Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host.
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I want to thank
you for joining us.
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Our message for
today is entitled
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The Mass Bread and Wine.
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This is part one
of a two part series.
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And during today's message,
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Pastor Kenny
Shelton plans to cover
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the historical relevancy
of the mass bread and wine
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that is so well-known
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and practiced in the
Roman Catholic Church.
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Whether or not you
are a Catholic by faith,
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millions upon
millions of believers
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believe in faithfully
practice and attend the mass
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and the communion
of the bread and wine
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as understood, taught
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and practiced in
the Catholic faith.
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So understanding the
history of these practices
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can be very enlightening
to the earnest Bible student
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of which we hope that
each and every one of you are.
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Therefore, with anticipation
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we're looking forward to hearing
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what the Lord has placed
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upon Pastor Kenny
Shelton's heart today
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to share with each
and every one of us
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concerning the history
of the mass bread and wine.
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But before we join Pastor Kenny,
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let's visit 3ABN
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and listen to a song
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entitled Depth of Mercy
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as sung by Naomi Jackson.
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Depth of mercy,
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can there be Mercy
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Still reserved for me?
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Can my God
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His wrath forbear
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Me the chief
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Of sinners, spare?
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Heaven find me
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On my knees
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Hear my soul
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In passioned pleas
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Depth of mercy,
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Can there be
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Mercy still reserved
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For me?
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Now incline me
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To repent
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Help me now
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My sins lament
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Deeply my revolt deplore
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Weep, believe
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And sin no more
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Heaven find me
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On my knees
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Hear my soul in passioned pleas
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Depth of mercy,
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Can there be
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Mercy still reserved
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For me?
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Heaven find me
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On my knees
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Hear my soul in passioned pleas
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Depth of mercy,
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Can there be
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Mercy still reserved
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Mercy still reserved
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Mercy still reserved
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for me?
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Hello and welcome once
again to Behold the Lamb.
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We're so very happy and grateful
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that you have
decided to tune in today.
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This is, to me,
it's an exciting message.
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It's a two-parter so,
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you know, if you miss one
part or you miss a second first,
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it's not going to come together.
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So you're going
to need both parts.
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We're going to be talking about,
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notice this, the
mass and bread and wine.
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What does that all mean?
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I mean, there's
actually, you could say
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billions of people who
believe in going to mass,
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they believe in mass.
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And what do they
really believe in?
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Has it possibly taken the place
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of a truth that's
in the Word of God?
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I'm just throwing
it out for us to think.
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Is it possible that the enemy
has produced a counterfeit?
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And is it possible
that the whole world
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or a majority of
the world is saying
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it doesn't really matter,
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and the other
part are participating?
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I believe it
does matter every...
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Jesus said every word that what?
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That proceeds out of
the mouth of God matters.
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It counts.
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And so we need to realize
based on the Word of God today
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that we as God's
people have a big job to do
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by the grace of God,
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by His grace and His strength.
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Again, thank you for your cards
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and thank you for your letters.
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Thank you for the support.
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Behold the Lamb
believes in getting the message
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to the world.
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I don't believe that message
should be kept inside walls.
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That's not what it's for.
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It's to go into all the world.
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There's somebody
today that will be blessed
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if you're
looking for a blessing.
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It's not who the speaker is.
It's not who may be a singer.
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It's what the Holy
Spirit working on your heart.
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And I'm thrilled day by day
as we see letters coming in.
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People were saying,
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"I was praying
for truth for years,
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and now I found it."
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You know how awesome that is?
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See, that makes you
want to jump up and shout.
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It does me.
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We've been praying for
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just like many of you
have for literally years.
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You were walking in darkness
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and now God's
called you out of that
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into marvelous light.
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And I'm very grateful
and thankful for that.
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Always we pray,
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I didn't open
the Word you noticed,
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but I'm going to open it.
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But always pray, and I want
you to be praying along with us.
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We need Holy Spirit power.
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I realized I have
nothing which to give,
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nothing good, it's
not going to effect,
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the Holy Spirit does.
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We're not
wasting our time up here.
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And the Holy Spirit says,
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I'm going to take that
Word will not return void.
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And I'm going to believe that.
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And I'm going to
have faith to believe it.
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And I ask that you
would do the same today
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as I kneel and have prayer.
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Merciful God in heaven,
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again, we thank You
for Your precious Word
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that You're
offering to us today,
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You've offered
Yourself on Calvary's cross.
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We accept that today.
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We thank you for that
blood that flowed so freely
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that we may have eternal life.
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Oh Lord, thank
You for that grace.
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Thank You for
Your longsuffering.
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Thank You that You
still bear with us.
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And we pray that
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as we behold Jesus today,
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our hearts and
life will be changed
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and it may be in a
little different way
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than people are used to.
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We liked it to behold with sugar
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and things that
are easy to swallow.
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And today we're
going to behold Jesus
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as He looks into
the hearts and lives
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of each and
every one of us today.
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And He's giving us a
call to come out of error
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and come into that
glorious light of the gospel,
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in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Our scripture reading
again found is John Chapter 6.
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John Chapter 6,
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you have your
Bibles, please turn.
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I always, and I
think is good for all of us
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is check the preacher,
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check the evangelist.
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I mean, I love
people to do that.
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If I see somebody there
is not looking up anything,
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they're just
going, well, you now.
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Man, you know, get
into the Word, right?
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Check him out. I did.
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I learned to do
that as a young person.
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We were taught to check him out
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no matter who he is.
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Well, we have
confidence and we love.
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Wonderful, I'm glad
you have confidence.
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And I'm glad that you love
whoever it is that might be
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teaching or
preaching or bringing the Word,
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but check him out.
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He may be telling
the best he understands,
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but you know, the Holy Spirit
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is going to
lead us and guide us.
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And was it John
16, into all what?
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Into all truth. And
that's what we want here.
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Now remember, the whole world
is not going to be the ones
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that's going to be
saved in the kingdom.
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It's going to be a small group,
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a little
remnant, isn't that right?
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Something, people
that dare to be different.
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That's what the Bible say.
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I'd love for everyone
to be saved, wouldn't you?
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Christ died on the cross,
so everyone could be saved,
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but there are conditions
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if you are going to
make heaven your home.
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Now think about opening up glory
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and just saying,
well, if anybody just want,
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come as you are just
said, he says that down here,
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come as you are,
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but you will not remain the same
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as you are in His presence.
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And the reason we stay the same
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many times for years
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is because we're
really not in His presence.
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We're just talking a
bunch of, woo, bunch of hot air.
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We're just talking it
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rather than doing
something about it.
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John Chapter 6,
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this is a passage that
is really misunderstood
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by the Roman Church.
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And we want to get into that
and probably will not be today
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because they simply
take this verse in Rome,
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in John 6:53, 54 and 55.
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"Then Jesus said unto them,
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verily, verily. I say unto you."
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Now, are we on good
solid ground so far?
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Why?
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Good.
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See somebody paying
attention because Jesus said.
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Notice, Jesus said,
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you can't go wrong with this.
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You can't put up a fight.
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Oh, you can if you
want to. But you know what?
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It's a losing battle.
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Jesus said, notice
this, except you eat the...
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Somebody say flesh,
flesh, I'm going to get happy.
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"Except you eat the
flesh of the Son of man
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and drink the blood,
you have no life in you.
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Whosoever eateth my flesh
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and drinketh my
blood hath," what?
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"Eternal life, and
I will raise him up
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at the last day."
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You talk about a lot of truths
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and here you could
spend a lot of time on.
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Oh, I'm telling they're good.
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Verse 55, notice, it says
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"For my flesh is meat indeed,
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and my blood is drink indeed."
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So there're some
millions, maybe billions
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that believe that
this becomes what?
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When you're
doing this communion,
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whatever it might
be that you're doing
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the communion that
it is literally right,
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that the wafer and
the wine is turned into
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the physical body
of God and His blood.
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We're going to spend
a lot more time on that
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'cause that's interesting.
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I believe that is
a lie of the devil.
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May I just say that?
And let you think about it.
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You may never heard it
before. So you'll say, well, no.
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Listen, it makes a difference
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if it's not substantiated
in the Word of God,
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then it is a lie of the devil.
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So you have to decide,
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well, I'll just take
the lie of the devil.
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Well, go ahead.
That's your choice.
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I hope you don't
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because remember we're
talking about communion service
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and Jesus makes it
real plain about that,
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does He not?
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That's right.
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Now, Paul mentions,
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as we begin in 2
Thessalonians 2, 3, 4, and 7.
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We won't look all
that up right now,
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but he's talking about,
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you know, the man of
sin is going to be what?
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He's going to be
revealed in these last days.
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God has a people
who dare to be a Daniel.
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God has a
people who dare to tell
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what is truth in the last days,
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even though if it will,
it's not going to be popular.
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They're going to fight
against the man of sin.
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They're going to
fight against that,
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you know, that
little horn power.
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They're going to put
up a fight against err.
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I've often said before,
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we've got a jerk
err out by the roots.
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Don't let err
get into the church.
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You let it get in and
it begins to infiltrate
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and people begin to pick
up little bits and pieces.
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You've got a mess.
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Err has to go.
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And only the detector,
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the Word of God can
tell us what that is.
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You know, from
the very beginning,
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from the early days.
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And again, tracing some history
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as fast as we
can go through here
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stages that the
enemy has always planned
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to corrupt God's church,
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God's people.
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He had a plan and sad to say,
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he has a plan sometime
when we as Christians don't.
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Maybe we don't understand
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what a real
Battle Royale this is.
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This is for eternal life.
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Some of you like me,
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we're in the last stages of
the life here on this earth.
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And where are we
going to spend eternity?
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We're going to dillydally around
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and just say,
well, I believe that
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God's going to take me.
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You can be sure
from the Word of God
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that your salvation is assured
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if you're willing to
follow what He said in His Word.
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Has nothing to do with works.
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But I will say this,
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I believe there won't
be anyone in the kingdom
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that doesn't have works
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because it's natural.
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Isn't that right?
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Faith without works is what?
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Oh, I live by
faith. I live by faith.
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Wonderful.
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But the Bible says
faith without works is dead.
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So what a wonderful combination
that just comes across,
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not because you have to,
because it's just inside.
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You ever have something
inside it just got to come out.
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I feel like sometime
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my head's just going to
blow right off of my shoulders.
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You ever feel that way?
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You've got something good,
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God done something
good for you for the day.
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And you feel good about it.
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You can't wait to tell somebody,
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and sometime the
enemy will put you
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in front of somebody
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that trying to take
the air out of your bubble.
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Don't let them do that.
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Errs came
creeping in to the church.
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And as err came in,
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the enemy knew
this from the beginning,
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to get err into the church,
that pretty soon that what?
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It would prepare
the way for the papacy.
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Somebody needs to pay attention.
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In the first
centuries as you will know,
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a hundred years, everybody,
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I think I can say so everybody
went to church on the Sabbath.
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See some of them, some
of them don't get that.
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Everybody went to church,
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you a pagan or a
Christian, isn't that right?
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You went to
church on the Sabbath.
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Well, what happened?
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The enemy understood that.
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So he realized he
had to bring something in
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that would begin to
change our focus on err
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and how they could what?
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Be the power that
they wanted to be.
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The enemy laid his plans
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to war against the
government of God as He did,
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we know that by
planning his false doctrines
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and false teaching.
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Now don't anyone,
please don't even want to say
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it doesn't matter.
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It does matter.
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Remember, it's either
the truth of God's Word.
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I can't say it
any plainer than that.
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It's the truth of God's
Word or it's a lie of the devil.
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Now you choose.
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I can't imagine
any Christian saying,
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"Well, I'll just take
the lie of the devil."
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No, surely we wouldn't say that.
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But we do in our action sometime
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because we were
not willing to follow
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what is truth.
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We just refused to do it
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because it demands a
change in our lifestyle.
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And we're too selfish
and self-centered many times
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to make any of those changes.
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We want to get to
heaven in our own little way,
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it's not going to happen.
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And so the devil
comes into the church
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and he's bringing
these false doctrines
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and teachings with him.
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In fact,
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he wanted to become
a member of the church.
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He wanted to become a member?
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You see his plan is changed now.
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Not like in the very beginning,
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the very
beginning what did he do?
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While he imprisoned,
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he killed, oh my, he burned,
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he tortured, yeah,
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people who said
they were Christians.
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But seemed like every
time a life was taken,
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there'd be two or three
more that would jump up.
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So torture, you couldn't
get rid of the Christians.
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There was a way to expand it.
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But think about,
when the church grew,
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when the church was
growing, there was persecution.
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Now, as there's bait,
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there is in some
other parts of the country.
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Here it's kind of
easy come, easy go.
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Some chose the day,
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well, I'll rather
sleep in bed today
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than come in the house of
God, you made a wrong choice.
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I'm entitled to
my opinion. Am I not?
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You can say, it's
not if you want to,
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if it was just a choice,
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if there wasn't anything
that was keeping you there,
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maybe sickness or
something like that.
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And I'm saying we have
to make choices every day
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and to be on the side
that God wants us to be on.
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So where one would
die, one would be burnt,
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one would be strung
up, one would be tortured,
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one would be stretched
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till they pull their
joints right out of their arms.
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This is all history.
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Read it all,
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history of the Reformation.
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You can read all
kinds of stuff that went on.
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Foxe's Books of Martyrs
will make you sick to read it.
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But it's the truth.
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The enemy is trying to
get rid of books like that,
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and will try to get
rid of some of the history.
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Just a quick
comment on John 6:53-55.
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When Jesus claimed
to be the bread of life.
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Think with me,
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this will be good
for the whole time,
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both the first and
second parts here from heaven.
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It upset the Jews.
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The Jews were very
upset when Jesus said
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I am the bread of
life. I am from heaven.
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Man, they got mad.
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Sometime when you say,
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I know Jesus is
my Lord and Savior.
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Sometime people get mad at you.
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They get little bit upset.
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Now they were upset,
but then Jesus invites them,
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you remember to eat of His flesh
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because many people
put a literal construction
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on His words.
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You say how can we eat
his flesh and drink His blood.
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It's bound to be shocking
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if you thought
that this was literal,
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which some teach today.
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So it either is
truth or it's not truth.
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The Jews knew
that the law prohibited
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the use of blood
for food, did it not?
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Sure.
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Genesis 9,
Deuteronomy Chapter 12,
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just read that when
you have the opportunity.
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So to eat the
flesh and drink the blood
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is simply to receive
Christ as our personal Savior,
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receive what?
00:19:21.59\00:19:22.92
His life, we
become complete in Him.
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So we need to
be complete in Him,
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we need to continue to eat
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and feed on this bread of life.
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And you know what
that yields? Eternal life.
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But we have to be eating.
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You can't go at the
table, say I'm not hungry.
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We have to be
hungry, so I believe this.
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If you came today
to receive a blessing,
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you will.
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If you came to criticize
and condemn and find fault,
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that's what you,
that's what will happen.
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We need to be in one accord.
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Changes taking place,
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so the devil said, okay,
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well, I'm going
to join the church,
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now what gonna do?
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Okay. Persecution,
realize the Dark Ages.
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It began to come to
right, the Reformation,
00:20:04.60\00:20:05.93
it began to come to an end.
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Persecution somewhat ceased,
00:20:08.07\00:20:09.67
and all of a sudden
now there's allurements,
00:20:09.70\00:20:13.01
now there's offers
of peace and prosperity,
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and worldly
things, and honor and gain.
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See, these were offered
now in place of the rack
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and the dungeon,
all these things here,
00:20:22.55\00:20:24.19
the devil said,
no, I can't kill them
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because they
just keep multiplying.
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Now I'm going to offer to
them some things of the world.
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You may realize
how many people today
00:20:30.23\00:20:33.06
the world has
taken them captive.
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They come to the truth
of keeping the Sabbath.
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And they say,
"Well, I can't do that.
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I need to continue
to work on the Sabbath."
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Really?
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He said, no work on
that day, did He not?
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Who are we then
to say otherwise?
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We have to think
this thing over here,
00:20:49.88\00:20:52.81
because He said,
00:20:52.85\00:20:54.18
no work on that day.
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Now, how many are going,
00:20:59.09\00:21:00.49
you know, wanting
to go along with that.
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So how did these false doctrines
00:21:03.56\00:21:05.26
and teachings come in
00:21:05.29\00:21:07.70
when the enemy's
offering prosperity and peace
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and all these things?
00:21:09.90\00:21:11.23
Well, all of a
sudden we have idolaters
00:21:11.27\00:21:13.03
that were coming in.
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That's called
the half converted.
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They begin to be
accepted in the church.
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And let me just
be bold enough to say
00:21:19.77\00:21:21.28
that I believe that many times
that happens in churches today.
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The half, come on, somebody.
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The half, sometimes half
converted people come in.
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They cause more
trouble in the church.
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We love for people to come in.
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Don't get me wrong.
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Praise God.
00:21:36.39\00:21:37.73
But if we're only
going to be half converted,
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that means what?
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Half converted
means totally lost.
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Is that true?
There's no such thing.
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Well, it's, you
know, I've heard people say
00:21:44.37\00:21:45.80
many times while growing up.
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Well, it's better than nothing.
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No, it's not.
00:21:49.47\00:21:51.67
It's not Brother Jan.
It's not better because what?
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Half means what?
00:21:54.68\00:21:56.01
You're bringing in
half of devil as it were,
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you're bringing
the whole devil in,
00:21:57.95\00:22:00.28
into the church
and all the things
00:22:00.32\00:22:01.65
you think should be all right.
00:22:01.68\00:22:05.25
And so they came in,
these half converted idolaters.
00:22:05.29\00:22:08.59
They were
accepted into the church
00:22:08.62\00:22:10.96
while they
rejected many essentials.
00:22:10.99\00:22:15.56
What do you
mean, essential truths?
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Here's the main point,
quickly two little things.
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Their profession was this.
00:22:19.97\00:22:21.44
In other words you
wanted to join the church
00:22:21.47\00:22:22.87
back in the first century,
right, you want to come in,
00:22:22.90\00:22:25.04
as paganism was coming in.
00:22:25.07\00:22:26.44
And, you know, idol worshipers
and all that was coming in.
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There's two things.
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All you had to do
was say, I accept Christ.
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Hmm.
00:22:34.15\00:22:35.78
I believe that His, in His death
00:22:35.82\00:22:39.52
and in His resurrection
00:22:39.55\00:22:40.89
and you were a full-time member.
00:22:40.92\00:22:44.76
Nothing was said
about conviction of sin.
00:22:44.79\00:22:49.60
Nothing was said about
needed to gain victory,
00:22:49.63\00:22:51.77
needed to repent.
00:22:51.80\00:22:53.47
Nothing was said about
having a change of heart.
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That's what we should
all be talking about here
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is of change of heart and life.
00:22:58.64\00:23:00.08
Because in this world we
have, we're all sinners, right?
00:23:00.11\00:23:03.31
And we need a Savior.
00:23:03.35\00:23:04.81
And somewhere in point
in our time in our life,
00:23:04.85\00:23:07.45
we must accept Christ
as our Lord and Savior.
00:23:07.48\00:23:10.19
There's no other
way into heaven, right,
00:23:10.22\00:23:13.62
than by Jesus.
00:23:13.66\00:23:14.99
We understand that, we
have the conviction to say,
00:23:15.02\00:23:16.69
we want to change.
00:23:16.73\00:23:18.89
If you don't want to change,
that means you must be happy
00:23:18.93\00:23:21.36
with your life
and your lifestyle.
00:23:21.40\00:23:23.80
I found out many years
ago, I need some changes.
00:23:23.83\00:23:25.90
Now I need some big ones.
00:23:25.93\00:23:30.44
And the more about God's grace,
it begins to make changes,
00:23:30.47\00:23:32.74
the more I see I needed.
00:23:32.77\00:23:36.78
And now all these years later,
I find out I still need more,
00:23:36.81\00:23:41.15
because by beholding I
found myself even more sinful
00:23:41.18\00:23:43.82
than I even thought.
00:23:43.85\00:23:47.09
Isn't that interesting?
00:23:47.12\00:23:48.46
But beholding, isn't that right?
00:23:48.49\00:23:49.82
By beholding, we
become changed into His image.
00:23:49.86\00:23:52.73
If you're
beholding the old computer
00:23:52.76\00:23:54.33
and all that junk
00:23:54.36\00:23:56.40
that's on there,
00:23:56.43\00:23:57.77
you're listening to
the wrong kind of music,
00:23:57.80\00:24:00.77
eating the wrong kind of stuff
00:24:00.80\00:24:02.50
that affects your mind
and decisions that you make.
00:24:02.54\00:24:04.57
There's no doubt about.
00:24:04.61\00:24:05.94
That's a proven fact
00:24:05.97\00:24:07.31
that hasn't come
to from a church,
00:24:07.34\00:24:09.24
that comes from people
who've studied these things.
00:24:09.28\00:24:11.75
They makes sense
00:24:11.78\00:24:15.32
that we need to,
by the grace of God,
00:24:15.35\00:24:17.05
we need to be convicted,
00:24:17.09\00:24:18.42
we need to
repent, we need to change.
00:24:18.45\00:24:21.66
But you know what?
00:24:21.69\00:24:23.02
At this point in
time in the church,
00:24:23.06\00:24:24.89
when we found
out that all these...
00:24:24.93\00:24:26.46
Again, this has to
do with false doctrines
00:24:26.49\00:24:28.46
and teachings of how
they came in to the church,
00:24:28.50\00:24:31.37
and after a few hundred years,
00:24:31.40\00:24:33.54
the church accepted them
00:24:33.57\00:24:34.90
and nobody knows any difference.
00:24:34.94\00:24:37.34
This is what we've always done.
00:24:37.37\00:24:39.07
This is what
we've always believed.
00:24:39.11\00:24:40.81
Let it teach and
go for 200 years,
00:24:40.84\00:24:42.48
nobody bring it up.
00:24:42.51\00:24:43.85
How many of us will
be around 200 years?
00:24:43.88\00:24:47.28
Nobody's going
to be repulsed by it
00:24:47.32\00:24:49.25
and say, we didn't know.
00:24:49.28\00:24:50.62
That's the way I was raised.
00:24:50.65\00:24:51.99
That's why we need to
study to show ourselves
00:24:52.02\00:24:53.39
approved unto God.
00:24:53.42\00:24:56.93
So what happened with the church
00:24:56.96\00:24:58.66
and the pagans and the heathen?
00:24:58.69\00:25:01.16
I mean, somebody comes in and,
00:25:01.20\00:25:03.00
oh my lands of love.
00:25:03.03\00:25:04.37
They've never given
their life to Christ
00:25:04.40\00:25:05.73
and they come in
here and they bring in
00:25:05.77\00:25:07.10
all of these
different things with them.
00:25:07.14\00:25:09.50
How many of us just
going to sit in our pew
00:25:09.54\00:25:11.77
and say nothing?
00:25:11.81\00:25:14.44
Now you can let your mind
go as far as you want to go,
00:25:14.48\00:25:16.38
but we're talking about
heathen and pagans here.
00:25:16.41\00:25:18.71
There's somebody comes
in through marching and say,
00:25:18.75\00:25:20.45
we love Jesus.
00:25:20.48\00:25:21.82
Oh, praise God, good.
00:25:21.85\00:25:24.42
We believe in His
burial and His resurrection,
00:25:24.45\00:25:25.99
praise God.
00:25:26.02\00:25:27.36
And then they,
has to be honest with.
00:25:27.39\00:25:28.72
They bring in a big idol
00:25:28.76\00:25:30.09
or something they set it up here
00:25:30.13\00:25:31.46
and they're bowing
down, they're praying to it.
00:25:31.49\00:25:32.99
How many of us are
going to be silent?
00:25:33.03\00:25:35.50
Well, if any of
you are, shame on you.
00:25:35.53\00:25:40.04
Think about it.
00:25:40.07\00:25:41.80
That's what
happened in the early church.
00:25:41.84\00:25:45.61
They didn't know what to do,
00:25:45.64\00:25:46.98
and they didn't know what to do.
00:25:47.01\00:25:49.08
So they made compromise
and they made concessions.
00:25:49.11\00:25:54.22
Other words, if this side
would compromise a little bit,
00:25:54.25\00:25:57.45
this side here would make
concessions and compromise.
00:25:57.49\00:26:00.29
Pretty soon,
they're going to say,
00:26:00.32\00:26:01.69
oh, okay, we've
got an agreement here.
00:26:01.72\00:26:04.09
Now, remember,
there's some things
00:26:04.13\00:26:05.53
that we do not agree on.
00:26:05.56\00:26:07.43
And on those, oh, listen,
00:26:07.46\00:26:08.80
on those things
that we don't agree on,
00:26:08.83\00:26:11.40
keep silent.
00:26:11.43\00:26:13.17
Is that some
what's going on today?
00:26:13.20\00:26:14.77
Remember,
00:26:14.80\00:26:16.94
many churches doing that today.
00:26:16.97\00:26:18.31
They're saying we
agree with da-da-da.
00:26:18.34\00:26:19.74
Yeah, but you don't agree.
Well, we don't talk about that.
00:26:19.77\00:26:21.74
Really?
00:26:21.78\00:26:23.31
Something's wrong
with that picture.
00:26:23.35\00:26:27.15
But they were told,
we need to keep silent.
00:26:27.18\00:26:28.92
And then they say, what?
00:26:28.95\00:26:31.62
The only way we can have unity
is to do this and compromise.
00:26:31.65\00:26:34.69
Today I hear unity
and unity. I love unity.
00:26:34.72\00:26:37.79
Jesus prayed for the unity.
00:26:37.83\00:26:39.86
And I believe in unity.
00:26:39.89\00:26:41.60
I want to see unity.
00:26:41.63\00:26:43.03
I believe God's church,
00:26:43.06\00:26:44.40
His people ought to
be unified in the truth,
00:26:44.43\00:26:46.80
and we can't
even seem to do that.
00:26:46.84\00:26:49.97
Huh.
00:26:50.01\00:26:52.11
We need unity.
00:26:52.14\00:26:53.48
But when you have a false unity,
00:26:53.51\00:26:55.74
that's wrong,
00:26:55.78\00:26:57.11
that means you've
compromised, made concessions.
00:26:57.15\00:27:00.18
And the truth has
been watered down,
00:27:00.22\00:27:01.92
that doesn't matter anymore.
00:27:01.95\00:27:03.28
I think it does.
00:27:03.32\00:27:06.42
I love the book
Great Controversy.
00:27:06.45\00:27:07.79
How about you?
00:27:07.82\00:27:09.99
Page 566 says this.
00:27:10.03\00:27:12.69
If it's proven
wrong from scripture,
00:27:12.73\00:27:14.60
somebody tell me,
I'll scratch it out.
00:27:14.63\00:27:17.60
Somebody can prove these
things are not true in here,
00:27:17.63\00:27:19.67
I'll burn it up.
00:27:19.70\00:27:21.04
Can I go that far?
00:27:21.07\00:27:23.07
Doesn't mean I can. I
understand everything,
00:27:23.10\00:27:25.31
but I've been reading
it now for over 50 years.
00:27:25.34\00:27:28.04
You know, I
haven't found anything
00:27:28.08\00:27:29.58
that goes against Scripture yet.
00:27:29.61\00:27:31.61
There's a lot into the future,
00:27:31.65\00:27:33.88
but I've also looked in the past
00:27:33.92\00:27:35.25
and I've seen these things
00:27:35.28\00:27:36.62
fulfilled right
to the very letter,
00:27:36.65\00:27:38.29
every one of them,
00:27:38.32\00:27:39.65
and so why not
the last little bit.
00:27:39.69\00:27:42.09
Oh, I tell you it's good.
00:27:42.12\00:27:44.93
Protestants have trouble.
00:27:44.96\00:27:47.40
Now anybody a Protestant here?
00:27:47.43\00:27:51.47
We've got one.
Will there be two?
00:27:51.50\00:27:53.54
If there'll be two,
will there be three?
00:27:53.57\00:27:55.17
Come on somebody. Yes.
00:27:55.20\00:27:57.24
Basically if
you're not a Catholic,
00:27:57.27\00:27:58.61
you're a Protestant.
00:27:58.64\00:27:59.97
Notice what,
"Protestants have made
00:28:00.01\00:28:01.34
compromises and concessions
00:28:01.38\00:28:03.41
which papists
themselves are surprised to see
00:28:03.45\00:28:07.78
and fail to understand."
00:28:07.82\00:28:09.62
We have made concessions
to the Church of Rome,
00:28:09.65\00:28:13.39
even though this, remember,
00:28:13.42\00:28:14.76
and I'm just
going to say it bold,
00:28:14.79\00:28:16.12
because most of
their teaching, not people.
00:28:16.16\00:28:18.33
Come on, we understand.
00:28:18.36\00:28:19.76
It's not trying to
judge anything, anybody.
00:28:19.79\00:28:21.56
We're looking at
what they're teaching
00:28:21.60\00:28:22.93
for truth.
00:28:22.96\00:28:24.30
You cannot find
it almost everything
00:28:24.33\00:28:26.30
in the Word of God,
00:28:26.33\00:28:27.80
can you?
00:28:27.84\00:28:29.17
You can't find their
doctrines and teachings
00:28:29.20\00:28:31.17
most in the Word of God.
00:28:31.21\00:28:32.54
You just can't.
00:28:32.57\00:28:35.01
It's not. Thank you.
00:28:35.04\00:28:36.54
It's just not there.
00:28:36.58\00:28:39.05
Huh.
00:28:39.08\00:28:40.42
And so when they
throw these things out
00:28:40.45\00:28:42.25
to the Protestants and we say,
00:28:42.28\00:28:43.62
well, okay,
let's try to get along.
00:28:43.65\00:28:46.29
They're surprised they
put it in there, right?
00:28:46.32\00:28:47.92
We're surprised
00:28:47.96\00:28:49.29
they're even
accepting this without a fight.
00:28:49.32\00:28:51.43
Many of us Protestants,
we don't protest anymore,
00:28:51.46\00:28:53.60
we don't fight anymore.
00:28:53.63\00:28:56.63
And we know God is to
fight our battles for us,
00:28:56.67\00:28:58.27
but He needs
somebody that will stand up.
00:28:58.30\00:29:00.67
We need more
spiritual backbone in the church
00:29:00.70\00:29:02.97
than what we have.
00:29:03.00\00:29:08.04
Shame on us if we
teach and we preach
00:29:08.08\00:29:10.45
and we try to come
before someone else,
00:29:10.48\00:29:12.25
we don't have a backbone
to stand for what truth is.
00:29:12.28\00:29:15.72
I always say, go
out and get a real job.
00:29:15.75\00:29:20.06
See, many people
are closing their eyes
00:29:20.09\00:29:22.59
today of things what?
00:29:22.62\00:29:24.56
The character of Romanism,
00:29:24.59\00:29:25.96
they're just closing their eyes.
00:29:25.99\00:29:28.20
But we have to
remember the danger
00:29:28.23\00:29:30.10
that are there
for us as a people.
00:29:30.13\00:29:34.37
If they reached
this stage of supremacy,
00:29:34.40\00:29:36.74
which they have
in the old world,
00:29:36.77\00:29:38.24
which they're still
trying to do in this new world,
00:29:38.27\00:29:40.58
as the deadly wound was healed
00:29:40.61\00:29:42.24
and all the world
wandered after the beast.
00:29:42.28\00:29:44.31
And they are those
whose names are not written
00:29:44.35\00:29:46.28
in the Lamb's Book of Life.
00:29:46.31\00:29:47.65
Man, I'd care about that.
00:29:47.68\00:29:50.15
If I were you, I'd care about
00:29:50.19\00:29:51.52
finding out what that means.
00:29:51.55\00:29:52.95
Great Controversy
says, God's people, listen,
00:29:57.93\00:30:00.50
need to be aroused.
00:30:00.53\00:30:02.86
I don't know what
it takes for some,
00:30:02.90\00:30:04.23
but some people
you just can't arouse.
00:30:04.27\00:30:05.97
We know, and I'm not talking
about the Holy Spirit doing it.
00:30:06.00\00:30:08.40
You can get up and you can do,
00:30:08.44\00:30:09.87
as they say sometime the
foolishness of preaching.
00:30:09.90\00:30:12.61
Preach your heart out.
00:30:12.64\00:30:14.51
Nobody's going to
listen, maybe somebody will.
00:30:14.54\00:30:18.31
But we need to realize
here that we need to be aroused.
00:30:18.35\00:30:22.58
Notice this word, to resist
00:30:22.62\00:30:25.89
the advances of
the most dangerous
00:30:25.92\00:30:28.99
foe to civil
00:30:29.02\00:30:30.93
and religious liberty.
00:30:30.96\00:30:32.96
Did you get that?
00:30:32.99\00:30:34.60
The Roman Church
is the biggest danger,
00:30:34.63\00:30:37.77
biggest threat
00:30:37.80\00:30:39.70
to our civil and
religious liberty.
00:30:39.73\00:30:43.04
See, I believe in liberty.
00:30:43.07\00:30:44.57
I believe
00:30:44.61\00:30:45.94
if you want to accept
Christ as your Lord and Savior,
00:30:45.97\00:30:47.31
praise God,
00:30:47.34\00:30:48.68
if you don't want
to, you don't have to.
00:30:48.71\00:30:51.35
We need to, but
you don't have to.
00:30:51.38\00:30:53.55
I believe in freedom
of speech, don't you?
00:30:53.58\00:30:55.88
Look, what's been
taken away from us.
00:30:55.92\00:30:58.35
All these things are
gradually taken away.
00:30:58.39\00:31:00.12
Signs of the
time, Bible prophecy.
00:31:00.16\00:31:04.09
May I just project something?
00:31:04.13\00:31:05.59
If you don't like it, I
started to say throw it back.
00:31:05.63\00:31:08.20
But that doesn't mean the
shoes or anything like that.
00:31:08.23\00:31:10.43
Don't we try it.
00:31:10.47\00:31:13.74
What? I want you to think.
00:31:13.77\00:31:16.24
God's people need to
stir it up a little bit.
00:31:16.27\00:31:19.34
It might stink when you do,
00:31:19.37\00:31:20.91
but I'm telling you it's
going to get nice after a while,
00:31:20.94\00:31:22.84
stir it up.
00:31:22.88\00:31:24.21
You know why it will stink?
00:31:24.25\00:31:25.58
Because the truth had been
left in the bottom too long.
00:31:25.61\00:31:27.05
Let's get it to the top.
00:31:27.08\00:31:28.75
Let's start
stirring it up right now.
00:31:28.78\00:31:31.55
I'm going to say that
00:31:31.59\00:31:32.92
the church now is
worse shape than it was
00:31:32.95\00:31:36.52
worst peril you can say
00:31:36.56\00:31:38.46
than when there was
people put in prison
00:31:38.49\00:31:40.80
and when there was people,
00:31:40.83\00:31:42.16
you know, were
burnt by the fire.
00:31:42.20\00:31:43.53
They were tortured,
00:31:43.57\00:31:44.90
they were
separated from loved ones.
00:31:44.93\00:31:48.20
I'm going to
say it's worse. Why?
00:31:48.24\00:31:52.04
Because Satan now...
00:31:52.07\00:31:54.28
Now, notice this.
00:31:54.31\00:31:55.64
Remember when
there's persecution,
00:31:55.68\00:31:57.01
what happened?
00:31:57.05\00:31:58.38
The church grew.
00:31:58.41\00:31:59.75
Yes, oh, yeah.
00:32:04.59\00:32:07.22
Satan now comes to the church
00:32:07.26\00:32:11.59
and he comes
through the front doors.
00:32:11.63\00:32:14.06
Somebody lock it.
00:32:14.10\00:32:17.13
He comes through what?
00:32:17.17\00:32:19.00
The front doors.
00:32:19.03\00:32:21.50
He said he don't
have to come in the back
00:32:21.54\00:32:23.74
more than likely
00:32:23.77\00:32:25.47
people won't
recognize who he is anyway,
00:32:25.51\00:32:28.34
because he decided to maybe come
00:32:28.38\00:32:30.05
in the form of me or you.
00:32:30.08\00:32:34.85
Now, no one did that.
00:32:34.88\00:32:36.22
I know that you prayed before
you come into the sanctuary.
00:32:36.25\00:32:38.42
If you didn't shame
on you, do it next time.
00:32:38.45\00:32:40.82
Because if we
don't have clean hands
00:32:40.86\00:32:42.46
and clean
hearts and clean minds,
00:32:42.49\00:32:44.39
that's how the
devil gets in here.
00:32:44.43\00:32:47.46
That's how we have to realize
that when you are preparing,
00:32:47.50\00:32:51.23
as many of you
do in Sabbath school
00:32:51.27\00:32:53.07
and pastoring and
so on and so forth.
00:32:53.10\00:32:54.80
When you are
preparing your message,
00:32:54.84\00:32:56.87
the enemy stands
over your shoulder
00:32:56.91\00:32:58.71
and he reads what you jot down.
00:32:58.74\00:33:00.88
Don't think he doesn't.
00:33:00.91\00:33:02.84
He is a foe.
00:33:02.88\00:33:05.55
So that means
those of us who do that,
00:33:05.58\00:33:07.98
we are in
contention day in and day out.
00:33:08.02\00:33:12.39
You feel it
sometime, you're overwhelmed.
00:33:12.42\00:33:15.02
I'm getting goose bumps now
of overwhelmed how the enemy,
00:33:15.06\00:33:18.59
you know that he's
there, sometime I'm writing in,
00:33:18.63\00:33:21.26
Lord, have mercy.
00:33:21.30\00:33:23.00
Lord, have mercy.
00:33:23.03\00:33:24.73
The enemy seen, God said,
00:33:24.77\00:33:26.20
"Don't worry about
it. I'll take care of him.
00:33:26.23\00:33:29.34
Don't worry about him.
I'll take care of him."
00:33:29.37\00:33:31.41
Boy, I'm telling you this...
00:33:34.58\00:33:36.48
I just feel more and
more overwhelmed at time.
00:33:36.51\00:33:39.85
We don't need to be
because God's in control,
00:33:39.88\00:33:42.08
overwhelmed that I'm not doing
what God asked me to do fully.
00:33:42.12\00:33:44.85
I want to do it. I
know you want to do it.
00:33:44.89\00:33:48.46
And I don't want him to
come in through the front door.
00:33:48.49\00:33:53.16
And he not only
walks in the front door,
00:33:53.19\00:33:54.66
but we welcome him.
00:33:54.70\00:33:56.63
Well, come in,
so nice to see You.
00:33:56.67\00:33:59.53
Hmm. And we hand him a bulletin.
00:33:59.57\00:34:01.67
So he knows what's going on.
00:34:01.70\00:34:03.71
And I guarantee you
he's been up Friday night
00:34:03.74\00:34:05.74
planning.
00:34:05.77\00:34:07.11
Come on, church.
00:34:07.14\00:34:09.14
Then we have, as
it were, a deacon,
00:34:09.18\00:34:10.51
then we bring him
and try to give him
00:34:10.55\00:34:11.88
the best seat in the house.
00:34:11.91\00:34:13.25
Well, come on in and have seat.
00:34:15.88\00:34:17.95
Hmm.
00:34:17.99\00:34:20.92
And then the choir
gets up to sing and lo
00:34:20.96\00:34:22.69
and behold, if
you don't join them.
00:34:22.72\00:34:24.06
Please just come on now.
00:34:27.03\00:34:28.36
Then the preacher gets
up or Sabbath school teacher
00:34:31.10\00:34:33.03
and the enemy starts
corrupting the class,
00:34:33.07\00:34:36.44
causing unusual things to go on.
00:34:36.47\00:34:38.17
He's trying to cause
division and separation.
00:34:42.04\00:34:46.28
Hmm.
00:34:46.31\00:34:49.15
So I think maybe we
would admit today the church,
00:34:49.18\00:34:53.72
even in her best condition
00:34:53.76\00:34:57.79
is not made up of holy,
00:34:57.83\00:35:01.73
true, pure, sincere,
00:35:01.76\00:35:05.43
born again Christians.
00:35:05.47\00:35:07.77
That's heavy-duty
now. Did you get it?
00:35:07.80\00:35:11.24
Even at her best condition,
the church has some faults.
00:35:11.27\00:35:15.34
And what is it? It's us.
00:35:15.38\00:35:18.31
We have things that
we need to overcome.
00:35:18.35\00:35:20.62
Not trying to be
judgmental in your life.
00:35:20.65\00:35:22.28
You know, your own life,
00:35:22.32\00:35:26.02
but we're a
church I would call it.
00:35:26.05\00:35:27.52
We've read many times
a church that's militant
00:35:27.56\00:35:30.36
that God is calling.
00:35:30.39\00:35:34.33
He's calling us as His people.
00:35:34.36\00:35:36.87
That's anybody and
everybody, I must say publicly.
00:35:36.90\00:35:40.34
And I always have,
00:35:40.37\00:35:41.70
and sometime you
get in trouble for it,
00:35:41.74\00:35:43.07
but you know what?
00:35:43.10\00:35:44.44
I'm not a stranger to trouble.
00:35:44.47\00:35:47.24
Are you?
00:35:47.28\00:35:49.21
I'm not a stranger for
somebody jumping down my throat.
00:35:49.24\00:35:52.68
I know how to get back
up and tangled a little bit
00:35:52.71\00:35:54.55
with the Word of God.
00:35:54.58\00:35:55.92
Come on now, church. Right?
00:35:55.95\00:35:57.29
I know by the Word of God.
00:35:57.32\00:36:00.06
The enemy is going to
silence you if he can.
00:36:00.09\00:36:03.63
Hmm.
00:36:03.66\00:36:05.53
The devil doesn't
care about pew sleepers.
00:36:05.56\00:36:09.10
Did you get it?
00:36:09.13\00:36:10.73
Huh.
00:36:10.77\00:36:12.13
But the pew sleepers many times
00:36:16.74\00:36:18.57
in the lukewarm
become very angry
00:36:18.61\00:36:21.28
when some of their life
or their sins are reproved.
00:36:21.31\00:36:26.15
They hate to be disturbed.
00:36:26.18\00:36:30.42
They like it quiet.
00:36:30.45\00:36:32.49
Hmm.
00:36:32.52\00:36:35.46
And when their sins
or things in their life,
00:36:35.49\00:36:38.56
no one may know
that they're hit upon,
00:36:38.59\00:36:40.96
they begin to turn on
00:36:41.00\00:36:42.33
those who are
working in their behalf.
00:36:42.36\00:36:43.93
Remember as long as
persecution continued,
00:36:47.14\00:36:49.34
the church did what?
00:36:49.37\00:36:51.44
Remain comparatively pure.
00:36:51.47\00:36:55.54
And it will once again,
00:36:55.58\00:36:59.05
as heart and mind and the world
00:36:59.08\00:37:00.92
begins to turn on
the last day church,
00:37:00.95\00:37:03.62
then what?
00:37:03.65\00:37:04.99
Most are going
to flee out of it.
00:37:05.02\00:37:07.62
Yeah.
00:37:07.66\00:37:08.99
But think about this.
00:37:14.33\00:37:15.96
That was that, that
time at the beginning,
00:37:16.00\00:37:17.97
where church
remained comparatively, right?
00:37:18.00\00:37:21.40
Pure because, you know,
the persecution was going on
00:37:21.44\00:37:24.37
and people took a
stand and they say,
00:37:24.41\00:37:25.84
"I'll die for what is truth."
00:37:25.87\00:37:30.21
But as this ceased,
others came into the church,
00:37:30.25\00:37:35.32
and the ones who
came into the church
00:37:35.35\00:37:37.32
in the first, second
century and third century,
00:37:37.35\00:37:39.32
they were,
00:37:39.35\00:37:40.69
you know, we wanna
call them less sincere.
00:37:40.72\00:37:43.22
They were not quite as devoted.
00:37:43.26\00:37:47.53
And then once again,
00:37:47.56\00:37:48.90
the enemy found
the door cracked open.
00:37:48.93\00:37:50.30
Now he can come in
through the less sincere
00:37:50.33\00:37:53.97
and the less devoted.
00:37:54.00\00:37:55.80
There are those
who oppose this union
00:37:59.01\00:38:01.41
between light and darkness.
00:38:01.44\00:38:05.71
They struggle with deception.
00:38:05.75\00:38:07.92
They struggle with abominations
that be in the church.
00:38:07.95\00:38:12.72
They should,
00:38:12.75\00:38:15.06
I hear so much all the time
about latter rain experience.
00:38:15.09\00:38:18.23
Praise God for
that. Man, we need it.
00:38:18.26\00:38:21.43
But when you talk
about abominations, right?
00:38:21.46\00:38:24.60
Somebody has to sigh and
cry for those abominations
00:38:24.63\00:38:26.94
that be in the church.
00:38:26.97\00:38:28.30
If you're not sighing and crying
00:38:28.34\00:38:29.67
for those abomination,
those sins in the church,
00:38:29.70\00:38:31.54
you will not
receive of the latter rain.
00:38:31.57\00:38:33.64
Heaven will not be your home.
00:38:33.68\00:38:36.48
God doesn't cover sin, right?
00:38:36.51\00:38:38.38
He takes it by His blood.
00:38:38.41\00:38:40.08
Isn't that wonderful to know
00:38:40.12\00:38:42.02
we're free by the
blood of the Lamb?
00:38:42.05\00:38:46.45
Don't give the enemy
any kind of foothold.
00:38:46.49\00:38:49.09
Think about this.
00:38:55.90\00:38:57.23
You know, the
Bible was not accepted
00:38:57.27\00:39:02.60
in the early stages
as the standard of faith.
00:39:02.64\00:39:07.28
Remember the
world got into a mess,
00:39:07.31\00:39:09.08
the church got into a mess
00:39:09.11\00:39:10.48
because the people did
not accept the Word of God
00:39:10.51\00:39:12.95
as the standard
of righteousness,
00:39:12.98\00:39:14.55
and they do not today.
00:39:14.58\00:39:16.65
The majority do not.
00:39:16.69\00:39:18.69
You talk to them a lot.
00:39:18.72\00:39:20.06
They'll say, "Well, I
know what it says, but."
00:39:20.09\00:39:21.42
If you're one of
those, you're a Billy goat.
00:39:21.46\00:39:24.49
That makes sense?
00:39:24.53\00:39:26.86
'Cause Billy goes through what?
00:39:26.90\00:39:28.66
Thank you, but.
00:39:28.70\00:39:31.50
Think about God called,
He said, I called my sheep.
00:39:31.53\00:39:33.60
He said, well, I go, but...
00:39:33.64\00:39:35.64
God doesn't
call the Billy goats.
00:39:39.44\00:39:40.78
He calls sheep.
00:39:40.81\00:39:44.35
So we have to
keep this in our mind
00:39:44.38\00:39:46.11
the real standard of
faith, religious freedom.
00:39:46.15\00:39:49.35
Listen, religious freedom
00:39:49.38\00:39:50.82
back then was termed heresy.
00:39:50.85\00:39:55.46
Wasn't it?
00:39:55.49\00:39:56.83
It was termed heresy.
00:39:56.86\00:39:58.66
That simply means that,
00:39:58.69\00:40:00.43
you notice that their belief,
00:40:00.46\00:40:02.23
it simply means
as we look at it...
00:40:07.17\00:40:11.41
Here's what the
church, the mother church,
00:40:11.44\00:40:13.71
as it were, was laying out.
00:40:13.74\00:40:15.08
And if you didn't go
along with those teachings,
00:40:15.11\00:40:17.31
you were hated,
you were rebuked.
00:40:21.28\00:40:25.52
Huh.
00:40:25.55\00:40:26.89
Yeah. Jailed, and
then maybe killed.
00:40:26.92\00:40:29.96
I mean, this is
heavy-duty stuff.
00:40:29.99\00:40:33.06
So what should the church do?
00:40:33.09\00:40:35.26
What should the church do?
00:40:38.43\00:40:39.77
What should we do as the people,
00:40:39.80\00:40:41.74
the true and faithful?
00:40:41.77\00:40:43.10
What did the true
and faithful do now?
00:40:43.14\00:40:44.47
Time's going on quickly.
00:40:44.51\00:40:45.84
If you have this
type of situation,
00:40:48.84\00:40:50.95
that's infiltrated the church
00:40:50.98\00:40:52.68
as they did at
the time of Christ
00:40:52.71\00:40:54.65
and shortly thereafter,
00:40:54.68\00:40:56.02
first, second, third
century, what do you do?
00:40:56.05\00:40:57.85
You blow a trumpet
00:41:00.92\00:41:02.26
and certainly get
some truth out there
00:41:02.29\00:41:03.66
and call people
to make a decision.
00:41:03.69\00:41:05.46
Remember when
you blow it in Zion,
00:41:05.49\00:41:06.83
that means you
give it to the church.
00:41:06.86\00:41:08.53
And how often I
hear so often is,
00:41:08.56\00:41:10.33
well, you don't want to,
00:41:10.37\00:41:11.70
you don't want to
call sin by anything.
00:41:11.73\00:41:13.07
You don't want to deal
with the church. Really?
00:41:13.10\00:41:17.44
I feel in my own
heart, in my life
00:41:17.47\00:41:18.91
that the Holy Spirit
calls me many times to,
00:41:18.94\00:41:22.08
you know, as the
heirs of the church.
00:41:22.11\00:41:24.11
Certainly not
everybody's get the same call,
00:41:27.15\00:41:29.55
but I have the
burden I've said so often
00:41:29.58\00:41:31.69
that regardless
of where I start out
00:41:31.72\00:41:33.79
in preparing a message,
00:41:33.82\00:41:35.19
I will inevitably go back
00:41:35.22\00:41:38.96
to giving a call because what?
00:41:38.99\00:41:40.73
Probation is soon to close
00:41:40.76\00:41:42.76
and the time must be
spent on God's people
00:41:42.80\00:41:45.23
as the message was,
00:41:45.27\00:41:46.60
you remember it
went to the Gentiles.
00:41:46.63\00:41:47.97
Jesus even said what?
00:41:48.00\00:41:49.34
Don't go to the Gentiles
00:41:49.37\00:41:51.11
just before, you remember that
00:41:51.14\00:41:52.47
before the
probation close for Calvary.
00:41:52.51\00:41:55.01
Don't go, don't go to
Gentiles, go to house of Israel.
00:41:55.04\00:41:58.31
And now it seem like
00:41:58.35\00:41:59.68
we're so close
to the end of time,
00:41:59.71\00:42:01.05
go to the house
of Israel as it were.
00:42:01.08\00:42:02.92
Give a warning
message, cry aloud, spare not,
00:42:02.95\00:42:05.09
lift up the trumpet,
00:42:05.12\00:42:06.45
give the message
the way that we should.
00:42:06.49\00:42:07.99
But if we see
that it's not happening
00:42:11.63\00:42:12.99
and not really taking place,
00:42:13.03\00:42:15.23
what they did back then.
00:42:15.26\00:42:16.60
And I think it's good
food for thought right now,
00:42:16.63\00:42:19.20
they, notice this.
00:42:19.23\00:42:20.57
They dissolved all union
with the apostate church.
00:42:20.60\00:42:26.17
Did you get it?
00:42:26.21\00:42:27.81
They dissolved because of what?
00:42:27.84\00:42:29.51
If you're teaching err,
00:42:29.54\00:42:31.95
the Roman Church
then was gaining ground
00:42:31.98\00:42:33.92
and claiming more power.
00:42:33.95\00:42:38.62
But the people said simply,
oh, what about the church?
00:42:38.65\00:42:41.56
We want to obey
God rather than man.
00:42:41.59\00:42:44.63
When we as a
people begin to say that
00:42:44.66\00:42:47.16
and really mean it.
00:42:47.20\00:42:48.60
We want to obey
God rather than a man.
00:42:48.63\00:42:50.43
Well, yeah, but you
have an obligation here.
00:42:50.47\00:42:51.93
You have a, we have
an obligation to God
00:42:51.97\00:42:53.60
and God only.
00:42:53.64\00:42:55.00
I hope that makes sense.
00:42:55.04\00:42:56.71
That's where your
obligation is to God
00:42:56.74\00:42:59.44
not to what some church says.
00:42:59.47\00:43:01.68
Thank you going to get to church
00:43:01.71\00:43:03.04
because you go on
the seventh day Sabbath.
00:43:03.08\00:43:04.41
You better think again.
00:43:04.45\00:43:06.05
It takes more than that.
00:43:06.08\00:43:08.05
Certainly that's important.
00:43:08.08\00:43:09.52
All the
commandments are important.
00:43:09.55\00:43:11.62
Funny how the
world can cross out
00:43:11.65\00:43:12.99
one and say, nine is good.
00:43:13.02\00:43:15.12
Something's going on here?
00:43:15.16\00:43:16.83
And we see these
things taking place
00:43:16.86\00:43:19.46
in the early
stages of God's Church.
00:43:19.49\00:43:24.23
Hmm.
00:43:24.27\00:43:27.54
They said, we're not
going to believe anything
00:43:27.57\00:43:29.37
unless it's
founded in the Word of God.
00:43:29.40\00:43:31.67
If it's fatal to our family
and our children and our souls,
00:43:31.71\00:43:34.78
we've got to get
out from underneath it.
00:43:34.81\00:43:37.31
We're not going to
make any kind of concessions
00:43:37.35\00:43:39.91
they said here
00:43:39.95\00:43:42.85
for unity sake,
00:43:42.88\00:43:46.39
unless it's
consistent with the Word of God.
00:43:46.42\00:43:48.66
Does that make sense?
00:43:48.69\00:43:50.03
Principles of God's Word.
00:43:50.06\00:43:52.56
Hmm,
00:43:52.59\00:43:56.36
Great
Controversy, page 45 says this.
00:43:56.40\00:43:59.53
Please keep this in
your heart and in your mind,
00:43:59.57\00:44:02.50
as we go along today,
00:44:02.54\00:44:03.87
about 12 minutes left
and anybody get sleepy,
00:44:03.91\00:44:05.71
if you do, stand
up, run around, shout,
00:44:05.74\00:44:07.51
do whatever you want.
00:44:07.54\00:44:09.71
I'll get louder than you.
00:44:09.74\00:44:11.08
This must be our position.
00:44:14.65\00:44:17.72
Great Controversy, 45 says,
00:44:17.75\00:44:19.62
if unity, you've read it before.
00:44:19.65\00:44:21.16
"If unity could be secured
00:44:21.19\00:44:22.82
only by compromise of
truth and righteousness."
00:44:22.86\00:44:27.10
I mean people
got, I hear it all time
00:44:27.13\00:44:28.70
unity, unity, unity, unity
00:44:28.73\00:44:30.27
but they're not
given the full message.
00:44:30.30\00:44:32.47
Unity, unity,
unity, water it down.
00:44:32.50\00:44:34.34
No.
00:44:34.37\00:44:35.70
Unity, unity, unity.
00:44:35.74\00:44:37.61
Let's make it easy.
00:44:37.64\00:44:38.97
And that way they say
the half converted comes in.
00:44:42.08\00:44:44.01
That's why we
give Bible studies.
00:44:44.05\00:44:45.38
You realize that in here
00:44:45.41\00:44:46.75
so that we can all be
on the same page together.
00:44:46.78\00:44:49.05
Unless two agree, how
can they walk together?
00:44:49.08\00:44:51.79
Not because you
don't know anything,
00:44:51.82\00:44:53.15
it's because so we can agree
00:44:53.19\00:44:54.52
upon the teachings of God's Word
00:44:54.56\00:44:56.19
and we can have
real true unity that way.
00:44:56.22\00:44:59.16
Great Controversy,
00:44:59.19\00:45:00.53
"If unity could be
secured only by compromise
00:45:00.56\00:45:02.80
of the truth and righteousness,
00:45:02.83\00:45:05.50
then let there be
differences and even war."
00:45:05.53\00:45:10.54
I guess I'm more
excited about that.
00:45:10.57\00:45:12.41
I'm ready for war.
00:45:12.44\00:45:15.51
If we have to
compromise the truth and say,
00:45:15.54\00:45:17.71
you have to
compromise the truth.
00:45:17.75\00:45:19.08
No, let there be war.
00:45:19.11\00:45:23.18
Now what he says, right,
and Ephesians talks about
00:45:23.22\00:45:25.12
'cause war you need
to put on the whole what?
00:45:25.15\00:45:27.56
The whole armor of God
that you're going to stand fast
00:45:27.59\00:45:30.53
because we're in a warfare.
00:45:30.56\00:45:32.19
Eternal lives are
at stake right now.
00:45:32.23\00:45:34.53
And some of us
are doing nothing.
00:45:34.56\00:45:36.80
We spend more time on
Christmas in hunting Easter eggs
00:45:36.83\00:45:39.63
and doing everything else
in the world and donkey rides
00:45:39.67\00:45:42.74
and whatever
else there is there,
00:45:42.77\00:45:44.31
get kids to go into church
00:45:44.34\00:45:45.67
rather than to teach
them about Jesus Christ.
00:45:45.71\00:45:47.34
Yeah. I'm hot about it.
00:45:47.38\00:45:50.88
My uncle always said
righteous indignation,
00:45:50.91\00:45:52.61
is that okay?
00:45:52.65\00:45:56.25
Why?
00:45:56.28\00:45:57.62
Not to condemn other people?
00:45:57.65\00:45:58.99
It's just, you hate to see
them going down the wrong path.
00:45:59.02\00:46:01.39
That's not the path
that leads to heaven.
00:46:01.42\00:46:04.86
Angels are working for
unity among God's people.
00:46:04.89\00:46:09.00
Did you get it?
00:46:09.03\00:46:10.37
This was Christ's
prayer. I'm a believer in it.
00:46:10.40\00:46:14.30
But this whole ship
has some holes in it.
00:46:14.34\00:46:19.24
Those holes going to
have to be patched up
00:46:19.27\00:46:21.58
and God wants
to do the patching.
00:46:25.38\00:46:28.72
God calls His
people to press together,
00:46:28.75\00:46:30.89
press together,
00:46:30.92\00:46:32.25
not gossip about
someone, not criticize
00:46:32.29\00:46:34.22
and condemn other
people, but press together.
00:46:34.26\00:46:37.03
Unity is essential in
God's last day church.
00:46:37.06\00:46:41.73
Why is it essential?
00:46:41.76\00:46:44.57
Because in unity, in
union there's strength,
00:46:44.60\00:46:48.50
you can go, there's victory.
00:46:48.54\00:46:52.11
There's no discord.
There's no division.
00:46:52.14\00:46:55.64
If you don't have it,
there's weakness and defeat.
00:46:55.68\00:47:00.75
The truly converted
will press together.
00:47:00.78\00:47:04.25
If you want to be an
odd ball way out in there,
00:47:04.29\00:47:06.29
I feel like I they've told
me I'm an odd ball lot of times,
00:47:06.32\00:47:08.62
I say, oh man,
why aren't you doing
00:47:08.66\00:47:09.99
blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:47:10.03\00:47:11.36
I said, somebody got
off the platform of truth
00:47:11.39\00:47:12.99
and it wasn't me.
00:47:13.03\00:47:15.50
Are you still
with me? That's it.
00:47:15.53\00:47:18.27
Let them say
what they want to say.
00:47:18.30\00:47:20.07
Don't worry about it.
00:47:25.34\00:47:29.08
And when I say
unity, that does not mean
00:47:29.11\00:47:31.48
that one mind
should control everything.
00:47:31.51\00:47:35.02
I see that a lot.
00:47:35.05\00:47:36.38
Ooh. I almost said ministries.
00:47:36.42\00:47:38.19
I'm not going to say that.
00:47:38.22\00:47:39.55
They think one mind
has to rule everything.
00:47:44.19\00:47:46.29
That's not the way
God intended for it to be.
00:47:46.33\00:47:48.10
Yeah. Somebody
has to be in charge.
00:47:48.13\00:47:49.46
We understand that.
00:47:49.50\00:47:51.93
And we'll never have unity
of conformity in everything.
00:47:51.97\00:47:57.24
Huh.
00:47:57.27\00:47:59.91
Remember God does
not call for unity
00:47:59.94\00:48:01.98
on wrong
practices or principles.
00:48:02.01\00:48:05.75
It must be based
on the scripture,
00:48:05.78\00:48:07.98
based on giving of
the three angels' message.
00:48:08.02\00:48:11.35
Example, the
first angel's message
00:48:11.39\00:48:13.66
was designed to separate
the professed people of God
00:48:13.69\00:48:17.46
from the corrupting
influence of the world
00:48:17.49\00:48:22.23
to reveal our true condition.
00:48:22.26\00:48:25.53
Really today if
you think about it,
00:48:25.57\00:48:27.30
what is your true
condition spiritually?
00:48:27.34\00:48:30.74
No one else needs
to try to judge that.
00:48:30.77\00:48:32.84
No one's trying to do that.
00:48:32.87\00:48:34.21
That's not our job,
00:48:34.24\00:48:36.04
but a little
self-examination here.
00:48:36.08\00:48:37.75
Are you really fit
vessel for the kingdom of God?
00:48:37.78\00:48:41.68
Or do you think
maybe there's some...
00:48:41.72\00:48:43.35
In my mind there's
things that need to change.
00:48:43.39\00:48:45.32
I'm looking and I'm
saying, oh, Lord, have mercy.
00:48:45.35\00:48:48.06
Lord have mercy.
Does anybody wait?
00:48:48.09\00:48:50.06
Lord have mercy.
00:48:50.09\00:48:53.83
There's need to be some changes.
00:48:53.86\00:48:55.30
And I want you to
help me make those changes.
00:48:55.33\00:48:57.87
There's too much corrupting
influence all around me
00:48:57.90\00:49:00.07
everywhere I look.
00:49:00.10\00:49:03.87
And God said, you
accept this message,
00:49:03.91\00:49:05.34
I'm going to give you power.
00:49:05.37\00:49:06.71
The church will
reach the state of unity
00:49:09.61\00:49:12.55
of faith and love
00:49:12.58\00:49:14.58
that existed at Pentecost.
00:49:14.62\00:49:17.49
Man, Acts
Chapter, was it 2 and 4.
00:49:17.52\00:49:21.36
Think about a church
that's in that position
00:49:21.39\00:49:24.56
because of the spiritualist,
00:49:24.59\00:49:26.26
their heart clinging after God
00:49:26.29\00:49:28.30
that we can experience
what Pentecost went through.
00:49:28.33\00:49:30.90
Man, the church needs it.
00:49:30.93\00:49:32.73
I don't think we
even have a little taste
00:49:32.77\00:49:34.44
of what it was like.
00:49:34.47\00:49:35.80
You read about it. You
say how wonderful it is.
00:49:35.84\00:49:38.07
Why don't we experience it?
00:49:38.11\00:49:40.28
Can we experience it?
00:49:40.31\00:49:41.98
Absolutely. But
read all that took place.
00:49:42.01\00:49:44.38
And you'll see maybe that
00:49:44.41\00:49:45.75
we're missing
out on some things.
00:49:45.78\00:49:49.28
The spirit and the power
00:49:49.32\00:49:50.85
and the presence
of God in the church.
00:49:50.89\00:49:52.95
But here's real simple
answer in Great Controversy,
00:49:56.49\00:49:59.76
again page 379.
00:49:59.79\00:50:02.90
Now notice what it says.
00:50:02.93\00:50:04.27
If God's profess
people, I like things simple.
00:50:04.30\00:50:06.84
I like it to the point.
00:50:06.87\00:50:08.94
Sometime I may go on and on,
00:50:08.97\00:50:10.31
but I still like a
simplicity because I'm simple.
00:50:10.34\00:50:14.58
"If God's professed people
00:50:14.61\00:50:17.61
would receive the
light as it shines upon them
00:50:17.65\00:50:20.12
from His word,
00:50:20.15\00:50:21.58
they would reach that
unity for which Christ prayed."
00:50:21.62\00:50:27.06
If His professed
people would receive the light
00:50:27.09\00:50:29.62
as it shines rather
than, oh, I don't like this.
00:50:29.66\00:50:33.90
No, I don't like this.
00:50:33.93\00:50:35.93
If God sees fit to
shine it on your pathway,
00:50:35.96\00:50:38.03
praise Him for that.
00:50:38.07\00:50:39.53
Ephesians 4, God
said, you know the unity
00:50:39.57\00:50:41.60
because he said,
there's one Lord,
00:50:41.64\00:50:43.14
and there's one
faith, and there's what?
00:50:43.17\00:50:45.17
There's one baptism.
00:50:45.21\00:50:46.78
That's unity, is it not?
00:50:46.81\00:50:48.31
We need that in the world today.
00:50:48.34\00:50:50.41
There's too many.
Remember there's only one...
00:50:50.45\00:50:52.15
Oh, listen
somebody, there's only one way
00:50:52.18\00:50:53.82
you can tell the truth.
00:50:53.85\00:50:56.22
Not saying we have all
truth and understanding,
00:50:56.25\00:50:57.82
but what you understand,
00:50:57.85\00:50:59.19
you have
searched the scriptures,
00:50:59.22\00:51:00.56
you put line upon
line, precept upon precept.
00:51:00.59\00:51:02.96
To the law and the testimony
if they speak not according,
00:51:02.99\00:51:05.23
it's because what?
00:51:05.26\00:51:06.59
There is no light in them.
00:51:06.63\00:51:08.23
You begin to put
everything together,
00:51:08.26\00:51:09.76
the weight of
evidence and you're saying,
00:51:09.80\00:51:11.17
hmm, what did John say about it?
00:51:11.20\00:51:12.73
What did Daniel
say about it? Right?
00:51:12.77\00:51:14.14
What did Paul say about it?
00:51:14.17\00:51:15.77
We just go on and say,
okay, this is the truth.
00:51:15.80\00:51:18.34
So any other thing said
than that would not be true.
00:51:18.37\00:51:23.14
That's the counterfeit
that the enemy puts out there.
00:51:23.18\00:51:28.85
Little by
little, almost unnoticed.
00:51:28.88\00:51:31.59
The man of sin in
2 Thessalonians 2:3,
00:51:31.62\00:51:36.99
the mystery of iniquity.
00:51:37.03\00:51:39.36
2 Thessalonians 2:7,
00:51:39.39\00:51:42.00
the little horn
power of Daniel Chapter 7.
00:51:42.03\00:51:47.30
They began to work to bring
in the customs of heathenism
00:51:47.34\00:51:50.64
into the church
00:51:50.67\00:51:52.01
and put human
theories and traditions
00:51:52.04\00:51:55.58
in the place of truth.
00:51:55.61\00:51:57.88
Have we figured out?
00:51:57.91\00:52:00.42
Can you stand four more minutes?
00:52:00.45\00:52:03.25
Okay. There's one of
you. Bless your heart.
00:52:03.28\00:52:04.89
I may give you five then.
00:52:04.92\00:52:06.25
Have we figured out who
the man of sin really is?
00:52:09.89\00:52:15.33
The one that Bible,
it talks about it hasn't,
00:52:15.36\00:52:16.87
you know, the four
revealed a form of antichrist
00:52:16.90\00:52:19.33
and apostasy.
00:52:19.37\00:52:21.80
He would go strong
against God's Word.
00:52:21.84\00:52:25.27
There's only one in the Bible
00:52:25.31\00:52:26.81
that's pointed
out as the man of sin.
00:52:26.84\00:52:29.71
And I'll say this rather nicely.
00:52:29.74\00:52:31.08
Let's be careful now.
Are we careful with it?
00:52:31.11\00:52:33.95
There's one pointed
out in the Word of God
00:52:33.98\00:52:36.12
as the man of sin.
00:52:36.15\00:52:38.49
And he is a
representative of Satan.
00:52:38.52\00:52:41.89
Now I didn't say it'd
be something easy to chew.
00:52:44.93\00:52:48.03
I didn't say it'd be
something easy to swallow.
00:52:48.06\00:52:50.63
He's a representative of Satan.
00:52:50.67\00:52:53.97
Why?
00:52:54.00\00:52:55.34
Now notice, he takes
the suggestions of Satan.
00:52:55.37\00:52:58.77
He puts them out
before the people,
00:52:58.81\00:53:01.64
he puts them out in
maybe like a new light,
00:53:01.68\00:53:04.88
a false light,
00:53:04.91\00:53:07.12
and many people are eager
00:53:07.15\00:53:09.45
to follow his teachings.
00:53:09.48\00:53:13.19
This is the same one
00:53:13.22\00:53:14.56
that says the Bible talks about
that he exalted himself where?
00:53:14.59\00:53:19.26
Himself above God, he sits what?
00:53:19.29\00:53:21.30
In the temple of God
showing himself to be God,
00:53:21.33\00:53:25.20
while what doing what?
00:53:25.23\00:53:26.57
While trampling upon
God's memorial of creation,
00:53:26.60\00:53:30.57
the seventh day Sabbath.
00:53:30.61\00:53:32.57
It's easy to figure
this out as we go along.
00:53:32.61\00:53:38.38
The seventh day Sabbath.
00:53:38.41\00:53:40.58
Hmm.
00:53:40.62\00:53:42.12
The enemy says, I'm going
to put something in his place.
00:53:42.15\00:53:44.99
And so what does he do?
00:53:45.02\00:53:46.35
He puts a common
working day, Sunday.
00:53:46.39\00:53:49.06
It's pagan origin.
That's where it came from.
00:53:49.09\00:53:51.06
There's no doubt about it.
It's a child of the papacy.
00:53:51.09\00:53:53.73
There's no doubt about it.
00:53:53.76\00:53:58.00
And again, we're not
talking about individual people
00:53:58.03\00:53:59.73
who have family, good people,
all that belong to church.
00:53:59.77\00:54:01.44
That's not it.
00:54:01.47\00:54:02.80
It's what they're
teaching for truth.
00:54:02.84\00:54:04.17
And the Bible
said, it's not truth.
00:54:04.21\00:54:06.27
And we have an obligation.
00:54:06.31\00:54:07.64
The papacy is
Satan's right hand man.
00:54:11.75\00:54:15.35
My, my.
00:54:15.38\00:54:16.72
If we accept
this false pagan day
00:54:20.52\00:54:24.03
in the place of God's blessed,
00:54:24.06\00:54:25.83
holy and sanctified day,
00:54:25.86\00:54:31.07
papacy then carries on a work
00:54:31.10\00:54:34.40
that Satan started where?
00:54:34.44\00:54:36.27
In heaven,
00:54:36.30\00:54:38.04
trying to make some changes,
00:54:38.07\00:54:40.51
trying to amend the law of God.
00:54:40.54\00:54:44.71
The pope does
claim infallibility.
00:54:44.75\00:54:47.68
He does say he's
changed the law of God.
00:54:47.72\00:54:49.58
So I'm not saying
anything about them.
00:54:49.62\00:54:50.95
I don't read from their
own writing almost verbatim.
00:54:50.99\00:54:54.79
Hmm.
00:54:54.82\00:54:56.26
Instead of seventh day Sabbath,
00:54:56.29\00:54:57.79
it's now the
first day of the week,
00:54:57.83\00:54:59.76
Sunday.
00:54:59.79\00:55:01.16
By doing this, he says what?
00:55:01.20\00:55:03.40
I'm above God that
God made a mistake on this
00:55:03.43\00:55:08.24
and I need to help him out.
00:55:08.27\00:55:10.84
Hmm. God is fallible.
00:55:10.87\00:55:14.64
That's what the
papacy is saying,
00:55:14.68\00:55:18.85
and the Christian world
has bought into this lie.
00:55:18.88\00:55:22.85
And does it make a difference?
00:55:22.88\00:55:24.22
That's what we have
to figure out today.
00:55:24.25\00:55:28.19
And if we accept it, again,
00:55:28.22\00:55:29.66
many people do not
know by the millions.
00:55:29.69\00:55:31.19
We understand
that, but it's so easy
00:55:31.23\00:55:33.26
to get into the Word of
God and figure this thing out.
00:55:33.29\00:55:35.43
Is it not?
00:55:35.46\00:55:36.93
Information
that's all over the place
00:55:36.97\00:55:39.47
and yet why God's people
everywhere in every church?
00:55:39.50\00:55:42.84
Why aren't we studying to show
ourselves approved unto God?
00:55:42.87\00:55:46.34
The enemy has arrived and what?
00:55:46.37\00:55:47.71
Every truth that God has what?
00:55:47.74\00:55:50.28
Satan has a counterfeit
00:55:50.31\00:55:51.75
and the seventh day Sabbath
is no different than that.
00:55:51.78\00:55:54.28
It's no different to
all the other commandments.
00:55:54.32\00:55:55.85
If you offend at one
point, you're guilty of all,
00:55:55.88\00:55:57.75
James 2:10-12 says,
00:55:57.79\00:55:59.89
oh, friend, I
want you to be ready.
00:55:59.92\00:56:01.26
I want to say a
quick prayer for you.
00:56:01.29\00:56:02.62
I know it's heavy-duty.
00:56:02.66\00:56:03.99
That's part one, part
two doesn't get any easier.
00:56:04.03\00:56:05.36
Bless your heart.
00:56:05.39\00:56:06.73
So if you're
looking from the Word of God
00:56:06.76\00:56:08.10
and be willing to be
stepped on just a little bit,
00:56:08.13\00:56:09.46
why don't you just kneel with me
00:56:09.50\00:56:10.83
and let us close
together in prayer, shall we?
00:56:10.87\00:56:12.63
Loving Father in heaven,
00:56:12.67\00:56:14.00
we thank You for
Your precious Word.
00:56:14.04\00:56:15.37
Thank You that You
00:56:15.40\00:56:16.74
revealed Yourself
through Your Word,
00:56:16.77\00:56:18.11
that we may hear it
and then we may follow
00:56:18.14\00:56:19.47
and we may be part
of the family of God.
00:56:19.51\00:56:20.84
We thank You in Jesus' name.
00:56:20.88\00:56:22.21
Amen.
00:56:22.24\00:56:24.45
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