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 joining us.
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Today's message is entitled,
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"Are Popes infallible?"
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If you were to Google the
infallibility of the pope,
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this is part of what
you would read on Wikipedia.
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Reading:
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"Papal infallibility is a
dogma of the Catholic Church
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which states that
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in virtue of the
promise of Jesus to Peter,
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the pope when appealing
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to his highest
authority is preserved
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from the possibility
of error on doctrine,
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initially given to
the apostolic church
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and handed down in
Scripture and tradition."
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I would immediately agree
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that it was handed
down through tradition.
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But, is the notion of
the pope's infallibility
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supported by Scripture
with such an important claim?
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Is it possible
that God forewarned us
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that there would
be a power on earth
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that would claim infallibility?
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After all, most of
us would agree that
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God Himself is infallible.
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Would that not be
assuming a divine characteristic
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that pertains to God alone,
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or more clearly
pertains to a God on earth?
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These questions are
just food for thought
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that I'm
throwing out and no doubt,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton will
be giving us biblical food
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that we should really chew
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on when assuming or
accepting the Catholic teaching
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that the popes are infallible.
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I mean, think about it,
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what other religious figure
in our world do you know of
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that every world leader
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bows in reverence
to their very presence
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and will open their
hearts to His councils
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and that are currently putting
into operation his agendas,
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especially now
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that we are
dealing with climate change
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and universal unrest.
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But before we join
Pastor Kenny Shelton
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for this message entitled,
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"Are Popes Infallible,"
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let's visit 3ABN
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and be blessed by
Alessandra Sorace,
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as she sings from her heart,
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"The Refiner's Fire."
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There burns a
fire With sacred heat
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White hot with holy flame
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And all who dare
Pass through its blaze
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Will not emerge the same
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Some as bronze,
And some as silver
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Some as gold,
Then with great skill
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All are hammered
By their sufferings
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On the anvil of His will
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The Refiner's fire
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Has now become My souls desire
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Purged and cleansed And purified
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That the Lord be glorified
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He is consuming my soul
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Refining me,
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Making me whole
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No matter what I may lose
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I choose the Refiner's fire
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I'm learning now
To trust His touch
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To crave the fire's embrace
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For though My past
with sin was etched
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His mercies did erase
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Each time His
purging cleanses deeper
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I'm not sure that I'll survive
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Yet the strength
In growing weaker
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Keeps my hungry soul alive
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The Refiner's fire
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Has now become my souls desire
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Purged and cleansed And purified
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That the Lord be glorified
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He is consuming my soul
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Refining me,
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Making me whole
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No matter what I may lose
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I choose the Refiner's fire
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Thank you for
joining us once again here
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at Behold the Lamb Ministries.
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And as always, it is a blessed,
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privileged to be able to
study the Word of God with you.
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You know, we need
to be studying now
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more than ever before
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with all the things
that's going on in the world.
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You will need to put
God first in everything,
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we need to put Him first
not things of this world,
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not our
business, not anything here
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but God first
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because there's things
that are happening right now.
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I'm telling you, my friends,
my brothers and sisters,
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we're going to need
Christ more than ever before.
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So again, thank
you for your prayers,
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thank you for your support.
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Thank you for your
tax deductible gifts
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that you give
to Behold the Lamb.
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Some people
grimace when I say that,
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but let them grimace
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because you know,
I believe right now,
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we say the gospel is free,
but it costs to get it out.
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And so, but we want to
continue to get it out.
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And we want it to
increase, not decrease,
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not just kind of hold the lines.
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We should be ever increasing,
right, in the cause of Christ,
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looking for more
ways and opportunities
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to get the
message into every home.
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And I'm very grateful and
thankful for those who are.
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I don't sound to say
this in a negative way,
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but there are many
who are in prisons,
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many who are in jail,
and many of them get 3ABN.
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How wonderful it is
as we receive those cards
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and those letters
and say how instrumental,
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and we realize the
Holy Spirit does all things,
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instrumental in them
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accepting Christ
and living the life
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and being baptized.
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And so, one guy, we
just got one this week
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and haven't
given to anybody yet.
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But I think he's been
in prison for 18 years.
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And he just want
to praise God for 3ABN
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and for Behold the Lamb.
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And so we praise God for
that opportunity in prison,
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isn't that wonderful!
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How would we ever get,
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he's from the California prison?
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We would never be
able to talk to him
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except every day.
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He said every week, every week,
every week, Behold the Lamb.
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So every week we'll
watch these programs.
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Praise God for that.
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Today, we're going to
be looking at a subject
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and I'm just impressed,
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I'll just, I'll
tell you up front,
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I've fought it all week,
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you know in prayer in the Lord
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because I said, you know,
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how straight is straight,
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you know, as
Christians to give the message,
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how straight
should it really be?
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It's going to hurt somebody.
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And it's not meant to.
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There's going
to be people upset.
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We don't want them upset.
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There's going to be people
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who will rise up
against the straight testimony
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and the truth that's
going to be presented here.
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In fact, probably
the next couple of times
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we meet together.
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Our subject is going to be our,
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you know, think
about, are popes infallible.
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Now this can go in a
lot of different directions,
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are popes infallible?
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I think it's a
legitimate question
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because we want to see
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if they are
infallible or if they're not,
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and then we need to look
and study from the Word of God,
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to see what's being taught
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to literally millions
and millions of people
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around the world.
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And do we just
leave things alone
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because we don't
want to upset someone?
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If they're preaching
and teaching untruths,
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if they got a
lot of their teaching
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from paganism,
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and brought over and as we
say, baptized into Christianity,
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or can you call a church
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that's not
teaching from the Bible,
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a Christian church?
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And do you want
to be a part of that?
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There's a lot of
questions and many more
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that we're going
to answer as we go
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because some
people will say this,
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Brother Jansen, some
people are going to say this.
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We need to be real
careful of what we say.
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I'm in agreement with that.
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And I say it, you
know, to you, and I still,
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I've kind of
struggled with it all week long,
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because some of the statements
I'm going to read in from Bible
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and Spirit of
Prophecy could be hurtful.
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If you're looking for
truth, it will not hurt you.
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I always said, my
mother said after a sermon,
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sometimes she'll say,
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should give me a hug as
she walked out the door,
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she say,
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"Son, you sure stepped
on your mother's toes today.
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But thank you."
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See, you stepped on her toes,
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but thank you
rather than I'm mad at you.
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And I don't want
to hear it anymore.
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This deserves a lot of prayer.
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I prayed about it all week.
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And I just, I feel
that it's way past time.
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Way past time to quit,
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you know, merely malling around
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with the
message we have to give.
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We always say that the
enemy needs to be exposed.
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Sin needs to be
called by its right name.
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But sometimes when we do that,
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somebody gets a
little bit upset.
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People write in, people call.
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They call you names.
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You know, it's okay with me.
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Because I go
back to the, you know,
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when you chop the wood down,
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I go back and I
look at the chips,
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and see what the chips say.
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And if it's
harmonized with Scripture,
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then so be it.
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We have a job to do.
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I'm going to pray
and kneel and pray.
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And I ask that you would do it.
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I know, it's kind
of a long opening here
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and never meant to do that.
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But it's still on my heart
because this is such a subject,
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such a subject
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that we're going
to look at today.
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And we pray the Holy
Spirit will be present.
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If not, we're not
going to get anywhere.
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But I believe the Holy
Spirit is going to be present.
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Shall we pray together?
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Merciful Father in heaven,
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thank You for the privilege
of presenting Your Word.
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When I look at my
own heart, my own life
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and I see that
nothing I can give,
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nothing I can
say, nothing I can do
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will bring conviction,
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or bring home the
truth as it is in Jesus.
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But I know the Holy Spirit can.
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So I ask that You would help me
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to stand behind the
cross of Calvary today.
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May Jesus be seen and
felt and may be heard.
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May He be lifted up.
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We realize it's
not an easy subject.
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But, Lord, You can make it easy
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on those who
are honest in heart.
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Those who are not
might rise in opposition,
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but we pray for
Your Holy Spirit.
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Take possession of
my heart and my mind,
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forgive me of any sin,
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anything my heart and
life that needs not be there,
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oh Lord, I need
to hear from heaven,
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Your people need
to hear from heaven.
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We need to realize
the hour in which we live,
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bless us, we pray this thing
as we study in Jesus' name,
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amen.
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I want to start off
with just reading a quote
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and then we're going to
read the passage of scripture
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that we read before.
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But I want to start with a quote
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that found in the book
of Testimonies to Ministers.
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And there are several pages,
I just love for everybody.
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Some of you don't have the book,
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we can always help
with things like that.
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We love to send out books,
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we love to send
out Spirit of Prophecy,
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we love to send out Bibles,
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we love to send out
The Great Controversy,
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we love to send
out the Desire of Ages.
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And I think we
should offer that.
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Every program that we have,
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we want to offer
books that we can send out
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so that we can
have some response
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when people are
calling and writing in,
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and they want to know more
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about what's
going on in this world.
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And I wanna tell you,
if you're one of those
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who want to know more
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of what's going on
in the world today,
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you are rare.
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Can I say that?
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You're rare.
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You've
difficulty to find somebody
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that wants to talk about Jesus
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that wants to hear
these beautiful truths
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in God's word.
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But God has them, doesn't
He? He said, go to where?
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The highways and
the byways, doesn't He?
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And compel them to come in.
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From the book,
Testimonies to Ministers,
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and again, if you take
pages 105 to about 119,
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it'll just set you on fire.
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I'm just going to read
just one paragraph in that,
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in that area.
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And notice, it says,
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"In the very
time in which we live,
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the Lord has called His people
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and has given them
a message to bear."
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What happened? Who's called us?
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God has called us to
give a specific message.
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"He has called them to expose,
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to expose the
wickedness of the man of sin."
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He has called us to do what?
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To expose the
wickedness of the man of sin.
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We're going to
identify the man of sin quickly
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as we can today
and by God's grace,
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going to be
uncovered, going to be exposed,
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because that's what it says.
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That's what our scripture is
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and we'll read in just a moment.
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"And the one the man of
sin who has made Sunday law,
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a distinctive power,"
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we realize
that's on the horizon,
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"who has thought to
change times and laws,"
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identifying mark of
the man of sin, isn't it?
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"To oppress the people of God,
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who stand firmly to honor Him
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by keeping the
only true Sabbath,
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the Sabbath of
creation as holy unto the Lord."
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Just two more lines, notice,
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"The perils of these last days."
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Do you sense it?
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There's perils
of these last days.
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God have mercy on us
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if we don't
sense that right now.
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We should sense that.
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I know spiritual things
are spiritually discerned.
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If we're not sensing it
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is because maybe
we're not spiritual.
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Is that okay to think that way?
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There are things
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that are getting
ready to erupt right now,
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that will never be
put back together again.
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This could be it.
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Only God knows,
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but the things are set
up to where it will go,
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it will go very quickly.
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The perils of the
last days are upon us.
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And in our work,
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we are to warn the
people of the danger
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that they are in.
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What's the council?
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Inspiration says
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we are to warn
the people of what?
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Of the danger that they are in.
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So those who are getting up
wasting the congregation's time
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or the members of
the churches time,
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shame on you if
you're doing that.
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We're supposed to be
warning. Is that not right?
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Warning of the
perils that we are in
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because we're in the last days.
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If you're one of those
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that kind of pull
your pants up a little bit,
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"Well, I've heard that all
my life, blah, blah, blah,"
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you're in trouble.
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You are in trouble big time.
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You say, "Well,
we don't know it."
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You may be on your last leg.
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I may be on my last leg.
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This may be it.
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I get up every day with
that thought in my mind.
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This could be it, Kenny for you.
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That's not to go around
long faced all the time.
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Here's what,
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we need to do
what we're going to do
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and do it
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the way God would have
us to do it for that day
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because that may be it.
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I don't have to
wait for this and this
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and this to take place.
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I may not be up,
I may not wake up.
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How many people
die in their sleep?
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Or in accident on the road?
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Lord, have mercy.
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Our scripture
reading as we read before
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in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.
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If you allow me
to read it again,
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I may read it again and
again before this is over.
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Because it is so powerful,
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we need not go
any farther than this.
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2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 4,
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starts out the Bible says,
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don't you love it?
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What is it? Who says it?
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The Bible says, right?
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The Bible says, I love that.
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The Bible says,
"Let no man," what?
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"Deceive you by any means."
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Be careful.
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The devil is a
great deceiver, is he not?
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"For that day shall not
come except there come a," what?
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"A falling away.
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There come a falling away first,
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and that man of
sin be revealed."
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God is saying in His Word what?
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We'll talk about
this more as we go on.
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So don't say oh, he's repeating
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because I am going to repeat
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because I think
it bears repeating
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so that we get it.
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I want to get it
and maybe I doesn't,
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you've got it a long
time ago, praise God for that.
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It takes me several
times to go over it to get it.
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Notice it says right there,
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there come a falling away first
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that the man of sin
is going to be revealed.
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I mean, there's
going to be come a time
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that the disguise is ripped off.
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And we're going to
know exactly who it is.
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And should we not
then be sounding an alarm
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in his holy mountain,
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I believe the son of perdition.
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Bible says, verse 4.
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Now notice, this power
is going to oppose, right,
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exalted himself above
all that is called God.
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So this is a religious
power that's going to do what?
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That's going to set
himself up above God.
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As it were, he is going to
take God out of the temple,
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he's going to try
and take God's seat,
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he's going to sit in God's seat.
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And he's going to
want your worship.
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And he's going
to fool the world.
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The majority of the world
is going to be fooled on this
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because we
realize the old enemy,
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but remember the devil himself.
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All we're talking about
today is the devil first.
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But notice devil uses powers
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and people and whatever might be
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to accomplish His purpose.
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And we have to be aware of that.
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Notice this, so
these are identifying marks
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above that is called
God or that is worship.
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Notice who we're
dealing with, worship again.
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So that as he as God
sitteth in the temple of God
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showing himself he is God.
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Wow. How
blasphemous can you get?
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Heard one guy say
one time, he said,
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"You know, I don't
mind to be preached to,
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I just don't want
to be preached at."
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Is there a difference?
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I think...
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, I think that's
what it with the individual.
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You see, other
words, they don't,
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some things they
don't want to hear.
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So that, oh,
he's preaching at me,
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instead of to me.
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So if you sense
that, please don't sit.
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That's not what
I'm about up here,
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but I do feel an urgency.
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I do feel an urgency.
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And I feel a
hurting inside some time
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because the world
is basically deceived.
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And that's what the Bible said
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the world is
going to be deceived
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all the world, right,
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that they wonder after the beast
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and there are those
whose names are not written
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in the Lamb's book of life.
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I repeat it over
and over, I've got to.
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That's why we're concerned,
00:20:04.97\00:20:06.30
that's why we
want to talk about it.
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And that's why
it's not something
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you just stand up here and say,
00:20:09.07\00:20:10.41
"Well, you know..."
00:20:10.44\00:20:11.77
No, listen, the
enemy is at work.
00:20:11.81\00:20:15.04
And we've got to be
at work for our master.
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So this power
then is showing himself
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that he is God.
00:20:21.52\00:20:23.82
Now, why do we want to
talk about these things,
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and that's why I'm
going to follow this.
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So this would be the
first, not the first part
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but this would be
one sermon in itself.
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But the next one is going to be,
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we're going to
call it like Plan B.
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It's going to go right along
00:20:35.66\00:20:37.00
with what I'm
talking about right now.
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Because there's
too much information,
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try to get out all at once,
00:20:39.83\00:20:41.30
at least, maybe
because I'm slow.
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But there's too much information
00:20:44.21\00:20:45.57
and we'll kind of go
along with that as we go.
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But remember, we
must think with right now,
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I think it was
just a few days ago,
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October the 3rd
00:20:53.65\00:20:54.98
that Pope Francis came
out with his third encyclical.
00:20:55.02\00:20:59.02
Is that right? We
got that in our head.
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He came out with his third book.
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Now remember, why
am I worried about.
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Listen, sometime in Adventist
we spent a whole lot time,
00:21:04.19\00:21:06.46
eyes focused on the pope,
00:21:06.49\00:21:08.60
when we should be
focused on Protestantism.
00:21:08.63\00:21:10.67
And what Protestants are doing?
00:21:10.70\00:21:12.33
Are you still with me,
even though you can do both.
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Think about,
00:21:17.21\00:21:18.54
the Catholic Church is
waiting for the Protestant
00:21:18.57\00:21:19.91
to turn the power over to them,
00:21:19.94\00:21:21.28
and then they're
going to rise up again.
00:21:21.31\00:21:23.21
The wound be healed.
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But I wanna say
this nice as I can.
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I don't want you
studying his books as it were.
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Is it okay to say that?
00:21:31.92\00:21:33.29
His encyclical.
00:21:33.32\00:21:34.66
But I think it'd be good
if we read over those things,
00:21:34.69\00:21:36.49
because he lays out
right before your eyes,
00:21:36.52\00:21:39.96
the plan that he has
to take over this world.
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He lays it right out
before us and most of us,
00:21:43.90\00:21:47.47
we just don't get it sometime.
00:21:47.50\00:21:49.77
But he does it
right where he say,
00:21:49.80\00:21:51.14
"Well, surely no one
will lay out their plan."
00:21:51.17\00:21:52.51
Yeah, he lays out his plan
00:21:52.54\00:21:53.88
because he knows most
of us are not going to say
00:21:53.91\00:21:55.24
or do anything about it.
00:21:55.28\00:21:57.98
But people in high places
are listening to the pope.
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May I say that?
00:22:01.22\00:22:04.19
Are popes infallible,
00:22:04.22\00:22:05.59
that's the question
we're going to be answering
00:22:05.62\00:22:07.16
and going over right here.
00:22:07.19\00:22:08.52
We have to think about it.
00:22:08.56\00:22:10.06
Remember, He lays out this plan.
00:22:10.09\00:22:13.09
And he knows that
if He lays this plan
00:22:13.13\00:22:14.60
out and gets enough people,
00:22:14.63\00:22:15.96
they're going to follow His plan
00:22:16.00\00:22:17.43
and they're going to,
00:22:17.47\00:22:18.80
He's going to be
pushing the world
00:22:18.83\00:22:20.20
in His agenda.
00:22:20.24\00:22:21.57
He has an agenda
00:22:21.60\00:22:22.94
and He's going to
be pushing that agenda.
00:22:22.97\00:22:24.94
He wants to change the world.
00:22:24.97\00:22:28.04
And the Bible indicates
that He will change the world.
00:22:28.08\00:22:32.01
Catholicism and Protestantism
as it were joining together,
00:22:32.05\00:22:35.72
it will change the
world the way that we know it.
00:22:35.75\00:22:40.32
Someone
complained several, someone's
00:22:40.36\00:22:43.39
complaining sometime
00:22:43.43\00:22:44.76
because I said, boy,
I'd like for it to be
00:22:44.79\00:22:46.70
like it used to be.
00:22:46.73\00:22:48.10
Oh, they just got so mad.
00:22:48.13\00:22:49.46
They could hardly stand it.
00:22:49.50\00:22:50.83
Well, you haven't
lived in my shoes.
00:22:50.87\00:22:52.20
I'm not trying to
live in your shoes.
00:22:52.23\00:22:53.97
I'm just referring
back to my own life.
00:22:54.00\00:22:55.80
It wasn't
perfect and we were poor
00:22:55.84\00:22:57.44
and we didn't have very much,
00:22:57.47\00:22:58.81
but I'm talking
about the joy and the peace
00:22:58.84\00:23:00.28
and the quietness
and not like crime
00:23:00.31\00:23:02.24
and all the lawlessness is
going on in the world today.
00:23:02.28\00:23:04.58
It was just a different world,
00:23:04.61\00:23:05.95
and for those who
live in a different place
00:23:05.98\00:23:07.68
of their country and so on
00:23:07.72\00:23:09.05
and it's been bad for you,
00:23:09.08\00:23:10.42
I feel bad about that.
00:23:10.45\00:23:11.82
But I'd like to
be able to relate,
00:23:11.85\00:23:13.69
wouldn't you?
00:23:13.72\00:23:15.06
I think it's a freedom of speech
00:23:15.09\00:23:16.42
to be able to relate.
00:23:16.46\00:23:17.79
I'm just saying, I wish I
could go in like we used to
00:23:17.83\00:23:19.73
and sleep in front
of the screen door.
00:23:19.76\00:23:23.10
All we had was a window fan.
00:23:23.13\00:23:24.47
Is somebody's still with me?
00:23:24.50\00:23:25.90
We had a window fan and
it's too hot in the house,
00:23:25.93\00:23:28.50
no such thing as air condition.
00:23:28.54\00:23:31.01
And we turn that window fan
on and two or three of us guys
00:23:31.04\00:23:33.84
as it were we'd
lay right on the floor.
00:23:33.88\00:23:37.15
I mean, it
doesn't, come on somebody.
00:23:37.18\00:23:38.65
It doesn't do any good to
lock screen door, does it?
00:23:38.68\00:23:43.45
What goes into...
00:23:43.49\00:23:45.09
You know, we didn't,
00:23:45.12\00:23:46.45
but we didn't
have to worry about,
00:23:46.49\00:23:47.82
didn't even lock it.
00:23:47.86\00:23:49.46
Didn't worry about it.
00:23:49.49\00:23:50.83
Windows were open here,
00:23:50.86\00:23:52.19
the bathroom window
00:23:52.23\00:23:53.56
and other windows
over here in the house.
00:23:53.60\00:23:54.93
Nobody's stood guard
over the windows at night.
00:23:54.96\00:23:58.03
We slept sound.
00:23:58.07\00:24:00.80
Let me enjoy that.
00:24:00.84\00:24:04.41
You enjoy those thoughts
00:24:04.44\00:24:06.34
that God has
given you in your life.
00:24:06.37\00:24:08.14
It's okay.
00:24:08.18\00:24:09.51
But the pope says the world's
going to change to his agenda
00:24:12.48\00:24:16.72
and he says we're going
to make it a Catholic world.
00:24:16.75\00:24:19.05
And when it's made,
00:24:22.09\00:24:23.56
when it's made a Catholic world,
00:24:23.59\00:24:25.16
remember your
religious freedom is gone.
00:24:25.19\00:24:27.43
Is somebody with me?
00:24:27.46\00:24:28.93
Lights make my
nose run, is that okay?
00:24:28.96\00:24:31.00
It's going to take
away your religious freedom.
00:24:36.64\00:24:39.07
I like my religious freedom.
00:24:39.11\00:24:42.28
I believe we should
have religious freedom.
00:24:42.31\00:24:44.38
I think you should have.
00:24:44.41\00:24:45.75
Why can't we be open
enough to say to one another,
00:24:45.78\00:24:49.88
you can say,
00:24:49.92\00:24:51.25
"I don't love God,
00:24:51.29\00:24:52.62
and I'm not going to serve Him."
00:24:52.65\00:24:54.22
I don't want to hear that.
00:24:54.26\00:24:55.59
But I will listen
and I respect that.
00:24:55.62\00:24:57.03
That's your decision.
00:24:57.06\00:25:00.16
We should be able
to say we love God,
00:25:00.20\00:25:01.56
we want to serve God.
00:25:01.60\00:25:03.63
We want to have that
freedom to or not to,
00:25:03.67\00:25:07.00
as God has given us, but
that's not going to happen.
00:25:07.04\00:25:09.60
His new encyclical,
00:25:09.64\00:25:13.78
I guess it's Fratelli tutti.
00:25:13.81\00:25:18.05
Is somebody still with me?
00:25:18.08\00:25:20.65
Fratelli
00:25:20.68\00:25:22.02
that's in his native
language there, Italian,
00:25:22.05\00:25:27.09
tutti simply means and
I understand this better,
00:25:27.12\00:25:30.16
brothers and sisters, all.
00:25:30.19\00:25:33.56
So the papacy is saying,
he wants us to all be what?
00:25:33.60\00:25:36.67
Brothers and sisters.
00:25:36.70\00:25:39.70
It covers social,
it covers political,
00:25:39.73\00:25:42.54
and, it covers the economics.
00:25:42.57\00:25:45.44
The obligation,
he says of all of us.
00:25:45.47\00:25:49.51
If we want to continue in
the world that we live in,
00:25:49.54\00:25:52.21
he says we're going
to have to join together.
00:25:52.25\00:25:55.78
The document indicates
00:25:55.82\00:25:57.29
and again, you
can go through it,
00:25:57.32\00:25:58.82
it's out, you can get the book.
00:25:58.85\00:26:02.46
He lays out the future of
this, what he calls this world,
00:26:02.49\00:26:06.49
the church and the people.
00:26:06.53\00:26:09.40
And he said people of
goodwill and of common goals.
00:26:09.43\00:26:14.87
The responsibility
of building it together.
00:26:14.90\00:26:18.04
So he said if we
all join together,
00:26:18.07\00:26:19.41
and we all kind
of believe alike,
00:26:19.44\00:26:20.78
and we let all the
differences just go,
00:26:20.81\00:26:22.54
we'll all build
this world together
00:26:22.58\00:26:24.58
and he focuses on many things,
00:26:24.61\00:26:26.31
but five I picked out quickly.
00:26:26.35\00:26:28.12
He picked out, notice it,
equal dignity of all people.
00:26:28.15\00:26:32.92
If you look at all of them,
00:26:32.95\00:26:34.29
they all sound
good on the surface,
00:26:34.32\00:26:35.66
but the way he
uses them is incredible.
00:26:35.69\00:26:39.26
Equal dignity of all people.
00:26:39.29\00:26:41.83
And then he
focused on number two,
00:26:41.86\00:26:43.23
he focuses in on
the poor, it's good.
00:26:43.26\00:26:45.93
Three, universal
destination of goods.
00:26:45.97\00:26:49.90
What was that?
00:26:49.94\00:26:51.41
Universal destination of goods?
00:26:51.44\00:26:53.78
What is he saying?
00:26:53.81\00:26:55.14
You know what he's
saying right there?
00:26:55.18\00:26:56.51
Brother Jan, you have a...
00:26:56.54\00:26:57.88
Not that you do, you
have a whole lot of goods,
00:26:57.91\00:26:59.95
Kenny doesn't have any,
00:26:59.98\00:27:01.32
so I'm going to
take what you have,
00:27:01.35\00:27:02.68
and I'm going to
distribute equally to everybody.
00:27:02.72\00:27:06.05
And it's okay.
00:27:06.09\00:27:07.96
Really, if you
look at it, it's real,
00:27:07.99\00:27:09.32
it's really
gorgeous to a certain extent,
00:27:09.36\00:27:11.79
is if the person
doesn't want to give that up
00:27:11.83\00:27:13.46
and put it all in
the hat as it were,
00:27:13.50\00:27:15.76
it's okay to go
and steal it from him
00:27:15.80\00:27:17.43
because you're not
for the common good.
00:27:17.47\00:27:20.57
We know stealing is not right.
00:27:20.60\00:27:22.54
In other words,
00:27:22.57\00:27:23.91
take from the rich
and give to the what?
00:27:23.94\00:27:25.61
Poor.
00:27:25.64\00:27:28.38
Now the poor, it
says sound pretty good.
00:27:28.41\00:27:29.88
But listen,
00:27:29.91\00:27:31.25
that's not very
Christian like at all.
00:27:31.28\00:27:32.61
I don't see,
there's some problems there.
00:27:32.65\00:27:34.65
And then he's going to
focus on the environment.
00:27:34.68\00:27:37.85
He's going to
focus on climate change
00:27:37.89\00:27:39.42
that we've
talked about for months,
00:27:39.45\00:27:40.79
as you well know,
00:27:40.82\00:27:42.16
that will bring
about a Sunday law.
00:27:42.19\00:27:44.53
Please.
00:27:44.56\00:27:46.03
You can't say it enough,
00:27:46.06\00:27:47.40
even though he said
well, you said that before.
00:27:47.43\00:27:48.76
I'm going to say
it again. I have to.
00:27:48.80\00:27:50.67
You should be saying it.
00:27:50.70\00:27:53.27
It's going to bring
about and it could be
00:27:53.30\00:27:54.94
everything stacked
to where it will be that
00:27:54.97\00:27:56.60
most things will
shut down one day a week.
00:27:56.64\00:27:58.64
We know it's
going to be on Sunday,
00:27:58.67\00:28:01.11
climate change, Sunday laws.
00:28:01.14\00:28:04.15
Then he wants to
focus on peacemaking.
00:28:04.18\00:28:07.02
Make peace around the world.
00:28:07.05\00:28:08.38
Ain't that interesting? Yeah.
00:28:08.42\00:28:10.19
Everybody's hollering
peace and safety sudden what?
00:28:10.22\00:28:12.15
Destruction comes.
00:28:12.19\00:28:14.19
It seems to me
00:28:14.22\00:28:15.56
that we are living in
the days of Noah and Sodom.
00:28:15.59\00:28:21.76
We're living in those
days, there's no doubt.
00:28:21.80\00:28:25.33
Full of evil and
crime and lawlessness,
00:28:25.37\00:28:29.20
it's filled the whole
earth. It's running over.
00:28:29.24\00:28:31.57
And as it were working
its way up into heaven.
00:28:31.61\00:28:34.21
And God's cup
is just about full.
00:28:34.24\00:28:38.35
And you can tell it
by talking to people.
00:28:38.38\00:28:41.58
You can tell that there's fear.
00:28:41.62\00:28:44.52
They have not the
Word of God evidently
00:28:44.55\00:28:45.89
or they don't know it.
00:28:45.92\00:28:47.26
And they're just fearful.
00:28:47.29\00:28:48.62
And they're
saying that I'm afraid,
00:28:48.66\00:28:50.06
I'm afraid the
world's coming to an end.
00:28:50.09\00:28:52.99
And then they say and then what?
00:28:53.03\00:28:56.46
Maybe some of us
who've been Christian
00:28:56.50\00:28:57.93
that's sitting in the pew
00:28:57.97\00:28:59.30
for many, many
years ought to say,
00:28:59.33\00:29:00.67
hey, there's a
little bit of fear here.
00:29:00.70\00:29:02.07
There's a little
bit, we realize, concern
00:29:02.10\00:29:04.37
that Jesus is coming
and is everything well.
00:29:04.41\00:29:07.38
If it's not
well, then what is it?
00:29:07.41\00:29:09.01
I mean, why waste your time?
00:29:09.04\00:29:11.51
Why waste my time?
00:29:11.55\00:29:12.88
If we're not serious about God,
00:29:12.91\00:29:14.78
then maybe we should
find something else to do.
00:29:14.82\00:29:17.62
It's time to get serious.
00:29:17.65\00:29:21.02
Isaiah 28:15.
00:29:21.06\00:29:22.42
The Bible tells of
decisions that many have made
00:29:22.46\00:29:25.79
and this is some of the part
00:29:25.83\00:29:27.16
where attacking
are popes infallible
00:29:27.20\00:29:29.30
because of the
lies and because of the,
00:29:29.33\00:29:31.30
you know, the hiding,
00:29:31.33\00:29:33.67
and we call the truth,
00:29:33.70\00:29:35.04
the cover ups that
need to be exposed.
00:29:35.07\00:29:39.91
Isaiah 28:15 says,
00:29:39.94\00:29:41.41
"We have made a
covenant with death,"
00:29:41.44\00:29:43.55
and you know this one,
00:29:43.58\00:29:44.91
"and with hell.
00:29:44.95\00:29:46.61
We are at agreement,
00:29:46.65\00:29:48.52
when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through,
00:29:48.55\00:29:51.69
it shall not come unto us,
00:29:51.72\00:29:53.69
for we have made
lies our refuge."
00:29:53.72\00:29:57.13
We've what?
00:29:57.16\00:29:58.49
Listen
carefully, come on church.
00:29:58.53\00:30:00.43
"We have made lies our
refuge and under falsehood,
00:30:00.46\00:30:03.70
we have hid ourselves."
00:30:03.73\00:30:05.77
See they're some
professing Christianity today
00:30:05.80\00:30:08.04
and their
doctrines and their belief,
00:30:08.07\00:30:09.70
they hid today their falsehoods.
00:30:09.74\00:30:14.34
And they're not
telling the truth
00:30:14.38\00:30:15.71
and none of us really
want to get involved with that.
00:30:15.74\00:30:19.28
This passage fits
our subject like a glove.
00:30:19.31\00:30:23.82
We must unmask the enemy.
00:30:23.85\00:30:25.65
There's no doubt about it.
00:30:25.69\00:30:27.99
Because the enemy is dressed,
my brothers and sisters,
00:30:28.02\00:30:30.86
he's dressed in Christianity.
00:30:30.89\00:30:33.90
And most people
don't want to, you know,
00:30:33.93\00:30:35.96
they don't want to
be involved with that.
00:30:36.00\00:30:39.20
I'm going to take from the...
00:30:39.23\00:30:41.34
It's called the
little pamphlet here,
00:30:41.37\00:30:43.30
the Catholic World,
00:30:43.34\00:30:45.37
a Roman Catholic periodical,
00:30:45.41\00:30:47.18
right, they're
saying it about themselves.
00:30:47.21\00:30:49.18
June, listen, June 1871,
00:30:49.21\00:30:52.41
page 422 and 423.
00:30:52.45\00:30:56.28
This is written in what?
00:30:56.32\00:30:57.65
1871.
00:30:57.69\00:31:00.22
It says,
00:31:00.26\00:31:01.59
"All dogmatic
decrees of the pope
00:31:01.62\00:31:04.79
made with or
without his general counsel
00:31:04.83\00:31:08.03
are infallible."
00:31:08.06\00:31:10.73
Did we get it?
00:31:10.77\00:31:12.33
All the things that he's said
that they're all infallible.
00:31:12.37\00:31:15.40
That means, listen,
00:31:15.44\00:31:16.87
that word means
incapable of error.
00:31:16.91\00:31:20.71
I didn't know anyone here.
00:31:20.74\00:31:24.35
That means never wrong.
00:31:24.38\00:31:27.28
He says he's never wrong.
00:31:27.32\00:31:29.62
Once made, no pope, no
council can reverse them.
00:31:29.65\00:31:33.32
This is the Catholic principle
00:31:33.36\00:31:35.69
that the church
cannot error in faith.
00:31:35.72\00:31:38.69
Well, something's went haywire.
00:31:38.73\00:31:41.83
He's saying the church,
00:31:41.86\00:31:43.20
the Catholic Church
cannot error in faith,
00:31:43.23\00:31:45.23
then I think we have an
obligation to go and say,
00:31:45.27\00:31:47.44
"Well, let's look at this
00:31:47.47\00:31:48.90
have they erred
according to Scripture."
00:31:48.94\00:31:51.47
Less the faith means scripture.
That means they're doctrines.
00:31:51.51\00:31:55.54
Dogmatic means it like,
00:31:55.58\00:31:57.15
like a dog gets a
hold of something,
00:31:57.18\00:31:58.51
he is not going to let go
00:31:58.55\00:31:59.88
because he
doesn't have to let go.
00:31:59.91\00:32:02.85
Sometime we're dogmatic
about things, isn't that right?
00:32:02.88\00:32:04.99
Would get hold on.
00:32:05.02\00:32:07.49
Maybe you're not but I am.
00:32:07.52\00:32:08.86
Great Controversy,
602, time's moving on.
00:32:12.39\00:32:15.93
"When the
testing time shall come,
00:32:15.96\00:32:17.33
those who have made God's word
00:32:17.37\00:32:18.90
their rule of
life will be revealed."
00:32:18.93\00:32:22.20
When the
testing time comes what?
00:32:22.24\00:32:23.64
Those who have
made God's word right.
00:32:23.67\00:32:25.27
You've been
studying, you've been praying,
00:32:25.31\00:32:27.18
you've been
letting in your heart
00:32:27.21\00:32:28.54
and in your mind and
living it out in your life.
00:32:28.58\00:32:31.11
Notice this,
what's going to happen,
00:32:31.15\00:32:33.05
it's going to be revealed.
00:32:33.08\00:32:35.08
The time is just upon us,
00:32:35.12\00:32:37.39
when the
difference will be apparent.
00:32:37.42\00:32:39.85
The true Christian
will stand firm as a rock.
00:32:39.89\00:32:44.23
Come on church, think
about standing firm as what?
00:32:44.26\00:32:47.13
As a rock.
00:32:47.16\00:32:48.50
That doesn't mean know
by every wind of doctrine,
00:32:48.53\00:32:50.80
back and forth.
00:32:50.83\00:32:52.17
Well, we think
today this is way it is.
00:32:52.20\00:32:54.17
Tomorrow, we think it
might be something else.
00:32:54.20\00:32:56.14
Man, get into the Word of God.
00:32:56.17\00:32:58.07
God's Word is sure.
00:32:58.11\00:32:59.64
God's Word is strong.
00:32:59.67\00:33:01.14
God's Word is clear.
00:33:01.18\00:33:02.58
We can stand on the solid
rock which is Jesus Christ,
00:33:02.61\00:33:06.11
not be wafting back and forth.
00:33:06.15\00:33:07.48
You realize what?
00:33:07.52\00:33:08.85
May I say this,
00:33:08.88\00:33:10.22
what a pitiful
example that we are
00:33:10.25\00:33:11.59
when we're
wafting back and forth
00:33:11.62\00:33:13.15
when someone else is
maybe looking to us for help
00:33:13.19\00:33:15.06
and we're going to,
may I help or I don't?
00:33:15.09\00:33:16.73
Okay, somebody said
amen, will there be two?
00:33:19.59\00:33:22.50
Thank you.
00:33:22.53\00:33:24.03
I think you know
what I'm talking about.
00:33:24.07\00:33:25.40
This is very
important for any of us
00:33:25.43\00:33:28.14
to be wafting around like
00:33:28.17\00:33:29.50
we just don't know
00:33:29.54\00:33:30.87
we're not going
to light anywhere.
00:33:30.91\00:33:32.24
God wants you to, to light.
00:33:32.27\00:33:33.61
In fact, He says He's the rock.
00:33:33.64\00:33:34.98
He wants us to anchor
steadfast and sure right in Him.
00:33:35.01\00:33:38.38
We've got to be
anchored down right now.
00:33:38.41\00:33:39.95
If we don't, we're
going to be blown away,
00:33:39.98\00:33:41.32
we're going to be overwhelmed
00:33:41.35\00:33:43.92
as the waves of
life come in around us.
00:33:43.95\00:33:47.66
Lord, have mercy on us.
00:33:47.69\00:33:50.23
The true Christian
needs to be firm as a rock.
00:33:50.26\00:33:52.96
Review and Herald 7-26-1898.
00:33:52.99\00:33:57.33
Review and Herald 7-26-1898.
00:33:57.37\00:33:59.97
It says, notice this,
00:34:00.00\00:34:02.17
"The time has come..."
00:34:02.20\00:34:05.97
The what?
00:34:06.01\00:34:07.34
The time has come.
00:34:11.85\00:34:13.18
Any of you have
been up to the hospital
00:34:16.69\00:34:19.15
when mom was
getting ready to deliver?
00:34:19.19\00:34:22.29
Oh, well, I might as
well leave that, Brother Mark.
00:34:22.32\00:34:23.96
They're not going to get it.
00:34:23.99\00:34:25.33
And the doctor
comes in, he says,
00:34:27.96\00:34:29.66
"It's time."
00:34:29.70\00:34:32.53
Everybody in the
family jumps, don't they?
00:34:32.57\00:34:34.67
It's time.
00:34:34.70\00:34:36.04
I know you go out
to the waiting room.
00:34:36.07\00:34:37.41
"It's time."
00:34:37.44\00:34:39.24
I'm just saying
right now what about this?
00:34:39.27\00:34:40.88
It's time.
00:34:40.91\00:34:42.34
The time has come
00:34:42.38\00:34:43.71
when the truth
is to be proclaimed
00:34:43.75\00:34:45.68
against falsehood and error.
00:34:45.71\00:34:48.95
This is why
we're approaching this.
00:34:48.98\00:34:51.39
The time is past due.
00:34:51.42\00:34:54.89
We have to
stand up against what?
00:34:54.92\00:34:56.86
Falsehood and error.
00:34:56.89\00:34:59.79
Don't jump in with falsehood,
don't jump in with error.
00:34:59.83\00:35:03.53
You come apart and be separate
and touch not the unclean.
00:35:03.57\00:35:07.74
Some of us dilly-dally
around, jumping back and forth
00:35:07.77\00:35:10.17
like it doesn't
make a difference.
00:35:10.21\00:35:11.54
God's word says it does.
00:35:11.57\00:35:12.97
See, if it didn't,
00:35:13.01\00:35:14.34
that would be all right with me.
00:35:14.38\00:35:16.24
But God's word says
it makes it difference.
00:35:16.28\00:35:20.75
Our texts that we read,
00:35:20.78\00:35:23.85
2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 4
00:35:23.89\00:35:26.32
identifies a
power and I want to...
00:35:26.35\00:35:27.92
We've got to do
this in this hour.
00:35:27.96\00:35:30.43
Identifies a power
that must be revealed.
00:35:30.46\00:35:34.46
That means it must be unmasked.
00:35:34.50\00:35:37.47
And that is the man of what?
00:35:37.50\00:35:39.77
The man of sin.
00:35:39.80\00:35:42.37
The man of sin is
used by the enemy,
00:35:42.40\00:35:46.71
by the devil to set up,
00:35:46.74\00:35:48.21
listen, is to set up his church.
00:35:48.24\00:35:51.05
Oh somebody.
00:35:51.08\00:35:52.51
Man, if we could,
00:35:52.55\00:35:54.42
you know, I want
to understand this
00:35:54.45\00:35:55.78
better myself and I'm
not just saying to you,
00:35:55.82\00:35:57.39
I just want to make sure
00:35:57.42\00:35:58.75
you're there with
me on the same page.
00:35:58.79\00:36:00.82
The devil has his church.
00:36:00.86\00:36:04.66
Remember, he's a copycat.
00:36:04.69\00:36:06.39
He's never come up
with the original yet.
00:36:06.43\00:36:08.56
If God has a church
and I believe He does,
00:36:08.60\00:36:10.97
Revelation 12:17,
they're to do what?
00:36:11.00\00:36:13.54
They keep the
commandments of God, right?
00:36:13.57\00:36:14.90
The devil is
wroth with the woman
00:36:14.94\00:36:16.30
and went to make war with what?
00:36:16.34\00:36:18.11
The remnant of her seed,
00:36:18.14\00:36:19.57
those who keep the
commandments of God.
00:36:19.61\00:36:21.48
If you say, we don't have to
keep the commandments of God,
00:36:21.51\00:36:23.21
then you're not
part of the remnant.
00:36:23.24\00:36:25.45
You may not know any
better, God knows all that.
00:36:25.48\00:36:27.22
So I'm not trying
to criticize or condemn
00:36:27.25\00:36:28.68
but since you know better,
00:36:28.72\00:36:30.39
since I know better,
00:36:30.42\00:36:33.05
and that includes
the Spirit of Prophecy
00:36:33.09\00:36:34.62
as you well know,
testimony of Jesus,
00:36:34.66\00:36:36.29
the life of Christ,
00:36:36.32\00:36:37.66
the way Christ
lived, what He taught.
00:36:37.69\00:36:39.03
So the enemy is
setting up his church.
00:36:43.13\00:36:46.33
You realize Jesus
said when My people, right,
00:36:46.37\00:36:48.24
when their character, right,
00:36:48.27\00:36:50.54
is fully
reproduced, right, in us
00:36:50.57\00:36:52.94
when His character is
fully reproduced in us,
00:36:52.97\00:36:55.58
He will come.
00:36:55.61\00:36:58.48
It's interesting
that the image, right,
00:36:58.51\00:37:00.92
we're to be the image of
God, the devil also says what?
00:37:00.95\00:37:04.79
I'm going to re...
00:37:04.82\00:37:06.29
I'm going to
reproduce my image in my people.
00:37:06.32\00:37:09.32
Their characteristics in
what they do is after me,
00:37:12.46\00:37:15.43
not after Jesus.
00:37:15.46\00:37:16.80
You see,
everything is a counterfeit,
00:37:16.83\00:37:18.17
is it true and counterfeit.
00:37:18.20\00:37:21.00
Unmask the man of
sin, set up his church.
00:37:21.04\00:37:23.97
And his church
will not be founded
00:37:24.01\00:37:25.51
upon the Word of God,
00:37:25.54\00:37:27.24
but will be
founded upon tradition
00:37:27.28\00:37:29.68
and the commandments of men.
00:37:29.71\00:37:31.41
Then Matthew, what is it?
00:37:31.45\00:37:33.05
15:9, he said,
00:37:33.08\00:37:34.42
"In vain do they worship Me."
00:37:34.45\00:37:36.12
Teaching for doctrines,
the commandments of men.
00:37:36.15\00:37:38.49
So I say to each one today,
00:37:38.52\00:37:40.66
again ever trying
to be ugly about it.
00:37:40.69\00:37:42.72
Man, it's just like it's so,
00:37:42.76\00:37:44.09
so hurtful when
we see people say,
00:37:44.13\00:37:45.76
well I know what
it says, but you know,
00:37:45.79\00:37:47.43
this is what our
church has always taught.
00:37:47.46\00:37:49.26
Well, where is it
in the Word of God?
00:37:49.30\00:37:50.63
Well, it's not really
there but it's what we've...
00:37:50.67\00:37:52.10
Come on, we got to
let go those things.
00:37:52.13\00:37:54.97
We must.
00:37:55.00\00:37:57.67
Because God doesn't
say, He says in vain.
00:37:57.71\00:37:59.87
Go to church all you want,
pay all the tithe you want to,
00:37:59.91\00:38:02.01
be there every
week if you want to,
00:38:02.04\00:38:03.55
do the mid-week
service if you want to.
00:38:03.58\00:38:05.35
It'll do no good.
00:38:05.38\00:38:06.75
"Depart from Me,
you workers of iniquity.
00:38:06.78\00:38:08.25
I don't know you."
00:38:08.28\00:38:10.02
He's making it plain to us now.
00:38:10.05\00:38:11.82
I mean, this, you
think about this, too.
00:38:14.86\00:38:17.79
If you talk about a church,
a church then would be you.
00:38:17.83\00:38:21.43
You've got one guidebook.
00:38:21.46\00:38:23.77
You've got one standard
of righteousness here, right?
00:38:23.80\00:38:26.23
You've got the Bible
here, one rule of faith.
00:38:26.27\00:38:29.50
And by God's grace,
00:38:29.54\00:38:30.97
the church and his teachings
00:38:31.01\00:38:33.14
should follow
certainly the examples,
00:38:33.17\00:38:35.24
certainly of Jesus
00:38:35.28\00:38:36.61
how he lived it out in his life.
00:38:36.64\00:38:40.22
But it can't be
a Christian Church
00:38:40.25\00:38:43.18
if it doesn't follow Christ,
00:38:43.22\00:38:45.35
and the Word of
God and His teachings.
00:38:45.39\00:38:47.06
Does that make sense?
00:38:47.09\00:38:49.72
So I say to you, how
bold should a person get?
00:38:49.76\00:38:54.16
None of us want to hurt anyone.
00:38:54.20\00:38:56.36
Let's identify the
man of sin rather quickly.
00:38:56.40\00:39:00.87
As we read there
00:39:00.90\00:39:02.24
in our passage of
scripture in 2 Thessalonians,
00:39:02.27\00:39:04.44
the man, notice this,
00:39:04.47\00:39:05.81
a man of sins that means
00:39:05.84\00:39:07.18
a man whose
distinguishing marks,
00:39:07.21\00:39:10.18
distinguishing
characteristics is sin.
00:39:10.21\00:39:13.48
You expose the man of sin,
his characteristics is of what?
00:39:13.52\00:39:16.65
Is sin,
00:39:16.69\00:39:18.15
or the man of lawlessness.
00:39:18.19\00:39:21.72
This indicates a
definite person, or power.
00:39:21.76\00:39:26.90
Or get, oh, well, well
think it might be this,
00:39:26.93\00:39:28.70
it may be this over here.
00:39:28.73\00:39:30.07
Definite person,
definite power here.
00:39:30.10\00:39:34.04
And he's
supposed to be uncovered.
00:39:34.07\00:39:36.24
Who's going to uncover?
00:39:36.27\00:39:39.21
Who?
00:39:39.24\00:39:40.58
Yeah, if you
don't, and if I don't,
00:39:40.61\00:39:42.14
who's going to do it,
00:39:42.18\00:39:43.68
or are you going to
just sit idly by like
00:39:43.71\00:39:45.41
I did for many, many years
00:39:45.45\00:39:46.78
and never really
exposed the man of sin?
00:39:46.82\00:39:48.68
And let millions go
to Christ-less graves
00:39:48.72\00:39:50.65
that we'll have
to give account for,
00:39:50.69\00:39:52.65
or would it be better
00:39:52.69\00:39:54.02
by the grace of God
and the power of God
00:39:54.06\00:39:55.39
to put the word out?
00:39:55.42\00:39:56.76
Oh, you may have
family and friends.
00:39:56.79\00:39:58.13
Oh, I don't want
to talk to you all.
00:39:58.16\00:39:59.49
You guys are reading on,
I'll shoot you this or that?
00:39:59.53\00:40:01.03
That's what the Bible says here.
00:40:01.06\00:40:03.06
He's going to be unmasked.
00:40:03.10\00:40:05.30
Hmm.
00:40:05.33\00:40:06.70
It says he's
going to be uncovered.
00:40:06.74\00:40:08.80
He's going to be made known.
00:40:08.84\00:40:11.04
He's going to be disclosed,
00:40:11.07\00:40:12.87
notice, at a
certain period of time.
00:40:12.91\00:40:15.28
Could this be the period of time
00:40:15.31\00:40:17.05
or part of it,
00:40:17.08\00:40:19.18
that his true nature
is going to be revealed?
00:40:19.21\00:40:23.42
It says, he's going
to be opposed to God.
00:40:23.45\00:40:25.52
It's interesting.
00:40:25.55\00:40:26.89
How can you be opposed to God
00:40:26.92\00:40:28.26
when maybe you're
dressed in a religious garb?
00:40:28.29\00:40:31.23
And you seem to be religious
00:40:31.26\00:40:32.59
and everything you
talk about is religious
00:40:32.63\00:40:33.96
and we all say,
well, it must be religious.
00:40:34.00\00:40:35.43
If it's religious,
00:40:35.46\00:40:36.80
it must
harmonize with Scripture.
00:40:36.83\00:40:38.63
Isn't that right?
00:40:38.67\00:40:40.10
If you don't,
where does it come from?
00:40:40.14\00:40:41.47
Just from man?
00:40:41.50\00:40:43.64
Yeah, we set back
idly for thousands of years
00:40:43.67\00:40:45.94
and said and done nothing,
00:40:45.97\00:40:47.71
because we're afraid
00:40:47.74\00:40:49.08
it might wound
or offend someone.
00:40:49.11\00:40:51.65
Hmm.
00:40:51.68\00:40:53.01
That means he opposes God.
00:40:55.72\00:40:58.29
He says, I'm going to rise what?
00:40:58.32\00:41:00.49
I'm going to rise above
God, this tells you to identify,
00:41:00.52\00:41:04.16
against God.
00:41:04.19\00:41:06.26
And then this power
opposes any other religion,
00:41:06.29\00:41:10.23
you know, that claims worship.
00:41:10.27\00:41:12.07
He says, I want it all.
00:41:12.10\00:41:14.50
Did you get it?
00:41:14.54\00:41:15.87
This power says, I want it all,
00:41:15.90\00:41:17.61
have the world is to worship me.
00:41:17.64\00:41:20.64
That's exactly what he says.
00:41:20.68\00:41:22.94
And the world is to
follow my teachings.
00:41:22.98\00:41:26.48
Listen, he's already
before we get too much more,
00:41:26.51\00:41:28.08
he's already got the majority
of the world to follow Sunday.
00:41:28.12\00:41:32.19
Has he not?
00:41:32.22\00:41:33.56
Yes, he has.
00:41:33.59\00:41:37.46
Sunday is the
child of the papacy.
00:41:37.49\00:41:39.79
I mean, I don't
know how much clearer
00:41:43.50\00:41:44.90
you can make this
child of the papacy.
00:41:44.93\00:41:48.07
He comes into the temple,
00:41:48.10\00:41:49.70
may I say that the
enemy comes into the temple
00:41:49.74\00:41:51.97
or he comes into
the church as it were.
00:41:52.01\00:41:55.74
And he sits in the place of God,
00:41:55.78\00:41:59.25
calls himself God.
00:41:59.28\00:42:01.38
He's going to
pretend to be Christ
00:42:01.42\00:42:02.98
when he comes on this earth
00:42:03.02\00:42:04.35
and we know that,
00:42:04.39\00:42:05.72
and we realize again
00:42:05.75\00:42:07.09
the enemy working
through powers working,
00:42:07.12\00:42:09.56
I'd say working through,
may I say the Roman Church,
00:42:09.59\00:42:11.59
there's no doubt about it.
00:42:11.63\00:42:13.76
If we compare quickly as we can,
00:42:13.80\00:42:15.66
if we compare
the Book of Daniel,
00:42:15.70\00:42:18.07
the prophesying talking
about blaspheming power.
00:42:18.10\00:42:23.74
They follow after,
you know, pagan Rome.
00:42:23.77\00:42:26.34
Read that in
Daniel 7:8 and 19-26.
00:42:26.37\00:42:32.95
John picture as,
00:42:32.98\00:42:35.45
remember, he pictures
the leopard like beast,
00:42:35.48\00:42:38.39
Revelation 13, you do it 1-18.
00:42:38.42\00:42:40.72
Read all those
verses when you can.
00:42:40.76\00:42:42.82
There are some
real similarities there.
00:42:42.86\00:42:46.19
As you read them,
00:42:46.23\00:42:47.56
you'll see there's
some similarities there.
00:42:47.60\00:42:48.93
Here's our conclusion
00:42:48.96\00:42:50.30
without going
into a lot of detail,
00:42:50.33\00:42:51.67
conclusion,
00:42:51.70\00:42:53.03
Daniel, and Paul
talking about the man of sin,
00:42:53.07\00:42:54.97
it would, right?
00:42:55.00\00:42:56.34
Daniel, Paul and John
00:42:56.37\00:42:57.71
are speaking of the same power,
00:42:57.74\00:42:59.67
they're warning of
the same power here,
00:42:59.71\00:43:01.74
and it is the papacy.
00:43:01.78\00:43:03.24
The Great Controversy
backs it up, page 44 to 54.
00:43:03.28\00:43:06.78
That's just
currently just one of them.
00:43:06.82\00:43:08.95
We're talking about what?
00:43:08.98\00:43:10.32
The papacy
00:43:10.35\00:43:12.25
and in a larger sense,
00:43:12.29\00:43:13.62
this power we may be identified,
00:43:13.66\00:43:15.96
this power is
identified with Satan.
00:43:15.99\00:43:18.36
Oh, it's heavy duty.
00:43:18.39\00:43:19.73
It's not every individual,
00:43:19.76\00:43:21.10
God knows every
heart and every place
00:43:21.13\00:43:22.46
wherever they're at,
00:43:22.50\00:43:23.83
but I'm saying this power here
00:43:23.87\00:43:25.20
and the way that it's
going out in the world,
00:43:25.23\00:43:26.57
you can identify it with Satan,
who says he will be like what?
00:43:26.60\00:43:29.77
Isaiah 14:14.
00:43:29.80\00:43:31.41
He says, I will be
like the most what?
00:43:31.44\00:43:34.84
Most High.
00:43:34.88\00:43:36.21
Man, the
identifying mark is simple here.
00:43:36.24\00:43:38.11
6 Testimonies 14.
00:43:38.15\00:43:39.78
There're just
10-12 minutes left.
00:43:39.81\00:43:41.15
Come on, stay with me, church.
00:43:41.18\00:43:44.05
6 Testimonies 14 says,
00:43:44.09\00:43:45.45
"Satan is working to the utmost,
00:43:45.49\00:43:47.96
making himself God,
00:43:47.99\00:43:50.29
destroying all
who oppose his power."
00:43:50.33\00:43:53.90
And notice this,
00:43:53.93\00:43:55.26
"And today the world
is bowing before him."
00:43:55.30\00:43:59.83
The world, Revelation 13:3,
00:43:59.87\00:44:03.54
it says that the world
wandered after the beast,
00:44:03.57\00:44:06.91
the world is
bowing after the beast,
00:44:06.94\00:44:08.94
and let me just say this,
00:44:08.98\00:44:10.31
we have no business
presenting the beast as it were,
00:44:10.35\00:44:12.51
or there's power
anything or bowing before him
00:44:12.55\00:44:15.32
or kissing his ring
or kissing his feet.
00:44:15.35\00:44:17.49
Why? You say why?
00:44:21.06\00:44:23.39
Well, it only makes sense.
00:44:23.43\00:44:25.73
Hmm.
00:44:25.76\00:44:27.10
His power is
received as the power of God.
00:44:31.27\00:44:37.21
When it is the power of Satan,
is the power of the dragon.
00:44:37.24\00:44:42.21
Revelation 13:2,
there's no doubt about it,
00:44:42.24\00:44:44.91
because it says the
dragon gave him his what?
00:44:44.95\00:44:47.98
The dragon gave him his power,
his seat and great authority.
00:44:48.02\00:44:52.12
Why can't we say that?
00:44:52.15\00:44:55.19
We did. Thank you.
00:44:55.22\00:44:57.89
It's the truth.
00:44:57.93\00:44:59.93
The power, right, the
dragon, Revelation 12:9,
00:44:59.96\00:45:04.03
dragon the old enemy, right?
00:45:04.07\00:45:05.40
It talks about who the devil is,
00:45:05.43\00:45:07.14
gave the papacy, its power,
00:45:07.17\00:45:09.00
its seat and great authority,
just the way it comes up,
00:45:09.04\00:45:11.34
Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, pagan Rome,
00:45:11.37\00:45:13.07
and then papal Rome,
00:45:13.11\00:45:14.44
was just so simple to
figure out in Scripture.
00:45:14.48\00:45:18.81
So now,
00:45:18.85\00:45:21.42
the man of sin
00:45:21.45\00:45:22.78
then is going to try
to carry out his plan.
00:45:22.82\00:45:26.29
Hmm.
00:45:26.32\00:45:29.42
Scripture is playing
00:45:29.46\00:45:31.19
on who this man of
sin, is the papacy,
00:45:31.23\00:45:34.26
and the world is falling after.
00:45:34.30\00:45:36.36
How about the
Spirit of Prophecy?
00:45:36.40\00:45:37.73
Let me just give you a
couple of things quickly.
00:45:37.77\00:45:39.10
Spirit of Prophecy says,
00:45:39.13\00:45:40.47
oh, it might be
hurtful to someone
00:45:40.50\00:45:42.27
I'm not trying to be,
but notice what it says.
00:45:42.30\00:45:45.57
Somebody buckle your seat.
00:45:45.61\00:45:47.34
SDA Bible
Commentary 1910 says this.
00:45:51.31\00:45:54.62
"The man of sin is a
representative of Satan."
00:45:54.65\00:46:00.46
I mean that,
remember what is it?
00:46:00.49\00:46:03.46
What did the enemy say?
00:46:03.49\00:46:04.89
He said he gave him his what?
00:46:04.93\00:46:07.03
This is this power that came up
00:46:07.06\00:46:08.43
after right pagan
Rome was papal Rome,
00:46:08.46\00:46:10.23
there's no doubt
about it, history...
00:46:10.27\00:46:12.27
I mean, it's so clear.
00:46:12.30\00:46:15.80
So therefore it is,
00:46:15.84\00:46:17.17
we have to look at it is
a representative of Satan,
00:46:17.21\00:46:19.87
oh, that's tough.
00:46:19.91\00:46:22.68
This power claims only
supreme and infallible authority
00:46:22.71\00:46:26.31
over church and state.
00:46:26.35\00:46:27.78
The pope claims to,
00:46:31.39\00:46:33.46
and notice this,
when it's come down,
00:46:33.49\00:46:35.22
it's clear cut here.
00:46:35.26\00:46:36.59
He's the vice general of
Satan, Great Controversy 53.
00:46:36.62\00:46:40.43
This power of the papacy
was denounced by Martin Luther
00:46:43.93\00:46:46.90
as you well know,
00:46:46.94\00:46:48.27
Great Controversy 142 and 3.
00:46:48.30\00:46:51.11
Now listen carefully.
00:46:51.14\00:46:52.47
We talked about
bowing before the pope
00:46:52.51\00:46:53.84
or kissing the pope's ring,
00:46:53.88\00:46:55.21
or presenting him
anything, my lands of love.
00:46:55.24\00:47:00.18
Persons who bow to
the popes worship Satan,
00:47:00.22\00:47:05.45
not talking about the
individual as it were,
00:47:05.49\00:47:07.36
but what he represents,
00:47:07.39\00:47:08.79
who gave him his power
and seat and great authority.
00:47:08.82\00:47:11.83
You see how, this is heavy duty.
00:47:11.86\00:47:13.50
People don't want to hear that.
00:47:13.53\00:47:15.96
It's about worship. Absolutely.
00:47:16.00\00:47:18.13
You bow down, you worship there,
00:47:18.17\00:47:19.73
you're worshipping Satan.
00:47:19.77\00:47:21.40
Satan exercises his
power through the papacy.
00:47:24.81\00:47:30.41
Satan working
through what? The papacy.
00:47:30.45\00:47:33.01
The Jesuit order
00:47:33.05\00:47:34.98
devoted to
reestablishment of the papacy.
00:47:35.02\00:47:40.09
Even the title of
Lord's Day conferred on Sunday
00:47:40.12\00:47:44.93
is by the pope.
00:47:44.96\00:47:46.29
Story of Redemption, page 328.
00:47:46.33\00:47:49.96
Oh, heavy duty. Oh, absolutely.
00:47:50.00\00:47:52.33
Now, I mentioned before,
00:47:52.37\00:47:54.40
the Bible is our foundation
on which we should what?
00:47:54.44\00:47:57.07
Build our beliefs.
00:47:57.11\00:47:58.44
Are we in agreement?
00:47:58.47\00:47:59.81
This is, this has to be.
00:47:59.84\00:48:02.31
And so the whys and
the what we believe.
00:48:02.34\00:48:05.28
We need some whys and what.
00:48:05.31\00:48:07.12
What do we believe?
00:48:07.15\00:48:08.48
Here's what Nehemiah said,
00:48:08.52\00:48:09.85
here's some of the
problems we're having today.
00:48:09.88\00:48:11.22
Nehemiah 4:10, says this.
00:48:11.25\00:48:14.19
It says, "The strength
of the burden bearers,"
00:48:14.22\00:48:16.93
you should be a burden bearer.
00:48:16.96\00:48:19.29
I should be a burden bearer.
00:48:19.33\00:48:21.50
This says, notice
this, "they are decayed."
00:48:21.53\00:48:23.43
Why are they decayed?
00:48:23.47\00:48:24.83
"Because
there's so much rubbish,
00:48:24.87\00:48:28.17
so that we cannot build."
00:48:28.20\00:48:30.21
There's so much rubbish
00:48:30.24\00:48:31.57
that's covered the
truth of God's Word
00:48:31.61\00:48:33.24
that we can't build on any more
00:48:33.27\00:48:34.64
unless we clean the rubbish off.
00:48:34.68\00:48:36.38
Does that make sense?
00:48:36.41\00:48:37.75
You've got to
clean the rubbish off.
00:48:37.78\00:48:40.12
So we could build.
00:48:40.15\00:48:41.92
Let me just mention a
few as quickly as I can.
00:48:41.95\00:48:44.59
I believe that
the Catholic Church
00:48:44.62\00:48:46.39
not found in the Word of God.
00:48:46.42\00:48:49.86
But they're found in paganism.
00:48:49.89\00:48:52.63
And people are just not
saying anything about it.
00:48:52.66\00:48:55.73
See, many people are left
00:48:55.76\00:48:57.47
to believe that
it's true that we don't,
00:48:57.50\00:48:59.23
if you don't expose.
00:48:59.27\00:49:03.64
Where most of all their
beliefs came from, by the way,
00:49:03.67\00:49:06.07
the Catholic Church
00:49:06.11\00:49:07.44
and I stand here
and I can't say anymore.
00:49:07.48\00:49:09.44
It's not individual people.
00:49:09.48\00:49:11.25
There are beliefs that they have
00:49:11.28\00:49:13.21
almost every one if not
all, come from paganism.
00:49:13.25\00:49:16.75
Are you still there?
00:49:16.79\00:49:18.45
It's not founded
in the Word of God,
00:49:18.49\00:49:20.62
and yet we call it a church.
00:49:20.66\00:49:22.82
We call it a Christian.
00:49:22.86\00:49:24.19
Let me give you
quickly, five, six minutes.
00:49:27.06\00:49:30.53
Remember, we're
warned in Scripture,
00:49:30.57\00:49:31.90
that we become what?
00:49:31.93\00:49:33.27
A falling away first,
00:49:33.30\00:49:34.64
the man of sin will be revealed.
00:49:34.67\00:49:36.37
We read that, 2
Thessalonians 2:3-4.
00:49:36.40\00:49:38.97
Daniel 7:25.
00:49:39.01\00:49:40.34
"And he shall think to
change times and laws."
00:49:40.38\00:49:42.44
Matthew 24:9,
just jot them down.
00:49:42.48\00:49:44.65
Acts 20:28-31. Read it.
00:49:44.68\00:49:47.55
Matthew 24:21 and 20,
00:49:47.58\00:49:50.65
and also Revelation 13:5.
00:49:50.69\00:49:54.26
These are just a few of
it says they're going to.
00:49:54.29\00:49:56.16
Now some of these
things that they hold true
00:49:56.19\00:49:57.89
as their doctrine
00:49:57.93\00:49:59.76
that they want the
world to embrace and grab,
00:49:59.79\00:50:01.76
the veneration of angels
and death and the death saints.
00:50:01.80\00:50:07.14
And dead saints.
00:50:07.17\00:50:08.77
Is that in Scripture?
00:50:08.80\00:50:10.14
Prayers for the dead.
00:50:13.27\00:50:15.74
And these are what they hold
and say these are just truth
00:50:15.78\00:50:20.62
that came about round 300 AD,
making the sign of the cross.
00:50:20.65\00:50:25.12
Is that scriptural? No.
00:50:25.15\00:50:28.52
The use of images?
00:50:28.56\00:50:30.33
No.
00:50:30.36\00:50:31.93
Mass as the daily celebration?
00:50:31.96\00:50:34.80
No, that's close to about 400 AD
00:50:34.83\00:50:36.77
when that came into being.
00:50:36.80\00:50:39.87
The doctrine of
purgatory, is that a truth?
00:50:39.90\00:50:42.47
Absolutely not.
00:50:42.50\00:50:44.27
Prayers to Mary for
the dead saints and angels?
00:50:44.31\00:50:47.48
Absolutely not.
00:50:47.51\00:50:49.81
Holy Water.
00:50:49.84\00:50:51.45
Is that a truth
out of the Bible?
00:50:51.48\00:50:53.25
Absolutely not.
00:50:53.28\00:50:55.98
Brother John, fasting on Friday,
00:50:56.02\00:50:58.49
and during event?
00:50:58.52\00:50:59.85
Are we getting what I'm saying?
00:51:05.16\00:51:06.70
These are some of
the major doctrines
00:51:06.73\00:51:08.10
and I left out
many, many others.
00:51:08.13\00:51:09.53
So the major teachings
and doctrines of the church
00:51:09.56\00:51:12.10
that's not
found it in Scripture.
00:51:12.13\00:51:15.94
Man, notice, the rope
praying to the rosary.
00:51:15.97\00:51:21.01
Is that in the Bible? No.
00:51:21.04\00:51:22.71
The praying of the
rosary was we call it invented
00:51:22.74\00:51:25.11
in about 1090 AD, almost 1100.
00:51:25.15\00:51:28.65
I mean, that many,
00:51:28.68\00:51:30.02
why it takes so
long if it was the truth?
00:51:30.05\00:51:31.59
Hmm.
00:51:31.62\00:51:34.62
The sale of indulgences?
00:51:34.66\00:51:36.86
Not at all.
00:51:36.89\00:51:38.63
Confession of sins to a priest.
00:51:38.66\00:51:42.26
Is that in Scripture? It's not.
00:51:42.30\00:51:43.97
I'm just saying
I'm trying to identify,
00:51:44.00\00:51:45.33
these are untruths.
00:51:45.37\00:51:47.34
And yet we say nothing
or very little about them
00:51:47.37\00:51:49.74
because somebody
is going to get upset.
00:51:49.77\00:51:51.87
These are untruths. Why?
00:51:51.91\00:51:53.27
Because the devil
gave him his power,
00:51:53.31\00:51:54.64
his seat and great authority,
they're man-made, notice it,
00:51:54.68\00:51:57.85
that Jesuit order was founded.
00:51:57.88\00:51:59.95
Is that in Scripture?
00:51:59.98\00:52:01.32
Absolutely not.
00:52:01.35\00:52:04.05
And even their
tradition is equal
00:52:04.09\00:52:06.59
with the Bible they say,
00:52:06.62\00:52:08.09
are you still there?
00:52:08.12\00:52:10.26
That was in about 1545.
00:52:10.29\00:52:13.33
Interesting,
because you know what?
00:52:13.36\00:52:14.70
They couldn't again
say, thus saith the Lord.
00:52:14.73\00:52:17.17
They couldn't
find it in Scripture.
00:52:17.20\00:52:18.53
So they had to make up
some things as they did.
00:52:18.57\00:52:20.44
All these other
things are made up
00:52:20.47\00:52:22.10
and straight from paganism.
00:52:22.14\00:52:24.57
The immaculate
conception of Mary,
00:52:24.61\00:52:27.58
not in Scripture,
the way they teach it.
00:52:27.61\00:52:29.44
It's just not there.
00:52:29.48\00:52:31.25
Absolute
infallibility of the pope.
00:52:31.28\00:52:34.55
Hmm.
00:52:34.58\00:52:36.62
That it's not there in Scripture
00:52:36.65\00:52:38.45
that came from, you
know, Vatican I in about 1870.
00:52:38.49\00:52:41.36
We'll talk more about that.
00:52:41.39\00:52:42.72
Why did it take so long?
00:52:42.76\00:52:45.73
Huh?
00:52:45.76\00:52:47.10
Few more quick, oh my.
00:52:47.13\00:52:48.60
William Keller said this in
The Ancient Church, page 16,
00:52:48.63\00:52:52.00
"Rites and ceremonies
00:52:52.03\00:52:53.37
of which neither
Paul or Peter ever heard,
00:52:53.40\00:52:55.47
crept silently into use,
00:52:55.50\00:52:57.51
then claim the rank
of divine institutions."
00:52:57.54\00:53:01.58
A few other things quickly.
00:53:01.61\00:53:02.98
Isn't it strange that Sunday
is almost universally observed
00:53:03.01\00:53:06.61
when the sacred
writers do not endorse it?
00:53:06.65\00:53:10.62
False, untruth Sunday.
00:53:10.65\00:53:15.49
We know that it's false,
the man of sin is instituted.
00:53:15.52\00:53:18.09
But let me tell you, you
say well, the false Sunday,
00:53:18.13\00:53:19.79
let me tell you
00:53:19.83\00:53:21.16
what stands
right along beside it
00:53:21.20\00:53:22.53
is Ash Wednesday.
00:53:22.56\00:53:24.43
It's for Palm Sunday.
00:53:24.47\00:53:27.77
Good Friday, Easter Sunday.
00:53:27.80\00:53:31.14
All Souls Day, is
somebody still with me?
00:53:31.17\00:53:33.81
Christmas Day,
00:53:33.84\00:53:35.68
many of the feast
days, to many dimension.
00:53:35.71\00:53:39.75
They were all manmade.
00:53:39.78\00:53:41.68
None of them bears
the divine credentials
00:53:41.72\00:53:44.35
of the author of
inspired Word of God.
00:53:44.39\00:53:47.49
None of this
stuff that I've read,
00:53:47.52\00:53:49.42
it all came from paganism.
00:53:49.46\00:53:51.13
And the world says it's okay.
00:53:51.16\00:53:52.86
And it's just a church.
00:53:52.89\00:53:54.23
And we need not
say anything about it
00:53:54.26\00:53:55.66
when God's Word condemns it all.
00:53:55.70\00:53:59.17
The man of sin
will be what? Revealed.
00:53:59.20\00:54:01.40
He's going to be uncovered.
00:54:01.44\00:54:02.77
Now, is it easy?
00:54:05.61\00:54:06.94
Is it something easy?
Like oh, it's no big thing?
00:54:06.98\00:54:09.18
No.
00:54:09.21\00:54:10.78
It's pretty heavy duty
as far as I'm concerned.
00:54:10.81\00:54:13.72
But all we have
to do is look at it,
00:54:13.75\00:54:15.82
all these
teachings and doctrines
00:54:15.85\00:54:17.79
where they said what?
00:54:17.82\00:54:19.15
We don't err. We're infallible.
00:54:19.19\00:54:20.62
We're going to prove
next time in another study
00:54:20.66\00:54:22.79
when we come together.
00:54:22.82\00:54:24.16
We're going to set it
up and walk right through
00:54:24.19\00:54:26.80
about infallibility.
00:54:26.83\00:54:28.23
When did that come about?
00:54:28.26\00:54:29.60
Or are they, you
know, are they fallible?
00:54:29.63\00:54:31.60
Can they make mistakes?
00:54:31.63\00:54:33.44
Did they always
teach these things?
00:54:33.47\00:54:35.84
Next time we come together,
00:54:35.87\00:54:37.21
we're going to see
beyond a shadow of doubt
00:54:37.24\00:54:38.64
what God's Word says.
00:54:38.67\00:54:40.31
Paul said
apostasy would do what?
00:54:40.34\00:54:42.51
Would come.
00:54:42.54\00:54:45.21
And a man would arise
00:54:45.25\00:54:47.48
that would exalt
himself as God's place,
00:54:47.52\00:54:49.92
saying that he's God
in the temple of God,
00:54:49.95\00:54:52.79
saying he is God.
00:54:52.82\00:54:55.62
May God help us to see
the message and the work
00:54:55.66\00:54:58.19
that He's given us to do,
00:54:58.23\00:54:59.79
it's not going to be very easy.
00:54:59.83\00:55:02.36
We need the unction of
the Spirit of the Living God
00:55:02.40\00:55:05.50
to bring conviction.
00:55:05.53\00:55:06.87
Because what's been said
here and in many other places,
00:55:06.90\00:55:08.90
I'm sure is enough
00:55:08.94\00:55:10.27
that people want
to get rid of you for.
00:55:10.31\00:55:13.34
It either is God's
church or it's not God's church.
00:55:13.38\00:55:16.14
See they're founded
on Scripture or it's not.
00:55:16.18\00:55:18.01
There's no use of
just bicker round about,
00:55:18.05\00:55:19.65
we need to pray so
as we close right now.
00:55:19.68\00:55:21.18
How about kneeling
with me where it's possible.
00:55:21.22\00:55:22.75
We'll just pray, our
loving Father in heaven,
00:55:22.78\00:55:24.49
thank You for
Your precious Word.
00:55:24.52\00:55:25.85
Thank You that
00:55:25.89\00:55:27.22
You don't want
us to be deceived.
00:55:27.26\00:55:28.59
You're presenting these truth,
00:55:28.62\00:55:29.96
You're opening them up and say,
00:55:29.99\00:55:31.33
Oh, my, that's not founded
in the Word of God at all.
00:55:31.36\00:55:32.69
I don't want to
follow after this man of sin.
00:55:32.73\00:55:34.06
Thank you, Lord, for those
who have made that decision
00:55:34.10\00:55:35.50
right now in Jesus name.
00:55:35.53\00:55:36.97
Amen.
00:55:37.00\00:55:38.43
Thank you for
joining us. God bless you.
00:55:38.47\00:55:39.90
We look forward to
seeing you next time.
00:55:39.93\00:55:41.87
Welcome back, friends.
00:55:44.21\00:55:46.11
Could we denounce this teaching
00:55:46.14\00:55:47.94
as another drink
of Babylon's wine?
00:55:47.98\00:55:50.95
I know I would.
00:55:50.98\00:55:52.31
And I hope that
00:55:52.35\00:55:53.68
you have now gained
enough biblical information
00:55:53.72\00:55:56.65
to conclude along
with me the very same.
00:55:56.69\00:56:00.19
How important is it
00:56:00.22\00:56:01.56
that we follow
biblical principle
00:56:01.59\00:56:03.19
in this area?
00:56:03.22\00:56:04.56
Hosea 4:6 gives the
answer very clearly.
00:56:04.59\00:56:08.50
"My people are destroyed
for the lack of knowledge."
00:56:08.53\00:56:12.77
Once again,
00:56:12.80\00:56:14.14
we find that God
is laying before us
00:56:14.17\00:56:15.84
a road to choose.
00:56:15.87\00:56:17.37
Should we follow the wide road
00:56:17.41\00:56:19.31
as so many are joyfully
just waltzing their way down?
00:56:19.34\00:56:23.78
Or do we choose the
straight and narrow road
00:56:23.81\00:56:27.08
that but fewer on,
00:56:27.12\00:56:29.05
but which will lead us to
the pearly gates of heaven?
00:56:29.08\00:56:33.72
Our desire for you
is to choose the later,
00:56:33.76\00:56:37.26
the straight and narrow road
00:56:37.29\00:56:38.99
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00:56:39.03\00:56:41.66
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