The Carter Report presents,
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Mission and Message,
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a new look at the
church and its future.
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Is the church an
endangered species,
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or is a time of
explosive growth just ahead?
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Now, here's John Carter.
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Sometime back I
was in Hong Kong.
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I had the privilege of speaking
to the pastors from inland,
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mainland China.
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I was totally astounded.
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Tremendous faith, they
told me amazing stories,
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they told me what happened
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when the
communists came in there.
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One old pastor told me
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because he was caught
preaching this dreadful sin,
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he was thrown
into prison five years.
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He slept on a concrete
bed, he was beaten up every day,
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he was fed pigs' food.
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Then after ten years,
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he was let out
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and put in a
rehabilitation center.
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I said, "Was it better?"
He said, "It was worse."
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The beatings became worse.
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"What happened to
the church?" I said.
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He said, "Well, everybody,
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most of the folk
seems to just give up,
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we lost all of our
hospitals," listen to this,
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"We lost virtually
all of our institutions."
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As the communists
came in the front door
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the people went
out the back door
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and said, "Yeah, we
believe in communism too."
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The lights went out,
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but then after years of
oppression somebody said,
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"Hey, did you know
something's going on over there,
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there's a little
light over there,
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now there's a
little light over there,
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now there is a blaze of light,
there are more Christians today
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than ever before in
the great land of China.
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You see, you
can't kill the church.
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I want you to know this,
you can't kill the church.
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And the Economist magazine
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that I read
religiously once a week
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predicts that very shortly,
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there will be more
than a million Protestants.
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Now how many Christians
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including
Catholics and everybody else,
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I don't know,
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but well over
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a hundred million
Protestants in China.
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More going to church
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than the United
States of America.
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China will become the
most Christian country,
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so I want to tell you,
the church went from nothing
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and it's booming.
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You can't kill the
church, don't forget it.
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I've got two presentations
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to share with you
today and next week.
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Summed up in two
words, Mission and Message,
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and in the Western world
where the church is dying,
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it's because they've
given up on Mission and Message.
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Now today's
topic is, The Mission.
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We are at a dangerous time
in the history of the church.
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Now I speak as
one who is loyal to
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and who loves the church.
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I'm not speaking out
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because I just want to speak out
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and cause a bit of trouble,
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I'm speaking out
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because while I
believe in unity,
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I do not believe in uniformity.
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That's the great
spirit of America.
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You see, I do not
believe in uniformity,
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the mark of the
beast is uniformity,
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because it is not unity
with God or God's people.
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The mark of the beast is yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes, you see.
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Now why is this
a dangerous hour?
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Come with me to
1 Thessalonians 5:
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1-3,
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1 Thessalonians 5:1-3,
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and I'm going to read it
to you here out of the Word,
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I want you to hear
it out of the Word.
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"But considering
the times and seasons,
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brethren, you have no need
that I should write to you.
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For you
yourselves know perfectly
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that the day of the
Lord so comes as" what?
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"Thief in the night.
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For when they say,
'Peace and safety!'
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then sudden
destruction comes upon them,
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as labor pains
upon a pregnant woman.
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They shall not escape."
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I want you to know today,
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we are in the
midnight of civilization
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and the world is asleep,
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Jesus said in Matthew 25,
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that in the last days the church
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would be asleep.
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And so this is a time of peril.
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It is dangerous,
it's a dangerous hour
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because in many places
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the church has
ceased to move as an army.
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Instead it has
become a social club
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or a retirement village.
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This is so in the Western world
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especially North America,
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Australia, New Zealand
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and Europe.
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But, you know,
it's quite amazing
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an article in the
Venerable Review magazine.
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Our flagship magazine
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declared that the
church in North America...
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This is almost ex
cathedra, this is the Review,
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the Review says, "The
church in North America
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is an endangered species."
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If that is true,
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it is true of much of the church
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in the Western world,
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but Jesus said nothing
can destroy the church.
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Now come over here
to Matthew 16:18 and 19.
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And as we head along today,
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we're going to talk
about the nature of the church.
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Matthew 16:18 and 19.
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Matthew 16:18 and 19,
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"And I also say to
you that you are Peter,
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and on this rock I
will build My church,
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and the gates of hell,
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Hades shall not
prevail against it,
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nothing can defeat the church.
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And I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven,
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whatever you bind on
earth will be bound in heaven,
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whatever you loose on
earth will be loosed in heaven."
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Therefore nothing, ISIS,
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indifference of
lazy church members.
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Nothing can destroy the church.
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Now, let me say this,
even though the Review says
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the church in North America
is an endangered species.
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God's true church is
not an endangered species.
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Church organizations may
be an endangered species,
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but not the church whose names
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or whose church
members are written in heaven.
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Now, an outstanding
author is Dr. George Knight,
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he is the most
prolific Adventists writer
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since Ellen White,
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provocative, interesting
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and his writings
are truth filled.
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He says, "One of the
more interesting words
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in Romans 11:5 is "remnant".
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The Old Testament
pictures the remnant of Israel
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as those Israelites who
had remained faithful to God.
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There was so to speak
and Israel was in Israel.
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Oh, these are heresy,
an Israel within Israel.
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We can say the
same of the church
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down through the ages.
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There's always been
what Martin Luther called
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the visible and
the invisible church.
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Are you listening?
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Those who hold
membership in the organization
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represent the visible church.
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The invisible church
consists of those who have
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a living by faith
connection with God.
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It is the invisible church
that makes up God's remnant
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at any given time."
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And the gates of hell will
not prevail against that church.
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Now the church in North America
may be an endangered species,
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says the Review,
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but they are not talking
about the invisible church
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which goes through to glory.
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You see, and I
want you to know this,
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otherwise you may
get rather discouraged.
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The gates of hell shall never
prevail against God's children.
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I say to the skeptics.
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Remember Russia,
millions put to death,
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church is still there,
the old comos are gone,
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the atheists are gone,
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remember China,
remember Cambodia
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and Pol Pot that devil.
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Millions put to death,
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but the church has
survived Stalin and Lenin,
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because the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it.
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Now David Moberg has suggested
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that there are five stages
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in the experience of the church.
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The first one is this,
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incipient
organization getting going.
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Number two, formal organization.
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Number three,
maximum efficiency.
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Number four, institutionalism.
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Number five is disintegration.
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Now, George Knight,
outstanding scholar,
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a good man, retired
professor of history
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at Andrews University
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and loyal member of the church,
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suggests that in many
ways we are at stage four.
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The next step of
course is disintegration.
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So you can see, I'm not too much
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into political correctness,
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I believe we
should preach the truth.
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And let the words of
God flow where they will.
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Therefore, how can
the church avoid disaster,
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a visible church,
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and fulfill God's
grand and glorious purpose?
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Now, I would remind you of this.
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This is hard for
some of us to take in
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because it causes
us to use the molecules
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between the ears.
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We are not Calvinists who
believe in predestination.
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I gave a talk like this
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with the invitation
of Elder Neil Wilson,
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the president of
the General Conference.
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I spoke to the
General Conference Committee
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years ago now,
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and I said, "We
are not Calvinists,
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we do not believe
in predestination."
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Many of my friends do
when it comes to the church.
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Oh, we are going
to triumph gloriously.
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We believe that
we have the capacity
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through freedom of
choice anchored in God's grace
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to influence our
destiny in a real sense,
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the fate of the church.
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And the God is in our hands.
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Here is an inconvenient truth.
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Remember, it was the decisions
and actions of the people,
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the priests and the prelates
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that transform
the Christian church
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into the persecuting papacy.
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Oh! No.
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God wouldn't let that happen.
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I have people say,
people have said to me,
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"No, God will
never let that happen."
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Don't you know
anything about church history?
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Don't you know anything
about the history of Israel,
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the God who saved the
people, later destroyed them.
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I ask again the question,
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how can our
church avoid disaster
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and fulfill God's
grand and glorious purpose?
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I planed to deal
with two vital aspects
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of spiritual success.
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Number one, The Mission.
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Number two, The Message.
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And if your church
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is a dying church,
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it is because it is failing
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with a mission and the message.
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So we're gonna talk
about mission and message.
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What is the
mission of the church?
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Now, there are
many humanistic ideas
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but only one true
divinely inspired answer.
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The mission of God's church
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is to proclaim
the message of God
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and win the lost to Christ.
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That is, "Oh, no, no,
no, that's not the mission,
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and we may have started
out that way but that's not."
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If you do not have that mission,
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you can be sure of one thing,
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you are going
to die spiritually.
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The Mission and the Message.
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The mission is, turn
with me to Matthew 28:16-20.
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Matthew 28:16 and
onwards, here it is,
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"Then the eleven disciples
went away into Galilee,
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to the mountain which
Jesus had appointed for them.
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When they saw Him,
they worshiped Him,
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but some doubted."
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And Jesus came and
spoke to them saying,
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"'All authority has been given
to Me in heaven and on earth.'"
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Hallelujah.
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All authority is given to Jesus,
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you get this folks?
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People say, it can't be done,
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that's because you haven't
got the authority, you see.
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All authority, verse 19
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"Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit,
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teaching them to
observe all things
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that I have commanded you,
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and lo, I am with you always,
even to the end of the age.'
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Amen."
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Now that's the
mission of the church.
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We don't need
to have a committee
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to discuss the
mission of the church,
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these are the words of Jesus.
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These are the words of Christ.
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These are the person
who was called in the Bible,
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the creator of the
universe, the great I am,
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the almighty God, the
Lord our Righteousness,
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Yahweh, Elohim, praise His name,
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the judge of men,
women, children and angels,
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the alpha and the omega,
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our Lord and our
only Savior Jesus said it.
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People say, "Well, we got
to have a committee meeting
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to find out what ambition is."
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Ever thought of
reading the Bible,
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ever thought of going to Jesus,
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ever thought of the Protestants,
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Protestant foundation,
Solus Christus, only Christ,
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Sola scriptura, only scripture.
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You don't need a committee
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to tell you what you
ought to do with the mission.
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The mission is the
salvation of the lost.
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This is the greatest
and the grandest enterprise
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ever committed into
the hands of human beings.
00:17:06.69\00:17:10.13
It is about politics and
far superior the politics.
00:17:10.16\00:17:15.36
It is about politics,
nationality, race, and gender.
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But, there are
certain negative factors
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at war against the
mission of the church.
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They must be identified
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and by the grace
of God neutralized,
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the Bible says, "Not by
might, not by any power of man,
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not by the might of
man, but by the Holy Spirit."
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That's the only
way it can be done.
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But I want to
identify the negative factors
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that destroy the
mission of the church,
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and why across this
great land as the Review said,
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"The visible church is
an endangered species."
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I wonder if they knew
I was going to use that.
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Number one,
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legalism, legalism.
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The attitude that somehow
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we are saved by our
works of righteousness.
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This is the sin of
the Galatian church.
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Please look at
Galatians 3:10-14,
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Galatians 3:
00:18:28.74\00:18:31.34
10-14,
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this was the sin of
the church in Galatia.
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I fear it is the sin
of many churches today.
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We will start at verse 10,
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"For as many as are of the works
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of the law under the curse..."
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Who wants to join a
church is under the curse.
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"For it is
written, 'Cursed is everyone
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who does not
continue in all things
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which are written in the
book of the law, to do them.'
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But that no one is justified
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by the law in the
sight of God is evident,
00:19:09.01\00:19:11.48
for 'the just
shall live by faith.'
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Yet the law is not of faith,
00:19:13.28\00:19:14.65
but the man who does
them shall live by them.'
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Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the law
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having become a curse
for us, for it is written,
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'Cursed is everyone
who hangs on a tree.'"
00:19:23.12\00:19:25.59
This is the cross, that
"The blessings of Abraham
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might come upon the
Gentiles in Christ Jesus
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that we might receive
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the promise of the
Spirit through faith."
00:19:32.33\00:19:36.60
My friend, Oh, Jerusalem
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believed in
salvation by law keeping
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and ended up crucifying
the one who gave the law,
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the Lord Jesus.
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They were sincere,
they were good people
00:19:47.72\00:19:52.35
in the very worst
sense of the term.
00:19:52.39\00:19:55.76
There's nothing
wrong with God's law
00:19:55.79\00:19:57.43
but reliance on the
law for righteousness
00:19:57.46\00:20:00.00
brings the curse.
00:20:00.03\00:20:03.93
It makes in the words of
George Knight, angry saints.
00:20:03.97\00:20:09.54
Who wants to go to a
church with angry saints?
00:20:09.57\00:20:13.38
I'd rather go fishing.
00:20:13.41\00:20:15.84
There's nothing
wrong with God's law.
00:20:15.88\00:20:18.88
I've seen churches
torn apart by legalism,
00:20:18.91\00:20:22.78
an unhealthy obsessive
00:20:22.82\00:20:26.05
focus on eating and drinking.
00:20:26.09\00:20:31.99
And the observance of man made
00:20:32.03\00:20:33.90
rules and regulations.
00:20:33.93\00:20:39.03
Would you come over
here, you've got very quiet.
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Would you come over here
00:20:41.77\00:20:43.34
to Galatians 5:13-15,
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Galatians...
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5:13,
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Galatians 5:
00:20:57.12\00:20:59.39
13-15.
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"But you, brethren,
have been called to liberty,
00:21:05.03\00:21:08.50
only do not use liberty
00:21:08.53\00:21:10.03
as an opportunity for the flesh,
00:21:10.07\00:21:11.83
but through love
serve one another.
00:21:11.87\00:21:13.90
For all the law is
fulfilled in one word,
00:21:13.94\00:21:16.10
even in this:
00:21:16.14\00:21:17.47
'You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.'
00:21:17.51\00:21:20.01
But if you bite and
devour one another...'"
00:21:20.04\00:21:23.61
There're people in the
church who are cannibals.
00:21:23.65\00:21:26.21
"Beware lest you be
consumed by one another!"
00:21:26.25\00:21:29.98
I say then, "Walk in the spirit
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and you shall not
fulfill the lust of the flesh."
00:21:32.55\00:21:36.99
Legalism tears our heart
00:21:40.80\00:21:44.77
out of the Bible,
out of the church.
00:21:44.80\00:21:47.67
Legalism lets the
air out of the tires.
00:21:47.70\00:21:52.91
It pokes a hole in
the hot air balloon,
00:21:52.94\00:21:58.71
you know the saying,
00:21:58.75\00:22:00.75
"Many are called
and few are frozen."
00:22:00.78\00:22:04.69
You've heard it.
00:22:04.72\00:22:06.05
You've heard of
the frozen chosen.
00:22:06.09\00:22:11.76
Oh, we need to
magnify the blood of Jesus
00:22:11.79\00:22:14.50
and talk about
His grace, His mercy,
00:22:14.53\00:22:17.47
His redeeming love.
00:22:17.50\00:22:19.17
"Amazing grace
how sweet the sound
00:22:19.20\00:22:22.70
that saved a wretch like me."
00:22:22.74\00:22:25.87
Listen, you don't sit
00:22:25.91\00:22:29.94
in a
refrigerator to get a suntan.
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You don't sit in a
refrigerator to get warm.
00:22:35.38\00:22:41.36
I fear that some
churches are like refrigerators.
00:22:41.39\00:22:47.13
Who would want to join a church
00:22:47.16\00:22:49.96
where you're going to be frozen?
00:22:50.00\00:22:52.80
The gospel is a warm flame.
00:22:55.80\00:22:58.17
And where the fire
is warm and you're cold,
00:23:03.28\00:23:06.85
you want to go, legalism.
00:23:06.88\00:23:09.75
Number two, great
hindrance to the gospel.
00:23:09.78\00:23:14.86
Liberalism, the
great enemy of mission.
00:23:14.89\00:23:18.96
The liberal say
that no one needs saving.
00:23:18.99\00:23:22.46
Why do
evangelism? No one needs it.
00:23:22.50\00:23:25.03
Jesus was just a good Man,
Jesus did not die for our sins.
00:23:25.07\00:23:29.64
He just showed us an example
00:23:29.67\00:23:32.07
that sin is merely
ignorant that our main duty
00:23:32.11\00:23:35.44
is to copy Jesus
and do good works,
00:23:35.48\00:23:40.45
that the Bible
is full of mistakes
00:23:40.48\00:23:42.55
that men and women
evolved through the animals.
00:23:42.58\00:23:46.76
That traditional
marriage is out of date,
00:23:46.79\00:23:50.59
that Bible
preaching and evangelism
00:23:50.63\00:23:52.93
are unnecessary and offensive.
00:23:52.96\00:23:57.57
we don't want it in our church.
00:24:00.00\00:24:05.57
Talking about my
church, my denomination,
00:24:05.61\00:24:09.08
there are legalists on the right
00:24:09.11\00:24:11.08
and liberals on the left,
00:24:11.11\00:24:15.88
nothing new.
00:24:15.92\00:24:18.49
When Jesus came there
00:24:18.52\00:24:19.85
with the
Pharisees and the Sadducees.
00:24:19.89\00:24:22.56
The far right and the far left,
00:24:22.59\00:24:24.96
both in their own way
00:24:24.99\00:24:26.56
make war against the
mission of the church.
00:24:26.59\00:24:29.26
And the
legalists and the liberals
00:24:29.30\00:24:31.37
on both side of the
church are as bad as each other.
00:24:31.40\00:24:36.44
What they need, what we need
00:24:36.47\00:24:39.17
is the blood of
Christ, an amazing grace.
00:24:39.21\00:24:45.31
I've seen Satan's warfare
00:24:45.35\00:24:46.82
against the
mission of the church.
00:24:46.85\00:24:50.29
I've also seen
God's hand revealed.
00:24:50.32\00:24:53.29
When man closes a
door, God opens a window.
00:24:53.32\00:24:55.62
I'm going to tell you something,
00:24:55.66\00:24:57.26
don't you tell anybody.
00:24:57.29\00:24:59.36
When I came to
this part of the world,
00:24:59.39\00:25:03.67
our meetings were closed
down by liberals in the church
00:25:03.70\00:25:08.67
who didn't believe in the Bible.
00:25:08.70\00:25:10.34
They thought they
had closed this down,
00:25:13.74\00:25:16.11
but God opened
up a door in Russia,
00:25:16.14\00:25:20.52
where we saw millions
come to the meetings, you see.
00:25:20.55\00:25:26.12
Hundreds of thousands
00:25:26.15\00:25:27.49
come to Christ.
00:25:27.52\00:25:32.99
So I want to tell you this,
00:25:33.03\00:25:35.86
we don't want liberalism
and we don't want legalism.
00:25:35.90\00:25:40.20
What we want is
the cross of Christ
00:25:40.24\00:25:45.07
and the love of
God in our hearts.
00:25:45.11\00:25:47.38
Today we're talking about
the mission of the church,
00:25:47.41\00:25:50.58
more amazing
truths just moments away.
00:25:50.61\00:25:55.18
The antichrist is
in the temple of God.
00:26:12.27\00:26:17.81
I'll read you the actual words
00:26:17.84\00:26:20.14
of the great
Roman Catholic Church.
00:26:20.18\00:26:24.78
More than a billion
people pray to the dead.
00:26:24.81\00:26:30.29
The Bible talks
very plainly about
00:26:30.32\00:26:32.25
good angels and bad angels.
00:26:32.29\00:26:34.99
Why on earth
were you and I born?
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