Hello, friends, 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 stopping
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and tuning in today
to study along with us.
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Our message for
today is entitled
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Testing Truths
Brought to the Forefront
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with Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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You know, there was
a time that I thought
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all one had to do to be
saved was to love and believe.
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Just love and
believe, nothing else.
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And certainly those
are important attributes
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that every
Christian should exhibit.
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But then once I began to study
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the scriptures for
myself to read them,
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we had a Bible
study every Friday night,
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and we began to
read and read and read
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different parts of the Bible.
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This word obedience
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would
continually pop up before me.
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It popped up to the
point that I began to realize
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that most of God's
promised blessings,
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now listen, were on
condition of obedience.
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What a surprising
revelation I had at that time.
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Then the more I studied
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and gain a deeper understanding
of the Word of God,
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the more I began to ascertain
that God has specific commands.
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Yes, He commands things.
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He is our God
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that He asks us
to willingly obey.
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Specific truths that I realized
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I wasn't seeing lived out
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in the lives of
most of the Christians
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I associated with at the time.
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And certainly I wasn't
living them out either.
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So began the questions like
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just how
important are these truths?
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Is God calling me, me
to live up to these truths?
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Are His blessings conditional
to obedience of these truths?
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Am I to share these
truths with others around me?
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Are you, now
listen, this is for you.
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Are you being asked of God,
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understandingly to know love
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and to share these
wonderful truths as well?
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I believe that we will
have all these questions
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and perhaps several
many more answered today
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as we study along
with Pastor Kenny Shelton,
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as he presents
this message again,
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entitled Testing Truths
Brought to the Forefront.
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But first let's
pause and be lifted up
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in an inspiring song as
sung by Alessandra Sorace
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entitled, I am bound
for the Promised Land.
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That sounds good, doesn't it?
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I am bound for
the Promised Land.
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On Jordan's stormy banks
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I stand and cast a wishful eye
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To Canaan's fair and happy land
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Where my possessions lie
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I am bound for the promised land
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I am bound for the promised land
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Who will come and go with me?
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I am bound for the promised land
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O'er all those
wide extended plains
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Shines one eternal day
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There Christ the
son forever reigns
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And scatters night away
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When shall I
reach that happy place
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And be forever blessed?
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When shall I
see my Father's face
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And in His bring them rest?
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I am bound for the promised land
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I am bound for the promised land
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Oh, who will
come and go with me?
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I am bound for the promised land
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I am bound for the promised land
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Thank you again
for joining us here
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at Behold the Lamb Ministries.
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If you've already
heard in the introduction
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we're going to be talking
about a fantastic subject,
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at least in my mind,
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and we're going to
try to inject a few things
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I believe it
would be well for us
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or just at least be reminded of,
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you know, we're going to be
talking about testing truths
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that are brought
to the forefront.
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Think about testing
truths brought to the forefront
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and you know, is
that really necessary
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or is that something
that needs to take place
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before Jesus comes?
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I believe that it is.
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And I believe that
we're being narrowed now
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into just a
little cage as it were
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to what we can say
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and how long we're
going to be able to say it.
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So we need to
make haste as it were
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because night
cometh when no man.
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Ain't that right?
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We can't do what we want to do.
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So we need to say it now,
there's an urgency about it.
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And I just believe
as we study this by,
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you know, by the grace of God,
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that it will
enlighten us and help us
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as we push forward
to get this gospel out
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in every way that
can, we can get it out
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to warn the world
of His soon coming.
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I'm going to
kneel and have prayer.
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Would you like to
pray with me? Please do.
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Loving Father in heaven, again,
we thank You that You love us.
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We thank You that You
died on Calvary's cross.
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We thank You
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that You promised to be with us.
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And we pray for the
anointing of Thy Holy Spirit.
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Lord, help our
minds, help our hearts,
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help us to let, oh, my,
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let the things of
the world just go by.
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Let's spend this
thoughtful hour with you
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that we need
heaven to speak to us.
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We need to hear what
you have to say to us.
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And we pray that
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each of Your
children will only hear
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what they need to hear
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and all the other
messages that I make.
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We pray the
Holy Spirit will not,
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they don't need
to remember that,
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but just remember the truths
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that You impress on
their heart and their mind.
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Thank You for
hearing and answering prayer.
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Thank You for the
power of Thy Spirit,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Testing truths
brought to the forefront.
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And some of the testing truths
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is going through
some of the things
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and then we're in the season of,
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and I'll just put it that way
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of many people are
celebrating the Easter time.
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We don't like to date things,
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but I think it's okay to do it
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because it brings in
the subject about Easter.
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Now, remember, all
people are celebrating it
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for certain reasons
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and they say,
this is all Christian,
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and this is what
we need to be doing
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at this point in time.
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Children's mind
becomes confused,
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you know, people in the church,
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I'll just have to
be honest with you
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are feeding our
children some lies.
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And what is your
obligation, remain silent?
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Absolutely not.
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Adventism is a church
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that stands against paganism
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being brought into the church.
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Is that true?
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Most of them
don't want to hear it.
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Even an Adventist we
don't want to hear it.
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We have an obligation.
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You're going to have to stand
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in front of your
Creator one of these days,
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as it were in the judgment,
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did we tell
everything that we knew
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where these things come from.
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In the Bible
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and don't you like
to go to the Bible?
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Some people will say,
but Easter is in the Bible.
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Well, remember it's
used one time in scripture,
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it says Easter,
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that's in Acts 12:4.
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And it was talking about Peter,
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you know, and
disciples and so on
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and was in prison
and so on and so forth.
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But anyway, they used
the term they said Easter,
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but if you look at
it, it's a mistranslation,
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it should say Passover.
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Are you still with me?
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So even in the Word of
God, King James Version,
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it says Easter
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because some of the translators
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have put it there,
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but it's really is,
it was Passover season.
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And after that time,
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they were going to
let Peter and disciples,
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you know, they're
going to have to meet
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the council and
so on and so forth
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and miracles as we well know.
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So number one,
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Easter is not in the
Word of God that way.
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Now page 103 of...
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Most of you,
somebody who had the book
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and you've heard about it,
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The Two Babylons by
his last name is Hislop.
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I believe his
last name is Hislop,
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Alexander Hislop.
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Anyway, he really
covers some things of the pagan
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that is brought into the church.
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You remember,
we've been studying
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a lot of time over and
over about certain things
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that were pure pagan
that people baptized,
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as they say, and
brought it into the church.
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And we say, now
that he's Christian.
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If it starts out
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and it had its
roots in paganism,
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it stays that way.
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Does that make sense?
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It never changes
because man says it changes.
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It's rooted in paganism.
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And we as Adventist Christian
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will say the same
thing about Sunday.
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We say Sunday
is, where'd it come?
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Paganism.
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And we say it, and
we're very stout on that.
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And we take a stand on that.
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But how about the other things?
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Shouldn't we take
a stand on everything
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that we find that's not true?
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In page 103 says this.
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What means the
term of Easter itself?
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It is not a Christian name.
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It bears this
Chaldean origin or it's pagan.
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Notice this,
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Easter is nothing
else than Astarte,
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which is one of title of Beltis,
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the queen of heaven.
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Did you get it?
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One of the titles of Beltis,
which is the queen of heaven.
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Now, notice this what it says,
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the festival of which we
read in his church history
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under the name of Easter
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in the third and fourth century
was quite different than now.
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It was Passover in
commemoration of the death
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and the resurrection of Christ.
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Even to the third and
fourth century generation,
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you know what?
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There was people that were
doing the right thing by it.
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But notice page 107
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of The Two
Babylons, it says this,
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the popular observance
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that still attends the period
of its celebration, Easter
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confirms the testing history
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as to its
Babylonian characteristics.
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You want anything to do
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with Babylonian characteristics?
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Absolutely not.
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Drinking the wine
of what? Of Babylon.
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You don't want to
drink the wine of Babylon,
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just foolishly or
don't question it or say,
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well, this is what we
think, it's what it means now.
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Where did, for
instance, let me say,
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where did the 40
days of Lent come from?
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Where did the 40
days of Lent come?
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In page 105 it says there,
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among the pagans, notice this,
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the Lents seem to have been
an indispensable, preliminary,
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notice, to the
great annual festival
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in commemoration,
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notice this, listen carefully,
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of the death and the
resurrection of Tammuz.
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Did you get it? That's a yes.
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It's a God of fertility.
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Embodying the
powers of a new life
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in nature, in the spring.
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So where did it come from?
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My, my, my, we look at it here.
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Remember death,
resurrection of Tammuz,
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not God, not Jesus.
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Interesting.
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Now you remember you reading
the Bible where it talks about
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the, that he's going to
call them about God's people.
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They were weeping for Tammuz.
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Do you remember that?
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Yeah, in the Bible, it
says, oh, it was God's people
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turn their back
as it were on God
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and they're little
weeping and carrying on
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because of the goddess Tammuz,
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these were God's
people who should know better.
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That's in Ezekiel 18.
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You can read
those verses Ezekiel 18,
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Ezekiel 8:13-16.
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Read about that.
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It says they were
weeping for Tammuz.
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It was, remember this was a...
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Listen, this was a
40 day weeping time.
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Did you get it?
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Pagan for the sun
deity for the sun God.
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Interesting.
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Today, this mourning period
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when they were mourning
and so Paul cried for 40 days.
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Notice that, you know
what today it's called?
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Lent.
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And you want to know a
whole lot more about it.
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You can go to
places like biblehub.com
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You can go to ebible.com
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You can read a lot about Hislop
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you can go to The Two Babylons
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and you can read
all of this stuff,
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it's just good historic.
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Now, if you just punch it up
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and just go and do
some surface reading,
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most of and the newer,
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just you want,
they pass all the,
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how it originated,
where it came from.
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And they just say,
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now we do it here in
the church because...
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They don't go back and
say where it come from,
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how it originated.
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And we need to do that.
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Forty days of Lent
was directly balled
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from the worshipers
of Babylonian goddess.
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Forty days of Lent.
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Somehow we've baptized it.
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And somehow we
think it's Christian today
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and many people
celebrate that time.
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They're really weeping
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for the goddess of
fertility here or Sun god.
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It come directly
from Babylonians.
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How about,
interesting, the hot cross buns,
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you ever heard about that?
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People talk about
the hot cross buns.
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You say, oh, that's
good on Good Friday.
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We have Good Friday all of that.
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Where do you think
all this come from?
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The dyed eggs and
the Easter Sunday,
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this all figured
into the Chaldean rites
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that they had
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just as they do now.
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Interesting.
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The buns, as it were,
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hot cross buns
were used to worship
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the queen of heaven.
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Did you get it?
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The goddess of
Easter they call it.
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This was 1500 years
before the Christian era.
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You see how this
came in, many, many years
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before the Christian shows,
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people who came
in 1500 years later,
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it was just automatic.
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This is what we do.
Well, it must be okay.
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We've got to go
back and see the roots
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of how the enemy is dug in.
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In the book, the two Babylons
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there, page 108 says this.
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How about the
origin of the eggs?
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It's just as clear.
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It comes from
the ancient Druids.
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Druids, which was
a pagan bore an egg.
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It was a symbol of their order.
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Do you remember seeing it?
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I want to call it.
They call it Easter egg.
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An egg with a
snake wrapped around it.
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Have you ever seen that?
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Interesting.
Snake, what represents?
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Remember, this was a
paganism in its fullest,
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but notice this,
what did they do?
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We find the Hindu religion.
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They celebrate their mundane aid
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as it were as a golden color.
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Notice what
happened to the eggs.
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They begin to color them.
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They begin to paint them.
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Japan makes her sacred egg
a bronze or a brazen color.
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China at this time
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and it's talking about
time the book was written.
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They dyed and painted eggs.
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And uses them in their, we
call pagan sacred festivals
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they call it.
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And again, it says,
even as this country does.
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We have to ask ourselves,
what does the hot cross buns
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and the Good Friday and
Lent and eggs have to do
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with the resurrection of Christ?
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Absolutely nothing.
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It's pagan as pagan can be.
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And we have
attached it to a good cause
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the resurrection of Christ,
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but we shouldn't let
that we should divide.
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And that's what truth
does, divides and what?
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And separates us from that.
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Do you want to go
along and advocate a teaching
00:16:52.57\00:16:55.04
that the enemy himself
came up through paganism?
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Absolutely not.
I know you don't.
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The Egyptian or Egypt,
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the Greeks had these mystic eggs
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that again the teaching
came from the Babylonians.
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If you study a lot,
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we ain't going to
spend much more time on it.
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The egg is as paganism,
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there's two whole
meaning of this egg,
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kind of interesting.
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Paganism says that
the egg of wonder size,
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listen, an egg of
wonder size, think about it,
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fell from heaven
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into the River Euphrates.
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Did you get it?
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And the fishes rolled it
out of the sea, the water.
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And then the doves came
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and they sat on
it and hatched it.
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Oh, somebody stay with me.
00:17:46.23\00:17:47.56
My lands of love.
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Dove sort of hatched
it and out came Venus.
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You know this...
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Yeah, a goddess
they say, Syrian goddess.
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And then the egg, listen
00:18:03.28\00:18:04.78
became the symbol of Easter.
00:18:04.81\00:18:09.98
Now, that's one point of it.
00:18:10.02\00:18:11.92
But notice how there was
some truth in kind of this.
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Remember,
something came from heaven.
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Something was
born on this earth.
00:18:18.66\00:18:21.10
Come on.
00:18:21.13\00:18:22.46
But what did the devil do?
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He counterfeits everything.
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See, this is important
00:18:25.77\00:18:29.04
that we don't let our
children participate in things
00:18:29.07\00:18:30.81
that we know
came from the devil.
00:18:30.84\00:18:32.17
But they said, there's a
Syrian goddess that came now.
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Jesus Christ came from heaven.
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One of the two meanings of it.
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The other pagan
origin says this.
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The egg was the one
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where the world was shut up
in at the time of the flood.
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The egg represented the ark.
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Somebody still with me?
00:19:01.10\00:19:03.20
The egg was a symbol of the ark
00:19:03.24\00:19:05.81
and there were some people
that were saved in that ark.
00:19:05.84\00:19:10.68
After Christian, you
see after some thoughts,
00:19:10.71\00:19:13.68
but now it's all different
and it's twisted right now.
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What happened?
00:19:17.59\00:19:19.35
The Roman Church,
Romanist Church adopted the,
00:19:19.39\00:19:23.59
listen carefully, the
egg and they did what?
00:19:23.63\00:19:27.86
They consecrated it.
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Lord have mercy.
00:19:29.90\00:19:31.73
How in this world,
is it okay to say that,
00:19:31.77\00:19:34.14
I'm just getting frustrated
now, Robert, I can't help it.
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They consecrated the egg.
00:19:39.57\00:19:42.61
What do you say over
an egg that's consecrated?
00:19:42.64\00:19:47.28
It's just an egg.
00:19:47.32\00:19:49.28
But now they've got, in
other words, they did what?
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Took something pagan
00:19:51.09\00:19:52.42
and they put,
said something over it.
00:19:52.45\00:19:53.92
And all of a
sudden it's a holy egg.
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They consecrated it.
00:19:56.96\00:19:58.99
They adopted the
egg, they consecrated.
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And now they say it is a
symbol of Christ's resurrection.
00:20:03.47\00:20:08.27
See, we'll hear
that, we'll say that,
00:20:08.30\00:20:09.90
you know, we'll understand it.
00:20:09.94\00:20:11.27
And then we'll just go
right on and do things anyway,
00:20:11.31\00:20:15.58
because if we don't,
somebody will be angry.
00:20:15.61\00:20:17.98
Somebody is going to be upset
00:20:18.01\00:20:19.35
because they want
to be like the world.
00:20:19.38\00:20:20.92
They want to have fun.
00:20:20.95\00:20:22.45
They want to do these things.
00:20:22.48\00:20:23.82
I know it, I was little
once too believe it or not.
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Some of you think back this
a little while you were too,
00:20:26.32\00:20:28.72
you might have enjoyed it.
00:20:28.76\00:20:30.09
You didn't know any better.
00:20:30.13\00:20:31.46
It's all, you know,
00:20:31.49\00:20:32.83
but now you do
what you do with it.
00:20:32.86\00:20:34.20
Bible says, to him
that knoweth to do good,
00:20:34.23\00:20:35.56
and doeth it
not, to him it is sin.
00:20:35.60\00:20:38.57
These believe it or not.
00:20:38.60\00:20:40.00
You may say these
are testing truths
00:20:40.04\00:20:41.94
that's going to be
brought to the forefront
00:20:41.97\00:20:43.61
and you're going
to have to decide
00:20:43.64\00:20:44.97
and I'm going to have to decide.
00:20:45.01\00:20:46.47
And you'll see
as we can move on,
00:20:46.51\00:20:48.14
I have an obligation.
00:20:48.18\00:20:49.61
You have an obligation to me.
00:20:49.64\00:20:51.28
I have an obligation to you.
00:20:51.31\00:20:52.68
Everyone that God
brings under this roof
00:20:52.71\00:20:55.02
here in this
ministry, I have an obligation
00:20:55.05\00:20:57.12
and I'm going to have
to meet it in the judgment.
00:20:57.15\00:20:59.19
So if you think I'm a
little too harsh sometime,
00:20:59.22\00:21:00.96
please don't.
00:21:00.99\00:21:02.99
You think about, I'm
going to have to meet God
00:21:03.02\00:21:05.39
as it were and give an
account for each one of you
00:21:05.43\00:21:07.86
that's come under this roof.
00:21:07.90\00:21:09.23
And there's been a
lot that's come and gone
00:21:09.26\00:21:10.60
over the years.
00:21:10.63\00:21:12.67
I've got a lot to answer for.
00:21:12.70\00:21:14.20
Have I done my best for Jesus?
00:21:14.24\00:21:16.77
Remember that song?
00:21:16.81\00:21:19.24
I wonder, have I
done my best for Jesus
00:21:19.27\00:21:21.34
when He has done so much for me.
00:21:21.38\00:21:23.85
I look and see a lot of failures
00:21:23.88\00:21:27.02
and maybe a lot more
that could have been done
00:21:27.05\00:21:29.25
that wasn't done.
00:21:29.28\00:21:32.05
What do you do? You just quit?
00:21:32.09\00:21:33.46
No, you go on.
00:21:33.49\00:21:34.82
You ask for God's forgiveness,
00:21:34.86\00:21:36.19
try to make things
right again and move on.
00:21:36.22\00:21:37.73
But I'm going to
have to give an account,
00:21:37.76\00:21:39.33
even in things like this
00:21:39.36\00:21:40.70
that you don't
think it's important.
00:21:40.73\00:21:42.06
It's pagan through and through
is brought into the church.
00:21:42.10\00:21:44.50
It's baptized as it were.
00:21:44.53\00:21:45.97
And now it's what?
00:21:46.00\00:21:47.50
It's consecrated, so it's okay.
00:21:47.54\00:21:49.47
An egg does not represent
00:21:49.50\00:21:51.47
the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
00:21:51.51\00:21:53.68
It does not.
00:21:53.71\00:21:55.44
And I'm not trying
to be ugly about it.
00:21:55.48\00:21:56.81
It's just, I can't
believe that we've sunk so far,
00:21:56.85\00:22:00.78
so far away from what the
resurrection really means.
00:22:00.82\00:22:04.85
A true testing truths
brought to the forefront
00:22:04.89\00:22:08.82
that God's challenging us on.
00:22:08.86\00:22:11.79
Nevertheless,
00:22:11.83\00:22:13.16
the foundation of God does what?
00:22:13.19\00:22:14.96
It stand sure.
00:22:15.00\00:22:16.77
We have to stand on that.
00:22:16.80\00:22:19.90
And then he says
the last line, remember,
00:22:19.93\00:22:21.70
was depart from iniquity.
00:22:21.74\00:22:25.54
In the days of the
apostle, just like now
00:22:25.57\00:22:29.54
it seems some of the
most, may I say foolish,
00:22:29.58\00:22:32.48
some of the most
foolish and ridiculous things
00:22:32.51\00:22:36.25
were thrown out as truth.
00:22:36.28\00:22:38.99
Do you tell me
that's not happening today?
00:22:39.02\00:22:42.46
Yeah. It's happening.
00:22:42.49\00:22:43.83
Absolutely more
and more every day.
00:22:43.86\00:22:45.19
We're getting more
lenient as it were.
00:22:45.23\00:22:48.90
More and more just, you
don't really have to do.
00:22:48.93\00:22:51.00
You don't have to really,
just God's going to do it all.
00:22:51.03\00:22:53.27
And we just go
about our business
00:22:53.30\00:22:54.64
and have a good time
00:22:54.67\00:22:56.00
and go ahead and color the eggs,
00:22:56.04\00:22:57.37
and go and have it...
00:22:57.41\00:22:58.74
Now here I go again, go
out, go out, hunting them.
00:22:58.77\00:23:01.21
If you did it for
some other reason.
00:23:01.24\00:23:02.61
But to say in the name of
God, in the name of Jesus,
00:23:02.64\00:23:05.51
we better think
again, should we not?
00:23:05.55\00:23:08.35
We know that
history will be repeated.
00:23:08.38\00:23:11.15
Ain't that right?
00:23:11.19\00:23:12.52
We know that's
going to be repeated.
00:23:12.55\00:23:13.89
These things are
going to come over and over.
00:23:13.92\00:23:15.26
There's people who
will they grasp anything
00:23:15.29\00:23:17.43
that's thrown out there.
00:23:17.46\00:23:18.79
I've never seen any
just gullible people
00:23:18.83\00:23:20.53
in my life.
00:23:20.56\00:23:22.16
How about you?
00:23:22.20\00:23:23.97
Brother Jan, I don't care
what it is, you throw out,
00:23:24.00\00:23:25.90
there's a group
that will accept it
00:23:25.93\00:23:28.10
and say, oh, yeah,
they're looking for something
00:23:28.14\00:23:29.94
other than what is real truth.
00:23:29.97\00:23:32.27
They're looking for what
we call this, the shadow,
00:23:32.31\00:23:36.51
rather than the substance.
00:23:36.54\00:23:38.05
They'd rather have the
shadow, not the substance.
00:23:38.08\00:23:41.05
They don't want that anymore.
00:23:41.08\00:23:45.09
They don't want the real McCoy.
00:23:45.12\00:23:48.99
They want something
that is kind of make-believe
00:23:49.02\00:23:50.86
and wish you don't bring that up
00:23:50.89\00:23:52.73
because my son or daughter
doesn't want to hear it.
00:23:52.76\00:23:58.17
You have an
obligation to train your,
00:23:58.20\00:24:00.00
bring your children up in
the admonition of the Lord.
00:24:00.04\00:24:02.40
That's the teachings and
do it certainly in there,
00:24:02.44\00:24:05.34
you know, the age
that they are in and there,
00:24:05.37\00:24:08.04
you know, their minds.
00:24:08.08\00:24:09.41
But every truth that
God has given in His Word
00:24:09.44\00:24:11.35
is not to
alienate and not to hurt,
00:24:11.38\00:24:13.52
but to educate and train them
in the admonition of the Lord.
00:24:13.55\00:24:16.65
Praise God, there's people
00:24:20.92\00:24:22.26
who want to get
this message out.
00:24:22.29\00:24:24.33
They're filled with
a real earnest desire
00:24:24.36\00:24:27.00
to teach it and to preach it.
00:24:27.03\00:24:30.40
The beautiful truths of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ
00:24:30.43\00:24:33.70
and then separate from sin
00:24:33.74\00:24:36.07
and sinners is
what the Bible says.
00:24:36.10\00:24:38.84
Oh, what an awesome thing.
00:24:38.87\00:24:40.21
And then we're going to look
00:24:40.24\00:24:41.58
when we want to
make excuses for it.
00:24:41.61\00:24:42.94
We'll say, well,
we're all sinners.
00:24:42.98\00:24:44.35
The Bible still
said, we need to separate
00:24:44.38\00:24:46.11
from those kind of things.
00:24:46.15\00:24:48.22
That's what the Bible says.
00:24:48.25\00:24:49.58
Now you can do
what you want with it.
00:24:49.62\00:24:52.15
It doesn't mean you don't care.
It doesn't mean, you pray for.
00:24:52.19\00:24:53.76
It doesn't mean you work for.
00:24:53.79\00:24:55.12
It means we have
to be very careful,
00:24:55.16\00:24:56.49
we don't hang out with.
00:24:56.52\00:24:57.86
Are you still with me?
00:24:57.89\00:25:00.73
There'll be those
who will preach a clear,
00:25:00.76\00:25:03.33
decided manner
00:25:03.37\00:25:06.53
the message of Jesus Christ.
00:25:06.57\00:25:09.30
But I believe the
time is far spent.
00:25:09.34\00:25:12.94
I believe the
beautiful truths of God's Word
00:25:12.97\00:25:17.58
are going to come to the front.
00:25:17.61\00:25:19.85
How are they going
to come to the front?
00:25:19.88\00:25:21.32
Are you sure they're
going to come to the front.
00:25:21.35\00:25:23.62
They're going to be challenged.
00:25:23.65\00:25:24.99
I know they're
going to be challenged,
00:25:25.02\00:25:26.35
but how is it?
00:25:26.39\00:25:27.72
How is Adventism as minute
00:25:27.76\00:25:29.09
as it is going to be
00:25:29.12\00:25:30.46
the cupola right
up to the very top
00:25:30.49\00:25:32.33
and all the world is
going to be looking at it
00:25:32.36\00:25:33.73
and asking question,
00:25:33.76\00:25:35.10
what's going on here?
00:25:35.13\00:25:36.46
It's no time,
brothers and sisters,
00:25:40.34\00:25:43.54
it's no time to allow
our minds to be overwhelmed
00:25:43.57\00:25:47.11
with minute things.
00:25:47.14\00:25:49.81
Get it, minor important things.
00:25:49.84\00:25:51.81
And the devil will have
you every day just what?
00:25:51.85\00:25:55.32
Just backed into a
corner with minute things.
00:25:55.35\00:25:58.85
Did you get it.
00:25:58.89\00:26:00.22
Things that have
nothing to do with salvation.
00:26:00.26\00:26:02.19
But he said, she
said they did, he did.
00:26:02.22\00:26:04.86
This was in Dao, blah-blah-blah.
00:26:04.89\00:26:08.36
Now is the time
00:26:08.40\00:26:09.83
to do all the
power that God gives us,
00:26:09.86\00:26:14.00
that anybody who comes along
and trying to as the government
00:26:14.04\00:26:17.17
is today to restrict
liberty of conscience,
00:26:17.21\00:26:21.68
free speech, free
press, religious freedom.
00:26:21.71\00:26:25.85
We must rise up.
00:26:25.88\00:26:30.09
Well, I guess
I'll just say it again.
00:26:30.12\00:26:31.45
There wasn't a
one, not a one amen.
00:26:31.49\00:26:34.56
I guess I'll
just talk to the wall.
00:26:34.59\00:26:37.43
No, I don't know use,
00:26:37.46\00:26:39.69
somebody starts talking to me
00:26:39.73\00:26:41.06
and I hear them,
they say something about
00:26:41.10\00:26:42.66
your religious freedom
is going to be suppressed.
00:26:42.70\00:26:44.83
I'm going to say what?
00:26:44.87\00:26:46.94
You have a
right, a God given right
00:26:46.97\00:26:49.47
for free speech.
00:26:49.50\00:26:50.94
And they're going
to turn into what?
00:26:50.97\00:26:52.31
Hate speech we understand.
00:26:52.34\00:26:53.94
It's going to be very difficult
to get this message out.
00:26:53.98\00:26:56.88
We realized we're told...
00:26:56.91\00:26:58.25
Read The Great
Controversy about it.
00:26:58.28\00:27:00.05
When the free speech,
00:27:00.08\00:27:01.42
freedom of
conscience is challenged,
00:27:01.45\00:27:02.88
God's people need to speak up.
00:27:02.92\00:27:05.89
If you're quiet,
00:27:05.92\00:27:07.26
it will come a whole lot sooner.
00:27:07.29\00:27:09.29
It's going to come.
00:27:09.32\00:27:12.26
Enemy is working in these areas.
00:27:12.29\00:27:15.43
And the work that
God has given us to do
00:27:15.46\00:27:17.77
is gonna become more difficult.
00:27:17.80\00:27:19.60
I can see it
every day of my life.
00:27:19.63\00:27:22.87
Truth must come to the
surface, to the forefront.
00:27:22.90\00:27:26.88
Let me read Five
Testimonies 453, says this,
00:27:26.91\00:27:29.44
come on church, listen.
00:27:29.48\00:27:32.21
God means that testing truth
shall be brought to the front.
00:27:32.25\00:27:36.25
Sermon title, and be, listen,
00:27:36.28\00:27:38.79
and become a subject of
examination, discussion,
00:27:38.82\00:27:44.56
even it is through the, no,
00:27:44.59\00:27:47.03
even if it's through
contempt placed upon it.
00:27:47.06\00:27:50.10
He said, God wants
this truth to do what?
00:27:50.13\00:27:51.97
Come on church, to cut good.
00:27:52.00\00:27:54.17
Come to the forefront,
00:27:54.20\00:27:55.54
so that people can look
at them and discuss them.
00:27:55.57\00:27:57.67
It may be contempt.
00:27:57.71\00:27:59.04
They may hate you for
it, but bring them up.
00:27:59.07\00:28:00.78
So that can be a
matter of discussion
00:28:00.81\00:28:02.71
rather than a well,
I guess it's all right,
00:28:02.74\00:28:04.18
got do what you need to do,
and I'll do what I need to do.
00:28:04.21\00:28:07.68
You see what I mean?
00:28:07.72\00:28:10.42
Listen to this.
00:28:10.45\00:28:11.79
The next line says
this. Are you still with me?
00:28:11.82\00:28:13.42
Five Testimonies, 453.
00:28:13.46\00:28:15.36
There's many of
you who listened to,
00:28:15.39\00:28:16.73
you're not going
to look it up anyway.
00:28:16.76\00:28:18.09
You're not going to
challenge it anyway.
00:28:18.13\00:28:19.46
But for those who are,
and the honest at heart,
00:28:19.49\00:28:21.36
I'm going to read on
with it, because it said,
00:28:21.40\00:28:23.06
the minds of the
people must be agitated.
00:28:23.10\00:28:28.80
Some of you are old enough
00:28:28.84\00:28:31.97
to remember the
old washing machine.
00:28:32.01\00:28:33.71
You know what it was
00:28:38.61\00:28:39.95
when it went
into the wash cycle,
00:28:39.98\00:28:41.38
it's called an agitator.
00:28:41.42\00:28:45.35
Okay.
00:28:45.39\00:28:48.36
It agitated the clothes
and with a little bit of, ooh,
00:28:48.39\00:28:53.33
power of the Holy Spirit, suds,
00:28:53.36\00:28:55.90
it washed your
clothes white and clean.
00:28:55.93\00:28:59.47
So we are to agitate it,
you know, in the right way.
00:28:59.50\00:29:02.60
Listen, every
controversy, every reproach,
00:29:02.64\00:29:07.31
every slander, will
be God's means, notice,
00:29:07.34\00:29:12.25
of provoking
inquiry and awakening minds
00:29:12.28\00:29:15.68
that otherwise would slumber.
00:29:15.72\00:29:18.02
Did you get it?
00:29:18.05\00:29:19.39
When they're brought out
and you agitate the truth,
00:29:19.42\00:29:21.59
it's going to be
brought to the minds of people
00:29:21.62\00:29:23.29
who jut sleep on.
00:29:23.32\00:29:26.36
I say that sometimes
we have to wake people up
00:29:26.39\00:29:29.10
before they hear you.
00:29:29.13\00:29:31.30
And when you wake them
up, most times they're grouchy
00:29:31.33\00:29:34.04
for the first few minutes.
00:29:34.07\00:29:35.74
If their naps not out.
00:29:35.77\00:29:37.11
Five Testimonies,
again, 454 says this,
00:29:40.68\00:29:44.48
the efforts made to retard.
00:29:44.51\00:29:46.92
You can't
convince me, I don't think,
00:29:46.95\00:29:48.82
unless you really
get from the Word of God,
00:29:48.85\00:29:50.19
I can't ever find it there.
00:29:50.22\00:29:52.55
That the enemy is not
trying to retard this work.
00:29:52.59\00:29:55.32
Get it.
00:29:55.36\00:29:56.69
That means, it means what?
00:29:56.73\00:29:58.06
Slow down, ain't
that right? Retarded.
00:29:58.09\00:29:59.43
Just anything to
slow the thing down.
00:29:59.46\00:30:01.10
He's fighting
00:30:01.13\00:30:02.46
because he realized
at the end of the battle,
00:30:02.50\00:30:04.07
what's going to happen to him.
00:30:04.10\00:30:06.23
Is that true, church?
00:30:06.27\00:30:07.60
The enemy knows and let's say
00:30:07.64\00:30:09.27
if each one of you
use the same thing,
00:30:09.30\00:30:10.84
if we're not faithful to
God, the end result is look out.
00:30:10.87\00:30:14.34
Let's not Mickey
Mouse around with it.
00:30:14.38\00:30:16.95
Let's not Milly Mouse
as they say around with it.
00:30:16.98\00:30:19.21
Let's look at the real McCoy
is he turned life or hell fire.
00:30:19.25\00:30:22.45
Let's just look at it.
00:30:22.48\00:30:25.55
A lot of it, people
don't want to hear that,
00:30:25.59\00:30:27.22
but I think it's just true.
00:30:27.26\00:30:29.09
So, there's going to be efforts
00:30:29.12\00:30:30.46
that's going to be
made to retire this work.
00:30:30.49\00:30:32.86
And let me tell you,
sometime it comes from within
00:30:32.89\00:30:34.96
and not so much
from without right now.
00:30:35.00\00:30:38.80
Did you get it?
00:30:38.83\00:30:40.37
Sometime in some churches,
the churches retard the work,
00:30:40.40\00:30:43.87
because they don't want to
say, they don't want to do.
00:30:43.91\00:30:45.97
They don't want
to give out books.
00:30:46.01\00:30:47.34
They don't want
to have Bible study.
00:30:47.38\00:30:48.71
They don't want to
have evangelistic series.
00:30:48.74\00:30:50.38
They don't want to have
any kind of outreach at all.
00:30:50.41\00:30:52.31
They just want to come to church
00:30:52.35\00:30:53.95
and pretend to be holy.
00:30:53.98\00:30:55.45
Can I say it?
00:30:55.48\00:30:58.32
But you all packed
up, if you sit here,
00:30:58.35\00:30:59.95
but pack the pews, having full.
00:30:59.99\00:31:01.92
I like to see, you know,
the parking lot full too,
00:31:01.96\00:31:04.46
but you know what?
00:31:04.49\00:31:05.83
I'd rather have a few
00:31:05.86\00:31:07.20
that's dedicated to the
cause of Christ than budget.
00:31:07.23\00:31:08.96
Okay.
00:31:09.00\00:31:10.33
How about leave it at
that, you know where am going.
00:31:10.37\00:31:13.64
Notice when we try to
press this to the gate
00:31:13.67\00:31:16.87
and we try to move
forward by the grace of God,
00:31:16.91\00:31:20.81
we must be on guard,
00:31:20.84\00:31:24.11
because every,
remember, every time
00:31:24.15\00:31:25.51
somebody puts and said,
they're going to try retard,
00:31:25.55\00:31:27.78
or they're going
to try to press over,
00:31:27.82\00:31:29.75
try to stop you from
doing what you need to do.
00:31:29.78\00:31:31.85
God is going to intervene.
00:31:31.89\00:31:35.92
When they do this,
00:31:35.96\00:31:37.29
God's going to
use that as the mean,
00:31:37.33\00:31:38.66
listen to extend the work.
00:31:38.69\00:31:41.86
You may try to stop it.
00:31:41.90\00:31:43.23
You know what I say? You
ain't big enough to stop.
00:31:43.26\00:31:45.10
I'm not big enough
to stop the work of God.
00:31:45.13\00:31:47.70
We're not big
enough. Why would we try?
00:31:47.74\00:31:50.01
But sometime we do
00:31:50.04\00:31:51.37
'cause we don't
want to hear ourself.
00:31:51.41\00:31:53.91
We must be on guard.
00:31:53.94\00:31:55.28
Review and Herald,
322 and 87 says this.
00:31:55.31\00:32:01.78
What we've been talking about,
the most dangerous snares.
00:32:01.82\00:32:04.75
What is a snare?
00:32:04.79\00:32:07.02
The most, good,
I like that, trap.
00:32:07.06\00:32:08.76
The most dangerous trap,
00:32:08.79\00:32:11.86
which Satan has
prepared for the church.
00:32:11.89\00:32:14.93
Listen carefully,
00:32:14.96\00:32:16.30
is going to come
through its own members.
00:32:16.33\00:32:19.83
You keep an eye on me.
00:32:19.87\00:32:21.20
I'm going to keep an eye on you.
00:32:21.24\00:32:24.94
Really.
00:32:24.97\00:32:26.31
We either
believe this or we don't.
00:32:26.34\00:32:28.11
The snares, the
trap that the Satan lays
00:32:28.14\00:32:31.15
is going to come
through its own members.
00:32:31.18\00:32:33.28
That's why we can say
00:32:33.31\00:32:34.65
we have more to
fulfill right now.
00:32:34.68\00:32:36.12
Fear from within than
we do without right now.
00:32:36.15\00:32:39.19
It's true.
00:32:39.22\00:32:40.56
And you'll say,
well, how can that be?
00:32:40.59\00:32:43.43
How can it come
through its own members?
00:32:43.46\00:32:44.79
Let me tell you just
a couple little things
00:32:44.83\00:32:46.39
that I thought through here.
00:32:46.43\00:32:47.80
Let's identify this
and it might identify you.
00:32:47.83\00:32:50.83
It might
identify me. We hope not.
00:32:50.87\00:32:52.90
But if it does, we
need to maybe change
00:32:52.93\00:32:54.40
our way of doing things.
00:32:54.44\00:32:57.97
Satan uses those
00:32:58.01\00:33:00.38
who claim to
believe present truth.
00:33:00.41\00:33:04.51
Satan, what?
00:33:04.55\00:33:06.41
He uses those who claim
to believe present truth.
00:33:06.45\00:33:12.39
He can't use me, I
believe present truth.
00:33:12.42\00:33:14.82
He can't me.
00:33:14.86\00:33:16.19
Don't fool yourself.
00:33:16.22\00:33:18.09
I don't fool myself.
00:33:18.13\00:33:19.46
I don't trust myself.
00:33:19.49\00:33:20.83
I don't trust myself.
00:33:24.93\00:33:27.44
But we all should
say that, don't you?
00:33:27.47\00:33:28.80
I mean, We look at it
because the Bible said
00:33:28.84\00:33:30.91
the heart is
deceitful above all things
00:33:30.94\00:33:33.17
who can know it.
00:33:33.21\00:33:34.54
Oh, I'm not going to.
00:33:34.58\00:33:35.91
Peter said, I'll
stand right in there.
00:33:35.94\00:33:37.91
Remember, I'll die.
00:33:37.95\00:33:40.38
I'll protect You, Lord.
00:33:40.42\00:33:41.75
No.
00:33:41.78\00:33:43.12
Peter I pray for you.
00:33:43.15\00:33:46.45
Today we should be
praying one for another
00:33:46.49\00:33:48.06
because we have a
lot of lip service.
00:33:48.09\00:33:49.66
And when the going gets
tough, we're out of bounds.
00:33:49.69\00:33:51.76
We're out of sorts.
00:33:51.79\00:33:53.80
When we don't show up.
00:33:53.83\00:33:57.77
People say I've got your back.
00:33:57.80\00:33:59.33
But if you look around,
they're about four mile back.
00:33:59.37\00:34:03.30
Do you follow me?
Ain't that right? Yeah.
00:34:03.34\00:34:05.74
If you say I've got your back,
I want to touch you back here.
00:34:05.77\00:34:08.81
I want to know you're here.
00:34:08.84\00:34:10.18
Give me your hand.
You see what I'm saying?
00:34:10.21\00:34:11.58
You're close.
00:34:11.61\00:34:13.58
And we should have, as
it were right to walk with
00:34:13.62\00:34:15.88
and to be encouraged by
00:34:15.92\00:34:17.59
those who presenting
and telling the truth
00:34:17.62\00:34:19.85
as it is in Jesus Christ.
00:34:19.89\00:34:22.66
So, he's going to
use those who believe in,
00:34:22.69\00:34:24.26
you know, the present truth.
00:34:24.29\00:34:27.03
And he's going
to use, notice this,
00:34:27.06\00:34:28.66
believe it or
not the unconverted,
00:34:28.70\00:34:30.17
because there are
unconverted people
00:34:30.20\00:34:32.63
with their names
on the church books.
00:34:32.67\00:34:35.74
Does that make sense?
00:34:35.77\00:34:37.21
There are...
00:34:37.24\00:34:39.81
I feel like myself many
times I need to be reconverted.
00:34:39.84\00:34:42.51
And I found out I do every day.
00:34:42.54\00:34:45.25
Does that make sense?
00:34:45.28\00:34:46.61
I need to rededicate every day,
00:34:46.65\00:34:47.98
'cause I need to be
converted every day.
00:34:48.02\00:34:50.05
Because walking
through this world
00:34:50.09\00:34:51.42
it gets a little
dust on your feet,
00:34:51.45\00:34:53.46
little dust on the mind sometime
00:34:53.49\00:34:55.09
and a little hasty word sometime
00:34:55.12\00:34:57.83
and things you're not
happy and you're not proud of,
00:34:57.86\00:34:59.89
but sometime it comes out.
00:34:59.93\00:35:01.50
You can only come to
God and say, God, help me.
00:35:01.53\00:35:04.43
I need help. Why?
00:35:04.47\00:35:05.87
Because you say to God
00:35:05.90\00:35:07.24
as I've said to
Him many times before,
00:35:07.27\00:35:08.67
I know this will not
inherit the kingdom of God.
00:35:08.70\00:35:13.94
And I want to
inherit, how about you?
00:35:13.98\00:35:16.28
And so, to recognize it
00:35:16.31\00:35:17.65
and to bring that
before Him our weaknesses,
00:35:17.68\00:35:20.85
bringing him before him,
00:35:20.88\00:35:22.22
He can help you
gain that victory.
00:35:22.25\00:35:26.42
Because there are in the church
00:35:26.45\00:35:28.56
that those who do
not love God supremely
00:35:28.59\00:35:30.69
and their fellow
man as themselves.
00:35:30.73\00:35:33.53
On these two hang all the law.
00:35:33.56\00:35:35.46
And this is what the
enemy is going to work with.
00:35:35.50\00:35:37.90
It comes from
within these things
00:35:41.24\00:35:44.27
that these testing
truths brought to the forefront.
00:35:44.31\00:35:47.98
What are you
going to do with them?
00:35:48.01\00:35:49.34
Bible says in
Psalms 100:5, I love it.
00:35:49.38\00:35:54.65
Just a couple
of words that said,
00:35:54.68\00:35:56.35
"His truth endureth
to all generations."
00:35:56.38\00:36:00.36
His truth does what?
00:36:00.39\00:36:02.02
It endureth to all generations.
00:36:02.06\00:36:04.66
But I say that it
seems, it just seems
00:36:04.69\00:36:07.36
maybe because I'm,
00:36:07.40\00:36:08.73
you know, I need more
00:36:08.76\00:36:10.10
of Holy Spirit
power and more of,
00:36:10.13\00:36:11.47
it seems to the love
of the truth is dying out.
00:36:11.50\00:36:14.44
Can I say that?
00:36:14.47\00:36:17.41
See, we're all going to
come up with our own thoughts
00:36:17.44\00:36:19.17
as we think about
this and pray about it.
00:36:19.21\00:36:21.28
And we've talked to
people and members of the church
00:36:21.31\00:36:23.38
and other people, it seems
like the love of truth is just,
00:36:23.41\00:36:25.91
it's dying out.
00:36:25.95\00:36:28.02
We know this, we know
that we cannot be saved in sin.
00:36:28.05\00:36:32.95
1 John 3:4,
00:36:32.99\00:36:34.32
"Sin is the
transgression of God's law."
00:36:34.36\00:36:35.79
We know that.
00:36:35.82\00:36:37.56
Ain't that right?
00:36:37.59\00:36:38.93
So we got that in our mind,
00:36:38.96\00:36:40.30
but it seemed like the truth
is just like it's dying out.
00:36:40.33\00:36:44.63
Yet it seems as though
we have been so concerned
00:36:44.67\00:36:49.77
about, listen,
00:36:49.80\00:36:51.64
not our connection
with Christ necessarily,
00:36:51.67\00:36:54.74
but we've become so
concerned over our jobs.
00:36:54.78\00:36:58.95
We've got in and not
saying this is all wrong,
00:36:58.98\00:37:00.65
but notice we
put them above God.
00:37:00.68\00:37:02.32
We've been concerned.
00:37:02.35\00:37:03.69
Have over concerned
maybe about our houses.
00:37:03.72\00:37:05.82
We have concerned
about our businesses,
00:37:05.85\00:37:08.76
concerned about the way
we dress and what we eat
00:37:08.79\00:37:11.49
and am not saying any
of these things are wrong,
00:37:11.53\00:37:13.33
but notice this.
00:37:13.36\00:37:14.90
Some of us are more concerned
00:37:14.93\00:37:16.26
of what we're going to
have for lunch or dinner
00:37:16.30\00:37:17.63
than we are in
the cause of Christ.
00:37:17.67\00:37:21.60
We're concerned about
all of these different things
00:37:21.64\00:37:23.30
and put more effort into them
00:37:23.34\00:37:24.84
than we are in
the saving of souls.
00:37:24.87\00:37:27.64
That's why you're here.
00:37:27.68\00:37:30.15
That's why I'm here.
00:37:30.18\00:37:31.88
It's about right,
00:37:31.91\00:37:33.72
by the grace of
God, saving souls,
00:37:33.75\00:37:36.18
planting some
seed, not necessarily,
00:37:36.22\00:37:39.12
remember the Bible said,
00:37:39.15\00:37:40.49
don't, don't take no
thought about the marble,
00:37:40.52\00:37:41.86
think about what
you're going to eat.
00:37:41.89\00:37:43.22
Don't think about
what you're going to wear.
00:37:43.26\00:37:44.59
Don't think about all these
all going to be added unto you
00:37:44.63\00:37:47.40
if you put Him first,
all these other things.
00:37:47.43\00:37:51.00
I mentioned just a while ago,
00:37:51.03\00:37:53.17
that the souls of men and women
00:37:53.20\00:37:55.57
we're going to have to meet them
00:37:55.60\00:37:56.94
as it were in the judgment.
00:37:56.97\00:37:59.37
Did you think
about the judgment?
00:37:59.41\00:38:02.61
You're going to
appear in the judgment.
00:38:02.64\00:38:04.35
2 Corinthians 5:10 tells us
00:38:04.38\00:38:07.22
that we must all appear
00:38:07.25\00:38:08.82
before the
judgment seat of Christ.
00:38:08.85\00:38:12.02
We must all appear.
00:38:12.05\00:38:13.79
And I say many times not,
you can say, I don't want to.
00:38:13.82\00:38:17.09
It's too bad.
00:38:17.13\00:38:18.99
Not trying to be ugly about it.
00:38:19.03\00:38:20.63
If you don't, you
say I don't want to,
00:38:20.66\00:38:22.26
I never signed
up for it, too bad.
00:38:22.30\00:38:26.53
I said, I
didn't want Lord as my,
00:38:26.57\00:38:28.50
you know, as my
Lord and my Savior,
00:38:28.54\00:38:30.01
I didn't want Jesus in my life.
00:38:30.04\00:38:31.71
And I bowed out of
this a long time ago.
00:38:31.74\00:38:33.78
You two must appear
00:38:33.81\00:38:35.14
before the
judgment seat of Christ.
00:38:35.18\00:38:37.15
You're going to have to
give an account of the deeds
00:38:37.18\00:38:38.81
that's done in this body.
00:38:38.85\00:38:40.18
That's what the Bible says.
00:38:40.22\00:38:43.05
We're going to
have to give an account
00:38:43.08\00:38:45.85
for the effort that we put forth
00:38:45.89\00:38:49.12
to try to lead
someone to Christ.
00:38:49.16\00:38:52.39
What kind of effort
are we putting forth today
00:38:52.43\00:38:54.93
to win them to Jesus Christ?
00:38:54.96\00:38:57.53
Hebrews points it
out in Hebrews 10:27,
00:38:57.57\00:39:00.74
just really points it out.
00:39:00.77\00:39:02.10
It starts out something like,
00:39:02.14\00:39:03.47
"But a certain fearful
looking for the judgment
00:39:03.51\00:39:07.98
and the fiery indignation,
00:39:08.01\00:39:10.11
which shall
devour the adversaries."
00:39:10.15\00:39:13.42
And what kind of a looking?
00:39:13.45\00:39:15.15
A fearful
looking for the judgment.
00:39:15.18\00:39:19.25
Shouldn't we be
fearful in the right way
00:39:19.29\00:39:21.26
when we talk about the judgment?
00:39:21.29\00:39:24.79
The judgment, about our
names coming up in the judgment,
00:39:24.83\00:39:27.06
should we not?
00:39:27.10\00:39:28.43
Do you realize we
live in such an hour?
00:39:28.46\00:39:29.96
And many times
Adventist don't know.
00:39:30.00\00:39:31.63
If anybody should
know in the world,
00:39:31.67\00:39:33.17
we should know it, my lands.
00:39:33.20\00:39:37.37
I want everybody to know it.
00:39:37.41\00:39:38.74
You see that's the frustration.
00:39:38.77\00:39:40.41
And to accept it,
00:39:40.44\00:39:43.04
that is, we don't know
that it hasn't already,
00:39:43.08\00:39:45.35
or it's time that
the names of the living
00:39:45.38\00:39:47.52
will come up in the judgment.
00:39:47.55\00:39:51.02
The judgment of
the house of God,
00:39:51.05\00:39:52.39
remember, started
with the dead righteous.
00:39:52.42\00:39:55.79
That's the only one
that's going to appear
00:39:55.82\00:39:57.23
in the judgment right now.
00:39:57.26\00:39:58.59
Isn't that right?
00:39:58.63\00:39:59.96
Because the ones
who said, I love Jesus.
00:40:00.00\00:40:02.10
Then there's going
to be an Investigation
00:40:02.13\00:40:03.67
if you love Jesus.
00:40:03.70\00:40:05.03
Everything you said,
everything's you've done
00:40:05.07\00:40:06.47
has been written in a book
00:40:06.50\00:40:07.84
and had it there
and your life was there.
00:40:07.87\00:40:09.60
You can't deny it.
00:40:09.64\00:40:11.04
It's an open book.
00:40:11.07\00:40:13.88
But when that finishes,
00:40:13.91\00:40:16.64
then what, the living righteous.
00:40:16.68\00:40:19.41
Remember if
you're not trying to live
00:40:19.45\00:40:21.08
and not made it a profession,
00:40:21.12\00:40:22.85
your name's not even
going to come up at this time
00:40:22.88\00:40:24.49
because why, why bring
it up to investigate you?
00:40:24.52\00:40:26.42
Because you've already said no.
00:40:26.45\00:40:28.49
Does that make sense?
00:40:28.52\00:40:30.93
Yeah, it's a choice.
00:40:30.96\00:40:33.63
But when it comes out,
we can be in that time.
00:40:33.66\00:40:37.77
And when the last name comes up,
00:40:37.80\00:40:39.13
that's going to be it.
00:40:39.17\00:40:41.10
And whatever your
name, if it comes up now,
00:40:41.14\00:40:43.24
if it comes up
next week, next month,
00:40:43.27\00:40:44.91
if that be the time that
we're framed, that we're in
00:40:44.94\00:40:47.11
and could very well be
in that position right now,
00:40:47.14\00:40:50.18
when your name
comes up before Jesus,
00:40:50.21\00:40:52.21
there's going to
be a pronouncement
00:40:52.25\00:40:54.92
that you're either
going to make it to heaven
00:40:54.95\00:40:56.38
or you're not.
00:40:56.42\00:40:58.52
And if it's even
10 years down the road
00:40:58.55\00:41:00.06
or 20 years down
the road, you follow me.
00:41:00.09\00:41:02.02
It's not going to
change because God knows you.
00:41:02.06\00:41:04.63
Because He knows me and
exactly what would happen
00:41:04.66\00:41:06.56
If we continue
to live, He knows.
00:41:06.59\00:41:09.36
So, what if your
name come up tomorrow?
00:41:09.40\00:41:12.23
What's going to be
stamped on it as it were?
00:41:12.27\00:41:14.10
Are you going to have
the seal of the living God?
00:41:14.14\00:41:16.24
Am I going to have the
seal of the living God?
00:41:16.27\00:41:18.01
These truths are going to
be coming to the forefront.
00:41:18.04\00:41:21.14
We need to know them.
00:41:21.18\00:41:25.85
And what about you think about,
00:41:25.88\00:41:29.35
is it okay if I say laziness,
00:41:29.38\00:41:31.59
stupidity of us sometimes
00:41:31.62\00:41:35.62
when we believe
00:41:35.66\00:41:37.03
that we are
near the end of time.
00:41:37.06\00:41:40.10
We are near the end of time.
00:41:40.13\00:41:41.53
People are going to
say, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:41.56\00:41:43.57
But you know what you do?
00:41:43.60\00:41:45.00
You stay home most of the time.
00:41:45.03\00:41:46.37
Hebrews Chapter
10 doesn't say that.
00:41:49.87\00:41:51.97
Hebrews 10:25 said,
00:41:52.01\00:41:54.61
"Don't forsake the assembling
of yourselves together
00:41:54.64\00:41:58.78
as the manner of some is."
00:41:58.81\00:42:01.95
And you say,
well, that could be.
00:42:01.98\00:42:03.32
No, as it goes on so much more,
as you see the day approaching.
00:42:03.35\00:42:08.92
Did you?
00:42:08.96\00:42:10.29
I mean, we either believe
that and we incorporate it in
00:42:10.33\00:42:12.66
or we don't or we're just going
to be all right by ourself.
00:42:12.69\00:42:15.30
We don't need anybody else.
00:42:15.33\00:42:16.73
These are the truths
that's going to be coming up
00:42:20.44\00:42:22.77
to the forefront.
00:42:22.80\00:42:24.14
And we're going
to have to decide
00:42:24.17\00:42:25.51
whether we think
00:42:25.54\00:42:27.44
that we need the
warmth of others,
00:42:27.48\00:42:32.38
the counsel of others,
00:42:32.41\00:42:34.68
or are we as it
were a God unto ourself.
00:42:34.72\00:42:37.75
We don't need to
counsel with anyone.
00:42:37.79\00:42:39.82
We don't need to
talk with anyone.
00:42:39.85\00:42:41.92
We've got all the answers.
00:42:41.96\00:42:43.36
The Bible said,
we're going to be coming
00:42:43.39\00:42:44.83
because we see
the day approaching.
00:42:44.86\00:42:47.33
You believe that
Christ is coming.
00:42:47.36\00:42:49.80
And I know that you do.
00:42:49.83\00:42:51.17
And I believe that
Christ is coming very soon.
00:42:51.20\00:42:54.14
We must heed the warning.
00:42:54.17\00:42:56.50
Meet together,
assemble together,
00:42:56.54\00:43:00.48
come together.
00:43:00.51\00:43:03.18
Why? To share God's blessing.
00:43:03.21\00:43:05.61
To pray together.
00:43:05.65\00:43:07.45
Glory, to sing together.
00:43:07.48\00:43:09.62
Shout maybe together.
00:43:09.65\00:43:11.75
Study the Word of God together.
00:43:11.79\00:43:15.72
Keep us on fire.
00:43:15.76\00:43:18.79
Keep us on fire.
00:43:18.83\00:43:20.43
But there's many who advocate
00:43:20.46\00:43:21.86
though I do just as
well if I stay home.
00:43:21.90\00:43:27.04
What if you choose to pull away
00:43:27.07\00:43:28.40
and you just want
to stay by yourself?
00:43:28.44\00:43:31.14
Now, there may be a reason
00:43:31.17\00:43:32.51
because the churches you
go to maybe teaching untruths
00:43:32.54\00:43:37.48
and I'm talking
about any church.
00:43:37.51\00:43:40.22
Okay?
00:43:40.25\00:43:41.65
I am not,
00:43:41.68\00:43:43.02
you might I'm not
trying to be ugly about it.
00:43:43.05\00:43:44.65
I'm not going to go to a church
00:43:44.69\00:43:46.49
that's not preaching
what I understand at least
00:43:46.52\00:43:48.12
at this point in
time, what the truth.
00:43:48.16\00:43:50.59
And they water them down,
00:43:50.63\00:43:51.96
that's still an
untruth, that's still a lie.
00:43:51.99\00:43:53.43
And I'm not going to
go listen to that either.
00:43:53.46\00:43:56.23
The radio if I listen
00:43:56.26\00:43:57.60
to a religious
station as it were.
00:43:57.63\00:43:59.03
And I can't even do that anymore
00:43:59.07\00:44:01.24
because the first thing I hear
00:44:01.27\00:44:02.60
something I
don't believe is truth.
00:44:02.64\00:44:06.17
Remember, to him
that knoweth to do good.
00:44:06.21\00:44:07.54
So, my decision, I
can't listen to that
00:44:07.58\00:44:08.91
because I don't believe,
00:44:08.94\00:44:10.28
I believe that's
a lie of the devil.
00:44:10.31\00:44:13.48
Be careful what you listen to,
00:44:13.52\00:44:14.85
be careful who
you support, okay?
00:44:14.88\00:44:18.45
You think you can be a Christian
00:44:18.49\00:44:19.89
and stay away.
00:44:19.92\00:44:22.22
The time may come
00:44:22.26\00:44:24.46
but is it now,
00:44:24.49\00:44:26.46
or is there a
place that you believe
00:44:26.49\00:44:27.83
that you might hear a truth
00:44:27.86\00:44:29.20
and you can
discuss truth and grow.
00:44:29.23\00:44:31.83
That situation happened,
you've heard the story.
00:44:35.44\00:44:37.41
I'm sure I'll just
relate it as quick as I can.
00:44:37.44\00:44:39.74
Only nine minutes left.
00:44:39.77\00:44:41.11
What's, who's
monkeying with the clock.
00:44:41.14\00:44:44.68
To you It may seem a long time,
00:44:44.71\00:44:46.08
to me I'm serious
about five, ten minutes.
00:44:46.11\00:44:48.75
I can't help it, well,
it's just the way it is.
00:44:48.78\00:44:52.05
I don't need any
oxygen. I'm fine.
00:44:52.09\00:44:53.86
I'm going for a long time.
00:44:53.89\00:44:55.22
A man and a member of the church
00:44:59.09\00:45:01.56
and an elder had a discussion.
00:45:01.60\00:45:02.93
You remember hearing this one?
00:45:02.96\00:45:04.47
They had a discussion
that member of the church said,
00:45:04.50\00:45:08.00
I can be a good Christian.
00:45:08.04\00:45:09.37
I can stay at home by
myself and study the Word of God
00:45:09.40\00:45:11.97
and I can be
whatever God wants me to be.
00:45:12.01\00:45:14.41
The elder said, well, I'm a...
00:45:14.44\00:45:15.78
I believe a little
different than that.
00:45:15.81\00:45:17.51
And the man said,
00:45:17.55\00:45:18.88
"Well, good,
well, why don't we have
00:45:18.91\00:45:20.25
a discussion over that."
00:45:20.28\00:45:21.62
The elder said,
00:45:21.65\00:45:22.98
"Fine, come to my
house this cold winter day."
00:45:23.02\00:45:24.79
And so, the man
showed up and then said,
00:45:24.82\00:45:26.82
hello, good evening
greetings and so on.
00:45:26.86\00:45:28.92
And the elder
had a big fireplace
00:45:28.96\00:45:30.56
and had it was rip-roaring.
00:45:30.59\00:45:32.49
There were some coals
00:45:32.53\00:45:33.86
that were in the
bottom of it was red hot.
00:45:33.90\00:45:35.70
He didn't say anything,
00:45:35.73\00:45:37.07
but the
greetings and they come in
00:45:37.10\00:45:38.43
and he said, oh
stand, elder said,
00:45:38.47\00:45:39.80
"Stand by the fire brother,
00:45:39.83\00:45:41.17
warm yourself up
just a little bit."
00:45:41.20\00:45:44.57
And he said, okay.
00:45:44.61\00:45:45.97
So very little
exchange at this point, see,
00:45:46.01\00:45:48.48
warm up first and feel good.
00:45:48.51\00:45:49.84
And then we'll
sit down and discuss.
00:45:49.88\00:45:51.41
So nothing was said,
00:45:51.45\00:45:52.78
both of the men
went to the fireplace.
00:45:52.81\00:45:54.65
Usually, we do like this.
00:45:54.68\00:45:57.35
I don't know what that
mean. You know what I mean?
00:45:57.39\00:45:58.89
So, they stayed at the fireplace
00:46:02.49\00:46:03.83
and not a word was said.
00:46:03.86\00:46:07.43
The elder reached over
00:46:07.46\00:46:09.70
and got some
tongs, a big, long tong.
00:46:09.73\00:46:11.67
He reached in and
he got one of those
00:46:11.70\00:46:13.03
hot, glowing coals.
00:46:13.07\00:46:16.00
He pulled it out of the fire
00:46:16.04\00:46:18.74
and he set it
over here by itself.
00:46:18.77\00:46:22.61
Not a word was
said, they dissed.
00:46:22.64\00:46:24.58
Both men just looked,
never a word exchanged.
00:46:24.61\00:46:28.78
They looked at it.
00:46:28.82\00:46:30.15
Two or three or four minutes,
they looked at it again.
00:46:30.19\00:46:32.55
It was going out,
another minute it was out.
00:46:32.59\00:46:37.49
The member of the
church looked at it.
00:46:37.53\00:46:39.63
He looked at the elder.
00:46:39.66\00:46:42.80
Remember not a word was,
00:46:42.83\00:46:44.23
then the discussion
they were going to have
00:46:44.27\00:46:45.70
not a word was said.
00:46:45.73\00:46:47.07
The member of the church
looked at the elder and said,
00:46:47.10\00:46:49.04
I see exactly what you mean.
00:46:49.07\00:46:50.67
I'll see you at
church next week.
00:46:50.71\00:46:52.07
isn't that
wonderful? You think about it.
00:46:55.71\00:46:57.21
You will go out.
00:46:57.25\00:46:58.71
We need the one.
The day is coming.
00:46:58.75\00:47:00.78
We need to gain
warmth from the coldness
00:47:00.82\00:47:02.75
even of others,
00:47:02.78\00:47:04.12
Sister White says.
00:47:04.15\00:47:06.76
I need your testimony.
00:47:06.79\00:47:09.56
I need your miracles
that God does in your life.
00:47:09.59\00:47:12.83
I need to hear them.
00:47:12.86\00:47:14.96
It's encouragement to me
that God will never leave us,
00:47:15.00\00:47:17.57
He'll never forsake us.
00:47:17.60\00:47:19.57
These old truths of
God to come up and out.
00:47:19.60\00:47:23.74
They're going to be
challenged on every hand.
00:47:23.77\00:47:26.94
I always say,
00:47:26.98\00:47:28.31
as I get in the
middle of some of this stuff,
00:47:28.34\00:47:29.68
said, man, it should
have been two or three parter.
00:47:29.71\00:47:32.31
I'll never have
enough sense to get it right.
00:47:32.35\00:47:34.62
And only Holy
Spirit can do that,
00:47:34.65\00:47:35.98
I need to be praying more.
00:47:36.02\00:47:37.35
We think about this.
00:47:41.56\00:47:42.89
We need the Lord.
00:47:45.93\00:47:48.20
We need each other.
00:47:48.23\00:47:50.57
We need these truths
00:47:50.60\00:47:52.07
to be proclaimed high and low,
00:47:52.10\00:47:56.04
but we need to do this.
00:47:56.07\00:47:57.41
And there's six
minute or so, listen,
00:47:57.44\00:47:58.77
Hebrews 13:17 says this,
00:47:58.81\00:48:01.84
this is a word even an Adventist
00:48:01.88\00:48:03.45
we don't like and we hear obey.
00:48:03.48\00:48:07.62
We realize that
we have to think,
00:48:07.65\00:48:08.98
and we say, be obedient.
00:48:09.02\00:48:11.05
"Obey them that
have the rule over you."
00:48:11.09\00:48:15.06
What does it say?
00:48:15.09\00:48:16.49
Hebrews 13:17, see,
we're not getting it.
00:48:16.52\00:48:19.09
You ain't going to
take it home with you.
00:48:19.13\00:48:20.90
You're not even
going to consider it
00:48:20.93\00:48:22.26
after this point here, possibly.
00:48:22.30\00:48:24.80
Obey them that
have rule over you.
00:48:24.83\00:48:27.30
This passage is referring to,
00:48:27.34\00:48:29.27
notice, a rule is the guide,
00:48:29.30\00:48:31.67
rule is the leaders of
the church in this passage,
00:48:31.71\00:48:35.48
notice this,
00:48:35.51\00:48:37.35
and submit yourself to them,
00:48:37.38\00:48:40.22
for they, notice this,
for they watch for your souls.
00:48:40.25\00:48:44.45
As they must, we talked
about, as they must give a what?
00:48:44.49\00:48:47.89
An account that
they may do it with joy
00:48:47.92\00:48:52.19
and not with grief,
00:48:52.23\00:48:54.33
for this is
unprofitable for you.
00:48:54.36\00:48:58.20
Yeah.
00:48:58.23\00:49:00.67
Here in this passage,
00:49:00.70\00:49:03.14
God's people are encouraged
00:49:03.17\00:49:04.97
to obey as submit
00:49:05.01\00:49:07.94
to the appointed leaders.
00:49:07.98\00:49:09.74
Interesting thought.
00:49:09.78\00:49:11.18
And I'm going to
put an if in there
00:49:11.21\00:49:12.68
if it's okay with you.
00:49:12.71\00:49:14.38
Agree, submit to them
00:49:14.42\00:49:16.15
if the leaders themselves
are obeying the master.
00:49:16.18\00:49:20.99
Okay, now, come on.
00:49:21.02\00:49:24.16
If they're preaching one
thing and doing another thing,
00:49:24.19\00:49:25.99
then why should you obey them?
00:49:26.03\00:49:27.96
I don't care what
their position is,
00:49:28.00\00:49:29.36
is that all right?
00:49:29.40\00:49:30.73
Your position
doesn't make you, the man.
00:49:30.77\00:49:32.10
Your position doesn't
make you anything with God.
00:49:32.13\00:49:35.54
If they're
doing the right thing,
00:49:35.57\00:49:37.21
then we should
by the grace of God.
00:49:37.24\00:49:41.94
Why?
00:49:41.98\00:49:43.31
Because the leaders are
going to have to give an answer
00:49:43.35\00:49:46.08
to God for you,
00:49:46.11\00:49:47.55
Lord, have I done the best?
00:49:50.79\00:49:54.79
See, a stewart is
accountable to his maker
00:49:54.82\00:49:59.49
for any goods and
trusted to his care.
00:49:59.53\00:50:05.30
And he knows he
has to give an answer
00:50:05.33\00:50:08.20
for his stewardship.
00:50:08.24\00:50:10.21
I don't forget that
00:50:10.24\00:50:11.57
when people come
through those doors.
00:50:11.61\00:50:13.91
They may not always
come across as that way.
00:50:13.94\00:50:15.81
But I realized, and
especially the heartache
00:50:15.84\00:50:18.35
when someone leaves
00:50:18.38\00:50:20.22
and you can't figure out
why, they won't tell you why,
00:50:20.25\00:50:23.75
other than they want to do
their own thing, I don't know.
00:50:23.79\00:50:27.02
What's going on
in the world today,
00:50:27.06\00:50:28.69
my brothers and sisters?
00:50:28.72\00:50:31.66
We'll see God's people
coming to the forefront
00:50:31.69\00:50:34.50
like never before.
00:50:34.53\00:50:35.86
We need to be to contending.
00:50:35.90\00:50:37.23
Jude 3 says,
00:50:37.27\00:50:38.60
contending for the faith
once delivered to the saints.
00:50:38.63\00:50:41.14
That means we need to come
back to the very beginning.
00:50:41.17\00:50:43.91
Jude verse 3 wants his readers.
00:50:43.94\00:50:46.21
Jude was saying
here, first of all,
00:50:46.24\00:50:47.78
you know, go
back to the original,
00:50:47.81\00:50:50.25
go back to the beginning
form of Christian doctrine
00:50:50.28\00:50:53.15
that was delivered by
Christ and by the apostles.
00:50:53.18\00:50:56.28
We've got to go back to that.
00:50:56.32\00:50:57.65
And not some of the stuff
that we hear out there today.
00:50:57.69\00:51:00.46
Why?
00:51:00.49\00:51:01.82
Because we're seeing
apostasy on every hand.
00:51:01.86\00:51:06.46
We're seeing things happen.
00:51:06.49\00:51:09.26
And with people whom
have had our great confidence.
00:51:09.30\00:51:12.50
We've had put confidence in them
00:51:12.53\00:51:14.97
and they've fallen
away for some reason.
00:51:15.00\00:51:17.67
We trusted them.
00:51:17.71\00:51:19.21
Read more about that
Third Selected Messages, 411,
00:51:19.24\00:51:23.35
the world is
coming apart at the seams.
00:51:23.38\00:51:25.21
May I say quickly,
00:51:25.25\00:51:26.58
the world is
coming apart at the seams.
00:51:26.61\00:51:28.98
The many leaders
of the world today,
00:51:29.02\00:51:31.45
they describe
events, they describe laws,
00:51:31.49\00:51:34.56
they describe the national debt,
00:51:34.59\00:51:36.36
they describe our
borders, they describe COVID-19,
00:51:36.39\00:51:39.93
they describe our schools.
00:51:39.96\00:51:41.40
They talk about the unions.
00:51:41.43\00:51:42.76
They talk about
a lot of Pinocchios
00:51:42.80\00:51:44.60
in the world today.
00:51:44.63\00:51:45.97
If you heard
that through the news?
00:51:46.00\00:51:47.34
What do you mean, Pinocchio?
00:51:47.37\00:51:48.70
That was in 1883,
00:51:48.74\00:51:50.07
that this wooden
dummy as it were right.
00:51:50.11\00:51:52.31
All of a sudden,
supposed to come to life.
00:51:52.34\00:51:53.68
One of the greatest
kids' book and teaching lies.
00:51:53.71\00:51:56.98
And every time he
lied, his nose grew.
00:51:57.01\00:51:59.15
And now they're saying
00:51:59.18\00:52:00.52
that there's a lot of
our leaders are Pinocchios.
00:52:00.55\00:52:03.28
I don't deny that.
00:52:03.32\00:52:05.09
They talk about
socialism and communism
00:52:05.12\00:52:06.99
and hate groups and
hate words and hate crimes.
00:52:07.02\00:52:10.26
And what you're,
what you don't like.
00:52:10.29\00:52:12.93
If you don't like
it, just burn it down.
00:52:12.96\00:52:15.86
If you don't
like it, tear it down.
00:52:15.90\00:52:17.63
If you don't like it, rename it.
00:52:17.67\00:52:19.60
Are you still with me
on that? Come on church.
00:52:19.63\00:52:21.80
If you don't like it,
just hit the reset button,
00:52:21.84\00:52:23.47
change the whole thing.
00:52:23.51\00:52:24.84
That's what
they're trying to do.
00:52:24.87\00:52:26.21
Get rid of the
history of this country
00:52:26.24\00:52:27.58
because you don't like it.
00:52:27.61\00:52:28.94
There's a lot of
things I don't like,
00:52:28.98\00:52:30.31
but I don't want to get
rid of the history of it.
00:52:30.35\00:52:31.68
Just like we
talked about Easter.
00:52:31.71\00:52:33.05
Words as we close, oh,
00:52:36.72\00:52:38.19
I'm not even going
to get halfway through.
00:52:38.22\00:52:39.55
Words that we hear all the
time on the TV and internet,
00:52:39.59\00:52:42.92
they say, what's going on
in the world is horrendous.
00:52:42.96\00:52:45.89
Have you heard it?
00:52:45.93\00:52:47.33
It's unpleasant.
00:52:47.36\00:52:48.70
It's horrifying.
00:52:48.73\00:52:50.20
It's dreadful.
00:52:50.23\00:52:51.57
It's a crisis.
00:52:51.60\00:52:52.93
The other group
said, "There's no crises."
00:52:52.97\00:52:55.84
It's terrible. It's shocking.
00:52:55.87\00:52:57.61
You hear this on
all the newscasts.
00:52:57.64\00:52:59.47
It's appalling. It's gruesome.
00:52:59.51\00:53:01.64
It's a nightmare.
00:53:01.68\00:53:03.01
It's an atrocity.
00:53:03.04\00:53:04.38
It's sickening. It's nauseated.
00:53:04.41\00:53:08.88
That just, it's
a spine chilling.
00:53:08.92\00:53:11.15
This detestable.
00:53:11.19\00:53:12.52
You hear all these things,
word like this used to describe
00:53:12.55\00:53:14.69
the world that we live in.
00:53:14.72\00:53:18.09
But we are as God's
people is to call sin
00:53:18.13\00:53:20.26
by its right name.
00:53:20.30\00:53:21.66
This is what we
need to do right now.
00:53:21.70\00:53:23.03
Well, are you
willing to do that?
00:53:23.06\00:53:24.40
Stand in defense of the truth
00:53:24.43\00:53:25.77
because what
we're giving right now,
00:53:25.80\00:53:27.37
as the days go by, listen,
00:53:27.40\00:53:29.04
it's going to be
tougher and tougher to give it.
00:53:29.07\00:53:31.41
It's going to be
almost impossible
00:53:31.44\00:53:32.77
to give this message
00:53:32.81\00:53:34.14
because of all the
laws that's happening
00:53:34.18\00:53:35.51
in the land today,
00:53:35.54\00:53:36.88
as you can't
say anything anymore
00:53:36.91\00:53:38.25
without them, okay, we got you.
00:53:38.28\00:53:41.28
Lord, have
mercy. We need to pray.
00:53:41.32\00:53:43.45
I'm going to close
out with prayer here.
00:53:43.49\00:53:44.92
You kneel with me if you
will. So, we pray together.
00:53:44.95\00:53:46.86
Loving Father in heaven,
00:53:46.89\00:53:48.22
thank You for
your precious Word.
00:53:48.26\00:53:49.92
We know we haven't
gotten too far, Lord,
00:53:49.96\00:53:51.33
in our own study, but we got
as far as You want us to get,
00:53:51.36\00:53:53.53
and we thank You for it.
00:53:53.56\00:53:54.90
Make these beautiful truths
00:53:54.93\00:53:56.26
real in our
hearts and our lives.
00:53:56.30\00:53:57.63
Help us to be ready, help
us to do what we need to do
00:53:57.67\00:53:59.83
to prepare for Your coming.
00:53:59.87\00:54:01.20
We thank you in Jesus' name.
00:54:01.24\00:54:02.57
Amen.
00:54:02.60\00:54:04.21
God bless each one of you.
00:54:04.24\00:54:05.57
Thank you again for
your cards, your letter,
00:54:05.61\00:54:06.94
your support of the ministry.
00:54:06.98\00:54:08.31
And we look forward to spending
some more time with you.
00:54:08.34\00:54:09.81
We'll see you next time.
00:54:09.84\00:54:13.01
Hello and welcome back, friends.
00:54:13.05\00:54:14.95
Wow.
00:54:14.98\00:54:16.32
Worshiping God in
spirit and in truth
00:54:16.35\00:54:19.75
are both equally important.
00:54:19.79\00:54:21.86
In fact, let's read
this as written in John4:23,
00:54:21.89\00:54:26.90
"But the hour
cometh, and now is,
00:54:26.93\00:54:29.73
when the true
worshipers shall worship
00:54:29.76\00:54:32.47
the Father in
spirit and in truth:
00:54:32.50\00:54:36.07
for the Father
seeketh such to worship him."
00:54:36.10\00:54:39.84
Friends, we
have our assignments.
00:54:39.87\00:54:42.48
There is a heaven to gain
and we have a hell to shun,
00:54:42.51\00:54:47.55
and we must become a
soldier in the Lord's army
00:54:47.58\00:54:51.45
to share these testing truths
to as many souls around us
00:54:51.49\00:54:55.92
as we possibly can
00:54:55.96\00:54:57.59
and as soon as we possibly can,
00:54:57.63\00:55:00.13
for the time is coming
that the Bible refers to
00:55:00.16\00:55:03.00
as night when no man can work.
00:55:03.03\00:55:06.03
So, we must labor
while it is yet day
00:55:06.07\00:55:08.37
giving all to
the saving of souls.
00:55:08.40\00:55:11.37
In closing I just want to
share the chorus to a song
00:55:11.41\00:55:14.94
that I just heard recently
while driving down the road.
00:55:14.98\00:55:18.68
This song is entitled the
people that God gives you.
00:55:18.71\00:55:23.35
And the chorus goes,
00:55:23.39\00:55:24.95
love the people
that God gives you.
00:55:24.99\00:55:27.49
They are a gift
that heaven sent.
00:55:27.52\00:55:30.59
Live and laugh and
make some memories.
00:55:30.63\00:55:33.50
Treasure every moment spent
00:55:33.53\00:55:36.00
because none of
us are here forever.
00:55:36.03\00:55:38.40
That's a proven fact.
00:55:38.43\00:55:40.14
Love the people
that God gives you.
00:55:40.17\00:55:43.37
Because one day
He'll want them back.
00:55:43.41\00:55:46.88
Friends, we are in a
solemn judgment hour,
00:55:46.91\00:55:51.51
the Bible talks about.
00:55:51.55\00:55:53.11
And I'm sure that
00:55:53.15\00:55:54.48
none of us would
want to stand before God
00:55:54.52\00:55:56.85
having knowingly shun our duties
00:55:56.89\00:55:59.52
to love and to witness truth
00:55:59.55\00:56:01.86
to those whom God
has placed in our lives.
00:56:01.89\00:56:05.23
This is a
thought, a solemn thought
00:56:05.26\00:56:08.23
that I hope each
and every one of you
00:56:08.26\00:56:10.07
will pray about every day.
00:56:10.10\00:56:12.10
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00:57:21.64\00:57:22.97
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