Hello, and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your
host, and we are so thankful
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that you have chosen to join us
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again for another
wonderful Bible study.
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Today, Pastor Kenny is
going to present a message
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and that message is entitled,
"When error is forced upon us."
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"When error is forced upon us."
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Remember, brothers
and sisters, what is sin?
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1 John 3:4 tells us
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that sin is the
transgression of God's law.
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So anything that goes
against Bible principle,
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goes against His law,
we realize would be sin.
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So we're living in a
very interesting time
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in this world's history
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because our nation
has begun to pass laws
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that go directly
against God's Word,
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directly against what God
has laid out for His people.
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So I believe this is going to be
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a very timely, a
very pertinent message
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that you're about to hear,
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and I am anxious to
get into that message,
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but first, we are
so blessed as usual
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to go to 3ABN's Worship Center.
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We're going to hear a song
sung by Brother Rudy Mecilli,
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and it is
entitled, "Trust His heart."
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"Trust His heart."
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All things work for our good
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Though sometimes we
don't see how they could
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Struggles that
break our hearts in two
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Sometimes blind us to the truth
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Our Father knows
what's best for us
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His ways are not our own
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So when the pathway grows dim
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And you just don't see Him
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Remember
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You are never alone
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God is too wise to be mistaken
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God is too good to be unkind
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So when you don't understand
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When you don't see His plan
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When you can't trace His hand
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Trust His heart
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He sees the master plan
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And He holds our
future in His hand
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So don't live as
those who have no hope
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All our hope is found in Him
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We see the present clearly
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But He sees the
first and the last
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And like a tapestry
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He's weaving you and me
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To someday
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Be just like Him
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Oh, God is too wise
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To be mistaken
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God is too good to be unkind
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So when you don't understand
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When you don't see His plan
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When you can't trace His hand
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Trust His heart
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He alone is faithful and true
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He alone knows
what is best for you,
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For you
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God is too wise to be mistaken
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God is too good to be unkind
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So when you don't understand
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When you don't see His plan
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When you can't trace His hand
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Trust His heart
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So when you don't understand
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When you don't see His plan
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When you can't trace His hand
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Just trust
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His Heart
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Thanks for joining us once again
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here at Behold
the Lamb Ministries.
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We appreciate you so very much.
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Glad you tuned in.
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You know, I know it takes
a little bit of your time,
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but we pray that
it's going to be worth it
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as we spend some time
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studying the
Word of God together.
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Today's subject, I'm sure
you will not want to miss,
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and you are going to
get a pencil and paper,
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and jot down some things
as we move quickly along.
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We're going to be
talking about error,
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and I know many times you say,
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"Well, we talk
about error all the time."
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But this is a subject,
"When error is forced upon us."
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When error is forced upon us.
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You say, "Surely,
not in this country.
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Man, we live in a
country, it's free,
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we've freedom of speech,
and all these things here."
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But realize that
one of these days,
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and it's already been happening
from the beginning of time,
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that error is
forced, and maybe we'll see
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a little clearer as we go along.
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Again, we thank
you for joining us,
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and thank you for your cards,
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your letter, and your
support, Behold the Lamb.
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That's how the message goes out,
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and thoroughly we
cannot do it without you
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and the blessings of God.
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So we'll be praying
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for the Holy
Spirit to bless you,
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and you in turn can
bless other ministries
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in reaching the world for Jesus.
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As always, before we
get into our subject,
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we always want to pray,
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and I'm inviting you
to pray along with me.
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I'm thankful for
those of you who say,
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"Every time you get
on your knees and pray,
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I pray it right with you."
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Oh, I tell you, it
gives you such confidence
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in the Scripture
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and in the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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Thank you for doing that.
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And let's pray
together, shall we?
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I'm going to kneel
and let's pray together.
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Loving Father in Heaven.
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Again, we thank You
for Your precious Word.
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We thank You for the opportunity
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to be able to reach
to the world for Jesus.
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How awesome that is?
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What a thought that is
to be able to reach people
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for Jesus around the world.
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We praise Your Holy Spirit now
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impresses our
hearts and our minds,
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and that we let go of
the things of this earth,
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we concentrate
upon heavenly things,
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we ask for forgiveness of sin,
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we want to be
covered by Thy blood,
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we need direct
communication between heaven
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and Your manservant today.
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So Lord, we'll
praying in a special way
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that the words
that will be spoken
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and what people
will hear will be
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exactly what needs
to be spoken and heard.
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We can rely now and
know upon the Holy Spirit.
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I know that we can.
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I thank you for each one
who views, those who listen,
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going to give
you praise in advance
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Again, it's always
good to get your Bible
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because I always say
this, and people I meet,
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they bring it to my
attention from time to time.
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They'll say,
"Well, you always say
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get the Bible and check it out."
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Well, there's
nothing wrong with that.
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We should check the Word of God.
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When anyone is quoting
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or reading from the Word of God,
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let's check them out.
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I think that makes
sense. Check it out.
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Make sure if it be so
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because, you know,
the enemy uses what?
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He uses the Word of God.
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He just doesn't use
all of the Word of God,
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he just leaves out
little here and little there,
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and so he's intermingling what?
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Truth and error together.
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So our subject today
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is, "When error
is forced upon us."
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I thought it would be
nice if just to begin,
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just to give a few,
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maybe just to
find out about error,
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and what's going to be happening
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as we near the close of time
just to go over a few things
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to where we'll find
our religious freedoms
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are taken from us.
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Liberty of conscience,
we have to be very careful,
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it's going to be challenged.
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What are you going to do
about it when it is challenged?
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It is being challenged
around the world really today.
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We just don't sense it,
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and it's going to
become a little tighter
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as we near the
coming of Jesus Christ.
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Now you say,
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"Well, I don't
believe that error
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can ever be forced upon us."
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Notice the word
I'm using is forced.
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As we study Scripture,
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as you see from the
beginning to the very end,
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in the very
beginning in the Garden of Eden
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really the enemy
then, he wanted to do what?
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He really wanted to force,
right, his thoughts upon Eve.
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He was put into position
and waiting for the opportunity
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in which to deceive her.
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He's done that throughout,
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and he'll do it to
the very end of time.
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Remember, when
we're looking at this,
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it's going to be urged,
forced, force is going to be...
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We talk about it,
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it's something
that the devil uses,
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and he's always used it,
he will continue to use it.
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In fact, force was used
upon the Apostolic believers
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in the very beginning of time.
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We can go all we back,
and say, yeah, the apostles,
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there were forced,
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tried to be
forced in a lot of ways
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to follow the enemy.
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Remember error
when you talk about it
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is never ever harmless.
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Please let's get
that through our mind.
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Error is what?
Is never harmless.
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You might say, "I can go listen,
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I can go be involved with."
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Error is never harmless
because there will be seeds
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that will be planted
that will produce a harvest,
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and it's not a good harvest.
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You notice that? Never harmless.
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Many we know will be
deceived by what we call error.
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We know our job
is to unmask error.
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We have to unmask it.
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In other words,
when you hear error,
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and if somebody
is talking to you,
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we by the grace of God,
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must somehow come
back in the right attitude,
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in the love of Jesus to unmask
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what maybe they
believe is really the truth.
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If it's not the
truth or believing error,
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and you don't want to leave them
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in that position, do you?
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I do not.
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I want to be able
to, by the grace of God,
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give them what we
understand is true.
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We must be unmasked. Now
remember what Satan does.
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Satan always resorts to force.
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He always wants to force
and to compel the conscience.
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Now notice, when
does he use force?
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When his temptations fail.
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When he comes to the person,
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and he's tempting
them to do something,
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and they choose not
to do that, then what?
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Then he resorts to
force. Think about that, force.
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Are we coming into a
time in earth's history
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to where the enemy
now is beginning to,
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you know, use force,
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and put people and
Christians in little boxes?
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We see it happening
every day, with legislation,
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what's happening
in our government.
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We need to be very cautious,
we need to be aware of it.
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We need to do what?
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Attend no
meeting, listen carefully,
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we need to attend no meeting
where error is being taught.
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I hope that's clear.
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We're going to look at
illustration in a moment
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when we get done going over
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some of these
things to get a idea,
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a concept of what it
means to be in error.
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The conscience is
going to be threatened,
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we're going to be challenged
in so many different ways.
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First of all, we just find,
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we realize that
we do not want to be
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in any kind of a meeting
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where error is being taught
because it's never harmless.
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You might think you've got it,
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you might think
you've got the truth,
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but you and I do not
need to be listening to error
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in any form or fashion.
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We do not because
it is of the enemy.
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Who wants to
listen to the enemy?
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Maybe we've done it too long,
we don't want to do it anymore.
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So we don't go
to those meetings.
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We realize there
are secular rulers,
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is going to
unite with ministers,
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and you know what
they're going to do?
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They're going to try
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to dictate matters of
conscious, conscience.
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Now remember
that, by passing what?
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Laws. Going to
make it mandatory.
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They are already
doing, they've been doing it,
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it's going to
continue to get worse.
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Sad to say, you
have the secular rulers,
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and they are joining
together with the ministers,
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a great controversy brings out.
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So naturally, the rulers, right,
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the secular people,
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the ones you vote into office,
they want to be voted in again,
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and so they're trying to please
their constituents naturally,
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and so they're going to
be working along this line.
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Most dangerous,
error is most dangerous
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when it's combined with truth.
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Error is what?
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Most dangerous when
it's combined with truth.
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How do you
think the enemy works?
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He's always combining,
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he's always given you a
little bit of truth there,
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and then he puts
a little bit error
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in there with
it because he knows
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that it works a
little bit better.
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Every semblance of
error will be forced
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upon God's last day people.
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Please keep that in your mind.
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Every symbol,
every little detail
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ever the enemy can do to
bring, he's going to bring it
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upon God's
people to challenge them
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which challenges your what?
00:15:04.40\00:15:06.43
Your knowledge of
Scripture, and what is truth.
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If you don't know it,
you're going to be up a creek,
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they say without a paddle.
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We have to know what truth is
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because the enemy is going
to make it so close, right?
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Error and truth
so close together,
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at least he thinks.
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But you will know if
you know the Word of God.
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We've established already
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that Satan seeks
to rule through force.
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He seeks to rule through
force, just the opposite of God.
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God wants to rule in your
life as it were through what?
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Through love. The
enemy is the opposite.
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He wants to do it through force.
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God is displeased when
His people even listen,
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let alone go, he
doesn't even want you to, what?
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Not listen to
error because some people
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can be confused
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just by
listening to what is error.
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People say,
"Well, I was listening
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to radio and TV,
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and well, what he
said was 90% correct."
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Not good enough.
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That means
there was a little bit
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of error mingled with
the truth, and therefore,
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it's easier for
us to be deceived.
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Now how does error
come into the church?
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The church members bring
it in. Isn't that interesting?
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We need to be very cautious.
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Satan uses church members
to bring error in among us.
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So there must be
watchman on the walls of Zion
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You have to know what it
is, so you can stand and say,
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"Hey, that's not what
should be taught here."
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Poisonous doctrines are
brought into the church.
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That's talking
about Babylon's wine
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that we're drinking,
these false doctrines.
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They come into the
church, they're dangerous,
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they're poison,
they will hurt somebody.
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Error prevails everywhere.
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Did that makes sense? Oh, yeah.
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So we're looking
at all these issues,
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error prevails everywhere.
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Remember, error is
going to be forced upon us,
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so we have to know
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what error is,
in order to error,
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we have to know what
truth is because they certainly
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will point out
certainly what error.
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There's going to
be efforts, we know,
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to restrict
liberty of conscience.
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Efforts are going to
be certainly put forth
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in the United States of America.
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We're seeing it every
day right now to restrict it.
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The papacy has fought
from the beginning of time
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until the end of time to
suppress religious liberty,
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and freedom of speech.
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Freedom of
conscience, they don't think
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you should have
freedom of conscience
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because they want to
dictate everything to us.
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And some of the things
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we talk about errors that maybe,
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you know, surround us or
press against us all the time,
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and you hear
them wherever you go.
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For instance,
immortality of the soul.
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You know, that's an error.
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That's an error
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because we realize that
we're mortal, aren't we?
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We are subject to death,
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we're not
immortal until Jesus comes.
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Evolution is pressed upon us,
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you know, and
that's another what?
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That's error, but it's
what? It's pressed upon us, why?
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Because books are
written, they're published,
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they're put into our
schools from a very early age,
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and it's taught,
and it's been taught
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a whole lot more than creation.
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We have to be very careful,
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that can really
poison the child's mind
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and grown up
mind too, absolutely.
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Another error we're surrounded
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with day in and day
out is Sunday sacredness.
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We know that's not sacred.
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Another error that
suppresses us many times
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that we try to be
holy by our works,
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try to work our way
into heaven, we cannot.
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Another error that's pressed
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upon us is the
fate of the wicked,
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that there is no
judgment that's taking place.
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We know that there is, but what,
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these are errors
that's surrounding us,
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and they're forced upon us.
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Every time we turn a
corner, somebody is saying,
00:18:53.16\00:18:54.96
"Well, hey, this is..."
00:18:55.00\00:18:56.33
We have to know what truth is.
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Law we say is done away
with, they say it's done away
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with including the
Seventh-day Sabbath.
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That's always surrounding us.
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I've heard other people say,
00:19:05.91\00:19:07.24
"All you have to
do is just believe,
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and you're going
to make it to heaven."
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Is that what it is?
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No, that's one of those errors,
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you see that's
forced upon us all the time.
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This is what
people are teaching.
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The sanctuary, there's
error, the second coming,
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they got error, Holy Spirit,
error, the nature of Christ,
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error, you talk
about victory over sin,
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all of these
beautiful truths that God has,
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the enemy then
is surrounding us,
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forcing us to what?
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Listen to error all the time.
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Just don't become
confused with that.
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When error is forced home.
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Now remember, keep this in mind.
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The last resort
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of every false
religion is force.
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Did you get it?
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The last resort
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of every false
religion is force.
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But see, in the
religion of Christ,
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there is no force.
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It's always, "If you want, come.
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Behold, I stand at
the door and knock.
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Come in."
00:20:09.80\00:20:11.14
But if you know the religion,
you find people behind it
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that want to force other people.
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We have to be very careful.
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It would be a little
red flag, would it not?
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Study the Book of Revelation 13,
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Revelation 17,
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just a couple of chapters there,
00:20:23.12\00:20:24.72
and you can see,
the time will come
00:20:24.75\00:20:26.82
when error is
forced upon us as a people.
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We study past history.
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How often have you been studying
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from past history?
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For instance,
let's study past history
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just a little
bit, say, of the Jews.
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What do we find?
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We find a very similar thing
00:20:41.60\00:20:43.97
that was taking place
in the time of Christ,
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is taking place today.
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What took place
in the time of Christ
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is taking place today?
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Then what happens?
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Well, the enemy has
manipulated the Jews.
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The enemy is manipulating
God's last day people today,
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and we don't even know
that he's manipulating us.
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So it behooves us to have, what,
00:21:03.09\00:21:05.09
God, help us to see
the signs of the time.
00:21:05.13\00:21:07.46
God help us to understand
what we need to be doing
00:21:07.50\00:21:10.30
and studying in these last days
00:21:10.33\00:21:12.30
of earth's history.
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How were the Jews fooled?
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Now remember, if it
worked for the Jews,
00:21:16.10\00:21:18.21
which were God's chosen people,
00:21:18.24\00:21:19.81
we feel like in
Seventh-day Adventism,
00:21:19.84\00:21:22.04
we have the
three angels' message
00:21:22.08\00:21:23.41
to go to the world.
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You know the last church,
you see, to proclaim a message,
00:21:24.81\00:21:28.65
"The enemy is going
to work the same way."
00:21:28.68\00:21:30.59
He fooled almost
all the Jews, right?
00:21:30.62\00:21:32.52
And so he's going to fool...
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He'll use the same
tactics as he used.
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How did he do that?
00:21:36.29\00:21:38.29
Well, remember
how they were raised,
00:21:38.33\00:21:40.66
and how, what they were taught
00:21:40.70\00:21:42.03
even while they
were home and young?
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So the enemy knows
that while you are home
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where you have little children,
00:21:47.14\00:21:48.47
if you teach
them the wrong things,
00:21:48.50\00:21:50.91
then they will be ready to
accept that which is wrong.
00:21:50.94\00:21:55.51
When Christ, you
remember, was born
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or before he was born even here,
00:21:57.05\00:21:59.51
we realize that the
enemy was already setting
00:21:59.55\00:22:01.82
into motion some false doctrines
00:22:01.85\00:22:04.12
and teachings about
Christ, when He should come.
00:22:04.15\00:22:07.29
And so when Christ finally came,
00:22:07.32\00:22:09.56
the nation was ready to do what?
00:22:09.59\00:22:11.49
They were already
ready to reject Him.
00:22:11.53\00:22:13.96
"A plain thus saith the Lord."
00:22:14.00\00:22:16.50
We have Christians
who are ready to reject.
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How can that be?
Maybe it sounds familiar.
00:22:19.27\00:22:21.57
Could it be
happening among us today?
00:22:21.60\00:22:24.84
I think that it's happening
right here among us today.
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Many, maybe if you've
read this statement before,
00:22:29.18\00:22:31.15
you have wondered of
what it really meant.
00:22:31.18\00:22:35.78
One testimony, 608 says this.
One testimony, 608 says this.
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"If we don't know..."
00:22:39.99\00:22:41.32
I think, maybe we'll get it here
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before this program is over.
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I like it when it
starts out, Spirit of Prophecy,
00:22:45.39\00:22:47.76
I was shown.
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Hello?
00:22:49.53\00:22:50.87
I like it when it
starts out, "I was shown."
00:22:50.90\00:22:52.63
That means,
right, God has directed,
00:22:52.67\00:22:54.80
as He does in the prophets.
00:22:54.84\00:22:56.57
"So I was shown," notice this,
00:22:56.60\00:22:58.87
"the startling fact that
but a small portion of those
00:22:58.91\00:23:03.55
who now profess the
truth will be sanctified by it
00:23:03.58\00:23:06.92
and to be saved."
00:23:06.95\00:23:08.72
How sad that is? Startling fact.
00:23:08.75\00:23:11.89
Only a small what?
00:23:11.92\00:23:13.82
Portion of those who
now profess the truth
00:23:13.86\00:23:17.19
will be sanctified
by it and be saved.
00:23:17.23\00:23:21.56
What does that
really mean to us?
00:23:21.60\00:23:23.30
Only a small portion.
00:23:23.33\00:23:24.67
What does it
mean to be sanctified?
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Make holy. Made holy?
00:23:26.40\00:23:27.77
Talk about John 17:17, says,
00:23:27.80\00:23:30.14
"Sanctify them
through thy," Word.
00:23:30.17\00:23:31.81
The word?
00:23:31.84\00:23:33.17
"Dignify them
through the truth, right?
00:23:33.21\00:23:34.54
Sanctify them through thy truth,
00:23:34.58\00:23:36.38
thy word is truth."
00:23:36.41\00:23:38.78
We are sanctified by what?
00:23:38.81\00:23:40.92
Made holy pure by
knowing what is truth,
00:23:40.95\00:23:43.69
not by knowing what is error,
not studying what is error.
00:23:43.72\00:23:47.66
Study what is
truth, and by studying it,
00:23:47.69\00:23:50.29
truth inside changes your
life, your attitude, your mind,
00:23:50.33\00:23:53.73
your heart to
become more like what?
00:23:53.76\00:23:56.23
Like Jesus.
00:23:56.26\00:23:57.60
So, "sanctify them
through thy truth."
00:23:57.63\00:24:01.67
What would Bible sanctification,
00:24:01.70\00:24:04.17
I mean, what is the
definition of Bible,
00:24:04.21\00:24:06.44
really, Bible sanctification?
00:24:06.47\00:24:09.44
Would Bible
sanctification say here
00:24:09.48\00:24:12.48
that we know the
requirements of God?
00:24:12.51\00:24:15.55
Notice this.
00:24:15.58\00:24:16.92
It's to know the requirements
of God and then to obey them.
00:24:16.95\00:24:21.56
Bible sanctification,
preparation from heaven,
00:24:21.59\00:24:24.23
knowing what truth is,
00:24:24.26\00:24:25.63
that which changes the
person to be like Jesus.
00:24:25.66\00:24:28.26
We have to know the
requirements of God,
00:24:28.30\00:24:32.13
and then we have to
be willing to obey them.
00:24:32.17\00:24:35.47
That makes sense to me.
00:24:35.50\00:24:36.84
Bible...
00:24:36.87\00:24:38.21
No one's going
to make it to heaven
00:24:38.24\00:24:39.57
that's not sanctified.
00:24:39.61\00:24:40.94
So if we think,
00:24:40.98\00:24:42.31
"Well, simple
subject, simple way.
00:24:42.34\00:24:43.68
Well, we're not to
worry about being sanctified."
00:24:43.71\00:24:45.15
We need to think
about being sanctified,
00:24:45.18\00:24:47.15
set apart, made holy,
so that God can use us.
00:24:47.18\00:24:51.85
There are people who
claim to be sanctified?
00:24:51.89\00:24:55.69
How would we know if
someone is sanctified
00:24:55.72\00:24:57.79
or if maybe
they're not sanctified
00:24:57.83\00:24:59.69
and not trying to
be judgmental about it?
00:24:59.73\00:25:03.63
You say, "Well, the
Bible said, 'By their fruits,
00:25:03.67\00:25:05.53
ye shall know them.'"
00:25:05.57\00:25:07.14
And you think
about sanctification
00:25:07.17\00:25:08.80
and the work of
sanctification here.
00:25:08.84\00:25:11.11
When a person
might say, for instance,
00:25:11.14\00:25:13.44
you know, and you talk to a
lot of maybe Bible Christians,
00:25:13.48\00:25:15.91
if you talk to Bible Christians,
00:25:15.94\00:25:17.31
and they'll say, you
talk about a certain subject,
00:25:17.35\00:25:20.38
and they'll say,
00:25:20.42\00:25:21.75
"Well, I don't need
to study that anymore.
00:25:21.78\00:25:23.12
I already know what that means.
00:25:23.15\00:25:24.62
I don't need to
study this anymore.
00:25:24.65\00:25:25.99
I don't study the Sabbath.
00:25:26.02\00:25:27.36
I don't need to
study that anymore."
00:25:27.39\00:25:29.12
When a person is not willing
to open the pages of holy writ,
00:25:29.16\00:25:33.16
and be willing to
study these subjects out,
00:25:33.19\00:25:35.50
you can be assured
that sanctification
00:25:35.53\00:25:37.90
has not taken
place in their life.
00:25:37.93\00:25:39.53
When they no longer need,
00:25:39.57\00:25:41.40
just to say,
search the scriptures,
00:25:41.44\00:25:44.04
think of, see,
very few Christians
00:25:44.07\00:25:46.47
whatever say what?
00:25:46.51\00:25:47.84
"I don't need to
search the scriptures."
00:25:47.88\00:25:49.44
But when you want to study
a certain thing with someone,
00:25:49.48\00:25:52.28
and then they say
they don't need to
00:25:52.31\00:25:53.78
because they
already had the answers,
00:25:53.82\00:25:55.58
they are telling you
they no longer need to search
00:25:55.62\00:25:57.82
the scriptures anymore.
00:25:57.85\00:25:59.29
Does it ever come a time
where there we don't need
00:25:59.32\00:26:01.62
to search the scriptures?
00:26:01.66\00:26:03.63
No, I don't think
so because Jesus said,
00:26:03.66\00:26:05.66
"They are they
which testify of Me."
00:26:05.69\00:26:09.26
We always need to
be willing to study
00:26:09.30\00:26:11.37
and this tells
about our sanctification.
00:26:11.40\00:26:14.40
So there may be...
00:26:14.44\00:26:15.77
What happens is they're leaning
to their own understanding,
00:26:15.80\00:26:19.64
when they don't
want to get to the Bible,
00:26:19.67\00:26:21.68
to the Word of God anymore.
00:26:21.71\00:26:23.61
Was that
Proverbs 3:5, talks about?
00:26:23.65\00:26:26.05
It was, "Not lean to
our own understanding."
00:26:26.08\00:26:29.35
That's what
happens when we get away
00:26:29.38\00:26:30.72
from the Word of God.
00:26:30.75\00:26:33.66
You know, I believe this down
00:26:33.69\00:26:35.02
through history as
we look at this subject.
00:26:35.06\00:26:37.36
Light has been shown to mankind.
00:26:37.39\00:26:39.39
I'm in for an
agreement with that.
00:26:39.43\00:26:41.26
All from the beginning
of time, what's happened?
00:26:41.30\00:26:43.93
Light has been shown, right?
00:26:43.97\00:26:45.63
It's been shining on
the pathway of mankind.
00:26:45.67\00:26:48.64
It's been a light from heaven
00:26:48.67\00:26:50.01
and this light is
very, very important.
00:26:50.04\00:26:52.07
But remember, when
light is showing on us,
00:26:52.11\00:26:55.94
and then we reject
that light, oh, my,
00:26:55.98\00:26:58.81
we refuse to walk in
it, it brings condemnation.
00:26:58.85\00:27:02.52
That same light that
comes and brings joy, and peace,
00:27:02.55\00:27:05.39
and a change in
your life, and my life,
00:27:05.42\00:27:07.62
brings condemnation to those
00:27:07.66\00:27:09.29
who reject it and
accept error in its place.
00:27:09.32\00:27:13.36
Ephesians 5:17,
the Bible wants us
00:27:13.40\00:27:16.40
to understand something.
00:27:16.43\00:27:19.03
What is the will of God?
00:27:19.07\00:27:22.20
Do we really understand
what the will of God is?
00:27:22.24\00:27:26.11
Ephesians 5:17.
00:27:26.14\00:27:29.14
I think by studying
scripture, we'll find this out.
00:27:29.18\00:27:31.88
Jesus, would we agree on
this, Jesus is holy, was holy,
00:27:31.91\00:27:35.68
He was pure, He was undefiled,
and because He was holy,
00:27:35.72\00:27:40.26
because His life was
pure, what did it do?
00:27:40.29\00:27:44.43
Well, it got the
enemy, enemy was mad.
00:27:44.46\00:27:47.40
The wrath of the
enemy attacked Jesus
00:27:47.43\00:27:50.27
because of His pure life.
00:27:50.30\00:27:53.94
So think about that today.
00:27:53.97\00:27:55.44
If you have Jesus in your heart,
00:27:55.47\00:27:56.81
there's going to be some,
00:27:56.84\00:27:58.17
maybe you're going
to be attacked sometime.
00:27:58.21\00:28:01.84
Think about that with me.
00:28:01.88\00:28:03.58
If you are
striving to be like Jesus,
00:28:03.61\00:28:08.18
your life will also stir up
00:28:08.22\00:28:11.09
the activities
of the enemy, why?
00:28:11.12\00:28:14.96
Because he
really doesn't see you,
00:28:14.99\00:28:17.66
but he sees Christ in
you, the hope of glory.
00:28:17.69\00:28:22.36
Isn't that
beautiful to think about it?
00:28:22.40\00:28:24.37
He no longer sees me.
00:28:24.40\00:28:25.90
He no longer sees
you, even the enemy.
00:28:25.93\00:28:28.34
He sees Christ in
you, and you know what?
00:28:28.37\00:28:30.51
He's mad at
Christ, he hates Christ,
00:28:30.54\00:28:32.64
and he's going to hate you.
00:28:32.67\00:28:35.04
I thought the interesting word
was that if you are striving.
00:28:35.08\00:28:39.35
I hear people say all the
time, "We don't have to strive,
00:28:39.38\00:28:41.12
just sit back
in your easy chair.
00:28:41.15\00:28:43.18
You don't have
to make any effort
00:28:43.22\00:28:44.55
because you're saved
by grace through faith."
00:28:44.59\00:28:46.09
That's true, but
how about balancing
00:28:46.12\00:28:47.46
that with scripture.
00:28:47.49\00:28:49.62
The word strive is in
the Bible for a reason.
00:28:49.66\00:28:53.26
Too many of us want to
sit back, and do nothing,
00:28:53.29\00:28:55.46
and say we're striving.
00:28:55.50\00:28:57.00
Interesting, that word
if you look, in Luke 13:24.
00:28:57.03\00:29:01.57
Luke 13:24.
00:29:01.60\00:29:02.94
It just simply says,
00:29:02.97\00:29:04.31
"Strive to enter in
at the strait gate."
00:29:04.34\00:29:07.78
What's the word? Strive.
00:29:07.81\00:29:10.91
See, if we're
striving to be like Jesus,
00:29:10.95\00:29:13.72
you know, we're going to stir up
00:29:13.75\00:29:15.08
the wrath of the enemy, okay?
00:29:15.12\00:29:16.45
So now we're
striving to be like Jesus.
00:29:16.48\00:29:19.65
Jesus said, "Strive to
enter into that strait gate."
00:29:19.69\00:29:23.32
What does that
simply mean to us?
00:29:23.36\00:29:24.76
Strive.
00:29:24.79\00:29:26.90
Strive in the Greek
says, "We have to contend."
00:29:26.93\00:29:30.90
We have to contend
00:29:30.93\00:29:32.97
if we're going to
enter in that strait gate.
00:29:33.00\00:29:34.94
Another word that's interesting
00:29:34.97\00:29:36.30
is that we're going
to have to struggle.
00:29:36.34\00:29:38.21
They will, "Oh,
man. I've got it made.
00:29:38.24\00:29:39.57
I don't have to worry about..."
00:29:39.61\00:29:40.94
The Bible talks
about, it's very clear,
00:29:40.98\00:29:42.38
we're going to have to struggle.
00:29:42.41\00:29:45.85
Narrow and
straight is the gate, right,
00:29:45.88\00:29:47.25
it leads eternal life.
00:29:47.28\00:29:48.62
There's just a few in the go,
00:29:48.65\00:29:50.55
but we're going
to have to struggle,
00:29:50.59\00:29:51.95
we're going to have to contend.
00:29:51.99\00:29:53.32
Another word is that,
we're going to have to fight.
00:29:53.36\00:29:55.89
That's what strive
is, not just to sit back.
00:29:55.92\00:29:57.99
The enemy's ploy
and error of the devil.
00:29:58.03\00:30:00.46
Don't do
anything, just sit back.
00:30:00.50\00:30:03.20
Strive, that means to fight.
00:30:03.23\00:30:04.63
It even means to
labor to enter in.
00:30:04.67\00:30:07.80
So if you're
fighting, and you're struggling
00:30:07.84\00:30:09.64
to maintain your walk
with Christ, you know what?
00:30:09.67\00:30:12.04
That may be a good sign.
00:30:12.07\00:30:13.94
Just keep fighting,
just keep struggling,
00:30:13.98\00:30:16.54
keep contending for
the mastery, you know?
00:30:16.58\00:30:19.91
And there's another
one, I like in Hebrews 12:4,
00:30:19.95\00:30:23.95
I like this one here,
00:30:23.99\00:30:25.32
just the end of
that because it says,
00:30:25.35\00:30:27.22
"We need to strive against sin."
00:30:27.26\00:30:31.19
Does that make sense?
00:30:31.23\00:30:33.23
What are we
really striving against?
00:30:33.26\00:30:35.76
We're striving against sin.
00:30:35.80\00:30:38.30
So what does that
mean, strive against sin?
00:30:38.33\00:30:40.44
Some of the same
thing, but I noticed
00:30:40.47\00:30:41.84
there are two little definitions
00:30:41.87\00:30:43.20
I want you to listen to
this one specifically here.
00:30:43.24\00:30:45.61
When you strive against
sin that means you struggle.
00:30:45.64\00:30:49.54
That's what that word
means here in the Greek.
00:30:49.58\00:30:51.21
Which you're going
to struggle against sin.
00:30:51.25\00:30:53.58
Struggle sometimes
means you might fail.
00:30:53.62\00:30:56.18
We're not supposed
to, by the God's grace,
00:30:56.22\00:30:58.09
but sometime we fail.
00:30:58.12\00:30:59.45
Struggle means, "I
want to get back up,
00:30:59.49\00:31:00.86
and I want to
give it another shot."
00:31:00.89\00:31:03.32
Isn't that wonderful?
00:31:03.36\00:31:04.69
By the blood,
we can be cleansed,
00:31:04.73\00:31:06.06
and we can start over again.
00:31:06.09\00:31:07.43
How wonderful that is?
00:31:07.46\00:31:08.80
The day will come
when we cannot do that.
00:31:08.83\00:31:10.63
But is it means
that there is strive,
00:31:10.67\00:31:12.43
that means to
struggle against sin.
00:31:12.47\00:31:15.17
Another word I thought
00:31:15.20\00:31:16.54
was very
interesting is antagonize.
00:31:16.57\00:31:19.67
We need to antagonize,
00:31:19.71\00:31:21.11
and say what do
you mean antagonize?
00:31:21.14\00:31:23.81
It means, here,
antagonize means,
00:31:23.85\00:31:26.51
an active
opposition against sin.
00:31:26.55\00:31:31.29
We need to have a what?
00:31:31.32\00:31:32.79
An active
opposition against sin.
00:31:32.82\00:31:36.62
Actively, what? Fighting.
00:31:36.66\00:31:39.46
Fighting the
good fight of faith.
00:31:39.49\00:31:41.63
Actively fighting
every day, opposing sin,
00:31:41.66\00:31:46.53
and God's going
to bless us for that.
00:31:46.57\00:31:50.54
I thought what
so interesting here,
00:31:50.57\00:31:51.91
I want to go back
just a little bit.
00:31:51.94\00:31:53.27
If you have your
Bibles, turn with me.
00:31:53.31\00:31:55.08
1 Samuel, that
gives some examples,
00:31:55.11\00:31:57.11
we're going over a lot
of different things here,
00:31:57.15\00:31:58.61
but as we look, we can find out.
00:31:58.65\00:32:00.28
Remember, what is
plain, very plain,
00:32:00.32\00:32:04.95
sometimes
people will go against,
00:32:04.99\00:32:06.72
the whole group goes against,
00:32:06.76\00:32:09.06
something that's
very, very plain?
00:32:09.09\00:32:11.13
Israel was an example of that,
00:32:11.16\00:32:13.19
and I think some
time in the church,
00:32:13.23\00:32:14.60
we're a good example
00:32:14.63\00:32:15.96
of when something's very plain
pointed out in the Word of God.
00:32:16.00\00:32:19.03
We just refused to do it
because we don't want to do it.
00:32:19.07\00:32:22.64
We want something different.
00:32:22.67\00:32:24.74
We're tired of the
holiness of the church.
00:32:24.77\00:32:29.38
We're tired sometime
00:32:29.41\00:32:30.75
of the simplicity of the church.
00:32:30.78\00:32:33.05
This is Israel what I'm talking
about, but today, for us.
00:32:33.08\00:32:38.52
They're tired, we
want something different,
00:32:38.55\00:32:41.12
and what we see outside
00:32:41.16\00:32:42.56
in the other
denominations or faiths,
00:32:42.59\00:32:44.63
looks a little
bit more encouraging,
00:32:44.66\00:32:46.09
and a little bit more exciting,
a little more shouting,
00:32:46.13\00:32:48.83
a little more
carrying on, going on here,
00:32:48.86\00:32:50.93
and we're tired
of the simplicity,
00:32:50.97\00:32:52.57
and we want something different
00:32:52.60\00:32:54.44
rather than the life of
holiness like Jesus led.
00:32:54.47\00:32:59.37
We should be content
with the life of holiness
00:32:59.41\00:33:01.68
and purity and no pumped.
00:33:01.71\00:33:05.25
But many times, we're not.
00:33:05.28\00:33:07.78
In the Book of 1
Samuel Chapter 8,
00:33:07.82\00:33:10.19
now notice this.
00:33:10.22\00:33:11.55
Remember what happened here,
00:33:11.59\00:33:12.92
just to give you a
little bit of background,
00:33:12.95\00:33:14.29
if you're there in
1 Samuel Chapter 8.
00:33:14.32\00:33:17.46
It just simply starts
out in verse 1, it says,
00:33:17.49\00:33:21.20
"And it came to
pass, when Samuel was old."
00:33:21.23\00:33:24.30
Well, I hate to stop it there.
00:33:24.33\00:33:27.80
"And it came to pass,
when old Samuel was old."
00:33:27.84\00:33:31.51
There comes a
time when you get old
00:33:31.54\00:33:32.87
and you just can't quite do
all the things you used to do.
00:33:32.91\00:33:36.21
There comes a
time when you get old
00:33:36.24\00:33:38.01
that God has sent
you helpers to help.
00:33:38.05\00:33:42.28
Now Samuel had
two sons, did he not?
00:33:42.32\00:33:46.02
And Samuel raised
those sons properly.
00:33:46.05\00:33:51.46
And while dad was around,
the sons always did well.
00:33:51.49\00:33:57.47
But when dad wasn't around,
they decided to kind of go
00:33:57.50\00:34:00.37
their own way just a little bit.
00:34:00.40\00:34:02.74
They weren't
vile like Eli's sons
00:34:02.77\00:34:05.37
in that sense like they were.
00:34:05.41\00:34:07.11
But nevertheless,
00:34:07.14\00:34:08.48
they weren't
following God's commands.
00:34:08.51\00:34:09.94
So we're looking, and say,
00:34:09.98\00:34:11.31
"Well, Samuel should
have done a better job.
00:34:11.35\00:34:12.78
Well, the
parents were ridiculous."
00:34:12.81\00:34:14.78
Samuel did a good job.
00:34:14.82\00:34:16.25
In God's sight,
He said to Samuel,
00:34:16.28\00:34:18.42
"That's My prophet."
00:34:18.45\00:34:20.42
Samuel obeyed God.
00:34:20.46\00:34:22.56
But notice there just
quickly as we run down it.
00:34:22.59\00:34:24.83
You notice, "That he made
his sons judges over Israel."
00:34:24.86\00:34:29.03
So as he got older,
00:34:29.06\00:34:30.40
he couldn't quite
do the job anymore,
00:34:30.43\00:34:32.00
that he appointed his two sons
to be the judge over Israel.
00:34:32.03\00:34:36.07
Notice verse 3. "And
his sons walked," what?
00:34:36.10\00:34:40.04
Somebody say
not, I'll get happy.
00:34:40.08\00:34:42.08
Yeah, "his sons
walked not in his ways,"
00:34:42.11\00:34:45.05
they turned aside.
00:34:45.08\00:34:46.41
Why?
00:34:46.45\00:34:47.78
Because actually,
they wanted to pay it off,
00:34:47.82\00:34:49.35
they liked money,
they liked to have,
00:34:49.38\00:34:51.59
you know, high esteem,
00:34:51.62\00:34:52.99
they liked to
have a high position,
00:34:53.02\00:34:55.09
and they just couldn't turn down
00:34:55.12\00:34:56.46
the little kickbacks.
00:34:56.49\00:34:58.16
You see in the government today,
00:34:58.19\00:34:59.53
you may even see
it in the church,
00:34:59.56\00:35:00.90
you may see it
all over the place.
00:35:00.93\00:35:02.86
Notice, verse 4. Now
here's what happened.
00:35:02.90\00:35:07.37
"Then all the elders of Israel
gathered themselves together,
00:35:07.40\00:35:10.21
and came to Samuel,"
and they said to him,
00:35:10.24\00:35:12.84
"Behold, thou art," oh,
oh, they're going to rub it in,
00:35:12.87\00:35:15.94
just keep rubbing it in.
00:35:15.98\00:35:17.31
Poor Samuel, bless his heart.
00:35:17.35\00:35:18.95
He says, he's old,
00:35:18.98\00:35:20.72
"And thy sons
walk not in thy ways,
00:35:20.75\00:35:23.65
now make us a king to
judge us like all the..."
00:35:23.69\00:35:30.43
See, we are not
getting it. Nations."
00:35:30.46\00:35:32.33
All the nations."
00:35:32.36\00:35:35.10
Israel was ruled the way
God wanted to be under Samuel.
00:35:35.13\00:35:39.60
Samuel got old, his boys
were supposed to be appointed,
00:35:39.63\00:35:42.44
and do as Samuel had been doing.
00:35:42.47\00:35:46.01
But what?
00:35:46.04\00:35:47.38
Israel looked
around and saw the boys
00:35:47.41\00:35:48.88
are just not doing like dad did.
00:35:48.91\00:35:51.21
And who else is
going to be our leaders?
00:35:51.25\00:35:53.01
We need to get rid of them.
00:35:53.05\00:35:54.38
Well, man, just
give us a king then.
00:35:54.42\00:35:56.99
So really what was it?
00:35:57.02\00:35:58.35
It was the religious leaders
00:35:58.39\00:36:00.22
and their sons
who caused a division
00:36:00.26\00:36:02.79
and a change that took place.
00:36:02.82\00:36:05.23
What they were doing,
what the sons were doing.
00:36:05.26\00:36:07.00
Not what Samuel was doing,
00:36:07.03\00:36:08.46
but what the sons
were doing made them go
00:36:08.50\00:36:11.30
against what God said to do.
00:36:11.33\00:36:14.27
They came together, the elders,
00:36:14.30\00:36:15.64
and said,
"Look, we want to, man,
00:36:15.67\00:36:17.01
we want somebody
to rule over us."
00:36:17.04\00:36:19.84
Boy, what a change?
00:36:19.87\00:36:21.24
How sad? Why? Listen.
00:36:21.28\00:36:25.51
Anytime we say this, "We
want a change in the church
00:36:25.55\00:36:28.38
because we want to be
like the other churches."
00:36:28.42\00:36:31.45
Sad.
00:36:31.49\00:36:33.76
About to say
something else, but I didn't,
00:36:33.79\00:36:37.16
get me riled up now.
00:36:37.19\00:36:39.49
When we think we want to
be like the other churches.
00:36:39.53\00:36:43.37
Here, it wasn't
even other churches.
00:36:43.40\00:36:44.73
Here's what they said.
00:36:44.77\00:36:46.10
"We want to be like the
other nations of the pagans
00:36:46.13\00:36:49.47
and the heathens
and the infidels.
00:36:49.50\00:36:52.37
We want to be like them
00:36:52.41\00:36:53.74
rather than the
way God said to be."
00:36:53.78\00:36:57.31
We see it taking place today.
00:36:57.35\00:36:58.78
It's happening today
00:36:58.81\00:37:00.15
just like we're
talking about here.
00:37:00.18\00:37:01.65
We need to be aware of it
because we're going to find.
00:37:01.68\00:37:04.29
Error is going to
be forced upon us,
00:37:04.32\00:37:06.72
and some time
when it's even forced
00:37:06.76\00:37:08.09
upon us like this,
00:37:08.12\00:37:09.66
"Give us the
king," when God said,
00:37:09.69\00:37:11.53
"I didn't want
you to have a king.
00:37:11.56\00:37:12.89
I'm your king."
00:37:12.93\00:37:15.06
What would they do when
error was forced upon them now?
00:37:15.10\00:37:18.70
What was going to
be their response?
00:37:18.73\00:37:21.90
Israel wanted a king,
00:37:21.94\00:37:23.27
and wanted to be
like other nation,
00:37:23.30\00:37:24.71
despite, listen, what
God's prophet Samuel said.
00:37:24.74\00:37:28.08
See, how plain can it be?
00:37:28.11\00:37:29.74
You get the pastors,
00:37:29.78\00:37:31.11
the teachers,
and different ones.
00:37:31.15\00:37:32.48
They'll get up, and
say, "Bible prophecy has said
00:37:32.51\00:37:34.55
this is what's
going to take place.
00:37:34.58\00:37:36.45
The Sunday law
is going to happen.
00:37:36.48\00:37:38.45
The image of the
beast, the mark of the beast.
00:37:38.49\00:37:40.46
These are Bible prophecies.
00:37:40.49\00:37:43.09
We're given the
three angels' message
00:37:43.12\00:37:44.46
to the world.
00:37:44.49\00:37:45.83
We're to judge, right?
00:37:45.86\00:37:47.20
We're to be
there, the people of God.
00:37:47.23\00:37:48.56
The seventh church, right?"
00:37:48.60\00:37:49.93
Well, you say,
"Laodicea church,"
00:37:49.96\00:37:51.30
but the time of the judgment,
00:37:51.33\00:37:53.30
and then you
look at the messages
00:37:53.34\00:37:54.74
were in the judgment hour.
00:37:54.77\00:37:56.40
We give a call to
come out of Babylon,
00:37:56.44\00:37:58.57
the other
churches, and join what?
00:37:58.61\00:38:01.71
Join God's last day
church that believes in keeping
00:38:01.74\00:38:03.81
all the
commandments, not just nine.
00:38:03.85\00:38:07.35
And then we give the
message, "If you don't do that,
00:38:07.38\00:38:09.85
there's a warning against
receiving the mark of the beast
00:38:09.88\00:38:13.05
which eventually will
be the Sunday law, right?"
00:38:13.09\00:38:17.76
Think about it.
Mark of the beast.
00:38:17.79\00:38:23.73
When the Sunday law is passed,
00:38:23.77\00:38:25.10
they'd be keeping Sunday
rather than keeping the Sabbath.
00:38:25.13\00:38:27.37
It's not now the
law is not passed there,
00:38:27.40\00:38:29.24
we have an opportunity
to know what is best.
00:38:29.27\00:38:31.77
But are we
really living up to that
00:38:31.81\00:38:33.54
and do we really realize it?
00:38:33.58\00:38:35.34
It can't be any
plainer in Scripture
00:38:35.38\00:38:37.31
than what I'm telling
you right now, but yet what?
00:38:37.35\00:38:40.02
It wasn't any plainer
in Scripture, and what?
00:38:40.05\00:38:42.28
Between Samuel,
the prophet of God,
00:38:42.32\00:38:44.45
and the people of Israel,
00:38:44.49\00:38:45.82
and yet, they
didn't want to hear it.
00:38:45.85\00:38:48.62
They did not want to hear it.
00:38:48.66\00:38:53.09
So God said to him,
00:38:53.13\00:38:54.46
"Okay, if that's what they want,
00:38:54.50\00:38:56.56
that's what I'll give them."
00:38:56.60\00:38:58.37
But Samuel, before I
give the king to them,
00:38:58.40\00:39:02.70
tell them exactly
what's going to happen to them,
00:39:02.74\00:39:05.21
if they choose a
man to be a king.
00:39:05.24\00:39:07.11
Can you imagine what
would be wrong with us
00:39:07.14\00:39:12.95
or what is wrong with us today
00:39:12.98\00:39:14.32
because some of
the same messages
00:39:14.35\00:39:15.78
are just as clear and plain
00:39:15.82\00:39:17.15
as what we're talking about here
00:39:17.19\00:39:18.52
for an example,
and yet we refuse it,
00:39:18.55\00:39:21.99
and yet we refuse it?
00:39:22.02\00:39:23.36
We reject God's plan,
00:39:23.39\00:39:26.33
and we're accepting these errors
00:39:26.36\00:39:28.50
as it's being forced upon us.
00:39:28.53\00:39:32.80
Samuel said,
"Here's what's going
00:39:32.83\00:39:34.17
to happen to you people,"
00:39:34.20\00:39:36.44
and he told the leaders
of Israel, all of Israel,
00:39:36.47\00:39:38.57
"Remember, if you do this,"
00:39:38.61\00:39:40.04
God said, "If
that's what you want,
00:39:40.08\00:39:43.08
I'll give you a man,
I'll give you a king."
00:39:43.11\00:39:46.15
But here's what's
going to happen to you.
00:39:46.18\00:39:47.92
Surely, no one
in their right mind
00:39:47.95\00:39:49.88
would have said,
00:39:49.92\00:39:51.25
"Well, that's
all right even though
00:39:51.29\00:39:53.36
this is going to happen,
00:39:53.39\00:39:56.62
then go ahead
and give us a king."
00:39:56.66\00:39:57.99
Or should they
have repented and said,
00:39:58.03\00:39:59.36
"Lord, have mercy on us.
00:39:59.39\00:40:00.73
We don't want that to
happen to us and our children."
00:40:00.76\00:40:03.43
They didn't
approach it like that.
00:40:03.47\00:40:04.83
And today, we don't
approach it that way.
00:40:04.87\00:40:07.24
That God says, "Thou shalt not,"
00:40:07.27\00:40:08.80
that's exactly what He means.
00:40:08.84\00:40:10.87
God has a plan,
that's exactly what He means.
00:40:10.91\00:40:16.54
People wanted a man on
the throne instead of God.
00:40:16.58\00:40:20.35
It's plain, 1
Samuel 8:7 tells us
00:40:20.38\00:40:22.85
that Prophet told the people.
00:40:22.88\00:40:26.22
Now remember, the
people, Samuel told them,
00:40:26.25\00:40:29.06
and the people rejected light.
00:40:29.09\00:40:32.09
If you've heard something
00:40:32.13\00:40:33.46
that is truth, and then you say,
00:40:33.50\00:40:34.83
this is light, don't reject it
00:40:34.86\00:40:36.20
because there are consequences
for rejecting light.
00:40:36.23\00:40:39.10
Does that make sense?
00:40:39.13\00:40:41.34
There's always consequences
for rejecting light.
00:40:41.37\00:40:44.27
John 12:48 says,
"He that rejecteth me,"
00:40:44.31\00:40:48.74
notice," and
receiveth not my words,
00:40:48.78\00:40:51.75
hath one that judgeth him,
00:40:51.78\00:40:54.12
the same shall judge
him in the last days."
00:40:54.15\00:40:57.22
We cannot
afford to reject light.
00:40:57.25\00:41:00.26
There's
consequences, Brother John.
00:41:00.29\00:41:04.13
There's consequences,
Sister Mary, and Debbie.
00:41:04.16\00:41:08.90
There's consequences,
00:41:08.93\00:41:10.27
Pastor Kenny,
for rejecting light,
00:41:10.30\00:41:13.77
and those
consequences, I'm telling you,
00:41:13.80\00:41:15.20
can be pretty heavy duty.
00:41:15.24\00:41:18.27
Heavy duty is
because you remember
00:41:18.31\00:41:19.97
in 1 Peter 2:9,
00:41:20.01\00:41:21.48
because He
called you out of what?
00:41:21.51\00:41:24.11
Darkness into
that marvelous light.
00:41:24.15\00:41:26.25
If He called you out
of darkness, Sister Mary,
00:41:26.28\00:41:28.68
why in the world
would you want to go back?
00:41:28.72\00:41:30.39
You wouldn't.
00:41:30.42\00:41:32.19
Brother Mark, why
do you want to go back
00:41:32.22\00:41:33.56
if you were called
out to come to the light?
00:41:33.59\00:41:35.69
Where you were
in? Yes, you were.
00:41:35.72\00:41:38.16
But yet, we want to go
back into that darkness.
00:41:38.19\00:41:40.26
Why would we when He's called us
00:41:40.30\00:41:41.63
out into His marvelous light?
00:41:41.66\00:41:43.30
We don't want to go back.
00:41:43.33\00:41:45.83
See, what would be the results
00:41:45.87\00:41:48.70
in following a man
than instead of God?
00:41:48.74\00:41:50.97
If God said, "Okay,
they could have one."
00:41:51.01\00:41:52.64
It seemed like, "Well,
maybe it's going to be okay."
00:41:52.67\00:41:54.51
What would be the
results? God knew these things.
00:41:54.54\00:41:58.01
With a man on
the throne, a king,
00:41:58.05\00:42:00.75
that people would
start looking to man,
00:42:00.78\00:42:03.35
did you notice that, to him,
00:42:03.39\00:42:04.89
and then, when
they looked to him,
00:42:04.92\00:42:06.59
they would be
looking away from God.
00:42:06.62\00:42:08.46
Does that make sense?
00:42:08.49\00:42:10.09
When we begin to
look to an earthly king,
00:42:10.13\00:42:12.19
we cannot look to
the King of glory.
00:42:12.23\00:42:15.73
And so God knew
that's what would happen,
00:42:15.76\00:42:17.63
they start looking to Him.
00:42:17.67\00:42:20.64
Number two, they would
trust more to human strength
00:42:20.67\00:42:23.97
and less to divine presence.
00:42:24.01\00:42:26.81
See, "Oh, man
sitting on the throne."
00:42:26.84\00:42:28.61
Well, what is Saul
going to do here, you see?
00:42:28.64\00:42:32.88
How is he going to do?
00:42:32.91\00:42:34.25
Not what God wants.
What's he going to do?
00:42:34.28\00:42:37.52
And then, as the
king, a human on the throne,
00:42:37.55\00:42:40.36
God knew this that
Samuel, right, Saul, I mean,
00:42:40.39\00:42:44.49
Saul was going to, he was
going to be making some errors.
00:42:44.53\00:42:47.60
He's going to do
some things that are wrong
00:42:47.63\00:42:49.16
or king sitting on the throne
00:42:49.20\00:42:51.07
will do some
things that are wrong,
00:42:51.10\00:42:52.90
and would lead people into
sin and separation from God.
00:42:52.93\00:42:57.61
Well, the king said,
the king passed these laws,
00:42:57.64\00:43:01.34
and the people would
be following the king
00:43:01.38\00:43:03.45
saying, "Well, this
is God sitting there."
00:43:03.48\00:43:05.21
So did God really want the king?
00:43:05.25\00:43:09.48
So Samuel then was
told by God, He said,
00:43:09.52\00:43:11.89
"Go ahead, I love my people.
00:43:11.92\00:43:13.59
Tell them."
00:43:13.62\00:43:14.96
See, I can get up
here, didn't I say,
00:43:14.99\00:43:16.32
tell you about the
mark of the beast, you know,
00:43:16.36\00:43:17.79
and we've talked about
before, and all this and that.
00:43:17.83\00:43:19.73
I say, "This is
what God has said,"
00:43:19.76\00:43:21.96
majority of
people will reject that.
00:43:22.00\00:43:24.90
It's very plain.
00:43:24.93\00:43:27.87
We've got to be
serious about sanctification.
00:43:27.90\00:43:30.01
People say, "Well, yeah, well."
00:43:30.04\00:43:32.57
It's no different today.
00:43:32.61\00:43:34.21
In fact, just maybe
worse than even was then.
00:43:34.24\00:43:38.15
So what did
Samuel say, 1 Samuel 8:7,
00:43:38.18\00:43:41.58
right about the
people wanted for Samuel 8:9?
00:43:41.62\00:43:44.15
God said, "Warn the people
00:43:44.19\00:43:47.49
that I disapprove
of an earthly king."
00:43:47.52\00:43:51.13
And here's what's
going to happen to them
00:43:51.16\00:43:53.56
if they let this go through.
00:43:53.60\00:43:57.47
He said, "First of all,
00:43:57.50\00:43:58.97
you basically are a free people.
00:43:59.00\00:44:01.84
You're under my leadership.
00:44:01.87\00:44:03.20
I'm leading, guiding,
I'm responsible for you,
00:44:03.24\00:44:05.04
but if you take
this earthly king,
00:44:05.07\00:44:06.84
you're going to be
oppressed by others."
00:44:06.88\00:44:09.98
Now anybody here want
their freedoms taken away
00:44:10.01\00:44:11.71
and be oppressed by someone else
00:44:11.75\00:44:13.08
treated as a
servant, as a slave?
00:44:13.11\00:44:14.98
I don't think so.
00:44:15.02\00:44:16.35
God told them in
advance, "If you make this move,
00:44:16.38\00:44:18.55
you're going to be basically
in bondage and slavery."
00:44:18.59\00:44:23.22
And they're
saying, "Well, hang on,
00:44:23.26\00:44:24.79
or maybe that won't be too bad."
00:44:24.83\00:44:26.16
You'd think that
would be an easy choice.
00:44:31.17\00:44:35.60
See in order for the king
to be like the other kings,
00:44:35.64\00:44:39.47
see this was all
different for Israel.
00:44:39.51\00:44:42.41
To be like another king,
00:44:42.44\00:44:43.78
you realize what
it's going to take?
00:44:43.81\00:44:46.38
It would be that this
king would need more finances.
00:44:46.41\00:44:51.49
God supplied
before Israel, did He not?
00:44:51.52\00:44:54.16
Now to set himself up as a king,
00:44:54.19\00:44:56.76
he's going to have to
look at the other nations,
00:44:56.79\00:44:59.03
how did those kings act,
00:44:59.06\00:45:01.16
where did they
get all their money?
00:45:01.20\00:45:03.16
Where did they get all
the stuff that they do?
00:45:03.20\00:45:05.53
Well, you know what they did?
00:45:05.57\00:45:08.14
King says, "Man."
00:45:08.17\00:45:09.50
God warned him, said,
"Here's what's going to happen.
00:45:09.54\00:45:11.77
It's going to
take some more money,
00:45:11.81\00:45:14.78
and I'm going to get that money
by taxing you on your property.
00:45:14.81\00:45:21.25
Property taxes
and personal taxes."
00:45:21.28\00:45:24.05
Isn't that interesting?
00:45:24.09\00:45:25.42
We think we face
that today, but why?
00:45:25.45\00:45:27.46
Because the government
didn't know how to spend money,
00:45:27.49\00:45:29.66
so they get to have more
money, and so they tax us.
00:45:29.69\00:45:32.79
Interesting, back then,
under the first king of Israel.
00:45:32.83\00:45:37.37
All of a sudden, how
we're going to get money?
00:45:37.40\00:45:39.10
We've got to get
it from the people.
00:45:39.13\00:45:40.94
So they began to tax them
in a couple different ways.
00:45:40.97\00:45:44.17
Also, God warned them
that's what's going to happen.
00:45:44.21\00:45:47.41
God warned him too but
when he stood up as a king,
00:45:47.44\00:45:50.65
and with all the
help that the king needs
00:45:50.68\00:45:52.75
to work his government,
00:45:52.78\00:45:55.88
it's going to take the young men
00:45:55.92\00:45:57.35
and the young
women away from you.
00:45:57.39\00:46:00.29
He's going to take
your cattle away from you.
00:46:00.32\00:46:03.29
He's going to take
your fields away from you
00:46:03.32\00:46:05.56
in order to
maintain his kinghood.
00:46:05.59\00:46:10.07
Kind of interesting.
00:46:10.10\00:46:13.37
And then he even said,
"Well, now I need more money.
00:46:13.40\00:46:16.71
So what we'll do is
everyone here has to pay
00:46:16.74\00:46:20.18
1/10th of their income to me."
00:46:20.21\00:46:24.51
They aren't talking
about the 10th of tithe.
00:46:24.55\00:46:27.52
You start adding
all these things up,
00:46:27.55\00:46:28.88
they were taxed,
they'd have nothing.
00:46:28.92\00:46:33.79
So he levied
1/10th of their income
00:46:33.82\00:46:38.19
to go directly to the king.
00:46:38.23\00:46:40.50
See, they're
told this in advance
00:46:40.53\00:46:42.20
before it took place,
00:46:42.23\00:46:43.57
and the people still
said, "Man, I don't give a...
00:46:43.60\00:46:45.83
We still want a
king." How could we do that?
00:46:45.87\00:46:50.54
The prophet then, after he
went over some of these things,
00:46:50.57\00:46:54.14
everything that
God told him to do...
00:46:54.18\00:46:56.14
You know what that people said?
00:46:56.18\00:46:57.51
1 Samuel 8:17,
Bible simply says,
00:46:57.55\00:47:01.05
"Ye shall be his servants."
00:47:01.08\00:47:04.45
What is it?
00:47:04.49\00:47:05.82
If you do this, you are
going to be the king's servant.
00:47:05.85\00:47:09.36
You somehow... I
don't want to be.
00:47:09.39\00:47:10.73
I want to be
freed. I want to be...
00:47:10.76\00:47:12.09
No, evidently, the people
wanted to be his servants,
00:47:12.13\00:47:13.90
evidently.
00:47:13.93\00:47:16.33
1 Samuel 8:18, notice
quickly, time's running down,
00:47:16.36\00:47:19.13
notice this.
00:47:19.17\00:47:20.50
"And ye shall
cry out in that day
00:47:20.54\00:47:22.84
because of your king
which ye shall have chosen you,
00:47:22.87\00:47:27.24
and the Lord will not
hear you in that day."
00:47:27.28\00:47:30.61
How plain?
00:47:30.65\00:47:31.98
Here's what's
going to happen to you.
00:47:32.01\00:47:33.35
Over and over and
over from the pulpit,
00:47:33.38\00:47:34.78
from the lesson, Sabbath school,
00:47:34.82\00:47:36.25
over and over we say,
"Here's what's going to happen
00:47:36.28\00:47:38.75
because God has
laid it out in His Word."
00:47:38.79\00:47:41.22
This is what's going
to take place in the world
00:47:41.26\00:47:42.96
because of Bible Prophecy.
00:47:42.99\00:47:44.46
This is what we
should be teaching today.
00:47:44.49\00:47:46.13
This is what God requires of us.
00:47:46.16\00:47:48.03
And the people turn their
back and they'll say, "Hmm."
00:47:48.06\00:47:51.47
When we return
our back on light,
00:47:51.50\00:47:53.44
what does it say simply
happen to hear of these people?
00:47:53.47\00:47:55.84
"Bless their hearts,
00:47:55.87\00:47:57.77
and the Lord will not
hear you in that day," Why?
00:47:57.81\00:48:03.48
Because you didn't choose
Him, you chose another leader.
00:48:03.51\00:48:08.12
And once this was
put into motion...
00:48:08.15\00:48:10.15
See, Samuel did
his job as a prophet.
00:48:10.19\00:48:12.72
See, once this goes in,
once you basically vote on,
00:48:12.75\00:48:15.22
once you go and do this,
00:48:15.26\00:48:16.59
it's not going to
be easily changed,
00:48:16.62\00:48:18.76
it may never change.
00:48:18.79\00:48:21.40
Is this what you really want?
00:48:21.43\00:48:22.76
To be taxed to death,
00:48:22.80\00:48:25.00
all your
children taken away from,
00:48:25.03\00:48:26.37
your property taken away from,
00:48:26.40\00:48:27.74
your cattle taken away from you.
00:48:27.77\00:48:29.10
Taxed.
00:48:29.14\00:48:30.47
As I mentioned a
while go, the people what?
00:48:33.54\00:48:35.24
They became very
tired of the simple life.
00:48:35.28\00:48:37.88
They became tired
of... There's no display.
00:48:37.91\00:48:40.95
It's just a smut, got
tired of a little church,
00:48:40.98\00:48:43.25
got tired of...
00:48:43.28\00:48:44.62
We're not doing
like everybody else,
00:48:44.65\00:48:45.99
they've got all this program,
00:48:46.02\00:48:47.36
they're doing all
these things right in here.
00:48:47.39\00:48:48.72
That may be trouble
00:48:48.76\00:48:50.09
and there may
be a lot of trouble
00:48:50.13\00:48:51.63
if they're not following
God's plan, God's will.
00:48:51.66\00:48:55.33
They got tired of
the holy leadership
00:48:55.36\00:48:58.23
of the Prophet Samuel
who was a mouthpiece for God.
00:48:58.27\00:49:01.74
They no longer wanted
to hear God's voice anymore
00:49:01.77\00:49:04.61
as God directed him.
00:49:04.64\00:49:07.58
So when we are surrounded
by error, and by more error,
00:49:07.61\00:49:13.05
and error is
being forced upon us.
00:49:13.08\00:49:15.88
Even by the laws of
the land, we realize,
00:49:15.92\00:49:17.95
it's been for hundreds
of years and still going on.
00:49:17.99\00:49:22.36
We're going to have
to take a decided stand
00:49:22.39\00:49:24.43
for what is right.
00:49:24.46\00:49:26.96
We have to be able to do that.
00:49:27.00\00:49:30.10
We have to be able
to think this through.
00:49:30.13\00:49:33.34
God has called us to
be separate, has He not?
00:49:33.37\00:49:36.97
Why is it that makes
sense to us as a people?
00:49:37.01\00:49:39.44
This is a plain and simple
as what we just went through
00:49:39.47\00:49:41.98
for Israel when he said,
00:49:42.01\00:49:43.35
"This is what's
going to happen to you
00:49:43.38\00:49:44.71
if you make the wrong choice."
00:49:44.75\00:49:47.22
Today, we can look at and say,
00:49:47.25\00:49:48.58
"This is what's
going to happen to us
00:49:48.62\00:49:49.95
if we make the wrong choice
00:49:49.98\00:49:51.32
where we're at in
earth's history right now."
00:49:51.35\00:49:53.62
It's happening.
00:49:53.66\00:49:55.26
God has called
us to be separate.
00:49:55.29\00:49:56.79
You say, "Well, I
don't want to be separate.
00:49:56.83\00:49:58.23
I want to have all
the worldly friends.
00:49:58.26\00:49:59.69
I want to do all the
things the world has to do."
00:49:59.73\00:50:01.33
Then you're not following
a simple plan that God said.
00:50:01.36\00:50:03.40
We want to, most generally,
imitate the wordlings.
00:50:06.74\00:50:10.84
We want to imitate the heathen.
00:50:10.87\00:50:14.74
We want to
conform to the practices
00:50:14.78\00:50:16.81
and the teachings and
the customs of others.
00:50:16.85\00:50:22.72
And it seems like we just
forgotten the plan of God,
00:50:22.75\00:50:26.32
and may I use the other word,
we've rejected the plan of God,
00:50:26.35\00:50:28.96
because God's made
it so clear, so plain.
00:50:28.99\00:50:33.73
Seems like we are learned.
00:50:33.76\00:50:36.26
Here's one of the
excuses that they used
00:50:36.30\00:50:38.13
found in
Patriarchs and Prophets 607.
00:50:38.17\00:50:41.30
It says, "Many urge that
by uniting with worldlings
00:50:41.34\00:50:44.77
and conforming to their customs
00:50:44.81\00:50:46.88
they might exert
a stronger influence
00:50:46.91\00:50:49.91
over the ungodly."
00:50:49.94\00:50:51.38
I've ever got tired of
hearing anything in my life,
00:50:51.41\00:50:53.58
this is one of them.
00:50:53.62\00:50:55.38
Every time someone's
going down the wrong path,
00:50:55.42\00:50:56.92
they always say, "Yeah,
but I can help this one,
00:50:56.95\00:50:58.79
and we can do,
blah, blah, blah."
00:50:58.82\00:51:00.59
You never do it by joining
in and doing what they're doing.
00:51:00.62\00:51:03.02
You can never help them.
00:51:03.06\00:51:04.39
You set godly example
and you pull away from that,
00:51:04.43\00:51:07.20
set the example that
Jesus would had you to do,
00:51:07.23\00:51:09.26
and then
something good can happen.
00:51:09.30\00:51:11.40
Did you notice the
excuse they were making here?
00:51:11.43\00:51:14.70
This is talking about Israel.
00:51:14.74\00:51:16.07
It says, "Many urge there
by uniting with worldlings,
00:51:16.10\00:51:18.84
conforming to their customs,
00:51:18.87\00:51:20.21
they might exert
a stronger influence
00:51:20.24\00:51:22.31
over the ungodly.
00:51:22.34\00:51:23.68
But all who pursue this
course, there by separate
00:51:23.71\00:51:27.52
from the source
of their strength,"
00:51:27.55\00:51:29.28
listen church,
00:51:29.32\00:51:30.65
"because the
friends of the world,
00:51:30.69\00:51:32.42
they are enemies of God."
00:51:32.45\00:51:34.79
They would become
what? Friends of the world.
00:51:34.82\00:51:37.09
When you become like the world,
00:51:37.13\00:51:38.46
if you're doing what
the world is doing out there
00:51:38.49\00:51:39.96
in the way that
the world is doing it,
00:51:40.00\00:51:41.46
it doesn't matter what it is,
when it is, what holiday it is,
00:51:41.50\00:51:44.37
doesn't matter, if
we're doing it the way
00:51:44.40\00:51:45.77
that the world does it.
00:51:45.80\00:51:47.14
Lord, have mercy,
shouldn't we reexamine.
00:51:47.17\00:51:50.11
Just food for
thought, should we not examine
00:51:50.14\00:51:52.07
if we're doing
anything that the world does,
00:51:52.11\00:51:54.34
and says that it is okay to do?
00:51:54.38\00:51:55.71
It's heavy duty.
00:51:59.11\00:52:00.45
It says right here, "The
source of their strength."
00:52:00.48\00:52:03.28
They lose that.
00:52:03.32\00:52:05.09
They become
friends of the world.
00:52:05.12\00:52:07.89
"We love not the world
00:52:07.92\00:52:09.26
or the things
that are in the world,"
00:52:09.29\00:52:10.63
1 John, you remember that, 2:15.
00:52:10.66\00:52:12.83
If any man loved the world,
the love of God is not in him.
00:52:12.86\00:52:16.00
But yet somehow, we
can't seem to let go.
00:52:16.03\00:52:19.80
Early Writings,
125, quickly says,
00:52:19.83\00:52:21.60
"While false
doctrines and dangerous errors
00:52:21.64\00:52:24.37
are pressed upon the mind,
00:52:24.41\00:52:26.21
it cannot dwell upon the truth,"
00:52:26.24\00:52:28.44
which is to fit and
prepare the house of Israel
00:52:28.48\00:52:30.95
to stand in the day of the Lord.
00:52:30.98\00:52:33.42
The importance of it, what is?
00:52:33.45\00:52:35.52
When these errors
are pressed upon us,
00:52:35.55\00:52:39.89
and while we're
dwelling on these things
00:52:39.92\00:52:41.52
or involved in these things,
00:52:41.56\00:52:42.89
we cannot be preparing
for the coming of Jesus.
00:52:42.92\00:52:47.13
Who's going to defend
God's truth for today?
00:52:47.16\00:52:51.93
Is the arm of
flesh going to help you?
00:52:51.97\00:52:53.47
No, it's never
going to help you.
00:52:53.50\00:52:55.77
No man's going to
be able to help you.
00:52:55.80\00:52:57.17
We need the power
of the Holy Spirit.
00:52:57.21\00:52:58.77
We need God in our midst.
00:52:58.81\00:53:00.68
We need to quit
driving out the spirit
00:53:00.71\00:53:03.08
by going against a
plain, "Thus saith the Lord."
00:53:03.11\00:53:06.65
God will defend those
who choose to serve Him.
00:53:06.68\00:53:10.65
Choose you this
day, isn't that right,
00:53:10.69\00:53:12.35
whom you will serve in
Jeremiah or Joshua 24:15,
00:53:12.39\00:53:17.39
"Choose you this day
whom you will serve."
00:53:17.43\00:53:20.80
Who is it going to be,
00:53:20.83\00:53:22.16
when these errors
are creeping around us
00:53:22.20\00:53:24.07
and laws are being
passed and things are going on?
00:53:24.10\00:53:27.24
God is not
going to defend anyone
00:53:27.27\00:53:29.84
who is living in
transgression of his law.
00:53:29.87\00:53:32.47
We need to keep that close
00:53:32.51\00:53:33.84
in our heart and
close in our mind.
00:53:33.88\00:53:36.14
Why is it that we just claim
00:53:36.18\00:53:37.75
plain simple
truths of God's Word
00:53:37.78\00:53:40.32
is not simple anymore?
00:53:40.35\00:53:43.02
What has happened?
00:53:43.05\00:53:44.45
When he says
separate, he means separate.
00:53:44.49\00:53:47.46
That means be
different, that means come apart
00:53:47.49\00:53:49.79
and touch not the unclean.
00:53:49.82\00:53:51.69
Then, I will receive you.
00:53:51.73\00:53:53.70
If you want the
other, God can't receive us.
00:53:53.73\00:53:56.20
I want to pray for those today
00:53:56.23\00:53:57.57
because their decisions to make,
00:53:57.60\00:53:58.93
decisions for me to make,
00:53:58.97\00:54:00.30
decisions for you
to make in your life.
00:54:00.34\00:54:01.67
In the last few seconds we have,
00:54:01.70\00:54:03.04
I'm going to kneel up here
00:54:03.07\00:54:04.41
and just have a
quick prayer for you.
00:54:04.44\00:54:05.77
Let's pray together, shall we?
00:54:05.81\00:54:08.24
Merciful Father in Heaven,
00:54:08.28\00:54:09.61
we thank You for
Your precious Word,
00:54:09.64\00:54:10.98
we thank You
for loving us today,
00:54:11.01\00:54:12.35
we thank You
that You've called us
00:54:12.38\00:54:13.72
to be a
special, peculiar people,
00:54:13.75\00:54:15.62
come apart from the
world not to be like the world
00:54:15.65\00:54:17.55
and when something
is plain in Scripture.
00:54:17.59\00:54:19.59
Oh, Lord, give us the
desire, give us a heart
00:54:19.62\00:54:21.92
to be obedient to Your Word.
00:54:21.96\00:54:23.29
A blessing is set
before us and a curse,
00:54:23.32\00:54:25.39
choose you this day
whom you will serve.
00:54:25.43\00:54:27.46
In Jesus' name, amen.
00:54:27.50\00:54:31.47
Again we
appreciate so very much,
00:54:31.50\00:54:32.90
each and every one of
you joining us on our program
00:54:32.93\00:54:35.57
to program, day in, day out.
00:54:35.60\00:54:37.14
We appreciate you so very much.
00:54:37.17\00:54:38.61
Your cards, your
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00:54:38.64\00:54:40.58
continue to write us,
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00:54:40.61\00:54:42.34
we love you, and
we'll see you next time.
00:54:42.38\00:54:45.05
Hello and welcome back, friends.
00:54:46.45\00:54:48.55
I told you this was going
to be an interesting study.
00:54:48.58\00:54:51.35
I told you it
would be a timely message
00:54:51.39\00:54:54.26
because it affects
each and every one of us.
00:54:54.29\00:54:56.93
And as we see Bible
prophecy fulfilling,
00:54:56.96\00:54:59.76
as we see all
nations drinking the wine
00:54:59.79\00:55:02.90
or the wrath of her fornication,
00:55:02.93\00:55:04.83
false doctrine is
spoken up in Revelation,
00:55:04.87\00:55:08.17
as we see sorcery.
00:55:08.20\00:55:10.44
You know, the Bible tells us
that the enemy can use sorcery.
00:55:10.47\00:55:13.64
God is... He's just.
00:55:13.68\00:55:15.44
He's righteous, He's good.
00:55:15.48\00:55:16.98
In fact, let me just read,
00:55:17.01\00:55:18.48
let me just read
a part of a verse.
00:55:18.51\00:55:20.42
Romans 7:12, it
reads, "The law is holy."
00:55:20.45\00:55:25.25
We know the law is a
reflection of God Himself.
00:55:25.29\00:55:27.72
He is holy.
00:55:27.76\00:55:29.09
"And the commandment is
holy and is just and good."
00:55:29.12\00:55:32.46
But the enemy, he doesn't live
00:55:32.49\00:55:34.26
by the same rules as God does.
00:55:34.30\00:55:37.07
So we have a choice to make.
00:55:37.10\00:55:39.07
We're seeing
things begin to change,
00:55:39.10\00:55:41.10
we're seeing
righteousness become error
00:55:41.14\00:55:44.47
and error become righteousness.
00:55:44.51\00:55:47.18
Not just outside of our churches
00:55:47.21\00:55:49.44
but inside of our churches.
00:55:49.48\00:55:52.01
So I think the
biggest thing that...
00:55:52.05\00:55:54.28
The biggest take
home from this study is
00:55:54.32\00:55:57.22
what will you do?
00:55:57.25\00:55:59.52
There've been people who
have taken a stand already.
00:55:59.55\00:56:01.82
We've seen them
marched off to jail
00:56:01.86\00:56:04.93
for not signing
a marriage license
00:56:04.96\00:56:07.00
for something that was
outside of God's standard
00:56:07.03\00:56:09.70
of what marriage is all
about between a man and a woman.
00:56:09.73\00:56:13.47
We've seen it go all
the way to the Supreme Court
00:56:13.50\00:56:17.24
for someone who
refused to bake a wedding cake
00:56:17.27\00:56:20.88
outside of his
consciousness, his understanding
00:56:20.91\00:56:24.05
of what God wants him to do.
00:56:24.08\00:56:26.58
If you go back in history,
we read about the martyrs.
00:56:26.61\00:56:30.29
What about us? That's
where we're coming to.
00:56:30.32\00:56:33.52
We need God as never before.
00:56:33.56\00:56:35.69
There's no safer
place on this earth
00:56:35.72\00:56:38.59
than in His will
and in His loving arms.
00:56:38.63\00:56:41.76
And I pray that
you'll choose that.
00:56:41.80\00:56:43.40
I pray that you will stand
00:56:43.43\00:56:45.33
no matter what wind of doctrine,
00:56:45.37\00:56:48.34
what error will
be forced upon you.
00:56:48.37\00:56:51.77
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00:56:51.81\00:56:54.08
and listen to it
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00:56:54.11\00:56:55.64
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00:56:55.68\00:56:59.15
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00:56:59.18\00:57:02.82
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00:57:49.83\00:57:53.34
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