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I would like to welcome
you today to the 2020 Secrets
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Unsealed summit. In this summit
we are sharing a series that
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deals with the hour of God's
judgment, that we're living in
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the time of that judgment now.
There are a number of events
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that the Bible as well as the
writings of Ellen White reveal
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to us have to take place prior
to Christ's second coming. One
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of these events that we want to
look at closely today is known
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as the shaking. Many of my
Adventist brothers and sisters
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when they talk about the shaking
they interpret it from the way
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that they've grown up or the way
that they've been taught. Often
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I hear them say well the shaking
is going to be caused because of
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the testimonies of Ellen White.
There's those in our churches
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that won't accept Ellen White so
they're going to be shaken out.
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I want to show you some things
that the Lord has helped me to
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find that help to shed more
light on this subject and to
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look at it more personally,
inwardly than just outwardly.
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In Review and Herald, December
27, 1898 the Lord's servant
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tells us something. She says:
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The storm is a time of trouble
such as never has been. We
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talked about that in our
previous message. In Daniel
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chapter 12, Matthew chapter 24,
goes into great detail on this
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time of trouble. When this time
of trouble happens, when plagues
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are falling all around us, the
people of God will be protected
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from what's happening by one
thing alone. By faith in God's
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word. God has made a promise
to us that no plague shall come
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nigh our dwelling. And sometimes
people will tell me, yeah but I
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had so and so over here, they
died. Well I don't know what was
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in their heart. I'm not saying
they didn't have faith, but I'm
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saying we cannot look at
somebody else and judge what
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happened to them. We need to
look at our own hearts and say
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do I believe God? Do I believe
that he will do exactly what he
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said he will do? Ellen
White goes on and says:
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This is important because when
Jesus prayed in John chapter 17
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verse 21, he said Father I pray
that they all might be one as
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we are one. Jesus went through
the entire gospel of John
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repeatedly and he talked about
the fact that even the very
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words he was speaking, it was
not him speaking them, but our
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Father that was in him speaking
them. Sometimes I have you know
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Christian brothers and sisters
that say well you can't take
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that too literally. Of course
we can take that literally. The
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Apostle Paul says God was
in Christ Jesus reconciling the
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world unto himself. We saw that
in Desire of Ages, page 161.
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From the very beginning of
creation it was God's purpose
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that every created being should
be a temple for Him to dwell in.
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I never comprehended this until
a number of years ago. I had
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spent 25 years in bondage to
sin I was working and teaching
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Marshall arts and eastern
mysticism, alternative healing,
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and through that practice the
Lord opened my eyes so that I
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would see first-hand what the
word possession looks like. I
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have seen people possessed
by evil spirits. Those are evil
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spirits trying to set their
throne in God's house. God says
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the throne of your heart is
mine. I want to take possession
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of my temple. I want to reign in
your life. Ellen White goes on
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and says:
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And if you're looking for that
that's in Revelation chapter 3
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approximately verse
14-20. That's where you see the
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testimony of the true witness
to the Laodicean s. The true
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witness here the Bible says
is Jesus Christ. The shaking is
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caused by the straight testimony
that's called forth by what
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Jesus says to the church of
Laodicea. Ellen White goes on
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and says: Growing up as a young
Christian when I used to hear
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phrases like this what I thought
straight truth was, you got to
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be pointed. You know, if you see
somebody doing something wrong
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go to them and point it out
to them. Spare not. How many
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times have we done that and
what was the response. Almost 99
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percent of the time when you
go to somebody in that type of a
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spirit or that type of an
attitude, there's resistance.
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People do not want to have you
come to them and point to them
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where they're wrong. What Ellen
White indicates here is that a
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standard of righteousness is
exalted and then we pour forth
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the straight testimony of truth.
God's word says my word is truth
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We are sharing with men and
women how they can reach that
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standard through the truth. This
straight testimony some will not
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bear. They will rise up against
it and this will cause a shaking
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among God's people. Right
now we have two camps within the
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Christian faith. We have those
of other denominations. I know
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Baptists and I know Methodists
and I know Lutherans, I know
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other people of other
denominations that are saying we
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need to live holy lives.
And then we have on the other
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extreme, we have groups of
Christians that are saying it
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it really doesn't matter what
you do. I mean Jesus paid it all
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it's done. You know you're
only human anyway you can keep
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sinning until Jesus comes back.
For me when I look at that type
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of idea it contradicts
everything in the word of God.
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If went to a hospital because I
had cancer I would not want the
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physician to come to me and
say does this is cancer hurt?
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I say yes
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it does. He said here's a
prescription, here's some drugs
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take the drugs, you won't have
any more pain. And I would say
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what about the cancer? Don't
worry about that, you won't feel
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it. Yeah, but it's killing me.
I don't want the pain to be gone
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alone. I want the cancer gone.
And sin is a cancer in our lives
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It is destroying us. Listen to
what it says in Luke chapter 4
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where the apostle is
quoting from Isaiah. He says:
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Do you know it says there
prepare the way for the King.
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When Christ came the first time
what did the wise men say. They
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came to Jerusalem and they
came to the temple and they said
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where is he that is born King of
the Jews? There was a forerunner
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before Christ came on the scene,
before he began his ministry and
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that forerunner is who this is
talking about. This forerunner
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was to prepare the way for the
King, to make his paths straight
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Do you know that Jesus says
something in Luke chapter 17?
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He says don't you realize the
kingdom of God is within you?
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The Jews were looking for, the
Hebrew people were looking for
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an earthly physical king and
they were looking for an earthly
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kingdom but they did not realize
that before that kingdom and
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power and glory happens here
on the world the kingdom within
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had to be taken back
from the enemy. He says:
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When a king was coming into the
city they would be riding in a
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chariot and back then chariot
wheels were expensive so if you
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had a path or a road that
had gulley's and ditches and big
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rocks and humps in it, it made
it very difficult for the king
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to travel safely so they would
send forerunners before him to
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smooth the path. John the
Baptist when he came he was
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preparing the path for Christ.
Every valley shall be exalted
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I used to always wonder about
that. I thought what does that
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mean, the crooked things shall
be made straight? It means our
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understanding of God's word.
This will be made straight, this
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will be made clear. Do you know
it's funny because Jesus, one
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day the Pharisees brought a
woman that had been caught in
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adultery. She was actually a
prostitute. Her name was Mary
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Magdalene. So it wasn't like a
one time event that they caught
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her in. But they brought her to
Jesus's feet and they threw her
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on the ground. And you know when
they caught her they caught her
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in the very act. So she probably
was not clothed very well. They
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threw her on the ground in
humiliation and shame. And they
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told Jesus. They said, Moses in
the law said that she has to be
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stoned. What do you say? And you
know what Jesus did? He looked
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at her after they had left and
he said, I don't condemn you.
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But go and sin no more. I had a
lady that contacted me about...
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It was probably a year and
a half, two and a half years
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after my wife and I
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had been brought back together.
And some of you know the story
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if you've seen the Dragon
Revealed. But she wrote to me
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and she said Brother Wilson,
I love the movie, I love the
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miracle God did in getting
you out of all that Eastern
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mysticism and spiritualism
but but you're living in sin,
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because I'd remarried my wife.
And I didn't even know what to
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say. I thought what are you
talking about I'm living in sin?
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If you knew the miracles that
God did to put our family back
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together and our marriage back
together. She said, in the law
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it says that if a man puts away
his wife and she go from him
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and become another man's, the
first man cannot go back to her
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and remarry her. And she told
me she said, you've done the
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opposite. In God's sight,
a man or a woman, there's no
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difference. You have no right
in God's sight, according to the
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law to go back and marry your
wife. And I cannot tell you what
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that did to me. I'm sitting
there you know after a year and
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a half, two and a half years of
being remarried, after all the
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miracles that God did to restore
my wife and I and our family
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and all of a sudden this woman's
telling me that God's law says I
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shouldn't have done that. I
can't do that. And it was like
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all hell broke loose inside my
mind. Because if this woman was
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right that means every miracle
that happened to bring my wife
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and I back together, our family
back together, was of Satan and
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not of God. And you want to talk
about a shaking. I was shaking.
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The ground I was standing on
was shaking. The platform that I
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trusted was shaking. And I cried
out to God. I said, God, I need
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a miracle. I need you to show me
what is here. There's something
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I'm not missing, or something
I'm missing. I went back and
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looked in the Bible,
the Old Testament in Moses's
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instructions and it was there.
I'm not allowed to go back and
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remarry my wife. And you
know what God did. He took me to
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Jeremiah chapter 3 and he said
they say that if a man put away
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his wife and go from her, but
I say you played the harlot with
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many lovers yet return unto me
for I am married unto you. Jesus
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actually said the law demands
perfect righteousness and Eric
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you've already fallen. So the
law can't forgive you. It can't
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pardon you. It can't pretend
like that never happened. So I
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became guilty of what you did.
I took your sin upon myself so
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that you can now walk free
in holiness and righteousness so
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your family can be brought back
together. The crooked things
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still need to be made straight.
And the rough ways plain. It
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says then that the glory
of the Lord shall be revealed.
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And Malachi chapter 3 speaking
about this forerunner, Malachi
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tells us:
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Remember we are the temple of
God. It's not some temple in the
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middle east. It's here:
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Psalm chapter 24 answers this
question. King David tells us:
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Hallelujah! Testimonies vol.
1, page 181: Listen to what the
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Lord's servant tells us
about this shaking. She says:
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Right now these people that you
see profess Christ on both sides
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the ones that are struggling in
earnestness and agony they know
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I don't look like Jesus yet.
I don't match the pattern. And
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it's not out of fear, but it's
out of love. I want my heart to
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be clean. I don't what to go
to church on Sabbath and then on
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the way home argue with my wife
or my husband. A lot of times
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we battle with that. It's like
our children. We don't know why
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we're losing so many of our
young people in our churches.
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Is it because of the fact that
the gospel has not been made
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real to them? Is it because they
haven't seen the power of God in
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our lives? If we are living
the life that calls itself
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Christlike but yet we're showing
the works of the enemy, the
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gospel's no different than the
story of Santa Claus. It's just
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make-believe. They need to see
the power of God. Jesus tells us
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in Matthew 5:20:
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The Pharisees had an outward
righteousness, external. And
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Jesus said you all think that
these men are the standard but
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unless your righteousness is
greater than theirs you'll never
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see the kingdom of heaven.
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Turn with me to Revelation
chapter 3, Revelation chapter 3.
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Listen to what Jesus actually
says to the church of Laodicea.
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This is us, the last
church. Listen to what he says:
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Revelation chapter 3 verse
16 actually verse 15. He says:
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I know your works, that you
are neither cold nor hot: I wish
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that you were cold or hot. So
then because thou art lukewarm
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half in the church and half
in the world or in the church
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externally but the world is in
your heart when you're at home.
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So then because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor
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hot I will spew thee out of
my mouth. Thou sayest, I am rich
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and increased with goods. I have
need of nothing. That's many of
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the people in our churches
today I keep the Sabbath, I eat
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vegetarian or I eat vegan,
I pay tithe, I know about the
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sanctuary, I know about the
state of the dead, I'm doing
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this and doing that. And he says
you don't even realize... You
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knowest not that thou art
wretched, and miserable and poor
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and blind, and naked. That means
you do not have on the only robe
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which will grant you access to
heaven. And then he tells us in
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verse 18:
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It's so funny, Adam and
Eve when they lost the robes of
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righteousness they both did
everything they could to cover
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their bodies up. And today
men and women are pulling their
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clothes off and walking
around with no shame whatsoever.
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He says:
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This testimony has not been half
heeded. This testimony must work
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deep repentance so that all that
receive it will obey it and be
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purified. Obey what? Seek of me
gold tried in the fire, buy it
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from me and white
raiment and eye salve.
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Desire of Ages, page 161:
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We talked about this in our
earlier message. It was God's
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purpose that every created being
should be a temple for him to
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dwell in. God designed that the
temple at Jerusalem should be a
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continual witness to the high
destiny open to every soul. It
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was God's purpose that that
temple would be pure. He never
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wanted bloodshed in the temple.
Bloodshed came because of sin.
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God said who told you you were
going to fail? I told you be
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holy and sin not. Did you not
believe me. Desire of Ages goes
00:24:22.26\00:24:29.80
on and says:
00:24:29.83\00:24:31.17
It was a witness. The
temple was a witness to the
00:24:43.75\00:24:49.42
high destiny open to
00:24:49.45\00:24:50.89
every soul. God was like, this
is what it looks like to be a
00:24:50.92\00:24:55.52
son or daughter of God. But
the Jews didn't understand that.
00:24:55.56\00:25:00.73
We as Seventh-day Adventist
Christians do not understand
00:25:00.76\00:25:04.43
that. We have not seen that. You
know what God said? He said, I
00:25:04.47\00:25:10.31
gave the instructions in my word
and they still didn't see it. So
00:25:10.34\00:25:16.34
my word must become flesh.
Testimonies to Ministers, page
00:25:16.38\00:25:25.12
364, 365:
00:25:25.15\00:25:27.59
Christ came to show us what
it looks like for God to dwell
00:25:51.88\00:25:56.92
inside of a
person. And then it says:
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Now listen to what she says
next The courts of the temple at
00:26:32.69\00:26:36.79
Jerusalem filled with the tumult
of unholy traffic. Have you guys
00:26:36.83\00:26:42.90
ever hear of human trafficking?
Traffic means buying and selling
00:26:42.93\00:26:47.47
I read this and I thought what
traffic? The Bible says you have
00:26:58.71\00:27:02.02
sold yourselves for your
iniquities. We've sold ourselves
00:27:02.05\00:27:05.89
The devil says, look this will
be fun. It's only five minutes
00:27:05.92\00:27:09.79
or 10 minutes, it's only one
more piece of pound cake or it's
00:27:09.82\00:27:14.66
only or it's only just one time.
It won't cost you that much. We
00:27:14.70\00:27:18.80
have it on sale right now.
You won't surely die. I know God
00:27:18.83\00:27:22.50
said that. We sell ourselves for
a moment of pleasure. However
00:27:22.54\00:27:28.84
that looks like in your
life remember that. Ask the Lord
00:27:28.88\00:27:33.28
cause me to see
sin through your eyes.
00:27:33.31\00:27:40.06
He doesn't say I need you to try
to be, he says I'm speaking it,
00:28:19.43\00:28:23.43
I need you to believe it and
walk that way. I asked a friend
00:28:23.47\00:28:30.41
of mine recently, how do you
know that your mom and dad are
00:28:30.44\00:28:38.81
your mom and dad? How do
you know the people that call
00:28:38.85\00:28:42.12
themselves your mom and dad
are really your mom and dad? And
00:28:42.15\00:28:45.05
almost everybody will know the
answer to that question. Well
00:28:45.09\00:28:48.32
they told me that. You know when
a mother goes out and she gives
00:28:48.36\00:28:53.19
birth and they take the baby,
they put it in another room
00:28:53.23\00:28:56.26
after the mother has seen and
had it, they put it in another
00:28:56.30\00:29:00.60
room. And then sometimes if the
mother's still recovering it may
00:29:00.64\00:29:03.07
be a day or two before she sees
the baby. And they come back in
00:29:03.10\00:29:07.64
out of another room with 50
other babies in there. And then
00:29:07.68\00:29:11.98
a nurse goes in who you don't
know, grabs that baby brings it
00:29:12.01\00:29:15.28
in and says here's your baby.
Now you know the mother knows
00:29:15.32\00:29:18.09
that baby because the baby
was inside of her womb. And the
00:29:18.12\00:29:23.12
father comes into the room and
you know what the father will do
00:29:23.16\00:29:25.76
He'll grab that little baby and
say you are daddy's little girl
00:29:25.79\00:29:29.50
or daddy's little boy.
The mother is you know... The
00:29:29.53\00:29:33.74
parents tell the child you're my
son, you're my daughter, and we
00:29:33.77\00:29:37.54
grow up believing them. How come
we cannot believe God like that?
00:29:37.57\00:29:41.74
God tells us you're my son, walk
like it. You're my daughter,
00:29:41.78\00:29:48.58
live like it. Trust me, believe
my word. The courts of the
00:29:48.62\00:29:54.29
Temple at Jerusalem filled with
the tumult of unholy traffic
00:29:54.32\00:29:58.09
represented all too truly the
temple of our hearts. Now listen
00:29:58.13\00:30:05.17
to this one: Signs of the Times,
May 30, 1895: The law of God and
00:30:05.20\00:30:12.27
the word God there is Theos,
Deity, Divinity. The law of
00:30:12.31\00:30:19.48
Deity, the law of what it looks
like to be a son and daughter
00:30:19.51\00:30:23.12
God. It's like plants have DNA,
human beings have DNA. A leopard
00:30:23.15\00:30:30.26
can't change his spots because
the law of being a leopard is
00:30:30.29\00:30:35.06
written in his heart, in his DNA
It's written inside every fiber
00:30:35.10\00:30:41.00
of his being. You're a leopard.
It we don't take that and apply
00:30:41.04\00:30:47.61
that to ourselves the law of
God written inside of our hearts
00:30:47.64\00:30:52.75
we won't realize that
we're sons and daughters of God.
00:30:52.78\00:30:56.38
Look at that. The law requires
that which no man of themselves
00:31:32.99\00:31:40.13
can render. God did that for
a reason. Paul says the law was
00:31:40.16\00:31:44.90
our schoolmaster to send us
to Christ. It doesn't mean that
00:31:44.93\00:31:49.80
when Christ came the law is done
away with. Christ wants inside
00:31:49.84\00:31:52.94
our heart so that he can live
his live in our mortal flesh.
00:31:52.97\00:31:58.48
Romans 3:23 and 10 says:
00:31:58.51\00:32:02.98
And I inserted this. The phrase
not one can also be interpreted
00:32:12.93\00:32:17.57
none but one. The Bible says
there was only one who was just,
00:32:17.60\00:32:23.74
that was the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:32:23.77\00:32:27.48
Sometimes people will say, I'm
good, I love Jesus, I don't need
00:32:45.76\00:32:50.43
more. The Bible says all of our
righteousness is as filthy rags.
00:32:50.47\00:32:55.04
On our best day it doesn't even
come close to what Christ wants
00:32:55.07\00:33:00.58
and desires.
00:33:00.61\00:33:16.62
When I read this the first
thought that came to me was sin
00:33:16.66\00:33:21.53
is blinding and deceiving in its
nature. Blinding to what? What
00:33:21.56\00:33:28.10
does sin blind us to? The truth,
the truth. Jesus said, Father
00:33:28.14\00:33:39.58
I looked at that and I was like
Lord... Truth to me was correct
00:33:49.19\00:33:55.73
doctrine. Do I have correct
understanding of this fact and
00:33:55.76\00:33:58.90
this fact and this fact? And God
spoke to me and he said Eric you
00:33:58.93\00:34:02.47
don't even know what the word
truth means. I said, Of course I
00:34:02.50\00:34:05.31
do. It's correct doctrine. And
God said look the word up in the
00:34:05.34\00:34:09.48
Strong's Concordance. And when
you look up that word truth in
00:34:09.51\00:34:13.75
John 17, this is the
actual Strong's definition:
00:34:13.78\00:34:22.02
The unfailing verity. If God
speaks it, it cannot return unto
00:34:22.06\00:34:30.00
him void. He can't repent,
Numbers says, Chapter 23 verse
00:34:30.03\00:34:35.70
19. He says, Have I spoken
and shall I not do it. Psalm 33
00:34:35.74\00:34:44.38
verse 6-9 says:
00:34:44.41\00:34:45.75
Do you know 6000 years ago
God spoke and said let the earth
00:35:00.96\00:35:05.30
bring forth green grass and 6000
years later the earth is still
00:35:05.33\00:35:09.90
obeying him. We're the only ones
that choose to doubt and not
00:35:09.94\00:35:15.88
believe. I want to present
something to you. The first
00:35:15.91\00:35:22.82
statement of creation that
we have in the Bible in Genesis
00:35:22.85\00:35:26.05
chapter one: God said, Let there
BE light. And what happened?
00:35:26.09\00:35:34.03
There was. He said let there BE
and there was. Do you know what
00:35:34.06\00:35:42.77
he said in Leviticus chapter 44
or chapter 11 verse 44 and 45?
00:35:42.80\00:35:47.61
And 1 Peter 1:16: BE ye holy for
I am holy. The same word that
00:35:47.64\00:35:54.38
said let there be light is
the same word that says Be holy.
00:35:54.42\00:36:01.09
It's not try to be. I had
a sister in Christ that said
00:36:01.16\00:36:07.66
something to me. She got this
for the first time and she said
00:36:07.70\00:36:11.47
Brother Wilson, it's a state of
being. Be my son. I am your son.
00:36:11.50\00:36:19.51
I believe it. Well then live
like it. Ellen White tells us in
00:36:19.54\00:36:26.78
Education page 126:
Listen to this promise.
00:36:26.82\00:36:30.79
Do you know what she said
in Desire of Ages, page 311?
00:36:42.36\00:36:45.70
She quotes Jesus and Jesus said,
Be ye therefore perfect even as
00:36:45.73\00:36:52.57
your Father in heaven is perfect
and then she says this again,
00:36:52.61\00:36:56.44
this command is a promise. It's
not for us to try to do it. It's
00:36:56.48\00:37:03.28
to believe he has done it and
surrender our lives so that he
00:37:03.32\00:37:07.76
can manifest the life of Christ
in our mortal flesh. Many of us
00:37:07.79\00:37:16.53
that are here today and that are
listening to this message, many
00:37:16.56\00:37:20.77
of us are Seventh-day Sabbath
keepers. Right? Have you ever
00:37:20.80\00:37:25.17
wondered why we keep the Sabbath
Well it's a sign of God's
00:37:25.21\00:37:27.88
creative power. Okay, he created
the earth, that's great. That
00:37:27.91\00:37:32.78
helps me not believe in
evolution. How does that help my
00:37:32.81\00:37:35.38
walk with him? Because the same
way he created the universe is
00:37:35.42\00:37:40.96
the same way that he recreates
us in the image of God. Exodus
00:37:40.99\00:37:47.30
chapter 31 says:
00:37:47.33\00:37:49.66
Galatians tells us those
that have faith are the seed of
00:37:55.30\00:38:00.14
Abraham. Speak thou also unto
the children of Israel saying:
00:38:00.18\00:38:04.95
Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep
It's a promise, it's a promise.
00:38:04.98\00:38:12.85
You will keep my Sabbaths for
it is a sign between Me and You
00:38:12.89\00:38:20.20
throughout your generations. So
that you may know that I Am the
00:38:20.23\00:38:27.37
Lord, Jehovah, Yahweh,
that doeth sanctify you, not you
00:38:27.40\00:38:34.34
yourselves Do you know God made
a promise in Deuteronomy 4 verse
00:38:53.50\00:38:57.90
29. If you seek me with all your
heart you will find me So he
00:38:57.93\00:39:03.17
tells us right here: I did not
tell the children of Jacob, Seek
00:39:03.20\00:39:07.54
ye me in vain. What, you're
going to seek me and I'm not
00:39:07.58\00:39:11.85
going to show up. For I the Lord
speak righteousness, I declare
00:39:11.88\00:39:18.69
things that are right. That
means he declares things and
00:39:18.72\00:39:24.06
makes them right. I'm going
to show you an example of this.
00:39:24.09\00:39:29.50
Because I asked the Lord. I was
like I'm starting to grasp this.
00:39:29.53\00:39:34.00
That you speak, that there is
life-giving power in your word,
00:39:34.04\00:39:38.34
but show me a place in the Bible
where you spoke righteousness.
00:39:38.37\00:39:42.54
And the Lord took me to Luke
chapter 5. There was a man that
00:39:42.58\00:39:46.11
came to Jesus that was a leper
and he was rotting and he fell
00:39:46.15\00:39:50.99
on the ground before our Savior
and he said Adonai, Lord, King I
00:39:51.02\00:39:59.36
know if thou wilt thou canst
make me clean. And you know what
00:39:59.39\00:40:04.13
Jesus said? He spoke the same as
he did in Genesis one: I will be
00:40:04.17\00:40:10.41
thou clean. And you know the man
got up and he walked free from
00:40:10.44\00:40:16.68
leprosy from that day forward.
Romans chapter 4 verse 17 gives
00:40:16.71\00:40:21.62
us some more
light on this. It says:
00:40:21.65\00:40:24.49
He looks at us just like he did
Mary Magdalene and says Neither
00:40:47.44\00:40:51.18
do I condemn you. I'll take your
sins from you. Stand up and sin
00:40:51.21\00:40:56.22
no more. Hebrews chapter 4 says:
00:40:56.25\00:41:02.16
How many times has God told us
something and we say yeah but I
00:41:13.47\00:41:16.34
can't believe that. We should
be experiencing more of the
00:41:16.37\00:41:20.51
presence and power and miracles
of God in our lives now than
00:41:20.54\00:41:24.28
what they were 2000 years ago.
Because Jesus said, The things
00:41:24.31\00:41:28.28
that I've done, you're going
to do even greater because I'm
00:41:28.32\00:41:30.95
going to my father. Now let's
look at Laodicea again. The
00:41:30.99\00:41:38.29
Bible tells us in 2 Timothy 3:5:
00:41:38.33\00:41:40.90
I want you to pay
close attention to that word
00:41:52.31\00:41:55.68
godliness. They have a form
of godliness but they deny the
00:41:55.71\00:41:59.91
power thereof. Do you know what
the word deny means? That's okay
00:41:59.95\00:42:02.98
You put your hand up and you say
no, thank you. A waiter comes
00:42:03.02\00:42:07.06
and they're going to bring you
some more you know food or more
00:42:07.09\00:42:09.59
you know to drink and you go no
thank you. I'm denying it. I'm
00:42:09.62\00:42:14.80
denying it, I don't need it. I'm
rich and increased with goods,
00:42:14.83\00:42:18.80
I'm in need of nothing. No thank
you. Jesus talked about this in
00:42:18.83\00:42:23.74
Matthew 23. He talked about
the Pharisees and the scribes.
00:42:23.77\00:42:27.04
He said they're like whited
sepulchers. They're beautiful on
00:42:27.08\00:42:30.51
the outside. They've got all the
right clothes on. They've got
00:42:30.55\00:42:33.65
the right badge
with their name on it but
00:42:33.68\00:42:37.15
inside they're full of
00:42:37.19\00:42:38.52
dead men's bones.
To Laodicea he said:
00:42:38.55\00:42:44.93
Desire of Ages, page 35. This is
startling. Satan was seeking to
00:43:01.18\00:43:08.02
shut out from men a knowledge of
God. The Bible says in John 17
00:43:08.05\00:43:14.86
verse 3: This is life eternal
that they might know thee and
00:43:14.89\00:43:21.96
Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent
To know is like what Adam did
00:43:22.00\00:43:26.23
when Adam knew his wife Eve.
They became one flesh. And I
00:43:26.27\00:43:30.61
have to tell you that one flesh
was not just for the moment
00:43:30.64\00:43:34.24
while they were in the
bed together, the wedding bed.
00:43:34.28\00:43:37.31
If you become one with your
spouse your husband or your wife
00:43:37.35\00:43:41.22
and it's only for those few
moments, that little bit of time
00:43:41.25\00:43:44.45
that you're in the bedroom
together it's meaningless. When
00:43:44.49\00:43:48.89
you become one, you're
one in everything you do.
00:43:48.92\00:43:53.29
Not their
religion but their faith.
00:44:16.25\00:44:18.49
When you read Paul's writings
in Romans and Galatians and
00:44:57.33\00:45:01.90
Ephesians and Philippians this
is his whole message was that
00:45:01.93\00:45:07.04
you cannot keep the law or be
righteous on your own. The only
00:45:07.07\00:45:13.38
way this can happen is if you
open the door of your heart to
00:45:13.41\00:45:16.44
Christ and let him live within
you. Christ came to open the
00:45:16.48\00:45:23.12
eyes of the blind, to turn us
from darkness to light and from
00:45:23.15\00:45:27.89
the power of Satan unto God that
we may receive forgiveness of
00:45:27.92\00:45:33.43
sins and our inheritance among
them which are sanctified by
00:45:33.46\00:45:40.27
faith that is in me. 1 Timothy.
We talk about how Laodicea had a
00:45:40.30\00:45:50.51
form of godliness but they
denied the power thereof. They
00:45:50.55\00:45:54.35
said no thank you we got this.
Listen to what 1 Timothy says.
00:45:54.38\00:45:58.39
He actually tell us what
the mystery of godliness is.
00:45:58.42\00:46:02.16
For without controversy great
is the mystery of godliness. God
00:46:02.19\00:46:08.96
was manifest in the flesh.
There's no other way a human
00:46:09.00\00:46:15.34
being can have godliness except
God be manifest in their flesh
00:46:15.37\00:46:20.94
and in their life. Paul goes on
and tells us in Colossians 1:26
00:46:22.18\00:46:26.58
and Romans 16:
00:46:26.61\00:46:28.12
Jesus tells us in Isaiah 45:
00:46:37.76\00:46:44.03
Jesus was actually... He quoted
this in John chapter 3. He said
00:46:57.48\00:47:04.05
As Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness so the son of
00:47:04.09\00:47:09.09
man must be lifted up. When
Moses was commanded to lift that
00:47:09.12\00:47:15.26
serpent up the Bible tells us
that everybody looked to Christ
00:47:15.30\00:47:20.20
which was the act of faith,
Ellen White says, they were
00:47:20.24\00:47:23.64
healed instantly from the poison
She says many people said,
00:47:23.67\00:47:29.41
That's okay, my wounds are too
bad. Looking will not fix me.
00:47:29.44\00:47:34.52
My sins are too much. And then
she said something that startled
00:47:34.55\00:47:37.99
me. She said, many also said we
have a remedy of our own for the
00:47:38.02\00:47:43.53
poison bites. We've got herbs,
we've got whatever, we've got
00:47:43.56\00:47:48.00
a remedy of our own. No thank
you, no thank you. They denied
00:47:48.03\00:47:52.93
Christ. But he
says look and live:
00:47:52.97\00:47:56.77
Justified and justification.
We talked about this you know in
00:48:20.30\00:48:26.70
our earlier meeting:
00:48:26.74\00:48:28.07
In the Lord shall all the
children of Israel, those that
00:48:38.55\00:48:43.12
have faith be justified, be
clean, holy and righteous. Read
00:48:43.15\00:48:49.69
Hebrews chapter 10 and look at
what it says about what Christ
00:48:49.72\00:48:53.19
did on Calvary for us. Special
Testimonies for Ministers and
00:48:53.23\00:48:59.53
Workers, page 62.
00:48:59.57\00:49:01.17
Do you understand, this is what
causes the shaking. This is the
00:49:49.45\00:49:53.76
testimony of the council to the
Laodicean s that people do not
00:49:53.79\00:49:58.56
want to hear. People don't want
to hear that you can do nothing
00:49:58.59\00:50:02.70
without Christ. But do you
know what? There's a beautiful
00:50:02.73\00:50:06.84
promise in that. With Christ
all things are possible for us.
00:50:06.87\00:50:12.77
And then there's a quote
in Romans 8: The carnal mind,
00:50:37.03\00:50:41.64
that's the one that each of us
was born with the first time is
00:50:41.67\00:50:45.01
enmity against God. It hates
righteousness. When you go to a
00:50:45.04\00:50:50.31
lost person you say look you
got to start going to church on
00:50:50.35\00:50:52.88
this day and you got to start
eating different and dressing
00:50:52.91\00:50:55.38
different, you got to quit
watching those movies. They hate
00:50:55.42\00:50:58.85
that because they
haven't been born again.
00:50:58.89\00:51:11.03
Jesus was free. Do you know what
Ellen White quotes. She said
00:52:19.00\00:52:20.40
that Jesus, she said, she quoted
him and said, The prince of this
00:52:20.44\00:52:24.51
world cometh and hath nothing
in me. So it may be with us.
00:52:24.54\00:52:29.91
When his life is ours,
when his mind is ours, Satan's
00:52:29.94\00:52:35.75
temptations can come and there's
nothing in us that responds.
00:52:35.78\00:52:39.05
Subjection to the will of Christ
means restoration to perfect
00:52:39.09\00:52:46.03
manhood. Genuine faith
appropriates the righteousness
00:52:46.06\00:52:53.13
of Christ. That means if I take
my brother over here and I say
00:52:53.17\00:52:58.11
I'm a millionaire, I just
went today, you know that, but I
00:52:58.14\00:53:02.51
went to your bank and I
deposited $500,000 in your bank
00:53:02.54\00:53:06.75
account. If you believe me you
can go out and pay off your debt
00:53:06.78\00:53:11.59
that's been bugging you for the
past 20 years. You can fix the
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house that's broken down for
your wife. You can help your son
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and your daughter with the
things they need. But if you
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don't believe that I've done
what I promised you won't write
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the check. That's why Jesus said
If you ask anything in my name
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I will do it for you. God wants
us to appropriate as our own the
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righteousness of Christ
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I can't tell what a burden that
takes off of a person that's
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carrying that backpack of 500
pounds, like Pilgrim's Progress.
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When you realize all I have to
do is lay down on the operating
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table and trust God to do what
he's promised, God will do it.
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God will do what he's promised
in our hearts. Read Ezekiel
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chapter 36 this weekend. Read
Ezekiel 36 and highlight and
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underline every time it says
I will. God has made a promise
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I will put a new heart in you,
I will cleanse you from all of
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your idols. I will write my law
within you. I will purify you
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unto myself. And then he says
in verse 36, I have spoken it
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and I will do it. But you
have to make your mind up. Is he
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lying or is he telling the truth
and if he's telling the truth
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the ask in faith and walk
forward. Ellen White says:
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Do you know how? By faith. Find
the promises where God promised
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he would do it in your heart,
in your mind, in your body and
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claim it by faith.
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Do you understand that? What was
lost in Adam? Immortality. The
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Bible says God has given us
eternal life and this life is in
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his Son. What else was lost
by Adam? Victory over sin. The
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Bible says thanks be to
God which giveth us the victory
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through Jesus Christ. All that
was lost in Adam the cross of
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Christ fully restores to every
believing soul. The 144,000
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will take hold of God's promises
to such an extent that they will
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no longer sin and death will not
be able to take them. It's not
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by magic dust that God sprinkles
It's by faith in a promise that
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he cannot fail to fulfill.
Let's close with prayer.
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Father in heaven, we thank
you for your Son, the Lord Jesus
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Christ. He is our King, He is
our Redeemer, He is our Savior,
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he is our righteousness. Father
help each of us that are here
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today and each person that is
watching and listening. Guide us
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in your word. Help us to find
your promises and give us your
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faith Lord Jesus Christ that
we may believe. We thank you, in
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Jesus name, Amen.
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