Dear Father, here
we are in Your house.
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We thank You and we
praise You for Your mercy,
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for Your patience and
for Your faithfulness,
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for Your call because
You brought us here today,
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Lord we thank You for
these things in Jesus name,
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because it is in Him
alone that we are even able
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to speak Your name,
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let alone come
into Your presence.
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So it is in His
name that we praise You
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this morning please
accept our gifts, amen.
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In Christ Alone my hope is found
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He is my light,
My strength, my song.
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This
Cornerstone, This solid ground
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Firm through the
fiercest Drought and storm
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What heights of
love, What depths of peace
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When fears are
stilled When strivings cease
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My Comforter, my all in all
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Here in the love
of Christ I stand
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In Christ alone
Who took on flesh
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Fullness of God In helpless babe
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This gift of
love And righteousness
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Scorned by the
ones He came to save
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'Till on that
cross As Jesus died
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The wrath of God was satisfied
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For every sin on Him was laid
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Here In the
death of Christ I live
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There in the ground His body lay
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Light of the
world By darkness slain
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Then bursting
forth In glorious day
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Up from the grave He rose again
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And as He stands in victory
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Sin's curse Has
lost it's grip on me
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For I am His and He is mine
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Bought with the
Precious blood of Christ
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No guilt in
life No fear in death
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This is The
power of Christ in me
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From life's first
cry To final breath
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Jesus commands my destiny
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No power of
hell No scheme of man
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Can ever pluck me from His hand
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'Till He
returns Or calls me home
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Here in the power
of Christ I'll stand.
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This is my desire you
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To honor you Lord
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With all my heart I worship you
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All I have within me,
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I give You praise
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All that I adore is in you
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Lord, I give you my
heart I give you my soul
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I live for you alone
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Every breath that I
take Every moment I'm awake
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Lord have Your way in me
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This is my desire you
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To honor you
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Lord, with all my
heart I worship you
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All I have within me
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I give You praise
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All that I adore is in you
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Lord I give you my heart
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I give you my soul
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I live for you alone
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Every breath that I
take Every moment I'm awake
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Lord have Your way in me
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In the morning
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When I rise
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In the morning when I rise
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In the morning
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When I rise
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Give me Jesus
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Give me Jesus
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Give me Jesus
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You can have all this world
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But give me Jesus
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Isn't that our
pray in this morning?
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You can have all this world,
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take it all, just me give Jesus.
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I invite those of you to
join us at front for prayer
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as we sing that stanza again
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"In the morning when
I rise give me Jesus"
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that's your pray and
join us at the front.
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Just slip out of your
seats and come on down
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and sing with us, "In
the morning as I rise."
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In the morning when I rise
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In the morning when I rise
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In the morning when I rise
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Give me Jesus
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Give me Jesus
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Give me Jesus
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You can have all this world
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But give me Jesus
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Let us kneel as we pray.
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Our Heavenly Father,
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Our merciful and all loving God,
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we have come to praise
You and to worship You.
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We would see
Jesus, give us Jesus.
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As we turn our eyes upon Him,
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and again look full
into His wonderful face,
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may the things of
earth grow strangely dim,
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in the light of
His glory and grace.
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So we wait before
you now with reverent
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and submissive hearts,
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so that as we
listen to Your Word,
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beautifully and
meaningfully spoken and sung,
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we might be lifted above
our dark valleys of pain,
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into the comfort and
peace of Your presence.
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We uplift to You just
now those who've asked to be
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remembered in prayer today,
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along with all in our worshiping
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and listening audience,
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who bring to You
special thanks and praises.
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And all who
carry special burdens,
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concerns and hurts even
though they may be unspoken.
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As we pause this movement,
hear these many solemn prayer,
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we pray.
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Bless us, Lord,
those who ministered to us
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in music and spoken word
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and thank You, Father
for hearing our prayer,
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in Jesus name, amen.
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If I take the
wings Of the morning
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And dwell in the
Uttermost parts of the sea
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Even there
Shall thy hand lead me
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And they right
hand Shall hold me
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If I take the
wings Of the morning
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And dwell in the
Uttermost parts of the sea
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Even there
shall Thy hand lead me
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And hold me
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If I climb up into
heaven Thou art there
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If I make my bed in
hell Behold, thou art there
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O Lord, thou hast
Searched me and known me
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O Lord, thou hast
Searched me and known me
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Hast searched me and known me
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Thou knoest my
down-sitting And my uprising
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Thou understandest
My thought afar off
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Thou compassest my path
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and my lying down
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And my lying down
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And art
acquainted With all my ways
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For there is
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Not a word in my tongue
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But lo, O Lord
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Thou knowest
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It altogether
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Whither shall I
go from thy spirit
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Or whither shall I
flee from thy presence
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Lord, thou art there
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Thou art there
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If I take the
wings Of the morning
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And dwell in the
uttermost Parts of the sea
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Even there
shall Thy hand lead me
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And thy right hand Shall hold me
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If I say, surely the
darkness Shall cover me
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Even the night
shall be Light about me
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Yea, the darkness Is
no darkness with thee
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But the night shineth As the day
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Shineth as the day
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Shineth as the day
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If I take the
wings Of the morning
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If I take the
wings Of the morning
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If I take the
wings Of the morning
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Thou art there
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O Lord, thou art there.
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O Lord, thou art there.
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O Lord, thou art there.
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O Lord, thou art there.
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O Lord, thou art there.
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O Lord
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Thou art there.
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O Lord, thou art there.
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Let's pray together.
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Oh, Father what
beautiful, beautiful prayer.
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We, we, we
prayed it with the choir
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as they sang Psalm 139...
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if we fly with wings in
the morning you are there...
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in the depths of the
darkest night Your were there.
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You're not only
Creator of the universe,
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You are the sustainer,
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Your finger
prints are everywhere.
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And that means
Father, truly you are here.
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All we need You
to teach us today.
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Let this
teaching be clear, hide,
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hide all the clamor
that would distract us,
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and may it be the
voice of the holy scripture
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that not only engages our minds
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but we need you to empower
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our hearts for
the glory of Christ.
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We pray in His name, amen.
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I would like you to
meet a friend of mine
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his last name is Elton.
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Give a warm
welcome to Mr. S. K. Elton,
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who I would like come out
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and join me
here on the platform,
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S. K. Elton, skeleton, yeah.
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Thank you Norm
Paulo, one of our deacons.
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This one of the deacons,
who came late to first service.
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Actually, actually this is
from the biology department
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thank you Dr.
David Steen for loaning
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this, this belongs to them.
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I understand this
is a biology major
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who never graduated
and so go into to good use.
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Actually he's
standing here today,
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this skeleton
because he represents
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the system of 206 parts.
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That's an average
human skeleton, 206 parts.
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How many different
ways can a 206 part system
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be put together,
that' the question?
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How many different ways?
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Well if there were only one bone
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and I happened to have
in my pocket a clavicle
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that would be
what's up here will be
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known as your collar bone.
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I have clavicle here,
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if there is just
one bone in the system,
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this can only put
together one way is that right?
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One, one times
one equals to one.
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If you have two bones,
if I took both clavicles,
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one times two equals two.
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So there are deferent
ways you can assemble it.
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If there were
three bones, one times,
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two times, three
equals, six yeah.
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If there were four
bones one times, two times,
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three times, four
equals 24 and so on, and so on.
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So here's what
mathematicians tell us,
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you need to find--
if you want find out
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how many deferent ways there are
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to put a 206
part system together,
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you just have to go one times,
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two times,
three times four times
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all the way up to
206 and the number
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is called 206
factorial, it's written 206
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and a big
exclamation mark after the six.
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Now the number is gigantic.
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The number is
actually 10 to the 388th power.
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That means you
write the number one,
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and then you write 388 thousand,
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388 rather zeros after the one.
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In fact let, let, let's
just try it on the screen.
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Here is what
388 zeros look like,
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count real quick,
quick, quick, quick,
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quick, quick,
quick, quick, quick.
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We'll put them
all the same screen.
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All right here they are,
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that is the
number 10 to the 388th.
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I read an essay the other
day, got a book in Australia.
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Essay written by a
scientist Jerry Bergman,
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he teaches at
Northwestern Community College
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in Archbold, Ohio.
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His second PHD
is in human biology.
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He notes in his
essay that the achievement
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of only the
correct general position,
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not that is it, is it
right side up or up side down,
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don't worry about all
that, don't worry about tendons,
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don't worry about should it be
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twisted little
to right, to left.
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Just get it, get these in order.
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The achievement for only
the correct general position
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required for all 206
parts will occur only once
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out that 10 to the
388 random attempts.
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Let me put me the
number back upon the screen.
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If you had that many tries,
00:21:52.92\00:21:55.22
it's all right put
it on the screen please
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If you had that many tries,
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it would take you,
that many to get one,
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just one for all of these
are in the right position.
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Not right angle, but
just in the right position.
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Now, how long would it
take for us to do that?
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Dr. Bergman goes on and he says
00:22:15.49\00:22:16.92
okay let's take all
the time that scientists
00:22:16.95\00:22:21.01
will grant to the
universe, astronomic time,
00:22:21.04\00:22:23.06
they're guessing that
the universe is between
00:22:23.09\00:22:24.90
10 billion to 20
billion years old.
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How many seconds
is that, that would be
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10 to the 18th
number of seconds.
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All right so that's the
one with 18 zeros after it,
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that's how many
seconds in history,
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in all of the universe.
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If you could do
this, if every second
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you could take all 206 and do--
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rearranging every second--
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oh, I don't like that one--
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If you could do
every single second
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for the history of
the universe, okay,
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Dr. Bergman
notes that the chance
00:22:58.11\00:23:01.02
of the correct general position
00:23:01.05\00:23:02.74
being obtained by
random is less than
00:23:02.77\00:23:04.80
once in 10 billion
years, less than once.
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You say hey,
well, Dwight, that's it.
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That's all I wanted to
know, can you get a skeleton
00:23:11.99\00:23:14.29
in 10 billion years, in
the history of the universe,
00:23:14.32\00:23:16.54
can you get a skeleton?
00:23:16.57\00:23:17.60
Oh my friend don't
get excited too quickly
00:23:17.63\00:23:20.14
because I remind
you, that in order
00:23:20.17\00:23:22.22
to get skeleton you
first have to have the bones.
00:23:22.25\00:23:25.61
You have to have all
206 perfectly formed,
00:23:25.64\00:23:28.56
ready to go and
you have to start
00:23:28.59\00:23:30.68
at the beginning of the time,
00:23:30.71\00:23:31.76
you have to start 10
to 20 billion years ago.
00:23:31.79\00:23:37.27
Is it possible?
00:23:37.30\00:23:38.76
Here's Dr. Bergman's conclusion,
00:23:38.79\00:23:42.31
for all practical purposes,
a zero possibility exists
00:23:42.34\00:23:46.42
that the correct
general position,
00:23:46.45\00:23:48.15
only the position of
only 206 parts could be
00:23:48.18\00:23:51.97
obtained simultaneously
by chance, zero possibility.
00:23:52.00\00:23:55.34
Because guess what guys,
there are more than 206 bones.
00:23:55.37\00:23:59.43
Let's take the cerebral
cortex, right back here,
00:23:59.46\00:24:01.75
all right, the human
brain 10 billion cells
00:24:01.78\00:24:04.62
in just cerebral cortex.
00:24:04.65\00:24:07.36
Each one, humanly
speaking, infinitely complex.
00:24:07.39\00:24:10.81
And not just
the cerebral cortex,
00:24:10.84\00:24:12.50
listen to this,
there are 75 trillion cells
00:24:12.53\00:24:16.15
in a human being's body.
00:24:16.18\00:24:18.47
Seventy five
trillion, so got to have 206,
00:24:18.50\00:24:21.86
and then got to, you
got to get all 10 billion
00:24:21.89\00:24:24.11
of the cerebral
cortex, and then you have
00:24:24.14\00:24:26.23
to put all 75 trillion cells
00:24:26.26\00:24:30.06
in the perfectly
correct position.
00:24:30.09\00:24:32.62
Ladies and Gentlemen,
00:24:32.65\00:24:33.70
if it statically
impossible for 206
00:24:33.73\00:24:36.99
can you imagine
that it is zero, nada,
00:24:37.02\00:24:41.99
not possible, to put
the human body together,
00:24:42.02\00:24:45.78
in the history of
the universe randomly.
00:24:45.81\00:24:52.43
You say hey, preacher, big deal
00:24:52.46\00:24:54.50
so what's it has to do
with the rumors from the east?
00:24:54.53\00:24:56.93
Ah you watch,
you just watch here,
00:24:56.96\00:24:59.89
I want invite you to
use some of your 10 billion
00:24:59.92\00:25:02.79
cerebral cortex
cells and open your Bible
00:25:02.82\00:25:04.88
please to the Bible's last book,
00:25:04.91\00:25:06.13
watch this, this is incredible.
00:25:06.16\00:25:09.93
Bible's last book let's go
00:25:09.96\00:25:11.08
to the Book of
Revelation, please.
00:25:11.11\00:25:14.62
Let's take a look,
our teaching series
00:25:14.65\00:25:16.43
is called
"Rumors from the East,"
00:25:16.46\00:25:17.50
those of you who are joining
us today for the first time,
00:25:17.53\00:25:20.04
we are delighted to
have you by the way.
00:25:20.07\00:25:22.27
You'll be able to
pick this right up
00:25:22.30\00:25:23.67
as if there hadn't
been a sermon teaching
00:25:23.70\00:25:26.34
before this, this presentation.
00:25:26.37\00:25:28.45
Revelation chapter seven,
if you didn't bring your Bible
00:25:28.48\00:25:30.71
please take the pew Bible,
00:25:30.74\00:25:32.08
it's right in
front of you pull it out,
00:25:32.11\00:25:33.65
that's for you to use.
00:25:33.68\00:25:34.92
And it would be
page, it would be page 826,
00:25:34.95\00:25:39.89
and by the way, before I forget,
00:25:39.92\00:25:41.49
before forget, I want you to jot
00:25:41.52\00:25:43.14
this numbers down real quick.
00:25:43.17\00:25:44.34
Get the numbers, while these are
00:25:44.37\00:25:45.40
still hot in our in minds.
00:25:45.43\00:25:46.46
Pull your pen out
and take the study guide
00:25:46.49\00:25:48.45
that's in
today's worship bulletin.
00:25:48.48\00:25:49.87
You have study
guide waiting for you,
00:25:49.90\00:25:51.52
I want to make sure
today everybody gets it.
00:25:51.55\00:25:53.41
In fact if you'd like to have
00:25:53.44\00:25:54.47
an extra one for
a friend of yours
00:25:54.50\00:25:55.71
who's not here,
hold your hand up
00:25:55.74\00:25:57.14
our ushers are going to put them
00:25:57.17\00:25:58.48
in your hands right now,
all the way to the balcony,
00:25:58.51\00:26:00.51
I want to make sure choir,
you have your study guide here?
00:26:00.54\00:26:03.09
Do you? Okay.
00:26:03.12\00:26:04.18
Now while the
ushers are passing them
00:26:04.21\00:26:05.66
out I want say to those of
you watching on television,
00:26:05.69\00:26:07.50
you can go our website.
00:26:07.53\00:26:08.56
In fact let me put it
on the screen right now.
00:26:08.59\00:26:11.16
There it is www.pmchurch.tv.
00:26:11.19\00:26:13.58
Go to that website please,
click on the teaching series,
00:26:13.61\00:26:17.36
its called
"Rumors from the East,"
00:26:17.39\00:26:18.81
this happens to be part 6
00:26:18.84\00:26:20.61
we're heading towards end of it.
00:26:20.64\00:26:21.96
This is part 6
and this one entitled
00:26:21.99\00:26:23.89
the "East Gate."
00:26:23.92\00:26:25.39
That'll become
clear in just a movement.
00:26:25.42\00:26:27.55
Click on the "East Gate,"
where it says study guide,
00:26:27.58\00:26:29.29
boom you click
there you will have
00:26:29.32\00:26:30.73
the same study
guide that we have.
00:26:30.76\00:26:33.24
You can print it out
or just leave it there
00:26:33.27\00:26:34.62
on the computer and follow
this fascinating teaching.
00:26:34.65\00:26:38.50
All right everybody has it.
00:26:38.53\00:26:39.56
Let's get this numbers
00:26:39.59\00:26:40.62
while they are
fresh in our minds,
00:26:40.65\00:26:41.68
jot them down please.
00:26:41.71\00:26:43.15
A random assembly
of a 206 part system,
00:26:43.18\00:26:45.72
that will be the human skeleton.
00:26:45.75\00:26:47.25
Okay one times,
two times, three times,
00:26:47.28\00:26:48.98
four times five
all the way up to times
00:26:49.01\00:26:50.37
six equals ten to the 388th.
00:26:50.40\00:26:53.41
You know, you write in exponent,
00:26:53.44\00:26:55.55
come on you mathematicians.
00:26:55.58\00:26:56.75
You write it small you lifted up
00:26:56.78\00:26:58.43
little bit, all right.
00:26:58.46\00:26:59.96
10 to the 388, that means
one with 388 zeroes after it,
00:26:59.99\00:27:04.78
that's, that's how
many tries you would have
00:27:04.81\00:27:07.90
to make in order get one
time, get this right, all right.
00:27:07.93\00:27:13.04
Keep writing
here, rearranging these
00:27:13.07\00:27:14.14
206 parts once every second
for all of astronomic time,
00:27:14.17\00:27:17.42
which would be between
10 to 20 billion years,
00:27:17.45\00:27:19.37
or 10 to the 18th
seconds, just get that down
00:27:19.40\00:27:22.64
that's how many seconds in
the history of the universe,
00:27:22.67\00:27:24.69
is a one out of
10, put this real small
00:27:24.72\00:27:28.67
388-18 minus
one for every second
00:27:28.70\00:27:32.59
it it's a one our of 10
to the 370th possibility.
00:27:32.62\00:27:37.01
Now you
scientists know all the stuff
00:27:37.04\00:27:39.41
and you majors
in math specialists.
00:27:39.44\00:27:42.29
Now I want you to
get this, this quotation
00:27:42.32\00:27:43.59
leading Dr. Jerry Bergman
00:27:43.62\00:27:46.01
form Northwest
State College in Ohio.
00:27:46.04\00:27:48.04
Fill it in please "For
all practical purposes,
00:27:48.07\00:27:50.12
a zero possibility exists
00:27:50.15\00:27:53.65
that the
correct general position
00:27:53.68\00:27:55.21
of only 206 parts
00:27:55.24\00:27:56.27
could be obtained
simultaneously by chance
00:27:56.30\00:27:58.72
and the average human
has about 75 trillion cells!
00:27:58.75\00:28:03.46
Now here comes
an extra sentence,
00:28:03.49\00:28:04.95
this illustration
indicates that the argument
00:28:04.98\00:28:07.45
commonly used by evolutionists,
00:28:07.48\00:28:09.60
here's what the
evolutionist scientists say,
00:28:09.63\00:28:11.66
given enough time, all
right, given enough time,
00:28:11.69\00:28:14.66
anything can happen.
00:28:14.69\00:28:17.41
Dr. Bergman says, guess what?
00:28:17.44\00:28:19.71
given enough time
anything cannot happen.
00:28:19.74\00:28:22.59
It essentially, it
essentially takes this argument
00:28:22.62\00:28:26.16
and leaves it right
wanting, it's bankrupt,
00:28:26.19\00:28:29.46
it's just as human,
00:28:29.49\00:28:30.64
it's
statistically impossible to do.
00:28:30.67\00:28:34.53
That's all have to do
00:28:34.56\00:28:35.60
with the "Rumors from the East?"
00:28:35.63\00:28:37.13
All right, you
have Revelation 7,
00:28:37.16\00:28:38.92
let's go, let's fly.
00:28:38.95\00:28:40.72
Revelation 7, let's
pick it up with verse one
00:28:40.75\00:28:42.68
we will were last week
00:28:42.71\00:28:43.78
let's read the same verse again.
00:28:43.81\00:28:44.98
Revelation 7:1
"After these things
00:28:45.01\00:28:48.17
I saw four angels standing
00:28:48.20\00:28:49.43
at the four
corners of the earth,
00:28:49.46\00:28:51.30
holding the four
winds of the earth,
00:28:51.33\00:28:52.75
that the wind should
not blow on the earth,
00:28:52.78\00:28:54.29
on the sea, or on any tree."
00:28:54.32\00:28:56.17
And then verse 2
00:28:56.20\00:28:57.25
"Then I saw another
angel ascending from the east,"
00:28:57.28\00:28:59.58
key word in this
series we're looking
00:28:59.61\00:29:00.81
at the reference to the
East and only three of them,
00:29:00.84\00:29:03.94
"having the seal
of the living God.
00:29:03.97\00:29:07.14
And the fifth angel
cried with a loud voice"
00:29:07.18\00:29:09.26
like a mega phone, "to
the four angels to whom
00:29:09.29\00:29:12.01
it was granted to
harm the earth and the sea,
00:29:12.04\00:29:14.12
and he said" verse 3
"Do not harm the earth,
00:29:14.15\00:29:16.91
the sea, or the
trees till we have sealed
00:29:16.95\00:29:19.78
the servants of out
God on their foreheads."
00:29:19.81\00:29:22.80
John is curious
now "and I heard"
00:29:22.83\00:29:24.86
he saying "the number
of those who were sealed.
00:29:24.89\00:29:27.60
One hundred and
forty-four thousand
00:29:27.63\00:29:29.65
of all the tribes of
the children of Israel
00:29:29.68\00:29:31.70
were sealed."
00:29:31.73\00:29:33.68
Now let's pretend
just for a moment,
00:29:33.71\00:29:34.74
ladies and gentlemen
00:29:34.77\00:29:35.80
that we have read
these words before.
00:29:35.83\00:29:39.82
Even a cursory reading,
00:29:39.85\00:29:41.68
if this was the
first time we heard them,
00:29:41.71\00:29:43.39
a cursory reading
yield these four points,
00:29:43.42\00:29:45.33
jot them down please.
00:29:45.36\00:29:46.40
Point number 1,
just a surface reading.
00:29:46.43\00:29:48.77
Number one, whatever is
happening here transpires
00:29:48.80\00:29:51.52
just before the
return of Christ,
00:29:51.55\00:29:55.37
write in the word return,
happens just before the return.
00:29:55.40\00:29:59.23
In fact, just look at
the last line of the chapter
00:29:59.26\00:30:02.41
just before these
words, chapter 6:17
00:30:02.44\00:30:05.13
"For the great day
of His wrath has come,
00:30:05.16\00:30:07.44
and who is able to stand?"
00:30:07.47\00:30:09.19
Second coming, boom,
just before that transpires
00:30:09.22\00:30:12.74
this event in chapter
7 takes place, all right.
00:30:12.77\00:30:15.18
Number two, jot this down
these 144,000, who are they?
00:30:15.21\00:30:19.27
They are, it's
symbolic, it's symbolic number.
00:30:19.30\00:30:21.48
They are a
symbol of God's friends,
00:30:21.51\00:30:24.16
write it in, at the end of time
and the answer to the question
00:30:24.19\00:30:27.82
in chapter 6:17
00:30:27.85\00:30:29.74
"Who will stand up
for God in the end?"
00:30:29.77\00:30:31.79
the question is
who's going to be around?
00:30:31.82\00:30:34.52
These.
00:30:34.55\00:30:35.59
All right, number
three, jot this down,
00:30:35.62\00:30:37.07
the symbolic seal
in their forehead,
00:30:37.10\00:30:40.40
is the Father's
name, Revelation 14:1
00:30:40.43\00:30:42.86
and it is a
symbol of His ownership,
00:30:42.89\00:30:45.65
write those two words in.
00:30:45.68\00:30:47.74
Revelation 14:1, in fact let's,
00:30:47.77\00:30:49.70
let's just take a look
at that for a movement.
00:30:49.73\00:30:51.06
"Then I looked, and behold,
a lamb standing on Mount Zion,
00:30:51.09\00:30:53.11
an with Him one hundred
and forty-four thousand,
00:30:53.14\00:30:55.26
having His
Father's name written where?
00:30:55.29\00:30:58.17
Written where?
"On their foreheads."
00:30:58.20\00:30:59.67
So the seal and the
name inter changeable, okay?
00:30:59.70\00:31:03.32
When you put your
name on something,
00:31:03.35\00:31:05.64
refresh my memory,
00:31:05.67\00:31:06.72
what does it mean when you
put your name on something?
00:31:06.75\00:31:09.11
When you put your name
on book what's it mean?
00:31:09.14\00:31:10.81
It's mine, it belongs to me.
00:31:10.84\00:31:12.52
When you put your name on car,
00:31:12.55\00:31:15.18
deed or title, what's that mean?
00:31:15.21\00:31:16.88
Boom this book belongs,
00:31:16.91\00:31:18.02
this, this car
belongs rather belongs to me.
00:31:18.05\00:31:19.61
When you put your name
on a mortgage application
00:31:19.64\00:31:22.03
what is that mean?
00:31:22.06\00:31:23.09
Boom this house
belongs to the bank.
00:31:23.12\00:31:24.89
That's what it means,
doesn't belongs to you.
00:31:24.92\00:31:28.47
You think your
house belongs to you?
00:31:28.50\00:31:29.81
You're crazy. You'll
never own that house.
00:31:29.84\00:31:32.60
It belongs to the bank,
00:31:32.63\00:31:33.68
they bought it,
the just trust you.
00:31:33.71\00:31:36.32
When you sign, how many
weddings have I conducted,
00:31:36.35\00:31:39.72
when you sign your
marriage certificate,
00:31:39.75\00:31:42.54
I've watched those
marriage signatures,
00:31:42.57\00:31:43.63
then I've to mine.
00:31:43.66\00:31:44.80
When you sign your
marriage certificate,
00:31:44.83\00:31:47.15
that spouse is saying
I belong to you, honey,
00:31:47.18\00:31:49.47
I know I belong to you.
00:31:49.50\00:31:51.02
You belong to each other.
00:31:51.05\00:31:53.33
Once you put your name
on means it belongs to me.
00:31:53.36\00:31:57.02
144,000 are a
generation of radical,
00:31:57.05\00:31:59.81
loyal friends of
God, who have chosen
00:31:59.84\00:32:01.35
to belong exclusively to Him.
00:32:01.38\00:32:03.55
All right, cursory reading
you can figure these four out.
00:32:03.58\00:32:06.07
Here comes the
final one, number four.
00:32:06.10\00:32:08.01
Jot it down please.
00:32:08.04\00:32:09.51
God has ownership
because God is Creator,
00:32:09.54\00:32:14.84
that's Revelation 4:11,
Jerry read it a moment ago
00:32:14.87\00:32:16.92
as our scripture reading,
let's put Revelation 4:11
00:32:16.95\00:32:19.54
on the screen,
"You are worthy, O Lord,
00:32:19.57\00:32:21.22
to receive glory
and honor and power,
00:32:21.25\00:32:23.26
for You created all things,
00:32:23.29\00:32:26.11
and by Your will they
exist and were created."
00:32:26.14\00:32:30.64
Ah, the whole
universe belongs to God.
00:32:30.67\00:32:33.33
Look, look if you
are created by God,
00:32:33.36\00:32:36.12
you belong to Him.
00:32:36.15\00:32:38.67
Which ladies and
gentlemen, that's the rub,
00:32:38.70\00:32:42.19
that's the rub right there.
00:32:42.22\00:32:44.96
Some people say no way, Jose,
I am not belonging to any God,
00:32:44.99\00:32:50.89
I am, I am all I need
that's all and that's a rub.
00:32:50.92\00:32:54.63
Here is a geneticist his
name is Richard Lewontin,
00:32:54.66\00:32:58.53
he is an atheist he
made the statement about
00:32:58.56\00:33:00.50
evolutionary science materialism
00:33:00.53\00:33:02.41
that would be on God.
00:33:02.44\00:33:03.62
"materialism" is an
absolute for we cannot
00:33:03.65\00:33:07.20
allow a divine foot in the door.
00:33:07.23\00:33:10.94
We just can have
it, therefore no.
00:33:10.97\00:33:15.03
You know, it's really sad,
I'll tell you why it's sad,
00:33:15.06\00:33:18.50
because the human race
many, do not know what a friend
00:33:18.53\00:33:25.19
to the human race
the Creator really is.
00:33:25.22\00:33:29.22
He's the best friend we got.
00:33:29.25\00:33:30.61
All right, here
they are, four realities
00:33:33.96\00:33:35.16
we can know just from
one time reading through,
00:33:35.19\00:33:36.74
we know these four.
00:33:36.77\00:33:37.80
Question but does the
text more clearly identify
00:33:37.83\00:33:42.37
who these loyal
friend of God are
00:33:42.40\00:33:45.03
and how can we identify them,
00:33:45.06\00:33:46.65
just before the
return of Christ,
00:33:46.68\00:33:47.71
how are they identified?
00:33:47.74\00:33:48.77
Answer, there are 7 evidences.
00:33:48.80\00:33:50.94
I'm going to share
now 7 evidences with you
00:33:50.97\00:33:53.43
and when the 7 are
done I'm sitting down.
00:33:53.46\00:33:55.03
Drop jot this down please.
00:33:55.06\00:33:56.39
7 evidences,
evidence number one.
00:33:56.42\00:33:59.07
Here's how we can know
of whom these verse speaks.
00:33:59.10\00:34:01.44
Evidence number one,
they, these people are sealed
00:34:01.47\00:34:04.37
with the seal of the living God,
00:34:04.40\00:34:07.84
write in the word living.
00:34:07.87\00:34:09.84
In fact let's
just put Revelation 7:2
00:34:09.87\00:34:12.11
back on the screen.
00:34:12.14\00:34:13.32
"Then I saw another
angel ascending from the east,
00:34:13.35\00:34:15.34
having the seal
of the living God"
00:34:15.37\00:34:18.77
so I go to the
Bible works, laptop,
00:34:18.80\00:34:20.94
computer or a program, okay.
00:34:20.97\00:34:23.08
Do magic it's incredible,
and type in the word living God
00:34:23.11\00:34:25.95
find them all for
me, boom, boom, boom,
00:34:25.98\00:34:27.77
30 times in all the Bible.
00:34:27.80\00:34:30.34
That little couplet
"living God" appears,
00:34:30.37\00:34:32.85
I give you, in
your study guide you see
00:34:32.88\00:34:35.09
Jeremiah
10:10-13 and Acts 14:15,
00:34:35.12\00:34:38.43
just two of them.
00:34:38.46\00:34:39.49
But what are these two tell us
00:34:39.52\00:34:40.99
fill your study
guide and please,
00:34:41.02\00:34:42.05
"The living God is synonymous
with the Creating God."
00:34:42.08\00:34:46.60
Synonymous, watch
this, let's put Acts 14:15,
00:34:46.63\00:34:50.21
Paul and his buddy
Barnabas are in Lystra
00:34:50.24\00:34:52.97
and these people,
because they just hear
00:34:53.00\00:34:54.88
the laying man, the
people are convinces
00:34:54.91\00:34:56.73
these are two
gods, two gods have
00:34:56.76\00:34:59.01
come to earth and they
start offering sacrifices
00:34:59.04\00:35:01.40
and Paul say hold it, hold it,
00:35:01.43\00:35:03.54
you realize what
is going on here.
00:35:03.57\00:35:04.94
And so he cries out
these words Acts 14:15
00:35:04.97\00:35:07.49
"And saying, Men, why
are you doing these things?
00:35:07.53\00:35:10.36
We also are men with
the same nature as you,
00:35:10.39\00:35:12.87
and we preach to
you that you should turn
00:35:12.90\00:35:14.68
from theses useless
idols to the living God,
00:35:14.71\00:35:18.53
who made the
heaven, the earth, the sea,
00:35:18.56\00:35:21.03
and all things
that are in them."
00:35:21.06\00:35:24.70
There it is you
see, when you living God,
00:35:24.73\00:35:26.51
that means creating God.
00:35:26.54\00:35:27.90
The seal of God that goes
00:35:27.93\00:35:29.38
in the forehead
of His loyal friends
00:35:29.41\00:35:30.92
is the seal of the
Creator, Creator, all right.
00:35:30.95\00:35:34.24
Evidence number two,
jot this down please,
00:35:34.27\00:35:36.57
evidence number two.
00:35:36.60\00:35:37.87
By the way before I
evidence number two,
00:35:37.90\00:35:40.43
can I just hit the
pause button for a second,
00:35:40.46\00:35:41.88
just, just, just one moment.
00:35:41.91\00:35:44.74
I've been reading John
Aston's compilation of essays
00:35:44.77\00:35:48.02
entitled "In 6
six why 50 scientists
00:35:48.05\00:35:51.05
choose to believe in creation."
00:35:51.08\00:35:52.51
Got the book in Australia.
00:35:52.54\00:35:55.17
One thing that occurred to
me, as I've read these essays
00:35:55.20\00:36:01.53
and that is, both
theories of origin,
00:36:01.56\00:36:04.81
naturalism, which means
no, no, supernatural no deity,
00:36:04.84\00:36:09.33
naturalism no God.
00:36:09.36\00:36:10.76
And supernaturalism
says oh, yes, God,
00:36:10.79\00:36:12.92
God Creator.
00:36:12.95\00:36:14.18
Both theories of
origin are philosophically,
00:36:14.21\00:36:17.59
key word, philosophically
dependent upon a God
00:36:17.62\00:36:21.64
for the theory of their origins.
00:36:21.67\00:36:24.06
Listen to this,
here's Jeremiah Walter
00:36:24.09\00:36:26.44
who teaches engineering
00:36:26.47\00:36:27.50
at the
University of Pennsylvania.
00:36:27.53\00:36:28.86
He's observed
"naturalistic evolution
00:36:28.89\00:36:32.78
is forced to marry
the Gods of mother earth
00:36:32.81\00:36:35.68
and father Time
in order to come up
00:36:35.71\00:36:38.94
with their hypothesis."
00:36:38.97\00:36:41.01
Here's the
thinking given enough time,
00:36:41.04\00:36:44.32
the forces of
nature, we don't know
00:36:44.35\00:36:46.35
how they do it
but with enough time
00:36:46.38\00:36:48.21
the forces of nature are
able to could create life.
00:36:48.24\00:36:52.75
So the time and
nature become de facto God
00:36:52.78\00:36:55.98
who inexplicably are able
to do what we cannot show.
00:36:56.01\00:37:00.08
We don't know
how, they just do it.
00:37:00.11\00:37:03.16
Leading Stephen Jay Gould,
00:37:03.19\00:37:04.87
the late Stephen
Jay Gould, Howard,
00:37:04.90\00:37:07.41
brilliant
evolutionary scientist,
00:37:07.44\00:37:10.14
leading Gould to
exclaim that humans,
00:37:10.17\00:37:11.93
listen to this, humans are
00:37:11.96\00:37:13.25
a glorious evolutionary accident
00:37:13.28\00:37:16.25
that required 60
trillion contingent events,
00:37:16.28\00:37:20.45
all right 60, trillion of them.
00:37:20.48\00:37:22.20
And even he went on, even
00:37:22.23\00:37:24.04
if evolutionary
history earth repeated itself
00:37:24.07\00:37:26.50
a million times he doubted
00:37:26.53\00:37:28.22
were any thing like home sapiens
00:37:28.25\00:37:30.67
would ever develop again.
00:37:30.70\00:37:32.96
We are a glorious
accident, 60 trillion factors,
00:37:32.99\00:37:37.48
variables all
lined up, boom we got us.
00:37:37.51\00:37:41.66
And that's all--
00:37:41.69\00:37:42.72
but if just noted
with our skeleton here
00:37:44.34\00:37:47.21
there simply isn't enough time
00:37:47.24\00:37:48.93
and forces in nature
put allow a 206 parts system
00:37:48.96\00:37:52.90
let alone a 75
trillion part system.
00:37:52.93\00:37:56.86
See, which is
why whichever theory
00:37:56.89\00:38:00.38
you embrace,
essentially becomes,
00:38:00.41\00:38:02.70
come on hear me out now,
00:38:02.73\00:38:03.78
essentially
becomes a choice of God's.
00:38:03.81\00:38:07.76
You may choose Mother Nature,
00:38:07.79\00:38:08.90
father time or you may
choose the living Creator,
00:38:08.93\00:38:11.61
God of the universe,
but listen both theories
00:38:11.64\00:38:13.92
required an
intervening force unknown
00:38:13.95\00:38:16.91
and unfalsifiable by men.
00:38:16.94\00:38:22.58
Scientists know what
that means, unfalsifiable.
00:38:22.61\00:38:25.05
We can't prove it.
00:38:25.08\00:38:26.56
Evidence number two,
jot this down please,
00:38:29.23\00:38:31.76
the angel that
brings the sealing message
00:38:31.79\00:38:33.40
ascends out of the where?
00:38:33.43\00:38:35.58
East. Write that in please.
00:38:35.61\00:38:38.12
All right we're examining these
three references to the east.
00:38:38.15\00:38:40.09
Remember, east
is very significant
00:38:40.12\00:38:41.82
and by the way it's
extremely significant
00:38:41.85\00:38:43.11
to what we've just read here.
00:38:43.14\00:38:44.17
You remember the principle
00:38:44.20\00:38:45.23
that we've been
allowing to helps us
00:38:45.26\00:38:47.54
interpret
Revelation, nearly every word
00:38:47.57\00:38:49.76
and phrase in Revelation
is borrowed from where?
00:38:49.79\00:38:53.39
The Old Testament.
00:38:53.42\00:38:55.01
I'll tell you what,
it's true again, right here,
00:38:55.04\00:38:56.77
and from the book
of Ezekiel, once again,
00:38:56.80\00:38:58.71
from the book of
Ezekiel, watch this.
00:38:58.74\00:39:00.56
Some of you've never
seen these words before,
00:39:00.59\00:39:02.42
Ezekiel chapter 46 look at this.
00:39:02.45\00:39:05.18
Ezekiel 46 that would be
in your pew Bible, page 592.
00:39:05.21\00:39:11.32
Ezekiel 46.
00:39:11.35\00:39:13.42
And just verse 1 and verse 3,
00:39:17.71\00:39:21.51
Ezekiel 46 look at
this, "Thus says the Lord God,
00:39:21.54\00:39:25.67
'The gateway of the inner court
that faces toward the east'"
00:39:28.47\00:39:31.71
key word now, it's
talking about the temple,
00:39:31.74\00:39:33.34
the new that they're
going to build in Jerusalem.
00:39:33.37\00:39:35.73
"'The gateway of the
inner court that faces
00:39:35.76\00:39:37.85
toward the east shall be
shut the six working days,
00:39:37.88\00:39:42.37
but on the
Sabbath, it shall be opened,
00:39:42.40\00:39:46.42
and on the day on the new
moon is shall be opened.'"
00:39:46.45\00:39:48.76
Now drop down to verse 3,
00:39:48.79\00:39:49.95
"Likewise the people
of the land shall worship
00:39:49.98\00:39:51.92
at the entrance to this gateway"
00:39:51.95\00:39:53.27
the one facing the
east, "before the Lord,
00:39:53.30\00:39:55.44
on the Sabbaths
and the new moons."
00:39:55.47\00:39:59.66
Would you write this
down please, the east gate,
00:39:59.69\00:40:01.97
the east gate in
Jerusalem's temple
00:40:02.00\00:40:05.30
was to be the Sabbath gate.
00:40:05.33\00:40:09.53
Please note that east is
link to the Creator Sabbath,
00:40:09.56\00:40:12.12
not surprisingly so since
the very word for the east
00:40:12.15\00:40:14.32
used in the Greek Old Testament,
00:40:14.35\00:40:15.71
the Septuagint, and
in the New Testament
00:40:15.74\00:40:17.54
as well the
Anatolia the word for east.
00:40:17.57\00:40:20.82
In fact, means the
sun rising, means rising,
00:40:20.85\00:40:22.50
rising, rising, rising, rising,
00:40:22.53\00:40:23.68
so and did the
scripture keep time,
00:40:23.71\00:40:26.67
the scripture keeps
time by the what they called
00:40:26.70\00:40:28.40
the movement of
the sun, sun set,
00:40:28.43\00:40:29.80
from sun set to sun
set, from sun set to sun set,
00:40:29.83\00:40:31.18
sun set to sun
set... you keep time.
00:40:31.21\00:40:32.94
Starts with the
dark part of the day
00:40:32.97\00:40:34.20
and ends with the
light part of the day.
00:40:34.23\00:40:35.41
From sun set to sun
set, that's how the scripture
00:40:35.44\00:40:37.27
keeps the time.
00:40:37.30\00:40:38.36
So the Sabbath is marked,
all time is marked by sun set.
00:40:38.39\00:40:41.67
So what Ezekiel's saying
is there'll be six cycles,
00:40:41.70\00:40:44.83
six cycles of sun sets
and then on the seventh cycle,
00:40:44.86\00:40:48.33
that gate is closed,
on the seventh cycle,
00:40:48.36\00:40:50.69
the doors open,
because it's the Sabbath now.
00:40:50.72\00:40:53.78
The gates that face east,
00:40:53.81\00:40:55.29
east and the Seventh-day
Sabbath are bound together.
00:40:55.32\00:40:58.26
Interestingly
enough, the gospel of Luke
00:41:00.99\00:41:03.07
does the same thing.
00:41:03.10\00:41:04.16
Watch this, this is
the evidence number three,
00:41:04.19\00:41:05.92
jot this down, the
gospel, that would be Luke,
00:41:05.95\00:41:07.86
that calls Jesus the "Sunrise,
00:41:07.89\00:41:09.91
" if you were here last week,
00:41:09.94\00:41:11.15
we saw that in Luke 1:78,
the gospel that calls Jesus
00:41:11.18\00:41:15.39
the sunrise, that's
the Greek word for east,
00:41:15.42\00:41:17.72
is the same
gospel that calls Jesus
00:41:17.75\00:41:20.05
the Lord of the Sabbath in 6:5.
00:41:20.08\00:41:23.86
See the Greek word for
the sunrise, east, in Christ,
00:41:28.74\00:41:33.77
in Christ, this is
the key point, in Christ,
00:41:33.80\00:41:36.24
east and Sabbath
are joined together.
00:41:36.27\00:41:38.22
Lord of the
Sabbath, Lord of the east,
00:41:38.25\00:41:40.14
Lord of the sunrise, in
Christ they're joined together.
00:41:40.17\00:41:43.89
Now what do we
know just from this
00:41:43.92\00:41:45.00
three pieces of evidence?
00:41:45.03\00:41:46.07
We know that the angel
that arises out of the east
00:41:46.10\00:41:48.69
with the seal of the living
God for His loyal friends brings
00:41:48.72\00:41:51.18
this seal of the Creator.
00:41:51.21\00:41:53.18
All right the
seal of the Creator,
00:41:53.21\00:41:54.43
bring it from the
east, which should
00:41:54.46\00:41:55.57
a sign of the Sabbath,
and bring it through Him
00:41:55.60\00:41:57.88
who's the divine
Lord of the Sabbath,
00:41:57.91\00:42:00.45
Jesus is the front and
center all the way through it.
00:42:00.48\00:42:02.63
Front and center.
00:42:02.66\00:42:03.69
In fact, do know what
John, the one who wrote
00:42:03.72\00:42:06.86
Revelation, makes
the identical point.
00:42:06.89\00:42:08.70
Watch this evidence
number four, jot it down,
00:42:08.73\00:42:10.85
John in Revelation links
Jesus as Lord of salvation
00:42:10.88\00:42:15.31
1:5 and 6, to Jesus as
Lord of the Sabbath 1:10.
00:42:15.34\00:42:22.01
This is fascinating watch,
00:42:22.04\00:42:23.71
let's put 1:5
and 6 on the screen.
00:42:23.74\00:42:27.47
John is giving a, a doxology
to the trinity and he comes
00:42:27.50\00:42:31.44
to Jesus and he says,
"And from Jesus Christ,
00:42:31.47\00:42:33.57
the faithful witness,
the firstborn from the dead,
00:42:33.60\00:42:35.69
and the ruler over
the kings of the earth.
00:42:35.72\00:42:37.26
To Him Jesus who loved us
and washed us from our sins
00:42:37.29\00:42:40.16
in His own blood, and
has made us kings and priests
00:42:40.19\00:42:43.13
to His God and
Father, to Him, to Jesus,
00:42:43.16\00:42:45.97
be glory and
dominion forever and ever.
00:42:46.00\00:42:48.67
Amen."
00:42:48.70\00:42:49.77
There is question
in John that Jesus
00:42:49.80\00:42:51.52
is the Lord of salvation.
00:42:51.55\00:42:53.63
Now just lines later,
verse 10 of the chapter one
00:42:53.66\00:42:57.58
John talks about
Sabbath, watch this,
00:42:57.61\00:42:59.41
so put Revelation 1:10
00:42:59.44\00:43:01.18
"I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's Day,
00:43:01.21\00:43:04.04
and I heard
behind me a loud voice,
00:43:04.07\00:43:06.92
as of a trumpet..." and--
00:43:06.95\00:43:08.45
there is a materialization
of Christ Himself,
00:43:08.48\00:43:11.70
Christ actually
comes down to John.
00:43:11.73\00:43:14.03
Would you jot this down please,
00:43:14.06\00:43:15.67
the intent of John in the
Apocalypse is to accentuate
00:43:15.70\00:43:20.63
the divinity, the
divinity of Jesus.
00:43:20.66\00:43:23.94
Keep writing, in an
empire that worships the Caesar,
00:43:23.97\00:43:26.93
John will show all of
heaven worshiping the Christ,
00:43:26.96\00:43:30.80
fill that in.
00:43:30.83\00:43:32.54
And that's why John, does
not call the day of worship
00:43:32.57\00:43:36.15
what he call it all
the way through his gospel,
00:43:36.18\00:43:37.55
written nearly in the same time,
00:43:37.58\00:43:38.62
just few years earlier.
00:43:38.65\00:43:39.73
John won't call it
Sabbath, his friends Mathew,
00:43:39.76\00:43:42.05
Mark and Luke all call
the Sabbath, john won't.
00:43:42.08\00:43:44.73
Only one time in all
the New Testament does,
00:43:44.76\00:43:47.78
do these words, does
this name for Sabbath appear
00:43:47.81\00:43:51.03
and John calls
it the Lord's day.
00:43:51.06\00:43:54.97
In fact, we
need to fill that in.
00:43:55.00\00:43:56.03
But in order to emphasize
Jesus' divine Lordship over
00:43:56.06\00:43:58.67
all creation here it
is, only here does John call
00:43:58.70\00:44:01.52
the Seventh-day
Sabbath "the Lord's day."
00:44:01.55\00:44:03.71
Now you know, when
you and I come that phrase
00:44:03.74\00:44:05.52
we think it's like
this the Lord's day,
00:44:05.55\00:44:10.28
no, no that's not point I
making this the "Lord's day."
00:44:10.31\00:44:14.90
And I'm using a
phrase used no where else,
00:44:14.93\00:44:17.63
in order to make
sure you understand.
00:44:17.66\00:44:20.56
I was in, I was
worshiping on the Sabbath,
00:44:20.59\00:44:22.37
I was in worship when
suddenly, on the Lord's day,
00:44:22.40\00:44:27.38
the Lord showed up to me.
00:44:27.41\00:44:29.97
That's his point,
the divinity of Christ,
00:44:30.00\00:44:32.56
the Lord's day.
00:44:32.59\00:44:34.57
What day is the Lord's day,
let's Luke 6:5 Jesus was clear
00:44:34.60\00:44:39.08
we didn't read
just a movement ago,
00:44:39.11\00:44:40.66
I'll give them a movement
for scramble back to it,
00:44:40.69\00:44:42.49
Luke 6:5 "And
Jesus said to them,
00:44:42.52\00:44:44.44
'The Son of Man is
also Lord I'm Lord,
00:44:44.47\00:44:49.27
I'm the Lord of
the Sabbath day.'
00:44:49.30\00:44:53.61
"Like the rest
of the New Testament
00:44:53.64\00:44:54.81
John exalts Jesus' both
Lord of salvation and Lord
00:44:54.84\00:44:58.14
of the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:44:58.17\00:45:00.02
In fact here's
the little summery
00:45:00.05\00:45:01.15
would you fill that
in please, so the seal
00:45:01.18\00:45:02.66
that goes on the
foreheads of God's loyal friends
00:45:02.69\00:45:04.69
at the end of time
is a recognition of Him
00:45:04.72\00:45:07.15
as Creator through the Sabbath,
00:45:07.18\00:45:10.10
the day of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
00:45:10.13\00:45:12.49
Three more left.
00:45:12.52\00:45:13.75
Evidence number
five, evidence number five,
00:45:13.78\00:45:16.60
the Old Testament
confirms that conclusion.
00:45:16.63\00:45:22.94
Keep you pen moving, let
me just run three line by
00:45:22.97\00:45:24.91
really quick, Psalm 40:8.
00:45:24.94\00:45:28.74
Hebrews 10 tells us,
these are the words of Jesus,
00:45:28.77\00:45:30.66
Psalm 40:8 "I delight
to do Your will, O my God,
00:45:30.69\00:45:33.72
and Your law," write it
in "is within my heart."
00:45:33.75\00:45:39.07
I would expect Jesus
to say that he was the law
00:45:39.10\00:45:40.93
giver in first place.
00:45:40.96\00:45:42.31
I would expect the
law to be in His heart.
00:45:42.34\00:45:43.72
And love how God how
describes His people,
00:45:43.75\00:45:45.96
in Isaiah 51:7 particularly,
here in New Living translation,
00:45:45.99\00:45:50.01
God speaking "Listen
to me, you who know right
00:45:50.04\00:45:52.38
from wrong and
cherish my law in you hearts."
00:45:52.41\00:45:58.78
Very interesting one
more line from the Isaiah,
00:45:58.81\00:46:00.94
jot it down, Isaiah
8:16, God speaking, "Seal,
00:46:00.97\00:46:04.85
"we've been talking
about he seal so that word
00:46:04.88\00:46:06.70
catches our attention,
seal, the Hebrew by the way
00:46:06.73\00:46:10.22
an official seal, "Seal
the law among my disciples."
00:46:10.25\00:46:16.48
Hey have you ever
seen an official seal?
00:46:16.51\00:46:18.36
Hebrew's clear, this
is the official seal,
00:46:18.39\00:46:19.76
have you ever seen one?
00:46:19.79\00:46:21.40
The next time
you see the president
00:46:21.43\00:46:23.01
giving the news
conference you'll see
00:46:23.04\00:46:24.82
on the very front of his
the little lectern you see
00:46:24.85\00:46:26.81
a little seal, won't you?
00:46:26.84\00:46:27.87
Every time the president
gives the news conference.
00:46:27.90\00:46:29.74
So let's just take
our present presidents,
00:46:29.77\00:46:32.75
George W Bush.
00:46:32.78\00:46:34.73
The seal has three
ingredients, it has number one,
00:46:34.76\00:46:36.76
the name, George W
Buss, number two, the office,
00:46:36.79\00:46:39.11
let's put that picture up
please, number two, the office,
00:46:39.14\00:46:41.70
president and his jurisdiction
00:46:41.73\00:46:44.29
of the United States of America,
00:46:44.32\00:46:45.82
he's not the
president of the world,
00:46:45.85\00:46:46.91
he's president only of
the United States of America.
00:46:46.94\00:46:49.49
Isn't that right?
That's the jurisdiction.
00:46:49.52\00:46:52.34
Now look, I want to you to
take look at the Decalogue,
00:46:52.37\00:46:55.24
that'd be the Ten Commandments.
00:46:55.27\00:46:56.31
There is only one
of the Ten Commandments
00:46:56.34\00:46:58.88
that has the three official
ingredient of the seal in it.
00:46:58.91\00:47:03.81
Take look, go back to, go
back to the Ten Commandments
00:47:03.84\00:47:06.72
of the Exodus Chapter 20.
00:47:06.75\00:47:10.11
I'd like you to see
this for yourself, Exodus 20,
00:47:10.14\00:47:12.79
the Ten
Commandments, thank you pastor
00:47:12.82\00:47:16.89
for your testimony
just a movement ago about
00:47:16.92\00:47:19.91
how your Church every,
every Sunday it repeated
00:47:19.94\00:47:22.78
the Ten
Commandments, isn't that right?
00:47:22.81\00:47:23.94
Repeated the Ten Commandments,
00:47:23.97\00:47:25.00
in fact you did mentioned,
Jerry that you two are
00:47:25.03\00:47:26.82
students together in
the theological seminary,
00:47:26.85\00:47:29.04
because here you are
attending the seminary now
00:47:29.07\00:47:30.49
is that correct?
00:47:30.52\00:47:31.56
Yeah good to have you.
00:47:31.59\00:47:32.78
But here is what is
read in many churches every,
00:47:35.49\00:47:38.00
every worship, weekly worship.
00:47:38.03\00:47:41.40
Let's go down to
the fourth Commandment,
00:47:41.43\00:47:42.62
drop down to the verse 8
"Remember the Sabbath day,
00:47:42.65\00:47:47.82
to keep it holy.
00:47:47.85\00:47:49.42
Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
00:47:49.45\00:47:53.01
but verse 10 the
Seventh day is the Sabbath
00:47:53.04\00:47:56.01
of the Lord your God.
00:47:56.04\00:47:57.84
In it you shall do no
work, you, nor you son,
00:47:57.87\00:48:00.49
nor your daughter,
nor your male servant,
00:48:00.52\00:48:02.98
nor your female
servant, nor your cattle,
00:48:03.01\00:48:04.70
nor your stranger who
is within your gates."
00:48:04.73\00:48:06.34
One more verse
11 "For in six days
00:48:06.37\00:48:09.07
the Lord made the
heavens and the earth, the sea,
00:48:09.10\00:48:11.89
and all that is in them,
and rested the seventh day.
00:48:11.92\00:48:15.75
Therefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it."
00:48:15.78\00:48:20.90
Jot it down please, the only one
00:48:20.93\00:48:23.15
of the Ten Commandments
00:48:23.18\00:48:24.33
that contains
the three ingredients
00:48:24.36\00:48:25.81
of an official seal is
the fourth Commandment.
00:48:25.84\00:48:29.36
The fourth write
it in, the fourth.
00:48:29.39\00:48:30.92
What are the three ingredients
00:48:30.95\00:48:31.98
again pastor let's
put them on the screen.
00:48:32.01\00:48:33.52
Ingredient one, you
have to have the name,
00:48:33.55\00:48:35.35
"the Lord you God, there
it is, the Lord your God."
00:48:35.38\00:48:38.23
You have to have an office.
What's the office? The maker.
00:48:38.26\00:48:41.00
Now its say he made, we
have turn that verb into a noun
00:48:41.03\00:48:44.24
He's the maker, the Creator,
and what is His jurisdiction?
00:48:44.27\00:48:46.69
Ah, what did we put,
fill it in please "the heavens
00:48:46.72\00:48:48.98
and the earth, the sea
and all that is in them."
00:48:49.01\00:48:53.38
I.e. the entire universe
is the Creator's jurisdiction
00:48:53.41\00:48:57.39
true or false?
00:48:57.42\00:48:59.04
But of course.
00:48:59.07\00:49:02.59
Clearly, just as
the New Testament
00:49:02.62\00:49:04.68
does the Old
Testament links the seal of God
00:49:04.71\00:49:07.56
with His office as
Creator as memorialized
00:49:07.59\00:49:11.30
in the Seventh-day Sabbath,
00:49:11.33\00:49:14.21
the day both Old and New teach
the day Jesus is the Lord of.
00:49:14.24\00:49:17.73
Just two more, jot
them down please number six,
00:49:19.19\00:49:21.41
evidence number 6,
the sealed ones are given
00:49:21.44\00:49:24.98
a global
mission, a global message
00:49:25.01\00:49:26.63
that proclaims, fill it in,
00:49:26.66\00:49:28.34
"Worship Him who made
heaven and earth, the sea
00:49:28.37\00:49:31.86
and the springs of waters."
00:49:31.89\00:49:33.51
You know it's amazing,
John describes Revelation 14,
00:49:33.54\00:49:35.86
he describes these
144,000 this final generation
00:49:35.89\00:49:38.75
and as soon as he get
that description out his mouth,
00:49:38.78\00:49:41.63
he immediately takes his
pen to describing the massage
00:49:41.66\00:49:45.34
they will take, they are
raised up God to take this
00:49:45.37\00:49:47.59
massage to the entire
plant and what's the massage?
00:49:47.62\00:49:51.01
Let's, let's put
it on the screen first
00:49:51.04\00:49:53.09
"Then I saw another angel"
00:49:53.12\00:49:55.91
this right after
he describes the seal,
00:49:55.94\00:49:57.88
"I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven,
00:49:57.91\00:50:00.38
having the
everlasting gospel to preach
00:50:00.41\00:50:02.72
to those who dwell on the earth.
00:50:02.75\00:50:03.81
To every nation,
tribe, tongue, and people,
00:50:03.84\00:50:05.94
and He said with a loud voice,"
there's you mega phone again
00:50:05.97\00:50:08.67
"'Fear God and
give glory to Him,
00:50:08.70\00:50:10.42
for the hour of
His judgment has come,
00:50:10.45\00:50:12.13
and worship Him who
made heaven and earth,
00:50:12.16\00:50:14.32
the sea and springs of water."
00:50:14.35\00:50:16.54
"Would you write it down please?
00:50:16.57\00:50:17.90
and 7 are clear,
00:50:17.93\00:50:20.80
are clearly a call
to earth's inhabitants
00:50:20.83\00:50:23.53
to return to the Creator,
return to the one who made
00:50:23.56\00:50:27.58
heaven and earth and the sea,
00:50:27.61\00:50:28.98
return to the Creator
and his Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:50:29.01\00:50:32.86
You say I don't
see a word about that,
00:50:32.89\00:50:34.47
let me just tell me something,
00:50:34.50\00:50:35.56
the language in the Greek
in verse 7 of Revelation 14
00:50:35.59\00:50:38.91
is the identical
language in the Greek,
00:50:38.94\00:50:41.48
in the Greek Old
Testament Septuagint
00:50:41.51\00:50:43.26
in the Fourth the Commandment.
00:50:43.29\00:50:44.39
The same
language, it's the Sabbath
00:50:44.42\00:50:47.51
and the Creator.
00:50:47.54\00:50:49.11
That is the
passion of that appeal.
00:50:49.14\00:50:52.26
Finally the
evidence number seven,
00:50:52.29\00:50:55.26
evidence number
seven, the one who seals
00:50:55.29\00:50:57.57
God's friends,
00:50:57.60\00:50:58.63
write it down,
is the Holy Spirit,
00:50:58.66\00:51:01.71
whom Jesus called in John
16:13 "The Spirit of truth."
00:51:01.74\00:51:08.55
Whatever the Spirit seals
into you it's going to be true,
00:51:08.58\00:51:10.83
it's going to be the truth.
00:51:10.86\00:51:12.35
And by the way, there are three
great verse Ephesians 1:13,
00:51:12.38\00:51:15.04
Ephesians 4:30 and
2nd Corinthians 1:22,
00:51:15.07\00:51:17.43
all describe the Holy
Spirit as the one who seals.
00:51:17.46\00:51:19.83
Let's put Ephesians, yeah,
Ephesians 4:30 on the screen.
00:51:19.86\00:51:23.12
Paul writes "And do not
grieve the Holy Spirit of God,
00:51:23.15\00:51:26.22
by whom you were sealed,
00:51:26.25\00:51:28.73
the Holy Spirit is
the one who seals you,
00:51:28.76\00:51:30.34
by whom you were sealed,
for the day of redemption."
00:51:30.37\00:51:33.46
Write this down
please, "The very Spirit
00:51:33.49\00:51:36.29
that John was in
the Lord's say on,"
00:51:36.32\00:51:38.24
remember he said
I was in the Spirit
00:51:38.27\00:51:39.53
on the Lord's
day, the very Spirit
00:51:39.56\00:51:42.26
is the one who
seals the Creator's name
00:51:42.29\00:51:45.01
and the Creator's
day upon the minds
00:51:45.04\00:51:47.71
and hearts of an
end-time generation.
00:51:47.74\00:51:51.14
God says, hey, I belong
to them, I'm their Creator,
00:51:51.17\00:51:54.96
they belong to me
they're my Creation.
00:51:54.99\00:51:58.50
There they are
ladies and gentlemen,
00:51:58.53\00:52:00.00
seven of them,
seven compelling evidences
00:52:00.03\00:52:03.89
that the sealing
of the Revelation 7
00:52:03.92\00:52:05.64
describes a
loyalty to the Creator God
00:52:05.67\00:52:08.05
that will be evidenced
by the observance of his
00:52:08.08\00:52:10.48
Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:52:10.51\00:52:12.72
I don't know about you
but I'm, when I'm thinking,
00:52:12.75\00:52:14.66
you know, would I
like a little seal on me,
00:52:14.69\00:52:16.05
I tell what, if that seal means
that I belong to the Creator,
00:52:16.08\00:52:18.99
if that seal means
His name on my life,
00:52:19.02\00:52:22.47
I want that seal,
I mean, don't you?
00:52:22.50\00:52:24.42
I mean, come on, it's
a no brainer, isn't it?
00:52:24.45\00:52:26.38
Is that a Christian on
earth who would not want
00:52:26.41\00:52:28.28
the seal of God in
his or her forehead?
00:52:28.31\00:52:30.00
I can't think of
a Christian alive
00:52:30.03\00:52:31.45
who wouldn't say now seal me,
00:52:31.48\00:52:32.65
put the Creator seal right,
nothing is going on the skin.
00:52:32.68\00:52:36.33
It's going in side my
life as symbol of my commitment
00:52:36.36\00:52:40.00
to the one who owns me, as
it were, the one created me.
00:52:40.03\00:52:44.99
Hey this much I know,
and then I'll sit down,
00:52:45.02\00:52:46.33
this much I know.
00:52:46.36\00:52:47.39
It is no accident, that
this particular rumor from the
00:52:50.06\00:52:55.51
east is shown in
the apocalypse to be
00:52:55.54\00:52:58.83
on the ascendancy at very
time in the human history,
00:52:58.86\00:53:03.27
there's never
been an hour like this,
00:53:03.30\00:53:04.71
at the very
time in human history
00:53:04.74\00:53:06.29
when the notion
of God as Creator
00:53:06.32\00:53:08.65
is under the
most withering attack
00:53:08.68\00:53:10.76
it has ever suffered.
00:53:10.79\00:53:12.38
It's no
coincidence that at this time,
00:53:12.41\00:53:16.29
God raise up a
generation and says, boy,
00:53:16.32\00:53:19.26
you belong to
me, no coincidence.
00:53:19.29\00:53:23.47
The secular post-modern
culture that rules academia,
00:53:23.50\00:53:27.57
it rules the
entertainment world,
00:53:27.60\00:53:29.09
it even rules mainline religion,
00:53:29.12\00:53:32.65
that culture is a
vowed in his opposition
00:53:32.68\00:53:36.60
to the notion of a Creator God.
00:53:36.63\00:53:38.69
And I tell you what,
the, the forces of political
00:53:38.72\00:53:41.47
correctness are
exactly in heavy,
00:53:41.50\00:53:44.54
heavy toll to anybody,
who would out there stand up
00:53:44.57\00:53:48.16
and say wait a minute I
don't, I don't believe that,
00:53:48.19\00:53:50.81
I do not believe that.
00:53:50.84\00:53:53.18
I believe, I believe
00:53:53.21\00:53:55.62
in a living God, who created me.
00:53:55.65\00:53:59.17
I tell you what it's huge
toll to stand up out there
00:53:59.20\00:54:03.73
with that confession.
00:54:03.76\00:54:06.38
But I tell you, I, tell you
also this in my last breath.
00:54:06.41\00:54:11.48
You look at, look at this,
get the camera here please.
00:54:11.51\00:54:15.47
You look at this
guy, take a careful
00:54:15.50\00:54:17.57
look at him please,
00:54:17.60\00:54:18.63
our silent friend reminds
us that without the Creator
00:54:18.66\00:54:23.29
this is all we
have to look forward to.
00:54:23.32\00:54:27.46
Take a look, that's it baby,
that's your destiny, girl, boy.
00:54:27.49\00:54:33.54
That's your eternity.
00:54:33.57\00:54:35.68
Take a good
look, take a good look.
00:54:35.71\00:54:39.25
Darwinism, naturalism,
evolutionary scientists
00:54:39.28\00:54:43.45
and philosophy
have nothing to give you
00:54:43.48\00:54:45.83
except the cold hand of death.
00:54:45.86\00:54:51.47
Hey, you laugh,
you laugh, it's true.
00:54:51.50\00:54:55.20
This is all get.
This is all you get.
00:54:55.23\00:55:00.00
According to the apocalypse,
00:55:03.70\00:55:05.07
there will a
generation at the end of time
00:55:05.10\00:55:07.33
that in the face of overwhelming
00:55:07.36\00:55:09.84
public resistance, the
generation will stand up
00:55:09.87\00:55:12.49
and say you know what...
00:55:12.52\00:55:15.98
this much I
know, this much I know.
00:55:16.01\00:55:21.29
I was blind but
now I see, I was lost
00:55:21.32\00:55:24.97
but now I am
found, this much I know,
00:55:25.00\00:55:27.17
somebody has put
His name on my life.
00:55:27.20\00:55:30.79
And I belong to him
and if it's a choice
00:55:30.82\00:55:33.46
between two
hands, if it's a choice
00:55:33.49\00:55:35.62
between this hand
and a nail scared hand,
00:55:35.65\00:55:39.68
there will be
generation at the end of time
00:55:39.71\00:55:41.36
that stands up and
says you can have that hand,
00:55:41.39\00:55:43.38
I will take the nail
scared hand in my hand,
00:55:43.41\00:55:46.43
and I will live, I
will die for my Creator.
00:55:46.46\00:55:52.10
Ladies and gentlemen,
I don't want to be over
00:55:52.13\00:55:54.90
dramatic here,
but you know what,
00:55:54.93\00:55:56.93
there're only two
hands to choose from,
00:55:56.96\00:55:59.54
there's no third
hand, there's no third hand.
00:55:59.57\00:56:02.85
You can, you can't say,
I'm going to hold this hand
00:56:02.88\00:56:04.87
because I'm really kind of
keep in touch with those people
00:56:04.90\00:56:07.10
and I'm going to
hold this hand over here.
00:56:07.13\00:56:08.86
You can't hold two
hands, there's isn't a marriage
00:56:08.89\00:56:12.23
on earth that'll
allow you to hold two hands.
00:56:12.26\00:56:14.31
Trust me, you
can't hold two hands.
00:56:14.34\00:56:17.81
You have let go of one
hand and only clasp the other,
00:56:17.84\00:56:21.53
you can choose this hand.
00:56:21.56\00:56:24.08
Or you can choose
the nail scared hand
00:56:24.11\00:56:26.43
of the living
Creator, who by the way
00:56:26.46\00:56:28.08
if understand
this book correctly,
00:56:28.11\00:56:29.32
not only offers us his hand,
00:56:29.35\00:56:30.93
not only offers us His
heart but if the book is true,
00:56:30.96\00:56:34.95
also offers us His home one day.
00:56:34.98\00:56:37.91
And when He describes that home
00:56:37.95\00:56:39.42
in Isaiah 66, he says,
00:56:39.45\00:56:40.87
let me tell you what
it is like home folks,
00:56:40.90\00:56:42.55
from one Sabbath to
another, all flesh will come
00:56:42.58\00:56:47.84
and worship before me.
00:56:47.87\00:56:50.72
I want to be part of
that reunion, don't you?
00:56:50.76\00:56:53.88
I want to hold the living hand.
00:56:53.91\00:56:55.08
I don't what your choice
is but as for in my house
00:56:55.11\00:56:57.64
we will serve the Lord.
00:56:57.67\00:57:01.68
Amen.
00:57:01.71\00:57:05.40
Before you go I just
want to take one more moment
00:57:05.43\00:57:07.31
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