Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host.
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I want to thank
you for tuning in.
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Today, we are beginning
a two-part series entitled
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"National Apostasy
Followed by National Ruin."
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I thought I would begin
by googling the definition
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of the word apostasy.
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And it read, "The abandonment
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or renunciation of a
religious or political belief."
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And, oh, how well
that definition fits
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many of our churches
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and our nation
at this very moment.
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National apostasy
followed by national ruin.
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For years we have focused
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upon biblical
pillars of our faith
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that our churches have
turned their backs upon.
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This series
will be no different.
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And in this first message,
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we will also examine
current events in our nation,
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the United States of America,
in light of Bible prophecy.
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The US is a country
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that is very
rapidly being torn apart
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by waves of anarchy,
looting and violent murders,
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and a strong
push towards socialism
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with a movement to disband
our capitalistic society.
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Is the Bible or
the Spirit of Prophecy
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have anything to
say about these events
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or where these events
may be leading each of us?
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You bet they do.
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And we are looking forward
to what the Lord has placed
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upon Pastor Kenny's
heart to share with us, why?
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So that we may know
where our allegiance must lie
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if heaven is to be our home.
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We need to
understand this message
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so that we are not deceived
by the apostasies in the church
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or in our nation as the line
between them is being blurred.
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As Protestant
churches are becoming
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more and more
involved in politics,
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we need to understand warnings
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that God has
given us in His Word,
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and the Spirit of Prophecy,
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so that we are
not totally shocked
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when these events
bring about a time of trouble
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for each of God's children.
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A time when all of
our earthly support
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will be completely severed.
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And one such warning is found
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in the Book of Revelation 18:1-5
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and we're going to jump
to verse 8 and it reads,
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"And after these things I
saw another angel come down
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from heaven, having great power,
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and the earth was
lighted with His glory.
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And he cried mightily
with a strong voice, saying,
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'Babylon the great
is fallen, is fallen,
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and is become the
habitation of devils,
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and the hold of
every foul spirit,
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and a cage of every
unclean and hated bird.
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For all the nations
have drunk of the wine
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of the wrath of her fornication,
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and the kings of the earth
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have committed
fornication with her,
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and the merchants of
the earth are waxed rich
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through the
abundance of her delicacies.
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And I heard another
voice from heaven saying,
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'Come out of her, my people,
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that ye be not
partakers of her sins,
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and that ye
receive not of her plagues.
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For her sins have
reached unto heaven,
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and God hath
remembered her iniquities.
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Therefore shall her
plagues come in one day, death,
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and mourning, and famine,
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and she shall be
utterly burned with fire:
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for strong is the
Lord God who judgeth her.'"
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God is urgently,
urgently calling for us
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to come out of
her, come out of her
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if we are His people,
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so that we will
avoid the judgments
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that are to fall in this world
as a result of this apostasy.
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So please stay tuned as
we join Pastor Kenny Shelton
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to learn more about the national
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and spiritual apostasy
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so that we will be
able to rightly discern
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between right and wrong.
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But first, let's visit 3ABN
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and listen to Brother Ben Lingle
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as he plays "Father God."
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Thank you for
joining us once again here
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at Behold the Lamb Ministries.
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We do appreciate
you so very much.
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We appreciate your
cards, your letters
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and your support
to get this message
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around the world.
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We have the opportunity,
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praise God to get
this message around,
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think about around the world.
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Not just within these
walls but around the world,
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which is the gospel commission
going to all the world
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and what preach the
gospel give the good news,
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the salvation and the
coming of Jesus Christ.
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And so we live in
an incredible time
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of earth's
history that we need to be
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deep in the study
of the Word of God,
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so that we as
God's people will realize
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what we need to be doing,
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not as a works thing,
but what we need to be doing,
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prepare our hearts
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and our life
for His soon coming.
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I certainly feel a
need to once again to pray.
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Again, I know
that many of you kneel
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and pray where you
can when you're at home.
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Some of you going down the road,
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somebody else's
driving and they pray.
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They say we're just
praying with you all the time.
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Thank you for that,
continue to pray, we need that.
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So I'm going to kneel over here
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and I just ask
that maybe you can kneel
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or you just pray with me.
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Merciful Father in heaven,
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thank You for the
privilege of prayer,
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Lord, we invite
Thy sweet Holy Spirit.
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Lord, we need to illuminate
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these beautiful
truths of Your Word.
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Lord, help us to realize
these are not just words,
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these are
warning messages we need.
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We need the
patience, we need love,
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we need encouragement,
we need the understanding.
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And so we
invite Your Holy Spirit
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to come near to
each of our hearts
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in our lives right now.
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And impress these
things that we need to know
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and to learn and
to put into operation
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before You shall come
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Thank You for every
viewer, every listener.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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We're going to be
talking about today,
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I hope you brought your Bible
or pencil or paper with you.
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National apostasy.
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National apostasy
is followed by what?
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By national ruin.
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So when you talk about
apostasy, that's not good.
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When you talk about
ruin, that's not good.
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So we need to find out
what causes all of this,
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we're going to be
looking at this study
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and spending a little time on.
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This is going to be
the first part of two parts
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because there's
so much material,
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but we're going to
try to condense it down.
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Then notice this,
this two-part series,
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there's going to
be several questions
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that must be asked and answers
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that must be
given because, you know,
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we are living in the timeframe
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of what this
subject is talking about.
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Remember, we're living
what? In this hour right now.
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And so these questions in case
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maybe you've never
encountered them before,
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or maybe you've been
through many, many times.
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It does not hurt to go
over these things and to learn.
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I'm not up here just talking
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because I don't
have anything else to do.
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I believe the Lord
has given a message
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that His people, His
church needs to hear.
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Why?
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Because these are serious
times that we're living in
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and they're going to
become, may I use this,
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more serious day by day,
because all of us can see that
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things are
changing, it seems hourly,
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moment by moment and
it's not getting better,
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because the Bible says
going to wax worse and worse.
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There's more
shenanigans being pulled.
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I'm telling right
now, there's more things
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that's being
done by dark of night,
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as it were, than I've ever seen
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in the history of this
world or since I have been here.
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We're talking about the future.
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The future could be
hours, it could be days,
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it could be weeks, even months.
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But we need to realize
these things are happening
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rather quickly, all
the things that we've seen.
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So what we're going to
be going over in this study
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and then the next study
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is what is this
national apostasy
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followed by national ruin.
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That's talking
about your country
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that you're living in.
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And as I mentioned
just previous to this,
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we're not going to
spend a lot of time
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on the other at the
time and so on and so forth.
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But we need to what?
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We're talking about the
Fourth of July and all this.
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We're going to be concentrating
on the Word of God.
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Two, we're going
to ask a question,
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is America right now
forming an image to the beast?
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Three, what is the
most important work
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in the world?
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Think about that for a moment,
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what is the most
important work in the world?
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Four, there is a
crisis in this church.
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Why?
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Because of the false doctrines
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and teachings that are
being taught even in the pulpit,
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and certainly
from church to church.
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Now remember, it's a crisis.
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It's not just, oh,
well, it's just that.
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When I'm talking up here,
we're talking about an urgency.
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We're talking about something
that we need to know that
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we need to understand
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because the devil
is trying to camouflage
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all of these
things and to deceive.
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Number five, notice
this, will there come a time
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when every earthly
support will be cut off from you
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if you are a
follower of Jesus Christ?
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You know, a lot of people say,
"Well, yeah, we understand."
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And lot of people say,
"Well, I didn't know that."
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So what will your position be
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if every earthly
support is cut off?
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If you're not able to
receive your social security?
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If you're not able to
receive your retirement?
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If you're not receiving
money from anything or anybody,
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how will you react?
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What will you do?
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I'm saying this
based on the Word of God,
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the United States will see
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a devastating
famine in the land,
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not only for the Word of God,
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but I'm talking about
food to eat and, of course,
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of other nations
around the world.
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Again, we're
going to answer these
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and looking them
up as we go along.
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And then again,
we just mentioned
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and always I should mention this
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from the pulpit
every time is remember,
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now is the time to
get out of the cities
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because they are corrupt.
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There's no doubt about it.
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And maybe we'll think
about this, is it time?
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Is it time that
maybe we've got rid
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of some of the
possessions that we have?
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Is it time?
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Do we maybe have too many things
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that's keeping us occupied
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even though they may
be good within themselves,
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there is a time that
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we need to get
rid of some things
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before the time,
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a real big time of
trouble before Jesus comes.
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And last number
nine, should we be able to
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or should we be able
to grow our own food?
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It's very important, is it?
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We're going to answer
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some of these
questions as we go along.
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But right now I just
want to go back again,
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national apostasy
followed by national ruin.
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Just a few points
of what's been going on
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the last few weeks here.
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And I pray that
you'll be able to see this
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in light of Bible prophecy.
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If not, it's
just another newscast
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and I'm not up
here to be a newscaster.
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I wanted to prompt you
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to be able to open your
heart and your mind and say,
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"Okay, these
things are taking place.
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And I'll just
mention maybe a line and line
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move on and move on and move on.
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Notice this. Why?
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Times are uncertain
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as we will know
especially with the COVID-19.
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It's changing every
day, thoughts are changing,
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but things are happening.
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They're looking
for a second bout,
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all kinds of things to
keep this country shut down
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so that we can't move forward.
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So we loot, the
economy will go out.
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And so we need to keep
that in mind right now.
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There's uncertainty about it,
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but there's
certainty in the Word of God.
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Seattle, we realize there
was, where there was, you know,
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they took several city blocks.
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That was, no, they come
in, the police took it back.
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But it's interesting
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in that created
place that they made,
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it was supposed
to be a police free.
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No police were allowed.
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Kind of interesting to
think about in our country
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where there was rape
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and where there was
murder and where there was
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destruction on every hand
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but the police were not allowed.
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What kind of a country is this?
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Huh? A lot of
statues bit the dust.
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They're down. A lot
of history came down.
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And lot of threats of many
more of this yet to come down.
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I see socialism working
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in our country, Marxist agenda.
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I've heard
people say actually say
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in this country
they had rather lived,
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is it okay to be bold in it?
00:15:09.27\00:15:11.14
You know, we're looking at it.
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They say we'd rather
live under communism.
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This is people that I know.
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They said they'd rather live
in communism than to, you know,
00:15:16.75\00:15:20.42
live under the rule of
Trump again for four years.
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What is wrong? You know what is?
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Because they have not lived
in that state of communism.
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Can you imagine so
statements being made?
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What has
happened to our thinking?
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I mean, it's coming to the point
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where there's a changing
of the names of the NFL,
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you can no longer want to
be called Washington Redskins.
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I didn't know anything
was wrong with red skin.
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I didn't know anything
was wrong with black skin.
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I didn't know anything
was wrong with white skin.
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I want to be as a
Christian color blind.
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This is a way that
it's supposed to be.
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But it's getting
to be so personal
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right now that the NFL,
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the owners are afraid
if they don't change it,
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they're not going to have
any people attending the games
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and the players.
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And so they're
having all kinds of problems
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or so we're running scared.
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And not only the
Washington Redskins,
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but Kansas City Chiefs.
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Can't say that
anymore because of racism.
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The Atlanta Braves
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going to have to
change their name.
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They're talking about it
here, the Cleveland Indians.
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You can't say that
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because everything
is a racist remark.
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Hmm.
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And then hundreds,
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literally hundreds
of big time companies.
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Sport is maybe who
create sports stuff
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and sports agenda and teams
00:16:46.27\00:16:48.04
and even
celebrities are responding
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to these protests
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by giving money, big
money to the protesters.
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Even, now take this,
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even the mascots
are being challenged.
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You can't have this
kind of a mascot, you know,
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some kind of a team.
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So that's being challenged.
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And even right
now you're looking at
00:17:10.69\00:17:13.36
they're renaming
many military bases.
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Huh, or, you
know, think about it.
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These bases which
have been there for, well,
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over hundreds of years,
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some that I have
been to personally
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when I was in the service.
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Some of those
will have to be changed
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because some people
are unhappy with the name.
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Some of the
military bases. Yes, yes.
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So I'm talking to the audience
if you want to know here,
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some people are,
yeah, questioning.
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Yeah.
00:17:43.69\00:17:45.99
They're wanting to
rename those things.
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And they're talking
about quite a few of them
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and they're even talking
about renaming some city.
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I'm just letting you see
how far this thing has gone.
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They're wanting to rename
some cities now, you know,
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some capitals or certain
towns, whatever it might be.
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An example is the latest what?
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Columbus, they're taking
down all statues of Columbus
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and so on and so forth.
00:18:06.08\00:18:07.42
Now, they want to rename that
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no longer can it
be Columbus, Ohio.
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And thousands of
people have signed a petition
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and said they want
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to have the
capital name, Flavor town.
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Flavor town.
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To back up one of the
chefs, I forget who he is on TV.
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Yeah, one even
mentioned that name,
00:18:27.87\00:18:29.54
be name Chef Boyardee.
00:18:29.57\00:18:31.94
But this was some man
who has a television program,
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whatever and he's chef
and so he was born there.
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So thousands, last I know,
I know it was 25,000, 50,000
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whatever is saying right
now, let's name it Flavor town.
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Huh, interesting.
00:18:44.72\00:18:49.06
Is these things, I'm
just mentioning a few,
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is it really
about social justice?
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That's the way it
was supposed to start.
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But is it really about
social justice anymore?
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I mean, we've got
right now, we say,
00:19:01.87\00:19:03.61
we're needing police changes,
00:19:03.64\00:19:05.31
we need to reform
we understand that.
00:19:05.34\00:19:08.31
There's been a great push
00:19:08.34\00:19:09.68
for climate
change as you well know.
00:19:09.71\00:19:11.68
There's a great push
going on for Sunday laws,
00:19:11.71\00:19:15.02
they're being pushed.
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The economy, job
situation, unemployment,
00:19:16.42\00:19:20.62
this country is in dire
need of something or someone
00:19:20.66\00:19:24.96
and I don't believe
it's another leader.
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I believe it's
Jesus Christ, don't you?
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Absolutely, yes.
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And it even
goes a little farther
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and just update
so you understand
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and again look at it in
the light of what's going on
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because, you know, men's heart
00:19:36.57\00:19:38.01
are failing them
for fear we understand,
00:19:38.04\00:19:39.94
but also men's minds are failing
00:19:39.97\00:19:42.04
because they
have not the guidance
00:19:42.08\00:19:43.75
of the Holy
Spirit of the Living God
00:19:43.78\00:19:46.21
to guide them and
make the right decision
00:19:46.25\00:19:48.42
based on the Word of God,
not emotions, not feeling,
00:19:48.45\00:19:51.45
not what has
happened or going to happen,
00:19:51.49\00:19:53.56
but based on the Word
of God is so important.
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They're even saying right now
00:19:56.69\00:19:58.03
that seems that before
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each game of the
first week of the NFL.
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Some of you've heard this.
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Before the game, right,
the first game of the NFL,
00:20:02.80\00:20:05.07
a new song is
going to be played.
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They've got together and said,
"Look, we're no longer happy.
00:20:06.97\00:20:09.90
You know, with the
Star-Spangled Banner.
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We want another one.
00:20:12.54\00:20:14.04
It's called Lift
Every Voice and Sing.
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Not that the song is
bad, but notice this,
00:20:17.08\00:20:19.28
Lift Every Voice and
Sing is considered to be,
00:20:19.31\00:20:23.49
notice this, the
black national anthem.
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The black national anthem.
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It started in
1900s actually, you know,
00:20:29.59\00:20:32.76
and so on and so forth.
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It goes on and it fits the bill.
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So they're going
to be playing that.
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Now, listen, I'm
not saying good or bad.
00:20:37.73\00:20:39.80
That's according to
ESPN report says this.
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Also notices this,
it doesn't stop there.
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See, I'm looking at
where will this stuff stop?
00:20:45.34\00:20:48.98
How far is it going to go?
00:20:49.01\00:20:52.08
Or has it went too far
that we never can back up again.
00:20:52.11\00:20:56.22
I'm under the
impression it will not,
00:20:56.25\00:20:57.72
we'll not be able to back up,
00:20:57.75\00:20:59.35
that this world
will never be the same.
00:20:59.39\00:21:01.99
Never be the same
as what's happened
00:21:02.02\00:21:05.16
in just a few four,
three or four months.
00:21:05.19\00:21:10.13
And I'm not happy about that.
00:21:10.17\00:21:11.53
And I'm sure you're
not happy about that.
00:21:11.57\00:21:12.90
There are many of us
00:21:12.93\00:21:14.27
we will not take
a positional stance.
00:21:14.30\00:21:16.81
There are those at
least in the world,
00:21:16.84\00:21:18.27
if they believe in something,
00:21:18.31\00:21:19.64
they take a
positional stance on it.
00:21:19.67\00:21:21.08
And they try to make a change
00:21:21.11\00:21:22.71
as long as we do
it the right way.
00:21:22.74\00:21:25.51
But you know, we can,
you can be shoved and pushed,
00:21:25.55\00:21:27.02
and so on and so forth.
00:21:27.05\00:21:28.38
And some of us say nothing.
00:21:28.42\00:21:29.82
When it comes
to the Word of God,
00:21:29.85\00:21:31.19
we need to take a stand on this.
00:21:31.22\00:21:32.95
But notice what these,
00:21:32.99\00:21:34.32
the Players
Association says this.
00:21:34.36\00:21:36.22
They're working with the league,
00:21:36.26\00:21:38.06
the league of players,
00:21:38.09\00:21:39.49
and they want to put
stuff on the jerseys.
00:21:39.53\00:21:42.40
They want to put instead
of their own name on the back,
00:21:42.43\00:21:44.33
like you
recognize that ballplayer
00:21:44.37\00:21:45.90
because there's
a name on the back.
00:21:45.93\00:21:47.60
They said, "Now
let's go farther with that.
00:21:47.64\00:21:51.04
Let's put some of the so-called
victims by the police."
00:21:51.07\00:21:55.11
Police have been
brutal, so they've been,
00:21:55.14\00:21:56.85
and that's true in a
sense, we understand that.
00:21:56.88\00:22:00.18
The jerseys could have names
like George Floyd on the back.
00:22:00.22\00:22:06.15
It could have...
00:22:06.19\00:22:08.39
is that Breonna Taylor?
00:22:08.42\00:22:11.13
Yeah, Taylor. Yeah.
00:22:11.16\00:22:13.73
Or on the back,
00:22:13.76\00:22:15.10
or it could be
Black Lives Matter
00:22:15.13\00:22:19.07
on the back of their jersey.
00:22:19.10\00:22:20.84
Or it could be, I can't breathe.
00:22:20.87\00:22:25.07
And another one I'd
like to put on there
00:22:25.11\00:22:26.44
if you don't mind,
00:22:26.47\00:22:27.81
if everybody's
putting their two cents worth,
00:22:27.84\00:22:29.18
and I'll put a penny in.
00:22:29.21\00:22:31.41
I've said it before
and I'll continue to say it
00:22:31.45\00:22:33.65
by the grace of
God that we need to put
00:22:33.68\00:22:35.95
on the back of our
jerseys All Lives Matter.
00:22:35.98\00:22:40.86
Did you get it?
All Lives Matter.
00:22:40.89\00:22:43.46
It's not trying to take away
00:22:43.49\00:22:44.83
from anything
anyone's trying to accomplish
00:22:44.86\00:22:46.19
if you do it in the right way.
00:22:46.23\00:22:48.83
It's all lives
matter. But you know what?
00:22:48.86\00:22:50.80
A lot of times, we
don't have the courage
00:22:50.83\00:22:52.17
to stand up and say that.
00:22:52.20\00:22:53.54
But if you watch
the football game
00:22:57.97\00:22:59.34
or some of the
sports sometimes some of us,
00:22:59.37\00:23:01.48
if we have a chance to
watch a few minutes of a game,
00:23:01.51\00:23:03.75
we'd like to watch a game
00:23:03.78\00:23:05.11
and not be
reminded of the brutal stuff
00:23:05.15\00:23:07.22
that's taken place and
continues to take place.
00:23:07.25\00:23:11.02
And all of this
stuff on the back
00:23:11.05\00:23:12.42
will simply be a reminder.
00:23:12.45\00:23:13.79
Other people say
there need to be a reminder
00:23:13.82\00:23:15.16
if we're going to get changed.
00:23:15.19\00:23:17.86
But it's just the
way that we go about it.
00:23:17.89\00:23:21.16
I know that all lives matter.
00:23:21.20\00:23:22.86
As a Christian, we
need to understand that
00:23:22.90\00:23:24.73
because Calvary says so.
00:23:24.77\00:23:27.04
I'm not doing it from prejudice.
00:23:27.07\00:23:28.40
I'm not doing it
because I have an axe to grind.
00:23:28.44\00:23:31.01
It's because Calvary proves that
00:23:31.04\00:23:33.54
every life makes a difference.
00:23:33.58\00:23:35.48
Ain't that what's it
all about? Jesus says so.
00:23:35.51\00:23:38.65
Let's kind of
start here with some more
00:23:41.85\00:23:44.09
when we're talking
about national apostasy
00:23:44.12\00:23:46.22
followed by natural or
nation natural, yeah, ruin.
00:23:46.25\00:23:51.66
We're told that errors
will be coming in to the church.
00:23:55.43\00:24:00.64
When you have a lot of problems,
00:24:00.67\00:24:02.00
we realize that
even in the world
00:24:02.04\00:24:03.47
is because we've drifted
away from the Word of God.
00:24:03.51\00:24:08.24
Because this is our
standard, isn't it right?
00:24:08.28\00:24:10.38
This is our standard.
00:24:10.41\00:24:11.98
This is what we realize
that this helps us to, you know,
00:24:12.01\00:24:14.85
not only get along in the world,
00:24:14.88\00:24:16.35
but certainly we say
get along with heaven.
00:24:16.38\00:24:18.99
This is a
standard of righteousness
00:24:19.02\00:24:20.66
that we need to be going to,
00:24:20.69\00:24:22.59
but we realize
then as error come in
00:24:22.62\00:24:25.19
and then we
begin to take changes,
00:24:25.23\00:24:27.33
it's a crisis time.
00:24:27.36\00:24:29.50
And I say, you know,
00:24:29.53\00:24:30.87
and I'll try to do it
nicely that in our church,
00:24:30.90\00:24:33.67
there is a crisis in our church.
00:24:33.70\00:24:36.20
There's probably a crisis in
00:24:36.24\00:24:37.57
and probably in
all churches today.
00:24:37.61\00:24:41.24
And we know that this
was going to take place
00:24:41.28\00:24:43.04
because there was a vision
00:24:43.08\00:24:44.41
given to Sister
White that told when these,
00:24:44.45\00:24:47.82
the crisis time
with doctrine comes in
00:24:47.85\00:24:49.85
that we are to meet it head on.
00:24:49.88\00:24:52.42
See, some of us have a hard time
00:24:52.45\00:24:53.79
meeting things head on.
00:24:53.82\00:24:55.92
We don't want
when there's trouble,
00:24:55.96\00:24:57.29
we want to back up.
00:24:57.33\00:24:58.93
We want to sit down.
00:24:58.96\00:25:00.50
We don't want to
take a stance on it.
00:25:00.53\00:25:03.47
But we are to meet it
head on when it comes in.
00:25:03.50\00:25:06.00
So I'm going to
just read this vision
00:25:06.03\00:25:08.70
that was given found
00:25:08.74\00:25:10.07
in Second
Selected Message 205 and 6.
00:25:10.11\00:25:13.14
Second Selected
Messages 205 and 6.
00:25:13.17\00:25:16.08
See, this is nothing new.
00:25:16.11\00:25:17.45
We were warned in advance,
these things will take place,
00:25:17.48\00:25:20.05
just what we're talking
about now in this vision.
00:25:20.08\00:25:23.99
Notice what it says.
00:25:24.02\00:25:25.59
And some of you,
I'm sure have read it
00:25:25.62\00:25:26.96
many times before, but
it says, "One night a scene
00:25:26.99\00:25:29.19
was clearly presented before me.
00:25:29.22\00:25:33.60
A vessel was upon the waters.
00:25:33.63\00:25:36.20
It was in a heavy fog.
00:25:36.23\00:25:38.20
Suddenly the lookout
cried, 'Iceberg just ahead.'
00:25:38.23\00:25:44.01
There towering high
00:25:44.04\00:25:45.87
above the ship was
a gigantic iceberg.
00:25:45.91\00:25:50.38
An authoritative
voice cried out, 'Meet it.'
00:25:50.41\00:25:56.32
There was not a moment to,
you know, in moments we've had,
00:25:56.35\00:25:59.95
we couldn't hesitate.
00:25:59.99\00:26:02.32
It was time for
instant action.'"
00:26:02.36\00:26:05.53
And I believe we are in the time
00:26:05.56\00:26:06.90
for instant action right now.
00:26:06.93\00:26:09.86
"The engineer said
this, 'Put on full steam.'"
00:26:09.90\00:26:14.94
Interesting, if you think
you're going to hit something,
00:26:14.97\00:26:16.64
usually we hit the brakes.
00:26:16.67\00:26:18.61
We want to stop.
00:26:18.64\00:26:20.08
Here the one who was running it.
00:26:20.11\00:26:22.34
The captain as it were,
the authoritative voice said,
00:26:22.38\00:26:26.61
"'Put full steam ahead.'
00:26:26.65\00:26:31.49
And the man at the wheel
steered the ship straight,"
00:26:31.52\00:26:35.82
notice this,
"into the iceberg.'"
00:26:35.86\00:26:38.53
Didn't try to deflect,
00:26:38.56\00:26:39.89
didn't try to go a different way
00:26:39.93\00:26:41.26
but straight into the iceberg.
00:26:41.30\00:26:43.10
"With a crash
she struck the ice.
00:26:43.13\00:26:47.44
There was a fearful shock.
00:26:47.47\00:26:50.27
The iceberg
broke into many pieces,
00:26:50.31\00:26:54.01
falling with a noise
like thunder to the deck.
00:26:54.04\00:26:59.51
The passengers were violently
00:26:59.55\00:27:01.85
shaken by the
force of the collision.
00:27:01.88\00:27:04.82
But no lives were lost.
00:27:04.85\00:27:08.42
The vessel was
injured but not beyond repair.
00:27:08.46\00:27:12.73
She rebounded from the contact,
trembling from stem to stern,
00:27:12.76\00:27:18.77
like a living creature.
00:27:18.80\00:27:21.30
She moved forward on her way."
00:27:21.34\00:27:25.41
My, what does this mean?
Well, notice how it goes on.
00:27:25.44\00:27:27.71
It says, "Well,
00:27:27.74\00:27:29.08
I know the meaning
of this representation.
00:27:29.11\00:27:32.35
I had my orders."
00:27:32.38\00:27:34.05
I wonder if maybe
you have your orders.
00:27:34.08\00:27:36.92
You receive your
orders not from man,
00:27:36.95\00:27:38.45
but you receive
your orders from God.
00:27:38.49\00:27:40.19
You receive your orders
00:27:40.22\00:27:41.56
from the Holy
Spirit of the Living God
00:27:41.59\00:27:43.32
of what you ought to be doing.
00:27:43.36\00:27:44.69
You may be doing
00:27:44.73\00:27:46.06
something a little
different than I'm doing,
00:27:46.09\00:27:47.43
but it's in harmony
with the Word of God,
00:27:47.46\00:27:48.80
that's okay.
00:27:48.83\00:27:50.17
But some people
leave, everybody should do
00:27:50.20\00:27:51.53
what they do and how they do it.
00:27:51.57\00:27:54.50
Some people say don't be
so bold, other people say,
00:27:54.54\00:27:56.30
you know, don't be so loud.
00:27:56.34\00:27:57.67
Other people, don't
be so quiet, blah, blah.
00:27:57.71\00:27:59.14
Just do what God has
asked you to do and be faithful.
00:27:59.17\00:28:02.64
I had my order, she says here,
00:28:02.68\00:28:04.65
"I heard the words like
a voice from our captain,
00:28:04.68\00:28:08.15
'Meet it.'"
00:28:08.18\00:28:11.42
I know what my duty,
I know what my duty was.
00:28:11.45\00:28:14.92
There was not a moment to lose.
00:28:14.96\00:28:17.29
That night I was up at
1 o'clock in the morning,
00:28:17.33\00:28:21.26
writing as fast as my
hand could pass over the paper.
00:28:21.30\00:28:26.57
For the next few
nights I worked early and late
00:28:26.60\00:28:30.24
preparing,
preparing for our people
00:28:30.27\00:28:34.08
the instruction
given me, notice this,
00:28:34.11\00:28:37.18
regarding the errors
that were coming in among us.
00:28:37.21\00:28:42.58
So put it in
that, you know in that,
00:28:42.62\00:28:45.22
yeah, light if you will.
00:28:45.25\00:28:46.59
Put it in, you know,
00:28:46.62\00:28:47.96
just look the
error, error was coming in.
00:28:47.99\00:28:51.89
We have to meet
error how? Head on.
00:28:51.93\00:28:55.86
You can't back away
from it. You can't deny it.
00:28:55.90\00:28:58.17
You have to meet
it head on with it,
00:28:58.20\00:28:59.53
thus saith the Lord.
00:28:59.57\00:29:02.07
So God has warned us
00:29:02.10\00:29:03.44
these things will
come in and the results,
00:29:03.47\00:29:05.31
we're seeing
them out in the world
00:29:05.34\00:29:07.11
and we're seeing
them in the church.
00:29:07.14\00:29:10.35
National apostasy is
followed by national ruin.
00:29:10.38\00:29:14.42
Your Bible, turn with me
to Isaiah 26:9-10 which is,
00:29:14.45\00:29:18.45
you know, it was our reading,
scripture reading for today.
00:29:18.49\00:29:21.46
But these are
powerful verses Isaiah 26:9-10.
00:29:21.49\00:29:26.29
The Bible says, man,
00:29:26.33\00:29:28.36
I tell you we
stand on holy ground
00:29:28.40\00:29:30.37
and good ground
and powerful ground
00:29:30.40\00:29:32.77
when we read
from the Word of God.
00:29:32.80\00:29:35.77
God's Word says, well,
00:29:35.80\00:29:38.11
you may not be
excited about today,
00:29:38.14\00:29:39.57
but I'm excited about it.
00:29:39.61\00:29:41.58
This is a time to
be excited about it.
00:29:41.61\00:29:43.04
Why?
00:29:43.08\00:29:44.41
Because we're
coming together to what?
00:29:44.45\00:29:45.78
Charge our spiritual batteries
00:29:45.81\00:29:47.65
that we may go out
and warn the world.
00:29:47.68\00:29:49.88
It's not just the pastor's job,
it's not just the elder's job.
00:29:49.92\00:29:52.95
It's every one of
your jobs. It's my job.
00:29:52.99\00:29:55.29
It's every church
members' job is to warn.
00:29:55.32\00:29:58.03
You may not like confrontation,
but you have to hit it head on.
00:29:58.06\00:30:02.30
We don't like
errors in the church,
00:30:02.33\00:30:03.67
so we have to hit them head on
00:30:03.70\00:30:05.03
and deal with them with
the thus saith the Lord.
00:30:05.07\00:30:08.14
Yeah, we're
going to be accountable
00:30:08.17\00:30:09.97
for all of those
things if we do not.
00:30:10.01\00:30:13.31
So we meet it head on.
00:30:13.34\00:30:14.68
Notice, "When thy
judgments are in the earth..."
00:30:14.71\00:30:17.38
as read in our
scripture texts today.
00:30:17.41\00:30:19.65
When the judgments are what?
00:30:19.68\00:30:21.78
When the
judgments are in the earth.
00:30:21.82\00:30:23.22
Now, can we say
today, so let's identify,
00:30:23.25\00:30:25.25
do we believe that
00:30:25.29\00:30:26.62
the judgments are
in the earth today?
00:30:26.65\00:30:29.02
See, beyond a shadow of a doubt,
00:30:29.06\00:30:30.39
the judgments of God
00:30:30.43\00:30:31.76
are falling on
the earth right now
00:30:31.79\00:30:33.16
in so many different areas,
00:30:33.19\00:30:34.53
in so many
different ways right now.
00:30:34.56\00:30:36.26
Men are running
around like demons
00:30:36.30\00:30:38.23
and not men at all.
00:30:38.27\00:30:40.84
The demons are
taking over the minds
00:30:40.87\00:30:42.77
of those who are not
dedicated to Jesus Christ.
00:30:42.80\00:30:45.81
You either take
the side of Christ
00:30:45.84\00:30:47.64
and keep your sanity,
00:30:47.68\00:30:49.31
or you give your mind over
to the devil and you go insane.
00:30:49.34\00:30:52.58
Is that okay?
That's true as it can be.
00:30:52.61\00:30:56.82
And so that's what
we're dealing with.
00:30:56.85\00:30:58.19
We're not dealing, we say, well,
00:30:58.22\00:30:59.55
surely these
people will act right.
00:30:59.59\00:31:00.92
Surely they'll
do the right thing.
00:31:00.96\00:31:02.46
No, they've got
the mind of the enemy
00:31:02.49\00:31:03.99
rather than the mind of Christ.
00:31:04.03\00:31:05.56
That's why
they're doing this thing.
00:31:05.59\00:31:06.93
It's
unbelievable what's happening,
00:31:06.96\00:31:08.30
what's going on,
00:31:08.33\00:31:09.66
and the changes
that are demanded
00:31:09.70\00:31:11.03
and the changes
that will continue
00:31:11.07\00:31:12.40
to be demanded
00:31:12.43\00:31:13.77
until this
country is torn apart.
00:31:13.80\00:31:17.14
Some of you might say,
enjoy your Fourth of July,
00:31:17.17\00:31:19.57
because you may
never see another one.
00:31:19.61\00:31:22.71
Because there's talk
about changing that too.
00:31:22.74\00:31:24.68
Man, that should
make us stop and think for
00:31:31.45\00:31:33.86
when the
judgments are in the earth.
00:31:33.89\00:31:37.26
The inhabitants of
the earth will learn what?
00:31:37.29\00:31:41.13
Righteousness.
00:31:41.16\00:31:43.26
The judgments in the earth,
00:31:43.30\00:31:44.67
the things that
we're seeing right now,
00:31:44.70\00:31:46.43
surely to peach, to
drive us to our knees.
00:31:46.47\00:31:48.80
Surely should drive us
00:31:48.84\00:31:50.17
to open the Word
of the Living God
00:31:50.21\00:31:51.54
and say what is going on.
00:31:51.57\00:31:53.71
Even if you don't
know, but even if you do know
00:31:53.74\00:31:55.81
God's going to open
more things to your mind,
00:31:55.84\00:31:58.71
it's going to be open.
00:31:58.75\00:32:00.08
Light's going to come.
00:32:00.12\00:32:01.45
You may see it so clear
today. But you know what?
00:32:01.48\00:32:03.59
There's those sitting beside you
00:32:03.62\00:32:04.95
that don't see as clear as that.
00:32:04.99\00:32:07.02
You know, they've not
been reading the Word,
00:32:07.06\00:32:08.89
they've not
been studying, right?
00:32:08.92\00:32:10.39
The whole Spirit
of the Living God
00:32:10.43\00:32:12.06
is not inside of them.
00:32:12.09\00:32:14.20
They may pretend
they may be in church,
00:32:14.23\00:32:15.56
they may be giving,
00:32:15.60\00:32:16.93
they may be
doing all these things,
00:32:16.97\00:32:18.30
but they've never really
00:32:18.33\00:32:19.67
committed fully
their life to Jesus Christ,
00:32:19.70\00:32:21.04
they're still
piddling around with the things
00:32:21.07\00:32:22.60
that have drawn
them away from God,
00:32:22.64\00:32:25.01
which has to be
given up as you well know.
00:32:25.04\00:32:28.88
The things that we see,
00:32:28.91\00:32:30.35
the inhabitants of the
world will learn righteousness
00:32:30.38\00:32:32.98
but notice this.
00:32:33.01\00:32:34.38
You say, well, let's have mercy,
00:32:34.42\00:32:35.75
let's have
mercy on those wicked,
00:32:35.78\00:32:37.12
let's have mercy.
00:32:37.15\00:32:38.49
Yes, we all love
mercy, praise God for mercy.
00:32:38.52\00:32:39.92
I wouldn't be here
00:32:39.95\00:32:41.29
if it wasn't for
the mercy of God.
00:32:41.32\00:32:43.93
But notice what it says.
00:32:43.96\00:32:45.29
It says, "Let favor
be shown to the wicked."
00:32:45.33\00:32:48.20
Now what does that mean?
00:32:48.23\00:32:49.56
What if we stop here that
mercy be shown to the wicked,
00:32:49.60\00:32:52.23
but notice it,
00:32:52.27\00:32:53.60
"Yet will he not
learn righteousness?"
00:32:53.64\00:32:58.97
You show mercy, but
he's not going to learn it
00:32:59.01\00:33:01.51
because he doesn't want it.
00:33:01.54\00:33:03.95
He's already
committed, he's already.
00:33:03.98\00:33:05.95
The conscience
is already severed
00:33:05.98\00:33:07.72
seared with a hot iron.
00:33:07.75\00:33:10.32
There's not that they do things
like there's no conscience.
00:33:10.35\00:33:12.82
There's, you know, what?
00:33:12.85\00:33:14.19
And we're giving him that
like there's no conscience,
00:33:14.22\00:33:16.79
because there's no price to pay.
00:33:16.83\00:33:18.49
They've done all these
things that they've been doing
00:33:18.53\00:33:20.30
and you're in the country,
it's like no price to pay.
00:33:20.33\00:33:22.96
You can throw a
rope around something,
00:33:23.00\00:33:24.33
you can pull it
down if you want to,
00:33:24.37\00:33:25.70
you can, you know,
00:33:25.73\00:33:27.07
graffiti it all you want to do,
you can burn the police cars,
00:33:27.10\00:33:29.40
you get to throw bricks
00:33:29.44\00:33:30.77
and hit the police
if you want to do it.
00:33:30.81\00:33:32.47
You can you can
steal six blocks of city.
00:33:32.51\00:33:35.48
You follow what I'm saying here
00:33:35.51\00:33:36.85
instead of your own little thing
00:33:36.88\00:33:38.21
and we let it go
for weeks and weeks
00:33:38.25\00:33:39.58
rather than crush
it just like that.
00:33:39.61\00:33:43.75
No.
00:33:43.79\00:33:46.29
You can do all those
things, you can protest, right?
00:33:46.32\00:33:48.26
You can go by the
hundreds and the thousands
00:33:48.29\00:33:50.69
and you have close
contact with each other
00:33:50.73\00:33:52.69
and it's okay, but
you can't go to church.
00:33:52.73\00:33:56.13
You can only have 10.
00:33:56.16\00:33:59.00
Well, I'm glad we didn't listen.
00:33:59.03\00:34:03.04
Think about it.
00:34:03.07\00:34:05.41
It's always the devil
00:34:05.44\00:34:07.14
is opening up as
it were the valve
00:34:07.18\00:34:10.58
here to the world
and the wicked but see,
00:34:10.61\00:34:12.95
but then when it
comes to the Christians,
00:34:12.98\00:34:14.65
he's shutting it down.
00:34:14.68\00:34:16.99
He's doing his
best to shut it down.
00:34:17.02\00:34:19.85
That's why I say today,
if there's anybody who's,
00:34:19.89\00:34:22.22
you know, missed church service
because they're so worried
00:34:22.26\00:34:24.16
about going out
00:34:24.19\00:34:25.53
and celebrating the
Fourth, shame on you.
00:34:25.56\00:34:27.76
Is that okay to say?
00:34:27.80\00:34:30.73
See, nobody wants to say that
00:34:30.77\00:34:32.10
because people get angry,
but if you do, you just do.
00:34:32.13\00:34:35.44
If your heart's right
with God, you will not.
00:34:35.47\00:34:37.44
There are many
and I'll guarantee
00:34:37.47\00:34:38.81
in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:34:38.84\00:34:41.08
that are out doing other
things on the Sabbath day
00:34:41.11\00:34:44.35
rather than attending church
00:34:44.38\00:34:45.71
and studying and trying to learn
00:34:45.75\00:34:47.25
what hour that we're in
00:34:47.28\00:34:48.98
to be ready for
the coming of Jesus.
00:34:49.02\00:34:50.69
Something is wrong.
00:34:50.72\00:34:52.15
Error has come in,
00:34:52.19\00:34:55.62
and we've done nothing about it.
00:34:55.66\00:34:57.96
When you said the wicked,
00:34:57.99\00:34:59.33
they're not going
to learn righteousness
00:34:59.36\00:35:00.73
because they've
committed themselves
00:35:00.76\00:35:02.20
and they stand under
the banner of the devil.
00:35:02.23\00:35:04.90
You stand under
one or the other,
00:35:04.93\00:35:06.50
there's no middle
ground, you know that.
00:35:06.53\00:35:09.54
This passage of
Scripture is dealing with,
00:35:09.57\00:35:11.81
this was after the flood.
00:35:11.84\00:35:13.38
Notice, "When
God had released them
00:35:13.41\00:35:16.75
from the judgments,
00:35:16.78\00:35:18.81
but the world again
rebelled against the Lord.
00:35:18.85\00:35:22.68
Twice this took place by
the people before the flood,
00:35:22.72\00:35:26.62
and then the
descendants of Noah.
00:35:26.65\00:35:29.59
They rejected the covenant
that God had made with them
00:35:29.62\00:35:32.83
as His people and His laws."
00:35:32.86\00:35:36.06
Rejection.
00:35:36.10\00:35:38.90
The world has
become, in my opinion,
00:35:38.93\00:35:41.67
just like it was when
Pharaoh was confronted by Moses.
00:35:41.70\00:35:46.21
Man, what a confrontation
that must have been.
00:35:46.24\00:35:48.91
Man to have been there
to be able to witness that,
00:35:48.94\00:35:51.51
a confrontation.
00:35:51.55\00:35:53.21
Here comes, you
know, we look at the Moses,
00:35:53.25\00:35:56.05
and he goes before
Pharaoh, a great king,
00:35:56.08\00:35:59.55
life and death as
it were in his hands.
00:35:59.59\00:36:02.12
But yet he trembled.
00:36:02.16\00:36:03.49
I believe he trembled
when Moses walked in there,
00:36:03.53\00:36:05.79
don't you?
00:36:05.83\00:36:07.16
He knew there was something.
00:36:07.20\00:36:08.53
He knew about the God of heaven.
00:36:08.56\00:36:10.10
Now keep this in mind. He knew.
00:36:10.13\00:36:12.33
He was not dumb in any form
00:36:12.37\00:36:14.04
or fashion to the God of heaven,
00:36:14.07\00:36:16.57
but yet there was a
stubbornness about him
00:36:16.60\00:36:18.67
like there is in
people in the church
00:36:18.71\00:36:20.11
and people in the world.
00:36:20.14\00:36:21.71
There is a stubbornness,
00:36:21.74\00:36:23.24
there's a hard
headedness going on,
00:36:23.28\00:36:26.55
because when
Moses came before him,
00:36:26.58\00:36:28.22
he didn't say, "I
have a message for you.
00:36:28.25\00:36:31.79
I'm not coming
for you today and say,
00:36:31.82\00:36:33.42
I have a message for you.
00:36:33.46\00:36:34.86
I say, God has a
message for you."
00:36:34.89\00:36:37.43
God has a message
00:36:37.46\00:36:38.79
for every one of
His children today.
00:36:38.83\00:36:40.36
Every person on this
planet, God has a message,
00:36:40.40\00:36:43.03
there is no doubt about it.
00:36:43.06\00:36:45.63
And so he
approached the Pharaoh, man,
00:36:45.67\00:36:48.50
what boldness is that,
00:36:48.54\00:36:50.24
he didn't want to
do it as you well know.
00:36:50.27\00:36:51.91
He didn't want to lead
00:36:51.94\00:36:53.27
the children of Israel
out of Egypt either, did he?
00:36:53.31\00:36:55.14
But he did what?
00:36:55.18\00:36:56.51
After he had a
communion with God,
00:36:56.54\00:36:58.55
he just said, listen,
00:36:58.58\00:36:59.91
we need to have a
communion with God.
00:36:59.95\00:37:01.28
When you sit down to
have a communion with God,
00:37:01.32\00:37:03.22
then God let you know
what He wants you to do.
00:37:03.25\00:37:04.99
We need to get
up and just do it.
00:37:05.02\00:37:06.55
Well, the world
laughs at you or not,
00:37:06.59\00:37:08.36
whether they
care about you or not,
00:37:08.39\00:37:10.03
you do what God asked you to do.
00:37:10.06\00:37:11.73
I want to encourage you
00:37:11.76\00:37:13.09
with that
today, if nothing else.
00:37:13.13\00:37:15.43
Do what God has asked you to do.
00:37:15.46\00:37:17.80
And most certainly
00:37:17.83\00:37:19.17
it must harmonize
certainly with the Scripture.
00:37:19.20\00:37:22.97
But when you know when
Moses came in, he said,
00:37:23.00\00:37:26.68
"I have a message
from more or less Jehovah,
00:37:26.71\00:37:29.18
God of Israel" Man,
what, what language?
00:37:29.21\00:37:33.78
I have a message,
right, from Jehovah,
00:37:33.82\00:37:36.99
the God of Israel.
00:37:37.02\00:37:38.75
And I say, just like today,
00:37:38.79\00:37:41.26
when God sends
His messages to us,
00:37:41.29\00:37:44.76
it is not in ignorance
of the true God of heaven
00:37:44.79\00:37:48.33
that causes people to reject it.
00:37:48.36\00:37:50.53
It's simply a hatred
and a defiance of God
00:37:50.57\00:37:54.14
and rules and
laws and obedience.
00:37:54.17\00:37:56.20
That's what it's all about.
00:37:56.24\00:37:58.54
So we might say
like Pharaoh today,
00:37:58.57\00:38:01.58
we might too when he said,
I've got a message from God.
00:38:01.61\00:38:04.58
Oh, Pharaoh stood right up
and what did he say right here?
00:38:04.61\00:38:07.92
"Who is? Who is Jehovah?"
00:38:07.95\00:38:11.92
That means the Lord, right?
00:38:11.95\00:38:13.29
"Who is the Lord that
I should obey His voice?"
00:38:13.32\00:38:15.96
The world is saying
that over and over and over,
00:38:15.99\00:38:18.49
we say it in the
church pews today,
00:38:18.53\00:38:19.93
when we're asked to do
00:38:19.96\00:38:21.30
what the Bible
already says to do.
00:38:21.33\00:38:23.53
God has laid
everything on and we'll say,
00:38:23.57\00:38:25.17
"Well, this is what
God wants us to do."
00:38:25.20\00:38:26.60
Who's Jehovah?
00:38:26.63\00:38:28.44
Who is the Lord that
I should do what He says
00:38:28.47\00:38:31.47
or I should obey His voice.
00:38:31.51\00:38:33.27
And then he even got
bolder, Exodus, Exodus 5:2,
00:38:33.31\00:38:36.85
he says, "I know not Jehovah.
00:38:36.88\00:38:39.01
I know not the Lord."
00:38:39.05\00:38:40.38
Let me tell you,
00:38:40.42\00:38:41.75
whether people
say it or not today,
00:38:41.78\00:38:43.12
you can tell it in their
life, they know not Jehovah.
00:38:43.15\00:38:45.45
They know not
Jehovah by their actions,
00:38:45.49\00:38:47.19
by their words, by their deeds,
00:38:47.22\00:38:48.56
the way they treat one another.
00:38:48.59\00:38:49.92
Man, what a wonderful...
00:38:49.96\00:38:51.29
Oh, I want to
say delicious world
00:38:51.33\00:38:52.83
this would be if we
all love God supremely
00:38:52.86\00:38:55.30
and our fellowman as ourself.
00:38:55.33\00:38:57.60
But we don't.
00:38:57.63\00:38:58.97
We don't love God,
00:38:59.00\00:39:00.34
and we don't love our fellowman.
00:39:00.37\00:39:01.70
That's why we're
going through this mess.
00:39:01.74\00:39:03.07
We backed away from
a thus saith the Lord.
00:39:03.10\00:39:04.97
Who is the Lord
that I should obey Him.
00:39:05.01\00:39:09.41
Pharaoh knew who the Lord was.
00:39:09.44\00:39:12.81
He knew Him well.
00:39:12.85\00:39:15.18
But he was, had hatred
00:39:15.22\00:39:17.12
and defiance of
the God of heaven.
00:39:17.15\00:39:21.66
When God brought these
judgments against Egypt,
00:39:21.69\00:39:27.50
and He did it in the
plagues, you remember?
00:39:27.53\00:39:29.73
He gave time, listen,
for each one of them to work.
00:39:29.76\00:39:33.03
Ain't God wonderful?
00:39:33.07\00:39:35.00
When He brought these
plagues, can I say judgments?
00:39:35.04\00:39:37.97
When He brought these judgments
00:39:38.01\00:39:40.38
before Egypt
because God loved Egypt.
00:39:40.41\00:39:43.24
He loved Pharaoh, and
He wanted to reach them.
00:39:43.28\00:39:47.92
But when He brought each
one of these little plagues,
00:39:47.95\00:39:50.82
these judgments, He gave time
00:39:50.85\00:39:53.32
and evidence for
them to do His work,
00:39:53.36\00:39:56.06
that simply that
00:39:56.09\00:39:57.43
they might submit to God and do.
00:39:57.46\00:40:00.40
Well, listen,
when they submitted,
00:40:00.43\00:40:02.36
they would escape the
judgments that were coming.
00:40:02.40\00:40:05.57
If you want to
escape the judgments
00:40:05.60\00:40:07.34
that are still yet to
come and they will be, oh more
00:40:07.37\00:40:09.77
or so more severe
than they are right now.
00:40:09.80\00:40:12.51
We must submit to God Almighty.
00:40:12.54\00:40:15.61
We must submit to His will
00:40:15.64\00:40:16.98
and His way and
to the laws of God
00:40:17.01\00:40:19.91
which man has thrown out
00:40:19.95\00:40:22.08
and they put in their
place the laws of men,
00:40:22.12\00:40:24.52
insane men.
00:40:24.55\00:40:25.89
God gave them time
but like now rebellion.
00:40:29.32\00:40:35.03
We rebel, and I guess I
hear a lot of about the,
00:40:35.06\00:40:37.10
we talk about the rule of law.
00:40:37.13\00:40:40.00
We all need to be
under the rule of law
00:40:40.04\00:40:41.54
and yet what do we do?
00:40:41.57\00:40:43.20
We throw God's law
out, we throw man's law out,
00:40:43.24\00:40:45.64
we throw every kind
of law, everything out.
00:40:45.67\00:40:47.54
But you know what?
00:40:52.71\00:40:54.58
What I sense right now
is what the devil's plan...
00:40:54.62\00:40:57.59
that he has for this
country, it's backfiring.
00:41:00.86\00:41:04.73
I want to say
some positive about,
00:41:04.76\00:41:06.09
it's backfiring to
this sense because of what?
00:41:06.13\00:41:08.43
And through all of this,
00:41:08.46\00:41:10.67
it has so entered
into the heart of men,
00:41:10.70\00:41:13.97
women and children that
they don't understand it
00:41:14.00\00:41:16.71
and they say,
00:41:16.74\00:41:18.07
I need a better
knowledge of God.
00:41:18.11\00:41:20.28
I want to know what's
going on in the world.
00:41:20.31\00:41:22.21
Man, women to be
there for these people,
00:41:22.24\00:41:25.25
be there for your neighbors.
00:41:25.28\00:41:26.82
Have a word in due
season that will encourage them
00:41:26.85\00:41:28.98
and strengthen them to
do what needs to be done.
00:41:29.02\00:41:32.32
And yet what are we doing?
00:41:32.35\00:41:33.69
Remember that's
a knowledge of God
00:41:33.72\00:41:35.36
is spreading as
people are looking
00:41:35.39\00:41:37.33
for answers right now.
00:41:37.36\00:41:40.56
See, God always
takes a bad situation,
00:41:40.60\00:41:42.16
He always just what?
00:41:42.20\00:41:43.53
There's something
good always that God does,
00:41:43.57\00:41:46.07
and again, he's
trying to get it out.
00:41:46.10\00:41:48.17
And so while Pharaoh
00:41:48.20\00:41:49.54
and all the other
people in the world,
00:41:49.57\00:41:50.91
people in the world today
are acting up and acting ugly.
00:41:50.94\00:41:53.71
God is spreading some good
news and people are saying,
00:41:53.74\00:41:55.78
"What in the world's going on.
00:41:55.81\00:41:58.08
What is going on in
this world, we want to know."
00:41:58.11\00:42:03.79
Because they know
what they see going on.
00:42:03.82\00:42:06.45
And what's being
done in this world
00:42:06.49\00:42:07.96
they don't want it.
00:42:07.99\00:42:09.79
Are you sensing that?
00:42:09.82\00:42:11.16
They don't want,
they're tired of it.
00:42:11.19\00:42:14.56
You have the mind of Christ.
00:42:14.60\00:42:15.93
I'm telling you can see
through all of this thing
00:42:15.96\00:42:17.37
what the enemy is trying to do.
00:42:17.40\00:42:19.57
So what is this
national apostasy
00:42:19.60\00:42:22.57
that causes national ruin?
00:42:22.60\00:42:26.11
I'm going to read article
from Review and Herald, 1218.
00:42:26.14\00:42:29.24
This is written in 1888.
00:42:29.28\00:42:32.35
Listen carefully.
00:42:32.38\00:42:34.08
"A time is
coming." A time is what?
00:42:34.12\00:42:37.85
"A time is coming
when the law of God,"
00:42:37.89\00:42:39.52
notice this,
00:42:39.55\00:42:40.89
"in a special sense
is to be made," what?
00:42:40.92\00:42:43.86
"Void in our land."
00:42:43.89\00:42:45.69
How many times have Adventists
said this over the years?
00:42:45.73\00:42:48.96
How many years
I've been in a church
00:42:49.00\00:42:50.33
and I've heard it
over and over and over.
00:42:50.37\00:42:51.93
But I'm telling you right now,
00:42:51.97\00:42:53.30
it seems to make more sense now
than it did five minutes ago.
00:42:53.34\00:42:55.70
Hope you catch that.
00:42:59.57\00:43:01.94
It seems to make
more sense right now.
00:43:01.98\00:43:03.91
Time is coming when
the law of God is what?
00:43:03.95\00:43:06.72
In a special senses to
make, made void in our land.
00:43:06.75\00:43:10.49
Keep that under your hat.
00:43:10.52\00:43:12.09
Keep it in your mind.
00:43:12.12\00:43:13.46
Keep it in your
heart when you see exactly
00:43:13.49\00:43:15.39
what the enemy is
attacking right now.
00:43:15.42\00:43:17.23
Exactly what's going
on in the world today
00:43:17.26\00:43:19.69
that man, right,
is working, working,
00:43:19.73\00:43:21.33
the devil is working to make
00:43:21.36\00:43:22.70
void the law of God in the land.
00:43:22.73\00:43:26.30
So don't be shocked about it.
00:43:26.33\00:43:28.20
Don't try to come
up with all kinds of.
00:43:28.24\00:43:30.14
I had a friend
one time say, I said,
00:43:30.17\00:43:31.84
"What are you going to do
00:43:31.87\00:43:33.21
when the Sunday laws come into
existence if you are alive?"
00:43:33.24\00:43:36.91
Well, I've already
thought about that.
00:43:36.95\00:43:38.31
See people got
smart. See, they already.
00:43:38.35\00:43:42.18
I said, "How smart are
you?" Said, "I'm pretty smart.
00:43:42.22\00:43:44.32
I've already thought about
00:43:44.35\00:43:45.69
because a lot of crazy
things are going to happen
00:43:45.72\00:43:47.19
before Jesus comes."
00:43:47.22\00:43:49.59
He's referring
to the Sunday law.
00:43:49.62\00:43:50.96
Are you still with me?
00:43:50.99\00:43:52.99
So he'd already thought
00:43:53.03\00:43:54.36
it through just
in case this happens.
00:43:54.40\00:43:58.03
I don't have to say
that they were right
00:43:58.07\00:43:59.63
and probably
Bible prophecy is right.
00:43:59.67\00:44:02.90
I'll just say a
lot of crazy things
00:44:02.94\00:44:04.97
are happening in the world.
00:44:05.01\00:44:09.14
Scripture says
this in Psalms 119:126.
00:44:09.18\00:44:12.75
Listen carefully. Psalms what?
00:44:12.78\00:44:14.32
119:126. Come on, church.
00:44:14.35\00:44:15.98
This is a time that
00:44:16.02\00:44:17.35
we need to rise to the occasion.
00:44:17.39\00:44:18.75
This is a time, right,
00:44:18.79\00:44:20.12
we need to fluff it right on up
00:44:20.16\00:44:21.86
because this is
our message for today.
00:44:21.89\00:44:24.19
Remember,
national apostasy is what?
00:44:24.23\00:44:27.36
That causes national ruin.
00:44:27.40\00:44:29.03
It's when the
Sunday law is passed.
00:44:29.06\00:44:31.07
Did you get it?
00:44:31.10\00:44:32.93
And when that is passed,
00:44:32.97\00:44:34.30
that's going to be
the end of this world.
00:44:34.34\00:44:37.21
This is going to be the
end, but things will transpire
00:44:37.24\00:44:39.37
before it takes
place we understand.
00:44:39.41\00:44:41.24
But Psalms 119:126 says,
00:44:41.28\00:44:44.41
"It is time for thee
Lord, to work," for what?
00:44:44.45\00:44:47.72
"For they have
made void thy law."
00:44:47.75\00:44:51.15
How did He know
it way back then?
00:44:51.19\00:44:53.19
He said, "It's time
for you to work, Lord."
00:44:53.22\00:44:54.56
What?
00:44:54.59\00:44:55.92
God said, "I'm going
to work when man rises up
00:44:55.96\00:44:57.63
and they pass this law here
00:44:57.66\00:44:59.09
and it begins
to affect My people
00:44:59.13\00:45:00.66
for standing for what is truth,
I will rise off the throne,
00:45:00.70\00:45:03.37
I will begin to
work in their behalf.
00:45:03.40\00:45:05.50
And you can be assured God will,
00:45:05.53\00:45:06.87
but I'm telling
you, we're going to be
00:45:06.90\00:45:08.24
going through some things
00:45:08.27\00:45:09.60
that's going to
test your experience.
00:45:09.64\00:45:12.01
It's time for you
to work, notice this,
00:45:12.04\00:45:13.38
listen to the word,
00:45:13.41\00:45:14.74
"For they, they
have made," what?
00:45:14.78\00:45:18.35
"Void thy law."
00:45:18.38\00:45:21.02
Now, I have to
ask a question is,
00:45:21.05\00:45:23.75
who are they?
00:45:23.79\00:45:25.79
You ever heard
somebody say, "Well, they said."
00:45:25.82\00:45:28.62
Have you heard that?
00:45:28.66\00:45:30.03
Well, they said this about you,
I say real quick, who are they?
00:45:30.06\00:45:34.40
Don't you? Who are they?
00:45:34.43\00:45:37.37
Well, I can't tell
because they said not to say.
00:45:37.40\00:45:40.44
Fool you with it. Come on.
00:45:40.47\00:45:42.90
Nobody tell anything
that you won't stand behind.
00:45:42.94\00:45:45.64
Isn't that right?
00:45:45.67\00:45:47.01
But tell you something
you can go tell somebody else
00:45:47.04\00:45:48.48
that's what he
said, I'll stand with it.
00:45:48.51\00:45:51.15
Don't tell somebody
something dirty, dark
00:45:51.18\00:45:53.08
and you don't
know anything about it
00:45:53.11\00:45:54.45
and then try to say,
don't mention I said it.
00:45:54.48\00:45:59.39
Come on now. Who are they?
00:45:59.42\00:46:02.76
Let me put it in a
nutshell real quick,
00:46:02.79\00:46:04.26
we realize when the
Protestant churches...
00:46:04.29\00:46:07.50
What kind of
church do you go to?
00:46:07.53\00:46:09.56
We talk about Catholic church,
00:46:09.60\00:46:10.93
we talk about a
Protestant church, do we not?
00:46:10.97\00:46:13.03
Which one are you under?
00:46:13.07\00:46:15.60
You under the Catholic
Church, you under Catholicism,
00:46:15.64\00:46:17.74
you under Protestantism?
00:46:17.77\00:46:20.31
We call ourselves
Protestants, do we not?
00:46:20.34\00:46:22.61
Yeah, Protestant does what?
00:46:22.64\00:46:24.98
Yeah, and in the right way
you protest, isn't that right?
00:46:25.01\00:46:27.58
What do we
protest? We protest what?
00:46:27.62\00:46:30.12
The lies of
Catholicism, do we not?
00:46:30.15\00:46:32.02
The things that's going on
in the world today we protest.
00:46:32.05\00:46:34.76
We protest by doing what?
00:46:34.79\00:46:36.29
One man told one time
said, well, you don't,
00:46:36.32\00:46:37.83
you don't protest enough.
00:46:37.86\00:46:39.73
My, my, my, my, my, I
said every time, listen,
00:46:39.76\00:46:42.66
every time you
present the truth,
00:46:42.70\00:46:45.20
you are protesting error.
00:46:45.23\00:46:47.87
Did you get it?
00:46:47.90\00:46:49.24
Every time you present
truth, you are protesting error.
00:46:49.27\00:46:53.21
And by God's grace
we are presenting truth.
00:46:53.24\00:46:55.94
We are protesting error,
00:46:55.98\00:46:58.65
and the foundation of the error
00:46:58.68\00:47:00.35
and explaining
where it all came from,
00:47:00.38\00:47:02.68
and how God says
to depart from that.
00:47:02.72\00:47:05.79
So when the
Protestant churches, right?
00:47:05.82\00:47:08.26
Unite together with the state,
00:47:08.29\00:47:10.23
church and state coming together
00:47:10.26\00:47:12.09
to make
mandatory a false religion.
00:47:12.13\00:47:15.70
Did we get that?
00:47:15.73\00:47:17.07
This is they. Who are they?
00:47:17.10\00:47:20.40
It's time for, right,
00:47:20.44\00:47:21.77
for you to work
for they have what?
00:47:21.80\00:47:24.14
They have made void thy law.
00:47:24.17\00:47:26.54
They are the Protestant churches
00:47:26.57\00:47:28.18
uniting together with the state,
00:47:28.21\00:47:29.54
certainly the papacy
00:47:29.58\00:47:32.88
to make
mandatory a false religion.
00:47:32.91\00:47:35.75
Let me read it little clear here
00:47:35.78\00:47:37.12
from the article
called Signs of the Times 322
00:47:37.15\00:47:41.62
and 1910, notice the verse.
00:47:41.66\00:47:44.53
Now listen, it
doesn't matter to me
00:47:44.56\00:47:46.80
how where this comes
from or how old it is.
00:47:46.83\00:47:49.70
Truth never what? Thank you.
00:47:49.73\00:47:53.00
Somebody from the gallery
said truth never changes.
00:47:53.03\00:47:58.07
See, this should
make you excited.
00:47:58.11\00:47:59.87
You say, "I know what truth is."
00:47:59.91\00:48:01.24
And somebody
challenges you with and say,
00:48:01.28\00:48:02.74
"Yeah, but now it's different."
00:48:02.78\00:48:04.11
No, truth never
what? Truth never changes.
00:48:04.15\00:48:07.68
The devil
changes, the world changes,
00:48:07.72\00:48:09.38
our attitude changes sometime,
but God does not change.
00:48:09.42\00:48:13.15
Anything that's
went out of his mouth,
00:48:13.19\00:48:14.52
he cannot change.
He's going to alter why?
00:48:14.56\00:48:16.36
Because it is truth.
00:48:16.39\00:48:19.06
Signs of the Times 3-22-1910.
00:48:19.09\00:48:23.33
This is saying just
what I just mentioned to you.
00:48:23.37\00:48:25.57
"When the state shall use
00:48:25.60\00:48:26.94
its power to enforce the decrees
00:48:26.97\00:48:30.01
and sustain the
institutions of the church."
00:48:30.04\00:48:33.61
Are those things taking place?
00:48:33.64\00:48:35.84
Are they taking place right now?
00:48:35.88\00:48:37.21
Huh? Yeah.
00:48:37.25\00:48:39.21
To enforce the decree they have,
00:48:39.25\00:48:40.68
now notice this, and
sustain the institution.
00:48:40.72\00:48:43.22
Realize how
much government money
00:48:43.25\00:48:44.65
is given to
sustain our institutions?
00:48:44.69\00:48:48.86
Oh, my. Yes.
00:48:48.89\00:48:54.00
They're already doing that.
00:48:54.03\00:48:55.93
Then, notice, "Then
will Protestant America
00:48:55.96\00:48:59.73
have formed an
image to the papacy.
00:48:59.77\00:49:03.20
There will be
national apostasy," what?
00:49:03.24\00:49:06.17
"Again which will
end in national ruin."
00:49:06.21\00:49:11.68
Do you see what's happening
what's taking place right now?
00:49:11.71\00:49:13.82
This is already here.
00:49:13.85\00:49:15.18
It's just a matter
of maybe a John Henry
00:49:15.22\00:49:16.95
as it were a signature.
00:49:16.99\00:49:22.32
Now let's go back to
we kind of skipped over
00:49:22.36\00:49:24.13
just a moment ago,
00:49:24.16\00:49:25.49
Review and Herald, 12-18-1888.
00:49:25.53\00:49:28.36
We just touched on it.
00:49:28.40\00:49:29.76
But I want to
get a little deeper
00:49:29.80\00:49:31.13
if you allow me to do it
00:49:31.17\00:49:32.50
in some of the
time we have left,
00:49:32.53\00:49:33.87
not very many minutes.
00:49:33.90\00:49:37.74
"A time is coming
00:49:37.77\00:49:39.14
when the law of
God in a special sense,
00:49:39.17\00:49:41.04
to be made void," where?
00:49:41.08\00:49:42.91
"In our land.
"Notice this, goes on now.
00:49:42.94\00:49:45.91
"The rulers of our nation
will, by legislative enactments,
00:49:45.95\00:49:50.35
enforce Sunday law,
and thus God's people,"
00:49:50.39\00:49:53.15
notice this, "God's people
00:49:53.19\00:49:54.62
will be brought
into great peril."
00:49:54.66\00:49:56.79
See, I'm concerned about this.
00:49:56.83\00:49:58.66
You should be concerned about it
00:49:58.69\00:50:00.03
if you love
somebody beside yourself.
00:50:00.06\00:50:03.47
Is that right to do?
00:50:03.50\00:50:06.40
See, a lot of time,
00:50:06.43\00:50:07.77
we don't have to
worry about all that
00:50:07.80\00:50:09.14
because all we
do is love ourselves
00:50:09.17\00:50:10.51
and all we cared
about is ourselves.
00:50:10.54\00:50:11.87
But when I read this right here,
00:50:11.91\00:50:13.24
I became concerned,
00:50:13.27\00:50:14.61
because when this is
passed legislative action,
00:50:14.64\00:50:17.51
God's people will
be in great peril.
00:50:17.55\00:50:23.32
"When our nation, in
the legislative councils,
00:50:23.35\00:50:26.35
shall enact laws to
bind the conscience of men
00:50:26.39\00:50:30.19
in regard to their
religious privileges,
00:50:30.23\00:50:33.29
that means
enforcing Sunday observance,
00:50:33.33\00:50:37.17
and bringing
oppressive power to bear
00:50:37.20\00:50:39.83
against those who keep
the seventh day Sabbath."
00:50:39.87\00:50:42.27
What kind of power?
00:50:42.30\00:50:43.74
Oppressive power, the
Bible is clear, right?
00:50:43.77\00:50:47.18
Oppressive power has always been
00:50:47.21\00:50:48.64
against those who
wanted to follow Jesus
00:50:48.68\00:50:50.88
with all of their heart.
00:50:50.91\00:50:52.25
The identifying marks
00:50:52.28\00:50:53.62
that keep the
commandments of God
00:50:53.65\00:50:54.98
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
00:50:55.02\00:50:56.65
The devil is
angry with that church.
00:50:56.69\00:50:58.59
He wants oppressive
power to bear against
00:50:58.62\00:51:00.62
those who keep the
seventh day Sabbath.
00:51:00.66\00:51:02.56
The law of God, to every intense
00:51:02.59\00:51:05.49
and purpose be
made void in our land.
00:51:05.53\00:51:08.93
And the same thing goes
again, even in this article,
00:51:08.96\00:51:11.23
it says national apostasy
will follow national ruin.
00:51:11.27\00:51:15.70
We are so close.
Only God can hold it back.
00:51:15.74\00:51:19.07
Only God knows the time,
as I said, it could be days,
00:51:19.11\00:51:21.08
it could be
weeks, it could be...
00:51:21.11\00:51:22.44
Only God knows.
00:51:22.48\00:51:24.61
But when it comes to this point,
00:51:24.65\00:51:26.72
and you'll notice it
because of the climate change,
00:51:26.75\00:51:29.25
you'll know it because of
the economy that's going on,
00:51:29.28\00:51:31.62
you'll notice it
because the unemployment
00:51:31.65\00:51:33.36
that people with no work
about 40 some million people.
00:51:33.39\00:51:36.02
What a mess that we are in.
00:51:36.06\00:51:37.86
We are printing money now
with nothing to back it up.
00:51:37.89\00:51:40.60
Keep the printing
presses going all the time,
00:51:40.63\00:51:42.26
because everybody
just keep hopefully
00:51:42.30\00:51:43.87
something's going to happen.
00:51:43.90\00:51:45.23
You know, and I know that
00:51:45.27\00:51:46.60
the leadership of this
country know it much better than
00:51:46.63\00:51:49.00
we know what a
mess that we are in.
00:51:49.04\00:51:51.24
And only God can
bring us out of it.
00:51:51.27\00:51:53.01
If God sees not,
then we're going to see
00:51:53.04\00:51:54.64
these things
happen rather quickly.
00:51:54.68\00:51:56.34
And what will be your response?
00:51:56.38\00:51:58.05
What will be my response?
00:51:58.08\00:51:59.48
Because there's going to be
00:51:59.51\00:52:00.92
some oppressive
power going against them.
00:52:00.95\00:52:02.95
There's going to be great peril,
00:52:02.98\00:52:04.85
you're going to be placed in it.
00:52:04.89\00:52:06.22
What are you going to
do? What am I going to do?
00:52:06.25\00:52:10.53
You trust God enough?
00:52:10.56\00:52:11.89
We have to believe that
00:52:16.30\00:52:17.63
there are events
taking place in the world
00:52:17.67\00:52:20.90
that Bible
prophecy has predicted,
00:52:20.94\00:52:23.91
it will take place,
00:52:23.94\00:52:25.27
so that we can know,
so that we can be warned,
00:52:25.31\00:52:27.78
so that we can
warn other people.
00:52:27.81\00:52:30.18
I'm going to
read once again here
00:52:30.21\00:52:31.55
about three
minutes and something left.
00:52:31.58\00:52:32.91
Come on, hang with me.
That went very fast for me.
00:52:32.95\00:52:35.58
I'm sorry if it
went slow for you.
00:52:35.62\00:52:39.19
This time went
rather quickly for me.
00:52:39.22\00:52:43.43
You see others are
busy, oh, I'm glad, I mean,
00:52:43.46\00:52:44.99
I'm glad when it's
over. Well, you know what?
00:52:45.03\00:52:47.06
We need to get down our
knees and ask God to help us.
00:52:47.10\00:52:50.60
Isn't that right?
Yeah, this is solemn times.
00:52:50.63\00:52:56.27
Review and Herald,
4-23-1889, notice this.
00:52:56.30\00:53:00.11
Notice, "Events will be brought
about in the earth's history
00:53:00.14\00:53:05.38
that will
fulfill the predictions
00:53:05.41\00:53:07.92
of prophecy of these last days."
00:53:07.95\00:53:11.39
Do we see those
things happening right now?
00:53:11.42\00:53:14.12
Revelation 13.
00:53:14.16\00:53:16.56
Protestantism
coming up, as we mentioned,
00:53:16.59\00:53:18.83
like a lamb and
then begins to speak
00:53:18.86\00:53:20.80
as the dragon, the papacy.
00:53:20.83\00:53:23.03
United States speaking
00:53:23.06\00:53:24.40
as the dragon
against those who love Jesus.
00:53:24.43\00:53:28.67
Taking away freedom of religion
00:53:28.70\00:53:31.51
and your conscience
and freedom of press.
00:53:31.54\00:53:34.11
These are all gone.
I say it over and over.
00:53:34.14\00:53:36.14
And I'll continue to say it,
00:53:36.18\00:53:37.51
we do not have
that right anymore.
00:53:37.55\00:53:39.41
And again, that's why
I read some of the things
00:53:39.45\00:53:40.98
that I did to say,
you don't have that right.
00:53:41.02\00:53:44.12
You think, yeah, you
think you do, you do not.
00:53:44.15\00:53:46.96
They've
circumvented around every one
00:53:46.99\00:53:49.19
of our Bill of
Rights in our Constitution.
00:53:49.22\00:53:50.79
Again, over and over
00:53:50.83\00:53:52.16
we have none of
those things anymore.
00:53:52.19\00:53:53.86
But yet they try to use it
when it's convenient for them.
00:53:53.90\00:53:57.33
And when it's not, they
work their way around that
00:53:57.37\00:53:59.23
we have not, we
cannot, you cannot...
00:53:59.27\00:54:01.37
Some of the things
we're talking about right now
00:54:01.40\00:54:03.34
before too long
it's going to be what?
00:54:03.37\00:54:04.94
You can't do it.
00:54:04.97\00:54:07.48
It is in other countries,
Sweden, Canada and so on,
00:54:07.51\00:54:09.34
they call it hate crime.
00:54:09.38\00:54:10.78
You can't talk about the papacy,
00:54:10.81\00:54:12.15
you can't talk about
the mark of the beast.
00:54:12.18\00:54:13.62
You can't talk about
the image to the beast
00:54:13.65\00:54:15.28
without using and going through
Bible prophecy of the papacy.
00:54:15.32\00:54:18.05
You can't do it
00:54:18.09\00:54:19.42
because it's going
to be a hate crime.
00:54:19.45\00:54:20.79
You will be arrested
for talking about things
00:54:20.82\00:54:22.69
that God has put in His Word,
00:54:22.72\00:54:24.06
but you won't be
arrested for tearing down,
00:54:24.09\00:54:25.56
right, statues,
you won't be arrested
00:54:25.59\00:54:27.40
for defacing and
killing and raping all people,
00:54:27.43\00:54:29.90
the thing that's
going on in the world today.
00:54:29.93\00:54:31.83
You would be nicely
politely asked to leave.
00:54:31.87\00:54:35.97
Something's not right.
00:54:36.00\00:54:37.91
And I know the devil
seems to be in charge of this,
00:54:37.94\00:54:41.34
but God has another plan.
00:54:41.38\00:54:45.11
Again, I'm going to say it.
00:54:45.15\00:54:46.48
Again, I've said it over
and over in many of the message
00:54:46.51\00:54:48.68
and I'll do it here
before we close the minute
00:54:48.72\00:54:50.39
and something left.
00:54:50.42\00:54:51.75
Remember, the image
00:54:51.79\00:54:53.62
to the beast will be what?
00:54:53.66\00:54:59.59
It's going to be in
operation before Jesus comes.
00:54:59.63\00:55:05.43
It's going to be formed
before probation closes.
00:55:05.47\00:55:11.24
And then that is going to
be the great test for the world
00:55:11.27\00:55:14.74
and for the
people in this church.
00:55:14.78\00:55:17.18
They're not
honoring the Sabbath,
00:55:17.21\00:55:18.55
you're not going
to want to honor it
00:55:18.58\00:55:19.91
when there's going to
be some penalties to pay.
00:55:19.95\00:55:21.98
Right now we need to
learn to honor the way
00:55:22.02\00:55:23.35
God said to honor not
doing thine own pleasure
00:55:23.39\00:55:25.95
on my holy day.
00:55:25.99\00:55:29.46
But it's going to be an
issue just before Jesus comes.
00:55:29.49\00:55:32.13
That's why we're
seeing not only the papacy,
00:55:32.16\00:55:34.10
but Protestants.
00:55:34.13\00:55:35.53
And because,
again, climate change
00:55:35.56\00:55:36.90
and the economy and
everything that's going on
00:55:36.93\00:55:38.33
that people are talking,
00:55:38.37\00:55:39.70
we need one day greenhouse
gases, all this stuff.
00:55:39.73\00:55:42.34
Yeah. The Sabbath question.
00:55:42.37\00:55:44.81
It's either
going to be God's day
00:55:44.84\00:55:47.01
or the papacy's day.
00:55:47.04\00:55:48.64
You're going to have to decide.
00:55:48.68\00:55:50.01
We have a lot
more stuff to carry,
00:55:50.05\00:55:51.38
to go on here and to read,
00:55:51.41\00:55:53.21
but we're not going
to do that right now
00:55:53.25\00:55:54.58
because we're
running out of time.
00:55:54.62\00:55:55.95
But I do want to have
a quick prayer with you
00:55:55.98\00:55:57.32
and those of
you who are watching
00:55:57.35\00:55:58.69
and those listening,
00:55:58.72\00:56:00.06
I'm going to kneel
right here and have prayer.
00:56:00.09\00:56:01.42
Shall we pray together?
00:56:01.46\00:56:02.96
Merciful Father
in heaven, again,
00:56:02.99\00:56:04.33
thank You for
Your precious Word.
00:56:04.36\00:56:05.69
Thank You for Your love.
Thank You for the Holy Spirit
00:56:05.73\00:56:07.16
impressing minds
and hearts right now
00:56:07.20\00:56:08.56
what we need to be doing
00:56:08.60\00:56:09.93
to get ready for
Your soon coming, Lord,
00:56:09.96\00:56:11.67
help us not just to
hear but help us to do
00:56:11.70\00:56:13.64
something about
it with Your help.
00:56:13.67\00:56:15.10
We thank You in
Jesus' name, amen.
00:56:15.14\00:56:19.34
Hello and welcome back.
00:56:19.37\00:56:20.98
These are sobering times.
00:56:21.01\00:56:22.84
And as a people of
God, we must wake up.
00:56:22.88\00:56:25.58
We must prepare
by filling our hearts
00:56:25.61\00:56:27.82
and our minds with
the truth of God's Word
00:56:27.85\00:56:30.12
in order to not
fall into the deceptions
00:56:30.15\00:56:32.49
that are closing
in all around us.
00:56:32.52\00:56:35.26
The message you just
listened to was entitled
00:56:35.29\00:56:37.63
"National Apostasy Followed
by National Ruin," part one.
00:56:37.66\00:56:42.06
How much time we
have left to prepare?
00:56:42.10\00:56:44.60
We don't know.
00:56:44.63\00:56:45.97
The Bible says in the
last part of 2 Corinthians 6:2
00:56:46.00\00:56:50.74
that now is the accepted time.
00:56:50.77\00:56:53.27
Behold, now is
the day of salvation.
00:56:53.31\00:56:55.88
Friends, don't
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00:56:55.91\00:56:58.05
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00:56:58.08\00:57:01.75
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