(MUSIC) 00:00:00.36\00:00:46.26 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:00:46.26\00:00:50.20 WE LOOK FORWARD EVERY WEEK TO STUDYING WITH YOU OUR 00:00:50.20\00:00:55.13 SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON AND THIS WEEK IS NO EXCEPTION. 00:00:55.13\00:00:58.30 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE OF YOU WHO JOIN US FAITHFULLY 00:00:58.30\00:01:01.93 FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD EVERY WEEK TO 00:01:01.93\00:01:05.06 STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. AND I'VE BEEN GONE FOR A WHILE 00:01:05.06\00:01:08.90 AND I AM SO GLAD TO BE BACK BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY A SPECIAL 00:01:08.90\00:01:12.36 WELCOME TO THOSE THAT FAITHFULLY JOIN US EVERY WEEK AT 00:01:12.36\00:01:15.46 CONNECTICUT VALLEY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 00:01:15.46\00:01:19.36 - ACTUALLY, IT'S IN WINDSOR - THEY'RE MY EXTENDED FAMILY AND 00:01:19.36\00:01:22.16 THERE ARE SO MANY THAT JOIN US EVERY WEEK AND I JUST WANT TO 00:01:22.16\00:01:25.90 SAY HAPPY SABBATH. OUR FIRST SONG THIS MORNING IS 00:01:25.90\00:01:29.66 'WONDERFUL WORDS OF LIFE' - HYMN #286. 00:01:29.66\00:01:33.46 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM KARA IN AUSTRALIA, IAN IN 00:01:33.46\00:01:36.56 BAHAMAS, GINA, ELISENDA, LEON AND DAVID IN CALIFORNIA, ARNZ 00:01:36.56\00:01:42.06 AND WAYNE IN CANADA, OCIAN IN ENGLAND, FELIX IN FINLAND, 00:01:42.06\00:01:47.03 LINCOLN, MAUREEN, ELAINE, MARGARET, AND TRYMAINE IN 00:01:47.03\00:01:51.13 FLORIDA, MAISIE AND KARL IN FRANCE, LAURAL AND BARBARA IN 00:01:51.13\00:01:54.80 GEORGIA, BOB AND PAULA IN IDAHO, CORRINE AND CHERYL IN INDIA, 00:01:54.80\00:01:59.83 WILLIAM IN NIGERIA, HANNA, GABRIELE AND DAVID IN NORTH 00:01:59.83\00:02:02.93 CAROLINA, AND SAMUEL AND ZIPPORAH IN UTAH. 00:02:02.93\00:02:06.70 HYMN #286 AND WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE VERSES OF 00:02:06.70\00:02:09.46 'WONDERFUL WORDS OF LIFE'. 00:02:09.46\00:02:11.40 (MUSIC) 00:02:11.40\00:02:12.33 >>IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE HYMN YOU'D LIKE TO SING WITH US 00:04:31.66\00:04:33.63 ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER, I INVITE YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE 00:04:33.63\00:04:37.03 AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'. IT'S VERY EASY, JUST CLICK ON 00:04:37.03\00:04:40.40 THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR 00:04:40.40\00:04:44.00 HYMNAL AND WE WILL SING THAT WITH YOU COMING UP SOON. 00:04:44.00\00:04:47.90 TODAY WE ARE LEARNING - AS YOU KNOW, IF YOU ARE TUNING IN 00:04:47.90\00:04:51.13 REGULARLY, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T, WE ARE GOING THROUGH 00:04:51.13\00:04:54.06 THE HYMNAL AND WE ARE LEARNING - PICKING OUT ALL THE SONGS THAT 00:04:54.06\00:04:56.46 NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF AND SO WE'RE JUST KIND OF MAKING OUR 00:04:56.46\00:05:00.50 WAY THROUGH AND IT'S A LONG PROGRESS. AND I'M HOPING 00:05:00.50\00:05:03.53 WE'RE DONE - I HOPE - IN TWELVE YEARS, BUT I'M HOPING JESUS 00:05:03.53\00:05:07.00 COMES LONG BEFORE THAT AND WE LEARN THEM IN HEAVEN TOGETHER. 00:05:07.00\00:05:10.26 HYMN #62 - 'HOW LOVELY IS THY DWELLING PLACE'. 00:05:10.26\00:05:14.36 AND THIS IS A STRANGE LITTLE SONG. 00:05:14.36\00:05:17.16 IT IS A SCOTTISH PSALTER AND IT HAS AN AMERICAN NEGRO SPIRITUAL 00:05:17.16\00:05:21.63 TUNE TO IT AND SO WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FIVE VERSES. 00:05:21.63\00:05:26.43 IT'S VERY SHORT AND BY THE END YOU'LL KNOW IT AND YOU CAN SING 00:05:26.43\00:05:29.83 IT ALL WEEK - HYMN #62. OH, AND THIS ALSO COMES AS A 00:05:29.83\00:05:33.50 REQUEST FROM JOYCE IN KENYA, MAISIE AND KARL IN FRANCE, 00:05:33.50\00:05:37.26 MELISSA IN SURINAME, BRAD IN PENNSYLVANIA, SANDIE, VERN, 00:05:37.26\00:05:41.70 JENNY AND JAMIE IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND GREG IN ARKANSAS. 00:05:41.70\00:05:45.26 SO IT'S NOT BRAND NEW TO EVERYBODY. HYMN #62. 00:05:45.26\00:05:48.63 (MUSIC) 00:05:48.63\00:05:49.90 >>LET'S PRAY. OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE HUMBLY 00:07:57.70\00:08:01.30 COME BEFORE YOU AS WE STUDY TOGETHER, ANXIOUS TO HEAR YOUR 00:08:01.30\00:08:06.46 WORDS, OPEN WITH OUR HEARTS TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY TO US 00:08:06.46\00:08:10.13 TODAY THROUGH YOUR WORD. LORD, THEY ARE WORDS OF LIFE AND 00:08:10.13\00:08:14.60 THEY ARE THE ONLY THING THAT BRINGS US LIFE IN THIS COLD DARK 00:08:14.60\00:08:17.30 PLANET AND SO WE OPEN OUR HEARTS TO YOU THIS MORNING. 00:08:17.30\00:08:20.20 LORD, JUST FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT THAT AS WE LEAVE THIS 00:08:20.20\00:08:22.90 PLACE AND AS WE LEAVE THIS STUDY, WE CAN BE SHINING LIGHTS 00:08:22.90\00:08:26.86 FOR YOU WITH THOSE WE COME IN CONTACT AND THEY WILL SEE JESUS 00:08:26.86\00:08:29.83 LIVING IN US. PLEASE HELP US TO DO OUR PART 00:08:29.83\00:08:32.63 THAT WE CAN WRAP UP LIFE ON THIS EARTH AND THAT WE CAN SEE YOU 00:08:32.63\00:08:36.86 FACE TO FACE AND WORSHIP TOGETHER FOREVER. 00:08:36.86\00:08:39.13 LORD, WE'RE SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY. 00:08:39.13\00:08:41.40 PLEASE JUST KEEP US FAITHFUL TO THE END. I PRAY THESE THINGS 00:08:41.40\00:08:44.70 IN YOUR PRECIOUS AND HOLY NAME, AMEN. OUR STUDY TODAY IS 00:08:44.70\00:08:49.80 BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON AND HE IS THE 00:08:49.80\00:08:53.43 HEALTH AND THE VISITATION PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 00:08:53.43\00:09:02.36 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH CHOIR AND JORDAN, WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE ON THE 00:09:02.36\00:09:07.60 TEAM. IS HE LISTENING TO ME? WELCOME TO CENTRAL STUDY HOUR. 00:09:07.60\00:09:16.83 IT'S GOOD TO BE WITH YOU TODAY. BEFORE I BEGIN WE HAVE 00:09:16.83\00:09:21.13 A FREE OFFER. IT'S CALLED, 'IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?' 00:09:21.13\00:09:27.66 AND THIS IS OFFER #706 AND IF YOU LIVE IN THE CONTINENTAL 00:09:27.66\00:09:33.93 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA YOU CAN RECEIVE THIS FREE IF YOU CALL 00:09:33.93\00:09:38.63 866-788-3966 - OFFER #706. 00:09:38.63\00:09:46.03 SO 866-788-3966 OR 1-866-STUDY-MORE. 00:09:46.03\00:09:56.06 WELL IT'S GOOD - BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A QUESTION THAT 00:09:56.06\00:09:59.56 SOMETIMES COMES UP - IT'S DIRECTED AGAINST THOSE WHO 00:09:59.56\00:10:03.26 BELIEVE THE LAW OF GOD AS BEING - AS HAVING BEEN DONE AWAY WITH, 00:10:03.26\00:10:07.86 ESPECIALLY THE SABBATH AND I FOUND SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, 00:10:07.86\00:10:12.66 YOU'RE LEGALISTS, YOU KNOW, JESUS DID AWAY WITH THE LAW. 00:10:12.66\00:10:16.56 YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE. YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE 00:10:16.56\00:10:18.33 IN THE CROSS.' I'M ALL FOR THE CROSS, BY THE WAY, BUT THROUGH 00:10:18.33\00:10:22.23 THE BLOOD OF JESUS WHICH WE'LL BE LOOKING AT THIS MORNING. 00:10:22.23\00:10:26.16 HIS BLOOD IS NOT JUST TO JUSTIFY US, IT'S TO SANCTIFY US, WHICH 00:10:26.16\00:10:30.56 MEANS SIMPLY TO GIVE US THE STRENGTH TO OBEY HIS LAW. 00:10:30.56\00:10:36.03 SO WE'RE ON WITH LESSON 5 THIS MORNING WITH OUR THEME 'REVIVAL 00:10:36.03\00:10:41.26 AND REFORMATION' AND THE THEME IS 'OBEDIENCE: THE FRUIT OF 00:10:41.26\00:10:47.86 REVIVAL' AND IT'S A VERY, VERY GOOD LESSON. 00:10:47.86\00:10:51.66 IN FACT, AS YOU MIGHT GUESS, I WON'T GET TO THE END. I JUST CAN 00:10:51.66\00:10:56.26 - KIND OF UNDISCIPLINED IN SOME WAYS. I GET INTO A SECTION AND 00:10:56.26\00:10:59.36 THERE'S SO MUCH STUFF IN THERE AND I NEVER REALLY GET 00:10:59.36\00:11:03.40 TO THE END. BUT WE'LL TRY. WE'LL DO OUR BEST. 00:11:03.40\00:11:06.83 SO THIS WEEK WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THE THEME 'OBEDIENCE: THE FRUIT 00:11:06.83\00:11:10.80 OF REVIVAL' AND I'D LIKE TO SAY THIS RIGHT FROM THE GET-GO, A 00:11:10.80\00:11:17.43 SPIRITUAL REVIVAL IS NOT A SPIRITUAL REVIVAL UNLESS IT'S 00:11:17.43\00:11:23.43 EQUALLY YOKED WITH ITS TWIN SIBLING OF REFORMATION. 00:11:23.43\00:11:27.66 AND I HOPE YOU GOT THAT. WE HEAR A LOT ABOUT REVIVAL, 00:11:27.66\00:11:31.80 EVEN IN OUR OWN CONFERENCE, BUT WE DON'T ALWAYS HEAR A LOT 00:11:31.80\00:11:35.56 ABOUT REFORMATION. AND UNLESS YOU'RE WILLING TO BE 00:11:35.56\00:11:40.10 REFORMED, YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A REVIVAL. 00:11:40.10\00:11:44.36 IT'S JUST AS - IT'S JUST AS SIMPLE AS THAT. 00:11:44.36\00:11:47.50 SO, IN OTHER WORDS, A REVIVED LIFE WILL BRING FORTH 00:11:47.50\00:11:52.86 A CHANGED LIFE. THERE'LL BE A CHANGE THAT IS 00:11:52.86\00:11:55.66 SEEN OR, TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, YOU BECOME A CONVERTED PERSON. 00:11:55.66\00:12:01.13 AND A CONVERTED PERSON, IF THEY'RE CONVERTED, THERE SHOULD 00:12:01.13\00:12:04.73 BE A CHANGE IN THEIR BEHAVIOR, WHICH CAN BE SEEN. 00:12:04.73\00:12:08.93 NOT THAT THEY GO AROUND SAYING, 'HEY, LOOK AT ME. 00:12:08.93\00:12:11.16 I'M CONVERTED. LOOK AT ME.' NO, YOU DON'T DO THAT. 00:12:11.16\00:12:13.43 THE MORE CONVERTED YOU ARE, THE MORE HUMBLE YOU ARE WITH IT. 00:12:13.43\00:12:16.96 BUT THERE SHOULD BE A CHANGE THAT CAN BE SEEN. 00:12:16.96\00:12:18.80 PEOPLE LOOK AND SAY, 'WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE WITH THIS PERSON?' 00:12:18.80\00:12:23.10 LIKE WITH THE DISCIPLES, PEOPLE LOOKED AND SAID - THEY COULD 00:12:23.10\00:12:26.20 TELL THEY'D BEEN WITH JESUS AND IT SHOULD BE THE SAME WITH US. 00:12:26.20\00:12:29.56 WHERE ONCE THEY OR WE MAY HAVE NOT FOUND GOD INTERESTING, KIND 00:12:29.56\00:12:36.03 OF DISLIKED RELIGION, DISLIKED GOD'S LAW AND PREFERRED TO OBEY 00:12:36.03\00:12:40.63 THE DEVIL, THERE'S A CHANGE. AND SUDDENLY WE FIND OURSELVES 00:12:40.63\00:12:46.70 ESCHEWING EVIL - WE JUST FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH IT - AND WE 00:12:46.70\00:12:51.56 FIND OURSELVES HUNGERING AND THIRSTING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND 00:12:51.56\00:12:55.96 WE - LO AND BEHOLD WE'VE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH GOD. 00:12:55.96\00:12:57.93 WE'VE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH JESUS. WE'VE FALLEN IN LOVE 00:12:57.93\00:12:59.93 WITH HIS WORD. AND WHEN YOU LOVE SOMETHING OR 00:12:59.93\00:13:03.00 SOMEBODY YOU WANT TO DO THEIR WILL, RIGHT? 00:13:03.00\00:13:06.63 YOU GENTLEMEN WHO HAVE EVER BEEN IN LOVE, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT 00:13:06.63\00:13:09.50 I'M TALKING ABOUT. YOU'RE SLOW THIS MORNING. LADIES AS WELL, 00:13:09.50\00:13:15.43 BY THE WAY. SO THERE SHOULD BE AN ABSOLUTE CHANGE IN THE LIFE. 00:13:15.43\00:13:19.13 NOW IN SUNDAY'S SECTION 'THE TRANSFORMED LIFE', IT CITES THE 00:13:19.13\00:13:24.20 EXAMPLE OF PETER AND WE SEE PETER BEFORE HE HAD THIS 00:13:24.20\00:13:29.30 SPIRITUAL REVIVAL AND THIS CONVERSION AND HE BROUGHT FORTH 00:13:29.30\00:13:33.16 THE FRUITS OF OBEDIENCE AND WE SEE THE CONTRAST OF AFTERWARDS 00:13:33.16\00:13:37.80 WHEN HE HAD ACTUALLY GONE THROUGH A CHANGE WHEN HE WAS - 00:13:37.80\00:13:43.50 BECAME A DIFFERENT PERSON. BUT IT'S INTERESTING WHEN WE 00:13:43.50\00:13:48.16 LOOK AND REALIZE THAT HERE WAS THIS DISCIPLE - AND WE CAN READ 00:13:48.16\00:13:51.33 OURSELVES INTO THIS VERY EASILY - HERE WAS A CHOSEN DISCIPLE OF 00:13:51.33\00:13:55.80 CHRIST. HE'D BEEN RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH JESUS FOR THREE 00:13:55.80\00:13:59.60 AND A HALF YEARS. HE'D BEEN OUT THERE PREACHING THE GOSPEL - 00:13:59.60\00:14:03.60 HE'D EVEN CAST OUT DEMONS - AND WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? 00:14:03.60\00:14:08.10 THAT WAS THE GRACE OF GOD THAT WORKED IN HIS LIFE IN SPITE OF 00:14:08.10\00:14:11.10 HIS - WHAT SHOULD WE SAY? - HIS LIMITATIONS, SPIRITUALLY. 00:14:11.10\00:14:16.80 HE WASN'T ACTUALLY WHERE HE NEEDED TO BE SPIRITUALLY. 00:14:16.80\00:14:21.03 HE WASN'T ACTUALLY FULLY CONVERTED. AND YET, HERE HE IS. 00:14:21.03\00:14:25.93 HE'S BEEN IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST FOR ALL THIS TIME. 00:14:25.93\00:14:32.26 AND YET HE WAS BLIND TO SOME MAJOR FLAWS IN HIS CHARACTER, 00:14:32.26\00:14:39.43 WHICH THE ONLY WAY THEY COULD BE BROUGHT OUT WAS THROUGH 00:14:39.43\00:14:42.66 A CRISIS. NOW IN JEREMIAH, IT SAYS 'THE 00:14:42.66\00:14:47.56 HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS AND DESPERATELY WICKED, 00:14:47.56\00:14:51.73 WHO CAN KNOW IT?' AND YOU'VE HEARD ME USE THIS 00:14:51.73\00:14:54.50 MANY TIMES AND VERY OFTEN WE'RE THE LAST PERSON, PERHAPS, 00:14:54.50\00:14:59.10 TO KNOW WHAT OUR HEART IS REALLY LIKE. 00:14:59.10\00:15:00.76 BUT GOD SEES IT ALL THE TIME. IT'S LIKE AN OPEN BOOK. 00:15:00.76\00:15:04.10 SO WHAT GOD DOES, IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM, AND IN HIS 00:15:04.10\00:15:07.90 MERCY, HE BRINGS ALONG A CRISIS AND WHAT DOES THAT CRISIS DO? 00:15:07.90\00:15:13.36 WHAT'S INSIDE, AS YOU HIT THE WALL, IT COMES OUT. 00:15:13.36\00:15:17.63 SO CRISIS REVEALS CHARACTER AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH PETER. 00:15:17.63\00:15:23.66 I'D LIKE US TO GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 26 - MATTHEW CHAPTER 26. 00:15:23.66\00:15:33.66 I SOUND A BIT HOARSE THIS MORNING BECAUSE YESTERDAY I WAS 00:15:33.66\00:15:37.86 GIVING MY PRECIOUS LITTLE GRANDSONS THAT I LOVE LIKE 00:15:37.86\00:15:42.76 CRAZY, AN IMPERSONATION OF A FIRE TRUCK WHEN IT SOUNDS IT'S 00:15:42.76\00:15:47.56 AIRHORN. YOU KNOW THAT - HONK? WELL, I'M PAYING A PRICE TODAY. 00:15:47.56\00:15:53.76 BUT WE HAD FUN. ANYWAY, I'M GLAD MY VOICE IS BACK. SO, 00:15:53.76\00:15:59.83 MATTHEW CHAPTER 26. HERE IS THE NIGHT OF JESUS' BETRAYAL AND, 00:15:59.83\00:16:05.10 YOU KNOW, JESUS IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AND PETER'S THERE KIND 00:16:05.10\00:16:09.63 OF HANGING AROUND ON THE PERIPHERY AND HE GETS CONFRONTED 00:16:09.63\00:16:13.40 HERE. MATTHEW 26, VERSES 69 TO 74. 00:16:13.40\00:16:20.26 NOW, LET'S HAVE SOMEBODY READ ALL THOSE FOUR VERSES AND WE'LL 00:16:20.26\00:16:22.93 COME BACK AND TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THEM AND MY GOOD FRIEND HERE, 00:16:22.93\00:16:27.33 MICHAEL, IS ALL READY TO GO. 00:16:27.33\00:16:29.36 >>OKAY, MATTHEW 26, VERSES 69 THROUGH 74, "NOW PETER SAT 00:16:29.36\00:16:34.73 OUTSIDE IN THE COURTYARD AND A SERVANT GIRL CAME TO HIM SAYING, 00:16:34.73\00:16:39.36 'YOU ALSO WERE WITH JESUS OF GALILEE.' 00:16:39.36\00:16:41.80 BUT HE DENIED IT BEFORE THEM ALL SAYING, 'I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU 00:16:41.80\00:16:45.60 ARE SAYING.' AND WHEN HE HAD GONE OUT TO THE 00:16:45.60\00:16:48.60 GATEWAY, ANOTHER GIRL SAW AND SAID TO THOSE WHO WERE THERE, 00:16:48.60\00:16:53.86 'THIS FELLOW ALSO WAS WITH JESUS OF NAZARETH.' 00:16:53.86\00:16:57.70 BUT AGAIN HE DENIED WITH AN OATH, 'I DO NOT KNOW THE MAN.' 00:16:57.70\00:17:02.23 AND A LITTLE LATER, THOSE WHO STOOD BY CAME UP AND SAID TO 00:17:02.23\00:17:07.10 PETER, 'SURELY YOU ALSO ARE ONE OF THEM, FOR YOUR SPEECH BETRAYS 00:17:07.10\00:17:12.26 YOU.' THEN HE BEGAN TO CURSE AND SWEAR 00:17:12.26\00:17:15.26 SAYING, 'I DO NOT KNOW THE MAN.' IMMEDIATELY A ROOSTER CROWED." 00:17:15.26\00:17:20.33 >>YEAH, IMAGINE HOW HE FELT. THANK YOU MICHAEL. 00:17:20.33\00:17:23.03 BUT I'D LIKE YOU TO NOTICE THERE'S A PROGRESSION HERE. 00:17:23.03\00:17:26.70 HERE'S PETER, A FEW - JUST A SHORT TIME BEFORE - HE'S DRAWN A 00:17:26.70\00:17:31.46 SWORD, HE'S CUT OFF THE EAR OF THE HIGH PRIEST'S SERVANT AND 00:17:31.46\00:17:36.13 HE'S READY TO DIE - HE'S READY TO DIE LIKE A MAN, YOU KNOW? 00:17:36.13\00:17:40.46 THE ONE AND ONLY PETER. BUT NOW, WHERE'S HIS MANLINESS? 00:17:40.46\00:17:47.60 IT'S TURNED TO COWARDICE. AND THERE'S A PROGRESSION HERE 00:17:47.60\00:17:51.30 OF DENYING JESUS. IN VERSE 70 IT SAYS, JESUS 00:17:51.30\00:17:55.10 DENIED HIM - HE DENIED JESUS BEFORE THEM ALL. 00:17:55.10\00:18:00.16 AND THEN IN VERSE 72 IT SAYS, 'AND AGAIN HE DENIED WITH AN 00:18:00.16\00:18:03.50 OATH.' OKAY, SO HE DENIES IN THE FIRST 00:18:03.50\00:18:05.96 PLACE, NOW HE DENIES WITH AN OATH. 00:18:05.96\00:18:08.76 IN VERSE 74 HE BEGAN TO CURSE AND SWEAR SAYING, 'I KNOW NOT 00:18:08.76\00:18:14.33 THE MAN.' DENIES HIM, DENIES WITH AN OATH, 00:18:14.33\00:18:20.73 THEN HE DENIES HIM WITH CURSING AND SWEARING. 00:18:20.73\00:18:25.10 YOU SEE, THERE'S A PROGRESSION WHEN WE START DESCENDING DOWN 00:18:25.10\00:18:28.33 INTO EVIL. I'LL PAUSE A MOMENT JUST TO SAY 00:18:28.33\00:18:32.33 WE CAN WEAVE THIS LITTLE LESSON INTO HERE. 00:18:32.33\00:18:34.80 YOU MIGHT SAY, 'I'LL NEVER DENY JESUS. 00:18:34.80\00:18:36.63 I'LL BE FAITHFUL.' WELL, YOU START PLAYING AROUND 00:18:36.63\00:18:38.43 WITH FIRE - WITH SIN - AND YOU GO A LITTLE FURTHER AND YOU 00:18:38.43\00:18:44.20 MIGHT FIND YOURSELF DENYING HIM AND ALSO WITH AN OATH AND THE 00:18:44.20\00:18:46.86 FURTHER YOU GO, YOU'LL DENY HIM ONE DAY WITH CURSING AND 00:18:46.86\00:18:50.16 SWEARING. YOU MIGHT THINK, 'OH, I COULD 00:18:50.16\00:18:52.13 NEVER DO THAT.' OH YES YOU CAN. 00:18:52.13\00:18:54.60 WE'RE ALL PERFECT - WE'RE BORN PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF DOING THAT. 00:18:54.60\00:18:57.60 NOT BORN GUILTY OF SIN - I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT LATER ON, BUT 00:18:57.60\00:19:01.10 WE'RE ALL BORN PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF DOING THAT WITH OUR FALLEN 00:19:01.10\00:19:03.83 NATURES BECAUSE THE HEARTS WE HAVE ARE DESPERATELY WICKED AND 00:19:03.83\00:19:07.03 DECEITFUL. PETER'S NO DIFFERENT. HERE WE SEE THIS PROGRESSION. 00:19:07.03\00:19:12.26 SO THE FALSENESS OF PETER'S PROFESSION OF JESUS AND THE 00:19:12.26\00:19:17.06 HIDDEN HYPOCRISY OF HIS HEART BEGAN TO SPILL OUT HERE 00:19:17.06\00:19:22.53 DURING THIS CRISIS. BUT HERE'S THE THING AS WELL, 00:19:22.53\00:19:29.50 THAT JUST NAILED PETER - I DON'T WANT TO SAY 'NAILED' - I DON'T 00:19:29.50\00:19:33.23 MEAN ANYTHING SACRILEGIOUS THERE OR FUNNY, BUT RIGHT AT THAT 00:19:33.23\00:19:39.26 MOMENT, AS WE READ 'DESIRE OF AGES' - LET ME HOLD A MOMENT. 00:19:39.26\00:19:43.50 JESUS HAD TOLD PETER BEFORE TIME - DO YOU REMEMBER? - 00:19:43.50\00:19:45.76 'PETER, YOU'LL DENY ME TONIGHT.' 00:19:45.76\00:19:47.50 HE SAID, 'I WON'T DO THAT, LORD.' HE SAYS, 'YOU WILL. 00:19:47.50\00:19:49.66 YOU WILL.' AND I WANT TO GO TO 'DESIRE OF 00:19:49.66\00:19:55.20 AGES' - 'DESIRE OF AGES' 712 AND I'M SORRY THIS LOOKS LIKE A 00:19:55.20\00:19:59.13 PORCUPINE BUT IT'S A WELL-RESEARCHED BOOK. 00:19:59.13\00:20:04.03 712 - JUST BEAR WITH ME - 712 AND THE LAST PARAGRAPH, YES. 00:20:04.03\00:20:14.40 IT SAYS, "WHILE THE DEGRADING OATHS WERE FRESH UPON PETER'S 00:20:14.40\00:20:19.10 LIPS AND THE SHRILL CRYING OF THE COCK WAS STILL RINGING IN 00:20:19.10\00:20:24.46 HIS EARS, THE SAVIOR TURNED FROM THE FROWNING JUDGES AND LOOKED 00:20:24.46\00:20:30.46 FULL UPON HIS POOR DISCIPLE." - I'VE READ THIS BEFORE BUT IT'S 00:20:30.46\00:20:34.30 POWERFUL - "AT THE SAME TIME, PETER'S EYES WERE DRAWN TO HIS 00:20:34.30\00:20:38.73 MASTER. IN THAT GENTLE COUNTENANCE HE READ DEEP 00:20:38.73\00:20:44.03 PITY AND SORROW, BUT THERE WAS NO ANGER THERE. 00:20:44.03\00:20:49.36 THE SIGHT OF THAT PALE SUFFERING FACE, THOSE QUIVERING LIPS, THAT 00:20:49.36\00:20:55.96 LOOK OF COMPASSION AND FORGIVENESS PIERCED HIS HEART 00:20:55.96\00:21:00.46 LIKE AN ARROW. CONSCIENCE WAS AROUSED. MEMORY WAS ACTIVE. 00:21:00.46\00:21:07.16 PETER CALLED TO MIND HIS PROMISES A FEW SHORT HOURS 00:21:07.16\00:21:10.30 BEFORE THAT HE WOULD GO WITH HIS LORD TO PRISON AND TO DEATH. 00:21:10.30\00:21:15.23 HE REMEMBERED HIS GRIEF WHEN THE SAVIOR TOLD HIM IN THE UPPER 00:21:15.23\00:21:18.10 CHAMBER THAT HE WOULD DENY HIS LORD THRICE THAT SAME NIGHT. 00:21:18.10\00:21:23.20 PETER HAD JUST DECLARED THAT HE KNEW NOT JESUS. 00:21:23.20\00:21:28.23 BUT HE NOW REALIZED WITH BITTER GRIEF HOW WELL HIS LORD KNEW HIM 00:21:28.23\00:21:33.46 AND HOW ACCURATELY HE HAD READ HIS HEART, THE FALSENESS OF 00:21:33.46\00:21:38.06 WHICH WAS UNKNOWN EVEN TO HIM." SHALL I READ A BIT MORE? 00:21:38.06\00:21:45.60 IT SAYS HERE - WELL, I'LL READ IT - IT SAYS, "A TIDE OF 00:21:45.60\00:21:51.06 MEMORIES RUSHED OVER HIM; THE SAVIOR'S TENDER MERCIES, HIS 00:21:51.06\00:21:55.73 LONGSUFFERING, HIS GENTLENESS AND PATIENCE TOWARD HIS ERRING 00:21:55.73\00:21:59.03 DISCIPLE ALL WAS REMEMBERED. HE RECALLED THE CAUTION, 'SIMON, 00:21:59.03\00:22:04.83 BEHOLD SATAN'S DESIRE TO HAVE YOU THAT HE MIGHT SIFT YOU 00:22:04.83\00:22:09.20 AS WHEAT. BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR THEE 00:22:09.20\00:22:12.86 THAT THY FAITH FAIL NOT." YOU KNOW THAT EVEN IN THE AGONY 00:22:12.86\00:22:18.23 OF GETHSEMANE JESUS WAS PRAYING FOR GOOD OLD PETER. 00:22:18.23\00:22:23.20 "HE REFLECTED WITH HORROR UPON HIS OWN INGRATITUDE, HIS 00:22:23.20\00:22:28.43 FALSEHOOD, HIS PERJURY." WHAT IS PERJURY? IT'S LYING, RIGHT? 00:22:28.43\00:22:36.90 HE CONFESSED CHRIST BUT IT WAS A LIE. 00:22:36.90\00:22:39.80 THAT'S PERJURY. AND THIS CAME HOME TO HIM. 00:22:39.80\00:22:44.73 "ONCE MORE HE LOOKED AT HIS MASTER AND SAW A SACRILEGIOUS 00:22:44.73\00:22:48.70 HAND RAISED TO SMITE HIM IN THE FACE. UNABLE LONGER TO ENDURE 00:22:48.70\00:22:54.30 THE SCENE, HE RUSHED BROKENHEARTED FROM THE HALL. 00:22:54.30\00:23:00.20 HE PRESSED ON IN SOLITUDE AND DARKNESS. 00:23:00.20\00:23:03.40 HE KNEW NOT AND CARED NOT WHITHER. 00:23:03.40\00:23:07.43 AT LAST HE FOUND HIMSELF IN GETHSEMANE. 00:23:07.43\00:23:11.16 THE SCENE OF A FEW HOURS BEFORE CAME VIVIDLY TO HIS MIND. 00:23:11.16\00:23:16.80 THE SUFFERING FACE OF HIS LORD STAINED WITH BLOODY SWEAT 00:23:16.80\00:23:20.06 CONVULSED WITH ANGUISH - IT ROSE BEFORE HIM. 00:23:20.06\00:23:24.40 HE REMEMBERED WITH BITTER REMORSE THAT JESUS HAD WEPT AND 00:23:24.40\00:23:27.50 AGONIZED AND PRAYED ALONE WHILE THOSE WHO SHOULD HAVE UNITED 00:23:27.50\00:23:30.86 WITH HIM IN THAT TRYING HOUR WERE SLEEPING." 00:23:30.86\00:23:34.03 AND PETER WAS ONE OF THEM. "HE REMEMBERED HIS SOLEMN 00:23:34.03\00:23:37.83 CHARGE, 'WATCH AND PRAY LEST YE ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.' 00:23:37.83\00:23:43.16 HE WITNESSED AGAIN THE SCENE IN THE JUDGMENT HALL" - AND I WANT 00:23:43.16\00:23:47.00 US TO CATCH THIS NOW - "IT WAS TORTURE TO HIS BLEEDING HEART 00:23:47.00\00:23:54.16 TO KNOW THAT HE HAD ADDED THE HEAVIEST BURDEN TO THE SAVIOR'S 00:23:54.16\00:23:59.56 HUMILIATION AND GRIEF. ON THE VERY SPOT WHERE JESUS HAD 00:23:59.56\00:24:05.10 POURED OUT HIS SOUL IN AGONY TO HIS FATHER, PETER FELL UPON HIS 00:24:05.10\00:24:10.03 FACE AND WISHED THAT HE MIGHT DIE." SOMETHING, ISN'T IT? 00:24:10.03\00:24:21.73 SO ON THAT CRISIS NIGHT, PETER'S WORLD WAS BRUTALLY ROCKED AND 00:24:21.73\00:24:31.76 SHAKEN AS HE CAME TO SEE, THROUGH THE KINDNESS OF HIS 00:24:31.76\00:24:38.20 SUFFERING LORD, THAT FORGIVENESS WHEN HE'D BEEN SO FALSE - HIS 00:24:38.20\00:24:42.83 PERJURY, HIS LYING. AND JESUS HAD USED THIS CRISIS AS A TOOL 00:24:42.83\00:24:50.76 IN HIS MERCIFUL HAND TO GRAVELY WOUND HIS SERVANT'S HEART. 00:24:50.76\00:24:58.73 BUT THAT, MY FRIENDS WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE TRANSFORMATION 00:24:58.73\00:25:04.53 THAT MADE THIS BRASH DISCIPLE A DIFFERENT MAN. 00:25:04.53\00:25:10.80 AND YOU CONSIDER THIS EVENT AT GETHSEMANE AND AT THE JUDGMENT 00:25:10.80\00:25:16.50 HALL AND AFTERWARDS AND BETWEEN THAT UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT AND 00:25:16.50\00:25:22.10 PENTECOST JUST FIFTY-PLUS DAYS LATER WHEN PETER WAS FILLED WITH 00:25:22.10\00:25:28.46 THE HOLY SPIRIT, IT WAS A DIFFERENT MAN - SURRENDERED, 00:25:28.46\00:25:32.40 OBEDIENT, HUMBLE AND PREPARED TO ACTUALLY RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:25:32.40\00:25:36.83 BECAUSE - BECAUSE GOD, IN HIS INFINITE MERCY, HAD NOT GIVEN 00:25:36.83\00:25:43.33 HIM WHAT HE DESERVED, BUT GOD GAVE PETER A CHANCE AT WHAT IT 00:25:43.33\00:25:48.86 WAS TO HAVE A REVIVAL AND A REFORMATION IN HIS LIFE. 00:25:48.86\00:25:54.33 AND YOU AND I INDIVIDUALLY AND YOU AND I AS A CORPORATE BODY OF 00:25:54.33\00:25:58.23 THIS CHURCH AND YOU AND I AS A CORPORATE BODY OF THE NORTHERN 00:25:58.23\00:26:02.36 CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE AND OF THE PACIFIC UNION AND OF THE NORTH 00:26:02.36\00:26:05.56 AMERICAN DIVISION AND THE WORLD CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY 00:26:05.56\00:26:08.60 ADVENTISTS, ALL OF US SINGLY OR CORPORATELY, UNLESS WE GO 00:26:08.60\00:26:15.73 THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE OF ALLOWING GOD TO REVEAL TO US THE 00:26:15.73\00:26:19.73 ROTTENNESS AND THE PLANKS IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE OF OUR FALLEN 00:26:19.73\00:26:24.10 HEARTS - PAINFUL AS IT MIGHT BE - UNLESS WE'RE WILLING TO GO 00:26:24.10\00:26:27.33 THROUGH THAT AND HONESTLY ACCEPT AND SAY, 'LORD, YOU WERE RIGHT, 00:26:27.33\00:26:32.80 I WAS WRONG. I'M IN NEED. HELP ME. FORGIVE ME. 00:26:32.80\00:26:36.10 I DON'T EVER WANT TO DISOBEY YOU AGAIN, BUT I'M WEAK. 00:26:36.10\00:26:38.56 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE ME THE STRENGTH.' 00:26:38.56\00:26:40.03 AND GOD WILL SAY, 'I'LL GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH.' 00:26:40.03\00:26:42.46 AND LORD, I CAST AWAY THESE GIMMICKS ABOUT HOW TO HAVE A 00:26:42.46\00:26:45.56 CHURCH SERVICE AND HOW TO BRING PEOPLE INTO THE CHURCH. 00:26:45.56\00:26:48.63 THERE IS ONE GOSPEL. AND IT'S THAT GOSPEL THAT CALLS 00:26:48.63\00:26:52.93 FOR THE CRUCIFIXION OF SELF AND UNLESS YOU AND I ARE WILLING TO 00:26:52.93\00:26:58.43 EXPERIENCE THAT - ARE WILLING TO GO THROUGH THAT, WE CAN HOLD 00:26:58.43\00:27:02.90 PREACHING SERVICES TIL THE COWS COME HOME. I DON'T WANT THE COWS 00:27:02.90\00:27:10.93 - I DON'T WANT TO BE WAITING FOR THE COWS TO COME HOME. 00:27:10.93\00:27:14.10 I WANT JESUS TO COME HOME AND I WANT TO GO WITH HIM BUT UNLESS 00:27:14.10\00:27:17.86 WE SUBMIT TO THIS WE WILL HAVE - NEVER HAVE A REVIVAL AND A 00:27:17.86\00:27:21.73 REFORMATION. SO I MAKE AN APPEAL THIS MORNING TO EVERYBODY HERE 00:27:21.73\00:27:24.80 AND TO ALL THAT - WHICH CAMERA AM I ON? 00:27:24.80\00:27:28.56 TO ALL THE LEADERS IN THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH - 00:27:28.56\00:27:31.10 LOCALLY, WORLDWIDE - WE ARE YOUR PEOPLE. 00:27:31.10\00:27:34.86 I BEG YOU - I CHARGE YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST TO LEAD 00:27:34.86\00:27:38.46 YOUR PEOPLE AND KNOW WHAT IT REALLY IS TO INITIATE A REVIVAL 00:27:38.46\00:27:42.70 AND A REFORMATION. OKAY, LET'S MOVE ON HERE. 00:27:42.70\00:27:50.36 SO THE POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS THIS - AND I THINK I'VE ALREADY 00:27:50.36\00:27:52.63 MADE IT - I GET AHEAD - I WRITE NOTES SOMETIMES. 00:27:52.63\00:27:56.16 I WONDER WHY I BOTHER BUT IT DOES HELP MY POOR LITTLE MIND 00:27:56.16\00:27:59.80 ONCE IN AWHILE. MONDAY: 'THE HIGH COST OF 00:27:59.80\00:28:05.56 OBEDIENCE' - AND AGAIN, OBEDIENCE IS THE FRUIT OF TRUE 00:28:05.56\00:28:11.43 REVIVAL AND THIS CAN ONLY COME AS WE'RE WILLING TO HAVE A 00:28:11.43\00:28:16.76 REFORMATION WITH IT AND BE CHANGED. 00:28:16.76\00:28:21.00 OKAY - AND SO SOMEBODY - WE'RE ON - ABOUT THE HIGH COST OF 00:28:21.00\00:28:26.00 OBEDIENCE - THE FALLOUT CAN BE PERSECUTION AND OPPOSITION. 00:28:26.00\00:28:30.36 AND SOMEBODY WHO BECOMES A BRAND-NEW CHRISTIAN AND THEY'RE 00:28:30.36\00:28:36.46 WASHED FROM THEIR SINS AND JESUS COMES INTO THEIR HEART AND 00:28:36.46\00:28:39.66 THEY'RE CHANGED - I REMEMBER I WAS CHANGED. 00:28:39.66\00:28:42.06 I WON'T GO INTO THAT. I'LL GET SIDE TRACKED. 00:28:42.06\00:28:44.13 BUT I REMEMBER THE CHANGE JESUS BROUGHT INTO MY LIFE WHEN I WAS 00:28:44.13\00:28:46.96 IN A ROCK N ROLL BAND. I'VE GOT TO STAY ON TRACK HERE. 00:28:46.96\00:28:50.20 BUT YOU GO THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE AND YOUNG CHRISTIANS 00:28:50.20\00:28:53.43 - AND I KNOW WHAT THIS WAS LIKE - YOUR FRIENDS, THEY LOOK AT YOU 00:28:53.43\00:28:56.56 AND THEY THINK YOU'RE SCREWY. THEY SAY, 'WHAT'S THE MATTER 00:28:56.56\00:28:59.40 WITH YOU? YOU DON'T DRINK ANYMORE. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH 00:28:59.40\00:29:01.16 YOU? YOU DON'T CUSS ANYMORE. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU? 00:29:01.16\00:29:03.03 YOU DON'T LAUGH AT FILTHY JOKES ANYMORE.' 00:29:03.03\00:29:05.30 IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T WANT TO. I DON'T LIKE TO. WHY? 00:29:05.30\00:29:10.50 BECAUSE JESUS HAS COME INTO MY HEART. 00:29:10.50\00:29:12.40 WHEN JESUS COMES INTO YOUR HEART HE CHANGES THINGS. 00:29:12.40\00:29:16.20 AND SO YOU GO OUT THERE AND YOU'RE STRANGE. 00:29:16.20\00:29:20.20 AND SO WHAT HAPPENS? YOU GET OPPOSITION. 00:29:20.20\00:29:23.16 YOU KNOW, SNIDE REMARKS. JUST EXPECT IT. 00:29:23.16\00:29:29.00 CHRISTIAN LIFE IS NOT A BED OF ROSES. YOU'RE IN A WARFARE. 00:29:29.00\00:29:32.30 JUST EXPECT IT. GET USED TO IT. 00:29:32.30\00:29:34.20 AND IF IT COMES, GET OVER IT. THAT'S HOW IT'S MEANT TO BE. 00:29:34.20\00:29:39.33 AND IF YOU'RE GETTING OPPOSED YOU MUST BE DOING SOMETHING 00:29:39.33\00:29:41.63 RIGHT. SO DON'T SEEK THE EASY PATH. AND SO WE GET OPPOSITION 00:29:41.63\00:29:48.83 AND MAYBE THEN FINALLY OUTRIGHT PHYSICAL PERSECUTION - 00:29:48.83\00:29:52.20 PEOPLE WANT TO TAKE US ASIDE AND ROUGH US UP. IN FACT, 00:29:52.20\00:29:56.63 IT WAS ONLY THREE AND A HALF YEARS AFTER THE CROSS IN A.D. 34 00:29:56.63\00:30:02.86 STEPHEN BECAME THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYR. 00:30:02.86\00:30:07.36 AND WE CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN ACTS CHAPTER 7. 00:30:07.36\00:30:10.43 I WANT TO KEEP MOVING ON THIS MORNING. 00:30:10.43\00:30:12.60 SO WE SHOULD READ THE WORD OF GOD BUT I'M SORRY IF I SKIP A 00:30:12.60\00:30:14.90 LITTLE BIT TODAY, BUT I WANT TO GIVE THE REFERENCES. 00:30:14.90\00:30:18.16 I WISH WE HAD MORE THAN THE TIME WE HAVE. 00:30:18.16\00:30:21.06 THEN A LITTLE FURTHER DOWNSTREAM, AS THE EARLY CHURCH 00:30:21.06\00:30:23.93 WENT FORTH, AS THE WHITE HORSE IN REVELATION - CONQUERING AND 00:30:23.93\00:30:28.20 TO CONQUER - STARTED MAKING THESE HUGE INROADS INTO SOCIETY 00:30:28.20\00:30:35.73 AND ESPECIALLY, OF COURSE, WHERE IT WAS INITIATED AND THAT WAS IN 00:30:35.73\00:30:39.43 THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND SO FOR A LITTLE WHILE THEY WERE ABLE TO 00:30:39.43\00:30:44.16 GO AND SOW THE SEED AND PREACH THE WORD. BUT THEN, FINALLY, 00:30:44.16\00:30:46.96 THE ROMAN STATE GOT ALL RILED UP BECAUSE THEY WERE PAGAN. 00:30:46.96\00:30:50.66 AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED? THEN PERSECUTION BROKE OUT. 00:30:50.66\00:30:54.36 MANY CHRISTIANS WERE MARTYRED - EVEN THE DISCIPLES - ALL BUT 00:30:54.36\00:30:58.86 JOHN - THEY TRIED TO DO AWAY WITH HIM BUT HE CAME OUT THE 00:30:58.86\00:31:03.46 BOILING OIL AND GOD HAD DETERMINED THAT THIS ONE'S 00:31:03.46\00:31:06.76 STAYING ALIVE. AND SO HE DID. BUT WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH THIS. 00:31:06.76\00:31:12.26 BUT THE MORE THEY SLEW THOSE CHRISTIANS - AS ONE PERSON SAID 00:31:12.26\00:31:16.66 AT THAT TIME OR A LITTLE AFTERWARDS - THE SEED OF - 00:31:16.66\00:31:19.03 THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS IS SEED. THE MORE THEY SLEW THEM AND 00:31:19.03\00:31:23.56 THREW THEM TO LIONS AND BURNED THEM AT THE STAKE, THE MORE 00:31:23.56\00:31:25.86 THEIR TESTIMONY, SO POWERFUL, INSPIRED OTHER PAGANS AND THEY 00:31:25.86\00:31:29.10 CAME FORWARD UP TO THE PLATE AND THEY TOOK A STAND FOR THE TRUTH. 00:31:29.10\00:31:32.56 AND SO SATAN LOOKED ON AND HE THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, THIS OUTWARD 00:31:32.56\00:31:35.03 STUFF - JUST THROWING PEOPLE TO THE LIONS AND SUCH JUST ISN'T 00:31:35.03\00:31:38.63 WORKING.' SO, OBVIOUSLY, HE HAD A POWWOW AND HE CAME UP WITH 00:31:38.63\00:31:41.23 ANOTHER IDEA, 'WELL, LET'S JOIN THE CHURCH' 00:31:41.23\00:31:44.06 WHICH SUPPOSEDLY HE DID. HE JOINED THE CHURCH TO INTRODUCE 00:31:44.06\00:31:48.20 A PERVERTED GOSPEL WHICH TAUGHT THE PEOPLE THAT SALVATION CAME 00:31:48.20\00:31:56.33 THROUGH A HUMAN PRIESTHOOD THROUGH THE WORSHIP OF SAINTS 00:31:56.33\00:32:00.66 AND RELICS AND PENANCES AND ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. 00:32:00.66\00:32:04.30 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. THAT'S WHEN WE HAD THE 1,260 00:32:04.30\00:32:09.40 PROPHETIC DAYS - LITERAL YEARS - FROM 538 TO 1798. 00:32:09.40\00:32:13.43 BUT NONETHELESS, DURING THAT TIME, AS JESUS HIMSELF HAD BEEN 00:32:13.43\00:32:23.53 SLAIN THROUGH THE INSTIGATION OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS 00:32:23.53\00:32:28.63 DAY, AND AS STEPHEN HAD BEEN SLAIN THROUGH THE INSTIGATION OF 00:32:28.63\00:32:33.03 THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS DAY, THROUGH THE DARK AGES IT 00:32:33.03\00:32:37.43 WAS THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS YOKING UP WITH THE POWERFUL ARM OF THE 00:32:37.43\00:32:41.46 STATE THAT CAUSED MANY TO GIVE THEIR LIVES AND TO BECOME 00:32:41.46\00:32:45.96 MARTYRS. THAT WAS THE OPPOSITION AND THAT'S OUR THEME AT THIS 00:32:45.96\00:32:50.23 POINT. OH, I'M TRYING TO THINK WHEN IT WAS, BUT LET ME SUFFICE 00:32:50.23\00:32:54.66 TO SAY IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO, WHEN I WAS A STUDENT AT NEWBOLD. 00:32:54.66\00:32:58.13 LONDON WASN'T TOO FAR AWAY AND WE WENT ONE DAY ON A TRIP AND 00:32:58.13\00:33:01.46 THERE'S A PLACE CALLED SMITHFIELD. THIRTY-SOMETHING 00:33:01.46\00:33:06.30 YEARS AGO IT WAS THE WHOLESALE MEAT MARKET IN LONDON. 00:33:06.30\00:33:09.50 I DON'T THINK IT IS ANYMORE, BUT THERE'S AN OLD HOSPITAL THERE - 00:33:09.50\00:33:12.16 SAINT GUY'S HOSPITAL OR BARTHOLOMEW'S, BUT THERE AT 00:33:12.16\00:33:15.36 SMITHFIELD THERE WAS KIND OF A PRETTY BIG SQUARE AND THE 00:33:15.36\00:33:19.93 TEACHER TOOK US OUT AND ON THE GROUND THERE, THERE WAS A LITTLE 00:33:19.93\00:33:23.33 KIND OF A BRASS PLAQUE AND IT SAYS THAT HERE SMITHFIELD, ON 00:33:23.33\00:33:28.43 THIS SPOT, IN THIS AREA, WHERE MANY MARTYRS WERE BURNED TO 00:33:28.43\00:33:34.36 DEATH WHILE TESTIFYING TO JESUS CHRIST. IT'S RIGHT THERE. 00:33:34.36\00:33:40.63 I'VE SEEN IT. AND THERE'S MANY OTHER PLACES 00:33:40.63\00:33:43.50 WHERE YOU CAN SEE THOSE THINGS. WHY? BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE 00:33:43.50\00:33:49.26 BROUGHT FORTH THE FRUITS OF REVIVAL - IT WAS OBEDIENCE. 00:33:49.26\00:33:52.63 AND THE DEVIL AND THOSE WHO THREW IN THEIR LOT WITH THE 00:33:52.63\00:33:55.76 DEVIL DIDN'T LIKE IT. I HAVE AT THE HOUSE A BIG OLD VOLUME 00:33:55.76\00:34:00.60 OF 'FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS' - IT'S ABOUT 200 YEARS OLD. 00:34:00.60\00:34:04.56 SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN IT. I NEARLY BROUGHT IT THIS MORNING 00:34:04.56\00:34:06.06 BUT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE TOO DISTRACTING. 00:34:06.06\00:34:07.56 BUT YOU READ THAT - IT SMELLS OLD, IT LOOKS OLD, AND THERE'S 00:34:07.56\00:34:11.00 SOME STORIES IN THERE, I TELL YOU. 00:34:11.00\00:34:14.03 BUT IT SEEMS, AGAIN, IRONIC THAT SO MANY OF GOD'S PEOPLE WERE 00:34:14.03\00:34:19.53 OPPOSED BY THE SO-CALLED RELIGIOUS BODIES OF THE TIME. 00:34:19.53\00:34:24.30 BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT WILL BE SEEN AGAIN. 00:34:24.30\00:34:28.13 IF YOU WANT TRUE REVIVAL AND REFORMATION WE HAVE TO BE BROKEN 00:34:28.13\00:34:32.40 AT THE CROSS. WE HAVE TO BE BORN AGAIN. 00:34:32.40\00:34:35.13 WE HAVE TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:34:35.13\00:34:37.13 JESUS WILL SEND US OUT AND IF WE HAD A REVIVAL OF PRIMITIVE 00:34:37.13\00:34:41.36 GODLINESS - AND YOU CAN READ THIS IN 'GREAT CONTROVERSY' - 00:34:41.36\00:34:44.86 ELLEN WHITE SAYS - THE SERVANT OF THE LORD SAYS, 'WE WOULD 00:34:44.86\00:34:47.96 IMMEDIATELY SEE, OR THEREABOUTS, A REKINDLING OF THE FIRES OF 00:34:47.96\00:34:51.90 PERSECUTION.' SO WHY DO WE SIT IN SUCH COMFORT AND EASE 00:34:51.90\00:34:54.90 TODAY? BECAUSE WE AIN'T DOIN' MUCH, THAT'S WHY. WE'RE NOT MUCH 00:34:54.90\00:35:00.06 OF A THREAT RIGHT NOW. BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A 00:35:00.06\00:35:02.70 FAITHFUL REMNANT OF GOD THAT WILL HAVE A TRUE REVIVAL AND 00:35:02.70\00:35:07.93 REFORMATION, THAT WILL BE OBEDIENT AND WILL STIR UP A 00:35:07.93\00:35:12.56 STORM OF OPPOSITION SUCH AS REALLY HASN'T EVER BEEN BEFORE. 00:35:12.56\00:35:21.10 AND THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THAT, THEY'RE GOING TO FIND THEMSELVES 00:35:21.10\00:35:25.60 OPPOSED BY APOSTATE PROTESTANTISM WHO WILL CHAMPION 00:35:25.60\00:35:31.96 THE CAUSE OF THE PAPACY AND ENLIST THE ARM OF CIVIL 00:35:31.96\00:35:37.10 GOVERNMENT HERE IN AMERICA TO ENFORCE CERTAIN RELIGIOUS 00:35:37.10\00:35:43.03 PRINCIPLES WHICH, MORALLY, IN THEMSELVES MAY BE VERY GOOD, BUT 00:35:43.03\00:35:47.16 YOU CAN'T - YOU CAN'T ENFORCE MORALITY. 00:35:47.16\00:35:51.03 BUT ALONG WITH THAT, WHICH AT FIRST MAY LOOK PRETTY GOOD, YOU 00:35:51.03\00:35:54.63 KNOW, WHO KNOWS, THEY MAY BE AGAINST CERTAIN KINDS OF 00:35:54.63\00:35:57.83 MARRIAGE AND THEY SAY, 'WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THIS. 00:35:57.83\00:35:59.60 WE NEED TO OUTLAW GAY MARRIAGE.' THEY MAY DO THAT. 00:35:59.60\00:36:02.36 I DON'T KNOW. I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEM. THEY MAY DO THAT. 00:36:02.36\00:36:04.90 BUT, YOU KNOW, ALONG WITH THAT WHAT'S GOING TO COME? 00:36:04.90\00:36:07.73 THE PUSH FOR SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. VERY OFTEN PERHAPS FIRST, 00:36:07.73\00:36:13.43 JUST FOR THE SAKE OF A COMMON DAY OFF - LIKE IS ALREADY THE 00:36:13.43\00:36:16.33 SITUATION IN EUROPE - A LOT OF EUROPE. BUT THEN IT'S GOING 00:36:16.33\00:36:20.00 TO GO FROM SOMETHING THAT LOOKS KIND OF CIVIL ON THE OUTSIDE 00:36:20.00\00:36:22.83 FOR CIVIL/SOCIAL REASONS LIKE CONSTANTINE'S FIRST LAW IN 321. 00:36:22.83\00:36:27.33 BUT THEN IT'S GOING TO MOVE ALONG TO BECOME FOR RELIGIOUS 00:36:27.33\00:36:30.43 REASONS AND THAT'S WHEN THE NITTY GRITTY OF THIS REAL 00:36:30.43\00:36:35.26 SPIRITUAL FACE-OFF WILL BEGIN TO TAKE PLACE. 00:36:35.26\00:36:39.40 AND IT WILL ALL BOIL DOWN TO TWO DAYS - THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH 00:36:39.40\00:36:44.40 OF THE LORD THY GOD - WHO RECOGNIZE GOD AS THEIR CREATOR 00:36:44.40\00:36:48.23 BY KEEPING THE SEVENTH DAY, ACCORDING TO THE FOURTH 00:36:48.23\00:36:50.83 COMMANDMENT. AND THE OTHER THE FIRST DAY - 00:36:50.83\00:36:53.66 SUNDAY KEEPING, WHICH IS AN INVENTION OF MAN - THE CHILD OF 00:36:53.66\00:36:57.90 THE PAPACY. AND WHICH DAY YOU KEEP WILL 00:36:57.90\00:37:01.30 DETERMINE WHICH GOD YOU SERVE. AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS AND 00:37:01.30\00:37:05.26 EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO FACE THIS TEST. 00:37:05.26\00:37:10.23 NOBODY IS GOING TO BE SITTING ON THE FENCE LIKE SOME SWITZERLAND. 00:37:10.23\00:37:13.76 WE'RE GOING TO BE ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER WHEN GOD'S FINISHED. 00:37:13.76\00:37:17.16 DON'T SIT ON THE FENCE - GOD'S GOING TO HAVE TO FORCE THEM TO 00:37:17.16\00:37:19.10 HAVE TO TAKE A POSITION. IN REVELATION 13, IF YOU WANT TO 00:37:19.10\00:37:26.10 TURN THERE, I'D LIKE SOMEBODY TO READ REVELATION 13:15, PLEASE. 00:37:26.10\00:37:32.90 REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - JUST RAISE YOUR HAND AND WE'LL GIVE 00:37:32.90\00:37:35.90 YOU A MICROPHONE. REVELATION CHAPTER 13:15 - 00:37:35.90\00:37:40.46 WE HAVE A MICROPHONE OVER THERE? OKAY, SOMEBODY OVER HERE. 00:37:40.46\00:37:44.13 THANK YOU JOLYNE - REVELATION 13:15, PLEASE JOLYNE. 00:37:44.13\00:37:49.56 >>REVELATION 13:15, "HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO GIVE BREATH TO 00:37:49.56\00:37:55.26 THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH 00:37:55.26\00:37:58.23 SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE 00:37:58.23\00:38:01.96 BEAST TO BE KILLED. >>YEAH, THANK YOU JOLYNE. 00:38:01.96\00:38:05.63 OH, DID I MISS ONE? OH, WELL, WE SHOULD KNOW THE GIST OF THIS. 00:38:05.63\00:38:13.06 SO THAT'S WHAT IT'S COMING TO HERE. 00:38:13.06\00:38:16.93 AND, YOU KNOW, MANY OF GOD'S PROFESSED PEOPLE, WHEN IT COMES 00:38:16.93\00:38:23.16 TO THIS, THEY ARE GOING TO CAVE IN. THEY'RE GOING TO CAVE IN 00:38:23.16\00:38:30.00 TO SUCH DEMANDS TO PRESERVE LIFE AND LIVELIHOOD. INSTEAD OF 00:38:30.00\00:38:37.56 OBEYING GOD AND KEEPING THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, THEY'LL 00:38:37.56\00:38:40.36 SWITCH SIDES AND OBEY A HUMAN ENACTMENT AND OFFER ALLEGIANCE 00:38:40.36\00:38:44.73 TO THE MAN OF SIN. NOW YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, HOW COME? WHY WOULD 00:38:44.73\00:38:49.46 THEY DO THAT?' WELL, I DO WANT TO READ FROM 'GREAT CONTROVERSY' 00:38:49.46\00:38:53.93 - WE SHOULD ALL KNOW THESE WORDS, BY THE WAY, WE SHOULD 00:38:53.93\00:38:56.93 KNOW 'THE GREAT CONTROVERSY' BUT, NONETHELESS, HERE WE GO. 00:38:56.93\00:39:02.33 "AS THE STORM APPROACHES" - THIS ONE HERE, REVELATION 13 - "AS 00:39:02.33\00:39:07.56 THE STORM APPROACHES" - AND THOSE WHO HAVE HAD REVIVAL AND 00:39:07.56\00:39:09.86 REFORMATION ARE RENDERING OBEDIENCE TO GOD BRINGS 00:39:09.86\00:39:12.63 OPPOSITION - "AS THE STORM APPROACHES A LARGE CLASS WHO 00:39:12.63\00:39:16.76 HAVE PROFESSED FAITH IN THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE BUT HAVE 00:39:16.76\00:39:20.83 NOT BEEN SANCTIFIED THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH ABANDON 00:39:20.83\00:39:25.26 THEIR POSITION AND JOIN THE RANKS OF THE OPPOSITION. 00:39:25.26\00:39:29.06 BY UNITING WITH THE WORLD AND PARTAKING OF ITS SPIRIT, THEY 00:39:29.06\00:39:33.23 HAVE COME TO VIEW MATTERS IN NEARLY THE SAME LIGHT. 00:39:33.23\00:39:37.23 AND WHEN THE TEST IS BROUGHT THEY ARE PREPARED TO CHOOSE THE 00:39:37.23\00:39:39.83 EASY POPULAR SIDE. MEN OF TALENT AND PLEASING 00:39:39.83\00:39:44.66 ADDRESS WHO ONCE REJOICED IN THE TRUTH, EMPLOY THEIR POWERS TO 00:39:44.66\00:39:49.53 DECEIVE AND MISLEAD SOULS. THEY BECOME THE MOST BITTER" - WHAT? 00:39:49.53\00:39:55.83 - THE MOST BITTER - YOU KNOW THESE WORDS - "ENEMIES" - WHO 00:39:55.83\00:40:00.83 BECOMES THE MOST BITTER ENEMIES? FORMER SABBATH KEEPERS. "THEY 00:40:00.83\00:40:06.40 BECOME THE MOST BITTER ENEMIES OF THEIR FORMER BRETHREN. 00:40:06.40\00:40:10.23 WHEN SABBATH KEEPERS ARE BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURTS TO ANSWER FOR 00:40:10.23\00:40:13.20 THEIR FAITH, THESE APOSTATES" - APOSTATES, NOW - "ARE THE MOST 00:40:13.20\00:40:19.10 EFFICIENT AGENTS OF SATAN TO MISREPRESENT AND ACCUSE THEM AND 00:40:19.10\00:40:23.63 BY FALSE REPORTS AND INSINUATIONS TO STIR UP THE 00:40:23.63\00:40:26.93 RULERS AGAINST THEM." OKAY, SO MY QUESTION WAS HOW 00:40:26.93\00:40:33.53 COME - WHAT WAS MY LAST LITTLE COMMENT THERE? 00:40:33.53\00:40:37.23 INSTEAD OF OBEYING GOD AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THEY WILL 00:40:37.23\00:40:39.03 SWITCH SIDES AND OBEY THE MAN OF SIN. HOW COME? 00:40:39.03\00:40:41.70 WELL, WE READ THIS HERE AND IT SAYS THE REASON WHY - HERE'S THE 00:40:41.70\00:40:45.76 ANSWER - BECAUSE THEY HAD THE TRUTH, OKAY, BUT THEY HAD NOT 00:40:45.76\00:40:49.96 BEEN SANCTIFIED THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH. 00:40:49.96\00:40:55.23 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OBEDIENCE, TODAY, AS A FRUIT OF REVIVAL AND 00:40:55.23\00:40:57.83 REFORMATION, OKAY. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN SANCTIFIED 00:40:57.83\00:41:01.76 THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH. SO THERE'S NO SANCTIFICATION 00:41:01.76\00:41:05.56 AND THERE'S NO OBEDIENCE. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY HAD NOT 00:41:05.56\00:41:10.83 BEEN PART OF ANY GENUINE REVIVAL AND REFORMATION. AS I SAY 00:41:10.83\00:41:15.20 AGAIN, A TRUE REVIVAL AND A TRUE REFORMATION BRINGS CONVERSION TO 00:41:15.20\00:41:19.60 THOSE WHO SINCERELY INVEST THEIR HEART, THEIR MIND, THEIR 00:41:19.60\00:41:23.50 EVERYTHING IN SEEKING GOD AND HIS TRUTH. BUT ALSO, A TRULY 00:41:23.50\00:41:29.30 CONVERTED PERSON WHO IS SANCTIFIED THROUGH FAITH IN 00:41:29.30\00:41:35.03 CHRIST, WILL RENDER OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD, INCLUDING THE 00:41:35.03\00:41:39.20 FOURTH COMMANDMENT. BUT AGAIN, IN THE TESTING TIME IT WILL 00:41:39.20\00:41:42.26 COME TO LIGHT WHO ARE LIKE THIS. NOW, THERE'S SOMETHING I WANT TO 00:41:42.26\00:41:47.10 SHARE WITH YOU AS TO WHY - IT SAYS IN HERE THEY BECOME - WHAT 00:41:47.10\00:41:50.36 IS IT NOW - IT SAYS BECOME SANCTIFIED FOR THE TRUTH. 00:41:50.36\00:41:53.73 'BY UNITING WITH THE WORLD AND PARTAKING OF ITS SPIRIT THEY 00:41:53.73\00:41:58.13 HAVE COME TO VIEW MATTERS IN NEARLY THE SAME LIGHT.' 00:41:58.13\00:42:00.36 SO THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE SABBATH KEEPERS - OR WERE - THEY'VE COME 00:42:00.36\00:42:03.36 TO UNITE WITH THE WORLD AND SEE THINGS IN A VERY WORLDLY WAY. 00:42:03.36\00:42:07.26 HOW COME? I HAVE - I WANT TO MENTION SOMETHING WHICH 00:42:07.26\00:42:11.86 I THINK IS A REAL SERIOUS THREAT TO ANY SINCERE CHRISTIAN TODAY 00:42:11.86\00:42:16.93 AND A REAL SERIOUS THREAT TO SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 00:42:16.93\00:42:21.36 IT IS - IT'S THE - YEAH, OKAY - IT'S EVANGELICALISM. 00:42:21.36\00:42:30.36 NOW YOU MIGHT SAY, 'YOU KNOW, PASTOR MIKE, I'VE HEARD THAT - 00:42:30.36\00:42:34.30 WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'EVANGELICALISM'?' WELL, LET ME 00:42:34.30\00:42:39.63 TRY AND KIND OF DEFINE THIS IN AS FEW WORDS AS POSSIBLE, BUT 00:42:39.63\00:42:43.86 HOPEFULLY IN A WAY THAT YOU'LL CATCH IT, OKAY? LET ME EXPLAIN. 00:42:43.86\00:42:50.90 EVANGELICALISM, TO PUT IT SIMPLY, KIND OF SPRINGS FROM ONE 00:42:50.90\00:42:58.93 OF THE REFORMERS CALLED JOHN CALVIN AND CALVIN, IN TURN, HAD 00:42:58.93\00:43:03.90 BEEN A CATHOLIC AND HE BROUGHT SOME BAGGAGE WITH HIM AND IT WAS 00:43:03.90\00:43:08.30 INTRODUCED - HE WAS ONE OF THE MAIN ONES WHO INTRODUCED IT INTO 00:43:08.30\00:43:12.10 PROTESTANTISM - AND IT'S LIKE THIS: WE'RE DEALING WITH THE 00:43:12.10\00:43:15.60 ISSUE OF ORIGINAL SIN, ACTUALLY, AND THE FALLOUT BECAUSE OF THAT. 00:43:15.60\00:43:20.00 SIN - THIS IS EVANGELICALISM - NOW TRY AND FOLLOW ME. 00:43:20.00\00:43:25.40 THIS HAS A TREMENDOUS EFFECT ON HOW YOU VIEW THE GOSPEL AND 00:43:25.40\00:43:29.10 WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO ALLOW YOUR GOSPEL THAT YOU ADOPT TO TAKE 00:43:29.10\00:43:32.63 YOU. WE START WITH SIN - SIN IS NOT AN ACT. THE WORD OF GOD 00:43:32.63\00:43:38.10 TELLS US THAT SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW - 00:43:38.10\00:43:40.40 THAT IS AN ACT. THEY SAY THAT SIN IS NOT AN ACT, IT IS A 00:43:40.40\00:43:44.00 STATE OF BEING. SIN IS NOT SOMETHING YOU INCUR AS A RESULT 00:43:44.00\00:43:50.00 OF VIOLATING THE LAW OF GOD, SIN IS SOMETHING WE ALREADY ARE 00:43:50.00\00:43:55.76 WHEN WE ARE BORN BECAUSE WE ARE BORN GUILTY BECAUSE WE NOT ONLY 00:43:55.76\00:44:01.30 INHERIT A FALLEN NATURE, WE ACTUALLY INHERIT THE GUILT AND 00:44:01.30\00:44:05.93 CONDEMNATION OF ADAM'S SIN. YOU FOLLOW ME? 00:44:05.93\00:44:10.66 THIS IS WHY A LITTLE BABY THAT'S BORN INTO A CARING CATHOLIC HOME 00:44:10.66\00:44:18.00 - AND I WANT TO SAY AGAIN, THERE ARE SOME WONDERFUL CATHOLICS OUT 00:44:18.00\00:44:21.43 THERE WHO ARE HONEST IN HEART AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE SOME OF 00:44:21.43\00:44:25.26 GOD'S GREATEST CHAMPIONS BEFORE JESUS COMES. I REALLY BELIEVE 00:44:25.26\00:44:28.90 THAT, I DO. IN A GOOD CATHOLIC HOME - THE LITTLE BABY WHEN HE'S 00:44:28.90\00:44:34.20 BORN, THEY'RE TAUGHT TO BELIEVE - A LITTLE BABY IS BORN BUT 00:44:34.20\00:44:37.43 HE'S/SHE IS GUILTY BECAUSE MY LITTLE CHILD HAS INHERITED 00:44:37.43\00:44:42.50 ADAM'S SIN. SO I NEED TO GET MY BABY BAPTIZED. 00:44:42.50\00:44:48.23 AND SO IF YOUR BABY FALLS SICK WITHIN AN HOUR OF BEING BORN AND 00:44:48.23\00:44:51.46 IT'S ON THE ICU THERE AT UC DAVIS SOMEWHERE OR SUTTER 00:44:51.46\00:44:57.76 GENERAL, THAT GOOD CATHOLIC MOTHER AND FATHER WILL CALL THE 00:44:57.76\00:45:02.70 PRIEST AND SAY, 'PLEASE, COME AND BAPTIZE OUR BABY BECAUSE OUR 00:45:02.70\00:45:07.30 LITTLE ONE'S GETTING READY TO PASS AWAY AND THE PRIEST WILL 00:45:07.30\00:45:10.23 COME AND HE'LL, YOU KNOW, CHRISTEN THE BABY AND WHAT THAT 00:45:10.23\00:45:13.56 DOES - THAT ATONES FOR THAT LITTLE BABY'S SIN AND GUILT 00:45:13.56\00:45:20.86 WHICH, BY THE WAY, A BABY IS BORN INNOCENT. SIN IS A CHOICE. 00:45:20.86\00:45:27.16 BUT IF YOU BELIEVE THAT SIN IS NOT A CHOICE BUT IT'S A STATE OF 00:45:27.16\00:45:30.83 BEING THAT YOU'RE BORN IN, WELL, I'D BE ON THE PHONE TO THE 00:45:30.83\00:45:35.60 PRIEST, 'PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE'. SO HE CHRISTENS THE 00:45:35.60\00:45:39.20 LITTLE BABY AND THE LITTLE BABY DIES, 'OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 00:45:39.20\00:45:43.50 MY BABY IS - MY BABY IS SAFE.' OKAY, SO THIS IS WHAT IS THOUGHT 00:45:43.50\00:45:49.50 TO BE SIN IN THE EVANGELICAL GOSPEL AS WELL. 00:45:49.50\00:45:54.46 AND I'LL TRY AND PICK UP WHERE I WAS HERE. 00:45:54.46\00:45:57.00 AND SO BECAUSE WE'RE ALL BORN WITH WHAT'S KNOWN AS THIS TOTAL 00:45:57.00\00:46:02.73 - IN THIS TOTALLY DEPRAVED STATE - WE'RE BORN WITH A FALLEN 00:46:02.73\00:46:08.30 NATURE, WE'RE BORN SINFUL, WE'RE BORN GUILTY, THEN HOW CAN WE 00:46:08.30\00:46:13.63 EVER PERFECTLY KEEP GOD'S LAW? I CAN'T LIVE A PERFECT LIFE, BUT 00:46:13.63\00:46:20.43 THIS I KNOW I CAN DO: THE PREACHER TOLD ME THAT JESUS WAS 00:46:20.43\00:46:24.80 CRUCIFIED ON THE CROSS FOR MY SINS. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? 00:46:24.80\00:46:30.33 PRAISE THE LORD. EVERY DAY WE SHOULD GO TO THAT CROSS. 00:46:30.33\00:46:34.13 WE'RE TOLD THAT IN THE INSPIRED WRITINGS AND CONTEMPLATE THE 00:46:34.13\00:46:38.30 LAST SCENES OF JESUS' LIFE. THE CROSS IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS 00:46:38.30\00:46:42.63 BROKEN SO I'M ALL FOR THE CROSS. SO THE PREACHER SAYS, YOU KNOW, 00:46:42.63\00:46:50.13 IT'S THE CROSS, IT'S THE CROSS, IT'S - ABSOLUTELY IT'S THE CROSS 00:46:50.13\00:46:54.26 - AND THE CROSS IS WHERE YOU COME WITH YOUR SIN AND YOU ASK 00:46:54.26\00:46:56.96 JESUS TO FORGIVE YOU. PRAISE THE LORD HE DOES. 00:46:56.96\00:47:00.90 BUT THAT TIME YOU ARE FORGIVEN YOU'VE MADE A PROFESSION OF 00:47:00.90\00:47:06.30 CHRIST AND SO YOU'RE SAVED NOW. AND YOU JUST KEEP MAKING THAT 00:47:06.30\00:47:10.46 PROFESSION THAT I BELIEVE IN JESUS AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. 00:47:10.46\00:47:17.00 NOW AS FOR KEEPING THE LAW AS GOD WANTS US TO DO - AND GOD 00:47:17.00\00:47:23.70 WANTS TO GIVE US THE GRACE TO DEVELOP THOSE CHARACTERS WHICH 00:47:23.70\00:47:27.80 ARE PERFECTLY MORAL WHEN JESUS COMES SO THAT WHEN HE COMES WE 00:47:27.80\00:47:31.70 ARE LIKE HIM, BUT IF YOU DON'T BUY INTO SANCTIFICATION AND IT'S 00:47:31.70\00:47:37.43 JUST JUSTIFICATION, IT'S JUST THE CROSS, THE CROSS, THE CROSS. 00:47:37.43\00:47:42.30 AND IF YOU SIN, GO TO THE CROSS AND YOU'LL BE WASHED. AND, YOU 00:47:42.30\00:47:44.93 KNOW, THAT'S GOOD - VERY GOOD IN ITS PLACE, BUT THE GOSPEL IS NOT 00:47:44.93\00:47:50.90 JUST THAT. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SANCTUARY SERVICE, PRAISE GOD 00:47:50.90\00:47:56.60 THERE WERE THE LITTLE LAMBS AND THEY TYPIFIED JESUS WHO WAS 00:47:56.60\00:48:01.80 CRUCIFIED, IF YOU LIKE, SYMBOLICALLY IN THE OUTER COURT 00:48:01.80\00:48:05.63 OF THE TEMPLE. LITTLE LAMB, HIS BLOOD WAS SHED, THE REST WAS 00:48:05.63\00:48:10.43 BURNED AND THERE'S THE SAVING BLOOD OF JESUS. 00:48:10.43\00:48:14.80 BUT, YOU KNOW, THE SANCTUARY JUST DOESN'T BRING TO LIGHT THE 00:48:14.80\00:48:18.26 SACRIFICE, IT BRINGS TO LIGHT THE PRIEST AS WELL. 00:48:18.26\00:48:22.20 AND WHAT DID THE PRIEST DO - HE WOULD TAKE THAT BLOOD AND TAKE 00:48:22.20\00:48:26.56 IT INTO THE SANCTUARY AND WITH THAT BLOOD HE WOULD MAKE AN 00:48:26.56\00:48:31.86 ATONEMENT - SPRINKLE IT ON THE VEIL, PUT IT ON THE HORNS OF THE 00:48:31.86\00:48:36.46 ALTAR AND ONCE A YEAR ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT GO AROUND THERE 00:48:36.46\00:48:39.16 AND, YOU KNOW, CLEANSE THE SANCTUARY - MAKE AN ATONEMENT 00:48:39.16\00:48:42.63 FOR THE HOLY PLACE AND THE PEOPLE AND ALL THEIR 00:48:42.63\00:48:45.96 UNCLEANNESS. THAT TYPIFIES THE OTHER HALF OF THE GOSPEL. 00:48:45.96\00:48:52.80 ACTUALLY, IT'S ONE GOSPEL BUT FOR EXPLAINING PURPOSES WE CAN 00:48:52.80\00:48:57.00 SPLIT IT, BUT THAT'S THE GOSPEL. RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH IS 00:48:57.00\00:49:01.10 JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION BUT WE SPLIT THEM IN TWO JUST SO 00:49:01.10\00:49:04.76 WE CAN DESCRIBE THEM. BUT WHEN YOU HEAR THE TERM RIGHTEOUSNESS 00:49:04.76\00:49:08.23 BY FAITH, IT'S JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION. BUT THERE'S THIS 00:49:08.23\00:49:13.03 ROLE THAT THE HIGH PRIEST PLAYS - THAT THE PRIEST PLAYS. 00:49:13.03\00:49:16.26 NOW SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS, WE VERY MUCH ARE INTO THAT SIDE OF 00:49:16.26\00:49:21.23 IT, WHICH TAKES US INTO THE SANCTUARY, WHICH TAKES US, AS 00:49:21.23\00:49:25.10 WE'RE STUDYING THE PROPHECIES, TO DANIEL 8:14 UNTO 2300 DAYS 00:49:25.10\00:49:29.56 THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE CLEANSED. 00:49:29.56\00:49:31.30 WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS WENT INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE IN THE 00:49:31.30\00:49:33.83 SANCTUARY IN 1844 TO BEGIN THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT TO BEGIN 00:49:33.83\00:49:38.23 THE FINAL WORK OF HIS MEDIATION ON BEHALF OF HIS PEOPLE. 00:49:38.23\00:49:41.56 AND AS IN THE OLD DAY OF ATONEMENT, THE PEOPLE WERE TO 00:49:41.56\00:49:43.90 AFFLICT THEIR SOULS - THAT WAS SEARCH THEIR HEARTS AND CONFESS 00:49:43.90\00:49:47.23 THEIR SINS AND MAKE SURE THERE WAS NOTHING IN THEIR LIVES THAT 00:49:47.23\00:49:50.20 THEY WERE CLINGING TO BECAUSE IF YOU CLUNG TO IT, IT COULDN'T BE 00:49:50.20\00:49:55.73 CLEANSED. THEY INVESTED THEIR HEARTS AND 00:49:55.73\00:49:59.43 AT THAT TIME, BY FAITH, ON THE DAY OF THE ATONEMENT, THE PRIEST 00:49:59.43\00:50:03.23 WOULD MAKE THE ATONEMENT AND THEN THEY WERE CLEAN. 00:50:03.23\00:50:05.46 THAT WAS A PICTURE BOOK - THE SANCTUARY IS A PICTURE BOOK OF 00:50:05.46\00:50:08.40 SALVATION - OF HOW GOD DEALS WITH SIN - OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 00:50:08.40\00:50:12.66 AT THE END OF TIME WHEN JESUS WOULD CLEANSE THE HEAVENLY 00:50:12.66\00:50:14.93 SANCTUARY AND AS WE'RE WAITING IN OUR PROBATIONARY TIME, THIS 00:50:14.93\00:50:19.23 IS THE TIME TO BE COMING TO HIM AS HE MINISTERS TO US BEFORE THE 00:50:19.23\00:50:23.20 THRONE OF GOD TO DISPENSE GRACE, TO FORGIVE US, AND ALSO TO 00:50:23.20\00:50:27.73 CLEANSE US AND SANCTIFY US AND GIVE US STRENGTH TO OVERCOME. 00:50:27.73\00:50:30.50 THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW AND THIS IS WHY, AS SEVENTH DAY 00:50:30.50\00:50:32.86 ADVENTISTS, WE BELIEVE 'LET'S LIFT UP THE CRUCIFIED SAVIOR BUT 00:50:32.86\00:50:37.16 LET'S LIFT UP THE RISEN INTERCESSORY PRIEST.' BUT IN 00:50:37.16\00:50:42.73 EVANGELICAL GOSPEL, HE'S NOT THERE. SO HOW DO YOU REMEDY 00:50:42.73\00:50:47.33 THIS? IT'S JUST THE CROSS - JUST THE CROSS - JUST STAY FORGIVEN. 00:50:47.33\00:50:53.46 AS FOR BEING - OVERCOMING, DON'T WORRY. 00:50:53.46\00:50:56.26 DO THE BEST YOU CAN. GOD UNDERSTANDS. 00:50:56.26\00:50:59.46 HE'S MERCIFUL, YES, BUT HE'S NOT INDULGENT. 00:50:59.46\00:51:01.70 HE'S GIVEN A GOSPEL - A FULL GOSPEL - AND, UNFORTUNATELY, 00:51:01.70\00:51:06.43 THERE ARE CERTAIN SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS TODAY WHO HAVE BOUGHT 00:51:06.43\00:51:10.60 INTO EVANGELICAL ADVENTISM AND THIS IS WHY THEY WILL BE AMONG, 00:51:10.60\00:51:18.86 I BELIEVE, AMONG A LARGE GROUP THAT WILL LEAVE WHEN THIS CRISIS 00:51:18.86\00:51:26.23 HITS. WHY? BECAUSE IT SAYS HERE 'THEY HAVEN'T BEEN SANCTIFIED 00:51:26.23\00:51:34.33 THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH.' BY UNITING WITH THE 00:51:34.33\00:51:37.53 WORLD AND PARTAKING OF ITS SPIRIT - IF YOU ARE FULLY 00:51:37.53\00:51:41.36 INVESTED IN THE TRUE SANCTUARY MESSAGE, YOUR MIND AND 00:51:41.36\00:51:47.10 YOUR DESIRES AND YOUR AFFECTIONS ARE GOING IN THE DIRECTION NOT 00:51:47.10\00:51:51.30 OF THE WORLD, BUT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS. 00:51:51.30\00:51:55.03 BUT IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN THE SANCTUARY AND YOU JUST HAVE THIS 00:51:55.03\00:51:57.83 THING ABOUT JUST THE CROSS, AND THERE'S NO CHALLENGE, THROUGH 00:51:57.83\00:52:02.83 THE GRACE OF CHRIST, TO OVERCOME - AND IT'S ONLY THROUGH THE 00:52:02.83\00:52:05.00 GRACE OF CHRIST BUT IT WILL WORK. 00:52:05.00\00:52:07.90 YOU PUSH THAT ASIDE WHERE'S YOUR MIND GOING TO GO? 00:52:07.90\00:52:13.43 WELL THE WORLD, WITH THIS WEAK, WISHY-WASHY GOSPEL YOU HAVE - 00:52:13.43\00:52:16.36 THIS WEAK, WISHY-WASHY GOSPEL DOESN'T PUT A BULWARK AROUND 00:52:16.36\00:52:19.93 YOUR BRAIN OR YOUR HEART. IT DOESN'T PROTECT YOU AND YOU'RE 00:52:19.93\00:52:22.26 A SITTING DUCK FOR WORLDLINESS. THE WORLD COMES ALONG - THE 00:52:22.26\00:52:26.13 PIED PIPER COMES - AND HE JUST TAKES YOU DOWN THE TRACK. 'I'M 00:52:26.13\00:52:29.06 A CHRISTIAN BUT HEY, LET'S ROCK N ROLL IN THE SANCTUARY. LET'S 00:52:29.06\00:52:32.96 HAVE A DRAMA UP HERE. LET'S GET ALL THE LASER LIGHTS OUT. 00:52:32.96\00:52:37.80 LET'S BRING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. YEAH, LET'S DANCE!' 00:52:37.80\00:52:42.76 YOU MIGHT AS WELL DANCE AROUND THE GOLDEN CALF AND HAVE MOSES 00:52:42.76\00:52:49.00 COME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AND JUST SMASH THOSE COMMANDMENTS IN 00:52:49.00\00:52:51.70 FRONT OF YOU. BECAUSE THAT'S ALL THAT KIND OF RELIGION IS WORTH. 00:52:51.70\00:52:58.26 YOU GET THE POINT? I'M A BIT WORDY SOMETIMES. 00:52:58.26\00:53:02.36 I'M NOT THE BEST AT EXPLAINING THINGS BUT THIS IS WHY - YOU 00:53:02.36\00:53:05.86 THROW THAT ASIDE AND SO YOU'RE WIDE OPEN TO THE WORLD. AND WHY? 00:53:05.86\00:53:09.60 OKAY, 'AS THE STORM APPROACHES A LARGE CLASS WHO HAVE PROFESSED 00:53:09.60\00:53:13.13 FAITH IN THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE BUT HAVE NOT BEEN 00:53:13.13\00:53:15.43 SANCTIFIED THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH ABANDON THEIR POSITION 00:53:15.43\00:53:18.63 AND JOIN THE RANKS OF THE OPPOSITION. 00:53:18.63\00:53:20.56 BY UNITING WITH THE WORLD AND UNITING WITH EVANGELICALISM - 00:53:20.56\00:53:25.33 AND LET ME SAY SOMETHING NOW - THERE'S GOING TO BE PEOPLE IN 00:53:25.33\00:53:29.50 EVANGELICALISM WHO WILL COME AND STAND UPON THE PLATFORM OF 00:53:29.50\00:53:34.23 PRESENT TRUTH AND THEY WILL BE CHAMPIONS FOR GOD. 00:53:34.23\00:53:37.86 SO I'M NOT PUTTING DOWN CATHOLIC INDIVIDUALS, AND I'M 00:53:37.86\00:53:41.20 NOT PUTTING DOWN EVANGELICALS. THEY'RE GOING TO BE FIREBRANDS 00:53:41.20\00:53:44.63 FOR JESUS, THEY ARE. HE ACCEPTS THEM AS HIS CHILDREN 00:53:44.63\00:53:49.73 BECAUSE THEY'RE HONEST IN HEART AND HE KNOWS WHEN THEY SEE THE 00:53:49.73\00:53:52.16 TRUTH THEY'LL ACCEPT IT. SO PRAY FOR THESE PEOPLE. 00:53:52.16\00:53:56.90 'BY UNITING WITH THE WORLD AND PARTAKING OF ITS SPIRIT THEY 00:53:56.90\00:54:00.06 HAVE COME TO VIEW MATTERS IN NEARLY THE SAME LIGHT AND WHEN 00:54:00.06\00:54:04.10 THE TEST IS BROUGHT THEY ARE PREPARED TO CHOOSE THE EASY, 00:54:04.10\00:54:08.40 POPULAR SIDE.' WHY? BECAUSE THE RELIGION THEY ADOPTED THROUGH 00:54:08.40\00:54:13.26 EVANGELICALISM IS AN EASY, POPULAR RELIGION. 00:54:13.26\00:54:18.06 THERE'S NO CROSS. RIGHT? AND NO SACRIFICE TO MAKE. 00:54:18.06\00:54:23.96 SO WHEN YOU HEAR OF PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH PREACHING THE CROSS, 00:54:23.96\00:54:30.40 PRAISE THE LORD, BUT HOW FULL IS YOUR GOSPEL? 00:54:30.40\00:54:35.06 IF THE SANCTUARY IS NOT BROUGHT IN THERE - IF THE CROSS IS NOT 00:54:35.06\00:54:37.86 PLANTED IN THE COURTYARD OF THE SANCTUARY, THEN YOU KNOW IT'S 00:54:37.86\00:54:43.70 NOT GOING TO BE PLANTED - THE ATONING BLOOD IS NOT GOING TO BE 00:54:43.70\00:54:46.00 BROUGHT TO YOU WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE MOST HOLY PLACE. 00:54:46.00\00:54:50.93 I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S WHY WE'RE IN THE STATE WE ARE TODAY - 00:54:50.93\00:54:54.46 BECAUSE OF LISTENING TO THESE THINGS. WE NEED TO GET BACK TO 00:54:54.46\00:54:57.50 THE BOOK. WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THIS WORD. WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED 00:54:57.50\00:55:01.36 CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES. GOD HAS BLESSED US WITH TRUTH. 00:55:01.36\00:55:06.13 HE'S BLESSED US WITH A PROPHET AND WE POOH-POOH THE PROPHET AND 00:55:06.13\00:55:12.23 WE BECOME PROGRESSIVE AND ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF. 00:55:12.23\00:55:17.00 WELL, THAT'S ALL STUFF AT THE PERIL OF OUR SOULS. 00:55:17.00\00:55:19.86 I - I'M GOING TO CONCLUDE WITH THIS: HEBREWS CHAPTER 13 - JUST 00:55:19.86\00:55:26.40 TO CONCLUDE - I'VE GOT A MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS LEFT - SORRY JIM. 00:55:26.40\00:55:33.50 HEBREWS 13:12 AND 20 AND 21. THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE AND YOU 00:55:33.50\00:55:42.13 WON'T GET THIS IN AN EVANGELICAL GOSPEL BUT YOU WILL IF YOU STAND 00:55:42.13\00:55:49.16 BY THE OLD LANDMARKS OF ADVENTISM. HEBREWS 13:12, 00:55:49.16\00:55:54.00 20 AND 21, "THEREFORE JESUS ALSO, THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY 00:55:54.00\00:56:00.20 THE PEOPLE WITH HIS OWN BLOOD, SUFFERED WITHOUT THE GATE." - 00:56:00.20\00:56:05.46 JESUS DIED THAT HE MIGHT JUSTIFY US OUTSIDE THE GATE WHEN 00:56:05.46\00:56:10.10 HE SHED HIS BLOOD, BUT THAT BLOOD WAS ALSO SHED TO SANCTIFY 00:56:10.10\00:56:13.46 US, WHICH MEANS WHAT THEN EXACTLY? 00:56:13.46\00:56:15.83 VERSE 20, "NOW THE GOD OF PEACE THAT BROUGHT AGAIN FROM THE DEAD 00:56:15.83\00:56:19.60 OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, 00:56:19.60\00:56:23.73 THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE EVERLASTING COVENANT" - THAT'S 00:56:23.73\00:56:27.46 THE COVENANT - THAT'S THE GOSPEL. 00:56:27.46\00:56:29.66 HERE'S WHAT IT IS - VERSE 21-- - TO BE SANCTIFIED - "MAKE YOU 00:56:29.66\00:56:34.36 PERFECT IN EVERY GOOD WORK TO DO HIS WILL." 00:56:34.36\00:56:39.33 IS THAT KEEPING GOD'S LAW OR NOT? ABSOLUTELY - INCLUDING THE 00:56:39.33\00:56:44.10 SABBATH. IN OUR OWN STRENGTH? NO, IT SAYS JESUS WILL MAKE YOU 00:56:44.10\00:56:47.70 ABLE - "MAKE YOU PERFECT IN EVERY GOOD WORK TO DO HIS WILL, 00:56:47.70\00:56:53.90 WORKING IN YOU THAT WHICH IS WELL PLEASING IN HIS SIGHT 00:56:53.90\00:56:58.26 THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN." 00:56:58.26\00:57:05.46 THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT. DIDN'T GET FAR, DID WE? 00:57:05.46\00:57:07.93 BUT I THINK WE COVERED SOME IMPORTANT GROUND SO I'LL TRY AND 00:57:07.93\00:57:11.83 FIND OUR SPECIAL OFFER - IT'S THIS ONE HERE, OFFER #706 'IS 00:57:11.83\00:57:17.26 OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?' 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