Well, hello and welcome
to our second service here
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at Pioneer Memorial Church.
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We're so glad
that you joined us.
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Wanna welcome especially
those tuning us online,
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from the hundreds
and eventually thousands
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of different locations
from where you're watching.
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So glad you're here.
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Also really glad
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for all those
joining us physically
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here locally in
Berrien Springs, Michigan.
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So glad that we have the space
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where we can physically
distance appropriately
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and be masked up to
keep each other safe.
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So we're really
glad that you are here.
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Our call to
worship today comes to us
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from Psalm 117,
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it says, "Praise the
Lord, all you nations,
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extol Him, all you peoples,
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for great is His love towards us
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and the faithfulness of
the Lord endures forever.
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Praise the Lord."
Let's pray together.
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Father, here we are
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Your people those
that have been redeemed,
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bought back, rescued,
representing every kindred,
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nation, tongue and people.
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And we pray in the name of Jesus
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that as we worship that
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You, Jesus, would
fill us with Your light
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so that we can do what
we've been called to do
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and to be a light
to all the nations.
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For we do ask in
the name of Jesus.
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Amen.
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Exceedingly
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Abundantly
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Above all
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All you could ask or think
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According to
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The power
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That worketh in you
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God is able to do
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Just what He said He would do
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And He's gonna fulfill
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Every promise to you
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Don't give up on God
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'Cause He won't give up on you
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He's able
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He's able
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God is able to do
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Just what He said He would do
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And He's gonna fulfill
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Every promise to you
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Don't give up on God
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'Cause He won't give up on you
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He's able
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He's able
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Oh
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He's able
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Oh
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He's able
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Oh
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He's able
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Oh
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He's able
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He is able, He is able
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He is able, He is able
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He is able, He is able
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He is able, He is able
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Whatever He say He's able
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He's gonna do He's able
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Whatever He promise He's able
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He's gonna do it He's able
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He is able, He is able
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He is able, He is able
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He is able, He is able
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He is able, He is able
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Don't give up on God
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'Cause He won't give up on you
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Don't give up on God
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'Cause He won't give up on you
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He is able
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The atmosphere is changing now
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For the Spirit
of the Lord is here
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The evidence is all around
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That the Spirit
of the Lord is here
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Overflow in this place
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Fill our hearts with Your love
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Your love surrounds us
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You're the reason we came
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To encounter Your love
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Your love surrounds us
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The atmosphere is changing now
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For the Spirit
of the Lord is here
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The evidence is all around
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That the Spirit
of the Lord is here
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Overflow in this place
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Fill our hearts with Your love
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Your love surrounds us
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You're the reason we came
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To encounter Your love
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Your love surrounds us
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Spirit of God fall fresh on us
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We need Your presence
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Your kingdom come
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Your will be done
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Here as in heaven
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Spirit of God fall fresh on us
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We need Your presence
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Your kingdom come
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Your will be done
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Here as in heaven
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Overflow in this place
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Fill our hearts with Your love
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Your love surrounds us
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You're the reason we came
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To encounter Your love
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Your love surrounds us
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Boy, we need a
Savior on this planet today,
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we need a Savior
in America today.
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Can I get an amen? Amen.
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Come on, we need a
Savior in America today.
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We'll get to that.
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In fact, I want
to end this homily
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with a statement
about the election coming up
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in a special prayer that
you and I'll pray together.
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Let's pray. Oh
God, beautiful Savior.
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That's Jesus.
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Where would we be without Him?
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We wouldn't be
here, that's for sure.
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Thank you for every
way, You've been speaking
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to our hearts all
through the service.
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We have been maxed
out with blessings.
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Few more minutes, Father,
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save a few blessings for
these moments in Your Word.
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We humbly pray in
Jesus' name. Amen.
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Happy anniversary to you
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Happy anniversary to you
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Happy
anniversary, dear Protestants
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Happy anniversary to you
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You want me to sing again.
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Hey, guys, 503 years ago
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this very
moment, October 31, 1517,
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young Augustinian monk
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strides with determination
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across the least
ruined village center
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of that tiny town
called Wittenberg.
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In one hand, he has his hammer,
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and some nails
in the other hand,
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he has a parchment
with his own inked words,
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"95 challenges"
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95 to the reigning church
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of the Dark and
bloody Middle Ages.
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Martin Luther, I
got to see my man,
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Martin Luther, there he is.
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Martin Luther has no idea.
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This obscure monk in Germany
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has no idea that with
every blow of that hammer,
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he is breaking the hegemony
of that Middle Ages church.
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He has no clue that
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with every blow of that mallet,
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he is launching the
greatest reformation
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in the history of this earth,
the Protestant Reformation.
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And guess what?
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You and I are
children of that Reformation.
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Five hundred
and three years ago,
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the Reformation was launched.
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Happy anniversary, everybody.
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So here's the question.
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Is the Reformation over?
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I have a book in
my library written by
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an evangelical
Protestant scholar
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named Mark Noll.
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Thought it over, Notre Dame
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and then headed over to Wheaton.
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The title of the
book that very question,
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"Is the Reformation Over?"
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An evangelical assessment
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of contemporary
Roman Catholicism.
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I'll put his
words on the screen.
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Let's look at Mark Noll,
"A number of the dialogues
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between Roman Catholic
and evangelical scholars,"
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that have been taken
place, "led to the cancellation
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of anathemas, curses."
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Curse you, curse you back.
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And that's what was
happening back then.
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Let, no, no, go back please.
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"Led to the
cancellation of anathemas
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that had been issued
during the Reformation."
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What's going on here?
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"The cumulative
results of these dialogues
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record a momentous
shaking of once settled ground.
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On the basis of the
ecumenical dialogues,
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can it be said that
the Reformation is over?
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Probably not.
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But a once yawning chasm
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has certainly narrowed."
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We're gonna come back
to that word, in a moment.
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Is the Reformation over?
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I suppose.
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We have a mutual enemy,
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who is pouring every
ounce of diabolical energy
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that he possesses into
bringing that Reformation
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to a whimpering
halt on this planet.
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Luther knew all
about that enemy.
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He lived in a world
where the devil was real.
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We're so sophisticated today.
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We don't even have the devil.
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Who hasn't, who
believes in that.
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Luther believed in the devil.
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Now Luther believed salvation
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by faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ champion.
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He believed in the devil.
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He fought the devil.
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In fact, scholars are not sure
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whether they can
deny or verify the story
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that has remained
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when he was in the
Wartburg Castle, hiding.
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He had a death
sentence on his head.
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While there, he was so harassed
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by our mutual
enemy, you've been there.
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His conscience, the
devil always working
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on his conscience,
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devil plaguing all
the details around him.
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So exasperated he
took a little inkwell,
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because he wrote by
ink and he threw it,
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he hurled it
against a plaster wall.
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That's how real
the devil was to him.
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It's
interesting that since 1650,
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for almost 300 years,
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that room where
Luther was writing
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was open to the
public, tourists came
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from 1650 to 100 years ago.
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And what happened to
that blue plasters ink spot
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on the wall,
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it's not there today, you can go
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and you can see that in
fact, the plaster is all gone.
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Souvenir hunters piece by
piece by piece over 300 years
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have removed the
wall and the ink splat.
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Hey, listen, our legacy
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is not the plaster on that wall.
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Our legacy today on this
campus and in this country,
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the largest
Protestant country on earth
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and the most powerful.
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Our legacy today is
the battle Luther launched,
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to break the hegemony
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of the devil on America.
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Yeah, Luther wrote
the great Battle Hymn
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of the Protestant Reformation,
a mighty fortress is our God.
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And he includes this
stanza and though this world,
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with devils filled
should threaten to undo us,
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we will not fear,
for God has willed
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His truth to triumph through us.
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This is next to the last
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in this series
American apocalypse.
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You want to see something
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you never seen
before regarding America?
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Open your Bible
with me right now.
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Next the last
time, the apocalypse,
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Revelation Chapter 16, please.
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Revelation Chapter 16,
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our scripture
reading just a moment ago.
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Revelation Chapter 16.
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I'm in the New
International Version.
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Let's go verse 13.
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"Then I saw three impure spirits
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that look like frogs."
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Anybody like frogs
here? Now frogs are ugly.
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Come on, frogs are ugly.
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We're talking about green, ugly.
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Why do frogs show up
here? Oh, that's right.
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Before God delivered
that nation of slaves
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and liberated them.
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Frogs are one of the 10 plagues
over Egypt, weren't they?
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Before God delivers
his friends on earth.
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In the seven last plagues,
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there'll be a plague with frogs.
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There it is.
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"Then I saw three impure spirits
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that looked like frogs,
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they came out of
the mouth of the dragon.
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They came out of
the mouth of the beast."
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What's going on?
John's watching this.
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"And they came out of the
mouth of the false prophet."
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What's going on here?
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Well, we know
those three creatures.
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We know the
dragon. Who's the dragon?
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Through that mask let
me just see your lips move.
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Who's the dragon?
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We already know it's the devil,
that old serpent called Satan.
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So we know who the
dragon is? Who's the sea beast?
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The sea beast that
was wounded in 1798.
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That ruled during the
dark, bloody Middle Ages,
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that would
disappear for a while.
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But before the end,
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the apocalypse is predicting
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it will surge
into global dominion
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and dominance.
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Who's that sea beast?
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Yeah, that's the
one Luther went for.
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But hey, wait a
minute. Who's this?
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Who's this false prophet?
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We've never run into him before.
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This is first time
we have. You're right.
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Remember, there
was an earth beast,
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you remember that?
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This earth beast, it
came up just as the sea beast
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is getting wounded.
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You remember that?
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This earth beast that came
up with the new world far away
00:17:52.13\00:17:53.74
from the people
thoroughfares of Europe.
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This earth beast
that would champion
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for two and a half centuries.
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The little, the
twin liberties of civil
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and religious freedom
00:18:02.48\00:18:06.08
that would spring up
at the end of the 1700s
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and become a global superpower.
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There's only one nation
that matches that description
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and we know who it is.
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We've already
spent time on that.
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That's America.
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So who's this
false prophet then?
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Because that's the earth
beast. This is false prophet.
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Just go to
Revelation Chapter 19,
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and it will show you that
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the false
prophet is another name
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for the earth beast.
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Because the earth base
begins as a political power
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that dominates the world
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but before the
earth beast is finished,
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he will become a
false religious power,
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a false prophet.
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That's what's going on.
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Okay, let's pick it up.
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Verse 13 again,
then we'll read 14,
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"Then I saw three impure spirits
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that look like frogs.
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They came up out of
the mouth of the dragon,
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out of the mouth of the beast,
00:19:03.44\00:19:04.77
and out of the mouth
of the false prophet.
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They are demonic
spirits that perform signs."
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Demonic spirits,
can you see spirits?
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No, spirits are of another
order than you and I are,
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but they will perform signs.
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The only way that
you can see a sign is
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if you see it,
00:19:21.22\00:19:22.56
because a sign is
only a sign when it's seen.
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They will perform
signs that will be seen.
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Verse 14, "They
are demonic spirits
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that perform signs and
they go out to the kings,
00:19:32.53\00:19:35.34
the presidents and
the prime ministers
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of the whole
world to gather them
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for the battle on the
great day of God Almighty."
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We are talking about the
last great showdown battle
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that the entire history
00:19:45.85\00:19:47.18
of this fallen
planet has been headed
00:19:47.22\00:19:48.88
toward the final showdown.
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This is it. This is it.
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Three ugly demonic spirits
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to set the stage for
this withering attack.
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You want to know
who's given the orders
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to these three demonic spirits.
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I'll show you
who's given the order.
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You may never
have read this passage
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before in your life,
I'd like you to find it.
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Good luck.
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It's in 2 Thessalonians,
that's in the New Testament.
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2 Thessalonians,
you got to go back
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towards the
gospels, don't go too far.
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You come into Timothy,
and you get to Timothy,
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go a little bit beyond Timothy,
00:20:23.22\00:20:24.89
and you're gonna
get to 2 Thessalonians.
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I want you to see
this in your own Bible.
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Sure, I'm gonna put
the words on the screen,
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but see these
words in your own Bible.
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So this is the
Apostle Paul writing,
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he's going to be tuned
in with the Apostle John.
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They're just like
this. They're just like this
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and what they're
describing, watch this.
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This is Chapter 2
of 2 Thessalonians.
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Drop down to
verse 3, Paul writing,
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"Don't let anyone
deceive you in any way."
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Oh, I want you
to listen carefully
00:20:52.28\00:20:56.42
to what Paul is telling us,
00:20:56.45\00:20:58.35
because whatever follows
is going to be deception.
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I'm not surprised.
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Do you know who the
deceiver is gonna be?
00:21:04.13\00:21:05.86
Who do you think the
deceiver is gonna be?
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The one who has
dealt with deception
00:21:09.13\00:21:10.97
from the very
beginning of human time,
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it's the devil.
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Do you know how does it go here?
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"Don't let anyone
deceive you in any way,
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for that day will not come
until the rebellion occurs,
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and the man of
lawlessness is revealed,
00:21:24.31\00:21:26.01
the man doomed to destruction."
00:21:26.05\00:21:27.72
Come on, what's going on?
00:21:27.75\00:21:29.58
Deception is
the name of the game
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and guess who's the source?
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The source is Satan.
Jesus minces no words.
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This is the toughest
I've ever heard Jesus speak
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except for the
woes, except for the woes.
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Watch this, John 8:44.
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These are the words of Christ,
gentle, Jesus, meek and mild,
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not today.
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"You," He's talking
to the religious leaders,
00:21:47.80\00:21:49.80
"You belong to your father,"
I know who your daddy is,
00:21:49.84\00:21:54.94
"the devil, and
you want to carry out
00:21:54.98\00:21:57.55
your father's desires.
00:21:57.58\00:21:59.68
He was a murderer
from the beginning,
00:21:59.71\00:22:02.02
not holding to the truth,
for there is no truth in him."
00:22:02.05\00:22:05.29
And then Jesus just
rolls His sleeves up
00:22:05.32\00:22:07.19
because now here comes.
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When he lies, the devil,
he speaks his native language.
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I like the NIV's rendition.
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He speaks his native tongue.
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That's all he can do
is lie, lie, lie, like,
00:22:18.37\00:22:20.54
for he is a liar.
00:22:20.57\00:22:22.74
And the father of lies,
he is a pathological liar.
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Once in a while you
meet a pathological liar
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who no longer knows that
she, that he is telling lies,
00:22:28.54\00:22:32.35
no longer knows it.
00:22:32.38\00:22:33.72
The devil does
not know he lives,
00:22:33.75\00:22:35.78
he soaked in deception.
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Wow!
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Verse 3 again, "Don't let anyone
00:22:40.89\00:22:43.49
deceive you in any way,
00:22:43.53\00:22:44.86
for that day will not come
until the rebellion occurs,
00:22:44.89\00:22:47.60
and the man of
lawlessness is revealed,
00:22:47.63\00:22:49.43
the man doomed to destruction."
00:22:49.46\00:22:51.30
Now that word
lawlessness is a huge key.
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Because lawlessness means
there's someone who has a law
00:22:56.20\00:23:01.94
that the devil has been
gunning for from the beginning.
00:23:01.98\00:23:05.18
And that someone is God.
00:23:05.21\00:23:07.35
God has ruled this universe
in a benevolent rulership
00:23:07.38\00:23:11.15
from the beginning of eternity,
00:23:11.19\00:23:13.46
which is beyond
our comprehension.
00:23:13.49\00:23:16.29
He's always had a law.
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He had a law for the human race.
00:23:18.16\00:23:21.03
And this enemy,
this man of lawlessness,
00:23:21.06\00:23:26.17
the puppeteer behind him,
00:23:26.20\00:23:29.24
has been seething for the chance
00:23:29.27\00:23:32.57
to destroy that law
at every single turn.
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So there is a
Sabbath tucked away
00:23:36.48\00:23:37.88
in the geometric literary
heart of the Ten Commandments.
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I'm not surprised, come
to find out that Lucifer
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has had his claws, and
his eyes on the Sabbath
00:23:43.52\00:23:47.02
from the get go.
00:23:47.06\00:23:48.86
He's a man of, any front
00:23:48.89\00:23:50.49
that he has will be
lawless, it will be lawless,
00:23:50.53\00:23:52.19
it will not be by
the Ten Commandments.
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No, no, no, no.
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That's seventh day
Sabbath, gifted by the Creator,
00:23:58.50\00:24:02.50
written with the
Creator's fingering in granite.
00:24:02.54\00:24:07.48
I'm not surprise Lucifer
00:24:07.51\00:24:09.08
with fangs and claws
00:24:09.11\00:24:14.42
would go for that Sabbath.
00:24:14.45\00:24:15.78
The day the Creator
gave to His earth children.
00:24:15.82\00:24:17.92
Hey, this is a Friendship Day.
00:24:17.95\00:24:19.72
We're enjoying one right now.
00:24:19.75\00:24:21.09
This is a friendship
day. It's just you and me.
00:24:21.12\00:24:23.02
Have great time.
00:24:23.06\00:24:24.39
Get together with your
friends this afternoon.
00:24:24.43\00:24:25.76
But make sure that
I'm a part of that.
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Just make sure
I'm a part of that,
00:24:27.76\00:24:29.26
because this is our day.
00:24:29.30\00:24:31.93
Get him. Kill him.Kill him.
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Verse 4.
00:24:36.77\00:24:38.57
This man of lawlessness,
what's he going to do?
00:24:38.61\00:24:40.41
"He will oppose
and will exalt himself
00:24:40.44\00:24:42.88
over everything
that is called God
00:24:42.91\00:24:45.11
or his worship so
that he sets himself
00:24:45.15\00:24:47.68
up in God's temple
00:24:47.72\00:24:49.58
proclaiming
himself to be," what?
00:24:49.62\00:24:52.75
"To be God."
00:24:52.79\00:24:54.32
Five hundred and
three years ago today,
00:24:54.36\00:24:57.46
Martin Luther that young priest
00:24:57.49\00:25:00.10
took on the deception
that this verse describes.
00:25:00.13\00:25:05.10
Martin Luther, don't you
ever sell yourself short.
00:25:05.13\00:25:08.24
One boy, one
girl, one young man,
00:25:08.27\00:25:13.17
one not so young woman.
00:25:13.21\00:25:16.24
It's all it takes is one.
00:25:16.28\00:25:17.61
God ignites the fire.
00:25:22.65\00:25:26.72
It could be you.
00:25:26.76\00:25:28.19
We need a reformation again.
00:25:28.22\00:25:29.69
You could be it.
00:25:29.72\00:25:31.06
I'm looking at some mass faces
and thinking you'd be perfect.
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Yeah.
00:25:37.83\00:25:41.97
All right, let's
read verse 4 again
00:25:42.00\00:25:44.01
and drop down to verse 9,
00:25:44.04\00:25:45.37
"He will oppose this power,"
this man of lawlessness,"
00:25:45.41\00:25:49.61
he will oppose
and will exalt himself
00:25:49.64\00:25:51.31
over everything
that is called God
00:25:51.35\00:25:53.01
or his worship
00:25:53.05\00:25:54.38
so that he sets
himself in God's temple
00:25:54.42\00:25:56.22
proclaiming himself to be God."
00:25:56.25\00:25:58.45
Verse 9, "And the
coming of the lawless one
00:25:58.49\00:26:00.76
will be in
accordance with how Satan works.
00:26:00.79\00:26:04.13
He will use all
sorts of displays
00:26:04.16\00:26:06.90
of power through signs."
00:26:06.93\00:26:08.40
Wait a minute.
00:26:08.43\00:26:09.76
Didn't we just read
about these demonic signs,
00:26:09.80\00:26:12.77
the green frogs,
00:26:12.80\00:26:14.67
oh, now we know who's
behind the green frogs.
00:26:14.70\00:26:18.71
"He will use all
sorts of displays
00:26:18.74\00:26:20.91
of power through signs
00:26:20.94\00:26:23.14
and wonders through signs
00:26:23.18\00:26:25.28
and wonders that
serve the," what?
00:26:25.31\00:26:29.25
"The lie." He is a liar.
00:26:29.28\00:26:31.39
Liar. Pants on fire, kinda liar.
00:26:31.42\00:26:35.99
He's
pathological, you can't help it.
00:26:36.02\00:26:40.96
What lies you're talking about?
It says that served the lie.
00:26:41.00\00:26:43.43
Hey, how about if we take
the very first lie Lucifer
00:26:43.47\00:26:47.70
ever told on this planet?
00:26:47.74\00:26:49.07
Let's just take the first lie.
00:26:49.10\00:26:50.44
I mean, the rest
of it all fit in.
00:26:50.47\00:26:52.47
What first lie you're
talking about, Dwight.
00:26:52.51\00:26:53.84
I'm talking about when
Lucifer encased himself
00:26:53.88\00:26:58.11
in this shining,
00:26:58.15\00:26:59.48
brilliant
serpent that's entwined
00:26:59.51\00:27:03.15
into this gorgeous tree
00:27:03.18\00:27:04.95
and he's looking
down and his eyes,
00:27:04.99\00:27:07.72
his dark eyes catch the
eyes of this beautiful girl
00:27:07.76\00:27:10.33
who's walking by.
00:27:10.36\00:27:13.23
Girl.
00:27:13.26\00:27:16.03
I'm talking about the
lie that he hissed at her.
00:27:16.06\00:27:18.50
You shall not surely die.
00:27:18.53\00:27:20.94
You're not gonna die, girl.
00:27:20.97\00:27:22.30
Get off, kid off.
00:27:22.34\00:27:24.47
God's just trying to scare you.
00:27:24.51\00:27:25.84
He's afraid
you're gonna be like Him.
00:27:25.87\00:27:27.21
Trust me. You do not die.
00:27:27.24\00:27:30.41
Liar, liar pants on fire.
00:27:30.45\00:27:35.38
How did Jesus put it?
00:27:35.42\00:27:38.15
John 8:44.
00:27:38.19\00:27:39.65
"There is no truth
in him for when he lies,
00:27:39.69\00:27:42.29
he speaks his native language,
00:27:42.32\00:27:43.93
for he is a liar
and the father of lies."
00:27:43.96\00:27:47.06
You are not going to
die, you are not going to die.
00:27:47.10\00:27:51.57
It's the first line.
00:27:51.60\00:27:52.93
It's still being
told all over this planet.
00:27:52.97\00:27:54.34
Every major religion,
every major philosophy
00:27:54.37\00:27:56.50
on this planet
deals with the thought
00:27:56.54\00:27:58.51
that after death,
there's something else.
00:27:58.54\00:28:02.04
When you die, you don't die.
00:28:02.08\00:28:03.75
You go to
heaven. You go to hell.
00:28:03.78\00:28:07.02
You go to purgatory.
You enter into Nirvana.
00:28:07.05\00:28:11.15
You go on, incarnation,
you just keep going on,
00:28:11.19\00:28:13.92
you will not die.
00:28:13.96\00:28:15.52
So it's no surprise when
the Creator of this earth
00:28:25.43\00:28:29.27
comes to earth,
comes down to this planet.
00:28:29.30\00:28:31.67
And He puts on humanity.
00:28:31.71\00:28:34.64
It's no surprise
that He will find a moment
00:28:34.68\00:28:37.11
when He will go straight
for that lie and abolish it.
00:28:37.15\00:28:40.28
He will shatter that lie.
00:28:40.32\00:28:41.65
I'm going to show
it to you right now.
00:28:41.68\00:28:43.02
You're not gonna
believe this. He is so gentle.
00:28:43.05\00:28:44.99
He's so smooth.
He shatters that lie.
00:28:45.02\00:28:49.32
Watch this.
00:28:49.36\00:28:50.69
Everybody knows
the beloved story
00:28:50.73\00:28:52.09
of Lazarus in John 11.
00:28:52.13\00:28:53.46
Right? John 11.
00:28:53.50\00:28:54.83
We all love that story.
00:28:54.86\00:28:56.36
Jesus is far away
from Mary and Martha,
00:28:56.40\00:28:58.73
but they dash him a note,
"The one you love is sick,"
00:28:58.77\00:29:03.07
meaning please come quickly
00:29:03.10\00:29:06.37
and heal our
brother before he dies.
00:29:06.41\00:29:09.28
But Jesus strangely
continues to mosey around,
00:29:09.31\00:29:14.05
no urgency in His heart
at all, it doesn't seem.
00:29:14.08\00:29:17.82
And finally a few days go by
and He turns to His disciples.
00:29:17.85\00:29:20.96
He said, "You guys,"
these words, John 11.
00:29:20.99\00:29:24.13
He says, "Our friend
Lazarus has fallen asleep,
00:29:24.16\00:29:28.63
but I am going
there to wake him up."
00:29:28.66\00:29:31.47
His disciples replied,
00:29:31.50\00:29:32.83
"We never joined the boy scouts.
00:29:32.87\00:29:34.40
But we have all
learned the premise that
00:29:34.44\00:29:36.71
when you're ill
you need your sleep."
00:29:36.74\00:29:39.57
Exactly what they said
to him, "Lord, if he sleeps,
00:29:39.61\00:29:42.24
he will get better."
00:29:42.28\00:29:43.85
Jesus had been
speaking of his death,
00:29:43.88\00:29:46.82
keep reading.
00:29:46.85\00:29:48.45
"But his disciples
thought he meant natural sleep.
00:29:48.48\00:29:53.66
So then Jesus told them plainly,
00:29:53.69\00:29:55.72
'Hey guys, I
need to tell you this.
00:29:55.76\00:29:57.79
Lazarus is dead.'
00:29:57.83\00:30:00.63
For your sake,
00:30:00.66\00:30:02.00
I am glad I was not there
so that you may believe.'"
00:30:02.03\00:30:08.10
Isn't it amazing?
00:30:08.14\00:30:09.74
That the great
giver of human life,
00:30:09.77\00:30:12.37
of all life
00:30:12.41\00:30:14.64
chooses to
define death as a sleep.
00:30:14.68\00:30:20.15
Wow.
00:30:20.18\00:30:21.75
Lazarus is falling asleep.
00:30:21.78\00:30:23.32
Hey, boys, he's dead.
00:30:23.35\00:30:25.89
But I'm going to wake him up.
00:30:25.92\00:30:28.09
Come along, you'll believe.
00:30:28.12\00:30:30.79
And that's exactly
what Jesus says to Martha
00:30:30.83\00:30:32.59
when she finds out
He's at the outskirts
00:30:32.63\00:30:34.63
of little village,
Bethany, she races out
00:30:34.66\00:30:36.73
and then falls on
the ground sobbing,
00:30:36.77\00:30:38.83
"If you'd only
been here earlier,
00:30:38.87\00:30:40.20
what were you thinking?"
00:30:40.24\00:30:41.70
Jesus says, "Martha,
Martha, listen to me."
00:30:41.74\00:30:44.31
These are the great
words of John 11:25-26.
00:30:44.34\00:30:47.54
"I am the
resurrection and the life.
00:30:47.58\00:30:53.28
The one who believes in me
will live even though they die.
00:30:53.31\00:30:57.12
And whoever lives by believing
in me will never die forever."
00:30:57.15\00:31:01.82
Well, you have to
put the word forever
00:31:01.86\00:31:03.19
in because Lazarus died
and he believed in Jesus,
00:31:03.22\00:31:04.89
so he doesn't mean
you won't die at all.
00:31:04.93\00:31:06.63
He means you won't
die forever. Oh, why?
00:31:06.66\00:31:12.60
Because for the life giver,
00:31:12.63\00:31:15.27
death is nothing
more than a sleep.
00:31:15.30\00:31:17.37
A sleep that you and I
00:31:17.41\00:31:20.14
can be awakened
from when Jesus returns
00:31:20.18\00:31:22.94
on that glorious
resurrection morning.
00:31:22.98\00:31:24.91
If He doesn't come soon,
we're all gonna be sleeping.
00:31:24.95\00:31:27.78
But that's okay,
00:31:27.82\00:31:29.15
because I need to show
you how long death last.
00:31:29.18\00:31:31.09
Some of you are afraid of death.
00:31:31.12\00:31:32.45
Because there's something
in your mind that says, boy,
00:31:32.49\00:31:35.06
when I die, it's
gonna be really bad.
00:31:35.09\00:31:37.59
I need to tell you,
what happens when you die?
00:31:37.63\00:31:40.80
Do you know how long death is?
00:31:40.83\00:31:42.16
Watch this. Watch this.
00:31:42.20\00:31:43.53
Do you know how long death is?
00:31:43.57\00:31:45.20
Eyes? Eyes closed in death.
00:31:45.23\00:31:47.80
So the last moment of cognition
or you breathe your last
00:31:47.84\00:31:50.17
whichever happens and
it can happen either way.
00:31:50.21\00:31:52.47
Your eyes close.
00:31:52.51\00:31:54.24
Right? Yeah, your eyes close.
00:31:54.28\00:31:57.61
When that
resurrection morning comes
00:31:57.65\00:31:59.31
and Jesus wakes you up.
00:31:59.35\00:32:00.68
Guess what? Eyes open.
00:32:00.72\00:32:04.59
So watch this. Now watch this.
00:32:04.62\00:32:06.42
This is death. This
is how long death last.
00:32:06.45\00:32:08.69
Eyes close. Eyes open.
00:32:08.72\00:32:11.29
That's it. That's it.
00:32:11.33\00:32:14.03
There's nothing to be afraid of.
00:32:14.06\00:32:16.70
Death is a sleep.
00:32:16.73\00:32:18.50
It's like you fell asleep
in the arms of your Savior
00:32:18.53\00:32:22.14
who's holding you,
say, sleep on baby.
00:32:22.17\00:32:26.24
I'll waken you soon.
00:32:26.27\00:32:28.91
Hey, am I, we all know this.
00:32:28.94\00:32:31.28
You have an exhausting day.
00:32:31.31\00:32:33.95
Wherever you spent that day
00:32:33.98\00:32:35.55
and when your head hits
the pillow, you are gone.
00:32:35.58\00:32:38.79
In fact, we call
it dead to the world.
00:32:38.82\00:32:41.59
No way. Yeah, you're gone.
00:32:41.62\00:32:44.36
The next thing
you know is that alarm
00:32:44.39\00:32:47.66
just beep, beep,
beep, beep, beep, beep.
00:32:47.70\00:32:50.77
What happened in between?
00:32:55.34\00:32:56.74
I don't know.
00:32:56.77\00:32:59.04
Did you see anything? No.
00:32:59.07\00:33:00.61
I was just tired.
00:33:00.64\00:33:03.58
Did you do anything?
00:33:03.61\00:33:05.21
I didn't do a thing.
00:33:05.25\00:33:06.92
I went to sleep,
eyes closed, eyes open.
00:33:06.95\00:33:09.25
That is death to the life
giver who created human life.
00:33:09.28\00:33:14.02
Even with sin
ruling on this planet,
00:33:14.06\00:33:16.32
He says, "I've taken
the thorn out of that,"
00:33:16.36\00:33:18.19
even with sin
ruling is the death.
00:33:18.23\00:33:23.57
Of all the philosophies of
death on this planet today,
00:33:23.60\00:33:26.94
existential or otherwise,
this teaching of the Bible
00:33:26.97\00:33:32.67
is the most satisfying
teaching of death of anybody,
00:33:32.71\00:33:35.81
anywhere.
00:33:35.84\00:33:37.18
In fact, let's
put this on the screen
00:33:37.21\00:33:38.55
because I don't
want you to miss this.
00:33:38.58\00:33:39.91
"70 times Jesus
and the Bible writers
00:33:39.95\00:33:44.35
described death as a sleep
00:33:44.39\00:33:46.55
from which you can be awakened."
00:33:46.59\00:33:48.59
Leave that up on
there, jot that down,
00:33:48.62\00:33:49.99
we have 70 times somebody
comes and says, "Hey, come on.
00:33:50.03\00:33:52.83
There's only Jesus in John 11."
00:33:52.86\00:33:54.33
Wrong, 70 times
in Holy Scripture,
00:33:54.36\00:33:58.63
death is described as a sleep.
00:33:58.67\00:34:03.44
Whoa, Satan is a liar.
00:34:03.47\00:34:06.91
Or the truth is when you
die, you don't go to heaven,
00:34:06.94\00:34:09.24
you don't go to hell,
you don't go to purgatory,
00:34:09.28\00:34:11.05
you go to sleep.
00:34:11.08\00:34:16.05
That's death. It
could not be better.
00:34:16.08\00:34:19.59
Bad news could not be
better, because it's awful.
00:34:19.62\00:34:24.49
None of us wants to die.
00:34:24.53\00:34:25.99
But if you're
gonna die, that's it.
00:34:26.03\00:34:30.40
Ah, but, Dwight, who cares?
Come on, this big deal. Why?
00:34:30.43\00:34:32.23
Why are you going in
all this death thing?
00:34:32.27\00:34:33.60
Because I need to,
it's a very good question
00:34:33.64\00:34:35.44
that you raised by
the way, a fair question.
00:34:35.47\00:34:37.91
I need you to
see how the end game
00:34:37.94\00:34:42.21
that we just
read in Revelation 16,
00:34:42.24\00:34:47.85
the truth about death.
00:34:47.88\00:34:49.98
The Bible's truth
is absolutely critical.
00:34:50.02\00:34:53.72
Because of these
three ugly demonic spirits
00:34:53.76\00:34:55.96
that go across the planet,
00:34:55.99\00:34:57.99
and they do signs,
means you see them.
00:34:58.03\00:35:00.00
They do signs, they do signs.
00:35:00.03\00:35:02.73
And you need to know
what those signs are about.
00:35:02.76\00:35:07.24
It's gonna have to
do with that first lie.
00:35:07.27\00:35:11.44
I mean, can you imagine
00:35:11.47\00:35:12.91
how convincing it
would be for you and me?
00:35:12.94\00:35:15.28
If our beloved mother
00:35:15.31\00:35:20.45
or father or spouse or child,
00:35:20.48\00:35:26.25
middle of the night.
00:35:26.29\00:35:29.02
Who's that?
00:35:29.06\00:35:30.79
If they showed up
00:35:30.83\00:35:32.16
where we were sleeping
in the middle of the night,
00:35:32.19\00:35:34.50
can you not imagine
how gripping that would be?
00:35:34.53\00:35:37.70
Mommy, Mommy,
00:35:46.44\00:35:51.15
Mommy, it's me.
00:35:51.18\00:35:52.58
I came back.
00:35:57.15\00:35:59.85
Jesus sent me.
00:35:59.89\00:36:02.36
He wants you to
know, everything's okay.
00:36:02.39\00:36:05.73
I'm all right.
00:36:05.76\00:36:07.13
I'm in heaven now.
00:36:07.16\00:36:09.53
He wants me to
come back in a few days
00:36:09.56\00:36:11.40
to bring a message to you.
00:36:11.43\00:36:15.34
Bye Mommy, I love you.
00:36:15.37\00:36:19.94
What mother would
not be wild with grief
00:36:19.97\00:36:22.04
and joy, realizing
she's established contact
00:36:22.08\00:36:25.85
with that precious little girl
that is buried in the ground.
00:36:25.88\00:36:31.65
Oh my!
00:36:31.69\00:36:34.09
Talking about
overwhelming the senses.
00:36:34.12\00:36:37.03
And that's the key.
00:36:37.06\00:36:38.46
The senses.
00:36:38.49\00:36:40.43
Say, my baby's here.
00:36:40.46\00:36:43.26
My baby's here.
00:36:43.30\00:36:46.30
You don't think the dragon,
00:36:46.33\00:36:47.67
you don't think Satan
can pull that one off?
00:36:47.70\00:36:49.17
Oh, think again.
00:36:49.20\00:36:50.71
Watch this, 2 Corinthians 11:14,
00:36:50.74\00:36:54.61
"And no wonder for Satan himself
00:36:54.64\00:36:56.64
masquerades as
an angel of light."
00:36:56.68\00:36:58.95
Look it.
00:36:58.98\00:37:00.32
If he wants to show
up in front of you...
00:37:00.35\00:37:01.68
you'll be on your face,
you will be on your face.
00:37:04.55\00:37:08.22
In fact, it's not just him.
00:37:08.26\00:37:09.79
Watch this next line.
00:37:09.82\00:37:11.19
"It is not surprising
then, if his servants,"
00:37:11.23\00:37:14.93
those are the angel
demons, the fallen angels,
00:37:14.96\00:37:17.33
"also masquerade as
servants of righteousness,
00:37:17.37\00:37:21.00
beings of light from heaven."
00:37:21.04\00:37:23.71
Can you imagine demonic spirits
00:37:23.74\00:37:27.21
moving all over
the face of this earth,
00:37:27.24\00:37:30.28
showing up where nobody
expects them to show up?
00:37:30.31\00:37:33.11
They're going to the kings.
00:37:33.15\00:37:34.48
So Winston Churchill shows up
at the Prime Minister's office
00:37:34.52\00:37:38.22
or his bedroom in England.
00:37:38.25\00:37:41.79
He says, "Yeah,
you're having a tough,
00:37:41.82\00:37:43.83
bloody mess down here right now.
00:37:43.86\00:37:45.53
I noticed it.
00:37:45.56\00:37:46.90
Oh, I remember
what I went through."
00:37:46.93\00:37:48.26
Listen, every mannerism,
00:37:51.37\00:37:55.57
every peculiar characteristic,
00:37:55.60\00:37:59.41
these masquerading demons,
00:37:59.44\00:38:02.51
they know it perfectly.
00:38:02.54\00:38:05.25
A silent pet name,
00:38:05.28\00:38:07.32
a secret pet name that
you and your spouse shared.
00:38:07.35\00:38:12.42
A touching detail nobody
else on earth even knows about.
00:38:12.45\00:38:16.69
The being says, "It's me.
00:38:16.73\00:38:21.10
I've been sent
to you from heaven."
00:38:21.13\00:38:23.83
We're in a mess down here.
00:38:23.87\00:38:26.43
But I have a way,
00:38:26.47\00:38:27.80
Jesus is going to
come and set us free.
00:38:27.84\00:38:32.64
Oh, guys, the truth about
00:38:32.67\00:38:35.31
what happens at death
00:38:35.34\00:38:36.68
is absolutely
critical for that moment
00:38:36.71\00:38:40.18
when the green frogs
fan out over the earth
00:38:40.22\00:38:43.49
with their deception.
00:38:43.52\00:38:48.19
But the crowning...
00:38:48.22\00:38:50.33
Come on, put this
on the screen for us,
00:38:50.36\00:38:51.69
the apocalyptic classic.
00:38:51.73\00:38:53.06
At the end, we're gonna give you
00:38:53.09\00:38:54.43
an opportunity to
get this book for free.
00:38:54.46\00:38:56.56
Put this on the
screen, The Great Controversy,
00:38:56.60\00:38:58.40
"As the crowning act in
the great drama of deception
00:38:58.43\00:39:01.24
which he has been
00:39:01.27\00:39:02.60
from the
beginning of human history.
00:39:02.64\00:39:03.97
Satan himself
will personate," whom?
00:39:04.01\00:39:08.41
He will show up, and
that book tells us that
00:39:08.44\00:39:10.85
there's only one
physical description
00:39:10.88\00:39:12.21
of Jesus in the New Testament.
00:39:12.25\00:39:13.58
It's in Revelation 1,
white hair, golden sash.
00:39:13.62\00:39:17.39
He will show up just like that
00:39:17.42\00:39:18.95
because it's the
only one we recognize.
00:39:18.99\00:39:22.42
And He will say, "It's me.
00:39:22.46\00:39:24.93
See the nail scars?
00:39:24.96\00:39:27.43
It's me."
00:39:27.46\00:39:31.33
"This is the strong
almost overmastering delusion."
00:39:31.37\00:39:36.24
If you believe,
seeing is believing,
00:39:36.27\00:39:38.54
and we're in a
generation right now
00:39:38.57\00:39:39.91
that believes
seeing is believing.
00:39:39.94\00:39:41.91
I only will see it
if I see it on a screen.
00:39:41.94\00:39:44.15
If I can see it on a screen
virtual reality, forget it.
00:39:44.18\00:39:47.12
If I can see it, I believe it.
00:39:47.15\00:39:48.88
If we live in a culture
where seeing is believing,
00:39:48.92\00:39:51.12
you will be dead meat.
00:39:51.15\00:39:53.32
When Christ Himself
stands in front of CNN's cameras
00:39:53.36\00:39:56.86
and every eye sees Him
00:39:56.89\00:40:01.30
He says, "It is I."
00:40:01.33\00:40:03.23
He knows the
gospels backwards and forth,
00:40:03.26\00:40:06.00
He will speak
with a melodious voice.
00:40:06.03\00:40:10.24
"Come to me, you labor
00:40:10.27\00:40:12.47
and are heavy
laden come, come, come.
00:40:12.51\00:40:14.61
And I'll give you rest."
00:40:14.64\00:40:16.21
I tell you what the whole planet
00:40:16.24\00:40:17.58
will be on their faces.
00:40:17.61\00:40:18.95
There will be a band of people
who'd say, "Wait a minute,
00:40:18.98\00:40:21.05
wait a minute, wait a
minute, this cannot be."
00:40:21.08\00:40:24.99
Look at that line,
"Are the people of God
00:40:25.02\00:40:27.09
so firmly
established upon his word
00:40:27.12\00:40:29.42
that they would not yield
00:40:29.46\00:40:30.79
to the evidence
of their senses?"
00:40:30.83\00:40:32.73
Don't believe what you
see, don't believe what you see.
00:40:32.76\00:40:36.30
"Would they in such a
crisis cling to the Bible
00:40:36.33\00:40:40.24
and the Bible only?"
00:40:40.27\00:40:41.90
You haven't spent
much time in this book.
00:40:41.94\00:40:43.27
But I'm telling you what?
00:40:43.30\00:40:44.64
This series came
along at just the right time
00:40:44.67\00:40:46.88
to begin to introduce
to us history in advance.
00:40:46.91\00:40:49.44
That's what the
apocalyptic prophecies are,
00:40:49.48\00:40:51.28
it's history in advance.
00:40:51.31\00:40:52.65
You need to know
there's a massive test coming.
00:40:52.68\00:40:55.68
You know, the
finals on this campus.
00:40:55.72\00:40:57.82
They're
nothing. They're nothing.
00:40:57.85\00:41:01.66
There's a test
coming for the human race
00:41:01.69\00:41:03.69
and only those people
who like Jesus they mentioned
00:41:03.73\00:41:06.43
I live by bread alone,
00:41:06.46\00:41:07.80
but by every word that proceeds
00:41:07.83\00:41:09.16
out of the mouth of God,
only those boys and girls,
00:41:09.20\00:41:11.13
young men and young women,
00:41:11.17\00:41:12.63
only those men and
women who have turned here,
00:41:12.67\00:41:15.57
you can't wait
till the crisis return.
00:41:15.60\00:41:17.44
Crisis do not make a believer.
00:41:17.47\00:41:19.77
Crisis reveal a believer,
they do not make a believer.
00:41:19.81\00:41:22.71
You cannot wait
till the crisis comes.
00:41:22.74\00:41:25.01
There is a crisis coming.
00:41:25.05\00:41:26.38
Don't neglect the Word of God,
00:41:29.18\00:41:32.89
and that's why this teaching.
00:41:32.92\00:41:34.26
People say, "Why do
we have to do prophecy?"
00:41:34.29\00:41:36.76
Because we're living
on the edge, that's why.
00:41:36.79\00:41:39.49
And you're not responsible
for feeding this community.
00:41:39.53\00:41:44.30
We have to go here.
00:41:44.33\00:41:46.03
Some of you have never
heard any of this in your life,
00:41:46.07\00:41:49.14
because
nobody's talked about it.
00:41:49.17\00:41:53.58
I'll leave you
with one verse more,
00:41:53.61\00:41:55.94
Isaiah 8:19.
00:41:55.98\00:41:59.58
"And when they say to you,
'Seek those who are mediums
00:41:59.61\00:42:02.25
and wizards,' Harry Potter,
Harry Potter, Harry Potter,
00:42:02.28\00:42:05.75
with Harry Potter is all about
setting up the demonic spirits.
00:42:05.79\00:42:08.66
That's all it was,
just setting it up.
00:42:08.69\00:42:10.43
Parents were
taking their children,
00:42:10.46\00:42:12.29
boys and girls five,
00:42:12.33\00:42:13.70
six years old, Harry Potter,
Harry Potter, what was it?
00:42:13.73\00:42:17.30
Now I'm
comfortable with wizards.
00:42:17.33\00:42:18.67
That's not a big deal.
00:42:18.70\00:42:20.04
You get the dead
conjure up, it doesn't matter.
00:42:20.07\00:42:22.77
"When they say to you,
00:42:22.80\00:42:24.14
'Seek those who are mediums
00:42:24.17\00:42:25.51
and wizards who
whisper and mutter'
00:42:25.54\00:42:28.28
should not have
people seek their God?'"
00:42:28.31\00:42:30.65
You wanna know
about the dead? Go to God.
00:42:30.68\00:42:32.48
"Should they seek the
dead on behalf of the living?"
00:42:32.51\00:42:34.62
No, no, no.
00:42:34.65\00:42:35.98
The next verse,
00:42:36.02\00:42:37.35
"To the law and
to the testimony,"
00:42:37.39\00:42:38.72
that is right here, "To
the law and to the testimony
00:42:38.75\00:42:41.39
if they do not speak
according to this word,
00:42:41.42\00:42:44.29
it is because there
is no light in them."
00:42:44.33\00:42:46.80
That's the only
way, seeing is believing
00:42:46.83\00:42:50.57
will be put on the
skids in your mind and life.
00:42:50.60\00:42:54.57
You say, "Can't be,
00:42:54.60\00:42:55.94
it just can't be,
it just cannot be.
00:42:55.97\00:42:58.67
It was never to be this way."
00:42:58.71\00:43:01.74
Only this book
will carry you through.
00:43:01.78\00:43:06.21
Martin Luther's
championed principle
00:43:06.25\00:43:08.28
from the Protestant Reformation,
00:43:08.32\00:43:10.42
Sola scriptura,
solely from the Bible,
00:43:10.45\00:43:14.42
solely from Scripture,
00:43:14.46\00:43:16.09
it's time to reclaim that legacy
00:43:16.12\00:43:18.39
and to become a
people of the word.
00:43:18.43\00:43:20.93
It is time. It is past time.
00:43:20.96\00:43:25.87
At the peril of your soul,
you will neglect this book.
00:43:25.90\00:43:29.07
At the peril of your soul,
you will neglect this book.
00:43:29.10\00:43:32.97
Oh, Dwight, I need
to study this more.
00:43:36.18\00:43:38.51
Connect card in a moment.
00:43:38.55\00:43:40.85
Okay. I have to
share this with you.
00:43:40.88\00:43:45.25
And I'm going back to Mark Noll,
00:43:45.29\00:43:46.82
promise you I come back.
00:43:46.86\00:43:48.19
This is great controversy.
00:43:48.22\00:43:49.56
This is a profound statement.
00:43:49.59\00:43:52.46
You know that
the satanic trinity?
00:43:52.49\00:43:53.96
This is how the
satanic trinity merges
00:43:54.00\00:43:56.73
and takes action.
00:43:56.77\00:43:58.20
"Through the two great errors...
00:43:58.23\00:43:59.57
What are they?
00:43:59.60\00:44:00.94
What are the two
great lies or deceptions?
00:44:00.97\00:44:02.70
The immortality of the soul.
00:44:02.74\00:44:04.17
Oh, when you
die you keep living,
00:44:04.21\00:44:06.21
that would be a lie.
00:44:06.24\00:44:07.74
"The immortality of the
soul and Sunday sacredness,"
00:44:07.78\00:44:11.08
that's the day
that God has blessed.
00:44:11.11\00:44:12.91
What?
00:44:12.95\00:44:14.28
Yeah, "Through
the two great errors
00:44:14.32\00:44:15.85
Satan will bring the
people under his deceptions."
00:44:15.88\00:44:18.19
Keep reading, "While
the former," spiritism,
00:44:18.22\00:44:22.12
"lays a
foundation of spiritualism."
00:44:22.16\00:44:23.89
This is the occult.
00:44:23.93\00:44:25.26
The occult is
nothing but spiritism.
00:44:25.29\00:44:27.76
"While the former
lays the foundation
00:44:27.80\00:44:29.90
of spiritualism the
latter Sunday sacredness
00:44:29.93\00:44:32.03
creates a bond of
sympathy with Rome."
00:44:32.07\00:44:33.74
Why? Because Rome
says we invented Sunday.
00:44:33.77\00:44:36.30
You are following not the Bible.
00:44:36.34\00:44:38.47
Was very clear in the
Bible, the seventh day Sabbath.
00:44:38.51\00:44:40.98
You're following
us, just admit it,
00:44:41.01\00:44:43.35
fall in line, let's go.
00:44:43.38\00:44:47.55
"The Protestants
of the United States
00:44:47.58\00:44:49.28
will be foremost in
stretching their hands
00:44:49.32\00:44:51.75
across the gulf to grasp
the hand of spiritualism."
00:44:51.79\00:44:55.49
And then they got another hand,
00:44:55.52\00:44:56.86
"They will reach over the abyss
00:44:56.89\00:44:58.56
to clasp the hands
with the Roman power."
00:44:58.59\00:45:01.30
And then what?
00:45:01.33\00:45:02.66
"And under the
influence of this tripartite,
00:45:02.70\00:45:05.13
this threefold
union, this country America
00:45:05.17\00:45:08.30
will follow in the steps of Rome
00:45:08.34\00:45:09.90
in trampling on the
rights of conscience."
00:45:09.94\00:45:12.54
What we were
famous for will be gone.
00:45:12.57\00:45:18.08
Those words of Mark Noll,
00:45:18.11\00:45:19.45
do I put them back
on the screen Okay,
00:45:19.48\00:45:20.95
here they are.
00:45:20.98\00:45:22.32
"On the basis of
the ecumenical dialogues
00:45:22.35\00:45:23.95
can it be said that
the Reformation is over?
00:45:23.99\00:45:25.72
Probably not.
00:45:25.75\00:45:27.09
But a once
yawning," what's this word?
00:45:27.12\00:45:29.86
"Chasm.
00:45:29.89\00:45:31.23
A once yawning chasm
has certainly narrowed."
00:45:31.26\00:45:34.43
You're getting
closer. You're getting closer.
00:45:34.46\00:45:35.80
Okay, now put
the Great Controversy
00:45:35.83\00:45:37.17
right below it, please.
00:45:37.20\00:45:38.53
"The Protestants
of the United States
00:45:38.57\00:45:40.17
will be foremost lead the way
00:45:40.20\00:45:42.10
in stretching their
hands across the gulf."
00:45:42.14\00:45:44.97
You see this word gulf?
You see this word chasm?
00:45:45.01\00:45:47.28
It's the same word.
00:45:47.31\00:45:51.71
Great Controversy is
saying what Noll is projecting.
00:45:51.75\00:45:56.45
The Bible is predicting
that bridge will be built.
00:45:56.48\00:46:02.06
That bridge will be built.
00:46:02.09\00:46:03.99
Wow. Listen, folks.
00:46:04.03\00:46:08.06
It's not a matter
00:46:08.10\00:46:09.60
of if this will
come to pass in America,
00:46:09.63\00:46:12.70
it is now a
matter of when in America
00:46:12.73\00:46:17.04
this will come to pass.
00:46:17.07\00:46:18.41
America, America
00:46:22.44\00:46:27.02
God shed His grace on thee
00:46:27.05\00:46:32.12
And crown thy
good With brotherhood
00:46:32.15\00:46:37.79
From sea to shining sea
00:46:37.83\00:46:43.20
That America.
00:46:43.23\00:46:46.20
We must pray for
America right now.
00:46:46.23\00:46:50.27
The nearly
interminable election season
00:46:50.31\00:46:52.84
is about to end in three
days or maybe three weeks.
00:46:52.87\00:46:56.04
I don't know,
maybe three months.
00:46:56.08\00:46:57.75
Nobody knows. Nobody knows.
00:46:57.78\00:47:01.92
But of this, I am sure.
00:47:01.95\00:47:04.09
When the results
are finally announced,
00:47:04.12\00:47:05.99
50% of this country
will be deeply disappointed
00:47:06.02\00:47:09.22
and no doubt angry.
00:47:09.26\00:47:11.83
You say, "Dwight,
what a guy you are?
00:47:11.86\00:47:14.66
You're looking if
the glass is half empty.
00:47:14.70\00:47:16.46
Why don't you
make it half full?"
00:47:16.50\00:47:17.83
Okay.
00:47:17.87\00:47:20.57
Fifty percent of this
country will try to celebrate
00:47:20.60\00:47:24.37
all the while
realizing their nation
00:47:24.41\00:47:26.04
is divided as divided
00:47:26.07\00:47:27.41
and fractured as
it has ever been.
00:47:27.44\00:47:29.01
And the election has not solved
America's deepest problems.
00:47:29.04\00:47:31.95
Is that better?
00:47:31.98\00:47:33.31
I love this country.
00:47:37.39\00:47:39.49
I sorrow for America.
00:47:39.52\00:47:42.86
I belong to no political party,
never have and never will.
00:47:42.89\00:47:48.43
But I think the heart
of God, it must kill Him.
00:47:48.46\00:47:52.70
This fractious mess the enemy
has fomented in this nation.
00:47:52.73\00:47:58.31
USA Today carried a
story earlier this month,
00:47:58.34\00:48:01.01
reported on a survey,
00:48:01.04\00:48:02.38
an online survey
that I'm quoting now,
00:48:02.41\00:48:05.85
"Finds a majority of US
adults believe the country
00:48:05.88\00:48:09.38
is on the verge of
a second Civil War."
00:48:09.42\00:48:13.46
Are you serious?
00:48:13.49\00:48:16.73
A second Civil War?
00:48:16.76\00:48:19.53
You believe that?
00:48:19.56\00:48:23.87
Gun sales are going
up right now like crazy.
00:48:23.90\00:48:26.74
Wow.
00:48:30.97\00:48:33.41
Listen, folks, it is long
beyond the time for blame,
00:48:33.44\00:48:37.58
for we are all culpable.
00:48:37.61\00:48:40.35
We have not loved one another
00:48:40.38\00:48:43.39
as we should.
00:48:43.42\00:48:46.86
We have not served one
another as we could have.
00:48:46.89\00:48:52.76
And perhaps we've hoped
00:48:52.79\00:48:54.13
this election
might somehow solve
00:48:54.16\00:48:56.16
our country's ills and needs.
00:48:56.20\00:48:58.43
Read my lips.
00:48:58.47\00:48:59.80
It will not.
00:48:59.83\00:49:04.14
We don't need a political savior
00:49:04.17\00:49:05.74
because there is
no political savior.
00:49:05.77\00:49:07.71
There is only one Savior,
00:49:07.74\00:49:09.74
and His name is
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:49:09.78\00:49:12.38
And He's the only one
that can save America now,
00:49:12.41\00:49:14.48
whether you're
an atheist or not.
00:49:14.52\00:49:16.08
Amen.
00:49:16.12\00:49:17.55
He's the only one.
00:49:17.59\00:49:21.46
Is it too late for
God to save America?
00:49:21.49\00:49:24.09
I think not.
00:49:24.13\00:49:25.46
God is on the throne right now.
00:49:25.49\00:49:28.23
Ready for that very mission
00:49:28.26\00:49:30.20
we have been raised up to
fulfill to be accomplished.
00:49:30.23\00:49:35.24
So let's talk to Him right now.
00:49:35.27\00:49:38.41
I'll pray and you
pray in your heart.
00:49:38.44\00:49:41.78
I invite you to
stand as we pray.
00:49:41.81\00:49:43.31
Oh, Jesus, son of David,
00:49:50.59\00:49:54.52
have mercy on us.
00:49:54.56\00:49:56.62
Your Word declares blessed
00:49:56.66\00:49:57.99
is the nation
whose God is the Lord.
00:49:58.03\00:50:00.56
The people He chose
for His inheritance.
00:50:00.60\00:50:03.87
Well, the scripture promises
righteousness exalts a nation
00:50:03.90\00:50:06.74
but sin condemns any people.
00:50:06.77\00:50:10.17
Have we send away
our day of opportunity?
00:50:10.21\00:50:13.44
Have we
squandered away Your gifts?
00:50:13.48\00:50:15.24
Have we abused
away Your children?
00:50:15.28\00:50:17.55
Have we turned away time
00:50:17.58\00:50:19.08
and again when all of
heaven was waiting to save us?
00:50:19.11\00:50:24.25
Jesus, Son of David,
please have mercy on us.
00:50:24.29\00:50:30.09
Grant to us, won't you please
00:50:30.13\00:50:32.56
an extension of Your
mercy and Your grace.
00:50:32.59\00:50:35.03
Don't treat us
as our sins deserve.
00:50:35.06\00:50:36.90
In wrath remember mercy,
00:50:36.93\00:50:38.57
in judgment remember
grace and discipline.
00:50:38.60\00:50:41.24
Oh, Lord, we don't
want the word punishment,
00:50:41.27\00:50:42.94
indiscipline,
remember compassion.
00:50:42.97\00:50:46.51
We acknowledge
our sins before You
00:50:46.54\00:50:49.14
and we humbly appeal
for Your divine forgiveness.
00:50:49.18\00:50:53.18
God of our fathers and mothers,
00:50:53.21\00:50:55.12
grant us please another chance.
00:50:55.15\00:51:00.19
In the words of the poet,
00:51:00.22\00:51:02.89
"Once to every man
00:51:02.92\00:51:04.26
and nation comes
a moment to decide
00:51:04.29\00:51:06.66
in the strife of
truth with falsehood
00:51:06.70\00:51:09.50
for the good or evil side."
00:51:09.53\00:51:12.03
If the poet is
right, then oh God,
00:51:12.07\00:51:14.27
we wish to choose the good side,
00:51:14.30\00:51:16.30
Your side for America.
00:51:16.34\00:51:18.94
Jesus, Son of
David, have mercy on us.
00:51:18.97\00:51:21.78
In a few hours the
election will be over.
00:51:21.81\00:51:24.08
In a few days or weeks
the ballots will be counted,
00:51:24.11\00:51:26.72
and the result
will be announced.
00:51:26.75\00:51:29.48
Oh, God, our Father,
00:51:29.52\00:51:31.49
deliver us from
evil and the evil one.
00:51:31.52\00:51:34.59
Do not let the enemy inside
our hearts to retaliation,
00:51:34.62\00:51:39.33
or goad our souls to reprisals.
00:51:39.36\00:51:42.16
Teach us how a soft
answer may yet turn away wrath.
00:51:42.20\00:51:47.10
Teach us how to love our enemies
00:51:47.14\00:51:48.64
and do good to those
00:51:48.67\00:51:50.01
who hate us and
bless those who curse us.
00:51:50.04\00:51:52.47
Give us a heart
and mind of Christ,
00:51:52.51\00:51:55.04
that even yet for
America, supreme love for God,
00:51:55.08\00:51:59.31
and impartial love
00:51:59.35\00:52:00.68
for our neighbors
might yet prevail.
00:52:00.72\00:52:04.65
Jesus, Son of
David, have mercy on us.
00:52:04.69\00:52:09.79
And grant us one more chance
00:52:09.82\00:52:13.50
that we might yet
become the light of the world,
00:52:13.53\00:52:16.06
the shining city on a
hill that cannot be hidden.
00:52:16.10\00:52:19.23
And if you cannot
save the entire land,
00:52:19.27\00:52:21.77
then bless it God,
whether you save by few
00:52:21.80\00:52:25.07
or by many, save the
America, we can touch and love
00:52:25.11\00:52:29.91
and reach right
here in this little town
00:52:29.94\00:52:32.98
in on this beloved campus.
00:52:33.01\00:52:36.35
America, America, God,
00:52:36.38\00:52:39.12
shed Your grace on us, please.
00:52:39.15\00:52:43.53
For we come to You in
the mighty name of Jesus,
00:52:43.56\00:52:47.76
who taught us to
pray together, our father,
00:52:47.80\00:52:52.97
which art in heaven,
00:52:53.00\00:52:54.90
hallowed be thy
name, thy kingdom come,
00:52:54.94\00:52:59.37
thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.
00:52:59.41\00:53:03.61
Give us this
day, our daily bread.
00:53:03.65\00:53:06.92
And forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors.
00:53:06.95\00:53:11.42
And lead us not into temptation,
00:53:11.45\00:53:13.89
but deliver us from evil,
00:53:13.92\00:53:16.76
for thine is the kingdom
00:53:16.79\00:53:19.06
and the power and
the glory forever.
00:53:19.09\00:53:23.40
Amen.
00:53:23.43\00:53:24.77
You may be seated.
00:53:37.45\00:53:40.95
Thank you, Pastor
Dwight, for that message,
00:53:40.98\00:53:43.39
it requires a response.
00:53:43.42\00:53:45.52
And we're gonna
do that right now.
00:53:45.55\00:53:47.52
We're gonna put some
next steps on the screen.
00:53:47.56\00:53:50.06
But first I wanna
make an invitation.
00:53:50.09\00:53:51.89
I wanna ask every
single person watching online,
00:53:51.93\00:53:54.10
if you're watching online,
pull out your smart phones,
00:53:54.13\00:53:56.63
go to this website,
pmchurch.org/connect.
00:53:56.67\00:54:00.84
For those of us
gathered physically in here,
00:54:00.87\00:54:03.67
we invite you to do the same.
00:54:03.71\00:54:05.04
Go ahead and pull
out your smart phones
00:54:05.07\00:54:06.41
right now.
00:54:06.44\00:54:07.78
We invite you to
go to this website,
00:54:07.81\00:54:09.14
I'm gonna
reference some resources
00:54:09.18\00:54:10.51
that you're going to
want to make sure to have.
00:54:10.55\00:54:12.38
So thank you for
pulling those out.
00:54:12.41\00:54:14.12
Okay, let's walk through
00:54:14.15\00:54:15.48
some next steps as
you're going there.
00:54:15.52\00:54:17.95
The first next
step today is this.
00:54:17.99\00:54:21.29
"I will trust my
life to the Lord Jesus
00:54:21.32\00:54:25.26
the nail scarred
Conqueror over my enemy."
00:54:25.29\00:54:28.53
So if you can check that off,
00:54:28.56\00:54:29.90
I think that's something
that hopefully all of us
00:54:29.93\00:54:32.37
should be able to say yes
to, just check that off online.
00:54:32.40\00:54:36.40
Next, "I would like
00:54:36.44\00:54:37.77
to further study the Bible truth
00:54:37.81\00:54:39.47
about death and
the resurrection."
00:54:39.51\00:54:42.78
Maybe some of you heard
00:54:42.81\00:54:44.15
this topic today
for the first time.
00:54:44.18\00:54:45.88
And you have some
questions, that's okay.
00:54:45.91\00:54:47.82
Would love to put some
resources in your hands
00:54:47.85\00:54:50.45
for those of us
gathered here as well.
00:54:50.49\00:54:52.49
We're gonna send
you something this week,
00:54:52.52\00:54:54.66
so that you can go a
little bit deeper on that topic.
00:54:54.69\00:54:56.79
So just check
that off. It's free.
00:54:56.83\00:54:59.19
By the way, in
case you're wondering,
00:54:59.23\00:55:00.56
with these email addresses,
00:55:00.60\00:55:02.13
we're not gonna put
you on any kind of list,
00:55:02.16\00:55:03.63
we're just going to send you
00:55:03.67\00:55:05.00
the resource that you asked for.
00:55:05.03\00:55:07.44
Next, "I would like to
follow Jesus in baptism."
00:55:07.47\00:55:11.81
Let me speak it very plainly.
00:55:11.84\00:55:13.61
If you have never
been baptized before,
00:55:13.64\00:55:17.95
what are you waiting for?
00:55:17.98\00:55:20.02
Do not delay.
00:55:20.05\00:55:21.48
I asked you in
the name of Jesus.
00:55:21.52\00:55:23.65
Right now, just check that off.
00:55:23.69\00:55:25.02
If you've never
been baptized before,
00:55:25.05\00:55:26.96
just check that off.
00:55:26.99\00:55:28.32
Or for whatever reason,
00:55:28.36\00:55:29.69
you really need
to be re-baptized,
00:55:29.72\00:55:31.06
check that off as well.
00:55:31.09\00:55:32.43
We'll connect with you.
And we'll plan for that date.
00:55:32.46\00:55:35.63
Finally, this one's
really important as well.
00:55:35.66\00:55:38.60
"I would like to have a
copy of The Great Controversy."
00:55:38.63\00:55:42.74
If you've never
read this book before,
00:55:42.77\00:55:45.14
we want to send you a
free eBook version this week.
00:55:45.17\00:55:50.31
We're gonna send
it to you via email.
00:55:50.35\00:55:51.68
So we need your email address.
00:55:51.71\00:55:53.05
If you've never read
it before, check that off.
00:55:53.08\00:55:55.58
We're gonna send it to
you, it's very important.
00:55:55.62\00:55:57.42
Let me say this as well though.
00:55:57.45\00:56:00.42
Maybe you've read it before.
00:56:00.46\00:56:02.32
This is the time to reread it.
00:56:02.36\00:56:06.16
I reread it this summer
00:56:06.19\00:56:07.53
when everything
started happening.
00:56:07.56\00:56:09.43
You really need to
freshen up on some of the stuff,
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it's really, really powerful.
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So may God bless you
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as you continue taking
these next steps today.
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I'd like to take
another moment with you
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here at the end of
our worship service
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to share a special offer.
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We have a new series
called "American Apocalypse"
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at our New Perceptions website.
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And I hope you'll be
blessed by watching it.
00:56:32.85\00:56:35.22
Given the times of
uncertainty we now live in.
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There's a book I
mentioned every now
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and then that I'd love
for you to have at no charge.
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It's the apocalyptic classic,
"The Great Controversy,"
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the dramatic
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and the church down to
the Dark and Middle Ages
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into the turbulent present,
and very uncertain future.
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I read a lot of
books on Bible prophecy.
00:56:53.64\00:56:55.74
And by far this
is the most gripping
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and informative.
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So if you pick up the phone
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So call this number 877-HIS-WILL
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praying you get as blessed
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as I am every time I read it.
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