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Welcome to the 2020
Secrets Unsealed Yearly Summit.
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We thank all of
you for attending.
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We know that right now our world
is a little bit upside down
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but God has blessed
us with the technology
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so that even though
we're separated by space,
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we can still
fellowship one with another.
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Before we begin this message,
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I want to open with a
word from Daniel chapter 12...
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Daniel chapter 12
verses 1 through 3,
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I'm just going to
quote a little bit of this,
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The Lord tells us
that at that time,
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shall Michael stand up,
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that great prince which standeth
for the children of thy people:
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and there shall
be a time of trouble,
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such as never was
since there was a nation
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even to that same time:
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and at that time thy
people shall be delivered,
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every one that shall be
found written in the book.
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And they that be wise
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shall shine as the
brightness of the firmament;
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and they that turn
many to righteousness
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shall shine as the
stars for ever and ever.
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Let's open with
a word of prayer.
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"Father in heaven, we
ask that You will bless
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each of us now as
we open Your Word.
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Cause us to hear Your voice
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and to see the high
calling You have on our lives.
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In Jesus' name we
thank You, amen. "
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Pause...
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The Lord's servant tells us,
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"If you would stand
through the time of trouble,
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we must know Christ,
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and appropriate the
gift of His righteousness. "
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To know Christ is not
simply to know about Him.
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It's not simply to
have facts or doctrines
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about our Savior
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but to know Him intimately
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as a husband knows his
wife and they become one.
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The Lord's servant
says, "We must know Christ
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and appropriate the
gift of His righteousness. "
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A gift is
something that is given
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with no expectation of return.
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It's not
something that's earned...
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it's not something
that's worked hard for...
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it's given
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and we must appropriate this...
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that means reckon it to be ours.
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This righteousness... Jesus
imputes to the repentant sinner.
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For the truth as it is in Jesus
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is the only means by
which a man may be saved.
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It's the only way a
person can be healed
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or delivered or set free.
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Then she says,
"Through the Word of God,
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man is privileged
to connect with Christ,
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and then the Divine
and the human combine...
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and in this union the
hope or assurance of man
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must rest alone...!"
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When we become one with Jesus,
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everything that is His is ours
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because we're His bride.
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Pause...
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"The time of test
is just upon us. "
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We can see in
our world right now
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all the chaos
that's happening...
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with rioting and civil unrest
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and financial problems
and... and with pandemics...
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we see all this
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and it's a sign for us to seek
the Lord... it's a wake-up call.
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On screen...
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Many times we think
about the loud cry...
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it's us yelling at
people, "You've got to do this
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and you've got to do that
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and we're trying
our very best to...
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to get people to do what's right
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but the only way a person can
even desire to do what's right
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is if they first know that their
Savior really loves them...
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that their Father in
heaven really loves them.
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Ellen White says,
"This is the beginning
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of that light of the angel
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whose glory shall
fill the whole earth... "
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Right now, even on my trip here
to be at this Summit with you,
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I saw thousands of
people in the airports
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and the question kept
ringing through my mind,
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"How many of them
know that Jesus is real?
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How many of them know
that He's about to return?"
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Pause...
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Haggai chapter 2... listen
to what the Lord tells us,
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"For thus saith
the Lord of hosts;
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yet once, in...
but a little while...
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I will shake the
heavens, and the earth,
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and the sea,
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and the dry land... "
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We all know that
before Christ returns,
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a shaking is going to take place
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and in our next message, we're
going to look at this closely
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but I want you
to hear what the...
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what the Bible
says about this...
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God says, "I will
shake all nations... "
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that even means,
all Denominations...
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"And the desire of all
nations shall come... "
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Do you know what the
desire of all nations has been
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since Adam and Eve fell in Eden?
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It's for God to
dwell inside of them again.
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Adam and Eve had God
almighty living inside them.
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That's why they were glowing...
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they were
wearing robes of light.
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That light was not something
that the Lord put around them,
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it was rather because He was
in them that they were glowing
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and that message... that
verse in Daniel chapter 12
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that we just read, it says,
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"They that turn
many to righteousness
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will shine like the sun...
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like the
brightness of the firmament.
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The reason that God's
people are going to literally
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shine like that
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is because they
will have God and Christ
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dwelling fully within them.
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The Lord goes on and says,
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"And I will fill this
house... your bodies...
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with glory,
saith the Lord of hosts
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and the glory of
this latter house
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shall be greater
than of the former...
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and in this place
I will give peace,
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saith the Lord of hosts. "
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Pause...
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I want to encourage
you... take time this weekend...
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read one page
in "Desire of Ages"
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it's page 161...
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you will never be the
same after you read it...
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Desire of Ages page 161...
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On screen...
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We were created to
be the temple of God.
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The Apostle Paul
tells us that numerous times
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in the letters to
the Corinthians...
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"Don't you realize... your
body is the temple of God?"
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But then we're told
that because of sin,
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humanity ceased to
be a temple for God...
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"Darkened and defiled by evil,
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the heart of man no longer
revealed the glory of God... "
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Many times when
people think about
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Christ dwelling in the heart,
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they say, "Well,
that's the mind... "
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and unfortunately,
often, we as Christians...
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we have... we have
limited knowing God
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to an intellectual experience
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but the Bible says in Proverbs,
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God speaks to
you and I and says,
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"My son... my daughter...
give me thine heart. "
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Your heart is the
seat of your affections.
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It's not just you intellectually
knowing in your head
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what's right...
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your affections have
got to be surrendered to God
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and the only way
that you can love God
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whom you've not seen physically,
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is if you first know that
He really genuinely loves you.
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God designed that
the temple at Jerusalem
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should be a continual witness...
pay attention to that word...
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the temple at
Jerusalem was a witness
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to the high
destiny open to every soul.
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The temple at Jerusalem
was not the substance...
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it was a shadow
that was pointing
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to the high
destiny open to every soul
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but the Jews... and you can
put your own name in there...
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that's us...
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had not
understood the significance
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of the building they
regarded with so much pride.
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They did not yield
themselves as holy temples
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for the Divine Spirit.
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Revelation chapter 14...
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we're going to
spend some time here
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because the hour of
His judgment is come.
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This is the theme for
this... this Summit this year.
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In Revelation chapter
14 verses 6 through 7,
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it says, "I saw another angel
fly in the midst of heaven,
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having the everlasting gospel
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to proclaim to them
that dwell on the earth,
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to every nation, and
kindred, and tongue and people,
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and he said with a loud voice,
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'Fear God, and
give glory to him... '"
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that literally means,
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if something miraculous
has happened in your life,
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God gets the glory.
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If you're able to sing...
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if you're able to
read or understand
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or work on a car or
whatever you can do,
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God gets the
glory... not you... not I.
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"Give glory to God, for the
hour of His judgment is come. "
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Pause...
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Review and
Herald, April 1, 1890...
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we are told...
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"Several have written to me,
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inquiring if the message
of justification by faith
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is the third
angel's message... "
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and Ellen White answered,
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"It is the third
angel's message in verity.
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The prophet declares,
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'I saw another angel
come down from heaven,
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having great power;
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and the earth was
lightened with his glory. '
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Brightness, glory, and power
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are to be connected with
the third angel's message,
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and conviction will follow
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wherever it is preached
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in the demonstration
of the Holy Spirit. "
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It's not just
words that people need,
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it's not just facts...
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they have to have the
facts shared with them
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in a way that
will change their life.
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On screen.
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This was written in 1890...
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1888 we had the General
Conference in Minneapolis,
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Jones and Waggoner were
two of the prominent speakers
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and they shared a message
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that our church had
never heard like this before.
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It was the message of
righteousness by faith
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and being a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian,
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what has... has been a
struggle for me to comprehend
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is that we could
not understand it.
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We rejected the message
of righteousness by faith...
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and do you know
what was so scary?
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The majority of the
people that rejected it...
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they said that
"righteousness by faith"
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was being presented in a way
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that looked like we were
doing away with the Law of God
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pause...
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and that was not so.
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It was showing that
man can't keep the law
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without God being inside of him.
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Pause...
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Ellen White goes on and says,
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"What is
justification by faith?"
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And I'm going to
pause there for a moment
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because many of
us, if you're like me,
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we have grown up
with these two terms.
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Justification and Sanctification
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and Justification
happened at Calvary...
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but Sanctification is
the work of a lifetime.
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How many people
have heard that before?
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I know I have...
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but I want to show you
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what the Bible
and what Ellen White
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reveal about this.
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Justification and Sanctification
took place in Christ Jesus
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2000 years ago...
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the reason it's the
work of a lifetime is...
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we have to
appropriate His life as ours
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every moment for
the rest of our lives.
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Pause...
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"What is justification by faith?
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It is the work of God... "
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it's not the work of man...
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"It is the work of God in laying
the glory of man in the dust,
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and doing for you and I
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that which it is not possible
for us to do for ourselves.
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None but God can subdue
the pride of man's heart.
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We cannot save ourselves. "
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The word "save" or "salvation"
it has five basic meanings...
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rescue, deliver and
heal, restore, rescue...
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oftentimes I have
people that will tell me,
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"Well, God gave
us the health message
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so we could be healthy. "
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Well, we cannot
save ourselves...
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we cannot heal ourselves.
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There's many of us that
say, "Well, I can heal myself
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if I do this, this and this...
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or if I take this herb
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or if I drink this...
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or if I eat this... "
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I believe in our health message
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but I want to
share something with you,
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the Lord's servant told us
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that the primary
purpose for the health message
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was to allow our
minds to be clear
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so that we could
understand and appropriate
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righteousness by faith alone.
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Pause...
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"We cannot save ourselves.
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We cannot regenerate ourselves.
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In the heavenly courts
there will be no songs sung
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'To me that loved
myself, and washed myself,
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to me that redeemed myself,
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unto me be glory and honor,
and blessing and praise. '
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But this is the
keynote of the song
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that is sung by many
here in this world today.
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They do not know what it means
to be meek and lowly in heart"
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that means...
humble and dependent.
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"And they do not mean to
know this if they can avoid it.
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The whole gospel is
comprised in learning of Christ
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and His
meekness and lowliness. "
00:16:40.06\00:16:42.53
Do you know that Jesus
said over and over again
00:16:42.56\00:16:45.63
in the gospels, "I can
do nothing of Myself...
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everything that I do is My
Father in Me that does it. "
00:16:48.77\00:16:53.88
Pause...
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"Then said Jesus, 'When ye
have lifted up the Son of Man,
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then ye shall
know that I am... '"
00:17:02.82\00:17:06.09
that was the name of Yahweh...
00:17:06.12\00:17:09.32
"and that I do
nothing of Myself... "
00:17:09.36\00:17:12.23
Do you remember
the Jewish Leaders?
00:17:12.26\00:17:15.06
When they saw what Pilate
had written over Jesus' cross,
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he wrote on there,
00:17:20.30\00:17:21.64
"Jesus of
Nazareth... King of the Jews. "
00:17:21.67\00:17:24.97
Do you know that when
you take that phrase...
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and it was written in Hebrew...
in Greek and in Latin...
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when you take
that phrase in Hebrew,
00:17:32.15\00:17:34.22
the first letter of each
of the Hebrew words is: YHWH.
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The Jewish
Leaders came to Pilate...
00:17:40.52\00:17:42.99
they said, "Don't
put that on the cross"
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it literally
said... they could see it,
00:17:45.49\00:17:48.30
it said, Yahweh...
Yehovah... Jehovah...
00:17:48.33\00:17:50.47
however you want
to pronounce it...
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they were so upset
because when they put that...
00:17:52.63\00:17:56.17
when Pilate put that
plaque above Jesus' head,
00:17:56.20\00:17:59.71
he was literally
declaring to the Jews,
00:17:59.74\00:18:03.95
"This is Yahweh... "
00:18:04.01\00:18:06.18
pause...
00:18:06.21\00:18:09.98
Jesus said, "When you
have lifted up the Son of Man,
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then ye shall know that I am...
and that I do nothing of Myself;
00:18:13.12\00:18:19.13
for I and my Father are one. "
00:18:19.16\00:18:23.33
John chapter 14
verses 10 and 11,
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Jesus explains this
even better, He says,
00:18:27.47\00:18:30.07
"Believe Me...
00:18:30.11\00:18:31.44
that I am in the Father,
00:18:31.47\00:18:34.21
and that the Father is in Me:
00:18:34.24\00:18:37.25
or else believe Me
for the very works' sake.
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You see the
miracles I'm doing...
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For the words I speak unto you,
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I speak not of myself
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but the Father
that dwelleth in Me,
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He is doing the works. "
00:18:51.09\00:18:54.46
The whole question of
righteousness by faith
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comes down to this,
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Man's work... versus
the work of Almighty God.
00:19:00.84\00:19:04.57
Do you remember when
Jesus came down on Mount Sinai
00:19:04.61\00:19:08.61
and His Father
was there with Him?
00:19:08.64\00:19:10.45
And Jesus
proclaimed His Law to Israel...
00:19:10.48\00:19:14.42
and do you know what
their response was in Exodus 19?
00:19:14.48\00:19:17.85
"Everything that You
have said, we will do... "
00:19:17.89\00:19:22.46
and it didn't last for 40 days.
00:19:22.49\00:19:26.36
God tells us in
Ezekiel 36 verses 22 to 36,
00:19:26.39\00:19:33.54
"Everything that I have spoken,
00:19:33.57\00:19:36.24
I will do... if you will
only open the door of your heart
00:19:36.27\00:19:41.68
and let me come in. "
00:19:41.74\00:19:43.08
Pause...
00:19:43.11\00:19:44.45
On screen...
00:19:44.48\00:19:59.43
Pay attention to
that phrase, "Pattern. "
00:19:59.46\00:20:01.63
Moses was told when he
was making the tabernacle...
00:20:01.66\00:20:06.20
a tent... "Make everything
according to the pattern
00:20:06.23\00:20:10.74
that I showed
you in the Mount. "
00:20:10.77\00:20:12.87
Pause...
00:20:12.91\00:20:16.48
"Moses was full of
zeal to do God's work;
00:20:16.51\00:20:18.81
and the most
talented men were at hand
00:20:18.85\00:20:21.12
to carry out his suggestions.
00:20:21.15\00:20:22.55
Yet he was not to
make a bell, a pomegranate,
00:20:22.58\00:20:26.55
a tassel, a fringe, a curtain,
00:20:26.59\00:20:29.02
or any vessel
of the sanctuary...
00:20:29.06\00:20:31.49
except according to
the Pattern shown him.
00:20:31.53\00:20:35.86
God called Moses into
the Mount and revealed to him
00:20:35.90\00:20:41.37
the heavenly things. "
00:20:41.40\00:20:43.10
I'm not saying that there's
not a temple in heaven...
00:20:43.14\00:20:46.24
so, please
don't misunderstand me
00:20:46.27\00:20:47.88
but what I am saying
is is the heavenly things
00:20:47.91\00:20:51.08
that Moses was
shown the pattern of...
00:20:51.11\00:20:53.82
was something more
than just a physical temple.
00:20:53.88\00:20:58.15
"God covered Moses
with His own glory,
00:20:58.19\00:21:01.96
so that he
might see the Pattern,
00:21:02.02\00:21:05.66
and according to
it... " the pattern...
00:21:05.69\00:21:09.06
"all things were made.
00:21:09.10\00:21:10.43
So to Israel, whom He desired
to make His dwelling place,
00:21:10.47\00:21:15.00
He had revealed His
glorious ideal of character.
00:21:15.04\00:21:19.27
But Israel had
not... " excuse me...
00:21:19.31\00:21:22.78
"But Israel had
chosen their own ways.
00:21:22.84\00:21:26.25
They had not builded
according to the Pattern:
00:21:26.31\00:21:29.92
But Christ... the True
Temple for God's indwelling,
00:21:29.95\00:21:36.22
molded every
detail of His earthly life
00:21:36.26\00:21:39.69
in harmony with God's ideal.
00:21:39.73\00:21:42.13
Jesus said, 'I delight
to do Thy will, O My God:
00:21:42.16\00:21:46.63
yeah, Thy law is
within My heart. '
00:21:46.67\00:21:50.44
So our
characters are to be builded
00:21:50.47\00:21:54.18
'for a habitation of
God through the Spirit. '
00:21:54.21\00:21:59.01
And we are to make all things
according to the Pattern...
00:21:59.05\00:22:04.05
even Him Who
'suffered for us... '"
00:22:04.09\00:22:09.19
When Moses went into the
Mount to receive the Law of God,
00:22:09.22\00:22:15.56
do you know that
the Bible tells us
00:22:15.60\00:22:17.83
and Ellen White confirms it
00:22:17.87\00:22:19.57
that Christ came down physically
and ate not only with Moses
00:22:19.63\00:22:28.81
but also with the 70 Elders.
00:22:28.84\00:22:30.95
The pattern that
Moses was shown was Jesus.
00:22:30.98\00:22:35.78
God told him, "I
want you to build a tent
00:22:35.82\00:22:40.12
and a temple one day
under David and Solomon
00:22:40.16\00:22:44.46
that will be a
picture of My Son. "
00:22:44.49\00:22:47.23
1st paragraph on screen...
00:22:47.30\00:23:09.55
"And in the deep
mystery of the inner place...
00:23:09.58\00:23:13.89
the holiest of all...
00:23:13.92\00:23:16.02
above the mercy seat,
00:23:16.06\00:23:18.06
between the figures of
the bowed, worshiping angels
00:23:18.09\00:23:21.73
was the glory of the Holiest. "
00:23:21.76\00:23:24.67
Do you know if we look at
a picture of the Sanctuary,
00:23:24.70\00:23:28.74
there were two tabernacles...
00:23:28.77\00:23:30.81
the first tabernacle
was called the Holy Place...
00:23:30.84\00:23:33.88
it was also known
in the Old Testament
00:23:33.91\00:23:36.14
as the Tabernacle
of the Congregation.
00:23:36.18\00:23:38.31
The Most Holy Place was the
Tabernacle of the Most High.
00:23:38.35\00:23:44.55
So, here you
had the congregation
00:23:44.59\00:23:47.12
and here you had: Almighty God
00:23:47.16\00:23:49.66
and there was a veil
that separated between them.
00:23:49.69\00:23:52.69
That veil had the sins of Israel
00:23:52.76\00:23:55.23
through the
blood of the sacrifices
00:23:55.26\00:23:57.67
sprinkled on it
almost every single day.
00:23:57.70\00:24:01.24
What's amazing is... is that
00:24:01.27\00:24:04.11
the place where God
dwelt was called: Most Holy.
00:24:04.14\00:24:08.71
The place of His
people was called: Holy.
00:24:08.74\00:24:12.45
Do you know in the Old Testament
00:24:12.48\00:24:14.42
in Leviticus chapter 11
00:24:14.45\00:24:16.25
and 1st Peter repeats it.
00:24:16.28\00:24:17.99
He says, "Be ye
therefore holy as I am holy. "
00:24:18.02\00:24:23.46
It was God's purpose
that the congregation
00:24:23.49\00:24:28.86
would be like Him.
00:24:28.93\00:24:31.63
Pause...
00:24:31.67\00:24:36.60
"In all these... "
00:24:36.64\00:24:37.97
the sanctuary and all the
furnishings of the sanctuary,
00:24:38.01\00:24:42.34
"God desired that His people
should read the purpose...
00:24:42.41\00:24:46.92
His purpose for
the human soul... "
00:24:46.95\00:24:49.98
He says, "Know ye not
that you are the temple of God,
00:24:50.05\00:24:55.02
and that the Spirit
of God dwells in you?"
00:24:55.06\00:24:58.69
I challenge you...
00:24:58.73\00:25:00.66
for the next week when
you get up in the morning,
00:25:00.70\00:25:03.33
instead of just simply begging
God to give you His Spirit,
00:25:03.37\00:25:07.44
thank Him for doing so
00:25:07.47\00:25:10.07
and then stand up and
spend the rest of your day
00:25:10.11\00:25:13.24
walking...
knowing that He is in you.
00:25:13.27\00:25:17.45
1st paragraph on screen...
00:25:17.48\00:25:36.80
When the law
was given from Sinai
00:25:36.83\00:25:38.63
and the sacrificial system
was given in case of failure,
00:25:38.67\00:25:42.50
God was revealing
His character to Israel.
00:25:42.54\00:25:46.17
His law showed:
"This is what it looks like
00:25:46.21\00:25:49.31
for a son and
daughter of God to live...
00:25:49.34\00:25:52.55
this is what it
looks like for God to dwell
00:25:52.61\00:25:55.78
inside of a man and woman...
00:25:55.82\00:25:57.35
but this ideal
00:25:57.39\00:26:00.32
they were in themselves
powerless to attain. "
00:26:00.36\00:26:03.83
2nd Paragraph on screen...
00:26:03.89\00:26:26.35
There's a verse
in Acts chapter 17,
00:26:26.38\00:26:29.98
I want you to
turn there with me...
00:26:30.02\00:26:33.59
this is important.
00:26:33.62\00:26:35.59
Acts chapter 17 verse 31,
00:26:35.62\00:26:39.49
pause...
00:26:39.53\00:26:42.56
it says,
00:26:42.60\00:26:43.93
verse on screen...
00:26:43.97\00:26:56.51
When I was young, I
used to do a lot of drafting,
00:26:56.54\00:27:01.85
I love
drafting... in High School
00:27:01.88\00:27:03.69
and I loved working
on the Drafting Board
00:27:03.72\00:27:06.89
and drawing all the
detailed architecture
00:27:06.92\00:27:09.69
and the different structures
00:27:09.72\00:27:11.49
and what would happen
is... at the end of each year,
00:27:11.53\00:27:13.90
our teacher... our
professor would come in
00:27:13.93\00:27:17.27
and he would give us
a written description
00:27:17.30\00:27:20.54
of what we were
supposed to draw...
00:27:20.60\00:27:22.97
do you understand? A
written description...
00:27:23.00\00:27:26.01
so, all we had was
a written description
00:27:26.04\00:27:28.94
and we would sit
there and try to interpret
00:27:28.98\00:27:31.88
the written description
00:27:31.91\00:27:33.78
and we would draw out
exactly what we thought
00:27:33.82\00:27:36.89
the description was showing.
00:27:36.92\00:27:38.25
At the end of the year,
00:27:38.29\00:27:40.16
he would come
through on Test Day
00:27:40.19\00:27:43.59
and he would
bring a transparency...
00:27:43.63\00:27:46.56
Do you know that
I'm talking about?
00:27:46.59\00:27:49.46
Those old things that we would
use on the overhead projector...
00:27:49.50\00:27:52.03
a transparency...
00:27:52.07\00:27:53.60
it's a clear plastic sheet
that had the exact pattern...
00:27:53.64\00:27:59.34
the perfect replica
00:27:59.37\00:28:02.21
of what we were
supposed to be drawing.
00:28:02.24\00:28:03.98
So, I would have my drawing...
00:28:04.01\00:28:06.01
each of us on our drafting board
00:28:06.05\00:28:07.95
and he would come
over and he would smile us
00:28:07.98\00:28:10.55
and ask us how we felt we did
00:28:10.59\00:28:12.22
and we would say,
"I really did well... "
00:28:12.25\00:28:13.96
and he would say,
"Well, let's find out... "
00:28:13.99\00:28:15.62
he would lay the transparency
on top of our drawing
00:28:15.66\00:28:22.10
and if the drawing
matched the pattern exactly,
00:28:22.13\00:28:26.43
do you know what
that's called in drafting?
00:28:26.47\00:28:31.54
They would say, "The
print is now justified...
00:28:31.57\00:28:36.61
it's exactly as the pattern. "
00:28:36.64\00:28:40.55
Hallelujah...
00:28:40.58\00:28:42.08
God has appointed a day in
which He will judge the world
00:28:42.12\00:28:47.36
in righteousness...
in the Lord Jesus Christ
00:28:47.39\00:28:51.63
by that Man whom
He hath ordained.
00:28:51.66\00:28:54.13
He's going to look
at you and I and say,
00:28:54.16\00:28:56.77
"Let me see what
your life looks like...
00:28:56.83\00:28:59.40
well, what do I judge it by?"
00:28:59.43\00:29:01.47
By the Word...
00:29:01.50\00:29:03.71
but not just simply the Word
written on pages of a book...
00:29:03.77\00:29:10.45
by the Word... Jesus Christ
00:29:10.48\00:29:13.21
and then He tells us something.
00:29:13.25\00:29:15.88
"Whereof God has given
assurance unto all of us
00:29:15.92\00:29:23.29
in that He raised
Christ from the dead.
00:29:23.32\00:29:27.73
For this is His name
whereby He shall be called:
00:29:27.76\00:29:32.07
The Lord our Righteousness. "
00:29:32.13\00:29:35.50
Jesus was
delivered for our offenses...
00:29:35.54\00:29:41.14
our side slip... our errors...
00:29:41.18\00:29:43.75
our willful transgression,
rebellion and apostasy...
00:29:43.78\00:29:48.35
and He was raised
again for our justification.
00:29:48.38\00:29:53.66
The Apostle Paul goes
on in Romans 5:1 and says,
00:29:53.72\00:29:58.39
"Therefore... " you and
I put your name in there...
00:29:58.43\00:30:03.06
"Therefore" Eric William
Wilson, or John or Susan,
00:30:03.10\00:30:07.70
or Bethany, or Tom...
00:30:07.74\00:30:09.54
"Therefore being
now justified by faith,
00:30:09.57\00:30:15.74
we have peace with God
00:30:15.78\00:30:19.35
through our Lord Jesus Christ. "
00:30:19.38\00:30:21.48
Amen.
00:30:21.52\00:30:22.85
Now, I want to show you
something that really, really
00:30:22.88\00:30:26.65
I will never forget.
00:30:26.69\00:30:29.72
God told me something
one day when I was studying
00:30:29.76\00:30:33.90
the subject of
Righteousness by Faith
00:30:33.96\00:30:36.36
and Justification...
00:30:36.40\00:30:37.73
and I had all these thoughts...
00:30:37.77\00:30:39.17
the things I had
been told in the past
00:30:39.20\00:30:41.00
and the Lord said,
00:30:41.04\00:30:42.37
"Eric, why don't you
do what the pioneers did?
00:30:42.40\00:30:44.31
Instead of simply relying
00:30:44.34\00:30:46.91
on what other men
and women have written,
00:30:46.94\00:30:49.54
why not go to my Word
and see what I said. "
00:30:49.58\00:30:52.15
And I looked up every
time the word "Justification"
00:30:52.18\00:30:55.75
and "Justified" is used
in the Old and New Testament
00:30:55.78\00:30:59.25
and this is the consolidation
of all the meanings.
00:30:59.29\00:31:02.69
On screen...
00:31:02.72\00:31:16.74
Pause...
00:31:16.77\00:31:20.78
Righteousness by faith...
00:31:20.81\00:31:22.14
many of us... it's like a...
it's like a theological idea,
00:31:22.18\00:31:28.18
like sanctification
and justification...
00:31:28.25\00:31:31.22
people are like, "Why
don't you just make it simple?
00:31:31.25\00:31:33.02
I'm simple... I
want it simple. "
00:31:33.05\00:31:35.19
And God said, "What is
righteousness by faith?"
00:31:35.22\00:31:38.99
And I was like,
"I... I know the term...
00:31:39.03\00:31:42.23
I know people
that talked about it
00:31:42.26\00:31:44.47
and shared about it
00:31:44.50\00:31:46.20
but I don't grasp
fully what that means. "
00:31:46.23\00:31:49.50
And the Lord said,
"Well, what is faith?"
00:31:49.54\00:31:53.38
"Faith is the
substance of things hoped for...
00:31:53.41\00:31:56.88
things you've been given
assurance and confidence in... "
00:31:56.91\00:32:00.92
but it also says in Romans
10, "Faith comes by hearing
00:32:00.95\00:32:04.92
and hearing by
the Word of God. "
00:32:04.95\00:32:06.59
So, righteousness
by faith is literally:
00:32:06.62\00:32:11.16
Righteousness by the
Word of Almighty God!
00:32:11.19\00:32:15.66
Pause...
00:32:15.70\00:32:19.10
Isaiah chapter 63 verse 1,
00:32:19.13\00:32:21.20
I want you to look at
this and do not forget this,
00:32:21.24\00:32:24.47
Isaiah 63 verse 1,
00:32:24.51\00:32:26.94
it says...
speaking of our Savior,
00:32:26.98\00:32:29.84
"Who is this that
cometh from Edom?"
00:32:29.88\00:32:32.68
Edom means red... that's where
the... the Edomite's came from,
00:32:32.71\00:32:37.09
"Who is this
that cometh from Edom?
00:32:37.12\00:32:40.69
with dyed
garments from Bozrah... "
00:32:40.72\00:32:43.73
the word
"Bozrah" is the sheepfold.
00:32:43.76\00:32:47.30
"Who is this
that commeth... red...
00:32:47.33\00:32:50.83
with dyed garments
from the sheepfold?
00:32:50.87\00:32:54.80
He that is
glorious in His apparel,
00:32:54.84\00:32:58.71
and traveling in the
greatness of His strength?"
00:32:58.74\00:33:01.68
It's Jesus... and
listen to what He says,
00:33:01.71\00:33:05.28
"I that speak in righteousness
Am Mighty to save...!"
00:33:05.31\00:33:11.29
God does not do
righteousness... He speaks it.
00:33:11.32\00:33:16.22
He speaks things
and makes them right.
00:33:16.26\00:33:21.00
Pause...
00:33:21.03\00:33:23.30
The Bible says,
"And the Word... "
00:33:23.33\00:33:25.60
the promise of
God... "was made flesh,
00:33:25.63\00:33:27.90
and dwelt among us,
00:33:27.94\00:33:29.30
and we beheld His glory... "
00:33:29.34\00:33:32.57
remember God wanted the
glory of the latter house
00:33:32.64\00:33:35.98
to be greater than the former.
00:33:36.01\00:33:37.51
"We beheld His glory...
00:33:37.55\00:33:39.78
the glory as of the Only
Begotten of the Father... "
00:33:39.81\00:33:44.62
that's how that
glory is restored to us...
00:33:44.65\00:33:48.16
you must be
begotten and born again.
00:33:48.19\00:33:52.79
The Apostle Paul prays for us
00:33:52.83\00:33:57.03
in Philippians
chapter 3 verses 8 and 9,
00:33:57.07\00:33:59.43
he says, "I pray that we may
be found in Him... in Jesus...
00:33:59.47\00:34:05.21
not having my own righteousness
which is through the law,
00:34:05.24\00:34:10.95
but that which is
through the faith of Christ... "
00:34:10.98\00:34:16.58
not simply faith in
Him... but the faith of Him...
00:34:16.62\00:34:22.22
there's a verse
in Revelation 14,
00:34:22.26\00:34:24.89
it says, "Here are they that
keep the commandments of God
00:34:24.96\00:34:27.90
and they have
the faith of Jesus. "
00:34:27.93\00:34:31.77
The only way that I
can have Jesus' faith
00:34:31.83\00:34:36.50
is if I am in
Him and He is in me.
00:34:36.54\00:34:40.51
If Christ is in me, that means,
His wisdom is my wisdom...
00:34:40.58\00:34:46.28
His righteousness
is my righteousness...
00:34:46.31\00:34:49.32
His faith is my faith...
00:34:49.35\00:34:51.22
"Yeah, the
righteousness which is of God...
00:34:51.25\00:34:56.66
by the faith of Christ. "
00:34:56.69\00:34:59.89
Pause...
00:34:59.93\00:35:02.93
Listen to this quote,
00:35:02.96\00:35:04.30
on screen...
00:35:04.33\00:35:21.92
And I told the Lord when I
read this for the first time,
00:35:21.95\00:35:24.89
I said, "God... "
00:35:24.92\00:35:26.25
because I'm there at
the house and I'm by myself
00:35:26.29\00:35:28.09
and I talked to Him out loud
00:35:28.12\00:35:29.46
because I know He
likes to hear my voice
00:35:29.49\00:35:31.29
just like I greatly desire and
long to hear His voice each day.
00:35:31.33\00:35:35.83
I said, "Lord, that's
what I'm working toward,
00:35:35.86\00:35:39.70
I want perfect
obedience, I'm trying... "
00:35:39.73\00:35:43.47
and God smiled...
00:35:43.51\00:35:46.51
and then he showed me in
a split second in my mind,
00:35:46.54\00:35:51.05
a parable...
00:35:51.08\00:35:52.41
I went down to UPS...
00:35:52.45\00:35:55.05
I wanted to get a job
there because I make good money,
00:35:55.08\00:35:58.35
I'm still doing ministry
00:35:58.39\00:35:59.72
but I wanted a job there
that would provide insurance,
00:35:59.75\00:36:02.49
they make good money
especially drivers...
00:36:02.52\00:36:04.56
UPS Truck drivers
have got solid jobs
00:36:04.59\00:36:07.60
so, I go down there
00:36:07.63\00:36:09.30
and I tell them, "I'm
here to apply for a job"
00:36:09.36\00:36:11.07
and they said, "What
position do you like?"
00:36:11.10\00:36:12.80
And I said, "I
want to be a driver. "
00:36:12.83\00:36:14.17
And they say, "Well, you'll have
to start off loading the trucks"
00:36:14.20\00:36:17.21
I said, "That's
fine... that's fine...
00:36:17.24\00:36:18.57
but I'm 51... I don't
want to be loading the truck
00:36:18.61\00:36:20.68
for the rest of my life,
I want to be a driver... "
00:36:20.71\00:36:22.84
that's where the money is...
00:36:22.88\00:36:24.21
they said, "Fill all
this information out"
00:36:24.25\00:36:26.65
so, I filled the application
out and turned everything in
00:36:26.68\00:36:29.88
and there was a
question on there,
00:36:29.92\00:36:31.59
"Do you have a
perfect driving record?"
00:36:31.62\00:36:34.26
I'm thinking, "Man, when was
the last time I got a ticket?"
00:36:34.29\00:36:36.52
That was ten years ago...
00:36:36.56\00:36:37.99
I paid the
ticket... I paid the fine...
00:36:38.03\00:36:40.26
I've got a perfect
driving record... "
00:36:40.30\00:36:42.63
and I went home
confident I had the job.
00:36:42.66\00:36:44.97
and remember
this is a parable...
00:36:45.00\00:36:48.27
the next morning
or two days later,
00:36:48.30\00:36:51.47
I get a phone call
from UPS and I'm excited...
00:36:51.51\00:36:54.11
I'm expecting them to
ask me to come to work
00:36:54.14\00:36:56.71
and the lady
says, "Mr. Wilson... "
00:36:56.75\00:36:58.95
I said, "Yes, Ma'am... "
00:36:59.01\00:37:00.35
she says, "We have to
regretfully tell you that
00:37:00.38\00:37:04.15
we cannot accept
your application... "
00:37:04.19\00:37:05.95
and I said, "Why?"
00:37:05.99\00:37:07.39
She said, "You lied
on the application. "
00:37:07.42\00:37:09.99
I said, "No, I
didn't where did I lie?"
00:37:10.03\00:37:12.53
She said, "Right here
on line such and such...
00:37:12.59\00:37:15.66
line A 23... Do you have
a perfect driving record?
00:37:15.70\00:37:18.77
You answered, 'Yes... '
00:37:18.80\00:37:20.24
and we did a check
on your driving record
00:37:20.27\00:37:22.77
and ten years
ago, you had a fine
00:37:22.80\00:37:25.34
for breaking the speed limit. "
00:37:25.37\00:37:26.71
I said, "Yes, but
it was paid for. "
00:37:26.74\00:37:29.34
Just because it's
forgiven and paid for
00:37:29.38\00:37:32.15
does not mean you never did it.
00:37:32.21\00:37:34.22
A perfect record
means... you never did it.
00:37:34.25\00:37:38.55
Pause...
00:37:38.59\00:37:41.92
None of us can
have that record...
00:37:41.96\00:37:43.79
only if Christ is in us
is His record made ours.
00:37:43.83\00:37:50.60
On screen... 1st paragraph
00:37:50.63\00:38:03.51
There's not one person
that's watching or here today
00:38:03.55\00:38:06.68
that can say, "I have
unblemished righteousness. "
00:38:06.72\00:38:09.85
2nd paragraph on screen...
00:38:09.88\00:38:30.14
In order to be
candidates for heaven,
00:38:30.17\00:38:33.11
we must meet the
requirement of the law
00:38:33.14\00:38:36.01
and Jesus answered what the
requirement of the law was...
00:38:36.04\00:38:39.68
2nd paragraph on screen...
00:38:39.71\00:38:54.10
has anybody done that today?
00:38:54.13\00:38:55.96
I mean "all" you've
not withheld anything
00:38:56.03\00:38:58.53
even for one moment from Him...
00:38:58.57\00:39:00.14
and you also must
love your neighbor
00:39:00.17\00:39:04.77
as much as you love yourself.
00:39:04.81\00:39:06.94
Ellen White
says, "We can do this
00:39:06.98\00:39:10.95
only as we grasp by faith
the righteousness of Christ. "
00:39:10.98\00:39:16.02
"In order to meet the
requirements of the law,
00:39:16.05\00:39:20.49
perfect obedience,
our faith must grasp
00:39:20.52\00:39:25.79
the righteousness of Christ
00:39:25.83\00:39:27.53
accepting it as
our own righteousness.
00:39:27.56\00:39:32.17
Through union with Christ,
00:39:32.23\00:39:35.24
through acceptance of
His righteousness by faith. "
00:39:35.30\00:39:40.48
That means, you believe God has
done what He said He would do.
00:39:40.51\00:39:44.15
Do you know God says
00:39:44.18\00:39:46.48
that He made
Christ to be sin for us
00:39:46.51\00:39:50.69
who knew no sin...
00:39:50.72\00:39:52.45
so that we could be made
the righteousness of Christ
00:39:52.49\00:39:57.16
in Him... the
righteousness of God in Him.
00:39:57.23\00:40:01.23
God has declared
it... we have to believe it.
00:40:01.26\00:40:05.23
"We may be qualified
00:40:05.30\00:40:08.24
through the
righteousness of Christ
00:40:08.27\00:40:10.84
to work the works of God
00:40:10.87\00:40:12.91
and to be
co-laborers with Christ!"
00:40:12.97\00:40:15.28
That's what the disciples did
00:40:15.31\00:40:16.91
after Jesus
ascended back to heaven.
00:40:16.95\00:40:18.78
He told them,
00:40:18.81\00:40:20.55
"Go into all the world and
proclaim these glad tidings
00:40:20.58\00:40:25.12
and these signs will
follow those that believe.
00:40:25.15\00:40:29.32
In my name, you
will raise the dead
00:40:29.36\00:40:31.56
and heal the sick
00:40:31.59\00:40:33.03
and cast out demons...
00:40:33.06\00:40:34.40
you will cleanse lepers...
00:40:34.43\00:40:35.93
you will drink poison or...
or something that's harmful
00:40:35.96\00:40:39.63
and it won't harm you. "
00:40:39.67\00:40:41.00
And the disciples went out
and they proclaimed God's Word
00:40:41.04\00:40:46.11
and the Bible says,
"With signs following...
00:40:46.14\00:40:49.88
and the Lord
working with them... "
00:40:49.91\00:40:52.38
"By perfect obedience to
the requirements of the law
00:40:52.41\00:40:59.12
man is justified...
00:40:59.15\00:41:02.32
Only through faith in Christ
is such obedience possible.
00:41:02.39\00:41:07.66
Men may comprehend the
spirituality of the law...
00:41:07.70\00:41:11.70
inward rather than
mere external compliance...
00:41:11.73\00:41:15.67
but we are helpless to withstand
Satan's power and deceptions
00:41:15.70\00:41:21.61
unless we accept by faith
00:41:21.64\00:41:25.68
the atonement...
00:41:25.71\00:41:28.02
provided for us in
the remedial sacrifice
00:41:28.05\00:41:31.55
of Christ, who
is our Atonement...
00:41:31.59\00:41:36.89
our At-one-ment with God. "
00:41:36.93\00:41:40.96
Those are not my
words, I did not add that...
00:41:41.00\00:41:44.17
that's Signs of the
Time, July 23, 1902.
00:41:44.20\00:41:48.90
As Ellen White was alive
00:41:48.94\00:41:51.44
and as she grew
closer to the day
00:41:51.47\00:41:53.58
when she would
fall asleep in Jesus,
00:41:53.61\00:41:55.48
the Lord continued to
reveal greater and greater...
00:41:55.51\00:42:00.85
beautiful truth to her.
00:42:00.88\00:42:03.18
She says, "We
have to accept by faith
00:42:03.22\00:42:07.66
the atonement...
the at-one-ment with God
00:42:07.69\00:42:12.13
that Christ made
for us 2,000 years ago.
00:42:12.16\00:42:14.76
Pause...
00:42:14.80\00:42:16.70
So, the question
that came to my mind
00:42:16.73\00:42:18.90
after reading this
00:42:18.93\00:42:20.70
and after reading
Paul in Philippines 3:9,
00:42:20.74\00:42:23.10
how can I be found in Jesus?
00:42:23.14\00:42:28.14
How do I get in Jesus?
00:42:28.18\00:42:30.81
I was like, "This is
the whole gospel... "
00:42:30.85\00:42:33.62
if my
righteousness of law keeping
00:42:33.65\00:42:37.09
doesn't... isn't
going to get me into heaven,
00:42:37.12\00:42:38.95
I don't quit keeping the law
00:42:38.99\00:42:42.62
but if Jesus is in me...
00:42:42.66\00:42:43.99
He now empowers
me to keep the law.
00:42:44.03\00:42:47.43
But how do I get
Him in me and me in Him?
00:42:47.46\00:42:53.03
God answers this
question, listen to this,
00:42:53.07\00:42:57.54
"According as
God hath chosen us...
00:42:57.57\00:43:04.48
your name... you and I...
00:43:04.51\00:43:06.72
in Jesus...
00:43:06.75\00:43:08.45
before the
foundation of the world...
00:43:08.48\00:43:12.35
so that we should
be... or could be...
00:43:12.39\00:43:16.22
holy and without
blame before Him in love!"
00:43:16.26\00:43:20.46
Do you know in John chapter 17,
verse 19, Jesus said something,
00:43:20.50\00:43:25.57
this is right before Calvary...
00:43:25.60\00:43:27.84
right before that moment in time
00:43:27.87\00:43:30.04
when Ellen White says,
"Atonement was made for us. "
00:43:30.07\00:43:34.48
At-one-ment with God.
00:43:34.51\00:43:36.61
In that last prayer
before Calvary... John 17:19,
00:43:36.64\00:43:41.28
Jesus said, "Father, for
their sakes... including Me
00:43:41.32\00:43:45.89
I sanctify myself
00:43:45.92\00:43:48.42
so that they also might be
sanctified through the truth. "
00:43:48.46\00:43:55.56
I read that and I
could not comprehend it.
00:43:55.60\00:43:59.77
I was like, "I
know Jesus was holy,
00:43:59.80\00:44:03.00
but how does that change me?"
00:44:03.07\00:44:05.17
I've read those
verses where He says,
00:44:05.21\00:44:08.04
"I'm holy... I
want you to be holy. "
00:44:08.08\00:44:10.85
I'm going, "Lord, I'm trying...
00:44:10.88\00:44:13.01
I'm doing everything I can... "
00:44:13.05\00:44:15.12
and... and
sometimes I have a good day
00:44:15.15\00:44:17.65
and I feel like
I haven't messed up
00:44:17.69\00:44:20.12
in the externals...
00:44:20.16\00:44:22.06
but do you know what?
00:44:22.09\00:44:23.93
Not one person here can
see what's inside my heart
00:44:23.96\00:44:28.40
and my mind...
00:44:28.46\00:44:30.07
the battles that
take place there...
00:44:30.10\00:44:31.53
the battles with appetite...
00:44:31.57\00:44:32.97
the battles with
bitterness or resentment
00:44:33.00\00:44:35.90
or pride or selfishness...
00:44:35.94\00:44:37.67
whatever it is...
maybe it's alcohol...
00:44:37.71\00:44:40.94
or lust... whatever it is...
00:44:40.98\00:44:43.11
the battles are inside.
00:44:43.14\00:44:45.75
God does not want
simply external compliance
00:44:45.81\00:44:51.32
the heart has to be clean
00:44:51.35\00:44:53.66
and we can't do that...
00:44:53.72\00:44:55.99
only He can...
00:44:56.02\00:44:57.49
so, how does Jesus
being holy make me holy?
00:44:57.53\00:45:03.60
And the Lord
gave me another story,
00:45:03.67\00:45:07.17
he showed me this in my mind,
00:45:07.20\00:45:08.94
I was asking Him in
tears, "God, how can I do this?
00:45:08.97\00:45:13.48
How can I get in Christ?"
00:45:13.51\00:45:15.18
And God answered
me that afternoon
00:45:15.21\00:45:18.41
while I was sitting there at
home by myself, He answered me.
00:45:18.45\00:45:21.08
He said, "Eric, it's simple,
00:45:21.12\00:45:23.52
how did you get in your mother?"
00:45:23.55\00:45:25.95
I was sitting there and I...
00:45:25.99\00:45:29.42
I mean, I heard
God... not like thunder
00:45:29.46\00:45:31.46
but you know when you hear Him
in your heart... your mind...
00:45:31.49\00:45:34.06
I heard God say that...
00:45:34.10\00:45:35.46
"How did you
get in your mother?"
00:45:35.50\00:45:37.07
And I was looking at
my Bible and I looked up
00:45:37.10\00:45:40.04
and I said, "I had
nothing to do with that"
00:45:40.07\00:45:42.97
and God said, "That's right... "
00:45:43.00\00:45:45.57
and then I said,
"Yes, but, wait a minute,
00:45:45.61\00:45:48.84
I got in my father
though my father...
00:45:48.88\00:45:51.95
I got in my mother
through my father... "
00:45:52.01\00:45:55.02
and I know God had a smile
00:45:55.08\00:45:58.22
and He said, "Then how
did you get in your dad?"
00:45:58.25\00:46:01.99
And I sat there... quiet...
00:46:02.02\00:46:06.63
God said, "I put you there,
00:46:06.66\00:46:11.20
you didn't put
yourself in your dad,
00:46:11.23\00:46:15.34
I put you there
00:46:15.37\00:46:16.84
and through your dad, I
put you in your mother... "
00:46:16.87\00:46:20.21
and the Lord gave
me this... this story,
00:46:20.24\00:46:24.08
He showed this to me...
00:46:24.11\00:46:25.45
and I'm going to
make this short...
00:46:25.48\00:46:28.48
let's say that
wherever you live,
00:46:28.55\00:46:31.69
there's a young
lady... she's 28 years old...
00:46:31.72\00:46:36.52
maybe 29...
00:46:36.56\00:46:38.19
she's not a Christian
00:46:38.23\00:46:39.56
and she lives 20
minutes outside of town.
00:46:39.59\00:46:43.67
It's out by itself...
there's no neighbors...
00:46:43.70\00:46:47.74
she doesn't have any family...
00:46:47.77\00:46:49.57
family is hours and
hours and hours away
00:46:49.60\00:46:52.41
she has a boyfriend...
he's not a Christian,
00:46:52.47\00:46:55.24
and they're living together
00:46:55.28\00:46:56.95
and he gets up one
morning, goes to work
00:46:56.98\00:47:00.62
and she gets up and
she feels kind of nauseated
00:47:00.65\00:47:06.02
sort of queasy...
00:47:06.05\00:47:07.39
and just out of curiosity,
she takes a pregnancy test,
00:47:07.42\00:47:11.19
you know, one of
those home tests,
00:47:11.23\00:47:12.59
and the test results
say, "She's pregnant. "
00:47:12.63\00:47:16.10
So, here this 28-year-old
girl who's not a Christian...
00:47:16.13\00:47:20.74
she's not married...
00:47:20.77\00:47:22.54
finds out that she's with
child and she's excited...
00:47:22.57\00:47:27.04
she's excited...
00:47:27.08\00:47:28.84
no woman in their very
innermost part of their heart
00:47:28.91\00:47:34.72
can says that we're not excited
00:47:34.75\00:47:36.32
because that's a miracle
00:47:36.35\00:47:37.92
above every other
miracle that you can imagine.
00:47:37.95\00:47:41.32
That evening, her
boyfriend comes driving in,
00:47:41.39\00:47:44.73
parks the car,
comes in the house,
00:47:44.76\00:47:47.83
he's had a bad day
at work... bad day...
00:47:47.86\00:47:49.86
he's a little bit irritated
00:47:49.90\00:47:51.70
and he walks in the door
and he throws his stuff down,
00:47:51.73\00:47:56.40
he goes to the
fridge to get a beer,
00:47:56.44\00:47:59.21
and she's like,
"Honey, guess what?"
00:47:59.24\00:48:01.98
"What?"
00:48:02.01\00:48:03.35
"We're going to have a baby... "
00:48:03.38\00:48:06.68
and he loses it, he loses it...
00:48:06.72\00:48:10.12
he's not married,
00:48:10.15\00:48:11.82
he's not interested
in having children...
00:48:11.85\00:48:13.56
he's not
interested in being married...
00:48:13.59\00:48:15.29
he's not...
doesn't have the money...
00:48:15.32\00:48:16.86
they don't have a house...
00:48:16.89\00:48:18.59
and he... he loses
it... he's angry...
00:48:18.66\00:48:20.66
he just vents...
00:48:20.70\00:48:22.03
and finally, after he
calms down a little bit
00:48:22.06\00:48:24.60
he says,
"Listen, this is simple,
00:48:24.63\00:48:26.74
we got two choices...
00:48:26.77\00:48:28.54
either you have the
baby aborted... murdered...
00:48:28.57\00:48:33.41
terminated... or
I'm out of here... "
00:48:33.48\00:48:38.18
and the young
girl... it hits her...
00:48:38.21\00:48:42.78
and she says, "I
can't kill this baby. "
00:48:42.85\00:48:47.49
Pause...
00:48:47.52\00:48:49.59
He packs his
stuff and in ten minutes
00:48:49.62\00:48:51.83
he is pulling
out of the driveway
00:48:51.86\00:48:54.03
with the wheels squealing
00:48:54.06\00:48:55.96
down the road... she
never sees him again.
00:48:56.00\00:49:00.10
Nine months pass...
same 28-year-old girl
00:49:00.14\00:49:04.21
she gets up in the morning...
00:49:04.24\00:49:06.84
she's showing now
00:49:06.88\00:49:09.98
and she walks downstairs,
00:49:10.01\00:49:12.68
she's going to make breakfast
and she puts her coffee on,
00:49:12.71\00:49:16.38
it's high octane...
no creamer... no sugar...
00:49:16.45\00:49:18.85
just pure caffeine...
00:49:18.89\00:49:20.22
and she lights a cigarette
while the coffee is warming.
00:49:20.26\00:49:23.22
When the mother is
smoking the cigarette,
00:49:23.26\00:49:27.73
is the baby
smoking the cigarette?
00:49:27.76\00:49:30.60
Absolutely... guaranteed...
00:49:30.67\00:49:33.60
you could check the baby's blood
00:49:33.64\00:49:35.37
and it would have the nicotine
00:49:35.40\00:49:37.07
as if it had put the
cigarette to its own lips.
00:49:37.11\00:49:39.67
Why?
00:49:39.71\00:49:41.44
Because the baby is
attached to the mother...
00:49:41.48\00:49:43.65
it's one with the mother.
00:49:43.68\00:49:45.01
So, then she
finishes the cigarette...
00:49:45.05\00:49:47.75
she gets her coffee...
high octane and downs it.
00:49:47.78\00:49:51.05
Is the baby
drinking the caffeine?
00:49:51.09\00:49:54.12
Absolutely.
00:49:54.16\00:49:55.62
Do you know that
medical science now
00:49:55.66\00:49:57.89
has what they
call, Crack Babies...
00:49:57.93\00:50:00.10
or Meth babies or whatever.
00:50:00.13\00:50:02.56
Babies that are in the womb
00:50:02.60\00:50:04.97
will come out
addicted to the same drugs
00:50:05.03\00:50:07.80
their mother was doing
while they were pregnant.
00:50:07.84\00:50:09.70
So, she gets
finished making breakfast
00:50:09.74\00:50:14.54
it was bacon
and eggs and Spam...
00:50:14.58\00:50:16.38
and I'm not sure what that is...
00:50:16.44\00:50:18.18
but we know it's
not healthy for you,
00:50:18.21\00:50:20.12
and she's making all
this and she eats it...
00:50:20.15\00:50:22.25
finishes it... puts
it in the dishwasher...
00:50:22.28\00:50:24.35
she goes
upstairs to take a shower,
00:50:24.39\00:50:26.35
so, she gets
upstairs in the shower...
00:50:26.42\00:50:28.32
she turns the warm water
on, climbs into the shower,
00:50:28.36\00:50:31.19
she's got one of
those old porcelain bathtubs
00:50:31.26\00:50:34.80
it's thick and heavy like stone
00:50:34.86\00:50:37.47
and it's got the legs on it,
00:50:37.50\00:50:40.07
beautiful bathtub,
00:50:40.10\00:50:41.60
so she's standing
there in the shower
00:50:41.64\00:50:44.27
with the warm water
coming... falling on her
00:50:44.31\00:50:47.24
and she's wet and
she's being cleansed
00:50:47.28\00:50:50.11
is the baby being cleansed also?
00:50:50.15\00:50:54.88
Yes, because the baby is in her.
00:50:54.92\00:50:59.59
Do you know that
you absorb more water
00:50:59.62\00:51:01.89
through your cells on the skin
00:51:01.92\00:51:03.93
than what you do
even through drinking?
00:51:03.96\00:51:05.89
Pause...
00:51:05.93\00:51:09.96
When she's washing,
the baby is being washed.
00:51:10.00\00:51:12.03
Now, she turns the shower off,
she opens the shower curtain
00:51:12.07\00:51:18.64
and she begins to step
out onto that new tile floor
00:51:18.67\00:51:22.78
that she had put in,
it's slippery tile...
00:51:22.84\00:51:26.31
and she forgets that
she had put the carpet
00:51:26.35\00:51:29.78
or the mat... the bath
mat right outside the bathtub,
00:51:29.82\00:51:32.82
she forgot...
00:51:32.85\00:51:34.19
so she steps out
onto that slick floor
00:51:34.22\00:51:37.76
and shoooo... boooom...
00:51:37.79\00:51:40.50
her head comes down
on the side of that tub
00:51:40.53\00:51:44.87
and she slumps to the floor
00:51:44.93\00:51:47.70
and a pool of blood
starts forming behind her head.
00:51:47.74\00:51:51.34
She lays there for two days,
00:51:51.37\00:51:55.44
blood is coming out of her nose,
00:51:55.48\00:51:59.48
out of her mouth,
00:51:59.51\00:52:00.85
out of her eyes,
00:52:00.88\00:52:02.22
out of the back of her head...
00:52:02.25\00:52:03.59
after two days, what
happens to the mother?
00:52:03.62\00:52:07.02
She dies...
00:52:07.06\00:52:09.52
nobody comes to check on her,
00:52:09.59\00:52:10.99
she has no family,
the boyfriend's gone,
00:52:11.06\00:52:14.00
she dies...
00:52:14.03\00:52:16.06
what happened to the
baby when the mother died?
00:52:16.10\00:52:20.64
The baby died
00:52:20.70\00:52:23.00
because it was in her.
00:52:23.04\00:52:26.31
Whatever happens to the
mother, happens to the child
00:52:26.34\00:52:32.05
because it is in her.
00:52:32.08\00:52:34.15
Paul says that God chose
you and I in Christ Jesus
00:52:34.18\00:52:42.59
before the
foundation of the world.
00:52:42.62\00:52:44.83
So, when Jesus was
baptized, Ellen White says,
00:52:44.86\00:52:49.03
"You and I were in
Him being baptized. "
00:52:49.06\00:52:52.43
She says... the words
that God spoke to Jesus
00:52:52.47\00:52:57.24
when He came up
out of the water,
00:52:57.27\00:52:59.67
He is speaking
to every soul today.
00:52:59.71\00:53:02.08
"You are my beloved child
in whom I am well pleased. "
00:53:02.11\00:53:07.32
After Christ's baptism, He
was sent by the Holy Spirit
00:53:07.35\00:53:12.49
into the
wilderness to be tempted
00:53:12.52\00:53:15.12
and he conquered Satan himself
00:53:15.16\00:53:17.66
and every temptation that you
and I will ever be faced with.
00:53:17.69\00:53:21.23
His victory became
yours because you were in Him.
00:53:21.26\00:53:27.80
When He went to Calvary...
00:53:27.84\00:53:30.21
before He went to Calvary...
when He went to Gethsemane
00:53:30.24\00:53:35.04
and He was sweating blood
striving against you and I...
00:53:35.08\00:53:39.85
our personal sins
00:53:39.88\00:53:41.78
He didn't take a
generic box of sin and say,
00:53:41.82\00:53:45.05
"I'll pay the
penalty for that, Daddy... "
00:53:45.09\00:53:48.26
it wasn't that simple...
00:53:48.29\00:53:51.09
the personal sins
of every human being
00:53:51.13\00:53:56.23
that has ever lived,
were placed on Him...
00:53:56.26\00:54:01.34
not just the penalty for them,
00:54:01.40\00:54:03.71
He did not commit sin...
00:54:03.74\00:54:05.67
He did not yield to sin...
00:54:05.71\00:54:07.64
but Ellen White says,
00:54:07.68\00:54:09.41
"He felt the
guilt as if He had. "
00:54:09.44\00:54:12.01
Our guilt...
00:54:12.05\00:54:13.82
when He went to Calvary,
00:54:13.85\00:54:18.29
the Bible says in Romans
chapter 6 verses 10 and 11
00:54:18.32\00:54:21.76
that in that He
died... He died unto sin.
00:54:21.79\00:54:25.83
He looked at Eric
William Wilson's sin
00:54:25.86\00:54:29.43
and He said, "Wow, I cannot
believe how much of a struggle
00:54:29.46\00:54:33.94
this temptation has
on my son, Eric... "
00:54:34.00\00:54:37.51
but I choose to die rather
than yield to Eric's sin now.
00:54:37.54\00:54:44.15
Romans 6:11 says,
"We are therefore now
00:54:44.21\00:54:50.15
to reckon ourselves also
to be dead indeed unto sin,
00:54:50.19\00:54:55.42
but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ. "
00:54:55.46\00:54:58.49
When Christ was resurrected on
that morning of the third day,
00:54:58.56\00:55:04.77
we were resurrected in
Him to walk in newness of life
00:55:04.80\00:55:09.90
When Christ ascended on high
and sat down at the right hand
00:55:09.94\00:55:15.91
of the mighty God,
00:55:15.94\00:55:17.45
the Bible says, "We are seated
with Christ in the heavens. "
00:55:17.48\00:55:22.25
All that is His is
ours if we will believe Him
00:55:22.28\00:55:28.66
and walk in faith.
00:55:28.69\00:55:30.33
Pause...
00:55:30.36\00:55:34.36
So, when I was asking the Lord,
00:55:34.40\00:55:35.86
"How do I get in Jesus?"
00:55:35.90\00:55:38.60
and He showed me...
"I put you there... "
00:55:38.63\00:55:41.00
and I said, "Father... "
00:55:41.07\00:55:42.74
I said, "Forgive me
for pressing my case... "
00:55:42.77\00:55:45.71
I said, "But could You
show it to me in Your Word?
00:55:45.77\00:55:50.21
I believe that's You but wow!
00:55:50.25\00:55:53.08
if you showed it
to me in the Bible,
00:55:53.11\00:55:54.88
I will feel so
much more secure. "
00:55:54.92\00:55:56.58
And God turned my hand
to 1st Corinthians chapter 1
00:55:56.62\00:56:01.86
verses 29 through 31,
00:56:01.89\00:56:03.89
it says, "For of God... "
00:56:03.93\00:56:07.23
that means... by God
"are we in Christ Jesus...
00:56:07.26\00:56:12.53
who by God is made unto us
00:56:12.57\00:56:17.34
Wisdom and
Righteousness and Sanctification
00:56:17.41\00:56:21.44
and Redemption.
00:56:21.48\00:56:22.81
That according
as it is written...
00:56:22.84\00:56:25.55
He that glorieth, let
him glory in the Lord!"
00:56:25.58\00:56:29.92
Now, closing this
message, I want to...
00:56:29.98\00:56:33.89
I want to just
present some food for thought.
00:56:33.92\00:56:38.39
In Revelation... I
believe it's chapter 20,
00:56:38.43\00:56:42.86
let me turn there...
00:56:42.90\00:56:47.00
Revelation chapter 20
00:56:47.04\00:56:50.41
verses 11 through 13,
00:56:50.44\00:56:53.74
it says there that
the judgment was set
00:56:53.78\00:56:58.68
and it says that...
00:56:58.71\00:57:02.18
"I saw the
dead, small and great,
00:57:02.22\00:57:07.26
stand before God, and
the books were opened.
00:57:07.29\00:57:11.96
And another
book... " singular...
00:57:11.99\00:57:16.43
"was opened, which
is the Book of Life.
00:57:16.46\00:57:19.93
The dead were
judged out of those things
00:57:19.97\00:57:23.81
which were written
in the books" plural...
00:57:23.87\00:57:27.68
"according to their works. "
00:57:27.71\00:57:31.28
My belief is... the
Book of Life is Jesus Christ.
00:57:31.31\00:57:36.28
The human DNA has been
likened to the Book of Life...
00:57:36.32\00:57:41.26
we were in Him...
00:57:41.32\00:57:43.56
that's why Jesus
says, "Abide in Me...
00:57:43.63\00:57:47.13
stay in Me where I have put you
00:57:47.16\00:57:50.37
because if you are in Me,
you have been given assurance
00:57:50.40\00:57:55.17
on the day of judgement. "
00:57:55.20\00:57:56.97