So this genuine seal of God
that we've been talking about
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must be found then in
God's Ten Commandments.
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So let's talk a look at
that. Where is it found?
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So finding the seal in
God's Ten Commandments,
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we should be looking for
one of those commandments
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that talks about
Yahweh God, that's His name,
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His title is Yahweh Creator,
and the territory would be
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heaven, earth, and sea.
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Well there is one
of those commandments,
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and it's the fourth one that
contains all of those elements
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that tell you that the Ten
Commandments are authentic.
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Now the first one says don't
have any other gods before you.
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The other one says
this is the way you worship.
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And the third one says,
"Don't take My name in vain."
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But this one, this one
gives all of this together.
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So you know the text,
"Remember the Sabbath day
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to keep it holy."
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Then we have a
reference to creation.
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"Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord your God."
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Yahweh Elohim.
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"In it you shall do no
work; you, nor your son,
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your daughter, your male
servant, your female servant,
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or your cattle, or your
strangers in your gates."
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You're going to take
this day off, it's a rest.
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It's a recognition of the
creation, and God as Creator.
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"For in six days
the Lord made..."
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Yahweh Creator.
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"...the Lord created the heavens
and the earth, and the sea..."
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And that's His territory,
which is the universe.
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The universe.
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So the seal of God is found, no
less, in the fourth commandment
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of the Ten Commandments.
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That's where we find it.
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In the Old Testament, Yahweh
God claims to own the Sabbath.
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He claims
ownership of the Sabbath.
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Let's listen to
what He says there.
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And I'm just
really kind of reading it
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out of the fourth commandment.
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But at the end of the
fourth commandment it says,
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"...but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord your God."
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So He owns it.
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In the New Testament
our incomparable Jesus,
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our wonderful
Jesus, the genuine Jesus,
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the authentic Jesus,
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he claims
ownership of the Sabbath.
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Listen to this in Matthew 12:8.
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"For the Son of Man is
Lord even of the Sabbath day."
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You know, when He made that
claim, they wanted to kill Him.
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Do you know why
they wanted to kill Him?
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Because if you're the
Lord of the Sabbath day,
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if you claim that
you own the Sabbath day,
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you're the creator.
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And they understood that.
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And He is the
Creator. He is God.
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He was genuine. He
wasn't the counterfeit.
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So the Sabbath, the
seventh day of the week,
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is observed between Friday,
when Jesus died, Good Friday,
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and Sunday when He rose again.
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That's the genuine Sabbath.
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And it comes on our,
what we call Saturday.
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And it's really the seventh day.
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Actually, the Bible only
named one day of the week.
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It called the others by number.
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The first day, second
day, third day, fourth day...
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But the Sabbath
day, He named it.
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The seventh day of the week.
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So He claims to
have that authority,
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and He claims the
Sabbath as His own.
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Who claims ownership of
Sunday as the day of worship?
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Who claims ownership of that?
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Well, let's just listen.
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This is that book again,
Summary, very authoritative,
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Summary on The
Power of The Church,
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showing its power as
ecclesiastical authority
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and as civil authority.
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And this is what it says.
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It says, "Resolved:
the Sabbath day law..."
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So they recognize
that that's a law.
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It's the law of God.
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"The Sabbath day law,"
found in the Ten Commandments,
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of course, "has been changed..."
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By whom?
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It says, "...has been changed by
the Pope to the Lord's day..."
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So authoritatively they claim,
they make no bones about it,
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"We changed this.
We changed God's law."
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Let me ask a question.
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And I say this
with sweet kindness.
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Does anyone have the
right to change the law of God?
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If you change the law of God,
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aren't you making
yourself greater than God?
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I mean, aren't you putting
yourself in place of God?
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If you say you can
change His law that He made,
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aren't you inserting
yourself in place of God?
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Well, the Bible would not be
happy with anyone doing that.
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But let's go ahead and
look at some other claims
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of the papal power.
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This is again Cardinal
Gibbons, very famous cardinal,
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and he says, "Of
course the Catholic church
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claims the change was her act.
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And the act is a mark of
her ecclesiastical power."
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In other words, "We
have the power to do that."
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They claim to actually
have the religious power,
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the ecclesiastical
power, to change the law of God.
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Again I say with sweet
kindness, no you don't.
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You can think to do it,
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you can put
civil law behind you,
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you can try to
force this on people,
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as has been done, people have
paid with their lives for this,
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but you don't have the
power to change God's law.
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Ultimately, you lose.
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You may win for a while.
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You may look like you're
the victor, like Babylon.
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She sits and she says, you
know, "I'll never be a widow.
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I'm never going to
suffer any sorrow."
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But the next chapter tells
about her terrible destruction.
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You cannot fight against God.
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Not the papacy, not any
minister, not any church,
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not any government.
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Ultimately you may
think to change His law,
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but you will lose.
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You will have an
epic fail, epic failure.
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Dr. Hiscox, he's the
author of the Baptist manual.
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Let's talk about Protestants.
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Why haven't
Protestants changed this?
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Why do they still hang on to it?
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Well Dr. Hiscox tells
us what happened here.
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He says this, he says,
"What a pity that it," Sunday,
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"comes branded with
the mark of paganism..."
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He got it right.
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"...christened with
the name of the sun god,
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when adopted and sanctioned
by the papal apostasy..."
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And then he says this,
and it's heartbreaking,
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"...and bequeathed as a
sacred legacy to Protestantism."
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It was one of those things that
the Protestants did not change.
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Some tried, but
they just didn't do it.
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And they quit
growing in Scripture
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and understanding the
truth of the Scripture.
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Well people say, "Well you know,
does that mean that everybody
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that's keeping Sunday
has the mark of the beast?"
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No, not yet.
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This thing doesn't really
become the mark of the beast
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until it's enforced,
until this image to the beast
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that's going to be made, it is
not made yet, but when it's made
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and when it has life, in
other words when it's empowered,
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this image, this
unique thing that's coming
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that will include all
apostate Christianity,
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then it's going to
become the mark of the beast.
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Because they're going to
see in this an opportunity
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to do something really great.
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People are going
to think it's great.
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And they're not
going to understand people
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that don't go along with it.
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They're going to be very upset.
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The only way you'll
make it through this
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is if you have
something else the saints had;
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the faith of Jesus.
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In fact, the
words, "faith of Jesus,"
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the word, "of,"
really isn't there.
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Some translate it, "faith
in Jesus," "faith of Jesus."
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Either way is fine.
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But the truth is that it
actually says, "faith Jesus."
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Unless you have
this living Christ,
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this Jesus
living in you by faith,
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unless the Holy
Spirit is in you,
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you won't have
the power to do this.
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By the way, nobody keeps
any of God's commandments
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without the living Christ
who has paid for their sins,
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who has earned their salvation.
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This is the incomparable Jesus.
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He does everything for us.
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He not only pays for our sins,
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He not only
cancels out our debt,
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but He empowers us so
that we come in harmony
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with the law of God.
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And when we come in
harmony with the law of God,
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we may not be in harmony
with the world around us,
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this selfish world, but we come
in harmony with the universe.
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Because the universe is
in harmony with God's law,
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because God's law is
the guarantor of life.
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So this only becomes the
mark when it is enforced.
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But you know, I still
want to do the will of God
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in my personal life.
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The Bible says, "To
him who knows to do good
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and doeth it not,
to him it is sin."
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So if I know something is right,
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if I'm convicted by the Holy
Spirit in studying Scripture
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and testing it by Scripture,
then I should step out
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and do it and obey it.
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Because there's peace in that.
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I should have enough faith
in Jesus, faith in Scripture,
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to obey what it teaches me.
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Well, we are
certainly headed into
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some very interesting things.
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And sometimes people say to
me, "So are there things on the
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horizon that would make
something come of this?"
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Well, I can tell you I
believe there certainly is.
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First of all, the world is
in a great deal of trouble.
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It's got so many troubles,
it needs solutions to it.
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One of the big troubles that
we hear a lot about nowadays
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is a thing called
natural disasters.
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Now both the Bible and, I think,
other careful thoughtful authors
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who know the Bible
predict that in the end of time
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before Jesus comes
there's going to be
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terrible natural disasters.
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And we can already see
that, of course, on the horizon.
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One of the things
that people talk about
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today is climate change.
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Now I'm not here to
debate climate change
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one way or the other.
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But I'm here to tell you that
natural disasters are coming.
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And the pope's Academy of
Sciences and Social Sciences
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put out a paper,
and it was called,
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Climate Change
and the Common Good.
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Now that, "common good,"
gets used over and over again.
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"What we need to do," they
say, "is for the common good
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so that everybody can live."
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Now this is what
they go on to say,
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"A Statement of the problem,"
talking about climate change,
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and the demand for a solution."
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Here is why it
gets very interesting.
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"Climate change is
a global problem..."
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Global. Did you catch that?
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"...whose solution
depends on coming together
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for the common good."
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A global solution
to climate change.
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How does that happen?
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And it says, "As early as 2100,"
that's not that long from now,
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there will be irreversible and
catastrophic climate impacts,
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raising the question..."
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Talking about fear.
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"...raising the question whether
civilization as we know it
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can be extended
beyond this century."
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So we're going to see
catastrophic natural disasters.
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People are going to see Sunday,
taking that one day a week off,
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as a quick fix
for climate change.
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By the way, they
think it would fix it.
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Everybody just take
that day off would fix it,
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solve the economic
crisis, solve the family crisis
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where people can get
together with family,
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relieve the burdens of
the poor that are working
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seven days a week, and help fix
what the government can't fix
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with its secular tools.
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Climate change is an
opportunity for the papacy,
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with Protestants, and atheists,
and secularists support.
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That's why if the
world is going to...
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If they think the
world is going to end,
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they're going to
see this as some kind of
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marvelous solution
that's so easy to do.
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We're going to see
some strange things,
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and we're going to see
global power being gained.
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The word, "cross," in the
Greek language adds up to 777.
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777 is the number of
faith, trust, in the Lord Jesus.
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And it's in contrast to 666
that doesn't trust the Lord.
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Everybody is going to
be faced with a question.
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You can't escape.
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No one is going to escape.
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The real issue is, are
we going to trust this Book?
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Are we going to
trust our wonderful Savior?
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Are we going to
trust the Ten Commandments?
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Are we going to trust
this God who loves us?
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Are we going to trust this
incredible, marvelous Jesus?
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