.
00:35:40.10\00:35:42.20
It's a simple Bible prophecy.
00:35:42.24\00:35:44.24
Man, it just nails
it down just like that.
00:35:44.27\00:35:47.44
Jesus stepped in
the most holy place,
00:35:47.48\00:35:49.31
His very last
stop until He comes.
00:35:49.34\00:35:51.61
This is it.
00:35:51.65\00:35:52.98
He's made His last stop
00:35:53.01\00:35:54.52
before He comes
back to this world.
00:35:54.55\00:35:56.58
And He's the mediator, right.
00:35:56.62\00:35:57.95
He's standing in
between me and God right now.
00:35:57.99\00:36:00.56
We're in the hour
of God's judgment.
00:36:00.59\00:36:02.39
Our names are coming up.
00:36:02.42\00:36:03.86
And when our names come up,
00:36:03.89\00:36:05.29
He must say, "Father, My blood."
00:36:05.33\00:36:08.06
He must say, "Father, My blood."
00:36:08.10\00:36:09.86
They have accepted
Me and My life, why?
00:36:09.90\00:36:11.80
Because my life
was rotten, that's why.
00:36:11.83\00:36:14.67
I'm a sinner. I'm
under death decree.
00:36:14.70\00:36:16.24
I'm no good, there's
none good, no, not one.
00:36:16.27\00:36:20.18
And so God
doesn't need to see me.
00:36:20.21\00:36:21.81
I'm in a world of
hurt if He sees me.
00:36:21.84\00:36:24.51
He sees His son. His
son says, "He's mine.
00:36:24.55\00:36:27.12
Look at Him, He's mine."
00:36:27.15\00:36:28.52
Look at those
nail pierced, mine.
00:36:28.55\00:36:30.55
God says that's good enough.
00:36:30.59\00:36:32.75
How wonderful that
is. What good news.
00:36:32.79\00:36:35.36
The world doesn't know that.
00:36:35.39\00:36:38.86
We haven't done our job.
00:36:38.89\00:36:40.66
Evidently,
something's wrong here.
00:36:40.70\00:36:44.13
Something is wrong.
00:36:44.17\00:36:47.30
The most holy place.
00:36:47.34\00:36:48.67
And so when He leaves,
00:36:48.70\00:36:50.04
the enemy comes into
the holy place as it were.
00:36:50.07\00:36:53.51
And he looks around
00:36:53.54\00:36:54.88
and majority of
the Christian world
00:36:54.91\00:36:56.24
as it were,
00:36:56.28\00:36:57.61
their thought and their
mind is in the holy place.
00:36:57.65\00:36:59.25
Some of you will
get that sometime.
00:36:59.28\00:37:01.18
You get it? That's worked out.
00:37:01.22\00:37:04.12
Well, he's still here,
he's still working here.
00:37:04.15\00:37:08.09
The Spirit of
Prophecy says what?
00:37:08.12\00:37:09.79
The enemy just,
00:37:09.82\00:37:11.16
he just breathes
00:37:11.19\00:37:12.53
as it were his power upon those.
00:37:12.56\00:37:14.30
And they're actually following
the enemy and not Jesus Christ
00:37:14.33\00:37:16.93
because He's left.
00:37:16.97\00:37:18.63
He's no longer
there. That's a test.
00:37:18.67\00:37:20.94
Do we move with
Him or do we stay.
00:37:20.97\00:37:25.64
I mean, do we really
realize what that really means
00:37:25.67\00:37:28.64
if we're under the
leadership of the enemy
00:37:28.68\00:37:30.65
and we think we're
under the leadership of God.
00:37:30.68\00:37:32.75
Yeah.
00:37:36.79\00:37:38.42
We're drunk a
little wine, you see.
00:37:38.45\00:37:42.89
How real this is
when you think about it.
00:37:42.92\00:37:46.59
The article goes
on, we can go on.
00:37:46.63\00:37:48.03
But it said the Sabbath reform
was to be carried forward,
00:37:48.06\00:37:52.23
the breach in the law
of God must be made up.
00:37:52.27\00:37:56.91
Somebody's got to tell people
about the seventh day Sabbath.
00:37:56.94\00:38:00.48
Somebody's got to
preach the message.
00:38:00.51\00:38:02.98
Somebody's got to
give Bible studies.
00:38:03.01\00:38:05.25
Somebody's got to have
00:38:05.28\00:38:06.72
spiritual backbone
enough to say the seventh day
00:38:06.75\00:38:10.19
is the Sabbath of
the Lord, thy God.
00:38:10.22\00:38:13.02
Sunday is no
more than a work day.
00:38:13.05\00:38:15.09
There's not one iota
of any kind of a blessing
00:38:15.12\00:38:17.36
put upon Sunday,
but it's a work day.
00:38:17.39\00:38:19.69
That's what we have
to be saying right now.
00:38:19.73\00:38:22.23
It will agitate people
who do not know any better,
00:38:22.26\00:38:24.57
I understand that.
00:38:24.60\00:38:25.93
But better to agitate them
00:38:25.97\00:38:27.34
and get them to looking
in the Word of God to see
00:38:27.37\00:38:29.20
whether be so.
00:38:29.24\00:38:31.07
If it's not the truth,
then don't worry about it.
00:38:31.11\00:38:33.38
But if it's the truth,
you better worry about it,
00:38:33.41\00:38:36.64
better do something about it.
00:38:36.68\00:38:40.18
See this is where I believe
00:38:40.22\00:38:41.68
that we are at in the
period of earth's history.
00:38:41.72\00:38:45.65
We have to say
when somebody say,
00:38:45.69\00:38:47.02
"Well, this is a
blessed day over."
00:38:47.06\00:38:48.42
There's only one
day that's been blessed,
00:38:48.46\00:38:49.96
that's the seventh day Sabbath."
00:38:49.99\00:38:51.49
There's only one day,
00:38:51.53\00:38:52.86
the other days
have not been blessed.
00:38:52.89\00:38:54.23
There's not, there's
only one the seventh day.
00:38:54.26\00:38:56.97
And anybody can figure out,
00:38:57.00\00:38:58.50
third grader can figure out
which day is the seventh day.
00:38:58.53\00:39:03.14
And somebody...
00:39:03.17\00:39:04.51
Some people say,
00:39:08.48\00:39:09.81
"Oh well, he's
frustrated about him and..."
00:39:09.84\00:39:11.58
No, it hurts inside to realize
the majority of the world
00:39:11.61\00:39:15.02
that the devil
has deceived them.
00:39:15.05\00:39:17.42
And there's no
reason to be deceived
00:39:17.45\00:39:19.09
by the enemy
00:39:19.12\00:39:20.46
because these
truths are so plain
00:39:20.49\00:39:22.22
in the Word of God.
00:39:22.26\00:39:23.59
There is no reason for us
to be deceived and to be lost.
00:39:23.63\00:39:28.53
And there has to,
yeah, we have to study,
00:39:28.56\00:39:30.07
we have to get
back in the Word of God.
00:39:30.10\00:39:32.50
We've got to put it
out there for somebody.
00:39:32.53\00:39:35.20
Somebody will say,
"Well, you're an agitator,"
00:39:35.24\00:39:36.57
you better believe it.
00:39:36.60\00:39:38.74
Call me an agitator if
you want, I don't care.
00:39:38.77\00:39:43.55
Sister Wallace will remember
the wash machine years ago.
00:39:43.58\00:39:47.78
You know what it
was called? Agitator.
00:39:47.82\00:39:51.45
The washing machine,
you remember the agitator,
00:39:51.49\00:39:53.46
that's what it did, it
just kind of went down,
00:39:53.49\00:39:55.02
I'd say, that's how
I washed the clothes.
00:39:55.06\00:39:56.93
Now they spin and do all
kind of things, you know.
00:39:56.96\00:39:59.76
But it was actually
called, I'm getting serious,
00:39:59.79\00:40:01.23
had anyone called the agitator.
00:40:01.26\00:40:03.63
God's people
need to be agitators
00:40:03.67\00:40:05.17
in the world, in the sin.
00:40:05.20\00:40:06.63
Remember we read
Spirit of Prophecy say,
00:40:06.67\00:40:08.17
agitate, agitate.
00:40:08.20\00:40:09.60
It don't mean try
to make somebody mad.
00:40:09.64\00:40:11.87
It simply says
present the truth as it is.
00:40:11.91\00:40:14.71
Don't be apologetic about it.
00:40:14.74\00:40:17.51
Don't be
embarrassed about it. Why?
00:40:17.55\00:40:19.65
Because you're on the
majority side in heaven.
00:40:19.68\00:40:22.95
You're doing what
God has asked you to do
00:40:22.98\00:40:24.89
by advocating that,
by standing for that.
00:40:24.92\00:40:27.42
Don't be ashamed about
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:40:27.46\00:40:31.39
All the inhabitants of the earth
00:40:31.43\00:40:33.29
might receive this warning.
00:40:33.33\00:40:34.80
The people of God must
purify their souls, notice,
00:40:34.83\00:40:37.90
through obedience to the
truth and be able to stand,
00:40:37.93\00:40:43.41
notice this, without
fault before Him at His coming.
00:40:43.44\00:40:49.11
Even in Adventism
we can't figure it out
00:40:49.14\00:40:50.68
that we have to
gain victory over sin.
00:40:50.71\00:40:52.15
Mine, mine, mine!
00:40:52.18\00:40:54.98
I don't mean to harp about it.
00:40:55.02\00:40:56.35
And I'm not
trying to harp about it,
00:40:56.38\00:40:57.72
but I don't want
somebody to believe a lie.
00:40:57.75\00:40:59.42
And what good would be
the example of Jesus be
00:41:04.13\00:41:07.00
if we weren't
supposed to be like Him.
00:41:07.03\00:41:09.40
If He come down here
00:41:09.43\00:41:10.77
He's was fully
human and fully divine,
00:41:10.80\00:41:12.70
so we'll separate the two.
00:41:12.73\00:41:14.80
That He had
nothing that we can't have,
00:41:14.84\00:41:16.91
but He gained the victory
over the enemy without that.
00:41:16.94\00:41:19.17
And why can't we
have the same power.
00:41:19.21\00:41:21.28
We can.
00:41:21.31\00:41:22.88
We can if we so desire
00:41:22.91\00:41:25.28
where we're
spending our time you see,
00:41:25.31\00:41:26.65
where we're putting our effort,
00:41:26.68\00:41:28.02
well, we spend
some time on our knees.
00:41:28.05\00:41:29.38
Oh, this is...
00:41:29.42\00:41:30.92
Why hasn't Jesus come?
00:41:30.95\00:41:34.22
You know the
work will be finished
00:41:34.26\00:41:35.59
under the third angel
00:41:35.62\00:41:36.96
and we're just
getting a good warm up,
00:41:36.99\00:41:38.33
I've talk about
again Brother Mark,
00:41:38.36\00:41:39.69
I'm just sorry next
time I'm just a way.
00:41:39.73\00:41:41.73
That's the way it
is. It's the way it is.
00:41:41.76\00:41:44.83
Because there's so much to it
00:41:44.87\00:41:46.84
and there's so
much that we've missed.
00:41:46.87\00:41:50.21
But I'm convinced
00:41:50.24\00:41:51.57
that we need as
it increases close
00:41:51.61\00:41:53.38
to the end the
power of the third angel
00:41:53.41\00:41:56.11
we need to understand more.
00:41:56.14\00:41:57.55
We need to understand
00:41:57.58\00:41:58.91
what our role is
and why we are here.
00:41:58.95\00:42:04.25
But for 40 years
Israel was not allowed
00:42:04.29\00:42:07.42
or didn't go into
the land of Canaan, why?
00:42:07.46\00:42:10.89
Could they have just
marched through in a few days?
00:42:10.93\00:42:13.36
Come on, church, could they?
00:42:13.40\00:42:15.16
Yeah, there was no reason.
00:42:15.20\00:42:17.07
Josh, there was
no reason for them
00:42:17.10\00:42:18.57
to spend 40
years out in that mess.
00:42:18.60\00:42:22.84
Now some of you don't get
00:42:22.87\00:42:24.21
what 40 years is
we better wake up.
00:42:24.24\00:42:26.11
Forty years is a long
time to be in the desert.
00:42:26.14\00:42:29.31
And is not
marching around in a place
00:42:29.34\00:42:33.82
and then turn
around marching back,
00:42:33.85\00:42:35.65
and marching back
again, and marching again,
00:42:35.68\00:42:39.35
until basically
they just refuse,
00:42:39.39\00:42:41.22
and they
rebelled, and they murmur,
00:42:41.26\00:42:42.76
and they complain
00:42:42.79\00:42:44.13
until lot of them was dead
00:42:44.16\00:42:46.96
but too, isn't that right?
00:42:47.00\00:42:48.33
Now tell me God
doesn't want obedience.
00:42:52.60\00:42:56.47
Those were His
people, were they not?
00:42:56.50\00:42:58.17
Man, He worked miracles
to get them out of bondages,
00:42:58.21\00:43:01.14
Avery, come on somebody,
00:43:01.18\00:43:03.55
to lead them into
the Promised Land,
00:43:03.58\00:43:05.68
representing
heaven for us today.
00:43:05.71\00:43:07.88
But no, they didn't do it,
00:43:07.92\00:43:09.95
they murmured,
and they complained,
00:43:09.98\00:43:11.45
and they were backbiting,
and they were gossiping.
00:43:11.49\00:43:14.12
The Great
Controversy says notice that,
00:43:17.89\00:43:19.59
you say, well,
that's not us today.
00:43:19.63\00:43:21.40
Wake up.
00:43:21.43\00:43:23.60
Wake up, children, wake up.
00:43:23.63\00:43:25.90
Notice what the article says,
00:43:25.93\00:43:27.44
"The same sins have delayed
the entrance of modern Israel
00:43:27.47\00:43:32.11
into the heavenly Canaan."
00:43:32.14\00:43:34.58
All we have to do
back is look what Israel,
00:43:34.61\00:43:37.15
what they murmur and
they complained about.
00:43:37.18\00:43:39.51
And were doing the
very same thing today,
00:43:39.55\00:43:41.75
no doubt and more of it.
00:43:41.78\00:43:45.95
That just means we
need to make a change.
00:43:45.99\00:43:48.02
This is good news.
00:43:48.06\00:43:49.52
The good news is
the door probation
00:43:49.56\00:43:51.36
is still open just a little bit.
00:43:51.39\00:43:53.46
There's still room
at the cross for you.
00:43:53.50\00:43:55.86
That's the good
news for us today.
00:43:55.90\00:43:58.13
There's time to repent.
00:43:58.17\00:43:59.70
There's time to
make changes right now.
00:43:59.73\00:44:02.00
Just don't be
caught up in this miserable
00:44:02.04\00:44:04.64
forsaken world.
00:44:04.67\00:44:08.44
We live in a world were God,
00:44:08.48\00:44:10.55
the Holy Spirit
00:44:10.58\00:44:11.91
is ever had been
almost thrown completely out.
00:44:11.95\00:44:16.12
Think about it.
00:44:16.15\00:44:17.82
We're thrown Him out
of this country and say,
00:44:17.85\00:44:19.69
"God we trust."
00:44:19.72\00:44:21.06
Come on.
00:44:21.09\00:44:23.02
This is so sad.
00:44:23.06\00:44:26.56
Well, you know
He's going to take me.
00:44:26.59\00:44:28.60
There is going to
be a place for me.
00:44:28.63\00:44:30.53
We're so confused.
00:44:30.57\00:44:32.50
We're so confused.
00:44:34.67\00:44:36.00
One businessman told me
years ago working construction.
00:44:36.04\00:44:39.71
He belonged to another church.
00:44:39.74\00:44:41.14
And he was a kind of
high up there in the church,
00:44:41.18\00:44:43.38
but he also had a lumber yard.
00:44:43.41\00:44:46.92
And he knew about
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:44:46.95\00:44:49.35
And so he always
wanted to talk a little bit
00:44:49.38\00:44:51.79
and you know gouge a little bit.
00:44:51.82\00:44:53.62
When he could
not, I gouged him back.
00:44:53.66\00:44:55.66
Nicely and lovingly.
00:44:55.69\00:44:57.99
You have to have an
answer for every man that I ask.
00:44:58.03\00:45:02.56
He said, "I'm going to heaven.
I know I'm going to heaven."
00:45:02.60\00:45:04.80
I said, "Boy, that's nice."
00:45:04.83\00:45:06.53
By the grace of God
I'm going to make it.
00:45:06.57\00:45:08.40
But, boy, I don't know
just by the grace of God,
00:45:08.44\00:45:10.27
you know I'm...
00:45:10.31\00:45:11.97
Oh, I know what you
think about me already.
00:45:12.01\00:45:14.64
I said, "Well, Gary, what
is that I think about you?"
00:45:14.68\00:45:18.61
"You know I smoke."
00:45:18.65\00:45:19.98
Come on, I'm just
going to lay it out.
00:45:20.02\00:45:21.35
Worthy, come on.
00:45:21.38\00:45:22.72
"You know I smoke."
00:45:22.75\00:45:24.09
I said, "Yeah, I
do know that you do,
00:45:24.12\00:45:25.45
but that's not
my judgment on that.
00:45:25.49\00:45:26.82
You know it's not good for you,
you know you shouldn't do it.
00:45:26.86\00:45:28.69
But I'm saying
00:45:28.72\00:45:30.06
whether you're going
to heaven or you're not."
00:45:30.09\00:45:31.79
"No, you think I'm
not going to heaven
00:45:31.83\00:45:33.43
because I smoke."
00:45:33.46\00:45:35.63
He said, "I'll tell
you one thing, said,
00:45:35.66\00:45:37.23
you don't
realize this," he said.
00:45:37.27\00:45:38.63
I said, "Well, what is that,
I'd like to know what it is."
00:45:38.67\00:45:41.40
He said, "I believe this.
00:45:41.44\00:45:42.84
I believe that God will take me,
00:45:42.87\00:45:44.67
I still smoke.
00:45:44.71\00:45:46.04
And I believe He's
got smoking rooms there
00:45:46.07\00:45:48.58
in heaven for me."
00:45:48.61\00:45:49.94
I said, "You got to be kidding."
00:45:49.98\00:45:54.65
In other words there's a
place somewhere in heaven,
00:45:54.68\00:45:57.52
if you don't
gain the victor here,
00:45:57.55\00:45:58.89
you can go there
and light one up.
00:45:58.92\00:46:00.92
I said, "Gary, come
on. I said, that's it Gary.
00:46:00.96\00:46:03.29
I was a good friend
of his from lot of year,
00:46:03.32\00:46:04.79
so you could talk to him.
00:46:04.83\00:46:07.13
So here some people
you can't really talk to,
00:46:07.16\00:46:08.90
you know, they're
not going to let you,
00:46:08.93\00:46:10.27
you don't know him that well.
00:46:10.30\00:46:11.63
I know him very well for years,
00:46:11.67\00:46:13.00
so I could say
what I want to say,
00:46:13.03\00:46:14.37
he could say
whatever he want to say.
00:46:14.40\00:46:15.74
I said, "Gary,
you're fooling yourself."
00:46:15.77\00:46:17.34
That is not going
to be that kind of...
00:46:17.37\00:46:20.44
I won't say malarkey.
00:46:20.48\00:46:21.84
I don't even know what that is.
00:46:21.88\00:46:23.21
Better get a
dictionary before I say that.
00:46:23.24\00:46:27.98
They're not going to
be that stuff in heaven.
00:46:28.02\00:46:29.65
Are you still with me?
00:46:29.68\00:46:31.02
You know why? I
know that, you know why?
00:46:35.19\00:46:37.99
Because the Bible say so.
00:46:38.03\00:46:40.36
I'm not trying to be a judge.
00:46:40.40\00:46:41.73
I might have lot worse
problems than the smoking.
00:46:41.76\00:46:43.10
Are you still with me?
00:46:43.13\00:46:44.47
I'm not trying to
be judgmental here.
00:46:44.50\00:46:45.83
I'm just looking
around and saying,
00:46:45.87\00:46:47.20
here's what the Bible says.
00:46:47.24\00:46:48.57
And if it's for
me and it's for you,
00:46:48.60\00:46:49.94
we're going to close
with this because of the time.
00:46:49.97\00:46:51.31
And then we're
going to pick it up
00:46:51.34\00:46:52.67
and go on
00:46:52.71\00:46:54.04
because this is
heavy duty stuff.
00:46:54.08\00:46:56.34
Revelation
21:27. the Bible says.
00:46:56.38\00:47:01.58
Revelation 21:27.
00:47:01.62\00:47:03.99
And the Bible says,
00:47:04.02\00:47:05.35
"And there shall no
wise enter into it," what?
00:47:05.39\00:47:10.06
That Holy City, none
of us going to enter into,
00:47:10.09\00:47:12.39
"that defileth,
00:47:12.43\00:47:13.93
neither of whatsoever
worketh an abomination,
00:47:13.96\00:47:17.83
or maketh a lie."
00:47:17.87\00:47:19.67
Did you get it?
00:47:19.70\00:47:21.04
There are some people
00:47:21.07\00:47:22.40
who'd rather lie
than tell the truth.
00:47:22.44\00:47:24.74
The Bible said
00:47:24.77\00:47:26.11
there is nothing going to enter
00:47:26.14\00:47:27.48
into that defileth, nothing.
00:47:27.51\00:47:32.75
I'm not an exception
and you're not either.
00:47:32.78\00:47:34.75
And I'm not trying
to be ugly about it.
00:47:34.78\00:47:36.12
I'm just saying,
00:47:36.15\00:47:37.49
I just hear people
all the time saying,
00:47:37.52\00:47:39.12
"Well, God's going to
make an exception for me
00:47:39.15\00:47:41.02
and that breaks my heart
00:47:41.06\00:47:42.39
because I know that God
doesn't make exceptions."
00:47:42.42\00:47:45.23
He gives you the
strength and the power
00:47:45.26\00:47:46.80
to gain that victory
00:47:46.83\00:47:49.33
so that you can be
there, He wants you there.
00:47:49.36\00:47:52.17
He's made every preparation
so that you can be there.
00:47:52.20\00:47:54.67
It's your choice.
00:47:54.70\00:47:56.04
But my Bible says right here
and there nothing that defileth
00:47:56.07\00:47:59.64
or whatsoever that maketh
an abomination or maketh a lie.
00:47:59.67\00:48:04.48
Any of this
stretching the truth they say,
00:48:04.51\00:48:06.88
the little white lie.
00:48:06.92\00:48:08.25
A lie is a lie.
00:48:08.28\00:48:12.09
The only ones that will be there
00:48:12.12\00:48:14.09
as that passage continues on.
00:48:14.12\00:48:15.99
It says they which are written
in the Lamb's book of life.
00:48:16.02\00:48:20.76
I like that book
after that we get done.
00:48:20.80\00:48:23.06
None of this stuff's
going to be up there.
00:48:23.10\00:48:24.60
But only ones that will be there
00:48:24.63\00:48:26.50
is their names are written
in the Lamb's Book of Life.
00:48:26.53\00:48:29.40
If your name is not written
in the Lamb's Book of Life,
00:48:29.44\00:48:31.87
you will not be
there, I will not be there.
00:48:31.91\00:48:36.78
Won't be there. Why?
Because the Bible says though.
00:48:36.81\00:48:39.75
Only ones that
is going to be there
00:48:39.78\00:48:41.12
if their name was
written in Lamb's Book of Life.
00:48:41.15\00:48:45.32
And here's how
simple it is today
00:48:45.35\00:48:46.76
as we close.
00:48:46.79\00:48:48.12
It's simply all we have to do
00:48:48.16\00:48:50.43
by the grace of God is
to accept Jesus Christ.
00:48:50.46\00:48:53.06
This where it starts.
00:48:53.09\00:48:54.93
Because the Holy Spirit
has already been working on you
00:48:54.96\00:48:57.10
and already working on me.
00:48:57.13\00:48:58.47
We couldn't even come to
Christ without the Holy Spirit,
00:48:58.50\00:49:00.34
we know that.
00:49:00.37\00:49:01.70
It's not just one
day you get up and say,
00:49:01.74\00:49:03.07
"Oh, I'm going to
give my life to Jesus."
00:49:03.10\00:49:05.04
Wait a minute, I'll
come up with that on my own.
00:49:05.07\00:49:06.61
No, you didn't.
00:49:06.64\00:49:08.81
We need to get
that self out of...
00:49:08.84\00:49:10.18
Remember one who said,
00:49:10.21\00:49:11.55
Holy Spirit is
already been working with you,
00:49:11.58\00:49:12.91
pleading and
begging to come to Jesus.
00:49:12.95\00:49:16.48
If you want your name written
in the Lamb's Book of Life,
00:49:16.52\00:49:19.02
just come to
Jesus and accept Him
00:49:19.05\00:49:22.22
as your Lord and as your Savior.
00:49:22.26\00:49:26.59
And then while as you do
that and confess your sins
00:49:26.63\00:49:29.56
and you lay
everything at the feet of Jesus,
00:49:29.60\00:49:31.80
your name is written in
the Lamb's Book of Life.
00:49:31.83\00:49:35.44
Isn't that wonderful?
00:49:35.47\00:49:38.97
There that name remains written
00:49:39.01\00:49:43.71
until the investigative judgment
00:49:43.75\00:49:45.68
which no one talks about.
00:49:45.71\00:49:50.29
It remains until the
investigative judgment.
00:49:50.32\00:49:54.46
Every name will
pass in review of the one
00:49:54.49\00:49:58.09
who says in Revelation 3:1.
00:49:58.13\00:50:01.13
The Bible says,
00:50:01.16\00:50:02.50
"Jesus said, 'I
know thy works.'"
00:50:02.53\00:50:05.70
Did you get it?
00:50:05.73\00:50:07.07
He said the one that
00:50:07.10\00:50:08.47
the name passes
in review as it were,
00:50:08.50\00:50:10.57
the character, the whole life,
he said, "I know your works.
00:50:10.61\00:50:14.41
I know your works."
00:50:14.44\00:50:17.21
Paul said in Romans 2:6.
00:50:17.25\00:50:19.71
He said that
he's going to render
00:50:19.75\00:50:21.45
to every man
according to his deeds,
00:50:21.48\00:50:25.85
to his works, to his deeds,
00:50:25.89\00:50:28.26
did you get that.
00:50:28.29\00:50:29.62
And I can say this, if
the word if, big letter if,
00:50:32.69\00:50:38.07
in that day all of our
sins are not fully repented off,
00:50:38.10\00:50:44.47
our names will be
blotted out of the Book of Life.
00:50:44.51\00:50:49.14
Our names will be what?
00:50:49.18\00:50:50.95
Blotted out of the Book of Life.
00:50:50.98\00:50:54.45
How simple it is.
00:50:54.48\00:50:55.95
It can't be any simpler
for us to get on our knees
00:50:55.98\00:50:58.19
and ask God to
forgive us of our sins,
00:50:58.22\00:51:01.42
repent and turn
that's what it says.
00:51:01.46\00:51:06.43
You don't like the term,
00:51:06.46\00:51:07.80
we'll talk about
more about blotting out.
00:51:07.83\00:51:10.73
More reason the
passage of scripture says,
00:51:10.77\00:51:12.63
God said, "I will blot out.
00:51:12.67\00:51:15.64
I will blot out his name."
00:51:15.67\00:51:17.84
Not some judge, not
somebody that pops up
00:51:17.87\00:51:20.38
and says I'm in
control, I'm taking over here,
00:51:20.41\00:51:23.24
I'm going to decide
00:51:23.28\00:51:24.61
who's going to
make it and who's not.
00:51:24.65\00:51:26.31
God said I will
blot his name out.
00:51:26.35\00:51:32.19
Friends, that's
heavy duty to me.
00:51:32.22\00:51:34.59
I don't want my
name blotted out.
00:51:34.62\00:51:36.83
I'd rather come to
Jesus, how about you today?
00:51:36.86\00:51:38.89
I'd rather come to Him
today and say, "You know what?
00:51:38.93\00:51:43.26
Anything in my heart and
life that needs not be there.
00:51:43.30\00:51:45.47
Oh, Lord, have mercy
on me. Please forgive me."
00:51:45.50\00:51:50.11
I'm saying,
"Lord, show me things
00:51:50.14\00:51:53.14
that I need to
gain victory over."
00:51:53.17\00:51:54.58
We think when we come to Him,
00:51:54.61\00:51:55.94
we ask for
forgiveness everything's okay,
00:51:55.98\00:51:57.58
and we've got
it made right then.
00:51:57.61\00:52:00.08
You realize how we must
look from heaven's standpoint.
00:52:00.12\00:52:05.69
How dirty and filthy.
00:52:05.72\00:52:09.39
And we're supposed to
be repopulating heaven.
00:52:09.42\00:52:11.83
Jesus said, "I'll clean you up.
00:52:15.80\00:52:17.13
I'll give you the
victory that you need."
00:52:20.34\00:52:25.14
That's so simple that
today that we want to pray
00:52:25.17\00:52:29.24
that God will take away,
00:52:29.28\00:52:31.61
you know, we live in
that time of we need to repent
00:52:31.65\00:52:37.02
or we're going to be blotted out
00:52:37.05\00:52:38.92
of the Lamb's Book of Life.
00:52:38.95\00:52:41.29
So close, we realize
00:52:41.32\00:52:43.26
we're in the
hour of the judgment
00:52:43.29\00:52:44.89
right up of
those who have passed.
00:52:44.93\00:52:47.80
But how close we
are to the living.
00:52:47.83\00:52:50.43
A lot of debate
00:52:50.47\00:52:51.80
whether we're in
that time of the living.
00:52:51.83\00:52:55.70
And what if your
name would come up
00:52:55.74\00:52:59.04
in the judgment this week?
00:52:59.07\00:53:01.44
What would be the sentence?
00:53:01.48\00:53:04.35
You don't have to answer that.
00:53:04.38\00:53:05.71
Just think, that's
between you and God,
00:53:05.75\00:53:07.85
that's between me and God.
00:53:07.88\00:53:09.98
If my name comes
up, and when it does,
00:53:10.02\00:53:13.92
it's not going to be
00:53:13.96\00:53:15.29
what we're going
to put this case off
00:53:15.32\00:53:16.66
for two or three years.
00:53:16.69\00:53:18.03
You know, how they
do in the court system.
00:53:18.06\00:53:19.39
Men's on death
row for 20 or 30 years
00:53:19.43\00:53:21.13
'cause they've got to go
through this whole big...
00:53:21.16\00:53:23.10
When your name comes up,
00:53:23.13\00:53:25.60
sentence will be pronounced
right then and right there.
00:53:25.63\00:53:30.74
That's it.
00:53:30.77\00:53:32.11
And even though the
world will maybe carry on
00:53:32.14\00:53:33.84
for a little bit longer,
00:53:33.88\00:53:36.51
when your name comes up
00:53:36.54\00:53:38.05
that's it
00:53:38.08\00:53:39.41
'cause God knows everything
that will happen in the future.
00:53:39.45\00:53:42.22
We need to make
sure that it's right.
00:53:42.25\00:53:45.35
We need to make sure everything
00:53:45.39\00:53:47.32
that we know of is
taken care of for today.
00:53:47.36\00:53:50.26
What do you say
about that today?
00:53:54.23\00:53:56.16
Do we need
special prayer on that?
00:53:56.20\00:53:58.20
I do.
00:53:58.23\00:54:00.17
Anybody need
special prayer besides me?
00:54:00.20\00:54:01.94
Oh, Lord, I want to make sure
everything is taken care of,
00:54:01.97\00:54:05.34
my name should come up.
00:54:05.37\00:54:07.34
I want well done thy
good and faithful servant
00:54:07.38\00:54:09.91
in our own end.
00:54:09.94\00:54:12.61
We receive this seal
of God, how wonderful.
00:54:12.65\00:54:15.18
And remember, my
brothers and sisters,
00:54:15.22\00:54:17.09
if it's not the
seal of the living God,
00:54:17.12\00:54:18.85
it's going to be
the seal of the enemy.
00:54:18.89\00:54:20.39
I think it's very simple.
00:54:20.42\00:54:22.59
One or the other.
00:54:22.62\00:54:25.66
We can live forever with Jesus.
00:54:25.69\00:54:29.43
But we can miss out on
heaven and being with Jesus.
00:54:29.46\00:54:31.63
I know you don't
want to do that today.
00:54:31.67\00:54:33.47
How many would
like special prayer
00:54:33.50\00:54:35.47
as we close here
today with special prayer,
00:54:35.50\00:54:38.81
that the Holy Spirit
will convict and convert us
00:54:38.84\00:54:41.74
if there be other
changes that need to take place.
00:54:41.78\00:54:44.28
And I'm sure as I look
at myself in the mirror,
00:54:44.31\00:54:46.21
there needs to be
other changes to take place.
00:54:46.25\00:54:48.72
I may not know
what they are for today,
00:54:48.75\00:54:50.52
but I know that there is.
00:54:50.55\00:54:52.32
Why? Because I'm not there yet.
00:54:52.35\00:54:55.39
That says something, isn't it?
00:54:55.42\00:54:58.26
There needs to be
some other changes.
00:54:58.29\00:54:59.83
I need to be more like Jesus.
00:54:59.86\00:55:01.30
And so we're going to
pray about that today.
00:55:01.33\00:55:03.23
Lift your hands with me.
I'm going do a two hander.
00:55:03.26\00:55:05.27
Oh yes, Lord have mercy on me.
00:55:05.30\00:55:07.17
Remember if you
leave one hand down,
00:55:07.20\00:55:08.54
the devil's got it.
00:55:08.57\00:55:10.17
Let's pray, shall we
together, let's kneel.
00:55:10.21\00:55:14.81
Kind loving heavenly
Father, again what a privilege
00:55:14.84\00:55:17.15
we have to be able
to just talk to You.
00:55:17.18\00:55:20.25
We're thankful for that
grace and for that mercy
00:55:20.28\00:55:22.28
we're unworthy as we
are, none good, no, not one.
00:55:22.32\00:55:26.65
And you know the
message of the third angel
00:55:26.69\00:55:28.69
and the timeframe
00:55:28.72\00:55:30.06
that it is in and the urgency
and sometimes people listen
00:55:30.09\00:55:34.43
and they hear things
and they say, oh, boy,
00:55:34.46\00:55:36.80
everybody's talking
about such an urgent time.
00:55:36.83\00:55:38.87
It is an urgent time.
00:55:38.90\00:55:41.10
It's slipping
past us, right now,
00:55:41.14\00:55:43.27
as we're even praying right now,
00:55:43.30\00:55:44.67
we're seconds closer
to the coming of Jesus.
00:55:44.71\00:55:48.58
And, Lord,
sometime my heart aches
00:55:48.61\00:55:50.01
as we look around
and see our own life
00:55:50.05\00:55:52.11
and the victories that
need to be gained in life
00:55:52.15\00:55:55.18
with family and
friends and different ones.
00:55:55.22\00:55:57.12
Lord, we want them
on that sea of glass.
00:55:57.15\00:56:00.19
We want to be able to
spend eternity with Him.
00:56:00.22\00:56:03.66
And what thoughts can
go through the human mind
00:56:03.69\00:56:07.73
as we think about heaven,
and what it's going to be like,
00:56:07.76\00:56:10.47
and to realize
00:56:10.50\00:56:11.87
it's not going to
be like this earth.
00:56:11.90\00:56:14.97
It's just not going to
be, praise God for that.
00:56:15.00\00:56:18.11
And we know
00:56:18.14\00:56:19.47
it's going to be worth it
all someday when we see Jesus.
00:56:19.51\00:56:23.68
We won't go over all the
things that we've been through,
00:56:23.71\00:56:27.08
all the things
that have happened.
00:56:27.12\00:56:30.09
We simply want
to praise His name.
00:56:30.12\00:56:31.69
We cast our crown
at His feet and say,
00:56:31.72\00:56:34.92
"We're here because
of Jesus and Jesus only."
00:56:34.96\00:56:38.49
It's not because I was
a Seventh-day Adventist.
00:56:38.53\00:56:41.76
It was not because I
did all of these works.
00:56:41.80\00:56:45.30
It's not because of,
there's only one because of,
00:56:45.33\00:56:49.40
it's Jesus.
00:56:49.44\00:56:51.14
We thank You for
accepting us today
00:56:51.17\00:56:53.34
as part of the family of God.
00:56:53.38\00:56:54.71
And, Lord, You've begun the work
00:56:54.74\00:56:56.48
and You've seen the hands today.
00:56:56.51\00:56:57.85
I pray that You
would finish that work
00:56:57.88\00:56:59.21
in each and every one of us.
00:56:59.25\00:57:00.92
Instill in each one of
us that there is a need.
00:57:00.95\00:57:04.42
We have joined this movement
to give this last message.
00:57:04.45\00:57:08.59
We want to be
faithful to that calling.
00:57:08.62\00:57:10.43
If not, we will
be found unfaithful.
00:57:10.46\00:57:12.83
Bless us as we pray to this
00:57:12.86\00:57:14.20
and give us Holy Spirit's power,
00:57:14.23\00:57:15.56
give us victory
every day of our life.
00:57:15.60\00:57:18.13
And, Lord, may
have all of us settled,
00:57:18.17\00:57:19.97
all say it all done
00:57:20.00\00:57:22.04
that we may spend
eternity with You is my prayers,
00:57:22.07\00:57:24.57
I thank You in
Jesus' name, amen.
00:57:24.61\00:57:27.11