Participants: Pr. Mike Thompson
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021331
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:50 WE LOOK FORWARD EVERY WEEK TO STUDYING WITH YOU OUR 00:55 SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON AND THIS WEEK IS NO EXCEPTION. 00:58 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE OF YOU WHO JOIN US FAITHFULLY 01:01 FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD EVERY WEEK TO 01:05 STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. AND I'VE BEEN GONE FOR A WHILE 01:08 AND I AM SO GLAD TO BE BACK BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY A SPECIAL 01:12 WELCOME TO THOSE THAT FAITHFULLY JOIN US EVERY WEEK AT 01:15 CONNECTICUT VALLEY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 01:19 - ACTUALLY, IT'S IN WINDSOR - THEY'RE MY EXTENDED FAMILY AND 01:22 THERE ARE SO MANY THAT JOIN US EVERY WEEK AND I JUST WANT TO 01:25 SAY HAPPY SABBATH. OUR FIRST SONG THIS MORNING IS 01:29 'WONDERFUL WORDS OF LIFE' - HYMN #286. 01:33 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM KARA IN AUSTRALIA, IAN IN 01:36 BAHAMAS, GINA, ELISENDA, LEON AND DAVID IN CALIFORNIA, ARNZ 01:42 AND WAYNE IN CANADA, OCIAN IN ENGLAND, FELIX IN FINLAND, 01:47 LINCOLN, MAUREEN, ELAINE, MARGARET, AND TRYMAINE IN 01:51 FLORIDA, MAISIE AND KARL IN FRANCE, LAURAL AND BARBARA IN 01:54 GEORGIA, BOB AND PAULA IN IDAHO, CORRINE AND CHERYL IN INDIA, 01:59 WILLIAM IN NIGERIA, HANNA, GABRIELE AND DAVID IN NORTH 02:02 CAROLINA, AND SAMUEL AND ZIPPORAH IN UTAH. 02:06 HYMN #286 AND WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE VERSES OF 02:09 'WONDERFUL WORDS OF LIFE'. 02:11 (MUSIC) 04:31 >>IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE HYMN YOU'D LIKE TO SING WITH US 04:33 ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER, I INVITE YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE 04:37 AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'. IT'S VERY EASY, JUST CLICK ON 04:40 THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR 04:44 HYMNAL AND WE WILL SING THAT WITH YOU COMING UP SOON. 04:47 TODAY WE ARE LEARNING - AS YOU KNOW, IF YOU ARE TUNING IN 04:51 REGULARLY, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T, WE ARE GOING THROUGH 04:54 THE HYMNAL AND WE ARE LEARNING - PICKING OUT ALL THE SONGS THAT 04:56 NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF AND SO WE'RE JUST KIND OF MAKING OUR 05:00 WAY THROUGH AND IT'S A LONG PROGRESS. AND I'M HOPING 05:03 WE'RE DONE - I HOPE - IN TWELVE YEARS, BUT I'M HOPING JESUS 05:07 COMES LONG BEFORE THAT AND WE LEARN THEM IN HEAVEN TOGETHER. 05:10 HYMN #62 - 'HOW LOVELY IS THY DWELLING PLACE'. 05:14 AND THIS IS A STRANGE LITTLE SONG. 05:17 IT IS A SCOTTISH PSALTER AND IT HAS AN AMERICAN NEGRO SPIRITUAL 05:21 TUNE TO IT AND SO WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FIVE VERSES. 05:26 IT'S VERY SHORT AND BY THE END YOU'LL KNOW IT AND YOU CAN SING 05:29 IT ALL WEEK - HYMN #62. OH, AND THIS ALSO COMES AS A 05:33 REQUEST FROM JOYCE IN KENYA, MAISIE AND KARL IN FRANCE, 05:37 MELISSA IN SURINAME, BRAD IN PENNSYLVANIA, SANDIE, VERN, 05:41 JENNY AND JAMIE IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND GREG IN ARKANSAS. 05:45 SO IT'S NOT BRAND NEW TO EVERYBODY. HYMN #62. 05:48 (MUSIC) 07:57 >>LET'S PRAY. OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE HUMBLY 08:01 COME BEFORE YOU AS WE STUDY TOGETHER, ANXIOUS TO HEAR YOUR 08:06 WORDS, OPEN WITH OUR HEARTS TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY TO US 08:10 TODAY THROUGH YOUR WORD. LORD, THEY ARE WORDS OF LIFE AND 08:14 THEY ARE THE ONLY THING THAT BRINGS US LIFE IN THIS COLD DARK 08:17 PLANET AND SO WE OPEN OUR HEARTS TO YOU THIS MORNING. 08:20 LORD, JUST FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT THAT AS WE LEAVE THIS 08:22 PLACE AND AS WE LEAVE THIS STUDY, WE CAN BE SHINING LIGHTS 08:26 FOR YOU WITH THOSE WE COME IN CONTACT AND THEY WILL SEE JESUS 08:29 LIVING IN US. PLEASE HELP US TO DO OUR PART 08:32 THAT WE CAN WRAP UP LIFE ON THIS EARTH AND THAT WE CAN SEE YOU 08:36 FACE TO FACE AND WORSHIP TOGETHER FOREVER. 08:39 LORD, WE'RE SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY. 08:41 PLEASE JUST KEEP US FAITHFUL TO THE END. I PRAY THESE THINGS 08:44 IN YOUR PRECIOUS AND HOLY NAME, AMEN. OUR STUDY TODAY IS 08:49 BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON AND HE IS THE 08:53 HEALTH AND THE VISITATION PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 09:02 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH CHOIR AND JORDAN, WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE ON THE 09:07 TEAM. IS HE LISTENING TO ME? WELCOME TO CENTRAL STUDY HOUR. 09:16 IT'S GOOD TO BE WITH YOU TODAY. BEFORE I BEGIN WE HAVE 09:21 A FREE OFFER. IT'S CALLED, 'IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?' 09:27 AND THIS IS OFFER #706 AND IF YOU LIVE IN THE CONTINENTAL 09:33 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA YOU CAN RECEIVE THIS FREE IF YOU CALL 09:38 866-788-3966 - OFFER #706. 09:46 SO 866-788-3966 OR 1-866-STUDY-MORE. 09:56 WELL IT'S GOOD - BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A QUESTION THAT 09:59 SOMETIMES COMES UP - IT'S DIRECTED AGAINST THOSE WHO 10:03 BELIEVE THE LAW OF GOD AS BEING - AS HAVING BEEN DONE AWAY WITH, 10:07 ESPECIALLY THE SABBATH AND I FOUND SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, 10:12 YOU'RE LEGALISTS, YOU KNOW, JESUS DID AWAY WITH THE LAW. 10:16 YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE. YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE 10:18 IN THE CROSS.' I'M ALL FOR THE CROSS, BY THE WAY, BUT THROUGH 10:22 THE BLOOD OF JESUS WHICH WE'LL BE LOOKING AT THIS MORNING. 10:26 HIS BLOOD IS NOT JUST TO JUSTIFY US, IT'S TO SANCTIFY US, WHICH 10:30 MEANS SIMPLY TO GIVE US THE STRENGTH TO OBEY HIS LAW. 10:36 SO WE'RE ON WITH LESSON 5 THIS MORNING WITH OUR THEME 'REVIVAL 10:41 AND REFORMATION' AND THE THEME IS 'OBEDIENCE: THE FRUIT OF 10:47 REVIVAL' AND IT'S A VERY, VERY GOOD LESSON. 10:51 IN FACT, AS YOU MIGHT GUESS, I WON'T GET TO THE END. I JUST CAN 10:56 - KIND OF UNDISCIPLINED IN SOME WAYS. I GET INTO A SECTION AND 10:59 THERE'S SO MUCH STUFF IN THERE AND I NEVER REALLY GET 11:03 TO THE END. BUT WE'LL TRY. WE'LL DO OUR BEST. 11:06 SO THIS WEEK WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THE THEME 'OBEDIENCE: THE FRUIT 11:10 OF REVIVAL' AND I'D LIKE TO SAY THIS RIGHT FROM THE GET-GO, A 11:17 SPIRITUAL REVIVAL IS NOT A SPIRITUAL REVIVAL UNLESS IT'S 11:23 EQUALLY YOKED WITH ITS TWIN SIBLING OF REFORMATION. 11:27 AND I HOPE YOU GOT THAT. WE HEAR A LOT ABOUT REVIVAL, 11:31 EVEN IN OUR OWN CONFERENCE, BUT WE DON'T ALWAYS HEAR A LOT 11:35 ABOUT REFORMATION. AND UNLESS YOU'RE WILLING TO BE 11:40 REFORMED, YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A REVIVAL. 11:44 IT'S JUST AS - IT'S JUST AS SIMPLE AS THAT. 11:47 SO, IN OTHER WORDS, A REVIVED LIFE WILL BRING FORTH 11:52 A CHANGED LIFE. THERE'LL BE A CHANGE THAT IS 11:55 SEEN OR, TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, YOU BECOME A CONVERTED PERSON. 12:01 AND A CONVERTED PERSON, IF THEY'RE CONVERTED, THERE SHOULD 12:04 BE A CHANGE IN THEIR BEHAVIOR, WHICH CAN BE SEEN. 12:08 NOT THAT THEY GO AROUND SAYING, 'HEY, LOOK AT ME. 12:11 I'M CONVERTED. LOOK AT ME.' NO, YOU DON'T DO THAT. 12:13 THE MORE CONVERTED YOU ARE, THE MORE HUMBLE YOU ARE WITH IT. 12:16 BUT THERE SHOULD BE A CHANGE THAT CAN BE SEEN. 12:18 PEOPLE LOOK AND SAY, 'WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE WITH THIS PERSON?' 12:23 LIKE WITH THE DISCIPLES, PEOPLE LOOKED AND SAID - THEY COULD 12:26 TELL THEY'D BEEN WITH JESUS AND IT SHOULD BE THE SAME WITH US. 12:29 WHERE ONCE THEY OR WE MAY HAVE NOT FOUND GOD INTERESTING, KIND 12:36 OF DISLIKED RELIGION, DISLIKED GOD'S LAW AND PREFERRED TO OBEY 12:40 THE DEVIL, THERE'S A CHANGE. AND SUDDENLY WE FIND OURSELVES 12:46 ESCHEWING EVIL - WE JUST FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH IT - AND WE 12:51 FIND OURSELVES HUNGERING AND THIRSTING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND 12:55 WE - LO AND BEHOLD WE'VE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH GOD. 12:57 WE'VE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH JESUS. WE'VE FALLEN IN LOVE 12:59 WITH HIS WORD. AND WHEN YOU LOVE SOMETHING OR 13:03 SOMEBODY YOU WANT TO DO THEIR WILL, RIGHT? 13:06 YOU GENTLEMEN WHO HAVE EVER BEEN IN LOVE, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT 13:09 I'M TALKING ABOUT. YOU'RE SLOW THIS MORNING. LADIES AS WELL, 13:15 BY THE WAY. SO THERE SHOULD BE AN ABSOLUTE CHANGE IN THE LIFE. 13:19 NOW IN SUNDAY'S SECTION 'THE TRANSFORMED LIFE', IT CITES THE 13:24 EXAMPLE OF PETER AND WE SEE PETER BEFORE HE HAD THIS 13:29 SPIRITUAL REVIVAL AND THIS CONVERSION AND HE BROUGHT FORTH 13:33 THE FRUITS OF OBEDIENCE AND WE SEE THE CONTRAST OF AFTERWARDS 13:37 WHEN HE HAD ACTUALLY GONE THROUGH A CHANGE WHEN HE WAS - 13:43 BECAME A DIFFERENT PERSON. BUT IT'S INTERESTING WHEN WE 13:48 LOOK AND REALIZE THAT HERE WAS THIS DISCIPLE - AND WE CAN READ 13:51 OURSELVES INTO THIS VERY EASILY - HERE WAS A CHOSEN DISCIPLE OF 13:55 CHRIST. HE'D BEEN RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH JESUS FOR THREE 13:59 AND A HALF YEARS. HE'D BEEN OUT THERE PREACHING THE GOSPEL - 14:03 HE'D EVEN CAST OUT DEMONS - AND WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? 14:08 THAT WAS THE GRACE OF GOD THAT WORKED IN HIS LIFE IN SPITE OF 14:11 HIS - WHAT SHOULD WE SAY? - HIS LIMITATIONS, SPIRITUALLY. 14:16 HE WASN'T ACTUALLY WHERE HE NEEDED TO BE SPIRITUALLY. 14:21 HE WASN'T ACTUALLY FULLY CONVERTED. AND YET, HERE HE IS. 14:25 HE'S BEEN IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST FOR ALL THIS TIME. 14:32 AND YET HE WAS BLIND TO SOME MAJOR FLAWS IN HIS CHARACTER, 14:39 WHICH THE ONLY WAY THEY COULD BE BROUGHT OUT WAS THROUGH 14:42 A CRISIS. NOW IN JEREMIAH, IT SAYS 'THE 14:47 HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS AND DESPERATELY WICKED, 14:51 WHO CAN KNOW IT?' AND YOU'VE HEARD ME USE THIS 14:54 MANY TIMES AND VERY OFTEN WE'RE THE LAST PERSON, PERHAPS, 14:59 TO KNOW WHAT OUR HEART IS REALLY LIKE. 15:00 BUT GOD SEES IT ALL THE TIME. IT'S LIKE AN OPEN BOOK. 15:04 SO WHAT GOD DOES, IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM, AND IN HIS 15:07 MERCY, HE BRINGS ALONG A CRISIS AND WHAT DOES THAT CRISIS DO? 15:13 WHAT'S INSIDE, AS YOU HIT THE WALL, IT COMES OUT. 15:17 SO CRISIS REVEALS CHARACTER AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH PETER. 15:23 I'D LIKE US TO GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 26 - MATTHEW CHAPTER 26. 15:33 I SOUND A BIT HOARSE THIS MORNING BECAUSE YESTERDAY I WAS 15:37 GIVING MY PRECIOUS LITTLE GRANDSONS THAT I LOVE LIKE 15:42 CRAZY, AN IMPERSONATION OF A FIRE TRUCK WHEN IT SOUNDS IT'S 15:47 AIRHORN. YOU KNOW THAT - HONK? WELL, I'M PAYING A PRICE TODAY. 15:53 BUT WE HAD FUN. ANYWAY, I'M GLAD MY VOICE IS BACK. SO, 15:59 MATTHEW CHAPTER 26. HERE IS THE NIGHT OF JESUS' BETRAYAL AND, 16:05 YOU KNOW, JESUS IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AND PETER'S THERE KIND 16:09 OF HANGING AROUND ON THE PERIPHERY AND HE GETS CONFRONTED 16:13 HERE. MATTHEW 26, VERSES 69 TO 74. 16:20 NOW, LET'S HAVE SOMEBODY READ ALL THOSE FOUR VERSES AND WE'LL 16:22 COME BACK AND TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THEM AND MY GOOD FRIEND HERE, 16:27 MICHAEL, IS ALL READY TO GO. 16:29 >>OKAY, MATTHEW 26, VERSES 69 THROUGH 74, "NOW PETER SAT 16:34 OUTSIDE IN THE COURTYARD AND A SERVANT GIRL CAME TO HIM SAYING, 16:39 'YOU ALSO WERE WITH JESUS OF GALILEE.' 16:41 BUT HE DENIED IT BEFORE THEM ALL SAYING, 'I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU 16:45 ARE SAYING.' AND WHEN HE HAD GONE OUT TO THE 16:48 GATEWAY, ANOTHER GIRL SAW AND SAID TO THOSE WHO WERE THERE, 16:53 'THIS FELLOW ALSO WAS WITH JESUS OF NAZARETH.' 16:57 BUT AGAIN HE DENIED WITH AN OATH, 'I DO NOT KNOW THE MAN.' 17:02 AND A LITTLE LATER, THOSE WHO STOOD BY CAME UP AND SAID TO 17:07 PETER, 'SURELY YOU ALSO ARE ONE OF THEM, FOR YOUR SPEECH BETRAYS 17:12 YOU.' THEN HE BEGAN TO CURSE AND SWEAR 17:15 SAYING, 'I DO NOT KNOW THE MAN.' IMMEDIATELY A ROOSTER CROWED." 17:20 >>YEAH, IMAGINE HOW HE FELT. THANK YOU MICHAEL. 17:23 BUT I'D LIKE YOU TO NOTICE THERE'S A PROGRESSION HERE. 17:26 HERE'S PETER, A FEW - JUST A SHORT TIME BEFORE - HE'S DRAWN A 17:31 SWORD, HE'S CUT OFF THE EAR OF THE HIGH PRIEST'S SERVANT AND 17:36 HE'S READY TO DIE - HE'S READY TO DIE LIKE A MAN, YOU KNOW? 17:40 THE ONE AND ONLY PETER. BUT NOW, WHERE'S HIS MANLINESS? 17:47 IT'S TURNED TO COWARDICE. AND THERE'S A PROGRESSION HERE 17:51 OF DENYING JESUS. IN VERSE 70 IT SAYS, JESUS 17:55 DENIED HIM - HE DENIED JESUS BEFORE THEM ALL. 18:00 AND THEN IN VERSE 72 IT SAYS, 'AND AGAIN HE DENIED WITH AN 18:03 OATH.' OKAY, SO HE DENIES IN THE FIRST 18:05 PLACE, NOW HE DENIES WITH AN OATH. 18:08 IN VERSE 74 HE BEGAN TO CURSE AND SWEAR SAYING, 'I KNOW NOT 18:14 THE MAN.' DENIES HIM, DENIES WITH AN OATH, 18:20 THEN HE DENIES HIM WITH CURSING AND SWEARING. 18:25 YOU SEE, THERE'S A PROGRESSION WHEN WE START DESCENDING DOWN 18:28 INTO EVIL. I'LL PAUSE A MOMENT JUST TO SAY 18:32 WE CAN WEAVE THIS LITTLE LESSON INTO HERE. 18:34 YOU MIGHT SAY, 'I'LL NEVER DENY JESUS. 18:36 I'LL BE FAITHFUL.' WELL, YOU START PLAYING AROUND 18:38 WITH FIRE - WITH SIN - AND YOU GO A LITTLE FURTHER AND YOU 18:44 MIGHT FIND YOURSELF DENYING HIM AND ALSO WITH AN OATH AND THE 18:46 FURTHER YOU GO, YOU'LL DENY HIM ONE DAY WITH CURSING AND 18:50 SWEARING. YOU MIGHT THINK, 'OH, I COULD 18:52 NEVER DO THAT.' OH YES YOU CAN. 18:54 WE'RE ALL PERFECT - WE'RE BORN PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF DOING THAT. 18:57 NOT BORN GUILTY OF SIN - I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT LATER ON, BUT 19:01 WE'RE ALL BORN PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF DOING THAT WITH OUR FALLEN 19:03 NATURES BECAUSE THE HEARTS WE HAVE ARE DESPERATELY WICKED AND 19:07 DECEITFUL. PETER'S NO DIFFERENT. HERE WE SEE THIS PROGRESSION. 19:12 SO THE FALSENESS OF PETER'S PROFESSION OF JESUS AND THE 19:17 HIDDEN HYPOCRISY OF HIS HEART BEGAN TO SPILL OUT HERE 19:22 DURING THIS CRISIS. BUT HERE'S THE THING AS WELL, 19:29 THAT JUST NAILED PETER - I DON'T WANT TO SAY 'NAILED' - I DON'T 19:33 MEAN ANYTHING SACRILEGIOUS THERE OR FUNNY, BUT RIGHT AT THAT 19:39 MOMENT, AS WE READ 'DESIRE OF AGES' - LET ME HOLD A MOMENT. 19:43 JESUS HAD TOLD PETER BEFORE TIME - DO YOU REMEMBER? - 19:45 'PETER, YOU'LL DENY ME TONIGHT.' 19:47 HE SAID, 'I WON'T DO THAT, LORD.' HE SAYS, 'YOU WILL. 19:49 YOU WILL.' AND I WANT TO GO TO 'DESIRE OF 19:55 AGES' - 'DESIRE OF AGES' 712 AND I'M SORRY THIS LOOKS LIKE A 19:59 PORCUPINE BUT IT'S A WELL-RESEARCHED BOOK. 20:04 712 - JUST BEAR WITH ME - 712 AND THE LAST PARAGRAPH, YES. 20:14 IT SAYS, "WHILE THE DEGRADING OATHS WERE FRESH UPON PETER'S 20:19 LIPS AND THE SHRILL CRYING OF THE COCK WAS STILL RINGING IN 20:24 HIS EARS, THE SAVIOR TURNED FROM THE FROWNING JUDGES AND LOOKED 20:30 FULL UPON HIS POOR DISCIPLE." - I'VE READ THIS BEFORE BUT IT'S 20:34 POWERFUL - "AT THE SAME TIME, PETER'S EYES WERE DRAWN TO HIS 20:38 MASTER. IN THAT GENTLE COUNTENANCE HE READ DEEP 20:44 PITY AND SORROW, BUT THERE WAS NO ANGER THERE. 20:49 THE SIGHT OF THAT PALE SUFFERING FACE, THOSE QUIVERING LIPS, THAT 20:55 LOOK OF COMPASSION AND FORGIVENESS PIERCED HIS HEART 21:00 LIKE AN ARROW. CONSCIENCE WAS AROUSED. MEMORY WAS ACTIVE. 21:07 PETER CALLED TO MIND HIS PROMISES A FEW SHORT HOURS 21:10 BEFORE THAT HE WOULD GO WITH HIS LORD TO PRISON AND TO DEATH. 21:15 HE REMEMBERED HIS GRIEF WHEN THE SAVIOR TOLD HIM IN THE UPPER 21:18 CHAMBER THAT HE WOULD DENY HIS LORD THRICE THAT SAME NIGHT. 21:23 PETER HAD JUST DECLARED THAT HE KNEW NOT JESUS. 21:28 BUT HE NOW REALIZED WITH BITTER GRIEF HOW WELL HIS LORD KNEW HIM 21:33 AND HOW ACCURATELY HE HAD READ HIS HEART, THE FALSENESS OF 21:38 WHICH WAS UNKNOWN EVEN TO HIM." SHALL I READ A BIT MORE? 21:45 IT SAYS HERE - WELL, I'LL READ IT - IT SAYS, "A TIDE OF 21:51 MEMORIES RUSHED OVER HIM; THE SAVIOR'S TENDER MERCIES, HIS 21:55 LONGSUFFERING, HIS GENTLENESS AND PATIENCE TOWARD HIS ERRING 21:59 DISCIPLE ALL WAS REMEMBERED. HE RECALLED THE CAUTION, 'SIMON, 22:04 BEHOLD SATAN'S DESIRE TO HAVE YOU THAT HE MIGHT SIFT YOU 22:09 AS WHEAT. BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR THEE 22:12 THAT THY FAITH FAIL NOT." YOU KNOW THAT EVEN IN THE AGONY 22:18 OF GETHSEMANE JESUS WAS PRAYING FOR GOOD OLD PETER. 22:23 "HE REFLECTED WITH HORROR UPON HIS OWN INGRATITUDE, HIS 22:28 FALSEHOOD, HIS PERJURY." WHAT IS PERJURY? IT'S LYING, RIGHT? 22:36 HE CONFESSED CHRIST BUT IT WAS A LIE. 22:39 THAT'S PERJURY. AND THIS CAME HOME TO HIM. 22:44 "ONCE MORE HE LOOKED AT HIS MASTER AND SAW A SACRILEGIOUS 22:48 HAND RAISED TO SMITE HIM IN THE FACE. UNABLE LONGER TO ENDURE 22:54 THE SCENE, HE RUSHED BROKENHEARTED FROM THE HALL. 23:00 HE PRESSED ON IN SOLITUDE AND DARKNESS. 23:03 HE KNEW NOT AND CARED NOT WHITHER. 23:07 AT LAST HE FOUND HIMSELF IN GETHSEMANE. 23:11 THE SCENE OF A FEW HOURS BEFORE CAME VIVIDLY TO HIS MIND. 23:16 THE SUFFERING FACE OF HIS LORD STAINED WITH BLOODY SWEAT 23:20 CONVULSED WITH ANGUISH - IT ROSE BEFORE HIM. 23:24 HE REMEMBERED WITH BITTER REMORSE THAT JESUS HAD WEPT AND 23:27 AGONIZED AND PRAYED ALONE WHILE THOSE WHO SHOULD HAVE UNITED 23:30 WITH HIM IN THAT TRYING HOUR WERE SLEEPING." 23:34 AND PETER WAS ONE OF THEM. "HE REMEMBERED HIS SOLEMN 23:37 CHARGE, 'WATCH AND PRAY LEST YE ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.' 23:43 HE WITNESSED AGAIN THE SCENE IN THE JUDGMENT HALL" - AND I WANT 23:47 US TO CATCH THIS NOW - "IT WAS TORTURE TO HIS BLEEDING HEART 23:54 TO KNOW THAT HE HAD ADDED THE HEAVIEST BURDEN TO THE SAVIOR'S 23:59 HUMILIATION AND GRIEF. ON THE VERY SPOT WHERE JESUS HAD 24:05 POURED OUT HIS SOUL IN AGONY TO HIS FATHER, PETER FELL UPON HIS 24:10 FACE AND WISHED THAT HE MIGHT DIE." SOMETHING, ISN'T IT? 24:21 SO ON THAT CRISIS NIGHT, PETER'S WORLD WAS BRUTALLY ROCKED AND 24:31 SHAKEN AS HE CAME TO SEE, THROUGH THE KINDNESS OF HIS 24:38 SUFFERING LORD, THAT FORGIVENESS WHEN HE'D BEEN SO FALSE - HIS 24:42 PERJURY, HIS LYING. AND JESUS HAD USED THIS CRISIS AS A TOOL 24:50 IN HIS MERCIFUL HAND TO GRAVELY WOUND HIS SERVANT'S HEART. 24:58 BUT THAT, MY FRIENDS WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE TRANSFORMATION 25:04 THAT MADE THIS BRASH DISCIPLE A DIFFERENT MAN. 25:10 AND YOU CONSIDER THIS EVENT AT GETHSEMANE AND AT THE JUDGMENT 25:16 HALL AND AFTERWARDS AND BETWEEN THAT UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT AND 25:22 PENTECOST JUST FIFTY-PLUS DAYS LATER WHEN PETER WAS FILLED WITH 25:28 THE HOLY SPIRIT, IT WAS A DIFFERENT MAN - SURRENDERED, 25:32 OBEDIENT, HUMBLE AND PREPARED TO ACTUALLY RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT 25:36 BECAUSE - BECAUSE GOD, IN HIS INFINITE MERCY, HAD NOT GIVEN 25:43 HIM WHAT HE DESERVED, BUT GOD GAVE PETER A CHANCE AT WHAT IT 25:48 WAS TO HAVE A REVIVAL AND A REFORMATION IN HIS LIFE. 25:54 AND YOU AND I INDIVIDUALLY AND YOU AND I AS A CORPORATE BODY OF 25:58 THIS CHURCH AND YOU AND I AS A CORPORATE BODY OF THE NORTHERN 26:02 CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE AND OF THE PACIFIC UNION AND OF THE NORTH 26:05 AMERICAN DIVISION AND THE WORLD CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY 26:08 ADVENTISTS, ALL OF US SINGLY OR CORPORATELY, UNLESS WE GO 26:15 THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE OF ALLOWING GOD TO REVEAL TO US THE 26:19 ROTTENNESS AND THE PLANKS IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE OF OUR FALLEN 26:24 HEARTS - PAINFUL AS IT MIGHT BE - UNLESS WE'RE WILLING TO GO 26:27 THROUGH THAT AND HONESTLY ACCEPT AND SAY, 'LORD, YOU WERE RIGHT, 26:32 I WAS WRONG. I'M IN NEED. HELP ME. FORGIVE ME. 26:36 I DON'T EVER WANT TO DISOBEY YOU AGAIN, BUT I'M WEAK. 26:38 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE ME THE STRENGTH.' 26:40 AND GOD WILL SAY, 'I'LL GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH.' 26:42 AND LORD, I CAST AWAY THESE GIMMICKS ABOUT HOW TO HAVE A 26:45 CHURCH SERVICE AND HOW TO BRING PEOPLE INTO THE CHURCH. 26:48 THERE IS ONE GOSPEL. AND IT'S THAT GOSPEL THAT CALLS 26:52 FOR THE CRUCIFIXION OF SELF AND UNLESS YOU AND I ARE WILLING TO 26:58 EXPERIENCE THAT - ARE WILLING TO GO THROUGH THAT, WE CAN HOLD 27:02 PREACHING SERVICES TIL THE COWS COME HOME. I DON'T WANT THE COWS 27:10 - I DON'T WANT TO BE WAITING FOR THE COWS TO COME HOME. 27:14 I WANT JESUS TO COME HOME AND I WANT TO GO WITH HIM BUT UNLESS 27:17 WE SUBMIT TO THIS WE WILL HAVE - NEVER HAVE A REVIVAL AND A 27:21 REFORMATION. SO I MAKE AN APPEAL THIS MORNING TO EVERYBODY HERE 27:24 AND TO ALL THAT - WHICH CAMERA AM I ON? 27:28 TO ALL THE LEADERS IN THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH - 27:31 LOCALLY, WORLDWIDE - WE ARE YOUR PEOPLE. 27:34 I BEG YOU - I CHARGE YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST TO LEAD 27:38 YOUR PEOPLE AND KNOW WHAT IT REALLY IS TO INITIATE A REVIVAL 27:42 AND A REFORMATION. OKAY, LET'S MOVE ON HERE. 27:50 SO THE POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS THIS - AND I THINK I'VE ALREADY 27:52 MADE IT - I GET AHEAD - I WRITE NOTES SOMETIMES. 27:56 I WONDER WHY I BOTHER BUT IT DOES HELP MY POOR LITTLE MIND 27:59 ONCE IN AWHILE. MONDAY: 'THE HIGH COST OF 28:05 OBEDIENCE' - AND AGAIN, OBEDIENCE IS THE FRUIT OF TRUE 28:11 REVIVAL AND THIS CAN ONLY COME AS WE'RE WILLING TO HAVE A 28:16 REFORMATION WITH IT AND BE CHANGED. 28:21 OKAY - AND SO SOMEBODY - WE'RE ON - ABOUT THE HIGH COST OF 28:26 OBEDIENCE - THE FALLOUT CAN BE PERSECUTION AND OPPOSITION. 28:30 AND SOMEBODY WHO BECOMES A BRAND-NEW CHRISTIAN AND THEY'RE 28:36 WASHED FROM THEIR SINS AND JESUS COMES INTO THEIR HEART AND 28:39 THEY'RE CHANGED - I REMEMBER I WAS CHANGED. 28:42 I WON'T GO INTO THAT. I'LL GET SIDE TRACKED. 28:44 BUT I REMEMBER THE CHANGE JESUS BROUGHT INTO MY LIFE WHEN I WAS 28:46 IN A ROCK N ROLL BAND. I'VE GOT TO STAY ON TRACK HERE. 28:50 BUT YOU GO THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE AND YOUNG CHRISTIANS 28:53 - AND I KNOW WHAT THIS WAS LIKE - YOUR FRIENDS, THEY LOOK AT YOU 28:56 AND THEY THINK YOU'RE SCREWY. THEY SAY, 'WHAT'S THE MATTER 28:59 WITH YOU? YOU DON'T DRINK ANYMORE. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH 29:01 YOU? YOU DON'T CUSS ANYMORE. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU? 29:03 YOU DON'T LAUGH AT FILTHY JOKES ANYMORE.' 29:05 IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T WANT TO. I DON'T LIKE TO. WHY? 29:10 BECAUSE JESUS HAS COME INTO MY HEART. 29:12 WHEN JESUS COMES INTO YOUR HEART HE CHANGES THINGS. 29:16 AND SO YOU GO OUT THERE AND YOU'RE STRANGE. 29:20 AND SO WHAT HAPPENS? YOU GET OPPOSITION. 29:23 YOU KNOW, SNIDE REMARKS. JUST EXPECT IT. 29:29 CHRISTIAN LIFE IS NOT A BED OF ROSES. YOU'RE IN A WARFARE. 29:32 JUST EXPECT IT. GET USED TO IT. 29:34 AND IF IT COMES, GET OVER IT. THAT'S HOW IT'S MEANT TO BE. 29:39 AND IF YOU'RE GETTING OPPOSED YOU MUST BE DOING SOMETHING 29:41 RIGHT. SO DON'T SEEK THE EASY PATH. AND SO WE GET OPPOSITION 29:48 AND MAYBE THEN FINALLY OUTRIGHT PHYSICAL PERSECUTION - 29:52 PEOPLE WANT TO TAKE US ASIDE AND ROUGH US UP. IN FACT, 29:56 IT WAS ONLY THREE AND A HALF YEARS AFTER THE CROSS IN A.D. 34 30:02 STEPHEN BECAME THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYR. 30:07 AND WE CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN ACTS CHAPTER 7. 30:10 I WANT TO KEEP MOVING ON THIS MORNING. 30:12 SO WE SHOULD READ THE WORD OF GOD BUT I'M SORRY IF I SKIP A 30:14 LITTLE BIT TODAY, BUT I WANT TO GIVE THE REFERENCES. 30:18 I WISH WE HAD MORE THAN THE TIME WE HAVE. 30:21 THEN A LITTLE FURTHER DOWNSTREAM, AS THE EARLY CHURCH 30:23 WENT FORTH, AS THE WHITE HORSE IN REVELATION - CONQUERING AND 30:28 TO CONQUER - STARTED MAKING THESE HUGE INROADS INTO SOCIETY 30:35 AND ESPECIALLY, OF COURSE, WHERE IT WAS INITIATED AND THAT WAS IN 30:39 THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND SO FOR A LITTLE WHILE THEY WERE ABLE TO 30:44 GO AND SOW THE SEED AND PREACH THE WORD. BUT THEN, FINALLY, 30:46 THE ROMAN STATE GOT ALL RILED UP BECAUSE THEY WERE PAGAN. 30:50 AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED? THEN PERSECUTION BROKE OUT. 30:54 MANY CHRISTIANS WERE MARTYRED - EVEN THE DISCIPLES - ALL BUT 30:58 JOHN - THEY TRIED TO DO AWAY WITH HIM BUT HE CAME OUT THE 31:03 BOILING OIL AND GOD HAD DETERMINED THAT THIS ONE'S 31:06 STAYING ALIVE. AND SO HE DID. BUT WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH THIS. 31:12 BUT THE MORE THEY SLEW THOSE CHRISTIANS - AS ONE PERSON SAID 31:16 AT THAT TIME OR A LITTLE AFTERWARDS - THE SEED OF - 31:19 THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS IS SEED. THE MORE THEY SLEW THEM AND 31:23 THREW THEM TO LIONS AND BURNED THEM AT THE STAKE, THE MORE 31:25 THEIR TESTIMONY, SO POWERFUL, INSPIRED OTHER PAGANS AND THEY 31:29 CAME FORWARD UP TO THE PLATE AND THEY TOOK A STAND FOR THE TRUTH. 31:32 AND SO SATAN LOOKED ON AND HE THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, THIS OUTWARD 31:35 STUFF - JUST THROWING PEOPLE TO THE LIONS AND SUCH JUST ISN'T 31:38 WORKING.' SO, OBVIOUSLY, HE HAD A POWWOW AND HE CAME UP WITH 31:41 ANOTHER IDEA, 'WELL, LET'S JOIN THE CHURCH' 31:44 WHICH SUPPOSEDLY HE DID. HE JOINED THE CHURCH TO INTRODUCE 31:48 A PERVERTED GOSPEL WHICH TAUGHT THE PEOPLE THAT SALVATION CAME 31:56 THROUGH A HUMAN PRIESTHOOD THROUGH THE WORSHIP OF SAINTS 32:00 AND RELICS AND PENANCES AND ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. 32:04 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. THAT'S WHEN WE HAD THE 1,260 32:09 PROPHETIC DAYS - LITERAL YEARS - FROM 538 TO 1798. 32:13 BUT NONETHELESS, DURING THAT TIME, AS JESUS HIMSELF HAD BEEN 32:23 SLAIN THROUGH THE INSTIGATION OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS 32:28 DAY, AND AS STEPHEN HAD BEEN SLAIN THROUGH THE INSTIGATION OF 32:33 THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS DAY, THROUGH THE DARK AGES IT 32:37 WAS THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS YOKING UP WITH THE POWERFUL ARM OF THE 32:41 STATE THAT CAUSED MANY TO GIVE THEIR LIVES AND TO BECOME 32:45 MARTYRS. THAT WAS THE OPPOSITION AND THAT'S OUR THEME AT THIS 32:50 POINT. OH, I'M TRYING TO THINK WHEN IT WAS, BUT LET ME SUFFICE 32:54 TO SAY IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO, WHEN I WAS A STUDENT AT NEWBOLD. 32:58 LONDON WASN'T TOO FAR AWAY AND WE WENT ONE DAY ON A TRIP AND 33:01 THERE'S A PLACE CALLED SMITHFIELD. THIRTY-SOMETHING 33:06 YEARS AGO IT WAS THE WHOLESALE MEAT MARKET IN LONDON. 33:09 I DON'T THINK IT IS ANYMORE, BUT THERE'S AN OLD HOSPITAL THERE - 33:12 SAINT GUY'S HOSPITAL OR BARTHOLOMEW'S, BUT THERE AT 33:15 SMITHFIELD THERE WAS KIND OF A PRETTY BIG SQUARE AND THE 33:19 TEACHER TOOK US OUT AND ON THE GROUND THERE, THERE WAS A LITTLE 33:23 KIND OF A BRASS PLAQUE AND IT SAYS THAT HERE SMITHFIELD, ON 33:28 THIS SPOT, IN THIS AREA, WHERE MANY MARTYRS WERE BURNED TO 33:34 DEATH WHILE TESTIFYING TO JESUS CHRIST. IT'S RIGHT THERE. 33:40 I'VE SEEN IT. AND THERE'S MANY OTHER PLACES 33:43 WHERE YOU CAN SEE THOSE THINGS. WHY? BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE 33:49 BROUGHT FORTH THE FRUITS OF REVIVAL - IT WAS OBEDIENCE. 33:52 AND THE DEVIL AND THOSE WHO THREW IN THEIR LOT WITH THE 33:55 DEVIL DIDN'T LIKE IT. I HAVE AT THE HOUSE A BIG OLD VOLUME 34:00 OF 'FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS' - IT'S ABOUT 200 YEARS OLD. 34:04 SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN IT. I NEARLY BROUGHT IT THIS MORNING 34:06 BUT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE TOO DISTRACTING. 34:07 BUT YOU READ THAT - IT SMELLS OLD, IT LOOKS OLD, AND THERE'S 34:11 SOME STORIES IN THERE, I TELL YOU. 34:14 BUT IT SEEMS, AGAIN, IRONIC THAT SO MANY OF GOD'S PEOPLE WERE 34:19 OPPOSED BY THE SO-CALLED RELIGIOUS BODIES OF THE TIME. 34:24 BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT WILL BE SEEN AGAIN. 34:28 IF YOU WANT TRUE REVIVAL AND REFORMATION WE HAVE TO BE BROKEN 34:32 AT THE CROSS. WE HAVE TO BE BORN AGAIN. 34:35 WE HAVE TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 34:37 JESUS WILL SEND US OUT AND IF WE HAD A REVIVAL OF PRIMITIVE 34:41 GODLINESS - AND YOU CAN READ THIS IN 'GREAT CONTROVERSY' - 34:44 ELLEN WHITE SAYS - THE SERVANT OF THE LORD SAYS, 'WE WOULD 34:47 IMMEDIATELY SEE, OR THEREABOUTS, A REKINDLING OF THE FIRES OF 34:51 PERSECUTION.' SO WHY DO WE SIT IN SUCH COMFORT AND EASE 34:54 TODAY? BECAUSE WE AIN'T DOIN' MUCH, THAT'S WHY. WE'RE NOT MUCH 35:00 OF A THREAT RIGHT NOW. BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A 35:02 FAITHFUL REMNANT OF GOD THAT WILL HAVE A TRUE REVIVAL AND 35:07 REFORMATION, THAT WILL BE OBEDIENT AND WILL STIR UP A 35:12 STORM OF OPPOSITION SUCH AS REALLY HASN'T EVER BEEN BEFORE. 35:21 AND THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THAT, THEY'RE GOING TO FIND THEMSELVES 35:25 OPPOSED BY APOSTATE PROTESTANTISM WHO WILL CHAMPION 35:31 THE CAUSE OF THE PAPACY AND ENLIST THE ARM OF CIVIL 35:37 GOVERNMENT HERE IN AMERICA TO ENFORCE CERTAIN RELIGIOUS 35:43 PRINCIPLES WHICH, MORALLY, IN THEMSELVES MAY BE VERY GOOD, BUT 35:47 YOU CAN'T - YOU CAN'T ENFORCE MORALITY. 35:51 BUT ALONG WITH THAT, WHICH AT FIRST MAY LOOK PRETTY GOOD, YOU 35:54 KNOW, WHO KNOWS, THEY MAY BE AGAINST CERTAIN KINDS OF 35:57 MARRIAGE AND THEY SAY, 'WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THIS. 35:59 WE NEED TO OUTLAW GAY MARRIAGE.' THEY MAY DO THAT. 36:02 I DON'T KNOW. I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEM. THEY MAY DO THAT. 36:04 BUT, YOU KNOW, ALONG WITH THAT WHAT'S GOING TO COME? 36:07 THE PUSH FOR SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. VERY OFTEN PERHAPS FIRST, 36:13 JUST FOR THE SAKE OF A COMMON DAY OFF - LIKE IS ALREADY THE 36:16 SITUATION IN EUROPE - A LOT OF EUROPE. BUT THEN IT'S GOING 36:20 TO GO FROM SOMETHING THAT LOOKS KIND OF CIVIL ON THE OUTSIDE 36:22 FOR CIVIL/SOCIAL REASONS LIKE CONSTANTINE'S FIRST LAW IN 321. 36:27 BUT THEN IT'S GOING TO MOVE ALONG TO BECOME FOR RELIGIOUS 36:30 REASONS AND THAT'S WHEN THE NITTY GRITTY OF THIS REAL 36:35 SPIRITUAL FACE-OFF WILL BEGIN TO TAKE PLACE. 36:39 AND IT WILL ALL BOIL DOWN TO TWO DAYS - THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH 36:44 OF THE LORD THY GOD - WHO RECOGNIZE GOD AS THEIR CREATOR 36:48 BY KEEPING THE SEVENTH DAY, ACCORDING TO THE FOURTH 36:50 COMMANDMENT. AND THE OTHER THE FIRST DAY - 36:53 SUNDAY KEEPING, WHICH IS AN INVENTION OF MAN - THE CHILD OF 36:57 THE PAPACY. AND WHICH DAY YOU KEEP WILL 37:01 DETERMINE WHICH GOD YOU SERVE. AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS AND 37:05 EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO FACE THIS TEST. 37:10 NOBODY IS GOING TO BE SITTING ON THE FENCE LIKE SOME SWITZERLAND. 37:13 WE'RE GOING TO BE ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER WHEN GOD'S FINISHED. 37:17 DON'T SIT ON THE FENCE - GOD'S GOING TO HAVE TO FORCE THEM TO 37:19 HAVE TO TAKE A POSITION. IN REVELATION 13, IF YOU WANT TO 37:26 TURN THERE, I'D LIKE SOMEBODY TO READ REVELATION 13:15, PLEASE. 37:32 REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - JUST RAISE YOUR HAND AND WE'LL GIVE 37:35 YOU A MICROPHONE. REVELATION CHAPTER 13:15 - 37:40 WE HAVE A MICROPHONE OVER THERE? OKAY, SOMEBODY OVER HERE. 37:44 THANK YOU JOLYNE - REVELATION 13:15, PLEASE JOLYNE. 37:49 >>REVELATION 13:15, "HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO GIVE BREATH TO 37:55 THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH 37:58 SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE 38:01 BEAST TO BE KILLED. >>YEAH, THANK YOU JOLYNE. 38:05 OH, DID I MISS ONE? OH, WELL, WE SHOULD KNOW THE GIST OF THIS. 38:13 SO THAT'S WHAT IT'S COMING TO HERE. 38:16 AND, YOU KNOW, MANY OF GOD'S PROFESSED PEOPLE, WHEN IT COMES 38:23 TO THIS, THEY ARE GOING TO CAVE IN. THEY'RE GOING TO CAVE IN 38:30 TO SUCH DEMANDS TO PRESERVE LIFE AND LIVELIHOOD. INSTEAD OF 38:37 OBEYING GOD AND KEEPING THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, THEY'LL 38:40 SWITCH SIDES AND OBEY A HUMAN ENACTMENT AND OFFER ALLEGIANCE 38:44 TO THE MAN OF SIN. NOW YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, HOW COME? WHY WOULD 38:49 THEY DO THAT?' WELL, I DO WANT TO READ FROM 'GREAT CONTROVERSY' 38:53 - WE SHOULD ALL KNOW THESE WORDS, BY THE WAY, WE SHOULD 38:56 KNOW 'THE GREAT CONTROVERSY' BUT, NONETHELESS, HERE WE GO. 39:02 "AS THE STORM APPROACHES" - THIS ONE HERE, REVELATION 13 - "AS 39:07 THE STORM APPROACHES" - AND THOSE WHO HAVE HAD REVIVAL AND 39:09 REFORMATION ARE RENDERING OBEDIENCE TO GOD BRINGS 39:12 OPPOSITION - "AS THE STORM APPROACHES A LARGE CLASS WHO 39:16 HAVE PROFESSED FAITH IN THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE BUT HAVE 39:20 NOT BEEN SANCTIFIED THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH ABANDON 39:25 THEIR POSITION AND JOIN THE RANKS OF THE OPPOSITION. 39:29 BY UNITING WITH THE WORLD AND PARTAKING OF ITS SPIRIT, THEY 39:33 HAVE COME TO VIEW MATTERS IN NEARLY THE SAME LIGHT. 39:37 AND WHEN THE TEST IS BROUGHT THEY ARE PREPARED TO CHOOSE THE 39:39 EASY POPULAR SIDE. MEN OF TALENT AND PLEASING 39:44 ADDRESS WHO ONCE REJOICED IN THE TRUTH, EMPLOY THEIR POWERS TO 39:49 DECEIVE AND MISLEAD SOULS. THEY BECOME THE MOST BITTER" - WHAT? 39:55 - THE MOST BITTER - YOU KNOW THESE WORDS - "ENEMIES" - WHO 40:00 BECOMES THE MOST BITTER ENEMIES? FORMER SABBATH KEEPERS. "THEY 40:06 BECOME THE MOST BITTER ENEMIES OF THEIR FORMER BRETHREN. 40:10 WHEN SABBATH KEEPERS ARE BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURTS TO ANSWER FOR 40:13 THEIR FAITH, THESE APOSTATES" - APOSTATES, NOW - "ARE THE MOST 40:19 EFFICIENT AGENTS OF SATAN TO MISREPRESENT AND ACCUSE THEM AND 40:23 BY FALSE REPORTS AND INSINUATIONS TO STIR UP THE 40:26 RULERS AGAINST THEM." OKAY, SO MY QUESTION WAS HOW 40:33 COME - WHAT WAS MY LAST LITTLE COMMENT THERE? 40:37 INSTEAD OF OBEYING GOD AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THEY WILL 40:39 SWITCH SIDES AND OBEY THE MAN OF SIN. HOW COME? 40:41 WELL, WE READ THIS HERE AND IT SAYS THE REASON WHY - HERE'S THE 40:45 ANSWER - BECAUSE THEY HAD THE TRUTH, OKAY, BUT THEY HAD NOT 40:49 BEEN SANCTIFIED THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH. 40:55 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OBEDIENCE, TODAY, AS A FRUIT OF REVIVAL AND 40:57 REFORMATION, OKAY. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN SANCTIFIED 41:01 THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH. SO THERE'S NO SANCTIFICATION 41:05 AND THERE'S NO OBEDIENCE. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY HAD NOT 41:10 BEEN PART OF ANY GENUINE REVIVAL AND REFORMATION. AS I SAY 41:15 AGAIN, A TRUE REVIVAL AND A TRUE REFORMATION BRINGS CONVERSION TO 41:19 THOSE WHO SINCERELY INVEST THEIR HEART, THEIR MIND, THEIR 41:23 EVERYTHING IN SEEKING GOD AND HIS TRUTH. BUT ALSO, A TRULY 41:29 CONVERTED PERSON WHO IS SANCTIFIED THROUGH FAITH IN 41:35 CHRIST, WILL RENDER OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD, INCLUDING THE 41:39 FOURTH COMMANDMENT. BUT AGAIN, IN THE TESTING TIME IT WILL 41:42 COME TO LIGHT WHO ARE LIKE THIS. NOW, THERE'S SOMETHING I WANT TO 41:47 SHARE WITH YOU AS TO WHY - IT SAYS IN HERE THEY BECOME - WHAT 41:50 IS IT NOW - IT SAYS BECOME SANCTIFIED FOR THE TRUTH. 41:53 'BY UNITING WITH THE WORLD AND PARTAKING OF ITS SPIRIT THEY 41:58 HAVE COME TO VIEW MATTERS IN NEARLY THE SAME LIGHT.' 42:00 SO THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE SABBATH KEEPERS - OR WERE - THEY'VE COME 42:03 TO UNITE WITH THE WORLD AND SEE THINGS IN A VERY WORLDLY WAY. 42:07 HOW COME? I HAVE - I WANT TO MENTION SOMETHING WHICH 42:11 I THINK IS A REAL SERIOUS THREAT TO ANY SINCERE CHRISTIAN TODAY 42:16 AND A REAL SERIOUS THREAT TO SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 42:21 IT IS - IT'S THE - YEAH, OKAY - IT'S EVANGELICALISM. 42:30 NOW YOU MIGHT SAY, 'YOU KNOW, PASTOR MIKE, I'VE HEARD THAT - 42:34 WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'EVANGELICALISM'?' WELL, LET ME 42:39 TRY AND KIND OF DEFINE THIS IN AS FEW WORDS AS POSSIBLE, BUT 42:43 HOPEFULLY IN A WAY THAT YOU'LL CATCH IT, OKAY? LET ME EXPLAIN. 42:50 EVANGELICALISM, TO PUT IT SIMPLY, KIND OF SPRINGS FROM ONE 42:58 OF THE REFORMERS CALLED JOHN CALVIN AND CALVIN, IN TURN, HAD 43:03 BEEN A CATHOLIC AND HE BROUGHT SOME BAGGAGE WITH HIM AND IT WAS 43:08 INTRODUCED - HE WAS ONE OF THE MAIN ONES WHO INTRODUCED IT INTO 43:12 PROTESTANTISM - AND IT'S LIKE THIS: WE'RE DEALING WITH THE 43:15 ISSUE OF ORIGINAL SIN, ACTUALLY, AND THE FALLOUT BECAUSE OF THAT. 43:20 SIN - THIS IS EVANGELICALISM - NOW TRY AND FOLLOW ME. 43:25 THIS HAS A TREMENDOUS EFFECT ON HOW YOU VIEW THE GOSPEL AND 43:29 WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO ALLOW YOUR GOSPEL THAT YOU ADOPT TO TAKE 43:32 YOU. WE START WITH SIN - SIN IS NOT AN ACT. THE WORD OF GOD 43:38 TELLS US THAT SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW - 43:40 THAT IS AN ACT. THEY SAY THAT SIN IS NOT AN ACT, IT IS A 43:44 STATE OF BEING. SIN IS NOT SOMETHING YOU INCUR AS A RESULT 43:50 OF VIOLATING THE LAW OF GOD, SIN IS SOMETHING WE ALREADY ARE 43:55 WHEN WE ARE BORN BECAUSE WE ARE BORN GUILTY BECAUSE WE NOT ONLY 44:01 INHERIT A FALLEN NATURE, WE ACTUALLY INHERIT THE GUILT AND 44:05 CONDEMNATION OF ADAM'S SIN. YOU FOLLOW ME? 44:10 THIS IS WHY A LITTLE BABY THAT'S BORN INTO A CARING CATHOLIC HOME 44:18 - AND I WANT TO SAY AGAIN, THERE ARE SOME WONDERFUL CATHOLICS OUT 44:21 THERE WHO ARE HONEST IN HEART AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE SOME OF 44:25 GOD'S GREATEST CHAMPIONS BEFORE JESUS COMES. I REALLY BELIEVE 44:28 THAT, I DO. IN A GOOD CATHOLIC HOME - THE LITTLE BABY WHEN HE'S 44:34 BORN, THEY'RE TAUGHT TO BELIEVE - A LITTLE BABY IS BORN BUT 44:37 HE'S/SHE IS GUILTY BECAUSE MY LITTLE CHILD HAS INHERITED 44:42 ADAM'S SIN. SO I NEED TO GET MY BABY BAPTIZED. 44:48 AND SO IF YOUR BABY FALLS SICK WITHIN AN HOUR OF BEING BORN AND 44:51 IT'S ON THE ICU THERE AT UC DAVIS SOMEWHERE OR SUTTER 44:57 GENERAL, THAT GOOD CATHOLIC MOTHER AND FATHER WILL CALL THE 45:02 PRIEST AND SAY, 'PLEASE, COME AND BAPTIZE OUR BABY BECAUSE OUR 45:07 LITTLE ONE'S GETTING READY TO PASS AWAY AND THE PRIEST WILL 45:10 COME AND HE'LL, YOU KNOW, CHRISTEN THE BABY AND WHAT THAT 45:13 DOES - THAT ATONES FOR THAT LITTLE BABY'S SIN AND GUILT 45:20 WHICH, BY THE WAY, A BABY IS BORN INNOCENT. SIN IS A CHOICE. 45:27 BUT IF YOU BELIEVE THAT SIN IS NOT A CHOICE BUT IT'S A STATE OF 45:30 BEING THAT YOU'RE BORN IN, WELL, I'D BE ON THE PHONE TO THE 45:35 PRIEST, 'PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE'. SO HE CHRISTENS THE 45:39 LITTLE BABY AND THE LITTLE BABY DIES, 'OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 45:43 MY BABY IS - MY BABY IS SAFE.' OKAY, SO THIS IS WHAT IS THOUGHT 45:49 TO BE SIN IN THE EVANGELICAL GOSPEL AS WELL. 45:54 AND I'LL TRY AND PICK UP WHERE I WAS HERE. 45:57 AND SO BECAUSE WE'RE ALL BORN WITH WHAT'S KNOWN AS THIS TOTAL 46:02 - IN THIS TOTALLY DEPRAVED STATE - WE'RE BORN WITH A FALLEN 46:08 NATURE, WE'RE BORN SINFUL, WE'RE BORN GUILTY, THEN HOW CAN WE 46:13 EVER PERFECTLY KEEP GOD'S LAW? I CAN'T LIVE A PERFECT LIFE, BUT 46:20 THIS I KNOW I CAN DO: THE PREACHER TOLD ME THAT JESUS WAS 46:24 CRUCIFIED ON THE CROSS FOR MY SINS. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? 46:30 PRAISE THE LORD. EVERY DAY WE SHOULD GO TO THAT CROSS. 46:34 WE'RE TOLD THAT IN THE INSPIRED WRITINGS AND CONTEMPLATE THE 46:38 LAST SCENES OF JESUS' LIFE. THE CROSS IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS 46:42 BROKEN SO I'M ALL FOR THE CROSS. SO THE PREACHER SAYS, YOU KNOW, 46:50 IT'S THE CROSS, IT'S THE CROSS, IT'S - ABSOLUTELY IT'S THE CROSS 46:54 - AND THE CROSS IS WHERE YOU COME WITH YOUR SIN AND YOU ASK 46:56 JESUS TO FORGIVE YOU. PRAISE THE LORD HE DOES. 47:00 BUT THAT TIME YOU ARE FORGIVEN YOU'VE MADE A PROFESSION OF 47:06 CHRIST AND SO YOU'RE SAVED NOW. AND YOU JUST KEEP MAKING THAT 47:10 PROFESSION THAT I BELIEVE IN JESUS AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. 47:17 NOW AS FOR KEEPING THE LAW AS GOD WANTS US TO DO - AND GOD 47:23 WANTS TO GIVE US THE GRACE TO DEVELOP THOSE CHARACTERS WHICH 47:27 ARE PERFECTLY MORAL WHEN JESUS COMES SO THAT WHEN HE COMES WE 47:31 ARE LIKE HIM, BUT IF YOU DON'T BUY INTO SANCTIFICATION AND IT'S 47:37 JUST JUSTIFICATION, IT'S JUST THE CROSS, THE CROSS, THE CROSS. 47:42 AND IF YOU SIN, GO TO THE CROSS AND YOU'LL BE WASHED. AND, YOU 47:44 KNOW, THAT'S GOOD - VERY GOOD IN ITS PLACE, BUT THE GOSPEL IS NOT 47:50 JUST THAT. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SANCTUARY SERVICE, PRAISE GOD 47:56 THERE WERE THE LITTLE LAMBS AND THEY TYPIFIED JESUS WHO WAS 48:01 CRUCIFIED, IF YOU LIKE, SYMBOLICALLY IN THE OUTER COURT 48:05 OF THE TEMPLE. LITTLE LAMB, HIS BLOOD WAS SHED, THE REST WAS 48:10 BURNED AND THERE'S THE SAVING BLOOD OF JESUS. 48:14 BUT, YOU KNOW, THE SANCTUARY JUST DOESN'T BRING TO LIGHT THE 48:18 SACRIFICE, IT BRINGS TO LIGHT THE PRIEST AS WELL. 48:22 AND WHAT DID THE PRIEST DO - HE WOULD TAKE THAT BLOOD AND TAKE 48:26 IT INTO THE SANCTUARY AND WITH THAT BLOOD HE WOULD MAKE AN 48:31 ATONEMENT - SPRINKLE IT ON THE VEIL, PUT IT ON THE HORNS OF THE 48:36 ALTAR AND ONCE A YEAR ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT GO AROUND THERE 48:39 AND, YOU KNOW, CLEANSE THE SANCTUARY - MAKE AN ATONEMENT 48:42 FOR THE HOLY PLACE AND THE PEOPLE AND ALL THEIR 48:45 UNCLEANNESS. THAT TYPIFIES THE OTHER HALF OF THE GOSPEL. 48:52 ACTUALLY, IT'S ONE GOSPEL BUT FOR EXPLAINING PURPOSES WE CAN 48:57 SPLIT IT, BUT THAT'S THE GOSPEL. RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH IS 49:01 JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION BUT WE SPLIT THEM IN TWO JUST SO 49:04 WE CAN DESCRIBE THEM. BUT WHEN YOU HEAR THE TERM RIGHTEOUSNESS 49:08 BY FAITH, IT'S JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION. BUT THERE'S THIS 49:13 ROLE THAT THE HIGH PRIEST PLAYS - THAT THE PRIEST PLAYS. 49:16 NOW SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS, WE VERY MUCH ARE INTO THAT SIDE OF 49:21 IT, WHICH TAKES US INTO THE SANCTUARY, WHICH TAKES US, AS 49:25 WE'RE STUDYING THE PROPHECIES, TO DANIEL 8:14 UNTO 2300 DAYS 49:29 THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE CLEANSED. 49:31 WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS WENT INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE IN THE 49:33 SANCTUARY IN 1844 TO BEGIN THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT TO BEGIN 49:38 THE FINAL WORK OF HIS MEDIATION ON BEHALF OF HIS PEOPLE. 49:41 AND AS IN THE OLD DAY OF ATONEMENT, THE PEOPLE WERE TO 49:43 AFFLICT THEIR SOULS - THAT WAS SEARCH THEIR HEARTS AND CONFESS 49:47 THEIR SINS AND MAKE SURE THERE WAS NOTHING IN THEIR LIVES THAT 49:50 THEY WERE CLINGING TO BECAUSE IF YOU CLUNG TO IT, IT COULDN'T BE 49:55 CLEANSED. THEY INVESTED THEIR HEARTS AND 49:59 AT THAT TIME, BY FAITH, ON THE DAY OF THE ATONEMENT, THE PRIEST 50:03 WOULD MAKE THE ATONEMENT AND THEN THEY WERE CLEAN. 50:05 THAT WAS A PICTURE BOOK - THE SANCTUARY IS A PICTURE BOOK OF 50:08 SALVATION - OF HOW GOD DEALS WITH SIN - OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 50:12 AT THE END OF TIME WHEN JESUS WOULD CLEANSE THE HEAVENLY 50:14 SANCTUARY AND AS WE'RE WAITING IN OUR PROBATIONARY TIME, THIS 50:19 IS THE TIME TO BE COMING TO HIM AS HE MINISTERS TO US BEFORE THE 50:23 THRONE OF GOD TO DISPENSE GRACE, TO FORGIVE US, AND ALSO TO 50:27 CLEANSE US AND SANCTIFY US AND GIVE US STRENGTH TO OVERCOME. 50:30 THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW AND THIS IS WHY, AS SEVENTH DAY 50:32 ADVENTISTS, WE BELIEVE 'LET'S LIFT UP THE CRUCIFIED SAVIOR BUT 50:37 LET'S LIFT UP THE RISEN INTERCESSORY PRIEST.' BUT IN 50:42 EVANGELICAL GOSPEL, HE'S NOT THERE. SO HOW DO YOU REMEDY 50:47 THIS? IT'S JUST THE CROSS - JUST THE CROSS - JUST STAY FORGIVEN. 50:53 AS FOR BEING - OVERCOMING, DON'T WORRY. 50:56 DO THE BEST YOU CAN. GOD UNDERSTANDS. 50:59 HE'S MERCIFUL, YES, BUT HE'S NOT INDULGENT. 51:01 HE'S GIVEN A GOSPEL - A FULL GOSPEL - AND, UNFORTUNATELY, 51:06 THERE ARE CERTAIN SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS TODAY WHO HAVE BOUGHT 51:10 INTO EVANGELICAL ADVENTISM AND THIS IS WHY THEY WILL BE AMONG, 51:18 I BELIEVE, AMONG A LARGE GROUP THAT WILL LEAVE WHEN THIS CRISIS 51:26 HITS. WHY? BECAUSE IT SAYS HERE 'THEY HAVEN'T BEEN SANCTIFIED 51:34 THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH.' BY UNITING WITH THE 51:37 WORLD AND PARTAKING OF ITS SPIRIT - IF YOU ARE FULLY 51:41 INVESTED IN THE TRUE SANCTUARY MESSAGE, YOUR MIND AND 51:47 YOUR DESIRES AND YOUR AFFECTIONS ARE GOING IN THE DIRECTION NOT 51:51 OF THE WORLD, BUT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS. 51:55 BUT IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN THE SANCTUARY AND YOU JUST HAVE THIS 51:57 THING ABOUT JUST THE CROSS, AND THERE'S NO CHALLENGE, THROUGH 52:02 THE GRACE OF CHRIST, TO OVERCOME - AND IT'S ONLY THROUGH THE 52:05 GRACE OF CHRIST BUT IT WILL WORK. 52:07 YOU PUSH THAT ASIDE WHERE'S YOUR MIND GOING TO GO? 52:13 WELL THE WORLD, WITH THIS WEAK, WISHY-WASHY GOSPEL YOU HAVE - 52:16 THIS WEAK, WISHY-WASHY GOSPEL DOESN'T PUT A BULWARK AROUND 52:19 YOUR BRAIN OR YOUR HEART. IT DOESN'T PROTECT YOU AND YOU'RE 52:22 A SITTING DUCK FOR WORLDLINESS. THE WORLD COMES ALONG - THE 52:26 PIED PIPER COMES - AND HE JUST TAKES YOU DOWN THE TRACK. 'I'M 52:29 A CHRISTIAN BUT HEY, LET'S ROCK N ROLL IN THE SANCTUARY. LET'S 52:32 HAVE A DRAMA UP HERE. LET'S GET ALL THE LASER LIGHTS OUT. 52:37 LET'S BRING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. YEAH, LET'S DANCE!' 52:42 YOU MIGHT AS WELL DANCE AROUND THE GOLDEN CALF AND HAVE MOSES 52:49 COME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AND JUST SMASH THOSE COMMANDMENTS IN 52:51 FRONT OF YOU. BECAUSE THAT'S ALL THAT KIND OF RELIGION IS WORTH. 52:58 YOU GET THE POINT? I'M A BIT WORDY SOMETIMES. 53:02 I'M NOT THE BEST AT EXPLAINING THINGS BUT THIS IS WHY - YOU 53:05 THROW THAT ASIDE AND SO YOU'RE WIDE OPEN TO THE WORLD. AND WHY? 53:09 OKAY, 'AS THE STORM APPROACHES A LARGE CLASS WHO HAVE PROFESSED 53:13 FAITH IN THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE BUT HAVE NOT BEEN 53:15 SANCTIFIED THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH ABANDON THEIR POSITION 53:18 AND JOIN THE RANKS OF THE OPPOSITION. 53:20 BY UNITING WITH THE WORLD AND UNITING WITH EVANGELICALISM - 53:25 AND LET ME SAY SOMETHING NOW - THERE'S GOING TO BE PEOPLE IN 53:29 EVANGELICALISM WHO WILL COME AND STAND UPON THE PLATFORM OF 53:34 PRESENT TRUTH AND THEY WILL BE CHAMPIONS FOR GOD. 53:37 SO I'M NOT PUTTING DOWN CATHOLIC INDIVIDUALS, AND I'M 53:41 NOT PUTTING DOWN EVANGELICALS. THEY'RE GOING TO BE FIREBRANDS 53:44 FOR JESUS, THEY ARE. HE ACCEPTS THEM AS HIS CHILDREN 53:49 BECAUSE THEY'RE HONEST IN HEART AND HE KNOWS WHEN THEY SEE THE 53:52 TRUTH THEY'LL ACCEPT IT. SO PRAY FOR THESE PEOPLE. 53:56 'BY UNITING WITH THE WORLD AND PARTAKING OF ITS SPIRIT THEY 54:00 HAVE COME TO VIEW MATTERS IN NEARLY THE SAME LIGHT AND WHEN 54:04 THE TEST IS BROUGHT THEY ARE PREPARED TO CHOOSE THE EASY, 54:08 POPULAR SIDE.' WHY? BECAUSE THE RELIGION THEY ADOPTED THROUGH 54:13 EVANGELICALISM IS AN EASY, POPULAR RELIGION. 54:18 THERE'S NO CROSS. RIGHT? AND NO SACRIFICE TO MAKE. 54:23 SO WHEN YOU HEAR OF PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH PREACHING THE CROSS, 54:30 PRAISE THE LORD, BUT HOW FULL IS YOUR GOSPEL? 54:35 IF THE SANCTUARY IS NOT BROUGHT IN THERE - IF THE CROSS IS NOT 54:37 PLANTED IN THE COURTYARD OF THE SANCTUARY, THEN YOU KNOW IT'S 54:43 NOT GOING TO BE PLANTED - THE ATONING BLOOD IS NOT GOING TO BE 54:46 BROUGHT TO YOU WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE MOST HOLY PLACE. 54:50 I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S WHY WE'RE IN THE STATE WE ARE TODAY - 54:54 BECAUSE OF LISTENING TO THESE THINGS. WE NEED TO GET BACK TO 54:57 THE BOOK. WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THIS WORD. WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED 55:01 CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES. GOD HAS BLESSED US WITH TRUTH. 55:06 HE'S BLESSED US WITH A PROPHET AND WE POOH-POOH THE PROPHET AND 55:12 WE BECOME PROGRESSIVE AND ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF. 55:17 WELL, THAT'S ALL STUFF AT THE PERIL OF OUR SOULS. 55:19 I - I'M GOING TO CONCLUDE WITH THIS: HEBREWS CHAPTER 13 - JUST 55:26 TO CONCLUDE - I'VE GOT A MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS LEFT - SORRY JIM. 55:33 HEBREWS 13:12 AND 20 AND 21. THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE AND YOU 55:42 WON'T GET THIS IN AN EVANGELICAL GOSPEL BUT YOU WILL IF YOU STAND 55:49 BY THE OLD LANDMARKS OF ADVENTISM. HEBREWS 13:12, 55:54 20 AND 21, "THEREFORE JESUS ALSO, THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY 56:00 THE PEOPLE WITH HIS OWN BLOOD, SUFFERED WITHOUT THE GATE." - 56:05 JESUS DIED THAT HE MIGHT JUSTIFY US OUTSIDE THE GATE WHEN 56:10 HE SHED HIS BLOOD, BUT THAT BLOOD WAS ALSO SHED TO SANCTIFY 56:13 US, WHICH MEANS WHAT THEN EXACTLY? 56:15 VERSE 20, "NOW THE GOD OF PEACE THAT BROUGHT AGAIN FROM THE DEAD 56:19 OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, 56:23 THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE EVERLASTING COVENANT" - THAT'S 56:27 THE COVENANT - THAT'S THE GOSPEL. 56:29 HERE'S WHAT IT IS - VERSE 21-- - TO BE SANCTIFIED - "MAKE YOU 56:34 PERFECT IN EVERY GOOD WORK TO DO HIS WILL." 56:39 IS THAT KEEPING GOD'S LAW OR NOT? ABSOLUTELY - INCLUDING THE 56:44 SABBATH. IN OUR OWN STRENGTH? NO, IT SAYS JESUS WILL MAKE YOU 56:47 ABLE - "MAKE YOU PERFECT IN EVERY GOOD WORK TO DO HIS WILL, 56:53 WORKING IN YOU THAT WHICH IS WELL PLEASING IN HIS SIGHT 56:58 THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN." 57:05 THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT. DIDN'T GET FAR, DID WE? 57:07 BUT I THINK WE COVERED SOME IMPORTANT GROUND SO I'LL TRY AND 57:11 FIND OUR SPECIAL OFFER - IT'S THIS ONE HERE, OFFER #706 'IS 57:17 OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?' AND YOU CAN HAVE THIS FREE IF 57:21 YOU CALL 866-788-3966 OR 1-866-STUDY-MORE. 57:33 >>IF YOU'VE MISSED ANY OF OUR AMAZING FACTS PROGRAMS, VISIT 57:36 OUR WEBSITE AT 'AMAZINGFACTS.ORG'. 57:38 THERE YOU'LL FIND AN ARCHIVE OF ALL OUR TELEVISION AND RADIO 57:40 PROGRAMS INCLUDING AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 57:43 ONE LOCATION. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. 57:46 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 57:48 (MUSIC) |
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