Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton,
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I want to thank
you for tuning in.
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This is the second message
of a two-part series entitled
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"National Apostasy
Followed by National Ruin."
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Based upon the Bible
and the Spirit of Prophecy,
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a great time of trouble
is coming upon our land.
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We are witnessing
signs of this time
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being formed as
apostasy and violent anarchy
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are continuing to
occur before our very eyes.
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This time of
trouble is most certainly
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a continuation of
the great controversy
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between Christ and His angels,
and the devil and his angels.
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This war began in
heaven over the law of God
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and it will continue
to be battled in our world
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over that same
Ten Commandment law.
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As this battle is ramping
up and becoming more apparent,
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God has given us
instructions of preparations
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such as where we're to live,
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and how we are to
stand even though our stance
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will bring about persecution
before Christ's second coming.
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We cannot afford, friends,
to relax and be non-committal
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during this warfare.
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We must live up
to every ray of light
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that God is showing us
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as we dig for this
information throughout His Word
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and an attitude of
prayer and supplication.
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We are called to be watchmen,
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we must sound an alarm
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in order to wake
up those whom we love.
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National apostasy
followed by national ruin.
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Is it possible
that satanic agencies
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are indeed behind an
orchestrated movement
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in this apostasy from God's law?
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Is it possible
that satanic agencies
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are also behind the apostasy
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in our nation to set up a place,
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a different mindset
and laws in our land
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that will attempt to force
God's people to adopt changes
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that directly
contradict the law of God?
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Are these the steps
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that will be
morphing Protestant churches,
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and the
legislation of this nation
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into fully becoming
the image of the beast?
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Let's quickly
read a couple of verses
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from the Book of Revelation
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to remind
ourselves of the danger
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that this image of the
beast represents to God's people
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and to all
people, for that matter.
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Revelation 13:15 reads,
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"And he had power to give life
unto the image of the beast,
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that the image of the
beast should both speak,
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and cause that as many
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as would not worship the image
of the beast should be killed."
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Going on in Revelation 14:11.
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We read,
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"And the smoke of their torment
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ascendeth up for ever and ever,
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and they have no
rest day nor night,
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who worship the
beast and his image,
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and whosoever
receiveth the mark of his name."
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Friends, praise
God for His warnings,
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praise Him for
prophecy and for messages
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such as Pastor Kenny,
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who are messengers
such as Pastor Kenny,
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who are willing
by the grace of God,
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and the power and
the strength of God
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to present these strong messages
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in order that we might
hear, learn and prepare
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so that we will be saved.
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But before we join
Pastor Kenny Shelton
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for this message,
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National Apostasy Followed
by National Ruin, part two.
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Let's visit 3ABN
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and listen to Brother
Ben Lingle as he plays,
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"O Come to the Altar."
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Thank you very
much for joining us here
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at Behold the Lamb Ministry.
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We appreciate you so very much.
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Our title for today
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we're going to be
talking about here
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is national apostasy
followed by national ruin.
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Those are big
words, but we discussed it.
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This is a two-part series,
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we discussed it in-depth
a little bit more last time
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we came together on part one.
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So if you missed that,
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you may want to call
in and get that part.
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So you can put
these two together,
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this will be part two.
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And again, we want to say
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how much we appreciate
you, thank you for your cards,
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thank you for your letters,
thank you for your support,
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you know, this
couldn't go forth without you.
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So we kind of want
to get together here
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and get this
message to the whole world.
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Had the opportunity to
reach literally thousands
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and thousands and thousands
and tens of thousands of people
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because you help us to do that.
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We're very
grateful and thankful.
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Continue to keep those
cards and letters coming.
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If we can do something
for you, please let us know.
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Again, we're going
to be talking about
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national apostasy
followed by national ruin.
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And we're going to go
over a couple of things
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after we have prayer.
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So I invite you, as
many of you say you do,
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you pray with us every
time we pray, you pray.
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Thank you for doing that.
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I'm going to kneel up here,
let's pray together, shall we?
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Merciful Father in heaven,
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thank You for today
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this privilege that we have
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to dig deep into Your Word
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by the grace and
power of the Holy Spirit.
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Lord, we just invite you
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to open our hearts
and our minds and our ears
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and to be here with us.
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We pray that we'll only
hear what we need to hear.
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And we'll be able
to hear those things
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that will lead
us closer to heaven.
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Help us to realize the
time that we're living,
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we can't continue
on down the same road
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that we've been
going for many, many years,
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no changes,
nothing taking place.
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But now we need to be,
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have all things become new
in our hearts and our minds.
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Thank you for hearing.
Thank you for answering prayer.
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Thank you for every individual.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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Now remember,
were several questions
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that I threw out to you
last time on part number one,
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and we answered
some of those questions.
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And so let me just
go over those right now.
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And we'll do, I think
there was like nine of them.
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You know, again,
what is, you know,
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this national apostasy
followed by national ruin?
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What does that really mean?
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Two, is America right now
forming an image to the beast?
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Three, what is the most
important work in the world?
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These are questions you know.
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As crisis, a crisis
within the church is here
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because there's errors
that have been creeping in.
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And number five,
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will, notice it,
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will it ever come a time
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that earthly support
is going to be cut off
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from God's people.
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See if we believe that,
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then we need to be
preparing, ain't that right?
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So we'll talk
about that in a moment.
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I believe this and
based on God's Word,
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based on the Spirit of Prophecy,
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famine will hit the
United States of America
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in a very big, ugly way.
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And not only
America, but the world.
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We've talked a lot about,
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we'll mention out of the
cities a good time to do it.
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We'll know when to
do it and how to do it.
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And should we be, listen,
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should we be is a time
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that we should be get
rid of some of the things
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that God has loaned us?
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Is it time to get rid of
some of our personal possessions
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and if we don't,
what might happen?
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And number nine,
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should we, you know,
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should we be able
to grow our own food?
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Will there come a
time that we should grow?
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There's a lot of people
nodding up who will say,
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"Yes, we should."
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But you really,
do with this in mind
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we have to realize these things
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will maybe be a possibility
in the very near future.
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And it was said
just a little while back
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just about it's
time to rise and what?
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To rise and shine, right?
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Because we know
that Jesus is coming.
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Lines are being drawn
every day, we know that.
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We either stand
on the side of God,
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or we stand on the
crazy side of this world.
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And things are
getting crazier day by day.
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Have you noticed that?
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Getting crazier.
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You know, I've
repeated this many times.
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But I think it
needs to be repeated
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again and again and
again until we really get it.
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We're living in such a
time of earth's history
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that God's people
cannot be silent at this time.
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Now remember a lot, a
lot of times we get silent,
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we're maybe approached
with some kind of an issue
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or somebody challenges over here
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or we don't want
to cause trouble.
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We don't want to, you know,
get in any kind of hot water.
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So we say nothing
and we do nothing.
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But we're living in such a time
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that devil is
attacking God's people.
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Error is attacking God's people.
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What are we to do
when we see these things
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getting closer to us?
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And that God's
law is being attacked?
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Should we be a little
silent? Should we be reserved?
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Or should we form a
warfare against the enemy?
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This is found in Review
and Herald, 1-1 in 1889.
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Listen to that
1889, this was written.
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Here we go. It's very
simple. It's very pointed.
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But it says,
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"Let not the commandment
keeping people of God
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be silent at this time."
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Now I could stop
there, I'm not going to.
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But remember, let not
the commandment people,
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right, keeping people of
God be silent at this time.
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There's a reason
those as we read on.
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"As though we gracefully
accepted the situation.
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There is a prospect before
us of waging a continuous war."
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What is it?
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Before us, we
realize what has come.
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See, as long as it's
kind of peace and safety,
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and setback and relax,
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most of us are happy with that
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because we don't
want it to change.
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This is what's
taking place right now.
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And that's going
to get worse as we go.
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Most of us will be
seated and will remain seated,
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will follow the
image to the beast,
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will follow the papacy,
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will follow all
the things in the world
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because we have
not made the moves
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that God has asked us to make.
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The changes right
now we need to be making.
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And you will find,
they may be very simple,
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but you will be
as kings and queens
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in this mess that the world
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is getting ready on
the verge right now.
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We need to hear
it over and over.
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We're going to go
over some of those things.
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Remember, we must rise there.
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We must wage a continuous war,
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notice this, oh, if I do that,
though, I may get in trouble.
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That's right.
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This article says at
the risk of imprisonment.
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At the risk of losing property
that could be your home.
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It could be your
job. Notice this.
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Even life itself, what?
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To defend the law of God.
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What's all issue about?
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Defending the law of God, right?
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God's law is being
challenged in the world,
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is being made void.
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And God said He needs
people that will stand up.
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He wants us to
stand up right now.
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But it may, it will cost you.
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See most of us don't
want anything to cost us.
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We like everything
just come easy come easy go.
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Now notice it which is being
made void by the laws of what?
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By the laws of men.
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It's time for the Lord to work
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for they have made void Thy law.
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That is coming.
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But it seems
like, Lord have mercy.
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It seems like it
would just excite us so much
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to realize that
we're in this hour.
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We couldn't say
this 10 years ago,
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we couldn't say
it five years ago.
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We couldn't say yesterday
like we can say it today.
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Instead of getting
discouraged about it,
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as we see what men are
doing behind closed doors,
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as we see what's
taking place in the world,
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instead of
getting all just depressed
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and we have to realize,
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this is when we
lift up our heads,
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our redemption is drawing nigh.
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This is the time to
be living, but it's not.
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We're living in the crazy world,
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we just admitted.
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And again, getting
crazier all the time.
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But here in these last days,
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God has a people
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He's going to give
them the most important work
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that can be given mortals.
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Now, if God is going to give
us that most important work,
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I want to know
what that work is.
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See, I had one
amen, will there be two?
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Now, all right.
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So this is what
it's all about, is it?
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If God has given us
the most important work
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that people can do human beings,
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I do want to know what that is.
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It's just simple answer.
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There's no doubt about it.
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But still yet we
need to know right here,
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right now I'm going to read,
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we'll talk a little bit more
about that in just a moment,
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I hit it a
little more on the head.
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But I want to read
something right now,
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this is called
Three testimonies 247.
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We're going to be
accountable. Now notice this.
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In the balances
of the sanctuary...
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Now listen, I'm going to
get a little personal here.
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You may not be a
Seventh-day Adventist
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or whatever it might be here.
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But I believe that, notice this,
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"In the balances
of the sanctuary,
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the Seventh-day Adventist
Church is to be weighed."
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Interesting,
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the Adventist Church
is going to be weighed
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for the
privileges and opportunities
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that God has given us.
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When God gives you a privilege,
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He gives you an
opportunity to do something,
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He weighs it out.
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What are we going to do
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with these
privileges and opportunities
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that God gives us every day,
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life and health and
strength and home and,
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you know, a job
or whatever means.
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What are we doing
with all the stuff
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that God has loaned to us?
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You don't own a thing,
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I don't own a thing,
it all belongs to God.
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Is that not right?
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So in the
balances of the sanctuary.
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God says this in Zephaniah 1:12.
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"And it shall come
to pass at that time,
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that I will search
Jerusalem with candles."
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God's telling us something
very important right here.
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The time is coming.
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He's going to be
closely searching mankind,
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His life and His deeds,
His thoughts and His actions.
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Wow, reading on, notice,
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"I will search Jerusalem,
He said, with candles,
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and I'll punish
that, notice this,
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men that are
settled on their lees."
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God said I'm going to punish men
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who are settled on their lees.
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I thought about
settle on my lees.
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I thought must be
settled on your backside.
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Can I say that?
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Is that okay?
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Well, that's
what it is, I thought.
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But, you know,
you look up the word,
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it's a little bit
different original language,
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it means He's going to,
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He's going to make those pay
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who have hardened
their minds against truth.
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They've
hardened, they just sit by.
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Their heart is
hardened against sin
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and wanting to change.
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They're lazy spiritually.
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We cannot afford to relax.
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When I see Christians,
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as it were,
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especially those of
you who know prophecy
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begin to be relaxed,
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then there's something wrong.
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This is a very
anxious time as it were,
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because of what's taking place.
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And what will soon
take place in your home
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maybe in your family,
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with your
property, with your job.
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Remember, things will happen.
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They'll happen very quickly.
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But we begin
warning after warning
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for many, many,
many, many years now.
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We cannot afford to
relax the warfare, now notice,
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this side of heaven.
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We get to heaven, we can relax
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but and in this world,
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we have to show
signs of progress.
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You know, when
you're working somewhere,
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the boss likes to see
progress, does he not?
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He likes to see signs of that
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you're catching on
as you're doing work,
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that you're doing
more work than you used to
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when you first came there.
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Living up, we call spiritually
living up to all the light
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that God has given us.
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If everyone here
would be truthful today,
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really truthful.
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You can do it in your own mind.
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You don't have to do it out loud
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where everybody knows.
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But God knows already.
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Are we living up
to every ray of light
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that God has shown us?
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Most of us would be
walking out the door
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turning our back
because we are not.
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Maybe no one here.
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But let me
challenge the thinking.
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That's not such a hard question,
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Brother Herb,
that's not a hard question.
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Are we living up
to all the light?
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Now it doesn't mean
we're not confused on this,
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or maybe a little bit on that.
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But to the best of our
thinking and our ability,
00:19:03.41\00:19:05.94
we're living up
to what we understand
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maybe is light,
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and certainly God can make
it to where we can understand.
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There's no doubt about that.
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But are we really living up
to those privileges God has be.
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There's a word here that
we have to think about here.
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And I see it in the
church is complacency.
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We're complacent
sometime many times.
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And that is the
greatest enemy of the Christian.
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Today, that's a great enemy
of a Christian is complacency.
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We're just kind of, you know,
00:19:32.97\00:19:34.50
we're floating along
with the group and, you know,
00:19:34.54\00:19:37.11
whatever somebody
says, well, it sounds good to
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me, as long as we
can have, you know,
00:19:39.57\00:19:41.14
good fellowship
and eat and carry on.
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We don't worry about
doing the work of Christ.
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Now what is the
most important work
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that's ever been
given to mortals?
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We addressed it just
a little bit earlier.
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Now I want to read it
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from Nine
Testimonies 19 of what it is.
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We talked about it.
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"In a special sense Seventh-day
Adventists have been set
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in the world as
watchmen and light bearers."
00:20:03.00\00:20:08.40
Seventh-day
Adventists have been set what?
00:20:08.44\00:20:10.94
As, hello everybody,
00:20:10.97\00:20:13.14
watchmen and light bearers
to give the light to the world.
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If I made this be so bold
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and it's too
bold for some maybe,
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you know, some
time, but I, you know,
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I look at as God
has in the beginning.
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He had, did He not?
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His chosen people
were Israel, were they not?
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Israel, right?
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The Old Testament, right?
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Israel kind of failed a
little bit, didn't they?
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Right.
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Then we got in
the New Testament,
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what do we have?
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Who was God's chosen people?
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We got to say the Jews?
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The Jews, right?
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Then they failed,
they crucified Christ.
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And then what?
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Then there's another group
that's come in and take over
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who would keep the
commandments of God
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and had the testimony of Jesus.
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And there's only one group
left is Seventh-day Adventist.
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Israel, the Jews
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and should be
Seventh-day Adventist,
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because they are the ones
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what God has
chosen over the path
00:21:03.86\00:21:05.19
is to reveal what?
00:21:05.23\00:21:06.56
His law is right to hold up.
00:21:06.59\00:21:08.96
And who else does
that in the world,
00:21:09.00\00:21:10.33
most of them say
it's done away with
00:21:10.37\00:21:11.70
or we don't need it anymore.
00:21:11.73\00:21:14.34
Now with that, just in mind,
00:21:14.37\00:21:15.70
you may have
difference of opinion,
00:21:15.74\00:21:17.07
or different thoughts of that.
00:21:17.11\00:21:18.44
With that in mind, I want
you to continue to listen.
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We are watchmen
00:21:20.18\00:21:21.51
because we should have
been studying the Word of God
00:21:21.54\00:21:23.75
to know when the
thief is going to come in.
00:21:23.78\00:21:28.28
We should know
what the thief is up to.
00:21:28.32\00:21:31.45
We should know when
he's knocking at the door.
00:21:31.49\00:21:33.79
We should know
00:21:33.82\00:21:35.16
when he's creeping
through the back door
00:21:35.19\00:21:36.52
or out the back door.
00:21:36.56\00:21:38.49
But sometimes we don't
because we really not read.
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We spend more time
doing a lot of other things
00:21:40.96\00:21:42.83
than we do in the Word of God.
00:21:42.86\00:21:44.50
And I'm just simply say,
00:21:44.53\00:21:45.87
I'm not trying to criticize
or condemn, it will cost us.
00:21:45.90\00:21:49.24
It will cost us.
00:21:49.27\00:21:51.37
It may cost us heaven,
00:21:51.41\00:21:53.34
if anything takes
priority over the Word of God.
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Watchmen and light bearers,
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Isaiah 21:6 says, he said,
00:21:59.95\00:22:02.88
"Go set a watchman,"
00:22:02.92\00:22:05.02
you remember that watchman and,
00:22:05.05\00:22:06.45
"let him declare what he seeth."
00:22:06.49\00:22:10.93
God said to set what?
00:22:10.96\00:22:13.29
Set watchmen.
00:22:13.33\00:22:15.10
And then the
watchmen are looking around,
00:22:15.13\00:22:16.97
and then God says to
them, declare what you see.
00:22:17.00\00:22:20.60
We see a lot of
watchmen on there that's blind.
00:22:20.64\00:22:23.34
They're not seeing very much.
00:22:23.37\00:22:25.71
There's a lot of
watchmen on the walls
00:22:25.74\00:22:27.18
that will care more
about a retirement check
00:22:27.21\00:22:28.91
than they do about doing
what God asked them to do.
00:22:28.94\00:22:32.65
It's my personal opinion.
00:22:32.68\00:22:35.68
There's a lot of
watchmen on the wall
00:22:35.72\00:22:37.22
that need not be watchmen
00:22:37.25\00:22:38.65
because God never set you there.
00:22:38.69\00:22:40.26
You got up there on your own.
00:22:40.29\00:22:43.22
Because if
you're God's watchmen,
00:22:43.26\00:22:44.59
let me tell you
when things are going,
00:22:44.63\00:22:46.43
there's
something that's going on.
00:22:46.46\00:22:48.33
There's something
going on in this world.
00:22:48.36\00:22:51.23
There's a lot
going on in this world.
00:22:51.27\00:22:53.13
And if we've got watchman now,
00:22:53.17\00:22:54.50
whether he's elder,
or pastor, or teacher,
00:22:54.54\00:22:55.94
whoever it might be a
member of this church,
00:22:55.97\00:22:57.54
and you don't see
anything going on,
00:22:57.57\00:22:59.17
may God have mercy on your soul.
00:22:59.21\00:23:01.64
Is it okay to do that?
00:23:01.68\00:23:03.35
I mean, that's what I
really believe with my heart.
00:23:03.38\00:23:05.25
God have mercy on us.
00:23:05.28\00:23:08.45
So many things
that are happening,
00:23:08.48\00:23:10.05
let him declare what
he's seeing, what you see.
00:23:10.09\00:23:13.15
And you ask some of the pastors,
00:23:13.19\00:23:14.52
teachers today in the pulpit,
00:23:14.56\00:23:15.89
they're not
really seeing anything.
00:23:15.92\00:23:18.09
What they're seeing is, well,
00:23:18.13\00:23:19.46
pour some more
money into the ministry,
00:23:19.49\00:23:20.86
and boy, a 10-fold and
50-fold and 100-fold and...
00:23:20.90\00:23:27.10
Here I go again, right?
00:23:27.14\00:23:28.47
Instead of
saying, I see the enemy.
00:23:31.74\00:23:35.18
I see the image to the beast.
00:23:35.21\00:23:36.54
I see the Sunday law is coming.
00:23:36.58\00:23:37.91
I see all this
stuff that's happening.
00:23:37.95\00:23:39.61
So plain,
00:23:39.65\00:23:40.98
and you can see
it through the things
00:23:41.02\00:23:42.35
that's being
worked out right now.
00:23:42.38\00:23:45.35
Reading on, 1919 says this.
00:23:45.39\00:23:48.46
They, we're talking about
00:23:48.49\00:23:49.82
the Seventh-day
Adventists in the world
00:23:49.86\00:23:51.73
as watchmen and what?
00:23:51.76\00:23:53.09
Light bearers.
00:23:53.13\00:23:54.46
"They've been given a
work of the most solemn import.
00:23:54.50\00:23:59.80
The proclamation of,"
00:23:59.83\00:24:01.17
you guessed it,
00:24:01.20\00:24:02.54
"the first, second
and third angels' message"
00:24:02.57\00:24:05.04
of Revelation 14:6-12.
00:24:05.07\00:24:07.81
We have been
given the commission
00:24:07.84\00:24:09.41
to proclaim the last
message to go to the world.
00:24:09.44\00:24:13.78
The last warning
message to give to the world
00:24:13.82\00:24:16.45
before Jesus comes,
00:24:16.48\00:24:18.25
a message that
will purify a people.
00:24:18.29\00:24:21.56
A message that will be set aside
00:24:21.59\00:24:23.09
that we can
read and we can study
00:24:23.12\00:24:24.59
that we're in the
judgment hour of God.
00:24:24.63\00:24:27.40
Go back to the one that made
heaven and earth and the sea.
00:24:27.43\00:24:29.63
Go back to the
seventh day Sabbath, right?
00:24:29.66\00:24:31.77
Second angels' message,
00:24:31.80\00:24:33.13
come out of her my
people, come out of Babylon.
00:24:33.17\00:24:35.97
Babylon is confusion.
00:24:36.00\00:24:37.97
Babylon's all over the place.
00:24:38.01\00:24:39.57
Babylon's
sometime in here among us.
00:24:39.61\00:24:41.78
When we spot Babylon,
00:24:41.81\00:24:43.14
we need to kick
Babylon back out.
00:24:43.18\00:24:45.11
Is that too bold?
00:24:45.15\00:24:46.98
Not trying to, I'm just,
00:24:47.02\00:24:48.35
I want us to think
you cannot let Babylon
00:24:48.38\00:24:49.98
these things inside the church
00:24:50.02\00:24:51.92
and expect it
to be God's Church.
00:24:51.95\00:24:54.72
You can't let
apostasy in the church
00:24:54.76\00:24:56.89
and expect it
to be God's Church.
00:24:56.93\00:24:59.53
It just cannot be.
00:24:59.56\00:25:00.90
God is purifying
and perfecting a people.
00:25:00.93\00:25:03.77
We know we will be found.
00:25:03.80\00:25:05.60
We know there's
a shaking going on.
00:25:05.63\00:25:07.77
We have been giving
awesome responsibility
00:25:07.80\00:25:11.47
of giving the
three angels' message.
00:25:11.51\00:25:14.28
Reading on, notice what it says,
00:25:14.31\00:25:15.64
"There is no other work
of so great importance."
00:25:15.68\00:25:19.85
Now do I need to repeat that?
00:25:19.88\00:25:21.95
Three angels' message,
00:25:21.98\00:25:23.32
it's warning,
00:25:23.35\00:25:24.69
the third angels'
message is warning against what?
00:25:24.72\00:25:26.05
Image to the beast,
the mark of the beast.
00:25:26.09\00:25:27.96
Most of the world has no idea
what the mark of the beast is.
00:25:27.99\00:25:30.43
Somebody said I
heard, who said it?
00:25:30.46\00:25:32.19
Somebody said here today,
"Well, well, that's COVID-19."
00:25:32.23\00:25:35.66
That's COVID-19.
00:25:35.70\00:25:37.03
Somebody wake up.
00:25:37.07\00:25:38.43
No, bless their hearts.
They may be honest in heart.
00:25:38.47\00:25:40.14
I'm not trying to laugh at them.
00:25:40.17\00:25:41.50
I'm just saying
my lands of love.
00:25:41.54\00:25:42.87
It has to do with how many times
00:25:42.90\00:25:44.24
we have to say it.
00:25:44.27\00:25:45.61
It has to do
with who we worship.
00:25:45.64\00:25:47.24
Every time in Scripture
has to do with worship,
00:25:47.28\00:25:49.71
with worship, with worship,
00:25:49.74\00:25:51.65
who is it you give
your allegiance to?
00:25:51.68\00:25:53.01
Is it going to be to God?
00:25:53.05\00:25:54.38
Or is it going to be
to, you know, another form,
00:25:54.42\00:25:56.38
Catholicism?
00:25:56.42\00:25:57.75
Is it going to be Protestantism?
00:25:57.79\00:25:59.12
What is it going to be?
00:25:59.15\00:26:00.52
This is where we are at.
00:26:00.56\00:26:02.62
"There's no other work
of so great importance.
00:26:02.66\00:26:06.73
They, us, we are to allow,"
00:26:06.76\00:26:08.96
listen carefully,
we are to allow what?
00:26:09.00\00:26:10.87
"Nothing else to
absorb the attention
00:26:10.90\00:26:15.64
of the most solemn truths
ever entrusted to mortals.
00:26:15.67\00:26:20.81
They have been given to
us to proclaim to the world."
00:26:20.84\00:26:24.95
Now what's
supposed to occupy our mind?
00:26:24.98\00:26:27.52
Nothing but the giving of what?
00:26:27.55\00:26:29.38
Three angels' message
00:26:29.42\00:26:30.75
but all the time
we're sitting around idle,
00:26:30.79\00:26:32.12
doing nothing
arguing about stupid.
00:26:32.15\00:26:33.96
Can I say stupid?
00:26:33.99\00:26:35.32
Stupid stuff that doesn't
amount to a hill of beans,
00:26:35.36\00:26:37.36
has nothing to do with
me getting to heaven or not.
00:26:37.39\00:26:39.16
You see, they're
not salvation issues.
00:26:39.19\00:26:42.36
We're discussing
a certain color blue
00:26:42.40\00:26:44.10
is it right color
or blue is different.
00:26:44.13\00:26:48.10
We're arguing in the church,
00:26:48.14\00:26:49.47
church is being split
over the color of carpet.
00:26:49.50\00:26:52.74
The color of paint is chosen.
00:26:52.77\00:26:55.58
We should have
a unity of spirit,
00:26:55.61\00:26:58.05
things that matter.
00:26:58.08\00:27:00.02
Don't get
sidetracked on sidetrack issues,
00:27:00.05\00:27:02.95
they're all over the place,
00:27:02.98\00:27:04.32
they will come in by the
dozens if you allow them.
00:27:04.35\00:27:07.72
I want to by the grace of God,
00:27:07.76\00:27:09.09
you should be
praying and I'm praying,
00:27:09.12\00:27:10.56
we see false could be
able to come into the door,
00:27:10.59\00:27:12.93
we will be able to spot it.
00:27:12.96\00:27:14.63
By the grace of God
we'll be able to, you know,
00:27:14.66\00:27:17.07
combat it by knowing
what Scripture has to say
00:27:17.10\00:27:19.40
and will follow Scripture
and Spirit of Prophecy.
00:27:19.43\00:27:23.20
This is so
important in this hour.
00:27:23.24\00:27:25.57
This is the only thing
that's going to save us
00:27:25.61\00:27:29.11
of the crisis that we are in.
00:27:29.14\00:27:31.41
Well, you say well,
surely that's clear.
00:27:31.45\00:27:33.08
Maybe it's not clear enough.
00:27:33.11\00:27:34.45
Let me read Eight
Testimonies, page 302 says this,
00:27:34.48\00:27:39.42
"The solemn message
that has been given,"
00:27:39.45\00:27:42.72
now that solemn a message
00:27:42.76\00:27:44.09
referring to the
Book of Revelation,
00:27:44.13\00:27:45.46
and certainly Daniel,
00:27:45.49\00:27:46.83
"are to occupy the first place
in the minds of God's people."
00:27:46.86\00:27:51.90
If it's not occupying,
00:27:51.93\00:27:53.27
maybe it's because
you don't understand it
00:27:53.30\00:27:54.64
or whatever at the time.
00:27:54.67\00:27:56.00
But those of us who are
supposed to understand this,
00:27:56.04\00:27:57.61
if it's not
occupying the first place,
00:27:57.64\00:27:59.67
I would be bold enough to say,
00:27:59.71\00:28:01.04
because you're not God's people.
00:28:01.08\00:28:02.41
Not trying to
read and judge anybody.
00:28:05.38\00:28:07.02
And I'm just simply
saying, because it says here,
00:28:07.05\00:28:09.08
if we understand the
message we have to give,
00:28:09.12\00:28:11.29
it will occupy the first place
in the minds of God's people.
00:28:11.32\00:28:17.56
Nothing else has to
take the place of that.
00:28:17.59\00:28:21.36
But, you know,
sometime we're challenged
00:28:21.40\00:28:22.73
because we have those
00:28:22.76\00:28:24.10
who are supposed
to know the truth.
00:28:24.13\00:28:28.17
And then we see
them start to apostatize.
00:28:28.20\00:28:31.61
They turn away from the truth.
00:28:31.64\00:28:32.97
We've had great
confidence in them.
00:28:33.01\00:28:34.51
Could be pastors,
leaders, teachers, a friend.
00:28:34.54\00:28:37.35
They've known
these beautiful truths,
00:28:37.38\00:28:38.91
but what are they?
00:28:38.95\00:28:40.28
They turned aside
00:28:40.32\00:28:41.65
and that begins to
affect our thinking.
00:28:41.68\00:28:45.39
It has an
influence on our thinking.
00:28:45.42\00:28:47.36
But notice what this
talks about here this article.
00:28:47.39\00:28:51.49
If someone question,
if someone you believe in,
00:28:51.53\00:28:54.60
turns their
back on this message,
00:28:54.63\00:28:56.46
what should you do?
00:28:56.50\00:28:57.90
Then they go into apostasy.
00:28:57.93\00:29:00.37
Four Testimonies, 595.
00:29:00.40\00:29:02.40
4T, 595 says this,
00:29:02.44\00:29:05.47
"Ministers who preach the truth
00:29:05.51\00:29:07.78
with all zeal and
earnestness may apostatize
00:29:07.81\00:29:12.95
and join the ranks of the enemy.
00:29:12.98\00:29:17.19
Hmm.
00:29:17.22\00:29:18.55
But does this turn the
truth of God into a lie?"
00:29:18.59\00:29:22.06
Because they changed
00:29:22.09\00:29:23.43
it does not change the
truth of God into a lie.
00:29:23.46\00:29:26.33
They might change
00:29:26.36\00:29:27.70
because they took
their eyes off of Christ.
00:29:27.73\00:29:29.33
They may have changed
00:29:29.36\00:29:30.70
because they didn't
want to do it anymore.
00:29:30.73\00:29:32.30
They may have changed
because they got burnt out.
00:29:32.33\00:29:35.10
Is somebody with me?
00:29:35.14\00:29:36.47
You can kill a good pastor
00:29:36.50\00:29:37.91
as well as you can it, you know,
00:29:37.94\00:29:40.58
we're not so good.
00:29:40.61\00:29:42.81
Why?
00:29:42.84\00:29:44.18
Because we won't, well,
00:29:44.21\00:29:45.55
we don't want to
follow thus saith the Lord.
00:29:45.58\00:29:47.02
We're just
always throwing in junk
00:29:47.05\00:29:49.45
when we should
be taking junk out.
00:29:49.48\00:29:52.32
Getting things
down to the simple
00:29:52.35\00:29:53.89
thus saith the Lord.
00:29:53.92\00:29:56.73
Notice what it
says this, the truth.
00:29:56.76\00:29:58.99
"The faith
00:29:59.03\00:30:00.36
and the feeling
of men may change.
00:30:00.40\00:30:03.33
But I love this,
the truth of God what?
00:30:03.37\00:30:06.63
Never changes.
00:30:06.67\00:30:08.14
Notice this.
00:30:08.17\00:30:09.90
"The third angels'
message is sounding."
00:30:09.94\00:30:12.57
And notice,
00:30:12.61\00:30:13.94
this is where it's
kind of interesting.
00:30:13.98\00:30:15.31
"And third angels'
message is infallible."
00:30:15.34\00:30:18.88
We hear that term
applied to the pope,
00:30:18.91\00:30:21.18
papacy all the time.
00:30:21.22\00:30:23.49
But he's fallible, ain't he?
00:30:23.52\00:30:24.85
He makes, he can make a mistake.
00:30:24.89\00:30:26.22
He's a sinner just like we are.
00:30:26.25\00:30:27.59
If he's going to be saved,
00:30:30.59\00:30:31.93
he's going to be saved
by grace through faith,
00:30:31.96\00:30:33.33
just like the rest of us.
00:30:33.36\00:30:36.46
But not this message,
00:30:36.50\00:30:38.10
because it was
given us to us by God,
00:30:38.13\00:30:41.70
the angels flying
in the midst of heaven.
00:30:41.74\00:30:44.51
What a message that we have.
00:30:44.54\00:30:46.98
Acts of the
Apostles, 599, quickly.
00:30:47.01\00:30:48.74
Acts of the Apostles, 599,
00:30:48.78\00:30:51.11
"We who are living in the age,
this age have a work to do."
00:30:51.15\00:30:56.92
Those of us what?
00:30:56.95\00:30:58.29
If we're living in this
age, we have a work to do.
00:30:58.32\00:31:00.92
But you know what?
00:31:00.96\00:31:02.29
I'm afraid that some of us
are not picking up that work.
00:31:02.32\00:31:05.79
We don't even
know what the work is.
00:31:05.83\00:31:07.63
We don't know
what the message is.
00:31:07.66\00:31:09.40
We're not studying to show
ourselves approved unto God,
00:31:09.43\00:31:11.90
not trying to get on to her.
00:31:11.93\00:31:13.27
I'm just simply saying,
00:31:13.30\00:31:14.64
these are reasons why
people won't make it to heaven.
00:31:14.67\00:31:16.47
I want you to make it
there. I want to be there.
00:31:16.50\00:31:18.74
It may not pertain
to anybody that's here,
00:31:18.77\00:31:20.71
but there'll be millions.
00:31:20.74\00:31:22.08
I'm telling you,
00:31:22.11\00:31:23.45
will listen to these
videos and these tapes
00:31:23.48\00:31:25.15
that's going to hit it
right on the head for them.
00:31:25.18\00:31:27.22
They're going to make a change.
00:31:27.25\00:31:30.95
The truth changes people.
00:31:30.99\00:31:35.02
Hmm.
00:31:35.06\00:31:36.42
God's people
should know the difference
00:31:36.46\00:31:41.16
between lie and the truth.
00:31:41.20\00:31:44.43
We should know the truth.
00:31:44.47\00:31:45.80
We may not be able to
explain it all but immediately
00:31:45.83\00:31:47.44
we should be able to sense
00:31:47.47\00:31:49.34
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:31:49.37\00:31:52.74
1 John 4:6 just a
simple statement there,
00:31:52.77\00:31:55.14
1 John 4:6 says,
00:31:55.18\00:31:56.91
"Hereby know we
the spirit of truth
00:31:56.95\00:32:00.92
and the spirit of error."
00:32:00.95\00:32:04.65
God's people know what?
00:32:04.69\00:32:06.42
Spirit of truth, but
they also can detect what?
00:32:06.45\00:32:09.12
Error.
00:32:09.16\00:32:11.83
That's why we need
to know the word here.
00:32:11.86\00:32:15.93
We're entering on a work
here we have to do this work
00:32:15.96\00:32:18.50
that will be
guided by the Holy Spirit
00:32:18.53\00:32:20.87
of the Living God.
00:32:20.90\00:32:22.40
You cannot go wrong,
00:32:22.44\00:32:24.24
but self has to be
put out of the equation.
00:32:24.27\00:32:26.91
Let the Holy Spirit
lead, guide and direct.
00:32:26.94\00:32:29.28
What if the Holy Spirit says,
00:32:29.31\00:32:30.65
right, what we
need to do give up
00:32:30.68\00:32:32.25
whatever it
might be in this world,
00:32:32.28\00:32:33.62
be willing to
put it on the altar.
00:32:33.65\00:32:37.42
The enemy is, I'm
telling you, he's working.
00:32:37.45\00:32:39.35
We have a message to give
and when you give that message,
00:32:42.62\00:32:44.79
the enemy is not happy.
00:32:44.83\00:32:46.49
He sees the
church begin to grow,
00:32:49.93\00:32:51.37
so he begins to
allow and bring in error.
00:32:51.40\00:32:55.54
None of us here
want to be accountable
00:32:55.57\00:32:57.67
right to God to say,
well, we brought some error in.
00:32:57.71\00:33:00.91
Maybe no one
will do it on purpose,
00:33:00.94\00:33:02.41
but the enemy
then brings error in
00:33:02.44\00:33:04.25
and I know he uses people.
00:33:04.28\00:33:05.65
It might be shocking
00:33:10.65\00:33:13.19
and you know sometime
we need to be shocked.
00:33:13.22\00:33:16.93
Hello,
00:33:16.96\00:33:18.46
we need to be shocked sometime.
00:33:18.49\00:33:21.03
Shocked, I mean
shocked with the Word of God,
00:33:21.06\00:33:23.73
shocked with what's going on
00:33:23.77\00:33:25.13
because we've set so
long idly by in a sleepy state
00:33:25.17\00:33:28.97
that God sometime has
to shake us and shock us.
00:33:29.00\00:33:32.44
But I mentioned
there one of the points
00:33:32.47\00:33:33.81
we're talking about,
00:33:33.84\00:33:35.18
there is a crisis
among the people of God
00:33:35.21\00:33:38.91
because error has
come into the church.
00:33:38.95\00:33:41.38
Error has what?
00:33:44.89\00:33:46.62
Error has come into the church.
00:33:46.65\00:33:48.92
It's at a crisis point.
00:33:48.96\00:33:51.09
Hmm.
00:33:51.13\00:33:52.46
How could error
come into the church?
00:33:55.43\00:33:57.47
May I just
suggest one little point?
00:33:57.50\00:33:59.63
Maybe it's because
the watchmen on the wall
00:33:59.67\00:34:01.80
are not really watchman.
00:34:01.84\00:34:04.84
They're just buying some time.
00:34:04.87\00:34:08.34
They like the title.
00:34:08.38\00:34:11.65
They like the prestige.
00:34:11.68\00:34:14.38
They like to be referred to as,
00:34:14.42\00:34:16.89
you know,
00:34:16.92\00:34:19.02
rather than just a
watchman on the wall of Zion
00:34:19.05\00:34:21.86
and watching what the enemy
00:34:21.89\00:34:23.22
is trying to
tear the church apart.
00:34:23.26\00:34:24.59
And we noticed that
00:34:27.50\00:34:28.83
and again if you
missed the first part,
00:34:28.86\00:34:30.47
you missed it
because we went over a vision
00:34:30.50\00:34:33.10
you remember in First
Selected Messages, 205 and 6.
00:34:33.13\00:34:37.11
We went through that
00:34:37.14\00:34:38.47
about Ellen White
had this about apostasy
00:34:38.51\00:34:40.48
coming in the
church and it was a boat,
00:34:40.51\00:34:42.34
you remember the boat was
sailing down through there
00:34:42.38\00:34:44.05
and it was getting
ready to hit an iceberg,
00:34:44.08\00:34:45.48
you remember that?
00:34:45.51\00:34:47.12
It was, oh no, we
gonna tear the boat across,
00:34:47.15\00:34:49.12
and as it were,
the captain said,
00:34:49.15\00:34:51.25
"Hit it head on."
00:34:51.29\00:34:53.29
How are we to hit error
in the church and apostasy?
00:34:53.32\00:34:55.22
You hit it head on.
00:34:55.26\00:34:56.59
You don't mickey
mouse around with it.
00:34:56.62\00:34:58.39
You don't
dillydally around with it,
00:34:58.43\00:34:59.79
because when
you're dillydallying,
00:34:59.83\00:35:01.16
the enemy's
planning somewhere else.
00:35:01.20\00:35:02.86
Just greet it and
this is what God says,
00:35:02.90\00:35:05.57
well, we don't
want to hurt this with.
00:35:05.60\00:35:07.24
We're not here to hurt anybody.
00:35:07.27\00:35:10.01
We're here to
advocate God's Word.
00:35:10.04\00:35:11.87
And God's people will
line up with the Word of God,
00:35:11.91\00:35:14.14
or God's people
will find themselves
00:35:14.18\00:35:15.51
going on down the road.
00:35:15.54\00:35:16.88
You don't have to
send them down there.
00:35:16.91\00:35:18.25
They don't want to line up.
00:35:18.28\00:35:19.61
They want to
live their own life.
00:35:19.65\00:35:21.15
But what a mistake that is,
00:35:21.18\00:35:22.52
since we're so
close to the end of time.
00:35:22.55\00:35:26.62
Hmm.
00:35:26.65\00:35:29.26
It continues to get
worse, it doesn't get better.
00:35:29.29\00:35:33.33
You realize it's getting so bad,
00:35:33.36\00:35:34.80
we weep every day.
00:35:34.83\00:35:36.67
Let me just
throw this out to you.
00:35:36.70\00:35:38.13
Every day when
we're going down the road,
00:35:38.17\00:35:40.07
when you're driving a car,
when you're at the workplace,
00:35:40.10\00:35:42.47
you are meeting the enemy
head on through someone else.
00:35:42.50\00:35:46.57
Did you get it?
00:35:46.61\00:35:47.94
We are meeting
the enemy head on.
00:35:47.98\00:35:50.41
The enemy is
looking at you every day
00:35:50.45\00:35:52.28
through the
eyes of an individual
00:35:52.31\00:35:53.65
you may work with
00:35:53.68\00:35:55.02
that's never made a
commitment to Jesus Christ.
00:35:55.05\00:35:56.89
These are demons from hell.
00:35:56.92\00:36:00.19
This is how it's getting here.
00:36:00.22\00:36:01.59
I'll read you a few
things here in a moment.
00:36:01.62\00:36:03.86
And are we really ready?
00:36:03.89\00:36:06.53
Do we really have that
relationship with Christ,
00:36:06.56\00:36:08.66
a strong relationship
00:36:08.70\00:36:11.63
that we'll be able
to make it through here?
00:36:11.67\00:36:13.20
Are we really ready?
00:36:13.23\00:36:14.57
And let me tell you,
00:36:14.60\00:36:15.94
you know where
it's happening most
00:36:15.97\00:36:17.31
is where the
demons are in human form
00:36:17.34\00:36:19.31
in the cities.
00:36:19.34\00:36:21.34
Let me just share
something with you.
00:36:21.38\00:36:22.71
Eight Testimonies, 42,
00:36:22.74\00:36:26.61
"Satan's agencies in human form
00:36:26.65\00:36:30.89
are on the ground."
00:36:30.92\00:36:33.86
And when you're in
suburbs that they say, you know,
00:36:33.89\00:36:35.69
get a warning and a blast
come, the enemy's on the ground.
00:36:35.72\00:36:39.56
What do you do?
00:36:39.59\00:36:41.23
Well, I want to
sleep a little bit longer.
00:36:41.26\00:36:43.26
You rally to the
call, you get the weapon,
00:36:43.30\00:36:45.37
ain't that right?
00:36:45.40\00:36:47.07
And right now
it's saying right now.
00:36:47.10\00:36:48.44
Right now, Satan's agencies
00:36:48.47\00:36:50.14
are on the ground in human form,
00:36:50.17\00:36:52.67
because they've
taken over human beings
00:36:52.71\00:36:56.48
who have not given
their life to Christ.
00:36:56.51\00:36:58.15
Remember, if your mind
is not given 100% to God,
00:36:58.18\00:37:01.65
the enemy will take it.
00:37:01.68\00:37:03.12
Does that make sense?
00:37:03.15\00:37:04.49
I mean, that's
pretty heavy duty.
00:37:07.36\00:37:08.69
I understand that.
00:37:08.72\00:37:10.06
But remember, the
enemy doesn't have to have
00:37:10.09\00:37:11.43
but just a little bitty wedge.
00:37:11.46\00:37:12.79
And he gets in,
ain't that right?
00:37:12.83\00:37:14.70
Again, you have a
glass right full of water.
00:37:14.73\00:37:16.46
And just takes one
drop of poison to poison
00:37:16.50\00:37:18.67
the whole thing,
ain't that right?
00:37:18.70\00:37:21.44
Let me read on, notice this.
00:37:21.47\00:37:23.07
Men have confederated to
oppose the Lord of hosts.
00:37:23.10\00:37:29.31
What's the enemy job?
00:37:29.34\00:37:30.68
Always just to get to,
00:37:30.71\00:37:32.05
always try to tear God's
work apart and God's people.
00:37:32.08\00:37:33.95
Here it say,
00:37:33.98\00:37:35.32
Satanic agencies are,
listen, are in every city.
00:37:35.35\00:37:40.49
Satanic agencies,
00:37:40.52\00:37:41.92
that doesn't mean
they're not here in the country,
00:37:41.96\00:37:43.56
Lord have mercy.
00:37:43.59\00:37:46.49
But there's just
more people there
00:37:46.53\00:37:47.86
and there's more demons there.
00:37:47.90\00:37:49.23
And you can see the
upheaval of it right now
00:37:49.26\00:37:52.63
of what's going on.
00:37:52.67\00:37:56.07
There's not a man of God
00:37:56.10\00:37:57.54
or a woman of
God or a child of God
00:37:57.57\00:37:59.67
that's in some of
these protest marches
00:37:59.71\00:38:01.44
and some of them here
00:38:01.48\00:38:02.81
who are causing
danger and hurting
00:38:02.84\00:38:04.18
and killing other people
00:38:04.21\00:38:05.55
and burning other
people's property,
00:38:05.58\00:38:06.92
ruining other
people's life and business.
00:38:06.95\00:38:08.78
A child of God will not do that.
00:38:08.82\00:38:12.02
They won't.
00:38:12.05\00:38:13.39
You can't do it if
you're a child of God.
00:38:13.42\00:38:15.82
You say,
00:38:15.86\00:38:17.19
"Oh, that's being judgmental."
00:38:17.23\00:38:18.56
By their fruits
you shall know them.
00:38:18.59\00:38:19.93
That is the work of the enemy,
force is the work of the enemy.
00:38:19.96\00:38:22.80
The Bible says
you love God supremely
00:38:22.83\00:38:24.37
and your fellowman.
00:38:24.40\00:38:25.73
If you love your
fellowman supremely,
00:38:25.77\00:38:27.10
how can you do
that to your fellowman?
00:38:27.14\00:38:28.67
You cannot.
00:38:28.70\00:38:30.37
And so the enemy has taken
over and I may continue to read,
00:38:30.41\00:38:33.74
Satanic agencies,
notice this, right?
00:38:33.78\00:38:36.88
"In every city,
00:38:36.91\00:38:38.78
they're busily
organizing into parties
00:38:38.81\00:38:42.92
with those who
opposed the law of God."
00:38:42.95\00:38:46.39
Huh.
00:38:46.42\00:38:47.76
Professed, did you
get the word professed?
00:38:47.79\00:38:50.23
"Professed saints,"
00:38:50.26\00:38:52.79
that means they're not.
00:38:52.83\00:38:54.83
They just make a profession,
like many Christians do today.
00:38:54.86\00:38:58.10
Well, I belong to the
church. I'm a Christian.
00:38:58.13\00:38:59.67
I belong to blah, blah...
00:38:59.70\00:39:01.20
Professed
Christians and unbelievers,
00:39:01.24\00:39:04.71
"avowed
unbelievers take their stand
00:39:04.74\00:39:07.38
with these parties."
00:39:07.41\00:39:10.81
And then I like the
last part, she says here,
00:39:10.85\00:39:13.65
"This is no time
00:39:13.68\00:39:15.85
for the people of
God to be weaklings."
00:39:15.88\00:39:20.39
This is no time
00:39:20.42\00:39:21.86
for the people of
God to be sissies.
00:39:21.89\00:39:26.56
I say that nicely.
00:39:26.59\00:39:28.66
This is no time
for the people of God,
00:39:28.70\00:39:31.63
not to have a backbone.
00:39:31.67\00:39:33.97
This is no time
for the people of God
00:39:34.00\00:39:36.97
to say I don't
understand the Word.
00:39:37.01\00:39:40.61
This is the time
that we stand tall
00:39:40.64\00:39:42.51
and we're ready to
fight the good fight of faith.
00:39:42.54\00:39:45.28
He said,
00:39:45.31\00:39:46.65
"I'll fight your
battles for you."
00:39:46.68\00:39:48.02
He said,
00:39:48.05\00:39:49.38
"I'll recall those
things that you need
00:39:49.42\00:39:50.75
if you put it in
your mind to begin with."
00:39:50.79\00:39:52.15
But if you got all
this foolishness 90%
00:39:52.19\00:39:54.02
of the time on your mind,
00:39:54.06\00:39:55.39
that's what's going to come out.
00:39:55.42\00:39:57.13
You know that.
00:39:57.16\00:39:58.63
This is no time for weaklings.
00:39:58.66\00:40:01.13
There's a sifting
going on, there's a fire.
00:40:01.16\00:40:04.53
And the fire is doing away
00:40:04.57\00:40:05.90
with those who will
not stand up and say,
00:40:05.93\00:40:07.40
"No, I want Jesus on
my side, I need something,
00:40:07.44\00:40:10.67
fire retardant,
because it's getting hot.
00:40:10.71\00:40:15.51
To be a Christian,
00:40:15.54\00:40:16.98
it's getting
hotter all the time."
00:40:17.01\00:40:21.08
Testimonies to Ministers,
backing this up, 117 and 18.
00:40:21.12\00:40:24.12
I'm not going to read all that.
00:40:24.15\00:40:25.49
But I'd like for
you to read those,
00:40:25.52\00:40:26.86
both those pages,
00:40:26.89\00:40:28.22
Testimonies to Ministers,
117 and 118 says right here,
00:40:28.26\00:40:30.83
notice this.
00:40:30.86\00:40:32.19
Listen
00:40:32.23\00:40:33.56
"Heathen deities,"
00:40:33.60\00:40:35.73
I just said about here
Satan's agencies in human form.
00:40:35.76\00:40:40.10
Demons.
00:40:40.14\00:40:41.47
Now it's going on
and said, heathen.
00:40:41.50\00:40:44.24
The heathen lands, we
think about, you know.
00:40:44.27\00:40:45.97
"Heathen deities will
manifest their signal power,
00:40:46.01\00:40:50.81
and will exhibit themselves
00:40:50.85\00:40:52.55
before the
cities of this world."
00:40:52.58\00:40:55.98
Lo and behold, if
that's not happening.
00:40:56.02\00:40:59.62
Is it not?
00:40:59.65\00:41:01.02
Heathen deities.
00:41:01.06\00:41:05.29
They're showing
signal of power right now.
00:41:05.33\00:41:07.80
They're exhibiting themselves
00:41:07.83\00:41:09.36
before the cities
of the world right now.
00:41:09.40\00:41:12.03
And you know what?
We can't figure it out.
00:41:12.07\00:41:13.57
We're trying to,
we've got an issue here,
00:41:13.60\00:41:15.87
and there's a spiritual issue.
00:41:15.90\00:41:18.27
But we're trying to
deal with laws of the land
00:41:18.31\00:41:20.28
and through government and all,
00:41:20.31\00:41:21.81
it means heart changes
what needs to take place.
00:41:21.84\00:41:25.28
Five Testimonies, 698,
00:41:25.31\00:41:27.28
reading on, notice what it says.
00:41:27.32\00:41:29.58
5T, 698.
00:41:29.62\00:41:31.82
"It was by the
display of supernatural power,
00:41:31.85\00:41:36.02
in making the serpent,"
00:41:36.06\00:41:37.56
remember,
00:41:37.59\00:41:38.93
"his medium that
caused the fall of"
00:41:38.96\00:41:41.26
whom?
00:41:41.30\00:41:42.63
"Adam and Eve in the garden."
00:41:42.66\00:41:44.53
What was it?
00:41:44.57\00:41:46.84
It was a display
of supernatural power
00:41:46.87\00:41:49.60
that we've just
been talking about here,
00:41:49.64\00:41:51.11
they get together to
manifest begin to show power.
00:41:51.14\00:41:55.14
That's what he
did in the garden.
00:41:55.18\00:41:56.61
You remember so far
as his power extends,
00:41:56.64\00:42:00.28
listen to this,
00:42:00.32\00:42:01.65
as far as his power extends,
00:42:01.68\00:42:03.85
the enemy will
work actual miracles.
00:42:03.89\00:42:08.56
I don't want anybody to be fool.
00:42:08.59\00:42:09.92
I've heard said before, well,
00:42:09.96\00:42:11.29
he can't perform
any actual miracles.
00:42:11.33\00:42:12.99
Yes, he can.
00:42:13.03\00:42:14.90
But praise.
00:42:14.93\00:42:16.26
Oh, praise God, there's a limit.
00:42:16.30\00:42:19.33
There wasn't a limit,
00:42:19.37\00:42:20.70
he'd tear you up and tear me up
00:42:20.74\00:42:22.07
in a matter of seconds.
00:42:22.10\00:42:23.44
Did you get it?
00:42:23.47\00:42:25.37
He's out to kill,
steal and destroy,
00:42:25.41\00:42:27.34
and that's a fact.
00:42:27.38\00:42:28.71
You're here because
God says you can be here.
00:42:28.74\00:42:32.01
You're not here by
any other strength,
00:42:32.05\00:42:33.38
the enemy and all that hosts,
00:42:33.42\00:42:34.75
the demons and devils
of hell by the billions
00:42:34.78\00:42:37.65
would tear you
from limb to limb.
00:42:37.69\00:42:39.05
Can I say that?
00:42:39.09\00:42:41.16
But God says,
00:42:41.19\00:42:42.52
"No, they're mine."
00:42:42.56\00:42:44.63
No man can take
them out of the hand.
00:42:44.66\00:42:46.76
Only way you get
out of God's hands
00:42:46.80\00:42:48.20
is you decide you
want to crawl out.
00:42:48.23\00:42:49.56
And you know what?
00:42:49.60\00:42:50.93
There may be some people
need to go ahead and crawl out
00:42:50.97\00:42:52.30
and get it over with.
00:42:52.33\00:42:54.77
If we're not going
to do the right thing,
00:42:54.80\00:42:56.37
we just cause
anxiety and problems
00:42:56.40\00:42:58.31
with the people of God who
want to do the right thing.
00:42:58.34\00:43:01.04
The enemy then can
perform certain miracles.
00:43:04.25\00:43:07.38
But God says ,
00:43:07.42\00:43:08.75
"You can only do so much."
00:43:08.78\00:43:10.12
Isn't that wonderful?
00:43:10.15\00:43:11.69
God says you can only do so much
00:43:11.72\00:43:13.15
because it
would begin to confuse
00:43:13.19\00:43:14.92
even God's people
in our little minds.
00:43:14.96\00:43:17.99
And so God sets a limit
on what the enemy can do.
00:43:18.03\00:43:20.90
Praise God for that.
00:43:20.93\00:43:22.26
And so what he can't do,
00:43:25.37\00:43:27.10
actually,
00:43:27.14\00:43:28.70
he deceives and makes
you, oh, come on church.
00:43:28.74\00:43:32.51
He makes you
think that he can do it.
00:43:32.54\00:43:35.71
It's by deception, is it not?
00:43:35.74\00:43:37.65
Yes.
00:43:37.68\00:43:39.01
How far does this enemy go?
00:43:42.48\00:43:45.35
How far does Satan go
00:43:45.39\00:43:46.76
with these
miracles and deceptions?
00:43:46.79\00:43:48.82
Let me just read it
00:43:48.86\00:43:50.19
from the Great
Controversy quickly,
00:43:50.23\00:43:51.56
you understand it well.
00:43:51.59\00:43:52.93
624, Great Controversy, 624.
00:43:52.96\00:43:55.90
You know this, it says,
00:43:55.93\00:43:57.27
"As the crowning act
00:43:57.30\00:43:59.00
in the great
drama of deception,"
00:43:59.03\00:44:01.04
what happens?
00:44:01.07\00:44:02.40
Satan himself will," what?
00:44:02.44\00:44:04.81
"Impersonate Christ
or personate Christ."
00:44:04.84\00:44:07.84
As the crowning act,
Satan is going to do what?
00:44:07.88\00:44:10.71
He's going to personate,
00:44:10.75\00:44:12.08
he's going to
pretend to be Jesus Christ.
00:44:12.11\00:44:14.62
My!
00:44:14.65\00:44:15.98
Notice it, you say,
"Well, I don't know."
00:44:16.02\00:44:17.35
Read 2 Corinthians 11:13 and 14,
00:44:17.39\00:44:20.96
"As the enemy comes
as an angel of light."
00:44:20.99\00:44:23.89
Hmm.
00:44:23.93\00:44:25.96
But notice and I'll go
expand on just a little bit
00:44:25.99\00:44:27.80
if we have more time to do it.
00:44:27.83\00:44:29.20
Because way Satan does,
00:44:29.23\00:44:30.97
"In different
parts of the earth,
00:44:31.00\00:44:33.37
Satan will
manifest himself among men
00:44:33.40\00:44:36.64
as a majestic being
of dazzling brightness,
00:44:36.67\00:44:40.91
resembling the
description of the Son of God
00:44:40.94\00:44:44.28
given by John in Revelation."
00:44:44.31\00:44:47.65
Man, if you don't know the Word,
00:44:47.68\00:44:49.15
you will be fooled.
00:44:49.18\00:44:51.12
You will be fooled.
00:44:51.15\00:44:54.39
He manifests himself,
00:44:54.42\00:44:57.59
but he does it
00:44:57.63\00:44:58.96
in different
places of the earth.
00:44:58.99\00:45:00.33
And again we mentioned
00:45:00.36\00:45:01.70
maybe in little moment we
have more time but if not,
00:45:01.73\00:45:03.20
then my Bible says
00:45:03.23\00:45:04.57
when Jesus comes
in Revelation 1:7,
00:45:04.60\00:45:06.90
every eye shall glory,
every eye shall see Him.
00:45:06.94\00:45:12.21
Matthew 24:27,
00:45:12.24\00:45:14.88
"As the lightning shineth
east and also unto the west,
00:45:14.91\00:45:17.71
so shall the coming
of the Son of man be."
00:45:17.75\00:45:19.88
When Jesus comes
every eye shall see Him.
00:45:19.91\00:45:22.12
He will encircle
this globe up here,
00:45:22.15\00:45:23.82
but when the
devil comes down here,
00:45:23.85\00:45:25.45
he just appears
in different places.
00:45:25.49\00:45:27.86
This should help you
to understand then, right?
00:45:27.89\00:45:29.92
So we're not, you know,
confused about the issue.
00:45:29.96\00:45:33.43
That's the crowning act.
00:45:33.46\00:45:34.80
Let me just read, you
say, "Well, I'm not sure."
00:45:34.83\00:45:37.33
I'm going to turn
the Book of Revelation.
00:45:37.37\00:45:38.70
You can do it with,
Revelation Chapter 1.
00:45:38.73\00:45:40.60
Can we read that? We
take a couple of minutes.
00:45:40.64\00:45:42.67
Revelation Chapter 1,
00:45:42.70\00:45:44.04
I think so very, very important.
00:45:44.07\00:45:45.44
Revelation Chapter 1,
00:45:45.47\00:45:47.08
because this is how the
devil is going to appear.
00:45:47.11\00:45:49.74
Here's how he's going to appear.
00:45:49.78\00:45:51.11
You'll say,
00:45:51.15\00:45:52.48
"Well, that's what the
Bible said that this is,
00:45:52.51\00:45:53.85
this is how Jesus
is going to appear.
00:45:53.88\00:45:55.35
So you have to realize
what he says and what he does,
00:45:55.38\00:45:57.72
we'll approach
that in just a moment.
00:45:57.75\00:45:59.32
I don't want
anybody here to be fooled.
00:45:59.35\00:46:00.92
I don't want to be fooled.
00:46:00.96\00:46:02.62
Revelation 1:13
and 14, the Bible says.
00:46:02.66\00:46:07.93
And notice this,
00:46:07.96\00:46:09.30
"And in the midst of
the seven candlesticks
00:46:09.33\00:46:12.33
are like unto the Son of,"
00:46:12.37\00:46:13.70
what?
00:46:13.74\00:46:15.07
"One like the Son of
man, clothed with a,"
00:46:15.10\00:46:18.31
what kind of a garment?
00:46:18.34\00:46:19.67
"A garment down to his foot,
00:46:19.71\00:46:21.41
girt with his paps
with a golden girdle."
00:46:21.44\00:46:23.61
Verse 14, notice this,
00:46:23.65\00:46:25.48
"His head and his
hairs were white like wool,
00:46:25.51\00:46:31.09
as white as snow,
00:46:31.12\00:46:33.05
his eyes were as flames of fire,
00:46:33.09\00:46:37.06
his feet were like fine brass,
as if they burned in a furnace,
00:46:37.09\00:46:42.53
and His voice as the
sound of many waters."
00:46:42.56\00:46:46.30
What a description that John,
00:46:46.33\00:46:48.04
bless his heart
had to put in language
00:46:48.07\00:46:49.80
we might be able to
understand just a little bit.
00:46:49.84\00:46:52.74
But remember all this
curtails and much more
00:46:52.77\00:46:56.14
the enemy is going to,
it's going to be exactly.
00:46:56.18\00:47:01.25
Is it possible
we might be fooled?
00:47:01.28\00:47:04.89
Is it possible here?
00:47:04.92\00:47:07.79
Well, let's go and do
a little more study here.
00:47:07.82\00:47:12.23
Because when the enemy comes,
00:47:12.26\00:47:14.33
he's going to be
doing several things,
00:47:14.36\00:47:16.60
and we'll read it, he's
going to do some healing.
00:47:16.63\00:47:19.80
And I'm going to say it again,
00:47:19.83\00:47:21.17
he's going to be
doing some lying.
00:47:21.20\00:47:24.14
He's not going to stop that.
00:47:24.17\00:47:26.47
Yeah, notice what it is.
00:47:26.51\00:47:27.84
On what point will
Satan not agree with Christ?
00:47:27.88\00:47:30.95
Because you think, well,
this is what the Bible said.
00:47:30.98\00:47:33.21
But now, this one
that seems to be Jesus,
00:47:33.25\00:47:35.68
He's saying something different.
00:47:35.72\00:47:38.25
Fundamentals of Education,
00:47:38.29\00:47:39.62
47 and 472.
00:47:39.65\00:47:45.89
Notice what it says,
00:47:45.93\00:47:47.70
"Christ will be personified."
00:47:47.73\00:47:51.67
Huh.
00:47:51.70\00:47:53.03
You know what that means?
00:47:53.07\00:47:54.40
Christ will be personified.
00:47:54.44\00:47:56.07
It means to be
00:47:56.10\00:47:57.91
and a perfect example of Christ.
00:47:57.94\00:48:01.91
Outward
appearance, do you get it?
00:48:01.94\00:48:03.71
Not of the mind,
not of the heart.
00:48:03.75\00:48:05.95
But everything that you see will
00:48:05.98\00:48:08.62
be what ascribed
in the Word of God.
00:48:08.65\00:48:11.29
So now, there must be
a way that we can tell.
00:48:11.32\00:48:13.76
Right?
00:48:13.79\00:48:15.12
There has to be a
way that we can tell.
00:48:15.16\00:48:17.56
But the article says,
00:48:17.59\00:48:20.10
"But on,"
00:48:20.13\00:48:21.46
notice this, there will be a,
00:48:21.50\00:48:22.83
"on one point there
will be a marked distinction.
00:48:22.86\00:48:27.74
Satan will turn the people
00:48:27.77\00:48:30.51
away from the law of God."
00:48:30.54\00:48:34.91
This is very important,
00:48:34.94\00:48:36.28
because you may not be
able to tell by the features,
00:48:36.31\00:48:39.18
but you'll be able to
tell about what he says.
00:48:39.21\00:48:42.92
It would not
harmonize was Scripture.
00:48:42.95\00:48:46.96
And, of course, we
cannot be confused.
00:48:46.99\00:48:48.76
The Great
Controversy, 625 says this.
00:48:48.79\00:48:50.79
"And further,"
00:48:50.83\00:48:52.16
we mentioned,
00:48:52.19\00:48:53.53
"Satan is not permitted
00:48:53.56\00:48:54.90
to counterfeit the
manner of Christ's advent."
00:48:54.93\00:48:58.47
Isn't that beautiful?
00:48:58.50\00:49:00.17
Satan cannot coming
00:49:00.20\00:49:01.60
in the clouds of
glory with angels,
00:49:01.64\00:49:03.61
because we would be fooled.
00:49:03.64\00:49:06.24
Yeah.
00:49:06.27\00:49:07.61
Yeah, that's right.
00:49:07.64\00:49:08.98
When He comes a second time,
00:49:09.01\00:49:10.35
His feet doesn't
touch the ground.
00:49:10.38\00:49:11.71
But when the enemy comes,
his feet touch the ground,
00:49:11.75\00:49:13.25
and he appears in
different places at once.
00:49:13.28\00:49:16.58
Since the enemy cannot come
00:49:16.62\00:49:20.89
as Christ does in
the clouds from heaven,
00:49:20.92\00:49:24.63
how does he reveal himself then?
00:49:24.66\00:49:26.49
We talked about it here.
00:49:26.53\00:49:27.86
Notice, in Great
Controversy, 624,
00:49:27.90\00:49:31.00
it said we just talked about
while ago, he reveals himself,
00:49:31.03\00:49:33.70
"In different
parts of the earth,
00:49:33.74\00:49:37.74
Satan will magnify
himself among men."
00:49:37.77\00:49:44.25
Wow.
00:49:44.28\00:49:47.25
Now notice too,
00:49:47.28\00:49:48.62
what does Satan do
and what does he say
00:49:48.65\00:49:51.22
while impersonating Christ?
00:49:51.25\00:49:53.12
This will help us.
00:49:53.15\00:49:54.49
We just have six minutes
or so, don't get excited.
00:49:54.52\00:49:56.12
Come on now.
00:49:56.16\00:49:57.49
This is very, very important
00:49:57.53\00:49:58.86
because if you
don't, you will be fooled.
00:49:58.89\00:50:00.76
I'm going to be fooled
if I don't know these things
00:50:00.80\00:50:03.23
because what the mind sees
00:50:03.26\00:50:05.20
and the eye sees
will be overwhelming.
00:50:05.23\00:50:09.20
You've never seen anything
like it in your whole life.
00:50:09.24\00:50:11.37
No, he can't watch it.
00:50:14.41\00:50:15.74
You know, it says go
to the secret chambers
00:50:15.78\00:50:17.11
do this or that.
00:50:17.15\00:50:18.48
When he comes every eye
is going to see and we know,
00:50:18.51\00:50:20.35
but notice what Great
Controversy, 624 says,
00:50:20.38\00:50:23.82
"When Satan comes, he
begins to heal diseases."
00:50:23.85\00:50:28.56
Keep these
things in mind as we go
00:50:28.59\00:50:30.26
so that we're not fooled.
00:50:30.29\00:50:31.76
And notice that, he does that.
00:50:31.79\00:50:33.13
He heals diseases
and then, notice it.
00:50:33.16\00:50:35.60
He claims to have
changed the Sabbath to Sunday.
00:50:35.63\00:50:40.77
You think that
won't be overwhelming
00:50:40.80\00:50:42.20
to most people
who believe it anyway?
00:50:42.24\00:50:45.81
The enemy is going
to say after healing
00:50:45.84\00:50:47.48
all manner of
diseases as it were.
00:50:47.51\00:50:49.91
Dazzling brightness and shining
00:50:49.94\00:50:51.41
and just like you
just can't figure it out,
00:50:51.45\00:50:53.38
except you know, he didn't
come in the clouds of glory.
00:50:53.42\00:50:55.78
He just showed up at this place
and he showed up over there,
00:50:55.82\00:50:58.12
right then and
there you know he's false.
00:50:58.15\00:51:01.19
When Christ comes
a second time is in,
00:51:01.22\00:51:02.66
His feet does not
touch the ground, right?
00:51:02.69\00:51:05.99
1 Thessalonians
4:16, right, says,
00:51:06.03\00:51:07.76
"The dead in
Christ rise," what?"
00:51:07.80\00:51:09.13
First.
00:51:09.16\00:51:10.50
We which are alive and
remain will be caught up
00:51:10.53\00:51:12.23
to meet Him in the air,
00:51:12.27\00:51:13.84
so shall we ever
be with the Lord."
00:51:13.87\00:51:15.20
We go back for
the thousand years,
00:51:15.24\00:51:16.57
after thousand
years we come back,
00:51:16.60\00:51:17.94
the New Jerusalem comes back.
00:51:17.97\00:51:19.37
City comes down, right?
00:51:19.41\00:51:21.38
And then surrounded,
00:51:21.41\00:51:22.74
the wicked come up
second resurrection,
00:51:22.78\00:51:24.48
Revelation 20.
00:51:24.51\00:51:25.85
And then fire comes down
00:51:25.88\00:51:27.22
from God out of
heaven and destroys.
00:51:27.25\00:51:28.58
Just put it real quickly there.
00:51:28.62\00:51:32.05
It says here, he says,
00:51:32.09\00:51:33.42
"I've changed the
Sabbath to Sunday.
00:51:33.46\00:51:36.69
And he commands all,"
00:51:36.73\00:51:38.33
notice the all
00:51:38.36\00:51:39.69
"to hallowed the day
which he has blessed."
00:51:39.73\00:51:43.20
He knows that God
blessed the seventh day.
00:51:43.23\00:51:46.20
When God blesses something,
it can't be changed or altered,
00:51:46.23\00:51:48.27
can it not?
00:51:48.30\00:51:49.64
They can't. But
he says now what?
00:51:49.67\00:51:51.21
I've changed it.
00:51:51.24\00:51:53.17
I've blessed this day.
Isn't that interesting?
00:51:53.21\00:51:55.71
I find in my
Bible in Daniel 7:25,
00:51:55.74\00:51:58.61
the Bible said this enemy,
00:51:58.65\00:51:59.98
this power, right,
00:52:00.02\00:52:01.35
working through
the papacy at the time,
00:52:01.38\00:52:02.72
he shall think to
change times and laws.
00:52:02.75\00:52:06.22
See, devil's
exposing himself right here
00:52:06.25\00:52:08.89
is he's the one
00:52:08.92\00:52:10.26
that worked through the
papacy to make this law.
00:52:10.29\00:52:12.73
Did you get it?
00:52:12.76\00:52:15.50
He said, "I changed it."
00:52:15.53\00:52:17.50
But he uses man
and powers and things
00:52:17.53\00:52:19.50
to get his work done.
00:52:19.53\00:52:21.24
That's heavy
duty. Yes, absolutely.
00:52:21.27\00:52:23.04
Deception and lies.
00:52:23.07\00:52:25.87
Quickly, only three
minutes and so left in.
00:52:25.91\00:52:28.41
Will there ever come a time
00:52:28.44\00:52:29.78
when every earthly
supports going to be cut off?
00:52:29.81\00:52:32.08
If you are faithful, we say,
00:52:32.11\00:52:33.48
"Oh, I know
it's going to happen.
00:52:33.52\00:52:34.85
It's going to happen."
00:52:34.88\00:52:36.22
You got to be faithful first.
00:52:36.25\00:52:39.62
Then you'll see every error.
00:52:39.65\00:52:40.99
How you're going to be though
00:52:41.02\00:52:42.36
when you don't
have a check coming in?
00:52:42.39\00:52:43.73
How you going to be?
How's your wife going to act?
00:52:43.76\00:52:45.99
You don't have
food on the table,
00:52:46.03\00:52:47.36
how's the kids going to act
00:52:47.40\00:52:48.73
when there's no
food on the table?
00:52:48.76\00:52:50.93
Right now, if there's
just a little short time
00:52:50.97\00:52:52.63
and don't have money
00:52:52.67\00:52:54.00
to pay a car
payment or whatever it is,
00:52:54.04\00:52:55.37
the husband and
wife are fighting,
00:52:55.40\00:52:56.74
the kids are leaving home.
00:52:56.77\00:52:58.54
Okay.
00:52:58.57\00:53:00.64
It doesn't take
much is what I'm saying.
00:53:00.68\00:53:02.24
But when it gets down to
the real McCoy like this,
00:53:02.28\00:53:05.21
there's no
beans in the cupboard.
00:53:05.25\00:53:07.98
Desire of Ages 121 says quickly.
00:53:08.02\00:53:10.02
"In the last great conflict
of the controversy with Satan
00:53:10.05\00:53:13.29
those who are loyal to God
00:53:13.32\00:53:14.72
will see every
earthly support cut off.
00:53:14.76\00:53:17.63
Every earthly
support will be cut off.
00:53:17.66\00:53:21.93
Support is going to be withdrawn
00:53:21.96\00:53:23.57
from those who
proclaim God's holy standard,
00:53:23.60\00:53:26.40
the commandments of God,
Second Selected Messages 380.
00:53:26.43\00:53:29.70
2 SM 380.
00:53:29.74\00:53:31.37
And we could read Joel
1:15 if we had time to do it.
00:53:31.41\00:53:34.88
It talks about
the meat offerings
00:53:34.91\00:53:36.28
and the drink offerings.
00:53:36.31\00:53:37.65
They're cut off, notice,
from the house of the Lord.
00:53:37.68\00:53:40.05
That means the priest
and the ministers mourn.
00:53:40.08\00:53:42.58
Why?
00:53:42.62\00:53:43.95
Because that's
where they got their,
00:53:43.99\00:53:45.32
made their living.
00:53:45.35\00:53:46.69
It means the times
coming that's all over,
00:53:46.72\00:53:48.39
you don't get it anymore.
00:53:48.42\00:53:50.59
We are appointed to a sword
and to famine and pestilence.
00:53:50.63\00:53:56.90
I don't, can't
read all the stuff.
00:53:56.93\00:53:58.27
Now Joel 1:15-18 says that,
00:53:58.30\00:54:00.97
"Alas for the day!
00:54:01.00\00:54:02.34
For the day of
the Lord is in hand.
00:54:02.37\00:54:04.31
The seed is
rotten under the clods,
00:54:04.34\00:54:07.08
the garners are laid desolate,
00:54:07.11\00:54:09.18
the barns are broken
down, the corn is withered,
00:54:09.21\00:54:13.58
the herds of
cattle are perplexed
00:54:13.62\00:54:15.92
because they have no pasture."
00:54:15.95\00:54:19.62
Certainly applied
to Joel in his day
00:54:19.65\00:54:22.72
but, oh, man what a prediction
00:54:22.76\00:54:24.26
right to the
final day of judgment
00:54:24.29\00:54:26.83
when Jesus comes.
00:54:26.86\00:54:28.56
Joel 2:1 simply says what?
00:54:28.60\00:54:30.43
"Blow the trumpet in Zion.
00:54:30.47\00:54:33.13
Sound the whole
alarm in my holy mountain."
00:54:33.17\00:54:36.64
Man, don't be satisfied
with your spiritual condition.
00:54:36.67\00:54:39.81
Never sit back and just say
I'm happy the way that I am.
00:54:39.84\00:54:44.31
No.
00:54:44.35\00:54:45.68
We need to be ever
moving onward and forward
00:54:45.71\00:54:47.08
by the grace and power of God
to do what He's asked us to do.
00:54:47.12\00:54:50.25
And yes, it will cost.
00:54:50.29\00:54:52.35
Yes, it will cost you.
00:54:52.39\00:54:53.72
Heaven's going to
cost, but you know what?
00:54:53.76\00:54:55.59
It's worth it.
00:54:55.62\00:54:57.33
It will be worth it
someday when we shall see Jesus.
00:54:57.36\00:55:02.00
No time for
sleeping, we must awake.
00:55:02.03\00:55:04.57
I wish we had time to get it,
00:55:04.60\00:55:05.93
talk about
getting out of the cities.
00:55:05.97\00:55:07.54
It's time now that we get out.
00:55:07.57\00:55:08.94
It's time that we're
able to grow our own food.
00:55:08.97\00:55:11.21
Because we realize
00:55:11.24\00:55:12.57
it's going to
be a very big issue
00:55:12.61\00:55:13.94
in the very near future.
00:55:13.98\00:55:16.04
May God help us to
see the importance of it.
00:55:16.08\00:55:18.95
Let me have a
quick prayer with you.
00:55:18.98\00:55:20.52
Have time to finish it
00:55:20.55\00:55:21.88
with a little
quick prayer together
00:55:21.92\00:55:23.25
as we go out right now.
00:55:23.28\00:55:24.62
Let's just pray together.
00:55:24.65\00:55:26.35
Loving Father in heaven,
we thank You for Your Word.
00:55:26.39\00:55:28.46
Thank You for the
power of the Word.
00:55:28.49\00:55:29.82
Thank You for reminding us
of who You are and who we are,
00:55:29.86\00:55:32.13
and that we need to be ready.
00:55:32.16\00:55:33.50
Thank You for hearing,
thank You for answering prayer,
00:55:33.53\00:55:34.96
decisions that
are made right now
00:55:35.00\00:55:36.60
in Jesus' name, amen.
00:55:36.63\00:55:39.87
Hello and welcome back.
00:55:39.90\00:55:41.50
Our hope must be fixed
00:55:41.54\00:55:43.14
upon the end of
this war over God's law
00:55:43.17\00:55:46.27
while our lives are
brought into an extreme test
00:55:46.31\00:55:50.11
of faithfulness to God's Word.
00:55:50.15\00:55:52.21
Faithfulness to His law.
00:55:52.25\00:55:54.02
And in particular,
00:55:54.05\00:55:55.38
the fourth commandment
00:55:55.42\00:55:56.75
that deals with the
keeping of God's Sabbath
00:55:56.79\00:55:59.35
since that is the commandment
00:55:59.39\00:56:01.32
that men have
forgotten in opposition
00:56:01.36\00:56:03.59
to God's command to remember.
00:56:03.63\00:56:06.53
Please take the time
necessary to know God's Word,
00:56:06.56\00:56:11.13
to allow His law to be written
00:56:11.17\00:56:13.37
upon our hearts and in our minds
00:56:13.40\00:56:16.10
so that we will
stand for the truth,
00:56:16.14\00:56:18.21
even though it will cut us
off from our earthly support.
00:56:18.24\00:56:22.91
Think about this,
00:56:22.94\00:56:24.28
Pastor Kenny just brought
this out in his message to you,
00:56:24.31\00:56:28.32
but we are not the first people
00:56:28.35\00:56:30.49
to face such
trial and temptations.
00:56:30.52\00:56:32.95
Think back to the
three Hebrews that stood
00:56:32.99\00:56:35.69
and would not bow
00:56:35.72\00:56:37.06
and worship to King
Nebuchadnezzar's statue
00:56:37.09\00:56:39.69
and the Daniel who did
not stop nor hide his praying
00:56:39.73\00:56:42.93
to the Most High God in heaven
00:56:42.96\00:56:45.03
and so on are the
examples in Scripture.
00:56:45.07\00:56:48.80
We are no better
than those Christians
00:56:48.84\00:56:50.91
who have come before us,
00:56:50.94\00:56:52.61
who endured
imprisonment, torture, death,
00:56:52.64\00:56:55.78
preferring to stand for truth
00:56:55.81\00:56:57.71
rather than to sin
for a short season.
00:56:57.75\00:57:01.22
Our world is rapidly changing
and rapidly coming to an end.
00:57:01.25\00:57:05.15
We must have a
relationship with Christ
00:57:05.19\00:57:07.59
that we do not now have.
00:57:07.62\00:57:10.29
God's standard is holy
00:57:10.33\00:57:11.76
and His people
will stand for Him
00:57:11.79\00:57:14.13
in holy righteousness.
00:57:14.16\00:57:15.86
God will, Christ
will never leave us,
00:57:15.90\00:57:18.47
He will never forsake us.
00:57:18.50\00:57:20.27
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00:57:20.30\00:57:22.67
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