Hello once
again and welcome back
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to Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host.
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I wanna thank
you for joining us.
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Today's message is
entitled Labor Unions:
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A Sign of the End!
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Over the past year,
we've heard more about
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unions in the news
than we've heard in quite
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a few years,
especially the teachers union.
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We've witnessed the
power that they have to control
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our lives through the
decisions that they're making
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with the education of
our precious children,
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or the lack thereof
during the time of COVID
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and now
subsequent variant outbreaks.
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I don't believe that the initial
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reason for the development
of labor unions were all bad.
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And certainly they have
helped individuals at times,
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but I'm sure that
many of you are familiar
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with a saying that says absolute
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power corrupts absolutely.
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The mentality of unions is power
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without regard to human
rights of others outside
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of their union in many cases.
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Pastor Kenny Shelton
has experienced this life
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threatening power from
labor unions in the past,
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firsthand himself.
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And we thank the God
of heaven for sending him
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the help that he needed at just
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the right time that he needed it
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in order to preserve his life.
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Do we have any counsel
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in which to follow
in regards to unions?
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As Christian
should we join a union?
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Why or why not?
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How are unions playing a
part in the closing scenes
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of this world's history?
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Friends, stay tuned today
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as Pastor Kenny
Shelton presents,
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what God has placed upon
his heart to share with each
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and every one of us
during this message,
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again entitled Labor Unions:
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A Sign of the End!
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But first, as always,
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let's visit 3ABN and listen
to a song that is entitled
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the Refiner's Fire as
sung by Alessandria Sorace.
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There burns a
fire with sacred heat
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White hot with holy flame
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And all who dare
pass through its blaze
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Will not emerge the same
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Some as bronze,
and some as silver
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Some as gold,
then with great skill
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All are hammered
by their sufferings
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On the anvil of
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His will
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The Refiner's fire
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Has now become my souls
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Desire Purged
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And cleansed and purified
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That the Lord be glorified
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He is consuming my soul
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Refining me,
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Making me whole
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No matter what I may lose
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I choose the
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Refiner's fire
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I'm learning now to trust
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His touch
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To crave the fire's embrace
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For though my past
with sin was etched
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His mercies did erase
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Each time
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His purging cleanses deeper
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I'm not sure that I'll survive
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Yet the strength
in growing weaker
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Keeps my hungry
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soul alive
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The Refiner's fire
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Has now become my souls
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Desire Purged
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And cleansed and purified
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That the Lord be glorified
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He is consuming my soul
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Refining me,
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making me whole
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No matter
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what I may lose
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I choose the
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Refiner's fire
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Thank you for
joining us once again
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here at Behold
the Lamb Ministries.
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Again we wanna just
say a great big thank you,
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thank you for your love,
thank you for your prayers,
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support of the
Ministry of Behold the Lamb
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as well as many
other ministries.
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I realize that there are those
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who are out there that
believe in present truth,
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they believe in getting
this message to the world.
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As we say many times
there may be a smaller
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group that is here,
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we have the
opportunity by the grace of God,
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that's a two-hander.
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Hello, that's a two-hander
by the grace of God to go
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around the world.
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So when you say here today,
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just praise God for
that opportunity to lift
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our voices, where we could
not possibly travel or get into.
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Think about it.
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And we're
getting into the prisons
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and getting into the
high rises and the apartments
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where no soliciting,
no knocking on the doors,
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you'll be able to get there
'cause we get those letters.
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And so we praise
God for that privilege
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and an opportunity to do it.
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We don't look at as
oh, this, God is big,
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God is faithful, right?
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God is good all the time.
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We're gonna be
talking about today,
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which I believe will
be of an interest to some,
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others will say I
don't see how it fits,
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but let's give it
some time, as we build.
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We're gonna be talking
about the Labor Unions:
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A Sign of the End!
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Now remember, just
talk about labor unions,
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I have no desire to
talk about just Labor Unions.
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But I have a
desire to talk about them,
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when they relate to things
that are happening in the world,
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when we see them in agitation,
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when we see how they
are controlling the world.
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Are you there?
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They are, they can
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and they are trying
to control the world
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through that which
they are in charge of.
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And if you don't think
so just look, you say well,
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union is not.
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Hey, everything
you go, you look at,
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let's say for
instance, give quick instance
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before we have
prayer, think about if the...
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We talk about the
teamsters or the truckers.
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I need be careful
about that because I call it
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a truck driver.
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And one of my best friends said,
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"Don't you call
me no truck driver."
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He was offended.
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And I said, "Well, why not?"
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I thought that's when you drove
a truck, you're truck driver.
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I don't see
anything wrong with it.
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And he started give
some kind of a name,
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you know how
they change the names
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of everything right now.
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And he's talking about
some kind of a professional
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something the other and
I thought how interesting
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we change the name,
but it's still the same.
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You know, we're
doing that in the world,
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we're changing
the name of things,
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but they're still the same.
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And so we're gonna look at this,
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how these things if
that happened to close down
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just one union with
just the truck drivers,
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for instance, what would that
do to the place where you live?
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What would that
do to this country?
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If all we say the 18
wheelers closed down,
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we would all just
bring it to a halt.
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And that's just
one, then the automakers
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and the teachers union.
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We'll talk about
some of those things
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after we have prayer.
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I'm going to pray right
now and please pray with me.
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Those of you at home,
thank you for praying with me,
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as you say in the cards
and letters when you kneel
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when we're at home, we kneel
with you, thank you for that.
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Let's pray.
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Father in Heaven, again,
we invite Thy Holy Spirit
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and Thy presence,
Lord, we come as somebody,
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just bear we have
nothing with our own to give.
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But through the
power of thy Holy Spirit
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You have everything
to give to Your people.
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You want us to know
the hour in which we live.
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You want us to be
just to come alive
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with these issues that
are going on in the world
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that simply just tell
us of the coming of Jesus.
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Help us to be ready, open
our hearts and our minds now,
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may the things of
earth be laid outside
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and we wanna enjoy heaven's
company in Jesus' name, amen.
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Let's go to our
scripture reading I want to just
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and again, this is
just kind of a foundation,
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as we want to get into
it and found in the Book
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of Jeremiah,
Jeremiah Chapter 26.
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Now remember, this is just
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a basis for what
we're building on here.
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See how it fits
in your life today,
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or how as we've
come to church today.
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Jeremiah 26,
starting with verse 2,
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and then we'll read verses what?
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Four through six.
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Remember these are
powerful words that God
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is challenging us with today
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and you may be
questioned why you came today.
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Why you're here?
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And the Holy Spirit I
know will speak to you.
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Verse 2, Jeremiah 26.
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"Thus saith the Lord," it
starts out good, doesn't it?
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"Stand in the court
of the Lord's house."
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Is it possible we're
standing in the court
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of the Lord's house?
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Is it possible we're standing
in the presence of the power,
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right, of all of heaven?
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Right?
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All of heaven is
viewing this little group
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with a watchful
eye and a caring eye.
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"And they speak unto
all the cities of Judah,
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which come to
worship in the Lord's house."
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So that means everything,
everything's going on here,
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the Lord wants to speak
to us, we're in His house.
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"The words that I
command thee to speak unto them,
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diminish, not a word."
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Not gonna spend a lot
of time on this but notice,
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I like this diminish what?
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Not a word.
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Some people say,
basically diminish,
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keep a little bit quiet.
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Don't bring that up.
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And then if you bring
it up, it's something like,
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you're gonna get
yourself in trouble.
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I've heard before, you've
got your foot in your mouth.
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And my response usually,
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I know where my
foot's at and I know about
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what's gonna
get ready to happen.
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Are you still with me?
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Yeah, because we
cannot take the threats.
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We cannot take
those who are maybe
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trying to get you to be quiet.
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Because do you know what
you're getting ready to get?
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My mother always said,
Be careful, Kenny, you know,
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bite what is your
nose to spite your face.
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Is that don't bite your
nose off to spite your face.
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What is that saying?
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Something like that,
don't bite your nose off.
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We have to be very
careful. But you know what?
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My Bible says don't
diminish a word here,
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give it as God gives it.
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Verse 4, "And thou
shalt say unto them,
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thus saith the
Lord, if thou will not
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hearken to me to walk in my law,
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which I have set before you."
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Very in it to walk in His what?
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Not to do away with
it, don't worry about it.
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He said He wants
us to walk in the law,
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I've set it before you,
you understand it is plain.
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And now I'm asking you by,
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you know, by faith in Me
that you walk in My Word.
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Five, "To hearken the words
of my servants, the prophets."
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What a different world
this would be if we just simply
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hearkened to the
words of God's prophets.
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To those who are preaching
what is truth from the Word
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of God not diminishing anything?
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He said, "Whom I sent
unto you, both rising up early,
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sending them but ye
have not hearkened."
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How sad that must
be that God of heaven
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looks down to poor
man, the dust of the earth,
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none good, no, not one.
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And He said, I'm telling you
all these things that will help
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you and you just won't listen.
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I send them
early, I send them late.
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I send you
warning after warning.
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And my prophets you're killing,
you're throwing them out.
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You don't want them around.
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You don't want to
hear what is truth.
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I want you to
listen, notice what he says.
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Then I will make
if you won't listen,
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I will make your
house like Shiloh,
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I will make the
city a curse to all
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the nations of the earth.
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And we realize
that diminished, right,
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destruct and just
completely wiped out.
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We must realize this week,
a lot of things are happening.
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A lot of things, we
know for the year and half,
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but just this week,
some of the little news
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clips that you
have, that tells us
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some of the things that
we've talked about a year,
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a year and a half
ago that people said
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you need to be quiet on,
don't mention those things
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because you know, they
probably won't come to pass,
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they have come to
pass, not because it's...
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Because the Holy
Spirit impresses, right?
00:14:16.12\00:14:19.15
And looking at Bible prophecy,
you can put them together
00:14:19.19\00:14:21.32
and you can see it.
00:14:21.36\00:14:22.96
When you have things like
00:14:22.99\00:14:24.36
ways to communicate
this message to the world.
00:14:24.39\00:14:27.73
We say like Twitter.
00:14:27.76\00:14:29.16
You know, Twitter
is looking at some
00:14:29.20\00:14:31.03
people that are taking them off
00:14:31.07\00:14:32.40
and things that they
say they don't want to hear
00:14:32.43\00:14:34.54
because it's not
popular but yet Twitter allows
00:14:34.57\00:14:36.91
the Taliban to put up
00:14:36.94\00:14:38.37
some of their
tweets or their messages.
00:14:38.41\00:14:40.24
If you're looking for justice,
00:14:43.28\00:14:44.68
don't look for it in this world.
00:14:44.71\00:14:46.88
It's not going to happen
only in the world to come.
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Of all these
families was mentioned here
00:14:50.65\00:14:52.12
and we've been praying for
the families in Afghanistan.
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I mean, they need to
come out, the US families.
00:14:54.59\00:14:58.86
They're those who, you know,
00:14:58.89\00:15:00.23
and they're pleading
for their life right now,
00:15:00.26\00:15:02.10
they're pleading for help.
00:15:02.13\00:15:04.17
We need to be praying for them.
00:15:04.20\00:15:05.53
And also we look at here,
we talked about we thought,
00:15:05.57\00:15:07.77
well, the COVID thing
and all this, you know,
00:15:07.80\00:15:10.01
you have to have a
vaccine passport and all that.
00:15:10.04\00:15:12.27
People said, oh,
don't even mention that,
00:15:12.31\00:15:14.44
because that's
not going to happen.
00:15:14.48\00:15:15.98
It's happening. It's happening.
00:15:16.01\00:15:18.68
We need to
listen, nothing's too far
00:15:18.71\00:15:21.35
out for the devil right now.
00:15:21.38\00:15:23.82
Nothing's too far
out, at least think, right?
00:15:23.85\00:15:27.52
At least think is this possible?
00:15:27.56\00:15:29.22
Well, you say, well,
you know that the Raiders,
00:15:29.26\00:15:32.39
the football team.
00:15:32.43\00:15:34.20
You heard that this week?
00:15:34.23\00:15:36.20
They're gonna require all people
00:15:36.23\00:15:37.93
who attend the Raiders
games, outdoors, right?
00:15:37.97\00:15:41.20
Notice this.
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They have to be vaccinated
before they can watch the game.
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Interesting, is it?
00:15:48.61\00:15:49.94
Remember, this is
kind of a study type
00:15:49.98\00:15:51.65
thing but you watch
it as it this mingles
00:15:51.68\00:15:53.98
and grows into others.
00:15:54.02\00:15:57.59
You know hate
it, you hate to see
00:15:57.62\00:15:58.95
the things that are
going on the tens thousands
00:15:58.99\00:16:00.82
of people lost their homes
00:16:00.86\00:16:02.19
and several
thousand their lives,
00:16:02.22\00:16:04.33
you know, and some of
the things, earthquakes
00:16:04.36\00:16:06.53
because they
said in the last days,
00:16:06.56\00:16:07.90
we'll see these things, right?
00:16:07.93\00:16:09.33
There'll be growing,
00:16:09.36\00:16:10.70
there'll be one right on
the heels of the other end
00:16:10.73\00:16:12.97
the loss of life and homes,
00:16:13.00\00:16:14.40
and we need to be
praying for this people.
00:16:14.44\00:16:16.44
And here in Southern Illinois
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and we know this for a
fact because our daughter
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works at this
hospital in Carbondale,
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they're gonna be required
00:16:24.75\00:16:26.08
all to be vaccinated.
00:16:26.11\00:16:30.82
Yeah, to be vaccinated,
00:16:30.85\00:16:34.72
if they're not,
they're gonna lose their job.
00:16:34.76\00:16:38.09
Here, this Carbondale Hospital,
00:16:38.13\00:16:40.90
you're going to be vaccinated
or you don't work here.
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See, we thought what?
00:16:44.70\00:16:46.03
Six months ago, a
year ago, that's not gonna
00:16:46.07\00:16:47.57
happen in this country.
00:16:47.60\00:16:48.94
Who's fooling who here? Right?
00:16:48.97\00:16:51.87
We knew it's gonna
happen because this is signs
00:16:51.91\00:16:53.68
of the time and that enemy
always uses force, doesn't he?
00:16:53.71\00:16:58.08
To try to make you do
what he wants you to do
00:16:58.11\00:17:00.58
and most time if we are
challenged with our job,
00:17:00.62\00:17:04.29
we will take the job over right.
00:17:04.32\00:17:08.42
You have to decide for yourself,
00:17:08.46\00:17:09.79
I'm going to decide for myself.
00:17:09.82\00:17:11.16
I saw, I think
it's the weather channel
00:17:14.60\00:17:16.87
or whatever it was it
so, it's a sponsored content
00:17:16.90\00:17:21.40
of the message you
can find on weather.com
00:17:21.44\00:17:24.47
They're already making
little things that you can
00:17:24.51\00:17:26.84
wear like
wristband, one with blue
00:17:26.88\00:17:29.11
wristband on there
that says something like,
00:17:29.14\00:17:32.21
I show by wearing
this I've taken my vaccine.
00:17:32.25\00:17:35.85
I'm thinking rather
I'm taking it, you know?
00:17:35.88\00:17:37.72
Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:37.75\00:17:42.32
New York this week,
00:17:42.36\00:17:43.69
we realize there's
required proof of vaccination
00:17:43.73\00:17:46.63
before entering restaurants,
before entering any kind
00:17:46.66\00:17:50.53
of fitness center.
00:17:50.57\00:17:52.93
Before you can go to any kind
00:17:52.97\00:17:54.30
of entertainment
now you have to show
00:17:54.34\00:17:56.40
proof that
you've been vaccinated.
00:17:56.44\00:18:01.24
August the 4th, 2021,
00:18:01.28\00:18:04.25
Mayor Bill de Blasio said this.
00:18:04.28\00:18:07.25
He said you get your
shot is going to be the key,
00:18:07.28\00:18:10.75
basically to
motivate around New York City.
00:18:10.79\00:18:13.36
That's going to be
the key, you notice that,
00:18:13.39\00:18:15.46
he called it the pass.
00:18:15.49\00:18:17.69
He says what's
so wrong with that,
00:18:17.73\00:18:19.06
that's similar to what
France has already done
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and what Italy has already done.
00:18:21.40\00:18:24.60
Isn't that interesting
words that we talk about France
00:18:24.63\00:18:26.67
and Italy.
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You know what's
in Italy, don't you?
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Setting the stage.
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According to New York,
00:18:33.41\00:18:35.74
CBS, that's a local
channel local.com says this,
00:18:35.78\00:18:40.05
New York City
Council Health Committee,
00:18:40.08\00:18:42.78
Chairman Mark Levine said this,
00:18:42.82\00:18:45.85
this will help
people to get vaccinated.
00:18:45.89\00:18:49.22
Other words what?
00:18:49.26\00:18:50.59
You're gonna have to have pass,
we're gonna require that you
00:18:50.63\00:18:52.53
have before you can go
here, before you can do any
00:18:52.56\00:18:54.83
of these things here.
00:18:54.86\00:18:56.20
This is gonna help, basically
force them to be vaccinated.
00:18:56.23\00:18:59.93
Another man said this, oh, man,
basically what's the big deal?
00:18:59.97\00:19:03.10
It's very simple, he
said, I carry my wallet with me.
00:19:03.14\00:19:07.74
You know, and when I go anyplace
00:19:07.78\00:19:09.11
all I have to do
is pull out my wallet
00:19:09.14\00:19:11.81
and show them, notice
this, and show them my card.
00:19:11.85\00:19:16.99
What do you
think they're planning
00:19:17.02\00:19:18.35
and they're doing
already and show them the card
00:19:18.39\00:19:20.02
and you can just
go where you want,
00:19:20.06\00:19:21.52
do what you want.
00:19:21.56\00:19:22.89
And then others are saying,
well, you may be vaccinated
00:19:22.92\00:19:24.66
but you still
have to wear your mask
00:19:24.69\00:19:26.03
and some saying wear the double
mask and it goes on and on.
00:19:26.06\00:19:28.66
New York starting in September,
00:19:31.83\00:19:33.84
I'm just saying this
is where things start,
00:19:33.87\00:19:35.37
and it begins to
trickle and becomes to us,
00:19:35.40\00:19:37.61
and it'll become very
quickly here by September 13
00:19:37.64\00:19:40.48
that's not too long off, right?
00:19:40.51\00:19:42.31
September 13 right here
and you're gonna require
00:19:42.34\00:19:44.65
all municipal workers.
00:19:44.68\00:19:46.51
All that works for New York City
00:19:46.55\00:19:47.88
knows this to be vaccinated
by September 13 or face
00:19:47.92\00:19:52.95
a weekly testing for COVID.
00:19:52.99\00:19:56.22
The all new employees,
if you're new employees,
00:19:56.26\00:19:59.23
you have to give
proof of your vaccination.
00:19:59.26\00:20:01.66
In other words, they're
not gonna hire anybody or you
00:20:01.70\00:20:03.23
may be hired now.
00:20:03.26\00:20:04.60
But if you don't take
it, and then we're gonna,
00:20:04.63\00:20:05.97
every week, we're gonna
call you into the office,
00:20:06.00\00:20:08.04
every week, we're
gonna make you pay a price,
00:20:08.07\00:20:10.34
you're gonna have to
be tested every week.
00:20:10.37\00:20:12.07
In other words,
we're gonna make it so,
00:20:12.11\00:20:13.54
can I say this so miserable,
00:20:13.58\00:20:15.48
so aggravating
that you're gonna say,
00:20:15.51\00:20:16.85
just give me the shot
and get it over with it.
00:20:16.88\00:20:20.48
Beware, my brothers and sisters,
00:20:20.52\00:20:21.92
this is just
forced to be thinking.
00:20:21.95\00:20:25.42
There's more, I
wished it was over,
00:20:25.45\00:20:27.22
it seemed like
it was winding down.
00:20:27.26\00:20:29.72
But then we get into the
delta and different ones,
00:20:29.76\00:20:31.73
you know, from the
COVID-19, and delta,
00:20:31.76\00:20:33.46
and we're looking at a
third strain that's coming out
00:20:33.50\00:20:35.46
and they're saying this
is gonna be the most deadly.
00:20:35.50\00:20:39.43
Coming January, February, March,
00:20:39.47\00:20:42.30
somewhere around in there,
00:20:42.34\00:20:43.67
some of those who have
predicted what would happen
00:20:43.71\00:20:46.47
a year or so ago,
00:20:46.51\00:20:47.84
when people were laughing
at him are saying right now,
00:20:47.88\00:20:49.34
beware, because this
is a strain that's even
00:20:49.38\00:20:51.61
more deadly, that
affects the immune system,
00:20:51.65\00:20:54.92
just like the others
do, to where you have
00:20:54.95\00:20:57.35
nothing to fight
off these things.
00:20:57.39\00:20:59.52
That's why what my
wife was talking about
00:20:59.55\00:21:01.06
stuff that's going on here,
00:21:01.09\00:21:02.42
you need to be interested
in for you and for your family.
00:21:02.46\00:21:04.93
And I do too, and I
am interested in it.
00:21:04.96\00:21:08.46
Because there are
things that God has in nature
00:21:08.50\00:21:10.67
that will help us,
00:21:10.70\00:21:12.60
things He has natural
things that will help us gain
00:21:12.63\00:21:15.67
what we need here in this world.
00:21:15.70\00:21:18.41
So January, February, March
00:21:18.44\00:21:22.81
could be a new
strain they're saying,
00:21:22.84\00:21:25.41
we don't know that.
00:21:25.45\00:21:26.78
But they said there could be,
00:21:26.82\00:21:28.15
we need to be a
well aware of that.
00:21:28.18\00:21:31.42
Why we need to, the Bible
said we read don't diminish
00:21:31.45\00:21:35.56
a word of it.
00:21:35.59\00:21:37.33
Other words, lay
it out there. Why?
00:21:37.36\00:21:38.76
Because we want
this stuff to be over.
00:21:38.79\00:21:41.20
We want to be
like it used to be.
00:21:41.23\00:21:43.60
But I've said
many times up front,
00:21:43.63\00:21:45.37
don't ever think
at least in my mind
00:21:45.40\00:21:47.60
don't ever think that
we're going to go back
00:21:47.64\00:21:49.37
the way it used to be
a year or two years ago,
00:21:49.40\00:21:51.31
it will not.
00:21:51.34\00:21:52.67
Again, my brother always
said the proofs in the pudding.
00:21:52.71\00:21:56.68
Proofs in the pudding,
what we're talking about here,
00:21:56.71\00:21:58.55
is look at how many changes
have taken place in the last
00:21:58.58\00:22:00.45
several years.
00:22:00.48\00:22:01.82
And have we ever
went back and regain?
00:22:01.85\00:22:03.18
No, we never.
00:22:03.22\00:22:04.99
It's just more restrictions
and more laws and more rules.
00:22:05.02\00:22:08.26
And that's where it's gonna
be because the devil is gonna
00:22:08.29\00:22:10.69
tighten the noose
around God's last day people.
00:22:10.73\00:22:13.90
He's tightened it right now.
00:22:13.93\00:22:15.33
And for those who are not,
to me, spending time realizing
00:22:15.36\00:22:18.30
what the enemy's doing,
00:22:18.33\00:22:19.67
we need to get
back to the Word of God.
00:22:19.70\00:22:22.24
In the beginning, God
said you remember in Genesis
00:22:22.27\00:22:25.21
1:28-29, kind of
paraphrasing a little bit.
00:22:25.24\00:22:29.74
It said the man was made
and he was to have dominion,
00:22:29.78\00:22:33.42
you remember, over
everything of the earth,
00:22:33.45\00:22:35.72
and then what was in the
sea and the land and everything,
00:22:35.75\00:22:37.79
he was had dominion over
00:22:37.82\00:22:39.49
everything that
moveth on the earth,
00:22:39.52\00:22:41.82
and the fruit of every
tree, seed yielding tree,
00:22:41.86\00:22:46.39
every herb.
00:22:46.43\00:22:48.40
Verse 31 simply
says, and it was good.
00:22:48.43\00:22:51.33
It was good because
God made it because God's
00:22:51.37\00:22:54.50
set it up that way.
00:22:54.54\00:22:55.87
But just keep that in
mind as we go that He said,
00:22:55.90\00:22:58.24
man's gonna have
dominion over everything.
00:22:58.27\00:23:01.61
God seen fit to put it that way.
00:23:01.64\00:23:04.91
But what has man
done with these things?
00:23:04.95\00:23:07.65
What is he
doing with them today?
00:23:07.68\00:23:10.25
Of course, after sin came in,
the Bible said because of sin,
00:23:10.29\00:23:15.36
Eve would have to bring forth
children, you remember that.
00:23:15.39\00:23:20.03
And then he said, and
man would have to work
00:23:20.06\00:23:22.40
six days by the
sweat of his brow.
00:23:22.43\00:23:25.37
Interesting that woman
would have to travail in pain.
00:23:25.40\00:23:29.17
And man would have to work
for six days in order to eat.
00:23:29.20\00:23:34.44
When everything was provided
00:23:34.48\00:23:36.08
and when I say free
that God gave them before sin
00:23:36.11\00:23:38.61
and before they
decide to do their own thing.
00:23:38.65\00:23:41.82
Adam wouldn't have to work.
00:23:41.85\00:23:44.82
You notice what they would,
00:23:44.85\00:23:47.16
this would occupy
most of their time.
00:23:47.19\00:23:51.19
Interesting.
00:23:51.23\00:23:52.56
Before sin, you know, right,
00:23:52.59\00:23:53.96
God was having
them in the garden,
00:23:54.00\00:23:55.33
He spent time with them.
00:23:55.36\00:23:56.70
And then they could
praise God and see all
00:23:56.73\00:23:58.07
the creative things.
00:23:58.10\00:23:59.43
But after sin came, God
said, they need to be busy.
00:23:59.47\00:24:03.14
Now this all plays into part
so you need to keep your mind
00:24:03.17\00:24:05.47
and hearts open right now.
00:24:05.51\00:24:06.84
This plays a part
in what and I'm gonna
00:24:06.88\00:24:08.71
mention again, in just a
moment of the dumbing down
00:24:08.74\00:24:11.28
of America.
00:24:11.31\00:24:14.75
And the closing down
of schools by unions.
00:24:14.78\00:24:18.05
Not to have to learn
or not have to be worried
00:24:22.22\00:24:25.49
about working.
00:24:25.53\00:24:29.20
God said it, where
work would be a blessing,
00:24:29.23\00:24:31.00
it would keep
them out of trouble
00:24:31.03\00:24:32.67
as it keeps us
out of trouble today.
00:24:32.70\00:24:35.07
Isn't that right?
00:24:35.10\00:24:36.44
If we're busy, it kind
of keeps us out of trouble.
00:24:36.47\00:24:39.87
Ministry of Healing, a
book that I thoroughly love
00:24:39.91\00:24:42.34
and I've read it many
times and insist, it's good,
00:24:42.38\00:24:44.78
page 177 says notice,
00:24:44.81\00:24:46.82
"Encourage every
effort toward self-support."
00:24:46.85\00:24:50.15
Come on somebody.
00:24:50.19\00:24:51.75
"This will
strengthen self-respect
00:24:51.79\00:24:53.76
and a noble independence.
00:24:53.79\00:24:56.02
And occupation of mind and body,
00:24:56.06\00:24:58.19
notice this, occupation of
mind and body is useful work,
00:24:58.23\00:25:02.53
and essentially and a
safeguard against temptation."
00:25:02.56\00:25:06.94
Now, why are we
saying God gave us what?
00:25:06.97\00:25:09.64
Work to do, isn't that right?
00:25:09.67\00:25:11.11
Something that will keep us
00:25:11.14\00:25:12.47
busy because it
would be a safeguard
00:25:12.51\00:25:15.14
against temptation.
00:25:15.18\00:25:17.51
Do you find
that? Oh, absolutely.
00:25:17.55\00:25:19.38
We find it in the world today.
00:25:19.41\00:25:21.08
Interesting.
00:25:21.12\00:25:22.45
2 Thessalonians 3:10,
00:25:22.48\00:25:23.82
we'll talk more about
that in just a moment.
00:25:23.85\00:25:26.02
Notice what the Bible
says, 2 Thessalonians 3:10.
00:25:26.05\00:25:28.89
"For even when we were with you,
00:25:28.92\00:25:31.19
this was commanded to you
that if any would not work,
00:25:31.23\00:25:35.30
neither should eat."
00:25:35.33\00:25:36.67
If you're capable of working
00:25:36.70\00:25:38.03
and you don't
work, you shouldn't eat.
00:25:38.07\00:25:40.14
Now we realize there's
some who worked all their life
00:25:40.17\00:25:41.87
and they're retired, blah-blah.
00:25:41.90\00:25:43.24
We're talking
about the lazy one.
00:25:43.27\00:25:45.67
Can I say that?
00:25:45.71\00:25:47.51
Now, the lazy one, big healthy,
00:25:47.54\00:25:50.85
strapping man who wants
to set home on his backside.
00:25:50.88\00:25:55.45
Should I leave it at that?
00:25:55.48\00:25:57.22
And do nothing,
00:25:57.25\00:25:59.29
and what he wants
you to do is go to work
00:25:59.32\00:26:00.92
so he can stay home.
00:26:00.96\00:26:03.06
Okay, I need to
get out of my system.
00:26:03.09\00:26:04.49
I'll keep going.
00:26:04.53\00:26:05.86
It's true.
00:26:08.76\00:26:10.67
And the Bible
said if he's capable,
00:26:10.70\00:26:12.93
and he should, you
know, physically able,
00:26:12.97\00:26:14.74
mentally able to do
it, he should do it.
00:26:14.77\00:26:16.20
If he don't, he
don't need to eat.
00:26:16.24\00:26:17.77
You take a man and you
take food away from person,
00:26:17.81\00:26:19.74
he's gonna want if he's
able, he's gonna want to work.
00:26:19.77\00:26:22.68
Isn't that true?
Get a little bit hungry.
00:26:22.71\00:26:24.55
You'll say, what
is that I can do?
00:26:24.58\00:26:26.05
You're not too
good to do anything.
00:26:29.48\00:26:31.69
Get out there in the sewer.
00:26:31.72\00:26:33.46
Okay.
00:26:33.49\00:26:34.86
You can get to eat.
00:26:34.89\00:26:37.03
It's been said and
you've heard it many times
00:26:37.06\00:26:39.29
and my dad's kinda...
00:26:39.33\00:26:41.13
We grew up hearing
these kind of things that idle
00:26:41.16\00:26:44.10
hands are the devil's workshop.
00:26:44.13\00:26:46.97
That right? Idle hands.
00:26:47.00\00:26:48.34
Now this is all a point.
00:26:48.37\00:26:49.70
So get it here, what's
happening in the world today.
00:26:49.74\00:26:52.07
The devil wants idle
hands in society today
00:26:52.11\00:26:55.94
where he can
work you and me over.
00:26:55.98\00:26:58.91
And that's what some
of these people doing.
00:26:58.95\00:27:00.38
How can you
go... I'll be careful.
00:27:00.42\00:27:02.95
How can some people just wanna
go on protest for two, three,
00:27:02.98\00:27:05.92
four, five, six
months, never go home?
00:27:05.95\00:27:08.46
Well, where's their home?
00:27:08.49\00:27:09.82
Who's taking care of their home?
00:27:09.86\00:27:11.19
Who's mowing the grass for them?
00:27:11.23\00:27:12.56
I can't go any place for a week,
00:27:12.59\00:27:13.93
two weeks doesn't
by mowing the grass,
00:27:13.96\00:27:15.56
taking care of
the dogs and the cats
00:27:15.60\00:27:18.57
and the chickens if you have
whatever, you know what I mean?
00:27:18.60\00:27:22.00
It makes it, you see
what I'm talking about here.
00:27:22.04\00:27:24.34
But some people
could be gone for months
00:27:24.37\00:27:26.34
and who's making
their house payment?
00:27:26.37\00:27:29.31
Okay, it's none of
my business. All right.
00:27:29.34\00:27:31.65
But you see what I'm saying?
00:27:31.68\00:27:33.15
The devil's turn,
he's got a plan here.
00:27:33.18\00:27:36.15
Idle hands are
the devil's workshop
00:27:36.18\00:27:38.05
and that word translated.
00:27:38.09\00:27:39.75
It's his play thing.
00:27:39.79\00:27:42.32
It's his tools.
00:27:42.36\00:27:44.26
You ever says to see
the tools in the toolbox.
00:27:44.29\00:27:48.33
The devil finds
work for idle hands.
00:27:48.36\00:27:53.37
The devil what?
00:27:53.40\00:27:54.74
Finds work for idle hands
00:27:54.77\00:27:58.71
and you know that too,
because you got idle time,
00:27:58.74\00:28:00.68
you're sitting by
doing nothing, as you know.
00:28:00.71\00:28:02.34
And again, we're talking
about people's able and aged
00:28:02.38\00:28:04.25
and some can do whatever here.
00:28:04.28\00:28:05.81
All of a sudden, he's putting
things in your mind that you
00:28:05.85\00:28:08.68
could be doing.
00:28:08.72\00:28:10.09
Well, one man said
00:28:10.12\00:28:14.02
one time nothing
good comes from boredom.
00:28:14.06\00:28:18.29
Nothing good comes from what?
00:28:18.33\00:28:20.50
From boredom.
00:28:20.53\00:28:24.20
What another man said
engage in some occupation
00:28:24.23\00:28:27.44
so that the devil
may find you busy.
00:28:27.47\00:28:31.64
Engage in occupation
when the devil comes,
00:28:31.67\00:28:33.94
he finds you busy.
00:28:33.98\00:28:36.75
Lazy mind is the devil's house.
00:28:36.78\00:28:42.58
The mind that is lazy or idle
00:28:42.62\00:28:46.99
always thinks
negatively about everything.
00:28:47.02\00:28:50.59
Right?
00:28:50.63\00:28:51.96
The devil comes in and
says, now this is not good,
00:28:51.99\00:28:53.90
oh, it's not good, blah-blah.
00:28:53.93\00:28:55.36
I always say people comes in,
well, I'll tell you I'm bored.
00:28:55.40\00:28:57.20
I'd say get busy,
find something to do.
00:28:57.23\00:29:00.27
You know what I'm talking about?
00:29:00.30\00:29:02.60
I get maybe the points
made on that, you got that?
00:29:02.64\00:29:06.94
Maybe that's
just why this country
00:29:06.98\00:29:10.55
is paying people to stay home.
00:29:10.58\00:29:13.82
Did they or did they not?
00:29:13.85\00:29:15.38
Absolutely still
going to that point
00:29:15.42\00:29:17.35
and maybe renew
it, maybe they won't.
00:29:17.39\00:29:18.75
But they've done that, we
realize 40% of the working
00:29:18.79\00:29:24.63
population stay home,
00:29:24.66\00:29:27.26
40% paid to stay
home and not go to work.
00:29:27.30\00:29:30.50
They make more to stay home.
00:29:30.53\00:29:33.97
That's according
to CNBC in May 9, 2021
00:29:34.00\00:29:38.44
when that talked about
the bill that 2.2 trillion,
00:29:38.47\00:29:42.41
you know, economic
relief bill was passed.
00:29:42.44\00:29:45.38
It's kind of a
temptation, right?
00:29:45.41\00:29:47.25
That's kind of hard to pass up.
00:29:47.28\00:29:49.15
When you say I could
stay home in an air condition.
00:29:49.18\00:29:52.45
I could make 500 or
$600, I only make 300 a week.
00:29:52.49\00:29:55.32
Now I can make
600 by staying home.
00:29:55.36\00:29:57.23
We have to be careful that
we don't support those who don't
00:30:03.10\00:30:06.67
want to work.
00:30:06.70\00:30:08.04
I'm just saying,
we're seeing things backward
00:30:08.07\00:30:09.87
here in this country,
there's a reason for it.
00:30:09.90\00:30:12.74
Let me read something to you
from this, Manuscript 93,1899
00:30:12.77\00:30:16.34
reads this way.
00:30:16.38\00:30:18.11
"The custom of supporting men
00:30:18.15\00:30:19.48
and women in idleness
by private gifts or church
00:30:19.51\00:30:22.98
money encourages
them in a sinful habit.
00:30:23.02\00:30:27.46
This course should be
conscientiously avoided.
00:30:27.49\00:30:30.43
Every man, woman, child
should be educated to practical,
00:30:30.46\00:30:33.93
useful work.
00:30:33.96\00:30:35.76
All should learn some
trade." Does that make sense?
00:30:35.80\00:30:38.47
All should learn what?
00:30:38.50\00:30:39.93
All should learn some,
all should learn some trade.
00:30:39.97\00:30:42.97
It's very important
that we learn a trade.
00:30:43.00\00:30:47.64
We have young men growing up
today that they're 10, 12, 14
00:30:47.68\00:30:50.85
years old, they can't mow lawn.
00:30:50.88\00:30:53.52
And I always heard,
right, that growing up there,
00:30:56.89\00:30:58.59
they had the girls in the house,
00:30:58.62\00:31:00.06
mama taught them
to cook and to sew.
00:31:00.09\00:31:03.02
And to make like myself,
00:31:03.06\00:31:05.46
my mother made our
shirts and things for us.
00:31:05.49\00:31:07.60
Now, one of the
collars may be this long
00:31:07.63\00:31:09.66
and the other one up
here, but we had a shirt.
00:31:09.70\00:31:14.40
And truthfully it
was several times.
00:31:14.44\00:31:16.37
Hey, because you know what?
00:31:20.88\00:31:22.21
I found out that no
one else could turn out
00:31:22.24\00:31:23.88
a shirt from the beginning
to the end in 15 minutes
00:31:23.91\00:31:26.15
but my mother.
00:31:26.18\00:31:27.95
That's right. That's right.
00:31:27.98\00:31:29.42
And she didn't need a pattern.
00:31:29.45\00:31:32.05
Because she was, she would fast.
00:31:32.09\00:31:35.62
Say mom, we gotta collar like...
00:31:35.66\00:31:38.23
It doesn't matter, nobody
gonna worry about your collar.
00:31:38.26\00:31:40.60
I'm worried about my collar.
00:31:40.63\00:31:43.33
Of course the kids at
school found out they're worried
00:31:43.37\00:31:45.37
about it too.
00:31:45.40\00:31:48.74
You know what I'm
talking about here.
00:31:48.77\00:31:52.54
But they were taught
as she was ladies cook
00:31:52.57\00:31:57.15
and they sew and you pass
that on to the little ones
00:31:57.18\00:31:59.88
as they grow up, and the boys,
00:31:59.91\00:32:01.25
the men teach them
as to work is good.
00:32:01.28\00:32:03.79
We need to learn to work.
00:32:03.82\00:32:05.45
And now the world is
saying, the enemy is saying,
00:32:05.49\00:32:07.62
you don't need to.
00:32:07.66\00:32:09.36
You do better
by staying at home.
00:32:09.39\00:32:13.93
Proverbs 31:27, we
are not to eat the bread
00:32:13.96\00:32:17.87
of idleness.
00:32:17.90\00:32:19.80
We are not to eat
the bread of what?
00:32:19.83\00:32:21.67
Of idleness.
00:32:21.70\00:32:23.74
Another one, it's
somewhere in Ecclesiastes 10:18,
00:32:23.77\00:32:26.11
it talks about,
through idleness,
00:32:26.14\00:32:29.04
notice this, the
hands of the house or the,
00:32:29.08\00:32:32.21
you know, it deteriorated
or it fell or it fell down.
00:32:32.25\00:32:36.08
Because we were too lazy to fix
00:32:36.12\00:32:37.79
the things that need
to be fixed in the home,
00:32:37.82\00:32:39.59
the house fell.
00:32:39.62\00:32:42.69
Hmm.
00:32:42.72\00:32:44.96
Nowadays it's just live
in it too long as you can.
00:32:44.99\00:32:47.13
And when it falls
down, we go get some
00:32:47.16\00:32:48.50
other place to tear up.
00:32:48.53\00:32:50.60
Okay.
00:32:50.63\00:32:52.90
There's present day changes
that are taking place indicate
00:32:52.93\00:32:55.80
the stage is
being set right now.
00:32:55.84\00:33:00.48
Just as the prophets
told us at the end of time.
00:33:00.51\00:33:04.41
Keep this in mind,
every sermon, everything
00:33:04.45\00:33:06.38
you read at the end of time.
00:33:06.41\00:33:10.55
And about how the
nations would be deceived.
00:33:10.59\00:33:14.29
As they continue
and we've been here
00:33:14.32\00:33:16.26
seeking to escape
socialism and communism
00:33:16.29\00:33:19.33
here in this country.
00:33:19.36\00:33:21.16
Have we not?
00:33:21.20\00:33:22.66
Is it true, we're seeking
try to get away from that.
00:33:22.70\00:33:25.37
And devil says, I know
what they're trying to do,
00:33:25.40\00:33:27.34
I'll have something else
and they'll be totally unaware
00:33:27.37\00:33:29.57
of what's going to happen.
00:33:29.60\00:33:32.14
They find themselves,
00:33:32.17\00:33:33.51
sometime we do are still finding
00:33:33.54\00:33:34.88
and falling into another web
00:33:34.91\00:33:37.58
of deceit from the
enemy that he's created.
00:33:37.61\00:33:40.78
So what part
has the dumbing down
00:33:40.82\00:33:42.95
of America
played in all of this?
00:33:42.98\00:33:46.59
Maybe even think hard
with me the unions of today.
00:33:46.62\00:33:51.69
The lack of work by choice.
00:33:51.73\00:33:56.97
Companies cannot open
because they have no workers.
00:33:57.00\00:34:00.00
They're looking for workers.
00:34:03.20\00:34:05.94
I mean, when has this
ever been, you think about it.
00:34:05.97\00:34:07.71
You know, before all
this mess, everybody was,
00:34:07.74\00:34:10.25
you know, we need
more jobs, need more jobs,
00:34:10.28\00:34:12.25
more jobs, now 19
million jobs and you can't find
00:34:12.28\00:34:14.68
the workers because they're
paying them to stay home.
00:34:14.72\00:34:16.89
I found this in Fundamentals
of Education, page 323.
00:34:20.16\00:34:24.09
It said, "The hope of advancing
00:34:24.13\00:34:25.59
the cause of God
in this country."
00:34:25.63\00:34:27.73
The hope of
what? Yeah, advancing.
00:34:27.76\00:34:30.90
Do we want to advance the
cause of God in this country?
00:34:30.93\00:34:32.93
Absolutely.
00:34:32.97\00:34:34.30
"Is in creating a new moral
00:34:34.34\00:34:37.54
taste in love of work."
00:34:37.57\00:34:41.44
Now, how does that fit?
00:34:41.48\00:34:43.11
Notice, "Which will transform
00:34:43.14\00:34:46.75
the mind and character."
00:34:46.78\00:34:49.32
What does work do?
00:34:49.35\00:34:50.82
It's supposed to, God
gave it to us to transform
00:34:50.85\00:34:53.96
the mind and the
character, and the devil says,
00:34:53.99\00:34:56.69
put them out of work.
00:34:56.73\00:34:58.06
Therefore their
mind won't be transformed
00:34:58.09\00:35:00.16
or will not be
changed into my image.
00:35:00.20\00:35:03.63
And so he's
working against scripture
00:35:03.67\00:35:05.70
which he will always do.
00:35:05.73\00:35:08.60
This makes a lot of
sense when you think about it.
00:35:08.64\00:35:11.14
I mean, Romans 12:2 says that.
00:35:11.17\00:35:13.27
Remember, it says, "And
be not conformed into," what?
00:35:13.31\00:35:16.85
"This world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing
00:35:16.88\00:35:20.25
of your," what?
00:35:20.28\00:35:21.82
"Of your mind, that
ye may," notice this,
00:35:21.85\00:35:24.29
"prove that which is good,
and that which is acceptable,
00:35:24.32\00:35:27.82
and the perfect will of God."
00:35:27.86\00:35:31.09
I want you to help me,
00:35:31.13\00:35:32.46
it was really
putting that to the test
00:35:32.49\00:35:33.83
every day of our life.
00:35:33.86\00:35:35.20
Be not conformed to this world,
00:35:35.23\00:35:36.87
if the world is
doing it, don't do it.
00:35:36.90\00:35:40.44
Is that okay?
00:35:40.47\00:35:43.04
Think about if the
world's doing it, don't do it.
00:35:43.07\00:35:47.71
Remember, I've said
it many times before
00:35:47.74\00:35:49.08
when I wanted to go to
Teen Town in high school.
00:35:49.11\00:35:51.51
That's where they danced.
00:35:51.55\00:35:53.42
Well, I'm 16 year old, got my
own car, I'd never been to one.
00:35:53.45\00:35:57.62
Right, like I'm a junior
in high school at that time.
00:35:57.65\00:35:59.85
And my brother
Ronnie is a sophomore.
00:35:59.89\00:36:01.72
Remember this?
00:36:01.76\00:36:03.09
He said, we're gonna go.
00:36:03.12\00:36:05.69
He said, "Man, you better not,
dad will beat you to death."
00:36:05.73\00:36:08.73
None of you ever
heard that kind of stuff?
00:36:08.76\00:36:11.70
Well, you know what?
00:36:11.73\00:36:13.07
To me right there in
that time being that young.
00:36:13.10\00:36:14.44
I said it's worth it.
00:36:14.47\00:36:15.80
Let him go ahead and
beat and that's why I was in,
00:36:15.84\00:36:17.17
let him go ahead and beat
me to death, I don't care.
00:36:17.21\00:36:19.84
I said, well, we got
to keep it quiet now.
00:36:19.87\00:36:21.44
We gonna keep it quiet.
00:36:21.48\00:36:22.81
I said tonight, man,
we're going, I'm gonna see
00:36:22.84\00:36:25.05
what they're doing
in that little building
00:36:25.08\00:36:26.92
called Teen Town,
00:36:26.95\00:36:28.72
where music's
coming out the windows.
00:36:28.75\00:36:31.32
Well, I had pretty good
idea. But I'm going to go hosts.
00:36:31.35\00:36:33.99
So we went, we snuck out.
00:36:34.02\00:36:37.49
We might even,
00:36:37.53\00:36:39.76
you know,
fabricated a little bit.
00:36:39.79\00:36:41.13
I'm not sure about
where we were going.
00:36:41.16\00:36:44.30
Well.
00:36:44.33\00:36:46.67
We thought it wise not
to tell where we were going.
00:36:46.70\00:36:51.07
And we went ahead and made sure
00:36:51.11\00:36:52.44
we went there because
that way wasn't a lie.
00:36:52.47\00:36:54.34
Okay, you got it.
00:36:54.38\00:36:55.91
There's ways of
getting around things, right?
00:36:55.94\00:36:57.48
So we did.
00:36:57.51\00:36:58.88
And so we went.
00:36:58.91\00:37:01.12
And me and my
brother we're gonna,
00:37:01.15\00:37:03.39
we kind of snuck in
the door a little bit here.
00:37:03.42\00:37:05.09
Like, it's like,
we didn't belong,
00:37:05.12\00:37:06.45
and we knew we
weren't supposed to go.
00:37:06.49\00:37:08.52
And that's as long as
you live in this house,
00:37:08.56\00:37:09.89
you're not going
to go those places.
00:37:09.92\00:37:11.26
And we said,
well, we'll show him.
00:37:11.29\00:37:12.63
So we kind of went in,
00:37:16.06\00:37:17.40
we looked around for
was there like 10 minutes.
00:37:17.43\00:37:20.07
We both looked at
each other and said,
00:37:20.10\00:37:21.44
I don't know what
all the hypes all about,
00:37:21.47\00:37:23.77
there's nothing going on
here that we like or care about.
00:37:23.81\00:37:25.97
Anyway, let's go home.
00:37:26.01\00:37:28.71
I told Ronnie, Ronnie,
when you go on the door,
00:37:28.74\00:37:30.65
act like you not
been to place like that,
00:37:30.68\00:37:33.25
because I knew
he's gonna be guilty.
00:37:33.28\00:37:34.62
You know what I mean. The guilt
can get you, mama can read you.
00:37:34.65\00:37:37.49
She don't have to
be looking at you.
00:37:37.52\00:37:40.16
She can look at
the back of your head
00:37:40.19\00:37:41.66
and know what you're thinking.
00:37:41.69\00:37:44.06
And then she
sometime will give you this,
00:37:44.09\00:37:45.86
so it slaps it
around and she really know,
00:37:45.89\00:37:47.40
you know what I'm talking about.
00:37:47.43\00:37:50.30
So just before we
opened the door and walked in,
00:37:50.33\00:37:52.17
I said, Ronnie,
you know, you're not,
00:37:52.20\00:37:56.30
act like you haven't
done anything wrong, man.
00:37:56.34\00:37:58.01
We just walked in the door
like this, and mom was there.
00:37:58.04\00:38:01.38
Hey, mom, how you
doing right there?
00:38:01.41\00:38:03.04
She looked at me.
00:38:03.08\00:38:04.41
She looked at Ronnie, said,
"Ronnie, where you've been?"
00:38:04.45\00:38:05.91
I had the lying face evidently,
00:38:09.25\00:38:10.92
whatever it was
because she couldn't read me
00:38:10.95\00:38:13.72
but she read him.
00:38:13.76\00:38:15.32
Where have you boys been?
00:38:15.36\00:38:18.19
We've been in uptown, blah-blah.
00:38:18.23\00:38:20.00
Where have you
been? Ronnie is going why?
00:38:20.03\00:38:24.17
She said you've
been where you're not
00:38:24.20\00:38:25.53
supposed to have been.
00:38:25.57\00:38:26.90
That's where you've been.
You're not supposed to be.
00:38:26.94\00:38:29.04
Oh, he starts
spilling the beans.
00:38:29.07\00:38:30.41
I wanna just well,
I want to beat him.
00:38:30.44\00:38:33.07
Can I say that?
00:38:33.11\00:38:34.58
I want to work him over
right then and right there.
00:38:34.61\00:38:36.44
I told you not to do that.
00:38:36.48\00:38:39.71
She read us.
00:38:39.75\00:38:42.02
Oh man, we got dad called us.
00:38:42.05\00:38:43.49
And I said I told you before
00:38:43.52\00:38:44.89
you're never to go
to places like that.
00:38:44.92\00:38:46.69
Yeah. Did you know that?
00:38:46.72\00:38:48.06
Yes. I remember that.
00:38:48.09\00:38:49.42
Yeah, you went anyway.
00:38:49.46\00:38:50.79
Yeah, that's
right. Yeah, we did.
00:38:50.83\00:38:54.20
He said, I want
to beat you to death.
00:38:54.23\00:38:57.57
See people say
it today, oh abuse.
00:38:57.60\00:38:59.53
The world has just changed.
00:38:59.57\00:39:00.90
He wasn't gonna beat
it to death but you feel
00:39:00.94\00:39:02.34
like you've been
beat to death almost.
00:39:02.37\00:39:04.61
Right?
00:39:04.64\00:39:06.04
You know what I mean?
00:39:06.07\00:39:07.41
You got done, you
felt like you've just
00:39:07.44\00:39:08.78
really been tore up.
00:39:08.81\00:39:11.31
They said, I'll tell you what,
I'll give you another warning.
00:39:11.35\00:39:13.35
Because if you
ever go there again,
00:39:13.38\00:39:14.72
he said, just pack
your bag and get out.
00:39:14.75\00:39:17.05
You won't come
back in this house.
00:39:17.09\00:39:19.22
Long as you live
here under this roof,
00:39:19.25\00:39:20.82
you will do as you're told to do
00:39:20.86\00:39:22.42
or you will not live here.
00:39:22.46\00:39:25.36
And he meant every word of
it because he was that way,
00:39:25.39\00:39:27.70
he was faithful in what he said.
00:39:27.73\00:39:30.10
He always carried it through
and I could count on that.
00:39:30.13\00:39:33.87
So he said just go on this time
but never let it happen again.
00:39:33.90\00:39:36.81
You know, what does all
this stuff mean right now?
00:39:40.24\00:39:45.15
I'm thankful for good home
00:39:45.18\00:39:48.18
training that we
need from mothers
00:39:48.22\00:39:51.89
and fathers that love Jesus.
00:39:51.92\00:39:55.82
What does this all mean today?
00:39:55.86\00:39:59.19
When it says we need to be
transformed by the renewing,
00:39:59.23\00:40:01.73
God, God knows.
00:40:01.76\00:40:03.83
And our folks knew that our mind
00:40:03.87\00:40:05.80
could not be
transformed by loving the world
00:40:05.83\00:40:08.04
and the things
that are in the world.
00:40:08.07\00:40:11.01
And they know that our
minds, they knew our minds
00:40:11.04\00:40:12.71
needed to be transformed.
00:40:12.74\00:40:16.14
Romans Chapter 12,
it says, be transformed,
00:40:16.18\00:40:18.68
but your sins are overcome
00:40:18.71\00:40:20.72
is what it's talking about here.
00:40:20.75\00:40:22.12
Evil thoughts are overcome.
00:40:22.15\00:40:23.72
Evil habits are
overcome by the grace of God.
00:40:23.75\00:40:27.56
Bad dispositions and
ugly attitudes are changed.
00:40:27.59\00:40:31.99
A new standard of character
00:40:32.03\00:40:33.83
is developed as
we behold Christ.
00:40:33.86\00:40:38.43
Reading on,
Fundamental to Education, 323,
00:40:38.47\00:40:40.70
you'll see how this kind
00:40:40.74\00:40:42.07
of fits in the
time that we have.
00:40:42.10\00:40:43.57
"Physical labor has its place
in God's plan for every man,
00:40:43.61\00:40:48.14
and His
blessing will attend it."
00:40:48.18\00:40:51.41
Physical what?
00:40:51.45\00:40:53.01
Labor has its
place in the plan of God.
00:40:53.05\00:40:57.49
Hopefully, I know, we all
should really understand this.
00:40:57.52\00:40:59.75
But there's a huge
issue I plead with you today,
00:40:59.79\00:41:02.29
there's huge issues
that's taking place,
00:41:02.32\00:41:04.63
not only in the
political world, but
00:41:04.66\00:41:06.09
in the religious world.
00:41:06.13\00:41:10.20
It's going around the
world, it's in the whole world.
00:41:10.23\00:41:15.34
Big changes that have
never taken place before.
00:41:15.37\00:41:18.37
And some of them were just was,
00:41:18.41\00:41:19.74
probably we had
time to spend more on it.
00:41:19.77\00:41:21.11
But we really don't
have that much time to it.
00:41:21.14\00:41:22.58
But let's give you
a quick example here.
00:41:22.61\00:41:24.45
The United States and
I talk about this a lot,
00:41:24.48\00:41:26.41
because I think
it's so important
00:41:26.45\00:41:27.78
because it's in Bible prophecy.
00:41:27.82\00:41:29.62
When you talk
about the Roman church,
00:41:29.65\00:41:30.99
I talk about it a lot.
00:41:31.02\00:41:32.35
And I need to because that's
part of three angels' message,
00:41:32.39\00:41:35.39
warning the world
against the mark of the beast.
00:41:35.42\00:41:39.49
United States has changed
its position on how it views
00:41:39.53\00:41:43.67
the papacy.
00:41:43.70\00:41:46.37
Is that true?
00:41:46.40\00:41:48.00
You see, signs of the
times, you can talk about it,
00:41:48.04\00:41:50.31
well, we don't
want to hear about.
00:41:50.34\00:41:51.67
We need to hear about
it, because these are signs
00:41:51.71\00:41:53.48
of the time that
tell us where we are at.
00:41:53.51\00:41:56.04
Give just example.
00:41:56.08\00:41:57.41
Maybe you go back even to
the 60s, you remember that,
00:41:57.45\00:41:59.91
when Kennedy ran
for president and won.
00:41:59.95\00:42:04.35
Interesting that was in what?
00:42:04.39\00:42:05.72
1961 through
00:42:05.75\00:42:07.26
what he killed in '63.
00:42:07.29\00:42:11.73
When he first ran for president,
00:42:11.76\00:42:13.09
they said there's not
going to be a Catholic
00:42:13.13\00:42:14.80
that's going to
run this country.
00:42:14.83\00:42:16.43
That's not the
Protestant position.
00:42:16.46\00:42:17.93
Is that true?
00:42:17.97\00:42:19.30
Some of you were around,
no communal background there,
00:42:19.33\00:42:21.37
that's an
uproar in this country.
00:42:21.40\00:42:25.17
So we can't have that.
00:42:25.21\00:42:26.54
And so Kennedy beat
the odds as it were,
00:42:26.57\00:42:28.74
when he came up with
this, he said this, he said,
00:42:28.78\00:42:31.18
I am not the Catholic
candidate for president.
00:42:31.21\00:42:36.32
I'm the Democratic
Party's candidate for president
00:42:36.35\00:42:41.06
who happens also to be Catholic.
00:42:41.09\00:42:43.56
It's in the 1950s, late 1950s.
00:42:46.96\00:42:49.30
The, you know,
the political views,
00:42:49.33\00:42:51.97
the politician's view
to openness, suspicion,
00:42:52.00\00:42:56.57
you know, the
mainline Protestants
00:42:56.60\00:42:58.17
and the Evangelicals.
00:42:58.21\00:43:01.84
He said, because they
have dual loyalties about
00:43:01.88\00:43:04.91
the values in the Vatican
00:43:04.95\00:43:07.85
and United States.
00:43:07.88\00:43:10.99
We know that it's changed
because prophecy tells us,
00:43:11.02\00:43:14.79
Spirit of Prophecy tells us
that our attitude will change.
00:43:14.82\00:43:17.69
This is part of prophecy being
fulfilled before our very eyes
00:43:17.73\00:43:21.30
and has been for years now.
00:43:21.33\00:43:23.67
Give you a quick example again,
00:43:23.70\00:43:26.30
you know, Kenneth
Copeland, do you not?
00:43:26.33\00:43:29.30
Kenneth Copeland
said not too long ago,
00:43:29.34\00:43:31.27
and this is taken
from eternallifeblog.com
00:43:31.31\00:43:35.18
He said, "Let's
pray," notice it,
00:43:35.21\00:43:37.88
"pray for the
Pope's heart of unity."
00:43:37.91\00:43:40.88
So he met with the Pope,
00:43:40.92\00:43:42.55
needs to talk with
the Pope several times.
00:43:42.58\00:43:44.75
And he said, let's pray
for the Pope's heart for unity.
00:43:44.79\00:43:49.42
Do you know what the Pope's
heart for unity surrounds?
00:43:49.46\00:43:53.50
For all the churches to
return back to the mother
00:43:53.53\00:43:57.87
church or the Catholic Church?
00:43:57.90\00:44:00.50
He says pray, you
know, pray for the Pope.
00:44:00.54\00:44:05.07
Well, certainly we
should be praying for the Pope
00:44:05.11\00:44:06.98
as we should be
praying for everybody else.
00:44:07.01\00:44:11.38
Positions held by the
Protestants in America
00:44:11.41\00:44:14.38
is going to change drastically
before the coming of Jesus.
00:44:14.42\00:44:19.35
You can read that if
we had more time in Five
00:44:19.39\00:44:21.19
Testimonies 451.
00:44:21.22\00:44:22.79
It talks about when
the Protestant reach
00:44:22.82\00:44:24.39
your hands across," what?
00:44:24.43\00:44:25.76
"The gulf to grasp
hand with the Roman power,
00:44:25.79\00:44:30.10
when she shall reach
across the abyss to clasp hands
00:44:30.13\00:44:32.63
with
spiritualism," talking about
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.54
the power that is
dealing with here,
00:44:34.57\00:44:36.84
"who under the
influence of the threefold power
00:44:36.87\00:44:40.58
of our country, United
States shall repudiate, notice,
00:44:40.61\00:44:43.55
every principle
of its Constitution.
00:44:43.58\00:44:45.85
That is either true or it's not.
00:44:45.88\00:44:47.45
I tell you this part
here is already fulfilled.
00:44:47.48\00:44:50.55
We have repudiated every
principle of our Constitution
00:44:50.59\00:44:53.29
right now.
00:44:53.32\00:44:54.66
You have no Bill of Rights,
you have no Constitution.
00:44:54.69\00:44:57.36
It may be their
lawyers have already figured
00:44:57.39\00:44:59.69
out ways, I've said it many
times, I continue to say it,
00:44:59.73\00:45:02.23
a way to work
around every one of them.
00:45:02.26\00:45:04.93
And you know what?
00:45:04.97\00:45:06.30
They can work around every
one of those principles by just
00:45:06.33\00:45:08.04
simply saying, it's a crisis,
and especially a health crisis.
00:45:08.07\00:45:12.71
And they said
work and health crisis.
00:45:12.74\00:45:14.64
So everything they
can overrule what you say
00:45:14.68\00:45:17.05
is that things
that would protect you.
00:45:17.08\00:45:18.65
We need to really
think about what the enemy
00:45:22.82\00:45:24.92
is doing right now.
00:45:24.95\00:45:26.82
The importance is very, very,
00:45:26.86\00:45:28.19
I think it's really
important right now.
00:45:28.22\00:45:29.66
Great Controversy 566,
00:45:29.69\00:45:31.63
"Protestants have tampered with,
00:45:31.66\00:45:33.09
notice this, the
papacy, they made compromise
00:45:33.13\00:45:35.46
and concessions with papists
themselves are surprised to see
00:45:35.50\00:45:39.27
and fail to understand."
00:45:39.30\00:45:41.44
Things are
happening. Isn't that right?
00:45:41.47\00:45:43.00
Right now we're changing.
00:45:43.04\00:45:44.94
But it says here, notice,
00:45:44.97\00:45:46.31
the people need to be
aroused to resist the advances
00:45:46.34\00:45:49.08
of the most dangerous foe
to civil and religious liberty.
00:45:49.11\00:45:54.22
See, if we don't take
this serious right now,
00:45:54.25\00:45:56.02
if we don't really take
serious what's being said,
00:45:56.05\00:45:59.12
we're gonna fall short.
00:45:59.15\00:46:01.52
This is a fold, this is a
power that's fighting your civil
00:46:01.56\00:46:06.29
and your religious liberty.
00:46:06.33\00:46:09.66
And some will say,
well, they've changed
00:46:09.70\00:46:11.40
their position for Protestants.
00:46:11.43\00:46:12.80
Oh, yeah. Did they apologize?
00:46:12.83\00:46:14.50
The Pope has
apologized, Google says he has.
00:46:14.54\00:46:18.27
He said for all
the errors notice this,
00:46:18.31\00:46:20.34
the Pope asked for
forgiveness for errors,
00:46:20.38\00:46:22.74
the church for over
the last 2000 years.
00:46:22.78\00:46:26.88
But interesting when
he says we've done that,
00:46:26.92\00:46:28.85
then they said what?
00:46:28.88\00:46:30.22
It says the church
never changes its position.
00:46:30.25\00:46:33.15
So how does that really work?
00:46:33.19\00:46:37.43
Great Controversy
said a long time ago before
00:46:37.46\00:46:39.73
the Pope's made this
statement, notice this, 571,
00:46:39.76\00:46:42.50
"The Roman Church now presents
a fair front to the world,
00:46:42.53\00:46:46.70
covering with
apologies her record
00:46:46.74\00:46:48.87
of horrible
conditions, cruelties.
00:46:48.90\00:46:51.47
She has clothed herself
in a Christlike garment,
00:46:51.51\00:46:54.54
but she is unchanged.
00:46:54.58\00:46:56.44
She's what? She's unchanged.
00:46:56.48\00:47:00.42
The same.
00:47:00.45\00:47:02.35
See, these are things
that are going on that indicate
00:47:02.38\00:47:04.55
the coming of the Lord
even about the trade unions.
00:47:04.59\00:47:08.76
In this last year,
we're talking about there.
00:47:08.79\00:47:11.46
They reveal a sign of the times.
00:47:11.49\00:47:14.53
How powerful are these unions,
powerful enough to shut down
00:47:14.56\00:47:18.33
the country, in
many ways we know that.
00:47:18.37\00:47:21.20
To shut down the
schools, we know that.
00:47:21.24\00:47:24.57
They're strong
enough to bring a time
00:47:24.61\00:47:26.07
of trouble that the
world has not ever seen.
00:47:26.11\00:47:29.58
Isn't what Daniel 12 say?
00:47:29.61\00:47:30.95
See, if you're, if
we're dealing with the power
00:47:30.98\00:47:32.58
and just talking
about the unions,
00:47:32.61\00:47:34.02
but who talks
about it from the pulpit,
00:47:34.05\00:47:35.72
who really wants to
because people don't
00:47:35.75\00:47:37.32
want to get involved
in this because some nasty
00:47:37.35\00:47:39.05
things can happen in the unions.
00:47:39.09\00:47:40.52
But it says right there,
the unions will bring about
00:47:44.73\00:47:46.90
a time of trouble
this world has never seen.
00:47:46.93\00:47:49.56
Surely God's people
want to realize that.
00:47:49.60\00:47:51.83
Are we really
ready for this time?
00:47:55.60\00:47:59.37
How strong are these unions
really, General Conference
00:47:59.41\00:48:02.08
bulletin in 1903, page 200.
00:48:02.11\00:48:04.41
Notice, trade unions will be one
00:48:04.45\00:48:06.98
of the agencies that will
bring about a earth a time
00:48:07.02\00:48:09.95
of trouble as not has
been since the world began.
00:48:09.98\00:48:14.86
Does that make sense to us?
00:48:14.89\00:48:16.73
The trade union? Yeah.
00:48:16.76\00:48:18.09
You say why? It's like,
well, yeah, that's true.
00:48:18.13\00:48:20.00
But we need to
realize it's a sign of the end
00:48:20.03\00:48:22.46
when they become that powerful.
00:48:22.50\00:48:24.43
Have they or have they not
kept their children or schools
00:48:24.47\00:48:27.54
closed for the last
year, year and a half?
00:48:27.57\00:48:29.30
Have they not?
00:48:29.34\00:48:30.67
They say it's not anything else,
00:48:30.71\00:48:32.04
it's simply the
unions that have done this.
00:48:32.07\00:48:33.81
And they can do it any
area that they want to do it.
00:48:33.84\00:48:37.31
We're saying what we've
not really seen that when time
00:48:37.35\00:48:39.71
has passed, even
though unions have been
00:48:39.75\00:48:41.08
around for a long time.
00:48:41.12\00:48:43.52
One of the first ones
I think was a trade union
00:48:43.55\00:48:45.65
organized among American
workers was in like 1794.
00:48:45.69\00:48:50.23
But it's gotten
stronger and more powerful.
00:48:50.26\00:48:52.96
Interesting, I'm gonna,
I say this before our time
00:48:52.99\00:48:54.80
runs out here.
00:48:54.83\00:48:56.16
I'm very interested
in how the Roman Church
00:48:56.20\00:48:58.70
did ever play a part in unions.
00:48:58.73\00:49:01.24
Interesting,
Google brings this out.
00:49:01.27\00:49:04.01
The Catholic Church exercised
00:49:04.04\00:49:07.31
a prominent role in shaping
00:49:07.34\00:49:10.15
America's Labor Movement.
00:49:10.18\00:49:13.58
Somebody is not
going to get that today.
00:49:13.62\00:49:15.32
Maybe tomorrow sink in.
00:49:15.35\00:49:18.22
You see, because the enemy
will use this thing to shut
00:49:18.25\00:49:20.76
things down.
00:49:20.79\00:49:22.12
Where you can't go to Kroger's,
where you can't buy your food.
00:49:22.16\00:49:26.76
Everything will be
shattered the union,
00:49:26.80\00:49:28.40
electrical union, whatever
the power companies be trumped
00:49:28.43\00:49:30.57
if they decide they
want to just shut it down,
00:49:30.60\00:49:32.27
they can shut it down.
00:49:32.30\00:49:33.64
What are you going to do?
00:49:33.67\00:49:35.00
What am I going to do and
I guarantee it will happen.
00:49:35.04\00:49:37.81
It will happen
somewhere along the road.
00:49:37.84\00:49:39.81
If you are faithful to God,
you're going to have to deal
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with these issues and I am too.
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I want to read from
Education page 228 says this.
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"At the same time anarchy,
lawlessness is seeking to sweep
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across away all law."
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Do you see that now?
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Not on just divine law
but of all human law too.
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The centralizing of wealth
and power, do we see that?
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Centralizing power,
these are signs of the time.
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The vast combination of
the enriching of a few, right?
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Just a few be
richer, rest you don't have
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anything at the expense of many,
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the combination of the
poor classes, notice this,
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and for the
defense of their interest.
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In other words,
we're going to take care,
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take away from
the, the less fortunate,
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those who don't have anything,
we're gonna have it all here.
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The spirit of
unrest, do we see it?
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That of riot, bloodshed,
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the world
dissemination of the same
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teachings that led to
the French Revolution,
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all are tending to
involve the whole world.
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This identically
what's happening?
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We said, again, can't
prove it all right now.
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We've done it
before in lessons before.
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We're following
exactly in the footsteps
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of the French Revolution.
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Just read about that
what happened in France,
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and we were following
steps one, two, three,
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four just like they did,
the outcome will be the same.
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We need to be ready.
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That's a struggle similar.
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Book Education says similar
to that which convulsed France.
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That's what the
book Education says.
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Most people try to ignore,
cover the truth of the unions.
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Well, it's just, you know,
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it's wrong to
belong to them to justify,
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you justify it by
saying, well, I'll lose my job,
00:51:23.91\00:51:25.95
if I don't join.
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Maybe so.
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Maybe so.
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But God servants do not mix
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the words they do not, you know,
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tone down the words we
give as God has given to us.
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We can't pick and
choose those things
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that we want to talk about.
00:51:43.93\00:51:45.27
And things that we
don't want to talk about
00:51:45.30\00:51:47.27
or truths that we
think is important,
00:51:47.30\00:51:48.67
truths we think we
better not talk about.
00:51:48.70\00:51:50.91
Seven Testimonies 84 says,
00:51:50.94\00:51:52.77
"The turmoil and confusion
that fill these cities,
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and the conditions
brought about by labor unions
00:51:57.01\00:52:00.22
and strikes will prove a
great hindrance to our work.
00:52:00.25\00:52:04.32
Men are seeking to
bring those engaged
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in the different trades under,"
00:52:07.06\00:52:09.02
notice this, if
you see its future,
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bondage of certain unions.
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This is not God's planning,
00:52:13.29\00:52:15.66
but the planning of a
power that we should in no
00:52:15.70\00:52:18.30
wise acknowledge.
00:52:18.33\00:52:20.20
We are not to unite with secret
societies or with trade unions.
00:52:20.24\00:52:24.84
We can't get it any
clearer than that is because
00:52:24.87\00:52:27.64
of the force
that's put behind it.
00:52:27.68\00:52:29.64
Because if they don't like
something, they shut it down.
00:52:29.68\00:52:32.61
People have to do without and
they use force in which to do.
00:52:32.65\00:52:35.88
Yes, a lot of good has
come from those things.
00:52:35.92\00:52:38.65
There were
horrible times before.
00:52:38.69\00:52:41.29
But remember, the
devil always uses some good
00:52:41.32\00:52:43.16
and mixes it with err
and bad things, does he not?
00:52:43.19\00:52:45.43
Always.
00:52:45.46\00:52:46.80
So we say, well, it
was good here, you know?
00:52:46.83\00:52:48.76
Every conceivable
crime, notice this,
00:52:52.77\00:52:54.90
Evangelism 26 as we wrap it up.
00:52:54.94\00:52:57.51
"The lust of the flesh,
the pride of the eyes, display,
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notice it, of selfishness,
the misuse of power, cruelty,
00:53:00.84\00:53:05.65
and force used to cause
men to unite with confederacies
00:53:05.68\00:53:10.09
and unions, binding ourselves
up in bundles for the burning
00:53:10.12\00:53:14.32
of the great
fires of the last day,
00:53:14.36\00:53:16.86
all those who are workings
00:53:16.89\00:53:19.73
of Satan's agencies."
00:53:19.76\00:53:23.67
The world's acting
today like there is no God.
00:53:23.70\00:53:27.17
We're acting
like there is no God.
00:53:27.20\00:53:28.54
We're acting like there is
no word that comes to us plain
00:53:28.57\00:53:30.87
and simple.
00:53:30.91\00:53:32.97
Union, Second Selected
message says as we close 143,
00:53:33.01\00:53:36.91
they are a sign
of the last days.
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It's a clear sign.
00:53:40.72\00:53:42.58
And we're seeing it now
00:53:42.62\00:53:43.99
how powerful they really
are when they want to push
00:53:44.02\00:53:46.89
forward, how they
can close the country.
00:53:46.92\00:53:50.23
How they can dumb down America,
00:53:50.26\00:53:51.69
how they can keep our
children from being educated
00:53:51.73\00:53:53.66
and so on so forth.
00:53:53.70\00:53:57.17
God's people in no wise no case
00:53:57.20\00:53:59.23
should have anything to
bind up with these labor
00:53:59.27\00:54:01.07
unions that are
formed or shall be formed.
00:54:01.10\00:54:04.27
Letter 201, 1902, you have
a decision to make that like
00:54:04.31\00:54:07.78
you have a
decision about vaccines
00:54:07.81\00:54:09.24
and everything else that's
going on in the world today.
00:54:09.28\00:54:11.68
Are we gonna follow the
plan that God has given to us
00:54:11.71\00:54:13.78
as His people?
00:54:13.82\00:54:15.18
Are we gonna follow his plan?
00:54:15.22\00:54:16.62
Are we gonna just follow
our own and do what's best?
00:54:16.65\00:54:19.49
I don't have a job.
00:54:19.52\00:54:20.86
Let God supply for
you, do what is right.
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God will always take
care of His children.
00:54:24.23\00:54:26.63
He will always do, He'll
give you something better,
00:54:26.66\00:54:28.86
just have faith
enough to stand up and say,
00:54:28.90\00:54:30.77
God has said we will do
because He said if we don't,
00:54:30.80\00:54:33.54
we will be like Shiloh
and we're gonna be demolished.
00:54:33.57\00:54:36.60
By God's grace make that choice,
00:54:36.64\00:54:38.21
make that decision
today I will follow Christ.
00:54:38.24\00:54:40.81
Let's pray, shall we?
00:54:40.84\00:54:43.31
Loving Father in heaven,
we thank You for Your Word.
00:54:43.35\00:54:45.25
We thank you maybe
distasteful to some but Lord
00:54:45.28\00:54:48.15
is still a truth today.
00:54:48.18\00:54:49.65
It's just simply
Signs of the Times.
00:54:49.68\00:54:51.75
I'm not trying to discredit,
not trying to tear down,
00:54:51.79\00:54:54.12
not trying to make anyone angry.
00:54:54.16\00:54:55.82
It just simply says that
we see the powerful unity
00:54:55.86\00:54:59.06
come together of
men under unions.
00:54:59.09\00:55:01.20
We see that they have power,
00:55:01.23\00:55:02.56
and they're going to use
that power to force the will.
00:55:02.60\00:55:05.53
And so, Father, we
pray in a very special way
00:55:05.57\00:55:07.44
as we see these things be
used more and more and more,
00:55:07.47\00:55:10.07
as we near the
coming of the Sunday laws
00:55:10.11\00:55:12.01
which are just before us.
00:55:12.04\00:55:13.44
Thank you, Lord, for hearing.
Thank You for answering prayer.
00:55:13.48\00:55:15.28
Thank You for the decision
00:55:15.31\00:55:16.95
people have made before they
may have not heard it before.
00:55:16.98\00:55:19.08
They may not have understood it.
00:55:19.11\00:55:20.45
But we pray now, as
we've heard it from the Bible,
00:55:20.48\00:55:23.45
from the Spirit of Prophecy,
00:55:23.49\00:55:24.99
that we will accept that
and we thank you in Jesus' name,
00:55:25.02\00:55:28.02
amen.
00:55:28.06\00:55:29.92
Hello, and
welcome back, friends.
00:55:29.96\00:55:31.93
We realize that for many of you,
00:55:31.96\00:55:33.66
today's message may have come
00:55:33.70\00:55:35.46
as somewhat of a surprise
with sentiments that you may
00:55:35.50\00:55:38.97
have never even pondered
over in your mind before.
00:55:39.00\00:55:42.54
But our Heavenly Father
who sees and who knows all,
00:55:42.57\00:55:46.94
most certainly
has and out of love,
00:55:46.98\00:55:49.84
He is warning His people
00:55:49.88\00:55:51.31
why it is
important to not be a part
00:55:51.35\00:55:53.98
of these unions with the world.
00:55:54.02\00:55:56.42
Allow me to
share a quote with you
00:55:56.45\00:55:58.99
as a final
thought in closing today.
00:55:59.02\00:56:01.42
It comes from Counsels from
the Spirit of Prophecy on labor
00:56:01.46\00:56:05.66
unions and confederacies.
00:56:05.69\00:56:07.76
Found on page 10, it reads,
00:56:07.80\00:56:10.77
"God promises that
if we will separate
00:56:10.80\00:56:13.50
ourselves from the
world, He will receive us
00:56:13.54\00:56:16.47
and will be a Father unto
us, and we shall be his sons
00:56:16.50\00:56:20.98
and daughters,
00:56:21.01\00:56:22.34
shall we not separate
ourselves from the world
00:56:22.38\00:56:25.21
and claim this
sacred relationship now,
00:56:25.25\00:56:28.25
that when our Father
comes, He may acknowledge us
00:56:28.28\00:56:31.39
as His children?"
00:56:31.42\00:56:33.05
Friends, we should
never desire to be a part
00:56:33.09\00:56:35.42
of anything that doesn't
fall in line with God's holy
00:56:35.46\00:56:39.19
Ten Commandment law.
00:56:39.23\00:56:40.80
We realize that
this would certainly
00:56:40.83\00:56:43.50
separate us from
our Heavenly Father
00:56:43.53\00:56:45.83
and from the gift
of eternal salvation,
00:56:45.87\00:56:48.60
that He so longs to give
each and every one of us.
00:56:48.64\00:56:52.61
We are offering, as usual,
00:56:52.64\00:56:55.18
today's message
entitled Labor Unions:
00:56:55.21\00:56:58.35
A Sign of the End!
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