Greetings friends,
welcome to Faith Chapel.
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I am Dr. P. C. Willis, Sr.
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the Adult Ministries Director
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for Lake Region Conference of
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Seventh Day Adventists.
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I welcome you here as we study
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the striking topic
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"The Joke that Tickled God!"
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Can anything tickle
God? Friends we'll see today.
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So we encourage you
to take notes today as we
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study this most important topic.
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Please note that the Devil
has fooled people into thinking
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that they can commit sin
repeatedly and get away with it.
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This scheme of the
devil has been so successful
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that millions of people today
have come to the conclusion
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that there will be no future
literally burning lake of fire
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where those who have
disobeyed the will of God
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will be punished.
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They actually believe that
everyone is going to heaven.
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How incredible it is,
I've never been to a funeral
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where people actually said,
"Folks today we have a problem"
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"this person's
going the other way... "
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I've never been to one have you?
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I've been to
hundreds of funerals.
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I've done hundreds of funerals.
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And never no matter
how the person lived
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whether they were very
wicked, they never said...
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"This person! Ooh,
we have problems today!"
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So people have been
fooled by the Devil's lie.
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In spite of it all God
has endeavored to save man,
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in spite of man's sin.
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God has sent His
prophets to warn man about sin
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and to persuade
him to turn from sin.
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Consider Matthew 23:34
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Oh, this is
terrible, ladies and gentlemen.
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God has sent His
prophets, His spokespersons
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but they have been
misused, abused and dismissed.
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So God has sent His Son to make
it possible for man to be saved.
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But men have rejected the Son!
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Note carefully Matthew 21:37-39
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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that's what people
are still doing today.
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In their minds, they
are dismissing the Son.
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But people took Jesus
and literally killed Him!
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God has sent the Holy Spirit
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to influence man too accept
the righteousness of Christ.
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But men have
despised the Holy Spirit.
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Look at Hebrews 10:29
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Oh, be careful my friend
how you step on the cross.
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Your foot might slip
and your soul be lost.
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When you have done
despite to the Spirit of Grace,
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At some point You may commit
the sin God never forgives.
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But God has given
man His Word, the Bible.
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But man has refused to
read it much less obey it.
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we discover this striking text:
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It is striking because in Psalms
119 the question is asked,
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"Wherewithal shall a
young man cleanse his way?"
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And the answer comes quickly,
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"By taking heed thereto
according to thy Word. "
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If you want to get right
then you must read the Bible.
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How do you get it? You
read it. You absorb it.
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Then it becomes a part of you.
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A story is told of a man
who had trouble with his mouth.
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He was so quick with the
word when somebody did anything
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he would eat them up one side
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and down the
other by using words
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and yet he called
himself a Christian
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So he finally went
to his pastor and said,
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"You have to help me, I
have cried and I've prayed
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but nothing is happening. "
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So he was given by
his pastor a formula
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He said, "I want you to read
2nd Peter seven times a day"
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Get the book of 2 Peter.
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Now remember Peter
always had a word to say.
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So it was a good thing to
put this man who was very mouthy
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with a disciple who
had trouble with his mouth.
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And he got it straight.
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He had to read 2nd
Peter seven times a day.
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You know what? The
man was a smart man.
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He followed the counsel of his
spiritual advisor, the pastor
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who was under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
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Whenever that man got riled up
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what would come
out of his mouth?
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2nd Peter would
come out of his mouth!
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Repetition
deepens the impression.
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It's the mother of all learning.
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If you want to get
better you must fill yourself
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with the Word of God.
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I do evangelistic meetings
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and I've done them
all over the world.
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Over 100 evangelistic campaigns.
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And over 8000 people
have accepted the Lord
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and been baptized.
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And I came across a
story where a lady was going
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to one of those meetings.
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And as she was going she
had a no good lazy son at home
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who began to make fun of her.
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Like people do
anytime you come to the Lord
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somebody is going
to make fun of you.
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In fact the book
'Desire of Ages' states,
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anytime God is
about to do a work
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Satan moves upon
somebody to object.
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And he was making fun of her
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because she
couldn't quote the text yet
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she couldn't do this and that.
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And she became angry.
She said, "Come here boy!"
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When he heard that word
he straightened up and came
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and he thought he was
going to get a good whipping.
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She said, "Go get a bushel
basket and set it in the yard. "
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So he went and got
a big bushel basket
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and set it in the yard.
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"Now take that bucket
and go fill it at the well. "
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So he filled it up
and brought it back.
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Then she said, "Now pour
it in that bushel basket. "
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So he poured it in. And she
kept him going about 10 times.
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From the bucket to the
basket, the water just ran out.
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But he was afraid
because she was angry now
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and she was giving him orders.
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"Go get another bucket and bring
it and pour it in that basket. "
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He's pouring it in
and finally she stopped.
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She asked him, "How much
water is in that bushel basket?"
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And he said, "Nothing. "
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And she said, "Yes
but it's cleaner. "
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Friend when you
get the Word of God
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in you, you might not be
able to remember everything.
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But it will clean
your body and your mind.
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Hallelujah!
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You need to feast
on the Word of God.
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And let God clean you up.
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God has given us His Word
but men haven't even read it.
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They have refused to
read it much less obey it.
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And God said He was grieved.
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God has always had
two characteristics
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to identify His people.
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I want you to get this.
God has always had a people.
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Ladies and
gentlemen, in the text
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Revelation 12:17, we
discover a striking text...
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God has always used
these two identifying marks
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to identify His children:
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the Ten Commandments
and the faith of Jesus
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have always been
the identifying marks.
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Before the cross men looked
forward to the death of Christ
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on Calvary while
they kept the commandments
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Since the cross
Christians look back
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at the death of
Christ upon Calvary,
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while they show
their acceptance of Him
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by keeping His Commandments.
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A person can say they love Jesus
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until their tongue
drops out of their mouth.
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But unless they
show their love for Him
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by obeying His commandments
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they are hell bound.
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Friends I want you to note
what it states in Matthew 15:8,9
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Consider this wonderful text.
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Matthew 15: 8, 9...
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Now listen as I
read, it states...
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"This people draweth
nigh unto Me with their mouth,
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And honoreth Me with their lips,
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but their heart is far from Me.
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But in vain do they worship Me,
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teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men. "
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There are individuals who would
rather crawl up a staircase
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on their knees than just
simply do what God asks them.
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There are people who will
travel half way around the world
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thinking they'll find something
with the face of Jesus or
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one of the saints on a
tree or out in a desert.
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They'd rather do that
than what Jesus simply said.
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He asks, "If you love Me,
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keep my
commandments. " John 14:15
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A simple
request, "If you love Me,
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keep my commandments. "
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And in 1 John it is stated that
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"... the
commandments are not grievous. "
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Oh friends, it's not enough
to say that you love Jesus
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you must show
it by your actions!
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I'm reminded of a story
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of a very wicked
man when he was drunk.
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He was a good man
when he was sober.
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But he's a terrible fellow when
he got a little liquor in him.
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Now this fellow
would tear places up
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with just a little liquor.
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Mostly he was alright. He
would bring his check home.
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He had his wife
in a beautiful home.
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But he would always cut up when
he got a glass or 2 of liquor
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and then he'd always
go running to his wife
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and he'd say, "Honey, I've
got three little words for you"
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"I love you. "
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Well one night he got some
liquor in him and he pushed
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the baby grand piano
out the front window.
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It was a mess, all the neighbors
were out looking to see
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what in the world was happening.
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He woke up, he was laying flat
on his back on the front lawn.
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Then the police sirens
were coming down the street
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and he looked around and said
"Oh, I'm in trouble now... "
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He jumped up and there's
his wife. She was sick of him.
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And she was standing in the door
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with her terry cloth robe on
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and her Mickey Mouse house shoes
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and he rushed up
to the door and said,
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"Honey, I have three
little words for you. "
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"I love you. "
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She had had it up to here.
She looked back at him and said
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"well I have two for you... "
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"Show me!"
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Friends, if you
love God you'll show Him.
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And His
commandments are not grievous!
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I want you to know,
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if you see a Christian
who believes in Jesus only
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or one who believes
in the commandments only
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his religion is no good.
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Now most Catholics and
Protestants believe in Jesus
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but they don't keep
all of the commandments.
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The Bible says the true
Christian will keep both.
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The Orthodox Jews
keep the commandments
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but they do not believe in Jesus
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therefore, their
religion is no good.
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The Bible says you must do both.
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There is only one
group of people in town
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both keeping the
commandments and having
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the faith of Jesus Christ.
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And Jesus said this is
the way you can identify
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His true followers.
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And that is the
Seventh Day Adventist Church.
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They keep the
commandments of God and have
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the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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God is sending
the everlasting Gospel
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to all the world.
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In Revelation 14:6
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it tells us ladies and gentlemen
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and I want you to know
that whenever God speaks,
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He speaks three times.
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He speaks once to the Father,
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once to the Son,
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and once to the Holy Ghost.
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That's God, Their each speaking.
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Now I want you to get this.
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When God was speaking
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to the world that was
going to die by a flood
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in Genesis the 6th chapter
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you discover that
God spoke three times.
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"God said,.. ", "God
said.. " and "The Lord said.. "
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In Revelation 14 you
find God speaking to a world
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that is going to die by fire!
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Any time Jesus
speaks, He speaks twice.
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He speaks to the
Father and to the Holy Ghost.
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So every time He says something
this is His modus operandi.
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He says, "Verily, Verily... "
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"Amen, Amen... "
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"Simon, Simon... "
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"Martha, Martha... "
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"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.. "
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Every time Jesus says something
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He said it twice,
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so you could understand Him.
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Well ladies and gentlemen,
God has a threefold message.
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He's speaking once to the Father
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once to the Son and
once to the Holy Ghost.
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In the book of
Revelation Chapter 14
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We call it God's Final Message,
the Three Angels Messages...
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In Revelation 14:6 it states:
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God is speaking to people.
Everybody is not a 'kind'
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Everybody is not a nation.
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Everybody is not a tongue.
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Even in this
place. We have individuals
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from all over the place.
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From Texas, from New England,
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from south, from north,
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everyone has a
different tongue as it were,
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a different type of brogue.
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And ladies and
gentlemen, we are all people.
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I'm so glad we are all people.
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Tall people, short people,
skinny people, fat people,
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good smelling
people, stinky people.
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People!
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God has the everlasting Gospel
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for all of us!
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He has it that we might be
saved from this wicked world.
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God sends this message to us to
cause us to study the Scriptures
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In John 5:39, note
carefully this text.
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Friends get it! The
Bible testifies of Jesus!
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The Old Testament speaks,
the New Testament says, "Amen!"
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The Old Testament
is the foundation,
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the New Testament
is the superstructure.
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And it's all about Jesus.
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I want you to understand friends
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that this day in
which we're living
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is all about Jesus.
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The faith we have
is all about Jesus.
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You might be a fine person.
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You might be a wonderful person,
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You may be 'all
that and a bag of chips'.
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But friends,
it's all about Jesus!
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If you don't have
Jesus, you don't have life!
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"Search the
Scriptures," Jesus said.
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And what Bible did He have?
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It was the Old Testament.
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You have some people who want
to throw out the Old Testament.
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But the Old
Testament is still good today.
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2 Timothy 3:16,17
says, "All scripture is given
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by inspiration of God and
is profitable for doctrine
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for correction, for reproof,
for instruction in righteousness
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That the man of God may be
perfect, thoroughly furnished
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unto all good works. "
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God wants you to have it all.
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You can have it all
when you take the whole Bible
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from Genesis to Revelation.
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Friends, God said,
"Search the Scriptures
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for in them ye
think ye have eternal life
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and they are they
which testify of Me. "
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We must prepare for the
Second Coming of Christ.
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In Amos 4:12
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we discover why God
sends the Everlasting Gospel
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to all the world.
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Oh yes friends.
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Is God going to allow
this Gospel to be preached
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over and over again and let man
go marching into sin forever?
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No! God will punish
those who refuse to repent.
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Note this striking text
in 2 Chronicles 36:14-16
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"betimes" = urgently
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No remedy, friends.
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Nobody could save them.
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The cup of their indignation
was full and overflowing.
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God said He would punish
those who refuse to repent.
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So trouble will come to
those who refuse to come to God.
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In Jeremiah 25:30-33
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Oh friends, imagine that day.
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That day when Jesus
comes and takes His saints
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but the wicked are
spread out all over the ground.
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No undertaker there, no family
members standing around crying.
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You are either in heaven,
on your way to the Holy City
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and going to heaven or you are
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dead upon the ground.
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But we are not
finished. Consider this text:
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In Jeremiah 4:23-27
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What do you mean Lord?
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What do you mean you
won't make a full end?
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That's during the
time of the 1,000 years
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when the earth will be at rest.
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And now here is Satan,
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he is bound, as it were,
with a chain of circumstances
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on this earth with
all his evil angels.
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The wicked are dead,
the righteous are gone
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the living
righteous are caught up.
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The righteous dead
have been resurrected.
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And here's Satan, as it
were, stewing in his own mess.
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The earth, he has
something to work with.
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When God created, He created
something out of nothing.
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But He's given Satan
something to work with.
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Now go ahead Satan
and create something.
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See all the
angels he's deceived.
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There they are
sizing up his head.
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"Now we've been following this
fellow low these many years...
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...and now he'd
better show us something. "
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"He wanted to be God.
" "This is his chance! "
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Satan takes off.
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Somebody said he goes around
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the world, comes back
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and gathers his evil angels.
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They come over to see
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and here's a big
field of waving grass.
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"What is it? "
It's astro-turf...
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He can't create anything.
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Help me somebody.
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Friend I don't want
to be there when God
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has a
controversy with the wicked.
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Please understand. God's
messengers are His ministers.
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And God's message is, Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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God's reproofs include
many of the messages that you
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have heard in the Faith Chapel.
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And friends you do
well to understand it
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it so that you can do well.
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God sends this
message of warning to those
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who have heard the
Gospel but refuse to accept it.
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But instead they
treat it lightly.
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Woe unto you that are
full! For you shall hunger.
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Woe unto you that laugh now
for you shall mourn and weep.
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Consider this text in Luke 6:25
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Oh consider this
ladies and gentlemen.
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God says there are those
who spurn the Gospel message
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and who today laugh at it
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and scorn those who proclaim it.
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God said His day to
laugh will soon come.
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And those who laugh now
will then weep and mourn.
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Is this the
'joke' that tickled God?
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Let us turn to
the book of Proverbs
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Proverbs 1:23-33
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The way is clear.
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There is no middle ground.
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You're either
right or you're wrong.
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It's either the
truth or it's a lie.
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You are either worshipping God
or you're worshipping the Devil.
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There's no middle ground.
There are no shades of gray.
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You're either
right or you're wrong.
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Ladies and
gentlemen, listen to God.
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Give yourself to Him.
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Now is the time
to say, "Yes" to God
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or one day
because you laughed at Him
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He's going to laugh at you.
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I can imagine a sound going
all the way back from eternity
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and laughter coming forth...
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"Oh Lord, I'm
ready to do right now. "
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TOO LATE!
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One day someone's gonna be
standing in the supermarket line
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somebody's gonna be buying
a Buick and something is going
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to happen up in the sky.
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What's happening?
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Jesus is Coming!
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"Oh Lord, I'm ready now... "
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TOO LATE!
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That's why the Bible says,
"Be ye therefore also ready...
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for in such an hour
as you think not... "
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For individuals who laugh at God
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this is the
'joke', that tickled God?
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Friends, when Jesus comes
I want Him to call my name.
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I want to hear him say well done
thou good and faithful servant.
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Come you blessed of my Father,
inherit a place prepared for you
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from the
foundation of the world.
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I want to rise from this earth.
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If I'm asleep I want to
come up out of the ground.
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I want to see Jesus.
I want to be received.
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And it can be ours
if you accept Him today.
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Oh, be faithful friends.
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God bless you.
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