Some people think that the
apostle Paul actually somehow
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did away with the law of God.
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I love the book of
Romans, by the way,
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and the book of Galatians.
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And in the book of Romans
chapter 3, after it gives that
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beautiful picture of
Christ as our substitute
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and the fact that
we're saved by grace,
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he then adds this, he
says, "Do we then make void
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the law through faith?"
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And then he says, "God forbid!"
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I love that old King
James version in that point.
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"God forbid!"
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"Certainly not!
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We establish the law."
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We establish the law.
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The grace of Jesus
establishes the law
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because He establishes
it in the human heart.
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And that's why I want to talk
about the old and new covenant.
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There's a lot of confusion
about the old and new covenant.
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And there doesn't need to be.
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But let me just give
you a little quick synopsis
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and ask which one
you'd rather have.
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The old covenant was
based on types and symbols.
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The old covenant, in
essence, pointed forward
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to the new
covenant that we would have
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when Jesus would come.
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I don't have time to get
into Galatians and Romans,
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but just to give you
a little quick synopsis.
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The old covenant had
an earthly Sanctuary.
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And it was temporary. It
wasn't meant to last forever.
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And then people sacrificed
animals, the blood of animals,
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for the forgiveness of sin.
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Now the blood of animals,
the New Testament is very clear,
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the apostle Paul says it could
never actually atone for sin.
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It only pointed
forward, forward, if you please,
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to the coming of Jesus who
was, as John the Baptist said,
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"Behold, the Lamb of God
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that takes away
the sin of the world."
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So that old covenant pointed
forward to the fulfillment.
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The blood of bulls and goats...
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People have always
been saved the same way.
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Some people think that
people in the Old Testament
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were saved by their works.
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And that's just foolishness.
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They're all saved by faith.
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When an Israelite sacrificed
a lamb, if he had true faith
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he knew that the
lamb is not saving him.
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It pointed forward to the
Lord Jesus, the coming Messiah,
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as Isaiah talked
about in Isaiah 53.
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That Messiah would save him.
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He would become
the suffering Lamb.
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Of course, as I mentioned
earlier, the Jewish leaders,
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they didn't want
a suffering Lamb.
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They wanted the Lion
of the tribe of Judah.
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But you have to
have the suffering Lamb,
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the sacrifice
of the Lamb of God,
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before Jesus can come as
King of kings and Lord of lords.
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So going back to
the old covenant,
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an earthly Sanctuary, it
had the blood of animals,
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it had seven
special feasts that could
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fall on any day of the week.
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They were called sabbaths.
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But they're not like
the seventh day Sabbath,
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the weekly Sabbath that's
constant in the Ten Commandments
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that was given to
Adam before the fall.
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These came after the fall
and are part of the solution
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to the sin problem.
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And they pointed
forward to a reality
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of Jesus in the
heavenly Sanctuary.
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And then the law of
God was written on stone.
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It was written on stone.
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Now the new covenant...
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That's kind of
a simple overview.
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The new covenant does this:
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the new covenant has
a heavenly Sanctuary.
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I should have said
also that the old covenant
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has earthly priests.
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But the new covenant
has a heavenly Sanctuary
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and it has a heavenly
High Priest, the Lord Jesus.
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Now that Sanctuary that's
in heaven was not made by man.
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The earthly Sanctuary
only pointed forward to it.
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And then, of course,
it doesn't have the blood
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of bulls and goats, it
has the blood of Christ.
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I ask people, what
would you rather have
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for your Salvation, what
would you rather depend on,
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the blood of bulls and
goats or would you rather
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depend on the blood of Christ?
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Well, obviously
the answer is clear.
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And then, of
course, the law of God.
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The law in the old
covenant was on stone.
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But in the New Testament,
and even in the Old Testament
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He predicted He would do
this, He writes the law of God
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on the human heart.
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But let me stop here.
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The law of God never changes.
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Because it's a
reflection of His character.
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The Lord says, "I am
the Lord, I change not."
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The New Testament says Jesus
Christ is the same yesterday,
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in the Old Testament, He's
the same today, and forever.
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He doesn't change.
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The principles, the law
of God, the Ten Commandments,
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they never change.
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It's just they're written in
a different place, so to speak.
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In the new covenant we
have the living Christ.
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And this living Christ, who
is the living Ten Commandments,
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the living Ten Commandments,
this living Christ actually
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comes into our hearts.
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That's why the
apostle Paul says,
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"It is Christ in
you, the hope of glory."
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That's why we can't keep
the law of God on our own.
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Never could.
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Never shall be able to.
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The only way we
can keep God's law
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is if the living Christ
is in us and controlling us.
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And when He controls us,
then we live out His life.
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He life is
lived out in our life,
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in our actions and interactions.
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There should be no war in
our heart over the law of God.
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The grace of God doesn't
do away with the law of God.
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It empowers the Christian
to have the requirements,
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as Paul said in
Romans chapter 7,
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the requirements of
the law in our hearts.
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So it empowers us,
it doesn't destroy,
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it doesn't destroy
the law of God in any way.
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That's been a false
thing that's been set up,
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and a false picture, and people
have shot at it, and so forth,
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that somehow
God's grace changes it.
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It never changes.
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In fact, the first
battle and the last battle
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in the great controversy
is over the law of God.
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It always has been.
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That's where the battle
has been all of these years.
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And it's a battle
between the laws of man
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and the laws of God,
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between the
religion of the Bible
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or the religion of
fables and tradition.
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I want to ask a question.
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Why do we see so
much crime today?
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It's just like
it's just everywhere,
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all over the world.
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Even in the
Protestant world, so to speak.
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Why do we see so much crime?
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And I think here's
the answer to that.
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Because religious
leaders have themselves
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tampered with the law of God.
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And so when religious
leaders stand up in the pulpit
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and they voice that
God's law doesn't matter,
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that it's been done away
with, now people reason that,
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"Well, if they can do
it, why can't we do it?"
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And so, people today are acting
out their own commandments,
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their own emotions.
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They make their
own commandments.
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They adjust the commandment.
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Well, if it says,
"Don't commit adultery,"
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"Well, that didn't
quite mean what it said."
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So everything becomes relevant.
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For our world today that we live
in, there's no absolute truth.
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But there is absolute truth.
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God's commandments don't change
because God doesn't change.
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And so, when religious
leaders teach that God's laws
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have been done away with,
they're teaching confusion.
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And confusion is
another word for Babylon.
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They're teaching what pleases
men, not what pleases God.
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Because what pleases God
is what is most important,
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according to the apostle Paul.
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And this is how the
church becomes Babylon.
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When it starts
changing God's law,
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when it thinks
it's more important
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than what God has said,
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when it tries to make the
commandments of God relative
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to everybody's
feelings and emotions,
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and what they think are
their needs, etcetera, etcetera.
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Instead of
conforming to the law of God
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we conform to our own wants.
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And this becomes confusion.
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That's why you're seeing
such craziness in the world.
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I mean, people can't even figure
out what genders they are.
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And I say that kindly.
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It's confusion.
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It's just confusion
everywhere you turn.
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So let me just go on here.
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And the Protestant churches
of the wilderness, of course,
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have embraced today
the Roman principles
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of putting church
and state together.
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Which is another way
of man being in charge,
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of doing what he wants to do,
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and taking God
out of the equation.
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I mentioned before how the
common good is going to be the
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great theme in the end of time.
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So I want to just go down to,
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here's a
Catholic Catechism quote.
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It says, "In
respecting religious liberty,"
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and here it is, it
uses this word again
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from this Catholic Catechism,
"In respecting religious liberty
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and the common good of all..."
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In other words, if they don't
think that religious liberty
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serves the common good of
all, then they are quite willing
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to change it, of course.
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Quite willing to change it.
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"In respecting religious liberty
and the common good of all,
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Christians should seek
recognition of Sundays..."
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In other words, not just
recognition, but legislation.
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"...and the
church's holy days as legal."
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There's that
word, legal holidays.
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So you can see
where they're headed.
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So if it's a law, then you
don't have religious liberty.
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If you believe the
seventh day is the Sabbath,
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but the law says
something different,
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then you're going to be
in trouble with the law.
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And this coalition, this Babylon
is going to seek to control,
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it's going to seek to
control the great military power
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of the United States.
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Its amazing miracles are
going to convince Christians
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and pagans that
God is with them.
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The religious
coalition will be the Babylon
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of the New Testament,
of the book of Revelation.
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And the result will be a
revival of Dark Age persecution.
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And it's heartbreaking.
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So American might and
prestige, under the control of
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this coalition, will
influence the rest of the world
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to follow suit
for the common good.
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So Babylon is pictured
here in a way as invincible.
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But she has a problem.
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She's not invincible.
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And the Bible
says that God Himself
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is going to bring her down.
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One of the most sad
things, maybe equal to that
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would be the
book of Lamentations,
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is the picture in Revelation
chapters 17, 18, and 19.
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It describes
the fall of Babylon.
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It's huge. It's worldwide.
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All the economics that
everybody hoped for, it's gone.
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All the worldly wealth
they wanted, it's gone.
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Everything that people had
desired, and they thought that
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these religious powers,
this religious coalition
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would bring them, all of
this peace and prosperity
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and economic power, it's gone.
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It's all gone.
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The opportunity
for this world is gone.
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In fact, the angel
says, "The marriage won't be
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heard in you anymore."
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The angel is pictured
as throwing a millstone
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in the ocean with
violence, and he says
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this is how Babylon is
going to be thrown down.
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And he talks
about how everything
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goes silent in Babylon.
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Why?
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Because it's overthrown.
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It's finished.
It has an epic fail.
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Don't put your hopes on Babylon.
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In the end of time there's
going to be trouble everywhere.
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But Babylon is not
going to be your hope.
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Your only hope is to put
your trust in the Lord Jesus.
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Let Him come into your heart.
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Let Him write His
law in your heart.
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And let Him write it in an
ink that will never be erased.
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Make up your mind
that Jesus and His Word,
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Jesus and His commandments,
this living Christ,
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is more important to you
than all the worldly prosperity
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that you can even
dream of or think of.
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And by the way, Jesus is coming.
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And when He comes, He's
going to bring a new heavens
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and a new earth.
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