How would you like
to be able to pinpoint
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your exact location on
the Time Line of Eternity,
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you know, Daniel
the prophet wrote in
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Daniel 12 verse 4
that at the time of the end
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many shall run to
and fro and knowledge
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shall increase. Today,
we are going to talk about
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where we are in
this Cosmic Time Line
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and how you can
survive, join us.
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Hi I am Shelley
Quinn, we are so glad that
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you are joining us
for Issues and Answers,
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you know Jesus
said Mathews 16:26,
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what is a profit
of man, if he gains
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the whole world,
yet loses his soul.
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Well, we have a
Gentleman with us today
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who really was tapped
on the shoulder by God,
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he heard that and he responded.
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Let me introduce our
special guest Jim Ayer.
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Jim, so thankful
that you are here today.
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Hey can you shake
your hand good to be here,
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amen, now you are
a Vice President for
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Adventist World
Radio (AWR) you are also
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the host of 'Making
Waves', what it tell us
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about that program
that airs one 3ABN.
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Making Waves, I
have so much fun because
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I get to travel around the world
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and look at the
God's peace people worship,
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the lives they live,
their economies, the country
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where they are,
and then we go into
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illustrious
story how someone life
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was dramatically
altered by the Gospel message,
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amen. And let me tell
you God is altering lives
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all over the world,
it's like the book of Acts
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out there really. I
mean the Holy Spirit
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is been poured out
Shelley. And you know
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we see it even
more, I agree with you
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and we see it
even more in countries
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that are
underdeveloped, it seems like,
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it's like our opening
today, when I was telling
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you about this Cosmic Time Line,
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when Daniel wrote
that people will run to
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and fro and
knowledge shall increase,
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of course we know that
there is talking about to
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and fro looking into the world,
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yet I do believe that
the devil is doing everything
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he can to keep us so
busy in the developed worlds
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we have got all of
these new conveniences
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and yet we are
losing ground as far as
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our spirituality
is concerned because
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what you see and
what we hear testimonies
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of the underdeveloped
world God's pouring out
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his Holy Spirit
and thousands upon,
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thousands are responding
because time is getting
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close, yes, yes,
you know, Ellen white
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made an interesting statement
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and I love her
writings, the first book
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I ever read as I
joined the Adventist church
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one of the
first books was called
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the great
controversy and I read that book
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and I thought, wow,
this lady is really something
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she has got more
than just a good writing
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ability, but she said
she saw a speeding train,
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it seem like the whole
world was on this train
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and they were
speeding toward the destruction
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and the devil was the
conductor of that train.
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And, you know, we are
such a time seems like
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everything is just
going so rapidly I brought
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some statistics
today. If it's okay,
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if I show you some of
them with you, please yeah.
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First of all you know in 1800,
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there was one
billion people on the planet,
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130 years later it
doubled, 30 years later
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went to 3
billion, 15 years later
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went to 4, 12 years
later to 5 and only 11 years
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after that to 6
billion and now we are heading
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towards 7 so
rapidly, and listen this,
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and this almost is
going to become unsustainable,
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yeah, yeah absolutely
and one of every 8 couples
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who get married now, get married
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from the online
contact, one out of eight, yes,
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that's amazing. There is
two trillion text messages
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sent everyday, two
trillion can you imagine,
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there are five
hundred forty thousand words
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today in the
English language at the time
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of Shakespeare it was
five times less than that.
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So even the
language has been increasing
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and Nano
technology, I am not gonna pull
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a hair out of my head
because I don't that many,
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but, but you know,
I will share a few,
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if I pulled the
hair out of my head,
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Nano technology is a
hundred thousand times
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smaller, that's
amazing, than my human hair.
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And here, let me there
is some great ones here
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that, you know, we're
preparing student today
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in classes for things
that don't even exist,
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we are doing
training for them for things
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that don't even
exist here. So you mean,
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they are being
trained for jobs or positions,
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yes, yes, that
don't exist yet, yes, yes
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and we don't even
know what problems
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are going to face,
but we are training them
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how to deal with
those problems that
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we don't know what
is going to crop up,
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I mean, it's going
so rapidly. Listen this,
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one week's worth
of the new old times
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that's more information
that somebody in the 1800s
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in their entire life
had. So today's issue,
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one issue the new
old times offers us
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more information that
they had in their entire life,
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in their entire life. No wonder,
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I'm gonna have
feelings of guilty when I forget
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something because we
have got stuff coming here
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so rapidly. When
we say, you know,
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we are going through a
hard drive to check out
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the various files. It's
really true we are storing
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so much more up
there now and unfortunately
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most of is useless
information, you know,
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well I speak for
myself, but let me read you
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another we have
there four xBytes,
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don't ask me what an xByte is?
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Now I just
getting ready to ask you,
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how many
terabytes, I am not even sure
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how many mega bytes
makes up a terabyte,
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but now they have got xBytes.
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But here is the
definition it's four times
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10 to the 19th
power. In other words,
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you would have zero
strong out here for miles
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that amount of
information is generated
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this last year, that's
some, just this last year.
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It's estimated that's
more than the previous
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five thousand years combined.
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So in one year we have
generated more knowledge
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and information than in the last
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five hundred
thousand years combined,
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well the last six
thousand years, six well
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that what you said
five thousand, I am saying,
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I said five thousand
years but that's what
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they say but we know biblically
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that we're been here
about six thousand years.
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So, there is
more information now
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than all of that
previous time is what
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they are telling us.
Now the other thing is
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that amount of
information is doubling
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every two years
now, unbelievable.
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I can't even wrap
my neurons around that.
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Listen to this
fellow that he developed
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the flatbed scanner and voice
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recognition
software. So you could speak
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to your computer
and it starts doing
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what you want. His
name is Ray Kurzweil,
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listen to what he
says, there is even
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exponential growth of the
rate of exponential growth
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within a few
decades machine intelligence
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will surpass human
intelligence leading
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to the singularity,
technological change
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so rapid, so proven
it represents a rupture
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in a human fabric,
you know, when we look at
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how rapid the
pace of this world is.
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When we look at the
population, explosion
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and realize that at
some point planet earth
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will be overwhelmed,
it will be unsustainable
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as I said before when
we look at the governments
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that are
collapsing, society that's
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breaking down, all of
the prophecies of the Bible
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particularly this
one of Daniel saying
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that people will
be running to and fro
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and knowledge
shall increase, of course
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I believe that in
part Daniel was referring
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Bible knowledge,
which we have seen
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an increase in
Bible knowledge but yet
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we can apply it to
what's going on in our world.
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It would seem on
the cosmic timeline
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that we're getting to
the point, where we can
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identify where we
are? Oh yeah, let me share
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one more quote with
you, it is just kind of,
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I read this and it
almost stop me in my tracks,
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okay it says the
scientist name is von Neumann
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was quoted a
saying that the ever
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accelerating
progress like technology gives
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the appearance
of approaching some
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singularity in the
history of the human race
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beyond which
human affairs as we know
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them could not continue, wow,
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so here we are secular
scientists even are saying
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what's going on,
we see this happening
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and we envision
that society couldn't
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even continue on,
yes, but we serve a God
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who knows best
and we serve a God
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who really knows, you
know, when your are saying
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this I was wondering
if the camera was looking
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at me because my tendency was
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when I heard the
seculars. The quote from
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the secular scientist
was to break out in a smile
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when he said it
can't continue on
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and we don't feel
because it's time to look up
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and know that are
redemptions drawing in,
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that's is so true,
so true, we who love
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Jesus Christ and
everybody here all the audience
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can love Jesus
it's so simple to fall
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in love him, we can
look forward to that time
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when all this
mess is over around.
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The simple way to
fall on love with Jesus
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is to know how much
he loves you and once you
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begin to understand
that we love him because
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he first loved us,
yes absolutely, amen.
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But you know here is
you talked about Daniel
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and it's perfect
because you just drop back
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some chapters to
chapter 2 and in chapter 2
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God gave king Nebakanezer
who is the king of all
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the Babylon the
greatest kingdom at that time
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on earth, gave him a
dream and he couldn't
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figure out the
dream at all and finally
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he took God's
man to talk with God
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and say please God
show us what it means
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for the King because
he can't remember it,
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he went to the king
and said oh king live
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forever you know and
but he said there is a God
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in heaven who
reveal secrets and here
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is the secret he goes
on to share his whole dream
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and he painted this
incredible picture of
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here was the kingdom of Babylon.
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Nebakanezer's
kingdom is this head of gold
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of this great statue,
but then it moved down
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into arms of silver,
which was Medo-Persia,
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the crossed arms of
those two great nations
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who joined forces down
into Alexander's kingdom,
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the kingdom of
bronze, and then down into
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the iron kingdom of
Rome, down into the feet
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of iron and clay
and this feet of iron
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and clave where
told they couldn't mix
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just like iron
doesn't mix with clay,
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now we can follow
history and we can see it
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led all the way down
to the European times.
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You know, if Charles the fifth,
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I think it was
Napoleon and Hitler have
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they ever read the
Bible they would have
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never tried to unite
Europe because God said
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it wouldn't be done,
yes, and so here is God
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we can trust because, it
couldn't cleave together.
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Yeah, history has
proven it off but then the one
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I wanted to bring
the viewers too today
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is found over in
Revelation chapter 6
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because it's pretty
exciting to read this
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and to realize
where we are in time.
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Revelation chapter 6
and we look at verse 12,
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verse 12 says and
behold when it opened
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the sixth seal,
and low there was great
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earthquake and
the sun became black
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as sackcloth of hair,
and the moon became as blood
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and verse 13 says And
the stars of heaven fell
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from the earth, even
as a fig casteth her;
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on timely figs, when
she shaken of a mighty win.
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Now we can look back in history
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and we can
pinpoint, we can pinpoint
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even from the
newspapers of the day exactly
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when these things
occurred and from other
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prophecies which we
don't have time to go in today
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but we know that's
happen so we can say okay
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those have occurred in 12 and 13
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now look at verse 14
and the heaven departed
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as a scroll when
it is rolled together
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in every mountain
and island are moved out
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of there place,
amen, is that occurred,
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have we seen every mountain
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and island moved
out of there place,
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not yet but soon.
So, Shelley I would say
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to you and to all
the viewers they can draw
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a line between those
two verses, verses 13 and 14
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and put a little
note there and say here
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I am, they can write their name
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and say here I'm
between two verses in eternity.
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I mean that's
where we are and so what,
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what is that
have to do with today.
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Well, we got to get
I believe off of that
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speeding train that
Ellen White saw in my own life
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I got on that
train. I started getting
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into business and making
money, I started lobbying
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and congression, capital
hill; I have my own radio
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talk show I was
writing for a newspaper
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as people views
excess on planet earth.
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I was very successful,
but I'd also sit in church
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and I was lost. I really know
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I was just
absolutely lost. I look good,
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looked apart, acted
apart, I even went on preached,
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but I preached without the power
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of the Holy Spirit and God,
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you were a busy person,
you know what busy stands
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for bondage under Satan's yolk
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and I think that's
the devils plan, oh yeah,
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and even being
myself in ministry
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and as you know in
ministry we can become
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so busy with ministry
that it begins to interrupt
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the rhythm of our relationship
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with the Lord. It doesn't matter
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who you are, it
doesn't matter who you are
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because the plan is to get us
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where we are bound
up by our busyness.
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And you know
Shelley with a scripture,
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reading a quick
Scripture from our Bibles
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with my hand on the
door in the morning,
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running out to go do
my job doesn't correct
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it doesn't give
us the relationship
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that we need to
make it out of this world
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on God side. Because
God's prepared you know
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John 14, it says I
prepared these wonderful
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mansions for you, I
have done all these things
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for you for
those love me you know
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and we've got to understand that
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loving God is that
personal friendship like
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husband and wife,
when you fall in love
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and you continue that
relationship I don't know
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about you, but I
have still got a work
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at my relationship with my wife.
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If you quit working at,
it usually it's not that,
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it's not always
a conscious effort
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of working at it,
it's something that,
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how can I say this,
yeah we don't want to get you
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in trouble with your husband.
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No, but I mean it's
not that your consciously
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when you are really
madly in love with somebody
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you are always doing for them,
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you want to be near
them, you want to please them,
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yeah when it really
becomes a conscious effort
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is when you realize
there is a little break here
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and this person
loves me, it's like even
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with the Lord, when
you are in the right rhythm
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of your relationship with God.
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It doesn't take
a conscious effort,
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you want to be in
the world, you do spend
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more time in prayer,
but then when you suddenly
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put your finger on
your pulse and realize
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you are not doing
these things then God began
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once again you
recognize that he is drawing
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that he loved us
with an everlasting love
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and that he is wooing
us near him then we got
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to put little work
into it will you agree,
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oh absolutely,
absolutely, you know
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there, there are
times that I just realize
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because I been
around my wife so long
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now that if I
just did this for her,
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it make her so
happy if I did this
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and it's a joy for
me because I get excited
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to do it, you know, I
think oh, this is gonna
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make her real
happy and so I'll do this
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and I'll do that, I
even tell her you know
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I all out the garbage
because I know how much
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you want me to all
of the garbage not that
00:16:04.20\00:16:06.15
I necessarily like
all of the garbage,
00:16:06.18\00:16:07.44
but I know how
much you are loving
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and sure enough she
does and but it you know,
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in Mathew it says what
is a profit a man to gain
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the whole world, yes,
and lose his own soul.
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We can, we can be working 24x7,
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we can make all kinds of money,
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we can have the
boat, we can the house,
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we can have the Harley-Davidson
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in the garage
maybe we got two of them.
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We can have all these
things and never be happy
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why because God
is not in our lives
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and that's the only
happiness that comes,
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amen, everlasting
happiness, yeah when Jesus
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walked in a room
he said peace to you
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and you know later he said peace
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I leave unto you.
You know for the viewers
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out there, we
really have the peace
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that comes from knowing God from
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understanding God
from getting to know him
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as our very best
friend and that peace comes
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as we abide in
Christ, it's not enough
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just to know him
here that mentally accent,
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but we have to allow
him to live in our heart
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as Colossians 127 says
Christ in us is the hope
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of glory, exactly, exactly,
00:17:17.08\00:17:18.05
and we abide in
him now I know that
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you are someone
who has every evidence
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that you abide in
Christ tell us how you do
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that because if as
we are stating here,
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we are at that point
we can pinpoint on the
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cosmic timeline
where we are and know
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that Christ is
returning soon that this world
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is not going to
last that much longer,
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we have got
another solution of how
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we can survive these in days,
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how we can have
that peace, how did God
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teach you to abide in him.
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Well it's exciting
that you ask that because
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God has promised
this for everyone of us
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and laid this out in
John chapter 14, 15, 16, 17
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and these chapters
incredible chapters now
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Jesus had left the
upper room he knows
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what his destiny
is because he has come
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to the earth in
order to die for us.
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As he his walking
toward that garden you think
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what, what would
say to your disciples
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who remember one
of them he told Peter
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when you are
converted Peter then this
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and this will occur.
Peter been with around Jesus
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for three and a half years, yes,
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but he still didn't have
that conversion experience
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and so in the upper
room there are the disciples
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had kind of
looked at one and another
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and thought I
am better than you,
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I am not gonna wash your feet,
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I am better than you,
I am not gonna do this
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so there is all this
chaos going on in their hearts
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and their minds and
Jesus is almost it's time
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for the cross
what's he is going to say
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and here we find the
John the one that Jesus
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loved shares
with us in, in John 14
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and onward just
some phenomenal things
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and I hope you
know everyone at home
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will running go get
their Bibles right now
00:19:08.69\00:19:10.72
if they don't have
them and look at these
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incredible chapters.
These ought be chapters
00:19:13.21\00:19:16.79
that are you know
circled and underlined
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and, yes, and note I
mean just incredible things
00:19:19.30\00:19:22.82
going on, but God
tells us let not your heart
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be troubled, you
believe in God and believe
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the house on me
and in my Fathers house
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there are many mansions.
I go to prepare a place
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for you, it's got
your name on the door,
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you know, Shelley
Quinn there is her name right
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there on the door
it's waiting there for you,
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there is one for me,
one for all of the audience
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here today and then
God continues on verse 6
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he says I am the
way, I am the truth,
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I am the life here
is, here is the pathway
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for us, he is getting
to know him personally
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and following him
personally, verse 7
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if you had known me
you should have known
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my father you can't beckon now.
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Now Thomas asks the
crazy question well Lord
00:20:01.23\00:20:04.48
show us the Father.
Jesus said have you been
00:20:04.51\00:20:07.82
with me so long and
haven't seen the father.
00:20:07.85\00:20:10.54
I know people today
look at the old testaments
00:20:10.57\00:20:14.37
and say oh God was
retired and he was a
00:20:14.40\00:20:16.65
horrible God now
as a father. You know,
00:20:16.68\00:20:19.01
but Jesus, oh, Jesus is loving.
00:20:19.04\00:20:20.73
No it's kind of
the other way around,
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Jesus was
actually did everything
00:20:22.47\00:20:25.26
of the old testament,
he was the pillar of fire,
00:20:25.29\00:20:27.49
he was the cloud, he
was the one who watched
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over his children continually,
00:20:30.92\00:20:33.03
they have lived with
the Lord, but you know
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if you read, I think
sometimes people read
00:20:35.15\00:20:38.57
the old testament
with this certain filter on
00:20:38.60\00:20:41.65
and they were looking
at everything that God
00:20:41.68\00:20:44.23
warned his people
of in their thinking,
00:20:44.26\00:20:46.85
oh it sounds so
harsh, it sounds so harsh,
00:20:46.88\00:20:48.89
but if they
recognize how long God suffered
00:20:48.92\00:20:53.24
through this and kept
warning them for years,
00:20:53.27\00:20:56.14
decades and before
he ever acted it wasn't
00:20:56.17\00:21:01.03
harshness God was
trying to warn them to say
00:21:01.06\00:21:03.79
this is what's kind
to happen if you don't
00:21:03.82\00:21:06.70
and he was kind a like a
parent saying to a child.
00:21:06.73\00:21:09.33
If you doesn't
straighten up I am gonna
00:21:09.36\00:21:11.54
have to spank you,
don't make me spank you.
00:21:11.57\00:21:13.85
And that's what God
was doing. You know,
00:21:13.88\00:21:15.70
you are exactly
right, I look at my life.
00:21:15.73\00:21:18.02
Shelley, if I had
been God I would have done
00:21:18.05\00:21:20.50
away with me a
longtime ago, I mean literally
00:21:20.53\00:21:23.09
I could, oh couldn't
we all say that, you know
00:21:23.12\00:21:25.62
I was horrible, but
God even from the time God
00:21:25.65\00:21:28.88
said Jim you have got
a short-time to decide
00:21:28.91\00:21:30.68
and God literally told
me that it was two years.
00:21:30.71\00:21:35.64
I continued all
this garbage and stuff
00:21:35.67\00:21:38.56
for two years and
finally God said okay now
00:21:38.59\00:21:41.69
its time when I finally woke up,
00:21:41.72\00:21:45.07
I mean long suffering,
you talk about long suffering.
00:21:45.10\00:21:47.84
I mean there is an
ultimate point in which
00:21:47.87\00:21:50.16
God just finally has
to say enough is enough
00:21:50.19\00:21:52.72
because it's causing
everyone too much hurt
00:21:52.75\00:21:55.10
and pain, yes, but
here God says is the way
00:21:55.13\00:21:58.55
he said verse 20 and
that day you should know that
00:21:58.58\00:22:02.74
I am in my father, and
you in me and I in you.
00:22:02.77\00:22:06.46
Here is the whole
trinity wanting to be with us,
00:22:06.49\00:22:12.45
you know, I and
you and you and me,
00:22:12.48\00:22:14.52
and God says I
want a tabernacle in you
00:22:14.55\00:22:16.84
and I want to dwell
in you, I want to be your
00:22:16.87\00:22:18.98
very best friend, so
that you can live a peaceful
00:22:19.01\00:22:22.55
and happy life.
Because he is the true wine
00:22:22.58\00:22:25.32
and we are the
branches of and he said
00:22:25.35\00:22:27.18
Jesus goes on in
verse chapter15 and verse 5
00:22:27.21\00:22:30.37
to say that, if we
are not abiding in him
00:22:30.42\00:22:33.15
apart from him we
can do nothing, nothing
00:22:33.18\00:22:36.20
that we do has eternal value,
00:22:36.23\00:22:39.11
it will last for
eternity, it has to be in him.
00:22:39.14\00:22:43.05
You know, you mentioned the wine
00:22:43.08\00:22:44.75
and here you think why
did God pick that example,
00:22:44.78\00:22:48.34
you know he is the
wine and we are the branches
00:22:48.37\00:22:51.83
it's organic, it's living,
it's real and it's living
00:22:51.86\00:22:56.42
and the energy, the
vitamins, the nutrients
00:22:56.45\00:23:00.00
everything has to flow
out from the source out
00:23:00.03\00:23:03.47
to the branches
and that's what how God
00:23:03.50\00:23:06.54
wants to do
with you and with me,
00:23:06.57\00:23:08.57
and you
mentioned abide here, yes,
00:23:08.60\00:23:10.66
you know in this
chapter alone it's eleven times,
00:23:10.69\00:23:14.09
a eleven times
John says, abide, abide,
00:23:14.12\00:23:18.44
dwell, live in,
dwell and remained in,
00:23:18.47\00:23:22.44
remain connected
closely too and I have,
00:23:22.47\00:23:25.87
so in we only have
about four minutes left.
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What do you do
to abide in Christ?
00:23:28.66\00:23:32.71
There is somebody
watching us right now Jim
00:23:32.74\00:23:36.54
who is saying I
want to abide Christ,
00:23:36.57\00:23:39.22
I have been going
to church for 30 years
00:23:39.25\00:23:41.33
may be during the same situation
00:23:41.36\00:23:44.25
you were in before.
How did you finally make
00:23:44.28\00:23:47.62
that surrender to
God and come into that
00:23:47.65\00:23:52.41
rest of abiding.
Well, that's the key,
00:23:52.44\00:23:56.37
how did I make the
surrender. I came to God
00:23:56.40\00:24:00.43
did all the things
and studied and prayed,
00:24:00.46\00:24:04.30
but then I backed
off of all those things
00:24:04.33\00:24:06.63
and I found itself
was rising up again.
00:24:06.66\00:24:09.86
Jim Ayer wanted to do
things in his own way.
00:24:09.89\00:24:13.79
I remember one time fellow said
00:24:13.82\00:24:16.11
I was driving down the road,
00:24:16.14\00:24:17.32
stopped for
hitchhiker said come on
00:24:17.35\00:24:19.16
get in the car.
Hitchhiker said no. Oh,
00:24:19.19\00:24:21.78
what do you mean
come on get into the car.
00:24:21.81\00:24:23.63
No, no I why not,
because I want to drive.
00:24:23.66\00:24:27.06
What do you
mean, you want to drive
00:24:27.09\00:24:28.97
and this is the
way it is with God.
00:24:29.00\00:24:31.11
You know we are
willing to take God
00:24:31.14\00:24:32.19
long as a hitchhiker.
We are willing to take God
00:24:32.22\00:24:34.83
out there to, you
come along in my life
00:24:34.86\00:24:37.51
to follow me as I
wanna do my things,
00:24:37.54\00:24:39.59
but God says no,
no I wanna drive.
00:24:39.62\00:24:42.42
I wanna take
control of your life.
00:24:42.45\00:24:45.14
I used to think
I had watched folks
00:24:46.21\00:24:48.84
who are new age and they say oh,
00:24:48.87\00:24:50.13
I just wake up in the
morning and I just kind
00:24:50.16\00:24:52.23
of go along with the universe.
00:24:52.26\00:24:54.87
And I thought that was
so crazy and it is the way
00:24:54.90\00:24:57.32
they lay it out. Yes.
But the way God says it.
00:24:57.35\00:25:00.70
You know my
sheep here, my voice,
00:25:00.73\00:25:03.11
I want to dwell in
you, I want to mold you,
00:25:03.14\00:25:05.87
make you, shape you in my image
00:25:05.90\00:25:07.54
whole different thing.
Except and he will never
00:25:07.57\00:25:09.78
take control. We always
have to yield the control.
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Choose you this day
whom you will serve.
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Whom you will serve, yeah. Amen.
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And I was down and
do we have enough time
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couple of
minutes maybe, yeah bit.
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I was down in the
Dominican republic
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and I was doing an
evangelistic series
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and the pastor one day said Jim
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would you do
this funeral for me,
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where you don't
have time, no he says
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he don't have
time. Is it well okay.
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So after he told me
this I started to ask him
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well was he a good
guy, no he wasn't everybody
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hated him. He
wasn't a Christian,
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no he wasn't a
Christian, hated Christians.
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I'm thinking now I
know why the pastor asked me
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to do the funeral and
I'm thinking what on earth
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am I going to do. I
was laboring over this.
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I went to the house.
I mean there was people
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everywhere they
were spread out around
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the sidewalks
because they love the family
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and I got there and
they rushed me right
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in between the
wall and the open casket
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and I'm thinking oh,
this is what am I gonna do,
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you know and I'm
going on with this
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and finally I
thought I'm just gonna preach
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about the
second coming of Jesus.
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I'm gonna preach about the Lord
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and his love and I did all that.
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I preached about
the second coming
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and I invited people
to come to my meetings
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and you know what that guy down
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there in the
casket had to say about it
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who hated
Christians. Nothing. Nothing
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because he was dead. Amen.
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Paul says I die daily, daily.
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Every moment of
everyday I have to come
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to the point say
I've got to surrender
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today to God. And
that's the only way
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I can really live
because God will change us
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and give us so much power to do
00:26:35.46\00:26:37.76
the right things to
walk. This is the way
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he says walk in it.
He will do that for us.
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You see that's the
secret is the secret
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of learning to
surrender is to understand
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that even in
surrender would depended upon
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his power. We have to go there
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and pray help me
Lord pick up my cross.
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Yes, it's all God.
Help me Lord. Exactly.
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Put exactly mistakes of my
flesh from the Holy Spirit.
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The only part we
have is understanding
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the correct use of our will.
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I can will to choose
God at this moment in time.
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Exactly, exactly.
You know I can't believe
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how fast this
third imminence went,
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but I just want to thank you Jim
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for being with us
today. Well thank you.
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Hope you will comeback
and I just kind a wanted
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to sum this up for
us at home. We do know
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that we are getting
close to the end of time
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and it is, it
doesn't matter what's coming
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at us. We can still have peace.
00:27:28.04\00:27:30.72
We can still have contentment.
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We can have confidence
in what our Lord offers us.
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Please if you
haven't received Christ
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as your savior today
don't be like King Agrippa
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when Paul was
telling him about him
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and King
Agrippa was just waiting
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for a more convenient season,
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the time is drawing
nine. It is soon I believe
00:27:50.46\00:27:55.82
that Jesus will
return, so we invite you
00:27:55.85\00:27:59.59
to invite him into
your heart and ask him
00:27:59.62\00:28:02.56
to help you heal
control. He has got a great plan
00:28:02.59\00:28:05.88
for your life. It
will be an exciting time
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with the Lord. Thank you.
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