Hello, friends, 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 want to thank
you for joining us.
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Today's message is
entitled Satan's Zeros In,
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and this will be a part
one of a two part series.
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It's no surprise to most of us
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that we are in a
spiritual warfare between Satan
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and his angels and
Christ and His angels.
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Though we often see through
this spiritual war darkly,
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as we are drawing
closer to the return of Christ,
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it is becoming more
evident and more visible,
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that there is a great divide
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amongst the
people in this world,
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a divide that has been
created by their choice
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of whom they
have chosen to serve.
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This war began in heaven itself,
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and was centered
around the law of God,
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the character of
God, and the choice
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of whom the angelic host
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would ultimately
give their allegiance to.
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Likewise, the
finality of this war
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is still being fought,
listen, over the law of God,
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the character of God,
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and whom we choose to
give our allegiance to.
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Thus, we sense the war
for our souls is intensifying
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as the enemy of God, Satan
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is zeroing in on those
who have chosen alliance
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to the God of heaven,
and keep the commandments
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of God and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
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None living on this planet
will escape having to make
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a decision to serve
the beast and his image
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or the one true God of heaven.
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So stay tuned today as
we join Pastor Kenny Shelton
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As he presents Satan Zeroes In.
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But first let's visit
3ABN and listen to a song
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That we hope will be
the desire of your heart
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And it is entitled
All of Me as you choose
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To surrender all of
your heart to Christ,
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As sang by Sandra Entermann.
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Holy Father,
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Love me still
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I have fallen from
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Your will
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I am broken
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Hear my humble cry
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My cry
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Take my life
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And make it Yours, Lord
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Fill me with Your love
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You are all I need
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I surrender
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All of me
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I have wandered
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For so long
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Tired and weary
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On my own
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In Your arms I know I'm home,
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O God
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My God
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Take my life
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And make it Yours, Lord
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Fill me with Your love
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You are all I need
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I surrender
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All of me
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Take my life
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And make it Yours, Lord
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Fill me with Your love
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You are all
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I need
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I surrender
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I surrender
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I surrender
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All of me
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Thank you for
joining us once again here
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at Behold the Lamb Ministry.
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We praise God for
you and your willingness
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to spend this time
with us in the study
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of the Word of God.
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I look forward to it
every time we come together.
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I mean, what do
we do without people
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who are willing to tune in,
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people who are willing to listen
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and people who
are willing to pray
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and support the ministry?
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You know, we have
more than what we...
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This little group
that we have meeting here,
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their messages that we do here,
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and it's not any kind of
a braggadocios type thing.
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It's simply a praise to God
that they literally go where?
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Okay, see him,
somebody's really excited today.
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He went around the
world, round the world,
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that is fulfilling
God's commission, is it not?
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He said, "Go into all the
world and preach the gospel."
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We have that
privilege and opportunity
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only God can give to do that.
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So you can see I'm
excited about it today
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and excited
about each one of you.
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Thank you for your
cards, your letter,
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support of Behold
the Lamb Ministry.
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We believe there's much
more that can be done to hasten
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the coming of Jesus Christ.
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We believe that we're
living in the last hours
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of earth's history.
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We believe that
in order to be ready,
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you know, for His
coming, we need to be studying
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the Word of God
like never before,
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because if you
look in the mirror,
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like I look in the mirror,
sometimes I've been saying,
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"Am I a candidate for heaven?"
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And I asked myself the question,
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"If I could go to heaven today,"
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listen church, "If I
could go to heaven today
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would heaven be a
better place if I was there,
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just like I am, or
would it be a worse place?"
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Don't anybody answer?
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'Cause somebody answered,
boy, it be a better place.
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I want to talk to you later.
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Is that okay, Herb?
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Okay, he's fastening his eyes.
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Do we get that?
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If we can say,
right now, if we can say,
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"Heaven will be a better place,
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if I can go just
like I am right now,
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just go on up, there's
going to be a better place."
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Somebody is not
telling the truth.
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And I don't know
you in would lie,
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I don't know all about
not trying to be judgmental.
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But I'm just simply saying,
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each one of us
will look in the mirror
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and we'll say,
"You know, we're not,
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we don't think we've arrived."
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Right?
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When you look in the
mirror and you see Jesus' face,
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then maybe you
might have arrived.
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When you see your own
face, we're are in trouble.
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At least I am, so forgive
me if I put you in that class.
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Today, we're going to
be talking about a subject
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about Satan Zeroes In.
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Remember, Satan has
you in his sight, sights.
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Do you get it?
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You, unless you have the
mark of God in your forehead,
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the enemy is going
to take a shot at you.
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And he's going to take
shots, but they won't affect you
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as they do the
rest of the world.
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Remember, he's
going for the brain,
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he's going to try
to get rid of you.
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So zero, Satan
zeroes in right now.
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He means business.
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He's got a nice big rifle,
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you know, it's
got a scope on it.
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He's really
looking at everybody,
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he's getting ready
to pull the trigger.
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As always, before we
get into the Word of God,
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we believe in prayer again,
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and I'm going
to kneel right here
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and have prayer here up front.
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And I invite
those who are at home,
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and those who
watch, those who listen,
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those who are in
the car, going down CD,
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you know, CDs, DVD,
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whatever it might be
that you want to pray with me,
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please do.
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Let's pray right now.
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Merciful Father in heaven,
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we thank You for
the privilege of prayer.
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Thank You that we
can call you our Father.
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Thank You that
You're there for us.
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Now we invite Thy Holy
Spirit in a very awesome
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and sacred way to come near
to each of Your children today.
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Open our hearts and our minds,
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things we may not
have heard before,
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things we just might
be reminded of again,
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that we need to be
aware of these things
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to prepare
ourselves for the soon coming
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of Jesus Christ.
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Bless us, we pray to
this and in Jesus' name,
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we pray, bless
each one who listens,
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who hears, and may we see Jesus,
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in His name we pray
and for His sake, amen.
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Satan zeroes in.
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What does that
mean, Satan zeroes in?
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What we're going to do
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and this is a couple of
parts series here because,
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and it should be three
or four or five or six,
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because it deals
with a whole lot of stuff,
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things that we need to realize
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is what was the
great controversy in heaven
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before Satan's fall.
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Lucifer, before he
fell, what was the issue?
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And then after he fell to
this earth, what was the issue?
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And as we go down
the stream of time,
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and if we look
Old Testament times,
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New Testament time,
what was the big issue?
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There had to be a big issue,
something that took place,
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because, as it were, it
stirred up all of heaven
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and Lucifer could
no longer stay there,
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because he wanted his own way,
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and that's no different than
most probably Christians today.
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We call ourselves Christians,
but we want it our way.
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And God says, it's His way.
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And that is going
to be a test for us.
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So that you talk about a
universal plan of salvation
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and redemption is
going to include, listen,
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the vindication of the
name and the character of God.
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Remember it,
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we think we are the
ones that are on trial,
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and we are, right?
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We have a time of probation,
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whether we're
going to spend with God,
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or we're going to go to
hell, let's just be honest.
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But remember, God's
character has been challenged,
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the devil said that he
is, basically he's a liar.
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He don't tell in the truth.
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And his government,
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no one can keep up
with the government of God
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that He established in heaven.
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Is that true?
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Could that possibly be true?
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His, God's character was
challenged by Satan in heaven.
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We'll go through this in
more and more as we go along.
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And notice this, and it
was questioned by angels,
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is that true?
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Remember, a third of the angels
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who knew not the
sin issue, right?
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They were hoodwinked
or deceived by the devil,
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and they followed the enemy,
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and they were
thrown out of heaven.
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You need let that sink
deep, deep in your heart,
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deep in your mind.
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You think that you can
outsmart the enemy by yourself,
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you cannot do it.
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Only by the grace of God,
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only by the power
of the Holy Spirit,
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you will be deceived
and lost, and I will too,
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unless we follow the counsel
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that God has
given us in His Word,
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the only way that God
could unmask the enemy.
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Now remember, when the
enemy Lucifer in heaven,
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could we say
that he had a mask on?
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Why would he have a mask on?
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Was it, way hypocritically
you might say, exactly, yeah.
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But he's what?
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He didn't want them
to see and understand
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what he was really up to.
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Didn't want to really see him.
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So he was hiding things,
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and as he was talking to
the other angels in heaven,
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and the only
way he could unmask,
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the only way that he could,
don't wait, God could unmask
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and defeat Satan or destroy
Satan and his evil angels,
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was to come to this earth.
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Jesus would come to this earth,
He would die on the cross,
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in that be
willing to be crucified
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because of what
the enemy had started
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and what he had done.
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Hopefully, we'll answer
the questions in this time,
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in the next time as people say,
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"Why didn't God after He seen
these things, after He knew,
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He knew all along what
Lucifer would be up to.
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Why didn't He just put
him out of his misery?"
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Isn't that right? Why didn't
He put him out of his misery?
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Why didn't He just do him in
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and then we wouldn't have
to go through all the mess
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that we've gone through.
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That's questions
that need to be answered,
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and we will answer those
as we go along in our study.
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But God said, the
only way that I can get,
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so God's character is on right.
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People look at Him, right?
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The angels are looking
at, they're questioning, like,
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because you realize those
two thirds that stayed there,
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they too, I believe,
had questions, but by faith,
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they accepted the plan
that God had, they stayed.
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We have to realize
what took place with Lucifer
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who was, I would say,
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would be the first
created in the image of God.
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Think about it.
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He was next to Jesus Christ
in power and wisdom and might,
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and the billions and
trillions, whatever it might be,
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of angels adored Lucifer,
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before he chose
to go the wrong way.
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So a lot of
questions had to be answered.
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That's why God
didn't just sniff him out.
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But if God let
it go for a while,
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and not put Satan, I say,
out of his misery at once,
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good things could happen.
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God's character would be
revealed for what it really
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is because the devil
said, "This is not who you are."
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God said this, but
that's not what He really meant.
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He said the government,
He governs the universe
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with His full of good of
all the angels, everyone.
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And the devil said, "It's not.
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He's got
something better in mind."
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But if we let it go
world for a while God said,
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"You know what, the
character of the enemy
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is going to be revealed,
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and also My
character will be revealed."
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And then this would
justify destroying Satan
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and his evil angels.
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To destroy them to begin
with would have been left
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to many questions unanswered.
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Does that make sense?
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It had too many questions
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because they didn't
understand the issue.
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And so God said,
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"We're going to have
to let it go for a while."
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I've said that
sometime in ministry,
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and in personal life,
and probably you have too.
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Someone said,
"We need to take care
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of the issue right now."
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He said, "If we take
care of the issue right now,
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there'll be many who don't
understand what's going on."
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There'll be more
problems than ever.
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Let it go for
just a little while,
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and it will expose itself,
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then people will be
able to see that this choice
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and decision was right.
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Hebrews 2:14 says,
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"Forasmuch then as the children
are partakers of," what?
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"Flesh and blood, He
also Himself," who's that?
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Jesus Christ, isn't that right?
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"Likewise took
part of the same."
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Jesus came down here,
He partook of our nature,
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our sinful nature without sin.
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After 4000 years of
sin, He came down that level,
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He didn't start
where Adam and Eve was at.
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He started after there was 4000
years of sin upon this earth.
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He wanted it even-steven
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that we couldn't
say He had something,
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He used something
that we cannot have or use.
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If He did, He
could not be my Savior.
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Are you still with me, church?
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He had to be equal.
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And sometime we make
excuses for our sinful life
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because we'll
say, "He had an edge."
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He had no edge.
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He cannot be my Redeemer,
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He cannot be my
Savior if he had an edge.
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If He used
something that I cannot have,
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He cannot be my Savior.
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The Bible said, "He
came in flesh and blood,
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took part of the same,
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that through death He
might destroy him that had power
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of death that is the devil."
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Jesus said, "The
only way that we can rid,
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right, the universe of
the devil now is for me
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to come down
here to live the life,
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challenge that," what?
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"To live the perfect life."
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The devil said, "You
can't live the perfect life."
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You talk to people, right?
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You can't live
the perfect life."
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Isn't that interesting,
good food for thought?
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But wasn't that the question
that was really posed here,
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no one could live
that close to God?
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Interesting, I think
maybe it was in Elijah's words?
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Wasn't he
translated without saying?
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Because he actually
was living there what?
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A perfect life.
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Thank you. Exactly.
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So there were
those in Scripture,
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and certainly
Christ came down here
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and He lived the perfect life,
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not even in thought
that He, right, sinned.
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1 John 3:8,
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"For this purpose,
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the Son of God was
manifested," for what purpose?
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For this purpose,
the Son of God what?
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"To destroy the devil."
00:17:58.24\00:18:00.18
To live the life without sin,
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we've all fallen
short, we need, right,
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we need the
life of Jesus Christ.
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By faith, we
must accept His life,
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His victory, and He
offers Him to us today.
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And He lived that perfect life,
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He might destroy
the works of the devil,
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that He might expose the devil,
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that He might condemn the devil,
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I like that, that He
might conquer the devil,
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that He might destroy the devil.
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Well, somebody should shout,
at least somebody should say,
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that time has come 'cause Jesus
came and lived the perfect life
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and He died, right?
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We have a chance for salvation.
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And the devil is
going, these days,
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is going to be putting an
end to and all the evil angels.
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Everyone that's
followed the devil,
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God has it right
now, He's conquered him.
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That's already,
Calvary proved that.
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Is that not true?
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See, that's exciting.
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Brother Mark says a lot
of times second chances.
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And then we decided,
we'd count third and fourth
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and fifth and maybe
10,000 chances we get
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that He gives us over and over
00:19:01.07\00:19:02.87
when we ask for forgiveness,
how good that God is.
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Satan is zeroing in on you.
00:19:05.81\00:19:08.91
He knows his time is short.
00:19:08.94\00:19:10.88
He's zeroing in on me.
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Everything you go
to touch is jumping
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and jerking and
twisting and you're wondering,
00:19:14.52\00:19:16.72
everything seems to go wrong.
00:19:16.75\00:19:18.55
No matter what
you get, what you do,
00:19:18.59\00:19:20.12
it seemed to be wrong.
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The devil is just attacking,
attacking and attacking.
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Certainly a lot of
false doctrine and stuff
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is going out.
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You know, we said, we
received it, was an email,
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I don't what was that,
00:19:31.03\00:19:32.37
last night where
it was from Australian
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and somebody most send a couple,
00:19:34.60\00:19:36.57
and I know you're going to
be watching, and it's okay.
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I'll be gentle as I
can be. But you know what?
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You weren't too
gentle on that email
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because you're going to
send some book to teach us
00:19:43.48\00:19:45.55
how to understand the
Book of Daniel and Revelation.
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You're going to tell
us how wrong that three
00:19:48.58\00:19:50.25
and a half years,
00:19:50.29\00:19:51.62
you know, Christ
came right the Messiah
00:19:51.65\00:19:53.46
and then death three and a
half years late in ministry,
00:19:53.49\00:19:55.79
and he's telling us
that the ministry of Christ
00:19:55.82\00:19:57.83
was 70 weeks.
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Kind of interesting, isn't it?
00:19:59.93\00:20:03.67
Anyway, we took
70 weeks in Daniel,
00:20:03.70\00:20:05.27
not going that right now,
but realize that's 490 years.
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Anyway, it's just,
everything is so torn up
00:20:09.70\00:20:12.71
and somebody else kind
of emailed in and said,
00:20:12.74\00:20:14.68
"Oh, man, that is the truth."
00:20:14.71\00:20:16.04
Man, we're laughing.
Not even close to the truth.
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Not even close.
00:20:18.95\00:20:20.58
And so the enemy is throwing
his stuff out there right now.
00:20:20.62\00:20:23.39
But listen, I believe
00:20:23.42\00:20:24.75
that God has the people
here in these last days,
00:20:24.79\00:20:26.76
that's going to do some grand,
wonderful things through Him.
00:20:26.79\00:20:30.79
And it's going to be
to where the messages
00:20:30.83\00:20:32.46
become a little more starling,
00:20:32.49\00:20:34.63
they're going to have a
little more power to them,
00:20:34.66\00:20:36.93
it's going to get
the people stirred up
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just a little bit
more in this whole business
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of coming to church
and sleeping and somewhat,
00:20:41.44\00:20:43.20
that's over.
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That's over.
00:20:45.37\00:20:47.94
Third time's the
charm, it's over.
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Yeah. All right.
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Right. Because why?
00:20:52.18\00:20:53.75
Because we have
not time to do that.
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Devil wants to
put your mind to sleep
00:20:57.72\00:20:59.45
so you cannot make
an intelligent decision.
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He wants me to be asleep to say,
00:21:02.72\00:21:04.56
"Oh, well, it
doesn't," listen to it,
00:21:04.59\00:21:06.03
"it doesn't
matter what we believe."
00:21:06.06\00:21:07.56
Yes, it does.
00:21:07.60\00:21:10.17
It doesn't matter
what you believe, why?
00:21:10.20\00:21:13.87
Because we're all trying
to get to the same place.
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We're all headed
toward the same place.
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That must be we're all on
the same path, isn't that right?
00:21:21.14\00:21:24.51
Can we all say
we're, "Okay, let's go.
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We're going to Johnson City.
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Well, you go this
way, and I'll go that way."
00:21:27.75\00:21:29.15
If you go that way,
00:21:29.18\00:21:30.52
you're not going to
make it to Johnson City.
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Well, yeah, we
head any way we want.
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No, we can't.
There's only one road.
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Isn't that right? We look at it.
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I believe that God has a church.
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And it's a time for
God's people to realize
00:21:42.30\00:21:44.87
that in more ways,
maybe than you ever thought
00:21:44.90\00:21:48.20
about before,
let alone the world.
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Very few times have
you heard this passage,
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Revelation 12:17 read.
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Very few people maybe read it,
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and we should have it memorized.
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And let me just
read Revelation 12:17.
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Remember,
Revelation 12:17 speaks
00:22:04.79\00:22:06.62
of a great
conflict in earth's history.
00:22:06.65\00:22:10.99
Bible prophecy
points out these things,
00:22:11.03\00:22:14.30
it clearly that Satan's hatred,
00:22:14.33\00:22:17.40
and his strong
attacks are directed against
00:22:17.43\00:22:21.57
a certain group of people.
00:22:21.60\00:22:24.74
Now, if you can
prove differently, come on,
00:22:24.77\00:22:27.58
you can prove
differently in that.
00:22:27.61\00:22:29.18
This passage proves
that the devil is attacking
00:22:29.21\00:22:32.15
a certain group of people.
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He hates them,
00:22:34.78\00:22:36.25
he's going to do everything
he can to destroy them.
00:22:36.28\00:22:39.52
With him out of the picture,
00:22:39.55\00:22:40.89
he still thinks he
has a chance to win.
00:22:40.92\00:22:42.82
And it says those who
keep the commandments of God,
00:22:45.86\00:22:49.53
it talks about
the remnant church
00:22:49.56\00:22:52.50
is at war with
the enemy of souls.
00:22:52.53\00:22:55.77
The remnant church
is at war with the enemy
00:22:55.80\00:22:58.61
of souls or should be.
00:22:58.64\00:23:01.71
We are at war.
00:23:01.74\00:23:05.21
We have to be willing
to die in the line of duty.
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Does that make sense?
00:23:08.95\00:23:10.65
When I was in service,
you know, they said to me was,
00:23:10.69\00:23:15.42
"I'm your mama,
and I'm your papa."
00:23:15.46\00:23:20.43
That was a sergeant.
You're my mama and my papa.
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I hadn't her talk like that.
00:23:23.47\00:23:25.40
Really?
00:23:25.43\00:23:26.80
And you don't think on
your own, we'll tell you,
00:23:26.84\00:23:30.71
we'll think for you,
00:23:30.74\00:23:32.11
and you do what
we tell you to do.
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And you will do it,
or you wish you had of.
00:23:38.81\00:23:41.55
God doesn't operate that way,
but the enemy certainly does.
00:23:46.02\00:23:50.89
The remnant church is at war.
00:23:50.93\00:23:53.83
And so I'm, can I...
00:23:53.86\00:23:55.26
it all right to
say I'm sick and tired?
00:23:55.30\00:23:58.23
We get sick and tired of
the same old, fluffy stuff
00:23:58.27\00:24:02.17
that's going on some
time that we're not at war,
00:24:02.20\00:24:04.67
it doesn't make any difference.
00:24:04.71\00:24:06.04
Sit back and relax.
00:24:06.07\00:24:07.41
Again, we're all
headed in the same place.
00:24:07.44\00:24:08.78
And we're all going to
make it in our own little way.
00:24:08.81\00:24:11.21
Listen, we make it heaven,
00:24:11.25\00:24:12.58
we make it in God's
way or we don't make it.
00:24:12.61\00:24:15.95
After all, He owns a
universe and He sets the rules.
00:24:15.98\00:24:19.72
Herb, He sets the
rules, does He not?
00:24:19.75\00:24:22.06
No one likes rules,
you say, but you know,
00:24:22.09\00:24:23.96
rules are all right.
00:24:23.99\00:24:25.96
What if we didn't have any
kind of rules or regulations?
00:24:25.99\00:24:28.50
What kind of a football game
00:24:28.53\00:24:30.77
when we have without rules?
00:24:30.80\00:24:33.07
Baseball, what we...
00:24:33.10\00:24:34.44
All got rules and
we say the rule says,
00:24:34.47\00:24:36.24
the rule says,
00:24:36.27\00:24:38.54
here we do
everything we want to do,
00:24:38.57\00:24:40.08
go here and go
there, and you'll say,
00:24:40.11\00:24:41.68
"But there's a
rule against that."
00:24:41.71\00:24:43.14
There ain't no
rule in church. Really?
00:24:43.18\00:24:45.48
There's no rules
in the Word of God?
00:24:45.51\00:24:47.68
Ten simple ones?
00:24:47.72\00:24:50.22
Revelation 12:17,
00:24:50.25\00:24:51.62
Lord have mercy, the time flies.
00:24:51.65\00:24:53.19
Let's read it. I've got to read
it or the time's gonna be up.
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Notice what the Bible
said in Revelation 12:17.
00:24:57.36\00:25:01.13
And it starts this way.
00:25:01.16\00:25:02.66
And the dragon,
who's the dragon?
00:25:02.70\00:25:06.70
The Devil.
00:25:06.74\00:25:08.24
Satan was wroth,
what does that mean?
00:25:08.27\00:25:11.24
Angry with the woman.
00:25:11.27\00:25:12.61
Who's the woman?
00:25:12.64\00:25:14.24
The church.
00:25:14.28\00:25:15.61
You know, what's it,
00:25:15.64\00:25:17.15
Jeremiah 6:2, you can read that.
00:25:17.18\00:25:19.08
You can read
about the true church
00:25:19.11\00:25:20.55
of Revelation Chapter 12,
00:25:20.58\00:25:22.05
and the false church
in Revelation Chapter 17.
00:25:22.08\00:25:24.75
Man, there's a difference.
00:25:24.79\00:25:26.52
One's pure and white
standing on the moon,
00:25:26.55\00:25:28.82
the other is riding on
a scarlet colored beast,
00:25:28.86\00:25:31.43
dressed like the
world and things going on.
00:25:31.46\00:25:33.29
Do you see what
I'm talking about?
00:25:33.33\00:25:35.06
The woman at the church
and notice what the devil did?
00:25:35.10\00:25:37.70
"He went to make
war with the remnant,"
00:25:37.73\00:25:42.10
that means the
remainder of her seed,
00:25:42.14\00:25:45.24
that's the children, right?
00:25:45.27\00:25:46.94
Notice it, "of those who
keep the commandments of God
00:25:46.98\00:25:50.81
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
00:25:50.85\00:25:53.21
Here you find
00:25:53.25\00:25:54.92
the two identifying
marks of God's last day church.
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Not everybody has it.
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We're not trying to
condemn one group or trying
00:26:00.96\00:26:02.62
to build up one group at all.
00:26:02.66\00:26:04.29
I'm doing what
the Bible says here.
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God says this, that the devil
is mad with a certain group.
00:26:06.29\00:26:10.53
So evidently,
00:26:10.57\00:26:11.90
if you don't believe in
keeping the commandments of God,
00:26:11.93\00:26:13.40
the devil is
really not mad at you.
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He's already got you. Right?
00:26:14.87\00:26:18.34
Because, he's angry
with, right here, it says here.
00:26:18.37\00:26:20.44
He's angry at those
who keep the command.
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So if you don't
believe in keeping the command,
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I'm talking about all 10.
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Don't give me
this business nine,
00:26:29.35\00:26:31.39
or eight I believe
in, or seven I believe in.
00:26:31.42\00:26:35.16
That doesn't make sense.
00:26:35.19\00:26:36.52
We'll prove that as we go along.
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It's all the commandments.
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So if you're not a believer
in all 10, you don't fit here.
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The devil is angry at them, why?
00:26:44.17\00:26:46.13
He's threatened by
this little group of people.
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He's not
threatened by the others
00:26:49.27\00:26:50.61
who don't keep them
or who breaking them.
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He's not threatened at all.
00:26:52.34\00:26:54.31
But he's threatened by
you who by God's grace,
00:26:54.34\00:26:57.31
willing to keep
the commandments of God
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and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ,
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which is the Spirit
of Prophecy, is that not?
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Revelation 19:10
makes it very, very clear.
00:27:04.89\00:27:07.96
I want to establish this
as to be a foundation for us
00:27:07.99\00:27:10.09
to building and then tracing
the big problem from heaven,
00:27:10.13\00:27:12.83
all the way down
till Jesus comes.
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Let's make sure this is clear.
00:27:16.50\00:27:18.03
'Cause if we don't
get this clear so far,
00:27:18.07\00:27:21.14
you know, we're just going
to be confused and messed up.
00:27:21.17\00:27:23.91
This is not just a
put together group.
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This is a movement of destiny.
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This is a movement of destiny
00:27:29.84\00:27:31.88
that God has
ordained in the last days
00:27:31.91\00:27:34.65
that people will
come up and proclaim
00:27:34.68\00:27:36.28
the three angels' message.
00:27:36.32\00:27:38.35
They'll
proclaim that there is...
00:27:38.39\00:27:39.72
We're living in
the judgment hour
00:27:39.75\00:27:41.09
that Jesus is soon to come.
00:27:41.12\00:27:43.29
He's going to
take us back and say,
00:27:43.32\00:27:44.76
"Go back to the
one that made heaven
00:27:44.79\00:27:46.13
and earth and sea
and all that in them is."
00:27:46.16\00:27:48.53
That means you
go back to creation,
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you go back to creation,
00:27:49.93\00:27:51.27
you go back to
the seven day cycle,
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you go back to the
seventh day Sabbath.
00:27:52.67\00:27:54.04
There's no doubt about it.
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As you give these messages,
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then the second
angel's message says,
00:27:57.71\00:27:59.44
"Come out of her, My people."
00:27:59.47\00:28:01.34
God has good people everywhere.
00:28:01.38\00:28:03.75
We shouldn't have to
say it over and over.
00:28:03.78\00:28:05.11
God has good people
everywhere in every church.
00:28:05.15\00:28:08.05
But notice, God's
good people will what?
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Will hear what is truth
and they'll take their stand.
00:28:10.52\00:28:15.26
Don't get me. Can
I say baloney again?
00:28:15.29\00:28:17.23
I say baloney a lot.
00:28:17.26\00:28:18.59
Is that a French word?
00:28:18.63\00:28:22.30
This stuff is, well, I
know what it says here.
00:28:22.33\00:28:25.13
But you know, we
choose not to do it
00:28:25.17\00:28:26.90
where I go or we don't
think we have to do it anymore.
00:28:26.94\00:28:30.57
Since when do we
sit in the seat of God
00:28:30.61\00:28:33.14
and decide that we
don't have to do it
00:28:33.17\00:28:34.68
when God says to do it.
00:28:34.71\00:28:37.08
I mean that to me I just...
00:28:37.11\00:28:38.71
Have we gone that far?
00:28:38.75\00:28:40.22
Are we that
spiritually dead anymore?
00:28:40.25\00:28:45.32
That we say this is
plainly what it says, but...
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Let's make sure we
see Revelation 19:10 here,
00:28:51.06\00:28:54.20
two identifying marks
of God's last day church.
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If you don't fit in this,
00:28:57.20\00:28:58.60
then you're not
part of the remnant
00:28:58.63\00:29:01.60
of the last
people on this earth.
00:29:01.64\00:29:03.07
It can't be because
there's nothing else
00:29:03.10\00:29:05.44
that says it like this.
00:29:05.47\00:29:07.98
If it didn't say it like this,
I wouldn't be interested in it.
00:29:08.01\00:29:10.08
Why would I want
to talk about it?
00:29:10.11\00:29:11.45
Why bring it up? You know why?
00:29:11.48\00:29:15.52
Because God
brought it up. That's why.
00:29:15.55\00:29:18.22
Because God said
there's going to be a lot
00:29:18.25\00:29:19.62
of professors out there.
00:29:19.65\00:29:20.99
You know, the ones who
says, "I am, I love Jesus,
00:29:21.02\00:29:22.52
I study all the time, I
go to church all the time,
00:29:22.56\00:29:24.99
I pay my tithes.
00:29:25.03\00:29:27.43
Man, I've done many wonderful
works." You remember that?
00:29:27.46\00:29:29.63
Matthew 24, "I've
done many wonderful works
00:29:29.66\00:29:31.53
in thy name."
00:29:31.57\00:29:32.90
And Jesus says, "Depart
from me you workers of iniquity.
00:29:32.93\00:29:34.94
I don't even know you."
00:29:34.97\00:29:37.77
So, you might be so
done wonderful works,
00:29:37.81\00:29:39.91
you may be given all
kind of, but give your body
00:29:39.94\00:29:41.71
to be burned, so what?
00:29:41.74\00:29:43.35
Yet we have not love,
love for our fellow man,
00:29:43.38\00:29:45.61
love for God
that we're willing to,
00:29:45.65\00:29:47.82
by His grace and
strength to keep.
00:29:47.85\00:29:49.62
I can't keep anything on my own.
00:29:49.65\00:29:51.82
I'm useless. I'm worthless.
00:29:51.85\00:29:54.42
But by God's
grace, He said what?
00:29:54.46\00:29:56.22
All things are
possible through Jesus Christ.
00:29:56.26\00:29:59.49
Let's start thinking
as a church positive,
00:29:59.53\00:30:01.60
what do you say?
00:30:01.63\00:30:02.96
It's past, keep
your eyes on Christ.
00:30:03.00\00:30:05.77
If you're going to
repopulate heaven, my friends,
00:30:05.80\00:30:07.77
I guarantee you
based on the Word of God,
00:30:07.80\00:30:10.71
we must be like Jesus.
00:30:10.74\00:30:12.87
That means we
need to have His mind.
00:30:12.91\00:30:14.64
Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus.
00:30:14.68\00:30:18.08
I can't take my worldly,
pathetic, weak mind to heaven.
00:30:18.11\00:30:21.88
Is that okay?
00:30:21.92\00:30:25.05
It's not okay somebody said,
and I'll probably go on anyway,
00:30:25.09\00:30:27.26
but still yet.
00:30:27.29\00:30:29.26
I mean, think about
our mind, it wanders,
00:30:29.29\00:30:31.46
maybe here and there, it
goes over in this direction.
00:30:31.49\00:30:33.76
It's out here in the
field over here, it's over here,
00:30:33.80\00:30:35.90
that will never
happen in heaven.
00:30:35.93\00:30:39.40
So it has to be
conquered down here,
00:30:39.43\00:30:41.27
not when we get there.
00:30:41.30\00:30:43.00
This is your hour of
probation. This is my hour.
00:30:43.04\00:30:47.18
Whether it's a
longer life or short life,
00:30:47.21\00:30:50.25
God knows, He understands.
00:30:50.28\00:30:52.35
But this is the...
00:30:52.38\00:30:53.72
This is the hour.
00:30:53.75\00:30:55.82
The devil is taking aim,
00:30:55.85\00:30:58.45
and he's going
to shoot if he can.
00:30:58.49\00:31:01.12
Notice what it says there,
remember two identifying marks.
00:31:01.16\00:31:04.06
First of all, they
keep all the commandments.
00:31:04.09\00:31:06.36
So if you have a church
that doesn't believe or a group
00:31:06.39\00:31:08.56
of people or an
individual, it doesn't matter.
00:31:08.60\00:31:11.07
I'm not going to mince about it.
00:31:11.10\00:31:12.63
I'm not going to just try
and make excuses about it.
00:31:12.67\00:31:14.94
If you say no, we don't believe
in the fourth commandment,
00:31:14.97\00:31:17.54
or we're
throwing one of them out,
00:31:17.57\00:31:18.91
you are not part of the remnant.
00:31:18.94\00:31:20.44
I don't take joy. I
don't take joy in that.
00:31:23.55\00:31:25.31
But, Herb, I can't
see anything different.
00:31:25.35\00:31:27.12
I wished I could
see it like sometime.
00:31:27.15\00:31:29.15
Is there slack here somewhere?
00:31:29.18\00:31:30.59
There's not.
00:31:30.62\00:31:32.19
James 2:10 says, "If
you fail in one point,
00:31:32.22\00:31:34.29
you're guilty of all."
00:31:34.32\00:31:35.66
Oh, you can't be.
00:31:35.69\00:31:38.36
And then it says,
here's the other one.
00:31:38.39\00:31:40.70
Here's the other one.
00:31:40.73\00:31:42.16
It says Revelation 19:10.
00:31:42.20\00:31:44.93
What is the Spirit of Prophecy?
00:31:44.97\00:31:47.70
Revelation 19
says, notice, it says,
00:31:47.74\00:31:49.84
"And I fell at His
feet to worship Him.
00:31:49.87\00:31:52.71
John, isn't that
right? John was there.
00:31:52.74\00:31:54.78
Here come an
angel, evidently, listen,
00:31:54.81\00:31:56.44
I fell at His
feet to worship Him,
00:31:56.48\00:31:58.25
and He said unto me,
"See thou do it not."
00:31:58.28\00:32:01.22
I am thy fellow servant,
00:32:01.25\00:32:03.15
and of thy brother that
had the testimony of Jesus.
00:32:03.18\00:32:06.92
Worship God, listen,
for the testimony of Jesus
00:32:06.96\00:32:10.99
is the Spirit of Prophecy."
00:32:11.03\00:32:13.09
Man, how clear that is.
00:32:13.13\00:32:16.06
Don't try to work
yourself around it.
00:32:16.10\00:32:18.53
Just look at it and
say, "Oh, that's clear.
00:32:18.57\00:32:20.27
I don't see any argument there."
00:32:20.30\00:32:23.20
Here comes an
angel and he's going
00:32:23.24\00:32:24.57
to be talking
right here to John.
00:32:24.61\00:32:27.68
And just prior to that,
it's kind of interesting.
00:32:27.71\00:32:30.48
In Revelation 19:9, here's what,
00:32:30.51\00:32:34.08
here's why John
fell at the angel's feet,
00:32:34.12\00:32:37.05
because angel came
and was talking to him.
00:32:37.09\00:32:40.46
And he was telling
him about the invitation
00:32:40.49\00:32:43.32
to the Marriage
Supper of the Lamb.
00:32:43.36\00:32:46.29
John was so excited.
00:32:46.33\00:32:47.66
He's talking
about, you know, heaven,
00:32:47.70\00:32:50.07
invitation coming
00:32:50.10\00:32:51.43
to the Marriage
Supper of the Lamb.
00:32:51.47\00:32:52.80
And John was so excited
about that marriage supper,
00:32:52.83\00:32:55.87
which is a celebration
of victory over the enemy.
00:32:55.90\00:33:00.78
So John responds as
he hears this message,
00:33:00.81\00:33:03.01
he says, "Oh, how wonderful is."
00:33:03.04\00:33:04.71
And he falls down everyday,
prostrate before an angel.
00:33:04.75\00:33:08.28
Surely if you
could worship an angel
00:33:08.32\00:33:10.45
would be worth worshiping.
00:33:10.49\00:33:12.49
But not really, is it?
00:33:12.52\00:33:14.52
No, the angel
makes it very clear.
00:33:14.56\00:33:16.29
He said, "Don't worship me."
00:33:16.32\00:33:18.59
Notice what he says, "I'm
your, I'm a fellow servant."
00:33:18.63\00:33:20.96
Did you get that?
00:33:21.00\00:33:23.83
And John was just doing it
because he heard the message,
00:33:23.87\00:33:26.13
he loved it, and he said,
oh, this is a heavenly being
00:33:26.17\00:33:28.90
and oh, what else he could do?
00:33:28.94\00:33:30.47
He fell down to worship him.
00:33:30.51\00:33:33.74
But the messenger
said, "Don't do this.
00:33:33.78\00:33:35.54
Don't do it."
00:33:35.58\00:33:37.35
He said, "I am
thy fellow servant."
00:33:37.38\00:33:39.68
Can you possibly imagine
that an angel from heaven,
00:33:39.71\00:33:43.22
right, a worker for God
in the very presence of God?
00:33:43.25\00:33:48.86
And then looks
at somebody like me,
00:33:48.89\00:33:52.36
want to get, I'm
going to go, "Oh, praise."
00:33:52.39\00:33:54.46
No, don't do that.
00:33:54.50\00:33:57.13
I'm your, I'm
thy fellow servant.
00:33:57.17\00:33:59.53
That word translated
means what in the Greek?
00:33:59.57\00:34:02.10
I'm your fellow slave.
00:34:02.14\00:34:04.41
And angel says to you,
"I'm your fellow slave.
00:34:04.44\00:34:08.14
I'm going to work for
you. I'm going to live for you.
00:34:08.18\00:34:10.68
I'm here for you." I am...
00:34:10.71\00:34:13.42
Notice it, I'm
my fellow bondsman.
00:34:13.45\00:34:17.89
Evidently then the angel
came to reveal these truths.
00:34:17.92\00:34:23.29
So the Spirit of Prophecy
is one of the identifying marks
00:34:23.32\00:34:26.13
of the remnant church
because the Bible says so.
00:34:26.16\00:34:30.90
Now a lot of times we don't like
00:34:30.93\00:34:32.27
Spirit of Prophecy we
call, and I wonder why not?
00:34:32.30\00:34:35.44
I've read it from the
book, from the beginning
00:34:35.47\00:34:37.17
to the very end and I see
prophetic gifts all through it.
00:34:37.21\00:34:42.11
Why is it here
in these last days,
00:34:42.14\00:34:43.78
we want to fight
that prophetic gift.
00:34:43.81\00:34:45.91
Hopefully we'll get into
that next couple lessons we do.
00:34:45.95\00:34:49.02
Well, I feel the
third one coming on.
00:34:49.05\00:34:52.02
I know it said two but
boy, there's so much here.
00:34:52.05\00:34:54.36
It's good.
00:34:54.39\00:34:57.26
Mama's heart,
you got to keep it.
00:34:57.29\00:34:58.63
But let's look a little bit
closer about identifying mark,
00:35:01.80\00:35:05.07
so we have the church.
00:35:05.10\00:35:09.00
Specifically, we're
talking about a manifestation
00:35:09.04\00:35:11.67
of the Spirit in the
form of a special gift
00:35:11.71\00:35:16.18
of the Holy Spirit.
00:35:16.21\00:35:20.05
The Spirit of
Prophecy, the gift of prophecy,
00:35:20.08\00:35:22.82
something that comes
through the Holy Spirit,
00:35:22.85\00:35:25.45
we at least ought
to try to acknowledge.
00:35:25.49\00:35:28.72
We must try to acknowledge
what the Holy Spirit has said.
00:35:28.76\00:35:31.66
Listen, the unpardonable sin,
00:35:31.69\00:35:33.43
the only sin that
God cannot forgive.
00:35:33.46\00:35:35.30
Come on church, listen,
00:35:35.33\00:35:37.17
is the sin
against the Holy Spirit,
00:35:37.20\00:35:39.93
rejecting the
counsel of the Holy Spirit.
00:35:39.97\00:35:43.54
God said, He can't forget that.
00:35:43.57\00:35:45.97
He can't forgive.
00:35:46.01\00:35:47.64
So we,
manifestation of the Spirit
00:35:47.68\00:35:50.58
that will enable
a person, a prophet,
00:35:50.61\00:35:53.01
we will say a prophet,
00:35:53.05\00:35:54.42
to speak as a
representative of God.
00:35:54.45\00:35:58.92
If we knew,
00:35:58.95\00:36:01.12
understood that
someone was standing here,
00:36:01.16\00:36:03.89
they had a message
direct from heaven,
00:36:03.93\00:36:06.36
they were speaking for God,
surely we would want to listen.
00:36:06.39\00:36:10.00
Now, that doesn't
mean I'm going to just,
00:36:10.03\00:36:12.57
I'm going to say it
nicely, blindly, with dead ears,
00:36:12.60\00:36:16.40
because someone says they are.
00:36:16.44\00:36:17.77
I've seen too many frauds.
00:36:17.81\00:36:21.31
There's too many frauds.
00:36:21.34\00:36:22.68
We'll see that
as we go along here.
00:36:22.71\00:36:24.78
Maybe we should just
return to 1 Corinthians.
00:36:24.81\00:36:26.35
Shall we do that?
00:36:26.38\00:36:27.72
Just make sure in
case you're not up on it,
00:36:27.75\00:36:29.78
or in case you are, it's okay.
00:36:29.82\00:36:31.99
We're going to read
there in 1 Corinthians.
00:36:32.02\00:36:33.46
Turn with me.
00:36:33.49\00:36:34.82
We want to read something that
00:36:34.86\00:36:36.19
I believe will be a blessing
to us because in the Bible,
00:36:36.22\00:36:39.96
we'll find as these
things are written out,
00:36:40.00\00:36:42.86
they're written out very simple
that we can understand it.
00:36:42.90\00:36:46.17
1 Corinthians Chapter
12, you know about the gifts,
00:36:46.20\00:36:48.54
don't you in there?
00:36:48.57\00:36:49.90
We're going to read
verses 7 through 10.
00:36:49.94\00:36:51.67
Are you there yet?
00:36:51.71\00:36:53.68
Okay, somebody says they are.
00:36:53.71\00:36:55.64
I'll just, I
believe everybody's there.
00:36:55.68\00:36:57.01
Okay, praise God.
00:36:57.05\00:36:58.38
I'm going to go ahead
like everybody is there.
00:36:58.41\00:36:59.91
1 Corinthians 12,
we're gonna start in verse 7.
00:36:59.95\00:37:02.65
Here's what the Bible said.
00:37:02.68\00:37:04.09
"But the
manifestation of the Spirit
00:37:04.12\00:37:06.05
is given to every
man to profit with all.
00:37:06.09\00:37:09.69
Eight, "For to one is given the
Spirit of the word of wisdom."
00:37:09.72\00:37:15.33
That's somebody here.
00:37:15.36\00:37:16.70
"To another the
word of knowledge,
00:37:16.73\00:37:18.07
somebody else by
the same Spirit."
00:37:18.10\00:37:21.17
Remember, the same
Spirit's given all the gifts,
00:37:21.20\00:37:22.90
isn't that right?
00:37:22.94\00:37:24.27
So not somebody else
was showing them say, well,
00:37:24.31\00:37:25.91
this person get...
00:37:25.94\00:37:27.28
The Holy Spirit is
giving the gifts here.
00:37:27.31\00:37:30.01
Verse 8, "For one is given
the Spirit of word of wisdom,
00:37:30.05\00:37:33.01
another to the word of knowledge
00:37:33.05\00:37:34.55
by the same spirit, to another
faith by the same Spirit,"
00:37:34.58\00:37:38.05
come on church, "to
another the gift of," what?
00:37:38.09\00:37:41.16
"Healings by the same spirit."
00:37:41.19\00:37:42.99
Number 10, "To
another the work of miracles,
00:37:43.02\00:37:45.69
to another, oh,
another prophecy.
00:37:45.73\00:37:51.67
And another to
discerning of spirits,
00:37:51.70\00:37:53.60
to another
diverse kinds of tongues,
00:37:53.64\00:37:55.30
to another the
interpretation of tongues:
00:37:55.34\00:37:57.94
all of these worketh that
one on the same self-spirit,
00:37:57.97\00:38:00.58
dividing to every man
severally as he will."
00:38:00.61\00:38:02.94
So in New Testament
here it's talking about what?
00:38:02.98\00:38:06.55
Prophets.
00:38:06.58\00:38:08.02
God says in last days,
there's going to be prophets,
00:38:08.05\00:38:10.22
there's no doubt about it.
00:38:10.25\00:38:12.65
People who God would
choose to speak for Him.
00:38:12.69\00:38:15.92
Why? Because
they can be trusted.
00:38:15.96\00:38:18.29
Can you be trusted?
00:38:18.33\00:38:19.66
Can I be trusted
to speak for God?
00:38:19.69\00:38:23.70
2 Peter 1:21, we
can read all of that,
00:38:23.73\00:38:26.70
about prophecy, how it came.
00:38:26.74\00:38:30.41
Prophecy came not in old
time by the will of what?
00:38:30.44\00:38:33.31
Of man, but by holy men of God
00:38:33.34\00:38:36.34
as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost.
00:38:36.38\00:38:39.05
I think it's about time
that some people got moved
00:38:39.08\00:38:41.12
by the Holy Ghost.
00:38:41.15\00:38:43.35
And there's a right way
and there's a wrong way.
00:38:43.39\00:38:45.49
Some get moved it wrong way,
and they end up doing things
00:38:45.52\00:38:48.12
that the Bible said,
that's not what you do.
00:38:48.16\00:38:50.13
And we still call
it the Holy Ghost.
00:38:50.16\00:38:51.49
No, no matter what they do,
00:38:51.53\00:38:54.06
I don't care if
they walk on their hands,
00:38:54.10\00:38:55.86
or they walk in the thin air
00:38:55.90\00:38:57.30
and there's nothing
underneath their feet.
00:38:57.33\00:38:59.73
If they're doing things
that are opposite to Scripture,
00:38:59.77\00:39:01.74
I'm going to call them a fraud.
00:39:01.77\00:39:03.10
Is that okay?
00:39:03.14\00:39:04.47
You have to be able to do that
00:39:04.51\00:39:06.04
because if you
don't we'll all be fooled.
00:39:06.07\00:39:08.04
We've got to look at it.
00:39:08.08\00:39:09.61
Maybe you can't explain,
00:39:09.64\00:39:10.98
or I can't really
explain all this, huh?
00:39:11.01\00:39:12.61
What does it really mean here?
00:39:15.78\00:39:19.25
You have the divine mind
00:39:19.29\00:39:21.62
and will of God
combined with the human mind
00:39:21.66\00:39:26.96
and the will of man.
00:39:27.00\00:39:29.30
Making the words that
man speaks or writes down
00:39:29.33\00:39:33.44
becomes the Word of God.
00:39:33.47\00:39:35.50
That's pretty simple.
00:39:35.54\00:39:36.94
That's why we don't
just look at this and say,
00:39:36.97\00:39:38.51
"Oh, this is nothing here."
00:39:38.54\00:39:40.68
This is the mind and the
will of God right here written
00:39:40.71\00:39:44.15
as He trusts men and He
puts the Spirit in them.
00:39:44.18\00:39:46.78
They write in their
own language and so,
00:39:46.82\00:39:48.45
but they're under the
direction of the Holy Spirit.
00:39:48.48\00:39:50.85
What a world that we live in,
00:39:50.89\00:39:52.22
if we were directed by the
Holy Spirit of the Living God.
00:39:52.25\00:39:56.12
How we would
write things different,
00:39:56.16\00:39:57.93
how we would talk different,
how we would act different,
00:39:57.96\00:40:00.76
how we would live different,
00:40:00.80\00:40:02.60
how we would give a different
message than we're giving
00:40:02.63\00:40:04.60
right now everyone's
like, "Oh, no, it's Saturday,
00:40:04.63\00:40:07.47
again, it's time for church."
00:40:07.50\00:40:09.04
Come on now.
00:40:09.07\00:40:12.54
The importance of it,
we look forward to it.
00:40:12.57\00:40:15.18
Because he said, "Where two
or three are gathered together,
00:40:15.21\00:40:18.15
I'll be in the midst."
00:40:18.18\00:40:20.28
I believe the Holy
Spirit of Living God
00:40:20.32\00:40:22.42
was here because
we've asked it to be here.
00:40:22.45\00:40:24.99
Isn't that right?
You have to believe that.
00:40:25.02\00:40:26.86
What an awesome
privilege that is.
00:40:26.89\00:40:28.29
Why should the Spirit
come in this little group?
00:40:28.32\00:40:30.83
Why should the Holy Spirit?
00:40:30.86\00:40:32.29
Maybe because you've
asked in faith believing
00:40:32.33\00:40:34.03
we need the
Spirit of the Living God.
00:40:34.06\00:40:35.96
And the day the Holy
Spirit does not show up here
00:40:36.00\00:40:38.37
is the day I want
to go outside myself.
00:40:38.40\00:40:40.77
Are you still with me?
00:40:40.80\00:40:43.34
Because you can't
do anything without
00:40:43.37\00:40:44.84
the Holy Spirit
of the Living God.
00:40:44.87\00:40:47.18
We need the combination.
00:40:47.21\00:40:48.54
The remnant church
of Revelation 12:17.
00:40:48.58\00:40:51.11
Listen carefully, do not
erase that from your mind.
00:40:51.15\00:40:54.02
There's two identifying
marks of God's last day church
00:40:54.05\00:40:57.15
that will fulfill
His mission to the world,
00:40:57.19\00:40:59.85
to wake the world up,
00:40:59.89\00:41:01.22
to take them back to the
way it was, in the beginning.
00:41:01.26\00:41:03.43
God says these people
will be doing such and such
00:41:03.46\00:41:05.49
and we'll look at
that closer as we go along.
00:41:05.53\00:41:08.73
Remnant church specifically
refers to the church
00:41:08.76\00:41:13.20
after the close
of the 1260 years,
00:41:13.23\00:41:16.91
during the Dark Ages,
00:41:16.94\00:41:18.34
the close of the
1260 years after 1798.
00:41:18.37\00:41:22.74
Let me just read
something to you.
00:41:22.78\00:41:24.11
I'm going to have to
whether it takes time or not,
00:41:24.15\00:41:25.48
Revelation Chapter 12.
00:41:25.51\00:41:26.85
I always love to say,
here's what the Bible says.
00:41:31.72\00:41:34.42
Does anybody like to hear that?
00:41:34.46\00:41:36.46
Now hopefully, it
never gets old to you
00:41:36.49\00:41:37.86
because it's not
going to get old to me.
00:41:37.89\00:41:39.66
I need to hear what
the Word of God says.
00:41:39.69\00:41:41.46
Revelation
Chapter 12 read verses 6.
00:41:41.50\00:41:44.50
Now remember,
Revelation Chapter 12
00:41:44.53\00:41:48.40
identifies the true church.
00:41:48.44\00:41:52.31
Now I didn't
come out here and say,
00:41:52.34\00:41:53.78
"Well, this was a Baptist,
this is Seventh-day Adventist,
00:41:53.81\00:41:56.14
this is
Pentecostal, Church of God,
00:41:56.18\00:41:59.38
yeah, it's not by
denomination, really is it?
00:41:59.41\00:42:02.58
But there's things in
here that we need to look at
00:42:02.62\00:42:05.82
and match up to.
00:42:05.85\00:42:07.19
If we don't, I could
care less about some kind
00:42:07.22\00:42:09.79
of a mailbox address.
00:42:09.82\00:42:12.79
Are you still with
me? This is important.
00:42:12.83\00:42:16.46
It's very important.
00:42:16.50\00:42:18.00
Notice what the Bible said.
00:42:18.03\00:42:19.63
Notice in verse 1,
00:42:19.67\00:42:21.00
"And there appeared a
great wonder in heaven,
00:42:21.04\00:42:22.37
a woman clothed with the
sun, the moon under her feet,
00:42:22.40\00:42:24.94
upon her head a crown of," what?
00:42:24.97\00:42:26.37
"Twelve stars."
00:42:26.41\00:42:27.74
We realized something
happened in the New Testament,
00:42:27.78\00:42:29.24
a change over
from the Old Testament
00:42:29.28\00:42:31.08
to the New
Testament, from the sun,
00:42:31.11\00:42:33.11
from the moon as it were, right?
00:42:33.15\00:42:34.85
Coming into the Son
Jesus being born here,
00:42:34.88\00:42:37.55
notice that in,
as we read verses,
00:42:37.59\00:42:39.65
let me read this to
you, I think it's 6 and 14,
00:42:39.69\00:42:41.52
skip down to verse 6.
00:42:41.56\00:42:42.99
Now, here's what happened.
00:42:43.02\00:42:44.36
Remember,
persecution broke loose.
00:42:44.39\00:42:46.43
The killing, right?
00:42:46.46\00:42:47.80
Just all kinds of,
during the Dark Ages,
00:42:47.83\00:42:49.90
persecution of Christians,
here's what the true church,
00:42:49.93\00:42:52.97
here's what
happened to the true church.
00:42:53.00\00:42:54.94
If they did not
flee into the wilderness,
00:42:54.97\00:42:58.51
they would have
been snuffed out.
00:42:58.54\00:43:00.08
Of course, God had a
plan, we realize that.
00:43:00.11\00:43:02.01
Persecution was
rapid on the Christians.
00:43:02.04\00:43:04.65
Notice verse 6 says,
00:43:04.68\00:43:06.08
and the woman we
figured out right,
00:43:06.11\00:43:08.05
we can read that.
00:43:08.08\00:43:09.42
What I say, was that Jeremiah,
00:43:09.45\00:43:11.85
somebody help me, 6:2,
00:43:11.89\00:43:14.26
talking about the
church, the woman.
00:43:14.29\00:43:16.83
"The church fled
into the wilderness."
00:43:16.86\00:43:18.76
What church? The true church.
00:43:18.79\00:43:20.80
"Where she had a
place prepared of God,
00:43:20.83\00:43:22.93
that they should feed her
00:43:22.96\00:43:24.30
for a thousand two
hundred and," what?
00:43:24.33\00:43:27.47
"Threescore days."
00:43:27.50\00:43:29.80
God said His true
church would go into hiding
00:43:29.84\00:43:33.04
because of the Dark Ages
of the papacy for 1260 years.
00:43:33.07\00:43:38.61
Interesting.
00:43:38.65\00:43:39.98
So those churches
that were in operation
00:43:40.02\00:43:42.52
during those
time from 538 to 1798,
00:43:42.55\00:43:47.26
could not possibly
be the remnant church,
00:43:47.29\00:43:49.79
because the remnant
church was in hiding.
00:43:49.82\00:43:52.49
That's what the Bible
said, a place in the wilderness.
00:43:52.53\00:43:55.33
Do you get that?
00:43:55.36\00:43:56.90
Some people say, we were in
the 1500, we were in the 1600.
00:43:56.93\00:43:59.93
God said his last church,
00:43:59.97\00:44:01.30
the church would
appear at the end of time,
00:44:01.34\00:44:03.97
because they had
end time message,
00:44:04.01\00:44:05.97
they would shock the world,
00:44:06.01\00:44:07.34
the world didn't
really want to hear it.
00:44:07.38\00:44:08.71
It's going to be different
than most people were preaching
00:44:08.74\00:44:10.25
and teaching.
00:44:10.28\00:44:11.61
And people say,
"That can't possibly it."
00:44:11.65\00:44:13.25
Let me tell
you, if you can't see
00:44:13.28\00:44:14.62
things going on in the
world today that you said
00:44:14.65\00:44:16.25
couldn't possibly take place
00:44:16.28\00:44:17.62
that has taken place in
the last year and a half.
00:44:17.65\00:44:19.49
Get your head out
of the sand. Come on.
00:44:19.52\00:44:21.52
You know what I'm
talking about here.
00:44:21.56\00:44:23.29
What happened here?
00:44:23.32\00:44:24.86
They should fill
that 1260 days here.
00:44:24.89\00:44:27.66
Notice this, "And
there was war," where?
00:44:27.70\00:44:31.43
"In heaven."
00:44:31.47\00:44:32.80
Verse 7, Revelation 12,
00:44:32.83\00:44:34.24
"Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon.
00:44:34.27\00:44:36.74
Who's that? The devil.
00:44:36.77\00:44:38.24
"And the dragon
fought and his angels."
00:44:38.27\00:44:41.28
Now remember, people say,
00:44:41.31\00:44:42.64
"Well, you're
talking about the dragon,
00:44:42.68\00:44:44.01
you're talking about, we
don't know what that mean."
00:44:44.05\00:44:45.61
Read, just read verse 9.
00:44:45.65\00:44:47.32
The Bible said, "And the
great dragon was cast out,
00:44:47.35\00:44:49.92
the old serpent,
00:44:49.95\00:44:51.29
called the Devil and Satan
was deceived the whole world:
00:44:51.32\00:44:54.19
he was cast out to the earth
00:44:54.22\00:44:55.56
and his angels
cast out with him."
00:44:55.59\00:44:57.16
There was a problem in heaven,
00:44:57.19\00:44:58.86
and that's what we
have to look at today,
00:44:58.89\00:45:00.46
the devil
approached that problem,
00:45:00.50\00:45:02.46
God said no, cast
him out to this earth.
00:45:02.50\00:45:06.20
Would it be fair to say before
we get too far along in there,
00:45:06.23\00:45:09.10
that this earth
was created, right,
00:45:09.14\00:45:12.24
for the great controversy
between good and evil?
00:45:12.27\00:45:15.78
The earth was
created for that purpose,
00:45:15.81\00:45:17.68
because He was going to
cast the devil out of heaven,
00:45:17.71\00:45:20.25
not just to go any
place that he pleased,
00:45:20.28\00:45:22.28
but here to this earth.
00:45:22.32\00:45:24.79
Man, there was a purpose.
00:45:24.82\00:45:27.36
Now let's go a
little bit farther.
00:45:27.39\00:45:30.06
Then, we're talking
about God created man.
00:45:30.09\00:45:32.76
Was there a purpose
for God to create man?
00:45:32.79\00:45:37.17
Wasn't it part of what took
place in heaven when they said,
00:45:37.20\00:45:39.43
"Oh, no one can keep God's
law, His government's not good.
00:45:39.47\00:45:41.90
His character is
not good, blah-blah."
00:45:41.94\00:45:44.17
God said,
"Well, what we have do,
00:45:44.21\00:45:45.61
we've got a place down
here, the devil will be here,
00:45:45.64\00:45:48.78
He created men
and women free choice,
00:45:48.81\00:45:51.08
put them down here.
00:45:51.11\00:45:52.45
And they will either
vindicate My character
00:45:52.48\00:45:54.78
for what I am, or
not, or vindicate his."
00:45:54.82\00:45:58.59
Think about it.
00:45:58.62\00:45:59.95
His character is on, right?
00:45:59.99\00:46:03.26
It's on display for the world,
00:46:03.29\00:46:04.99
and His character
is being challenged,
00:46:05.03\00:46:07.86
that we either have
the character of God
00:46:07.90\00:46:09.46
or we do not.
00:46:09.50\00:46:10.83
And it's not just some
time, and some time not.
00:46:10.87\00:46:13.60
We either have
His character or not.
00:46:13.64\00:46:15.20
Notice that.
00:46:15.24\00:46:16.57
Here's the church.
00:46:16.60\00:46:18.54
God tells of the church
00:46:18.57\00:46:19.91
and the conflict
with the powers of evil.
00:46:19.94\00:46:23.61
But I like this, it
tells also of the power
00:46:23.65\00:46:27.25
that God gives it
for victory at the end.
00:46:27.28\00:46:30.99
Did you hear, God's
church will be victorious?
00:46:31.02\00:46:35.72
You cannot be part of that,
and I cannot be part of that
00:46:35.76\00:46:38.26
if we will not
listen to these things
00:46:38.29\00:46:40.23
that God has
written in His Word.
00:46:40.26\00:46:43.33
Why study the
Book of Daniel, why...
00:46:43.37\00:46:45.47
I might as well sit down.
00:46:45.50\00:46:47.80
Why study the Book of Daniel,
study the Book of Revelation?
00:46:47.84\00:46:50.51
Because they are
two end time books
00:46:50.54\00:46:53.01
for God's end time people.
00:46:53.04\00:46:54.84
That's why we
studying those books right now.
00:46:54.88\00:46:57.21
Yes, you study all the other,
you see the love of Christ,
00:46:57.25\00:47:00.08
and the gifts and
all these other things,
00:47:00.12\00:47:01.62
and the cross of
Calvary is wonderful.
00:47:01.65\00:47:03.42
But if you do not
see love in these,
00:47:03.45\00:47:05.62
the books of
Daniel and Revelation,
00:47:05.65\00:47:07.12
you don't, maybe
you're not seeing love at all.
00:47:07.16\00:47:10.09
God is revealing
some wonderful things.
00:47:10.13\00:47:11.96
He said, I'm revealing
these things because I love you.
00:47:11.99\00:47:14.26
I want you to know it.
00:47:14.30\00:47:15.63
I want you to warn the
world because the world
00:47:15.66\00:47:17.40
is basically deceived.
00:47:17.43\00:47:18.83
They're drunk with
the wine of Babylon.
00:47:18.87\00:47:21.87
And He's given a
call to come out.
00:47:21.90\00:47:25.07
We know the woman
represents the true church.
00:47:25.11\00:47:27.84
But notice she's about
the New Testament Church
00:47:27.88\00:47:30.65
at this time, Revelation 12,
00:47:30.68\00:47:32.31
is about to give
birth to Jesus Christ.
00:47:32.35\00:47:35.12
Is somebody with me?
Would you like me to read that?
00:47:35.15\00:47:39.62
Notice what it
says Revelation 12:2,
00:47:39.65\00:47:41.92
the Bible said,
00:47:41.96\00:47:44.33
and she, we're talking
about the church, right?
00:47:44.36\00:47:46.93
"And she being with child cried,
00:47:46.96\00:47:49.86
travailing in birth and
pained to be delivered."
00:47:49.90\00:47:53.10
Wow.
00:47:53.13\00:47:55.30
That's kind of heavy
duty words when you look.
00:47:55.34\00:47:58.17
Read verse 4, shall we?
00:47:58.21\00:48:00.14
"And his tail,"
who's the tail? The enemy.
00:48:00.18\00:48:02.64
"Drew the third part
of the stars of heaven,
00:48:02.68\00:48:05.15
did cast them to the earth:
00:48:05.18\00:48:07.22
and the dragon," we
know who that is, don't we?
00:48:07.25\00:48:09.08
Do we know now?
00:48:09.12\00:48:10.45
Yeah, "Stood before the woman
00:48:10.49\00:48:12.69
which was ready to be
delivered to devour her child
00:48:12.72\00:48:16.79
as soon as it was born."
00:48:16.83\00:48:20.13
Was it not?
00:48:20.16\00:48:22.13
Wasn't that Herod, right?
00:48:22.16\00:48:23.83
Going to kill all what?
00:48:23.87\00:48:25.30
All male babies,
right, two years and under.
00:48:25.33\00:48:28.67
Here was a dragon standing over.
00:48:28.70\00:48:30.41
We don't know where
Jesus is going to be born,
00:48:30.44\00:48:32.34
the best thing to
do, let's kill all
00:48:32.37\00:48:33.81
of the little
kids two and under,
00:48:33.84\00:48:35.38
we make sure we get Him.
00:48:35.41\00:48:36.78
The Bible is saying here exactly
00:48:36.81\00:48:38.31
what took place in the
church, God's true church.
00:48:38.35\00:48:42.48
Boy, that's heavy duty.
00:48:42.52\00:48:45.19
Verse 5, "And she brought
forth a man child who was to,"
00:48:45.22\00:48:49.72
oh, listen, "who was to rule,"
in case you're still in doubt,
00:48:49.76\00:48:53.96
"all nations with a rod of iron.
00:48:54.00\00:48:56.77
And her child was all caught
up unto God and to His throne."
00:48:56.80\00:49:02.10
Who else could that
be but Jesus Christ?
00:49:02.14\00:49:04.24
Is somebody still with me?
00:49:04.27\00:49:05.84
He's to rule all
nations with a rod of iron.
00:49:05.87\00:49:07.68
You go back to Isaiah,
all these things right here,
00:49:07.71\00:49:09.61
who was caught
up to God's throne,
00:49:09.64\00:49:11.18
sits on the right hand
of the Father, Jesus Christ.
00:49:11.21\00:49:14.25
New Testament, God's Church,
00:49:14.28\00:49:16.18
His New Testament Church
in Revelation Chapter 12.
00:49:16.22\00:49:18.22
He's identifying
His church, His people,
00:49:18.25\00:49:21.76
they will do what
He's asked them to do.
00:49:21.79\00:49:24.06
It may not be popular,
but He's asking them to do it.
00:49:24.09\00:49:27.16
Later on.
00:49:27.20\00:49:28.56
They said the
church will be persecuted,
00:49:28.60\00:49:31.10
following His
ascension, we realize that,
00:49:31.13\00:49:34.34
I think in verse 5,
00:49:34.37\00:49:37.94
and then 13 through 17,
00:49:37.97\00:49:39.31
we're not going
to read all those,
00:49:39.34\00:49:40.68
read all those
again 13 through 17.
00:49:40.71\00:49:42.68
Boy, I'm telling you,
when you look at this,
00:49:42.71\00:49:45.88
it just so plainly
reveals God's last day church.
00:49:45.91\00:49:50.89
Now remember,
this church represents
00:49:50.92\00:49:52.95
not the Old Testament
and the New Testament.
00:49:52.99\00:49:56.32
God's church is not
different in one place,
00:49:56.36\00:49:58.23
you're not saved
differently in the Old Testament
00:49:58.26\00:50:00.20
than you are in
the New Testament.
00:50:00.23\00:50:01.56
Somebody with me?
00:50:01.60\00:50:02.93
Oh, in the Old Testament,
they're saved by works.
00:50:02.96\00:50:04.73
You're saved by
grace in the Old Testament,
00:50:04.77\00:50:07.77
New Testament,
you're saved by grace.
00:50:07.80\00:50:09.57
Isn't that wonderful?
00:50:09.60\00:50:10.94
By grace are you saved
through faith is a gift.
00:50:10.97\00:50:13.71
Surely that was
before Jesus came
00:50:13.74\00:50:15.94
and Jesus said that
were the sacrificial system,
00:50:15.98\00:50:18.31
did He not?
00:50:18.35\00:50:20.58
That the shedding of the blood,
00:50:20.62\00:50:22.08
which He says in Leviticus
without shedding a blood,
00:50:22.12\00:50:24.05
there is what?
00:50:24.09\00:50:25.42
No remission of sin.
00:50:25.45\00:50:26.79
The day would come when
He would die on the cross.
00:50:26.82\00:50:29.92
And we realized when
He died on the cross,
00:50:29.96\00:50:31.56
the Matthew talks about there,
00:50:31.59\00:50:32.93
the curtain in the
earthly sanctuary of what?
00:50:32.96\00:50:35.43
The temple was
torn from top to bottom,
00:50:35.46\00:50:37.77
about as thick as a man hand.
00:50:37.80\00:50:39.13
No man could do it.
00:50:39.17\00:50:40.50
It was ripped,
just like that saying,
00:50:40.54\00:50:41.87
now the way is open
to the most holy place.
00:50:41.90\00:50:44.21
His last stop before He
comes back here to this world,
00:50:44.24\00:50:47.88
which He's standing
before the Ark of the Covenant,
00:50:47.91\00:50:49.71
the Ten Commandment Law.
00:50:49.74\00:50:52.55
Isn't that beautiful, why?
00:50:52.58\00:50:53.92
Because we have broken,
the mercy seat is there,
00:50:53.95\00:50:56.45
the angels are
over that right there.
00:50:56.48\00:50:58.05
Jesus is claiming His blood.
00:50:58.09\00:50:59.55
We've all sinned and come
short of the glory of God.
00:50:59.59\00:51:01.62
Man, we were all going to
die if we don't have a Savior.
00:51:01.66\00:51:04.96
People in the world
say, "I don't need a Savior."
00:51:04.99\00:51:06.59
Yes, you do if you
want to go to heaven.
00:51:06.63\00:51:08.83
There's no other
way to get to heaven
00:51:08.86\00:51:10.57
other than by Jesus Christ.
00:51:10.60\00:51:12.13
In the earthly sanctuary,
where there's only one door
00:51:12.17\00:51:14.74
to get in, and that
door is Jesus Christ.
00:51:14.77\00:51:17.24
You can't climb over it,
you can't buy your way into it.
00:51:17.27\00:51:20.41
You can only
come through the door.
00:51:20.44\00:51:21.78
He says, "Behold, I
stand at the door and what?
00:51:21.81\00:51:24.41
I stand at the door and knock.
00:51:24.45\00:51:25.78
Any man open that door,
00:51:25.81\00:51:27.15
I'm going to come
in and sup with him."
00:51:27.18\00:51:28.52
You know what?
00:51:28.55\00:51:29.88
People are not,
they're not hungry, evidently,
00:51:29.92\00:51:31.25
and they don't
want to sup as it were,
00:51:31.29\00:51:32.62
and they don't want to
knock, they're too lazy.
00:51:32.65\00:51:36.52
You see what I'm
talking about here?
00:51:36.56\00:51:37.89
This is awesome,
00:51:37.93\00:51:39.69
awesome message
that God has given
00:51:39.73\00:51:41.96
that we need to
digest by the grace of God.
00:51:42.00\00:51:45.93
Revelation 12:17
stands as a clear prediction
00:51:45.97\00:51:50.41
of this special
manifestation of the Spirit,
00:51:50.44\00:51:53.71
the gift of prophecy
in the church in our day.
00:51:53.74\00:51:56.81
Remember, make a couple points
before our time is almost up.
00:51:56.85\00:51:59.45
New Testament
writers nowhere suggests
00:51:59.48\00:52:04.92
the gift of prophecy was to
end in the Apostolic Church.
00:52:04.95\00:52:09.36
Come on, are you still with me?
00:52:09.39\00:52:10.83
Oh, no, we
don't do that anymore.
00:52:10.86\00:52:12.36
What do you mean you don't do?
00:52:12.39\00:52:13.73
You might not be doing it
but the Bible said, "Go ahead."
00:52:13.76\00:52:17.13
See, we need to get over
that saying, "Well, we don't."
00:52:17.17\00:52:20.34
What do you mean, we don't?
00:52:20.37\00:52:21.74
We've decided is
that what you would.
00:52:21.77\00:52:23.10
God said, "No."
00:52:23.14\00:52:25.17
None of the
writers, none of them,
00:52:25.21\00:52:26.81
you can't find it in
there, none of them suggest
00:52:26.84\00:52:29.41
the Spirit of Prophecy
ended at the Apostolic Church.
00:52:29.44\00:52:33.15
In fact, Paul, you remember
in Ephesians was it 4:11 says,
00:52:33.18\00:52:38.65
the gift of the
Spirit will continue.
00:52:38.69\00:52:41.49
Verse 13, "Till
all come to the unity
00:52:41.52\00:52:44.06
of the truth of
faith," notice this,
00:52:44.09\00:52:47.53
"and knowledge
of the Son of God,"
00:52:47.56\00:52:50.63
notice this, "and
come into a perfect man,
00:52:50.67\00:52:54.00
unto the measure of the stature
of the fullness of Christ."
00:52:54.04\00:52:58.74
So that means the
Spirit of Prophecy, right?
00:52:58.77\00:53:01.18
Prophetic gift will be in
the church until Jesus comes.
00:53:01.21\00:53:05.05
Man, the church needs it today.
00:53:05.08\00:53:07.28
The world needs it today.
00:53:07.32\00:53:09.52
And the devil is
trying to throw it out
00:53:09.55\00:53:10.89
because he knows
you'll be able to see it
00:53:10.92\00:53:12.42
clearer than ever before.
00:53:12.45\00:53:13.82
I can see it clearer ever before
00:53:13.86\00:53:15.42
because God has given us
some things that we can read,
00:53:15.46\00:53:17.83
say, "Oh, now I get it."
00:53:17.86\00:53:19.23
It harmonized
100% with the Bible,
00:53:19.26\00:53:21.26
there's no doubt about it.
00:53:21.30\00:53:23.57
We'll read more of
that as we go along with it.
00:53:23.60\00:53:26.63
But since all, listen carefully,
00:53:26.67\00:53:28.00
since all of these
other special gifts
00:53:28.04\00:53:31.27
are mentioned in verse 11.
00:53:31.31\00:53:33.41
Are you there in verse 11?
00:53:33.44\00:53:37.08
And notice this and are still
00:53:37.11\00:53:39.18
and they're still
needed in the church.
00:53:39.21\00:53:41.95
Come on, they're
still, all these other gifts
00:53:41.98\00:53:44.09
are still
needed by men and women
00:53:44.12\00:53:47.49
who are still
qualified by the Holy Spirit,
00:53:47.52\00:53:50.73
notice this, to
fill their offices.
00:53:50.76\00:53:53.70
So why shouldn't the office
of the prophet be considered?
00:53:53.73\00:53:58.53
Why should it be
considered as you know,
00:53:58.57\00:54:00.30
like, it's exception.
00:54:00.34\00:54:02.10
Did you get it?
00:54:02.14\00:54:03.47
All the other gifts
that are mentioned in there
00:54:03.51\00:54:05.01
all of a sudden they're
just, oh, it's okay for them,
00:54:05.04\00:54:06.98
but then prophetic
gift, oh, no this out.
00:54:07.01\00:54:09.11
How can we do that? You can't.
00:54:09.14\00:54:11.41
You can't.
00:54:11.45\00:54:13.65
I mean, to me, it's just a
simple proof truth right there.
00:54:13.68\00:54:18.29
It's included with them.
00:54:18.32\00:54:19.65
It's not exempt.
00:54:19.69\00:54:21.02
Another point in the
Old and New Testament,
00:54:21.06\00:54:22.42
the church was warned to
watch out for a false Christ.
00:54:22.46\00:54:26.39
You remember
that, false prophets?
00:54:26.43\00:54:28.93
2 Chronicles 18,
00:54:28.96\00:54:30.63
and Jeremiah
Chapters 27 through 29.
00:54:30.67\00:54:34.10
Those warnings, watch
out for false prophets,
00:54:34.14\00:54:36.44
when the time would come about
the coming of Jesus Christ,
00:54:36.47\00:54:39.87
and we believe that's near.
00:54:39.91\00:54:41.44
Matthew 24:11 and 24 said,
00:54:41.48\00:54:45.31
"The deceptions of these
false prophets would be so great
00:54:45.35\00:54:49.15
that if it were possible," what?
00:54:49.18\00:54:51.15
"It would
deceive the very elect.
00:54:51.19\00:54:54.79
Jesus warned
against false prophets.
00:54:54.82\00:54:57.43
Therefore, notice this,
00:54:57.46\00:55:00.16
there must be a
genuine manifestation of it,
00:55:00.20\00:55:03.67
or He would have simply
warned us against all prophets
00:55:03.70\00:55:06.97
who might arise.
Does that make sense?
00:55:07.00\00:55:10.87
He's warned about the false
so it must be there is a true.
00:55:10.91\00:55:14.58
If there was no
true He just said,
00:55:14.61\00:55:16.64
"All prophets is no
good." He didn't say that.
00:55:16.68\00:55:20.52
Man what an argument that
God puts forward to Jesus.
00:55:20.55\00:55:25.02
Now, see our time's gone.
00:55:25.05\00:55:27.32
Maybe it's good I
sit down and take 10,
00:55:27.36\00:55:28.69
I'll start the second one.
00:55:28.72\00:55:30.96
I feel hot.
00:55:30.99\00:55:33.90
By the grace of God, this
should make you hot today.
00:55:33.93\00:55:36.83
In the Word of God
to say God has a people.
00:55:36.87\00:55:39.43
But we're going to have to
line up with what Scripture says
00:55:39.47\00:55:41.30
and quit this business,
00:55:41.34\00:55:42.67
monkey business of
saying it doesn't matter,
00:55:42.70\00:55:44.27
because it does matter.
00:55:44.31\00:55:45.97
The enemy's
going to do his best,
00:55:46.01\00:55:47.64
you know what he gonna do,
00:55:47.68\00:55:49.01
Satan is zeroing
in on you right now.
00:55:49.04\00:55:50.91
I want to pray
for you right now.
00:55:50.95\00:55:52.28
Let's pray as
we close, shall we?
00:55:52.31\00:55:53.65
Loving Father in heaven,
we thank You for Your Word.
00:55:53.68\00:55:56.08
As the enemy zeroes in on us,
00:55:56.12\00:55:57.45
we pray Your Holy Spirit
will zero even more on us
00:55:57.49\00:55:59.65
that we need You desperately.
00:55:59.69\00:56:01.09
Bless us, Lord, we pray
00:56:01.12\00:56:02.46
and those who made
a decision right now
00:56:02.49\00:56:03.83
you want to
follow Christ in His name
00:56:03.86\00:56:05.19
we pray for His sake.
00:56:05.23\00:56:06.56
Amen.
00:56:06.59\00:56:08.63
Hello and welcome back, friends.
00:56:08.66\00:56:10.53
We sincerely hope
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00:56:10.57\00:56:12.97
by the Spirit of God
00:56:13.00\00:56:14.37
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Pastor Kenny Shelton today
00:56:14.40\00:56:17.17
as he presented
Satan Zeros In part one.
00:56:17.21\00:56:21.18
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00:56:21.21\00:56:23.68
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00:56:31.35\00:56:35.12
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