Hitler murdered
millions of innocent people.
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What caused the greatest
nation in Europe to follow him?
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Why did Catholics and
Protestants shout Sieg Heil
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and look the other way
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as six million Jews
were butchered and burned?
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What is the Hitler Syndrome?
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Could it happen again?
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Welcome back,
ladies and gentlemen.
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We're talking today
about the Hitler Syndrome,
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when people
give up their freedom
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for power and security.
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In the last segment, I
was talking about this book.
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It's written by Dr. Alec Ryrie
and it's called "Protestants."
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I just want to read a
little section out of this book
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because it talks
about the third Reich.
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So let me just give it to you.
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He says, "The
best modern scholarship
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was telling Christians
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that the universe was eternal
with no beginning and no end."
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This is what they
were taught in Germany,
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before the third Reich.
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"So the universe is eternal,"
which means there's no God,
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"that of progressive
life force of some kind
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drove the world's development,
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that the Bible was
a collection of myths,
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forgeries,
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with almost no
roots in real history,
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and that humanity was evolving
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to ever greater
wisdom and virtue,
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a virtue being defined
in social Darwinian terms,
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that left little
space for quaint notions
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like justice and mercy."
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And so Germany was infiltrated
in these liberal ideas,
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like other parts
of the world today.
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I shouldn't tell you where.
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But did you know
this that Nietzsche
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who was the great
architect of the third Reich
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is possibly in the
schools of philosophy
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in the great
American universities.
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He is the most popular author.
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Nietzsche.
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No God that might is right.
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And the Bible is just,
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what he called,
it's a lot of myths.
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And so when they
got rid of the Bible,
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they got rid of
the Old Testament.
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And when they got
rid of the Old Testament,
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Hitler said,
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"Well, now we're going
to get rid of the Jews."
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And so, they murdered
the Jews by the millions.
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It was like a
repeat of the inquisition.
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We spoke about the inquisition.
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How can you understand
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that priests and
bishops and religious people
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are going to burn
men, women, and children?
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And they're going to burn them,
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and while the fat is
fizzling in the fire,
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they will be
singing their hymns.
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That's what they did.
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The Grand
Inquisitor in Spain says
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that he personally
burned 31,000 heretics.
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And most of those
were Roman Catholics.
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Well, Hitler did the same.
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He had the guest
chambers, crematoriums,
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he had the great processions,
just as they had auto-de-fe.
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And singing of the hymns,
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and the tortures, and the fires,
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Hitler had
exactly the same thing,
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and he had the guest
chambers, the crematoriums,
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and the great religious marches.
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If you see the great
marches of the Nazis,
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they're like the
great religious procession.
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They don't have the
cross, they have the swastika.
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And they have the
singing of tremendous hymns.
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You know, you listen
to the German soldiers,
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as the German soldiers
are marching down the road,
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and they're singing these great
tremendous patriotic songs.
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And everybody,
millions and millions of people
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are shouting out,
"Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil!"
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Almost all
Christian churches behind it.
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Say, no, no, that's not true.
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Now the atheists were behind it.
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The communists,
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no, no, they were
killing the communists.
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Almost all the
priests, few exceptions,
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the Pope himself was
a supporter of Hitler,
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our fellow catholic.
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You say, it's
not true, it is true.
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It is history.
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Almost all ministers like me,
almost all of the Protestants,
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and they did it because
Hitler was against communism.
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Communism was atheism.
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So almost all supported
Hitler, but 95% at least.
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And look the other way
when the Jews were murdered
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why because Hitler
offered them bread,
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miracles,
magic, power, security.
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Exactly what
Satan offered Christ,
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and Christ turned him down.
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Now I spoke about Bonhoeffer.
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He's one of my heroes.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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The British said, look
we've got a church here,
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Lutherans, come on.
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"No," he said, "I can't."
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He went over for a
while, but he said,
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"I got to go back
to be with my people."
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The Americans said,
"We'll give you safe passage
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to the United States of America.
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And this is a great country."
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He came over to America.
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He went to Harlem.
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He worshiped in
the black churches
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and enjoyed it.
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He said,
"They've got some spirit."
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And they've got some soul,
and we've lost that in Germany.
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But when he
smelt the burning flesh
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from the crematoriums,
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he said, "I am going
back to be with my people."
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He was a soldier.
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What about the others?
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April 9, 1945,
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just 2 weeks before
the American soldiers
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got there and
liberated the death camp,
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they let him out,
and they hung him up.
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This man hung up, strung up,
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put to death
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because he had the power of no.
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He was not a
conformist. He didn't thief in.
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Some people get on
even church committees
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and all you can see them do,
they say, "Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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It's my job. Yes, yes,
yes. My security, yes, yes."
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What about your conscience?
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"It doesn't
matter, doesn't matter.
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Yes, yes, God
understands." Yes, He does.
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He understands you're a coward.
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But this man was no coward,
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a Lutheran minister
strung up by the neck.
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I think they used a piano wire.
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So he'd lived longer.
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The question, of course,
is what would we have done,
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the author of this
book, Alec Ryrie says,
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"Don't be too
hard on the Germans,"
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we weren't there.
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If we had been there,
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we probably would
have done the same thing.
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You see, we would
have done the same thing,
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but I'm not a fatalist
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because we have
the capacity of choice,
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because God loves us,
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He made us as free moral agents
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with the capacity to choose.
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You can't force me
to go against Christ.
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And Dietrich Bonhoeffer said,
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"I will follow my Christ."
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And he stood out against Hitler
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when his church
supported Hitler.
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Of course, all the churches,
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all the churches
with a few exceptions.
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Now a last day scenario,
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please look at Revelation 13:11,
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Revelation 13:11,
"Then I saw another beast,"
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kingdom or power,
"coming up out of the earth,
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he had two horns
like," what does it say,
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"a lamb spoke like a dragon."
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Now many, many good Christians
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here in the United
States of America say,
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"This is Protestant America."
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Goodness.
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The United States of
America born in greatness,
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nurtured on the
Protestant faith,
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immersed in individualism.
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What do you think of
when you think of an American?
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I believe in freedom.
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That's what you think,
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a champion of civil
and religious liberties,
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a defender of freedom.
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America has, I think
above all other nations,
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the most glorious heritage.
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But the Bible says
to speak like a dragon.
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Look at Revelation 13:12,
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when did you last hear
that preach, my friend?
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Revelation 13:12,
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I know of at least 20
million people in the world
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who believe this
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"And he
exercises all the authority
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of the first beast,"
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that's the beast
of the inquisition,
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"in his presence,
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and causes the earth
and those who dwell in it
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to worship the first beast,
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whose deadly wound was healed."
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Therefore, he
sets up an alliance
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with the beast
of the inquisition.
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You can read this
in Great Controversy.
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And then verse 13,
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"He performs great signs,
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so that he even makes
fire come down from heaven
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on the earth in
the sight of men."
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There you have
miracles, mystery, magic.
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"Cast yourself
down, do a miracle."
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Christ said, "No, I
don't want you to follow me
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because of the miracles."
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It is written
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miracles, mystery,
an appeal to the senses.
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And then verses 16 and 17,
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Revelation 13:16 and 17.
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"He causes all,
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both small and
great, rich and poor,
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free and slave,
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to receive a mark
on their right hand
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or on their foreheads,
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and that no one may buy or sell
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except one who has the
mark or the name of the beast,
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or the number of his name."
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So I'm not going
to go into this now
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because I'm going
to tell you something,
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it's a lot more than
what you think it is.
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It is a mark of
universal conformity.
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Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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He says, "Unless you do it,
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you're not going
to get your bread.
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You won't be
allowed to buy or sell."
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But join us, we're
going to have the miracles.
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We're going to have the fire.
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And you're going
to have security,
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but give us one thing, freedom.
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Give us freedom of choice,
and as the old inquisitor said,
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why not, it's a terrible burn.
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"Christ, you made a big mistake.
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Freedom is an
intolerable burden,
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most people don't want
freedom, they want bread."
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And that of course is
the voice of the antichrist.
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So in the last days,
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people will be asked to give
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total conformity,
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they will come a
great religious movement
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to force people into conformity.
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Look at me,
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we should not be conformists
because we're simply pains.
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There are some
and we should not be,
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should I say, individuals,
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just because we
want to be different,
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we shouldn't be
different for different sake,
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but we should be
different for Christ's sake.
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And conformity
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in a religious crisis
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is kissing Christ on the
cheek and saying, "Hail Master."
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It's the act of Judas,
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the kiss.
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I ask this question,
"Could it happen in America?"
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Now you'll understand,
I'm not talking politics,
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I'm not slightly
involved in politics
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in Australia or in America.
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And I'm not
ashamed to tell people
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I am fiercely independent.
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And I know I'd probably
fall out with everybody,
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but so be it.
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Let me tell you folks something,
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I don't want
another bunch of people
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telling me how I ought to think.
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I don't want to big
political party saying,
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"You've got thinking,
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you got to march here and step."
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No, I don't want that.
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That's getting close
to the mark of the beast.
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I don't want a church
hierarchy saying to me,
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"You've got to see it
this way because I say,
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'My authority is not a
hierarchy of the church,
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it is Jesus Christ
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speaking through
His Word, the Bible.'"
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You see.
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That's what a
Protestant is supposed to be.
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And a lot of Catholics
agree with me today on this.
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Okay, could it
happen in America?
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We're not talking politics.
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I asked these
questions, don't answer them.
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Are people in America
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swayed by
oratory in great rallies?
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Do people in America
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easily swallow and digest lies?
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Are people inflamed
with hatred for each other?
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Do people put political parties
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before honor, duty, and country?
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Honor, duty, and country.
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God, honor, duty, and country.
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But do people put
politics before that?
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Are people stirred
up to hate other races,
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like Hitler, stir
them up to hate the Jews?
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I've got lots of Jewish friends.
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I've got two
great Jewish doctors
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who work really
hard to keep me going.
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Some of my best
friends are the Jews,
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but the Christians and the
rest were stirred up in Germany
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to hate the Jews...
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And to sing songs
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and much as they
can smell them burning.
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Now if you can say yes
to any of these questions,
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then now is the time to resolve
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to follow Christ and not man.
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Remember, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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Number two...
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to be, when
needed, a non-conformist.
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Not a troublemaker,
some people, you know,
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I've been a pastor
for more than 50 years,
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and you have some people
00:17:07.42\00:17:08.76
who just like to
be non-conformists
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because they just
want to cause trouble.
00:17:11.43\00:17:13.93
We're not talking about
pettiness and stupidities.
00:17:13.96\00:17:17.27
We're talking about
moral and integrity.
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Not a troublemaker,
but a person of conscience.
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To refuse to go with the crowd
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when the crowd is
going in the wrong direction,
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to vote against the hierarchy
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when the hierarchy is wrong.
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Oh, dear.
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To refuse the Hitler Syndrome.
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So in the last days,
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the vast majority are
going to not say Sieg Heil,
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but they are going
to do the equivalent.
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They're going
to get in lockstep,
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and today, in the western world,
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as an
Australian, as an American,
00:18:03.48\00:18:05.41
I can tell you
people are taught to conform
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and to go with the majority
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and not to think for themselves.
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That's getting people
ready for the mark of the beast.
00:18:16.99\00:18:21.73
And if you're
that sort of person
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and if you think you're
secure in your salvation,
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so do the people in Germany
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who put Hitler
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on the seat of
authority and great power.
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It's good to be a non-conformist
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when the time is demanded.
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I'm going to take you now
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to the plains
of Dura in Babylon.
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I want you to take your Bible
and turn to Daniel 3:1 and 6.
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Daniel 3:1 and 6.
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"Nebuchadnezzar,"
type of antichrist,
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"the king made an image of gold,
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whose height was 60
cubits, width 6 cubits.
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He set it up in
the plain of Dura,
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in the province of Babylon."
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And he cried out.
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He said, here's the thing,
00:19:18.22\00:19:19.55
"Whoever does not
fall down and worship
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shall be cast immediately
00:19:21.39\00:19:23.26
into the midst of a
burning fiery furnace."
00:19:23.29\00:19:26.36
Now please,
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let's just think about it.
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Here are three young guys,
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a long way from home.
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And when you are
a long way from home
00:19:38.71\00:19:40.68
and when you are a
hated religious minority,
00:19:40.71\00:19:45.18
it is not a comfortable feeling.
00:19:45.21\00:19:47.42
Some people say,
00:19:47.45\00:19:48.78
"Oh, I couldn't do this,
I wouldn't be comfortable."
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God help you.
00:19:54.86\00:19:58.03
We need to be
uncomfortable for Jesus,
00:19:58.06\00:20:00.70
but He asks us to be.
00:20:00.73\00:20:03.47
Goodness me.
00:20:03.53\00:20:05.33
I've heard people say,
00:20:05.37\00:20:06.70
"Oh, it puts me out
of my comfort zone."
00:20:06.74\00:20:08.74
"So would you
like my handkerchief
00:20:08.77\00:20:10.11
so you can cry?"
00:20:10.17\00:20:11.67
Come on.
00:20:11.71\00:20:14.14
So here you've
got three young men.
00:20:14.18\00:20:16.31
This big image that
represents the antichrist.
00:20:16.34\00:20:19.35
The King says,
00:20:19.38\00:20:20.72
"You got to fall down
and you got to worship this,
00:20:20.78\00:20:23.18
if you don't worship it,
00:20:23.22\00:20:24.72
into the burning fiery furnace."
00:20:24.75\00:20:27.96
Now Daniel 3:7,
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I think is the next
verse I'm looking for.
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I think it's verse 7.
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"So at that time,
when all the people heard
00:20:33.70\00:20:35.53
the sound of the
horn, flute, harp,"
00:20:35.56\00:20:37.83
had a big
orchestra by the looks,
00:20:37.87\00:20:40.07
"the lyre, in symphony
with all kinds of music,
00:20:40.10\00:20:42.87
all the peoples, nations,
and languages fell down, "
00:20:42.90\00:20:48.31
on their noses in the dust,
00:20:48.34\00:20:50.08
"and worshipped the gold image
00:20:50.11\00:20:51.45
which King
Nebuchadnezzar had set up."
00:20:51.48\00:20:53.11
So over goes the music.
00:20:53.15\00:20:56.72
What did they all do?
00:20:56.75\00:20:58.29
All down.
00:20:58.32\00:21:01.39
That's the tyranny of the crowd,
00:21:01.42\00:21:03.83
that's the Hitler Syndrome,
00:21:03.86\00:21:06.06
that's to go
along with the majority,
00:21:06.09\00:21:08.96
whether the
majority is right or not,
00:21:09.00\00:21:10.87
but I've got to get my bread,
I've got to get my security.
00:21:10.93\00:21:15.24
What's my freedom?
00:21:15.27\00:21:17.57
Freedom is not very important
if I don't have security.
00:21:17.61\00:21:20.08
So what's the choice?
00:21:20.14\00:21:21.48
Well, if it is a choice,
I'll have security any day.
00:21:21.51\00:21:25.58
That of course leads
to the mark of the beast.
00:21:25.61\00:21:28.08
There were three
who wouldn't fall down,
00:21:28.12\00:21:31.12
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
00:21:31.15\00:21:35.59
They wouldn't get down.
00:21:35.62\00:21:39.43
Daniel 3:15, it's
just a little summary.
00:21:39.46\00:21:43.13
The king says,
00:21:43.16\00:21:44.50
"Now if you're
ready at the time you hear
00:21:44.53\00:21:45.87
the sound of the horn, flute,
00:21:45.90\00:21:47.27
the harp, the
lyre, and psaltery,
00:21:47.30\00:21:49.10
in symphony with
all kinds of music,
00:21:49.14\00:21:51.24
and you fall down
and worship the image
00:21:51.27\00:21:53.31
which I have made, good!
00:21:53.34\00:21:55.38
But if you do not worship,
you shall be cast immediately
00:21:55.41\00:21:58.58
into the midst of a
burning fiery furnace.
00:21:58.61\00:22:00.92
And who is the God who
will deliver you from my hands?"
00:22:00.95\00:22:04.02
So he says I'm giving
you one last shot at it.
00:22:04.09\00:22:09.12
You better do it.
00:22:09.16\00:22:10.53
And verse 16.
00:22:10.56\00:22:12.39
He didn't realize
whom he was dealing with.
00:22:12.43\00:22:16.10
Verse 16, "Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego
00:22:16.13\00:22:19.57
answered and said to
the king, 'O Nebuchadnezzar,
00:22:19.60\00:22:22.57
we have no need to
answer you in this matter."
00:22:22.60\00:22:25.41
What don't you
understand about no?
00:22:25.44\00:22:29.61
That's the power of no.
00:22:29.64\00:22:33.48
We will not bow down. No.
00:22:33.52\00:22:35.85
What don't you get?
00:22:35.88\00:22:38.72
So what did they do, they
take these three young guys,
00:22:38.75\00:22:41.12
these young Jewish guys,
00:22:41.16\00:22:42.52
they throw them into the midst
of the burning fiery furnace.
00:22:42.56\00:22:48.33
People say about the
martyrs when they were burned,
00:22:48.36\00:22:51.83
"Oh, of course, you know,
they didn't feel any pain."
00:22:51.87\00:22:55.40
Oh, were you one of the martyrs?
00:22:55.44\00:22:57.61
You come back to tell me.
00:22:57.64\00:22:59.64
No, on the whole, the
modest felt a lot of pain.
00:22:59.67\00:23:04.05
If you will being
frizzled with a slow fire
00:23:04.08\00:23:07.22
because sometimes
that would wet the wood.
00:23:07.25\00:23:11.25
So it took hours to burn them.
00:23:11.29\00:23:15.36
Christians did this.
00:23:15.39\00:23:17.99
In the name of God, people
do all sorts of wicked things
00:23:18.03\00:23:21.83
in the name of God.
00:23:21.86\00:23:26.00
So these three young guys
00:23:26.03\00:23:27.40
are thrown in the midst
of a burning fiery furnace,
00:23:27.44\00:23:31.71
probably fueled with oil,
00:23:31.74\00:23:33.74
I've been to that
part of the world,
00:23:33.78\00:23:35.31
I've been to the
part of the world there
00:23:35.34\00:23:37.75
where the oil is
seeping out of the ground,
00:23:37.78\00:23:39.75
I've been there.
00:23:39.78\00:23:41.12
But the Bible tells us
00:23:44.05\00:23:47.56
they wouldn't budge,
00:23:47.62\00:23:50.09
they wouldn't bow,
00:23:50.13\00:23:52.06
they wouldn't bend,
00:23:52.09\00:23:53.46
and hallelujah,
they wouldn't burn.
00:23:53.50\00:23:55.46
Amen.
00:23:55.50\00:23:58.73
They wouldn't burn.
00:23:58.77\00:24:01.50
And so the king in
the old translation,
00:24:01.54\00:24:04.14
says, he's astonied.
00:24:04.21\00:24:06.81
Now I swear he's
astonied, he's astonished.
00:24:06.88\00:24:09.68
He says, come out.
00:24:09.71\00:24:12.08
And we're told also in the Bible
00:24:12.11\00:24:17.02
that there was another
person who came down there,
00:24:17.09\00:24:20.39
not just three,
another person came down.
00:24:20.46\00:24:22.96
And he came and stood
with them in the fire.
00:24:22.99\00:24:25.33
That's the good
thing, that's the gospel.
00:24:25.36\00:24:28.00
When you're
thrown into the fire,
00:24:28.03\00:24:30.63
then somebody who come down
and stand with you in the fire.
00:24:30.67\00:24:36.04
And so they come
forth and the king says,
00:24:36.07\00:24:38.94
"I can't even
smell the fire on you."
00:24:38.97\00:24:41.38
This is a prelude to the story
00:24:41.41\00:24:43.18
of the mark of the beast
and the image of the beast.
00:24:43.21\00:24:45.88
In the last days,
00:24:45.91\00:24:48.75
in spite of the weak conformity
00:24:48.78\00:24:52.59
that is encouraged in the world,
00:24:52.62\00:24:56.89
God is going to have people,
00:24:56.93\00:25:00.93
and they won't budge.
00:25:00.96\00:25:03.90
No, they won't bow.
00:25:03.97\00:25:07.24
They're not going to get down
with their noses in the dirt,
00:25:07.27\00:25:09.10
they're not
going to be crawlers,
00:25:09.14\00:25:10.81
not going to be
wimps, they will not...
00:25:10.84\00:25:14.68
just won't bend,
they're not going bend,
00:25:14.71\00:25:16.88
they're not going...
00:25:16.95\00:25:18.41
Man, you're not
going to be bow down
00:25:18.45\00:25:20.72
or bend or any of those things,
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.68
and by the grace of
God, they will not burn.
00:25:22.72\00:25:28.66
And this story in the
Book of Daniel is written
00:25:28.69\00:25:33.33
so that we who live
00:25:33.40\00:25:35.70
in the time of
the Hitler Syndrome
00:25:35.73\00:25:41.07
will have faith in God
00:25:41.10\00:25:44.44
to stand for the truth
00:25:44.47\00:25:47.24
though the heavens fall
and to stand for Christ,
00:25:47.28\00:25:52.08
even when the fire is hot.
00:25:52.11\00:25:55.78
God, my friend, will
have a people in the last days
00:25:55.82\00:26:01.09
who will defeat
the Hitler syndrome
00:26:01.12\00:26:04.36
and will go home with Jesus
00:26:04.39\00:26:07.30
to glory for his praise.
00:26:07.36\00:26:10.47
Amen and amen.
00:26:10.50\00:26:12.97
There is only one thing
00:26:20.08\00:26:21.41
that really
counts in this lifetime,
00:26:21.44\00:26:24.05
your relationship to Christ.
00:26:24.08\00:26:27.02
And then if you have a
right relationship with Christ,
00:26:27.05\00:26:30.52
you want to tell
people about Christ.
00:26:30.59\00:26:33.56
That's why Jesus
said, "Go into all the world
00:26:33.59\00:26:36.12
and preach the
gospel to every creature."
00:26:36.16\00:26:40.03
By the grace of God,
we're going to do that.
00:26:40.10\00:26:42.73
We are doing that.
00:26:42.76\00:26:44.73
That is why we're
going back to Cuba
00:26:44.77\00:26:47.14
to this communist
land to preach Christ.
00:26:47.20\00:26:51.71
We're accepting an invitation
00:26:51.74\00:26:53.24
to go to the vast
and huge city of Manila,
00:26:53.27\00:26:58.38
the capital of the
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00:26:58.41\00:27:01.65
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00:27:01.68\00:27:05.05
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