>> THE TOPIC TODAY IS "TALKING IN TONGUES, SIGNS, 00:00:00.53\00:00:06.06 WONDERS AND MIRACLES." 00:00:06.06\00:00:10.83 A FAMOUS TELEVISION PREACHER WAS HOLDING A SERIES 00:00:10.83\00:00:15.33 OF MEETINGS AND HE WAS HEALING PEOPLE. 00:00:15.33\00:00:21.36 HE WENT AND SAT DOWN ON A SEAT RIGHT DOWN THE VERY FRONT 00:00:21.36\00:00:25.23 AND INVITED THE PEOPLE TO COME FORWARD TO BE SPIRIT FILLED, 00:00:25.23\00:00:30.06 SLAIN IN THE LORD, AND HEALED OF ALL THEIR DISEASES. 00:00:30.06\00:00:35.46 AS THEY CAME FORWARD, HE SAID, IN HIS OWN WORDS, "IT SEEMED AS 00:00:35.46\00:00:41.40 THOUGH ELECTRICITY WAS COURSING THROUGH MY BODY AND FLOWING OUT 00:00:41.40\00:00:46.36 THROUGH MY FINGERS. 00:00:46.36\00:00:48.46 EVERY PERSON," HE SAID, "I TOUCHED FELL DOWN 00:00:48.46\00:00:52.40 ON THE GROUND, SHOUTING 'HALLELUJAH.'" 00:00:52.40\00:00:55.76 HE SAID, "THE PEOPLE STARTED TO SURGE. 00:00:55.76\00:00:59.33 EVERYBODY WAS SHOUTING AND CRYING. 00:00:59.33\00:01:02.23 SOME WERE MOANING. 00:01:02.23\00:01:03.33 SOME WERE LAUGHING." 00:01:03.33\00:01:05.73 AND HE SAID, "OVERCOME BY THE GREATNESS OF THE SITUATION, 00:01:05.73\00:01:10.90 I WAS FORCED TO CRY OUT, "PEOPLE, PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 00:01:10.90\00:01:20.40 AND THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS PEOPLE, IT IS HERE. 00:01:20.40\00:01:31.00 FOR INSTANCE, I HAVE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM A VERY DEAR FRIEND 00:01:31.00\00:01:36.96 OF MINE, WHO IS A DOCTOR, WHO IS COMPLETELY RATIONAL, 00:01:36.96\00:01:45.10 INTELLIGENT, EDUCATED. 00:01:45.10\00:01:48.30 "WHAT ABOUT THE RESURRECTION?" 00:01:48.30\00:01:50.53 HE WRITES. 00:01:50.53\00:01:53.00 "I PROBED THE REVEREND B ABOUT THAT OVER LUNCH. 00:01:53.00\00:01:57.60 THE DEAD MAN HAD BEEN SEVERELY INJURED IN A CAR ACCIDENT. 00:01:57.60\00:02:00.80 HE HAD DIED IN A DOCTOR'S CLINIC AND HIS BODY WAS TAKEN 00:02:00.80\00:02:04.03 TO A MORTUARY. 00:02:04.03\00:02:06.80 BUT AFTER NEARLY 3 DAYS, HE CAME BACK TO LIFE. 00:02:06.80\00:02:10.73 I CHALLENGED B ABOUT THAT. 00:02:10.73\00:02:13.43 MY MEDICAL COLLEAGUES IN LOMA LINDA WOULD 00:02:13.43\00:02:15.73 NEVER BELIEVE IT. 00:02:15.73\00:02:17.56 IT'S WELL KNOWN THAT A HEAD CONCUSSION CAN CAUSE COMA THAT 00:02:17.56\00:02:20.93 LOOKS LIKE DEATH, BUT WHEN THE BRAIN SWELLING SUBSIDES, 00:02:20.93\00:02:26.06 THE VICTIM CAN REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS. 00:02:26.06\00:02:28.96 IT LOOKS LIKE A RESURRECTION. 00:02:28.96\00:02:33.70 B SHOOK HIS HEAD. 00:02:33.70\00:02:35.00 IT WAS LONGER THAN THAT AND THE EXPERIENCED MORTUARY STAFF KNEW 00:02:35.00\00:02:39.36 LIFE FROM DEATH. 00:02:39.36\00:02:41.46 BUT I SAID IT'S POSSIBLE FOR A COMA TO LAST FOR EVEN 3 DAYS 00:02:41.46\00:02:46.23 AND THEN CONSCIOUSNESS CAN RETURN SURPRISINGLY. 00:02:46.23\00:02:50.13 BUT B GENTLY CORRECTED ME. 00:02:50.13\00:02:53.26 'IT WASN'T LIKE THAT,' HE SAID, 'FOR DURING THAT TIME, 00:02:53.26\00:02:56.66 THE MORTUARY STAFF HAD EMBALMED THE MAN. 00:02:56.66\00:03:01.06 AND TODAY HE IS BACK WITH HIS FAMILY, PASTORING 00:03:01.06\00:03:04.40 A SMALL VILLAGE CHURCH. 00:03:04.40\00:03:06.10 HE IS WELL KNOWN IN NIGERIA.'" I AM INCLINED TO ASK THE 00:03:06.10\00:03:14.20 QUESTION, WHY DO THESE THINGS ONLY HAPPEN IN PLACES WHERE 00:03:14.20\00:03:21.16 THEY CAN'T BE CHECKED OUT, SUCH AS THE BACK BLOCKS OF NIGERIA? 00:03:21.16\00:03:28.26 WHY NOT IN LOS ANGELES BEFORE DOCTORS AND TELEVISION CAMERAS? 00:03:28.26\00:03:35.76 BUT IT IS TRUE. 00:03:35.76\00:03:37.56 PEOPLE, IT'S HERE. 00:03:37.56\00:03:42.03 I WANT YOU TO TAKE YOUR BIBLES AND TURN TO REVELATION 11. 00:03:42.03\00:03:47.36 REVELATION 13:11. 00:03:47.36\00:03:50.90 REVELATION, THE LAST BOOK IN THE BIBLE. 00:03:50.90\00:03:53.10 AND EVERYBODY TURN TO THE TEXT. 00:03:53.10\00:03:55.50 WE ARE A BIBLE READING, A BIBLE CARRYING, 00:03:55.50\00:03:59.50 A BIBLE PREACHING CHURCH. 00:03:59.50\00:04:03.66 REVELATION. 00:04:03.66\00:04:05.66 DON'T THINK YOU KNOW THE TEXTS BECAUSE THE ODDS ARE YOU DON'T. 00:04:05.66\00:04:09.33 REVELATION 13:11. 00:04:09.33\00:04:15.20 "THEN I SAW ANOTHER BEAST, COMING UP OUT OF THE EARTH. 00:04:15.20\00:04:21.63 HE HAD TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB, AND HE SPOKE LIKE A DRAGON." 00:04:21.63\00:04:29.93 VERSE 13, "AND HE PERFORMED GREAT AND MIRACULOUS SIGNS, 00:04:29.93\00:04:35.80 EVEN CAUSING FIRE TO COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN IN FULL VIEW 00:04:35.80\00:04:40.40 OF MEN." 00:04:40.40\00:04:42.20 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT A GREAT COUNTERFEIT IN THE LAST DAYS. 00:04:42.20\00:04:48.86 IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THE LAMB INVARIABLY REFERS TO WHOM? 00:04:48.86\00:04:57.06 SAY IT. 00:04:57.06\00:04:58.73 JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. 00:04:58.73\00:05:01.26 BUT THIS IS A COUNTERFEIT CHRIST. 00:05:01.26\00:05:07.00 AND THE BIBLE SAYS HE DOES SIGNS AND WONDERS AND HE BRINGS 00:05:07.00\00:05:11.13 DOWN FIRE FROM HEAVEN. 00:05:11.13\00:05:13.93 I NOTICE IT SAYS HE SPOKE AS A LAMB--AS HE SPOKE NOT AS 00:05:13.93\00:05:19.20 A LAMB, BUT HE SPOKE AS A WHAT? 00:05:19.20\00:05:23.06 A DRAGON. 00:05:23.06\00:05:24.00 WE WOULD THINK HE WOULD SPEAK LIKE A LAMB, BUT HE SPEAKS 00:05:24.00\00:05:26.93 AS A DRAGON. 00:05:26.93\00:05:29.56 EVERY TIME I PREACHED ON THIS TEXT, I HAVE SAID 00:05:29.56\00:05:33.26 THE DRAGON ROARS. 00:05:33.26\00:05:36.30 THIS IS A POWER THAT LOOKS LIKE CHRIST, BUT HE ROARS 00:05:36.30\00:05:40.36 LIKE A DRAGON. 00:05:40.36\00:05:42.10 I WAS QUITE WRONG BECAUSE THE BIBLE TELLS ME THE DRAGON 00:05:42.10\00:05:49.33 HAS THE CAPACITY TO BE APPARENTLY VERY SWEET. 00:05:49.33\00:05:53.73 IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THE SERPENT, ANOTHER WORD 00:05:53.73\00:05:58.60 FOR THE DRAGON, WAS SWEET TALKING AND SEDUCTIVE. 00:05:58.60\00:06:06.16 DR. STEFANOVIC, IN HIS BOOK, "REVELATION," PUBLISHED 00:06:06.16\00:06:10.66 BY ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, PAGE 19 SAYS, "THE SEDUCTIVE 00:06:10.66\00:06:17.10 AND DECEITFUL CHARACTER OF THE SERPENT IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN." 00:06:17.10\00:06:23.13 SO WHEN THE GREAT COUNTERFEIT CHRIST COMES, DON'T THINK 00:06:23.13\00:06:27.36 HE'S GOING TO BE ROARING LIKE A DRAGON. 00:06:27.36\00:06:30.96 HE'S GOING TO BE SWEET TALKING. 00:06:30.96\00:06:34.10 AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY, "HALLELUJAH, IT'S HERE. 00:06:34.10\00:06:39.03 THIS IS THE POWER OF GOD." 00:06:39.03\00:06:42.20 I WANT YOU TO COME OVER HERE NOW TO ACTS 2:1-4. 00:06:42.20\00:06:47.00 ACTS 2:1-4. 00:06:47.00\00:06:51.53 THAT TALKS ABOUT THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:06:51.53\00:06:55.16 ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST. 00:06:55.16\00:06:57.96 ACTS 2:1-4. 00:06:57.96\00:07:01.86 HAVE YOU FOLK GOT THE TEXT? 00:07:01.86\00:07:04.80 I WANT TO WELCOME THE TELEVISION AUDIENCE TODAY 00:07:04.80\00:07:07.16 ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, IN--UP TO THERE INTO CANADA, RIGHT DOWN 00:07:07.16\00:07:11.76 THERE ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN, AND ACROSS THE PACIFIC TO AUSTRALIA 00:07:11.76\00:07:16.90 AND NEW ZEALAND. 00:07:16.90\00:07:18.13 WE WANT TO GIVE A WELCOME TODAY TO OUR VIEWERS IN IRAN, IRAQ, 00:07:18.13\00:07:24.16 AND THE MIDDLE EAST, AND AROUND THE WORLD. 00:07:24.16\00:07:26.33 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE WITH US. 00:07:26.33\00:07:28.33 GET YOUR BIBLES AND FOLLOW THE TEXT. 00:07:28.33\00:07:30.80 ACTS 2:1-4. 00:07:30.80\00:07:34.16 "WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST CAME, THEY WERE ALL TOGETHER 00:07:34.16\00:07:37.70 IN ONE PLACE. 00:07:37.70\00:07:39.03 SUDDENLY A SOUND LIKE THE BLOWING OF A VIOLENT WIND 00:07:39.03\00:07:43.03 CAME FROM HEAVEN AND FILLED THE WHOLE HOUSE WHERE 00:07:43.03\00:07:45.80 THEY WERE SITTING. 00:07:45.80\00:07:47.66 THEY SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE TONGUES OF FIRE THAT SEPARATED 00:07:47.66\00:07:51.26 AND CAME TO REST ON EACH OF THEM. 00:07:51.26\00:07:54.06 ALL OF THEM WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BEGAN 00:07:54.06\00:07:56.90 TO SPEAK IN OTHER TONGUES AS THE SPIRIT ENABLED THEM." 00:07:56.90\00:08:02.80 THIS FIRE THAT COMES DOWN FROM GOD IS THE SYMBOL 00:08:02.80\00:08:10.16 OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:08:10.16\00:08:11.70 AND WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT IN OUR LIVES AND WE NEED 00:08:11.70\00:08:15.53 THE HOLY SPIRIT IN OUR CHURCH. 00:08:15.53\00:08:19.60 AND SO HERE YOU HAVE THE TONGUES OF FIRE, THE SYMBOL 00:08:19.60\00:08:22.83 OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 00:08:22.83\00:08:25.60 BUT IN REVELATION 13, MY FRIEND, YOU HAVE A FALSE HOLY SPIRIT 00:08:25.60\00:08:33.60 AND YOU HAVE A FALSE PENTECOST. 00:08:33.60\00:08:36.93 AND THIS PENTECOST IS SO POWERFUL THAT MILLIONS 00:08:36.93\00:08:40.83 OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SHOUT IN SPIRITUAL ECSTASY. 00:08:40.83\00:08:45.00 "PEOPLE," THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, "IT'S HERE." 00:08:45.00\00:08:49.90 YOU KNOW THE STORY OF THE PROPHET ELIJAH, THE PROPHET 00:08:49.90\00:08:54.93 OF GOD WHO STOOD ON MT. CARMEL WHEN HE FOUGHT 00:08:54.93\00:08:59.60 THE PRIESTS OF BAAL. 00:08:59.60\00:09:02.66 BY THE POWER OF GOD, ELIJAH BROUGHT DOWN THE FIRE OF GOD. 00:09:02.66\00:09:10.40 THIS WAS THE SYMBOL OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, OF THE PRESENCE 00:09:10.40\00:09:14.60 OF GOD. 00:09:14.60\00:09:16.50 AND IN REVELATION 13, THE FALSE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN THE LAST 00:09:16.50\00:09:24.43 DAYS BRINGS DOWN FIRE, SPIRITUAL FIRE, JUST LIKE 00:09:24.43\00:09:30.63 ELIJAH DID. 00:09:30.63\00:09:32.40 AND THE BIBLE TELLS ME THAT THE LAMB-LIKE POWER 00:09:32.40\00:09:37.40 OF REVELATION 13 IS THE FALSE PROPHET OF INIQUITY. 00:09:37.40\00:09:44.16 COME OVER HERE TO REVELATION 19. 00:09:44.16\00:09:48.00 REVELATION 19:20. 00:09:48.00\00:09:51.46 I AM DELIGHTED TO SEE SO MANY HERE. 00:09:51.46\00:09:54.20 I'M DELIGHTED TO SPEAK TO SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AUDIENCE, 00:09:54.20\00:09:58.06 ALL GOOD LOOKING. 00:09:58.06\00:09:59.60 I'M DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU FOLKS TURNING TO THE TEXT 00:09:59.60\00:10:02.60 IN THE BIBLE. 00:10:02.60\00:10:04.03 REVELATION 19. 00:10:04.03\00:10:05.70 WHEN I SAID ALL GOOD LOOKING, I MEANT ESPECIALLY THIS LADY 00:10:05.70\00:10:08.90 HERE AND SOME OTHER ONES WHO ARE SMILING BACK AT ME SO NICELY. 00:10:08.90\00:10:12.00 LIKE YOU, MARY. 00:10:12.00\00:10:13.10 REVELATION 19:20. 00:10:13.10\00:10:18.06 YOU GOT IT? 00:10:18.06\00:10:19.43 "BUT THE BEAST WAS CAPTURED." 00:10:19.43\00:10:21.53 IT'S THE ANTICHRIST. 00:10:21.53\00:10:22.76 "AND WITH HIM," WHO? 00:10:22.76\00:10:25.36 "THE FALSE PROPHET WHO HAD PERFORMED THE MIRACULOUS SIGNS 00:10:25.36\00:10:30.13 ON HIS BEHALF. 00:10:30.13\00:10:31.90 WITH THESE SIGNS HE HAD DELUDED THOSE WHO HAD RECEIVED THE MARK 00:10:31.90\00:10:37.26 OF THE BEAST AND WORSHIPED HIS IMAGE." 00:10:37.26\00:10:40.90 LISTEN TO ME. 00:10:40.90\00:10:42.03 LOOK AT ME. 00:10:42.03\00:10:43.93 IN THE LAST DAYS, GOD IS GOING TO HAVE THE ELIJAH MESSAGE. 00:10:43.93\00:10:48.80 THE BIBLE TELLS ME THAT ELIJAH COMES IN THE LAST DAYS, 00:10:48.80\00:10:53.00 NOT IN PERSON, BUT IN A MESSAGE. 00:10:53.00\00:10:56.90 AND HERE IN REVELATION 13, YOU'VE GOT THE LAMB-LIKE BEAST 00:10:56.90\00:11:01.36 AND THE BIBLE TELLS ME HE IS THE FALSE PROPHET, 00:11:01.36\00:11:05.03 HE IS THE FALSE ELIJAH. 00:11:05.03\00:11:08.56 AND THE BIBLE TELLS ME HE BRINGS DOWN UNHOLY FIRE 00:11:08.56\00:11:13.76 AND MULTITUDES, MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO DO NOT 00:11:13.76\00:11:18.53 UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES, ARE GOING TO SCREAM AND SHOUT, 00:11:18.53\00:11:22.26 "PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 00:11:22.26\00:11:25.26 THEY'RE GOING TO FEEL ELECTRICITY COURSING THROUGH 00:11:25.26\00:11:30.23 THEIR BODIES. 00:11:30.23\00:11:32.63 LISTEN TO ME. 00:11:32.63\00:11:35.30 THIS IS A GREAT TRUTH. 00:11:35.30\00:11:38.90 EVERYTHING GOD DOES, SATAN COUNTERFEITS. 00:11:38.90\00:11:45.83 EVERYTHING. 00:11:45.83\00:11:47.76 FOR INSTANCE, IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, YOU HAVE--AND I 00:11:47.76\00:11:52.60 DON'T HAVE TIME TO ELABORATE ON THESE POINTS. 00:11:52.60\00:11:54.70 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT TRINITY. 00:11:54.70\00:11:58.50 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE FATHER, THE SON, 00:11:58.50\00:12:00.76 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:12:00.76\00:12:01.66 IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, YOU HAVE THE DRAGON, THE BEAST, 00:12:01.66\00:12:04.66 AND THE FALSE PROPHET. 00:12:04.66\00:12:06.86 THE BOOK OF REVELATION TALKS ABOUT THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN. 00:12:06.86\00:12:09.93 REVELATION 13 TALKS ABOUT THE LAMB, THE COUNTERFEIT. 00:12:09.93\00:12:14.60 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT CITY, BABYLON INSTEAD OF JERUSALEM. 00:12:14.60\00:12:17.86 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT SEAL. 00:12:17.86\00:12:21.06 THAT'S THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:12:21.06\00:12:22.60 YOU HAVE COUNTERFEIT MIRACLES. 00:12:22.60\00:12:25.03 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT HOLY SPIRIT. 00:12:25.03\00:12:28.13 THAT'S THE UNHOLY FIRE. 00:12:28.13\00:12:29.56 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT RESURRECTION. 00:12:29.56\00:12:32.63 THE BEAST DIES AND HE'S BROUGHT TO LIFE AGAIN. 00:12:32.63\00:12:36.06 AND YOU HAVE, THE BIBLE TELLS ME, IN THE LAST DAYS, 00:12:36.06\00:12:40.23 A COUNTERFEIT PENTECOST. 00:12:40.23\00:12:45.73 YOU READY FOR IT? 00:12:45.73\00:12:49.06 BEFORE THE END, THERE WILL BE A MIGHTY DISPLAY OF SATANIC 00:12:49.06\00:12:56.86 POWER ROBED IN THE GARMENTS OF HEAVEN. 00:12:56.86\00:13:03.10 IT'LL BE BEAUTIFUL, SEDUCTIVE, SWEET TALKING, POWERFUL, AND 00:13:03.10\00:13:11.63 WILL EMBODY THE HEART AND SOUL OF ANTICHRIST. 00:13:11.63\00:13:15.10 AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE GOING 00:13:15.10\00:13:20.00 TO BE DECEIVED. 00:13:20.00\00:13:21.03 WILL YOU BE DECEIVED? 00:13:21.03\00:13:23.73 WILL I BE DECEIVED? 00:13:23.73\00:13:26.16 THE BIBLE SAYS IT IS GOING TO BE AN ALMOST OVERWHELMING 00:13:26.16\00:13:33.10 DELUSION AND VAST NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES 00:13:33.10\00:13:38.80 THE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST ARE GOING TO SCREAM, 00:13:38.80\00:13:42.76 "PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 00:13:42.76\00:13:46.03 COME WITH ME TO 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-11. 00:13:46.03\00:13:51.23 I'M GLAD TO SEE SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE SITTING 00:13:51.23\00:13:54.60 THERE, LISTENING TO THE WORD, AND TURNING TO THE TEXT. 00:13:54.60\00:13:58.80 I'M PROUD OF YOU. 00:13:58.80\00:14:00.63 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-11. 00:14:00.63\00:14:07.53 I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE HERE AN INTERNATIONAL 00:14:07.53\00:14:11.30 CHURCH. 00:14:11.30\00:14:12.46 WE'VE GOT PEOPLE OF ALL DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES 00:14:12.46\00:14:17.76 AND ALSO QUITE A NICE VARIETY OF COLORS. 00:14:17.76\00:14:22.13 AND THIS IS HOW IT OUGHT TO BE IN THE CHURCH OF GOD. 00:14:22.13\00:14:25.16 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-11, "THE COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE WILL 00:14:25.16\00:14:34.63 BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORK OF SATAN DISPLAYED IN ALL KINDS 00:14:34.63\00:14:38.63 OF COUNTERFEIT MIRACLES, SIGNS, AND WONDERS, AND IN EVERY SORT 00:14:38.63\00:14:44.73 OF EVIL THAT DECEIVES THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING. 00:14:44.73\00:14:48.50 THEY PERISH BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO LOVE THE TRUTH 00:14:48.50\00:14:52.13 AND SO BE SAVED. 00:14:52.13\00:14:54.63 FOR THIS REASON GOD SENDS THEM A POWERFUL DELUSION SO THAT 00:14:54.63\00:15:02.80 THEY WILL BELIEVE THE LIE." 00:15:02.80\00:15:08.00 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT FALSE REVIVAL OF THE LAST DAYS. 00:15:08.00\00:15:14.53 I WANT TO SAY TODAY, "PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 00:15:14.53\00:15:19.83 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THE PHRASES IN 2 THESSALONIANS 00:15:19.83\00:15:23.33 BECAUSE THESE ARE POWERFUL, POTENT WORDS. 00:15:23.33\00:15:26.56 NUMBER ONE, MIRACLES, SIGNS, AND WONDERS. 00:15:26.56\00:15:31.63 I'VE MET SO MANY PEOPLE AND THEY'VE SAID TO ME, 00:15:31.63\00:15:33.70 "PASTOR CARTER, I WENT TO A MEETING AND I SAW 00:15:33.70\00:15:36.93 PEOPLE JUST BOWL OVER. 00:15:36.93\00:15:39.56 I SAW PEOPLE BEING HEALED AND THIS IS THE GREAT SIGN 00:15:39.56\00:15:44.66 THAT GOD HAS COME." 00:15:44.66\00:15:45.93 IT'S NOT THE GREAT SIGN AT ALL. 00:15:45.93\00:15:48.76 IT IS A SIGN THAT THERE IS A SUPERNATURAL FORCE WORKING 00:15:48.76\00:15:54.53 IN THAT MEETING. 00:15:54.53\00:15:55.56 THAT'S ALL IT PROVES. 00:15:55.56\00:15:57.93 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT SIGNS, WONDERS. 00:15:57.93\00:16:01.26 IT TALKS IN THIS TEXT ABOUT A POWERFUL DELUSION. 00:16:01.26\00:16:06.10 IT TALKS NOT ABOUT A LIE, BUT THE LIE. 00:16:06.10\00:16:10.43 IT TALKS ABOUT THE WORK OF SATAN. 00:16:10.43\00:16:13.53 IT TALKS ABOUT DECEPTION. 00:16:13.53\00:16:15.70 IT TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE PERISHING. 00:16:15.70\00:16:18.43 IT TALKS ABOUT REJECTING THE TRUTH. 00:16:18.43\00:16:24.43 THEREFORE, THEREFORE, HOW CAN I TODAY IDENTIFY THE FALSE 00:16:24.43\00:16:39.00 PENTECOST, THE FALSE REVIVAL, THE COUNTERFEIT ELIJAH? 00:16:39.00\00:16:47.70 POINT NUMBER ONE, THE FALSE REVIVAL IS EMOTION OVER TRUTH. 00:16:47.70\00:17:02.20 IS EMOTION IN WORSHIP WRONG? 00:17:02.20\00:17:06.40 NO. 00:17:06.40\00:17:08.20 YOU CAN'T LOVE GOD AND LOVE THE PEOPLE OF GOD AND NOT HAVE 00:17:08.20\00:17:12.00 EMOTION AND STILL BE ALIVE. 00:17:12.00\00:17:15.36 NOT LONG AGO, BY MYSELF, I WENT INTO THE TOMB 00:17:15.36\00:17:20.30 OF PHARAOH TUTANKHAMEN, TAKEN DOWN THERE BY MYSELF 00:17:20.30\00:17:24.26 SO I COULD SPEND A LITTLE TIME WITH THIS MAN WHO'S HELPED ME 00:17:24.26\00:17:27.80 SO MUCH WITH MY EVANGELISTIC ADVERTISING. 00:17:27.80\00:17:31.93 I SAT THIS CLOSE TO HIM. 00:17:31.93\00:17:35.36 A GORGEOUS TOMB, BUT ABSOLUTELY DEAD. 00:17:35.36\00:17:43.13 THERE ARE SOME CHURCHES LIKE KING TUT'S TOMB. 00:17:43.13\00:17:47.83 THERE IS NO POWER AND THERE IS NO LIFE AND PEOPLE 00:17:47.83\00:17:51.36 CALL IT GODLINESS. 00:17:51.36\00:17:54.26 WE NEED TO HAVE LIFE. 00:17:54.26\00:17:58.50 JESUS SAID, "I WANT YOU TO WORSHIP ME IN SPIRIT 00:17:58.50\00:18:03.90 AND IN TRUTH." 00:18:03.90\00:18:05.23 BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU FOLKS SOMETHING. 00:18:05.23\00:18:06.96 LET THIS SINK DOWN INTO YOUR PURE MINDS TODAY. 00:18:06.96\00:18:13.20 EMOTION SHOULD NEVER OVERSHADOW THE TRUTH OF THE WORD. 00:18:13.20\00:18:21.53 AND ONE OF THE SIGNS OF THE FALSE REVIVAL IS EMOTION 00:18:21.53\00:18:26.23 OVER TRUTH. 00:18:26.23\00:18:27.90 I WANT YOU TO COME TO THE WORDS OF OUR BLESSED LORD, 00:18:27.90\00:18:31.26 JOHN 8:31-32. 00:18:31.26\00:18:35.30 AND I'M GLAD TO BE HERE IN CHURCH. 00:18:35.30\00:18:38.56 JOHN 8:31-32, OUR LORD IS TALKING HERE, "TO THE JEWS WHO 00:18:38.56\00:18:49.00 HAD BELIEVED IN HIM, JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU HOLD TO MY 00:18:49.00\00:18:53.30 TEACHINGS, YOU ARE REALLY MY DISCIPLES. 00:18:53.30\00:18:57.43 THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL 00:18:57.43\00:19:00.50 SET YOU FREE.'" JESUS SAID, "THE TRUTH 00:19:00.50\00:19:03.73 WILL SET YOU FREE." 00:19:03.73\00:19:04.90 I SAY TO YOU TODAY THE TRUTH, THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. 00:19:04.90\00:19:09.56 I WAS ATTENDING SOME MEETINGS NOT HERE IN THIS COUNTRY. 00:19:09.56\00:19:13.76 I WAS IN A BIBLE STUDY CLASS AND THE PERSON WHO WAS TAKING 00:19:13.76\00:19:17.53 THE CLASS SAID TO ME, "NO PERSON CAN MAKE A JUDGMENT 00:19:17.53\00:19:21.13 ON ANYTHING BECAUSE EVERYBODY REALLY HAS GOT HIS OWN OPINION 00:19:21.13\00:19:27.03 AND EVERYBODY IS RIGHT." 00:19:27.03\00:19:31.90 THAT'S A PART OF THE BIG LIE. 00:19:31.90\00:19:34.16 JESUS SAID, "YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH." 00:19:34.16\00:19:37.30 WHY DO WE SAY WHEN YOU COME TO THIS CHURCH, 00:19:37.30\00:19:39.53 "OPEN YOUR BIBLES"? 00:19:39.53\00:19:42.03 CHECK OUT THE PREACHER BECAUSE JESUS SAID YOU'LL KNOW 00:19:42.03\00:19:44.90 THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE. 00:19:44.90\00:19:50.23 THIS IS AN ARTICLE SENT TO ME BY WILLIE JORDAN 00:19:50.23\00:19:54.73 OF THE FRED JORDAN MISSION. 00:19:54.73\00:19:56.53 THOUGHT I'D BE INTERESTED. 00:19:56.53\00:19:57.80 I AM. 00:19:57.80\00:19:59.23 THE COMING EVANGELICAL COLLAPSE. 00:19:59.23\00:20:02.86 IT'S PRINTED IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. 00:20:02.86\00:20:05.10 THAT DOESN'T REFLECT THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. 00:20:05.10\00:20:08.10 IT IS SIMPLY AN ARTICLE WRITTEN BY MICHAEL SPENCER. 00:20:08.10\00:20:12.83 YOU MAY NOT, I MAY NOT AGREE WITH EVERYTHING IN IT, BUT IT 00:20:12.83\00:20:15.93 SAYS SOME VERY GOOD THINGS. 00:20:15.93\00:20:17.30 LISTEN. 00:20:17.30\00:20:18.56 "AN ANTI-CHRISTIAN CHAPTER IN WESTERN HISTORY IS ABOUT TO 00:20:18.56\00:20:22.10 BEGIN, BUT OUT OF THE RUINS A NEW VITALITY AND INTEGRITY 00:20:22.10\00:20:27.70 WILL ARISE. 00:20:27.70\00:20:30.53 WE'RE ON THE VERGE WITHIN 10 YEARS OF A MAJOR COLLAPSE 00:20:30.53\00:20:33.93 OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY. 00:20:33.93\00:20:37.06 THIS BREAKDOWN WILL FOLLOW THE DETERIORATION OF THE MAINLINE 00:20:37.06\00:20:41.43 PROTESTANT WORLD AND IT WILL FUNDAMENTALLY ALTER 00:20:41.43\00:20:44.63 THE RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE WEST." 00:20:44.63\00:20:50.66 AND THEN HE SAYS, "YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? 00:20:50.66\00:20:52.63 WHY IS THIS GOING TO HAPPEN? 00:20:52.63\00:20:54.50 EVANGELICALS HAVE IDENTIFIED THEIR MOVEMENT WITH 00:20:54.50\00:20:57.86 THE CULTURE WAR AND WITH POLITICS. 00:20:57.86\00:21:02.23 THEREFORE, IT'S NOT GOING TO STAND THE TEST. 00:21:02.23\00:21:05.50 NUMBER TWO, WE EVANGELICALS HAVE FAILED TO PASS ON TO OUR 00:21:05.50\00:21:11.23 OWN YOUNG PEOPLE AN ORTHODOX FORM OF FAITH THAT CAN TAKE 00:21:11.23\00:21:15.73 ROOT AND SURVIVE THE SECULAR ONSLAUGHT. 00:21:15.73\00:21:20.00 IRONICALLY, THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE'VE SPENT ON YOUTH 00:21:20.00\00:21:24.23 MINISTERS, CHRISTIAN MUSIC, PUBLISHING, AND MEDIA HAS 00:21:24.23\00:21:31.16 PRODUCED A CULTURE OF YOUNG CHRISTIANS WHO KNOW NEXT TO 00:21:31.16\00:21:35.66 NOTHING ABOUT THEIR FAITH EXCEPT HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT IT. 00:21:35.66\00:21:44.46 OUR YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE DEEP BELIEFS ABOUT THE CULTURE WAR, 00:21:44.46\00:21:49.13 BUT DO NOT KNOW WHY THEY SHOULD OBEY SCRIPTURE, THE ESSENTIALS 00:21:49.13\00:21:54.76 OF THEOLOGY, OR THE EXPERIENCE OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE 00:21:54.76\00:21:59.53 AND COMMUNITY. 00:21:59.53\00:22:01.33 COMING GENERATIONS OF CHRISTIANS ARE GOING TO BE MONUMENTALLY 00:22:01.33\00:22:06.80 IGNORANT AND UNPREPARED." 00:22:06.80\00:22:10.20 I'D SAY RIGHT NOW, PEOPLE, IT'S HERE. 00:22:10.20\00:22:15.46 BECAUSE THROUGHOUT CHRISTENDOM TODAY, PEOPLE ARE MONUMENTALLY 00:22:15.46\00:22:21.13 IGNORANT OF THE WORD OF GOD. 00:22:21.13\00:22:25.50 HE GOES ON TO SAY, "TO THE BENEFICIARIES OF THIS COLLAPSE 00:22:25.50\00:22:34.13 WILL BE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC AND ORTHODOX COMMUNIONS. 00:22:34.13\00:22:39.20 EVANGELICALS HAVE BEEN ENTERING THESE CHURCHES IN RECENT 00:22:39.20\00:22:42.80 DECADES AND THAT TREND WILL CONTINUE." 00:22:42.80\00:22:46.20 YOU KNOW WHY THEY'RE GOING INTO THOSE GREAT ORTHODOX CHURCHES, 00:22:46.20\00:22:51.13 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND OTHER GREAT ORTHODOX CHURCHES? 00:22:51.13\00:22:53.96 BECAUSE THOSE CHURCHES, FOR RIGHT OR WRONG, 00:22:53.96\00:22:57.10 STAND FOR SOMETHING. 00:22:57.10\00:23:01.33 BUT FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE TODAY WHO GO TO VAST 00:23:01.33\00:23:05.73 CHURCHES, THEY KNOW NOTHING OF TRUTH. 00:23:05.73\00:23:10.26 JESUS SAID, "YOU'LL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH 00:23:10.26\00:23:15.60 WILL MAKE YOU FREE." 00:23:15.60\00:23:16.86 I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ELSE. 00:23:16.86\00:23:18.13 WE HAVE GOOD MUSIC IN THIS CHURCH, BUT THE MUSIC OF 00:23:18.13\00:23:22.73 THE FALSE REVIVAL PUTS PEOPLE IN A HYPNOTIC STATE. 00:23:22.73\00:23:29.56 I'VE SEEN IT. 00:23:29.56\00:23:32.13 I'VE SEEN PEOPLE WRITHING. 00:23:32.13\00:23:35.83 I'VE SEEN THEM JUST OUT OF THEIR MINDS, WRITHING, NOTHING 00:23:35.83\00:23:41.33 GOING ON INSIDE. 00:23:41.33\00:23:42.60 THEIR MINDS ARE EMPTY. 00:23:42.60\00:23:45.50 PEOPLE, IT'S HERE. 00:23:45.50\00:23:49.36 AND WE DON'T WANT THAT SORT OF MUSIC IN THE CHURCH OF GOD. 00:23:49.36\00:23:57.53 THE SECOND IDENTIFICATION MARK IS A FALSE GOSPEL. 00:23:57.53\00:24:02.83 COME OVER HERE TO GALATIANS 1:6-8. 00:24:02.83\00:24:08.16 GALATIANS 1:6-8, "I AM ASTONISHED THAT YOU ARE SO 00:24:08.16\00:24:16.63 QUICKLY DESERTING THE ONE WHO CALLED YOU BY THE GRACE OF 00:24:16.63\00:24:19.66 CHRIST AND ARE TURNING TO A DIFFERENT GOSPEL, WHICH IS 00:24:19.66\00:24:24.50 REALLY NO GOSPEL AT ALL. 00:24:24.50\00:24:26.46 EVIDENTLY SOME PEOPLE ARE THROWING YOU INTO CONFUSION 00:24:26.46\00:24:29.50 AND ARE TRYING TO PERVERT THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST. 00:24:29.50\00:24:33.53 BUT EVEN IF WE OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN SHOULD PREACH A GOSPEL 00:24:33.53\00:24:37.46 OTHER THAN THE ONE WE PREACHED TO YOU, LET HIM BE ETERNALLY 00:24:37.46\00:24:41.60 CONDEMNED!" 00:24:41.60\00:24:43.96 NOW WHAT IS THIS GOSPEL THAT IS TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE? 00:24:43.96\00:24:48.46 THE TRUE GOSPEL SAYS THAT I AM SAVED BECAUSE CHRIST DIED 00:24:48.46\00:24:52.70 FOR ME. 00:24:52.70\00:24:57.73 THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT CHRIST ON THE CROSS DIED FOR MY SINS. 00:24:57.73\00:25:05.20 AND IF I COME AS A PENITENT, IN FAITH, REPENTING OF MY SINS 00:25:05.20\00:25:13.16 AND ACCEPTING CHRIST AS MY LORD AND MY SAVIOR, I PASS FROM DEATH 00:25:13.16\00:25:21.33 UNTO LIFE. 00:25:21.33\00:25:25.03 THAT IS THE TRUE GOSPEL. 00:25:25.03\00:25:27.36 THE TRUE GOSPEL DOES NOT DEPEND ON HOW I FEEL. 00:25:27.36\00:25:32.53 SOME DAYS I'M UP AND SOMETIMES, SOME DAYS I'M DOWN. 00:25:32.53\00:25:37.50 SOME DAYS, I'M ALMOST ON THE GROUND. 00:25:37.50\00:25:42.43 NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN, THE BLACK SPIRITUAL SAYS. 00:25:42.43\00:25:48.66 BUT MY SALVATION IS NOT DEPENDENT UPON MY HORMONES 00:25:48.66\00:25:55.06 OR MY MOOD SWINGS OR WHAT I'VE EATEN. 00:25:55.06\00:26:02.06 NO, YOU KNOW WHAT IT DEPENDS ON? 00:26:02.06\00:26:04.90 IT DEPENDS ON JESUS. 00:26:04.90\00:26:06.96 MANY HAVE SAID TO ME, AND I'VE HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN 00:26:06.96\00:26:09.66 THIS, THEY SAY, "THE PROOF OF SALVATION IS THAT I HAVE 00:26:09.66\00:26:13.86 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:26:13.86\00:26:15.33 AND THE PROOF THAT I HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THAT I TALK 00:26:15.33\00:26:18.56 IN TONGUES." 00:26:18.56\00:26:21.60 AND THEY'LL SAY TO YOU, "YOU GOT TO TALK IN TONGUES." 00:26:21.60\00:26:24.40 WHY DO I HAVE TO TALK IN--"YOU GOT TO TALK IN TONGUES BECAUSE 00:26:24.40\00:26:27.33 WHEN YOU TALK IN TONGUES, YOU GET SAVED." 00:26:27.33\00:26:33.03 NOW LISTEN, I'M GONNA PUT THIS UP ON THE BLACKBOARD. 00:26:33.03\00:26:36.13 I'M GONNA KEEP WRITING IT UP UNTIL IT IS A PART OF YOUR 00:26:36.13\00:26:39.30 SOUL. 00:26:39.30\00:26:40.53 NUMBER ONE, SOLA SCRIPTURA. 00:26:40.53\00:26:47.03 THAT MEANS ONLY SCRIPTURE. 00:26:47.03\00:26:50.46 SOLA CHRISTUS, ONLY CHRIST. 00:26:50.46\00:26:57.63 ONLY GRATIA, ONLY GRACE. 00:26:57.63\00:27:04.96 SOLA FIDE, ONLY FAITH. 00:27:04.96\00:27:11.60 I AM NOT SAVED OR LOST BECAUSE OF MY FEELINGS. 00:27:11.60\00:27:17.43 I'M SAVED BECAUSE CHRIST DIED FOR ME ON THE CROSS. 00:27:17.43\00:27:24.50 THE FALSE REVIVAL SAYS, "NO, YOU GOT TO HAVE SOME RELIGIOUS 00:27:24.50\00:27:28.53 EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE OR ELSE YOU'RE NOT SAVED." 00:27:28.53\00:27:33.10 PEOPLE SAY, "WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE ATTRACTED TO THIS?" 00:27:33.10\00:27:37.40 IT IS BECAUSE THEY COME OUT OF SPIRITUALLY DEAD CHURCHES 00:27:37.40\00:27:42.46 AND THEY'RE SO EMPTY INSIDE THAT THEY'RE GRASPING 00:27:42.46\00:27:46.43 FOR AN EXPERIENCE WITH GOD. 00:27:46.43\00:27:50.76 THE THIRD IDENTIFICATION MARK OF THE FALSE REVIVAL IS 00:27:50.76\00:27:55.73 AN UNHOLY EMPHASIS ON WEALTH AND MONEY. 00:27:55.73\00:28:01.10 IT'S CALLED THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL. 00:28:01.10\00:28:07.00 IT'S SUMMED UP IN THAT LITTLE EXPRESSION, "GET ALL YOU CAN, 00:28:07.00\00:28:10.96 CAN ALL YOU GET, AND THEN SIT ON THE LID." 00:28:10.96\00:28:15.93 SO GOD WANTS EVERY PERSON TO BE WEALTHY. 00:28:15.93\00:28:19.53 AND IF YOU SEND ME ALL YOUR MONEY, YOU'RE GONNA GET 00:28:19.53\00:28:22.53 A CADILLAC IF GM IS STILL IN BUSINESS. 00:28:22.53\00:28:30.06 YOU DON'T READ ABOUT IT IN THE BIBLE. 00:28:30.06\00:28:32.16 THAT THEOLOGY DOESN'T WORK VERY WELL IN RUSSIA AND IT DOESN'T 00:28:32.16\00:28:35.70 WORK AT ALL, I TELL YOU, IN INDIA. 00:28:35.70\00:28:39.36 THE FOURTH IDENTIFICATION MARK OF THIS UNHOLY FIRE IS 00:28:39.36\00:28:43.90 AN UNHOLY HOSTILITY TO THE LAW OF GOD. 00:28:43.90\00:28:49.60 COME OVER HERE TO ROMANS 8:6-7. 00:28:49.60\00:28:52.73 ROMANS 8:6-7. 00:28:52.73\00:28:56.36 ROMANS 8:6-7. 00:28:56.36\00:28:59.26 AND THE GREAT APOSTLE PAUL SAYS, "THE SINFUL MIND 00:28:59.26\00:29:03.43 IS HOSTILE TO GOD. 00:29:03.43\00:29:05.53 IT DOES NOT SUBMIT TO GOD'S LAW, NOR CAN IT DO SO. 00:29:05.53\00:29:09.93 THOSE CONTROLLED BY THE SINFUL NATURE CANNOT PLEASE GOD." 00:29:09.93\00:29:15.36 MY FRIEND, I'VE HAD A LITTLE EXPERIENCE NOW AROUND 00:29:15.36\00:29:19.96 THE WORLD. 00:29:19.96\00:29:22.36 I'VE HEARD THE CRY. 00:29:22.36\00:29:23.90 I'VE HEARD IT 1000 TIMES. 00:29:23.90\00:29:26.16 "THE LAW OF GOD IS ABOLISHED, NAILED TO THE CROSS. 00:29:26.16\00:29:33.46 ALL YOU NEED IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN YOU AND HE WILL 00:29:33.46\00:29:38.53 TELL YOU WHAT TO DO." 00:29:38.53\00:29:43.70 IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT THE ANTICHRIST IS CALLED 00:29:43.70\00:29:49.80 THE LAWLESS ONE, THE MAN WHO IS OPPOSED TO THE COMMANDMENTS 00:29:49.80\00:29:56.00 OF GOD. 00:29:56.00\00:30:00.80 THE FIFTH IDENTIFICATION MARK IS A FALSE INTERPRETATION 00:30:00.80\00:30:05.76 OF PROPHECY. 00:30:05.76\00:30:07.76 IT IS A COMPLETE REPUDIATION OF THE PROTESTANT SYSTEM 00:30:07.76\00:30:12.83 CALLED HISTORICISM. 00:30:12.83\00:30:16.33 THE FALSE REVIVAL SAYS THE ANTICHRIST IS A POWER STILL TO 00:30:16.33\00:30:21.96 COME AND IT SAYS THAT THERE COMES A GREAT TRIBULATION AFTER 00:30:21.96\00:30:30.30 THE SAINTS ARE RAPTURED HOME TO GLORY. 00:30:30.30\00:30:34.76 THE REST ARE LEFT BEHIND, THEN THE ANTICHRIST RULES 00:30:34.76\00:30:38.70 FOR 3 & 1/2 YEARS. 00:30:38.70\00:30:42.90 IT SOUNDS GOOD, BUT IT'S FALSE. 00:30:42.90\00:30:46.50 THE SIXTH IDENTIFICATION MARK, PHYSICAL HEALINGS ARE USED AS 00:30:46.50\00:30:54.30 THE PROOF OF GOD'S PRESENCE AND BLESSINGS. 00:30:54.30\00:30:59.46 COME OVER HERE TO 2 THESSALONIANS 2 AGAIN, 00:30:59.46\00:31:02.83 VERSES 7 AND ONWARDS. 00:31:02.83\00:31:04.36 2 THESSALONIANS 2:7 AND ONWARDS. 00:31:04.36\00:31:11.10 AND NOTICE AGAIN THE WORDS, WE READ THEM BEFORE. 00:31:11.10\00:31:14.20 WE'RE GOING TO READ THEM AGAIN BECAUSE THE WORDS ARE 00:31:14.20\00:31:18.53 IMPORTANT. 00:31:18.53\00:31:19.93 THE WORDS DESCRIBE THE GREAT DECEPTION OF THE LAST DAYS. 00:31:19.93\00:31:25.76 2 THESSALONIANS 2:7-9, "FOR THE SECRET POWER OF LAWLESSNESS IS 00:31:25.76\00:31:31.43 ALREADY AT WORK; BUT THE ONE WHO HOLDS IT BACK WILL CONTINUE 00:31:31.43\00:31:36.86 TO DO SO TILL HE IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY. 00:31:36.86\00:31:40.16 AND THEN THE LAWLESS ONE WILL BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD 00:31:40.16\00:31:43.73 JESUS WILL OVERTHROW WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH AND DESTROY 00:31:43.73\00:31:47.06 BY THE SPLENDOR OF HIS COMING. 00:31:47.06\00:31:48.80 THE COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE WILL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 00:31:48.80\00:31:51.40 WORK OF SATAN DISPLAYED IN ALL KINDS OF COUNTERFEIT MIRACLES, 00:31:51.40\00:31:55.26 SIGNS, AND WONDERS, AND IN EVERY SORT OF EVIL THAT DECEIVES 00:31:55.26\00:31:59.90 THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING. 00:31:59.90\00:32:01.46 THEY PERISH BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO LOVE THE TRUTH 00:32:01.46\00:32:06.23 AND SO BE SAVED." 00:32:06.23\00:32:10.40 I WANT TO GIVE A WARNING TO MY DEAR FRIENDS WHO MAYBE 00:32:10.40\00:32:15.80 ARE MESMERIZED BY THIS. 00:32:15.80\00:32:19.40 I SAY THIS WITH ALL THE LOVE IN MY HEART. 00:32:19.40\00:32:24.93 MANY OF THE SO-CALLED MIRACLES DON'T LAST. 00:32:24.93\00:32:34.53 THIS HAS BEEN STUDIED. 00:32:34.53\00:32:38.10 MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE HEALED, THE NEXT DAY 00:32:38.10\00:32:43.73 ARE EVEN WORSE. 00:32:43.73\00:32:45.73 AND THEY ARE TOLD, "IT IS YOUR FAULT. 00:32:45.73\00:32:48.50 IT IS YOUR FAULT BECAUSE OF YOUR SIN AND YOUR LACK 00:32:48.50\00:32:52.33 OF FAITH." 00:32:52.33\00:32:54.43 THAT IS NOT SO. 00:32:54.43\00:32:58.96 MIRACLES IN THEMSELVES ARE NOT A PROOF OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 00:32:58.96\00:33:06.30 LISTEN TO THIS. 00:33:06.30\00:33:08.50 BEFORE THE END, SATAN WILL APPEAR AS JESUS. 00:33:08.50\00:33:14.50 THE SICK WILL BE HEALED. 00:33:14.50\00:33:17.46 IT'LL BE ON EVERY TELEVISION SET, ON EVERY CHANNEL. 00:33:17.46\00:33:21.86 YOU'LL GO TO CNN, YOU'LL GO TO FOX, THERE WILL BE A MAN, 00:33:21.86\00:33:25.53 PROBABLY IN WHITE, AND HE'LL BE PREACHING THE SERMON ON 00:33:25.53\00:33:29.46 THE MOUNT AND PEOPLE DYING OF CANCER WILL BE BROUGHT TO HIM. 00:33:29.46\00:33:34.36 AND WITH A HAND, THE TOUCH OF A HAND, THEY WILL BE 00:33:34.36\00:33:38.56 INSTANTLY HEALED. 00:33:38.56\00:33:40.86 AND PEOPLE WILL BE SHOUTING, "GLORY, GLORY, THIS IS 00:33:40.86\00:33:45.16 THE POWER OF GOD." 00:33:45.16\00:33:50.66 YOU MAY SEE IT. 00:33:50.66\00:33:54.06 NOW I BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN HEAL THE SICK. 00:33:54.06\00:33:59.20 I'M NOT A FAITH HEALER, BUT I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE 00:33:59.20\00:34:03.56 DESPERATELY SICK HEALED. 00:34:03.56\00:34:05.43 IN DNEPROPETROVSK, A WOMAN CAME, WAS ANOINTED. 00:34:05.43\00:34:09.96 WE ANOINTED HER BETWEEN THE TWO PROGRAMS IN 00:34:09.96\00:34:13.06 THE GREAT AUDITORIUM. 00:34:13.06\00:34:15.06 SHE WAS DYING OF CANCER. 00:34:15.06\00:34:17.60 WHEN I WENT BACK 6 MONTHS LATER, SHE INTRODUCED ME TO THE CROWD. 00:34:17.60\00:34:21.53 SHE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY HEALED. 00:34:21.53\00:34:24.76 WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF GOD TO HEAL, BUT A HEALING BY 00:34:24.76\00:34:30.80 ITSELF IS NOT A PROOF THAT GOD IS THERE. 00:34:30.80\00:34:36.43 THE SEVENTH IDENTIFICATION MARK OF THE FALSE REVIVAL IS THIS. 00:34:36.43\00:34:41.90 A MISUSE OF THE GIFT OF TONGUES. 00:34:41.90\00:34:47.00 NOW ALL LISTEN UP. 00:34:47.00\00:34:49.76 NOT LOOSEN UP, LISTEN UP. 00:34:49.76\00:34:55.66 THESE WORDS MUST NOT BE TAKEN AS A CRITICISM OF OUR BELOVED 00:34:55.66\00:35:01.86 FRIENDS WHO TALK IN TONGUES. 00:35:01.86\00:35:08.23 BUT I NEED TO SAY SOME THINGS FROM THE BIBLE. 00:35:08.23\00:35:11.63 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THREE TEXTS. 00:35:11.63\00:35:14.43 NUMBER ONE, TONGUES ARE THE LEAST IMPORTANT OF ALL 00:35:14.43\00:35:18.60 THE GIFTS. 00:35:18.60\00:35:19.73 COME OVER HERE TO 1 CORINTHIANS 12:28. 00:35:19.73\00:35:22.80 1 CORINTHIANS 12:28, "AND IN THE CHURCH GOD HAS APPOINTED 00:35:22.80\00:35:28.73 FIRST OF ALL APOSTLES, SECOND PROPHETS, THIRD TEACHERS, THEN 00:35:28.73\00:35:31.43 WORKERS OF MIRACLES, ALSO THOSE HAVING GIFTS OF HEALINGS, THOSE 00:35:31.43\00:35:35.16 ABLE TO HELP OTHERS, THOSE WITH GIFTS OF ADMINISTRATION." 00:35:35.16\00:35:38.56 ADMINISTRATION IS NUMBER SEVEN. 00:35:38.56\00:35:40.36 AND NUMBER EIGHT, "THOSE SPEAKING IN DIFFERENT 00:35:40.36\00:35:43.60 KINDS OF TONGUES." 00:35:43.60\00:35:45.40 SO IF YOU KEEP READING, IT SAYS, "ARE ALL APOSTLES? 00:35:45.40\00:35:48.06 NO. 00:35:48.06\00:35:48.90 ARE ALL PROPHETS? 00:35:48.90\00:35:49.66 NO. 00:35:49.66\00:35:50.46 ARE ALL TEACHERS? 00:35:50.46\00:35:51.33 NO. 00:35:51.33\00:35:52.16 DO ALL WORK MIRACLES? 00:35:52.16\00:35:53.00 NO. 00:35:53.00\00:35:53.73 DO ALL HAVE THE GIFTS OF HEALINGS? 00:35:53.73\00:35:55.30 NO. 00:35:55.30\00:35:56.13 DO ALL SPEAK IN TONGUES?" 00:35:56.13\00:35:57.23 SO HERE IS THE FIRST POINT THAT THE BIBLE TELLS ME AND IT MAKES 00:35:57.23\00:36:01.50 IT AS PLAIN AS THE NOSE ON YOUR FACE. 00:36:01.50\00:36:04.66 TONGUES, WHATEVER TONGUES ARE, THEY ARE THE LEAST IMPORTANT OF 00:36:04.66\00:36:14.43 ALL OF THE GIFTS AND THE BIBLE TELLS ME SOMETHING, 00:36:14.43\00:36:19.20 TO SEEK THE FIRST GIFTS. 00:36:19.20\00:36:22.33 YOU KNOW WHAT THE FIRST GIFT IS? 00:36:22.33\00:36:24.86 THE FIRST GIFT, THE GIFT OF BEING AN APOSTLE. 00:36:24.86\00:36:28.83 AN APOSTLE IS A PERSON, THE GREEK WORD IS APOSTALIS, 00:36:28.83\00:36:32.00 AND IT MEANS A PERSON WHO IS SENT FORTH INTO THE WORLD 00:36:32.00\00:36:35.83 TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. 00:36:35.83\00:36:38.60 BUT THE LEAST IMPORTANT OF ALL THE GIFTS IS SPEAKING 00:36:38.60\00:36:40.63 IN TONGUES. 00:36:40.63\00:36:41.83 NUMBER TWO, TONGUES ARE A SIGN FOR UNBELIEVERS. 00:36:41.83\00:36:45.93 1 CORINTHIANS 14:22. 00:36:45.93\00:36:51.63 THIS IS A HUGE CHAPTER. 00:36:51.63\00:36:53.56 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ONE TEXT OUT OF IT BECAUSE OF LACK OF 00:36:53.56\00:36:55.90 TIME. 00:36:55.90\00:36:56.86 "TONGUES, THEN, ARE A SIGN, NOT FOR BELIEVERS BUT--" FOR WHO? 00:36:56.86\00:37:02.13 "UNBELIEVERS." 00:37:02.13\00:37:03.00 WILL YOU SAY IT WITH ME? 00:37:03.00\00:37:04.86 TONGUES ARE A SIGN FOR WHOM? 00:37:04.86\00:37:08.56 TONGUES, THE BIBLE SAYS, ARE FOR UNBELIEVERS. 00:37:08.56\00:37:18.80 THAT IS WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 00:37:18.80\00:37:21.50 TONGUES ARE A SIGN FOR UNBELIEVERS, BUT AS THEY ARE 00:37:21.50\00:37:26.40 PRACTICED TODAY IN GREAT RALLIES, THEY ARE A SIGN 00:37:26.40\00:37:29.30 FOR BELIEVERS. 00:37:29.30\00:37:32.03 AND THE THIRD TRUTH IS THIS. 00:37:32.03\00:37:34.80 THIS IS IMPORTANT. 00:37:34.80\00:37:35.86 HERE IT COMES. 00:37:35.86\00:37:37.66 TONGUES WERE GIVEN TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR UNBELIEVERS 00:37:37.66\00:37:45.16 TO HEAR THE GOSPEL. 00:37:45.16\00:37:48.80 COME TO THE BOOK OF ACTS 2:4-11. 00:37:48.80\00:37:56.56 ACTS 2:4-11. 00:37:56.56\00:37:59.56 ACTS 2:4 AND ONWARDS, "ALL OF THEM WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY 00:38:03.76\00:38:10.10 SPIRIT AND BEGAN TO SPEAK IN OTHER TONGUES OR LANGUAGES." 00:38:10.10\00:38:13.76 THE WORD TONGUE IS THE GREEK WORD FOR LANGUAGES. 00:38:13.76\00:38:17.66 "AS THE SPIRIT ENABLED THEM. 00:38:17.66\00:38:19.00 NOW THERE WERE STAYING IN JERUSALEM GOD-FEARING JEWS 00:38:19.00\00:38:21.36 FROM EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN. 00:38:21.36\00:38:22.86 WHEN THEY HEARD THIS SOUND, A CROWD CAME TOGETHER IN 00:38:22.86\00:38:25.00 BEWILDERMENT, BECAUSE EACH ONE HEARD THEM SPEAKING 00:38:25.00\00:38:28.23 HIS OWN LANGUAGE. 00:38:28.23\00:38:30.36 UTTERLY AMAZED, THEY ASKED, 'ARE NOT ALL THESE MEN WHO ARE 00:38:30.36\00:38:33.26 SPEAKING GALILEANS? 00:38:33.26\00:38:35.93 THEN HOW IS IT THAT EACH OF US HEARS THEM IN HIS OWN NATIVE 00:38:35.93\00:38:40.53 LANGUAGE? 00:38:40.53\00:38:41.60 PARTHIANS, MEDES, AND ELAMITES; RESIDENTS OF MESOPOTAMIA, 00:38:41.60\00:38:45.66 JUDEA, AND CAPPADOCIA, PONTUS AND ASIA, PHRYGIA AND 00:38:45.66\00:38:50.13 PAMPHYLIA, EGYPT AND THE PARTS OF LIBYA NEAR CYRENE; VISITORS 00:38:50.13\00:38:54.53 FROM ROME (BOTH JEWS AND CONVERTS TO JUDAISM); 00:38:54.53\00:38:58.33 CRETANS AND ARABS. 00:38:58.33\00:38:59.83 WE HEAR THEM DECLARING THE WONDERS OF GOD IN OUR OWN 00:38:59.83\00:39:04.20 TONGUES!'" LET ME WRITE THIS UP. 00:39:04.20\00:39:06.33 THIS IS TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT. 00:39:06.33\00:39:08.70 I WANT YOU TO HEAR THIS. 00:39:08.70\00:39:10.30 I WANT YOU TO SEE IT, NOT BECAUSE I'M SAYING IT, 00:39:10.30\00:39:12.70 BUT BECAUSE IT'S THE WORD OF GOD. 00:39:12.70\00:39:15.16 THE BIBLE TELLS ME TONGUES WERE GIVEN SO UNBELIEVERS 00:39:15.16\00:39:21.56 COULD HEAR THE WORD OF GOD IN THEIR OWN KNOWN LANGUAGE. 00:39:21.56\00:39:31.80 MY FRIEND, IT IS NOT, IT IS NOT AN ECSTATIC LANGUAGE. 00:39:31.80\00:39:39.10 NOW IN THE CHURCH IN CORINTH, THEY PERVERTED THE GIFT. 00:39:39.10\00:39:42.56 THEY WERE USING IT FOR SELF-EDIFICATION, BUT WHEN GOD 00:39:42.56\00:39:46.26 GAVE TONGUES, HE SAID IT'S NUMBER EIGHT. 00:39:46.26\00:39:50.06 THEN HE SAID IT'S NOT FOR BELIEVERS. 00:39:50.06\00:39:53.03 "DON'T GET THIS MESSED UP," HE SAID. 00:39:53.03\00:39:55.36 "IT'S NOT FOR BELIEVERS." 00:39:55.36\00:39:56.96 AND THAT'S HOW THEY DO IT TODAY. 00:39:56.96\00:39:58.36 IT'S FOR BELIEVERS. 00:39:58.36\00:40:00.20 BUT THE BIBLE SAID IT'S NOT FOR--IT'S NOT FOR BELIEVERS. 00:40:00.20\00:40:04.53 IT'S FOR UNBELIEVERS SO THE UNBELIEVERS CAN HEAR 00:40:04.53\00:40:08.40 THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. 00:40:08.40\00:40:17.33 LISTEN TO ME. 00:40:17.33\00:40:18.76 I WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY. 00:40:18.76\00:40:20.30 GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT I TELL YOU ON THIS BECAUSE I KNOW MORE 00:40:20.30\00:40:22.80 THAN I WANT TO SHARE. 00:40:22.80\00:40:25.83 PEOPLE SAY, "IT'S A WONDERFUL THING. 00:40:25.83\00:40:29.56 THE MIND GOES VACANT. 00:40:29.56\00:40:31.50 THEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD COMES IN AND SOMETIMES THEY TEACH ME 00:40:31.50\00:40:36.20 TO SAY THE SYLLABLES. 00:40:36.20\00:40:38.76 AND AS I'M TAUGHT TO SAY THE SYLLABLES, ALL OF A SUDDEN I'LL 00:40:38.76\00:40:42.36 BREAK OUT IN THIS LANGUAGE. 00:40:42.36\00:40:44.43 I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND IT," THEY SAY. 00:40:44.43\00:40:47.56 I SAY TO SUCH, BEWARE WHEN THE MIND IS VACANT. 00:40:47.56\00:40:53.26 BEWARE, LEST ANOTHER SPIRIT COMES IN THAT YOU DON'T WANT. 00:40:53.26\00:41:01.06 NOW I RAN A BIG CAMPAIGN IN THE GREAT CITY OF MELBOURNE, 00:41:01.06\00:41:03.83 ONE OF THE GREATEST CITIES IN THE WORLD, A MARVELOUS CITY. 00:41:03.83\00:41:07.23 ONE NIGHT, I HAD IT ON THE SPIRITS AND SPIRITISM. 00:41:07.23\00:41:09.90 WE HAD A VAST CROWD IN THE DALLAS BROOKS. 00:41:09.90\00:41:13.06 THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST CAMPAIGNS I HAVE EVER BEEN 00:41:13.06\00:41:16.16 ASSOCIATED WITH. 00:41:16.16\00:41:17.70 AND BEFORE I GOT UP TO PREACH, A BUNCH OF PEOPLE CAME IN, WERE 00:41:17.70\00:41:21.76 SHOWN TO THEIR SEATS RIGHT DOWN THE FRONT, DRESSED IN BLACK. 00:41:21.76\00:41:25.20 THE WOMEN HAD LONG, BLACK DRESSES ON. 00:41:25.20\00:41:28.76 THOSE PEOPLE WERE THE LEADERS OF SPIRITISM FOR THE STATE 00:41:28.76\00:41:34.96 OF VICTORIA. 00:41:34.96\00:41:36.53 THAT NIGHT, THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON ME AND I PREACHED THE 00:41:36.53\00:41:39.90 WORD OF GOD, GLORY BE TO GOD, WITH POWER AND WITH CLARITY. 00:41:39.90\00:41:43.80 AND I MADE AN ALTAR CALL TO TURN FROM SPIRITISM 00:41:43.80\00:41:46.76 AND THEY CAME FORWARD. 00:41:46.76\00:41:48.70 AND A FEW WEEKS LATER, I BAPTIZED THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM 00:41:48.70\00:41:52.16 ON THE STAGE OF THE DALLAS BROOKS. 00:41:52.16\00:41:55.86 BUT DURING THAT SAME MEETING, A MAN CAME TO ME 00:41:55.86\00:41:58.90 AND WE BAPTIZED HIM. 00:41:58.90\00:42:00.43 HE HAD BEEN A BOUNCER IN A NIGHTCLUB AND HE GOT--AND I'M 00:42:00.43\00:42:05.93 TELLING YOU WHAT HE TOLD ME. 00:42:05.93\00:42:07.40 HE SAID, "WE GOT INTO-- I GOT INTO SPIRITISM." 00:42:07.40\00:42:10.96 I SAID, "WHAT HAPPENED?" 00:42:10.96\00:42:12.13 HE SAID, "WHEN I GOT INTO SPIRITISM," HE SAID, "I WAS 00:42:12.13\00:42:14.63 TERRIFIED BECAUSE THE SPIRIT CAME AND SPOKE THROUGH ME." 00:42:14.63\00:42:21.16 AND HE SAID, "I WOULD BREAK OUT IN THIS--" I DON'T WANT 00:42:21.16\00:42:24.13 TO OFFEND ANYBODY. 00:42:24.13\00:42:25.70 CAN I NOT BEAR WITNESS TO THE TRUTH? 00:42:25.70\00:42:29.20 HE SAID, "I WOULD BREAK OUT IN THIS UNKNOWN GIBBERISH AND I 00:42:29.20\00:42:33.73 WOULD--I'D FEEL THE FIRE COMING THROUGH ME." 00:42:33.73\00:42:37.36 I SAID, "WHAT DID YOU DO?" 00:42:37.36\00:42:38.63 THIS MAN WE BAPTIZED, HE SAID, "I WENT ALONG TO A GREAT, BIG 00:42:38.63\00:42:43.73 RALLY AND THE PEOPLE SAID TO ME, 'YOU WILL BE RELEASED 00:42:43.73\00:42:47.53 IF YOU TALK IN TONGUES.'" AND THEY LAID HANDS ON HIM 00:42:47.53\00:42:51.83 AND THEY TAUGHT HIM TO TALK IN TONGUES AND HE SAID, "ALL OF 00:42:51.83\00:42:55.30 A SUDDEN, OUT OF HIS MOUTH CAME THESE UNKNOWN WORDS." 00:42:55.30\00:43:01.40 I SAID, "HOW DID YOU FEEL?" 00:43:01.40\00:43:02.76 HE SAID, "MORE TERRIFIED THAN I'VE EVER FELT IN MY LIFE." 00:43:02.76\00:43:05.96 I SAID, "WHY?" 00:43:05.96\00:43:07.00 HE SAID, "THE WORDS THAT I WERE SPEAKING WERE THE SAME WORDS 00:43:07.00\00:43:15.43 WHEN I WAS IN SPIRITISM." 00:43:15.43\00:43:19.60 HE SAID, "MY MIND WAS VACANT." 00:43:19.60\00:43:25.90 JUST BE CAREFUL, MY FRIEND. 00:43:25.90\00:43:31.23 NOW I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. 00:43:31.23\00:43:34.73 BEFORE THE END, THERE WILL BE A MIGHTY OUTPOURING OF 00:43:34.73\00:43:38.73 THE HOLY SPIRIT AS SATAN DECEIVES THE DELUDED MASSES. 00:43:38.73\00:43:47.83 AND IF AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF TEACHING THE GOSPEL IN THIS 00:43:47.83\00:43:50.76 CHURCH AND OF TRYING TO GET YOU TO READ YOUR BIBLES EVERY DAY, 00:43:50.76\00:43:54.90 AND IF YOU STILL ARE NOT DOING IT, I SAY--WHAT CAN I SAY? 00:43:54.90\00:44:02.76 WHAT CAN I SAY? 00:44:02.76\00:44:04.70 WHAT CAN I SAY IF PEOPLE ARE CLOSING THEIR MINDS TO 00:44:04.70\00:44:09.23 THE TRUTH? 00:44:09.23\00:44:12.23 BEFORE THE END, THERE'LL BE A MIGHTY OUTPOURING OF THE 00:44:19.80\00:44:22.16 HOLY SPIRIT AS SATAN DECEIVES THE DELUDED MASSES WITH SIGNS, 00:44:22.16\00:44:28.16 MIRACLES, AND WONDERS. 00:44:28.16\00:44:30.93 HALLELUJAH! 00:44:30.93\00:44:32.70 GOD WILL COUNTERACT THE COUNTERFEIT. 00:44:32.70\00:44:39.53 YOU KNOW WHAT THIS CHURCH HERE IN ARCADIA NEEDS? 00:44:41.73\00:44:44.53 EVERY ONE OF YOU, INCLUDING ME PREACHING TODAY, WHAT WE NEED 00:44:44.53\00:44:50.33 IS AN OUTPOURING OF PENTECOSTAL POWER THAT IS GOING TO DRIVE 00:44:50.33\00:44:56.53 THE COLDNESS OUT OF OUR HEARTS AND THE WORLDLINESS 00:44:56.53\00:45:01.30 OUT OF OUR HEARTS AND OUR LOVE FOR OUR STOMACHS. 00:45:01.30\00:45:07.96 AND LET ME TELL YOU FOLKS SOMETHING. 00:45:10.16\00:45:12.26 IF YOU DON'T GET THE TRUE REVIVAL, YOU'RE GOING TO GET 00:45:12.26\00:45:14.76 THE FALSE REVIVAL. 00:45:14.76\00:45:16.06 SO MAKE UP YOUR MINDS WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET. 00:45:16.06\00:45:20.86 I WANT YOU TO COME TO REVELATION 14:6-12. 00:45:20.86\00:45:24.50 HERE GOD DESCRIBES THE LAST GREAT REVIVAL. 00:45:24.50\00:45:29.70 REVELATION 14:6-12, "THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN MIDAIR, 00:45:29.70\00:45:34.60 AND HE HAD THE ETERNAL GOSPEL," NOT A NEW GOSPEL, "THE ETERNAL 00:45:34.60\00:45:38.76 GOSPEL TO PREACH TO THOSE WHO LIVE ON THE EARTH, TO EVERY 00:45:38.76\00:45:41.90 NATION, TRIBE, LANGUAGE, AND PEOPLE. 00:45:41.90\00:45:43.80 HE SAID IN A LOUD VOICE, 'FEAR GOD AND GIVE HIM GLORY, 00:45:43.80\00:45:46.16 BECAUSE THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT HAS COME. 00:45:46.16\00:45:48.70 WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH, THE SEA, 00:45:48.70\00:45:50.63 AND THE SPRINGS OF WATER.' A SECOND ANGEL FOLLOWED 00:45:50.63\00:45:53.40 AND SAID, 'FALLEN! 00:45:53.40\00:45:54.80 FALLEN IS BABYLON THE GREAT, WHICH MADE ALL THE NATIONS 00:45:54.80\00:45:58.13 DRINK THE MADDENING WINE OF HER ADULTERIES.' 00:45:58.13\00:46:00.63 A THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM AND SAID IN A LOUD VOICE, 'IF 00:46:00.63\00:46:03.36 ANYONE WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE AND RECEIVES HIS MARK 00:46:03.36\00:46:07.40 ON THE FOREHEAD OR ON THE HAND, HE, TOO, WILL DRINK OF THE WINE 00:46:07.40\00:46:10.86 OF GOD'S FURY.'" THIS IS NOT A SOFT, 00:46:10.86\00:46:16.33 SWEET LITTLE TALK. 00:46:16.33\00:46:18.60 VERSE 12, "THIS CALLS FOR PATIENT ENDURANCE ON THE PART 00:46:18.60\00:46:22.80 OF THE SAINTS WHO OBEY GOD'S COMMANDMENTS AND REMAIN 00:46:22.80\00:46:26.40 FAITHFUL TO JESUS." 00:46:26.40\00:46:28.00 THAT MESSAGE TALKS ABOUT THE ONE TRUE GOSPEL. 00:46:28.00\00:46:31.70 IT TALKS ABOUT GIVING GOD GLORY, NOT GIVING 00:46:31.70\00:46:35.00 THE PREACHER GLORY. 00:46:35.00\00:46:36.73 IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT PROSPERITY GOSPEL. 00:46:36.73\00:46:39.70 IT TALKS ABOUT GLORY TO GOD. 00:46:39.70\00:46:41.50 IT TALKS ABOUT THE JUDGMENT HOUR. 00:46:41.50\00:46:44.90 IT TALKS ABOUT WORSHIPING THE CREATURE AND NOT 00:46:44.90\00:46:49.93 "AMERICAN IDOL" OR SOME OTHER IDOLATRY SHOW THAT MOST PEOPLE 00:46:49.93\00:46:55.13 ARE MESMERIZED WITH. 00:46:55.13\00:46:58.30 WORSHIP THE CREATOR. 00:46:58.30\00:46:59.76 BEWARE OF BABYLON. 00:46:59.76\00:47:01.10 BEWARE THE BEAST, THE IMAGE, THE MARK OF THE BEAST, AND KEEP 00:47:01.10\00:47:05.66 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, WHICH INCLUDES 00:47:05.66\00:47:07.46 THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. 00:47:07.46\00:47:09.50 LOOK AT REVELATION 18:1. 00:47:09.50\00:47:11.86 "AFTER THIS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN. 00:47:11.86\00:47:17.10 HE HAD GREAT AUTHORITY, AND THE EARTH WAS ILLUMINATED 00:47:17.10\00:47:22.26 BY HIS SPLENDOR." 00:47:22.26\00:47:24.23 POWER AND GLORY ARE GOING TO GO AROUND THIS WORLD. 00:47:24.23\00:47:28.00 I SAY THIS FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT. 00:47:28.00\00:47:30.70 SOME OF US HAVE TASTED THE POWER OF THE WORLD TO COME. 00:47:30.70\00:47:36.80 IN RUSSIA AND IN INDIA AND IN UKRAINE, IN SOME OF THESE 00:47:36.80\00:47:43.96 COUNTRIES, WE HAVE SEEN THE POWER OF GOD. 00:47:43.96\00:47:49.03 WE HAVE SEEN THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:47:49.03\00:47:53.26 WE ARE NOT HERE TO TESTIFY LIES TO YOU. 00:47:53.26\00:47:56.70 WE ARE NOT HERE TO TELL YOU MAYBE ONE DAY IT'S GOING 00:47:56.70\00:48:00.56 TO HAPPEN. 00:48:00.56\00:48:01.56 I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY AND I SAY, "PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 00:48:01.56\00:48:08.76 THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS HERE AND THE TRUE ELIJAH MESSAGE 00:48:08.76\00:48:14.70 IS HERE. 00:48:14.70\00:48:18.20 WHAT SHOULD I DO? 00:48:18.20\00:48:20.73 HERE IT IS. 00:48:20.73\00:48:22.10 LOOK AT ME. 00:48:22.10\00:48:23.60 HERE IS THE PLAIN WORD TO YOU. 00:48:23.60\00:48:26.90 RESIST THE DUMBING DOWN OF THE AMERICAN MIND, 00:48:26.90\00:48:32.76 THE AUSTRALIAN MIND, THE BRITISH MIND, 00:48:32.76\00:48:36.60 THE HISPANIC MIND. 00:48:36.60\00:48:38.56 RESIST, RESIST, RESIST! 00:48:38.56\00:48:44.90 NUMBER TWO, BECOME A STUDENT OF SCRIPTURE. 00:48:44.90\00:48:48.53 READ, THINK, PRAY, MEMORIZE THE BIBLE. 00:48:48.53\00:48:53.03 I SAID TO THE FOLKS LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MEMORIZE 00:48:53.03\00:48:55.36 THE FIRST EIGHT CHAPTERS OF ROMANS FOR A START. 00:48:55.36\00:48:59.93 REFUSE TO BE A RELIGIOUS CONFORMIST. 00:48:59.93\00:49:05.63 RELY UPON SOLA SCRIPTURA, SOLA CHRISTUS, SOLA GRATIA, 00:49:05.63\00:49:14.36 SOLA FIDE, THE GREAT BULWARKS OF THE REFORMATION. 00:49:14.36\00:49:24.53 REJECT THE COUNTERFEIT, EMBRACE THE GENUINE, WORSHIP THE LAMB, 00:49:24.53\00:49:32.83 BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND USE YOUR TONGUE TO PREACH 00:49:32.83\00:49:41.33 THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF 00:49:41.33\00:49:46.96 THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO HELP US GOD, AMEN. 00:49:46.96\00:49:53.93 LET US KNEEL. 00:49:53.93\00:49:56.70 OUR FATHER, HERE WE ARE AS A GREAT CONGREGATION 00:50:03.33\00:50:08.80 ON OUR KNEES. 00:50:08.80\00:50:11.90 OUR FATHER, IT IS HERE. 00:50:11.90\00:50:15.83 THE FALSE REVIVAL IS HERE, BUT GLORY BE TO GOD, YOU ARE HERE. 00:50:15.83\00:50:25.26 AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS HERE. 00:50:25.26\00:50:29.83 THROUGH THE STUDY OF SCRIPTURE, WE KNOW THAT THE FALSE REVIVAL 00:50:29.83\00:50:36.06 IS ONE OF THE LAST GREAT SIGNS, BUT WE THANK YOU THAT GOD 00:50:36.06\00:50:42.30 IS WORKING TO COUNTERACT THE COUNTERFEIT. 00:50:42.30\00:50:47.33 OPEN OUR EYES THAT WE MIGHT UNDERSTAND YOUR WORD. 00:50:47.33\00:50:52.06 WE KNOW, OUR FATHER, THAT THE GREATEST THREAT TO CHRISTIANITY 00:50:52.06\00:50:55.73 TODAY IN THE WESTERN WORLD IS THE DUMBING DOWN 00:50:55.73\00:51:02.26 OF THE AMERICAN MIND, THE AUSTRALIAN MIND, 00:51:02.26\00:51:05.70 THE BRITISH MIND, THE FRENCH MIND, 00:51:05.70\00:51:07.76 THE GERMAN MIND, THE HISPANIC MIND. 00:51:07.76\00:51:14.56 AND WE ARE MESMERIZED AND BRAINWASHED BY THE TRIVIA 00:51:14.56\00:51:19.90 AND WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE IMPORTANT. 00:51:19.90\00:51:23.23 WHEN THE WORLD WORSHIPS THE FALSE LAMB, GOD, 00:51:23.23\00:51:27.36 WE WOULD WORSHIP YOU. 00:51:27.36\00:51:30.06 AND WHEN THE WORLD BABBLES IN AN UNINTELLIGIBLE MUMBO-JUMBO, 00:51:30.06\00:51:37.36 OUR FATHER, WE WOULD USE OUR TONGUES TO PREACH YOUR WORD. 00:51:37.36\00:51:42.36 WE THANK YOU FOR THE GOSPEL, THAT WE'RE NOT SAVED BY 00:51:42.36\00:51:46.13 EMOTIONS, BUT WE'RE SAVED BY CHRIST, WHO DIED FOR US. 00:51:46.13\00:51:53.80 AS WE'RE PRAYING IN OUR CHURCH TODAY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD 00:51:53.80\00:51:59.60 THE HOLY SPIRIT, HOW MANY WILL RAISE A HAND TO HEAVEN AS A 00:51:59.60\00:52:06.73 SUPPLIANT, AS A PENITENT, AND SAY, "LORD, I COME TO YOU TODAY 00:52:06.73\00:52:13.26 CONFESSING AND FORSAKING MY SINS AND CLINGING TO CHRIST 00:52:13.26\00:52:19.03 AS MY SAVIOR"? 00:52:19.03\00:52:20.53 WOULD YOU RAISE YOUR HAND TODAY? 00:52:20.53\00:52:23.43 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS. 00:52:23.43\00:52:25.53 LIFT YOUR HANDS UP HIGH AND SAY THAT. 00:52:25.53\00:52:27.90 YES, GOD. 00:52:27.90\00:52:30.20 YOU AND I WILL NEVER, NEVER PERISH WHILE WE CLING TO CHRIST. 00:52:30.20\00:52:38.63 BLESS THESE UPRAISED HANDS. 00:52:38.63\00:52:42.06 BLESS THESE UPRAISED HEARTS. 00:52:42.06\00:52:45.26 SEND THE FIRE OF GOD UPON US. 00:52:45.26\00:52:49.10 CONSUME THIS CHURCH WITH PENTECOSTAL POWER. 00:52:49.10\00:52:56.56 BLESS EVERYBODY HERE TODAY. 00:52:56.56\00:52:58.96 I HEARD TODAY ABOUT A LADY, PHIL TOLD ME, SHE GOT 00:52:58.96\00:53:02.20 BRAIN TUMOR. 00:53:02.20\00:53:05.33 HELP HER, TOUCH HER. 00:53:05.33\00:53:10.20 BLESS THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THIS CHURCH. 00:53:10.20\00:53:12.20 I'M SO GLAD TODAY TO SEE SO MANY FINE, YOUNG PEOPLE 00:53:12.20\00:53:15.26 WITH THEIR BIBLES OPENED, SOAKING IN THE WORD. 00:53:15.26\00:53:20.53 BLESS THEM TODAY. 00:53:20.53\00:53:22.83 BLESS THE PARENTS. 00:53:22.83\00:53:24.83 BLESS EVERY PERSON HERE TODAY WITH SALVATION, NOT BECAUSE OF 00:53:24.83\00:53:32.63 SOME OVERWHELMING EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE, BUT BECAUSE JESUS 00:53:32.63\00:53:39.23 PAID IT ALL. 00:53:39.23\00:53:41.40 AND WE TRUST IN HIM, NOT IN OURSELVES. 00:53:41.40\00:53:44.60 SO OUR FATHER, WE WORSHIP YOU. 00:53:44.60\00:53:48.03 WE PRAISE YOU. 00:53:48.03\00:53:49.50 WE BLESS YOU. 00:53:49.50\00:53:51.13 WE GIVE YOU HONOR. 00:53:51.13\00:53:52.93 WE GIVE YOU GLORY. 00:53:52.93\00:53:55.80 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN AND AMEN. 00:53:55.80\00:54:00.86 [MUSIC] 00:54:03.60\00:54:08.60 ? IN THE QUIET ? ? OF THIS HOUR, ? 00:54:38.70\00:54:48.30 ? AS I KNEEL ? ? BEFORE YOU NOW, ? 00:54:48.30\00:54:57.70 ? I BELIEVE YOUR PROMISE ? ? TO BE FAITHFUL. ? 00:54:57.70\00:55:11.73 ? I DON'T ALWAYS ? ? UNDERSTAND WHAT ? 00:55:12.86\00:55:22.90 ? YOUR PERFECT WILL DEMANDS, ? ? BUT I'VE LEARNED ? 00:55:22.90\00:55:33.70 ? TO TRUST YOU MORE ? ? IN YOUR PRESENCE, LORD. ? 00:55:33.70\00:55:48.46 ? IN YOUR PRESENCE ? ? THERE IS COMFORT. ? 00:55:48.46\00:56:06.40 ? IN YOUR PRESENCE ? ? THERE IS PEACE. ? 00:56:06.40\00:56:25.10 ? WHEN WE SEEK ? ? TO KNOW YOUR HEART, ? 00:56:25.10\00:56:34.86 ? WE WOULD FIND ? ? SUCH BLESSED ASSURANCE ? 00:56:34.86\00:56:42.83 ? IN YOUR HOLY PRESENCE, ? ? LORD. ? 00:56:42.83\00:57:00.76 ? THERE CAN BE SUCH ? ? SWEET REWARD WHEN WE ? 00:57:02.06\00:57:12.70 ? WAIT UPON THE LORD. ? ? AS WE TAKE THE TIME, ? 00:57:12.70\00:57:25.23 ? HE GIVES HIS PERFECT WISDOM, ? 00:57:25.23\00:57:34.86 ? TO BE FOUND IN HIM ALONE, ? ? ALL OUR DEEPEST ? 00:57:36.36\00:57:48.20 ? SECRETS KNOWN, ? ? WE'RE SURROUNDED ? 00:57:48.20\00:57:56.33 ? BY HIS GRACE-- ? 00:57:56.33\00:57:58.33