Welcome back to
"Digging Up the Future,
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Bible Prophecy Exposed."
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Good evening, everybody.
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Good evening, everybody.
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It's good to see
you this evening.
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And we've already had a kind
of a wonderful time together
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just exchanging
gifts if you will,
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and we have just already just
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had a little bit
of community here.
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And we're glad that
you can join us from home.
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Welcome in to the seminar here.
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We're having a great time here.
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But the reason
we have a great time
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is not just because
we're together although
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we have something to do with it,
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but because the
Lord has promised
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that we're two or three
are gathered in His name
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He will be in the midst.
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Amen?
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So why don't we invite
His presence this evening
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as we open tonight's meeting.
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Father in Heaven,
we are thankful that
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you have made that promise
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that we're two or three
are gathered in Your name
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You'll be in the midst,
and You've also said that
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if two or three
agree on anything,
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it will be done.
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And we ask that You'll
do something for us tonight
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that you'll come
in to this place,
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that You'll give us an answer,
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Revelation's answer
for human suffering.
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And we thank You and we
come in Your all powerful name
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in the name of Jesus, amen.
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Time for us to sing that
theme song we've been learning.
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Let's stand together and
sing "Jesus is Coming Again."
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Marvelous message we bring
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Glorious carol we sing
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Wonderful word from the King
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Jesus is coming again
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Coming again, coming again
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Maybe morning, maybe noon
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Maybe evening, but sure be soon
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Coming again, coming again
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Oh what a
wonderful day that will be
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Jesus is coming again.
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Boy, sound good.
You can be seated.
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Well, this evening again
Rafael Scarfullery is with us.
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And, you know, probably
one of the most precious things
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is to know that
we belong to Jesus.
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And he is going to be
reminding us of that by signing
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or actually
playing on his guitar.
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"Now I Belong to Jesus."
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Thank you so much, Rafael.
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I guess I should say it in
your lango, muchas gracias.
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Good evening to all
of you. Good evening.
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We're glad to be able to
study again the word of God,
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and as we do would you
bow your heads with me?
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Our Father, thank You so much
that we can study Your word.
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We pray that
Your spirit will guide
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and direct our
thoughts in Jesus name, amen.
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The year 2002 September 11,
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a Christian
gentleman had just begun
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his first day of
work in the Twin Towers.
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It was his first day of
work, but he did not know
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that it would be
his last day as well.
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The church where
he had been attending
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I happened to
know it quite a well
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because I had to supervise
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the young intern in that church
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some street in Park
Avenue in Manhattan.
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I had another
friend who was working
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just across the
street from the Twin Towers
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when all of a
sudden she tells me that
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something strange took place,
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the windows blew
out in her office
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or should I say blew in.
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And she had to walk
several miles on her high heels
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to be able to get
across to the other side
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of the road into Queens.
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There's a lot of pain
that is in this world.
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There's a lot of suffering.
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The Twin Towers
left a lot of people
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asking the question, why.
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My wife-- My
nieces' husband was in ENT,
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and he said he never had such
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an awful time doing his work
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as having to go
and find body parts,
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collect body parts.
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In fact, after that experience
he changed his occupation.
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It was a nightmare for him.
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The Book of Revelation opens up
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with Revelation Chapter 7.
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If you have your Bibles,
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let's just read that
Revelation Chapter 7.
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And we're reading
there in Revelation 7:1, 2.
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Revelation 7:1, 2.
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In Revelation Chapter 7,
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it begins with
after these things
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that's after
Revelation Chapter 6, of course.
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"I saw four angels standing
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on the four
corners of the earth,
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holding the four
winds of the earth,
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that the wind should
not blow on the earth,
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nor on the sea, nor on, what?
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Any tree."
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And then it says in verse 2,
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"I saw another angel
ascending from, where?
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From the east."
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Having what?
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"The seal of the living God,
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and he cried with a loud
voice to the four angels,
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to whom it was given to
hurt the sea and the earth.
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Saying, hurt not the
earth, neither the sea,
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nor the trees,
till we have, what?
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Till we have sealed the
servants of our God, where?
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In their foreheads."
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Now I want you
to notice something
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very, very, very important here.
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Scripture speaks
about an angel fly
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and then it says that
this particular angel says
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to the angels to
hold back the winds
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that they are about
ready to blow upon the earth.
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And the reason why that's done
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is because something unordinary
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is going to take
place, something unusual,
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something out of the
ordinary is about to happen,
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but before it happens
God wants to make sure
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that those who
want to be protected
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can find that
protection by being sealed.
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The scripture also tells
us that on the other side
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in Revelation
Chapter 13 there is a mark.
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I want you to
notice what it says there.
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"He causeth, how many?
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All, both small and
great, rich and poor,
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free and bond,
to receive a, what?
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A mark, where?
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In their right, or,
where? In their foreheads."
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Now I want you
to notice something
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very, very, very
interesting here.
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Number one, the first
text that we read said
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that God is
putting a seal upon, where?
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The forehead.
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In Revelation Chapter 13,
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it says that God is
putting a--Sorry, not God,
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but there is a mark
being placed on the forehead
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or also on the hand.
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And so notice it says,
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"And that he-- That
no man might buy or sell,
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save he that had the mark,
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or the name of
the best, or what?
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Number of his name."
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Somebody asked me last night,
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what is 666?
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I said, "Well, you'll have
to come to the presentation
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that I make to
give you a short answer
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would not be sufficient,
it would not be right for you
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just to get a short
answer without actually knowing
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what the Bible
actually teaches about that."
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And so I said,
"You'll have to come back
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for that presentation."
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And so they said, "Well,
what is the mark of the beast?"
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And I said, "Well,
again you will need to come
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because there is a
lot of background that
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you need to understand
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and to come to
the right conclusion
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concerning that topic."
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But I want you to
just to see something here.
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Number one, it says that there
is either a sealed or the what?
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The mark.
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The seal is in the forehead,
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the mark is in the
forehead or in the hand.
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Now the question,
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why is the forehead
mentioned on both places?
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And what about the sealing?
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How many of you do canning?
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Ladies, any of you? Right.
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And gentlemen, of course
those who help your wives.
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When you do canning,
what you normally do is
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that is if you do it the
way my wife and I used to do it
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when our children are at home.
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We would buy either a
bushel of apples or peaches,
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and we loved apple sauce.
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We specially enjoyed
golden delicious apple sauce.
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And so we would
then peel the apples.
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My wife would core the apples
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then we would
cook the apples correct
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and then you have to...
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mash them up and make them puree
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and then finally
you put them in the jar
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then you take those jars
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and you either
put them in hot water
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or you put them in the oven
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and you put the
lid on not tight,
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but just tight enough so that
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when you take the things out,
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you then finally
tighten the lid so that
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when the jar
cools off, it is sealed.
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Now question.
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What is it that
you seal in the jar,
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the good or the bad?
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Good. Good.
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Good, of course.
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I don't know anyone who
will go through all the trouble
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just of to put the rotten stuff
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inside the jar
then try to seal it.
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Correct?
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What you do is you
cut out the bad spots
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and then you put in
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what you consider to
be that which is good
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and finally you
seal it, you preserve it
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and then voila,
the rest of the year
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you have delicious
apple sauce on zweiback.
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And I hear
Brother Don going, hmm.
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On the other hand,
unlike the sealing marking
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you don't necessarily
have to preserve anything,
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all you have to do
is just put a mark.
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Is that true?
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To seal something, it
means that you preserve
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that which is good, but to mark,
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you can mark anything.
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You can take
something that bad and mark.
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And in fact, now often times
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you'll find in supermarkets
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or in clothing
stores and all that
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when they try to get rid
of something what do they do?
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They mark it down.
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Well, you say they
mark it them to begin with.
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But I'm not talking
with that kind of marking.
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I'm talking
about the crossing out
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and writing a
different number on it.
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Have you seen that?
In there they'll say 50%.
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Correct?
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And so you marking down
and they actually put the mark.
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So you can right away see that
there is a different between
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one and the other, correct?
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Therefore, there
is a battle for what?
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For the mind.
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There's a battle
for what? For the mind.
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On the one hand,
God is seeking to seal,
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on the other hand
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the opposite
power seeking to mark.
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God is particular,
the other one is not.
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I don't know if you
caught what I've said.
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God is particular,
the other one is not.
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Obviously, the reason
why God wants to seal us
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is because He
wants to save us forever,
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but in order to save us
forever we must have the mind.
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The what? The mind of Christ.
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And so the scripture
says, "Let this, what?
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This mind be in
you, which was where?
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Also in, whom? In Christ Jesus."
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In other words, the reason
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why prophecy is given us
to help us to understand that
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God has to do a work in
us to prepare us for heaven.
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And that you and I
need to cooperate with God
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in order to be
prepared for heaven.
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So God does His
part in our lives,
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but we cooperate so that
God can accomplish His will
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in our minds and hearts.
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And what God wants
ultimately is to you and I
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to begin to think to, what?
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To think like Christ.
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But where is the thinking done?
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It is done, where? In the mind.
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And so we have the mind.
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I want you to notice
here the frontal lobe.
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The reason for the Bible
speaking about the frontal lobe
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is because in
reality the frontal lobe
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is the seat of vision.
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It is that which separates
us from the animal kingdom.
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In fact, in the frontal lobe
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you'll find
judgment also reason,
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you'll find the
conscience, and intellect,
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you also will find the will,
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and of course the
ability to discern
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moral
discernment and spirituality.
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In other words,
in the frontal lobe,
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in the mind is
where a person develops
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or has the ability to
develop a Christ-like character.
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Now let me share
something with you
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which is
highlights what I'm saying.
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A cat, 3.5% of his
brain is the frontal lobe.
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Since the
sensitivity to moralities
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in the frontal lobe
you can well understand
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why a cat doesn't
seem to feel very bad
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about catching a
mouse and playing with it
00:20:02.92\00:20:05.53
until finally
he kills it, right?
00:20:05.56\00:20:08.17
It doesn't seem to be
much heart in that, does it?
00:20:08.20\00:20:13.44
The dog has a little
bit more sensitivity.
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That dog has how much?
00:20:19.17\00:20:20.95
7% of his brain as frontal lobe.
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The monkey 17%.
00:20:24.10\00:20:27.20
And what about the human being?
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Well, the human beings has 33%
of his brain as frontal lobe.
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Now notice the difference
then from the cat to man.
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Man then should
have the sensitivity,
00:20:43.75\00:20:48.41
man should have that quality
that enables him to be God like,
00:20:48.44\00:20:54.64
but if you
remember when man sinned
00:20:54.67\00:20:57.13
he lost that ability
and he can only regain
00:20:57.16\00:21:01.52
those qualities of
virtue and loyalty and honesty
00:21:01.55\00:21:06.38
as he gives his heart to Christ.
00:21:06.41\00:21:12.93
But until then
there is a controversy
00:21:12.96\00:21:18.44
that takes place
and even after then
00:21:18.47\00:21:21.17
but at least we know
00:21:21.20\00:21:22.53
that when a person
yields his mind to God
00:21:22.56\00:21:25.88
he has an edge on that
which he is fighting against.
00:21:25.91\00:21:31.96
If you notice in
Revelation 14:9 and 10
00:21:31.99\00:21:35.26
again speaking of the issue
00:21:35.29\00:21:38.20
of the beast and the
mark of the beast etcetera
00:21:38.23\00:21:42.03
in the seal of God.
00:21:42.06\00:21:43.16
Notice that it
says the third angel,
00:21:43.19\00:21:44.92
there is three
angels here but they said
00:21:44.95\00:21:46.72
"Third angel says
with a loud voice,
00:21:46.75\00:21:50.13
if any man worship
the beast and his image,
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and receive his" what?
00:21:52.85\00:21:54.53
"His mark" where?
00:21:54.56\00:21:55.94
"In his forehead, or" where?
00:21:55.97\00:21:58.39
"In his hand."
00:21:58.42\00:22:00.19
And it says "The same
shall drink of the wrath of God,
00:22:00.22\00:22:03.46
which is poured
out without mixture
00:22:03.49\00:22:04.78
into the cup of his indignation,
00:22:04.81\00:22:06.75
and he shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone
00:22:06.78\00:22:08.73
in the presence
of the holy angels,
00:22:08.76\00:22:10.38
and in the
presence of the lamb."
00:22:10.41\00:22:12.35
Now that sounds like
terrible language doesn't it?
00:22:12.38\00:22:15.42
Yes or no?
00:22:15.45\00:22:16.84
It sounds like
an angry God saying
00:22:16.87\00:22:18.43
you better
straighten up or else.
00:22:18.46\00:22:22.19
But in reality, in
here you'll find them
00:22:22.22\00:22:27.15
not an angry God
but an anxious God.
00:22:27.18\00:22:30.38
What's a difference?
00:22:30.41\00:22:35.22
If God is concerned
about your salvation,
00:22:35.25\00:22:38.62
He should be very anxious today.
00:22:38.65\00:22:40.71
Is that true yes or no?
00:22:40.74\00:22:42.53
He should be very
anxious because unfortunately
00:22:42.56\00:22:46.18
there are many things
that are going to and fro
00:22:46.21\00:22:49.42
we are in -- saturated
by all sorts of messages
00:22:49.45\00:22:54.03
of the coming from all angles,
00:22:54.06\00:22:56.88
all beckoning us go here or
do this or do that etcetera.
00:22:56.91\00:23:00.98
Believe this believe that.
00:23:01.01\00:23:02.08
There are all
sorts of messages coming
00:23:02.11\00:23:04.92
and the problem with all that is
00:23:04.95\00:23:07.48
that there is only one message.
00:23:07.51\00:23:09.87
How many? Only one
message that saves.
00:23:09.90\00:23:15.19
I want you to notice what
the Book of Galatians says.
00:23:15.22\00:23:17.76
In the Book of
Galatians Chapter 1
00:23:17.79\00:23:19.31
if you have your
Bibles this time I'm going to
00:23:19.34\00:23:22.40
encourage you to
get out and read it.
00:23:22.43\00:23:23.95
Galatians Chapter 1.
00:23:23.98\00:23:25.96
Notice what Paul says there
in Galatians 1:6-9, Galatians.
00:23:25.99\00:23:32.36
By the way, if
you want to remember
00:23:32.39\00:23:34.52
how those books
come one after the other.
00:23:34.55\00:23:37.79
Some of you may have
a hard time to remember
00:23:37.82\00:23:39.51
Philippians or
Ephesians etcetera.
00:23:39.54\00:23:41.98
Just remember General
Electric Power Company okay.
00:23:42.01\00:23:45.31
What did I say?
00:23:45.34\00:23:46.88
General Electric Power Company.
00:23:46.91\00:23:48.53
So General
Galatians, electric Ephesians,
00:23:48.56\00:23:51.51
power Philippians,
company Colossians, okay?
00:23:51.54\00:23:54.89
You got it? You
got it, yes or no?
00:23:54.92\00:23:57.95
All right, so if
you can't remember
00:23:57.98\00:24:00.36
just remember General
Electric Power Company
00:24:00.39\00:24:02.46
and you've, oh, okay.
00:24:02.49\00:24:04.92
Now I want you to notice
what Paul writes verse 6.
00:24:04.95\00:24:08.88
"I marvel" Galatians 1:6
00:24:08.91\00:24:12.01
"I marvel that you are
so soon remove from him
00:24:12.04\00:24:14.50
that called you
into the grace of Christ
00:24:14.53\00:24:17.17
unto another gospel
which is not another,
00:24:17.20\00:24:21.43
but there'll be
some that trouble
00:24:21.46\00:24:23.57
you and would
pervert the gospel of Christ
00:24:23.60\00:24:25.83
and but though we
or an angel from heaven
00:24:25.86\00:24:30.52
preach any other
gospel onto you than that
00:24:30.55\00:24:32.57
which we have preach onto you
00:24:32.60\00:24:34.57
let them be a cursed."
00:24:34.60\00:24:36.33
Again it says "As we
said before so I say now again
00:24:36.36\00:24:42.19
if any man preach
another gospel unto you
00:24:42.22\00:24:46.25
than that you have
received let them be" what?
00:24:46.28\00:24:49.25
"A curse."
00:24:49.28\00:24:50.31
Now let me ask you a question.
00:24:50.34\00:24:52.08
Are there other gospels?
00:24:52.11\00:24:54.93
Yes or no? Yes.
00:24:54.96\00:24:56.78
The fact that Paul says
if any man preach unto you
00:24:56.81\00:24:59.99
another gospel means that
people will come preaching what?
00:25:00.02\00:25:03.79
Another gospel.
00:25:03.82\00:25:05.56
But Paul is saying that
there is only how many gospels?
00:25:05.59\00:25:09.28
Only one gospel that saves.
00:25:09.31\00:25:11.47
Now if that's true
then you can understand
00:25:11.50\00:25:14.33
why the Scripture says in
Revelation 14:6 and 7 and 8,
00:25:14.36\00:25:19.40
the first angel who
says that there is an angel
00:25:19.43\00:25:22.01
flying in the midst of heaven
having the everlasting gospel.
00:25:22.04\00:25:26.86
The what? Everlasting gospel.
00:25:26.89\00:25:30.47
If it's the
everlasting gospel then
00:25:30.50\00:25:33.08
these other gospels
are not everlasting.
00:25:33.11\00:25:36.71
These other gospels are?
00:25:36.74\00:25:40.66
False gospels that
somebody makes up along the way.
00:25:40.69\00:25:44.77
And so when you read
Revelation Chapter 14
00:25:44.80\00:25:48.69
you are reading
about an anxious God
00:25:48.72\00:25:51.30
warning the world that
there are other gospels.
00:25:51.33\00:25:55.72
Now let me ask you a question.
00:25:55.75\00:26:00.88
How important is it for
you to get the right treatment
00:26:00.91\00:26:03.82
when you go to a doctor?
00:26:03.85\00:26:06.45
How Important is it for
you to get the right medicine
00:26:06.48\00:26:08.78
when you go to a doctor?
00:26:08.81\00:26:11.76
My
brother-in-law did not call us
00:26:11.79\00:26:15.86
because he did not
want to trouble us.
00:26:15.89\00:26:18.16
He went to a hospital,
I won't mention it here,
00:26:18.19\00:26:24.62
it wasn't a hospital
in Wichita by the way.
00:26:24.65\00:26:29.18
But he went to the hospital
00:26:29.21\00:26:31.61
to have a valve
replacement in his heart.
00:26:31.64\00:26:36.88
Now my father-in-law had
also had a valve replacement,
00:26:36.91\00:26:39.72
my father-in-law
lived about 30 years after
00:26:39.75\00:26:42.34
he had the valve replacement.
00:26:42.37\00:26:45.45
So normally they last 10 years
but because of his good diet
00:26:45.48\00:26:49.14
he lived 30 years
with the new valve.
00:26:49.17\00:26:53.47
My brother-in-law
thought that well,
00:26:53.50\00:26:55.81
dad did it and it was a breeze
00:26:55.84\00:26:58.25
and so rather than
calling us and saying
00:26:58.28\00:27:00.60
I'm going to the hospital,
I'm going to get my valve
00:27:00.63\00:27:02.51
replace so pray for
me, he thought well,
00:27:02.54\00:27:04.84
I just go get it done and
after I'm finished with it,
00:27:04.87\00:27:06.88
I'll call everyone
and say, by the way
00:27:06.91\00:27:07.96
I just have my
valve changed, you see.
00:27:07.99\00:27:11.46
Unfortunately, it didn't
happen the way he planned.
00:27:11.49\00:27:15.78
The physician
actually synched the opening
00:27:15.81\00:27:19.88
because it was little too wide
00:27:19.91\00:27:22.84
in order to make sure
that the valve would fit.
00:27:22.87\00:27:26.39
By doing that the heart
actually went into conniptions
00:27:26.42\00:27:32.04
and to make a long story
short we lost our brother.
00:27:32.07\00:27:38.29
When you get
the wrong treatment,
00:27:38.32\00:27:39.54
when you get the wrong
medicine it can be fatal.
00:27:39.57\00:27:42.16
Is that true? Yes or no?
00:27:42.19\00:27:45.13
In the Scriptures God reveals
00:27:49.49\00:27:55.08
that there is one gospel
that says but He also tells us
00:27:55.11\00:27:59.92
that they'll be many
gospels will be then preached
00:27:59.95\00:28:03.13
and passed on as the gospel.
00:28:03.16\00:28:08.08
The problem with that is that
it could be like a plausible.
00:28:08.11\00:28:13.18
You know what a plausible is?
00:28:13.21\00:28:15.94
Now when I was a
medic in the military,
00:28:15.97\00:28:19.24
there were
soldiers who always faint
00:28:19.27\00:28:21.05
like they were sick.
00:28:21.08\00:28:22.72
And they always
faint like they were sick
00:28:22.75\00:28:24.21
because they
didn't want to work.
00:28:24.24\00:28:26.56
And so they would come into us
00:28:26.59\00:28:28.55
and I could never
bring myself to do
00:28:28.58\00:28:31.17
what the other
solders were doing
00:28:31.20\00:28:32.60
that is the other medics
00:28:32.63\00:28:33.82
but they would
very, very irritated
00:28:33.85\00:28:35.73
that these fellows were always
playing like they were sick
00:28:35.76\00:28:38.20
so that they
wouldn't have to work.
00:28:38.23\00:28:40.29
And they always wanted to have
00:28:40.32\00:28:41.92
a little slip
saying "he is sick."
00:28:41.95\00:28:45.25
Well, they would come in
00:28:45.28\00:28:46.35
and the medics didn't want
them to continue to come in,
00:28:46.38\00:28:49.34
so they began to increase
the gauge of the needles.
00:28:49.37\00:28:53.75
Do you
understand what I'm saying?
00:28:53.78\00:28:55.95
And so at first it
was like a 16 gauge
00:28:55.98\00:28:59.12
and then it went up to 17
and 18 and then finally 19.
00:28:59.15\00:29:03.12
And you know by the time
00:29:03.15\00:29:04.57
your injecting a
person with a 19 gauge.
00:29:04.60\00:29:06.86
You know, well,
it is a reason enough
00:29:06.89\00:29:09.62
not to want to come back.
00:29:09.65\00:29:13.28
But you know what they would do,
00:29:13.31\00:29:14.35
they will actually
inject them with saline,
00:29:14.38\00:29:17.41
normal saline, Okay?
00:29:17.44\00:29:19.52
And the normal saline the
intention was to make sting,
00:29:19.55\00:29:24.55
so not only where
they put an injection in
00:29:24.58\00:29:26.91
so that it hurts,
00:29:26.94\00:29:28.06
you know, the more,
the greater the gauge,
00:29:28.09\00:29:30.11
but also with the intent
that it would sting so that
00:29:30.14\00:29:34.21
they would rather
be sick than come back.
00:29:34.24\00:29:37.29
Do you understand?
00:29:37.32\00:29:39.45
The interesting thing is
that these soldiers thought that
00:29:39.48\00:29:43.18
they were actually getting what?
00:29:43.21\00:29:45.47
Medicine.
00:29:45.50\00:29:46.55
And after they got
the injection they say,
00:29:46.58\00:29:48.54
oh, man, I feel much better.
00:29:48.57\00:29:50.09
Fortunately it was
just normal saline.
00:29:53.24\00:29:56.24
But I have known situations
00:29:56.27\00:29:58.02
where people have been
given the wrong medicine
00:29:58.05\00:30:00.70
and that had been fatal.
00:30:00.73\00:30:01.76
And if it's a sad thing
00:30:05.23\00:30:09.73
that somebody
could die physically
00:30:09.76\00:30:12.79
what about spiritually?
00:30:12.82\00:30:13.99
When you consider that heaven
00:30:16.77\00:30:18.68
has given its
best in Jesus Christ.
00:30:18.71\00:30:23.27
Heaven poured out all that
it could to help us understand
00:30:23.30\00:30:27.83
how badly God wants to save us.
00:30:27.86\00:30:29.77
You can well understand
00:30:29.80\00:30:31.39
why He is
anxious, what do you say?
00:30:31.42\00:30:34.90
Would you say amen to that?
00:30:34.93\00:30:37.08
You can see then that
God wants us to recognize
00:30:37.11\00:30:44.18
the importance of accepting
in our minds the true gospel.
00:30:44.21\00:30:51.20
But listen,
there is a battle then
00:30:51.23\00:30:54.53
for that mind and in that battle
00:30:54.56\00:30:59.72
there is a desire for worship
00:30:59.75\00:31:05.59
and that's why in
Revelation Chapter 14
00:31:05.62\00:31:08.16
it says "Worship Him."
00:31:08.19\00:31:10.24
Worship who?
00:31:10.27\00:31:11.69
"Him that made"
what? "Heaven and earth."
00:31:11.72\00:31:15.29
And last night we
studied as to who was
00:31:15.32\00:31:18.40
the one who made heaven
and earth, who was that?
00:31:18.43\00:31:21.03
Jesus Christ.
00:31:21.06\00:31:22.34
And so the whole
contention then is
00:31:22.37\00:31:25.17
who you will what?
00:31:25.20\00:31:27.05
Serve.
00:31:27.08\00:31:28.11
Who you will worship? Okay.
00:31:28.14\00:31:30.42
On the one side it
says those who do not--
00:31:30.45\00:31:34.67
those who worship the
beast shall receive a mark
00:31:34.70\00:31:37.12
in their
foreheads or in their hand.
00:31:37.15\00:31:39.19
On the other side it says those
who worship God will be sealed.
00:31:39.22\00:31:43.58
If you had your choice tonight
which one would you prefer?
00:31:43.61\00:31:48.00
The seal or the mark? The seal.
00:31:48.03\00:31:52.35
And that's my choice also.
00:31:52.38\00:31:53.54
But listen, obviously the enemy
00:31:53.57\00:31:58.93
desires to have our worship,
00:31:58.96\00:32:02.28
the enemy is doing
his part to bring about
00:32:02.31\00:32:05.45
such as a scene on planet earth
that everyone worships him.
00:32:10.41\00:32:16.31
He attempted that with Christ.
00:32:18.55\00:32:21.33
If you remember when he
tempted Christ it says that
00:32:21.36\00:32:24.01
"The devil took
Jesus into a high mountain
00:32:24.04\00:32:26.78
and he showed him all the worlds
00:32:26.81\00:32:29.08
and all the kingdoms,
and the glory of them."
00:32:29.11\00:32:32.55
Do you remember that?
00:32:32.58\00:32:34.40
And then the Scripture says
00:32:34.43\00:32:36.60
that after he
showed him all the worlds
00:32:36.63\00:32:39.40
and all the glory he says
00:32:39.43\00:32:42.01
"All these things will I" what?
00:32:42.04\00:32:45.21
"Well, I give
thee, if you will" what?
00:32:45.24\00:32:48.05
"If you will
fall down and" what?
00:32:48.08\00:32:50.33
"Worship me."
00:32:50.36\00:32:51.79
Obviously then what we're
dealing with here in Revelation,
00:32:51.82\00:32:55.54
in the Book of Revelation
00:32:55.57\00:32:57.08
is a choice that
you and I must make
00:32:57.11\00:33:01.14
in favor of one or
in favor of the other.
00:33:01.17\00:33:04.28
And the choice is
always made where?
00:33:04.31\00:33:07.27
In the mind.
00:33:07.30\00:33:08.33
Now the question is this.
00:33:11.92\00:33:15.28
Since the devil
once asked to worship him
00:33:15.31\00:33:18.71
he does not appear to
us like he did to Christ.
00:33:18.74\00:33:22.47
To Christ he
appeared as an angel
00:33:22.50\00:33:25.27
and passed on
himself as if though
00:33:25.30\00:33:28.09
he came to help the Lord
00:33:28.12\00:33:29.62
with the hope that the
Lord will fall into the trap,
00:33:29.65\00:33:31.94
but when the Lord did
not he finally said, look,
00:33:31.97\00:33:34.54
all right, you
can have the world,
00:33:34.57\00:33:36.56
you came to win the
world, you can have it.
00:33:36.59\00:33:38.11
You don't have to go
through all the struggle and all
00:33:38.14\00:33:40.73
that you're going
to have to suffer.
00:33:40.76\00:33:42.01
All you have to do is just bow
down you can have everything.
00:33:42.04\00:33:45.50
I'll make it easy on you.
00:33:45.53\00:33:46.65
And Christ said,
"Get you behind me, Satan.
00:33:53.68\00:34:00.84
Now consider
something about this battle
00:34:00.87\00:34:07.34
that is waging in the mind.
00:34:07.37\00:34:10.45
The question is this.
00:34:10.48\00:34:12.78
How is it that
this devil works on us
00:34:12.81\00:34:16.63
and what does he do?
00:34:16.66\00:34:19.24
Well, one of the things that
he does is he seeks to deceive.
00:34:19.27\00:34:23.02
He seeks to what? To deceive.
00:34:23.05\00:34:25.56
I want you to
notice what Jesus said,
00:34:25.59\00:34:27.59
in the Matthew 15:3 and 9.
00:34:27.62\00:34:31.09
Notice it says "But he
answered and said unto them,
00:34:31.12\00:34:33.63
why do ye also transgress the
commandments of God by" what?
00:34:33.66\00:34:38.02
"By your traditions?"
00:34:38.05\00:34:39.16
And finally He said,
"In vain do you" what?
00:34:39.19\00:34:42.93
"Do you worship
me, teaching for" what?
00:34:42.96\00:34:45.55
"For doctrines the
commandments of" what?
00:34:45.58\00:34:47.67
"Of men."
00:34:47.70\00:34:48.73
So let me ask you a question.
00:34:48.76\00:34:50.48
Is it possible that people today
00:34:50.51\00:34:53.60
are thinking that
they worshiping the Lord,
00:34:53.63\00:34:56.83
but in reality they're not?
00:34:56.86\00:34:59.45
Is that possible, yes or no?
00:34:59.48\00:35:01.37
Is it possible
that sincere Christians
00:35:01.40\00:35:04.59
maybe thinking
by their doctrines
00:35:04.62\00:35:07.18
that they're yielding
allegiance to the Lord
00:35:07.21\00:35:08.87
when in reality they maybe
00:35:08.90\00:35:11.45
yielding allegiance
to a different power.
00:35:11.48\00:35:14.97
Is that
possible, yes or no? Yes.
00:35:15.00\00:35:18.07
There is no question about it
00:35:18.10\00:35:19.27
and that's why
Jesus said to the Jews
00:35:19.30\00:35:21.13
"In vain do you what?
00:35:21.16\00:35:23.14
Do you worship me,
teaching for" what?
00:35:23.17\00:35:25.90
"Teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men."
00:35:25.93\00:35:27.65
So obviously then
the people in this day
00:35:27.68\00:35:30.97
were put in together doctrines
that appeared as if though
00:35:31.00\00:35:35.85
they were
rendering worship to Christ,
00:35:35.88\00:35:37.45
when in reality they were not.
00:35:37.48\00:35:41.64
And so He said, in
vain, in vain do you worship.
00:35:41.67\00:35:46.55
So the real issue then is what?
00:35:46.58\00:35:49.50
"Who will you give
your allegiance to?"
00:35:49.53\00:35:53.41
That's the real issue.
00:35:53.44\00:35:55.27
"Who will you give
your allegiance to?"
00:35:55.30\00:35:58.43
Well, how is it then
that he seeks to gain
00:35:58.46\00:36:02.56
the control of that mind?
00:36:02.59\00:36:04.80
I'm going to share some
things tonight with you that may
00:36:04.83\00:36:07.73
be a little unsettling to you,
00:36:07.76\00:36:09.16
but I hope that
you'll understand
00:36:09.19\00:36:12.73
that the main purpose is to get
a hold of this whole controversy
00:36:12.76\00:36:18.24
over the mind and
our place in giving God
00:36:18.27\00:36:23.26
the privilege to be the winner
in the battle, what do you say?
00:36:23.29\00:36:29.49
When I was a gang
member in New York City
00:36:29.52\00:36:33.72
we-- our gang was
called The Latin Lovers.
00:36:33.75\00:36:38.01
Now doesn't sound like a
very feisty name does it?
00:36:38.04\00:36:41.56
The Latin Lovers.
00:36:41.59\00:36:42.84
But that was the
name of the gang.
00:36:42.87\00:36:46.08
And one
particular Sunday afternoon
00:36:46.11\00:36:50.89
we were in our clubhouse
00:36:50.92\00:36:52.52
which is down in a
basement of our house
00:36:52.55\00:36:54.90
and we decided it was time
00:36:54.93\00:36:57.10
to try to buy
something to drink.
00:36:57.13\00:37:00.92
And so we pitched in draw moneys
together and sent Boldy off.
00:37:00.95\00:37:06.19
All of us had nick
names and his name was Boldy.
00:37:06.22\00:37:11.56
So Boldy goes off
and we didn't know
00:37:11.59\00:37:13.77
exactly how much time
it will take him to go
00:37:13.80\00:37:16.32
and do the escape and
evasion you understand
00:37:16.35\00:37:18.61
because he had to go
into the Italian neighborhood.
00:37:18.64\00:37:21.81
We were the Puerto Rican
gang and just a few blocks away
00:37:21.84\00:37:24.85
was the Italian neighborhood.
00:37:24.88\00:37:26.03
So Boldy knew
that the escape route
00:37:26.06\00:37:29.68
and he knew how to
get the liquor store
00:37:29.71\00:37:31.31
and buy what he needed
to get and come back down.
00:37:31.34\00:37:33.81
So we timed him and
the time came and went.
00:37:33.84\00:37:38.08
Now we begin to suspect
one or two things, all right.
00:37:38.11\00:37:41.96
Boldy bought the stuff
and drank it all himself
00:37:41.99\00:37:45.23
and they'll come and
tell us some fib about
00:37:45.26\00:37:47.03
how the Italians
beat him up or something
00:37:47.06\00:37:49.32
and took the wine away from him.
00:37:49.35\00:37:51.00
Do you
understand what I'm saying?
00:37:51.03\00:37:52.15
So your mind begins to
wonder what's going on.
00:37:52.18\00:37:55.01
So finally, we sent a
rescue mission after him.
00:37:55.04\00:38:01.36
And I waited 'cause I was the
what it's called the warlord,
00:38:01.39\00:38:05.24
I was the one who had to go
00:38:05.27\00:38:06.70
and settle the
fights and all that.
00:38:06.73\00:38:09.04
So the president was with me
and we're waiting and waiting
00:38:09.07\00:38:13.27
and finally we hear the
sound of shuffling as if though
00:38:13.30\00:38:17.12
people are carrying a
heavy sack of potatoes.
00:38:17.15\00:38:20.34
Do you understand?
00:38:20.37\00:38:21.69
And then coming
down the staircase
00:38:21.72\00:38:24.84
we see that somebody is carrying
00:38:24.87\00:38:28.06
a lifeless form, it's Boldy.
00:38:28.09\00:38:31.61
So they bring him in and
his shirt was all torn up,
00:38:31.64\00:38:35.86
his hair is all
wild, his face was dirty.
00:38:35.89\00:38:39.57
He looked like somebody took him
00:38:39.60\00:38:40.80
and just swept
the streets with him.
00:38:40.83\00:38:45.37
So what happened?
00:38:45.40\00:38:47.71
Well, they said
the tots got to them.
00:38:47.74\00:38:49.35
Well, that was Livoti
Tots, the Italian gang.
00:38:49.38\00:38:52.45
So they sat him on the chair
00:38:52.48\00:38:53.90
and then we got some
water and threw it on the face,
00:38:53.93\00:38:55.69
you know, Boldy
wake up, wake up.
00:38:55.72\00:38:58.18
And finally Boldy,
start shaking his face
00:38:58.21\00:39:01.90
and he start trembling,
00:39:01.93\00:39:03.67
his eyes become
wide as a saucer,
00:39:03.70\00:39:05.49
he begins to convulse
and he falls on the ground,
00:39:05.52\00:39:08.60
pardon me on the
floor, and he is convulsing
00:39:08.63\00:39:11.27
and his body looks like
somebody is taking him up
00:39:11.30\00:39:13.45
and throwing against the ground.
00:39:13.48\00:39:14.90
And this terrified us.
00:39:14.93\00:39:20.38
We don't know what
in the world it was.
00:39:20.41\00:39:21.98
You know what we did?
00:39:22.01\00:39:25.16
Up the stairs we went,
we made a mad dash outside,
00:39:25.19\00:39:29.44
we could fight Italians
but we didn't what in the world
00:39:29.47\00:39:32.23
it was that was that
we were dealing with.
00:39:32.26\00:39:34.54
And so we went
outside for a few minutes
00:39:34.57\00:39:38.77
and nothing happened,
00:39:38.80\00:39:40.56
no explosion took
place or anything.
00:39:40.59\00:39:42.68
So we decided to sit back
down and as we tiptoed down
00:39:42.71\00:39:46.72
there's Boldy lying on the floor
again looked like he was dead.
00:39:46.75\00:39:51.27
So we picked him
again, put him up on the chair
00:39:51.30\00:39:53.81
and again got some
water, Boldy, Boldy, wake up.
00:39:53.84\00:39:56.99
And again he
begins to go through that
00:39:57.02\00:39:59.27
and begins to convulse,
00:39:59.30\00:40:00.74
and as he is
convulsing we say okay,
00:40:00.77\00:40:03.62
here we go again
and up the stairs
00:40:03.65\00:40:05.38
we went and that
we're flying up the steps
00:40:05.41\00:40:07.45
all of a sudden we hear a voice.
00:40:07.48\00:40:09.57
Stop.
00:40:09.60\00:40:12.52
But that's not
the voice of Boldy.
00:40:12.55\00:40:15.35
The voice of a woman.
00:40:15.38\00:40:17.67
So we're all of a sudden
we're frozen on the steps.
00:40:17.70\00:40:21.78
And so we look over to
see who is calling us to stop
00:40:21.81\00:40:24.94
and Boldy is
sitting on the chair
00:40:24.97\00:40:26.87
his eyes wide
open, his mouth moving
00:40:26.90\00:40:29.31
and a different
voice speaking to us.
00:40:29.34\00:40:32.43
He was eerie, he was very eerie.
00:40:32.46\00:40:38.41
And what's amazing is this.
00:40:38.44\00:40:40.84
The voice as it spoke to us
00:40:40.87\00:40:47.41
Boldy's finger
begin to point at us
00:40:47.44\00:40:51.84
one by one as we are
on the ascending steps
00:40:51.87\00:40:57.12
begin with the first one
00:40:57.15\00:40:58.44
and here was the
question, do you believe in God?
00:40:58.47\00:41:02.95
Then the next one,
00:41:02.98\00:41:04.01
and of course
the first one, yes.
00:41:04.04\00:41:06.06
The next one, do
you believe in God?
00:41:06.09\00:41:07.41
Yes.
00:41:07.44\00:41:08.47
The next one, do
you believe in God?
00:41:08.50\00:41:09.75
Yes.
00:41:09.78\00:41:10.81
All of the sudden
we all believe in God,
00:41:10.84\00:41:12.18
do you understand?
00:41:12.21\00:41:13.95
And finally it came to
me, do you believe in God?
00:41:13.98\00:41:16.04
Yes.
00:41:16.07\00:41:17.13
And then Jimmy
he was next to me,
00:41:17.16\00:41:18.64
the gang president
and it's interesting
00:41:18.67\00:41:21.02
we were the head of the gang,
00:41:21.05\00:41:22.77
that's what we're
supposed to be right?
00:41:22.80\00:41:24.38
Leaders?
00:41:24.41\00:41:26.46
Leaders in flight
as well as in fight.
00:41:26.49\00:41:30.58
And so points to Jimmy and
says do you believe in God?
00:41:30.61\00:41:35.52
Jimmy says, yes.
00:41:35.55\00:41:36.78
And the voice-- by
the way before this
00:41:36.81\00:41:40.03
as the voice is speaking to us
00:41:40.06\00:41:42.31
one of the girls that's
with us is a gypsy girl,
00:41:42.34\00:41:45.93
who happens to be
Boldy's girlfriend.
00:41:45.96\00:41:49.48
And she says, it's his mother.
00:41:49.51\00:41:54.03
She knew Boldy's
mother's voice. It's his mother.
00:41:54.06\00:41:59.10
So when the voice asked
Jimmy, do you believe in God?
00:42:03.71\00:42:07.57
And Jimmy said, yes.
00:42:07.60\00:42:09.24
The voice said, "You don't even
believe in your own mother."
00:42:09.27\00:42:15.13
And that's all
that we can handle.
00:42:18.38\00:42:21.93
We flew out of that place
00:42:21.96\00:42:25.23
and determined not to
return for a long while.
00:42:25.26\00:42:29.17
Finally after about
an hour or so we decide
00:42:29.20\00:42:32.44
well, it's time enough
00:42:32.47\00:42:34.48
we better go and see
what's going on with Boldy.
00:42:34.51\00:42:38.97
So this time we got
our bats and everything
00:42:39.00\00:42:42.41
and we start
heading down the steps.
00:42:42.44\00:42:45.95
And there is Boldy with
his shirt off, looking around
00:42:45.98\00:42:50.31
and saw us and
said, what happened?
00:42:50.34\00:42:53.74
What happened,
guys? How do I get here?
00:42:53.77\00:42:58.66
It turned out
that Boldy was what?
00:42:58.69\00:43:03.04
Possessed.
00:43:03.07\00:43:05.21
How many of you heard
of demonic possession,
00:43:05.24\00:43:07.42
any of you?
00:43:07.45\00:43:10.65
Boldy was possessed.
00:43:10.68\00:43:15.22
Now I didn't
understand possession
00:43:15.25\00:43:19.23
until I became a Christian
00:43:19.26\00:43:20.70
and began to read
the stories of the Bible.
00:43:20.73\00:43:23.39
Where Jesus met
people who were possessed.
00:43:23.42\00:43:28.67
And so the question
then is, is the enemy
00:43:28.70\00:43:32.80
the devil seeking to
take possessions of our minds,
00:43:32.83\00:43:36.03
what's the answer?
00:43:36.06\00:43:37.65
Yes.
00:43:37.68\00:43:39.45
Now that's a scary
thought, what do you say?
00:43:39.48\00:43:42.10
Because not one of us
00:43:42.13\00:43:43.89
wants to have the devil
take possession of our thoughts,
00:43:43.92\00:43:46.52
do you agree with that?
00:43:46.55\00:43:49.04
Now however, you
may not be a person
00:43:49.07\00:43:54.45
who is completely possessed.
00:43:54.48\00:43:57.65
There are different
levels in possessions.
00:43:57.68\00:44:01.64
And the one possession
that the devil enjoys most
00:44:01.67\00:44:04.50
is the one where people do not
believe that there is a devil.
00:44:04.53\00:44:10.70
He inserts
thoughts into the mind
00:44:10.73\00:44:15.18
and the scriptures says
00:44:15.21\00:44:16.77
"As a man thinketh
in his heart, so is he."
00:44:16.80\00:44:22.25
Have you ever wondered
00:44:22.28\00:44:23.78
why there that sometimes
thoughts come to your mind
00:44:23.81\00:44:26.17
that you were
not seeking to think?
00:44:26.20\00:44:29.58
Have you ever experience that?
00:44:29.61\00:44:33.28
Some evil thoughts,
some lustful thoughts?
00:44:33.31\00:44:36.80
All of the sudden there it is
00:44:36.83\00:44:41.25
and you wonder
where did that come from.
00:44:41.28\00:44:44.59
My friends, there is
a battle for our minds.
00:44:44.62\00:44:48.13
The enemy seeks
to control our minds,
00:44:48.16\00:44:50.98
either by
deception or by temptation.
00:44:51.01\00:44:54.45
Either by what?
Deception or by Temptation.
00:44:54.48\00:44:59.57
We are either deceived to
except things that are not true
00:44:59.60\00:45:04.13
as far as salvation is
concerned or we're tempted,
00:45:04.16\00:45:09.29
so that by
yielding to temptation
00:45:09.32\00:45:12.14
our minds become a
habitat for the enemy.
00:45:12.17\00:45:17.91
Now it is easy then for
somebody who does not recognize
00:45:17.94\00:45:23.05
that there is a battle for
the mind, for them to yield,
00:45:23.08\00:45:26.41
because if you don't
think that there is a battle
00:45:26.44\00:45:28.69
you think that everything
that's up here is your own.
00:45:28.72\00:45:31.65
Do you understand?
00:45:31.68\00:45:32.84
And therefore it's very easy
for the individual to actually
00:45:32.87\00:45:36.88
be guided without realizing
that he is being guided.
00:45:36.91\00:45:40.29
And the
interesting thing is this,
00:45:40.32\00:45:42.11
that the enemy
can make his thoughts
00:45:42.14\00:45:45.03
so like your own
thought patterns that
00:45:45.06\00:45:47.51
when he implants them
you think they are yours.
00:45:47.54\00:45:50.95
Now I have
discovered that too often times
00:45:50.98\00:45:58.91
people yield to temptation
00:45:58.94\00:46:04.04
and they think that God
is the one tempting them.
00:46:04.07\00:46:06.51
But look what it says
00:46:06.54\00:46:07.57
"Let no man say
when he is tempted,
00:46:07.60\00:46:09.36
I am tempted of" whom?
00:46:09.39\00:46:11.02
"Of God, for God
cannot be tempted with" what?
00:46:11.05\00:46:15.06
"With evil, neither
tempteth he any man,
00:46:15.09\00:46:17.52
but every man is tempted,
00:46:17.55\00:46:18.80
when he is drawn away
of his own lust, and" what?
00:46:18.83\00:46:23.58
"And enticed.
00:46:23.61\00:46:24.91
Then when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin, and sin,
00:46:24.94\00:46:28.59
when it is finished,
bringeth forth" what?
00:46:28.62\00:46:31.12
"Death."
00:46:31.15\00:46:32.18
So the apostle James
says then that temptation
00:46:32.21\00:46:36.61
is something that
we are subjected to
00:46:36.64\00:46:38.97
but we're
subjected to that temptation
00:46:39.00\00:46:40.81
because we have what is
called the flesh, the what?
00:46:40.84\00:46:44.47
The flesh. The
all carnal nature.
00:46:44.50\00:46:47.74
And the Bible says to that
00:46:47.77\00:46:48.91
carnal nature's
enmity against God.
00:46:48.94\00:46:52.05
Therefore there are feelings,
00:46:52.08\00:46:54.79
there are
thoughts, there are emotions
00:46:54.82\00:46:57.63
that are not necessarily
in harmony with God's ways
00:46:57.66\00:47:02.59
and when we actually are tempted
it is very easy for us to yield.
00:47:02.62\00:47:07.52
And no wonder
some people feel like
00:47:07.55\00:47:09.60
they're constantly entraped
like there is no way of escape.
00:47:09.63\00:47:14.23
The Bible then encourages
us and says "Be not deceived,
00:47:14.26\00:47:18.52
God is not mocked, for
whatsoever a man soweth,
00:47:18.55\00:47:21.13
that shall he also" what?
00:47:21.16\00:47:22.83
"Reap.
00:47:22.86\00:47:23.89
For he that soweth to the flesh
shall of the flesh reap" what?
00:47:23.92\00:47:27.99
"Corruption, but he
that soweth to the Spirit
00:47:28.02\00:47:31.41
of the Spirit shall reap" what?
00:47:31.44\00:47:33.35
"Life everlasting."
00:47:33.38\00:47:35.09
Obviously then there
is a war of the flesh.
00:47:35.12\00:47:38.12
Now I have to tell you this
that before I was a Christian
00:47:38.15\00:47:41.79
I had no concept of
this particular battle.
00:47:41.82\00:47:45.64
I thought I was in
control of my own life,
00:47:45.67\00:47:47.96
I did whatever I wanted to
00:47:47.99\00:47:49.59
and I handled my
life as I wanted to.
00:47:49.62\00:47:52.26
But I discovered when I
began to study the Scriptures
00:47:52.29\00:47:55.54
that it was not true,
00:47:55.57\00:47:56.92
I was not in charge of my life,
00:47:56.95\00:47:59.14
there was somebody
else in charge of my life
00:47:59.17\00:48:01.37
and I didn't like it.
00:48:01.40\00:48:05.27
But I did not know what to do.
00:48:05.30\00:48:09.69
When you awaken to the reality
00:48:09.72\00:48:12.07
that your life is being
guided by your own lust, desires
00:48:12.10\00:48:18.40
and your own deception
00:48:18.43\00:48:20.16
because you create all
sorts of deceptions in your mind
00:48:20.19\00:48:23.56
and therefore you're
having challenges and problems,
00:48:23.59\00:48:26.50
you feel yourself
enslave and bondage etcetera
00:48:26.53\00:48:29.08
and you wonder how in the world
00:48:29.11\00:48:30.40
can you escape
from these things.
00:48:30.43\00:48:32.15
When you finally
come to that place
00:48:32.18\00:48:33.94
you're in the good place
00:48:33.97\00:48:35.00
because then you're open for God
00:48:35.03\00:48:36.87
to do something in your life.
00:48:36.90\00:48:39.44
And what God is open to do
then is to change your mind.
00:48:39.47\00:48:43.18
To what? Change your mind.
00:48:43.21\00:48:47.08
There is no
question that we're tempted,
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but God does say that
"There hath no temptation
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that taken you
but such as is" what?
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"Common to man."
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But notice it
says "But God is" what?
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"Faithful, who will not" what?
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"Suffer you to be
tempted above that you are able,
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but with the temptation
will also make a" what?
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"A way of escape, that
you may be able to bear it."
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Obviously then when you
come to understand that,
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you realize that in order
for you to overcome temptation
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you need the help of
somebody outside of yourself.
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And we don't know that it's
a very frustrating experience.
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I remember how many times,
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when I was in show business,
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how many times I
wish that I was different.
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When in my motel room
I would look at myself,
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it was not a pretty picture.
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And deep inside I wish
that there was some escape,
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some way out, but I had no idea
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that there was any way out.
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So what you do is you
decide well, this is life
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you make the best you can of it.
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The only problem
with that, friends,
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is that in our
own human strength
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we cannot make the best of it.
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In our own human strength
we still make the worst of it.
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You need divine power
to change the motives,
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to change the tendencies,
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you need outside
power to bring about
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what the Bible calls conversion.
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The Bible calls
what? Conversion.
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What is conversion?
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If a person is going
to live with God forever
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they must be a change of heart,
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must be a change of what?
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Of heart.
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Must be a change of mind.
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But how does a person change?
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Can he change of himself?
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In the Bible it
says that the Ethiopian
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cannot change his skin,
nor the leopard his spot,
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then it says how can you
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who are accustomed
to do evil, do good.
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Because by nature we're sinful,
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our tendencies are evil.
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And the enemy
has a heyday with us.
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When we get to the place
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where we see our
corruptible natures,
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when we see our evil tendencies,
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when we recognize that we
need a change in direction,
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then it is then that
one can plea and ask God
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to do for you what you
cannot do for yourself.
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And God then will cure
you and will make the change.
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Now in a few days I'm
going to share my testimony
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as to what took place
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and why I'd left
Bill Haden the comments.
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But just in brief
let me share with you
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that when I came to the place
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where I recognize
that I did everything
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in my own wisdom
in my own strength
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I accomplish what I thought,
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I could accomplish
and it was all in vain.
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Then it was when I decided that
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I needed help from
outside then I remember
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kneeling down and
praying and saying oh, God,
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remove from me these things.
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I knew I could not do that.
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And what's amazing is
that God heard my prayer.
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Whereas before I
was helping the enemy
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by destroying my
health by my drinking,
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my smoking and my drugs.
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You understand what I'm saying?
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Because if the devil
contempt us to weaken our minds
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he has an easier
time to control our minds.
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What did I say?
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If the devil contempt
us to weaken our minds
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he has an easier time of what?
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Controlling our minds.
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And so when I
realized that I was a slave
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to the drinking and the smoking
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and the marijuana
etcetera and I knew
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that I could not get
away from it by own strength.
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I knelt down and I said,
God, take it away from me.
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You know what's amazing,
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when I stood up from my knees,
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thank God from that moment on
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I have never had a desire
for those things ever again.
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And let me tell you I
was speaking in Australia
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and in the midst in the audience
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there was a young man.
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This young man I
discovered later on
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had grown up as a Christian,
his father was a minister,
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but he had turned away from God
and gone into drugs etcetera.
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And that particular
night he was in the audience
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and I was presenting the reality
that if you're going to change
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you need Christ in your life.
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The Bible says if any man be
in Christ he is a new creation,
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all things have passed away,
behold all things become new.
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In other words if
you have a bad temper
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can you overcome,
what's the answer?
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Yes, but who can
give you the victory?
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Christ.
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If you have lustful tendencies
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can you overcome,
what's the answer?
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Yes, but who can
give you the victory?
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Christ can give you the victory.
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If you are a person as
envy or if you are a person
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that has jealousy or
has hate whatever it is
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God's grace is sufficient
to help you to be an over comer
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so you can
change, what do you say?
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Well, as I
finished I made an appeal.
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That young man came forward
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and afterward he said
I need to talk with you,
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so we went into a
side room and he said,
00:54:59.37\00:55:02.26
he began to shake I
mean he was trembling,
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he says I'm going
through a withdraw right now.
00:55:04.67\00:55:07.14
He says I'm in
terrible pain and he said,
00:55:07.17\00:55:10.01
but I don't want to
continue to use the heroin.
00:55:10.04\00:55:13.77
Can God help me?
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I said, my brother,
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the Lord can help
you if you want the help.
00:55:17.03\00:55:20.26
He said, well, what do I do?
00:55:20.29\00:55:23.40
I said, kneel down
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and from the depth of your heart
00:55:25.99\00:55:27.96
say to God oh, God, forgive
me for what I've done to myself.
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Have mercy deliver me.
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And, my friends, if you say that
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God will never turn away
from you, would do you say?
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We knelt down
together that young man and I
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and when we stood up
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we went out
into the church again
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and his sister was waiting
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and as I began to
talk with his sister
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all of a sudden
that young man said,
00:55:58.22\00:56:02.19
it's gone, it's gone, it's gone.
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Just like that.
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God performed a what? A
miracle and delivered to him.
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If we're going
to be sealed by God
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we must have
Christ in our lives,
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what do you say?
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And through Christ we
must gain the victory.
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Now this evening I would
like to take the opportunity
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not in this section
but the next section,
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I'd like to take the
opportunity to give those of you
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that opportunity to ask
the Lord into your lives.
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Perhaps there is some here
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who have never made the decision
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and who like to gain victory
in your life and you realize
00:56:51.69\00:56:55.64
that only in Christ you can.
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How many of you
would like to make that
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surrender to Christ
tonight, any of you?
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Would you raise your hand? Amen.
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How many of you
would like to commit
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your life to Christ
tonight can I see your hands?
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Amen. Let's pray.
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Father, thank
you for the victory
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that we find in Christ Jesus.
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