(MUSIC)
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>>SO WHAT IS THE
BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD?
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WELL, NATURALLY, YOU'D SAY
THE SUN, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
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THE BRIGHTEST
MAN-MADE LIGHT IN THE WORLD.
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IT'S THE LIGHT THAT
SHINES OUT OF THE ROOF OF THAT
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PYRAMID-SHAPED HOTEL IN
LAS VEGAS CALLED THE LUXOR.
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THERE, IN THE CAP OF THAT HOTEL,
THERE'S A ROOM THAT CONTAINS 39
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WASHING-MACHINE SIZED XENON
BULBS; AND EACH OF THOSE BULBS
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REQUIRES ABOUT 7,000 WATTS.
ALTOGETHER, THEY PRODUCE ABOUT
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40 BILLION
CANDLE POWER OF LIGHT.
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CAN YOU IMAGINE GETTING THAT
ELECTRIC BILL AT THE LUXOR HOTEL
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EVERY MONTH? THAT
LIGHT IS SO BRIGHT THAT
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PLANES CAN SEE
IT 250 MILES AWAY.
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THEY'RE SHOOTING LIGHT TEN MILES
UP INTO SPACE, MEANING, IF YOU
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HAPPEN TO BE FLOATING BY, YOU
COULD READ A NEWSPAPER UP THERE.
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AND, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED,
THAT BRIGHT LIGHT HAS BECOME THE
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WORLD'S BEST BUG ATTRACTOR,
BRINGING IN MOTHS, BATS, AND
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OWLS - CREATING ITS OWN
ECOSYSTEM THERE AT NIGHT, ABOVE
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THE HOTEL. BUT THE
SAD THING ABOUT THE
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BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD IS
ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NIGHT AIR IS
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CLEAR - WITHOUT ANY PARTICLES
- THE LIGHT DOESN'T HIT
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ANYTHING AND IT'S INVISIBLE.
IT SHOOTS UP INTO EMPTY SPACE.
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THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN
THE WORLD ILLUMINATES NOTHING.
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YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS
US THAT THERE'S ANOTHER GREAT
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WASTED LIGHT, AND
THAT'S THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD.
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IT SAYS IN PSALM 119, VERSE 105,
"THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET
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AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.' AND
YET, SO MANY PEOPLE ARE WALKING
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IN DARKNESS.
FURTHERMORE, JESUS SAID, IF YOU
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DO HAVE THAT LIGHT, MAKE SURE
YOU DON'T PUT IT UNDER A BUSHEL,
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BUT YOU LET IT SHINE AND
ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
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JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
5, 'SET YOUR LIGHT UP ON A HILL,
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LIKE A CITY, SO THAT ALL MIGHT
SEE IT.' LIGHT ONLY BENEFITS
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OTHERS WHEN IT
REFLECTS OFF OF SOMETHING.
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GOD WANTS OUR LIGHTS TO
ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
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SO, ARE YOU GLOWING FOR
GOD? REMEMBER, JESUS SAID,
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'LET THERE BE LIGHT.' (MUSIC)
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>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
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OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
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PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
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FROM THE CREATION OF THE
WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF
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REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'
IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN
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EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE
EVENTS AND CHARACTERS.
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ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE
BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S
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WORD. GO DEEPER.
VISIT THE AMAZING BIBLE TIME
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LINE AT
'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. (MUSIC)
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>>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965
WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
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>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS
AND THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
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FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
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>>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
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SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
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TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
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THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
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BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
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IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
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GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
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EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
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IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
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PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
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MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
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FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
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BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
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TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
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WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
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SEE A RICH HARVEST
OF SOULS. AMAZING FACTS:
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GOD'S MESSAGE,
OUR MISSION. (MUSIC)
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>>YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT
WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO TALK A
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LITTLE BIT ABOUT 'WHAT
IS A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST?'
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AND SEPARATE IT
FROM FACT AND FICTION.
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AND THAT'LL BE THE
TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE TODAY,
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SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST FACTS AND FABLES .
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NOW, WHEN I FIRST WAS EXPOSED
TO THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
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MESSAGE - SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY THAT I
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CAME FROM A BACKGROUND THAT WAS,
FOR THE MOST PART, IRRELIGIOUS.
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I KNOW, IT ALWAYS WORRIES ME
WHEN PEOPLE SEE THAT PICTURE AND
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SAY, 'OH, SO THAT
GUY'S OUR PASTOR?'
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BUT IN MY TEENAGE YEARS,
YOU KNOW, COMING FROM A JEWISH
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BACKGROUND, MY MOTHER, AND
MY FATHER, HE WAS PRETTY MUCH AN
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ATHEIST BUT WE GREW UP
NOT REALLY BELIEVING ANYTHING.
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I WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND
JEWISH SCHOOLS, BUT WE WEREN'T
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REALLY INDOCTRINATED VERY MUCH.
I HAD NEVER HEARD OF SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTISTS, SO AFTER I READ
A BIBLE, I WAS LIVING IN A CAVE
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DURING SOME HIPPIE YEARS, AND I
READ A BIBLE AND ACCEPTED JESUS
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THROUGH THE POWER OF THE WORD.
I SAID, 'WELL, I NEED TO GO TO
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CHURCH.' I DIDN'T HAVE ANY - I
WAS CLUELESS ABOUT WHERE TO GO.
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I JUST WANTED TO GO WHERE I
COULD BIBLE CHRISTIANS THAT WERE
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ON FIRE. AND SO, I
BEGAN TO STUDY WITH
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AND MEET WITH A NUMBER
OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES.
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AND I'LL TELL YOU THAT I'D NEVER
EVEN HEARD OF A SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST AT THAT TIME.
IF YOU HAD ASKED ME WHO THEY
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WERE, I WOULDN'T HAVE
BEEN - I'D BE TOTALLY CLUELESS.
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AND I'M AFRAID THAT THERE ARE A
LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
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OUT THERE THAT STILL DON'T HAVE
ANY IDEA OR THEY HAVE A LOT OF
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MISCONCEPTIONS. YOU
KNOW, AS I TRAVEL, I'M A
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PASTOR, SO WHEN YOU MEET PEOPLE
AND YOU START WITH YOUR TYPICAL
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS - 'HOW
ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
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WHAT DO YOU DO?' 'I'M
A PASTOR.' 'WHAT CHURCH?'
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'SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST.'
'SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST?
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WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?
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AREN'T YOU GUYS - NO
BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS, RIGHT?'
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I SAID, 'NO, IT'S NOT US.' THEY
SAID, 'SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS -
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THAT'S LIKE LDS - IS
IT LATTER DAY SAINTS?'
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I SAID, 'NO, WE'RE SDA, THAT'S
LDS, WHICH IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED
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WITH AOG, WHICH IS ASSEMBLY
OF GOD OR CHURCH OF GOD OR
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PRESBYTERIAN.' AND PEOPLE
- YOU'D BE SURPRISED HOW MUCH
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IGNORANCE THERE IS OUT
THERE ABOUT THE DIFFERENT
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DENOMINATIONS. AND
YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE
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REASON FOR SOME OF THE CONFUSION
BECAUSE THERE ARE LITERALLY
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HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT
DENOMINATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA
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THAT ALL CLAIM TO BE CHRISTIAN
AND SO PEOPLE GET LOST IN THE
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KALEIDOSCOPE OF DIFFERENT
DENOMINATIONS AND YOU TRY TO
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EXPLAIN WHAT A SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST IS AND IT'S - THEY
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SEEM TO SCRAMBLE IT UP IF
THEY'RE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH IT
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OR THEY KNEW SOMEBODY WHO KNEW
SOMEBODY OR THEY HAD A RELATIVE
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AND ALL THEY KNOW IS THAT THEY
WENT TO CHURCH ON A DIFFERENT
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DAY AND THAT
THEY DIDN'T EAT PORK.
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I HEARD A STORY YEARS AGO - I'VE
NOT VERIFIED THIS SO IT COULD BE
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AN URBAN MYTH, BUT I'LL
SHARE IT WITH YOU ANYWAY.
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ANY OF YOU REMEMBER
THE ART LINKLETTER SHOW?
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AND HE HAD A - EITHER A FEATURE
ON THAT PROGRAM OR A PROGRAM
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THAT SAID, 'KIDS SAY THE
STRANGEST THINGS' AND HE HAD
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THIS ONE LITTLE GIRL UP THERE
AND HE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT, YOU
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KNOW, 'WHAT'D YOU DO YESTERDAY?'
AND SHE SAID, 'WELL, I WENT TO
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CHURCH.' HE SAID, 'NO,
YESTERDAY WAS SATURDAY.
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YOU DON'T MEAN YOU WENT TO
CHURCH.' SHE SAID, 'NO, WE WENT
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TO CHURCH SATURDAY.' HE SAID,
'YOU GO TO CHURCH SATURDAY, WHY
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DO YOU DO THAT?'
SHE SAID, 'BECAUSE WE'RE
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.'
'SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
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- WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?'
SHE SAID, 'WELL, WE DON'T EAT
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PORK AND WE HATE CATHOLICS.'
(RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) SO THAT
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PROBABLY WENT A LONG WAY
TO HELP WITH OUR PUBLIC IMAGE.
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THE NOT EATING PORK PART
IS TRUE. I HOPE THE OTHER PART
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IS NOT TRUE. BUT, YOU
KNOW, PEOPLE HAVE THESE
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PERCEPTIONS AND SO
THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSION.
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BUT IT'S INTERESTING, IT SEEMS
LIKE, IN RECENT MONTHS, FOR A
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VARIETY OF REASONS, SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS HAVE BEEN COMING AND,
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I EXPECT, WILL BE COMING MORE
INTO THE PUBLIC EYE AND SO I
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THOUGHT I'D LIKE TO TAKE A
MOMENT TO TRY AND TALK ABOUT
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'WHAT IS A
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST?'
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AND SOME OF THE FACTS AND TRY
TO DE-BUNK SOME OF THE FABLES.
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KAREN AND I WERE TICKLED WHEN WE
WERE IN FIJI A FEW WEEKS AGO -
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IT'S JUST LAST WEEK - MAYBE TWO
WEEKS AGO - AND WE MET THE NEW
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PRESIDENT - HE WAS
PRESIDENT-ELECT THEN, HE HAS
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BEEN INAUGURATED SINCE.
MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE KONRATE,
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WHO IS THE PRESIDENT AND HE IS
THE FIRST SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
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PRESIDENT OF THIS ISLAND NATION.
AND HE MET US TWICE, SAID
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AMAZING FACTS HAD SOMETHING TO
DO WITH HIS BEING A SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST - AND WE WERE THRILLED
TO HEAR THAT. WONDERFUL, HUMBLE
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MAN - VERY SMART MAN -
VERY RESPECTED IN HIS COUNTRY.
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AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE HAVE
SOMEBODY, AT LEAST AT THE TIME
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OF THIS RECORDING - I ALWAYS
LIKE TO BE CONSCIOUS, THIS MAY
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PLAY IN A FEW YEARS, BUT - A
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THAT IS
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FAIRLY PROMINENT IN THE
POLLS WHO IS RUNNING FOR THE
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REPUBLICAN
NOMINATION - DR. BEN CARSON.
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AND I SPOKE WITH HIM, ACTUALLY,
ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO.
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HE WAS AT OUR RELIGIOUS
BROADCASTERS CONVENTION.
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I THINK I SAW DUANE HERE, HE
WAS THERE WITH ME, AND I STAYED
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BEHIND AND VISITED WITH
HIM. WE HAD ACTUALLY MET BEFORE
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BECAUSE HE WOULD FREQUENT SOME
OF THE SAME CAMP MEETINGS AND
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CONVOCATIONS I WOULD BE
AT AND I WOULD JUST SEE HIM
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BRIEFLY BACKSTAGE. BUT
THAT WAS BACK BEFORE HE
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ANNOUNCED HE WAS RUNNING.
AND SO NOW, DONALD TRUMP AND
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OTHERS SAID, 'I DON'T KNOW
WHAT A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
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- WHAT'S THAT?
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST?'
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AND SO THEN PEOPLE BEGAN
TO GOOGLE SEARCH - WHAT IS IT?
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AND IT WORRIED ME BECAUSE THEY
WENT TO SOME WEBSITES THAT DON'T
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KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT US AND, YOU
KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND GOOD
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AND BAD ON THE INTERNET.
SOME PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL, IT
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MUST BE TRUE - I SAW IT ON THE
INTERNET.' TAKE MY WORD FOR IT,
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NOT EVERYTHING YOU SEE
ON THE INTERNET IS TRUE.
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AND IF YOU'VE GOT AN ACHE OR A
PAIN, DON'T TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT
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IT IS ON THE INTERNET BECAUSE
YOU'LL BE SURE YOU'RE DYING IF
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YOU LOOK THERE. SO,
WHAT IS A SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST AND WHAT MAKES
US DIFFERENT? WELL, IN A WORD,
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS ARE,
VERY SIMPLY, BIBLE CHRISTIANS.
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AND, OF COURSE, A LOT OF
CHRISTIANS'LL SAY THAT, BUT
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REALLY, THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE
AND IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT
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A CHURCH IS, LET'S GET SOMETHING
OUT OF THE WAY RIGHT FROM THE
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START: WHEN YOU WANT TO FIND OUT
WHAT A DENOMINATION BELIEVES,
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DON'T SAY, 'WELL, I
KNEW A BAPTIST SO I KNOW WHAT
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BAPTISTS BELIEVE.'
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BECAUSE I THINK EVERY BAPTIST
WILL ADMIT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT
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GO TO BAPTIST CHURCHES
THAT DON'T VERY NICELY REPRESENT
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BAPTISTS - OR DON'T
EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY BELIEVE.
00:11:15.90\00:11:18.61
AND THAT WILL BE TRUE OF
METHODISTS AND PRESBYTERIANS,
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AND CHURCH OF CHRIST
AND SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.
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AND SO, WHEN YOU WANT TO
FIND OUT WHAT A CHURCH BELIEVES,
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DON'T JUST LOOK AT ONE PERSON
- DON'T MISUNDERSTAND, YOU
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SHOULD ALL, IF YOU'RE MEMBERS
- I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF
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NON-ADVENTISTS THAT ARE VISITING
- WORSHIPING WITH US TODAY, BUT
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IF YOU'RE A MEMBER YOU WANT
TO LIVE A LIFE THAT IS A GOOD
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EXAMPLE FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
BUT NOT EVERYBODY DOES AND EVERY
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CHURCH HAS SOME
KOOKY COUSINS, RIGHT?
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SO, IF YOU WANT TO REALLY FIND
OUT WHAT THEY BELIEVE, LOOK IN
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THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS.
AND IF YOU LOOK IN THE DOCUMENTS
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OF WHAT THE SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS BELIEVE, THEY'LL TELL
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YOU VERY CLEARLY, THIS IS
ONE OF OUR BAPTISMAL VOWS.
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WHEN YOU JOIN THE CHURCH YOU
SAY, 'WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE IS
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GOD'S INSPIRED WORD AND THAT
IT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY RULE OF
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FAITH AND
PRACTICE FOR THE CHRISTIAN.
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WE BELIEVE BOTH THE OLD AND NEW
TESTAMENTS COMPRISE THE WORD OF
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GOD.' WE BELIEVE AND TAKE
THE WORD OF GOD QUITE LITERALLY.
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WE BELIEVE IT'S THE INSPIRED,
INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD.
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AND YOU WILL HEAR PEOPLE -
BECAUSE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
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DO BELIEVE THAT GOD SPEAKS
THROUGH PEOPLE, I MEAN, WHAT
00:12:27.28\00:12:32.21
ELSE - WHY WOULD PASTORS STAND
UP EXCEPT YOU HOPE THAT GOD WILL
00:12:32.21\00:12:35.32
INSPIRE PEOPLE, RIGHT?
AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS IN THE
00:12:35.32\00:12:39.09
ADVENTIST CHURCH, ELLEN
G. WHITE, MOST SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTISTS BELIEVE, WAS
INSPIRED AND HAD THE GIFT OF
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PROPHECY THAT A
PROPHET MIGHT HAVE.
00:12:46.13\00:12:48.66
AND - BUT BECAUSE OF THAT,
PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, SEVENTH-DAY
00:12:48.66\00:12:53.34
ADVENTISTS, YOU BASE YOUR
TEACHINGS ON THE WRITINGS OF
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ELLEN WHITE.' NOW, I'M GOING TO
DO SOMETHING A LITTLE RISKY HERE
00:12:55.47\00:12:58.94
IN THIS MESSAGE, BECAUSE I
KNOW MANY OF YOU ARE SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTISTS, I'M GOING TO COME
DOWN WHERE YOU ARE AND WE'RE
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GOING TO PUT YOU ON
CAMERA. WE'LL DO IT AS A CROWD.
00:13:05.35\00:13:07.22
WE WON'T SINGLE YOU OUT.
NOW I'M GIVING YOU WARNING IN
00:13:07.22\00:13:11.09
ADVANCE BECAUSE SOME OF YOU
LOOK VERY AUSTERE RIGHT NOW.
00:13:11.09\00:13:13.02
I WANT YOU TO SMILE
BEFORE THE CAMERA GOES ON YOU.
00:13:13.02\00:13:14.66
(LAUGHTER) ALRIGHT, SO I'LL COME
DOWN, WE'LL GET A CAMERA SHOT,
00:13:14.66\00:13:16.89
AND I WANT TO ASK A QUESTION AND
I WANT THEM TO SEE YOUR ANSWER
00:13:16.89\00:13:19.93
BECAUSE WE'VE GOT - HOW MANY
OF YOU ARE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
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MEMBERS? I WON'T
ASK - I SEE A LOT THAT
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ARE NOT RAISING HANDS
- YOU'RE VISITORS, OKAY.
00:13:24.20\00:13:26.30
AND SO, GETTING A SHOT OF THE
MEMBERS SO YOU CAN BEAR WITNESS.
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DO WE BASE OUR BELIEFS ON WHAT
THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY SAYS,
00:13:31.84\00:13:36.51
WHAT ELLEN WHITE SAYS,
OR WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS?
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>>THE BIBLE. >>OKAY, JUST WANTED
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TO GET THAT ON RECORD.
I HADN'T TOLD YOU I WAS
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GOING TO SAY THAT, RIGHT?
SO THIS IS ALL UNSCRIPTED.
00:13:42.22\00:13:45.75
I JUST WANT - OTHERS THAT ARE
WATCHING MIGHT SEE THIS TAPE, IF
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WE PUT IT UP, AND I WANT THEM
TO KNOW THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE.
00:13:48.32\00:13:51.33
AND ELLEN WHITE, HERSELF, WHO WE
DO BELIEVE WAS INSPIRED BY GOD,
00:13:51.33\00:13:56.93
SHE SAID, 'DO NOT BASE YOUR
BELIEFS ON ANYTHING I'VE SAID.'
00:13:56.93\00:14:01.30
SHE SAID, 'BASE IT
ON THE WORD OF GOD.'
00:14:01.30\00:14:04.11
>>AMEN. >>AND SO,
YOU'LL HEAR PEOPLE
00:14:04.11\00:14:06.44
ACCUSE US OF THAT
AND IT'S JUST NOT TRUE.
00:14:06.44\00:14:10.18
JESUS SAID, 'HEAVEN AND EARTH
WILL PASS AWAY; MY WORD WILL NOT
00:14:10.18\00:14:14.05
PASS AWAY.' THAT'S MATTHEW 24:35
- MATTHEW 4:4, "IT IS WRITTEN,
00:14:14.05\00:14:19.89
'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD
ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT
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PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF
GOD.'" AND SO EVERYTHING - WHAT
00:14:24.36\00:14:28.16
THE PASTOR SAYS, WHAT A PROPHET
SAYS, WHAT ANYBODY SAYS, MUST BE
00:14:28.16\00:14:32.60
MEASURED UP AGAINST
WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS.
00:14:32.60\00:14:35.90
NOW, WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, I'LL
00:14:35.90\00:14:38.81
JUST BE VERY HONEST WITH YOU, I
THOUGHT IT WAS A PECULIAR NAME.
00:14:38.81\00:14:43.75
YOU KNOW, WHEN I STARTED SAYING,
'LORD, JUST SHOW ME YOUR CHURCH'
00:14:43.75\00:14:46.92
- BECAUSE I WORSHIPED WITH MANY
DIFFERENT CHURCHES AND I FOUND
00:14:46.92\00:14:49.02
THAT THEY DISAGREED ON SOME,
WHAT I THOUGHT WERE, PIVOTAL
00:14:49.02\00:14:51.42
DOCTRINES AND I - I JUST WENT
BACK UP TO THE CAVE AND I SAID,
00:14:51.42\00:14:54.09
'LORD, I JUST
WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
00:14:54.09\00:14:55.59
SHOW ME.' AND I EXPECTED THAT
I WOULD FIND A CHURCH THAT WAS
00:14:55.59\00:14:58.96
NAMED 'CHURCH OF GOD' AND THERE
ARE CHURCHES THAT ARE CALLED
00:14:58.96\00:15:03.67
THE CHURCH OF GOD -
THAT'S A GREAT NAME.
00:15:03.67\00:15:05.97
OR I'D FIND ONE THAT SAID, 'THE
CHURCH OF CHRIST' AND THERE IS A
00:15:05.97\00:15:09.60
CHURCH CALLED THE CHURCH OF
CHRIST - THAT'S A GOOD NAME -
00:15:09.60\00:15:11.44
SIMPLE, RIGHT?
ASSEMBLY OF GOD - ASSEMBLY
00:15:11.44\00:15:15.54
WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN MY
FIRST CHOICE, BUT THAT'S
00:15:15.54\00:15:17.58
STILL A GREAT NAME.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL FIND
00:15:17.58\00:15:20.55
A LOT OF THE BEST
NAMES ARE COPYRIGHTED.
00:15:20.55\00:15:23.28
AND THERE MAY BE SEVERAL
THAT ARE ACTUALLY ARGUING OVER
00:15:23.28\00:15:26.55
CERTAIN NAMES. A LOT OF
CHURCHES HAVE A LOT OF NAMES.
00:15:26.55\00:15:31.83
'WE'RE LIVING NEAR THE END OF
TIME, I WANT TO BE A LATTER DAY
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SAINT,' DON'T YOU? >>AMEN.
00:15:33.56\00:15:36.33
>>BUT THAT'S A MORMON AND
OUR BELIEFS ARE DIFFERENT.
00:15:36.33\00:15:40.84
I WANT TO BE A
WITNESS FOR JEHOVAH.
00:15:40.84\00:15:43.57
AND YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
BECAUSE THAT'S ANOTHER VERY
00:15:43.57\00:15:46.47
DIFFERENT DENOMINATION.
SO WHY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST?
00:15:46.47\00:15:51.11
WELL, IT'S VERY SIMPLE, BECAUSE
ALONG WITH THE OTHER NINE
00:15:51.11\00:15:54.98
COMMANDMENTS, WE BELIEVE - IN
KEEPING A HUNDRED PERCENT - AND
00:15:54.98\00:15:57.82
ONE OF THEM SAYS, 'REMEMBER THE
SABBATH DAY' SO WE WORSHIP ON
00:15:57.82\00:16:02.26
THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE
WEEK, SATURDAY, AS THE SABBATH.
00:16:02.26\00:16:05.13
WE DON'T SEE EVIDENCE IN
THE BIBLE OR HISTORY THAT IT HAS
00:16:05.13\00:16:08.06
BEEN CHANGED BY GOD.
AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO JUST
00:16:08.06\00:16:11.83
DO WHAT GOD TELLS US
TO DO. WE FIGURE THAT
00:16:11.83\00:16:14.50
IT'S A
COMMANDMENT. THAT'S ONE REASON.
00:16:14.50\00:16:16.20
THE WORD 'ADVENTIST' MEANS THAT
WE BELIEVE IN THE SOON-COMING OR
00:16:16.20\00:16:21.11
THE IMMINENT RETURN OF JESUS.
00:16:21.11\00:16:23.55
CHRIST SAID, 'BEHOLD, I AM
COMING QUICKLY.' SEVERAL TIMES
00:16:23.55\00:16:26.98
IN REVELATION HE
TELLS US HE'S COMING.
00:16:26.98\00:16:29.05
IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, 'I GO TO
PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU AND IF I
00:16:29.05\00:16:32.45
GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU,
I WILL COME AGAIN.' AND SO THE
00:16:32.45\00:16:35.92
DISCIPLES AND THE APOSTLES MADE
A GREAT PRIORITY ABOUT TALKING
00:16:35.92\00:16:39.73
ABOUT THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE, THE
RETURN OF THE LORD, AND GETTING
00:16:39.73\00:16:44.27
PEOPLE READY FOR THAT EVENT.
AND SO, WE BELIEVE THAT WE ARE A
00:16:44.27\00:16:48.37
CHURCH THAT'S BEEN CALLED IN THE
LAST GENERATION - THE LAST AGE
00:16:48.37\00:16:52.41
OF THE CHURCH - THE AGE
OF LAODICEA - TO PREPARE THE
00:16:52.41\00:16:55.18
WORLD FOR THE ADVENT OF JESUS.
THAT'S ALL THAT MEANS IS - SO WE
00:16:55.18\00:16:59.95
ARE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
BUT WE'RE BIBLE CHRISTIANS.
00:16:59.95\00:17:04.12
AND SO, SOMETIMES THE
NAMES CAN SOUND CONFUSING.
00:17:04.12\00:17:08.22
A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT
THE FORMATION OF THE CHURCH.
00:17:08.22\00:17:11.03
BACK IN 1835 THERE
WAS A GREAT REVIVAL.
00:17:11.03\00:17:15.30
IT BECAME KNOWN AS - IT WAS A
'THE GREAT SECOND AWAKENING' OR
00:17:15.30\00:17:19.80
'THE GREAT ADVENT MOVEMENT'
- NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH
00:17:19.80\00:17:23.24
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS WERE NOT
00:17:23.24\00:17:26.21
ORGANIZED AS A CHURCH UNTIL 1863
- I THINK THE NAME WAS PICKED IN
00:17:26.21\00:17:30.21
1860 - IT WAS FORMALLY ORGANIZED
AND INCORPORATED IN 1863.
00:17:30.21\00:17:35.12
WE'RE GOING BACK NOW TO
1835 THROUGH 1844 - THERE WAS A
00:17:35.12\00:17:38.85
MILLERITE MOVEMENT -
WILLIAM MILLER WAS A BAPTIST.
00:17:38.85\00:17:42.32
HE WAS AN ADVENTIST BAPTIST
AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
00:17:42.32\00:17:48.36
CHRISTIANS AROUND NORTH AMERICA
AND SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE -
00:17:48.36\00:17:52.27
THROUGH READING THE PROPHECIES
OF DANIEL, THEY WERE CONVINCED
00:17:52.27\00:17:55.27
BECAUSE DANIEL 8:14 SAID,
"UNTO TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED
00:17:55.27\00:17:59.47
DAYS; THEN THE
SANCTUARY SHALL BE CLEANSED."
00:17:59.47\00:18:02.48
AND THEY UNDERSTOOD THOSE VERSES
TO MEAN THAT CHRIST WAS GOING TO
00:18:02.48\00:18:06.21
COME AT THE END OF THIS TIME
PERIOD AND CLEANSE THE EARTH
00:18:06.21\00:18:08.72
WITH FIRE - THAT THE EARTH WAS
THE SANCTUARY - AND THAT JESUS
00:18:08.72\00:18:12.22
WAS COMING. AND IT IS TRUE, THE
LORD'S COMING WITH FIRE AND A
00:18:12.22\00:18:15.32
WHIRLWIND, BUT THEY
MISUNDERSTOOD THE PROPHECY.
00:18:15.32\00:18:18.56
BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY BELIEVED
AND THEY SINCERELY BELIEVED IT.
00:18:18.56\00:18:22.56
AND THERE WAS A GREAT ADVENT
MOVEMENT THAT'S KNOWN IN HISTORY
00:18:22.56\00:18:26.30
AS 'THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT'
WHEN, IN 1844, AND THAT OCTOBER
00:18:26.30\00:18:30.34
DATE PASSED - JESUS DIDN'T COME.
PEOPLE HAVE SAID 'SEVENTH-DAY
00:18:30.34\00:18:37.41
ADVENTISTS - YOU'RE THE ONES
THAT HAVE SET DATES FOR JESUS'
00:18:37.41\00:18:41.78
COMING.' I'M GOING TO GO
DOWN HERE SO YOU ALL LOOK HAPPY.
00:18:41.78\00:18:44.19
I WANT TO ASK YOU NOW -
HOPEFULLY YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLES
00:18:44.19\00:18:46.65
AND YOUR HISTORY. HAVE WE, AS A
CHURCH, EVER SET A DATE FOR THE
00:18:46.65\00:18:52.06
SECOND COMING OF JESUS? >>NO.
00:18:52.06\00:18:54.36
>>OKAY, JUST - THANK YOU
VERY MUCH, I APPRECIATE THAT.
00:18:54.36\00:18:56.53
THAT LOOKED VERY
DECIDED. WE HAVE NOT SET A DATE.
00:18:56.53\00:19:01.44
THAT WAS THE
MILLERITES THAT SET A DATE.
00:19:01.44\00:19:03.74
WE WERE NOT EVEN ORGANIZED
AS A CHURCH UNTIL YEARS LATER.
00:19:03.74\00:19:07.11
WHAT IS TRUE, IS A NUMBER
OF CHURCH GROUPS FRAGMENTED
00:19:07.11\00:19:12.01
AND GREW OUT OF
THAT DISAPPOINTMENT.
00:19:12.01\00:19:14.22
AND THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY A BAD
THING BECAUSE IF YOU LOVE JESUS
00:19:14.22\00:19:17.65
AND THE NEW TESTAMENT, ARE YOU
AWARE THAT THE BIBLE WRITERS IN
00:19:17.65\00:19:22.02
THE NEW TESTAMENT WROTE, AFTER
ORGANIZING, AFTER COMING THROUGH
00:19:22.02\00:19:27.60
A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT, BECAUSE
THEY MISUNDERSTOOD PROPHECY.
00:19:27.60\00:19:32.87
DID THE APOSTLES BELIEVE
THAT JESUS WAS GOING TO DIE ON A
00:19:32.87\00:19:35.50
CROSS, EVEN THOUGH HE TOLD
THEM? WERE THEY DEVASTATED?
00:19:35.50\00:19:39.47
DIDN'T THEY THINK THAT JESUS WAS
GOING TO OVERWHELM THE ROMANS
00:19:39.47\00:19:42.51
AND SET HIMSELF UP ON THE THRONE
OF DAVID AND PROCLAIM HIMSELF
00:19:42.51\00:19:45.51
KING AND MAKE
ISRAEL A LITERAL NATION?
00:19:45.51\00:19:48.02
AND EVEN AFTER HE ROSE FROM THE
DEAD THEY CAME TO HIM AND THEY
00:19:48.02\00:19:50.45
SAID, 'WILL YOU, AT THIS
TIME, ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM?'
00:19:50.45\00:19:53.89
AND HE SAID, 'YOU
KNOW, YOU DON'T GET IT.'
00:19:53.89\00:19:57.89
AND THEY WERE SO DISAPPOINTED.
SO IT SHOULDN'T SURPRISE YOU
00:19:57.89\00:20:02.70
THAT GOD WOULD RAISE UP A
MOVEMENT COMING FROM THE ASHES
00:20:02.70\00:20:06.77
OF A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT,
BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THE NEW
00:20:06.77\00:20:10.24
TESTAMENT, SORT OF,
GREW UP. THERE WAS A LOT OF
00:20:10.24\00:20:12.54
MISUNDERSTANDINGS.
THEY ALSO DIDN'T THINK THEY
00:20:12.54\00:20:15.01
SHOULD PREACH TO GENTILES.
IT WAS QUITE A STRUGGLE WHEN
00:20:15.01\00:20:18.05
PETER FIRST WENT
TO CORNELIUS' HOUSE.
00:20:18.05\00:20:19.81
HE THOUGHT THE MESSAGE ABOUT
THE MESSIAH WAS JUST FOR JEWS.
00:20:19.81\00:20:23.99
AND THEY HAD TO CONVINCE THEM,
'NO, IT'S TO GO TO EVERYBODY.'
00:20:23.99\00:20:27.66
AND SO, THAT'S - IT GREW
OUT OF THIS GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT
00:20:27.66\00:20:32.63
TIME, WAS ORGANIZED IN 1863, BUT
TO JUST GIVE YOU THE PICTURE,
00:20:32.63\00:20:38.23
WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THE ADVENTIST
CHURCH IS THAT WE ARE - WE'RE
00:20:38.23\00:20:42.20
SORT OF THE CO-MINGLING OF
CHRISTIANS FROM MANY DIFFERENT
00:20:42.20\00:20:47.31
BACKGROUNDS THAT BASICALLY
PUT ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES.
00:20:47.31\00:20:50.25
BACK AFTER JESUS DIDN'T COME
IN 1844 THERE WERE BAPTISTS,
00:20:50.25\00:20:54.62
METHODISTS, CONGREGATIONALISTS,
PRESBYTERIANS - ALL THESE
00:20:54.62\00:21:00.19
DIFFERENT CHURCHES - AND THEY
SAID, 'LET'S STUDY TOGETHER.
00:21:00.19\00:21:04.13
WE'VE, OBVIOUSLY,
MISUNDERSTOOD THE WORD.
00:21:04.13\00:21:06.93
THERE'S PROBABLY MANY OTHER
MISUNDERSTANDINGS.' IT HAD NOT
00:21:06.93\00:21:09.76
BEEN THAT LONG SINCE THE
PROTESTANTS CAME OUT OF THE DARK
00:21:09.76\00:21:12.63
AGES WHERE THE TRUTH
WAS CAST TO THE GROUND.
00:21:12.63\00:21:15.60
AND THEY SAID, 'LET'S STUDY.'
AND IN THOSE STUDIES FROM
00:21:15.60\00:21:19.81
CHRISTIANS OF MANY
DENOMINATIONS, THE CHURCH
00:21:19.81\00:21:23.31
DEVELOPED. THEY
SAID, 'LET'S GET BACK TO
00:21:23.31\00:21:24.88
THE BIBLE.' THEY REALIZED
THERE WERE SEVERAL THINGS THEY'D
00:21:24.88\00:21:26.75
BEEN FOLLOWING
THAT WERE NOT BIBLICAL.
00:21:26.75\00:21:29.75
AND SO WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT
WHAT SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE
00:21:29.75\00:21:32.19
AND WHAT SOME OF THEM ARE NOT.
SOME OF THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDERS
00:21:32.19\00:21:35.72
OF OUR CHURCH - THERE WAS
A SEA CAPTAIN WHO HAD BEEN, I
00:21:35.72\00:21:39.43
BELIEVE, A PRESBYTERIAN - JOSEPH
BATES - A VERY INTERESTING MAN.
00:21:39.43\00:21:43.43
IF YOU WANT TO HEAR AN AMAZING
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THIS GUY STARTED
00:21:43.43\00:21:46.27
OUT RUNNING AWAY AS A CABIN BOY.
HE ENDED UP IN JAIL, AND PRESSED
00:21:46.27\00:21:49.60
INTO THE BRITISH NAVY AND
SHIPWRECKED AND ALMOST EATEN BY
00:21:49.60\00:21:52.77
SHARKS AND - JUST AN INCREDIBLE
STORY. JOSEPH BATES, ONE OF THE
00:21:52.77\00:21:58.51
FOUNDERS OF THE CHURCH ALONG
WITH JAMES WHITE, ELLEN WHITE,
00:21:58.51\00:22:02.42
AND A NUMBER OF OTHERS
- AND THEY WERE ALL YOUNG.
00:22:02.42\00:22:04.75
MANY OF THEM WERE
IN THEIR TWENTIES.
00:22:04.75\00:22:07.89
JOSEPH BATES WAS SORT OF
THE SENIOR MAN IN THE GROUP.
00:22:07.89\00:22:11.83
SO WHAT DO WE
BELIEVE AS A CHURCH?
00:22:11.83\00:22:14.00
WHAT GREW OUT OF THAT BIBLE
STUDY THAT DEVELOPED US INTO THE
00:22:14.00\00:22:17.80
CHURCH THAT WE ARE TODAY?
WELL, ONE THING WE BELIEVE IN
00:22:17.80\00:22:20.14
FOLLOWING THE BIBLE, LOVING THE
LORD, AND LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR.
00:22:20.14\00:22:23.51
WE BELIEVE IN
SERVING OUR FELLOW MAN.
00:22:23.51\00:22:26.14
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS HAVE
A WORLD-WIDE COMMUNITY SERVICE
00:22:26.14\00:22:29.88
PROGRAM. SOME OF
YOU HAVE HEARD OF ADRA -
00:22:29.88\00:22:32.95
THE ADVENTIST RELIEF DEVELOPMENT
AGENCY - AND WE GO INTO
00:22:32.95\00:22:35.88
COUNTRIES AROUND THE
WORLD, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S
00:22:35.88\00:22:37.92
DISASTERS AND WE PROVIDE RELIEF
PLUS ONGOING HELP IN DEVELOPING
00:22:37.92\00:22:42.49
COUNTRIES TO ALLEVIATE
THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE.
00:22:42.49\00:22:46.16
JESUS SAID, 'I WAS HUNGRY AND
YOU FED ME; I WAS THIRSTY AND
00:22:46.16\00:22:49.03
YOU GAVE ME DRINK; I WAS NAKED
AND YOU CLOTHED ME; I WAS A
00:22:49.03\00:22:52.13
STRANGER AND YOU VISITED ME;
I WAS IN PRISON AND YOU CAME TO
00:22:52.13\00:22:54.64
ME.' AND CHRIST SAID, 'INASMUCH
AS YOU DO IT TO THE LEAST OF
00:22:54.64\00:22:57.44
THESE YOU'VE DONE IT TO
ME. SO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
00:22:57.44\00:23:00.38
BELIEVE IN ALLEVIATING THE
SUFFERING OF HUMANITY AND THAT
00:23:00.38\00:23:04.61
IS PART OF THE
MINISTRY OF CHRIST.
00:23:04.61\00:23:06.61
THAT'S WHAT IT
MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
00:23:06.61\00:23:08.35
AND SOME OF THE EVIDENCE OF THAT
IS THAT ALL OVER THE WORLD WE
00:23:08.35\00:23:12.49
HAVE A VERY EXTENSIVE
HEALTH AND MINISTRY WORK.
00:23:12.49\00:23:16.42
WE HAVE HOSPITALS AND
SANITARIUMS - ACTUALLY, THERE
00:23:16.42\00:23:18.56
ARE 171 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS AROUND
00:23:18.56\00:23:24.50
THE WORLD. IT IS
THE LARGEST HEALTH-CARE
00:23:24.50\00:23:26.60
MINISTRY - LARGEST
CHRISTIAN HEALTH-CARE MINISTRY
00:23:26.60\00:23:31.87
NEXT TO THE CATHOLICS.
THE CATHOLICS HAVE A LONG
00:23:31.87\00:23:35.24
HISTORY OF MEDICAL
WORK AND HOSPITALS.
00:23:35.24\00:23:37.78
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS,
CONSIDERING THAT WE'RE CERTAINLY
00:23:37.78\00:23:40.85
NOT THE OLDEST PROTESTANT GROUP,
BUT WE'RE NUMBER TWO WHEN IT
00:23:40.85\00:23:44.19
COMES TO OUR UNDERSTANDING
RELIEVING THE PHYSICAL SUFFERING
00:23:44.19\00:23:47.89
OF HUMANITY AND
MINISTERING TO THE SICK.
00:23:47.89\00:23:50.19
AND THAT MEANS THEY'RE TREATING
14,997,000 PEOPLE EVERY YEAR.
00:23:50.19\00:23:57.20
ACCORDING TO THE
RESEARCH DONE NOT TOO LONG AGO -
00:23:57.20\00:24:00.40
SOME OF YOU HEARD OF
THE BLUE ZONE STUDY ?
00:24:00.40\00:24:03.27
BECAUSE OF THE SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST BELIEF THAT THE BIBLE
00:24:03.27\00:24:06.44
TEACHES HEALTHFUL LIVING - THAT
YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE
00:24:06.44\00:24:09.51
HOLY SPIRIT - WE NEED
TO CARE FOR OUR BODIES -
00:24:09.51\00:24:12.61
A NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE SHOWN
THAT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS LIVE
00:24:12.61\00:24:15.88
AN AVERAGE OF TEN YEARS
LONGER THAN THE AVERAGE CITIZEN.
00:24:15.88\00:24:21.09
NOW, IN SOME COUNTRIES, IT'S
MUCH BETTER THAN THAT, BUT IN
00:24:21.09\00:24:23.46
AMERICA, WE LIVE AN
AVERAGE OF TEN YEARS LONGER.
00:24:23.46\00:24:25.73
MATTER OF FACT, I THINK I'VE GOT
A PICTURE SOMEWHERE THAT SHOWS -
00:24:25.73\00:24:29.60
YEAH, THERE SHE IS - THAT'S
MARGE - AT THE TIME OF THIS
00:24:29.60\00:24:32.40
PICTURE - 104 YEARS OLD.
SOME OF YOU SAW THE NATIONAL
00:24:32.40\00:24:35.60
GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
SECRETS OF LIVING LONGER - THEY
00:24:35.60\00:24:39.11
IDENTIFIED FOUR GROUPS.
THREE OF THOSE GROUPS WERE
00:24:39.11\00:24:41.78
IDENTIFIED BASED ON A TERRITORY
- I THINK IT WAS SARDINIA,
00:24:41.78\00:24:46.25
OKINAWA, JAPAN - >>LOMA LINDA.
00:24:46.25\00:24:51.92
>>LOMA LINDA'S THERE BUT THERE'S
- THERE WAS A FOURTH ONE.
00:24:51.92\00:24:54.99
HUNZA - WAS IT HUNZA? I DON'T
KNOW IF THAT WAS ONE OF THEM.
00:24:54.99\00:24:58.09
ANYWAY, THERE WERE FOUR
GROUPS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED.
00:24:58.09\00:25:00.80
ONE OF THEM, THOUGH,
WAS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.
00:25:00.80\00:25:03.50
THEY FOCUSED ON LOMA
LINDA, CALIFORNIA, BUT IT WASN'T
00:25:03.50\00:25:05.67
BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE OR THEIR
GEOGRAPHY, IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE
00:25:05.67\00:25:10.04
BELIEF SYSTEM, IN THIS
STUDY, AND THEY SAID SEVENTH-DAY
00:25:10.04\00:25:14.01
ADVENTISTS CLEARLY LIVE LONGER
THAN THE AVERAGE AND IT WAS
00:25:14.01\00:25:16.61
ATTRIBUTED TO - ONE THING,
THE REST AND COMMUNITY ON THE
00:25:16.61\00:25:19.55
SABBATH; THERE'S
SOMETHING HEALTHFUL ABOUT THAT -
00:25:19.55\00:25:21.85
BUT A LOT
BECAUSE OF THE LIFESTYLE.
00:25:21.85\00:25:24.45
AND IT'S MUCH MORE COMMON FOR A
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST TO REACH A
00:25:24.45\00:25:27.96
HUNDRED YEARS OF AGE THAN IT IS
FOR THE AVERAGE CITIZEN, BECAUSE
00:25:27.96\00:25:31.53
WE BELIEVE IN
CARING FOR OUR BODIES.
00:25:31.53\00:25:33.96
WE HAVE - WE ABSTAIN FROM
UNCLEAN FOOD, ALCOHOL, TOBACCO,
00:25:33.96\00:25:37.97
AND ALONG WITH ANOTHER - A
NUMBER OF OTHER IMPORTANT HEALTH
00:25:37.97\00:25:42.64
PRACTICES. SO WE'RE A
HEALTH-CONSCIOUS PEOPLE.
00:25:42.64\00:25:45.04
JUST A FEW FACTS AND FIGURES
I MIGHT SHARE WITH YOU ABOUT THE
00:25:45.04\00:25:48.44
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS - I JUST
PRINTED THESE OFF LAST NIGHT
00:25:48.44\00:25:50.98
BECAUSE THE NUMBERS,
OF COURSE, ARE CHANGING.
00:25:50.98\00:25:53.75
IT'S A VERY DYNAMIC FIGURE, BUT
AS OF THIS RECORDING IN NOVEMBER
00:25:53.75\00:25:58.55
2015, THERE ARE
78,000 CHURCHES WORLDWIDE.
00:25:58.55\00:26:04.96
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP - IT WAS ONLY
ABOUT 7,000 AROUND THE TURN OF
00:26:04.96\00:26:08.40
THE CENTURY - OR 78,000 AROUND
THE TURN OF THE CENTURY AND NOW
00:26:08.40\00:26:12.57
IT'S AT 18.4
MILLION AND GROWING.
00:26:12.57\00:26:18.17
BAPTISMS LAST YEAR - OR IF I'M
- I COULD BE WRONG, IT MIGHT BE
00:26:18.17\00:26:23.91
BAPTISMS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS
- THIS MAY BE A QUINQUENNIUM
00:26:23.91\00:26:27.02
REPORT - 1 MILLION - NO,
I THINK IT'S MORE THAN THAT.
00:26:27.02\00:26:31.25
YOU KNOW, IT WAS JUST LAST YEAR
- I MILLION BAPTISMS - THAT'S -
00:26:31.25\00:26:34.52
AND WE JUST ADDED
TO THAT AND WILL TODAY.
00:26:34.52\00:26:38.03
18,000 ORDAINED MINISTERS -
WORLDS - HOW MANY COUNTRIES AND
00:26:38.03\00:26:42.86
AREAS IN THE WORLD, ACCORDING
TO THE UNITED NATIONS? THERE ARE
00:26:42.86\00:26:46.27
237, NOT JUST COUNTRIES BUT
INCLUDING PLACES DESIGNATED AS
00:26:46.27\00:26:50.17
AREAS - THEY MAY NOT BE
INCORPORATED AS COUNTRIES - 237.
00:26:50.17\00:26:54.24
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS ARE
WORKING - OUT OF 237 WE ARE IN
00:26:54.24\00:26:57.58
216. THAT'S ENCOURAGING.
00:26:57.58\00:27:00.95
JESUS SAID, 'THE GOSPEL OF THE
KINGDOM SHALL GO INTO ALL THE
00:27:00.95\00:27:03.25
WORLD FOR A WITNESS, THEN THE
END WILL COME.' LANGUAGES USED
00:27:03.25\00:27:07.39
IN THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
PUBLICATIONS AND ORAL WORK - 947
00:27:07.39\00:27:12.43
LANGUAGES - AND SO PEOPLE THAT
ARE SHARING THE MESSAGE AROUND
00:27:12.43\00:27:15.83
THE WORLD ARE DOING
IT IN 900 LANGUAGES.
00:27:15.83\00:27:18.63
JESUS SAID TO
EVERY TONGUE AND PEOPLE.
00:27:18.63\00:27:21.14
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM - WE
HAVE 7,579 SCHOOLS WITH A TOTAL
00:27:21.14\00:27:27.24
ENROLLMENT OF
1,800,000 (AND CHANGE) STUDENTS.
00:27:27.24\00:27:34.68
294 CLINICS AND DISPENSARIES,
34 ORPHANAGES, AND 15 MEDIA
00:27:34.68\00:27:40.32
CENTERS, 63 PUBLISHING HOUSES
PRINTING IN 366 LANGUAGES - AND
00:27:40.32\00:27:46.70
SO THIS IS A WORLD-WIDE MOVEMENT
- AND SOME OF YOU ARE GOING TO
00:27:46.70\00:27:51.13
BE JOINING THAT MOVEMENT TODAY
THROUGH BAPTISM AND WE THOUGHT
00:27:51.13\00:27:54.94
IT'D BE GOOD TO HAVE
SOME OF THOSE FIGURES.
00:27:54.94\00:27:56.84
SO THAT GIVES YOU A LITTLE
PICTURE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING -
00:27:56.84\00:28:00.18
OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, MEDICAL
SYSTEM, MEDIA SYSTEM - AND
00:28:00.18\00:28:06.25
AMAZING FACTS IS PART OF
THIS GLOBAL MEDIA WORK OF THE
00:28:06.25\00:28:09.95
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
BUT WHAT ABOUT OUR TEACHINGS -
00:28:09.95\00:28:14.29
BECAUSE THAT'S THE BOTTOM
LINE - WHAT ARE THE INGREDIENTS?
00:28:14.29\00:28:17.46
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU ASK A PERSON,
'WHAT DOES YOUR CHURCH BELIEVE?'
00:28:17.46\00:28:23.20
A PERSON MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, LET
ME SEE, WHAT DID MY PASTOR SAY
00:28:23.20\00:28:25.80
WE BELIEVED LAST WEEK?' OR
'WELL, I DON'T KNOW, I'LL ASK
00:28:25.80\00:28:29.90
ONE OF OUR MEMBERS.' IF YOU'RE
GOING TO JOIN A CHURCH, WHAT IS
00:28:29.90\00:28:34.38
THE REASON TO JOIN A
CHURCH? YOU KNOW WHY MOST
00:28:34.38\00:28:37.71
PEOPLE JOIN CHURCHES? LET
ME SEE IF I CAN JUST LIST,
00:28:37.71\00:28:40.15
FROM MEMORY, SOME
OF THE TOP TEN REASONS
00:28:40.15\00:28:42.88
'WHY DO PEOPLE JOIN CHURCHES?'
IT'S WHERE THEIR FAMILY WENT.
00:28:42.88\00:28:48.16
'I JOINED WHILE IT'S -
OUR PEOPLE - OUR FAMILY, FOR
00:28:48.16\00:28:50.36
GENERATIONS WE'VE BEEN
CATHOLICS, SO I'M A CATHOLIC.'
00:28:50.36\00:28:53.33
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
'WELL, I DON'T KNOW, LET ME ASK
00:28:53.33\00:28:54.56
THE PRIEST.' BUT SOME PEOPLE,
THEY JUST JOINED - IT'S SORT OF
00:28:54.56\00:28:58.10
LIKE THEY'VE INHERITED THEIR
RELIGION. 'OH YEAH, I WAS BORN A
00:28:58.10\00:29:01.97
BAPTIST, I'M GOING TO DIE A
BAPTIST.' 'WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?'
00:29:01.97\00:29:04.64
'WHAT MY CHURCH BELIEVES.'
'WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?'
00:29:04.64\00:29:09.04
'WHAT OUR PASTOR TEACHES.'
'WHAT DOES HE BELIEVE?'
00:29:09.04\00:29:10.98
'WE BELIEVE THE SAME THING.'
(LAUGHTER) AND SOME PEOPLE,
00:29:10.98\00:29:14.25
THEY'RE NOT SURE, IT'S JUST SORT
OF LIKE A CULTURAL THING WITH
00:29:14.25\00:29:16.82
THEM. SOME PEOPLE PICK A CHURCH
BECAUSE IT'S CLOSE TO THEIR
00:29:16.82\00:29:19.02
HOUSE. 'WHY DO YOU GO THERE?'
00:29:19.02\00:29:21.26
'IT'S RIGHT UP
AROUND THE CORNER.
00:29:21.26\00:29:22.79
IT'S CONVENIENT.'
'WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?'
00:29:22.79\00:29:25.09
'WELL, I DON'T KNOW, MOST OF
I AGREE WITH IT.' I KNOW THIS
00:29:25.09\00:29:28.20
BECAUSE WE GET CALLS ON THE
RADIO EVERY WEEK AND WE HEAR THE
00:29:28.20\00:29:30.90
REASONS THAT
PEOPLE JOIN A CHURCH.
00:29:30.90\00:29:32.80
'WHY DO YOU GO TO THAT CHURCH?'
'WELL, IT'S THE CHURCH WHERE
00:29:32.80\00:29:35.67
EVERYBODY THAT'S ANYBODY IN OUR
COMMUNITY, GOES TO THAT CHURCH.
00:29:35.67\00:29:39.57
IT IS THE CHURCH WHERE
THE PEOPLE WITH THE POWER GO.
00:29:39.57\00:29:43.81
THEY ARE CONNECTED.' KAREN AND I
WERE VISITING WITH SOMEBODY JUST
00:29:43.81\00:29:48.32
LAST WEEK AND THEY, BASICALLY,
THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID.
00:29:48.32\00:29:51.72
'THIS IS A CHURCH WHERE THE
PEOPLE ARE CONNECTED WITH THE
00:29:51.72\00:29:54.26
COMMUNITY. THEY'RE - THEY -
IT'S LIKE THE POWER - INFLUENCE.
00:29:54.26\00:29:58.46
YEARS AGO, WHEN PRESIDENTS
CHANGED AND PRESIDENTS USED TO
00:29:58.46\00:30:03.20
GO TO CHURCH MORE COMMONLY ON
SUNDAY, IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND
00:30:03.20\00:30:07.27
THEY WOULD LIKE TO CALL THE
LOCAL METHODIST CHURCH OR THE
00:30:07.27\00:30:10.04
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND SAY, 'IS
THE PRESIDENT ATTENDING TODAY?'
00:30:10.04\00:30:14.04
THEY WANTED TO GO
WHEN THE PRESIDENT WENT.
00:30:14.04\00:30:16.44
'WHY DO YOU GO TO THAT CHURCH?'
00:30:16.44\00:30:18.41
'WOW, IT IS THE
MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING.
00:30:18.41\00:30:20.82
I GO IN AND WHEN THE STAINED
GLASS - WHEN THE SUN IS AT A
00:30:20.82\00:30:23.25
CERTAIN PLACE AND IT SHINES IN,
THERE'S THIS AMBIENCE - I JUST
00:30:23.25\00:30:26.86
FEEL THE PRESENCE OF GOD -
THE ARCHITECTURE, THE VAULT, THE
00:30:26.86\00:30:29.36
ECHO.' IT'S THE BUILDING.
'WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?'
00:30:29.36\00:30:33.16
'I DON'T KNOW BUT OH, IT'S
JUST SO BEAUTIFUL.' REALLY, SOME
00:30:33.16\00:30:36.50
PEOPLE - THAT'S - 'WHY
DO YOU GO TO THAT CHURCH?'
00:30:36.50\00:30:39.43
'THEY'VE GOT A
GREAT CHILDREN'S PROGRAM.'
00:30:39.43\00:30:43.77
NOW, I THINK WE HAVE A
GREAT CHILDREN'S PROGRAM.
00:30:43.77\00:30:47.58
AND EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO
A CHURCH WITH A GREAT CHILDREN'S
00:30:47.58\00:30:50.11
PROGRAM, BUT IS THAT THE
REASON YOU PICK A CHURCH?
00:30:50.11\00:30:53.38
WHY DO YOU GO TO THAT CHURCH?'
'THE MUSIC. I LIKE TO SING,
00:30:53.38\00:30:58.39
THEY'VE GOT A CHOIR, SO I
GO.' 'WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?'
00:30:58.39\00:31:01.32
'I DON'T CARE FOR THEIR BELIEFS,
BUT THEIR SINGING IS OUT OF THIS
00:31:01.32\00:31:03.43
WORLD.' AND, FOR THAT REASON,
YOU OUGHT TO JOIN THE MORMON
00:31:03.43\00:31:06.63
TABERNACLE CHOIR
BECAUSE THEY ARE REALLY GOOD.
00:31:06.63\00:31:09.26
(LAUGHTER) ISN'T THAT
RIGHT? 'THEY'RE GREAT.
00:31:09.26\00:31:12.07
THEY CAN SING.' 'BUT
WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?'
00:31:12.07\00:31:16.77
AND THE THING IS WHAT
DO YOU BELIEVE, RIGHT?
00:31:16.77\00:31:21.61
SO, WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE A
DECISION AND SAY, 'I'M JOINING A
00:31:21.61\00:31:24.31
CHURCH.' - EVEN THOUGH YOU
WANT THEM TO HAVE A CHARISMATIC
00:31:24.31\00:31:28.18
PASTOR, IT'S NICE IF THEY HAVE
A GOOD MUSIC PROGRAM, A GOOD
00:31:28.18\00:31:31.09
CHILDREN'S PROGRAM, A CLEAN
BUILDING - ALL OF THOSE THINGS
00:31:31.09\00:31:34.42
ARE FRINGE BENEFITS.
00:31:34.42\00:31:36.26
NONE OF THEM ARE THE
REASON TO PICK THE CHURCH.
00:31:36.26\00:31:39.29
THE REASON TO PICK THE CHURCH IS
THE TEACHINGS OF THAT CHURCH -
00:31:39.29\00:31:42.50
THE OFFICIAL TEACHINGS OF THAT
CHURCH ARE THE TEACHINGS THAT
00:31:42.50\00:31:45.47
YOU FIND OF JESUS
IN THE BIBLE. >>AMEN.
00:31:45.47\00:31:48.07
>>THAT'S THE REASON - THAT'S WHY
I JOINED THIS CHURCH - AND, IF I
00:31:48.07\00:31:52.74
FIND A CHURCH - I HOPE I DON'T
HURT ANYBODY'S FEELINGS, BUT IF
00:31:52.74\00:31:56.21
I FIND A CHURCH CLOSER, I WANT
TO BE IN THE CHURCH THAT IS THE
00:31:56.21\00:31:59.95
CLOSEST TO THE
TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
00:31:59.95\00:32:02.62
>>AMEN. >>THAT'S
REALLY THE REASON THAT
00:32:02.62\00:32:04.95
YOU WANT TO BE PART - AND IF
YOU'RE JOINING THIS CHURCH IT'S
00:32:04.95\00:32:06.92
BECAUSE, I HOPE, YOU BELIEVE
THAT THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH
00:32:06.92\00:32:09.29
ARE THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST.
WELL, LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF
00:32:09.29\00:32:12.39
THOSE - WHAT ABOUT
OUR - TEACHING OF GOD?
00:32:12.39\00:32:14.73
LET ME READ TO YOU WHAT OUR
TEACHING IS: 'THERE IS ONE GOD -
00:32:14.73\00:32:18.83
FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT
- A UNITY OF THREE CO-ETERNAL
00:32:18.83\00:32:22.14
PERSONS. GOD IS
IMMORTAL, ALL-POWERFUL,
00:32:22.14\00:32:25.11
ALL-KNOWING, ABOVE
ALL AND EVER PRESENT.
00:32:25.11\00:32:27.91
HE IS INFINITE BEYOND HUMAN
COMPREHENSION, YET KNOWN THROUGH
00:32:27.91\00:32:31.18
HIS SELF-REVELATION. HE
IS FOREVER WORTHY OF WORSHIP,
00:32:31.18\00:32:34.75
ADORATION, SERVICE -
BY THE WHOLE CREATION.'
00:32:34.75\00:32:38.79
WE BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU
WOULD CALL 'THE TRINITY'.
00:32:38.79\00:32:41.92
NOW, THAT WORD IS NOT FOUND IN
THE BIBLE - THAT GOD THE FATHER,
00:32:41.92\00:32:45.13
SON, AND SPIRIT COMPRISE GOD.
00:32:45.13\00:32:48.33
AND SO, NO, WE DON'T
BELIEVE JESUS WAS CREATED.
00:32:48.33\00:32:52.50
WE BELIEVE ALL THINGS THAT
WERE MADE WERE MADE BY HIM.
00:32:52.50\00:32:55.57
WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS JUST SOME ELECTRIC
00:32:55.57\00:32:58.01
FORCE THAT GOD USES.
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON.
00:32:58.01\00:33:01.91
JESUS SAID, 'WHEN HE, THE SPIRIT
OF TRUTH IS COME, HE WILL LEAD
00:33:01.91\00:33:05.28
YOU INTO ALL TRUTH' - AND CHRIST
IDENTIFIES HIM AS FATHER, SON,
00:33:05.28\00:33:10.29
AND SPIRIT BEING PART OF GOD.
00:33:10.29\00:33:12.32
WHAT DO WE
BELIEVE ABOUT SALVATION?
00:33:12.32\00:33:14.19
'OH, BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN THE
SABBATH, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS,
00:33:14.19\00:33:16.96
YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE
SAVED BY KEEPING THE SEVENTH-DAY
00:33:16.96\00:33:20.70
SABBATH.' ALRIGHT,
COMING DOWN HERE FOR A SECOND.
00:33:20.70\00:33:22.76
START SMILING NOW.
DO WE - WE BELIEVE THE
00:33:22.76\00:33:27.24
SEVENTH DAY IS
THE SABBATH? >>YES.
00:33:27.24\00:33:29.47
>>DO WE BELIEVE THAT WE
ARE SAVED BECAUSE WE KEEP THE
00:33:29.47\00:33:31.64
SABBATH? >>NO.
00:33:31.64\00:33:33.58
>>SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
DON'T BELIEVE WE'RE SAVED BY
00:33:33.58\00:33:35.51
SABBATH KEEPING ANY MORE THAN
A BAPTIST BELIEVES THAT YOU'RE
00:33:35.51\00:33:39.15
SAVED BY NOT STEALING.
JUST BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE ALL TEN
00:33:39.15\00:33:43.35
COMMANDMENTS DOES NOT BELIEVE
- MEAN THAT YOU BELIEVE YOU'RE
00:33:43.35\00:33:46.45
EXCLUSIVELY SAVED BY KEEPING
ONE OF THE COMMANDMENTS, WE JUST
00:33:46.45\00:33:49.99
BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE ALL
IMPORTANT AND, OBVIOUSLY,
00:33:49.99\00:33:53.16
BECAUSE YOU'RE IN A CULTURE
WHERE CHRISTIANS, AT LARGE,
00:33:53.16\00:33:56.10
NEGLECT ONE OF THE COMMANDMENTS,
WE ARE GOING TO SAY MORE
00:33:56.10\00:33:58.57
ABOUT THAT. IDOLATRY'S WRONG.
THERE ARE SOME CHURCHES THAT
00:33:58.57\00:34:02.50
DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
THERE ARE GOING TO BE PEOPLE IN
00:34:02.50\00:34:06.27
HEAVEN THAT DID NOT
KNOW ABOUT IDOLATRY.
00:34:06.27\00:34:10.81
I KNOW THAT THAT MIGHT BE
HARD FOR SOME OF YOU TO IMAGINE.
00:34:10.81\00:34:14.25
MATTER OF FACT, WHY
DON'T I DO THAT RIGHT NOW?
00:34:14.25\00:34:18.59
I'LL COME DOWN HERE
AND ASK ANOTHER QUESTION.
00:34:18.59\00:34:20.69
ONE OF THE MYTHS THAT I HEAR
IS THAT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
00:34:20.69\00:34:26.09
BELIEVE THAT WE'RE THE ONLY ONES
THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN HEAVEN.
00:34:26.09\00:34:30.27
DO ANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT ONLY
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS ARE GOING
00:34:30.27\00:34:32.63
TO HEAVEN? >>NO.
00:34:32.63\00:34:34.04
>>OKAY, THAT'S GOOD.
00:34:34.04\00:34:35.37
YOU TALK TO ME LATER
BECAUSE I HEAR PEOPLE SAY, 'OH,
00:34:35.37\00:34:42.14
ADVENTISTS, THEY THINK THEY'RE
THE ONLY ONES THAT ARE GOING.'
00:34:42.14\00:34:44.55
ONE REASON I JOINED THE CHURCH
IS I WAS PLEASED TO FINALLY FIND
00:34:44.55\00:34:48.32
A GROUP THAT SAID THAT
THEY BELIEVE THE LARGEST PART -
00:34:48.32\00:34:51.85
MATTER OF FACT, THIS IS
SOMETHING ELLEN WHITE SAYS IN
00:34:51.85\00:34:53.66
THE BOOK GREAT CONTROVERSY , THE
GREATEST PART - NOT THE SMALLEST
00:34:53.66\00:34:57.03
PART - THE GREATEST PART OF
CHRIST'S TRUE FOLLOWERS ARE IN
00:34:57.03\00:35:00.96
THE FELLOWSHIP OF
OTHER DENOMINATIONS.
00:35:00.96\00:35:04.17
I SAID, 'OH, THAT'S REFRESHING.'
I DON'T AGREE WITH ALL OF THE
00:35:04.17\00:35:06.57
TEACHINGS, BUT GOD KNOWS THEIR
HEARTS AND THAT THERE ARE MANY
00:35:06.57\00:35:10.04
PEOPLE IN THESE OTHER CHURCHES
THAT LOVE HIM AND THEY WALK IN
00:35:10.04\00:35:12.47
THE LIGHT THEY'VE GOT AND
THEY'RE GOD'S CHILDREN AND HIS
00:35:12.47\00:35:15.38
SPIRIT WORKS IN THEM AND
GOD ANSWERS THEIR PRAYERS, BUT
00:35:15.38\00:35:19.11
THEOLOGICALLY, THEY MAY
BE WRONG ON SOME THINGS.
00:35:19.11\00:35:21.82
I'M IN THIS CHURCH BECAUSE
I BELIEVE IT'S THEOLOGICALLY
00:35:21.82\00:35:24.79
CLOSER TO THE BIBLE. >>AMEN.
00:35:24.79\00:35:27.12
>>BUT THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
- I THINK THERE'S MORE TO IT
00:35:27.12\00:35:29.42
THAN THAT. I BELIEVE THAT IN
THE LAST DAYS THE WHOLE WORLD IS
00:35:29.42\00:35:34.36
GOING TO BE POLARIZED
INTO ONE OF TWO GROUPS.
00:35:34.36\00:35:37.63
MOST CHRISTIANS AGREE THAT
THERE'S GOING TO BE THOSE WHO
00:35:37.63\00:35:42.10
HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND
THOSE WHO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD.
00:35:42.10\00:35:45.31
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE ONE GROUP -
EVERYONE'S GOING TO BE FORCED TO
00:35:45.31\00:35:48.24
WORSHIP THE BEAST. THAT'S GOING
TO BE SORT OF GLOBAL, RIGHT?
00:35:48.24\00:35:50.65
ALL - SMALL AND GREAT,
RICH AND POOR, FREE AND BOND.
00:35:50.65\00:35:52.88
THE OTHER GROUP IS GOING TO BE
FAITHFUL TO GOD AND THAT MEANS,
00:35:52.88\00:35:57.65
RIGHT NOW, SINCE HE'S GOT
HIS PEOPLE IN SO MANY DIFFERENT
00:35:57.65\00:35:59.75
CHURCHES, THERE'S GOING
TO BE A TIME OF TROUBLE.
00:35:59.75\00:36:03.06
THERE'S GOING TO BE A SHAKING
BEFORE THE END AND PEOPLE ARE
00:36:03.06\00:36:05.56
GOING TO BE SHAKEN
INTO ONE OF TWO GROUPS.
00:36:05.56\00:36:09.70
CHRIST SAID, 'OTHER SHEEP I
HAVE THAT ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD.
00:36:09.70\00:36:12.00
THEM, ALSO, I MUST
CALL. THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE.
00:36:12.00\00:36:14.90
THEY WILL BE ONE
FOLD.' RIGHT NOW THERE'S MANY.
00:36:14.90\00:36:18.21
THE CHURCH IS FRAGMENTED.
00:36:18.21\00:36:20.41
OTHER RELIGIONS MAKE FUN OF
CHRISTIANITY BECAUSE THERE'S
00:36:20.41\00:36:22.61
SUCH - SUCH A
FRACTURED RELIGION.
00:36:22.61\00:36:25.51
IT'S NOT GOING TO
ALWAYS BE THAT WAY.
00:36:25.51\00:36:27.62
CHRIST IS GOING TO COME BACK FOR
A CHURCH THAT IS LIKE THE FAITH
00:36:27.62\00:36:30.19
THAT HE
DELIVERED UNTO THE SAINTS.
00:36:30.19\00:36:32.09
THERE'S GOING TO BE A REVIVAL OF
APOSTOLIC SPIRIT-FILLED BIBLICAL
00:36:32.09\00:36:37.09
CHRISTIANITY BEFORE THE END
WHERE WE'RE GOING TO RETURN TO
00:36:37.09\00:36:40.90
THE TEACHINGS OF THE
BIBLE. ALRIGHT, LET ME GET BACK
00:36:40.90\00:36:43.26
TO SOME OF THE
SPECIFICS. DO WE BELIEVE WE'RE
00:36:43.26\00:36:45.87
SAVED BY WORKS
OR FAITH? >>FAITH.
00:36:45.87\00:36:48.47
>>SALVATION - EPHESIANS 2,
"BY GRACE YOU ARE SAVED THROUGH
00:36:48.47\00:36:51.97
FAITH, NOT OF YOURSELVES,
IT IS A GIFT OF GOD."
00:36:51.97\00:36:55.01
DO WE ALL BELIEVE THAT? >>YES.
00:36:55.01\00:36:56.78
>>DOES ANYONE BELIEVE WE'RE
SAVED BY KEEPING THE SABBATH?
00:36:56.78\00:36:58.68
>>NO. >>OR ANY COMMAND - NO.
00:36:58.68\00:37:00.42
AND IT SAYS THIS IN OUR
TEACHINGS: "WE ACCEPT THE DEATH
00:37:00.42\00:37:02.88
OF JESUS CHRIST ON CALVARY
AS THE ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR
00:37:02.88\00:37:06.32
SINS AND BELIEVE, THROUGH FAITH
IN HIS SHED BLOOD, I AM SAVED
00:37:06.32\00:37:09.99
FROM SIN AND ITS
PENALTY. IT'S THROUGH FAITH
00:37:09.99\00:37:12.99
ALONE WE ARE SAVED.
AND WE ALL BELIEVE THAT.
00:37:12.99\00:37:15.50
SO THE MYTH OUT THERE IS SOMEHOW
WE BELIEVE BY NOT EATING PORK
00:37:15.50\00:37:18.90
WE'RE SAVED, OR EATING
MORE GARLIC (LAUGHTER) -
00:37:18.90\00:37:24.17
YOU'VE ALL MET PEOPLE THAT
BELIEVE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY
00:37:24.17\00:37:26.34
GARLIC, HAVEN'T YOU? AND THEY
COME TO CHURCH AND SIT IN THEIR
00:37:26.34\00:37:29.71
OWN PEW - AND THAT'S A PUN.
(LAUGHTER) IT'S THROUGH FAITH.
00:37:29.71\00:37:36.52
NOW, WITH THAT, I SHOULD
PROBABLY SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE
00:37:36.52\00:37:39.59
LAW AND THE SABBATH. WE
DO NOT KEEP THE LAW TO BE
00:37:39.59\00:37:44.13
SAVED, WE KEEP THE
LAW BECAUSE WE ARE SAVED.
00:37:44.13\00:37:45.79
>>AMEN. >>JESUS
SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE
00:37:45.79\00:37:47.86
ME' - WHAT COMES FIRST? LOVE FOR
ME. 'IF YOU LOVE ME' - DO WHAT?
00:37:47.86\00:37:52.00
>>KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
>>KEEP COMMANDMENTS. IF ANYONE
00:37:52.00\00:37:53.74
SAYS YOU LOVE THE LORD AND
YOU DON'T KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS,
00:37:53.74\00:37:55.87
JOHN SAYS YOU'RE A LIAR
AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN YOU.
00:37:55.87\00:37:58.51
AND THAT WOULDN'T MEAN 50% OR
80% - WE BELIEVE 100%, INCLUDING
00:37:58.51\00:38:02.94
THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT
THAT HAS NEVER BEEN CHANGED.
00:38:02.94\00:38:06.88
AND, OF COURSE, YOU
FIND THAT IN EXODUS 20,
00:38:06.88\00:38:09.72
"REMEMBER THE
SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY."
00:38:09.72\00:38:11.92
WOULDN'T IT SEEM ODD TO
YOU THAT GOD WOULD SAY THE ONE
00:38:11.92\00:38:16.66
COMMANDMENT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO
REALLY FORGET ABOUT IS THE ONLY
00:38:16.66\00:38:19.19
COMMANDMENT HE SAID
TO REMEMBER. >>RIGHT?
00:38:19.19\00:38:22.13
>>HE SAYS, 'REMEMBER THE SABBATH
DAY' AND THEN ON THE NEXT PAGE
00:38:22.13\00:38:25.43
HE SAYS, 'WELL, BUT THAT'S THE
ONE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO FORGET.'
00:38:25.43\00:38:28.10
NO, HE'S VERY CLEAR.
AND SO WE BELIEVE THAT.
00:38:28.10\00:38:31.64
WE BELIEVE IN
KEEPING ALL OF THEM.
00:38:31.64\00:38:33.68
I DON'T BELIEVE I'M SAVED
MORE BY KEEPING THE SEVENTH-DAY
00:38:33.68\00:38:36.71
SABBATH THAN I AM BY NOT
COMMITTING ADULTERY - OR BY NOT
00:38:36.71\00:38:40.72
STEALING OR LYING - IT'S ALL
PART OF GOD'S LAW AND IF WE LOVE
00:38:40.72\00:38:43.99
THE LORD WE'RE GOING TO
WANT TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
00:38:43.99\00:38:47.29
>>AMEN. >>NOW SOMETHING THAT IS
00:38:47.29\00:38:49.12
ADMITTEDLY DIFFERENT FROM
TYPICAL EVANGELICALS WITH THE
00:38:49.12\00:38:52.83
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
IS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT
00:38:52.83\00:38:55.26
HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE. WE
BELIEVE THAT WHEN A PERSON
00:38:55.26\00:38:59.83
DIES, THAT THEY SLEEP A
DREAMLESS, PEACEFUL SLEEP - AN
00:38:59.83\00:39:04.77
UNCONSCIOUS SLEEP IN THE
GRAVE - UNTIL THE RESURRECTION.
00:39:04.77\00:39:07.88
'BUT WHAT ABOUT THAT
VERSE IN THE BIBLE, PASTOR DOUG?
00:39:07.88\00:39:10.51
IT SAYS, IN 2 CORINTHIANS 5:8,
"...TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY
00:39:10.51\00:39:13.95
AND TO BE
PRESENT WITH THE LORD."
00:39:13.95\00:39:16.22
AND AS SOON AS YOU DIE YOU,
YOU GET USHERED OFF TO ABRAHAM'S
00:39:16.22\00:39:19.05
BOSOM OR SOMEWHERE IN SPIRIT
FORM AND THEN WHEN JESUS COMES
00:39:19.05\00:39:21.69
BACK YOU'LL GET THE BODY AND
THEN YOU'LL HAVE THE JUDGMENT.'
00:39:21.69\00:39:24.93
WE JUST DON'T
FIND THAT'S BIBLICAL.
00:39:24.93\00:39:27.23
FIRST OF ALL, IT IS TRUE THAT TO
BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY IS TO BE
00:39:27.23\00:39:31.13
PRESENT WITH THE LORD.
MEANING, IF YOU'RE SAVED, AND
00:39:31.13\00:39:35.27
YOU SHOULD DIE, YOUR
NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS THE
00:39:35.27\00:39:38.47
RESURRECTION AND THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
00:39:38.47\00:39:40.64
THERE'S NO AWARENESS OF TIME FOR
YOU AND SO - GOD LIVES IN ALL
00:39:40.64\00:39:45.08
DIMENSIONS OF TIME - BUT YOU
AND I, WE LIVE IN TIME AND THE
00:39:45.08\00:39:49.62
RESURRECTION
HASN'T HAPPENED YET.
00:39:49.62\00:39:51.85
DO WE ALL AGREE? >>RIGHT.
00:39:51.85\00:39:53.56
>>CHRIST SAID, 'I'LL RAISE HIM
UP THE LAST DAY.' VERY CLEAR.
00:39:53.56\00:39:57.29
JESUS SAID, 'IN THE LAST DAY.'
THE JUDGMENT HASN'T HAPPENED
00:39:57.29\00:40:00.86
YET. THE IDEA
THAT PEOPLE GO RIGHT TO
00:40:00.86\00:40:02.06
HELL OR HEAVEN AS SOON AS THEY
DIE, BEFORE THE RESURRECTION,
00:40:02.06\00:40:05.13
BEFORE THE
JUDGMENT IS NOT BIBLICAL.
00:40:05.13\00:40:07.77
AND SO, YES, WE ARE IN
THAT GROUP AND WE'RE NOT ALONE.
00:40:07.77\00:40:10.61
THAT WAS THE BELIEF OF MANY
OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMERS, BUT
00:40:10.61\00:40:16.04
SOME OF THE MYTHOLOGICAL - THE
TEACHINGS OF THE DARK AGES THAT
00:40:16.04\00:40:20.62
WERE IN THE CHURCH, CREPT
INTO THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES.
00:40:20.62\00:40:23.32
LET ME GIVE YOU A QUOTE -
AND THIS IS FROM MARTIN LUTHER -
00:40:23.32\00:40:26.89
THIS IS ACTUALLY WRITTEN BY
THE LUTHERAN SCHOLAR DR. T.A.
00:40:26.89\00:40:31.09
KANTONEN IN HIS BOOK
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE, P. 37 ,
00:40:31.09\00:40:35.56
"FOR JUST AS ONE WHO
FALLS ASLEEP AND REACHES MORNING
00:40:35.56\00:40:38.63
UNEXPECTEDLY AWAKES WITHOUT
KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM, WE
00:40:38.63\00:40:42.74
SHALL SUDDENLY RISE, ON THE LAST
DAY, WITHOUT KNOWING HOW WE HAVE
00:40:42.74\00:40:46.91
COME INTO DEATH
OR THROUGH DEATH."
00:40:46.91\00:40:48.91
THAT WAS THE TEACHING OF LUTHER.
00:40:48.91\00:40:50.85
HE BELIEVED YOU SLEPT IN
THE GRAVE, UNCONSCIOUSLY, BUT HE
00:40:50.85\00:40:54.25
BELIEVED YOUR NEXT CONSCIOUS
THOUGHT WAS THE RESURRECTION OF
00:40:54.25\00:40:56.35
THE LORD - OR THE RESURRECTION
- THE COMING OF THE LORD.
00:40:56.35\00:40:59.09
THAT'S ALSO WHAT
WILLIAM TYNDALE BELIEVED.
00:40:59.09\00:41:01.52
YOU'VE HEARD OF THE
TYNDALE BIBLE TRANSLATORS.
00:41:01.52\00:41:03.96
MANY OF THESE EVANGELICALS WOULD
BE SURPRISED HOW MANY OF THE
00:41:03.96\00:41:07.73
GREAT REFORMERS BELIEVED EXACTLY
WHAT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
00:41:07.73\00:41:10.20
BELIEVE ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF
DEATH, EVEN THOUGH HOW MANY OF
00:41:10.20\00:41:13.44
YOU HAVE BEEN TO A FUNERAL WHERE
THEY SAYS, 'OUR DEARLY BELOVED,
00:41:13.44\00:41:15.84
THEY'RE OUT - THEY'RE UP
IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS NOW AND
00:41:15.84\00:41:18.24
THEY'RE SINGING AND WALKING AND
THEY'RE - THEY'RE TELLING THEIR
00:41:18.24\00:41:20.71
FRIENDS DOWN ON EARTH TO SHAPE
UP AND THEY'RE WATCHING OVER US
00:41:20.71\00:41:23.21
RIGHT NOW.'
YOU'VE ALL HEARD THAT?
00:41:23.21\00:41:25.61
THE REASON IT'S IMPORTANT NOT
TO BE CONFUSED ON THE SUBJECT OF
00:41:25.61\00:41:28.35
DEATH IS BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS,
IN THE LAST DAYS, SATAN IS GOING
00:41:28.35\00:41:33.29
TO USE SEDUCING SPIRITS
THAT WILL DECEIVE PEOPLE.
00:41:33.29\00:41:38.03
AND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THE DEAD
CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE LIVING
00:41:38.03\00:41:41.50
AND GHOSTS AND SPIRITS -
CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T BE GETTING
00:41:41.50\00:41:45.20
INVOLVED IN THAT. IF
PEOPLE ARE GETTING MESSAGES
00:41:45.20\00:41:47.87
THEY MAY HAVE FALLEN ANGELS
THAT ARE MANIPULATING THEM, BUT
00:41:47.87\00:41:51.31
THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR: "FOR
THE LIVING KNOW THAT THEY WILL
00:41:51.31\00:41:53.51
DIE;" - ECCLESIASTES 9:5 -
"BUT THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING."
00:41:53.51\00:41:57.55
IT IS THE LIVING
THAT PRAISE THE LORD.
00:41:57.55\00:41:59.71
THOSE THAT DIE, IT SAYS IN THE
DAY THEIR BREATH GOES FORTH -
00:41:59.71\00:42:02.72
PSALM 146 'THEIR THOUGHTS
PERISH' - THEY STOP THINKING.
00:42:02.72\00:42:07.22
THEY'RE NOT THINKING ANYTHING.
THEY'RE SLEEPING. THERE ARE
00:42:07.22\00:42:09.52
ABOUT TWELVE RESURRECTIONS
IN THE BIBLE - OLD AND NEW
00:42:09.52\00:42:12.36
TESTAMENT. ARE YOU
AWARE THAT IN EVERY ONE
00:42:12.36\00:42:14.73
OF THOSE CASES NONE OF THOSE
RESURRECTED EVER MADE A SINGLE
00:42:14.73\00:42:18.60
COMMENT ABOUT KNOWING
ANYTHING WHEN THEY DIED?
00:42:18.60\00:42:21.54
WOULDN'T YOU THINK THAT THE
FIRST QUESTION THAT WOULD BE
00:42:21.54\00:42:24.51
ASKED WHEN SOMEONE WAS DEAD AND
THEY WERE RAISED IS, 'WHAT DID
00:42:24.51\00:42:28.01
YOU SEE? WHAT
DID YOU EXPERIENCE?
00:42:28.01\00:42:30.41
WHAT WAS IT LIKE?
WHAT DID YOU FEEL?'
00:42:30.41\00:42:32.45
BUT THE RECORD OF THE BIBLE IS
THAT NONE OF THEM HAVE ANYTHING
00:42:32.45\00:42:34.78
TO SAY ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE
DURING DEATH BECAUSE THE DEAD
00:42:34.78\00:42:38.45
DON'T KNOW
ANYTHING. IT'S PRETTY CLEAR.
00:42:38.45\00:42:41.69
BUT THAT FLIES IN THE FACE OF
WHAT SOME CHRISTIANS HAVE HEARD
00:42:41.69\00:42:45.56
FOR YEARS. AND I KNOW IT
TROUBLES PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY
00:42:45.56\00:42:48.30
SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I LOST MY
HUSBAND AND I JUST FEEL HIS
00:42:48.30\00:42:50.83
PRESENCE WITH ME AND' - YOU
KNOW, YOU'VE GOT THOSE MEMORIES.
00:42:50.83\00:42:54.90
I'M SURE THEY'RE VERY
PRECIOUS, BUT THEY'RE SLEEPING.
00:42:54.90\00:42:57.87
AND SOME OF US KNOW LOVED ONES
THAT HAVE DIED THAT MAYBE DIDN'T
00:42:57.87\00:43:01.01
KNOW THE LORD. I HOPE YOU FIND
RELIEF IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT
00:43:01.01\00:43:06.05
THEY'RE NOT ROASTING
WHILE YOU WALK THE EARTH.
00:43:06.05\00:43:09.08
THAT'S WHY, ON MANY OF THE
ANCIENT GRAVES IT SAYS, 'RIP'
00:43:09.08\00:43:12.72
WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN? REST IN PEACE.
00:43:12.72\00:43:15.22
THEY'RE SLEEPING - DREAMLESS
SLEEP UNTIL THE RESURRECTION.
00:43:15.22\00:43:18.76
SO THAT'S ONE THING THAT IS
ADMITTEDLY DIFFERENT ABOUT THE
00:43:18.76\00:43:21.36
ADVENTIST BELIEF.
CONNECTED WITH THAT IS OUR
00:43:21.36\00:43:24.07
UNDERSTANDING ABOUT
HELLFIRE. NOW, I WANT TO GET -
00:43:24.07\00:43:28.10
WHO WANTS IT THIS TIME?
I'LL COME BACK OVER HERE.
00:43:28.10\00:43:31.87
OKAY, WE'VE BEEN ACCUSED
'SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DO NOT
00:43:31.87\00:43:36.28
BELIEVE IN HELL.' LET ME
ASK YOU, DO WE BELIEVE IN HELL?
00:43:36.28\00:43:40.72
>>YES. >>OKAY. IS HELL HOT?
00:43:40.72\00:43:43.35
>>YES. >>WILL THE
LOST BURN IN HELL?
00:43:43.35\00:43:46.76
>>YES. >>OKAY,
JUST IN CASE, I WANT TO
00:43:46.76\00:43:49.02
MAKE SURE - I KNOW WE HAVE SOME
BAPTISTS THAT ARE WATCHING AND
00:43:49.02\00:43:51.83
THEY SAY, 'OH,
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DON'T
00:43:51.83\00:43:53.26
BELIEVE IN HELL.
WE DO BELIEVE IN HELL.
00:43:53.26\00:43:55.60
MATTER OF FACT, OUR HELL IS
HOTTER THAN THE BAPTIST HELL
00:43:55.60\00:43:58.23
(LAUGHTER) BECAUSE THE BAPTIST
HELL JUST SORT OF SIMMERS THEM
00:43:58.23\00:44:01.97
FOREVER AND OUR HELL BURNS THEM
UP. (LAUGHTER) THEY DON'T BURN
00:44:01.97\00:44:06.27
FOREVER AND EVER. AND
I KNOW THAT'S DIFFERENT.
00:44:06.27\00:44:09.68
DURING THE DARK AGES IT WAS VERY
PROFITABLE FOR THE CHURCH TO
00:44:09.68\00:44:12.68
SCARE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR
WITS WITH THE IDEA OF THE WICKED
00:44:12.68\00:44:19.65
BEING TORMENTED
FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER.
00:44:19.65\00:44:23.56
AND CAN YOU IMAGINE - AND THEY
SAY AS SOON AS YOU DIE THEY GO
00:44:23.56\00:44:27.50
TO TORMENT - THEY HAVEN'T EVEN
BEEN JUDGED YET AND THEY GO TO
00:44:27.50\00:44:29.50
HELL TO BURN FOREVER AND EVER
AND EVER FOR THE SINS OF ONE
00:44:29.50\00:44:35.47
LIFETIME. AND IF THE BIBLE SAYS
EVERY MAN IS REWARDED ACCORDING
00:44:35.47\00:44:39.61
TO THEIR WORK, BUT ADOLF HITLER
GETS THE SAME PUNISHMENT AS
00:44:39.61\00:44:43.51
SOME, YOU KNOW, POOR CONFUSED
TEENAGER THAT COMMITTED SUICIDE
00:44:43.51\00:44:46.92
AND DIDN'T KNOW JESUS,
WHERE'S THE JUSTICE IN THAT?
00:44:46.92\00:44:52.05
THIS IS NOT WHAT
THE BIBLE TEACHES.
00:44:52.05\00:44:53.52
JESUS SAID THERE ARE TWO
CHOICES: BELIEVE AND LIVE; DO
00:44:53.52\00:44:57.23
NOT BELIEVE AND
PERISH - JOHN 3:16.
00:44:57.23\00:45:01.00
THE DEVIL SAID, 'YOU WILL NOT
SURELY DIE.' THAT DOCTRINE THAT
00:45:01.00\00:45:04.47
YOU JUST BURN FOREVER AND
EVER COMES FROM THE DEVIL.
00:45:04.47\00:45:07.67
GOD SAID, 'IN THE DAY YOU SIN
YOU WILL DIE.' LIFE IS A GIFT.
00:45:07.67\00:45:12.67
GOD DOESN'T GIVE ETERNAL LIFE
- WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY
00:45:12.67\00:45:14.78
THAT EVERYBODY HAS IMMORTALITY?
00:45:14.78\00:45:17.55
WHEN JESUS COMES, THEN 'THIS
MORTAL WILL PUT ON IMMORTALITY.'
00:45:17.55\00:45:22.25
GOD AND GOD
ONLY HAS IMMORTALITY.
00:45:22.25\00:45:24.69
THE IDEA THAT SINNERS ARE
IMMORTAL - WELL, THE DEVIL WOULD
00:45:24.69\00:45:27.76
LIKE TO BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE
EVEN HE WILL BE CAST INTO THE
00:45:27.76\00:45:29.96
LAKE OF FIRE, BUT
HE'S NOT IMMORTAL.
00:45:29.96\00:45:33.13
ONLY GOD IS IMMORTAL.
GOD GIVES US THE GIFT OF
00:45:33.13\00:45:36.16
IMMORTALITY IN THE RESURRECTION.
WE DON'T HAVE THAT YET.
00:45:36.16\00:45:39.33
SO WE BELIEVE THAT THE
WICKED ARE CAST INTO HELL.
00:45:39.33\00:45:41.70
HELL IS REAL.
IT'S GOING TO BURN.
00:45:41.70\00:45:43.27
EVERYONE IS PUNISHED ACCORDING
TO WHAT THEY DESERVE, BUT THE
00:45:43.27\00:45:46.27
BIBLE SAYS THEY ARE CONSUMED
- MALACHI CHAPTER 4 - THEY ARE
00:45:46.27\00:45:49.74
BURNT UP. IN
REVELATION 20 IT SAYS FIRE
00:45:49.74\00:45:52.48
COMES DOWN FROM
HEAVEN AND DEVOURS THEM.
00:45:52.48\00:45:55.82
THE SCRIPTURES ARE VERY CLEAR
THAT THE WICKED BURN UP IN HELL.
00:45:55.82\00:45:59.09
BY THE WAY, THIS WAS THE BELIEF
OF JOHN STOTT, WHO WAS PROBABLY
00:45:59.09\00:46:04.66
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL EVANGELICAL
THEOLOGIAN IN THE LAST CENTURY.
00:46:04.66\00:46:10.57
HE FIRMLY BELIEVED IN WHAT
WE CALL ANNIHILATION - THAT THE
00:46:10.57\00:46:14.90
WICKED WILL BE BURNT UP. AND,
YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M RELIEVED.
00:46:14.90\00:46:17.97
I NEED TO BE HONEST AND TELL
YOU THAT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
00:46:17.97\00:46:20.51
DON'T REALLY HOLD A
MONOPOLY ON THAT TEACHING.
00:46:20.51\00:46:23.24
MORE AND MORE EVANGELICALS I AM
MEETING - MATTER OF FACT, I MEET
00:46:23.24\00:46:27.02
SOME OF THEM AT THESE RELIGIOUS
BROADCASTER MEETINGS AND THEY
00:46:27.02\00:46:29.45
COME UP AND THEY LOOK AROUND TO
MAKE SURE NOBODY'S LISTENING AND
00:46:29.45\00:46:32.05
THEY'LL SAY, 'I AGREE WITH YOU
ON THE SUBJECT OF HELL.' THEY
00:46:32.05\00:46:35.59
SAID, 'YOU CAN'T PROVE THE OTHER
FROM THE BIBLE.' AND THERE ARE
00:46:35.59\00:46:40.06
PENTECOSTALS, BAPTISTS,
PRESBYTERIANS, METHODISTS - MORE
00:46:40.06\00:46:44.20
AND MORE LEADING SCHOLARS IN
THESE CHURCHES REALIZE THAT THE
00:46:44.20\00:46:47.80
IDEA OF THE ETERNAL TORMENT
OF THE LOST IS - WAS A MEDIEVAL
00:46:47.80\00:46:52.81
THEOLOGY THAT HAD KIND OF
COME OVER INTO THE EVANGELICAL
00:46:52.81\00:46:56.14
CHURCHES. IT'S
NOT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT.
00:46:56.14\00:46:59.18
JESUS SAID, 'WHEN YOU GO TO
HEAVEN' - REVELATION - 'NO MORE
00:46:59.18\00:47:03.08
SIN. NO MORE
CRYING, NO MORE PAIN.
00:47:03.08\00:47:06.22
ALL THINGS NEW.' IF ALL THINGS
ARE NEW AND THERE'S NO MORE PAIN
00:47:06.22\00:47:09.02
AND THERE'S NO MORE CRYING, HOW
CAN YOU SAY THERE'S SOME VAST
00:47:09.02\00:47:11.43
TORTURE CHAMBER WHERE PEOPLE ARE
SHRIEKING FOREVER AND EVER AND
00:47:11.43\00:47:13.83
EVER. ANOTHER INTERESTING BELIEF
00:47:13.83\00:47:16.33
IS REGARDING THE SANCTUARY.
NOW, YOU KNOW, THE REASON - WHAT
00:47:16.33\00:47:19.33
I'M DOING IS I'M HIGHLIGHTING
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE
00:47:19.33\00:47:21.34
UNIQUE ABOUT
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.
00:47:21.34\00:47:24.04
IN MANY WAYS WE'RE TYPICAL
CHRISTIANS AND BELIEVE AND DO
00:47:24.04\00:47:27.01
THE TYPICAL CHRISTIAN THINGS,
BUT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
00:47:27.01\00:47:30.25
BELIEVE THAT JESUS
IS OUR HIGH PRIEST.
00:47:30.25\00:47:32.78
AND DOESN'T THE
BIBLE TEACH THIS?
00:47:32.78\00:47:34.08
AND THAT THERE IS A LITERAL
DWELLING PLACE OF GOD KNOWN AS
00:47:34.08\00:47:37.32
THE SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN.
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT IT.
00:47:37.32\00:47:40.06
HEBREWS IS VERY CLEAR IN
THAT CHRIST HAS ENTERED INTO
00:47:40.06\00:47:44.19
THE LAST PHASE OF
HIS WORK OF REDEMPTION.
00:47:44.19\00:47:46.90
YES, HE DIED ONCE. HE
WAS SACRIFICED ONCE, BUT HE
00:47:46.90\00:47:50.03
HASN'T CEASED
WORKING AS OUR HIGH PRIEST.
00:47:50.03\00:47:52.30
IF THE MINISTRY OF JESUS IS
TOTALLY OVER, THEN WHY HASN'T HE
00:47:52.30\00:47:55.40
COME BACK?
WHAT'S GOD WAITING FOR?
00:47:55.40\00:47:57.71
IF IT'S ALL OVER,
WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?
00:47:57.71\00:48:00.21
OBVIOUSLY, IT'S NOT OVER YET AND
CHRIST IS CONTINUING HIS WORK -
00:48:00.21\00:48:04.48
HIS INTERCESSION - HIS
MEDIATION AS OUR HIGH PRIEST.
00:48:04.48\00:48:07.95
IF YOU LOOK IN HEBREWS 8:1 AND
2, "NOW THIS IS THE MAIN POINT
00:48:07.95\00:48:11.75
OF THE THINGS WE ARE SAYING: WE
HAVE SUCH A HIGH PRIEST, WHO IS
00:48:11.75\00:48:14.89
SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF
THE THRONE OF THE MAJESTY IN THE
00:48:14.89\00:48:17.49
HEAVENS, A MINISTER OF
THE SANCTUARY AND OF THE TRUE
00:48:17.49\00:48:20.46
TABERNACLE WHICH THE
LORD ERECTED, AND NOT MAN."
00:48:20.46\00:48:25.20
LIKE MOST CHRISTIANS,
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS CELEBRATE
00:48:25.20\00:48:27.44
THE COMMUNION. WE
USE UNLEAVENED BREAD AND
00:48:27.44\00:48:30.81
UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE.
THAT WOULD BE THE SAME AS
00:48:30.81\00:48:33.68
METHODISTS, BAPTISTS, MOST -
SOME CHURCHES - PRESBYTERIAN,
00:48:33.68\00:48:37.08
CATHOLIC USE
FERMENTED GRAPE JUICE.
00:48:37.08\00:48:39.05
WE BELIEVE THAT IT IS A TYPE
OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHICH IS
00:48:39.05\00:48:41.42
UNPOLLUTED AND IS TO BE
PURE. IT SHOULD BE UNFERMENTED.
00:48:41.42\00:48:45.82
AND - I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY
THIS BUT - EXCEPT JUST TO SAY
00:48:45.82\00:48:53.29
THAT I BELIEVE JESUS
WAS A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST.
00:48:53.29\00:48:55.83
>>AMEN. >>DID
JESUS BELIEVE THAT THE
00:48:55.83\00:49:00.14
SEVENTH DAY WAS
THE SABBATH? >>YES.
00:49:00.14\00:49:02.90
>>YOU CAN READ IN THE BIBLE,
IT SAYS, 'AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE
00:49:02.90\00:49:07.81
WENT INTO THE CHURCH ON THE
SABBATH DAY AND STOOD UP TO READ
00:49:07.81\00:49:10.98
THE SCRIPTURES - IN LUKE
CHAPTER 2, MARK CHAPTER 1,
00:49:10.98\00:49:15.62
JESUS BELIEVED IN
THE SECOND COMING.
00:49:15.62\00:49:19.05
HE SAID, 'I GO TO PREPARE A
PLACE FOR YOU AND I WILL COME
00:49:19.05\00:49:23.02
AGAIN.' NOW HERE'S THE QUESTION
- YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, PASTOR
00:49:23.02\00:49:27.03
DOUG, I'VE HEARD - SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS - I'VE HEARD THAT
00:49:27.03\00:49:29.03
YOU'RE A CULT.' HAVE
YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE?
00:49:29.03\00:49:33.57
IF THE LORD DID HAVE A UNIQUE
CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS THAT HAD
00:49:33.57\00:49:39.04
A REVIVAL OF BIBLICAL TRUTH, AND
IF YOU WERE THE DEVIL, HOW WOULD
00:49:39.04\00:49:43.61
YOU WANT TO PORTRAY THEM?
WOULDN'T YOU DO EVERYTHING
00:49:43.61\00:49:47.12
YOU COULD TO SMEAR THAT NAME?
ARE YOU AWARE THAT THAT'S WHAT
00:49:47.12\00:49:51.32
THEY DID TO JESUS
WHEN HE WALKED THE EARTH?
00:49:51.32\00:49:53.92
THEY ACCUSED PAUL OF
THAT. LISTEN TO WHAT THEY
00:49:53.92\00:49:55.49
SAID ABOUT PAUL.
THEY CALLED HIM A HERETIC.
00:49:55.49\00:49:57.89
ACTS 24:5, "FOR WE HAVE FOUND
THIS MAN A PLAGUE, A CREATOR OF
00:49:57.89\00:50:01.63
DISSENSION AMONG ALL THE
JEWS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND A
00:50:01.63\00:50:04.10
RINGLEADER OF THE SECT" -
THE CULT - "OF THE NAZARENES."
00:50:04.10\00:50:08.77
AND THEY PORTRAYED PAUL IN
THE MOST VIOLENT AND OUTRAGEOUS
00:50:08.77\00:50:11.04
TERMS. ACTS
24:14 - PAUL SAID, "BUT
00:50:11.04\00:50:14.68
THIS I CONFESS TO YOU, THAT
ACCORDING TO THE WAY WHICH THEY
00:50:14.68\00:50:17.65
CALL A SECT, SO I WORSHIP THE
GOD OF MY FATHERS, BELIEVING ALL
00:50:17.65\00:50:21.05
THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN
THE LAW AND IN THE PROPHETS."
00:50:21.05\00:50:23.62
AND FRIENDS, THAT'S WHY
I'M A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST.
00:50:23.62\00:50:25.59
SOME WILL CALL IT A CULT, BUT
I WILL BE HAPPY TO STAND TOE TO
00:50:25.59\00:50:28.42
TOE WITH A PASTOR FROM ANY
CHURCH AND SAY, 'HERE'S WHY I
00:50:28.42\00:50:32.09
BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE.
NOW LET ME CHALLENGE WHAT
00:50:32.09\00:50:34.50
YOU BELIEVE FROM THE
BIBLE.' >>THAT'S RIGHT.
00:50:34.50\00:50:37.73
>>IT'S ALL ABOUT CAN YOU
PROVE IT FROM THE SCRIPTURES?
00:50:37.73\00:50:39.93
NOW I RESPECT THAT DIFFERENT
PEOPLE ARE CONVINCED DIFFERENTLY
00:50:39.93\00:50:42.97
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT.
BUT I BELIEVE, AS JESUS COMES
00:50:42.97\00:50:47.74
BACK, THERE'S GOING TO BE A
GREAT SHAKING IN OUR WORLD AND
00:50:47.74\00:50:51.15
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE CALLED
INTO BIBLICAL FAITH. I DON'T
00:50:51.15\00:50:56.62
KNOW EXACTLY HOW IT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN, FRIENDS, BUT SOMETHING'S
00:50:56.62\00:50:58.72
GOING TO HAPPEN AND
THERE'S GOING TO BE A SHAKING.
00:50:58.72\00:51:01.29
IT'LL AFFECT OUR CHURCH, IT'LL
AFFECT THE WHOLE WORLD, AND
00:51:01.29\00:51:04.23
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE SEARCHING
FOR GOD. MEN'S HEARTS FAILING
00:51:04.23\00:51:07.10
FOR FEAR - THERE'S GOING TO
BE A GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE AND A
00:51:07.10\00:51:09.83
SMALL TIME OF TROUBLE
AND, DURING THIS SMALL TIME OF
00:51:09.83\00:51:12.53
TROUBLE, I THINK THERE'S
GOING TO BE THE OUTPOURING OF
00:51:12.53\00:51:15.14
THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:51:15.14\00:51:16.40
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE DIGGING
IN THE BIBLE LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
00:51:16.40\00:51:19.14
GOD'S PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE
BROUGHT BEFORE KINGS AND RULERS
00:51:19.14\00:51:21.78
OF THE WORLD TO
GIVE A TESTIMONY.
00:51:21.78\00:51:25.08
I UNDERSTAND MEL
GIBSON IS MAKING A MOVIE -
00:51:25.08\00:51:28.82
120-MILLION-DOLLAR MOVIE ABOUT
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST HERO,
00:51:28.82\00:51:32.69
BASED ON DESMOND DOSS, THE
WINNER OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR WHO
00:51:32.69\00:51:37.23
WOULD NOT LIFT UP A GUN -
VERY UNUSUAL. AND I KNEW HIM.
00:51:37.23\00:51:42.90
HIS WIFE WAS A MEMBER OF OUR
CHURCH - AN INCREDIBLE PERSON -
00:51:42.90\00:51:46.67
BUT I THINK A NUMBER OF THINGS
ARE HAPPENING IN THE WORLD TODAY
00:51:46.67\00:51:49.37
THAT ARE GOING TO BRING
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS MORE INTO
00:51:49.37\00:51:51.67
VISIBILITY, AND I THOUGHT IT
WAS APPROPRIATE TO TAKE A LITTLE
00:51:51.67\00:51:54.38
TIME AND TALK ABOUT WHAT ARE
SOME OF THE FACTS AND WHAT ARE
00:51:54.38\00:51:57.05
SOME OF THE FABLES AND LET OUR
VIEWERS HEAR IT FROM THE HORSE'S
00:51:57.05\00:52:01.05
MOUTH, SO TO SPEAK, AND SAY
IT IN THE PRESENCE OF WITNESSES
00:52:01.05\00:52:05.32
THAT WILL CONFIRM
AND AFFIRM THESE THINGS.
00:52:05.32\00:52:07.46
SO, THE BOTTOM LINE IS, WE
INVITE PEOPLE TO STUDY THE WORD
00:52:07.46\00:52:12.09
FOR THEMSELVES AND MAKE SURE
YOU'RE BUILDING ON THE ROCK.
00:52:12.09\00:52:14.96
JESUS SAID THERE'S GOING TO BE A
STORM COMING AND THE ONLY HOUSE
00:52:14.96\00:52:18.10
THAT'S GOING TO SURVIVE IS
THE ONE THAT IS BUILT ON THE
00:52:18.10\00:52:20.60
FOUNDATION OF GOD - CHRIST'S
TEACHING - AND HIS WORD.
00:52:20.60\00:52:24.34
AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:52:24.34\00:52:25.41
>>WHAT SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS BELIEVE IS NOT NEW,
00:52:25.41\00:52:27.74
IT'S ACTUALLY VERY OLD.
00:52:27.74\00:52:29.04
WE ARE SEEKING TO RETURN TO THE
FAITH THAT WAS DELIVERED TO THE
00:52:29.04\00:52:31.88
SAINTS AND I INVITE ALL THOSE
THAT ARE WATCHING TO DO THAT.
00:52:31.88\00:52:34.65
ISN'T THAT YOUR
PRAYER, FRIENDS? >>AMEN.
00:52:34.65\00:52:36.22
>>AND I WANT TO BE
PART OF THAT PEOPLE.
00:52:36.22\00:52:38.29
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SOMETIMES THESE CHOICES ARE
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MUNDANE: 'WHAT WILL
YOU HAVE FOR BREAKFAST?'
00:53:12.05\00:53:14.69
OR 'WHAT WILL
YOU WEAR FOR WORK?'
00:53:14.69\00:53:16.52
BUT SOMETIMES THESE DECISIONS
CAN HAVE AN ETERNAL IMPACT, LIKE
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WHEN YOU SET UP AN ESTATE
PLAN THAT SUPPORTS GOD'S WORK.
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>>YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD
THE EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'IF YOU
00:54:16.32\00:54:18.22
DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER IN TEXAS,
JUST WAIT; IT'LL CHANGE.' AND
00:54:18.22\00:54:21.99
YOU'VE ALSO HEARD, 'EVERYTHING
IS BIGGER IN TEXAS - THE
00:54:21.99\00:54:24.56
RANCHES, THE BELT BUCKLES,
THE COWBOY HATS...' BUT THE MOST
00:54:24.56\00:54:28.63
FAMOUS SLOGAN ABOUT
TEXAS IS 'REMEMBER THE ALAMO!'
00:54:28.63\00:54:36.57
THE VIOLENT BATTLES AND BRAVERY
OF ICONIC HEROES, HAVE BEEN THE
00:54:36.57\00:54:39.67
STUFF OF LEGENDS, THROUGHOUT
WHICH ENTIRE CULTURES OFTEN DRAW
00:54:39.67\00:54:42.91
THEIR IDENTITY AND PRIDE, EVEN
LONG AFTER CENTURIES HAVE PAST.
00:54:42.91\00:54:46.92
AND IN TEXAS, THE STORY OF THE
ALAMO HAS BEEN A RALLYING CRY OF
00:54:46.92\00:54:50.35
TEXAS
INDEPENDENCE FOR 200 YEARS.
00:54:50.35\00:54:53.79
ONE REASON THAT TEXANS LOVE TO
BRAG THAT EVERYTHING IS BIGGER
00:54:53.79\00:54:56.36
IN TEXAS IS, OF COURSE, BECAUSE
TEXAS IS THE LARGEST OF THE
00:54:56.36\00:54:59.96
LOWER 48 U.S. STATES.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS
00:54:59.96\00:55:03.67
MASSIVE STATE GOT ITS BEGINNING
IN A VERY SMALL CHRISTIAN
00:55:03.67\00:55:07.40
MISSION DURING THE
BATTLE OF THE ALAMO.
00:55:07.40\00:55:10.27
EVERY YEAR THIS FAMOUS MISSION
MUSEUM RECEIVES OVER TWO AND A
00:55:10.27\00:55:14.01
HALF MILLION VISITORS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE PLANET, THAT ARE
00:55:14.01\00:55:17.18
EAGER TO GET A GOOD
LOOK AT THIS LEGENDARY SITE.
00:55:17.18\00:55:20.72
THE ALAMO PLAYED A CRITICAL
ROLE IN THE TEXAS REVOLUTION.
00:55:20.72\00:55:24.45
IN DECEMBER 1835, TEXANS
AND TEJANO VOLUNTEERS BATTLED
00:55:24.45\00:55:28.96
MEXICAN TROOPS QUARTERED IN
THE CITY, FORCING GENERAL MARTIN
00:55:28.96\00:55:32.13
PERFECTO DE COS TO SURRENDER.
THE VICTORIOUS VOLUNTEERS
00:55:32.13\00:55:35.50
THEN OCCUPIED THE ALAMO
AND STRENGTHENED ITS DEFENSES.
00:55:35.50\00:55:39.43
FAMOUS AMERICANS LIKE DAVY
CROCKETT, JIM BOWIE, AND COLONEL
00:55:39.43\00:55:42.87
WILLIAM TRAVIS MADE THIS
LOCATION - THIS ANCIENT MISSION
00:55:42.87\00:55:46.47
- THE BEACHHEAD - THE LAST
STAND IN AN EPIC BATTLE TO WIN
00:55:46.47\00:55:50.28
INDEPENDENCE OF
TEXAS FROM MEXICO.
00:55:50.28\00:55:53.88
ON FEBRUARY 23, 1836, THE
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ
00:55:53.88\00:55:58.89
SANTA ANA NEARLY CAUGHT
THEM BY SURPRISE. UNDAUNTED, THE
00:55:58.89\00:56:02.72
TEXANS AND TEJANOS
PREPARED TO DEFEND THE ALAMO.
00:56:02.72\00:56:06.49
FOR THIS SMALL RAG-TAG GROUP OF
REBELS, THE YOUNGEST OF WHOM WAS
00:56:06.49\00:56:09.26
ABOUT SIXTEEN AND THE OLDEST
SEVENTY-FIVE, WAS AGAINST THE
00:56:09.26\00:56:12.47
WELL-TRAINED AND
ORGANIZED MEXICAN ARMY OF SIX
00:56:12.47\00:56:15.30
THOUSAND-PLUS SOLDIERS.
00:56:15.30\00:56:16.97
IT WAS A FIERCE AND LOPSIDED
BATTLE, YET THE SMALL FORCE OF
00:56:16.97\00:56:20.21
REBELS WAS ABLE TO REPEL
THE TROOPS FOR THIRTEEN DAYS.
00:56:20.21\00:56:24.71
LEGEND HOLDS THAT WITH THE
POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL HELP
00:56:24.71\00:56:28.25
FADING, COLONEL TRAVIS DREW A
LINE IN THE GROUND WITH A SWORD
00:56:28.25\00:56:31.99
AND ASKED ANY MAN WILLING TO
STAY AND FIGHT TO STEP OVER THE
00:56:31.99\00:56:35.59
LINE. ALL EXCEPT
ONE CROSSED OVER.
00:56:35.59\00:56:39.63
THE FINAL ASSAULT
CAME BEFORE DAYBREAK.
00:56:39.63\00:56:41.90
ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 6, 1836,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE SIEGE,
00:56:41.90\00:56:46.60
CANON AND SMALL ARMS FIRE
FROM INSIDE THE ALAMO BEAT BACK
00:56:46.60\00:56:50.14
SEVERAL MEXICAN ATTACKS.
REGROUPING, SANTA ANA'S SOLDIERS
00:56:50.14\00:56:54.31
SCALED THE WALLS AND RUSHED
INTO THE COMPOUND. THE DESPERATE
00:56:54.31\00:56:58.31
STRUGGLE CONTINUED UNTIL
THE DEFENDERS WERE OVERWHELMED.
00:56:58.31\00:57:01.75
BY SUNRISE, THE BATTLE HAD ENDED
AND THE GARRISON WAS SLAIN.
00:57:01.75\00:57:05.99
YOU KNOW, HISTORIANS MAY DEBATE
SOME OF THE DETAILS REGARDING
00:57:05.99\00:57:08.69
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO,
BUT NONE OF THEM QUESTION THE
00:57:08.69\00:57:11.39
INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE THAT WAS
MADE AND THE COURAGE THAT WAS
00:57:11.39\00:57:13.96
DISPLAYED DURING
THAT INTENSE CONFLICT.
00:57:13.96\00:57:16.70
THEY MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
- GIVING THEIR LIVES - AND THIS
00:57:16.70\00:57:20.44
IS WHY THE STORY OF THE ALAMO IS
SO INSPIRING AND SO ENCOURAGING.
00:57:20.44\00:57:24.17
YOU KNOW, AND
THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE IS SO
00:57:24.17\00:57:25.94
INSPIRING, FRIENDS, BECAUSE
SOMEONE WAS WILLING TO MAKE THE
00:57:25.94\00:57:28.64
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND GIVE
HIS LIFE SO THAT YOU COULD HAVE
00:57:28.64\00:57:32.15
FREEDOM AND ETERNAL LIFE.
DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD TRUST
00:57:32.15\00:57:35.02
YOUR LIFE TO A FRIEND LIKE THAT,
THAT WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING?
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THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS
A STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE.
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IT'S THE STORY OF GOD WHO WILL
NEVER LEAVE YOU WITHOUT DEFENSE
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AND SUPPORT. JESUS
IS THE GOOD NEWS AND
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THE GOSPEL IS A STORY
WORTH REMEMBERING. (MUSIC)
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