Greetings, friends,
welcome to Faith Chapel.
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I'm Dr. P.C. Willis the
Adult Ministries director
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for Lake Region Conference
of Seventh-day Adventist.
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We welcome you here once again
as we study the Word of God.
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Our message is entitled today
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"Glory on a Mountain,"
"Glory on a Mountain."
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Ladies and gentlemen, the
story is told about a town
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who wanted the truth.
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So they sent out the
call truth come to our town.
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Truth got the
message and went on his way.
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It was a hot dusty
journey and unbeknownst to him
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Lie had also heard that call
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and started out
before him on that trip.
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As they went down the road
since it was such a hot day,
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there was a beautiful lake
and Lie jumped in the lake.
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Took off his dirty rags
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and jumped in
the lake to cool off.
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Well, Truth saw the lake
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and he didn't know
Lie was in the lake.
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So he took off his
beautiful robes of truth
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and jumped in the
lake to refresh himself.
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When Lie got out and saw
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there was nothing but
his old dirty lie rags,
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he saw the Truth's
cloths lying on the ground
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and he stole them and took
off down the road for the town.
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The people in the town
were waiting for the Truth
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and when they saw
the truth cloths coming,
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they said bless the
Lord, here comes the Truth.
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But when Lie got in
the town they discovered,
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it was just a Lie
with a Truth cloths on.
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Well, Truth finally
got out of the water
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and he founds his clothes gone
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and all he saw were the
Lie's rags lying on the ground.
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Well, he wasn't
gonna and put that on
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so he started walking down
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the middle of
the road but naked.
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And when the
people saw him coming,
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they said, bless the Lord,
here comes the naked Truth.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen,
here it is glory on a mountain.
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We want you to buckle
your gospels seatbelts,
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it may become a bumpy ride.
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We want to see what happens
as we consider our key texts.
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It's found in 1 Kings 18:21-24.
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"And Elijah came unto
all the people, and said,
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How long halt ye
between two opinions?
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If the Lord be God, follow him
but if Baal, then follow him.
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And the people
answered him not a word.
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Then said
Elijah unto the people,
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I, even I only,
remain a prophet of the Lord
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but Baal's prophets are
four hundred and fifty men.
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Let them therefore
give us two bullocks
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and let them choose
one bullock for themselves,
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and cut it in
pieces, and lay it on wood,
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and put no fire under
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and I will dress
the other bullock,
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and lay it on wood,
and put no fire under.
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And call ye on
the name of your gods,
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and I will call on
the name of the Lord
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and the God that answereth
by fire, let him be God.
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And all the people answered
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and said, it is well spoken."
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It is time for a show down.
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The 400 prophets of Baal,
against the one prophet of God.
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But note carefully friend,
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one plus God is
always a majority.
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All Israel was
gathered as witnesses.
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How did this get started?
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Men did is they
pleased and prayed God no mine.
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They backslid into Baal
worship and they worshiped Baal
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like it was the best
thing since sliced bread.
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In 1 Kings 17:1, God saw a man,
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who was praying for deliverance.
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And God sent Elijah to Ahab,
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and Elijah
showed up in the palace
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and stretched out
his hand before Ahab,
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then said there shall be
no rain except that my mouth.
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And before Ahab
could say catch that man,
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God snatched him
away and hid him.
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Now here we are
three and half years later,
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and God has
everybody's attention.
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Remember friends,
trouble will get your attention.
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Its time for a show down.
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And in 1 Kings
18:21, Elijah is crying,
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"How long halt ye
between two opinions?"
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And the most striking thing is,
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as that the people
answered him, not a word.
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Why were they speechless?
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They were speechless
because they were defenseless.
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585 years before on
an another mountain,
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a mountain called Mount Sinai,
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they promised to
be faithful to God
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and would not turn back.
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Consider the
text in Exodus 19:3-6.
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Note carefully, what it states.
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"And Moses went up unto God,
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and the Lord called
unto him out of the mountain,
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saying, Thus shalt thou
say to the house of Jacob,
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and tell the children of Israel.
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Ye have seen what I
did unto the Egyptians,
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and how I bare
you on eagles' wings,
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and brought you unto myself.
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Now therefore, if ye
will obey my voice indeed,
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and keep my covenant,
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then ye shall be a
peculiar treasure unto me
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above all people for
all the earth is mine.
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And ye shall be unto
me a kingdom of priests,
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and a holy nation.
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These are the words
which thou shalt speak
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unto the children of Israel."
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Note carefully friends,
Moses must have been excited
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as he carried the Words of God,
back to the children of Israel.
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Here is God, wanting to meet
with the children of Israel.
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He said I bare
you on eagles' wings.
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Oh, he must have been thrilled
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surely the people
will here and be obedient.
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Surely they will understand
what God wants for them.
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But note carefully,
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what happen as we
continue in the very text.
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Exodus 19.
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"And Moses came and called
for the elders of the people,
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and laid before their
faces all theses words
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which the Lord commanded him.
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And all the
people answered together,
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and said, All that the
Lord hath spoken we will do.
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And Moses returned the words
of the people unto the Lord."
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Can you imagine, Moses
going up and down the mountain
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carrying message
between God and His people.
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And the people saying,
yes, what God said, we will do
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and Moses happily
returning this message to God.
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God already knew it,
but this is Moses job.
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Now note
carefully the next text.
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We're reading
verses 10 through 13.
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"And the Lord said unto
Moses, Go unto the people,
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and sanctify them
to day and to morrow,
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and let them wash their clothes,
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and be ready
against the third day
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for the third day
the Lord will come down
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in the sight of all the
people upon mount Sinai.
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And thou shalt set bounds
unto the people round about,
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saying, Take heed to yourselves,
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that ye go not
up into the mount,
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or touch the border of it,
whosoever toucheth the mount
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shall be surely put to death.
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There shall not
an hand touch it,
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but he shall surely be stoned,
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or shot through;
whether it be beast or man,
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it shall not live when
the trumpet soundeth long,
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they shall come
up to the mount."
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Oh, ladies and
gentlemen, please get this.
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God is setting
bounds for His children.
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God is always exact.
God means, what He says.
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To come to meet
God, you must get a bath.
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Change your clothes,
put on your best, why?
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Because you're meeting God.
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If you went to meet
the queen or the president,
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you would put on your best.
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When we come to meet God,
we must give Him our best.
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He is the
Creator of the universe.
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He made all the
things including us
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and so we show Him reverence
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by being clean, by
giving Him our best.
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Not the leftovers, our best.
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And then God comes
to meet with His people.
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Very few times do
you find in the Bible,
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where the Father
and Son and Holy Ghost
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or the term Halloween is used.
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When it is used, that
scribe would wash their clothes.
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They would take
a bath and change
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and then write the name
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and then only
write certain consonance.
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Friends, are we that careful
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when it comes to taking
the name of God on our lips
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or when we
presented or when we come
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into God's house?
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Do our children run up and
down the floor in God's house?
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Do we-- go off in
ideal conversation
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in the presence
of God in God's house
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even in Ecclesiastes it tells us
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that we ought to be careful
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what we say in
the presence of God
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for God doesn't
have pleasure with fools.
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Note carefully what happen,
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He prepared His
people to meeting
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and then the trinity comes
down and stands on Mount Sinai.
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And in Exodus 20:1 it states.
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"And God spake all these words,
saying, I am the Lord thy God,
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which have brought thee
out of the land of Egypt,
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out of the house of bondage.
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Thou shalt have no
other gods before me."
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That's number two.
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"Thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image,
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or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above,
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or that is in the earth beneath,
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or that is in the
water under the earth.
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Thou shalt not bow
down thyself to them,
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nor serve them for I the
Lord they God am a jealous God,
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visiting the
iniquity of the fathers
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upon the children unto the third
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and fourth
generation of them that hate me,
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And shewing mercy
unto thousands of them
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that love me, and
keep my commandments."
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Number three,
"Thou shalt not take
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the name of the
Lord thy God in vain,
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for the Lord will
not hold him guiltless
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that taketh his name in vain."
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And that includes
calling yourself a Christian,
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but not being Christ like.
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The fourth commandment,
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"Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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Six days shalt thou
labor, and do all thy work,
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But the seventh day
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is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God.
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In it thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nor thy son,
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nor thy
daughter, thy manservant,
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nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle,
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nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates,
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For in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, the sea,
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and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day
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wherefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day,
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and hallowed it."
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Number five, "Honor
thy father and thy mother
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that thy days may
be long upon the land
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which the Lord
thy God giveth thee."
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Six, "Thou shalt not kill."
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Seventh, "Thou shalt
not commit adultery."
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Eight, "Thou shall not steal."
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Nine, "Thou shall not bear false
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witness against thy neighbor."
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Ten, "Thou shalt not
covet thy neighbor's house,
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Thou shalt not
cover thy neighbor's wife,
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nor his manservant,
nor his maidservant,
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nor his ox, nor his ass,
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nor any thing that
is thy neighbor's."
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Friends, the people
heard what God says and I know
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they must have shouted
for glory and said praise God.
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All what the
Lord said, we will do.
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Is that right?
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Where they're happy that God
spoke to them, is that right?
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Note carefully the next verse.
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You will be
shocked by what it says.
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"And all the people
saw the thunderings,
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and the lightnings, and
the noise of the trumpet,
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and the mountain smoking
and when the people saw it,
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they removed,
and stood afar off."
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This is incredible.
They ran away from God.
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The very next text,
they said in verse 19.
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"And they said unto Moses,
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speak thou with
us, and we will hear
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but let not God speak
with us, lest we die."
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What a dishonor. What a joke.
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God had just spoken with
them, they didn't fall dead.
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But just like people today,
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they would rather heal
about God, than hear from God.
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Are you like that?
God is speaking, friends.
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He is knocking at your
door and calling, open the door,
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open the door I will come in.
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But people said, oh,
no, lets not here God.
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You speak to Moses and
Moses we will hear you.
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How striking that
is, that even today
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people check on God by
what other people have to say
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then checking on
people by what God is saying.
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But God heard them
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and He called Moses
up into the mountain.
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Note carefully what
He states in Exodus 24
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and we want to read
verse 3 and verse 18.
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"And Moses came
and told all the people
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and told the people
all the words of the Lord,
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and all the judgments
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and all the people
answered with one voice,
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and said, all the words
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which the Lord
hath said will we do."
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Note carefully.
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"And Moses went into
the midst of the cloud,
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and gat him up into the mount
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and Moses was in the mount
forty days and forty nights."
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Now you have to
watch this forty days
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and forty night's
business in the Bible.
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How long did it
rain during the flood?
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Forty days and forty nights.
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When Moses ran for is life
after he killed the Egyptian
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how long did he run
into the wilderness?
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Forty days.
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How long did Goliath
come out and Horeb at Israel
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and talked bad about God?
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Forty days.
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How long did Jonah
preach before judgment
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would come upon Nineveh?
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Yet forty days.
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When Elijah ran from
Jezebel, how long did he run?
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Forty days.
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When Jesus fasted,
how long did He fast?
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Forty days. Now
that's a study in itself.
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We will have to study
that more at another time.
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But here it is,
that Moses is now
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up on the mountain with God
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in God's
presence for forty days,
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what happens in his absence?
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After all the people said,
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whatever God said
we're going to do it.
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Praise God, Halleluiah, Moses.
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Let God talk to
you and you talk to us
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and we will be obedient.
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How long does it take for
you to fall off the wagon?
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Eunuch walked
with God for 300 years.
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Some of us can't walk
with God for three days.
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Help me somebody.
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Some of us can't walk
straight for three hours.
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What your problem, friend?
How long can you be faithful?
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Jesus asked the disciples,
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can you not watch
with me for one hour?
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Moses is on the
mountain top for four days,
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so don't be so
hard on the Israelites.
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Poor folks, look and consider
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what they did it
in Exodus 32:1- 6.
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Let's see what God
said? What did they do?
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"And when the
people saw that Moses
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delayed to come
down out of the mount,
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the people gathered
themselves together unto Aaron,
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and said unto
him, Up, make us gods,
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which shall go
before us as for this Moses,
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the man that brought us
up out of the land of Egypt,"
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now wait a
minute, wait a minute.
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Didn't they just here God say,
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I'm the Lord thy
God which brought
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the out of the
land of the Egypt,
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out of the house of the bondage?
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But here they are saying,
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this man Moses brought
us out of the land of Egypt.
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"We wot not what
is become of him.
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And Aaron said unto them,
break off the golden earrings."
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You know whenever a
preacher starts talking
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about food and
money, the people get funny.
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He thought if he asked
them for their earrings
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they would stop
and say, wait a minute
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we changed our mind.
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But he said break
off those earrings
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that "are in the
ears of your wives,
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and of your sons,
and of you daughters,
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and bring them unto me.
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And all the people
brake off the golden earrings
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which were in their ears,
and brought them unto Aaron.
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And he received
them at their hand,
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and fashioned it
with a graving tool,
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after he had
made it a molten calf
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and they said, These
be thy gods, O Israel,
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which brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt.
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And when Aaron saw it,
he built an altar before it
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and Aaron made proclamation,
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and said, To morrow
is a feast to the Lord.
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And they rose up
early on the morrow,
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and offered burnt offerings,
and brought peace offerings
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and the people sat down to eat
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and to drink,
and rose up to play."
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That term rising up to play
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is a euphemism
for sexual orgies.
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Ladies and
gentlemen, I want you to know
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that those who loved
the Lord and are obedient
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sometimes we have children
and there are other peoples
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who discover that
even though the Lord said,
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meet Me on the seventh day
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they discover
that the seventh day
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is the best time to
sleep or they can getup
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and go to work early on any day.
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But when it comes
to Sabbath morning,
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here we go time to get to
Sabbath school at 9'o clock
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let's go, let's get there early.
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Why?
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Because a promises is
given in the Spirit of Prophecy
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that angels are
waiting with special gifts
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in their hand for those
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who come early
to Sabbath school.
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So Satan would have you
sleep in and just arrive
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for the 11'o clock
hour or even later.
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Isn't that interesting
that if we call for picnic
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the children would be
5'o clock in the morning.
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Let's go to the picnic.
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But when its time to go
to the church, oh I'm tired.
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It's the same
thing with these folk.
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How incredible it is.
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Now I must hasten on quickly
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because I see my time is moving.
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You see ladies and gentlemen,
these individuals acted like
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that they were
worshiping the true God.
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God stopped the meeting
He was having with Moses
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and said, go down,
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for those people
that you brought out.
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Moses said, oh, no, no,
Lord, You brought them out.
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They are nasty
hypocrites nobody wanted them.
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He said, let me
destroy these folk.
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Moses said, no, please.
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As a pastor I found it's
very difficult to swallow
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and I have to learn it.
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Moses said, if You kill
those folk, kill me too.
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Because of folk
will talk about it.
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And God sent Moses down
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and when Moses went
down the mountain top,
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he saw the people naked
dancing around a golden calf
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and he threw the
commandments down.
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Later on God said, look
you get some more stones
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and bring them back up
and I will write them again.
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The only thing in the Bible,
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God did not let man
write was the Ten Commandments.
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God wrote it with His own
finger on two tables of stone.
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Friends, God is
particular about His work.
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Moses came down
from the mountain
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and he found these people
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and he told them God
will not go with you.
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I want you to see what
he says in Exodus 33:1-6.
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Consider this striking
text after judgment had fallen,
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after 16,000 had been killed.
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Whose on the Lord
side, come over to me?
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Well, lo and behold,
now there is judgment.
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The people are mourning.
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What is happening in
Exodus 33 starting with verse 1.
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"And the Lord said
unto Moses, Depart,
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and go up hence,
thou and the people
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which thou hast brought
up out of the land of Egypt,
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unto the land which
I sware unto Abraham,
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to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying,
Unto thy seed will I give it.
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And I will send
an angel before thee,
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and I will drive
out the Canaanite,
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the Amorite, and the Hittite,
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and the
Perizzite, and the Hivite,
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and the Jebusite unto a
land flowing with milk and honey
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for I will not go
up in the midst of thee
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for thou art a
stiffnecked people
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lest I consume thee in the way.
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And when the people
heard these evil tidings,
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they mourned and no man
did put on him his ornaments.
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For the Lord had" past
tense "said unto Moses,
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Say unto the children of Israel,
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Ye are a stiffnecked people.
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I will come up into the
midst of thee in a moment,
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and consume thee, therefore now
00:20:36.31\00:20:38.24
put off thy ornaments from thee,
00:20:38.27\00:20:40.05
that I may know
what to do unto thee.
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And the children of
Israel stripped themselves
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of their ornaments
by the mount Horeb."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
00:20:48.23\00:20:49.26
this is the reason why
we don't wear ornaments.
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This is why we take of.
00:20:51.33\00:20:52.78
Israel had been
in Egypt so long,
00:20:52.81\00:20:55.00
they came out of Egypt
looking like Egyptians.
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God told them,
take that stuff out.
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I didn't give you that
stuff you to put it on.
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I gave it to you so that
you might give it as offerings.
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I paid you for
400 years of slavery.
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Take that stuff of,
quit looking like the world.
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Love not the world,
00:21:08.16\00:21:09.19
neither the things
that are in the world.
00:21:09.22\00:21:10.60
If any man loved the world,
00:21:10.63\00:21:11.66
they love of the
father is not in him.
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God said it before.
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There is a very important law,
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that law of first mentioned
in Bible in Genesis 35:1-5.
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God told Jacob I'm
going to meet you at bethel,
00:21:21.10\00:21:24.57
so cleanse your house.
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Jacob got all of the idols god,
00:21:26.10\00:21:28.26
all of the
jewelers that earrings,
00:21:28.29\00:21:29.81
and the finger rings
and buried it in the ground
00:21:29.84\00:21:32.90
and he stood clean before God.
00:21:32.93\00:21:34.99
That's why
Christians don't wear jewelry.
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Its not because
we can't afford it,
00:21:38.49\00:21:40.67
it's because God wants us
00:21:40.70\00:21:42.33
to look
different from the world.
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We don't need it to look good.
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All we need is
Jesus. Halleluiah.
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God told them to take it of;
00:21:51.13\00:21:53.37
they got tired up
because of Baal worship.
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And, friends, let
me tell you something,
00:21:55.99\00:21:58.18
God was getting His
children's attention.
00:21:58.21\00:22:00.46
He told them
drive out the enemy.
00:22:00.49\00:22:04.35
Note carefully, don't be
like the wicked in Daniel 12:10
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note carefully this text;
it's a most important one.
00:22:09.88\00:22:13.23
Daniel 12:10.
00:22:13.26\00:22:18.94
Many shall be purified,
and made white and tried
00:22:18.97\00:22:22.74
but the wicked shall do wickedly
00:22:22.77\00:22:24.38
and none of the
wicked shall understand;
00:22:24.41\00:22:26.09
but the wise shall understand."
00:22:26.12\00:22:28.83
Note carefully,
Noah had three sons,
00:22:28.86\00:22:30.95
Shem, Ham and Japheth.
00:22:30.98\00:22:33.02
Ham has four sons, Cush,
Phut, Mizraim, and Canaan.
00:22:33.05\00:22:38.11
Cush, was the
first man to be a despot.
00:22:38.14\00:22:41.08
Cush called himself God.
Cush called himself Baal.
00:22:41.11\00:22:46.54
He had a surname Nimrod
00:22:46.57\00:22:48.46
who called
himself the son of God.
00:22:48.49\00:22:51.16
Do you get it?
00:22:51.19\00:22:52.22
Every time God has the original
Satan makes a counterfeit.
00:22:52.25\00:22:56.50
Cush called
himself a Baal and Nimrod,
00:22:56.53\00:23:01.37
the city builder of Babylon.
00:23:01.40\00:23:03.76
He built Erech, he build Babel,
00:23:03.79\00:23:06.63
and he built Accad
and he built Nineveh
00:23:06.66\00:23:09.49
and that's why,
Jonah was afraid to go
00:23:09.52\00:23:12.48
because all those
Babylonians down there.
00:23:12.51\00:23:16.21
Since daddy was Baal god,
00:23:16.24\00:23:18.99
Nimrod called
himself the son of god.
00:23:19.02\00:23:21.39
He has started sun worship.
00:23:21.42\00:23:23.05
In fact, he said when I
die I'm going into the sun.
00:23:23.08\00:23:25.86
That's why the
first day of the week
00:23:25.89\00:23:27.29
is called the Sun's day.
00:23:27.32\00:23:28.77
His wife Semiramis said, well,
00:23:28.80\00:23:30.77
when I'm die I'm
going into the moon.
00:23:30.80\00:23:32.63
She is the
prototype of Diana and Venus
00:23:32.66\00:23:34.78
who broke her arms
off making love they say.
00:23:34.81\00:23:37.14
She said, I'm going
to go into the moon.
00:23:37.17\00:23:39.42
So the second day of
the week is the moon's day.
00:23:39.45\00:23:41.88
That's why when
you get marriage,
00:23:41.91\00:23:43.06
you have honeymoon.
00:23:43.09\00:23:45.99
I want you to
know they brought in
00:23:46.02\00:23:47.68
sun worship and
fertility symbols
00:23:47.71\00:23:50.17
and when Nimrod
was called on a hunt
00:23:50.20\00:23:52.54
his wife Semiramis said
I saw fir tree spring up
00:23:52.57\00:23:56.45
out of an old log where he died.
00:23:56.48\00:23:58.43
And you can always remember him
00:23:58.46\00:24:00.01
by decorating that tree
with fertilities symbols
00:24:00.04\00:24:02.80
and that's why people
hang eggs or balls on trees.
00:24:02.83\00:24:07.32
Its Baal worship.
The worship of nature.
00:24:07.35\00:24:11.43
That why you have
Easter bunnies and chickens.
00:24:11.46\00:24:14.55
They have nothing to do
with crucifixion of Christ,
00:24:14.58\00:24:17.04
it has to do with
fertilities symbols
00:24:17.07\00:24:19.35
and Tammuz was
born on December 25
00:24:19.38\00:24:23.23
and when was
kill the people wept
00:24:23.26\00:24:25.16
according to Ezekiel
8:14, 40 days for Tammuz
00:24:25.19\00:24:29.24
and that's why you
have the 40 days of lent
00:24:29.27\00:24:31.90
or the 40 days of Ramadan.
00:24:31.93\00:24:35.52
Baal worship, alive
and well even in this year.
00:24:35.55\00:24:41.05
Note carefully,
these individuals
00:24:41.08\00:24:43.57
cause there children
to walk through the fire,
00:24:43.60\00:24:45.92
husbands forgot there wives.
00:24:45.95\00:24:47.62
What was this worship about?
00:24:47.65\00:24:49.05
It was about male
and female prostitutes.
00:24:49.08\00:24:52.15
And they would go
upon every high hill
00:24:52.18\00:24:54.47
and under every green
tree, they were fallex symbols.
00:24:54.50\00:24:58.14
Do I have to be more blunt?
00:24:58.17\00:25:00.29
And as the world turn,
00:25:00.32\00:25:01.58
it would have intercourse
with all the starry heavens.
00:25:01.61\00:25:04.42
This was the worship,
that Israel became involved in.
00:25:04.45\00:25:09.04
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:25:09.07\00:25:10.10
I wish I had the
time to tell you more.
00:25:10.13\00:25:12.42
This is what Elijah
was continuing with,
00:25:12.45\00:25:14.77
when he stood
before the people and said,
00:25:14.80\00:25:16.49
"How long halt ye
between two opinions?"
00:25:16.52\00:25:20.50
If the Lord be God, follow
Him but if Baal, follow him.
00:25:20.53\00:25:24.11
Now here is a
God that's supposed
00:25:24.14\00:25:25.48
to be able to control nature
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but it's been dry place
for three and half years.
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Go ahead and these individuals
now have taken their calf
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and have slain it and
they are dancing around.
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Somebody said,
the historian said,
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they put
somebody inside the altar
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with a lamp to kindle the fire.
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But friends, he died from
carbon monoxide poisoning.
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So as they leaped on the altar,
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oh no, he
couldn't light the fire.
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But when it was time
for the evening sacrifice,
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Elijah not only
killed this sacrifice
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but he had it covered
with sea water socking it
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so that it filled the pit
and then he prayed one prayer
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and God spoke by fire.
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The first nuclear blast,
fire coming down from God,
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consuming the
fire burning the rocks
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and leaving a smoke
in hole in the ground.
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The people realize, it
wasn't Baal but it was God
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and there tongues were
loose as they recognized the God
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that answered by
fire will be God.
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The Lord, He is God they cried.
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Friend, if you wait
for the fire the fall
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you're waiting too late.
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Why don't you receive God
now while in your right mind
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before the doctor walks
out and shakes his head?
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Why don't you call
upon the God of the living,
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the God who made the
heavens and the earth, the sea
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and the fountains of the water?
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Why don't you give
all of your self to Him,
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He can make you over again.
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If any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature.
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The old things have past away.
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Behold, all
things have become new
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and God will make
you new over again.
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There is only two
opinions, God's and Satan's.
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You see the right or wrong
heaven or hell, truth or lie.
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And ladies and gentlemen,
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God is the truth and the God
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that answers by fire
will reveal Himself to world
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that rejected
Him, that He is God.
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Let's accept Him and receive Him
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before the fire and
the fire that we receive
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let it be the
fire of the Holy Spirit
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coming into our lives.
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Let us receive that refreshing
that comes from God's presence
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and let's tell somebody
that somebody will be saved,
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there will hear the
truth because we give it,
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we live it, and we love
God and He is coming soon.
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God bless you is my prayer.
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