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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE ARE SO GLAD
THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN.
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WHETHER THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME
OR YOU ARE A REGULAR JOINING US
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EVERY WEEK FROM ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD,
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WE'RE JUST SO GLAD THAT YOU
ARE PART OF OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
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FAMILY HERE AT
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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AND WE KNOW THAT YOU LOVE TO
SING THESE SONGS WITH US THAT WE
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SING EVERY WEEK AND TODAY,
OF COURSE, IS NO EXCEPTION.
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WE'RE GOING TO KEEP
SINGING YOUR FAVORITES.
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WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD ONE -
'O, HOW I LOVE JESUS' - #248.
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THIS IS A REQUEST FROM ALMA
IN AUSTRALIA, AMEIDY IN BELIZE,
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RUTH IN BOTSWANA, FERNANDO
IN BRAZIL, JASON AND JENSIE IN
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CALIFORNIA, JACQUELINE IN
CANADA, MAISIE, KARL, HELEN,
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DENIS, MARTINE, AND PASCAL IN
FRANCE, DEON IN GUYANA, MOLLY IN
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IOWA, DONNA IN JAMAICA, JAMIE
AND JENNY IN NORTH CAROLINA,
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CHRISTA IN VIRGINIA,
AND CHAN IN WASHINGTON.
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WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE
STANZAS - 'O, HOW I LOVE JESUS'.
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SO THOSE OF YOU AT HOME PULL OUT
YOUR HYMNALS AND SING WITH US.
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ALL THREE STANZAS.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SENDING IN YOUR FAVORITES.
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AND IF YOU'VE NEVER DONE
IT BEFORE, IT'S SO SIMPLE.
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YOU JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE
AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND CLICK ON
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THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU
CAN SEND IN ANY OF YOUR FAVORITE
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HYMNS AND WE WILL DO OUR
BEST TO SING THAT FOR YOU SOONER
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RATHER THAN LATER. OUR
NEXT ONE, AS WE CONTINUE
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WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE
HYMNAL LEARNING ALL THE SONGS
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THAT WE DON'T KNOW, IS #64
- 'LORD DISMISS US WITH THY
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BLESSING' - AND THIS
IS A REQUEST FROM JOYCE
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IN NAIROBI, KENYA. SO, I
HOPE YOU'RE LEARNING THESE
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SONGS WITH US. I KNOW
MANY OF YOU ARE ENJOYING
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IT BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN GETTING
A LOT OF MESSAGES IN LATELY
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SAYING, 'I'M LOVING LEARNING
THESE SONGS THAT I'VE NEVER
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HEARD BEFORE.' WE'RE
LIKING IT, RIGHT? RIGHT? OKAY.
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#64 - 'LORD DISMISS
US WITH THY BLESSING'.
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>>FATHER IN HEAVEN, I PRAY
THAT WE WILL ALWAYS BE FAITHFUL
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TO THE TRUTH THAT WE HAVE FOUND.
I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH US AS
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WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD
AND WE STUDY TOGETHER TODAY.
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I PRAY YOU'LL BE WITH EACH ONE
HERE IN SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND
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OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND
THE WORLD. BE WITH EACH ONE.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR
CHRIS AS HE BRINGS US THE LESSON
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STUDY. MAY OUR HEARTS BE OPEN.
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MAY WE HAVE HEARTS READY TO
RECEIVE WHAT YOU WANT TO TELL US
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TODAY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY
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PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY. HE IS OUR
- OH, LET ME GET THIS RIGHT -
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OUR FAMILY LIFE AND EVANGELISM
PASTOR - THAT'S RIGHT!
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FAMILY LIFE AND
EVANGELISM PASTOR.
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>>I NEED TO SHOW UP MORE OFTEN
I GUESS. FIGURING OUT WHO I AM -
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I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO I
AM SOMETIMES. BUT IF YOU CAN
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GET IT, DOING GOOD. GOOD
MORNING AND HAPPY SABBATH
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AND GOOD TO SEE YOU.
GLAD TO BE HERE TOGETHER
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STUDYING GOD'S WORD AND
I WANT TO YES, WELCOME YOU.
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SOME OF YOU HAVE SWUM - SWAM
A LONG WAY TO BE HERE TODAY -
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HAWAII - SOME EVEN FURTHER, FROM
AUSTRALIA, BUT YOU, OF COURSE,
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FLEW NO DOUBT, SURE.
WELCOME AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN
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CONNECT A LITTLE BIT AFTERWARDS
AND ANYONE ELSE - GLAD TO MAKE
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NEW ACQUAINTANCES AND MAKE NEW
FRIENDS. WE ESPECIALLY WANT TO -
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ALSO WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO
ARE VIEWING ONLINE OR LISTENING
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VIA RADIO AND FOR THOSE
THAT ARE WITHIN NORTH AMERICAN
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TERRITORIES, WE HAVE A SPECIAL
OFFER FOR YOU THIS MORNING.
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IT IS ENTITLED 'THE HOLY SPIRIT'
BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR - OUR
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VERY OWN - AND IT'S 'THE
HOLY SPIRIT - THE NEED' AND IT'S
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OFFER #723 AND YOU CAN
CALL IN TO 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR
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1-866-788-3966 TO
RECEIVE THAT SPECIAL OFFER.
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THE BOOK DEALS WITH THE
HOLY SPIRIT AND IT'S A BIBLICAL
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COMMENTARY ON THE ROLE OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT AND THE CONNECTION
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BETWEEN THE FATHER, THE SON AND
THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO MAKE SURE
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YOU CALL IN FOR THAT.
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WE'RE GOING TO DIVE RIGHT INTO
OUR LESSON THIS MORNING: LESSON
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#8 - 'DISCERNMENT:
THE SAFEGUARD OF REVIVAL'.
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AND OUR MEMORY TEXT IS FOUND IN
PSALM #119, VERSES 159 AND 160.
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WHERE THE BIBLE SAYS, "CONSIDER
HOW I LOVE YOUR PRECEPTS; REVIVE
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ME, O LORD, ACCORDING
TO YOUR LOVINGKINDNESS.
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THE ENTIRETY OF YOUR WORD
IS TRUTH, AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR
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RIGHTEOUS
JUDGMENTS ENDURES FOREVER."
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I WAS READING AN ARTICLE NOT TOO
LONG AGO, AS A MATTER OF FACT,
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AND THE WRITER WAS QUOTING FROM
A 1975 BOOK WRITTEN BY GEORGE
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VANDERMAN ENTITLED
'SAIL YOUR OWN SEAS'.
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IN THAT BOOK
VANDERMAN QUOTED C.S.
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LEWIS - AND I BELIEVE IT
WAS FROM THE BOOK 'SCREWTAPE
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LETTERS' - AND IN THIS
PARTICULAR CHAPTER OF 'SAIL YOUR
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OWN SEAS', FIRES - FIRE TRUCKS
AND FLOODS - VANDERMAN CITES
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LEWIS' REFERENCE TO THE DEMON
CALLED SCREWTAPE WHOSE SCHEME
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WAS TO 'GET PEOPLE RUNNING ABOUT
WITH FIRE EXTINGUISHERS WHENEVER
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THERE IS A FLOOD.' GET PEOPLE,
IN OTHER WORDS, TO CROWD, HE
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SAYS, 'TO THE SIDE OF THE BOAT
THAT IS ALREADY NEARLY UNDER.
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WHEN PEOPLE ARE LUKEWARM AND
APATHETIC, GET THEM STIRRED UP
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ABOUT THE DANGERS OF
ENTHUSIASM AND EMOTION.
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IF THEY ARE LAZY, TALK TO
THEM ABOUT THE HYPOCRISY OF THE
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WORKING COMMUNITY. IF
THEY ARE CRUEL, WARN THEM
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AGAINST THE EVILS
OF SENTIMENTALITY.
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IN OTHER WORDS,' HE SAYS, 'LET
THEM HEAR LOUDLY AND REPEATEDLY
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THE WARNINGS THEY DO NOT NEED.'
INTERESTING. AND I WOULD SUGGEST
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THAT THE DEVIL, OF COURSE, HAS
MANY WAYS AND MEANS TO GET US
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DIVERTED AND TALK ABOUT
THINGS THAT WE DO NOT NEED.
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BUT THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
THAT WE'RE STUDYING HERE THIS
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QUARTER AND ALL THAT WE'VE
BEEN STUDYING, BUT THIS ONE IN
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PARTICULAR, IS CERTAINLY NEEDED.
THE TALK ABOUT REVIVAL AND
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REFORMATION IS VERY MUCH
NEEDED IN CHRISTIAN CIRCLES AND
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ESPECIALLY THE
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE ARE IN NEED OF
REVIVAL, AMEN? SURE.
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THE PROMISE OF
REVIVAL IS CLEAR IN THE BIBLE.
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IN REVELATION 18 AND VERSE 1
WE SEE THERE THE PICTURE OF THAT
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OTHER ANGEL COMING DOWN WITH
GREAT POWER AND HE LIGHTENS THE
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EARTH WITH THE GLORY OF GOD.
IN THE BOOK 'GREAT CONTROVERSY'
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PAGE 464, WE'RE REMINDED BEFORE
THE FINAL VISITATION OF GOD'S
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JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH, "THERE
WILL BE AMONG THE PEOPLE OF GOD
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SUCH A REVIVAL OF PRIMITIVE
GODLINESS AS HAS NOT BEEN
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WITNESSED SINCE APOSTOLIC TIMES.
THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF GOD WILL
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BE POURED OUT
UPON HIS CHILDREN."
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IT'S A WONDERFUL PROMISE -
IT'S AN ASSURANCE THAT A GREAT
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REVIVAL IS
BREWING AND IS UNDERWAY.
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AND THE PURPOSE OF THAT REVIVAL
IS SO THAT IT WILL THRUST GOD'S
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PEOPLE TO GIVE THE LOUD CRY
OF THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE IN
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PREPARATION FOR
JESUS' SOON RETURN.
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OF COURSE, THERE'LL BE
OPPOSITION, AND WE'VE BEEN
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TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THESE
THINGS OVER THE WEEKS, JUST BY
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WAY OF REVIEW. AND,
PARTICULARLY TODAY, WE'RE
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GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE
OPPOSITION TO THE REVIVAL.
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YOU REMEMBER MATTHEW 24 - JESUS
TALKS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT SIGNS
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THAT WOULD APPEAR - THAT WE
WOULD WITNESS AND SEE PRIOR TO
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HIS SOON RETURN.
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AND THE VERY FIRST THING THAT
JESUS MENTIONS IN MATTHEW 24 AND
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VERSE 3 IS HE SAYS, 'LET NO MAN'
- DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT SAYS?
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'DECEIVE YOU.' 'LET
NO MAN DECEIVE YOU.'
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AND HE GOES ON TO DELINEATE THAT
FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS
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WILL ARISE TO DECEIVE MANY AND
THEY'LL SHOW SIGNS AND WONDERS
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INSOMUCH THAT THEY COULD DECEIVE
THE VERY - IF POSSIBLE, THEY
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COULD DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT
- AND SO THERE'S OPPOSITION TO
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THE REVIVAL AND THE DEVIL
WILL PRODUCE COUNTERFEITS.
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AS A MATTER OF FACT, CONTINUING
ON IN 'THE GREAT CONTROVERSY'
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PAGE 464, IT SAYS, "THE ENEMY
OF SOULS DESIRES TO HINDER THIS
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WORK AND BEFORE THE TIME FOR
SUCH A MOVEMENT SHALL COME, HE
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WILL ENDEAVOR TO PREVENT
IT" - HOW DOES HE ENDEAVOR TO
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PREVENT IT? BY
INTRODUCING A COUNTERFEIT -
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"IN THOSE CHURCHES WHICH HE
CAN BRING UNDER HIS DECEPTIVE
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POWER, HE'LL MAKE IT APPEAR THAT
GOD'S SPECIAL BLESSING IS POURED
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OUT, THERE'LL BE MANIFEST
WHAT IS THOUGHT TO BE A GREAT
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RELIGIOUS INTEREST.
MULTITUDES WILL EXALT THAT GOD
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IS WORKING MARVELOUSLY FOR THEM
WHEN THE WORK IS THAT OF ANOTHER
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SPIRIT. UNDER A
RELIGIOUS GUISE, SATAN
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WILL SEEK TO EXTEND HIS
INFLUENCE OVER THE CHRISTIAN
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WORLD." AND SO
THAT'S VERY CLEAR - GOD
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IS WANTING TO BRING REVIVAL TO
HIS PEOPLE AND THEN THE ENEMY IS
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LOOKING TO BRING A COUNTERFEIT
TO DETOUR - DERAIL PEOPLE AWAY
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FROM HIS TRUTH AND AWAY FROM
GENUINE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.
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WHAT IS REVIVAL?
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WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT
OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS, BUT
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SIMPLY A NEGLECT OF - TO
FOLLOW GOD'S WORD LEADS TO SIN.
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SIN PRODUCES
DEATH - ETERNAL DEATH.
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AND THE ONLY HOPE THAT A SINNER
HAS LIES IN THE DEATH AND IN THE
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LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST
THE REDEEMER OF THE WORLD.
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AS THE GUILTY PERSON - AS A
GUILTY PERSON SENSES THEIR LOST
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CONDITION, REALIZES HIS DEBT TO
GOD AND COMES TO UNDERSTAND, TO
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SOME EXTENT, THE AMAZING LOVE OF
THE SAVIOR, HE IS LED TO CONFESS
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HIS SINS AND TO RETURN TO
CAREFUL OBEDIENCE TO ALL OF THE
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WORD OF GOD THROUGH
THE POWER OF DIVINE GRACE.
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THAT'S REVIVAL - A SPIRITUAL
AWAKENING THAT BRINGS PEOPLE TO
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FOLLOWING AND OBEYING THE
WORD OF GOD IN ITS ENTIRETY.
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I DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS IS FOUND
- LET ME SEE HERE - THIS IS
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'REVIEW AND HERALD' FEBRUARY
25, 1902. 'REVIVAL SIGNIFIES A
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RENEWAL OF SPIRITUAL LIFE, A
QUICKENING OF THE POWERS OF MIND
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AND HEART, A RESURRECTION
FROM SPIRITUAL DEATH'.
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AND THEN, 'REFORMATION SIGNIFIES
A REORGANIZATION - A CHANGE IN
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IDEAS AND THEORIES,
HABITS AND PRACTICES.
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REFORMATION WILL NOT BRING
THE GOOD FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
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UNLESS IT IS CONNECTED
WITH THE REVIVAL OF THE SPIRIT.
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REVIVAL AND REFORMATION ARE TO
DO THEIR APPOINTED WORK AND IN
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DOING THIS WORK,
THEY MUST BLEND.'
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AND SO TO UNDERSTAND THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TRUE
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REVIVAL THAT GOD WANTS TO BRING
TO EACH ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS AND
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THE FALSE REVIVAL THAT THE
DEVIL IS SEEKING TO BRING - TO
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COUNTERFEIT THIS TRUE REVIVAL,
WE NEED WHAT THE BIBLE WOULD
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TERM DISCERNMENT.
WE NEED DISCERNMENT.
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WE NEED DISCERNMENT IN
MANY AREAS, PARTICULARLY IN THIS
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AREA. THE OXFORD
DICTIONARY DEFINES
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DISCERNMENT AS 'TO PERCEIVE
OR TO RECOGNIZE; TO DISTINGUISH;
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HAVING GOOD JUDGMENT OR
THE ABILITY TO JUDGE WELL.'
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THE WORD 'DISCERN' OR 'DISCERNS'
OR DISCERNED' THEY'RE USED
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ABOUT 28 TIMES IN THE BIBLE
AND - IN THE KING JAMES VERSION.
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SEVERAL HEBREW AND GREEK WORDS
ARE USED TO HELP US UNDERSTAND
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THE ENTIRETY OF THE MEANING
OF THE WORD TO DISCERN OR
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DISCERNMENT. ONE
HEBREW WORD IS 'NAKAR' AND
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IT'S USED SEVERAL TIMES IN
GENESIS 31 AND 38 AND EZRA 3.
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AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE SENSE TO
SCRUTINIZE OR TO LOOK INTENTLY
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AT SOMETHING AS TO
BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH IT.
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AND THEN THERE'S 'SHAMA'
WHICH IS ANOTHER HEBREW WORD AND
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THAT'S USED IN 2 SAMUEL 14 AND
17 AND 1 KINGS 3, VERSE 11 AND
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THAT - 1 KINGS 3:11 IS TALKING
ABOUT KING SOLOMON AND HIS
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PRAYER TO GOD THAT GOD WOULD
GIVE HIM WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT
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AND GOD SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU'VE
NOT ASKED FOR WEALTH OR FAME OR
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THESE OTHER THINGS, BUT BECAUSE
YOU'VE ASKED FOR DISCERNMENT TO
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JUDGE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT AND
WRONG, THAT I'M GOING TO ANSWER
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YOUR PRAYER.' AND
SO, THAT IS THE WORD
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'SHAMA', WHICH EXPRESSES THE
IDEA OF HEARING INTELLIGENTLY.
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AND THEN THERE'S 'YADA'
- YADA, WHICH IS USED IN
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EZEKIEL 44:23.
TURN THERE WITH ME.
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YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES - EZEKIEL
44:23 AND HERE THE PROPHET IS
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SPEAKING ABOUT GOD'S TEACHERS -
THE PRIESTS, THE LEADERS OF HIS
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- SPIRITUAL LEADERS OF HIS
PEOPLE AND IN EZEKIEL 44:23 IT
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SAYS, "AND THEY SHALL TEACH
MY PEOPLE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
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THE HOLY AND THE UNHOLY, AND
CAUSE THEM TO DISCERN BETWEEN
00:17:28.43\00:17:34.96
THE UNCLEAN AND THE CLEAN."
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE
00:17:34.96\00:17:38.73
PRIESTS - THE TEACHERS - WERE
TO - WAS TO PUT A DIFFERENCE
00:17:38.73\00:17:42.90
BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG, CLEAN
AND UNCLEAN, GOOD AND BAD, GOOD
00:17:42.90\00:17:46.93
AND EVIL - AND TO HELP PEOPLE
TO DISCERN - AND THAT WORD MEANS
00:17:46.93\00:17:52.20
'TO ASCERTAIN BY SEEING'.
AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER -
00:17:52.20\00:17:56.40
THERE'S ANOTHER HEBREW WORD AND
THAT IS 'BIYN' - IN JOB 6:30 AND
00:17:56.40\00:18:01.60
PROVERBS 7:7 - AS 'TO SEPARATE
MENTALLY OR TO DISTINGUISH'.
00:18:01.60\00:18:08.56
SO THERE'S VARIOUS HEBREW
WORDS THAT ARE USED TO HELP US
00:18:08.56\00:18:11.36
UNDERSTAND THE WORD -
THE ENGLISH WORD 'DISCERN'.
00:18:11.36\00:18:16.80
OF COURSE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
WE'VE GOT - THE WORD DISCERN
00:18:16.80\00:18:21.73
APPEARS AND SHOWS
UP IN SEVERAL PLACES.
00:18:21.73\00:18:23.90
I HAVE SOMEONE READING
FOR US HERE THIS MORNING
00:18:23.90\00:18:27.53
1 CORINTHIANS 2:14. WHO'S
GOT THAT FOR US AND WHO'LL
00:18:27.53\00:18:30.83
BE ABLE TO READ THAT?
OKAY, RIGHT OVER HERE.
00:18:30.83\00:18:34.53
WONDERFUL. THANK
YOU, HEATHER. FANTASTIC.
00:18:34.53\00:18:36.70
AS WE'RE GETTING LINED UP TO
READ THAT - 1 CORINTHIANS 2:14 -
00:18:36.70\00:18:40.36
SEVERAL OTHER TEXTS I WANT TO
TAKE YOU TO FIRST. LUKE 12:56 -
00:18:40.36\00:18:44.06
YOU CAN WRITE THESE DOWN, WE'RE
JUST GOING TO BREEZE THROUGH
00:18:44.06\00:18:45.96
SOME OF THESE. LUKE
12:56 - JESUS IS, IN
00:18:45.96\00:18:49.30
ESSENCE, REBUKING THE
RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS DAY.
00:18:49.30\00:18:52.83
THEY COULD TELL WHAT KIND OF DAY
IT WOULD BE BECAUSE THE SUN WAS
00:18:52.83\00:18:56.90
RISING AND THE WIND WAS BLOWING
- THEY COULD TELL CERTAIN THINGS
00:18:56.90\00:19:01.46
BY WEATHER PATTERNS.
AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 56 OF
00:19:01.46\00:19:03.83
LUKE 12, "HYPOCRITES! YOU
CAN DISCERN THE FACE OF THE SKY
00:19:03.83\00:19:06.33
AND OF THE EARTH, BUT HOW IS IT
YOU DO NOT DISCERN THIS TIME?"
00:19:06.33\00:19:10.70
THEY LACKED DISCERNMENT WITH
REGARD TO WHO JESUS WAS AS THE
00:19:10.70\00:19:13.90
MESSIAH, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:19:13.90\00:19:16.10
THEN IN HEBREWS 4, VERSE 12
WE HAVE THESE WORDS, WHICH ARE
00:19:16.10\00:19:19.03
FAMILIAR, "FOR THE WORD OF
GOD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL, AND
00:19:19.03\00:19:22.23
SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED
SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE
00:19:22.23\00:19:25.10
DIVISION OF SOUL AND SPIRIT,
AND OF JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS
00:19:25.10\00:19:29.80
A DISCERNER" - THAT'S RIGHT -
"A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS AND
00:19:29.80\00:19:34.10
INTENTS OF THE HEART."
00:19:34.10\00:19:35.30
IT'S INTERESTING, THAT
WORD 'DISCERN' IN THE GREEK IS
00:19:35.30\00:19:38.26
'KRITIKOS' FROM WHICH WE
GET THE ENGLISH WORD 'CRITIQUE'.
00:19:38.26\00:19:42.66
AND SO THE WORD OF GOD CRITIQUES
OUR VERY THOUGHTS AND MOTIVES
00:19:42.66\00:19:47.30
AND ACTIONS, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:19:47.30\00:19:49.03
AND HEBREWS 5:14 - IT SAYS, "BUT
SOLID FOOD BELONGS TO THOSE WHO
00:19:49.03\00:19:53.96
ARE OF FULL AGE, THAT IS, THOSE
WHO BY REASON OF USE HAVE THEIR
00:19:53.96\00:19:58.13
SENSES EXERCISED TO
DISCERN BOTH GOOD AND EVIL."
00:19:58.13\00:20:03.23
WE COULD PROBABLY TRANSLATE THE
LAST PART OF THAT VERSE TO SAY,
00:20:03.23\00:20:07.20
'HAVING THE FACULTIES TRAINED
TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN GOOD AND
00:20:07.20\00:20:11.56
EVIL' AND SO DISCERNMENT -
WE'RE NOT BORN WITH DISCERNMENT.
00:20:11.56\00:20:14.66
WE'RE NOT BORN WITH THIS ABILITY
TO DISTINGUISH AUTOMATICALLY
00:20:14.66\00:20:18.86
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
THERE'S A SENSE THAT SOMETHING'S
00:20:18.86\00:20:21.66
NOT QUITE RIGHT, BUT TO PUT YOUR
FINGER RIGHT ON IT, ONE'S MIND
00:20:21.66\00:20:25.10
NEEDS TO BE TRAINED.
AND THE MIND IS TRAINED, OF
00:20:25.10\00:20:28.00
COURSE, THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD
TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN GOOD AND
00:20:28.00\00:20:31.90
EVIL. THEN, 1
CORINTHIANS 12:10 - IT'S
00:20:31.90\00:20:33.56
AN INTERESTING ONE - TALKING
ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS.
00:20:33.56\00:20:36.06
ONE OF THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS
IS THE DISCERNING OF SPIRITS.
00:20:36.06\00:20:40.10
"THERE IS ANOTHER TO THE
WORKING OF MIRACLES, TO ANOTHER
00:20:40.10\00:20:42.66
PROPHECY, TO ANOTHER DISCERNING
OF SPIRITS" - OR SOMEONE WHO CAN
00:20:42.66\00:20:46.06
DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN DIVINE
AND COUNTERFEIT INSPIRATION.
00:20:46.06\00:20:50.80
SOMEONE - SOMEONE SAID TO ME
ONE TIME THAT, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T
00:20:50.80\00:20:55.36
REALLY TELL THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD BECAUSE I
00:20:55.36\00:20:57.96
DON'T HAVE THAT SPIRITUAL
GIFT. THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS NOT
00:20:57.96\00:21:01.80
SUGGESTING THAT IN ORDER
TO DETERMINE BETWEEN RIGHT AND
00:21:01.80\00:21:05.83
WRONG YOU NEEDED A SPIRITUAL
GIFT IN ORDER TO DO THAT.
00:21:05.83\00:21:09.40
AS A CHRISTIAN, AND AS WE'RE
TRAINING OUR MIND WITH THE WORD
00:21:09.40\00:21:12.23
OF GOD, OUR MIND
IS TRAINED TO DISCERN.
00:21:12.23\00:21:15.30
ANYONE CAN DISCERN. GOD
HAS ASKED US ALL TO DISCERN.
00:21:15.30\00:21:18.13
THIS SPIRITUAL GIFT SEEMS - THIS
GIFT IS A SPIRITUAL GIFT THAT
00:21:18.13\00:21:21.80
SEEMS TO - A PERSON CAN GRAB
AHOLD OF SOMETHING PERHAPS A
00:21:21.80\00:21:25.16
LITTLE QUICKER MAYBE, OR SEE
THE FAR-REACHING RESULTS OF A
00:21:25.16\00:21:29.86
DECISION - DECISIONS THAT ARE
SOUGHT TO BE MADE AND THAT TYPE
00:21:29.86\00:21:33.60
OF THING. THE
WISDOM OF GOD - THE WISDOM
00:21:33.60\00:21:37.13
OF GOD IS GIVEN TO US
TO DISCERN FROM HIS WORD.
00:21:37.13\00:21:43.16
ONE DOESN'T NEED THE SPIRITUAL
GIFT TO DISCERN BUT THERE IS A
00:21:43.16\00:21:46.03
SPIRITUAL GIFT - DISCERNING
OF SPIRITS - DIFFERENTIATING
00:21:46.03\00:21:49.30
BETWEEN DIVINE AND
COUNTERFEIT INSPIRATION.
00:21:49.30\00:21:51.03
OKAY, 1 CORINTHIANS
2:14 - WE'RE FINALLY THERE.
00:21:51.03\00:21:55.00
>>1 CORINTHIANS 2:14, "BUT THE
NATURAL MAN RECEIVETH NOT THE
00:21:55.00\00:22:00.43
THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD: FOR
THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS UNTO HIM:
00:22:00.43\00:22:04.23
NEITHER CAN HE KNOW
THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE
00:22:04.23\00:22:06.50
SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED." >>OKAY.
00:22:06.50\00:22:09.10
SO THE WISDOM OF GOD IS
UNDERSTOOD ONLY BY THOSE WHO
00:22:09.10\00:22:11.30
PERMIT THEMSELVES TO BE
TAUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:22:11.30\00:22:15.20
SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE SPIRITUALLY
DISCERNED, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:22:15.20\00:22:19.43
SOMEBODY'S - IT'S GOING TO
BE HARD FOR A PERSON THAT IS
00:22:19.43\00:22:22.00
UNCONVERTED - UNREGENERATE
BY THE HOLY SPIRIT - TO DISCERN
00:22:22.00\00:22:25.56
BETWEEN GOD'S IDEAL
AND WHAT ISN'T HIS IDEAL.
00:22:25.56\00:22:29.00
WHEN THE MIND IS REVIVED - WHEN
THERE'S A REVITALIZATION OF THE
00:22:29.00\00:22:33.10
FACULTIES - WHEN THERE'S -
WHEN WE'RE BORN AGAIN IT BECOMES
00:22:33.10\00:22:37.86
EASIER TO UNDERSTAND AND DISCERN
BETWEEN THE CLEAN AND THE
00:22:37.86\00:22:42.06
UNCLEAN, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.
SO DISCERNMENT IN THE SCRIPTURES
00:22:42.06\00:22:48.40
IS A SKILL THAT
ENABLES US TO DIFFERENTIATE.
00:22:48.40\00:22:52.20
IT'S THE ABILITY TO SEE ISSUES
CLEARLY AND I WOULD SUBMIT THAT
00:22:52.20\00:22:56.90
WE DESPERATELY NEED TO CULTIVATE
THIS SPIRITUAL SKILL THAT WILL
00:22:56.90\00:22:59.86
ENABLE US TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG.
00:22:59.86\00:23:02.70
WE MUST BE PREPARED TO
DISTINGUISH BETWEEN LIGHT AND
00:23:02.70\00:23:05.33
DARKNESS, BETWEEN TRUTH AND
ERROR, FROM BEST AND BETTER,
00:23:05.33\00:23:11.10
BETWEEN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, FROM PURITY AND
00:23:11.10\00:23:14.23
DEFILEMENT AND
PRINCIPLES FROM PRAGMATICS.
00:23:14.23\00:23:18.46
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT
MORE ABOUT THAT IN A LITTLE BIT.
00:23:18.46\00:23:20.63
HOW DO WE GAIN DISCERNMENT?
I MENTIONED IT BEFORE - IN THE
00:23:20.63\00:23:23.26
BOOK 'CHILD GUIDANCE' PAGE 484
- WE'RE TOLD THE CONNECTION WITH
00:23:23.26\00:23:26.40
THE SOURCE OF WISDOM WILL
GIVE LIGHT AND THE POWER OF
00:23:26.40\00:23:31.26
DISCERNMENT
BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG.
00:23:31.26\00:23:33.56
THOSE SO ENDOWED WILL BECOME
MORALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY
00:23:33.56\00:23:36.53
STRONG AND WILL HAVE CLEARER
VIEWS AND BETTER JUDGMENT EVEN
00:23:36.53\00:23:40.20
IN TEMPORAL AFFAIRS.
NOW THAT'S PRETTY GOOD NEWS,
00:23:40.20\00:23:42.20
ISN'T IT? AS WE -
AS WE BECOME BETTER
00:23:42.20\00:23:45.30
ACQUAINTED WITH GOD'S WORD
AND UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE
00:23:45.30\00:23:47.53
BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG, WE'RE
GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE ISSUES
00:23:47.53\00:23:50.50
CLEARLY AND OUR DISCERNMENT
WILL EVEN BE BETTER IN TEMPORAL
00:23:50.50\00:23:54.63
AFFAIRS. THAT'S
GOOD NEWS - SOME OF US
00:23:54.63\00:23:57.23
COULD DO WITH SOME
OF THAT OCCASIONALLY.
00:23:57.23\00:23:59.23
BUT THE ENEMY IS SEEKING TO
BECLOUD DISCERNMENT OF GOD'S
00:23:59.23\00:24:03.00
PEOPLE AND WEAKEN - BY DOING
SO - WEAKEN THEIR EFFICIENCY.
00:24:03.00\00:24:06.63
I'M READING - THAT'S
FROM 'COUNCILS TO THE CHURCH'
00:24:06.63\00:24:08.73
PAGE 357. HOW
DOES THE DEVIL SEEK TO
00:24:08.73\00:24:11.90
BECLOUD OUR DISCERNMENT?
MAKE WHAT IS BLACK AND WHITE
00:24:11.90\00:24:17.83
GRAY. HOW DOES
HE SEEK TO DO THAT?
00:24:17.83\00:24:19.70
THERE ARE DIFFERENT THINGS AND
I'VE KIND OF COLLABORATED THESE
00:24:19.70\00:24:21.50
AS I WENT THROUGH SOME OF
THE BOOKS OF ELLEN WHITE AND SHE
00:24:21.50\00:24:25.56
SAYS 'THE END OF THEIR
PLEASURE-LOVING RUIN - LIFE IS
00:24:25.56\00:24:28.83
RUINED FOR THE WORLD
AND THE WORLD TO COME.'
00:24:28.83\00:24:30.66
AND SHE'S TALKING ABOUT HOW
DISCERNMENT IS WATERED DOWN WHEN
00:24:30.66\00:24:35.06
THE APPETITE - INSATIABLE
APPETITE FOR AMUSEMENT IS NOT
00:24:35.06\00:24:39.73
SUPPRESSED, IS NOT
CONTROLLED. SO THERE'S EXCESSIVE
00:24:39.73\00:24:43.53
ENTERTAINMENT THAT CAN
BECLOUD THE DISCERNMENT.
00:24:43.53\00:24:47.00
SPEAKING OF NOAH'S DAY SHE SAYS,
'IN PROPORTION AS THE PEOPLE
00:24:47.00\00:24:49.43
RESISTED CONVICTION, THEIR
DISCERNMENT WAS CLOUDED AND
00:24:49.43\00:24:52.50
THEIR DESIRE TO FOLLOW A COURSE
OF UNGODLINESS STRENGTHENED.'
00:24:52.50\00:24:55.06
AND SO, WHEN A PERSON PUTS AWAY
CONVICTION, DISCERNMENT BECOMES
00:24:55.06\00:24:58.40
CLOUDED AND IT BECOMES MUCH MORE
DIFFICULT TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE
00:24:58.40\00:25:01.86
BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG.
ALSO, 'ANYTHING THAT LESSENS
00:25:01.86\00:25:05.83
PHYSICAL STRENGTH, ENFEEBLES THE
MIND, MAKES IT LESS CAPABLE OF
00:25:05.83\00:25:11.26
DISCRIMINATING
BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG.'
00:25:11.26\00:25:13.33
SO ANYTHING THAT WEAKENS THE
PHYSICAL BODY ENFEEBLES THE MIND
00:25:13.33\00:25:17.36
AND MAKES US LESS CAPABLE OF
DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN RIGHT AND
00:25:17.36\00:25:20.90
WRONG. WE'VE
BECOME LESS CAPABLE OF
00:25:20.90\00:25:22.56
CHOOSING THE GOOD AND HAVE
LESS STRENGTH OF WILL TO DO THAT
00:25:22.56\00:25:25.30
WHICH WE KNOW IS
RIGHT. INTERESTING.
00:25:25.30\00:25:29.26
SO WHAT ARE THE SPIRITUAL
INDICATORS OF GENUINE REVIVAL?
00:25:29.26\00:25:32.43
THAT'S THE QUESTION
THAT THE LESSON AUTHOR PUT.
00:25:32.43\00:25:35.90
WHAT ARE THE SPIRITUAL
INDICATORS OF GENUINE REVIVAL?
00:25:35.90\00:25:38.40
WHAT ARE THE
SIGNS OF FALSE REVIVAL?
00:25:38.40\00:25:40.03
WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD
SAY? HOW CAN WE DIFFERENTIATE?
00:25:40.03\00:25:42.93
HOW CAN WE SEE THE
DIFFERENCES CLEARLY?
00:25:42.93\00:25:45.33
WE ARE ON SUNDAY'S LESSON,
'GOD'S WILL AND HIS WORD.'
00:25:45.33\00:25:47.43
THAT WAS A BIG PREAMBLE, I
KNOW, BUT WE'RE GOING TO BREEZE
00:25:47.43\00:25:50.66
THROUGH SOME OF THESE POINTERS
HERE. ALRIGHT, SO ALL TRUE
00:25:50.66\00:25:54.10
REVIVAL IS BASED ON KNOWING
GOD AND KNOWING HIS WILL, AMEN?
00:25:54.10\00:26:00.73
NOW, SIMPLY PUT, IN JOHN
17:13 - AND WE CAN TURN THERE -
00:26:00.73\00:26:04.50
JOHN 17:13. WE'LL USE
THESE TEXTS AS OUR FOUNDATION
00:26:04.50\00:26:07.56
FOR OUR STUDY HERE THIS MORNING.
JOHN 17:3, RATHER - JOHN 17:3 -
00:26:07.56\00:26:18.10
THIS IS JESUS' PRAYER TOWARD
THE END OF HIS MINISTRY - THE
00:26:18.10\00:26:25.30
CLOSING SCENES OF HIS MINISTRY.
JOHN 17:3 - JESUS PRAYS,
00:26:25.30\00:26:31.30
"AND THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE, THAT
THEY MAY" - WHAT? - "KNOW YOU,
00:26:31.30\00:26:35.80
THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND JESUS
CHRIST WHOM YOU HAVE SENT."
00:26:35.80\00:26:39.70
OKAY, PSALMS 40, VERSE
8 - NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS.
00:26:39.70\00:26:42.70
IT SAYS, "I DELIGHT TO DO YOUR
WILL, O MY GOD, AND YOUR LAW IS
00:26:42.70\00:26:49.20
WITHIN MY HEART." AND
SO THE BASIS OF SPIRITUAL
00:26:49.20\00:26:55.23
REVIVAL IS KNOWING
GOD AND DOING HIS WILL.
00:26:55.23\00:26:59.16
JESUS SAID THAT'S LIFE ETERNAL
- THAT IS TO KNOW GOD THE FATHER
00:26:59.16\00:27:03.00
AND JESUS CHRIST, WHOM HE SENT.
AND THE SPIRIT - THE ATTITUDE OF
00:27:03.00\00:27:06.43
A FOLLOWER OF GOD IS THAT THEY
DELIGHT TO DO GOD'S WILL. WHY?
00:27:06.43\00:27:09.80
BECAUSE GOD'S LAW IS WRITTEN
ON OUR HEARTS, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:27:09.80\00:27:14.86
EXPERIENCE - EXPERIENCE OVER
DOING GOD'S WILL IS NOT A SIGN
00:27:14.86\00:27:21.03
OF GENUINE REVIVAL.
WHEN A PERSON DESIRES THEIR -
00:27:21.03\00:27:25.13
DESIRES MORE EXPERIENCE - THEIR
FOCUS IS ON EXPERIENCE OVER
00:27:25.13\00:27:30.10
DOING THE WILL OF GOD, YOU CAN
BE PRETTY SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT
00:27:30.10\00:27:34.03
LOOKING AT,
WITNESSING GENUINE REVIVAL.
00:27:34.03\00:27:36.20
THE HOLY SPIRIT NEVER
GOES AGAINST GOD'S WORD.
00:27:36.20\00:27:40.23
IT LEADS US TO GOD'S
WORD AND TO OBEY GOD'S WORD.
00:27:40.23\00:27:44.50
I WAS HAVING A DISCUSSION WITH
A LADY - WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE I
00:27:44.50\00:27:46.90
WAS INVOLVED IN SELLING
CHRISTIAN BOOKS AND YOU MEET
00:27:46.90\00:27:50.36
LOTS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHEN
YOU'RE KNOCKING ON DOORS AND
00:27:50.36\00:27:53.10
IT'S A FUN THING VISITING
WITH PEOPLE. I REMEMBER WE WERE
00:27:53.10\00:27:57.36
DOING - WE WERE WORKING IN
BUSINESSES AND WE'D COME IN AS
00:27:57.36\00:28:01.00
STUDENTS AND SHARE OUR
MATERIAL WITH THOSE THAT HAD A
00:28:01.00\00:28:03.50
LITTLE BIT OF TIME AND
WERE WILLING TO ENTERTAIN US.
00:28:03.50\00:28:05.56
AND I ENDED UP IN A LITTLE BIBLE
STUDY WITH A LADY AND IT WAS A
00:28:05.56\00:28:10.36
WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE AND - A
GENUINE CHRISTIAN LADY - AND WE
00:28:10.36\00:28:14.16
WERE TALKING ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN
LIFE AND THE SUBJECT OF THE LAW
00:28:14.16\00:28:18.36
OF GOD CAME UP - DOING GOD'S
WILL - AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE
00:28:18.36\00:28:24.66
LAW AND CERTAIN THINGS AND SHE
STRUGGLED AND WRESTLED WITH ONE
00:28:24.66\00:28:28.16
OR TWO ISSUES WHEN IT CAME TO
THE LAW OF GOD AND WHEN SHE WAS
00:28:28.16\00:28:32.13
CONFRONTED WITH THE LAW OF GOD'S
CLAIMS - GOD'S CLAIMS ON HER
00:28:32.13\00:28:35.43
LIFE - SHE SAID TO
ME, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:28:35.43\00:28:38.23
WHAT I'M GOING TO DO IS I'M
GOING TO GO BACK AND I'M GOING
00:28:38.23\00:28:40.90
TO PRAY AND IF THE HOLY SPIRIT
TELLS ME THAT I NEED TO KEEP
00:28:40.90\00:28:44.13
THESE THINGS THEN I'M GLAD TO DO
SO.' AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF -
00:28:44.13\00:28:49.53
I LEFT THERE AND I THOUGHT
TO MYSELF, 'THAT'S KIND OF ODD.
00:28:49.53\00:28:51.70
GOD ALREADY TOLD - THE
HOLY SPIRIT ALREADY TOLD HER.'
00:28:51.70\00:28:53.96
WHEN WE OPENED UP THE
BIBLE, HE SPOKE, RIGHT THERE.
00:28:53.96\00:28:57.56
AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF GOING
BACK TO CONNECT WITH HER AND SEE
00:28:57.56\00:29:01.16
HOW SHE WAS DOING AND WHAT
SHE WAS THINKING AND HOW GOD WAS
00:29:01.16\00:29:04.03
LEADING HER AND SHE BASICALLY
TOLD ME THAT IF SHE WERE TO DO
00:29:04.03\00:29:08.43
THOSE THINGS IN THE LAW
OF GOD IT WOULD MAKE HER FEEL
00:29:08.43\00:29:12.53
UNCOMFORTABLE. IT MADE HER FEEL
KIND OF - SHE DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT.
00:29:12.53\00:29:17.63
AND SO, THEREFORE, DETERMINED,
BASED UPON HER FEELINGS, THAT IT
00:29:17.63\00:29:21.16
WASN'T NECESSARY TO DO. AND
THIS IS WHAT WE'RE REFERRING
00:29:21.16\00:29:24.86
TO HERE WITH
REGARDS TO EXPERIENCE.
00:29:24.86\00:29:26.80
WHEN EXPERIENCE TRUMPS THE WORD
OF GOD - WHEN ONE IS LOOKING FOR
00:29:26.80\00:29:30.76
SOME TYPE OF AN EMOTIONAL HIGH
ABOVE DOING A PLAIN 'THUS SAYETH
00:29:30.76\00:29:35.96
THE LORD' - NOT TRUE REVIVAL.
TRUE REVIVAL IS SEEN IN A
00:29:35.96\00:29:41.16
PERSON'S LIFE THAT IS WILLING
TO DO GOD'S WILL AND WILLING TO
00:29:41.16\00:29:45.06
FOLLOW HIS PLAN FOR
THEIR LIVES, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:29:45.06\00:29:47.83
AND THIS KIND OF THINKING IS
PREVALENT WITHIN CHRISTIANITY
00:29:47.83\00:29:53.00
AND, UNFORTUNATELY,
CREEPING EVEN TO OUR CHURCH.
00:29:53.00\00:29:55.30
'IF IT DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT - IF
IT MAKES ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE
00:29:55.30\00:29:57.56
THEN IT MUSTN'T BE OF GOD.'
HANG ON A SECOND, IF WE HAVE A
00:29:57.56\00:30:00.16
'THUS SAYETH THE LORD' AND GOD
SAYS 'THIS IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO
00:30:00.16\00:30:03.46
DO AND IT'S FOR YOUR BEST
INTEREST AND IT'S FOR YOUR GOOD'
00:30:03.46\00:30:06.26
THEN ISN'T IT
SOMETHING WE OUGHT TO DO?
00:30:06.26\00:30:08.80
IF IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD OR
NOT, GOD'S NOT INTERESTED IN
00:30:08.80\00:30:13.16
NECESSARILY HOW I
FEEL, HE WANTS ME SAVED.
00:30:13.16\00:30:15.66
AND SO, WE JUST FOLLOW THE WORD
OF GOD NOT BASED UPON HOW WE
00:30:15.66\00:30:19.96
FEEL. WE NEED TO MEASURE OUR
00:30:19.96\00:30:21.63
EXPERIENCE BY THE WORD OF GOD.
OURS IS A WALK OF FAITH NOT A
00:30:21.63\00:30:24.90
WALK OF WHAT FRIENDS?
FEELING - IT'S NOT A WALK OF
00:30:24.90\00:30:27.33
FEELING. AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
00:30:27.33\00:30:31.00
THAT'S VERY GOOD NEWS BECAUSE MY
EXPERIENCE - THEN MY EXPERIENCE
00:30:31.00\00:30:34.60
IS NOT DETERMINED BY THE
FEELINGS I HAVE AT ONE POINT IN
00:30:34.60\00:30:40.13
THE DAY AND THE FEELINGS I HAVE
AT ANOTHER POINT IN THE DAY.
00:30:40.13\00:30:42.43
YOU KNOW, IT'D BE LIKE BEING
ON AN EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER
00:30:42.43\00:30:45.76
RIDE. I'M
SPIRITUALLY HIGH - I'M NOT
00:30:45.76\00:30:48.60
FEELING LIKE JESUS
IS NEAR ME RIGHT NOW.
00:30:48.60\00:30:50.80
I'M NOT FEELING FORGIVEN.
AND THEN I'M FORGIVEN AND I'M
00:30:50.80\00:30:53.90
SAVED AND I HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
- AND THEN IT'S UP AND DOWN.
00:30:53.90\00:30:57.16
BASED ON MY FEELINGS I
COULDN'T DETERMINE WHETHER I'M
00:30:57.16\00:31:01.56
TRULY LIVING THE
CHRISTIAN LIFE OR NOT.
00:31:01.56\00:31:04.13
THAT IS WHY WE LIVE BY FAITH.
WE LIVE BY THE FAITH IN THE
00:31:04.13\00:31:07.96
PROMISES AND
ASSURANCES OF GOD'S WORD.
00:31:07.96\00:31:10.00
IF I'VE ASKED JESUS TO BE NEAR
ME IN MY LIFE, I'VE GIVEN HIM MY
00:31:10.00\00:31:13.43
LIFE, TURNED OVER MY HEART - OR
AT LEAST SAID TO HIM, 'TAKE MY
00:31:13.43\00:31:16.66
HEART BECAUSE I CAN'T EVEN
GIVE IT. BUT TAKE MY HEART' -
00:31:16.66\00:31:19.13
AND HE HAS IT AND I'M WALKING
WITH HIM, IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW
00:31:19.13\00:31:23.40
I FEEL. BASED ON THE PROMISES
AND ASSURANCES OF GOD'S WORD,
00:31:23.40\00:31:26.70
I CAN KNOW JESUS IS WITH ME.
PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH THIS WHEN
00:31:26.70\00:31:29.83
IT COMES TO FORGIVENESS.
'I JUST DON'T FEEL FORGIVEN,
00:31:29.83\00:31:32.03
PASTOR.' WELL, IF
YOU'VE CONFESSED YOUR
00:31:32.03\00:31:34.43
SINS AND FORSAKEN THEM, THE
BIBLE SAYS, 'HE IS FAITHFUL AND
00:31:34.43\00:31:38.23
JUST TO FORGIVE YOU.' YOU
DON'T NEED TO FEEL FORGIVEN,
00:31:38.23\00:31:41.80
YOU JUST NEED TO
KNOW THAT YOU ARE.
00:31:41.80\00:31:44.56
AND SO, WE WALK BY
FAITH AND NOT BY FEELING.
00:31:44.56\00:31:47.60
I NEED TO STICK WITH MY NOTES
BECAUSE I'LL JUST TAKE OFF HERE.
00:31:47.60\00:31:49.93
ALRIGHT, SO IT'S GOOD NEWS.
IT'S GOOD NEWS THAT WE DON'T
00:31:49.93\00:31:53.13
HAVE TO JUDGE OUR SPIRITUAL
EXPERIENCE BY HOW WE FEEL AT ANY
00:31:53.13\00:31:56.36
GIVEN TIME OF THE
DAY. WE HAVE ROUGH DAYS.
00:31:56.36\00:31:58.23
WE HAVE EMOTIONS UP AND DOWN BUT
WE CAN HAVE A STEADY WALK WITH
00:31:58.23\00:32:02.83
GOD WHEN WE WALK
BY FAITH IN HIS WORD.
00:32:02.83\00:32:06.50
LET'S JUMP OVER TO
PSALM 119 REAL QUICK.
00:32:06.50\00:32:09.90
WE'RE GOING TO
LOOK AT SEVERAL VERSES.
00:32:09.90\00:32:11.86
PSALM 119 - WHOA, TIME IS FLYING
- PSALM 119 - AND WE'RE GOING TO
00:32:11.86\00:32:16.46
LOOK AT SEVERAL VERSES.
THIS WAS IN YOUR LESSON - THESE
00:32:16.46\00:32:19.30
VERSES WERE ENCOURAGED TO
LOOK AT AND I WANT TO GO THROUGH
00:32:19.30\00:32:22.16
THESE HERE WITH YOU.
LET'S LOOK AT WHAT THE BIBLE
00:32:22.16\00:32:24.60
BRINGS. THIS IS
WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE,
00:32:24.60\00:32:26.20
WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT THE BIBLE
BRINGS TO THE CHRISTIAN'S LIFE.
00:32:26.20\00:32:30.13
LOOKING AT VERSE - WE'RE GOING
TO JUMP OVER SEVERAL VERSES -
00:32:30.13\00:32:32.60
VERSE 25 TO BEGIN WITH - THE
BIBLE SAYS, "MY SOUL CLINGS TO
00:32:32.60\00:32:37.00
THE DUST;" - IN OTHER
WORDS, 'I'M DEEPLY MOURNFUL.
00:32:37.00\00:32:40.86
I'M DEEPLY SORROW - I'M IN DEEP
SORROW' - "MY SOUL CLINGS TO
00:32:40.86\00:32:45.23
DUST; REVIVE ME
ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD."
00:32:45.23\00:32:48.20
SO WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD BRING
TO US ACCORDING TO THIS VERSE?
00:32:48.20\00:32:51.13
REVIVAL. BUT IN THIS
SENSE, HIS SOUL CLINGS TO DUST -
00:32:51.13\00:32:55.13
HE'S SORROWFUL - SO
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE BRING US?
00:32:55.13\00:32:57.80
JOY. IT BRINGS US JOY, YOU SEE.
00:32:57.80\00:33:00.20
PSALM - LOOK AT VERSE 28 -
"MY SOUL MELTS FROM HEAVINESS;
00:33:00.20\00:33:04.20
STRENGTHEN ME
ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD."
00:33:04.20\00:33:06.90
SO WHAT DOES THE BIBLE BRING?
STRENGTH OR HEALING, SURE.
00:33:06.90\00:33:11.40
VERSE 49, "REMEMBER THE WORD
TO YOUR SERVANT, UPON WHICH YOU
00:33:11.40\00:33:15.36
HAVE CAUSED ME TO HOPE." SO
THE BIBLE BRINGS TO US WHAT,
00:33:15.36\00:33:19.53
FRIENDS? HOPE -
HOPE IN GOD'S SALVATION
00:33:19.53\00:33:23.33
AND HIS PRESENCE
AND HIS ENCOURAGEMENT.
00:33:23.33\00:33:26.10
LOOK AT VERSE 50, "THIS IS
MY COMFORT IN MY AFFLICTION, FOR
00:33:26.10\00:33:29.73
YOUR WORD HAS GIVEN ME LIFE."
SO WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD BRING?
00:33:29.73\00:33:34.26
LIFE AND
COMFORT, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:33:34.26\00:33:36.90
VERSE 67, "BEFORE I WAS
AFFLICTED I WENT ASTRAY, BUT NOW
00:33:36.90\00:33:40.66
I KEEP YOUR WORD." SO WHAT
DOES GOD'S WORD BRING? TRUTH.
00:33:40.66\00:33:45.36
GOD'S WORD BRINGS TRUTH - NOT
SOMEONE'S OPINION - BUT GOD'S
00:33:45.36\00:33:49.50
WORD BRINGS TRUTH.
VERSE 81, "MY SOUL FAINTS FOR
00:33:49.50\00:33:53.40
YOUR SALVATION, BUT
I HOPE IN YOUR WORD."
00:33:53.40\00:33:56.70
AND SO WHAT DOES
GOD'S WORD BRING THERE?
00:33:56.70\00:33:59.26
HOPE OR ASSURANCE - GENUINE
ASSURANCE IN SALVATION. VERSE
00:33:59.26\00:34:05.36
105, "YOUR WORD IS A LAMP TO
MY FEET AND A LIGHT TO MY PATH."
00:34:05.36\00:34:08.63
THE WORD OF GOD BRINGS
DIRECTION OR GUIDANCE, RIGHT.
00:34:08.63\00:34:12.70
PSALM 119:116, "UPHOLD ME
ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD, THAT I
00:34:12.70\00:34:16.96
MAY LIVE; AND DO NOT LET ME
BE ASHAMED OF MY HOPE." SO GOD'S
00:34:16.96\00:34:22.10
WORD BRINGS CONVICTION - IT
BRINGS PURPOSE TO OUR LIVES.
00:34:22.10\00:34:26.26
VERSE 130, "THE ENTRANCE OF
YOUR WORDS GIVES LIGHT; IT GIVES
00:34:26.26\00:34:30.16
UNDERSTANDING" - HERE'S A GOOD
PROMISE - I LIKE THIS PROMISE -
00:34:30.16\00:34:33.56
"IT GIVES UNDERSTANDING TO THE
SIMPLE." GOD'S WORD HELPS ME OUT
00:34:33.56\00:34:36.76
AND I'M SURE IT'S HELPED
YOU OUT. IT BRINGS WISDOM AND IT
00:34:36.76\00:34:39.36
BRINGS DISCERNMENT. GOD'S
WORD DOES THOSE THINGS AND
00:34:39.36\00:34:42.50
VERSE 154, "PLEAD MY CAUSE AND
REDEEM ME; REVIVE ME ACCORDING
00:34:42.50\00:34:46.56
TO YOUR WORD." AND SO
GOD'S WORD BRINGS LIFE OR
00:34:46.56\00:34:49.76
REVIVAL - POWER - YOU
UNDERSTAND, FOR A NEW LIFE.
00:34:49.76\00:34:54.86
NOW JUMPING OVER TO 'THE GREAT
CONTROVERSY' AGAIN, PAGE 464 -
00:34:54.86\00:34:58.73
IT SAYS, "IN MANY OF THE
REVIVALS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED
00:34:58.73\00:35:01.20
DURING THE LAST HALF CENTURY" -
AND THIS WOULD BE GOING BACK TO
00:35:01.20\00:35:05.46
THE LATE 19TH CENTURY - "THE
SAME INFLUENCES HAVE BEEN AT
00:35:05.46\00:35:09.06
WORK TO A GREATER OR LESS DEGREE
THAT WILL BE MANIFEST IN THE
00:35:09.06\00:35:12.43
MORE EXTENSIVE
MOVEMENTS OF THE FUTURE."
00:35:12.43\00:35:15.76
SO WHAT WAS SEEN IN THE PAST
IS GOING TO BE MANIFESTED TO
00:35:15.76\00:35:18.06
GREATER EXTENT HERE IN THE
FUTURE - IN THESE FINAL DAYS.
00:35:18.06\00:35:21.50
LISTEN TO THIS - SHE
SAYS, "THERE IS AN EMOTIONAL
00:35:21.50\00:35:24.16
EXCITEMENT - A MINGLING OF THE
TRUE WITH THE FALSE THAT IS WELL
00:35:24.16\00:35:29.50
ADAPTED TO MISLEAD.
YET NONE NEED BE DECEIVED.
00:35:29.50\00:35:32.66
IN THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD
IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE
00:35:32.66\00:35:35.66
THE NATURE OF THESE MOVEMENTS.
00:35:35.66\00:35:37.46
WHEREVER MEN NEGLECT THE
TESTIMONY OF THE BIBLE, TURNING
00:35:37.46\00:35:40.40
AWAY FROM THOSE PLAIN,
SOUL-TESTING TRUTHS, WHICH
00:35:40.40\00:35:43.20
REQUIRE SELF-DENIAL AND
RENUNCIATION OF THE WORLD,
00:35:43.20\00:35:46.40
THERE MAY BE SURE THAT
GOD'S BLESSING IS NOT BESTOWED.
00:35:46.40\00:35:51.56
AND, BY THE RULE WHICH CHRIST
HIMSELF HAS GIVEN, 'YE SHALL
00:35:51.56\00:35:54.30
KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS.'
IT IS EVIDENT THAT THESE
00:35:54.30\00:35:57.03
MOVEMENTS ARE NOT THE
WORK OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD."
00:35:57.03\00:35:59.63
SO WHERE YOU HAVE EMOTIONAL
EXCITEMENT, MINGLING OF TRUE
00:35:59.63\00:36:02.86
WITH THE FALSE AND FOLK ARE
NOT WILLING TO LIVE A LIFE OF
00:36:02.86\00:36:08.10
SELF-DENIAL AND RENOUNCE
- SELF-RENUNCIATION OF THE
00:36:08.10\00:36:11.06
WORLD, YOU CAN BE SURE THAT
GOD'S BLESSING IS NOT BESTOWED.
00:36:11.06\00:36:15.73
VERY CLEAR, ISN'T IT?
EMOTIONAL EXCITEMENT REMINDS ME
00:36:15.73\00:36:18.43
OF SOMETHING
THAT I READ RECENTLY.
00:36:18.43\00:36:20.66
I'M GOING TO - I'M GOING TO
LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP HERE
00:36:20.66\00:36:22.83
REAL QUICKLY AND I HOPE YOU'LL
JOIN ME. SOME OF YOU MAY BE
00:36:22.83\00:36:25.83
FAMILIAR WITH THE BOOK 'A
TIME OF DEPARTING' BY AUTHOR
00:36:25.83\00:36:28.90
RAY YUNGEN, AND HE WRITES THIS
ABOUT TODAY, 'PEOPLE ARE SEEKING
00:36:28.90\00:36:38.40
SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES THAT
LEAVE BEHIND THE HUMDRUM OF DRY
00:36:38.40\00:36:42.83
INTELLECTUALISM AND
STALE INSTITUTIONALISM.
00:36:42.83\00:36:46.93
THESE SEEKERS ARE QUICK TO JUMP
ON A BANDWAGON THAT PROMISES
00:36:46.93\00:36:51.10
SPIRITUAL
REFRESHMENT AND INNOVATION.
00:36:51.10\00:36:53.23
HE'S TALKING ABOUT A COUPLE OF
ATTITUDES THAT ARE EVIDENT HERE
00:36:53.23\00:36:57.83
IN OUR DAY - WHAT WE EXPERIENCE
AND WHAT WE SEE AROUND US.
00:36:57.83\00:37:02.30
AND WHAT IS LEADING PEOPLE
TO EMBRACE A FALSE SPIRITUALITY.
00:37:02.30\00:37:07.63
SO THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
ARE TIRED OF THE HUMDRUM DRY
00:37:07.63\00:37:10.70
INTELLECTUALISM -
INSTITUTIONALISM - THEY'RE
00:37:10.70\00:37:12.56
SEEKING FOR SOMETHING
REFRESHING AND INNOVATIVE.
00:37:12.56\00:37:15.20
SECONDLY, HE SAYS 'PEOPLE IN
THE PAST GENERATIONS PUT UP WITH
00:37:15.20\00:37:18.43
LIFE'S FRUSTRATIONS WHEREAS
TODAY WE SEE AN INCLINATION TO
00:37:18.43\00:37:23.00
SEEK OUT SEEMINGLY SURE-FIRE
APPROACHES THAT PROMISE
00:37:23.00\00:37:26.83
CLEAR-CUT RESULTS.'
WHERE DO YOU FIND THOSE?
00:37:26.83\00:37:29.73
IF YOU GO TO BOOKSTORES TODAY
YOU JUST GO TO THAT SELF-HELP
00:37:29.73\00:37:33.33
SECTION AND YOU'VE GOT TONS AND
TONS OF BOOKS THAT TEACH YOU HOW
00:37:33.33\00:37:37.56
TO IMPROVE YOURSELF AND
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE.
00:37:37.56\00:37:40.20
VERY LITTLE OF IT - IF ANY OF IT
- IS CENTERED ON GOD'S ABILITY
00:37:40.20\00:37:43.13
TO HELP YOU AND OUR GREAT NEED
OF HIM, BUT THIS IS - THIS IS
00:37:43.13\00:37:47.16
THE WORLD WE LIVE IN WHERE,
YOU KNOW, WE DON'T PUT UP WITH
00:37:47.16\00:37:50.63
FRUSTRATIONS ANYMORE, WE
JUST - WE'RE LOOKING FOR A QUICK
00:37:50.63\00:37:53.23
SOLUTION, YOU KNOW, A
FAST PROBLEM SOLVER, YOU SEE.
00:37:53.23\00:37:57.93
'OUR OWN ERA,' HE GOES ON
TO SAY, 'HAS NURTURED A STRONG
00:37:57.93\00:38:00.96
RELIANCE ON PRAGMATISM. NO
LONGER IS TRUTH DETERMINED BY
00:38:00.96\00:38:05.86
WHAT GOD HAS SAID TO BE
TRUE, BUT RATHER BY WHAT WORKS,
00:38:05.86\00:38:10.96
WHAT'S PRACTICAL. THE
QUESTION THAT DRIVES MANY TO
00:38:10.96\00:38:14.90
DETERMINE TRUTH IS, 'WILL IT
MAKE ME FEEL GOOD ABOUT MYSELF?'
00:38:14.90\00:38:21.16
HOWEVER,' HE SAYS, 'FOR THE
CHRISTIAN, WE'RE NOT TO LIVE BY
00:38:21.16\00:38:24.33
WHAT FEELS GOOD, BUT
RATHER BY WHAT IS GOOD.'
00:38:24.33\00:38:28.66
WE MUST STAND BY THE APOSTLE
PAUL'S CAUTION IN THESSALONIANS
00:38:28.66\00:38:31.96
5, VERSE 21, "TEST ALL THINGS;
HOLD FAST THAT WHICH IS GOOD."
00:38:31.96\00:38:36.76
SO RAY YUNGEN IS CONCERNED WITH
THE INFILTRATION OF THE NEW-AGE
00:38:36.76\00:38:41.80
MOVEMENT OR METAPHYSICS -
THAT IS COMMONLY KNOWN TODAY AS
00:38:41.80\00:38:46.36
METAPHYSICS
INTERCONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANITY.
00:38:46.36\00:38:49.33
ACCORDING TO THE MOVEMENT, THIS
IS THE AGE IN WHICH WE'RE ALL
00:38:49.33\00:38:52.06
SUPPOSED TO REALIZE THAT MAN IS
GOD OR GOD IS WITHIN AND BRING
00:38:52.06\00:38:58.06
US - BRING THIS RECOGNITION
TO A MEANINGFUL REALITY.
00:38:58.06\00:39:01.86
THIS IS WHAT NEW AGE
TEACHES - METAPHYSICS TEACHES.
00:39:01.86\00:39:05.36
IN THE BOOK, 'MISSION OF
MYSTICISM' PAGE 6, AN OCCULTIST
00:39:05.36\00:39:08.80
SAID - AND OCCULT - THE
WORD OCCULT JUST SIMPLY MEANS
00:39:08.80\00:39:11.20
'HIDDEN' - HIDDEN OR MYSTERIOUS.
OCCULTISM IS DEFINED AS THE
00:39:11.20\00:39:15.56
SCIENCE OF MYSTICAL EVOLUTION.
IT IS THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE
00:39:15.56\00:39:18.46
HIDDEN (OCCULT) MYSTICAL
FACULTIES OF MAN TO DISCERN THE
00:39:18.46\00:39:23.03
HIDDEN REALITY OF NATURE.
THAT IS, TO SEE GOD AS THE
00:39:23.03\00:39:27.43
ALL-IN-ALL. HOW
IS THIS ACHIEVED?
00:39:27.43\00:39:33.03
HE EXPLAINS IT IN HIS BOOK
AND HE'S DONE A LOT OF GREAT
00:39:33.03\00:39:35.53
RESEARCH AND I ENCOURAGE YOU
TO LOOK AT IT BECAUSE I'M JUST
00:39:35.53\00:39:37.36
SKIMMING OVER THE SURFACE
- THROUGH WHAT IS TERMED 'THE
00:39:37.36\00:39:40.83
SILENCE' - THROUGH WHAT IS
TERMED 'THE SILENCE' OR THROUGH
00:39:40.83\00:39:44.00
CERTAIN MEDITATION PRACTICES.
WHEREAS THE BIBLE ENCOURAGES
00:39:44.00\00:39:48.43
THOUGHTFUL MEDITATION, THIS TYPE
OF MEDITATION ENCOURAGES YOU TO
00:39:48.43\00:39:52.86
EMPTY YOUR HEAD AND
THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING.
00:39:52.86\00:39:57.20
THIS ALTERED STATE - IT'S AN
ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
00:39:57.20\00:40:01.50
THAT'S ACHIEVED THROUGH TWO
THINGS - BREATHING EXERCISES,
00:40:01.50\00:40:05.26
WHERE THE ATTENTION IS FOCUSED
ON THE BREATH AND MANTRAS - A
00:40:05.26\00:40:11.00
REPEATED WORD OR PHRASE.
THAT'S HOW YOU ACHIEVE THIS
00:40:11.00\00:40:15.00
ALTERED STATE. THE
BASIC PROCESS IS TO FOCUS
00:40:15.00\00:40:18.06
AND MAINTAIN CONCENTRATION
WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT WHAT
00:40:18.06\00:40:21.63
YOU'RE FOCUSING ON. THAT
SOUNDS CONVOLUTED, I KNOW,
00:40:21.63\00:40:24.20
BUT THAT'S WHAT THE IDEA IS.
THAT'S WHAT THE IDEA IS - YOU'RE
00:40:24.20\00:40:27.26
SUPPOSED TO BE - MAINTAIN
CONCENTRATION WITHOUT THINKING
00:40:27.26\00:40:30.06
ON THE THING THAT
YOU'RE FOCUSING ON.
00:40:30.06\00:40:32.76
BUT REPETITION ON A FOCUSED
OBJECT IS WHAT TRIGGERS A BLANK
00:40:32.76\00:40:36.23
MIND. IT'S AN ALTERED STATE.
00:40:36.23\00:40:38.70
THIS IS MORE THAN PANTHEISM OR
MONOTHEISM, WHICH SAYS 'ALL IS
00:40:38.70\00:40:44.16
GOD' - THIS IS PANANTHEISM,
HE SUGGESTS, THAT GOD IS IN ALL
00:40:44.16\00:40:48.23
THINGS. GOD IS
BOTH A PERSONALITY, AN
00:40:48.23\00:40:51.43
ALL-ENCOMPASSING SUBSTANCE AS
OPPOSED TO GOD BEING IMPERSONAL.
00:40:51.43\00:40:55.66
GOD IS IN EVERYTHING
AND EVERYTHING IS IN GOD.
00:40:55.66\00:40:59.40
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
PANTHEISM AND PANANTHEISM
00:40:59.40\00:41:02.16
IS HOW GOD IS IN EVERYTHING.
00:41:02.16\00:41:04.63
AND SO, WE'RE DEALING WITH -
IT'S A VERY INTERESTING THING HE
00:41:04.63\00:41:06.33
SUGGESTS - RAY YUNGEN ASSERTS
THAT THESE PRACTICES ARE BEING
00:41:06.33\00:41:10.40
EMBRACED BY WHAT HAS BECOME
KNOWN AS 'THE YOGA OF THE WEST'.
00:41:10.40\00:41:15.83
CHRISTIANS EMBRACING EASTERN
MYSTICISM. THE EMERGENT CHURCH
00:41:15.83\00:41:21.83
PHENOMENON - SOME OF YOU
MAY HAVE HEARD OF THE EMERGENT
00:41:21.83\00:41:24.26
CHURCH - A MOVEMENT THAT TEACHES
PEOPLE HOW TO EXPERIENCE GOD -
00:41:24.26\00:41:29.06
ADOPTS THIS 'THE SILENCE'.
AND YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF WORDS
00:41:29.06\00:41:34.96
LIKE 'CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER' OR
'CENTERING PRAYER'. IN ESSENCE,
00:41:34.96\00:41:41.03
THE SAME METAPHYSICAL COMPONENTS
OF MEDITATION - OF THE NEW AGE
00:41:41.03\00:41:44.63
MOVEMENT - IS INCLUDED IN
CHRISTIAN PRAYER: BREATHING
00:41:44.63\00:41:47.80
EXERCISES AND MANTRAS. BUT
INSTEAD OF SAYING A CERTAIN
00:41:47.80\00:41:50.86
SECULAR WORD YOU WOULD SAY
WORDS LIKE 'JESUS' OR 'LOVE'
00:41:50.86\00:41:55.30
OR SOMETHING THAT'S
BIBLICAL, FOR EXAMPLE.
00:41:55.30\00:41:58.10
MR. YUNGEN SEES THAT EASTERN
MYSTICISM CAME FROM INDIA TO
00:41:58.10\00:42:03.56
ALEXANDRIA TO THE DESERT FATHERS
TO A FELLOW BY THE NAME OF
00:42:03.56\00:42:06.13
THOMAS MERTON AND CONTEMPORARIES
- AND YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF
00:42:06.13\00:42:09.23
THESE INDIVIDUALS - RICHARD
FOSTER AND BRENNAN MANNING.
00:42:09.23\00:42:13.73
BRENNAN MANNING, IN HIS BOOK
'THE SIGNATURE OF JESUS' WHICH
00:42:13.73\00:42:17.23
IS RELATIVELY NEW, TEACHES
HOW TO SUSPEND YOUR THOUGHT.
00:42:17.23\00:42:20.90
THIS IS A
CHRISTIAN PASTOR - TEACHER.
00:42:20.90\00:42:23.56
HE SAYS, 'THE FIRST STEP IN
FAITH IS TO STOP THINKING ABOUT
00:42:23.56\00:42:26.83
GOD.' NOW, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS
THAT YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN TROUBLE.
00:42:26.83\00:42:30.50
'THE FIRST STEP IN FAITH IS TO
STOP THINKING ABOUT GOD AT THE
00:42:30.50\00:42:35.43
TIME OF PRAYER.' HE GOES ON TO
SAY, 'CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY
00:42:35.43\00:42:38.56
TENDS TO EMPHASIZE THE NEED
FOR CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS.
00:42:38.56\00:42:41.76
WE MUST COME TO SEE
REALITY DIFFERENTLY.
00:42:41.76\00:42:44.66
CHOOSE A SINGLE, SACRED WORD,
REPEAT THE SACRED WORD INWARDLY,
00:42:44.66\00:42:48.00
SLOWLY AND OFTEN.' DID YOU KNOW
THAT EVEN RICK WARREN IN HIS
00:42:48.00\00:42:50.93
BOOK 'PURPOSE DRIVEN
LIFE' ENCOURAGES 'THE SILENCE'?
00:42:50.93\00:42:54.40
HE DOESN'T CALL IT THAT
BUT HE ENCOURAGES THIS -
00:42:54.40\00:42:57.30
THIS MANTRA-LIKE TYPE
OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER.
00:42:57.30\00:43:03.83
SO ANYWAY, I MEAN, I'M JUST
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE, BUT IF
00:43:03.83\00:43:06.40
YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS
BOOK, YOU'VE GOT TO READ IT.
00:43:06.40\00:43:07.73
AND THERE ARE - THERE'S A COUPLE
OF OTHER BOOKS THAT YOU PROBABLY
00:43:07.73\00:43:09.96
WANT TO GET YOUR HANDS ON:
'THE OMEGA APOSTASY' - I DON'T
00:43:09.96\00:43:12.60
REMEMBER WHO WROTE THAT -
OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT IT'S
00:43:12.60\00:43:15.46
WRITTEN BY AN ADVENTIST - A
PASTOR - AND HE TALKS ABOUT THE
00:43:15.46\00:43:19.06
- HOW THIS RESURGENCE OF EASTERN
MYSTICISM, UNDER THE NEW-AGE
00:43:19.06\00:43:25.03
GUISE OF METAPHYSICS, IS
CREEPING INTO THE ADVENTIST
00:43:25.03\00:43:28.16
CHURCH AND COULD POSSIBLY
SIGNIFY THE OMEGA OF APOSTASY
00:43:28.16\00:43:31.36
THAT ELLEN WHITE WARNED US
ABOUT THAT HAS ITS - HAD ITS
00:43:31.36\00:43:35.20
BEGINNINGS WITH PANTHEISM IN
THE DAYS OF THE EARLY CHURCH AND
00:43:35.20\00:43:38.46
JOHN HARVEY KELLOGG.
INTERESTING, BUT THE FOCUS HERE
00:43:38.46\00:43:43.96
IS ON THE EXPERIENCE AND
EVERYTHING YOU READ FROM THESE
00:43:43.96\00:43:47.70
AUTHORS HAS LITTLE TO DO
ABOUT OBEYING GOD'S WORD.
00:43:47.70\00:43:50.36
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE.
AND WE'RE IN A DAY AND AGE WHERE
00:43:50.36\00:43:53.13
THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE
WANT IS AN EXPERIENCE.
00:43:53.13\00:43:55.16
AND EVEN IF IT'S WITH GOD - IT
SOUNDS GOOD, BUT WHAT DOES THAT
00:43:55.16\00:43:58.26
MEAN? 'I WANT AN
EXPERIENCE WITH GOD.
00:43:58.26\00:44:00.06
I WANT A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD'?
I HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
00:44:00.06\00:44:03.30
IRS AND IT'S A GOOD
RELATIONSHIP, BUT I DON'T OFTEN
00:44:03.30\00:44:05.73
LIKE THEM. MAYBE
THEY DON'T LIKE ME
00:44:05.73\00:44:07.46
AT TIMES. WE
HAVE A RELATIONSHIP.
00:44:07.46\00:44:09.16
I HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH
- WE HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH
00:44:09.16\00:44:11.93
INDIVIDUALS - MAYBE WE
WOULD EVEN CLASS THEM AN ENEMY -
00:44:11.93\00:44:14.23
THAT'S A RELATIONSHIP.
BUT WHEN WE SAY WE WANT A
00:44:14.23\00:44:16.80
RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD,
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
00:44:16.80\00:44:19.43
WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL
WHAT WE'RE REFERRING TO HERE.
00:44:19.43\00:44:21.70
A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD -
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A SAVING
00:44:21.70\00:44:24.73
RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, RIGHT?
A SAVING RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
00:44:24.73\00:44:28.13
A RELATIONSHIP THAT LEADS US
TO OBEDIENCE, LEADS US TO DOING
00:44:28.13\00:44:31.23
GOD'S WILL - NOT MY OWN
WILL AND NOT MY OWN WAY.
00:44:31.23\00:44:34.56
WELL, I TELL YOU WHAT, I GOT
STUCK ON THAT ONE BIG TIME, BUT
00:44:34.56\00:44:37.70
MONDAY - LET'S JUMP OVER
TO MONDAY, 'GOD'S LOVE AND HIS
00:44:37.70\00:44:40.43
LAW'. WE TALKED
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
00:44:40.43\00:44:42.80
GOD'S LAW AND
THE IDEA OF REVIVAL.
00:44:42.80\00:44:48.16
BY THE WAY, WHERE THERE IS
THE DISCOVERY OF GOD'S WILL AS
00:44:48.16\00:44:51.20
REVEALED IN HIS WORD,
THERE IS SEEN TRUE REVIVAL.
00:44:51.20\00:44:53.73
AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE LIFE
OF JESUS - LOOK AT THE LIFE OF
00:44:53.73\00:44:57.00
JESUS. THAT'S THE
EXPERIENCE OF A TRULY
00:44:57.00\00:44:59.93
REFORMED LIFE. HE WAS
DRIVEN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:44:59.93\00:45:05.10
AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT
REVIVAL, THINK JESUS - THINK HIS
00:45:05.10\00:45:09.20
LIFE - AND THAT'S WHAT
THE BIBLE PRODUCES, YOU SEE.
00:45:09.20\00:45:12.10
ALRIGHT, 'GOD'S
LOVE AND HIS LAW'.
00:45:12.10\00:45:15.60
I HAVE A VERSE - 1 JOHN
4:7, 8 - WHO'S GOT THAT?
00:45:15.60\00:45:18.53
OKAY, STACY'S
GOT THAT. FANTASTIC.
00:45:18.53\00:45:21.00
WE'RE GOING TO BE OVER IN 1
JOHN SO LET'S GO OVER THERE.
00:45:21.00\00:45:23.63
1 JOHN CHAPTER 2, WE'RE GOING
TO START HERE. I DON'T KNOW IF
00:45:23.63\00:45:33.10
YOU'RE AWARE BUT BACK IN 1856,
AND I HAVE TO SHARE THIS PRETTY
00:45:33.10\00:45:36.53
QUICKLY, IN 1856, OCTOBER
9, IN THE 'REVIEW AND HERALD'
00:45:36.53\00:45:40.50
JAMES WHITE CHALLENGED
THE PREVAILING VIEW OF THEN
00:45:40.50\00:45:44.26
SABBATH-KEEPING ADVENTISTS
THAT BELIEVED THAT THE CHURCH -
00:45:44.26\00:45:48.23
THEIR CHURCH - WAS THE CHURCH OF
PHILADELPHIA. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU
00:45:48.23\00:45:50.86
LOOK AT THE SEVEN
CHURCHES OF REVELATION 2 AND 3?
00:45:50.86\00:45:53.10
OF COURSE THEY WERE LITERAL
CHURCHES EXPERIENCING THOSE REAL
00:45:53.10\00:45:55.60
ISSUES IN THEIR CHURCHES WHETHER
GOOD OR BAD, BUT THEY ALSO
00:45:55.60\00:45:58.93
REPRESENT THE PERIODS OF
CHRISTIAN HISTORY THROUGHOUT
00:45:58.93\00:46:01.76
TIME, FROM THE DAYS OF THE
APOSTLES TO THE END OF TIME.
00:46:01.76\00:46:06.16
AND EARLY SABBATH-KEEPING
ADVENTISTS BELIEVED THAT THEIR
00:46:06.16\00:46:10.73
EXPERIENCE REPRESENTED
THE CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA.
00:46:10.73\00:46:13.46
JAMES WHITE CHALLENGED
THAT THINKING AND SUGGESTED THAT
00:46:13.46\00:46:16.60
PERHAPS WE WERE,
INSTEAD, THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA.
00:46:16.60\00:46:19.30
FROM NOVEMBER 1856 THROUGH
1857, 348 ITEMS APPEARED IN THE
00:46:19.30\00:46:24.70
'REVIEW AND HERALD' TALKING
ABOUT THE LAODICEAN MESSAGE.
00:46:24.70\00:46:29.13
IT'S THE MESSAGE TO THE CHURCH
THAT THINKS IT'S GOT ITS ACT
00:46:29.13\00:46:31.90
TOGETHER BUT JESUS IS ON
THE OUTSIDE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR
00:46:31.90\00:46:34.73
TRYING TO GET IN, YOU SEE.
AND IN ANY CASE, OVER A PERIOD
00:46:34.73\00:46:39.40
OF MONTHS - PEOPLE HAD EMBRACED
THE MESSAGE FOR A GOOD YEAR, BUT
00:46:39.40\00:46:42.96
OVER A PERIOD OF MONTHS PEOPLE'S
MEMORY FADED - THE MESSAGE FADED
00:46:42.96\00:46:46.70
AS WELL. IN THE BOOK VOLUMES -
00:46:46.70\00:46:49.23
'TESTIMONIES TO THE CHURCH
VOLUME 1' PAGES 158 TO 184,
00:46:49.23\00:46:53.26
ELLEN WHITE DESCRIBES THE PLAN
OF THE REVIVAL WAS TO CULMINATE
00:46:53.26\00:46:58.40
IN THE SECOND COMING
OF JESUS BUT IT DIDN'T.
00:46:58.40\00:47:01.63
PAGES 185 TO 195 - 185 TO 195
- SHE DELINEATES THE DECLINE.
00:47:01.63\00:47:07.20
WHAT DOES SHE SAY? SHE
SAYS, 'AS THE POWERFUL WORK
00:47:07.20\00:47:10.20
ACCOMPLISHED - IT FAILED - THE
MESSAGED FAILED TO ACCOMPLISH
00:47:10.20\00:47:13.66
THE POWERFUL WORK IN A SHORT
TIME AND MANY LOST THE EFFECT OF
00:47:13.66\00:47:17.16
THE MESSAGE.' SO
BECAUSE IT DIDN'T BRING ABOUT
00:47:17.16\00:47:20.63
THE DESIRED RESULTS IN A SHORT
TIME, PEOPLE JUST KIND OF GOT
00:47:20.63\00:47:23.93
LETHARGIC AND THE
MESSAGE JUST ROLLED OFF. WHY?
00:47:23.93\00:47:27.23
'BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF
THEIR HEARTS' - THESE ARE THINGS
00:47:27.23\00:47:29.16
THAT SHE SAID - 'BECAUSE THEY
WERE MOVED FROM FEELING, NOT
00:47:29.16\00:47:32.46
FROM PRINCIPLE AND FAITH,
BECAUSE THEY WERE FOUND - THEY
00:47:32.46\00:47:35.66
FOUND THE MESSAGE STRUCK
DIRECTLY AT SOME CHERISHED IDOL,
00:47:35.66\00:47:38.36
BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT WILLING
TO CLOSELY EXAMINE THEMSELVES,
00:47:38.36\00:47:42.40
BECAUSE THEIR PRIDE, THEIR LOVE
TO FOLLOW THE FASHIONS OF THE
00:47:42.40\00:47:45.36
WORLD, THEIR VAIN AND EMPTY
CONVERSATIONS, AND BECAUSE OF
00:47:45.36\00:47:47.93
THEIR SELFISHNESS.'
BASICALLY, THE REVIVAL FAILED
00:47:47.93\00:47:51.80
BACK THEN BECAUSE THE
ACCOMPANYING REFORMATION
00:47:51.80\00:47:54.43
REQUIRED MORE THAN
THEY WERE WILLING TO GIVE.
00:47:54.43\00:47:58.60
AND REVIVAL WILL FAIL EVERY TIME
WHEN WE REALLY RECOGNIZE - TRULY
00:47:58.60\00:48:02.00
RECOGNIZE WHAT REFORMATION IS
REQUIRED OF THE LIFE - WHAT GOD
00:48:02.00\00:48:05.46
EXPECTS FROM US, BY
HIS GRACE, OF COURSE.
00:48:05.46\00:48:08.56
AND OFTENTIMES PEOPLE ARE
CONFRONTED WITH THAT - JESUS -
00:48:08.56\00:48:11.60
THE DISCIPLES WERE CONFRONTED
WITH THAT. JESUS HAD TALKED
00:48:11.60\00:48:14.23
ABOUT THE FACT THAT HIS WORD WAS
- HIS WORD WAS SPIRIT AND LIFE
00:48:14.23\00:48:18.83
AND PEOPLE, IN ORDER TO EMBRACE
THAT, IT WAS GOING TO REQUIRE
00:48:18.83\00:48:22.20
A LIFE OF SACRIFICE
AND CHALLENGE AT TIMES.
00:48:22.20\00:48:25.46
WE'RE TOLD IN JOHN CHAPTER
6, THE AUTHOR JOHN RECORDS THAT
00:48:25.46\00:48:30.50
MANY LEFT JESUS THAT DAY
NEVER TO FOLLOW HIM AGAIN.
00:48:30.50\00:48:34.50
IT WAS A SAD DAY AND HE TURNED
TO HIS DISCIPLES AND HE SAID,
00:48:34.50\00:48:37.53
'WILL YOU GO AWAY AS WELL?'
AND THEY SAID - PETER SAID -
00:48:37.53\00:48:39.70
FIRST TO SPEAK, OF COURSE
- 'WHERE WOULD WE GO, LORD?
00:48:39.70\00:48:42.06
WHERE WOULD WE GO? I
MEAN, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO HAS
00:48:42.06\00:48:44.80
THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE.'
BUT SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE ARE
00:48:44.80\00:48:48.76
CONFRONTED WITH WHAT
CHRISTIANITY REALLY MEANS, THEY
00:48:48.76\00:48:52.20
LEAVE AS FAST AS THEY COME
IN. IT REQUIRES SELF-DENIAL,
00:48:52.20\00:48:55.43
RENUNCIATION OF THE WORLD,
REMOVAL OF SIN FROM THE LIFE.
00:48:55.43\00:48:59.16
AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED
IN 1850S - OUR CHURCH WASN'T
00:48:59.16\00:49:02.93
ORGANIZED AT THAT TIME, BUT WITH
THE EARLY PIONEERS THEY - THE
00:49:02.93\00:49:07.63
MESSAGE - THEY JUST COULDN'T
MAKE THE CHANGES THAT THE
00:49:07.63\00:49:10.93
MESSAGE
REQUIRED, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:49:10.93\00:49:13.16
LISTEN TO THIS QUOTE, 'GREAT
CONTROVERSY' PAGE 478, "IT IS
00:49:13.16\00:49:15.96
ONLY AS THE LAW OF GOD
IS RESTORED TO ITS RIGHTFUL
00:49:15.96\00:49:18.53
POSITION THAT THERE CAN BE A
REVIVAL OF PRIMITIVE FAITH AND
00:49:18.53\00:49:22.06
GODLINESS AMONG
HIS PROFESSED PEOPLE."
00:49:22.06\00:49:24.36
SO THE LAW OF GOD NEEDS TO
BE EXALTED AND ELEVATED TO ITS
00:49:24.36\00:49:26.60
RIGHTFUL POSITION BEFORE A
REVIVAL OF A PRIMITIVE FAITH AND
00:49:26.60\00:49:30.93
GODLINESS IS
WITNESSED AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:49:30.93\00:49:33.46
SO THE ANSWER TO OUR DILEMMA
LIES IN THE RESTORATION OF THE
00:49:33.46\00:49:36.80
LAW OF GOD TO ITS
RIGHTFUL POSITION.
00:49:36.80\00:49:39.60
THAT'S WHY WE MAY NOT BE SEEING
REVIVAL LIKE WE WISH WE WERE.
00:49:39.60\00:49:42.36
THE LAW OF GOD IS
NOT WHERE IT SHOULD BE.
00:49:42.36\00:49:44.63
NOT AS A MEANS OF SALVATION,
BECAUSE THE LAW OF GOD IS
00:49:44.63\00:49:48.33
POWERLESS TO SAVE, AMEN?
IT CANNOT SAVE US BUT, AS A
00:49:48.33\00:49:53.06
MEASURE OF THE EFFICACY OF THE
GRACE OF CHRIST IN THE LIFE, IF
00:49:53.06\00:49:58.23
WE FIND OURSELVES FALLING SHORT
OF THE STANDARD IN OUR LIVES
00:49:58.23\00:50:01.63
FROM TIME TO TIME, IT MAY
BE BECAUSE WE'VE NEGLECTED TO
00:50:01.63\00:50:04.83
APPROPRIATE THE
GRACE OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:50:04.83\00:50:08.36
SO 1 JOHN 2:3 AND 6, LET'S READ
THIS TOGETHER AND THEN WE'VE GOT
00:50:08.36\00:50:12.53
1 JOHN 4:7 AND 8.
NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS, "NOW BY
00:50:12.53\00:50:15.76
THIS WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW
HIM," - WHAT IS ETERNAL LIFE?
00:50:15.76\00:50:19.26
WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
'THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL THAT THEY
00:50:19.26\00:50:21.06
MIGHT KNOW YOU, THE ONLY TRUE
GOD, AND JESUS CHRIST WHOM THOU
00:50:21.06\00:50:23.96
SENT.' "NOW BY
THIS WE KNOW THAT WE
00:50:23.96\00:50:26.13
KNOW HIM IF WE" - DO
WHAT? - "KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
00:50:26.13\00:50:29.40
HE WHO SAYS, 'I KNOW HIM,' AND
DOES NOT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS,
00:50:29.40\00:50:32.20
IS A LIAR, AND THE
TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM.
00:50:32.20\00:50:34.63
BUT WHOEVER KEEPS HIS
WORD, TRULY THE LOVE OF GOD IS
00:50:34.63\00:50:37.16
PERFECTED IN HIM. BY
THIS WE KNOW THAT WE ARE IN
00:50:37.16\00:50:40.16
HIM. HE WHO
SAYS HE ABIDES IN HIM
00:50:40.16\00:50:42.60
OUGHT HIMSELF ALSO TO
WALK JUST AS HE WALKED."
00:50:42.60\00:50:46.70
OKAY, WE'LL COME
OVER TO 1 JOHN 4:7 AND 8.
00:50:46.70\00:50:52.33
>>"BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE
ANOTHER, FOR LOVE IS OF GOD; AND
00:50:52.33\00:50:56.13
EVERYONE THAT LOVETH IS
BORN OF GOD AND KNOWETH GOD.
00:50:56.13\00:50:59.60
HE THAT LOVETH NOT KNOWETH
NOT GOD, FOR GOD IS LOVE."
00:50:59.60\00:51:04.86
>>SO GENUINE REVIVAL RESULTS
IN A CHANGED LIFE, CORRECT?
00:51:04.86\00:51:08.63
THE HEART OF REVIVAL IS NOT A
WARM SENSATION OF FEELING WITH
00:51:08.63\00:51:11.73
JESUS, IT IS A TRANSFORMED LIFE
FILLED WITH THE JOY OF SERVING
00:51:11.73\00:51:15.20
JESUS, IS WHAT OUR
AUTHOR SAYS IN THE QUARTERLY.
00:51:15.20\00:51:19.00
SO GENUINE REVIVAL IS
THE RESULT OF CHANGED LIFE.
00:51:19.00\00:51:22.90
ALRIGHT, TUESDAY, 'FORMALISM,
FANATICISM, AND FAITH'.
00:51:22.90\00:51:30.36
TWO CHALLENGES TO REVIVAL, OF
COURSE WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY
00:51:30.36\00:51:34.03
ARE, BREAKING THROUGH DEAD
FORMALISM AND AVOIDING EMOTIONAL
00:51:34.03\00:51:37.63
FANATICISM. THOSE ARE
TWO DITCHES WE NEED TO
00:51:37.63\00:51:41.03
AVOID IN OUR CHRISTIAN
WALK. FORMAL RELIGION FOCUSES ON
00:51:41.03\00:51:44.50
EXTERNALS - FOCUSES ON ALL
THE CORRECT BEHAVIOR AND THAT'S
00:51:44.50\00:51:50.93
WHERE THE FOCUS LIES, PRIMARILY.
FANATICISM GOES TO EXTREMES AND
00:51:50.93\00:51:55.50
PERHAPS FOCUSES ON ONE
ASPECT OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
00:51:55.50\00:51:59.60
CHRISTIAN LIFE IS ONE OF BALANCE
AND OUR MESSAGE IS BALANCED.
00:51:59.60\00:52:06.43
WHEN WE THINK ABOUT JESUS -
SOMEONE COULD ASK THE QUESTION,
00:52:06.43\00:52:09.16
'WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT, JESUS'
DEATH OR HIS RESURRECTION?'
00:52:09.16\00:52:12.70
WHICH ONE IS IT?
WELL THAT'S RIGHT.
00:52:12.70\00:52:16.80
BOY, YOU GUYS ARE
INTELLIGENT, I'M TELLING YOU.
00:52:16.80\00:52:18.56
YOU COULD COME UP
HERE DEFINITELY. BOTH.
00:52:18.56\00:52:23.00
WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT,
THE HEART OR THE BRAIN?
00:52:23.00\00:52:25.70
I MEAN, THEY'RE BOTH VERY VITAL.
WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT, JESUS'
00:52:25.70\00:52:29.70
BIRTH OR HIS HIGH PRIESTLY
MINISTRY IN HEAVEN? BOTH.
00:52:29.70\00:52:34.76
WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT,
JESUS LIFE OR JESUS' ASCENSION?
00:52:34.76\00:52:40.70
THEY'RE BOTH AS
IMPORTANT AS EACH OTHER.
00:52:40.70\00:52:43.36
OUR GOSPEL WE
PRESENT MUST BE WELL ROUNDED.
00:52:43.36\00:52:46.10
EVERYTHING IS
VITAL TO OUR SALVATION.
00:52:46.10\00:52:48.40
JESUS' BIRTH, JESUS'
LIFE, JESUS' DEATH, JESUS'
00:52:48.40\00:52:52.20
RESURRECTION, JESUS' ASCENSION,
JESUS' HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY,
00:52:52.20\00:52:55.43
JESUS IS COMING BACK.
ALL OF THAT IS A COMPLETE -
00:52:55.43\00:52:59.40
PRESENTED - ALL OF THAT
PRESENTED SHOULD BE - SHOULD BE
00:52:59.40\00:53:02.43
PRESENTED AS A COMPLETE GOSPEL -
NOT A HALF GOSPEL, NOT A PARTIAL
00:53:02.43\00:53:06.26
GOSPEL. SO THIS
IS THE CHALLENGE.
00:53:06.26\00:53:09.13
JESUS HAD TO DEAL WITH THAT
CHALLENGE IN HIS DAY WITH THE
00:53:09.13\00:53:11.80
PHARISEES AND THE SADDUCEES.
PHARISEES WERE DEAD FORMALISTS.
00:53:11.80\00:53:16.10
HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK
GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE BUT YOU'RE
00:53:16.10\00:53:18.13
FULL OF DEAD MEN'S BONES.
YOU CLEAN THE CUP ON THE OUTSIDE
00:53:18.13\00:53:22.03
BUT IT'S FILTHY ON THE INSIDE.'
AND SO JESUS HAD TO DEAL WITH
00:53:22.03\00:53:25.90
THE CHALLENGES OF A PEOPLE
WHOSE LIPS PRAISED HIM BUT THEIR
00:53:25.90\00:53:29.83
HEARTS WERE FAR
FROM HIM, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:53:29.83\00:53:32.96
I GAVE EPHESIANS
4:14 TO SOMEBODY.
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WE'LL HAVE SOMEONE READ THAT.
MICHAEL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:53:35.96\00:53:38.53
EPHESIANS 4:14 AND THIS IS
GOD'S DESIRE FOR HIS PEOPLE.
00:53:38.53\00:53:43.63
THE SADDUCEES, IN JESUS' DAY,
DIDN'T BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, THE
00:53:43.63\00:53:47.73
RESURRECTION, FOR EXAMPLE.
THEIR RELIGION, PRIMARILY, WAS
00:53:47.73\00:53:51.46
BASED ON EMOTIONALISM AND SO
JESUS HAD TO DEAL WITH THESE TWO
00:53:51.46\00:53:56.33
EXTREMES IN HIS MINISTRY.
EPHESIANS 4 AND VERSE 14.
00:53:56.33\00:54:00.93
>>EPHESIANS 4:14, "THAT WE
SHOULD NO LONGER BE CHILDREN,
00:54:00.93\00:54:04.93
TOSSED TO AND FRO AND
CARRIED ABOUT WITH EVERY WIND OF
00:54:04.93\00:54:08.23
DOCTRINE, BY THE TRICKERY OF
MEN, IN THE CUNNING CRAFTINESS
00:54:08.23\00:54:12.66
OF DECEITFUL PLOTTING."
>>SO GOD'S DESIRE FOR EACH ONE
00:54:12.66\00:54:16.86
OF US IS THAT WE WOULD NO LONGER
BE FLIP-FLOPPING CHRISTIANS -
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THAT WE WOULD BE STEADY -
THAT WE WOULD HAVE AN EVEN KEEL,
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SO TO SPEAK, IN OUR
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.
00:54:23.93\00:54:26.43
I'M GOING TO CLOSE HERE
WITH A QUOTE THAT I FOUND.
00:54:26.43\00:54:30.36
IT'S IN THE DEVOTIONAL
BOOK 'THIS DAY WITH GOD' AND IT
00:54:30.36\00:54:33.06
ANSWERS THE QUESTION, 'HOW
CAN WE FIND TRUE BALANCE IN OUR
00:54:33.06\00:54:36.20
EXPERIENCE WITH JESUS?'
HERE IT IS: 'WE ARE FORMING
00:54:36.20\00:54:40.20
CHARACTERS FOR HEAVEN.
NO CHARACTER CAN BE COMPLETE
00:54:40.20\00:54:43.93
WITHOUT TRIAL AND
SUFFERING. WE MUST BE TESTED.
00:54:43.93\00:54:47.53
WE MUST BE TRIED.
CHRIST BORE THE TEST OF
00:54:47.53\00:54:50.46
CHARACTER ON OUR BEHALF THAT WE
MIGHT BEAR THIS TEST IN OUR OWN
00:54:50.46\00:54:55.66
BEHALF THROUGH THE DIVINE
STRENGTH HE HAS BROUGHT TO US.
00:54:55.66\00:54:58.73
CHRIST IS OUR EXAMPLE IN
PATIENCE, IN FORBEARANCE, IN
00:54:58.73\00:55:03.36
MEEKNESS, IN LOWLINESS OF MIND.
HE WAS AT VARIANCE AND AT WAR
00:55:03.36\00:55:09.50
WITH THE WHOLE UNGODLY WORLD YET
HE DID NOT GIVE WAY TO PASSION
00:55:09.50\00:55:13.06
AND VIOLENCE MANIFESTED IN WORDS
AND ACTIONS, ALTHOUGH RECEIVING
00:55:13.06\00:55:17.03
SHAMEFUL ABUSE IN RETURN FOR
GOOD WORKS. HE WAS AFFLICTED.
00:55:17.03\00:55:21.33
HE WAS REJECTED AND SPITEFULLY
TREATED, YET HE RETALIATED NOT.
00:55:21.33\00:55:25.73
HE POSSESSED SELF-CONTROL,
DIGNITY AND MAJESTY.
00:55:25.73\00:55:29.70
HE SUFFERED WITH CALMNESS AND
FOR ABUSE GAVE ONLY COMPASSIONED
00:55:29.70\00:55:33.63
PITY AND LOVE. IMITATE
YOUR REDEEMER IN THESE THINGS.
00:55:33.63\00:55:38.00
DO NOT GET EXCITED
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG.
00:55:38.00\00:55:40.60
DO NOT LET SELF RISE AND LOSE
YOUR SELF-CONTROL BECAUSE YOU
00:55:40.60\00:55:43.86
FANCY THINGS ARE
NOT AS THEY SHOULD BE.
00:55:43.86\00:55:46.10
BECAUSE OTHERS ARE WRONG IS
NO EXCUSE FOR YOU TO DO WRONG.
00:55:46.10\00:55:50.50
TWO WRONGS WILL
NOT MAKE ONE RIGHT.
00:55:50.50\00:55:52.63
YOU HAVE VICTORIES TO GAIN
IN ORDER TO OVERCOME AS CHRIST
00:55:52.63\00:55:55.66
OVERCAME. CHRIST
NEVER MURMURED, NEVER
00:55:55.66\00:55:58.93
UTTERED DISCONTENT,
DISPLEASURE OR RESENTMENT.
00:55:58.93\00:56:02.03
HE WAS NEVER DISHEARTENED,
DISCOURAGED, ROUGH OR FRETTED.
00:56:02.03\00:56:06.06
HE WAS PATIENT, CALM, AND
SELF- POSSESSED UNDER THE MOST
00:56:06.06\00:56:09.10
EXCITING AND
TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES.
00:56:09.10\00:56:11.40
ALL HIS WORKS WERE PERFORMED
WITH A QUIET DIGNITY AND EASE
00:56:11.40\00:56:15.06
WHATEVER
COMMOTION WAS AROUND HIM.
00:56:15.06\00:56:17.30
APPLAUSE DID NOT ELATE HIM.
HE FEARED NOT THE THREATS OF HIS
00:56:17.30\00:56:20.23
ENEMIES, HE MOVED AMID THE WORLD
OF EXCITEMENT, OF VIOLENCE AND
00:56:20.23\00:56:23.36
CRIME AS THE SUN
MOVES AMONG THE CLOUDS.
00:56:23.36\00:56:26.56
HUMAN PASSIONS AND COMMOTIONS
AND TRIALS WERE BENEATH HIM.
00:56:26.56\00:56:29.73
HE SAILED, LIKE THE SUN,
ABOVE THEM ALL YET HE WAS NOT
00:56:29.73\00:56:32.93
INDIFFERENT TO THE WOES OF MEN.
HIS HEART WAS EVER-TOUCHED WITH
00:56:32.93\00:56:36.56
THE SUFFERINGS AND NECESSITIES
OF HIS BRETHREN AND, AS THOUGH
00:56:36.56\00:56:40.10
HE HIMSELF WAS
THE ONE AFFLICTED.
00:56:40.10\00:56:43.66
HE HAD A CALM, INWARD JOY
- A PEACE WHICH WAS SERENE.
00:56:43.66\00:56:47.30
HIS WILL WAS EVER SWALLOWED UP
IN THE WILL OF HIS FATHER, 'NOT
00:56:47.30\00:56:51.36
MY WILL BUT THINE BE DONE' WAS
HEARD FROM HIS PALE, QUIVERING
00:56:51.36\00:56:55.70
LIPS.' TALK ABOUT AN
EVEN-KEELED EXPERIENCE.
00:56:55.70\00:57:00.96
ISN'T THAT THE EXPERIENCE
WE WANT? SO AS WE CLOSE HERE
00:57:00.96\00:57:04.03
TODAY, REMEMBER THAT TRUE
REVIVAL IS ALL ABOUT KNOWING GOD
00:57:04.03\00:57:08.53
AND DOING HIS WILL, OBEYING
HIS WORD, KEEPING AN EVEN KEEL,
00:57:08.53\00:57:14.86
FOCUSING ON MINISTRY AND
NOT NECESSARILY MIRACLES AND
00:57:14.86\00:57:19.06
EXPERIENCING THE FRUIT OF
THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN OUR LIVES.
00:57:19.06\00:57:22.66
THIS IS EVIDENCE
OF A TRUE REVIVAL.
00:57:22.66\00:57:28.36
WE ALSO, AS WE CLOSE, WANT TO
REMIND OUR VIEWERS AND LISTENERS
00:57:28.36\00:57:32.00
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GOD BLESS YOU TODAY AND ALWAYS
AS WE SEEK TO LIVE A LIFE THAT
00:57:46.96\00:57:51.90
IS EVEN KEELED, A LIFE OF
REVIVAL AND REFORMATION IN THE
00:57:51.90\00:57:55.53
SPIRIT OF THE LORD, AMEN.
00:57:55.53\00:57:58.80
(MUSIC)
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