A time for
every tribe and nation
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All of Your creation.
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For all of Your creation
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To come and honor You.
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To come and honor You
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You are my creator
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Lord over Heaven and Earth
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You are my sustainer
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My soul You
redeemed from the curse
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And as I delight in You
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You cause me to ride on
the high places of the earth
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My King, my God
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This is Your day
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My King.
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My King, my God
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This is Your day
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Amen.
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It's Your day
Father, and today we say
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blessed be Your name
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in the good times
and in the bad times.
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Blessed be Your name.
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Blessed be Your name
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In the land that is plentiful
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Where Your
streams of abundance flow
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed Be Your name
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When I'm found
in the desert place
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Though I walk
through the wilderness
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Blessed Be Your name
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Every blessing.
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Every blessing You pour out
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I'll turn back to praise
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When the
darkness closes in, Lord
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Still I will say
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be.
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your glorious name
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Blessed be Your name
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When the sun's
shining down on me
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When the world's
all as it should be
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be Your name
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On the road
marked with suffering
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Though there's
pain in the offering
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Blessed be Your name
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Every voice, every blessing.
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Every blessing You pour out
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I'll turn back to praise
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When the
darkness closes in, Lord
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Still I will say
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your glorious name
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You give and take away
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You give and take away
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My heart will choose to say
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Lord, blessed be Your name
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You give and take away
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You give and take away
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My heart will choose to say
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Lord, blessed be Your name
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your glorious name
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your glorious name
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Hallelujah. Blessed
be Your name, Jesus.
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He's been so good toward us.
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We're gonna sing
that song Amazing Love.
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How can it be that the King,
He would die for you and me.
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I want to invite you to
stand and sing the song.
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Contemplate the sacrifice
of our Lord for your sins,
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for my sins and "Amazing Love."
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I'm forgiven.
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I'm forgiven
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Because You were forsaken
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I'm accepted
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You were condemned
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I'm alive and well
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Your Spirit is within me
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Because You died and rose again
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Let sing that chorus.
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Amazing love
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How can it be
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That You, my King
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Would die for me
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Amazing love
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I know it's true
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It's my joy to honor You
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In all I do
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I honor You
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I'm forgiven.
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I'm forgiven
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because You were forsaken
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Just think about it.
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I'm accepted
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You were condemned
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I'm alive and well
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Your spirit is within me
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Because You died and rose again
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Just pray our
church, amazing love.
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Amazing love
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How can it be
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That You, my King
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Would die for me
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Amazing love
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I know it's true
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And it's my joy to honor You
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In all I do
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I honor You
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You are my King.
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You are my King
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Jesus
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You are my King
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You are my King
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Jesus
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You are my King
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Amazing love
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Amazing love
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How can it be
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That You, my King
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Would die for me
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Amazing love
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I know it's true
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It's my joy to honor You
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In all I do
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I honor You
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In all I do
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I honor You
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I love you, Lord
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Let's sing together.
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And I lift my voice
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To worship You
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Oh, my soul
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Rejoice
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Take joy, my King
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In what You hear
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May it be a sweet
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Sweet sound
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In Your ear
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Let's sing that one
more time, I love you, Lord.
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I love you, Lord
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And I lift my voice
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To worship You
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Oh, my soul
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Rejoice
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Take joy, my King
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In what You hear
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May it be a sweet
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Sweet sound
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In Your ear
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Lord, we thank
You for this moment.
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And even in silence God,
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we thank You for Your presence.
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Continue to be with
us, in Jesus name, amen.
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I, the Lord of sea and sky
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I have heard my people cry
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All who dwell in dark and sin
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My hand will save
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I who made the stars and night
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I will make the darkness bright
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Who will bear my light to them?
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Whom shall I send?
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Here I am Lord
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Is it I Lord?
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I have heard
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You calling in the night
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I will go Lord
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If You lead me
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I will hold
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Your people in my heart
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I, the Lord of snow and rain
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I have born my peoples pain
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I have wept for love of them
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They turn away
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I will break
their hearts of stone
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Give them hearts for love alone
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I will speak My word to them
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Whom shall I send?
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Here I am Lord
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Is it I Lord?
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I have heard
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You calling in the night
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I will go Lord
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If You lead me
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I will hold
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Your people in my heart
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I, the Lord of wind and flame
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I will tend the poor and lame
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I will set a feast for them
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My hand will save
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Finest bread I will provide
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Till their hearts be satisfied
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I will give My life to them
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Whom shall I send?
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Here I am Lord
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Is it I Lord?
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I have heard
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You calling in the night
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I will go Lord
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If You lead me
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I will hold
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Your people in my heart
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Here I am
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Here I am
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Here I am, Lord
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Father, we want to
respond with the children.
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Here we are, here I
am, here each of us is.
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In the night
we've heard Your voice,
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that noon day we hear.
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What we are simply
asking now holy Father,
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is that as You speak to
us through Holy Spirit that
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we would hear
clearly what You had to say.
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We need You to engage our minds,
00:16:20.80\00:16:22.44
that we need You to
address our hearts as well,
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because we've got to heed
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what You will
teach us in Your word.
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So here we are, have
Your way, in Jesus name, amen.
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Its probably will not
come as a surprise to you
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but when I was a kid growing up
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about the age of
these boys up here
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my mouth used to get me
in trouble with my mother.
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My mother
adopted a form of torture
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that is not even
exercise today in Guantanamo Bay
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as a response and that is
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she would wash my
mouth out with soap.
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If you have never
had your mouth washed out
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with soap see me afterwards.
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My mother is watching this,
this is a satellite network,
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we are on three
satellite networks
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and my mother in
Banning, California
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is watching this right now.
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I'm telling you this story
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because I hope she won't
want to wash my mouth out
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after we begin this sermon.
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I'm gonna use a word
right now that is not used
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in polite
conversation or gentle company.
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It's a very strong
word and we find it
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in a sentence
making a very strong point.
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The sentence
belongs to E.W. Maunder
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and then he
refers to what he calls
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the Bastard
Science, that was the word.
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Going to the
dictionary bastard describes
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and according now
"any irregular, inferior,
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illegitimate or
counterfeit thing."
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So bastard science
would be an illegitimate
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or counterfeit, a fake science.
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And what would that be?
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Well, E.W. Maunder,
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I quote the
sentence here, he is writing
00:18:16.62\00:18:18.70
"The bastard science
which has always tried
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parasite like to suck
its life from astronomy."
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Now everybody
knows what astronomy is.
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Astronomy is the
study of the astro's,
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that's a Greek word for stars.
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Some of you are taking astronomy
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right now in this university
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but I predict there
is nobody here today
00:18:36.46\00:18:38.27
enrolled in astrology.
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You know why?
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Because it's a
fake, illegitimate science
00:18:41.50\00:18:44.58
that a science psychic
prophetic powers to the moon
00:18:44.61\00:18:48.37
and of the
planets and the stars.
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So imagine my
surprise to discover that
00:18:51.21\00:18:54.05
that this bastard science
of astrology lies at the heart
00:18:54.08\00:18:57.68
of much of the confusion
today over the Sabbath.
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Do you know that
there are some people
00:19:05.11\00:19:06.14
who believe that
you can find astrology
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in the creation
account in Genesis 1?
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I'm gonna show this to
you, take a look at this.
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We got to do some
multitasking right now.
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So open your Bible
to Genesis 1, page 1
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if you use the pew Bible
and I hope you'll follow along
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if you didn't
bring your own Bible.
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But we are gonna multitask.
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While you find in that
take out your study guide,
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brand new study guide in
your worship bulletin today,
00:19:26.08\00:19:28.42
take it out
because I want to get
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both of these parallel
tracks going right away
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and your generation is
brilliant at multitasking
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so you are not having
any problem with this.
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In fact, here's the
third task, hold your hand up
00:19:37.02\00:19:38.95
if you don't have a study guide.
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Thank you ushers,
right now I see hands
00:19:40.41\00:19:42.57
right through to the back I
see hands up in the balcony,
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maybe in the
overflow chapel as well,
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make sure that everybody
today gets a study guide.
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And those of you, who
are joining us on television
00:19:49.88\00:19:51.87
we are honored to have you.
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This will be a
fascinating study.
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You're gonna want to
have this study guide.
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We put our website
on the screen for you,
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www.pmchurch.tv.
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You are looking for the
series called, "The Sabbath."
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This is part
three of the Sabbath.
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Title of this teaching
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"The Legacy of
the Bastard Science."
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When it says
study guide right there,
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you click it,
you have what we have
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and then we can all go together.
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If you are
listening on a podcast
00:20:21.08\00:20:22.77
or watching on a DVD all
you have to do is hit pause
00:20:22.80\00:20:25.22
and go to your
computer do the same thing
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you will be able
to follow with us.
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All right, let's just,
let's just plunge into this.
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I want to make sure we get
this E.W. Maunder sentence down,
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so would you write it please?
00:20:34.47\00:20:35.67
"Astrology is
the 'bastard science
00:20:35.70\00:20:38.99
which has always
tried parasite like
00:20:39.02\00:20:42.04
to suck its life
from astronomy.'"
00:20:42.07\00:20:44.66
All right, Maunder's words.
00:20:44.69\00:20:47.07
Keep writing,
Astrology lies at the heart
00:20:47.10\00:20:49.42
of the confusion
today over the Sabbath.
00:20:49.45\00:20:52.85
So here's the
question, can you find astrology
00:20:52.88\00:20:55.07
in the creation
account, in Genesis 1?
00:20:55.10\00:20:57.08
Open your Bible to Genesis
1, you've already got there
00:20:57.11\00:20:59.52
and I'm sitting up here talking.
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I haven't found it yet.
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Genesis 1, page 1
in your pew Bible.
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Same translation
and I'll be reading
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from here the New
King James Version.
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Let's go to the fourth
day of creation, all right,
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fourth day of
creation, drop down to verse 14.
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Genesis 1:14, "Then God
said," day four creation,
00:21:13.03\00:21:17.58
"'Let there be lights in
the firmament of the heavens
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to divide the day from the night
00:21:20.60\00:21:22.28
and let them be
for signs and seasons,
00:21:22.31\00:21:24.30
and for days and years,
00:21:24.33\00:21:25.89
and let them be for lights
in the firmament of the heavens
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to give light on the
earth,' and" boom "it was so."
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Verse 16, "Then God
made two great lights,
00:21:31.70\00:21:34.99
the greater
light to rule the day,
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and the lesser
light to rule the night.
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He made also
the stars." Verse 17
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"God set them in the firmament
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of the heavens to
give light on the earth,
00:21:41.51\00:21:43.55
and to rule over the
day and over the night,
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and to divide the
light from the darkness.
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And God saw that it was good."
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Finally verse 19 "So the evening
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and the morning
were the fourth day."
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Now astrologers
have tried to justify
00:21:54.94\00:21:56.73
their divination of
the celestial bodies
00:21:56.76\00:21:59.99
by the phrase there in verse 14,
00:22:00.02\00:22:01.76
these shall be
for signs and seasons,
00:22:01.79\00:22:03.92
they say that's
astrological science.
00:22:03.95\00:22:06.71
Are you serious?
00:22:06.74\00:22:08.79
Let me disabuse you about notion
00:22:08.82\00:22:10.97
by showing that
quite to the contrary
00:22:11.00\00:22:12.95
what we've just read is a
polemic against astrology.
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Watch this,
Moses who is writing,
00:22:18.37\00:22:21.48
please note, in
fact jot this down.
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"God carefully avoids
naming" did you catch this?
00:22:23.83\00:22:26.27
"God carefully avoids naming
00:22:26.30\00:22:27.74
the two most prominent
celestial bodies to earth,
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that will be the
sun and the moon."
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Is it word sun bad word?
00:22:31.67\00:22:34.18
You get your mouth washed out?
00:22:34.21\00:22:35.34
No, the moon isn't either.
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All the way, you'll find them
all the way through the Bible
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but here in the
initial, in the beginning
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Moses refers to them
00:22:42.41\00:22:43.64
as the greater
light that rules the day
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and the lesser light
that rules the night.
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No, sun, no moon, why?
00:22:48.20\00:22:50.06
Because Moses has
been schooled in Egypt
00:22:50.09\00:22:52.37
and Moses knows that in Egypt
they worship the sun god "Ra"
00:22:52.40\00:22:56.48
and Pharaoh is the
sun of the sun god.
00:22:56.51\00:23:00.11
Pharaoh is the sun
of-- the incarnate sun
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of the sun god, you see.
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Moses says, no way,
00:23:04.17\00:23:05.25
clearly we have an
over attempt to make certain
00:23:05.28\00:23:08.68
that you cannot
leave the defecation
00:23:08.71\00:23:10.61
of celestial bodies
into Holy Scripture.
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Certainly not into
the creation account.
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So they are simply called
the greater light for the day,
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the lesser light for the night.
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By the way, if you are
not clear there please not,
00:23:21.70\00:23:25.59
God does not
tolerate the defecation
00:23:25.62\00:23:27.30
of celestial bodies
and you get that sense
00:23:27.33\00:23:29.55
because of the
very strong language
00:23:29.58\00:23:31.93
He uses in Holy Scripture.
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I'm gonna have you look this up.
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Go to the Book of
Isaiah, you are in Isaiah,
00:23:34.90\00:23:37.78
you need a page
number here that's page 416.
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I'm sorry that's
page 492, 492, Isaiah 47.
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Isaiah 47,
00:23:47.82\00:23:49.79
Isaiah 47, this is fascinating.
00:23:52.19\00:23:54.25
Now this is God
speaking in Isaiah 47
00:23:54.28\00:23:56.62
and He is
speaking as you'll notice,
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we'll start in verse 1,
that's not where I want to go.
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Go quickly to the
end of the chapter
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but just get the
feel for it in verse 1.
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Isaiah 47:1 God is speaking,
00:24:02.43\00:24:04.61
"Come down and sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon,"
00:24:04.64\00:24:10.31
So let's be clear God's--
00:24:10.34\00:24:11.62
this is a
judgment against Babylon.
00:24:11.65\00:24:13.83
Virgin daughter
Babylon you sit in the dust.
00:24:13.86\00:24:16.27
"Sit on the
ground without a throne,
00:24:16.30\00:24:17.59
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
00:24:17.62\00:24:19.07
For you shall no more be
called tender and delicate."
00:24:19.10\00:24:21.50
God is saying, hey
listen Babylon, listen to me.
00:24:21.53\00:24:23.00
Read my lips. You
are under judgment now.
00:24:23.03\00:24:25.51
By the way because Isaiah 47
00:24:25.54\00:24:28.57
is a judgment against
Babylon you come to Babylon
00:24:28.60\00:24:31.07
in the apocalypse
Revelation Chapter 18
00:24:31.10\00:24:33.37
and it heavily borrows
the language of Isaiah 47.
00:24:33.40\00:24:37.42
There is another
Babylon at the end of time
00:24:37.45\00:24:39.84
but this is the
ancient Babylon that
00:24:39.87\00:24:41.62
God is speaking
to through Isaiah.
00:24:41.65\00:24:43.03
Go down to the
end, go down to verse 12
00:24:43.06\00:24:44.75
near the end of the chapter,
God still speaking to Babylon.
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"Stand now with
your enchantments
00:24:47.13\00:24:50.27
and the multitude
of your sorceries,"
00:24:50.30\00:24:52.06
see the Babylon has always been
00:24:52.09\00:24:53.17
the seat of the
occult, sorceries.
00:24:53.20\00:24:57.95
And the
multitude of your sorceries
00:24:57.98\00:24:59.30
in which you have
labored from your youth,
00:24:59.33\00:25:02.04
Perhaps you will
be able to profit,
00:25:02.07\00:25:03.34
Perhaps you will prevail."
00:25:03.37\00:25:04.90
Maybe your,
maybe your witchcraft
00:25:04.93\00:25:07.40
will get you out of this by now.
00:25:07.43\00:25:09.61
In fact, God says I
have another suggestion
00:25:09.64\00:25:10.92
for you, verse 13.
00:25:10.95\00:25:12.11
"You are wearied
00:25:12.14\00:25:13.26
in the multitude
of your counsels,"
00:25:13.29\00:25:14.65
you've been going
everywhere for counsel.
00:25:14.68\00:25:16.43
"Let now the
astrologers, the stargazers,
00:25:16.46\00:25:19.76
and the monthly prognosticators"
00:25:19.79\00:25:22.14
those who study
which house is the moon
00:25:22.17\00:25:23.75
and which house is the moon in.
00:25:23.78\00:25:25.66
"The monthly prognosticators"
00:25:25.69\00:25:27.24
let them "stand up and save you
00:25:27.27\00:25:28.68
from what shall come upon you.
00:25:28.71\00:25:29.74
Behold, they "your astrologers
shall be as stubble,"
00:25:29.77\00:25:32.19
and the fire shall burn them."
00:25:32.22\00:25:34.62
There is no question
ladies and gentlemen,
00:25:34.65\00:25:36.17
jot this down, unequivocally
it is strong language here
00:25:36.20\00:25:40.20
by which God
condemns astrolatry.
00:25:40.23\00:25:44.23
That is the human
worship of celestial bodies.
00:25:44.26\00:25:47.50
God says, nope,
nope, cannot do it.
00:25:47.53\00:25:52.04
About truth be known,
there has been somebody
00:25:52.07\00:25:53.92
from the very
beginning of earth time
00:25:53.95\00:25:55.64
whose been drawn like a
moth, like a moth to the flame.
00:25:55.67\00:25:58.85
Ever seen a moth go to a flame?
00:25:58.88\00:26:00.13
Its not smart enough, stay away.
00:26:00.16\00:26:01.61
Like a moth to the
flame from the beginning
00:26:01.64\00:26:03.17
he has been drawn
to the sun, to the sun.
00:26:03.20\00:26:07.15
He is big on the sun.
00:26:07.18\00:26:09.31
There are some
mysterious attraction for him
00:26:09.34\00:26:12.12
Go to chapter 14 here in Isaiah,
00:26:12.15\00:26:14.70
since we are there Isaiah 14.
00:26:14.73\00:26:16.46
Who is this somebody
00:26:16.49\00:26:18.19
who from the beginning
has been drawn to the sun?
00:26:18.22\00:26:20.13
Isaiah 14, this
will be page 469.
00:26:20.16\00:26:23.07
Isaiah 14:12, God is
speaking to this being.
00:26:27.68\00:26:32.07
Now, who is this being?
00:26:32.10\00:26:33.13
"How are you fallen from heaven,
00:26:33.16\00:26:35.00
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
00:26:35.03\00:26:39.71
How you are cut
down to the ground,
00:26:39.74\00:26:40.92
You who weakened the nations!"
00:26:40.95\00:26:42.02
Verse 13 "For you
have said in your heart,
00:26:42.05\00:26:43.88
'I will ascend into heaven,'"
00:26:43.91\00:26:45.48
Notice he asked the
logical language here,
00:26:45.51\00:26:47.18
I will ascend to heaven.
00:26:47.21\00:26:48.56
"I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God,
00:26:48.59\00:26:51.77
I will also sit on the
mount of the congregation
00:26:51.80\00:26:54.00
on the farthest
sides of the north,"
00:26:54.03\00:26:55.20
verse 14 "I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds,"
00:26:55.23\00:26:58.16
I'm going up there.
00:26:58.19\00:26:59.92
"I will be like the Most High."
00:26:59.95\00:27:04.36
Somebody has a fascination
00:27:04.39\00:27:07.34
with the sun like
a moth to the flame.
00:27:07.37\00:27:10.17
Hey, by the way,
did you know this?
00:27:10.20\00:27:11.80
Lucifer is not in the Bible,
00:27:11.83\00:27:13.09
you can't find
that name anywhere.
00:27:13.12\00:27:14.19
It's not a Hebrew
name, that's no name.
00:27:14.22\00:27:16.56
That's from the Latin Vulgate.
00:27:16.59\00:27:18.64
The actual
Hebrew reads right here
00:27:18.67\00:27:20.46
"How are you fallen
from heaven, O Lucifer."
00:27:20.49\00:27:21.90
The Hebrew
reads, "O shining one,"
00:27:21.93\00:27:24.65
which would be
helel "son of the dawn!"
00:27:24.68\00:27:26.96
Ben HaShachar.
There is no Lucifer.
00:27:26.99\00:27:30.28
Lucifer is Latin and
it means light bearer,
00:27:30.31\00:27:32.40
kind of close but that
little Latinized mistake
00:27:32.43\00:27:36.78
is how we got the name Lucifer.
00:27:36.81\00:27:40.35
The New American
Standard Bible, jot this down,
00:27:40.38\00:27:42.74
it translate the--
translates that line,
00:27:42.77\00:27:44.86
"O Lucifer, son of
the morning" this way.
00:27:44.89\00:27:46.56
"O star of the morning"
00:27:46.59\00:27:48.36
that's what the
Hebrew helel means.
00:27:48.39\00:27:50.01
"O star of the
morning, son of the dawn."
00:27:50.04\00:27:54.12
But isn't it amazing
ladies and gentlemen,
00:27:54.15\00:27:55.82
those are the titles,
that is really the title
00:27:55.85\00:27:58.04
for Christ in the New Testament.
00:27:58.07\00:28:00.08
That belongs to Jesus.
00:28:00.11\00:28:01.20
Watch this, 2
Peter 1:19 jot it down.
00:28:01.23\00:28:04.93
"Until the day dawns
00:28:04.96\00:28:06.14
and the morning star
rises in your heart."
00:28:06.17\00:28:09.96
Now how can a star?
00:28:09.99\00:28:11.04
What is there in my
heart that would rise?
00:28:11.07\00:28:13.10
Oh, look at this,
Revelation Chapter 22,
00:28:13.13\00:28:15.26
let's put it on the
screen please, verse 16.
00:28:15.29\00:28:17.17
"I Jesus, am the
bright Morning Star."
00:28:17.20\00:28:22.19
Isn't it amazing?
00:28:22.22\00:28:23.83
By the way I got to just
hit the pause button here.
00:28:23.86\00:28:26.39
Isn't that beautiful news
00:28:26.42\00:28:27.77
about Christ
being the morning star?
00:28:27.80\00:28:29.74
There are times when
it seems in your life
00:28:29.77\00:28:31.54
that you are
stuck in night forever.
00:28:31.57\00:28:34.40
Jesus says, that's okay.
00:28:34.43\00:28:36.15
Even in the
darkest night I appear.
00:28:36.18\00:28:38.90
Do you know that
Venus the morning star
00:28:38.93\00:28:40.43
is seven times brighter
than the brightest fix star
00:28:40.46\00:28:43.85
in our heavens and
that would be serious?
00:28:43.88\00:28:45.76
Venus is seven times
brighter and Jesus says
00:28:45.79\00:28:49.59
I'll be that bright
light in your dark night
00:28:49.62\00:28:52.54
and I'll care you all the
way to the morning one day.
00:28:52.57\00:28:58.39
Don't you give up
the night is not forever,
00:28:58.42\00:29:01.65
I'm the morning star.
00:29:01.68\00:29:02.72
Oh, that's beautiful.
00:29:02.75\00:29:04.24
But isn't it something
00:29:04.27\00:29:05.32
how Lucifer is
called the morning star
00:29:05.35\00:29:08.28
leading some
scholars to conclude and it--
00:29:08.31\00:29:11.48
you and I would
certainly concur.
00:29:11.51\00:29:13.59
Write this down, this Lucifer,
00:29:13.62\00:29:14.97
whoever he is and you
and I already know who he is.
00:29:15.00\00:29:18.01
This "Lucifer is
clearly portrayed
00:29:18.04\00:29:19.61
as a being who once
occupied a high and exalted
00:29:19.64\00:29:23.27
state in heaven
next to Christ himself."
00:29:23.30\00:29:28.55
Whoever he is
he is way up there.
00:29:28.58\00:29:32.19
Its no wonder he was susceptible
00:29:32.22\00:29:34.56
to the delusion of
pride, I, oh, I could be God.
00:29:34.59\00:29:38.71
I, I, I, and you know
what, every time Dwight
00:29:38.74\00:29:42.73
get stuck on that
same solitary vow.
00:29:42.76\00:29:45.67
Other way the letter "I"
00:29:45.70\00:29:46.77
is the middle
letter to Lucifer's name.
00:29:46.80\00:29:51.27
I quickly check my name
to make it wasn't the middle.
00:29:51.30\00:29:54.81
It's not
because only six letters
00:29:54.84\00:29:56.13
in my name so thank you.
00:29:56.16\00:29:57.29
Those of you are named Tim
it's the middle of your name
00:29:57.32\00:30:01.52
or if have a name Anita
00:30:01.55\00:30:02.62
it would be the
middle of your name too.
00:30:02.65\00:30:04.73
Anyway, every time I get stuck,
00:30:04.76\00:30:05.93
because it
doesn't matter my name,
00:30:05.96\00:30:07.16
every time I get
stuck on that solitary vowel
00:30:07.19\00:30:10.83
that first person proving
on I'm just like Lucifer.
00:30:10.86\00:30:13.88
I'm tempted to deify myself
00:30:13.91\00:30:16.07
and assert myself
just like Lucifer.
00:30:16.10\00:30:20.23
Robert Odom, in this amazing bit
00:30:20.26\00:30:22.82
of research he did
in his book entitled
00:30:22.85\00:30:24.82
"Sunday in Roman Paganism."
00:30:24.85\00:30:27.52
This is fascinating.
00:30:27.55\00:30:28.58
He suggest that star of
the morning that Lucifer is,
00:30:28.61\00:30:31.03
star of the morning
actually can also referred
00:30:31.06\00:30:33.21
to the greater
light that rules the day.
00:30:33.24\00:30:34.67
Because what's the
star we have all day long?
00:30:34.70\00:30:36.71
The star that we
have is the sun, isn't it?
00:30:36.74\00:30:38.83
Now jot this down,
this is in your study guide.
00:30:38.86\00:30:41.06
Odom writing, "It is
not to be wondered at
00:30:41.09\00:30:43.32
that Satan should
choose the shining solar orb
00:30:43.35\00:30:46.40
the most
glorious object in the sky
00:30:46.43\00:30:48.97
to be the supreme
symbol of paganism."
00:30:49.00\00:30:54.22
Come on, what is
paganism? What is paganism?
00:30:54.25\00:30:56.66
If not at its
heart it's Satanism.
00:30:56.69\00:30:59.15
And is not Satanism
00:30:59.18\00:31:00.27
at the heart of all sun worship?
00:31:00.30\00:31:02.13
But of course which
explains why sun worship
00:31:02.16\00:31:06.53
this really-- when you sit down
00:31:06.56\00:31:08.76
and begin to just kind of brood
over this, this is striking.
00:31:08.79\00:31:12.42
Sun worship is riddled
all through sacred history.
00:31:12.45\00:31:17.85
Now, I know why somebody
thinks of himself as the sun.
00:31:17.88\00:31:25.47
Job, I just read Job--
Job read through in January
00:31:25.50\00:31:30.61
and I never
even caught this text
00:31:30.64\00:31:32.37
that Robert Odom
point is out to me.
00:31:32.40\00:31:33.53
Let me put this verse
on the screen for you.
00:31:33.56\00:31:34.83
This is Job what's the what's
the chapter, 31, Job 31:26.
00:31:34.86\00:31:39.36
Job is saying look at
00:31:39.39\00:31:40.83
"If I have observed
the sun when it shines,
00:31:40.86\00:31:43.37
or the moon
moving in brightness."
00:31:43.40\00:31:45.14
Look at if I've shown attention
to the celestial bodies.
00:31:45.17\00:31:47.27
"So that my heart has
been secretly enticed,
00:31:47.30\00:31:49.55
and my mouth
has kissed my hand,"
00:31:49.58\00:31:51.30
I explain that in a moment.
00:31:51.33\00:31:52.50
"This also would be in
iniquity deserving of judgment,
00:31:52.53\00:31:54.92
for I would have
denied God who is above."
00:31:54.95\00:31:57.59
This is fascinating.
00:31:57.62\00:31:58.65
Do you know that the
pagans who worship the sun,
00:31:58.68\00:32:01.06
every time the sun came up
00:32:01.09\00:32:02.23
they went like
this, they blew a kiss.
00:32:02.26\00:32:07.06
Job said have I kissed
my hand toward the sun?
00:32:07.09\00:32:11.14
They blew kisses to the
sun. Isn't that amazing?
00:32:11.17\00:32:14.78
Who do you suppose has
been behind sun worship
00:32:14.81\00:32:16.95
from the very
beginning if not Lucifer?
00:32:16.98\00:32:19.35
Star of the
morning, son of the dawn.
00:32:19.38\00:32:23.11
Job is one of the
oldest stories in Scripture.
00:32:23.14\00:32:25.95
The Exodus happens after Job.
00:32:25.98\00:32:27.79
I love the Exodus story.
00:32:27.82\00:32:29.08
You know, you may
not have ever known
00:32:29.11\00:32:30.17
this about those ten plagues.
00:32:30.20\00:32:31.43
Sometimes we get to
read get really mad at God.
00:32:31.46\00:32:34.22
I mean what kind of God
are you to use ten plagues
00:32:34.25\00:32:36.29
and bang-up the
people like that?
00:32:36.32\00:32:37.97
Listen to me
carefully, those ten plagues
00:32:38.00\00:32:40.72
by through which
God liberates Israel,
00:32:40.75\00:32:42.95
those ten plagues are
not against Egyptians.
00:32:42.98\00:32:45.48
In fact, and in every plague
00:32:45.51\00:32:46.87
that threatens human
life God gives a word.
00:32:46.90\00:32:49.65
Hey, you can get out
this will not happen to you.
00:32:49.68\00:32:51.60
Follow these directions.
00:32:51.63\00:32:53.23
They're not-- they're not
directed against Egyptians.
00:32:53.26\00:32:55.36
Guess what?
00:32:55.39\00:32:56.42
They are
directed straight against
00:32:56.45\00:32:57.50
the Pantheon of
Egypt's top god's
00:32:57.53\00:33:00.74
and the last two plagues
are going for one main God.
00:33:00.77\00:33:06.38
Watch this here's
plague number nine,
00:33:06.41\00:33:07.52
we'll put it on the screen.
00:33:07.55\00:33:08.63
This will be Exodus 10: 21.
00:33:08.66\00:33:10.78
"Then the Lord said to Moses,
00:33:10.81\00:33:12.29
'Stretch out your
hand toward heaven,
00:33:12.32\00:33:14.22
that there may be'" what?
00:33:14.25\00:33:16.41
"'There may be
darkness over the land of Egypt,
00:33:16.44\00:33:18.59
darkness which
may even be felt.'"
00:33:18.62\00:33:21.02
All right,
Pharaoh, son of the sun God.
00:33:21.05\00:33:23.63
Pharaoh, you want light
ask your God, asking him again.
00:33:23.66\00:33:28.53
What's the matter with your god?
00:33:28.56\00:33:29.59
Ask him again.
00:33:29.62\00:33:31.15
God strikes raw.
Isn't that amazing?
00:33:31.18\00:33:34.55
And by the way, the plagues
increase in their intensity,
00:33:34.58\00:33:37.58
the final plague is number ten.
00:33:37.61\00:33:40.62
Do you know what
number ten is against?
00:33:40.65\00:33:42.93
The firstborn,
your firstborn, Pharaoh.
00:33:42.96\00:33:45.96
The only way you will
survive, your boy will survive
00:33:45.99\00:33:49.09
is if you put blood
over her palace door.
00:33:49.12\00:33:51.88
If you don't and he didn't
00:33:51.91\00:33:53.86
you will lose the son
of the son of the sun god.
00:33:53.89\00:33:58.53
Now where is the
raw? See God win's.
00:33:58.56\00:34:02.41
He tries to spare Egypt,
the people but they let him go.
00:34:02.44\00:34:06.96
They let the people go.
00:34:06.99\00:34:08.02
You got sun worship
ladies and gentlemen,
00:34:08.05\00:34:09.31
from the get-go.
00:34:09.34\00:34:10.82
And in fact
isn't this embarrassing
00:34:10.85\00:34:12.28
not only to sun
worship riddle pagan history
00:34:12.31\00:34:16.49
it riddles sacred community
of faith history as well.
00:34:16.52\00:34:22.41
They're just out of
Egypt by days, maybe weeks.
00:34:22.44\00:34:25.36
Remember that? And
where is this Moses guy?
00:34:25.39\00:34:27.39
Come on, where is he?
00:34:27.42\00:34:28.45
He's gone up into that mountain.
00:34:28.48\00:34:29.75
Aaron, make a God for us
and scholars now believe that
00:34:29.78\00:34:32.21
the God Aaron fashioned
out of their gold jewelry
00:34:32.24\00:34:35.11
the Egyptian bull, is a bull
00:34:35.14\00:34:37.19
and in Egypt it was
always bright yellow
00:34:37.22\00:34:40.45
and the name of
the bull is Ptah.
00:34:40.48\00:34:43.08
The bull was the
symbol of the sun god.
00:34:43.11\00:34:46.48
Isn't that amazing,
00:34:46.51\00:34:47.56
the children of
the most high God
00:34:47.59\00:34:49.95
are dancing to the
music of the sun god.
00:34:49.98\00:34:54.28
Boy, I hate for that to
happen again, wouldn't you?
00:34:54.31\00:34:56.52
I'd hate for
that to happen again.
00:34:56.55\00:34:58.93
To get confused who our God
is even in the way we worship.
00:34:58.96\00:35:06.43
Yeah, we have sun
worship all the way through.
00:35:06.46\00:35:08.76
And by the way,
just before they go,
00:35:08.79\00:35:10.21
just before they go
into the Promise Land,
00:35:10.24\00:35:11.68
you remember Balaam?
00:35:11.71\00:35:12.75
Does that name
ring a bell, Balaam?
00:35:12.78\00:35:14.27
Did the false prophet, the true
but then turned false prophet.
00:35:14.30\00:35:17.25
Remember he sent those
pretty little Moabites girls
00:35:17.28\00:35:19.31
into the camp, they
infiltrated the camp.
00:35:19.34\00:35:21.13
They were all cult
prostitutes for Baal worship
00:35:21.16\00:35:24.90
which is the
worship of the sun god.
00:35:24.93\00:35:26.57
And Israel it says
there Numbers 25:4,
00:35:26.60\00:35:29.23
Israel bows down just
before the Promise Land
00:35:29.26\00:35:32.65
and worships the sun god.
00:35:32.68\00:35:35.08
You can't believe it.
00:35:35.11\00:35:36.14
Ladies and
gentlemen, it's everywhere.
00:35:36.17\00:35:37.60
And by the way the
top one thousand leaders
00:35:37.63\00:35:39.84
who are
stricken in the judgment,
00:35:39.87\00:35:41.39
you know the
instructions are string them up
00:35:41.42\00:35:43.44
and make sure the sun
is shining on their bodies.
00:35:43.47\00:35:46.87
There is deep irony.
00:35:46.90\00:35:48.82
You have a battle
from the beginning.
00:35:48.85\00:35:50.75
From the fall of the human race
the one who says I'm the sun
00:35:50.78\00:35:54.05
and the God who
says I made the sun.
00:35:54.08\00:35:56.57
You have an intense
battle all the way through.
00:35:56.60\00:36:00.26
You get to the
books of the judges
00:36:00.29\00:36:01.52
and the kings and its all over,
00:36:01.55\00:36:03.25
again I'm gonna
skip all the stories
00:36:03.28\00:36:04.51
and end with one last story
00:36:04.54\00:36:06.01
and that's the one
about the pagan princess.
00:36:06.04\00:36:07.85
She was rather
pretty from what I hear.
00:36:07.88\00:36:10.01
Ahab, the true, the
king of the true Israel
00:36:10.04\00:36:12.71
fell in love with Jezebel.
00:36:12.74\00:36:15.09
And when he married
her, be careful gentlemen,
00:36:15.12\00:36:17.20
whom you marry, be
careful whom you marry,
00:36:17.23\00:36:21.12
she brings with
her a lot of baggage.
00:36:21.15\00:36:23.38
By the way let me
flip that around just,
00:36:23.41\00:36:24.96
because this is a different age.
00:36:24.99\00:36:26.46
Be careful
ladies, whom you marry.
00:36:26.49\00:36:29.81
Got more amen's from
the ladies, look at that.
00:36:29.84\00:36:33.41
Be very careful because
00:36:33.44\00:36:34.66
you bring your
family's baggage with you.
00:36:34.69\00:36:37.02
And Jezebel is
from the cult of Baal
00:36:37.05\00:36:41.61
and she got the
whole nation of Israel
00:36:41.64\00:36:44.76
to be caught up in astrolatry.
00:36:44.79\00:36:49.40
Worship of the celestial bodies.
00:36:49.43\00:36:51.64
And then you remember the day
00:36:51.67\00:36:53.10
when that, oh, I love this guy,
00:36:53.13\00:36:54.84
you know, some bushy bearded,
00:36:54.87\00:36:56.23
leather clad come slapping into
the throne room of King Ahab
00:36:56.26\00:36:59.76
and he points his
prophetic finger at Ahab
00:36:59.79\00:37:02.15
and he says, you want the sun?
00:37:02.18\00:37:03.87
You love the sun, don't you?
00:37:03.90\00:37:05.23
I'm gonna give you
three and half years
00:37:05.26\00:37:06.62
of nothing but sun.
00:37:06.65\00:37:07.92
Not a drop of
water until this place
00:37:07.95\00:37:09.92
is crisp dust
ball until you hear
00:37:09.95\00:37:12.01
from me again and
Elijah is gone and boom.
00:37:12.04\00:37:15.61
Baal can't do a thing
for three and half years
00:37:15.64\00:37:18.99
and then there is that
heart stopping showdown,
00:37:19.02\00:37:21.82
850 priests of the sun god
00:37:21.85\00:37:24.87
and one lonely
prophet of the Creator God.
00:37:24.90\00:37:28.91
Hey, listen guys,
doesn't matter the numbers.
00:37:28.94\00:37:31.70
If you are standing for Jesus
00:37:31.73\00:37:32.82
you just stand as one,
because one plus Jesus,
00:37:32.85\00:37:35.62
you know the
outline, you win, you win.
00:37:35.65\00:37:40.00
Elijah--
00:37:40.03\00:37:43.63
All right, I want
to just share one text,
00:37:43.66\00:37:45.41
this is the last
text we look up Ezekiel.
00:37:45.44\00:37:47.35
This is near the end
of the Old Testament,
00:37:47.38\00:37:48.61
sun worship is still going on.
00:37:48.64\00:37:51.31
You are not gonna believe
this text is in your Bible.
00:37:51.34\00:37:52.66
Ezekiel Chapter 8,
00:37:52.69\00:37:55.68
you will not--
oh, did I leave out.
00:37:55.71\00:37:56.89
Let me just put up
here Deuteronomy 4:19.
00:37:56.92\00:38:01.22
Thank you,
mezzanine for going with us.
00:38:01.25\00:38:02.96
Just before they
went into the Promise Land
00:38:02.99\00:38:04.84
this is how serious God is about
00:38:04.87\00:38:06.27
not getting
involved in astrology.
00:38:06.30\00:38:07.61
Watch this, this is God speaking
00:38:07.64\00:38:09.10
just before the Promise Land.
00:38:09.13\00:38:10.17
"And take heed, lest you
lift your eyes to heaven,
00:38:10.20\00:38:13.22
and when you see the
sun, the moon, and the stars,
00:38:13.25\00:38:15.68
and all the host of
heaven," be very careful now
00:38:15.71\00:38:18.40
lest "you feel driven to
worship them and serve them,
00:38:18.43\00:38:20.90
which the Lord
your God has given"
00:38:20.93\00:38:22.28
I put them up
there for all the peoples
00:38:22.31\00:38:24.26
under the whole
heaven as a heritage."
00:38:24.29\00:38:26.09
They are therefore
your light not your worship.
00:38:26.12\00:38:28.81
There is a strong word,
00:38:28.84\00:38:30.96
but in spite of
that strong word here
00:38:30.99\00:38:32.67
we are Ezekiel 8 and
if you need a page number
00:38:32.70\00:38:35.62
that would be page
561 in your pew Bible.
00:38:35.65\00:38:38.50
Look at this Ezekiel 8:15.
00:38:38.53\00:38:42.37
Now Ezekiel is
already captive in Babylon
00:38:42.40\00:38:44.62
and God says boy,
you are not gonna believe
00:38:44.65\00:38:46.29
what's happening back at home.
00:38:46.32\00:38:47.35
I'm gonna give you
a series of insights.
00:38:47.38\00:38:49.66
This is one of those insights.
This is a climaxing inside.
00:38:49.69\00:38:53.13
He's given us to what's
going on in his hometown.
00:38:53.16\00:38:55.33
Verse 15, "Then He" the
Spirit of God "said to me,
00:38:55.36\00:38:58.64
'Have you seen
this, O son of man?
00:38:58.67\00:39:01.99
Turn again, '" I'm
gonna show you one thing
00:39:02.02\00:39:03.75
that's even a
"greater abomination."
00:39:03.78\00:39:05.42
Look at this, verse 16
00:39:05.45\00:39:07.21
"So He brought me into the
inner court of the Lord's house
00:39:07.24\00:39:11.01
and there, at the door
of the temple of the Lord,
00:39:11.04\00:39:12.80
between the porch and the altar,
00:39:12.83\00:39:14.52
were about twenty-five men
00:39:14.55\00:39:16.19
with their backs to
the church of the Lord
00:39:16.22\00:39:19.03
and their faces toward the east,
00:39:19.06\00:39:21.04
and they were worshiping
the sun toward the east."
00:39:21.07\00:39:25.59
In the church they
are worshiping the sun.
00:39:25.62\00:39:29.03
That's one of the
heart breaking lines
00:39:29.06\00:39:30.40
of the Old Testament,
00:39:30.43\00:39:31.67
they are
worshiping sun apparently.
00:39:31.70\00:39:36.64
Apparently sun worship has that
00:39:36.67\00:39:39.02
strong and magnetic an appeal.
00:39:39.05\00:39:44.71
Even within the
community of faith
00:39:44.74\00:39:47.91
we can be led
to worship the sun.
00:39:47.94\00:39:53.81
They say, hey,
come on, Dwight, please.
00:39:53.84\00:39:55.21
I mean, you start
off talking about sun
00:39:55.24\00:39:56.57
or you are talking about
sun worship and astrology
00:39:56.60\00:39:58.66
and you say this has something
to do with the Sabbath.
00:39:58.69\00:40:00.20
I don't see the connection.
00:40:00.23\00:40:01.26
Okay, here comes right now,
enter now the seven day week.
00:40:01.29\00:40:06.92
You understand this, don't you,
00:40:06.95\00:40:08.01
that the Hebrew
record of creation
00:40:08.04\00:40:10.02
is the oldest extent
record we have for the origin
00:40:10.05\00:40:13.96
of the septenary
or seven day week.
00:40:13.99\00:40:17.72
It's the oldest record we have
00:40:17.75\00:40:19.03
in all human
literature, this is it.
00:40:19.06\00:40:22.57
And from the creation account
onward did you know this,
00:40:22.60\00:40:25.01
from creation all the
way through the New Testament
00:40:25.04\00:40:27.07
the Hebrews
never named their days.
00:40:27.10\00:40:31.15
Its first day, second
day, third day, fourth day,
00:40:31.18\00:40:32.82
fifth day, six day, seventh day.
00:40:32.85\00:40:34.19
Oh, seventh day
would be the exception.
00:40:34.22\00:40:35.69
The one day that God himself
named, dated and named it.
00:40:35.72\00:40:38.94
God says this seventh day
we are calling the Sabbath.
00:40:38.97\00:40:43.12
No other names.
00:40:43.15\00:40:45.77
And that's why
chiseled into the garnet
00:40:45.80\00:40:48.31
of the Decalogue
were these words.
00:40:48.34\00:40:49.89
You remember them Exodus
20, the fourth commandment,
00:40:49.92\00:40:52.26
"Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
00:40:52.29\00:40:55.57
Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
00:40:55.60\00:40:57.36
but the seventh day is
the Sabbath" proper name.
00:40:57.39\00:40:59.64
This is my Sabbath,
00:40:59.67\00:41:00.80
"the Sabbath of the
Lord your God." Why?
00:41:00.83\00:41:02.62
"For in six days the Lord made
the heavens and earth, the sea,
00:41:02.65\00:41:05.06
and all that is in them,
and rested the seventh day.
00:41:05.09\00:41:08.11
Therefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day, and hallowed it."
00:41:08.14\00:41:12.56
Hey, guys, listen, listen.
00:41:12.59\00:41:13.73
From our primeval beginnings
00:41:13.76\00:41:17.50
there has always
been a sacred month
00:41:17.53\00:41:19.79
between the septenary cycle,
00:41:19.82\00:41:21.96
the seven day a
week and the seventh day
00:41:21.99\00:41:26.33
they have been bound
together just like this.
00:41:26.36\00:41:29.81
In the words of
Robert Odom, I get this down.
00:41:29.84\00:41:32.02
This is some, it's
in your study guide.
00:41:32.05\00:41:34.10
"The week of seven days is
not a natural division of time,
00:41:34.13\00:41:38.02
and is not
related to the movements
00:41:38.05\00:41:40.20
of any of the heavenly bodies."
00:41:40.23\00:41:42.89
Oh, let's hit the
pause button right there.
00:41:42.92\00:41:44.23
Okay, let's do this.
00:41:44.26\00:41:46.30
Every year something in our
solar system goes like this.
00:41:46.33\00:41:51.32
It takes one year to do it.
00:41:51.35\00:41:52.50
What is happening,
come on you scientist,
00:41:52.53\00:41:54.27
what's happening every year?
00:41:54.30\00:41:56.47
The earth goes where?
00:41:56.50\00:41:58.41
Once around the
sun. Okay, very good.
00:41:58.44\00:42:01.09
Every month
something goes around.
00:42:01.12\00:42:03.79
Every month
something goes around.
00:42:03.82\00:42:06.74
All right? All
right, isn't that right?
00:42:06.77\00:42:07.89
Its 28 days but every
month the moon goes round.
00:42:07.92\00:42:10.55
Listen, every 24
hours, every 24 hours
00:42:10.58\00:42:14.37
something turns on
its axis, what's that?
00:42:14.40\00:42:17.42
The earth, 24 hour a day.
00:42:17.45\00:42:19.40
Every seven days, all right,
00:42:19.43\00:42:21.26
every seven days
now what's the cycle?
00:42:21.29\00:42:22.97
Every seven days
what goes around?
00:42:23.00\00:42:25.88
Come on, you get it.
00:42:25.91\00:42:27.00
Every seven days
what goes around?
00:42:27.03\00:42:28.89
The answer is
absolutely nothing.
00:42:28.92\00:42:32.30
Nothing.
00:42:32.33\00:42:33.81
You can point to the day,
you can point to the month,
00:42:33.84\00:42:34.87
you can point to the year
00:42:34.90\00:42:35.93
and say, oh, we
got it naturally.
00:42:35.96\00:42:37.54
There is one cycle of human time
00:42:37.57\00:42:39.62
that did not come naturally,
it came supernaturally.
00:42:39.65\00:42:42.81
It's the gift of
the septenary week,
00:42:42.84\00:42:45.41
the seven day a week, proof.
00:42:45.44\00:42:48.69
Philosophers of time do not know
00:42:48.72\00:42:50.21
how to explain
the seven day a week.
00:42:50.24\00:42:51.73
See, we got it. Yeah, we did.
00:42:51.76\00:42:56.17
That's Robert Odom's
point, keep going here.
00:42:56.20\00:42:58.35
"The week of seven days is
not a natural division of time,
00:42:58.38\00:43:00.84
and is not
related to the movements
00:43:00.87\00:43:02.16
of any of the heavenly bodies.
00:43:02.19\00:43:03.52
The creation record of
Genesis, the Decalogue,
00:43:03.55\00:43:05.74
and the Mosaic law clearly
show that it was originally
00:43:05.77\00:43:09.58
a divinely
established institution
00:43:09.61\00:43:12.21
and is a" now I like this
00:43:12.24\00:43:13.49
"is a twin
sister of the Sabbath."
00:43:13.52\00:43:19.11
You know what that
means? They are twins.
00:43:19.14\00:43:21.61
The seven day a week
and the seventh day Sabbath
00:43:21.64\00:43:24.08
they go just like two twins.
00:43:24.11\00:43:26.16
You know what that
means? Jot it down.
00:43:26.19\00:43:27.45
"The only reason
for the septenary
00:43:27.48\00:43:29.19
for the seven day week
was so that the human race
00:43:29.22\00:43:32.32
might keep track of
the seventh-day Sabbath
00:43:32.35\00:43:34.91
and their weekly
appointment with the Creator."
00:43:34.94\00:43:36.92
God didn't need a
week, He didn't need a week.
00:43:36.95\00:43:39.43
The only reason we have a
week so that you can keep trace,
00:43:39.46\00:43:42.69
every seven days
you come back to me.
00:43:42.72\00:43:44.74
Every seven
days it's you and Me,
00:43:44.77\00:43:46.86
you and Me,
friend, just you and Me.
00:43:46.89\00:43:49.91
I'll make sure
you'll never miss it.
00:43:49.94\00:43:52.66
I'll put us on
a seven day cycle,
00:43:52.69\00:43:54.59
you can't go to
anywhere in the universe
00:43:54.62\00:43:55.89
to prove this
one, I gave it to you.
00:43:55.92\00:43:58.40
You see, they are twins.
Where did they come from?
00:43:58.43\00:44:01.88
Exodus 20:10,
"For the seventh day
00:44:01.91\00:44:04.17
is the Sabbath of
the Lord your God."
00:44:04.20\00:44:07.49
Now I need you to really start
thinking with me, really now.
00:44:07.52\00:44:10.29
Can you now understand
why if you were Lucifer,
00:44:10.32\00:44:14.14
thank God we are not,
00:44:14.17\00:44:16.59
but you were Lucifer can
you understand you and I,
00:44:16.62\00:44:19.91
if we were he, why
if you were Lucifer
00:44:19.94\00:44:23.11
and in rebellion
against the Creator
00:44:23.14\00:44:25.26
and you were hell bent
on securing the adulation,
00:44:25.29\00:44:29.18
the allegiance and the
worship of the human race.
00:44:29.21\00:44:31.89
Can you not
understand that you would mark
00:44:31.92\00:44:34.61
your diabolical
sights on the twin gifts?
00:44:34.64\00:44:39.30
You would go for the
week to kill the day.
00:44:39.33\00:44:43.45
If you can kill the
week you got the day.
00:44:43.48\00:44:47.18
The one reminder
of the human race has
00:44:47.21\00:44:49.48
that it has come supernaturally
00:44:49.51\00:44:50.76
from the hand of
the Almighty Creator.
00:44:50.79\00:44:52.91
Kill the week, so
you can kill the day.
00:44:52.94\00:44:57.26
Enter now not
the seven day a week,
00:44:57.29\00:44:59.86
enter now the astrological week
00:44:59.89\00:45:01.91
of the Claudian or
Babylonian astrology
00:45:01.94\00:45:04.38
that was eventually
embraced by the Romans
00:45:04.41\00:45:06.76
where the order is changed and--
00:45:06.79\00:45:10.73
hey, this would
really throw them off.
00:45:10.76\00:45:12.25
Instead of having a day
that reminds you of the Creator
00:45:12.28\00:45:14.30
what if we took all
seven days and turned every day
00:45:14.33\00:45:17.62
into a day of honor
to another celestial god,
00:45:17.65\00:45:20.73
will make the planetary gods
the hero's of the seven days.
00:45:20.76\00:45:25.61
You would have to
be pretty brilliant
00:45:25.64\00:45:28.13
and pretty desperate
to secure the worship
00:45:28.16\00:45:32.25
that belongs only to
the creator by coming up
00:45:32.28\00:45:35.35
with the devilish
strategy like that.
00:45:35.38\00:45:39.57
So what do we have
not? We have a new order.
00:45:39.60\00:45:42.00
The order has been changed
and names have been inserted.
00:45:42.03\00:45:44.29
The names of the
seven celestial bodies
00:45:44.32\00:45:46.54
the ancients worship.
00:45:46.57\00:45:47.60
Let's put them up.
00:45:47.63\00:45:48.69
Day one, Saturn Day,
that was the first day,
00:45:48.72\00:45:52.11
I'll show in a
moment how it got changed
00:45:52.14\00:45:53.63
but that was the order.
00:45:53.66\00:45:54.83
Day two, Sun Day.
Day three, Moon Day.
00:45:54.86\00:46:01.04
Day four, Mars-- you say Dwight,
00:46:01.07\00:46:04.20
doesn't sound like--
Tuesday didn't sound like Mars?
00:46:04.23\00:46:06.27
Any English
dictionary you look up Tuesday,
00:46:06.30\00:46:08.64
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
00:46:08.67\00:46:10.15
and you find out
the Latin equivalent
00:46:10.18\00:46:12.25
and you will discovered
they are all named after gods,
00:46:12.28\00:46:14.96
all of them
after planetary gods.
00:46:14.99\00:46:17.19
So got Mars Day, day four.
00:46:17.22\00:46:18.60
Day five, Mercury
Day. Day six, Jupiter Day.
00:46:18.63\00:46:21.79
Day five, Mercury
Day. Day seven, Venus Day.
00:46:21.82\00:46:24.03
Every day for another god.
00:46:24.06\00:46:28.29
Won't have to worry about that
Creator around, this hear pods.
00:46:28.32\00:46:35.97
The astrological week
of the bastard science,
00:46:36.00\00:46:38.95
who do you suppose was the
dark mind behind that creation?
00:46:38.98\00:46:46.36
Whose agenda
was it to obliterate
00:46:46.39\00:46:48.06
the septenary
reminder of the Creator
00:46:48.09\00:46:50.16
of the heavens and the earth?
00:46:50.19\00:46:54.16
Enter now finally,
00:46:54.19\00:46:56.44
the wily pagan Roman
Emperor name Constantine.
00:46:56.47\00:47:02.07
You may have
grown up believing that
00:47:02.10\00:47:03.14
Constantine was
some sort of hero?
00:47:03.17\00:47:04.24
I did.
00:47:04.27\00:47:05.75
I mean, isn't it,
isn't this the Roman general
00:47:05.78\00:47:08.69
to become
emperor who one morning
00:47:08.72\00:47:09.91
before battle in 312
AD is having a vision
00:47:09.94\00:47:12.01
and he sees a cross
and then he hears a voice
00:47:12.04\00:47:14.71
that says, by this
sign you shall conquer.
00:47:14.74\00:47:17.39
Yep, that's the
same Constantine.
00:47:17.42\00:47:18.56
Oh, by the way, a little
bit of revision of history
00:47:18.59\00:47:21.40
since we found
out through Eusebius
00:47:21.43\00:47:23.16
that actually that very morning
when Constantine was praying
00:47:23.19\00:47:25.40
and getting that vision he
was praying to the rising sun.
00:47:25.43\00:47:29.06
Praying to the most high god?
00:47:29.09\00:47:31.04
yeah, but wait a
minute, wait a minute,
00:47:31.07\00:47:32.12
wasn't Constantine the one
who converted to Christianity
00:47:32.15\00:47:35.38
and then he painted
the Greek letters the key
00:47:35.41\00:47:37.22
which looks like an
"X" and then the row
00:47:37.25\00:47:38.76
which looks like a
"P" on all their shields.
00:47:38.79\00:47:40.82
Wasn't that?
00:47:40.85\00:47:41.91
Yep, that was
Constantine, all right.
00:47:41.94\00:47:43.14
But guess what we found out now?
00:47:43.17\00:47:44.55
We've discovered that in
fact those two letters were
00:47:44.58\00:47:47.16
heathen
initials used long before
00:47:47.19\00:47:49.15
Christianity as a
symbol of the sun.
00:47:49.18\00:47:53.67
You are gonna
gone real excited about
00:47:53.70\00:47:54.99
having
Constantine as a Christian,
00:47:55.02\00:47:57.31
turns out he is
a sun worshipper.
00:47:57.34\00:47:58.42
You know what the
family god of Constantine was?
00:47:58.45\00:48:00.03
Apollo. You know who Apollo is?
00:48:00.06\00:48:01.70
He is the form of
the old Roman god Sol.
00:48:01.73\00:48:05.06
You ever say solar for the sun,
00:48:05.09\00:48:06.90
Sol and the
Caesars worshipped the Sol.
00:48:06.93\00:48:10.67
Constantine was the high priest
00:48:10.70\00:48:15.24
for solar religion for
the worship of the sun.
00:48:15.27\00:48:18.46
Yeah, but come
on, come on pastor,
00:48:18.49\00:48:19.81
didn't Constantine
was neither one that
00:48:19.84\00:48:21.05
chaired the
gathering of the bishops
00:48:21.08\00:48:22.22
and the
delegates of Christianity
00:48:22.25\00:48:23.66
from across the
far flung empires
00:48:23.69\00:48:25.37
as they gathered in
that mighty church council,
00:48:25.40\00:48:27.52
325 AD, the council
of Council of Nicaea?
00:48:27.55\00:48:29.86
Yep, that's the
same one but guess what,
00:48:29.89\00:48:32.55
while he is
chairing that meeting
00:48:32.58\00:48:35.07
he is bearing upon himself
the title "Pontifex Maximus"
00:48:35.10\00:48:39.60
the pagan title
for Roman emperors
00:48:39.63\00:48:41.10
is the head of occult
of the invincible sun.
00:48:41.13\00:48:44.82
Guy's, its sun
worship all the way through.
00:48:44.85\00:48:48.70
Leading Edward Gibbon,
00:48:48.73\00:48:49.87
the great
historian Edward Gibbon
00:48:49.90\00:48:51.40
in his
celebrated book, the volumes
00:48:51.43\00:48:53.63
"The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire"
00:48:53.66\00:48:55.67
these are his words, put
it on the screen for you.
00:48:55.70\00:48:57.38
"As he
Constantine gradually advanced
00:48:57.41\00:48:59.59
in the knowledge of the truth,
00:48:59.62\00:49:01.30
he proportionately declined
in the practice of virtue,
00:49:01.33\00:49:05.79
and the same year of his reign
00:49:05.82\00:49:07.00
which he convened
the Council of Nice,"
00:49:07.03\00:49:08.65
we say Nicaea "was
polluted by the execution,
00:49:08.68\00:49:11.59
or rather murder," he
murdered "his eldest son."
00:49:11.62\00:49:14.53
He felt so
threatened to the throne.
00:49:14.56\00:49:16.67
This is the same, this
is the same Constantine.
00:49:16.70\00:49:19.05
"Constantine may have
converted to Christianity"
00:49:19.08\00:49:20.83
jot this down "but
historians rightfully
00:49:20.86\00:49:22.50
consider it a
conversion of convenience."
00:49:22.53\00:49:26.35
He was
brilliant as a politician,
00:49:26.38\00:49:28.13
which by the way
explains his most infamous
00:49:28.16\00:49:30.58
or famous depending upon your
perspective imperial decree.
00:49:30.61\00:49:33.93
The first civil Sunday law
in history, March 7, 321 AD,
00:49:33.96\00:49:39.68
that Sunday law
begins with these words.
00:49:39.71\00:49:41.69
On the-- you got it
in your study guide.
00:49:41.72\00:49:43.79
"On the venerable day of
the Sun let the magistrates
00:49:43.82\00:49:47.32
and people
residing in cities rest,
00:49:47.35\00:49:50.16
and let all
workshops be closed."
00:49:50.19\00:49:54.00
And ladies and gentlemen,
with that single sentence
00:49:54.03\00:49:57.06
Constantine with wily
political savvy blends
00:49:57.09\00:50:00.71
the septenary cycles
of time in his empire.
00:50:00.74\00:50:03.61
He takes the
astrological week of the pagans
00:50:03.64\00:50:05.77
and he takes the
biblical week of the Christians
00:50:05.80\00:50:07.87
and he makes them one.
00:50:07.90\00:50:09.17
I'll take-- I'll
keep the planetary gods
00:50:09.20\00:50:11.46
for the names but
I'll use the order.
00:50:11.49\00:50:13.56
And now Saturn Day
will be seven instead of one
00:50:13.59\00:50:16.30
and I'll make Sunday the
greatest day of the week.
00:50:16.33\00:50:22.95
Thus officially
adopting the week
00:50:22.98\00:50:24.39
into the Roman civil calendar
00:50:24.42\00:50:25.78
and by edict declaring
for the first time in history
00:50:25.81\00:50:28.30
that pagan name Dies
Solis, Solis the day the sun
00:50:28.33\00:50:32.43
to be the legal
name of the first day.
00:50:32.46\00:50:34.45
And so tomorrow when
you say today is Sunday
00:50:34.48\00:50:37.48
you can thank Constantine
for that ability, he's the one.
00:50:37.51\00:50:42.66
Braved,
brilliant. Now jot this down.
00:50:42.69\00:50:47.88
"Not only did he
declare the venerable day
00:50:47.91\00:50:49.75
of the Sun to now be
the first day of the week"
00:50:49.78\00:50:51.30
get this "he also mandated
00:50:51.33\00:50:53.05
this new pagan
Christian veneration
00:50:53.08\00:50:55.50
to be a day of
'rest' for everybody."
00:50:55.53\00:51:00.04
Have mercy. And
the rest is history.
00:51:00.07\00:51:07.37
Two triumphing
historic genius, jot them down,
00:51:07.40\00:51:13.55
the genius of Constantine
who united both church
00:51:13.58\00:51:16.58
and state in a
marriage of convenience
00:51:16.61\00:51:18.20
for the compromise of
truth and the genius the Lucifer
00:51:18.23\00:51:21.73
who with his bastard science
00:51:21.76\00:51:23.54
created his own
counterfeit twins,
00:51:23.57\00:51:25.72
the astrological week
and the day of the Sun
00:51:25.75\00:51:28.05
thus replacing the
Creator with his own--
00:51:28.08\00:51:30.37
with Lucifer's own deified self
00:51:30.40\00:51:32.01
and the seventh day
Sabbath of the Creator
00:51:32.04\00:51:34.01
with the first day
Sun Day of Lucifer.
00:51:34.04\00:51:37.86
I'm the sun and
I'm king of this earth
00:51:37.89\00:51:40.88
and that will be my day.
00:51:40.91\00:51:42.99
Sunday is Lucifer's day
00:51:43.02\00:51:46.46
and rest is history.
00:51:49.25\00:51:52.37
Hey history by the
way, hey, hold on, hold on,
00:51:52.40\00:51:54.68
now come on, come
on, come on, come on,
00:51:54.71\00:51:55.91
a history that might
had been mended by people
00:51:55.94\00:52:03.70
raised up by God
for such a time as this.
00:52:03.73\00:52:10.25
I don't know what
you want to call them.
00:52:10.28\00:52:11.84
I don't know what to call
them, let's just agree on this,
00:52:11.87\00:52:13.67
we call them God's
seventh day Sabbath people.
00:52:13.70\00:52:15.43
Let's just call them that,
00:52:15.46\00:52:16.50
God's seventh day Sabbath people
00:52:16.53\00:52:18.03
who cherish his friendship
above all odds in life
00:52:18.06\00:52:20.59
and who honor his day
above all other days and time.
00:52:20.62\00:52:23.27
Let's just call them
God's seventh day Sabbath people
00:52:23.30\00:52:26.50
who chose to be
loyal to the Creator
00:52:26.53\00:52:27.98
and His creation no
matter the popular culture,
00:52:28.01\00:52:30.06
no matter the
unpopularity of obedience
00:52:30.09\00:52:32.29
to the fourth commandment.
00:52:32.32\00:52:33.83
We just call them God's
seventh-day Sabbath people.
00:52:33.86\00:52:37.80
Who might even yet by
their faithful witness be
00:52:37.83\00:52:40.79
led by God to
bring forth a generation
00:52:40.82\00:52:44.76
to reject Lucifer's
counterfeit dominion.
00:52:44.79\00:52:49.86
You were born accidentally
for this time, my friend.
00:52:49.89\00:52:53.40
You are born for a reason.
History can still get mended.
00:52:53.43\00:53:00.75
We call them God's
seventh-day Sabbath people
00:53:00.78\00:53:03.69
who one day will refuse to
bow to the edict of church,
00:53:03.72\00:53:07.63
a united church and
state for we sure yet hear
00:53:07.66\00:53:11.20
from a new Constantine.
00:53:11.23\00:53:13.79
Trust me, we are gonna hear
from a new Constantine one day
00:53:13.82\00:53:20.24
and it is that
reality and prospect
00:53:20.27\00:53:22.77
and compels me now to end
00:53:22.80\00:53:25.25
these moments
together with this appeal.
00:53:25.28\00:53:27.33
Do you understand?
00:53:27.36\00:53:28.39
Did you listen to
my friend Vern Alger?
00:53:28.42\00:53:30.68
Do you understand
that there are forces today
00:53:30.71\00:53:32.10
in both the government
and society that are seeking
00:53:32.13\00:53:33.83
to blend church and state?
00:53:33.86\00:53:35.45
Do you understand it?
00:53:35.48\00:53:36.63
Now I know that
you and I believe
00:53:36.66\00:53:37.71
in a separation
of church and state
00:53:37.74\00:53:39.18
as our founding fathers did.
00:53:39.21\00:53:40.54
But we are in a
political season now
00:53:40.57\00:53:41.78
and you'll hear all
kinds of new notions.
00:53:41.81\00:53:49.03
Constantine's legacy, the
union of church and state,
00:53:49.06\00:53:52.26
I need to remind
you is a tragic legacy.
00:53:52.29\00:53:56.62
Because you know
what-- you know who wants--
00:53:56.65\00:53:57.82
you know who wants the union?
00:53:57.85\00:53:59.50
The state
doesn't want the union,
00:53:59.53\00:54:00.61
it's the church
that wants a union.
00:54:00.64\00:54:02.16
Why does the
church want the union?
00:54:02.19\00:54:03.41
Because when the church unites
00:54:03.44\00:54:04.85
with the state
it's always this way.
00:54:04.88\00:54:06.42
The state becomes the
enforcing arm of the church.
00:54:06.45\00:54:09.45
That's all the church wants,
00:54:09.48\00:54:10.51
we need somebody to
make everybody go with us.
00:54:10.54\00:54:13.58
That's all, you think that
00:54:13.61\00:54:14.73
church is in
honor with the state?
00:54:14.76\00:54:15.98
Are you kidding?
00:54:16.01\00:54:17.20
We got more power, I got more,
00:54:17.23\00:54:18.66
I got more in my army
00:54:18.69\00:54:20.26
than you have in
yours and it's true.
00:54:20.29\00:54:24.20
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:54:24.23\00:54:26.85
the Constantinian packed.
00:54:26.88\00:54:32.39
It not only destroys
the church and the state
00:54:32.42\00:54:34.68
but it destroys all the
innocent people in between.
00:54:34.71\00:54:37.93
This summer I went
with the architects,
00:54:37.96\00:54:39.00
I see some of
the architects here.
00:54:39.03\00:54:40.07
I went with the
architects. Where did we go?
00:54:40.10\00:54:41.22
We went to Italy.
00:54:41.25\00:54:42.31
We went into those
green alpine valleys
00:54:42.34\00:54:44.12
and stood where the
Waldenses once stood.
00:54:44.15\00:54:46.50
Do you know what
the cost was to stand
00:54:46.53\00:54:48.83
as the loyalist to the Creator?
00:54:48.86\00:54:50.64
Did you know what
the cost was then?
00:54:50.67\00:54:53.72
It's a high cost.
00:54:53.75\00:54:56.08
I'm warning you,
it's not a pretty picture
00:54:56.11\00:54:58.01
when the new Constantine comes.
00:54:58.04\00:54:59.88
You are saying, Dwight,
what are you talking about?
00:54:59.91\00:55:00.94
Well, I'm talking
about, you know, what,
00:55:00.97\00:55:02.12
we ought to seize this
moment as this generation.
00:55:02.15\00:55:04.25
We ought to seize the moment
00:55:04.28\00:55:05.31
and appeal in
the highest judicial
00:55:05.34\00:55:07.85
and legislative
circles in America.
00:55:07.88\00:55:09.54
We ought to appeal to
our leaders to maintain
00:55:09.57\00:55:13.64
the separation
of church and state.
00:55:13.67\00:55:16.86
One day it's gonna be
over, I understand that.
00:55:16.89\00:55:19.99
And when it's over,
listen to me carefully,
00:55:20.02\00:55:21.80
I'm not a prophet
or the son of a prophet
00:55:21.83\00:55:23.78
but I promise you
that when church and state
00:55:23.81\00:55:26.04
unite as they were one day
00:55:26.07\00:55:27.71
and apocalyptic
prophecy assures us
00:55:27.74\00:55:29.52
it will happen all over again.
00:55:29.55\00:55:30.82
When they unite, the very,
the very fruit of that union
00:55:30.85\00:55:35.66
will be the same as with
Constantine the day of the sun
00:55:35.69\00:55:40.18
will be codified
for the human race.
00:55:40.21\00:55:44.84
You just watch,
00:55:44.87\00:55:48.56
it always happens in
the history of Christendom
00:55:48.59\00:55:51.66
when church and state unite.
00:55:51.69\00:55:55.32
State becomes the
power to enforce the church.
00:55:55.35\00:56:01.83
What should we do?
00:56:01.86\00:56:04.80
Two responses.
00:56:04.83\00:56:06.76
Response number one, stand tall.
00:56:06.79\00:56:10.18
Stand tall as a
child of the Creator.
00:56:10.21\00:56:12.93
Want to go around and apologize.
00:56:12.96\00:56:14.02
Well, you know, can
you get together with us?
00:56:14.05\00:56:16.55
Now see, I'm sorry but I
kind of preoccupied that day.
00:56:16.58\00:56:19.46
Don't apologize.
00:56:19.49\00:56:21.35
Sam, I'm child of the
Creator and I had that day,
00:56:21.38\00:56:24.78
I have that day with another
friend, my forever friend.
00:56:24.81\00:56:29.24
You never apologize,
never, never, never apologize
00:56:29.27\00:56:33.56
for standing up for the
Creator that's why you are here.
00:56:33.59\00:56:37.12
He needed you for this hour.
00:56:37.15\00:56:38.50
There's gonna be a
generation that will turn--
00:56:38.53\00:56:39.95
that will mend history
and you are part of it.
00:56:39.98\00:56:43.05
So number one,
stand tall for the Creator
00:56:43.08\00:56:44.93
and number two
invest what you have now
00:56:44.96\00:56:49.48
to advance the
cause of liberty on earth.
00:56:49.51\00:56:54.38
Invest what you have now
00:56:54.41\00:56:56.86
to advance the
cause of liberty on earth.
00:56:56.89\00:57:02.47
I wanted to take
one more moment here
00:57:02.50\00:57:03.99
at the end of the telecast
00:57:04.02\00:57:05.07
to let you know how grateful I'm
00:57:05.10\00:57:06.53
for your journey with us,
00:57:06.56\00:57:08.88
with our New
Perceptions Ministry.
00:57:08.91\00:57:10.68
You may think
that New Perceptions
00:57:10.71\00:57:11.83
is only about television,
00:57:11.86\00:57:13.63
but I need to tell
you we do have a website
00:57:13.66\00:57:16.18
which is more than
just the study guide.
00:57:16.21\00:57:18.12
I know we go to the
study guide every week
00:57:18.15\00:57:19.89
but if you go to our
website let me put the address
00:57:19.92\00:57:21.55
on the screen
again, www.pmchurch.tv,
00:57:21.58\00:57:26.74
you will find at
that website a blog.
00:57:26.77\00:57:28.68
Every Wednesday I
sit down on my laptop
00:57:28.71\00:57:30.59
and write up a blog something
as commenting on world events,
00:57:30.62\00:57:33.62
something local,
something national,
00:57:33.65\00:57:35.31
you get the blog.
00:57:35.34\00:57:36.62
You want to
archive previous teachings
00:57:36.65\00:57:38.91
from here the
Pioneer pulpit you go to that
00:57:38.94\00:57:41.36
annotated archive you
can pick out a message,
00:57:41.39\00:57:43.85
it will be sent to you.
00:57:43.88\00:57:45.49
You want to podcast business
00:57:45.52\00:57:48.69
I'm not real
hi-tech here on this
00:57:48.72\00:57:50.73
but if you click podcast
you will be able to connect
00:57:50.76\00:57:53.11
instantly with
every new teaching
00:57:53.14\00:57:54.61
that comes from
the Pioneer pulpit.
00:57:54.64\00:57:56.02
The point is,
we're trying to connect
00:57:56.05\00:57:57.79
with the generation
on the move, on the go.
00:57:57.82\00:58:00.68
Thanks for being a part of it.
00:58:00.71\00:58:01.83
Thanks for your
prayer partnership.
00:58:01.86\00:58:03.04
We've got to
connect with this generation
00:58:03.07\00:58:05.61
at this time in earth's history
00:58:05.64\00:58:07.74
and I'm grateful you and
I are sharing the mission.
00:58:07.77\00:58:10.19
God bless you, until next time.
00:58:10.22\00:58:12.13