>> THIS IS KNOWN AS GOD'S HOUSE OF PRAYER. 00:01:51.51\00:01:58.81 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO PRAY AND ASK GOD TO GIVE YOU A BLESSING. 00:01:58.81\00:02:01.62 THOSE WATCHING US BY WHATEVER MEANS THEY HAVE ACCESS TO, AND 00:02:01.62\00:02:05.89 WE PRAISE THE LORD THAT 3ABN CAN REACH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND 00:02:05.89\00:02:10.86 THE WORLD. I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE AT THIS 00:02:10.86\00:02:14.03 TIME FOR STEPHANIE DAWN AND HER DAD TO COME FORWARD. 00:02:14.03\00:02:28.11 HER DAD WILL BE ACCOMPANYING HER ON THE PIANO. 00:02:28.11\00:02:30.28 WE PRAISE THE LORD BECAUSE GOD IS GOOD. 00:02:30.28\00:02:33.05 IN THIS SONG STEPHANIE WILL BE SINGING SANCTUARY. 00:02:33.05\00:02:37.19 AND WE ARE GOING TO HEAR A MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY AFTER SHE'S 00:02:37.19\00:02:41.72 DONE BY THE PASTOR ENTITLED "EROSION." 00:02:41.72\00:02:47.30 I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH STEPHANIE DAWN, THE PASTOR WILL PRAY WITH 00:02:47.30\00:02:51.23 YOU. MAY GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERY ONE 00:02:51.23\00:02:52.93 OF US. [ ¤ ] 00:02:52.93\00:03:09.68 [ ¤ Piano Playing ¤ ] ¤ LATELY I WONDER ¤ 00:03:09.68\00:03:27.54 ¤ WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH IT ¤ ¤ REMEMBER HOW ONCE I WAS GONE ¤ 00:03:27.54\00:03:47.76 ¤ INTO YOUR SANCTUARY ¤ ¤ DRAWN INTO YOUR SANCTUARY ¤ 00:03:47.76\00:04:01.84 ¤ WHEN DID I WANDER SO FAR AWAY ¤ 00:04:01.84\00:04:09.48 ¤ HOW DID I GET HERE ¤ ¤ WHY DID I STRAY ¤ 00:04:09.48\00:04:19.65 ¤ CAN I EVER FIND MY WAY ¤ ¤ BACK TO YOUR SANCTUARY ¤ 00:04:19.65\00:04:39.87 ¤ NOTHING HAVE I UNEARTHED ¤ ¤ SO MUCH THAT YOU IN HEAVEN ¤ 00:04:39.87\00:04:52.72 ¤ SO WHY DO I CONTINUE ¤ ¤ COME TO YOU ¤ 00:04:52.72\00:05:27.52 ¤ ALL OF MY FOLLIES YOU SEE ¤ ¤ I HAVE NOWHERE TO HIDE ¤ 00:05:27.52\00:05:32.13 ¤ I HAVE NO PLACE TO BE ¤ ¤ OUT FROM YOUR SANCTUARY ¤ 00:05:32.13\00:06:00.49 ¤ NOTHING HAVE YOU UNEARTHED BUT YOU ¤ 00:06:00.49\00:06:04.63 ¤ NO ONE BUT YOU IN HEAVEN ¤ ¤ SO WHY WOULD I CONTINUE TO 00:06:04.63\00:06:17.14 DO ¤ ¤ ANYTHING ELSE BUT CONTINUE ¤ 00:06:17.14\00:06:37.96 ¤ I WILL REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID FOR ME ¤ 00:06:37.96\00:06:42.46 ¤ CLIMBING THAT HILL TO DIE ON THE TREE ¤ 00:06:42.46\00:06:51.91 ¤ WHERE I WILL GROW AND BEND MY KNEES ¤ 00:06:51.91\00:07:04.89 ¤ THERE I FIND SANCTUARY ¤ ¤ YOUR SANCTUARY ¤ 00:07:04.89\00:07:38.55 >> CAN WE SAY AMEN. THATHANK YOU, STEPHANIE. 00:07:42.06\00:07:45.03 THANK YOU, DAN. I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS 00:07:45.03\00:07:52.97 WITH ME AS WE GO TO THE LORD IN PRAYER. 00:07:52.97\00:07:57.21 HEAVENLY FATHER, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY, LORD, FOR YOUR HOLY 00:07:57.21\00:08:02.08 SPIRIT TO WORK IN US AND THROUGH US. 00:08:02.08\00:08:05.01 I COMMIT MYSELF TO YOU NOW, LORD, TO TAKE THIS TIME AND 00:08:05.01\00:08:09.18 GLORIFY YOUR NAME IN JESUS' NAME I PRAY, AMEN. 00:08:09.18\00:08:14.92 THE MESSAGE IS SIMPLY ENTITLED "EROSION." 00:08:14.92\00:08:19.29 EROSION. PSALM 11:3 IS THE VERSE OF 00:08:19.29\00:08:26.13 CONSIDERATION. A POWERFUL VERSE, RELEVANT TO 00:08:26.13\00:08:30.64 THE TIMES IN WHICH WE LIFE. THE PSALMIST DAVID WRITES IF THE 00:08:30.64\00:08:36.81 FOUNDATIONS ARE DESTROYED, WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS DO? 00:08:36.81\00:08:42.38 ON MARCH 12th, 1928 AT 11:56 P.M., THE RESIDENTS OF A 00:08:42.38\00:08:48.42 DOWNSTREAM TOWN HAD NO IDEA THAT IN JUST ONE MORE MINUTE, THE 00:08:48.42\00:08:53.76 ENTIRE TOWN WOULD BE SWEPT INTO ETERNITY. 00:08:53.76\00:08:57.90 AT 11:57 P.M., A 205-FOOT WALL OF THE St. FRANCIS DAM 00:08:57.90\00:09:05.11 EXPLODED, SENDING MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER ON A VICIOUS 00:09:05.11\00:09:10.48 TEN-MILE DEATH MARCH. IT DESTROYED THE TOWN LOCATED 00:09:10.48\00:09:17.69 WHERE PRESENTLY SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, NOW EXISTS. 00:09:17.69\00:09:21.42 WHEN THE TRAGEDY WAS INVESTIGATED, THE BUILDER, 00:09:21.42\00:09:24.46 WILLIAM MULHOLLAND ADMITTED THAT HE SAW CRACKS DEVELOPING IN THE 00:09:24.46\00:09:29.46 WALL. HE SAW THE CRACKS DEVELOPING IN 00:09:29.46\00:09:30.87 THE WALL OF THE St. FRANCIS DAM. 00:09:30.87\00:09:33.47 AND HE SAID, AND I QUOTE, I SAW WATER SEEPING THROUGH THE WALLS. 00:09:33.47\00:09:40.84 THE ARTICLE SAYS MULHOLLAND ALONG WITH HIS ASSISTANT CHIEF 00:09:40.84\00:09:45.05 ENGINEER AND GENERAL MANAGER HARVEY VAN NORMAN EXPECTED THE 00:09:45.05\00:09:48.42 CRACKS AND LEAKS AND HE JUDGED THEM TO BE WITHIN EXPECTATIONS 00:09:48.42\00:09:53.09 FOR A CONCRETE DAM THE SIZE OF St. FRANCIS. 00:09:53.09\00:09:58.66 IT TOOK LESS THAN TWO YEARS FOR THE WALLS OF THE St. FRANCIS 00:09:58.66\00:10:02.83 DAM TO FAIL. IT TOOK LESS THAN TWO YEARS FOR 00:10:02.83\00:10:08.17 EROSION TO CLAIM 431 LIVES. BUT THE QUESTION IS, IF THE 00:10:08.17\00:10:14.11 RESIDENTS DOWNSTREAM HAD KNOWN, WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE DONE? 00:10:14.11\00:10:20.08 THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT THEY HAD LESS THAN TWO YEARS TO LIVE 00:10:20.08\00:10:25.22 AFTER THE St. FRANCIS DAM WAS BUILT. 00:10:25.22\00:10:28.22 MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE LISTENING, WE LIVE IN A 00:10:28.22\00:10:32.16 DOWNSTREAM SOCIETY. THE WALLS THAT WERE BUILT FOR 00:10:32.16\00:10:35.53 OUR SECURITY HAVE DEVELOPED CRACKS. 00:10:35.53\00:10:38.53 THE INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGNED FOR OUR SAFETY HAS BEEN ERODED. 00:10:38.53\00:10:44.27 THE DICTIONARY DEFINES EROSION AS FOLLOWS. 00:10:44.27\00:10:47.71 WHEN ENVIRONMENTAL FORCES EAT AWAY AT THE FOUNDATION THAT WAS 00:10:47.71\00:10:53.08 DESIGNED TO SUSTAIN IT, THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT. 00:10:53.08\00:10:58.42 NEVER BEFORE HAVE THE EFFECTS OF EROSION BEEN EVIDENT ON SO MANY 00:10:58.42\00:11:03.56 LEVELS. THE APOSTLE PAUL DESCRIBES 00:11:03.56\00:11:08.03 SCENES THAT APPLY WITH PARTICULAR FORCE TO THE LAST 00:11:08.03\00:11:11.83 DAYS, THESE CONDITIONS HAVE RELEVANCE ONLY TO THE LAST DAYS. 00:11:11.83\00:11:19.17 IN 2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 I READ THE FOLLOWING WORDS: KNOW THAT, THAT 00:11:19.17\00:11:26.15 IN THE LAST DAYS, WHAT DAYS, THE LAST DAYS, PERILOUS TIMES WILL 00:11:26.15\00:11:30.32 COME. FOR MEN WILL BE LOVERS OF 00:11:30.32\00:11:33.82 THEMSELVES, THE BIBLE SAYS, LOVERS OF MONEY, BOASTERS, 00:11:33.82\00:11:45.23 PROUD, BLAST IF MOUSE, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, 00:11:45.23\00:11:50.27 UNLOVING, UNFORGIVING, THE LAST DAYS, SLANDERERS WITHOUT 00:11:50.27\00:11:54.51 SELF-CONTROL, BRUTAL, DESPISERS OF THOSE THAT ARE GOOD, 00:11:54.51\00:11:59.08 TRAITORS, PETTY, HAUGHTY, LOVERS OF PLEASURE RATHER THAN LOVERS 00:11:59.08\00:12:04.29 OF GOD. HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS, THE 00:12:04.29\00:12:07.59 BIBLE SAYS, BUT DENYING THE POWER THEREOF, AND FROM SUCH WE 00:12:07.59\00:12:11.96 ARE TOLD TURN AWAY. THE EFFECTS OF EROSION TAKE TIME 00:12:11.96\00:12:17.97 TO BECOME OBVIOUS. THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS GIVEN A 00:12:17.97\00:12:21.57 GLIMPSE OF THE EROSIVE CONDITIONS THAT NEEDED AN 00:12:21.57\00:12:27.91 EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME TO TO BECOME CLEAR. 00:12:27.91\00:12:30.58 YOU KNOW, THERE ARE THINGS WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND TODAY THAT 00:12:30.58\00:12:33.52 WE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND EVEN TEN YEARS AGO. 00:12:33.52\00:12:36.82 AM I TELLING THE TRUTH? THERE ARE THINGS WE'RE SEEING 00:12:36.82\00:12:39.22 BOTH ECONOMICALLY, SOCIALLY, POLITICALLY, FINANCIALLY, 00:12:39.22\00:12:42.96 MORALLY, SOCIETALLY, THAT DID NOT MAKE SENSE UNTIL JUST A YEAR 00:12:42.96\00:12:47.76 OR TWO AGO OR THREE YEARS AGO OR FIVE YEARS AGO. 00:12:47.76\00:12:51.43 INVENTIONS ARE COMING TO THE FOREFRONT THAT WE ARE BEGINNING 00:12:51.43\00:12:54.70 TO UNDERSTAND EVEN THE DEVELOPERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ARE 00:12:54.70\00:12:59.21 BEGINNING TO REGRESS THE EROSIVE EFFECTS OF PLATFORMS LIKE 00:12:59.21\00:13:04.55 FACEBOOK. I LISTENED TO AN INTERVIEW OF A 00:13:04.55\00:13:07.28 YOUNG INDIAN MAN THAT BECAME A MULTIMILLIONAIRE THROUGH THE 00:13:07.28\00:13:10.79 DEVELOPMENT OF FACEBOOK AND HE SAID WITH TEARS, I DON'T GIVE 00:13:10.79\00:13:14.49 CELLPHONES TO MY CHILDREN. I REGRET BEING INVOLVED IN 00:13:14.49\00:13:22.20 SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN A DESTRUCTION TO OUR SOCIETY BUT 00:13:22.20\00:13:25.20 IT TAKES TIME FOR EROSION TO BECOME OBVIOUS. 00:13:25.20\00:13:28.77 THE CRUMBLING SOCIETY THAT SURROUNDS US WAS PRODUCED BY 00:13:28.77\00:13:32.34 EROSION. BUT THE PROBLEM WITH EROSION IS 00:13:32.34\00:13:37.35 THIS. AFTER THE FACT, EVERYBODY KNOWS 00:13:37.35\00:13:39.65 WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY BEFORE THE FACT. 00:13:39.65\00:13:43.95 A GREEK POET BY THE NAME OF HOMER SAID THIS, POWERFUL 00:13:43.95\00:13:50.76 STATEMENT. HE SAID AFTER THE EVENT EVEN A 00:13:50.76\00:13:52.16 POOL IS WISE -- EVEN A FOOL IS WISE. 00:13:52.16\00:13:55.83 CONSIDER THE AVENUES OF EROSION. EROSION NUMBER ONE, DISTORTED 00:13:55.83\00:14:00.67 PSYCHOLOGY, HAS RESULTED IN THE EROSION OF PARENTAL AUTHORITY. 00:14:00.67\00:14:03.67 LET ME SPEAK WITH THE PARENTS FOR A MOMENT. 00:14:03.67\00:14:05.07 WHEN A CHILD CAN THREAT AN PARENT, WITHOUT ANY FEAR OF 00:14:05.07\00:14:09.88 DISCIPLINARY REPERCUSSIONS AND HAVE THE SUPPORT OF A LEGAL 00:14:09.88\00:14:13.28 SYSTEM, EROSION HAS TAKEN PLACE. WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I GREW UP ON 00:14:13.28\00:14:20.29 A DIFFERENT WORLD. COME ON, SOMEBODY. 00:14:20.29\00:14:22.52 WHEN I GREW UP, THE PHRASE THE BOTTOM LINE MEANT SOMETHING 00:14:22.52\00:14:28.13 QUITE DIFFERENT. I WAS TAUGHT CERTAIN BIBLE 00:14:28.13\00:14:30.83 VERSES AT CERTAIN MEMORABLE OCCASIONS. 00:14:30.83\00:14:34.04 WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS FOOLISHNESS IS BOUND IN THE HEART OF A CHILD 00:14:34.04\00:14:37.94 BUT THE ROD OF CORRECTION WILL DRIVE IT FAR FROM HIM, I 00:14:37.94\00:14:40.94 UNDERSTOOD WHAT THAT MEANT. ANYBODY ELSE? 00:14:40.94\00:14:43.21 WE LIVE IN A DOWNSTREAM SOCIETY. A DIFFERENT WORLD. 00:14:43.21\00:14:48.25 NOT ONLY DISTORTED PSYCHOLOGY BUT EVIDENCE OF EROSION NUMBER 00:14:48.25\00:14:54.82 TWO, MORAL DECLINE. CAN I SPEND A TWO-YEAR PERIOD ON 00:14:54.82\00:15:00.13 THAT. MORAL DECLINE IS THE EVIL THAT 00:15:00.13\00:15:01.53 HAS LED TO THE EROTATION OF FAMILY VALUES. 00:15:01.53\00:15:04.27 EROSION. THE BIBLICAL FAMILY REVOLVES 00:15:04.27\00:15:07.40 AROUND THE HUSBAND AND THE WIFE. GOD FIRST, HUSBAND AND WIFE 00:15:07.40\00:15:11.31 SECOND, CHILD LAST. HAVING CHILDREN USED TO BE 00:15:11.31\00:15:15.21 RESULT OF GETTING MARRIED FIRST. IF I HAD MORE TIME, I WOULD BE 00:15:15.21\00:15:24.75 SILENT LONGER. BUT THE MODERN FAMILY REVOLVES 00:15:24.75\00:15:27.96 AROUND THE CHILD. LOOK AT THIS. 00:15:27.96\00:15:30.43 CHILDREN FIRST, LOOK AT THEM IN WALMART. 00:15:30.43\00:15:32.59 LOOK AT THEM IN THE MALL. CHILDREN FIRST. 00:15:32.59\00:15:35.86 HUSBAND AND WIFE SECOND. GOD LAST. 00:15:35.86\00:15:39.33 CHILDREN ARE WORSHIPED IN PLACE OF GOD BUT A CHILD THAT DOES NOT 00:15:39.33\00:15:44.37 ACKNOWLEDGE GOD IS OFTEN SURROUNDED BY LITTLE GODS. 00:15:44.37\00:15:47.21 THEIR CELLPHONES, THEIR COMPUTERS. 00:15:47.21\00:15:49.14 THEY IDOLIZE THEMSELVES. WE LIVE IN A GENERATION WHERE 00:15:49.14\00:15:51.61 PEOPLE CANNOT WALK PAST A MIRROR. 00:15:51.61\00:15:55.95 WITHOUT STOPPING FOR A BRIEF WORSHIP SESSION OF THEMSELVES. 00:15:55.95\00:16:00.42 CHILDREN THAT DO NOT KNOW GOD WILL NOT RESPECT THEIR PARENTS. 00:16:00.42\00:16:03.96 CAN I GET AN AMEN. THAT'S WHY THE WISEMAN SAID 00:16:03.96\00:16:07.13 TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO. 00:16:07.13\00:16:11.00 WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, I DIDN'T GET OPTIONS WHEN SABBATH CAME. 00:16:11.00\00:16:14.97 YOU WANT TO STAY HOME, I NEVER GOT THAT QUESTION. 00:16:14.97\00:16:17.34 IF I WAS ALIVE AND MY LEGS WERE MOVING I WAS IN CHURCH. 00:16:17.34\00:16:20.21 ANYBODY ELSE, CAN YOU SAY AMEN. DO YOU WANT TO GO TO CHURCH. 00:16:20.21\00:16:24.15 STAY HOME, WE GIVE CHILDREN CHECKBOXES NOWADAYS. 00:16:24.15\00:16:27.08 WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IT WAS EITHER ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. 00:16:27.08\00:16:32.89 IT WAS THEIR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY. CAN I GET AN AMEN. 00:16:32.89\00:16:35.39 TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE 00:16:35.39\00:16:38.63 WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT. THANK GOD AS I GOT OLDER, I 00:16:38.63\00:16:42.56 REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS A CHILD. 00:16:42.56\00:16:45.77 NOT ONLY THAT, CORRUPTION ON THE LEVEL OF ENTERTAINMENT, CORRUPT 00:16:45.77\00:16:50.57 ENTERTAINMENT HAS LED TO THE EROSION OF ETHICAL VALUES. 00:16:50.57\00:16:56.28 EROSION OCCURS WHEN WE EXPOSE OUR CHILDREN TO ENTERTAINMENT 00:16:56.28\00:16:59.65 THAT SUPPORT PRACTICES THAT CONFLICT WITH THE SCRIPTURES. 00:16:59.65\00:17:03.89 THINK ABOUT IT. THE TELEVISION SHOWS NOWADAYS. 00:17:03.89\00:17:08.72 THE MODERN FAMILY IS ATTACKING THE BIBLICAL FAMILY. 00:17:08.72\00:17:14.20 PROMISCUITY IS UNRAVELING MODESTY. 00:17:14.20\00:17:20.54 LITTLE GIRLS DON'T LOOK LIKE LITTLE GIRLS ANYMORE. 00:17:20.54\00:17:23.41 WHO DO WE BLAME? I BLAME THE PARENTS BUYING THE 00:17:23.41\00:17:27.84 CLOTHES. INNOCENCE IS BEING DESIGNED 00:17:27.84\00:17:29.04 AWAY. EROSION. 00:17:29.04\00:17:29.88 NOT ONLY THAT, SEXUAL IMMORALITY IS ERODING SOCIETAL VALUES. 00:17:29.88\00:17:36.92 FAMILY VALUES. MARITAL VALUES. 00:17:36.92\00:17:39.22 THE MARRIAGE IS UNDER ATTACK BECAUSE OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY. 00:17:39.22\00:17:48.63 IT'S TIME TO GIVE BACK THE VALUES BETWEEN GOD AND OUR 00:17:48.63\00:17:51.97 SPOUSES. AMEN. 00:17:51.97\00:17:52.87 HOMOSEXUALITY IS LAUGHING ITS WAY INTO THE HEARTS OF OUR 00:17:52.87\00:17:55.37 CHILDREN AND I DON'T CARE WHETHER OR NOT IT IS LEGAL. 00:17:55.37\00:18:02.74 GENDER OUT. I SAW A SIGN THAT SAID GENDER IS 00:18:02.74\00:18:05.31 OUT. AS OF 2018, THERE ARE 112 00:18:05.31\00:18:08.48 GENDERS. I'M SO GLAD I'M NOT MIXED UP IN 00:18:08.48\00:18:14.72 THAT CATEGORY. AMEN, AMEN. 00:18:14.72\00:18:17.63 THAT'S A DOUBLE AMEN. AND I PRAISE THE LORD AT THE END 00:18:17.63\00:18:20.86 OF THAT. WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? 00:18:20.86\00:18:23.77 PAUL DESCRIBES IN ROMANS 1:28, HE SAID THEY DID NOT LIKE TO 00:18:23.77\00:18:27.74 RETAIN GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE. GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A DEBASED 00:18:27.74\00:18:33.14 MIND TO DO THINGS WHICH ARE NOT FITTING OUR SOCIETY IN OUR 00:18:33.14\00:18:37.28 SOCIETY TODAY, PEOPLE DO THINGS THAT DOGS WON'T DO. 00:18:37.28\00:18:43.79 EROSION. IT TAKES TIME FOR MEN'S MINDS TO 00:18:43.79\00:18:46.59 BECOME DEBASED TO THE POINT WHERE THEY NO LONGER FEEL EVEN 00:18:46.59\00:18:50.03 THE NEED TO THINK MORALITY. BUT IT GOES ON. 00:18:50.03\00:18:54.63 CATEGORY NUMBER FOUR. UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR 00:18:54.63\00:18:58.13 TECHNOLOGY HAS RESULTED IN THE EROSION OF PRIVACY. 00:18:58.13\00:19:01.70 MILLENNIALS ARE SOCIALLY SATURATED AND RELATIONALLY 00:19:01.70\00:19:05.54 DISCONNECTED. THINK ABOUT IT. 00:19:05.54\00:19:07.41 THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO HAVE A BASIC CONVERSATION ANYMORE. 00:19:07.41\00:19:10.95 YOU MEET A YOUNG PERSON NOWADAYS, IT'S LIKE THEY SAW 00:19:10.95\00:19:13.45 THEMSELVES IN THE MIRROR. THEY DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO SAY 00:19:13.45\00:19:15.98 HELLO OR DROP DEAD. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN TAUGHT HOW TO 00:19:15.98\00:19:20.32 STICK THEIR HAND OUT AND SAY GOOD AFTERNOON, MA'AM, GOOD 00:19:20.32\00:19:22.86 AFTERNOON, SIR, ANYBODY KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 00:19:22.86\00:19:26.26 WIFI HAS FINALLY ACCOMPLISHED ITS PURPOSE. 00:19:26.26\00:19:28.63 LISTEN CAREFULLY. WE ARE NO LONGER CONNECTED. 00:19:28.63\00:19:33.97 NOW, YOU GET THAT ON MONDAY. WIFI NO LONGER CONNECTED, ARE 00:19:33.97\00:19:40.11 YOU GETTING IT? RECEIVING A TEXT USED TO MEAN 00:19:40.11\00:19:45.01 SOMEBODY GAVE YOU A BIBLE VERSE. BUT NOWADAYS WE LIVE IN MYSPACE, 00:19:45.01\00:19:49.12 FACEBOOK, TWITTER, SNAPCHAT, THAT'S ALWAYS IN OUR FACE. 00:19:49.12\00:19:54.66 ADD ALL THE OTHERS TO IT, INSTAGRAM. 00:19:54.66\00:19:58.43 THAT'S RIGHT. BETTER BEING ERODED, SOCIALLY, 00:19:58.43\00:20:01.06 MORALLY, ECONOMICALLY, BUT IT KEEPS GOING ON. 00:20:01.06\00:20:02.96 I WISH I COULD STOP BUT THE CATEGORIES KEEP MOUNTING. 00:20:02.96\00:20:06.74 WHAT ABOUT ECONOMIC INSTABILITY THAT HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO EROSION 00:20:06.74\00:20:10.57 OF FINANCIAL SECURITY. RIGHT NOW WE ARE GLORIFYING THE 00:20:10.57\00:20:14.58 FACT THAT THE STOCK MARKET IS UP BUT YOU BETTER HOLD YOUR BREATH. 00:20:14.58\00:20:17.11 AND SECONDLY YOU BETTER GET ON YOUR KNEES. 00:20:17.11\00:20:20.82 COME ON, SOMEBODY. BECAUSE WE HAVE NEVER LIVED IN A 00:20:20.82\00:20:23.55 WORLD WHERE THE STOCK MARKET HAS NOT COME DOWN AND OUR FUTURE CAN 00:20:23.55\00:20:26.82 ONLY BE SECURE IN THE HAND OF THE LORD WHO HAS MADE THE 00:20:26.82\00:20:31.16 PROMISE AND MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL OF YOUR NEEDS ACCORDING TO 00:20:31.16\00:20:36.87 WHAT, HIS RICHES AND GLORY. I LOVE BY PHILIPPIANS 4:19. 00:20:36.87\00:20:40.84 I DON'T LIVE BY PARTY. I DON'T LIVE BY REPUBLICAN OR 00:20:40.84\00:20:43.64 DEMOCRAT. I LIVE BY DIVINITY. 00:20:43.64\00:20:45.41 COME ON, SOMEBODY. THE APOSTLE PAUL WROTE THAT 00:20:45.41\00:20:48.44 EROSION WOULD EVEN CREATE LOVERS OF MONEY. 00:20:48.44\00:20:50.15 YOU KNOW HOW YOU CAN TELL THAT EROSION HAS CREATED LOVERS OF 00:20:50.15\00:20:55.62 MONEY, EROSION OCCURS WHEN MONEY BECOMES MORE IMPORTANT THAN 00:20:55.62\00:21:00.36 MORALITY. DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT TOO LONG, 00:21:00.36\00:21:04.26 YOU MIGHT WAKE UP. OUR WORLD WHERE TRADING A STABLE 00:21:04.26\00:21:10.87 ECONOMY FOR AN UNSTABLE SOCIETY, DON'T LET ME START TALKING ABOUT 00:21:10.87\00:21:16.04 HOW IT AFFECTS THE CHURCH. HELP ME, LORD. 00:21:16.04\00:21:23.21 UNJUST JUDICIAL VERDICTS HAVE GIVEN WAY TO THE EROSION OF 00:21:23.21\00:21:26.61 HUMAN RIGHTS. ETHNIC INTOLERANCE HAS GIVEN 00:21:26.61\00:21:31.09 BIRTH TO THE EROTATION OF RESPECT REGARDLESS OF 00:21:31.09\00:21:34.76 NATIONALITY. NO AMEN NECESSARY. 00:21:34.76\00:21:48.10 EROSION OCCURS WHEN RACIAL INJUSTICE FINDS ITS WAY INTO THE 00:21:48.10\00:21:50.84 CHURCH. NO AMENS NECESSARY. 00:21:50.84\00:21:52.97 THE EROSION IS WHEN THE AGENDA OF A FEW ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN 00:21:52.97\00:21:56.41 THE RIGHTS OF MANY. CALL IT WHAT THEY MAY, WE HAVE 00:21:56.41\00:22:01.12 ARRIVED AT A TIME WHERE WE CANNOT IDENTITY CHRISTIANITY BY 00:22:01.12\00:22:04.32 WHAT THEY PROFESS, WE HAVE TO EXAMINE THEIR FRUITS BECAUSE 00:22:04.32\00:22:08.16 ANYBODY CAN SAY ANYTHING. ANYBODY CAN CARRY A LABEL, BUT 00:22:08.16\00:22:12.79 READ THE CONTENT. COME ON, SOMEBODY. 00:22:12.79\00:22:16.40 BIBLE SAYS YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS, MATTHEW 7:16. 00:22:16.40\00:22:20.64 DO MEN GATHER GRAPES FROM THORN BUSHES? 00:22:20.64\00:22:23.57 WHAT'S THE ANSWER, NO. OR FIGS FROM THISTLES. 00:22:23.57\00:22:25.61 I READ THIS QUOTATION IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, PAGE 602. 00:22:25.61\00:22:33.18 POWERFUL AS IT RELATES TO THE LAST DAYS. 00:22:33.18\00:22:34.85 I WANT YOU TO LISTEN CAREFULLY. WHEN THE TESTING TIME SHALL 00:22:34.85\00:22:38.05 COME. BUT WHAT KIND OF TIME. 00:22:38.05\00:22:39.95 IT'S COMING. PASTOR KENNY WAS TELLING YOU 00:22:39.95\00:22:42.06 ABOUT IT. WHEN THE TESTING TIME SHALL 00:22:42.06\00:22:44.49 COME. THOSE WHO HAVE MADE GOD'S WORDS 00:22:44.49\00:22:47.76 THEIR RULE OF LIFE REVEALED AND THERE IS NO NOTICEABLE 00:22:47.76\00:22:53.34 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EVERGREEN AND OTHER TREES. 00:22:53.34\00:22:55.04 BUT WHEN THE BLAST OF WINTER COMES, THE EVERGREEN REMAINS 00:22:55.04\00:23:00.64 UNCHANGED WHILE THE OTHER TREES ARE STRIPPED OF THEIR FOLIAGE, 00:23:00.64\00:23:03.88 LORD HAVE MERCY, SOME OF US ARE GOING TO BE STRIPPED OF OUR 00:23:03.88\00:23:08.52 FOLIAGE BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT BUILT ON A FOUNDATION THAT 00:23:08.52\00:23:11.32 CANNOT BE ERODED BY TIME AND SOCIETY. 00:23:11.32\00:23:13.96 SHE GOES ON TO SAY SO THE PROFESSOR MAY NOT NOW BE 00:23:13.96\00:23:24.30 DISTINGUISHED FROM THE REAL CRANE -- CHRISTIAN BUT THE TIME 00:23:24.30\00:23:28.50 IS UPON US, WHEN PERSECUTION BE KINDLED, AND THE HALFHEARTED AND 00:23:28.50\00:23:39.95 HYPOCRITICAL WILL WAVER AND YIELD THEIR FAITH BUT THE TRUE 00:23:39.95\00:23:44.05 CHRISTIAN WILL STAND FIRM AS A ROCK. 00:23:44.05\00:23:46.86 HIS FAITH STRONGER, HIS HOPE BRIGHTER THAN IN DAYS OF 00:23:46.86\00:23:52.53 PROSPERITY. WHAT THE SERVANT OF GOD IS 00:23:52.53\00:23:54.20 SAYING SIT TAKES DIFFICULT TIMES FOR REAL CHRISTIANS TO BE CLEAR. 00:23:54.20\00:23:58.40 IT TAKES TOUGH TIMES, TIMES OF EXAMINATION, TIMES OF 00:23:58.40\00:24:02.70 PERSECUTION, GOD KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING WHEN HE BRINGS 00:24:02.70\00:24:05.94 PERSECUTION. CAN YOU TELL THE TRUTH? 00:24:05.94\00:24:06.74 IT IS IN THOSE DIFFICULT TIMES THAT OUR BIBLE BECOMES A BOOK OF 00:24:06.74\00:24:10.81 MEANING. IT'S NOT IN TIMES OF PROSPERITY 00:24:10.81\00:24:12.65 THAT WE ENJOY THE VALIDITY OF OUR RELIGIOUS WALK. 00:24:12.65\00:24:15.45 IT'S WHEN DIFFICULTY COMES THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN VERSES THAT WE 00:24:15.45\00:24:19.29 SCANNED OVER BECOME VERSES THAT WE NOW DIGEST. 00:24:19.29\00:24:23.06 BUT IT GETS EVEN DEEPER THAN THAT. 00:24:23.06\00:24:26.93 EROSION HAS AFFECTED ANOTHER LEVEL. 00:24:26.93\00:24:29.40 IT HAS TAKEN AMERICA 243 YEARS TO GET TO WHERE IT IS TODAY AND 00:24:29.40\00:24:32.93 SATAN HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE EROSION OF AMERICA SINCE IT 00:24:32.93\00:24:37.64 BECAME A NATION. GOD ESTABLISHED AMERICA TO BE A 00:24:37.64\00:24:42.18 NATION BASED ON THE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES OF THE BIBLE. 00:24:42.18\00:24:47.25 HEAR ME CAREFULLY BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP THERE. 00:24:47.25\00:24:49.05 GOD DID NOT CREATE A NATION WITH RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE TO BE AT 00:24:49.05\00:24:53.15 ITS FOUNDATION. GOD DID NOT CREATE THIS NATION 00:24:53.15\00:24:56.39 TO BE A PLACE WHERE WE CAN TELL OTHERS WHAT AND HOW THEY CAN AND 00:24:56.39\00:24:59.93 CANNOT WORSHIP. GOD CREATED AMERICA SO THAT 00:24:59.93\00:25:03.16 RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE A PART OF ITS FABRIC. 00:25:03.16\00:25:06.53 ARE YOU HEARING ME TODAY? WE ARE BECOMING A NATION WHETHER 00:25:06.53\00:25:08.94 EVEN IN THE RELIGIOUS CIRCLES, RELIGION IS BECOMING A LITMUS 00:25:08.94\00:25:12.21 TEST FOR OFFICE. I DON'T NEED MY PRESIDENT TO BE 00:25:12.21\00:25:15.34 A CHRISTIAN. I NEED TO FOLLOW CHRIST. 00:25:15.34\00:25:20.25 WHAT YOU BELIEVE HAS NO FOUNDATION IN MY WALK WITH JESUS 00:25:20.25\00:25:23.42 ON A DAILY BASIS. HOW YOU EAT DOES NOT AFFECT HOW 00:25:23.42\00:25:26.45 I EAT. HOW YOU DRESS DOES NOT AFFECT 00:25:26.45\00:25:28.39 HOW I DRESS. CAN I BE CLEAR TO YOU TODAY? 00:25:28.39\00:25:31.16 WE ARE SAYING IS HE CHRISTIAN. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER HE'S 00:25:31.16\00:25:35.90 CHRISTIAN. CHRIST IS OUR FOCUS. 00:25:35.90\00:25:38.13 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DOES, IT'S WHAT THE RIGHT 00:25:38.13\00:25:44.87 HOUSE HAS ALWAYS DONE, IT'S THE FOUNDATION THERE. 00:25:44.87\00:25:47.88 HOLD ME BACK, HOLY GHOST. DON'T FORGET WHAT WE OVERLOOK AS 00:25:47.88\00:25:53.45 INNOCUOUS EVENTUALLY REVEALS ITSELF AS DANGEROUS. 00:25:53.45\00:25:55.85 WHAT WE DISMISS AS IRRELEVANT WILL PROVE TO BE CONSEQUENTIAL 00:25:55.85\00:26:00.49 BUT THE MORE SOBERING FOCUS ON THIS MESSAGE IS NOT THE EROSION 00:26:00.49\00:26:07.00 OF THE WORLD BUT THE EROSION OF GOD'S REMNANT CHURCH. 00:26:07.00\00:26:13.87 EROSION BEGINS EVER SO SLIGHTLY THAT IT LEADS US TO IGNORE ITS 00:26:13.87\00:26:19.31 EXISTENCE. I CAN GO BACK TO WHAT IT WAS 00:26:19.31\00:26:21.61 LIKE TO BE A YOUNG SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN. 00:26:21.61\00:26:25.35 I REMEMBER THE DAYS WHEN I WAS JUST HOLDING ON BY A THREAD. 00:26:25.35\00:26:30.25 WHEN I JUST GOT BACK INTO THE CHURCH. 00:26:30.25\00:26:32.29 I JUST TRIED TO FIND A WAY TO BE SAVED AND NOT LIVE BY THE TRUTH. 00:26:32.29\00:26:36.02 THE LORD SAYS THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT'S GOING TO BE. 00:26:36.02\00:26:38.19 HE SENT A YOUNG LADY WHO IS NOW MY WIFE TO BRING ME BACK TO A 00:26:38.19\00:26:41.43 FOUNDATION BUILT ON THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD. 00:26:41.43\00:26:43.26 I'M AMAZED HOW TODAY IN MANY OF OUR CIRCLES, IN MANY OF OUR OWN 00:26:43.26\00:26:49.20 RELIGIOUS CIRCLES THE VERY THING THAT THE FOUNDATION OF OUR 00:26:49.20\00:26:52.84 GROWTH AS CHRISTIANS ARE BEGINNING TO BE QUESTIONED EVEN 00:26:52.84\00:26:57.65 AMONGST US. EROSION IS WORKING BENEATH THE 00:26:57.65\00:27:05.09 SURFACE, UNRELENTING FORCE THAT CONTINUES TO CHIP AWAY AT THE 00:27:05.09\00:27:07.72 FOUNDATION. IF WE DON'T STOP ITS CHIPPING 00:27:07.72\00:27:10.03 AWAY, BEFORE LONG, THE VERY THINGS WE THOUGHT WERE FIRM 00:27:10.03\00:27:12.96 UNDER OUR FEET WILL BEGIN TO FALL AWAY. 00:27:12.96\00:27:15.10 WE'VE GOT TO PRAY AND HERE'S MY RECOMMENDATION. 00:27:15.10\00:27:18.17 I CAN'T SAY MY EDICT BUT MY RECOMMENDATION. 00:27:18.17\00:27:21.07 YOU HAVE TO HAVE A WALK WITH CHRIST YOURSELF. 00:27:21.07\00:27:23.20 GROOVE -- YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE YOURSELF. 00:27:23.20\00:27:26.61 YOU CAN'T ASK PRIESTS NOR PASTOR NOR CLERGY NOR EVANGELIST. 00:27:26.61\00:27:32.31 YOU HAVE TO KNOW GOD'S WORD YOURSELF. 00:27:32.31\00:27:36.48 AMEN. YOU CAN'T MISS THE WORLD SO 00:27:36.48\00:27:38.69 TURBULENTLY BORN, YOU CAN'T EVEN LET THE PERIOD OF DIGESTION LULL 00:27:38.69\00:27:42.02 YOU TO SLEEP. YOU HAVE TO STAY AWAKE ALL THE 00:27:42.02\00:27:44.69 TIME BECAUSE THE DEVIL NEVER FALLS ASLEEP EVEN AFTER A MEAL. 00:27:44.69\00:27:50.13 YOU THINK YOU'RE HUNGRY. HE'S WALKING ABOUT LIKE A 00:27:50.13\00:27:55.10 ROARING LION SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR. 00:27:55.10\00:27:59.17 HE'S DIGESTING YOU. EROSION IS AS DESTABILIZING THE 00:27:59.17\00:28:05.48 FOUNDATION OF OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. 00:28:05.48\00:28:07.98 I COULD SPEND A WHOLE LOT OF TIME ON THAT ONE. 00:28:07.98\00:28:10.09 BUT I JUST WANT TO PULL YOUR COATTAILS. 00:28:10.09\00:28:13.05 EROSION IS DESTABILIZING BIBLICAL TRUTHS. 00:28:13.05\00:28:16.89 I'M AMAZED WHEN I MEET OTHER SEVEN-DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS 00:28:16.89\00:28:20.40 AND I SAY THIS AS ONE WHO IS ON THE INSIDE, I'M A PASTOR IN THE 00:28:20.40\00:28:24.30 SEVEN-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, I'M AN ORDAINED MINISTER. 00:28:24.30\00:28:31.11 I'VE BEEN IN THIS WORK SINCE 1987 AS A PASTOR. 00:28:31.11\00:28:37.15 PASTOR DOUG BROUGHT ME IN AS HIS ASSISTANT EVANGELIST. 00:28:37.15\00:28:40.38 BUT I'VE BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE 00:28:40.38\00:28:44.29 CERTAIN THINGS THAT WILL CLEAR 70 YEARS AGO THAT DON'T NEED TO 00:28:44.29\00:28:49.82 BE REVISITED. I MEAN, WHEN DID THE SABBATH 00:28:49.82\00:29:00.44 BECOME IRRELEVANT? WHEN DID THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY 00:29:00.44\00:29:06.54 LOSE ITS VALUE IN OUR CHURCH? EROSION IS DESTABILIZING THE 00:29:06.54\00:29:10.41 FOUNDATION, IT'S DESTABILIZING BIBLICAL TRUTHS. 00:29:10.41\00:29:14.18 TODAY WE HAD PEOPLE QUESTIONING THE ROLE OF DIVINITY AND THE 00:29:14.18\00:29:17.25 HOLY SPIRIT IS NO LONGER RELEVANT IN THE GODHEAD, SOME 00:29:17.25\00:29:20.69 PEOPLE SAY BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU, YOU MESS WITH THAT, YOU 00:29:20.69\00:29:23.79 BLESS THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOUR CARCASS WILL BE ON THE OUTSIDE 00:29:23.79\00:29:28.36 OF NE NEW JERUSALEM BECAUSE GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHEREBY WE ARE SEALED THE DAY OF 00:29:28.36\00:29:38.21 REDEMPTION. I PREFER TO BELIEVE THAT HE, NOT 00:29:38.21\00:29:42.14 IT, HE IS THE THIRD PERSON OF THE GODHEAD. 00:29:42.14\00:29:48.38 EROSION IS YESSI YES -- QUESTIONING THE RELEVANCE OF THE 00:29:48.38\00:29:52.89 SANCTUARY. I'M GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT A CATHOLIC PRIEST SAID. 00:29:52.89\00:29:56.56 A CATHOLIC PRIEST IN CHICAGO IN A SIM PODIUM WITH MANY 00:29:56.56\00:30:02.86 DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS, A CATHOLIC PRIEST SAID THE SEVENTH 00:30:02.86\00:30:05.57 DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH HAS GIFTED THE PROTESTANT WORLD THE PROPER 00:30:05.57\00:30:09.54 UNDERSTANDING OF THE SANCTUARY AND HERE WE HAVE ON OUR OWN 00:30:09.54\00:30:13.58 MIDST FOLKS BEGINNING TO QUESTION THAT. 00:30:13.58\00:30:15.41 THE PREACHING OF THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES IS VANISHING. 00:30:15.41\00:30:19.58 THAT'S WHY THE LORD IMPRESSED ME TO PUT TOGETHER A BOOKLET ON THE 00:30:19.58\00:30:22.75 THREE ANGELS MESSAGES IN SUMMARY. 00:30:22.75\00:30:23.85 YOU WANT TO GET BUSY, GET THAT INTO THE HANDS OF YOUR 00:30:23.85\00:30:27.22 NEIGHBORS, YOUR FRIENDS. IT IS TIME TO GET BACK TO THE 00:30:27.22\00:30:30.86 FOUNDATION OF OUR MESSAGE. SOMEBODY OUGHT TO SAY AMEN. 00:30:30.86\00:30:33.73 THE SANCTITY OF THE SABBATH IS BEING DISMISSED WITH IMMUNITY. 00:30:33.73\00:30:38.07 PEOPLE -- IMPUNITY. PEOPLE THAT LIVE AT HOME IN 00:30:38.07\00:30:40.44 THEIR OWN COMMUNITY RATHER THAN GETTING LUNCH READY TO GO HOME 00:30:40.44\00:30:45.17 AND EAT THEY'RE GOING TO RESTAURANTS ON THE SABBATH. 00:30:45.17\00:30:48.11 IT'S NOT LIKE THEY'RE NOT HOME. FOLKS THAT KNOW THEIR BODY IS 00:30:48.11\00:30:55.72 THE TEMPLE OF GOD ARE BEGINNING TO DRINK WINE AND THE EXCUSE IS 00:30:55.72\00:30:59.62 IN IT'S SMALL, MODERATE PORTIONS LIKE THE WEARING OF TINY 00:30:59.62\00:31:05.43 JEWELRY. THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF 00:31:05.43\00:31:08.90 ABSINCENANCE, NOT MODESTY WHEN IT COMES TO OUR ADORNING OF OUR 00:31:08.90\00:31:12.50 BODIES. IT IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD ON THE 00:31:12.50\00:31:13.90 INSIDE AND OUTSIDE AND I KNOW THIS IS NOT A POPULAR MESSAGE 00:31:13.90\00:31:16.40 BUT I GAVE UP POPULARITY A LONG TIME AGO. 00:31:16.40\00:31:21.98 LIKE A SILENT PREDATOR, EROSION IS PATIENT AND STEALTHY. 00:31:21.98\00:31:26.92 EROSION'S FOOTSTEPS ARE MUTED BUT ITS RESULTS ARE 00:31:26.92\00:31:30.15 CATASTROPHIC. WHILE METHODS VARY WITH TIME, 00:31:30.15\00:31:32.72 METHODS SHOULD NOT REPLACE THE TRUTH BUT EROSION SEEKS TO 00:31:32.72\00:31:35.92 REPLACE TRUTH WITH THE WORSHIP EXPERIENCE. 00:31:35.92\00:31:39.86 I HEAR A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT GOSPEL EXPLOSIONS. 00:31:39.86\00:31:45.57 GOSPEL EEXPLOSIONS, THAT SHOULD BE OUR EVANGELISTIC THRUST. 00:31:45.57\00:31:48.04 WE'RE HAVING A GOSPEL EXPLOSION. EMPLOY UP NEIGHBORHOODS WITH 00:31:48.04\00:31:53.84 THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. AMEN. 00:31:53.84\00:31:57.78 THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WE SHOULD BE EXPLODING IS GETTING 00:31:57.78\00:32:03.28 THE GOSPEL INTO THE COMMUNITY. EVER SINCE WHEN THAT WORSHIP 00:32:03.28\00:32:10.59 EXPERIENCE IS AN EXCUSE FOR ABANDONING TUTH, PEOPLE ASK HOW 00:32:10.59\00:32:13.60 DID YOU FEEL WHEN YOU HEARD THE SERMON. 00:32:13.60\00:32:16.03 IT'S NOT HOW YOU FELT, IT'S WHAT DID IT DO TO YOUR LIFE. 00:32:16.03\00:32:18.83 HOW DID IT GUIDE YOU, NOT HOW YOU FELT. 00:32:18.83\00:32:22.30 JESUS DIDN'T DIE BECAUSE OF HOW HE FELT. 00:32:22.30\00:32:24.24 HE DIED ON A FOUNDATION OF IMMOVEABLE PRINCIPLES. 00:32:24.24\00:32:28.81 BUT THE DEVASTATING IMPACT OF EROSION ONLY BECOMES OBVIOUS IN 00:32:28.81\00:32:35.05 HINDSIGHT. MAKE NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, SATAN IS 00:32:35.05\00:32:36.95 THE ORCHESTRA OR THE OF EROSION. IT'S TAKEN 6,000 YEARS TO REVEAL 00:32:36.95\00:32:43.22 THE EROSIVE EFFECTS THAT BEGAN AS A BATTLE IN HEAVEN. 00:32:43.22\00:32:46.56 BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION IS HOW DID THE CHURCH GET TO 00:32:46.56\00:32:49.70 WHERE IT IS TODAY. CAN I TELL YOU? 00:32:49.70\00:32:54.07 GENESIS 2:3, LOOK AT THAT VERY QUICKLY WITH ME. 00:32:54.07\00:32:57.17 A VERY POWERFUL PASSAGE. A VERY POWERFUL PASSAGE. 00:32:57.17\00:33:01.38 EROSION STARTED IN A CONVERSATION, A BASIC 00:33:01.38\00:33:05.65 CONVERSATION BETWEEN A LIAR AND A WOMAN THAT WENT IN THE WRONG 00:33:05.65\00:33:10.45 DIRECTION. WHEN THE CHURCH GOES IN THE 00:33:10.45\00:33:11.89 WRONG DIRECTION, THEY HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH A LIAR. 00:33:11.89\00:33:17.73 YOU WILL GET THAT ON TUESDAY. THE WOMAN SAID TO THE SERPENT 00:33:17.73\00:33:26.97 VERSE 2 AND 3, WE MAY EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF THE GARDEN, 00:33:26.97\00:33:32.24 BUT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE, 2 AND 3, THE WOMAN SAYS WE MAY EAT 00:33:32.24\00:33:38.28 THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE GUAGARDEN BUT THE FRUIT OF THE 00:33:38.28\00:33:42.88 TREE IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN GOD HAS SAID YOU SHALL NOT EAT 00:33:42.88\00:33:47.69 IT NOR SHALL YOU TOUCH IT LEST YOU DIE. 00:33:47.69\00:33:50.63 SHE LIED. GOD NEVER SAID DON'T TOUCH SO IT 00:33:50.63\00:33:54.60 THE SERPENT SEIZED THE FRUIT AND PUT IT IN HER HAND AND SINCE SHE 00:33:54.60\00:33:59.03 DID NOT DIE HE SAID YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE. 00:33:59.03\00:34:02.94 THE WOMAN CHOSE THE WORD OF THE ADVERSARY OVER THE WORD OF GOD. 00:34:02.94\00:34:07.01 THIS IS GOING TO GET DEEP. PUTT ON YOUR SCUBA DIVING GEAR. 00:34:07.01\00:34:14.48 THE WOMAN REPRESENTS THE CHURCH. ANYTIME THE CHURCH IGNORES THE 00:34:14.48\00:34:18.19 WORD OF GOD AND CHOOSES SATAN'S WORD ABOVE THE WORD OF GOD, 00:34:18.19\00:34:24.73 EROSION BEGINS. GOD IS EVEN DEEPER, LISTEN TO 00:34:24.73\00:34:31.13 ADAM TELL ON HIMSELF. GENESIS 3. 00:34:31.13\00:34:33.90 WHEN THE LORD CAME LOOKING FOR CONFESSION, ADAM CAME OUT AND 00:34:33.90\00:34:37.74 BLAMED HIS WIFE. LADIES, YOU CAN HOLD IT TOGETHER 00:34:37.74\00:34:41.41 FOR A MOMENT. HE SAID THE WOMAN YOU GAVE TO BE 00:34:41.41\00:34:46.11 WITH ME, SHE GAVE ME OF THE TREE AND I ATE. 00:34:46.11\00:34:51.15 ADAM TOLD ON HIMSELF. HE DID NOT HAVE TO EAT. 00:34:51.15\00:34:55.42 BUT THOSE THREE WORDS, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, PLUNGED US 00:34:55.42\00:34:59.23 INTO THE CONDITIONS THAT WE ARE IN TODAY. 00:34:59.23\00:35:01.16 DO YOU THINK THAT SIN IS INNOCUOUS? 00:35:01.16\00:35:07.97 AND I ATE. THREE WORDS. 00:35:07.97\00:35:09.44 SIN HAS ONLY THREE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORD SIN IS 00:35:09.44\00:35:14.58 THE LETTER "I." I GOT TO TAKE IT EVEN DEEPER. 00:35:14.58\00:35:18.35 WHEN PASTORS SEIZE THE FRUIT FROM THE HANDS OF A DECEIVED 00:35:18.35\00:35:24.85 WOMAN, A CHURCH GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AND DIGESTS IT, 00:35:24.85\00:35:28.72 ARE YOU LISTENING, THEY ARE OPENING THE DOOR TO SPIRITUAL 00:35:28.72\00:35:34.36 EROSION, IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT IT'S HARD TO FIND THE TRUTH 00:35:34.36\00:35:37.70 TODAY IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD. THE CHRISTIAN WORLD IS LOSING 00:35:37.70\00:35:41.34 ITS WAY, IT'S BUILDING ITS FOUNDATION ON MUSIC AND 00:35:41.34\00:35:45.04 ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFE AND CAMERA AND ACTION AND THERE'S 00:35:45.04\00:35:49.14 NOTHING WRONG WITH MUSIC AND LIGHT AND CAMERAS AND ACTION, 00:35:49.14\00:35:52.55 AMEN. BUT WHEN IT IS PREFERRED ABOVE 00:35:52.55\00:35:56.45 THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD, WHEN THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD IS 00:35:56.45\00:36:00.62 PROCLAIMED AND THE VOICE OF THE PERSON RECEIVING IT SAYS I KNOW 00:36:00.62\00:36:03.16 WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS BUT YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A 00:36:03.16\00:36:06.49 GOAT AND A SHEEP, A GOAT ALWAYS SAYS BUT. 00:36:06.49\00:36:12.37 YOU'LL GET THAT ON WEDNESDAY. THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT 00:36:12.37\00:36:15.87 TAKE TIME TO SINK IN. IT'S STRANGE TODAY TO SAY TO 00:36:15.87\00:36:20.74 SOMEBODY IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS AND THEY SAY THAT'S 00:36:20.74\00:36:24.75 YOUR INTERPRETATION. HIVE PASTORS THAT HAVE ARGUED 00:36:24.75\00:36:31.42 WITH ME ABOUT THE VALIDITY OF GOD'S WORD. 00:36:31.42\00:36:33.42 I HAVE PASTORS TAKING GOD'S WORD AND BENDING IT FOR THEIR 00:36:33.42\00:36:36.79 FINANCIAL PROFITS. FOR THEIR FINANCIAL BENEFITS. 00:36:36.79\00:36:40.73 BUT I RECENTLY BECAME A LITTLE BIT MORE ENCOURAGED WHEN BENNY 00:36:40.73\00:36:45.53 HINN CONFESSED ALL THE YEARS HE HAD BEEN LYING TO PEOPLE AND 00:36:45.53\00:36:48.47 TAKING THEIR MONEY FALSELY. ANYBODY SAW WHAT I'M TALKING 00:36:48.47\00:36:51.44 ABOUT? LOOK IT UP ON YOUTUBE. 00:36:51.44\00:36:53.41 BENNY HINN CONFESSED. HE SAID I'VE BEEN USING GOD'S 00:36:53.41\00:36:56.08 WORD FOR THE WRONG PURPOSES AND THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS CONVICTED ME 00:36:56.08\00:37:02.32 AND REBUKED ME. HE SAID I WILL NO LONGER ASK FOR 00:37:02.32\00:37:04.72 MONEY. AND THEY WILL NO LONGER INVITE 00:37:04.72\00:37:09.99 ME TO THOSE BEGATHONS BECAUSE I REFUSE TO BEG PEOPLE FOR MONEY 00:37:09.99\00:37:13.73 ANY LONGER. HE SAID WE ARE GRIEVING THE HOLY 00:37:13.73\00:37:15.96 SPIRIT OF GOD WHEN WE USE THE GOSPEL FOR PERSONAL PROSPERITY. 00:37:15.96\00:37:19.43 SOMEBODY OUGHT TO SAY AMEN AND OTHER PEOPLE ARE FOLLOWING IN 00:37:19.43\00:37:22.00 THE SAME LINES. I BELIEVE NO MATTER HOW WRONG A 00:37:22.00\00:37:24.71 MAN CAN GO, AS LONG AS HE'S ALIVE, GOD CAN GET HIS 00:37:24.71\00:37:27.44 ATTENTION. CAN YOU SAY AMEN? 00:37:27.44\00:37:30.18 THE CHURCHES TODAY ARE CRUMBLING BECAUSE THE MINISTERS HAVE BEEN 00:37:30.18\00:37:33.28 PREACHING MESSAGES THAT SUPPORT THE EROSION OF TRUTH RATHER THAN 00:37:33.28\00:37:37.55 THE EVICTION OF SIN. WE ARE TEACHING TOLERANCE OF 00:37:37.55\00:37:42.29 SIN. RATHER THAN DELIVERANCE FROM 00:37:42.29\00:37:47.20 SIN. BUT ADAM SAID IN THE GARDEN OF 00:37:47.20\00:37:50.90 EDEN THAT COMPROMISED LEADERS HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING EVER SINCE. 00:37:50.90\00:37:54.94 I TOLD YOU TO PUT ON YOUR SCUBA GEAR. 00:37:54.94\00:37:58.74 NOW IT'S TIME TO GET TO INTO A SUBMARINE, WE'RE GOING DEEPER. 00:37:58.74\00:38:02.08 WHAT ADAM DID IN THE GARDEN OF EDEL -- EDEN HAS BECOME A 00:38:02.08\00:38:08.58 PATTERN AMONG LEADERS THAT GOD CHOSE. 00:38:08.58\00:38:10.99 THINK ABOUT IT. THINK ABOUT IT. 00:38:10.99\00:38:16.46 ADAM CHOSE EVE OVER GOD. HE PREFERRED WHAT SHE OFFERED 00:38:16.46\00:38:21.90 RATHER THAN WHAT GOD SAID. I COULD GO DOWN THE LINE TO 00:38:21.90\00:38:26.80 ABRAHAM. I COULD GO TO DAVID. 00:38:26.80\00:38:28.64 I COULD GO TO SOLOMON. HE HAS SERIOUS ISSUES. 00:38:28.64\00:38:33.14 I COULD GO ON THROUGH ALL THE LEADERS. 00:38:33.14\00:38:35.24 IF YOU LOOKED AT THE BIBLE, IT CAME WHEN WOMEN THAT WERE CHOSEN 00:38:35.24\00:38:38.88 BY THE ENEMY CAME AMONGST MEN CHOSEN BY GOD AND LED THEM DOWN 00:38:38.88\00:38:44.65 THE WRONG PATH BUT LET'S GET DEEP HERE. 00:38:44.65\00:38:46.99 ARE YOU READY FOR IT? AHAB CHOSE A PROSTITUTE, NOT 00:38:46.99\00:38:51.43 BECAUSE OF WHO SHE WAS BUT BECAUSE OF WHO HE WAS. 00:38:51.43\00:38:55.53 SHE CAPTURED HIS ADMIRATION NOT BECAUSE OF HOW SHE WALKED BUT 00:38:55.53\00:38:58.93 BECAUSE OF HOW HE REFUSED TO WALK. 00:38:58.93\00:39:01.84 ARE YOU LISTENING? ISRAEL'S WORSHIP WAS 00:39:01.84\00:39:07.14 SYNCHRONIZED TO THE TEMPO OF A JEZEBEL, A TEMPO SET BY JEZEBEL. 00:39:07.14\00:39:12.68 AHAB'S LIFE BECAME AN ORCHESTRATED MARCH OF EVENTUAL 00:39:12.68\00:39:17.42 COLLAPSE. HE ALIGNED HIMSELF WITH A WOMAN 00:39:17.42\00:39:18.85 THAT DID NOT ALIGN HERSELF WITH GOD. 00:39:18.85\00:39:22.29 WHEN JEZEBEL MINCED AND AHAB'S MIND HE COULD HEAR THE SONG 00:39:22.29\00:39:27.46 "WALK THIS WAY." IT WAS NOT THE SCENT OF AHAB'S 00:39:27.46\00:39:33.80 COLOGNE THAT ATTRACTED JEZEBEL TO HIM BUT THE STENCH OF HIS SIN 00:39:33.80\00:39:37.31 THAT ATTRACTED HIM TO HER. AHAB DESERTED HIS GOD FOR A 00:39:37.31\00:39:43.41 WOMAN THAT WAS DEDICATED TO HER GOD. 00:39:43.41\00:39:46.88 SHE WAS MORE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT HER GOD THAN AHAB WAS ABOUT HIS 00:39:46.88\00:39:51.85 GOD. I'M TALKING ABOUT WHAT'S 00:39:51.85\00:39:56.76 HAPPENING IN AMERICA. GOD DID NOT CALL JEZEBEL. 00:39:56.76\00:40:00.96 GOD CALLED AHAB. BUT LET ME REVEAL TO YOU THE 00:40:00.96\00:40:05.73 PRINCIPLE AS TO HOW HE GOT WHERE HE WAS. 00:40:05.73\00:40:09.04 OUR FEET WILL NEVER TAKE US WHERE OUR MINDS HAVE NOT LED US. 00:40:09.04\00:40:17.28 WHEN WE LOSE OUR ENTHUSIASM FOR GOD, WE WILL BECOME ENTHUSIASTIC 00:40:17.28\00:40:22.32 FOR THE WRONG GOD. YOU FOLLOW THAT THROUGH. 00:40:22.32\00:40:25.75 MY WIFE AND I SAT DOWN, WE'RE READING THE BIBLE, WE'RE IN THE 00:40:25.75\00:40:28.89 BOOK OF NEHEMIAH. YOU WANT TO READ A CHAPTER 00:40:28.89\00:40:31.39 THAT'S POWERFUL ABOUT THE REDEMPTIVE LOVE OF GOD, READ 00:40:31.39\00:40:35.86 CHAPTER, I -- CHAPTER 9, IT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR JOY AND 00:40:35.86\00:40:42.44 APPRECIATION OF THE GOD WHO LOVES US REGARDLESS OF WHO WE 00:40:42.44\00:40:45.74 ARE AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE. GOD HAS THIS -- I CAN'T EVEN 00:40:45.74\00:40:53.78 CALL IT A CHARACTERISTIC BECAUSE IT'S WHO HE IS. 00:40:53.78\00:40:57.85 GOD REFUSES TO ALLOW ANY OF US TO PARISH WHEN ISRAEL TIME AFTER 00:40:57.85\00:41:03.93 TIME FELL INTO REBELLION INTO APOSTASY. 00:41:03.93\00:41:12.90 THEY EVEN SAID TO GOD WE DON'T CARE BUT WHEN THEY GOT INTO 00:41:12.90\00:41:16.04 TROUBLE AND THEY CRIED OUT TO GOD THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE MIDST 00:41:16.04\00:41:19.14 OF THEIR TROUBLE HE CRIED TO GOD AND HE HEARD THEM AND DELIVERED 00:41:19.14\00:41:23.91 THEM. AREN'T YOU GLAD FOR THAT KIND OF 00:41:23.91\00:41:26.85 GOD? WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE. 00:41:26.85\00:41:28.32 BUT WE HAVE TO REMAIN ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT OUR GOD. 00:41:28.32\00:41:31.22 WE HAVE TO REMAIN ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE MESSAGE GOD HAS GIVEN 00:41:31.22\00:41:35.76 TO US. WE MUST REMAIN ENTHUSIAST IRK 00:41:35.76\00:41:38.26 ABOUT THE FUNDAMENTALS OF OUR FAITH BUT NEVER GET IT MIXED 00:41:38.26\00:41:43.73 UP. IT IS NOT THE FUNDAMENTALS OF 00:41:43.73\00:41:45.13 OUR FAITH ON WHICH OUR SALVATION IS BUILT. 00:41:45.13\00:41:47.07 OUR SALVATION IS BUILT ON THE NONEROSIVE FOUNDATION CALLED 00:41:47.07\00:41:52.21 CHRIST JESUS. BUT NOTHING GETS WHERE IT IS 00:41:52.21\00:41:58.21 IMMEDIATELY. AHAB'S APOSTASY WAS NOT SUDDEN. 00:41:58.21\00:42:03.55 EROSION TAKES TIME. THE AVALANCHE THAT CRIPPLED 00:42:03.55\00:42:07.22 ISRAEL BEGAN AS A TRICKLE AND IT WAS IGNORED. 00:42:07.22\00:42:10.26 THAT'S WHY MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE HAVE TO PAY 00:42:10.26\00:42:11.89 ATTENTION TO THE TRICKLES IN OUR OWN LIVES. 00:42:11.89\00:42:14.03 AM I TELLING THE TRUTH? IT'S EASY TO LOOK AT THE TRICKLE 00:42:14.03\00:42:16.53 IN EVERYBODY ELSE'S LIFE. PEOPLE COME TO CHURCH AND THIS 00:42:16.53\00:42:20.64 IS SO-AND-SO'S TRICKLING AND BROTHER SO-AND-SO IS TRICKLING. 00:42:20.64\00:42:24.74 YOU BETTER LISTEN TO THE TRICKLE IN YOUR OWN LIVES BUT WE COULD 00:42:24.74\00:42:28.54 EASILY EXAMINE OTHER FOLK. IT'S SAD WHEN MEMBERS GET 00:42:28.54\00:42:30.51 TOGETHER TO DIGEST OTHER MEMBERS. 00:42:30.51\00:42:33.62 OR EVEN THE PASTOR FOR THAT MATTER. 00:42:33.62\00:42:37.39 SOMETIMES I'M AT HOME AND I CAN FEEL THE MEMBERS CHEWING AT MY 00:42:37.39\00:42:40.79 BACK. I SAID HONEY, WHAT WAS THAT. 00:42:40.79\00:42:43.73 SHE SAID I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. I THINK OH, IT MUST HAVE BEEN 00:42:43.73\00:42:46.56 THE MEMBERS. [ Laughter ] 00:42:46.56\00:42:50.33 THAT IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL. WE'VE GOT TO PUSH FOR UNITY LIKE 00:42:50.33\00:42:53.64 THEY DID ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST. 00:42:53.64\00:42:55.37 WHEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD ARE UNIFIED, GOD CAN WORK THROUGH A 00:42:55.37\00:42:58.77 PEOPLE THAT ARE UNIFIED, NOT ONLY TO AN UNCOMMON GOD BUT TO A 00:42:58.77\00:43:03.98 DIVINE PURPOSE. WHAT YOU DO SAY? 00:43:03.98\00:43:05.75 WHEN WE ARE UNIFIED ONLY THEN CAN WE EXPERIENCE THE OUTPOURING 00:43:05.75\00:43:10.25 OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD ON A PEOPLE THAT ONLY THEN WILL BE ABLE TO 00:43:10.25\00:43:14.92 ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE CANNOT ACCOMPLISH WHILE WE ARE DIVIDED 00:43:14.92\00:43:18.43 AND JUST IN CASE YOU THINK IT'S MY RESPONSIBILITY TO GET YOU TO 00:43:18.43\00:43:21.56 UNIFY WITH SOMEBODY ELSE, THE BIBLE SAYS AS MUCH AS IT IS 00:43:21.56\00:43:25.87 POSSIBLE WITH YOU, BE AT PEACE WITH ALL MEN. 00:43:25.87\00:43:29.30 IT IS A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. I CAN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING IF 00:43:29.30\00:43:33.04 YOUR HEART IS NOT RIGHT. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT 00:43:33.04\00:43:36.04 HAPPENED TO ISRAEL, LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY. 00:43:36.04\00:43:37.98 THAT'S WHY I'M AMAZED; I'M SADDENED WHEN I BEGIN TO SEE OUR 00:43:37.98\00:43:43.12 CHURCHES CHANGING THEIR NAMES FOR POPULAR NAMES IN 00:43:43.12\00:43:45.29 CHRISTIANITY SO LET ME DIVE A LITTLE DEEPER RIGHT NOW. 00:43:45.29\00:43:48.06 WHEN KING SOL WAS IN APOSTASY HE DISGUISED HIMSELF. 00:43:48.06\00:43:51.93 WHEN AHAS BEEN WAS IN APOSTASY, HE DISGUISED HIMSELF. 00:43:51.93\00:43:56.13 CAN I GET CLEAR TODAY? IT IS TOO LATE FOR THEE ADVENTIST 00:43:56.13\00:44:03.54 CHURCH TO DISGUISE. WE AIN'T NO COMMUNITY THIS. 00:44:03.54\00:44:07.88 THIS IS THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:44:07.88\00:44:11.31 THE NAME SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST IS THE MESSAGE. 00:44:11.31\00:44:14.08 WE STILL HONOR THE SABBATH OF THE CREATION OF GOD. 00:44:14.08\00:44:19.05 WE STILL BELIEVE WHAT JESUS DID IN THE BEGINNING IS STILL 00:44:19.05\00:44:22.06 RELEVANT TODAY. WE STILL BELIEVE WHEN HE SAID 00:44:22.06\00:44:25.19 REMEMBER THAT WE OUGHT TO REMEMBER. 00:44:25.19\00:44:27.00 COME ON, SOMEBODY. IT IS NOT GROWING OLD WITH TIME. 00:44:27.00\00:44:29.06 IT CANNOT BE TALKED AWAY. IT CANNOT BE DILUTED, DELAYED OR 00:44:29.06\00:44:35.80 ERODED AWAY. WHAT IS TRUTH 5,000 YEARS AGO IS 00:44:35.80\00:44:38.47 TRUTH TODAY. THE BIBLE SAYS THE PATIENCE OF 00:44:38.47\00:44:43.41 THE SAINTS, WHEN PEOPLE TELL ME THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD CANNOT 00:44:43.41\00:44:46.35 BE KEPT I SAY YOU NEED TO DELETE REVELATION BECAUSE THE DEVIL IS 00:44:46.35\00:44:51.12 ANGRY WITH THOSE WHO BY GOD'S GRACE ARE LIVING THEIR LIVES IN 00:44:51.12\00:44:55.92 HARMONY WITH IT. EROSION. 00:44:55.92\00:44:57.33 I MUST SAY MY BROTHERS AND MY SISTERS, IT IS IN THIS CRITICAL 00:44:57.33\00:45:00.70 HOUR GOD IS CALLING HIS PEOPLE TO STAND STRONG. 00:45:00.70\00:45:03.33 IT IS IN THIS CRISIS HOUR IF YOU DON'T THINK THIS HOUR IS CRISIS, 00:45:03.33\00:45:07.24 LOOK AT WHAT ROME IS DOING. LOOK AT OUR POLITICAL QUAGMIRES. 00:45:07.24\00:45:11.51 GOD HAVE MERCY ON US. WHEN WE TALK MORE ABOUT POLITICS 00:45:11.51\00:45:17.88 THAN ABOUT JESUS. DON'T GET ME STARTED. 00:45:17.88\00:45:25.65 I DON'T CARE WHO IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. 00:45:25.65\00:45:28.76 I'M ONLY CAMPAIGNING FOR JESUS. I'VE NEVER FOUND JOY AND 00:45:28.76\00:45:32.56 PROVISION IN ANY MAN OR WOMAN FOR THAT MATTER. 00:45:32.56\00:45:34.83 I AIN'T PUSHING NOBODY. I AIN'T CAMPAIGNING FOR DIDDLY 00:45:34.83\00:45:41.10 SQUAT. IF THAT'S WHO IS RUNNING MORE 00:45:41.10\00:45:46.94 OFFICE, DIDDLY SQUAT IS NOT GETTING MY VOTE. 00:45:46.94\00:45:49.21 I'M VOTING FOR JESUS. COME ON, SOMEBODY. 00:45:49.21\00:45:53.38 WE OUGHT TO STOP THE FOOLISHNESS OF THINKING THAT GOD HAS CALLED 00:45:53.38\00:45:56.38 A CHURCH FOR POLITICAL REASONS. REMEMBER WHAT HE SAID TO THE 00:45:56.38\00:46:01.49 DISCIPLES. MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD. 00:46:01.49\00:46:04.89 LET'S REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES. 00:46:04.89\00:46:09.86 THE SEASON BELONGS TO HIM AND GOD TO GOD WHAT BELONGS TO HIM. 00:46:09.86\00:46:12.90 HE SAID IF MY KINGDOM WERE OF THIS WORLD MY DISCIPLES WOULD 00:46:12.90\00:46:16.91 FIGHT. WHY DO YOU THINK WE'RE FIGHTING? 00:46:16.91\00:46:18.94 WHY DO YOU THINK ADVENTISTS CAN'T TALK TO ADVENTISTS? 00:46:18.94\00:46:22.94 BECAUSE WE'RE FIGHTING OVER PARTIES RATHER THAN OVER JESUS. 00:46:22.94\00:46:26.35 WE ARE UPLIFTING ONE AGENDA ABOVE THE OTHER WHEN THE ONLY 00:46:26.35\00:46:29.08 AGENDA THAT MATTERS IS THE AGENDA OF THE CROSS. 00:46:29.08\00:46:33.22 YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH ME BUT THEN I DON'T REALLY CARE. 00:46:33.22\00:46:37.39 BECAUSE I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE RELEVANT THINGS OF THE HOUR. 00:46:37.39\00:46:41.33 WHEN THAT PRESIDENT IS NO LONGER THERE, WE'LL ARGUE OVER THE NEXT 00:46:41.33\00:46:45.87 ONE AND THE NEXT ONE LIKE WE'VE BEEN DOING SINCE THE LAST 00:46:45.87\00:46:52.67 PRESIDENT GOT ELECTED. IT'S NOT ABOUT PRESIDENTS, IT'S 00:46:52.67\00:46:55.18 ABOUT JESUS. THERE'S ONLY ONE THRONE, AMEN, 00:46:55.18\00:46:57.41 AND NOBODY CAN VOTE HIM OUT. [ Applause ] 00:46:57.41\00:47:07.86 IT IS IN THIS CRITICAL HOUR GOD IS CALLING TO US TAKE A STAND. 00:47:07.86\00:47:10.79 IN THIS CRISIS HOUR GOD IS CALLING US BACK TO UNADULTERATED 00:47:10.79\00:47:15.60 WORSHIP. IT IS IN THIS CLOSING SCENE OF 00:47:15.60\00:47:17.03 HISTORY THAT GOD IS CALLING US BACK TO THE FOUNDATION OF 00:47:17.03\00:47:22.34 FAITHFULNESS. THAT'S WHY I GAVE YOU ONLY TWO 00:47:22.34\00:47:25.27 RECOMMENDATIONS. ONLY TWO LISTS. 00:47:25.27\00:47:30.11 ONLY TWO THINGS I SUGGEST YOU DO. 00:47:30.11\00:47:35.02 DON'T BUILD ON ANYTHING THAT CAN BE ERODED. 00:47:35.02\00:47:39.32 THE WORDS OF JESUS IN LUKE 6:47 AND 48. 00:47:39.32\00:47:43.12 HE SAID THESE WORDS, WHOEVER COMES TO ME AND HEARS MY THINGS 00:47:43.12\00:47:49.36 AND DOES THEM I WILL SHOW YOU WHOM HE IS LIKE. 00:47:49.36\00:47:51.60 HE IS LIKE A MAN BUILDING A HOUSE WHO DUG DEEP. 00:47:51.60\00:47:55.37 HOW DID HE DIG? IT'S TIME TO GET BACK INTO DEEP 00:47:55.37\00:47:59.07 BIBLE STUDIES, NOT IN THE SABBATH CLASS, IN YOUR HOUSE. 00:47:59.07\00:48:08.35 HUSBANDS GET BACK TO BEING THE PRIEST OF YOUR HOME. 00:48:08.35\00:48:11.12 WIVES SUPPORT YOUR HUSBAND IN THAT AREA. 00:48:11.12\00:48:12.79 IF THEY'RE A LITTLE SLOW, SAY DID YOU FORGET SOMETHING TODAY 00:48:12.79\00:48:16.39 LIKE MY WIFE DOES. I WAKE UP SOMETIMES TO GET BUSY 00:48:16.39\00:48:20.33 ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF THE CHURCH AND SHE SAYS HONEY, LET'S NOT 00:48:20.33\00:48:23.13 FORGET ABOUT OUR OWN DEVOTIONS. GOD KNEW WHO I NEEDED TO STAY 00:48:23.13\00:48:28.24 RIGHT. THANK YOU, HONEY. 00:48:28.24\00:48:29.77 HE GOES ON TO SAY HE DUG DEEP AND LAID A FOUNDATION ON THE 00:48:29.77\00:48:32.61 ROCK AND WHEN THE FLOOD AROSE, THE STREAM BEAT VEHEMENTLY 00:48:32.61\00:48:38.81 AGAINST THAT HOUSE AND IT COULD NOT SHAKE IT FOR IT WAS FOUNDED 00:48:38.81\00:48:44.29 ON THE ROCK. SOMETHING ELSE THAT YOU OUGHT TO 00:48:44.29\00:48:46.55 NOTICE. I DON'T HAVE TIME, I NEED TO 00:48:46.55\00:48:49.32 PLANT THE SEED. STUDY THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NEW 00:48:49.32\00:48:55.80 JERUSALEM. NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM CAN BE 00:48:55.80\00:48:58.30 AFFECTED BY EROSION. YOU'LL GET THAT ON THURSDAY. 00:48:58.30\00:49:08.38 NOT A SINGLE ELEMENT IN THE FOUNDATION OF JERUSALEM CAN BE 00:49:08.38\00:49:10.65 AFFECTED BY EROSION. YOU KNOW WHY? 00:49:10.65\00:49:14.22 BECAUSE NO OTHER FOUNDATION CAN ANY MAN LAY THAN THAT WHICH IS 00:49:14.22\00:49:19.15 LAID WHICH IS CHRIST JESUS. COME ON, SAY AMEN. 00:49:19.15\00:49:22.02 WE HAVE TO BUILD OUR HOUSES ON THE ROCK, THE THREE ANGELS 00:49:22.02\00:49:26.13 MESSAGES IS A ROCK MESSAGE. WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE DID I SAY? 00:49:26.13\00:49:30.33 IT'S A ROCK MESSAGE. IT IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF 00:49:30.33\00:49:34.04 HEART. STOP TIPTOEING THROUGH THE 00:49:34.04\00:49:36.44 TULIPS. STOP MEANDERING IN MEETIOKTY AND 00:49:36.44\00:49:43.65 NEGOTIATING AT THE TABLE OF THE ENEMY. 00:49:43.65\00:49:45.45 TELL IT LIKE IT IS. THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGE IS NOT 00:49:45.45\00:49:48.58 PREPARING US FOR THE FINAL PICNIC OF THE AGES NOR THE FINAL 00:49:48.58\00:49:53.79 EXCURSION OF THE AGES BUT IT'S GETTING US READY FOR THE FINAL 00:49:53.79\00:49:56.29 BATTLE OF THE AGES AND WHEN THAT BATTLE COMES IF YOUR ARMOR IS 00:49:56.29\00:49:59.29 NOT FROM GOD, IF YOUR ARMOR IS NOT FROM CHRIST, YOU WILL FALL 00:49:59.29\00:50:03.80 DOWN. THE MESSAGE IS TO BE PREACHED 00:50:03.80\00:50:07.57 OVER THE BATTLING CONFUSION OF COMPROMISE. 00:50:07.57\00:50:10.31 LET ME MAKE A POINT. DON'T LIFT UP JESUS INSTEAD OF 00:50:10.31\00:50:14.14 THE DOCTRINE. THAT'S FALSE CHRIST 00:50:14.14\00:50:20.88 CENTEREDNESS. PEOPLE SAY JUST PREACH JESUS, 00:50:20.88\00:50:22.82 JUST PREACH JESUS. THAT'S FALSE CHRIST 00:50:22.82\00:50:26.69 CENTEREDNESS. LIFTED LIFT -- LIFT UP JESUS BY 00:50:26.69\00:50:30.83 THE DOCTRINE. INCLUDE JESUS IN ALL YOUR 00:50:30.83\00:50:33.06 MESSAGES. JESUS IS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR 00:50:33.06\00:50:34.73 FAITH BUT IF THAT'S THE ONLY MESSAGE THAT THERE WAS, HE WOULD 00:50:34.73\00:50:38.37 NOT INCLUDE 66 BOOKS. REVELATIONS SHOULD NO LONGER -- 00:50:38.37\00:50:45.87 I GOT TO REPEAT THAT. REVELATIONS SHOULD NOT BECOME A 00:50:45.87\00:50:50.45 MYSTERY AMONG ADVENTISTS. NO OTHER FOUNDATION CAN ANYONE 00:50:50.45\00:50:55.88 LAY THAN THAT WHICH IS LAID WHICH IS CHRIST JESUS. 00:50:55.88\00:50:59.62 THAT'S MY FIRST RECOMMENDATION. MY SECOND RECOMMENDATION IS EVEN 00:50:59.62\00:51:02.92 TOUGHER THAN THAT. THE FIRST ONE IS DON'T BUILD ON 00:51:02.92\00:51:07.13 ANYTHING THAT ERODES BY MY SECOND ONE IS TOUGHER. 00:51:07.13\00:51:09.96 ARE YOU READY FOR IT? EXAMINE THE CRACKS IN YOUR OWN 00:51:09.96\00:51:12.63 LIVES. GET OUT YOUR OWN MIRRORS. 00:51:12.63\00:51:15.90 IF YOU CAN'T SEE, GET SOME WINDEX OR BUY A BIG ONE FROM 00:51:15.90\00:51:20.68 FLOOR TO CEILING AND SAY LORD, SHOW ME ME. 00:51:20.68\00:51:24.61 LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. THE MOST SPIRITSUAL TIMES IN MY 00:51:24.61\00:51:30.79 LIF -- THE MOST SPIRITUAL TIMES OF MY LIFE CAME ON THE HEELS OF GOD SHOWING ME WHO I 00:51:30.79\00:51:38.63 AM. AM I TELLING THE TRUTH? 00:51:38.63\00:51:40.96 IF YOU CAN'T SEE WHO YOU ARE, YOU'RE NOT READY FOR THE 00:51:40.96\00:51:45.90 KINGDOM. BECAUSE NOBODY IS GOING INTO THE 00:51:45.90\00:51:48.27 KINGDOM WITHOUT THE GARMENT OF CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:51:48.27\00:51:51.24 IF YOU CAN'T SEE YOUR SIN, YOU ARE IN THE WRONG TRIBE. 00:51:51.24\00:51:54.84 THERE ARE SOME FOLK THAT SPEND ALL THEIR LIVES EXAMINING THE 00:51:54.84\00:51:57.85 CRACKS AND OTHER FOLKS' LIVES, CAN'T SEE THE CRACKS IN THEIR 00:51:57.85\00:52:01.12 OWN LIVES YOU AIN'T GOING ANYWHERE. 00:52:01.12\00:52:03.02 BECAUSE IF YOU CAN'T FOCUS ON YOUR OWN SINS, YOU CAN'T SEE THE 00:52:03.02\00:52:05.55 SIN THAT YOU NEED TO BE SAVED FROM. 00:52:05.55\00:52:07.46 THEREFORE, YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED. 00:52:07.46\00:52:09.56 AND SALVATION DOESN'T HAVE A DATE ON IT. 00:52:09.56\00:52:11.63 LE ISVATION IS A PROGRESS PROCESS. 00:52:11.63\00:52:14.66 HE SAVES FROM US THE PENALTY OF SIN. 00:52:14.66\00:52:16.56 THANK THE LORD I'M NOT ON DEATH ROW. 00:52:16.56\00:52:18.83 SALVATION IS A DAILY WALK CALLED SANCTIFICATION. 00:52:18.83\00:52:23.61 ONE DAY WHEN THERE'S NO LONGER TEMPTATION WE WILL BE SAVED FROM 00:52:23.61\00:52:26.71 THE PRESENCE OF SIN. DON'T WALK AROUND TALKING ABOUT 00:52:26.71\00:52:30.18 YOU SAVED. YOU BETTER HUMBLY LIVE UNDER THE 00:52:30.18\00:52:32.11 GRACE OF CHRIST EVERY DAY. EXAMINE YOURSELF THE APOSTLE 00:52:32.11\00:52:35.68 PAUL SAYS. 2 CORINTHIANS 13, EXAMINE 00:52:35.68\00:52:41.19 YOURSELF, 13:5, EXAMINE YOURSELVES TO SEE WHETHER YOU 00:52:41.19\00:52:43.99 ARE IN THE FAITH. TEST YOURSELF. 00:52:43.99\00:52:47.23 DO YOU NOT KNOW YOURSELVES THAT JESUS CHRIST IS IN YOU UNLESS 00:52:47.23\00:52:52.03 INDEED YOU ARE DISQUALIFIED OR THE KING JAMES VERSION SAYS 00:52:52.03\00:52:57.67 REPROBATE? GET BACK TO THE DISTINCTIVE 00:52:57.67\00:52:59.74 TRUTHS. THEY ARE THE FOUNDATION OF OUR 00:52:59.74\00:53:02.28 FAITH, THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAID SPEAKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF GOD 00:53:02.28\00:53:08.45 IN THE LAST DAYS, IT DOES NOT APPLY TO JUST THE SABBATH BUT 00:53:08.45\00:53:12.09 EVERYTHING IN OUR LIVES THAT'S BEEN ERODED. 00:53:12.09\00:53:14.19 THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THOSE OF US WHO ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE THE 00:53:14.19\00:53:17.49 FINAL GENERATION, HE SAYS THEY THAT SHALL BE OF THEY SHALL 00:53:17.49\00:53:21.06 BUILD UP THE OLD WASTE PLACES. COME ON, SOMEBODY. 00:53:21.06\00:53:23.73 IT'S TIME FOR SOME OLD CHRISTIANITY. 00:53:23.73\00:53:27.14 I'M TALKING ABOUT OLD-FASHIONED BUT OLD. 00:53:27.14\00:53:30.07 THAT MEANS THINGS TRUE 5,000 YEARS AGO OUGHT TO STILL BE TRUE 00:53:30.07\00:53:34.58 TODAY. THEY SHALL BUILD UP THE OLD 00:53:34.58\00:53:36.08 WASTE PLACES. THEY SHALL RAISE UP THE 00:53:36.08\00:53:39.15 FOUNDATIONS OF MANY GENERATIONS, THEY SHALL BE CALLED WHAT? 00:53:39.15\00:53:44.19 REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH. WHEN YOU REPAIR THE BREACH, 00:53:44.19\00:53:47.46 EROSION IS STOPPED. RESTORERS OF PATHS TO DWELL IN. 00:53:47.46\00:53:52.03 IT'S TIME THAT WE RESTORE PROPER WORSHIP. 00:53:52.03\00:53:59.40 NOT LOOKING FOR A FEELING. NOT WAITING FOR SOME TWITCH IN 00:53:59.40\00:54:04.81 ORDER TO LIVE RIGHT. NOT WAITING FOR A CERTAIN 00:54:04.81\00:54:09.08 RHYTHMIC PITCH IN ORDER FOR US TO WAKE UP AND SAY WE HAD A GOOD 00:54:09.08\00:54:12.58 TIME IN CHURCH. YOU WANT TO SEE A GOOD TIME, 00:54:12.58\00:54:14.45 IT'S COMING, IT'S CALL THE TIME OF TROUBLE. 00:54:14.45\00:54:16.82 THEN IF YOU CAN MAKE IT THROUGH THAT, YOU WILL HAVE A GOOD TIME. 00:54:16.82\00:54:20.79 IT'S HIGH TIME TO STAND UP FOR THE TRUTHS OR WE'LL FALL FOR 00:54:20.79\00:54:24.63 TRADITION. IT'S HIGH TIME TO STRAIGHTEN UP 00:54:24.63\00:54:26.76 SO THAT SOMEBODY ELSE CAN WALK RIGHT IN THE PATH GOD HAS 00:54:26.76\00:54:32.20 ESTABLISHED FOR OUR OWN FEET. IT'S HIGH TIME TO SPEAK UP FOR 00:54:32.20\00:54:37.81 THE CAUSE OF CHRIST. WHEN IT'S ALL OVER AND DONE, 00:54:37.81\00:54:41.21 ONLY THEN THERE ARE CERTAIN HYMNS I WANT TO STILL SING WHEN 00:54:41.21\00:54:44.55 I GET TO HEAVEN. THE FIRST ONE IS THE CHURCH HAS 00:54:44.55\00:54:48.38 ONE FOUNDATION. 'TIS JESUS CHRIST THE LORD. 00:54:48.38\00:54:51.85 WE MUST SAY WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN ON CHRIST, THE SOLID ROCK, I 00:54:51.85\00:54:56.83 STAND ALL AT THE GROUND, SINKING SAND. 00:54:56.83\00:55:00.26 YOU KNOW WHY, BECAUSE HE'S MY ROROCK OF AGES. 00:55:00.26\00:55:04.50 TODAY I NEED TO STILL HIDE MYSELF FROM THEE. 00:55:04.50\00:55:07.77 WHAT YOU DO SAY? TO MY BRETHREN, DON'T JUST SING 00:55:07.77\00:55:10.74 IT, LIVE IT. DON'T JUST WALK IT, WALK IT. 00:55:10.74\00:55:13.31 DON'T JUST WAIT FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD, WORK FOR THE COMING 00:55:13.31\00:55:16.68 OF THE LORD. DON'T JUST BE A SEVENTH DAY 00:55:16.68\00:55:20.85 úADVENTIST, BE AN ADVENTIST EVERY DAY. 00:55:20.85\00:55:22.68 DON'T SETTLE FOR BEING IN THE CONGREGATION, DON'T STOP UNTIL 00:55:22.68\00:55:25.29 YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN CHRIST. AMEN, BECAUSE ONE DAY WHEN IT'S 00:55:25.29\00:55:28.46 ALL OVER I WANT TO BE STANDING ON THE SEA OF GLASS. 00:55:28.46\00:55:31.29 I HAVE MADE UP MY MIND, HONEY, TOGETHER, FOREVER, ETERNITY IN 00:55:31.29\00:55:36.67 VIEW. THAT AT THE SAME TIME PLEDGE MY 00:55:36.67\00:55:37.80 WIFE AND I HAVE MADE TO EACH OTHER. 00:55:37.80\00:55:39.77 WE WOULD RATHER FIGHT THAN SOMEBODY. 00:55:39.77\00:55:43.04 COME ON SOMEBODY ELSE. AMEN. 00:55:43.04\00:55:46.61 I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE AND NEITHER IS SHE. 00:55:46.61\00:55:48.94 WE'RE GOING TO GET OLD TOGETHER. AND WHEN WE ARE DONE GETTING 00:55:48.94\00:55:54.18 OLD, WE'LL GET YOUNG ALL OVER TOGETHER IN HEAVEN. 00:55:54.18\00:55:57.69 AMEN, SOMEBODY. I WANT TO BE THERE WHEN THE 00:55:57.69\00:56:00.89 ROADS BLOOM AGAIN AND THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR RISES AGAIN. 00:56:00.89\00:56:03.43 I WANT TO BE IN THE KINGDOM WHEN THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD SIGNS 00:56:03.43\00:56:06.70 AGAIN AND THE OIL OF GLADNESS FLOWS AGAIN WITHOUT RESTRAINT. 00:56:06.70\00:56:10.67 I WANT TO BE ON THE FIRST HALF OF THE MORNING WHEN THE LION OF 00:56:10.67\00:56:14.57 THE TRIBE OF JUDAH ROAR AGAIN AND THE OATH OF SALVATION 00:56:14.57\00:56:18.51 BECOMES THE FINISH OF MIFF FAITH. 00:56:18.51\00:56:20.04 I DETERMINE TO BE THERE ON THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY WHEN THE 00:56:20.04\00:56:22.48 MIGHTY GOD BECOMES THE EVERLASTING FATHER. 00:56:22.48\00:56:25.98 WHEN THE FIRST ADAM HUGS THE SECOND ADAM, I WANT TO HEAR THE 00:56:25.98\00:56:30.32 THUNDEROUS FEET OF REDEMPTION JOINING TOGETHER IN THE MASSIVE 00:56:30.32\00:56:32.42 HUG OF REDEMPTION. I WANT TO BE THERE WHEN THE 00:56:32.42\00:56:34.76 ALPHA BECOMES THE OMEGA AND I WILL FINALLY SEE HIS FACE. 00:56:34.76\00:56:40.83 BUT MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, DO NOT FORGET WE ARE LIVING IN THE 00:56:40.83\00:56:43.30 HOUR OF EROSION. WE LIVE IN A DOWNSTREAM WORLD. 00:56:43.30\00:56:48.44 THE CRACKS ARE CLAIMING US. NEVER FORGET, IF THE FOUNDATION 00:56:48.44\00:56:55.48 BE DESTROYED, WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS DO? 00:56:55.48\00:57:01.02 IS THERE SOMEBODY HERE TODAY THAT WANTS TO SAY BY GOD'S GRACE 00:57:01.02\00:57:03.65 I'M GOING TO HOLD ON UNTIL IT'S ALL OVER. 00:57:03.65\00:57:08.52 I'M GOING TO RIDE THE WAVES UNTIL THE SHIP LANDS IN THE NEW 00:57:08.52\00:57:13.90 JERUSALEM. I'M GOING TO BUCKLE MY SEAT BELT 00:57:13.90\00:57:15.90 IN THE TURBULENCE OF THE CHURCH AND I'M NOT GETTING OFF BECAUSE 00:57:15.90\00:57:19.20 YOU DON'T LIKE THE RIDE. I'M STAYING WITH IT UNTIL THE 00:57:19.20\00:57:21.64 DAY IS DONE AND WHEN EROSION IS ALL OVER, WE WILL SEE THE 00:57:21.64\00:57:28.64 UNMOVEABLE, UNDILUTABLE FOUNDATION AND HIS NAME IS 00:57:28.64\00:57:29.68 CHRIST. GOD BLESS YOU. 00:57:29.68\00:57:30.25 [ ¤ ] [ ¤ Piano Playing ¤ ] 00:57:30.25\00:57:58.97