It's Sabbath and
my rest has arrived
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It's Sabbath, a
day God set aside
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It's Sabbath,
it's a joy and delight
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It's Sabbath
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O Holy God, this Holy day
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Please purify our lives we pray
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O Holy God, this Holy day
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Please purify our lives we pray
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It's Sabbath,
it's a joy and delight
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It's Sabbaths
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We fall down.
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We fall down, we lay our crowns
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At the feet of Jesus
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The greatness of
His mercy and love
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At the feet of Jesus
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And we cry holy, holy, holy
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We cry holy, holy, holy
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We cry holy, holy, holy
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Is the Lamb
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And we cry holy, holy, holy
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We cry holy, holy, holy
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We cry holy, holy, holy
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Is the Lamb
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I must tell Jesus
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All of my trials
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I cannot bear
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These burdens alone
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In my distress
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He kindly will help me
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He ever loves
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And cares for His own
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I must tell Jesus!
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I must tell Jesus!
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I cannot bear
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My burdens alone
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I must tell Jesus!
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I must tell Jesus!
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Jesus can help me
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Jesus alone
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I must tell Jesus
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All of my troubles
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He is a kind
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Compassionate Friend
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If I but ask Him
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He will deliver
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Make of my troubles
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Quickly an end
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I must tell Jesus!
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I must tell Jesus!
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I cannot bear
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My burdens alone
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I must tell Jesus!
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I must tell Jesus!
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Jesus can help me
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Jesus can help me
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Jesus can help me
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Jesus alone
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I met Dayv Lounsbury
at Walla Walla College
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and have asked him to
share just a little bit about
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his story with us this morning.
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Now, Dayv, I understand that
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you haven't
always been Adventist,
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you didn't grow up Adventist.
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What made you interested
in the Adventist church
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or I guess the
Sabbath in particular.
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Well, I wasn't interested.
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I was very uncomfortable
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and relaxed in
my religious faith.
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I was a member of a different
Christian denomination.
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But a friend at work offered
me some Adventist literature
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and some prophecy videos
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and more out of
politeness to him
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than anything else, I
said okay, I'll take them
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and then I kind of felt guilty,
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if I didn't actually
watch it and read it,
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because I knew he'd ask
when I returned it to him,
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how did you like it, you know?
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So I watched it
and I really as I saw
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the scriptures unfolded,
I'd always love the Bible.
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I was taught to
believe the Bible
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and the Bible's the
foundation of our faith.
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As I saw the scriptures unfold,
in the teaching of the Sabbath,
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there wasn't something I'd
never thought about before.
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Never felt the
desire to look into before,
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didn't think it was important.
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And as I saw and began
to see the beauty of it
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and the-- the
fullness and richness of it,
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I really felt the
conviction of the Holy Spirit.
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And so I began to
talk with my friend at work
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and we spent many a work
hour mostly during our breaks
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but not always,
talking about the Sabbath.
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Yes, I was paid
to study the Sabbath
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even before going to school.
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And I really just felt it
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that was what with
the Lord was calling me
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to make a commitment to
also follow that commandment
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as the way the
Lord has described it.
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Okay, so it started
with the guilt trip.
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Can I get a
witness, just kidding?
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So this is interesting
and I understand that
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you actually had a
kind of a trying time.
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You mention that you were
a newly wed during that time.
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And I wanted to know
what that was like for you?
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What the transition
was like for you then?
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There were several
challenges along the way,
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not, I don't want to
call my marriage a challenge
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but yes, I was studying like
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I said at work
and really by myself.
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My wife and I
worked at different times
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and so the time did
come, we've been married about
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9 months at this time
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when I had to have a
little conversation with my wife
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and share with
her my convictions.
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In all honesty she did
not know anything about it
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and it caught her off guard.
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But we had some discussions
and we prayed about it
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and studied and we
made some good friends
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who encouraged
us during this time
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and she felt the
conviction as well.
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She felt that was what
the Lord was calling us
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two for us as a married
couple and for our family.
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And so we're just very thankful
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that the Lord
brought us through that time,
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that it was not
something that divided us,
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rather united us.
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Amen.
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Thank you for sharing, Dayv.
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Dayv told me that
he was so excited about
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seeing the
Sabbath for the first time
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that it was a
clear and simple message.
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And that God was
with him through the test.
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So thank you so much, Dayv.
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Holy Father,
everybody has a testimony.
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You live in this life,
there's a story to tell.
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One more piece in this story
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that we've been building
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all this season, last piece.
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Please, make sure...
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that as we go to Holy Scripture,
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it would be clear, not
just clear to our minds,
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dear God, but
clear to our hearts.
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Somehow you work,
you work that partnership
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for the glory of Christ.
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We pray in His name, amen.
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Before I share with you,
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I've news report that
stopped me in my tracks.
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I could not believe my ears.
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I need to share
something with you here
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at the
conclusion of this series.
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I'm gonna risk being
misunderstood right now,
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I still need to say this,
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I still need to
share this with you.
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And that is I believe
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that the
greatest spiritual contest
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in the history of
this earth is impending.
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Now, I'm not gonna
say, it's just ahead.
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Although I fear and I
use that word advisedly,
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I fear that we have no sense...
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on how near this event
may in fact turn out to be.
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The greatest spiritual
crises in earth impending
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and I'm convinced from my study
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that it will the locus
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the focus of that contest
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will be between two
religious communities.
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One will lead the
vast majority of this world
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and championing what has
been her historic position
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from the beginning.
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And the other will lead
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as it were the minority
opposition to the hegemony,
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to the dominance
of that first power.
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But make no mistake
about it, ladies and gentlemen,
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there will be
only two positions,
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two ideologies, two camps,
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there is no third option.
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I realized how peculiar
this may sound to some of you,
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to suggest that the whole world,
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I'm talking about
every nation, every tribe,
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every religion, every
culture, every society
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will be divided
into only two camps.
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And I'm gonna
tell you in advance,
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if you want to
make the easiest choice,
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then it'll be a piece of cake.
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Just go with the
overwhelming majority.
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But I need to hasten to
also add the other community,
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the other community will
not be a nondescript ragtag band
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of earth's rejects,
in fact I believe...
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some of the most
influential thought leaders
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in society, in theology,
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in politics, in the media
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will chose to align
themselves with the moral stance
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and biblical position
of the minority community.
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I believe that by
the tens of thousands
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citizens of this earth
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will switch allegiances.
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And they will join themselves
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to the spiritual
movement because in the end,
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would you please get
this straight in the end.
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I must tell you,
it will be a movement
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and not an institution.
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It will be a spiritual community
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and not a denominational
body, make no mistake about it.
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At the risk of
being misunderstood,
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I repeat, the final
spiritual contest on earth
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will be led by this
David and Goliath mismatch.
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So that everybody on this planet
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at last will
have the opportunity
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to declare
loyalty to the creator
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God of this
universe, Adonai, Adonai.
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This past September,
when Pope Benedict XVI
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was making his first trip
of his pontificate to Austria.
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He celebrated Mass in Vienna
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in the beautiful
St. Stephen's Cathedral,
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I have seen that
edifice My, oh, my.
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The news reported it
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and when I heard the
report of his homily,
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I could not believe my ears.
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I said, I got it
wrong, that assertion,
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probably I just
didn't hear it right.
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So I went online and downloaded
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the verbatim text
of the pope's homily.
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I come to find out
I had heard it right.
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I could not believe.
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I'm gonna share it
with you right now.
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Take out your study guide please
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in today's worship bulletin.
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Some were there and
all the papers and hymnals
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and Bibles that
you have around you,
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pull out today's study guide.
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You got it ushers.
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Thank you right
now, for making sure
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that every here
has that study guide.
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Hold your hand up.
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Hold your hand up,
you'll see the words
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for yourself in the study guide.
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Websites will all be
there, you check it out,
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you say I don't know
about that Dwight guy,
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you go check it out, huh.
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You check it out.
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Hold your hand up, all the way
to the back up in the balcony.
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I want to make sure everybody
in the choir you got it.
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All right, take
the study guide out
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and by the way,
while they're doing that,
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those of you who
are watching on TV,
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we're delighted to have you.
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Let me give you a
website, you go to our website,
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you'll get the same study guide.
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I put it on the screen for you.
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www.pmchurch.tv
that's our website.
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Go to the
website, you are looking
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for the teaching
entitled ''The Sabbath."
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By the way this is it,
this is the final piece
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in this 6 part
series, so you're looking
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for this particular
teaching with the name
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"A Test Very Simple
and Highly Visible."
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When you see that it'll say
study guide right beside it,
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you click there,
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you'll have the
identical study guide we have,
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and it begins with
the words of Benedict
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the XVI his homily on
September 7th last year
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at St. Stephen's
Cathedral in Vienna.
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I'm sorry that is
September 9, the study guide
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will make that
correction you'll see it
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right there, it's September 9.
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All right, these are the
words of enedict the XVI.
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The early
Christians, I'm reading now,
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you're following
in your study guide.
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"The early Christians celebrated
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the first day of the
week as the Lord's day,
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because it was the
day of the resurrection."
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I'm willing to give
that line to the pope.
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If by early
Christians, he's talking about
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second century, third century,
fourth and fifth centuries,
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fine, the pope
is a brilliant mind
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and he-- I don't believe
he means early first century,
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he knows not first century.
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There is no
evidence in the Book of Acts,
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there's no evidence
in the New Testament
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that the Christian church
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celebrated on the
first day of the week.
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No evidence, pope knows that.
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All right, second
sentence, "Yet very soon..."
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And he's right here,
in the second century.
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"The Church also came to realize
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that the first day
of the week is the day
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of the dawning of creation,
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the day on which God
said: "Let there be light.'
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" Now here's the
line that caught me
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when I heard it on the radio.
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"Therefore Sunday
is also the Church's
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weekly feast of creation.
00:18:44.19\00:18:46.67
The feast of thanksgiving
and joy over God's creation."
00:18:46.70\00:18:49.39
Hey wait a minute,
time, hold it, hold, time out,
00:18:49.42\00:18:51.83
would you run that last sentence
00:18:51.86\00:18:53.30
by me again please, I
don't think I heard it.
00:18:53.33\00:18:55.40
Are you suggesting
00:18:55.43\00:18:56.97
that Sunday is a Church's
weekly feast of creation.
00:18:57.00\00:19:01.21
And that the
feast of thanksgiving
00:19:01.24\00:19:02.42
and joy over God's creation
is the first day of the week.
00:19:02.45\00:19:06.76
I mean I understand
about having a feast.
00:19:06.79\00:19:08.20
I understand about
a memorial to creation
00:19:08.23\00:19:10.11
but the word sound familiar
00:19:10.14\00:19:12.19
but all that I can
recollect for the life of me,
00:19:12.22\00:19:16.29
is the Holy Scripture
in the fourth commandment
00:19:16.32\00:19:19.15
and the gift of the
seventh-day Sabbath,
00:19:19.18\00:19:22.11
not the first day of
the week, not Sunday.
00:19:22.14\00:19:25.77
Are you sure?
00:19:25.80\00:19:27.52
Let me put the
fourth commandment
00:19:27.55\00:19:28.58
on the screen for you.
00:19:28.61\00:19:29.65
Exodus 20:8-11."
00:19:29.68\00:19:31.37
Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy."
00:19:31.40\00:19:33.91
Whole world knows this
is the fourth commandment.
00:19:33.94\00:19:36.08
"For in six days the
Lord made the heavens
00:19:36.11\00:19:37.65
and the earth, the sea,
00:19:37.68\00:19:38.79
and all that is in
them, and rested..."
00:19:38.82\00:19:40.31
Would you write it in please?
00:19:40.34\00:19:41.39
"Rested the seventh day."
00:19:41.42\00:19:44.35
The Holy Scriptures
teach that God's festival,
00:19:44.38\00:19:46.64
if you want to
call it a festival,
00:19:46.67\00:19:47.80
God celebration,
God's memorial of creation
00:19:47.83\00:19:50.68
is the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:19:50.71\00:19:52.12
But the Holy Father teaches
00:19:52.15\00:19:54.20
that the church
teaches that she has changed
00:19:54.23\00:19:57.02
that festival of
creation from the Sabbath day
00:19:57.05\00:19:58.86
to the venerated day of the sun.
00:19:58.89\00:20:01.44
And thus in a single paragraph,
in one homily in Vienna,
00:20:01.47\00:20:05.35
the pope reminds his listeners
that the church has co-opted
00:20:05.38\00:20:09.61
not only God's
Seventh-day Sabbath,
00:20:09.64\00:20:11.54
but the very meaning
of the Seventh-day Sabbath
00:20:11.57\00:20:14.11
as a memorial of creation.
00:20:14.14\00:20:17.89
I read it and read it,
and so the Benedict XVI
00:20:17.92\00:20:22.66
declared to the
world last September,
00:20:22.69\00:20:24.15
Sunday is a memorial
festival of the divine creation.
00:20:24.18\00:20:32.14
I cannot believe my
ears. I look at that known.
00:20:32.17\00:20:36.70
Sure, I've read and
known of Rome's renewed claims
00:20:36.73\00:20:39.51
particularly
over this last century
00:20:39.54\00:20:41.85
to change God's day of
worship from Saturday to Sunday.
00:20:41.88\00:20:45.65
In fact in 1910, a
priest named Peter Geiermann
00:20:45.68\00:20:48.87
received Pope Pius X apostolic
blessing for his new book,
00:20:48.90\00:20:52.09
"The Convert's
Catechism of Catholic Doctrine."
00:20:52.12\00:20:54.65
This little Q&A exchange
takes place in that catechism.
00:20:54.68\00:20:57.63
You see there in
your study guide.
00:20:57.66\00:20:59.01
Question- why do we observe
Sunday instead of Saturday?
00:20:59.04\00:21:01.61
"Answer: We observe
Sunday instead of Saturday
00:21:01.64\00:21:03.97
because the Catholic Church,
in the Council of Laodicea
00:21:04.00\00:21:06.82
(A.D. 336),
transferred the solemnity
00:21:06.85\00:21:13.24
from Saturday to Sunday."
00:21:13.27\00:21:16.80
The church did
it and so we do it.
00:21:16.83\00:21:19.69
Ladies and
gentlemen, there is no question
00:21:19.72\00:21:20.85
among historians and theologians
00:21:20.88\00:21:22.48
of all phase today
that the Church of Rome
00:21:22.51\00:21:25.09
has claimed from the beginning
00:21:25.12\00:21:26.44
to change the day of worship
from the biblical Sabbath
00:21:26.47\00:21:28.67
to the day of the
sun or the Sunday.
00:21:28.70\00:21:32.09
One of the most
popular American prelates
00:21:32.12\00:21:35.83
James Cardinal
Gibbons was author of the book
00:21:35.86\00:21:39.51
"The Faith of Our Fathers"
00:21:39.54\00:21:40.58
which went
through over 110 editions.
00:21:40.61\00:21:43.76
In that book, I
want to underline
00:21:43.79\00:21:45.05
and so you have the
website right there.
00:21:45.08\00:21:47.41
The book is there in facsimile,
00:21:47.44\00:21:48.52
I looked at that page,
and sure enough there it is.
00:21:48.55\00:21:50.98
Here's the sentence,
Cardinal Gibbons writing,
00:21:51.01\00:21:53.73
"You may read the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation,
00:21:53.76\00:21:56.13
and you will not
find a single line
00:21:56.16\00:21:58.80
authorizing the
sanctification of Sunday.
00:21:58.83\00:22:02.28
The Scriptures enforce
the religious observance
00:22:02.31\00:22:04.60
of Saturday, a day which
we, Rome, never sanctify."
00:22:04.63\00:22:12.16
Much closer to
home, the popular priest
00:22:12.19\00:22:14.61
and professor and writer John A.
00:22:14.64\00:22:16.67
O'Brien who ended his
illustrious teaching career
00:22:16.70\00:22:19.24
right down the road
at Notre Dame University.
00:22:19.27\00:22:21.73
In fact died there in 1980.
00:22:21.76\00:22:23.57
He wrote the best seller
book, the Faith of Millions,
00:22:23.60\00:22:27.12
I went on to the
Notre Dame archive online
00:22:27.15\00:22:29.80
and discovered that this book
not only became a best seller
00:22:29.83\00:22:31.86
but was reprinted in 27 editions
00:22:31.89\00:22:33.91
and translated
into 10 languages.
00:22:33.94\00:22:36.64
So O'Brien, father O'Brien
makes the starling observation.
00:22:36.67\00:22:41.03
You see it there
in your study guide.
00:22:41.06\00:22:42.67
"But since Saturday, not Sunday,
00:22:42.70\00:22:45.39
is specified in the
Bible, isn't it curious
00:22:45.42\00:22:48.52
that
non-Catholics, read Protestants,
00:22:48.55\00:22:51.29
who profess to
take their religion
00:22:51.32\00:22:52.79
directly from the Bible
and not from the Church,
00:22:52.82\00:22:55.36
observe Sunday
instead of Saturday?
00:22:55.39\00:22:58.64
Yes, of course..."
00:22:58.67\00:22:59.87
He writes and this is his
word, "It is inconsistent.'
00:22:59.90\00:23:05.40
It is inconsistent.
00:23:05.43\00:23:06.88
But this change was
made about fifteen centuries
00:23:06.91\00:23:08.63
before Protestantism was born,
00:23:08.66\00:23:10.28
and by that time the
custom was universally observed.
00:23:10.31\00:23:14.23
They have, Protestants,
have continued the custom,
00:23:14.26\00:23:16.73
worshiping on Sunday,
00:23:16.76\00:23:17.82
even though it
rests upon the authority
00:23:17.85\00:23:19.74
of the Catholic
Church and not..."
00:23:19.77\00:23:22.53
That's not my
word, that's his word
00:23:22.56\00:23:23.83
"And not upon an
explicit text in the Bible.
00:23:23.86\00:23:27.26
That observance
remains as a reminder
00:23:27.29\00:23:29.31
of the Mother Church
00:23:29.34\00:23:30.61
from which the
non-Catholic sects broke away,
00:23:30.64\00:23:33.59
like a boy
running away from home
00:23:33.62\00:23:36.14
but still carrying in his pocket
00:23:36.17\00:23:37.76
a picture of his
mother or a lock of her hair."
00:23:37.79\00:23:44.37
You Protestants,
you are runaway boys,
00:23:44.40\00:23:48.82
but you can't forget your mother
00:23:48.85\00:23:50.71
and you still carry
her picture in your pocket.
00:23:50.74\00:23:54.30
How well can you explain it?
00:23:54.33\00:23:56.38
The priest writes
and you know what?
00:23:56.41\00:23:58.80
He's absolutely right.
00:23:58.83\00:24:00.68
How did he put it
here, isn't it curious?
00:24:00.71\00:24:04.25
Isn't it inconsistent?
00:24:04.28\00:24:06.58
For the Protestants to
say they follow the Bible
00:24:06.61\00:24:09.02
and the Bible only are taking
their queues only from Rome
00:24:09.05\00:24:13.04
when it comes to
the day of worship.
00:24:13.07\00:24:15.47
I have to tell you, I
agree with John A. O'Brien.
00:24:15.50\00:24:20.94
Isn't it curious?
Isn't it inconsistent?
00:24:20.97\00:24:26.52
So what I'm telling you is that
00:24:26.55\00:24:27.68
when I heard Benedict the XVI
back in September declare that
00:24:27.71\00:24:33.70
Sunday now is the
festival of God's creation.
00:24:33.73\00:24:36.41
I was astounded.
00:24:36.44\00:24:37.47
You may have
known that all your life
00:24:37.50\00:24:38.53
for that had been
the church's position
00:24:38.56\00:24:39.74
but for me somehow to
hear a pope articulate it
00:24:39.77\00:24:42.27
and to hear the
news media pick it up.
00:24:42.30\00:24:44.27
I said, wait a minute,
wait, time out again, please.
00:24:44.30\00:24:48.27
Is anybody gonna
say anything here?
00:24:48.30\00:24:52.47
You're telling me that
the media are just gonna hook,
00:24:52.50\00:24:54.73
line and sinker
say, well, that's a--
00:24:54.76\00:24:56.13
Well, of course, so it
is a memorial of creation.
00:24:56.16\00:24:58.13
Is all of
Christendom believing that?
00:24:58.16\00:25:01.84
The whole world believes
it? You've got to be kidding me.
00:25:01.87\00:25:05.26
Somebody raise the question.
00:25:05.29\00:25:13.01
And If I'm
really honest with you,
00:25:13.26\00:25:16.24
I'm gonna
confess, as I reflected
00:25:16.27\00:25:21.28
on that declaration,
I brood it in my heart.
00:25:21.31\00:25:24.28
I wonder thinking of
my own community of faith.
00:25:24.31\00:25:28.04
I wonder how many even
within my community of faith
00:25:28.07\00:25:32.16
have an inkling as to
the divine credentials
00:25:32.19\00:25:35.85
for the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:25:35.88\00:25:38.27
Or it's just, have
we raised a generation.
00:25:38.30\00:25:41.02
Oh, well, hey,
for some it's this,
00:25:41.05\00:25:45.69
for some it's that, who cares.
00:25:45.72\00:25:49.71
I wonder, do they have a clue
00:25:49.74\00:25:55.13
that this very issue
is silently being shape
00:25:55.16\00:25:57.14
by mysterious hands
into the final spiritual
00:25:57.17\00:26:00.45
showdown of earth's history.
00:26:00.48\00:26:03.33
Do they have a clue?
00:26:03.36\00:26:06.05
Open your Bible with me,
please, to the Apocalypse,
00:26:06.08\00:26:07.85
the Bible's last book,
the Book of Revelation.
00:26:07.88\00:26:10.88
Find Revelation
14, Revelation 14,
00:26:10.91\00:26:14.78
and while you are
finding Revelation 14,
00:26:14.81\00:26:16.90
I want to do something with you.
00:26:16.93\00:26:18.52
It is kind of this
famous multitasking
00:26:18.55\00:26:21.19
that you're good
at, Revelation 14
00:26:21.22\00:26:23.10
while you are
finding Revelation 14,
00:26:23.13\00:26:24.76
I need to draw you attention
to a stain glass window
00:26:24.79\00:26:27.55
that is high over my head
right now, right up there.
00:26:27.58\00:26:30.86
We call it here in Pioneer,
we call it the rose window.
00:26:30.89\00:26:33.84
I want you to read
the piece of apocalypse
00:26:33.87\00:26:37.36
that inspired the artist
00:26:37.39\00:26:38.80
who designed this
stained glass window.
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.89
It's high stained glass window
in the Pioneer Memorial Church.
00:26:40.92\00:26:43.74
All right, so
you see the picture.
00:26:43.77\00:26:44.96
Do you see Jesus? Yep.
00:26:44.99\00:26:46.49
You see Him on a cloud?
00:26:46.52\00:26:47.94
Do you see a
crown on His head? Yes.
00:26:47.97\00:26:49.36
And what do you see in His hand?
00:26:49.39\00:26:50.42
what do you see in His hand?
00:26:50.45\00:26:52.53
He has a
sickle, He has a sickle.
00:26:52.56\00:26:54.55
Where did an artist come up
with such a thought as that.
00:26:54.58\00:26:57.31
I'll show you, Revelation 14,
00:26:57.34\00:27:00.14
now we're going to
the Bible, Revelation 14,
00:27:00.17\00:27:01.80
here are the words that
inspired the rose window
00:27:01.83\00:27:04.57
here in the
Pioneer Memorial Church.
00:27:04.60\00:27:05.98
Revelation 14:14.
00:27:06.01\00:27:07.71
By the way, you
didn't bring your Bible,
00:27:07.74\00:27:08.91
grab the pew Bible
right in front of you.
00:27:08.94\00:27:10.47
Pew Bible right in front of you.
00:27:10.50\00:27:11.53
What's the page number here?
Page 830, Bible's last book.
00:27:11.56\00:27:15.08
Take a look at this.
00:27:15.11\00:27:16.53
Revelation
14:14, " Then I looked,
00:27:16.56\00:27:19.18
and behold, a white cloud,
00:27:19.21\00:27:21.16
and on the cloud sat
One like the Son of Man,
00:27:21.19\00:27:23.12
having on His
head a golden crown,
00:27:23.15\00:27:24.91
and in His hand a sharp sickle."
00:27:24.94\00:27:28.23
That's the picture, isn't it?
00:27:28.26\00:27:29.52
Yep.
00:27:29.55\00:27:30.64
"And another angel
came out of the temple,
00:27:30.67\00:27:32.38
crying with a loud voice."
00:27:32.41\00:27:33.51
Now in the Greek, megale phone,
00:27:33.54\00:27:34.99
two words in the Greek,
crying out what we would say
00:27:35.02\00:27:37.28
in English, crying
out with a megaphone.
00:27:37.31\00:27:39.20
This isn't a whimper,
this isn't a little whisper,
00:27:39.23\00:27:42.31
this is a booming cry.
00:27:42.34\00:27:45.31
"And another angel
came out of the temple,
00:27:45.34\00:27:46.69
crying with a loud voice to Him,
00:27:46.72\00:27:48.31
to Jesus, who sat on the cloud,
00:27:48.34\00:27:50.02
"Thrust in Your sickle and reap,
00:27:50.05\00:27:51.85
for the time has
come for You to reap,
00:27:51.88\00:27:53.38
for the harvest of
the earth is ripe."
00:27:53.41\00:27:55.43
So verse 16, "He
who sat on the cloud
00:27:55.46\00:27:57.92
thrust in His
sickle on the earth,
00:27:57.95\00:27:59.60
and the earth was reaped."
00:27:59.63\00:28:02.28
We have just read
ladies and gentlemen
00:28:02.31\00:28:03.52
an apocalyptic description
of the second coming of Christ.
00:28:03.55\00:28:07.61
It's the end of the world.
00:28:07.64\00:28:09.83
You say, well,
what's the big deal, Dwight.
00:28:09.86\00:28:10.94
I tell you what the big deal is.
00:28:10.97\00:28:12.04
This is a key time marker.
00:28:12.07\00:28:15.18
We need to know
that what precedes
00:28:15.21\00:28:17.96
the second coming of Christ,
00:28:17.99\00:28:21.24
precedes it,
very much precedes it,
00:28:21.27\00:28:24.46
as the preceding
verses will show us.
00:28:24.49\00:28:26.24
What we read in
the preceding verses,
00:28:26.27\00:28:28.28
we need to lock
this in our minds,
00:28:28.31\00:28:29.66
ah, that's just before
Jesus returns, all right.
00:28:29.69\00:28:33.55
So let's look at
the preceding verses.
00:28:33.58\00:28:34.85
Take a look at this.
00:28:34.88\00:28:36.56
Just before Christ
return, there will be a message
00:28:36.59\00:28:38.87
that goes to the entire planet.
00:28:38.90\00:28:42.28
A message that
describes a final contest
00:28:42.31\00:28:44.39
between these two
religious communities,
00:28:44.42\00:28:46.11
these two
ideologies, these two camps
00:28:46.14\00:28:47.99
and I want to warn you
what you are about to read.
00:28:48.02\00:28:50.52
In all of the scripture
you will not find a more
00:28:50.55\00:28:53.03
in your face, divine urgent
warning to the human race.
00:28:53.06\00:28:58.36
This is the
most strident warning
00:28:58.39\00:29:00.48
in all of Holy Scripture.
00:29:00.51\00:29:02.12
All right, take a look at it.
00:29:02.15\00:29:03.44
Revelation 14,
you're already there,
00:29:03.47\00:29:05.45
go back to
verse 6, three angels,
00:29:05.48\00:29:08.15
it picture this three
angels, is it a global message?
00:29:08.18\00:29:10.99
You'll see that
immediately, verse 6.
00:29:11.02\00:29:12.45
"Then I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven,
00:29:12.48\00:29:15.02
having the
everlasting gospel..."
00:29:15.05\00:29:16.40
By the way, at the
heart of this message
00:29:16.43\00:29:18.26
is the glorious good
news of the kingdom of heaven
00:29:18.29\00:29:22.29
and that is, the centrality
of the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:29:22.32\00:29:27.47
in the salvation
of the human race,
00:29:27.50\00:29:29.81
so that's the
everlasting gospel,
00:29:29.84\00:29:31.09
so he says, "I saw
another angel flying
00:29:31.12\00:29:32.76
in the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting gospel
00:29:32.79\00:29:34.67
to preach to those
who dwell on the earth,
00:29:34.70\00:29:36.30
to every nation, tribe, tongue,
00:29:36.33\00:29:37.69
and people, saying
with a loud voice."
00:29:37.72\00:29:39.29
There it is again, megale phone,
00:29:39.32\00:29:41.24
say booming it out,
00:29:41.27\00:29:42.67
this has to go to
the entire civilization
00:29:42.70\00:29:45.09
saying with the
loud voice, verse 7,
00:29:45.12\00:29:46.87
"Fear God and give glory to Him,
00:29:46.90\00:29:48.87
for the hour of His
judgment has come..."
00:29:48.90\00:29:52.08
Oh, oh, we're
running out of time.
00:29:52.11\00:29:53.84
"And worship Him who
made heaven and earth,
00:29:53.87\00:29:56.56
the sea and the
springs of water."
00:29:56.59\00:29:59.42
Would you jot this
down, ladies and gentlemen?
00:29:59.45\00:30:01.46
"Just before the
return of Christ,
00:30:01.49\00:30:03.04
there will go forth an urgent
00:30:03.07\00:30:04.47
and final appeal
to the human race
00:30:04.50\00:30:07.41
to return to the Creator..."
00:30:07.44\00:30:10.66
Unmistakably clear,
return to the Creator,
00:30:10.69\00:30:15.32
the one who made
heaven and earth,
00:30:15.35\00:30:16.38
the sea and the
springs of waters.
00:30:16.41\00:30:18.59
"And worship him."
00:30:18.62\00:30:20.11
Please note, and
worship Him, worship.
00:30:20.14\00:30:23.83
Keep your pen moving,
The Greek of Revelation 14:7
00:30:23.86\00:30:26.84
is identical to the
Greek of the Fourth Commandment
00:30:26.87\00:30:29.73
in the Ten
Commandments, the Greek version
00:30:29.76\00:30:31.52
of the Ten Commandments
are called the Septuagint.
00:30:31.55\00:30:33.46
LXX, that means 70
translators collaborated
00:30:33.49\00:30:36.55
to put that Greek translation
of the Old Testament together.
00:30:36.58\00:30:38.63
The Greek words are identical.
00:30:38.66\00:30:41.31
There is no
question the linkage here
00:30:41.34\00:30:43.42
is intentional and it is clear.
00:30:43.45\00:30:47.08
In fact, jot it
down, Clearly the Sabbath,
00:30:47.11\00:30:49.35
the memorial of the Creator,
00:30:49.38\00:30:50.89
is central to
God's final appeal..."
00:30:50.92\00:30:53.58
Just before Jesus
comes, his final appeal
00:30:53.61\00:30:56.09
to the human race will
be, come back to the Creator,
00:30:56.12\00:30:58.10
worship the one who
made heaven and earth,
00:30:58.13\00:31:00.39
straight out of
the Fourth Commandment.
00:31:00.42\00:31:03.13
All right, but
there are three angels.
00:31:03.16\00:31:04.27
Take a look at
this second, angel, wow,
00:31:04.30\00:31:06.90
this would be verse 8,
"And another angel followed,
00:31:06.93\00:31:09.63
saying, "Babylon is fallen,
is fallen, that great city,
00:31:09.66\00:31:13.88
because she has
made all nations drink
00:31:13.91\00:31:16.08
of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication."
00:31:16.11\00:31:18.91
Would you jot this down as well,
00:31:18.94\00:31:20.90
Babylon is the apocalyptic
symbol of an end time
00:31:20.93\00:31:24.33
geo-religio-political
confederacy,
00:31:24.36\00:31:27.44
a confederacy
against the Creator God.
00:31:27.47\00:31:31.14
Clearly in the apocalypse,
00:31:31.17\00:31:33.47
it is this union
opposing the Creator God.
00:31:33.50\00:31:37.92
Two angels down, one to go.
00:31:37.95\00:31:39.21
Here comes
number three, verse 9,
00:31:39.24\00:31:40.95
"Then a third
angel followed them,
00:31:40.98\00:31:43.02
saying with a loud voice..."
00:31:43.05\00:31:44.09
There it is again,
megaphone, booming out.
00:31:44.12\00:31:46.86
This voice has to go
the entire civilization,
00:31:46.89\00:31:49.05
saying with a loud voice.
00:31:49.08\00:31:50.94
Now, this is the most strident.
00:31:50.97\00:31:52.28
This is the in your face part.
00:31:52.31\00:31:56.46
"Saying with a loud voice,
00:31:56.49\00:31:57.56
"If anyone worships
the beast and his image,
00:31:57.59\00:32:01.32
and receives his mark on
his forehead or on his hand.
00:32:01.35\00:32:04.51
Verse 10, "He
himself shall also drink
00:32:04.54\00:32:06.91
of the wine of the wrath of God,
00:32:06.94\00:32:08.74
which is poured
out full strength
00:32:08.77\00:32:10.61
into the cup of His indignation.
00:32:10.64\00:32:12.33
He shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone
00:32:12.36\00:32:14.51
in the presence
of the holy angels
00:32:14.54\00:32:16.46
and in the
presence of the Lamb."
00:32:16.49\00:32:19.08
Would you jot this down please,
00:32:19.11\00:32:20.31
God warns the
world not to receive.
00:32:20.34\00:32:23.46
Look at every American knows
about the mark of the beast,
00:32:23.49\00:32:25.33
if you go to a super market
00:32:25.36\00:32:26.72
and you just scan the
headlines of those tabloids.
00:32:26.75\00:32:29.18
You will see a
headline, yet ahead,
00:32:29.21\00:32:31.92
that every three
months they re-circulate it.
00:32:31.95\00:32:33.49
What is the mark of the beast?
00:32:33.52\00:32:36.31
Please, know, God
is warning the world
00:32:36.34\00:32:37.90
not to receive
the mark of the beast.
00:32:37.93\00:32:39.71
What is that? That's the sign.
00:32:39.74\00:32:41.48
That is the sign of Babylon's
claim to global authority.
00:32:41.51\00:32:46.58
Hey look, if
Babylon is this final
00:32:46.61\00:32:48.85
end time confederacy
against the Creator God,
00:32:48.88\00:32:52.67
and remember it is
clear, there are only two camps,
00:32:52.70\00:32:55.53
two ideologies, two positions,
00:32:55.56\00:32:57.41
if Babylon is
one of those camps,
00:32:57.44\00:32:59.67
who pray tell would
be in that other camp?
00:32:59.70\00:33:02.84
Who else? Who else?
00:33:02.87\00:33:04.99
John will not
leave us wondering.
00:33:05.02\00:33:06.95
Look at verse 12,
00:33:06.98\00:33:10.02
"Here is the
patience of the saints..."
00:33:10.05\00:33:11.68
Here's the other camp.
00:33:11.71\00:33:12.88
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:33:12.91\00:33:16.15
here are those who keep
the commandments of God,
00:33:16.18\00:33:19.99
and the faith of Jesus."
00:33:20.02\00:33:22.43
Would you write it down please,
00:33:22.46\00:33:23.50
the "saints" that's code word
00:33:23.53\00:33:25.29
for God's loyal friends
on earth at the end of time.
00:33:25.32\00:33:27.53
"The saints are those
who keep the commandments,
00:33:27.56\00:33:30.83
the commandments of God."
00:33:30.86\00:33:32.77
Which by the way
would include the Sabbath
00:33:32.80\00:33:34.34
or fourth commandment.
00:33:34.37\00:33:35.44
Now wouldn't it?
00:33:35.47\00:33:36.90
They keep the
commandments of God
00:33:36.93\00:33:38.05
and they hold fast
to the faith of Jesus.
00:33:38.08\00:33:39.89
Who is Jesus?
00:33:39.92\00:33:40.97
He is both the Lord of salvation
00:33:41.00\00:33:42.65
and the Lord of the Sabbath.
00:33:42.68\00:33:44.59
Who are these?
00:33:44.62\00:33:46.34
In other words,
keep your pen moving.
00:33:46.37\00:33:48.16
"The final spiritual
contest before Christ returns
00:33:48.19\00:33:50.83
will be a
David-and-Goliath showdown
00:33:50.86\00:33:53.60
between the
mighty power of Babylon
00:33:53.63\00:33:55.84
and the obedient
followers of the Creator God."
00:33:55.87\00:34:01.77
A contest by the way that
will threaten their very lives.
00:34:01.80\00:34:06.59
Just turn back one
page, come on, one page.
00:34:06.62\00:34:08.32
Back to Revelation
13, you're already in 14
00:34:08.35\00:34:10.33
go back to 13, take a
look at this, will you?
00:34:10.36\00:34:16.29
This is the more
graphic depiction
00:34:16.32\00:34:17.44
of that final showdown,
00:34:17.47\00:34:18.61
that final contest
just before Christ comes.
00:34:18.64\00:34:21.43
Okay, Revelation 13,
let's pick it up in verse 15,
00:34:21.46\00:34:24.56
"He was granted power
00:34:24.59\00:34:26.14
to give breath to the
image of the beast..."
00:34:26.17\00:34:27.95
Now, hold, time out,
time out, right there.
00:34:27.98\00:34:29.54
Who is this he?
00:34:29.57\00:34:30.63
Well, that's a
whole another study.
00:34:30.66\00:34:32.93
It is clear however
from what we are reading
00:34:32.96\00:34:35.28
that this he is
a global superpower
00:34:35.31\00:34:37.94
that has to be
clear, for he will command,
00:34:37.97\00:34:40.13
whoever this he represents,
00:34:40.16\00:34:41.42
he will command the entire earth
00:34:41.45\00:34:43.07
and the earth will
obey, he becomes a partner
00:34:43.10\00:34:46.90
with this Babylon confederacy,
00:34:46.93\00:34:48.65
he becomes a partner
in leading the world,
00:34:48.68\00:34:51.37
to embrace the authority
of the Babylon confederacy.
00:34:51.40\00:34:55.18
That's all you need to
know right now, verse 15,
00:34:55.21\00:34:57.94
"He was granted
power to give breath
00:34:57.97\00:35:00.00
to the image of the beast..."
00:35:00.03\00:35:01.59
So there is some kind of
replication of this beast.
00:35:01.62\00:35:04.15
And by the way, the beast
is another apocalyptic symbol,
00:35:04.18\00:35:06.89
twin symbol to Babylon,
so it's just confederacy.
00:35:06.92\00:35:09.44
So he makes this, he
makes this image of the beast,
00:35:09.47\00:35:13.92
"That the image of the
beast should both speak
00:35:13.95\00:35:17.75
and cause as many as
would not worship..."
00:35:17.78\00:35:20.30
Key word.
00:35:20.33\00:35:21.38
"As may as would
not worship the image
00:35:21.41\00:35:23.42
of the beast to be killed."
00:35:23.45\00:35:24.81
Verse 16, "He causes
all, both small and great,
00:35:24.84\00:35:27.53
rich and poor, free and slave,
00:35:27.56\00:35:29.02
to receive a mark
on their right hand
00:35:29.05\00:35:30.72
or on their foreheads."
00:35:30.75\00:35:31.99
And verse 17,
"That no one may buy
00:35:32.02\00:35:34.40
or sell except
one who has the mark
00:35:34.43\00:35:36.28
or the name of the beast,
or the number of his name."
00:35:36.31\00:35:39.39
Verse 18, "Here is wisdom.
00:35:39.42\00:35:41.28
Let him who has understanding
00:35:41.31\00:35:42.46
calculate the
number of the beast,
00:35:42.49\00:35:43.80
for it is the number of a
man: and his number is 666."
00:35:43.83\00:35:49.26
Would you jot it down please?
00:35:49.29\00:35:51.22
It is clear here.
00:35:51.25\00:35:52.44
It is crystal clear
that this final showdown,
00:35:52.47\00:35:56.17
this spiritual crises
just before Christ return
00:35:56.20\00:35:59.91
is a crises over worship.
00:35:59.94\00:36:01.90
Would you right
that down, please?
00:36:01.93\00:36:03.36
It is worship that
will define the final
00:36:03.39\00:36:06.63
moral battle
between the two camps.
00:36:06.66\00:36:09.31
Worship, worship, worship.
00:36:09.34\00:36:12.64
Three angels are crying
out don't worship anyone
00:36:12.67\00:36:16.38
but the Creator God.
00:36:16.41\00:36:17.72
And this other power
says, you will worship
00:36:17.75\00:36:20.21
the image that I have set up.
00:36:20.24\00:36:24.51
Now I need to remind you,
00:36:24.54\00:36:26.16
from your study
of the apocalypse
00:36:26.19\00:36:30.36
that nearly every line
in the book of Revelation
00:36:30.39\00:36:35.02
is borrowed from
the Old Testament,
00:36:35.05\00:36:36.77
which means...
00:36:36.80\00:36:37.83
Would you jot this down, please?
00:36:37.86\00:36:39.27
Which means that this
narrative comes straight
00:36:39.30\00:36:40.55
out of Daniel 3,
right in Daniel 3.
00:36:40.58\00:36:43.12
Everybody knows
the story of Daniel 3.
00:36:43.15\00:36:45.16
It's a story
that-- bold monarch,
00:36:45.19\00:36:49.53
Nebuchadnezzar of
the Babylonian Empire.
00:36:49.56\00:36:52.38
Acknowledges
the supremacy of God
00:36:52.41\00:36:54.37
and yet in a
moment of insane pride.
00:36:54.40\00:36:56.38
You remember the
story, insane pride,
00:36:56.41\00:36:58.11
he says I need the
world worshipping me
00:36:58.14\00:36:59.81
and Daniel 3 is the
story of him erecting
00:36:59.84\00:37:01.38
this massive golden
image and the command goes out
00:37:01.41\00:37:04.73
and you'll look at the
word sometime in Daniel 3,
00:37:04.76\00:37:06.65
it is a command
to the whole world,
00:37:06.68\00:37:08.22
I want the whole world
to bow down at this image.
00:37:08.25\00:37:10.81
Bow down at the image.
00:37:10.84\00:37:13.93
The worship image,
whole world bow down,
00:37:13.96\00:37:18.69
that linkage is clear, isn't it?
00:37:18.72\00:37:20.06
Revelation 13,
Revelation 13, Daniel 3,
00:37:20.09\00:37:22.60
the linkage is clear.
00:37:22.63\00:37:24.58
But you remember the
story, they were three young,
00:37:24.61\00:37:27.93
young adults, they were Hebrews,
00:37:27.96\00:37:30.79
three young Hebrew men.
00:37:30.82\00:37:33.73
And when the command went out,
00:37:33.76\00:37:35.33
the whole world bowed down,
those three would not budge.
00:37:35.36\00:37:40.75
And you have it
in your study guide,
00:37:40.78\00:37:41.90
a direct quote
here from Daniel 3:18.
00:37:41.93\00:37:43.39
What did they say to the king?
00:37:43.42\00:37:44.46
"Let it be known to you, O king,
00:37:44.49\00:37:46.99
that we do not serve your
gods, nor will we worship..."
00:37:47.02\00:37:50.61
Keyword see, worship
00:37:50.64\00:37:51.93
"Nor we will
worship the gold image
00:37:51.96\00:37:53.71
which you have set up."
00:37:53.74\00:37:55.89
Remember the
king was so infuriated
00:37:55.92\00:37:58.87
that he throws them
into the fiery furnace,
00:37:58.90\00:38:01.61
which they miraculously survive.
00:38:01.64\00:38:04.93
Jot it down,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:38:04.96\00:38:06.05
Revelation 13's linkage
to Daniel 3, what is it?
00:38:06.08\00:38:08.56
What is it teaching us?
00:38:08.59\00:38:09.64
It declares that
worship, worship is at the heart
00:38:09.67\00:38:12.72
of the final
spiritual crisis on earth:
00:38:12.75\00:38:14.87
What's this crises over?
00:38:14.90\00:38:15.95
The human
command to worship versus
00:38:15.98\00:38:18.38
the divine
commandment to worship.
00:38:18.41\00:38:22.82
You have a showdown
between authorities.
00:38:22.85\00:38:27.39
Keep your pen moving.
00:38:27.42\00:38:28.51
The divine day of worship,
00:38:28.54\00:38:30.27
every scholar on earth is
clear that is the Sabbath.
00:38:30.30\00:38:33.97
The human day of worship,
every historian is clear
00:38:34.00\00:38:37.58
that became Sunday.
00:38:37.61\00:38:41.68
And in the end, keep writing,
00:38:41.71\00:38:43.50
the whole world
will have to choose
00:38:43.53\00:38:45.33
whose authority
they will accept,
00:38:45.36\00:38:47.47
the authority of the divine
or the authority of the human.
00:38:47.50\00:38:49.99
You chose two
camps, two ideologies
00:38:50.02\00:38:53.46
there is no third option.
00:38:53.49\00:38:55.26
Sakae Kubo, is absolutely
right in his book God Meets Man.
00:38:55.29\00:39:00.28
Jot this down.
00:39:00.31\00:39:01.37
"In one sense, the Sabbath,
00:39:01.40\00:39:02.77
is somewhat of an arbitrary day.
00:39:02.80\00:39:05.57
Ultimately the
keeping of the Sabbath
00:39:05.60\00:39:07.66
on the seventh day
is an act of obedient
00:39:07.69\00:39:10.39
and self-renouncing faith
00:39:10.42\00:39:12.21
in the recognition
of God's sovereignty."
00:39:12.24\00:39:15.36
That's what it is, ultimately,
00:39:15.39\00:39:17.24
it's just, well, God has
the authority to tell me what
00:39:17.27\00:39:19.53
He would like for me.
00:39:19.56\00:39:20.97
It's a recognition of
God's sovereignty over us.
00:39:21.00\00:39:23.32
One day, ladies and gentlemen,
you and I will have the choice
00:39:23.35\00:39:26.88
in no uncertain terms.
00:39:26.91\00:39:29.31
It will be the choice
between two days of worship.
00:39:29.34\00:39:33.24
It will be the choice
between the sovereignty
00:39:33.27\00:39:35.47
of the Most High God who
claims to have given the day
00:39:35.50\00:39:38.21
or the choice of the sovereignty
00:39:38.24\00:39:39.78
of the church that
claims to have change that day.
00:39:39.81\00:39:41.58
There is no third choice.
00:39:41.61\00:39:42.70
It comes down to
sovereignty and authority,
00:39:42.73\00:39:46.70
two competing
authorities, two competing days.
00:39:46.73\00:39:50.95
And I know what you're saying.
00:39:50.98\00:39:52.17
You're saying,
Dwight, please pastor.
00:39:52.20\00:39:55.27
This is way too simple.
00:39:55.30\00:39:57.41
This is so
elementary, you can't tell me,
00:39:57.44\00:40:00.30
that the human
race comes down to this.
00:40:00.33\00:40:02.58
Oh, my friend be careful about
00:40:02.61\00:40:04.07
dismissing
something so elementary,
00:40:04.10\00:40:05.68
has it ever occurred to you
00:40:05.71\00:40:07.05
that every test God
gives is elementary.
00:40:07.08\00:40:11.15
Every test.
00:40:11.18\00:40:13.43
Marvin Moore in his
provocative new book
00:40:13.46\00:40:15.63
Could It Really Happen?
00:40:15.66\00:40:17.04
observes that
whenever God-- Jot this down.
00:40:17.07\00:40:19.10
Whenever God has given
a test in sacred history,
00:40:19.13\00:40:21.11
the test has always been defined
00:40:21.14\00:40:23.03
by these two characteristics.
00:40:23.06\00:40:24.64
Jot it down. Very
simple and highly visible.
00:40:24.67\00:40:30.85
Everybody sees, everybody knows,
00:40:30.88\00:40:33.91
I mean just, let's just run,
00:40:33.94\00:40:34.97
let's just run to
the list Garden of Eden,
00:40:35.00\00:40:37.42
very simple, there's a tree
00:40:37.45\00:40:39.27
and I don't want
you to touch that,
00:40:39.30\00:40:40.36
I don't want you to
take a fruit from that tree.
00:40:40.39\00:40:43.87
So simple, highly
visible, we'll know if you go.
00:40:43.90\00:40:48.15
It's just very
simple and highly visible.
00:40:48.18\00:40:49.80
How about the
giving of the manna?
00:40:49.83\00:40:51.31
When God gives a manna
to the children of Israel
00:40:51.34\00:40:54.78
in the wilderness, this is
going to be very simple guys,
00:40:54.81\00:40:57.41
you got manna 6 days of the week
00:40:57.44\00:40:58.75
but on my Holy Sabbath
there will be no manna,
00:40:58.78\00:41:00.25
you go out, you'll look for it,
00:41:00.28\00:41:01.68
you'll find nothing
and everybody will see you.
00:41:01.71\00:41:05.23
Very simple and highly visible.
00:41:05.26\00:41:07.30
How about the plain
of-- the plains of Babylon
00:41:07.33\00:41:10.17
that golden image,
00:41:10.20\00:41:11.85
I mean how could you
get more simple than that.
00:41:11.88\00:41:13.46
You either stand or you fall.
00:41:13.49\00:41:14.78
You either bow down
or you stay standing.
00:41:14.81\00:41:16.87
Very simple and highly visible.
00:41:16.90\00:41:18.35
By the way if you're a young man
00:41:18.38\00:41:20.20
and there are only three of you
00:41:20.23\00:41:21.33
in the masses
that are bowing down
00:41:21.36\00:41:23.30
and the three of you are
standing, it is highly visible.
00:41:23.33\00:41:27.79
God's tests are always
very simple and highly visible.
00:41:27.82\00:41:29.88
Take Daniel the Persian
king who, says, hey, Daniel,
00:41:29.91\00:41:32.78
guess what I got
a law for 30 days
00:41:32.81\00:41:34.39
and nobody prays
to anybody but me.
00:41:34.42\00:41:37.15
And what does Daniel do?
00:41:37.18\00:41:38.23
Very simple, throws,
open the shades to his window,
00:41:38.26\00:41:41.69
gets down so the
whole world can see him,
00:41:41.72\00:41:43.66
he kneels down, very
simple and highly visible.
00:41:43.69\00:41:46.52
I will pray to
nobody but the Creator God.
00:41:46.55\00:41:49.74
Ladies and gentlemen,
God's test have always been
00:41:49.77\00:41:51.42
very simple and highly visible.
00:41:51.45\00:41:54.17
At the end of time it will be
very simple and highly visible.
00:41:54.20\00:41:56.54
Sabbath or Sunday, my authority
00:41:56.57\00:42:00.12
or their authority, you chose,
It's that simple, you choose,
00:42:00.15\00:42:05.94
very simple and highly visible.
00:42:05.97\00:42:10.17
You're saying,
come on, Dwight, please.
00:42:10.20\00:42:13.79
America?
00:42:13.82\00:42:16.14
It never happened in America,
00:42:16.17\00:42:17.43
it will never
happen in the west,
00:42:17.46\00:42:18.76
it will never
happen on this planet,
00:42:18.79\00:42:21.57
commanding people to worship.
00:42:21.60\00:42:23.71
Oh, Marvin Moore
quotes a social scientist
00:42:23.74\00:42:27.59
by the name of Michael Barkin
00:42:27.62\00:42:29.04
who teaches at the University
of New York in Buffalo
00:42:29.07\00:42:31.18
and who wrote the book
Disasters and the Millennium,
00:42:31.21\00:42:34.18
this is in your study
guide, I run three statements
00:42:34.21\00:42:36.52
from that book on
the screen for you.
00:42:36.55\00:42:38.54
You see what you think.
00:42:38.57\00:42:39.93
Statement number one,
"Disaster creates conditions
00:42:39.96\00:42:43.09
peculiarly fitted to the rapid
00:42:43.12\00:42:46.15
alteration of belief systems."
00:42:46.18\00:42:51.35
When the disaster happens,
I can change over a night,
00:42:51.38\00:42:54.89
if I have to.
00:42:54.92\00:42:55.95
All right that's
sentence number one.
00:42:55.98\00:42:57.01
Here comes sentence
number two, on the screen.
00:42:57.04\00:42:58.89
"Disaster
produces the questioning,
00:42:58.92\00:43:00.94
the anxiety and
the suggestibility
00:43:00.97\00:43:03.13
that are required for change,
00:43:03.16\00:43:05.08
only in its
wake are people moved
00:43:05.11\00:43:08.33
to abandon old
values of the past."
00:43:08.36\00:43:14.78
Let me have your
attention for a minute.
00:43:14.81\00:43:16.24
I remember reading
three days after that tragedy
00:43:16.27\00:43:18.78
called September 11,
2001 Twin Towers, Pentagon,
00:43:18.81\00:43:23.37
a field in Pennsylvania.
00:43:23.40\00:43:25.40
Three days afterwards,
00:43:25.43\00:43:26.65
they released a
poll of Americans
00:43:26.68\00:43:29.17
and get this, 57% of
Americans said, you know what?
00:43:29.20\00:43:33.51
I'm willing to
give up civil liberties
00:43:33.54\00:43:35.89
for the sake of security.
00:43:35.92\00:43:38.58
Disaster can shift
a paradigm overnight
00:43:38.61\00:43:42.26
and what you
would never embrace,
00:43:42.29\00:43:43.88
I would, I would never,
00:43:43.91\00:43:45.36
I would never go
with the law like that,
00:43:45.39\00:43:47.39
I would never bow down.
00:43:47.42\00:43:50.47
Over night, over night crisis.
00:43:50.50\00:43:57.13
Reverse yourself, one last line,
00:43:57.16\00:43:59.21
the third line, put
it on the screen here,
00:43:59.24\00:44:00.83
as it go, "Belief
systems which under non-disaster
00:44:00.86\00:44:04.18
conditions might be dismissed,
00:44:04.21\00:44:06.45
now in a disaster we see
sympathetic consideration."
00:44:06.48\00:44:11.24
I'm willing to entertain that--
well, I wouldn't have thought,
00:44:11.27\00:44:12.90
I would have never done
that before, but you know what?
00:44:12.93\00:44:14.98
We got to do
something to protect ourselves.
00:44:15.01\00:44:20.92
Don't kid yourselves,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:44:20.95\00:44:23.57
what we say could never happened
00:44:23.60\00:44:25.18
in the land of the
free could happen literally
00:44:25.21\00:44:29.77
overnight with a
debilitating crisis or disaster.
00:44:29.80\00:44:34.91
So before warned
about your tendency
00:44:34.94\00:44:39.44
to just dismiss Revelation 13
00:44:39.47\00:44:44.08
too quickly before warned.
00:44:44.11\00:44:52.00
Several months ago I
received a phone call,
00:44:53.93\00:44:56.81
in the dark of the night.
00:44:56.84\00:44:58.40
Sounds mysterious, doesn't it?
00:44:58.43\00:45:00.05
It was.
00:45:00.08\00:45:05.99
Gentleman on the
other end of the line
00:45:06.02\00:45:07.31
introduced himself to me,
I've never heard of him before,
00:45:07.34\00:45:11.64
I had not met him
then, I have not met him now.
00:45:11.67\00:45:15.35
But he told me, that
there was going to be
00:45:15.38\00:45:18.17
a meeting behind closed
doors in the nation's capital.
00:45:18.20\00:45:22.59
And that he was going
to be in that meeting.
00:45:22.62\00:45:26.81
He named the organizations
that were being convened
00:45:26.84\00:45:30.07
in that closed door meeting.
00:45:30.10\00:45:32.62
I got to tell you, it
was so preposterous to me
00:45:32.65\00:45:38.00
that this man would be
invited to a meeting like that,
00:45:38.03\00:45:41.26
that I just hung up
and forgot all about it.
00:45:41.29\00:45:47.09
Very recently a
report came to my attention
00:45:47.12\00:45:55.04
that describes what took place
00:45:55.07\00:45:57.15
in that meeting
behind closed doors.
00:45:57.18\00:46:01.79
I've worked hard to verify this.
00:46:01.82\00:46:04.14
I've been on the phone,
00:46:04.17\00:46:05.70
I have talked to people,
I've listened to attorney.
00:46:05.73\00:46:11.85
I must tell you that I
cannot verify the veracity
00:46:11.88\00:46:15.29
of this report of who was there,
00:46:15.32\00:46:19.28
whether this was in fact
the conversation last November
00:46:19.31\00:46:24.14
And that in fact
in just a few weeks,
00:46:24.17\00:46:27.76
one of very
influential spiritual leader
00:46:27.79\00:46:29.89
comes to this nation,
00:46:29.92\00:46:31.98
there will be
reconvening of this group.
00:46:32.01\00:46:34.04
I have no way, no way
00:46:34.07\00:46:37.85
to verify that report.
00:46:37.88\00:46:43.23
But you know what ladies
and gentlemen, forget it.
00:46:43.26\00:46:45.07
Who needs a report?
We don't need adrenaline.
00:46:45.10\00:46:47.79
We don't need adrenaline
00:46:47.82\00:46:51.90
to help us understand
that it is not beyond,
00:46:51.93\00:46:54.94
it is not beyond
creeds to imagine
00:46:54.97\00:47:01.60
that there may be forces one day
00:47:01.63\00:47:04.80
working behind
hundred closed doors,
00:47:04.83\00:47:06.23
if you want to have it that way.
00:47:06.26\00:47:10.57
Who will be quietly shaping
00:47:10.60\00:47:15.23
what this book declares
00:47:15.26\00:47:17.85
will indeed be the final crisis.
00:47:17.88\00:47:25.38
We don't need
adrenaline, you know, we need--
00:47:25.41\00:47:28.05
we need the spirit
of Jesus to give us
00:47:28.08\00:47:29.49
the heart of those three Hebrews
00:47:29.52\00:47:32.09
just a stand, you know I
want to be found standing,
00:47:32.12\00:47:33.92
I don't know
how the saints gonna
00:47:33.95\00:47:35.04
shake down in all the details.
00:47:35.07\00:47:36.55
I just know this, I
want to be found standing
00:47:36.58\00:47:39.59
just like those three boys.
00:47:39.62\00:47:41.76
I want to be found standing.
00:47:41.79\00:47:47.86
The words of James Lowell.
00:47:47.89\00:47:50.55
"Once to every man and nation,
comes the moment to decide,
00:47:50.58\00:47:55.94
In the strife of
truth with falsehood,
00:47:55.97\00:47:59.51
for the good or evil side."
00:47:59.54\00:48:01.92
There will come a
moment, ladies and gentlemen.
00:48:01.95\00:48:03.42
There will come a
moment, but you know what?
00:48:03.45\00:48:07.19
I don't want to wait
till that moment please.
00:48:07.22\00:48:10.25
The reality is, truth,
the sooner truth is embraced,
00:48:10.28\00:48:13.50
the deeper it goes
into the very heart and soul
00:48:13.53\00:48:16.92
of the one who says I'll stand.
00:48:16.95\00:48:19.50
Those three boys
didn't stand that day
00:48:19.53\00:48:21.14
because they suddenly got
a little idea in their brains
00:48:21.17\00:48:23.29
and hey, why do
you say we stand today?
00:48:23.32\00:48:26.16
Those boys are grown up in it.
00:48:26.19\00:48:29.34
Those boys are grown
up in it and it stuck.
00:48:29.37\00:48:36.77
People may have
laughed at out of them,
00:48:36.80\00:48:38.42
tried to do,
00:48:38.45\00:48:39.61
people may have
tried to say you know what?
00:48:39.64\00:48:40.77
If you are really sophisticated
00:48:40.80\00:48:41.95
and bright like me,
you won't believe this.
00:48:41.98\00:48:45.71
But those boys
said you know what?
00:48:45.74\00:48:47.99
I was taught this way,
00:48:48.02\00:48:50.05
I believe Holy Scripture
verifies this position.
00:48:50.08\00:48:55.26
And I'm not going
to change my mind now
00:48:55.29\00:48:58.70
that the crisis has come.
00:48:58.73\00:49:04.98
I understand
that for some of you
00:49:05.01\00:49:06.09
who have been tracking
the series for the last,
00:49:06.12\00:49:09.46
must be six times
now, I understand that
00:49:09.49\00:49:12.20
some of this is new
that you are saying,
00:49:12.23\00:49:14.55
wow, I heard of the
Bible and Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:49:14.58\00:49:20.01
For others perhaps
it's been a review,
00:49:20.04\00:49:21.53
but the fact of the matter
00:49:21.56\00:49:22.97
is whether this
has been a review
00:49:23.00\00:49:24.11
or first time
encountered, the reality is we--
00:49:24.14\00:49:27.26
every truth gives us
an opportunity to respond.
00:49:27.29\00:49:34.26
So I need to end a day
with a very simple appeal.
00:49:34.29\00:49:39.21
You know what the bottom-line
is to the Bible teaching about
00:49:39.24\00:49:41.41
the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:49:41.44\00:49:42.77
The bottom-line,
this is the bottom-line.
00:49:42.80\00:49:44.83
It's that Jesus is the
Lord of the Sabbath, that's it.
00:49:44.86\00:49:48.57
That's the truth.
00:49:48.60\00:49:50.71
So you see when you
make a decision about
00:49:50.74\00:49:52.07
the Bible Sabbath,
it's not about a decision
00:49:52.10\00:49:54.09
between you and your spouse.
00:49:54.12\00:49:55.17
It's not a decision
between you and your family,
00:49:55.20\00:49:57.78
or you and your
friends, or you and your church,
00:49:57.81\00:49:59.89
or you and your
pastor or priest.
00:49:59.92\00:50:01.51
Listen, it's a
decision about you and Jesus.
00:50:01.54\00:50:05.47
And I need to tell
you something else.
00:50:05.50\00:50:07.87
I'm not talking right now,
00:50:07.90\00:50:09.95
I'm not talking
about switching churches,
00:50:09.98\00:50:13.05
leaving one church
or joining another.
00:50:13.08\00:50:15.14
That's not what
I'm saying at all.
00:50:15.17\00:50:17.08
Here's what I'm saying.
00:50:17.11\00:50:18.67
If this has been
something new for you
00:50:18.70\00:50:21.83
and there is
something deep in your mind
00:50:21.86\00:50:23.47
and heart that has
said, you know, brothers,
00:50:23.50\00:50:27.93
this makes sense,
00:50:27.96\00:50:29.66
if so my friend
here's my invitation
00:50:29.69\00:50:32.30
why don't you begin,
00:50:32.33\00:50:34.32
why don't you
begin setting aside
00:50:34.35\00:50:36.72
God's Seventh-day
Sabbath and honoring Him
00:50:36.75\00:50:39.39
and experiencing
what He's always hope
00:50:39.42\00:50:42.12
you would experience
in the gift of that day.
00:50:42.15\00:50:45.28
You don't have to
make a big deal about it.
00:50:45.31\00:50:46.50
You don't have to run
to work and tell everybody.
00:50:46.53\00:50:49.22
You can just begin
test it for yourself,
00:50:49.25\00:50:52.87
see, in fact this
divine gift from the garden
00:50:52.90\00:50:58.38
isn't the right gift
for your life right now.
00:50:58.41\00:51:01.33
This much I'm gonna tell you,
00:51:01.36\00:51:02.64
I got good news
for you in this regard
00:51:02.67\00:51:05.72
and that is, when the
teacher is your friend,
00:51:05.75\00:51:11.71
you have nothing to
fear about a test in the end.
00:51:11.74\00:51:16.32
Just stay with your friend,
00:51:16.35\00:51:18.59
stay close, embrace your savior.
00:51:18.62\00:51:21.46
Call him Lord, call
Him Lord of the Sabbath,
00:51:21.49\00:51:24.47
call him Lord of
salvation, follow Him.
00:51:24.50\00:51:27.90
In fact that's it.
00:51:27.93\00:51:30.18
It's a simple test, remember
very simple and highly visible.
00:51:30.21\00:51:33.29
This test is so simple.
The final test is so simple.
00:51:33.32\00:51:36.62
It has only
question on it, final exam,
00:51:36.65\00:51:40.79
one question
Jesus saying to you,
00:51:40.82\00:51:44.59
will you follow Me?
00:51:44.62\00:51:49.02
That's it, that's it guys.
00:51:49.05\00:51:52.19
Everything comes down to Jesus.
00:51:52.22\00:51:54.68
Will you follow Me?
00:51:54.71\00:51:58.28
We got a great
quintet on this campus
00:51:58.31\00:52:01.64
and I've invited them to lead us
00:52:01.67\00:52:06.05
in an old gospel hymn,
come on take that hymnal out,
00:52:06.08\00:52:08.64
you're not used to sing it
now from the hymnal, are you?
00:52:08.67\00:52:10.63
Well, get used to it.
00:52:10.66\00:52:12.70
Hymn 623, there's an
old gospel hymn, 623.
00:52:12.73\00:52:18.66
I will follow Thee, my Savior
00:52:18.69\00:52:20.35
Wheresoe'er my lot may be
00:52:20.38\00:52:21.94
Where thou goest I will follow
00:52:21.97\00:52:24.84
Yes, my Lord, I'll follow Thee
00:52:24.87\00:52:26.03
So here's what
we're gonna do, guys,
00:52:26.06\00:52:27.71
I've asked that quartet
to sing that first stanza
00:52:27.74\00:52:31.03
and then I'll like to
invite you and me to join them
00:52:31.06\00:52:32.69
and sing stanza 2
and then stanza 3.
00:52:32.72\00:52:35.61
We're gonna sing 3
stanzas of this, all right.
00:52:35.64\00:52:38.53
Let's be standing while
we're listening to the quartet.
00:52:38.56\00:52:41.42
Listen to what they're saying
00:52:41.45\00:52:42.64
and then we'll join 'em
in stanza 2 and in stanza 3.
00:52:42.67\00:52:50.30
I will follow Thee
00:52:50.33\00:52:53.71
My Savior,
00:52:53.74\00:52:56.69
Wheresoe'er my lot may be.
00:52:56.72\00:53:02.73
Where thou goest I will follow,
00:53:02.76\00:53:09.19
Yes, my Lord, I'll follow Thee.
00:53:09.22\00:53:15.88
I will follow Thee, my Savior
00:53:15.91\00:53:21.93
Thou didst shed Thy blood for me
00:53:21.96\00:53:28.53
And though all men
should forsake Thee
00:53:28.56\00:53:35.40
By Thy grace I'll follow Thee
00:53:35.43\00:53:41.49
Though the road
be rough and thorny
00:53:45.05\00:53:51.56
Trackless as the foaming sea
00:53:51.59\00:53:58.11
Thou hast trod
this way before me
00:53:58.14\00:54:04.96
And I'll gladly follow Thee
00:54:04.99\00:54:11.94
I will follow Thee, my Savior
00:54:11.97\00:54:18.82
Thou didst shed Thy blood for me
00:54:18.85\00:54:25.88
And though all men
should forsake Thee
00:54:25.91\00:54:32.91
By Thy grace I'll follow Thee
00:54:32.94\00:54:40.74
Though I meet with tribulations
00:54:42.02\00:54:48.80
Sorely tempted though I be
00:54:48.83\00:54:55.70
I remember Thou wast tempted
00:54:55.73\00:55:02.44
And rejoice to follow Thee
00:55:02.47\00:55:09.55
I will follow Thee, my Savior
00:55:09.58\00:55:16.34
Thou didst shed Thy blood for me
00:55:16.37\00:55:23.36
And though all men
should forsake Thee
00:55:23.39\00:55:30.78
By Thy grace I'll follow Thee
00:55:30.81\00:55:38.46
So Holy Father we
sing, we sing a prayer
00:55:41.27\00:55:46.82
and that is our
choice, we want to follow You.
00:55:46.85\00:55:50.24
This final exam
has one question on it,
00:55:50.27\00:55:52.01
will you follow me.
00:55:52.04\00:55:53.10
What we're saying
is yes by Your grace.
00:55:53.13\00:55:57.02
We will follow
our Lord and Savior.
00:55:57.05\00:56:00.48
I have no idea Father,
what lies ahead for any of us.
00:56:00.51\00:56:03.13
The sun is still shinning.
00:56:03.16\00:56:05.24
The thought of a crisis
00:56:05.27\00:56:06.33
is the farthest
thing from our minds.
00:56:06.36\00:56:10.40
But especially now then,
00:56:10.43\00:56:12.71
oh, God take
this quiet decision,
00:56:12.74\00:56:16.58
lock it into our
hearts, seal it upon our minds
00:56:16.61\00:56:23.82
and in a day
that shall yet come,
00:56:23.85\00:56:28.12
when all the world
will bow down to an image,
00:56:28.15\00:56:33.04
Holy Father like
those three Hebrew worthies,
00:56:33.07\00:56:37.05
grant us Your courage and
Your grace to stay standing
00:56:37.08\00:56:44.92
for the sake of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:56:44.95\00:56:48.50
Let all the people say, amen.
00:56:48.53\00:56:54.91
I wanted to take
one more moment here
00:56:54.94\00:56:56.41
at the end of the
telecast to let you know
00:56:56.44\00:56:58.12
how grateful I'm for
your journey with us,
00:56:58.15\00:57:01.30
with our New
Perceptions Ministry.
00:57:01.33\00:57:03.15
You may think
that New Perceptions
00:57:03.18\00:57:04.26
is only about television,
00:57:04.29\00:57:06.02
but I need to tell
you we do have a website
00:57:06.05\00:57:08.27
which is more than
just the study guide.
00:57:08.30\00:57:10.58
I know we go to the
study guide every week
00:57:10.61\00:57:12.07
but if you go to our website,
00:57:12.10\00:57:13.13
let me put the
address on the screen again,
00:57:13.16\00:57:14.77
www.pmchurch.tv,
00:57:14.80\00:57:19.23
you will find at
that website a blog.
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I write every Wednesday,
I sit down on my laptop
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and write up a blog something
as commenting on world events,
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something local,
something national,
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you get the blog.
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You want archive,
previous teachings
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from here in the Pioneer pulpit,
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you go to that
annotated archive,
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you can pick out a
message, it will be sent to you.
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You want to get into
the podcast business,
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I'm not real hi-techy on
this but if you click podcast,
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you will be able to connect
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instantly with
every new teaching
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that comes from
the Pioneer pulpit.
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The point is
we're trying to connect
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with the generation
on the move, on the go.
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Thanks for being a part of it.
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Thanks for your
prayer partnership.
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We have got to
connect with this generation
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at this time in earth's history
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and I'm grateful you and
I are sharing the mission.
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God bless you, until next time.
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